was a matter of staying the course and stang patient.e were doing, and here we are. >> you have to hand it to the guard, 22 points against n.c.. we all knew losing him would all we couldheels, was watch. poor guy. 71-67 jayhawks. ohio state inay .he final four o this was just a blowout, right? kentucky had size and skill. anthony davis added 18. kentucky, a 82-70. they face louisville next saturday. the maryland women's basketball against texas new mexico. down 18 points and the first half. to do the have impossible for a the defending championship -- champions. this is both hands. they trailed by only three at the half. the bucket. two minutes to go, thomas, this is where shoeshines. -- she shines. thomas led the charge. .terps are going some spring fever baseball right now. runs and the first. the nats up 5-0. it helps when this guy is on the mound. 5 hits and 1 qlk. he is pretty good. that -- the nats win easily. to an 88-76cruised victory. tony stewart won the auto club 400 today. got it all. >> nice work. whoever said that "less is

if at some stange they estimate the maximum level had increased, for example, we would adjust monetary policy accordingly. the dual objectives of price stability and maximum employment are generally complementary. the committee judges that sustaining a highly accommodating chance for monetary policy is consistent with promoting both objectives. however when the objectives are not complementary, they follow a balanced approach in promoting them, taking into account the magnitudes of deviations of inflation and employment from levels judged to be consistent with the dual mandate as well as potentially different time horizons over which employment and inflation are projected to return to such levels. thank you, and i'll be pleased to take your levels. >> thank you, chairman bernanke. chairman bernanke, the biggest driver of the every-increasing deficits this nation faces is the run-away growth and all of our major entitlement programs, medicare, medicaid and social security. you have repeatedly stressed that the united states needs to return the federal government to a sound, fiscal footi

discover financial and morgan stang the way higher on the upside after getting some nice upgrades froman sachs upgrading the entire credit card sector to attractive. morgan stanley also getting a nice mention as well in another report. seema mentioned micron technology, definitely the biggest laggard on the s&p 500 today. nike also a loser after the earnings after the bell last night. now, let's go into sharon epperson. sharon has the metals closing right now. what a move gold has made in the last 24 hours. >> court, you're right. we're up $20 right now for the price of gold $1662 an ounce. metals are higher across the board. and the weakness in the dollar definitely a factor helping the metals market. but keep in mind when you look at the one-week chart in gold, we are basically where we started out the week. so at these levels around $1662, not much of a gain there. a lot of volatility in the fact that gold has been below the 200-day moving average technically means there's still weakness in the market. weakness also when you look at the outpost from gold etfs. in fact the biggest on

cite a number of projects to be built in iraq that prisons that are sitting up empty, water parks the stang crumbling, some of this was the aid project. there is this new thing we are doing. the military is engaging in major construction as opposed to what we have traditionally done in this country. >> this is new territory. i am aware of the projects we are funding. i am aware of the two transportation projects. i am aware of the water projects. i know the money will complete these projects. what is new for this 400 million in aif? what is envisioned as we're going to start brand new. regardless of what senator brown says, we note that some of the security we have to buy, we know that they have no capability of sustaining many of these because of their gdp. they did not even have a national highway system with any kind of revenue that can even fix highways after we build them. as i began on this committee, i have heart to heart with general petraeus about fixing broken windows. we're doing multimillion-dollar projects. i do not think we have seen the studies that show the country likes to