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of backing down this evening. you can be sure protests will continue tomorrow, and we re looking forward to hearing from the governor this evening and what he has to say. we ll all wait and watch for that. thanks, kate. next on reporter roulette, the dow dropping 200 points in the last few hours of trading. what s going on? felicia, what s happened? reporter: well, basically, the dow reacting to what s happening in the middle east. main factor dragging down the market, of course, soaring oil prices. crude prices soared about 6% to end the session at $95 a barrel. that has everyone concerned now about rising gas prices, and that could have an impact on the economic recovery. also, one of the things affecting trade today was something called the fear index known as vix index. it spiked by double digits reflecting the expected volatility to come which is pretty much the fear of unknown. what investors don t know is how seerouts issues in libya will be or if those tensions are actu

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