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to his parents douglas and dominique. douglas, executive producer for "special report" here on the news channel. there is their little son. congratulations to them. we're happy for them. jon: they were watching us this morning. >> they are in the hospital. jon: nice. have yourself a great weekend. >> america live starts right now. >> we have a fox news alert for you on what appears to be a major security breach that could affect millions of us. anyone who use as major credit card. welcome to america live everyone, i'm alice son camerota in for megyn can kelly. visa and mastercard warned about a breach at lus credit card processor. banks and the secret service are now in full-on investigation mode. they're trying to determine how serious this is. the source and exactly who may be affected.
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so joining us is fox business network adam shapiro. adam, what more do we know? >> reporter: we have statements from mastercard and visa saying their potential security systems were never compromised. it happened at a third party processor. let's get into it. statement from mastercard. we quote, continue to both monitor the event and take steps to safeguard account information. visa in their statement takes it a little bit further. they say visa is aware of potential data compromise incident at a third party entity affecting card account information from all major card brands. there has been no breach of either civil. talk about major card brands. we're talking about banks. we have called the major banks in the united states. jpmorgan chase refuses to comment on this you have statements from citibank which says they are taking every step necessary to protect customers information. quote, they make it a top priority. we take appropriate steps to inform and protect clients when we believe their information could be at risk. no comment from wells fargo bank on this as well.
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again the third party processor identified by "the wall street journal" as, global payments incorporated. they're a worldwide company. they have offices in atlanta. we have several calls into them. they are not commenting about this but their stock stopped trading on the exchanges after this news hit. now we're trying to determine how many credit card accounts might have been compromised. some saying as few as 50,000. could be as high as 10 million. this is a massive compromise perhaps t was broken originally, the story by krebs on security, a blog which intercepted some of the correspondence from mastercard and visa to banks notifying this was under investigation. allison. as you said the secret service is involved trying to figure out how it went down. one key clue? a lot of this took place between january 21st and fib 25th in the new york city area at parking garages. that sun one of the clues they have. they haven't tracked down who might be responseable. >> that is curious.
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when they say breach or compromise do they mean someone else has access to our credit cards now? >> reporter: what they say to the correspondence to the banks which was not supposed to be made public, what they're saying the data compromised would allow a thief to cite a counterfeit alisyn: that is how to explain all the extra charges shape shach. thanks so much. >> good luck on that one. alisyn: to give you an idea how big a business credit cards are in the u.s., at the end of last year, americans held 386 million credit card accounts. that is more than one card for every person in the country. according to the latest data americans have more than $700 billion in credit card debt. that works out to about $2200 a person. and, as of last september, there were 437 million visas
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and mastercards in circulation. well accusing the u.s. government of hiding evidence about a massacre in afghanistan. the defendant, robert bales, a u.s. soldier accused of killing those 17 afghan civilians. his lawyer, john henry brown, says members of the defense team were told they would have access to witnesses at an afghan hospital but those witnesses were released. brown also says he has been denied files he needs to represent his client. no word yet from the army. virginia tech winning an appeal against a federal fine for its response to the 2007 campus shooting. a department of education judge overturning the $55,000 fine for violating the cleary act. the law requires schools to issue timely warnings of campus threats. the e-mail warning went out two hours after the first two victims were killed. by then the gunman had returned to campus and was beginning his rampage at norris hall. 33 people died in the
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shootings nearly five years ago. the decision can be reversed again by the secretary of education. some pundits are calling him the zombie candidate. newt gingrich insisting that he is staying in the republican race for president despite dumping his campaign manager and laying off many staffers. it's got political observers comparing the former speaker to the walking dead. take a look at latest "real clear politics" average. gingrich is a distant third in the polls. chris stirewalt, fox news digital politics editor and host of "power play" on foxnews.com joins me now. he is being basically called a zombie because he is neither in or out. he is suspending some staffers. he is suspending some scheduled events. so is newt gingrich the undead at this point in the race? >> well, look if he is a
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zombie he is a very cheerful zombie. he is a likeable zombie because what newt gingrich is doing right now more than anything else is entering a phase of his campaign which in many ways where he started, which is, not with a path to nomination but still playing an important role in the process. he has become more contemplative. he is thinking what went wrong in his race. he is openly musing when he talks to reporters, when he talks to students at these events that he is holding in d.c., maryland and wisconsin ahead of the primaries there about went wrong and what went right. so what he is doing now, don't forget about this, what he's doing now, as they head towards the convention, as this race wraps itself up and heads to the convention he still has some delegates. we know he and mitt romney have talked. he may in fact be the king-maker. if rick santorum's stays in this race and pursues mitt romney all the way to the bitter end, gingrich may be the guy that can put
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romney over the top. alisyn: that is curious theory, chris. some people speculated he might team up more with santorum because of all the bad blood already expressed between romney and gingrich. is it likely that he would come out and endorse romney after everything he already said on the campaign trail about him? >> i suspect he will. it got pretty ugly there for a minute, especially down in florida and some other places. while santorum has kept up the blistering attacks on romney, gingrich shifted to a new tone. it is very clear and we know today in a radio interview up in wisconsin he essentially said that romney would get to the 114 delegates he will need to clinch the nomination outright and gingrich cast his role helping hill to earn it. that he needs to do this. so i have very little expectations that we would see anything like a real bitter end battle by gingrich especially since he can't really mount that kind of campaign anymore. alisyn: we shall see what happens on the road to
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tampa. chris stirewalt. thank you. >> you bet. alisyn: well there are new questions today about what really happened in the moments before that florida teenager, trayvon martin, was shot and killed. the accused gunman's family now giving their side of the story as police video surfaces of george zimmerman just shortly after the shooting. phil keating is live in miami. tell us what's new, phil. >> reporter: hi, al. shoot or be shot or kill or be killed. in two explosive back-to-back interviews the brother and father of george zimmerman now stressing it wasn't fighting or rolling around in the grass necessarily that caused george zimmerman to fear for his life. it was his pistol that was on his body. robert zimmerman, jr., the brother, now saying that when he looks at this videotape showing george zimmerman handcuffed and in custody walking in for questioning he sees a swollen nose on his brother and promises medical records will back up the broken nose claim.
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but during the scuffle on the ground which no one disputes, they say martin, trayvon martin is slamming zimmerman's head on the sidewalk. they say that is when martin spots zimmerman's gun as zimmerman shifted his head to the grass. >> in doing so, his firearm was shown. say von martin said something to the effect of, you're going to die now or you're going to die tonight, something to that effect. >> reporter: back to that video of zimmerman after the alleged life or death struggle which has inflamed martin's family even further. the time stamp on this police surveillance videotape which is there to accurately document the police investigation, indicates this is how zimmerman looked and walked just 45 minutes after the shooting. inspiring even more doubt from the family. >> so his nose is broken and he should be concussed --
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did he watch the video and how easily gets out of the car? >> reporter: public and family demands that george zimmerman be arrested and charged with murder will get even larger and louder this weekend. the naacp, accompanied by reverends jesse jackson and al sharpton, are planning a big march and rally tomorrow up in sanford, florida. it will end at the police department and reverend al sharpton now saying, that if zimmerman is not he is arrested and arrested soon, he is going to vocalize calls for a massive civil disobedience, maybe even economic sanctions defense the against the city of sanford if zimmerman is not arrested. that decision rests with the special prosecutor, state attorney angela cory in jacksonville. no word whether or not when that decision whether or not to charge zimmerman will come. alisyn: this issue is not going away. phil keating, thank you. the uproar over "pink slime"
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in beef processes continue. schools abandoned it. a lot of the folks lost their lunch over it so to speak but governors from three meet-producing states pushing back saying that the media is falling for a smear campaign. how safe is "pink slime"? hard not to feel the pinch of gas prices at record highs but new survey showing americans shrugging off the pain at the pump. how long will that last? batman pulled over by the police. but the caped crusader. you don't want to miss this. >> don't worry about it. >> okay. >> take a few seconds. >> do you mind if i take a picture? >> not at all. >> batman ♪ okay, team! after age 40, we can start losing muscle --
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gas jumped more than 19 cents in the last month. it is now up to $3.92. but despite drivers reaching deeper into their wallets a new poll finds a growing number of americans are feeling optimistic about the economy. according to the latest numbers from that maris poll, 49% of the adults say they feel the worst is now behind us. 45% say they believe the economy could still get worse. let's bring in matt mccall. president of the penn financial group. this is good news. this marist poll shows adults by a slim margin, 49-45 feel that the worst of the economic woes are behind us. >> two years ago this number was much worse. the trend is getting better. we're getting a bit more confidence back in the american consumer. we're seeing retail sales, a lot of people are out there spending. the problem is two out of three people believe we're in a recession. they think hinges it are getting better but in the
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grand scheme it is not nearly as good as it should be at this point. alisyn: obviously gas prices keep going up. so which one weighs more heavily on people, the economy as a whole and jobs or the gas prices that hit their wallets every day? >> they both i think weigh. i mean even if you do have a job you may know somebody that doesn't have a job. what happens then, you kind of take the confidence down. you don't go spend because you never know if you lose a job. somebody next to you is losing their job. it is all a mental thing. when it comes to gas prices very much about confidence because even if you fill your tank, only say once every two weeks, but then suddenly see it go above $4, $4.50 per gallon, what happens then? confidence, thiser perception becomes reality and once reality comes in and you stop spending, consumer is 70% of the economy. those gas prices are directly linked to the economy. if you stop spending what happens? our economy goes in the tank. alisyn: here is another poll that relates to gas price
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that shows whether or not how much strain they're putting on average household. great deal of strain, 37%. moderate strain, 40%. not very much, 12%. add the first two numbers up, 77% of the families feeling the heat right now. >> they are feeling the pinch i think. these polls, i was curious, are people answering this looking how much more they're spending per month on gasoline or again just a perception they see this as all over the news, in the headlines, 20 straight days, gas prices going up. so i don't think we talked a moment off air. i don't know if people are spending less. i really don't think they are but what we're going to see in my mind and this continues, suddenly 4.50 in the gas this summer then it hits us. that could take a major hit to the economy struggling a bit to get out of its own way. alisyn: in terms of what we're talking about, part is behavioral. are people changing what they're doing as a result of gas prices? here is another piece of the poll. high gas prices has it changed your driving habits? 53% say yes. 46% say no, not
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yet. obviously more ticks up more behavioral changes we'll see. >> i talked to a client today, doing a segment. i asked hem them. they live in the midwest. has it changed your habits? she considers flying versus driving, a trip two or three hours, might be cheaper, more convenient to fly versus driving. that could change drastically the way people do their everyday life. if that number gets worse it will affect the economy. i hate to say it will affect the economy. one person less driving to the grocery store. hurts the grocery store and suppliers and trickles down. alisyn: completely different story in canada we want to ask you about. canada by end of the year doing away with the penny. is the penny going to become extinct even here? >> i think it is going to. i picked this penny up walking to my hallway in my apartment. it has been there for a week. nobody touched it. i walked out this morning. it was still there. i picked it up.
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there is study based on federal minimum wage. it doesn't pay to pick up a penny unless you do it in six seconds. you're losing money if you're making minimum wage. tells you this penny is probably pretty much worthless. i will stock up. because it may be collectors edition. alisyn: people are dropping money your apartment building and we should go over there with a metal detector. >> pennies will not get us very far. alisyn: to your point, it costs 2 1/2 cents to make every penny and only worth one cent. >> we're making, u.s. mint making average of 20.2 million pennies per day. that costs a lot of government for money and taxpayers to make the pennies, people don't pick them up off the street. alisyn: are we going to round up? if there is no more pennies is my 99 cents a dollar? that is built-in tax. >> new zealand did this, last 20 years got rid of the two penny and nickel. showed no effects on economy, no inflation. the products i sell, they're getting round up. alisyn: matt mechanical,
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thanks so much for all of that. meanwhile people living near those raging wildfires in colorado, well they are barely escaping their homes with the clothes on their back. there is a 911 emergency notification system in place. it is reverse 911. basically they reverse their calling. still many folks are living in the danger zone still. they didn't get the message and wait until you hear why. then are you grossed out by "pink slime" in your burger? well, not everyone is. three governors of beef-producing states are taking a big bite to prove there is nothing wrong with how the meat is processed. texas governor rick perry called the beef mixture, safe to eat. >> you owe it to the consumers to report the facts. let's call this product what it is. and let "pink slime" become a term of the past.
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alisyn: we have a major auto recall to tell you about now. honda is recalling more than half a million suvs in the united states. the problem has to do with faulty wiring if the headlights. honda says the system could fail causing low beam headlights to just stop working. the effected models include crvs from the model year 2002 to 2004. pilot suvs from model year 2003. honda says no injuries or crashes have been reported. letters will be mailed to owners next month and honda says they will fix the problem. to learn more go to the honda website. call it "pink slime" or lean finely textured beef.
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the details how red meat is processed caused an uproar in school cafeterias and fast-food restaurants across the country but three governors of beef-producing states are speaking out and touring a beef products plant in nebraska to show their support for the companies. they say that "pink slime" label is unfair. fox's laura ingle is in our newsroom. what more do we know about "pink slime"? >> reporter: alisyn, this was damage control in more ways possible. to convince grossed out customers and grocery stores that the beef in question is good and nutritious. in full of cameras, the governors came, saw and they ate to prove the point that detractors are using a bad nickname that should be ignored. governors of texas, iowa alongwith the governor of nebraska took a tour of beef products incorporated. that is the main producer of lean finely textured beef in the u.s.. the governors examined the
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beef and chomped down on hamburgers to persuade consumers to buy the product made from fatty bits of meat left over from other cuts and treated with an ammonia additive for 20 years but recently came target of activists to force it banned. that forced bpi suspended operation of three to four plants, affecting 350 jobs, something the governors hope to say they can fix before revenue of this industry slips away. >> i intend to contact every supermarket chain i can in the country. this is wrong. we should not make decisions based on hysteria and smear campaigns. it ought to be based on facts and knowledge. >> reporter: bpi's lean beef reportedly been a part of nearly 20 million meals per year used in america's fast-food, school lunches and 70% of all ground beef sold at grocery stores. after the governor's tour and taste test of the burgers, bpi officials showed off t-shirts they
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made to convey the message with the slogan, are you ready, dude, it's beef. those are the t-shirts. alisyn: suddenly i'm hungry. >> reporter: right. >> laura, thanks so much for that update. there is a new strategy in the race for the white house. what team romney is focusing on in president obama's record. our panel debates whether this new strategy will work. concerns about a system meant to warn homeowners about fire danger in their area. it comes as flames rage out of control in colorado. we'll have the very latest from the scene. >> those spot fires, they literally to work each one individually and cut a line around it and have the helicopters drop water if need be due to the size of the fire. so it is very labor intensive and it takes some time. when you have diabetes...
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alisyn: japan has a message for north korea. the defense minister says japan's military is ready to intercept a rocket launched by the north next month in case it flies over their territory. there are concerns that if the rocket fails, it could fall over japan putting lives at danger. best buy is downsizing 50 box stores and opening 100 small mobile locations. the electronics retailer says its goal is to cut 800 million in costs by 2015. jetblue compensating
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passengers over their pilot that hadp an apparent psychotic incident. the copilot locked pilot out of the cockpit, passengers helped subdue him in the cabin. some people living near the massive wildfires in colorado say they never got the reverse 911 call urging them to evacuate their homes. the jefferson county sheriff blames it on a software glitch in the notification system but the operators of that system say that is not true. fox's alicia acuna is live near aspen park, colorado. what do we know? >> reporter: hi, alisyn. i asked a jefferson county sheriff's office about the conflicting statements between his office and that of first call network, the company that handles the reverse 911s. the sheriff official acknowledged the discrepancy and they are investigating. 12% of the people who live in the mandatory evacuation area say they got no warning
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even though they had signed up to receive fire danger warnings on their phone. first call network insists that there was no glitch. that everything worked the way it should have and if folks didn't get the warning because they either didn't i can pick up their phones or their service had been disconnected but the sheriff's department is saying things did not go as planned so they're looking into it. >> our concern is on the number of households that never got the call period. and we know that happened through our research. we're still getting numbers on how many homes but that's our real concern because if they never got it, it's a software glitch. it's a problem with the system and we're trying to figure out what that is. >> reporter: another issue he says that these recorded warnings have a eight-second delay. in other words some folks got the call when they picked up they didn't hear anything so they hung up because they had no way of knowing if they waited eight
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seconds they would have received a very important message. alisyn, there is lot of anger regarding these reverse 911 calls as you can imagine. some folks are hoping they can at least get into the burn area so they can do a quick estimate of their home. they have to be escorted by the sheriff's department and then they have to leave again. alisyn: we can understand the anger. that is more than a glitch. alicia acuna, thanks so much. well the economy of course has been front and center in the race for the white house but a new reports suggests that the gop frontrunner, mitt romney is about to challenge president obama on foreign policy. some republicans expressed serious concerns about the president's handling of israel and iran as well as the war in afghanistan. so let's debate all this. alan colmes, the host of the alan colmes show. mike gallagher a syndicated radio show host and fox news contributor. gentlemen, thanks for being here. >> how are you?
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alisyn: michael, start with you, this is report in "washington post." romney's advisors say they will go after the president on foreign policy though many pundits believe that has been actually one of president obama's strengths. what what do you think? >> no. i think the president has lots of areas of vulnerability. it sort of reminds me of the boxing ring in, strictly a metaphor call sense. when the boxer is wobbly and trainer says go for it, go for it, take him out. the president can be weakened on many, many issues on the domestic front, foreign policy. talk to many mainstream americans over the president of's handling of israel and the way the miserable way he treated benjamin netanyahu as an example. there are certainly achievements he can boast. i have never wanted to take away the accomplishment of the taking out of osama bin laden. credit is given where credit is due but i think this is a smart move on mitt romney's part. it reinforces governor romney's belief he will be the frontrunner and now behaving more like a one-on-one contender to
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president obama. alisyn: sure. alan, you heard mike. some people think his vulnerabilities on foreign policy are israel and iran and the ongoing trouble in afghanistan. >> well, mitt romney said he will give foreign policy speech in a month or two as soon as he figures out what he thinks. he has gone after the president in an op-ed piece recently where he said the very same things obama is doing. talked about missile defense. talked about stricter sanctions, the very policies obama is doing. i don't know what mitt romney brings to the table. you have the former head of the mossad who has said that romney is causing problems by this warmongering. he says we can't give iran much longer. that is causing instability. if you're iran you will start fast, more quickly developing weapons. so, you know, i don't know what romney is doing. he is causing instability in the middle east. that causes higher gas prices. i don't know what poll he has got is different than what president obama would do. alisyn: mike, what of that? if the president is calling for stricter sanctions if that is what mitt romney also wants?
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>> i'm not sure a presidential candidate is causing instability in the middle east. >> sure. >> you give him a lot more credit. >> that is what the head of the mossad said. >> yeah you about i'm not real sure instability in the middle east is the end result. i mean, listen, there is a belief that many americans have this president who has bowed to other world leaders, has gone on the infamous apology tour around the world, apologizing for the united states, is not respected or, or give the credit that this country deserves in terms of a world superpower. so i think mitt romney will speak in broad strokes about that. he certainly, alan, isn't going to just come up with what he thinks and give a speech next month. he thinks plenty. >> this kinard that he apologized to the united states is taken out of context a slice after speech where he actually said the opposite of apologizing to the united states. so if -- >> old out of context. >> one speech and one sentence from one speech that he gave two years ago. that is the only thing you have on the right to go after obama with, i think you're going to have a very difficult time undermining
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his foreign policy. alisyn: alan, what about that in terms whether or not voters have a short attention span? is what is happening with israel and afghanistan and iran in the forefront of voters mind right now than the fact that the president did take out bin laden and other al qaeda leaders. >> and in libya qaddafi. other top al qaeda leaders he set a tremendous record getting rid of top al qaeda leaders. most americans focus on economy and pocketbook and how much they're spending on gas and things like that. is more credible area what we experience day-to-day in terms of how people feel when they go into a voting booth. >> there is, talk about american exceptionalism in a moment. >> of course. >> this is powerful concept. you shake your head and roll your ice. >> this is another old kinard. >> you didn't let me finish, i excuse me i didn't even make the point yet before you said it was a kinard. american exceptional system not a kinard. there is nothing untruthful
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about the belief that we are the best country on the planet. that we have a different. >> right. >> we're different. we're unique. we have a founding document that says all of those things. yet this president has once said, yeah, we think we're exceptional but so do the greeks and so do the brits. alisyn: last word. >> other countries do think they're exceptional but the only president whoever used the phrase, american extension al system -- exceptional system, is barack obama. he is only one that used that phrase. >> he doesn't believe in it. alisyn: thanks so much for debating this. alan colmes, mike gallagher. >> guys, take care. alisyn: now doubt seen the commercials about amazing things siri can do. apple's voice activated personal assistant. she is a real life saver. what is the traffic like around here? >> here's the traffic. ♪ . >> text my wife, will be 30 minutes late. alisyn: does siri, the
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chatty robot do all it is advertised? if it doesn't is it grounds for a lawsuit? at least one class action lawyer says yes. our legal panel weighs in. and megamania. tonight's record-breaking jackpot is nearing $650 million. we're going to talk about the odds and look at the lines and delusion of luxury only the lotto can bring but you never know. i see our crew scrambling out now to get some. >> what would you do if you won mega millions? >> retirement. retire early. buy a car, house and everything that goes with it. >> i think i would have to buy myself a house on the golf course and work on becoming a golf pro.
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taking the first step to impose new sanctions on iran's oil supply after determining there is enough crude on the world markets to take the step without harming the u.s. or its allies. the move would impose some serious penalties on any foreign bank that purchases oil from iran. experts previously warned that such sanctions could send already sky-high gas prices through the roof. the sanctions won't take effect until this summer. we'll bring you more information as we get it on this development. >> we have a flat tire. >> how do i tie a bow tie again? >> what is the fastest way to hartford hospital? >> do i need annum brel a la in new york? >> move my meeting from 3:00 to 4:00. >> what does a weasel look like. >> remind me to get milk. >> wake me at 6:00. alisyn: remind me to get milk on the way home. that is clip from computer giant apple showing solve some of what it advertises
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its virtual personal assistant siri, can do for you. but now some frustrated iphone 4s owners say siri does not work quite as advertised. this is the subject of two new class action lawsuits. so do these customers have a case? let's bring in former prosecutor anita kay, and defense attorney marla chi koskie. >> thanks for being here. alisyn: disgruntled customers. siri can't do it all. she doesn't know everything. sometimes she doesn't give the best directions. she can't bake an apple pie. do they have a case, marla? >> well they are going to have a tough hurdle in this case because they will have to prove they were in the minority group that were misled by those wonderful commercials we see all day. i don't particularly have the i-4 s. i have the i-4. like some people i don't
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need a woman telling me what to do every day. alisyn: anita, for those people who feel disgruntled that they were sold a false bill of goods, what could their case be? false advertising? >> they're trying to say it is false advertising. come on, siri is wonderful. i have an iphone 4. i have siri. she and i have a love/hate relationship. sometimes she tells me good things. sometimes she tells me things i don't want to hear. if they were dissatisfied with siri they could return the phone. filing a lawsuit is not what they need to do. i spoke this morning siri and told her she was being sued. she said would accept that, queen anita. i trained siri to call me queen anita. siri is fun. you have fun with it. sometimes i have to asker had the same thing 10 ims times to get answer i'm looking for. >> i would say that is design flaw. if you have to ask for something 10 times, the answer you're looking for are is it fair, marla, for people to be unhappy with their purchase and want
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their money back? >> well, companies have to be very careful how they advertise their products. i mean there's disclaimers. the american federal trade commission has standards and guidelines, but ultimately what these people are looking for is potentially damages. i mean, if you mislead consumers you're not going to jail. you're not going to prison but what these people probably want back is maybe their money. who knows. alisyn: listen, technology never works for me. i am completely remedial when it comes to any technology but our senior producer christine burke, does have an iphone i-4 s. she has siri. i can ask it a question. i will try for the first time. let's do some, do some current events. which former president just endorsed mitt romney? >> i don't know what you mean by, okay, which former president just endorsed mitt romney.
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which former president just endorsed mitt romney? >> you see the problem. alisyn: she is not perfect, particularly for people who want her to answer any single question. this is what is frustrating to people. anita, i know you don't think they have a case but can't people make the point it doesn't work for them? >> well, now some of it, alisyn i have to say, i'm guilty is too is human error. you need to give siri very specific instructions or ask the question in a certain way. here's the thing, one of the gentlemen that filed the suit, i think the one in new york he actually bought the siri before commercials came out. he is claiming my siri doesn't do what the commercials say. i don't think that will hold water. i don't think he bought it just based on the commercials. the commercials talk about sequences shortened. if you continue to ask siri
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and continue to work with her, she is going to give you answers. she is good at directions. she is good at the weather and she is good at calling you queen anita or queen alisyn or whoever you want her to call you. she is real good at that. alisyn: if that's what you want to pay hundreds of dollars for, she fits the bill. that is perfect. >> exactly. alisyn: anita and marla, thanks for coming in weighing on the class-action suit and we'll see what happens and if siri ever gets back to me. >> thank you. alisyn: some had life on the run. what we're learning about the homes that he lived in, the children that he had, plus how close the u.s. got to public enemy number one more than five years before those navy seals caught up with him. this is a stunning report you want to hear. this is no joke. the man behind the mask. the heart of gold. the story about that man. ♪
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alisyn: not every day that police pull over the batmobile. >> i'm going to be 54 once i get this guy stopped. he has got no tags but has batman on it and he is addressed like batman. alisyn: the police pull over a black lamborghini with a batman logo. his name is not bruce wayne. he is lenny robinson. like the fictional crime fighter is a good samaritan. he visits six children in washington area hospital dressed as batman, spending his own money, $25,000 a year on batman toys and memorabilia. he shakes every hand. poses for every picture.
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i can rick folbaum has more from the newsroom. the police were very surprised. >> reporter: he is a superhero, is he not, alison even if he is loose on the rules on license plates. he carries the license plate. keeps him inside the car. lenny robinson got hooked on batman because of his son the boy loved character and soon so did the dad. most fathers would buy a stack of batman comics to read with their kid, robinson went out and little further. bought a custom made batman suit and bought his own batmobile, a lamborghini as you said. a ton of batman toys and trinkets. with all of his good fortune, successful, business, healthy family he would go around to local hospitals and visit kids not as lucky, kids battling cancer. as you said he drives all over the baltimore d.c. irarea going hospital to hospital. never done it for the publicity. probably wouldn't get any were it not for this little
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run-in with the police captured on the dash-cam. who by the way let him go after seeing his real license plate and they seemed to get a kick out of the whole thing. >> driver's license? >> i'm going to run it, what you got on there, brother. don't worry about it. >> okay. >> it will take a few seconds. >> lenny, do you mind if i take a picture? >> not at all. >> batman ♪. >> reporter: they sang the theme but did not ask him to take off his mask if you were wondering. robinson seemed to be a real life role model, the kind of guy we can all look up to. he puts on the suit which he says gets very hot. he spend hours with the kids shaking hands, posing for pictures, handing out batman toys. then "the dark knight" is off. fear not, batman will surface again just when he is needed the most. alisyn: yes he will. i'm going to start driving around and wonder woman so i can get out of tickets. >> reporter: i would pay
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money to see that, alisyn. alisyn: thanks very much, rick. there are bombshell accusations to tell you about that the white house leaked classified info to stop israel from attacking iran. were the leaks intentional and does this torpedo any intentions of iran to enter the nuclear arms club? details ahead. high gas prices could put a crimp in your summer travel plans. what other countries are doing that could have you changing your itinerary. you stand a better chance of getting hit by lightning twice but most folks are driving up the mega millions jackpot to levels never seen before. why we play even against the overwhelming odds.
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and -- and palestinians. they were told to abandon the peace process and return to violence. [gunshots] alisyn: you can hear israeli security forces firing rubber bullets. the occasion has turned violent before and today sadly with no exception, fox's leland vittert is live in our jerusalem bureau. >> reporter: the sun has set. it's nighttime in jerusalem. this end one of the most violent days in 12 months. 10 people shot down on the gaza bored. this came after a proclamation this week by a prominent
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palestinian leader. he says the peace process isn't work so his people should return to the streets and return to violence. at least today they listened. this is what the palestinians call land day. israel annexed land and put developments on them. now you can see the israelis advancing. we have teargas cannisters and the palestinian youth responding with rocks. at a time like this you have to worry about the rubber business as we try to stay out of the line of fire. this is the teargas as it starts to take hold. do you think throwing rocks will help your cause? >> yes.
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we'll be here. this land for us. we have the right to stay in this land. >> reporter: there is a lot of anger on the palestinian streets. it's not without a lot of risks to these palestinians and teargas isn't fun, but they also face rubber bullets fired by the israelis. rubber bullets sounds like it's not much, but it certainly really hurts. it's impossible to know whether the violence today is going to turn into the kind of violence we saw during the first intifada. there is high unemployment and a horrible economic situation in the west bank. there is a lot of violent youth with not a lot to do rather than throw stones. it seems like this is an israeli government willing to meet
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violence with violence to keep this situation from deteriorating any further than it has. alisyn: we have new developments on another volatile situation in the middle east. fox news is confirming president obama plans to move ahead with tough new sanctions meant to hurt iran for not abandoning its nuclear program. he determined there is enough crude to the markets to take the steps without hurting the u.s. or its allies. the sanctions won't take place until summer, around the same time europe's i am bar go on iranian oil kicks in. k.t. macfarland will be talking about this. also that the u.s. has leaked information about israel's covert activity to attack
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iranian's nuclear program. this is video of the former al qaeda leader usama bin laden in his pakistani compound days before he was shot and killed by u.s. navy seals. testimony from his youngest wife is revealing what usama bin laden was really up to. tell us the new stuff. >> reporter: bin laden's third and youngest wife has been talking to pakistani prosecutors and filling in the details of what bin laden's life in pakistan was like the last 10 years. she says bin laden and his extended family left afghanistan 10 years ago, not too long after u.s. troops land in afghanistan. she says during that time she lift in five different cities. from the swat valley to haripur. she talks about moving from
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house to house and town to town. she says during that time she gave birth to four children. including two of them at a pakistani run government hospital. she doesn't say who was helping the family, only describing the helpers who were around her husband and their extended family as other pakistani family members. but the big question is who was helping them. and the pakistani government has not dove in to try to find out who was helping bin laden and setting him up and moving him from house to house. that's the question people are trying to figure out. there are still a lot of questions. but one thing that is clear from her testimony to pakistani prosecutors and the legal team is she and her family and bin laden's family did not appear to be living in fear of capture probably because they were provide very strong help in pakistan, allison.
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alisyn: the rest of us have to wait until june. the justices of the supreme court will have scene idea of the outcome today. they are meeting on the main floor and no one less be present. but after today's meeting individual votes and the final ruling can change as the justices read each other's decisions. beginning sunday the united states will become the country with the highest corporate tax rates in the world. jim angle is live in washington with more on this. that's a dubious distinction, jim. >> reporter: it certainly is. we are number one, anti-taxed a row scats cry. but no one is happy about it. >> america is number one in a category where we don't want to be number one. we are the highest corporate tax rate in the world.
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our competitors have lowers their tax rates so they can be more competitive. >> the effective tax rate of u. s-corporations is low compared to their competitor. which is why you have the situation where a company like ge is nieg income tax. >> a lot of countries around the world don't have the same deductions that we provide corporations here it's tricky to just take a published rate and say we are losing our competitive position. >> reporter: what you hear these democrats saying is suggesting this is not as big a problem as others say. the business community notes in 30-some odd countries. the average corporate tax rate is 25%. great britain just dropped to 24 per. canada just dropped their corporate rate to 16 per. ireland 12.5, china is 25%.
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business analysts say the emerging economies. and the established countries, there are lower he corporate tax rates across the board. with state taxes it could be 39%. japan begins a process of lowering its corporate rate by more than 10 points leaving the u.s. head and shoulders among others which analysts say will hurt their ability to compete. he said that is the situation we now have with japan moving down. but in the u.s. right at top of those in terms of corporate tax rates. alisyn: jim angle. thanks so much. all you need is a dollar and a dream. millions of americans lining up for a chance to become a half a
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meltdown. airline is saying we won't be hearing from the crew. they are declining interviews. instead choosing to spend time with their families. we are learning osbon's father who was a pilot killed in 1995 when this small plane lost power and crashed in florida. he faces 20 years behind bars. we learned the white house is moving ahead with new sanctions on iranian oil to punish tehran for its nuclear program. they decided there is enough crude on the market not to hurt the u.s. or its allies. this amidst charges that the administration leaked
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information after reports surfaced that israel had been granted access to azerbaijan. >> i think the pressure put on israel has been merciless behind the scenes. every evidence is that the pressure is failing and the israeli government will do what they think is necessary. so the obama administration toarkd it up a notch. now they will reveal important information that will allow iran to defeat an israeli attack. i think that's what's going on. alisyn: does it jeopardize our relationship with israel? let's ask k.t. macfarland. do you agree with ambassador bolton that the administration is intentionally leaking this information? >> the administration doesn't want any kind of a problem in
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the middle east before the election. they don't want an israeli attack on iranian sites. they don't want that situation because they think it will lead to high oil prices, high gasoline prices. the way i think about it. it's like a foot race. you have got iran racing to get to the finish line. with israel racing to stop iran from making those nukes and the united states racing to stop israel from stopping iran. alisyn: nobody wants another war. that's logical. is there any way for iran to take whatever action it feels necessary without the u.s. getting dragged into something? >> how much time does everybody have left? the people who know aren't talking and the people talking probably don't know. the question is does iran get to that finish line before the election? does israel realize it only has a certain amount of time so it
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has to have some preemptive attack or is president obama saying do we let sanctions work, those sanctions are going to get the iranians to go to the negotiating table and give up their nukes? they have not up until this point. alisyn: what about the charges of the u.s. leaking information and compromising israel. if nobody knew there were air bases at azerbaijan that would be made available. >> i think the leaking of the information about airfield israel might or minot use. it's looking for friends, it's looking to sabotage the iranians. but the bigger problem with that open mike. when president obama land over to the russian leader and said don't worry after the election i'll have more flexibility. these are the same russian leaders who just spent 6 months
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trashing the united states in their election campaign. if you are the president of israel and you are hearing the american president say once i'm reelected there will be a different deal. you have got to wonder, this is the guy who just said i have got your back. you have got to wonder that after obama is re-elected if he is, can he count on -- can israel count on his word? alisyn: it make it seem as if the president is disingenuous. whatever you do, wait until after the election. what impact will that have? >> there are a couple of things going on with these sanctions. these are basically targeting the iranian banking system. it's like -- you put an embargo
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around iranian oil. what's the objective? what are you trying to do with these sanctions? one idea,ed the administration says iranians will realize they have got to go to the negotiating table. the closer iran gets to those nukes they are going to race to that finish. other objective might be to say to the iranian people, things are so bad you should go out into the streets and topple your regime the egyptians did, the way the syrians are trying to do, the way the libyans have done and maybe iran under a different leadership has a different plan. alisyn: iran tried that. the iranians tried that and we didn't necessarily have their back. >> totally. we snuffed them. that was i think the beginning of the arab spring when the iranian people went to the streets in 2009. the question will be for this administration, if the iranian people go to the streets again, would this president then welcome them the same way he
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welcomed the egyptians who went to the streets? alisyn: do you think that's the answer? >> they are lousy options. either bomb iran or let iran get the bomb. there is a third option? is there an option c? i would go for option c, try to crash their economy. alisyn: thanks so much. always good to have your expertise. millions of americans are feeling the pain at the pimp. what if anything can the president do about it? our power panel weighs in on the politics of gas. a life and death situation for these firefighters. it was caught on tape. we have the dramatic ending for you. plus a mega million jackpot for the record book. wait until you hear where it stand now and your odds of winning. what would you do with that money? >> they say money doesn't buy happiness but i'm going to buy a yacht and sail to mexico.
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alisyn: take a look at these three firefighters escaping serious injury when a roof of a building in dearborn, michigan collapses. you can see their barely hang on. fellow firefighters pulling him back. they were trying to vents late the building with it suddenly caused in. the cause of the fire is under investigation. mega millions mania is growing. the jackpot is $640 million. minutes ago lottery officials increased the jackpot to what was already a record please. your odds are 1 in 176 million.
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you have a better chance of getting struck by lightning twice in your lifetime or become an astronaut. that's 1 in 13 million. and 1 in 10 million are your chances of becoming the president of the united states. rick leventhal is joining us live from who broken, new jersey. tickets are selling like hotcakes. how many have you bought, rick? >> reporter: more than 20. my odds of become president are zero. but the odds that a winning ticket has been sold have gown. lottery officials are estimating 200 million more tickets will be sold than they thought. so 625 million tickets nationwide for this one drawing. that's more than two for every man, woman and child in the u.s. it's likely multiple winners will be claiming part of this
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$640 million prize. some of the potential winners are lined up inside this newsstand in who broken, new jersey. if you buy 50 tickets a week odds makers say you will win a jackpot sometime in the next 68,000 years. every state hopes to sell the winning ticket. it's a financial wind fall for tax purposes. >> if you don't play the probability of wing is zero. but if you do play the probability of winning is a little bit more than zero, but you have to go to the 8th or orth december mill point before you get a digit lower than zero. >> reporter: depending on what state you live in, your take after taxes $330 million.
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you can give a dollar to everyone in the u.s. and still have some left over for yourself. alisyn: since you have a sweet life already, what would you do with that money? >> reporter: i would give most it to you. alisyn: good answer. that's the right answer. thank you. if you won the mega million jackpot, how would you spend it? we are asking that question on foxnews.com. 35% say paying off their bills. 27% say they would donate the money to charity. that's wonderful. 11% say they would build their dream home and 10% say they would leave home and travel the world. you might be able to do all of that with this jackpot. moving on. he is an atheist who threatened to sue over a nativity scene on public property but then he needed help and the christian community stepped up to the plate. now how is he feeling? the price of gasoline becoming a
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anyone concerned about their private information should contacts the financial institution that issues them their card. in wisconsin, election officials ordering a june recall election for republican governor scott walker. the first-term governor facing a challenge after his push to reform bargaining rights in the state. the colorado wildfires destroying dozens of homes and forcing 900 families to leave. right now president obama is in the green mountain state in burlington. if you want to watch more of this you can watch it streaming live at foxnews.com. one issue playing a role in presidential politics is the pay at the pump the price of gas. gas prices are taking a bite out of the budgets of millions of americans. let's take a look at average cost for a gallon of regular in
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california today it is $4.32. the state elected tax collector calling for a freeze on the gas tax. is that a good solution? let's ask our power panel. tobin smith is ceo of mbp equity group. thanks so much for being here. this california lawmaker says that the answer to the rising gas taxes in california and other states could adopt this is to do away or to freeze the tax on gasoline. he says that could save $1.4 billion a year. >> oil makes up 70% of the cost of gasoline. if oil prices are going up and the taxes make up 12% it's going to be a smaller piece of a rising pie.
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he doesn't have control over the prices coming in. it would put a ceiling on the amount of tax. >> the freeze on the percentage that's being paid. the price is going up and the tax remains the same, the tax doesn't increase overnight. i don't know where the revenue comes from on this unless quite frankly they do something to pull gas prices down. >> our energy problems starts with president obama. it starts at top. he has a war on fossil fuel, coal, oil and natural gas. for every penny gas prices go up that's a billion dollars a year less in consumer experiencing and consumer experiencing is 70% of our economy. so obama's war on fossil fuels is a war on hard-working americans. he's trying to criticize the
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fossil fuel industry when he's part of the problem. alisyn: obviously the states are taking the matters into their own hands. let's look where gas prices are. we belly ache about it in new york. but in hawaii it's the highest. $4.59. alaska $4.36. the farther you get out of the continental u.s., california, $4.32. illinois, $4.26. >> in illinois, they passed a law that they have their own specific blend for gasoline. there is on two refineries in the country that can make it. if one of those go down their prices in chicago go up 30 cents. that's the political aspect of it. and may 1 when we go to the summer blend there is only one refinery that can make gasoline for chicago.
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we created the war on the energy which by the way used to take 8 cents to make a dollar of gdn the united states. we are much better users of energy. but at end of the day our economy is built on fossil fuel. >> what can the president do? there is a lot of rhetoric about the president can't do something. that's nonsense. the president can do something simply and allow for more drilling on federal land. we increase the supply of oil on the planet. when you increase the supply of anything, the price will come down. it's the talking points, the politics about this, increase the supply, price will come down, it's that simple. >> you can't deny fossil fuels provides over 80% of our energy needs. we have a president who has a war on fossil fuels. we the people are paying much more in energy costs. we have a wealth of abundance of natural resource.
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that shouldn't be the case. alisyn: it made sense that people in these various states would want to take matters into their own hand. is there anything individually they can do? >> at the personal level, if you really are worried about the price of gas, get a car that gets 50% better gas mileage. that creates demand destruction. at the state level they can change the tax issues. but that's a band-aid. alisyn: there are all sort of other consequences when you try to change the tax on gas. what the opponents say is you can save that billion dollars, what about our public transportation system, our police force, our 911 system, all that would be cut into. >> in california there are a lot of services that money was going
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for. you can't say we would freeze that and see some windfall. people would have more money in their pocket. when they say freeze it, are they saying you don't pay any tax? >> they are usually a fixed number. it's not based on a percentage. alisyn: freezing the sales tax on gasoline when it jumped above $4 a gallon. >> it would put a few bucks back into consumers' pockets. >> politically it shows you are doing something. if we wanted to do something we would take the 400 billion barrels of oil we said no we are not going after those. we could replace 3-4 million barrels a day in the united states. we wouldn't care about iran or the strait of hormuz. we could start that tomorrow. we sort of had this attitude, hey, you know, there are bigger
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issues somewhere, and we have to get real. alisyn: even you saying go out and buy a car that gets 50% more gas mileage. those are the alternative energy thing the president is talking about. it sounds like you support some of those things he's trying to do. >> i support the toyota corolla, they are not a hybrid, they are just a better car, a smaller car. >> they can consume 50% less with a different vehicle tomorrow. that's a personal thing. >> they are much more dangerous if they are smaller and hit on impact. but the epa regulations on the coal industry -- people are screaming about gas prices. utility prices are going up because the epa mandates on the
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fossil fuel industry which is driving up prices. we have 50 coal fire power plants scheduled to come off line. america is suffering from reduced living standard already. so this is going to be a double whammy. >> you start talking about alternative energy source, solar energy doesn't make economic sense. wind energy does not make economic sense. i don't know how you take sal gee and get that in your -- how you take algae and get that in your car. >> even if we increase the utilization of cars using electric, we have coal plants closing. natural gas prices are low enough that we are getting some substitution. but all this doesn't mean a hill of beans. if every car in america was a
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hybrid that got 40 miles to the gallon it wouldn't make a difference. it's not an american issue, it's a global issue and that's what people don't get. >> drill more on the federal lands, prices will come down. that's what we need to do, end of discussion. alisyn: we'll stop with the solution while we are ahead. the summer travel season is fast approaching and you may have to save up a bit more if you are planning a european vacation. the eu wants to tap airline passengers for their global he polices. james rosen is live in washington. how does this work, james? >> reporter: effective january 1 of this year the european union placed the entire aviation sector under iewrps emissions trading system. it's a cap and trade system. the biggest polluters must pay extra when their emissions
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exceed the capped level. those payment will start coming next year. the payment will be due every time they fly from u.s. air space to european air space or vice versa. some countries such as india and china have already barred their airline companies from complying with the eu's so-called carbon tax scheme. similar legislation is pending in congress and it's support about it airline and travel lobbies. >> with high oil prices the price of a ticket is already rising. with additional added tax i think you will seat cost of a ticket go much higher and probably break the price point where international leisure and business travelers are willing to pay to come to the united states and that could have a big impact on our economy. >> reporter: environmentals say this is not a tax, just a cap on emissions with penalties that the airlines can avoid.
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making takeoffs and landings more gradual so they can use less fuel. but modernized high-efficient ps from other industries. the environmental defense turned says the aviation industry today emits about as much pollution as the entire united kingdom and will quadruple that amount by 2050. alisyn: we have a wonderful story about the power of kindness. a man who once threatened to sue over a nativity scene find himself depend opening christian charity and he's rethinking his views. we'll tell you more on that. is there finally a cure to the common cold? one drug maker says yes, what is it? we'll explain how close it is. this is hawthorne, california,
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common cold. what is it? >> it's a class of drugs, anti-viral. everybody knows the symptoms. runny eyes, watery, you feel awful. what they found is, they tested asthmatics, 300 of them and they reduced their cold from 2.5 days down to 1.7. the problem is there are over 100 different times of viruses that cause the common cold. the most common is the rhino virus. that seems to be what this anti-viral fights against. it also occurs during the fall and spring when there are allergies so people often mistake one for the other. alisyn: how do they claim to have done it? >> the researchers by working with this particular class and other anti-viral drugs. and these particular medications disrupt the normal replication
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processes the viruses go through. they determine that in laboratory tests. they put it into actual test and they found out it works. alisyn: do you buy it? do you think we could see the end of the common cold? >> i think it will be more complicated than that. there are a lot of things people can do. we have a lot of natural remedies. people can use natural product like zinc which has been shown to reduce the duration of a cold. so there are natural things you can do right now. you can use the saline solution. use product sanitizers. there are things you can do every day. 20 million lost days from school, 20 million people miss days from work. 60 million people get cold every year. alisyn: if this drug were for real it could be the even of the sick day. >> if you reduce severity of the cold you have to have the medication on hand.
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you go to your doctor. if you can get the drug onboard then you can have it. you will need that medication and take it exactly when the cold hits. alisyn: all the things you are talking about are preventative. the washing your hands. that is to avoid getting a cold. once you have it, what do you do? >> you can still take these natural products. the problem with the medications is they can cause drowsiness and they make you feel horrible. but zinc, vitamin c, vitamin d, echinacea. one of the main things i tell my patients, use a saline solution. if the cold doesn't take hold in your sign us passages it won't breaks through and you won't end up with a cold in the first place. alisyn: we'll try not to put you out of business. thank you so much for coming in.
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or older. the ruling claims the baines unconstitutional because it criminalize the sexual conduct between consenting adults. concerned christians turning the other cheek to help an atheist in need. activist patrick green once planned to sue a texas county over a nativity scene on public land. that was until he started losing his vision. now he's relying on christian charity an says he's change some of his beliefs. >> this is quite a switch. he has gone from filing a lawsuit over a christian display to being the beneficiary of generous christians in texas are he lives. green who is an atheist decided to suit county of henderson over a nativity scene that was on display at the local courthouse. then he began losing his
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eyesight. this led him to drop his lawsuit. the local newspaper there interviewed him about. they reported the story that he was no longer suing and that he was in fact being blind. and that is when the donation as began to come in. green told the reporter that he was a self-employed cab driver, he didn't have any health insurance and with his failing vision he could no longer work. christians all over henderson who only knew green as the person suing over their local nativity scene now knew of green as a person in need and they did what the bible says you should do. they decided to help and the checks started pouring in. money to help green and his wife buy groceries, pay their rents and pay taxes. he collected $1,500. and he set up a web site where anyone can donate to him to help him get by. he says he's very grateful.
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and he's planning to write a book called the real christians of henderson county to let the world know about those who came to help him even though he tried to put the kabosh on their christmas display. alisyn: he's not necessarily changing his beliefs, wholesale. is he still an atheist. >> reporter: he's not converting to christianity but his heart has been opened and his mind has been oned to new ideas. he said he never met a christian before. he's quoted as saying that in a newspaper article. now he knows a lot of christians coming to help him out in his time of need. alisyn: a possible major security breach for visa and master cardholders.
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