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mac. >>> all right. a couple minutes until we get eia numbers on nat gas.a coombs, watching not just the energy complex but also what's happening to gold today. down some 22 bucks. >> yeah. yeah. it's really an interesting thing. it has been lately when you talk about gold, when the lopes up for the fiscal cliff, gold is down. today, we are just seeing some liquidation overall. as far as natural gas, natural gas again also being the opposite. today was down, yesterday, bouncing this morning, up about 2%. certainly the fact that we are seeing that snow in the midwest, saw poor mike seidel thought in the snow that is helping. also seeing heating oil now coming off of the lows, moving into positive territory this morning. as far as the number coming up here in just a minute or so the expectation is for a withdrawal of 74 billion cubic feet that's below the number we saw this week last year, about 100 billion cubic feet and well below the five-year average about 140 billion cubic feet or so we all know the story. we have a lot of natural gas production, a lot i