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the california fire that s about to burn a hole in millions of wallets. this was the scene monday at chevron s richmond, california oil refinery. a huge toxic blaze partially shutting down production at one of the region s biggest gas suppliers. not a good time for that to happen, it s expected to send the pump prices skyrocketing on the west coast and beyond. ed levandera is live in dallas, texas. it s not just about gas prices, it s about people and health concerns in that area, as well, right? reporter: there s no question, people there who have been up close with the refinery fire that started on monday, and is still not quite back up to full production. have been dealing with the effects of that. but if you re like me, you ve noticed over the last few weeks already, as you pull into the gas station, hey, something is not quite right. but that s because the national average of gasoline prices has risen to $3.63 a gallon, up almost 30 cents in the last five weeks. ....
major setback for egypt. who is running the country? the constitution was ruled invalid today in egypt, and said that anyone elected under it has to go. egypt s military rulers took over all of the legislative pow, and it is already a tense time politically as the egyptian voters will choose a president in a runoff election this weekend. and the prosecutors in the jerry sandusky child molestation trial will wrap up the case today. one of the victims is an alleged victim whose mother called authorities after her son told her that he had showered with sandusky. he is accused of abusing ten boys in a ten-year period. this aircraft went down yesterday, and all five crew members are not injured, and the osprey s safety has been questioned since 2005. a man accused of a shooting spree in auburn university is accused of three murders and two assault counts. you can see desmonte leonard at his court appearance this morning. the funerals for the two killed will take place sa ....
republican front-runner for the president. according to the latest national poll. leaving many analysts wondering if the georgia businessman s plan resonating. all that and more on american morning. good morning, everybody. it is thursday, october 13. it is certainly not a good morning. i can t get messages from people, i can t send messages. mine was down yesterday but back now. mine was up yesterday but i e-mailed this morning. our executive producer said i will be late. that s the e-mail i sent. he is panicking going where are my anchor. if you don t know what we are talking about, millions of blackberry users are without service this morning. now four-day blackout spreads to north america. the outage primarily affects e-mails and internet access, not the ability to make phone calls or text. weird. problem started monday affecting customers in europe, middle east and africa. by tuesday, it has spread to south america and yesterday customers here in ....
north carolina first gets hit on saturday, and then somewhere in new england after that, even in areas that don t get a direct hit though, there s the flooding damage, wind damage and power outages, a major pain. you re looking at live pictures from folly beach in south carolina. residents keeping an eye on irene. it could pass by though. they haven t been told to leave though. they are urged to take precautions. evacuations are under way though in the north carolina outer banks. the governor declaring a state of emergency ahead of the hurricane. many areas are accessible only by ferry so voluntary evacuations have now become mandatory. residents and tourists told to get out today. we have the website posted with where there are shelters. there are sheltering options and several counties. wilson is one. we have those on our website and the local emergency management have them published in that data, and then obviously on sunday you ll hear an immediate response from t ....
as you explain, basically saying we would not carry out any operations inside pakistan, and in return, you would allow us, our senior leaders, to exist and live here in pakistan without coming after us. the key here is that u.s. officials say at this point they don t see any evidence that al qaeda actually presented this plan to pakistani officials. right now all they have is that it atears to be an internal discussion. cnn got immediate reaction from the u.s. ambassador. let s listen to what he said about this. you can think of many things of wanting to do them and so did osama bin laden. question is did he raise it with anyone and the u.s. government clearly says that he did not. it was something that he and his associates were considering among themselves. so if we knew something about it we would have done something about it long ago. so absolute denial there from the pakistani government here, at least in the u.s. chris, any more details on to whom osama bin ....