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never as much fun as fall behind. we love that. hit the alarm for another hour. we're good. "happening now" starts right now. we'll see you back here tomorrow. bye, guys. jenna: brand new stories and breaking news. jon: new threats from north korea just as the u.s. and south korea conduct war games. what that rogue nation just did. house speaker john boehner on hiss political future and what's ahead for the gop. why he says republicans need to do a better job. jon: then there's this. >> [bleep]. [bleep]. jon: an epic rant from justin bieber over aggressive paparazzi. things are not looking up. latest in the saga as the beeb turns. it is all "happening now." jon: well, it is monday morning. it was a short weekend. now we have north korea threatening war. as the u.s. holds joint

military drills with south korea. good morning i'm jon scott. jenna: hi, everybody. i'm jenna lee. north korea reportedly responding to those drills by scrapping the nearly 60-year-old armistice that ended the korean war. have this think about it like a truce. it is not a peace treaty. it is more of a truce. north korea says it will launch a nuclear attack as well on the united states. full of lots of words this morning. the latest threat from a nation growing more enraged at the west. days after new u.n. sanctions were put in place for north korea doing a nuclear test. in seoul, some from both sides demonstrated weapons the joint exercises. others in favor of the south protesting the north's aggression and nuclear program. steve centanni live from washington as it develops. steve? >> reporter: there have been no open hostilities, at least not yet. the rhetoric is definitely heating up. the north koreans are more threatening and more

bellicose at any time since they launched an attack against a south korean island in 2010. the south koreans blame the north for an attack on a warship this same year that killed 46 sailors although pongyang denies it. more importantly north korea's third underground nuclear test since 2006 which took place on february 12th. last week the u.n. security council voting unanimously to impose tougher sanctions at north korea's finances. at the same time they are threatening war against south korea and the u.s.. the state department says the inflammatory rhetoric from the north is not helpful. >> it is obviously regretable that the opportunities for improving their relationship with the international community, for coming clean about their nuclear program and improving the lives of their people have not been taken up by the new leadership. >> reporter: with a new north korean leader

kim jong-un becoming increasingly confrontational with the u.s., the international community is watching this closely now. north korea conducting military exercises on their side of the border while the u.s. and south korea on their side started a annual joint exercise that including 10,000 south koreans and 3,000 americans. those joint military drills begin today and will last for 11 days. jenna. jenna: we'll talk about more of this during the show. steve, thank you. jon: john boehner says he is far from done as being house speak, but the gop needs to do a better job this from a wide-ranging interview with "roll call" where speaker boehner was asked how his members interpret the results of election and the unpopularity of the gop according to some polls and boehner had this answer. >> we have one house of congress an congress is the

favorite whipping boy for americans for centuries. i don't expect that to change. we lost the presidential election in november. there are lessons we have to learn from that. we have to do a better job reaching out to every american and making the connections to show how our solutions will do a better job helping them. i'm confident if we do that the republican will be just fine. david drucker is a senior editor at role call. he also has a new blog on house politics called, g.o.p.ers. you can see the entire interview with speaker boehner posted there. david, how are you doing on this monday? >> good morning. good to be here, jon. jon: thanks. here's the question, the speaker said, congress has been america's favorite whipping boy for more than two centuries. if you look at pole numbers out from quinnepiac, it is not just congress in general. republicans do not do as well. they get a 20% approval rating from the american people in this survey. democrats get a 32% approval rating. why the difference?

>> well, i think right now there are a lot of people frustrated with the republican party. first of all you have conservatives who probably are still voting republican by and large but they don't like the party. they don't like how it is functioned in congress for one reason or another. they're unhappy with the results of the presidential election and they don't know it is heading in the right direction. you have independent voters not necessarily happy with republicans despite the fact that the republican presidential candidate did fairly well with independent voters last november. and then of course you have everybody else who probably doesn't support the party in any event and you have issues the party has with ethnic minorities, young voters, female voters and so it is just, it is a down period for republicans and they're looking for their way back up. jon: it doesn't help that at just about every opportunity the man who lives at 1600 pennsylvania avenue takes out his megaphone and criticizes house republicans in particular. he has been doing that until maybe the last week or so.

>> well, look, jon, i mean that's part of the business that they're in, all right? a democratic president is rarely going to have nice things to say about house and senate republicans and if that's where congressional republicans are focused on what a mean guy the president is, they're not going to fet anywhere. for republicans the real issue is trying to connect everything that they're trying to do in congress with everyday americans, with voters. really connecting with their everyday problems. this is what i asked speaker boehner about. he said in fact that house republicans in particular but all republicans have to do a better job of connecting their relentless focus on a, less spending and a smaller federal government, on reining in the deficit and ball lansing the budget over ten years on how that will help people. many voters hear that. it sounds nice in theory. nobody likes exploding deficits and overbudgeting but it doesn't necessarily

translate to problems they're facing every day and how it will help them get a job and increase the size of the bank account. that is where republicans have to do much better. democrats in part because of things they push for, they have been better. when voters need health care and need more money, you're more likely to have a democrat with a policy geared accomplishing that. that is easier, when you're talking about taking thing away, i think you have to work harder to explain why that is going to help. these are the things republicans believe. if they want to be successful they have to stop complaining and work at it and try to maybe the connection. jon: you asked speaker boehner about how, you know, the role that he sees for himself in helping the party regain popularity among voters. let me read for our viewers what he responded. there is no doubt that as a party we need to do a better job of communicating and engaging with the american people. in the house we only control one half of one-third of the government and going up against the presidential bully pulpit is tough but our priorities are still

firmly aligned with the american people's. creating jobs, cutting wasteful government spending and expanding opportunity for all americans so they can achieve the american dream. our job as house republicans is to put our principles in legislation like the budget we'll vote on this month and show how the solutions help family in our congressional districts and around the country. and yet, you know, when ever a republican budget proposal comes out, you hear democrats in the house, on the senate side, in the white house, running out and suggesting that, you know, republicans want to throw children off head start for instance? >> well, of course. you know when you're a democrat you're opposed to republicans. it is your job to make everything they want to do look as draconian as possible. for the republicans their job, instead of saying i just want to cut the budget, i want to reform medicare, what they ought to do, this is just an example, talk to the american people about why they think their overhaul of medicare will sieve it and preserve it. this is something that can

connect with people. people might say, oh, i see, you're not trying to take it away. you're trying to make sure i have access to it. look, is it harder when you're trying to change the retirement age where you can access medicare and things of that nature? shower sure, those things could be harder. you can't accomplish it if you say we can't afford it, we need to take it away. if you look at democrats, what do republicans and conservatives think they're going to say? look at this nice wonderful idea my opposition has. i disagree with it, this but it is intellectually very sound. this is not the way politics works. republicans understand this but they need to internalize it. jon: one quick quote. president talks about republicans as party of millionaires and billionaires and people corporate private jet owners. in terms of communicating with the rank-and-file, the speaker told you it is critically important we communicate how our solutions will help middle class families and small businesses on a day-to-day

basis. it all starts with jobs. whether reforming the tax code to increase jobs and take home bay and increase economic growth, reducing red tape it burden to employers or projects like keystone that will create jobs and lower energy cost, it is about connecting these solutions to families and small businesses. it sounds great. can he put it in practice? >> well i think they can try. it is hard to overcome a bully pulpit, but, parties have done this before. i think what republicans need to do, is pass legislation that puts this into practice. it will die in the senate. the president won't sign most of it. but there is another election in two years. what you can do go to the voters, this is what we would do if we were this charge. these are the ways these pieces of legislation would help you. democrats actually did this in the past, even as minority. back before they got ahold of the majority in the '06 elections where they would put out proposals and say, this is how it would help you if we were in charge.

these are things republicans can do. they will get enough attention for it. and, it can actually further their cause. it is just, it is going to take them awhile. jon: david drucker, the man who spoke to the speaker of the house, john boehner in that extensive interview. david, thank you. >> thanks a lot, jon. jon: we've been talking about the white house charm offensive of late. president obama reaching out to leading congressional republicans like paul ryan. the former vice-presidential nominee and house budget chairman talked about what he called his first lengthy discussion with the president. congressman ryan telling chris wallace on "fox news sunday" what he hopes will come from the exchange. >> we come from different perspectives. i ran against him in the last election. we exchange very frank, candid views we're very different. at least we had the conversation. the answer to your question will be determined by how he conducts himself in the coming weeks and months. will resume the campaign mode? will resume attacking

republicans and impuning our motives? will resume what is long believed to be a plan to win the fourth fourth? or will he sincerely change and try to find common ground, try to work with republicans to get something done? that what we hope happens. jon: after meeting with and chatting with the president, you heard the thoughts from the former vice-presidential candidate. we'll have much more on the effectiveness what many are calling this white house charm offensive next hour. bret baier, the anchor of "special report" joins us with his take. jenna: also happening right now, a day of mourning and remembrance in japan marking two years since the devastating earthquake and tsunami killed nearly 19,000 people. of course also sparked that massive nuclear disaster. images like this, even now, two years later, challenging to watch. julie banderas has more from the new york city newsroom. julie? >> reporter: jenna, a disaster that scared people around the world over the vulnerability of nuclear power plants. the devastation in japan so severe two years later, more

than 300,000 people remain displaced. at memorial observances in tokyo and in barren towns all along the coast a moment of silence, marking the moment at 2:46 p.m. on march 11th, 2011, when the magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck. that was the strongest in japan's history, causing the fukushima daichi nuclear power plant reactors to melt down after its cooling systems were disabled by that giant tsunami. the radiation spill so bad, japan still struggles with the cleanup. while communities completely lost along the coast hold out hope that some day they can rebuild. a new government elected in december has vowed faster action but yet to come up with a post-disaster strategy. meanwhile half of those displaced are evacuees from areas near the power plant. hundreds of them filed a lawsuit today, demanding compensation for their suffering and losses.

in fact the lawsuit against the government and tokyo electric power company, the utility that operates the now-closed fukushima power plant demands apology payment of $50,000 yen, or $625 for each victim until all radiation is wiped you out, a process we're told could take decades. decommissioning the nuclear plant could take 40 years. what is worse, jenna, tens of thousands of evacuees living in temporary housing shelters who desperately want to get settled may have to wait until a decade. they remain uncertain about the long term risks to the exposure since the worst radiation disaster since chernobyl in 1986. jenna: a good reminder, a lot of folks still can't go home. two years later. >> not much has changed for them which is so sad. jenna: very important to remember that story, julie. >> reporter: sure. jon: hard to believe it has been two years. usama bin laden's son-in-law about to go on trial in new york city just

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jon: for the first time in nearly a decade the people's house is closed to the people. obama administration officially ending all white house tours blaming the automatic spending cuts known as sequestration. tours were last halted for security reasons after the september 11th attacks. then fenn at the start of the iraq war in 2003. doug mckelway live in washington. so all of this, doug, just as the nation's capitol is ramping up thing for tourist season, right? >> reporter: that's right, jon. keep in mind people across america are not as tuned into the specifics of sequester as many of us are. these canceled white house tours which began in earnest on saturday came as real shock, a real letdown to a lot of people like natalie cooper and her mom, christine wilson from raleigh, north carolina, who came to desee to celebrate

aaron's 8th birthday. >> got a e-mail. as of march 9th, moving forward. first to be honest we thought it was kind of a joke, not sure, you know how to kind of take the e-mail. so, i phoned my mom to let her know, guess what, we thought we have a tour and we don't have a tour anymore. no way. that night actually on fox news, at 5:00 it was plastered everywhere. >> reporter: tour cancellations have become as much of a red hot political potato as the sequester itself with some suggesting tour cancellation, they cost the government $74,000 a week were unnecessary way for the white house to maximize sequestration's impact. >> in terms of the overall costs of operating the country and the government, small change, i think. it is for posturing more than anything. >> reporter: one tour group, the sixth grade class at st. paul's lutheran school in

iowa posted a youtube video, said please let us visit. and the white house is our house. by friday, according to reuters it got about a thousand hits and 500 shares. not bad for a sixth great group, jon. jon: will they get their tour? that is the question. the white house said secret servicecut backs are the real reason for this, right? >> reporter: that's what they say. the secret service is a part of cutbacks they face through sequestration, provided the white house with several options. white house spokesman told reporters, that in order to let the secret service fill its core mission, the white house made the decision we would have to unfortunately suspend these tours. house speaker john boehner made a point last week reminding reporters that capitol tours are continuing, thanks he says, point he hadly, to proper planning. jon? jon: that was prudent. doug mckelway, in washington. not outside the white house. not inside the white house. probably can't get you in

there either. doug, thanks. >> reporter: sure thing. jenna: there are dueling war games on the korean peninsula. north korea threatening war as the u.s. holds joint military drills with south korea. what this means for the cease-fire between the north and the south and the likely hood of an attack on the united states. that's what we think. do they mean it? also some serious new concerns over how the health care law is being implemented. the doctor is in with "what you need to know.".

jenna: right now tensions are high on the core reason peninsula. north korea threatening war as the united states holds joint military drills with south korea. the united states has 30,000 troops more or less in a demilitarized zone. you might hear that referred to as the dmz. this is to protect the

people of south korea from northern aggression post the core korean -- korean war. they reportedly scrapped the armistice that ended the korean war. joining us, michael singh, managing director for of the washington institute for nearest policy. general jack keane is also with us, retired four stare aem, former vice chief of staff for the army and a fox news analyst. gentlemen, we showed some military from the individual proto the military drills sometimes called war games. why do we do these drills with south korea? >> we have to be prepared for any aggression north korea may use on the south and militaries have to practice. if you have got two different countries here with different armies, different procedures, they have to practice together to be good at it because they would be literally fighting together. jenna, we've been doing these exercises for almost 60 years. this isn't something new

that the degree of bell coasty and sabre rattling on this particular exercise by the nor core reians, the volume is a little different -- north koreans. jenna: i want to set the stage what is going on in the southern peninsula in this country. michael, it happens every year. the associated press said north korea's words or rhetoric are more war-like than normal. what makes their comments different? >> jenna, north korea is very unpredictable. they made threats to attack the u.s. with a nuclear strike. i think that is a bit of a stretch. doesn't seem like they have that capability yet but they're also making threats against south korea. i think those threats are much more credible in part because of the 2010 attacks on south korea which you were showing video of eller these things have to be taken seriously. north korea has nuclear weapons, has relatively untested young leader, that unpredictability, that

danger is higher now than ever before. jenna: do you agree, general keane, more danger now than ever before? >> i think there is an issue with the new leader. his father and his grand father certainly earned the respect inside his country. i think he is still vying for some of that. i think his age is certainly probably a factor and i believe that has something to do with the degree of sabre rattling that is going on here. certainly the other issue that is frustrating them so much, after the last test, the nuclear test that is, and the ballistic test back in february and december respectively, he had world condemnation and also the u.s.-led an effort in the u.n. to increase the sanctions on north korea which was just passed last week. so i think that kind of public note right frustrates him and noteriety, frustrates him and contributes to some of the volume of this. jenna: one of the questions then, michael what is our response? we heard the state

department spokeswoman say they find north korea's actions regretable? what else should we be doing? what else should we be saying? >> that is obviously diplomatic speak but this is a very difficult problem. we've tried sanctions. there are more sanctions on north korea than just about any country in the world but they haven't changed the leadership's point of view. besides closing the country off to the world, we tried talks in the past. they have shown some promised. they haven't changed the leadership's mind and they haven't convinced china to change its approach because north korea is quite useful. what we're trying to do is really contain north korea. maintain the status quo. jenna: is that a good policy? >> frankly i think whether they say it or not that is the de facto policy but, look, containment only works to an extent. north korea's nuclear arsenal is improving. they're sharing nuclear technology with countries like syria and iran. of course they feel a certain measure of impunity to attack south korean conventional attacks. so it is a real problem. jenna: real quick, general

keen, should we be more aggressive, whatever that means and what would that moan? >> everything we tried to date has failed. michael is right about that these guys now have nuclear helps with and we tried for years to stop that but i think our strategic objective should be regime change. i'm not suggesting we do that by military force but it should be our geopolitical objective to remove that regime and hopefully to encourage those who live under that regime to do everything we can to haven't alley unify that peninsula. >> general keane, michael singh, great to have you both us today. we're getting news out of north korea almost every day now. we'll continue to watch the story develop and see what happens in the week ahead. thank you. >> thanks, jenna. jon: we're following a percent debate whether usama bin laden's son-in-law should face a criminal trial in new york city or a military trial in gitmo.

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as roman catholic cardinals gather for a final day of talks before the conclave to elect the pope gets underway tomorrow. the intense debate is growing whether the next leader of the catholic church needs to be more of a manager than a pastoral figure. religion reporter lauren green is live with that. >> reporter: talk about the congregational meetings, 161 cardinals have spoken in the past meetings. they're learning more about each other and what qualities are needed in a new pope. all eyes are on st. peter's square where the balcony was being prepared this morning for to greet a new pope. this is where the world will see the new pope for the first time. meanwhile there are reports that the cardinals have developed two camps. the americans along with those outside the roman curoi, the vatican government are said to be reporting cardinal angelo skoalla. the 71-year-old is archbishop of milan, italy's largest diocese along with venice produced five popes. scola is conservative

theologian who is known for reaching out to the muslim world and is seen as being able to clean up the mess in the scandal-plagued vatican. the other camp said to be supporting cardinal scherer who is of late inch decent. the american cardinals getting a lot of attention like new york's timothy dolan, boston's sean o'malley and even houston's daniel did i nard dough, two factions signaled the church's multiple needs. >> they're looking for someone holy because he is preaching the gospel. he should be living the gospel that he is preaching. they want a brilliant theologian. they want somebody who can communicate to grammar schoolkids. they want somebody who can reform the vatican curia what they're looking for is jesus christ with an mba. >> reporter: very interesting. while the cardinals today are preparing to move into

the residence for their sequestration, they will then have mass at 10:00 a.m. tomorrow morning for the conclave mass. and we should see the first whiffs of white or black smoke around 7:00 p.m. rome time tomorrow evening. black smoke if there is no pope. white smoke if there is indeed a new pope. jon? jon: you will be there to cover it. lauren green outside the vatican, thank you. jenna: now to the growing debate over the capture of the son-in-law of usama bin laden. al qaeda spokesman suleman abu ghaith, facing civilian trial here in new york city blocks away from ground zero after pleading not guilty to one count of conspiracy to kill americans. the sources say the decision to bring him to new york was made at the highest levels of the obama administration but many lawmakers believe he should be shipped to gitmo to face a military tribunal. here is new york congressman peter king earlier today on "america's newsroom". >> my concern right now is not so much the acquittal or

conviction of the trial, it is fact that we should get more intelligence out of him, more information. that's why i think guantanamo is where he would have been brought, not mirandized not given rights. he gave 22-page statement. he was in iran for number of years. in bin laden's inner circle. this is information taken out day by day, week by week and find out and fill in a lot of blanks. >> robin mcfadden is a former special agent in charge of the naval criminal investigative service. you might know that as "ncis". nice to have you on set with us. >> thank you. jenna: you for 30 years worked interrogating some of the worst human beings on the planet, in places like yemen and saudi arabia and guantanamo. what was that like? what did you need to be successful? >> well, it was a great privilege to have the opportunity to speak, interview some of the hardest of the hardcore in

al qaeda, like, for example, on the uss cole investigation in gaun town me. it's a very interesting and rewarding experience, particularly if you have the training and background that i had with my organization and working with some of the best partners you can imagine in the business. jenna: maybe you give jon and me tips during commercial break. i'm sure the interrogation techniques would be useful as an interviewer on television. tell us how you think having this individual in our criminal court system may or may not impact our ability to get information from him. >> well, first i was quite pleased to see suleman abu ghaith brought to the u.s. and taken to the u.s. district court. probably no other place in the southern district of new york when it comes it track record in prosecuting terrorism cases. i understand from open source reporting that the high value detainee interrogation group had access to abu ghaith. so it will be interesting to see what information was

obtained in that 22-page statement from him. jenna: what would you want to know? >> i would want to know everything from the beginning, going back to 2000 because he was among the last of the afghan arabs with bin laden before bin laden gave the disperal order in late 2001. i would like to know his travel routes. how he got into iran, as has been reported. was he under house arrest? was it part of the modus operandi of tehran? communication systems and then contacts with others that he --. jenna: why would he tell us any of that? >> well, with a skilled interview and interrogator that has deep background about his particular case i myself and partners have had terrific success getting that kind of information. a lot of it boils down to motivations, tapping into those motivations. i would think in this his case quid pro quo of cooperation of some kind. jenna: what would that mean though? what would we give up? what kind of cooperation, what stage would we set, if

you will, to make any sort of exchange? >> sure. that gets into quite complex matters but, particularly in this case there's a tie-in with the department of justice and u.s. authorities. there could be dialogue and discussion about that from the beginning. even without the official, what is going to happen because it is so tough to tell down the road as an interrogator. you can find the motivations of the individual quite quickly. jenna: he has been described, this man as being a spokesman if you will for al qaeda. there has been some questions about whether or not he was involved in the actual operations, the strategy, the mission if you will, to accomplish the terrorism that bin laden accomplished. >> sure. jenna: so is there any risk having him in a civilian court system that he would not be jailed for life because he would be seen as a spokesman, someone that spreads a message but someone that was not really involved in the inner-workings of this terrorism group? >> what you speak to first is understanding the al qaeda structure that

existed at that time with the shore accounts controlled by bin laden. he was part of the council charged with communications and propaganda. that is a very potent message that al qaeda got out there, the message of death and violence. jenna: so you have no concerns, just reading between the lines, of having him in the criminal court system because the people needed to get to him got to him already, the interrogators and now that is playing out in court. what kind of precedent do you think it sets for the future and what does it say about making sure that the worst of the worth do meet their justice? >> well for the president i think it continues to reaffirm our criminal justice system for both in the u.s. and the world. i think, i'm in that camp that says it's the right thing to do. u.s. district courts have a terrific record. almost 200 terrorism convictions since 9/11, just since 9/11. i would also say that, nypd, greatest police force in the world, is well-equipped along with the marshals, fbi

and other. >> interesting to get your perhe can -- perspective from the inside able to face these men and find out, well, i'm sure a lot of interesting things. we'll leave that for another conversation. robert, great to have you on set. >> thank you. jenna: thanks for your perspective. jon? jon: there is a break-through in medical technology giving new hope to parapledge jiks who thought they would never walk again. we're live with an amazing story. you're wondering how justin bieber is following up on his epic rantsps against the paparazzi? what the pop superstar just did next. >> bleep. bleep. bleep. >> get back. >> get back you bleep. bleep. [bleep] yep, there i am with flo. hoo-hoo! watch it! [chuckles] anyhoo, 3 million people switched to me last year, saving an average of $475. [sigh] it feels good to help people save...

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why the turmoil in the middle east could spark a dangerous epidemic around the world. we'll explain that connection coming up. also why giving money to help build a pricey college football stadium carries the same tax reward as donating to a soup kitchen. more on that story next hour. jon: well the bionic man won step closer to reality as a parapledge jik confined to a wheelchair for the last ten years stance up and walks becoming the first person to test a new robotic ex-owe schedule tan. john roberts is live with this. >> reporter: whether they lose partial use spinal cord injury or someone who suffers from multiple sclerosis. this is michael gore. in 2002 he had a work place accident. he fell 12 feet and crushed

his spine and lost total use of his legs. he uses a device and stands up and starts walking. what he has on is something called indigo. it is a powered ex-owe skeleton. it is a helps him walk. this gives michael what he thought he would never have again the. you never get enough of walking? >> until no, you never do. you don't know what you have until you miss it. so many times we walk around all day, i'm tired. i can't wait until i sit down. it is the opposite for me. >> reporter: he just can not get enough of it. he will walk four or five hours at a time. this is one of three similar devices being developed. this is the lightest and least bulky of them all. it is made by a company that builds flight controls for airbus airliners. and builds industrialized robots. it has taken the technology and shrunk it down and hopes to get approval from the fda

very soon for application in a clinical setting. >> i want this to change lives. i want this device to be accessible to the populations that need it most. that can be taken and can be fit into a user's life and enable them to enjoy the freedoms that they previously experienced before their accident. >> reporter: now here's the iron any though. if it is used in a clinical setting it would be likely subject to the new medical device tax under obamacare. if it eventually, the goal to get it into people's homes it would likely escape the tax but then there is the issue of cost. that prototype is more than $60,000. there is big question whether insurance companies will even cover part of that cost. the big question will they ask, jon, is it really necessary? according to michael gore just the ability to have a face-to-face conversation with someone after ten years was worth every penny. jon? jon: that is amazing. john roberts from atlanta. thank you. jenna: some new video and it is not asking you see every

day. a cactus attack, if you will. incredibly no one was hurt when a storm blew over a cactus in the woman's front yard. the wind didn't stop there the it uprooted the cactus with the part of the plant hitting the roof. like a cartoon. just missed the cat asleep in the front room. there is no more cactus in the front yard i guess. jon: that is a big old one there. more information on a doozy of a story we brought you last friday, after justin bieber, the beebs. jenna: you're very concerned. jon: justin bieber collapsed in a concert. he got into profanty laced argument with a video photographer and now the video has gone viral. >> [bleep]. >> what did you say? [bleep]. [bleep]. [bleep]. [bleep]. [bleep]. [bleep]. >> get back. >> [bleep].

>> get back. >> what are you doing? >> what are you doing? jon: that incident just the latest unfortunate event for the canadian pop star. he was kicked out of a london nightclub on his birthday, jenna lee. and he can selled a concert in portugal. he has two shows coming up in spain. what is up with the beebs? we'll keep you posted. jenna: i'm glad we don't have to use the [bleep] button for you as often. that hurts my ears. jon: i would almost rather hear profanity than the bleep. that is obnoxious. jenna: we will keep an eye on the beebs. jon will. as we face for implementation of the new health care law several policy experts are working on new approaches to make sure americans get the care they need. a member of our fox news medical a team has the latest in a live report just ahead this is the opposite of subliminal advertising... there's no subtext... just tacos. yeah, it's our job to make you want it.

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jon: some new concerns about how president obama's health care law will be implemented as health policy workers work on new approaches to make sure americans get the care they need. fox medical a-team member dr. marc siegel live in our new york city newsroom with a look at that. doctor? >> jon, america's seniors have a problem. when they go into the hospital too many are coming out sick or more vulnerable and with different illnesses from when they went in. 2 1/2 million seniors go home only to be readmitted within a month, 2/3 of the time for something else. the problem is costing the health care system billions but new research finds that all of the stress and sleepless nights and the poor nutrition in the hospital are what make patients sick. too many are exhausted in pain, dehydrated, malnourished and they go home anxious.

we spoke to a top health policy expert at yale who believe doctors focus too much on the reason for ad admission and not enough what happens later. he has a solution for what he calls, post-hospital syndrome. >> if is the surgery is technically perfect but the rehab doesn't work and there is problems in the outpatient and six months later people are regretting they had the surgery or are not gaining any benefit from it, what did the surgery actually accomplish? >> he says post-hospital syndrome can be kurd with a team approach that could save many millions of dollars. nurses, doctors, social workers, therapists need to be fully engaged in the caretaking process. while at new haven hospital i met a 83-year-old heart patient, helen who hoped coming in and out of the hospitals like a yo-yo. she was eagerly anticipating her new days of independence. >> i want to go out without

bothering people that i have to take this with me or that with me. that's my main thing. i like to be with people. i want to see people. i don't want to just sit in a corner and feel sorry for myself. >> could helen be at risk for post-hospital syndrome again following this life-saving procedure? an insurance company spokesperson tells fox that hmos are working with medicare have long anticipated this problem of readmissions and they assign teams of planners to help avoid it. yet, the most recent research shows that the problem still exists. jon? jon: dr. marc siegel, of our medical a-team, thank you. >> thanks, jon. jenna: some call it a charm offensive. others say we may be witnessing a real change of tone from the white house. congressman paul ryan weighing in after his pete meeting with the president. does he think there could be a compromise on the budget battle in the near future. plus is reaching out to the other side, is it really effective?

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jenna: brand-new stories and breaking news this hour. your bottom line in the spotlight today, whether you're saving for retirement for college the dow has already hit and all-time high. now another closely watched index approaching record territory. is the rally over? is it just beginning? questions and answers ahead. also some explosive charges from the afghan president hamid karzai accusing the united states of working with the taliban to destabilize the country. what is behind the accusation in we'll dig deeper. a study of mummies, revealing a surprising health discovery 4,000 years in the making. it's all "happening now." the president reaching out to republicans, some suggest he's trying to pave the way for a grand budget bargain. welcome to a brand-new hour of "happening now." i'm jenna lee. stpho: i'm jon scott. there is growing pressure to

find common ground. this week the president plans three trips to capitol hill where both sides remain far apart. republicans are expressing cautious optimism. the republican chairman of the house budget committee who met with the president last week was asked on "fox news sunday" whether he thinks the president is ready to compromise on the issues or engaging in political theater. >> the answer could your question will be determined by how he conducts himself in the next weeks and months. will he resume the campaign mode, attacking our motives, will he resume what is long believed to be a plan to win the 2014 elections or sincerely change and try and find common ground, try to work with republicans some get something done. that is what we hope happens. jon: let's talk about all this with bret baier, he anchors special report. i was astounded and i think a lot of people were to find out or hear the budget committee chairman say there that this was really the first substantive

talk he had ever had with president obama when the president invited him for lunch last week. >> reporter: there are a number of lawmakers who could share that sentiment i think. not many republicans have had ongoing discussion w-s this president. speaker boehner obvious here one of them, but those ended when the behind the scenes negotiations stopped and the speaker decided that it was time to go through regular order, in other words, go through the house of representatives and the normal process to deal with these budget deals and not behind closed doors. you know, talking to lawmakers on both sides of the aisle they do believe that the president is really reaching out, but you heard senator coburn this weekend, who had dinner with the president say, it may take some time. there are some scabs and sores on lawmakers, and it may take some time to heel some of that, and they are hoping that it's moving in the right direction. jon: lawmakers may have scabs

and source but we learned from paul ryan that he intends to introduce a budget this week that would eliminate obama care, that seems like a pretty big slap back at the white house. >> reporter: sure, this has been a goal for house republicans for some time. it was in the last budget, it will be in this budget, rolled out tomorrow, and you heard paul ryan talking about the budget. it is much the same as the last time around. it does include some new numbers, including the increased taxes that the obama administration pushed for. it actually helps balance the paul ryan budget within ten years with that additional revenue. so you'll see a lot of back and forth about paul ryan's budget this week, but obama care has long been in the target for house republicans. jon: so the charm offensive or whatever you want to call it, the president reaching out, what is the motivation? >> reporter: there could be multiple reasons for it.

i mean the president could see that his original tact of really going after republicans didn't work that well, and the sequester fallout really did not look like it went the white house's way. many people believed that the white house was over selling the impact of the sequester and it came become to bite them. they've seen poll numbers go down. and there is a sense that the president wants a big deal, how much he's willing to do on the policy side of of it is really the question. you can reach out and talk about things, but when push comes to shove if you're going to push the democratic caucus to make entitlement changes that is the only way they are going to get any revenue. republicans are saying taxes are off the table. it's sale the same position we were in a few weeks ago. jon: it is going to be an interesting week especially with paul ryan's budget coming out. we'll see what happens. bret baier to cover it for us.

thank you politics may have played a big part in the sudden bipartisan outreach by the white house, but is that how it's being portrayed in the mainstream media? our news watch panel weighs in with thoughts on that coming up inside "happening now." tune into special ror. b remember, t brings you all the latest political developments each weekday evening, 6pm eastern on fox news channel. jenna: the dow hitting record eyes. we'll show you the backboard there. if it's trading above 140413 that's an interday high. that's where we are, a few points higher than that. if it closes as where it is it also would be a new high as we've seen over the last couple of weeks. nicole is live from the new york stock exchange. some concern, nicole about what is behind this rally and whether or not it has staying power. >> reporter: right the bulls out there the people with 401k and

ira is pretty excited to see it now. we are hitting all time record highs on the dow jones industrial interday. if by the same token you're wondering how there is such a disconnect between main street and wall street, people are still struggling, there is high employment and a lot of people think the market is over bought and it is ready for some sort of pull back but they are not wanting to short the market either. ben bernanke helping this as well. boeings the number one head der on the dow jones industrial, best perform erp at a 52-week high. apple is pulling back once again and faces intense competition from sam sang. sasamsung may have eye-powered scrolling features. that is something very interesting. looking at the phone and moving it around with your years. black berry the z10 is going to

go on sale. you can buy it yourself on march 22 than. that stock is up nearly 10% today. i'm also following bed, bath and beyond a popular retailer for folks. in the weekend covers of barons they say that the stock could rise 25%, that it could be a acquisition target. you might see that above a 40% premium. give an eye and bed, bath and beyond, they are giving it good projections going forward. i'm tossing it back to you jenna, we are seeing basically all time highs on the dow jones industrials. jenna: don't want to get too used to it. but it's nice to see that rather than the 6500 that we saw at the loaf the crisis. nick he coal, thank you. jon: breaking now a computer jet stuck in the mud this morning at houston's hobby airport. the delta plane was heading back to the gate after reporting a communication problem, but the pilot veered off the taxiway and into the grass where the front

gear got bogged down. 76 passengers were on board headed to plant atlanta. >> another big storm racing across the midwest and plain states and dropping a foot of snow in some places and taking aim at the east coast. janice dean joins us live from the fox extreme weather center. sometime i do miss california. all the weather goes the wrong way. >> i miss california too. i'm not even from there, jenna. nine official days until spring according to the calendar, so we'll hold that to the calendar hopefully. let's take a look at the satellite radar imagery for the last storm that hit us overt weekend bringing us over a foot of snow over portions of the rockies up towards the midwest and mainly a rain event from the gulf coast to the great lakes. these what we'll be dealing with for the next 12 to 24 hours. snow for the upper midwest, not

a blockbuster event thankfully as the storm is starting to weaken a little bit. we are starting to see the rainfall from the eastern great lakes all the way down to the gulf coast states, anywhere from half an into an inch of rain over the next six to 12 hours. as you can see as we approach tomorrow's rush-hour all down the i-95 corridor. again the good news is it will be mainly a rain event, not a lot of snow plows on the roads. on the back side of it, however, we could see a few snow showers heading into wednesday as the temperatures across the northeast are going to drop. we had a quick shot of springtime weather over the weekend and things will start to gradually drop as we head through the work week. taking a look at the rain forecast anywhere from half an into an inch of rain, maybe two inches across the northwest which will give us kind of an inconvenient over the next six to 12 hours. again as we head through the work week temperatures on the downfall here as we head into wednesday 45 in new york, 48 in boston, approaching the weekend

down around the freezing mark which could set us up, perhaps, for another winter storm. we'll keep you posted on that. a quick look at your forecast today, again nice mild temperatures across the northeast, that front is going to movess ward bringing us lane for atlant atlanta up toward the ohio river valley and the northeast. not all bad news for this forecast, jenna. jenna: have you to tell it like it is. >> i think if you invited me to california we would all go. jenna: i think we all would as opposed to winter open the east coast. jon: i hope the lee family has extra bedrooms because we are going to need hem. jenna: really. jon: if you're going to host them all. jenna: i'll call my mom. we'll hook you up, jon. jon: iran offers help to america six years after a former fbi agent disappeared here. iran is responding to new pressure from our state department to help find him. also, afghanistan's president, he's lashing out against

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jon: "happening now" iran's foreign minister saying his country will help determine or learn i should say the fate of a former fbi agent. the family of robert levinson marking a grim milestone. he vanished six years ago this past saturday during a trip there as a private investigate investigator. previous information indicates he is not in iran. u.s. officials are very skeptical. they suspect iran is behind a video clip and five photos of levinson that were emailed anonymously to his family a few years ago. he is from coral springs, florida. secretary of state john kerry met with his family over the weekend vowing to continue looking for him.

jenna: an insider attack killing two american shoulders in afghanistan. an afghan police officer, or someone posing like one opened fire inside a police station in the ward of province killing three americans and two afghan officers. this comes one day after president karzai and his deadline for u.s. special forces to withdraw from that very same province near kabul. the deadly incident comes on the heels of comments from karzai during his first visit by the new defense secretary chuck hagel to afghanistan. karzai claims the u.s. is colluding with the taliban saying, quote on the one hand the taliban are talking with the americans, but on the other hand they carry out a bombing in kabul. he goes onto say recent bombings by the taliban were for the benefit of america saying quote, these bombings aimed to prolong the presence of the american forces in afghanistan. a good time to remember that

2100-plus americans have died since the war began in afghanistan. we've also spent more than a half trillion dollars on the war. seth jones is a former adviser to the commanding general to the u.s. forces in afghanistan . he's now a research for the rand corporation. nice to have you back with us. why should our men keep dying in this country, men and women if this is the behavior of that country's president? what is going on here? >> well, i should point out that this is not the first time we've heard statements like this. back in april of 2010 president karzai stkul lee sai actually said he would join the taliban if he continued to come under pressure from outside governments including the u.s. to reform. the bottom line for the u.s. is that there continues to be a threat to the u.s. homeland from a range of militant groups including al-qaida on both the after gone and pakistan sides of the border. i think that's what make the u.s. suck up these kinds of statements and try to cooperate as much as possible. jenna: go a little deeper into

that. why should we tolerate this? >> reporter: we shouldn't toll late these kind of actions and i hope that the new secretary of defense made that very clear to the afghan president, that while it's okay to have differences in views, to keep those private, and these public statements are unhelpful. in fact if they continue they will increase the rational for the u.s. to pull out more forces. jenna: what is the risk of that? >> well the risk is if you pull out too much i think, you know, again in 2009 there was nearly an attack in new york city from an al-qaida plot that was based out of pakistan. 2010 the times square bomber was trained in pakistan right along the afghan pakistan border. there are still threats to the u.s. coming from this region. jenna: you mentioned pakistan a few times. we actually have a map we are going to show our vires. our viewers should know the name of one city in particular in this map that we're showing you. the city is called miramshaw.

it's right along the border between afghanistan and pakistan. and just over the last 24 hours there's been reports of another drone strike in miranshah. that's where the bad guys are. everybody is like where are the bad guys? the bad guys are in miranshah. we know that, we know a few areas they are in in this tribal area. how does what karzai says impact our ability to go get the bad guys where they are in that tribal region? >> well, for the u.s. to continue to try to go after the bad guys in this area they have to have bases right along the border and work with the afghans in order to get -- to collect the intelligence necessary to conduct strikes in this area. it looks like in this case the u.s. targeted two arabs and several uzbec foo fighters the uzbec aspect is interesting. this is a country that lies north of afghanistan, indicating

continuing proliferation of islamic radical groups in this region. that's probably why the u.s. needs to stay here to some degree for the foreseeable future. jenna: can karzai disrupt that? can he make it impossible for us to go and do that or is that something right now we don't need his permission or whatever he says on the ground in kabul isn't as much of a factor? >> well he'd have to kick u.s. forces out of bases like jalal louisiana bad for the u.s. to not be able to conduct these strikes. what we see with karzai is his bark is usually worse than his bite e. makes a lot of inflammatory statements like this but when it comes to action he's usually not -- he's usually not willing to actually take the step and force u.s. forcers out. jenna: that said, though we are expecting elections next year, right? that's when the elections in afghanistan are going to take place. who should we expect to take his position or is he vying in some strange way with some of these public statements to stay in power and we're going to see another term of a president

karzai? >> well, look, there are a range of options on the table. there is one option where you actually have somebody else, like the president's brother, a whole range of individuals that may run for president. but there is a second option where president karzai either stays on as president, amends the constitution, or stays on in sort of a background role the way we saw say with pursui vladimir putin in russia. i think there are a range of options where the president can actually continue to influence the political process even if he decide not to run. jenna: interesting to watch that process play out as it does over the next year. a good reminder that we are supposed to be withdrawing from afghanistan the end of next year after those elections take place. interesting time tpoerg awful this. greafor all of this. great to ask you as always. >> thanks, jenna. jon: new controversy after one state passes the most sweeping

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jenna: right now a manhunt underway after a double murder in washington state. julie banderas as more from the breaking news desk. >> reporter: police say that the grandson and prime suspect is considered, quote, an extreme danger to the public and police. while 26-year-old michael chad boyson was not considered a suspect at first detectives quickly turned their focus on him and accuse him of killing his 82-year-old grandfather, and 80-year-old grandmother.

now in their home it happened over the weekend, authorities say, their bodies discovered on saturday. a cause of death hasn't been released. police are saying he may be looking to get his hands on firearms because he has apparently been searching for gun shows on the internet. neighbors say the couple will be sorely missed. >> they have touched the lives of hundreds and maybe even thousands of people out there with his service. >> he was always wanting to offer council and just little tidbits of life. >> they are talking about the grandfather of course. police are also searching for the victim's missing read 2000 chrysler 30 o. while the grandson wasn't initially connected to the brutal deaths of his grandparents he does have a track record. he was recently released from pigs after serving one year behind bars for burglary,

jenna. jenna: hope they can track him down. thank you. jon: a new battle erupting over abortion. this after scan after arkansas passes the heartbeat law, the most far reaching law and could have implications nationwide. >> reporter: backers of this law which bans most abortions after the 12th week of pregnancy point out they've already had a tough fight. the governor vetoed the bill ahh the arkansas legislator overrode the veto. it is set to become law this summer. i talked to the author of the law. >> we have given up exceptions for all the areas of contention that are gnome alley there, rape, incest, to save the life of the mother, and to prevent irreparable harm to the mother's health, as well as giving an exception for fatal fetal anomalies. >> the arkansas bill would

require women more than 12 weeks presenting and seeking abortion to have an ultrasound, if a heartbeat is detected it will be denied other than the few exceptions. pro-choice groups say they are mapping out their legal fight. here is what the aclu attorney said about the law. quote, you might as well right a check to the aclu and planned parenthood because we will feel the necessity to go to court to protect the rights of women. the law will be overturned and it will be expensive for the say the of arkansas. the governor cite eud that as an issue when he vetoed the bill about how much it would cost them to defend this new law. it requires penalties fines and jail times for doctors who violate it, but nor penalties for those seeking the abortions, jon. jon: thank you. jenna: a surprising strategy in the search for compromise on the federal budget. while congressman paul ryan says it makes absolute sense to

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jenna: a search for common ground on the budget. the republican chairman much the house budget committee is about to unveil his blueprint to balance the budget and his plan includes repealing the

president's healthcare law. how does he do that, though? chief national correspondent jim angle is live on this story from washington. >> reporter: paul ryan presents a new plan tuesday that aims to balance the budget in 2023, and one way to get there he says is to repeal obama care. listen. >> we believe that obama care is a program that will not work. we believe obama care will actually lead to hospitals and doctors and healthcare providers turning people away. >> reporter: now because the president financed obama care in part with $716 billion in cuts to providers, and medicare was already in deep financial trouble. listen. >> you have to remember all that money that was taken from medicare was to pay for obama care. we say we get rid of obama care, we end the raid and we apply those savings to medicare to make medicare more solvent and extend the volume advance see of the trust fund.

>> reporter: nonpartisan deficit hawks agree that the president's action left medicare and the federal budget in even worse shape because you can't spend the same dollars twice, listen. >> so it didn't actually bring down the cost of medicare which means there is is still a lot more savings that has to be done. and we've used those savings to offset the cost of new federal healthcare spending. >> reporter: ryan's over all budget would not cut federal spending only reduce the rate of increase. mr. obama's plan called for $46 trillion more in spending over the neck ten years, ryan would reduce that to 41 trillion instead. of course repealing obama care is unlike low to get through the senate, but raising the issue how much the president took from medicare to make obamacare look revenue neutral could help a health program that is somewhat unpopular even more so. polls from fox news and other media outlets show a majority of people want to repeal all or part of the president's plan.

jenna. jenna: interesting, jim, thank you. >> reporter: yes, ma'am. jon: a family evacuated now from their home after a 40-foot wide sinkhole swallows up part of the house. the owners said they heard a loud bang yesterday morning as the earth simply gave way. listen. >> it's pretty upsetting to see your driveway start to fall into a hole. >> they said, oh you should be safe unless you here creeking or smell sewage, or the doors don't open then call 911. jon: the 40-foot wide hole opened up after a sewer line burst earlier in the week. emergency officials are working to repair it. jenna: we've had a whole lot of sinkhole news recently haven't we? yes, and i don't know why. jenna: it's more and more bizarre. jon: this one at least had a man-made component, the old sewer line breaking. jenna: so bizarre. in new jersey, a new jersey straight talking governor chris

christie is telling thousands of homeowners to either change their homes now or face skyrocketing flood insurance rates later. many sandy storm victims say they can't afford any construction now. rick leventhal is live from new jersey now. >> reporter: this is because people ace redrawing its flood zone maps. from some people that could mean a rise in insurance premiums from a thousand a year to 30,000 a years. for those folks it could make more sense to raise your house on stilts or destroy your house and build all over again up higher. the clays decided to demolish their home and build again on pylons. today was demolition say. they crushed the two-story four bedroom home in less than an hour. >> we have had a lot of good times here and my husband and i worked hard to buy the house, and make it the way it is, and now it's just being knocked down so -- it's sad.

that was sad. that was a big one. >> reporter: she handled that pretty well, right? in 120 days the clays should have a new home on this lot built much higher to withstand a hundred year storm but not everyone can afford to do that. we met another guy whose home business three and a half miles from the ocean and it flooded for the very first time during hurricane sandy. he has -pbt got even a dime from his insurance company and now he's designated as living in a high velocity zones according to the new maps which means he has to lift his house up or potentially face an insurance bill of some $30,000 a year. >> if you can't get enough money to repair your house, where is the money going to come to raze the house? to raze the house is about a hundred thousand dollars. i can't even get a hundred thousand to fix it. that's what our problem is. >> reporter: a lot of people facing the same problem.

fema redrawing it's flood zone maps for the entire country and the flood insurance subsidies expire this year. that means people who live closer to the water are going to have to pay a lot more into sure their homes, jenna. jenna: right now they hope that there is not another bad storm that comes in,. >> reporter: absolutely, yeah. jenna: wow, what a story. rick, thank you. jon: there was a lot in the news last week about president obama reaching out to republicans, but a statement about the president's efforts made by house minority leader nancy pelosi is raising a lot of eyebrows. shear is what she had to say over the weekend. >> the president has always been very respectful of the views of the republicans in the congress, their leadership and their membership. he has always tried to accommodate them. this idea that, but for that we would have got eve gotten all these other things done is not reality. >> reporter: jim pink torn is a contributing editor and writer for the american conservative

magazine. alan colmes is host of the alan colmes radio show, author of thank the liberal also for saving america. they are our news watch panel today. jim take on what nancy pelosi has to say. president obama has always been respectful she says of republicans in congress. [laughter] jon: we'll give you a second. >> i mean, look the president has clearly done a 180 in terms of his dealings from dismissing republicans and simply trying to beat them to now trying to work with them, and as chart krauthammer put it on friday night it's like the mainstream media are now part of it and they are covering for the president. they realized that the old strategy isn't working. the president sent a signal and the mainstream media are shifting to support the president in what charles krauthammer called a charm offensive. >> is this a profound reverse signal. >> i'm glad he's reaching out. then srut conservative media like the washington times saying

can this be trusted. the conservative sites and outlets, can president obama be really believed at this time. a look with skepticism. recertificates lee when you look at way he's been treated, when you have harry reid told by mcconnell that he should perform an act upon himself or boehner calls obama a coward and lacks guts. how have they treated him? i think he's taken the high road much more than the way he's been treat ned return. >> what toys say that alan grayson, for example the past and present congressman the -- there is no question it's a polarized environment and both sides have called each other names. on the theory that talk is inexpensive, i'm looking at this morning's "politico" and there is an article, quote democrats not sold on grand bargain. and it mentions a letter that the majority of the democrats in congress signed saying look we are not for any entitlement

cuts, medicare changes, social security changes, anything, don't think about getting us to vote procedure them because we won't. which suggests the democratic campaign committee which on the weekend paul ryan's plan quote was to destroy medicare may not be the basis for a deal no matter how charming president obama was over dinner. >> we are talking about obama himself who has compromised 0 tax cuts, finally -- they finally agree to raise another tough 1%. he compromised on healthcare, wanted a public plan, didn't go with that. we have the affordable care act which is more complicated. he's finally doing the right thing, inviting ryan to lunch, inviting congress people who might be more bi-partisan to have dinner. i'm glad he's doing that. >> finally, alan. the question is is he just leading the republicans into a trap? >> why is it a trap? why do have you to be so cynical. >> i'm reading "politico" the

journal of politics in washington. they've got a letter signed by 107 democrats saying we are not going to think about any of this kind of stuff. we'll of course use it as a weapon against the republicans in the 2014 election. >> i'm talking about the president himself which is the point of this debate here today, that he himself, why do we have to be so cynical with his attempt to reach out and question the sincerity as the washington times and other conservative media outlets have done? i think the american public wants us to work together to solve the problem. >> there is a different between words and deeds. >> speaking of which i mean alan, you know, you probably have seen the polls from quinnipiac just out and other polling organizations that suggest that president obama's poll numbers are dropping. they've dropped significantly, you know, in the last couple of weeks. >> they've gone up and down but certainly he's been at about 52%. you have congress at 15%. you compare his poll numbers to

the poll numbers of the republican party or of this congress he certainly par out shines them in terms of the numbers. jon: and john boehner admitted as much when he had that interview over the weekend. but does it suggest, though, that the president, you know, who is so concerned about his legacy, i mean we know that he meets with, you know, white house historians and so forth, does it suggest that he has, you know, realized that he needs to work with this congress to get anything done and to cement his legacy? >> i'm shocked to here that he cares about his legacy. >> trying to get a second term agenda going. my point is unless and until he gets leader pelosi and leader reid on the house and democratic senate side to agree not to clobber republicans for making a deal with him -- in other words it's foolish for the republicans to handshake with the president and the white house and then get stabbed in the back by the democrats in congress. >> what about the problem that boehner has with his own caucus. we can't get the tea party wing

of the republican party on board with what he wants to do. boehner has not been able to unify his own people. >> they aren't going to stab obama, they are going to stab boehner. jon: this is something our viewers will want to watch and keep a close eye on in the weeks ahead. thank you very much. jenna: you want to talk a little football now? only a couple months away. college football programs are getting a big tax break and taking money, apparently, out of your pocket. we'll tell you why this is happening. plus, israel facing a problem of biblical proportions you could say. now using airplanes to takeout an enemy filling the skies. we'll explain just ahead.

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jon: in israel officials are now battling huge swarms of locusts all across that small country. israel has been on a locust alert since last week.

now some residents say the insects might actual leak beneficial. julie banderas at the breaking news desk with that. >> reporter: that's right, jon an agricultural nightmare, an act of god or lunch as people get red for pass over there are locusts everywhere. while planes are flying overhead spraying pesticide on trees some people are collecting them to eat. they are kosher apparently, jon. officials have set up hotlines, they urge citizens to keep watch for invading swarms which can have a tk*ef stating affect on ago call tour by swiftly destroying crops. some israelis see the locusts as some kind of act of god. now according to the bible a huge swarm of location cushion -gs was the 8th of 10 playings god imposed on egyptians to have the farrow free the agent egyptians from slavery.

the last time israel experienced a major locust outbreak was in 2004. so, i don't know, it's a biblical invasion, apparently. jon: all kind of problems taking care of those bugs. >> reporter: they look delicious, though, don't they? i'm hungry. jon: not to me. julie banderas, thank you. jenna: who knew they were kosher. jon: i didn't i. knew you've eat even them before. jenna: grass hoppers yes, locusts -- well it's splitting hairs. spot news turning the spotlight on the federal tax code finding that college sports and college sports programs are taking taxpayers for a ride. we'll explain, at least dan springer will. he's taking a look at this project at the university of washington. so, dan, what is this all about? >> reporter: well, jenna, when you think about charity you probably think about giving to your church, a mocks or soup kitchen but not one that build a new taj mahal football stadium for and athletic department

paying a coach millions of dollars a year. it's happening here in seattle, and across the country. the university of washington is building a football stadium that is costing $250 million over the next 30 years. it will cost the u.s. treasury more than $150 million. why? because the donations going to the project are tax deductible, so the tax code treats them just like money earmarked for a new library. the athletic director says football stadiums are worthy. >> they are gathering places where people socialize, they come together, and they are important in what we do and how we interact as a society. >> reporter: and washington is far from alone. in fact there is a bit of an arm's race when it comes to football stadiums. programs use it as a recruiting tool. over the last decade colleges have spent $17 billion on stadium upgrades. other charities don't have the luxury of multi-million dollar tv contracts. congress has promised to revamp

the tax code but there doesn't seem to have the appetite to have the irsparse the difference between the football elite and the truly needed. >> while this specific exemption doesn't have a large impact relative to the deficit there are many of these in the tax code that in the aggregate do add up to a lot of money. >> reporter: and charity write offs cost the charity more than $36 billion in 2011 and 10% of that was giving to universities. general a. jenna: thank you. jon: the bloody civil war in syria may be thousands of miles away, but the conflict could trigger deadly infectious diseases right here on our shores. dr. manny joins us to explain the danger next. plus, long before fast food people suffered from clogged arteries, at least that's what the mummies are telling us, or showing us, and amazing medical discovery, next. hey! did you know that honey nut cheerios

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actually a sroe ancient problem. it turns out even mummys had clogged arteries. heart disease may be part of the natural part of aging rather than due to some of our modern lifestyle choices, likes smoking and eating fatty processed foods. the researchers performed cat scans on 137 mummies. they found clogged arteries in one-third of them. the mummies in the study are some 4,000 years old. it's the largest ever conducted, and the first to include mummies from places other than egypt. some of them had heart problems. jon. jon: well there are new warnings, jenna from the cdc of a deadly new virus originating in the middle east. so far the cdc confirms 14 cases

with eight deaths worldwide, think of that, that is more than 50%. today none reported in the united states. could this mysterious virus, though, make its way to our shores? dr. manny alvarez is senior managing editor of foxnewshealth.com and a member of our medical a team. 14 cases doesn't sound like a huge number and it's not. >> it's not. it's more than one. they still don't know how it's spreading. it's a corona virus almost like the sars flu type of virus, it gives you upper respiratory infection. as you said it seems to have at least in the statistics so far a 50% death rate. and that is the problem. you know, we wrote about this in foxnewshealth.com because the middle east to me is an area that we have to pay a lot of attention when it comes to brewing a lot of these viruses. this is a virus that has spun from that area, and it has not

only been found in that area, in saudi arabia and other places, bulls now has been found in europe. so if you think about these cases, i said that a lot of these outbreak were antidote tph-s some of the medical journals, that is not true any more. anybody can be in the morning in the middle east and by the evening be here in the u.s. jon: and with the civil war in syria, for instance there are so many people being displaced. >> the struc infrastructure, the camps, you have a lot of unsanitary positions. even in egypt they are having a terrible time. this is a perfect storm. if you look at the bacteria there is an outbreak of antibiotics resistant tuberculosis. that came out of india. we have to be very careful, we have to monitor our boarders even closer. jon: more on foxnewshealth.com. >> you got it. jon: dr. manny alvarez. thank you. we'll be right back.