but right now we have brand new stories and other breaking news today. jon: a heat dome blanketing tens of millions of americans, scorching temperatures and very high humidity creating dangerous conditions outside and this could get worse before it gets better. her naked body was hanged from a balcony in a california mansion. investigators rule it a suicide. what family members claim what happened to this young woman and who is the target of their multimillion-dollar lawsuit? j.k. rowling exposed. the secret the "harry potter" author wished she could have kept to herself at least a little longer. it is all "happening now." jon: more protests over the not guilty verdict in the george zimmerman murder trial. now the feds say they're considering civil rights charges. good monday morning to you, i'm

jon scott. jenna: there might be a next chapter to all of this. jon: it doesn't seem to end. jenna: i'm jenna lee. under increasing pressure from the naacp and several lawmakers the justice department is considering continuing its investigation of the zimmerman case. the u.s. attorney's office and the civil rights division are looking at the evidence and as well as the trial testimony to see if a federal prosecution is appropriate here. thousands of demonstrators meantime are holding protests across the country. they did so across the weekend following saturday's verdict. most were peaceful but several turned violent with acts of vandalism. some protesters were taken into custody for disorderly conduct. jonathan serrie is live in sanford, florida, with the latest from there. jonathan, where did the protests go bad? >> reporter: hi jenna. two cities in california in. los angeles two groups of protesters breaking off what was otherwise a peaceful march, they threw rocks and batteries at

peace. the police fired non-lethal bean bag rounds. in oakland, california, protesters spray-painted graffiti and set small fires. for the most part demonstrations in cities across america have remained peaceful. at this hour in sanford, florida, local churches are opening doors for community prayer. the idea to get people on all sides of the issue together to talk and dispel rumors and some of the tension surrounding this case. the churches planned to do this at noon every monday in the coming weeks, jenna. jenna: we'll continue to watch that part of the story, jonathan. we know george zimmerman is out. he's a free man if you will, at this time. this may not be the last time he has to appear in court. why is that? >> reporter: that's right. in addition to the potential of federal suits as the justice department continues to investigate this case, he also faces the potential of civil litigation. but because the neighborhood watch volunteer claims that he

shot 17-year-old trayvon martin in self-defense, zimmerman has the option to ask a judge for protection under florida's stand your ground law. listen. >> if someone believes that it's appropriate to sue george zimmerman, then we will seek and we will get immunity in a civil hearing. and we'll see just how many civil lawsuits are spawned from this fiasco. >> reporter: and jenna, currently there are two grassroots petitions on the white house's official, we the people website, calling for a civil rights prosecution of george zimmerman. jenna, back to you. jenna: the petitions sill a little bit away signaturewise from becoming anything but we'll watch the story and see how it develops. thank you very much, jonathan. jon: turning to washington and the so-called nuclear option a plan considered by senate majority leader harry reid would

virtually essentially eliminate the republican's minority ability to full buster presidential nominations. senator reid lobbied against this change during the bush years but says it might be necessary now. >> we're doing it saying, look, american people, shouldn't president obama have somebody working for him that he wants? the 15 people that we filed cloture on, that are pending? they have been waiting an average of nine months. >> i hope we'll come to our senses and not change the core of the senate. we have never changed the rules of the senate by breaking the rules of the senate in order to diminish the voices of individual senators. we have never done that. we sure shouldn't start it now, particularly since everyone of the president's nominees that would be subject to this rule change have been confirmed. >> david drucker is the senior correspondent for the "washington examiner." the senate has its own unusual ways and rules but for the folks at home who don't pay, you know,

close attention to how the senate operates, explain to us the stakes here, david? >> well, jon, this is a, an unprecedented situation in that what senator reid is considering doing is changing the rules of the senate on a straight 51-vote margin. normally it takes, well the rules, say it takes 67 votes to change the rules. that is why this is being called the nuclear option. it is not simply they want to alter the filibuster rules. by the way the rules change would not apply to judicial nominations, not to life-time appointments t would apply to a president's cabinet and agency appointments. republicans say if democrats go ahead and do this, they will jam up the chamber and make democrats life miserable. the way the senate works, here is a key thing for viewers, everything in the senate, i mean everything, committee hearings, the ability to speak on the floor at any given time operates

on what we call unanimous consent which means any senator, no matter how junior, even if he has only been there in the chamber five minutes serving, can say i object when ever another senator or leader requests to do something. if republicans are serious about retaliating what they will do is start objecting to unanimous consent requests by democrats to do everything, everything as simple as turning the lights on in the morning. jon: what republicans are objecting to in part they feel harry reid has been particularly abusive the way he has run the majority in the senate and has not given them the voice that they normally have in legislation. >> well, that's true and, i found over the years that the politics of senate rules and whether the minority is getting enough power in the senate and that's one of the advantages to serving in the senate. even if you're in the minority you have a lot of power, i pound politics to be situational. when democrats were in the minority during the

george w. bush years before they won the senate in 2006 they complained all the time that republicans were being unfair and just ramming things through and, in a sense, exercising a tyranny of the majority. since the republicans have been in the minority they have been screaming about the same things. jon: right. >> both sides believe that the other side is worse than they were and so, you know, i have no doubt that if reid was the minority leader and mcconnell was threatening to do this he would be saying the same things mcconnell is saying today. jon: reid did argue against this very thing back when democrats were in the minority. now that the shoe is on the other foot it is kind of interesting because of some news, especially that came out of montana over the weekend. very popular former governor there, brian schweitzer, announced he has no interest in running to replace max baucus. one democrat says, not going to get into that race. democrats are suddenly, schweitzer is the name i was looking for. >> he is the sitting governor.

jon: okay. >> that is a big recruiting loss, that's a good point, jon. even though montana tend to lean republican in presidential races. he is popular democrat, democrat across the board. he would have won that race i think, no matter what republicans have dug up on him. the fact he is not run something made it open season for republicans. if they do not repeat recruiting failures of 2012 race, nominate somebody with half a brain who knows how to run a campaign and appeal to voters this seat is really on the table for the gop. it gets them one step closer to the majority. i say this, even if they don't win the majority, imagine if republicans 2012 won north dakota, missouri, and indiana, reid would not have to the votes to pull the nuclear option to change the rules that is how important the races can be. jon: a couple of tight races coming up in south dakota and west virginia as well where democratic senators are

retiring. it will be an interesting race for the senate in 2014. david drucker. thank you. >> thanks a lot, jon. >> we already have money for food stamps. what bothers me, bob, one in six americans right now are on this program. now either the economy is not growing the rate it should or this program so so badly flawed that we're letting too many people, the sustainability of this is what concerns me. you can't keep promising things to people in the know you can't sustain. i think it is unfair and i think it is un-american to do that. jenna: that was pennsylvania congressman michaelly, one of many house republicans vowing to reform the nation's food stamp program. the numbers of americans receiving benefits exploded in the past few years. the program now costs taxpayers more than $78 billion a year. that said, supporters of the program exploded because of the recovering economy and simply there is more american families that are in need. shannon bream is live in washington with more on this part of this story. shannon, in the midst of

everything going on capitol hill right now why are republicans picking this fight now? >> reporter: jenna, they argue that the food stamp program which had a noble purpose at its inseparating shun grown completely beyond anyone's intentions and it is full of fraud. take a look, over the past 20 years we jumped from just under 27 million participants to now nearly 48 million. over that same time period the cost of the program has more than tripled. things got very heated when gop members in the house separated the food stamp measure from subsidies to farmers. the two things were linked for decades. seems longer the democrats got to keep the vote from happening more time for the republicans to and they got it he separated from the farm measure. jenna: what are the odds both sides can work out a compromise here? >> reporter: democrats including congressman steve israel expressing concern making that happen. here is what he said on "fox news sunday" about the fight for food stamp assistance turning

political. >> we always had a bipartisan understanding if we find the resources to support the growing of food we ought to find the resources of eating of food for people for people down on their luck. >> reporter: republicans say they're absolutely committed to get the food legislation passed. they're practically guaranteeing it. the program has not stopped and those receiving assistance will not be cut off. jenna. jenna: we'll see what happens best month-long august recess we look forward to. we don't get that time off, do we, shannon? shannon, thank you very much. we'll continue to watch the story. >> reporter: you got it. jon: some new developments to bring you right now in a deadly california mansion mystery. you might remember rebecca zehao was found in a mansion. her arms and legs were bound and she hanged herself. it was ruled a suicide. it happened the day after her boyfriend's six-year-old son max

died while she was at the home supposedly falling down the stairs. rebecca's family is suing claiming she was actually murdered. julie anirvan banerji live in the -- julie banderas. is in the new york city newsroom. >> reporter: murdergy the family man that owns the mansion. rebecca sahau's filed a wrongful death lawsuit against adam shacknai, deena shacknai. the brother and ex-wife of the her multimillionaire boyfriend, jonah shacknai and her twin sister, nina romano. the lawsuit claims adam shacknai and deena and romano participated in planning simplily mentation, execution and subsequent of the scheme to murder, end quote. no specific evidence against them is actually mentioned in the suit. is zahau who was 32 years old at the time was found quote, dead, naked, bound and gagged with a

rope noosed around her neck. the home belonged to jonah shacknai, multimillionaire founder and ceo of medex pharmaceutical corporation in scottsdale, arizona. when shorts arrived, jonah's brother told police he found zahau with a rope around her neck hank off the balcony of the main house and cut her down. authorities ruled it was suicide despite her hands and feet were bound. days earlier jonah's six-year-old son was killed falling down the stairs. his death was ruled an accident. her mother is seeking $10 million in damages and trial by jury. >> this case is still so strange and talked about. >> reporter: two years later. sure. jon: coming up our legal panel will break down the legal developments and what next steps might be. jenna: there is big question about evidence. jon: yeah. jenna: is there evidence, talking to the our lawyers.

what happened outside the boston home of secretary of state john kerry that worried his security detail and ended with one man in handcuffs? we'll explain. the heat is on and it's not going anywhere anytime soon. hot, humid and hazy are in the forecast for a big swath of the country. our meteorologist maria molina on what we can expect coming up. what makes your family smile?

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he said he had been drinking. secretary kerry was not home at the time. today a wisconsin man convicted of killing his three daughters will learn whether he will spend the rest of his life in prison or have the possibility of supervised release in 20 years a jury found he was sane when i murdered the five, eight, and 11-year-old girls. jenna: fox news weather alert on the extreme heat affecting millions of people in the northeast. meteorologist maria molina is live in the fox weather center. maria, we hear it will feel like it is hotter than 100 in many areas along the east coast. will it actually be a heat wave? is that what we're seeing right now? >> that is exactly what we're looking at right now because we'll be seeing hot temperatures not just for one day but several days. that is the definition of a heat wave, temperatures well above average, into the 90s. humidity is in place and make it feel hotter with the triple

digits lasting for next several days. that is what we're talking about across parts of i-95 corridor. millions are affected here. big cities, philadelphia, new york city, up in the cities of boston, you're talking eat index values and temperatures into the 90s even triple digits for some of you. new york city, today's forecast heat index, 100 degrees. 101 in philadelphia. we're expecting more hot temperatures out here. it will feel like more than a 100 degrees tomorrow afternoon in washington, d.c. take a look at the five-day forecast for philadelphia. this is the actual temperatures, not the heat index. upper 90s, tuesday, 90s, wednesday, thursday, into friday. we do have a number of excessive heat warnings like we showed you. because how dangerous, many people don't have ac in the big cities. tips for you. drink plenty of water. stay hydrated and spend time in air-conditioned places go to a cooling center if you don't have

ac in the apartment. what you wear, light clothing and light colored clothing. colors like yellow and white. those colors reflect sunlight and actually help you not absorb the heat and keep you cooler than if you wore a darker color. jenna: i'm glad i picked a black dress to wear to work. >> good job. jenna: keep it in mind. >> tomorrow. you have a few more days to try it out, right? jenna: hard sometimes to differentiate between 95 degrees and 100 degrees if it feels like that. really important how it affects the body. great tips, maria. >> thank you. jenna: thank you. jon: rescue workers saving dozens of victims trapped by some of the worst flooding in decades. plus new developments in the long-running california mystery. police say rebecca zahau committed suicide. her family believes she was murdered. coming up our legal panel breaks down the new multimillion-dollar lawsuit just filed. s.

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jon: massive flooding forces dozens of rescues across southern china. take a look at this video. remnants of a typhoon flooding streets and destroying homes there at least 48 people died in the hardest hit areas. eight more were killed when a bus plunge understood a screen during a severe rainstorm. more than 200,000 people also forced to leave their homes. in some of the worst flooding that china has seen in 50 years. jenna: as we told you earlier this hour, some new details emerging in the death of 32-year-old rebecca zahau. you may remember this story. she was found hanging from the balcony of a multimillion-dollar california mansion. a lot of questions about her death but investigators eventually ruled it a suicide. her family has believed all along sea was murdered.

they are now filing a wrongful death suit against three members of rebecca zahau's boyfriends's family, claiming that she was actually murdered in all this, that it wasn't suicide at all. joining me, lyle mason a criminal defense attorney and rebecca rose woodlan a trial attorney. here we are, two years later. the case comes back up. it is a, not a criminal case. it's a civil suit. why does that matter? >> something that matters most particularly is the burden of proof. in a murder case you have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt who did it and how she was murdered. in a civil suit it's a preponderance of evidence, if they jury predicts 51-49% they could potentially get a verdict. jenna: what the family wants. $10 million. there is a question what evidence they may or may not have in this case, rebecca. what is the evidence part of this? >> it is interesting. they had their own forensic pathologist come in. there was a medical examiner. the state reviewed it.

said it was a suicide. cyril wecht came in, a very reknowned forensic pathologist. he said i'm looking at the body again and doing another autopsy and i'm seeing trauma in locations that are not consistent with her fallen after the rope was tied and her boyfriend founder. i think it might be blunt trama to the head that happened prior to the death. he will continue and there is probably more evidence we don't know yet. jenna: so the medical examiner, the local one for san diego still denies that anything that cyril wecht said is true, lyle. she still says what we found is what we're standing behind and we don't really know if there will be any next step by investigators in san diego. as a lawyer how would you use that hiring of cyril wecht, a national, famous forensic pathologist and use it in this case? is it a game-changer? >> i mean, again you have to look at the san diego sheriff's department. they have between seven and 15

investigators on this case over the course of seven weeks. they don't have a bias in order to determine it was a suicide. the largest question in this case, most puzzling to everyone how is her hands behind her back? the san diego medical examiner's office went ahead and did an experiment that showed she was able to tie her hands in the front with a loose knot, pull her hand behind the back and pull the knot shut. jenna: here is the video. there was so much controversy how this reported suicide was done that they actually got an expert to show how one would do it. not exactly easy, rebecca, but showed someone could do it potentially? >> same way you see expert, what the plaintiff in this action, now the plaintiff in it this action, family of the victim or person who committed suicide or murdered. plaintiffs in this action will get their own expert way we saw george zimmerman. we saw use of force experts. only saw them on the defense

side. they will show it was not possible. they will show other inconsistencies with respect to tape being removed on her legs. she had tape apparently removed. so no one understands, where was the tape? where was it left if she committed suicide? why wasn't there evidence of it. jenna: we were showing you video of inside the home supposedly where this crime happened. a few days before she allegedly committed suicide the little boy of her boyfriend fell off the stairs of her home and died later in the hospital. she was only one home at the time. what is interesting about the civil case, the boyfriend is not named in it. it is boyfriend's brother who was home when this body was found, his girlfriend at the time, or his former wife and the wife's twin sister. so this new cast of characters that we don't really know that much about. >> well the boyfriend, the boy's father, was at the bedside during the time she was found. >> in the hospital. >> he clearly has an alibi.

the only person home was his brother adam. this will be a very difficult case for whatever civil attorney is going to prosecute it in how will they explain whodunit? in the zimmerman case just brought up, it was why it was done, in this case it is whodunit. there are so many problems. jenna: there are some questions about the zimmerman case goes next. rebecca, what the zahau family is doing, is that what trayvon martin's family would do next if they decided to proceed with a civil trial? would there be a dollar amount and same sort of question who murdered our son? is that how the civil case would go forward? >> very, very similar. the family of trayvon martin would pursue a civil case in florida for wrongful death alleging there was a death and that by preponderance of the evidence george zimmerman caused that death, wrongfully. so it's a negligence claim. will there be a dollar amount? the statutes in florida are different than the statutes in

california. in california they require that. this family allege ad dollar amount and they alleged their daughter was worth $10 million for the basis of a civil suit. jenna: you expect potentially a civil suit against george zimmerman in the next weeks or days? when would that happen? >> i don't know when it will happen. it could be couple weeks or couple months. with benjamin at crump at i expect it to happen. george zimmerman never had the is a stand your ground hearing f there is a suit brought against him and would have a stand your ground hearing before civil court and be immune from the prosecution. if that happens, trayvon martin might ultimately be responsible for george zimmerman's legal fees. jenna: interesting case in florida that part of it. rebecca, lyle, thanks for that. we'll watch the mystery. jon? jon: even though the jury convicted george zimmerman he might not be in the clear. there is talk about the department of justice pursuing a

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jon: near information on potentially fresh legal troubles on george zimmerman. despite the acquittal in the death of trayvon martin. u.s. department of justice is considering whether the federal government should pursue its own civil rights case against zimmerman. president obama also reacted to the verdict. >> having weighed in early after the shooting of trayvon martin, president released a statement on sunday after george zimmerman's acquittal, appealing for calm after protests in washington and elsewhere. mr. obama said, quote, i know this case has elicited strong passions and i know the passions may be running even higher but we are a nation of laws and a jury has spoken. i now ask every american to respect the call of reaction from two parents who lost their young son. the president said if he had a son, he would look a lot like

trayvon martin. he said we should have if we're doing enough to widen the circle of compassion sxnding in our communities and extend the tide of gun violence that has claimed too many lives across the country on a daily basis. the prospect of federal charges seems diminished. justice department notes the evidence that holder announced in april last year is still open. holder told a civil rights group then, many of you are greatly and rightly concerned, he said, but in a statement sunday, justice department official said federal civil rights statutes covering the shooting are limited. the official also said prosecutors would look at, quote, whether federal prosecution is appropriate in accordance with governing successive prosecution following a state trial. both comments suggest very little space between the justice department and the president's comment that a jury has spoken. jon: thanks.

jenna: a new warning about how vulnerable we are to a cyber attack. it comes in the form of a book called "gridlock" which talks about bringing down power networks we rely on from everything like clear water to streetlights. it portrays a scenario that's largely realistic. we have the former u.s. senator from north dakota and the author of "gridlock." so oftentimes, when someone leaves politics, maybe they go some place sunny, write a memoir, relax a little bit. why did you decide to write a book and why did you decide to write fiction? >> this is my fourth book and this is a novel. it's fiction but it's also a real threat to our country. david and i co-kaut -- coauthored the book and leon pan et a said the next pearl harbor may be a cyber terror attack and

just think as hot as it is today here on the east coast, what if someone were able to just with a click shut down the electric power system in our country? 10 years ago that happened in ohio because of a mistake in a small exchange area on the electric system and 55 million people lost their power. there's great concern now about cyber terrorists being able to shut down some essential services in this country. jenna: you know the expression truth is stranger than fiction. right? and it's interesting that you chose this form to talk about this topic, especially since you've been on the inside, if you will, of the beltway. you've heard things that maybe most people have not. so how does that expression, truth is stranger than fiction, apply here? >> the national science foundation did a study about all of this and then it was classified so it wasn't released until seven years later and they indicated there are serious threats to, for example, our electric power system and we

could see cyber terrorists shut down our power system for a day, a week, a month or even months. that would bring our country's economy to its knees and threaten the lives of people and so on so the purpose of writing a book like this is to entertain but it's also a situation to say, we need to be very careful. if i might just tell you one short story, ramco in saudi arabia, about 10 months ago, discovered that a cyber terror attack against 35,000 of their computers annihilated all the data on those computers and left an image of a burning american flag on all of those monitors. well, our country sent experts and european countries sent experts to saudi arabia to see how it could happen. these cyber terror attacks can be devastating to a country, devastating to financial institutions but more important, our department of defense and more important, the essential

services we need every day. power, water, transportation, so on. jenna: what is the solution then? and do you think that your colleagues that are still on capitol hill, do you think they realize what a priority this is? >> well, the solution is to continue to make more investments in an electric power grid system. we have 200 miles of trans mission in this country, 3500 power producers, tens of thousands of transformers that step up and step down the power. most of them 40 years old that were made overseas. we need to be aware of the threat and try to have the robust investment necessary to build a better trans mission, a better grid system to resist the threats. jenna: so what's next to you? do you have a followup book? the work snz is this a movie? do you need a news anchor to star in that? jon is volunteering as he always does. what's next for you? >> i don't know but we have a character in this book that you could play in the movie.

jenna: i'm game. >> she's a journalist. ashley borden, she drives a pickup truck. you could play that role in the movie. jenna: my husband has a 12-year-old pickup truck that i drive. i don't know. i think there might be a connection here. our senior producer read the book and he said it's a good thrill and we'll talk about maybe -- sounds like a deal there. i could be ashley. >> all we need to do is find someone to fund the movie. jenna: we'll work on it. jon: hello, 21st century fox. jenna: they need to expand a little bit. you do the plays. you sing on stage. you do that sort of thing. maybe it's my turn. right? jon: i'm all for that. another dream liner catches fire. investigators are now rushing to figure out what caused this empty jet to start burning as it sat on the taxi way at heathrow airport. boeing is rushing in to ensure

the public the planes are safe. plus a desperate battle to save the life of a young child buried for hours in the sand. rescuers hoping for the best, fearing the worst. what they found below the surface straight ahead. >> 911. >> yes. i'm at the mount baldy beach and my friend's son, he got stuck in the sand dune and he's like under the sand. we can't get him out.

jenna: what seemed like a regular summer day at the beach turned into a terrifying or deal. a 6-year-old boy swallowed by a sand dune. the more rescuers tried to get him out, the deeper he sank and it sparked a desperate 911 call.

jenna: a single air pocket in the dune may have saved this young boy's life. right now doctors are working to remove sand from his lungs. his grandfather says the boy is responsive, able to move his arms and legs and that's very, very lucky. jon: yeah. investigators are finding no evidence so far linking a fire on board a dream liner at london heathrow airport to the plane's battery system. the incident sparking new concerns about the overall safety of that jetliner concerns about overheating batteries grounded boeing's dream liner three months earlier this year. peter gold is the former managing director of the national transportation safety board. it sounds like a weird one, peter. a plane just sitting there parked waiting to go out on the

next flight and it suddenly catches fire. we did some research and it happens, i guess, about 80 times a year on board jetliners not even flying. >> exactly. it's not as unusual as you would think but for the dream liner, they didn't need it now. that plane is under the microscope, either fairly or unfairly, and any event is going to put it on the front page. jon: and eye ronnic, ethiopian airlines was the first to get the dream liner back in the air after its grounding earlier this year. and low and bow -- behold, it's an ethiopian plane that catches fire. >> the investigative unit is very good but close mouthed. i don't think we'll hear very much about this in the immediate future. the u.s. is participating and so is boeing but it really is a mystery on both the location of

the fire and apparently how intense it was. jon: i guess i was trying to think of an analogy. when you park your car, you turn off the key. you think there aren't electrical impulses going but there are things like clocks and so forth kept running from the battery even when the car is turned off. a jetliner like this, there are major systems still getting power. >> that are still functioning and the real question is, when did this fire start? i mean, that's what the investigators have got to find out because they need to know how long it was going on and what initiated it. the brits are good. they'll figure this out. jon: it's not good for boeing and in a way, it's bad news for all americans. boeing is still, i believe, our largest exporter and the 787 is having problems and they can't build or sell more planes, that's bad news for the nation's economy. >> it is. it's too soon to say whether

this is going to impact the order book. the 787 has got a tremendous order book. people have been happy with the plane's performances except for the groundings. let's see where this one goes but it certainly is unneeded for boeing. jon: and then let's take a quick look at what happened in san francisco. the investigate of that 777 crash still underway. they're supposedly looking at the systems, the auto throttle and the other systems that adjust that plane's power as it's coming in for landing. what can you tell us about the latest look at the plane's power systems and throttle? >> it appears as though the throttle was set and the question now is, what either caused it to shut off or what caused it to malfunction? there's no indication that it really malfunctioned so the question is, how did it get turned off and who was watching

the air speed? it's going to be, i think, a combination of human factors and how the pilots interact with the machine. jon: it's my understanding that auto throttles on the jet are designed to shut down at 100 feet elevation so they don't start blasting power as the pilot is trying to bleed off power for the landings. >> that's right. and there's also an indication that as the flying pilot has his hands on the throttle, if they're not loosely on the throttle, that could disengage the auto throttle, if he's gripping it. you don't know yet. this is going to be a pretty complex investigation. no easy answer. jon: and we'll wait some months, probably, for word from the n b ntsb. thank you. jenna: tributes are pouring in for fans around the world following the sudden death of a young star in a hit show. a live update straight ahead on that plus j.k. rowling.

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jenna: we're watching this story with grammy winner dave matthews getting help from a few fans. they were on the way to his concert when they found him stranded on the side of the road. he was out taking a quick bike ride, getting a little fresh air and he got a flat tire. he was stranded. fans gave him a lift to the show and in return, he took them back stage and they got to watch them perform from the best seats in the house. j.k. rowling pulling off literary magic. she managed to gain praise for a detective novel without anyone knowing she was the author. sales of the novel have rocketed since critics uncovered

author's true identity and cirque du soleil will return in las vegas tomorrow, 17 days after the accidental death of a performer. the troupe will substitute something else for the scene that resulted in her death but they're back to performing now. jon: fans of "glee" are reacting with shock and disbelief to the sudden death of star cory monteith. he was found dead in his hotel room saturday in vancouver. >> jon, certainly a tragic and sudden death. he was visiting his mother when he was found dead in a vancouver hotel. he's best known as one of the stars of "glee." he was only 31 years old and his cause of death still undetermined but so far, no evidence of foul play. surveillance video shows him returning to his room alone in the early morning hours on sunday. his body apparently discovered by a hotel employee after the actor failed to check out by the

noon checkout time. he had been out with people the nice before and police are right now interviewing them but the coroner says they still do not have a great deal of information as to the cause of death. he struggles with substance abuse over the years and had spoken about it in the past. in april he admitted himself to a rehab facility to seek help. he only stayed there about a month, we're told. he entertained millions of fans on "glee" as the eager football player turned performer. his real life girlfriend asked for privacys she's grieving by the loss. "glee" executive producers issued a statement calling the actor an exceptional talent and even more exceptional person sending thoughts and prayers to his family and loved ones. an autopsy is scheduled for today. as for how the show will address his tragic death, that remains to be seen. jon: a very, very sad story. >> sure is.

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jenna: let's just skip all those stories and talk about the baby. jon: baby watch. awww. major developments in the saga of edward snowden. he says there's even more damaging information out there that he could release. jenna: that's what he says. you might need a fact checker on that. i believe we have one coming up in a moment. hi, everybody. great to have you on this monday and let's talk a little bit about what's going on with edward snowden. the fugitive could have highly sensitive documents that would deal a heavy blow to our security if revealed. data shows the inner workings of the national security agency. how it operates, how it is structured. this according to the reporter that first broke the story about the sweeping surveillance programs. >> so he's in possession of tlit rally thousands of documents that contain very specific blueprints that would allow somebody who read them to know exactly how the nsa does what it

does, which would teach hem how to replicate is. jenna: katherine, a lot is being said about what he's going to do with it. what do we do now? >> good morning. aside from the framework for the surveillance, the author says his insurance policy contains more documents that show the selection of data on american citizen $ more widespread than previously thought. the analysis is that there's access to private surveillance. the director of the nsa has testified that the decision to go beyond the call records to the con tebts is not made by an independent body but rather, internally at the nsa. after telling reporters at this news conference friday that he's seeking temporary asylum in russia, authorities in moscow claim they have yet to receive a formal request from edward

snowden. he withdrew a request after the russian president said he could stay but only on the condition that he stop leaking documents that damage the u.s. russia's publicly stated position has not changed. those close to the n.s.a. leader say he's dealing with the pressure of being without a passport and stateless in the transit zone of moscow's airport. >> i haven't at all sensed an iota of regret or remorse or anxiety over the situation that he's in. he's, of course, tense and focused on securing his short-term well-being to the best extent he can but he's resigned to the fact that things may go terribly wrong and he absolutely is at peace with that. >> an interview with the "new york times" over the weekend, a leading critic of the nsa program who brought to light misleading statements of the most senior intelligence officials says he has a feeling now that the administration may

ultimately rethink the sweeping collection of american's phone records given the response to snowden's leaks. jenna: we'll see, right? that's what some are saying. we'll see. more on this story as we get it. thank you. >> you're welcome. jon: some new information just in on the crisis in ee begin. thousands of supporters of morsi taking to the streets there protesting the military-led government as it cements its hold on power. the protestors vow to keep up the pressure until president morsi is retained to office. he has not been seen in almost two weeks. all this as the senior u.s. diplomat meets with egypt's interim leaders marking the highest level visit by an american official since egypt's army took back control of the country and kicked muhammad morsi out of office. bret baher is working on new

information about a program, a gathering of muslim brotherhood leaders who are trying to get morsi back in power, right? >> yeah. james rosen is working on this piece and developed from a source that put us in teach with a report coming out of sky news. and basically, this report states that there was an emergency muslim brotherhood meeting in turkey over the past day and a half in which muslim brotherhood leaders from around the world, from tunisia, from egypt, from turkey, from hamas, all came together and the purpose of the meeting, according to this report, was to figure out a way to get morsi back in power in egypt and to advance the goals of the muslim brotherhood all throughout the middle east. now, we don't need to explain that there's concern about the muslim brotherhood from a number of porters, not the least of which is other gulf states that

see the muslim brotherhood as being something of not helpful to the giant inner workings of all the gulf states in respect to iran and syria and other elements. the administration's take on the muslim brotherhood, the ambassador on the ground in egypt and patterson was criticized by a lot of opposition folks for working closely with the muslim brotherhood. the state department and others have said that she was simply trying to respect egypt's elected leaders. it's a big development if this emergency meeting is as big of a deal as they've made it. jon: the president himself came out and said in the days from hosni mubarak was in power that hosni mubarak had to go. what are they saying about the muslim brotherhood and specifically restoring president morsi? anything? >> no. not much at all.

and that's an interesting take. they're being very vague. initial statements were that they don't pick a political party, they don't have a horse in this race, essentially. they're with the egyptian people. they have stopped short of calling it a military coup but we're told privately the communications are between military leaders here in the u.s. and diplomats here in the u.s. and the egyptian military and interim government, the people who are being put up to the interim government that you need to get to an election pretty quickly in egypt. that's the private message. but publicly it's been very vague and not definitive. jon: let's talk briefly about edward snowden. the guy that broke the story about snow iden is saying he haa whole lot more that could do tremendous damage to the intelligence infrastructure if he wanted to. i presume that's a safety valve

for snowden to try to prevent the u.s. government from going after him? >> yeah. i think that may very well be the case. as the way greenwald describes it, if snowden is harmed in any way, he will release this n.s.a. blueprint as he calls it, thousands of documents that have not come out as of yet. clearly u.s. officials are saying that he does have these goods. they have tracked his inner workings in the computer system. they believe he has a lot more. they haven't been obviously definitive about -- and specific about what that is but to hear greenwald describe it, it's a lot of classified information. jon: and he's applied for temporary asylum in russia. where does that request stand? >> we just heard and saw a wire report from president vladmir putin in russia in which he believes that snowden is finished with his efforts to

undermine the u.s. in policy. what that means from president vladmir putin, whether he's going to agree to a temporary asylum or not, we don't know but it's kind of a partial statement. we just saw it pop up on the wires. is the asylum request of russia, venz wail arcs ecuador and i believe cuba. jon: interesting to see what fact channel communications may be going on between the white house and president vladmir putin with all of this. bret, thank you. you can catch him at 6:00 p.m. eastern time each and every day right here on fox. jenna: right now new fallout from the verdict in the george zimmerman murder trial. with protests over zimmerman's acquittal in the shooting death of trayvon martin emerging in different parts of the country. you see oak lands, california. protests there turning violent with demonstrators sending trash cans on fire. that was not the norm. demonstrations like this one in sanford, florida, the site of the trial, remained peaceful for the most part.

all this comes as eric holder and the justice department now consider federal civil rights charges in the case. politicians from both sides of the aisle also weighing in. >> the evidence didn't support prosecution and the justice department engaged in this, the president engaged in this and turned it into a political issue that could have been handled exclusively with the law and order so i he agree this all happened. i'm sur it was turned into a race issue by the media. otherwise it was tried or not tried depending on the laws and the language that was there. this is unfortunate. >> no matter where you stand, this was a tragedy. it's a tragedy for a young man who was killed. it's a tragedy for a young man who killed that around with him for the rest of his life. what we need to do is come together with a law of nations and civil rights. jenna: lawmakers have a big platforms but so do tragedies. we heard from giants wide

receiver tweeting this moments after the acquittal saying, quote, thoroughly used. zimmerman doesn't last a year before the hood catches up to him. they got a whole lot of media attention. howard is joining us, the media analyst and welcome. this is the first time we get to speak. i'm great to have you part of the team. >> thank you very much. good to be here. jenna: how do you see the events in the last 48, 72 hours? >> you mentioned tweets from the new york giants player and another tweet, message on twitter from the atlanta falcons. he says all them jurors should go home and kill themselves for letting a grown man get away with killing a kid. that's really helpful. he's apologizing saying he was shocked and upset by the verdict. social media is a wonderful forum but in a tense situation like this following the verdict iblths, acquittal of george

zimmerman, it's also served as an ugly outlet for people who tweet before they think. jenna: tweet before they think. right. that's a good way to put it. it seems that happens a lot, want just with this story but as we take a look at other stories. when we look at this one specifically with zimmerman, though, media has had a serious role. what's been the tenor of the media coverage since the verdict came down? what do you see? >> this wasn't a national spectacle without the media deciding that it was a racial case. i've been kind of disappointed to see that people who understandably are emotional about the fact that zimmerman was acquitted, will understandably have a hard time grasping how an unarmed black teen could be killed and the guy who shot him could walk away a free man but nevertheless, people have been kind of extrapolating from that to talk about how difficult life is now for minorities in the cannotry.

one of them, msnbc host al sharpton who also had something to say about the case this morning, i believe, on the "today" show. >> i can tell you this has long been over anh him every step of the way because this puts every child at risk. >> i hope this does not put every child at risk, but strong feelings echoed through the megaphone of the media about this case still now two days after the verdict. jenna: by the way, i'm taking a look at your twitter account. so far looks so good, howard. i see the fox news host title as well and commentator. >> i'm careful before i hit the send button. jenna: it's something we all had to learn. there's going to be something new in the next couple of years we'll have to learn from as well. thank you so much. >> thank you. jenna: we'll have much more on the media's role before, during and after the zimmerman trial. news watch panel are going to be

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this bill in the senate solves the problem, they are misrepresenting the truth. it makes things worse economically and makes things worse from an immigration standpoint. jon: keeping track of this argument, carl cameron. >> hi, jon. today's rally, d.c. jobs, was sponsored by the black american leadership alliance and they are very much opposed to the senate's gang of eight bipartisan group and urging the house to go forward with a much stricter piece of reform that they say would not threaten, particularly low income african-american jobs. this is an argument made by black leaders that the i mean grigs reform bill as it's passed in the senate would take away jobs from low income, particularly black americans. there were a number of speakers there. most of them very conservative tea party type. jeff session has led the fight in the senate against the past senate immigration bill. he put it in the context of jobs pretty sharply.

watch. >> if this bill were to pass, wages would go down, unemployment would go up and the gross domestic product per capita would be down for 25 years. it's a hammer blow to american families. this is a hammer blow to working families. >> tough opposition to what passed in the senate. now all the focus are on the house of representatives where things are moving very slowly. it's two weeks until the august recess. there's virtually no way that the house of representatives is going to pass legislation before congress goes on vacation for the entire month of august. following that it's on to budget and fiscal matters with looming deadlines that will have to be dealt with while they try to craft legislation. if it's going to get done this year, it's likely at the very last minute and that has members of both parties and the public very concerned. jon: and everyone i heard suggests it's not going to get

passioned in an election year. >> and everybody recognizes that. if it doesn't get done at the last hour of the holidays in this calendar year, next year will be virtually impossible to get attention. jon: carl cameron, thank you. jenna: the battle over the controversial voter i.d. law. in a key battleground state, one court will decide its fate and the background to the story coming up plus you can skip the banks and the middle men. there's a new way to raise money on line. a true american innovation. a live report how it works next. man: the charcoal went out already?

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jenna: right now pennsylvania's voter i.d. law is getting its day in court. last year a lower court upheld the law which requires voters to

have a voter i.d. for the polls. 2012 election the same judge stopped it so here we pick up the story. eric is live in harrisburg, pennsylvania with more. >> voter i.d. is on trial within the hour here at the harrisburg commonwealth court. both sides will argue over the controversial law here in the key battleground state that has had voter i.d. on the books for three elections but they've not been enforced. does it prevent people from voting? that's all up to the judge. both sides expected in court. supporters saying that voter i.d. is necessary to ensure the integrity of the process and proceed veent v -- prevent vote fraud. opponents say the law disenfranchises hundreds of thousands of people and the state has said there's no evidence of voter fraud in the state that would warrant such a

law. 8.2 million people are registered. an stimed 759,000 don't have their proper photo i.d. so far reportedly under 20,000 have been given their photo id's they need by the state. the state points out anyone who wants one can get one for free. you don't need any documents, don't have to show any proof, just your word to get an i.d. to vote. >> all you need are the few pieces of information that you had when you registered. name, date of birth, address and the last four digits of your social security number and that covers you. >> you don't have to show anything. >> no. you don't need to show anything. just show up. >> critics say that's not good enough. they say it unfairly impactd minorities and college students who may have a hard time to get to a state office to get an i.d. there was a noisy rally here at the capital last week. the chairwoman of the pennsylvania black caucus says voter i.d. is an unfair obstacle to voting for some people.

>> even if they did not mean for this law to hurt that populous, once it has been identified from state to state, this is who we are hurting, then we should automatically know this is not a good law. >> the lead aclu plaintiff against the law was 93-year-old vivian applewhite. she told the "new york times" that the voter i.d. law was used to prevent black people from voting and then a few weeks later she went into an office and got the i.d. saying that you just need to get it. no matter who loses in this court session within the next few days, they won't give up, either. the voter i.d. law challenge is expected to reach the state supreme court . we do expect a ruling within a couple of weeks. jenna: thank you. jon: well, politicians have done it. raising lots of money through lots of little donations on

line. entrepreneurs are doing it, too, raising money on the web through social media. critics made fun of the so-called fundraising websites. nobody is laughing as they ring in the dough. william? >> jon, nobody likes begging for money, especially from friends and family but the banks and wall street tell you to hit the road so you turn to total strangers who believe in your project. it's called crowd funding and here is how it works. >> i'm getting text messages, $100,000, $200,000. the money was rolling in. >> we were watching it really closely and it was like an a.t.m. machine. >> i just thought it was the coolest thing. rick: film makers wanted to make a documentary about crowd funding. >> it's like the ultimate american dream. if you have an idea now, anybody can go and fund it themselves. >> a month ago the two ran out

of money. >> we've taken this about as far as we can with our own resources and just like the people that we feature in the film, we're now reaching out to you. >> they raised the all or nothing $85,000. >> when you hit the live button on kick starter, you are then opening every bit of social kind of value inequity that you're putting on the line. >> it made a lot of sense to raise money for crowd funding. >> we're now at $71,450 and we've got 15 hours left to go. rick: entrepreneurs maze the money from the public, not a bank. >> you're bringing people deeper in the experience. >> last year individual donors funded thousands of projects. from food trucks to dance troupes to solar vehicles. >> please join us in our effort to allow the elf in your city.

>> last year artists raised $3 billion. jay and jason did reach their target and their documentary should be out next year. jon: i want my own food truck. do you think i should start that? >> you've got some celebrity. that helps a little bit and you probably need the second job. jenna: well said, william. jon: very little celebrity. jenna: what kind of food? jon: i think it has to be barbecue. that's all i know how to do. jenna: you heard it here first. right now we'll take a look at the changing face of terror. they talked a lot about central power. what does it mean? what happens when terror is franchised, you will? the changing face of al qaeda, what it means for the war on terror, what it means for america's security. we have a fresh look at that.

barbecue sounds good with weather like this. >> you want to be inside, though. speaking of heat, look at the current heat index in new york city. almost 100 degrees. we'll talk about where it could be dangerous coming right up.

jon: extreme weather alert now. tens of millions of americans from the great lakes to the east

coast are bracing for brutally hot temperatures. new york city, for example, expected to hit near 100 degrees today. and take it from us. it feels a whole lot hotter in the big apple. the dangerous punishing heat expected to be around for awhile. how long until we get some relief? janice dean joins us. she knows. >> remember a couple of -- i don't know. it seems like weeks ago we were complaining about the cold, right? and i just knew it. the heat would come and we would be complaining about that, too. however, this could be dangerous heat. it is going to be a heat wave. it's going to last much of the work week. unfortunately, heat advisories up from the mid atlantic to new york where we're going to feel over 100 degrees for a lot of these big cities so millions of people affected here. current temperatures, 80s and 90s across the board but with the humidity, it feels oppressive. close to 100 in new york city. 97 it feels like in d.c., 91 in boston, 96 in richmond. this is really going to last throughout the work week so not

a quick one at all. it will be a long duration heat wave. all of these temperatures continue until friday. it's going to feel like over 100 degrees so people really need to be cautious, especially little ones and the elderlies. they need to be hydrated throughout the day f. you're thinking of calling out sick tomorrow, there's the beach forecast. very nice across the beaches but make sure that you are indoors as much as possible. i want to give you a quick update where we're seeing the moisture move across the southern plains. it will be cooler than average but we'll continue to monitor the heat and all of the glad -- flood watches in the south. jon: good day for ice cream. >> is that a date? i'll do whatever i can to get a date with jon scott. jenna: we take a look at the changing nature of al qaeda. a recent article in global affairs discusses how the terror

group is becoming more decentraliz decentralized. local terror groups carry out attacks on their own all over the world. essentially terrorism is being franchised, if you will. the united states may not be effectively addressing this change. it's one of the topics that joel brinkley brings up in this article. he's a journalist and professor at stanford university and former foreign correspondent at the "new york times." he's doing a lot of writing and reporting. nice to have you on the program. >> my pleasure. jenna: one of the things that you say at the top of the article here is that the rise of islamic extremism is the issue of our age. not the economy, not politics, immigration, all of this, plus the rise of islamic extremism. why? >> it affects almost every country in the world. it is spread, as you put it. it is franchised. you find it in kazakhstan, in

austria, in the philippines. almost everywhere you look, a terror group has sprung up, perhaps encouraged by watching what al qaeda did but it is now local and active all over the world. and very hard to deal with by attacking one particular place. jenna: and one of the things that you bring up is because of these popup examples we see, it's very easy to be lulled into this white noise, as you put it. i'm just sort of hearing these attacks on the regular basis, watching the nightly news or watching the news, we may talk about what happens in one part of the world or the other. how do you think the way the media is telling the story is affecting our national organization? >> i'm not suggesting this is the priority for the world. we have economic issues in this country we have to deal with. you have to deal with china,

russia, north korea, iran and a variety of other issues. because this issue has decentralized and we don't see islamic terrorism as major attacks as occurred on 9/11, we americans are paying less attention to it now than we probably should. jenna: as someone who watched these stories emerge and develop over the past decades, what do you make of the response thus far from lawmakers, law enforcement as a way to combat any terror activity from lapping in our country? >> that seems to be what president obama was talking about when he said it was time to end the war on terror, that it is now so decentralized that there's no central place to attack in a war. whatever he actually did with that is classified so we don't know exactly.

but the war on terror, if you will, is sort of like the war on drugs. it can never be won as long as people want to traffic drugs or carry out terror activities, these are wars that can never be won. jenna: some argue the opposite, though, that the good can defeat the bad and that there is a way to put together some sort of an effort, even though we're seeing smaller groups emerge and fight them. do you think it's an impossibility, joel? it's really a segment for another day but just curious and someone that's done a lot of research on this, do you think it's a total impossibility that we never defeat terrorism? >> i think it is impossible to defeat terrorism in the sense that we rid the world of anybody who is capable and willing to carry out a terrorist act. that just is not possible. jenna: thank you very much. nice to have you on the program. >> my pleasure.

jon: the media remain under fire for the role that it played before, during and after the george zimmerman trial. is the criticism fair? our news watch panel weighs in. plus the shocking death of a young star of the hit show "glee" as hollywood remembers cory monteith. investigators are trying to figure out how he died. we're live with the fox 411. it starts with little things. tiny changes in the brain.

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jon: you ever seen the massive media reaction to george zimmerman's acquittal in the shooting death of trayvon martin. high profile case seemed to be racially charged from the get-go. when the verdict came in, celebrities, parts stars and politicians all expressed their opinions but one of zimmerman's defense attorneys say the media are to blame for fanning the flames. >> he was like a patient in an operating table where a mad

scientists were committing experiments on him and he had no anesthesia. he has no idea why he was turned into this monster but you guys had a lot to do with it. of course, you took a story that was fed to you and you ran with it and you ran right over him. and that was horrid to him. jon: let's bring in the news watch panel today. contributing writer and editor for the american conservative magazine and fox news reporter. the coverage, jim, did it inform or enflame? >> i don't think there's any date that the initial coverage in 2012 forced the hand of the florida authorities to indict zimmerman. joe scarborough called him a murderer, a flat statement. i wonder if that's legally actionable now. mark o'mara will probably sue nbc to make it seem like

zimmerman was socially pressured. i think that's good evidence right there. jon: there are some facts are trayvon martin that didn't come out in court. it's because the judge said these are outside the rules of evidence but the presentation of this teenager's life has been extra fantasized in the media as well as the courtroom. >> the court proceedings are limited to what the judge rules is admissible. if we're talking about the media story here, we need to separate that because this was a heated case. let's face it. and the media just don't choose every story to load up on. and whether or not everything that's been written about the background of trayvon martin, we could debate it today or tomorrow. i don't think anyone tried to keep out deliberately, deliberately interesting details about the life of either trayvon martin or zimmerman.

i just don't buy into that. jon: but let me ask you about that, though, because there was evidence on his cell phone that he was dealing in marijuana, that he had apparently bought and sold weapons, guns, one of his female friends chided him for fighting all the time. none of that was brought out in the courtroom. should it be in the immediate why? >> fair enough. you are right now. here is the beauty of it. you know about this. you're telling people about this right now in our presentation here. so i think that kind of proves your point -- or our point, my point. even stuff that isn't allowed in a trial is okay to talk about, debate on tv. that's why we have so much media out there. >> the point, though, is going forward. obviously they tried to railroad zimmerman and so to keep somebody else from being railroaded, we have a clearer sense of procedures here so as you know, jon, as a "washington post" reporter, when judge

nelson suppressed all the text messages not because she said they were relevant, she said they couldn't be proven. we have the whole national security agency analyzing everything. we could prove whether or not all those attacks on trayvon's cell phones were real and if they were real, they spoke to what kind of kid he was and let's have a better plan next time. obviously all future trials will have a heavy, you know, data, social media component to them. let's get a plan here where the judge can't keep stuff that was obviously exculpatory to zimmerman out of the trial. he could be in jail right now if the jury would have gone a different way and my view, if he had been convicted, it would have largely been judge nelson's fault. >> in all due respect, even if every detail of the text messages, every negative thing about his background had been out there, it still might not have been remained germane in this case. that means all the time in criminal trials, that the

background of someone isn't always admissible. sometimes it plays to the favor of a defendant, by the way. >> the media were all over the background of zimmerman. every accusation against him had a huge trumpeting and everything that was mentioned by jon wasn't in the media about trayvon. jon: the fact that trayvon was sort of cemented by the early photos that were released to him. the family brought out the photos of him young and age, age 12 or 11 like that. he was 17 when he died. we've seen the photos of the gold teeth and everything like that. you know, just the presentation in the media had a lot to do with it and the politicians are still getting on board. just this morning the congressional black caucus released a statement in which he said that trayvon was an innocent teen who died because george zimmerman chose to take the law into his own hands. maybe he died because george

zimmerman was taking a pounding at the hands of a much younger and stronger opponent. >> well, that's the point that was the much debated in the trial that the jury decided but to get back to what i think your main point is and the media aspect of it, without us doing a more comprehensive search here, we don't have time to do that, to weigh what stories were out there, talking about trayvon martin. clearly you know about a lot of facts that you think you think don't have enough -- didn't get enough coverage but the facts are out there about his life. and we all know that when it comes down to the moments a crime is committed, it doesn't necessarily matter what you did. if you were to have ar if you'rg citizen, it doesn't mean that someone is entitled to stalk you and as you know, get into a

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jenna: right now royal baby fever across the pond. all eyes on kate middleton with word that a future king or queen of england could arrive any day now but a lot of this is on a different time line than our other. amy? >> hi, jenna. we don't know where the royal couple even is right now. they're not at the hospital. we do know that prince william

officially on leave. he played in polo charity matches over the weekend but where he is now, we know he's not on his military base in wales. we assume he's at the duchess of cambridge's side, whether at the middleton family or with the family at kensington pal ace. the duke and duchess of cambridge will be birth to the queen's third great grandchild and prince charles' first grandchild. princess diana shunned the whole idea of a nurse at night, doing the work herself and breaking royal tradition, in fact, by breastfeeding. if william and kate happen to be at the middleton family home in berkshire that's 50 miles from here, some are saying that's pretty relaxed but with police, they could get here faster than it takes to cross the vast city of london in traffic. this is the waiting and betting

even continues at this moment. some book makers are saying this has been the biggest novelty bething event ever. >> will and kate, they're a young couple and i think we all fell in love with them because they're quite normal in a way and a lot of people can actually resonate with that and they just get away from the stuffy persona that the royal family used to have. i think people are hearing about the baby every day and it gives you a little extra excitement. >> jenna, so all of this about what do the british public want to see in a royal family? they want familiarity. they want normalcy but they also want a fair amount of dignity so a lot of people say that this couple has become as informal as they will ever get with one famous writer saying you don't want to let too much daylight into the magic. that's it from here, from the hospital where the kate wait continues. jenna: i love that. the kate wait.

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