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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.
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bill: stuart varney, good morning to you. what is he facing when he goes to congress today? stuart: he will have to plan to things under question. number one, how many job losses will there really be? yesterday the reported not include a number of people who will be pushed into part-time work because they did not include the employer's mandate. didn't include that. 2.3 million job loss figure is actually an understatement. he will be asked what is the real number. secondly, he will be asked is it okay for people to stay at home, not work, go on obamacare, pursue their dreams at the expense of the american work ethic? a couple whores questions. bill: you mentioned pursuit in your description. here is jay carney from the white house. >> when somebody decides for
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himself or herself to work for 35 hours even though the option of working more hours and potentially have an extra money that time provides is available to them, are making a choice whether overall quality of life and perhaps pursuing something in new entrepreneurial opportunity my new job that they could be more productive and choosing to spend her time with their family. bill: so they are exercising freedom. they say this is the american dream, that is the defense. stuart: do you think people will choose to work far fewer hours, get less money? they will not choose to take that choice. and what is this about pursue your lifestyle? of course you have the freedom to do it, but it is somebody else's expense. is that right? bill: remember 2010? the estimate now is four times
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that amount. going back to your point we don't even know how many people will lose their insurance because of the employer mandate kicking in. says fewer would even get on insurance. among those already uninsured. what is good about this report, stuart? stuart: i am scratching my head. i'm trying really hard. some people will think it is just find to be like europe, sit back, let somebody else work, take the welfare. i guess there are some matt says that is okay to make america like europe. i could not find anything else that would at least attractive. bill: that statement is almost like when people retire and say i want to spend more time with my family. man, see you at 9:20. martha: more from the white house i and this whole thg yesterday sending jason berman, chairman of the president's council to face the reporters
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is just the long-term brutality of this winter. chicago in particular has plowed through, if you will, three fourths of the budget for snow removal. it has been so cold that the mississippi river has frozen up. tributaries of the great lakes and the barges carrying salt to these municipalities have been stuck. right next to somebody else who already shoveled out the spot. because of the salt problem, you have chicago in particular that has a crew of 50 trucks driving out to ottawa, canada, to make sure the city has enough salt. places like wisconsin today, madison, wisconsin, so cold the salt does not work anymore.
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they are asking the residence to keep their faucets running and municipality will pick up the extra cost for the water to keep the pipes from freezing. indiana, they say they can handle it but hope spring is right around the corner, guys. martha: one of the great phenomenons of city living is when the plow comes through and pushes the snow onto the car and makes life a lot harder for the people. i've never seen the chairs trick before. save a spot for the fourth of july parade but never one holding a parking spot. i don't think it would work in new york. bill: you had five minutes to come back. in boston many area schools are cancelled yet again. new york city schools are open today but in new england get ready for snow, the blaze at the airport, logan international. good morning.
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reporter: good morning. we are in the thick of it, snow is pounding down expected to be gone for the next couple of hours. this stuff is very heavy and very wet. some of the earlier snowstorms were a lot lighter. this is heavier and will be a lot tougher to move. i am here at logan airport. people flying out our guys to check with their airlines today and a lot of them did because inside it is like a ghost town, very, very few people, lots of folks there to check people in but not a lot of people checking in because they don't have any place to go at this point in time. we spoke to one family, they are trying to get to texas for their sons graduation for the air force. take a listen. >> yes, we are delayed. we stayed overnight and we are catching an earlier flight, hopefully.
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the earlier flight we tried to get on has been delayed. reporter: they are sitting inside nice and cozy waiting to get on their first flight. did not expect to get down to texas until 1:00 the morning. they have to rent a car and keep driving. it is not completely unexpected, but next time they plan to leave a couple days earlier. bill: it looks great where you are, where does it slow down or taper off? >> it is supposed to taper off the evening hours and people have a chance to clean up. we have another snowstorm in the works coming up for this weekend into the early days next week. so it is not over yet. we have been in the thick of it all winter and certainly this year, it is not over yet. bill: hang in there. martha: check this out, city of lincoln nebraska tackling the
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winter storm had done with an emergency parking ban. 70 plows working to clear the major roadways. they have emergency vehicles, bus and school roots are being reorganized and reporting over 20 accidents on the very slick roads in nebraska. bill: who have heard this story of a lot of places in the country especially michigan facing a shortage of road salt. driving up the price as this winter goes on and on. >> just yesterday the price doubled, actually. now it is $600. bill: homeowners facing the same problem, not just michigan. talking about new jersey, new york as well. when i was a younger man, they would call me salt pile willie because out always go out to see how the stock was doing. salt pile willie.
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martha: we have seen sports stars, pajama boy with his cocoa, and now a new ad campaign for obamacare. ♪ martha: i don't know what to say about that. resorted to using pets. are things that bad commie have to listen to your gerbil about that situation. bill: could this case now and philip seymour hoffman case be criminal? martha: and holding a teenager hostage four hours called a fox reporter in the middle of the police standoff. >> says regardless when i am caught, i'm going to prison forever and will never see daylight again.
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martha: brand-new on this story this morning, for suspected drug dealers are now under arrest and the connection to the death of philip seymour hoffman. brand-new video coming in, n.y.p.d. questioning three men and one woman after 350 bags of heroin inside the apartment. investigators saying the heroine recovered at hoffman's home tested negative for heroin cut with a powerful additive that recently left 22 people dead in pennsylvania. bill: back to our top story right now, the true cost of obamacare is growing yet begin. 2.3 million jobs lost in a decade, that is just the beginning. art laffer was president reagan's economic advisor. good morning to you. >> good morning, bill.
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bill: first, your reaction to what they are saying. >> it is like night and 84, if you will. people are trapped in their jobs because they have to get income to provide for their families and not pursue their dreams. so let's give everyone full income so no one will have to work and we can all proceed with our dreams and then we will live happily ever after. it is such lala land. i've never heard this in my life. bill: the defense is, and i know republicans are going to argue we saw this coming, we told it was coming, it is here, time to repair, replace or repeal altogether. here's part of the defense when the report came out. watch. >> it might be somebody who would 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.
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bill: he is the white house advisor on the economy. see section to cut her hours and have to have more time with her family, art. >> they had these that would produce anything anybody wanted. it is amazing how these people don't understand budget or economics. bill: here is from the economic times, the editorial from the day. "workers can seek positions they are most qualified for and will no longer need to feel locked into a job they don't like because they need insurance for themselves or their families. it is hard to view this as any kind of disaster." you put that now with the cbo report that is now up its estimate of job losses by four
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times from 650,000 in 2010 to 2.3 over the next decade. it also concludes the uninsured, fewer of the uninsured, the intent and design of the law will obtain insurance because of it. i can't find what is good in this, art. >> i can't either, but these people trying to paint a picture. this is much worse than they are painting it now. if this law is to continue for the next decade, to be a catastrophe. you can't give away very valuable resources for free and expect people not to overuse them and have them go bankrupt. it is like putting me on a smorgasbord rockin wrecking it d whatever i want for free. i will overeat and go to the caviar until i throw up. bill: listen.
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>> you end up on the bottom and that is where we're going. bill: what do you do? >> you have to repeal it. it is nonsense, silly economics, it doesn't make any sense. people have to work because a half-million come make income and provide for the family. that is what it is all about. hopefully you love your work as well, but if you don't love your work it doesn't mean you should be paid not to works you can sit at home and dream. that is just silly. we have to provide for the standard of living we have in this country. we have more poverty, more despair, or unemployment, more than we ever dreamed he would have. have to get america growing to lift people out of poverty with good hig high-paying jobs even f they are little unpleasant. reason to work is part of it is earning an income. bill: don't lose sight of the middle class. thank you. art laffer.
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>> this is a great story, bill. you couldn't have made this stuff up. bill: it is all tough news, we're all in this now because this law. thank you, in nashville. martha: some are laughing, some are crying about all of this. lawmakers taking aim at what some are calling the next big government bailout, and they say it is coming, folks, so get ready. bill: calling a fox reporter in the middle of a deadly standoff and the chilling details in this case our next. >> is there anyway you could just let him go? >> absolutely not. the only thing i have for them to even consider to entertain the idea of backing away.
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bill: an ex-con take a 13-year-old hostage and calling a fox television reporter in the middle of this. missing the parole hearing in january say he would rather die than go back to jail. of a 13-year-old boy hostage four hours inside of a home in denver. s.w.a.t. teams swarmed the area. said he wanted to talk to a reporter. police listened along with him. watch. >> is anyway you could just let him go? >> absolutely not. the only thing i have even consider or entertain the idea of backing away. i want to run away, i don't want to be here.
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he won't stop shaking, i don't know what else to say. bill: negotiators finally luring him to the home. they shot him dead. the teenage boy is not harmed. martha: this fox's alert as well, a big day on capitol hill as house lawmakers are about to hear from marco rubio and others in a controversial provision called the risk corridor. have you heard about this part? it says if insurance companies spend too much of their own money on six people, he will have to chip in and help them out. some critics say that is what we call a bailout, folks, and here we go again. joining me from washington. why are they now so focused on this provision? >> here's how it works.
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if they lose a lot of money on new patients who are really six, are basically three years worth of free insurance for those people because the treasury will write a check for a percentage of their losses and one of the experts who can testify on the hill this morning says the so-called risk car doors could cost the government a lot of money. and here is why. there are signs insurers got the pricing significantly wrong because it is so hard to enroll in the obamacare exchanges, only the most persistent, those who expect the most medical claims spend hours navigating the website to sign up. senator marco rubio will testify this morning sponsoring a bill now in the senate repeal the risk corridor provision. martha: the administration is playing defense a lot in the last 24 hours.
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>> the white house says when the dust settles, the treasury is going to have more money with his provision then they went without it. >> they did an analysis of the risk corridor that republicans have been attacking and found it that provision would save $8 billion. >> but another witness does say the government stop be subsidizing these big companies and the law extends numerous competitive advantages to insurers creating carrots and sticks. the government will subsidize premiums only for those who enroll in qualified health plans sold the exchanges. the irs will impose a tax penalty on people who refuse to buy insurance. we are now just about five minutes away from learning a lot more about this at a hearing on the hill.
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martha: thank you so much, peter. bill: we have some breaking news from the vatican. response to u.n. report on abuse, details on that in a moment. plus, there is this. ♪ martha: they want you covered. is this law in trouble? we will debate fair and balanced when we come back. jim, i adore the pool at your hotel.
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bill: breaking news now, we mentioned this before the break, the vatican respondents child abuse: report distorted, unfair, ideologically slanted. that report recognizing changing roles on abortion and contraception. they call the vatican report unfair with teachings of the church and says the u.n. cannot ask the church to change, in from vatican city. a massive snowstorm hitting a broad section of the country. look at the weather radar. warnings for the midwest all the way eastern maine up to 20 inches of snow in some areas. a huge concern is the ice storm falling as well, just shy of a quarter of an inch of ice.
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lot more into the midwest. martha: so we have seen a lot of advertising efforts including the kickstand, pajama boy. we will revisit some of the best hits of the past but now we have this. ♪ ♪ we love you, we need you ♪ you can't say no to this phase ♪ area did martha: nonprofit group spending millions on and add to convince young people to sign-up for obamacare particularly young women. many people to enroll. 3 million people signed up for obamacare. he heard the president touting those figures with bill o'reilly. project and they would have
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7 million by march, that is now less than a month away to more than double the numbers, can they do it? we will see. joined now by alan colmes, host of the alan colmes show, and a fox news contributor. they are cute, they are adorable. no animals were harmed in the making of that video. >> the problem is the jingle get stuck in your head so quickly. another one of these cheesy ads, very low quality, they will not make it on the super bowl and they don't get to the fundamental problem with the law. it is meant to be a bad deal. do the marketing is any good. >> people should be ensured.
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more and more people signing up for it. in fact, it is working. >> the whole scheme of the law is to subsidize older and sicker people by getting younger people to sign-up charging them more than they would otherwise pay. you say i will charge more than otherwise, they will consider that bad. >> we were paying for those insured and paying for those not insured, that took place. martha: the plans have been more expensive, but i want to go back to the nature of these ads. looking back at all of these things. i wonder why the president hasn't taken the opportunity in the state of the union, for example, to kind of speak straight and say this is why i am so committed to this. this is why i don't need alan colmes to make my argument.
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are you frustrated the president hasn't taken this opportunity? did not take it with bill o'reilly to say this is why it matters. >> i was hoping he would use that. i really think he should have come it would have been a great opportunity including the time to discuss and explain. it would have been a good opportunity to do that. >> it never would have passed. if you said we will bump a bunch of people off their insurance, charge people more, eliminate their doctors so they can see them anymore plus creates 2.5 million jobs or the equivalent of them will be wrong, this never would have tested. >> people are leaving work when they know they can get health care. many are working on the because they have health care. martha: it is interesting when
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we talk about it. when you think about what you are just saying in terms of this wall idea that had everybody talking. when you have and nice and list out the good work less and stile covered? macon dream would be to get a good job, work really hard to get health benefits for now they say work less and the government will cover you instead of a company. >> i would like to see universal single-payer health care. martha: they do s sort of speako that lifestyle change. more time to sit home and drink cocoa in your pajamas, more time to fly around in the sky. i find it fascinating in none of these ads is it people at work, people talking to each other about how great it is to have a great job, great coverage.
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the president should listen to me perhaps unspoken more about it in the state of the union. >> they don't invoke the american dream. some of it is limiting the job loss we don't have to have a job necessarily to have insurance. this is just a key liberal conservative difference. they think work in and of itself is a good thing. human nature needs work. so you think the decline in the labor force participation is a bad thing. >> there are a lot of older people who have left the labor force not for the fact that is the only way they can get health care. we shouldn't have a society we can only get health care where you work. you should be able to get health care whether you work or not. >> a republican plan in the senate whose advanced could have as much claim to universal
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coverage. >> it does not cover people with pre-existing conditions. idoesn't have no limit. martha: we are going to to take a break. we'll talk a lot more about this in the next couple of hours. thank you for stopping by. get some hot cocoa on the way out. what is coming up? bill: one american town has been cut off by an avalanche barely two weeks. now there might be release insight, martha. martha: it took away millions in bonuses a new commissioner came in said you should have that money. i'm going to give you that money back. now he has some explaining to do will hear from him. you are the leader of the
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martha: it has been almost two weeks now the town has been cut off by avalanches but they are almost free. a dozen avalanches block on the road that goes in and out of this town. it happened at the end of january. crews have been working on the clock to get rid of all that snow and man what a job that has been. officials feel and damage the highway was to the guardrails. they plan to reopen the road this afternoon. bill: beautiful town, tough to be there are few weeks with nothing. fox news alert now. a hearing underway on the hill. some lawmakers want to know why he reinstated performance bonuses at the agency. with house republicans and a special counsel to investigate the targeting of conservative groups. two topics member of the house judiciary committee with me now.
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welcome back. >> thank you for having me on. bill: what we have heard is morale is low, that had to come in a chair everybody backup. are you okay with that? >> no, i am not. if morale is low, he should ask about the morale of the people watching irs go in and concentrate on political enemies. when you lay out stick to $2.5 million in bonuses to improve the morale because it is slow, that tells you the way to the bonuses as entitlement, they are demanding them. bill: can yo reverse those bonu? >> i'm going to guess they are baked into the cake unless the pressure gets so high he might agree to withdraw the 62.5 million. at would improve the rally of american people and was take the
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irs employees, you didn't all fail us. some did a very good job but we have failed the american people and we will have to pay the price and get it right. look over the shoulder of the people working next to you. if something had happened to target the political enemies it is because the culture was wrong. you have to have integrity to fix that and blow your own whistle on yourselves. bill: you know this man well, do you trust him to do the job? >> i have to say i don't have a very good read on him, his loyalty to the administration i think is pretty well-establish well-established. that's tells me to be objective about dealing with this is going to have a political flavor to it. the targets of those i don't think there's any question about how the irs has loaded up against them and how it may have resulted in a difference in some elections across the country, bill.
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this is a very serious matter and cannot be swept under the rug. bill: i apologize to interrupt you, we have two minutes left and i want to get through a lot of material. he said a lot of good people working at the irs would you have questions about a few of them. this is the exchange between bill o'reilly and president obama on super bowl sunday involving that investigation. o'reilly: i want to know what you are saying, you're the leader of the country. you say no corruption. none. president obama: there were some bonehead decisions. o'reilly: but no corruption. president obama: not even a smidgen of corruption. bill: not a smidgen of corruption. what do you say? >> let's look at the data. true to vote, the list goes on and on and on. you will hear the data.
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investigations going on just simply buried and they are slow walking this. congress is in a difficult position because you don't have enforcement capacity. it will be the end of the obama administration before we get that in court so we can only bring this out in the public and ask the american people to rise up and demand we get to the bottom of this irs investigation. they are involved in and forcing obamacare. with the enforcement of the irs on obamacare, this wraps this whole thing up into a nationstate looking over the shoulders of all of the people directing the lives in ways we don't realize it. this is a big deal. bill: eric holder said colonel trials are not off the table. do you believe it? >> when you go into an investigation it becomes a closed case and they can promise you they are investigating and be doing nothing.
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we won't know until it happened to be indictments. we know we are not getting information forthcoming from this and administration. it is a pattern in issue after issue, a pattern within the irs and we have to push harder. a good lot of members are well-prepared i'm going to guess the staff worked through the night to make sure they had the data in front of them ready to ask the right questions. bill: is that a suggestion in the 15 seconds we have left, they will be significant headlines from this hearing from his statement or the question and answer segment, or both? >> at least some of the questions alternative headlines, don't know if we will get answers, but i if he fumbled a little bit today, we will have an idea where to dig deeper. it is a big deal today and i want to focus on this myself. bill: we will be watching from here on the hill. thank you, sir.
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martha: major developments in the case of a murdered border patrol agent. what prosecutors are now saying about the final moments of this young man's life. bill: 100 million of us getting the 1-2 punch, might be just around the corner. >> if you have four-wheel drive, you can get around, this truck has no problem. that is why i love this truck.
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bill: a major move in the business world. they will stop selling cigarettes the first of october. with 7600 stores nationwide, that makes it the first national pharmacy company to make such moves. president obama prays next decision saying it will help his administration reduce tobacco-related deaths bringing down the cost of health care.
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martha: major developments in the case of murdered border patrol agent brian terry. releasing new details of the moments leading up to the fatal shooting that happened back in 2010. we are learning a suspect in the case is now just days away from sentencing. live in los angeles, he has been on this story since the very beginning, so what have you learned now? >> because the fbi and national security never released an incident report, we don't know exactly how he died. now we do things the court documents we received last night. they show he and five other agents tracked five days to the desert. he was shot at 11:08 p.m. he would have been relieved by another team with his family. tonight's prior, his team confronted the smugglers who ran live in their backpacks behind.
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his team went through the bags, they found no weapons and they left. the smugglers returned, the retrieved their stuff and a hidden cache of weapons. the team was on a hill above the ravine. the ground since went off alerting brian to the approaching smugglers armed with assault weapons. when agents yelled police in spanish, they fired. i heard shooting, the fellow agent said i heard agent terry say i'm hit. i went to administer first aid, he said i can't feel my legs, i'm paralyzed. agent terry lost consciousness and died at the scene. records confirm for us six of the border agents did not all fire bullets, two of them fired beanbags. it costs the border without any weapons so had a t have done his job and intercepted those weapons going over the border, the outcome may have been different.
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martha: those are some very powerful details in this story. what more do we know about agent terry's accused killers now? >> he pled guilty to felony murder which means he did not actually fire the bullet, but is equally guilty as if he did. two others are in custody, to remain at large. 51 rounds in an assault rifle with him when he was caught. he claims he did not hear the agents yell police, three did not know he was firing at a federal agent so he should not get a larger sentence.74 law encouraging people to work
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>> fox news alert. we are waiting to hear mer about the stunning report that found the health care law will eliminate millions of jobs. the director of the congressional office who came up the numbers is about to come before the committee. we will watch it live in a couple minutes from now. and the other big alert this morning is of course winter. it is coming in fast and furious. tens of millions of americans across two is dangerous.
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highway officials in 12 states saying it is a tough winter and they are facing salt shortages. the new york governor is putting a ban on interstate 84 and any cars on the road will be ticketed. the emergency management depart did issue an a warning for stay off the roads. and in new jersey there is a state of emergency with state offices are closed for non
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non-essential employees. power companies are bringing in addition personal. and we talk about black ice on the roads, but if is on the sidewalks as well. we have seen people slipping and sliding so take it easy >> you need good boots today. thank you very much. >> so for more on where this storm is head and how much snow we are going to get. maria is watching it. >> the rain/snow line is around the 84 corridor and that is why we have the freezing rain in the new york city and central park picked up a quarter of an inch of ice.
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parts of.oaduneonnecticut and r island. you will see the conditions improving overnight. more than seven inches reported in connecticut and also in massachusetts and some of you could get over a foot of snow fall accumulation. so more snow for the afternoon hours. by early tomorrow morning in new jersey, upstate new york, they will stay below freezing and we could see refreezing and black ice as a going to be a concern. keep in mind, yet again, black ice could be another concern. and martha and bill, i saw you talking about the next storm
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system possible sunday into monday. models are consistent on it but look at the latest model, the euro, this is very reliable and now it is no longer producing a storm system in the northeast as we go into the sunday night into the monday. we are looking at night snow possible. things can still thing and we'll keep you updated >> we will take that. well the storm, as you might imagine, is causing huge problems at the nations airport. clearing the runways at kansas international. missouri is expecting a foot of snow. >> 527 delays today at last check and 2, 221 cancelations and that followed 1,624
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cancelations just yesterday. new york city is a sloshy mess. there is snow out there. >> when you cross the street, you are not sure if it is road or a dark puddle. >> share thoughts with us on twitter or if you have pictures we would love hear from you. and the obama administration is by-passing congress taking action. the agriculture secretary is announc announced seven climate departments to deal with climate change. we have chris here and good morning to you. >> good morning. >> so, i read through this this
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morning and i am not sure what they are going to do. >> then they have achieved their goal. they have gotten what they wanted out of this. by the way, we must always note theirony the best way to get a winter to come is hold a global warming event. what is happening today isn't a lot. what is happening is the president promised he would take bold executive action on the list of issues that are important to him and his political base. issues which he has been stalled. they are going to have people from the country will know what i am talking about, they are going to open extension offices so farmers can talk about what kind of weevil will eat their wheat if the global climate changes in this way or that way. there is not a lot to this.
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that is existing funds and it isn't a big deal. but it looks busy and active on an issue that is important to the president's base and on which they will soon be disappointed as the president is likely to approve an oil pipeline from canada. >> you think it is we will give you this with this hand and hope you don't notice what we do with the other hand and you are not too unhappy about it. >> it is a puppy. it is talking about an issue that is very important to the base. he has given the base an enormous gift and that is regulations at the epa that would shutdown the coal industry all on the grounds of dealing with global warming. but that is a toxic issue in battleground straight --
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states -- so this president want to tout his executive authority and looking busy. >> and he said in 2014, subsidies were not necessary given the growth rate. >> cat fish studies are important if you care about cat fish and all of that so on we go >> the president talked about the three divisions that handle salmon and how ridiculous it was. we have watching the salmon in three different ways >> or shrimp on a treadmill. the live look at washington. democrat talking now. there are now concerns that obamacare will destroy the
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incentive to work for millions. >> did the deputy director of the cia change the talking points that were essential? did he do it for political reasons? >> and chilling words from a potential killer. a reporter's conversation with a hostage taker who was ready to kill histine hostage if the police barged in >> there are dogs that give me alert barks. if i get a double alert, it sucks, but i have nothing to loose.
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hundred round. >> the use of force has been found to be out of policy for all eight officers involved. i understand and empathize the scission conditions that led to the shooting, i hold the officers to the highest standards on deadly force. >> they thought it was christopher donor. he vowed revenge killing four people before being cornered and killed himself. cbo chief is in the middle of his testimony and he is getting start would background and not to the element that we are looking forward to that has to do with that number. 2.3 million jobs is what
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obamacare could cost. it could add $10 trillion to the deficit over the next ten years. the white house has trotted out the numbers when they are happy with them. they went into overdrive and tried to refute the numbers. it is getting people shaking their heads about what this means. you know, brent said last night, steve is here, and that was an uncomfortable meeting when the benefits of a part-time job were presented as glorious to the people. >> the best argument after this report as the wall street
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journal put it this morning the new american dream of working less. there is no good spin on that aspect of the cbo report. it is going to cost hours or jobs, depending on how you count them, and it will mean americans will work less over the decades and more in the longer term. this is a big problem for the law, the american labor force, and a big, big problem for democrats politically in 2014. >> i can imagine already that the questions we will get at the hearing will be republicans trying to draw out the job loss part of this and democrats trying to find a way to put a positive spin on some of these numbers. and doug's number is sticking to the numbers and respond to the questions. right? >> i think it is.
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i think what doug will spend a lot of time doing a providing context but from both political parties. and his job in a sense is to be a numbers guy and not to make a value judgment about the prospect of an shrinking american force. the white house is arguing saying this is good. we will have fewer hours or fewer people working and this is a positive thing. but that is a huge problem and runs contrary to the way people have conceived the american dream. it brings about the debates we have had through the obama administration. you remember the president's comment you didn't build that that was a problem during the election. there was another part to that
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series of things he said when the president said you think you got ahead because you worked harder -- well a lot of people work hard. the president is devaluing work. >> nancy pelosi said you will find out what it is in it when it is passed. but he hinted to this: >> think if you could be a photographer or writer and start your own business and be self-e self-employed or change jobs and not be restrained by having affordable health care. >> i think you wanted to be a photographer and now is your chance. >> i am a writer, this applies to me. >> i am going to go to my employee or employer and saw i
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can work less. i thought the exact same thing. i was thinking about if she feels vindicated? we saw the white house spinning the numbers to make the argument she was making back then. >> we will see how many people work off to few hours and be glad they are no longer pulling in a full-time wage. >> the winter games about to get underway and the first dispatch is from sochi and they are suggesting they are not ready for primetime. we will see, right? >> and another cheerleader saying he was robbed by there oakland raiders. >> grab your pom-poms.
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the reporters better not expect palm beechl beach. >> sean white is pulling out of the games due to defend his half pipe medal. he was going to compete this year in a new event called a slope style. but he raised concerns over the past couple days about the safety of the slope style course and today he announced after taking a knock on his wrist he
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doesn't think it is safe enough and only competing in the half time. meantime, that man you were just looking out, the president of russia said today quote russia is ready. quite cleary a lot of people would disagree with that bold statement from the russian president. we will see in 48 hours, bill, when we witness the opening ceremony. there is new fallout in the nsa spying scandal and some journalist could face criminal charges for the way they handled the edward snowden documents >> and what is happening in this standoff. >> i want to run away. i don't want to be here. i feel horrible for this little boy. he is shaking and whimpering and
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would some be lost under the affordable care act. >> it provides subsidies focused on lower income people to buy health insurance. the subsidies are very large and they are withdrawn for people as the income rises. and by providing subsidized insurance and withdrawing them creates a disincentive for people to work. >> the more you make, the less money you will get to pay for health insurance. so people will make the choice of working less and keeping the subsidy and that is where you see the jobs loss.
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we will keep on top of this revelation. a teenager, age 13, is now free after a nail-biting 18 hour standoff inside his home. the man holding him against his hill and dead but not before the hostage taker asked to speak a reporter from fox denver and we can hear him say he would kill the boy if police made a move first. >> what about the little boy, though? >> he goes, too, if they come to the door. i am sorry to the community and anyone with a heart string attached, i know it sucks and it is a drag. >> i want to bring in a freorenc doctor. give your take on what was going on? >> the bottom line is there are
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people in the world who have a shortened view of the future and they don't see anything possible for them. maybe that is because of aveeve that set the stage for their lawlessness. so you want to offer that man a vision of his future and why it isn't hopeless and he can be oo hero in letting the boy journey forward. the bottom line is if you can get him to feel an attachment for his own power and so empathy that is lifesaving. >> the convict said i will not
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go back to jail. i will die before going back to prison. how do you manage that? >> the bottom line is to say we don't know you are going back to prison. we should look at the case that sent you and think about the alternatives and look at the symptoms that led you to this act. should you be in an alternating setting. none of them maybe possible to deliver, but if you can open up the possibilities and saying you are looking at your live ending with a prison cell, which it might not, but you can't end another life. you cannot possibly do this to this kid. >> on that point, that is what the center of the efforts on behalf of police and this reporter >> i have a son. and please, is there anything
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you can do so that he doesn't have to be hurt? >> yes, let me run. that is it. that is the alternative. >> i have a son, too -- that first phrase. >> i think that is key: trying to kin get empathy in someone who doesn't have it and probably never received it. criminals are not born. they are hurt. i would say i don't know you, but in order to know more about you and the resources i can bring, i need to know what bad things happened in your own life. you didn't get here out of nowhere. help me understand you because to the extent you can build the connection it is tough to connect the thread. once they establish the connection, it is there.
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>> he is 34 years old and his name is don pooly and he is dead as a result of this. >> well, there is new fallout in the nsa scandal as questions are raised as to whether journalist could face legal charges for the way they handle the edward snowden documents. >> officials are suggesting that journalist who handled the edward snowden are in fact accomplices to the crimes. the fbi director said selling access to stolen nsa documents is a crime. >> to the best of your knowledge, is fencing stolen material a crime? >> yes, it is.
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>> and would be selling the access of classified material that is stolen from the united states government; would that be a crime? >> it would be. it is complicated if it involves news gathering, but in general it is a crime. >> if i am a newspaper reporter and i sell stolen material is that legal? >> right, if you are a newspaper reporter and hawking stolen jewelry it is as a crime. >> we cannot tell you if this is just talk or there is hard evidence that money has been exchanged were the nsa documents. >> it is the money that is the deal. is there any president for charges people like this?
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>> there is one. it started in virginia and jeffrey sterling gave classified information to someone to write a book. in count nine of this indictment it states the giving of classification documents is a crime and given any of the documents to the general public through the publication and delivery of book. so they are alleging mail fraud and there is the unauthorized distribution of that material in the purchase of that book. >> so when the cia works on the benghazi talking points, did politics play a role? there is a report out raising questions about the motivation
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new questions about the benghazi talking points claiming the video started the event. a new video is shedding lights on changing the talking points. graham is wondering if politics were involved. >> he didn't accept responsibility for changing the talking points. he told me the fbi did this. i called the fbi and they went ballistic. his statement was changed within 24 hours and he admitted the cia did it. >> bob scale is here, former general. good to have you here. this man is becoming a central figure as to why this story line appeared to have changed and
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out 50% of the talking points to make the whole event look like it was spontaneous. >> the word demonstrations stayed in this report. and another surprising thing and let's remind everybody, mike was the acting chief and deputy at the cia and the station chief is supposed to be on the same team. he is getting his stuff from the
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a guy on the ground saying this is not a result of protest. and then you have the susan rice appearance and they have to make peace with a number of senators. susan rice goes to the meeting with graham and mccain to say let's talk about what happened. and they were very surprised that mike morel was with her. they didn't know he was coming. what does that say? >> it says this is business as usual. it suggests the administration is doing whatever they they can to minimize the story benghazi prior to the election. what bothers me the most is these communications came from
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the man on the spot. the station chief who was walking through the ruins of that facility in benghazi and reporting constantly about the events. a station chief is a 24-7 cia man who knows what is going on in his piece of the world. and clearly, morel turned the narrative around and at least best, i can tell, or we can tell, never picked up the phone to correct the narrative. >> and he told them in the meetings, the senators, that the fbi made those changes. and the fbi said we didn't make those. this is, you know, a very interesting tale and part of this is he is involved in pollack it -- in politics and
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>> we will have analysis of the cbo report showing trouble on obamacare and employment. multiple hearing happening now on obamacare and irs political targing a happening on the hill now. and a scary assault on the power grid in california coming to light. horrible weather making a mess in the midwest and east.
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and a city discovered under miami. a second cheerleader is joining the lawsuit against the oakland raiders saying she was paid less than min i'm wage. they are accused of breaking a number of laws. good to see you, steve. >> glad to be here. >> do they have a case? >> absolutely. it it was a contractor as an independent contractor i would say no. but there is an employee and employer relationship here so state and federal laws apply >> do the browns' cheerleaders have a case, too? >> everyone could depending on
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what they say. independent or employment contractor is the key. >> you see the language in this signed agreement and believe they have a case. >> absolutely. >> this is what they alleged: no pray for practice, or corporate events or travel and out of pocket expenses. if you argue, do you settle? >> i think you settle because this is horrible pr. i think you see what they did, come up with a number, and settle it. >> i thought you going to say they have this job and understood the agreement and it may not make sense to them, but that is the way it goes. they are not reimbursed at any level to a degree.
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>> if this was an independent contractor agree i would say you are correct. but you are rights under the federal and state law. >> what was the average coming out to? >> $5 an hour >> that is what they say and that is $1200 a year? about a $125 a game. they know that when they are trying out for the team? >> they do. however, that is why you hire an attorney to go over your agreement. this specific agreement, if it was an independent contractor agreement, there would be no case >> who tipped them off to this? >> probably an attorney. >> you deal with this stuff all of time? >> from players and athletes and agents and wealth advisors. >> if you represent the
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cheerleaders, how would you settle it? >> i would come up with a number with all of the time and effort they put in and reimburse the expenses and move on >> would you double it? $2500 and call it a day? >> probably. they would take that. >> i think they should! >> martha, what is next? another major winter with snow and ice creating tough conditions out there. we will look at how it will impact you and what is coming exint.
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