martha: thanks for being here, gregg. always good to have you. bill will be back on monday. we wish everybody a fantastic weekend. >> "happening now" begins right now. jenna: right now breaking news on at that's top headlines and brand new stories you will see here first. jon: raising terrorists. the alarming details we're learning about very young children who could grow up to become the next generation of al qaeda. who is spinning what? a fair and balanced look on the explosive cbo report on the obamacare's impact on jobs. "blade runner", prepares for his trial in march. meet the dream team olympic runner oscar pistorius is hiring to defend him. it is all "happening now." jenna: but our top story this

friday. a new scramble by the white house to get young people to sign up to obamacare. hope youa great weekend. everybody. i'm jenna lee. jon: i'm jon scott. we're less than two months before a crucial enrollment deadline. the administration is embracing a grassroots strategy that helped sign up voters during the obama presidential campaigns. volunteers are fanning out to track down and enroll young, healthy americans. the demographic crucial to keeping obamacare costs down but so far the white house is lagging far behind its enrollment goals even though the president has been pushing his case to 20 somethings for months. >> if you're a student body president, set up a conference on campus. if you work at a non-profit, open your doors and use your e-mail lists to help people learn the facts. if you have a got a radio show, spread word on air. if you're a bartender, have a happy hour and get health insurance because a lot of bartenders don't have it.

post something on your face pock or instagram. you can tweet using the hashtag, get covered. let me make a broader point to all the young people here. this whole exercise, obviously has huge implications for this country's future. because if we can start bringing down health care costs, make sure people are covered, give people financial security, that's good for the economy, it is good for business, it is good for the federal budget. jon: let's get into it with monica crowley, author and fox news contributor. bass sill michael is a democratic political consultant. you heard the president say this whole exercise has huge implication for the country's future. if that is the case why are we leaving a army of volunteers to fan out and beg people to sign up. >> if anybody can do targeting it is the obama administration. i understand this the concern here if you want a little more time if you're really close to making a decision but need more

time to crunch the numbers this extension will be helpful. my one concern, for a lot of young people, we see this in education all the time, making decisions about financial aid and things that require money and significant life experiences they will not make that decision right away. my fear that crucial component, that crucial constituency they need pushing the deadline will make the decision a lot harder for them to make. that is my concern. >> if obamacare were so great as this administration constantly tells it is it should be selling itself. instead the administration spends 10 of millions of dollars and continue do this on a huge pr push on the young and healthys, so-called invincibles that they need to hold up the whole thing. we've seen pajama boy. saw the mom jeans ad. richard simmons rising on the floor, trying to appeal to the young kids. as bass sill says, most people are economically rational.

obamacare is inherently economically irrational. these kids when they have limited resources they will not buy health insurance and without them they will the whole thing collapses. jon: you spend a lot of time on radio. will you do what the president says and urge people to sign up? >> i'm talking about obamacare but not the way he intends i think. look, he is so desperate the administration is so desperate, the numbers we're seeing, lord knows how accurate they are coming out of this administration. what they so show far only 11% signing up for obamacare were previously uninsured. bulk of people signing up had their policies canceled. this is giant churn operation. they were previously insured. now they have to go into the exchange and get insurance. these numbers are dicey. the projection needed 40% of the sign-ups to be young and healthiest. only 25 to 2% are actually part of that group. jon: there have been efforts to sort of enlist mom to get their

people to sign up. so, you know, just seeps kind of ironic, taking monica's point, shouldn't the bill sell itself if this law is great thing. >> bill should sell itself. what is interesting about that i don't think they're desperate, but what i will say, if you're speaking to some of the things the president said, the one group he did not mention and i think are crucial, crucial union. are doctors. there are democratic and republican doctors have concerns about the bill but they're hopeful. that is group he needs to recruit. those are folks that could really sell it to their patients there. are real concerns about the finances. there are real concerns what those young people are facing particularly economically but i think there is also this crucial demographic of doctors they're not touching. i'm confident over time this will be sold to junk people because as more young people sign up, their friend are going to hear about it. and get coverage and do the same thing. jon: i have a few doctors, but my orthopedic surgeon, the guy who put me back together after

all my skiing accidents, told me is not taking medicare patients anymore, partly as a result of obamacare, they have gut the medicare reimbursement so much, he can't afford to do it. >> it is definitely a huge concern but i think there are a lot of doctors that want to see this bill work. that's a group they really need to get on their side. >> i know a lot of doctors, and i can speak from mine who i see, into 50s, early 60s, thinking about early retirement. they're saying it is such a mess. it is so complicated. i can't take medicare patients anymore. i can't take medicaid patients. it is not economically worthwhile. to deal with the economic mess it is not worth it. when you have shrinking pool of doctors, no matter how many you recruit to sell to patients people will have less access and it is already happening. jon: monica is not pitching obamacare. you're democratic consultant are you running out to the streets to as your president said, to

ask people to sign up? >> i absolutely am. if you have entrepreneurial spirit this, is bill directed to you. jon: you got the last word. nice sales job. basil and monica, thank you very much. jenna: you mentioned your doctor not wanting to take medicare patients anymore. in fact we have news on medicare patients now. we're learning more and more medicare patients going to the hospital are being held for observation than being admitted as in patients. jim angle is live in washington to explain why. >> reporter: hello, jenna. look at rule felton, who is a real firecracker even in her '90s. when she was 59, she fell late one night and taken to the emergency room where doctors found she had broken her pelvis in three places. listen. >> they said she would have to go to rehab and learn to walk again and to learn to function again. >> reporter: that's her daughter. she says that would mean a skilled nursing facility which

is expensive but her family was told if she stayed in the hospital three days, medicare would pay. but that was only if she were listed as in patient, not just under observation which it turns out their mother was though they didn't learn that until 10 minutes before the discharge. even with a broken pelvis, medicare would pay nothing for nursing care and rehab, leaving the family with a $11,000 bill and they're not alone. >> the inspector general calculated that there were 600,000 cases across the country just last year alone. >> reporter: now hospitals argue they're caught in the middle as the government challenges medical decisions and imposes fines under obamacare if patients are admitted and then later return. >> hospitals are penalized for excessive readmission. that is for any patient that's admitted that might be one of the reasons why physicians are more cautious admitting patients to the hospital. >> reporter: now the government

also hires contractors, what some call bounty hunters to challenge medicare claims as far as back as three years giving them nine to 12.5% of any claim denied creating a financial incentive for second-guessing. >> claims are held up in the appeals process for about 2 1/2 years. there is over $1.5 billion tied up right now while hospitals are appealing these denials. >> reporter: now, hospitals win 70% of their appeals. that doesn't help families stuck with big bills. congressman courtney has 136 cosponsors for a bill to credit any three-day stay as qualifying for medicare coverage of skilled nursing care, eliminating the loophole. jenna. jenna: jim angle, live in washington. jim, thank you. >> reporter: you bet. jon: well the olympic games are underway in sochi, russia, amid new terror threats and shocking surveillance allegations. chief correspondent jonathan

hunt live in our new york newsroom. so, jonathan, new action on the terror threat profit tsa? >> reporter: jon, thousands of athletes, tower rifts dignitaries are pouring into russia through the moskow airport on the way to sochi for the opening ceremonies and competition in these olympic games. the tsa announced it is banning all liquids and loge shun shunses on all flights from the u.s. to to russia. this obviously a follow-up what we reported yesterday that they're concerned about the possibility of explosives being put in toothpaste tubes and the like. despite u.s. officials concerns, the president of the international olympic committee insists these games are no different to any others of the listen. >> again mention how many threats there were on games on each of the games before we had threats on sydney.

on athens. you remember the situation in salt lake city. there were many. so, you can not single out these games in this way. >> reporter: obviously u.s. officials would beg to differ saying these games and the threat to them is very different to any threats that they received in salt lake city, jon. jon: and for those attending the games, personal privacy also a concern? >> yes. it appears that way. although this may be a case of "lost in translation." you heard all the complaints from journalists checking into the hotels that have been being built in sochi specifically for these games? well we heard yesterday at a news conference from the deputy prime minister of russia so said, quote, the following. we have surveillance video from the hotels that shows people turn on the shower, direct the

nozzle at the wall and then leave the room for the whole day. that obviously sounded like they have cameras in the showers to a lot of people. now, a spokesman for the deputy prime minister has since said, no that was a complete mistranslation. i leave you to decide for yourselves what you think. i'm not sure i would be taking a shower there anytime soon. jon: i'm with you there, jonathan. >> reporter: we don't take showers very often anyway. jon: i don't think i will be attending the sochi olympics anyway. jonathan hunt. >> reporter: sure. jon: sorry. you know, jonathan got me so rattled with the imagery there. coming up a former tsa deputy director explain how terrorists could use toothpaste tubes to target flights to russia. explosives perhaps in a tube. that's coming up. jenna: now we turn to a "fox business alert." a disappointing snapshot of our country's economy today. the latest jobs report from the

labor department and it is another weak report for the second month in a row. employers adding just 111,000 jobs last month. that is far below what economists expected and what is needed to get the economy moving. the jobless rate falling to a five-year low. it is now at 6.6%. in the meantime the stock market has had quite a week. ups and downs all around. not too much of a reaction on wall street to those job numbers we have a great segment to explain what is behind the numbers and what it means about the year ahead. jon: well, prosecutors say she did it for the insurance money. arizona woman on trial for beating her husband to death with a hammer. she claims it was self-defense. the state says, she owed her boyfriend hundreds of thousands of dollars. also, they're called the children of al qaeda. a fox news exclusive. who's raising the next generation of terrorists?

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jon: right now new developments in crime stories we're following. dozens of police officers in wisconsin are searching for a missing newborn baby. the mother called 911 yesterday saying she woke up to find her five-day-year-old son, caden powell was not in his bassinet. they have no suspects right now. former patriots tight end aaron hernandez is expected to be appear in court this afternoon. he pleaded not guilty in the shooting death of odin lloyd. air a sown woman accused of beating her husband to death with a hammer was motivated by insurance money. it would help repay nearly a 300,000-dollar debt, loan, from her boyfriend. she says she killed her husband though in self-defense.

jenna: fox news exclusive on the next generation of al qaeda. we have a first look at a disturbing report from the middle east media research institute showing future jihadi fighters, babies dressed in headwear and holding guns. greg palkot live in the london bureau with more on this. greg? >> reporter: they're called the children of al qaeda. it is a new junior twist to a dangerous islamist threat which has been growing in syria. children maybe like you never seen before. cute faces but also that jihadi headwear but weapons like the nasty ak 4, posted on twitter and social media -- ak-47. said to be militants fighting bashar al-assad and al qaeda linked groups inside syria. this is the mea yeah research institute. even more alarming of claims of video more grown up skids kids in training camps where they send the kids through paces in

camouflage outfits and receiving instruction on variety of weapons indoctrinated. they are called cubs of zarqawi after the al qaeda leader. this is a new generation being groomed according to reports. there are propaganda value. the combat where kids are old enough to hold a gun, mapping sniper positions, working front line strength of battle scared cities. according to another report released by the u.n., young people are being recruited for various capacities by the armed opposition and apparent they're dying for the cause there are indications of teenage casualties among the opposition ranks. by the way that same u.n. report underscores another very important fact, that children in syria have been used, have been impacted to a much greater degree in the last three years by the assad regime itself. more than 10,000 children have been killed, thousands injured and maimed usually by

indiscriminate attacks. imprisoned and tortured and used as human shields. jenna, the bottom line from both reports, syria is not a great place for kids or adults right now and it could have impacts all around the world. back to you. jenna: what a report. greg, thank you. jon: new evidence to tell you about in the murder trial of amanda hayes. she is accused of killing her husband's former girlfriend. the graphic testimony that jurors heard. that's ahead. a frightening security alert for fans and athletes heading to the olympics. how terrorists could use toothpaste tubes potentially to take down airplanes. hello? hey, i notice your car is not in the driveway. yeah. it's in the shop. it's going to cost me an arm and a leg. that's hilarious. sorry. you shoulda taken it to midas. get some of that midas touch. they tell you what stuff needs fixing, and what stuff can wait. next time i'm going to midas. high-five! arg! i did not see that coming.

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jon: some new evidence in the amanda hayes murder trial. jurors were shown evidence, i'm sorry surveillance photos.

inside the alleged crime scene. hayes is accused of the grisly murder of her husband's ex-girlfriend for which the husband is serving life in prison already. if she is convicted as well amanda could face the same sentence. arthel neville has the latest from the new york newsroom. >> hi, jon. prosecutors took jurors where they belief laura akerson was killed inside the apartment amanda hayes shared with her husband grant. the focus on the bathroom where they believe they dismembered ackerson's body. in an effort to later get rid of any evidence, amanda and grant hayes cleaned their apartment with bleach. after the cleanup, the hall bathroom only had a couple of bottles of shampoo in it, that's it. then prosecutors showed jurors photos after different bathroom in the hayes apartment. that bathroom was cluttered and messy. jurors got to see a handwritten letter with laura akerson's

signature on it. that letter gave two custody of their children to grant hayes for $25,000. a fbi handwriting analyst said grant wrote the first paragraph and laura likely wrote the second. they went to a dumpster where investigators found a bat mats and shower curtains they believe were missing from the hayes hallway bathroom. they have found patches of carpet about bleach stains and spots on a comforter. that comforter tested positive likely being blood. it was a day of graphic show-and-tell in court yesterday. an environmental investigator from texas was also in curt thursday to testify that surveillance cameras set up to catch people dumping illegally in a creek which happens to be in a deserted area on a dead end road near amanda's sister's home, captured amanda leaving boxes of muriatic acid. amanda and grant hayes they say

poured the acid on ackerson's body to speed up decaying process. back to you, jon. >> we'll continue to watch the very sad case. thank you, arthel. jenna: there are new terror threats targeting those olympics. they warner the airlines of potential bomb-making materials smuggled inside toothpaste tubes or cosmetic containers. joining us tom blank, a former tsa director. thanks for coming back on the program. >> thanks for having me, jenna. great to be here. jenna: tsa source calling toothpaste the new hot item in terror alerts out there. do you agree with that characterization? who would you describe it? >> what is really is liquids and jells. for nearly 10 years the tsa and u.s. intelligence have known that terrorists have been experimenting with turning explosive materials into jell-like and liquid sorts of materials.

toothpaste is but an example and a tube would be convenient carrying mechanism for, for such explosive materials. that's why you can't carry more than three ounces on to an american airliner. and that is why you've seen the e.u. take certain steps to prevent that kind of material from getting into the cabin of airplanes. the problem is the russians are not nearly as careful as the e.u. and the u.s. jenna: now, let me talk to you a little bit that three-ounce limit. something we're all familiar with here in the united states. the department of homeland security just banned us on flights from taking any liquids in the carry-on at all, if we're flying to russia. do you see that going wider? this is a specific threat but do you see this now going wider based on these reports to more flights if. >> i would be surprised if that happened. this seems to be a non-specific threat that the u.s. intelligence agencies have picked up with regard to passenger air operations going to russia or operating within, within the russian airspace.

so i think the real issue is, is that those aircraft coming in from abroad, particularly russian or non-u.s. flagged carriers, what is going to happen is, the u.s. authorities don't know where they have been. they don't know the security status of the airports where they have come from and that sort of thing. so they're taking extra steps which is a wise thing to do with regards to those aircraft and flights outbound. jenna: thomas, there are warnings about carrying these liquids and jells on our flights in our carry-ons? why can we check those in the luggage. did we lose tom? i think you're back with us. go ahead. >> all luggage outbound from the u.s., from a u.s. point of embarcation, is going to be checked by advanced x-ray images. so there's a very high chance that the tsa is going to find any explosives threats. in addition, we know that it's pretty unlikely that a complete

bomb mechanism is going to make it through the tsa baggage inspection system and get on to an aircraft. that is kind of yesterday's threat. today's threat are the liquids and jells carried into the passenger partments. jenna: i hope you're right. it is certainly scary to think about, isn't it? tom, a quick final question. we're focusing on toothpaste or lotion. before it was hairspray. we're measuring every single item getting on the planes which we still do. i'm still curious, do you think it we're in a stage where it is less about the items and more for lack of a better word, profiling people that could bring items on a plane and trying to cause harm? where with re in the security debate what we should be focusing on? >> i think we're doing freight progress focusing on risk assessments of individual passengers, individual air passengers without having to resort to profiling. in other words when you make an

airline reservation today, you give your social security number, full name and date of birth. that allows a lot of risk assessment to be done on you as an individual by virtue of background. we have pretty good information-sharing with the e.u. to do those kind of threat assessments. so we're really getting better and better putting a threat assessment on to individual passengers without having to resort to their personal appearance, their ethnicity and those sorts of things. jenna: tom, i bet you have a pretty good carry-on package already to go when you get on planes, just guessing with your experience. >> absolutely. i don't get stopped. jenna: well that's a good thing especially because you served with the tsa and everything else. great to have your expertise as always. thanks very much. >> thanks for having me. jon: i bet he doesn't take toothpaste. the cbo release as jaw-dropping impact about the obamacare and the impact on the economy. it is not just the white house spinning the numbers. we'll break down how the news organizations are reporting the data and the wider implications.

plus, olympic star oscar pistorius spares no expense to defend himself next month. we'll look at the all-star legal team he assembled ahead of his murder trial.

jenna: right now, quick look what is still to come this hour of "happening now." a stunning take on the new cbo report on the implications of obamacare from a major news organization. we have a fair and balanced media analysis on that top pick

coming up. olympic star oscar pistorius shelling out big bucks for his all-star legal team ahead of his trial next month. our panel weighs in and whether or not the south african government can compete with that. after signing off after 22 years. did you see this? how jay leno said good-bye. jon: >> explosive new report that says obamacare could find roughly 2 1/2 million americans leaving or losing their jobs over the last decade. the cbo analysis, that is the congressional budget analysis, sending the white house into spin mode this week. now major media outlets are following suit. "the new york times" editorial board writing quote, under the headline, freeing workers from the insurance trap. a new report found that by reducing the number of full-time workers over a decade, the health care law will have a, liberating impact for millions. judith miller is pulitzer

prize-winning investigative reporter and author and fox news contributor. laura ashburn, media analyst on media buzz and fox news contributor. since when is that liberating impact, lauren, to have 2 1/2 million people leave the workforce? >> comes down how you look at this on party lines. you basically see how the right and the left are different. so the right is saying, basically, obamacare is terrible and on the left you're seeing, obamacare is liberating people because they're able to keep their insurance. there are two headlines, i will read to you. "wall street journal", health care expected to take greater to on workforce. and then "the wall street journal" actually changed their headline to say, health law seen leading to some loss of labor. some the media was all over the place on this. jon: judith, you point out "the new york times" itself kind of did a full turn about on the impact of that cbo report. >> exactly.

, jon. the first day's report, the news story was somewhat negative. it talked about lost jobs, rather than liberation. but the editorial board quickly reversed that and now we have a kind of story that says, as lauren pointed out, you can be pleased with these results and be liberated, that is choose not to work because now you have obamacare. or, you can view this as a loss of productivity, which is how the right is going to portray this. i think both sides ought to take a step back and i know news people don't like to hear this and i'm one but it is going to be three years before we really know the effect of obamacare on the u.s. economy. jon: well, and even the folks at the cbo, lauren, admitted their numbers are kind of fudgegy. it is hard to figure out some of these things but if 2 1/2 million people decide they're going to he have loot workforce for whatever reason, that doesn't seem like a good thing. just the jobs numbers showed we

had 90, 91,000 people who just quit looking for work. >> right. 6.6, is it, unemployment rate? the issue is it is complicated. when things are complicated like this, whether you're trying to explain the difference between full-time employees and ftes, and jobs which is what the white house tried to do on the day this report was released, not very well i would add, it is not easy for people to understand. these headlines that were horrible and changed to be not so horrible, are things people remember. people remember jobs, lost, obamacare. i have to agree with judith's point, it is going to be a while before we can figure out exactly what is happening. jon: here's a line from danielle kurtz in "u.s. news & world report." what the truth might be, she writes and what few politicians dare say, there might simply be some value in

lower economic growth. i haven't seen that too many places, judy, but lower economic growth, in some quarters is a good thing. >> well, i, i don't see how you can possibly spin it this way. growth is everything. and you know, people love family values until they're actually forced to spend time with their family as opposed to choosing to do so. i think what didn't get enough attention this week was the brookings report which said there is going to be a redistributive effect of obamacare. that is, the poorer people will do well. middle class people and upper income people are going to lose income. nobody paid attention to that. but these, once again are all projections. >> right. because apparently, what obamacare is going to do, and in its full impact is have tax-paving citizens, funding the health care for people who, for whatever reason, maybe they can't work, or they don't want to work, but that is going to be

the net effect. >> exactly, but if you have five people lining up to for every job that opens up for the moment, we should be okay. jon: but if danielle has her way we won't open up as many jobs because the slower economy, slower economic growth is a good thing. >> i'm with you judy, i'm with you judy about the mom staying home bit. i have three kids. it looks really kid until you do it, right? >> right. jon: one more from the associated press. they have put out a headline this week, "modest drop in full-time work seen from health care law." i go back to the numbers, 2.5 million people projected over a decade, that is not a modest drop in full-time work. >> absolutely right. >> that's right. what they're trying to say here is, is that people now are going to be able to have insurance that is not dependent on a specific corporation. so if you work for aetna, now

aetna doesn't have to provide your insurance. you can get it through obamacare. which means if you are staying with a company just for insurance you're not going to do that anymore. you don't have to. then the amount decreases of hours. we're really talking about hours here. jon: right. >> and it seems that, if we're talking about hours, we're also talking jobs, but that isn't quite the message that some of the media are giving. jon: judy, you had a thought. >> no, exactly, i was going to say exactly the same thing. modest, by the way, if they said modest drop projected, that would have been one thing but, you know, once again where you sit on obamacare determines how you're going to read the cbo report. jon: yeah. well again -- >> after 2016, elections, jon, we're going to see this all the time. this report is not going away. jon: yeah, again, pretty pathetic jobs report just out this morning and it doesn't seem like this economy is ready to take fire anytime soon. a lot of jobless people out

there right now. judy miller, lauren, thanks very much. we appreciate it. >> thank thank you, jon. jenna: south african olympic star oscar pistorius just weeks away from his high-profile murder trial. can he fight the charges with a big-ticket legal team?

jenna: south african olympian oscar pistorius is hiring a dream team of attorneys and experts ahead of his murder trial. the miss tore russ is going on trial earlier this month and accused murder in the shooting death of his girlfriend last valentine's day. the world famous athlete said he shot her by mistake thinking she was an intruder. he is assembling a all-star group of lawyers and forensic

experts some of them from the united states to help defend him. here are a few members of the screw. roger dixon is on the screen a forensic pathologist. he claims metal is the only witness that never lies. we have a lawyer famous getting acquittal for a man accused of killing nelson mandela's great granddaughter. and rounding at the team, barry rue, known for wearing scarlet ties although he doesn't have one in the picture. we have a arthur aidala. fox news analyst. and criminal defense attorney. maybe you have a tie like that. that is nice trademark, arthur. >> don't have a lot of choice in the matter, i'll tell you that much. jenna: what do you think about the dream team that is assembled and what kind of advantage or disadvantage it gives oscar pistorius. >> typically what happens, the typically the government has all the resources. they have the unlimited pockets. so when a defendant here in

new york city is going up against the manhattan district attorney's office or the u.s. attorney's office, they have access to hundreds of lawyers, appeals specialists, all types of resources regarding graphics, regarding documents, putting documents together so it is appealing and easy for jurors to read. the defense does not have that. they don't have those unlimited pockets. very, very rarely does that happen. so -- jenna: do they have it, arthur, when the defendant is wealthy? >> well, there are those rare cases where the defendant is wealthy in a homicide and this is one of them. he is doing what he should be doing. he should be using every nickel that he has to fight for his freedom. if he is truly innocent as he says he is, to fight for his innocence. he is doing what he should be doing. jenna: fred, how do you take it? i saw you kind of rolled your eyes a little bit. >> he always rolls his eyes. >> he has the dream team. you just have a regular team. arthur and i feel like duck soup, or chopped liver, whatever

foodnal by you want to use. look, here's the bottom line. this guy is spending all kind of money, as far as i concerned screams guilty conscience. he gunned this woman down through a locked door. >> allegedly. >> allegedly, i'm sorry. they found her body in the bathroom. i mean the bottom line is, that he can hire all these forensics people. my personal favorite is the guy who will make the video of the crime scene. i love to cross-examine those guys. jenna: this is american company. we reached out to them hoping to get video of what they do. it is called the evidence room. they do in the situations where there are no witnesses or witnesses in general they can also do this. they create a life-like reenacts meant of what happens. obviously we're on television a picture sometimes can be worth, arthur. >> i agree. jenna: you agree, arthur? >> look, i've had a number of cases with people like that with videos and i use them. i like cross-examination. this video man, some guy had to

program it. if he wanted to program it so pistorius can fly he can do it. garbage in, garbage out, ever hear of that? end of conversation. >> those 6 are your words. i'm not doubting how awesome you're in the courtroom. >> legend in my moan mind. >> it is very hard, jenna in today's day and age, we're so visual to overcome the graphics. >> i agree with that. >> everyone loves pixar's and "cars" and "cars" 2 and all those movies. you have the crime scene laid out that way and actually moving i think it is very, very powerful to jurors. >> but at the end of the day -- jenna: take this on then. if you have a, you know, a big wallet, if you're able to have the fund, does that simply give you a big leg up? you have all the people that create these visuals and experts to come in for you that a regular person would not have? >> the answer to your question is yes, okay? >> absolely. >> if it was me, okay if it was

me i would be spending the same kind of money if i had it but at the end of the day i think it is inherently unfair. this guy will basically buy himself out of a murder conviction if all this stuff comes together. >> there is aspect of unfairness because of defendant's stature. also act of unfairness regarding the government. jenna, the government has all the resources. so, where does the fairness stop and begin? it is hard to tell. >> we'll wait and see. jenna: i think you guys are a bit of a dream team. not at you will. >> can i get that in writing? i need that in writing. jenna: we will z i'm a visual person, fred. i said that on television. >> so that's enough. jenna: fred, arthur, great to see you. >> have a great weekend. >> the trial starts march think. >> we'll be here. jenna: it was a scarlet tie. jon: fred has got it today. tonight's show host jay leno signing off after more than two decades on late-night

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jon: "the tonight show" host jay leno saying good-bye last night, closing out what he called the greatest 22 years of his life with the help of some of hollywood's biggest names. here with more, julie banderas in the fox 411. >> it was quite a show and very tearful at moments of the last night jay leno sended second longest run hosting "the tonight show." second only to johnny carson who was at the helm for 30 years. leno began the stint on nbc in 1992 and left the show but returned a year later after

conan o'brien had failed ratings. leno at age 63 also poked fun at being pushed out by nbc. he tapped billy crystal, his very first guest in 1992 to be his very last. in true krystal style he led what he called my favorite, the shut your von trapp family singers in a parody of a sound of music song in len mow's honor. listen. seminole there is sad sort of clanging from the clock in the hall and the bells in the steeple too ♪ ♪ and all the executives that run nbc are popping in to say you're through ♪ >> leno's musical guest was his favorite,ntry star garth brooks. other celebrities who joined on the night included oprah winfrey, jack black, carol burnett, sheryl crow and kim kardashian. carol burnett and jack black also appearing.

president obama said basically paying his respects in a taped message he would make him his ambassador in antarctica. he has a job waiting for him there. leno gracefully passed the torch to jimmy fallon to takes over the show on february 17th. leno's good-bye was hard felt and emotional and a bit sad. he began by thanking the audience. listen. >> you folks have been just incredibly loyal. this is tricky. oh, we wouldn't be on the air without you people. secondly, this has been the greatest 22 years of my life. [applause] >> reporter: for 20 years leno was number one in the ratings. his last week saw a spike in the ratings, a perfect sendoff after a bumpy road. i would have to say he is going out on top which is a good way to retire. jon: we're going to miss him. julie, thanks. >> see ya. jenna: hillary clinton supporters may be gearing up for a big campaign but mum is still

the word whether or not she is running. we'll look at the implications of her silence on a potential white house run with howard kurtz. the fda is signing off on new rules making sure the formula you feed your baby is safe. what manufacturers now have to test for.

jenna: fox news alert, police in wisconsin holding a news conference right now on the disappearance of a newborn baby. that news conference, obviously, about to begin. the mother of the child says she woke up to find five-day-old kateen not in his bassinette. we're going to bring you any developments as they happen. in the meantime, big developments on our top stories and breaking news this hour. jon: january not a good month for job seekers as employers slow down hiring.

we'll break down the new jobs report and what it means for millions of americans still looking for work. democrats hoping to hold on to a slim majority in the senate this november. the president can raise lots of money for candidates up for re-election. why is one of them saying no thanks when it comes to campaigning with the commander in chief? and a top u.s. diplomat under fire for using some choice words about our key allies after a video is leaked on youtube. it's all "happening now." ♪ ♪ jon: well, we begin the noon hour here on the east coast at least with a fox news alert. a disappointing january jobs report raises more red flags about the economy. hello, i'm jon scott. jenna: hi, everybody, i'm jenna lee, and the numbers are certainly out, and they came in lower than expected. the labor department says employers added just 113,000 jobs in january. that's far below the monthly average of just under 200,000 that were created every month on

average last year. the unemployment rate in the meantime is at 6.6%, the lowest since october 2008, but the reason for that might give investors and economists pause. ed henry is at the white house, our chief white house correspondent. ed, the white house always has something to say about these numbers every month, what's the message today? >> reporter: good to see you, jenna. what they're talking about this morning is when you look big picture, there's now been 47 straight months of positive private sector job growth. that equals 8.5 million new jobs over those 47 months. but as you say, month by month these are still coming in below expectations. the president's on road today in michigan trying to talk up rural economies. he's going to sign the farm bill while he's there in michigan. one of his chief economic advisers a short time ago put out a statement and basically said that given the fact that the economy's still not where it needs to be, congress need to do more to help. fuhrman saying, quote: given the

elevated, long-term unemployment rate, extending emergency unemployment benefits for the 1.7 million workers who lost them is critical. at the same time, the president will continue to focus on action both pushing forward on priorities with congress and using his pen and his phone to expand opportunity and growth. as you know, or jenna, we've heard from republicans saying if the president really wanted to act on growth, he could approve the keystone pipeline, move forward on trade deals that republicans say they'd actually support in the house and senate, but so far democrats on the house are cool to that, so the president has not moved them. jenna: as you just touched on, ed, a little bit about what the republicans think about these numbers. what else is the talk down in d.c. now that we actually get a snapshot of what the first month of the year really looks like? >> reporter: well, you mentioned the labor participation rate. it's been low for many, many years, andst -- and it's been getting worse. this past month it actually ticked up a little bit, but only about .2%.

a little more people are looking for work but that's, obviously, minuscule when you look at the big picture of the economy. eric cantor said, quote: today's jobs report underscores there remains a real crisis for the chronically unemployed in this country. it's too hard for many to find good jobs, wages are stagnant, and it's harder to get ahead. i think the bottom line here is you have a president who's been trying to talk up an economy that's been improving in little bits, but he keeps getting hit with these jobs reports and other factors that suggest it's still struggling. meanwhile, on the hill he can't get immigration reform, some of his other priorities. the big picture for the president, it's been a rough second term, jenna. jenna: ed henry live at the white house, thank you. jon: obamacare unpopular with so many americans will play a key role in november's midterm elections. but while republican candidates are already on to offensive, many democrats and pro-democrat groups are shying away from defending the president's health

care law. meantime, president obama ramping up a fundraising push for his fellow democrats, but with his poll numbers sagging, the president might do them more harm than good by hitting the campaign trail. one democrat facing a tough re-election fight, alaska senator mark begich even saying, quote, i don't need him campaigning for me. joining me now, the chief congressional correspondent for the washington examiner. interesting piece out this morning, susan, pointing out the fact that, you know, there are no pro-obamacare campaign commercials or anything like that being run other than those, you know, from the department of health and human services, the government-funded ones, urging people to sign up. >> well, there can't be. it's been such a disastrous rollout with big consequences for the economy and for people's health plans, their own health. it's impossible for democrats to campaign on this, so they're sidestepping the subject.

president clinton recently told senate democrats privately they should go full bore, promoting the health care law and the positive aspects despite the glitches. but the only democrats who can really do this are the safe democrats that don't have to worry about re-election. for them to promote the health care law now would be tantamount to just torpedoing their own election. they can't do it. a great example is colorado, a state where president obama won twice and where mark udall, the senator there, was looking safe for re-election. there are polls out now showing him nearly neck and neck with republican opponents and a new poll showing the health care law has sunk to a 37% approval rating and a 60% disapproval rating. it's hard not to make the connection that the health care law is dragging down democrats. so i can safely predict that any democrat who's even slightly threatened coming up in 2014 is

not going to campaign on the health care law. they're going to sidestep it as much as possible, and they're going to try to dodge the republican attack ads that are certainly going to highlight the glitches in the law. jon: is that why we're hearing so much about things like the minimum wage out of the white house and income inequality? >> oh, of course. this started even before they came back for the second session of the 113th congress. they talked about wage disparities, income inequality, unemployment insurance because he was to get the message off the health care law -- because they have to get the message off the health care law because there is not enough positive news about the health care law. democrats predict this thing is going to shape up, people are going to start to like the law. so far we're not seeing that, and the state-by-state polls are proving the law's unpopular, the president is unpopular, and so democrats need to avoid both those topics and steer it on to things that can get their base out like you said, minimum wage, anything dealing with income

inequality. jon: president obama made sort of an economic campaign appearance, if you will, a couple of weeks ago in north carolina. kay hagan, the democratic senator there, nowhere to be found. and then there's this quote from mark begich running as a democrat for re-election in alaska who says i don't need him campaigning for me. presidential baggage this time around? >> well, i think it would have been harmful for president obama to ever campaign in alaska. but particularly right now. begich could be in trouble. kay hagan sidestepped an appearance with him, mark pryor in arkansas avoided president obama, and i think you're going to see this bleed out into the more ambiguous races where the democrats aren't that threatened, and they're going to steer clear of obama. now, he told democrats privately that he understands this and that he still is willing to do everything he can and make it a top priority for the 2014 election to keep the democrats in the majority in the senate. the best way for him to do this for democrats is through

fundraising, not through personal appearances with them in their home states. jon: yeah. give me the money, just don't show up here. >> and he can raise the money, and that's going to help them. jon: susan, who keeps an eye on congress for the washington examiner, thank you. >> thanks. jenna: another big story for us today, the 2014 winter olympics officially underway with the opening ceremonies taking place in the host city of sochi, russia. security efforts kicking into high gear to make sure spectators and top athletes stay safe. amy kellogg is live from moscow with more. >> reporter: hi, jenna, and very good timing because the american team is just parading around the sochi olympic center as we speak. opening ceremony has kicked off but, of course, as you mentioned, amidst really intense security concerns. when russia was chosen for the winter olympics, it was at a point when this slow-burning islamist insurgency that's been going on was sort of on the wane, jenna.

but, actually, it has persisted, and president vladimir putin came to power really for being tough on terrorism 14 years ago. but as we can see 14 years laterrer, the problem still persists, and that has really led to the greatest olympic security operation in history down in sochi getting ready for these games. these games have also come with the biggest price tag ever for winter olympic games. now, we've heard estimates somewhere between 60 and 100,000 security personnel inside of that ring of steel in southern russia to keep the games safe. anti-aircraft missiles backing it all up, drones, there are some naval ships that are off the coast just in case there's a need for an evacuation. it's not enough just to have a ticket to go see these games, though even for the spectators you need to have a special pass for the zone. but the concerns are not just for sochi, but for soft targets

outside to olympic zone. jenna: amy kellogg live in moscow, thank you. jon: ten minutes ago we opened with a fox news alert on the search for that missing baby in wisconsin. there are already developments, believe it or not, that little baby has been found alive. police are announcing it right now. little cayden powell, five days old, his mother says he disappeared while she was sleeping. he was found alongside interstate 80 in a tote bag. now, think about how cold it is in wisconsin right now. the fact that this little baby has been found alive and okay is miraculous. we'll get you more information as we monitor this police news conference, bring you updates as they are warranted. jenna: 11 degrees in iowa, so certainly so many times stories turn to the parents when there's a missing baby, but as we mentioned, the parents have been cooperating, so maybe we have a good result here. we'll keep you posted.

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jon: a fox news alert, and as the sochi olympics get under way, we are getting initial reports of an attempted hijacking of a ukrainian airplane, that plane forced to make an emergency landing in istanbul. apparently, it was from the ukraine. an airliner, believed to be a peg us airliner, with 110 passengers onboard forced by an f-16 military jet to land in

istanbul. apparently, a man onboard said he had a bomb. whether that proves to be accurate or not yet to be determined, but that plane has been grounded in turkey. when we get more information, we'll bring it to you, "happening now." jenna: also "happening now," the retired police captain accused of fatally shooting another man in a movie theater is back in court today. he's charged with the second-degree murder of chad olson. the tragic shooting sparked by an argument over a text message inside the theater. steve harrigan is live in maim with more on this. steve? >> reporter: jenna, we've been hearing some dramatic police interviews with the main figures involved in this movie theater shooting, first with curtis reeves who told police officers that the victim actually struck him in the side of the head, that he was afraid for his life, that if he were 20 years younger, he simply would have wrestled him, but he used his pistol because he was acting in self-defense.

>> i haven't been scared, but since i've been retired, nobody has ever scared me. guy scared me. >> reporter: i now, reeves' wife who was sitting just next to him in that theater said she did not witness her husband being struck. we could get more information about what exactly happened before fatal gunshot when we see video surveillance released sometime in the next few minutes. whether he was struck with popcorn, with a cell phone or whether, as he alleges, the victim struck him with his hand in the side of the head. this has been a very emotional bond hearing. at different points we've seen reeves, the 71-year-old former police captain break down in tears, the victim's wife also now the seoul parent to a 2-year-old -- sole parent to a 2-year-old daughter has also broken down. reeves could face a minimum of 25 years in prison. jenna? jenna: such a sad story overall. steve, thank you. jon: january's jobs report showing many employers might be slowing down hiring.

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jenna: right now a disappointing report on jobs raising new concerns about the economy. employers adding only 113,000 jobs in january. the unemployment rate in the meantime down to 6.6%, that's the lowest since october 2008, and while that sounds like good news, it may not be. when you factor in people who have stopped looking for work or who have dropped off the up employment rolls, the jobless rate is really around 12.7%.

and while the participation in the labor force was 63%, it's been under 64% for 25 straight months, the longest stretch since the late '70s. joining me now, jon hilsenrath, chief economics correspondent for "the wall street journal" and, jon, there's certainly a lot in these reports. i'd like to start with that labor participation rate. why is that particularly important when we look at this report and the jobless rate that we have? >> well, it's especially important because what's been happening for several years, it started even before the recession, but it's intensified. millions of americans are dropping out of the labor force, and it's a puzzle, it's a riddle that we don't understand. some of it is because we have aging baby boomers who are retiring and we expected it, but part of it is also because we have people in their prime working years who look like they're giving up or going on disability employment rolls and,

and that's skewing the numbers. so when we see a falling unemployment rate, it is telling the whole story. as you say, if you look at some of these broader measures of up employment, they actually look much higher, and it makes it a lot harder for all of us, i think, to make sense of these complicated movements in the economy. jenna: this is the second straight month where we've had a more disappointing report than we saw in the previous year, and one of the biggest stories over the last several weeks, jon, whether or not you're in california and experiencing a drought or the east coast and there's been a really tough winter, the weather's been an issue. is it a variable that we should mention in this report? >> it might have, we don't really know. i mean, it looks like it possibly impacted december and january, and, of course, you know, we keep seeing weather stories in february, too, so it might again. i mean, i think the important story is this, that last year in october, november, early december we got a bunch of data that looked like the economy was getting better, that it was

getting on a faster growth track and employment was picking up. and people started to get optimistic. we saw the stock market go up, the fed got more optimistic, people got optimistic we were finally breaking out of this slow growth track and getting onto a stronger economic track. what we've seen today is more evidence from the start of this year that people's expectations might have gotten too, might have gotten ahead -- jenna: funny you mention that, jon. i happen to read your newspaper, and we have an opinion piece in the newspaper in the "wall street journal," ominous signs for the global recovery. >> right. i actually wrote a story like that a couple of days ago. jenna: oh, really? i'm glad we're talking to you about it. this writer says the global economy could be in danger, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. and it goes on to use a mike tyson quote in relation to emerging economies, but i think it might be --? >> mike tyson, noted economist. jenna: exactly. mike tyson once said everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.

[laughter] >> that's a great quote. jenna: until something stuns you, are we kind of there? i don't want to say are we getting punched in the mouth here, jon, but are we? >> we've seen a lot of volatility in the stock markets, people getting worried about emerging economies like china and india and russia. but i think we have to be careful about getting too panicky. you know, after this financial crisis in 2008 whenever we see something that might be going wrong, i think people get very panicky. if you actually look at these data going back three, four years, what we see is an economy that's growing very slowly and an economy that's producing jobs very slowly. and i think that's where we are. i think that's where we still are and where we're stick. we get these little shocks but, frankly, i don't think that problems in turkey, you know, it's not like a punch in the face, it's kind of like a tap on the side more than anything else. jenna: i'll take a tap in the side -- >> i don't want to contradict mike tyson.

jenna: do you quote tyson as well in your articles? >> i was a big fan, but i haven't looked at him for economic idea. that's a great quote. i might use it, thank you. [laughter] jenna: jon, thank you very much. great to see you. jon: there's the keynesian school and then the tyson school. jenna: makes sense. jon: is hillary clinton already the de facto democratic presidential nominee for the 2016 election at least in the eyes of the media? we'll break down media a portrayal of the former secretary of state. plus, this brutal winter taking its toll on drivers, and some states are running dangerously low on road salt. we're live in the salt mines of utah, next. [ male announcer ] research suggests cell health plays a key role throughout our lives. one a day men's 50+ is a complete multivitamin designed for men's health concerns as we age. with 7 antioxidants to support cell health. one a day men's 50+.

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it's all a about sufficient quality. the fda saying it sets high quality standards infant formulas because nutritional deficiencies during in this critical time of development can have a significant impact on a child's long-term health and well being. you might have noticed more baby formulas touting themselves as natural or organic. the fda says the new rules are aimed at the new companies producing those formulas and have entered the market in recent years. the fda does not approve formulas before they're marketed, but formula manufacturers must register with the agency. the fda also conducts annual inspections of facilities that make infant formula. still, the agency says the best formula is in a mother's milk, and the fda strongly recommends breast-feeding newborns. however, 25% of infants start out using formula. by three months old, 66% of babies are fed formula for all or part of their nutrition.

jon? jon: arthel neville in our newsroom, thanks. jenna: well, the brutal winter is cutting into supplies of road salt. at least 12 states are now running dangerously low, and it's just the beginning of february. alicia acuna is live in redmond, utahs -- utah, with more. >> reporter: we're at a salt mine that has where i'm standing a 200,000-ton inventory right here in this area, and this really is the good stuff here. you see that pink tinge that it has, these are the minerals that make it possible for it to be effective at zero degrees fahrenheit when it is on the road. now, redmond supplies rock salt to 28 different states west of the mississippi, but with all of this bad weather, it's the states that are in the east that are really eating up all of that supply, and redmond is having a hard time getting it salt to where it is needed fast enough. >> right now there's a real

shortage of rail cars, and the infrastructure we need to get that kind of volume back there. these customers are looking for tens of thousands of tons of product, and obviously, that becomes a bit of a challenge if you're just shipping it a little bit at a time, a truckload at a time. >> reporter: now, wisconsin just received a new replenishment in its rock supply, but the states really aren't getting things quick enough, as you just heard. and part of the problem is that, you know, every time it snows, think about it, that salt needs to hit road, otherwise it gets really slick and dangerous. but it not only affects people in that way, but it also affects the economy, because when you think about these large accidents that hit the highways that we've seen, it slows things down dramatically, it affects the commerce locally, statewide, nationwide. that's why folks are so desperate to get it out there. and the salt institute says there isn't an actual shortage. what's happening is the supply's getting depleted in places where

it's so difficult to refill, so they're having to try to hit the roads with salt, they're trying to use back-up stuff like things that are based with sugar, each beet juice. but nothing really works as well as a deicer as this salt. jenna: just one of the impacts of already a tough winter. alicia, thank you. jon: some initial reports out there of of an attempted hijacking of a ukrainian airplane. amy kellogg has the latest live from moscow. >> reporter: well, jon, a lot of unsettling details coming in, but very little real information. the this as the opening ceremonies of the olympics are going on not far from me in sochi, but it was a peg us airlines plane, istanbul-bound from western ukraine. ukraine, as we all know, has been going through a sort of revolution for the last couple of months with a lot of violence, a lot of anger, relations with russia very much

at heart of the unrest in ukraine. now, we are getting reports that are a person onboard that plane said that he had a bomb and wanted to divert the plane to sochi where the olympics are going on. we've not been able to confirm that, but the undersecretary for transportation in turkey where this plane has now safely landed, where it was diverted and where it has landed, is saying that authorities now are trying to get the man to give himself over properly to authorities. so we're not sure if it's a violent and dangerous standoff in the plane at the moment or whether everything is okay, but it has landed, and as you said, jon, it appears to be an attempted hijacking. not clear if this was all bluff and bluster or whether there was something more to it. but airlines have been on a very high state of alert particularly in the last few days ahead of the sochi olympics because the homeland security in the united states was saying that it was possible explosives could be

smuggled into tubes of toothpaste or other cosmetic containers. the u.s. is not allowing any of those things on planes now in carry-ons, nor are russian planes. but with europe, turkey, asia, some people are still bringing things on planes, albeit in small quantities. anyway, we will stay on top of story and let you know when we have more concrete information. jon: nerves even more frayed there in russia. thank you. jenna: speaking of russia, the u.s. is accusing russia of leaking a private conversation in which assistant secretary of state victoria nuland used choice words about the european union sparking a lot of controversy. plus, russia's reaction to the spying allegations. we'll get into that. also a major effort to prevent strokes in women. the doctor's in with what you need to know about the american heart association's brand new guidelines. the new guy is loaded with prote! i'll believe it when i -- [ both ] oooooh... [ female announcer ] as you get older, protein is an important rt

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jenna: the media creating an era of inevitability ahead of hillary clinton's potential white house run. since right after the 2012 election, the former secretary of state has been portrayed as a shoo-in for 2016. clinton has stayed quiet on the subject, a move some analysts could hurt any future campaign. howard kurtz is not one of those analysts saying it could hurt her campaign, but you say there are some people we should focus on when it comes to hillary clinton, howard. who are these people? [laughter] >> this whole thing just cracks me up, jenna, because, yes, we ought to look at the people around her, the people who might staff her administration. but this obsession that the media have with an election three years from now and hillary clinton who was on the cover of the new york times magazine as a planet or an asteroid or something, it's kind of like, boy, she's inevitable, isn't she? i wonder what she's going the say in her inaugural?

and then this piece in buzz piece says she's projecting herself as inevitable, and voters don't like that. but we're the ones who keep her in the news day after day after day. jenna: and, howard, is it really a story? i'm just thinking about all the different can top news stories that we as the media can cover. is whether or not hillary's going to run on february 7, 2013, really a story? >> even in 2014 -- jenna: oh, thank you. [laughter] >> i've made that mistake. she's at least a year away from making this decision. it will eventually be a very big story and, yes, you know, even the early polls, wow, she's 60 points ahead of joe biden or any other democrat, it's meaningless at this point. i do think hillary drives ratings, she drives clicks online, and yet, you know, this notion that she's not saying much, therefore, she doesn't have a message, therefore, she's in trouble, you know, in early 2014, well, she doesn't want to be a candidate yet because we would all be sick of her by the

time 2016 rolls around. jenna: she does get attention, for example, that tweet during the super bowl, right? >> i was going to mention that. jenna: when she chooses to enter into the fray. what do you make of that? >> i think, you know, she or her speech writers came up with something very funny during the super bowl with, there was a little bit of a swipe at fox, obviously, it was funny, and yet i saw serious political prognosticators spending days analyzing it. what did she mean by that? was she talking about obama? [laughter] just shows you there is this tremendous appetite for hillary news even when hillary isn't doing much, each when she's just tweeting, and i think it's because of this media obsession. jenna: by the way, just for context, she did tweet out to about a million followers, but katy perry has 50 million followers, so it's interesting to see what gets anticipation to what audience, and then suddenly it was national news. just real quick, howard, in general about the purpose of the

media in a democracy is freedom of the press, right? we want to make sure voters are informed of issues so they can actively participate in democracy, and i believe that. in this way that we're already looking ahead at the elections, are we serving our purpose as journalists? are we productive members of this freedom of the press and democracy, or are we playing a role in politics that maybe we should not be playing? >> that's the real problem, jenna. there are a lot of issues facing the country, but they're complicated. cbo reported how many jobs would be lost under obamacare, but speculating about hillary clinton and is she going to run against jeb bush or chris keysty, it's -- christie, it's cheap, it's easy, it's fun. jenna: it's sort of cheap like a news anchor that doesn't know what year it is, you know what i i mean? [laughter] thank you, again, for correcting me on that. howard, it's great to see you, as always. howard covers the coverage of

the week's top stories on his show, "media buzz." you can catch that sunday at 11:00 and 5 p.m. eastern right here on the fox news channel. howard, thank you. >> thanks, jenna. jon: some new details of an attack at a california power station. it's raising all kinds of fears that it was a terror dry run. also a look at some lawmakers' plans to allow the federal government to set security standards at the nation's power plants. and new research suggests eating yogurt could reduce your risk of getting diabetes. dr. david samadi joins us to explain. >> and hi, everyone, today on hq, the first jobs numbers of the year are out, so what will those mean for you? >> and will a 71-year-old former cop accused in that deadly movie shooting get bailed today? >> also with so many fears of of a terrorist attack in sochi, is there a bigger target here at home? we'll talk about all of that

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jon: russia denies that it leaked an embarrassing conversation between diplomats including the u.s. assistant secretary of state, victoria nuland. that taped call was posted on youtube and has nuland using choice words about the european union. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has the latest on that. catherine? >> reporter: well, thank you, jon, and good morning. we heard from the state department undersecretary victoria nuland this morning weighing in on her f-bomb controversy and attempting to push some of the blame onto the russians describing their spying capabilities as superb. >> i'm, obviously, not going to comment on private diplomatic

conversations other than to say it was pretty impressive tradecraft, the audio was extremely clear. >> reporter: also today demonstrations outside the u.s. embassy in moscow criticizing the united states' involvement in the ukrainian crisis which is only at a diplomatic level. nuland was speaking with another u.s. diplomat about that crisis and why the ukrainian president had so closely aligned himself with the russians rather than the european union. nuland's remarks expressed frustration with the lack of support for the u.s. efforts. strangely at the state department briefing thursday, the chief spokeswoman apologized to the europeans for comments and then seemed to dodge the question over whether it was actually nuland's voice on the audiotape. >> i'm not going to confirm or outline details. i understand there are a lot of reports out there, and there's a recording out there. but i'm not going to confirm private diplomatic conversations. i didn't say it was inauthentic,

i think we can leave it at that. >> reporter: an aide to russia's deputy prime minister, he was among the first who put this audiotape on the web, said this morning that a neither he, nor the russian government played a role in leaking this tape. but intelligence officers we've spoken to say that this is really spying 101, and u.s. diplomats and u.s. officials certainly understand that when they're overseas, especially in russia, that all their communications are being monitored and that th to commune line. what we don't know is whether nuland was on a secure line when that conversation was picked up. jon: and the russians would have some obvious interest in sort of helping to fray relations between the u.s. and the european union. >> reporter: well, you start to stack it all up, they want the ukraine to be completely aligned with moscow and not to align with the europeans, but more specifically if you see this in the broader context, the russians are really playing hardball with the united states in terms of thediplomacy we're

waging. but you have to see that in the context of edward snowden. the intelligence community says edward snowden is certainly under the control of the russian intelligence services at this point. jon: you could also call it undiplomatic conversation. catherine herridge, thank you. jenna: nothing but clean language and clean living in our next segment. the american heart association issuing its first-ever guidelines for preventing strokes in women. they focus on factors unique to women. dr. david samadi is chairman of urologies at lennox hill hospital. a lot of these tailored to women, specific risks women may face. what stands out to you about these guidelines? >> i've always said that you can't treat even the same way, and there are things about men that are completely different than women -- jenna: we know that'she case, don't we, doctor? >> exactly right. the way we treat cancer, for example, we've done a great job, and the numbers are coming down, which is great. when it comes to heart disease -- i'm happy that you're

wearing the red color, it's a big awareness. we've done a good job. but when it comes to voc, we're lagging -- stroke, we're lagging behind. this is the third leading cause of death among women, and we're focusing on the risk factors. pregnancy is a big risk factor. we're finding out about birth control pills that can increase the risk of, you know, clotting and stroke and other things. so the american heart association what their doing is saying, look, stay focused, take care of your blood pressure. quit smoking. if you are a smoker, stay away from birth control pills. you've got to be careful. jenna: what's particularly scary about strokes so often they come out of nowhere, and the person that is suffers from a stroke may have nothing that could indicate to them that they would suffer from one. what are some signs that we should know to better educate ourselves? >> that's a good point. the symptoms are extremely vague meaning that you may have some sort of dizziness, headache, and you may not know. what i want people to know is

the mnemonic for stroke, it's something called f.a.s.t.. f is for facial drooping, have a patient hold their arms and see if they can hold it. if one fall, you know the opposite side of the brain is where the stroke is actually happening. speech is going to be slurred, they're not going to be able to talk. as you ask them to smile, the lips are not symmetrical, and t is for time. the sooner you get them to the emergency room, call 911 because time is brain, and you want to make sure they reantibiotic immediately -- react immediately. jenna: i just want to get your thoughts on another study out of europe, and it has to do with diabetes and yo gutter. -- yogurt. basically, the study looked at men and women who ate yogurt and who didn't. those that had yogurt had a lower chance of diabetes -- >> by 5%. so i think -- 25%. so i think this is one of the studies coming up.

and, again, nutrition plays a big role. we are a big fan of owe butter over here -- yogurt over here because of the proteins and calcium that's in it. a lot of it is is going to, basically, increase your cholesterol. so i think one or two a day is perfectly fine, but more than that i don't want people to become a yogurt addict. that's not a good situation. jenna: all right, no yogurt addicts. the olympic team likes yogurt, did you know that? dr. samadi, great to see you. jon: they like their yogurt, jenna, but can they get their fix? a shipment for team usa-sponsored chobani is stuck many new jersey. the russian authorities apparently don't want that there, they're blocking it according to u.s. regulations. the 5,000 cups were supposed to feed american athletes and nbc employees at the olympics. now the department of agriculture and new york senator

chuck schumer are called get fat yogurt sent overseas. there you go. also, two river otters who are more than just cute critters, zookeepers say they have a special gift, and now they are getting in on to olympic excitement. we'll tell you about them, next. ... ... ... ... ... ...

we can't guess which company will dominate the olympics. but the sochi claims to it have a pair of winter oracles. they are river otters and they have a gift of fortune telling. and a tract record for other sportingentious vents. they pick out the country that will win. >> what do you think about that? >> i think otters are col. i don't buy into the prediction

thing, but it is fun to watch them on tv. >> speaking of predictions. we have to say good by but all of our viewers say good by to beautiful liz. three guesses to ask why this is her last day. >> some people will do going to get out of work a now weeks. >> three weeks to your due date. we think the next couple of days and two potential names of brendon and madeline. and we are going for middle of madeline jennifer or brandon johnathon. i like. that don't you think she owes us that after all this time. >> wait until you so the birth certificate. >> we wish you a lot of luck and we'll miss you very much. >> she's been carrying more than us the last nine months.

>> and thank you for joining us everybody. >> american nows headquarters starts right now. meanwhile we start with a fox news alert, a lousy jobs reports raising concerns about the strength of american xhechlt welcome hq. >> employers add a mere 113,000 jobs in the month of january. that is far, far less than the 185,000 most economist predicted. >> melissa francis is host of fox money. second month in a row, what is going on here? >> that's what is troubling about it. it is the second month if a row. we averaged 200,000 per month and we didn't think that that was that good. you