pilots and crews helping a herd of elephants to their any home. the operation is the first of its mind west africa. the goal was to move them to national park area. took ten days. but they caught six elephants to relocate them. >> thank you for being part of "the real story." >> we're keeping a close eye ton the murder tropical of amanda knox. there's movement in the courtroom and we're expecting the verdict from the courtroom. >> in the united states, we're watching a effort to full thousands of aan ban didn'ted cars off the -- abandoned cars off the road after the disaster in dixie. >> the leader prepared to take the heat for all the snow. >> good thursday afternoon to you ask yours from the fox sports studio, high above times square, as the nfl is now calling it, super bowl boulevard. i don't know. the weather channel tries to name storms.

fox, name a street. on sunday the bronco and seahawks face off in sun -- super bowl xlviii. and we get to trade the news deck for this one day for these fancy digs here in the crossroads of the world. the studio is a home bakes for fox sports super bowl coverage. we're flight the shadow of the big ball that ringness the new year, and behind us you'll see concert stages, a display of the vince lombardi trophy, and lots and lots of tourists -- the tourists are lined up there because they were giving away free t-shirts, and new yorkers love to get in line but tourists don't. they only do that for free t-shirts and have done it by the thousands. cars are now off super bowl boulevard -- or broadway there -- for 11 blocks.

creating disasters of the city. don't worry about us. we do everything for you. we'll preview the big game this weekend and display whine even nonsports fans need to watch and how con artists are scamming fans. and we'll talk to jim gray, who has interviewed both of the quarterbacks this week, and if you have something to say about the big game, you can hit us up on twitter @shepnews -- team. first, there is breaking news now on fox news channel to. itly, an appeales court set to announce a verdict within the next few minutes in the third murder trial of the american college student, amanda knox. she was at the time. a live look inside the courtroom. amanda knox is reported by watching for the verdict now at home in seattle with her family. she told an italian television station her heart will be in her throat. you'll remember her then-boyfriend, raphael, spent

four years in an italian prison. the first trial court found them guilty of murdering knox's then british roommate, meredith kurcher, after a night of drug-fueled sex games. an appeals court cleared foxy knoxy and her boyfriend but last year italy's highest court in all of its weirdness claimed the verdict was full of inconsistenciesessed and ordered the repeat of the trial. that's where we are now. jonathan, what is it? >> this has been something like 11 hours by my calculation of deliberation by the presiding judge and assistant judge and six jurors, and we do belief that within the next few minutes we'll see the judge and his assistant emerge into that courtroom and deliver the verdict that amanda knox, and the family of murdered marry dearth kurcher have been waiting for -- meredith kurcher.

this has gone on for six years and three months and might not be the final chapter. if, for instance, amanda knox is found guilty, she is likely -- her lawyer are likely to appeal that to italy's supreme court. that's likely to take one more year. only after that, as we understand it, would the italian authorities, if she was findly found guilty again, then would they seek her extradition from the united states. she has made it very plain she will not go voluntarily, which means she would become a fugitive from italian justice. >> hang tight. we'll bet back to you in florence. with us now is legal analyst athyria dollla. with being gene through this for the better part of our lives. >> she was in jail for four years and now is sitting in seattle, and she is waiting, she said today, with her heart in her throat.

the million dollar question, let's say she is convicted. goes up on appeal and the appeal says, yep, she's is convicted and needs to go to jail for this now. the italian ministry of justice goes our united states department of justice and asks for them to produce her. what do we do? what do we do? i'll tell you that for me, political economic standpoint italy does not want to make an enemy of america. the phrase goes, when united states sneezes italy catches a cold. i think the italian government, the people who are in charge of the money, they want to see amanda knox be acquitted and put this behind them. but this isn't the end of out and. the biggest difference that people should know between the italian judicial system and the american judicial system is the in the mesh -- american system, when there's an appeal, you just hear from lawyers talking about the law and whether it was applied properly.

here there's been three separate trials where witnesses testify over and over again. but this time the biggest missing witness was amanda knox. even, my understanding, rafael testified and will be in court for the verdict, and they're whole contention is this other dude, rudy, who is in jail -- >> we haven't mentioned him. his trial was first. he pleaded guilty. >> right. the got a big reduction in sentence because of that. he had 16 years. >> and he turn on them. >> and he turned on them two -- to a degree, but the bottom line is it's that gay. amanda knox says i wasn't there when it took place. she is saying she was outside of the house. that he was burglarizing the house, rudy was, meredith came in and that's when the incident happened. >> the fact this is no evidence of any kind, nothing, that they were there. there's no dna, nothing. >> the new part of this trial supposedly is that there is some dna of amanda knox on the knife.

she lived there so it's going to be there. the reason why the case was sent back because the judge said the authorities mishandled all of thed and the evidence and the dna was unreliable, and you cannot base evidence on something that is so unreliable. so, yes -- >> she lived in that apartment. that she would have touched things in the apartment is not a weird thing. >> correct. >> there were no marks on her, no statements -- they didn't have much. i don't -- you couldn't have got an conviction in the united states. >> she made a bunch of statements initially, and in fact when she was initially sentenced she was sentenced to an additional four years and that conviction held for -- she slandered someone else, and somebody is no the courtroom today is the bar owner or former bar owner of someone who she accused or complicit in the murder which is an absolute lie. but she is saying the police liebed on her, forced her, interrogated her inappropriately, but that charge

still sticks but she served her time on that. >> there is more ahead? >> there is more ahead. we'll go to the italian supreme court. most legal experts seem to believe that is likely to take 12 to 15 months. so the nightmare for everybody goes on, and in all of this, as we talked about amanda knox mostly, we shouldn't forget the victim in this, meredith kurcher. her brother and sister, lyle and stephanie, in the front row of the court, they spoke to our corporate cousins about how they would feel been an acquittal. >> if the evidence proves they should be acquitted, yes, if that means the correct people be found guilty, and then we have to accept that ultimately. all we want is justice for meredith because nothing is going to bring her back. >> that's the final word on

this. howhowever long this goes on, nothing will bring back meredith cutcher, a 21-year-old who was murdered on the night of november 1, 2007, and we just saw again a picture of lyle and stephanie, her brother and sister, sitting in that court awaiting this verdict. >> i want to find out what this is going to look like. we have been studying this italian system now for all these years, and the thing islander is, -- i learned about it, i don't work. i don't -- you practiced law in it tall and speak italian. >> the first trial took 11 months, this one took four months, based on the same set of facts, how does one trial take twice, mean theme -- >> many they have a judge ito.

>> this is being judged by two two judges and six civilians. >> they're working on italian time. it was supposed to happen apt 9:00 florence time, 3:00 on the east coast, 11 on the west coast, and they have doesn't anything. so my guess is they're out having an espresso or something, and when they do this thing we'll take you there. >> a fox urgent now. federal roads will seek the death penalty against the surviving boston marathon bombing suspect. attorney general eric holder made the announcement an hour ago. prosecutors say jakarr tsarnaev and his brother master minded the bombings at the boston marathon. jakarr has pleaded not guilty again. the attorney general ache holder announcing the federal government will seek the death

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fifteen minutes could save you... well, you know. >> 13, almost 14 minutes after the hour in florence, itly. they're still doing whatever they're doing and the judges will be in in a minute. we're working on florence standard time here so we'll do it when they do it. we can't move them along. we'll see this. we'll bring it to you live, i swear to you. >> many people across the south are hoping warmer and more pleasant times are ahead. the deadly winter storm that caused havoc in the deep south has passed about the cleanup is still going on, especially in and around atlanta where they have to retrieve the cars that were abandoned on the freeways when they were driving -- the driving conditions were at their were the's worst, today the governor of georgia took full responsibility. >> want to apologize to those individuals who were stranded on

our roadways to those parents whose children were unable to return home in a timely fashion. i accept responsibility for the fact that we did not make preparation early enough to avoid these consequences. >> the storm clobbered more than georgia. is took a couple inches and icy roads to turn into a disaster for alabama, carolinas, florida. officials report more than a dozen people have died due to the frigid weather conditions. six states have declared states of emergency. the focus from georgia has turned to clearing the roadways. state officials says more than 2,000 abandoned vehicles litter ed by interstate. >> they have taken a lot of criticism for not closing down the schools and telling people

not to go to work. >> the governor just held the news conference, accepting the responsibility for the state's response, as for saying that responsibility, he wasn't satisfied with it. he says he is meeting with all of the agencies involved and see what happened. take a listen. >> we will be much more cautious and much more aggressive in terms of taking action in advance of future situations. >> reporter: the atlanta public school system take nothing chances. they're going to remain closed tomorrow, and just briefly in our live shot, when we arrived this morning each side of this exit ramp was dotted with abandoned cars and now only a handful remain. they're doing a good job getting them off the roads as the ice begins to melt. >> one thing we can point out, when these surgeon -- southern

storms come through it warms up. rick is in the extreme weather center. any relief? >> usually doesn't stay cold that long across the south, and a pattern change will make things better, 37 in atlanta, 42, birmingham, another tom that got hammered. a lot of alabama, panhandle of florida, rough conditions. today you see the 40s for everybody. tomorrow, you start to see the green and we have 60s across parts of mississippi and panhandle of florida. 53 in atlanta. on saturday, we're pushing 60 degrees. so everything will be completely done by the time we get to the weekend. a lot more mild air here and going to bring much-needed rain across the west, rain and snow. but also good niece for these folks in the -- good news for these folks in the south. >> thank you, sir.

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own time, clearly. >> the biebs is back in trouble with the law, this time in canada. [shouting] >> justin bieber pushed his way through a huge crowd of fans and reporters while turning himself in to the toronto cops. video was great. he faces assault charges for hitting a him -- limo driver in the back of the head again and again. started win the driver picked up biebs and his buddies outside the club. he says he is innocent. this is the second arrest for bieber in two week. he was popped for drag-racing a car, and they tested hem and tested positive for weed and xanax. why he wasn't chiller is beyond us. xanax takeses you down a notch and weed is known to do the same

thing. maybe he had a bunch of coca-cola or something. he had also been drinking some sort of alcoholic beverage this he was below the legal alcohol limit even for somebody under 21. he pleaded not guilty to charges from the incident. what, there's more. a petition on the white house web site to deport justin bieber has reacted up more than 200,000 signatures. more than double the required number to force some kind of response from the white house. kennedy is the host of the independence on the fox business network. they're doing a supersuper bowl special tomorrow night. now she is here to talk biebs. >> he has been making his own super bowl. how hard do you think he and rob ford partied last night? >> wouldn't that be a must -- >> why don't we have that video? can you imagine rob ford bee lining to the -- >> what are you supposed to do

with this character? little girls love this guy. >> they do for now. i think the love will go cold, and i think his action signings stems from he is not selling as many records is trying to transition. miy cyrus appears to be a train wreck because she does whack where things but she has really improved her career by doing what justin bieber is trying to do, which is he doesn't want to be a child star -- >> but he doesn't get anything wrong. underage. yeah issue was drinking, then tests for almost no alcohol. and then he has weed and xanax -- -- . >> gotten off with everything. >> his car was not speeding. they were below the legal speed limit in miami. >> even in calabasas, he spit in his neighbor's face. might be charged with felony vandalism for egging his

neighbor's house and then with a dozen cops in l.a., found a bunch of drugs in his house. >> would you let your kids hang out with him? >> no! and the president is of course going to respond to the petition that 200,000 people have signed because -- he doesn't want him near his daughters. >> i learned at the white house the other day that the kids are not even allowed to have cookies and stuff at holidays, michelle doesn't allow, according to the staff, the pastry chef to give them cookies. they sure as hell aren't going to let them get near justin bieber. >> i hard the kaka delight was wonderful. -- karkar delight. >> we're celebrating the super bowl. that's what we do. so of course that means hangover cures cure guacamole, and we're going to talk about what makes the super bowl exciting.

>> they need to know what time it is there. they're very busy. >> it's going be a great game. a great show. get you prepped just like the studio here, it's like a constant to sled ride. >> will there be beer? >> fox news learned police and prosecutors are discussing whether to file charges against michael grimm after his train wreck of a report confrontation on the balcony of capitol hill and said to the reporter, from new york 1, our local cable news national the big city, and he told the reporter he was going to break him in half like a boy and throw him over the balcony. >> not good. >> there he is. apatiently he has a history. >> he didn't really apologize. that was halve-hearted. >> we now get reporters say this is a mean guy and he does mean

things. >> the justin bieber of capitol hill. >> a political watchdog group filed a complaint calling for an investigation of the congressman. reps say he violated a rule that requires house members to behave in a manner that reflects credibility on the house, unquote. this all start -- wait, if that were the standard three there could been -- please rerack the tapes from 50,000 programs. but the report asked the lawmaker about a federal investigation into his campaign finances and that's when congressman grimm within grim. [bleep] >> to pretty, let me be clear, if you ever do this again i'll throw you off that bleeping balcony. the congressman has apologized.

not really. he even said that he and the report we're get together for lunch. the reporter will be wearing protective armor. >> going to eat his liver with -- >> the son of colorado democratic senator mark udall is out of jail on bond after cops arrested him for breaking into considers and heroin pomp the senator says he and his wife are distressed and, quote, committed to getting their son the treatment he needs. he broke into three cars and cops found heroin in his pocket outside denver. senator udall's web site shows his son lives in el dorado springs. >> a warning for folks at the super bowls, criminals are trying to rip off fans. fake tickets, and jim gray will be here to talk about the big game. and on the drudge report and the new york daily news, there are like 15,000 tickets available. >> a lot of tickets and not

going 0 be that cold. >> that's going to be 40 something. >> that's fine. >> it's 19 today. >> it's -- 19 is not even bad. >> i'm wearing a bikini. >> we'll all glitch cameras will be on her. we'll get to that amanda knox thing when the judges get past the entree.

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just so you know we forgotten. that's florence and that's probably looking official. that's what anyway do florence. maybe they -- the pasta might be finished so we're waiting for a verdict there, and that's its. when we have something from there we'll let you know. >> back live now from super bowl 0 boulevard. feds and officials are telling folks to watch out for super bowl scams. phony listings and home representals and knockoff

merchandize. one special agent says officials have nabbed some $20 million worth of counterfeit gear. that's a record. they've made a slew of arrests and they expect more. rick leventhal is out there in the cold. who did you knock off today? >> i didn't scam anyone. but we are doing a story about alleged scammers, and we were there for a bust after the feds sent an undercover agent into an indoor flea market in new jersey. we followed them in, as the agents went in, to begin confiscating stuff and the went through piles jerseys and t-shirts and hats and other nfl and sports gear, all counterfeit and then state police slapped handcuffs on the vendor who was arrested on counterfeiting

charges, and they boxed up all that evidence, $100,000. we spoke to the vendor before he was arrested. >> bad day at the office. >> it happens. >> happened to you before? >> no, no, never happened. >> didn't expect this coming to work today. >> expect good things every day. >> the fed says most of the phony stuff is made in china and shipped her or carried in suitcases. >> bad day at the office. i like that one. it was worth a try. you can make a lot of money off the fakes. >> reporter: well, yeah. there's a huge profit margin. they can make more of fake goods then legitimate goods. the feds say this is harmful to american businesses. people who are selling legitimate goods at the right price are getting knocked out of business by people selling fake stuff and that's the key for people trying to figure out what is real or fake. fake stuff has tags on it and

hollow grandmothers hon at the tags, but the stitching might be bad, and the price, if it's really low, probably means it's not legit. and they also showed us more than 160 web sites that look real in many case but are not, selling phony goods, and sometimes they say those web sites will steal credit card info. here's more on that. >> we can't do this alone. we can't investigate our way out of this problem. we need consumers' help in terms of looking at the domain names, the price points, and we'll continue to work with our foreign partners to attempt to restrict the manufacture of these goods. >> reporter: you made mention of those phony tickets. theyme ar. can you imagine buying a ticket for the super bowl and showing up at metlife stadium chen turned away from the gate because your tickets not real? >> no because getting there will probably take longer than the game. >> that's true, too. >> you know, was thinking about

this, rick. the problem with knockoff merchandize, it's cheap for us but the nfl doesn't get a cut and god knows they're about to go broke. we don't want to hurt the football players. >> they like to think that this isn't about the nfl being richer. it's about the public being scammed and cheated. >> that's so true. rick, doing great things for nice people, rick so good to see you today. have fun down there in the cold. it's really nice up here. >> will they let me? i want to look -- >> no. huh-uh. and one other observation. the home viewers may notice there's a tee lay. rick is poll 17 feet away, yet we have a three-second delay. i think we're routing this through the courtroom in florence. >> that's a possibility. >> it's a probability at this point. they're festival doing nothing in the courtroom there.

rick, have a great afternoon. >> shortage of story lines but i only hear about two things, the greatest quarterback in the world and peyton talking become and forth. richard sherman got everybody's attention with his postgame rant, and then the quarterbacks, the legendary peyton manning and the emerging star, russell wilson. manning going for his second super bowl title. could become the second oldest quarterback to win the super bowl. john elway is the oldest. russell wilson has been under the radar and now has a chance to put his name on the top of the class. marking his 36th super bowl, jim gray, he will have covered. >> and this one will be great. >> it's going to be chilly but not awful. what storylines do you see building here? >> the number one defense against the number one offense.

historically the defense wins. when that happened in the four times they have won three times. when the number one defense has been in the game without the number one offense, 17 times, 15 times the number one defense has one. so everything indicates that that will be the way historically and statistically it would go. however, they're not playing against peyton manning. >> who throws ducks. >> throws ducks for touchdowns. >> that was hilarious. if you hadn't seen that, says we have peyton, he's great and everything, gave him respect, but he throws ducks, and then peyton responded. >> they scored 606-points and peyton manning through 55 touchdowns, 674 yards, the most in nfl history. so that duck is flying into the receiver's hands. >> and peyton says i do throw ducks, a lot of touchdown ducks. >> don't know how many out-of-towners will be here. this is an expensive place to

get to. >> it's denver and seattle. seattle fans would have come had it been phoenix or another place where it's warm. it's a long way to get her i wonder if there will be empty seats for the first time, not because people didn't buy them but it's going to be cold and people -- this is not indigenous to any team nearby. so, the olympics in russia, people aren't going there either. >> i was reading about the tickets, the tickets that people -- there were tickets for sale for $9,000 or thousands a piece and that's what people paid for. i did not spend any money, thank you, fox. but now those tickets have plummeted. if you good to stub hub now and the prices are on the -- dropping like a rock. >> there's a minimum to get a hotel room, then you have to pay these prices, raced significantly, the highest ticket to get into the ballpark

face value tase -- $2,500, so the hotel room and air fare and then you have to sit outside in the cold. there's not a whole lot of people who want to pay that kind of money to be frozen when the experience on television, on fox or any network, is so much better being in the stadium, other than the fact you can say you were there. >> only going to have about 400 cameras. not because i'm working for this company but i look to watch football on fox, i like the graphics that come with it. >> why are you going to the game? >> we recorded it. the super bowl, i guarantee you, will never be in the tri-state area again. everybody coming in is just complaining, it's cold. it's not even cold. >> what happens if it's a great game and the weather isn't a factor and everybody leaves and has a great time?

nobody wanted to go to indianapolis, either, and it was great experience. everybody thought it would be too small, but everybody left there feeling great about the experience, and i think because of what happened, and because it came here, i think denver is going to get a super bowl or be in the mix bus it was 64 degrees for the afc championship game against new england. the cold-weather cities now can be considered. >> jim. >> they should be. >> we'll listen to you on westwood 1 and watch it on fox and if you'ring -- you're there, come by and see me. >> wait until you hear how much of our aid money the afghan government has stolen, wasted or lost. your buddy, hamad, getting things done. that's a good friend.

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>> 14 minutes before 10:00 at night in florence. now more people are walking around in the courtroom, more people are standing, some are rubbing their eyebrows. maybe the judges have made it to the dessert portion of the consumption and at some point they'll come in there and let us know what is happening. but not yet. whenever it does happen we'll let you know. that's it. >> afghanistan's government has stolen or lost or just blown at least $1 billion in aid from the united states, money straight from all us taxpayers. thank you. that's the bombshell finding from a government watchdog. reports not one ministry can be trusted, even as we continue to hand over billions more dollars in aid. the agency that gives out the money is called usaid, and it's an scam and it's the biggest scam made.

officials at the aid agency knew about the corruption problems and hid them from our congress. all while congress was deciding how much money to send in all the united states has given the afghanistan government $88 billion. that's on top, and more than half a trillion dollars we spent during america's longest war, and that money keeps on going. much of the money going to the got of president hamid karzai, and his brother has ties to afghanistan's heroin trade. in response to the audit, the agency slammed the findings and insisted it had always followed the law. lea, who is behind the report. >> the inspector general for afghanistan and discusses funds and how the funds were used. now, according to the report,

afghanistan's government was unable to manage an account for a billion dollars because of afghans were paying some government salaries in cash, the report claims usaid did not correct risks before giving out more money. audits hatt had already revealed this information but the problems were hidden from congress and not made public. >> how is a government agency that hands out aid is responding in. >> they tide not want this information to be revealed, and they respond with a 13-page letter, and it reads in part, quote: public release of these materials wick likely result in russed -- reduced congresses from the afghanistan government and will undermine our ability for direct oversight. they also say there's no way to completely eliminate the risk of corruption but they had gone to great lengths to make sure they protected taxpayer dollars and also point out the report did not indicate any fraud, waste or

abuse. it's worth mentioning all this is likely to only complicate the relationship with president karzai who has yesterday to sign an agreement that would allow any u.s. forces to stay in afghanistan. >> we backed that guy. we knew that his brother was in the heroin trade. we knew what a disastrous leader he was, he couldn't be trusted, and we gave his government $88 billion. >> it's a difficult situation. >> u.s.a., u.s.a. good to see you. thank you. >> every wonder how a potentially dangerous place like sochi got the olympics? one of the world's biggest heroin kingpins may have played a role.

they finished dinner. the judge are back in the courtroom there in florence, italy, and we're about to get a verdict. >> 11,000 euros, and 15,000 euros provided and 90 days from today for the explanation of the verdict, and then the court notify the parties the request of the application -- precautionary measure to -- because the only need for

precautionary measure because of the guilty verdict today is to prevent them fleeing the country, and because at the moment, as far as amanda knox is concerned, amanda knox for the moment is illegally in her own country as the result of the not-guilty verdict which is today overturned. so, today she cannot flee the italian territory, and -- -- he has shown a ability of logistical support of -- in countries where the italian estate does not have -- is not covered by sufficient treaty, and before we put the

trouble with complication of his passport and any other document that could be used to leave the country. so, on the basis of the articles of the criminal procedure, we apply the precautionary measure of the troubled bond to solicitor rafael. he cannot leave the country without the authority and we withdraw his passport and any other documents that can be used to leave the country. so, we close the hearing. >> well, that was a little bit confusing, wasn't it? thankfully arthur was here and didn't have to endure the translator. what just happened? >> the biggest part i was able to hear was they are guilty, they are very concerned about rafael, who they do have control

over -- >> the boyfriend at the time of the murder and the two of them were accused of murdering meredith kurcher. >> he was in court but left court and they are ordering he has to give in his passport, any identification documents to travel because he was one proven to be able to travel to country that do not have extradition treaty with italy. so they just touched on amanda knox briefly, just by saying that she is in america and they don't have the power at this point to take her passport documents and don't have the fewer ask america to bring her over because there's this other level of appeal that will take three-quarters the highest court, which is the same court that end it down here. that court will consider is this

trial was done properly. >> what happened was, she was convicted a long time ago. then -- >> four years in jail. >> then a court said the evidence was no good, the dna is unreliable, the co's bungled -- the cops bungled the crime scene and do it again, and they did it again and they found them feet now. >> the first time guilty, the second time not guilty, now this time guilty. >> now more again. >> they're note going to do a whole try. they're going to look more at the process and the procedure as opposed to the facts. the biggest difference between the two judicial systems is in our judicial system that's one trial to find the facts, and then appeals court makes sure you played by the rules. italy, when they determine you didn't play by the rules they allow another court to hear all the facts against. so the third fact-finding

mission of the italian government. >> jonathan, go through the details. >> both originally were convicted back in in the 2009 tl of murder and sexual assault. then acquitted of the charges. this court has now overturned that acquittal, finding them in effect once again guilty of the murder and assault of meredith kercher, with whom amanda knox shared an apartment in italy. she is guilty according to the court and is, quote, illegally in her own country, signal they will at some point try to seek her extradition back to italy to serve those 26 years in jail. >> the guess is, it's only that, they'll have a very hard time making that happen. i'm shepard smith in time swear.

we'll wrap up things here. a quick look at the dow on this thursday before the super bowl, and that shows me that we clearly don't have the dow. there it is. the dow is up. that's great news. here comps cavuto. >> would you hand over your personal information to a criminal? if you're signing up for obamacare it could be happening. welcome everybody. i'm in for neil cavuto. this is "your world." remember when health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius asked this? >> isn't it true there is no federal requirement for navigators to undergo a criminal background check. >> that is true. states can add an additional background check and other features but it is not part of the federal requirement. >> so a convicted felon could be a navigator could acquire sensitive personal information from an individual unbeknownst