learning to be more of a healthy you. president obama reaching out to middle east allies in a series of high profile meetings in california. hello, i'm gregg jarrett, glad you're with us. welcome to america's news haurghaurg headquarters. the president starting off his latest round of diplomacy in jordan, pledging millions of dollars to help jordan deal with the overflow of refugees from the civil war. those syrian refugees are placing enormous strain on jordan, tell us about that?

>> many of these refugees arrived with few possessions, they have migrated. evacuations from the syrian city of homes led by the u.n. and the syrian red crescent has enabled people to leave that area in just the last few days. in all 600,000 syrians have entered jordan since the fighting began. equivalent of all the citizens of canada migh canada migrating. >> we do hope that the rest of the international community also steps up and catches up in the support, not only for the syrian refugees, but also the impact it

has on jordanians and the jordanian infrastructure. >> u.s. officials said the jordanians are also pressing ahead with additional economic reforms in their country along with the international monetary fund, greg. >> what actions did the u.s. take to try to alter the horrible situation in syria? >> aides to president obama cautioned ahead of the talks not to look for a quote, unquote silver bullet that can heal all that's ailing syria. from increasingly influential battle units made up of islamic jihadists. >> we don't expect to solve this any time in the short-term. so there are going to be some immediate steps that we have to take to help the humanitarian

situation there. there will be some intermediate steps that we can take to apply more pressure to the assad regime. >> that said, u.s. officials reaffirmed there is in their eyes no military solution to the civil war which has now claimed an estimated 130,000 lives in its first three years. gregg? >> james rosen live in washington. james, thank you. >> thank you. controversy is growing over president obama'swarding of political -- appointing them to coveted u.s. ambassador ships but a number of embarrassing mistakes, indeed gaffs raising serious questions about their actual callificati actual qualifications for those jobs. >> it's always been president kbaum's -- obama administration is coming under especially

strong criticism for an apparent lack of qualifications for some of its picks for key ambassador positions. the president's pick for ambassador to norway has never been to that country. he testified that norway is a constitutional democracy, it is in fact a constitutional monarchy. the ambassador to hungary ask a soap opera star. she appeared to know very little about that country. but former senator max baucus me a stunning admission about china where he will be the next ambassador. >> i am no real expert on china, but it's my strong belief that chinese people are just as proud as we americans are proud. >> state department spokesmen jim saki has defendanted the

president's political picks. >> we have ambassadors from business back grounds and from political back grounds, but our picks are approximately a 70/30 balance. >> ambassador nominees with a highly sarcastic remark. he said quoting, i have no more questions for this incredibly highly qualified group of nominees. a verdict could come any moment now in the case of michael dunn, as jury deliberations enter their fourth day. he's the florida man who allegedly killed a teenager during an argument over his loud music, michael dunn, charged with first-degree murder, but he claims he shot jordan davis in self-defense. >> reporter: the only new development in this case came this morning, that's when the jury sent a message out to the judge with more questions,

questions about whether they could consider the charges against dunn separately. dunn is facing five separate charges in addition to first-degree murder, he a's facing three counts of attempted murder. each of those counts could carry a sentence of up to 20 years. throughout the case, the defense has maintained that dunn acted in self-defense. they claim he saw a shotgun aimed at him and fired back in a panic. the prosecution has said this was premeditated murder, that he shot and killed 17-year-old jordan davis deliberately, continuing to fire at the suv with three more shots even as it was pulling away. day four now of deliberations. not clear whether we will in fact get a verdict. but the courtroom is empty, everyone awaiting that jury to come in perhaps this evening. gregg, back to you. >> we're keeping an eye on it. i know you are, stevesteve, tha very much. in case you haven't had enough, more snow is on the way,

from the mid-atlantic to new england. and while some forecasters are calling for a lighter batch of snow to blanket much of that area, blizzard conditions still possible in some places up north. meteorologist janice dean at the fox extreme weather center. >> to see two intense nor'easters in such a couple of days is very rare, than's exactly what we're going to see across the northeast. also want to point out, we have some snow flying over the northwest, and another storm system over the northwest giving that much needed rain and northern snow. the travel is difficult across portions of washington and oregon. let's take a look at this, we're talking about the airport delays, all of the new york area airports have some sort of delay, laguardia is now at a ground stop, newark, we have got two-hour delays for you. philadelphia an hour delay, but all of the new york city airports, every single one of them have delays. just keep that in mind, that's going to give us a ripple effect

across the country. reporting live snow across the country, in providence we have light snow. we have a live shot of boston where they're really starting to see the snow move in. they could ski over six inches and the winds are going to be relentless, 50 to 60-mile-per-hour winds as the storm cranks up. look at the wind gusts we have over the area now, we could get wind gusts almost hurricane force across coastal massachusetts, cape cod and the islands. as this storm cranks up over eastern canada, the winds are going to get really dangerous. you can see it almost looks like a hurricane on the water vapor imagery. and we're going to be dealing with a clipper system monday into tuesday, that's your forecast for today, anywhere from three to six inches, some

areas could get over 12 inches for maine. look at the snowfall fill in as we head for wednesday and thursday. all of these areas could see from three to six inches of snow. and we'll be monitoring this, and i know you're supposed to be traveling on tuesday. >> yeah, it looks like it's going to happen to me all over again. groundhog day. >> i'll see what i can do, i'll make a call. >> okay. all right, moving on now in the south, it is another awful day without any electricity, crews are making some progress restoring power in hard hit south carolina after the worst winter storm there in ten years, about 125,000 customers state wide have no power. in georgia, 100,000 customers are without electricity after this week's ice storm. south carolina residents cannot scheeem to catch a break these days a small earthquake adding to the winter weather problems, shaking up south

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breaking news in the michael dunn murder case, there's michael dunn accused of killing a young man over loud music.

we have just learned the jury hasached a verdict on four of the five counts, they appear to be hung on the fifth count. the judge has brought the jury in. this is a dynamite charge where he tries to push and shove and cajole the juror into going back into the jury room to deliberate more. >> i am required to read to you an additional jury instruction. i'm going to read that instruction to you now. and then i will provide a copy of it to each one of you when i'm finished reading it. i know that all of you have tried hard to reach a verdict in this case to each of the counts. it apparently has been impossible for you so far. sometimes an early vote before discussion can make it hard to reach an agreement about the case later. the vote not the discussion might make it hard to see all sides of the case. we are all aware that it is legally permissible for a jury to disagree. there are two things a jury can

lawfully do, agree on a verdict or disagree on what the facts of the case may truly be. there is nothing to disagree on about the law. the law is as i told you. if you have any disagreements about the law, i should clear them up for you now. that should be my problem not yours. if you disagree over what you believe the evidence showed, then only you can resolve that conflict if it is to be resolved. i have only one request of you, by law, i cannot demand this of you, but i want you to go back into the jury room, then taking turns, tell each of the other jurors about any weaknesses of your own position. you should not interrupt each other or comment on each other's views until each of u you hayoud a chance to talk. if after doing that, if you still cannot reach a verdict,

come back into the courtroom and we will charge the case on that count. you may now retire for further deliberations and we will provide you a copy of this instruction. >> sure enough, the judge read what's known as a dynamite charge, an allen charge, it's a standard jury instruction in most jurisdictions of the wording approved by higher courts that really tries to get the jurors who are hung up on one or more counts to go back to the jury room and try to reach a consensus. you heard the judge reading that standard jury instruction. in case you're just now joining us, we have learned that the jury has reached a verdict in four of the five charges against michael dunn accused of killing a young man over loud music, he claims self-defense. but he's charged with murder and attempted murder. and so now the jury goes back to

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>> it seems a majority of americans absolutely disagree. a brand-new fox news poll shows 674% of voters think the irs' targets of conservative groups is an example of corruption at that agency. this comes as several democratic senators believe it or not are calling on more tax o' ---ahead of some tough re-election bids ahead of their midterm elections. let's bring in bob kuzak. before the break, we showed the president in the o'reilly interview, basically saying it was just some bone headed decisions by a couple of bureaucrats in the senate office a. since the president made that claim, the ways and means committee has released e-mails including one from lois learner in which she calls, quote, the

tea party matter very dangerous cincinnati should probably not have these cases and we know that it was then sent to washington. dealt with by five deputies and associate chief councils. doesn't that utterly undermine the president's claim? >> there is no doubt about it that the tone that the president took in the o'reilly interview, vastly different than last year when this came to light nearly a year ago, when he said this was inexcusable, was outrageous and they were going to get to the bottom of it. and clearly washington was involved was obama asked for the irs head to step down. it's been almost a year and there's been no indictments and i think the president could have been getting ahead of himself. why? because as you mentioned the ways and means commission is looking into this.

>> the e-mails may be the smoking gun in all of this. they came up with new rules specifically targeting conservatives and they did it, we learned in the hearing recently, they did out all in secret. look, bob, does it look as though, to the average person that, you know, this is a president who's trying to sweep the irs scandal under the rug? no punishment, no accountability? >> the tone is just so dramatically different, we're in an election year, the president is aiming to just make sure that the democrats retain the senate. so i think he's trying to make this, the republicans a partisan issue in the house. that's the danger for him in the senate. that's a bipartisan -- certainly the president wants to move on, he wants to talk about other things, o'reilly pressed him on it and he made those comments. we'll see when those investigations are over whether

that's what they found. >> it's always the documents that underlines your claims. but look, here's the other thing that we're finding out about. just when you think the folks in washington would want to counsel the irs to, you know, you got to back off concerning these conservative groups, it's not fair. here we now have some democrats in jeopardy this this election year, achnd they are calling fo more scrutiny of the irs, can one conclude because they may care less about alleged corruption and more about perpetuating their own power getting re-elected? >> he did say i want both the left and the right targeted, but clearly these democrats are getting nervous. they actually have cash advantages over their republican competitors, but they see these conservative group who have a lot of money, and by the way, there are superpacks on the left that are not happy with what the irs is doing, they want an

active irs both on legislation and -- i think what you stayed before is right. is that the administration doesn't want to talk about this and i think they're going to tell the irs or at least it's assumed, don't be active this year, because you got in a lot of trouble the last time. >> all right, here's something that i think is pretty stunning to most people who are really looking into this seriously. the obama administration appointed a a large done for to the obama campaign to lead the justice department's investigation. isn't that a blatant conflict of interest that in the end may only diminish the credibility of the probe? >> i was surprised by that, gregg, it's a dual investigation, there's one republican, and one democrat, but it's a democratic donor. how can a donor not have a conflict of interest.

that's not the end of the story, all of these investigations still haven't panned out. the chris christie investigation is going to go on for a while. certainly on the one-year anniversary of this comine ingi light. >> bob, good to see you, thanks scotch. appreciate it. >> all right, we're keeping an eye on the florida courtroom, we just learned from the jurors in the michael dunn jury trial that they have reached a decision, a verdict on four of the five counts. now we don't know if that's guilty or not guilty. they're hung up on the fifth count. they were told by the judge go back in there and continue to deliberate. so when we get a verdict, we'll continue to bring it to you. that does it for this hour of america's news headquarters. stoszal is next. i'm beth...

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