this morning. it s not getting any easier if you re going to be stopping at the pump this morning. the government says that the average price for a gallon of gas now $3.96. just shy of four bucks there. this is up eight cents since last week. also a 37% increase from the same time last year. it s also the highest springtime price for gas ever. thousands of acres of missouri farmland are being flooded right now. that s after engineers blew up a levee that had been struggling to hold back the mississippi river. recent rain has swelled the rivererd blasting hole in the levees. also is expected to save the town of cairo, illinois. which sits right where the mississippi and ohio rivers come together. more rain, though, is expected in that region later today. full search efforts to find a group of scouts believed to be stranded in an arkansas forest will resume at daybreak. the group of six scouts and two troop leaders has not been heard from since thursday. it s believed that the group