take caring. everybody. jenna: breaking stories you will see here first. jon: a lost first-time buyers are missing out on their dream of owning a home. the reason why might surprise you. plus, bullying of kids could be a lot worse than you think. what we're now learning about the impact on victims long after they leave the schoolyard. and a dramatic bus crash cause on camera. more about what police now believe the driver was doing. it is all "happening now." jon: president obama set to make a big announcement just minutes from now. welcome to the first hour of "happening now." i'm jon scott. >> hi, everybody. great to have you with us. i'm jenna lee. the white house says the president will order new fuel efficiency standards for trucks, once again raising questions about his use of executive power. peter doocy outside of the

white house with more on this. peter? >> reporter: jenna, the president literally bypassed congress in his motorcade on his way to a safeway grocery store distribution center 30 minutes away in upper marlboro, maryland. when he is getting there he will be told the that epa and department of transportation that they have got until the end of march 2016 to come up with new fuel efficiency standards for heavy trucks, 18 wheelers, big vans and big pickups for mod kel years 2018 and beyond. the first set of these similar standards for model years 2014 to 18, cost companies combined $8 billion to implement. the administration says it will save them $50 billion over time and the white house says by 2018 these new standards are going to save the owners of new 18 wheelers $73,000 over the course of each truck's life. the white house now also

highlighting environmental benefits, just like the president did in his state of the union address. >> when we rescued our automakers for example, we worked with them to set higher fuel efficiency standards for our cars. and in the coming months i will build on that success by setting new standards for our trucks so we can keep driving down oil imports and what we pay at the pump. >> reporter: with secretary of state kerry's comments this week that compared climate change to weapons of mass destruction today's event reinforce, the administration's commitment to dealing with with climate change. but presidential events and announcements like ones today are really bothering republicans on capitol hill because lately they don't feel like they have a say in new federal initiatives. >> his phone is to be used to work with us and his pen is to be used to sign into law legislation that we pass or amend this is totally wrong. the american people know it,

both democrats and republicans and they will not stand for it. >> reporter: so congress might be cut out but the white house is teaming up with big companies that use a lot of these heavy trucks like at&t and coca-cola, offering to help them implement electric vehicles and some vehicle that is use alternative fuels. jenna. jenna: interesting story today. one of our top stories. peter, thank you very much. a little later this hour we'll look at what these new rules will actually mean for drivers on the road. that is coming up in a little bit on "happening now." jon? jon: as the president, jenna, prepares to make that big announcement, republicans apparently want to take a break from the spotlight. reportedly they're trying to shift the focus back to the botched rollout of obamacare and all the other problems with the law. they're hoping for a strong showing against democrats in the november midterms. what does that mean for the prospect of new legislation? ellison barber is a staff writer for the "washington free beacon" and joins us now. the hill.com is reporting that essentially republicans want to

take a break from writing big legislation. nothing big will be coming into the pipeline up until the november midterms. does that strategy make sense? >> it does actually. if you think about where they're at, they talk about the divide between the gop and big issues like immigration reform where they will not have enough votes on republican side, they will not have a majority for the hastert rule, majority of the majority to pass big legislation. it is better to let thing sit back, let focus stay on affordable care act and we'll go forward from there. why give anyone else fodder to try to attack us doing something else, immigration reform will not pass anyway so let's sit this out. jon: story in today's "washington post," comprehensive immigration reform, tax reform, tweaks to the federal health care law, bipartisan deals are each are probably dead in the water for the rest of this congress. some people might say that's a good thing. you know when congress doesn't do awful lot, we have a mountain

of regulations in this country already, when congress doesn't pass a lot of new laws things do pretty well economically and elsewise. >> house gop says they plan to pass a lot of different smaller bills but that will be more legislative issues their constituents will care more about. for most of those people, the republican mind set is we want to keep the house and try to pick up the six seats of the senate to take control of the senate. you do have vulnerable democrats over there, kay hague again, mary landrieu, ma, pryor. they think it will be feasible to take back the senate. they don't want to stir up too much trouble an keep obamacare in the focus and hammer democrats. jon: the president is constantly complaining that this is a do-nothing congress. does it play in his hands or republican as hands to sit back and play small ball? >> it might a little bit. but republicans will pass to smaller pieces of legislation. they are passing legislation and pass it to the senate.

it is likely things that will not be picked up in the senate. we are passing things but might not want what harry reed wants and senate is not choosing to take it up. i don't think it entirely plays in the democrats hand. you can spin it from both sides. jon: that seems to be harry reid's plan last couple years. republicans send bill after bill in the senate and they sort of vaporize and don't go anywhere. >> they're not getting anything done. immigration rerecall to the idea that was going to be passed anytime soon i thought was a little bit ridiculous. you go back and look. they have two fundamental different approaches to tackle immigration reform. house said they wanted to do piecemeal as soon as gang of six passed comprehensive immigration reform john boehner said that is dead in thes house. i don't think it is surprising they will put it off to the side for now. jon: we talked about the president's complaints that this congress doesn't do anything. he famously said he has a pen and got a phone and he will use them. you heard representative gingery

say he will use his phone to work with us. he will use his pen to sign the legislation that we author. if the republicans especially in congress are not inclined to pass big legislation doesn't it give the president more ammunition look, i need to make more of these executive pronouncements? >> i don't think so. i don't think republicans will bend on the argument. jon: but he is doing it. >> he is doing it either way. that brings a whole host of different problems president he has to explain with representative gingery going after that saying i'm not sure this is legal. i think that end up becoming a different issue. the main focus republicans want to stay on is the affordable care act. i don't think that is bad political strategy. you think of canceled plans in the fall of last year. president gave a year-long extension. that extension is up in october 2014. they're coming up with same problem with canceled plans. if they are not grandfathered again they may have to cancel in november. and reportedly considering adding extension to that for three years. the white house is apparently

floating around the idea. either way that doesn't look good politically for democrats. republicans let's stay on think, he seems to waive the requirements of obamacare just passed in the next election. >> that is something politically he has to account for. republicans will run on strategy of repeal and replace. there is idea floated around maybe they will run on repeal and just fixing obamacare. any republican i talk to said we're not absolutely doing that we're sticking with repeal and replace. more people coming out in the senate with the coburn-burr-hatch legislation where they present all the terntives. they say we not only want to repeal it but here is the plan to go in place. jon: we'll see what happens the section seven, eight months. ellison barber, the "washington free beacon." jenna. jenna: there is plan underway to bring home the only known american prisoner of war. 27-year-old sergeant bowe bergdahl was captured by the

taliban in pakistan in 2009 according to some reports. the obama administration is reconsidering a decision to take five high-ranking taliban members held in gitmo for his release. jennifer griffin is at the pentagon with this story. jennifer, what is the administration's plan as you know it today? >> reporter: jenna, in the last week u.s. officials appeared to floated several trial balloons through the press suggesting that the administration would be waiting to trade five taliban detainees held at guantanamo bay for bowe bergdahl. all five would be released into the protective custody of doha, qatar where the taliban have an office. this prisoner exchange is not a new idea. it has been floated before by the state department. it appears to gain some traction among u.s. officials since mid-january. there is no evidence any preparations have been made to move the detainees from guantanamo bay. by law the administration would have to notify congress 30 days in advance of any transfers.

pentagon spokesman admiral john kirby was careful when asked about a possible trade. >> he has been gone too long. he is not just a member the bergdahl family. he is a member our family as well. we want him back. we never stopped trying to bring that about. >> reporter: u.s. intelligence agencies intercept ad video of bowe bergdahl last month from the taliban. it was the first video of the american p.o.w. in three years, jenna. jenna: we talk about the taliban as one big group. according to reports he is held by the haqqani network based in pakistan, a very dangerous group. what has this looked like over the past two years as far as progress and trying to engage members of that specific terrorist group? >> reporter: well the attempt to reach out began, jenna, the attempt to reach out and negotiate with the taliban began when the obama administration took office. it has not born fruit. even this latest effort appears to be in a early stage.

bergdahl is widely believed to be held as you mentioned by the haqqani faction of the taliban in pakistan. so far pakistan has done little to assert its influence over the haqqanis. >> they're supposed to be our ally and truth be known they act against our interest time and time again. i'm confident our bought put some pressure on afghanistan to give up this guy because they know where he is. they're very tied to the haqqani network. >> reporter: for the bergdahl family they're in the terrible position of having to watch and wait and see what happens. jenna? jenna: we will as well. jennifer, thank you. jon: permanently scarred by bullying? next we will take a look at a new study laying out the long-term mental and physical effect that can plague victims really all of that lives. plus an alarming report about student loans and the housing market. coming up how too much debt is putting the american dream of owning a home out of reach for many young people. david asman to talk about it.

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jenna: now a little bit about the housing market. soaring student loan debt could end up sinking the housing market. that is according to a new report showing loan applications for homes declining the past few months and first-time home buyers are not stepping up to purchase with many finding themselves unable to buy homes because of those student loans. let's bring in david asman of the fox business network. david, how can student loans be responsible for a slowdown in the housing market? >> well, again we're talking about one section of the housing market which is the first-time buyers and they tend to be younger people, people definitely younger than 40, sometimes people younger than 30, but people that have a lot of student debt. this is one of the unintended consequences of government trying to get involved in every aspect of your life, education and housing. jenna: new regulations is that what you think?

>> not only housing regulation. the push that every american needs to have a college education to get ahead. not only push for that, but backing that up with tax dollars in terms of loans and grants. look at these numbers, student loans in 1981 totaled $7 billion. by 2013, that is the most recent year we have figures, it is 105 billion. these are inflation adjusted figures. that is the huge increase. federal grants increased to 49 billion a year. focusing on the student loans, we have now $1 trillion of student loans outstandings. the number of folks below 30 who have $50,000 in student loan debts outstanding has troubled in the past five years. and these are the folks who are, have to pay that off if they want good credit standing f they don't think they will get government bailout. they have to pay that off. that means they have less money for mortgage payments. jenna: is it also, so that is a personal issue, not having

enough money to put down your first payment. >> yes. >> for a mortgage, for example. how do the banks view student loans? at the time student loans was thought of as different debt, not necessarily debt like owing money on a car for example. >> the other part, the government is trying to give everything everybody wants with tax dollars and there is not enough tax money to go around for that but they want to protect everybody from anything. they first want to protect first-time home buyers. that led to the subprime mess. how that backfired. they want to protect banks because of the fact the financial crisis almost ruined the country. there was the too big to fail thing. so they had bailouts. now they have all these banking regulations meant to help the banks and make sure they don't go into crisis mode again but at the same time they tightened loans, so it is more different cut if you have -- difficult if you have student loan debt outstanding. >> you're a dad, right.

>> my daughter living at home plays into this story. jenna: we have several stories and personal life, if you have a hire education you have a higher employment rate. >> yes. jenna: it is very difficult postcollege to get a job. there are a lot of choices and decisions going into further education. >> right. jenna: potentially getting a leg up on getting a job. if you had to choose between the two, being able to get your first home and go to junior college or go four years and potentially have a chance to get a better chance, what is the choice? >> you were doing the hand motion balancing the scales, the problem is in the free market there are millions of scales balanced in order to get the right mixed. when the government tries to do things by federal order, okay, we'll do this because it is good for young people to have a college education, something gets screwed up in the mix. that is what happened. too many rules and riglations just banging together and causing problems. jenna: pay back the federal grants because that would drop the cost of education?

>> the bottom line, ultimate goal of college education is good. student loans are not necessarily a bad thing but what they have done another unintended consequence is pouring into colleges and universities. what does that mean? that means colleges and universities increasing standard of living. liz warren famously gettinghundred thousand dollars a year teaching one course at harvard -- $300,000. they have fancy dormitories that look like holiday inns. they're spending money like crazy. what this new money toward education meant higher tuitions. that is why so many people under 30 have $50,000 or more of college debt. even ben bernanke, head of federal reserve, his son when he graduates from medical school will have $400,000 of debt. he will have to work his whole life to pay that off and probably won't have a house because of that. jenna: you heard it here first, david asman does not want the college dorm to look like a hotel. >> my college dorm, we were

lucky if we had two square as day. things changed quite a bit. jenna: thank you, jon. jon: took my college dorm and made it an office, david. >> i'm not surprised. jon: talk about hurt? a nightmare murder case. a teenager charged with killing one man claims she murdered at least 22 other people. now pennsylvania police want to question her again. we'll have a live report straight ahead. and what president obama's new rules to curb truck pollution could mean. we're bringing in some automotive experts just after the break.

jon: well, president obama wants to target trucks in the fight against pollution. the president requesting the epa to issue new fuel efficiency standards for medium and heavy-duty vehicles by march of 2016. so what will that accomplish?

let's bring in a automotive editor for foxnews.com, and joseph white, "wall street journal" global automotive reporter, i'm sorry, editor. thanks both you for being here. gary, my understanding there have never been fuel standards for these vehicles at all, is that correct? >> recently there have been minor ones introduced last couple years. this will be a big jump. they're looking for 50% increase in fuel economy. the federal government spent $270 million on a program called the super truck program. they're working with truckmakers to come up with technology to be able to achieve that. jon: will they be able to succeed, joseph? >> they might be able to succeed. there is a lot of room for improvement. some of what they're looking at it? that exotic. things like automatic shut down system so the engine, would otherwise be at idle will shut down. low rolling resistance tires. getting to the last 1% of caffeine-free. as you get up towards a 50% increase you will have to look

at exotic materials like lightweight aluminum. you will have to look at more exotic strategies within the engine to save fuel, possibly different fuels. it can get expensive depending how they do it, it is possible, gary to build a much more fuel efficient car if you use very lightweight, space age materials but it is expensive and somebody has got to pay for that. >> exactly. the operators of the trucks will decide if it is worth it or not. if you can save 10, $20,000 a year in fuel, that's great if it didn't cost you $30,000 to get there with new technology. we'll have to find out how much this is going to cost. jon: the american trucking association, joseph, is out with a statement saying, ata hopes the administration will set forth a path that is both based on the best science and research available and economically achievable. those last two words seem to be the key here, economically achievable. >> well that's absolutely right.

look, part of the rule making process here and the administration in its statement is at pains how they want to partner with the industry on this the industry will have a big hand in whatever standards they come up with. they will have a big hand in defining the exceptions and sort of the off-ramps and to some extent possibly the technology. so this is, this is the start of a process that will take at least a couple years and maybe longer. the initial round of these rules took a couple of years to put together. i mean the industry sort of has got two things going on here. one, customers, people who drive these trucks do want to safer the fuel and companies do want to market innovative technology and obviously get a premium for it. they have to find the balance and that is the tricky part. jon: gary, in automotive fuel requirements there has been a history of washington saying, okay, here's the standard you've got to meet. then there are delay after delay after delay. and the standards sort of go out

the window. >> yeah, what we're seeing right now, automakers are meeting the standards. most recent j.d. power dependability survey they're not loving new cars and high-tech transmissions fuel efficient engines. people like the v8s. when you go to four cylinder engines that is different. you can give up fuel economy and anything at all. jon: trucks are not exactly like cars. cars are designed to carry a certain number about of people generally. you have a family of four, five or six. maybe you get a bigger car but trucks, the range of product that is have to be carried on some of these heavy-duty trucks doesn't necessarily lend itself to this kind of tinkering, joseph. >> well, no. and you know you don't tinker with this these are commercial products and the technology has to make sense from a financial point of view to the big companies that buy these trucks and operate these trucks. the other thing you have to

watch for is the technology risk for the makers of trucks and truck engines. you don't want to have a standard that causes these companies to go out on a limb technically and possibly fall off the limb, fall on their face and that has and can happen. so there is a lot of risk here depending how far you want to go and how fast you want to get there. jon: all right. it's something we're going to be keeping an eye on as these standards roll out. joseph white from "the wall street journal." gary gasilu, foxnews.com automotive editor. thank you both. >> sure. jenna: the president will make his remarks about this specific segment of the trucking industry in just a short while. you can watch that live at foxnews.com if you like to see him speak today. we'll look at the long-term effect on bullying on kids. the mental, physical, emotional problems that can last long after the taunting stops. there is new report that parents

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"happening now" a new look at the lasting effects of the problem victims may have for the rest of their lives. interesting new study. also a terrifying ride, a bus veering off the road smashing into trees and a building. what police say driver was doing moment before the crash. government making plans to snap pictures of your license plate. keep those pictures in an actual data base. why they're doing it and why critics are outraged. jon: just in, the f.b.i. agrees to investigate the claims of a cross country murder spree. two young newlyweds charged with killing a stranger they met through craigslist, now the 19-year-old bride claims she has killed at least 22 other people. here is more on that. rick? >> jon, we came face to face with miranda barber who was moved here for processing here at the sunberry police department. she was shackled at the hands

and feet. we have exclusive footage of her arrival here this morning. she was brought in by a couple of sunbury police officers who are processing for fingerprinting for photographing and the chief of police here wanted to question her in regard to her alleged involvement in at least 22 other murders. he's made a formal request through her public defend to her ask her questions about that string of crimes she confessed to in an interview with a local reporter here but so far, that interview has not happened. she was charged so far with one murder along with her husband. they're accused of murdering troy lafarara, a pennsylvania man who answered a craigslist ad for $100. he was strangled and stabbed last year, his body found in an alley here in sunbury. i asked the chief of police about the possibility he and his department have now put an end to a long string of homicides. >> these people are not from here. they picked the wrong town to

dump their body. i have a good team of people here. took us three weeks to go from an unidentified dead body to determining who the perpetrators, alleged perpetrators were and then bringing them to justice. >> if it's true that she killed at least 33 people the last six years, you ended a prolific crime spree potentially. i mean, three weeks, she's here and she's in jail. >> i have a good team of people. she made the mistake of coming to sunbury. >> miranda barber did not answer any questions in or out of the police department headquarters. she seemed very meek and mild mannered. earlier this morning i spoke to the reporter who interviewed her in jail and asked them about her claims of being a satan worshipper. >> she's told me she was a high ranking official on a satanic panel. i don't know what that means. >> is that one of the reasons why she was killing so many people? >> she said that when she became

involved in satanism that whatever bad that was inside her, she was able to embrace it and let it out. >> police are hoping that she will at some point provide details on the other murders she claims to have committed so she can solve those crimes but so far, apparently she's not told police or law enforcement anything of the kind. jon: and she was so chatty with the other reporter but she didn't want to talk this morning. >> well, she told him a lot of things but until she tells investigators about the murders, it will be tough for them to solve any cases or connect her to any of those cases. jon: what a strange story. thank you. jenna: from that to this. some families know all too well that some children go to school every day, dreading their next run-in with a bully and now a study says there can be some serious lasting effects that far and the longer a child deals with bullying, the worst effect can be. researchers looked at more than 4,000 students in grades five

through 10, bullying victims report a higher rate of depression, aing detroit and fear, conditions that can last for years beyond school and victims constantly picked on can even have trouble with ordinary activities like playing sports, for example. charles williams is a psychologist, one of his expertise is this area of bullying and it's great to have you back on the program. >> jenna, thanks for having me back. jenna: i know you've looked at this area specific until your work but i'm curious just what your experience has been. were you ever bullied as a kid? >> yes. and i've also bullied myself. so that story is probably not uncommon for most of us. we probably have been on either side or we've observed someone being a perpetrator and/or a victim which is judge it's so important to talk about bystanders in all of this. jenna: we probably all have, witnessed it or participated in it as well. what is the dividing line now as a psychologist between bullying that can be potentially damaging

for years and years and the teasing that kids do when kids will be kids? what's the line? >> i think the consensus is we're looking for a couple of things. one is repeatedly being targeted and attacked verbally or physically. two, when they involve other folks. remember back in middle school, high school or even elementary school when you were teased, usually there were other students involved so bullies tend to involve other folks. the other thing is when there are people standing around and they're watching and either implicitly by not saying anything and not getting involved and not trying to stop it, they are aiding and abetting the bully or by laughing and saying, well, maybe this happens to a kid that deserves it. jenna: so multi layers of harassment. i feel grateful that i wasn't in milled school or high school and dealing with twitter and text messaging and facebook and all the other social media platforms that can compound that. one of the things that the study points out is that there's a

mucking up of the system, if you will, that kids when they're bullied have layers upon layers of muck in their system and it holds them back from performing better at school or sports. what clears that out? what can free them from the effects of bullying? >> well, you can involve them in things like the boys and girls club and things like boy scouts, girl scouts where they build their self-esteem, their confidence, where they're learning leadership skills which means you advocate for yourself and someone else who may be a victim. so anything that can build their leadership skills, their self-esteem, possible self-concept will be sort of the intervention or even a preventative kind of tool as it relates to bullying. jenna: one of the lead officers of the study says this. i think one key thing to take way from this is any adult who has any contact with children should know what the signs of bullying might be. what are the signs? >> one of the biggest signs, believe it or not, in this country, we have a problem with

truancy or school refusal. kids aren't going to school. well, we know that kids don't go to school when they're being teased, when they're being victimized, targeted by bullies so if you have a child, for those watching this program, and for some reason she's saying she's sick, she doesn't want to go to school but normally she does and she enjoys it, that goed be a sign of bullying. the research tells us, sadly, that boys and girls only tell adults 4% of the time. jenna: that's so few and far between and a lot of damage can be done. i noticed this one line, we talked several times on the air and i always enjoy our conversations but this is the first time i noticed this in the bio. you say the way you start doesn't have to be the way you finish. seems to tie into this, right? the way that you maybe treated in middle school or high school doesn't have to continue for the rest of one's life but how do you make sure it doesn't? >> you know, jenna, you read

that quote and i also listened to you the other day because i listened to you on tv and you said you wouldn't do high school over again for nothing. jenna: no way. >> because of how tragic it can be. i a degrgrdegree -- agree with but look at you. i'm trying to grow up to be like you one day. even though you may be in a dark place and even though you may be victimized, stand up for yourself. tell a caring adult. tell a peer that you can count on and realize that this does not have to be the end of your life and that more importantly, and more than likely, it will get better. much better if you're jenna or dr. chuck. jenna: sixth, seventh and eighth grade, these group of girls hung out. they used to make fun of what i was wearing every single day. that was like their thing. it was more teasing than bullying so i just think it is

interesting where people end up, you know, after awhile. >> they can watch you on tv and they wish they could wear what you're wearing and they wish they could be you. jenna: i don't know with that. >> the hard part about that is that kids think those days are going to last forever. they're always going to be in middle school, always going to be in high school and always having people picking on what they're wearing but it doesn't really sort of work out to be that way. those things don't last forever. life does get better. and this can be temporary, especially if you're being victimized. jenna: it's a good lesson and a good reminder for all of us, even where we are today. thank you so much. >> always a pleasure, jenna. jon: you know those girls are watching you now. jenna: i don't know if they're fax news fans but it is funny how things -- in middle school, do you think people thought you're going to be a television anchor one day? jon: no. jenna: it is hard to think about that when you're 11 years old

and getting picked on once in a while. jon: police are trying to figure out why this bus jumped a curb before veering off into a parking lot and look at all the stuff it took out. also, growing calls for the prosecution of north korea's leader after a u.n. panel reports on atrocities by the regime against its own people. we'll take a look at this troubling situation just moments from now.

jenna: u.n. panel is releasing a shocking new report about crimes against humanity in north korea, describing public executions, forced abortions, torture and other atrocities. now the u.n. may call for the prosecution of korean leader kim juning and other officials. joining us is the author of nuclear show sls down, north korea takes on the world. normally when the u.n. issue a

report, many shrug it off but many are calling this an unprecedented report on north korea. >> it is unprecedented. we've known about these crimes and worse ones for decades but the point is the u.n. has never done anything about it. the last march the u.n. human council voted to do this and to start the inquiry and china was trying to prevent it but they were able to overcome beijing's opposition. jenna: beijing's opposition? >> yes. the report named china. china has been repatriating them to north korea. jenna: if china stops doing the crimes against humanity, what would happen to the north korea regime? >> i think most north koreans would try to get into china. just what we saw in the cold war, when you had east germans and others go to the west, when the borders opened, i think the same thing would happen.

jenna: does china not want that? >> they want to support the north korean regime and they don't want the refugees but they're not really worried about refugees because they realize that if the borders were open that probably the refugees, if they thought the regime was failing, would go to south korea to be with other koreans. jenna: "wall street journal" has editorials from their board that says it's time for regime change and the time is now regardless of what's happening with nuclear negotiations or anything else. how would we do that? >> there are a number of things we could do. we could have much tougher embargoes and sanctions on the north. we sort of let up on the north recently because we're trying to negotiate with them. also, you need to deal with china and we have to say to china, look. you're either with north korea or with the international community. we have a lot of leverage to do that. their economy is in trouble. we're depending more and more on u.s. trade so we do have the tools if hadn't to use them. jenna: you mentioned we've known this for years about north korea. although this is highly detailed

and it's shocking and some of the detail, you've talked about this before and i'm curious why you think for so many decades we have stood by in some cases and allowed this to continue. and i wonder if north korea was in a different part of the world. in europe, for example, or the middle east, if it would be the same. >> it wouldn't be the same. the thing here is because it's china's best friend and because beijing has been supporting it, therefore, we've been much more patient because we've been looking to the chinese to solve the north korean problem and the chinese say don't talk to them about human rights. it will get them upset. they don't want us to talk about north koreans about human rights because they don't want us to talk to them about human rights. jenna: are we being weak? >> we are being feeble. it isn't just this administration. it was the one before that and the one before that. jenna: i have a question question about japan. china was very upset with us and with japan for not turning over

plutonium that we gave to japan. i only have about a minute here but we've been watching japan and china and their tensions. what's going on here with this argument that china is upset about this week? >> what china is really upset, about the japanese developing their own atomic bombs. that would sort of undercut china's position in the region. they want us to defame japan for them. we've been trying to say, well, look. we'll hold back japan but you have to hold back north korea. they've been supplying north korea with all this stuff and we've been holding back japan so this hasn't been fair. jenna: we've been covering a lot of ground. thank you. jon: necessary crime fighting tool or invasion of privacy? coming up we'll bring you the growing controversy behind a new homeland security plan to create a national data base of license plate information.

jon: new information now on a crime fighting plan that's already raising privacy concerns. immigration officers plan to use their smart phones to take high res photos of license plates, then save them in a new government data base. ice saying it will help find and track criminals but critics say it goes too far. chief intelligence correspondent has details on that from washington. >> thank you, jon. good morning. this program came to light after a notice was posted seeking a government contractor to build a license plate recognition data base for homeland security at one of the divisions for boarder and immigration issues. automated technology was developed to identify and track stolen cars and vehicles associated with felony offenses. cameras photograph the vehicle plates, turn that image into data that can be stored indefinitely. the homeland security program is being developed in secret.

>> it creates a comprehensive data base of where people go, what they do and creates a net that no matter how innocent you are, you can't escape having your movements permanently monitored and recorded. >> critics say the camera systems is often described as the most photographed city on the planet, are increasingly being used by small municipalities in the u.s. for two reasons. the technology is getting cheaper and the federal government is subsidizing this technology. in a statement, homeland security spokeswoman said the department, quote, is exploring the ability to obtain access to a license plate recognition data base, allowing officers and agents to identify subjects of ongoing investigations. the data base can only be accessed in conjunction with ongoing criminal investigations but critics of the data base say it can be used in conjunction with other controversial data programs and this creates an even more wholesome picture of

you, your routine and network of contacts. jon: and viewers might be familiar with the cameras. they're often perched on the back of a patrol car shooting down. they cruise through the parking lots. all right. interesting stuff. thank you. >> you're welcome. jenna: a new dash cam video being released of a bus crash in boise, idaho. bus carrying nine people jumping a curb, crashing through a sign post, through a parking lot and finally hitting a pillar. one passenger had a back injury but no reports of anyone else hurt. earlier the driver had said the bus had a brake failure. now cops say there's evidence that suggests that the driver was dozing off a little bit. he's pleading not guilty to a negligence charge. jon: crazy. new move by republicans in the house of representatives. how they want to stop the president from bypassing congress. plus a jury is deliberating now in the amanda hayes trial.

we've been telling you about it for awhile now. she's charged with you gruesome murder of her husband's former girlfriend. we'll be live with that verdict when it comes down in north carolina.

jon: big developments on the top stories and breaking news this hour. republicans on capitol hill push back against what they call massive overreach by president obama. how a new bill could clamp down on the president's executive power. jon: and we're on verdict watch in the amanda hayes murder trial. day two of jury deliberations underway in north carolina. jon: and one motorcyclist dared police to catch him if they can. well, be careful what you ask for. it's all "happening now." jenna: new developments on the politics of obamacare from what republicans are planning now to word of some early winners in the president's signature health care law. great to have you. i'm jenna lee. jon: and i'm jon scott. republicans today are vowing to

refocus on attacking obamacare and the rest of the president's agenda for the remainder of the year. this as we digest a couple of editorials out on the affordable care act. obamacare was so structured that it is crushing small business and killing jobs. it creates a major incentive for small businesses to cutback to under 50 employees to avoid the mandate. another "the washington post" editorial, kathleen parker wrote, quote, some people will quit their jobs because of marginal tax rates that significantly lower wages and feel it isn't worth it. subsidi subsidies go down as income goes up. joining us is the associate

editor and columnist for "the hill" and the chief political correspondent for the "washington examiner" and also a fox news contributor. the cbs report describes these as luckless people, mostly in their 50's and 60s. they lost their employment in the big recession and as a result of obamacare, they now are able to afford the health insurance they lost when they lost their jobs. how accurate of a portrayal is that? >> we know from numbers from the administration and the administration has not given us too many numbers that the people flooding into the system are in that age group, more than any other age group, obviously some are older. but those people are going to benefit enormously from some health insurance security that they weren't able to have either because of their job situation before or maybe recently lost job in the inability to find a new one. they are obviously going to be tickled and the interesting

things about what democrats do when they designed this flaw, they went after people who are sure fire, frequent and loyal voters, people in their late 50's, 60s and upward in age vote more than young people. the famed obama coalition that brought for the first time young voters to the polls are not likely if obamacare fails to stick with them anymore even though they're now pleasing this very active, politically active segment of the population. young people have until march 31 to sign up and become 40% of the population in the system or the system collapses. at this point, it doesn't look like they're looking at a health care program that they're going to want to sign up in, in great numbers despite the other group rushing into the system. jon: at the same time, if she's right, these folks are counting on obamacare to serve their health care needs until they reach medicare age. obamacare cut what, 3/4 of a trillion dollars for medicare.

>> it did indeed and we're hearing from a lot of seniors very unhappy about that but the bottom line question, with obamacare, has always been, is it going to help more people than it hurts? or hurt more people than it helps? yes, if you're 58 years old, you're underemployed, have an income of $18,000 to $20,000, it will help you. it will give you a subsidy to purchase insurance. on the other hand, if you're 58 years old, you work for yourself, you do not -- you make more money than is necessary to qualify for a subsidy. you could face a much more expensive policy with a deductible that's through the roof. these are tradeoffs that even supporters of obamacare talk about. what we do know in the big numbers is that really a rather small number of people are actually signing up. administration says 3.3 million people signed up for private health insurance.

20,000 of those haven't paid and we know a small percentage were previously uninsured. a large percentage actually had insurance before, may have been knocked off of it by obamacare and then they go to the exchanges to reup. so we don't really know how many people are being helped right now. jon: the administration is desperate to sign up more of the so-called ins vince -- invincibles, paying into the program to help make it economically feasible for everybody else. but with efforts like pajama boy, are those -- is that the best they're going to be able to do? >> well, in addition to the goofy events they've been holding with richard simmons and the likes to try to get people to focus on enrolling, there was a national youth enrollment and saturday the system went down and had to be done by paper. they've done anything, pub crawls and on and on to try to engage people. if you're a young person and you're being asked to take on a new monthly expenditure out of pocket that you haven't done

before and you read up on this program and you see what events we read about every week in the news in terms of the back end programs, enrollees not becoming actual insured people who might end up in an accident and find out they're not really attached to an insurance policy, what we're seeing about the delays and extensions in waivers the administration provides, why would you, if you learn the penalty was low, and the system had all these problems, sign up before march 31 when you probably figure something about it is going to change? that's the tough challenge for the administration. jon: we're gng to talk about some of this with a senator later in the hour. thank you. jenna: the president repeatedly saying he will take action without congress if necessary on key issues but some capitol hill lawmakers say he's overreaching. now house republicans are introducing the stop act. it's aimed at putting new limit on executive powers. here is more on this story.

shannon? >> the stop act is a house resolution with more than 100 sponsors who say it is time to hold the president accountable. the president shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed. g.o.p. congressman rice started the move which would launch a lawsuit by the house and says from the health care law to immigration, the president is ignoring or modifying laws in violation of the constitution. >> let me tell you, he may have a telephone but we have the constitution. all right? our freedom is under attack here. we cannot stand by and watch the president trample on the constitution. this is a concrete action. i don't think there's anything more important happening in the house right now. >> rice says he's working on getting some democratic colleagues to join the effort saying every american should be worried about an unrestrained president regardless of party. along with lawsuits and of course, elections, there are other options, though lawmakers are hesitant to openly discuss

them for fear of being labelled extreme. in a recent hearing on the hill, both lawmakers and the experts they called to testify broached the topic of impeachment. >> as i've said before, i think the ultimate check is elections but, you know, i don't think you should be hesitant to speak the word in this room. jenna: critics are pointing to the president's own words on the campaign trail in 2008 that one of the biggest problems the country was facing was then president george w. boush, quote, trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through congress at all. jenna: shannon, thank you. jon: now to a fox extreme weather alert and a fast moving winter storm causing big problems for millions along the east coast. take a live look at boston where the snow is steadily coming down at this hour. visibility on the roads at a quarter mile or less and

hundreds of flights cancelled or delayed across the region. winter weather proving too much for one strip mall in new jersey. heavy snow and ice causing the roof there to collapse. police and firefighters set up a perimeter around the building. luckily no injuries reported. janice dean is live with an update for you. >> those pictures are incredible. and yet, people have to worry about that because we've got so much snow pack on the roofs now and you know, the sidewalks, cases feet of snow that have not yet melted. we'll see a little bit of relief with some spring-like temperatures but of course, flooding with all the melting is going to be a concern. let's get to it. here is the latest round of wintry weather moving into new england. brought us a nasty rush hour commute for parts of the big cities across the i-95 corridor. this is a look at the precipitation not only from this storm but another one coming in on wednesday, if you can blef it. new england, you're going to get six to 12, in some cases higher togethers especially in the

mountains. say goodbye to this system and then deal with another storm pushing across the northeast on wednesday, mainly a rain event for new york city and southward but new england, you're going to get more snow so of course, we've got to be prepared for more snow on the mount ab tops and the rooftops and the dangers that that presents. warming this week. there's the good news. we'll get into the 60s on friday as another storm pushes through, it will be too warm for snow here. 52 for new york city on friday. 51 for boston and then we'll worry about rapid snow melt. next weather maker across the northwest could bring feet of snow, up to six inches of rainfallment avalanche danger is incredible across the regions. that's going to be a big story with up to four feet of snow for the cascades and this one is going to make a move across country so we'll see a lot of snow for the rockies and then the potential for a blizzard across the upper midwest. this is on thursday and then the potential for severe weather, including tornados across the

mississippi river valley on thursday and friday. and this is eventually going to push across the east coast on friday into saturday. so a good warmup for much of the country. however, with the spring-like weather, we'll see the potential for tornados later this week. jon: and a lot of flooding as well as all that snow melts. >> absolutely. it's going to be a busy springtime. jon: stick around. you'll be busy. >> i will. i'm here. jenna: more than 150 million tax dollars poured into just one state and that state's health insurance exchange. yet, no one has been able to sign up for insurance on it. and now one lawmaker wants to bring in the feds to investigate. full story coming up. and this. a daredevil motorcyclist takes to social media taunting police with a shocking video. how it all turned out, we'll show you. turbulence so severe on a

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jon: he thumbed his nose at the cops and thought he could get away with it. hot shot motorcyclist who dared police to catch him posting this online video that went viral, he might be singing a different tune now. here is more. >> yes. so follow this one under the dumb social media criminal. you know, some people have a strong need to post their every move on facebook and it's considered a huge score, you know, if i post a video that goes viral and this one surely did. motorcycle rider's name is alberto rodriguez and that's the name listed on his facebook page. no clever nicknames for this 27-year-old so here is the

video. he shows a motorcyclist dangerously rushing through rush hour travel in san antonio, travelling more than 100 miles an hour. rodriguez was wearing a helmet cam that recorded the wild ride. he taunted police by naming the video, catch me if you can. they did. someone posted the popular video on the san antonio police department's facebook page tipping them off. so turns out, investigators were searching for a stolen motorcycle when they found the man they suspected of being the wreckless rider. apparently rodriguez noticed the police nosing around and made a break for it. ran out the back door and police nabbed him. police also found the stolen motorcycle. rodriguez could face charges in connection with that stolen bike. he certainly is in trouble with the law. he's in jail and cannot post bond. he had three warrants. two felony warrants plus a misdemeanor on family violence. so there you have it.

jon: i suppose if they were smart, they might find something to do besides steal motorcycles for a living. >> then you shouldn't do that and definitely don't post it on facebook. really? who does that? jon: good they have their suspect because that was a really, really dangerous, stupid thing to do. >> you saw the video. he's weaving in and out. jon: scary to watch. jenna: now, the f.a.a. looking intu a terrifying incident on a united airlines flight headed from denver to billings, montana. severe turbulence sending several people to the hospital. william is live in los angeles with more on this. william? >> you know warning often ignored, please keep your seat belt fastened at all times? here is why. yesterday united airlines flight from denver to billings, montana, blue skies, smooth flight, preparing to land when with zero warning, bang. severe jolt, turbulence sends passengers flying through the

air. one woman lost control of heir baby, one man lifted off the seat and came down on the other side just as the plane began to roll. >> i felt the plane kind of bank to the right a little bit and then felt like we got hit from the bottom. >> at least one woman, her head -- she flew up and her head knocked out an upper panel on the ceiling and there was a woman behind us that was calling for a baby, that she had lost her baby. >> nobody was expecting -- and i do mean nobody. i think the flight crew was in the same boat we were. >> the turbulence lasted about 30 seconds. two passengers, three flight attendants injured. one remains hospitalized. united says the case is under investigation. one thing that kind of angered the passengers on board, no one even after landing came on the speak to her explain and reassure them, say what happened. passengers like that. chances are, the pilots were probably in as much shock and

relief as the passengers. back to you. jenna: but to not say anything? 30 seconds too long of that sort of experience for sure. william, thank you. jon: there's a danger for older people. what researchers say increases premature death and that can be done about it. politics of climate change. is it a good idea for the president and democrats to tackle this issue now right before the crucial midterm elections? we're live with more on that.

jon: fox news alert. we're just getting word of a fatal shooting involving a u.s. border ta patrol agent outside

of san diego. it happened 2 1/2 hours ago. no word on whether the shooting victim here, the deceased, is a border patrol agent or someone else. little information coming from the border patrol right now. they're waiting to confirm facts, they say, before commenting. it happened about 2 1/2 hours ago, just before 7:00 a.m. san diego time in the mesa area along the u.s.-mexico border. you can see the chopper flying over that general vicinity right now. the identity of the victim, the circumstances of the shooting, not immediately known but there has been a fatal shooting involving the u.s. border patrol just south of san diego. jenna: we'll keep everyone posted on that. meantime, president and the democrats putting climate change back on the burner this year. last time they tackled legislation to curb carbon emissions was four years ago.

now in another midterm election year, could the same strategy backfire again? carl is live in washington breaking this down. carl? >> hi, jenna. we'll not see an actual debate in congress this year but a heck of a debate on the campaign trail. the president has said he'll do it with executive orders. there's a whole series of steps that he'll undertake that the goal is to reduce carbon emissions by 17% by the end of the decade. it's a major campaign issue. it will play out big time on the midterm campaign and overseas a couple of days ago, john kerry was in i understand meesh -- indonesia. listen. >> terrorism, epidemics, poverty, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, all challenges that know no borders.

the reality is, the cloim ate change ranks right up there with every single one of them. >> back here in the states, there's a speech about every week for the last two years. in march a whole bunch of democratic liberal senators planned an all nighter in the senate to bring a highlight and put the spotlight on this. as you said, last time democrats tackled climate change was with legislation. in 2010, the democrats took over the house. nancy pelosi was the speaker back in those day. this time around, there are six democrats being targeted who republicans need to oust in order to take over the republican majority. there you see three of them. in the case of mary landreau, there are a couple of open seats, one in west virginia, dakota, two other energy producing states where these are

very, very controversial issues. the idea there would be restrictions on carbon emissions could be very, very dangerous for these incouple beens. they've been distancing themselves from the president over obamacare for months. the threat is that the president's unilateral action will be overreach, a backlash against the legislation and hurt democrats and put republicans in charge of the senate. jenna: interesting strategy. thank you. jon: resignations, delays and now calls for a federal probe. problems with one state's obamacare exchange so bad that the state still has not enrolled a single person. yet they've spent millions. we're on verdict watch in the trial of a woman accused of killing her husband's former girlfriend of the day two of deliberations underway in the amanda hayes' murder trial.

jenna: verdict watch now in the amanda hayes' murder trial as the jury deliberates are the first full day. hayes stands accused of the brutal murder of her husband's former girlfriend after a long custody dispute. her husband has already been convicted of murder. the defense team portrays amanda as another one of his victims, claiming she was coerced by her husband into helping him dispose of the woman's body but had nothing to do with the murder. the prosecution says the evidence tells a very different story. >> here are pictures from amanda in that hotel room.

this is a woman that is under duress. you can see her under duress, terrified for her life. afraid of what's going on, smiling the whole time. jenna: joining us is lis wiehl and doug burns, former prosecutor. let's start with the picture. that was the closing argument. they say, look. if this woman was under duress, would she be taking smiling photos with her husband? >> absolutely not. they also brought up the fact she is an actress, she gave her award winning performance. she had an extra role on the stepford wives, among others. so she gave a really wonderful performance. whether that will get her off the hook or not, that's where we have to deliberate. jenna: what do you think? >> i don't think they'll find first degree premeditated murder. jurors always try to find something kind of in the middle. second degree or they could find accessory after the fact. jenna: that's some things we've talked about, doug. this jury is the majority women.

>> nine women. jenna: but we had lawyers on yesterday that suggested women are tougher on other women. we can account for. doug? >> i don't know if i would subscribe to that. but this thing to me is a horse race and i'll tell you why, because you're sitting in the jury box, just break it down to the most fundamental element half of you are saying maybe she was bullied and he pull out a machete and the person who pulled the machete out has been accused of murder and dismembering a body. jenna: that's what she claims. when her husband told her first about the murder, he had a ma setty and his hand and put it against her leg and said you're going to help me with this. >> any legal defense is you can freely concede the facts. that's why i went to the store and brought all that equipment. i did it under duress. it's the old tie on this. if you scant square up with what you believe it or not, what do you do as a juror?

>> it's a beyond a reasonable doubt standard and that's difficult which is why she won't be convicted of a first degree. on the other happened, she admitted she was involved in it. one machete, i don't think -- >> lis has been minimizing this machete thing. jenna: so the jury only deliberated for like an hour yesterday. so now this is the first full day. here is what they did in the hour. they asked a judge for a diagram of the apartment and then they asked the judge as well for the meaning of acting in concert. what do you think that means they're going through? >> any trial lawyer will tell you that the process of jury notes seriously is probably the most important thing in a trial because it telegraphs what's going on exactly as you're saying in your question and so on. one working background is a legal definition. that's common. could you please redefine this? these are people off the street or lay people. acting in concert means more

than one person, ladies and gentlemen, got together, meeting of the minds. and mere presence of one person doesn't meet that. they have to agree. jenna: the definition acting in concert, can that go to multiple charges? first degree charge? you don't really know what they may be sglening in on. >> well, no. i think we do. they're acting in concert. that goes to not first degree or second degree but accessory either after first degree or after second degree and those carry very -- jenna: you think it's a god sign for the defense? does it's a decent sign but not a great sign. they're still asking about acting in concert. jenna: some things we don't know about this case. we don't know how this woman was murdered. >> you don't. jenna: and we actually don't know how the body, as disgusting as it is to talk about, was dismembered. they don't know where it happened. is that a big problem? >> it's a huge problem.

forensic proof in this case is a little bit weak and the funny thing is, if you took one thing out of the equation in this case, and lis highlighted this, her alleged statement to her sister but i hurt her, you would take that out, it would almost for sure be an acquittal case. >> but it's there. >> you take that coupled with her going to the store, buying all the materials -- jenna: she bought the bleach. >> but jon scott said what criminal is going to take a corpse to their sister's house? jenna: that jon scott. we need to have him on the legal panel. leave it there. the jury is deliberating. >> why would she go to her own sister's house? reasonable doubt. thank you. great to talk to you both. jon: i'm looking at the reasonable doubt. oregon was one of the most enthusiastic adapters of

obamacare. despite the bustling tech sector and more than $160 million of taxpayer money, oregon's exchange has yet to sign up a single person. sam is live in portland, oregon this morning with details. dan? >> yeah. the exchange's name is called cover oregon but the last five months it's been more like duck and cover oregon. there's been non stop glitches and even now an allegation of fraud. officials here had lost the ambition. they set out to design a system from scratch that would be the envy of the entire country, a model, really. but what they have is the biggest debacle in the u.s. 160 million dollars spent and counting and officials still can't tell us when the first person will be able to sign up online and now a former state lawmaker has gone to the f.b.i. with an allegation from the source who told him, cover oregon lied about how far along the website was, essentially

defrauding federal taxpayers. >> if the course is correct, then it means that the state of oregon deliberately deceived the federal government to get federal funding. >> two top officials have resigned. king said one misled him about the system's readiness. there's been so much money wasted, like $10 million spent on this ad campaign aimed at getting people excited about obamacare. the outrage has spread to washington, d.c. where last week the government accountability office received a request to investigate where the money has gone and where the oversight broke down. cover oregon officials are asked to identify the problems even as they continue to work on fixing them. >> we are happy to answer questions that people have about cover oregon and if there is oversight that congress decides to exercise, we'll participate in that fully.

>> now, people who need insurance coverage can still sign up but they have to do it with a paper application. it's 20 pages long and then wait for cover oregon to get back to them with their eligibility. about 35,000 people have done so in the exchange so far but we're told that that's not enough to keep the system solvent so there have been calls to scrap the entire thing. jon: dan springer who we are happy to report is covered by the fox news health plan, dan springer reporting from oregon, thanks. jenna: american airlines is in the process of hiring 1,500 new pilots over the next five years and casey is live at american flight academy in forth worth, texas. he got to moet a few potential pilots. casey? >> good to see you. if you've ever flown on american airlines, your pilot was strained right here in one of these gigantic airplane simulators that are back here behind me. any given day, there are dozens

of pilots working in here, including a very special 26-year-old. >> as a kid, they want to be a police officer, fireman or pilot. >> pilot was at the top of his list growing up. it was already in his blood. >> i've been actually a part of the american airlines family for my entire life. >> his father, proudly dawned -- donned the uniform until the morning our country was shaken to its core and tom's mother had to give the inconceivable news. >> when she came to my school, the only thing she could tell me was that jesus called daddy home. >> his dad was the copilot of american airlines flight 11, the first hijacked plane to hit the world trade center. >> from that point forward, i decided that i want to follow in his footsteps and i want to be an american pilot. >> now he's walking in the same halls at the american flight

academy as his father, one of 1,500 new pilots american is looking to hire over the next five years. this is the first time american has launched a hiring blitz since september 11. the reason? new routes due to the u.s. airways merger, a large number of upcoming pilot retirement and a vast expansion of its fleet. >> we're receiving approximately five new airplanes every month. over one airplane a week right now. >> tom can't wait to get behind the real controls knowing his father is smiling down. >> i really think he would be proud. >> what a story. americans flight academy runs about seven weeks long. part ground training and then obviously the sim training and then checklist floits in the air. the airline tells us they've received about 10,000 applications for new pilots but they are still searching. what an inspiration to talk to

that young man here earlier this week. jenna: that's a really special story. thank you. jon: loneliness can be painful for anyone but it's especially hard on older people and can even be harmful to their health. the frightening findings of a new study. we'll tell you more about that. okay, listen up! i'm re-workin' the menu.

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situation but when you have it up all the time, it can actually cause problems like high blop, depression, it can lead to problems with sleep and it could actually kill you. jenna: what do you think to the comparison of obesity? twice as unhealthy as obesity. you think of obesity as the biggest thing threatening our country. >> some much these things might be related. we see this with older people, let's say where a parent or grandparent may pass away and the surviving spouse kind of declines and pass away soon afterwards and we've never understood why. now we're seeing one of the reasons might be the stress hormones go up and also there's factors where let's say you live alone and something happens to you like you have a heart attack or something else. this might not be someone there to call 911. jenna: there's loneliness and then being alone physically that could add to this issue. >> and they go together. sometimes let's say somebody

gets arthritis which is usually common with older aimige, you mt be more isolated because you don't go out as much. jenna: one of the reed lee searchers in this said the world is experiencing a silver tsunami as baby boomers reach the age of retirement and people need to prepare for that part of your life and making sure you stay connected. as a doctor i'm just curious, does it matter if it's a connection face to face or with the explosion of technology? you could skype someone, face time them, email them. does it matter how you're connecting? >> i think it depends more about the closeness of those connections and how satisfied you are with them. so some people like to be alone. if they want to be alone and they like being on the internet and kind of keeping contact with people that way, they probably don't have the same rise in their stress hormones, may not have the same problem but the reality is over time, most people do feel some dissatisfaction, at least according to the self reports and stuff. so if you have that dissatisfaction, then you are

more likely to have some problems. i think it is a big issue, especially between the 1980's and now. the number of people who want closer contacts and better relationships has gone up. jenna: very interesting. gret to see you as always. >> nice to see you, too. jenna: thank you. jon: the white house stepping up the defense of obamacare but are the laws rising costs and seemingly endless mandates actually waging a war on jobs? south dakota senator is here. he joins us next. spokesperson: we decided to settle this. a steel cage death match of midsize sedans. the volkswagen passat against all comers. turbocharged engines against...engines. best in class rear legroom against other-class legroom. but then we realized. consumers already did that. twice. huh. maybe that's why nobody else showed up. how does one get out of a death cage? vo: hurry in and lease the 2014 passat s for $189 a month which includes a $500 bonus.

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jon: let's take a look at obamacare and the ongoing bee bait in washington over whether the president's signature health care law is killing jobs in america. the employers struggle to deal

with rising costs and complying with the mandates, something that health and human services secretary flat out denied yesterday. listen. >> there is absolutely no evidence and every economist will tell you this, that there is any job loss related to the affordable care act. part time positions are actually down since 2010, not up. the number of full time workers continues to increase. jon: south dakota senator serves on the finance and commerce committees and he's chair of the senate republican conference here with me now and he was shaking his head during that clip from the health and human services director. you disagree with her assessment? >> i do. i don't know what parallel universe she or members of the president's administration are living in but clearly there's an obamacare bubble around washington, d.c. if you get out in the real world and talk to people who are meeting payrolls, middle class families, trying to deal with higher premiums and higher

deductibles, it's having a real economic impact. they don't want to acknowledge it. i understand why. it's got political consequences for them. jon: didn't that congressional budget report just out say that obamacare is going to result in 2 1/2 million people, the net loss of 2 1/2 million jobs the next two years or something? >> not only that but reduce wages by 1%. the budget committee looked at what that means. it's a trillion dollars in reduced wages to the american people. so it's going to have -- it's going to hurt take home pay, obviously you're going to have higher out of pocket costs with deductibles and premiums and fewer doctors and hospitals. that's the real world impact of this. so secretary sebelius, i don't know who she's listening to but in the real world, this is the impact it's having and the american people are suffering. yoip

jon: is that why the president said some businesses don't have to comply with the health care requirements until 2016? >> to me that acknowledges -- it's an admission on the president's part it's hurting the economy, hurting jobs. why do you have to waive or delay this act? it's because they're trying to save some people's jobs in the midterm elections. jon: there was a report going to that point in poletico this morning that says democrats know their biggest problem in this year's midterm elections is obamacare. top party operatives have settled on a strategy to try blupting the g.o.p. advantage. tell voters, republicans would make the problem worse, raise prescription drug prices and empowering insurance companies and even endangering domestic violence victims. that's apparently the attack line that's coming toward your party. are you ready to deal with that? >> usually when democrats are playing a losing hand, when they're losing an argument, they

resort to scare tactics and i think this is an example of that. last june they were saying the democrat strategy was own obama kair. this was an advantage for us in the long run. just this last week there was a story that said the democrats strategy is neutralize obamacare. they realize this is a problem. and i think what they're attempting to do is to change the subject and whenever they're losing an argument, that's what they try to do and scare people into blefing somehow the republicans are going to be worse. the american people, i think, have made their minds up on this. they know this is bad for the economy, bad for their own personal economic circumstances and that's why there's so much negativity about it arn the country. jon: on the house side, there have been 40 or so attempts to repeal obamacare and the same politico piece goes to that. internal democratic poll recently conducted in montana where there's a competitive senate race found that 65% of voters agree with the statement, we've wasted too much time talking about obamacare and we

have other problems to deal with. despite the botched rollout of the website, despite all the problems this thing seems to be causing, do you think that some americans just want to fix it and move on? >> well, i think that most americans would like to see it fixed but the problem is, it's unfixable. you cannot -- this thing is built upon a faulty foundation. it seem assumes that people are going to sign up. it's got all kinds of new taxes and cuts in medicare and medicare advantage reductions coming next week. these are going to be real world impacts on people across country and the reason that people are talking about it in washington, d.c. is because people are talking about it around the country and i think it's going to continue to be a subject of conversation. now, it feeds into a broader discussion about jobs and the economy and i think we need to talk about what we can do to get the economy growing again and creating jobs but obamacare is a part of the national conversation that's going to continue because it's having

real world impacts. jon: thank you. >> thank, jon. jenna: one airline coming up with a new way to get passengers to pay attention to those safety instructions. who is starring in the in-flight video? show you next.

... >> i know you really don't like to fly. but people who fly a lot zone out when they buckle up and don't pay attention to the flight safety videos. that could be changing courtesy of a new zealand. >> we are going to take you through safety in paradise. seltz in and relax, you are on island time. plose pay attention and obey crew instruction and signs. >> it is so nice that you care about the safety of our viewers

that you shared the video, john. >> i never seen this type of thing. buckle in the seat belt. how novel and there are hunky guys in there for you. >> i don't know about. that >> they could leave out the super models. >> air new zealand. thanks for joining us. >> good morning. fox news alert on a fast- moving storm bringing more snow on the winter- weary east coast and the new nasty weather coming after the south and northeast are paralyzed by the snow and ice. now some places are getting six inches of fresh new snow. janice, on the forecast and what to expect here. another fox news alert. a new plan to bring home an