>> okay, this is no movie. it is real life. and a dust bowl. people trying to get home and visibility is between zero and less than zero. we will show you where. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> welcome, everyone, this is the best she on television, "fox & friends" right now. >> better than the kardashians. >> a nice endorsement from the world's greatest athlete. >> i tried to turn on the computer. >> that raises the rating. >> israel and hamas pulling off a prisoner swap. >> an israeli soldier for more than 1,000 palestinian inmates, many who have been serving life sentences for attacks inside

israel. that is right. >> leland is live outside the home of the israeli soldier just released in northern israel. with a happy homecoming. >>reporter: good morning to you, we can tell you that five years in captivity inside the gaza strip, a dungeon, and a number of smiling faces and the commentators feel like their own son is coming home, and we have video that was just put out by egyptian television as he scale across the border and given from hamas to the egyptians, and, now, to the israelis. he is in good condition they say, and has been able to talk. he is pale after being inside that prison and spoke to his parents, a relief everyone here. this prisoner transfer is ahead of schedule right now, and we have video to show you of the

israelis transferring a number of hamas most wanted people, some of the worst of the worst who have been charged with killing israelis and they have been transferred into the gaza strip and this are massive celebrations planned inside the gaza strip as they get their key people back. here, live, in northern israel, where the parents have held vigil during the five year captivity outside the prime minister's residence to beg israel to make some kind of a deal to give their son back, he was 19 when captured and now he is 25 years old, and if all goes according to plan he will have dinner here, tonight, at his home, something that in the first interview with egyptian television he said he is very, very, very much looking forward to and i am watching a live feed from the israel channel and a helicopter carrying him just

landed and he will hug his parents and see them and the prime minister of israel who made a very tough deal in order to get him back. behalf to you in new york. >> a hero's welcome awaits. thank you, leland. >> and now for tuesday, just releases pictures of a picture where four handicapped adults were held captive in the dark with little water and a bucket for a toilet. the victims' social security checks were robbed and now police fear this sickening scam is nationwide. >> we got information pertaining to almost 50 other people that she had social security numbers for, and other types of personal information and all the people have to be tracked down. >> she along with two others are charged with kidnapping. the four victims recovering at a hospital. >> now, the latest in the case of the missing 11-month-old lisa

irwin. the parents hired a high profile opportunity who represented van der sloot suspected in the disappearance of fatly -- natalee holloway. the mother says she has nothing to hide although she was drunk. >> the facts are the facts. and the facts remain that she had nothing to do with lisa's disappearance. >> as for private investigator, he is leaving kansas city but not leaving the investigation. >> and the day for the iowa caucus is set: january 3rd, 2012. iowa and new hampshire were to kickoff the g.o.p. primary in february but that changed after florida broke party rules and jumped ahead. now, iowa is back at the top. new hampshire yet to pick a date, and it is possible it could pick a date in december. >> and now the video from texas where a massive dust storm

blocked out the sun. 70 miles per hour winds reduced visibility between zero and a quarter of a mile and the control tower was evacuated. no one was hurt. those are the headlines. the new hampshire primary has to be before, no, it does not have to be before the caucus, correct? >> not before iowa but it is the first primary. it is confusing. a woke before any other primary. and now, the latest debate that will occur tomorrow 5:00 local time in las vegas. wayne newton will be there. but the king of the show will probably be herman cain because he is riding high. the latest poll shows that herman cain is the only republican who currently is ahead of the president of the united states. romney has been ahead of him in the past, but, currently, mitt is done by two. >> according to the polls he is

in a tie with mitt romney going in and going interest a debate for the first time with this momentum. he had it last week and now many are looking at the 9-9-9 and as he mentioned friday, saturday and sunday he has a big target on his back and he was questioned by david gregory with some answers and some answers many did not like. he said some taxes will go up on other people and for others they will go down but what herman cain should feel good about head to head with president obama he is plus 16 points with people over 65. >> difference is president obama has $1 billion in funds and herman cain has $2 million so that is the difference and in the g.o.p. many say he is choosing not to go do iowa and maybe not so strong in new hampshire but the floss flies -- philosophy is to stay in the south but the reality in our society is it takes millions of

dollars to win a nomination. maybe this will be the first of its kind where maybe he pulls its off without having that huge groundswell support. >> one thing the republicans have on their side, in the enthusiasm polls the republicans are more enthusiastic about going to vote a year and a month or so, from receipt -- right now. that will help the republicans. that could be a reason why the president of the united states is out on what sure looks like a presidential re-election campaign but it is not. just a "campaign," to push the jobs deal. yesterday he picked at the republicans for not passing it. what he doesn't mention is there were also democrats would voted against it. however, here is the president. >> maybe they just couldn't understand the whole thing all at once. so, we're going to break it up into bite-sized pieces so they can take a in theful approach to this legislation. >> you have to the wonder to

that was the strategy knowing this jobs bill with not pass so you could vilify the republicans increase not being, for being the party of "no," and a sarcastic tone is what we will hear for 13 months as he tried to become president of the united states again. it is a little disingenuous not to mention that there were democrats who do not like the bill. >> and the dnc helped him get re-elected and get the message out and romney answered axelrod who attacked him over the weekend through the spokesman. and, in the florida poll, with herman cain, he now is up in florida, over mitt romney, 33-30, and rick perry is done to 3 percent, and that is a huge drop. >> so, as the president and his men break up the jobs bill interest bite-sized pieces they will bring up or vote continuing teachers salary. that will be a public jobs.

stuff like that. you look at the money spent last time, it is extraordinary how much money, okay, take a look, he wants $35 billion, they say that could help 400,000 teachers or save $4 million jobs. but when you look at the record, you know, we wind up buying a bunch of stuff that wasn't teachers' salary. >> the stimulus money has not been used, so what was handed out to states and supposed to go to education or saving or creating teachers jobs but the republican shows a lost states, including mississippi, maine, utah and texas they used the money to buy ipads and you could argue getting children up to technology is a good thing, but some of the interesting things is in billion billion the stimulus money went to the department of corrections, $118

of stimulus funding for, i guess, prisoners in the department of corrections. >> and north carolina for water parks and movie and other entertainment and 17,000 went to teachers salary. that does not get you an assistant but they are big into ipads. in texas he got 750. in maine, 309 ipads. and 125 in mississippi. so maybe that helps in the classroom but maybe that should not be the focus. >> what about kids going to a water park? or to a movie? and "terminateor," used from stimulus money. >> so you can see from the record a bunch of money went to other stiff, and greg touched on the $118 million that went to prisoners in alabama. education money versus

prisoners? the governors, when they get the money can spend 18 percent of it on noneducation stuff. so, kind of a little slush fund. >> big picture is $35 billion, teachers are good people, hard working people and everyone likes teachers but where do you get the money? if we are out of the money we are bolstering state economies that cannot sustain it without federal help and the federal government does not have it. >> the way they want to pay for this is the millionaires tax that harry reid proposed. that is what they said. we will continue to debate this throughout the show. and in the meantime apple had more cash on hand than the u.s. treasury. so, why is the government trying to turn back the policies that helped him succeed? that is ahead. >> and a dare devil has no idea his parachute isn't working!

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operating different than it was in the early 80s. >> you knocked to down to three straight principals. the tiger amendment cut capital gains in half to 29%. >> that was back in the 70s. it cut rates and encouraged people to get out there and invest and make a profit bus the gain on that will be a lot less. reversed today where we are talking about raising capital gains taxes. >> and you are also talking about relaxes standards. they were more relaxed in the 800s. >> yes. changes were made to what was called the pension law. it allowed pension funds, strangely enough, to take risk to invest in start-up companies like apple and steve jobs. the reverse is true today. you have financial reform which clamps down on risk and says you can't do that. there's an army ofors looking

over your shoulders say you you can't do that. but take a ruing and we will create the apples of this world versus now don't take that risk, we can't take a loss. >> and now you talk about more defined intellectual property rights. i heard they got the patent reform. is this part of that? >> it is. in the mid-'70s, and the early '80s, you were allowed to own your own ideas. ownership was clarified. when receive jobs comes along, it is his idea, it is clear he owns it and he's got it. that's not been reversed today. what you have today is patent wars. so hopefully president obama's reform of patents can do something about that. >> and steve jobs and bill gates both dropped out of school. they both said i have had enough

of school, i'm doing this myself. >> they wanted to bust out of the lousy economy of the 1970s so maybe there's a parallel here >> your show is coming up on on the fox business network. you know what, for the right price you can have steve on your show. i'm going put in a word for you. >> thank you. >> thank you, stuart. a baby who nearly dice in the middle of a street, hit by a car and nobody stops to help. and so why does the epa keep getting more money to create more regulation? you are going to want to hear this. 4g-- the next evolution in wireless technology.

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>> welcome back, 21 minutes after the it of the hour. headlines now. you are looking at a bus crash. a bus crashed on the new york thruway. everybody is okay but someone is trapped in the bus inside. and donald trump had dinner with 200 people. he went after opec and china, saying they are contributing to america's economic woes. trump yet to endorse a candidate. steve. >> regulation nation. yes, en deed, president obama said republicans won't pass his jobs bill because they don't care about the air we breathe in the sky. >> and then you geese, their

plan, which is let's have dirtier air and water, they want to gut regulation, they want to let wall street do whatever it wants, they want to drill more. >> but our next guest says our air and water are cleaner than ever before, so why is the epa spending more and more money to create more and more regulations to clamp down on more and more businesses? join me right now, an environmental consultant and author of the new book "regulators gone wild, how the epa is ruining american industry" rich trupekc. thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me here. >> you get the notice you have lead paint in your apartment building, it will cost you $140,000, but there were a couple of problems with his story, weren't there some. >> there were. the key one there wasn't

actually lead paint. we are talking about a retire retiree -- who said i'm going to buy a flat for my retirement income, hires a management company to take care of it for him and the company forgets to file the one paper that said we don't have lead paint. the epa said the paper wasn't filed and demand $140,000 from the boar guy. it's so typical of the gotcha mentality of the epa today. >> the air and water have never been cleaner, and the epa has to create the same amount in fines and fierce year after year so they have to stretch things out in order to figure out who to fine next. >> that's exactly right. the environmental acttist problem with bush is not the air and water didn't get cleaner because it did, and the data shows it did, it is that he pulled back on enforcement a little bit because that was happening. it was a reward.

and that got the act tests on the left nuts. now this administration is backed way up, even though pollution is down. >> the problem is, rich, so many small businesses can't fight back. it's hard to go up against uncle sam because he's got very deep pockets. >> that's absolutely correct, steve. what i often say is that i wrote this week to try to put myself out of business because the try and the midsize guys have to hire people like me and pay me a lot of money to try to get them through the system when they just want to do the right thing. they don't have a problem with polluting less, being cleaner, it's just the system is so incredibly complex, and intentionally so, so you can generate the fine revenue. >> the interesting thing from a business point of view or a homeowner's point of view, with winter company and we have to pay for electricity to fire up

the furnaces and whatnot, is the epa has effectively tried to make the use of coal so expensive it's almost as if cap and trade had passed, which is hasn't obviously. >> yeah. it's mind-boggling to me that you have these people on the left and the environmental activists saying we need a carbon tax we need cap and trade, with where we have all this infrastructure in place right now. you have states driving the use of coal down, the whole body of regulations that this epa under obama has passed, not one of them says you can't use coal, but when you put them all together you will see nobody is planning coal plants anymore and they are getting the carbon reductions they want. >> interesting stuff. rich, blowing the whistle on the epa. thanks for joining us today from chicago. >> thanks for having me. >> all right. great. next up on the run down, eric holdner the hot seat.

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>> time for your shout of the morning. amos is his name. he's ten years old, says the penn. from florida u might recognize him n three days he learned how to pick up a ball, walk over to the basket hoop and drop it in. wow. >> this thanks everything, brian, with regard to ponies and basketball. >> what do you mean? >> you are supposed to be impressed. do you think this is impressive or not? >> i don't think this is impressive. >> why not? it's the shot of the morning. >> you have killer whales learning to hit balls, you have dogs doing that's correct you have walruses and seals. >> there's an nba lockout right

now. we could replace them with horses. >> here's the problem. that's not even a regulation rim. >> who cares! it is for a pony. >> and you have elephants that can pick ncaa brackets better than you. >> that's right. that might have gone viral but its with my protest. it's a nice pony but not a special pony. >> that is right up your ali. >> which makes me uniquely qualified to say not impressed, mr. pony. it's a small horse. if they get ten years they can get them and put it in a small rim. there are plenty of people with german shepherds and labradors and more with more skilled trainers. >> oh, here you go. we should see how your bermese

mountain dogs does with any kind of tricks you have taught him. >> he's full of tricks. pretend he doesn't understand anything i am saying, he's good at that one. >> or do you think the pony is highly overrated and there's no justice if it goes viral? >> and we have just wasted 2 minutes. >> thank you. >> let's do this headlines. newly released 9/11 calls reveal the terrifying moments during last week's massacre at a salon. here's a call from a nearby inside store. >> did you hear the shooting? >> yeah, they said that somebody is shooting with a gun. we locked the door. >> and how many shots have you heard? ma'am? >> yes. >> how many shots have you heard some. >> ten. we need somebody here like right now. >> oh, man. eight people were killed in the attack, including the suspect's ex-wife. the police say 42-year-old scott

degray was locked in a bitter custody battle over his 8-year-old son. prosecutors want the death penalty in his case. >> eric holier expected to comment on the "fast and furious" scandal this morning. he is accused of putting thousands of guns into the mexican drug gangs. he's giving a speech and the topic is integrity and efficiency. brian. >> there's anger around the world after a two-year-old girl was hit by a truck and left in the street. >> that's her right there? >> yeah, even more disturbing. at least 18 people pass her without helping her. you see her here in the middle of your screen as people just keep walking. it was captured on closed-circuit television. she was hit by a second truck before being noticed and taken to the hospital by a woman. the little girl is alive. doctors are not sure she will survive. police have reportedly caught both drivers who hit her. >> i don't know how you need

another story after that. but a base jumper leaps from a 900-foot bridge and his parachute fails. the whole thing caught on camera. >> he's not even doing a parachute. >> no. >> oh! >> 27-year-old christopher brewer hit the water at almost 80 miles per hour. it's believed his wing suit slowed down his fall enough to save his life. he's recovering from injuries to his pelvis, lungs and spine. he is expected to recover. >> between those two piecefs video, i don't know that i can recover. this and that little girl. >> i wonder if you will ever do it again. probably with a parachute next time. >> he had one, he just forgot to do something, pack it right.

maps, we have maps. 48 connected states, and today we are starting the day with a storm off the west coast of florida. heavy stuff there. widely scattered showers in portion, you see the ohio valley back through the tennessee valley, the mississippi valley, a well, and into southern portion of iowa. the balance of the country is pretty dry right now. as you head out the door on this 18th day of october, if you are in new york city and you are at the airport, it's 55 degrees. 44 in caribou, maine. same at minneapolis. 60 in raleigh and atlanta. temperatures in the gulf coast in the upper 60s and 70s, as well. >> let's talk about monday night football. >> it happened last night u probably nod off. the jets no surprise beat the dolphins. two struggling teams desperate to get back. miami hasn't won a game all year. matt moore, int, to torrell. he's not going to run it back,

is he? 100 yards! a little later they break tackles, and he scores. three-game skid over for the jets. they win 24-6. finally in a letter, midnight madness kicked off in hoop season over the weekend and one mom almost lost her head. that mom, lucky she's not kicked in the head by her songs that's wagner jr., josh thompson dunking over his mommy. it was part of a dunk contest for the fans. his mom easiest the gutsiest person on the couch until kevin sat down. >> true. who is on your radio show today. >> coming up, gretchen will be joining us right away, jennifer griffin, doreena tantaros and you. >> we will look forward to that. >> meanwhile, he was a star of the 1990s tvñr series hercules.

>> okay. that's what you saw on tv. but what you didn't know is while he was filming the show, kevin had to use every ounce of strength he had fighting for his own life after he suffered an aneurysm and lee strokes that fooled. >> and now he's going public about his battle for a first time in his memoir, "true strength.." >> mr. hercules, a lot of people obviously never new your story. how did it stay quiet? >> you've versal studios had a lot of money invested in the show. we just passed "baywatch" as the most watched tv show in the

world. and i was coming back to the states to shoot a movie in georgia and i had these sensations in my arms going on for week and they kept bugging me and my doctor thought it was maybe my ulnar nerve that i crushed that created the tingling and sensations. things got worse after i finished at movie and i was up in boston and they said we are going tosen a doctor to see you. this guy comes into my hotel room, his name is dr. die. not a good name for a doctor. but he checked it out and found a lump. he thought at the time the lump could have been cancer. he didn't know for sure. i won't my chiropractor, who was working on me, and i was laying on the table and i heard a voice say don't let him crack your neck. >> a voice in your head. >> i closed my eyes, he crack my neck i said why did you do that?

because he never cracked my neck before. within a minute three clots went into my brain and they went to my vision center, i lost ten percent of vision both eyes and went to my balance center. i had to drop out of the movie i was supposed to shoot, and i went three months really learning how to walk again. >> you had a sensation of falling backwards? >> constantly, 24 hours a day. it took me three years to feel normal again. i went from 14 hour work days to one hour a day and slowly worked it back up again. >> you are supposed to be the world's strongest man and you could only work one hour a day. >> it was tough and it was tough on my ego. thankful universal kept it quiet. they let the aneurysm out but they didn't let people know about the stroke because i think it would have hurt my career. >> we used to interview you during that period. >> sure. and i think it's my minnesota upbringing. minnesota nice, that's right, darn straight. i think, you know, it made me a

lot more patient. it made me a lot more compassion national and made me en a lot of people have stories. i wrote this book. i have been wanting to write it for a long time. my wife was beating me over the head and said we have to get this done. i wanted it to inspire people in similar situation, whether it's cancer or whatever it is. the doctors saved my life. but you get to a point they say this is the best you can expect after three days. after eight months i was still feeling bad. >> how about the voice in your head? >> next time you listen to it. >> was it just a fluke it was you? >> you look at a guy who was in his 30s, the shape i was in,fs in as good shape as any athlete in 20s. i was ripped. and for it to happen someone like me, i'm not obese, don't drink, don't smoke, no high pressure, everything opposite of what they look at for potential stroke victims and i still had a

stroke. >> and david had the same thing. he had to get the operation too. >> now you are fine, right? >> yeah. it took three years. there was a lot of stunt casting. >> and i was available. what were you thinking? i could have been your body double. >> you didn't want to go to new zealand. >> i made my stand. that's true. they used your audition real for the christmas tape. >> they didn't like the piece you had on. and i'm with you on the horse. i'm sorry. >> am i right? thank you. >> all right. kevin sorbo. >> the book is "true strength." >> amazon.com. >> all right. thanks, kevin. >> get it right now. go for it. >> thank you. >> is anybody up? >> they are all up. >> coming up on our show, have you seen this? leading the class in the mechanics cal pledge of allegiance a student who is being punished for refusing the assignment. >> do you feel just as free today as you did last year?

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right. >> it's taking freedoms away and it's violating the constitution and nobody seems to care. >> people care. >> well, people do care but that's why i wrote this book. the president starts a war in libya and congress lets him do it. the president enacts an executive order that takes freedom away from people, the president enacts an executive order that says you don't have to obey this law, you labor union people that find obama care too expensive because i have the power to exempt people from the law. guess what, the constitution prohibits him from having that power and said all the laws have to apply to everyone. that's why i wrote this book, to point out the subtle and even sometimes the in your face ways we are all losing freedoms and we don't do enough about it. >> you are talking about the waivers the government has been able to give out for healthcare because the companies decided it was too expensive for them to be able to provide it so they got off the hook. >> they got off the hook because they are friends with the president. in some cases people who are not friends with the president got off the hook.

the state of new jersey, chris christie is obviously an adversary to president obama, got a one year waiving on run the state-run insurance exchange. how does the government decide who to help and who to let off the hook and who to enforce the law with. >> besides you people like you writing this book there's a sense we have a self regulating way in our government to reign things in and mac sure the freedoms around stomped over. >> the self regulating should be the branch of the government. >> what do you mean should be. >> doesn't always do its job. sometimes it folds to public pressure, and it shouldn't. it should preserve the freedom of the minority when they are right and protect from the tyranny of the minority. the government things as long as

there's a majority in congress that can write any law, tax any event, it forgets our freedoms are natural and they are protected by the constitution. the government doesn't want to recognize the strengths under their own power. that's what this book it about. >> i would love you to take this book and make it a tv show at night. you could take the word "freedom" ask make it "freedom watch." do you think you could do that. >> i might be able to, and maybe get a radio show. >> judge napolitano, the host of fox business and his new book "it's dangerous to be right when the government it wrong." >> thank you. >> thank you. good luck. i'm sure you will do well. when we come back, an american student was punished for refusing to pledge mexico's pledge ever allegiance in class. pair

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>> [foreign language] well, that was a spanish class in texas. given an assignment, recite the mexican pledge of allegiance and the mexican national anthem and it was taught during freedom week, which includes constitution day here in the united states. this didn't go over very well with one student. she refused to participate and

caught it all on video. joining me now is that student, brindon. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> this is freedom week. many would think it would be to honor the united states of america. how did the spanish teacher tell you you were going to be honoring mexico that day? >> she told us we were going to recite the pledge and do the national. and what was sad it was right after 9/11 happened and i felt like this is wrong. this isn't right. >> so you decided to -- >> i know -- i know it was wrong. >> so in your heart you felt it was wrong so you decided to take out your cellphone and videotaped what we are watching right now. why did you want to videotape it. >> because i wanted to prove to my dad, no, look, dad, this is really happen. he would believe me but we had to get it on facts, base it on facts. >> why did you feel in your heart it was wrong? >> i feet in my heart that i

knew it was wrong because, you know, this isn't -- this is unconstitutional and nobody should be doing that in the united states. and in iraq if you do the pledge of allegiance, they won't tolerate it at all. why are we? >> so you were given an alternative assignment because you refused. what was the alternative assignment [the ail terntive assignment was to do a presentation on the independence of mexico, which is basically the same thing, and i got a bad grade for. >> that so you believe the bad grade was because you refused to do the pledge? >> yeah, i feel that way. >> i want to read the statement from the school because they are defending the teach area he is actions. here's what they say. all students say this.

how is it going now. >> it's going better since my dad and me complained. it's been going better. but i feel this was an in docket nation. even with the slightest bit of influence to any children it's always huge, it's a major impact on kids, especially youth. i feel like youth is like, you know, the future. >> right. well, brenda did not want to recite the mexican pledge of allegiance and she took a stan. thank you for being our guest today. >> you're welcome. >> what do you think about that? should we be reciting other country's pledge of allegiance during freedom week. what do you think? and we are getting support from people like this. >> i think running the big banks and federal reserve which is not run by the federal government, they need to be run out of this country. >> yep, these not the only ones. the hate groups that are

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we will. >> and before he was running for president, herman cain, was he starring as the fifth beats? sounded like it ♪ imagine there's no pizza ♪ i couldn't if i tried ♪ eating only tacos ♪ or kentucky fries >> oh, the poor colonel. the world with no pizza? but imagine herman cain president of the united states. maybe. a new poll that comes out that has him smiling this tuesday morning. fox and friends right now. >> this is john and you are watching "fox and friends." good for you. >> good morning, everyone. we will play more of the herman cain, wonderful voice in a

couple minutes. let's get to the news. thousands of palestinians celebrating in gaza after israel and hamas pull off an elaborate prisoner exchange overnight. one soldier for more than a thousand inmates, many serves life sentences in israel. >> and we are outside the home of the prisoner just released in northern israel. tell us about the homecoming. >> good morning. what a sweet homecoming it is. we can tell you now he is seeing his parents for the first time in five years. they have dreamed about this day, and for two years they have held vigils outside the prime minister of israel's house. we have video. this is him moments after being released and now being put into a brand new israeli army uniform and blown to a base to meet with

the prime minister, the defense minister and his parents. he was released out of the gaza strip a few moments ago. it appears he was in good health. pale because he had so long been held there in the dungeon in the gaza strip. israel paid a deer price to get him out of captivity. nearly one thousand prisoners, and 300 were serving life sentences and they have been released. and also to a hero's welcome there inside the gaza strip and inside the west bank where celebrations continue. you now can look live. if you take our camera back, they have lined the streets to his home with rosed to welcome this young man back. he's 25 years old. he's been in can'ttist since he was 19. as you can imagine it will be a long road to recovery but the good news for this family and this country is they have their soldier home alive. back to you in new york. >> and that is the best news.

live in israel. thank you very much. >> now the rest of your headlines. just released, the first pictures of a filthy basement in philadelphia where four handicapped adults were held captive in the dark with little water and only a bucket for a toilet. the ringleader, this woman. allegedly robbed the victim's social security checks while they were being held and police fear the sickening scam have gone nationwide. >> we also got information pertaining to almost 50 other people that she had social security numbers for, other types of personal information. all those people have to be tracked down. >> weston, along with wright and thomas are charged with kidnapping. their four victims recovering at a hospital. >> hillary clinton continue arriving in tripoli this morning. she's going to meet with the leaders of the transitional national counsel sil, the interim government. this is her surprised trip, aimed at improving civilian ties

between the united states and libya. and an autopsy revealed indycar driver, dan whelton died from a blunt force trauma to the head. he was going more than 250 miles an hour. they honored him by hanging a banner over the entrance. some played tribute with flowers or even milk. he was 33 years old. to the case of missing baby. her parents just hired a high profile lawyer. she said the mom has nothing to hide even though she revealed to fox news she was drunk the night her baby disappeared. >> talk about a strategic decision to make. the facts are the facts and the facts remain that she had nothing to do with lisa's

disappeared. >> mr. tacopia will join us live on the next hour of fox and friends. and those are your headlines. that story continues to develop. i mean with the changing sort of analysis of what happened that night from the parents, but now high profile investigators and defense attorneys representing her. >> and she was drunk. that's big, too. >> and how the person got in or didn't get in. >> exactly. all right. let's talk about this, occupy wall street continues in lower manhattan. they are down there right this very minute. so many people have tried to draw comparisons between the tea party and also occupy wallstreet and occupy boston and occupy the planet. remember when the tea party was accused of being a nazi-ish or racist? what is interesting now the american nazi party and the communist party have actually come out and endorsed this particular occupation. for instance, the american nazi

party wishes officially endorsed them, they referred to a book written by hitler as the ideal logical blueprint for healthy survival. that group is supporting occupy wall street. so is the communist party usa. in fact, a spokesperson for the communist party addressed the group this past saturday. >> and so let's hear from one of those people. you may not hear this anywhere else. this is actually a teacher out in california, patricia mcallister. here's what she thinks should happen to our country. >> i'm here representing myself but i do work for the los angeles unified school district. and i think the jews who are running these big banks and our federal reserve wishes is not run by the federal government, they need to be run out of this country. >> you know, the actual american -- that is an incredible statement. >> she may just work for the school. we're not in fact sure she's a

teacher. >> and there is really disturbing news. the american nazi party that she was referring to, they not only endorse the movement, they went out and say it was taylor made. the communist party of chicago also weighed in. they brought greetings and solidarity to the movement. and they plan on being there side by side. welcome aboard. >> they never endorsed the tea party. the interesting thing is to say that some people used to call the tea party racist, i think it is still present tense. people still call the tea party racist. so why we only hear this maybe on fox? why we hear that woman saying what she said about zionist jews. well, bill o'reilly discussed this last night on his show. >> here we have some antisemitism. but that woman who we just heard from puts liberals in general and liberal journalists in particular in a dilemma. they are in a bad situation.

there's a black woman who speaks very well, who is dressed nicely, and she's a bigot. what are we going to do now? >> what they are going to do now is ignore it. >> exactly. >> i guarantee you you aren't going to see her. they aren't going to cover it. that's what they always do if something doesn't fit into their world view. >> that's the point. if there was one sign with a racist sign, why did they put that in? because it did fit their world view that conservatives were bigots. in fact the mainstream media went for weeks and weeks with a story about how tea partyers allegedly shouted the word, you know, at black congress people as they were going to vote on healthcare. to this day, bill, there's not a shred of evidence that said that actually happened. here's evidence. we've just seen evidence of something that we know exists. i would like to see it on the air in some mainstream media. >> you will never see it. you are not going to see it in

mainstream media. and just the fact that a member of the communist party usa addressed occupy wall street. can you imagine if is someone from the communist party would have addressed a meeting of the tea party? the new york times would absolutely implode, and yet you don't see anything from the other side. the hypocrisy is deafening. >> and there is one more tidbit of information maybe you should know about occupy wallstreet all way cross the nation and the world. and that's one organizer wants corporate sponsorship for these protests. wait a minute, isn't that a little hypocritical? we are protesting capitalism and banks and corporations in general, and now they are look fork corporate sponsorship maybe they can make some money on youtube and things like that. >> this anti-corporate message is brought to you by corporate world of the united states of america. >> sure. >> here's what bothers me almost as much as all of it. it's cost new york city, who has

no money, $3.4 million right now in police overtime and it cost us $419,000. it seems the 9/11 fund for areas affected by the 9/11 afacts gave almost $500,000, half a million dollars to this park to resod, and now these people are calling it home. >> that particular one we are talking about right there is mcpherson square down in washington, d.c. and extraordinarily, because i believe it's federal land, they aren't supposed to camp there but the police are just looking the other way. so they put their tent there for a couple weeks and the next thing you know the sod is dead, there goes $400,000 of stimulus money. >> that's why i don't sleep on my lawn anymore. it kills my grass. i go indoors. >> i think maybe you can sleep in the doghouse. >> maybe you won't sleep tonight because there's another debate. eighth. and the policy show herman cain can now beat president obama if

the election was held today. here was the question, who would win? herman cain, 43%. president obama 41%. this was a poll taken between october 14th and october 15th. now maybe a lot of that has to do with herman cain's singing ability. have you heard him? >> i don't think people heard it yet. >> we heard him a few months ago. i think he was on one of the fox shows singing. but listen to this back from 1991. ♪ i couldn't if i tried ♪ eating only tacos ♪ or kentucky fries ♪ imagine only burgers ♪ it's frightening and sad >> i think he can go on the x factor if this presidential

thing doesn't work out. there's no age limit. >> and there's been talk of him going there. >> the images in front of the only huh press club just goes to show you not only is he thinking outside the bun but he's a great singer and a good sense of humor. >> and he's in a dead heat as he starts the debate with mit romney. and first you had rick perriry, then you had mitt romney on top and now you have herman cain as a coleader so it will change the balance. >> did he borrow his 9-9-9 plan from the makers of a video game? we will show you the video and you can decide. >> and it looks like there is one tax cut that they just can't go along with, and we will leave you with more of herman cain. sing it, mr. herman ♪ imagine there's no pizza ♪ i couldn't if i tried

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>> welcome back, everyone. cutting tax necessary this economy may sound like a good idea but president obama plan to extend the payroll tax cut is meeting resistance now. the plan, outlined in his jobs bill, keeps the payroll tax at 4 .2%. that gives the average american $800 over the course of the year. some say it is so small it will have little impact on the economy. joining me now is the fonder of paychecks, one of the largest payroll process source in the country, tom. good to see you. >> good morning. >> usually the republicans would be in favor of any kind of a tax cut. where do they come down on this one? >> well, i'm not sure i really know. i think if this tax cut on the social security tax was by itself singular, they might be very much go for it but obviously it's part of a broader

bill and i think that's where the resistance is. >> do you think it would help the economy. >> as far as creating jobs i don't think it helps the economy that much. obviously the average american family has $800 more a year to spend. that's an improvement. but we also have to remember we are shorting the social security turned and we may have to pay that back at some later date. for sure we are going to have to. >> speaking of money we have been talking a lot about the occupy wallstreet protesters here in new york city and across the country. a lot has been said about maybe it's been the president and others' rhetoric allegedly about class warfare, the millionaires and billionaires that maybe sparked these protests. where do you come down on that? >> i think it's part of it. there's been a lot of conversation about the top 1% and the top 1% not paying their fair shares, quotes from warren buffet and i think that's part of t but also we have to recognize the fact there's a lot of frustration out there. people can't find jobs we have a very high unemployment rate,

everyone is pretty much concerned about the debt. we know we can't keep on borrowing. there's just a limit to it. so i think it's a combination of both, and i think, you know, they have a really good point. i'm not sure i enjoy or like the way they are going about it but certainly it's an important point. >> which point are you talking about? >> the fact that the economy is not moving, the fact that the country is deep in debt, and the job production, the new jobs are just not being created. >> but why at wall street? you have ran big businesses before, and if i recall correctly, you threatened to move out of the state of new york if taxes continued to go up on people who were successful. so why are they attacking wall street? >> i don't think it's wall street so much as it is just the general condition. i think wall street because of some of the things they have gone through with the mortgage crisis and the large bonuses that maybe some of the people have been paid. it seems like they are the best and most likely target. do i think that they think that everything is wrong with wall

street? no. >> let me talk about something else you are behind, which is the popular vote initiative. tell me what it is and what kind of ads you are running in iowa. >> what the popular vote initialtive is basically this. every four years we elect a president of the united states through the electoral college. it's a system called winner take all by state. in other words, in state say in new york if candidate a gets 51% of the vote, candidate a gets all the electoral votes in the state of new york and consequently candidate b gets none of them. what national popular vote is all about let's have a national election, count up all the votes for the country and the winner wins. four times in our history we've had a president become elected to the office without getting the most votes. >> and unfortunately i have to wrap it up there. but people can learn more about it at fox and friends.com. thanks so much, tom. see you again soon. >> all right. thank you >> coming up next, a man goes missing on an island filled with

cannibals. remember when the government said cell phones were safe? turns out there was a problem with that test. they got it wrong. that's next.

>> a government test to measure cellphone radiation under screwed any at this hour. the a new study shows the fcc test's underestimated how much radiation most people actually receive from that are phone. we are joined by doctor. for years the fcc, in trying to figure out how much radiation is involved with a cellphone call, they used a mannequin 6'2". well, how many people are 6'2". >> and 220 pounds. so that represents only about 3% of the country, and 97% are

really outside this. especially children and young women. so what is interesting about children is that their skull is very thin and their brain is smaller so the risk of absorption is a lot more in children. you want to be really careful. there is ten times more absorbs in their bone marrow, it affects their eyes. so grab that phone from your kid and make sure you are very cautious. we covered this, if you remember. >> like three times. >> at that time what we said was if you used your phone for 30 minutes a day over ten years, you have 40% increased of something called glioma which is a type of brain cancer. now we are saying even though there's no real cause and effect, there is some precautions you have to take when you use this. now there are also some new studies. they are showing on the mri there is increasing activity when you use it versus when you don't use it. the idea is that you should use a virtual family model, which includes the children, includes

the women and men and covers everybody. we are going to study the mri of the brain of all different type of people to find out exactly what's going on. >> sure. right now there's no evidence that cell phones cause anything bad, but you think going down the pipe ten, twenty years from now -- >> we certainly need longer time to tell you whether there's a real cause and a real link to this. today we cannot make that connection. but like anything else, even with smoking, the first decade was a lot of fun to smoke. the second decade maybe perhaps possibly a link, and the third decade was wait a second this is causing cancer. now the debate against this is if $5 billion are using this guy, which is a little microwave and can heat your brain, how come the brain cansner this country is not going sky high and we aren't seeing aft mom cal numbers. the answer, like you said, there's sometimes a longer lag time until we see that. it's only been 15 years since we

used the phone so in longer term we may see some different result. >> let's take some action. you say used wired earpiece, not a bluetooth. >> right. this is your best friend. i would start using this. when you use this you have the phone at least some distance away from you and the risk of radiation is less. text more, talk less. keep the phone away from the kids, and especially if you are in areas like elevators, areas that you don't have reception, this guy has to work harder. it has to emit more radiation and so you are at further risk. >> while you are right there on camera three, show how you talk on the phone. you use your finishinger to keep it an inch away from your head. >> the phone company will tell you even if you keep it about an inch away. now i put my finger against my head because a lot of time it heats up when i use it. i put it an inch away and that's a simple precaution you can use to protect yourself. >> thanks so much. and i'll be texting you later. >> very good. >> you just met a student in texas who refused to recite the

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>> last hour we showed you this video, what is being called the magic pony. >> adorable. >> but we will leave that all up to you. here is what ten-year-old amos can do. he can pick up a ball, wow, and go to the basketball hoop and drop it in. is that really talent?

we asked you that. >> and kyle side brian is right, the phone my is not that special. now if it had a decent jump shot. >> good point. >> meanwhile, as the debate coast-to-coast continues, rich from ohio said, brian, that phone my is special as it can put the ball through the hoop. i have watched in the last month many kickers and nba players and he could not put the ball threw the hope. >> oh, wait a second. this is nothing to do with the pony. >> this is amari. >> and he teas you to the net. >> how did you do against shaq? >> ended up beating him. >> i remember last year we had the first round draft pick on the show, do you remember who made a basket during that

segment? >> no, i don't recall. >> it was actually me. >> you actually made the basket. >> as i recall, i outshot both of you. >> keep the e-mail coming as the debate rages regarding super horse. >> talk about debates, this debate raged on our couch a few moments ago. >> we interviewed a student at the texas high school, and she said that during her spanish class she was force today recite the mexican pledge of allegiance and saying the mexican national anthem. >> was that for proficient sis. >> well, it was from her teachers. ironically it was during freedom week when they were celebrating the united states constitution. she decided to boycott that and given an alternative assignment that she said she got a bad grade on. >> she told us we were going to recite the pledge and we were going to do the national and we

were going to do all this stuff. and what was said it was right after 9/11 had just happened and i felt like, no, this is wrong. i feel this was an in doctrination. even the slightest bit of influence to any children, it's always huge. it's always a major impact on kids, especially youth. >> meanwhile here's a response apparently from the school district. all students in mcallen school district recite the pledge of allegiance to the united states of america every day. this was a single lesson, not an indoctrination. >> and this person said says:. >> and this e-mail from jeff in wisconsin. as i recall high school spanish class is more than learning the language, it's learning the history and culture of spanish speaking nations. i see nothing wrong with learning it as part ever the learning and awareness process.

>> and ben in arizona says. >> all right. listen we are going to run outside and talk to lexi thompson. while we do that -- >> all right, here we go. i have to put on a coat. >> here are the headlines. newly released 911 calls revealing the terrifying moments during last week's deadly shooting massacre at a salon in seal beach, california. the call you are about to hear from an emotional woman that just escaped that salon. >> did you see which way he went? >> no. i duck down and put my hands over my neck. i was just hoping he wasn't going to kill me. i'm hiding behind a car in a parking lot. >> we are on our way. >> oh, man.

>> 8 people were killed in the attack, including the suspect's ex-wife. 42-year-old scott was in a bitter custody battle over his 8-year-old son. prosecutors want the death penalty in his case. >> meanwhile police are waiting foreordain results to determine in a german yachtsman who disappeared on a remote french polynesian island with cannibals. >> he went on a hike and with another and the didn't return. the island has a history of cannibalism. butch morgan is accused of getting fake signatures on

petition to put barack obama's and hillary clinton's names on pegs for ballots in 2008. he said he did nothing wrong but didn't want to be a distraction. >> and having fun with herman cain after reports the presidential candidate modeled his 9-9-9, some say, his plan, off their game. >> 9-9-9, economic growth and jobs plan. >> 9-9-9. >> cain denies he got the idea from the game, but the company that makes the game is grabbing the spotlight by making the online price of all games $9.99. now if only car dealers could do the same, that would be great. >> brian, gretchen? >> that would be great, steve. 22 minutes now before the top of the hour. she's the up-and-coming star in the golf world and she's only 16 years old.

we are talking about lexi thompson. she will the youngest to compete in the 2012 tour. and she's here now. >> thanks for being here. you started to playing at five years old. >> ah-ha. >> you practiced six or seven hours a day. >> i love it, though. >> you decided this is what you want to do with your life. >> definitely. >> this is a big decision for you. tiger woods went to college and went to stanford, kept his amateur status. why go pro? >> i want to take my game to the next level and play begins the best in the world. college is always going to be there. i always have that option. >> you had to petition to be able to do this because you are only 16 and the p.g.a. says 18, right? >> right. >> you found out, what was your reaction when you found out? >> i was really excited. i was actually in california at the time but once i found out the news, i was excited. >> and right now you are considered 44th in the world? >> yes. >> so as you go pro, as you look at these pros out there, how do you get over the intimidation?

or will there be any. >> no, i don't think there will be. i'm playing my own game, doing what i love. >> what is your fame? each golfer has their strength. what's yours? >> i would say i'm long off the tee but i've been working on my short game a lot. >> do you do a lot of weight training off the course. >> i do. i workout every day but i've been focusing on cardioa lot. >> the new age golfers, everybody is in shape. they used to be heave. >> brian has golfed with the president of the united states. >> and nothing to be proud of. >> we should be standing on this side i think. >> and where are we going here? >> well, we are -- down to focus on grip? >> okay. >> grip is good. and then just setup. i look to keep it simple. i only think about tempo. as simple as possible. good grip, posture is good. probably want to watch out.

>> wow. >> that probably would have went right to 30 rock. >> brian, give it a shot. >> yeah. >> she can give you some pointers. >> the pressure is on. picture yourself, millions of people watching, national television, children looking up to you wondering is lexi going to be my odol? now go ahead. >> no pressure. >> that is nice. >> dead center. >> see how that pressure works with you. >> okay. >> go for it. >> millions of people are watching you. >> can you hold on to that? >> come on, brian! >> i'm going to need some silence. >> okay. >> noon it! [applause] >> okay. did you see any potential in that? because we could spend some quality time together. would they let me on the lpga tour? i don't know.

>> best of luck. and we had tiger woods on when he was little and he went on to greater things. don't ever forget us. >> i won't. >> and don't let those other people intimidate you. >> thank you. >> i have an idea she's going to have a great career. coming up. >> next up are the wall street protesters capitalists in disguise and the mastermind that created tybo is back with the ultimate workout. and billy blanks! he is here live. man, can he move. >> and first the question of the day, born on this date in 1990, his famous daughter was named after the hotel where her politician mother was once employed. who is she? and the correct answer?

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>> occupy wallstreet has been getting a lot of attention and it's been reported the occupy wallstreet movement has now raised more than $300,000. which means technically now they have to protest themselves. >> but they aren't protesting themselves, so doesn't that hurt their message? for more on this we turn to legal analyst peter johnson jr. peter, you just posed a great question. occupy wallstreet, what is it occupy mean? >> occupy mean conquer, colon eyes, seize, capture, take, take over. i guess those are useful terms in american daily life. and so we have people who are farmers and business people, and lawyers and trades men and truck drivers, but we also have now full time occupiers, protesters. i thought occupiers were

something we tried to rid the world of over the last century. >> over your shoulder right now. >> and conan has it right. they raised more than $300,000. they have a storehouse at the united federation of teachers union building about a block away. and so they are keeping cots and swimming goggles for some reason and money. so i'm sure that now that they have been overtaken by the greed of wall street that they will begin to pay tax. are they a 501c-3, are they a charitable organization. will there be franchises, is it like burger king and it will be occupy toledo. >> exactly. i can see people over your shoulders walking by with starbucks and dunkin' donuts.

and one said let's figure out how to monotize it or get hits on youtube or maybe we rent out space on our website. >> there's no doubt these are frustrated, angry folks who are perpetrating class warfare who are jealous of the so-called 1%, who are jealous of the middle 40%. there is a capitalistic streak they can't control with regard to what they are doing. so this will be overtaken by that. this will be overtaken by the unions and will be overtaken by some message that most of us will find to be kind of distasteful. although there's a poll that says a lot of people in new york agree with what the sentiments are but what we are doing is expressing a frustration with the government and the government ace inability to

create jobs. occupy, seize, i didn't understand or realize these were worthy pursuits in america. protest is important and we all try to protect the first amendment. but to do it as a full-time occupation? >> interesting. >> i don't know. >> for this episode peter has deemed up with conan to do it. you have summarize it had absolutely perfectly. >> okay. >> see you tomorrow. >> thank you. >> next he launched the tae bo craze. now billy blanks has a whole new routine. we will find out if brian can handle it. >> five, six! >> stick around. >> come on, where are you at? >> on this date back in 1982, jack and diane by john

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>> the trivia question is bristol palin, and the winner is cindy from fulton, ohio. congratulations. cindy, i don't know what kind of shape you are in but you are about to get in better shape. sitting next to me is one of the most famous fitness minds and body in american fitness. billy blanks, founder of the tae bo fitness. thanks for being here. >> good to be back. >> this is called your new workout, called pt 24-7. the ultimate tae bo system. what is knew about it? >> it's a 30 minute workout that gives you cardio, strength training all combined in one

workout. for people who don't have the time to work out. this gives you the opportunity to get all your workout in, gives you strength training, gives you card no training and everything you need. >> and dare i say self-defense? >> you are working on this stuff, you are kicking. >> so you are putting those gloves on and you feel like a fighter. >> billy, you are pumped up. against all the celebrities go to your classes and push you to go out front and you become a huge star. what are these? >> these are boxes gloves. you have the resistance bands. many going to show you how to work this out. we will do your triceps first. when i say one you jab, jab. ready five, six, seven, go. one, jab, 2, go, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. go into the military press and you are working the shoulders, 1, 2, 3, work it, count it, 5, 6. >> and the basic dvd shows you how to do it at first. >> right. >> then you have different themes in your dvd. >> that's right. you go through the basic principals and go to cardioand

cardioscope, cardioburn. >> do you know what i'm thinking about when i'm watching this? i'm in better shape. armser bigger and shoulders more defined. you can't tell through my suit. let's bring in the professionals. let's get the music on. take it away! >> put your hands up like this. ready? the jab. 1, count it, 2, count it. 3, 4. >> work it! work it work. >> oh, military press, go. 1, 2, 3, 4. >> come on, guys, work it. work it. >> 1, 2, 3, 4! >> bring it down. the overcut. >> and go across, 2, cross, 3, 4, cross, 5, 6, 7 and 8, and bring it back to this. we are going to try t put your elbow out like this. all the way up and work the try tip and back. tighten up the triceps.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. good job! >> billy, this is unbelievable. >> thank you. >> and if you have kids who want to do it, you can tie the bands tighter. >> anybody can. >> i have to go to break but do you want to fight during the break? >> sure, let's go. >> let's go back inside. i have to take care of this guy. >> come on! come on! >> did you see that line-up of them trying to be in order? >> no. i did see that. do we need a paramedic out there for chris or john? looked like they were wheezing. hope they are okay. >> they are getting some air right now. >> there you go. very nice, brian. >> before brian heads back in here we have to tell you what is coming up in the final hour today. the story of baby lisa keeps twisting and turning and this morning the family has hired a high profile defense attorney, and the private investigator working on the case will be here live with us next. >> and then somebody wake up harry belafonte.

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>> gretchen: good morning, everyone. today is tuesday, october 18. i'm gretchen carlson. thank you for sharing your time with us today. fox news alert because an israeli soldier granted freedom after being held captive for five years, but the trade didn't come proceed. more than 1,000 convicted terrorists, palestinians, will walk in this historic prisoner swap. >> steve: he defended joran van der sloot, now he's got a new client, the parents of missing baby lisa irwin. attorney joe tacopina live along with the private investigator on the case, mr. bill stanton. >> brian: president obama ridiculed the republicans, saying they're not smart enough to get his jobs bill passed. >> maybe they just couldn't understand the whole thing all

at once. so we're going to break it up into bite size pieces. >> brian: hear what the gop -- here is what they do understand. how money for those jobs is going to things like ipads, movie tickets, and trips to water parks. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> hey, it's richard simmons, the best exercise for your mind is "fox & friends." >> gretchen: richard saw billy blanks out there and he's like, i got to get in on the action. >> brian: just as you tossed to me, it starts raining. and it stopped right at the end. >> steve: just like that. but you're in up with piece. >> brian: what a great hour we have coming up. >> steve: the whole world is talking about this baby lisa story. we got two of the principles, judge tacopina and -- joe tacopina and mr. stanton in our studio. we'll pick their brains for what they know in two minutes. >> gretchen: we'll start with the headlines.

from the middle east, a live look at thousands of palestinians celebrating in gaza city after israel and hamas pull off an elaborate prisoner swap. 25-year-old israeli army sergeant reunited with his family, in good health. he's been healed captive by hamas since he was captured in 2006. his freedom coming at a bitter price for israel. he was set free in exchange for more than 1,000 palestinian prisoners being held in israel. many of them hard core terrorists serving life sentences for attacks that killed hundreds of israelis. 477 were freed today. another 550 will be released in two months. the first pictures of a filthy basement in philadelphia where four handicapped adults were held captive in the dark with little water and a bucket for a toilet. the ring leader, linda weston, allegedly robbed the victims social security checks while they were being held and police fear the scam has gone nationwide. >> we also got information

pertaining to almost 50 other people that she had social security numbers for, other types of personal information, all those people have to be tracked down. >> gretchen: weston, along with eddie wright and gregory thomas, charged with kidnapping. their four victims recovering at a hospital. look at this amazing video out of texas where a massive dust storm in lubbock literally blocked out the sun. you see one guy running away from the storm as it moved in 70 mile-per-hour winds churned up this storm and reduced visibility to zero in some areas. the lubbock areas, control tower was briefly evacuated. no one hurt. harry belafonte needs to get more sleep. >> harry belafonte joining me live this morning from new york. hey, good morning, harry. harry, wake up. harry? wake up, wake up. >> gretchen: that's him sleeping

through his early morning interview with our affiliate in california. the anchor tried her best to wake him up. no luck. they moved on to other news. >> brian: he needs a snooze alarm. >> gretchen: he could never do this show. >> brian: he could not do a morning show. as far as i know he hasn't been asked. now the latest in the case of lisa irwin we've been following here. the mother's attorney says she has nothing to hide, even after telling fox news she was drunk the night lisa disappeared. >> i had several glasses of wine. >> when you say several, more than three? >> yeah. but that has nothing to do with her. >> steve: okay. joe tacopina joins us right now, along with private investigator bill stanton who just returned from kansas city. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> steve: first, you work for the parents? you're representing the parents, right? >> yes. >> steve: and you are working on behalf of an anonymous donor who

has some money who wants you on the case? >> who has direct ties to the family and she asked me to come down and take a look at it to find lisa. >> steve: you are absolutely positive that the family is not guilty? >> i'm not prepared to say that, but i foal confident that it's coming from outside the home. let's put it that way. >> brian: joe, you burst in the case on monday officially. correct? >> yes. >> brian: what made you think you were defending an innocent woman. >> it took me a week to decide to go down there. i've been in contact with the family and people around the investigation. i grappled with some facts and got information. i learned some things that have not been reveal that had have been passed on to pd and i spent time with them and i really spent time with them and i got a reaction so strong, i would not have gone down to kansas city yesterday if i had an ounce of doubt regarding their innocence. >> gretchen: did you know that she was drunk that night? that must have come as a shock to you, or did you already knew that? because she hadn't told the police that. >> no, she did tell that to the police.

>> gretchen: it was reported yesterday the police did not know a lot of information that came out. >> we all know in these case, sometimes the reporting comes in dribs. the police have that information from her. by the way, she provided that information. >> gretchen: would you have advised her as her attorney to tell a reporter she was drunk that night? >> she told that to the police. whether or not it's advisable shows -- her goal is one thing, to find this baby. that's all she cares about. >> brian: the clock is ticking. this baby, we hope, is alive and somewhere and we've got to find her. bill, you are got a chance to research this case more, if not as anybody else. >> 2 it hours a day -- 22 hours a day. >> brian: how do you think the perpetrator got in? >> i'll answer that in a second, but the drinking thin, i've interviewed all of them and there is different levels of drinking. people can imprint what to say. you could keep telling you, maybe you were drunk. police are saying certain

things -- >> steve: the suggestion that she blacked out. >> what you're seeing is blatant honesty. i'm not here to defend her. i'm giving you the facts. as far as someone breaking in, it is what it is. the window was tampered with. i do not believe it came from inside the home. it was outside. and i do believe that baby is alive and someone has her. >> gretchen: why do you believe that? >> because every time they do a seven, what you -- you don't steal a ten-month old to kill it, you take it to covet it or traffic it. when they're doing these searches and no one finds the child, that gives me hope. >> brian: tell us about dogs. the dogs that bark at everything, that didn't bark at all that night. >> joe came in yesterday. joe comes in the house and i go, joe, look on the couch. he goes what? there is a dog. dog didn't bark, did it? >> it's known. believe me, neighbors have been super viewed regarding this dog. the dog sits there and stares at you. it's not a barking dog.

that's a bottom line. there are so many little facts out there that support their position. remember this, they immediate low made a prompt outcry. they called 911 within seconds of this discovery. and the reaction, you seen her in the initial stage, that's real tears. >> gretchen: i'm not trying to say that what they're saying is not true, but you guys know better than anyone that the facts support that in these kinds of cases, 90% of the time it's a family member. >> absolutely. they had to start the investigation with them and they should have. but all i'm saying is let's make sure we keep the focus on trying to find this baby and not just start with the conclusion that they're guilty. let's find evidence. >> brian: can someone say if she failed a lie detector test? >> she said it. >> she said she was told that. >> it's my understanding the police never said that. >> gretchen: why would she say that? >> in an investigation, they can say whatever they want.

because that's what someone in the pd told her. and they also told her that within two hours of the baby gone missing, that we know you did it. that's a tough thing to say to a mother who is grieving over the disappearance of her baby. >> it's important to note when i first got there, boots on the ground, i told them, i am not here for you. i am here for the baby and i'm going wherever the truth takes me and they opened up. they didn't blink. that's important to know. >> steve: speaking of boots on the ground, judge jeanine has been talking about this case and she says that there are a lot of boots on the ground regarding the local police, the kansas city police, are terrific. they're doing a good job. would you agree? >> from what i see, i don't have any privy information. his view versus may view may vary. my vow is they're doing a competent job. but i don't have any inside information. >> my job is they're doing a great job and the f.b.i. is involved and they're doing terrific. the governor had the courage to call in the national guard, which we applaud. the pd they want to find the

baby. but there have been a few instances where they've come to a conclusion -- >> steve: like what? >> the initial entry yous where one of the investigating officers actually accused the mother of murder. said, we know you did it. >> steve: isn't that one of those things they do to -- >> that's in certain cases. when you're dealing with a -- assume for a second this mother lost her 11 month old baby, her fear, and the notion that the people who are supposed to be helping you find the baby are accusing you. >> gretchen: would the police have done that -- we saw the day they videotaped themselves trying to come through the window and that the baby allegedly went out of -- >> who knows? >> gretchen: but what does that video tell you? because it said to the viewer that it was really difficult. >> do you remember when o. j. simpson tried to put on that glove? he said it was hard to do. just because it seems what it is is -- it's something to think

about. >> the window was attachered with. and more importantly, there is a $100,000 reward and i pray someone looks to collect on that because that baby is out there, someone has it, and i want someone to have that money. >> steve: and who is putting up the money? >> bill. >> steve: your people? >> right. >> brian is the anonymous benefactor. >> gretchen: if you had to do chances one out of ten, five out of ten, that this baby will be found alive? >> look, i'm not an expert. it's more bill's fort d. i want to be optimistic and i like some of the reasons he has, which is you don't take a ten-month old to do it harm unless you're such a sociopath. there seems to be a particular motive, whether it be financial gain or who knows, i mean, i want to be optimistic and i know this family believes 100% that lisa is still out there. >> steve: we all want to be optimistic and pray the baby is alive.

thank you. >> gretchen: coming up, democrats insisted the president's health care law was paid for. but now the administration says maybe not. why didn't they know this before the bill was passed? senator jonathan investigating and joins us next. >> steve: then from "footloose" to "the karate kid." >> brian: let's ask ralph macchio. >> gretchen: and the original karate kid. of good bacteria to help balance your colon. you had me at "probiotic." [ female announcer ] phillips' colon health.

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>> steve: late friday night, the obama administration announced it would toss out a part of the new health care law. after 19 months, the so-called

class act, long-term health care program, was determined to be too expensive and unsustainable, so they were going to cut it loose. but now the white house may be changing their mind. they now say, after the weekend, that while the class act will not be continued, but that they do not support repeal of that law. what's that about? joining us right now is republican senator john thune, the leading -- he's leading the effort in the senate to repeal the class act and joinses from capitol hill. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> steve: is your head spinning, 'cause on friday they said yeah, this thing not going to work. we can't afford it. then monday morning, they go, hold everything. we're still 100% behind it? >> it is spinning. i think everybody's head is spinning. it's incomprehensible to me that the administration would, after having their health and human services secretary come out on friday and say, we're pulling the plug on this thing. we're not going to implement it, it doesn't work. we can't make it pencil out, that then they would still say that we're kind of wedded to this thing.

what we need to do is repeal it and end this once and for all. i got a piece of legislation that i introduced last april that could do just that. i would hope it would be democrats who would agree with us because this is an unsound program, and has been that way from the beginning, and we need to end it before we put another huge burden on the backs of our children and grandchildren if this thing ever gets implemented. >> steve: senator, as you lead the charge to repeal it, all you would have to do when you make your case on the floor of the senate is just read what secretary sebelius had written, that we can't afford it and it won't sustain itself in the long-term. she made your point for you. >> she did. even more importantly than that, steve, are the real experts on this, the actuaries have been saying for a long time even before it passed. we did this investigation and we have all these statements from the actuaries over there saying before it was passed in 2009, that this will not work, that the numbers don't add up. so all the evidence is there. all the arguments we need to

make are there. the only thing that we're missing is somehow, some way, the administration seems to still be politically attached to this program. but it's a program that flat, everybody says it won't work, we know that, and we need to end it and i hope we can get a piece of legislation that repeals it through congress. >> steve: senator, you're a smart guy. you know how politics works. what is the white house trying to do? i mean, for them to say friday we're killing it off and then monday, oh, it's still alive. what are they trying to do? >> i think there are some people on the ideological left who are attached to this idea and program. but you got democrats even in the senate, democrats who said when this was being debate that had this is a ponzi scheme. so they know that, but i think there are a lot of folks out there who would like to see an expansion of government, see this as yet another new entitlement program to grow the size of government, get more people dependent upon government and that's what i think is sort of driving the momentum to agree that there is that behind the administration's attempt to try

and salvage this thing even though they know by now it flat isn't going to work. >> steve: stand by. maybe two days from now they'll change their minds again. >> right. >> steve: crazy. >> at that could happen. >> steve: it could. that's washington, d.c. for you. all right. senator john thune, republican from the great state of south dakota, thank you. >> thank you. >> steve: 19 minutes after the top of the hour. coming up, dad doesn't want to drive drunk, so he plays it safe, letting his nine-year-old drive instead. we're taking a trip back to the good old days courtesy of the flight attendants from the show "pan am." two former pan am flight attendants are here live, so stick around, folks. good morning, ladies. [ male announcer ] in 1924, italian food came to ohio.

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>> gretchen: it's a flight back to better times, the new show "pan am" takes us back to the glory days of the 1960s. >> it's inexperience. >> she hasn't done a thing. >> maybe she should. >> let her begin. >> better batten down the hatches. >> gretchen: so in the case of the new show, how much does art imitate real life? joining me now are two former pan am flight attendants, betty regal, who worked for the airline from 1961 to 1968, and holly, who worked for pan am for 15 years. good morning, ladies. you look like you've just stepped off the airplane today, like you could still be flight

attendants. good morning to both of you. >> thank god we're not. >> gretchen: betty, tell me your story, because it's my understanding that working for pan am back in the day, that was a top notch job for women, right? >> definitely, yes. couldn't have done anything better. this show, "pan am "is really a nostalgic look back at the wonderful, fabulous '60s when i now and the terrific legacy of pan american. >> gretchen: holly, things have changed so dramatically. obviously women have grown into different roles in society and different jobs, but back then, this was really considered one of the best opportunities. >> absolutely. it was a chance to see the world and in earlier days, there weren't as many options for women. one of the purposes of the show is to show young people what's

out there, to see in the world, and to let them know the beginnings of the women's empowerment movement. so we really wanted to do this to bring this to young people and open up their lives to different cultures and perspectives. >> gretchen: betty, i understand that you actually met your husband through your job. how did that happen? >> well, really, only because i was based in san francisco and a mutual friend, also a marine going back to vietnam, met my husband in san francisco as he was returning from vietnam and said, you should call this lady. and he tried for a few weeks, but our route was so long that i was never in town. luckily he didn't give up. >> gretchen: holly, the amazing thin that i never knew was that pan am flight attendants were actually taught to be gourmet cooks. tell me what did you in that cabin and how much it's changed. >> well, yeah. a lot has changed, that's for

sure. we would cook rack of lamb from scratch and we had to learn all the different courses, all the things that go with caviar and we learned all the cheeses. we learned the wines that went with every course. we cooked roast beef from scratch, even in economy we would scramble eggs to order for economy passengers. >> gretchen: wow. things have changed. barely get pretzels now. and i also understand that you were multi-cultural and international in a sense. you both -- let me start with you, betty, you both spoke more than one language. >> french was my official second language, but i did take spanish as well and -- because i was based in the pacific and had japanese roommates, i did learn to communicate somewhat in japanese. >> gretchen: how about you,ed i, french and russian.

>> gretchen: wow. to sum up your experience as pan am flight attendants, what do you want young women to learn from watching this show, holly? >> the fact that there is a whole range of possibilities for how to live your life and every day is an opportunity to expand your sense of what you can do in the world and to enrich your community and to have a lot of fun, to enjoy life. savor every moment. >> gretchen: those were the days when flying was very different than it is today. so great to take a step back in time and have this discussion with you this morning. betty and holly, thanks for your time. >> thank you very much for having us. >> gretchen: coming up on our show, this dare devil has no idea his parachute was broken, something incredible happens next. you have to stick around to see what happens. from "footloose" to "the karate

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>> gretchen: this is your shot of the morning coming up. remember the little orange guy? >> brian: i don't remember this. >> gretchen: come on, from willie wonka. >> steve: he's not old enough.

♪ >> gretchen: the oompa loopas are visiting our studio. >> gretchen: when gene wilder hired them, there was no rain. it was a big dome. >> gretchen: they're here in honor of the 40th anniversary of the chocolate factory. today they're celebrating the movie out on dvd blu-ray right now. at least it doesn't look like they'll melt. >> brian: let me tell you why i'm going to fight you for this, because my daughter spent the best six months of her life, she's seven, she was 7 then, she's eight now -- she was an oompa loompa. she did that last year. >> gretchen: was it like a class play? >> brian: it was a private play that cost me extra money. that's the packaging. they've gotten a lot taller. they must have been children when we saw them. >> gretchen: anyway, happy 40th birthday to the classic

movie and now you can get it specially out on blu-ray. president obama about to start the second day of his bus tour, urging congress to pass his jobs plan. ed henry has been following the president and is live in james town, north carolina. good to have you on the show, ed. >> good morning. it's interesting because the president has been beating up on the republicans out on the road here. yesterday he was sort of ridiculing their jobs plan that's come out. senator mccain and others have introduced -- basically charging it will result in corporations getting to rewrite regulations on wall street, making the air and the water dirtier. republicans back in washington not too happy about that, obviously. but the president acknowledged yesterday publicly that he will not be able to get his entire jobs bill now and instead, is going to break it into smaller pieces. take a listen. >> maybe they just couldn't understand the whole thing all at once. so we're going to break it up

into bite sized pieces. >> but interesting that the first bite of that package is going to be money for teachers and first responders. the white house hoping to get a senate vote on that later this week. there is already some moderate democrats saying they may not support it, number one. and number two, even if it were to pass, this is a sign that the president's broader $447 billion jobs bill is going to be split up big time. he's not going to get anywhere close to what he originally wanted. >> gretchen: there talk on the street that potentially this was the strategy all along, that he knew this entire jobs bill would not pass and so now he can blame the republicans and say even though -- even though some democrats are against it, it's an easy way to strategize and campaign against the republicans? >> look, both sides heading into next year are going to be playing all of these issues and playing it out and seeing how the politics will help them and hurt the other side. on the other hand, the fact of the matter is, every legislative

battle on capitol hill, you start out with one number, you try to work it out and you end up getting less in the end. senator mccain yesterday was on the senate floor. i think he was pretty upset about the president out here on what is a taxpayer funded tour lashing out at republicans. take a listen. >> it is clearly campaigning and i must say again, i've never seen an uglier bus than the canadian one. he's traveling around on a canadian bus touting american jobs. >> he says it's a tennessee company that makes the bus. they bought the frame, though f a canadian company and it turns out that senator mccain also had that canadian company help him out for the straight talk express back in the 2008 campaign. but mccain's office is saying, look, we're standing by the criticism. they said they're also standing behind the fact that they thirties an ugly bus -- they think it's an ugly bus. >> brian: you're with them the whole stop. north carolina is a dicey

situation. i understand, you tell me if this is right, according to the "new york times," when he stopped into a country side-bar becue, he did not get a great response. only a few diners got up to even shake his hand. >> i was not in that actual diner, 'cause there was a small group of reporters. i can tell you it was a mixed reaction throughout the state of north carolina here. real quick, his first event yesterday, only a few hundred people in north carolina. that's a pretty democratic area of north carolina. you would expect more. later on in the day, we went o another area, there was a high school and he had a pretty large rally. he's going to face some towns where people are excited to see him. other towns, not so excited. >> steve: all right. we're excited to have you on the program. ed henry live in front of the ymca why a bus is also trying to move, but it's a good looking bus. ed just was talking about how one of the first things, now that they've got it in bite sized bits -- one of the first bills they'll vote on is the funding for teachers' jobs. you look last time with the last stimulus, there was billions and billions of dollars supposed to go to save teachers' jobs and

yet, it went for other stuff. for instance, according to alabama's press register newspaper, $118 million of stimulus money for education went to the prison system. that's right. $118 million covered that. education money supposed to be used for teachers jobs. >> brian: the other issue is not only was it wasted, according to some last time, but where are we going to get it this time? $17,000, 270 for teachers salaries. but you have in north carolina, a lot of that money went to movies and water park and another visit. but a lot of ipads. it seems as though when times are tough, run to your ipad. >> gretchen: so that might be why some people might be skeptical of $35 billion more going to that. it's great if it will go to the teachers, but will it. >> brian: 23 minutes before the

top of the hour. click in tripoli this morning. her first visit to libya since moammar gadhafi was removed from power. by the way, where is he? while there, she'll meet with the leaders of the transitional national council. that's the country's interim government. clinton's surprised trip aimed at improving ties between the u.s. and libya. >> steve: would you let your daughter be your designated driver? well, what if she was just a kid? well, a dad in detroit did just that. unfortunately for him, somebody saw what was happening and called the police. >> did you see which way he went? >> no, i got down and put my hands over my neck like an air raid drill and just hoping he wasn't going to kill me. >> we're on our way. >> steve: that was the wrong call. when police, however, pulled the car over that we're talking about, they found a nine-year-old sitting in a booster seat. her dad was arrested.

that's just a bad idea. >> gretchen: check out this video. you're not going to believe it. a base jumper lopes from a bridge. one problem? his parachute didn't open. >> he's not even doing a parachute. >> gretchen: no parachute. he wanted up with, but didn't have it. 27-year-old christopher brewer hit the water at almost 80 miles per hour. it's believed his wing suit slowed down his fall enough to survive. now he's recovering from injuries but will be okay. ralph macchio has done a lot as far as "the karate kid." >> steve: we're going to take you over to the george washington bridge and try it. >> i don't think, jumping with no parachute? probably not. if there is one thing i've learned, it's not do that. >> steve: how are you? >> well thanks for having me.

>> steve: when "the karate kid" remake came out, we wanted to ask you about what you thought about it, because there is a brand-new remake out right now of "footloose" and it's like, why mess with perfection? first "footloose," then "the karate kid." why? other than to make money? >> it's show business. that's what it's called. they're great stories. i understand trying to reimagine and revisit a great story. i'm not a big fan of remakes. i don't like to -- if i've seen a movie and i know how it's going to end and i enjoyed that experience, i don't need to hear it with new music. >> steve: did you like "the karate kid"? >> i think james smith and jackie chan version, they did a very good job of making it contemporary that story. very different movie. same exact story. and it also in an interesting way sort of only enhanced the relevance of the legacy of what the original was.

i think in a good way. >> brian: sadly. there has got to be an appetite for stuff like "the karate kid" where the kid fights back. do you know karate? could you have taken out billy blanks? >> no. i think billy blanks would have taken me down. as soon as they stopped paying me to look like i knew what i was doing -- >> brian: really? >> i kept it up for a little while. there is a lot of pain involved. they become part of pop culture. that's the from thing about that film. grown over the years in generations that people recognize it, just even based on catch phrases and images. it's amazing. >> gretchen: it's hard to previous how many years ago you shot that movie 'cause now you're the father of teen-agers. >> yes, i am. >> gretchen: are they driving yet? >> one is driving and one is learning. my daughter is 19. she's a good, safe, knock wood, driver. and my son and i are working together on a program through

state farm that helps let parents know about a way to teach their kids effectively how to drive. it's a free on-line program called "road trips." i'm doing it with my son. log on to the site and -- >> steve: there it is. >> they got video footage. 'cause you're a parent, you don't necessarily know how to teach someone how to drive. you often overlook some of the fundamental basics. >> brian: like don't go up the curb. >> exactly. and don't turn when that truck is coming. what the program does is it allows both the parent and the kid to come from the same place. it sort of becomes an impartial coach as opposed to oh, dad, don't tell me that. >> brian: we know for sure that old wives tale that men are better drivers than women is wrong because we watched the braid bunch. >> that's right. that defines everything. >> gretchen: thank you for not

answering that question. >> yeah, right. >> steve: i like the way you and your son react in this particular video 'cause having taught throw kids how to drive, speed up! slow down! stop! look out! that's the neighbor lady! >> instinctively you want to do that. it's like, what are you doing? >> gretchen: if people want to know more about this program, they can go to our web site. >> teen driving.statefarm.com. the number one cause of death in teen-agers is car accidents. so if we can bring that number down, this is a great, great program. >> steve: ralph macchio, always a pleasure. thanks so much. >> thanks. >> gretchen: coming up, he's known as america's tenor. ♪ >> gretchen: he's here with a special performance just for you.

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common side effects include nausea, trouble sleeping and unusual dreams. these are the reasons i quit smoking. [ male announcer ] ask your doctor if chantix is right for you. >> brian: the occupy wall street protests going into now their second month. joining us now for more on this is new york post columnist fox news contributor, michael goodwin. what makes up this crowd? what is significant p the masses? >> when you look at what's going on in new york city, there are approximately 3.7 million jobs in new york city. you have no more than 500 people sleeping down there night after night trying to bring down the economic system that created all these jobs. my argument is that this makes no sense, that the city and the state, whoever the feds have to back away from these people and realize this is a socialist movement designed to destroy capitalism. it's not about legitimate grievances. yes, i'm sure there are people there who would like jobs. in fact, however, many of them

quit jobs to come there to protest. i mean, this is not a jobs movement. this is a social movement designed to upset capitalism. >> brian: do you think it's risky for the president or the former speaker of the house to embrace the movement? >> i think it's foolish. i think it is very much against all the things the president says he is for, which is to create jobs. the wall street occupation is not about creating jobs. it's about bringing down the capitalist system and i don't see why the president, the mayor of new york, michael bloomberg, why anybody has to pretend it's anything else. >> brian: but this is what the president is saying, millionaires and billionaires have to pay their fair share. fat cats on wall street y. wouldn't the president embrace it? >> i think there is an echo of what the president has said. let's take him at his word that he wants to create job, that he wants to put people back to work. those people on wall street are about destroying jobs. they're about destroying the banks. they're not about taxing a little more. they are about bringing down the

system. >> brian: all right. and do you think one month from now we'll have you in talking about the same thing or will this be over? >> it's raining here in new york today. let's hope for snow. let's hope for wind. let's hope for a freeze and then we can have the conversation. >> brian: okay, fine. cheering for weather. michael, great to see you. thank you very much. when we come back, steve emmerson, listen. ♪ a live performance here on "fox & friends." first let's check in with bill hemmer. he never sings on the show. what's coming up? >> oh, man. don't you wish. brian, how are you? good morning to you. your government spent more money than you have any idea and no one is talking about it. we will with stuart varney. joe lieberman is here. sizing up the big debate tonight. joe the plumber is in the news.

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>> gretchen: he has sung on hundreds of tv shows and movies. but steve emmerson is the proudest when he's performing for our nation's troops. >> steve: today steve brings his patriotism to our set to perform from his latest cd "amazed by america." good morning to you. >> glad to be with you this morning. >> steve: for about the last five years, you have been performing for the recipients of the medal of honor. >> absolutely. the first was here at the new york stock exchange. so there are 85 living recipients and to be with these men is an amazing thing. i met dakota meyer a few weeks ago and others. >> steve: what are you going to do today? >> i'm going o sing a song called "american anthem" and

it's from that cd. here is steve. ♪ all we've been given by those who came before ♪ ♪ the dreams of a nation where freedom would endure ♪ ♪ the hopes and prayers of centuries ♪ ♪ have brought us to this day ♪ what shall be our legacy ♪ what will our children say ♪ let them say of me ♪ i was one who believed ♪ in sharing the blessings i received ♪ ♪ let me know in my heart when

my days are through ♪ ♪ america, america, i gave my best to you ♪ ♪ for those who think they have nothing to share ♪ ♪ who fear in their hearts there is no hero ♪ ♪ know that quiet acts of dignity are that which fortify ♪ ♪ the soul of a nation that never dies ♪ ♪ let them say of me

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>> gretchen: steve is going to be at carnegie hall tonight. >> brian: how do you know that? >> gretchen: he told me. >> steve: at sky ball in dallas on saturday night. for more information, go to their web site. >> to support the troops. >> brian: steve, check this out.