[AP] 2007/11/12

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[000] AP Radio News. Good morning. I'm John Belmont.

[001] It's Veterans Day, but [like] many of [us] stock traders
     on Wall Street are working today getting off to a mixed
     opening after another rough night on Asian market[,]
     still concerned about American mortgage problems.

[002] The Dow currently up 39 points.

[003] Investors are moving back into banking stocks, [but the
     market is] waiting to see if more financial firms have to
     [write] down mortgage-backed securities.

[004] Oil prices are down about 2 dollars a barrel after
     reports that OPEC will talk about increasing production
     [late] this year to cool record crude prices.

[005] AAA says gasoline is now averaging $3.10 a gallon
     nationwide, $3.37 in California.

[006] But it's 3[-]dollar heating oil that[']s worrying people
     in the Northeast where 80 percent of the homes in Maine
     are heated with No. 2 oil, or kerosene.

[007] With home owners facing oil bills that could run into
     [the] thousands of dollars, one state official says it's
     not just low[-] income people who are fearful[;] many
     working[-]class families will literally have to choose
     between eating, heating and driving.

[008] As the [F]eds investigate the oil spill in San Francisco
     Bay area as a possible criminal case of human error,
     House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will join San Francisco Mayor
     Gavin Newsom in taking a look at the mess this morning.

[009] California Senator Diane Feinstein says she plans to
     travel back to Washington today to talk to Homeland
     Security officials about preventing future spills.

[010] "We will see what we can do to see that there is a kind
     of management system of San Francisco Bay which prevents
     this kind of incident from ever, ever happening again."

[011] Making progress in Iraq[:] The US says the number of
     rocket and mortar attacks is at the lowest level in 21
     months.

[012] {Last month saw 369 indirect fire attacks, the lowest
     number since February, 2006.

[013] October's total was half of what it was in the same month
     a year ago.

[014] And the military says it was the third month in a row of
     sharply reduced insurgent activity.}

[015] The AP's Lauren Frayer in Baghdad. This is AP Radio News.

[016] British police say there is nothing to suggest a
     suspicious cause for a big warehouse fire this morning in
     east London.

[017] On this Veterans Day holiday, one woman remembers her
     time in the Coast Guard during World War II and how
     things are different for women in uniform today.

[018] [{](Leraine Detterly) was like lots of women who served
     while their men were off fighting.

[019] "We thought that maybe we could do our parts and [bring]
     them home, and umm ... and save the world."

[020] (Detterly) was a photographer away from combat and says
     that's the big difference between eras.

[021] "Today many of the women [are in...] a position where
     they can become hurt or killed."

[022] Women like Air Force Brigadier General Michelle
     Johnson[:]

[023] "Now[, we have women] fighter pilots [... and] people who
     drive ships."

[024] [Opportunities] Johnson says World War II's brave women
     could never have imagined.

[025] Sagar Meghani, Washington.}

[026] Actress Laraine Day has died. She was 87, and appeared in
     nearly 50 films including the Hitchcock thriller "Foreign
     Correspondent."

[027] John Belmont, AP Radio News.