>> eric: that was great interview. >> steve: good luck to her. >> eric: you've never been kicked in the jimmy have you? >> steve: who? i hope not. bill: good morning everybody. we want to start with breaking news. new information about this office argument that leads to a shootout on side a federal building inside california. ambulances rushing to the scene after an immigration agent tries to shoot his own boss and a third agent opening fire to end it all. one dead. good morning, everybody, i'm bill hemmer. welcome to your friday edition of "america's newsroom". martha has time off with her family. >> imheather childress. the drama playing out late yesterday afternoon. investigators trying to figure out what happened. >> the situation began what we characterize as a

incident of workplace violence involving two federal agent in their office space. when the incident escalated one agent fired several round at the other agent wounding hill. >> we're like a family in law enforcement. when something like this happens it impacts us all. in the face of tragedy and adverse triwe're strong and we support one another and we're here for each other. bill: the supervisor targeted in the hospital at this hour. multiple gunshot wounds. casey stiegel with the latest south of los angeles, long beach, california. casey good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. local news reports suggest a motive might be some kind of a disciplinary action going on between the supervisor and that agent when this shooting happened. immigration and customs enforcement or i.c.e. and the fbi not commenting on that. it is not clear if the service weapons were used here. but investigators are saying that this was an isolated incident and the public was never in danger.

listen. >> at that time when that incident occurred, another agent working nearby intervened and fired his weapon to prevent additional round being fired at the victim. this resulted in the death of the shooter. at this time we believe this was an isolated incident and we believe the shooter was acting alone. >> reporter: now we should point out no names are being released this morning. so we obviously have no idea who is involved here. how long they have been federal agents and things like that. but i imagine that information will will come out a little later today. bill: casey, still an active scene there this morning? >> reporter: absolutely. federal building back here behind me. it has been swamped with fbi agents we're getting words head of i.c.e., john morton was supposed to be testifying on

capitol hill today. that meeting has been canceled. he in route to los angeles. we don't know if he will be here to help oversee this investigation or be with the victim's family members. but he will be traveling to southern california today instead of meeting in washington. bill: it is early, 6:00 in the morning there in california. when we get more we'll bring you back. casey stegall in long beach. fox news alert. senior u.s. intelligence raising concern that tehran could carry out terror attacks on american soil. no specific threat has been offered but police in new york and los angeles say they are anxious about the potential for risk looking out for any suspicious activity. just this week in fact there were attacks against israeli diplomats in three separate countries that israel blames directly on tehran. that is a charge iran has denied. heather: tensions with iran sending oil prices soaring

raising new concerns this could stall economic recovery here in the u.s. a barrel of crude oil reaching $103 after comments from israeli's prime minister that sanctions aimed at the rogue regime are not working. overseas oil prices in london hitting a eight-month high. back here at home the average price of a gallon spiking to 3.5 billion. that is -- $3.3. that is up four cents from a month ago. stuart varney from the fox business network. what is the very latest? >> i have breaking news for you from iran about iran. that international oil payment system is about to pull the trigger and exclude iran from that clearinghouse system. that would cut iran off from its oil money. that could happen at any time. the result of that is to push as you said, heather oil prices up and gas prices are up. it is $4 a fallon in connecticut, maryland and california, some parts of those states. we also have airline ticket

prices going up $10 per round-trip at six major airlines because jet fuel prices have gone straight up. so a development out of iran. higher oil, higher gas, higher airline tickets and high prices at the pump are up. heather: you mentioned $4 right now. do you expect the prices to just continue to rise and how high do you think they will go? >> in the immediate future prices are likely to go higher still because that $103 per barrel price for oil has not filtered down to the pump. you have a week delay. if you get a 4% rise in the price of oil and that translates to the pump price going up 4%, you're looking at 12 to 15 cents higher in the immediate future, heather. heather: wow can you give us any good news? what can be done on this? >> day-to-day basis short term you could do very

little. if you have a declaration we will refine more and produce more oil domestically that in the intermediate term, a month or so could start to offer some relief at the pump. maybe. heather: could being the big word there. >> could. heather: thank you very much, stuart varney, thank you. bill: how does this rather impact you? about a year ago your typical american family spent an estimated $4150 on gas. that is up $800 from the year prior. families spent about 7% of their income on gas in 2011. in 2009 the average price of a gasoline was a buck 9 of. -- 1.96. today, $3.52 a gallon. that is an increase of 80%. heather: let's just add to the good news the united states hitting a disappointing record on the job front. according to a new report we've seen the longest period of high unemployment since the great depression. unemployment steadily rising since 2007. the high point?

december of '09 with 9.9%. in january '09 the total number of unemployed and undermany employed americans reached more than 25 million. underemployed includes those who have part-time jobs, those looking for full-time work. that number jumped by more than a million last month, bill. bill: today president obama's controversial stimulus plan turns three years old today. the original price tag? 787 billion. but a congressional budget office report from last november the actual cost will be closer to $825. we've seen 90% of the impact it would have on the economy. early 2009, the three years ago the president's economic advisors predicted by now the stimulus would help bring unemployment down to 6%. as of last month the labor department reported 8.3% national rates. we're going to blow out the candles on that with karl rove in 30 minutes. those are some of the many

stories we're watching. still to come this morning, a top u.s. intelligence official that al qaeda made its way into syria. why this is raising serious concerns and the passions flaring during the debate on birth control coming up. >> men and women of the cloth it seeps to me ought to run, not walk away from that line. heather: this was a heated hearing to say the least. we'll have more on that. and why some critics say this fight over religious beliefs turned into a constitutional issue. bill: treasury secretary tim geithner in the hot seat taking questions on the president's budget from the white house. that is paul ryan. he will tell us more about the tense exchange on capitol hill. here is sample. >> our government is making promises to americans it has no way of accounting. we're stablizing but not fixing in the long run. we'll keep lying to people and keep all the empty promise going.

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bill: fresh news on the economy this morning. now caterpillar is making plans for the peach state. it just announced it will build two new plants in georgia to employ 1400 people. they are expected to create 1,000 other indirect jobs. you might remember president obama's 2009 visit to a caterpillar plant, pe -- peoria, illinois, fight over stimulus at that time caterpillar's ceo promised to hire back all the layoff workers if the stimulus passed. as we noted the stimulus turned three years old today. heather: the nation's top intelligence and defense officials raising new concerns over al qaeda growing a presence inside syria. the national intel director james clapper and defense secretary leon panetta addressing their concerns with congress. take a listen. >> we believe that al qaeda

in iraq is extending its reach into syria. we think it will just continue. we don't see any, short of a coup or something like that, that assad will hang in there and continue to do as he has done. >> it does raise concerns for us that al qaeda is trying to assert a presence there and that means that, you know, frankly, our concerns which were, which were large to begin with because of the situation, deteriorating situation in syria, that the situation there has become that much more serious as a result of that. heather: john bolton, the former u.s. ambassador to the u.n. and fox news contributor joins us now with more insight. first of all, thank you for joining us this morning. >> glad to be here. heather: james clapper went on to describe this relationship, al qaeda on the rise in syria as a marriage of convenience with iran. i ask you how great is this

threat and why should we be concerned? >> well it is a very curious threat in a sense because iran backs the assad regime. they have a lot at stake in deep keeping the regime in power. al qaeda has been carrying out attacks against the regime. some suspected this is double game. that iran and al qaeda are cooperating to infiltrate the opposition but in any event, what it shows is that al qaeda, whether aided by iran or on its own is still a very clear threat in the middle east and around the world and the idea that al qaeda has been bottled up along the afghan-pakistan border and been debilitated there is sadly far from the truth. heather: the lack of unified opposition in syria leaves a lot of holes to be filled, right? >> exactly. there are possibilities of splitting the opposition and, let's be clear here. syria's very different from the other countries of the

arab spring not that that turned out so well but iran's prepared to shed a lot of syrian blood to keep assad in power. it wouldn't surprise me they would turn to almost anybody for assistance to accomplish that objective. heather: all of this is starting to come out on the heels of this investigation that is already underway of these five al qaeda leaders who have been under house arrest, who allegedly for years and have now been released of the do you see a correlation there? >> well i think that the possibility of cooperation between an iran, the regime in iran and al qaeda has always been there. people say, well, al qaeda is sunni and iran is shia. look, they're both extremists thee logically. never forget a saying in that part of the world, i against my brother, my brother and i against our cousin, all of us against the stranger, that could be what's going on. heather: what about the extensive network of chemical weapons sites that

are there in syria, how concerned should we be about that and is that something that irans has its eye on? >> absolutely. chemical weapons capabilities of syria are far, far in excess of anything that existed in libya. it is not just chemical weapons. let's not forget, in september of 2007 israel destroyed a nuclear reactor being constructed there by of all people, the north koreans. almost certainly we will find that was a joint venture with iran. my guess there are other clandestine nuclear weapons activities being conducted by iran with syria somewhere inside syria. that is a pretty good way tonight what you don't want international scrutiny to find. what this underlines, the stakes for iran and not letting the assad regime fall. heather: it takes us back full circle, you can see how it is all connected to this possible nuclear threat from iran. finally as we wrap up how

great is that threat? >> the iranians are getting closer and closer and despite the increased threat to iranian oil they will find ways around that. they will sell their oil and get paid for it and continue to march ever closer to nuclear capability. once they cross that line the world will change forever. heather: let's hope they don't. ambassador bolton. thanks. bill: he will watch the story every day and continue to. how exposed are you? when you use your own computer you do will not believe who is collecting information with every click. heather: a sad day for baseball fans. the kid is gone. hall of fame catcher gary carter died yesterday after fighting brain cancer for almost a year. in the 1986 world series he helped spark one of the most improbable rallies in baseball history. gary quarter, 3-time all-star and 3-time gold glove winner dead at 57. >> that will be a hit to

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heather: passions are running high over a decision to remove a prayer banner from a rhode island school. [shouting] heather: this was the scene as the school committee voted against appealing a federal court order to remove the banner that hung in the school since 1963. an atheist student with the help from the american civil liberties union where they fought to remove the banner, and won. the battle dividing many in community. >> the concept of god is not one which we all can agree

and has been the subject of much -- [booing] >> now is the time to heal and to improve our school system and not expend large sums of money going to the supreme court. >> you're hurting our children and our community if you allocate precious resources including time and money which will be unavailable for our schools needs to fight a losing battle based on your emotions. >> i am not concerned myself someone in honolulu telling me that the nation is watching me. >> pressure, you know what? if we succumb to pressure in opposition we shouldn't be elected officials. >> as you heard the opponents of appeal cited high legal fees which would have cost well over half a million dollars. bill: new privacy concerns for you and your computer this morning. a "wall street journal" investigation finds that google and others can keep tabs on you even if your security settings are on and

active. laura ink dpel on the story live with more. what do we know more about it? >> good morning, bill. google has been bypassing privacy settings on apple iphones and mac computers if you're using the safari web browser, obviously a popular web browser. according to "the wall street journal" google's code that keeps you logged in to allow other web sites to see information about you even though your privacy settings specifically tell apple you wanted this type of tracking disabled. when notified about the issue google told "the wall street journal" they immediately disabled the code and issued this statement to fox news. quote, we used known safari functionality to provide features that signed in google users had enabled. it is important to stress these advertising cookies do not collect personal information. people think about google as a search engine. in reality google is one of

the biggest online advertising firms. bill: what can people do to avoid being tracked anything? >> there is not much you can do to avoid it. if you're on a computer you switch to a different web browser and get off safari. if you are concerned don't surf internet on your iphone. there are other online companies including vibrant media using the work around code. it is not just a google thing. tech experts point out apple was quick to install the do not track features in iphones and devices and is not to blame here. as we learn more and more what web sites are doing, a lot of consumers don't like what we're finding out. if you want to learn more how to manage your settings our tech editor says go to the website, dnt mozilla.org which has a on the features you want to check out. bill: or go to the library. thanks, laura. >> he says the white house is just lying to the american people. congressman paul ryan calling out the obama budget

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tempers flaring at hearings on president obama's controversial mandate for birth control coverage. the house oversight committee up citing religious leaders to weigh in. one democratic congressman calling the hearing a sham. >> i believe today's hearing is a sham. and i believe, i have to assume each of you gentlemen came here in good faith but surely it has not escaped your attention that you are being used for political agenda. maybe you're willing being used i don't know. >> we were denied on this side of the aisle any witness who might have a different point of view. >> would the gentleman yield? >> no, sir, i will not. this is panel designed with your conscious participation or not, to try one more time to embarass the president of the united states and his administration. to catholic hospitals supported compromise. they're not afraid of closing down hospitals in america. if we want to have a

legitimate debate about, where is the right boundary, let's have it? but overstating it and making charges that are just outlandish and frankly beyond the pale serves no purpose other than political demagoguery in an election year. and men and women of the cloth it seems to me ought to run, not walk away from that line. heather: don't you love it when they don't yield? coming up a fair and balanced debate. we promised. bill: that got hot. here is another testy exchange. this got hot too between the president's budget with wisconsin congressman, republican paul ryan and treasury secretary tim geithner. this all happened late yesterday afternoon. here is a sample and listen and watch closely. >> we helped lower the trajectory of cost growth in the outer deck kids that comes from millions of americans retiring but we still would face even with this framework more work to do on that long term demographic challenge. >> well, bring up, chart, slide 13. because i just don't see the

rhetoric matching the results. look out at your budget, pain 58, analytical perspectives. you say that this is your budget, says that the government's position gradually deteriorates that our fiscal condition deteriorates. these are your numbers. >> what it shows, mr. chairman -- >> your debt path. >> shows exactly what i said. >> our government is making promise to americans that it has no way of accounting for them. and so you're saying yeah we're stablizing but we're not fixing it in the long run. that means we'll keep lying to people. we'll keep all the empty promises going. so what we're saying is in order to avert the debt crisis, you're the treasury secretary of all people. if we can't make good on our bonds in the future who will invest in our country? bill: it went on from there. paul ryan republican out of wisconsin, chairman of the house budget committee back with me this morning. paul, good to see you. >> good to see you too, bill. bill: i thought, the phrase that stuck out the most when

i heard that was, when you said we're lying to people. explain that. >> our government is right now, according to the general accountability office making $99.4 trillion in promises to today's americans that it has no way of paying for. we're making $37 trillion in promises to people for just medicare alone that we have no way of paying for. what is happening in europe is a bunch of governments and politicians from all political parties who made all the empty promises to voters that they have no way of paying for those promises. so the point i'm trying to make, bill, we need to be straight with the country about our real physical problems. tell people the honest situation and come up with solutions to make sure the empty promises are replaced with programs that provide real security that people can actually count on and we're not doing that we're sweeping it under the rug. bill: the budget numbers will blow your mind.

what did you think of geithner's response? >> he is good at testifying. he is good at making sure you have no youtube moments i suppose even though you put one of those on. he is a smart guy but he doesn't want to really face up to the fact that their budget really does nothing to improve their debt situation. in fact their budget tries to claim credit for past laws, for the budget control act. when you strip awol way all the budget gimmicks and accounting tricks, tim knows this, this budget doesn't do anything dealing with our debt. instead of the cutting the budget 786%. this makes the debt go up 78%. according to the president's budget but under his budget according to his budget it goes up 76%. so, that's what is so amazing to us. it is a budget that has net spending increases. he spends an additional $1.5 trillion over the next 10 years but because he raises

taxes by $1.9 trillion that is only way you claim you have $400 billion of deficit reduction over a 10-year period. $47 trillion over 10 years. average --. bill: 11 trillion in debt increase over the next decade, right? >> yeah. that's right. bill: how do you get your head around that? >> it is tough for people to put their minds around these things. the problem those debt levels we're talking about, they're worse than some european countries. they get to the levels where greece is. so we're saying, look at what is happening overseas in europe? they're immediately pulling the rug out from under seniors. they're cutting benefits on retirees after they retired. they're cranking up taxes and slowing down their economy. they have a youth unemployment rate around 30%. this awed to be a cautionary tail to us. what is real frustrating and president fourth budget in a row not proposing to do

anything about it that is what is unconscionable to us and we're putting out budgets to fix this. bill: from the outside looking in, it appeared year ago everybody was breathing fire on this issue. now just folks like you. >> i know. bill: what changed in washington? >> an election is coming up and the president, i think he mentioned it once in his state of the union address, the debt. the biggest threat to our economy today and to our children's future is this fiscal problem, this debt. hear is the issue, bill, the sooner we deal with it better off everybody is. if you keep piling up more debt and keep kicking the can down the road the end is that much more uglier. you have to have sudden urgent cuts and tax increases that hurt the economy, that hurt seniors, that hurt the safety net like you have in europe and we need to avoid that by stepping up and leading and putting out, fixing this thing and the president has punted on the issue for the fourth time in a row. what is really frustrating the senate hasn't passed a budget for two years.

they already announced they will not do a budget this year again for the third year. and the law says we need to pass a budget every year. that is what is so frustrating about this bill. when we put out solutions all we get our negative advertising, demagoguery and fingerpointing. bill: you wrote this week about the illusion of fiscal responsibility. >> right. bill: i wonder if people get it. you have three kids. >> i do. bill: what will our country look like in 20 years? >> this is what motivates me, bill. the point, knowing these numbers and knowing where the country is heading and knowing my kids who are seven, eight and 10 years old are literally will have lower standard of living and more diminished future than what we have, that is irrefutable fact based on where we're headed. we always had this tradition in america where you leave the next generation better off. that is the american idea. we're confronted, this generation of leaders is confronted with the fact we might sever that american idea and we need to step up to the plate and fix this problem. so since the president's ducking responsibility, the senate isn't even on the field, we feel obligated

morally and legally to give the country a choice. let the country in november, because it will have to come to this now, let them choose what path they want for america. that is our obligation. bill: we shall see, months to come. paul ryan, thank you. we'll talk again real soon. >> you bet, bill. take care. ♪ . bill: can cry over that story. heather: from politicians to crying kids. here a pizza place in atlanta banning unruly children and posting the new rule directly on the menu. no mistake. asking parents to tend to their crying to thes outside. take a listen to the owners defense and how parents are reacting. >> people say thank you for adding it to the menu. there have been comments about the children but beyond that we had a child hit a customer in the head with a toy, was not that

kmuser's child or toy. >> pizza place. they will get loud in here sometimes. >> sometimes i can understand if they just say, i want to sit here and relax. i understand how inconvenience other patrons. but, you know, i give them a pass if they're under 3. heather: if they're under three give them a pass. do you give them a pass? bill: he has a right to do it. he can make his own rules for his restaurant. we'll see whether or not customers respond. heather: it is a pizza place. not like five-star dining. bill: give us a couple pepperoni to go. maybe reach out to the guy next week, see whether or not his plans works. >> send him to capitol hill. deal with them. bill: good luck with that. president obama making accommodation on birth control mandate after backlash from the religious community and others. is the white house overstepping its authority? karl rove weighs in on that in a matter of moments stay tuned. heather: you may think you

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heather: developing right now in "america's newsroom." fighter jets scrambling to defend marine one. president obama traveling by helicopter on the west coast when a small plane strayed too close. f-16s forced plane to land. 40 pound of marijuana found on board. price for food, gas, rent and clothing heading south. consumer price index rising last month for the second time in four months. food police at a

north carolina preschool fessing up. a official admitting a teacher made a mistake when a student was told to eat chicken nuggets instead of her homemade lunch. bill: take the homemade lunch. new this morning on the contraception controversy. my next guest argues this comes down to the president overstepping his constitutional authority and not just on this issue. karl rove, former senior advisor, deputy chief of staff to president bush, a fox news contributor among many other things. how are you doing, karl. i thought you were cutting cake on anniversary celebration of the stimulus? wasn't that you blowing out the candles? >> exactly. $862 billion. got everything he wanted. economy has worst period of unemployment since the great depression and weakest recovery. bill: you know how much icing and flour for 862 dal billion. charles krauthamer on the contra essential issue.

president of the united states united states ordered to give away service his own health and human services secretary called repeatedly a major financial burden. on what authority? where does it say the president can utlegedly freestag service at no cost to certain select beneficiaris? react to that. >> i agree. i wrote a piece in "the wall street journal" about the president's propensity to spend other people's money. this will be free but somebody will have to pick up the price. the price will be paid for by everybody who has a health insurance policy. by what authority does he have it? could he say because of liheap, oil companies have to give free heating oil to certain people? where does this authority come from? the president has been brazen. we saw it in the auto bailout, did have authority to take taxpayer money to infuse it into companies but

unilaterally stripped $20 billion out of secured bondholders and awarded to unsecured creditor in form of ownership stake in the new company. by what authority did he do that? where is the statutory power to do these things? bill: conversely the republicans rail on the stump against obamacare. the point krauthamer makes i will repeal it if i'm your president but nobody explains why. the why is vacant now. fill in that blank. >> hear is the point. the affordable care act says as a condition of being alive every american has to buy insurance, health insurance or pay a tax, pay a fine. they basis in the commerce clause which was designed to guaranty, which was designed to govern the actions of commerce between states, to make certain that a state could not place unreasonable barriers to the sale of goods and services across state lines. there has never been held the authority of the government to compel people to engage in commercial activity, i.e., to buy

something. if you say you have to buy insurance why not say you have to buy healthy food or you have to buy this or buy that? this is so-called individual mandate and being challenged in front of the supreme court. bill: romney or santorum or gingrich or ron paul, are they making that case? >> look, it is being made before the supreme court this june. the supreme court has taken up a case heard by a federal judge in pensacola, florida, and then appealed to the circuit court in atlanta. it is now before the supreme court. the core of the case is the individual mandate. it also examines the right of the federal government to compel states to increase their medicaid rolls. but this whole idea of the individual mandate, the federal government saying we will compel you to purchase something as condition of being alive. never happened before in the history of the country. that so-called individual mandate will be under constitutional security any. if i were a betting man i think the supreme court will declair it unconstitutional. that blows the edifice of the affordable care act. even the administration admits without the so-called individual mandate the bill collapses. bill: going back to your

first answer, you wrote in the "wall street journal" he, being president obama is funding schemes you called it that are outside the normal process. >> right. look, for example --. >> is any of that illegal, karl? >> look i do think there is a constitutional question as to where he had the statutory authority to take $20 billion from the secure bondholders of auto companies and give it to his political pals. i don't see where he had the authority to do it. nor do i see where he had the authority to do what he is trying to do now, say insurance companies, by my dictate as president of the united states, i'm telling the insurance companies to provide free to anybody who wants it, contraception coverage but you got to do it free. there will be a cost to it. his own secretary as charles pointed out, secretary of health and human services says the cost will be enormous. somebody will have to pick it up. the people that will pick it up everybody that has a health insurance policy, that cost will be embedded in the cost of our product. there is not some big pool of money sitting around unused he can use to spend free. where is this authority come

from? this sound like a third world country covered by colonels in mirrored sunglasses issuing dictates. the supreme leader will dictate something be provided free will be picked up by the people in the country not getting the free good. bill: you have a passion. >> thank you, sir. >> you questioned in your piece how deep a hole he leaves us? whether that is november or four years from november that is something we'll talk about next time. thank you, karl. have a good weekend. shoot a e-mail to hemmer at foxnews.com. question for karl or anyone else because you asked, bya. heather? heather: we're waiting for brand new polls to be released on the race for the republican nomination s rick santorum leading mitt romney in ojai, michigan and arizona? the surprising new numbers in minutes. bill: there is explosive testimony in the honeymoon murder trial. why witnesses on the scuba diving trip say the story does not add up. heather: make sure you take

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bill: what a weekend this will be. the making of a cardinal. new york's archbishop timothy dolan in rome this moment, vatican city, where pope benedict will elevate him to the status of cardinal. friends, family, parishioners and his brother traveling with dolan who says tomorrow's honor is really about them. >> look i go back to what i said january 6th the feast of the epiphany where it was announced holy father named me a cardinal, i said this is honor for all of you.

>> nothing changed since childhood. we knew he had the calling then. bill: that is his brother. dolan is great man. crews in the installing a coat of arms honoring the occasion. we wish him and his family all the best at the vatican this weekend. ♪ . heather: from one great man to another one of the america's greatest nasa astronauts marking a first for himself and the nation. john glenn was the first american to orbit the earth in 1962. and now, he is the first living astronaut ever to mark the 50th anniversary of his own spaceflight. steve harrigan live for us in miami. steve, what is nasa doing to mark the anniversary? >> reporter: heather, some major celebrations this weekend at cape canaveral. nasa marking the anniversary of the man some call america's last hero. 90-year-old john glenn will

ric to orbit thearth as well as number two, scott carpenter. glenn says despite the fact that the flight took place 50 years ago mopped the images from that travel are still seared in his memory. >> it is amazing to me to look back 50 years and think that it has been 50 years because i guess it seems, still seems so vivid to me and i guess, it was vivid at the time and so i guess it was easy to remember but it's been a rare day since then over the past 50 years that there hasn't been some recollection or someone hasn't asked a question about spaceflight or about nasa or something. so we recalled this so often. it remained very vivid to me. >> reporter: john glenn orbited the earth three times 50 years ago from monday. the entire flight took just under five hours t was altitude of 162 miles. at the end of the first orbit around the earth the manual system failed so

glenn essentially had to pilot the friendship 7 for the final two laps around the earth, heather. heather: amazing looking at that footage. how it nasa responding to plans to cancel the shuttle program? >> reporter: many officials at nasa and glenn himself came out with disapproval over nasa plans to scrap the shuttle. glenn himself said this is a real problem because america is basically dependent on russia right now to ferry its astronauts to and from the space station. nasa however is unveiling plans to talk about its next space capsule, the owe rye i don't know. it will begin unmanned space flights 2014. manned space flights 2021 the target will be the moon and asteroids. but still a long way off. glenn and others expressing disapproval the enemy, the battle they once fought in the cold war, the soviet union the u.s. dependent on rush shuns to ferry astronauts back and

forth to the international space station, heather. heather: thank you very much. steve harrigan reporting live from miami. bill: glenn, good ohio man, i tell you. happy birthday to the stimulus. $800 billion later turned three today. what has it accomplished? depend whom you ask frankly. heather: terrible twos to the three. will the santorum surge sell in arizona? some brand new polls in one of the next contested primary states that you will see first right here on "america's newsroom.". online dating services can get kind of expensive. so to save-money, i found a new way to get my profile out there. check me out. everybody says i've got a friendly disposition and they love my spinach dip. 5 foot ten. still doing a little exploring... on it. my sign is sagittarius, i'm into spanish cheese, my hairline is receding but i'm getting a weave.

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bill: fox news alert right now. brand-new polling numbers in the battle for the white house, and rick santorum is not at the top. the former pennsylvania senator has been leading mitt romney in some national polls, but romney pulling ahead in one of the next primary states. and that's where we start right

now in a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom" on a friday. i'm bi hemmer. heather: i am heather childress in for martha maccallum. romney leads the rates 8% ahead of santorum. bill: that is the latest polling from scott rasmussen. good morning to you. >> good morning it's great to be with you. bill: arizona mitt romney last the lead. >> this is lead is way down from where it was before santorum's sweep a few weeks ago. rick santorum is surging as he's become the alternative to mitt romney. the other thing worth noting here, romney support is down nine points, and the combined support for newt gingrich and santorum is up 9, that is something we've seen all across the nation. bill: you did a poll 17 days ago, santorum shot up like a rock.

it's really phenom malto see what he has done. head-to-head when you put romney and santorum together this is a dead-even split. look at that 46-45%, scott. >> if you compare it to the first numbers what you see is santorum has gained 14 points, romney only picking up 7. gingrich supporters overwhelmingly say if their guy is out of the race we are going to vote for rick santorum, or maybe another way of saying it, is the gingrich people are going to vote against mitt romney. those positions seem to be hardening. bill: there is another question you go at every time and i think it's significant. who do they believe has the best chance of beating obama. and you you find yet again in arizona, mitt romney, and romney with half the vote, 50%. >> that's right. this has been mitt romney's strength all the way through this. for republicans nothing is more important than beating barack obama. mitt romney is seen as the guy that can do that better than any other candidate. it's also worth pointing out, while 80% of republicans think

that mitt romney could beat barack obama, 65% think that rick santorum could as well. so there is some trade offs here, it's not as if they are saying one guy can win and the other can't. bill: i see. regardless of who you want to win you ask this question, who do you think will win the nomination? that is an interesting question. it tells a bit of a different story. explain that. >> it does. this is something we ask in every election season, whether it's a primary or general election. we try to get a sense of where the public mood and expectations are, and there is still nothing that has changed the underlying dynamic that people think mitt romney will be the nominee. even 48% of rick santorum supporters say when all is said and done they think it will be mitt romney. bill: two-thirds in your polling with 67%. you asked folks in arizona whether or not they changed their mind waoefplt hav mind. we have found in the past this was a big number. in arizona it's much smaller.

why? >> i think part of it is the field is shrinking, the race is taking on a more definite shape. it used to be people were saying, do i support rick santorum or michelle bachmann or newt gingrich or rick perry. those choices are narrowing and it's becoming clear that there are only two serious contenders, mitt romney and rick santorum. bill: we have about a week and a half before arizona and michigan go. thank you. he's a pollster, an author. check out his book "the people's money "w-gs good to hav "good to have you with you. heather: rick santorum the only candidate campaigning in michigan today making a stop? shelby township before heading off to ohio. mitt romney is in boise, ic

idaho, while newt gingrich in his home state of georgia. bill: a campaign bomb here. the eye on the re-election campaign out west raising pretty hefty wash. he's raised $29 million in his campaign in the democratic party. it puts the president's war chest at 250 million. in the last three months of 2011 alone he raised an average of $23 million per month. big cash. four minutes past. heather. heather: i have bigger cash for you, bill. did the 787 billion-dollar, billion dollar stimulus package work? critics speaking out on capitol hill to mark the 3 year anniversary. and how was your money spent. they claim it was spent on so linda, remember, the white house. they say the economy, though is on the mend. ed is with us. what is the president saying. >> they basically say we were on the edge of a cliff in february

of 2009 when president obama signed the stimulus into law and this prevented a full free fall, a second depression. they've made that case again and again. we're going to hear that in the presidential campaign over the next few months over and over. as you noted, though, house republicans having a news conference this hour where they'll be blasting away at the president. they've been blasting away for three years saying the price tag of nearly $800 billion was too much. the president promised 3 years ago, his economic team did that unemployment would be down to 6% by now if the stimulus was passed. that has not happened obviously. last night in san francisco at a fund-raiser the president was candid about saying he's made mistakes in office, but he thinks things are turning around, take a listen. >> i know these last three years have been tough. i know the change that we fought for in 2008 has come in fits and starts, and sometimes it hasn't come as fast as folks want it. we've had set backs.

i've made mistakes. after all that's happened in washington, i know it's tempting sometimes to believe that maybe what we imagined isn't possible, but remember, what we used to say during the campaign, the real change, big change is hard and it takes time. >> we are obviously going to hear begin and again and white house aides add on top of that the unemployment rate has been coming down for four straight months, a little bit not a lot. it has been coming down. the president will be in seattle making the case that he believes american manufacturing is coming back. heather:ed henry live from the white house for us. bill: brand-new developments this morning after an investigation into the meaty matters website. congress is going to question their status. doug mcelway has more live in

washington on this. >> reporter: since 2003, media matters has collected something like 28.8 # million dollars in donations. because the media matters foundation is a 501c3 and pays no income tax it must not according to the tax code, quote, attempt to influence legislation as a substantial part of its activities, or participate in any campaign activity for or against any political candidate. interpretation of that code is very complex. some in congress are reportedly now interested in holding hearings to examine media matters tax exempt status including charles grassley. grassley told the daly caller quoting now the standards for tax exemption deserve review as a matter of good stewardship on the part of congress and should be considered as part of any comprehensive tax reform. the major contributors to media matters are a veritable whose who of the progressive

movement. they include the tied foundation. the george soros foundation. the shoe man fund for media and democracy, and moveon.org. the barbra streisand foundation. et cetera media matters, bill as i'm sure you are aware has singled out fox news as its primary target. it has gone so far as to suggest hiring private investigators to spy on the private lives of fox news reporters and anchors, that's why i was very careful to take a doing be dog doggy bag

with me. bill: religious leaders speaking out in a contraception mandate in a tense hearing on capitol hill. >> democrats slamming the hearing for only having men testify. should that matter? a great panel to debate that at the very top. heather: we'll have that, and plus this. gabe watson he claims that his wife accidentally drowned, and this. this picture playing a big part in his murder trial. while prosecutors say that his story does not add up. bill: some cars let you update your facebook page going 70 miles an hour. they are having some carmakers to slow it down, will you? soup,

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fox news alert. johnson & johnson voluntary falling more than a half million dollars of infant tylenol. parents complaining about problems with the dosing formula. they say no illness has been reported. we'll get you an update on that. heather: tensions running high to say the very least during a house hearing into whether president obama's contraception accommodation violates religious liberties. religious leaders from different faiths were called upon to testify, but it was the lawmakers who sent the sparks flying. listen. >> this is not about women, this is not about contraceptives, we know, you've said it, we've said it up here, this is about religious freedom and liberties. >> we want to have a legitimate debate about, you know, where is

the right boundary? let's have it. but overstating it and making charges that are just outlandish and frankly beyond the pale serves no perpetrator othe purpose other than political demagoguery in a political year. heather: what is it, political demagoguery, contraception or religious liberty that we're talking about? sally, i'll start with you. >> hopefully it's all of the above. those things certainly -- politics and individual freedom and religious freedom are at the very heart of our nation and i think all americans want to see congress taking these issues seriously. what is unfortunate about the hearings and the fact that we're still talking about this is that most of the major religious hospitals and universities that would be affected by this rule have embraced obama's

accommodation. rules like this were already on the books in 28 states, and in fact through other federal rulings. the fact, though, that republicans still want a handle on this is frankly less about religious freedom and frankly not very much about contraception and more about trying to find anything they can to beat president obama over the head with in an election year. heather: brad, what is your take? >> the president who says he doesn't like super pack sure took one on. there is no bigger super back than the catholic church, they are well financed, they are organized and they vote. it was obama's choosing to take on the catholic church and religion as a whoefplt i as a whole. it violates church and state when the president tells them how they should be treated with healthcare. they didn't need to take on this battle, sally knows, it's because it's an election year. the same as they panned tker

panndered, to owe linda solyndra, and to the keystone pipeline. heather: what is the difference between the original and the compromise. if it requires organizations to be obligated to provide employees with an insurance policy that violate their religious tenant. >> we are talking about primarily about religious hospitals and universities. they are religiously based but they have a public purpose. the fact that the president went out of his way in the first case to say, look, they get a yearlong eryear younger to comply under this and we'll provide this accommodation that 600 catholic hospitals have embraced suggest that he's trying to do the right thing.

what it says now is instead of the employers, those institutions providing that coverage, it's on the backs of the insurance companies, and incidentally because contraception coverage saves insurance costs by about 15 to 17% total it actually reduces the overall bill. it means no one in effect is paying for it, the insurance company is providing it. heather: no one is paying for it? brad, somebody is paying for it. >> heather, heather, this is exactly what democrats want everybody to believe that everything is free, that the government, if they provide the service or mandate the service to be provided that nobody has to pay for it. yeah, you know who pays for it? everybody else pays for it and it's wrong. and when sally talks about, well, the catholic church is really not hurt by this. it is hurt by this. because it is a mandate by the federal government, and they shouldn't be involved in these type of decisions in hospitals or other institutions that are

faith-based. they wanted to take it on, why? because it pa panders to their base. it's wrong today, it's wrong tomorrow. one of the president's greatest gimmicks is he passes everything off until the election. heather: let's get to this. a key supporter of rick santorum child to maybe crack a joke about the issue. let's hear what he had to say and santorum's response to this. >> in this contraceptive thing, my gosh it's so inexpensive. back in my days they used bear aspirin for contraceptives, the gals put it between their knees and it wasn't that costly. >> he told a bad off-colored joke and he shouldn't have co done it. it doesn't reflect on my campaign or me because it wasn't part of my campaign. >> when the number one donor

sells women they should stick an aspirin between their knees in i don't think the one whipping up the firestorm is president obama. i think american women and americans in general value individual choice being prioritized alongside religious freedom. that's what the president has done here. incidentally the majority of catholics support the accommodation. heather: and brad, bad joke but really he was trying to make the point that abstinence was cheaper. >> bad joke, he shouldn't have said it. santorum was right to come out and immediately denounce it. there is no place for rhetoric like that especially for a candidate that doesn't have the truce. obama was wrong, he took on the catholic church and in the end he'll pay for it. heather: i don't think this is over. thank you for joining us. bill: this will be a moment this weekend, saturday, new information about who will speak and who will perform at the funeral service for whitney

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the legendary kodak theater home to the oscars undergoing a name change. it will remove its name as part of a bankruptcy reorganization. no word yet on a new name. bill: there is backlash now mounting among muslims worldwide over a campaign calle calderone women against musliminization. it shows a 19-year-old in a bikini and wearing avail. what is this campaign all about? >> reporter: this campaign is certainly a little bit of a different one. it mostly has to do with the controversial poster. it features a woman named ann dewinter. she appears in avail, a berka,

and a bikini, the slogans are freedom or berka, you choose. we spoke to both father and daughter. the daughter said she did this of her own free will, she is interested in the topic. the father says he is not using the daughter. both said there has already been hate mail and death threats. take a listen to both of them and you decide if this is a good move. >> nothing scarce me any more. >> reporter: really? >> no. >> reporter: you don't think they are serious? >> i don't think they are serious. i hope not. >> there were some strets, yes, of course, and i'm very worried about that, but nevertheless if nobody speaks up she is a grown up girl, she is 20 years old. >> reporter: bill, as we have seen militants can say these things and can do things, they can mean what they say. bill: what has reaction been to this. greg? >> reporter: we went into a

muslim neighborhood in belgium. we showed a picture of the poster, there was shock, anger, a lot of negative feelings about it. however, we also went into other elements of the belgian society and there was some guarded support for at least some aspects of the campaign, at the very least a greater dialogue between muslims and other aspects of the minute there in belgium. critics say this is just meant to shock, this is not meant to encourage any kind of discussion. it also might be meant to help the sagging political fortunes of dewinters party. it may get people to talk. hopefully for thoeupbs solved that's wherthose involved that's where it will end. the actual campaign starts march 16th. bill: thanks. heather: rick santorum praising income andee wal and equality, saying it's good for the u.s. >> we shouldn't have a president who envies and creates class

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heather: awaiting a vote on the payroll tax cut. let's take a live look for you on the senate floor right now. first the house will vote, and then onto the senate. majority leader harry reid saying he expects republican support on the deal, saying americans are, quote, watching. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel is live from capitol hill for us with the very latest. mike, does the bill have the support? >> reporter: that is a very good question, heather. in the end we do believe it should have the votes. those in favor like it for a variety of reasons, one, if you have a lot of unemployed people in your district, this extends unemployment benefits. if you have a lot of medicare patients that you represent you want them to be able to see their doctors without the doctors taking a 27% cut in fees. here is a california democrat on why she is yes. >> this by partisan will insure that 160 million americans will not see a tax increase at a time

when so many families are still struggling to make ends meet. the payroll tax cuts provides american families an average of $1,000 annually to help pay their bills and for day-to-day necessities. >> reporter: so this congresswoman like many likes it because it provides tax relief for the rest of the year for 160 million americans. the house will go first and should it pass the house then the senate will go right after that, heather. heather: she said yes. we heard why. what about those who said they'd vote no, what reasons are they giving? >> reporter: we had a passionate argument from steny hoyer, a lee leader in the house for the democrats, who did not like one of the pay fors that new federal employees will have to pay more of their pensions than currently is part of the deal. here is a republican in the house and why he's a no. >> this legislation is simply an election year gimmick. it jeopardizes our already fragile social security system,

while literally tricking voters, 160 million of them, with the hopes that they believe it's real tax relief. >> reporter: bottom line, it is a compromise, so there is something in here for probably everybody to like. there is also probably something in here for everybody not to like, so we will be counting votes today, heather. heather: our chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel, live for us from washington. thank you very much. >> obama's reckless agenda must be stopped and there is only one principled candidate with the courage to do it. rick santorum, father, husband, a champion for life, the leader with the bold plan to restore america's greatness. bill: that is part of an ad out today from rick santorum's team. he's trying to create a strarbg contrast between him and president obama. he accused the president of

creating tax warfare saying that income and and inequality is good for america. >> hopefully i say there always be. why? because people rise to different levels of success based on what they contribute to society and to the marketplace and that's as it should be. bill: this as the obama team reportedly is considering a shift in its focus away from mitt romney in part to rick santorum as a likely opponent. fox news political analyst juan williams live in d.c. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, bill. bill: would you buy a pivot at this point? would you think that is possible? >> reporter: yeah, it's possible but not likely. they are still looking to see what happens in michigan. that ad is a good ad taking on obama, but i think also making it very clear that rick santorum sees himself as the conservative in the race, and that is a barb clearly directed at mitt romney. bill: what is the difference do you think with santorum?

we have seen others rise and fall just as quickly. he apparently is maintaining. why do you think? >> reporter: i think he has become the anti-romney and he's maintaining in large part because newt gingrich has fallen off the map here, he's down as low as 10% in polls in michigan. but i that i that really what you see here is that people identify with rick santorum, they feel good about rick santorum in terms of him being a family man and the consistency of his message. you know, rick santorum is very effective in saying, and i think this is coming through, that he represents working-class, middle class people. you look at the polls right now, what they indicate is republican voters think romney will look out for the rich, but rick santorum will look out for that middle class. also in terms of family values, rick santorum very highly rated. bill: you would argue that santorum will not fade? >> reporter: no, i don't think so. i think at this point --

bill: if that's the case let's leapfrog the whole argument here. what does a santorum versus obama match up look like? >> reporter: wait a second, i didn't say necessarily he would be the nominee. bill: theoretically speaking. >> reporter: it becomes a very highly culture wars campaign because rick santorum is such a strong social conservative, that is his calling card. i mean this is a great question for you to ask, bill, because everybody has assumed this campaign was going to be about the economy. if rick santorum is there it's really about social issues. and i might just throw in here that when republican voters are asked, do you think -- who do you think is better positioned to fix the american economy, rick santorum or mitt romney the businessman it's incredible to me that right now they are saying rick santorum and rom rorpl equally positioned tmitt romney are equally position towed to that job. bill: it's interesting.

you will argue, and scott rasmussen will not back you up on this because he was on here 30 minutes ago. he did a poll among arizona republicans and here is what he found. who do you think would be the strongest against barack obama? also, who do you think will win the g.o.p. nomination. 67% on the nomination. the question before that, who is strongest before obama, 50% still say romney, only 23% cezanne torsay santorum. >> reporter: scott's numbers are exactly right nor arizona. look at it nationally. earlier in the week we had a poll, new york cbs times. i was amazed at this and probably scott was amazed too that republican voters think they are equally positioned to beat obama nationally. in arizona it's clearly that they see romney as the choice if you're just concerned about electability. that has been mitt romney's

calling card all along. with the polls showing leading romney part of it is people saying, i'm not convinced that it's only mitt romney that can beat president obama. bill: one has toee merge, and arizona will tell us part of the story, michigan will tell us part of the story and we wait until then. thank you, juan. >> reporter: michigan is big. bill: that it is. >> reporter: wow. bill: as they will tell you. [laughter] bill: see you later, juan v a great weekend. >> reporter: take care. heather: he led america through the fall of communism and a war in the middle east, this weekend a special look back at the life and legacy of our 41st president, president george h. w bush. >> just two hours ago allied air forces began an attack on military targets in iraq and kuwait. >> he was talking about what an awful decision it was, that he was the one who had to give an order which would mean a lot of

troops would be killed, and that was an agony. >> our strategy to go after this army is very, very simple. first we're going to cut it off and then we're going to kill it. >> this brutal dictator will do anything, will use any weapon, no matter how many innocents suffer. >> he had an instinct for when was the right time to be tough, and when was not. and part of the coalition that he built included the arabs. this was not just american foreign policy. saddam was a nasty piece of work. heather: where is saddam now? fox news senior political analyst brit hume hosts the man and his mission. bill: check it out sunday

night. prosecutors painting a chilling picture of a honeymoon scuba diving death. why they say the suspect's facts simply do not add up. heather: a new warning about the dangers of things like gps or other entertainment devices in cars. in cars, and why uncle sam is asking automakers to butt the brakes on all those bells and whistles. bill: tweeting and driving, you've got to try it. heather: no. bill: only kidding. make way for twisters on the sun? heather: that looks like a movie. ♪ ♪. [ male announcer ] this was how my day began.

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shattering the tkpwhrafplts he glass. he's from pennsylvania. it resumed after that slight delay. heather: wow. in other news bombshell testimony in the honeymoon murder trial. gabe watson is accused of killing his newlywed, tina while scuba diving on his honeymoon. an expert driver who was there that faithful day says his story, quote is just not plausible. this picture shows tina's body on the ocean floor. a key witness says he actually saw gabe swim to his wife like he was going to save her and then he let her go. joey jackson is a former prosecutor. and t tamara holder is also a former prosecutor and a fox news contributor. thank you for joining us. joey, you said there are three things that prove he's guilty.

>> let's get this straight. he could not be any more guilty. intent, motive, opportunity. if you look at the motivation we all know about the life insurance policy, the travel policy, his lawyers will claim he never collected a penny. that is separate and distinguishable from the point that he tried to and the insurance company would not pay it out. and his lawyers said don't pursue it you would have to give incriminating statements and motive. you have the opportunity. you're underwater where your malice can easily be concealed. there is no question about the fact that he was an experienced driver, she was not. that would provide a perfect and ample opportunity for him to kill her. if you look at his intentions they are manifested in his actions. what did he do? this is an experienced guy, he go towards his wife and what does he do, he releases her as opposed to assisting her to go up top. even if he couldn't do that he could have hit or bay ansi vest such as she would have risen to the top. he could have lifted her weight

so she would rise to the top. he gives this bogus story about a maximum being ripped off of his head. he certainly if his mask was gone found a way to get himself up to the top to get help. did he think that swimming two and a half minutes to the surface as opposed to getting an experienced nearby to save his wife, really? guilty. heather: the life insurance policy, is that enough of a motive. >> no i don't think so. a lot of married couples have them. it's not like she had a billion dollar life insurance policy. to go after that one thing and say that is the motive is absolutely preposterous. i think what people need to understand is that when you are underwater, and both people's lives are at risk there is a current, that is what he's arguing, the current actually caused her to separate from him. she sunk, and he went straight up to the to. i don't know if anybody his decision -- he

already pled guilty by the way to manslaughter because he had a duty to come to her aid, and now -- and he's already spent time in prison for that. now they are saying that there was an actual motive to kill her? i don't see it. heather: we were just looking at video footage of him there, he's a big guy, and she was a small woman, so he couldn't even attempt to pull her up or save her? >> well, maybe he could have attempted, and that's, again, where you got the manslaughter conviction already. we're talking about motive, we're talking about a murder trial where he intended to kill her. and what i'm saying is i don't see that. did he fail in his duty to come to her aid? yes. but did he intend to kill her? i don't see that it's there. heather: all right, joey fine low as we wrap-up, what about these witnesses? how damaging can they are. >> i think they will be incredibly damaging. they are giving indication that this is a person that did nothing. there is consciousness of guilt. that means you act in a certain way, because you know you're

guilty. you swim away from your wife yet you're an experienced driver. >> he was hundreds of feet below in the ocean. >> he's a rescue driver. this is not like someone who is just underwater for a stroll and having a simple trip. this is a person who knows better, who could have done more who intentionally engaged in this act. i think the circumstantial evidence is overwhelming. i think the witnesses will establish that and i think ultimately he's in big trouble. heather: we'll see what happens. in the meantime the case continues . thank you both for your insight we appreciate it. bill: an interesting photo underwater. dash boards becoming a computer. can you actually update your facebook profile while you're driving? we will slow your roll in a moment because there is a new appeal to all the automakers. we'll tell you what that is. heather: slow that roll, here is the update i'm driving, not a good idea. plus scientists say they have never seen anything like this. do you know what this is? get ready. twisters on the hottest spot in our solar system. [ male announcer ] we know you don't wait

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heather: welcome back. incredible new pictures to show you of tornadoes on the surface of the sun. check this out. the pictures captured by the solar dynamics observatory. you can see several dark plasma tornadoes right there in the middle of your screen on its surface. experts say this video is the first of its kind. bill: funky stuff. tweeting and driving, a new call urging carmakers to keep us safer on the road. nitza calling for changes to distracting dashboard entertainment and gps systems. you see back in 2009 16% of all deadly accidents were called by distracting drivers. jonathan atkins is the governor's highway rep.

tell me what they want the automakers to do. >> they want them to do a couple of things. the main thing is to really limit the systems that are currently in the car so you can't update your facebook, you can't tweet or text while you're driving. bill: can you do that now through the dashboard? >> in a lot of cases you can, there is a lot of new technology coming. some of the car companies have advertised the ability to update facebook, for example. we think the guidelines, they make a lot of sense. they are a first step. the broader issue is we are addicted to our cell phones and it will take more than guidelines to change that. but this is certainly part of the solution. bill: you're probably right about that. this is just advice, it's voluntary. >> it is voluntary. bill: you can't tell ford chrysler and gm what to do. >> no you can't. there has been a history of groups like ours working well with car companies on safety

issues. the car companies have an incentive to keep these systems safe. it's a first step. it will not be the ending, it's really just the beginning. i think we'll make some progress. a lot of these companies already have these type of guidelines in place. i think this was coming any way. but obviously to have the secretary of transportation being so vocal and passionate, distracted driving is a problem and we need to do something about it, and the car companies can either help us provide -- help us provide the solution -- bill: two points i want to make here. you said some of the car companies are already doing, they are already taking steps or measures, like what? >> there have been guidelines, ford and others have come out with advice to the drivers so that they don't use these systems. there is a program called my key that will help eliminate these for teens that ford offers. there are definitely things out there. there's been a lot of discussion for the last couple of years about this. we also have to talk to the public and get them to realize that this is dangerous. people are literally dying.

bill: i think it's a great point. now you see the laws spreading throughout the states about hands-free driving. you have to have the ear piece in otherwise you'll get pulled over and stopped for it. is it true it only takes two seconds for a distraction that could lead to something that is either injurious or possibly fatal. >> absolutely. i talk to people all around the country who have lost people because of looking down to check a text message. turn the phone off, disable the system if it's already built in your car. we have to have common-sense. the government is not going to be able to solve this problem alone. we've got to remind people that driving is dangerous, you need to focus on it and not just because of what you're doing, but you've got to be able to react to another driver, and somebody else who may be drinking coffee or using their cellphone. bill: the technology is going to spread. >> it is. bill: and possibly the technology will lead us to a safer place. >> we hope so. bill: jonathan thank you. >> my pleasure. heather: he makes a good point you can't legislate behavior, so take responsibility for

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