>> steve: tomorrow, mitch album, plus mrs. partridge, shirley joan. >> gretchen: have a fantastic day. >> brian: and we'll be back. >> gretchen: see you then. 41-gun salute. screen left as it begins now and the ringing of the belk's at london's famous westminster abbey, screen right. all set to go. now. what a sight this is. from london town. [bells ringing]

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salute. 21 guns not enough for the new king in the united king dom. good morning, everybody. i'm bill hemmer. welcome to our continuing coverage on "america's newsroom" as we say hello again to my colleague martha maccallum live again in london where we could, at any moment, see the new baby. hey, martha, good morning. martha: hey there, bill, good morning. and listen to that. that is a 41-gun salute. we're hearing an enormous amount of applause and celebration in london today. this does not happen every day. a prince is born. a future king of england. 16 countries in the realm. almost a third of the population of the world falls under the british realm still to this day. david cameron, the prime minister, came out and acknowledged the importance of this moment yesterday. this is a important moment in our country and the an important moment in the lives after much loved couple.

this is a much beloved couple. they restored a lot of respect to the monarchy, some of which was lost in the '90s with those turbulent years. this is huge success for william and kate as they welcome their son. it is clearly a big moment for everyone across this nation today and reflected in this demonstration of military might this afternoon as we listen to the 41-gun salute. there also will be a 62-gun al absolute that will happen at the tower of london. it will be completed there. the bells at westminster abbey will go on without ceasing for three hours. it takes 10 bell ringers to carry out that feat and they will continuously ring over the course of the next three hours to welcome the prince. you wonder what the little guy is thinking in the building behind me. he has no sense what lies in store for him. we'll talk about that a great deal the next two hours.

what his life will be like. the first prince born in the age of social media and what he really has in store for him. i want to bring in simon perry who has been watching throughout all of this. step gingerly up on this box. simon is with "people" magazine. it is great to have you here. talk to us a little bit what we're hearing about the newest royal family this morning. >> well, they're saying everything is going well which is a great thing to hear of course after the first night. william stayed with his wife, catherine, in the hospital behind us. i hope they had nice king-sized bed for him. and, yeah, we are just waiting to see them i guess. martha: what's the latest w expm to come out and perhaps when they might leave the hospital and life? >> well, it won't be till this evening at earliest they're saying and maybe not even until tomorrow. we're still waiting for a bit more guidance on that.

they're probably having a nice time in that little cocoon atmosphere in the hospital room which is precious time for them as a couple to enjoy the first hours. martha: it definitely is because we know the minute they step out the world will really change in some ways for them and this young baby will have its first sort of media moment. it will be the first of many, many and you will be continuing to cover the life of this baby here in england. what do you think it is going to be like, the future for this child? >> crystal ball, i hopefully normal as it can be that he will be a prince. he is a prince and all the luxuries and prestige that goes with that. hopefully he will be able to grow up in as normal way as possible. school, twitter accounts and so on. martha: as long as simon perry is not following him too closely and cameramen and women not too far behind. we'll talk to you later. thanks so much. >> bye. martha: bill a little bit of

sense of what is going on here. really you would see whether they're treasuring the last period here, 10, 12 hours they have to be sort of alone and download everything that is happening to them. everybody was waiting for the baby to be born and the moment arrived yesterday afternoon and we'll probably see them later this evening. >> thank you, martha. waiting to see the baby and wait forge a name too. that is coming up later this morning. back at home president obama is set to pivot back to the economy in a significant way from the scandals engulfing the white house. the president taking credit for the improving job market in a series of speeches that will kick off tomor's the thing. it will be a pretty good speech. [laughter] but, you about, as we've learned, i've bien some pretty good speeches before and then things still get stuck here in washington. >> stuart varney, host of

"varney & company," fox business network. good morning to you. you've given some good speeches in your life. >> that is a great intro. thank you very much. bill: this is really, this is really trying to move the battleship and turn it around in open sea. how will he do it? >> this is a full-court press. this is a campaign-style series of videos and speeches which is going to go on for months. this is an attempt to refocus, repivot away from scandal, away from declining approval ratings, go back to the economy. the president's big speech starts tomorrow and xnox college. there will be a dozen more after that one. he is expected to call for more spending on education, infrastructure, green energy. more help for manufacturing and push through obamacare. no new policies. just a full-court press for the old policies and get them through congress. bill: so the other side is saying that is the 11th time the president will try to pivot back to issue of the jobs and

economy but your unemployment rate is still at 7.6%. why does everybody think everything is so good all of a sudden? >> welcome to the new normal. we're about to get figures on the strength of the economy which will show that we're growing way less than 2%. that is the new normal. yes, it is a recovery from the depths of the recession but hardly good enough for america. but that's what the president will go out and tout and say, we could be better, if it wasn't for congress, if it wasn't for republicans standing standing iy of my policies. that is what he will say. bill: you have a declining approval rating. mcklatschchy came out with a number of low 40s. 47.9%, stuart. how does that factor in for the message that the white house takes hold? >> that is why it is such a full-court press. get away from scandal which probably brought approval ratings down. get away from that. refocus. drum up energy. there was a closed-door meeting in washington. pell pell, senator --

nancy pelosi, senator reid, all the troops, activists, rah-rah session. get activists pumped up. campaign-style speeches. there was a attempt to repiv vote and focus away from scandal and declining approval ratings. bill: we'll see how it goes with this congress. see you at 9:20, fbn, stuart varney. >> thank you, sir. bill: another alert. laguardia runway is back in operation after a jam-packed southwest jet flight from nashville had a rough landing on the tarmac. the nose gear collapsed as the plane came down on its descent. 10 people went to the hospital. passengers saying they were given no warning of a possible problem before that crash landing. >> first thing that goes through my mind like, are people going to be freaked out? is it going to get, you know? all in all, hey, we walk ad way. no fire, no deaths.

>> what really happened until actually exited the plane. that's when i saw that. >> once you did, what was your reaction? >> i was scared but, you know, since nothing happened, i was shaken up. that's about it. >> of course we were like, what, got to be kidding me. we didn't even know nothing. she just said, everybody's off the plane and they had them in a bus and holding them in a bus. so -- >> she is okay i take it? >> yeah. she is doing okay. >> skidding towards the end and the nose was holding it down and then i saw a wheel pop off of the plane towards our plane. but everyone evacuated and the buss came and they were fine. bill: in the end they were okay, but, man, what a scare that must have been a statement from the airline now, quote, all customers have been deplaned and transported to the termnal. responders are caring for five customers and three flight attendants that reported

injuries at this time. the southwest is cooperating with the local authorities and ntsb has been notified. end of quote there. latest investigation how something happens like this and how in the end everybody gets off okay. wow! 12 minutes past the hour. martha. martha: all right, bill. well in a moment we'll talk to a former press spokesman for the queen herself. we will find out what his recommendation would be for when the royal child might be finally shown to the rest of the world here. could be over the next couple hours. we'll talk to him in a few moments right after the break, bill. back to you. bill: i'm cheering william george for that name. president obama making all out-push to for the health care law. calling on big-time celebrities. why is this necessary? we'll debate that with bob and mary catherine. the motor city is nearly out of gas. one of your cities, is yours one of them? what other cities risk going down the same road as detroit.

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bill: celebrities sell all kind of things, you know, but can they sell obamacare? the president, the white house, sure hoping so. mr. obama turning on the star power meeting privately at the white house with some of showbiz's biggest names. there is oprah. there is bon jovi. alicia keys. then there is bob beckel. former democratic campaign manager, co-host of "the five." mary catherine ham, editor-at-large of hotair.com. fox news contributor. if you want star power, why not call on you two. mk, if he wants to sell it, she has to call beckel. he has has second highest rated program in all of cable news.

>> young hit, suspenders. >> that is good for the segment. bill: that's where the compliments stop. mk, why do they need to do this? >> well they really, really, really need young people to sign up unobamacare because, young and healthy people are cheap to treat because they don't get sick that often. because they don't get sick that often they don't buy insurance that often because it is not a great financial decision for them when you weigh cost benefits. they need them to sign up to subsidize older sicker people. the facts are clear. pretty much nobody argues with them, because of that young people will get stuck with higher premiums especially buying on the individual market. so they need them to sign up and people like kanye west are really good getting people to buy $120 plain white t-shirts and maybe they can make them do this decision as well. bill: bob what do you they have the strategy? i get it is necessary because they're doing it. the question is why are they doing it? >> it's a good strategy but a

day late, dollar short. the problem with this whole issue the white house gave the playing field to define the affordable care act to the opponents and for many months they were trying to play catch-up. now they have got now, what, three months, four months until the opening of these exchanges. bill: 71 days. >> 71 days. so they're going out there to try to do it. mary catherine is exactly right, you need to have young people or the insurance industry who are for this thing or tentatively for it or they will back off. the question is they are doing the right thing but shouldn't they have done it earlier? bill: i wonder what they know on the inside that they have not seen just yet that young folks are not in tune with this as you rightly point out, if they don't buy into it the numbers don't work. >> not only if they don't buy into it, you have the death spiral everybody's premiums go up because you don't have them there to subsidize it. also one of the problems is, paying penalty for not getting

insurance might be cheaper than buying insurance even with a subsidy perhaps. we haven't seen the actual final numbers on a lot of this stuff. in that case, maybe a lot of folks are not tuned in, well at the end of the year, go, that penalty is not too much. by the way if i get sick i can sign up for insurance whenever i want because of preexisting conditions. >> poles say more people know more about the act they like it. problem is they don't don't knoh about it except negative information. young people that don't get insurance you're exactly right. they get injured badly in car wrecks and rest of us take care of them the rest of their lives. this is, they have been getting a pretty free ride. >> the free rider problem is small. they want them in the system because they're cheap. >> you could -- bill: right. you need more of them than folks that actually need the help. cbo says in 20,147,000,000 people will sign up for the marketplaces and 2.7 million, or 40% will be young americans. if those numbers aren't there,

this thing -- >> you're right. millions of people will be benefiting from it right now so. bill: all right. okay. what does the g stand for by the way? >> it stand for george which will be the name of the baby. >> i didn't know you guys were so close. bill: they shall be. >> right like this. >> see you at 5:00, robert. see you robert. this did not take long. george zimmerman back in the headlines and it has nothing to do with the acquittal grabbing the nation's attention. what he did that are many calling him aheer row. plus the royal baby watch. when will we see the future king, growing up in a media bubble, is much watched grandfather could only dream of back then. the great outdoors, and a great deal.

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martha: welcome back, everybody. we are outside of st. mary's hospital where we're waiting for an appearance of the new royal family and the baby to happen at some point in the afternoon, early evening we hope. i want to bring in i am mow gene lloyd weber to talk about social media which already played a huge role in the news that surrounded the birth of this royal child. in fact, 23,500 tweets a minute. the only event that passed that was president obama's election. huge number of tweets out there as all of this news broke over the course of yesterday afternoon. and then you had a million hashtag royal baby tweets go out within one hour. it just gives us a sense of the kind of reality that this child will be living in where it's every move will be cataloged and transmitted instantaneously over

social media. imogen, good to have you with us of course. what do you make of all that? >> the queen mother calls monarchy, an intolerable privilege, which is absolutely with will happen in the social media age on steroids at many levels. if there is anybody in the world who can help the his royal highness. princess of cambridge, baby cambridge through this, it is william. kate gave birth. we didn't know about it for hours. they managed to keep it, from all social media and keep it secret. william will be fiercely protective of the baby. he is laying down the law right now. it is very interesting, looking at william and harry growing up. they have what is around them as a ring of fire of friends. i know many of these friends of william's and harry's but they will never ever talk to me certainly about william and harry of the they know what i do for a living and certainly you will see royal baby. the royal baby will meet some friends at school.

william will probably be helping the royal baby pick those friend out and they will be very protective of the royal baby. martha: yeah. and indeed, you know, kate has been so careful about her own image and it goes back to her days at st. andrews. even the a couple of pictures that leaked out of her dancing or having fun at parties, never with a drink in her hand. it would appear that all along she had hoped this would be her future because she was very careful in an age when all of this was starting to, you know, corrupt a lot of people's lives and give them problems. exactly -- >> exactly that. william talked about in the engagement interview with kate how they hoped they learned the lessons 2349 past, meaning all the problems for diana. diana was married to the heir of the thrown so a huge level of pressure. kate is allowed to be a flexible royal. hands-on mother. no news afnan any or anything

like that. stay-at-home mom. do engagements, here and there that royal baby has a buffer zone. it is extraordinary. we're in the position for the first time in over 100 years of four monarchs basically alive. four generations of monarchs. you have the queen, charles, william and the baby. the baby will be protected a bit more. the press are aware. they do know that william believes on many levels they drove diana to her death. so they are a little bit more understanding, certainly in the u.k. so there should be a degree of privacy for the royal baby. of course difficult in the social media age. martha: yeah. perhaps the baby won't be taking lessons from prince harry who has been a little less successful and has some unfortunate pictures leaking out. and we saw yesterday, when kate went into the hospital, there was sort of an agreement that no pictures would be circulated of her actually going in. we saw the cars but no kate. we wait for her to appear on the

steps behind us here this afternoon. thank you so much. we'll speak with you later. bill, back to you in new york. bill: i think harry will be a great-uncle. thank you, martha. awaiting the first picture of the new prince and awaiting the name. you will hear it here first when it happens. al qaeda a surge is brewing. hundreds of senior operatives in the terror group are now on the loose. we'll tell you where and how this happened next. for a strong bag that grips the can... get glad forceflex. small change, big difference.

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bill: we have a fox news alert. the pope is on the road and a day off for pope francis after a busy start on his trip to brazil. the pope was welcomed by thousands traveling in that small car in rio. but there was serious concern for his safety after a bomb was found inside of a shrine he was scheduled to visit. less than an hour after his welcome ceremony, violent protests also broke out in many rio. fire bombs were thrown at police who responded with rubber bullets. the anti-government protests started last month. in addition to all that, the pope's driver apparently got lost for a short time along that parade route. his trip continues in south america. in the meantime, is al-qaeda making a comeback? an ominous development in the war on terror. al-qaeda claiming responsibility for an assault on an iraqi prison freeing hundreds of the worst criminals, many of

them with death sentences including senior members of the terror organization. the deadly raid taking place at iraq's notorious abu ghraib prison. ambassador john bolton is with me now, the former ambassador to the united nations and a fox news contributor. sir, good morning to you. >> good morn, bill. bill: what does this mean about the strength of al-qaeda not only in this country, but also where as you rook at 500 of the most wanted behind bars, many sentenced to die, are now free. >> i think it reflects the growing sectarian conflict inside iraq itself as the sunnis become more radicalized in the conflict with the shia-led government of prime minister al-maliki. and i think it's very bad news. i think it's a reflection on watches after the united states -- what happens after the united states withdraws militarily and our ability to kind of tamp down some of these sectarian conflicts diminishes.

but i think it's also got significant implications worldwide. the al-qaeda in iraq franchise was probably the biggest, it was considered al-qaeda's central front in the war against the west before the bush administration surge in 2007 and '8. and i think that if iraq descremeds into the kind of civil war that we see now in syria, that this problem, this radicalization, this opportunity for al-qaeda is only going to get much more serious across the entire middle east. bill: even if we were there in great numbers, what kind of numbers have had to keep there no prevent incidents like this? >> well, i think it's less a question of numbers than the political significance of the united states being there. you know, a lot of the effort was undertaken during the surge in particular to try and reinstill a feeling of iraqi determination to have a free nation, a secular nation. that's disappeared. now, it may have been a long shot to begin with, let's be clear, but it's disappeared with

the withdrawal of american forces, the al-maliki government is effectively under the control of the ayatollahs in tehran on key important strategic decisions, and i think that's one reason why the sunnis, the arab sunnies and the kurds have come into increasing conflict with al-maliki and why the risk of iraq descending entirely into sectarian conflict is a very real one. bill: by the way, there was another attack on a prison knot of bag -- north of baghdad, that was repelled by the government forces of iraq that we largely have trained. but it comes back to the fundamental question how equipped and how capable are iraq's forces of maintaining peace and control in that country. do we know that? >> where well, some are well trained, but i think the real risk is that forces that are nominally part of the army or the police force of iraq itself are really thinly disguised shia militias under al-maliki's political control and under the

influence of al-sadr of the iranians, of a variety of shia organizations just as on the sunni side they're increasingly susceptible to al-qaeda. so i think when you see these two extremist views really growing in strength, you can see why the likelihood of at least the prospect of sectarian civil war is very real. bill: 500, most of them convicted senior members of al-qaeda and had serviced death sentences -- had received death sentences, and many of them are free now. john bolton thank you. from washington. in the meantime, george zimmerman is back in the news less than a week after he was cleared of all charges in the shooting death of trayvon martin. florida police saying that zimmerman helped rescue a family trapped in a flipped-over suv. here, now, one of the 911 calls from a witness on the scene. >> yes, i just witnessed an accident on the off ramp --

bill: wow. that is remarkable. police saying zimmerman was one of go men who came upon the crash. he left after speaking with a police officer on scene. now, his lawyer, mark o'mara, remember him? saying that he is not surprised that zimmerman stopped to help. >> i wasn't surprised at all. the timing was sort of unique, but the idea that he would stop to help somebody out in trouble is the george zimmerman who i've known or found out about his whole life. so the idea that this is now who he is is just in his nature. and i just wish that people

would look at this and understand that's who he is. bill: o'mara, the comment there. of a family of four, apparently, inside that suv. george zimmerman had been in hiding since more than a week ago. detroit is not the first american city to file bankruptcy, but it is by far the largest by a long shot. a list of major cities that might go next after detroit unless something changes. is your city on the list? and a link between skipping breakfast in the morning and america's number one killer. ♪ ♪ what makes your family smile?

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bill: that's a bit of a problem there. our apologies for that. sometimes the earpiece doesn't work from new york to london. but we'll get back to st. mary's hospital and martha in a moment here. waiting to see the new prince. he's going to be out someday, we're told, and also awaiting a name. we also await the first court hearing related to detroit's bankruptcy filing. what a mess this is. we're getting a better glimpse of how other cities could be heading down the same path. moodty's put minneapolis on that list, chicago, cincinnati, santa fe, new mexico, and portland, oregon, all based on the finances they're now seeing in those towns and specifically in those states. art laffer is here to explain, senior adviser for ronald reagan. good morning to you. were you aware of these five cities and, if so, what is their state, and are they going to be the next detroit? >> yeah, those five are five of the bad ones. but let me tell you, there are

three ways that these cities have problems. number one, we have the worst single recovery in the u.s. in u.s. history, and that puts every state and every city under pressure. then you've got the states like minnesota with mark dayton as the golf that's just -- as the governor that's just raised taxes dramatically, and that just doubles down on the damage done to minneapolis as well. ohio has been a disaster case for years and years and years. john kasich is trying to do a good job there, but he's fighting strong headwinds in the state, and i'm from cleveland myself and, i can tell you, it's a real tragedy what's happened to ohio over the last 30 or 40 years. bill: do you think just before we get to detroit, michigan, are they, are they truly headed the way detroit is? >> yes, they are. they clearly are. i mean, when you have 1400 separate income taxes in ohio, 1400, every city, county, each one has a separate income tax added on to the state income tax added on to the federal income

tax, and you wonder why people aren't working. bill, you can't tax an economy into prosperity. and they're -- bill: i didn't think the taxes were that big of an issue michigan, it was the pension plans that were set up 50 or 60 years ago that they're still living off of. >> but that's true too. it's a confluence of all of these events lined up. detroit has a separate income tax of 2.5% on individuals. it also has a separate corporate tax in detroit itself. does that explain why people move to the suburbs? then you have michigan has a separate corporate tax and a separate income tax. it's one of the most unionized states in the nation. they have about the poorest division of public services, and yet those public employees have about the highest pay as well. so michigan as a state is the number 50, the worst performing state -- bill: the worst. >> population, labor force, employment and total state product, they are terrible what's happening and, of course, state finances follow suit. bill: so you would argue then

the bankruptcy move, they had no choice then? >> no, no choice whatsoever. and if things continue the way they have, you're going to see a lot more coming down the pike as well. and they'll just go michigan, detroit happens to be the very worst in the nation of major cities. bill: this is like a ponzi scheme. you're taking money from the people working and paying taxes and giving it to folks -- how can you blame them? i mean, listen, they were under contracts, art, for decades. >> of course, they were. bill: now they're retired, and they have an expected income, and they're waiting for a judge to sound off on whether or not they're going to get 75 cents on the dollar or 50 cents on the dollar or a dime on the dollar. >> exactly. that's what happens when you have corrupt government that doesn't look forward for years and years and years. now, no one deserves to be liable for their pension underfunding, no one does. who pays their bills? that's where they are today. that's the nature of a bankruptcy is everyone loses.

how do you solve it? bill: there's a court hearing tomorrow, but i think it's going to take some time before we really figure out what the judge is going to decide here. big, big issue though. these other cities are waiting and watching to see what this judge does to see whether or not unions in other towns need to renegotiate now so that they can safeguard, you know, the greater majority of the money that they believe is coming their way. >> yeah. well, the administrator of detroit, bill, tried to do -- i mean, i saw an interview with him, and he's just excellent. he tried to negotiate all these things ahead of time so they wouldn't have to declare bankruptcy, so they could solve it rationally, and they wouldn't go along with it. the unions would not allow any of their benefits to be reduced and, therefore, there was no choice. you know, with states by law it's a contract. the pension benefits are a contract, and the only way you can break a contract is by declaring bankruptcy. that's not true of the federal government, but it is true of state and local government. it's amazing. bill: yeah. we'll see what happens beginning tomorrow in the court. thank you, art, good to have you

back on out of nashville, tennessee. martha? martha: hello there, bill. we can hear each other again. and as i mentioned earlier, we're waiting for the prince to come out. we know that kate and william and the baby are doing well according to kensington palace. we do expect we'll see them over the next several hours. very latest we're learning would be tomorrow early morning as she continues to recuperate from the birth of the baby. and we also know william has just two weeks off from raf, he's a rescue helicopter pilot, a job that he takes very seriously. over the course of the rest of the summer, he'll be considering what he will do next, whether he will finish out his term with the raf, and then that ends, and will he continue to serve as a pilot, or will he start to take on more royal duties? and this becomes one of the biggest questions here in terms of who plays what role. the queen, obviously, has no, no

suggestion that she has any intention of tenning down. when the queen -- of stepping down. when the queen took her role she said whether my life be short or long, i will serve my country til the very end. that's exactly what everybody expects she will do. but we do expect we'll take greater roles taken on by prince charles, also by prince william and especially if he decides not to return after his current period is up with the raf, so those are big decisions that face the new dad in the very near future. back to you in new york. bill: and all of us who thought it was going to be a girl were flat out dead wrong. i was one of them. thank you, martha. all right, a new push for answers on benghazi in a big way on the hill. some republican lawmakers breaking ranks, demanding a special investigation. we will talk to the congressman who is leading that charge in a moment. and better eat your breakfast. how skipping your morning meal may dramatically increase your risk of danger -- developing, rather, a dangerous disease. ,

♪ ♪ bill: about eight minutes now before the hour, skipping breakfast might be risky. a new study published in the journal circulation showing that men who do not have the most important meal of the day have a 27% higher risk of having a heart attack or dying from coronary heart disease compared to men who do not eat breakfast. with me now, dr. stephen garner of new york methodist hospital. good morning to you. >> good morning, bill. bill: what do you think about this? >> i don't know, let me ask you, do you eat breakfast? >> i do. >> they just look at if you did eat, you had a 27% less risk of

dying from heart attacks. bill: okay. so the study said they looked at what you eat in the morning, right? because there's an internal clock that regulates the body's function. >> you can't mess with mother nature. when you take a plane trip to another country, you get jet lag, right? well, the body's supposed to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner. when you skip one of the meals, it fools the organs of the body, and the pan crease and the heart and the liver all go awry, and they begin to malfunction after many years. bill: i see. so why did they not look at what you ate? that would seem like an important item here. >> me too. i think they missed the boat. they looked at 27,000 men, this was a study of cause and effect to say if guys don't eat breakfast, are they going to get heart attacks, so it was slightly different from cause and effect. so they didn't have control, they didn't know what the people ate because they looked at all the studies. bill does that mean the study is better or is not? >> it limits the study.

they also found a number of interesting things. you get up at night and you want to eat, then you have a 55% increased risk of getting a heart attack. don't fool with mother nature, eat when you're supposed to eat, eat breakfast, lunch and dinner, eat in moderation. bill: did you think this was related to heart disease? because that's what they, apparently, found. >> well, if you skip breakfast, you tend to be more obese, have high blood pressure and tend to have increased cholesterol, so these are all things which lead to heart attacks. common sense, if you have all the things that lead to heart attacks, you're going to have more heart attacks. bill: 27,000's a pretty big sample though over a 16-year period. that's a pretty good amount of time. >> >> i think it makes -- you have to, you know, take notice. it's definitely something. if you're skipping breakfast, and they looked at who skipped breakfast, all those who don't work out, those who drink a lot of alcohol, those who are unmarried and those who don't, who have full-time jobs. so it describes a lot of people, but people who you tend to put

in an unhealthy category, right? you smoke, you drink. those were the people who tended to skip breakfast. is the fact that they're unhealthy to begin with leading them to more heart attacks or skipping breakfast more heart attacks? another thing that's left open, that we don't know. again, i wouldn't go crazy. if you're not hungry, don't stuff your mouth for breakfast, you know? but eat in moderation and know that the best way to eat is probably four meals a day, breakfast, lunch, dinner and a snack at bedtime. bill: okay. thank you, doctor. they've been warned. steven garner, thank you so much. see you at breakfast. >> take care. bill: big scare at one of america's busiest airports. a plane comes in for a lamming without its front landing gear. whoa. >> from what we know, the aircraft landed on runway four, and the landing gear collapsed, the nose wheel specifically collapsed. [ mortazavi ] i'm definitely a perfectionist. details are really important during four course. i want to make sure that everything is perfect. that's why i do what i .

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martha: all right. we're here outside st. mary's hospital. there is definitely increased security presence we've seen over the last couple minutes. they're closing off areas that we've been walking around fairly freely in last couple minutes. over my shoulder, there is some indication we may see family members arriving some minutes away. we'll keep a close eye on that. we have some indication it may be members about kate's family, perhaps the middletons. we'll check in with when we know and certainly we'll take you live when that happens. as we await that, we'll get back to a some of the excitement and pomp and circumstance over the past 24 hours. >> hooyy. hooy a ay. on this -- hooyah. this year the 2013, the a future

king, first-born of the royal family, the duke and duchess of cambridge. the third heir to the thrown. grandson of her majesty the queen and the grandson of the prince of wales. may he one day reign over us. governor safe the queen! martha: we are outside of the hospital, choppers above, clearly excitement building here. not sure which family members we're about to see. look over my shoulder here for a moment. you can see sort of in the crowd there ed perkins, who is the press secretary for the duke and duchess of cambridge is in the crowd. also some palace spokesmen are also gathering. we have some indication it may

be kate's family. there was a lot of speculation they might be here during the delivery last night. we have learned that was not the case t was just prince william in the room and kate as the baby was delivered with the doctors. we'll keep a close eye what is going on here. as soon as news breaks we'll bring you back here live, bill. back to you for now. bill: thank you, martha. waiting on a name, waiting on a face. meantime back here in new york, laguardia airport is open this morning after a hard landing of a southwest airlines jet that temporarily closed the airport last night. the frond landing gear collapsed upon landing, sending the plane's nose into the tarmac as it skidded to a stop. hear the passengers on board describe how they felt and the panic throughout the aircraft when that plane went down. >> the front one didn't stop when it was supposed to, you know. it didn't stop where it was supposed to. it skidded and on fire. >> describe the sparks and fire

you saw. >> sparks and this on the side and fire. not a fire that means it blew up. >> when he got over grand central park way, that is when he started, you know, he went nose down. >> was there a noise or? >> kind of like a boom noise. it wasn't too loud but, yeah, that's scary. >> then what happened? >> he crashed! as you cane. >> julie banderas live in the new york city newsroom. this could have been a lot worse. what happened when the plane tried to land, julie? >> reporter: can't imagine what it was like for all of those passengers and went through their minds in those moments as it attempted to land on board flight 345 as their two-hour flight from nashville came to an abrupt halt here in new york. here is the boeing 737 being towed off the tarmac this morning. passengers described feeling jolt when it hit the runway. that that jolt was the landing gear buckling upon touchdown a passenger on a us airways flight

about to take off and saw the whole thing, said the landing gear look like it just crumbled on impact. among the 150 people on board including crew, 10 suffered minor injuries. six passengers and at least five crewmembers were transported to local hospitals for back and neck pain. four were treated at scene and four others suffered anxiety attacks. fortunately the plane didn't catch fire or the situation like you said could have been much worse. the plane touched down within the first one thousand feet of the runway. it skidded into a grassy area halfway down the 7,000-foot stretch. it is still unknown exactly when the nose gear failed. the ntsb is investigating. of the incident caused delays for dozens of flights in and out of laguardia airport causing one of the nation's busiest airports to shut down. it reopened today but slowed air travel. bill: this accident is not that common though, is it? >> no it is not. those about to board a plane

overall. in fact air travel had its strongest safety record in recent years this latest incident happens to come after a recent string of high-profile commercial jet accidents in july including the crashes of an asiana boeing 777 that killed three in san francisco as you may remember. according to the ntsb southwest has only had one accident involving a fatality. in 2005 one of their planes slid off the runway in winery conditions that is bit. a pretty good record for them. bill: thanks. julie banderas live in new york city on that. the parents have arrived. back to martha now in london. martha: all right. moments ago here outside of st. mary's hospital we did see a car pull up. very non-descript vehicle. karen and michael middleton, the parents of the duchess of cambridge. the grandparents. they went in to have their first visit with the daughter. this is the one of the first indications why we haven't seen

prince william and duchess yet with the baby. she was waiting for her mom and dad to arrive. we have a former press spokesman for queen elizabeth and a long-time close person to the royal family. vicki what do you make of what we're seeing here today? >> they arrived in a taxi, ordinary london tax system what i make of it, kensington palace announced if they were to leave today, late afternoon but not before 6:00, possibility of leaving tomorrow morning. a visit by mom and dad indicates they won't be going to tomorrow morning. then why would they come up to the hospital? martha: that makes a lot of sense. the buzz we're hearing comes from folks who are possibly security people who are watching the situation very closely and they expect the prince of wales may also make an appearance. so it appears that the schedule is that family members are indeed starting to come to the hospital. perhaps kate is not ready to go home. the duchess wants a little more time. who can blame her right? >> can't blame her really. you as a mother what the mother

goes through in giving birth and an 8-pound, 6-ounce baby is very big baby. she is probably in the best place too. get climatized and have rest after gifting birth. martha: you have given a lost advice over the years to the queen how to deal with the media obviously. there is media from all over the world here. news crews from russia, from turkey, from croatia, literally organizations from all over the world. so what would you be advising them in terms how they should make the presentation to the public here? >> what they are going to do, this is sort of standard thing, they will come out of the lindo wing and walk to the middle. road and pose, pose for pictures. there might be questions shouted at them from reporters. william might well answer, how do you feel, that sort of thing? but they won't be under any pressure to answer any questions. basically what they want is a photograph. a bit of film footage for news. a bit of a photograph for newspapers and magazines and a sighting of the baby.

the baby will be cradled i would have thought in mom's arms. whether or not they see the face we don't know. we didn't see william's face when they came out in 19826789 we didn't see harry's face either. depends on the weather. >> we remember the shouts, princess diana, show us the baby, show us the baby. everybody wants to see, everybody is curious to see the baby but we may not. obviously they will be setting the tone how they want the relationship to be with this child with the press. >> yeah, exactly. william is carrying a lot of baggage when it comes to the press. he remember what happened to his mother in 1997. the british press, the paparazzi, he lumps everybody into one. what a lot of people forget and what he remembers, they went on the holiday, in virgin islands, there were boatloads of british press, floating in the sea, photographing harry and his mother on the beach. so he has not forgotten about

that. the british press, they also harass and that's what he doesn't want. martha: we'll speak to you later. many thanks. bill, back over to you in new york. bill: great insight, martie that. we'll see if he is right in a matter of hours or moments outside the hospital. thank you, martha. back here at home there are new calls into the investigation into the attack that killed four americans in benghazi. texas congressman steve stockman is our guest. wait until you hear what he is trying to do to try to get some answers. a powerful storm causing flooding in one state. the homes and roads that are underwater. you wonder what earth looks like 900 million miles away? you're about to find out. ♪ [ male announcer ] come to the lexus

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bill: it is raining in deserts. when it rains in the desert this is what you get. a soggy weekend followed by a downpour that dropped three inches of rain. forcing drivers to either brave the floods which is not recommended or simply sit there and wait. forecasters said the area near phoenix should see a break in the heavy rain today or tomorrow. for them we certainly hope so. another alert now. watch the hill at noontime. new pressure on house republicans to bring a vote on legislation that would allow a special committee to investigate the deadly consulate attack in libia. my next guest releasing what some believe to be the largest petition ever presented to congress. literally. a 60-foot long scroll of veteran signatures who want this investigation to happen. republican congressman steve stockman out of texas is member the house foreign affairs committee. sir, welcome to our program and good morning to you. >> good morning, bill. bill: we'll get to the event in a moment but why do you think a special investigation is necessary?

>> 2 has been a year since benghazi happened. my own committee which is investigating benghazi, we now had two hearings canceled. we believe because it is witnessing tampering or intimidation. the state department refused to release a lost witnesses from commitments, they signed an oath of secrecy or whatever. we're asking the state department to allow witnesses to come forward, stop interfering with the investigation. since they refuse to do that, we're asking for a special committee that has subpoena power to open up this, what is really the sad situation and i believe it is involved with many people in, i think this could be explosive if it ever got to the people. >> the house speaker john boehner has not gone there he has been asked about it repeatedly. he said four different committees doing fine work already. why is he wrong? >> well, because obviously i'm one of the members of the committee. we're not getting cooperation from the state department. we need more subpoena power. more focus on this issue. it is not working.

if it was working i wouldn't say anything but quite clearly if, if you are having witnesses that don't show up, that don't want to come, who claim that the state department is forced them to sign additional security agreements, this is, this is a situation where we need somebody with special powers to issue subpoenas -- bill: doesn't the house have subpoena power now? >> not really. apparently we have tried to get them to come forward but there is some contradiction between what they have signed, when they first come on the state department. the state department also made them sign additional pledges. so there is conflict what they can talk to us. if we have special subpoena powers i believe we can get to the bottom of it. bill: others argued otherwise on that. but you believe this benghazi investigation will lead somewhere. what is your hunch? where will it lead? what answers will it give you? >> we have so many in the administration trying to block the testimony. we haven't even heard from some

of the survivors that were there. we haven't heard from a lot of people. the way that they're so obstinate about this and so willing to go around congress and not let us hear the information, it just raises the level of suspicion that there's something going on. if there was smoke, there was probably a lost fire. bill: so you think they're hiding something quite clearly? >> clearly they're working so hard to stop witnesses coming forward. bill: the 60-foot scroll at noontime i do believe? it has been signed by a thousand special-ops veterans. will this happen today or are you getting resistance from capital police. >> capitol police say we're not allowed to do it. we're working with them. we'll unfurl the scroll and demanding that we have a special investigation. we owe it to the survivors and we owe it to the victims that were killed there. that more of the story be told. this is not something we should hide from the american public. bill: have you contacted the speaker's office and told him about your intentions and if so? >> oh, yeah.

we issued -- he hasn't said anything to me personally. i will let him know i respect the speaker. i respect pete session, my fellow texas congressman. this is something that hasn't really been done since 1934, releasing a petition against a rule of the house. so we're, don't know where it is going to lead to but we hope it leads to finding the truth and getting to the bottom of it. bill: you think this is the kind of attention it needs. 1934 you say? that was the last time? >> that was last time cording the parcel men aryan a kiss charge petition was con against the rule in the house. so we're doing something a a little bit novel but i think it is unprecedented but it is meaded. bill: one of the military leaders as you know now will be interviewed. this was a man thought to be in retirement or near retirement and i was some would argue blocked from an investigation. he will now speak. will that give you answers you need? >> i hope so but i also want to hear from some of the survivors

that are not being allowed to speak and also some people that apparently signed sworn statements of silence. i call upon the state department to release them from those commitments. bill: all right, sir. we'll see where that goes. thank you for your time. >> thank you. bill: steve stockman, noontime, a 60-foot scroll. we'll see how it goes sir from capitol hill. >> thank you. bill: 17 minutes past the hour. let me get back to london now and martha. martha: it is family time here at the hospital, bill, at st. mary's. we just watched carol and michael middleton walk in. no doubt a very joyous moment as they see their daughter for the first time as a mom and meet their grandchild. prince charles, we're just learning from the press secretary to from the duke and duchess of cambridge, charles is expected to be here five p.m. london time. so noon very shortly. clearly the plan is for the family to meet here and then we'll find out when we'll actually get a look at the baby

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coins. coins are more expensive to produce than bills, advocates say it is still worth it because the coins last up to 30 years longer than a paper bill in circulation. hmmm. martha: we are back outside the hospital at st. mary's. so much of the waiting game here is what the child will be named and of course in england they never miss any opportunity to bet on anything. i'm here with my friend rory scott of paddy power, one. top entities taking bids on the royal name. you have a cute little guy now. yesterday we didn't know whether it was a boy or girl. everybody thought it was a girl so all those people were wrong. how are we doing with the royal baby name? >> 120,000 bucks in 24 hours. push the total market past half a million pounds. that is extraordinairery. moist of the money on the name, george is the current favorite, regal george. seeing a lot of money. it is 7-4.

that cut in slightly. james the name of catherine's brother. martha: alexander on the list, richard on the list. lewis is one of william's middle name as is phillip, the duke of edinborough is phillip and that would be high. james is kate middleton's brother. >> that is her brother. i like alexander. alexandra is favorite for the girl. that is modern name. william and kate are modern couple. they want to do their way. they have the family to appease and a thousand years of royal tradition and don't want to upset the queen. martha: long odds, you don't have the name of geoffrey on here. "game of thrones" fans are big in the u.s., geoffrey. >> is this geoffrey in england. geoffrey with the accent. i think it would be a little shorter than silvio at 300 to one. i think geoffrey would sit 100

to one. that is quite an english name, isn't it? martha: you managed to get somebody who bet it would be hashtag. get to the point and hashtag and get the twitter feed going. >> names are coming out of fashion. not whether they're trending to start trending but we're taking money on everything. martha: so when you look at these names on the list, when do you expect we'll get an answer on this? >> we're actually taking bets on that. odds on today. i don't know whether that will come good. william of course took a week, maybe 10 days to be named. charlie, prince charles was a month. so i might be outhere in a month's time with this board. martha: we will see. i'm betting on george. we'll he will see how it goes, rory. great having you around this week. we'll see who makes some money on this. >> we'll see. thank you very much. martha: roy scott as we stand outside st. mary's waiting for the next group of family perhaps to arrive. we send it back to you, bill in new york. bill: love a man who bring as chalk board to work. thank you, martha.

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bill: right about 10:30 here in new york. 3:30 in london. one of our top stories back here at home, six passengers, three crewmembers recovering a day after a hard landing of a southwest airlines jet at laguardia airport in new york. 150 people on board. here is the airport's general managetory explain what happened. >> the nose wheel specifically collapsed. the aircraft skidded down the runway on its nose and then veered off and came to rest in a grass area between the runway and taxi way foxtrot about halfway down the runway. bill: dr. vernon grose, former ntsb member under reagan administration and a member of the omega systems group. good to see you again after all these years, doctor. p thanks for coming in. tell me what you believe about the pilot, what he knew and did not know when he was bringing that plane in, do you do you

believe? >> earliest reports said he knew he had a problem but i don't think he did. if he had he would have flown by as they did with jetblue eight years ago in los angeles and they would have him look at the landing gear. i don't think that happened. bill: in other words you circle the runway, you get a chance for tower to get a close look at you, and tell you what they see, is that what you're saying? >> right, that's what i think. also think about the injuries, bill. because we've got eight people injured but i don't know whether they were injured in the aircraft itself or probably trying to use the escape out of the airplane. bill: that is an interesting point because sometime that happens. you mentioned this jetblue deal in l.a. eight years ago? why? what was the outcome of that, doctor? >> for one thing it was an a-320 instead of a 737. southwest has almost exclusively 737 aircraft. these were a-320 with a nose gear problem. i have not heard of one since

but what they did there, if he had known he had a problem he would have landed nose high on the main gear and then, at the last minute, lowered the airplane down on the nose but i don't think that occurred here at laguardia. bill: i see. so what you can do is buzz by the tower, busy airspace by the way too. not necessarily an easy thing to do in heavily trafficked skies here in new york city. is there an indicator on board in that cockpit that would tell the pilot whether the landing gear is up or down? >> well there was in the case of jetblue. he had a caution light that came on and that caused him to burn off all his fuel for three hours over the pacific ocean in los angeles. but i don't think that occurred here. this flight was from nashville, a relatively short flight and probably didn't have a lot of fuel on board. i don't think he knew he had a problem on he set it down on the nose. bill: is it difficult for a pilot to land a plane if the

front landing gear is not down? >> not really. i think it's a minor problem if it is handled correctly. what he would have done if he knew he had a problem, he would have landed very nose high on the main gear until he could at the last minute lower it down on the nose gear, then it wouldn't have been very consequential. in this case i think the fact that he veered off the main runway at laguardia says he didn't know he had a problem until he sat down. bill: it takes some skill. southwest, how is that airline's record? >> well they have, in recent months they have been criticized for possibly poor maintenance. i don't know how that ever was resolved but i don't think, if it were a problem, it could be a maintenance problem or it could just flat be an o-ring that failed or a nose gear strut that might have failed because the landing gear operator will also be in on the investigation of the nts. about. bill: you also mentioned you burn the fuel. you do that to lessen the weight on board the plane. how much does that help though

when you have 150 people on board and all that luggage in the cargo hold? >> well the less weight you have on the gear the better. in other words, if the main gear can sustain that weight, that's a good thing and so they wanted to get rid of the weight but also the fire potential as well. bill: all right. dr. vernon grose, thank you. have you seen many cases like this by the way? think about all the planes in the air every day. it is not common. doctor? >> no, it really isn't. it really isn't. these people lucky. we hope injuries are minor and they stay that way, minor. dr. vernon grose, good to have you on our program out of washington, d.c. 33 minutes after the hour now. there are new concerns about voters rights in california after the u.s. supreme court allowed gay marriage to resume in that state, ruling that ordinary citizens could not legally defend the law in federal court. critics worry the ruling will

put all ballot measures in jeopardy, limiting the right of voters to pass laws without government. claudia cowan on the story out of san francisco. claudia, hello to you. >> reporter: good morning, bill. ballot initiatives like proposition 8 give voters a way to get around as they see unresponsive or even corrupt government. because the justices ruled on the standing issue, rather than on the merits in the prop 8 case it essentially requires that very same government to defend voter approved laws in federal court, something elected officials may not want to do, if for instance, the law calls for campaign finance reform. legal experts say while the ruling is a victory for gay rights advocates they should also be concerned because next time they could find themselves without legal standing if a law they supported is challenged in federal court and elected officials refuse to defend it. >> i think even left-of-center groups who read the decision are now concerned about their ability to move forward with

initiatives and have an adequate defense in the courts of those initiatives. >> reporter: experts worry the ruling could breed cynicism. people might feel their vote doesn't count if no one is willing or able to protect their interests in federal court. one likely remedy to all this? another ballot measure says if there is a federal lawsuit, initiative proponents could act as agents of the state. >> to say when individuals vote for an initiative they're also authorizing or deputizing the proponents to defend that initiative in court. >> reporter: most experts predict this would be in the form of an amendmentment in to california's constitution. this would get broad bipartisan support. this is not idealogical issue but procedure having adequate legal representation. bill: claudia cowan in san francisco, thank you. labor unions trying to stop

detroit from cutting pensions are now bringing their case to court. union members say they're worried about their pensions and are trying to derail the city's attempt to declare bankruptcy. that hearing is scheduled for tomorrow would determine whether or not other courts could hear similar lawsuits against the city. when we get a ruling however is not clear. a 911 civil shutting down one of the most populated cities in america. how dispatchers kept it running. lying to the public. >> way back! bill: until now. ryan braun is an all-star. he is an mvp. suspended without pay by major league baseball. is baseball ready to go after other all-stars? >> if i ever made any mistakes in my life i've taken responsibility for my actions. i truly believe in my heart and i would bet my life that this substance never entered my body at any point. hey! did you know that honey nut cheerios

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bill: new york city's 911 system

crashing yesterday, forcing operators to revert to plain old, plain old pen and paper to record emergency calls. the system going off-line a number of times for a total of 90 minutes? in a city of eight million people? according to reports this all slowed the response time as bit. it is now up and running yet again. no word what caused the failures. we're told it may have something to do with the data storage equipment. an official says the system is 30 years old and it is being replaced. they were jotting down numbers and calls on pieces of paper now. major fall from grace a man once named the most valuable player in all major league baseball's national lying. milwaukee brewer, ryan braun, now officially suspended for the rest of this year. he admits to using performance-enhancing drugs. he is 29. said in a statement, quote, i realize now i have made some mistakes. i'm willing to accept the consequences of those actions. i am glad to have this matter behind me once and for all and i

can not wait to get back to the game i love. you wonder if it is behind him once and for all. jim gray, sportscaster, fox news contributor, jim, good morning to you. he has a record when it comes to this stuff. i want to get you on record. what do you think of the result from yesterday? >> well, i think that baseball has gone after these guys in this whole biogenesis thing and they have nailed ryan braun. they have been unhappy since he was able to get out of a suspension on a technicality when he was able to say that the proper was flawed which it was and so was the test. he denied and denied. he lied to his teammates. lied to the public. lied to ownership and lied to the commissioner. now he is in the same category as lance armstrong. bill: wow, that is heck of a thing to say there. i want to show you what ryan braun had to say in february of 2012. this is man who apparently found, caught red-handed. he said the handling of his

urine sample was not legitimate. he appealed and won but this is what he told his teammates, the public in milwaukee and the rest of america. listen. >> if i had done this intentionally or unintentionally i would be the first one to step up and say, i did it. by no means am i perfect but if i ever made any mistakes in my life i have taken responsibility for my actions. i truly believe in my heart and i would bet my life this substance never entered my body at any point. bill: wow. just listen to that now and think, as you say, deny, deny, deny. now yet he is caught again. major league baseball did have him, did they have him in the cross-hairs because of what happened a year ago? >> sure did. they were very upset with what happened and technicality and the procedure and ryan braun owes an awful lot of people apologies, particularly the drug tester just outside of milwaukee. his name was besmirched.

arbitrator was fired by major league baseball because they didn't agree with his decision. he put other people's lives in peril and in jeopardy over the way that he has based. now he wants everybody to say okay, i will take accountability. it's a little too late for that. he has to pay the price for the consequence of his action and now he will. he also preyed upon the good name of the owner of the brewers who defended him. he was the brewers, guy, fans out there supported him and integrity and honesty of the ownership and it is all just wrong. you know, this is the scourge of professional sports. yesterday we talked about the greatness of phil mickelson but we also have all these guys using performance-enhancing drugs and this biogenesis thing will get bigger now. this legitimized, what tony bosh, the owner of biogenesis is saying. now all the other guys under this cloud of suspicion, this evidence must be pretty strong for ryan braun not to want to appeal the suspension and for

him to say, okay, i'll take it. bill: there are reports that he has text messages going back between him and tony bosh. he was presented with the evidence and caught red-handed. by owe genesis is an anti-aging clinic south florida. apparently a lost baseball players, maybe as many as two dozen or more? were visiting this clinic including that of alex rodriguez from the new york yankees. what does this say about baseball and how they're going to try to clean this up? >> well, it says that some of these young men are trying to fight father time and they're going to an inaging clinic and not to -- an aging clinic and it is not to stop the aging. this is to get performance enhancement. this puts guys in awful lot of peril. there will be a lot more suspensions coming. this evidence must be very, very strong. major league baseball is happy. the commissioner's office is happy that ryan braun took this step. now they don't have to spend money on appeal and go through

arbitration an helps him with all these other cases. they're not happy to suspend the former mvp of the national league. this clears the deck. watch out alex rodriguez. bill: you think so? you think a-rod is next? >> i do. yes. >> and after him? >> well look at the names on here. it is going, they're going to have a tough fight. major league baseball, the home office and the commissioner, they know they're going to have a fight with a lot of these guys because they're not going to step forward like braun did because they're going to fight it but the interesting thing in all of this too the major league baseball players association and michael weiner, their executive director, they have said now they will not defend people who have overwhelming evidence against them. he has come out and said that. bill: interesting. >> the players union always gone on board and always helped these guys with appeal, even in the face of tremendous guilt. so that's a big change and i think we're going to see this get cleaned up. they want this program to

succeed. bill: wow, an interesting last point you make there. jim, to be continued, okay? jim gray from los angeles. nice to have you, jim. >> thanks, bill. bill: 14 minutes best hour. what in the world do we look like from 900 million miles away? stunning pictures of planet earth, deep, deep, space. ♪ members of the american postal worker's union handle more than 165 billion letters and packages a year. that's about 34 million pounds of mail every day. ever wonder what this costs you as a taxpayer?

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martha: so we're back here at

st. mary's hospital and a lot has happened over the past 24 hours, bill. as we've been kind of taking you through all of this, the baby born yesterday afternoon. everybody thought it was going to be a girl and then the ripple through the crowd as we all got the news on our iphones and our blackberries, it was a boy. it was a joyous announcement. the whole city of london lit up last night. the fountains were turned blue. big screens had storks flying across the city of london on top of them. flags are everywhere. today we've seen the incredible gun salutes and all of the official royal pomp and circumstance welcoming this future king to the thrown and behind me, bill, the very traditional, everyday moment that any family experiences. grandma and grandpa middleton getting first look at their baby and their daughter. at that moment, doesn't matter if it's a fought ture king or just your grandchild. bill: it is an incredibly special moment. we also understand we'll see more members of the royal family

showing up tonight and we may see kate and william and the baby come out this evening as well. that of course is going to be the big moment that everybody will be waiting for here, to finally get their eyes on that little child. it's possible we may get a simultaneous smut announcement -- simultaneous announcement of that baby. it is completely understandable and that is what kate and michael middleton are enjoying. whether or not kate is getting her hair done and getting a ready for a big appearance. lots more to come from st. marry's hospital. a truly memorable event and one that we'll look at pictures of for many years to come. bill, back to you. bill: very cool stuff. thank you, martha. talk to you in a couple minutes live outside the hospital, st. mary's hospital. meanwhile back on earth, nasa giving us a look of earth as we've never seen before.

cassini aircraft sending back stunning new pictures. that is tiny speck is what we look like from saturn. saturn is 900 million miles away! corey is here. >> thank you, bill. bill: got the big screen for you. >> even on the big screen that's it. so, you're looking at here, it's a little weird, so let me explain. this is actually on the far side of saturn. you're looking over saturn's shoulder. this is the night sky of saturn. you're seeing the night side of saturn. these are the rings which are kind of overexposed because you need to see this very, very faint little dot out in the distance which is us. you're looking over the shoulder of saturn, 900 million miles away. all your hopes and dreams are on that little dot. bill: this looks like the dot we see by the hundreds, right, on a nice clear night. >> there was a moment when neil armstrong first stood on the moon and held up his thumb and moved it over, wow, i can

cover all the earth with my thumb. it doesn't make me feel big. it makes me real small. that doesn't take a thumb. it take as pinhead. bill: cassini is flying around saturn? >> cassini is flying around saturn. it is nuclear powered spacecraft since 2004. studying the planet, studying rings. bill: nine years now. >> nine years. bill: is this the first time we've seen this image in nine years? >> this is first time we've seen a view like this. there was one earlier picture they took. this is the first time they planned it out. it took 323 different shots they stitched together. yeah, here's the other version which is, there we go. there we are down there, we're even smaller. we've been reduced. >> when you get, yeah, when you get, it is properly exposed when you see the rings either gets even fainter. bill: holy cow. >> you're seeing sunlight stream through rings of saturn.

this is view no human being has ever seen. we've got a robot watching from behind saturn looking back towards the sun. bill: is it the sun's rays that give rings around sat urn its reflection and color? >> right. normally through a telescope you're seeing light bouncing off. this is here, sunset on the rings. the sun is setting behind saturn. something no human being has ever seen. bill: that is really beautiful. there is another shot that shows the earth and the moon. have you seen that one? >> yeah. bill: that too makes us quite small. fascinating stuff, corey. what do you expect next from casone? >> this mission has already done incredible things. it found geysers of ice on one of sat urn's moons. it found on another moon lakes of liquid natural gas, might be what earth was like billions of years ago. found lightning storms on saturn. in terms of understanding how that little dot fits into the bigger universe, to me it is

amazing that the human mind can do this. that we know how to build this. you know, no astronaut has ever been there yet in a sense now every single one of us has been there, forget about mars. we're going to saturn now. >> that incredible. we've all gone on saturn. they actually did a campaign, caroline, the researcher who created this image, she ran an internet campaign to get everybody on it to wave when they took the picture. about 20,000 people around the world, on that little dot are waving simultaneously, hi, to the camera. bill: terrific insight. thank you for coming back. corey powell. >> what a great thing to come for. bill: you know who else knows about this? the nsa. kidding. >> they have the rest of that picture. bill: from the nsa surveillance of millions of americans. liberal democrats, conservative republicans teaming up on the hill. their plan to rein in the controversial snooping program.

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bill: tens of thousands are backing washington's guard to get a bloom, known as the corpse flower. it is 250 pounds. it gets its name because it attracts prey with indoor odor that resembles rotting flesh. the flower started blooming sunday. expected to collapse on itself. the garden's last corpse flower boom was six years ago. 2007. we get the rotting corpse over here. you get a fresh little baby, martha, there outside the hospital. martha: how about that, you never know, right? a lot of excitement continues behind us. the middletons are inside with their daughter. we do expect, we're hearing that prince charles will be coming. no word whether camilla will be with him. the excitement is sure to continue throughout the evening. we may get our first glimpse over the next several hours of the baby, bill. we'll let you know if it is named william george.

bill: pulling for william george. come on, william george. we'll get you home real soon. martha: i will see you real soon. bill: i will let your husband and three kids know we have not let you run away. we found you. >> right now, brand new stories and breaking news. >> take a look at the pictures they look disasterous. we're told passengers on board this plane were never in any real danger. we'll talk with an aviation expert about why and what pilots really fear the most when they're landing. also, 50 years ago. evil visiting a family in connecticut. new police dispatch calls shed light what went down during a horrific home invasion. listen up, men. a new study out there says there is a life or death reason to eat our breakfast. it's all