truckers during the week, they feel it immediately. the families feel it on the weekend. they are the ones scooting around the soccer games and baseball games. enjoy the weekend. martha: it didn't even come up at the debate. this did tell us by this response it is very much on people's minds. have a great weekend while you're filling up that gas tank, everybody, we'll see you back here on monday. jon: a new push to stop the violence in syria as reports continue to come in as government forces attack being people in the besieged city of homs. the se message or sad r-rwe'll

let you meet the invent tore of an alarm clock that makes it impossible for you to go back to sleep again. jenna: hi, everybody, i'm general a lee. i hope you're all awake for us despite the alarm clocks. jon: i'm jon scott in the newsroom "happening now." jenna: seven states banning together on a controversial issue asking to join a federal lawsuit blocking a mandate that religious organizations must offer healthcare, including birth control. they are asking a federal judge to declare the law unconstitutional. let's talk to senior judicial analyst gentleman nepal ta nap

poll tan owe. >> reporter: the constitution requires that in order to bring a lawsuit in federal court you must have standing. standing means that you have been uniquely harmed by what the defendant has done. so who would be harmed here? a catholic employer would be harmed, who would be forced to purchase health coverage that violates the teaching of the catholic church. for example the archdiocese of new york which employs 10,000 people, the university of notre dame which employs 15,000 people. they would be ideal candidates to bring this lawsuit, but not the state of tpheb r-r. the attorney general of nebraska may ardent lee believe that this section of owe bama care is unconscious tphal and i agree w-pl. he does not have the right to go into court and complain about it. the plaintiffs in the case are catholic schools that do employ catholic employees and they do have standing to sue. but the court will stay to the states, go become home. jenna: let's talk about the case that is going forward, as well as the fact that we had the

supreme court taking a look at healthcare and we expect a ruling on it in june. how did all the cases come together? healthcare -- the healthcare law is being implemented as we. >> yes it is. the supreme court will look at a challenge to the individual mandate that is the requirement in the healthcare law that every person in america have or acquire health insurance, whether they want it, need it or can afford it or not. if the supreme court in april when it hears this case, just two months from now, decides the individual mandate is unconstitutional that will effectively invalidate the entire statute, including this obligation on the part of catholic employers to make available to their employees something that the catholic church teaches against. jenna: let me ask your legal expertise on that. what do you let go first? if you were looking at these cases and they are all challenging the healthcare law, which gets the priority? how do you develop the other cases if you're still wafpl th

watch the supreme court case. >> the cases challenging the individual mandate were filed a year and a half ago so they have made their way to the supreme court. the cases challenging the contraceptive services were filed in the last two or three months. it will be two or three years before they get to the supreme coat. in the best of all words the sue proepl court wil supreme court it would have all the challenges to ow owe obamaa care all at once. the other parts will probably fall and be impossible financially to enforce venezuela we began 2012 with the healthcare law being in place. do we end the year with the healthcare law in place? >> are you asking me to get in the mind of nine supreme court justices? i will happily do so, 5-4,

unconstitutional. jenna: why do you say five-four? >> i have read what they've written on the commerce clause, which is the clause that let's congress regulate interstate commerce. in my view the way the swing justice, justice anthony kennedy has viewed the commerce clause in the past he will not vote to extend it to authorize congress to force you to engage in interstate commerce, and he will be that fifth vote against it. i'm not always right on this. generathis. so don't take it to the bank. jenna: thank you so much. we will look at different parts of this law. thanks for kicking this off today. jon. jon: new info in the diplomatic push to stop sear gentleman's president's crackdown on his own people. the friends of syria group of which the u.s. is a member is sending a stern message, abide

by this or face serious consequences. dominic is streaming live for us. >> reporter: we are hoping to hear about the strategy about isolating the regime of the syrian president. secretary khreupb khreup hill reclinton ihill louisiana reclinton is here. >> we look forward to progress on three points. increasing pressure on the regime and preparing for a democratic transition to. that end we hope to see new pledges of emergency assistance for syrians cats in assad's stranglehold and international coordination and diplomatic pressure on today mas damascus.

>> reporter: the big issue, is is the syrian government going to allow aid. will the government allow people to go in? it's been ignore pleas pleas and not allowing aid to go in. it's in the hands of the assad regime. military intervention will have to come to the table very quickly if they do not allow it. jon: thank you. there is a new poll finding that more americans want president ow obamaa's healthcare law appeals. 39% say it should stand as is.

let's bring in steven hayes, senior writer for the weekly standard, also a fox news contributor. i'm a little surprised. most of the elements of this law that people would find onerous or oppressive or whatever haven't kicked in yet. there are elements like the fact that you have to insure -- insurance companies have to allow coverage of kids up to age 26. those kinds of things are in place and been proven to be popular. are you surprised that this poll result shows what it does? >> i'm not. but this part because of the debate we've had here in this country over the past three weeks. since the announcement of the hhs mandate suggests to me that people are paying close attention and that they understand that what we're seeing with the has mandate and requiring things of people from institutions that people don't necessarily agree with that that is likely what we'll see down the road.

it's an 8-point swing. that is a pretty significant shift. jon: when you look at the poll results this thing doesn't within among very much constituency groups at all accept democrats. 71% of democrats oppose the obamaa healthcare law appeal. that was the only subgroup in this entire poll that opposed it by a majority or a plurality. then you look at those who support repeal, republicans, that might be obvious, indianas, 50 independents, 50% of them. college grads, noncollege grads, and surprisingly steven all income groups. this thing is getting a pretty resounding drubbing. >> it sure is. you remember when charles shaoeurpl shaouplschum schumer

said they would want to come pain on tha campaign on it and they haven't. you can be assured that republicans, whoever the nominee is, will spend quite a bit of time talking about obamacare and what it's likely to mean in the years going forward. jon: the president's personal popularity ratings seem to be on the rise. >> i think people are generally feeling better about the economy. they are not giving the president credit for causing a remerging economy. they are feeling better about it. any time you have a president in the white house as people start to feel better about the economy that helps the president eventually. it's not helping them now because there is not a causal relationship if you look at the poll numbers inside this cue poll they feel about the economy, they think there is a recovery going on but they are

not yet crediting the president for causing that recovery and that is a problem for the white house. jon: the stimulus doesn't get any association with a better economy? >> i don't think so. and in part i think you have to blame the white house for that. if you remember back in the summer of 2010, june of 2010 the white house launched an extensive pr effort to call it the summer of recovery. the unemployment number was supposed to drop significantly, when the economic growth was going to pick up and it just didn't happen. this was 21 months ago now. joe bide den and others rolled out a plan and talked about the summer of recovery. they had a series of events around the country. there is a about it of a boy called wolf thing i think. it didn't. unemployment at that point kicked up a little bit. the fact that we are so far r removed from so much of the spending under the stimulus and what appears to be the beginnings of a modest recovery i think the people aren't making the link between the two.

jon: where are we now on unemployment 8.3%, isn't that the official national number right now? >> it is. the number has been coming down, which is good for the white house, and people feel better about it which is good for the white house. jon: the fact that 8.3% unemployment, which would have been unthinkable a few years ago. 8.3% unemployment feels good is pretty astounding. steven hayes from the weekly standard. >> thanks, jon. jenna: the new normal, right? conrad murray's lawyer is calling for a little relief for his client while they wait for a resolution on his appeal. what he's requesting for the man convicted of killing michael jackson. and anti-american proceed helps turning violent in afghanistan after korans were burned at a u.s. military base. the latest on how nato is trying to keep the peace. icken broccol. mushroom smothered beef burgers.

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jenne: new information on a few crime stories we're keeping an eye on including this one out of uganda. police are waiting to question a potential witness in the death of tv producer jerry rice. his assistance remains unconscience on what may have been a cocaine overdose or a poisoning. we are working on the story to get it. opening arguments to begin in the trial of a former rutger student accused of using a web cam to spy on his roommate's sexual encounter with another man. tyler clementi later killed himself. dr.~conrad murray's lawyers are asking him to be released. he was convicted in the involuntary manslaughter death of michael jackson. jon: they are asking afghans to be patient as they try to get to

the bottom of kora core and pwurpbz president obama apologized for the accidental burning of the books. conor powell is streaming live from kabul. >> reporter: new protests erupted across afghanistan today. in some of the places they were relatively peaceful. in other places they turned violent quickly. seven afghans were heuld in herod as afghan protestors tried to storm a u.s. consulate there. it has been four straight days of very large and violent protests across this country after the u.s. military admitted it had burned copies of the koran. the top commander, general john allen has apologized for the koran burning and the military has also said that the troops found detainees, afghan taliban detainees using the korans to pass notes. those explanations and apologies have done little to calm the

anger here in afghanistan. yesterday two american troops were killed by an afghan soldier that was so unhappy with the koran burning he turned his weapons on the troops. john allen went to visit the american troops that were part of the unit where the troops were killed an urged the american troops not to take revenge, this is not the time for revenge seeking. you can tell there is a lot of anger on the afghan side, a lot of angst on the american side. no one is telling where this is going. there is a pier there could be morfear there could be more and more days of violence here. jenne: it is so sensational it inspired a movie by meryl streep. a woman said a dingo took her baby. why are they reopening the case more than 30 years later? that is coming up later. jon, you have linsanity.

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jon: an australian mystery became a controversial hollywood movie and the phrase, dingo took my baby entered pop culture. fast forward 30 years later, and new claims are surfacing that a dingo, a wild dog snatched her baby out of a tent in the out back. decades later a coroner is reopening the case. harris faulkner is following the developments live. >> reporter: that's one headline. the other headline is the possibility that a dingo could have done something to that child, jon. again, i'm glad you started where you did. a dingo is a wild dog in

australia, this case has been a mystery for 32 years, something that continues to victimize the parents with all the ridicule and speculation. a fourth inquest has been opened and this is the biggest legal drama in australia's history. the big question, could this finally mean a ruling or an answer on just what happened to nine-week old azaria chamber lan? a police officer testifying in a packed courtroom that in a year since azaria's disappearance there have been numerous attacks on people by dingos of some of them fatal. the family said they heard a cry, they went to the tent, the baby was missing, there were spots of blood on bedding inside that tent, and dingo fingerprints were found outside the tent. at the time they thought a dingo

could to the take away a baby. they looked at the mother, not enough evidence to convict her. this is all reemerging that the dingo could may have done this. for instance people said they heard that cry and a how long outside the tent right about the time the child disappeared. the judge has adjourned the hearing this week without saying when she will release her findings. we will be waiting to see if we get final answers in all of this. jon: the mystery persists, three decades later. harris faulkner thanks. jenne: we'll mix things up a little bit here. he may have run into a buzz saw in the knicks loss last night but there is no denying the sensation skwerpl m jeremy lin grabbing the entire nation's attention. they say lin is a new expert that america can bank on on

should. austin goolsbee is a professor of economics at university of chicago's boost school of business. he's also an avid chicago bull's fan. i'll lead the interview with this. austin. the nba commissioner david stearn says he has never seen any player create such a buzz so fast, not even michael jordan, austin. >> he should publicly apologize to the people of this country for saying that. jenne: i know this has pained you. it pains you to talk about a knicks player. but you say this exemplifies the economy and where we should invest. tell us a little bit more about your point is. >> let me state for the word i don't even like the knicks, i can't stand that they are improving. the point is the u.s. is a major service-based economy. it's important that we increase exports, everybody knows that, there's basically bi-partisan

agreement and i just don't want people to forget that we expert about $600 billion a year of other kinds of exports, not manufactured goods, things like royalties on watching nba games, things like people coming to visit the united states. if a person from china comes to visit and business an nba ticket that counts as an expert. things like jeremy lin or going to disney world or attracting people to this country are really good for this country. jenne: you talked about enforcing intellectual property rules. you say we should do something less confrontational such as improving foreigner's opinions of america so they want to come visit or send their children to school here. do you think we have a pe a perception problem? >> sometimes we do. if you look at the polling around the world of what think

think of the u.s. it goes up and down. things are like if you're in brazil before you can come visit the united states you have to go have an interview at a u.s. consulate, and in a nation of whatever, 200 million people, that is about the size of the u.s. there are only four such consulates in the whole country, so these people have a five-month delay before they can come visit the u.s. it doesn't make any sense. these are exports that we don't have to get in a fight with a country to export this to them, they want to give us these exports, they want to come visit here, and that counts, and there are a lot of jobs in the u.s., millions of jobs that are tied to travel, tourism, entertainment, and all of these service-based kind of new exports. jenne: there are millions of jobs. brazil is such a great example of emerging economy. you have a lot of consumers there that are cash rich and ready to spend their money when they come to the sue nighte united states. you want people to come and

visit and people from overseas to spend their money here but you don't necessarily want them to take jobs away from americans. you don't necessarily want them to take spots in schools away from american citizens. how do you balance that? what is the best way to navigate that? >> well, if you look at these different kinds of new exports, there's two types, there is no sense in which if somebody comes from brazil to the united states except that maybe an american wanted to go see the nba game, if they are buying stuff here, if they are buying an nba ticket, that is helping the u.s. not taking anybody's job. that's why these are important exports that we should think about. if you look at education side, if a foreign student comes to the u.s. the tuition that they pay counts as an export for the united states, and we exported a whole lot of educations, and it raised a significant amount of money. now i'm not just saying because i'm a professor, look there are a lot of jobs that are sustained

by students paying the full tuitions, and i think we definitely want to preserve spaces for u.s. kids to go to school, but there is no sense in which we're shutting out our own students and favoring foreign students over u.s. students. quite the opposite, we are trying everything we can to get more applicants from the united states and to retain them in college. this is just icing on the cake if you were. it brings in a substantial revenue. jenne: there is so much more to that conversation too you educate the students here, you want them to stay and make good on the investment you make in them but a lot of time they go back overseas and take with them the skills and training that they've learned here. we'll have more on this. look forward to having you back, and a nice chicago bulls color tie just to -- >> you bet for a championship, you come on out here. jenne: thank you very much austin goolsbee. jon: now that he's not in government any more he doesn't

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jon: internet giants like google agreeing to new rules intended to protect your privacy online, but these do not track guidelines are mostly going to be on the company's terms. shibani joshi or the fox business network takes a look. >> reporter: hi there, jon. yeah, about 12 million americans had their identity stolen last year, and now silicon valley is heeding the call for change with a little bit of a nudge from the white house. the white house yesterday unveiling its new privacy bill of rights with seven specific items that is looking for web companies including items like privacy policy transparency and individual control over personal data. and now big tech companies are caving in including google, microsoft and ya, along with 400 other advertising companies promising to create a simple do

not track button that will allow users to opt out of tracking with a single click. this is far from an ultimate solution to privacy because this do not track button, while it will allow you to prevent customized ads and certain use of data, it will not prevent you and your information from being used in market research by these company, nor will it prevent your data from being used when you sign up for specific services like facebook and twitter. overall, jon, a very good first step in the issue of privacy but certainly a long ways away for a final solution which is becoming a bigger and bigger issue for millions of americans out there. jon: at least you're making them aware of it. shibani, thank you. >> reporter: first step. jenna: well, the president is reportedly directing the defense department for coming up with a few plans to reduce the nuclear arsenal by at least 80%. mr. obama is hoping to encourage other nations to follow our

example, so say the reports, and ultimately rid the world of nuclear weapons. but a recent editorial says the president is driven to reduce our nuclear weapons because of his aversion to america having superpower status. quite a claim, and we have the author of that editorial, frank gaffney, he's the founder and president of the center for security policy. so, frank, you say this is more ideological than anything else. tell us about why. >> since 1983 when he was a radical student in columbia university, the president has had this aspiration that he's going to get rid of america's nuclear arsenal. i think it's sort of dressed up as a, hey, if we do it, everybody else will follow. there's simply no evidence that that's the case. and as 34 members of the house of representatives note inside a letter to him -- noted in a letter to him urging him to pull back from this folly, they said this is blind ideology at work, and i think they're exactly right. you know what's really interesting about is, is it's

kind of a subset of what's happening to our national defense more generally. the president is engaged in a similarly blind, i think, idealogically-driven effort to disarm this country. and a lot of it's been dressed up was budget discipline and reducing the deficit and so on, but i think really as this example makes so clear he's about cutting our capabilities to deter aggression, and in the process i'm afraid inviting more of it in the interest of advancing what is a foolish, radical and ultimately quite dangerous ideological agenda. jenna: so two questions, one ideological and one when it comes to the policy itself, and the president's, obviously, not here to defend himself and this is your opinion on how you think he places america in the world today. it would benefit any president, president obama or otherwise, to have a strong nation, a strong military because, quite frankly, you would think that it just makes the president's job easier.

so why would the president want the opposite? >> he came to office saying he was going to fundamentally transform the united states of america. and one of the places where i think the president has a lot of latitude to do that as commander in chief especially in the kind of budget crisis we're in at the moment, economic difficulties and so on, and i think he's been relentlessly pushing forward on what really is a hongstanding and quite radical desire to see the united states really, basically, like any other nation. not a great superpower, certainly not able to dictate to others what it thinks should be their policy or, for that matter, how the world should be run. and if you look at it through that prism, i think a lot of what is otherwise seemingly inexplicable of bowing to the saudis and, you know, resetting to the russians in which it's a one-way street and ignoring the

chinese, building up what may be 3,000 nuclear weapons. he's talking about taking us down to 300 -- jenna: on that point, we've actually -- >> most americans wouldn't accept under any circumstances. jenna: we've had some nuclear experts explain the reasons why they also believe we should take our nuclear arsenal down. you mentioned the budget concerns, that it's expensive to upkeep this massive arsenal that we have, and they also make the point that, listen, it's not that you need thousands of nuclear weapons to prove a point. that's what they say. that's why in some cases you have nonpartisan experts in the nuclear field say, you know, if we're looking to cut and we're looking to bring down where we're spending in defense, you know, the nuclear arse that would might be a place to look -- arsenal might be a place to look. >> yeah. well, look, we've allowed somebody who disagrees with this on as well. the truth of the matter is we have an aging arsenal that i'm afraid is increasingly less and

less capable of providing the kind of deterrence we need it to provide, a deterrence to aggression, a deterrence that protects our friends and allies around the world. and what is almost certainly going to come out of this is more nuclear weapons because nobody else, as i say, is following the president's lead. and the more our deterrent becomes incredible, i think the more likely you're going to see countries looking at the north koreans and the iranians and the russians and chinese and who knows all else of the threatening kind building up their arsenal, they're going to say whether they're the saudis, the south koreans, perhaps others, we better get our own deterrent as well. in other words, more nuclear weapons, a more dangerous world. not the kind of place that i think we ought to be taking this country or, for that matter, the free world more generally. jenna: frank, we appreciate you taking the time today, and as we mentioned, lots of different opinions, and we welcome them all. frank gaffney, thank you so much. >> thank you. jon: well, as part of the federal stimulus the government

spent $10 billion trying to help create green energy jobs in this country. but the american recovery and reinvestment act didn't necessarily get the job done according to one measure. how this could play a major role in the upcoming race for the white house. plus, a shocking twist in the case of a missing executive from south carolina. we'll tell you the new clues that police are uncovering coming up. change for just a little money?

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jenna: new next hour, an acquittal for the man accused of drowning his wife during their listen honeymoon. why gabe watson was able to go free without going before a jury. plus, she died doing what she loved, journalist marie colvin killed by syrian forces. we're going to take a look back at her life. >> and just ahead are the 84th academy awards, our own oscar expert weighs in on who he

thinks will go home with the golden statue on hollywood's biggest night. jon: well, a "wall street journal" report on stimulus spending caught our attention, it's on the front page today. it cites a congressional report showing that while job creation is a big factor in evaluating incentives, a lot of companies that benefited from the stimulus money, the american recovery and reinvestment act, did not create nearly as many jobs as the government claims. it's a topic likely to come up repeatedly in the race for the white house. let's talk with paul gigot, host of the journal editorial report here on fox news channel and editorial page editor at the wall street journal. fascinating report on the front page, talks about companies like or places like webb county, texas, company gets $108 million of stimulus money, green energy money, and people are all excited thinking, hey, this is going to be great, we're going to get this wind farm and all these jobs, they got three jobs out of the wind farm and a guy

who had expanded his restaurant to serve all those workers -- >> yeah. jon: winds up going bankrupt and has to lay off 18. >> yeah. the virtue of the story is it digs into the facts of specific companies, specific parts of the country, and it finds a lot of them didn't measure up to their promises about job creation. and that's the only way you can really go at this because the macro look at how many jobs created, the claims and counterclaims are really unreliable because they're based on computer models and estimates. so you almost have to dig into the nitty-gritty to really find it, and what the report found is that a lot fewer jobs created than promised. jon: stimulus is more than three years old now, and i remember, you know, there were all the claims and counterclaims about jobs saved or created. but that number is kind of just pie in the sky, isn't it? >> i think most viewers should just say, look, only two with

things really matter here ultimately. what's the overall jobless rate, the unemployment rate in the country and what is the, how well is the economy doing. is it really growing? that's what matters. these job creation numbers you really can't rely on at all. take the wind with energy association. they said the grants would create thousands of new jobs. they got $7 billion under one program. they admit themselves that their overall employment has fallen by 10,000 people in the industry. so these claims are not reliable. jon: well, and even the government's own numbers, they say somewhere between, what, 2.2 and 4.2 million jobs? well, you know, if they really know, if they really have the statistics, they ought to be able to get that number down to somewhere under a gap of two million, don't you think? [laughter] >> well, that's precisely my point about the fact that they rely on models. jon: it's all estimates. >> yeah. we'll plug a number in based on what we think the job creation will be if you put in x

investment. it's garbage in, garbage out, right? you put in a false estimate, and you get out false numbers. they're not trying to be dishonest, i'm just saying the data they're relying on is no unreliable. jon: another company called razor technologies in utah -- >> geothermal energy company. jon: 33 million taxpayer dollars invested, and it went bankrupt. >> and they had 27 employees when they got the grant, and now they have ten. [laughter] jon: that's government efficiency at work, i guess. >> right. and, well, it's going to come down in the campaign to a real debate over whether or not government is good at picking these investments or whether or not you ought to just let the market go. that's the fundamental policy debate we're going to have in this presidential election. jon: well, and a lot of these green energy projects become viable if oil is, i don't know, $150, $200 a barrel, right? >> sure, sure. ultimately, that's what matters, right? if you can't make it in the marketplace, then the grants are ultimately going to fail, and

that's what's been happening with a lot of these green energy products. their technology is so speculative, it doesn't exist at a potential comcial level, and we're bet -- commercial level. jon: again, some fascinating details in this piece on the front page of today's "wall street journal." paul gigot, you can catch more of paul tomorrow. he hosts the journal editorial report 2 p.m. eastern time here on fox. jenna: well, mitt romney using gotcha tactics on the campaign trail? we're going to take a closer look at the effectiveness as the former massachusetts governor's latest strategy. plus, if this alarm clock doesn't get you out of bed, we promise nothing will. [laughter] wait until you hear how it works. it's pretty incredible. the inventer joins us next. ♪ ♪

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jon: all right, "happening now" a new invention that jenna needed in those days when she was getting up at 2 a.m. sleep-deprived people have, well, a good use for it. jenna: all of us have a hard time getting up in the morning, right? so this is an alarm clock, it won't stop ringing until you punch in a code, and the code actually changes every day, so you have to get out of bed, go to another room and punch in the control panel code to turn it off. jon: if you use it the way it's designed. paul is the inventer of the appropriately-named sonic bomb clock. he's here with his invention to show us how it works. hey, paul. >> hey, hi. how's it going? jon: good, good. okay. so it's 11:53 right now in on

the east coast, let's set that thing for, what, i don't know, 11:55? >> we'll just set it for the next minute. so the way this works is we can set the time to, okay, so it's 11:53 right now, so we'll set the alarm clock time to 11:54. and -- jenna: maybe 5, because we just passed 54. >> there you go. and so the whole point is, it's actually called the ramos, by the way. jon: oh, i'm sorry. >> it's okay. the only way to deact sate this alarm is to walk to a wireless control panel -- jenna: like this one? >> exactly. and punch in a defuse code. so the whole point is it forces you to get out of bed, and you can't just keep hitting a snooze button. jenna: but there is a snooze button on there. >> you can give yourself a feature of three allowed snoozes, and at the end of those allowed snoozes, that's when it'll lock down, and you have to get out of bed and deactivate it. jon: what if i cheat and put the

control panel next to my bed? >> why would you do that? the whole point -- jenna: looking for a way around it already. did you have a hard time getting out of bed? >> oh, i did. the whole thing was i'd set an alarm for 7:00 in the morning, and i'd want to wake up, but i'd just hit the snooze button and wake up at 7:30. so the whole point was to have something that would get me out of bed at 7 or at the time i wanted to wake up, kind of like how my mom wanted to do it. jenna: oh. >> right now the alarm's going off, so we can go the control panel and then punch in today's date. so we turn it on, and this is something you'll probably have this your bathroom, you know, so you're right next to the shower, right next to the sink -- jon: shut that thing off! >> and you press in the date, ramos turns off. and then you're in the shower, you've kind of used your mind a bit to help facilitate the waking. jon: so the idea is i would have climbed down the bed, down the

hall, into the bathroom, and now i'm ready to go -- >> exactly. jenna: we had some questions from the media desk. we want to know how much this puppy costs. >> the thing is we've got it on a web site called kick starter. it's expensive now. for this one it's $350. at that pledge level you will receive a ramos, and then we have another one that's an led version because the tubes are expensive, and it requires high-voltage circuit try to power them. so you can join our community and help us create this product and bring it to market. jenna: it's very cool. we love great new ideas, and we appreciate you coming in this. >> oh, my pleasure. thank you very much. jenna: we'll put some information on the web site too. jon: for those of us who have trouble getting up in the morning -- jenna: or to be an investor. >> we appreciate that too. jenna: thank you, paul. really nice to have you. this is another big story today, u.n. inspectors set to release their report on iran's nuclear activities. why early indications of what's in the report are raising fears

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might be yet to come. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel is in washington. what's the white house saying about all these protests, mike? >> reporter: obviously, great concern for american personnel, both u.s. military and civilians serving in afghanistan and americans working in pakistan. the protests have been angry, and in some cases deadly. here's how a spokesman at the state department described the u.s. view of what is happening on the streets and in the villages over this incident. >> no indication these are anything other than popular expressions of outrage over -- [inaudible] so, you know, i think we're fully recognizing that emotions are running high, we also again offer our apologies and our pledge that we're going to get to the bottom of this. >> reporter: u.s. officials have called it an inadvertent burning of religious materials by american persian them in afghanistan. there is an investigation underway, yet this issue has not

died down. jon: the president has apologized, i know our top military leaders over there have apologized, what else are they planning to do? >> reporter: jon, actually this hour in sterling, virginia, a senior department of defense official is trying to do outreach with the local muslim commitment, doing an event in sterling, virginia, addressing the muslim community, pledging partnership. he is the principle deputy assistant secretary of defense for asian and pacific security is affairs. in exchange, american muslim leaders are expected to call for peace and nonviolence. it is not clear when somebody will actually apologize for the two american service members who were shot and killed by a man wearing an afghan military uniform yesterday. jon? jon: it's pretty clear our enemies can use this to foment whatever they want if they choose to. mike emanuel, thank you. jenna: secretary clinton says the syrian regime will have more blood on its hands if it doesn't comply with international demands for an immediate cease

fire, but government troops continue to pound neighborhoods, this is all amateur video and some reports we're getting from inside the country, and it is very difficult to get any reliable information out of the country. at the friends of syria meeting today in tunisia, there are 70 nations meeting. in an editorial in "the new york times," that editorial says these 70 nations should call for a no-kill zone to allow for humanitarian aid. kt mcfarlane joins us now. kt, these no-kill zones would be in different parts of the country, the red cross would be there, and you would have some special operators from countries like turkey, saudi arabia and jordan take part in maintaining these no-kill zones. do you think that's where we should be going with this? >> there's very little we can do. there's really no military option the united states or nato has in syria. for three reasons. um, one, there is no syrian

opposition that's armed. there's no army to build on, so unlike libya which had a rag tag army, syria doesn't have that. secondly, syria has a lot of friends in the neighborhood; iran, russia, china. iran isn't going to let syria go without a fight. and then the third reason is as president obama's pivoting to asia, cutting the defense budget and a lot of resources tied up in the gulf dealing with iran, we don't have the bandwidth. so i think this idea of trying to set up no-kill zones are great as long as syria's neighbors step up to the plate. so far, they've been reluctant to do that. jenna: and if they don't step up, then what is our owl truly? -- role truly? is there any role to be had? >> it's a hard one. and, you know, assad has decided it's kill or be killed, and he's going to keep killing. now, we have very little option because why? because we failed to get leverage with syria, with iran, with russia. the beginning of the administration president obama

wanted to reset relations with russia. well, that hasn't worked out. he wantsty proposal with iran. that -- diplomacy with iran, that hasn't worked out. so as a result of all that, we really have not gotten the kind of leverage we would need to do any political solution there, and as i said militarily we have very few options. it's a great tragedy, and it shows this is a price for united states weakness. jenna: you know, it is really remarkable. i don't know if that's really the correct word, but remarkable to think that it's been 11 months of watching this happen, and it's only gotten worse, kt, so what are the next, what does the next 11 months look like? >> well, i think that it continues to look a lot like this, if not worse. unless the neighbors of syria step up. if turkey steps up, if saudis step up, if other countries in the region decide to step up and potentially arm a rebel army, train a rebel army but certainly as a first step provide some kind of humanitarian assistance

or as the red cross free zones where people and refugees could go. but, you know, here's the problem, jenna. the root of the whole problem is iran. it's not syria -- jenna: kt, let me stop you there. >> a snake's coming at you. jenna: let me stop you because we have a brand new news alert suggesting that iran is rapidly speeding up its nuclear program despite everything that's happening, kt, despite the sanctions, despite the letting investigators into -- inspectors, i should say, into iran, this is still happening. so you said iran really has a role in syria. put this in some context to us, why this is of strategic importance to the united states. >> iran wants two things. it wants to develop nuclear weapons, and it wants to have a zone of influence that goes from iran to iraq to syria to control from the mediterranean to the persian gulf. because that gives them a choke hold on the world's oil l

supply. they are not going to turn away from that, and they're willing to go to war to get it. any notion that sanctions, even severe sanctions are going to convince the iranian regime to come to the negotiating table, i think that's naive to the extreme. at this point we've got a couple of options; bomb iran, let iran get the bomb or try to collapse the iranian economy rapidly and ruthlessly and hope that the iranian people themselves go back to the streets where they were in 2009. jenna: and there's a big question if they will do that. you know, we talked about involvement from other middle east countries in syria. we talk about turkey, saudi arabia, jordan. the saudis don't want to see iran extend their sphere of influence, the jordanians don't want to see that, so, you know, where do they come in though? when we're talking about iran and crippling the economy there and doing whatever we can, we often just talk about israel. but what should we expect from some of our other key allies in the region? >> well, what the saudis have said is that if iran's oil doesn't get to market, if it goes off the international market because of sanctions or a

banking blockade, they would step up and make good for that difference so world oil prices wouldn't have to spike. you know, i think the way you should look at iran is iran, its nuclear weapons department is like making a cake. you need ingredients, you need the pan, and you need the recipe. and iran's getting all these things. doesn't have them yet, but it's getting them, and iran's going to make a decision at some point whether to make the cake or not. and when the administration says, well, they haven't made a decision yet to develop nuclear weapons, no, maybe they haven't, but they sure are getting all the ingredients and the pan and the recipe they need to do it. jenna: and, apparently, it looks like the u.n. nuclear agency says they are moving rapidly in that direction. kt, we'll continue to watch the breaking news at this part of the world. thank you so much for your insights as always. >> thanks very much, jenna. ♪ jon: well, right now republican

presidential candidate mitt romney is speaking to the detroit economic club. he is turning his campaign message back to the economy, laying out his plans to try to restore america's prosperity and put people back to work. steve brown is keeping an eye on that live from detroit. steve? >> reporter: hey there, jon. yeah, the governor's not speaking quite yet, but he will be soon. the state of michigan has been a real tight race, and let's take a look seeing as we're at ford field, home of the lions at the scoreboard, the real clear politics average of polling here, you can see it's really tight. romney has nosed out in front for the first time since valentine's day largely on the strength of a couple of polls this morning giving him margins of 3 and 4%, but again, it's a toss-up kind of race. for mitt romney today, he's expected to release more detail on his economic plan. earlier in the week he was talking about tax cuts. now a lot of folks here at the detroit economic club are really interested to hear specifically

what it is he's going to do in terms of budget cuts, specific budget cuts in order to be able to offset the potential deficit-creating tax cuts. so those folks will be listening for those quite a bit. um, rick santorum's camp will be back in michigan a little bit later tonight, he will be rolling out his economic plan for the first 100 days of his administration. this will be later on tonight. but in the meantime, he's rolled out a web ad which is really interesting. it's a web ad which features a lot of folks that look an awful lot like united autoworker types. unionized auto workers, generally speaking, do have democratic political leanings. however, in michigan this is the home of what was then announced to be the reagan democrat. the union workers that were socially conservative who voted for ronald reagan back in the '80s. it is appearing -- it does appear this is an appeal to try to get those folks to understand that while mitt romney was not in fair of the auto bailout, rick santorum is very much in

favor of supporting manufacturing here in this state, and that's also a message that we expect to hear from the senator when he returns a little wit later today -- bit later today. back to you in new york. jon: live in detroit where the michigan primary just a few days away, and it is going to play a huge role in shaping this race. keep it right here on fox news for essential and coverage of -- special coverage of the arizona and michigan primaries starting tuesday, 6 p.m. eastern time. jenna: well, it is, i should say, not was, but it is a surprising ruling in the trial of a man accused of murdering his new bride on their honeymoon. coming up, our legal panel weighs in. we've been talking about him as the honeymoon killer, jon. not anymore. jon: judge says, not enough evidence. and a 9-year-old boy in an orange jump suit facing a judge in court? we'll tell you what he did that could land him behind bars. jenna: plus, a brand new sneaker sparking a near riot at a mall. we'll tell you where, and we'll tell you why next. [ sniffs ] i have a cold. [ sniffs ] i took dayquil

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jon: presidential candidate mitt romney scheduled to speak any minute now in detroit. he's proving himself to be very adept at an old campaign tactic, playing gotcha politics at key moments to try to cut down his opponents. here he is during the debate earlier this week. >> senate, i just saw a youtube clip where you said you personally opposed contraceptives but you said that you voted for title x. actually, newt, we got the idea of an individual mandate from you. jon: let's talk about it with fred, the the managing editor of cq weekly magazine. fred, he had the reputation, maybe still has the reputation, mitt romney does, of being a flip-flopper. what he did pretty nimbly in that debate is attach that same label to people like rick santorum. >> that's exactly what he's doing, and he's doing it very

skillfully, and he's striking at santorum's only claim to fame which is that he's a politician of principle as opposed to, say, romney who flips and flops. and when you strip away the principle, there isn't all that much left to santorum. this is the problem of a politician who runs as a virgin. there's too many people who knew him before he was a virgin, and they come out of the woodwork. all you have to do is a google search which is all the romney campaign really had to do and to find all kinds of examples of him voting not on principle, but on pragmatic grounds which would be fine except for the fact that he's running as a principled politician who doesn't compromise. jon: it seems easy to do, but maybe in the heat of the debate moment it isn't necessarily to pull off. >> you mean for romney -- jon: right, exactly. >> no, it's tricky to pull off, but i think romney is really getting good advice before these

debates. he has rehearsed these things carefully, his delivery has improved, his eye contact has improved. he himself is delivering these sort of punches with conviction. but he's got to come out of this mode now because he's not going to get anywhere unless he presents a program of his own and starts developing his own identity which is what he's doing today in detroit as i understand it. so you can only last so long cutting down your opponent, then you have to build yourself up. jon right. because so many republicans seem to have concerns about mitt rom think, and so much of the vote seems to be geared toward finding anybody who is not mitt romney. if he can successfully paint the other contenders as having some of the same issues that voters ascribe to him, that benefits -- >> yeah. it's kind of funny, isn't it? well, you're just as bad as i am, santorum. [laughter] that's kind of an odd way to run, isn't it? you know, you kind of set a low

standard, and then everybody falls below it. but, you know, this happens all the time. he has to do that. he has to differentiate himself from, in this case, i guess, it's the opposite. he's equalizing, no, you're no better than i am, santorum. but santorum, see, the difference is santorum doesn't have anything else. he didn't run anything. he was a senator of modest accomplishment, a decent man. so once you take away the i am the man of principle, i am the conviction politician here, what's left of him? and the romney people know that, and santorum is starting to plummet in the polls, though i've got to tell you my own personal view, it was that satan speech that did it. i don't really -- i'm not sure it was a debate. i don't think people want a president who goes around talking about satan, to be perfectly honest with you. jon: all right. fred barbash from cq roll call. fred, thanks for joining us. >> nice to see you again. jon: thank you. jenna: new developments in the case of a missing executive from

south carolina. tom was last seen about a week ago saturday. he was at his office, and he's been a restaurant lobbyist for two decades. harris faulkner's watching this story. a lot of questions about this, harris. >> reporter: yeah. interestingly enough, jenna, there apparently was according to one of the local papers there in south carolina an ongoing look at the finances at the south carolina restaurant industry, the association where he worked. he was last seen at his offices on saturday. they found his car a short distance away, and neither of them according to police in columbia, south carolina, seem to give clue toss the where are thes of the 61-year-old. now the feds saying they want local law enforcement to cooperate with their ongoing investigation into finances with that restaurant association. now with them saying that, there are lots of questions about whether or not missing money may have played a role. and we're not just talking about a little bit of change here, jenna. they're saying anywhere from 100,000 to $t-- $900,000 missing

from accounts. they're looking at the account directer, rachel duncan, because they're saying she's a person of interest and not been charged with any crime. but they're looking at her possibly in conjunction with the missing money. still don't know about the where are whereabouts of respond seller, and they had a huge prayer vigil for him in columbia. wait to give out the tip line. police there are saying they do suspect foul play because they have no reason not to, so that's how they are developing their case at this point. 803-545-3500, the columbia, south carolina, police department if you think you can help in this case. back to you. jenna: harris, we'll continue to watch it. thank you. >> reporter: sure. jon: well, it's a ruling that shocked many court observers in the case of the new bride who drowned while scuba diving with her new husband on their honeymoon. our legal panel weighs in next on what this judge decided and why the case never went to a

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jon: well, the man accused of drowning his wife during their honeymoon is now free. an alabama judge acquitted gabe watson before the case even reached the jury, ruling that prosecutors did not have enough evidence to prove that he murdered tina watson while they were diving on their honeymoon in australia. let's talk about it now with criminal defense attorney fred tice and former prosecutor faith

jenkins. i was actually stunned that the judge didn't even let this thing get to the jury, but then i wasn't sitting in the courtroom. faith, why did he make that decision? >> well, jon, basically the judge said that with all the evidence the prosecution presented in this case, it still was not enough to establish, that gabe watson committed any of the crimes he was charged with. you know, when a defense, they don't have to put on a case. they don't have to put on a shred of evidence. the burden rests solely with the prosecution to put forth evidence to establish proof beyond a reasonable doubt. the judge said they didn't even come close. specifically, he said they did not prove intent in this case. jon: fred, is that the right decision in your view? >> you know what, jon, look, when a young woman drowns as a certified diver, that raises a lot of questions, so you're over here saying why did a young woman drown? but that's a big leap from there over to this guy killed his wife, and the prosecution has to fill that gap with evidence, and

the amount of evidence they had was 0.0. the only eyewitness testified that the guy tried to help his wife, there was no evidence of financial motive. in fact, the evidence was that the father was the beneficiary of the life insurance policy. you know, the dive computers were unreliable, the evidence that the judge kept out, i thought, was appropriate. and, you know, when i first looked at this case, i thought i can't believe this guy goes free, but when you actually look at the hard facts that show that he killed her, they weren't there. >> well, there was a critical piece of testimonial evidence that wasn't allowed to come in, and that was the testimony by tina watson's father that gabe watson had approached her about changing the life insurance policy -- jon: right. >> that evidence was not allowed because the judge said it was irrelevant hearsay. i was surprised by that because the prosecution had argued it's not irrelevant, it actually goes to his state of mind, the fact that he had murder on his mind before he went on this honeymoon. [inaudible conversations] jon: gabe watson's supporters

said, yeah, the father was the beneficiary of the life insurance policy, apparently, the father was prepared to testify that gabe watson had approached him about changing the policy such that he and/or tina would become beneficiaries. >> apparently -- >> right, and the defense had an insurance agent to testify that they both turned down a life insurance policy. so the judge found insufficient evidence to go to the jury on intent. okay. and even if that was true, again, where's the evidence that he actually killed her? there was none. >> well, that evidence went to motive. you know, you don't have to have a mote i in many criminal cases, but in this case i think it was crucial, and that's why that piece of evidence was really hurtful to the prosecution in this case. jon: let's talk, also, about the tyler clementi trial, his roommate, tyler clementi is the young man who jumped off a bridge in new york city after it was, after he learned that his

roommate had used a web cam to spy on an encounter he was having in their dorm room with another man. does the state, fred, have a case? there's ravi, the roommate, who is charged in this case. does the state have enough evidence to prosecute him? >> you know what, jon? this is a tough case. such a tragic case that a young man feels so despondent and feels he's got no other choice but to throw himself off the george washington bridge. but you've got to look at it a little bit more in a morester lille manner, and the -- more sterile manner, and they have to prove it was a hate crime. from what i understand of the evidence, it's not clear that ravi had actually disseminated this far and wide, and there actually is an e-mail saying, look, i understand that you have an alternate lifestyle, i think if you want to change rooms, that's fine with me, i don't want to wreck your freshman year. you have to prove it was a hate crime. it's a terrible situation and

tragedy, but aisle not sure it's a -- i'm not sure it's a hate crime. jon: your thoughts, faith? >> well, the prosecutor is arguing that ravi's actions were motivated by his anti-gay bias against tyler clementi, and that's why he secretly put this web cam in tyler clementi's room to tape his private sexual activity and expose that to the world for the simple fact that he was gay. and they have twitter messages from this defendant speaking about this, conversations that he had with his friends where he expressed before this incident ever happened that he did not want to have a xay roommate, and -- gay roommate, and he didn't like that. jon: well, another case where the state is going to have to prove without a lot of evidence. >> it will be tough. >> theory and reality. jon: faith and fred, thank you both. >> thank you. -and-a-half a new editorial in "the wall street journal" that we wanted to share with you. the author says the president is constructing a sin city economy,

a virtual economy inviting us all to pretend we're living in it. what does he mean by this 124 he's going to join us live if we're actually here in real life and not in virtual reality. and a brand new sneaker goes on sale, and this happens. why? we'll tell you next.

jenne: what do you do when you don't like some of the key

cornerstones of the economy. millions unemployed a low growth rate, anemic housing market. you reboot. our next guest says welcome to the sin city economy. we have the editorialed tore of the "wall street journal." nice to have you back with us, daniel. how did you come up with the sin city economy. >> i came up witness watching the state of the union when the president started discussing something he called an economy built to last. what he's talking about was not what you suggested the fact that we've had 13 million unemployed people for three years and a growth rate hovering around 2%. it occurred to me the president was changing the subject and talking about an economy that doesn't exist, one out in the future like a science fiction story, there was a wonderful

game that allowed people to create their own city and create their own reality. in the state of the union he suggested that we would cap tuition rates for colleges. the colleges and universities have no idea what he's talking about. how are you going to cap tuition rates for colleges and universities? he gave a speech in which he said he had revived the autoeconomy in detroit, the auto companies, general motors, and he said we can do the same thing for cleveland and pittsburgh. you had to ask yourself, cleveland and pittsburgh? what is he talking about? to the extent they've rearrived has been a result of the activity in the real economy, the shale gas hydraulic cracking industry which has a french company building a new steel plant, a $650 million plant, there are 400 workers down there, western pennsylvania is booming, this is entirely based on private sector entrepreneurs taking advantage of this new technology, not the sorts of

ideas that a president is proposing in an economy built to last. jenne: the question becomes, who has a handle on the reality? we've spent a couple of years talking about what is normal, what should we be expecting for the real american economy and who really defines that. who has a handle on what is really happening in the economy right now? >> the problem is we do know what is going on in the economy, not all that much. i mean some of the data has bliped up recently. normally coming out of a recession you would expect higher growth rates than we have now. we're talking perhaps by consensus a growth rate this year of about 2.5%, that is not going to get the unemployment rate much down below 8%. we need much stronger growth than we have right now. and the question is, what can government do to inch seven t insentavise people to work harder? the president talking with the

economy to last, he talks about the buffet rule. no one believes it's going to come into existence. he talked about reducing the corporate rate to 28% at the same time he's proposing raising rates and other companies. most of the coverage of that proposal said there are very, very few specifics. jenna: if you look at the candidates this is according to u.s. budget watch, a bipartisan committee to look at the four major republican candidates for president, they found under the plans and faction policies that the national debt would balloon under thos that except for the plan that ron paul put forward. does anybody have a handle on what plan we should put in place to make sure we grow the economy but not the debt too much? >> the tail is always washingtoninwaggin, the dog.

whenever we talk about taxes like mitt romney is talking about today we can't cut tax rates if it does damage to the budget or the debt. somehow the issue that always gets left behind in those conversations is what affect might these proposals have on economic growth? i don't think economic growth should always remain a hostage to washington's need to spend money. and to the extent that mr. romney and santorum are lowering rates, significantly lowering the corporate rate they are freeing up capital to be deployed towards its best uses. and i think they at least have the right subject on the table. jenna: we'll continue to watch it daniel. we appreciate your editorials. thanks for coming in and talking to us more about it. we appreciate it. thank you. jon: right now some new details on riot police breaking up a crowd of out of control shoppers, all of this turmoil over nike's release of a new basketball shoe, ahead of the nba all-star game. jaime colby has the latest from

our new york city newsroom. >> reporter: i love shopping as much as the next person especially when it comes to shoes, but can you imagine that it took more than a hundred officers to get the scene under control at a florida mall in orlando, many of them in riot gear. check out the melee after customers who had waited hours hoping they would not be the ones left empty handed were told the shoes were not going to be sold. they had to do that, they had to shut sales. in a store in maryland there is a report of at least one arrest, even after additional security had been brought in as a preventative measure. folks online for days in satin island, new york, either buying for added performance. the shoe was die signed with a space program technology in mind, or maybe, just maybe they were looking to boost their personal bottom line. >> the reason i'm here today, because they are limited sneakers, and if i was to wait a week i can never get them. it's either wait online, or you lose. >> right now the sneaker retail, if we were getting them right

now it's $240. and in a matter of hours we can sell them for $2,000. >> that is the average. >> for the similar people fact that it's a galaxy pack, a foam that never, ever, ever, ever been released. >> reporter: ever, ever. the limited edition sneaker, i'll show you a sneak peak of it. it glows in the dark. the release of the nike connection time to coincide with the nba all-star weekend in orlando. nike not responding to our repeated requests to learn exactly how limited is this edition? we'd love to know. it isn't the first time in recent memory that a shoe sale has called commotion, jon. recall the chaos stretching across the nation when nike released its air jordan 11 concord in december. online retail pricing as you heard that gentleman mention for this new shoe already reach into the thousands of dollars.

at least in new york city i'm happy to report people are lining up in the rain and the cold, they don't care, they are trying to score their pair and so far it is without incident. but i'm staying on this one all day. jon: hard for me to get that excited about a pair of sneake sneakers. >> reporter: they look pretty comfy. maybe it's worth the price, 240 if you go right now. jenna: leave it to the experts. jaime and i will take the shoe shopping. we've got this. jon: sounds good. jenna: it's interesting to have that story since would he had the last story about the economy, unemployment, and all the things we talked about, and you see the shoe sales and the lines and the shoes aren't cheap. jon: froe market. jenna: an amazing life and death of a foreign correspondent. a member of our own family. jon will take a look with his news watch panel next. drinking a smoothie with no vegetable nutrition? ♪ [ gong ] strawberry banana! [ male announcer ] for a smoothie with real fruit plus veggie nutrition

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>> we were crossing this field dark of night, think just opened fire with the army opened fire

with automatic weapons right across the field, and flares go up. and that is just terrifying, because, you know, you can see the bullets, they are about waist high. i hit the ground, i said okay best thing to do is to yell. so i waited until they were about 50 yards away and i thought i'd have a better chance if i made myself known before they got close enough. and i was uninjured until i yelled, journalist, journalist, at which point they launched, a shoulder fired grenade, which hit about four feet from me. jon: that is the late journalist marie colvin in 2004 telling the story of how she lost her left eye while covering war. a foreign correspondent for the sunday times of london shy was killed by a mortar earlier this week covering the conflict in syria.

let's talk a little bit about her life and legacy with kirsten powers a khropl u a columnist with the daily beast. and judy. she worked for the sunday times which is owned by news corporation, our greater corporate parent, but you were a friend of hers, a roommate of hers at times in some of these dangerous places. >> yes. she was an amazingly adventure some, absolutely eery presentsable correspondent, who any time she heard, you can't go to this place, that was like waving a red flag in front of marie. she decided she would definitely go there. there was no place that was too dangerous for her if there was a story to be told about pain and suffering and oppression she was going to be there. jon: along those lines, let me play you another clip of hers.

this is her telling a story of how she decided to wait behind in east timor. there had been a u.n. compound that the u.n. decided had to be abandoned because it was too dangerous. think sent in truck and buses to pull all the journalists out. a bunch of innocents were going to be left behind. shy was afraid they would be slaughtered. she waited until all the trucks and evacuation buses were gone before telling her assignment desk that she was staying. here is how she tells that story. >> i said, well, i've made a decision to stay, and, well, what does m that mean? what is the times doing? i said well all the newspapers have evacuated. he said what about all the televisions i said, yes, all the televisions have evacuated. he said what about the wire services? and i said, well they've evacuated too. and he said, well who is there?

i said, well me and, these two women, irene and minka. he said where have all the men gone? i said they don't make men like they used to. jon: it's a great story, kirsten, you have to admire that kind of courage. >> oh, yeah, absolutely. i mean there is so many stories. didn't it know her, but just in reading about her and the incredible courage and how she ultimately died, it was such a courageous situation, you know, in syria where they were basically targeting journalists because they had banned them from the country, and it's impossible to know what is going on in these countries, of course, when these huge human rights abuses are going on. and it's only because of people like her who risk her lives and lose their lives that we do know about things that are going on. jon: you, judy had a poep story

about an email about her questions about going into syria. would you mind describing that for us? >> it was the last communication i had with her. she had said in an email, should i go back to like yeah, wher libya, where she had taken unbelievable risks, or should i wait for the visa that the syrian ambassador is promising me? and i wrote back to her saying, wait for the syrian visa, it's a better story, and i thought to myself, but didn't say, and if you're there legally, you know, officially with the government you'll be safer. it won't have made any difference. wherever the story was marie was going to be there. and i point out, jon that she was one of 19 journalists according to the committee to protect journalists who died last year in the middle east out of 86 journalists worldwide. ours has become a very dangerous profession. jon: the syrian government

apparently lobed those shells. at the same time they injured sunday times free-lance journalist paul con roeufplt he was hurconroy. he was injured in that same attack that killed her. he made an impassioned plea on youtube. >> today is the 2 23rd of february, 2012. i was wounded in a rocket attack yesterday. my colleague marie colvin was also killed in the same attack. i'm currently being looked out by the army medical staff who are treating me with the best medical treatment available, and it's important that i am here as a guest and not captured. obviously any assistance that can be given by government agencies would be welcome, and we'll work on the same premise on the ground. jon: wow. kirsten. >> yeah i mean it's incredibly

powerful. these type of journalists who have put themselves in these places, but also with a perspective that there is good an evil, and there is an evil side and they don't go in pretending that, you know, what syria is doing is okay. they are there to actually expose.

jon: paying tribute to marie colvin i was cut off by the commercial before i could say goodbye to kristen powers and judy millers. thank you both. for more on the dangers of covering conflict june in on saturday at 2:3 a special edition of war stories with oliver north, deadlines on the battlefield. it's a special tribute to marie colvin and war correspondents around the globe. that will run saturday at 2pm

eastern time and sunday. the entire interview with marie colvin uncut is available to you on foxnews.com. click on any part of it on the home page. and we'll be right back.  [ female announcer ] want to spend less and retire with more?

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jenna: it's easy to forget but it's hollywood's biggest night. the 84th academy awards. we have an oscar expert, a lot of coverage for us at foxnews.com and otherwise. you have predictions, you have them every year. normally a very good track record. >> i think so, yes. jenna: we'll be the judge of that. jon: that's right. >> there have been 84 performances which have won the best actress overt years. i've seen them all. i can say that meryl streep in the iron lady tops them all. an astonishing performance. 17th nomination. she has won twice, the last time

was 29 years ago for some of fee's choice. this has all the classic oscar trappings if you will. she is a real person, ages on screen. uses and accent. she is a slam-dunk. more of my other pundits are picking viola davis for the help. i will guarantee merrill stream. i'll come in wearing one of lady thatcher's hat if she doesn't win. does george clooney win best actor for the descendents? probably not. two things working against him. one is the role i cannot see that being that much of a stretch for him. it's well within his range as an actor. he faces the envy factor. jenna: jon has to deal with that at all. >> he has fame, fortune, beautiful women. dujardin, the artist best