you saw the american people and how emotional they are. one thing is for sure, they are listening and watching and hold their officials accountable as we go through 2012. i hope you enjoyed the special. thank you all very much. >> gregg: i'm gregg jarrett. welcome to a brand-new hour. >> heather: i'm heather childers. topping the news this hour, devastation on a massive scale. we'll go live to areas hard hit by tornadoes with stories of survival and strength are emerging. >> gregg: snow and rain is moving into the same region adding to the misery there. we'll get the latest weather report. >> heather: vladimir putin claims victory. there are out cries negotiate of

a voter fraud and manipulation. we'll go live to moscow. >> gregg: g.o.p. candidates are gearing up for super tuesday, ten different states, more than 400 delegates are up for grabs. one of those states is ohio where mitt romney and rick santorum appear to be heading toward a photo finish. carl, santorum did have the lead. romney seems to be gaining. how is it looking? >> reporter: in the polls at least with less than 48 hours, this is statistical tie in two polls and a real tie in a third. santorum has seen his lead evaporate with romney winning five states in a row. he has the momentum after washington state last night. still santorum has passion behind him. his voters are very enthusiastic when it comes to conservatives and tea party members have a big

advantage over romney. he is not giving an inch. santorum believes he is going come out with delegates and someone's super tuesday. >> we are a survivor. we are doing as well as anybody in all these races, first or second in most of the states out there. i think that is going to go well for us. he is making a reference to newt gingrich, santorum and gingrich tried to dodge questions today about whether or not they think the other conservative alternative to romney should drop out. gingrich said that is santorum's decision. santorum says it's gingrich's decision. translation, i wish the other guy would bail out. >> gregg: well put. romney won washington state and scored some washington d.c. endorsements as well today. is he looking for a put away punch here? >> reporter: washington, d.c.

endorsements or big conservatives from states that vote on super tuesday. tom coburn, oklahoma senator who is very conservative, respected for oklahoma and d.c. then you have eric cantor, very conservative virginia congressman where romney is going to win big. she definitely looking to capitalize on all of this and watch conservatives coalesce around him. romney is not paying attention to santorum. he took a break from ohio to go to georgia. in a sense tweaked newt gingrich for him to keep gas prices under 2.50 a gallon. >> i'm not going pander and here is what your gasoline price is going to be, if we develop energy here in the united states we'll help hold the prices down. >> reporter: so romney just a little bit music for santorum and gingrich both last night and

today. romney is in a dead heat in ohio. this is most important state on super tuesday. gingrich will win the biggest state. georgia has 76 and among the ten it will come down to the delegate count, romney has a bit of advantage. there are already beginning to be rumblings whether santorum or gingrich should yield the field to the other to let conservatives could a less around an alternative, did coalesce around an alternative. >> gregg: carl cameron, live in cincinnati. thanks very much. fox news is your number one source. tune in super tuesday with special prime time coverage with bret baier kel and megyn kelly at 8:00 p.m. on fox news. incredible stories of survival following a devastating string of tornadoes. twisters wiping out entire towns across the south and midwest.

tearing homes and businesses into shreds. more than 30 people killed in some of the worst hit areas they are searching for more survivors and beginning the painful task of cleaning up. mike tobin is live from east burnstat kentucky. >> this is an rv company. the damage to this rv is pretty obvious. the business restores and salvages a lot of these rvs and tour buses. that fire truck was not in bad a shape. the tornado was ranked ef-3. there is an example of 150 mile-an-hour winds, picked it right up. this is terry blank enship. how do you start to pick up the pieces? >> we know it's going tough.

we're going to start with a piece of the time and we're going to get it going. >> reporter: i've seen a lot of people in the community pitching in? >> i have some of the best friends and best community. everyone has been working. they have done an excellent job. it's unbelievable. >> reporter: insurance, does anyone have insurance as extensive enough? >> we're going to work through that. we're going to work through that. >> where were you when the tornado hit? >> in my home in the basement. >> i saw the house took damage? >> there was 12 of us there. not a scratch on anyone. we are perfect. from there it's easy to pick up and we're going to come right back and plan on having our business operating this week. >> reporter: snow is coming in tonight. do you have a place to stay? >> we do. we have house behind the house.

it's perfect. we moved in there last night. sure did. it's great. >> reporter: there you have another story of survival but the story of community pitching in to help someone keep his head above water despite all of this destruction. >> heather: these stories put things in perspective. thank you so much, mike. more snow on the way. >> gregg: if things were not bad enough already, snow and rain now complicating the cleanup effort and adding to the misery of the tornado ravaged areas of the south and midwest. maria molina is following it all. >> that is right. unfortunately we are looking more lane showers and snow showers over areas that were hit hard by the tornadoes. you saw the images the destruction and devastation along some of those areas and pile up about one to three inches of snow for parts of

indiana, eastern kentucky. that is not good news. another part of the problem is the chilly temperatures. that temperatures are hovering around freezing southern indiana into eastern kentucky and some of the higher elevations of west virginia. we already have some of those rain snow hours in parts of ohio and virginia and eastern kentucky. but because the atmosphere is relatively dry, cold front aside from the tornadoes that dry air will be evaporating some of that moisture before it hits the ground. you get snow showers but not seeing a lot of activity on the ground. as we get our next impulse further off to the west, snow coming in minnesota as an iowa. this will dip into parts of indiana and kentucky and into tomorrow morning. as you see 3:00 a.m. monday, we'll have steady snowfall in

parts of kentucky. that said, further off to the south, for the state of tennessee also alabama we're not expecting widespread precipitation or any accumulating snowfall so quiet conditions for them. otherwise this storm system will race off to the east. by monday evening we're looking at more tranquil conditions in kentucky, indiana and dry conditions for alabama and tennessee. so that should help basically the cleanup efforts. winter weather advisories are across this region and temperatures over the next few days will be on the rise. that should help out before the next storm that could be arriving late in the week. >> gregg: what caught my attention, 86 degrees in my hometown los angeles. it's march 4, 86 degrees in l.a.? >> the weather pattern is pretty funky. it's in weird places, no snow for us.

>> gregg: that is great assessment. i like it. >> heather: that was a technical term. >> we heard into maria, while the destruction of the tornado outbreak is horrific. the worst, apparently it may not be over according to the national weather service. the months of april and may tend to see a lot of tornado activity. in 2010 there were a total of 33 tornadoes in march with one death. after that. there is a deadly uptick, a total of 758 tornadoes struck in april killing 360 people. in may of 2010, 326 tornadoes struck killing 2304 people. the total for 2011 remains preliminary until national weather comes out later this month. >> gregg: vladimir putin claiming victory. he stood against four other candidates in his quest for a

third term as president. some opposition leaders crying foul. alleging widespread violations in the election process. amy? >> reporter: hi, gregg. all of the votes have not been counted but at this point it's looking like vladimir putin got 62% of the vote. of course, it's no surprise that he won this election, but what we don't know is what is going to come next how russians are going react to this victory and whether or not putin will change seeing there has been large protests around the country calling for an end for a quite long rule. it's not clear whether or not that is what led to the turmoil and uncharacteristic show of emotion that we had tonight when prime minister soon to be president again, vladimir putin shed a tear after he was introduced by the outgoing president dmitry medvedev.

just outside of red square. there was election observers because there were violations that occurred in a big way in the parliamentary elections. under pressure to make this whole ross on make it more transparent the government installed web cams in all of the polling stations in this country. this is new gimmick and led to fascination of people not only in russia and around the world. you could watch the people casting their votes and count them after the fact. people looking for family and friends and also looking for violations. in terms of violations, the biggest independent electoral observer organization has reported upwards of 3,000 violations across the country. they say it was not as bad this time as it was during the parliamentary elections but methods of classifying votes has become more sophisticated.

there has been a lot of talk from moving polling station to polling station in buses saying they left their factory together because they have to go right back to work, but in fact some of the these observers they disperse afterwards. that is why they are not voting in their home neighborhoods. i think we need to see as the dust settles how fair this election is perceived to have been. the candidates lost says it wasn't fair at all. i think we need to see how the story plays out in the next 24 hours. putin has said it was a clean election, very fair election and made his victory speech already in front of crowds. tomorrow, we're expecting a big protest by this movement we've seen out in force over the last few months. a lot of people are concerned that has the potential, the potential to get a bit violent. >> gregg: amy kellogg, thanks.

>> heather: new warnings from president obama to iran. the runs not hesitate in using military force to stop the defiant nation from building nuclear weapons. mr. obama delivering those remarks in washington. the president's speech coming one day before his meeting with israel's prime minister. steve centanni has more on this. >> reporter: the president said today he will not hesitate to use force if he has to to prevent iran from getting a nuclear weapon, but he said, now is not the time for bluster. >> already there is too much loose talk of war. it has only benefited the iran government by driving up the price of oil which they depend on to fund their nuclear program. >> reporter: now the president says he wants to allow time to let the new sanctions have their

desired effect, but he says military force is still an option because he doesn't have any policy of containment, that is allowing iran to develop nuclear weapons then trying to contain the new power. israel is growing impatient and threatening to launch air strikes against iran's enrichment facilities and there was a strong statement from israel's president today. >> iran is the evil morally regime. it is based on destruction. it is a front to human dignity. >> reporter: meantime, many republicans urge president obama to get tough with iran. they question his support of israel. let's listen. >> i think the fear is that we're going to allow iran to reach the level of capability. then it will be too late in terms of stopping it from having a nuclear bomb. this is the central question.

i'm looking to the president to show some leadership on this and provide some certainty. >> reporter: stage is set for tomorrow's meeting with president obama and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. >> heather: steve live from the white house, thank you. >> a humanitarian effort now underway in the syrian town of homs reportedly diffused by artillery. red cross teams trying to hand out food and blankets to families left homeless. government forces are steobd blocking the aid in some of the neighborhoods. at the same time nearby lebanon is the scene of common demonstrations against assad. >> reporter: two demonstrations in lebanese capital.

face off in the middle east capital. >> in the square, historic landmark demonstrators tussled with security forces. few yards away railing against the government. >> here you have a group who are against the assad regime rallying around market square. behind the razor wire is neutral zone. at the top, you have pro demonstrators a lot of syrians. it's a classic example how it could spread around the region. that is the greatest concern. >> that entirely feasible giving the news out of the iran. they are increasing support for the syrian regime. they have seen a spike in number of arms and equipment as well as other materials to support the government forces as it continues to oppress and strike

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... >> gregg: credit unions booming as our nation's banks try to get customers to pay new fees. bank of america this past week, announcing it's considering requiring many of its basic checking account users to pay a monthly fee unless they agree to sign up for other services. meanwhile, more than a million americans shifted their funds to credit unions last year. joining us now senior correspondent business correspondent, brenda butner. our bank tried to throw in this new fee. we have a saving account. my wife went down to both banks. you do not want to trifle with them. and they backed off. but it's symptomatic everywhere

in america? >> banks, their revenue has been cut in large part because of regulations, they are going to try to find revenue from other places. revenue comes from customers and that is you. >> gregg: let's talk about credit unions. there was a seminal moment bank of america, five dollar debit fee and then all of a sudden who kind of hated the big banks, got together and on bank transfer day. >> a was a p.r. nightmaring. >> they took their funds and went to credit unions? >> credit unions are nonprofits. they are owned by their members. so it's in their best interests to give their members who own the credit unions the best deal they can. you can get better deals on mortgages, loans on just about everything. the fees are lower, but the bells and whistles are not there. you can't get online banking.

sometimes you can't get atm services. atm card. so and smaller ones. that is what you lose out on. in terms of just the basic, if you want a no fees. if you want to get good loans at a good rate. they are the way to go. >> gregg: do you have to member of union to use a credit union or not? >> not necessarily. a lot of employers offer them. >> gregg: so the name credit union is a migs nomer? >> it's a group of people that get together and they have some bond but they just offer, it's a nonprofit cooperative. >> gregg: what do you recommend to our viewers? >> to take a look at them. find out if your employer offers one, it doesn't have to be a union, a union shop. perhaps it could be your place

where you live can offer one. take a look at them. let your bank know you are taking a look at them. sometimes you can get out of those fees. i've gone to the bank, just like your wife, i'm not paying this. i'm going over to wefg. wells fargo. >> gregg: you go go angry and threaten them and they will back down. she is tough bird. i tell you. brenda butner, thank you very much. >> heather: pennsylvania judge taking extra precautions after getting threats. judge mark martin thrown out harassment charge for a muslim man that confronted a man that dressed as prophet muhammad on halloween. molly is live in new york city newsroom. >> reporter: this district judge mark martin he received threats after ruling to throw out the

harassment charge against a muslim man accosted an atheist. he walked down with a sign he was zombie version of the god mohammad. he was attacked by a bystander. they recorded the incident and they tried to grab the sign and made physical contact by pulling on a rope. in court, he admitted he was offended by the costume but he denied he touched him and judge decided there wasn't enough evidence to convict him on harassment charge. controversy comes from what the judge said. he made a recording in court and posted an edited verdict. he scolded pierce, saying he was outside of his bounds regarding the first amendment, it's unfortunate that some use the first amendment to provoke others which he believes is not what the forefathers intended and history lesson. it seems to say.

in reality the judge is lutheran. they believe the judge based his ruling on basis. >> personally think his agenda to create or allow islamic religion and islamic favor into our courts. that is what he said himself. >> reporter: posted online caused a flurry of controversy. some cited that the judge cited sharia law. but serving as soldier in middle east he was trying to make an peacemaker. >> he wasn't outside the bounds of his first amendment rights. he had the right to say what he did and do what he did. i would say he was outside the bounds of decency. i think what he did was hateful

bigoted speech. >> reporter: fox news analyst reviewed the entire recording believe he used life experiences and the judge has spent time serving our country in iraq and afghanistan to try to impart some wisdom. we report and you decide the zbleelth. >> heather: thank you very much. >> gregg: super tuesday is now just a couple days away. one crucial state up for grabs is ohio. brand-new poll numbers to show you. this race is neck and neck. we'll have the buckeye state is so crucial on tuesday. >> heather: plus more on this, homes ripped to shreds, survivors picking up pieces from the tornadoes. d i were going on vacation, so i us my citi thank you card to pick up some accessories. a new belt. some nylons. and what girl wouldn't need new shoes? we talked about getting a diamond. but with all the thank you points i've been earning...

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thousands remain without power in tennessee following that wave of tornadoes that happened.

storm flattening entire communities, leaving destroyed homes, downed power lines and streets littered with debris. jonathan serie is live in tennessee with more. >> reporter: hi, heather. this was one of hardest hit. look behind me of all the damage this was one of 50 homes that were damaged or destroyed. 25 injuries in this neighborhood alone. red cross and smaller charities are helping residents get back on their feet. >> obviously, it's going to take in some instances, days and weeks into the years to be able to overcome the devastation of the storm. >> reporter: take a look at these foothills. residents say before the tornado arrived, these were lush green with pine trees. now it looks like there was clear cutting.

national weather service and they saw the destruction, meteorologists believe it was a powerful ef-3 tornado packing winds as strong as 165 miles an hour. >> heather: live on the ground for us in hard hit tennessee. >> gregg: cliff-hanger race in the battleground state of ohio, santorum and romney in a dead heat. showing santorum with 34% of the vote. romney 31%. rasmussen shows santorum ahead, 33%, romney right behind, 31% but he was trailing santorum by 18 points two weeks ago. chairman of the civic forum pack pa governor and rural out reach for his campaign.

great to see both of you. ford, let me start with you. there is another poll in ohio by arg. it gives romney a clear lead. look, if he pulls out a victory in ohio having been behind 20 points, what does it mean for the race for the nomination, conversely if santorum loses do his chances dim? >> super tuesday is all about ohio. if rick santorum loses ohio, his campaign is effectively finished. if mitt romney wins ohio and season i think we'll see it winding down. this is about momentum. given the fact that mitt romney is on winning streak, this is exactly what he needs. >> the associated press referred to santorum's operation, i'll quote it. a struggling ragtag campaign far outpaced by romney's organization. it's not clear santorum even has

paid staff on the ground in the upcoming states. you know what, he has a real problem in ohio. to comply with the filing requirements, meaning he is ineligible for the delegates and in virginia he gets none of 49 delegates there. does all of that raise questions of his competence? >> absolutely. when you look at it. romney is out spending him a can considerable amount. he has got no ground game or real resources coming in. he is running in a state that is not just going to be not just about social issues. ohio is going to be focused on what is happening in the economy very similar in terms of jobs and manufacturing base. he has a lot of things to go and questions to answer. >> gregg: romney snagged endorsement, from eric cantor and also tom coburn, both are

perceived as true conservatives. at a time when some of the party are worried that romney is too much of a moderate, how much does this help him among the base? >> only time is going to tell. mitt romney struggle west side two groups, conservatives and southerners. the question is how long will it take mitt romney to wrap up this nomination. his campaign really the only one built to get 1144 delegates. the question is with ohio and tennessee and the south and conservatives. question to mitt romney, can he get it and can he get the turnout in the general election. >> rick santorum is running his campaign out of back of a van. you took a shot at it. >> gregg: i did. i don't remember that conveniently. [ laughter ] >> santorum lost the catholic vote to romney perhaps because of his rather crude criticism of j.f.k. famous speech on religion.

he gets hammered, santorum does, over his remarks about contraception and women. has his comments on social issues overshadowed his economic message at a time when americans care most about jobs and the economy? >> what economic message. i don't think i've heard it. >> gregg: he has an aggressive tax plan that is well regarded by many people including the "wall street journal". >> i understand that. i don't think we've had any economic message that has gained any traction or we can credit his economic message for his rise in the last couple of races. i think that ohio is going to be a real test is going to be for romney. there is 850,000 jobs in ohio that depend on the auto industry. if i'm a voter in toledo or lawrence town, i'm going to be thinking about romney's comments on what happened with the bailout. whether or not this private

equity guy is right guy for me. >> president obama has a key eye on ohio. in 25 of the last 27 presidential elections, ohio has picked the winner. right now team obama super pac is oult out trying to tilt the race for rick santorum. >> gregg: got to go. ford, alexis, thanks. >> heather: linking his name with name ted kennedy the claim she making and why one of kennedy's sons is so upset about it. forty years ago, he wasn't looking for financial advice. back then, he had something more important to do. he wasn't focused on his future but fortunately, somebody else was. at usaa we provide retirement planning for our military,

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serving muslim communities in his state, issue is surveillance itself. people are concerned about the nypd coming in here and not sharing information with law enforcement. not about terrorists, it's about the cardinal rule we learned from 9/11. we must share information with each other. let's bring in power panel, jehmu greene, jootsz judith miller and deneen borelli and fox news contributor. speaking of sharing information. you are here to share your insight. and what chris christie is saying, if the information was not shared with them, that is one of big lessons we learned from 9/11. you have information. >> this is apparently the problem. we have a communication failure in the police chief at the time during the crisis was informed

about the survey but not only was he informed but to have his own people work with nypd to help collect and assess this information. why it is he did not share this information at the time with the then state attorney general which is what chris christie was is a separate question. but there was no obligation to do that. this was survey what the community looks like. there had been many instances of suspicious behavior, suspicious conduct at nypd was worried about. so they did what they had to do. 1993 bomb was assembled in a basement in new jersey. terrorists come from new jersey. so i don't understand chris christie's problem. i think he has problem with ray kelly, calling him a master of the universe. calling the department air

gachbt. >> a is blanket statement. terrorists coming from new jersey. >> they have. >> they had to know what the lay of the land look like. they were perfectly authorized under court guidelines to do exactly what they did. it's very clear specifically authorizes that kind of behavior. >> what i find most outrageous is the agencies were not speaking, new york police department and new jersey police department. they should have been communicating. that is one of the problems we had from september 11th because we had the f.b.i. and the c.i.a. working in silos. no one was communicating but they had intelligence. so they should be communicating. >> the issue is coordinating it clearly. >> communicating break down. i think we have to take to heart when governor christie says the

joint terrorism task force in newark wasn't aware of this. we're going to see now an investigation from the attorney general eric holder and i saw we had many actual congress people who were upset that this investigation had taken so long to actually get underway. so i think we have to take a step back and waited for the investigation from the attorney general but also hope that this isn't just like machismo between christie and ray kelly. when you go into someone's jurisdiction you inform them. >> if what judy say what happened, he is probably the one to blame. >> speaking of accountability, patrick kennedy taking exception to an ad that was run by massachusetts senator scott brown. he states like senator ted kennedy before him he supports,

quote, a conscience exception for people of faith in contraception but the ad invoking the name of his father is misleading and untrue. he calls it brown's campaign took the ad off the air after it run the full course. >> when you use a deceased person's name, you are going to expect push back. i agree with the cardinal. president obama is pushing his mandate on our country and i think it's the wrong policy to do. to be infringing on our religious liberties. >> when his son says to remove the ad, it's in such bad taste scott brown's campaign did not remove it immediately.

the kennedy family still carries a lot of water in massachusetts. this could come back to hurt him. i think we should applaud scott brown to saying they were going to keep super pac out of this race. everybody has their eyes going in on november. he has a tough time going up against many democrats nationally feel this one is biggest champion for the middle-class. >> i think what this is really about is scott brown versus elizabeth warren. they are both trying to condition themselves as the natural defender of women. in this one, elizabeth clearly has an advantage as a woman. scott brown has to be more creative. he issued another letter. he has another set of ads how he favors women in combat. he is not going to be one-upped

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some new cell phone apps allow users to hide their text messages. but the latest having unintended consequences for parents, specifically, especially those who want to keep tabs on their kids. >> sometimes, you have the risk of being permanent and public and having a strong consequence, not just for the kids, but for the parents. >> i definitely think parents should check their phones. >> we have insight on this. apparently, these apps, one of which is called free text. i am not sure the name of the other. textfree and text plus allowing text messages to be hidden, if you are trying to search through your child's phone. >> isn't parenting hard enough? now we have this technology that's making it more difficult. one thing that needs to be communicated to young kids, nothing is really deleted. so whatever you are texts and photos that are inappropriate, this stuff is not deleted just

because you hit the delete button. right a cat-and-mouse game. with technology, they are always advancing and evolving to take care of different situations all the time. here we are. >> and you have to ask the software company, what are you doing marketing this kind of technology to kids? i mean, it's bad enough that parents are really trying to keep tabs. but if you can't because kids are always going to be one step ahead technologically of their parents, it is going to be really, really tough. >> not necessarily marketing to kids specifically. you know, these apps can be used for all sorts of nefarious purposes. >> the apps are probably not for kids. there are many adult who is want to hide their text messages. i'm one of them. when phones are dead, i don't want them going through my text messages [overlapping dialogue] >> at the end of the day, i think as a parent, if you give

your child a phone, there has to be a level of trust. if you are going to trust your child with a cell phone, hopefully, they can live up to that trust. at the end of the day, we probably all have a reason not to have our text messages public. >> that's the answer. not to try to catch up after the fact, but to teach your kids to live a certain lifestyle and not do this to begin with. >> but there is a lot of problem with cyber-bullying. but this generation has gotten a little bit of a bad wrap. >> we have to wrap it up. but thank you for joining us. gregg, do you hide your text messages. >> heather: i want to know what you are hiding. all right. new details surrounding the family murder of singer jennifer hudson. remember that? chicago police releasing interviews with hudson just as the accused killer prepares to face trial. our legal panel will weigh in in the next hour.

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issuing new warnings to iran, the u.s. will go to any lengths to prevent the rogue nation from building a nuclear weapon, including military force. >> gregg: reports that unemployment among women on the rise, even as the national numbers drop. what lies in the disparity between the genders, just ahead in this hour. >> heather: the winds of change are blowing once again on the campaign trail, after a resounding win in the washington caucuses, mitt romney seeing a huge uptick in momentum, heading into super tuesday. in ohio, seen by many as the most important contest, come march 6, rick santorum had the lead. but romney has rapidly closed that gap, virtually overnight. in fact, take a look at the latest reuters poll, showing romney now tied with santorum at 32% apiece. other polling shows a similar

turnaround for romney. carl cameron is live in columbus, ohio with the latest. the latest polls were taken before romney won washington state. so that has to add to his momentum, right? >> reporter: sure. but it's a lot different now that the race has gone national. 10 races on super tuesday, than in the last month and-a-half. mitt romney won new hampshire, but it didn't help him win south carolina, newt gingrich did. which didn't help him in florida, mitt romney did. but now, as we are hop-scotching around and the candidates are all over the country, it's much more difficult, so a win like that can make a big difference. romney in super tuesday has spent as much as all of his rivals combined. when you take a look at the sum, $10 million spent, about half of that, $5 million is the super pac that supports mitt romney. so he has a huge advantage. rick santorum's painfully aware of that. he makes no bones about it.

it is because romney's got more money and larger organization, which puts santorum at a bit of a disadvantage. here's how he put it. >> senator romney gets out there and out-spends, and you know, it's going to take a toll. that's what is happening pretty much. that's why, you know, we keep working, this is a game of survivor. we are doing as well as anybody in all of these races. >> reporter: now, if santorum pulls off a win here in ohio, it would be a huge boost for him that will show the nation that he can win in large, sophisticated sophisticated and complex states. and in ohio, it's the definition of america's quintessential belle -- bellwether swing state. if romney can win, that would say that he will be very hard to stop. gregg? >> heather: well, carl, it's me. >> reporter: sorry. >> heather: that's okay.

the question lends into what you just said, can romney's victory convince conserve that i was they can trust him? >> reporter: well, he has a long way to go. every single poll and every exit poll from the primaries and caucuses that we have had have suggested that rick santorum is strongly the one supported by self-described tea partyers and conservatives and mitt romney's strength is with moderates. having said that, today, romney picked up and announced a couple of key conservative endorsems. tom coburn, a very, very well-known ardent fiscal and social conservative, in super tuesday, and said that mitt romney is the best candidate to beat barack obama and criticized the other candidates as career washington insiders who have sold out principle for the republican party. and also today, eric kantor, noted conservative from virginia -- both of these men are big-time players in washington.

coburn's a u.s. senator. kantor is a member of the house republican leadership. both are known to be feisty partisan conservatives. for them to be endorsing mitt romney is to many, a sign that those who have been most skeptical for ideological reasons and the fact that mitt romney was a moderate republican until five years ago and distrusted him, may coalesce around him, if he continues this win streak. >> heather: all right. we'll see what happens. you will be on top of it, carl cameron, thank you. fox news is your number-1 source for election news. tune in on super tuesday, march 6 for special prime time coverage, beginning at 6:00 p.m. eastern right here. >> gregg: turning oversea, vladimir putin claiming victory in russia's presidential election. the long-time leader voting earlier and then he took the time to thank thousands of his supporters in a rally outside

the kremlin in moscow, saying they have prevented plots aimed at destroying rushia. the exit polls show putin winning about 59% of the vote. his re-election bid has been met with accusations ofwide sfread fraud. tough new warnings from president obama to iran. the president saying that the united states will use military force to stop the rogue nation from building nuclear weapons. mr. obama making those remarks in a pro-israeli conference in washington this morning. the president's words coming just one day before his crucial meeting with israel's prime minister. >> reporter: yes. very stern language from the president today on iran. he restated has determination that iran should never get a nuclear weapon. and he said that all elements of american power could be used. >> leaders should understand that i do not have a policy of containment. i have a policy to prevent iran

from obtaining a nuclear weapon. as i have made clear time and again during the course of my presidency, i will not hesitate to use force when it is necessary to defend the united states and its interests. >> reporter: this as iran continues enriching uranium. the president said now is the time to let recent sanctions have their desired effect on iran. and the recent talk of war has only driven oil prices higher. israel's become increasingly impatient and is threat fling to strike at its uranium facilities. and here's the israeli president this morning. >> it is an evil, cruel, morally corrupt machine. it is based on destruction. it is an affront to human dignity. >> reporter: meantime, republicans want the president to take a stronger stance, take stronger action against iran. >> i think the fear is that we are going to allow iran to reach

the level of capability and then it will be too late, in terms of stopping it from having a nuclear bomb. and this is the central question and i'm looking to the president to show some leadership on this and provide some certainty. >> reporter: in the next chapter, president obama sits down face to face with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu tomorrow, here at the white house. gregg, back to you. >> gregg: steve, thanks very much. >> heather: extreme weather rips through the south and the midwest. survivors picking up the pieces, the red cross and other relief agencies scrambling to provide assistance. deadly storms killing more than 30 people across five states, wiped out entire towns. mike tobin is in kentucky with the latest hi, mike. >> reporter: hi, heather. you know, residents here say they have seen tornados and big storms skip along the mountaintops before. but this is the first time they saw a tornado hug the hills and

go into the valleys. that is why you see all of the debris altthe treeline there, the overturned cars, the school bus out there, the overturned suv and all the trees that were brought down by the force of this storm. something else we have seen here, the communities pitching together to try to rebuild, rebuild hathey can. we found the home of charles eversol, drivewayed, at least structurally in the course of the storm, while he and his family huddle inside. people are putting up a tarp on his roof to try to preserve the belongings inside, with bad weather predicted. despite the fact that he lost his house, he says he feels fortunate. what do you think? >> i thought it was all over but the crying. >> reporter: really? i bet you did. >> yeah. >> reporter: you know, you seem like you are pretty upbeat to me. are you a guy who says, you lost your house but you kept your life? >> i'm a guy who is a christian.

the good lord was with me. life, i couldn't.ve. >> reporter: everywhere you look, where one of these tornadoes touched down, you see a scene like this, twisted steel, torn insulation, we know that the tornado was ranked ef-3 with winds up to 165 miles per hour. the people pulling together. a lot of people feeling fortunate to be alive because they did lose two people from this community, healther? >> heather: thank you very much. heartbreaking conscience out there. mike tobin, in kentucky for us. you heard mr. eversol, a survivor, speaking very true words, can't replace his life. he got out thereof with that. >> gregg: as if the deadly tornadoes were not bad enough, now folks in some of those areas will be dealing with snow and cold. we go live to the fox extreme

weather center. and this is just going to compound the problem. >> this is going to slow down the cleanup efforts. the storm system produced the severe thunderstorms and now we are looking at a brig temperature drop. you can see the 24-hour temperature drop, up to 14 degrees below the original temperature before that front moved through. some areas saw more drastic changes, with temperatures dropping more than 20 degrees. i want to point out in the long term, the milder air that is in place in the central plains and out west will head east. so as we head into mid-week, we will be looking at warmer temperatures over the tornado relief efforts. but right now, there are chilly temperatures around freezing across indian aken tucky and through tennessee and parts of alabama, on the cool side. we do have some flurries, flying around in indiana and eastern kentucky. but we have a short wave that will be moving on toward the east, towards the areas that did get hit hard with the tornadoes.

so we will be looking at accumulating snowfall late tonight and tomorrow. with accumulations between 1-3 inches expected. >> gregg: thanks very much. to syria, humanitarian aid reaching some families in the rubble stronghold town in a city that has been the scene of brutal attacks by government forces for several weeks now. the army is said to be blocking the red cross from distributing food and blankets in one neighborhood, seized from rebels, just days ago. we are going to dominic in nearby lebanon. tell us about the turmoil now spilling into other parts of the middle-east? >> reporter: gregg, because syria is a pivotal country in this region, there are fears of how far that turmoil could spread. here in beirut, we saw demonstrations, the kind of which we haven't seen in the middle-east so far.

we saw a faceoff between people, over sirria. as i say, one of the first times we have seen it in a mideast capitol, gregg. demonstrators tussled with the security forces. just aufew hundred yards away, another demonstrations, railing against the government. here, you have a group against the regime, rallying at the bottom of the square, beneath beirut. there is a neutral zone. at the top of the zone, you have demonstrators, a lot of them syrians. it's a classic example of the tension in syria and how it could spread throughout the region. it's the greatest concern that unrest could destabilize the whole of the middle-east. you know that destabilization is very much possible, especially when you hear from iran, now providing more support to syrian government forces, according to

reports in today's washington post, saying that the iranians are giving more arms and more equipment and more monitoring gear to help them crush the opposition and of course, inflict more harm on the people of syria, themselves. back to you, gregg. >> gregg: there was an iranian ship that arrived in a syrian port 10 days ago, and likely on board, more armament for the syrian government. thanks very much. >> heather: straight ahead, is there a gender cap on the unemployment line? some economists are seeing different fortunes for men and women in the job market. >> gregg: plus, in a growing problem on campuses nationwide, college students plagiarizing off the internet? how schools are cracking down on cheating, coming up. look! the phillips' lady!

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>> heather: many economists refer to the great recession as a man-cession, because it appeared more men than women were losing their job, but unemployment is going up for women, while men are getting hired again. what does this mean for the american worker and the overall economy? let's bring in a senior business correspondent and anchor of bulls and bears, brenda butner with her take on this. since this recovery allegedly began in 200 19, june of 200 19, women have gained less than 8% of the 1.9 million jobs that have been added. so men and women, their numbers have cob verged. >> right? why? >> it's called a man-cession because the majority of jobs were lost in construction and manufacturing. now a lot of jobs in the private-sector manufacturing are coming back, so men are getting

hired. but local governments have had to lay off so many in the public sector of jobs, where women tend to have -- tend to be most employed, such as teachers and that type of thing. so they're getting the unemployment and men are being brought back on. that's the main issue. >> heather: the numbers are stacking, teachers, 300,000 educator jobs lost. >> right. that's true. but there is a little bit of a glimmer of hope here because in the growing part of the economy, such as health care and retail, women are still getting hired more than men. and that's an brent thing to watch. i don't think we can judge because the recovery is so tepid, it's hard to call it a recovery at this point. >> heather: getting hired more in those jobs, retail jobs, health care jobs and the jobs we are talking about are not really paid as well. >> right. >> heather: and the benefits are not there? >> no.

in general, that's true of both of those. also, they are hired at the lower end of the spectrum. if you take a look at the glass ceiling issue, i think in health care, 16% of executive jobs are held by women and the same is true in retail. so there is a lotted more, you know, there is a lot more room on the upside. but at least, they are in those -- in those sectors and we hope that as the recovery takes hold, they will be able to move up. >> heather: so we hope that the recovery doesn't become a man-covery. >> exactly. >> heather: mark your words on that. thank you very much. gregg? >> gregg: it doesn't seem fair, does it? we have heard the saying cheaters never prosper. now colleges and universities are making sure that is the case because over the past decade, there has been a huge increase in plagiarism and many schools are using a new program to stop

cheaters in their tracks. we go live to los angeles for more. >> reporter: good to see you. here's how this works. it is really interesting. a student will submit their writing and educators run it through a program called turn it in. it's a computer program that looks at the student's homework, like a term paper, for example and then it run its through other online databases and looks to see if it has been plagiarized. many schools say they see this as a necessary evil now because of recent research that shows that 55% of college presidents say that plagiarism has increased in the past decade, mostly because of the internet. ucla a anderson school of business use the software to weed candidate who is cheat on their application essays. >> we have better and better tools to detect that. so if you think it's easy to copy from the net, it's easy for us to find out where you copied it from.

>> reporter: about 100 other schools nationwide use this program. but there are others that have chosen not to use it. some schools feel it violates copyright laws because a student's legitimate work is their own intellectual property and should not be stor in the database. but a federal judge struck that down, saying that storing papers falls under fair use. other critics say it operates with a guilty until proven innocent principle. >> sometimes people are concerned that it's a punitive tool that assumes guilt. we respond to that by saying, it's a technology, it's a tool like any other, that can be used for good or ill. we look at it to inform instructors to engage the students in the writing process. >> reporter: others worry that it could expose a student a valuable personal information. but the developers of the computer program insist that they take every procaution to make sure that personal

information like social security numbers and the like is protected. >> gregg: it seems like it makes sense. thanks very much, casey. >> reporter: sure. >> heather: makes sense to me. the super tuesday showdown closer than ever. mitt romney in a tight race with rick santorum. ohio republican congressman michael turner is next with the secrets on sealing the deal in his home state. and tennessee survivor someday violent tornadoes without any deaths. but things are not looking good on the ground. a live update for you, just ahead. and when scaling back the snacks, just isn't enough. how to keep your little ones sugar free. the fox medical aid team on the case. there are patients who will question,

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that means it's time for the top of the news. mitt romney winning the washington state caucuses last night, also picking up a key endorsement from republican house majority leader eric kantor. he is taking that momentum into super tuesday. >> gregg: vladimir putin declaring victory in the russian presidential elections, winning sixty% of the vote. but opposition briewps are already crying voter fraud. >> heather: hugo chavez, going on tv after removing a cancerous tumor, the same type of cancer that he had removed 8 months ago. >> gregg: it is down to the wire for the g.o.p. presidential candidates with super tuesday clearly in their sights. at stake, more than 400 delegates. rick santorum will be looking for his first primary win since

february 7. mitt romney is confidence after winning the endorsement of eric kantor. >> mitt is the only one in the race who knows how to create jobs. he's the only one who has put forward a bold plan to did that. a lot of things he is talking about we are working ons in the house of representatives. so i look to super tuesday and mitt romney winning all of virginia's delegates. in fact, i cast my vote already in virginia for mitt romney. and i am here today to tell you that i am endorsing mitt romney in his candidacy for the presidency of the united states. >> gregg: joining us to talk about it, michael turner, from the state of ohio, which many consider the crown jewel of super tuesday. congressman, great to see you. thank you for being with us today. >> thank you. >> gregg: governor romney got the endorsement of the plain dealer in cleveland. i want to read something from

the editorial. they have some serious reservations about him. consistency is certainly a problem for romney, they wrote. the one-time moderate has adjusted his positions on so many issues, including abortion and gay rights that his core beliefs are a mystery. congressman, how do you respond to the accusations that mitt romney shifts his positions and opinions, depending on how the political wind is blowing? and thus, arguably, has no core convictions? >> well, i don't think any liberal newspaper is going to do any favors to republicans in their endorsement, even if they come to the same conclusion that ohioans are coming to. the momentum in ohio is for mitt romney, they are looking to his experience, his accomplishments and they are looking to the fact that ohio is struggling, our economy is struggling, spending in washington is out of control. the only person in the race that understands the to-do list and has a recorded on the to-do list

is mitt romney. >> gregg: well, let's talk about his new economic plan, which would in part, cut individual marginal tax ratings by 20 beers. the nonpartisan tax policy center examined very closely -- they issued a paper -- i are have it in front of me. they say it strongly favors the wealthiest americans, giving a tax cut of other than more than $16,000 and raising taxes on the bottom 20%. how is favoring the rich a sound strategy? >> well, that's not his strategy and no one's strategy -- >> gregg: but that's the plan. >> this president's strategy is that government creates jobs. mitt romney's strategy is that business creates jobs. our economy needs to grow by job creators, not by government. now that means, of course, that you have to have incentives to put money back, instead of

taking money back. if you look at the records of all the candidates, mitt romney is the one who knows how to create jobs and balance budgets, everyone knows that throughout ohio and throughout the country, employers are retissent to hire because they are not certain that the congress and the president will come to a deal to stop the out-of-control spending. mitt romney has balanced budgets -- >> gregg: but congressman -- forgive me, you are evading my question. doesn't the romney tax plan favor the rich? >> no, of course not. the plan favors jobs! i mean, what we need in ohio is to create jobs -- >> gregg: won't the rich pay less in taxes -- >> favor government. there are other plans that favor government. and that's want his plan. his plan is: how do we create jobs? how do we unleash this entenial engenuity to create jobs?

>> gregg: i hear you and i understand what you are saying. but if i can stick with that for just a moment, that same tax policy center, a nonpartisan group, said that romney's entire economic plan, which includes dropping the corporate tax rate, eliminating capital gains and dividends for families making less than $200,000 repealing the alternative minimum tax, all of it, they say would add $3 trillion to the deficit over the next decade. question: how can america afford romney's tax plan? >> well, i mean, it's simple. if you have a -- if you have a study that says, what if do you romney's economic plan in tax cuts and obama's plan for spending? what would the deficit be? it would be huge. but that's not mitt romney's plan for spending. his plan is to make sure that we get the out-of-control spending under control and create an environment to create jobs. that's what everyone wants.

that's why he has great moment num ohio. people know he has experience creating jobs and balancing budgets. he is not guessing to do these trillion-dollar deficits -- >> gregg: are you telling me he is going to offset the $3 trillion loss with $3 trillion in spending cuts? >> mitt romney has said that he is going to cut and he is going to cut this budget. heel balance it. i am not going to say that the numbers that you have are correct because this is a study that you have in front of you that i don't have in front of me and i have not read. i know what mitt romney is saying on the campaign trail. i know his promise to americans is about creating job, unleashing ingenuity. that's why people in ohio are going to the polls on tuesday. they want change in a way that will create jobs and turn this economy around. >> gregg: governor romney says his tax plan will inspire economic growth, but there is no evidence that that is ever happened in the past, that

economic growth will allow for paying for the tax cutses. the bush tax cuts in 2001 and 2003, for example, ballooned the deficits in the early years of the bush presidency. so arguably, this is a faulty promise by governor romney? >> well, no. you have to look at the -- there are obviously different economic times. you talk about the bush era, we are coming off 9/11 and the time of great difficulty. you know, we have had also the financial crisis, the debt crisis. this is what we know. we know unlike this president, government -- following a plan of government create jobs does not work. what does work is the entrepreneurial sector creating job, businesses creating jobs am we need to get government off the back of businesses. we need to make certain -- even this president is saying we need to cut corporate taxes and we have a non-competitive corporate tax environment, saying that one of the ways to unleash economic

growth is by reducing the tax burden on businesses. it is not, you know, something that is -- that is, you know, you know, incredibly new. but it is something that everyone knows works. it is how we tish economies arched. i think the leadership of mitt romney as president will create jobs. >> gregg: congressman michael turner, who has endorsed mitt romney. thank you very much for speaking with us today. >> thank you. >> heather: people in tennessee trying to get back on their feet. the strong storms taking their toll. sad scenes of destruction just like this one, playing now the neighborhoods all across the area, across the state, leaving thousands of people without power. we go live to the ground in hard-hit harrison, tennessee, with the latest. hi, jonathan. >> reporter: hi, heather. we have been looking at the damage, damaged homes. if you look on the foothills, you can see many of the tries are down. neighbors say before the tornadoes even in the dead of winter, these hills were lush green with pine trees.

now it looks like clear cutters have gone in there. based on the damage that they see, meteorologists from the national weather service believe this was a strong ef-3 tornado that came through this neighborhood, with winds of up to 165 miles per hour. residents are out here, picking up the pieces and many others coming in to help them, keeping tennessee's reputation as the volunteer state. >> it works. it's a real-life thing. these people love each other. and they are neighbors and they act like neighbors. we are very proud of them. >> reporter: residents here tell us, this is not your typical neighborhood, every month they get together and have a communal dinner. they get together for the 4th of july and other holidays. there is really a team spirit during good times and now during bad times. one gentleman tells me he was up at his damaged home, picking up the pieces, trying to salvage

things and all of a sudden, a neighbor comes walking over the hill from the other side of the neighborhood, holding a pair of keys and put its in his hand and says, i just finished renovating a four-bedroom house. i want to you stay in it with your family until you are able to repair this howe house here. a demonstration of the spirit of this wonderful neighborhood here in tennessee. back to you. >> heather: thank you. >> gregg: very sad news to report to you at this hour, angel bap cock, the indiana toddler found in a field after all of her immediate family was killed by the violent storms, we are sorry to say that angel has died. she passed away of a traumatic brain injury she suffered when the tornado ripped through her family's home. she was just feign months old -- just 15 months old. we'll be right back.

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>> gregg: new details emerging about the murders of jennifer hudsonee family, from interviews with the oscar winning singer and her sister. the man accused of killing the family set to go on trial in two months from now. but there are reportedly still some major legal hurdles confronting prosecutors in this case. the trial attorneys take a look at some of the issues. david, let me start with you. the defendant was married to jennifer hudson's sister, julia? >> right. >> gregg: julia is prepared to take the witness stand and testify that there were at least two dozen threats the defendant made to her. is that admissible? >> well, unfortunately in illinois tdoesn't appear that it is, there is a spousal privilege that prevents her from testifying to any communications, admissions, confessions that took place between the two while they were

married. now, while some of those dozen threats of violence and death took place in a 10-month period before the murder, while they were legally separated or at least separated tdoesn't appear that that will get around the exception. it looks like that won't come in at all t. will be blocked by a very prohibitive law in illinois. so it will be a circumstantial case that will be difficult to prosecute. >> gregg: rachel, can prosecutors squeeze that in? >> i absolutely believe they can, gregg. the reason is that privileges are very strictly construed because they interview with the truth-seeking process. and there are five exceptions to when a person with violate or testify against their spouse and violate marital privilege. one is the child care exception. and the other is the property exception. both of which apply here. in this case, there was a child that was in danger. and that child was then murdered by this person.

this person doesn't now get to, under this exception and the regulatory authority, the statutory authority and the common case law, then hide behind spousal privilege. the privilege very clearly states, any child in the care, custody or control of either spouse, in the interest of that child. it's very broadly construed to protect that child. >> gregg: david, the child is julian, 7 years old, found miles from the murder scene himself, killed with a -- a gunshot wound. the gun was found nearby. there is a picture of julian. doesn't the spousal privilege -- get negated by the rule that pertains to children and the protection -- >> no, it doesn't. because it has to be a spouse that is the spouse of both -- i'm sorry -- the child of both spouses t. has to be the spouse and the other spouse and they have an interest directly in the child -- >> that's not true -- >> gregg: seriously, it has to

object biological child? >> in a contest in a court action. when that's the case, there is an exception -- >> no. >> that's not the case here. >> gregg: rachel. >> if david can find me a case that says that in illinois, it has to be the person's biological child -- >> the statute is very, very specific. >> gregg: i am not sure that biology would dictate -- [overlapping dialogue] >> it doesn't have to be biolog biology. the only issue here, if they are going to succeed, there was a gun found next to the child, make egg link between that gun and william balforth. >> gregg: is there enough evidence for prosecutors to succeed based on ballistics, pure and simple? the gun was found near the car, connect to the murders and there are witnesses, apparently, prepare toed to testify that the

defendant bragged about stealing that gun and having it in his possession. rachel. >> i think they are definitely going to be able to. if they can't connect him with fingerprints on the gun, they are going to be able to connect it with the circumstantial evidence and the witnesses. he is going to go down and he should go down for these three murders. >> the problem is hearsay evidence, triple hearsay, actress jennifer hudson saying that her sister, julia hudson, heard that balforth at some point was bragging about stealing the gun from her brother -- >> gregg: i betcha they will -- >> they have other witnesses. >> that's going to object key. >> gregg: it's only hearsay, not double or triple. thank you. good to see you. >> thank you. >> good to see you. >> heather: coming up, shocking numbers about your kids' diet. one out of six calories is coming from added sugar, making

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>> gregg: welcome back. an ingredient that makes up a big part of a kid's diet and you might not even know it's there. >> heather: that's right. sugar accounts for one out of every six calories for children, one out of six. how can you keep your kids sugar-free? we have the assistant professor of surgery at mt. sinai. thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> heather: how much sugar should have a child have? >> from the 2010 guidelines, not more than 15% of diet or calories as sugar, refined sugars, mostly. foods are -- fruits are always good. but we are worried about the candies, junk food, in addition to that, the hidden sugar, so ketchup, as you mentioned in the commercial break, you love ketchup. but you want to monitor the amount of food they are eating like that. granola bars and even hotdogs -- >> gregg: oh, you're killing me!

that's my favorite food and i put ketchup on my hotdogs. that's double dose. >> double. and then the chili and the cheese. that's a heart attack waiting to happen. but the reason is that we are trying to fight childhood obesity and it's a major, major problem with our kids in america. in addition to that, the increase in the sugar in the diet means an increase in cholesterol which can lead to heart attacks, so it's a lifestyle that you are creating for children-- is it in the home or in the school? >> the biggest culprit is the home. the schools are doing okay, even though the school diet may not be the best diet for kids. but we are giving them more sugar at home. that's partly because we are not aware of the sugar in the juices, the fruit juices, to the soda they may be drinking as well. it gets worse as they get older. so as they go from toddlers, up to adolescent, the amount of

sugar increases. >> gregg: is there a socioeconomic difference? >> there is not. hispanic boys consumed less sugar than nonhispanic boys, but the obeseity rate in hispanic boys is higher. >> heather: and boys slightly more than girls as well. >> that's probably because they use more energy and tend to be more active and they have a higher diet and calories anyway. so theyville a higher caloric intake. >> gregg: your daughter's 15 years old. it's hartoo control their diet. >> it is. it is your example. how you are living and eating and consuming, your kids will copy you. my little one copies everything i am doing. i try to drink water in front of her. she likes water. i didn't introduce a lot of juices to her. and she likes the carbonated water, so i give her that as

well. >> heather: no more hotdogs in frobtd of your kids -- hotdogs in front of your kids. >> gregg: you are taking all the fun away. if they have one to two fruits a day, is that enough to satisfy dietary requirements? >> it should be. the recommendation for fruit is one to two a day. fruit is a much better option than candy, if they are wanting sugar. you can find sugar-free popsickles. >> gregg: thanks very much. good advice. >> heather: thanks very much. that's it for us. "fox news sunday" with chris wallace is next. >> we hope you have a great week, filled with chili cheesedogs. >> heather: bye-bye. nice ring. knock it off. ignore him. with the capital one venture card you earn... double miles on every purchase. [ sharon ] 3d is so real larry. i'm right here larry. if you're not earning double miles...

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