she s 77 years old and she said time has come. she was okay with it. reporter: she s had quite a long time of being the most decorated olympian ever, hasn t she? upsteps michael phelps and it was widely expected to happen. it had been disappointing to this point but he is now the most successful olympian ever after picking up the silver and gold in the relay. the big question here, does that mean he s the greatest olympian ever because he has the most medals, is he the greatest or should that be measured in terms of long he havety or impact on the sport and legacy he leaves. there hasn t been much time to celebrate, he s been back in the pool this morning for the 200 meter and he got through those fairly easily. we re looking at the tweet sent from the president to michael phelps and it goes like this. con grats to michael phelps tore breaking the all-time olympic record. you made your country proud and signed it b.o. for barack obama. i m so tired because i stayed up to
and comedian bill mahre matches his political sympathies with 1 million bucks. we ll tell you who gets the we ll tell you who gets the money. captions by vitac www.vitac.com we begin first with the increasingly shrill politics of what you re paying at the gas pump. in today s case it s 3 cents a gal more than yesterday. aaa says the national average is just under $3.65 a gal, 12 cents higher than it was at the beginning of the week. this is the 18th straight day gas prices are up. the political blame game moved into high gear during this week s cnn presidential debate when newt gingrich said he had a plan to get gas prices back to 2.50 a gallon, a notion president obama ridiculed during a stop in florida. only in politics do people root for bad news. do they greet bad news so enthusiastically. you pay more, they re licking their chops. and you can bet that since it s an election year they re already dusting off their three-point plan for $2 gas. and today in washing
is really prepared for this kind of quake or worse, and the other breaking news story we re following, bullets flying from moammar gadhafi s compound in tripoli, only hours after it was captured by rebels. cnn goes inside the compound as chaos, looting and celebrations unfold. we re following a very dangerous and uncertain situation in libya right now. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. millions of americans on the east coast and beyond heard the ground rumble and felt buildings sway. the earthquake that struck just a few hours ago measured 5.8, the strongest to rock the area in over a century. for this part of the country it s a rare event. many people were dazed and scared as they poured into the streets. some are still feeling emotional aftershocks. the quake was centered almost 90 miles southwest of washington, d.c., and northern virginia. it was felt to some degree as far away as both detroit and atlanta. damage reports are still coming in. no word yet o