out of this for 2014. that's it for this week's show, thanks to my panel and all of you for watching. i'm paul gigot. hope to see all you here next week. fox news. extreme weather alert right now. a rare phenomena plunging the midwest and northeast into a record deep freeze. forecasters calling this a polar vortex in which frigid air pushes down from the north pole and digs its teeth right here in the u.s. arctic air sending the mercury plunging to levels which haven't been seen in decades. results are turning deadly. so far, snow and bone chilling temperatures are blamed for at least 16 deaths. people taking no chances. minnesota, for example, the governor there, preemptively closing all schools on monday where the temperatures in minneapolis is supposed to hit a high, this is a high, of minus 14. keep in mind, that's the temp,

not the windchill. you have to get out your slide ruler and calculator for that. people are still digging out from a massive winter storm. we're going to have more on this developing story throughout the day. a little chilly in here too. >> it's a little chilly, they're warming the studio up for us though. >> thank the lord. i'm gregg jarrett in for myself actually. >> yes, we're supposed to be here today. >> been in for so many people all week long. i'm actually in for myself. >> i'm arthel neville. after the troubled launch of the obama care website, the administration's reportedly planning a new federal unit that's dedicated to big tech projects. molly hennenburg is live with more. >> that's one of the ideas the obama administration is kicking around. but perhaps the more urgent problem is the government is having difficulty attracting the

best and brightest in the tech sector. one former white house innovation fellow told "the wall street journal," quote, we don't have enough people inside of government to make good sound technology decisions. this gap between the public sector and the private sector has really affected their knowledge. one of the most public examples of this is the disastrous rollout of the obama care website. built by government-hired tech specialists, then it plopped. then the private sector silicon valley tech pros were brought in to fix it. an embarrassment to the president who is trying to convince americans that the government can run health care and other big projects and technology can be used to make health care more efficient and cheaper. the obama administration is apparently considering a number of tech fixes, including having government tech specialists rotate through private sector companies. streamlining the process in some cases so it doesn't take months to fill one job, thus allowing the best candidates to be snapped up by private companies.

and creating a federal tech agency that would focus big projects on consumer use and usefulness. the government spends $77 billion each year on information technology. and after the obama care website tanked at first, president obama is said to want a better return on that investment. arthel. >> molly hennenburg, thanks. now we have an update for you on former first lady barbara bush. she has been discharged from the houston methodist hospital following six days of treatment for pneumonia. the 88-year-old mrs. bush saying, quote, i cannot thank the doctors and nurses enough for making sure i got the best treatment and got back to george and our dogs as quickly as possible. we wish you well, mrs. bush. >> we certainly do. all right, fox news exclusive. kentucky senator rand paul appearing on hannity last night with a bombshell revelation. he's in the process of filing a massive class action lawsuit against the obama administration. over the nsa spying program.

peter doocey has details in washington. >> okay, we'll get to that. >> we will get back to that in just a moment. >> meanwhile, we're going to talk about secretary of state john kerry, and he is saying israelis and palestinians are committed to settling their differences. now, this is after the secretary had a meeting with palestinian president mahmoud abbas. >> we are working with great intensity. with serious purpose. with a commitment to trying to resolve this conflict that has gone on for many years too long, and which i think presents us now with the possibility of trying to find a framework agreement. >> and mr. kerry also meeting with israeli prime minister

benjamin netanyahu today, urging both sides to reach a peace deal establishing a palestinian state alongside israel. this is the secretary's tenth trip to the region for mideast peace negotiations. >> also in the middle east right now, the state department is keeping a close eye on the deteriorating security situation in iraq following a stunning victory for militants linked to al qaeda. the terror group capturing the western city of fallujah. crowning the victory by raising their flag over the main government the iraq war. u.s. forces fought some of their toughest battles s is in fallu gaining control of the state. we're getting brand-new videotape of the fighting. the iraqi army waging all-out combat with al qaeda as it tries to win back the city. reports of at least eight people killed, dozens more injured. and a brand-new development involving another group linked to al qaeda. now claiming responsibility for

a homicide bombing in lebanon two days ago. the blast tearing through a stronghold of hezbollah in beirut, killing at least five people. the group called the islamic state in iraq warning it will strike again. the wave of recent bombing, in lebanon a sign that the civil war in syria is spilling over its borders. the family of 13-year-old jahi mcmath, the teen declared brain dead after reportedly a routine tonsillectomy finally reaching an agreement with the hospital requiring them to keep jahi on life support until tuesday night. a deadline for the mcmath family to move her to a long-term care facility where they're hoping for a miraculous recovery. >> personally, it's horrible that this child has died. it's also horrible that it's so difficult for her family to accept that death. >> she's definitely showing improvement. if i think my child was

suffering in any type of way, i would not keep her on that machine. i would not. i love her that much, that i would let her go. but since i see that improvement every day, i will fight for jahi every day, until my heart stops and her heart stops. i will always fight for jahi until she's ready to go her own self. >> jahi's mother is agreeing to take responsibility for whatever happens during the transfer. for exclusive insights into jahi's case, we invite you to tune in to huck babee tonight where he will talk to terri schiavo's brother. president obama calling it an economic lifeline for many americans. the debate on restoring unemployment benefits. that's coming up next. plus, remembering the life and music of phil everly, the younger of the legendary everly brothers. ♪ bye-bye-bye love

let's go back now to that fox news exclusive. kentucky senator rand paul is saying he is in the process of filing a massive class action lawsuit against the obama administration over the nsa spying program. here's peter doocey. >> if you've got a cell phone, senator paul thinks you're eligible to join his new lawsuit. the republican from kentucky is putting together an experienced legal team that includes former virginia attorney general ken cuccinelli and is hoping to eventually gain class action status in his bid to prevent the nsa's bulk data collection. >> the government should only

look at your visa bill or your phone bill if they have a warrant that is specific to you and says they think you have committed a crime. >> furthermore, independent senator bernie sanders has some tough questions for the nsa chief. writing him, quote, has the nsa spied or is the nsa currently spying on members of congress or other american elected officials? these congressional calls for clarity and privacy are coming ahead of obama's announcement of possible reforms to the way the nsa does business. >> i'm going to make a pretty definitive statement about all of this in january where i'll be able to say here are the recommendations that we think makes sense. here are ones we think are promising, but still need to be refined further. >> but the obama administration is still fighting to keep collecting american phone records. on friday, a fisa court said they can continue with the bulk data collection. the doj appealed federal judge richard leon's december ruling

that found the nsa practices likely do violate the constitution. >> peter, thanks very much. time for a quick check of the headlines. a world war ii bomb exploding in western germany, killing one person and injuring 13 others. police say it happened when a bulldozer hit the device at an industrial area. michael schumacher's family providing french investigators with the helmet camera he wore during a skiing accident. the formula 1 racing champ has been in a medically induced coma since sunday. fans gathering outside the hospital to support schumacher on his birthday. phil everly, one half of the pioneering everly brothers harmony duo, has died. the family says he died at the hospital of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. they molded rock and roll in the '50s and '60s. in a statement, don everly said

he experienced an extreme emotion moment before he heard the news of his brother's death and he took that as a special spiritual message from phil, saying good-bye. phil everly was 74 years old. president obama is urging congress to reinstate jobless benefits, a bipartisan proposal in the u.s. senate would actually restore the unemployment insurance for three more months. the president warns that failure to reinstate this will cause the economy to slow for all americans. >> so when congress comes back to work this week, their first order of business should be making this right. right now, a bipartisan group in congress is working on a three-month extension of unemployment insurance. and if they pass it, i will sign it. >> joining us now to talk about it, fox news contributor doug showen and the politics editor in chief martha shoulder. good to see you both. >> happy to be here.

>> these extensions were meant to be temporary. we're approaching two years in extended benefits for some people and the current program has been renewed more than ten times over the last four years. look, doug, at what point in time is enough enough? >> well, we're pretty close to it. that's why the president and the democrats and dean heller, republican, from nevada, are proposing a three-month extension that will cost $6.5 billion. i hope we can get a bipartisan deal with some full or partial setoff of the cost. if we do or if we don't, i don't think after the holidays, after extreme weather, we leave people high and dry. though certainly we want to move people to work and we want to get them employed, not on the rolls for two years. >> infamously, the surfer dude in california told us why work when the government pays me not to work. insuppose that's symbolic of what some people do, not all. but what some do. martha, is it true that the longer people are paid

unemployment, you know, the more they tend to remain jobless? >> well, it's very difficult to get motivated to get back to work if you're going to have this extension. and there are lots of jobs out there. there are help wanted everywhere. it may not be the job you want but you've got to get back. you can't let it go forward. i would say to vote no on this. i think it's time to do this. look, we can always find a reason. there's always bad things happening. the bigger issue, though, is not only what's happening on the federal level but the money that the states had ran out a long time ago, and my home state of georgia, owes around $500 million to the federal government for the part of the benefits they're picking up. i'm sure that's true all across the 50 states. so at some point in time, we've got to say get back to work. and what i'm hearing from employers is it is a deterrent to be able to hire entry level people because they're saying, hey, why should i come to work for you if i can get this benefit? >> the flip side of that is, doug, i want you to address

this, is supporters of extending the benefits say, hey, wait a minute, it does really help gdp. let me quote. can we put it on the screen? let me quote "the wall street journal" on this. without the money from the emergency unemployment benefits in consumer's hands about .2% would be shaved off, 2% to 2.5% gdp growth that is forecast for the first quarter by ihs global insight. it's their chief economist, paraphrase that. but there's a legitimacy to that, isn't there, doug? >> there is. you cut out these benefits. you do retard economic growth by, you know, .2% which would be 10% of the overall projected growth rate. you lose potentially 240,000 jobs in the economy because of the slowing down. so, look, there's a good economic reason. at the same time, i'm a rational man. you're absolutely right, greg,

we have to do something to rein the program in. that's why getting a bipartisan deal now to do it for another three month, get through the holidays, move forward, makes economic, practical, and i dare say, practical sense. >> you are a rational man. martha, i'm sure you're a rational woman, isn't there still a shortage of jobs, not people who want jobs? >> well, no, i think there's a lot of job, out there the for folks. if you take a look, when i meet with employers, i just was at a lunch a couple weeks ago where there was employers who had a couple hundred jobs. couldn't find enough people to fill them. i think the challenge is, and what we though about unemployment benefits, whether they were 13 weeks or 99 weeks, is that when people start to see their benefits, their benefits run out, they're going -- that's when they're really going to start looking for a job. we saw a little bit of an uptick in that, as these were about to run out at the end of the year, as far as the jobs numbers

getting better. >> you know, doug, if the government stops supporting people with checks, and i understand there are hardships out there, i mean, those people are going to have to make tough decisions. you know, lower wage, change careers or jobs, take a job you don't want. you know what, that's life. you have to do that. >> well, it is life. as a compassionate people, we try to blunt the worst impact of life around the holidays. that being said, if we can get an extension for a brief period, 3 to 6 months, if we can pay for it, i think that's the kind of compassionate society we ought to be. >> we have seen jobless claims go down. >> we have. >> look, i agree, and we do need to see the cut in spending if we do this. but here's the other part of this. the whole point of extending all of this was supposed to be you were going to be doing all that work you needed to do to get back to work. so we really need to push that part of it. >> all right, martha zoeller, doug shoen, great to see you

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ome back, we're going to soon be able to see the real life impacts of the highest minimum wage increases in the country, in an area called

seatac, in washington. >> reporter: as the new year comes in for a landing, all economists' eyes will be focused on seatac, an area 20 miles south of seattle, seeing an increase in the minimum wage. starting january 1st, hospital and transportation workers will see their pay jump to $15 an hour. while employees welcome the increase, many business owners will be looking at letting them go. >> we'll look at very serious cuts, looking at reducing employee hours and benefits and eliminating some positions. >> reporter: an airport parking employee says there will be customer self way. the washington lobby association says one hotel will close its restaurant, eliminating 200 jobs. >> the pie is only so big, so if you give that to labor, somebody

has to go. i love my employees so i don't know what to do. >> reporter: car rental employees are also looking for ways to save money. the owner of dollar says she is looking to change schedules and out-source some functions. and experts estimate 5% of the low wage jobs here and another 5 to 10% will be replaced by more experienced workers. organizers pushed the ballot, along with the political contender. >> the fact is, if we don't fight for this then the race to the bottom won't continue. >> reporter: this hotel owner has land where he wanted to build a fourth hotel, but not now. >> it is bad for business, we're putting everything on hold to see what happens, and see if the financing comes through. >> reporter: late last week, a

king county judge ruled the $15 wage didn't apply to airport workers, only those in the surrounding cities. unions say they will appeal. president obama wants to raise the federal minimum wage to nine bucks an hour. dan springer fox news. and tomorrow, the 49ers will be taking on the packers, it will be cold at lambeau field. but today they're preparing to wage their war tomorrow, the thermometer will be two degrees below zero with wind chills approaching 30 below, wow! we're back in about a couple of minutes. top of the hour.

imag . hello, i'm gregg garrett, welcome to america's news headquarters. and president obama making his way back to the white house following his vacation in hawaii, coming up we'll take a look at the back log of work waiting to greet him and the new challenges ahead. and an american p.o.w., reuniting with jesse jackson after the civil rights leader helped to secure his release. plus, announcing a new bond buying program that could have a

direct effect on your retirement program. we'll tell you what to do to make sure your investments are safe. we begin with fox news weather alert, a bone-chilling polar vortex, creating extreme temperatures across much of the country. the mercury dropping to dangerous, record-breaking cold from the midwest to the northeast. wind chills could reach 70 below in some spots, that is right, 70. the frigid temperatures so rare they have not been seen in decades. boy, it is cold, isn't it? >> reporter: it is, gregg, but you know what? it is actually 20 degrees here in central park, which is warm considering what we have dealt with in the past 36 hours and what the nation will deal with in the next 38, the national weather service is really worried about bone-chilling temperatures and life-threatening wind chills that will span across much of

the nation. i mean, we're talking about o-- some forecasters are calling this sporm ttorm the polar vort because it will bring this storm through the midwest and the central plains and the northeast. right now you're looking at the current wind chill, about fourteen degrees here in new york, right now temperatures in minnesota and north dakota will reach minus 30 degrees. that is the temperature, which means the wind chill will be minus 50 or 70 degrees, which means frostbite on any skin that is exposed, and is not covered, within five to ten minutes. in the midwest it is the coldest temperatures we've seen in 20 years. chicago will see a high of negative 11 on monday. in minneapolis, minnesota, they will see a high of negative 15

on monday. it is so cold that officials there have literally cancelled school for the first time in 17 years due to cold weather. >> it is a historic weather pattern that we're having. 86 hours of continued below freezing temperatures, really dangerous temperatures where in some circumstances, five, ten minutes, kids can get frostbite. and the government wants to make sure kid s are safe. >> reporter: and in central indiana, they're making sure they're stocked up with bread and essentials, more snow with bone-chilling temperatures. it will be a high of negative 11 on monday in indianapolis, indiana, and of course, the bone-chilling cold is coming a day after people shovelled their way out of snow, and it has caused 16 deaths, mostly due to traffic accidents.

about two feet of snow dumped in massachusetts, a foot and a half in the boston area. thousands of flight cancellations, but just 792 today. the bottom line is this weather, the snow has come, but the freezing is coming and is more dangerous possibly for some people. and in green bay, the temperature tomorrow is expected to be negative seven with a wind chill about negative 30. which would make it the third coldest nfl football game of all time. >> that is -- good gosh, that is amazing, negative 30. brian, nice job, pal, appreciate it. he is out there freezing. >> you know he is, oh, my goodness, freezing, good job, brian, good news to report for you. former first lady barbara bush is resting comfortably. at home, the 88-year-old mrs. bush was discharged from a

hospital earlier today following treatment for pneumonia. in a statement, mrs. bush thanked the doctors and nurses for her care. and on monday, the nation's longest married first couple will celebrate their 69th wedding anniversary, happy anniversary. >> good for them, happy anniversary, that is so great. and libya is reporting releasing american and camaroon national, arrested early this week in the eastern city of benghazi. the two are basketball players, members of the city's team. they were arrested while on campus at benghazi university. libya's foreign ministry is not saying why they were detained. new bloodshed in egypt claiming lives and injuring dozens. the latest clash between the islamist protesters and security forces in alexandria. the violence coming less than two weeks ahead of the amendment to the constitution there.

they are continuing to fight in one of the worst street battles in months. and as president obama says aloha to his hawaiian vacation he will come back to washington with a full legislative agenda. wendell goler is live from honolulu where he is traveling with the president. wendell? >> reporter: gregg, first up was the long-term benefits extension, which was not on the bipartisan deal before he left. on tuesday, they will call on what they need to do before the job numbers were much lower. >> instead of punishing families, republicans should make it their new year's resolution to restore this vital economic security for their constituents right now. >> reporter: mr. obama will also push for an immigration reform bill, although house republicans

continue to object to the path to citizenship he says is necessary to draw 13 million illegal immigrants out of the shadows. and he will focus a good deal of effort on implementing the affordable care act, trying to make sure people who enrolled in the exchanges actually find they have insurance the first time they go to see a doctor. the last thing he wants is a repeat of the disastrous rollout of the healthcare.gov website. the republicans are determined not to help him and feel the law is fatally flawed and should be repealed. there is a republican push with some democratic support to stop using money for political conventions and spend it, instead, on children's medical research. >> and if we do, it just might inspire us to come together and do what the american people sent us here to do. jobs, health care, energy, education, and innovation are all areas in which the house has started work that washington needs to finish this year. >> the white house has not taken a position on harper's bill yet,

but officials point out harper rejected the package of revenue enhancement of spending cuts which would have avoided the sequester cuts which itself took a big chunk out of the funding for medical research. harper says higher taxes was not the answer to the problem. >> wendell goler, in beautiful hawaii. and obamacare creating new heat among critics and supporters. "the wall street journal" says they may establish a federal bureaucracy dedicated to the big tech projects. now, in order to avoid the disastrous results of healthcare.gov, here is the question, do we need more government? hey, jamie, how are you? >> good, how are you? >> i'm well, to look at first blush, it sounds counterintuitive. tell us about this new plan.

>> well, it is not much of a plan per se yet. but there are rumors that the obama administration wants to fix this failure with a level of bureaucracy and tech wizards to handle the technology projects. call me crazy, but i'm not one to think that the way to fix a problem would be just to hire more bureaucracy, seems they could do that in the enrollments. >> call me crazy, yeah, but the idea is to create one central federal unit that is devoted to these big tech projects that instead of having each agency manage its own projects like the department of health and human services did for the rollout, which didn't work. so can the government compete, you kind of hinted at this. can the government compete with the private sector to hire the best and brightest in the tech field. >> well, you have to hire the

best and brightest and pay them to get the right motivation. but in this case, it seems we didn't hire them to do the project in the beginning so there are some problems. it takes too long to hire people, when you have somebody who is a talented person and takes months and months to get the job offer, they're probably going to take a job somewhere else. that is creating a new proposal. but creating a whole new bureaucracy doesn't seem to cut it to me. >> but you know, we do live in a tech-driven society. like most businesses they have to move to digital, instead of paper, can the government trust the americans to effectively run the websites that are used by the public, is the question? >> well, you have seen on fox. you have had experts in technology come on and say that they could have built healthcare.gov for $10 million, no glitches at all. this doesn't seem to be an impossible task. it can be done. and the idea that in order to do this you need a whole new agency

or a whole new group of tech experts to come in and do this seems probably unnecessary if you actually just want to find the right people on the outside contractors. have somebody in government to coordinate, get people who know what they're doing. i don't think you need a whole new bureaucracy in order to do that. >> we want to move on, but before we do, jamie, we don't want to discount the intelligence community that is responsible for developing some of the most sophisticated technology in the world. >> absolutely. >> all right, moving on, the journal of science reports that obamacare will increase the emergency room visits. so is it that when somebody didn't have insurance they might thought twice about going to the er for cases that are not obvious emergency, versus now that they have insurance they're quicker to run to the er because they have coverage and they don't have to pay? >> well, it is not clear what the other part is when they get

medicaid there is a shortage of doctors accepting the medicaid payments. so perhaps when they get insurance they may prefer to go to a doctor that accepts medicaid but there may be none available. so they're using their insurance at the emergency room for routine things like colds. and that is just exactly what the president said would happen if you increased medicaid, just the opposite, that they would go to less expensive health care providers to get services. turns out those who have medicaid are using the services, 40% more, than if they didn't have medicaid. >> and i think they're using that a little more than people calming down and going to their primary physicians more for services that might be needed. >> that is the hope. but again, with medicaid, a lot of doctors and especially specialists don't accept medicaid patients because they don't pay that much. but there could be a problem of doctor shortage. you're signing up all of these

new obamacare people who are eligible for medicaid but there may not be enough doctors to suit the unrush of medical care. >> all right, jamie, thank you, take care. they are clear for takeoff. barely. boeing and its union narrowly settling a contract dispute this week, ensuring the existence of thousands of jobs over the next ten years. critics, though, are calling this a major blow to union employees. so what is the deal. dominic di-natale has more. >> look, this even brought washington state politicians on bended knee to the unions, them saying it was vital to the economic future. and then it came down to a supremely narrow vote, yes, by just 600 votes. a 51%, just narrowly getting

there. and it will be built in puget sound, boeing had looking at results in the contract dispute. now, the union called in its 30,000 members to reject the deal even if it had meant production moving out of state. in fact, long beach here in california was moving to this possible site. well, others were mixed about the deal. >> i think it is worth the gamble. we have the best mechanics and tooling. it is all right here in the puget sound. >> i think the main thing is to keep boeing in this local area and keep jobs and benefits going. a larger community. >> at a time when boeing is doing very, very well financially they're asking our members to make serious financial concessions. >> well, an official said no member liked the vote nor the position they were put in with boeing. nor was it an easy vote for anybody to cast, really.

the pension freeze and moving people to a defined pension savings plan, some will see the benefits rise to $100,000 a year under the new deal. the triple 7 x will be responsible for 10,000 jobs, boeing has some 10,000 orders that it got at launch, to see the delivery coming in around 2020. and under this deal, gregg, workers won't be able to vote until 2024, back to you. thank you, dominic di-natale, live in los angeles going to see you. okay, well, the flu is spreading quickly across the country. the centers for disease control and prevention said look at this map, most of the widespread activity is attributed to the h

1-n 1-virus. >> did you get your flu shot? >> no, i know it is bad, but i'm not a flu shot girl. >> what is a flu shot girl? >> meaning that i don't get it. >> she doesn't get it, folks. >> i get it, but just choosing not to get the shots. all right, how safe will the winter olympics be for thousands of fans? coming up, how russia's leader is trying to restore confidence in this year's games following the deadly terror bombing. and senator rand paul looking at derailing the nsa spying program by launching a mass lawsuit against the white house. and new information on the death of paul walker. what the final coroner's report says coming up. there's a new form of innovation taking shape.

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no cause of the explosion yet, it is under investigation. an al-qaeda-linked group claiming responsibility for the car bombings in beirut's neighborhood last week. at least five people were killed during the explosion. and the russian president, vladimir putin, visiting for the olympics. the trip came after putin visited the southern city of volgograd which was rocked by twin bombs that killed 34 people. the new year reuniting old friends who have not seen each other in decades. a young american navy airman was shot down and held captive by syrian fighters 30 years ago. his release came thanks to civil rights leader, jesse jackson, and the gratitude of then president ronald reagan.

more on their story. >> reporter: the ongoing violence in syria has claimed thousands of lives. there does not seem to be an end in sight. but the scenes of destruction and bombing look familiar to the marine who saw it all firsthand 30 years ago. december 4th, 1983, lieutenant bobby goodman was shot down by syrian forces and captured and held by the syrian forces for 30 days. his release came from the efforts of jesse jackson, who went to syria without the blessing of the reagan administration and negotiated for his release. among his return, the president received them both at the white house. goodman has not seen the civil rights leader in all the years since until now. >> good morning. >> good morning, robert? >> yes, sir, how are you doing? >> good to see you 30 years later, you don't look like the little frightened lieutenant colonel in the jail cell. we first wanted to see how you

were doing physically. were you being treated properly? were you being abused. but mr. rumsfeld had been there, and did not mention you during a press conference. i said if i had to get one person in damascus, it would be you, and he said he would consider it. after calling back from his villa, he said you were released. >> it was very, very quick, and from the room where i was held to the hotel, in a matter of 20 minutes it was all over. i remember standing in the oval office with president reagan, and you and my mother and father and said i can't imagine that i am here in the white house. >> you know, president reagan was quite excited about your release. and president reagan asked, reverend jackson, what can i do to help you? i said i want one thing from

you, call president assad and say thank you. >> he did making the call, which for a time improved the relations. this was a first of series -- of a series of moves by jackson, and helped with the presidential run. fox news. >> good to see. >> that is great. >> and they're both looking good and healthy these days, very good. okay, the nsa has been the cause of a great deal of headache for the obama administration. we're tell you why that headache just got a whole lot bigger. plus, gregg, the clock is ticking for jahi mcmath's family. what the new agreement between jahi's family and hospital, and what it means for the teen. >> she definitely shows improvement, if i felt my child was suffering in any way i wouldn't keep her on that. i love her that much that i would let her go. [ coughs, sneezes ] i have a big meeting when we land, but i am so stuffed up, i can't rest. [ male announcer ] nyquil cold and flu liquid gels don't unstuff your nose.

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refriger it is the bottom of the hour, time now for the news. areas slammed with winter weather, between areas of boston. the forecasters say it will bring record-breaking cold. well, the snow and dangerously cold temperatures now in much of the northeast blamed for 13 deaths. and 15-year-old jahi mcmath's family is reaching an agreement to have her moved to an undisclosed long-term care facility. she will be allowed to be on life support until tuesday night. and new information on the star, paul walker, of "fast & furious." they were traveling at least 100

miles an hour. the report finds drugs and alcohol were not a factor. after months of issues on healthcare.gov, the obama administration reportedly planning to create a new federal unit to big tech projects, hopes to avoid more glitches and errors like the ones affecting users for months following the launch of the obama care website. molly henneberg is live in washington with more. >> reporter: hi, part of the problem is that the government is having difficulty attracting the best and brightest in the tech sector and therefore may be falling behind on what it can do with the technology. one spokesperson told "the wall street journal," quote, we don't have enough people inside of government to make good, sound technology decisions. this gap between the public and private sector has really affected their knowledge. one of the most public examples of this is the disastrous rollout of the obamacare website. built by the tech sector, it is

locked. then, silicon valley pros were brought in to fix it, an embarrassment to the president who is trying to convince americans that government can be helped with the new health care and that it can be more efficient and cheaper. the obama administration is trying to find fixes, including having the tech specialists rotate through private companies, also streamlining the hiring process so it doesn't take months and months to hire a person to fill the job so they are not snapped up by other companies. the government spends $77 billion each year on information technology. and after the obamacare website tanked, president obama has said he wants a better return on that investment. >> medal -- molly henneberg, th

you. and this time, more information from senator rand paul revealing on "hannity" last night. he is looking for signatures for a massive class action lawsuit regarding the nsa spying program. >> we want them to understand we're not willing to trade our liberty for security, that we believe we can have security and liberty, it doesn't mean every american has to give up their privacy. we believe we can have both but are very concerned that this president doesn't seem to be too concerned with our right to privacy. >> well, they already give up their right to privacy. joining me to talk about it, both defense attorneys and former prosecutors. look, i turn to -- and you were with me when the decision broke. >> yes. >> u.s. district court judge william pauly. >> yes. >> and it was buried in page 42, amazingly, to me.

and i kept searching for the 53 pages, okay, where is it? where is it? on page 32, when they convey information to a third party he forfeits his right to the privacy and information. >> the fact is, it is a political move, senator rand paul, suing. >> he won't get certification for this. >> i'm a lawyer, legally speaking if you look at judge pauly's opinion, the sound reasoning, which as you said in there and pointed out. first thing is, when you make a phone call you're voluntarily transmitting the number that you're phoning to a third party. secondly, you don't own that information as a result of doing that. third point i want to make is that everybody is running around saying under the fourth amendment you need a search warrant to listen to the call. >> no, you don't. >> they're not listening to the call. it is what we call like a pen register which is information on what numbers are being dialled. >> i think the problem is in

this day and age we don't communicate with two tin cans and a string, so the problem, gregg, we -- our privacy -- >> it would be better than most services. >> our privacy rights need to catch up. it doesn't mean we lose our expectation of privacy. >> judge pauly found no evidence that the government has used any of its meta-data for any purpose other than disrupting the terror attacks. and the president's own presidential panel found the same thing, there is no evidence. >> that is the other point, senator paul, who is a physician and not a lawyer, what are the damages? between 2006 and 2009, there were 277 reports issued. about 2900 phone calls, so let's talk with the rhetoric about millions of people being listened to. >> but why are we trusting this information from the secret cord, and any other person

saying it should be allowed to continue when i think all the privacy rights are being violated. >> the other aspect of this is president obama and his administration has consistently said oh, we disrupted all of these terror attacks by virtue of this program. 50 terror attacks. the judge said you know what? they didn't show him any proof, whatsoever. and the president's own panel said, and i'll quote. our review concluded it was not essential. >> well, guess what? it will end up in the supreme court. >> and then john roberts can work his magic. >> the switch in time that saved nine. >> i think he regrets that. listen, to pursue a class action lawsuit, i mean, doug is right. that you have to get certification, do you envision a judge actually certifying it? >> well, why not? you have the telephone call, why

can't you certify it as a class action? i think it is a genius idea. >> well, you know, i put this question out there before. but it is somewhat ironic that edward snowden demands the nsa abides by the constitution, ed snowden should read article three of the constitution. it establishes a justice system which he has evaded. >> i definitely think edward snowden should have studied the constitution. but it is ironic, he was the one who alerted the entire population that this particular surveillance was taking place. so how ironic is that? you and i discussed this, gregg, some think he is a hero, others believe he is a criminal. most fall between the two polar opposites. >> he is a guy who decides from his own genre, he didn't even graduate high school. not a constitutional lawyer.

he decides if the nsa is going to violate the constitution and he is going to reveal to the world what they have been doing. and now we have other countries that will not share intelligence with the united states. i wonder how many lives may be lost? >> well, let's hope none. but again, we know so little about what is really going on here that until we get to the bottom of it -- >> that is the whole point of a secret program. is that they're secret. >> but this should not be secret. tell me that you're going to take my meta data -- >> a -- >> i got a few secrets, but this should not be secret. tell me that you're taking my data. let me know what you're doing, government, that is fine, i want to be secure, we all want to be secure. >> we know who you are calling. >> yeah, you probably do. >> she has secrets -- to tell everybody. doug doesn't have any secrets. >> no. >> all right, good to see you, thank you. >> see my long sleeves, yeah, i

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invest in some of them? >> well, i think you really have to open up your portfolio and take a look. 2013 was a great year for stocks but as you point out actually a terrible year for bonds, bonds actually lost money, since last year, the first loss since 1999. and some of the losses were quite dramatic. people that invested lost over 12%. so there is lower interest rates, higher bond prices that are coming to an end. now there are all of these trillions of dollars involved, the manipulation from the federal reserve, and it could be more destructive for the economy. >> i mean, we know that diversity is still key. with this news about bonds how should we now divide up the investment pie? >> well, i tell you, i think you have to take a real look at exactly what you have invested

in, because there were a lot of mal-investments from the fed. we have seen the utility companies get affected, the preferred stocks, and especially bonds, those have already taken a drubbing, i think you want to lose those going into 2014. and look at any funds that go up with rising interest rates, and a lot of what they call senior loan funds. these are funds that hold essentially adjustable rate loans, like mortgages, they can do well even if rates rise. >> so the adjustable rates or bonds, that is good, as opposed to adjustable rate mortgages? >> exactly, essentially you want to be able to benefit from rising interest rates, that a lot of us have made. again, the feds have made decisions on the assumption that the manipulation will continue. they signalled that it has not and interest rates could go up.

i happen to think it is very destructive for the economy. >> all right, jonathan so if bonds are a risk, you can't totally rely on investment trends, right? >> well, more than anything i think you need to have that three to six months' worth of cushion, old school advice, probably the advice your grandmother gave you. listen to her, good advice. especially the short-term cash. people are saying oh, well, we're not making anything on your cash. that could be very different at the end of 2014 and 15, when again we see bank savings accounts yielding 2 or even 3 or 4%. >> bonds, do you think they have seen their best days? >> i do, bonds have done extraordinarily well, not just in the last ten years, but the last 30 years. in fact, the return on bonds versus stocks have basically been the same thing. you did just as good invests in the bonds. that is an historical abnormality, that is why it

could be safer than many people believe. >> that is not good for the municipalities that depend on folks investing in those bonds either. >> absolutely, in fact, we saw many municipalities, in california and all over the country run into financial duress in the country or just declare bankruptcy altogether. so a higher movement in rates will hurt not only individual buyers but the same municipalities that have made poorer allocations will get hit, as well. actually, the short munis, too, shorting the bonds. and secretary kerry holding peace talks in the middle east. it is his tenth attempt to reach an agreement in the middle east since taking office. what is different this time? ambassador bolton is with us to weigh in on that.

. secretary of state john kerry in the middle east this week leading with palestinian and israeli leaders, all part of his latest attempt to try to reach a peace deal, creating a palestinian state and sending

talks for a settlement. after the meeting during the negotiation today, secretary kerry said the talks were moving in the right direction. take a listen. >> we're not there yet. but we are making progress. and we are beginning to flush out the toughest hurdles yet to be overcome. >> ambassador john bolton joins us, former fox contributor and senior fellow at the enterprise institute. always good to talk to you, ambassador. look, settlement in the middle east has eluded a great many american presidents and secretaries of state. how would you handicap secretary kerry's efforts? >> well, it will elude him, too, there is a fundamental problem here that goes beyond the very difficult substantive issues, and that fundamental problem is that the palestinian authority

is weak, corrupt, ill legitimate, and the leadership is not able to make the hard agreements that is required for israel, much less carry through with the palestinian state or the commitments. so it is not a criticism of the framework or agreement or anything else, it is that you do not have two partners in this agreement that are capable to follow through. >> i mean, who are you negotiating with? i mean, there is hamas and gaza. and they're not going to be able to speak for the palestinian authority. >> clearly, a terrorist organization, nobody is going to negotiate with them. the palestinian authority itself, although it has purportedly renounced terrorism,

we know still fosters terrorists. it has accepted arms from iran and the like. and it is simply not in a position to deliver on a commitment that it would be a state in the west bank that it would not engage in terrorist activities. and that, from israel's point is key, not where you draw the line. it is what kind of palestinian state would be on the other side of that line. and this palestinian leadership could swear on a stack of koran's that it would be a non-terrorist state but it would not be able to deliver on it. >> in terms of a permanent frame wachovi work, it seems impossible, the security, the borders, the right of return of refugees, end of conflict and claims. i wrote them all down here,

jerusalem is the interesting nugget in these conversations, a two-state capitol for jerusalem? i mean, that is not likely, is it? >> look, my own personal solution is that the two-state solution is doomed, at least until there is a representative palestinian authority who has some legitimacy in the palestinian state. that is not going to happen any time soon. what you see now is both the government of israel and the palestinian authorities see this effort by secretary kerry and president obama will fail. what they're trying to do is, both of them is position themselves so that they can't be blamed for it. and that is why at some point might there be something called a framework agreement that would consist of principles like both sides want a peaceful solution? yeah, i suppose that that could happen. but realistically in the real world, looking at whether there is progress, i don't see it.

>> and what about the settlements? i mean, you have probably been to some of these settlements, i have. they're not going to leave. the israeli settlers, there are 18,000 of them. >> let's be clear, many of them are not settlement, or trailer parks or anything like that. they look like westchester county. and the agreements, everybody agrees there will be an israeli territory if there is a two-state solution. i think there is a lot of posturing, smoke and mirrors. nobody wants to get blamed. the fact is, the united states spending all this time and effort on something that is doomed to failure, we're losing opportunities to address real problems. the president, the secretary of state only have so much time in a 24-hour day and wasting it on this effort between israel and the palestinians i think is a real opportunity cause for the

united states. >> ambassador bolton, thank you for joining us. great to talk to you. thank you. that will do it for us now, we'll be back again at 6:00 eastern. >> about an hour from now. >> enjoy your afternoon. so ally bank really has no hidden fees on savings accounts? that's right, no hidd fees. it's just that i'm worried about, you know, "hidden things." ok, why's that? well uhhh... surprise!!! um... well, it's true. at ally there are no hidden fees. not one. that's nice. no hidden fees, no worries. ally bank. your money needs an ally.

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