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one post, good idea, one says, wrong, we don't have enough jobs for the adults and they need to be kids. >> sharon says: better than texting all day. tgif everyone. harris falkner is in for shep. >> remember the huge credit card data breach at target, the ones where thieves report'd i stole some 40 million account numbers during black friday and the beginning of the holiday shopping season. now we just found out the breach is actually worse than originally advertised. nearly three times as many customers being affected. three times 40 million. wow. and now we know all sorts of personal data were grabbed, including home addresses, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, and much more. >> first, though, just into the fox news deck. we now have a pile of new documents regarding the bridge scandal that has governor chris
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christie playing defense. new jersey lawmakers have released the documents a few minutes ago and our producers are going through them. 1,000 pages. christie denied any involved in the matter yesterday. two-hour long news conference. he is now facing a federal investigation and a class action lawsuit from drivers who say they were stuck in the traffic nightmare last september. that's how this whole thing got started. road crews closed down two access lanes to the george washington bridge, creating backups that lasted for days. it happened in fort lee new jersey certainly after that town's democratic mayor refused to endorse chris christie's re-election campaign. christie at first brushed off any idea of a conspiracy, joking with reporters he pad permanently set up traffic cones. all that stopped when e-mails show aides did snarl traffic on purpose. there's governor christie with
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the top aide he fired, the woman you see with hem there. that staffer wrote an i'm which read, quote: time for traffic problems in fort lee. another official replied, quote, got it. eric sharpe is going through the paperwork. >> these new documents are from the new jersey state assembly transportation committee. they're investigating the scandal. they just released showing that officials were very worried about the claims the lane closures were supposed to be for some type of traffic study. they were worried and list the calls from reporters about that, asking if it was a study oar the alleged retribution that had been reported against the fort lee mayor. one official called at it monumental failure and that the supposed traffic study was ill conceived. one e-mail happens to be from david wildstein, former port authority official and a christie associate, who took the
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fifth 20 times yesterday before the quitee. this says, will be at bridge monday and to view new lane test. he resigned last fall there he is in the committee testifying. may be one of the first officials called to testify and subpoenaed. the chairman of the committee says the committee may now subpoena other christie administration officials, including bridget kelly. she, the former deputy chief of staff who the governor fired yesterday. as you mentioned, she is the one who sent the original miami miami who said there's time for traffic problems in fort lee, with wildstein saying, got it. this comes in the wake of the governor's apology and taking responsibility. he insists he did not know anything about it until it was all made public and he had nothing to do with that scheme. more hearings are promised. so certainly this issue and the investigations into it certainly
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not going away anytime soon. harris. >> thank you very much. fox news contributor tony sag is here to talk about this. a political consultant who worked with a lot of republicans including george pat tacky -- pataki. and governor chris christie. how does this affect anyone outside of new jersey. >> not practically. the fact is that christie is a possible candidate for president in 2016. the way the governor handled the press conference was very wise and brilliant. he did it also the governor of new jersey. he offered an unqualified apology for the misdoings of his staff to the people of-under new jersey. he went to fort lee, apologized the mayor, and the mayor -- something that needs to be noted -- said the governor or his people never solicited his endorsement. that's the whole premise that people were alleging he was being paid back for. >> let's talk about the one
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thousand pages our crew is going through right now and the meaning of those. as we sat down earlier you said this guess news, why? >> if you trust the governor that he had nothing to do with the ordering this suitly re -- absolutely redick loss event -- ridiculous event. the more mott comes out that vic vindicates him the better. so i highly doubt we'll find any evidence that the governor ordered this. >> what if he is lying? ,. >> obviously the scenario he is saying untruthful will come back to hurt him. the coverup always worse than the crime. in this case the governor exercised good judgment in the fact that if you have nothing to hide, don't hide. he stood in front of the press for two hours, exhausted their questions. in fact invited even more questioning. >> i hear what you're saying. this is also a person who talked at the republican convention. he likes to hear himself talk. let's not glaze over that. so two hours from governor christie is like 15 minutes for a lot of people.
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>> this is an uncomfortable topic he could have cut it off. president obama when having to account for misdoings, whether it be irs, goj, benghazi, made statement, maybe taken a question or two, walked away this. governor has shown accountability and leadership immediately fired the people responsible. that is another thing that shows how seriously he is taking this. >> some people are coming back to talk. it will be interesting to hear what they have to say. our crew has something to put on the screen here. just the back and forth. and anybody who thought this aide or these people and the governor's team didn't know the harm they were causing, do we have that to put up? one of the i'ms that went through. wanted to let you both know and give you a heads-up, we're getting a lot of complaints from people, particularly two incidents that fort lee pd and ems have difficulty responding to a missing child. there were things that were
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going on during this traffic being snarled that are more than just embarrassing. >> it's horrendous. >> the governor could be looked at legally, and that's what this class action lawsuit is talking about. if you were in harm's way because the traffic was snarled. >> children were on a school bus for four hours. i have young kid. nationalling kids on a bus four hours, no food -- >> i'd be apo electric tick. >> this shows to me the governor would never authorize this. he is a former u.s. attorney. you would never allow and allow something that would be criminal. does hoe know how to play hard install of course he does. he's from new jersey. but h. >> you know the governor. you worked with him. why would he have people around him who lie to him? >> he addressed that. we have often found situations in which people -- basically
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undermine our trust in them, and i've worked in causes that support the governor and what he has done for new jersey. i don't know him personally but what i do know is the second he believes something, he acts on it. in this case he believed his staff undermined him. hood winked hem and he felt blindsided and acted right away. this is a decisive governor, and david axlerod believes the governor will live to fight another day. the longer this plays out the better the governor looks so long as he continues to handle this the way he has. >> i handed you exhibit a and before the hour is up we'll have information from exhibit a and down the line because we're going through the pages. thank you for coming in and sharing your perspective. the obama administration for the first time is naming the terror group it says were behind the deadly attacks on americans in ben georgia -- benghazi which
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left four americans dead. ambassador chris stevens, sean smith to former navy seals, and the state department reports branches of the terror group launched the assault. including one that a former guantanamo bay detainee now controls. u.s. officials say they identified a number of people who may have taken part in the attack, and those documents were under seal in the d.c. court. we don't yet know what charges they could be facing as we're getting this new information. the labor department today reporting december's unemployment rate was the lowest in years. analysts are saying, it is not necessarily a good sign. in fact, it could indicate our nation's economy is suffering in ways we hadn't thought about. and the news standoff over gay marriage. the feds say they'll recognize those marriages in one state even though the supreme court mutt a halt to weddings there. we'll explain how that will work. stay close.
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somewhere. >> the federal government will recognize the more than 1,000 same-sex marriages which took place utah just before the supreme court but the ceremonies on the hold, according to attorney general eric holder. gay couples who got married before the ruling are eligible for the same federal benefits which come with any marriage, including tax breaks. the a nation's highest court hit
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the pause button. voters outlawed same-sex marriage utah a decade another but last month a federal judge tossed the law, ruling it unconstitutional. the labor department is reporting employers added just 74,000 jobs in december. that's the smallest number in three years. the unemployment rate did drop to 6.7%. that's the lowest since october of 2008. but analysts say it's mostly because americans gave up looking for work. to the tune of more than gave up than jobs were added. the so-called labor force par tis rate has hit a 35 year low, and on wall street, the dow off double digits. peter barnes from the fox business network is live with the news in washington. peter, which job sectors are struggling and which are hiring. >> some analysts say bad weather last month hurt job creation, and as some proof of that, analysts are looking at the
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construction sector which fell by 16,000 jobs in december. other sectors losing jobs including the performing arts, down 12,000. government cut 13,000 jobs, mainly in local education. sectors hiring last month include retail. up 55,000 jobs for the holiday shopping season. ten agencies added 40,000 workers and manufacturers added nine thousand jobs. >> and how is this all playing out in washington? >> well, it's political football opposite again. the white house says it's looking at job creation for the whole year, not just one month. >> you look at 2013 as a whole, and we now have data for the whole year 2.2 million private sector jobs added. the unemployment rate down 1.2 percentage points for 2013. so all the broad indications we have are that the economy continues to strengthen. >> he said the report
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underscores the need for congress to extend unemployment benefits but house speaker john boehner called the report disappointing, saying, quote, the president's policies are failing too many americans. many of whom have simply stopped looking for work. instead of making it easier to find a good-paying job washington has been more focused on making it less difficult to live without one. >> republican leaders in the house will vote on a bill to extend current deadline for budget talks, giving law -- the extension would push the deadline to midnight next saturday. there is word people who are close to friends, loved ones, are saying their final goodbyes to former israeli prime minister ariel sharon. we'll talk with a journalist has interviewed the prime minister coming up, on the deck.
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the fbi is seconds dozens of agents to russia to help tighten up security with the olympics less than a month away. the fbi director says the agency is working with russian intelligence services and two dozen agents will go to moscow. while others will be in sochi where the city is hosting the olympics. also today russian officials have detained six suspects in a bombing which killed three people last month. it's just one in a string of recent attacks that have heightened security concerns there. 34 people died in pair of bombings in december. >> this week, six men turned up dead in an abandoned car. it's worth noting this is not the first time the fbi has worked with authorities inside russia. last year the bureau sent agents
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to interview the parents of the boston bombing suspects. doctors in israel say former prime minister ariel sharon is in his final hours. and a friend of the family tells us people are visiting to say goodbye. he has been in a coma since he had a stroke eight years ago. he is a former general who became prime minister in 2001. four years later, he led israel's withdrawal from gaza. and he was still prime minister when he suffered a stroke in 2006. judith miller is a pulitzer prize-winning journalist who has interviewed the prime minister, and as we look at those pictures, i'm curious to know, you sat down with him. what he tell you. >> he told me he was going to do what israel needed, no matter who cared and no matter who objected. he was that kind of man. larger than life.
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absolutely certain in his opinions. the kind of man we have not seen in the region for quite some time. >> nicknamed the bull bulldozer but shocked the world. >> he gave if sacred israeli splashed was preparing to give up even more sacred israeli land which was the left bank, when he had his stroke. he decided that he did not want the united states to impose a solution on him. and that if anybody was going to draw a line, it would be the borders of israel it would be an israeli prime minister, not an american president. >> he is the person i often quote when i tell young people, of you don't make a decision, others will decide for you. he railed against that. he didn't want anyone making decisions for them. the secretary of state john kerry has made ten, 101 trips to that part of the world, trying to get a deal between the palestinians and the israelis. how much do you think an ariel
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sharon could influence that situation? kerri doesn't seem to be making much ground. >> he needs people willing and able to make a decision, and that's precisely the problem. ariel sharon decided what he wanted to do and did it. did it even when he had to remove 9,500 settlers, israelis from gaza and the west bank. he changed parties when he decided his party didn't really represent the best interests of israel. he was an extraordinary man. able to switch and maneuver just as he did on the battlefield. >> was he loved in his own country? even though he was making those controversial moves. >> he was loved and hated. a polarizing figure, as are most great men when they do daring things. >> i know you have sources still there inside israel. what are they telling you about his health today? >> well, they're saying that the end is near. i know that we all know about
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sharon, however long the doctors say he has, double or triple it because his will to live has been so strong that he has outlasted his doctors' predictions. but he is the kind of man whom i think young israelis will look back on and say, this was the ear roar of the great people. >> that brings know my final question for you. how what his decisions did and the type of person he was maybe have influence today? >> he definitely does because people will go on debating his legacy forever. remember, this is a man who not only withdraw from gaza but was also held responsible for the death of 3,500 palestinians, basically, christians, and he was able to resign as defense minister, some people said he would never be in public office again. and yet he rose to become prime minister again, and someone who would have been reelected despite all these controversial
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decisions had he not fallen ill. >> jude dissing mier, giving us a history -- judith miller giving us a history lesson. keep us posted. >> i think we're all with israelis who are supporting -- supportive of him and his family. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> a stunning admission from target. the executives there say that massive security breach over the holidays affected tens of millions more shoppers than previously reported. because that original 40 million number was huge. now they're saying possibly three times more. now prosecutors across the nation say they're taking action. attorneys general in different states. and hundreds of thousands of people in one state. the very latest in the rush to clean up a dangerous chemical spill. that is how many people are being affected there. they can't drink the water. that's coming up. [ male announcer ] here's a question for you: is your tv powered by coal? natural gas? nuclear?
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fox report now more headlines. someone intentionally rigged a house to explode in central wisconsin, killing at least one person. that is the word from the sheriff's department. the blast destroyed the home yesterday morning. crews officials say workers are set to remove the wreck of the costa concordia in june, american two years after its crashed into the rocks off the coast of italy. 32 people died and thousands had to evacuate. the captain is still on trial for charges, including manslaughter. he got off the ship before passengers because he tripped and fell into a life boat. and most members of congress are millionaires, according to the nonpartisan center for politics based on financial filings, the two wealthist are a darryl issa and mark warner. much more right after this.
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serious environmental trouble for hundreds in west virginia. a dangerous chemical contaminated the water supply. now they're warning people not could drunk the water, use it to cook, shower, or wash their clothes, shoppers are lining up for bottled water and drinks. some people bought ice and plan to melt it. >> what about showering. >> going to melt this down like back in them old days and put them in a tub and take a bird bath. >> can't even bathe in the stuff. that woman was maybe joking around. this is very serious situation. it all began yesterday in charleston. officials say a chemical that companies use to process coal spilled into the elk river from a holding tank and eventually spread to nine counties. workers at a nearby treatment plant say they're scrambling to clean up the chemical spill and say they have had trouble
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determining just how much of it is in the water. people throughout the area have complained of the powerful odor, saying it smells like licorice. the u.s. attorney in west virginia said the feds are investigating what caused this to happen. doug mckelway is in charleston. first impressions? >> first impressions, i'm trying to detect that odor you just mentioned, and maybe a faint hint of it but i don't notice it. the chemical is a foaming agent that is used in the processing of coal before the coal is shipped off for burping. -- for burning, it liked at a tank in freedom industries, coal processing plant. 5,000 gallons this best guesstimate we have heard leaking from the 40,000-gallon tank but the numbers will come in more precisely later on. we learned there are seven water
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distribution facilities spread throughout the charleston area and surrounding counties, but they're having problems already, even though this is only into roughly 12 hours since citizens first became aware of it. people are already running out of bottled water. we spoke to a few of them at a water distribution facility earlier. late listen up. >> i stopped at a gas station. i needed gas anyway, and they have ice. so i thought, well, at least i'll have ice and it can melt while i wait. >> i don't know what happened. what is going on with it. i'm trying to keep up with the news, but just mainly worried about my son. >> the key thing is, how long will this last? officials, including the governor, does not know. they're trying to figure that out at this point. so, the longer this crisis extends, the more inconvenienced, the more trouble it's going to be. people can't drink the stuff, cannot bathe in it, cannot use it -- what can you use it for?
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perhaps wash your car. about that is all. in addition to that we also know that this is a huge farming area. people depend on water to feed their livestock. they can't do that, either. so they're waiting directions on exactly what they can do with that. i should tell you that as i came into town on the 400-mile drive from washington, i saw a lot of trucks, everything from small pickup trucks carrying bottled water to large tanker trucks with poetable water heading in this direction so in addition to the national guard being called out, individuals are helping out en masse. when it ends we don't know and that will be key to how the crisis evolves. >> i'm curious. i'm live-tweeting about this right now. you just got there. doug, what happens if you get this chemical on you? >> a lot of questions surrounding that, too. we know it is very, very
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dangerous if you imbibe the stuff. that's why you don't want to drink it or cook with it. we know that four people have been admitted to local hospitals with symptoms of vomiting and nausea. of course those are systems which mimic the flu, so we don't know whether or not it's poison related to this foaming agent. we don't know yet. the best advice for anybody who thinks they may have come in contact with it is avoid, avoid touching is, avoid bathing with it, avoid drinking it do not use water in your house. go to a distribution facility which you're hearing about on local radio stations, and bring your own containers because it is available but just not bottled form. >> maybe this is something you can ask if you don't know. is there anything we can do outside of west virginia? americans will watch this across the country. they have big hearts and want to help. >> that's a great question. i think at this point, rather
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than being flooded with contributions of water and in-kind donations, food donations, things of that sort, the best thing -- this may change -- let the national guard handle the situation and wait for the word from the authorities. >> doug mckelway, update us when you can. turns out the massive data breach at target over the holidays was even larger than we previously knew. according to the retail giant have to stoled personal information, phone numbers, home, and e-mail address, from more than 70 million customers. but the total number of people at risk from the breach is still unclear. now, remember, target retail reported thieves swiped credit and deb -- debit card info so there could be an overlap between the groups of numbers were getting and could also mean
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many more people at risk, at many as 100 million is the number we're being targeted with today. and the company reports customers will not be liable for the cost of any fraudulent charges from the breach. they said that. the several states attorney general say they're investigating. criminal defense attorney ashley merchant joins us now. what's the biggest challenge for target? are they facing lawsuits? >> they're definitely facing lawsuits. facing class action from all over the country of people who have innewmannable damage that -- they don't even know what happened yet. they don't know in five years from now they may not try to buy a house and their credit has been damage when they apply for a mortgage. i think these unforeseen damages is what is scary for target right now. >> ashley, what is your first response when you hear the number could be well north of 70 million people affected? >> that is over a quarter of a american households.
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almost everybody i know seems to have been affected. whether or not they actually shopped at target, it seems like credit card companies and banks are just blanketly reissuing these debit cards and reissuing and having people do new pass wedders and e-mail. i have had to change all my direct bills because i have new account numbers now. i think we're going to continue to see the effects just flood america. >> and if somebody does notice a problem, has been checking our checking and savings accounts, because that's what they told shoppers to do, as an attorney would you tell them to wait and see down the line what happens? would you wait for a class action? >> i wouldn't. i wouldn't wait for a class action because the law requires you to actually do something to try to mitigate your own damages. and so i would recommend that they go ahead and call their bank company, because if you just stick your head in the sand and pretend like it didn't happen you're not mitigating your damages and that could come to haunt you. >> wouldn't be people sticking their head in the sand.
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maybe waiting to see if there was a payday down the road. target, how legally are they exposed if in fact this didn't have anything to do with credit card transactions? this was stuff that was on their servers and they got hit, which may explain why the numbers getting so big. >> right. i think target in the biggest issue for them right now is going to be legal fees, defending this. legal fees and fines. they're a part of many different groups that can assess fines and levy punishment taxes to them. and they'll be face that. the legal ramifications for them are mostly in attorney fees and defending this, and possible settlements. where they have to agree to increase their ability to protect against this type of fraudulent transaction, and those settlements -- it's going to cost them a lot of money. >> i can see an opportunity now, and ill know there are lot of software systems out there but somebody coming up with what
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deals with protecting corporations down the road. ashleigh merchant cans thank you for joining us. >> the family of a teenage girl killed after a asiana crash last year is sewelling san francisco officials. the 16-year-old survived the crash but died after two emergency vehicles ran over her on the tarmac. investigators say flame retardant foam was covering her body. her family claims firefighters were reckless because they should have examined the girl and moved her to a safer place. according to investigators, firefighters say they assumed the girl was already dead. she was one of three little chinese girls killed that day. the second died during the crash, third later in the hospital. >> the days of posting reviews over the internet and keeping your identity anonymous may shouldn't be coming to an end. details on major ruling that could affect how you lash out online.
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first cold, now the rain. downpours brought widespread flooding to south florida. the national weather service reports this beach got up to 17-inches of rain. an hour north of miami. and here you see a neighborhood hit by the deluge. nearby del rey beach. officials say the storm knocked down multiple power lines. forecasters expect the weather to clear up for the weekend. wonder how long it will take to dry out. >> the popular web siteey '.com must now reveal the identities of some anonymous reviewers if they slam a business. yelp builds itself as a hub for online reviews.
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anybody can sign up to rate businesses and some users comment under fake names. the owner of a carpet cleaning company outside d.c. says seven anonymous yelp reviewers post evidence critical comments about his business. he claims those unhappy critics lied in the comments and that none of them was ever his customer. under yelps terms of service, reviewers must agree not to violate content guidelines, which include writing a fake or demam torii view. so the business owner filed a yacht and an appeals court said yelp must identify the names of anonymous reviewers. the court ruled the constitution protects free speech but not defamatory speech. seth is a business attorney and trial lawyer. thank you for being here. my key question is if people can't be hospital why dub be honest why do i need the rue. >> what's the social use of fake postings and somebody being an
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imposter. there's no use to that. no utility. and thecourt in virginia said there's no constitutional protection. this race case about companies getting green light to go off bullies in the cloud. the bottom line of the court's decision is that individuals cannot anonymously or another kind of user name issue these kinds kinds of defamatory statements and then hide behind the first amendment it was absolutely rejected and will probably be a trend going forward. this is something that affects companies big and small. >> my question was different than what you answered. i'm curious as a user, when you tell people they have to say who they are they may not give a real response if they were ever intending to. why would i find that helpful? if they're not going to be honest, why would i even look at it? >> because the court didn't exactly say that. the court noted that input can be constitutionally
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protected. and went through historical analysis that started with pamphlets. anonymous input and anonymous opinion can be constitutionally protected. so you raise an excellent point. the court said that if you anonymously post information that is false, then the company has the ability to go after you because defamatory information and/or lies is not entitled to constitutional protection so it's a good point but not exactly the road went down. >> does this actually impact anything else we see online? yelp isn't the only service that does this. >> that's exactly right. and this is going to be a major decision that's going to have a huge ripple effect, mainly because of two factors. one, the use of social media and opinions online and factual statements is proliferating by the month, and although this is a virginia decision, it was really based upon federal principles. so it will fundmentally change the way business looks at social media. >> what's interesting, if somebody has a facebook page and they say, that seth is a great
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attorney, and then they say, that seth is not a great attorney, and we determine that the person who said you're not is lying, can you sue? >> well, -- who do you sue, facebook? >> you can sue facebook if you want to, and then you can just go through them to issue the subpoena because they're the way to get the information. you're talking about opinion. anonymous opinions are constitutionally protected free speech. sitting around with imposter posts to burn down a business fraudulently is not constitutionally protected free speech. that's what the decision is all about. >> seth, thank you very much. good to see you today. >> my pleasure. >> police in connecticut have arrested a man they say drained a swimming pool and put it on the road. they say the water froze, causing several accidents. it was a sheet of ice covering the street. look at that. police say it was so bad they had a hard time even getting to the scene. at least one person was hurt. we have a picture of the
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suspect. a pool company worker, facing reckless endangerment charges. >> a young family band is now rock can out for a good cause. block is that not super cute. she is wearing that hat. they're helping kids and a classmate with cancer. we'll tell you've about the story when we come back.
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a small plane went right into the water as the pilot was trying to take off from a beach and cameras captured it all. the pilot said he had engine trouble and thought he fixed the problem, but watch what happened when he tried to get airborne.
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>> oh! >> oh. hundreds of people saw that. failure to launch, they call it. both the pilot and copilot are doing fine. they say the only thing hurt is their pride. well, the plane is a mess. thank goodness they're company. >> we found the best group of friends a fourth grader could possibly ever have in boys -- boise, idaho. an clear class is rallying around a boy who has cancer. they're made a band to help. i love a good news story. >> the kid call their band, the runaway hamsters. they're members of the keene family. a nine-year-old girl and her triplet eight-year-old siblings. when they found out a friend was sick they knew just what to do. they had a jam session.
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♪ >> the runaway hamsters wrote this song for the kid they called their best buddy, matt deitrick. doctors last year removed a tumor from his brain. >> we heard about matt, and we wanted to help him. we prayed for him. hoped he got better. >> along with all the praying and hoping, there was singing. the keenes made a cd to raise money for family, the kids battling cancer. deitrick's mother says the support has meant everything. >> these kids are capable of extraordinary acts of self-sacrifice and general win love -- genuine love and we have seen it from the keen kids and other kids in the community. >> like classmates who lined up for deitrick's autograph and who spent time with him as he worked to regain the ability to walk and to speak.
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>> ♪ runaway, runway ♪ >> the parents of the kids marvel how all of them have grown. >> i've always tried to teach them we help others and are kind and try to lift people up when they're down. i think they have taught me so much. kids are so accepting. >> what a swede group of kids. matt's family says he just finished chemotherapy and it's too early to know if his cancer is in remission. the keene kids war able to donate almost $2,000 to the idaho hospital where their friend was treated. >> i teared up as he mild. that smile is worth a million. i have to say, that band sounds pretty good, her little voice is beautiful, the lead singer. >> there's some talent there and
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it's wonderful they're putting that talent to use to help other children. >> such a great story. we'll tweet this one out. more information on the kids and how you can help, visit our web page, foxnews.com/shep. man is reportedly suing the people behind the movie "the matrix." we'll tell you why they're suing and the response it's getting from the studio next.
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>> you take the red pill you stay in wonderland, and i show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. >> wow. remember that scene? from the science fiction movie "the matrix." bat world in which robots control the planet and force humans to live in virtual reality. the film spawned two sequels.
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now a man in hawai'i is suing the producers of the trilogy for $300 million, claiming they stole the idea from him. the man says the movie has striking similarities to a screen play he wrote in 1992. warner brothers released the first matrix movie in 1999. a rep for the film company says the lawsuit has no merit. on this day in 1982, san francisco's 49ers receiver dwight clark caught a critical game-tying touchdown pass against the cowboys. from then on the play was known simply as "the catch. " the throw from joe montana. the niners were down less than a score. they pushed up nearly the entire length of the field, and after the memorable grab, san francisco booted an extra point to seal the victory and a trip to to the super bowl. butt it all started with the
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catch, 32 years ago today. that's how we celebrate on the tech. after the show we lift each other up. right? "your world" is on in two seconds. >> a friday job shocker. today, the good, the bad, and the very ugly. >> welcome everybody. first the good. the nation's jobless rate is coming down, way down. now the bad. the number of jobs being created, measly 74,000 last month, about a third of what the economy had been generating in each of the last four months. and finally, the ugly. people are so fed up at being unable to find a job they just stopped looking. the so-called labor par tis rate is the lowest sinc