tomorrow, cheryl casone will have the latest companies hiring and laura ingraham joins us. and sports illustrated swimsuit cover model. >> there is a tease. >> you're going to be back tomorrow? >> i'll come back tomorrow. bill: fox news alert. some 200 passenger and crew members victims of a hijacking and authorities say the copilot commandeered all of it. welcome back to you, jamie. >> i'm jamie colby in for martha maccallum. this ethiopian airline was headed for rome and landed in

switzerland instead. >> reporter: it happened overnight at ethiopian airlines flight 702. while it was still in african air space the alert went out that the plane was hijacked. that came from the copilot who locked himself in the cockpit when the captain went to the bathroom. there was a request for asylum and the government not tampering with the person involved in this hijack. then the plane was diverted to switzerland. after -- after several circles he land. then the cockpit window was

popped out and the copilot lowered himself down on to the tarmac. bill: why do they think he did this? >> reporter: there is a history of hijackings and attempted hijackings, but rarely by employees. according to authorities in switzerland, the man could get as much as 20 years in jail for hostage taking. as for the folks on the plane, and there were 140 italians among the passengers. they are being bussed to milan, italy just across the border. they will be rejoined with their families. post 9/11, there is a lot of

security paid to cockpit security. but when it's an inside job ... >> there have been several hijack attempts off the past five years. a ukrainian man tried to divert a plane to so chicago. a hijacking attack was topped by 6 men in a majority muslim province in china. a man in jamaica was cap secured after a 6-hour standoff. >> the fbi is investigating a pipe bomb found in a carry-on bag in alaska. the luggage belonged to a man scheduled on a fight who headed to a northern reserve in alaska.

he claimed it was an avalanche device. the device had no trigger and investigators say no one was in any danger. bill: unemployment still higher than many americans would accept. january's unemployment rate down slightly 6.6%. five years agree when president obama signed the stimulus plan his advisers predicted the unemployment would be 5% by now. is the stimulus working? did it ever work? charles payne is with us now. how do you see this five years later? >> i think the verdict is in. it's an unmitigated disaster. it was a whole lot a money and a whole lot of hype and a whole lot of promises that were never

met. it was so primarily a construction and shovel-ready thing. they put 400,000 people to work. them were going to to work on the road and levee. they took credit for 600,000 jobs being saved, but 300,000 of them evaporated. bill: i thought of street in america was going to be black topped in a year. that's what i thought. am i stupid or what? >> there was the mayor of miami, he said we have a trillion dollars of stuff ready to go right now. let's fast forward. the american society of engineer came out -- of four years they

grade where our infrastructure is. the bridges got a c plus. dams are at a d and the levee are at a d minus. bill: i remember when we sent camera are out and six guys were work on a bridge. five years later our economy is still sluggish and americans are dropping out of the workforce by the thousands. and obamacare is on track to track 2 million more jobs from the workforce accord fog john cornyn. >> you would be debating it if it was a success. up would see confetti falling from the sky. shop of the me trik i see coming

d some of the metrics i see coming from the white house, they making things up. bill: what came of all that money the total the president signed off on which immediately rated $480 billion, $. $291 billion and tax breaks. $260 billion on contracts and grants and loans, and $261 billion on entitlements, leaving $24 billion left to get the economy up and going. what do you think of the stimulus later. @billhemmer. martha has some time off with the family. or at? >> jamie colby tv. shocking developments in a

murder linked to the classified website craig's list. one woman is a pennsylvania woman. she set not only did she commit the murder she is charged with. but she killed 20 other people. it's a confession that came from a jailhouse interview. rick leventhal is with us. >> reporter: the philadelphia office of the fbi has been called in to help investigate. but so far will only say the contact with police charged miranda and her husband with murder last december. then miranda posted a craig's list ad offering sex for money. a man met her in a parking lot and agreed to pay her for sex. her husband was hiding in the back seat and strangled and

stabbed miranda. she so she killed 22 others and she stopped counting. >> the thing she said if she got out she would do it again. >> reporter: police are looking to see if there are unsolved murder that fit mirren a's claims. >> i will ask you before we go what the next steps are in this investigation. it's a hard one with this many murder to investigate potentially. >> reporter: there are a lot of claims she has to check out. this girl said she had been sexually abused when she was 4. that's a claim her mother verified. she said she joined a satanic cult. and she set she considered

sparing miranda. police said they were work on her possible connection to these other killings. >> very well spoken. very wild mannered. and very polite. she was very polite and just very soft. she never hesitate on anything she said. >> reporter: she said she only killed people who did bad things and didn't deserve to be here anymore. >> a bit later bill will be talking to former lapd homicide detective mark fuhrman and whether we can believe all these claims. bill: we are just getting rolling here, 10 minutes past the hour. a rescue operation for a group of miners trapped underground. but some of them say they want to stay there.

what is that all about? >> the funding of obamacare. there are new questions being raised add finding hhs secretary kathleen sebelius may be scrounge up private donations to keep promoting the website. bill: the president accused of going around congress and shaping the law the way he want it. >> the president need to come to congress and make the case to congress on the policy merits and then it's up to the congress to act. it's not up to the president to make this the law by the stroke of the executive pen. helps reduce the risk of heartisease. it seems that 80 is the new 18. grannies, bless your heart, you are bringing sexy back! eat up. keep heart-healthy. live long.

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african-americans from south korea. the bus had just stopped at a checkpoint at the israel-egypt border. bill: the president has made 29 changes or delays in obamacare so far and democrats argue it's perfectly legal. republicans like nor like me say otherwise. >> this is a shameless act of shameless power grab that is designed to help the president and his political party achieve a particular outcome in a partisan election and that's wrong. the constitution doesn't give the president that power. the power belongs to the people. bill: what about that? katie powers and kirsten powers, he called it shameless, what do you call it? >> i agree with the word

"shameless." you had the white house compare the republicans to suicide bombers and hostage takers because they wanted top delay obamacare one year. fast forward one year and you have the president doing it himself unilaterally. it's not just republicans saying this. you have jonathon turley saying we have an important constitutional crisis on our hand and it's important to pay attention to executive power in this case. bill: the point he made is it was not just shameless in lee's word before it was done for political reasons. >> i think jonathon turley is an unimpeachable witness in the sense he did vote for obama and he's a constitutional scholar. and i would take seriously what

he says. he points out that president obama criticized george bush for all this signing statements which turley thought was a grab and thousand he durns around and does this. a lot of people say this is a tax and they have a right to do changes in the implementation. so there is disagreement about that. but it does seem the president has decided to ignore a lot of things he was critical of when he was running for office. bill: the democrat from california with chris wall as. whachris -- chris wallace. he said you tweak it here and there, that's within the president's discretion. it seems the tweak has gone on steroids. >> we are talking about tweaks that are politically convenient.

and big tweaks, delay of mandates for particular businesses instead of individuals playing favorites who gets out of obamacare and who doesn't. and it's creating more uncertainty in the marketplace. going back to what was said before. the white house openly mocks people who were openly causing this delay. they say the many the law, congress cannot change this law because this what is it is. the house offered a bunch of different bills trying to delay obamacare legally through the conscious am process. now you have president obama coming back and doing it in a way that seems to be legal. >> does that argument hold up when democrats say you need this flexibility to make the business of obamacare run, despite the fact that one of his big mandates will be delayed 6 years

before the bill was signed into law? >> it's a fair thing to say that there need to be some flexibility. but it does need to be legal and comport with the constitution. it's the same kind of argument that can be made when the president has a kill list. then people say he need to be able to do that. that's a nice opinion. but it does the comport with the constitution or the laws of this country. i think that what you need to be look at. katie points out here that he is sort of picking and choosing. there are a lot of people who have been stuck, individuals who have been stuck now with coverage that is not as good. maybe even more expensive. people who had coverage and who are going without coverage. why are those people stuck in the system? he should have delayed everybody. it's not fair for him to be -- to be picking out certain

people. bill: there are those who say the individual mandate will be delayed as well. i think you both make a good case about turley and the legal challenge that may or may not come. we'll take that up in 30 minutes. jamie: we want to report new violence in syria. still world leaders are trying to negotiate a truce but is bashar al-asaad really serious about peace or is this all a waste of time. plus this. you know what you are doing, but you can't stop. bill: stunning details from the death after star on a reality tv show about religious snake handling. >> if you are not raid in this you won't understand it. it takes time to understand it.

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or go to lifelock.com/notme. bill: a snake handler jamie kutz is dead from a snake bite. witnesses say he was handling rattle snake in kentucky when a snake bit hip on the hand saturday. he originally refused treatment. >> i seen hip get bit. he picked up the snake and kept going. he was a firm believer he would not go to a hospital. he says you get bit. you either die at home or god bring you through. bill: pastor coots son says his

father had been bitten 8 times but never had a severe reaction until now. jamie: new accusations that syria is not serious about peace. john kerry is calling on russia to help out and stop sending weapons to the assad regime. >> it's very clear that bashar al-asaad is continuing to try to win this on the battlefield rather than come to the negotiating table in good faith. jamie: major general bob scales is a retired u.s. army general and analyst. >> assad merely agreed to back off on the battlefield and show up at the conference table in geneva and conduct a dialogue

with the insurgents. he didn't make that's specific problems particularly as it relates to what military action he's going to take during the peace talks. you know, jamie, this is a page out of the insurgents' handbook. insincere dialogue always is a means to run out the clock. restock, rearm and repair for the next round of a war. there is nothing that's going to come out of these talks that will help the insurgents. jamie: what is the motivation for secretary kerry to call russia and say stop getting involved. what expectations are reasonable from russia? > >> this is the obama philosophy. remember he said i'll hold out my hand if you unclench your fist. this is congenital behavior in

this administration. they turn to players who are good actor or bad actors and they believe talking. but isn't it interesting that most of the deaths that are occurring in aleppo and homs from barrel bombs are occurring while the talks are going on, not while the fighting is going on. jamie: where are we in all this. the syrian foreign minister says the u.s. involvement is a disincentive. but secretary kerry hasn't admitted that. >> this is a civil war. sectarian civil war. it will burn itself out the way all civil wars do. one end will end in exhaustion and one side will end

triumphantly. and it looks like assad has this in the can. jamie: thanks for your insight on this. bill: is this an obamacare shakedown? republicans are slamming reports that kathleen sebelius might be soliciting donations for the healthcare law. jamie: 11 miners were brought back to the surface who were trapped the for more than a day. hundred more are thought to be underground but why are they refusing to be rescued. >> we managed to give them water through a small opening that's available.

bill: about 9:30 in new york. emergency cruises working to bring more miners to the surface in south africa. hundreds may be underground. many of them afraid to come to the surface afraid they will face illegal mining charges. what's happening today, paul? >> 11 miners that have come up to the surface since this drama began early this morning.

but since yesterday 22 in total have emerged'. rescue authorities say there could be 300 more underneath where i'm standing here. too scared to come out because when they do emerge first they are given a great thorough medical examination. they don't complain about that. but then they are promptly arrested by police for illegal mining. the situation here with illegal mining in south africa is so bad they made a movie about it. the movie like these illegal miners is called qdamadama" which is south african for jackpot. ' there are thousands underground throughout south

africa illegally mining. south african place say so far they arrested 1,000 illegal miles an hour and that's just this year and we are only in february. bill: what a story that is. we'll be in contact with you as these developments unfold. jamie: new concerns that health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius may be soliciting private donations to help promote obamacare. news of the fundraising efforts broke last may striking outcry from republicans who called an unethical shakedown. byron york is a chief political correspondent and a fox news contributor. these new revelation are interesting and they came about from a freedom of information act petition that was put forward by your publication the washington examiner.

you got your hand on some emails. how damageing are they to the secretary sebelius? >> they appear to show the department of health and human services may be asking for private contributions to fund the rollout and pro mose of obamacare. the original accordable care act does not provide for of any money to implement obama care even if it went well. and it doesn't gone well. so we learned last year that hhs was soliciting some outside groups for money and now the washington examiner susan crabtree asked kathleen sebelius' office are you still doing that and they will not answer the question. some of these peoples are with groups like h and ao dh & r blo. and it's not clear what kind of money is changing hands.

jamie: the fact is that the money that's coming in from private organizations is pretty big. including from a non-prove it, the robert wood johnson -- a non-profit robert woods johnson organization that comes under health and human services. is it illegal for them to do this? >> there is a law called the anti-deficiency act that prevents this kind of thing. if a federal regulatory agency is asking a business that it regulates for money, i think the conflict is obvious. the robert wood johnson foundation is the biggest ...

$14 million. that's no small sum of money to do this. there are laws that prevent this. what we saw last time this was in the news, republicans in the house issued a lot of questions to hhs. didn't feel like they were completely answered. so we'll see that all again. we'll see darrell issa and other republicans asked more questions of hhs. it stands to reason given all the problems we have had with the rollout that they would be asking for money. jamie: you say it's against the law so hopefully your petition to get answers will move forward. byron york from the washington "examiner." bill: workers at a volkswagen plant in tennessee voting down a proposal to join the united auto workers union. >> reporter: it's a big deal

because there are a lot of non-union automobile michiganers, particularly near the south. while this vote may have turned back the union in chattanooga it may have also ignited a new union drive to get into those plants. the union president issued an inflammatory statement after the loss in chattanooga calling it an experiment in new forms of right-wing zealotry. he says it reinforces the fact that there is a powerful new form of organizing emerging. but the uaw out of detroit posted a campaign saying volkswagen workers were braving ice and snow to come in to vote. workers who dismissed the union says if you compare union manufacturers with non-union

shops the advantages have clear. >> who is growing, who is moving forward. who is paying their people great and who is not. look at detroit with there are city blocks of empty houses? what's the common denominator there, the uaw. >> reporter: the uaw he says. that's mike jarvis, one of the team leaders in volkswagen. one of three people instrumental in turning back the union from the inside. hourly workers have a say in how the plant is run. mike jarvis says he thinks that's's the way to do that without the hourlies having to join the union. bill: how big a blow is this to the uaw. >> reporter: it's a big below. it boasts over 1 million members.

and they say the union survival is organizing these transplants. even though they lost in chattanooga, watch for the uaw to take aim apartment mercedes-benz and. jamie: proud parents of a remarkable toddler. this 3-year-old girl is making history joining the ranks of the brainiest people on the planet. bill: could the president end-round congress backfire for democrats in 2016? >> the biggest problem we are facing right now had to do with george bush trying to bring more and more power point executive bran' and not go through congress at all. that's what i intend to reverse yes i'm president. jamie: an arie

of the youngest geniuses. she has been accepted into mensa. her iq is 160. the average is 100. her parents say she showed exceptional skills as early as 2 years old. >> we would be driving around in the car and she would recite the bedtime stories from the night before. not just recite them. recite them correctly. they are trying to decide if she should start kindergarten early. i started college at 14.

what's the rush. i save she takes her time. bill: is president obama setting a dangerous precedent by making changes to obamacare? if republicans take the white house analysts say executive action could be used to dismantle the law. you have looked at this topic. are the analysts right, that a new president by way of executive order could take apart the law? >> they are absolutely right. when you look back through the past presidencies, other presidents used executive order, some even more than president obama. butr but not on massive things like he's doing. and i think the american people

understand the definition of separation of powers and understand the constitution. yes a future president could do that but i'm not recommend knowledge it because i don't think the american people want that. they want congress to make the law and they want the president to enforce the law, not to interbreath it and not to change it. bill: on that point, a democrat from california, here is what he told chris wallace. >> the president is not trying to rewrite. the president said imgoing to work with congress. but when congress decide not to act, this is perhaps the greatest do-nothing congress we have seen ... bill: what do you think of that? >> i think he's flat wrong about that. the president is going to work with congress. if congress says no we we have a legislative and constitutional authority to do that. to say yes or no.

if that doesn't please him. then's going to go around us with his phone and pen. his phone is to be used to work us and his pen is to be used to sign-in to law legislation that we pass or amended. so this is totally wrong. the american people know it, both democrats and republicans and they won't stand for it. report rfort why not bring some legal case? or why has that not happened? >> a letter has been written and i'm part of that letter. i don't know how many members. maybe 30 members of congress have written a letter to president challenging his issue. there are things we can do. you look at it from the policy standpoint whether to impeach the president. i had so many constituents say why don't you impeach sometime in there are more things to consider.

but i promise you when we get a republicans president in 2016. we'll control the house and senate and things will be done through committee process because that's the way it should be done. bill: you are part of the doctor's caucus. in the minute i have left. give me a sense of how this law is being enacted and how it's rolling out. what the president would argue is millions of people are seeing the benefits of it. if they are where do you find them. >> 3 million -- at this point in time it would be 7 million. the president of course made all these changes. 18 to date, the ones he wants to change. how about the poor working stiff, the middle class americans or the young morning is not 26 and on their parents' policy anymore and they are 27

and they have got a job and they are not eligible for any subsidy and he's not going to delay that fine, that mandate, that tax? john roberts at the people court happened to call it? i think this is absolutely totally wrong and the doctors and hospital -- and not just them but the small businessmen and women -- you know, they don't know what to do. bill: you are right about that. i'm out of time. but many are starting to argue the individual mandate could be delayed as well. it's just a question of when. phil gingrey from atlanta. jamie: the government funneled hundreds of millions into the solar industry. how much do the taxpayers have to say about it? bill: he missed his wife's pregnancy and delivery while

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bill: a hero's welcome for 15 national guardsmen returning home from afghanistan. among them a guardman who missed much of his wife's pregnancy and birth of his son. but he he it was worth it because he was taking a difference in the world. >> there is no words to describe when someone couples to you and thanks you for saving their lives and getting them off the

battlefield. >> he serves his country with pride. bill: welcome home. jamie: thank you for your service to say the least. some questions are being raised about the future of solar energy. advocates claimed so lahr would compete with fossil fuel plants. but despite millions in federal subsidies taxpayers don't have a lot to show for it. william, good morning. >> reporter: the plant i'm going to show you is state of the art but in many what is it was obsolete the date was built. it lights up the desert. boiling water driving steam turbines to generate electricity for 140,000 homes.

>> reporter: these are technologies that are really getting to be marketplace competitive and certainly in the future low carbon economy we can expect to be important parts of the energy mix. >> supporters say this does for solar what the hoover dam did for electricity by plug into the existing grid. jamie: i assume there are critics. >> reporter: they call it a white elephant. there is a mandate suppliers by the power at 3 times the cost. small rooftop systems are more popular than these big plants

underwritten by tax breaks. still supporters say there is a business for solar. >> there will be a significant role for big projects. natural gas is killing solar on price with new gas plants 25% less expensive. consumers save they don't want to pay more just because it's green. the plant has a bird problem. the bird burn up when they fly through the heat. bill: a pair of missing skiers after an avalanche bury them. jamie: there is a mini miracle on ice. the u.s. hockey team beat team russia on its home ice in a shootout. we'll talk to one of the captains of the 1980 miracle on ice team.

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>> 10:00 here in new york. fox news alert, the snow keeps on coming down. millions of americans at the mercy of mother nature and the never-ending winter. taking part in a large part of the u.s. and that is where we start now. forecast in a moment. we welcome you to "america's newsroom." jaimie: happy to be in. latest weather system excited to drop several inches of snow from the upper midwest all the way to the northeast. bill: here we go again. meteorologist maria molina has not had a day off since like september. how goes it? good morning.

maria: it is a little bit of good news in the forecast. as he mentioned, our storm system impacting parts of the midwest right now producing snow across wisconsin, minnesota, down into iowa and into this area across northeastern iowa into central illinois, that is where we have freezing rain coming down. a bit of a concern because that is not snow accumulation. that is ice accumulation and could be as high as a half an inch in central illinois, generally speaking a quarter of an inch of ice accumulation out here. the roadways will be treacherous in central illinois and further west across missouri and into iowa. we actually have a freezing rain advisory in effect due to the freezing rain coming down. and then we had further east. it is right in here, new hampshire and parts of maine

we have a winter storm watch in effect. four to 8 inches of snow inspected and the rest of the northeast will be seeing that snow. only a couple of inches, but travel will be treacherous. in new york city the snow will be coming in tomorrow morning for your morning commute. as he tried to head home from work you will be dealing with slippery roadways. take a look at the forecast, still cold in the northeast, but tuesday and wednesday mid-40s in new york city, southeast warming up in atlanta, you could be in the 70s by thursday, 70 in little rock as well and looking good in the city of dallas. a warm-up. bill: a phenomenal year, even for folks like you. really phenomenal. the storms have made it a season to remember. detroit hit a record 39 inches

of snow last month, almost 10 inches more than the snowiest january. 35,000 domestic flights cancelled since the first of december, the most since the winter of 1987. jaimie: a tragic end the search for skiers. recovering their body from a route on star mountain. part of a seven-member group. live from a los angeles newsroom. tell us how it happened. a number of avalanches on that mountain. >> that is right, janie. this area has seen so much snow in the past two weeks, it is extremely dangerous to ski or snowboard in the backcountry and parts of colorado just in the past week alone there have been three fatal avalanches on

saturday, seven skiers triggered an avalanche, to skiers died, three were hospitalized with several broken bones and in one report of a collapsed lung. >> when the cell phone call up, he hit the button and had to bounce off and go through. >> death and injuries come on the heels of two separate avalanches in colorado. one killed a skier, the other a snowmobiler. the avalanche information center issued a warning saying the dangerous conditions are because here you had so much snow recently the snow lures backcountry skiers skiers and snowboarders to areas that are very prone to avalanches right now. jaimie: is it a very common occurrence? how rare are they? >> that is a great question. we have some video of a skier being overtaken by an avalanche.

the skier coming down a mountain, taken out. it is good video, that is people skiing. every year avalanches kill 150 people worldwide. eight people the last 10 days. that is just because so much snow in these areas, they are very prone to these avalanches. jaimie: it is also a draw to get people to the mountains. everyone, be careful out there. thank you for the latest. bill: five minutes past the hour now. stunning words for the democratic lawmaker who is defending president obama's use of executive orders to change key parts of obamacare. he compared it to a national emergency that warrants unilateral action. >> when congress can't pass bills, when congress shuts down the government, the president

can't just sit there. >> the president is supposed to just sit there. >> if we have an emergency, the president is supposed to just sit there? you never know if something might happen. i would hope we would never have a chief executive who would twiddle his thumbs because congress can't get their act together. bill: fox news contributor, how are you, pal? what did you think of that defense? >> i think have year is probably one of the best spinners he has in congress but that was one of the worst performances i've seen from him or anybody in a long while. the idea somehow trying to fix a broken health care law unaterally over the heads of congress and the legislative branch is the same thing is trying to tell a foreign vision or some other national security threat is absolutely ridiculous

and i think he kind of knew that but he didn't have any place else to go and it just kind of fell flat, i thought. bill: what did you feel about the argument that no one has sued, no one has been successful in a lawsuit to stop the president therefore it must the constitutional. what do you think of that argument? >> that is one of the lamest in most bizarre standards for whether or not this one public official should determine if something is constitutional or not. come is meant take an oath to uphold the constitution, don't take an oath to uphold pending a lawsuit. that is not a standard for which we decide if something is constitutional or not. first of all, there are a lot of lawsuits, losses take time to work their way through the court. one of the reasons we have nothing lawsuits on a lot of this unilateral stuff by the president is the supreme court has a pretty well-established rule that says you can't claim to have standing in the lawsuit symbosimply because you are a

taxpayer. need to have three criteria to figure out whether or not you can sue the government over something. it is very difficult to figure out how a normal citizen or normal group can claim to be harmed by delaying a law that hasn't gone into effect yet. bill: he says he is trying to use the flexibility that congress has bestowed upon him to the constitution itself by giving him the power to execute the law. you can have the flexibility want salon assisting turns out okay. this kind of like what we had about a week ago, getting flex ability to businesses to go ahead and change and readjust things. only in this case you have a mandate on a law that will not go into effect for some for six years after it was signed into law. speaker even the "washington post" editorial board, which those guys i don't see every

year, criticize the president pretty strongly to basically just ignore the plain text of the law. this is a minute to go into effect after december 2013. his argument is it is still going to effect after decembe december 2013 but instead of january 1 when it is supposed to go into effect, it will go into effect in 2016, 2017 or whatever. it's like going to the doctor saying you know, you're going to die. eventually did true, eventually we're all going to die. eventually this is going to go into effect. obama is just keeping it beyond the midterm elections in a way that is negatively political but almost every objective observers point of view and defines the black letter of the law. bill: thank you. we'll talk again soon.

jaimie: he is a little bit busier than that, but good remark. the new claims the nsa could be spying on american law firms. we will talk to peter king, plus this. >> i need to get her out because she was around or whatever, i did what i had to do. bill: that is a has been jumping into action to save his wife from an icy river. jaimie: remember this, 1980s, miracle on ice? the u.s. hockey team that pulled off a stunning win over the soviet union. we'll talk the captain of that legendary team. we will ask him on this year's team could be headed for a mini miracle of its own against russia. bill: saturday morning was awesome. jaimie: looking good. bill: 3-0. we beat the russians on russian soil. come on. that is up next.

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bill: has been saving his wife from an icy river in north carolina. slick roads and sent his car sliding into a river as she was driving to work. she called her husband for help and he was there. >> hollering and screaming and i couldn't understand what she was saying. said below the house. i slowed up and looked, it was deep down in there. bill: well done. the woman's husband added he just did what he had to do. she was said to be okay. well done. jaimie: new questions about the nsa and whether it is now spying on u.s. lawyers. the top-secret document by

edward snowden shows an american law firm was monitored while representing a foreign country during a trade dispute with the united states. peter king is a republican from new york, number of the house homeland security committee and a big defender of the nsa and its tactics. welcome, thank you for coming in. >> thank you. jaimie: i assume than what you are going to say what they did, the nsa looking at these trade issues the law firm is handling was correct and proper. do we know if there was a warrant and was one needed? >> nothing done was illegal. he is not making an allegation. they were monitoring the deal involving indonesia. over the course of its they had conversations with america law firms. gave the information. after reading

"the new york times," they comply with everything that had to be done to minimize impact on the americans and any violations of privacy. there's no indication that information was given to anyone to improve their position in the organization's. jaimie: you know as an attorney you take an oath of privacy. if anybody goes to their attorney's office, they expect that it will be privileged and that it won't be disclosed. the american bar association in 2012 actually loosened up the requirements a bit by saying you just had to take reasonable efforts to keep matters secret. this is a game-changer? >> i don't think so. if you are thinking with something conducted lawfully, a case .-ellipsis went the supreme court and held opinion the nsa was entitled to have this information.

especially in this case it was australian intelligence and indonesia is a terrorist hotbed. again, everything was done legally. it was not anti-american targeted, no violation of privacy's as far as americans are concerned, information from another agency and making sure all the requirements were met. jaimie: what is the value of what edward snowden turned over and why is it now former presidential candidate ron paul is talking, see? >> ron paul, every court has won, it is constitutional. you can debate the merits of the policy, consistently held to be constitutional and also we go through the whole list of them, conservatives say it is controversial. it is absolutely disgraceful.

what he has done here is wrong. senator rand paul has an obligation to put his opinion out on this because he has inherited many followers. whether or not he things a person i consider to be a trader should be given clemency. jaimie: if it is closer to where he may get clemency, what is in your power or your intent to do about it? >> race issue as much as we can. the president the right to give pardons, give clemency. this should be an all-out political and legislative war over this. rand paul has an obligation to speak out now. he is inheriting the followers. if he can criticize what they supposedly did, rand paul has an obligation to speak about ron paul.

jaimie: really appreciate it. bill: karl rove encouraging his party not to go after the strategy before 2016? >> if she does run, democrat or republican's had better describing what they are for and away alone into work with mrs. clinton and easier to say what you are against, harder to say what you are for. bill: should some topics be off-limits? that fair and balanced. jaimie: the so-called craigslist killer sensually were dozens of people to their deaths, it has no regrets about it. where does h investigation go fm here? >> you can take everything she said in the interview and all the numbers she threw around and all that out, but the most surprising thing was if she got out, she would do it again.

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bill: no regrets. that is what woman feels about luring almost two dozen people to their deaths. miranda barbour is her name and her husband now both behind bars charge to the stabbing death a man they met on craigslist. she claims there were lots more victims saying when she hit 22 she stopped counting. i can pinpoint imap where i find them, it is like watching a movie. that is not all she said. fox news contributor, former lapd homicide detective, good morning to you. >> good morning, bill. bill: now we know a little more, she is 19, what do you think of her claim?

>> that means she started when she was 13, and certainly when you talk to reporters, not talking to police. we don't know if she will talk with authorities but on first blush here are we talking to somebody with mental deficiencies or can she back up her claim? law enforcement will put together everything they can on every place that she was geographically present for a possible homicide or disappearance, they will get a list together and try to talk to her. she has got to make them a believer, just got to give them a method and cause of death, specific of homicide, a description and placement of the body and what she did with it or how should left the body. that is where we start. if she can't do that, they are probably going to do what they can but they will not be able to put together the pieces. bill: apparently was she said was you joined a satanic cult and alaska when she was 13.

she says she can pinpoint bodies in california, north carolina, texas and back in alaska. i think the point you raise is a fair, legitimate one. is she right or is she crazy? and then the question has to be what is her husband telling police in separate interviews? >> absolutely. is he backing her story versus simply they craigslist robbery scheme gone sideways? he is strangling the victim with a cord, she stabs him. pretty sloppy, not the work of a serial killer. serial killers are organized. this is a disorganized robbery gone bad. it almost sounds like she's trying to make yourself something that she is not, but she has an opportunity if she can place the location or the condition of bodies in

california or north carolina or alaska, she can make detectives of labor but they will not waste their time. she has to come forward and talk to them about the most specific case and then they will take it there. bill: how often do you find individuals like this posting of other claims trying to make themselves as you just put it bigger than what they are? drawing more attention to them and what they have done? >> we have had a few in the last several years that have led detectives on wild goose chases almost like taking them on field trips to get out of jail. and it has not panned out. perhaps it is something that is a trend that the infamy of serial killers is so enticing that somebody in jail would rather be an infamous serial killer than just a two bit robber that turned murder.

bill: as you say once again, you don't she can deliver. we will see if that is the case. jaimie: three u.s. officials kicked out of venezuela amid rising tensions. the situation, thousands of protesters taking to the streets. we have a full report ahead. bill: can they win gold in three decades after the miracle ice? the rivalry is hitting backup. we will talk to the captain of the 1980 olympic team and get his take on the sochi games and his memory from 1980 and more. let's go for gold, usa,come on. too small.

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steve, good to see you, who are these demonstrators and what exactly do they want? >> once again, university students in the lead against the government, trying to bring him down. most of the nonviolence but a group of core violent protesters as well for the television station in venezuela being joined by some members of the middle class who are opposed to the high level of crime and inflation in venezuela. even in venezuela. a lot saying they are battling for democracy in the home country. >> they are just asking for a better life, asking for more. no channel, no radio station what is going on. even trying to show them on twitter.

>> as is normal, he blames the united states, he is doing so in this case and has kicked out three u.s. diplomats, jaimie. jaimie: interesting. has u.s. issued any warnings arresting opposition leaders? >> there is a caution for venezuela not to arrest one of the key opposition leaders, he is a 42-year-old harvard educated former mayor. right now lopez is in hiding and says will turn himself into the government for a rest after major peaceful protest tomorrow in venezuela. bill: olympic updates time now. one u.s. skating team a step closer to gold after becoming the first american olympic champions in ice dancing. watch here. nicely done. one for gold later in the free

skate. bronze medal makes history. 36, the oldest ever in alpine skiing. he took the silver medal, and the men's hockey team with a pair of victories over the weekend. watch. >> backhanded it, grabbing toward the net. bill: coming on the heels of saturday's sudden-death shooto shootout, man was this a great game. you missed it, america. the game-winning goal, dramatic shootout, victory echoing the miracle on ice when the team of american college students stunned the soviet olympic team. mike eruzione was the captain on that team. how are you?

>> good morning. bill: were you sentimental saturday morning, what were you feeling? >> it was amazing. i got up nice and early and sat by the television set and got caught up in the emotion of the game like everybody in the united states did. i am not a big fan of the shootout, but i'm glad we were on the right end of it. as i said many people, this is just the beginning, it will only get more exciting. bill: the russians are ticked off because one of the referees was an american and i thought a call that went against them sunk the team. i think the next generation of americans, if i may, do not understand the gravity of your victory in 1980. not only were you playing the soviets, not only rusher back then, they could pull players who were all professional. you are college players,

amateurs. i can pull from ukraine, delivers, latvia, lithuania, georgia, on and on and on. and you guys win. >> it is the same for the players. they want to win the gold medal. we don't win the olympic games as the underdog anymore. if we don't comment will be disappointing. in 1980 clearly it was a different situation, average age of our team was 21 years old, not professionals, we were college players against the professional players from all the other countries. i think the state of the country was very different. remember the cold war, the soviets were the enemies. we don't have that political enemy anymore in ice hockey. our country is looking at this more as a hockey game where in 1980 it was more of a political game. bill: you had the nuclear threat as well.

i think it is like taking johnny manziel and 21 other college players this year and beating tom brady and the seattle seahawks and the best of the nfl. do you think that is fair? >> i think it is fair. after 1980 said it would be like a group of canadian college football players beating the pittsburgh steelers. the analogy was very similar. it is a hockey game, athletes believe you can win. but this u.s. team is capable of winning this whole tournament and they felt that going into the tournament. in 1980 nobody expected anything from us at all. we expected a lot of ourselves, we wanted to play well, as it turned out we were able to do that and i am sure that is the mindset of this team. they are confident, they are good, and i am looking forward to see it.

bill: so they are 3-0. did you expect going to the games they would win a gold or be a favorite for gold or were you not quite sure? >> i thought they would be a favorite for gold, we almost won a gold in vancouver and 10 of those players are back. no doubt this team is one of the favorites. it is going to be tough. if they win that game, they will probably play canada and if they win that game, they could beat the russians again. this team was picked to win a medal. and i think they will. bill: you are right, we have a long ways to go. we heard on abc saying how nervous he was during the shoot out. i did not get that sense, but clearly he felt that. >> i didn't either. have to ensure the one comment.

he said i ran out of moves. it was great. when he was going in were kind of watching skating with him, that is what is exciting. it is pretty cool. bill: lovey patriotism. he made seven members of the family go crazy in 1980. thanks again. mike eruzione. >> thank you. and hopefully we will do it again. bill: you bet. usa. thank you, mike. jaimie: so exciting to meet anybody who has medalled before. my fingers are crossed, i have a good feeling about it.

bill: a lot of games, keep it rolling. jaimie: somebody has some explaining to do. sites like groupon trying to fix a big mistake involving a $10 bill. bill: former president bill clinton, is he fair game for republicans if they go up against hillary clinton? if so, is that an effective strategy? mitt romney was asked about that over the weekend. >> he embarrassed the nation, he breaches responsibility as an adult and as a leader in this relationship, and that is very unfortunate.

bill: on this presidents' day groupon is apologizing for a mistake. an honor to alexander hamilton.

he was never a president though. he established our financial system and was a first secretary of the treasury, but he was not a president. jaimie: not now, not been, not ever. bill: nevertheless, we can honor him today. jaimie: we will take it. former governor and presidential candidate mitt romney with tough words for president bill clinton saying his affair with monica lewinsky embarrassed our nation and it won't be an issue of hillary clinton runs for office in 2016. listen. >> times he was president were by and large positive times the country. on the other hand, he embarrassed the nation, he breaches responsibility as a leader in a relationship, i think that is very unfortunate but don't think that is hillary

clinton's to explain. she has her own vision for where she would like to take the country. jaimie: was the marshall, talk talkshow host, fox news contributor and radio talkshow host for the new england talk network. welcome to both of you. what are the realistic expectations about issues president clinton had coming up with hillary clinton decides she will make a run for president? >> mitt romney was asked about this, but we talk about bill clinton. the idea this is going to be a key part of the election of the future is nonsense. as is part of hillary clinton's problem. she has to go back to kathleen sebeliuthe1990s to find a momene she was somewhat relevant, that is hillary care. hillary care is a precursor to the biggest policy failure in the past 40 years as obamacare. cap talk about today because obamacare stinks, and can' cap k

about the 90s because it was try to screw up health care and stand by her cheating man. jaimie: will she have to talk about what president bill clinton did in the white house in a run-up to the race, decision to be in the race and perhaps residents of the white house? >> first of all, michael, the fact that you can inject obamacare into question about mitt romney and hillary clinton and an affair bill clinton has, i have to you for that, michael. that you can connect those dots. as a woman do you ever notice, to the men who run have to answer for their wives were politically active or otherwise? everyone will question what was the role for the first man be. but as a poster husband's record in the past, i think it is very sexist for us to even consider that we would look at that.

she has a political career on her own as a senator and secretary of state. jaimie: you were bringing up obamacare. giving you kudos for that in her answer but what about, you skipped over the time hillary clinton was secretar sef state, what about the issue of foreign affairs? >> she will run on a record of fiasco after fiasco, she has no compass meant at sectarian state. she got elected as a democrat, a stitch never lived in and she did exactly nothing. does not mean she is not smart or capable come it means she has no record. i want to go back to leslie as a woman. would you have stood next your man if he had done with bill clinton had done? would you have said everybody leave him alone, you're picking on him reedit no, you wouldn't, you are a real woman, i cannot imagine women rallying around him. jaimie: it is tough to

speculate. but you see bill clinton as a plus or a minus for hillary? will she have to do strategic analysis and planning in terms of handling questions with what she still has today. >> quite frankly people would say it is very admirable. i would kick my husband to the curb politically active or otherwise. but with hillary and bill, that is beyond old history. this the man loved by the world, he will be an asset to her not only in this nation but also worldwide settlement with this experience, he is one of the greatest speakers of our time, a heck of a fundraiser, people love him, and a lot of people

actually look at the welcome somewhat of a package deal as he certainly helped to advise her as first man. jaimie: fair and balanced, i am sure both sides of that one. thank you so much. good to see you. bill: a close encounter with an asteroid. how close you wonder, and how worried should we be? you are about to find out. life could be hectic. as a working mom of two young boys angie's list saves me a lot of time. after reading all the reviews i know i'm making the right choice. online or on the phone, we help you hire right the first time. with honest reviews on over 720 local services. keeping up with these two is more than a full time job, and i don't have time for unreliable companies. angie's list definitely saves me time and money.

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bill: coming up at the top of the hour, more news on obamacare including why some doctors are leaving their practices. they say the new rules are just too onerous. but that means their family and with the health care law will mean for both parties, november

midterms. karl rove with thoughts on that. and this winter has been one for the record books. sso-called and midwest that the great lakes are freezing solid. it will go along for a ride on an icebreaker keeping shipping lanes open. we will see you in seven minutes, top of the hour, "happening now." bill: thank you, jon. an asteroid is set to pass close to earth the size of three football fields flying through space at 27,000 miles per hour. how close will this get to us? >> the great news here is this particular asteroid will not be causing a massive extinction of our planet later tonight. at its closest distance to planet earth, this asteroid will be the length from us here on the planet to our moon multiplied by nine. about 2 million miles, not a threat to humanity.

the telescope will begin live tracking of the flyby tonight at 9:00 eastern time, which you can watch online. this is a very large asteroid, nearly 900 feet long, as big as three football fields but also as big as intrepid aircraft carrier that sits on the west side of manhattan. imagine something that size slamming into earth. the media that exploded over russia last year was just 30 meters in diameter. that explosion carried more energy than a large atomic bomb. bill: you had the story today, we will be here tomorrow. where are we in identifying the near earth objects posing a threat? >> it is a non-stop program. among the scientific and astronomical community out of jpl in california, they have near earth object program, other

nations, other universities and observatories looking up and out for threats to our planet. the 11,000 near earth objects have been discovered and identified, many with diameters of at least 1 kilometer. one way to protect the planet is to capture and redirect it using the gravity of a spacecraft, and that is a space mission nasa is currently working towards to pull off sometime in the 2020s were a spacecraft would fly out to kind of lasso if you will with gravity, and asteroid, redirected into a new orbit around the moon and land asteroids on it. bill: that would be one heck of a field trip. see you soon. jaimie: this winter's historic snowfall not only clogging up roads, but shipping lanes on the great lakes.

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bill: 150 years ago today a confederate ship made history becoming the first-ever submarine to sink an enemy warship. that confederate sub was the h.l. hunley raised by crain off the coast of south carolina. in 1864 is sank a union ship as the south tried to break a northern blockade. the hunley went down during that mission. scientists are trying to figure out exactly why, 150 years ago now. >> if they didn't figure it out yet -- bill: pretty big mystery at sea. >> great to be with you, bill. bill: see you tomorrow. we celebrate all our presidents today. >> even the ones that weren't. bill: happy birthday to george washington. >> i'm jamie colby. bill: i'm bill hemmer, see you at 1:00 later today. "happening now" starts right now. jon: today's top headlines and

brand new stories you see here first. >> five years ago today as we were dealing with a massive recession the president zioned his equally massive stimulus plan into law. did we get what we paid for? a question we will ask today. disturbing twist in a murder investigation. a teenage suspect accused of luring a man to death on craig's list, claiming there are many more victims. we'll get into that. a pilot hijacks his own plane. what he was demand something all "happening now." jenna: to our top story, democrats going on the offensive on obamacare. hi, everybody, great to have you today. happy presidents' day today. i'm jenna lee. jon: i'm jon scott. democratic candidates hoping to change the narrative on the health care law ahead of the midterm elections. "the new york times" today reports more democrats talking openly about props with the president's health care law but trying to emphasize that they want to fix