reward. give others something to strive for. amy says excluding kids from a pizza party and dance for not being a straight a student not nice. >> c.w. says this is insane. political correctness gone wild. >> "fox & friends" starts now. >> good morning. it is wednesday, february 5. aoeup elisabeth hasselbeck. a -- i'm elisabeth hasselbeck. a fox news alert. less than three days after actor philip seymour hoffman was found dead in his apartment, four heroin dealers under arrest. >> remember this, nancy pelosi saying obamacare is going to create jobs. >> it will create four million jobs, 400,000 jobs almost immediately. >> that sounds fantastic. unfortunately this morning a new government report says it is just the opposite. >> a government report? the numbers are in.

after 22 years of poking fun at a lot of people, one person mocked by jay leno more than anybody else. >> that's a good tease. >> thank you. i'm great at that. the target guaranteed to make you laugh. "fox & friends" starts now. >> it's time for "fox & friends." ♪ >> when i worked at a disco, this was every fourth song. >> what's interesting is when you look at central park, when the cars go up it sprays slush because it

is not just snow. the snow fell through the night. and now there's rain and freezing rain on top of it. it is officially just a big, fat mess. >> a big old mess out there. >> elisabeth the headline. you were at the disco? >> i wish i worked at a disco. >> did you make gin and tonics. >> i was the deejay. this was in college. i worked at the lawrence opera house but at that time it was called bugsy's disco. it went bankrupt and rather than pay me with money because they were going bankrupt, they paid me with beer which was great because you're in college. at that time the drinking age was 18. >> they played it four times every day. >> can we hear that again. >> disco; right? ♪

>> that brings back happy memories. >> this is not disco. that's "the hustle" right? >> can we talk about another kind of hustle? >> in band they allowed us to play one song that we recognized. we chose "the hustle" in sixth grade. the bad news is for clarinet players they chose the flutes to stand in front of everybody. >> so you didn't get the face time? >> no face time. over here it says talk about "the hustle." now that we're done with that, let's move on. >> rising premiums, seeing a doctor you love and can no more, is no longer a possibility, it is the complications that have come along with obamacare, if that seems like enough for you problemmateically, this might make things worse. the c.b.o. released a

re-estimation that provides the projection as a result of the affordable care act this is what they found. a reduction of 2.3 million full-time jobs moving forward in the next four years. >> the affordable care act is projected to reduce the total number of hours americans work by the equivalent of 2.3 million full-time jobs. that is gigantic. for awhile they thought it could cost 800,000 jobs, but instead it is 2.3 million. and here's the thing. some people, because of the affordable care act now, they may leave their jobs or cut back entirely because the government feels they're not hitched to a lousy job just for health care. here's the white house council of economic advisors. he's talking about how with this now, people are working full time can back off to part time. >> might be somebody who used to work 60 hours because they needed health

insurance and that was the only job that offered it, and now they can get a different job at 35 hours. pete: -- >> the problem is if 2.5 million people are not working in the equivalent over five years, what kind of devastating effect will that have on the economy? you're telling people work less, quit more and don't worry about it, you have health care. they also say, the c.b.o. projects that the same amount of people that don't have health care now won't have health care over the next ten years. the main goal is to get everybody like they did, they said they were going to do in massachusetts, get everyone or find them health care insurance. now they're saying the projected is c.b.o., according to c.b.o. there will be just as many people without health care that have health care at the cost of turning over the entire health care system. >> if the redefined american dream is moving from full-time job to part-time job, and that

seems not right to you, you might not be the only one. brit hume on this. >> that was a sad briefing. that really was. that performance by jason ferman was one of the most unconvincing performance i've seen. the answers to the questions, they are pathetic. here we have an economy struggling to find its footing and get moving on the robust economy we've been hoping for and here comes a program espoused by the president that at least at the lower income levels will discourage work. that is not good news for the economy, and i think it will be seen as good news by anybody. >> and keep in mind, remember how it was sold. not only would it drive down the costs of health care -- and of course you can keep your doctor -- but here's nancy pelosi talking about forget the news it is going to lead to the loss of over two million jobs, here she is talking about how it is going to create four million jobs. she was only off by about six million.

listen. >> this is not only about the health security of america. it's about jobs. it will create four million jobs or 100,000 jobs almost immediately. jobs, again, in the health care industry but in the entrepreneurial world as well. >> maybe we should have asked her to divine -- define what kind of jobs she was specifically talking about. maybe she meant four million part-time jobs instead of full-time jobs. you know when you have that family member who would say do you want to trade that one wrinkley dollar for ten shiny pennies and you say yes because you're duped, this is what this is reminding me of only on a much larger, more sad scale. >> the c.b.o. had different numbers in 2010. and now here we are in 2014, we actually have to live with the law and now they have entirely different numbers. had those numbers been

projected out during the debate on this, i'm sure it would not have passed. it's amazing when the math gets right and when it's wrong. the other big story is philip seymour hoffman, battling addictions during his entire life, kind of admitted that. it looks like he's been a regular heroin user, at the very least a hoarder. they looked in his apartment, at suffers video video -- at surveillance video and now they have honed in and made arrests of the people who sold heroin. now all of a sudden we're outraged that heroin is being sold on the streets and it's killing our famous actors. what about the nonfamous people that don't have a major economic impact on new york and can't go to hollywood functions? why is his life so much more important than everybody else's life that you've got to hunt down drug dealers? by the way that video was

available at a.t.m. even if he survived. >> his death was on the papers for the last three days. the police got tips and they found some dealers and they arrested them in the east village. they did have heroin there, but they did not have the same ace of spades stafrpl stafrpl -- stamp they found at hoffman's apartment. they believe they were involved but they don't know. we told you they were hooked on that heroin mixed with the fentanol that made it 40 times more potent. they did tests on the heroin found in his house. he did not have that. >> charges are pending at this time. >> sad story. let's go to heather for other news. >> hi. how about that snow this morning? >> what snow? >> riding the storm out,

baby. >> all right. good morning to all. hope you're off to a great day already. the president is making good on his promise to sidestep congress. in just a few hours from now the administration will announce its next executive action, and this one is a plan to help farmers who claim they are impacted by climate change. a call for the creation of seven so-called hubs, these hubs would study climate risk including wildfire and drought and then develop plans to try to deal with them. remember this texas teenager who was spared a prison sentence after psychologists called him a product of after flew -- of affluenza, he could go to college after all. a judge claimed his wealthy parents were to blame for his bad behavior after a drunk driving cash left four people dead last summer. now a judge could give him jail time based on the other victims injured in that crash. a ruling is expected later

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the obamacare website reportedly linked to malicious developers from the country of byelarus, which is a russian ally, intent on hijacking your computer information. equally disturbing, our intel leader don't know anything about it. >> are you aware of the report that was just drawn? >> i am not. >> director, are you aware of this report? >> this is the first i've heard of the matter. >> and director, are you aware of the report issued last week to the obama administration? >> i am not. >> no one at the table is aware of the report that was issued last week. i find this outrageous. >> one thing i've learned congresswoman over the years is not to believe everything i read in the media. >> are these threats from byelarus legitimate and how can intel leader know nothing about them?

senior editor joins us live. good morning, bill. tell us what sort of software from people from byelarus might be in our affordable health care website. >> this is an important story. last week intelligence officials told me that this was a serious matter, and this was based on some statements by a bela russian official who said our software is now on every hospital computer and health care network in america. and that rayed alarms, and -- that raised alarms and the u.s. intelligence community urged the department of health and human services to launch a review to find out if somewhere in the five million lines of code they planted trap doors or other software that would allow for cyber espionage, privacy, data loss and other cyber threats. >> who put it in there? >> it's not clear. they're looking for developers.

they're looking for subcontractors. i contacted the centers for medicaid and medicare services which is in charge of developing the software, and they wouldn't release the list of some 55 subcontractors. the suspicion is that perhaps one of these subcontractors may be a u.s. subsidiary of a bela russian firm. the search is not done. so far they haven't found any malware but they've got a lot of code to be looking at. >> maybe -- we're not sure yet -- but maybe they did do this on purpose. what would the people from byelarus be able to get from our website? >> i talked to mike rogers, chairman of the house intelligence committee, and he said the real concern is that the health care network is connected to seven different hubs within the federal government. he said if you can get past one of the fire walls in the healthcare.gov site, you can get into sensitive data bases including the i.r.s. and department of homeland security. that's really the threat. >> we just ran the sound bites of congresswoman

michele bachmann talking to our intel people. we've seen in the past where they have misrepresented the truth in public, but it looks like they didn't have any idea this was going on. >> i think somebody on that panel is not telling the truth. my suspicion is it has to do with c.i.a. this report was done based at a group of the c.i.a. what the message was here this is undermining a major policy program of the president and they immediately withdrew the report. i interviewed congresswoman michele bachmann yesterday and she said she is going to pursue this. she suspects there may have been politicization of intelligence. >> crazy. when bill o'reilly talked to the president about the health care website he said there are a few glitches in it but it is fine. he didn't mention the russians might have put code in there. >> i asked the white house was the president aware of this search for belarussian

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year instead of two to save money. meanwhile the white house mandating contraception be covered under obamacare but our next guest says mammograms are cheap and should never be cut due to costs. so should government be handing out free birth control while lifesaving procedures like mammograms are cut? joining me is a surgical oncologist. good morning, doctor. what are we dealing here when we're saying we're going to cut mammograms. you're not going to get yearly mammograms. you're now going to get them every two years. what does that do to women's health? >> i think this is a really important time for women. the concern is that it's important to keep in mind this is a very terrible disease. as you pointed out, it is a disease that affects one in eight women. it is a real problem for women. the task force guidelines have not been adopted by the american cancer society or the national cancer

institute. so i think going forward, there's plenty of data -- there always has been -- that suggests women at 40 every year, every one to two years needs a mammogram and that this is lifesaving. >> researchers say 50 to 74 every two years will be fine. has the cure, has the treatment for breast cancer been better? have more lives been saved because women are getting annual mammograms? >> there is absolutely no question. we can also cross the ocean to england. they have very comparable health care to this country, and they do biannual screening meaning every two years. there is no question that their survival from breast cancer is actually lower than from this country. that can't be neglected. >> this is all about money. they're saying mammograms every year costs the government too much money. we're not worried about saving lives, we're worried about, it seems to many women, saving $10.1 million

here. why on the backs or breasts of women are they cutting this? >> mammograms are cheap. good question. medicare pays approximately $120 for a mammogram. that is very cheap in the health care world. there are certainly other places to look to cut costs, but i don't think women and their health is the place to do it. >> if a woman wants to get a mammogram every year, will that be covered under private insurance moving forward? will these private insurers say we don't need to cover that now; we'll go with the u.s. research. >> i would predict that if the american cancer society and the national cancer institute continue to support yearly screening that insurances will go along with that. as we've seen, those establishments have not adopted the guidelines proposed. fingers crossed, but i do think it will continue to be covered. >> dr. rizk, thank you. coming up, don't pick it

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look at that. you're looking at route 9 in westchester, new york. a car on the road navigating the storm playing the role of a wiper, an actual wiper. it's wiping the windshield. >> it's a terrible wintry mix today because it's not just snow. it's a combination of snow and sleet and ice, and that's what -- and it's still warmish. it's almost 30 degrees. that kind of changes

everything. maria molina is outside. this particular storm is impacting 100 million americans. >> we have winter storm warnings stretching as far west as kansas right now and even as far east as portions of maine. many, many people impacted by this. it is especially to point out what you mentioned which is it is not just snow. we actually have freezing rain and it has transitioned here in new york city. i want to show you the pavement here because it is freezing on contact and producing a glaze. very, very slippery out here. you can see it accumulating. please be safe as you head outside. that is going to be the story across parts of new jersey, also into sections of the mid-atlantic like into southern pennsylvania and across the state of west virginia where we have also freezing rain advisories and ice storm warnings for southern ohio. you could be looking at ice accumulation exceeding a quarter inch. that could produce power outages and bring down tree

branches. temperatures behind the storm much colder. highs only in the teens in kansas city. parts of kansas picked up close to a foot of snow from the storm system. tomorrow still cold out there across the plains and the upper midwest. >> she must be serious. she's got an umbrella, got a scarf and wearing her uggs. >> do we have a recommended wiper speed for people? >> it depends. isif it is coming down really fast, maybe the fast pace. >> match the snow with your wiper speed. here's heather. >> did you see the size of that umbrella she has? >> she's got a huge budget. >> good morning to you. here's a question we are asking this morning: how does a working class single mom afford multiple luxury apartments? it may help to have campaign fund at your disposal. there is a new report that shows texas gubernatorial

kt wendy davis spent more than $131,000 from her campaign to pay for these luxury apartments since 2008 when she became a state senator. her campaign not commenting on this. we'll watch the story. now an update on why 40 elementary students in utah had their school lunches thrown in the trash. a preliminary report concludes the department procedure were not followed and that parents were not notified about negative balances in their children's prepaid meal accounts. salt lake city school officials are blaming a new payment system. the report didn't say who made the final decision to toss out the children's lunches. >> a bizarre story out of long island, new york. an adult pajama party that advertised tasteful nudity and warm jell-o wrestling had some parentsup set

because it takes place -- some parents upset because it takes place at a children's play center. other photos showing naked adults on the playground. listen to this. >> it has naked adults sliding down the slide and you have your child sliding down that same slide. it pushes the limit for people what they're comfortable with. >> want to have a little fun in this boring town. lighten things up a little bit. make things exciting. >> what do you think of that? plan your next kid's party there, kilmeade? maybe not. krazy kids, the company that rented out the place, say it's been they role cleaned. after 22 years on the air jay leno told a lot of jokes. the man butt of his jokes, president bill clinton. remember this.

>> not after eight years in washington. >> love it. so funny. leno made an impressive 4,607 jokes at the expense of bill clinton. former president george w. bush coming in second with more than 3,200 jokes. leno's last night on the tonight show is tomorrow. so fun to see that stuff. and those are your headlines. >> we're going to talk to one of his executive producers today about the leno years on the "tonight" show. >> 23 minutes before the top of the hour. sneaky phone scams. cyber criminals are turning up their game. >> the newest ring one phone scam prompts victims to call back connecting them to an international cell phone line charging outrageous fees. >> be careful of this one. >> my name is brian.

i'm calling from the technical department. software support and service will be charging you a onetime registration charge of $299. >> this tech support one big fraud. what other scams are out there and how can you protect yourself? joining us adam levin. thank you for being here. let's go through the scams and what can we do? >> you have a number of scams. one is a valentine's day scam. they have accumulated so much information now about your habits and the stores you visit, you'll be receiving ads that will be promoting discounts or fabulous deals or wonderful additional service opportunities by going to retailers for valentine's day. >> what do you do? >> first, don't click on any link -- >> it is not really from the store. >> some could be legitimate but many might not be

legitimate. the safest way is never click on a link, never respond to a text or never respond to a phone call providing any information. >> what about the tax season scam? >> no question that is another one that is going to be a very powerful one is everybody's head is into taxes now and you might be receiving a phone call or e-mail from the internal revenue service. it is not the internal revenue service. they don't call. they don't send e-mail. you might be getting a promotional pitch from a tax preparer. better go on-line and spell it correctly, go to the website of the tax preparer. check them out, make sure they're real. then if there is an exchange of information, you have the knowledge and you're in control. >> the microsoft call we just heard, hi, i'm brian. i resent that. and pay $299. sounds official. >> but they would never do it. they don't do that. they don't make phone calls. they don't ask for small

fees. it's a scam. they're basically saying you might have a slow computer, we can help you. you might have a virus, we can help you. they don't operate that way. >> at the top we were talking about the one-ring scam. my wife has been getting that for a couple of weeks. it ring one time and you want to call back because you figure i missed that call. you call back, what happens? >> you call back and suddenly find out you've been attached to an adult entertainment service in europe and you're being build an up front fee of 19 dollars and change plus a minute fee that could be as much as nine dollars a minute. >> don't respond and you'll be okay. >> think before you click on a link. >> adam levin, thank you so much for your help. we appreciate it. >> coming up on this wednesday, a school throws a party but they only invite the smart kids. oh boy! that's the problem. we'll tell you about it coming up. >> they supported the president in droves.

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the president often talked about hope and change, but the younger generation of america is not seeing it even though they voted for the president. a new study shows 80% of 27-year olds in the united states are in some form of debt whether it's from student loans, credit cards or mortgages. millenials are also living with their parents in record numbers. so why is the younger generation seemingly in so much trouble and do the president's poeulgs -- policies have anything to

do with it? let's someone who probably knows. catherine, does this seem right to you from the people you talked to? >> not at all. basically it is almost impossible for a young person to be independent. they go away to school. i talked to a lot of college students who are so excited and have big idea, only to have to go back home and live in their parents in the same bedroom with a diploma on the wall. >> they say 50% are making less than $25,000 a year. a study shows 80% of the former students are in debt but 22% are living with a spouse or partner, 23% are living with their parents. 19% living alone. in terms of back home with your parents, that is an increase of 36%. >> that's huge. obama doesn't seem to be doing anything to want to change that. he keeps offering handouts. he says if you're younger than 26, such as myself, you're an adult child, you can stay on your parents'

insurance. i'll take care of you. i want a president who believes in the abilities of young people, not just saying i won't leave you because i know you need me. >> if you take a study of 26-year olds who are hard to catch up to, but they say this. 60% have student loans. 54% making less than $25,000 and 13% not working at all. that last number is the most disturbing because you could be making a low salary but if you're on the right career path, that's okay. >> definitely. it's only going to get worse with obamacare, is designed to make young people pay for it, for young people who are healthy to pay for the older and sicker. we have 83% of elderly own a home, 23 #% of 26-year-old live at home. plus all the debt young people are going to have to for. unemployment is not going to go away especially if we hike the minimum wage. student loans, made tens of billions of dollars off of student loans. these policies are hurting

young people over and over again. >> if you have that high number not getting on track, in the big picture, do you feel that money will go to graduate school because of that and are choosing to stay in education because it seems kind of scary out there? >> it seems so and then there is more debt added. basically the more you get the federal government involved in student loans, tuition rises. more and more people are staying in school and they don't have money to stay in school so they're adding more student debt. it's going to be getting worse and worse, i think. >> you have two things. the health care program need young people to pay into it. however you could also stay on your parents' insurance until you're 26. what have you discovered unofficially or officially? are many young people choosing to stay on those plans? >> i've talked to a lot of students whose parents can't afford to keep them on their plans. a lot of students have insurance through the colleges and guess what? those plans were canceled

because they weren't compliant with obamacare. >> catherine timpf, thanks so much. 13 minutes before the top of the hour. food stamp spending gone up since president obama took office. a school throwing a party but they only invite the smart kids. a balanced and fair debate coming up next. looks like i'm staying home. ♪ good job! still runnng in the morning? yeah. getting your vegebles every day? when i can. [ bop ] [ male announcer ] could've had a v8. two full servings of vegetables

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welcome back. a maryland middle school party underfire. the controversy? only smart kids were invited. more than 300 kids with bad grades left out. so does this send a message to low achievers to shape up or does it go too far? here for a fair and balanced debate, psychologist dr. charles williams, along with psychologist and author, dr. susan lipkins. good morning and welcome. is this incentiveization or good thing to have people rewarded with dance and pizza for good grades. >> no. it undermines anti-bullying program that a school has. it is divisive. it makes kids feel like they're excluded and sort of like a country club that only accepts the smart kids. >> on the other side of that, many may say you're not going to win every race, you're not going to get every are. there are many parents who were

split. dr. williams, what's your take? >> i don't understand how rewarding achievement is divisive. we do it in all areas of life, especially in school settings. the sign says it's one way to insure that students will perform and achieve when you set the bar high and when you have high expectations, you support them and then you expect them to meet that high bar, they can actually do well in areas like science and math which are important as we fox more on stem disciplines to become competitive in the world. i can tell you in other places in the world, they're not saying it's not a good thing to offer high rewards for those who achieve. in fact, in a lot of other countries, you actually is to test, for example, into college. those countries are doing very well and, in fact, in some instances, they're outdoing us in terms of stem disciplines in math, engineering and science

because they're so competitive in that way. so i don't understand why that would be a problem. >> dr. lipkins, what's your reaction? >> i do not agree with that. there is research that shows that you have to be motivated from an intrinsic place rather than extrinsic and most has to do with what your capabilities are, what your family is like and what your connection is like to the school. the anti-bullying program is to be inclusive for people to be equal and similar rather than to be different. and we're creating a whole group of kids who are different. now, it happens anyhow because there are a.p. courses and honors courses and kids know that. in middle school, kids are most sensitive to their differences. we don't want them o feel humiliated or have one group have more power over the other. >> dr. williams, i see you having a strong reaction there. >> right. elisabeth, i'm thinking about the super bowl that we just had. so although the seattle seahawks

won, should we have given the denver broncos a super bowl trophy, too? should they also go to disneyland? i don't think so. there are things that we offer those who achieve at a high level and to those when are doing okay, their average. their lives aren't suffering. they don't have to be homeless, but they may not live in a bellaire mansion otherwise because they haven't worked hard enough or earned some of those things. i think part of our job is not only to teach math, science and reading and things like that, but it's also our job to prepare kids for life and the reality of life and the reality of life is simple. you are rewarded for hard work. you are rewarded for exceptional achievement. if you perform at an average kind of way, then you'll get an average kind of response from life. i think it's the absolute wrong thing to say to kids no matter what your effort is, no matter what your output is or performance, you'll be richly reward because guess when?

when they get in the real world, they won't face that. >> but i believe it really has to do with an individual reward. when somebody is extraordinary, they do get recognition usually at the end of the year and there are lists that are published of kids who do well. but here you're creating an entire class of kids, a whole group that is differentiating and that is where we begin the bullying. do we really take the kids who won the football game and they're allowed to the party or is it all athletes or all kids? >> interesting question there. i'm going to leave it here with the school statement. recognitions are decided at the school level in collaboration with the school community. many recognize achievement in a variety of ways. we appreciate your input. we want to know what everyone in our audience has to say about this debate. coming up, four americans were killed in benghazi and now lawmakers behind the investigation cannot get their stories straight. >> tripoli in october of 2012 to review the benghazi attack, i

don't recall exactly when i was there, but not afterment. >> i was there in libya in october of 2012. >> that humiliating hearing only delaying justice for the victim victims. o

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good morning. it's wednesday, february 5, i'm elisabeth hasselbeck. fox news alert. days after actor philip seymour hoffman was found dead in his apartment, four heroin dealers now under arrest. the details that led police to act so quickly ahead. remember that phony benghazi scandal? it's starting to unravel. >> can anybody at the table tell us when somebody will be held responsible for the murders in benghazi? >> okay. >> the administration can't get their story straight and don't have an answer to the most vital question yet. even all this in the same

hearing. >> meanwhile, a reporter by day, a hero at night. wait until you hear which fox reporter saved a man's life. he's been on our show many, many times and it's a great story to start this wet wednesday. live from new york, hour two "fox & friends" starts right now ♪ ♪ hunter hayes sang this? >> yeah. i think those are live pictures, i believe, from wbz in boston, where it's coming down. it's currently snowing from the northeast down through the central plains states. portions of my home state of kansas got a foot in the last 24 hours. right now here in new york city,'s ice pellets. if you don't have to go to work

today, don't. >> if you were thinking of getting a new car, how many people shopping now for a car are going, i have to get a four wheel drive? you can't drive in this unless you're all wheel or four wheel. >> maybe they don't want to go to work. >> that's true. that's a new trend in our country. >> if you want to stay home, don't get a four wheel drive. >> can't ride a moped in this, sir. >> she's driving four wheels. you have a good four wheel drive. >> i do. one that's far too big for me. but i think a lot of moms and folks can relate to that one. good morning to you all. we have a fox news alert to start you off with. four suspected drug dealers are under arrest in connection with philip seymour hoffman's death. the nypd is questioning three men and one woman after they found more than 350 bags of heroin inside their apartment. we also just learned that the heroin that was recovered at his home tested negative for fentanyl. we told but that recently, that

combination recently left 22 people dead in pennsylvania. the president now making good on his promise to side step congress. just a few hours from now, the administration will announce its next executive action. it is a plan to help farmers, they say, who claim they're impacted by climate change. it calls for the creation of seven so-called climate hubs. those would study wildfire and drought, and then develop plans to help deal with them. remember the texas teen-ager who was spared a prison sentence after a psychologist called him a product of affluenza? that teen-ager may go to jail after all. a judge claimed that his wealthy parents were to blame for his bad behavior after a drunk driving crash left four people dead last summer in texas. now a judge could give him jail time based on the other victims who were injured, not killed, but injured in that crash. a ruling is expected later today. we'll watch that carefully. radio shack now pulling the

plug on some of its stores after admitting that the company is stuck in the 1980s. >> okay. what? >> the '80s called. they want their store back. >> that super bowl commercial being all too true for that company. they're planning to close 500 of its 4500 stores, according to "wall street journal." the retailer is planning to rebrand itself and shed that outdated image. want your beta max back? >> i guess so. >> heck yeah. >> i need one to play all those old movies i got from the '80s. >> i love that. >> you want to see "animal house" again. >> that's '70s. >> oh, really? >> then -- when the vcr's go bad, they eat nine tapes.

listen, we know are watching tv this morning and -- >> we hope. >> because a lot of people aren't going to work, aren't going to school. we got a little bad news for you. remember we heard from the president and democrats that obamacare was going to save us machine with health care. we could keep our doctors if we wanted them and you would have more choices? that turned onto to be no, no and no. now the congressional budget office, which is nonpartisan, has projected that the affordable care act, which is not so affordable, will reduce the total number of hours americans work by the equivalent 26.3 million full-time jobs by the year 2021. they had thought maybe 800,000 jobs. but as it turns out, over 2 million jobs. >> so the theory is -- this could be good news, because a lot of people want to get benefits and that's why they stay with their job and may pick up another job. now that you can get affordable health care, theoretically.

>> through the exchanges. >> why have that second job? and as harry reid says, in america, you should not be in job lock. we should all be free agents. so everybody should be flipping out jobs, work a little less. i'm sure that won't have a negative impact on the economy. >> why have your full-time job? people working full tile job sos they can get insurance say they were happy with it. they were promised they could keep. so now we're saying oh, no, that plan you can't keep. and now with these numbers, 2.3 million full-time jobs shift to go part-time jobs doesn't sound like great news. but jay carney, the press secretary at the white house, said no, this is great for family time. >> when somebody decides for himself or herself not to work 64 hours but to work for 35 hours, even though the option of working more hours and potentially having the extra money that that option provides is available to them, they're making a choice about their overall quality of life and perhaps pursuing something,

either a new entrepreneurial opportunity or a new job that -- in which they could be more productive and they're choose to go spend more time with their family. >> you can get food stamps and then get your full fund financial aid for college. >> the crazy thing is, they had projected that close to a million people would -- they baked that into the recipe. now more than double that. brit hume, who has seen a lot of crazy things in his days in washington, d.c., says this is just flat out bad. >> here we have an economy struggling to really find its footing and get going on the robust recovery we've all long been hoping for and here comes a program espoused by the president that at least at the lower income levels, it says will discourage work. that is not good news for the economy and i don't think it will be seen as good news by anybody. >> i really care for you so i'm

staying home and having pot pies again. >> also we heard the number, 7 million people will wind up getting insurance through the exchanges. now they say 7 million, probably a little optimistic. we'll be lucky to get six. >> remember we talked to bill o'reilly yesterday. he sat down with president obama and the president said these things you keep asking me about, these faux scandals, i don't understand why they're such a big deal. they're not just a big deal to us, there was congressional hearings trying to get to the bottom of benghazi and why four americans were killed. the security panel was asking yesterday, c.i.a. director john brennan exactly where he was that day, trying to get some answers, down to the bottom of how this could have happened and within the same hearing, he changed his story. >> were you in tripoli in october of 2012 during the

benefiting as a member of the national security council? >> no, i don't believe -- i don't recall exactly when i was there. but i was not there after the attack. i was in libya in october of 2012. just checked with my staff. >> here is the thing about john brennan, after bin laden was killed, you couldn't get him off television. he's writing columns, editorials, he's doing every interview in the book. when benghazi when you really need him to step forward, he's got the -- we haven't heard him at all. i don't even know if he's in the situation room. now you don't even know if he was on the ground trying to get the facts? if you were trying to get the facts, wouldn't you know, you would think -- i know he travels a lot -- if you're in tripoli or not because that had to be a high security trip. >> they weren't asking if he was at the grocery store. they were asking if you were at a location where four americans were killed. it might stick out in your mind. >> no kidding.

remember after those four brave americans were killed, the president said, you know, right after i get back electric las vegas, the fundraising thing, i'm going to make sure somebody is held accountable for this. we're going to get the people who did this. well, fast forward a long time. here we are today over a year later, a congressman asked all of those intel and security chiefs this important question and the silence is deafening. >> can anybody at the table tell us when somebody will be held responsible for the murders in benghazi? >> what i can tell you, congressman, is that this is a top priority of the f.b.i we've made progress on the matter. i'm not at liberty to talk about the details of that progress. >> why not? >> how embarrassing is that? these guys are all sitting this and nobody jumps to say who is being held accountable, where the investigation is, what they can do in front of an open

camera, i understand. but they had seven seconds of total silence when asked who has been held accountable. >> that's what happens when you ask about a phony scandal. now, a real scandal, although i don't think they have any in this administration, that's something different. >> right. and they do know who these guys were. they were interviewed by the times and other television reporters. coming up straight ahead. >> do you want to smoke pot inside your house? that's what we're talking about. that's just fine. but it could be a reality soon. and entitlement nation, the president says welfare hasn't grown under his watch. but take a look at this. 54 billion to 80 billion on food stamps and that's not all. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] this is kevin.

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you're a big government will solve your problems guy. >> i disagree with that because i think what used to be considered sensible, we now somehow label as liberal. >> take a look at the disability explosion. it's insane. the workplace isn't any more dangerous than it was 30 years ago. >> we have not massively expanded the welfare state. that's just not true. >> let's find out. president obama may again the government's expansion of the welfare state. but who is telling the truth? let's look at the numbers. under the obama administration, food stamps spending has surged from 54 to $80 billion. disability spending surged from 115 to 139 billion. money for welfare rose from 161 to $186 billion. so how can the commander in

chief say we're not expanding the entitlement nation? let's ask senior fellow. first off, do you have a problem with the numbers i just presented? >> no. definitely there has been a huge growth in not only preexisting entitlement spending, but there is obamacare which is going to spend $2 trillion subsidizing health insurance for the uninsured over the next ten years. >> when the president made those statements, do you think he is not aware of these numbers or do you think his logic is, well, i inherited the worst resomething since the great depression. this is how he had to act? >> i have great respect for the president. i think generally he's an intellectually honest guy. here, i don't think he's telling the truth. i think his deliberate goal when he became president was to be the liberal reagan, to expand the entitlement state to the degree he felt reagan shrunk it. reagan didn't shrink it that much as it turns out. but that was his goal all along and he's largely succeeded. >> how do we turn this around?

>> it will be really, really hard. it takes people who really study these programs intensively to understand where the leverage points are to turn them around and turn the battleships around. it can be done. it will take a lot of courage from congress to take on these growing entitlements and resistant urge to spend the money. >> because it's so easy to characterize the other guy as not caring about the poor if you decide to curtail these programs and do something like the welfare reform like we saw in the clinton years. >> in your previous sect, you talked about this new cbo report, which is indicating that obamacare and the subsidies are discouraging people from staying in the work force. that's the problem with most of these entitlement programs in the first place. the more you pay people not to work, the more you discourage people from seeking a job 'cause they make more money sitting on a welfare payment. as a result, you have smaller and smaller taxpayer base that's paying for all these benefits.

>> and this really started during the '60s with lbj's war on poverty, right? >> absolutely. lbj, that election in 1964 where goldwater went to lbj is the most important election since world war ii because lbj used those massive democratic majority to create a whole set of legislation, especially medicaid and medicare, but also a bunch of other things that we're still wrestling with today. the entire fiscal crisis we have today in this country is because of lbj. >> and you also say if you want to keep these programs, you got to do something to finance these programs, so you vilify the rich and you say, they're the problem. so let's jack up the taxes and pay for the programs that we all need. >> margaret thatcher once said, the problem with socialism is you eventually run out of other people's money. and we're experiencing that today. medicare and medicaid in particular and obamacare will add to this, are crowding out our ability to actually have a real safety net for people who really need the help. and unfortunately, democrats have been really resistant to

making changes to these programs because they fear that any change to this program is a step backward for their agenda. >> thank you for joining us. >> i'm a detroit native, so you can't say waugm, he's from colorado. >> i apologize. thanks so much. >> coming up straight ahead, no lunch for you. not going to happen again. a big update this morning on why perfectly good lunches were thrown in the trash. then a rare disorder leaves a young girl facing many obstacles. life is a little easier with help from her awesome big brother. >> my best friends. >> that brother and sister here live to share their inspirational story very early this morning. but they're bright and shiny. today we're going to play a little ge.

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a heart warming story about ten-year-old lindsey cochran who was born with a rare disorder known as spinal muscular atrophy. she faces difficult challenges every day, but life is a little easier with her big brother who is always at her side. >> i would take a bullet for her. she's my best friend. i would do anything for her.

my life would be nothing without her. >> that inspiring video was made by the cochran family's church as part of a series called "overcoming obstacles." and their church nominated the brother and sisters for the first ever unsung hero award at a christian radio station, which they have received this past summer. joining us live now, that incredible family, lindsey, trenton, walt and tracy cochran. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> they all came from my home state of kansas, where in your town today, you have a foot of snow. >> yep. snow day. >> mom and dad, you got remarkable kids. a lot of siblings are at each other's throats. they argue a lot. but these two two are inseparable. what did you do right? >> we don't want to lead anybody astray. they are brother and sister. >> they occasionally do fight. >> they occasionally fight, especially with what we're going to watch on tv at times. but we just try to instill family values and our faith and

our kids. >> very nice. lindsey, tell me about your brother, trenton. >> well, he's very nice and caring and he takes care of me a lot, like when i'm sick and i ask him to bring my stuffed animals in, he'll bring them to me and he's just a really good brother. >> trenton, tell me about your sister. >> well, she's like a bundle of joy. she's really exciting and enthusiastic and even though she has a disability, like she doesn't think her disability is bad. she thinks -- she just thinks she's a normal person and not upset about it. >> tracy, how do you explain the bond your boy and your girl have? >> i think a loft it's just because -- i think they grow up faster. lindsey was born with this illness and i had breast cancer. so our family has been through a lot of obstacles.

probably these kids have seen more than most kids their age. i think when you face hardships like that, it brings you together and they see the value of life and how fragile it is and value each other's company. >> sure. trenton, why is it so important to you to be by your sister's side as much as you can be? >> well, if she's picked on, i just want her to be treated like a normal person would. so she can do other things like other people can. >> lindsey, how has your brother helped you overcome some of your challenges? >> he's just been there when i needed him and he has always taken care of me and, like, it's just easier going through life with trenton. >> sure. walt, that video that we showed is going viral. how has that changed things for the cochran family? >> well, it really hasn't changed us. it's just changed how busy we

are in terms of just some different stories that we've done and things like that. being a teacher at a high school, a lot of the kids have shared it and posted it, but really we're just the same people that we were before the video went viral and we've had a chance to meet some christian music artists. lindsey is really good friends with the singer, song writer who actually got the video on to the k love fan awards. >> and tracy, how important is faith to your family? you've got a full plate. >> yeah. i think faith is really what's gotten us through since lindsey has been born. we've learned to trust god even when we don't understand our circumstances. >> sure. trenton, when you grow up, what do you want to do? you want to go to the university of kansas, where i went, right?

>> yeah. when i grow up, i would like to be like nba player, nfl. but that's probably not going to happen. but like sports trainer or physical therapist. >> you know what, at your age, you can dream. you should be the nba game. lindsey, what are your plans and dreams? >> i want to be an actress or a veterinarian because i love animals. >> that's fantastic. well, it is such a story and you guys have beautiful children and a great family. >> it's been a pleasure being here. >> if you want to see the video -- it's a tear jerker, go to our web site. cochran, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> all right. next up, it was pope john paul ii's dying wish. now a man he trusted to keep a secret is going public. details on the holy controversy coming up next. and then reporter by day, hero by night. wait until you see which fox

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how great is that family? >> incredible. so inspiring. oh, my goodness. love them. >> in two minute, another kind of family, mob wives, are here to make meatballs. >> they've already started. we're going to listen to heather nauert. good morning. >> good morning. sure smells great in here. got news now. the kid won't go hungry again. that's the promise from a salt lake city school that took lunch away from 40-some children and then they tossed those lunches in the trash. there is a new report that's coming out about why it happened and it shows that procedures simply weren't followed and that parents were not notified about negative balances in their children's prepaid meal accounts. school officials are blaming poor communication and a new payment system. but the report didn't say who made the final decision to toss out the children's lunches. and if you want to kick back and light up a joint at home in washington, d.c., you may soon be able to do that legally. the dc council approving a bill that allows a person to smoke

pot on their own property. the bill faces another council vote, approval by the mayor. we'll keep you posted on that. brian is just dying to learn what happens. secret notes written by pope john paul ii are being made public today against his wishes. in his last will and testament, he specifically requested that his notes be burned after his death. these notes were written between 1962 and 2003. rather than obey his orders, the cardinal in charge of disposing the notes is deciding to publish them. he claims it would be a crime to burn them. john paul, who died in 2005, will be made a saint by the vatican on april 27. what do you think of that? finally, caught on camera, a fox correspondent reporting on new york city's snowy commute during the storm comes to the rescue, saving a man who fell onto the train tracks. that is wnyw reporter john huddy, in the gray jacket. he rushes to pull the man to

safety with the help of some bystanders. take a listen. >> did all i could do. i placed my weight in both hands and i squatted. >> you and me both. my hands kind of hurt. i was going to think about jumping down. >> that's why i said. i jumped to the cause. >> the man suffered a few bumps and bruises. we know john huddy well here and his sister. those are your headlines. thank goodness he was there. >> the huddys. good man. >> this is a day in which you need your weather person ready to go and in action. but you also feel bad because your weather person is outside. >> maria, it's raining now? >> yeah. it's a rainy mess and really coming down. and actually freezing in some spots. we have a bit of a coating out here on the sidewalks and of course also on the roadways and also the wind starting to pick up across the new york city area and parts of the interior northeast. we have snow farther north

across parts of southern new england and the interior northeast. if you see that right there on the radar, it's coming to an end. but still snowing across sections of the great lakes. winter storm warnings in effect. we also have an ice storm warning across southern ohio and freezing rain advisories in parts of the mid-atlantic because we could be looking at ice accumulation here that could focusly exceed a half inch of ice in some spots. that's a major concern for power outages. more than a foot of snow possible in the interior northeast. temperature wise, colder in the center of the country today and into tomorrow. windchill advisories have been posted. let's head back inside. >> and before we do, we need to salute maria because today is weather person appreciation day. >> oh, my gosh! >> get under that umbrella. >> get under the umbrella. thank you guys. you're so sweet! >> we appreciate you, maria and

all that you do. all those frozen treats. >> now bring those wet cupcakes in so the crew can eat them. thank you very much. happy weather person day. >> enjoy that. for the women on the show "mob wives," blood is thicker than water and drama has never been too far behind. >> coming at me the way you are. >> she said the 27-year friendship. renee should shut up basically. >> what a way to handle that. >> "mob wives" star renee and her sisters, lana and jennifer have a passion for food. they share family recipes in their new cookbook "how to use a meat cleaver." why do you need to know how to use a meat cleaver? >> i think everyone should know how it use a meat cleaver, especially and only in the kitchen. >> the cookbook, you guys offer

some great tips, right? some are maybe not as applicable, for example, how you can break into prison. >> we went through those days back in the day. >> was there something in the meat balls you snuck in to prisons? >> no, no. it's just so they can enjoy from food. >> haven't you seen the movie? there is supposed to be a file in there. >> that's a birthday cake. >> so you're going to teach us not with the meat cleaver -- >> no, no, no, sir. >> how to make pesto. >> my sister is the expert, expert at everything. >> experts at restaurant. >> i cook a little spicy. so today we're going to leave it all to her. >> let her rip. you start with some olive oil. extra urge haven? >> yes -- virgin? >> yes. >> when did you all start cooking? young? >> with my grandmother. but i'm still learning. still taking lessons from lana and my family.

>> in looking at the cookbook, it's beautiful because you've got a lot of traditional italian recipes, just your family version of it. everything looks delicious. >> it's beautiful. and it tells the story which is really important to us because food has a story. like we could be warring on a sunday, nobody getting along. you put that food in front of us and nothing matters. everything goes out the window. for at least three hours. the only time it's quiet is while we're eating. >> and when you're around the family table, it's important because you are a family. but then again, you are a family. >> we are a family. >> so you're all mob wives. you're all related to somebody -- >> we're all related to somebody who is somebody, who is somebody. now you're related to the somebody. >> special ingredient. what do you do that's different here? a little more garlic? >> a lot more cheese and butter. >> butter. >> is this gluten free?

>> it is so far. >> gluten free so far. >> very simple recipe. >> so you process it in a flurry there. >> is this the truck when someone is mouthing off to you, just run the processor? >> tune them out. you have to turn that out if you want to tune them out. >> look at that. >> it smells really good. >> yum. >> that's coming up in the latest on your tv show? >> can you give us a sneak preview? >> what's going on next on the tv show? let's let the producer right there on the end handle that. >> more drama as usual. actually some heartfelt things between the women. they come together a little. >> some bonding. there is issues going on. >> it sounds like a great season. once again, they got a new cookbook out. it's terrific. "how to use a meat cleaver."

thank you for joining us live. >> there is a lot more drama coming from the cooks. let me tell you that. >> we believe you! >> thanks for being here this morning. >> you're welcome. coming up, is your smart phone attached to your fingers like brian and it drives your wife nuts? you're not alone. is this normal or nuts? dr. keith ablow will analyze brian and people like brian >> and it could be the worst obamacare news yet. a new report confirming millions of jobs about to be lost. stuart varney warns america might be turning into europe. he is here walking in. >> come have a meatball. ♪ ♪ you know i read something today that made me think

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look at that. time for news by the numbers. first, $131,000. that's how much campaign dough texas gubernatorial candidate democrat wendy davis is accused of spending on luxury apartments since she became a state senator back in 2008. sounds like she's rich. next, 646. that's how many bills democrats congressman robert andrews of new jersey proposed in his 23 years in office. the number that have passed? zero. the worst record in the past 20 years. and finally, 20 cents, that's how much a detroit man paid for a vintage marvin gay record, 50 cents. the real treat? gay's old passport was inside. experts say that could be $20,000 worth of treasure. congratulations. all right. elisabeth, over to you.

>> thanks, steve. the congressional budget office saying obamacare will lead to the loss of over 2 million jobs over the next ten years. weren't we told that the health care overhaul was supposed to create jobs? here to weigh in on that, stuart varney, fired up over this. >> which country are we living in, for heaven's sake? let's deal with this job loss issue. we were told we were going to create jobs. obamacare would create jobs. and now what do we find? the government's own bean counters just told us no, we're going to lose the equivalent of 2.3 million jobs. we're going to lose a trillion dollars in income that we're not going to earn. and we're going to add a trillion dollars to our debt. this is totally contradictory to what we heard. can i just roll a sound bite from nancy pelosi from way back when promising jobs? let's go. >> we actually took that sound bite earlier. but what you're saying -- because you can't get it out of your mind and i understand why

where she did indeed promise that jobs would be created as a result of the affordable care act, in addition to 400,000, i believe, she said almost immediately would be created. the problem, one other thing i noticed out of this report was that the hardest hit were actually the lowest earners. >> that's right. >> how are we possibly going to come out of this when you have a chunk of those that were in full-time jobs mainly because they wanted to work full time. they liked the fact that they had insurance that they liked, that they were promised that they could keep, and now they are going to be shifting to part-time, no benefits, to make what you made in a full-time job would take two to three part-time jobs. >> yesterday afternoon, the administration tried to explain away this cbo report. >> it's a good thing, they say. >> it's a good thing. you will choose whether you want to work or not. you can spend more time with your family. don't work. go on obamacare. that's a complete reversal of

the american work ethic. that is totally wrong. which country are we living in? that sounds to me like europe where they don't value work at all in and of itself. but this is america where you're supposed to get up, work, make something of yourself and get off the food chain. >> why are they taking the incentive away to work? >> i don't know. >> is it because there may not be jobs out there? >> maybe it's because they really want to shift and fundamentally change the way america feels about work, because that's the impact of obamacare. they have shifted the whole concept of work, working for a living. pursue your dreams. choose whether you want to work or not. spend more time with your family. that reminds me of denmark, for heaven's sake, not the united states of america. yeah, i'm steamed about it because this is not what it's supposed to be. this is not what obamacare was supposed to do. this is not the country that it's supposed to be. >> yet another broken promise. >> sorry about this. >> i can feel it.

burning up right here. >> did i come here for this? good heavens. >> good point there. next up, you got a co-worker who talks too much? hey, did kilmeade write that? >> moved my desk four times already this year and i used to be over by the window and i could see the squirrels and they were married, but then they switched. >> is that normal or nuts? dr. keith ablow is on the case next. but first on this date in 1993, "i will always love you" by whitney houston was the number one song in america. ♪ ♪ [ male annouer ] the person who said, "if you love something, set it free" probably wasn't talking about dollars. pretty much everybody wants to keep those.

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all right. who is normal and ho is nuts? dr. keith ablow answers that question for us. if he answers it for other people, he gets fined, so he will not. dr. keith, how are you? >> i'm okay. the non-compete feels a little weighty sometimes. but i'm okay with it. >> welcome to show biz, pal. >> here is a question from a wife that -- i think people can resonate all around the country. my wife is always on the iphone, ipod, laptop and desk top all the time. i recently asked her for one day without work, shopping, personal-related contact. she looked at me like i was crazy. who is normal and ho is nuts? >> listen, this guy is normal. it's crazy that we've come to a point with technology where it can erode marriages and friendships and real things. this is no different, by the way, than if she were addicted to pot. this is a drug. technology can be a drug, so she's telling this guy quite directly, i love my drug more than i love you and he may have some decisions to make.

>> sure. and you say that to elisabeth who right now has her ipad right there. >> i know how loving a person she is. so that's okay. >> good. >> i will put it down and pick up a card instead. how is that for progress? we have another e-mail coming in about sisters. it says, my sister cries over everything. invite her to dinner, she cries over the invitation. buy her a gift? she cries because she thought you think of her. don't drive by a cemetery. is this normal or nuts? >> i don't want to hear her cry. it's nuts. and look, here is the thing. there are real -- there is a real disorder where people live right on the edge of tears, but in this case, you really want to think with your sister, hey, what is this willingness to cry, this readiness to cry? what is the real source of why you're so potentially sad? it's not the cemetery, it's not the mall or the gift that you got that's touching.

something left her that far from tears and she hasn't told anybody. she may not even know. so come to my office. >> during a hallmark ad crying is normal. finally, keith -- >> for you it is. >> it is. i come from a family of those. >> need to be careful. >> i have a co-worker who talks nonstop. if she is not having a conversation, she is narrating what she's doing. is she normal or nuts? >> look, she's nuts and here is the thing -- >> i'm out of here. >> she's quite anxious. so she's narrating everything she does to comfort herself. be her friend. say look, i know some people would be bothered by this narrating that you do, but i bet you're anxious. is there anything that's making you anxious in your life? you'll have a friend for life. then you'll also have a narrator for life, and that could be distressing. >> my special friend. >> then i'll walk to my car.

and lock the door now. >> if you've got a question for dr. keith, e-mail them to us and we'll share them with keith. >> thank you. >> sounds good. be good. >> thanks for the analysis. >> he's live from boston where it's snowing. coming up, 22 successful years and now just as jay leno signs off from his "tonight show" post, this week his former producer spilling show secrets, like the biggest he passed on and still regrets. >> i think that sounds like us, steve. then americans can get on food stamps in less than a week. but it takes a year for our veterans to get their benefits. what's going on there? ♪ ♪ today we're going to play a little game.

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good morning. it's wednesday, february 5. i'm elisabeth hasselbeck. we begin with a fox news alert. overnight police arrest four heroin dealers in new york city. but does it have anything to do with philip seymour hoffman's death? meanwhile, remember when nancy pelosi promised obamacare would help the economy? >> in this life, it will create 4 million jobs, 400,000 jobs almost immediately. >> that's fantastic. unfortunately this morning the government's bean counters say she was about 6 million off. >> and a school throws a party, but only invite the smart kids. is that fair? is that foul? we report. you decide. so wise up. "fox & friends" final hour starts right now. you're invited.

♪ ♪ >> lynrd skynrd the band has been on our show before and snow has never stopped them from performing. >> this is a point of view out the windshield of a car driving through massachusetts right now. there's a giant storm affecting 100 million people all the way -- >> look out for the plow. >> he's going to miss him. right through the central plains states. some spots finding upwards of a foot from this snow storm. >> yeah. >> listen, be careful if you have to go out today because my daughter, mary, yesterday got out of her car at school, slipped on black ice, broke her wrist. >> no way. >> it's true. so you got to be careful. >> oh, my goodness. >> it is slick out there, especially when driving or moving around. >> indeed. >> you have snow on top of snow now. then sunday, between three and

30 inches. doesn't matter? between three and 30. one small child will be buried and another up to your ankles. >> they want to call snowbamacare. it makes me want to call it that. >> because of what the cbo put out yesterday in terms of a ten-year look at where we are with the job situation. >> you kind of feel like you're being pelted with the blizzard here. the result, they came out with a revised projection here that said up to 2.3 million full-time jobs will actually be taken off the books and switched to part-time jobs. >> yeah. the way they figure it is it's projected to reduce the total number of hours americans work by that number of full-time jobs. the reason is they feel like a lot of people have jobs, or trapped in jobs simply for the benefits. so now they'll be able to leave those loser jobs if they don't like them and get health

benefits through the exchanges. jason furman, who works for the white house, and jay carney did their best to try to spin this bad news as good news. here is the best they could do. >> this might be somebody who used to work 60 hours because they needed health insurance and that was the only job that offered this. now they can get a different job at 35 hours. >> when somebody decides not to work 64 hours, but to work for 35 hours, even though the option of working more hours and focusly having the extra money that that option provides is available to them, they're making a choice about their overall quality of life and perhaps pursuing something, either a new entrepreneurial opportunity or a new job in which they could be more productive and they're choose to go spend more time with their family. >> here is the problem with his example, the problem is it has nothing to do with the study. if you go get another job, then you don't belong in the study. the problem is for people who

say i want to work 60 hours in order to, i don't know, retire with my own pension. i want to work 60 hours to get a car i want or put your car through college. or work 35 hours, you can get more financial aid, more student loans. so you could have a lower quality of life, spend more time with your family where you wonder where all the money is. people want to double down on their life to improve themselves. >> not everybody. >> well, the thing is, about america, the reason why we separated ourselves is because we have that drive to succeed. >> sure. the determination to do so and also the need to make a certain amount of money. so if you have a full-time job, it would take you two to three part-time jobs to make what you would make in the full-time job. that's not good news. >> right. if you think about it, so who out there would want to scale back, you know, i want to start taking it easy. maybe people who are going to be retired. but once you retire, then you are eligible for medicare. you would not be -- it would not

be appropriate to get the affordable care act exchanges. who is the white house talking about? it's a crazy thing. also yesterday, mitch mcconnell said the report revealed that once it's implemented, remember, this whole thing was just to get the millions and millions of people who don't have health care insurance on the exchanges. 31 million people still won't have it. now, this is a far cry from what nancy pelosi was talking about back in 2010 where she was talking about how obamacare will create 4 million jobs. wrong. >> this is not only about the health security of america, it's about jobs. and it will create 4 million jobs, 400,000 jobs almost immediately. jobs again, the health care industry, but in the entrepreneurial world as well. >> she was only off 6 million. >> yeah. harry reid says, this just means that in america, we don't have job lock. we should all be free agents.

yeah. free agents. but a lot of people don't feel they're trapped in a job. they're proud of the fact they have a job that gives their family benefits. they don't feel trapped in a job. that's part of the pluses and minuses. you got to work. >> there is a philosophy here that's being woven into the conversation and earlier you were speaking to a fellow manhattan institute and he said, this is really what's happening. >> obamacare and the subsidies are discouraging people from staying in the work force. that's a problem with most of these welfare programs generally. the social security, disability payments, the same thing. the more you pay people not to work, the more you discourage people from seeking a job 'cause they make more money sitting on welfare payments and as a result, you have the smaller and smaller taxpayer base that's paying for all these benefits. >> so the bad news is obamacare could lead to the loss of over 2 million jobs. you'll hear more about it later today on the channel. but i tell you what, right now let's talk about a great debate you had on regarding who the smart kids are in a school, who

the not smart kids are and who got the pizza party. >> yeah. is it something about discrimination when it comes to grades or is it incentivizing good grades? we had this debate earlier. there is a school in maryland that held a pizza party for kids who were the top students. those who earned straight a's went early to the pizza party and those with b's and c's went later. it left out a total of 35% of the student body. >> never got pizza? >> never got pizza. had the chance to if they improved their grades, but we had a great debate earlier with dr. charles williams and dr. susan lipkin. take a listen. >> although the seattle seahawks won, should we have given the denver broncos a super bowl trophy, too? should they also go to disneyland? i don't think so. >> in middle school the kids are more sensitive to their differences. we don't want them to feel humiliated or have one group have more power over the other. we are doing exactly the opposite that we ask our kids to do. >> it's an interesting debate.

you just have people that excel in different areas. maybe some of the kids were c students were playing three sports. >> they try to make incentives for different areas of the student body. but everyone has an opinion about it. we asked you what you thought. you said this, kim on facebook, working hard pays off. not all people deserve a bonus. it's based on performance. >> that's right. justin said, should have been based on efforts. some students just aren't a students. if a, b is truly their best, then they should be rewarded for that. >> you got to read david and goliath, the best thing that could happen to a kid is for them to work hard and get a b. congratulations, students know -- a students know handouts for freebies here. your hard work paid off. enjoy. so salute those with who are a

students. >> keep sending those comments in. if your kid is an a student or c student, how would you feel? pizza, no pizza based on grades? >> i'm suddenly hungry. coming up, we'll show you the correct way they have figured out the correct way to eat a hamburger. it's not the way anybody does it. we'll share it with you within the half hour. >> by the way, steve, you pointed out a great thing in the elevator, the problem doing a morning show, you miss the continental breakfast. >> i know. >> i see a poster of the pancake and bacon thinking, i'm not having that. >> we could go back after the show. >> you're lucky if you get a cup of coffee. >> i was libbing the sign. >> he was. it was a little odd. the woman that was in there thought i was crazy. >> she's not the only one. >> still no soap dish at that hotel. what's up with that? >> i know. >> go figure. all that money for nothing. >> you got to squat down on the

floor, pick it up. >> i know. >> brian, you're fired. >> it's like rocky trying to chase the chicken. >> they're telling me i have to get to work. i do have some serious news to bring you. it is a fox news alert right now. the nypd arresting four suspected drug dealers and now they say they're trying to figure out if they're connected to philip seymour hoffman's death. they found more than 350 bags of heroin in their apartments in new york city. but the bags didn't have the mark ace of spades or ace of hearts. those were the names stamped on some of the bags of heroin found in hoffman's apartment. the actor was found dead with a needle in his arm on sunday. we'll keep you posted on this. the president now making good on his promise to side step congress. in a few hours from now, the administration will announce its next executive action. it's a plan to help farmers who claim they've been negatively impacted by climate change. it calls for the creation of seven so-called climate hubs. those would study climb risk

including wildfire and drought and then develop some sort of plans to deal with them. the newly appointed irs commission letter be grilled today on capitol hill before the house ways and means committee. he recently sparked outrage when he decided to reinstate employee bonuses that total 62 1/2 million dollars for one year alone. those bonuses had previously been canceled. the agency hopes that by reinstating those bonuses, it will boost employee morale. today's hearing is supposed to focus on another controversial move, the tar getting of tea party groups. and the secret to becoming super bowl xlviii champs, for the seahawks it was cracking peyton manning's code. manning known for his hand signals and audible calls. and the seahawks figured it out early on. cornerback richard sherman saying it only took a few audibles to decode his signals. they used it to their advantage, beating the broncos 43-8.

how do you decode that? >> i don't know. these guys have a way to pick up the -- but they're not cheating. this isn't cheating. >> they broke the code themselves. >> they snapped it. >> using those eyes. it's exactly 12 minutes after the top of the hour. americans can get on food stamps in less than a week. but it takes a year for our veterans to get their benefits. what's going on with that? peter johnson, jr. has got that coming up next. then it's been successful for 22 years and now he's -- he's been successful 22 years. just as jay leno signs off his "tonight show" post, his producer telling us the show's secrets, like the biggest he passed on and still regrets. >> yeah, they blew it on that one. ♪ ♪ makes them more money.

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one of the greatest things about america is our ability financially to pour those in need, like food stamps for families who can't find work or school for soldiers who served overseas. their programs in which president obama strongly believes in. >> the g.i. bill is the smartest thing we ever did, was make an investment in the american people who those guys came back from war, that's what created our middle class. that's not a nanny state. that's an investment in the future generation. we have not massively expanded the welfare state. that's just not true. levers of support that we provide to folks who are willing to work hard are not that different than they were 30 years ago, 40 years ago, 50 years ago. >> but what is different, the size and priorities of those programs. fox news legal analyst peter johnson, jr. is here to explain. >> good morning. we decided to take a hard look at what the president was saying. we found out if you took all of

the government-based assistance recipients in america, they would constitute perhaps the 12th largest country in the world. so are we doing the right thing by those who have served and deserve benefits in this country and those who believe that they're entitled to those benefits? we said, let's look at welfare recipients versus disabled veterans and how quickly they're getting those benefits. let's look at the welfare numbers first. 30 days or less for food stamps. seven days for expedited snap benefits. you can get those in a week. 30 days for temporary cash assistance in some states. and 45 days for energy assistance, low income energy assistance in some states. >> not too bad. >> no. and people deserve and we should be americans that need to be taken care of. but at the same time, what have we done for our vets and how

quickly are we doing it compared to welfare benefits? 675,000 claims are pending for disability benefits for our veterans. of that, 397,000, almost 400,000 pending for over 125 days. 58% of that total is pending 12025 days. and -- 125 days. if a g.i. wants the new g.i. by applications processed, it will take a minimum of 31 days. so we see this disparity between how quickly people are receiving need-based government assistance and our disabled veterans are waiting months, if not years to get the benefits that they have earned as soldiers defending the united states. >> so why the discrepancy, i would ask? why are we looking at numbers that are significantly horrible in terms of response time when it comes to those or our first responders protecting our

freedom? >> that's a question best asked of the president and the congress. one is imcompetence at the veterans administration. but two, is there a willingness to bring benefits to those groups that will deliver votes for any particular party that's in power in america? do we value giving welfare, do we central need-based assistance more than we value giving benefits to veterans who have been terribly disabled and disfigured by their service to this country? >> that's not their back up plan. this was guaranteed to them. >> absolutely. and this is what veterans are facing every day. a lot of veterans are concerned. they say, listen, i almost gave up my entire life, in some sense, i gave up my life for this country. so i see other people getting benefits, getting government assistance much before i'm

receiving that. they say why is there this disparity? shouldn't there be some equality? shouldn't we treat our veterans in the same way that we treat our welfare recipients? i think that's a question well asked and answered. let's see what our government does to change that disparity in our country. >> thanks for bringing that to our attention. >> good to see you. >> the obamacare web site vulnerable to russian hijackers and our intelligence is in the dark about it. that story alarming as it is, up next. then this is jay leno signs off from his "tonight show" post. his former producer spilling show secrets, like the biggest he passed on and still regrets to this day. he joins us live. >> we've only got two shows left after tonight. i read today where nbc says they would like me to be just like bob hope. dead. yeah, dead.

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quick headlines on this wet wednesday. soon you won't be able to buy a pack of cigarettes at the local drugstore if it's a cvs. they will stop selling tobacco products by the first day of october. the texas teen-ager who was spared jail time in a deadly drunk driving crash could end up behind bars after all. the judge said ethan couch was a product of so-called affluence zoo and blamed his wealthy parents for his behavior. now a judge could give him jail

time based on other victims who were hurt in the crash. a ruling expected later today. jay leno set to take the stage for the very last time in his studios in california tomorrow night. this after 22 successful years as host of the "tonight show." >> dave berg was the co-producer with jay leno for 18 years and he's written a book about the comedian's time called "behind the curtain." david, what is jay leno's "tonight show" look like behind the scenes as compared to other shows you worked on compared to other eras with the "tonight show"? >> well, i think behind the scenes it's controlled chaos. i don't know if that's different from other shows. it's just a matter of how do you control on a day-to-day basis all of the little details of the show. but one of the things that i

think made our show different, jay's show a little different is that right from the very beginning there was kind of a feeling that sort of, well, they were out to get us. i know that sounds like i'm being paranoid, but right from the beginning we were dealing with such issues, jay leno one year into the job, nbc is starting to have second thoughts. maybe they should replace him with david letterman. the critics always had reservations about jay. so over and above the daily chores of the show, we sort of had this larger kind of sense of doom. i don't mean to be negative about it. but that's what made us a little different from other shows. >> that was well-founded. jay leno wound up getting fired twice by nbc and as he says so long this week, that will be the second time. i think it's interesting, you were talking about other shows. one of the most iconic images of the arsenio hall show was had

bill clinton put on the sun glasses and played the saxophone. the clinton camp didn't want to do that show. they actually wanted to do your show. why did you say no? >> that's right. that was very, very early on within 1992 when our show was first starting. and i think our original executive producer, helen curbnick, she has sort of a storied past with us. i don't think she quite got it and really the rest of us didn't quite get it because in the early days, our thinking was, well, the way to get ratings, you want to book the biggest named movie stars that you can. here comes bill clinton, who at the time was kind of an also ran. he's running against president george bush and he's kind of a throw away candidate at the time. he's not that well established.

what's that? he comes to our show and he says look, here is the deal, i'd like to come on your show. i know elvis presley songs. i play the saxophone. jay is a big fan of elvis. why don't we do it? and our executive producer said well, why would we want a no name candidate named bill clinton? what is that going to do for us? and besides, if we have him on, then we have to have president bush on. that doesn't seem like a good idea. well, i think it was kind of a mistake because he took his act, bill clinton took his act across the street to arson i don't hall and i think the rest is history. i believe, if you look at it, it helped lead to his presidency -- >> one thing ha helped you guys is hugh grant. when he came on and jay asked him a question, what were you

thinking, that was one of the first times you beat letterman and never looked back. >> that's exactly right. letterman in the early days was the -- well, he was the king of late night. he was the number one ratings guy for two straight years. all of a sudden, i guess the talk show gods favored us because hugh grant was booked on our show and then after he was booked, he had this incident with a hollywood prostitute, divine brown, and he was arrested for lewd behavior. and then he decides, well, maybe i should cancel the show. well, we sort of pumped it up. please don't. it's a good idea. you should probably come on the show. you can apologize for it and right up until the day before, he was thinking about dropping out. well, he stays in. he does the show. >> and he is still a movie star

to this day. it was a good choice on his part and a good choice on your part as well. >> game changer indeed. >> we became number one. >> there you go. that's what it's all about. >> we've been celebrating jay leno ever since for sure. jimmy is going to do great. i hear everybody talk being it. what a happened-off there. thank you so much for being with us, sharing that inside story there. we'll all be watching on february 6, i think, to give him a wave good-bye. >> and we'll all be missing jay. it's exactly 30 minutes after the top of the hour. >> the obamacare web site vulnerable to an attack by russian hijackers and even more alarming, our intelligence is in the dark about it. >> it's a kiddy playground by day. at night, it's a party place for naked adults. how many times has that been the case in your neighborhood? we'll talk about it. >> is that a slinky? ♪

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didn't know my son would be knocking on your door. you thought it might be heather or elisabeth. >> i didn't hear anything. >> you got the wrong floor. >> it was my son, peter. mr. doocy, open up. i want to watch cartoons. >> you were watching "mob wives." there was no talking to you. >> all right. you want me to take it away? the obamacare web site could be vulnerable to an attack by russian hackers. the site has been linked to developers from belarus intent on hijacking your information. earlier we spoke with bill gertz about what threats we could be facing. >> the real concern here is that the health care network is connected to seven different hubs within the federal government. if you can get past one of the fire walls in the healthcare.gov site, you can get into sensitive databases, including the irs, and department of homeland security. so that's really the threat.

>> so far the department of health and human services says it has found no indication of yet.oftware developed in that we'll keep following it. from "american idol" to the political arena, clay aiken is now running for a democratic seat in congress, but he credits one particular republican leader with inspiring his decision. listen to this. >> i'm a democrat, but it was when i was appointed by president bush to serve on a special presidential commission to address the educational challenges of children with special needs, that was when i first realized that our problems won't be solved by only one party. >> aiken is running in a conservative district in north carolina. if he wins the primary, he'll run against current congresswoman. he was here two months ago? >> he and ruben stoddard. >> listen to this story. this is coming out of where brian and i live on long island. it's a crazy story. there was an adult pajama party

that advertised tasteful nudity and warm jello wrestling and it has some parents up in arms and really grossed out because it all took place inside a children's play center. take a look at this picture posted on instagram and this is a really pg version of what was actually happening at the children's center in long island, new york. those are adults. those are adults. this is the tasteful stuff. so there were other photos that we can't put on the air now, that showed naked adults on the playground. listen to this reaction. >> you have naked adults sliding down the slide and then you have your child sliding down that same slide. i think it pushes the limit for people what they're comfortable with. >> why not have a little fun in this boring town. it's boring. lighten things up a little bit. make things exciting. >> the company's management claims the space has been thoroughly cleaned and they say they're now reviewing their rental policy. well, there is a right way and wrong way to eat a

hamburger. researchers in japan say most of us eat our hamburgers with four fingers on the top and thumbs on the bottom. with that method, the burger falls off the back. instead, they say the best way is to put your pinky and your thumbs on the bottom for extra support and three fingers on the top. >> you got -- >> i'm taking your advice. so everybody usually does just one thumb on the bottom and then you lose stuff. but instead, pinky and thumb on the bottom. >> double support on the bottom. >> three on the top and that is the optimum way, according to japanese researchers, to eat a hamburger. >> and it feels so much more safe right now. does it taste better? >> shouldn't the japanese be working on gene splicing or something? stem cell research? >> you don't want to use a pickle off the back. >> you're right. you always apologize for the japanese research. >> i don't know. if you want to eat the backside, you got to turn the whole thing

around. maria molina, it's weather caster appreciation day. earlier we brought you beautiful cupcakes and now giving awe burger, but you're eating it wrong. >> i'm trying to follow your instructions here. it's kind of tough. >> three fingers on the top. your thumb and pinky on the bottom. >> and in the freezing rain. >> tada. >> ralph malph ate a hamburger like that at the diner all the time. >> he did the double under. >> does that apply for one handed way to eat a cheeseburger or hamburger? >> we're not sure. we have to go back to the japanese researchers. >> you have to ask them and find out. >> in the spring they're working on the hot dog. >> meanwhile, nothing is hot outside. it's cold and rainy. it's awful. >> yeah, that's right. central park, so the national weather service says in central park we have accumulation of ice of .22 inches. so we're just shy of a quarter inch out here across portions of

the new york city area and that snow piling up in sections of connecticut. we actually have more than seven inches being reported out there and we also have reports of more than seven inches in sections of massachusetts. freezing rain will be an issue. we have winter storm warnings in effect as far west as parts of the midwest and as far east as sections of eastern maine. so significant snow accumulation expected, possibly over a foot of snow across interior sections of the northeast. stay safe out there. by the way, as we toss it back inside, we have cold temperatures in the center of the country. well below average. windchill warnings and advisories have been posted out there across parts of the northern plains and the central plains. stay safe. >> thank you. take a break. have a bite. straight ahead, 20 minutes before the top of the hour. fox news alert. actor philip seymour hoffman's life cut short because of his battle with addiction. so does rehab really work? it didn't apparently for him.

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it's being released in may. brian? fox news alert. nypd arresting four suspected heroin dealers and they're trying to see if they're connected to the death of philip seymour hoffman. as learn more about the actor's struggles with addiction. now let's switch gears. it begs that question on addiction. does rehab really work? that's where he went. what can we do if we know somebody who are troubled ourselves? joining us now is addiction expert, dr. joseph strand. he's the medical director of high point treatment center and the author of that book. first off, does traditional rehab work? >> i think rehab is individualized in many ways. a person comes into rehab, what you have to do is help remind them that they're valuable. most people with addictions are already ostracized. they feel people see them as our modern day lepers. in rehab, it's beginning to reconnect someone to the value that they have to society. >> okay. this study shows 50% of users

resume drug, alcohol two years after treatment. is that, to you, sound like a study that you can relate to? >> it's very powerful. it just shows how much support we really need to continue to give to these folks. this is a marathon, not a sprint. it's a marathon, not a sprint. it can take years and years to really recover. your brain has become used to a substance that gives it immediate pleasure. immediate gratification. what we're trying to do is say listen, there is another form of pleasure. it's being connected to a group of people that care about you, respect you, value you and then you can begin to trust. >> when you have ledger, monteith and now seymore going down with some type of heroin seems to be their drug of choice, or i should say heroin or vicodin being their drug of choice, it seems that in those cases, these three have everything. does that mean they maybe were born that way or have a proclivity to becoming an

addict? >> it could be. but look, being a celebrity doesn't immunize you against addiction. this crosses all social barrier, all age groups. it doesn't matter. that's why things like a a are so powerful because they bring a whole bunch of different people together. so yes, there is definitely some genetic component for some people. but that will only come out depending on the environment in which you are in, whether it's a home environment or social environment. it doesn't necessarily mean that you're going to become addicted. >> i also just look at this, what you have in bold here. you are never fully cured. it's a day by day battle. >> it is indeed. that's because the brain is continuing to evolve. we have part of a brain, the thinking part of the brain that's anticipating the consequence of our actions, but the addiction doesn't happen in that part. it happens in the emotion part, the impulsive part. let me just do something right

now. >> got you. thanks so much. >> been my pleasure. thank you for having me. >> 13 minutes before the top of the hour. in case you missed it, three rock legends are combines forces. ♪ i want to know what love is ♪ i want you to show me ♪ ♪ >> it's the performance back by popular demand next. but let's check in with martha mccallum, who goes through a daily popular demand appearance, along with bill hemmer. >> hey there. good morning. so coming up this morning, we've got the cbo director on the hot seat in america's news room today after the devastating obamacare report. steve hayes is here on that. a harrowing hostage situation and the reporter who stepped in. sew see looking -- sochi looking scary from many ways. what lies ahead for our athleteses. bill and i will see you right here at the top of the hour rrow.

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they're back by popular demand. yesterday foreigner, styx, and don felder of the eagles stopped by to announce they're forming a new huge summer tour. they even taught brian how to play the guitar at one point. >> that's right. and later they teamed up for a performance in our after the show show. >> and i missed it! >> i know, you were working on your guitar 'cause you had a good lesson. in case you missed it, here is "i want to know what love is". ♪ got to take a little time ♪ ♪ a little time to think things

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again ♪ ♪ can't stop now ♪ i've traveled so far ♪ to change this lonely life ♪ i want to know what love is ♪ i want you to show me ♪ i want to feel what love is ♪ i know you can show me ♪ oh ♪ got to take a little time ♪ a little time to look around me ♪ ♪ i've got nowhere left to

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lot of news today. it was great that foreigner, styx, and don felder came by yesterday. awesome! >> everybody talked about that appearance. >> a loft pictures. >> who thought to combine these bands? >> do you think in 20 years

you'll have uncle kracker getting together with new kids on the block? >> maybe. >> no. >> are they combining with anybody? >> thank you for joining us here today. we'll see you back here tomorrow and that is just were started. welcome to "america's newsroom." martha: according to this report, the economy will lose 2.3 million jobs over the next decade, which is a significant increase over the projection we had back in 2010.