martha: we went too long on the last one, we just have time to say bye. see you tomorrow. "happening now" starts now. jenna: we start off with this fox news alert what is shaping up to be a pretty good day at least for our 401(k), right? jon: let's hope it holds. jenna: the dow is soaring all from reassuring words from thousands of miles away. the head of the european central bank is saying the bank will quote, do whatever it takes to preserve the euro. on that news the dow rallying. u.s. investors are taking that and running. it really shows how focused investors are, even in our country right now, on europe. we'll keep an eye on stocks, bring you any updates throughout the show today. jon: the record-setting

drought about to hit you hard at the supermarket. we'll tell you how much you will be shelling out for your necessities coming up. the bizarre kidnapping of the mother of baseball great cal ripken, jr.. her terrifying 24 hour ordeal. what she is telling investigators. trouble at the happiest place on earth where dozens of disney world guests got sick. the link? a popular attraction at the park. what health inspectors just discovered. it's all "happening now." jenna: but first to our top story. recent national security leaks are putting american lives at risk. that coming from someone who heads up one of the nation's most secret operations. we're glad you're with us, everybody, i'm jenna lee. jon: i'm jon scott. the warning comes from the head of the u.s. special operations command. the leaks he is talking about include a sigher

attack on iran and a al qaeda plot to place a bomb aboard a u.s. bound airliner all revealed in the media. mcraven making remarks at the aspen security forum. the anwan come friends bringing together the top mines on national security. here is he said to the group. we need to do the best we can to many clamp down because sooner or later it is going to cost people their lives or it is going to cost us our national security. let's talk with bret baier from special report. there seems to be a lot of people on capitol hill that feel the same way. >> reporter: there are, jon. a list of democrats and republican haves a real problem how these stories have come out and what exactly the implications of all that have been. i talked on "special report" to the house intelligence committee chairman, mike rogers, who said that the white house and specifically president obama, need to step up and in cooperating on this investigation.

>> they need to say, listen i'm in this thing fully. you get to talk to anybody you want. i will give you phone records. i will give you calendars. i will give you the opportunity for these individuals that you have some suspicions about to tell reporters that they can fully disclose the context of those conversations. >> are they not saying that now? >> that is just clearly not happening. >> he said it's not happening and went on to say that there are some real implications worldwide that he is seeing as far as people wanting and now not wanting to cooperate with the u.s. on intelligence basis. so i think you're going to hear this, jon, today moving forward and you may see a lot of questions about it at the white house press briefing with jay carney. jon: it's become an issue obviously in the presidential campaign. we want to play a little bit what mitt romney had to say about the leaks right now. >> exactly who in the white house betrayed these secrets? did a superior authorize it?

these are things that americans are entitled to know and they're entitled to know it now. these events make the decision we face in november all the more important. what kind of white house would reveal classified material for political gain? i'll tell you right now, mine will not. jon: the white house though says it didn't do this for political gain and has the justice department has appointed a coupleof investigators, right, bret? >> the question is how much they're cooperating with the investigators, how deep that probe is going and how forthcoming the white house is. listen you had democratic senator dianne feinstein saying as much this week that the white house needs to understand, this is coming, some of this from its ranks. she walked that back a bit saying she doesn't know exactly what the source of these leaks is, but, when you talk to anybody and you read these stories, it would have to be someone with clearance, security clearance, someone who could

be inside the situation room and specifically it points right to the white house. everyone on capitol hill knows that and the question is, how far this goes with the white house responding. jon: i know the senate intelligence committee has taken action. is there the appetite among the broader senate and the house to clamp down on this kind of thing? >> i think so. i think they see the real world implications happening day-to-day about intelligence operations that are falling apart because seem don't want to -- people don't want to cooperate around the world and this is a big deal. whether it is a campaign issue that sticks with republicans. i don't know. it is not getting coverage anyplace else besides fox. i can tell you behind me on capitol hill, a lot of people, both democrats and republicans who are concerned about it. jon: also an admission from admiral william mcraven, the guy who is our nation's top special operator that he once wanted to be a journalism student.

he was going to major in journalism before heading for the navy. bret, maybe there is time for you and me to change careers. >> i don't know if there's time. i think we're stuck. jon: i'm a little old. you can catch bret baier, 6:00 p.m. eastern time when he anchors "special report" on fox news channel. jenna: lucky for us you both will stick around, i'm just saying. right now when we're concentrating on our budget and so many are stretched thin and there is premium for fresh, healthy food. the usda saying the prices for staples like corn, so i and wheat because of the drought hitting the country. doug, every now and then you hear the word drought but put this drought in particular in perspective for us. >> reporter: yeah, there is every indication, jenna that this drought affect the midwestern states right now could be the worse in 50 years. the immediate effect is on farmers especially corn

growers. vegetable and fruit crops are highly irrigated and not so badly affected. not so corn. senator pat roberts from kansas put it this way on the senate floor yesterday. >> all across farm country we are suffering from a severe drought which is a real emergency, historic in scope and damage, in particular for our livestock industry. >> reporter: but it is not just farmers who will be feeling the effects of this. it will resonate right on up the food chain. corn is the primary food for powell tri, livestock and pork. this will culminate in big increases in food prices at grocery store by next year. usda says we can expect these price increases. beef up 4 to 5%. chicken and turk can you up 3.5 to 4.5%. dairy products, milk, cheese, eggs up also 3.5 to 4.5%. we hear repeatedly food

price inflation is in check and it is minimal. tell that to the housewife that shops for groceries every week. the drought will strain financially hard-pressed families even more. jenna: housewives and house husbands of course. >> reporter: true. i do a lot of the shopping myself. jenna: thank goodness. what would happen. doug, let me ask you about the prices again. we saw the percentages going up. do you have any sense of a timeline when that actually will happen short term versus long term? >> reporter: we're looking at next year. it will take a while to work itself threw the economy before we see these price increases. so next year. also throughout the midwest, we've hear that cattle are stressed. there will be some short term flush is was. -- fluctuations. cattle are stressed because of heat and drought. many cattlemen are being forced to cull their heards. that may put more beef on the market. short term prices will not last long. along with many farmers have

crop insurance will mitigate some farmer losses. indeed some agricultural interests may profit from the drought but they are in a distinct minority. this will hurt americans across the spectrum and will have profound effects abroad because of those huge american agricultural exports. jenna. jenna: short term there could be a lot of beef on the market but not for a good reason because farmers are trying to work everything out. doug, thank you very much. >> reporter: my pleasure. jon: there is breaking news on the battle for syria's future a showdown looming in one of the country's two main power centers, the city of aleppo. there is a new sign that the army of president assad there has intensified the attacks against the fighters hoping to topple his regime. world affairs contributor, dominic did i did i is following details live from jerusalem. dominic. >> reporter: you're right there. forces stepping up to defeat forces in damascus and aleppo. we have images released on the internet.

if authentic it shows attack by government militia on a refugee center and shelter for women and children in the city of homs. this is a place certainly seen the brunt end of the oppression by president bashar assad. hear the cries of women and children. how they are trying to carry injured children away. kids covered in blood. a dreadful scene. new pictures out today we can't independently verified, children of funerals of killed in homs. more evidence if accurate how brutal the reg boom is being against its own people. the focus of the war as you were saying a moment ago is the city of aleppo, the biggest city in syria. rebel fighters say after the recent aerial bombard naents we've seen in the past 48 hours they fear a ground campaign is about to take place underway led by regime forces coming in from the northwest. apparently the rebels attack ad column coming in from there. there were tanks and hundreds of troops they struck.

it is very hard to see how a smallish number of rebels in the city of aleppo could really with stand the campaign of that size. they don't have the strategic support, skbron, nor do they have enough weapons. rebels say they control around half of the city, but it could fall like the situation in damascus where the last rebel stronghold in the south of capital has come under heavy fire today. helicopters and heavy machine guns. this is an area which is very much been a safe haven from where the rebel fighters have managed to launch assaults into the city. very worrying for the rebels at the moment although literally hour by hour the situation teeters but all the same analysts believe that eventually the regime will fall and this is really just a desperate effort by the regime to clear the damascus and aleppo from rebels. jon: very tragic. thanks have much, dominic di-natale.

jenna: it centers on a story we first told you about yesterday during our show. foxnews.com reporting the accused gunman sent a notebook detailing his terrifying plot to a university psychiatrist at the university of colorado. alicia acuna is live in aurora with more on this. so, alicia, we hear now that the university has responded in some way? >> reporter: they are, jenna. through a press release actually. the university of colorado medical center is denying that this notebook sat in its mailroom for as long as a week prior to the theater shooting. a law enforcement source tells foxnews.com that the notebook was sent by holmes to a psychiatrist and has details about killing people but was never delivered and may have been waiting in the mailroom to be delivered since july 12th and foxnews.com is standing by its report. now in a separate story, the "new york daily news" is reporting that james holmes was talking to, a member of the jail personnel and

actually asked how the movie, "the dark knight rises", how it ended. back to you. jenna: alicia acuna live in colorado. alicia, thank you. jon: as crews search for two cousins missing for nearly two weeks one of the girl's father now faces legal troubles of his own. why he could be heading to trial and the impact it could have on the case. plus we'll talk live to senator kelly ayotte and get her take on the new jobless numbers and the republican plan for the economy. also the situation in syria. lots ahead "happening now." but centurylink is committed to being a different kind of communications company by continuing to help you do more and focus on the things that matter to you.

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bars instead of part of the search party. dan morrissey, the father of lyric cook, may head to trial next week on a variety of charges including domestic abuse and drug charges. also a california paparazzo charged for his role in a wild car chase earlier this month. he was weaving in and out of traffic to get photos of pop star, justin bieber. jenna: that happens to me like every day after work, right, jon? jon: all the time. jenna: brand new numbers on the job front we want to tell you a little bit about. 350,000 americans filed for unemployment in the latest week that is down from the previous week but there are a few seasonal factors to take consider. this number move as lot week to week. we want to give you a little perspective. here is an overview what this number looks like over the past year as americans file for unemployment. you can see the trend is better but it is certainly kloppy at best. the -- choppy at best. the economy upcoming issue in the upcoming presidential

election but certainly the number one issue right now. kelly ayotte, senator from new hampshire. thanks for being with us. >> nice to be with you, jenna. jenna: i was interested in learning more about you. i was reading on your website. i realize when your husband retired from the the national guard he started a small business. our family has interesting perspective on the economy what it taking to hire someone and get a business off the ground of the because of that i would like you to be really specific. what is key? what is the key to the gop's gameplan when it comes to job growth right now, not in november, right now? >> right. i can tell you right now, jenna, first of all, yes, my husband's a small business owner. i worked with him to start that business. he has about 20 employees. it is a landscaping and snowplowing business. i can tell you what republicans will do that small businesses and large businesses also need certainty. right now the president has said that he wants to raise taxes on many small businesses in this country,

that impacts the tax increases he has proposed impact nearly a million small businesses. a quarter of the workforce works for those businesses. yesterday republicans voted to extend all the tax rates for a year and put forward a plan for tax reform so we can get down to really simplifying our code and lowering rates for everyone. we need to give the private sector certainty. also regulatory climate. this administration has issued so many job-killing regulations and i hear it from small businesses all across our state. we need to really create a better climate, a partnership with the private sector. not what this administration has done. those two things and health care. jenna: let me just jump in there before we get too far ahead because one of the things also on the horizon is sequestration. >> yeah. jenna: i bring that up because that is something that could have a profound effect on jobs. there was a rare moment of bipartisanship yesterday when the senate said to the president, sent a bill, you cosponsored it, listen you will have to give us a report and tell us exactly

what the sequestration will look like so we can make some decisions. i heard that you're in preliminary negotiations with those on the other side of the aisle to maybe work with this tax code a little bit now. you know, maybe close some of these tax look holes. might be something republicans can be for to reach across the aisle for a tax agreement so sequestration doesn't happen. what can you tell us about that? >> what i can tell you it is so important we stop this sequestration, essentially what our secretary of defense said we would be shooting ourselves in the head and hollowing out our military. so we can't add a national security crisis to our fiscal crisis with the debt. i'm working with others on a bipartisan basis to come up with at least the spending cuts and coming up with deficit reduction. we've got to do that but do it in a responsible way that doesn't put our department of defense at risk and put our national security at risk. it is a very dangerous world out there and so i'm working with members of both sides of the aisle on this. we realize in the senate that we've got to get

democrat support and that requires making sure that we look at issues not ownly spending reductions but there are some things like selling federal land where we can find some revenue sources. >> closing tax loopholes? >> we're looking at --. jenna: has to be on the table so maybe closing tax loopholes that are out there for, you know, upper class and also middle class americans, is that something that is on the table? >> we're looking at some of the foolish tax earmarks. one example that i voted for in the past is eliminating ethanol subsidies so there are certainly some tax earmarks in the code. we're looking at those. we're not going to do anything that increases tax rates because i think that would be foolish for our economy and would hurt our businesses. so we need to be cognizant of economic growth in doing this but you know sequestration we're facing just on the defense industrial base nearly a million job loss in january if we don't address this but most importantly we're putting our men and women in the military in a position where we're not keeping

faith with them. jenna: senator, nice to have you today. we look forward to have you back to talk about a host of other issues. we didn't get to that today. thank you for your time. >> thank you, jenna. jenna: we'll be back with more "happening now"

jenna: some new information in this truly bizarre kidnapping of a baseball hall-of-famer's mother. cal ripken, jr.'s mom, 74-year-old vi ripken, is now home safe. she was kidnapped at gunpoint, tied up and blindfolded and apparently driven around in her car by the gunman only to be found 24 hours later near her home outside of baltimore. she says she doesn't belief her abductor knew she was part of a bass ball family. rick leventhal from the new york city newsroom.

>> reporter: he apparently wanted money and a car but had no idea how valuable his hostage was. early tuesday morning a 74 man with a gun bound her hands and feet with duct tape, put some kind of mask on her and drove her around central maryland for almost 24 hours. then parked near her home. got out of the car and walked away. police apparently learned of the abduction when a witness spotted vi tied up in the back seat of a lincoln continental at a gas station some 13 hours of after she was taken. >> a guy saw her tied up, her hands. she said why is she tied up and she said it's my mother and she has alzheimer's and we have to keep her under lock and key because she wanders off. he thought it was suspicious and called police. >> reporter: vi said the man didn't know she was the matriarch of one of america's baseball families. her son is former baltimore oriole cal ripken nicknamed

ire man for playing 2600 consecutive games. her son billy also played and her husband call managed the orioles for some time. >> we can't speak what the motive is. we're still looking at this investigation. we're looking at every witness, every clue. for us to say or speculate on a motive would be unfair and just wouldn't be true. >> reporter: vi says the man lit cigarettes for her, stopped for food and said he would return her safely and he did. the suspect described as white male in lace late 30s to early 40s, wearing light-colored shirt, cam mow pants and glassess. she said he was tall and thin. while she was found safe police said the man should be considered armed and dangerous. jenna: glad she is okay at the end. story. rick, thank you. >> reporter: you're welcome. jon: a "fox business alert" on what may be the most eagerly anticipated earnings report this quarter.

we're talking about facebook, the social networking site with a lot to prove after that botched ipo soured sentiment among its investors. shibani joshi from the fox business networks has a look ahead. >> reporter: hi, there, jon. you're right it is a big day for any investor of facebook because facebook is coming out with its very first public earnings report. call it its very first report card if you will as a public company and i don't have to tell you the nb, as shareholder of fb have had a rough ride up until now. the shares of the ipo are down 27% and investors will be looking for answers to some crucial questions. after 4:00 p.m. eastern time we want to hear what the growth rate and growth pace of the company's ad sales businesses accounting for 80% of what it does. evidence of any traction in the mobile arena. the company doesn't make as much money when you access facebook on your mobile phone. any guidance or forecast for

the future and of course whether or not mark zuckerberg will be on the call. he made it very clear he is not here to appease wall street in any shape or form but wall street will want to hear from him. one big analyst coming out from citigroup saying issuing a note of caution, not to read too much into today's earnings report saying quote, one of the most challenging times to model a company's financials is when it is very young. so note of caution there, a little bit of an asterisk. jon, i have to tell you anyone who lost 27% on their investment the last thing they have right now is a lot of patience. focus on the long run but a little harder to do when you're losing money. jon: how many friends does facebook have right now, that is the question. >> reporter: not a lot. jon: shibani joshi, thank you. jenna: well, a guy sets his car on fire. with very surprising results. all caught on tape. we'll bring it to you. plus a new controversy over the president's, you didn't build that comment. his team insisting he was taken completely out of context. governor romney's campaign

keeps blasting those remarks. now the president is back again unveiling new ads addressing all of the criticism. a fair and balanced debate. follow the bouncing ball on that one. we'll have that just ahead. are you receiving a payout from a legal settlement or annuity over 10 or even 20 years? call imperial structured settlements. the experts at imperial can convert your long-term payout into a lump sum of cash today.

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presidential election this year. they are of course are the independents. recent polls suggest an increase in registered independents in some very key battleground states. now both campaigns are working overtime to win over those vo who shun the labels, but are not shunning the voting booth. jim angle has more on this. jim? >> reporter: hello, jenna. both presidential campaigns will spend an enormous amount of money trying to win over a key population, those independents in battleground states who many think could in fact decide the election. >> independents have been increasing at a record rate in these battleground states. the both of the parties are actually losing voters and independents are skyrocketing. most folks in the parties have made their decision already. so those independents, the bigger number of them is now going to be the real keys to victory in 2012. >> 2002 they made up 22% of the electorate. in 2010, they had broken to

make up 29% of the electorate. so clearly as the exit polls have shown they have grown quite a bit. >> reporter: a "gallup poll" recently reported that independents account for 35% or more of voters in most recent elections. in 2008, president obama carried independents by eight points. this time, he is having problems in part because many independents don't buy his message about income inequality and tax fairness. >> for the folks in the middle, the independents, income inequality was not a good message for them. they don't see themselves as victims timms in the system. about 60% of the them say, our system is basically fair. >> we have now had three recent polls showing romney leading obama among independents by five points. so the president has got a problem. >> reporter: now analysts and pollsters say most independents have one issue in mind, what will a president do to create more jobs? independents such as david rivera. >> currently, my wife is unemployment and been hard to get another job.

so we're basically just one-income household. >> reporter: independents by definition are skeptical of both political parties. analysts say these voters are not interested in excuses or blaming someone else such as a prior president. they want to know what the president or candidates themselves plan to do to fix things. jenna? jenna: a novel idea, right, jim? got to get to the facts. >> reporter: solutions. who knew that would be what independents were looking for. jenna: right on. jim angle, in d.c., thank you, jim. >> reporter: you bet. jon: right now some analysts are saying the obama campaign is in damage control as the romney campaign continues to hammer the president over his own words. when some comments that the obama campaign insists are being taken out of context. the line, you didn't build that. but two powerful new political ads are directly responding to the romney campaign's criticisms of the president including this one where mr. obama speaks

directly to the camera. >> those ads, taking my words about small business out of context, they're flat-out wrong. of course americans build their own businesses. every day hard-working people sacrifice to meet a payroll, create jobs, and make our economy run. and what i said was we need to stand behind them as america always has. jon: does the president's response indicate the romney campaign has gotten some political traction from that line of attack? for a fair and balanced debate we're joined by gretchen hamel, executive director of public notice. chris cavenas, former chief of staff to democratic senator joe manchin from west virgina. always fun to have you on. what about it, gretchen, the president says that ad is flat-out wrong. what do you say? >> i don't think the president's words were taken out of context. if you look at entirety of speech this is becoming a more of a pattern of president obama. you have to look back at the julia info graphic that they had earlier this year suggesting that women need the help of government in

every phase of their lives. this is pattern that we're seeing. gives you greater insight what the president actually thinks. the government has a role in our everday lives and that the government who can create jobs and make things happen. i think that 59% of the business owners who disapprove of obama have a different opinion on that. >> is that how he sees it, chris, government first, private enterprise second? >> no, that is exactly not how he sees it. it is interesting to me when republicans criticize the president about government intervention and size of government when he had an explosion of government under the bush administration for eight years. putting that fact aside, look to specifically comments we're talking about, they were taken out of context. now is politics fair? no. this is a tough business and when you say something you're going to be held accountable to it whether it is right or wrong. that happens on both sides. but if we're talking honestly and openly about what the president said, he was refering to roads and bridges and the reality that we, no matter who we are, do

not operate as an island in this country. that we do rely on government to build roads and build bridges and invest in schools. that is not a bad thing. that is a good thing. that is what most americans believe and so in terms of what i think the president is doing to respond i think it's good. i think it is smart to kind of disabuse it but this is the nature of politics. this is what we'll see probably next four months these two sides beating up each other. jon: but, gretchen, in the president's words talking about, you know, oh you think you're so smart because you built a business, it did seem to be sort of holding up the glories of the state i guess as opposed to efforts of the individual? >> yeah. i mean, first of all, let's go back to that sentence. that sentence right before that you were talking about. he was talking about people think they're so smart. that they're hard work is what made this business happen. it is what made this business happen and that is directly what this comment was about. it was about businesses and the lack that the president

beliefs. >> that is not true. that is not true. >> and hey, yes it is true. >> it is not true. >> hey i want to take issue with your point that the government builds road. yes, the government does build roads but does it because taxpayers fund it and taxpayers and small businesses and businesses alike that allow those tax dollars to build it. >> the reason why you have, the reason why you have government playing a role is because individuals can not do it themselves. that is not to say government should do everything. it shouldn't. it shouldn't be government a crutch for individuals. it shouldn't. but the notion some people have apparently yourself government should have no role to play has nothing to do in society that is fantasy. >> no, no. you are totally, listen. i am from a pioneer family from oklahoma. everyone of my family is a small business owner and they got there because of their will. >> my family is small business owner. i understand that as well. >> let me tell you the government has a role to play not the role that this

president wants to play. a role expanding overreaching and american public does not want that. >> please. jon: chris you're talking about backgrounds in small business. is there anything in the president's background that suggests he knows how to operate a small business? has he ever done a payroll? >> good question? >> well, listen, look at the record of the president since he has come in. just take one example in terms of auto bailout. big distinction between what republicans and governor romney would have done and president did. you may disagree whether he should have done that but how many countless small businesses were saved because the auto bailout happened? because those automakers are still around? not only tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of employees and small business owners are around. those restaurants, all those different businesses that depended on those factories. now is that important? was that irrelevant? >> out of gallup this morning, 59% of business owners period, disapprove of the president because he has made life harder on them. he has made it harder for them to actually do things. you can talk about him going and saving things with

taxpayer dollars. all you want but the facts though that people don't appreciate it. >> if you want to be fair and balanced look at the record. the record of the president -- >> look at the record. the record is that we have sagging economy and that hasn't come back because businesses still --. jon: we've got to say good-bye on that one. chris, you didn't answer my question but maybe next time. thanks very much. >> i think i did. jon: no, the question was about does the president have a small business background? but anyway. >> listen that is not a factor in this. jon: well, okay. i guess we'll let the voters be the judge. chris comean necessary, gech chen hamel. >> thank you. jenna: maybe we need a third box for an independent, right? jon: yeah. jenna: how interesting will the conversation be with that as well. lots to talk about ahead of the november election. in the meantime a little distraction here with video. vandalism taking a terrifying turn, or a twist of karma, depending how you

look at it. arsonist attempt to commit a crime goes wrong. we'll have more on that video and tell you the complete story just ahead. dozens coming down with a stomach bug at disney world. it has been going on for more than a month. it is the hippo's fault, jon? jon: let's not blame the hippo. this is disney world. that --. jenna: it is their thing. a big question why are these people getting sick. the health inspector is getting involved. we'll try to get to the bottom of it next. ♪

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jon: right now police in pennsylvania are looking for an arsonist who looks like he set himself ablaze while vandalizing someone else's car. james kocher owns the car and the surveillance camera that caught the bizarre scene. he says three-foot flames were shooting off the suspect, even coming off of his head. neighbors say there has been a rash of vandalism in the area. police want to catch the guy but they're also concerned that someone who went up in

flames like that does not seem to have checked into any of the local hospitals. wow!. jenna: health officials are trying to figure out how dozens of disney world guests are getting sick. the trail leads right to the park's wild africa trek. the three-hour tour that wraps up with a safari style dinner. guests have been reporting stomach bugs since at least june. but health inspectors say they have gone twice. they have checked everything out. they can't find anything wrong. dr. lee vinocur, adjunct assistant professor at louisiana university sleeve port science center. doctor, they say they we don't know. something on food, water or surface or passed person-to-person. it could be anything. what does it sound like though? >> well, you know, you hear about in the past on cruises and things people would get norwalk virus. they're like a contained population. they don't go away or do

anything else and easy to identify. there are viruses passed from person-to-person. they touch gsthin. i think they looked at binoculars people were sharing to look at the animals and such. so, you know, it's really like a "c.s.i" to try to figure it out. and what's interesting at a big theme park where people dissipate and go to other places because they wrote things down on dizboard.com and wrote the experience. they got clued in this is all come on -- common to this ride. jenna: only thing not over the park, east animals, hippos, ripe most -- rhinos. could think be the? >> reptiles can have salmonella. i don't think they were petting crocodiles. jenna: i hope not. >> i don't think that was part of the experience. maybe it is true. maybe the animal population has it and somehow it is contaminating something that

a lot of these people are touching or near. so they still have to continue to do tests on all this but there are certain animals that have certain types of bacteria that can be harmful to people. jenna: a quick final thought. the health inspector said we're recommending that people should use hand sanitizer. that is what you should do. is that a solution? >> well certainly you should go to the bathroom if you're going to eat and wash your hands. they have checked the food sources twice, which is important you want to make sure even from where the food's coming that there's not an issue and there hasn't been other outbreaks in the park if they get the same suppliers. but wash your hands really well. it wouldn't hurt to use hand sanitizer in between if you're going to eat something and there is no place to wash your hands. jenna: maybe it is all part of the experience. you're on safari and you can get sick, i don't know. no, i don't think that is right. >> diarrhea from african safari which i'm sure people

have experienced being in africa. jenna: that is probably true. that is not what disney is going for. dr. vinocur, thanks for having you as always. >> my pleasure as always. jon: hands off the hippo. jenna: leave it alone, yeah. jon: new information about a russian spy ring busted here in the united states two years ago. remember that thing? well officials are now saying that children were being targeted. some interesting details coming up.

jon: a brand new warning about the london olympics. the feds saying they're a prime target for cyber-terrorists and so-called hacktivists, protesters that use the web to try to disrupt the games. the u.s. secret service teaming up with british law enforcement to combat the threat.

molly henneberg is live in washington. specifically, molly, what kind of things have security experts concerned? >> reporter: jon, everything from the hacktivists making the lights go out at an event or them taking down the visa atm machines around olympic sites or those activists with a political bent trying to get a point across. here is what former hacker said about that risk. >> the target i think would be probably the olympic scoreboards. could you imagine the play the hacktivists could get if they somehow break into systems that control the scoreboards and post their own messages? that would i think definitely be a likely target. >> reporter: atos is the french company in charge of 11,000 computers and servers at the game and the company has done over 200,000 hours of testing of the system including testing its response to simulated cyber attacks. more than 3500 engineers and computer experts are monitoring the cyber networks at the olympic games.

an atos executive vice president tells reuters, quote, it would be quite complicated to get into this network without being detected. the network can never be 100% but it is close to 100%. jon, atos expects up to 14 million possible cyber attacks each day of the games. jon: 14 million? >> reporter: each day. jon: crazy number. molly henneberg. thanks. jenna: right now, officials say a russian spy ring busted in the united states two years ago was aiming to recruit the children of some of those agents. rick has more for us, rick? >> reporter: "the wall street journal" outlining a russian play to infiltrate the u.s. with american-born spies. children born and raised here who would be indistinguishable from every day americans. the plan involves some of the children of the spy ring broken up a couple years ago. apparently there was already one, a college student at george washington university, who had agreed to it. reportedly pledging his allegiance not to our flag but to mother russia.

all this comes as officials learn more about what that spy ring was able to accomplish and it seems like it is more than we originally thought. of course anna chapman made most of the headlines because of her good looks but one of the other spies, they all confessed, had gotten a job as an i.t. specialist at a big new york and washington consulting firm. what he may or may not have gotten his hands on is classified but apparently he was let go because hess english was not quite up to speed. that is really what explains why the russians were so interested in recruiting the spies children, jenna, because there would not have been a language barrier, no accent. making it very tough for u.s. counterintelligence to spot and that gw student by the way, he evidently went off to get training in russia. now that u.s. officials know what he was up to, they're not letting him back into the country. jenna: sounds like a good idea. how many kids do you have, by the way, rick? >> reporter: we have four kids. jenna: you're not worried about them?

>> reporter: no. not about that but other things. jenna: not to you. jon: i have seen the spy kids movies. i know what to look for right. we knew one of the worst u.s. droughts in decades would affect our pocketbooks. the numbers coming up [ female announcer ] the power to become a better investor has gone mobile. with features like scanning a barcode to get detailed stock quotes to voice recognition. e-trade leads the way in wherever, whenever investing. download the ultimate in mobile investing apps, free, at e-trade.

ies of course, that's mitt romney and the prime minister of great britain, governor romney traveling overseas. he'll go to israel and talk with leaders there who haven't always seen exactly eye to eye with the current resident of the white house. we'll go live. also the drought in the midwest hitting our pocketbooks really hard when it comes to grocery prices. but some items on your shopping list may be about to get cheaper. we'll tell you which ones and why. and the olympic games off to a not-so-smooth start after workers fly the wrong flag at

one of the first events. that and the very latest news as the second hour of "happening now" starts right now. jenna: well, the presumptive presidential candidate, mitt romney, front and center today on the international stage holding a series of meetings with political and economic leaders in great britain. that's where he's starting off first. we're glad you're with us, everybody, i'm jenna lee. jon: i'm jon scott. governor romney is tackling foreign affairs and burnishing his image as a world figure. prime minister david cameron meeting privately with governor romney at 10 downing street, just one of many official meetings today for the governor. his weeklong overseas trip will also take him to poland and israel, an important u.s. ally which president obama has not visited while in office. chief political correspondent carl cameron live for us in london. so what came out of governor romney's meeting with the prime minister, carl? >> reporter: hi, jon. that was one of the last meetings of several that he had with a host of british officials today, and they spoke for a

considerable amount of time. romney came out of 10 downing street and talked to reporters and outlid some detail some of the issues they discussed behind closed doors, but he was cautious not to betray any of the trust that he's trying to build with david cameron and british leaders, and as he has just about every day for weeks now, reiterated that he has no intention of getting critical of president obama while he's here. listen. >> we did speak at some length about syria, about iran, egypt, tunisia, libya as well as pakistan, ask among other places in the world. and spoke about the developments in syria. i don't want to refer to any comments made by leaders representing other nations, nor do i want to describe foreign policy positions i might have while i'm on foreign soil. i think discussions of foreign policy should be made by the president and the current administration, not by those that are seeking office.

>> reporter: and romney also spoke with the chancellor of the exchequer which is britain's equivalent of our treasurer. a lot of discussions about the eurozone crisis and what to do about the economy across the continent. here in the u.k., things are looking pretty tough. their gdp has dropped, unemployment is rising, that very much is the type of thing that mr. romney is talking about with british leaders. one more day here, he'll be at the olympics tomorrow, and saturday we're off to israel. jon: and i understand there's been back and forth about hosting the olympics. tell us about that. >> reporter: oh, yeah. romney in an interview yesterday said he had read the reports of some problems with the olympics logistics, particularly with the possibility there might have been some immigration and customs control fallout or an inability to complete the task. it's been taken care of, but when he suggested those things were disconcerting, it caused some consternation from david cameron, the prime minister, who yesterday suggested here in london one of the busiest, most

bustling cities in the world, there really are some challenges, and he suggested it would be easy to hold on limb picks held in the middle of nowhere which is a not so veiled swipe at mitt romney's olympics in utah almost a decade ago. it seems to be patched up. mr. romney and cameron talked about it today. he said, look, we've got 12,000 people seeing the torch going through the city today, and romney said looks like you're going to pull it off. so while it might have made some hackles rise, it appears it's been laid to rest at this point, jon. jon: carl cameron, in your family tree, are you connect with the the prime minister at all? have you looked into that? [laughter] >> reporter: no, no relation. but i tell you, the e-mails getting tossed around us today, there's a lot of confusion about which cameron is which. jon: i'll bet there is. we'll try to keep it all straight. thanks very much. jenna: those little things on

the campaign trail you just don't expect. good question, jon. our next guest just read a new column reading in part this: four years ago barack obama, a former state senator with mere months in the u.s. senate who had no foreign policy experience whatsoever, went overseas to bolster his yes den,s and the -- credentials. romney, too, hopes to build confidence and comfort among voters back home in his leadership ability abroad. like obama, he lacks experience, but unlike obama he has yet to lay out a clear vision or even broad plans for how he would handle our most pressing foreign policy challenges. ab stoddard is associate editor for "the hill." you wrote that piece before we heard from mitt romney today, and he says he doesn't want to get into specifics. he's building trust with these leaders, so that's his explanation. >> i heard his comments, and i think he's missing an opportunity. um, he could have had an opportunity earlier this week at

the veterans of foreign wars convention and laid out a meaty policy vision, but he didn't he spent most of that speech criticizing the president. what you're seeing on the trip abroad now, jenna, is a lot of talk about mrs. romney's dressage horse competing in an olympic event, his stumble on comments on limb pick security, how many banker scoundrels will be attending the fundraisers that he's going to be appearing at and on and on. i think what he should do with this visit is try to capture the attention of voters back home while building, like i said, that confidence and that comfort level in voters here that he could be commander in chief. he should capture their attention with a striking speech of some kind in which he does not criticize president obama on foreign soil. but he gave an interview his first night to brian williams and said it's time for leadership. mitt romney is largely still undefined --

jenna: let me jump in, ab, because it's interesting to compare some of the times, you talked about the president going overseas in 2008. we were in the middle of two wars at that time. and the time is different now. one of the criticisms of the president, and i'm just going to paraphrase here s that he talks too much. he uses the teleprompter too much. there's national security leaks, there's just too much information. so romney maybe is thinking about this a little bit. i mean, we can only speculate, but if he's trying to draw a contrast to the president, how does he do so without not also appearing like the president? >> i understand his caution. i just think that at this moment in the campaign where the polls haven't budged in two months, where the only issue he leads the president on is his potential to handle the economy, not on national security challenges, not on defense, not on who best understands the middle class, not on likability and not in the swing states, i think it's a chance for him to break through. and i think that the foreign trip is a chance for him to have all the right photo ops and also

some good messaging to the voters back home who still, as i said, don't really know who he is. and it's time to start defining himself so he can break away and pull ahead of the president if that's what he wants to do, win in november. i think that this trip is an opportunity for him, as i said, to show some leadership and be a bit more detailed without criticizing the president. um, if not, much of the conversation will be about these stumbles, his wife's horse and other topics, and i think it's a missed opportunity if he lets that go by. jenna: let me ask you one more thing about just these two men in general that are in front of us that the country has a chance to vote for in november. is it about right now the specifics, or is it about whether or not they mean what they say? >> if i were mitt romney and i looked inside the polling and i saw that president obama is still leading in this terrible economy, um, in likability, i would want to be more specific about why i am capable of

handling not only improving an ailing economy, but facing foreign policy challenges which president obama beats him by a wide margin in in polling, it's time for him to break through. if this president wins on likability, that's going to be really bizarre, but that seems to be carrying his approval rating in the most important battlegrounds. it's time for mitt romney to do something differently because those polls haven't budged in june and july which have been very busy on the campaign trail, and it's time for him to move those follows. jenna: very interesting, ab. thank you so much. nice to have your impressions today. jon: let's talk about a growing problem along america's southern border. more and more illegals sneaking onto u.s. soil and dying. their bodies turning up on privately-owned land, often times they are succumbing to the extreme heat. but the increase in investigations into these deaths is taking a big toll on law enforcement across the southern border. casey steegal live in dallas

with details on that. casey? >> reporter: yeah, jon. you know, we've done stories along the mexico/u.s. border with ranchers who have been concerned about the illegal activity happening on their land. of course, the humans, weapons and drugs that are being smuggled across their private property. but now they're seeing a gruesome twist. one that is not only extremely tragic, but also putting them in danger according to ones we've talked with. a warning now the next video you're about to see may be considered graphic. illegal immigrants dying on their property as they make the trek across the hot and rugged terrain. down in south texas, for example, brooks county, 64 bodies turned up last officials say they're on rack to go past 100 this year. the sheriff's department there only has nine deputies responsible for an area nearly two times the size of los angeles, so the death investigations that can take weeks to complete are tough to manage. >> it's quite a task, quite

challenging. every day is a new challenge, you know, and we just do the best we can with it and continue to do the work. >> reporter: now, the vast majority of victims have no identification on them, so they are autopsied, and the county must pay for that to happen. and the county also pays to have them buried. officials estimate the cost at about $1500 per investigation. for a d. that has a total operating -- didn't -- residents worry this is taking law enforcement away from protecting them. >> well, a real emergency could be somebody with a large group of illegal aliens at their back door wanting to break in, and that is a common occurrence, almost a daily occurrence. >> reporter: and this is not just a texas problem. when you look at department of homeland security statistics, it shows that this trend is happening across all four border

states, jon. jon: wow. big counties with small budgets in many cases. >> reporter: exactly. jon: casey steegal, thank you. jenna: a u.n. treaty that may be on a collision course with americans' right to bear arms. one senator gives his take on why this treaty, he thinks, threatens the rights of every american. plus, dangerous heights. window washers trapped 35 floors up in the sky. the rescue effort in this scorching triple-digit heat. if you don't have enough problems you need to be rescued, it's also hot out there. and rick is at the web wall with more. >> reporter: we've been talking about the drought that's hit such a big portion of the country. we want to know if you at home have felt the effects of this, because a lot of grocery prices are going up. if you go to the "happening now" home page right now during this next break, you can scroll down, you'll see the poll on the right-hand side. have you seen changes at your local supermarket? more than three-quarters of you so far say, yes, you've seen it. we'll have a report coming up

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jenna: fox news alert, want to take you out to brooklyn, new york, where we're watching a six-alarm fire. this fire apparently began about two hours ago, and certainly is in a big building. we think it started in the attic according to local reports. again, six alarms, you've got more than 100 firefighters on the scene. the fire commissioner is also there. and we're not sure was there anybody in the building, is it a residential building or something else, and we're working to try to find out more information about potential injuries. right now there are no reports of injuries, but a lot of concern as well about these firefighters as the helicopters pan over, you can see some of the folks in the neighborhood

watching. the firefighters are really facing some high temperatures today, high humidity levels, that makes it very tough to battle these type of fires, and exhaustion is certainly a factor, but also just heat for these firefighters that are on the scene. so, again, a six-alarm blaze, brooklyn, new york. as we learn more, we will bring that to you. jon: right now a potential big headache for president obama with just a little more than 100 days to go before the general election. the united nations could have for its member nations a new treaty on firearms presented by tomorrow. critics in america say the thing could undermine americans' constitutional right to bear arms. kansas senator jerry moran is more than one of 50 senators who say they would vote to block such a treaty if it is presented to them. overall, senator, what is the goal of this treaty? what are they trying to accomplish? >> well, that's hard to predict. you cannot envision any circumstance in which the united nations is going to do something that improves the circumstances

for americans, at least as far as i can see. we're dealing with countries who have no similar guarantees similar to what we have with the second amendment to the united states constitution, and so we have a group of nations who are coming together to negotiate something that hardly yet defined, but i certainly don't see much of a path in which we see something that would be positive to improve the safety, security and freedom of americans. jon: so far i guess part of the problem is everything is coming out of draft language, there doesn't seem to be anything set in concrete yet. i know that you and a number of other senators have written the president a letter. you say, first of all, the treaty should explicitly recognize the legitimacy of hunting, sport shooting and other lawful activities. doesn't it do that? >> it does not. there's a slight reference in the preamble to this draft that we've seen, and you're right, it's hard to take on the attack or to praise whatever might be

happening there because everything is draft language, and now meetings are occurring with no outside observers. so it's hard to know what the exact language could be. my sources in new york tell me that the chances of getting an agreement are about 50/50, but if we -- if there is an agreement, almost totally likely to be something that is not advantageous to us and doesn't recognize the second amendment to the united states constitution. and what we're, what we outline in our letter, 51 senators, a broad group of folks including eight democrats, are telling the obama administration that in negotiating this treaty, we're not going to agree to anything that impedes upon the second amendment rights of u.s. citizens, but an agreement ought to include some basic things, and one of them ought to be recognizing the value of self-defense, the use of firearms for hunting and other recreational activities. and everything you see in the draft language is more about recordkeeping, it's about transit of guns across one's

country, things that would be very damaging to americans' rights and their liberties. jon: oxfam is one of the organizations that has been pushing for this treaty. they, a spokesman for oxfam said this: the treaty is only about the international transfer of civilian weapons. a transfer means when a weapon both crosses a national boundary and there's a change of title or control. u.s. gun rights do not involve weapons flowing from one border to another border, it's only about things domestically in the united states. the second amendment applies to the use of weapons within the united states. essentially, they're saying, gun owners in the u.s., don't worry. >> uh, we're reiterating that to the president of the united states with a clear message of enough senators who would be needed to ratify this treaty, 51 of us are saying we're not voting for a treaty if it does anything to impede the lawful rights of american citizens to, under the second amendment, for

self-defense and the use of firearms. but the transfer across borders is something that presumably the treaty is designed to address. the but the draft language talks about transfer of firearms and ammunition within the country and the need for recordkeeping to occur in order to monitor guns that may come in or leave your country. i just don't see how you get there without intruding upon the second amendment freedoms. jon: very quickly, senator, the u.n. and the u.s. government not powerful enough to control the weather. i know ranching and farming huge industries in kansas. what do you say to those folks back home who are so affected by this drought? >> well, you know, we're down on our knees every day asking, in prayer, asking for rain and moisture. we're also looking up to the sky in hopes that's the case, but this is a huge issue we've had day after day in kansas and across the midwest of temperatures in excess of 100. norton, kansas, this week hit a high, an all-time record of 118. jon: wow. >> and virtually no rain in most places in kansas during that

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jenna: right now we're learning more about the suspect in last week's movie massacre in the colorado and his alleged plans to murder people. james holmes apparently sent a chilling notebook to a psychiatrist outlining his plan. that notebook was discovered at a university of colorado medical center on the day holmes first appeared in court and was mailed sometime before the shooting rampage. we're still piecing much of this together. jason friedman is a former prosecutor, dr. brian russell is a psychologist and an attorney. nice to have you both.

dr. russell, let me just ask you a general question as a psychologist. um, if you have a patient, how do you know what's privileged between the two of you and what you actually have to tell someone about? >> well, first of all, jenna, there would have to be a doctor/patient relationship for anything to be privileged, and then the duty to warn somebody about potential violence arises when the mental health professional has actual knowledge of specific harm that's eminent to a specific individual or group of people. jenna: and right now we don't know the nature of the relationship, jason, between this alleged killer and this medical center, between whoever he sent it to. we still have so much to learn on this. just your thoughts in general, though, there's a lot of discussion about, you know, is there a liability here from the hospital, from the medical center, from the psychologist, from the team inside the mail room that maybe got this notebook and maybe or maybe not

delivered it? what do you see when you sift through this? >> your point is well taken. first of all, any liability that would be on the professor or the college potentially would be civil liability, it has nothing to do with a crime, i don't think. however, it's very unclear, you know, when they received in the notebook, who, if anyone, saw it. but more importantly, going to dr. russell's point, there's no indication there was any kind of relationship between mr. holmes and the psychiatrist professor, and that is paramount if you're going to talk about conferring liability upon a hospital -- i'm sorry, upon the university or upon the psychiatrist himself. you really have to establish the nexus that he knew or should have known something that would then trigger the duty to warn as dr. russell just explained. jenna: all right. we'll leave that there for a second, dr. russell. let's talk a little bit about just the pattern. you, actually, on our program just a few days ago, you said this guy, in your opinion, probably has a cause or had something to say.

and this surfacing of this report of a notebook fits into what you were saying, dr. russell, about that theory. tell us a little bit more about that and what you've also seen in other crimes committed. >> well, jenna, so far this is consistent with my theory that this shooter has something to say, and, hopefully, we'll find out somewhat with from the contents of this package what that may be. now, the virginia tech shooter is similar. he mailed a package to the media shortly before his rampage. the different is that he -- the difference is that he intended to die in the course of his rampage, and the colorado shooter clearly intended to survive it, went to great lengths to survive it. so i think this package was probably an insurance policy, jenna, in many case he were to be killed in the course of it that the message would still get out somehow. so i still think we're going to hear him attempt in the course of a trial to articulate the message orally. jenna:sting. jason, who has seen this notebook at this point? we haven't, the media hasn't.

have both sets of lawyers already looked through this? is it already in front of of a judge? where is this notebook right now, and who has actually gotten to look at it? >> my understanding, the fbi has physical possession of the notebook. law enforcement has the right to review that as part of their investigation into this. i do not believe it's yet been turned over probably to the defense team and/or the court, certainly the prosecutors are probably conferring with the fbi and law enforcement. it's very likely they have already reviewed the contents of it. at some point, obviously, it will be turned over to the defense team. the court will be provided with that and, obviously, that's going to be a big part of the trial and all the proceedings going forward from this point. but right now it's very early on, probably fbi and prosecutors are the only people that have seen it for now. jenna: so if it's part of evidence, jason, does the public get to see it, or is this something that we'll never get a look at? >> it really depends on what the, how the judge is going to run the trial. we already know there's a dwag order, so there's not a lot of communication and dialogue that

is being disseminate today the public. it remains to be seen what are they going to do if this case goes to trial in terms of pup listy. will this be a televised trial? will there be a gag order right on through? certainly, those people in the courtroom will be privy to it, but we just don't know at this early stage how much, if at all, will be disseminated to the public. jenna: certainly a lot to still work through. jason, dr. russell, nice to have you both with us today. thank you so much. >> thank you. jon: we are closing in on 100 days until the presidential election, but power in washington could hinge on some critical senate races. might democrats lose the majority they currently hold in that body? a look at the states that could decide it all, coming up. and if the tough economy isn't enough, now mother nature is going after your bottom line. the extreme drought destroying america's crops. what that is doing to food prices, ahead.

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>> reporter: just about everything you buy at the store is going up. government told us yesterday we would see food prices going up 4% in the coming year. already look june of this year and june of last year, prices are up on everything like pasta. everyone eats pasta. you're paying a buck 33 a pound for pasta. that is up last year roughly eight 8 cents. who doesn't like ice scream? 4.90 dal a pound. that is up. this will hit a lot of people. sirloin stake. a lot of people love beef. we're paying $6.82 a pound for sirloin steak that is up roughly 93 cents since june of last year. no one sees the prices coming down anytime soon. jon: unfortunately in this economy nobody is eating sirloin steak. what about prices coming down, any chance of that?

>> reporter: in the long term, no. but short term because of a perverse consequence of the drought, cattle farmer, chickens produce, since they might not afford increased feed. they thin their herds. sell the animals for slaughter. for a short period have is blip where prices come down a bit they shoot right back baup because supply is down and demand great. jon: adam shapiro from fox business. jenna: on the east coast it is lunchtime. jon: talk of sirloin steak got me hungry. jenna: if you're out west, have patience. if you're out west, voters in california are being described in the middle of what is high stakes food fight. a proposal will require labeling of any food, any food at all with geneticly modified ingredients. that will appear on the state ballot in november. douglas kennedy joins us with more. doug? >> reporter: the u.s. government says genetically modified foods are safe to

eat. that is not satisfying some in california who say they want to decide for themselves. what have you got over here? >> these are potatoes to be harvested next week. >> reporter: to steve sprinkle, you are what you eat. you insist you better know what you eat before you eat it? >> that is the way i lived my entire life. >> reporter: sprinkle has been an organic farmer in ojai, california, for 12 years. he says these days it is difficult to tell what you're eating because foods are simply not labeled properly, particularly he says the genetically altered ones. why do you consider it so important to know if you're eating genetically engineered foods? >> because they have never been analyzed for human health and we're skeptics. we really don't believe what the government says when the government says they think they're safe. >> reporter: sprinkle points out that most of the processed corn we consume has been genetically altered. he is now supporting a ballot measure that would

require most engineered foods be labeled as such. opponents say he is simply trying to scare consumers. >> requiring a label on a product implies that there is something wrong with these foods, when the science, when the world health organization, american medical association, all says there is not. >> reporter: brandon castillo is from the no on prop 37 campaign. he says extra labeling will mean extra food costs. he says the supporters have a hidden agenda. >> if you look at their material is to ban these foods. they're putting out stuff saying the labels will be a skull and crossbones. the proponents of these are anti-science extremist. >> reporter: your opponents say you are an extremist who are trying to get people to stop eating genetically altered foods all together. what do you say? >> we want to give people a choice. >> reporter: he says choice will give californians a way to decide what they want to eat and what they don't. that's it from here, jenna. back to you. >> so we might, might see the skull and crossbones on food in california?

>> reporter: i don't know if the skull and crossbones will get on there. but if they vote for it you will have a label. jenna: that is very interesting. doug, thank you. >> reporter: yeah. jon: just 103 days until we all go to the polls. the balance of power on capitol hell is in large part focused on the senate after the election. right now democrats rule the roost with 51 seats alodge with two independents on their side. 33 seats are up for grabs. most of them are held by democrats. the seats in six states are thought to be very much a toss-up. of those six, massachusetts and virginia as well as wisconsin could hold the key. larry sabato is the director for the center for politics at the university of virginia. larry, it was interesting to me before we talk about those three states you say nevada, michigan -- i'm

sorry, montana and missouri, nevada, montana and missouri are ever so slightly leaning republican right now? >> yes. you have one republican incumbent there, dean heller in nevada. but he was appointed incumbent. now we think that race is tilting to him a bit. the democrats control both montana and missouri with incumbents. jon tester in montana, claire mccaskill in missouri. in particularly the case of missouri will be very surprised if claire mccaskill is reelected. that is a tough state for a democrat. in montana, my guess is that mitt romney will carry montana by 10 or 12 percentage points. well it's tough to get reelected on a ballot where the opposite party's nominee for president is doing so well. jon: it is also tough to get elected in massachusetts if you're a republican, isn't it? >> you're darn right and that is scott brown's great challenge. if this were a midterm

election, jon, i think he would be in pretty good shape but it's not. even the romney people privately say that former governor romney of massachusetts will be lucky to top 40% in massachusetts. that means scott brown has to win hundreds of thousands of voters who are casting a ballot for barack obama. they have to cross the aisle and vote for him for senate. is it possible? sure. is it tough? you better believe it the. jon: but you still have that race as a toss up? >> we still think it's a toss-up because brown is a very good candidate. jon: okay. let's talk about virginia. you've got a former governor running there. >> everybody who is looking at virginia knows that it's a real toss-up. sometimes we call things that really aren't toss-ups, toss-ups. this is a toss-up. two former governors who are very evenly matched. tim kane for the democrats, george allen for the republicans. they're at 50/50 in virtually every survey. this should be determined by

the results of the presidential contest. if obama wins virginia, cain will win. if romney wins virginia, allen will win. the party that carries the presidency in virginia will get a bonus senate seat. jon: in wisconsin you have another ex-governor there potentially running. >> yes, if tommy thompson, former republican of wisconsin gets republican nomination we think he will be favored over democrat tammy baldwin, and that is even if barack obama manages to carry wisconsin again. if it isn't tommy thompson it will be businessman larry hute. he is an unknown quantity. if obama wins wisconsin, it is possible that the democrat candidate for senate will be carried into office but it is too early to say one way or the other exa lot of interesting developments to come. that's why you watch politics so closely. larry sabato from the university of virginia. >> thank you, jon. jenna: it traveled nearly 8,000 miles, jon.

we're taking a look at the olympic torch just a day before we see the opening ceremony for the olympics. i think that is trafalgar square in london. if we see get a closer look at the torch. you see the person in white carrying only a short trip away from buckingham palace and short trip from hyde park where it will be wrested and entire torch will be lit. jon: i love the lighting ceremony. jenna: it is something to think about that tradition. that is a nice wide shot. we're only a day away from the opening of the olympics but soccer or football depending where you're from in the world, usa beat france in the opening games. they're trying to do that to fit all the games in. we have a little taste of the olympics. here's the torch and we'll watch that as we complete the journey for the opening day of the him picks. he gave us a nice little wave. jon: we finally got a little peek at the flickering flame on top of the torch.

jenna: the olympics is always a major security concern. it is this year. one day before opening ceremonies there are new worries about a number of terror arrests in london. details of this massive effort underway to keep millions of people safe including many officials and also to protect our games. we'll have that right after the the experts at imperial can convert your long-term payout into a lump sum of cash today.

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>> here's a job you might think twice about taking. when window washers at a las vegas hotel get stranded 35 floors up. it wasn't just the fact they were stranded. it was scorching triple digit heat at time but they have a little lady luck in vegas. firefighters come to the rescue, rigging a harness from the roof. from there the fire crew lowers each of them to safety, one at a time and one floor at a time. that's a long way down. jenna: that certainly is. talking a little bit about safety, there are some safety concerns looming at the london olympics. this is of course as we just mentioned a day ahead of the big opening ceremony. terror arrests and missing private security guards are

two reasons that some might feel a little bit more anxious as we take in some more live shots in london where we find our very own greg palkot with more on this greg? >> reporter: jenna, it is a gorgeous day here in southeast london. gorgeous day here in the park. bizarrely behind me and a couple of fences a battery of live surface-to-air missiles. that is because we are right next door to the olympic equestrian venue just a few miles away from the main olympic park. we're told this is the first time that air defenses have been set up inside of london since the world war ii nazi blitz. all part of the biggest peacetime security effort ever staged by the u.k. all of course aimed at preventing any kind of terror attack at all against these high-profile games. the numbers are amazing, jenna. 18,000 u.k. troops here. that is almost double what they have in afghanistan right now. more than 12,000 police. there are ships. there are snipers. there are planes. there is a history of terror

at the olympic as game. there is a history of terror here in london too. yes there are problems. the private security company which was supposed to set up 10 -- 10,400 guards a day before the opening ceremony. they came up with half that. we've been watching police and soldiers right here filling the gap. there are other issues. the olympic traffic games connecting all the various venues around the region just opened up. terror experts tell us they could be targeted as well. just this past week we saw a big drug gang broken up here in london just one much many arrests here in the last few weeks, some terror-related as officials try to clean it up. with u.s. athletes and officials and visitors coming here no wonder washington is helping out as well. tsa agent at the airports and officials at the air defense operation tell me that the u.s. has been supplying expertise, trying to prevent a big 9/11 attack

or a lone wolf. a quick one to show how the folks are on a knife's edge, a fighter jet was scrambled after a passenger plane approached the u.k. communication were off temporarily. they came on. everything is okay. that is what everyone is hoping next couple weeks. jenna: a lot to keep an eye on. greg, thank you. jon: when we're talking about the him pigs supposed to be about sport manship and unity right? that is why they call them the games. not always especially after major goof up by the u.s. olympic committee. an entire soccer team stomps off the field in anger. rick with he details next. s. wow. wow. but you can help fight muscle loss with exercise and ensure muscle health. i've got revigor. what's revigor? it's the amino acid metabolite, hmb to help rebuild muscle and strength naturally lost over time.

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jon: a big oops from the international olympic committee. after south korea's national

flag was displayed during a women's soccer match. not a problem except that the two teams on the field were colombia and north korea. rick folbaum has that story. >> reporter: oops. the olympic ideal knows no bounds. doesn't matter what war, famine, strife going around the world every four years for the most part athletes come together in a city always regrets asking to be the host for the first place and compete in diving, fencing badminton. for the most part everyone sets aside whatever differences they have and focus on the games, usually. take the women's soccer team from north korea. as you mentioned they went out onto the field today to take part in one of the first contests of these games against the women's team from colombia. instead of seeing their own flag proudly flying they found south korea cree's flag instead. the country has been their enemy since that nasty conflict called the korean korean war. simple mistake called organizers.

apan hour, the right flag was brought out. it won't happen again, say the brits. north and south korea will have to eventually face off during each other during the summer games in table tennis. bitter earn miss. they will have to be sportsman-like at least when it comes to be ping-pong. jon: you don't want to set off the north koreans. we know what happens when they get a little testy. >> reporter: good point. jon: rings folbaum thank you. jenna: that table tennis match will be intense. jon: intense, yes. jenna: lots of different athletes and different sports. should respect them all, right? top athletes. table tennis. i bet you're good at table tennis. jon: i'm not. >> there are new questions on the motive for the horrific mass murder in colorado. we'll talk more about that next on fox news. what could drive a person to do such an act of evil? we'll look for some answers coming up. ok! who gets occasional constipation,

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