>> brian, you're fired. >> signing my book. did you just yell at me? >> kind of. terry fator in the after the show show. we got a busy show tomorrow. see you then. >> thank you. martha: thanks guys. great show this morning. fox news alert. increasing violence and more are among the dead as the shaky truce has crumbled in ukraine. this brand new video just into fox news reportedly showing riot police firing at protesters. [gunfire] at least 21 killed, some estimates are up over 30 this morning. the latest fighting over the country's future which pits these demonstrators fighting for democracy and closer ties to europe and the u.s. against leaders backed by putin and russia. good morning, everybody, i'm martha maccallum. here in "america's newsroom." >> i'm eric shawn. i'm in for bill hemmer this

morning. the violent showdown between the east and the west unfolding right on russia's doorstep, just when the country would have the whole world focus instead on the sew think olympic games. [shouting] that renewed violence raging in the heart of ukraine's capital kiev, just hours after both sides seemed to have reached that truce. martha: amy kellogg is live in moscow for us today. amy, what happened to the truce? >> reporter: well, martha last night when they announced the truce there were still scenes of people poe testing on the square and there were fires. i think everyone had their doubts this would really hold. however it is not clear how it all fared up in the violent way it did this morning. scene of hotel lobbies turned into triage centers. churches also turned into triage centers and makeshift stretchers

all over the place. bodies on board. snipers, really, the dramatic change this morning. there were initial reports that possibly a sniper shot a protester and, police sniper, obviously shot a protester and that's what started it all off. apparently there are lots of guns on both sides. the ukraine rain intern year ministry will give police guns which seems obvious and after the fact and clearly there are already armed and use them in accordance with the law. the city is largely shut down. the government buildings are closed lest they be stormed. the russian news agency say protesters are about to storm the presidential palace. of the banks are closed. the roads are closed. the mayor of kiev just switched sides, martha, to a different party, showing distaste and disdain for what is going on. president yanukovych has said he blames the protesters. he thinks they agreed to the

truce to buy time in order to arm themselves, martha. martha: unbelievable. what is the international community doing or saying about it at this point, amy? >> reporter: there is a delegation of european foreign ministers meeting with viktor yanukovych. the foreign minister just said in some breaks during the meeting the group is under no illusions as to the fact that they can actually solve the problems of ukraine. it is very much now a local problem. also we heard from russia's foreign minister, sergey lavrov in bag dad today. he says the associated with the blood having on their hands, he says that plays in the hands of the militant fighters. the russian regime and russian tv is referring, increasingly to these protesters in russian really has a connotation, what

referred to the chechen fighters back in the day of that bar. so they're using very militant language. prime minister med yes says russia will support ukraine the implication with money as long as ukraine remains in control of its people, protecting its people and not allowing the government to turn into a doormat people can trample on. martha. martha: amy, thank you very much. meanwhile ukrainian athletes in sochi are now speaking out. a skier has pulled out of a race today, saying it would be wrong to compete at the winter games while her compatriots are dying at home. she will leave sochi according these reports with her father. other ukrainian athletes tying black ribbons on flags in protests. this story which vladmir putin no doubt would want to keep very separate from these games has bled over into them and ramifications are yet to be

seen. we'll have more on this coming up. >> martha, that action certainly symbolic in a brave stand at the olympics. for a look more at ukraine. here it is by the numbers. the country's population? it's a bit over 44 million people. that is just slightly smaller than texas. has a gdp of 2012 of $176 billion, about 1/3 of neighboring poland's. the country is a center of industry. the ukraine's unemployment rate that year, 7.5%. in 2010, just 24% of the population happened to be below the poverty line, martha. martha: what more can america do to help those fighting for democracy in ukraine? president obama warning ukraine's leaders that there would be consequences for those who, quote, step over the line. so has the president set another red line, this time in the ukraine and what will he be willing to do about it? we'll talk to ambassador john bolton who spoke out very

strongly on this last night. he will be with us coming up at 9:30. >> meanwhile fox news alert. have you heard about this? the department of homeland security now warning airlines possible attempts to attack passenger jets, yes, again, using explosives packed in shoes. national correspondent steve centanni live in washington with the very latest on this. steve, does this mean there is a terrorist plot officials are focusing on at this time? >> reporter: no, eric, there is no specific threat and the warning is being issued out of abundance of caution. this warning is going out to the airlines from the department of homeland security and applies mainly in-flight bound from foreign countries. the threat is supported by very recent information that is deemed to be credible. now some experts say the government appears to be staying on top of the latest intelligence. >> you've got to gift folks in government credit. since 9/11 they have kept the homeland safe.

problems tended to be overseas where we have seen sloppy behavior by other government departments. >> reporter: this appears to be a general warning, not a specific warning to any particular air line or particular foreign country, eric. >> steve, you mentioned some information coming in at this time. do we know exactly what that is, who it is from and who could be causing >> reporter: right. no word on that just yet. there could be extra chatter among would-be terrorists around the olympic games. that could be part of it. an earlier warnerring before the olympics warned airlines to be careful about toothpaste and liquids coming on the planes. the warning is giving critics more ammunition to attack the president. >> it is difficult political challenge for the administration and making argument and pushing back against people like james clapper. the administration still contending that al qaeda is on the run, that it is on the path to defeat and this obviously flies in the face of that report

while this latest threat involves inbound flights to the u.s., there could be extra security at domestic airports as well. eric. >> the terror threat as we all know still continues and not abated. steve centanni, thanks so much as always. remember the danger of shoe bombs came on planes to our attention after 9/11. you may remember richard reid who tried toking need explosives hidden in his shoes on the flight from paris to miami. reid is a british citizen. he admitted to being a member al qaeda n december of 2000 one he tried to light the fuse and set off bops in his shoes while the plane few over the atlantic. fortunately the passengers and crew managed to subdue him. authorities say the quick action averted the attack that could have destroyed the airplane and killed all on board. reid pled guilty to nine terrorism counts in october of 2:00. the next january he was sentenced to life without parole. he is in a supermax prison you

know ground in colorado. martha: well, facebook shelling out $19 billion to buy the text-messaging service called what's app. the deal highlights a trend among new technology companies creating massive wealth with virtually no job creation to speak of. facebook is worth $170 billion. only needs 6,000 people though to make it work. what'sapp, only 50 employees to spread that money around. stu varney joins us, host of "varney & company" from the fox business network. you felt it is a important deal announced today. >> this is astonishing deal. this company is valued at $19 billion and only got 55 employees. at this price, at this value, what's app is worth more, about the same as macy's or the gap or sherwin-williams. it is worth more than victoria

secret but it only has 55 employees. what this amounts to, martha, yes of course it is a technology story but also a wealth concentration story without job creation. that is the modern american economy, the modern technology economy. lots of wealth, very few jobs. martha: so what are the ramifications, you know, for employment for the economy. >> well, there is no ideology involved here. it is not like the right or the left has a better or a worse job creation program. this is reality. this is technology. this is leading our economy. massive wealth creation. massive concentration of wealth. but very, very new jobs created. there are two guys, at least two guys of those 55 employees waking up this morning with enormous wealth. john coom, one of the cofounders, is worth 6.8 billion right now. his partner ryan is orthopedic $3 billion right now.

there are only 55 people who make whats app work. martha: before you go, what does this company do and why does facebook want it and pay so much mom i for it. >> international messaging. free for the first year. 99 centser is person after that. they have users going to a billion. martha: 99 cents sounds like a good deal. we'll see how they make money for it. thank you very much, stuart. >> got it. >> can you imagine waking up on thursday morning worth $7 billion while you weren't yesterday? labor market seems to beholding steady despite two months of weak hiring. number of americans filing for unemployment benefits dipped slightly to 336,000 last week. that is not as big of a drop as economists had expected. brutal winter weather, snow and ice was blamed for lagging job market in december and last

month, may once again be keeping americans from looking for work or getting out of the house to try to file unemployment claims. martha: so we're just getting started here this morning. and a scary scene at a church service to tell you about when a roof collapsed, sending dozens of teenagers to the hospital. >> oh, man. will it ever get built? keystone pipeline and all the oil and jobs for this country. now that wait could get a whole lot longer. what happened in one state that may be a big setback as the pressure builds on the president of the united states to finally make a decision on that. martha: what will he decide? somebody is now $425 million richer this morning. at least before taxes but it really doesn't matter with all that money. where the winning powerball stickket was sold. did you buy it? just waking up? better check your numbers. we'll be right back. ♪ when you have diabetes like i do,

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martha: we are back with this fox news alert. at least 35 people have been injured as the second floor of a church activity center collapsed during a youth service in rural mississippi. none of the injuries are said to be life-threatening. one parishioner describes though what it was like. >> we heard a huge rumble. and the floor collapsed and people collapse with it. -- vertical and they were on the ground and a lot of injuries occurred and, but we're all still alive. martha: 19 of the injured were taken to the hospital. authorities say most of them have been released. eric: well, now there's a new obstacle for the keystone pipeline. a nebraska, a judge there, striking down a law that would let the pipeline run through that state. it happens to be the latest

setback for the project which would carry 830,000 barrels of oil a day from canada all the way down to texas refineries. it promises to create thousands of american jobs but it is controversial as pressure continues to build on the president to finally make a decision on the keystone pipeline. steve hayes, senior writer at "the weekly standard," fox news contributor. joins us now. they have been studying this and doing research for years. do you think it will ever get built? >> i think eventually it will get built. a latest decision by a lancaster county court judge in nebraska, stephanie stacy seems to be more of a setback and delay than anything that will likely relate to the project all together. if you read through the decision she walks through a number of decisions why the plaintiff's case was not valid and rules on a very narrow decision whether the flesh public service commission has the ability to determine the route and make decisions with respect to

eminent domain and siting of the pipeline or whether that authority rests with the governor. she decided that the governor made the decision. the authority properly rests with the nebraska public service commission. eric: here's the decision. you got all these pages right here but as you say comes down to one thing. eminent domain, that transcanada doesn't have the right according to this judge to decide that in this country. nebraska says they're appealing it. does that mean if they go through the proper channels they could get the green light? >> yeah, i think so. they have to, they could either do a couple of things. make an appeal and win on appeal or change the way the approval process works and route it through the nebraska public service commission as she suggestions would be a way to constitutionally handle it. this is something that could potentially delay the project but it seems unlikely this will be the thing that derails keystone. eric: it has been years and years they have been studying. environmentalists say it is dangerous and lead to leaks and the like. others say, they don't build it,

that oil is going over to china and we can't use it. here is the president in mexico, defending the process. >> there is a process that has been gone through and i know it has been extensive but at times i'm sure steven feels a little too laborious but these are how we make these decisions about something that could potentially have significant impact on america's national economy and our national interests. eric: steven of course is steven harper, canadian prime minister. steve, do you think that the president will keep gaming this out? what makes the final decision and how will that be done? >> that is sort of the key question. president obama, is his strategy, what we're seeing all the delays part after strategy to let this languish and expire and avoid a difficult decision? is he in effect making a decision by not making a decision? that is one of the things that the critics would suggest is at play here. ultimately the president of the united states makes

determination whether this is in the national interest person to executive order from some years ago. it is his decision. we had several environmental impact studies. we've seen pressure from canadian prime minister steven harper. the president has to make the decision and up to him when he does that. eric: when do you think that will come? a lot of criticism delayed it until after the presidential election in 2012. you have midterms coming up now and environmentalists saying it shouldn't be built and supporters saying it should be. >> one of the things happened as a result of the fact it so long delayed you see a schism between two important parts of the president's base and unions and organized labor on the one hand and environmentallest on the other. they're on opposite sides of this issue with environmentalists say it can't be built. they have sided to stake the claim and threatened before the 2012 elections and since they would sit out or not support actively the president and

democrats if this were to have been approved. you have a number of the president's former staffers from his presidential campaign in 2012 who have worked hard to see that keystone pipeline is not built, is derailed. on the other hand you do have the unions who are making a case to build the pipeline. it will lead to jobs. good for the economy, good for the country. it's a problem for the president when you have those two factions, such key parties of the president's base, going at each other before the 2014 midterms which already look difficult for him. eric: it is not over yet. of course nebraska is appealing. steve hayes of "the weekly standard," always good to see you. >> thanks, eric. eric: martha? martha: one community is not wanting mother nature, they're not sticking around for her to get rid of snow and ice from recent storms. that is the way to do it, right? they're turning to dynamite to try to clear things out. there is so much snow out there. eric: wow. besides the snow, someone is

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town officials working with the department of natural resources and army corps of engineers to trigger dynamite charges. don't try that on your own. mild temperatures are melting the snow and ice and raising flood risks across the area. the recent that you could be short-lived we're hearing. meteorologist maria molina is live in the fox weather center, oh, my gosh gosh, more snow, seriously? >> we have blizzard warnings across portions of the northern plains. mild temperatures coming to an end very quickly. the northeast they will come to an end as we head into next week. enjoy mild temperatures while you have them. we are talking about temperatures in the 70s in little rock and atlanta. you're shy of 70 but 69 degrees for the high temperature. the warm temperatures don't always mean good news. they provide fuel for showers and thunderstorms to fire up. some of these could produce severe weather anywhere from louisiana up to ohio. this morning the storm prediction center part of the national weather service,

upgraded parts of western tennessee, northern mississippi and into kentucky into a moderate risk for severe weather. what that means they have a higher risk of seeing longer tractornados and also seeing damaging straight line winds that could be 60 miles per hour or even stronger. so that is a big concern. have a way to get those warnings today. the risk area including louisiana, up into the midwest, and tomorrow, that storm heads east. so the southeast, mid-atlantic will be seeing strong to severe thunderstorms as that storm heads east. a flood threat because of heavy roehm from these storms across the midwest today. a number of flash flood watches in effect for states like ohio, indiana, illinois. then on the cold side of this very same storm system we have blizzard warnings for ohio, minnesota. we could see up to a foot of snow, low alally even higher amounts and wisconsin and up of michigan. this is a big concern out here, martha. wind gusts forecast to be high as 50 miles an hour. so whiteouts are possible. martha: poor minneapolis, they

are used to it but it has been a really tough winter for them. maria, thank you very much. eric: wow. meanwhile, have you heard about the new warning, possible terrorism in our skies? officials now saying that shoe bombers could be back. how serious is the threat? coming up we'll analyze that danger. martha: president obama talking tough yesterday on the growing violence in ukraine, saying that there would be consequences. what would they be? many asking that questions after his red line on syria was erased. ambassador bolton joins us next. [shouting] too big. too small. too soft. too tasty. [ both laugh ] [ male announcer ] introducing progresso's new creamy alfredo soup. inspired by perfection.

martha: president obama using some of his toughest language so far in reaction to the growing violence that we are seeing today on the ground in ukraine. the bloody crackdown there leaving dozens of people dead. the numbers are really not accurate at this point. some go as high as 30. we may see even more than that today in the worst bloodshed since its independence from the soviet union. president obama is now warning ukraine's military to stay out of this crisis or else. >> we are going to be watching very carefully and we expect the ukrainian government to show restraint, to not resort to violence in dealing with peaceful protesters. we've said that we also expect peaceful protesters to remain

peaceful and we'll be monitoring very carefully the situation, recognizing that along with our european partners and the international community there will be consequences if people step over the line. martha: there will be consequences if people step over the line says the president but some find that warning of drawing a line in the sand less than credible. here is ambassador john bolton last night on "the kelly file." >> nobody believes that. listen to what he just says. calls on the government not to resort to violence and then, in the next sentence he calls on the demonstrators to be responsible. so he is showing moral equivalence. government, demonstrators, sort of all the same thing. much the same way as in august of 2008 when russia invaded georgia, he called on both the russian side and georgia side to exercise restraint. likes of vladmir putin see that behavior and they say, the field is open. martha: ambassador bolton joins us now. that was "on the record" last night, just to correct that. he is former u.n. ambassador to the united nations and a fox

news contributor. what do you think about the president's statement, ambassador bolton, there would be consequences in cooperation with the european union? >> nobody is paying slightest bit of attention to him. it is hard to believe even means it. you know, he also said yesterday, that, we're not in competition with russia, with respect to the ukraine. he said this in a very disdainful way this is not like moving pieces around on a cold war chessboard. his position on the ukraine is similar to ron paul who shade yesterday, the united states have no interest in ukraine. the ukrainians don't want us involved. the american people don't want us involved. by very different routes ron paul and barack obama same view on ukraine. that there are no american interests involved and they're flat wrong. martha: the soviet union was dissected and helped along in becoming all the independent countries and how invested the

united states was in that process. it is hard to believe that these backward steps would be something that are of no consequence to the united states. i want to play some, also very strong sound last night from steve hayes on this. let's play that and get your reaction, ambassador. >> what is more recent about this development in the broader context of obama foreign policy, we're watching in real time, the decline of american power and the person who is most afraid of american power these days is barack obama. martha: wow. do you believe that? >> well, i think it is worse than he is afraid of it. i think he believes affirmatively that american strength in the world is not conducive to international peace and stability. i think he thinks, he said in his state of the union message that this past month that american troop deployments were a cause of international terrorism. this is, this is his deepest ideology in my view. so, i think vladmir putin, fully

understands that barack obama's rhetoric will continue, but there will be no substantive u.s. actions that have any effect what is going on in ukraine. sad to say the european union will be even worse. martha: all of this goes back to, he mentioned the word, stepping over the line in that statement and immediately caused a lot of observeersers this president to remember the red line moment on syria. let's take a look at that. >> we have been very clear to the assad regime but also to other players on the ground that a red line for us is, we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized that would change my calculus. that would change my equation. martha: at that point in syria, ambassador bolton, 18,000 people had died. today that number is up to 140,000 people who lost their lives in syria. >> look, the president lives in

an unreal world when it comes to international affairs. he lives in a world of rhetoric and talk. he does not live in the real world of power. and what is going on in the ukraine today is a struggle for power. not just between those who want to move ukraine to the west and those who want to keep it tied to russia, but between vladmir putin's essentially hegemonic aspirations in the territory of the former soviet union and a question whether the west will allow him to get away with it here in a very consequential country. ukraine has almost 50 million people t would be a major economy if it were in western europe. what putin succeeds in doing in ukraine will be a pattern what he does in the rest of the former soviet union. then as he expands outside. other countries are watching inability or unwillingness of the united states of europe to do anything about this. you can bet in beijing they're paying very close thanks to it. they're breaking out the orange juice in tehran for what this means on the nuclear

negotiation. this is just a terrible display of american withdrawal, use the word, neoisolationism on the part of obama. martha: couple quick new developments. want to get your quick thoughts on this. just crossing the wires moments ago. vladmir putin saying he will send an envoy to kiev to try to mediate this and also, i think of significance this morning, one athlete from ukraine has pulled out of the u.s. olympics and made a prominent statement she stands in solidarity with people back in ukraine. they're tying black ribbons around the flags at the olympics. that brings these two things very close together in people's minds. >> there is no doubt on putin's mind. the russian foreign minute city issued a statement earlier today, moscow time, they compared the demonstration, the opposition to the brown revolution. now that is a direct reference to the nazi takeover of power in germany in the 1930s. this is something that runs very deep in russia, the war against

nazis. the great patriotic war as they call it, deep in the russian consciousness. when they identify demonstrators as being a potential brown revolution, they are saying in unmistakable terms, russia will not let that succeed. martha: ambassador bolton, thank you very much. >> thank you. eric: martha, sadly it is back. have you heard about the latest homeland security bulletin, warning u.s. airlines about a threat we heard before. terrorists putting bombs in shoes. so what is it about the latest threat that has our officials so worried and what do we do? martha: plus his horrible beating outside dodger stadium left him badly brain-damaged. it stirred outrage across this country. the big turn in the case that we could see in the courtroom today, as the victim's family speaks out about his ordeal.

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martha: all right. don't worry we have got no spoilers so far from the winter games. we'll recap day 13 in sochi. starting with some drama. the usa women's bobsled team on its final run for the gold came down to this. >> it has gone away from usa 1 and continues to. now they have got some time back 9 hundreds of a second. can they do it to the line? no! canada gets the gold. martha: that was painful, right? .1 of a second, a 10th. miers and lauren williams were so close. they earn the silver. usa women's 2 gets the bronze. well-done ladies. good stuff in the competition yesterday. usa hockey team getting it done against the czech republic 5- they go to the semifinals they face off once again with canada.

remember all the drama last time against canada? they are two wins from the gold. usa hockey. who is ready for for a rematch here. today at noon the us women's hockey team faces off for canada between the gold. there is bad blood after us a lot of the gold to canada in the 2010 games. good luck girls. there is the med call count so far. look where we are, right on top. 23 medals for the united states. russia has 22. netherlands, 22 and on down the line there. so a medal a day so far. we have to keep up that winning streak. go team. good stuff coming up today. eric: u.s. hockey is on fire absolutely. well there is a stark reminder today that al qaeda is still targeting american airliners. homeland security alerting airlines, yes, to another new shoe-bomber threat. officials say the chatter was enough to merit the warning about u.s.-bound flights.

the new warning comes two weeks after that alert went out, you may remember on those toothpaste tubes possibly used as delivery systems for explosives on airliners. how do we stop this and what can we do? aaron cohen, founder and president of ims security. he is trained in security measures used by el al, israel's national airline who by the way has not had a terrorist incident since 1968. aaron, how serious is the new threat that the shoe-bomber vision could be back. >> the threat is about, the threat is what they're calling a five out of 10 which means that there isn't specific intelligence as to when a terror attack could happen, which airline could be targeted but the fact that they're putting it out, the fact that they want all of the agencies to know that there was a information, you know, they are want it to be actionable and want to beef up the security to make sure that shoes are being swabbed and, those effects are felt. so clearly the, the composition

of this, you know particular intelligence or piece of intelligence is enough for the u.s. government to go, hey, let's keep a closer eye on this thing. wherever they got the information from it is enough for them to go let's beef things up and tighten them up a little bit more to be sure. eric: with from your experience where do you think the chatter comes from? what did they say? did they refer particularly to this or things similar to when richard reid had his shoe bombing? >> i believe that this is probably peeves intelligence from one of the many tentacles that are sweeping across specific terror regions such as yemen and syria. one of the chief engineers right now or one of the most wanted terrorists is actually operating in yemen. he is equivalent to israel's iyash he is bomb-maker and instrucks bomb-making. wouldn't be surprised if the information came from yemen or syria and it was again specific

enough in terms of how they collected the intelligence, the cross referencing the of the information and agens who are monitoring that activity for them, you know, put it through the tactical operations command center and have it collated and distributed to different intelligence. whether it came from the nsa or cia or one much our tier 1 agencies who was listening to pick it up and i think it is pretty real. eric: el al, you have had experience with el al. they have not had a terrorist attack in four decades. you fly on el al, each passenger is interrogated to 20 minutes and switch someone else there. why can't other airlines do that? would that muck up the system? so far thankfully, knock wood has been completely full-proof system. >> yeah, well the reason el al is successful is because, one, the israeli people demand it. they wouldn't have it any other way. israelis are very tough like that but i think the main reason

that we focus on, we believe that the most important piece of technology is the brain, meaning a human being, properly trained security agent, is the only piece of technology that can actually react to a threat. so you can get a lot farther with training and using the natural mechanics of body language to be able to interpret a threat. in israel what we found is the body language of a murderer is the same before they commit the act much murder as it is after they commit the act of murder. so they really invest money in training. security screeners of el al would be fbi agents. best way for me to equate it, eric. this is not $5 an hour mall security. these are highly trained guys go through months of training to read body language and armed and trained to shoot into crowds and respond very rapidly like we saw at the el al counter in 2000 with the egyptian shooter.

we're investing in the human technology and human element. i think that is the best piece of security. i think what the u.s. is missing. eric: that el al shooting at lax. >> correct. eric: certainly hope to take a page out of el al's book and no incidents but authorities are on alert. aaron, thanks so much for your insight today. >> thanks for having me. eric: martha. martha: president george w. bush reflecting on his time back in the white house. what he says he misses the most about being president. that is coming up. eric: have you seen this dramatic video? it appears to be from a dispute between nfl star ray rice and his fiance. the baltimore ravens running back accused of hitting her so hard she actually passed out. now he is facing assault charges.

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martha: at the center of a debate on retirement plans that is going on in california. he is asking for an additional $75,000 on top of more than quarter of a million annual pension. the case is now before a judge. the ventura county and other communities trying to ditch their pension plans in favor of 401(k) plans. what is going on here? william la jeunesse joins us from los angeles. william, is this sheriff's case the tip of this iceberg? >> reporter: the ex-sheriff is symbol or poster boy for runaway government pensions. 20,000 government employees have pensions in excess of $100,000. part of the problem, cities and counties were required to include bonus, health care, uniform allowances, vacation time, banked time in each individual pension. take ventura county. pensions were 1% of the budget in '99.

today, 17%. the county has two dozen retirees taking home more than 200 grand. two, almost 300 grand. the former sheriff earned $227,000 when he left in 2010. his pension now? 280,000, almost. and now he is suing for another 75 grand, claims he is entitled to it under the law. now 70% of the voters favor requiring all new employees to get a 401(k), not a pension. unions oppose that, likely ballot initiative. >> 401(k)s gary no guaranty, that is the distinction between a defined contribution system and a defined benefit system. >> we think all employees, public employees should have benefits that are no better or no worse than the citizens who are paying for it. >> reporter: statewide public pensions tripled in the last 14 years. the average first month pension for police and fire jumped from 2 grand to $5,000 a month.

martha? martha: what are the cities doing about it? >> reporter: san jose voters passed a measure, not only putting future workers in 401(k)s, but gave current employees an option. take lower benefits or increase your monthly contributions. san diego voters approved something similar. unions claim in court that existing pensions can not be changed n a statewide initiative in november, that could settle the question. >> reforming these pensions is really popular with the voters in blue states, red states, doesn't matter. people want the government workers to have benefits that are in somewhat in line they expect to get in the private sector jobs. >> reporter: now the initiative in november may or may not happen depending on collecting those signatures. martha, that to many voters is the answer to the problem. martha: very interesting. big developments. thank you, william. eric: martha, new disturbing information coming out. ukraine. the interior ministry says 67 police officers are being held

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a dangerous news development amid the exploding violence in ukraine. the government is arming the police are combat weapons. 67 police men have been captured and are being held hostage by the protesters. here is a live look at kiev leaving as many as 30 dead.

brand new hour of america's n s newsroom. i am bill hemmer. >> and i am eric sean in for the bill hemmer. there crash between the protest is shattering; that brief peacetalks. coming hours after the battled president and the protest leaders called for negotiations. president putin is going to send an armor there to try to nuge negotia negotiate. what is the latest death toll on the ground? >> reporter: the latest i have is 60 people and that is from an

operation agent in kiev. i am not confirm that. but there have been a lot of deaths. i have seen pictures of at least 22 bodies. >> there were reports 11 bodies were brought in. the protesters say 32 and you say upwards of 60? >> reporter: that is according to one of the three appeopposit parties. >> now talks on police being held captive. information on that? >> reporter: i saw the still video and police officers being led through the crowd by the protesters. it is very possible that 50-60 police officers were taken/captured because there a huge number of police at the site and they withdrew in

disorder this morning. >> we have seeing live pictures of the disturbance. it just after 5 o'clock there. the sun will set and it will get dark in 20 minutes. what did you expect to happen tonight and with putin's envoy make a difference? >> reporter: i don't think so. it is unclear how much control the president has over the country. they were trying to stop a train sent to kiev and forcing them to get off and walk away with their guns and equipment. so it seems that the president is loosing control. there has been a report that

this sons or son's family have flown out of the ukraine. that is a report from one of the opposition entities. that is unconfirmed but it seems to be fitting in with the general way things are going. it looks like the government is loosing control. >> that could be very dangerous with if that happens. we will monitor the situation. this situation seems to be spiraling out of control. >> you can hear them talking to the crowd in the square. and a ukraine skier has with drawn from competition at the olympics to protest the deadly

violence. they had a minute of silence and laid out the flag with four black ribbons. she is refusing to take part of the biggest race of the olympics for her. >> my friends are there protesting. to go on the line whethn the authorities breck broke the main was that was peace, i cannot to do it. >> reporter: in egypt, 1400 people have been killed since morsi's out. and in syria, the civil war costing the lives of 140,000 people in that huge humanitarian

disaster that is showing no signs of ending. and in venezula there is protest as well with tens of thousands on the streets. the president has condemned the violence warning there is going to be consequences for ukraine's government if it continues. brett bear is here. very serious developments. the president saying there is going to be consequences. germany, france and poland with talking trying to find a resolution. but there is little indication the government is even in control there, anymore. >> reporter: i think that report

on the ground was interesting and it tracks with the others we're seeing that is saying a number of regions in the ukraine are falling. some towns along the boarder with poland have turned and tied their allegiance to the oppositi opposition. a couple reports from bloomberg saying we might be witness the first hour of a civil war. and another is saying there is no reason to leave because we have nothing to lose. everyone knows we spent the night and we can count on a dozen years in prison from here on. it is spiraling out of control

and no matter what the president says, the situation might be out of our hands. >> such a stark contrast in russia. you look at the sochi olympics and putin is feeling good about how this is going. but he is trying to send an envoy now. but it is no secret this president of russia would be hap happy to see kiev and crane back into the motherfold of russia. >> reporter: and mediator has a different connotation. the putin would have handled this differently, i think, without the olympics. if it gets that far, after the olympics, russia will step in. it is interesting to see how the president in the united states

is received with what he said even with punch into the words. in the wake of the red line in syria, it seems like it doesn't have as much punch that the united states is going it stand behind whatever threat or issue is on the table. >> you look back to president bush who felt it was the mission of the united states to stand up for democracy whenever we were able to do that. and john bolton talks about the moral equivalencely of him asking both sides to come together and work coming out. that is a different obama doctrine. >> reporter: definitely. and how this administration is

handling those situations harpen back to the arab spring and how that was handled. thereare a lot of critings in the foreign policy realm of the president but it is important because what hasn't been said or done before the words are not carrying much. the opposition leader in ukraine is the ex-world boxing champion. so this is a guy that is a tough character and he is urging the army in the ukraine to stand with the people. we could be seeing the beginning of something big. >> we will look forward to special report tonight. >> talk about punching the words? have you heard about oliver

north speaking on this >> putin has been handled this. if you can imagine someone who is happen obama is jimmy carter because he is no longer the worst president. obama has lost the leadership in the rld where we need it. >> more from mr. north in 15 minutes as he joins us live at 10:30. >> and george w bush is looking back on the days net white house and what is he is missing >> i heard a boom and the cars were tipped over. >> a trail deraignment blacks traffic in one time. -- derailment -- and there is

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>> we told you about the plan to send government monitors into newsrooms across the country as the fcc wants to find out how newsrooms operate and things such as what stories they chose to run. it is sparking outrage across the country with defenders of the first amendment.

the american center for law and justice stating this: jordan secular is here and he is the executive director of for the law and justice center. >> thanks for having me. >> explain what the plan is. >> this came out last may. this fcc idea. but here is the problem and why we are talking about it now. the title sound mundane like it isn't a big deal. it sounds like something the fcc would do. they give all of the licensing. it is called the research design for the multi market study of critical needs. it is a 73 page study on how you would do the report. but when you look into what it this does is it sends government researchers and we are calling

them monitors, into newsroom and not just broadcast television and radio, but they want oversight into the newspapers, to ask questions like how do you come up with the stories. they want to ask reporters if their editors let them run what they want and to see if there is a perceived station bias. and the fcc is ready to do this starting in south carolina but because of the public outcry we got a little pushback and the fcc says they are reconsidering >> they are saying the questions not mandatory, right? >> reporter: well here is the thing this.

it isn't like they are sending students over to this and if you say no that is okay. they give your license as a broadcaster and every eight years, every broadcaster at the local level, has to get an ufc license. they only last eight years. the fcc's job is supposed to be are people able, small businesses, able to get into the news business if they want to. they are gnaw supposed to look and see if it content of the news is something they like. they put together the eight categories of sin and one of the top is the environment. if you look back at the obama administration and center for progress, they have been complaining about lack of

coverage on climate change. so this is no surprise. weather is one of the lowest. >> fascinating and frightening in a lot of ways. how often do the monitors want to spend time in the newsroom >> reporte. >> reporter: the difference news stations in south carolina haven't heard from the fcc. there has been a statement on they are reconsidering whether they can redesign or scrap the field model all together. this isn't just a day or two. this is a serious time commit. $900,000 study into newsroom and that is only focusing on getting this manual put together and columbia, south carolina. >> good at printing manual, the

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>> there is a dramatic investigation into ray rice woo has been accused of hitting his fiance he knocked her out. this shocking tmz video shows rice drag her out of the elevator at a casino in atlantic city. police arrested the couple after they allegedly hit each other during a fight. and it happens to be a new turn in another sports related assault case. two men maybe pleading gety to the san francisco giants van. these two are accused of attacking man at dodgers stadium

in 2011 that left the man with permanent injuries. his family is focused on taking care of him and let the police take care of the investigation. >> we are just trying to focus on brian. we're giving all of our energy and time to taking care of brian and seeing he is taken care of. the lapd is handling what they have to handle. >> and that could come to ourt court today. word of the pleas is a surprise, what happened? >> reporter: it has been three years since the beating. they were paramedics and drove down to celebrate the weekend and were heading back to their

car. and by multiple witness accounts, they detailed how the men were attacked. stow was suckered punched and they did nothing to provoke the attack. and that might be why these two men are scheduled to enter guilty pleas in los angeles court. they are charged with may ham, assault and battery. one could be getting eight and one could be getting four. >> of course, it is just before 7:30 in los angeles. have we heard from the stow family on this? >> reporter: they have not gi gibbgiven public statements on this. they will be in court to make victim impact statement and that

will be dramatic. on their website, they keep a website to raise munoney for brn and update people who are watching this and trying to raise money for his 24-7 care. they say he is exhausted trying to recover. they tried to make light and said no one is going to be that good looking when they talk about the stent in his head. he has seizures and trouble with memory still. and he is somebody who is having a long recovery and will never fully recover from this brutal beating. >> hopefully the family gets justi justice. brian is in our our 3rd quart s quarters -- thoughts and prayers -- new video from the unrest in

the ukraine that is unfolding on the ground. the death toll is continuing to rise as the shaky truce fell apart in a few hours. the next guest has a lot to say about the united states getting involved in this. >> putin has been handed this by what is essentially jimmy carter on steroids. >> olviver north is being to be here. >> and then there is this. which top administration official is now conceding they may not reach the obama obamacare goal they have been touting.

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there are more disturbing scenes of violence in the ukraine. >> reports now say the government is issuing combat weapons to police. and protesters have been scene throwing cocktails. the russian president is sending

an envoy now. but colonel oliver north is here saying the president isn't doing enough. >> it isn't he is not doing enough. he is not doing anything. putin has been pushing the president around like a toy in the playroom after sense announcing he wanted a reset. >> what happened to the reset? >> look this has gone straight downhill every since this ad pinstration came into town. we are now seeing evidence of what can only be a diplomatic dysfunctio dysfunctional order. you have john kerry trying to get a noble prize for the syria

peace deal and for the iranian nuclear weapon. this is typical of what far lefts have done in this koupt country. >> what can the president do? he said this isn't part of the cold war chest board. >> >> reporter: the ukraineoesn't want to be part of a russian empire. never has. it wants to be european. the nationalist you see gathered are not civil libertarians. they want their own country and don't want to be dominated by putin or the west. can you imagine having someone

taking this message back to putin i need more space. versus ronald regan standing at the gate saying tear down this wall. he didn't have to bluster or bla make false claims. we have this going on in all of the arab countries and now in the heart of europe. >> what cup of action can the administration take? >> reporter: it is now too little too late. the europeans are in the hands of putin. 7-10 pipelines come from russia that go through the ukraine. so he has the europeans right where he wants them if you understand my grasp.

the idea we can marshal and threatening boycotts or sanctions it is too late >> what is the sichation? >> reporter: i think it is going to be hungry like 1956. it will be a point of civil war in large parts because the soviet puppets will be dominated by proxys and special operations people that are being sent in to deal with this so it ends quote in their favor. >> not a czech republic resolution? >> reporter: no, i don't see that because no one is backing him on the other side >> hopefully it will end without more carnage.

how will raising the minimum wage impact the workforce? they are predicting half a million job losses and more democrats are touting the advantage of working less. >> it is odd for the so-called working party to be bestowing the value of working less. nancy pelosi said in 2010, quote, i think of an economy where people can be an artist or photographer without worry about keeping their day job to have health insurance. it is gaining traction and steam following a couple reports that

projected obamacare and the increase in minimum wage will result in job loss. pelosi and the key democrats are spinning this as a gain. >> it is about the choice workers are making in the new options not something about firms destroying jobs >> whato said was that many americans would have freedom. the single mom raising three kids keeping the job for health care can raise the kids now. >> americans have always have freedom to do as much or little as they want, what is difference is taxpayer will be forced to foot the bill for other choices

>> that full screen identified nancy pelosi as republican but she is a democrat. does this reflect a shift in the thinking about the work ethic and the importance of jobs. >> people are saying the individual's voice for unbridled economic freedom is the motto for this county. >> the idea of a self-reliant person and makes their own way in the world is embedded in the america country. and work is as well. we are hardworking people and we have never celebrated origins where people don't work. >> they face challenges from

automation and technology and he believes public policy should be helping with those challenges. president bush knows that being in charge brings responsibilities, but it brings perks, too. wait until you hear what the president misses. >> and new findings on the minimum wane wage proposal and who could be shortchanged. >> the irony is the winners get a marginal advantage but for the losers is it devastation and they are robbing the people they want to help. prune juice to sta mmmy minnesoimum wage

it has been more than five years since president bush left office and he says he doesn't miss much about the white house. but admits there are a few things. >> i miss the people i served with. i miss airforce one. i mean, in eight years, they have never lost my baggage. i do miss absolute -- saluting the men and women have served in the war. i intend to salute them for the rest of my life. >> the president made comp comments wl when talking about his new init -- in

>> he has remained so dedicated to the people. >> a new admission on obamacare. joe biden said yesterday they may not reach the sign-up goal they set. >> we talked about having 7 million people lined up. we may not get to seven. but we will get to 5-6 and that is a hell of a start >> a hell of a start. nearly 3.3 million have enrolled with the seven million goal targeted for the end of march.

doug shown and monica are here. was that a biden slip or a let's float the idea? >> i think it was spin. look, martha, we don't know how many of the 3.3 million of those people will be those who pay for health care. we don't know how many of them were actually people who were canceled by obamacare not withstanding the promises that were made. this is the beginning of political spin. i think the vice president knew what he was saying and trying to put what we call in politics lipstick on a pig. >> 29 delays so far. that is a great line. millions of people have had their policies canceled as you point out. there is a look at the number of extensions or delays so far. one of the big questions is if

they don't get to the seven milli million, that was an economic equation for them in terms of how to pay. we don't know how many have paid from the 3.3 million they have. >> doug is totally right. this is about spin and the administration lowering the expectations. they might know the numbers are not telling us or maybe they don't know. that was an economic target of 7 million and you needed to have the right demographic mix of young and healthy to uphold the system. and we don't know about the number of uninsured who are new in the system. it maybe that as few as 11%, as little as 11% enrolling in

obamacare were previous uninsured we maybe seeing a huge churn operation where people who got canceled are into the exchanges because they got a cancelation notice. we don't know what the mix is. and the right mix all of all of the elements is crucial. >> i don't know how you pay for it. and you have bailout written in the law for the insurance companies if they have to spend more. i want to ask you about the minimum wage issues that getting hot. >> there is some who are going to get a raise and be better off. but others will lose their job and lose everything and go from $7.00 to nothing. and they will lose their opportunity. the winners get a marginal

advantage but this is devastating for the others. >> this is moving money between people who don't money to begin with is what he is saying. >> half a million could lose a job. but 900,000 will see themselves lifted from proverty and 16.57 million see their economic status improve. i would support, as every democrat would, an increase in the minimum wage. >> charles is pointing out the studies done on this and every time you raise the minimum wage

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>> we will continue to keep track of troubling developments in the ukraine. i'm eric shawn in for bill hemmer. martha: we'll see you back here tomorrow. "happening now" starts right now. bye everybody. jenna: we'll start with ukraine. fox news alert on the crisis there spiraling out of control. at least 22 people killed in new violence in kiev after a brief truce fell apart. fires burning, protesters throwing molotov cocktails. the ukrainian president and opposition launched in a deadly tug-of-war. there are bodies on the streets where the main protests are taking place. this as we hear protesters have captured at least 67 police officers. that is the number we have now. it can change. also perhaps, capturing a key official in kiev, i'm sorry, the key official in kiev quits ruling party. perhaps coming to the opposition there is lot going on back and forth. th