not participate in the program. disgusting. >> just when you think obamacare can't get worse, what happened to the war on women. >> be dazzler says these ads are offensive. a ploy to defend obamacare. thanks to everyone who responded. >> "fox & friends" starts now. bye. good morning. it's wednesday, november 13. i'm elisabeth hasselbeck. harsh words for the president obamacare rollout from one very high-profile democrat. >> even if it takes changing the law, the president should honor his commitment the federal government made to those people. >> it gets worse. the white house backtracking on their promise to fix obamacare by the end of the month. >> amid typhoon wreckage and desperation, one statue still standing tall. a sign of hope for those still trying to cope with disaster. >> then the tallest

building in america is the world trade center. chicago's mayor thought they had the biggest building. it was. now he's unhappy. >> if it looks like an antenna, acts like an antenna, guess what? it is an antenna. >> good point. thank you. second place not sitting well with rahm emanuel. don't give him the runner-up trophy. we're number two, but the show is number one. "fox & friends" starts now. >> you're watching "fox & friends." that's a great way to begin your day. >> his whole point was it's not the building structure itself. chicago is. but if you count the antenna, new york wins. >> the antenna quote, that will go down in history. >> every time i see him, i envision him in a towel poking me in the chest. >> he calls up people in

the shower. >> he did at the house gym. >> i've never been comfortable in the shower. >> i'm all for healthy competition but i say new york. we should have that. >> any way, we've got more on it in a little while. give us five or so minutes we're going to completely update you on obamacare. the president of the united states was in dallas last weekend talking about how the website was going to be better by the end of this month. "the washington post" is quoting some sources inside the white house saying that it is unlikely now that it is going to be fixed. valerie jarrett, who pretty much runs the white house, was at a "new york times" event yesterday. listen carefully. she pretty much says it's not going to be ready when she says we will see substantial progress. doesn't say it will be fixed. listen. >> we are seeing progress. it's complicated. it's challenging. but the president has made it very, very clear that we're going to just keep

grinding away until we get it right. we are looking towards the end of the month to see substantial progress and feel comfortable we are on target for that. it is a complicated challenge but we've got to get it right. >> substantial progress but doesn't say it will be fixed. >> she is referring to the man brought on board to clean up the obamacare website disaster. he actually said a couple of weeks ago that by the end of november the majority of people, vast majority of users will have a smooth experience. this is -- i'm not sure if he misspoke but certainly a redefinition of what was promised two weeks ago. >> the insurance exchange they say can handle right now potentially 20,000 to 30,000 people at one time, half of its intended capacity. i said it at the time, you probably saw it at the time and probably screamed it into your creel -- cereal, why would you set yourself

another deadline you can't possibly guarantee. why would the president back himself into a corner like that? why would jeff zeinst say i'll get it done by the end of the month. jeff ze i nst said this is so much worse than i ever thought. >> you've got to be signed up by the end of december. that gives people one month. that sends people to the call centers. the call centers are screwed up too. meanwhile president bill clinton was on. who knew ozzie on-line magazine had such interesting bump music but they paid it during this sound bite with president clinton where the president said so many times if you like it, you can keep it. now bill clinton says that president should keep his promise. here's bill clinton. >> i personally believe even if it takes changing the law the president should honor the commitment the tp-rg made to those --

the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they've got. >> that's pretty significant. >> what he's saying is a wakeup call, i think, to the administration right now. apparently president clinton was speaking with a family quite unhappy about losing their coverage, premiums hiking up. he speaks for the majority of americans but also the majority of democrats right now who may be up for reelection. their constituents are not happy. so he's saying look, you've got to at least level with the american people and keep the promise. what a statement from him. >> senator dianne feinstein is coming out, we ought to pass legislation. senator mary landrieu scared to death she is not going to be reelected. red state, louisiana is coming out. but you can't possibly mandate independent companies to reinstate individuals, a situation where they're going to be losing money. because the obamacare

constrictions relegate them to a losing situation. if you're going to keep obamacare in place as it is, you cannot force a private company to insure people by a federal mandate. >> what they would do is roll it back to where all that stuff in the affordable care act, you don't have to follow it. >> we're talking subsidies; right? there's more money we don't have, maybe subsidizing those that lost their insurance is going to be the option. now we have the situation we're digging into an empty pot for cash that is not there on the backs. american people who are now facing higher premiums in insurance. >> you have the president of the united states coming out against this plan, you have senator dianne feinstein coming out with a plan. now you have james carville coming forward who does tend to speak his mind. he said this to megyn callie last night. >> this has been not just a disaster. it's been a joke. people look at it and say i don't think he's doing a very good job. to some extent you can't

blame some people for thinking that. >> you look at the news yesterday. one million people in the state of california lost their insurance. the quinnipiac poll people have been out and about asking americans what you think of president barack obama. this first one is jaw-dropping. here it is. would you say barack obama is honest and trustworthy or not. 44% say yes, he's trustworthy. a majority of americans say no. then when you look at his poll numbers, his job approval rating is down to 39%. it is the lowest ever recorded in his presidency. even women now disapprove of the president. 54 disapprove. only 40 approve, down from 49%. 45% in the october 1 quinnipiac poll men disapprove, 58%. if you look at the fact over and over he said if you like it, you can keep it. >> that's the problem.

here's the problem. the president has trouble getting his message across because we have kitchen table politics. everybody now that has their budget affected directly in play is making their own judgment about the president. they're not waiting for the 30-second ad, they don't care about the personal biography. charles krauthammer says things that looked so dim in september have turned around here forblicans in november. if they're smart about it, this is an opportunity. >> we have not just obamacare unraveling, not just the obama administration unraveling, not just the democratic majority of the senate, but we could be looking at the collapse of american liberalism. obamacare is the big thing for them. the biggest in a hundred years. and this is a moment we have to be calm. we have to understand what holds us together on the right. we have to watch and explain why the failure of

the left is happening. and if we do that, we will win. >> i think in a situation that seems dire for most american people, insurance chaos, he speaks truth. i think ultra conservatives and moderates in the republican party have an opportunity now to speak some sense to the american people. and certainly from the senseless comments they have been getting about their policies, they are hungry for that. that was on the o'reilly factor last night. >> one other note you need to know about, later today house oversight committee is going to call in todd parks who is the white house's chief technology officer. he's got a lot of explaining to do. you'll see it all right here on fox. >> for the rest of the headlines, we're going to head over to heather nauert. >> for the rest of the explaining. you know it's really cold here in the northeast when all the guys in the studio are wearing hats this morning. >> i thought ted just knocked over a seven-eleven or something. he's got a ski mask on.

>> that's the old ted. >> the beard's coming back. overnight a scare in the air for passengers on an american airlines flight. their plane was forced to make an emergency landing in orlando due to a cracked windshield. the pilot noticed this problem shortly after takeoff. he was headed from miami to boston with 156 passengers on board. it's still not clear what caused that crack in the windshield. we'll keep watching this one. americans kidnapped by pirates last month have been released. according to the u.s. state department they were taken during an attack in the gulf of gu i nea. details of their release are not being made public at this hour but experts say it is common for victims abducted in nigerian waters to be set free after ransom is paid. their identity is not released yet. the death toll from the devastating typhoon in the philippines is rising to more than 2,200 people. that includes at least two americans that we know of

so far. there is still only a trickle of food, water and medical supplies making it to the hardest hit areas there. desperation is now forcing some survivors to take extreme measures. take a look at the video. you can start to see people looting a mall there. in another incident eight people were killed while they were looting a rice warehouse when a wall collapsed and it crushed them to death. amid the wreckage in the disaster, an amazing sign of hope. take a look at this. it is a statue of jesus that survived the storm completely intact. a sign of hope there. it is official, new york is home to america's tallest building. once it is completed one world trade center will be taller than chicago's willis tower. a whole lot of controversy over whether or not the needle on the trade center can be counted as its total height. one windy city mayor not

too happy. listen. >> if it looks like an antenna, acts like an antenna, guess what? it is an antenna. >> one world trade center official height is 1,776 feet. those are your headlines. rahm emanuel getting a little upset about it. >> their building is taller but our spire makes us taller. >> after all we've been there, give it to us. >> are you really going to mess with world trade center. >> are you going to mess with 1776? hello. >> our greatest allies not on the same page when it comes to making deals with sinister nations. >> iran gives practically nothing and it gets a hell of a lot. that's not a good deal. >> has the united states gone soft on a nuclear iran? this video goes against the fairy tale. the rabbit actually -- checks this out -- wins the

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it is now 16 minutes after the top of the hour on this wednesday. when it comes to preventing a nuclear iran, is the united states doing its job? >> we are not blind and i don't think we're stupid. i think we have a pretty strong sense of how to measure whether or not we are acting in the interest of our country and of the globe, and particularly of our allies like israel and gulf states and others in the region. >> this is a huge change from the pressure that was applied on iran through the effective sanctions regime which brought them to the table in the first place.

in other words, iran gives practically nothing and it gets a hell of a lot. that's not a good deal. >> is the obama administration hurting israel and emboldening iran and what does that mean for our future in the middle east? let's talk to our fox news contributor, mr. cal thomas. hello, cal, we are not blind and i don't think we are stupid. >> i did not have sexual relations with that woman. come on. i'm with the prime minister on this one. first of all, you're dealing with a group of religious fanatics. when you have people who believe that their god wants to eradicate israel and the jewish people as a religious mandate, it's very difficult for a secular diplomat to come in and say, all right, let's see, would you just kill, say, maybe a hundred thousand instead of a million? can we do that kind of a bargain. the sanctions had been working. if they hadn't been working iran wouldn't be at the table tphe first place. >> it seems like we have leverage now. it looks like over the

weekend we were that close to a deal that pretty much gave iran everything they wanted and israel is saying excuse me, over here, we're going to get screwed. >> god bless the french. they stepped in and said this is a lousy deal. the prime minister of israel said a bad deal is the worst possible outcome, and he's right. i mean, we're not dealing with equality here. even franklin roosevelt and winston churchill misjudged josef stalin in 1945. he's a good guy. he's not going to hold on to poland. he will have free elections. of course he didn't. bad guys are bad guys because they're bad guys. making a deal with them, kerry says we're not blind or stupid. i've got plenty of examples of that throughout history. >> no kidding and you've written a column that details some of those. it seems every time in the last couple of decades we have asked israel to negotiate on things, they've gotten the short stick. >> it's fascinating. there are reports in the israeli press this week

that kerry met for seven hours with netanyahu with rome last month and told him europe was ready to impose sanctions on israel if israel didn't move forward with its negotiations with the palestinians. let's see now, we're talking about removing sanctions from iran but imposing them on israel. what's wrong with this formula? >> no kidding. what do you think they're going to do? >> it's hard to say. kerry says we're going to monitor this but it's important to remember iran has come this close to a nuclear weapon with sanctions in place. so i fail to see that somehow believing that they're going to hold back or pull back, we have a history of this. we made a deal. jimmy carter goes to pyongyang and they say we'll shut down our nuclear reactor. they get food and humanitarian supplies and start it up again. this is what tyrants do. they lie to the west. >> absolutely. since the sanctions are

working, they should say lift them and we will pull the plug. >> it's a long shot. >> let's see what happens. cal, thank you very much. meanwhile, remember the jets fan who slugged that lady right in the face? this morning we've got an update. kaboom, there it goes. tuesdays with morie is the number-one selling novel of all time. now there is "when heaven calls." ♪ ♪

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welcome back. we have quick headlines. sentencing begins today for james folger, this comes three months after a jury convicted him on 31 racketeering charges and murders. he was found guilty on 11 of 19 murders. kevin trudeau convicted of contempt. he'll be sentenced in february. >> his first book "tuesdays with morrie" is the number one best-selling memoir of all time. good job. since then his array of bestsellers have been made into successful tv movies and plays as well. >> now he's back with a new story sure to tug at the hamstrings -- heart strings

, it is called"the first phone call from heaven." >> congratulations on it, a novel, but you always base it on something we can relate to. what's this about? >> a story about a small town in michigan where i live that starts one day getting phone calls from heaven. only it only happens in one little town. it starts to happen and when the world starts to find out, everybody starts converging on this town because they want a piece of this miracle and it becomes bigger and bigger. there is one guy in the town who lives there and is broken hearted because his wife died and he's raising a seven-year-old boy and the boy starts walking around with a toy phone saying when is mommy going to call up. his anger says he's going to expose this as a hoax. as he's trying to expose it it is become bigger and bigger. in the meantime there is

the worldwide broadcast of a phone call from heaven, just as he thinks he's figured out the hoax or if it is a hoax -- and if i tell you anymore -- >> let's go live to the boy in michigan. >> i know how it works. they are saying what about you with the phone call? what's about you? that's probably how it would have happened. >> i think there is a lot of realism in there. you say you're not overly religious but your writing has a strong faith and human connections with the stories. where does that come from? >> probabl tuesdays with morries, a lot of people asked me about the issues or problems and one of the last things morrie said to me before he died was i want you to come visit me at my grave and talk to me. i said how am i going to talk? he said like i'm talking about. you won't be able to talk about. he said i'll make you a deal, mitch. after i'm dead, you talk,

i'll listen. i think everybody feels that way. everybody would like to have a conversation with somebody who's gone, they would like to hear their voice again. >> you and i were talking about after my mom died, the one thing i wished i could have had was one last phone call. i think a lot of people would like to have one last phone call. >> the human voice is precious. my mother suffered a major stroke three years ago. she can't speak. i haven't heard her talk in three and a half years. i used to as a kid wished she would stop talking. that is what every kid says. then all of a sudden you miss that voice. i think the human voice connects people and we're in a world where we're getting totally disconnected. we text each other, facebooks. >> what are you proudest of in this book? >> the point of this is, first of all, it is longer for phaoerbgs got more characters -- longer for me, got more characters in it. hopefully people take away

the idea that if you have a little miracle and it happens to you, it doesn't matter if the rest of the world believes it or not. you've seen people who have lost somebody and they're in their bedroom and all of a sudden a picture falls off, that's a sign. they were talking. you can bring a physicist in and they'll prove why that fell off but it's not going to change a person's mind. the kind of the point of the phone call from heaven is if you believe you're on the phone from somebody and talking to your loved one, it's okay. if that makes you feel better, it's all right, like your dream. >> a great time to do this, during christmas. >> it may have been a freudian slip talking about the hamstrings. >> that was a good save. >> i get there on my own time. >> the first phone call from heaven. mitch, thank you very much. >> coming up straight ahead. >> they're known for singing the president's praises but now some brave

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♪ we are family ♪ i've got ♪ all my sisters ♪ with me >> your shot shot of the morning. look who it is. it's steve and his son peter. wow! >> we profile in a great feature called families in the media. we're going to be talking with peter on later this morning. >> peter's going to be live at the white house. >> is that the first feature of you two? >> it's a great shot. >> first photo shot of the two of us, yes. it's the 35th anniversary of ad week and they're looking at families where

the children have gone into the same business as some of the parents. along with us, the car menzons; bill bradley, ben bradley of the washington and hugh hefner. >> there's "duck dynasty" and you are fox dynasty. >> where do we pick that up? >> adweek. >> you have to go to the offices? >> adweek.com. it's that close. >> go to adweek. are you done with that? that's great. >> do you guys remember, speaking of hash tag, all the celebrities out there? we saw this all over twitter, a ton of celebrities getting out there to get people to sign up for obamacare. >> hash tag covered. >> they went over -- bigwig

rob lowe said the country is losing personal responsibility. he's asking now, the star of "killing kennedy" right off of bill o'reilly's book. he's saying where are they all now? where are the celebrities now that this is just not working? >> just my own world view is that the individual need to be more responsible for their own lives, and that's not the conversation we're having right now for whatever reason. >> the whole thing is, you can go back to the banking, where the banks fell apart. you sign a bad mortgage, it's not your fault. sometimes you get duped. ultimately, first responsibility. everyone voted for whoever they voted for because they thought obamacare was going to be the cure-all. it's not doing that. you voted for it, you confirmed it, you supported it. and now you've got to own up to it. now you've got to stay, stew in your own juice.

>> there were a lot of celebrities who tried to get us to get involved, you know, people all across the country involved in the affordable care act. now the fact that we were misled on so many different things they're backing away because it's not good for their personal brand. >> hash tag oops. why don't we try that. >> i'm sorry, that's what they'll say. >> always hard to say i'm sorry but not hard to talk to heather. >> hash tag stir in your own juice. i like that one. good morning to you all, hope you're off to a great day. news to bring you now. caught on camera, a jets fan punching a female patriots fan will appear in court later today. he's been charged with assault and disorderly conduct. the woman is expected to appear in court as well. this is not his first run-in with the law. he served three years in prison when he was 17 years old for criminally negligent homicide for the

stabbing death of a friend. we'll keep watching that story for you. >> two gonzaga university students placed on probation after using their legally owned pistols to scare off an intruder but they now have their guns back this morning. they have been told to store those guns in a nonuniversity residence from now on. security at the spokane, washington, campus took dan mcintosh and eric vega's guns after they said a man was trying to force themselves into a university owned apartment. they are now in -- on probation. >> a new york cop stopped a man from jumping off a bridge. this man was apparently unemployed and said he was distraught over not being able to provide for his family. officers tried to talk him off that bridge, and they were finally able to grab him, getting him safely down. they should have bet on the bunny. a rabbit runs on the track at the end of a horse and

cart race in the neglect land. he -- netherlands. he beats his opponents to the line. not official but looks like he cheated his way to first place. >> who won? >> the hare. >> let's check out video from texas. look at that. >> oh my. >> it looks as though it was tkpwhraoeugd -- gliding over texas skies like a horizontal vortex. >> could that turn into a tornado? >> fortunately those roll clouds are not ominous at all. they are no threat to people. >> they're fun. >> exactly. you're like it's a roll cloud. somebody caught a video of it out of texas. that was bonnie mack. she had the day off, decided to get a video camera out and record this. we are so glad she did. it lasted about 20 to 30

minutes. it usually is associated with a thunderstorm but in this case it was not. it can be also caused by cold wind. that is why we think that one in particular formed by cold winds. as you head out the door early this morning across parts of texas, parts of the east you're looking at very cold temperatures. i want to show you how cold it is right now as you head out the door in places like chicago, in places like across tennessee, even parts of the south. current actual temperatures, 29 in new orleans, 24 in memphis and 21 degrees in atlanta, those are your wind chill temperatures. as far as how warm it is going to be getting this afternoon, the actual lie 49 in atlanta, in new york city only 39 degrees. you factor in a breeze and it will be feeling much colder as you head out the door. the good news is the cold air is not here to stay. we'll be rebounding in the next couple of days. dallas, by the weekend we'll be back into the

80's. looking pretty good as we head into the next couple of days. brian, we'll have to deal with those cold temperatures for today. >> 21 minutes before the top of the hour. you can always expect excitement when lebron james is on the court. last night no different. watch this. the miami heat looks strong. they were going to win easily last night, 118-95 but there's highlights i want to share with you. there's lebron james doing what he's doing. he had one highlight where he's on a break-away, hopefulfully we included it. lebron james still playing hard 33 points in all, 118-95. last night i missed this game because i had a chance to go to a book signing in huntington which was really cool. i got to meet a lot of people that came out to see george washington secret six. here's one of the things, that is our assistant producer who came down. i insisted she wait ph line

like a pedestrian. that's addie mckay. then some other people. they are all special. listen to this. do you know robert townsend. last night up comes the townsend family. they have a foundation. they hand me paper work dating back to the 1500. they say it is going to move you closer to getting agent 355. they say look through this, call us back. we're excited this story is now front and center. so we actually had news at an event. that's going to be cooling. >> you must have been up all night going through those? >> actually no. by thursday i'll be in steve's neck of the woods at book ends in new jersey. >> ridge wood. >> a star-studded night in washington, d.c. at the thurgood marshall fund gala honoring the achievements of those who have provided

a positive impact on students of public historically black colleges and universities. fox news correspondent kelly wright was there and joins us from the bureau. >> reporter: hey, i had a great time there. the thurgood marshall college fund raised $3.8 million during the gala. 500 of the best and brightest college students were the guest of honor for the event. the fund raises money to help provide scholarships, mentoring and job placement for deserving students. bill cosby hosted the star-studded gala. >> i'm here tonight because there are so many children coming from families that couldn't afford a tuition

[inaudible] raising money -- >> miss america was among the special guests as well attending it. her platform is to promote appreciation of diverse city. she believes in the cause of the thurgood marshall college fund. >> raising millions of dollars is something i can absolutely empathize with. it is a wonderful opportunity for our young generation. >> all right. that's it. helping more than 300,000 students. >> great job, kelly. big night. >> great cause as well. >> straight ahead. >> the associated press calling medicaid health overhaul's early success story. really?

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that's...wifi friendly. ♪ the associated press calling medicaid's health overhaul's early success story -- look at that headline. how could you call it a success story when 440,000 people have been added to medicaid and only 50,000 people have enrolled in private plans? how does that make a success story? stuart varney is here. this seems like a reach. >> it's a stretch by any imagination. how can you call it a success when basically you've introduced a huge new entitlement program with runaway costs which you can not afford and when you cannot already reform the entitlement programs you've already got. because that's what this is. 440,000 people signed up for medicaid. they bypassed

nonfunctioning exchanges, signed up for medicaid in just six weeks in just ten states. all together nine million extra people will sign up for medicaid when this is all done. and that's got to be paid for. initially it's paid for by washington national federal taxpayers. eventually some of the costs will pass to the states. essentially this is a gigantic new entitlement program with runaway costs. i don't call that a success. >> when people sign up for a free program to get free access, that is not considered, i don't think, on anyone's ledger, a success story. it's am amazing how the a.p. seems to be reaching for the story like others have jumped off the band wagon. >> let's call it for what it is. nine million people will eventually get health care coverage and that, i suppose, that is a good thing. they don't have coverage now. they're going to get coverage. but forgetting the cost

here. there is run away costs with this new entitlement program. we don't have the money. it's not being funded by obamacare. who's going to pay? when the bill finally comes in, how big will that be? we don't know. >> just wait for those subsidies to come in for all those people that lost their health care plan. president obama is going to come through with subsidies. more money we don't have on a program we can't afford when we were told it's going to be deficit neutral. >> those people who have to pay for coverage are not signing up. those who get it for free are signing up in droves. not a success. >> stuart varney 9:20. if you're a cable subscriber. see you there. varney and company. straight ahead, it's the world's leading cause of heart disease. we're talking heart disease that could affect your family. brand-new guidelines suggest a specific drug for millions of americans which could lengthen your life. dr. marc siegel here with information that could save your life.

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well, heart disease is the leading cause of death world wide. now the first new guidelines in a decade for preventing heart attacks call for one third of all adults to take cholesterol-lowering drugs. is this a safe idea? we're here to ask dr. mark

siegle just that. >> good morning. >> good morning. so these new regulations, they just came out. correct is this. >> right, from the american heart association and the american college of cardiology both. these are very powerful, from the top heart groups in the country. >> what are they saying? >> they're trying to trying the orientation away from the number. like not what your bad cholesterol is. let's not look on that script and say your ldl is 130, 160. let's look at the patient and what are the risk factors that the patient is going to have heart disease? does the patient have a family history of heart disease? does they have high blood pressure or cholesterol? a risk of stroke? do they smoke? are they diabetic? these risk factors will determine whether you go on the cholesterol-lowering drugs or not. >> one of the risk factors means you should be on statins? >> they're saying one of those risk factors means you should consider a statin. they're saying 15% of americans are on it now. let's double that number. let's get it to 44% of men and

22% of women should end up taking statins. let me tell you the problem and let me tell you what i like about it. the problem i have is i'm not a guidelines person. i think everything has to be patient by patient. there are a lot of nuances, how much do they exercise or weigh? how much of a family history do they really have? everything is not a formula. so i'm against guidelines in general because they tend to be misinterpreted. what i like about this is broadening the concept because i think statins are tremendous drugs. i think they save lives. they've been shown to retard plaque in the coronary arteries. they've had dramatic results on people with heart disease and people at risk. so it's time to increase their use. but again, it's a doctor and patient relationship. >> we have an image here of someone specific three has been helped by this, president bush. it's you. you're not on the bike there. >> no, no, i wouldn't be on the bike. >> this is actually a life saving method. but there people that shouldn't be on them? >> you're talking about president bush? he got a stent this year.

then immediately is on these cholesterol-lowering drugs. he's on statins, lipitor. people should be on them for sure who have had heart procedures or heart attacks or any kind of heart problems. but the other group, the broader group are those who are at risk for heart attacks and heart problems or stent. those who haven't had a problem yet. that's the controversial group. and what these guidelines are doing is expanding that so that more of those people at risk get it. again, i don't like a guideline, but i like the concept. >> sure. i like focusing on the patient. thank you so much. great information. >> good to see you. a navy seal killed in a deadly chopper crash in afghanistan. his parents say the white house is to blame for covering up a taliban ambush. they want answers and they are here live. and you are look at the most expensive artwork ever sold. this painting break world records. the staggering amount it sold for at the top of the hour. ♪

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and ask about special discounts for aarp members. adt. always there. good morning. it's wednesday, november 13. i'm elisabeth hasselbeck. time is not on their side. the white house now admitting it may not make its november 30th deadline to fix the troubled obamacare web site. plus the president's trust numbers not looking good. then take a look at this crazy video. wasn't flames that proved dangerous for one firefighter. it was fierce wind that carried him away. we'll give you the latest. >> and is this how you start your day? ♪ i'm late, i'm late, for a very important date ♪ >> a lot of people are. it may not be your fault. the science behind always running late. "fox & friends" hour two for this wednesday starts right now.

>> it's "fox & friends". some people are just late all the time. >> right be. like the obamacare web site. >> bill clinton, famously was late for everything. and in fact, he is in the news in a moment. giving some advice. he used to be referred to as the secretary of explaining stuff. >> he still has that title. president obama is not happy the way he explained this stuff. >> no kidding. >> not at all. remember, was it a couple weeks ago we had someone who called fixing the obamacare web site and everything should be running smoothly for the majority of americans come the end of november. well, valerie majority says we're not really sure if that's the case. she was at a forum at the "new york times." take a listen. >> we are seeing progress and it's complicated.

it's challenging, but the president has made it very, very clear that we're going to just keep grinding away at it until we get it right and we are looking towards the end of the month to see substantial progress and jeff feels comfortable we're on target for that. but it is a complicated challenge, but that's no excuse. we've got to get it right. >> she was pretty clear there. we've been told, the president of the united states was in dallas last week and he said essentially that the web site is getting better and by the end of the month, it will be working the way it's supposed to. but with her saying by the end of the month we hope to see substantial progress, she doesn't say it's fixed, that flies in the face of what we've been told. this is going to be one of the prime things they'll be talking about up on capitol hill today when the chief technology officer for the white house explains why the obamacare web site simply does not work. >> how unbelievable was it that the administration says, we can't give him to you guys to talk to because we need him to work on the web site. you had your chance.

okay? he can miss 2 1/2 hours. so he can come up and talk and explain things. listen, don't be worried abou talking over our heads. don't be worried about talking too much inside baseball. we'd like to be inside baseball for a change because so far we've been locked out and we can't get in. but i also thought was amazing yesterday is that once president clinton opened up and talked about how the president finds a way to insure those people, then comes all different senators coming forward joining with their meeting last week and starting to divorce themselves from obamacare. we're also seeing the 30 second ads come out on the republican side showing how they're going to use the words of democratic supporters of obamacare against them when it comes to election time. >> sure. certainly the reason they don't want to be left holding the obamacare web site bag is their constituents are not happy and then the reason why they're not happy is they feel they can not trust this administration and their word. there was a recent poll that came out that asked, would you

say that barak obama is honest and trustworthy or not? and 44%, right here, say yes. 52% say no. not trustworthy. those numbers are staggering. >> it gets worse. >> why we see democrats now up in arms and wanting to sort of rally against what's going on with obamacare. >> sure. then you -- this is the worst number the president has had in the pew poll. his job approval rating is at 39%. the lowest ever, according to quinn pee -- quinnpiac. 45% in the october 1. and men disapprove by even more, a larger margin, close to 60%. six in ten american men do not approve of the job the president is doing. >> let's think about this, you have a plan, you're in the individual market. you choose that type of life whether you're in a small business or in your own

business. and all of a sudden you find out you no longer have your plan because you got a letter in the mail saying you're canceled. then you find out you have the president of the united states and his other workers, his other cabinet members and say, that plan was bad anyway. that's getting under the skin of many people. it doesn't matter if you're a democrat or rip, in this case -- republican, in this case it is somebody who spent a lot of time on the democratic side of things. she's a democratic pundit, kirsten powers. listen to her. >> my blood pressure goes up every time they say that they're protecting us from substandard health insurance plans because there is nothing to support what they're saying. i have talked about how i'm losing my health insurance. if i want to keep the same health insurance, it will cost twice as. there is nothing substandard about my plan. all the things they say that are not in my plan are in my plan. all the things they listed, there is no explanation fort doubling of my premiums other than the fact that it's subsidizing other people. >> to her credit, kirsten powers, who has been sensibly

strong democrat on so many issues, she's speaking the truth and really representing what i think a lot of young americans are saying. from what we're hearing, many are in her situation where they were happy with their plans. they were told they can keep them and now they can't and the proof is in the pudding. she's honest enough to express it. at this point, the truth is rising to the top. >> it's unfortunate for the administration because she's a electricity, pundit. she is in their corner. now she sees what so many of you see. the news yesterday was that 1 million consumers out in california have been cut loose from their health insurance because of the affordable care act. in the meantime, because the web site has had so many snafus, apparently now they're sending out these e-mails to people who have tried. so many people have gotten that page, the system is down at the moment. the health and human services is e-mailing back close to 300,000 people saying try again.

but here is the problem, because according to information today in the "washington post" where it says the web site still isn't working, it can only handle 3,020,000 people at a time. so if all 300,000 of those people tried at the same time to get back on, it would crash again. so instead, what they're doing is e-mailing people in waves. hey, it's 3:00 o'clock in the morning. sign on now. stuff like that. >> because what you're saying is they understand that they can't handle the great numbers, so they can't even e-mail out the request to come back again and again. >> they're doing it in waves. >> think about this as we could open up the toss, think about this now, the house is going to say let's pass something that says you can keep something if you want to, the senate is going to do the same thing. is the president going to get a piece of legislation that says, you have to be able to keep the plan if you want to keep your plan? is he going to veto that?

that means he'll veto something he has said over 50 times. >> but knowing the president, he would probably try do it by executive fiat because he doesn't want the congress getting involved. but what really forced his hand was the former president, bill clinton yesterday. why did bill clinton say that barak obama should honor thy commitment? could it have to do with the fact that his wife will probably run for president this a couple of years and it's never too early to start running away from obamacare? >> i asked that question, although i didn't lead the witness. i said, what do you think is behind president clinton's turn? >> let us know what you think about that. for the rest of the headlines, let's head over to heather nauert when has been staring at brian. >> adoringly. >> if you don't mind. >> overnight we're learning 77,000 people in wisconsin are set to lose health insurance. we're hearing these stories every single day. got some headlines.

other news going on. overnight terrifying moment when a plane with a cracked windshield is forced to make an emergency landing. american airlines headed from miami to boston forced to land in orlando when the pilot noticed it after takeoff. 156 passengers were on board. no word on what caused that crack. pirates releasing two americans who were kidnapped in the gulf of guinea last month. the details on that release are not being made public yet. but the state department confirming to fox news that a ransom was, in fact, paid. the amount is not being disclosed at this time. the victims' identities have also not been released. but we're told the men are now letting home to america. the death toll from the devastating typhoon in the philippines is rising to more than 2200 people so far. this includes at least two americans. there is still only a trickle of food, water and medical supplies making it to some of the hardest hit areas there.

so there is desperation that's setting in. it's forcing some survivors to take some really extreme measures. you can see people looting a mall. look at that right there. yeah. and then in another incident, eight people were killed as they were looting a rice warehouse. they were just looking for food. a wall collapsed there, causing them to be crushed to death. amid the wreckage, there is this wonderful sign of hope. this stands tall. check out the statue of jesus that is completely intact. a firefighter in croatia goes for the ride of his life on a tin roof. at the bottom of the screen, there was a wind storm. he was trying clean up after it, but it swept them right in the air, kind of like a magic carpet ride. amazingly he wasn't hurt. he claims he wasn't afraid. great guy. those are your headlines at this hour. then the story about the airplane and the cracked

windshield, that reminds me of the story of payne stewart, there was a crack in his windshield and he died. >> everybody, including a famous agent also died on that plane. it was unmanned and just crashed. >> yeah. and shows just how devastating that can be. a simple crack in a windshield will cause you to lose pressurization and look what happened there. >> so the people on the jet were lucky. heather, thank you. americans everywhere may be losing their coverage thanks to obamacare. others are making out like bandits under the president's new law. shocking details coming up. >> and if you don't want to get caught pulling off a crime, don't put the evidence on-line. are you listening, elisabeth? >> i am. >> the chain of events that helped cops crack down on the crooks. ♪ ♪ heart healthy, huh?!

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millions of americans are losing their insurance plans under the new health care law. >> you know what? not everybody is a loser when it comes to obamacare. so who is cashing in on it? >> here to tell us is the president of the government accountability institute and author of the new book "extortion" which debuted at number 8 on the best seller list, peter schweitzer. good morning. >> good morning. how are you? >> we hear millions of americans not making out under this obamacare, specifically because of the web site and then their premiums being hiked or dropped. but you're saying there are actually people profiting from this all? >> yeah.

exactly. it's like in a lot of these cases with these big complex bills, the outsiders tend to lose, that's the american public -- and the insiders tend to cash in because they play the big role in writing the bill. so for example, health insurance companies, huge winner in this is united health, which is a massive health insurance company. they're expecting their profits to rise enormously. the big health insurance companies in general, pricewaterhousecooper did a study and estimate within a few years, big health insurance companies are going to get an extra $220 billion a year in revenue thanks to obamacare. >> yeah. and i'm sure it's just a coincidence that a fellow named anthony welters, executive vice president at united health raised a half million dollars for president obama back in 2012. that's a coincidence. >> exactly. yeah. we all probably pretty much know that there aren't those kind of coincidences in politics. you're exactly right. the big winners in these

instances are largely come from people that helped finance and put president obama in the presidency. >> you mentioned also in your writing that there are tech firms create -- that have created areas, subareas to benefit from obamacare as well. correct? >> that's right, elisabeth. qualcomm, a large high-tech firm, the founding chairman of that company was a big bundler for barak obama. qualcomm shortly after the law passed created a subsidiary called qualcomm life and their whole job is basically to try to sell or provide technology products to hospitals and doctors who are now required by law to have certain technologies in place as it relates to medical health care records, et cetera. so it's a great business for them because the law basically creates a market for products that didn't exist before because now these places are required to have these things. >> somebody who has made a killing with the green energy thing and with buying carbon

credits and stuff like that is the former vice president of the united states. you say -- we're going to put up somebody else making a killing, private equity firms. explain how al gore is making money off this. >> yeah. very interesting. he's got a firm called generation management with david blood a former executive -- >> what, blood and gore? >> that's right blood and gore. from name for a firm in the financial sector. but david blood was a bundler for barak obama and even though they talk about being in green technology, 27% of their investment portfolio right now is in health care companies like health insurance companies designed to profit from the sector. the same thing goes for private equity firms. something like evercorp. partnered, headed by roger altman, a bundler for the obama campaign, they're set to cash in on what everybody is saying will be massive mergers between hospital companies, et cetera. wall street firms need to broker

those deals and a company like evercorp. partners is perfectly positioned to do that. >> peter, we certainly are shocked to hear some of this, but not surprised in some way. your book, going to open a lot of eyes. we thank you for opening ours this morning. >> thank you so much. >> look at that. al gore not only invented the internet, now he's making money off health care. isn't this a great country? >> in other news, a navy seal was killed in a deadly chopper crash in afghanistan. his parents now saying the white house is to blame for covering up a a taliban ambush. they want answers and they are here live next. you're looking at the most expensive artwork ever sold, this painting breaking records. the staggering amount -- are you kidding me? >> did you make that? >> i could have.

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now it's time for bouncing news by the numbers. first, 22,000. that's how many kids are having a longer school day. five states added 300 extra hours to the school year for select schools in high poverty areas. they hope that helps. next, 142 million bucks. that's how much a painting by francis bacon sold for at auction -- that thing right there -- setting a world record for the most expensive artwork ever sold. the painting called "three studies of lucien freud" sold after six minutes of intense

bidding at that place down the street from where we're standing. finally, 500 bucks. that's the price of a milk shake in california. what? garnished with a crystal -- it's a spiked milk shake that includes edible gold, belgian chocolate and apparently a hefty bill. clearly i have never purchased that brand. that's why i don't know. brian, over to you. >> 24 minutes after the top of the hour. 90 days after the death of osama bin laden, a chinook helicopter loaded with u.s. troops, including 22 navy seals, was shot down over afghanistan. the parents of one of those seals who lost their lives on board, aaron vaughn, say the obama administration is to blame for putting their son's life in danger and they want answers. karen and billy vaughn are telling their story in their new book which they published themselves called "betrayed, the shocking true story of extortion 17" as told by a navy seal's father. that's available on amazon, also

your own web site. welcome to both of you. >> thank you. >> first the small picture then the big picture. that day, that time, your son. what bothers you about the events that took place prior to the chinook being shot down? >> they went in on an antiquated national guard helicopter. 3 1/2 hour operation had been underway. no preassault fire was laid down for that chopper as it went in. even though some people in theater have told us that the landing zone was so hot that the seals were pretty sure that two choppers couldn't even make it in, so they all board one chopper. after the chopper was shot down because of the rules of engagement, even though the air weapons, saw where the shots came from, they didn't take out the men who fired them. they walked away because the military, quote, there might be friendlies, quote. >> it's all about rules of engagement. 22 seals on the same helicopter is relatively unprecedented. also there was some afghany,

so-called special forces that were changed at the last minute. >> it's a question we can not get a straight answer to. we found out seven afghans who died on the chopper were not the men listed on the manifest. and that didn't seem like a big deal to billy and i when we first read it. we thought it was to protect their families or something that wasn't nefarious. then what happened is a senior enlisted advisor in the military notified us it was a very big deal that those men were not switched out on the manifest and that a commander made the call at the last minute, found out the investigative team had never been told about that. >> in the big picture, seal team 6 had a target on its back, as soon as the president said they were responsible and brennan and everybody said they were responsible for doing the hit. they couldn't believe they were brought up, this actual seal team and the number and that's what the enemy wanted, to take it out and they did. you bring up other things that bother but it. not just the horror of that and what happened to your son is tragic and you'll never get over it and everyone can understand that. but the rules of engagement right now in afghanistan have

you concerned. why? >> well, first of all, in 2009, our forces began operating with what's called the ocg, operational coordination group of afghanistan. we've learned from the military that this group is not vetted by the american government, by the american military because of an agreement that the obama administration has with karzai. this group has eyes on every special operations mission that takes place. they have the intel, they're in on the preop, postop, everything. >> the landing route. >> these afghannies that we're supposedly train, we have to get okays before we got it from the afghan government. look at these stats. since the obama administration took over in afghanistan, the bush administration, 630 americans lost their lives in afghanistan. 2600 wounded. since that time, the obama administration, 1544 died. 15,000 wounded. you believe it's directly because we're not allowed to fight. >> it is. we talk to people coming back from afghanistan on a regular

basis. the rules of engagement that they're forced to live under are stunning. the american people would be outraged if they had any concept of what was taking place on foreign soil right now. we have people telling us that their greatest fear when they go out on a mission is being shot in the back of the head by their afghan component on the raid because they may brush a koran with their leg or something, something simple like this and have a gun pulled on them. now, is this any way to force our sons and daughters to do battle on foreign soil? and that's one of the simple stories. there are so many stories we've accumulate that had would literally stun you. people on the raids specifically, the air weapons team asked to take out the men who were gathering near the landing zone of extortion 17. they asked to take them out two times and were denied, even though there would be zero collateral damage. why? >> and the men and women who fight are told to suck it up and keep it to yourself. so you're speaking for them. aaron stood up for this country, you're sticking up for those still fighting. >> absolutely, that's owl in the

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♪ ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, the marching scarlet knights of rutgers university performing live here on "fox & friends." what is amazing about that is it's 30 degrees outside. >> i know. they are spectacular. what a way to start the day. rutgers is moving to the big ten conference next year. maria molina has more on the plaza with them. >> good morning. that's right. here to tell us more is director of the scarlet knights, tim smith. first of all, thank you so much for joining us early this morning of the i know it's so hot out. i know it must be so tough for you to get out early this morning. >> i think they picked the coldest day of the year so far to show up. >> yes, you actually did. how excited are you about joining the big ten conference next year? >> it's incredible. we're with some of the best known college and universities in the world. >> that's right. the big ten conference has such rich history. it's been around for over 100 years. we have legendary names and

you're already a strong program. i'm sure you'll be amazing. but we want to ask you, how tough is it to direct the rutgers university band because i'm sure you spend many, many hours practicing. >> we do. i do all the preparation work, but they do the hard work. i get o sit back, work with them and then watch them take the field and perform. so it's amazing. >> sounds good. thank you again for joining us early this morning. thank you all. you were amazing. very fierce. let's head back inside. >> thank you. >> new jersey's finest. thank you very much. >> thanks. we're going to head over to heather nauert for headlines. >> good morning to you. can i just say go badgers? >> you can. >> sorry, rutgers. i got some news now. >> i think we should all go through our schools now. >> love the badgers. >> if that's how you want to spend your time. >> got some news to bring you. i'm in trouble with the producers. heart disease is now the world's leading cause of death. now new guidelines are being

released with the goal of preventing heart attacks. the americaner heart association and college of cardiology calling for one third of all adults to take cholesterol houston lowering drugs. >> when you have drugs that are that effective and quite safe, it makes sense to treat more people. it will be difficult to know how many more, but it's probably millions of additional americans will be taking these drugs in the future. >> doctors are also still stressing the importance of a heart healthy diet and recommending at least 40 minutes of exercise three to four times a week. talk about some not so smooth criminals, four men were arrested after they posted a photo on instagram with $120 worth of carl's junior burgers and stuffment all of this was bought with a stolen credit card. an employee taking the picture of the order and the receipt and posting it to instagram, saying she had never seen an order so large. well, a work saw the photo and knew one of the people who

bought the food. once police showed up to investigate, the stolen credit card purchased, it wasn't so hard to track down the crooks. >> well, do you know one of those people ho always show up late to everything? now science says that they just can't help it. >> very often it's somebody who is just really self-involved and it may not be in a mean way, but it's just in a nonthinking kind of way. many times it's just somebody not understanding what it takes to get from one place to another. >> it turns out your party friends might have a really good excuse. they actually perceive time differently than the rest of us. that's a nice excuse. brian, what you got over there? >> i don't know. i'm running a little late. give me a second. after months of overseas, hundreds of troops return home yesterday and got a special surprise from the super bowl champion baltimore ravens. look at this. among the friends and family as we look at sports at the wvi

airport, members of the ravens football team. they gathered to give their salute to the returning troops and they loved it and they're watching football constantly, too, whenever they have a moment. the ravens team up with a group called operation welcome home. maryland, it welcomes home troops several times a week. >> all of our appreciation to the servicemen and women for what they've done for us. the sacrifices that they made for us, this is the least we can do. >> many ravens say they have family members who served and are always eag tore show their support to the troops. and that's really nice. well, they are exercising more than ever, but could middle aged men be taking their fitness routines too far? >> well, i am. a surprising new study claims working out too intensely can be fatal for men who are over 40 years old. bob green is a certified personal trainer and an exercise physiologist.

>> you got that right. >> thank you very much. he joins us live. good morning to you. >> great to be here. >> i am over 40. i go to the gym and i see the young guys and they're bench pressing 900 pounds and i do my 100 and i feel like i got to push myself even further. >> well, do you have to push yourself for exercise to take hold, but i think the studies and the article is really good because you got to work within your limits. it's not saying the exercise is bad. in fact, quite the opposite. it's saying -- seeing great value in improving the quality . but if you overdo it, and it's really the person who hasn't done much throughout their life and hits mid life and all of a sudden goes crazy with some of these classes. >> let's say you're work out consistently and you want to turn it up a notch to counter the pains of aging. should you? >> always work within your physician and whatever ailments you might have. but yeah, you should. you should be aggressive within your ability. this article is really stating

more -- >> from the daily mail. >> yeah, something you haven't been in shape and all of a sudden, you overdo it to compensate for years of inactivity. >> there should be an on ramp to your exercise routine of the don't just jump into something extreme? >> absolutely. >> what do you have here? >> very simple tips. in fact, really this represents diet. some easy things -- sometimes we make it so complicated. when it comes to diet, all you need to do is remove empty calories and he place them with good one. >> you're looking at diabetes. >> diabetes, 26 million, that's estimated. i think that's low. that represents over 8% of our population is diagnosed with diabetes. >> so bob, of these four items here, which two do you get rid of it. >> obviously drink a lot of water. >> soda is number one. >> this is what you eliminate? >> this is truly an empty calorie. there is no nutrition you're bringing. so get rid of it. substitute it with water, flavored water, even tea and coffee.

some people even call coffee a super drink. >> what about kids that love margarine in the morning? will that be a problem? n margarine, we were shopping for props the other day. you can't even find something that says margarine. >> they have new nipples for them. >> get rid of the butter. they have healthy spreads that are great and operate like a san antonio. look for those as a replacement. salty foods, get it out of your life. and anything obviously with a transfat. >> i read something about keeping moisturized. what's the link? >> if you have diabetes, people don't know this, your skin dries out. very important. i didn't take care of my skin 'til late in life. but curell intensive healing cream. it's fantastic. you can feel the moisture going in. also with diabetes, if you get an infection, you have problems. you're much less likely to be able to fight it effectively. so really use this several times a day in particular after a shower. >> skin is the largest organ. >> you also recommend we use

clothes? >> yes, you should. i actually did a race. close were optional. >> we have a video. can we run it? >> just get active. just what we were talking about before. pedometersmeters are a good wayo know. dress well, either in the winter layer up. in the summer, use fabrics -- >> i like that new clothes where it stays tight to your body. >> like a wet factor. >> you're always running. >> running from what? >> thank you so much. good words there for your health. harsh words in another op tick from the president's obamacare rollout. president clinton, wasn't he for obamacare a few months ago? >> apparently love's got nothing to do with it when it comes to

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>> the 73-year-old who lived in switzerland for nearly two decades says she has no plans to live in the u.s. again. >> i'll miss her. >> okay. thank you very much. we got to do that again. that worked out so well. bill clinton, former president of the united states, speaking out against president obama and the broken promises he made to the american people. >> i personally believe, even if it takes changing the law, the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they got. >> that's ironic. but just a couple months ago, the former president uttered a different tune. so is there a strategy here? what is he up to? peter johnson, jr. has some thoughts this morning. >> he's a former president. he's calling out the current president in the same party and he's saying honor your commitment. honor and commitment are two of the greatest words in the

american lexicon. this former president, who had his own issues in the past b but i think in the end, is a person who really feels people's pain and some people get annoyed at that. but i think he does in a personal way. he's saying as president, listen, you made a grand bargain. now, is obamacare based on a corrupt promise forever? is this the most morally tainted piece of legislation that we've ever seen in our history? he's put a stamp on this thing that this president better wake up and return to the truth. >> you know what? what's interesting, and we look at the two of them, i believe that's at the dnc last year. you know, one of the reasons barak obama got reelected was because bill clinton put such a push behind him. bill clinton helped sell health care as well. so his fingerprints are all over this, too. >> you're absolutely correct that the analysis is dead on. but what bill clinton has is uncanny ability to understand

and read where the american people are. at this time, at this particular day when we have a testimony by mr. park today before congress, when we're hearing that probably not going to be ready by november 30th, that five, six, 7 million people are losing it this week, former president to say, honor your commitment, mr. president, to say that you made a commitment. >> yeah. >> and the president never owned up to the fact that he made a commitment. now, there is an easy way to get it done. federal regulations can be changed with the stroke of a pen and a process. they can go to state insurance commissioners and get it done, republican and democrat-controlled. it can be done in a week. this could be changed in a week. and the president, former president clinton, now with leaders in the senate and the house, are coming together and saying, mr. president, keep your word.

tell the truth. do what you said you would do. it's mighty, mighty powerful, whether you like bill clinton or hillary clinton or you don't like them, former presidents speaking out to a sitting president saying do the right thing. huge. >> it is huge. let's see what happens. >> i think it will have an effect. >> something's got to give. peter johnson, thank you. >> good to see you. >> ten minutes before the top of the hour. imagine buying a piece of furniture and finding $100,000 stuffed inside of it. what would you do? keep the money? well, meet the man who faced that very decision and made a surprising decision on what to do. then fall means pumpkin products everywhere and if you stockpile them, then you're not alone. is that kind of normal, having a loft pumpkins around your house? dr. keith ablow with the diagnosis coming up. ♪ ♪

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who are those voices? time for normal or nuts. keith ablow joins us from boston. you ready? >> i am ready. >> first question. >> we have this one coming up. my co-worker insists on buying his cheeseburgers at one place. and then drives about ten minutes to get his french fries to another to complete his meal. normal or nuts? >> well, i'm going to say nuts. maybe this guy doesn't understand that five guys burgers are awesome! so that's crazy. but seriously, i'll stick with the nuts thing because this

sounds more obsessive to me than it does about gourmet taste. i don't know anyone in my world who is driving ten minutes to two fast food places. i kind of use that as a guide. so i would say if you look for other obsessive behaviors in this man's life, you're likely to find them. >> here is ex maim number two. -- e-mail number two. every fall my wife becomes a pumpkinholic. she puts pumpkin spice on everything to make the house smell like pumpkin and stockpiles creamers to last until the fall. is this normal or nuts? >> she sounds lovely. she isn't crazy. she loves pumpkin flavor. look, i like peppermint. if it were only marketed during christmas, guess what? i'd be the same behavior as this woman. so the bottom line is i think she's got a business idea. someone should be opening a store today called pumpkin all yearlong, but all these products -- put all these products in, just like the christmas tree shops you and got a business.

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open enrollment ends december 7th. so now's the time. visit medicare.gov or call 1-800-medicare good morning. today is wednesday, november 13. i'm elisabeth hasselbeck. new this morning, the white house admits it's about to break another promise on obamacare. this as members of congress gather on capitol hill for a probe into what the administration knew and when. meanwhile, the health care debauchle proving disastrous for the president's approval rating. this morning he hits a new low. some of his fellow democrats, looks like they are abandoning ship. all right. have you ever rearranged your furniture and found a couple of coins laying around? this guy found 100,000 bucks plus. how did the money get into his house and more importantly, what did he do when he found it? that man joins us live with the decision he made that will

astound you and amaze you. "fox & friends" as far as we know starts now. >> oh, oh, guess what day it is. guess what day it is. >> mike, mike, mike, mike, mike. >> favorite day. >> happier than a camel on hump day. >> it is wednesday. so we know that for sure now. and we also know it's going to be a big day fort president because he's going to have his tech guru, the man that put together the wonderful site healthcare.gov, he'll be front and center in front of the oversight committee. they fought against his appearance because they did not want todd to go out there when he could have been working on the web site. >> he had too many things to do with working on fixing the web site. didn't have time to testify and give any more information. >> wait a minute. you are on a first name basis with the white house chief technology officer? >> we in the tech business are on a first name basis.

>> here is the thing that todd -- >> it's todd park. >> todd may be saying later today and that is we made the promise it would be all fixed by the end of november. not going to be fixed by the end of november, according to the "washington post" and if you listen to valerie jarrett yesterday at "new york times" event, listen for the part where she says, looking for the end of the month to see substantial progress. she doesn't say it will be fixed. she says substantial progress. listen to this. >> we are seeing progress and it's complicated, it's challenging. but the president has made it very, very clear that we're going to just keep grinding away at it until we get it right and we are looking towards the end of the month to see substantial progress and jeff feels comfortable we are on target for that. but it is a complicated challenge, but that's no excuse. we've got to get it right. >> she's referring to jeff who came in to perform first aid on the obamacare web site and system. >> cpr. >> exactly. in an emergency situation and he actually said okay.

by end of november, things should be running smoothly for the majority of americans. well, maybe smooth as sand paper, according to that latest quote by valerie jarrett. so much so that democrats right now are really asking the president administration to take a hard look at what's going on as american people are being affected every day. millions losing their coverage, having premiums jacked up. president bill clinton actually said, just recently that people are losing their insurance and you've got to tell them the truth. you have to make good on your promise. take a listen. >> so i personally believe even if it takes changing the law, the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they got. >> he can't keep chaining the law. the president keeps changing the law that no one is supposed to change. if the president goes ahead with what bill clinton said and says all right. if you lost your plan, you can now get your plan back, who is telling the people to kick them off the plan? he can't mandate that united or

aetna or any of these other companies welcome you back and sign you up because they responded to obamacare. they made a business decision which they're allowed to do. you can't mandate them not to make what they claim to be wise business decisions. >> you know, it would be embarrassing for the president of the united states to have the former president who he had referred to in the past as the secretary of explaining stuff explain that he's got to keep the promise because so many people are counting on it. now, you might think, well, bill clinton is out there because his wife is going to run for president next time and it's never too early to run away from obamacare, or you could think about this, fred upton in the house, his bill is going to pass the house later this week probably where people could keep their plan and bill clinton wants people to know that democrats want them to keep their plan as well. however you want to politically try to figure out what's going on, james carville says the whole thing is just a joke. >> the truth of the matter is is that this rollout has not just

been a disaster, it's a joke. people say i don't think he's doing a very good job. to some extent, you can't blame people for thinking that. >> wow. >> he's right. >> you have a whole bunch of democrats also saying -- dick durbin saying they've got to straighten it out, senator landrieu, senator feinstein wants to do something, keep your plan that you want to keep. >> she is cosigning on a bill that would allow americans to get back into the plans. >> you were detailing a long list of democrats who were saying you got to do something. maybe the easier list would be name some democrats who think it's working fine. >> right. there aren't many. they're running for the hills. the president doesn't think it's work fine. politico today seems to be giving him cover, that he was on top of it, had monthly and weekly meetings, daily meetings and all of a sudden he was shocked when it didn't fire up on october 1. >> brian, you mentioned the president is having a hard time conveying his message. it's hard when the message continues to change, as you just said. >> and the folks at quinnpiac,

they've done another poll. this is not good news. first you had bill clinton taking him to the wood shed. now this. would you say barak obama is honest and trustworthy or not? 44% of americans say yes, he's trustworthy. 52%, a majority of americans say no, he is not. >> the job approval rating is down to 39%, the lowest he experienced so far. my problem with this story, you could wheel back in david plouffe and axelrod. the problem is the american people are not waiting for a great space. they're at their kitchen table looking at their health care plan, getting the call from their grandparents and kids and wondering how it's going to affect them. so far it's been overwhelmingly negative. that's where the decision is being made. not at the voting booth right now. >> and it's not left to republicans alone to get loud about it. as you mentioned before, the american people right now are feeling this. their hearts are beating to the

problem of obamacare right now and certainly democrats as well have been speaking up and getting louder as they are facing possible elections coming up that might not work out for them. >> yeah. and unfortunately for the president, if you look over the last 60 years of the american presidency generally when a president's poll numbers head south in his second term, they don't rebound. and that's bad news for the folks who work there at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. >> real quick on facebook, i asked you, what do you think behind bill clinton saying what he said yesterday and creating a fire storm? most everyone's weighing in and says he's beginning to create some room between hillary and president obama. very insightful. that's what a lot of viewers are saying. >> strategically. >> trying to create distance. we will go back and talk more on facebook shortly. >> for now, our strategy is to welcome heather nauert to the morning. >> good morning. i hope everybody is off to a great day. we've got news from overseas.

ransom was paid to the nigerian pirates in order to secure the release of two americans who had been kidnapped during an attack in the gulf of guinea last month. details of that release are not being made public at this time. the state department would not say how much ransom was paid or who paid it. the victims' identities have not been released either. but we're told the two men are headed home. the death toll from the devastating typhoon in the philippines rising to more than 2200 people. this includes at least two americans. there is still just a little bit of food, water and medical supplies that's making its way to the hardest hit areas. desperation is now forcing survivors to take some extreme measures. take a look at this video here. this is a shopping mall and you can see people looting that mall right there. then in another incident, eight people were killed as they attempted to loot a rice warehouse. a wall collapsed and it crushed them to death.

but amid all that wreckage and disaster, this is a sign of hope. standing tall, take a look at this statue of jesus, surviving the storm completely intact. what a sight that is. then terrifying moments back here at home when this plane with a cracked windshield is forced to make an emergency landing. you can see it right there. the american airlines flight was headed from miami to boston, but had to land in orlando when the pilot noticed this crack shortly after takeoff. 156 passengers were on board. no word yet on what caused that crack. that was taken after the plane landed. justin bieber wants you to say cheese. listen to this. ♪ you smile, i smile >> okay. so he wants you to smile for the camera. he's launching an app called shots of me. it's specifically for those seve seve -- selfy. it's now available for your

smart phone. the app's designer says there is a very young demographic for this app. all those people like to take pictures of themselves because we're not as self-involved as we need to be, right? >> right. >> we have a picture of brian? >> except for brian. >> yeah, i have a picture. there you go. the lone ranger shot from yesterday? >> that was the 7th one you took today. >> great selfy, brian. >> how did we get that? >> the internet. >> that was the 7th one you took this morning. >> that's not true. i don't take selfies that i know of. straight ahead. >> it is ten minutes after the top of the hour. the numbers don't lie and they show that the white house falling short on its expectations for obamacare. senator ted cruz says it makes a better case for full repeal. would that work? the senator from texas is going to join us next.

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sign up and only 50,000 have enrolled as of last week, according to the "wall street journal." >> maybe less. >> with stories like that making headlines across the country, do the american people even want obamacare anymore? joining us now to discuss is senator ted cruz. certainly someone who has been vocal about it. good morning. >> good morning. >> a lot of questions today going to be coming across on the hill. certainly with the rollout of obamacare. but what's the end game here? some people say let this thing die. let it suffocate and the truth will come out. other people say let's fight it bit by bite. what's the new strategy here? >> the problem is it's falling apart. but as it's falling apart, millions of americans are hurting. we're now up to roughly 5 million people who have lost their health insurance because of obamacare. i got to tell you, when you travel the state of texas as i do and you meet people across the state who have gotten one of those letters, who lost their health insurance, these are healthwith children with

issues, and they're just scared. at this point, it's clear obamacare isn't working. i think congress needs to step in. we need to show real leadership and fix the problem that congress created. we need to stop obamacare. >> you need stop it or fix it? is it fixable? >> see, i don't think it's fixable. the white house is coming in with all of these fixes and bells and whistles but they're not going to work. it's fundamentally flawed. i got to say, at this point, in my view, stopping obamacare is the essence of pragmatism. 3 1/2 years ago it might have been possible for reasonable minds to differ. there might have been some who would have said, well, maybe this thing will work. let's give it a try. today nobody is saying that. nobody can defend it because millions of people are losing their jobs, are at part-time work. their premiums are skyrocketing and getting health insurance canceled. we need to stop it and start over because it didn't work. >> another million people got canceled in california

yesterday. senator, i know your side is united in getting rid of this thing and now there are so many voices from the democrat side. i'm curious, why did bill clinton pick yesterday to come out and take the president to the wood shed and tell him to honor his commitment? >> well, that was certainly revealing and it suggests perhaps that hillary clinton is looking to run away from president obama and obamacare and that ought to be a signal to democrats, this thing isn't working and when president obama and the democrats keep fighting in a partisan way for a law that is taking away the health care for millions of people -- more people lost their health insurance because of obamacare than have been able to sign up for it -- that should be a real signal that we ought to get some bipartisan cooperation to come in and say listen, it's not working. let's start over. >> sure. senator, i want to shift gears to something i know you care deeply about. i know there is a site dedicated to it, prayers for pastor

abediney, in prison in iran. we had his wife here probably six weeks ago when there was hope that president obama mentioned this and have him freed. i hear he has been moved to a new prison that which holds murderers that have been convicted and his life may be in true danger. >> yeah. it's really heart breaking and it's dangerous. pastor abediney, who is an american from idaho, born in iran, was sentenced to eight years in prison for simply preaching his christian faith. he went there to start an orphanage and they threw him in prison and then last week they transferred him from the prison, which is horrible, to the even worse prison which is where they put -- it's their death row. it's the worst place there is. iran did it on the 34th anniversary of the day that they seized american hostages. what they call death to america day. and this is just wrong.

let me commend y'all, fox news has been so great about highlighting this case, his wife, who has stood by him, has been a pillar of faith. but it reminds us of the blessed liberties we have here to worship god. in iran, they're imprisoning and torturing simply for professing his faith. i hope the president calls upon president rouhani to release abediney. >> the bipartisan letter to president obama goes like this: we believe the new action by the iranian regime merits new response. it's imperative for the american government to speak out on behalf of pastor saeed. but on top of that, we're look to cut a big deal with them and recreate relations with them. we're giving mixed signals. >> well, the deal that john kerry was trying to negotiate on behalf of the president i think was a terrible deal. it was really striking when

israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, publicly calls it a very, very bad deal because it wouldn't stop iran from developing nuclear weapons. it let's them keep their tent finals, enriched uranium. that was a mistake. but let me praise president obama for a moment. in september when he spoke with president rouhani from iran on the phone, he raised pastor abediney's case and that was the right thing to do and i'm glad president obama did it. it's why we saw bipartisan group of senators urging the president to continue raising it. and a moment of encouragement, his wife has discussed that even while pastor saeed is in prison, he has been leading his fellow prisoners to christ. there are reports of up to 30 converts that he has stood with his faith even in that dark hole. we've got to remember him and work for his release. >> you're up early doing it today. i'm sure the family appreciates it. senator ted cruz, thank you. >> thank you for having me.

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s. i got quick headlines for you. secretary of state john kerry is asking congress for more time for diplomacy with iran to work. kerry wants to present the administration plan to the senate to ask them to hold off on more tougher sanctions. and they should have bet on the bunny. check out this video. a rabbit runs on the track at the end of a horse race. actually the harness race in the

netherlands, casually beating the opponents to the line. who won? the hare apparently. >> get me out of here! >> all right. elisabeth, over to you. >> talk about fast, have you guys seen this picture? it captured miranda cartwright jumping into the arms of her fiance after he crossed the finish line at last month's ironman in hawaii. she won the women's race in record time. her fiance came in fifth among the men. he got beat! but these two are more than just superstar athletes. they're also true patriots. navy veteran, tim never forgot about his fellow servicemen and partnered with veteran outreach group, team red, white and blue. and he and his fiance are his guest. we actually sit on the advisory board for team rwb, something that's so important. first of all, thank you for your service and your continued support of all veterans.

but team red, white and blue's mission is enrich the lives of veterans. it gets them moving in races. we know this by experiencing it well. talk about the saving lives aspect of it. every day 22 veterans take their own lives. >> absolutely. it's a starring number and i don't think a lot of people will realize that it's that big of a problem. and there is a lot of great veterans foundations out there, but what team red white and blue does is gives that community, that local community that can really be there for the veterans 24/7 and help them with the small details in life that can often bog them down when they get back from war. >> sure. and that community, i know, and we've experienced running together and what that does. you guys run and train together. outstanding athletes. i'm pretty slow. what was it like -- talk about that finish line moment. we see that picture and everyone's hearts go oh, the

love! were there tears of joy? >> definitely. that finish line, i mean, it's an emotional place. you've been raying for nine hours. i sort of came across the finish line, i had the race of my life, gaining back the world title, you know. that whole experience is too hard to put into words. but i crossed the finish line and i kind of looked over to the side and they had him standing off to the side and i'm like, why aren't you here. i took off in a little jog and i went to leap and i -- i saw the fear in his eyes. he was like oh, man. 'cause he had done the ironman and finished 30 minutes before me. and i could see that he was very tired. >> i didn't want to drop her on the finish line. >> you were weak in the legs. >> i was. the legs were hurting. >> then the love of your life comes jumping into your arms like an aussie. so you guys were engaged when? >> july of 2012. >> how are you planning a we hadding and training like this? >> we have good help.

>> we do. we have great help. we tried to plan a lot of this in the offseason last year. so last year after kona, we're four weeks out now, and close to kona we had nine weeks for the final detail. our wedding planner is on the phone with us every day trying to get decisions out of us. we're excited. >> i love that. but you actually made history at kona and tim, is it true you're like the next hopeful? >> i was the top american. so hopefully, it's been over 12 years since americans won that race. i hope to be the next one to do that. >> you guys are evidence of just caring and love for one another, but also really a mission in motion. do you have a final message out there for veterans and citizens who may want to just come together to get moving? >> absolutely. physical fitness is a great way to bond with people. especially the vets out there. surprising how much that helps, just having a community helps.

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♪ ♪ >> why is he smiling? it's our shot of the morning for veterans day. doug gray, lead singer of marshall tucker band, was bit by his -- bet by his daughter that he could not fit into his army uniform after 40 years. he still fit in it! she lost. >> wow. >> we don't show him bending over. >> we don't show his back. >> i got clothes like that, too. >> he had to stand still. he looks good.

>> he does indeed. congratulations. >> marshall tucker has been here performing and they're still a southern rock band that does extremely well. they preceded what we call now i think pop country. >> sure; when they're not apparently family members are betting each other things. i bet you can not do that. >> yes. >> all right. we've been talking a lot about the affordable care act. one of the things that is going to insure it working, the administration hopes it can get as many young healthy young people who are off their parents' plan to sign up. so a number of nonprofits out in colorado started an ad campaign on the internet where they've got some kind of questionable images like these guys doing a keg stand trying to convince them that you fall off the keg stand, you're going to need insurance, people. >> right. you're going to need this. got insurance? like the got milk. >> so all these guys and celebrities and different people

are there trying to get people to act in some ridiculous ways. they believe that everyone from 18 to 26 does these crazy things and in turn, if you're going to do this, i can relate to this, so i'm going to sign up for obamacare. it's not working. i think these people in the ads will start running for the hills. >> ha they're trying to tap into is the age. you're not really thinking that you could get sick or something could go wrong and they know that and know that the young people out there have been happy with what they have or don't have. >> the kid doing the keg stand, who is going to pay to have his stomach pumped? is that the message you're getting? >> i don't know. i read on-line, people receptive to ads like this would not buy with rational arguments anyway, so maybe the keg stand will work. >> right. >> there is also one that's actually eating up the internet where it shows a woman and a hot guy, somebody described her as a hot guy did she issue. >> it wasn't me. >> omg, he's hot. let's hope he's as easy to get as this birth control.

my health insurance covers the pill which means all i have to worry about is getting him between the covers. i got insurance. now you can too. >> is that madison avenue? i'm not sure. or is that the rantings of some co-ed in her sophomore year? >> is that really appropriate? i heard someone, i think laura ingraham say yesterday, would the president of the united states, would he want his children to read an ad like that? it's a good comment. >> desperate measure in terms of advertising. >> whatever it is, it's not working. >> it's not working at all. >> you know who is work? heather nauert. >> i am. that would give a lot of dads a real heart attack, seeing an ad like that? >> wouldn't it? >> here is the next ad, the dad having the heart attack. >> who is going to pay for the dad's heart attack. that's an ad! >> thank you. genius. >> brian, you're so funny. got some news. speaking of heart attacks, there are new guidelines now to try to

prevent heart attacks. the american heart association and the college of cardiology are now calling for one third of all adults to take cholesterol-lowering drugs. dr. siegle tried to explain the new guidelines. listen to this. >> let's look at the patient and what are the risk factors that the patient is going to have heart disease? does the patient have a family history of heart disease? do they have high blood pressure or cholesterol a risk of stroke? do they smoke? diabetic? these risk factors will determine whether you go on the cholesterol-lowering drugs or not. >> doctors are still testing the importance of a heart healthy -- stressing the importance of a health healthy diet, exercising three or four times a week for 40 minutes. university students placed on probation foration guns to scare off an intruder have their guns back. security officers took those guns from the two men after a guy tried to get into their university-owned apartment in

spokane, washington. they're legally owned, but now have to be stored in a nonuniversity residence. tomorrow both the students will join us live to talk about their experiences with all of this. and it is official, new york is home to america's tallest building. once it's completed, the one new world trade center will be taller than chicago's willis tower. remember there was a lot of controversy that was sparked earlier in the week over whether the needle on top of the world trade center could be counted as part of its total height. chicago's mayor, rahm emanuel, says it should not. listen. >> for all those who want to climb on the top of it and take a look, go ahead. i would suggest that you stay indoors and tear a look. -- take a look. >> one world trade center's official height is 1776 feet. mark walburg will say hi to your mother on his new reality show. >> i'm not joking around! this could be huge!

say hi to your mother for me. >> pretty good imitation. the series will follow mark and his famous brother donny as they head back to boston to help their brother at his restaurant called walberger. kind of cute. first episode airs in january. and those are your headlines this hour. my mom and brother are visiting from colorado. so say hi to my mother and brother watching this morning. >> good morning. >> do they watch every day? >> they get up later. >> originally from rockford, illinois. >> good memory. >> i just remember that. >> the unauthorized memoir. >> i'm so yessed. >> heather, thank you very much. currently here in new york, it's in the 30s. it's exactly 30 degrees, according to the bank across the street. maria molina is -- >> why are you reading the bank when you have a weather woman waiting, who has a masters in meteorology? >> i want to see she's out there. >> are you going to persevere, because it's wednesday and we're

supposed to be doing science trivia. >> that's right. >> the question is: by the time you're 75 years old, approximately how many years will you have spent sleeping, that's assuming you spend eight hours sleeping every night? the answer choices are a, 17; b, 25 years. c, 37 years. or d, 42 years? again, the question is by the time you're 75 years old, how many years will you have been asleep? >> i say 25. >> you have to sleep eight hours a night. >> i'm going to assume. >> what were the choices? >> 17, 25 -- >> you can't do this. >> 25. the answer is 25. >> it is 25. good job, steve. that's right. >> why are you giving him credit? i told you 25. >> i did the math. >> why do you pat him on the back?

>> it's called the block out brian factor. >> i didn't know there was an app for that. >> i have it right here. >> if you are a morning show co-host, you probably get much less sleep than that, right? >> pretty much. >> that's why there is a big rotation in this slot. no one can handle the hours. >> we're just jealous. >> sounds good. let's look at the weather conditions this morning across parts of the northeast and the rest of the country because if you live east of the rockies, today you are going to be looking at temperatures that are well below average. current temperatures, only in the 20s for places like chicago, places like kansas city and even down into the city of atlanta. you factor in the wind or a breeze, and it feels so much colder. you're talking teens across places like minneapolis and only in the single digits across sections of the great lakes. again, feeling very cold out there. you really got to bundle up. the good news is that the cold blast of air is not going to be sticking around for too much longhorn. it will be out of here along with that high pressure system that's keeping things pretty quiet and dry across most of the country. let's head back inside now where

it's warmer. >> all right. thank you very much. i'll back you up on that. it is warmer inside. you can always expect excitement when lebron james is on the court. last night no different. the miami heat on the move against the milwaukee bucs. i had no idea he could even jam the ball. lebron james, people show up for a ticket in the early part of the season and he still is giving it 100%. he finishes with 33 points. 118-95. the heat beat the bucs. they've been targeted early on. let's talk racing and tragic news. trevor bayne is the youngest nascar driver to win the daytona 500. after he won, he joined us on our show. the 22 yearly got devastating news. it's announced he's been diagnosed with ms. yep. it's a disease that affects the central nervous system and affects everybody differently and also leads to numbness, affects your vision. he says he's not showing any symptoms and has been cleared by doctors to continue racing.

ms does not have a cure now, but can be slowed by treatment and remember montel brought a lot of attention to that. montel williams. last night, that is right there the man i was telling you about before. one of the townsends, i was signing my book, townsend is the last spy to be revealed. that is the townsend family, direct descendant of robert townsend. they dropped off paperwork to me dating back to the 1500s they think will show more light on the spy network. the book review, it was great to meet everyone and thursday i'll be at book ends to new jersey. >> that's right. >> that was a lot of fun. >> that was great. >> what a bit of extended history there, too. >> got more reading to do. >> up next, members of congress are gathering on capitol hill for a probe into what the administration knew and when. we are going to take threw live live -- you there live when we come back. >> did you have one too many drinks last night, ted?

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todd park, the white house chief technology officer, is expected to testify before congress today about the health care web site rollout issues. >> some are even calling the subpoena unnecessary, saying mr. park needs to focus on fixing the web site. he's got no time to testify. is that not true, mike emmanuel? >> don't duck the question, michael. answer that. >> i will answer your question. >> thank you. >> good morning. timing of this hearing is interesting. it comes as the "washington post" is reporting that the healthcare.gov web site is not expected to be fully functional by the end of the month and the health care exchange went 20,000 to 30,000 users, about half of

its intended capacity, try to use it at the same time that the exchange is having trouble. so ahead of this hearing, house oversight chairman darrell issa said, quote, most americans toss off their insurance plans haven't had the opportunity to experience on-line sticker shock. the hearing will ask top administration technology officials what went wrong, what they're doing to fix it, and whether or not recognized i.t. information technology best practices were really followed. todd park was subpoenaed by issa to testify and he is expected to answer questions this morning. lawmakers will ask park how the white house seemed unaware of the severe problems facing this web site's rollout since his position was designed as a troubleshooter. supporters say park is working hard to fix the web site and white house officials suggest today is a distraction for him. >> we had hoped the committee would work with us to find an alternative date to give mr. park time to focus on his

immediate task at hand, which is getting the web site fixed. this is a goal that is ostensibly shared by the very house republicans now demanding his appearance on wednesday. an appearance that would take him away from his work on the web site. >> lawmakers have fired back that mr. park had time to do an interview with the "new york times" in october. also had time to do an interview with a business channel during the summer talking about the great bells and whistles involved with this web site. so today he has explaining to do. >> maybe he'll bring bells and whistles, it will make the hearing more exciting. what time does it start? 9:30? >> that's correct. >> mike, thank you for joining us. i know you were against it to start with. >> i'll be on the radio with you before. >> you will? >> look at that. >> that's fantastic. >> all right. thanks. first let's check in with martha mccallum 'cause she's been chosen to promo her show "america's newsroom" and then

she'll be on radio with me. >> is everybody on radio with you today? >> i'm not sure. martha, while you're talking, i have to go inside because on facebook we're going to put up those crazy ads of those teens acting crazy, trying to urge you to sign up for obamacare. i want to see what everybody has to say. talk to them. >> as you guys have been talking about with mike emmanuel, two very big hearings and they will be live on "america's newsroom" this morning. first darrell issa's committee takes on the technology debauchle and then homeland security is up. they're going to drill down on the threat that was presented to users' identities by this program. you'll see all of this here live this morning. also the november 30th deadline now in question. what will the president do? we'll see you at the top of the hour

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got some quick headlines for you. the jets fan caught on camera punching a female patriots fan facing a judge in new jersey today. he is charged with assault and disorder bee contact for hitting the woman on october 20 at giants stadium. she's expected to appear as well. in other news, a professor in london is devising a drink to eliminate hangover side effects. he identified compounds that mimic the effects of alcohol and after exploring one of the compounds, he said he was sleepily inebriated for an hour. but when he had the antidote, had no impairment at all. he's now seeking funding for more testing and then i'm sure he will apply for a patent and this guy will wind up being the richest person on the planet. >> has a few more friends after that. >> i think you're right. >> we asked you for your

reaction to the latest obamacare ads. brian is in the back on facebook. >> i'm back on facebook. i'm back in the room answering people talking to people. here are some of their comments about what about these ads, are they insulting? andrea says, if i was a target audience for these ad, i'd be so offended, heck, i'm not the target audience and i'm usual easily offended. i raised my kids better than this. cindy says this whole ad campaign is pathetic. i guess it does tap into the low information voter. sad what our society has become. so let me click on more comments as they come flowing in. >> you know what? >> 6124 weighed in. >> elisabeth has some on her ipad. she didn't need to go into the back room to look at the computer. >> this is the facebook and network center. >> they're right here! >> we know you like to run back there. but we have kathy says, what a joke, but then this is so obamacare.

mary wondering if obama would put his daughters on a commercial like that. >> what about roger dodger? do you have that? this just came in. isn't that discrimination by singling out america's youth? oh, wait, it's the government. they do what they want and not what's good for the country. hey, roger dodger, i see the tongue in your cheek. keep on weighing in. >> we're not going to get into facebook battles with you. >> by the way, go on to facebook, "fox & friends," and like us. just hit the like thing. think of sally field. >> steve is a little insecure. >> we really like you. we're trying to get that number as high as possible to beat cavuto. more "fox & friends" in two minutes. we'll be right back as you look live at new york city. ♪ life with crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis ♪

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and join -- join us again tomorrow for all the news. brian, good luck for the loading dock. >> that's where by for the facebook page. >> you like a physical challenge bill: rolling out on a fox news alert. awaiting two congressional hearings on an obamacare debacle. we get a bombshell report that indicates the website may not be fit about it the november 30 deadline. in moment we'll talk about the chair of the oversight committee and what he wants