jon: h for hemmer, right. bill: you could use that. great to see you guys. jon: nice to be up here in the high rent distribute. bill: we've been saving this foreyou. kind of have a super tuesday. kind of what we're saying earned here. jon: right now it is a huge day for the republicans who would like to take on president obama. folks in 10 states heading to the polls. is super tuesday make-or-break? could it decide the nomination? jenna: listen to this case. a college student claims her suicidal depression caused by her roommate's sex life. get this she is suing the college over it. did the school fail her? we'll have a fair and balanced debate. jon: very disturbing video on a cell phone. kids in a brutal fight on a school bus. the parents are outraged no one stepped in for four minutes. it is all happening now.

jon: and a good news morning to you. a critical day in the gop race for the white house. voting underway right now in the biggest presidential contest to date. good morning, i'm jon scott. jenna: good morning, i'm jenna lee. this is not just any day. this is super tuesday. almost wore a cape. jon: with a big s on the chest. jenna: that's right. for primary and caucus voters across 10 dates states this is a big day. a whole lot at stake. 419 delegates up for grabs. by far the most for any day in the presidential campaign. more than a third of the delegates needed to clinch the republican presidential nomination. jon: all the candidates are fanning out today. newt gingrich is in georgia. the state he represented for congress for two decades. georgia with the most delegates up for grabs. it is a must-win state for the former house speaker,

who has lost much of the momentum he has seen in recent weeks. jenna: john roberts is live in georgia with all of this. jon? >> reporter: good morning, to you, jenna. seems very little question whether or not newt gingrich will win in georgia here today. he had a commanding lead in the polls. he is trying to close the deal with georgia voters in cobb county. we have a steady of stream of people coming in. nothing representing a lineup. in east of here in gwinnett county, newt gingrich appeared here in front of the chamber of commerce. he said in normal times any one of his opponents would be fine to head up against. but in these less than normal times you need a person of big ideas. here is way he put it today. >> you better wage a campaign of ideas this fall. the only way we hope to beat obama is better ideas and clearly cutting through his billion dollar campaign. he will be relentless

negative. remember this is a president who went from yes we can to why we couldn't. he is in much worse trouble than the polls indicate. they know it. that is why the media is so desperate to prop him up. >> reporter: gingrich has been this visionary conservative, a man of big ideas. that got him in some trouble. remember the moon base idea. lately he is going around touting $2.50 gasoline that is his plan. it earned him some criticism as erratic, unrealistic dreamer but his georgia state campaign chairman, governor nathan deal says, he doesn't see it that way. >> erratic? he a man of ideas. when you're a man of ideas people that are not people of ideas may consider you erratic. that's why i think it is important to point out out he is a man of action and results. >> reporter: governor deal did say he is not exactly thrilled wit the way gingrich's campaign has been run at least nationwide,

jenna. jenna: we'll see what happens in georgia. a lot of questions for the way forward for newt gingrich and the republican party overall. thank you very much, john roberts in georgia today. jon: hear is the question everyone seems to be asking. will super tuesday decide the gop nomination or will this race go on? joining us now, reince priebus, chairman of the republican national committee. i know you're a neutral observer here not picking winners but are you predicting winners? >> no i'm not predicting winners, jon. but i think tonight will be a great day for our nomination process having over 400 delegates at stake. so far we have only awarded 175. this really kicks things into high gear very quickly. that's why they call it super tuesday. jon: you have read the criticisms that these republican candidates have been tearing each other apart and hurting the party's eventual nominee when it comes to november. >> yeah. jon: what do you think about that? >> well, jon, that's funny because i was just looking

over some, actually had the research department here look at this and just reading awe couple headlines from years ago. four years ago, this is what they were saying about the democratic party, hillary clinton, barack obama. they said, "new york times." this is a present for mccain as the other side fights. democratic dead heat. not food news says howard dean. mccain media advisor says democrats are hurting themselves. guess what happened? hillary clinton, barack obama fought all the way through the end of june and barack obama didn't have any trouble at all beating us. as you know, jon, i happened to believe this primary battle is a good thing for our party. i don't think it is a good thing for us to put everyone to sleep with a nomination process and march along all through the spring and most of summer without anyone talking about our candidates and trying to go beat a candidate, letting barack obama who will raise a billion dollars. the fight is good and it

will produce a great result for us in november. jon: so you're not one of those who says that one or more of these candidates needs to get out of the race after today's results? >> well, i mean, no, that is a different question. i think that the candidates have to decide for themselves after tonight or next week or the week after --. jon: i'm sorry, i'm asking from the standpoint of the party, do you feel like there is room in the races ahead for four candidates to soldier on? >> well, i think it depends on the results. i mean i think each candidate's made some of their own predictions and limitations they need to overcome but ultimately it comes down to their own pathaway to getting to 1144 delegates. the money they have in the bank and whether they can compete. look, every week we have another state that the media claims is the must-win state. last week it was michigan. this week it's ohio. it is just, each candidate is going to have to decide for themselves what's a

must-win and what's not. i think this thing is going to shake out, you know, within the next month, month and a half, two months and, we're going to have a nominee and the summer is going to be long and so is the fall and people are going to have plenty of time to hear from our candidate and barack obama, especially in the media world that we live in today in america. jon: you mentioned the president. his approval ratings are on the rise. they're back up around 50%. do you think he is beatable? >> well, not just is he beatable, jon, look at what gallop does a tracking poll every day. look what they said last week on thursday or friday. the president loses to both, i think it was santorum and romney. he is in margin of error with newt gingrich and ron paul too. and he is also losing in almost every battleground state across america. so not only are we raising more money than we have ever raised before but the candidates are beating the president head-to-head already and we're not even campaigning across the

country yet. jon: reince priebus the head of the republican national committee. thanks, sir. >> thank you, jon, keep it here all day. inin depth analysis of super tuesday. begins at 6:00 p.m., bret baier and megyn kelly will be your anchors t will be great. [speaking in native tongue] jenna: brand new amateur video coming in from syria right now as you can see it, wow, again we're seeing this month after month after month. arizona senator john mccain changing the story today, calling for a major shift in u.s. policy towards syria. and in a speech from the senate floor, mccain calling for u.s.-led airstrikes against the assad regime, not just for humanitarian reasons like we her before but also to further isolate iran and that's part of the strategy. let's go to national security correspondent jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. jennifer, why now? why does mccain feel this

way now? >> reporter: jenna, we heard an amazing exchange on the senate floor essentially because the assad and regime and syria is iran's only ally in the region. it is only way that hezbollah and lebanon receive weapons and support. if you want to strike at iran, one of the ways you can do it through damascus. senator mccain made the point. listen to the exchange that took place, before the senate armed services committee. >> it would be in america's strategic interests to see assad go? >> yes, sir, it will be the biggest strategic setback for iran in 20 years when assad false, not if but when he is going to go. >> reporter: general matus is the centcom commander. he would be responsible for organizing or planning any strike against not only iran but damascus. he is a man that knows what he is talking about. in a response to senator

jack reed, he reiterated if assad goes that the biggest blow that the u.s. and its allies could make against the iranian regime. jenna: interesting to hear it from that form as we talk about syria. we have been doing so. inside the pentagon, are you hearing that the military is planning to intervene in syria? >> well, as you know the pentagon plans for everything but if you listen to general mat tus, the head of centcom as he spoke to the senate armed services committee he said no planning has begun. take a listen. >> i've not been directed to do detailed planning on these. i would prefer to take some of this, senator reed, and in the closed session but it would require regional or surrounding state support. it would be a significant commitment of resources. of course the international aspect cot reduce our commitment. >> reporter: what general mattis kmeens when he talks

about resource it is it is a code word for troops t would require a significant number of troops on the ground in syria if the u.s. would set up a no-fly zone and set up safe havens. that is what he told the senate armed services committee. jenna: what a story to be told. thanks very much. jon: fox news alert. take a look at the dow, down 152 points at this moment. that is the biggest drop for the dow since december 8th. the biggest drop in three months. analysts are pointing out so far 2012 has been a very good year for the dow and a year of low volatility. you haven't seen the wild swings in the market that we saw last year and and years previous. we'll be keeping an eye on that through the the day today. also this story. a woman sues her former college, former college, i should say claiming that her roommate's sexual activities in their dorm room drove her into suicide depression, see

sidal depression and the school did nothing about it. does she have a case. jenna: she wanted to move rooms. we'll see if she has a case. disturbing video of a fight on a school bus going for four minutes. think about that. that is longer than the commercial break. what took so long to break this up. >> go, go, go, go. jon: also terrifying moments for a group of snowmobilers. a massive avalanche nearly buries them alive. the amazing story coming up. ♪ . ah, welcome to hotels.com. i get it...guys weekend. yeah! if you're looking for a place to get together, you came to the right place. because here at hotels.com, we're only about hotels. yeah! yeah!

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jenna: welcome back, everyone. right now some brand new video just into our newsroom. a quick warning, what you are going to see some of you might find disturbing because 10 and 11-year-olds fighting. this is cell phone video of a wild bus ride home for 5th

and 6th grade students in collinsville, illinois. it starts with random horseplay and quickly escalates out of control. shoving, name-calling, racial slurs as well. the bus driver yells from her seat but never stops the bus. this goes on for several minutes with other kids on board, encouraging the fight. it then, only then, when it is really getting wild that the driver stops the bus, and breaks up the scuffle. this video was found by one of the parents by the way after a child posted it on youtube. some of the parents say they're outraged all this was allowed to go on for so long on the bus. the bus company is promising a full investigation. that is where the story stands at this point. jon: here is another scary trip but this one involves adults. friends in utah, their snowmobile triggers an avalanche that buries one of them under 10 feet of densely packed snow. rick is here with the video. >> reporter: man versus

avalanche. most of the time you have to give the advantage to the snow. it moves so fast and it is so heavy. somehow these friends in utah got the upper hand on sunday. they were snowmobiling near a place called hoyt's peek. there were warnings. not until a portion of the mountain began to break off and slide toward them. tyson black, who was driving the the snowmobile. was buried. you're looking at home video shot by someone in the group while others tried to work hard as they could to locate sighs son. his best friend worked on avalanche teams in the past and was there. he knew was what happening. >> i'm going to pull out my lifelong best friend and he is not going to be alive. >> okay. >> reporter: he was found alive and he spent 20 minutes underthe snow, jon. then another 20 minutes in

it while his friends dug him out. his girlfriend brandy, describes the moment they finally got him out. >> we were just balling. we were just hugging each other. just so thankful that he was okay and it was a miracle. i, i didn't think that we were going to pull him out breathing. let alone alive. >> reporter: amazingly tyson was not injured. his friends say in the past they would hear about warnings of possible avalanches and not take them seriously. they say those days are over, jon. jon: dangerous stuff, those avalanches. rick folbaum, thank you. jenna: survivors are putting their lives back together in the tornado zone. now hoping for some help. as we are taking some of the images we've seen over the last couple days, we have a live report from kentucky, coming up. voters heading to the polls on this super tuesday. 10 states, 419 delegates up for grabs. we'll have the latest on a big day in the republican race for the white house next.

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jenna: well all eyes on ohio this super tuesday with a tight race in the battleground state there between mitt romney and rick santorum. the economy and social issues set to play a big role in ohio's primary but don't take our word for it. we have some ohioans here to talk about it. mike dewine, ohio attorney general, and santorum supporter and former senator. and a congressman. jim is a romney supporter. senator dewine, let's talk a little bit about santorum. he has come on late here. he is not eligible in a few districts. why do you think he will pull this one out? >> what i've seen on the

ground a lot of enthusiasm for rick santorum. he appeals to the average voter. we've had a very interesting race in the last several weeks. the romney team dumped $12 million, i will say that again, $12 million in two weeks they have spent on negative ads. yet in spite of that, rick santorum is right in the hunt. this race is very, very close and what i'm seeing frankly, is a great appeal that rick has to blue-collar workers, to average ohioans. i think that will bode very well for him in the fall. one of the reasons --. jenna: congressman, if i get you to jump in here because senator dewine used the kryptonite. he said the average guy out there, blue-collar guy, that is who santorum seems to resonating with and mitt romney seems to have a little bit after problem with. why do you think romney will pull this out? >> well it is interesting, i introduced governor romney on friday to many blue-collar guys. once they get to know him,

once they get to hear his message they realize that we need to change, we need to change washington. i consider myself in many way as blue-collar guy. someone came from a blue-collar family who understands washington was broken. i came down here because washington was broken. once people meet governor romney i was with a rally there in canton, people are shaking his hand and saying i will actually support you. i am seeing something different happening in the sessions i have with the governor and a lot of people getting a chance to meet him. jenna: both of you are saying that the blue-collar worker is important. i'm curious, from the outside looking in, you both know the state better than all of us, talk to us congressman, what the number one issue is in the state of ohio? what do you think really what ohio wants to hear about? >> clearly, i've been in congress a little over a year. i've done so many town halls. people are worried about jobs, the economy, they want to make sure jobs are available to them.

i keep saying certainty and predictability as a business owner --, i was a business owner. governor romney will bring that he will bring certainty and predictability which is what we need. we need to get the small business owner willing to take the chance, move that risk to move forward and employ people that is what is most important to people. they want to hear somebody who has done it. signed more the front of paychecks than the back of pay checks. who understand certainty, predictability and creating jobs is important. ohio needs that and governor romney will bring that. jenna: senator dewine, that is the romney argument, that he has run a state and run businesses and rick santorum has been a senator but hasn't exactly had the same experience. how do you think, senator dewine, he is going to play in here? >> there is only one problem with that. governor romney has to deal with romney kiar in the fall. one of our best issues with barack obama is obamacare. governor romney gives that issue up. very difficult for him to deal with that. that is what he was pushing.

rick santorum is the true conservative in this race. he is the person not changed his beliefs and not flip-flopped back on issues as governor romney has. rick santorum is same guy i met 18 years ago. he is a conservative that has after appeal to average ojai anns. he has a program with regard to manufacture something dynamite. ohio is manufacturing state. we need more manufacturing jobs. rick santorum has a good program that makes a big difference in that area. jenna: we don't expect to call the race until late tonight. nice to get the voices from iowa, ohio, to talk a little bit why this state is so important tonight and what the issues are. congressman, senator, thank you so much both of you for joining us. >> thank you. >> thank you. jon: well here's a story with a very different flavor. she says that her roommate's sex life drove her into a suicidal depression. now she is suing the catholic college they both

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jon: "happening now", a former student at a catholic

college in massachusetts is suing her old school saying her roommate's sex life drover into a suicidal depression. lindsay blankmeyer wants $150,000 in damages because she said stonehill college did nothing to address her concerns. joining us for a fair and balanced debate, lis wiehl, fox news legal analyst and doug burns, criminal defense attorney and former federal prosecutor. lis, it didn't happen to me but lots of college students out there say it happens all the time. their roommates are having sex right there in the dorm room and it, well it causes problems. that is essentially what she is alleging here. she says the school didn't help her. >> that is even worse than that though, jon. when she was admitted she was already suffering from depression and attention deficit syndrome. so the school new she had a legal mental disability, which means they had to reasonably accommodate her. that is the critical legal issue here. fast forward. three years she had one

roommate. that roommate attempted suicide. obviously that made lindsay even more depressed when she got the second roommate. the second roommate, i don't want to get graphic here at all, having sexual relations within a few feet of her, many times at night and texting and video chatting in front of her. this really upset lindsay. jon: why not get a new roommate? >> she tried to. she went to the administration. she didn't want to out her friend. didn't want to say what the friend was doing because that would have been in violation of regulation of schools. is a very strict catholic school. she said i'm unhappy. i'm getting more and more depressed, give me private room or switch a room. she said you could have a cubicle, not a proper room or party dorm. i can't go to the party dorm, that is exactly what i don't want. why doesn't have my roommate just have to leave. jon: doug, i will read what the school said. they released a statement about this case. they say the college responded swiftly and professionally to the

concerns of the student in this case. the student was then presented with multiple options for housing on campus including a private room. the college also made special arrangements for the student to complete her degree while living at home. at no time did the student notify college staff that her concerns involved sexual activity by her roommate. that from stonehill college. doug, what do you make of all this? >> what i make of it there is serious factual dispute as to what happened, okay? the school says we made every reasonable accommodation and the other point about this is, why is this case in federal court? i mean, my god, can we all agree why we have the cliche, making a federal case out of something. this is a college matter should be handled with the resident advisor, dean of students and head of housing. by the way if you read the complaint as i did, they're cobbling it into two federal statutes. the fair housing act which was passed in '68 under president johnson to address discrimination in housing.

really a stretch. my point being, whatever dispute there is, doesn't belong in federal court, jon. jon: lis, if the college is right and she never told the college that this involved, you know, her roommate's sexual activity, doesn't that shoot big holes in her case? >> it doesn't help her case but really she was trying to protect her former roommate. what she did tell them i'm very unhappy. i'm getting more and more depressed. this is a woman who came in with depression and then had a roommate who attempted suicide. this situation with my roommate is getting me more and more and more and more upset and please do something. reasonable accommodation, the private room they're talking about they would turn a cubicle, a study cubicle into a room and which would have other kids around and she didn't want that. jon: one correspondent about the case, doug, there is no such thing as party dorm in stonehill college and. this is small catholic college and putting her

someplace else would be a good solution. >> that is why there is such a factual dispute. i read the complaint which in critical places is have very, very vaig. that is so interesting because the plaintiff can not articulate she wasn't offered some type of alternative accommodation. not to be a broken record. this is not a viable federal lawsuit. incidentally they're suing under two massachusetts discrimination claims. so they could have brought the case in massachusetts state court as well. jon: doug burns, and lis weill we will have to leave it there. we'll let our viewers know what happens. thank you both. >> pleasure. jenna: no party dorm? jon: no party dorm. that's what they say. jenna: that's what they say. a fox news weather alert for you now. fema and state officials are assessing storm damage in india on that today and it is big work. you have two powerful tornados nearly destroying the town of henryville on friday. they're deciding whether the area is eligible for federal assistance under a disaster declaration. seeing images hard to

understand how it could knot be. in kentucky, death toll is rising. 22 people are confirmed dead. mike tobin has been all over this area. today we find him west liberty, kentucky. hi mike. >> reporter: hi, jenna. the resilience of this community can be resulted by three words of graffiti on the convenience store. we be back. a lot of credit goes to power crews. 125 guys in 10 different crews working round-the-clock. working through the driving snow, up on the cherry-pickers through the bitter cold. because of their work, about 95% of the grid is back online. 95% of the customers out here have power again. state police also tell us that all but one of the cell towers has been put back up and is working again. sadly i've got to tell you about a little bit of looting has taken place. one guy volunteered for the red cross. put on his red vest.

went to work and started loading up his van with all the food supplies meant for tornado victims. he was charged with second degree burglary. there is one other guy according to state police filled up his truck with a load of copper. he has been caught as well. you don't have a lot of looting taking place. but a little bit is too much. jenna? jenna: still a developing story, mike. thank you very much. jon: well, we can't be everywhere so we are grateful that our viewers are sending incredible pictures from areas devastated by the tornados mike was talking about. debbie sent us this photo of a twister near columbia, kentucky. she was getting battered by wind and hail when she took this shot. take a look at what a tornado can do. michael in north carolina said that is what ripped apart this shopping center. adam from ohio. the storm uprooted trees and knocked over towers there. what a mess. send us your tornado

aftermath photos if you have them. up load them foxnews.com/ureport. the letter u. be sure to be safe while you're taking any of those pictures. jenna: we're talking a lot about ohio today and this story takes place there. slick roads posing serious dangers for drivers there. one after another. check this out. drivers slipping on black ice. you can see them smacking into guardrails and landing in ditches and causing as you can imagine, whoa. major accidents and traffic delays in columbus, yesterday morning. witnesses describe the scene. take a listen. >> all of a sudden the truck just spun out of nowhere and it, i was trying to control it but, it didn't -- it was there, there and i'm over here. >> he hit me in the rear end at the bridge, bumped me in the rear end, somebody did. and caused me to spin out. two complete spin arounds. it was scary. jenna: looks scary, doesn't it? work crews quickly arrived and salted the icy streets.

no major injuries were reported that is the key thing. jon, is there anything you can do driving on black ice? jon: man alive. keep the speed down. even with four-wheel drive you don't stop any faster. >> that is scary. jon: winds increasing dangers of wildfires in the parts the southeast. maria molina is live in the fox weather center. >> good to see you too, jon and hi, jenna. we have windy conditions across the no rain, no bad weather out there but combined that with gusty winds in place you're looking at elevated fire danger. look at sat light radar picture. skies across the southeast in florida, a beautiful day. we have low humidity from the front that produced tornados across parts of the country. behind that front we have low humidity levels and cooler temperatures and dry conditions. that is what is elevating that fire danger aside from the gusty winds that are in place. we have a number of wind advisories in effect across the center of the country

and across the southwest. the way you get the gusty winds, basically when you have a sharp contrast in pressures. you have a large high pressure system across the east. we have a new storm system impact the western half of the country. both these civils are powerful and strong. so the sharp contrast in pressure is what causes these strong winds. winds just basically increase as we have this sharp contrast in pressure. we'll look at gusts up to 50 miles an hour at times across the center of the country across to 70 miles an hour across the southwest. watch out for gusty winds driving high-profile vehicles. otherwise red flag warnings out for a big part of the country because of combination of dry weather and gusty winds. guys? thanks for the warning. maria molina. jenna: shocking new video from nevada. take a look at this. it is a tour bus packed with 59 passengers going up in flames and snarling traffic near the hoover dam scaring people. that is hot fire. the driver smelled smoke.

he grabbed his fire extinct isher and tried to put out the flames. when that didn't work he got everybody off the bus in time. no injuries were reported. if you can believe it. investigators don't know exactly what caused this fire but took the bus right along with it. jon: that is an expensive fire. we're all feeling the pain at the gas pump but the rising price of gas is raising suspicions in one state. now that state is lawn of muching a probe to -- launching a probe to keep you from getting ripped off. rick folbaum has the story. prince harry lands in jamaica today. it is not all fun and games in the sun. he has been given somewhat awkward assignment. we'll talk about it next. 1200 calories a day. carbs are bad. carbs are good. the story kes changing. so i'm not listening... to anyone but myself. (laughs) i know better nutrition when i see it: great grains. great grains cereal starts whole and stays whole.

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means for your pocketbook. there's a connection to you. also farmers in the northeast and midwest hit hard by last year's historic flooding, getting a helping hand from uncle sam. a live report on their progress in a few areas, the key area there. all baby products must meet federal safety standards, right? wrong. the breaking details you need to know to keep your baby safe. jon: well you know gas prices are on the rise but are those price increases always la jith mat? state inspectors are stepping up oversight at gas stations. they're looking for price gougers. rick folbaum is live in the newsroom. rick? >> reporter: according to aaa gas price most massachusetts went up for the 11th straight week. 3.73 a gallon on average. more than a quarter than it was last month. the governor there thinks something fishy is going on. deval patrick is sending out state inspectors.

it is their job to go from gas station to gas station all over the commonwealth to make sure there isn't any price-gouging going on. >> hear is the governor. >> i am concerned about price-gouging. some seem to be going up not because of actual factors in the world but imagined future calamity. >> reporter: analysts say uncertainty in iran and syria, the middle east in general are partly what is driving up the price of gas in this country and it has become a major campaign issue for republicans hoping to win the gop presidential nomination. some are accusing the president of not showing leadership on the issue. governor patrick, a fellow democrat says, the government's role should not be to regulate prices artificially, just to make sure the markets are operating fairly. back to you. jon: sounds good. rick folbaum. thank you. jenna: prince harry can thank grandma for one of the most awkward assignments of his short career. jon: yeah. >> british prince is in jamaica today, the latest stop on his first overseas

tour representing his grandmother and marking queen elizabeth's 60 years on the flown thrown. harry is set to tour a university there. and participating in a fun run with, you know olympic sprint champ hussein bolt. i don't know who will win. i think prince harry is pretty good athlete. he has a little bit of a awkward assignment. will have a private lunch with the prime minister of jamaica. she is no fans with the monarchy and wants to sever ties with the u.k. they have to sit over launch. have a cup of coffee. talk a little bit about that. prince harry seems like capable guy. i think he has been in other awkward situations. call it a hunch. jon: he is a good emissary, hey, jamaica in march, not a bad assignment. >> that is a pretty good assignment. >> iran is making a move into the nuclear showdown allowing inspectors into a suspicious military site. this concession as the world continues to tighten the screws on iran but are threats and sanctions the best way to deal with that

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jenna: brand new developments in the iran nuclear showdown or at least that is what it is being called this year. tehran is agreeing to allow u.n. inspectors into a key military base, as you can see on the screen. they haven't been able to get to it yet. meantime the five permanent members of the u.n. security council announced they agreed with a new round of talks with iran as sanctions tighten in hopes the rogue nation will put an end to nuclear ambition, put an end

or be forced to put an end to its nuclear ambition. our next guest says this isn't going to work and wrote a recent op-ed entitled why starving iran won't free it. he is iranian journalist and joins us now. y do you think sanctions enable the regime and rather than force change? >> what happens with sanctions you put pressure on the people more than any regime. that has been proven in places like north korea and places like cuba. in our case right now the u.s. is putting sanctions on iran in order to get them to do one of two things. one is either change completely or capitulate on the nuclear program. in neither of those cases are they going to work. i agree with benjamin netanyahu. unusually. i agree with him when he says the sanctions are probably not going to work. jenna: what will work? >> you have to have some sort of diplomacy. president obama talked about diplomacy yesterday. there but there is no

diplomacy. there is no diplomacy whatsoever. there is threats and sanctions. if you sanction, you will destroy the middle class. you will give excuse to government of iran not to allow civil society to funk and not allow any freedom in the country, allow any kind of real freedom in the try and enriching the government to some degree. jenna: president offered to go to iran to engage ahmadinejad in diplomacy. >> actually hasn't done that. jenna: he hasn't had an answer. he hasn't been invite in the country to have that happen. >> i'm not sure that is what he said. obama said during the campaign he would be willing to talk with iran and willing to engage with iran. what resulted after the election one 45 minute meeting in 2010 between the united states and iran over the nuclear issue. jenna: you think that is not enough? he has to do more than that? >> i don't know how 45 minutes in three years will resolve anything. so i think that the, real question here is what are the ultimate, what is the

ultimate goal? if you're going to say we're going to sanction you if that doesn't work, we'll bomb you, what incentive does iran have to come to the table in the beginning? jenna: you make an important point. is this regime evil? >> i don't think so, no. i think the regime is very, very brutal toward its own people but the word evil is bandied about a little too easily in this country today when it comes to other country. >> reason i ask, seems this conversation whether it is with iran or other countries, afghanistan, for example, where we seem to suggest that our behavior will change the people who hate us. and i'm curious, if i can ask director to pull you back up to screen because i hate to talk to myself. >> okay. >> that seems to be we're very critical of ourselves saying all the behavior is leading to our wars and our behavior is the reason the iranian regime doesn't want to engage us. i'm curious if there is real change that can be made from

our own behavior or these regimes are going on their path whatever we do? >> first of all i think there is possibility for a change in the behavior of different regimes, whether iran or anywhere else. first of all, most iranians, vast majority of irransians don't hate america. vast majority of iranians admire america. even within the regime people that admire america. there are things we can do with our foreign policy. this constant mantra we have you either do what we want to you do or else, in iran's case or else we're going to bomb you, doesn't really, doesn't engender a lot of hope in iran among the people or among the regime that there could be a breakthrough in relations. i mean iranian view and american view are very far apart at this point but i do believe diplomacy does have a real chance but there has to be real diplomacy, not just sanctions. not just all the sticks and no carrots. nothing has been offered iran. jenna: interesting your opinion because some people

criticized the president for not carrying a big enough stick when it comes to iran. nice to have a differing view. nice to have you back. >> thank you very much, jenna, one of our chatters was asking about the cup of coffee on the set. i do have a cup of coffee but there is also, there is also a cupcake atm story to tell you about later. jenna: okay. jon: i got you all goofed up there. super tuesday is the biggest day in the presidential race so far. voters across 10 states are heading to the polls. more than 400 delegates up for grabs. will today be a game changer in the republican race? that's next. [ dog barks ] appears buster's been busy. [ man ] yeah, scott. i was just about to use... that's a bunch of ground-up paper, lad! scotts ez seed uses the nest seed, fertilizer, and natural mulch that absorbs and holds water better than per can. looking good, lad! thanks, scott. ez seed really works.

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. >> reporter: are they even tested by the federal government? some surprising news that you need to hear. the second hour of "happening now" starts right now. skwraoeut is a huge day in the republican race as voters go to the polls in ten states. we are keeping an eye on all of them for you everybody. i'm jena lee? i'm jon scott. it is super tuesday the day mitt romney hopes to break away from rivals. his challengers have other ideas. nobody is going down without a fight. steve brown is live in steubenville, ohio, the biggest contested battle of super tuesday is ohio. what is today's turn out looking like, steve? >> reporter: it's looking like the turn out will be on the light side based on absentee ballots already turned in. the bells you hear in the background we are at the holy

family roman catholic church. turnout has been a little bit light here as well. the race has tight end up quite a bit and that would seem to play into the hands of mitt romney. the romney campaign has been out here for months trying to get together things like absentee ballots. you'll recall in michigan they got many absentee ballots, and it may be the reason they came out on top on the popular vote. they've been doing similar work we've been told for months on end. jon: rick santorum is banking on northeast ohio to boost his chances? >> reporter: it makes a lot of sense, a lot of blue collar folks. it mirrors the image of the place where he grew up in southwestern pennsylvania. faith is serious, manufacturing was king. a lot of blue collar workers, therefore spending a lot of time even though it's traditionally a democratic stronghold. the problem santorum faces he's not up for delegate battles in three district two of them in

this particular area. overall there is incomplete delegate slates in another six congressional district. overall cantor um competing for 48 today of the 66 del catses up in ohio. this is a race for the delegates for the nomination. in ohio santorum has a bit of a handicap. jon: it was about this time yesterday that carl cameron brought us presbyterian church bells, and you're bringing us roman catholic church bells. we are keeping it fair & balanced. jenna: we talked about a lot about religion in the race and everything else. fema is surveying some of the worst tornado devastation in the state of indiana. henryville, nearly wiped off the map by a raging funnel cloud, and today inspectors are deciding whether the city qualifies for federal disaster aid. it appears to be a no-brainer but there is something you have to go through and check off the list to get that money to the people. lawrence smith reporting from henryville right now.

>> reporter: the day after the storm broke cool and clear over henryville, revealing a community under siege. the tornado flattened buildings, ripped trees, and overturned cars. x marks the spot where rescuers had checked for victims. the school bus had been tossed across the road and slammed into a building. 14-year-old preston perry had got even off the bus just seconds earlier. >> i feel all of us were very lucky to get off the bus that quick, because we could have easily all been on it. thank god we did. >> reporter: preston's mother was the bus driver. she was still too shaken to speak. >> thankfully everybody is okay. >> reporter: jeff harrell was among 70 teachers and students inside henryville high school when the walls came tumbling down around them. >> it's good to see the sunshine

this morning. i'm happy to have my family with me. i'm counting my blessings, very much so. >> reporter: his daughters had left the school but were forced to turn back by the storm. >> i walked up and saw the school and i thought there was no way that there were no fatalities or injuries and i saw my dad and i was ran to him and jumped in his arms. it was amazing. >> reporter: amazing as well the response. security here is tight, and the rebuilding has already begun. volunteers prepared meals. neighbors are helping neighbors. coworkers and friends got betty out of her damaged home as she tried to salvage what she could. >> things can be replaced. friends and family can't, and that's what really counts. when times are bad these people show up. >> reporter: one veteran relief worker i talked to compared this scene to the aftermath of hurricane katrina. considering the extent of this devastation that description can't be far from wrong. yet resolve is strong.

>> look at the sign. it says our hearts are filled with hornet pride. >> reporter: hornet pride, henryville is bloodied. jenna: a great report from our fox affiliate, lawrence smith reporting from henryville. amazing to hear the stories where there are no casualties and no fatalities. we will be thinking of you in henryville today and all the areas affected by the tornadoes. jon: some new information out of iran for you just one day after a pivotal meeting between president obama and israel knee prime minister benjamin netanyahu. iran is going to allow inspectors into a spite where they suspect nuclear weapons are being developed. what to make of all this. well leland vittert is live in jerusalem for us. >> reporter: there is a general feeling this is more of the same from the iranian regime, simply an attempt to buy a little bit of time here. the more they let inspectors in

the more they offer to talk the less the world thinks about other options. as for those inspectors, largely it's turned into a game of cat and mouse. the inch pebgt pars ask to get in somewhere iran says no, all of a sudden they come back with yes. that's what has happened here. it's extremely important in terms of the iranian nuclear program because it is believed by israel and some of the other western intelligent agencies that are developing high explosives, the conventional explosives that are needed in order to be able to trigger a nuclear bomb. if that is indeed the case they are inside that facility and require a lot of experimentation and that would also be a red line in terms of where israel believes iran is going with its nuclear program, in terms of inspections iran said, okay we'll let everybody in, already in the past 24 hours has backtracked out a little bit with conditions, and maybes and all this other stuff. more of the same from the iranian regime. as for the talks, yes, everybody is going to sit down but it's unclear what exactly is on the table that they will talk

about. this has also been a delaying tactic by the iranian regime. so long as they are at the table talking it gives iran's allies a reason for not having sanctions get any tougher, to keep the screws from tightening down on the thumbs of the iranian regime when it comes to the oil program. just after prime minister benjamin netanyahu and president obama met at the white house the warm drums appeared to beat in israel. reports were that prime minister benjamin netanyahu already made his decision that he was indeed going to strike iran. they didn't give think kind of timeline for that. prime minister benjamin netanyahu was just there on capitol hill in washington, a reporter asked him about that, said, have you mid a decision about striking iran and the only thing prime minister benjamin netanyahu would say is, it's my decision not to talk about that. certainly not a denial there, and people who know the prime minister well say he has never been more serious in his entire political career. they have never seen him more focused, and certainly the

decisions and announcements by iran today are unlikely to really change that in terms of some kind of material step forward in having iran's nuclear program be solved peacefully. back to you. jon: very tense times. it will be fascinating to see what comes out of the inspections if anything. leland vittert in jerusalem thank you. jenna: a big question for our super tuesday, does the past serve as prolog for the 2012 election? when jimmy carter was in the oval office his advisers thought ronald reagan was the best thing that could happen to their re-election campaign. we all know how that turned out, don't we? are we seeing history repeat itself? we'll take a closer look at that. prosecutors file new charges in the case of a nine-year-old accused of going to school with a gun in his backpack and seriously wounding a classmate when the gun fired by accident. and rick has the latest from fox news.com, welcome to the studio, rick. >> reporter: nice studio, i like what you've done with the place, guys. everybody wants to know at the end ever the day will we finally

have a clearer picture of the g.o.p. field? a job for you during the commercial break, go to the poll at foxnews.com scroll down and you'll see the question right there, do you think that we'll have a clear frontrunner after today? yes or no. the results so far show that most of you right now are saying -- here we go -- maybe, in a minute -- yes. 62% of you say yes. it's like we rehearsed it. don't forget to join jenna, harris faulkner and me tonight on foxnews.com for a live web coverage of all the results in realtime, and a chat room for you to weigh in all night long. join us and we'll have more "happening now" after a quick break. [ male announcer ] drinking a smoothie with no vegetable nutrition?

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jenna: new developments in crime stories we are keeping an eye on for you right here. t.j. lane the suspect in the chardon, ohio shooting is in juvenile court. he's facing charges of three counts of aggravated murder and two counts of attempted murder.

prosecutors say they plan to file a motion to try him as an adult. that will happen later this month. new charges today in the case of a nine-year-old boy accused of bringing a gun to school and accidentally shooting and seriously wounding a classmate. his mother and her boyfriend are now facing criminal firearm charges for not securing weapons in their own home. and in north carolina 37-year-old jason young facing life in prison without the possibility of parole. a jury finding him guilty of his wife, michelle's 2006 murder. you probably remember this case. she was pregnant with the couple's second child at the time. this is young's second trial. in 2009 a deadlocked jury led to a mistrial. jon: political historians see some close parallels in the g.o.p. race for president this time around. this is from a february 29th column in "the new york times." not since herbert hoover has a

party out of power had such an opportunity to run against everything that troubles the american family. prices, interest rates, unemployment, taxes, or the fear for the future of their old age or the future of their children. it is now presented the republican party. the republicans however have not figured this out. this is their basic problem. well that column was published on february 29th, but it was 1980, 32 years and eight presidential election cycles ago. it was describing the republican's dilemma in trying to run against jimmy carter as he finished his first term back when conventional wisdom held ronald reagan was a sure looser. let's talk about it with tom bevin the executive editor of "real clear politics".com. tom did not write that. that was written in the "wall street journal." are there parallels this time around to what was going on this time, roughly, in 1979, 1980? >> sure. there are some obvious ones. the main one being that we have

an incumbent democratic president who is struggling with a lack luster economy, high gas prices heading into election. that is the main comparison between 1980. and i think bill also made a good point that there has been a lot of talk recently that obama is a shoo-in, that this thing is over, republicans have damaged themselves tph-s this primary process. i think it's worth pointing out we've gone through a couple of these cycles already, and in this day and age things change complete leave. the election is eight months away which is an awful longtime to be declaring it over and done with. jon: it was interesting to read that piece and remember the names of the republicans who were still in the race at the point. phil crane, john connolly, bob doyle, ronald reagan and george h.w. bush all contending for the presidency. we all know what happened. >> yeah, the one piece of bill's column that i think where the analogy sort of breaks down a little bit is the comparison of romney to reagan.

remember, ronald reagan was -- he stumped forbear regold water in 64. he ran as an insurgent candidate against the stabment in 76 and took it all the way to convention. he did it again successfully in 1980. he was sort of the original tea partier. romney is sort of the anti-reagan, he's running as part of the establishment, and so in that sense i think the analogy breaks down and it will be interesting to see whether the question for romney, can he unite the base and can he win over independents, if he wins the nomination to make it a contest in november? jon: do you think that this analogy of bill works better than stapbt r-r cast as the ronalstapbt r-rrick santorum as the ronald reagan of 1908. >> i don't think i would say either. ronald reagan was a two term governor in the most popular state in the country. that profile does not fit with rick santorum who lost his last

election by 18 percentage points. he's now the current anti-romney candidate in the race. voters have fluctuated between not only santorum but a host of of other candidates throughout the process as we all know. easy merged as the anti-romney candidate. i wouldn't compare him to ronald raeug. jonronald reagan. jon: he closes the piece this way the parallels to 1980 only take you so far and mitt romney is no ronald reagan. at this point in his campaign for the g.o.p. nomination, neither was reagan, interesting. >> it is interesting. i think, again, i think bill makes a good point. we should step back and recognize historically. again, people, you know, wanted -- carter wanted to run against reagan. they thought he was a sure looser. people underestimated reagan and they might be doing that with mitt romney or rick santorum this time around. jon: he said all is lost the president is too strong he's a

shoo-in for re-election, not necessarily the case according to bill. >> that's right. i'll say it again, eight months until the election. we've already seen commentators say that obama he's a sure looser, now we're hearing he's a sure winner, and he republicans are sure losers. we will probably go through a couple rounds of this until we get to the only poll that matters in november on election day. jon: it is a lifetime away, election day, 8 months. tom thank you. jenna: it was a night of pure terror in a pizza shop as an armed robber threatens to shoot workers in the head. take a look at that photo. police are worried he's going to strike again. we'll tell you more about what is going on there. plus you may think your money is safe in your 401k's, it's something that we are told. with some cities and towns facing record bankruptcy. why that could matter to your retirement, your pocketbook next. ok! who gets occasional constipation,

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video freeze frame. scary stuf stuff. a colorado pizza shop robz. alrobzrobbed. all caught on tape. >> reporter: you're trying to eek out a living in a tough economy when suddenly a guy with a gun comes in and demands all your cash. that is exactly what happened last thursday to this woman who owns best pizza and ice cream in colorado. here is surveillance video. an armed man in a white hooded sweatshirt runs in, points the gun at the woman. demands her to empty her cash register. she gave him everything she had, about 60 bucks. and then he said, that is all you have? she said, yep. it's a tough economy. so he then leaves. the whole thing lasted about a

minute and a half. but it was enough to scare her who says she worries the robber who is still on the run will come back to her shop. she is coming forward now because she hopes that someone might recognize that man and call the police. by the way beings jon, in same guy is thought to be behind 12 other local robberies. if you do have any information on who he is call the police in aroura, colorado, back to you. jenna: the city of stockton, california is on the verge of declaring bankruptcy. fit does it will become the largest city ever in our country to declare bankruptcy. the same goes for serve son county, bam r it will be the biggest ever bankruptcy for a municipalities. billions of dollars at stake. even if you don't own any of their bonds in their cities and even if you don't live close to them you could end up on the losing end of this deal. alabama, california, steve, we are in new york, why would that affect us? >> reporter: most of us in our

401k plans or our pension plans or ira's do own municipal bonds. one of the reasons people buy municipal bonds, jenna, there are two reasons, one is the interest is tax-free under federal tax laws, second of all because most of us think of those municipal bonds as pretty risk free. we are finding out, jenna as a result of what is happening in some of the towns in california and elsewhere that maybe they are not as risk free as we thought. you could see, if the economy doesn't improve, and tax revenues don't start to rise in some of these cities and counties that some of these municipal bonds may be defaulted on, or you may see bankruptcy, as you just mentioned by cities, which would mean they would no longer than honor bond to bay back those debts. jenna: we've talked about the financial crisis the last couple of years. the stock market has been looking pretty good with the exception of day it is down 200 points. we seem to be on the road to recovery.

why are we getting these headlines. >> one, because tax revenues at the local level are still really low. think about this. how do so many counties and cities get their money? through property taxes. what is happening with property and real estate values across the country, they are falling. that means that the states and cities are not getting at much revenues in. there is a second problem that is probably even more important in terms of why so many of these cities are in such financial straits. and that is because of something you and i have talked about on this show many times, these enormous pensions of the state and local workers that are an albatross around the necks of a lot of these cities. they can't pay their bills in part because so much of their tax payments are going to pay for benefits that people were working 20 or 30 years ago and who have retired. jenna: stockton is an example of thalt city manager says they will spend more money on health benefits for retired workers than current employees. how do you get out of that possible. >> we find that in a lot of cities. the problem is if you're a

local -- i don't mind paying my local taxes if they are giving me services for schools and teachers and garbage collection. when i'm paying taxes for people who retired 20 years ago i mind that a lot especially when the pentagons are 50% to a hundred percent higher than the private sector. jenna: that is a contract with the union. my grand nats with us a garbage man, right, he worked in garbage, and if he would have lived a longer life then his union got him this pension, so then isn't he owed that? i mean it's not his fault that his union negotiated that. but it is the city's problem if the city can't pay it. >> it's a great point. what happened these are what we call legacy costs. a lot of time the politicians from 10, 20, 30 years ago negotiated these contracts and now taxpayers are left holding the bag. and this circles back to how we started this conversation about why are cities in trouble because now they have to pay these legacy costs and one of the reasons a lot of cities are looking at the bankruptcy option is because this might be the only way out of those contracts,

because once you declare bankruptcy you nullify some of those contracts. that is by the way one of the reasons that the municipal unions are very much against bankruptcy. this is an evolving story the headline is if you own municipal bonds you might be worried a little bit in those going forward. they might not be as safe as you thought they were. jenna: we have started to question that and that leads to a lack of confidence in the economy. things are better, though. we'll see if they continue in that direction. steve, nice to have you as always. thanks again. >> see you soon. jon: so much sadness across heartland america, scenes of death and destruction, whole communities devastated by tornadoes. today the voters are out in force heading to polling places throughout the region and there could be some new threats moving in from above. live to the fox weather center for a super tuesday forecast. plus, neck-and-neck heading into tennessee, why the volunteer state could play a major role in deciding the nominee this year.

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jon: in case you didn't know it, it is super tuesday and weather could be key in the turnout for contest around the nation. so what can voters expect? let's check in with maria molina. she is live in the fox wetter center. >> good toe to see see you

jon. weather is cooperating for voting event today. super tuesday, 10 states, alaska is pretty quiet. but a storm system across the west is bringing out activity in southeastern parts of the state of ohio. but most of that will be done with by later on this afternoon. get out and vote. be careful for possible black ice on the roadways in idaho and parts of ohio. temperatures are starting to get above freezing out there. on radar picture, southeast looks good. we don't have any precipitation out there. we have gusty winds across the center of the country. so that is something to keep in mind. e temperatures are own the cool side. grab the jacket. high in boston will be 35. i want to zone in on ohio. we have big key states for today. 56 will be high temperature out there. little bit on the cool side on northern part of the state. 38 in cleveland. we'll get sunshine and temperatures will be warming up later on. 49 is the high in cleveland

this afternoon and 56 in columbus. it feels a little cooler out there. look at windchill temperatures. 28 in cleveland and feels like 39 degrees in columbus. just a light jacket as you head out the door. drive carefully as you head out later tonight if you get some black ice again on the roadway. we have the storm system out west that will continue to head eastward. i want to point out we have concerns for strong winds in the center of the country. we could talk about gusts 50 miles an hour and the in the southwest gusts up to 70 miles an hour. the reason why we're seeing these strong winds because we have a strong high pressure system in the east of the country. strong cold system in the west and sharp contrast in temperatures form the strong wind gusts. and the wind in combination with the dry conditions along a big chunk of the country will cause elevated fire danger. so red flag warnings are in effect. jonl? jon: maria, thank you. jenna: fox news alert. president obama set to outline new protections for

folks borrowing from the federal housing administration and held a rare white house news conference, his first of the year, right in the middle of the republican super tuesday contest. rich edson from the fox business network. joins us live from the white house. hi, riff, how are? >> reporter: jenna i'm good thanks. president will outline a new government proposal. if you have a government insured loan you can refinance for lower fees. if you're a military veteran and forced to sell your house at a loss to relocate or wrongfully foreclosed on there would be government funding for that. this is a presidential news conference, make no mistake. reporters will ask anything they want. we'll talk about the economy and gas prices and topic that dom it understand white house yesterday and capitol hill this morning, iran. >> i reserve all options and, my policy here is not going to be one of containment. my policy is prevention of iran obtaining nuclear weapons. >> here is the administration's mistake.

in attempting to preserve all options it has inadvertently blurred the most important one. and that is a determined military campaign to end iran's nuclear program. [applause] >> reporter: so, jenna, this is a very effective way for the president and the white house to get out there today, defend their policies on iran an economy. it is super tuesday. 10 states voting and four republican candidates who are pretty set on criticizing the president for the bulk of the day. back to you. jenna: rich edson, thank you. jon: well it is expected to be a close race today in tennessee. 58 delegates are up for grabs there with no clear leader going into super tuesday. tennessee is viewed as a southern bell wetter state of sorts. giving voters in the volunteer state a big role in deciding the republican nominee. we have the chairman of the republican party. you have one of those states where democrats and independents are also allowed to vote, right?

>> yes, jon. good toby here today. great day for voting. we have a very diverse electorate. obviously it is a open primary. democrats and independents can vote in our primary. when we poll, they are 3%, usually 30 3% of voters describe themselves of as independents. it is a broad base of republicans. we have more mainstream republicans in the eastern part of the state which aligned themselves all the way back to their great, great-grandfathers fought for the union army. so they're republicans. you have southern democrats that moved over to the republican party, more socially conservative and pop you is. we have the tea party element around the nashville suburbs. so it is a broad base of republicans and competitive here. jon: have you seen the efforts so controversial in states like michigan where rick santorum was pushing democrats and independents to vote for for or vote against mitt romney? >> yeah, there's really never been any concerted, any kind of evidence of any

concerted effort by democrats to affect our elections and, you know, the republican party actually prefers the open primary system. it is a way for us to draw conservative democrats and independents into the republican party. so we like the open primary system and, we don't expect any problems today. jon: so romney i guess has been on a bit of a roll in your state according to the polls. are you making predictions who might come in on top here? >> well, i don't want to make a lot of predictions, jon, but i will say it is competitive. i do think this whoever wins the state, because of the diverse electorate, but not only a southern state but has a such a broad group of voters heres, someone could take this, if they could take this and say hey, i can run a national campaign. but i would also say, you know, if somebody does well here, say if mitt romney does well here tonight i think he can say that as well because you have to appeal to social conservatives. you have to appeal to mainstream republicans.

you have to appeal to tea party people. so it's a broad group here. jon: what about unemployment though? it hasn't hit tennessee as hard as it has hit some other states. is the economy and unemployment, is that a big issue? >> yeah, it's, you know, fortunately we have a good governor, governor haslem has worked to get our unemployment down. it has been above 8% for three years now and matched sometimes what the national level is, hovering around 11% at one point. and so, yeah the economy is an issue but the biggest issue that republican voters and democrats and, democrats that want to beat republicans in this election and independents, looking at who is the best person to defeat barack obama. i think when i go around and talk to folks, that's what they're looking at who is the best person to carry the republican flag to beat barack obama? jon: all right. chris devaney, chairman of the tennessee republican party.

big day for you. we'll let you get back to it. >> thank you, jon. jon: keep it right here all day for in depth reporting and analysis of super tuesday. our special coverage begins 6:00 p.m. this evening. bret baier and megyn kelly will be your anchors. jenna: keeping your baby safe a top priority for all parents. it may come as a surprise there are no safety standards nationally for all kinds of baby products. we'll tell you more about that. emotions running high in a courtroom as the family of a murder victim confronts her alleged killer. take a look at that. [shouting] >> get back! are you receiving a payout from a legal settlement

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floodwaters came rushing across farmland in northeast especially places like vermont and here in the county, it wasn't just like farm crops and equipment that was washed away and contaminated it is also the soil. there is big problem trying to fix the soil. we want to show you the type of damage done here especially in the cornfield. all this kind of crop was completely damaged, washed away and just unsalvageable. unfortunately hurricane irene hit just before the big harvest. in january the u.s. department of agriculture released $6 million to farmers to help repair the storm averaged land, removing gravel and debris and filling holes and changes in soil composition. here at maple downs dairy farm think lost over a million dollars in assets. david is here with me now. i want to introduce him. we've been talking about healing the land here, david. what specifically happened to your soil? >> we had very unexpected circumstance. we had like eight feet of

water came in here, very quickly. it was like a 20 to 25 minute time frame. it flattened the crops. and now, since the flood, we found, we had issues with the soil. one thing is the ph is extremely high. >> have you ever seen anything like this before? the t time we've ever had this kind of water. we've had minor flooding but nothing to cause this devastation like this in the past. >> how do you fix the soil? >> well we can add, as far as the ph thing which can add sulfa mag. usely you ad things to bring the ph up. because your soil is acid. we're investing in sulfa mag. >> reporter: you're looking for additional funds. we've been talking to farmers all week saying the funding coming in is great but it is not enough? >> the state has done, helped us out. done a lot for what, but the

federal government, i mean, they got a lot on their plate. so it's kind of understandable but --. >> reporter: you need more? all right. we'll continue to watch this developing situation. we've got another farmer right down the road, a carrot farmer, richard ball, at carrot farm. he had different situation. all the crop was lost but his ph balance was all right. it varies farm to farm but definitely a lot of work going on recovering from last year's hurricane. jon: that is something i never thought about. laura, thank you. >> reporter: thank you. jenna: two men are facing charges after attacking a murder suspect in court. take a look at this video. the men both related to the victim went after the suspect as he was brought into court yesterday in massachusetts. he is accused of stabbing his girlfriend several times after celebrating her 25th birthday friday night. her father, and stepfather were arrested. other family members don't regret this they say, it was justice. the suspect has pleaded not

guilty. jon: well a troubling new report is raising plenty of concerns for parents. millions of baby products are not subject to federal or even industry safety standards. we'll find out why. also a very brave 10-year-old keeps would-be robbers out of her home. wait until you hear this incredible story. >> i think somebody is breaking into the house. we just came home from school and put our pajamas on. we're really scared and our mom is on her way here. >> do you hear someone at the door or what is going on. >> no, we hear him from the back door. we're really scared. >> you hear him at the back door? >> yes they're coming in now! 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, veterans and their families.

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jenna: quick-thinking third grader credited with saving her little brothers from a pair of intruders.

10-year-old amari got home from school yesterday only to hear what sounded like someone breaking into her home. she hid with her two siblings and the telephone. >> we went in the close rhett because we're really, really squared. >> are you guys looked out the window? >> no, because i'm really scared. >> that's okay. >> i don't know if anyone is house i do hear noises. >> where do you hear the noises coming from? sound like inside or outside the house? >> doesn't really know. i'm in the closet and nervous. >> go down to the front door. there will be an officer, it is okay, he will meet you at the front door. can you unlock it for him? >> yes. jenna: can you imagine how scary that is. that is pretty good for a 10-year-old. dispatchers kept the little girl on the phone, talking about school until the police arrived. as you just heard. they say it was key that she remembered her address and cops arrested two teens in fact running away from the home. who knows what could have happened. good job by amari, pretty brave little girl. jon: yeah, pretty brave. all children want parents

want to keep their children safe. but a new report says many popular baby products are not subject to safety standards. how can that be? rings folbaum live from the newsroom. >> reporter: this is an amazing story, jon. you can argue businesses in this country are subject to too many regulations but when it comes to baby products few would want federal testing to go away. consumer product safety commission is responsible for flagging so many things dangerous to our kids, from harmful lead amounts to plastic baby bottles and falling cribs and strollers. for parents it is a blessing because you feel like you're kids are looked out for and will keep your head spinning as you look out for every recall and warning. this report from "usa today" is so alarming. for some kids products that are tested, so many that are not, millions, actually. some are popular like the nap and nanney recliner. this is not subject to federal safety standards.

a lot of parents use this for newborn in the crib. 0,000 were recalled two years ago after one baby died and 23 others were hurt using this product. same with this baby seat. it doesn't get tested but even though linked to 33 skull fractures. there are four million seats out there. we actually have one in our house. safety advocates say there are some new products literally coming out on the market every day it is tough for regulaters to keep up with them all, jon. the problem a lot of this gear isn't easily classified. not a traditional toy or crib which slows the testing process down. the industry has voluntary testing method. many of them are good. but the bottom line experts say parents should not assume every product they use with and for their babies has been tested by the government. back to you. jon: for instance that. bumbo baby seat you have, i look at that i would not think that is dangerous. >> the problem with that seat, this is a seat for babies who have not yet

learned to sit up on their own. it take as baby six, seven months until they can sit by themselves. you put them in that seat. they sit there and they like it. the problem the babies are tipping over according to some studies and hitting their head on the floor. that is leading to injuries. and so there are all of these new products with new designs that haven't really been out there before and the whole process seems to be bogged down quite a bit. jon: let the buyer beware. good information. thanks, rick. jenna: rick should know he has twins, his little twins. i like his replay of what happens to the babies. that little, kind of tip over. never a good thing. don't want to make fun of that if anybody should know about those, rick is our expert. we're awaiting the president. he will begin his first formal question and answer period with reporters in several months. this is pretty big news. just broke yesterday. this is going to be the first news conference of year, in fact. a whole lot of questions that the president has to prepare for from gas prices to everything in between with iran.

we'll have all of that for you live as it gets underway at the white house.

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megyn: how long do the cupcakes stay in there? jon: i hope not long. megyn: i like the pink atm. that would be enough to get the money out of it. i like it being pink. jon: i've got to think of what else i could want out of an atm. jenna: that could get us in a lot of trouble. jon: thank you for joining us today. hope you're liking our new studio. we sure are. jenna: that's for sure. "america live" start right now. megyn: fox news alert it is the biggest contest in the republican contest so far and president obama wants us to remember he's in this race too. as republican voters head to the polls for the super tuesday primaries, we are now about 15 minutes out from a presidential news conference. on the issues that could define this election. welcome to "america live," everyone, i'm megyn kelly. ten states are holding contests today and store tell gather are up for grabs on this single day than on all the previous primaries and caucus days combined.