national association of home builders economist paul crowe expected a drop due to bad weather and more multi-family building. but he also thinks the housing market still has bigger problems. >> even those factors don't account for the significant drop we saw, and i think that has more to do with the fragile housing recovery to begin with, and so any small wind blows us off track, or even backwards in this case. >> tom: meanwhile, another data point in on the economy, a big jump in inflation at the wholesale level. producer prices rose 1.6% in february, the sharpest jump in nearly two years. the culprit here? no surprise, higher energy and commodities costs. still ahead, with damage estimates in hundreds of the billions of dollars, we look at what it will take to start rebuilding japan. >> susie: as workers in japan struggle to limit the fallout from the nuclear crisis, china became the latest country to put its nuclear expansion plans on hold. but the companies that build nuclear power plants say they can operate safely. areva is one of them. this afternoon, darren gersh spoke with chi

adviser paul craig roberts says france would not be supporting intervention in libya without support from washington but they wouldn't come in there without. permission in washington. at least for the crow group nato the united nations. the united states and. the world is usually when they say that they want to. kill libyans and they have a no fly zone to get the relief to go what is the real agenda because they don't show. compassion for. order iraqis actually. where we actually could do something about it since it's the united states inflicting the damage so if they haven't any compassion for those people why do they have it for the libyans but work the rebels need or an outright weapons and surface to air missiles and once you have that. and so we don't need a no fly zone or american troops. that's a national studies expert says pro-war advocates of washington are pushing a military agenda. in libya unlike egypt and in other parts of the arab world you do see a regional civil war between the eastern part and the west and by that is how the struggle has been going for the last twenty years and indeed it is not intensified militarily so it makes perfect sense to me that this is going t