bill: i like your point about the extra point. finesse moment. skill of the game. got to run. martha: "happening now" starts right now. we'll see you back here tomorrow. jenna: finesse of the game. fox news alert, a major winter storm impacting millions of people right now. heavy snow and strong wind hitting mid-atlantic and the northeast. a lot of major airports are affected. major storm could fall in some areas. those temperatures are expected to stick around throughout the week. much more on that throughout the program. first breaking news on today's top headlines and brand new stories you will see here first. jon: two heavy hitters for a potential white house run in 2016, both facing very different roadblocks. can chris christie overcome recent political scandals. we'll tell you about one analyst who says hillary clinton is far from a shoo-in on the democratic side. plus a young couple gunned down, killed in cold blood.

a new twist to a california murder mystery after police find a third body in the trunk of a car. how are the gruesome discoveries in two crime scenes connected? do you hate jet lag, exhaustion you get from flying across time zones for work or play? disrupting your sleep may be worse than you think. dr. siegel is here. it is all "happening now." jenna: new developments on obama car. hello, everybody, hope you're off to a great tuesday. i'm jenna lee. jon: i'm jon scott. sign-ups for private insurance may be sluggish there is a huge surge in medicaidign h ups. most signing up for the federally-run health plan for the poor did have insurance before. they say the new law is having profound effect because it is helping america's

underprivileged. we'll get into that with senator robb portman, republican from ohio. he has a lot of thoughts on the efficacy of all of that. jenna: certainly big political stories of the day. we'll turn to the weather. there is heavy snow and bitter cold slamming the mid-atlantic and northeast. winter storm closing schools and causing a lot of delay in travel. p even federal offices in washington are closed. peter doocy keeps coming to work. he does show up. hi, general peter. >> reporter: hi, jenna. of just about everybody here in washington, d.c. is enjoying a four-day weekend following yesterday's holiday. all federal offices in the area are shut down. opm made the decision before it started snowing. you can see it is coming down. for most part everything in d.c. revolves around the federal government the streets are pretty deserted except for a few salt trucks and a few brave reporters. some emergency workers are told

they need to come in. others are being told they cantella commute. the supreme court surprisingly is hearing arguments this morning but that is about it for activity in the district of columbia. schools are closed here in d.c. and nearby maryland and virginia. national treasures at the smithsonian are on display right now but officials say they might shut down early if things get real bad. commuters could be in trouble. the people that did actually have to come to work today, on their way back home because buses and trains are running on schedule right now. officials are warning that could change. there could be service interruptions later on depending how bad things get. we've already seen a big mess at airports throughout the mid-atlantic. hundred plus flights already canceled in philly. 100 plus flights already canceled here in d.c. at reagan and dulles and all three airports up in new york. throughout the night we did see crews pretreating the roads here to try to get ahead of some accumulation we are expecting but there is no way to pretreat

for wind. the national weather service says the windchill could dip below 5 to 15 degrees below zero. that is very cold. so stay inside if you can. there are though if you're watching and coming to d.c., there are ways to enjoy washington reason though everything is shut down. for example, you can't go to the national zoo to see the brand new panda cub, bao bao. i looked at my desk before i came down here. the panda-cam is alive and well and streaming. last time i checked it is snack time. jenna: good to know. the panda cam, brave reporters and supreme court all at work despite the weather. back to peter in d.c. as we continue to follow the weather today. meantime new fears for the upcoming winter olympics in sochi with russian security forces searching for three potential suicide bombers. they're all female and so-called

"black widows" could be linked to deadly tear or attacks inside the country. jonathan hunt is live in new york city. jonathan? >> reporter: jenna, one of the three the russian security forces are looking for is 22 years old. this is a picture of her. take a look at this. she apparently, this is the great worry for russian security services is already within what they call the ring of steel inside sochi, the site of the olympics. these kind of female bombers are not new to the russian security services. remember this, back from october 2013. horrible video of a bus bomb. that was a female suicide bomber. that happened in stroll go grad. you also remember stroll go grad was the scene of last month's train station bombing. we have the security camera video of that. you can see right there. now stroll go grad incidentally was where the olympic torch

arrived yesterday. actually arriving through that very train station -- stroll go grad. one of the big problems for jeffrey minkoff, center of strategic studies are the level of corruption among lower level officials in russia. here is mr. minkoff. >> the system can be set up in a way that is designed to focus on these kind of threats but only takes one person person, one corrupt guard who is willing to look the other way in exchange for a bribe of one kind or another to have the entire thing come apart and very successful attack to be pulled off. that is one of the real unknowns as you think about how secure the olympics are going to be. >> reporter: u.s. officials are among those very concerned about how secure those olympics will be. so they are moving military assets into the area. according to a pentagon

spokesman, quote, air and naval assets to include two navy ships in the black sea will be available if requested for all manner of contingencyies in support of and in consultation with the russian government but the russian government and security services retain the lead obviously in all security operations. they can, as we've seen before, jenna, be ruthless and very effective and you can expect that the russian security servicingses and their special-ops forces will be conducting ongoing operations pretty much every hour, every day to the run-up of the olympic which is of course open february 7th, jenna. jenna: a big story for us, jonathan. thank you. jon: we mentioned earlier about some of the problems with sign-ups for obama care. while that is happening there is a surge apparently in medicaid sign-ups. front page story in today's

"new york times," the law's expanded medicaid coverage brings a surge in sign-ups. let's about it with senator robb portman, republican from ohio. he knows a thing or two how to pay for things, former director of the office of management and budget and now sitting on the senate finance committee. overall taking a look at obamacare as we stand right now three plus months into its rollout what do you think of the program? >> well it is not working very well. i just got a call from a con sit end in ohio, a guy named chris tried to sign up. he thought he was signing up for private health care. incorrectly ended up signed up for medicaid. now there is a glitch of system, now he can't sign up as all. tens of thousand of ohioans are in limbo. implementation is not working. we talked about this earlier. not as many young people signed up as expected. 25% of the folks signed up versus the 40% goal. that means premiums are far higher than expected. in many states the premiums are

skyrocketing. it is not what the administration had promised certainly. i also think it is interesting that the congressional budget office tells us 10 years after this has been in place, still 30 million americans will be uninsured. despite the sign-up in medicaid as you're talk about, and by the way twice as many signed up for medicaid as private insurance so it has primarily been a medicaid sign-up so far and as you know 10 times as many people had their insurance canceled compared to those who obtained private insurance. so i don't think it is working too well. jon: pulling a line out of "the new york times" front page story as i mentioned earlier, enrollment in the private insurance plans has been sluggish. euphemistically sluggish is a -- >> so-called invincibles were supposed to enroll and get rates down for everybody else. that hasn't happened. jon: sign-ups for medicaid, federal insurance program for

the poor has surged in many states. we want people to be healthy. is that a good thing they're signing up in droves for medicaid but not necessarily for private insurance offered under obamacare? >> medicaid has its problems as you know. it is not sustainable in its current form. meaning costs are increasings to the point it can't be paid for. some states as you know chosen not to expand medicaid. this is happening in some states and not in others because others chose not to expand medicaid. the government at the federal level agreed to step in first couple years to pay for it all but the question is what will happen down the road? states like mine, ohio, looks as medicaid our second biggest cost. who will pay for it down the road. we have a 17 troll dollars budget deficit as you referenced earlier and we have big problems at the federal level dealing with this unprecedented level of debt. that is one of my concerns about this. we need to reform the medicaid program, give more flexibility to the states and help it to work better to cover those who really do need coverage.

>> speaking of paying for things, you're one of the senators who voted in the early going to get the ball rolling on extension of unemployment insurance if it was paid for. you came up with a plan to pay for it. where does that stand? >> we'll see. that is kind of in limbo too. in the united states senate we don't do very much these days. in this case we haven't been able to move forward on a bipartisan plan. i think we should and i think we can. i know we have votes to do it. it would be basically saying, yes you have 26 weeks of unemployment the states give. could be emergency unemployment on top of that. it should be paid for rather than taking us further into debt which hurts economy by increasing debt and deficit. second we ought to do so with pay-fors that help the program to work better. one of the idea as you know insuring you couldn't double-dip between unemployment and other insurance programs. i hope we get back to that, jon, next week and come up with a bipartisan solution that enables us to pay for this instead sticking the next generation with the tab. jon: we are a week or so away

from the president's state of the union address. he will be talking about his agenda. i'm sure he will lay out all kinds of programs. where do you think his agenda stand right now? >> well, we'll see. i'm hopeful the president will talk about two things in the state. union. one is economic growth. the jobs numbers from week before last are incredibly disappointing. we looked at unfortunately a situation where we weren't creating many jobs, about 374,000. yet 347,000 people left the work place, the workforce. we have to do something about this we have record numbers about people who are long-term unemployed which is one reason the unemployment issue ought to be resolved by helping to reform that program so there are things like skills training as par of it. so we've got big problems. the president better talk about economic growth or he will have in his last few years of his administration continued sluggish growth we've seen. one is tax reform. one is regulatory relief. one is getting cost of health care down which hurts economy when costs are so high.

second i hope we talk about the need to deal with the debt and deficit. it is impending crisis if we don't deal with it. we have record levels of debt. it is something president talked about early in his first term. something we get back to that and make great progress. jon: senator portman, from ohio, thanks for coming on. we could talk about some of this stuff all day. take care. jenna: iran flexing its nation's military might. where the ships are headed causing serious concern. we'll talk about that. the weather is not only thing causing trouble for new jersey governor chris christie's inaugural celebration today. what he has to say after the swearing-in on the scandals rocking his second term. oh!

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jon: right now iran warships on a mission to atlantic ocean. according to iranian state tv. this three-month voyage marks

the first time the republic has sent ships there. this is the first time it tried to flex its muscle beyond the middle east. it is leaving from this southern port reportedly on a training mission to supposedly secure shipping routes but has not declared ports of call. the recent naval surge is in response to the u.s. navy's deployment in bahrain across the gulf. iran said in next few years it wanted to put warships off the international waters off the u.s. coast and extend its reach as far as south as antarctica. jenna: breaking news. we're moments away from new jersey governor chris christie's inauguration but on what should be a day of celebration for the governor a cloud of controversy hangs over him and his office. a dozen closest friends are subpoenaed over a pair of scandals just as his second term begins. eric shawn is here with the latest. >> reporter: yes, jenna lee.

this just in. the democratically controlled new jersey legislature merged two committees on the bridge scandal. state assembly and state senate will have one joint committee and there will be double number of democrats on the panel than republican members. there will be eight democrats and four republicans. and it seems governor christie can't even catch a break with the weather. now mother nature is dumping on him. the big party planned for his inauguration tonight on ellis island in the new york-new jersey harbor? that is canceled because of the weather. up to one foot of snow is expected. party planners announced, quote, we regret to cancel this evening for our guests their safety is the priority and takes total precedence in our planning. the groff's inauguration in trenton will go forward in the second term within 15 minutes from now. he is expected to strike themes of taxes education and bipartisanship. continuing allegations of

political pay back and government abuse overshadowed his efforts. one supporter, former new york city mayor rudy giuliani, says he believes the media has been in overdrive to try to get christie. >> it has been made into, i guess watergate or some kind of a nuclear device that is exposed or, the amount of coverage is almost unprecedented. i expected it. he was the frontrunner before. he was the only republican who in any poll was leading hillary clinton. and i think they're trying, i think the democratic establishment are trying to take him out early. >> reporter: as far as tonight is concerned, inaugural party sponsors say all the food to be served at party tonight will instead be donated to food pantries in jersey city. just so happens the mayor of jersey city is one of the democratic mayors who claims the christie administration restall eighted against him after declined to endorse the governor's re-election bid last year. the inauguration ongoing in 15 minutes in trenton from now,

jenna. >> we'll listen to what the governor has to say in his speech there. eric, thank you very much. >> reporter: all right. jon: there is a murder mystery to tell you about in california. it just got more complicated. a third body is found with a possible link to victims in a christmas eve shooting. police are investigating new tips almost two years after a 6-year-old girl vanished from her home in tucson. there's a new form of innovation taking shape.

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it is helpful. why are they doing it now? rod wheeler former d.c. homicide detective and fox news contributor. rod, that is the question. we're familiar with the case. this little girl suddenly vanished from her family home early one morning but why are police going door-to-door 18 months after her disappearance? >> that's right, jenna. it has been almost two years, just so viewers know and understand, it is not unusual he specially in a missing person's case involving a child for law enforcement to go back to the area where the child was first, you know, reported missing and also start interviewing people from that area. the other thing that the police will do and they're doing it now, they're going back talking to everyone that they interviewed back 18 months ago when little girl went missing. they're going back interview the folks to see if their stories are consistent, jenna. the reason they do that, you know what, jenna, we find in cases like this a person's story

will change over time if it is not threw. if the story is the same, there is no need for the person to lie or anything like that, the story will remain the same that could be an indication for police. i think that is the other reason. then they have a new set of fresh eyes, if you will, detectives on the case looking at every other possibility to see if they can come up with something additional. jenna: they do have quite a few fresh eyes. more than 50 officers, going to 350 houses and apartment units. it is a really big, sort of sweep of this area where this little girl went missing. rod, you say it is normal in an investigation to do this but is there a reason a catalyst why it would be done now? did suddenly new evidence come up? the police are not talking to them in tucson by the way. we asked to speak to them but is there something that would spark it? >> typically there is. usually it is a telephone call or some kind of information that the police may have gotten from somebody else that they have been in contact with although i must say it is not unusual

though to go back to the area where the person was first reported missing and search door-to-door again. the other thing to remind viewers, we talked about this a couple years ago, you and i did, the interesting thing about this case that sell lis was under watch and care of her father at the time supposedly abducted out of the house the pol back then, i will never forget this, whoever took the little girl was familiar with the layout of the home. that was huge but the police could not pin this on the father or anyone else at the time. but they do believe somebody in the family has additional information that could lead to the whereabouts of little celis. jenna: interesting enough, the father was barred seeing two boys, his two sons although we never knew why that was the case. there are still questions about this but certainly has our attention right now. rod, another case we want to ask you about, a also a family affair unfortunately in this way. there is a mysterious murder case in california that we're just learning b you have a

family member that is saying the body of a man found in a trunk last week is 24-year-old gianni belevedere. police are awaiting autopsy results before confirming his identification. but he has been missing ever since his fiance and his brother were gunned down in a macy's parking lot right before christmas. now the fiance, rod, was able to get off a phone call. we don't have that phone call but she did call 911 and police have been looking for this third brother, her fiance. why is the family coming out and saying, this is the guy, his body has been found but the police are not confirming that yet? >> well the police don't want to confirm that yet, jenna and the reason is because he is having, the victim is having his autopsy conducted i think today or tomorrow. so they will know within the next day or two. the other thing the police have not said is whether or not the victim they found in the trunk of the car had any wallet or identification on him or her. we don't know if it's a male or

female. believed to be a male and actually i suspect it is probably is gianni. but i think there is a lot more questions to this case than there are answers at this time. why? because from a homicide detective's perspective the way all three of these individuals appear to have been murdered is by gunshot and appears to be execution-style, jenna. anytime we have multiple victims shot execution-style, typically, not always, but typically there is whole lot more going on with one if not all three of these individuals that we haven't found out answers to yet. jenna: like what? >> well, you know, i don't like to speculate as you know but i will say from experienced speculation i believe, and only just speculating from reading published reports this could be related to either some type of a love triangle, we don't know that, or drug-related. usually in execution-style shooting it is drug-related, somebody owes a debt for something. the other thing interesting, jenna, about this case, these individuals just moved not long

ago from utah to san diego. when they get to san diego they're murdered. so you know, what was going on in utah? what is going on in san diego? who are these folks affiliated with and why were they there at the time? all these questions law enforcement is trying to find answers to right now, jenna. jenna: we appreciate the lack of speculation. i have to ask, rod, where would you go with this? it seems like a mystery while they were targeted. quickly i have to ask about the final case. this got a lot of attention at the beginning of this year. there was a manhunt for alleged highway gunman, a guy driving around in a truck and shooting at people and in one case he killed somebody. i'm saying he, because that is the allegation, that it was a guy in a truck. the fbi, multiple state police are involved. we have reached out for an update but they don't have any at this point. is this case just a cold case now? where does it go from here? >> well the case, jenna, is a little bit too fresh to be considered a cold case.

what the police is doing right now, actually, by the way, i'm very familiar with highway 81. that is where this shooting took place. so the viewers know, highway1 is major roadway that connects maryland, pennsylvania and virginia and that is where the shooting took place. so the police are interviewing people that could have been on the highway around that time. they're pulling video from some truck stops and places like that to get a better idea who this individual could be. they're also reaching out to people, to call them, jenna, in case they have information about something similar that could have happened to them. maybe they weren't shotut had a road rage incident they can glean some clues to try to figure out who this individual may job heavily traveled area of the country. if somebody is out there doing this is raises a lot of questions and a lot of fear as well. rod, thank you so much forgoing through those cases we really appreciate it. >> you're welcome, jenna. jon: i have driven highway 81 many times so i'm paying

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jon: right now a quick look at what is still to come this hour of "happening now." hillary clinton and governor chris christie are both seen as front-runners in the 2016 presidential race but does that characterization still hold? a fair and balanced analysis ahead. crisscrossing time zones, we know it causes jet lag. why it could also cause long-term damage to your body. what you need to know before you fly. a woman who says a teacher abused her as a young girl confronts that teacher and posts their conversation on youtube. we're live with the dramatic results. jenna: a fox news weather alert on a winter blast with mother nature package nasty one-two punch for the mid-atlantic and the northeast. bitter cold temperatures and heavy snow, as much as a foot is possible in some spots. meet roll exist maria molina live in the fox weather center. >> hi, good morning and hello,

everybody. today we're tracking this winter storm that already produced significant snowfall accumulations across portions of the midwest. guess what, this storm will intensify over the next 12 hours and right now it is located across the state of west virginia. that is approximatelily where the center of the storm is, but well ahead we have areas of heavy snow developing across portions of new jersey and also the state of maryland and due how much snow we're expecting, up to a foot of it, we have winter storm warnings across states like virginia, maryland, up the coast into southeast portions of massachusetts. the wind will be a big concern as well. we could see gusts up to 40 miles an hour, even 50 miles per hour at times across coastal areas that will produce whiteout conditions. some snowfall totals forecast in d.c. you're looking at four to eight inches of snow. but some suburbs outside the downtown area could pick up more like 10 inches across maryland. otherwise, philadelphia, new york city, you're looking at

totals of about eight to 12 inches, across eastern long island and the cape that's where we see the highest totals of 10 to even 14 inches of snow and snow has already started along many of these areas. and it is going to continue throughout the afternoon as we head into this evening and even into the overnight hours for so many of you out here along the i-95 corridor. windchill temperatures also will be a big issue. we have a number of advisories and warnings in place across the northeast already. take a look at the forecast. as we he had had into the overnight hours and into tomorrow morning, windchills for everybody across the northeast are going to be below zero. in albany, new york, it will feel like 17 degrees below zero. 10 below zero in the city of buffalo. the actual low temperatures will be pretty bad. look at this jenna, as we head into wednesday night, as we head into thursday night. it will stay cold across the eastern half of the country.

back to you. jenna: a lot to look forward to. maria, thank you. >> thanks. jon: eye on 2016 now. while hillary clinton has long been touted as the democratic frontrunner, her nomination may not be a slam dunk with one political analyst even comparing her to richard nixon. joining us now, joe trippi, former howard dean campaign manager and a fox news contributor. she has been here before obviously, joe. 2008 she was a shoo-in to win the democratic nomination. that didn't happen. how would you assess her chance before we get into some of this other stuff for 2016? >> well, they're pretty good. look, she is a frontrunner and but she is a much stronger frontrunner today than she was in 2008. of course, look in the democratic party, front-runners, it is a tough place to be. she proved that, she proved that point in 2008 when obama obama defeated her. she can't take anything for granted.

she will be challenged. there will be a fresh face or someone from the left that will challenge her. she will be seen as somebody who has to defend the establishment and party and status quo. so she has got to be careful. it is not going to be easy but right now she is in a much better position than she was in 2008 and i think she will be much stronger than in 2008 but we still have to see, there is somebody will come out to take her on. jon: big article out on it, on this topic in "politico" this morning. here is part of what it says. it says, much of it, meaning the ability to control this race is out of her hands. low job approval numbers for president obama should they persist will make it difficult for any democrat to win even with the party's seeming electoral college edge and growing demographic advantages among minorities and the young. so the four years of distance that will be between her service in the obama administration and the end of the president's term,

that won't necessarily help. >> you know, i don't, i don't really agree with that part of the column. jon: okay. >> i think her problem will be in the primary. either she'll, either a democrat will emerge to challenge her and effectively and frankly that fight may damage her so much that even if she wins it she would have trouble in the general election but there's going to be a civil war on the republican side as well. i think a much deeper one. i think the democrat, the democratic nomination in 2016 is going to be worth something. those demographic advantages and electoral advantages will matter. if she can get through the primary, this is the best shot in our history to elect a woman president. that will put a lot of fuel in her support in 2016. i think it is the primary that is the tougher battle for her. jon: all right. let's take a look at the republican side because

obviously it is a big day for governor chris christie. he is sworn in today for a second term as new jersey's governor, republican governor in a blue state. in his first interview since the scandals around him erupted, the governor says, quote, he is readier now than he has been in the past for a presidential bid. that is sort of a play on words because a few years ago when asked if he was ready to try the for the republican nomination he said he was not ready yet. what is the outlook for him in 2016. >> i think this is just fascinating. this is the one republican who, as we're talking about hillary, polls well against her, polls the best against her either in dead heat or in the race with her, could beat her, yet right now it is not just the democrats that are challenging him over "bridgegate" and other things but it is the right-wing of his party. some opponents who don't, who

want to defeat him in 2016 in their primaries are ganging up as well. so that's, and you're starting to see his favorables start to decline. so i think he's still the formidable. i don't think by any, that he can't come back from this but he's the one to watch i think right now. can he, can he put something together in iowa and new hampshire, some of these early states? he will need a win very early to cement any kind of move in his direction i think. jon: curious that both of these front-runners are both getting sort of whispers from them from opposite ends of their party. chris christie challenged from the right. hillary clinton has a lot of questions about the, from the left who would think someone like elizabeth warren might abettor female candidate. is it any surprise to you that there are these questions coming up about both of these candidates at this point in the electoral cycle? >> not at all. i mean that is what these primaries for president are

about. they're fights between wings of parties to get their, you know, their view to lead the party mantle. i think the real interesting thing here is, you know, it is clear that christie is somebody who would be a, speaking as a democrat, the guy that right now would worry me the most would be a chris christie and yet his toughest challenge may actually be in his own party. the same thing for hillary. i think hillary, there are a lot of republicans, strategists who would worry about having to face her. she is tenacious. she is tough and yet her fight, and it just doesn't look yet like we could identify who it would be, give her the challenge but that's going to be an important question that comes up. does a democrat challenger, do we have devisive fight in the democratic party looks very likely in the republican party. jon: joe trippi. always good to talk to you to get your thoughts. >> thanks, jon. jenna: a woman confronts an

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jon: a woman in california claims she was sexually abused by her teacher more than a decade ago but it wasn't until now that she confronted that teacher in a phone call she recorded and then posted on youtube. adam housley live from l.a. so, tell us about how this all unfolded, adam. >> reporter: yeah, jon, the victim is named jamie. she is 28 years old with a couple of kids. she says her life has been ruined and dealing with a lot after she was allegedly molested in middle school by her basketball coach. that is what she claims. she went about trying to maybe clear the air getting the

basketball coach on the phone, taping the conversation where the coach allegedly admits to committing this deed and then she posted it online where it has gone basically viral. take a listen. >> i realize you brainwashed me and you manipulated me? and that what you did was wrong? >> yes. and i regret it. >> do you know that i am completely messed up? that i have so many issues because of you? >> i, just wanted to help you. >> reporter: now the person in question was a, again middle school basketball coach at the time back when that girl was 12 years old. and now was ad administrator in high school in alhambra. that person has been removed from the website and put on leave. there is no official response from the high school, jon? jon: wow. i guess accuser spoke to the press yesterday? has the video changed anything?

>> reporter: it change ad couple of things. riverside sex crimes unit from the police department is investigating the situation. again the woman who was, has been put on some sort of leave, the high school again has not addressed the press but sent out a letter to the parents saying that the individual had been put on leave from the high school post they were at, alhambra high school. this alleged assault happened in middle school aways back much the victim says even after all this she never really got an poll. -- apology. >> i think if you regret something you apologize for it and when you're sorry for something then you say it and it doesn't take a long time to say it and she didn't say anything. there is no apology. i didn't hear remorse. >> reporter: again the victim goes by jamie says she is worried about other kids that may have had to deal with what she dealt with and newer possible victims all allegedly at this point of the we reached out to try to get comment from the person who was accused and

the woman did not respond to our requests. we'll continue to follow this. more than 300,000 people have seen this video since posted online. shows you the power of the internet yet again. this woman is getting back at her accuser, sorry, her alleged former basketball coach. jon: she is a courageous woman. i hope all attention being paid to this case helps her in a positive way. adam housley, thank you. >> reporter: absolutely. jenna: what happens to you after a long flight or too little sleep? do you feel like you're in a daze? perhaps can't really function? well our doctor is in to tell you about a new study that says we might be putting our bodies into chaos. how we can not do that. dr. siegel is here. hey, doc much. it says here that a won's sex drive increases at the age of 80. helps reduce the risk of heart disse. keep hrt-healthy. live long. eat the 100% goodness of post shreddedheat. doctorrecommend it.

jenna: well the doctor is in. ever suffer from jet lag? lost in that fog being half asleep and half aweak? run down from crisscrossing time zones for work or play? you could be doing yourself more harm than you actually realize. a new study shows you could be throwing your body into chaos. not just when you're jet-lagged, that is one situation but working and sleeping odd hours and don't need sleep you need to keep your body in sync. dr. marc siegel, nyu langone medical center. you're talking about sleep deprivation. >> talking about every single doctor the in the united states. jenna: and journalists as well because we're working around the clock. this study look what is happens to our genes when we keep an odd schedule. what did it tell us? >> only over a three-day period. it told us a lot. we've known since the 1930s when you alter your sleep pattern your body temperature changes in ways you don't want. this is the first time we've

looked at a microscopic level. even though it was only 26 patient that is is enough when you're looking at the bloodstream. the bloodstream is like a universe. they found genes were really out of whack. close to 1000 genetic expressions were off. which interferes with proteins and the body's metabolism. jenna: how long did it take to get back on track the genes that were out of whack? >> took several days too get them back on track. can you imagine three days? delayed each day, four hours sleep. by third day the subjects was sleeping four hours later than expecting kind of like flying from china to the united states. doing that once was enough to throw everything out of back. i'm worried about that in terms of human health. jenna: one of the researchers describes like if you had all the clocks in the house all different rooms suddenly running at different times how confused your schedule would be in your daily life. that happens to your body. your genes are on all different clocks and they can't all really get in sink. there are some folks that can

avoid it to work overnight shifts or early in the morning or late at night, what can one person do? >> take-home message would be try to do whatever you can to regularize yourself even with all of that going on. to make sure you're in a regular pattern as much as possible. have coffee at the same time. keep your patterns as much as possible because long-term, because long-term we're talking about sleep deprivation and alteration can cause risks of obesity, diabetes and heart disease. these are major, major risks. if you bod forbid have to fly around the united states all the time you're risking actual health risks. i would tell everybody out there to do what they can to keep it as regular as possible it. >> ace fascinating study. we'll see where it goes next. this is the beginning. >> more subjects. jenna: dr. siegel, great to see you as always. >> great to see you, jenna. jenna: jon? jon: the battle over the keystone pipeline and how recent train derailments are increasing discussion and debate.

we'll could in depth.

jon: a fox extreme weather alert. i can just look out the window and see this one. a major winter storm bearing down on the east coast right now after slamming the midwest. watches and warnings now in effect as tens of millions from north carolina to new england brace for heavy snow, strong winds and dangerous cold. 15 to 25 degrees below average in some areas. more than 2,000 flights cancelled so far. school closures in at least six states. federal offices in washington, d.c. also shutting down. for philadelphia, cities in connecticut and right here in new york city, up to a foot of snow is not out of the question. and in massachusetts, blizzard warnings with up to 14 inches on the ground when it's all said and done and winds topping 50 miles an hour. let's go to david lee miller live right now in long branch, new jersey. how is it looking there, david? >> jon, it's looking very snowy.

long branch is a seaside community that a lot of new yorkers think of as a summer resort. they associate it more with sunburn than wind burn. that's not the case today. it is now 26 degrees. behind me in the distance perhaps you can just make out the beach, atlantic ocean there with a wind chill here, it feels like 13 degrees and let's spin the camera around and you can see the shopping area here in long branch. there's still cars on the road. many of the shops still open but as the situation becomes increasingly more difficult, we expect that there will be fewer people on the road, more shops continuing to close. authorities here say that they are going to have military vehicles available in case people have to be evacuated and in new york city a short time ago, new york city mayor just held a news conference and said that new york is expecting between eight and 12 inches of snow, wind between 15 and 25 miles an hour, gusts up to 35 miles an hour. snow crew, removal crews working

12 hour shifts and he had this advice for new yorkers. >> staying off the streets, staying out of our cars. tonight in rush hour, if you have the option tose mass transit, please use mass transit. if you do not need to go out tonight, don't go out. if you have to go out and you have a mass transit option, please choose that over your cars. >> and speaking of transit, as you mentioned, thousands of flights cancelled today. 2800 in total. there have been 4200 delays and we're talking primarily about airports between washington, d.c. and boston. amtrak says as of now, it is operating normally. that is subject to change as the situation changes and lastly, good news to report at least thishour. no significant power outages to report but as this snow continues to stick, it could affect utility lines and i can tell you this. the temperature in just the last couple of hours has continued to

plummet. we expect it's going to be in the single digits here by nightfall. back to you. jon: i'm supposed to be on a flight after the show going on assignment for a day. cancelled already. david lee miller, thank you. brand new developments to the top stories and breaking news this hour. jenna: republicans are hoping to take the senate by storm come november. why the grand party thinks it has a good shot and making the majority a reality. also olympian pistorius is trying to make a deal. the judge for his upcoming murder trial was just chosen as well. some developments in that dramatic case. we'll take a closer look. right now police hunting for the person who shot and critically injured a student on a college campus near philadelphia. the latest ottoman hunt. it's all "happening now." first to politics. republicans making a big push to take back the senate this november and they're starting

now. welcome to this hour of "happening now." jon: new polls show democratic seats in states like colorado, iowa and michigan are having closer than expected races, at least right now. meanwhile, some republican senators are facing divisive primaries. democrats are seen as vulnerable in the general election on issues like the troubled obamacare rollout and the includingish economy. the senate is now split with democrats in control at 53 seats. republicans have 45. two independents in the senate caucus with the democrats. joining us to analyze the upcoming midterms, a writer for "the hill." we could attribute all of this to the troubled obamacare rollout but you say there's more to it than that. >> that's true. of course, everyone knows the story of the botched rollout of obamacare which took place over fall. certainly republicans gained

many points among general election voters because of that debacle and there are many democratic candidates who suffered as a result of the white house's struggle. but i think it's important to note that while president obama really did take a beating as a result of the health care rollout, his numbers were already starting to drag at the beginning of last year as a result of issues like syria and particularly, the spying that's occurring by the n.s.a. and so it's not just the rollout of obamacare. the white house has a lot of different issues to attend to if it wants to present democrats with the kind of coat tails that they're desiring for the midterm elections. jon: there would be a couple more, at least, republican senators in the body right now except that the candidates they fielded last time around in states like missouri and indiana basically shot themselves in the foot with some comments that were not well received. how do republicans avoid that same kind of fiasco this time? >> yeah. you make a very good point.

you're referring to richard murdoct and todd akins. their comments were divisive with voters, particularly women. i think the g.o.p. is taking many steps to try to train their candidates better in order to speak to voters to avoid that type of debacle. they want the general election candidates, even if they hail from the tea party and hold stronger opinions on certain issues, they want to keep them talking about obamacare, keep them talking about the economy which while it's improving it still hasn't reached many homes, many pocketbooks so i think certainly there's a lot of momentum for republicans but it's possible that there are some candidates out there that could still shoot themselves in the foot and that's bad for the g.o.p. jon: in a lot of these races it all comes down to money, who can raise the most. which side has the advantage there? >> currently democrats have the advantage. they've had very strong fundraising seasons and

certainly the democratic senatorial campaign committee is out there touting the fundraising numbers all the time. they feel like they have an edge. and we know that even if republicans have momentum in terms of the issues right now, in many races it is a money game. if you have a candidate that's very well funded, they can help counter attacks from the right. so right now, that is one feather in democrats' hat but certainly it's going to be a long campaign season and there are other issues that could come up to put those candidates on the spot. jon: is that where president obama can come in handy? there are democratic senatorial candidates like north carolina who seem to be avoiding appearing with the president but if the president -- you get an invitation to a fundraising dinner at some thousands of dollars a plate with the president and maybe get your picture taken with him afterwards, that can fill the democratic coffers pretty quickly. >> it can certainly. and you also make a good point. there are a lot of democratic candidates out there right now who are avoiding appearing too

closely with president obama because they know that there are g.o.p. campaign ads being cut right now that are linking them to the president who remains so unpopular, kickly with independents. but in terms of the fundraising circles, many overlap so there could be people who are associated with president obama who contributed to some of his strong fundraising in the last election who want to now help out these democrats without necessarily making the direct link to the white house. jon: on a snowy day in washington, you're at work today. the government is mostly closed but you're working. >> i am working, yes. sorry about your flight. jon: i'm still working on a backup. thank you. jenna: right now thousands of pro-life supporters from around the country descending on the nation's capital all part of the march for life rally marking 41 years since the landmark supreme court case rowe v. wade. here is more on this story. >> organizers of this week's

events say the pro-life movement is stronger than ever and now younger than ever. this morning before the snow started falling, pro-life folks held this vigil in front of a planned parenthood here in washington, d.c. they note human rights in america and throughout the world are making progress and they believe children in the womb should be protected as well. organizers hope thousands of young adults will show up dart today for the youth rally and they would like to inspire them. >> our goal here is to first of all, encourage and mobilize them, equip them. we'll give them a lot of resources. secondly to send the message to our government, we're not going away. we're not going to stop until these babies have protection and we'll use every means possible. legislative, legal, public protests. we're going to do everything that our country gives us the right to do in order to affect change here. >> this rally comes at an interesting time when new york governor cuomo may have fired up liberal supporters but also got the attention of those in the pro-life movement with this comment in a recent radio

interview. >> they're extreme conservatives who are right to life, pro assault weapon, anti-gay. is that who they are? because if that's who they are and if they are the extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of new york. that's not who new yorkers are. >> the father who you heard from earlier said that it's sad that governor cuomo has to resort to such extreme rhetoric and question what governor cuomo has against protecting the unborn children of new york state. jenna: that's a story to watch, mike. thank you. jon: also developing international stories we're keeping an eye on for you. provide tests again turned violent in indian controlled kashmir. police using tear gas to break up the clouds. region has seen increased tension in recent months as anti-india rebels have been demanding independence. jenna: four people are dead after a car bombing in lebanon

as syria's civil war is spilling over into neighboring countries. some 35 others were wounded. the blast happened in a shia neighborhood. they are targetings had hezbollah. they are helping forces and a lot of folks do not like that. hezbollah now in a situation there where they are being attacked in lebanon. jon: and tensions rising again in ukraine as protests there turn violent. burned vehicles and other debris lining the streets with riot police out in full force in a standoff with anti-government protestors. the demonstrations have largely been peaceful for two months but the unrest began over the weekend after ukraine's president enforced a strict anti-protest law. jenna: let's turn to what's happening a little closer to home. there's governor chris christie giving his inaugural address, his second inauguration as governor in new jersey.

this comes at a time where it's best to describe his second term starting with a little bit of controversy. questions about whether or not he's using political retribution or in a more pedestrian term, whether he's using bullying tactics to get what he wants done in the state of new jersey. a lot of allegations, rumors, reports. governor christie has addressed some of these and we'll see if he has anything to say during his inaugural address and keep you posted. some new information that could change the way we think about the elderly and mental decline. coming up, in some researchers believe it may not have anything to do with age but that the brain is carrying around too much information and it takes more time. we'll talk to a doctor about that. also a powerful blast killing two factory workers in omaha. you saw this breaking on the air yesterday. now the search for answers. we have a live report. >> i was in the back and i just

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jon: we're getting new information about a deadly explosion at an industrial plant in omaha, nebraska. blast yesterday causing part of that building to collapse and burst into flames, killing two people and injuring at least a dozen others. here is that story. >> yes and we're just hearing from the fire department there who says that the urban search and rescue team has just arrived on scene to begin the recovery effort there. there's still one deceased victim inside the site there in omaha, nebraska. when this all happened yesterday, people inside the plant describe the floor and they said it started to trumple tremble and shake. then the lights went out and there was an explosion that rocked 18,000 square foot facility at the international

nutrition plant in omaha. the company makes animal feed and authorities say they believe 38 people were inside at the time of the mid-morning accident. a portion of the structure collapsed as workers attempted to get out buts a folks describe the situation, they either had a fire ball at their backs or it was too dark to see. >> it was crazy. i just turned on my phone and just tried to see. i felt like the fire on the side so i thought the building was on fire and everything. i just tried to get to another exit. >> two people were killed and about a dozen went to area hospitals for a range of injuries. for rescuers, getting victims out was all the more difficult because of the winter conditions. >> high winds and brutally cold temperatures made it unsafe for rescuers to continue this operation so we suspended that. >> now, we talked to osha today and this is not the first time that international nutrition has

had a deadly accident. in 2002 a worker was killed while on the job and during the investigation into that incident, osha gave them five different violations and administered a fine. then 10 years later there were six serious violations again and another fine. now, we reached out to international nutrition today and have yet to hear back. jon: thank you. jenna: a college student shot and critically injured on a college campus near philadelphia. coming up, the manhunt for a shooter still at large. plus crude oil moving across the country by rail but recent derailments are questioning safety and bringing debate over the keystone pipeline center once again.

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jon: an intense manhunt for a gunman after a campus shooting in pennsylvania. police say the suspect shot a male student in the school parking lot in what appears to be a targeted attack. here is more. >> that's right, jon. a student at widner university was sitting in his car outside the school's athletic center last night when he was shot at 8:45 p.m. he was able to call 911 and was taken to the hospital where he underwent summery. the victim is not being identified but he's reportedly in critical but stable condition. meanwhile, students were asked to stay indoors overnight at the co-ed private university 14 miles south of philadelphia. today at 6:00 a.m., the lockdown was lifted and classes resumed as scheduled. this despite the fact that police are still searching for

the suspect who they believe fled into a neighborhood next to the center. dan hanson says all indications are this is not a random act of violence. police are reportedly reviewing surveillance footage and using canine units to track the suspect. beyond that, details of the investigation are not being released except that chester county police told reporters they found a shell casing on the scene and they believe the shooter used a revolver. there's also a strong police presence at widner university and security there is top notch. jon: interesting because if they used a revolver, there wouldn't be a shell casing there. whatever. it's their investigation. >> thanks. >> we weren't really prepared, you know, for this plume in the railroad industry. this has been a huge major force in the economy but we have to do it right. if we don't do it right, everybody will pay the price down the road.

jenna: that was phil talking to us last week about the benefits of shipping oil by rail and now we're taking a look at oil and pipelines. oil pipelines in this country and the long stale mate over the keystone pipeline. canada is calling on the united states to move forward with construction. within the last year or so, we saw several train derailments and explosions involving crude. two in canada, one in quebec that killed 47 people. two others in yurl areas of the country where no injuries were reported and moving oil by rain is indeed quite safe. these dramatic derailments are raising some new questions about whether or not it's time to start relying more on pipelines. is keystone the right way to go now? former director of the pipeline and hazardous material safety administration and the executive director of bold nebraska, a group working to stop the keystone pipeline, nice to have you both on the program. a lot to get to as we know. let me tart with you.

there are some questions about rail just because there's so much oil flowing around our country right now through and around major cities. the question with the pipeline is that there would be so much more oil flowing than there is on rail right now that that could be dangerous. what do you think about that? >> good afternoon. first of all, it's not dangerous at all. we have 2.6 million miles of pipeline in this country, transporting 2/3 of all the energy products we use. pipelines have transported the line share of our energy needs for 50 years and we do need new infrastructure now that we have 30 states producing natural gas and oil. our infrastructure needs to keep up and that means investment in pipelines but also more invest nment rail as well. jenna: really we're at capacity in the railroad so the "wall street journal" wasn't advocating pipelines but saying are we in a phase now where it's more dangerous because we're

moving so much oil right now and maybe that's why the pipeline is the way to go. >> well, you know, there's actually a third option which is to diversify our energy source and rely on safer sources of energy like wind, solar and bio fuels so there's a third option but on the rail versus pipeline debate, especially around keystone x.l., rail is not going to take away bringing tarsands through our country and it's not transporting right now at the level that the keystone pipeline would. it's a false argument for trans canada and the other advocates to say if it doesn't go by pipeline, it's going to go by rail. that's not the reality. it takes more infrastructure, heated railcars because it's so thick and there's a real risk. when families face an oil spill, whether by train or pipe line, they don't care whether it was by train or pipeline. they care their family is cleaning up a spill that could last for decades on their land. jenna: that's the question.

now we're hearing that trans canada is looking potentially to use rail. they're not going to be stopped by the keystone pipeline. they need to get that oil to the refineries in the southern parts of the united states so they're trying to find out other ways regardless. >> well, and i think that's where the difference of opinion comes in. people are mixing up energy policy with transportation policy. the fact is, that this oil is coming out of the ground. we're seeing it because we're seeing it on vessels, we're seeing it in tank cars. we're seeing it on trucks so this fallacy that the oil isn't getting to market is untruement it's up to us to make sure we have the most efficient and reliable transportation system in the world to get it from point a to b. all of us would like to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels. that's not the debate. the debate is we have a hyrdro carbon based economy and even according to the obama administration statistics,

renewables aren't able to displace hyrdro carbons in the next 10, 20, 30 years so wishing for something doesn't make it true. >> trans canada is a pipeline company. they're not a rail company. they're not even an oil company. the empty threat if they don't get the pipeline they're going to put it by rail is just false. it's a lie. it's just how they mislead land owners in nebraska. they're misleading the american public with yet another false talking point. the reality is, nebraskans don't want it. land owners have been offered $80,000, $100,000 signing bonuses. they're still saying no. we don't want to carry the risk. trans canada is saying if they don't get the pipeline, it will slow down. canada knows that's true. that's why they're spending millions and millions trying to get the pipeline approved so they can get their product to the export pashmarket.

this is about providing a bailout for canada. we're not standing for it. jenna: is it about the one company, one argument? >> no. it's not. look. there are dozens of companies that are utilizing the tar sands right now. we're getting 4.5 million barrels of canadian crude each and every day. keystone is already built. keystone x.l. is 852 miles delivering a little over 400,000 barrels. keystone has become a poster child for the anti-fossil fuel crowd. and you know, any time you have environmentalism as a religion and economics as a superstition, things get skewed. this should be a debate on the facts, on the merits, not on a motion and right now, we are lessening our dependence on oil from overseas. that's a good thing >> we do have a lot of emotion and it's not just an environmentalist. it's land owners, tribal communities, it's moms like me and we are emotional because it's about protecting our land

and water that's been in generations -- it's been in the hands of faeps for generations. jenna: let me ask you a final question. it was interesting to note as we were looking at how crude is moving and the boom is happening regardless of whatever side of the argument anyone is on. it was interesting to note that the "wall street journal" says that moving crude by rail in this country requires no environmental review so that's actually what's happening right now when we have a keystone pipeline being held up in order to get an environmental review to happen. so i'm just curious from an environmental perspective, someone that cares a lot about your communities, what do you think about that seeing that so much crude is being moved around the country by rail and there's no environmental review happening? >> there's actually not a lot of environmental review around pipelines, either. there's a lot of concern and simsa is on the record, whether speaking to the safety occurrence or land owners, through the newsletters, they will tell you they don't have

enough staff to monitor pipelines. the infrastructure is in greatly need of more oversight. so i think that falls back into the hands of the republicans and democrats. they need to get together and make sure they're not just talking about the energy boom but also talking about our communities, whether the increased safety risk of all workers coming into our small towns or whether it's the increased risk of the transportation of this oil. we have to put that in place before we start just saying drill, drill, drill. jenna: what is the right way to go if this boom is the boom that many people think it is which could change the dynamics of our economy quite a bit and raise environmental questions as well. it's gret to have you both. look forward to having you back. thank you. jon: there are some major developments to bring you in the blade runner murder case out of south africa. what lawyers for an olympic athlete are doing ahead of his murder trial. this as we get word a judge has been selected to hear the case. our legal panel weighs in. plus a major winter storm hitting the east coast right now

after pounding the midwest. new york city and the northeast dealing with an arctic blast. we're live from the fox extreme weather center next.

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the country because of that. here's a look at some of that snow affecting the roads in new york. schools are closing early but again, these are big travel hubs and the effect is one we're watching. meteorologist janice dean is tracking this storm in the fox extreme weather center. >> those pictures tell the story, don't they? i'm not sure where this one is coming from. jenna: i think this is philadelphia. >> yes. it's snow to go beat the band and jenna, did you bring your puffy coat today? >> it's not gone away this entire winter. >> fantastic. jenna: the puffy coat is here to stay. >> we're going to have twitter with jen and the puffy coat. the temperatures are going to drop considerably so d.c., philadelphia, new york, you're into the snow right now and philadelphia is getting the heaviest snow right at this time with 21 degrees. the temperature is going to continue to drop throughout the afternoon and the evening. let's take a look at as we go further out in time, the

afternoon hours, evening, this is 1:00 a.m. on wednesday and we're still seeing snow around the delmarva, jersey, long island. long island, you could hit over 14 inches of snow and blizzard conditions for coastal massachusetts. by wednesday afternoon, it is out of here but we're still going to see the wind gusts so blizzard conditions possible and there's your snow totals. 10 to 18 inches along coastal massachusetts, long island. eight to 12, i think it's possible we'll see over a foot of snow in philadelphia and new york city shutting the city down, i think, if that happens for the next 12 to 18 hours. blizzard conditions will continue through wednesday morning and wednesday afternoon so we've cancelled hundreds of flights out of philadelphia and new york and that's going to continue, unfortunately, tomorrow and then the other part of this storm is the fact that we're going to see wind chills from minus 10 to minus 30. still dealing with minus 30 and minus 50 over the upper midwest and the gret lakes and the

temperatures are going to continue to fall throughout the evening and the afternoon into tomorrow. we're going to deal with single digits with wind chills well below zero and jon, i know your flight was cancelled so you're going to come over to my house and use that snow blower. jon: you told me, you warned me about trying to do this program today and still get on a flight. >> i said no. i said you'll have to leave this morning and you didn't listen to me. jon: i'm always the optimist. >> see what happens? no. not when it comes to this stuff. i'm the boss. jon: one flight cancelled. rebooked on another airline. it's cancelled. >> snow blower man. that's you. jon: i'll be there. thanks, jenna. major developments in the murder case involving south african paralympic champion oscar pistorius. they're negotiating an out-of-court settlement with the family of his girlfriend. pistorius, as you know, was charged with murder after police discovered her body in his home

on valentine's day last year. he said he shot her because he thought she was an intruder. the state contends he killed her in a fit of rage. meanwhile, we're learning he will face a female judge when his murder trialins in march. let's bring in our legal panel. lis wiehl, fox news legal analyst. doug burns is a former federal prosecutor. to the judge first, we tried to find a picture of this woman and couldn't find one which astounds me because she's apparently a real ground breaking jurist in south africa, one of the two earliest female attorneys, i guess, to get a law degree in south africa. >> and one of the first to be appointed as a jurist in south africa in 1998. she's had an amazing career as a journalist so she's obviously very well qualified and very bright from everything we've heard. i don't think that the fact she's a female judging on a male's case really, i mean, come

on. we're in 2014. i think she'll look at this in a fairway. that's how we have to go into it, thinking she's not going to have any bias against him just because of her gender. jon: yep. second black woman to be admitted to the bench in the apartheid. that's the fact i was looking to. it's an unusual situation in that there's no jury. one judge hears the case. the fact she's a female sdshgs it make a difference? >> i don't think the fact she's a female makes a difference but a bench trial which is what we call it here and in federal court, both sides agree there will be no jury and state court, i think, one side can decide it. a bench trial has a different dynamic. you have a judge who is much more familiar with trials, have been involved in more trials than jurors off the street so you try the case a little differently but back to the point you guys were making. i think lis was saying it's a little frustrating to see women's groups saying we're so glad it's a female judge. we presume as lawyers that any

judge will fairly evaluate the fact. >> can i make a comment on the judge versus a jury as well? you focus more on the facts and the laws than the emotion of a particular case. let's face it. lawyers like to play on both sides to the emotion of a jury. that's taken out of it now. it's just the judge. stick to the facts, man. jon: some facts brought to play in this particular trial include two previous discharges of a firearm that was in the hands of oscar pistorius. once apparently when he shot through the sunroof of a car with his former girlfriend in it and then another time where a gun he was handling apparently went off inside a restaurant in south africa. that's not going to bode well for his claims of oh, i thought she was an intruder in this case. >> there's a couple of dynamic there is and you're right, jon. we've discussed this before. the first dynamic under u.s. law is prior bad conduct or prior bad act. should that be admitted in connection with this particular

case when they were incidents in the past, that's a tricky formulation. you look at the probative value versus the prejudice and so on. the other point i would make is that lawyers have to be very careful not to what we call kick the door open. in other words, try the case. he's been very peaceful and so on. that's unfair if he's discharged a firearm twice in the past. >> if the defense brings that up the prior bad acts are coming in defensely. even if they do come in, to be fair to doug, you can't show the prior bad acts that happened that same night. jon: does show a guy with an itchy trigger finger, though. we'll say goodbye. jenna: purdue university, we're hearing reports of a shooting on the campus there and order of a shelter in place. according to purdue university and their twitter feed they have

out for the students and everybody else, the shooting was reported on campus at the electrical engineering building. students were told to avoid the area that shelter in place warning is up and students should continue to stay sheltered in place until further notice. we're also getting a fresh report that one person is in custody. we do not have any information about those potentially injured in this shooting but again, a report of a shooting at purdue university. we'll keep you posted with more breaking news right after this break. oh!

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jenna: right now new allegations of war crimes against the syrian regime after new photographs surfaced showing evidence of, quote, systemic torture and killing. here is more on this. >> first the timing of this report, a clear and intentional given the fact that syrian peace conference between the regime, members of the rebels and the international community get underway in geneva in just the next couple of hours. this report was meant to

embarrass the asad regime but given what we have been reporting on going on inside syria over the past three years, not sure how much more in terms of adjectives you can add to describe what's going on. in fact, a number of pictures that were provided as proof of this torture we can't show you. they are simply too graphic. on top of that you can't authenticate too much information because it's too dangerous to go outside and report. it's important to keep in mind when you hear about this is that there are atrocities going on, on both sides. it was just a couple of months ago we uncovered video of al qaeda linked rebels systematically executing prisoners of war and we heard reports of rebels executing people convicted in courts, everything from not convert to go christianity to other things they find unacceptable there inside the territory the rebels have taken over. it is increasingly difficult to see how it is possible for the violence inside syria to end and

not continue to spiral out of control as we have seen it in some kind of failed state. syria is quickly becoming. keep in mind the latest peace conference is designed to try to form a post asad transitional government. it was just yesterday ahead of the peace conference that president asad announced he was going to probably run for re-election later this year for another term as president which for all intent and purposes as we look at it now is most all likely that he would win that election if it happens. back to you. jenna: thank you. jon: a little hunting for terrorists. just weeks before the olympic games in sochi, u.s. intelligence officials believe this black widow and others may be poised for a major strike. plus a major winter storm packing quite a punch. live pictures out of philadelphia right now as the east coast deals with heavy snow, high winds and bitter

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jon: fox news alert on the shooting a couple of minutes ago on the campus of purdue university. reportedly there is one person in custody after a shooting in the electrical engineering building on the purdue campus. students have been warned to shelter in place. do not go outside. again, one person reportedly is in custody. no other details are available. no word even on whether anyone was wounded. but supposedly one person is in custody in that shooting on the

campus of purdue university. jon: controversial new theory about the cause of cognitive decline in the elderly. older people know much more than younger people. the researchers compare it to a full hard drive slowing down a computer. the doctor is a neurologist and a medical specialist and joins us now and one of the researchers say that the brains of older people do not get weak. on the contrary, they simply know more. do you agree with that theory? >> i'm not sure that i do. i think that it's an interesting theory and it could prove to be true but i think it's taking a complicated topic and distilling it down in a very simplistic way. this model seems like something a kid might think up to explain why an older person can't remember quite as well.

jenna: if you're an elderly person that is particularly quick witted, would that just mean you don't have a lot in your brain at an older age? because you're able to call it up. >> that's exactly right. i think this theory almost is in direct opposition to the theory we've been told over the last several years that cognitive exercising, learning a new skill, learn to go play the piano, reading, staying mentally active is one of the ways we can stave off a dimenting illness like alzheimer's disease. i'm not sure just because older people i know seem to go into sleep mode and computers do the same thing that we can model the brain with a dell laptop. jenna: we wanted to talk about the theory of the brain working like a computer has come up in a few different studies. one is pointing to an idea when we sleep, it's almost like when

our computer shuts down and we're able to clear out our brain and the garbage we collect during the day. that made us wonder, well, is there a tie-in here that if you don't get enough sleep or you're elderly that perhaps there's too much there for you to sort through? >> right. i think that when you look at the research, basically the doctor used the computer model to stimulate the sperns -- experiences of an older person. i think we're missing the nuances of the brain when we're modelling it. the theory seems to feel like that people never forget any experience or anything they read, that the brain can't prune the experiences. so i think when you start looking at these things, it's much more complicated than what was put out there. you're right, sleep has a way to restore the brain and actually looking at other research, studies have shown that people who are predetermined to have

alzheimer's disease through things like sleep, education, stimulating activities can actually affect their odds of acquiring the disease. jon: a lot to look through and maybe we just keep in mind, it might be a little too simplistic. it would be easier to fix things if it were like computers. great to see you as always. thank you. jon: as peyton manning and my broncos gear up for their super bowl faceoff against the seattle seahawks, one news outlet apparently did not get the memo. the mufed play next. better cho, he's agreed to give it up. that's today? [ male announcer ] we'll be with him all day as he goes back to taking tylenol. i was okay, but after lunch my knee started to hurt again. and now i've got to take more pills. ♪ yup. another pill stop. can i get my aleve back yet? ♪ for my pain, i want my aleve. ♪ [ male announcer ] look for the easy-open red arthritis cap.

and our giant idaho potato truck is still missing. so my dog and i we're going to go find it. it's out there somewhere spreading the good word about idaho potatoes and raising money for meals on wheels. but we'd really like our truck back, so if you see it, let us know, would you? thanks. what?

not everyone follows football of course. one newspaper needs more help after this headline appeared in the pensacola news journal. patriots and sea hawks facing off in super bowl 48. and not the broncosol they have a picture of peyton manning. >> wishful thinking and it was a little slopy.

>>oc. i think that is a nice way to look at it. >> not malicious. >> and our producer rachel is a patriot's fan, she let me run that story for the broncos. purdue university said a shooting took place on the campus in west lafayet, down down. the school had everyone shelter in place. the police have a person in custody and no word if that person is connected. they cleared out the building while the area is searched. a spokesperson said no one could be immediately reached for details including whether or not anyone was wounded. we don't have confirmation of that either. watching that