debt long before egan jones and company so they were i think it's more about the u.s. if you're inside the empire you can't you can't downgrade any of those little people with their hyper inflationary chicken bond markets can't go on is going to do golomb. because the best with the empire you know pretty soon to be the guy who's going to show up in peking with like three tons of opium and that we're. going to open opium again. but even jones wasn't intimidated so they downgraded u.s. debt further april of this year and that happened on april fifth on april nineteenth leaks started emanating from the f.c.c. that it had voted to start an administrative law proceeding against the firm and april twenty fourth they filed it now even jones the story of them is that they are privately held company with about twenty employees and they started in one thousand nine hundred five and it is the only one of the nine nationally recognized rating agencies in america that gets paid by investors instead of by the issuers of securities so that's important to realize in the face of this f

s division of enforcement alleges that egan-jones willfully violated exchange act sections. rcement further alleges that by the conduct described above, egan willfully made or caused ejr to make material misstatements in its form nrsro. they said they had no further comment and they stand by the charges. >>> let's get to sharon epperson for some breaking news. natural gas inventories are out. sharon. >> natural gas inventories rose by 72 billion cubic feet in the last week and this is a very bullish number because traders were anticipating that the increase would be somewhere between 76 and 80 bcf. that's still far left than we normally see for this time of year. we're looking at a significant rally here in natural gas. national gas futures appear to be at the highest levels of the year. $3.59 per million british thermal units. that was the high of the session. right as that number came out. again, there is a great deal of concern of whether or not we will see supply actually meet the escalating demand. that's something that morgan stanley pointed out in a note this morning w