>> good morning. i am heather nauert. >> it's march 19th. hope you had a great weekend. >> mitt romney the real winner this morning beating rick santorum in puerto rico's prienl mary. gets all 20 delegates in that case since he won more than 50 percent of the vote there. here is the new delegate count. 521 delegates. rick santorum 253 newt gingrich 136 and ron paul 50. 1,154 delegates are -- 1,144 are

need to do win the nomination. >> army staff sergeant robert bales expected to be charged with the massacre this week. he will meet with his lawyer for the first time today. his lawyer all right pleading his client's case. >> he has 3 or 4 deployments has some poerm of ptsd. i know he had a head injury. it may be more serious than ptsd. >> his family release ago statement saying they are quote stunned but stand behind the man they know is a devoted husband, father and dedicated member of the armed services. late last night a severe storm tearing through parts of oklahoma. here you are looking at brand new video of these tornados tearing through willow, oklahoma. twisters he twisters hail and heavy winds expected today. so far no injuries have been reported. airline passengers happy

they didn't know this. air traffic controllers forced to walk pilot throughs the landing by walkie-talkie. it is all because a tower lost power. they had been running off a backup generator on friday. even that went out. several flights were delayed as a result of it. the war in iraq is getting underway. (gun fire) and who can forget the video of the united states launch whatting it calls schwabing and awe as president bush telling the nation we are at war. 4,486 of our country's gravest have made t-- bravest sacrifice. sadam hussein was discovered in a fox hole by troops during a daring operation. he was later executed for crimes against humanity. that is your 5@5:00. gas prices hitting another

high this weekend as president obama gets ready to hit the road for the election. >> he is drawing a lot of skrichlt for the continued escalation of gas prices. he is aware voters are upset with him fair or not for the rise in gas. in every city and every state you can hear it the pain at the pump as people are saying ouch. national average price of regular gas is 3.83 a gallon. that's up $0.07 from last week. american consumers are not happy and want something done about it. during his weekly address president obama addressed the issue touting the energy poll seep and taking aim at the republican rivals out there promising cheaper gasoline. >> it is easy to promise quick fix when it comes to gas prices. there isn't one.

any one who hills you otherwise any politician who promises a 3 point plan for lower gas they aren't looking for a sool luges they are lo -- solution, they are looking for your vote. >> they are criticizing the energy policy. former house speaker newt gingrich claims to have a plan that could bring gas prices down to 2.50 a gallon says president obama is out of touch right now and in trouble. >> this is one of the places -- obama has a huge problem. you can't buy enough advertising to offset driving past a gas station. >> prices right now remain $0.31 higher than a month ago. $0.28 higher than a year ago. within $0.28 all time record high of 4.11 per gallon set in july of 2008. should the cause of gals sore

they could have him over the barrel possibly weighing down the price of gas. >> filled up this weekend handed the receipt to my wife. >> a lot of times they charge more for credit than cash. one station $0.85 more for credit than cash. you got to be on the lookout for that. >> in the meantime let's take a look at who's talking. >> canada is take to go the sunday show to make their case to america. mitt romney making a really strong prediction here. >> i want to restore the value that is make this country great. president obama is transforming us what we wouldn't recognize. i hope i am going to become the nominee. if i am i am going to be a strong nominee and i can beat president obama and get america

back on the track of creating jobs seeing rising incomes again gasoline prices that are more reasonable and america that's respected around the world. >> that is before he cleaned up in the puerto rico primary as well. rick santorum hit him with similarities to president obama. the more i look at the issues. the same issues i am out there campaigning on with romney are the same issues i will with obama. cap and trade trying to control the manufacturing engee sector of the economy. of course the bailouts. all of these things are governor romney and barack obama are in the same place. that is one of the reasons you are not seeing him close the deal. >> romney's campaign strategist

is h -- his campaign strategist is hitting romney. economic heavy weight. the people in massachusetts what happened? massachusetts went from tenth in a t in the nation their debt wet up 16.5 percent. government jobs crgrew to 6 tim the rate of private sector jobs. if he thinks he's an economic hef reweight he must be looking in the mirror. that's an economic heavy weight. >> rick antor rum was chatting with the colleagues. make sure you check that out. he made a statement holding up one finger if we win on tuesday in the primarily get noment nation. >> he is gaining momentum there. we will have more later. time for your first weather update. maria poll lena is here with that. in the northeast we had beautiful weather over the

weekend. more expected today. er you have storms across the country. >> we are looking at a strong storm system producing severe storms this morning and will continue to do so through out the afternoon. part of the reason we are seeing some of that precipitation and active are the warm temperatures we have been enjoying so much along the eastern half of the country. 10, 20, 30 degrees above what is typical. you are going to see that in the 80s across the southeast. severe storms in texas up into iowa as the strong cold front continues to push eastward. knotted only do we have the risk but heavy rain over the thunderstorms. it is a slow moving storm system so we are looking at concern of flash flooding along some of the same areas that could get hit for today. it includes parts of iowa into missouri western arkansas and parts of eastern texas. there is also a moderate risk in dallas into portions of san

anton antonio. what that means is that hasn't increased our chance to see the thunderstorms produce large size hails damaging wind gusts and tornados. we will continue to monitor the storm system througho out the rest of the morning. across the northeast no problem. philadelphia you are going to have sunshine in the morning hours temperatures in the 50s. i am not anticipating any delays. thunderstorms could make it into the area later on this morning. we could be seeing delays at the airport. to show you how extremely warm it is ahead of this system mid 80s for atlanta memphis to is going to be the high today. it is still winter. it won't be spring until tomorrow. >> 79 in indianapolis.

they are not ready for these temperatures. >> thank you. now we have time to brew on this. today's topic controversial. a prop pose sal if you want to listen to this. a proposal to fauz ourt english only classes. these changes would take effect next year. they would have to take their kids to a school across town. students already enrolled in the english only classes and preschool would be allowed to stay. responding in the backlash is superintendent. sometimes there are short term pains but there may be long-term gains. >> phrasing out english only classes. you think it will help students overall or will it hurt the students? this is a really tough one for parents, too. say you have one child in the

elementary school and another kid coming into the kindergarten and you want the kindergartner in english only classes you have to move your kid to another school. you have two elementary kids in schools all together. >> that's the complaint were parents we want our kids together but the school on the other side of this argument saying we know test scores go up when you have to take other english classes. let us know of course because there is the twitter at fox friends first. >> you can e-mail us at friends first.com. >> you may suspect a lot of parents furious over super bowl. tune into fox and friends they will be speaking with one of the outraged parents as well. >> it is 11 minutes after the hour. coming up drivers leaving the country to get their gas. we will tell you why mexico is able to keep prices so low and why we can't. ladies the island reserved for

men only. no women allowed. >> i don't think you do. >> maybe for two-days. >> the selling point is beer. >> no honey do list.

>> welcome back. 16 minutes after the hour. here's what happened while you were sleeping last night. occupied protestors on the march again in new york city. the city's police department investigating the on-line guest protestors posting on twitter. we won't make a difference if we don't kill a cop or two. it's following the rays of 70 protestors saturday night. brand new video in to fox news.

high winds spanning the plains there destroying two homes. several are in harm's way. >> joining us from the fox business network lauren sim netty. let's ta -- simonetti. talking about price hikes later this morning. going to be higher. >> 3.84 is the national average now. it has been up for the last 9 days. it is a psychological as well as real problem for many americans going up. truck drivers driving south across the border buying fuel across mexico. >> isn't that amazing? people driving from california which is the second highest in the nation. it is 1.50 a gallon cheaper. gasoline industry is regulated in mexico.

it is cheaper and there are fewer taxes. that is a phenomenon that is unbelievable. >> the taxes we play vary from state to state depending on environmental regulations. >> true. >> they are high in california because of that. >> another interesting story is not so much because we have higher gasoline but going from point a to point b. we need more pipelines that's what we talk about with the keystone project. prices may go higher because we don't have those. >> the largest refiner in the northeast is actually closing down in july. that would take a third of gasoline off the market. extending prices out. the problem is not because we don't have enough oil. it comes out of the midwest. we don't have the pipeline to define the low grade kind.

amazing when you see crude oil high and gas high. >> supply is not the issue just getting it where it needs to go. >> apple will be making a big announcement today. what is it about? >> $100 billion it's obviously burning a hole in apple's pocket. it will be a conference call at 9:00 a.m. eastern time. the ceo talking about what to do with this. perhaps shareholders will get a dividend. >> that's what they want a diff gend. a billion dollars in cash how common is it at all? >> not common at all. u.s. companies are sitting on 1.24 trillion in cash. half of that is overseas. this is a problem overall. most of it is held by google, microsoft, and pfizer. always nfascinating to hear from you. >> coming up the president's

doodles. we will show you never before seen drawings from ronald reagan. they have just been released. also high profile first for the dutches of cambridge. what kate middleton is doing today that she has never done before. ♪

>> it is now 22 minutes after the hour. when you leave your house here's a look at what is happening. the budget battle starting all over again tomorrow. that is when paul ryan unveils his 2013 budget.

he won't suspend 20 million less than the limit than congress agreed to last year. >> airport officials in little rock arkansas vote whether or not to change the name of the city's airport to bill and hillary clinton national airport. governor of arkansas for 12 years before he was president. clayton? soefr to you. >> the story is creating a lot of controversy. a third grade boy shoots his classmate. joining us in studio with details of this amazing story. >> it started less than month ago. 9-year-old washington state boy took a 45 caliber hand gun to school. when he took it out of his backpack it fell and went right through a little girl's abdomen. a state prosecutor says the boy's mother and her boyfriend are responsible and they are adding a third degree assault charge to the initial charges of

unlawful possession of a firearm. the upgraded charge is a felony. prosecutors say they have a case here. it is through the criminal th s negligence of aer in. the mother can be charged. was mom criminally neglect? mom is a felon. she is not supposed to have a gun. second she had a gun in a place where an 8-year-old, 9-year-old boy could get access to it. >> they are talking about the unlawful compartment of the car where the boy phoned the car which was loaded. even though the prosecutor said on the other hand the defense attorneys say the state doesn't have a shot. the parents the mother and the boyfriend were not there at the time of the incident. they also -- sorry. they could be found guilty of unlawful possession. take a listen.

>> there is no intent. the parents were not there. the child was there and unfortunately the gun went off thank god the child didn't use the gun. the gun went off when he placed the gun down in his lunch box. where is the intent from the parents to commit an assault? >> another reason prosecutors upgraded the charge is because police had several unsecure hand guns after the shooting and for an update on the little girl who is in the hospital she is in stable condition but keep into mind she under went five surgeries. >> thanks for that. coming up on the show 25 minutes after the hour is blaming somebody else a recipe for election disaster? brit hume thinks so. >> winners take responsibility losers blame others. >> brit hume has a whole lot to say. stick around for that. can you tell who did this under

all of the camouflage? tell you which celebrity shieding under this brilliant surprise. >> 1957 elvis presley took a down payment on graceland. still paying that off.

>> welcome back to fox and friends first. i am slate ton morris. >> i am heather nauert. it is 29 minutes after the hour. >> hope you are recovering from your st. patrick's day. top five stories making news at this hour what was supposed to be a weekend of fun turning tragic when not one but three racers killed. they watched in horror as chuck woodruff collided with another bolt being killed by an

experienced racer both of them died in the crash. another was rejected from his boat and hit a passing vessel. it is her time to shine. we are talking about kate middleton as she delivered her first public speech later today. she will give a brief heartfelt statement at a children's hospice center. she has been practicing all week long in front of family, friends and even the mirror. how about that? she is just like the rest of us. >> she made her first military appearance passing a shamrock to the members of the irish guard. >> she a lightening strike in columbus, ohio looks like sfrg a science fiction movie. tornado catchwatches and warnin were effect. hiel and rain are heading through the area.

>> president reagan stretches just released in the private archives of margaret thatcher. take a look at these. among the president's doodles a man in a hat spokimoking a pipe. the president has said to have drawn the sketches. he swiped them during the break in the talks. >> during biology class you are drawing. >> tic-tac-toe. >> have you ever heard of -- you know the man cave of course. listen to this an australia beer company going one step further an all man island. no women allowed. they are launching a private man only island retreat. beautiful location on the island of the southern great barrier reef. it is called pu pumpkin island. 4 x island. four men tote going on trip in the fall.

>> wouldn't you love that. you could wear holy socks, no one could complain. >> wear the same t-shirt for three straight days. >> exactly. >> that's what i do now. >> my wife wouldn't be there to yell at lee about it. >> that's the news for now. republican hopeful mitt romney winning big in puerto rico's primary now setting his sights on the state of illinois and louisiana. doug luzader is live with more on what the states may mean for the delegate count. how are things looking so far? >> good morning, heather. we had puerto rico over the weekend. he picked up 20 delegates there. there was not much time to celebrate. before that count was settled romney was already in illinois shaking hands and meeting and greeting folks there. he had a big lead in the polls but he really needs this win to drive home the idea that he is the inevitable nominee. >> we appreciate your help. we appreciate the fact that you are going to be out voting on

tuesday. i need you to vote multiple times, though. >> this is chicago, right? >> near chicago. not actually chicago. the way you vote multiple times legally is gieting someone who has not voted. >> rick santorum is in illinois as well. he was also in louisiana yesterday. that state holds the primary this coming weekend. he defended himself against romney's charges an economic light weight. >> for mitt romney to say he is the economic heavy weight. this is a man who doesn't understand conservative principals. this is one who says i am going to manage the economy just the opposite. we believe it is getting government out of the way creating opportunity let the private sector do these things. >> let's take a look at the most current delegate count there. rick santorum newt gingrich and ron paul are up against the mass there. tlo look at those numbers. you need 144 to clinch the

nomination. romney already has as many delegates as all of his other challengers combined but he is not even quite halfway there. with 69 delegates at play tomorrow, illinois, guys, is going to be one of the biggest contes contests. doug luzader thank you from washington. check in with you later. take a look at who was talking today. brit hume with 17 minute campaign videos posted on-line. how he handled it adversely. >> you will be judged not only on the basis of who started the trouble but whether he finished it. i think that's what has to worry the president and of course all of the attention by him are politically foolish. they seem small. petty. weak. but winners take responsibility losers blame others. also ann romney is talking on the campaign trail. she is trying to have the female vote for her husband.

listen to what she had to say. >> is there any one in here that is going to vote for obama next time? is there anybody? we are really upset. we are really upset, and i love it that women are upset, too. women are talking about the economy. i love that. women are talking about jobs. women are talking about jobs and deficit spending. thank you women. we need you. we all need you in november, too. we have to remember why we are upset and what we have to do to fix things. >> don't forget senator rick santorum will be on fox and friends later this morning ahead of the primary. make sure you check that. >> i love the segment look who's talking a lot of people are busy going to church working outside whatever they are doing. we are doing a little synopsis. >> in campaign season all of the folks talking on the sunday show. it was also great weekend

weather. >> they are in midwest and other parts. maria molina we are seeing snow in flagstaff, arizona we have a look at what it will look like the rest of the day. >> good morning guys. you are right. it was a beautiful weaned. other areas dealing with rough weather especially out west where it is still winter. it really feels like it out there. take a look at the current temperatures as you head out the door this morning in the 30s. we have a lot of snowfall across parts of arizona. i believe this video is from flagstaff, arizona. it is easily over a foot out there and surrounding areas in parts of arizona and parts of i 40 shut down due to the heavy snowfall. further off to the north across montana and the cascades you are dealing with a brand new winter storm that will be bringing in over a foot of snow yet again. a lot of rough weather out west. ahead of this system it is very warm. well above average temperatures and it's already warm this

morning. unfortunately the warm air will be causing severe thunderstorms and just to show you how warm it is 70 degrees in kansas city early this morning. 70 as you head out the door in dallas and 71 degrees in san antonio. as you head out the door or later on this afternoon you have sunshine fire things up and we are talking about a severe weather threat stretching from iowa all of the way down into texas. that area shaded in red is where we have even a greater chance to see that large hail damaging wind gusts and even tornados. heads up san antonio in dallas keep this through out the day and if there are any warnings make sure to seek shelter immediately. these won't even be bringing in risk for severe weather but also flooding. speegsly austin down there from the big south, southwest. thank you so much maria. it was pouring rain down there through out early part of the week. south by southwest festival

which kicked off this past week. >> i see that nerd alert right there that is referring to you because you are a tech expert. >> the south by southwest festival started by being music and film festival and interactive joined on board riding the coattails where now you have twitter that loufrnaun there. a lot of big companies. i had a chance to check it out. some of the most talked about apps making the most buzz down there. >> new york in the heart of it all. middle of south, southwest hundreds of companies vie to go get your tanks. let's find what's hot, come on. >> >> this year south by southwest it's all about connecting people. we are in an election year. i am here with lou, founder of votify which is a polling app. >> we use the answers you give us to questions and connect you

with like minded people to connect you with and opposing issues to debate them with you. >> one of the most buzzed about apps here. >> it uncovers the hidden connections you share with people in your body. it shares where your closest friends are and shows you how you are connected to others. >> all of your friends. >> right around the corner. i can click in see ryan is eating tacos around the corner. >> this early? >> yes. never too early for tacos in austin. >> what better way to meet a company than to come into a pub in the middle of austin. >> there is so much great video on-line. so much coming at me with my friends facebook, tumbler. >> it gets ridz of all of the noise if your friends are sharing cat videos or baby

videos baby videos are good. it filters through that and you have videos you want to watch. >> that is the spot after a long day of covering south by southwest you need to take a break. kament wait to take a break next year. >> can't wait to get another one of those land yards. >> and another neck massage. >> any other big companies? >> there was no big standout bike twitter or four square. they are all competing running around the street saying check out my apps. thousands and thousands of there. >> the companies may not seem excite bug may take off next year. little boondoggle there. >> little neck roy shamassage. >> under all of that camo is katie perry and her latest music

video called part of me. katie releasing a short trailer, a tease. you can see there's the military being there. she is got a machine gun marching in formation and hand to hand combat with other recruits. the entire video comes out march 23rdrd. >> she looks good in anything. >> the only movie to hit theaters 21 jump street pulled in estimated 35 million in the box office. it stars jonah hill and channing tatums cops that go back to high school in a hilarious under cover mission. >> we don't get to see any new movies. >> brad kozlowski picking up his third win. escaped a 7 car accident early in this race. he held off the daytona 500 winner to get the victory. he had a career high 322 laps.

>> payton manning buying a titan. wants to make him a 2012 titan because of his contributions on and off the field. the restaurant chain also got involved. the tennessee company also offering him free pancakes every day for the rest of his career if he joins the titans. >> pancakes that's not the diet you want for a quarterback. >> sounds good, though. 42 minutes after the hour. tomorrow talk about a hotly contested contest. soccer fan ends with the fans lighting the stadium on fire. look at that. tell you what happened. >> phasing out english only classes. this an idea only elementary school. >> someone who is proud to be an american. >> high name is anthony. martial arts school gives me the

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len see a-- spain. it originated from celebrating st. joseph and it evolved into the creation and destruction of these structures. >> at the top of the hour we ask you to brew on this this morning. we asked you to brew on this because there's a lot of backlash from proposals out of california. they offer dual language classes. the new spanish english class would help improve the program's efficiency. >> will it help or hurt the students overall? gene e-mailed us saying quote it makes you think spanish speaking people are not smart enough to learn english. driscoll tweeted us he says parents should have a choice. either way a multi-culturalling wall community is what sets the

usa apart from others. >> all schools need to be english only where only one society, not multiple societies. keep the e-mails coming you can find us on facebook.com/foxandfriendsfirst or twitter@fox and friends first. why can't president obama find more infighting between gop candidates. the reason not to do everything your gps tells you to do. you have to use your brain. >> come on, really? >> follows the directions right into a real mess. look at this right here. >> if you see a cruise ship that's not where you want to drive. >> or a body of water. >> check in with bray an kilmeade to see what's coming up on "fox & friends". >> what's going on clayton. great job on the show. coming up clayton goes to bed and the doctor who says living doesn't necessarily mean living

better. brad stein on some of the most difficult laws in america. >> tarryl ice will be here live and senator rick santorum trying to win illinois. fox and friends is minutes away.

>> kwelcome back. some say infighting in the gop taking its tole on the party's presidential candidates. the former governor nicky haley says the candidates aren't the only ones taking a hit. >> i don't think everyone in their right mind think the way it played out is good for the

republican's chances. what is remarkable it moo helped obama much. if the republican presume mary is hurting he ought to be soaring. he is not soaring. >> joining us now is the daily caller and political strategist on the right. nice to see both of you ladies. >> let me start with you. is haley barber correct? the poll numbers take a look at the fox news polls not looking so good. approval ratings going down 3 percent in january. is haley barber right? >> i think haley barber is right that president obama is not reaping a great amount of benefits. that is in large part through the economy. while the economy is doing well we have 424 straight months and two years of private sector growth. last month we had 270,000 jobs created. for those who the recovery has not reached yet that certainly

does effect the president. statement there is no reason somehow the republicans are doing well with the retracted piem mary is totally false. if you look at the unfavorables in mitt romney in october he was even. those who viewed him favorably and unfavorably even 17 points higher for people who view him unfavorably than people who view him favorably. >> two things not so good for republicans and not good for president obama what do you agree with? >> i think the primary isn't a bad thing. it helps make the candidate stronger as we are seeing now mitt romney has become a better de bart because of the fact that he constantly has to compete with newt gingrich in these debates. it makes for a stronger candidates in the general election. i do agree with barber that president obama hasn't really gotten anything good out of this. if anything he's doing bad. we are seeing he is struggle to

go get high dollar donations from the campaign which is extremely rare and kind of embarrassing for a sitting president. the amount of high dollar donations george w. bush had at this point during his election is four times more than what obama has right now. i think a lot of people are disenchanted and there isn't that enthusiasm any more. >> karl rove wrote a speech saying he was shocked president obama didn't have higher dollar donations. he is getting small doe significances. is that a problem? >> not at all. it is a a great thing he is getting small donations. it reflects people, regular people. he has a level of grass-roots support. the other thing he doesn't want is the big doe nations he got from wall street in 2008. big donations comes with string attached. that's the big thing. wall street doesn't elect the president they want to elect

their own proxy. >> michelle fields and dara thank you very much. appreciate it. >> big money on wall street went to the president the last time around in 2008. >> it is now 5 minutes before the hour. take a look at this picture. look at this car right here wound up in the water right near a cruise ship. folks, you can't follow your gps like this guy did. >> is the word of the day all scrambled up? figure out what it is. stick around we will help you figure it out. >> we will be right back.

>> i love this story. you got to see this. three japanese tourists in australia end up taking the scenic route after their gps leads them off the road and on to the beach. didn't they see the giant cruise ship? the tide came in. come on! >> got to use your head and can't just focus on gps. it's time to get scrambled up. steve doocy is here. i hope you took notes during the tease. here's the word of the day for us. can you guess what that is? >> put up one letter at a time. >> mr. sajak! that's too easy. >> it's too easy? there's no letters left. >> reagan. >> i love how the producers held off for the extra letter. >> nice job, steve. >> thank you, mr. and mrs. sajak. >> "fox & friends" starts right now. thanks so much for wakin