i spent the last eight years at the fox news channel. before i spent 10 years at cnn. that makes me the most fair and balanced person in this room. [laughter] that is cable news humor. martha: you got a big laugh. that was great. bill: wonderful, wonderful experience to get an invitation like that. to go back to your school and to see so many familiar faces and a wonderful college it is. so thank you, thank you. martha: great feedback. he did a fantastic job. congratulations. great pictures too. we shall she you back here tomorrow. bill: we'll be here. for now you get "happening now." we role on to studio j. jon: we begin with this fox news alert. hard ache in the nation's heartland as dozens of tornados make a terrifying run through at least five states and the threat far from over. more severe weather possible today in some of the very same areas. one person has died. at least 20 are hurt. we have live fox team

coverage throughout the next two hours including live reports from the ground as well as updated forecasts. stay with us. right now, we begin with some breaking news we're working on. convicted murderer jodi arias back in court this morning for the sentencing phase of her trial. coming up, how the defense is planning to use one of her former boyfriends to try to convince the jury to spare her life. tragedy in texas. rescue crews recover the body of a missing firefighter trapped inside a burning building. >> plus we look at the storm of controversies swirling around the white house as the president's chief council now reveals she has known about the systemic targeting of conservative groups at irs since last month. it is all "happening now" patti ann: hello, everyone, i'm patti ann browne, in for

jenna lee. jon: welcome. it is a very busy news day. i'm jon scott. the pictures can only begin to describe all the devastation many are waking up to this morning in parts of the midsection of the country. homes destroyed, cars flipped. tossed around like toys. thousands are still without power. the cleanup and recovery just beginning for many people. oklahoma governor mary falin, will tour some of the hardest hit areas. among them, the town of shawnee, 30 miles outside of oklahoma city. that community took a direct hit. sayssy stiegel has been on the scene since last night. he joins us live. casey. >> reporter: jon, it is so wild when you see video of those tornados and they drop down out of the sky. they are only on the ground for a few minutes. they can even skip around a little bit. the damage is so random. look right here. this is a mobile home just to my right. you can see that the front portion of it, the facade has actually been ripped away but the structure itself and 10 toward the

year rear of it is still standing and it isn't touched f we walk over here i want to show you this spot here. back there was another mobile home and it was entirely lifted off of the concrete foundation and all of this debris scattered right here, this is someone's life. this is a woman's life we have seen combing through it this morning. she has been out here digging through. she is trying to find a picture. she is trying to find something she can salvage. where does one even begin when your home is literally blown apart in a matter of minutes? this is oklahoma. let's get right to the pictures because they know tornados here. they do the storm chasing and incredible images and incredible video coming out of the actual funnel cloud that up to the down here in shawnee, which is about 30 miles southeast of oklahoma city. storm trackers were rolling when they saw that funnel cloud coming down out of the sky and then to some aerial

pictures. you can see the damage we're talking about. an entire mobile home park leveled and that is where that one fatality in the state of oklahoma has been recorded. and now we're hearing a little bit of chatter there may in fact be a second fatality. we're going to work to get that confirmed. but really the scary part of all of this is that more storms are on the way. it is windy. i don't know if you can tell it picking up on the microphone. it is very cloudy. there is a lot of humidity in the air and the national weather service out of norman, oklahoma, tells me they expect this exact same swath to get slapped again later today, around the 3:00 or 4:00 local hour. so that is something clearly forecasters are keeping a very close eye on and also the people who are here trying to salvage, trying to do what they can to pick up, rebuild, and start again, jon. jon: yeah. a second day of that misery would not be booed. casey stiegel, thank you. patti ann: meanwhile there were also several reports of

tornados in kansas including several confirmed touchdowns. this twister outside of we're told some homes were damaged but thankfully no reports of serious injuries. joining us on the phone with the latest is sharon watson, public information officer for kansas emergency management. thank you for joining us. >> good morning. patti ann: still no injuries or fatalities? >> that's correct. very good news for kansas and we seemed to have lucked out on this one although there are some people who are waking up this morning to find damage, downed tree lines, power outages and a few people in the state who had their homes severely damaged. in kansas city as well as wichita area and central and northeast portions. patti ann: yeah. one of the reasons people are citing for the lack of injuries or fatalities is that the early warning, in fact the national weather service put out this tweet to the folks in your area and all of the affected areas, it is not subtle.

it says, quote, you could be killed if not underground or in a tornado shelter. complete destruction of neighborhoods, businesses and vehicles will occur. flying debris will be deadly to people and animals. i understand, sharon, that they went to this very heavy-handed type of warning because of the 158 people killed two years ago in joplin, missouri. they said people just didn't get the message the first time around. so they wanted to be very clear. so do you think that early warning really helped? >> yes. and i think, you know, there is still a lot of people studying that to see exactly the effect of it but we definitely noticed that change and in the emergency management community and certainly the public has just in warnings that come out through the media that make people think this is something to be taken very seriously and not something to just do, go about with business as usual like they might have done with the past warning system. patti ann: yeah. you mentioned downed power

lines and downed trees. what is the number at this point of folks without power? >> well, it was several thousand overnight and that number kept climbing. it hasn't improved this morning. those numbers are constantly changing but we know the wichita area had a significant number out. they were up to 11,000 at one point and the kansas city metro area they were seeing a substantial number of power outages, more on the missouri side than the kansas side. patti ann: we're looking at some incredible video right now. sharon, you yourself, were you in the midst of all of this? what did you experience? >> i was in the kansas city, kansas area during the storm system. primarily it was just heavy rain and strong winds. we did some see tree damage this morning as i was leaving my neighborhood. patti ann: in addition to the tornados as we've been mentioning and you mentioned heavy winds, apparently some very large hail falling in the most affected areas. some of the damage is near the wichita airport and

obviously as you mentioned to rural areas. any estimate or is it too early of the financial hit taken by this storm? >> it is too early to say on that. certainly with the amount of hail that was reported and the in the wichita area and even to the west with the larger hail than what wichita received we expect a significant amount of insurance claims coming in over the next several days to people who have damaged cars and damaged homes. patti ann: yeah. do most folks in that kansas area that was hit by this tornado have shelters, specifically for that purpose? >> it really varies from community to community. some people have basements. some people don't. some people have an outside storm shelter. there are people who don't. so we really encourage them to find the safest place within their home in the interior part of the house that they can and ride it out. patti ann: all right. sharon watson, kansas emergency management. thanks so much for joining

us and best of luck today. >> thank you. jon: scary stuff, looking at that thing coming down from the sky. patti ann: yeah. jon: there are brand new revelations about the irs scandal rattling the white house. turns out the president's chief lawyer knew about the tax agency targeting tea party and conservative groups several weeks before the scandal became public knowledge. what does that mean? well chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel is live on capitol hill with some explanations. mike, more congressional hearings this week on the irs? >> reporter: jon, that's right. tomorrow afternoon the senate finance committee will look into the irs matter. then on wednesday the house oversight committee will take a deeper look into the irs targeting of conservative and other groups. among the key areas of interest, perhaps oversight chairman darrell issa, quote, exactly who in the administration knew what about the irs targeting is one of the key outstanding questions. meanwhile a leading senate republican offered this assessment. >> it's hard for me to believe that the white house

counsel knew about this a month ago and didn't tell the chief of staff? if that's the case you don't have much of a counsel if your counsel is not telling you something this significant and then, the chief of staff, if he knew, did he tell the president? >> reporter: republicans do not seem to be in the mood to be rushed through this investigation, wanting to take a step by step approach to figure out who, where this irs probe may go and who may have been behind the idea of targeting some of these groups, jon. patti ann: so we are also expecting to hear from jay carney, the whites house spokesman a little later on. what are they saying, what is the white house putting out ahead of that briefing? >> well as you mentioned at the top, the white house revealed that its counsel was notified weeks ago about the treasury inspector general's report that would repeal that the irs was targeting some of these groups improperly. bottom line the white house is saying and the president said himself that he did not know about this until about 10 days ago from press

reports. a leading white house visor offered this about the administration's attitude at this point. >> we are going to work with congress as the president said in legitimate oversight. what we're not going to participate in is partisan fishing expeditions designed to distract from the real issues at hand. >> reporter: that is a big concern for the administration at this point, not allowing this story on the irs, the benghazi story, and also the department of justice a key story to drown out some of the other things they would like to accomplish with their tech term agenda. jon? jon: good luck with that. mike emanuel, thank you. >> reporter: thank you. patti ann: the final phase of the jodi arias murder trial is getting underway in an arizona courtroom. starting today the jury will hear from several defense witnesses hoping to convince them that arias's life should be spared including a former boyfriend and the defendant herself. adam housley is following this all live from los angeles. adam, considering the jury's decision so far it seems

like to could be an uphill battle for jodi arias? >> reporter: look at jury questions. arizona is one of the few states that allows the jury to ask questions of witnesses and most of the questions asked of jodi arias by the jury were very skeptical of her story. most of the witnesses for jodi arias, they were very skeptical of them. at the same time jodi arias is on video saying a jury would never convict her. the jury seemed to take quite an issue with that it is an uphill battle. she is supposed to go on the stand. one of her former boyfriends is. we're hearing conflicting reports whether a close friend will be a third person or she backed out. we have not figured that out because the story has not totally come out. we're hearing those rumors. finally you have the whole examination by prosecutor juan martinez. he says there are very few mitigating factors to spare her life. take a listen. >> reporter: the defendant was 27 years old. well, there is no connection, if you will, between her age and the fact that she took a knife and stuck it into mr. alexander's chest.

>> objection argument tiff and improper. >> approach please. >> reporter: you can probably expect more of that with prosecutor juan martinez having his chance to of course question her. a couple mitigating factors. she is a budding artist. she is trying to improve herself. she suffered neglect as a child because even that is under question. was she telling the truth when she said she suffered neglect as a child under cross-examination? that is coming up in court. patti ann. patti ann: we heard very emotional testimony from travis alexander's family and that has to weigh on them. >> reporter: friday we heard, sorry, thursday we heard from a brother and a sister, very emotional testimony how the eight siblings of travis alexander have not gotten together since his death in 2008. reason, yes don't want a empty seat at table and he was the glue that held everybody together. very emotional testimony. even jodi arias cried in court as she heard people speak, people like samantha alexander, travis's sister.

>> the thought of what travis must have went through that day. the pain, the agony, the screams, the fear, that travis must have felt when he was brutally being taken. >> reporter: court starts here shortly. as you know, patti ann, we'll have all the updates throughout the day. it will probably finish tomorrow. there were thoughts they could be done today but that might stretch into tomorrow since they ended early on thursday. we'll keep you updated. patti ann. patti ann: adam housley live in l.a., thank you. jon: right now police are searching for a college student who mysteriously vanished last week. he was last seen driving home from school but never made it. we have the latest on the search. plus new questions about who knew what and when about the irs's systemic targeting of conservative groups. that's up next. the great outdoors...

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jon: fox news alert. we're getting word from the oklahoma stay medical examiner's office that a second person has been confirmed dead in shawnee, oklahoma. look at this video. after a terrible tornado. in fact a string of tornados roared through that part of the country. 76-year-old billy hutchinson and 79-year-old glen irish, both from shawnee. both are confirmed dead now by the medical examiner. one of several tornados that touched down in the middle part of the country. that particular mobile home park where they were apparently living or staying was just about flattened. horrible, horrible conditions there. they are warning as you might have heard earlier, they are warning there could be more tornadoes in that same part of the country today. we'll definitely keep an eye on all of it. we'll let you know the news as it continues. >> as he said, the, deputy

secretary of the treasury was made aware as the investigation was beginning last year but no one in the white house was aware. that is important what we actually knew, which is, just that there was an investigation, it was coming to conclusion, not that we knew the results. we didn't see the report until it was released last wednesday. jon: well, that is white house senior adivsor dan pfeiffer defending the president on five sunday talk shows over the weekend saying nobody in the white house knew the irs was targeting conservatives until the inspector general released his report. president obama said he was completely in the dark until he found out from the news media. but at least one person in the white house did get an early head's up. the president's lawyer, chief white house counsel, catherine rumbler was briefed on the report several weeks before the matter went public. jamie weinstein, at "the daily caller". why is dan pfeiffer saying nobody in the white house knew when in fact one of the top people in the white

house apparently knew? >> i think he might have meant the president didn't know which is somewhat astonishing that senior counsel in the white house knew. the deputy secretary of the treasury knew the investigation began a year ago. the treasury secretary knew last month as well. seems like the president is being oil served if the people around him are not tilling him something this big. jon: i'm not sure how often "the daily caller" and "the washington post" afree -- agree on a number about items but there was this interesting item in "the washington post".com. the headline is, four pinnochios, i'm sorry, a bushel of pinnochios for the irs's lois lerner. she was the woman who was running all of this tea party check thing. and "the washington post" says that between 2010 and 2012, this is a quote from lois lerner, we started seeing a very big up tick in the number of 501(c)(4)

applications we were receiving and many of these organizations applied, more than double in 1500 in 2010 and over 3400 in 2012. that was, she said to the american bar association in this, in this statement that kicked off this whole investigation. the post did a little checking. found out in fact in 2009 there were 1745 investigations. so she undersold the 2009 numbers. in 2010, it only jumped to 1865. and then by 20 very much len it was 2540. as the post points out the investigation of conservative groups were underway. i'm throwing a lot at you there but what do you make of all that? >> that was supposedly the reason all this occurred this was merely an innocent way for the irs in cincinnati to deal with all the increase in applications. never mind it only targeted one side of the political

spectrum. this was supposedly an innocent way to deal with this great uptick in applications. jon: yeah. jamie. >> we know that is not the case. jon: i'm sorry to interrupt you. we're about to get cut off by the computer. we'll be back with more of our conversation ♪ to more efficient pick-ups. ♪ wireless is limitless.

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jon: get back to our conversation now with jamie weinstein, senior editor at "the daily caller". okay, so what i was talking about before, and "the washington post".com has been talking about this as well, jamie, referring to the irs targeting of conservative and tea party organizations. lois lerner, who ran that office at the time, the office of, that certifies these groups for tax-exempt status suggests they had such an overwhelming number of applications her office just had to do something and probably that is how these mistakes were made. that was to paraphrase her

argument. now here's what glen kessler of washingtonpost.com concludes. he says, in other words, while there was an increase in 2010, mean an increase in applications for tax-exempt status, it was reltestifily small. the real jump did not come until 2011, long after the targeting of conservative groups had been implicated. i don't know, for people who don't read "the washington post", they may not know what a pinnochio is, but a pinnochio is obviously a lie. glen kessler is giving lois lerner's statements four pinnochios or even a basketful as he put it. >> well, i think that just tears down the entire foundation upon which the excuse of the irs gave for these violations was built on. you said that they had to do in order to sift through all the increase in applications but there was never an increase, a significant increase in applications where that was necessary. so, i think again, it leads to the question of whether you are going to have to

appoint a special prosecutor, in this case, to get to the truth of exactly what went on in the irs because the irs employees are not obviously telling us what went on and what the truth is. jon: and again, we're learning more about how all of these scandals are coming to light. this one, came from a question at an american bar association seminar, a forum, in which lois lerner sort of let it slip, oh, yeah, we targeted tea party groups kind of by accident. turns out the question had been planted according to "the washington post". >> right. so they don't break it, bringing it to congress, revealing it, through, some legitimate channel. they actually have a questioner that they plant at a conference where they just happen to drop it on a friday afternoon, the day that people usually drop things they want to fade away by the weekend, hoping that maybe the news cycle will bury it and weekend will bury it. jon: that way the administration can come out

and say we told you about this a long time ago, this is old news. >> right. so you have all these, you know, suspicious allegations. you know i heard some allegations myself from frank van der sloot, a very successful romney businessman attacked by the obama administration during the campaign and found himself the subject of three audits in four months. there is all these allegations out there. the irs is not obviously telling us the full truth. i think it is incumbent upon the administration to appoint a special prosecutor to look into this not only for the american people but for the administration as well, to show the american people if the white house didn't know anything about this there is special prosecutor out there that looked into it and confirmed that. i think we have the right to know exactly what the irs was up to. jon: we know the white house counsel was aware of it and apparently didn't tell the president for weeks. >> right. jon: jamie weinstein from "the daily caller". thank you. >> thank you. patti ann: north korea is ratcheting up tensions again, firing six short-range missiles in three days

including two just this morning. these latest launches come on the heels of more than two months of threats out of north korea against the south and the united states. greg palkot is following all of this live from london. he joins us now. hi, greg. >> reporter: hey, patti ann, after all that noise north korea finally did something lawn ofing what were either short-range missiles or long-range artillery shells off the eastern coast of that country. pongyang labeled it, a regular military exercise. sources that we spoke to said there they were not too concerned. they see it as a more after face-saving measure by the country. there were indications that they were getting ready to launch a new mid-range missile capable of hitting u.s. military targets in the pacific. worse, they were threat owning all-out nuclear war. when we talked to experts it was definitely not that missile and definitely not that nuclear. it came shortly after u.s., south korean naval exercises

off the coast of the korean peninsula and involved the uss nimitz aircraft carrier. pongyang criticized those drills as they criticized these drills over the last several months. those drills have wrapped up and the nimitz was never threatened. experts tell me, patti ann, the including a launch of a long range ballistic missile and test of another nuclear device, comes down to the regime of kim jong-un trying to prove himself and get recognition with the united states and maybe direct talks with the united states. so far that has not yet happened. probably no mistake that pongyang is still holding a korean american, kenneth bae. they are accusing him of acts against north korea. they're holding him in a special prison, maybe the ultimate bargaining chip. back to you. patti ann: greg palkot live in london, thank you. jon: jodi arias is back in court facing the same jury

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jon: right now convicked murderer jodi arias is back in court where we could soon learn whether she will spend the rest of her life in jail or be sentenced to die. last week the jury heard emotional testimony from the victim's brother and sister but today, arias's defense team will get its chance to convince jurors their client

deserves to live. let's talk about the possibilities here. dan shore, a former prosecutor. jennifer brandt is a trial attorney. so, dan, to you first. this panel took only about three hours to decide that the death of travis alexander was especially heinous and therefore qualified jodi arias for consideration for the death penalty. given that, is it possible that they would think of, you know, giving her life? >> it is certainly possible. in the last phase they get to decide whether the murder was committed with cruelty and it clearly was. there were 27 stab wounds, gunshot to the head, throat slashed to ear to ear. that finding was pretty easy and the jury made it quickly. it is a more difficult and complicated to get 12:00 people to agree to sentence someone to death. the there are some factors, cruelty, aggravation and lies, there is major hurdle

to sentence someone to die. jon: there are factors called mitigating factors, factors would let the jury say you had rough experiences or bad breaks or whatever. here is what jodi arias herself said about that in that incredible jailhouse interview right after she was found guilty, listen. >> i've been told i don't have any mitigating factorses. >> by who? >> my attorney. >> so, curt you're talking about? kirk said to you there are no mitigating factors for you in terms of arguing against the death penalty? >> nothing that is, what you typically see in a case like this such as, a childhood where there was drugs, alcoholism, molestation, things like that. none of those things occurred in my family. so i don't know. i guess, we would sort of joke that my mom didn't beat me hard enough, so i don't

really have mitigation. jon: none of those things occurred in my family. jennifer, does that close the door on her attorney's trying to bring up any childhood issues as mitigating factors? >> i don't think it closes the door because this is just a jailhouse interview. it certainly causes her problems but i think the jury will listen very closely to her testimony and what she has to say. then the witnesses that she calls on her behalf. apparently she is calling an ex-boyfriend, who may have some things to say about her that will convince the jury that life is more appropriate. it is questionable whether they're going to look at the jailhouse interview where she said she wanted death and how that is going to weigh in the jury's decision. jon: dan, if you were prosecuting this case, if you were juan martinez would you play that clip where she says she wants the death penalty, to her death is the ultimate freedom and be far better than spending her life in jail? >> i would wait until she says if she testifies at the hearing which she is expected to. if she talks about a history of abuse, if she starts to say that she had a terrible

childhood, then you could play these comments to refute that as far as her saying that she wants the death penalty it is hard to tell if that is some kind of a reverse psychology. we know she has been very manipulative throughout this case and it is unclear what she really wants. jon: what about that, jennifer, reverse psychology? is she being too clever by half in saying i really want to die here. >> i think she is. she tried to fool this jury all along and came up with all these different excuses for things and all of the testimony and all of the time that this took. i think it is reverse psychology. i think the jury will look at it like that in deciding what is really the ultimate punishment for her. what would be a punishment. would it be death or life in prison? i think that is the jury will really going to consider that. jon: dan, what can she put on the stand to try to offer some kind of mitigation if she herself has just said, you heard in that clip, i had a pretty good childhood, you know? i didn't have any problems. nobody beat me, nobody took

drugs? >> one thing she can do which she has not done before is show genuine remorse, for what she did for killing travis alexander. the problem is if she does feel remorse it is hard to find any statement of remorse credible because she lied about some things for so long it will be tough to convince anyone she feels remorse if she does. that is her best shot right now. jon: jennifer, your thoughts? >> i agree with that. what she doesn't want to do she doesn't want to go back to the details of murder and somehow claim she is not guilty and there was excuse for it. we know she is guilty and knows she did it. i agree with dan and expresses remorse and how sorry she is and really feels sorry that may work to convince the jury, that you know, life in prison is more appropriate for her. jon: it has been one of the most fascinating murder cases in some sometime. we'll continue to watch it and let everyone know what the jurors decide. jennifer brandt, dan shore, thank you both. >> thank you.

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jon: new next hour, a tourist ride turns into a terrifying nightmare. two hot air ballons in a mid-air collision. one with dozens on board

plunges to the ground. we'll update you. also some powerful evidence in the murder trial of a woman described as a female james bond. will the dna be enough for the jury to convict or is too much of the evidence circumstantial? the winner of the biggest powerball jackpot in history has 590 million reasons to celebrate this morning. so, who bought that winning ticket? we're live in florida. patti ann: some big winners in last night's billboard music awards. and some colorful performances. but one winner was red hot, running away with most of the big prizes. julie banderas has the 411. hey, julie? >> taylor swift stole the show. eight times to be exact. she won eight of her 11 nominations including top artist and top billboard 200 album for, red. when thanking fans she joked about her career comparing to often talked about love life.

saying you're the longest and best relationship i ever had. she performed her hit, 22, starting backstage and working her way to the main stage on back of a bike accompanied by a dozen dancers. the other big winner of thee3 night trophywise, was just bin bieber, male artist and social artist and fan voted milestone award. when she went up to accept the latter, got boos by some in the audience. perhaps his bad behavior is to blame or angry run-in with the paparazzi or drugs reportedly found on his tour bus or him losing custody of his pet monkey. bieber's acceptance speech was more explainer how he is just 19 years old and he is doing a good job. listen to the rest. >> it should be about the music. the about the craft, the craft that i'm making. [cheers and applause] this is not, this is not a gimmick. i'm not, this is not a gimmick. i'm an artist and i should be taken seriously and this is, all this other bull should not be spoken of.

>> reporter: serious artists by the way always wear their sunglasses indoors. jon: right. >> reporter: another big talker by the way, show-stopping performance by r&b singer miguel, when he jumped over the crowd while singing his hit adorn, he accidentally kicked a fan. he seems to landed partly on one whom and kicked another who held her head low. that was probably not so great. definitely not but a glasses wearing fan, two icons in the same building, madonna and prince were in the house. madonna was named top touring artist for her tour. the show ended with icon award for prince. prince perform ad medley to close the show which included let's go crazy, from my favorite prince album, purple rain. boy does that date me. he didn't deliver an acceptance speech. we heard him sang. any form of prince is good thing. patti ann: purple rain, i remember that. >> i loved that. just reminded me of every boy that loved and didn't

love me back. that's all i have to say. jon: julie was in utero when that came out. that's why she knows it well. patti ann: julily ban ban, thanks very much very much. jon: a train derailment creates a commuter nightmare for 30,000 people in the northeast. how long is this mess going to last. plus a new study find as troubling link between a common childhood disorder and obesity.

patti ann: disturbing medical link to tell you about. a new study finds men who suffer from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or adhd as adolescents will likely suffer from obesity later on in life. we have a emergency attending physician from st.

barn bass hospital. thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. patti ann: the drug such as ritalin, they can suppress a child's appetite. they are skinny on the drug. they get off of it and they gain weight. >> a problem with parents sighing them thin. some sometimes parents may push food and drink on the children as well. patti ann: even kids not on these drugs they can still be skinny because of the hyperactivity. that can taper off in adulthood while the attention deficit remains behind? >> definitely. what is the big problem they see. because of poor organizational skills of children with this disorder they tend not to have regular eating habits. they may binge eat at times and other times have periods where they go for a while without food and george themselves. that can be an issue, especially if healthy choices are not available and they george themselves on fast-food or foods with high fat and high sugar content. patti ann: the other issue is the planning skills. balanced meals have to be

planned. you have to buy food in advance and cook it. they're not thinking ahead that far. as a result as you mentioned, they grab whatever's available. >> exactly. it is tough for these children to focus. and, while it is important to remember the study only looked at young boys who eventually grow into men, they say that the similarities are probably going to be the same with the young women as well. when they can't focus and can't make preparations for healthy choices like you suggested, then, the alternative may not be so healthy and cause them to gain the weight. patti ann: what is the takeaway for moms right now? you have a child. he is skinny. he is adhd, what do you do to make sure he doesn't gain weight later on? >> well, one of the most important things is you have to make sure to give these children outlets or let them vent for their physical activity and hyperactiveness. today with videogames and computers and cell phones and texting we forget to get our kids outside. you want them outside. you want them to exercise and get some healthy sports and exercise in. that will help them, hopefully stimulate a proper

appetite. the second component to that, is organizing their meals. trying to get them into a routine where they have three square meals a day with healthy snacks in between. that will prevent them from looking for fast-food and unhealthy choice. >> that is one of the things moms need to remember is, sometimes it is better to have your kid be a little bit on the skinny side, say, well only things he likes are french fries and macaroni and cheese and i will give him that, 24/7. >> that's true. having the child be part of the preparation process as well, that is important for moms and dad as well. dads need to take the time to prepare snacks and meals for their children as well. when you incorporate them and they see as part of the cooking or preparation prospect, many times that allows them to say, hey, let me try that, that doesn't look so bad because i helped create it. sometimes it will broaden their liking of certain foods and allow them to eat healthier choices. patti ann: good information. important stuff. dr. patti thanks for joining us.

>> thanks very much for having me. patti ann: jon? jon: right now tragedy at the scene of a massive apartment complex fire in texas after rescue crews recover the body of a missing firefighter who was trap inside. heather nauert is live at breaking news desk. >> reporter: good morning jon, this is story we've been following all night and now a tragic ending. it is a sad day in dallas as local firefighters recovered the body of a fellow firefighter whose name and age has not been released at this hour. this firefighter became trapped in the rubble of a condominium complex that was completely after -- ravaged. this six-alarm fire was came here at 3:00 in the morning. fire quickly raged out of control and they were forced to move back. our local fix affiliate is reporting that the deceased firefighter used his radio to alert his team he was trapped inside that complex and that he didn't know where he was. well, now an investigation will take place to determine

exactly what went wrong there. take a listen to one man who says he was actually able to save two people from that fire. listen. >> when i called 911 i didn't wait for them. i went myself and went straight over to the apartments and went in, you know. i wasn't worrying about too much. i just went over there, saved two people and that was that. >> reporter: fire crews were able to rescue at least five residents during that fire. amazingly, as you look at those awful pictures no civilians were seriously injured but this is a very tough and very sad day for dallas fire and rescue. one of their own dead at this hour. jon? jon: i'm sure that will be on their minds for a long time to come. heather nauert. thank you. >> reporter: thanks. patti ann: our coverage of the deadly tornados in the midwest continues. a live report from kansas city is next as we watch the threat for more severe weather today. new reports that the wife house chief counsel knew about the irs targeting scandal before the news became public some what does this mean for the

congressional investigation?

. bill: the midwest is bracing for mow violent weather right now hours after the tornadoes ripped through there. maria molina live for us now.

>> good to see you. hello, everyone. we are talking about another round of severe weather across many of the areas that saw severe weather over the weekend, take a look at where we saw tornadoes on sunday or at least reported tornadoes. 24 reports of tornadoes across parts of oklahoma, kansas, missouri into iowa and even the state of illinois. a pretty widespread area that some of the tornadic activity. we had that confirmed ef1 with winds up to 110 hours near wichita, kansas. one hundred reports of large hail and 200 reports of strong winds. waoerp talking abouwe are talking about winds of 60 miles an hour or greater. we will be looking at that again across the similar zone. the greatest risk area is across parts of missouri, the area shaded in red. arkansas, oklahoma and north texas. we have a chance to see more intense tornadoes, ef3, 4 or possibly 5. this is what we're looking at later on this afternoon into

this evening and into the nighttime hours which is when it's most dangerous because you can't see the tornado. the other big problem is that it's a very slow mover. many of the areas get rid hard again with more severe weather but also keep in mind that the storms pack a punch in terms of rainfall. flash flooding is a concerned across parts of oklahoma, arkansas, missouri, up into sections of wisconsin. several inches of rain that can fall within a very short amount of time with the storm system. again a slow mover. take a look at tomorrow, texas, arkansas, up into the great lakes, again possible severe weather out here, damaging winds, large hail, tornadoes possible, eventually by wednesday the storm system to parts to pick up the pace and we're looking at a chance for severe storms across interior sections of the north he east, parts of the ohio valley and section beings of indiana. bill: a lot of people will be watching this one. thank you. >> very tkpw-pblg rust than dangerous. martha: the new york times is

reporting that the white house chief attorney was note need about the i.r.s. scandal in april, this after a top white house official went on all five sunday talk shows defending the administration as questions surface about the woman in charge during the agency's target inks. she now oversees the tax agency's healthcare office. both of the white house and top republican lawmakers weighing in on that. >> p there is going to be a top down review of the i.r.s., everything will be looked at. there is nothing to suggest she did anything wrong. >> the person in charge has now been put in charge of implementing obama care. >> now reaction from the president and ceo of the "associated press." after the justice department seized two months of its phone records. the justice department claims it was looking for a leak following an ap story about a foiled terrorist attack. the head of ap says the move is both unprecedented and unconstitutional. >> the government has no business having control

overall -- monitoring all of this news gathering information from the "associated press." and if they restrict that news gathering apparatus, you're right the people of the united states will only know what the government wants them to know and that is not what the framers of the constitution had in mind when they wrote the first amendment. martha: attorney general eric holder called the matter a response to a serious national security leak. holder has recused himself from the case. ef says he had no involvement in the investigation. bill: the white house also firing back against a third scandal that is consuming the administration, the benghazi terror attack. the white house senior adviser hitting the air waves in a major media blitz over the weekend. chief washington correspondent james rosen did a lot of television watching. he is live with an update. >> reporter: dan pfeiffer one of president obama's top communications advisers responded to questions this weekend about the commander-in-chief's early actions during the benghazi crisis by accusing republicans

of peddling, quote, conspiracy theories. of the white house has disclosed that president obama discussed the attack at the u.s. consulate and annex in benghazi libya on 9/11 with then secretary of state hillary clinton on the phone at least once and was set to meet with the defense secretary and chairman of the joint chief of staff on an unrelated issue when it woke. >> he was in constant touch with the national security team and knew what was happening. >> you said he didn't ta*ubg to the secretary of state until the first attack was over. he didn't talk to the secretary of defense, he didn't ta*ubg to chairman of the joint chiefs. >> he was talking to his national security staff, the counsel, people that keep him up to date about it. >> was he in the situation room? he was kept up to date throughout the day. >> do you not know whether he was in the situation room. >> i don't remember what room the president was in on that night. that is a largely irrelevant fact. >> reporter: he also addressed the falls tal false talking

points. points crafted by the central intelligence agency with strong input from the state department and white house. the 94 pages of emails released by the obama administration last week he says shows it was the cia that removed the references to terror. it showed state department victoria newland at one point objecting to the points identifying a al-qaida terror group as being culpable in the attacks. jon. bill: james rosen, thank you. martha: friday's train derailment in connecticut creating a headache for commuters trying to get to work this morning. crews are hard at work on track repairs. they say it could go on for days. heather is following the story for us in our new york newsroom. >> reporter: you 0, jon and i can all relate to this one since we all commute to new york city. if monday morning isn't hard enough to get up and get to work add this thing to the mix. there was a train accident on friday just outside of bridgeport, connecticut, and that is still causing serious delays for close to 30,000 commuters in the new york

suburbs this morning. folks rushing to get to work today, hot and a little cranky to say the least, that is because this is one of the nation's busiest travel corridors and the repairs of 2,000 feet of track is expected to delay commuters at least through the end of this week. now officials at metro north, the local rail service are now bringing in 120 buses to help get passengers from binge port, connecticut to new york city. imagine the traffic then on the highways as folks are trying to skip that train service all together. you may remember this happened on friday, an eastbound train from new york seattle derailed and then was hit by a westbound train that was going about 70 miles per hour h. 7 . 72 people were injured when that happened, nine of them are hospitalized this morning. it could take until the end of the week for this thing to get back on track so to speak. martha: a very serious situation. thank you. bill: the fallout in the i.r.s. scandal continues to grow, some bombshell new reports about when

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jon: new reports that the white house's chief lawyer actually learned about the i.r.s. investigation last month. according to "the new york times" the treasury inspector general notified the attorney about its audit into the agency's targeting of conservative groups weeks before the information became public. let's talk about it with nina he's ton, senior editor and washington columnist for fortune magazine, also a fox news contributor. the president said he found out about this when the news media reported it and yet his chief lawyer had known about it for weeks at that point. why didn't they -- the two

connect? >> and she says she didn't tell him. either way it raises question, is the president so detached that he doesn't know what is going on? it's a politically explosive controversy going on and investigation going on at the i.r.s., or are they not being honest about who new what when. top treasury officials new about what was going on at the i.r.s. i think this all feeds senator rob portman's call this weekend for the need nor a special counsel. i think senator portman by the way is a terrific republican on this. he's down to earth, he's not -- ears not being hysterical, he's being very calm and matter-of-fact in saying that we need a special counsel in this. of course a special counsel could be bad news for the administration, because whenever a special counsel gets into a situation it becomes not only who knew what when, but are you providing a truthful rendering

of events that have occurred? and that is always where administrations get tripped up with special counsel investigations. jon: right. and republicans have been criticized for trying to politicize the scandals, if they hand it over to a special counsel does that that i can away the stench of politics from it all? >>i think it helps. they are definitely being accused, concern lee by the spokes people coming out of the white house, for being -- for politicizing this. right now you look at the polls that came out this weekend, and a majority ever americans actually think that these controversies, scandals, whatever you want to call them are important, and they actually give congressional republicans good grades on handling this. they think they are acting responsibly. but at the same time the president's approval rating is hanging pretty strong, just about over 50%, so the president is operating from pretty strong territory on this too. so it's going to be -- i think

his opponents, his critics need to be careful about how they thread in going into the future. i do think a special counsel, such as in the i.r.s. case where there is bi-partisan concern i think that is a good way to go. jon: let me read you a quote from somebody who knows a thing or two about how the white house legal arena operates. the quote is this. with all due respect to someone who has impeccable legal credentials, referring to catherine rum her will the white house council, if she did not have much for knowledge about the i.r.s. investigation, and didn't inform the president immediately i respect knee suggest mrs. reummler is in the wrong job and she should resign. now, that comes, that advice comes from lanny davis, who had that job during the clinton administration. what do you think about that? >> i heard lany say that, he is obviously more of an expert than we are on this territory that

she should have told the president. i think it raises the question again of this is an extremely politically explosive case. you have the i.r.s. investigating conservative groups, and now these groups are coming forward and showing how the i.r.s. really did provide a chilling effect, was asking, demanding a list of donors, was looking into their applications, was actually leaking -- turning over their applications to reporters in one case. so this has -- it's tremendously politically explosive. so for people up the food chain not to recognize that is certainly troubling and raises questions about the administration's handling of it. jon: then there seems to be some bumbling attempts to sort of cover up the truth here. we had the folks at the i.r.s. saying, oh, we were just so overwhelmed with applications because of this citizens united decision that we had to find a way to sift through them quickly. well it turns out that they had started these investigation

conservative groups before any groundswell, any flood of applications started pouring in. >> of course you raise a good point about citizens united, that raised the spec era phoup phil spector tere among liberals and the white house that all these conservative groups pw-r withing to get up these 503c4's and do political work and that was sort of what was in the air at the time. in some ways it possibly was in the bloodstream of the administration, all the way down to those i.r.s. function nare res. i think another strange turn of events in all of this is why the i.r.s. chose to leak this in a private event a couple weeks ago at an american bar association event in which a question was planted to an i.r.s. official which gave her the opportunity to both reveal that this is the i.r.s. had done and then to apologize for it. so they somehow thought they were going to release the

information, but dampen the affects of it done 0 than on a friday afternoon when the news cycle will drown a lot of that out. it didn't workout, as we know. jon: there again that same i.r.s. official has been promoted to handle, you know, obama care and its enforcement. >> and again, these are really important questions, and i think it is a case where they are being raised by both sides of the aisle and a special counsel would be a good way to go about it. jon: nina he's ton, senior editor at fortune magazine in washington. thank you. >> thank you. patti ann: right now some new information on breaking crime stories we are keeping an eye on. a real estate agent charged with killing her boyfriend faces up to 30 years in prison. opening statements in her man slaughter trial getting underway. police are searching for a missing college student who disappeared while driving home to pennsylvania. matthew rauer was last seen leaving his apartment in rhode island but never made it home.

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the ground. heather has the latest. >> we've been following this story this morning. earlier today two hot air balloons collided and crashed killing two brazilian tourists and injuring 24 passengers in the country of turkey. information is still coming in. here is what we know so far as you watch this. one balloon strike being the other balloon midair causing that second balloon to plunge to the ground. everyone in that balloon was injured including nine seriously. the owner of that hot air balloon company says that all safety precautions had been taken in the moments leading up to the collision. this happening in the popular tourist area of capadoza. that balloon ride was planned to coincide with sunrise. you may recall that back in february a tourist balloon had crashed in egypt and that killed 19 tourists, also a hot air balloon, jon. jon: thanks, heather. get back to us if there is more information. >> reporter: will do. patti ann: new tornado threats are targeting the very same

areas already ravaged by powerful twisters over the weekend. this as the death toll rises to two in one of the hardest hit places, shawnee, oklahoma, where crews are now sifting through the wreckage and searching for survivors. today's severe weather could seriously complicate the rescue efforts. joining us now is sheriff mike booth. thank you for joining us. >> yes, ma'am. patti ann: your county is home to shawnee where the two fatalities, i understand the search continues with cadaver dogs. can you tell us how the search is going? >> we've got about three fourths of the affected area searched right now. so far huck ka lee w luckily we don't have anything else that we've found. we have local search and rescue team for animals that have rescued about nine animals. in some much the buildings that were completely collapsed. so that was a good sign. patti ann: meanwhile the national weather service has

been sending out much more dramatic warnings. they say they have found that the more polite warnings in the past were just not taken seriously. here is what went out yesterday at 6:00pm to parts of oklahoma, we'll put that up, it says large tornado west of pink, take cover right now in pink. do not wait. and similar tweets were sent out in other areas as well. do you believe that the earlier warnings have been effective in saving some lives? >> have you seen the devastation that we've had here? approximately 75% of this one addition was destroyed. these people don't have many places to go for underground shelter. they had to leave their home which was fortunate for them. because like i said 75% of this addition, approximately 40 homes were completely destroyed and that is because of the early warning and the pinpoint accuracy of the meteorologist folks where the tornado was, where it was going to be going, the path and the time it was going to get there. that also helped m and my

office and other emergency personnel to come in behind the tornado to do rescues for people trapped in shelters and in their houses. so it's a big deal. we rely on it and i know the people out in the communities rely on it quite a bit as well. patti ann: yeah, and you have surveyed that damage by eras well as on the ground and it is devastating as you said. we have on the screen where you can donate to the red cross if you'd like to help. one of the concerns is looting. i understand you have a lot of security out there to protect people's' property? that is correct. we had about 25 officers and deputies from surrounding agencies here to assist us, that was here all night long. some of us left here about 1 or 2:00 this morning, was back again about 6 to relieve some of the guys here. we will maintain that security tonight in this addition as well as another addition that was hit and pretty devastated a few miles from here. so that's our main purpose right now is to protect people's'

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amid all the controversy over the justice department's seizure of phone records from the "associated press," doing a little tphaopg on reporters essentially we are getting word of a similar leak investigation that may have gone even further, this one dating back to 2009 and involving a fox news reporter. shannon bream is live in washington with that. >> reporter: jon there are new revelations today about just how far justice department and fbi officials went investigating an alleged leak involving our own fox news colleague james rosen. he was never contacted by the government despite an in-depth investigation which according to "the washington post" included obtaining a search warrant for his personal email accounts and tracking his movements by examining the use of his security badge at the state department. the post also details an affidavit by fbi agent reginald reyes writing that he believed the evidence in the case showed rozen had broken the law, quote,

at the very least either as an aider, abettor and/or co-conspirator, suggesting that a reporter's efforts to obtain allegedly obtain information from a source could be viewed as engaging in criminal activity. ap-ceo gary pruitt said revelations that the justice department obtained phone records of 20 tpoep lines used by dozens of reporters is producing a ripple effect. >> i think it will hurt journalists. in fact we are already seeing some impact. already officials that would normally talk to us and people we talked to in the normal course of news gathering are already saying to us that they are a little reluctant to talk to us. they fear that they will be monitored by the government. so we are already seeing it's not hypothetical. we are actually seeing impact already. >> reporter: the justice department according to the post says it has abided by all applicable laws, regulations and department policies intended to safeguard the first amendment interests of both the press and

the public. jon. jon: all right. shannon bream in washington, thank you. let's talk a little bit more about this with our news watch panel, jim pinkerton is contributing editor and writer for the american conservative magazine. helen ratner bureau chief of talk radio news service and a fox news contributor. jim you are fond of saying that information is to be free. since when does a reporter doing his job, when does that amount to criminal could h coconspiracy? >> according to glen green wrauld who works for a leftist center newspaper in the uk the justice department had every intention of throwing ro james rosen in jail and convict him of crimes. hay had a new vision of investigating leaks which as he says in his piece involves solicitation, that is it's not a crime to print classified information, it's a crime to

leak classified information. they had to say james was soliciting the sources at the state department to give him stuff and that was a crime. this according to green walled is completely absolutely unprecedented in u.s. history. jon: nobody wants to see secrets that will endanger the nation out there leaked, but this was going to be this transparent, most transparent administration in history. >> yes. there have been lots of people who have actually written about that. they wrote about the sort of history of this most transparent government in history. i also want to say something, i'm on the u.s. board of reporters without borders and supposedly the president is supporting the shield law. well we would like to make it so that, one, it becomes actually a criminal act to try and identify who a newspaper's or news organization source is, which would of course make the government criminally active here not james rosen. and also we believe, look, we

should protect something that is going to be imminent danger. we don't want any news organizations uncovering a plot that would protect somebody from imminent danger. everybody agrees on that. but this isd, taking somebody's records when they are in and out of the building, comparing them to somebody else's records, i can't even talk i'm so upset. jim is probably less upset than i am. maybe he's as upset. jon: jim is an intellectual guy and he can process this stuff faster than the rest of us. i read in "the washington post" that our colleague james rosen is having his personal email snooped at by federal agents that is a little creepy. >> it is creepy. ryan lizza a reporter for the new yorker magazine sent out a tweet this morning saying that this department of justice investigation on rozen makes all the other scandals look like quote, giant nothing burgers, unquote. the idea being here this is

really a quantum leap, even for this administration. as green walled points out the obama administration has investigated and prosecute erred morprosecuted more leakers than all other presidents put together. rozen is a leaky, a recipient of leaks and now they are trying to go after him too. we are not even done yet. who knows what tomorrow's' news will bring. >> 50 more requests are denied under obama than bush. as we say in the news business this is having a chilling effect on news gathering. jon: that is the question. i mean does all of this scouring for information about reporters and their sources, what is the affect on journalism in this country? what do you think? >> i think it's having a chilling effect, it's going to make as the ap president said it's going to make people think twice before they talk to us. we live and breathe, our bread and butter is leaks and people telling us what is in the

government. you know something when i first became a journalist i said i don't know about this and a friend of mine at the white house said this is what keeps democracy is open journalism. jon: in the meantime the national journal just during the course that we've been on the air the national journal online came out with a helpful bit of advice for the obama administration, it's an article titled "five ways obama can restore the public's trust and rescue his presidency. this line is included. swamped in controversies, president obama and his slow footed team are essentially telling the american public we are not crooked, we are just incompetent. helpful advice there from the media. what do you think? >> it's sort of the president obama mr. ma goo strategy. he doesn't see anything going on around him and it's other people's job to keep him from getting killed at the construction site. or it's like hogan's heroes, he sees nothing. if the president doesn't want to take responsibility as an

executive of the federal government for managing these things then they will have to fire a lot of people and put in somebody else who will, because obviously the status quo is unacceptable and it's not me or ellen saying that it's the journalistic establishment. jon: they are giving us plenty to talk about in these news watch segments. thank you both. >> thank you. >> thank you. patti ann: a big merger announced today involving the worldwide web. yahoo buying tubler for 1 point # billion dollars giving the company a chance to get back on its feet. it's a forum that allows users to share blog posts photos and other items they like. yahoo says they will remain independently opted. today yahoo stock was up more than 1% on news of the deal. jon: well you already know businesses and homeowners can save money by refinancing their loans now there is a new plan to let college graduates who might be struggling with crushing debt loads do the same thing.

but critics say it's going to cost taxpayers a bundle. rich edson with the fox business network live in washington. rich. >> reporter: well, jon americans owe more than a trillion dollars in student loans the interest rates they pay on the loans varies. some government subsidized loans feature rates of 3.4%, some are more than double that. a new york senator has introduced a bill to allow students paying interest of more than 4% on their federal government loans to refinance to a fixed 4% rate. supporters say cash-strapped two dents should also benefit from the low interest rates available across the economy. >> the government is actually borrowing money at less than 2% interest, but it's long it out for students and their families at 3.4, or 6.8, or sometimes 8.25%. and so the government is actually making quite a bit of money off of the loan program. we think that that is wrong. the government shouldn't be making money on the backs of students who are trying to go to

college, get a degree, get a good job. >> reporter: opponents say students with little or no credit history facing fewer job opportunities are riskier to lend money to. that's why they pay higher rates. taxpayers could miss-out on billions much dollars. they say an important point is this will cost taxpayers more, how much we don't know and do nothing to slow the hypereggs hyperescalating cost of college. s are up 25% at colleges in the last five years. one in knife u.s. household have student loans for an afternoon outstanding balance of nearly 27 who thousand dollars. jon: that is a big chunk of change. rich edson, thank you. patti ann: we are awaiting news in the murder trial for a former pwh-rbg maxim model and the prime suspect in the case, plus another woman. we'll have more.

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than two miles long intentionally destroyed. state tv there in central china calls it a record breaking demolition project, a series of controlled explosions going off reducing the entire thing to rubble. the vie a duct was part of a highway running from shanghai. they followed strict environmental guidelines before setting off those evenin explosions. patti ann: we are waiting for testimony to resume in the trial of a woman suspected of killing julianne a redding. 421 julianne a screen left was found strangled inside her home in march of 2008. the prosecutors claim that dna and fingerprints from the woman on the right kelly soo park were found at the scene. she is an associate of a doctor that julianne a first dated . joining us right now dan shore a

former prosecutor and jennifer brand a trial attorney. thank you both for being with us again. so, dan, these dna and prints found in the apartment, the defense says look this it doesn't prove she killed her, just proved she was in the apartment. there was dna found on the victim's neck. these two didn't know each other. isn't that kind of tough to explain? >> very tough. that is really powerful evidence, the victim is strangled to death and the defendant's dna is on the victim's neck is on a bloody fingerprint, on the victim's cellphone, clothing and the stove in her apartment. they didn't know each other, her dna is all over the place at the crime scene at the time of death, that is really difficult to explain for the defense. patti ann: jennifer it's a complicated case. this woman, park, is allegedly a according to the prosecution sort of like the hit woman, she got several large payments they say from the doctor. how damming is that? >> well it's certainly damming. the question that you have to ask is why would the doctor order her to go in and kill

julianne a? the doctor was trying to cut a business deal with julianne a's father and that didn't go well. would he really want park to murder her? i think maybe rough her up a little bit. maybe the defensives going to say she went there to scare her, beat her up but not ultimately kill her. it's a hard case but i think that's might be what the tkefpb is trying to assert. aflt one point they were trying to implicate julianne a's current boyfriend and say he was actually the murderer. >> julianne a's father testifi and said the doctor dated jewel leaf an julianne a redding. he found out the doctor was married, are and she broke up with him. this they are putting out there as also a possible motive. would that fly? it's a motive for sending the defendant to the home to hurt her or kill her. the doctor is not on trial here, this defendant, the woman is on trial for murder. there is motive to send her

there. this victim was dating the doctor who sent the defendant a large sum of money around the time of the killing. the victim's father was in a business negotiation with the doctor, that the father called off five days before his daughter is strangled to death. there is really strong evidence not only putting the defendant at the scene but showing that there was motive to send her there to do some kind of harm and in this case kill her. patti ann: jennifer, that is the main point here, the father did this research because he was considering going into business with the doctor. redding is a pharmacist. the deal went bad as dan said five days before the woman's death. why isn't this doctor charged? i under he has fled the country but couldn't he still be charged? >> i would think that -- he's in lebanon right now. i think it's going to be hard to get him and bring him back. but that was the same question i had looking at this. is that he should really be charged, if he was the mastermind behind all of this. then charges should be leveled against him. now he wasn't charged with the actual murder, and no one is saying that he did the actual murder, so it's appropriate to

have park being charged as the potential murderer if the evidence leads in that direction. but i agree that the doctor should also be brought in to this. patti ann: prosecutors meanwhile are saying at one point this doctor was bragging that he had this alleged hit woman who he called a female james bond on his staff working for him. so that will be interesting evidence if it's even allowed to come up during the trial. jennifer brand, dan shore, thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you. >> thank you. patti ann: patti ann have you visited florida lately? >> not lately enough. jon: you're probably not checking our pockets as a lot of people are? >> yeah, no i didn't win. jon: on one than winning ticket. we are live with that next. 4 twisters ripping through america's heartland. much more could be on the way. we have complete coverage. keep it here. the latest coming up.

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jon: right now just a single ticket had all of the winning numbers. now that lucky buyer has 60 days to claim the $590 million powerball jackpot. phil keating is live in miami. phil. >> reporter: jon, this is the tough choice that whomevelding l ticket has for him or her today. take the lump-sum payout of $370 million or take 30 annual payments of about $20 million each. tough choices to be made when you're rich like that. zephyrhills, florida northeast of tampa is where the winning powerball ticket was sold at a publix grocery store. it was there that somebody did the very good gamble of buying their powerball ticket and taking home a lot of money,

$590 million total, that is the largest ever single ticket winning lottery ticket ever sold in the united states. we do know the winning powerball ticket was a quick pick but we still do not know who won it, or whether it was just one person with a lucky ticket, or several people who dreamed big together. just to remind all of the losers out there, the winning numbers were 10, 13, 14, 22, 52 and powerball number 11. >> they said somebody won from here in the store. and your heart drops, it's like i came to get milk, i forgot what i needed to get and i went in there and i checked the numbers, i didn't get the win but to know somebody won right here, right here at home is a really good feeling. >> i was all excited until i heard it was a publix. we didn't buy our tickets here. >> it's a very small town. most people have been here for years and years. if i can't win i hope it's

someone that we know. we've been here 26 years. hopefully it's someone we know. that we know well, that likes us. [laughter] >> reporter: zephyrhills previously most famous for its bottled spring water. this is the 6th time that somebody in florida won the powerball, that is more than any other state, jon. jon: wow, all right. let's hope they are lining up some financial advice. phil keating, thank you. patti ann: the tornado troubles shall not over yet. millions of folks are now in the path of a severe weather threat. this after a terrifying night for some people in the plains in the midwest. we have team fox coverage next. [ male announcer ] this is kevin.

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