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that's it, have a great week and we'll see you next fox news sunday. >> what to do next about iran? our president talking now about what america is willing to do to keep iran from going nuclear. one candidate winning more delegate and endorsements ahead of super tuesday. the latest bragging rights in the race to the republican nomination. i'm harris falkner and we are live as fox reports tonight. >> mitt romney is the only candidate in the the race who put forward a bold, pro growth, pro job plan for the future. but could new support from another g.o.p. leader now provide an even bigger boost? meanwhile, rick santorum versus newt gingrich. >> i think that newt's got to
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figure out where he goes after georgia. >> and rick santorum, he was running fourth in every primary and then after three states nobody else went to and became the media darling and bounced back. >> harris: fox reports live on the campaign trail on the biggest political contest yet. and nature unleashing a wave of deadly tornado and the new threat storm victims are facing now. and also, an avalanche tearing through a ski resort, leaving skiers dangling in mid air. tough talks on iran coming from president obama as he was standing side by side with israel's president earlier. mr. obama saying the united states would not hesitate to use military force to stop iran from getting a nuclear weapon. >> iran's leaders should understand that i do not have a policy of containment, i
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have a policy to prevent iran from obtaining a nuclear weap weapon. [applause] >> and as i have made clear time and again, during the the course of my presidency, i will not hesitate to use force when it is necessary to defend the united states. >> mr. obama speaking at the annual american israel public affairs committee conference in d.c., but he also says, quote, there's been too much loose talk of war which has only emboldened iran. israel's foreign minister saying his government alone will decide whether it will strike iran and of course, washington the and jerusalem has not seen eye to eye on this issue and calling iran a clear danger that must be dealt with. >> of it is bent on destruction. to human dignity.
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iran endanger the entire world. it must be stopped and it will be stopped j iran still insisting it's not building nuclear weapons and officials claiming their program is for peaceful purposes. all this have coming as president obama prepares to meet one-on-one with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. our steve centanni outside the white house and it seems like the president is saying two different things on the iran policy. on one hand prepared to use military force and the other too much talk about war. >> right, harris, right now the president's focus appears to be avoiding war and wants more time for the latest economic sanctions against iran to take effect and have the effect they were supposed to have. the president firmly believes the best way forward at least for the time being is to put more pressure on iran through the international community. he says this is not the time for bluster. >> already, there's too much
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loose talk of war. the last few weeks, such talk has only benefitted the iranian government by driving up the price of oil, which they depend on, to fund their nuclear program. >> the president said the u.s. will use all elements of american power in iran, economic, diplomatic and military, harris. >> steve, for those people who would like to see a bottom line, did his administration indicate what they would do if israel strikes first? >> no specifics, but the president did say that israel has the sovereign right to make its own decisions about security matters. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu was in canada and said that was the best part of the president's speech and glad president obama reaffirmed he has no intention of allowing iran to develop nuclear welcomes. the public at home are afraid the president is not doing enough along those lines. >> i think the fear is that we're going to allow iran to
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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. the stage is set for the president's meeting here tomorrow with israeli prime minister netanyahu, harris, back to you. >> harris: steve centanni, thank you very much. away from the talks of nukes. the iranians needing our help. and u.s. navy coming to the rescue of an iranian boat. and pulling a seaman out of the water. and providing these pictures and they tell us they've called off the search for two other iranian crew members because of rough seas and our guys returned the lone survivors and the iranian bodies to a coast guard ship.
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fox news is america's election headquarters and we're fast approaching super tuesday. the largest single day of voting in the republican presidential race, more than 400 delegates up for grabs and people heading out to vote in ten different states. front runner romney with the most number of delegates, coming off the fourth consecutive victories after washington state's caucuses by a double digit margin. today, picking up major endorsements, one eric cantor who says he has romney's vote in virginia. >> mitt romney is the man for this year. i believe it's a historic election, no question about it, the kinds of challenges we face, he's the only one in the race who has put forth these kinds of solutions and i think he can beat president obama in november. >> harris: virginia, one of the states in play on super tuesday, another oklahoma home to senator tom coburn who announced he's backing romney. in life and in politics our
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choices are seldom perfect and often difficult. but it is critically important to make a choice and support the person who is best equipped to solve the urgent problems before us. in my view, he says, that person is mitt romney, end quote. chief political correspondent campaign carl cameron live in cincinnati, ohio, new polls out showing romney with momentum. >> that's right, harris, for the last week and a half or so, rick santorum had the advantage in ohio and the polls and the average of them was eight or nine points, seven or eight days ago and now shrunk to two and the latest reuters poll for the first time shows not just a virtual tie within the margin of error, it's an actual tie between mitt romney and rick santorum, yes, there is momentum out of washington state and the victory in the caucuses last night and the romney campaign is eager to point out, this is the fifth win he's had going back to the main caucuses, and aur air and michigan and wyoming and now washington state and hopes that's going to provide
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momentum into ohio for super tuesday and santorum has ardent support, adjacent to his home state of pennsylvania, he can claim favorite neve neustadt tus here, a tremendous amount riding on ohio for both candidates and romney and santorum are going to take it to the wire. >> harris: i'm asking about endornlts and people say a lot of time they don't make a difference, but a lot of talk about the two that romney picked up. >> that's right, tom coburn of oklahoma and eric cantor of virginia. and both are those two states are super tuesday states. the and both men are feisty conservatives and in coburn's, one of the most conservative u.s. senators in washington and comes from a state that is rural and conservative and he has washington insider status as a consequence of being a senator. in the case of eric cantor, he is a house republican leader and one of the most partisan
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and feisty and often criticized or complimented for being to the right of the house speaker john boyehneboehn and some have been suspicious of mitt romney's conservativism and maybe behind him. >> harris: with all that said, carl, where does it leave newt gingrich and rick santorum. >> newt gingrich is strong in georgia, where he began his political career and a double digit comfortable lead and rick santorum strong in oklahoma and they're all going to get delegates, but in the the case of gingrich versus santorum, both men are shadow boxing and wishing almost not saying they want the other guy to drop out. >> michigan we'd have won easily had those two votes been combined, but, you know, that's, that's a process, i think, newt's it got to figure
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out where he goes after georgia. >> and i'm taking rick santorum's advice, he stayed in fourth in every primary and suddenly after three states nobody went to and he became the media darling and bounced ba back. >> reporter: so they'd probably like to see each other bail and neither one will. and in the reuters poll it talked about the tie between santorum and romney when all four candidates are measured. if you take gingrich and paul out of the mix versus romney, it's a tie in the 40's. the absence of newt gingrich and ron paul doesn't change the fact that santorum and romney appear dead even going down to the wire in ohio. >> harris: and to steal your phrasing, no sign of anyone bailing out. carl cameron, thank you. stay with fox for coverage beginning and through super tuesday. bret baier and megyn kelly and
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henryville. we know that ef-4 tornado destroyed dozens of homes and left a high school there heavily damaged and survivors describing what it was like as a twister dropped out of the skies. >> my kids, i was the adult. we were in the closet and peeking out and huddled together and put pillows on our heads. >> my daughter and i were in the school and i was substitute teaching for the he 6th grade and the part of the building i was teaching in is completely gone. >> a similar situation in kentucky, people are picking through what's left of their homes to see what maybe can be salvaged at this point. mike tobin is live in the hard hit area in kentucky and the late breaking news headline, we have lost angel. >> reporter: yeah, and little angel babcock, the girl found alone in a field separated from her family, we have learned that she has been taken off life support, she
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had some very severe injuries, including head injuries, and shortly after she was taken off life support, she succumbed to her injuries. she now joins her motherer, father, brother, and sister who perished in an instant when that ef-4 tornado came upon them, harris. >> harris: you know, we ask this question whenever disaster strikes like this, how are people coping and i know there's a lot of support out there. >> you know, it's really remarkable, harris, to he see people pulling together, particularly he we noticed out here in east bernstadt kentucky, family and friends were putting a tarp on the roof. his home is no longer structur structurally sound, but wanted to protect it. and this is where he hid and despite losing the house says he feels lucky. >> i thought it was all over. >> really? i bet you did. >> yeah.
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>> now, you know, you seem like you're pretty upbeat to me. are you a guy who says you lost your house and kept your life. >> a guy who is christian and the good lord is with me, i'm glad to be alive. i could replace that, but a life, i couldn't. >> now, taye i blankenship owns this rv business where i stand and see the destruction and terry told me today he doesn't even consider this a setback, it just means they have more work to do, harris. >> mike tobin, thank you very much. as mike just mentioned, snow and cold adding to the misery for the twister victims. meteorologist maria molina is now in the extreme weather center reminding us we're not in spring. >> well, meteorology spring did start on march 1st and meteorologist point as spring for us due to temperatures, but like you said, it's not technically spring yet. we're looking at very chilly temperatures behind that front that produced or is responsible for that severe weather and all of the
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tornados produced across parts of indiana, ohio and parts of georgia, and even florida on saturday and again, behind that system, chilly temperatures hovering just at around freezing, 32 degrees out there. now, we do have some precipitation and there's light flurries around ohio, eastern kentucky and some rain showers as well. there's another little system further off to the west that's moving through portions of illinois right now, and that's what's going to be bringing in some snowfall as we head into tonight and generally speaking, harris, not a lot of snow, one to three inches in some spots. >> harris: all right. maria, thank you very much. a man claims he was attacked after he dressed up as the prophet mohamed for halloween and he took him to court and it has twists and turns. we'll follow it. and two airlines try to merge and overhaul a computer system, handling millions of flights. see how that turned out.
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>> big headaches for some united airlines customers. the company today finishing switching over its computer system as part of the big merger would continental and we're hearing that it led to trouble at some the busiest airports and passengers checking check in at o'hare, dulles and denver airports and united lost a few reservations in the switchover. all in all. they're seeing the disruptions were minor and most planes only a few minutes behind unless of course, it was your flight. now, to a battle over first amendment rights in pennsylvania. a judge recently threw out a harassment case there. brought by a man who claimed be somebody attacked him because of his halloween costume. that man dressed as a zombie
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version of the prophet mohamed, claiming a muslim plan tried to choke him when he saw the outfit and the judge dismissed it due to lack of evidence and the judge was moved after he apparently received threats. molly line is looking into the story. >> reporter: here is how it played out. earnest pierce, a self-proclaimed atheist, as he walked down the straight with a sign he was the zombie version of the prophet. he was attacked by a bystander and he says that the man tried to grab the sign and made physical contact and the man admitted he was offended by the costume, but denied he touched pierce and ultimately judge martin decided there wasn't enough evidence to convict on the harassment charge and the controversy what the judge said in rule that pierce made a regarding of. the judge scolded pierce saying he was outside of his
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bounds regarding the first amendment remarking it's unfortunate that some people use the first amendment to deliberately provoke others. the judge also included a history lesson on islamic beliefs at one point seems to say he's a muslim. in reality the judge is a luthren, pierce believes the judge based his ruling on bias. >> personally, i think his agenda is to create a-- or allow islamic religion and islamic favor into our courts. that's what he said himself. >> reporter: now, you might imagine, harris, it got more confusing once it hit the online world. >> harris: the judge and i say it like a verb, he was youtube 'd and this went viral and national and what is the judge's response? >> he's trying to clear up the confusion and essentially the controversy after it hit the web and some blogged that the judge made references to
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sharia law and the judge explained he spent a lot of time serving over seas as a soldier in iraq and afghanistan and he was trying to be a peace maker to sort of bridge pierce's understanding. >> he wasn't outside the bounds of his first amendment rights. he absolutely had the right to say what he did, and do what he did. i would say he was outside the bonds of decency. i think that what he did was hateful, bigoted speech. >> we had a chance to speak with a fox news legal analyst and reviewed the recording and believed the judge ruled based on u.s. law and not sharia law and used his leave experiences it it essentially try and impart wisdom well within the judge as bounds. >> harris: it's interesting, and they've moved his jurisdiction to a different courthouse at this point. it will be interesting to he see if that makes the case quiet. >> they're hoping it will ease tensions. >> harris: molly, good to see
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you. >> reporter: thank you, harris. >> harris: a report from moscow on vladimir putin's victory and the reaction from voters and all who oppose him. and also, a convicted killer making big bucks behind bars without lifting a finger. we'll tell you how and how he got caught. and, it's a mud fest. do i really need to say anything else? ♪ ♪ get a little mud on the tires ♪ ♪ it's a good time to be out there ♪ ♪ oh!
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win the third term as president. you may remember he was already president from 2000 to 2008 moving into the prime minister's office due to term limits. and today's vote, tainted by-- and they say bus loads were driven around to cast votes multiple times and if that's confirmed the victory could be undermined and the opposition gearing up for a protest tomorrow. amy kellogg from moscow, amy. >> hi, harris, on the radio here the other day someone said in america you don't know who is going to be elected president, but you know how it's going to go. here in russia, you know who is going to be elected president, but you don't know how it's going to go and the anti-putin movement has already said that they consider the results of this election to be illegitimate and planning a major pro it is
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for tomorrow. and putin seemed to be emotional as he greeted crowds next to red square and later remarked the tears were caused by the wind, but looked like he was very moved by the moment. >> and in order to make this process more transparent. nearly 200,000 web-cams were installed in polling places across the country and anyone can tap into the system, and watch any polling station, and it's been a source of fascination for many russians today, with a bit of voyeurism. even with an unprecedented movement of observers and the cameras, many were quite skeptical even before the results came out. >> principally nothing has changed and does happen here in polling place, but in district election centers and electronical electronically, they can add 2, 300 votes for putin. >> the the independent
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organization goal has put p this map of violations and cited about 3000 across the country and the communist leader who came in second came out swinging the hardest, saying he did not accept the results, and called russia tonight a mafia state and i think, harris, with all of the allegations of vote fraud and the putin camp saying the election was clean and honest, we'll have to wait a bit longer to understand and put it all into perspective and come to a decision about how free and fair or not these elections really were. >> harris: well, more immediately will be that protest that's planned and we'll be watching for that. amy kellogg, reporting tonight. thank you very much. bodies of two foreign journalists killed in syria, arrived in paris including marie colvin, a veteran correspondent for britain's sunday times, a this with this network. and the international red
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cross reporting it delivered emergency aids to parts of that city and rescuers say many people are trapped there in freezing temperatures with little food, fuel or medicine. dominique di-natale reporting in the region from lebanon with more. >> harris, the demonstrations here in beirut were one of the first full-on faceoffs we've seen in a middle east capital. and the blood soaked landmark, demonstrators coupled with the security forces and yards away was another demonstration against the government. and here you have a group who are against the assad regime, in the center of beirut. behind the razor wire is a neutral zone, the top of the square, a classic example of just how much the extension in syria could spread throughout the region and that's the greatest concern that unrest
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could destabilize the whole of the middle east. >> and harris, that's entirely possible when you have iran, syrian forces according to "the washington post" and adding more arms and equipment to the regime. harris. >> harris: dominic, thank you. a series of explosions in the republic of congo. a train crash in poland as we go around the world in 80 seconds. republic of congo, a weapons depot catches fire, setting off a series of explosions, officials saying at least 300 people dead and countless others collapsed under buildings. the explosions, which could be heard as far away as six miles, forcing 2000 people out of their homes. poland, an american among 16 people killed when two trains collide near cack cow, dozens
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injured in the worst train disaster in decade. turning the cars into heaps of mangled metal and one of the trains was on the wrong track. >> poland's president saying when rescue efforts are over he'll declare a period of national mourning. france, an avalanche rolling through a ski resort. >> no, no, no. >> harris: dozens of skiers on a lift when it happened and dozens in mid air awaiting rescue and a helicopter whisking them away to safety. no one hurt. italy, a volcano erupting in sicily. mt. etna spewing smoke and steam and air traffic not having a problem yet. it's europe's tallest active volcano, that's a trip around the world. >> harris: stories of survival and pictures revealing now the destruction of friday's tornados in the south and mideast. a live update just ahead. a man who was airlifted from
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you should not start humira if you have any kind of infection. ask your rheumatologist how you can defend against and help stop further joint damage with humira. >> right now, communities across the midwest and southern parts of this country assessing the damage and beginning the cleanup. a wave of deadly storms leaving at least 30 people dead. twisters tearing homes and businesses to shreds in alabama. some of the same areas he rebuilding after a vicious twister outbreak a year ago. survivors trying to come to grips with what happened. >> this doesn't happen to me. it happens to everybody else, i always help everybody else out. >> you know, i don't like t the-- taking anything from anybody and yet, everybody's came by here while we're trying to salvage what we can, to come by, giving food, giving water,
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you know, keeping us fed. . >> harris: from alabama now to tennessee. cleanup underway thereafter reports of funnel touchdowns in nine different counts. thousands of people without electrical power at this hour, jonathan serrie is live from harrison, tennessee. >> harris, this is one of the stronger tornados and officials with the weather service based on preliminary damage estimates believe this was a powerful ef-3 tornado causing extensive damage throughout this community, winds up to 165 miles per hour. take a look at this video of the damage. at least 50 homes damaged or destroyed, 25 people suffering injuries, at least half a dozen of those injuries very serious. the earlier today, the red cross and salvation army were out here checking on residents, tending to their needs in addition to some smaller charities and we also
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saw plenty of examples of neighbors themselves pulling together. listen. >> some guys from my church come over it to cut some trees and one of my neighbors on the back side of the neighborhood here came over and handed me a key and said i wanted you to know i renovated a four bedroom house and having four children i want you to have it as long as you need it. it's just unbelievable. >> and it is indeed. and neighbors say that here in this community, they meet once a month, all of the neighbors here getting together for dinner and this have holiday celebrations together. at least four times a year. and that, they say, is going to be their incentive to rebuild, harris? >> well, you're talking about what's happening next for all of these people and more immediate than down the road is what happens tomorrow. >> yeah, what happens tomorrow they'll continue putting up tarps, tarps are already on many of the the damaged roofs and people salvaging what they can and that's what's going in
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the short-term, in the long-term, it's really going to vary from property to property and some people will be able to get their homes back up and running in a matter of days. others, it's going to take months and as the mayor put it, in some cases, it's going to be a matter of years before you see some portions of this neighborhood looking like it used to, harris. >> harris: jonathan serrie, thank you very much. the same group had a helped out the people of joplin, missouri last year, once again trying to come to the aid of tornado victims. volunteers with the world relief distribution center in indiana spending the day packing boxes of food and a load headed to southern indiana, that group more motivated than ever to do its part. >> when the kids come in today and i told them that they were going out today, they'd be delivered today, the energy level definitely was up. >> harris: and in answer to some of your e-mails and tweets to me today. here is some information how to help or donate to the
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disaster relief effort there, go to the red cross.org website. it is just one place to give, red cross.org, if you want to help out. well, a doctor facing murder charges after three of her patients die from drug overdoses. it's our first stop on a trip across america. california, investigators say dr. lisa wrote author than 70,000 prescription ins three years for highly addictive pain killers like objection cobjection-- oxycontin and others, and she's facing 20 felony counts. the girl scouts, a couple of thieves at wal-mart near houston see a chance for easy cash and taking off with $200 in girl scout cookie money, but these girls didn't go down
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without a fight and held on to the getaway car. >> i started hitting the boy in the passenger seat so i think he learned his lesson a little bit and then they dragged my friend rachel across the street. >> i was running with it the at first and i sort of fell down and dragged for a few seconds and sort of let go. >> one of the girls suffering some scrapes, but she's okay and police are now looking for the suspects. >> and oregon, talk about getting a little mud on the tires! >> dozens of horsepower junkies gathering for mud fest. the event held every year since 1969 in the small town of sweet home. the goal, to get dirty, really dirty. don't get stuck. >> the adrenalin is pumping and engines are revving and hoping you keep moving forward. bouncing off the bumps and seeing the seat belts again. that's a fox watch across america. an update now on a story that we first brought you on last night's fox report. a man airlifted off the big island of hawaii to escape
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lava from a nearby volcano returning to check out his home. jack thompson discovering his house destroyed. only a tin roof remained it was one of two structuring left in the subdivision, the rest destroyed by lava flowing the past couple of decades. >> this is the second house i've had in this subdivision and been on this mountain about 40 years. i think it's about the end of it. i don't think anybody be living up here anymore. >> probably not, jack. thompson, fortunate to have another home in hawaii so he's staying there until he can figure out his next move. the clock ticking down for millions of high school seniors to get the last minute college applications in the mail and now we're hearing some schools are checking out applications for plagiarism and speaking of cheating, this guy is a convicted killer cashing in on the system
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>> talking about cheating the system. a convicted fellen paid $30,000 in unemployment checks while in prison for murder. you can't do that. and you can't do this either. cash them. police saying that's what three of his relatives did. now, they're arrested. anthony garcia is serving a life sentence for killing a rival gang member was somehow sent an unemployment check, police say his father and girlfriend cash and reportedly some of the money was funneled back to the gang garcia is connected to. for years, colleges and
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university have used computer programs to catch cheaters, students who plagiarize other's work. and the idea is to weed out cheaters before they get accepted. casey stegall live in los angeles with more, casey. >> good to see you. researchers at rutgers university recently polled about 200,000 college students across the country at roughly 40% of them admitted to using the internet to plagiarize their homework or entrance exams and now, there is this new computer program designed to combat the problem. >> they've just taken a paragraph straight out of a sample essay. >> at colleges across the country. >> they sort of pieced the whole thing together. >> you can cheat, but you can't hide. >> and they believe that by doing that, we can't detect the plagerism. >> schools can can, thanks to
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a computer program that many employ called turn it in. a scanned the students' work and cross matches it with the internet and looking for the tell tale signs after copy and paste jobs. >> it's not just a written assignment, ucla anderson school of businesses uses it to plagiarize the application essays. >> the black is a piece that they wrote themselves. >> every other piece is color coded and on the right-hand side is the source. >> and developers make sure it's a way to make sure students are entered the school and properly rewarded for the work they do. >> when you look on the wall of the doctor's office or engineers building a new bridge, you want to make sure they earned the degrees and didn't cut corners to get them. >> good point, huh? now in the end, the computers will actually spit these results out and then you have human beings that are
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double-checking it to make sure that it's accurate and there are some critics out there of this, harris, saying it violates a student's privacy because their work is their own intellectual work and shouldn't be scanned into a data base, but the bottom line, lying doesn't get you anywhere in life. >> bottom line, casey, thank you. nascar on fox and a driver gets a major boost coming in first at phoenix international speedway and he's arguably one of the best nfl quarterbacks ever, payton's manning face all over the indianapolis colts as a lead are for more than a decade. will this week be his last one in blue and white. [ male announcer ] this is lois. the day starts with arthritis pain... a load of new listings... and two pills. after a morning of walk-ups, it's back to more pain, back to more pills. the evening showings bring more pain and more pills. sealing the deal... when, hang on...
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fesh fit 500, say that five times, at the phoenix raceway. pete is here, take it away. >> denny hamlin at the daytona 500 last week and today comes out in phoenix and leads for the most laps in the race and wins. hamlin, big victory for him. he struggled. 2010 he had the most laps and lost the race here and comes back, two years later victorious and off to a strong start for the the nascar season, a lot of excitement there. >> one of the biggest scandals to hit the associated press wires and then blow wide open as reporters started looking into this, the new orleans saints are accused of running something called a bounty program and as i understand it, players are rewarded with bonuses for such hard hits on the opposing teams that it hurts the players. >> and it's absolutely crazy. a leak it weekend that the offensive coordinator greg williams was providing a bounty program where if you
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knocked the player out of the game $1500, if you put him off on a cart, a thousand extra dollars and this is something very bad for the nfl and an investigation going on and there could be some heavy disciplinary action and the thing is, nfl are trying to talk about safety now and retired players and concussions. and if this is confirmed that this comes out, and they have 18,000 documents apparently that he provide proof that this is actually going on the last three seasons in new orleans, talking suspension and possibly four or five games for the coaching staff. >> harris: and this is a former super bowl team. >> a team that everyone loves because of drew brees the face of the franchise and the wonderful story in new orleans. this is a very ugly incident and there was word this weekend that this isn't the first time greg williams did this. he used to coach in washington, buffalo and players from those teams say that's nothing new, of course, greg williams, bounty program. he's now in st. louis, may not see him, may be suspended. >> harris: as far as we know localized to one person.
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>> localized to one person and the franchise has come out and says the owner is not involved. and shaun payton and mickey loomis may have known or been aware and did not come out and tell anyone. >> harris: speaking of that team, drew brees, looking whether or not they want him to be the franchise player. >> he's one of the top five paid quarterbacks for one season. instead of a long-term deal in a big free agent contract, locked him up one year and see what you've got. he's already 34 years old and getting up there, see how long they'll have him as a quarterback. >> harris: and to kind of handicap it, not as into the nfl as you and i are, it kind of his chance to get a whole lot of money. he could get hurt. >> he'll be paid one of the top five quarterbacks, a lot of money. but thought maybe the saints would lock him up long-term. make sure you retire a new orleans saint. we'll see how you doing and look at it next year. >> harri
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