white house. according to aaa, drivers are paying a average of $3.61 for a lal lon of unleaded fuel. three cents pop overnight than it was wednesday. stuart varney joins me. the anchor of varney & company on the fox business network. stuart, this was not a part of the huge discussion last night interestingly enough, but continues to be a big story. not a single question on the gas price run-up, in fact we re in middle of rapid surge phase at the gas price run-up. huge detail there, 3.61 is the national average up just three cents overnight. look at california for a second. here is what a surge is all about. 4.14 for regular there, up seven cents just overnight. look at cincinnati, pick some individual cities, cincinnati the price of regular has gone up 27 cents in one week. in los angeles it is up 24 cents in one week. right now we re on track to beat the previous record year, 2008, very, very
chose: consistent. [applause] senator santorum. courage. [applause] senator? resolute. [applause] mr. speaker? cheerful. [laughter] bill: [laughter] martha: i like that! cheerful. bill: we re remember, we had him on yesterday and he said the two daughters, daddy, you got to look more presidential in these debates, and he didn t deny it. that was ater usk response. it was almost like gingrich saw it coming. what would you have said? martha: happy? bill: i would have said hyper! martha: all right. this is the next one on the lineup for you folks, and you can think about the one word that you would describe yourself as while you watch this, a story that is infuriating to a lot of folks, solyndra, the failed solar panel maker that burned through half a
that is a tough story out of arizona. martha: also this morning we ve got some new reaction coming in now from the white house as anti-american riots in afghanistan continue to spin out of control. the u.s. embassy there is now in lockdown. the violent protests sparked by unintentional burning of korans at a u.s.-run military base there. wendell goler has latest on the story from the white house. good morning, wendell. reporter: good morning, martha. president obama apologized to afghan president hamid karzai for the burning of those korans. this is contained in a letter sent to karzai earlier today. the folks here say the letter was a follow-up to a phone conversation the two men had a few days ago that continued the discussion on a range of issues. also included, quote, a our regret and poll business over the incident in which religious materials were unintentionally mishandled at bagram airbase. the letter was delivered by u.s. ambassador ryan crock they are afternoon. it was uncl
martha: we are working on a story out of washington sthait morning and we have breaking details on the death of a trooper who basically pulled over a pickup truck at a routine stop about 1:00 a.m. in the morning this morning, and he called in the fact that he had pulled over this pickup, and then when his dispatcher called back to discuss this traffic stop with him they got no answer and they got concerned. they went out to the scene and they found that that trooper had been shot and was very wounded and later died. so they are continuing to search. they found the pickup truck about a mile away from there but they still have not found the person who did this and they ve asked every officer in the area who s available to get out through and search for this shooter of a washington state trooper, in a tragic case that unfolded early in the morning hours today. we ll keep on top of that,
unexplivitily, a guy used the gps jammer to fool them into not knowing where the van was and every time he drove by the airport, he took down the landing system. martha: wow. there isn t a single civilian receiver on the market that has any kind of rudimentary defense against gps spoofing, and so from my perspective, our u.s. civil infrastructure is wide open to an attack like this. reporter: as much as gps attacks could be a problem humphreys also says gps privacy is a problem, a little tiny dot, you can put that on a person, employees you re following and they have no way of knowing it s there and no way to get around it. privacy issues and national security issues, martha. martha: that is a fascinating story. john rob it s, enough, reporting from atlanta. bill: while you were sleeping last night, gas prices jumped 3 cents a gallon. the president will talk about that a bit later today. will his polices help or hurt? martha: i should have filled up before i went to