bill: have a wonderful trip, bring back great stories. i'll look forward what hearingotomy. martha: thanks bill, see you back there tomorrow. bill: you bet. "happen position now" starts right now. jenna: iran is reportedly covering up nuclear testing at one of its sites and the u.n. says it has the photos to prove it. we'll show you those images in a live report coming from the region. jon: american and proud of it. fans at a high school basketball game, chanting "usa" after a victory but then the winning school had to apologize. some say the chant was racist. a fair and balanced debate. jenna: interesting. love a good burger? we do on "happening now". a new report on what really goes into that ground beef! it just might make you choose chicken. i'm not so sure. but you're going to have to wait and see. chicken sandwich is never the same thing when you want a burger. jon: i like the nuggets.

jenna: it's not the same! we're going to start off with a lead story, everybody, a controversial project up for debate once gefnlt we're glad you're with us today, i'm jenna lee. jon: happy thursday to you, i'm jon scott. all eyes are on the keystone oil pipeline. jenna: a vote is expected in the senate on an amendment that would remove the president from the decision making process so he won't be a part of it and congress is able to approve the project. if this goes through. but it doesn't clear the way completely. congress is going to need 60 votes to pass, and 60 votes can be tough to get. jon: these days especially. president obama put the pipeline on hold early they are year as you know saying it needed further environmental review. the planned pipeline would bring oil from canada to texas. supporters say it would bolster energy security in this country and increase jobs. jenna: national comes respondent steve-oo correspondent steve centanni has more. what should we expect? >> >> reporter: it's

attached to a transportation bill debated today and probably next tuesday as well, it will carry over into next week. the latest political twist to the story is a claim by byinglicans that president senate democrats to reject an amendment calling for construction of the pipeline. senate republicans say this shows the president believes the vote will be very close when it heads to the senate floor. already, two democrats have defected. joe manchin of west virginia and mary lawnd rue of louisiana. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell said today the president is completely out of touch on the keystone issue: >> i mean, think about it. at a moment when millions are out of work, gas prices are literally skyrocketing, and the middle east is in turmoil, we've got a president who's up making phone calls, trying to block a pipeline here at home. it's really almost unbelievable. >> reporter: and senator john cornyn of texas spoke as well, saying the president claims he wants to

create jobs, but now he's apparently lobbying against the ones that keystone would create, jenna. jenna: you said apparently because there are still reports about that. what does the white house say about the claim that the president is personally lobbying democrats to vote against the keystone project? >> well, the white house is noto has not responded to questions about this report, but as you know, the president wants further environmental study of this controversial pipeline. he claims republicans are playing politics with the issue, but republicans make the same claim. they say the president has his eye on the environmental vote in this lks year. now, if it survives a 60 vote hurdle in the senate, any keystone amendment or measure could then face a presidential veto. so it is indeed an uphill battle. jenna: a story we'll continue to watch, steve. thank you. jon: and this fox news alert. an iranian diplomat in france says his country is unwilling to discuss cutting the uranium enrichment in upcoming nuclear talks. this comes amid new accusations that iran is working to get hid of

evidence of nuclear work at a military complex just before inspectors are supposed to arrive there. diplomats say satellite photos show trucks and other large earth movers working the at the site, the united nations atomic watchdog suspected that iran tested a trigger for nuclear weapons at that secret location. leastland vitter is live in -- leland vitter is live in jerusalem for us, the israelis are keeping a close eye on iran. how are they interpreting the news? >> reporter: the israeli reaction is basically we told you so. i'll translate the hebrew for you, proof iran is developing a nuclear bap. we're talking about the parchin nuclear facility south ofter ran. inspectors asked for a long time to be able to go in there, the iranians have said no and now all of the sudden they're saying yes but as they said yes there's all this evidence they are trying to clone something up

there. intelligence estimates say they're trying to clean up a neutron trigger experment and that's what you need to actually explode a nuclear bomb. this would be for the first time proof, a smoking gun, if you will, that iran is actually developing a nuclear weapon, and their nuclear program is not peaceful as their ambassador to the iaea today just said. he said no, no, no, despite this evidence, we only want to do nuclear power research. of course, the israeli prime minister has had a long running response to that, sarcastically saying essentially, yeah, right. >> so i know there are concerns, really, that the israelis are possible planning to attack iran's nuclear facilities. does this change the calculation at all? >> reporter: well, if anything, this news would put things closer to israel's red line when they would launch an attack but today, there was a report out that israel and the united states has reached a deal where the u.s. would give israel better bunker busting bombs, also advanced

air to air refuelling to extend israel's capability. that's important, because as of now, israel would have to strike in about the next six months, because of their current air force capabilities. the deal would say israel doesn't strike until at least january 1st, 201 #. that would give sanctions more time to work which of course is what president obama has asked for. the iranians for their part have come out and said oh, we welcome more time to discuss this and give diplomacy a chance. at the same time, the ayatollahs have said well, sanctions aren't going to work, they will, quote, fail. of course, as you just reported, an ambassador to france from iran said the thought of talking about us ending our nuclear enrichment program was a key part of creating a bomb is off the tail, so we might be right back at where we are today in a couple of months. jon: also worth noting, if that report is accurate, it puts the time window of an israeli attack past the u.s. elections. >> reporter: exactly. jon: leland vitter, live from jerusalem, thank you. jenna: it's interesting, the

two top stories, the keystone pipeline deal that talks about energy policy inside our country and the story out of iran, and these things link together, not directly connected to the stories, but when we're talking about energy policy and the timeline when it comes to iran's nuclear program, those things are connect a lot of ways and the impression that lawmakers feel on capitol hill. in the meantime a growing threat inside our country, a new report says extreme antigovernment groups and militias are on the rise, calling the growth of these groups, this report, explosive. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge joins us. what exactly are we talking about in in report? >> reporter: according to report by the southern poverty law? , the haim of hate and antigovernment groups is on the rise, now reported to be in excess of 1200. this bar chart from the report claims to show that the number of groups is steadily growing, with california, florida, georgia, new jersey, and new york, home to most. the report also says the

groups are organized in a specific racial, religious or antigovernment factor, quote, they represent both the kind of right wing populist rage and left wing populist rage that's gotten all mixed up in anger toward the government and the report notes the dramatic rise of what's call the sovereign citizens movement. this is a group that the fbi flagged just last month, jenna. jenna: let's talk about that, sovereign citizens. who are they? >> reporter: according to the fbi the sovereign citizens movement believes federal, state and local governments operate illegally, the bureau says the movement is fueled by the internet and this economic downturn and since 2001, according to the fbi, members of this movement had killed at least six law enforcement officers, including a shooting in may of 2010 in arkansas where two officers stopped jerry cane, his 16-year-old son and during a routine traffic stop cane allegedly jumped out of the vehicle and opened fire with an ak-47, killing both officers. today's report says the highest number of these sovereign citizen-like groups are often found in

michigan, texas, california, and also, washington state, jenna. jenna: that is shocking video, to know they took the lives. unbelievable. catherine, thank you very much. >> you're welcome. jenna: an important story today. jon: a sad video. there's a report that mitt romney, of course, leads in the delegate chase for the gop nomination, but his rivals don't seem to want to give up. now there's pressure mounting for republicans to circle the wagons around mitt romney. our next guest says republicans might want to think about doing it sooner rather than later. jenna: our next guest -- is our next guest myth mitt romney? i bet he'd say that as well! >> a new report says that more than 70 percent of ground beef you buy in the supermarket contains so-called pink slime. what you didn't know, and you probably don't want to know, but you should know about your next burger. jon: sounds like the stuff i keep in my refrigerator too

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jon: you've probably heard it. there's a lot of pressure mounting to narrow the gop presidential field. four candidates remain in the mix, and for some republicans that is three too many. they want to end this battering primary season and focus on challenging president obama in the general election come november. but supertuesday's results did not deliver any knockouts, and analysts believe this month's upcoming contests could actually help extend the race. our next guest just released a column saying it's time republicans rally around the frontrunner. mitt romney. let's talk about it with

a.b. stoddard, associate editor of the hill. let me read to you a quote from an on or about of politics t. reads like this and it's paraphrased or partially condensed, republican voters know all about the disappointing ending, they've flipped to the last page of the book, mitt romney somehow becomes the party's candidate for president but tell that to fuming gop primary voters. someone should tell them soon that the only thing worse than the mitt they have now is the one that's beaten, battered and broke. does that sound familiar to you a.b.? >> i maintain that mitt romney is the last and only choice, because as he maintains, he's ahead in the delegate mass, ando delegate math and i don't think there's a white knight that's going to rescue this in the convention in tampa. i don't think it's going to happen. the party has to decide between ron paul, newt

gingrich, mitt romney or rick santorum. mitt romney has made the most, santorum is number two, gingrich, if he was opposed to the nomination he would drop out and endorse rick santorum. it's possible that santorum makes this painful for mitt romney but mitt romney is right, it will take something like an act of god for rick santorum to beat him in delegates, to win 60 percent and upwards of more than 55 percent in most of the con tests remaining and that's going to be nearly impossible. so the party is going to -- is going to be stuck with mitt romney, the honer this goes on, the more he bleeds with independent vote, they are going to elect mitt romney if he faces off in the fall against the president. jon: you're saying despite the bad blood between them, newt gingrich is actually helping out romney. >> he is because newt gingrich is staying in the race and splitting the conservative vote in state after state. if he had dropped out

several weeks ago rick santorum would be in a much better position to take on mitt romney, he would have gingrich voter and he would as you know from the numbers, he'd be doing better than mitt romney in winning those contests, he would have been able to stop the path to the nomination. as long as gingrich is in the race and splits up that vote with the steady, solid 12 percent or whatever it is, then obviously, he won georgia, he takes votes from santorum and keeps mitt romney at the front of the pack. jon: but newt beginning rich -- newt gingrich thinks he's the better candidate to santorum or romney. >> but he doesn't have the support that rick santorum haas and he knows he's more conservative than mitt romney by any voters' standards so when newt gingrich is saying no, we cannot nominate a moderate like mitt romney but we can't really vote for santorum either because he's not really a conservative, that's not really -- that's not a plausible explanation. rick santorum, if you're newt gingrich or one of his

supporters is the only conservative alternative to mitt romney. gingrich doesn't have a path to the nomination. santorum has kind of a path to the nomination. and that is why you see this new pressure on newt gingrich to get out. jon: obviously, at the end of the day, come november, if it's going to be mitt romney against barack obama, all of these conservative republicans who really don't feel the urge to go support mitt romney right now, they're not going to vote for president obama, are they? >> no. what you're going to see is this. you're going to either see that they stay home, or -- because they truly believe mitt romney is not a conservative, or they get in the car to vote but they don't really, really help at the grassroots level, they don't spend a lot of money, they don't volunteer their time, there's not enough enthusiasm at the grassroots level to get him over the top, then couple that with the fact that he's lost

support precipitously with independents in the last couple of months that the primary contest has begun and been in full force, and those are the people that put him over the top. if both president obama and mitt romney start with their 47 percent, someone needs to win the middle, and that person becomes the next president. if mitt romney needs them, plus his faith, that becomes more challenging if this negative campaign in the primary goes on long, bleeds his money, bliedz hes support, and weakens him. he needs to fire up the base and he needs the middle. jon: a.b. stoddard from the hill newspaper and that quote, obviously, was hers, on the hill.cole, a.b.c. thank you. >> thank you. jen jon, it's going to be tough to get through this next story. it was the talk of the commercial and i bet it's the talk of you at home as well, the new report says the majority of ground beef sold at supermarkets across this country contains so-called pink slime. what is that? rick folbaum is here with the disturbing details, the anxiously awaited details that we all want to know,

rick. >> reporter: you wouldn't expect, jenna, something referred to as pink slime to be good. it's not. we're talking about filler, beef trimmings that according to two former scientists at the u.s. department of agriculture are added to the ground beef that we buy. gerald zenstein and carl custer telling abc news the trimmings were once only used in dog food and cooking oil but now he says they -- they say, rather, they're found in 70 percent of the ground beef that we buy at our local supermarkets. it's basically a way for beef sellers to boost their profits by using a lesser quality filler that's cheaper than pure ground beef. the whistleblowers say it's not even actual beef, it's what is salvaged after the animals are slaughtered, then treated with aknowna to kill bacteria to make it safe enough to eat, though you won't find any of that listed on the label ingredients, something else the scientists fought for and were denied. we reached out to the fda and they tell fox news the usda has strengthened food

safety standards in recent years and allows only products into commerce and especially into schools that we, the usda, have confidence are safe. but this only refers to beef that the government purchases for the national school lunch program. the whistleblowers we referred to say the fillers are used, as we said, in 70 percent of all ground beef found in supermarkets. sorry, jenna. back to you. jenna: i don't know if that policy is going -- apology is going to help anything. i still like my burger. jon: i love a burger. i thought pink slime was found on the leftover i kept in my fridge. jenna: i would love a look inside that refrigerator. we've only been on the air 20 minutes and it's gotten a lot of air time! if you want to e-mail us about pink slime, go to fox news.com. jon: let's hope it's not in your grocery cart. from the massacre in syria, to the burning of korans by u.s. troops, president obama's foreign

policy is under the microscope this election cycle. what has the president done right and what has he done wrong? jenna: a comprehensive view and our guest literally wrote the book on it. coming up. was it patriotism or racism? fans chanting usa after its basketball team conform -- won. the right move? is this something they should be punished for? we'll have a fair and balanced debate and the full story, next. i've worked hard to build my family.

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jon: accusations of racism for chanting "usa". it happened after a high school basketball game in

texas. fans of the winning team from a mostly white school district started chanting "usa" during the trophy presentation. folks from the opposing team took that as a racial insult saying it was disrespectful to their students who are mostly minorities. monica crowley is a talk show radio host and fox news contributor, sally kohn is a fox news contributor. what's wrong with chanting usa" after a basketball game it feels like a playoff game. >> there's nothing wrong with chanting at a basketball game or the olympics. i think patriotism is alive and well in the united states of america. jon, context is everything. after sill incidents had happened in this region in texas, as you said, mostly white students in the crowd were chanting "us savment" in response to a largely latino team and what they're doing is wielding patriotism to try and make this other team, these other students, feel they are less than

american, and frankly, that's unamerican. we don't need that in our country. jon: is it patriotism run amock, monica? >> i have to say everybody should make a note of today's date because this is when political correctness that is jumped the shark, jon. this chant had nothing to do with race, race was not an issue with this whatsoever. this was a winning team who had just won a championship what has taken pride in team effort, in its victory and in united states of america, nothing wrong with this whatsoever and i think the american people by in large are really, really fed up with this nonsense. jon: apparently the losing school district, not just the school but the losing district, sally, is complaining to the school district that, you know, support for the winning school -- i mean, shouldn't they just drop it? >> wait second. forget what the losing school district has done, the majority white district, you know, immediately after the game, the coach said he was disappointed in the

display and the school itself apologized. you don't have to take my word for it. they saw this was inappropriate and look, everybody knows around this country we have huge incidents of bullying, students making other students feel they are less than, not part of our community, especially in a place like texas where we know things with be charged in terms of antiimmigrants, et cetera, taking a school of largely minority students and especially mexican american, but american-born latinos and trying to, again , -- there's nothing wrong with being patriotic but context is everything. we can read between the line and see what they were doing. >> here's the problem. when you start making accusations of racism where it doesn't exist it deludeo dilutes authentic cases, which is an issue. so when you start claiming that the sky is falling when it isn't, then it makes it being less seriously when it actually does happen.

look, let me put it this you this way, sally. would you have the same issue of context if the opposing players, mostly hispanic, started chanting in spanish and saying viva mexico, would you say that's racially motivated against the mostly white team? >> again, but they're not mexicans, they're american students. >> so then they shouldn't have a problem with the chant usa. if they're american students. >> we're talking about -- come on. we're reading between -- >> common sense, sally, common sense. >> we need to read between the lines here and our history of america of making certain people feel, who are newer to our country, feel that they're less than american because of their background and color of their skin and incidentally, if we looked back 100, 200 years, this happened to irish men's, to italian americans, it's happened to african-americans, now it's happening to mexican americans. america, when we chant "usa" it should be our way of talking about that we're all in it together, that we're all part of this nation. >> that's right. that's right. and that's why the other team of american citizens,

regardless of their heritage or background should have no problem with the chant "usa". >> it was being chanted against them. >> it was chanted in celebration of their victory. it had nothing to do with the over team, sally. jon: this argument is going to have to go in overtime off the air. i'm going to blow the whis elf. -- the whistle. sally kohn, monica crowley. jenna: that would be a nice addition, that would add a little dimension to it! >> taxpayers are spending millions of dollars on food stamps meant to help people in need put food on the table but now there are accusations that fraud is draining cash from the program. coming up, a look at where your money may really be going. >> plus a comprehensive look at the administration's policy. the energy secretary gives himself an a minus. others beg to disagree. we'll have the full story, next. this is $100,000.

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participation, food stamp fraud is actually decreasing, about 1%, much lower than in the days when there were physically food stamps instead of the debit card issued now a nowadays. but the fraud is often committed by grocery store owners. it costs taxpayers $330 million since 2008 alone. one witness today described how food stamp trafficking, the most common form of fraud, is committed. >> a recipient will go to a restaurant or bar, and this is not place where they would accept the cards, but they would go there, and the restaurant or bar would go to a grocery store and buy, say, $200 worth of groceries. and then they would for the bar or restaurant, and they would give the recipient half, 75%, you know, something off the ebt card. >> reporter: that, of course, the food stamp recipient will receive also as a cut of the proceeds liquor or cash, something that is not covered under the program. and the people who suffer most

are oftentimes children or the dependents for whom the food stamp was initially intended. but most important to remember that most grocery store chains do not commit this kind of fraud. the violaters tend to be small, independent stores, and the closer those stores lean towards selling primarily liquor and cigarettes, the more likely they are to commit fraud. most are, most that are found committing fraud are barred from participation, and they must also pay restitution. but there tends to be a lot of recidivism. that corner store may go out of business but often is bought by someone affiliate with the the old owner who applies fraudulently to participate in the program again and many of the panelists today described the need to ramp up scrutiny of the food stamp application program. that's where a lot of the fraud is committed. jon: i think all the taxpayers out there would like to get to the bottom of that and crack down. doug mckelway, thank you. >> sure thing. thank you. >> for us to take military action unilaterally as some have

suggested or to think that somehow there is some simple solution, i think, is a mistake. what happened in libya was we mobilized the international community, had a u.n. security council mandate, had the full cooperation of the region, arab states and we knew that we could execute very effectively in a relatively short period of time. jenna: that was the president addressing american intervention in syria during his first news conference of the year. a news conference that really focused on foreign policy. critics have suggested the president's foreign policy centers around a so-called lead from behind mentality. our next guest, though, is taking a close look at the president's leadership role overseas over the last three years. michael hanlon is senior fellow at the brookings institution, and his new book -- he's the co-author, i should mention -- "bending history: barack obama's

foreign policy." michael, let's start with the title, "bending history." why did you pick that? >> hi, jenna. that comes from obama's favorite martin luther king quote, that the arc of history is long, but it bends in the direction of justice. in other words, obama's got idealism, but he's also got patience. on the campaign trail, we heard a lot of his vision. since he's been president we've seen the pragmatism of obama, and sometimes this has created a problem. there's been a gap in expectations around the world that obama was going to deliver on a big new agenda, reducing poverty, improving relations with the islamic world, but in reality the actual day-to-day management of most crises, i think, has been competent and, frankly, pretty down to earth starting with keeping bob gates as secretary of defense, hiring hillary as secretary of state. these are two very pragmatic, nonideological people, and that's sort of been more or less the character of obama's

presidency so far. jenna: others say too progressive. how did you navigate that when you were looking at the foreign policy and how it's been developed over the last couple years? >> well, i think he had very progressive, if not even almost eyed listic -- idealistic ambitions, and i think we expected to be able to change some of the global agenda more than he has in addressing issues like reducing nuclear weapons in a big way, global poverty in a big way, improving relations with the islamic world. he's been frustrated on those things as on energy policy and climate change. and in some cases it's his fault. i think he raised expectations too high in his campaign, partly in contrasting with george w. bush, but it set him up, in a sense, to be seen as a disappointment on some of these big ideological or idealistic goals. but becoming president and then focusing on the economic crisis, on iraq, afghanistan, china's growing assertiveness, in a number of other places he's been

pretty tough, pretty down to earth. if there's one president he reminds me of, it's the first president bush, even more than clinton or the second bush, in fact, in that sense of being a little bit disciplined, pragmatic. jenna: you know, it's an interesting comparison we don't hear often, and they only lead us so far. interesting to note that we were talking about the news conference and all these questions about foreign policy, and certainly they really dominate these questions about our place in the world dominate a lot of our headlines today. but on tuesday you were on capitol hill testifying about manager else, budget cuts -- something else, budget cuts. when we talk about foreign policy, often we worry about the external. but you also have some expertise on what's going on internally, and how does that interplay with our place in the world right now? >> well, thanks, jenna, that's a great question because it really does set up what we push obama or his republican successor to do in the coming years because we think that economic recovery for the united states has become

essential not just for the day-to-day well being of all americans which is perhaps the singlemost important thing, but even for our role in the world. a lot of countries are doubting our ability to keep a leadership position. i think china's doubting it, some of our allies are doubting it, maybe even iran and north korea are doubting it and it's, obviously, not all obama's fault. the huge deficits, the recession that we've been in had their antecedents, certainly, in priest periods. but he's -- previous periods. but he's had a hard time along with the republican constituencies in congress, having a hard time working together to make headway, and if we don't reduce deficits in the years ahead, our leadership role and our foreign policy will suffer in major way. so just like admiral mike mullen used to say, the national debt has really become as big a threat to our security over the longer term as anything else. and president obama's going to have to find a way to deal with that or despite this relatively favorable interim assessment we give his foreign policy, he won't be able to be a successful foreign policy president over time. jenna: interesting. if you're not standing on that

strong economic foundation, that really can rattle l your decisions and how they're perceived worldwide. it's an interesting point, michael. congratulations on the new book. >> many thanks, jenna. jon: well, of course, there are still a number of republican candidates who want to replace president obama, and they are preparing to face off again. but how long will this primary race last? larry sabato is here with his crystal ball. this one's for all us lawnsmiths.

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jon: well, "happening now" the man who runs the energy department testifying on capitol hill. as lawmakers look at the budget for 2013 and, of course, they control his pursestrings, energy secretary steven chu has given himself an a- for his efforts on

the job. many republicans have suggested he might want to resign. chief washington correspondent jim angle is looking at this live from washington. >> reporter: hello, jon. well, energy secretary chu is the face of the administration's energy policies, and with gas prices rising he is in the hot seat. today he seemed to say high prices are not the fault of the administration's policies. >> during the obama administration, the production of petroleum liquids in the united states have increased now, i believe, it's the highest it's been in over eight years. >> reporter: but republican representative fred upton cited analyses that suggest the administration is taking credit for what was done on private land while administration officials made it harder to develop energy on federal lands. in fact, upon the -- upton pointed out federal production has dropped 14% just since 2010. >> domestic oil production may be at an all-time high

nationwide, but the increases primarily occurring on state and private lands rather than on federal land and waters where production appears to have dropped significantly in 2011. >> reporter: now, critics are suspicious of chu because before he became energy secretary he told "the wall street journal" in 2008 that, quote, somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in europe. at the time that was the equivalent of $8-$9 a gallon. the administration views higher prices as a way to make alternatives more attractive even though the president knows higher gas prices in an election year are a political danger. now, in addition to that capitol hill was buzzing about another energy issue today, reports the president is personally lobbying democratic senators to oppose a measure that would make approval of the keystone pipeline almost automatic, taking it away from the president and have it go before the election occurs. the president, as you know, has

delayed a decision until 2013 and hopes he could avoid offending either environmentalists or labor unions who favor it because of the jobs. both are key constituencies he needs to get reelected, so he doesn't want to anger one or the other. jon? jon: no, he doesn't, does he? jim angle in washington. thank you, jim. >> reporter: you bet. jenna: take a look at this mob wanted by police after stealing thousands of dollars from a market, all caught on camera. we have the rest of this video straight ahead. and what will peyton manning do now that he's no longer with indianapolis? here's a hint. the star quarterback is already on the move. we'll tell you where next. [ coughs ] what is thishorty? uh, tissues si i'm sick. you don't cough, you d't show defeat. give me your war face! raaah! [ male announcer ] halls. a pep talk in every drop.

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jenna: it's been a big week in politics, and right now the candidates are gearing up for the next big political contest in the race for the white house. our next guest says the race is likely to go all the way to june at least, but between now and then there are six key dates we have to watch for. larry saab otto is the director for the center of politics at the university of virginia and joining us with his crystal ball. you say, actually, next week is a big date as we look at the six top ones we should watch. why next week? be mississippi and alabama next tuesday, why are you watching that? >> i'm watching it because of this overused metaphor for this whole campaign; the roller coaster. the candidate who's up one week, and this past tuesday it was mainly mitt romney who was up, may be down next week. you look at mississippi and alabama, and while some polls have had particularly alabama close because santorum and gingrich are splitting the conservative vote, it's not a place where you'd expect mitt romney to do well. same with mississippi.

same for the primaries and caucuses bracketing those two states in hawaii, in kansas, in missouri. so a candidate who's up one week is down the next and then that candidate rises again and on and on we go, and i think unless one of the candidates just collapses because they lose something they absolutely ought to win like rick santorum in pennsylvania, the state he represented in congress for 16 years, the race just goes on until the primaries are concluded. jenna: you just led us right to the next big date, and that is what's going to happen in pennsylvania. you expect mitt romney on that date, april 24th, to have a good day when you look at the rest of the states. he's cleared through massachusetts and new hampshire, those are his home states, but this is really a test for rick santorum. why is that? >> because pennsylvania is the equivalent for santorum of what michigan was for romney. now, you know, santorum pressed romney hard in michigan and very

nearly defeated him in the state where he was born. well, turn about's fair play. i'm sure the romney people are already figuring out how they can grab as many delegates as possible, and who knows, even the popular vote in pennsylvania. and the santorum people, no doubt, are working on blocking that. so you're going to have these moves and countermoves all through march, april, may and then into june when we mercifully end the primaries. [laughter] jenna: now, some say we're going to go to the convention though. that's a scenario they're putting forward. we've talked about that before. you think, though, june is when we really know who's going to be the republican nominee. >> yes. jenna, i think it's very probable looking at the numbers. of when you look at how many delegates are up june 5th, for example, that's the day california and a number of other states vote like new jersey. it's very probable that somebody will go over 1144 that day, probably romney. you also have one final primary in a state with a lot of

delegates because it's very republican, and that state is utah. gee, i wonder who will do well in utah? so that might put romney over the top if he hasn't been put over the top june 5th. jenna: interesting, all right. so that's your crystal ball for today. i have a final question just in general about the race. we're seeing a division, and we normally do between north and south when we see which candidates seem to be winning, and in super tuesday we saw that division as well. gingrich and santorum doing well in the southern states, and you see mitt romney doing well in the northern states. some are suggesting this is really watching the republican party break up. you're seeing extreme conservatives versus moderates versus independents. and i'm curious what you think compared to other races, larry. are we really seeing such conflict within the republican party, or is this kind of par for the course? >> well, some years have it and some years don't. but look, two words, jenna: electoral college. let's say romney is the nominee. yes, he is losing and probably will lose most of the southern

states, but except for virginia, north carolina and florida any republican nominee including mitt romney will inherit the electoral votes of all those southern and border states. i don't know what the percentage of the popular vote will be, and it doesn't matter because under our system if you win a state by just one vote more than your opponent, you get all the electoral votes. so you have to think of it in general election terms not just a primary. jenna: good point, larry. good one to end on. we'll have you back next week, of course, for your next crystal ball. have a good one, sir. >> thank you, jenna. jon: police are searching for a mop of eight people in california who stole thousands of dollars from a california food market, the whole thing caught by security cameras. seven of the suspects approached employees at the same time asking questions to distract them, then one woman -- the only one not wearing a head scarf -- grabbed a bag containing about $12,000. police describe the group as being in their 20s and 30s, they say they escaped in a white

ford windstar van and a dark-colored ford crown sick tore ya. jenna: well, he said he wasn't even looking for his next step, he said that yesterday when he was giving that news conference -- jon: and then he jumped on a plane. jenna: apparently, the competition is heating up to sign peyton manning. who knew, right? a day after the indianapolis colts released from him from his contract, manning arrived in miami. it's nice this time of year, so maybe he just needed a little bit of sun, right? well, the dolphins are one of at least six teams reportedly pursuing the former super bowl champ and four-time league mvp, he's also reportedly a four-time neck surgery guy as well. the colts decided against paying him his extra bonus and extra signing money that would have extended his contract, so he is on the market, i guess. jon: nice and warm in miami. he might like it there. let's take a look at some of the stories coming up new next hour. new concerns that china's

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>> reporter: rick folbaum in the fox news control room, stories that are brand new during this next hour, starting up here in the top. that's china's military. is there a cyber attack in the works against the united states? it's got the attention of a lot of people in washington. we'll update that coming up. also, a brand new machine that could revolutionize the way patients are diagnosed with cancer. this could be a lifesaver, and we'll tell you about that as well. take a look at these spiders. you can't really see them, but they have taken over an entire town. these guys are dangerous. we've got that for you as well. and breaking news as the second hour of "happening now" starts right now.

jenna: we have a lot of good stories to dig into today, everybody. the afghan air force funded by your tax money is reportedly under investigation for smuggling guns and smuggling drugs. hi, everybody, i'm jenna lee. nice to have you with us today. jon: i'm jon scott. the allegations of criminal activity there putting a spotlight on links between afghan commanders and the drug trade, raising new concerns about a shooting attica bull airport -- at kabul airport that you might remember that left eight u.s. officers dead. national security correspondent jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. how did these allegations come to light? >> reporter: well, jon, the allegations came to light in a "wall street journal" article that appeared this morning. the u.s. military is not confirming as of now that an investigation has been launched into or that they've found any evidence that afghan officers in the air force have been involved in this drug trade. but what's interesting and we've gotten our hands on a 436-page report that the air force did

into those deaths of those eight -- nine americans, eight u.s. officers as well as one contractor last april. that's when an afghan pilot pulled his gun on those nine people at the kabul airport. we've looked at the report, and during -- in some of the interviews with the witnesses, issues about whether this pilot was involved in the drug trade, may have had financial problems were raised. there was no conclusion, however, about motive in the, in this case, and the air force again says that it is not conclusive. but again, the military in afghanistan, um, not confirming that they're looking into this, but "the wall street journal" reporting that the u.s. department of drug enforcement agency as well as the military are concerned that afghan assets in the military that have been given to the air force have been used as part of this drug trade. jon? jon: so where does the investigation stand? >> reporter: the alleged investigation, there are two

investigations that "the wall street journal" says are taking place right now. one is a dea drug investigation, one is being conducted by the military. and they are both in their early phases, we're told. again, there are suspicions that the $2 billion in aid to the afghan air force that the u.s. taxpayer has essentially funded the air force, that some of those assets may have been used in the drug trade, but no conclusions as of yet as to, um, as to -- and no evidence that any afghan pilots have been involved. jon: yeah. well, let us know when this thing wraps up. like to get to the bottom of it. thanks very much, jennifer griffin at the pentagon. jenna: well, to politics now. is the gop race too crowded? i guess it depends on who you ask, right? rick santorum's supporters seem to think so. they want newt gingrich to drop out and pave the way for a two-man race between santorum and mitt romney. but it looks like, just looks like the former house speaker is refusing to back down.

shannon bream is taking a closer look live in washington for us. shannon? >> reporter: hi, jenna. l well, when asked directly whether he's ready to publicly issue the call for gingrich to drop out, santorum wouldn't go that far. santorum said he is all for gingrich getting out if that's what he wants to do and added he'd also be happy for mitt romney to drop out and for president obama to, quote, just hand me the thing but acknowledged none of that's going to happen. there are reports that a top strategist has been reaching out to the gingrich campaign trying to persuade him to step aside and ute behind santorum, but here's what the former speaker says about sticking around. >> we are staying in this race because i believe that it's going to be impossible for a moderate to win the general election. [applause] i believe, you know, we tried it in 1996, and it didn't work. >> reporter: the calls for gingrich to step aside aren't just coming from santorum's

supporters. as you would expect, mitt romney's campaign has also made the same call. but also a former gingrich staffer in south carolina and other conservative activists, hq.com says gingrich could be a king maker if he would suspend his candidacy, but gingrich spokesman says the campaign will, quote, go on for many more months. the gingrich campaign has skipped kansas and focusing the campaign's time and resources in alabama and mississippi where gingrich is promising a southern surge and a vault back to the top of the gop polls. jenna: a roller coaster, indeed. i wonder how ron paul feels about this, you know? he's not even in the mix. they're just letting him cruise by. i know a lot of his supporters don't e-mail us, we mentioned him. [laughter] >> reporter: and he plans to stick around until august. -and-a-half that's what he says, so that's always a factor. you can't forget that. shannon, we appreciate it very much. shannon bream in d.c. today.

jon: ron paul will have some figure in the convention, for sure. new information on crime in america, and gun rights' supporters are taking note. you might recall the supreme court struck down strict hand gun bans that were in place in chicago and washington d.c. at the time chicago's mayor predicted the streets would look like the wild west. so is that happening? william la jeunesse live in the los angeles for us. >> reporter: as you know, conventional wisdom holds that more guns means more crime, and that's what many predicted after the court in a 5-4 decision ruled that americans do have a constitutional right to own a firearm. while gun ownership is at an all-time high, crime is down. >> i knew he was out there, and so i got my gun out of a drawer, went around there and let him have it. >> reporter: 82-year-old charles robbins took things into his own hand when a burglar tried breaking into his florida home. many predicted incidents like this would increase after the supreme court overturned gun

bans in chicago and washington d.c. >> more handguns in the district of columbia will only lead to more handgun violence. >> reporter: but so far statistics say something else. >> murder rates have fallen nationally but nowhere near close to the huge drop that we've seen in d.c. or now we've been seeing in chicago. >> reporter: in chicago and washington, the homicide, violent and property crime rates all fell after the supreme court's decision that upheld an individual's right to own a gun. >> letting people be able to go and defend themselves helps deter criminals there attacking. >> there's a lot of data out there, and you've got to be careful about confusing what's going on out there. >> reporter: anti-gun advocates say national crime rates have continued falling and believe the harm associated with guns far outweigh their benefit. their most recent case in point, the school shooting in ohio. >> we do still have 30,000 gun deaths a year, and there's also a trend that there are more gun injuries. >> reporter: now, homicide is

down, he argues, because more gunshot victims survive. but gun advocates argue that crime is down because when law-abiding people have guns, criminals think twice about using theirs. jon: william la jeunesse, interesting. thank you. jenna: four of america's finest out jogging as part of a training exercise. today one officer is dead, the others recovering from emergency surgery. now, the manhunt for a fugitive with a deadly weapon. we'll get you updated on that. plus, reports say we may be at war right now with china, but the weapons more like microchips than missiles. some key american infrastructure could be in the bull's eye. we're going to dig a little deeper, and rick folbaum is here keeping a close eye on news. >> reporter: we like to let you know what's popular on foxnews.com. one of the most popular is a brand new report just out that shows movies released into theaters with conservative or faith-based themes in the year 2011 were far more popular than

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jon: right now, new details in some crime stories we're keeping an eye on. an australian man pleads guilty to a bizarre crime you'll probably remember. he strapped a fake bomb l to a young woman's neck. an attorney for paul douglas peters says her client's motives were part of an an explot. and the family of a canadian woman who went missing last month during a cruise to the bahamas. her family says her boyfriend knows more than what he's telling investigators. a suspect now in custody with a deadly hit and run in indiana. the driver allegedly hit three

people, killing a corrections officer. police will not say if person in custody is a suspect. jenna: well, a new warning that china's military is targeting america and that we're just grossly underprepared for what's to come. congress is taking up this issue of cyber warfare today, an advisory panel is warning the attacks could target our power grid, our telecommunications, our military command centers, and the panel says china is preparing for this each and every day. and while we know it's coming, we don't have a standard policy on what we do when it does. peter brooks is a senior fellow for national security affairs at the heritage foundation and, peter, we mentioned a few things there; telecommunications, military command. if we have a cyber attack and it effects a hospital or if it effects busy streets, we're talking about a loss of life. how serious could this potentially be? >> well, jenna, we actually know that the russians and chinese

have mapped our electrical grids, for instance, part of our critical infrastructure, and if we were to come to some sort of dust-up with them, they could potentially shut off the lights in the united states. we only have three major electrical grids in the united states, and it's possible they could do it. imagine the distraction to the commander in chief whoever that might be if all of a sudden he's trying to deal with a major crisis with another country, and all of a sudden the lights go out? the air traffic control system goes down, the lights go off in the cities, hospitals need power, dams, all these sort of things. there's major challenges out there, and this is a vulnerability that we need to get our arms around once and for all. jenna: it's scary to think about. you mentioned major conflicts, i can't help but think about iran. just yesterday we had an interesting segment about china helping iran, providing weapons to iran, buying oil from iran, and i'm just wondering, you know, when we would see the chinese act if they have this capability to disrupt us through

cyberspace, when would you see them doing it? would it be if we get into conflict with iran? does it have to be direct conflict with china, for example, to see that type of activity? >> well, i think china's already active against us, especially in cyber espionage and preparations for cyber warfare. but i think when china's vital national interests are at stake, they will act. i mean, we've had a lot of challenges from china in the south china sea, for instance. you know, they claim this as, basically, a chinese lake. we see it as open ocean. so there's possibilities of conflict over taiwan, there's a whole host of things. i don't necessarily believe, jenna, specific to your question that they would, you know, attack us if we got into a fight with iran over its nuclear program. they're a partner of iran, but i wouldn't say they're a capital a ally. but you don't really know. you have to think about what the chinese are doing. the threat comes from two things. one is capabilities, we know they're developing cyber warfare, cyber espionage capabilities. the other part of it is intent.

when will the chinese political leadership decide it's time to flip the switch as it were or make the key strokes to undertake a cyber attack of some sort? so that's the real challenge. when would china's leaders say it's time to do something like that? jenna: and that is so unpredictable. what we can predict, though, in some ways is whether or not we do have a standard operating procedure if something like this happens. and it's shocking to hear from this report the commission's finding that there's no clear policy to determine how we would respond appropriately. i mean, you read something like that, and you think how could that be? so if we were cyber attacked today, something happened in major cities across this country, we would just do nothing? i mean, what would we do, peter? >> well, it's not just china, it's also you could have a terrorist attack as well. iran is also very active in the cyber sphere. so there's a lot of threats out there, a lot of threat vectors that we're dealing with. the challenge is we need a national policy to prevent and respond to a major cyber -- jenna: but, peter, i'm sorry to

interrupt, but i don't understand what's up with that. [laughter] to put it frankly, about why we don't have something in place. i'm just curious in your expertise on this. we go through 9/11, we understand emergency responders can't actually talk to each other, that's a major problem. in some cases we haven't even fixed that. so what do you think's preventing us from having a plan in place whether it's a terrorist attack or something else? >> i agree with you. i totally agree with you. it's time we take this out of the shadows. you know, this is a war in the shadows that's going on and put it in the spotlight, pay attention to it, develop a plan, one that allows for information sharing between the government and the private sector. we also have to be careful about limiting liability so that these two entities, the public sector and the private sector, can talk to each other. we don't want to stifle innovation, and we have to be careful about, you know, liability and things along this line. so, you know, these are critical issues that the congress is finally taking up. there are a number of bills out there both in the house and the senate, and the white house also has a plan. but i agree with you, it's about

time we get our hands around this because we have major challenges ahead of us. you could have a terrorist attack, cyber espionage going on against the government as well as the private sector. some of our most valuable intellectual property's being stolen. there's concerns about the supply chain. a lot of telecommunications equipment comes from overseas including places like china. and then, of course, you have the issue of cyber warfare. there's a lot we need to get around. it's a major threat, it's the cutting edge of asymmetric warfare threat to our national security, and we need to take it seriously. jenna: you give us a lot to think about. certain lawmakers want more information from private companies and the companies and oh lawmakers say, listen, that's our property. we can't actually share that. so the private and public conflict is something that's really at center stage here. peter or, thank you so much for talking with us today. >> thanks for having me. jon: the irony is the internet was developed for our pentagon, and now it's potentially being used as a weapon. thousands of your tax

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jenna: this just in, tens of thousands of dollars of stimulus money was sent to detroit to help hundreds of people look for

a job, but that job-seeking program simply didn't happen. so where is the money? that's a big question today, and rick has more on this. hey, rick. >> reporter: we all remember the controversial stimulus money the government handed out at the height of the recession, money that was supposed to help the country get back on its feet. well we are just now learning how this some cases so few people actually benefited. that was certainly the case in detroit where a clothing store was given a $150,000 federal grant to help low-income people buy new clothes for job interviews. the program was meant to help 400 people in detroit, but according to a new audit, it helped only two. not 200, two. detroit's department of human services is conducting the audit, and according to the detroit news the program was a bust because there was simply no oversight. an outside contractor got the store the grant, and city officials never kept track of how the money was being spent. back to you. jenna: rick, thank you.

jon: well, planes rerouted, satellites disrupted, cell phones and computers all on the blink. if that has happened to you today, could be the massive solar storm that is slamming into earth, hit us this morning, really, at about four million miles an hour. julie banderas is in the newsroom, still there, right? >> reporter: can you hear me now? jon: gotcha. >> reporter: all right, jon. the effects of this biggest solar storm in five years are actually hitting earth right now. can you see me on your tv? well, then i guess you're okay for now because the storm actually started with a massive solar flare tuesday and grew as it raced outward from the sun, shaking the globe's magnetic field. scientists say a massive cloud of radiation is speeding toward earth at four million miles per hour. i should clarify, though, that seriously, these things really in all honesty do not pose any real dangers to people here on earth. however, the charged particles

actually started hitting earth early this morning and could disrupt utility grids, airline flights, satellite networks and gps services, especially in northern areas. and if you're wondering how exactly the gps might be vulnerable, well, consider this. since technology has flourished since the last solar storm peaked ten years ago, scientists say some newer gps systems could be at risk. >> high technology, of course, is always vulnerable because we've got it up at the level where this stuff is coming in. it didn't use to be like this, but since we started putting satellites up in space, we obviously had to deal with this as well. >> reporter: also planes could also be affected, so air travel is also going to be an issue. planes that usually fly over the north pole could be rerouted to avoid exposing pilots to too much radiation. the electrical grid also stands to experience be difficulties. in 1989, in fact, a strong solar

system storm knocked out the power grid in quebec causing six million people to lose power. but those storms sure do light up the sky. boy, look at this. a solar flare in january created some spectacular northern lights, and we could see a similar show tonight. take a look at this new video shot over lake superior in michigan's upper peninsula, just radiant to look at. and we could see a similar show when the lights hit their peak tonight, but a full moon could make them harder to see. maybe you'll catch a glimpse of a spectacular sight. jon: julie banderas, thank you. jenna: they just came out with a new ipad. apple is taking a little heat from the federal government. why the justice department is targeting the tech giant and who else, jon, is accused of doing wrong here? it's a collusion allegedly. we'll tell you where and why that's happening. allegedly, at least. plus, reports iran is trying

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jenna: the justice department reportedly preparing to launch a lawsuit threatening apple and book publishers for allegedly price fixing

ebooks. connell mcshane from the fox business network is here with more. connell, these are huge companies, billions of dollars. what exactly us did the story and allegations mean for people purchasing ebooks? >> could mean that people we had to pay more money for them and the reason the big publishing companies and apple were essentially in cahoots working together to fix the prices. at least the allegation. boy, fascinating story. talking about apple and late steve jobs being involved and all the biggest names in publishing. if you're reading a book probably reading one published by same mon and shuster or hatchet or harpercollins or mcmilan. all the companies are involved in this basically what they're saying, steve jobs went to these publishing companies when he was ceo of apple of course and basically made a deal with them. how do we know about that? a famous book written by walter isaacson writ steve jobs recently and here is quote from the book the

steve jobs speaking. we told the publishers we go the agency model. where we set the price, you set the price, publishers and we apple, get our 30%. the customers pay a lot more. that's what you want anyway, we're left, jenna, paying more for the books than we ordinarily wouldn't have. we don't know the other side the publishers and others refused to comment. jenna: i know you're a big apple guy. you have a iphone and ipad, all that sort of stuff. >> yes. jenna: i have a kindle though. what about amazon, barnes & nobles? there are a lot of different devices in ebooks. are they involved at all in? >> no but they kind of started this when you think about it. amazon, which is interesting the agency model dell previously the wholesale model the it was sold half price. $24 book sold for 12 bucks. amazon comes in with the kindle we'll give you to you for 9.99.

publishing companies hated that. maybe that is why they were quick to make a deal with steve jobs. the publishing companies didn't basically want to turn into the music subpoenas companies. you her what happened to the music companies when the ipod came out. that was apple as sell. they were trying to protect themselves. the accusation from the justice department that said there was a little collusion involved and. jenna: one to watch, connell. thank you so much. >> okay. jon: there are significant concerns today that irrather than may be trying to hide nuclear weapons work from the u.s. and the rest of the world. the u.n. held an emergency meeting to discuss the issue today but how should the u.s. respond? bill richard son, former u.s. ambassador to the united nations and former new mexico governor is a globe-trotting diplomat. he is with us now. the iaea says it appears that iran is trying to build nuclear weapons. is there an opportunity to get them to back down?

>> well, it's going to be very hard because the iranians are stonewalling. what i would say, jon, go to the u.n. security sill -- council, expand sanctions on iran, find a way to expose is but recognize russia and china will find a way to veto. which means we have to go, what we've been doing is continue going it european countries, to other nations, to expand the economic boycott, energy areas, food, gasoline, to iran which is feeling these sanctions. that's what we should do. the iaea should expose what iran is doing with a report. the negotiations that iran says they're participating in with european countries and the u.s., we should take them at face value that they're probably stalling and, the need is going to be to expand the sanctions, which i believe are working, jon. jon: well, a lot of diplomats say it's not fair

to the average iranian person on the street to sanction things like gasoline. you will make life miserable for the after ran iranian and the average iranian is not the source of the problem. >> that is the consequence of having a repressive government. the iranian population i know is suffering. they have elections coming up. they have ways i believe to send signals to their leadership what they're doing with nuclear weapons is unacceptable but i think that is how you get the iranian leadership it bite when their population is upset. when their population is hurting. you know, it's the same situation in syria. i think these sanctions in syria, are starting to work and you're getting more people that are part of the electorate in syria, in iran, upset with their leadership and that's how you possibly change them. change their behavior. jon: probably better than anyone you know how the north korean mind works. you have dealt some with the

north koreans and gotten some concessions out of them on important issues. the north koreans have now said that they will give up nuclear program and icbms in exchange for food. is there the opportunity to do something like that with the iranians? >> possibly in negotiations. both sides are going to have to give but i think what we want from the iranians is, no new clear weapons. this is the name to do it when they don't have nuclear weapons. with north korea, jon, things are getting a little better. they also announced today, the north koreans, that we'll have some talks on recovery of american remains from the korean war. they have turned over seven to me of those remains some four years ago. so i think this effort by the obama administration to engage them, to talk to them, but at the same time, recognize they don't always keep their promises, seems to be working with a new leader in north korea. but there are different

situations. iran and north korea. iran doesn't have nuclear weapons. north korea does. we're engaging the north koreans. they appear to be responding. and iran does not appear to be responding to anybody, to europe. the only allies they have left are russia and china but they're pretty powerful because they can block action in the united nations security council if you want to tighten sanctions. so we've got to continue the pressure on iran. i think that's the best way to handle them and it is working. people are, as you mentioned, in iran some of the population are feeling the bite and that will translate hopefully into persuading their leaders that this course of action of nuclear weapons is not going to work. it's going to hurt them economically and the, international community will find it unacceptable. jon: your history is as a diplomat. obviously war, it has been said is diplomacy by another means. are we reaching the point where if you were advising

the president you would say the iranian program, the iranian nuclear sites should be taken out militarily? >> well it has to, i hate to use this phrase, because everybody says it, the military option is on the table. the president has said that, that he will not stand for this. what needs to happen before, pressure, sanctions and diplomacy. if that didn't work, you have to consider the military option but again i think the sanctions are working. so we should give it a little time but again it's a very dicey situation. the best thing we also can do to say to russia and china, look, you're holding up the international community in keeping iran from dangerously having a nuclear weapon. and a potential explosion in the middle east. come on, be responsible. you know, putin just got in as president of russia. i think it's worth another effort to get him to help us with pressuring iran.

jon: we'll give that job to you, okay? >> thank you, jon urgs. jon: ambassador bill richardson. thank you. >> all right. >> a major milestone in the case after college student committed suicide, we'll show him to you, the guy on the left-hand side, allegedly took spy cam videos of him with another man. we're one step closer to justice in this case. we'll tell but it after the break. plus taking early cancer detection to a whole new level. wait until you hear about this. a machine that could literally take your breath away and test it for deadly diseases. you don't want to miss this. [ male announcer ] this was how my day began.

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jon: fox news alert. this is a sad report out of africa. the attempted rescue of a british and italian hostage has failed. this according to the british prime minister. britain's special boat services which jenna tells me their equivalent of the

navy seals, about 16 to 20 of those men launched a raid in nigeria to try to release a british man who was captured by an al qaeda-linked group there back in december. that raid was unsuccessful. woe don't have a great deal of information about it. the raid was unsuccessful. the hostage was killed as was an italian hostage. whether they were killed during the course of the raid or whether they were killed ahead of time, by these al qaeda-linked kidnappers we do not know but the raid was unsuccessful. there will certainly be more information forthcoming throughout the day. stick with fox for that. jenna: one step closer to learning the fate of a young man accused of causing his college roommate's suicide. prosecutors resting their case against former rutgers university student dahrun ravi. he is on the screen. the defense will rest their case and expected to call an

investigator and several key witnesses in the stand. ravi is charged with bias intimidation and invasion of privacy among other things. prosecutors say secretly use ad webcam to record his roommate, tyler clementi during an intimate encounter with another man. clementi jumped later off the george washington bridge. the argument is did that lead to the suicide and that is the question the defense will tackle this coming week. jon: a potential break through to tell you about in the detection of cancer. there is a machine in the work that can apparently sniff out the disease by testing a patient's breath. it could help people with a head start fighting off life-threatening illnesses. dr. manny alvarez, fox news health.com and our fox medical a-team. dr. manny, how does this work. >> basically every tumor

produces by-products in other words organic material that can be picked up. this company in cleveland clinic they did a very extensive study of lung cancer. what they found with the use of a breath analyzer they can pinpoint almost 80%, 90% accuracy the presence of cancer in the lungs. not only that they can break down the different kinds of cancers found in the lungs. this is a very exciting technology. i think it is important for the simple reason if you look at cancer of the lungs, right now we don't have a very good diagnostic tool. the national cancer institute came out recommending last year that risk groups, smokers and people of this sort, get routine ct scans. but again, cat scans are very expensive. they are invasive. it requires radiation and so on. so this new technology is very exciting and it could be really a turning point in the detection of cancer. jon: so we're looking at how this thing works. the patient breathes into it

and apparently the tumor, you know, throws off these chemical compound, right. >> all cellular metabolism, all tumors are multiplying cells. they have by-products and the by-product haves significant signatures now with the software and the breath analyzer you can really look at different speck trups and then identify for sure that indeed those kinds of odors and those by-products are uniquely identified with a specific kind of cancer. so this is a technology based in very strong science. this is really not theoretical. it now needs to be applied in a broader kind of testing and becomes perhaps routine in the future. jon: we have some dogs on the screen because dogs have actually been trained to do the same kind of thing, detect cancer cells in cultures. >> right. >> so doctors can take a culture of a patient's tissue and the dog actually help identify whether or not that patient has cancer.

this machine is essentially doing the same thing i guess? >> very, very much so. i was going to mention that. there has been anecdotal reports of animals, especially dogs that can really pick up different kinds of cancers, especially cancers of the skin and so on. this is a technology really based on, as i said, on very specific sciences. this is not really "star trek" medicine. this is very realistic. it has to be brought up to the next level which is to make it a screening tool especially for the high-risk groups. jon: in this machine that analyzes the breath, does that apply only to lung cancer? obviously the lungs fill with air and you exhale it. could it detect liver cancer? >> it could but the experimentation is being done with lung cancer only because it lends itself to be easy to test only because, you know, you extract, you exhale, put all the deposit of these by-products in these type of machines and it is able to analyze it.

i think ultimately, this was a presentation which was done with the first, the first level of technology. now they're going to second and third generation of technology. so i predict that if, this is now true, and the studies grow, that ultimately it will be able to pick different kinds of signatures, maybe from breath or maybe from this liquid, whether sweat or urine and things like that? jon: well, i'll tell you, a decade ago, my mom, who never smoke ad day in her life died of lung cancer. this kind of thing would be a great head's up. >> absolutely. i think this will turn the whole idea of finding inexpensive ways to detect cancers that usually are very advanced when you really find them. jon: great news. dr. manny, thank you. >> thank you. jenna: isn't that a fascinating story? the scent, so-called accept of a tumor can lead to the detection? jon: they did it first in dogs and found a way apparently to replicate or hone in on some of those

odors i guess. jenna: we'll have to follow that story. that affects so much of us, so many of us affected by cancer so many different ways. we'll watch that story. as we get developments on that we'll bring that to you, that's for sure. he says his right to free speech is being trampled on. it is all because of what he did outside the court that is supposed to protect the first amendment. douglas kennedy on the so-called, supreme no-speech zone. and that is not even snow or even frost on those crops. the webs we weave or maybe somebody else does, jon next. jon: creepy. ♪ . [ female announcer ] want to spend less and retire with more? then don't get nickle and dimed by high cost investments and annoying account fees. at e-trade, our free easy-to-use online tools

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jon: well, silence may be golden but not always when it comes to free speech. a maryland man is fighting for his right to protest outside the u.s. supreme court. he was arrested for violating a no-speech zone. douglas kennedy was all ears when he heard about this latest example of taking your liberties. he has that report. douglas. >> reporter: jon, police say no-speech zones are necessary to protect public officials but are they putting too much distance between protesters and the protested? this protester in washington, d.c. says yes. [shouting] harold hodge believes in the power of protests. you believe this is a fundamental american right? >> yes, i do. i believe people should be allowed to protest and

picket against the government because we are paying for their services. they are supposed to serve the american people. >> reporter: last year, hodge wore this sign and stood peacefully in front the supreme court. in fact he stood right here on the public plaza. he says he was completely silent and associate over 100 feet from the entrance to the supreme court. nonetheless, officers arrested him. the charge? violating a so-called, no speech zone. >> these things are popping up all over the country. >> reporter: john whitehead from the rutherford institute and is challenging hodge's arrest. >> this is a dangerous trend going on number of years, putting people so far away from government officials that government officials can't hear the speech. >> reporter: in general americans are deeply moved by spontaneous protests in other countries. still, this law enforcement advocate says limits on protests in the u.s. are necessary. >> we are supposed to be an example of freedom to the

world. how people. jon: what are the limits? how far do you have to get back? >> you have to be around the corner, jon. which is too far away. jon: seems to lose the effectiveness. douglas kennedy thank you. jenna: severe flooding sparks be a invasion. thousands and thousands of spiders and their webs covering the countryside and, rick, rick's got a spidey sense all going for this one, right, rick? >> reporter: i do. this is a city walled waga i

will say often as i can in this report. it is in australia. hit by so much flooding jenna, that the 8,000 people who live in wagawaga so the people moved into from their homes. so who moved in. wolf spiders. they were trying to flee the rising waters. empty homes in town gave them a dry place to hang out for a while. they have done what spiders tend to do. spinning so many webs in some cases it looks like the entire city of wagawaga has been blanketed with snow. that is not snow. here is why the local residents who are getting ready to move back home now that the flooding receded are probably not too upset by spider infiltration. while they have been house sitting the spiders eat all the mosquitoes that come as a result of flooding. mosquitoes do a lot more damage than spiders do. like only best of houseguests the spiders know when it is time to leave now that the flooding water has

gone down, the spiders are going back to their natural habitat. back to you. jenna: not back to wagawaga? >> in wagawaga, just out of the house. jenna: thanks so much, rick. we'll keep an eye on the spiders and back with more "happening now" it's the only calcium supplement that can be taken with or without food. that's why my doctor recommends citracal maximum. it's all about absorption. that's why my doctor recommends citracal maximum. hello, i am chef boyardee. i make real italian ravioli. filled with hearty italian seasoned meat, in a sauce made with vine-ripened tomatoes. and no preservatives. 80 years of real great food from a real great chef.