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i hope i went hog wild enough and got everything. i hope you enjoyed the show. until next week, i hope you are learning to be more of a healthy you. welcome to america's news headquarters. we begin with a fox news alert. the security of our nation's electricity supply, lawmakers pushing for federal rules to protect the grid. this after the report of a sniper attack on a california electrical substation. that attack raising alarming questions about our power infrastructure and its vulnerability to terrorists. >> there is a debate whether this was a terror attack or vandalism. it took place in april. we show you surveillance footage of what happened. this was a substation in san
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jose, new york. apparently a group, possibly would, maybe lee, gunmen walked up to the substation and fought off between 150 rounds. you can roughly make out the figure in the bottom left hand corner moving towards the perimeter. hose sparks you see are shots of cables either exploding or part of the substation infrastructure. the hardware exploding as a result of that gunfire. now, we heard from the chairman of the federal energy regulator commission this past week saying that he thought it was terrorism executed by individual or individuals for taste run for larger attack. that has four democratic senators extremely concerned about whether the energy network across the united states is actually vulnerable. the fda da fbi denying it was tm but taking it seriously. in washington this is what they are say being this attack and potential for others.
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listen. >> a few months ago in arkansas, will were multiple attacks on power lines and grid inf infrastructure that left millions of dollars in damage and brief power outages. independent engineers also recently discovered a new cyber vulnerability in the software used by many electric grid control systems. >> incidents liking that collectively worrying washington and the four senators writing a letter to regulators in the united states saying they wanted urgent action to the grid. this is the statement, the letter, statement, that they actually put out friday saying while it appears that many utilities have a firm grass p on the problem we simply don't know if there are substantial numbers of utilities or others that may have not taken adequate measures to protect against and minimize the harm from a physical attack. while the utility affected in san jose says it is taking what it describes as aggressive
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measures to protect the grid there. it is not giving details of precisely what it is doing. it does not want to reveal any further vulnerabilities or those that want to attack exploit that knowledge at all. but they say that if there is any pass cal damage to substations, they do have technology that can wrap the energy around the xwrid and so the power does not go out. but it is scrambling as are other utilities across the country to deal with regulators and also deal with government agencies like the fbi to ensure attacks like this do not happen but we have always known it will be a threat at some point so the power grid will be targeted by terrorists. it seems there is a sense of urgency behind this now. >> we are so dependent on the grid if anything were to happen it can shut down commerce and a whole lot more. all right. thanks very much. police are stepping up their search for a missing south carolina woman 20-year-old heather elvisappeared in december after a date dropped her off at her apartment in myrtle beach. her car found the next day at a
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nearby boat landing. well, now elvis' pear says he was threatened by two men in a jeep on tuesday would said that they had heather and they are going to take his other daughter. the move, police say will get them caught. dramatic testimony from the fiance of the man accused of killing a teenager outside of florida convenience store. michael dunn accused of shooting 17-year-old jordan davis to death over an argument over loud music. the authorities say that davis was with friends sitting in his suv outside of a convenience store when dunn and his fiancee pulled up next to him. the fiancee goes inside and described what she heard next. >> heard pop, pop, pop. >> when you heard hose noises, did you know what they were? >> no, i didn't. i said, what was that? >> were you speaking to the cashier in front of you? >> yes, i was. >> what did you hear next?
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>> when i -- i heard another pop, pop, pop. >> what did you do after you heard the second set of pop, pop, pop? >> well, i -- i didn't do anything. the cashier said -- the guy -- will is a guy and he has a gun. i turned around to see who she was talking about. >> when you turned around what did you see? >> i saw michael looking out his driver's door. >> an investigator also testifying today that there were nine bullet holes in the side of that suv where davis was killed. dunn says he fired in self-defense. it has been a very cold and snowy and wet winter for much of the country. seems like this -- scenes like this in oregon, pretty much the norm. when will it all end? let's ask janice dean the weather machine, in the fox
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extreme poe weather -- >> let's take a look at the cold temperatures we are getting. again, as par south as texas. for monday it will be 35 degrees. your average is around 59. this time of year for omaha, 14 on monday. average is 35. for minneapolis, 15. your daytime high today. average is 26. over in bismarck, 4 tomorrow. average 26. you get the picture. it is still cold. we are going to be dealing with a stormy pattern across the northwest and bringing much needed rain and snow but travel is difficult. especially across the northwest. and then, of course, that cold air sings southward and we are dealing with a couple of systems over the northeast. not a big blockbuster this weekend like some people were talking about. but we are going to see several inches of snow sunday into monday. we will break it down very light snow, though, sunday into monday. there is 4:00 p.m. towards buffalo and pittsburgh. again, just a couple of inches.
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it will be a nuisance. but it is not going to really hamper things. that's the good news. but look at the snow that we have seen this season. so far. way above average in philadelphia. your average is about a foot. we are at 40 inches. new york city is 14 inches. we are at 40 inches. boston, even boston above average. the same goes for across the mid west where we are way above average. chicago, almost 60 inches of snow. detroit, almost 68 inches of snow. and, yes, greg, we are still into a stormy pattern heading into this next workweek. we are going to have to watch the system owens. stay tuned. >> wednesday system. i will be checking back with you. house speaker john boehner is coming under fire as immigration reform hits a brick wall can the speaker navigate within his own party on this issue. olympic opening ceremonies in russia. vladimir putin. breathtaking winter fairy tale
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welcome back. immigration reform, it is going nowhere fast in congress. shut down by house republicans. speaker john boehner, who is walking a tight rope to be sure, blames the white house. >> the president is asking us to move one of the biggest bills of his presidency. yet, hay has shown very little willingness to work with us on this defense. we will continue to talk about this with our members. but the president is going to have to rebuild the trust of the -- american people people and my colleagues can trust him to enforce the law that the way i was written.
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>> chief congressional correspondent the washington examiner wrote, quote, he is under pressure. from business groups and including the chamber of commerce to pass legislation that would increase visas for both high and low-skilled workers but he knows moving too quickly could risk act rebellion from his right flank and could turn off the republican voting base. we are joined now by miss ferrechio. i was struck by your column. you made this point. a great many in the republican conference simply do not trust president obama or the majority lead mother the senate, harry reid. they feel that they have been double-crossed before. is that what is driving what's going on which is now inaction instead of action? >> yes. earlier this year, the republicans had private conferences on the eastern shore in maryland. john boehner floated some ideas about immigration reform to the congress. the feedback he got from members was that they either did no want to do immigration reform or they
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wanted to wait. a smaller number wanted to do something right away. but the majority say, you know, two-thirds of the conference, let's at least hold off. why is had a? just from what you just mentioned there is a lack of trust in how the outcome -- what the outcome will be if they are working with democrats. they say double-crossed. they are thinking back to fiscal cliff deals and -- spending bills, they feel like the democrat kratz really used political one-upsmanship on the republicans. and made them look bad. they are saying that -- look, let's look at benghazi and let's look at the irs scandal. let's look at the president's policies on deportation, on the epa, and his executive orders and in that regard. they are saying that we don't feel we can trust it. boehner took that under rings and then, of course, coupling that with the other part you mentioned, pressure from the chamber of commerce, the speaker has to walk a fine line here. the way he does it is by saying, hey, we still talking about this. we can't really trust the president right now.
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that buys him time. i think republicans really want to do immigration reform. they want to do it when it is not going to politically hurt them. bringing it up right now where you are going to clearly bring about a big split within the republican conference within the party, i think that -- republicans believe that this will simply distract from what they want which is focus on the health care law. the rollout which has been very troubled in which they think will help them win in 2014. >> there is such anger across america over obamacare. all have you do is look at the numbers. the anger is directed towards the president and democrats that voted for it. it has now reached an all-time low in popularity and may dip even further. is there a mindset among republicans, hey, you know what, an election is only in nine months that could completely change the equation in washington. >> let's think back. exactly, to the government government shutdown and the republicans' drop in the polls. a lot of people think if they avoided that and let the health
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care law dominate the news, they would never have suffered that which they recovered from. why bring about a similar dynamic as now we are even closer to the election where you are going to have probably an inner war on capitol hill at least with lawmakers over moving forward. you listen to talk radio people in the bay state, the tea party folks. i think boehner wants to steer clear of that mess. knowing that they can address it later and perhaps under much better circumstances is if in 2015 they are in the majority in the senate. >> the other thing i was looking at a couple of hours ago at the fox news polling data, latest of what came up. when you ask americans what are their priority force the government, what they want them to do on their behalf, immigration reform is at or near the bottom. the top is jobs and the economy and the deficit and the debt and so forth. immigration reform is no really a priority among most americans. our republicans saying, hey, wait a minute. we don't actually have to do
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this now. >> yes. that's an excellent point because not only is it scoring low on national polling. if you look at the most vulnerable areas for senate democrats and those -- six, seven states, immigration is not a top issue. the things people are talking about are exactly what you said. jobs and the economy. deficit and the health care law. people really are worried about all these things. republicans know that taking up immigration right now when the key states that they need to win in order to win the majority in the senate, they are not talking about immigration. republicans control the house. if they feel that they can win the senate, that are allow them to craft a deal that skews far more to what republicans want, even if will is a democrat in the white house. then if they have harry reid and the democrats where they have to lessen the border security and add more lenient provisions for legalization and potentially amnesty. they are looking at tm gain her. we may hear them talk about this more in the coming months about
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their own ideas and moving forward. i think legislation at the moment is at the very least dormant. we have to wait and see what happen. >> on the political scheme of things, nine months is just around the corner. susan, terrific story. "the washington examiner. thanks very much. broken doors, toxic drinking water and rings that failed to light up. coming up, more of the embarrassing problems plague thing year's winter olympics from sochi. we will also take a look at scoreboard after the first full day of competition. [ male announcer ] this is the age of knowing what you're made of.
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welcome back. we're learning more about the alleged hijacker who tried to divert that plane to sochi during the opening ceremonies. 45-year-old ukrainian man was busted in istanbul after claiming he had a bomb on board and trying to break into the
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cockpit. he was tripped and the plane landed in istanbul instead. reports say the man is pushing for the release of antigovernment prisoners in the ukraine. team usa scoring the first gold medal at the winter olympics in sochi. the men's snowboarding slopes style final. and u.s. women's hockey team on a roll now, defeating fin land 3-1 in the hunt for the gold. here is the medal count. it's early. norway leading with four. the united states has one. go, u.s. the games in full swing. the opening ceremonies last night, putin showed a spectacular journey threw russian here and one technical glitch seen around the world. only four of the five olympic rings lit up. kind of a malfunction there. looks like a giant snowflake. so does this, along with other hosts of problems, have russia seeing red?
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get it? i didn't make that up. joe will hold it against me. he's a tv columnist from mia -- i didn't write that. good to see you. how you been? >> word play is always a good thing. >> any big event as you pointed out, can have big problems, right? >> absolutely. everybody is talking about this as it's an indictment on russia. it's an indictment on putin and their infrastructure. guess what happened not at the super bowl, but in new orleans, there was a blackout that went on nearly 45 minutes. does that mean we're not paying our electric bill? that we have problems with our infrastructure? was it a gaffe? yes. >> do people get snarky about this whole thing? before all of that. people didn't have the opportunity to be snarqy. >> that's right. it's a combination of two things. we have the ability of, for instance, with the picture that went viral, two brown glasses of water, dirty water. >> and it wasn't beer.
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>> no, i don't believe that was a guiness or anything. but anyway, take a picture, goes up on twitter. it's viral in five minutes. i lived in new york. i think you have as well. i lived in hoboken. pretty sure i got brown water there. i'm not justifying what's been going on in sochi. it hasn't been the best olympics in terms of logistics. however, i think it only getting a sentated in this world of camera phones and twitter where everything negative will be blown up ten fold. >> what about the empty seats? in some venues we're seeing that? >> sochi is a very difficult place to get to. there are hardly any direct flights. it's on the black sea. plus, leading up to this olympics, we never heard so much about terrorism than we have going into an olympic games before. it was in vancouver four years ago. is there a terror threat at any sort of big event? yes. but particularly in sochi, considering where it is, i'm surprised the ioc went ahead and gave russia this bid considering all those factors and the fact that there was no infrastructure
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there before putin put $50 billion into it. >> lots more money on this one than -- what did you say? 7 billion in vancouver? >> yes. 43 billion more here in russia. and the per capita income in russia now is $14,000 per year. perhaps that money could have been better spent somewhere else. but here we are. the olympics are going on. hopefully the games will be the focus now and not so much dirty water and a ring that didn't light up. >> what about nbc? they're getting heat for kissing up to pint and the russians? >> there was one unfortunate way they put communism, which they said was a pivotal experiment. >> experiment? >> yes. >> stalin killed, what, 60 million? >> the great famine when he could have kept crops at home to feed his own people. he exported them tens of millions of people died. probably the wrong way they could have put that. but again, nbc obviously is just
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trying to do right by their home country that is there. >> i think they're -- look, overall, what are your expectations for sochi? >> in terms of logistics and the way it goes? >> everything. >> i think it's a victory. it will be seen as a success, if there are no terrorist attacks. which is so easy to do. if somebody is willing to blow themselves up in a market, we saw it in atlanta, a bomb went off there. 100 people were injured. one person was kid. if there are no terrorist attacks and everybody is kept safe, despite what we're hearing now, i think that's going to be seen as the bar to success, at least for sochi. >> they had seven years to put this together and it was the pride of putin and yet, they had entire hotels that they finally just abandoned. they couldn't finish them in time. they took those workers and put them on the other hotels to finish. some of them never got finished. there are folks who don't have running water. some only have cold water. there are no curtains in the showers. doors that don't open.
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seven years to get your act together. >> this is the arrogance of vladimir putin. he could have had this olympics where they had it in 1980, which would have been a heck of a lot easier because the infrastructure is there. he said this is a nice vacation spot for me. i love coming here. why don't we build a whole bunch of hotels, transit system, everything and hopefully they'll have it done in time. as we know about russia, corruption is rampant and a lot of that money that was supposed to go to building this stuff didn't happen. they ran out of time. seven years. seeing it now and the media is holding hem accountable be -- them accountable. perhaps too much so. but it's an interesting start. >> joe, good to see you as always. thanks for dropping by. >> thank you. >> we'll see new an hour. that does it for us. >>
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