Monday, March 7, 2011

What's in The News Today

President Obama wants to dip into U.S.  gas reserves to keep gas prices down. This would be the third time in 40 years that the gas reserves were utilized . He is warned that it may make a political statement and not sure if it will make a difference in the prices. The U.S. has 727 million barrels are reserved.

Kerley D. (March 6, 2011). Gas Prices Clim Toward $4; Time to Tap Strategic Oil Reserves. President Obama Says for First Time His Considering opening Reserves to Keep Prices Down. Retrieved March 7, 2011, from http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/gas-prices-climb-time-tap-strategic-oil-reserves/story?id=13071368

A Ex-Change student from San Diego is missing while studying in Spain.  Austin Bice has been missing for a week in Madrid, Spain. Family of Austin states "they will not leave Spain until Austin is found." He was studying abroad since January for one semester. His cell phone is stilled active, but cell messages are full. "He was last seen outside of a fast food restaurant on February 26, 2011 a 20 minute walk from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, where he was studying."
Nelson, R., & Hopper, J. (March 7, 2011). Search Intensifies for Austin Bice, College Student Missing in Spain. abcNews/u.s. Retrieved March 7, 2011, from http://abcnews.go.com/US/search-intensifies-missing-college-student-austin-bice-madrid/story?id=13073768

Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii is in a red level and warnings of volcano alert due to a  "fissure that opened and a crater floor continues to erupt lava." The fissure eruption is in a remote area of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. The park is closed because of continuous eruptions.
USGS U.S. Geological Survey. Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. Retrieved March 7, 2011, from http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/hvo/activity/kilaueastatus.php

Alien life possibly found through fossils astrobiologist with NASA's Marshall Space  Flight Center, Dr. Richard Hoover published in the Journal of Cosmology that fossils that were found are alien life. Fossils appeared to have bacterial life within the meterorites that he had collected in remote areas of Alaska and Siberia. Due to all the scepticism a 100 experts and invitations to 5,000 scientist were granted to review the findings.

Couts. A., (March 5, 2011). NASA scientist finds evidence of alien life. Yahoo! News. Retrieved March 7, 2011, from http://news.yahoo.com/s/digitaltrends/nasascientistfindsevidenceofalienlife

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