martha: his mother is an amazing woman. she is 102 now. god bless her and john mccain making funny stuff on david letterman last night. he was here before he went there. bill: knocking it out of the park. thanks for coming by yesterday. martha: "happening now" starts right now. bye-bye. jon: fox news alert as the jon: fox news alert as the jetliner expands. we're learning two men traveling on it and link to iran. interpole release images of a two men, 19-year-old and 29-year-old who initially traveled on their own passports to malaysia and switching to italian and austrian documents. word is the teen was trying to seek asylum. interpole doesn't believe they had any links to terrorism. the plane with 239 people on board disappeared four days ago.

crews from 10 different countries are searching for any sign of the aircraft. authorities are widening the search area to include the western side of malaysia. more on that in a moment. right now today's top headlines and brand new stories you will see here first. >> hi drama at "the blade runner" murder trial as a friend of oscar pistorius testifies about a gun incident that happened a month before reeva steenkamp was killed. we'll tell you about that. did gm stall a massive recall? congress looking to the faulty ignition that is led to more than a dozen deaths and why it took the automaker a decade to issue that recall. three years to the day after that massive earthquake rocked japan, sparked a tsunami that create ad nuclear crisis. a look back at the disaster. it is all "happening now." with the hunt for a missing passenger jet now in its fourth

day and still no sign of any wreckage linked to the plane, the search now expands. so many questions and such a mystery. hello, everybody, hope you're off to a great day. i'm jenna lee. jon: it's a very strange story. the last contact of that aircraft came over the sea between malaysia and vietnam on sat did i with the search focusing on the 50 nautical miles where the plane disappeared but now search teams are widening that scope, going beyond the flight path to include the west coast of malaysia. so the full search area now about 100 nautical square miles. teams also conducting land searches. joining us on the phone, david gallo, the woods oceonographic institute, head of special projects. he worked on the air france crash. you might recall that jet went down in the atlantic, deep into the atlantic in 2009. in terms of actually searching the seafloor, there is no point

attempting that really until you start finding debris on the surface, am i right? >> i think that's right, jon. we haven't got the first shred of evidence that the plane landed in the water. unless it landed wholesale an sank all in one piece this is incredibly unusual and perplexing. jon: it took about five days in the air france disaster. they knew that plane disappeared over the atlantic. but it took about five days before they started finding any debris. we're looking at some of it now. this is the tail section of the air france airbus that was found floating in the atlantic on the flight from brazil to paris. so the fact that this plane, i mean we're almost at five days now, or a couple of hours short of the fifth day. the fact that they are not finding anything yet, i mean there is precedent for that. >> well there is, but in the air france case, that was thousands of miles from a coastline and, not in very remote location in the middle of the south atlantic

ocean. er we're in this trafficked area with ships and planes. it is hard to believe, so mysterious that this could be happening. we're five days into it without any bit of evidence the plane is in the water. jon: i was surprised at new search area. they're looking at western coast of malaysia. i guess maybe that is based on the report that the head of the malaysian air force i think it was passed along said it lookedo turn back before it disappeared? >> there are some parallels with air france. we went through all of that with an oil slick that wasn't from air france. a piece of wreckage floating that wasn't from air france, with the idea air france turned back toward land. even the idea there might have been terrorist acts on air france. yeah, you know, i don't want to second-guess what is going on with the team that is in command but they must be going through hell right now wondering what they have done, have they overlooked something? what should they be doing next?

but expanding the search, oh, boy, that has got to be very difficult to make that area even bigger because now you're doubting your initial assumptions. jon: right. and the assumption is that wherever they had the last transponder off the coast of vietnam that is where some catastrophic failure occurred but i was talking with robert marks who is frequent guest on this program today about a question i had. if somehow the structural integrity of the plane remained the same and something happened on board that killed the pilots or killed perhaps everybody on board, an explosive decompression or something, the plane stayed intact, it would have glided for hundreds of miles potentially before hitting the water. they might not be in the right at all. >> yeah exactly. that is certainly one of the possible scenarios. then you know again, the only real evidence we have is that last known position from the

transponder. and you know, it is tough, beyond that. the only way we'll know with no witnesses, no may day, no communications from the cockpit is by finding those flight recorders. and you know that is a tough task at this point. jon: if they do find some debris and can.point the general air where that -- pinpoint where that went down, will your organization be ready to jump in to help find the weakage? >> we made it clear to the state department we're available and standing by if they require any assistance. we're happy to talk about our experience with air france. you have to feel really, it is tough for family members and loved ones, friends of the passengers to be going through this, oh, my god. jon: the whole world is wondering. david gallo, from the woods oceonographic institute. thank you. >> you're welcome. jenna: we'll stay on that story. bring you updates when we get them. today marks three years since the devastating earthquake and tsunami in japan.

hundreds of people gathering for a prayer service this morning in the now deserted town at the center of the catastrophe. the magnitude 9.0 quake caused waves as high as 100 feet tall to rush on to the shore as you see from the image that is really stayed in our mind. entire communities wiped away and of course that nuclear leak that was triggered by this all. more than 17,000 people were killed in the disaster. 2600 others are still considered missing. jon: today also marks 10 years since the deadly train bombings in madrid, spain. 191 people were killed when a series of explosions ripped through four packed commuter trains during morning rush hour. 1800 other people were injured. in 2007, 21 people were convicted in the bombings. seven of those convictions have been overturned. it was the worst islamic terror attack ever on european soil. jenna: we'll take you to south africa. new testimony in the oscar pistorius murder trial. the pathologist who conducted the autopsy taking the stand today as well as a friend who

described the athlete's history with guns. pistorius, known as "the blade runner" stands accused of hurterring his barrel friend, reef is a steenkamp. he said he shot her because he thought she was an intruder. his friend testified about several incidents when pistorius shot off guns in public, including one time while they were in a car. >> i didn't know that he shot out of the sunroof. once i finished over to the right-hand side of the vehicle having ducked down i seen the weapon had been brought back into the sunroof. >> did you say anything? >> apologies for my language, my lady but i was [bleep] mad. jenna: joining us on the phone, paul tilsley in the courtroom from pretoria. paul? >> reporter: new side of oscar pistorius, not so much "the blade runner" but a wild boy the man painted by prosecution liking fast-moving cars and even faster-living friends.

one of his former friends, darren fresco, with a twitter that if it has wheels or a skirt it will cost you money took the stan and he said pistorius had a love of weapons. "the blade runner" asked to look at his gun. fresco handed over one up, bullet in the chamber. fresco continued that pistorius said okay, seconds later the gun went off. 'frisco also claimed that pistorius asked him to take the blame for shooting the gun and fresco claimed that pistorius got angry on another occasion they were stopped for speeding and a policeman touched "the blade runner"'s gun. fresco went on to become the second witness to testify as you just heard, a short time later pistorius fired the gun through the car's open sunroof. earlier the defense tried to trip up the pathologist who carried out the autopsy on pistorius's slain girlfriend, reeva steenkamp. the professor dug in even firmer

that his investigation found that reeva had eaten around two hours before she was shot. the killing occurred just after 3:00 in the morning and pistorius has claimed that the couple went to sleep about five hours before the killing at around 10:00 p.m. the prosecution are trying to prove that the two were arguing and didn't go to sleep best shooting. one final note. the pathologist claims reeva steenkamp went to the bathroom within an hour of her death, again suggesting she was not aslipped as claimed by pistorius, jenna. jenna: very interesting developments. paul, thank you very much. jon: right now congress is launching a major probe into general motors. lawmakers want to know why it took the car company nearly a decade to recall 1.6 million vehicles for faulty ignitions linked to 13 deaths. cheryl casone from the fox business networks joins us live with that. >> hello, jon. fred upton who chairs the house commerce and energy committee is

leading an investigation why it took 10 years for again motors to alert the public for an ignition switch issue that could turn off certain vehicles while they were driven possibly leading to the 13 death that is you mentioned. what come to light that gm was investigating the issue for years but incoming ceo, mary barra in a statement on march 4th, said she didn't learn of the situation until a few weeks ago. gm issued a recall notice on the 13th of february but now congressman upton and other federal agencies are questioning why that information was never shared with any other government agencies and of course with the public. internal documents over the 10-year period, different committees, departments engineers one point or another looked at issue but for some reason it never went to the executives at top or the public. some say that was gm's culture at the time. these are all questions for congressman upton and others. for gm this is company that survived bankruptcy, government intervention and the question is now, lawsuits. if they can be held liable for

those deaths and other class action lawsuits certain to follow. gm hired prominent chicago attorney as well as another firm. they are expecting this to be a very long fight, costly one. it had some effect on the stock. jon: more than a million vehicles. that's a big, big recall. cheryl casone, thank you. jenna: obamacare will be a hot topic in this year's midterm elections. democrats taking different approaches on the health care law as they campaign for congressional seats but political analysts say voters will consider above all else when they head to the polls. do you ever see parents constantly on their cell phones? jon, do you see that on the smartphones in restaurants, right? jon: yep. jenna: a interesting new study how your cell phone habits could affect your kids. impact may not be what you think. we'll tell you about it coming up.

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jon: a lot of critics are calling a recent obamacare delay

an election-year ploy. as you probably heard the president will let some americans keep their canceled health care plans for another two years. meaning they will not lose their insurance right before the november midterm elections. that is what would have happened otherwise. health care is hot button issue and democrats are taking different approaches. some candidates say the law should be fixed and others avoid the issue to talk about anything else and others talk about how it helped certain people. fox contributor byron york recently wrote this. the importance of obamacare as issue in 2014 can not be controlled by either political party. it will be determined by just one thing. and that is the performance of obamacare as a law in the months preceding the election. well the stakes are incredibly high. all of the house seats up for grabs. republicans are hoping to win a majority in the senate as well. let's talk about it with ellison barber, a staff writer for the

washington beacon, free beacon i should say. ellison, are we too cynical maybe the health plans and small group coverage were delayed because of the oncoming election? >> probably not. ezekiel emanuel, architect behind obama care saying the latest delay for canceled plans was political move. he said there is no reason to do that policy. it made more sense for them politically. that is the case. that's what we're seeing with a lot of different things, making political changes because they are very worried about some elections. jon: there would be something like 11 million policies covering who knows how many million people that would have been canceled in the small group market under the requirements of the president's plan. >> right the thing that byron points out a lot of these problems, it will just determine what happens in 2014 will rely on what we see happens with the law and one of those is a lot of problems will be rolled out closer to the elections with the canceled plans because that is optional. if those are not extended in a lost states you could see a wave of canceled plans happen right

in the fall just like they were last year. you have to think that premiums are soon going to be set for 2015 in terms how the medicaid expansion played out. we won't have data breakdown for who was in the newly eligible group because of expansion under the affordable care act until sometime in the spring. there are just a lot of issues you're waiting to see. that will weigh heavy on the 2014 election. jon: just because the president waves his magic wand or pulls out the presidential pen, says, okay, you don't have to, we're not going to enforce these. you can keep your plans past the election, the insurance companies don't necessarily have to go along with that and state insurance commissioners don't. >> people always forget the other step is state insurers. a lot of states would accept it for a year but you had some states saying they were not going to because they were worried like we talked about last week, market disruption. you could see the same thing happen again. that is something you have to worry about regardless of the fix so can they push it off to the boogeyman of insurers.

jon: a lot of democrats are saying look, obamacare has problems. i want to vote to fix it. threat's not throw out the baby with the baath water. >> i don't think that will particularly work. the races are worried about the senate. the reality 17 seats on the house side that will probably stay republican. republicans only need net six seats to take back senate and that is likely. the fixes coming out of the senate was by senator mary landrieu had to do with canceled plans. she offered the exact same thing with the president did the difference it has to go through congress. some people may look at that more favorably the substance of her proposal was not different from what you saw from the white house. essentially what they're proposing are the same thanks the white house is doing now. when you're running on fixing it, a lot of republicans are saying, probably rightly, you are running to maintain status quo. jon: they could have three choices to say let's fix it. or they can run away from it, or they can embrace it.

embracing it doesn't seem to work for anybody. >> doesn't work too well. but doesn't hurt to have a picture someone benefited from it. the republicans said there are winners and losers. some people may benefit but a lot of people aren't. ignoring it i do see a lot of people doing that would point to -- jon: changing subject. >> and changing subject an wash over it. looking over problems the interview came out today with president obama on zach galifianakis's website. he talked about the website problems. the website problems are fixed. there is report in "weekly standard" today they have issues where you can't update basic contact information on the site. gary cohen testified the payment systems are not built. there are issues that are still happening. jon: as ronald reagan said, trust by verify. >> yes. jon: ellison barber from the "washington free beacon." thanks. jenna. jenna: we'll show more of the video coming up and show our viewers what they think. "beverly hills cop" is suing

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while play was going on. >> attention please, dallas forward rich peverly was taken to the hospital. he is conscious. the game has been delayed. . jenna: that was after this happened. a panic scene as players and coaches scrambled to get him medical attention. peverly was later hospitalized for what doctors call a cardiac event. casey stiegel in dallas with more. >> reporter: a lot of frightened fans and teammates for that matter. the player we're happy to report is listed in good condition this morning in a dallas hospital. the medical staff got right to work on them there last night. they were able to stablize him and he actually regained consciousness before he was transported. didn't happen out on the ice. but right after rich peverly collapsed on the bench, fellow players were beating their sticks on the board to get attention of officials when that didn't work, they started coming right out on the ice. you can see there are and the game was still being played.

the blue jackets were leading 1-0 in the first period when it happened. then the game as you heard that audio of the announcer, ultimately postponed. coach lindy r-uff -- ruff praising everyone who sprung into action. >> it wasn't for all the doctors and all the members reacting so quickly and so efficiently, we could not be standing here with a different story. but they did an absolutely fabulous job. >> reporter: now the 31-year-old has a history of heart problems. he underwent a procedure just six months ago to correct an irregular heartbeat which was discovered during a physical at the start of training camp. he missed a game last week because of the same issue. he also missed the preseason and season opener because of this particular medical condition but the coach says that when he came to last night, he was so with it, he asked, how much time was left in the period. the coach kind of laughed and said, the sign of a true athlete

but taken to the hospital and said to be doing better today, jenna. jenna: we certainly wish him well. a scary situation. >> reporter: yes we do. jenna: glad he is doing all right. casey, thank you. jon: wow. a battle for a congressional seat in florida underway right now. why both parties are watching this race closely and what it could mean for the november midterms. plus, check this out. it is the start of a new ad campaign to raise awareness but for what? we'll tell you next.

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jon: "happening now," all eyes on florida where voting is underway in tight congressional racine as a bellwether in the 2014 midterms. it is a special election to reflate the late congressman bill young. the race between democrat alex sink and republican david jolly. john roberts is live in the city of largo, florida, with more on that contest. john? >> reporter: jon, good morning to you. this is really the first big test to see how obamacare will play out in a congressional election this midterm season. will it be the big stick republicans hope it will be to hammer democratic opponents with, or will they have to broaden out the horizons for the november midterms. david jolly, the national republican campaign committee and handful of outside groups spent millions of dollars hammering the democratic candidate alex sink over her

support for obamacare. david jolly is paying attention to local issues but trying to keep this race in the national perspective, making it a referendum on the president and his administration. >> this is about more than obamacare. it is about more than just a health insurance coverage. this is about a view of government that either says the government mandates more in the individual life or mandates less. doesn't mandate anything at all. i'm on the latter. my opponent is on the former. >> reporter: for her part democratic candidate alex sink offer ad tepid embrace of obamacare saying we can't go back to where we were before but at the same time insisting obamacare as it is needs fixing. >> i wouldn't describe my position as having embraced obamacare. let's acknowledge things wrong with it. there are plenty of things wrong with the affordable care act and let's get to work to fix them to make them work for people. >> reporter: this race it as tight as it can get. this is truly a 50-50 district.

so far because folks in florida love mail-in balloting, 125,000 votes have been cast absentee and early voting. so far it looks like in terms of the ballots that have been returned, advantage to the republicans. the question, will that be enough to push david jolly over the top? what we're seeing in ground on election day is very low turnout. in fact the supervisor of elections in pinellas county says only 2.6% of registered voters have shown up today so far. that was as of 10:00 this morning. also unknown, among those early and absentee ballots how many will crossover for the other party and how many votes the libertarian candidate, lucas overby grab from either side? it will be a very, very tight race. we should know soon after 7:00 tonight who wins. we should point out in this particular precinct which is split evenly between republican, democrat and no party affiliation, only 35 people have shown up so far today. jon? jon: wow. 35. that is off year election.

>> reporter: it is. off year special election. jon: john roberts, thanks. jenna: during his hit you could hear the kids playing in the background at the y. according to new study in pediatrics, sounds logical enough but here is what the study found out t found out parents are too absorbed in the smartphones and parents who did get too absorbed had a shorter fuse with their children. researchers studied parents eating at fast-food restaurants for one month. 1/3 of parents were on the phone continuously. if they were interrupted by their child they were more likely to ignore, scold or sometimes even get physical with their kids. dr. manny alvarez is here. senior managing editor at foxnewshealth.com. fox news medical a-team member. hauer scher treatment for the kids. one mother getting interrupted

by her child, kicked her child underneath the table. >> absolutely. this is amazing. humans are addicted to all the technology. really destroying the fabric of families or not. phones came to the world because they need ad purpose. to communicate, get business done. emergencies taken care of. now it is just part of you. it is your social second half. and what is happening is, you see it all the time. kids sit on the table or couple sit on the table. everybody goes through their cell phone. constantly looking at it. i don't know what the hell they're looking at it. but always looking at it. this affects interaction of parenting. ultimately this will be really be very bad for families in the future. jenna: seven out of 10 surveyed -- >> right. jenna: checked their phone at one point or another. three out of 10 were on it continuously, but seven out of 10 took look at it. i've seen opposite. the parents hand cell phones to their kids to keep them busy during the meal? what do you think about that? >> listen, i came from a

generation where, television was the cell phone, right? we put our kids in front of tv. i certainly was a culprit of that. now you pay the consequences because you see them growing up as teenagers, you know what? they could be better students. it was partially my fault because instead of pushing reading, i pushed tv and all that. i came from a television generation but, now, it is not tv. now it is the ipad. it is cell phones. and every given moment of human interaction is interfered by electronics and trust me, this has to stop. jenna: i'm curious what you think about this other study taking into context the harsher scolding of children when parents are on the cell phones. this other study out of stanford says we need to speak to our kids in complete sentences. >> true. jenna: not through text messages and baby talk. but complete sentences very early on for them to develop their vocabulary. why is that? >> if you look at analysis what vocabulary should be for 18

month toddler, if you don't speak sentences, say orange, apple, rather than say, oh, look this is beautiful fruit and nice in orange color, we'll put it in the bowl, eat this later, human brain needs interaction. you have to communicate the dots. you have to reconnect the neurons. that is exactly what language is. so parents that start speaking very early, almost in, what i like to call the predelivery stage, put the music on. let baby listen to music. talk to the bellly. as soon as baby is born, you have human, word is human interaction with your child. you're having a conversation. you're explaining things. they see the feelings, the expression, the movement of the face. ultimately that child will be better talker earlier and a better reader later in life. jenna: i know i probably guilty with that in front of my friends kids. you start talking like they're pets. >> exactly. jenna: quick final question about this story we found on foxnews.com. a fascinating story with a man

who with his wife tried for some years to get pregnant. they were able to get pregnant and hector cruz realized his wife was having trouble breast feeding. he decided to come up with a campaign to encourage men to get involved in breast feeding. it is called project breast feeding. he has a bunch of guys reenacting -- >> i find this so cool. i think this is so cool. i love it. fox news health team put it together. but in reality, bringing awareness to men. that breast feed something very important. it is a commitment that women do for their children, which is very noble. we men have to be part of that process and encourage it, support it. because at the end of the day not only great for the child and wonderful for the mom. she is doing all the hard work. showing how it is done. support it. make sure it happens. jenna: every part of it. jenna: educate men. >> guys are dummies sometimes,

you know that? they are dummies. jenna: when he comes to new york you will participate? >> absolutely. take photographs myself. of course. jenna: dr. manny, thank you. very interesting, jon, you too. you could be involved too. what do you think? >> come on, jon, we take pictures together. jon: okay, doctor, if you're game i'm became. wow. there are massive protest underway in ukraine. the move by officials in crimea that sent citizens into the streets. a new lawsuit filed by a california police officer. what he claims happened in the hotel room where whitney houston was found dead. ed to quite a few family gatherings. heck, i saved judith here a fortune with discounts like safe driver, multi-car, paperless. you make a mighty fine missus, m'lady. i'm not saying mark's thrifty. les just say, i saved him $519, and it certainly didn't go toward that ring. am i right? [ laughs ]

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jenna: new next hour, new details in the case of a missing toddler. coming up how the fbi is stepping up the efforts in hopes of finding two-year-old myra lewis who vanished outside of her mississippi home earlier this month. also new controversy over obama care as we learn how many enrollees touted by the

administration are actually convicted criminals. plus forget the protein shake. we'll tell you about one company's plan to turn beer into the next great post-workout drink. jon: there are massive protests underway in ukraine right now. demonstrators demanding that the new ukrainian parliament release prisoners arrested during clashes in kiev. huge anti-russian crowds in crimea demonstrating after the parliament there announced it will declare independence if voters choose to break away from ukraine on sunday. meanwhile the ousted ukrainian president is holed up in russia saying he is still in charge of that country. accusing the new government of instigating a civil war. meanwhile the interim ukrainian prime minister is getting ready to fly to washington to meet with president obama. he is asking the west for hope saying his country has to defend itself against russia, a nation, quote, armed to the teeth and has nuclear weapons. jenna: nato powers made it clear

they want to avoid a military confrontation with moscow, nato surveillance planes are beginning flights over poland and romania to monitor events in ukraine. this comes as the u.s. navy prepares for exercises in the black sea with nato allies bulgaria and romania. as the crisis in ukraine leaves the neighbors in eastern europe on edge. joining us now, kt mcfarland, fox news security analyst and former undersecretary of defense in the reagan administration. is it all going as expected it would? >> ukrainians, here they are, they are bankrupt. they can't pay the electric bill. the wife wants a divorce. they want friend to help them get the wife back but she made plans to move in with the new guy. so the situation in crimea, that the crime crimian people through their parliament this week, said we want the divorce. we want to leave ukraine. they will have an election on sunday to probably vote very heavily in favor of joining russia, leaving ukraine, joining russia. russia will offer them a lot of

goodies. jenna: let me ask you about that. apologies for interrupting you there. because we supported the people in the streets of kiev and what they are choosing for themselves as far as a future government of ukraine, do we consequently have to support the people on the streets of crimea if they choose russia? >> that is great question because the hypocrisy of it, if we support one group of demonstrators do we support another group of demonstrators particularly if crimea wants join russia, what do we do? you hit the main reaction what will the reaction from the west be when the vote takes place. if the plan is a crimea people vote to separate from ukraine, do we recognize it? does the west say we recognize it or we'll put sanctions on russians? what does the russians do in response? putin's oil minter is going around choking motions if they try to put sanctions on us we'll turn off the gas spigot and they won't have any natural gas to make electricity.

jenna: mainly the country of ukraine but also bigger part of europe as well. >> absolutely. poland, czech republic, hungary, even as far as france a lot of those countries are majority dependent on russian natural gas to make electricity for them. jenna: what do you make the reports that russia is moving outside of crimea into areas more north of ukraine? >> yeah. jenna: what do we do about that? what do we say to the newly-elected prime minister of ukraine when he comes to washington, d.c. and says, listen, they're moving, help us, what do we do? >> i think the russians will do that. eastern ukraine is the next thing they want. where the heavy industry is. all former warsaw pact bases were. that is where the aircraft factories are. and coal and natural gas deposits are. and very large ethnic russian population like crimea. i think russia has its eyes on that. what can anybody do to stop them? russia makes the choking sounds. they have all the high cards.

jenna: they are threatening us with it. should we dare them to do it? >> i don't know what we should do. putin played the game 15 years. he moved everything into the position where he now is. he controls the electricity in europe. jenna: let me get to a quick final question. the ukrainian prime minister says they're outnumbered 100 to 1 in the military. >> absolutely. jenna: he said according to a treaty ukraine participated in the 1990s that said we'll give up our soviet nuclear weapons in exchange for protection in we are ever threatened by a nuclear power. he is saying hello, we're being threatened by a nuclear power, where are you guys? does he have ground to stand on there? >> everybody has ground. you almost need the supreme court to figure it out. ukrainians we gave up our nukes. the deal was supposed to be protected borders. you guys were to protect our borders. where are you? on the other hand the western powers say you're not a member of nato. we don't see a military option here. i don't think anybody, even the

most extreme right-wing wants to have any kind of a military engagement with the rush schuss. jenna: when he asks for help tomorrow? >> i think he will get a lot of pats on the back and gluck glucks, economic assistance and loan guaranties, loan forgiveness, maybe military assistance. i don't see how the united states can do anything other than limited sanctions which only the united states will impose. europe isn't going to do it. trade with russia is more important to them than trade with ukraine. jenna: kt, thank you. >> thank you. jenna: always good to see you. jon? >> the late whitney houston is now at the center of a lawsuit. a beverly hills police officer said he was demoted after a bizarre incident in the hotel room where the singer was found dead. arthel neville with breaking details. >> officer brian weir's lawsuit claims he was removed from his position as head of beverly hills pd s.w.a.t. team after reporting alleged pitts

conduct by a fellow doak tiff at the scene of whitney houston's death in 2012. in the lawsuit weir says as the senior patrol sergeant on duty he quote, attempted to secure and preserve the scene of the death and place ad sheet over houston's body to prevent contamination. the lawsuit goes on to say that then detective sergeant terry nutal, arrived on scene after that and removed the sheet to an area below the pubic region and commented, dam, she is still looking good, huh. he has since been promoted to lieutenant. weir was demoted. beverly hills pd spokesperson said the department was not aware of any inappropriate behavior or comments. the grammy award winning pop star actress and mother was found dead in her hotel room at before early hilton in beverly hills in february 202007. the los angeles coroner determined that 48-year-old whitney houston died with accidental drowning with cocaine use and heart disease as

contributing factors. meantime officer weir is seeking unspecified damages because of pain and suffering and loss of special pay unit. jon: arthel neville in the newsroom. thanks, arthel. jenna: the search continues for a jumbo jet that seems to have vanished. ahead what investigators look for when solving a mister like this. justin bieber's bad behavior went viral and he was not at fault and even went after the court tegg nothinggrapher. >> can you speak pick up. yes and no [bleep] are pretty different. the day we rescued riley,

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jon: a new justin bieber video goes viral but this time he is not performing for crowds of

adoring fans. he is giving a deposition. julie banderas is here with a wrap-up of all of the attitude that "the beebs" was dishing out. let's go to our court reporter. >> he makes me so mad. i don't know. you will feel the same way after you watch this video. justin bieber just doesn't seem to be enjoying being questioned by adults, that's it in a four 1/2 hour taped deposition in miami last week for a lawsuit filed by a photographer who claimed that bieber ordered violence against paparazzi, rather than just simply answering the questions, the pop star gets belligerent and condescending. at one point shutting his ice as if he were sleeping. when asked to watch a video of the incident in question he is not so cooperative. listen. >> would you please look at the film that sup there. go ahead start it. >> the film? this is a film? >> stop it. would you please watch the television. >> you said it's a film.

you said watch the film. is this a film? >> is there a difference between a film and something else? >> yes. >> okay. would you please watch the screen and see the image that is appear on them, please, sir. >> oy. bieber really blew up when lawyers brought up his on again, off again relationship with singer selina gomez and walks out to take a break after this line of questioning. >> don't ask me about her again. >> sir -- >> go on -- >> don't ask me about her again. >> did you ever discuss did, have you ever discussed. >> don't ask me about her again. >> what about the paparazzi. >> just stop. we have to take a break. >> don't ask me about her again. don't ask me about her again. don't ask me about her again. >> let's take a break, justin. >> rather than just answer the questions you wonder why his deposition took four 1/2 hours. his lawyers accused interviewer of harrassment after that incident. i guess bieber is not a belieber

of the justice system. jenna: don't ask me about that again, julie. don't ask me about that again. >> please no more. go away. go back to canada. >> we'll give you a bieber break. >> thank you. jon: thanks, julie. jenna: spring may be right around the corner, maybe but sorry to say there is more snow in the forecast. jon: what? >> jenna: for some of us. who will get hit with one of winter's last blast. are we jinxing things calling it a last blast? we're live at weather center with more on that. president sitting down for an interview with a comedy website, a good strategy or not? we'll decide. we'll go in depth. >> so do you go to any websites that are dot-coms or dot-nets or mainly stick with dot-govs? >> no. actually we go to dot-govs. have you heard of healthcare.gov?

jenna: big development cans on our top stories and breaking

news this hour. jon: how lawmakers voting on three bills that could change obamacare. all of them need support from democrats to pass. will republicans convince democrats to jump onboard? and president obama plugging health care on an internet comedy show. we'll debate whether humor is a good strategy here. and don't get used to the warmer temperatures today. a new snowstorm on the way for parts of the country. it's all "happening now." ♪ ♪ jenna: well, as we start off noon eastern time, a mid-air mystery really growing by the minute. now the search is expanding for missing malation airlines flight 370. i'm jenna lee. jon: i'm jon scott. after days of scouring open ocean and finding no trace of that missing plane, the search area is growing by hundreds of square miles. dozens of ships and planes turning up no evidence so far of what happened to that boeing

777. 239 people were onboard when it van,ned from radar off the coast of vietnam. interpol is now identifying two men who boarded the plane using stolen passports. both are iranian, and officials believe at least one of them was trying to seek asylum in europe. david piper streaming live from bangkok, thailand. what more do we know about these men, david? >> reporter: hi, jon. well, interpol is saying they don't believe they're involved in terrorism at all. that's the story of the 19-year-old really stacks up, they say. he has a mother in germany and even a friend in malaysia who met him before he went on the plane again, so it does seem he was going for asylum, and they were traveling together so there is a suggestion, according to interpol, they were basically trying to get to europe, to freedom there. but the investigators on the ground in malaysia, they're not ruling out terrorism or anything at moment, pilot error, engine problems, even suicide from

someone on the crew. all bets are off, really, what caused the plane to go missing, jon. jon: so what's the latest on the search right now, david? >> reporter: well, major development. the malaysia military is now saying they managed to track this plane, and it seems to have turned round about the south china sea, crossed peninsula malaysia to the straits of malacca, and they are saying it did reach as far as the straits of malacca. they were looking principally in the south south china sea for to days. yesterday they switched and also expanded to that area, the straits of ma malacca and also along the western coastline. but they do seem to have, perhaps, at least pinpointed the area the plane was in the last few minutes before it went off their screens, jon. jon: so they are now looking on entirely the other side, the western side of malaysia where they had been looking on the aaron side. eastern side. >> reporter: well, they were looking on both from yesterday's. they may have got this

information, only releasing it now. but the malaysia military is saying it did reach the straits of malacca. this is the busiest waterway in the world, it's a huge area. but perhaps they have got a little bit of an insight into where this plane has gone now, jon. jon: and there were report that is the plane was spotted at low altitude over the straits of malacca. david piper reporting live there, thank you. jenna: well, speaking of the reports we're gathering, some family members of the missing passengers say their loved ones' to phones appear to still be working, and they have a lot of questions about that. they told authorities when they call or text their loved one, phone rings, but nobody answers. some experts say these phones really aren't ringing or maybe not ringing. it turns out cell phones can still look as if they're active even if they have been destroyed, and that is mainly because of the cellular network that still thinks the account itself is active. that means calls and text messages sent to the phone may still appear to go through, at least for a little while even if

the phone itself is no longer working. well, coming up this hour jon mentioned we have some new developments. we're going to speak with one man with years of experience investigating airline disasters, including twa flight 800. jon: the gop-led house is changing obamacare and trying to convince democrats to jump onboard. three bills all expected to pass. ed henry is live at the white house. the republicans, ed, think they have some new momentum here? >> reporter: well, jon, they think that maybe instead of focusing on repeal, which they've taken criticism for, they're trying to tweak the law, change it. and you mentioned those three bills. they would have to pass by suspension which means a wide, bipartisan vote for them to go very quickly, so that would mean bringing democrats in. one, allowing individuals to avoid the mandate for religious reasons. another one would provide incentives for companies to hire veterans who already have health insurance and, finally, one that

would exempt volunteer firefighters who find the new health care law too costly, and republican andy harris says he does think the gop has momentum. listen. >> it's all wrapped into one bundle. i'm just not sure -- i think the policy is defective, and coupled with bad implementation, it's just a my whereas owe nationwide. >> reporter: congressman harris is from maryland, and he's been leading the effort to get the administration to investigate maryland's health exchange which has been troubled from the start and is now, in fact, you should investigation. jon: and the white house is getting some criticism from what has to be seen as unlikely source, a labor union. >> reporter: yeah. they came out with this blistering all right suggesting that, in fact, the health law is going to make income inequality in this country worse and that it's going the actually hurt some of their union workers. here's jay carney responding to that. >> unions that support this white house in general saying

health premiums for their workers are going up and wages are going down. >> you know, i'm happy to give you her information on this. i've addressed it many times, but we're working to make sure -- >> why do they keep saying it? these are the unions speaking -- >> i know you want to speak for the unions, but ill get more information for for you. >> reporter: they said last week's jobs report says the unemployment numbers are declining. jon: and did jay carney get back to you with that more information? >> reporter: jay didn't, but one of his assistants did and they also say, look, the treasury department's looked at this, and the unions can't have it both ways. they can't get generous tax credits on top of the fact that they have employer-sponsored plans. they're pushing back, though, and it's awkward because they're pushing back against labor unions. jon: it just heartens me to know

that they're getting -- we're getting their money's worth out of the white house. >> reporter: got to get the information. jon: thank you. jenna: we're 20 days away from the deadline for enrolling in obamacare. today the comedy web site funny or die releases this interview with the president. >> so do you go to any web sites that are dot.coms or dot.nets or do you mainly just stick with dot.govsome. >> no, actually, we go to dot.govs. have you heard of healthcare.gov? >> let's get this out of the way, what'd you come here to plug? >> well, first of all, i think it's fair to say i wouldn't be with you if i didn't have something to plug. have you heard about the affordable care act? >> yeah, i heard about -- >> health healthcare.gov works t now, and millions of americans have already gotten health insurance plans, and what we want is for people to know that

you can get affordable health care. and most young americans, right now they're not covered. and the truth is that they can get coverage all for what it costs you to pay your cell phone bill. >> is this what they mean by drones? jenna: funny or not? michael warren, staff writer for the weekly standard, and the politics editor for roll call join us now. great to have you both. let's talk about strategy, michael. 7:30 this morning, funny or die releases this interview. it was, of course, filmed previously. again, just a few weeks out of the final date of enrollment. will it get more people to enroll? >> well, i thought it was funny, first of all. i like zack galifianakis, i thought the first part of the video was pretty funny. they were taking jabs at each ore, but -- other, but the part that you showed, it wasn't that funny, there weren't many good jokes. look, i don't think -- i think zack galifianakis has been

funnier, so maybe it put a human side to it. i just don't see how young people are going to watch this and then go sign up at healthcare.gov. they're probably going to do what i did which is i went and watched another zack galifianakis comedy video, the one where he hits justin bieber with his belt. jenna: the president or justin bieber, those were the choices you were left with. did you have the same experience? what kind of impact do you think this actually has. >> >> no, i didn't go and look up any justin bieber videos, i'm morally opposed to that. [laughter] in general, no, i think it was funny. it's certainly a unique strategy. it's not new to the presidency. in the past, presidents have appeared on unconvexal -- unconventional media. president clinton on mtv, was famously asked if he wore boxers or briefs. i think in this white house has to be especially careful because hollywood and liberal donors this california have been extremely supportive of the

president, but he doesn't cross that line of kind of demoting the office to an unserious nature. and i think this very appearance goes right up to that line, tiptoes on it and then comes back. jenna: i'm glad -- by the way, we have two funny guests. nice to have guests with a sense of humor when we're talking about a funny web site. on the issue of enrollment, though, when we look at youth enrollment, michael, we only have -- according to the latest government data which is only as of february 3st -- about 800,000 young people between the ages of 18-34 signing up. so, you both are saying this is funny, but is the time and energy of the president of the united states for the success of this program, should they be investing in other venues because we've all heard about the death spiral. is that, i guess is the investment of this video worth the potential risk that it really doesn't do anything? >> i think it reminds us that president obama has pretty much just become obamacare's pitch man. i mean, this is not the first time he's sort of gone somewhere

and said, hey, you know, you kids, you young invincibles, you really should sign up for because it's going to be really important for you. michelle obama did the same thing. that's really all they can do at this point, try to convince more people. i don't know what president can do about death spiral or some of these ore things. -- other things. it's baked into law, all of those questions of whether or not they're going to get enough people signed up. i mean, that's just kind of, in the end, up to salesmanship. i don't think it's a good strategy, but it's pretty much all he has left to do. jenna: we're coming out of cpac, we're coming out of rand paul talking about how he's going to connect with young voters and how republicans should do that as well, saying we're going to talk about the fourth amendment, he's going to go to uc berkeley, reach out to the young people and how they feel about liberty. it's an interesting come travis with the president of the united states -- contrast with the president of united states. what strategy do you think is the most effective? >> oh, that's a great question.

it depends what youth you're talking to, right? on the one hand, exit poll data have shown that youth have become more liberal in ways that previous generations have not seen. on the other hand to, from my experience here at harvard working with students every day, i see a lot of undergraduates who are prime for pecking for republicans because they're very concerned about privacy issues. and most of all they're looking for a republican leader who's willing to abandon the party's stances, conservative stances on socialer shoes and go -- issues and go straight for libertarian and privacy issues, and i think a leader like that would speak to the youth i've met here. jenna: mike, what do you think about that? two very different strategies in engaging the youth. >> i think republicans fall into the trap of thinking they can be with cool and funny too, and i don't know if you've ever met a republican, they aren't funny, they aren't cool. so i think that strategy of trying to go on maybe like mitt romney did after the election and going on with jimmy fallon, you're going to fall flat, because your just not going to

rise up to that level, i think. i don't know about rand paul's strategy either. you can focus on young people on these privacy and libertarian issues, but those folks are going to grow up and get married and have kids, and their pom tick are going to -- politics are going to change. the party is going to worry too much about getting young people at losing the people they already have. jenna: i bet you're both on twitter, right? i'm going to take michael's challenge and have our viewers tweet us if they've met a funny republican, because i think that answer should be, there should be an answer provided from our viewers. funny and cool republican. mike and sarah, great to see you both with. jon: john mccain was just on one of the -- jenna: he was very funny, you're right. [laughter] i'm sure some of our viewers will have some great ideas, so please respond. jon: some more obamacare controversy to tell you about. the number of convicted criminals who are now eligible for medicaid. also, new testimony in the

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jenna mentioned, we have another winter storm that is going to move through. i wish i had a bulletproof vest for all the times i've said don't shoot the messenger! there's the storm across the midwest and the great lakes, and we're going to see several inches of show across areas like chicago. this could bring chicago to its third snowiest season on record. so 4-8 in the areas that you see shaded in blue, including you, detroit, you could be up to the third snowiest as well, and then over a foot of snow for interior sections of the northeast, northern new england where i know the skiers are probably love aring it, right? -- loving it, right? so there's your forecast temperatures and the radar. 56 in st. louis, you could see some thunderstorms before this turns over into snow and then into wednesday we're going to watch this as it continues to move eastward and northward. it's going to be too warm for snow for philly and d.c. and new york city, but we could see a few flurries as the storm exits and the temperatures drop to 24 degrees by 12 p.m. on thursday.

so a quick look at where we could see the snow totals, 2.8 in chicago, but jackpot is really going to be northern new york and northern new england where we could get over a foot, a foot plus. and as i mentioned, just a couple of inches, we'll be into the third snowiest season on record, jenna? jenna: and after that, are we clear after that? or -- >> reporter: you know, march, we were watching something on st. patrick's day, so stay tuned, and march can be really, you know, taste of spring and then winter, so we still have a few more weeks to go before we're really out of the winter path. jenna: i hope you've got a lot of yellow. >> reporter: i will be wearing a lot of yellow for the next few weeks. jenna: it looks great on you, j.d., just so you know. thank you. [laughter] jon: investigators now down playing the possibility of terrorism in the disappearance of that flight 370 off the coast of malaysia, what we are now learning of the two passengers who got onboard using stolen

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jenna: well, right now two texas teenagers are charged with murder after being caught trying to dump the body of a classmate in a creek. arthel has the latest from our newsroom. arthel? >> reporter: hey, jenna. so this comes two years after another student from the same high school was killed. in this case the victim was a senior at wily east high school which is northeast of dallas. police say 17-year-old ivan -- [inaudible] seen here many his tastebook photo, was -- facebook photo, was targeted by two 16-year-old

juniors at the same high school who are accused of killing him. police received a 911 call which led them to a wooded area several miles from the school where they found the teens. they told detectives they were trying to get rid of the body, according to police reports. police say he had been killed on a road behind the high school. local media reports say he dated the ex-girlfriend of one of the boys accused of his murder. >> we're all in turmoil. like, we don't -- we can't believe what happened, whoa, what? ivan? out of all people, why ivan? >> reporter: the teens face murder charges. investigators say they have evidence that this was preplanned. 17-year-old ivan was an rotc member who was awaiting his shipment date to join the marines. jenna: wow. what a story. arthel, thank you. >> reporter: you're welcome. jon: officials are now downplaying the possibility of terrorism in the disappearance of malaysia airlines flight 370.

interpol is now identifying two passengers who boarded the flight using stolen passports. they say both are iranian, and one of them was trying to seek asylum this western europe. in western europe. meantime, the search continues to expand, spreading south ask west from where crews were originally looking, but even with dozens of ships and planes looking for it, no trace of any wreckage has been found. joining me now, christopher voss, who was a case agent on the twa flight 800 crash off the coast of long island in the middle '90s. christopher, if they are not finding any wreckage, not a seat cushion, nothing from this airplane, they must be looking in the wrong place, right? >> not necessarily. you know, that's a starting point. and first of all, jon, if you'd forgive me, i'd like to congratulate you on your color choice for your tie. jon: oh, thank you. >> in terms of potential crimes here, you know, there are three

possibilities of crimes. there's terrorism and tw types of terrorism whether it's an independent grape or whether it's state sponsored, and then, of course, homicide and potentially suicide. so they have to look at all those things as their starting point. they would like to have some clues from the wreckage to to start off now because that gives them an area to focus, but they're going to have to go through all the -- turn over all the stones, look at autopossibilities before -- all the possibilities before this is over anyway. jon: there's an intriguing report that we've been kind of taking a look at that has just come out. well, the malaysian air force had indications that the plane had done a u-turn in the air before it disappeared from radar. now the malaysian air force, apparently be, is say ising that, yes, it did a uing-turn, and they had some indication. they had radar contact with it when it had crossed back over malaysia and was over that body of water that lies to the west of the country. that would be, well, obviously,

they've been pretty much up til now searching op the east side -- on the east side, the original expected flight track of the plane. that would be a monumental development here. >> right. that would tell them an awful lot. now, there's a lot of things in the sky that are keeping strack of these planes -- track of these planes. there's military radar, weather radar and faa radar. each of these types of radar rotate at a different time frame and they're in different locations, and that's why it's taken a little bit longer to get some of this radar information out of there, because the investigators are gathering this data from a number of different places that are not necessarily coordinated. so that'll help them focus on where to look for evidence of this catastrophe. jon: you know from the twa flight 800 investigation, though, that in the absence of solid answers, the conspiracy theories are springing up all over the place. it looked, you know, like these two guys, two iranian guys with stolen passports must have been terrorists, now the officials

seem to be shooting down that possibility. what are we left with here? >> well, as i mentioned, there's two kinds of terrorism, and there's still two additional types of crimes this could be. and then, of course, there's the possibility of mechanical failure which is what happened with twa flight 800. flight 900 was mechanical -- 800 was mechanical failure. now, as they look at this plane, they have to look at the plane in terms of crimes at three things. they have to look at everyone that was on the plane, everything that was on plane, all the cargo, all the luggage, and then they have to look at everybody that touched the plane. and they're going to have to look at that in several different airports, because something could have been put on plane in the cargo that was potentially set to create a catastrophe after it had been through several different altitudes and elevations and taking off and landing as an attempt to obscure what happened

to the plane. it's also a possibility that if it was a crime, that they did intend for it to happen over water because that would, obvious of course, obscure the evidence. jon: right. >> they've got a lot of work to do here, and it'll take a while, but they should come up with the answers. jon: a quick bulletin from the ap, the malaysian military has radar data showing the airliner changed course hundreds of kilometers from the last position recorded by civilian authorities that says they have a radar sighting at 2:40 a.m. again, the mystery only continues. thanks very much for being with us. >> thank you, jon. my pleasure. jenna: well, we're coming off a record run on wall street, but now there's a bit of a pause mt. action. what are investors looking at now? we have a live report from the new york stock exchange. also some new developments in the oscar pistorius murder trial. what we now know about the bullets pistorius used to shoot his girlfriend dead and how it could impact the case against him.

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those may be ukraine related. those names are lower. microsoft, visa, mcdonald's and caterpillar are winners. glimpse at some movers. facebook, record new high today. up about 150% over the last year. some positive comments from the analyst at citigroup. retailers, urban outfitters and american eagle outfitters claiming the snow and severe weather hurt their numbers and a little cautious going forward. watch those retailers, they have had a tough time of it. mcdonald's have same-store sales globally have been weak, the chief financial officer out at a conference giving a presentation about stablizing the u.s. operations going forward. so mcdonald's has been a great performer on the dow jones industrial average today and a winner, up about 3%. back to you. jenna: familiar names there. nicole, thank you. >> thanks. jon: well, "happening now," new testimony in the oscar pistorius murder trial. he is of course the olympic athlete accuse of premeditated

murder in the death of his girlfriend. pistorius claims he shot reva steenkamp by accident on valentine's day last year because he thought she was an intruder. one of his friend taking the stand testifying about several times which pistorius fired a gun in public. this coming after a pathologist that steenkamp's gunshot wound came from type of expanding ammunition once banned in that country. her injuries were so devastating any one of them could have killed her. the defense failing to poke any real holes in his testimony. talk about it with today's legal panel. health they are hansen, trial attorney. lis wiehl, fox news legal analyst. you say, head this medical expert's testimony is some of the most damaging for pistorius's defense? >> without a doubt, jon. he made two major points. he said steenkamp had eaten within hours of her death. pistorius said they went to bed at 10:00. she died around 3:00. that hurts his credibility.

the other is could very have screamed after she was shot. the defense was say that the she could not screamed thereafter. he said the shot to the hip and hand would not affect her ability to call out. those are two things tough to get over. jon: shot in the hip and arm would cause you to scream. >> screaming would come after the shots fired. this friend of pistorius saying will you take the rap for me? his friend saying i will take the rap for me. jon: back up a little bit. they were, this is the scene in the restaurant. >> right. jon: when the gun went off, pistorius's gun went off and hands it to his friend, says, here. >> too much media. will you take the rap for me? what that builds prosecution, theory of the case. loved guns. had all these weird guns. and ammunition, i'm not really that concerned about it as far as tactical matter for the prosecution but it does show again he loved guns. he loved having guns around. jon: kind of ammunition made in the state here once known as black talon.

they call it ranger. kind of mushrooming ammunition once it hits body, opens up does a lot of damage. a lot of people would carry that kind of ammunition even though it was once illegal in south africa. >> i don't think it carries toward premeditation or not. we all know he killed her. the issue will be the premeditation thing. i think from on the defense's behalf they made some points with that fresco. that is the friend who said he was willing to take the rap. he ultimately conceded he was one who said he would take the rap on cross-examination. oscar has phenomenal witnesses. they got his brother off a year ago on a homicide charge. they are wonderful at cross-examination. >> you mean the defense lawyers. >> right, right. they are wonderful. they did a great job. >> what do you make with the former girlfriend that testified on friday who said, you know, look he was violent, he had these guns? that is, and the thing that was crucial about what she said, she said when they were, he was

afraid of intruders. he would always make sure she was there or awake. that is not what happened apparently according to his story that night, remember? >> yeah. jon: right. >> the one good thing from the defense perspective is that the cross-examination today showed some inconsistencies between the ex-girlfriend and the friend. if you get one little pearl of wisdom at the end of the case you try to put those together into a necklace to sway the judge. >> on the other hand, judges and jurors, realize nobody is perfect. can't tell the same story exactly 100 times these witnesses are grilled over and over again. sometimes almost lends credibility. the other thing i want to bring up, throwing up in the courtroom? is that overplaying it? too emotional or assumption of guilt? jon: apparently it is quite loud. he is, you know, his wretching sound overwhelmed the testimony even in the courtroom at the time. and, one does wonder with a jury

it might be effective. with a judge, a professional jurist who has seen many, many cases. >> i don't think it will have much impact. there are different arguments today why he is throwing up in any event. could be guilt or sickness. i don't think the judge will let that -- >> all things hearing testimony about the horrible thing he did. jon: what about that? i mean his side brought up testimony saying, you know when some of the first-responders got there he is is holding her in his arms and crying, sobbing. sure, you would be upset anyway. that doesn't really help his case, does it? >> i don't think it does. we have to remember everyone is so quick to say, clearly he did it, we know he did it and clearly it was premeditated. we're in the prosecution case. every witness we heard so far will be good for them. when we hear from the defense we'll hear from phenomenal experts. jon: >> i want to hear from ballistics from the prosecution's point of view the angle shots must have been fired. that will be crucial. they're holding it back probably

towards the end. jon: hard to believe they were only together for four months before she was shot and killed. heather, lis. thank you both. jenna. jenna: john, irs report that is out. we have new details by the house oversight committee over the agency's alleged targeting over conservative groups. they say they have the evidence. that is the big question. new group eligible for medicaid. the impact of this on the obamacare rollout next. >> get on healthcare.gov because that is one of the most disgusting things i ever seen. >> is that finally over? >> good question. >> zach talking to the president. >> trying to sell obama care. >> did you think it was funny or think it was foolish. >> i think zach's really funny. i don't know how it works for the president. >> sound like a debate, right no let's debate that top of the hour. >> we shall. >> see you then.

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jenna: again, 20 days more or less until the end of open enrollment, here are the latest numbers on obamacare. according to the bought four million people signed up for private insurance. plus with medicaid expansion a health care company says they're between 2.4 and 3.5 million new medicaid enrollees. centers for medicaid services or cms, nine million people are eligible for medicaid. that brings us to the next topic. some who are eligible and already enrolled in medicaid include prisoners. we have senior fellow at the manhattan institute quoted in "new york times" article just recently said this quote, there can be little doubt it would be controversialit was widely understood a substantial proportion of the medicaid expansion that taxpayers are funding would be directed towards convicted criminals. you should have seen that quote hopefully.

we'll get it to you. he is here to actually talk about it. michael weinberg, senior policy advisor to the bay area council. that is a interesting thought. a lot of us didn't know that or maybe don't really know how to feel about that. why do you think it is controversial? >> i wrote about this today for "forbes." the impression you get from advocates of the affordable care act act, 50 million people are uninsured. the reason they're uninsured they're denied coverage by mean insurance companies due to preexisting condition. the truth of matter it is only several hundred thousand people who actually have the problem. the vast majority of people are people who don't want to buy insurance because they're it is too expensive or can't afford it or this population, people who are convicted criminals or been through the criminal justice system who haven't been able to reenter the workforce, low incomes, have not reentered society eligible for medicaid expansion. turns out more than a third of the people who the medicaid expansion affects under

obamacare are convicted criminals or ex-conviction. jenna: on that, in certain places like chicago, at cook county jail, according to "the new york times" when inmates are enrolled, when they're doing intake they're actually enrolled as well in medicaid now. what's your take on this? good thing, bad thing, what should we think about it? >> we could talk about morality and compassion let's talk instead about public safety. particularly prisoners leaving prison, getting health care coverage dramatically reduces recidivism. people going back to jail and reduces crime. so the evidence is not mixed on this. and i think it's a very good thing. jenna: avik, about that is this a good thing because they have coverage now when they leave? >> yeah. so the evidence is actually a little more mixed than what micah suggested. but i would say this, the issue of getting prisoners back into society and civil society and back into the workforce is a very important problem. some of my colleagues at the manhattan institute howard hu system k, cory booker, mayor of

newark on just this problem. the real issue is not just about medicaid. it is about getting them back in the workforce. once they're suck in government program and government welfare state, they never actually reenter the workforce. that is most important thing to make sure you avoid recidivism. jenna: that is interesting point, micah. this is another government program they're involved with. other opponents say this is overburdened program and that will overburden it further. what do you think? >> it is an interesting point. it doesn't happen to be true. the entry points in the workforce are generally at lower income level which means many will not be receiving priced insurance. medicaid helps people reenter the workforce at that level rather than hurting them. jenna: what about the point that taxpayers are paying for the care around well-being of prisoners whether they're in the county jail or federal prison? we're all paying in certain situations. it is the state that is paying the bill and that is what "the new york times" is pointing out.

this is way for states to shift some of that to the federal government which is attractive being high cost of prisons. does it matter to taxpayers? we're paying one way or another. does it matter we're paying health expenses because it is local prison. >> it does matter. first of all the medicaid program is lot less efficient the way it delivers care and effectiveness of that care. studies have shown people who are on medicaid have no better health outcomes than people with no health coverage at all. the thing if you actually deliver the care on local level, state based level where states have the flexibility to deliver care inmates actually need, quality of that care will be a lot better. the other point to make, again starting from the beginning, is that the presentation presentation of obamacare would help people with preexisting conditions that wouldn't get covered. there is false advertising element. we can have a intellectual public policy debate about the factors that would help prisoners reenter society.

that is the no the debate we had in 2009 and 2010. jenna: micah, what about that? some would call it more big federal government, taking all prisoners and inmates versus under their umbrella that should be dealt with as some argue on a state level what do you think about that. >> one of the things he mentioned was this idea which has been thoroughly debunked that doesn't make people healthier. the oregon study a lot of people point to showed improvements in mental health and it is mental health problems that are the main problems keeping prisoners from reentering society. as many as 50% of the people leaving prisons and jails have serious mental health problems. and this will help them and it will help them reenter society. that is what the evidence shows. >> none of what micah said is true. the evidence around health outcomes in medicaid is thoroughly and overwhelming that medicaid doesn't improve health outcomes on specific issue of american tall health the way the "new england journal of medicine" article, the oregon

study measured mental health was not relevant to inmate population. what the inmate population suffers from things like schizophrenia. what oregon study measured were people happy or less happy when they thought they had health coverage under medicaid before any medical intervention actually happened. if you think you have the security of health coverage you might be a little happier when that health coverage doesn't end up working for you don't end up happier. jenna: i have only 20 seconds. give you last word. >> thank you. that word he used security is really important word. health coverage does a lot of different things. it provide financial security which means that you're less financially stressed and more less likely to commit crimes. it provide mental security which reduces stress which is more likely to reduce crime. there is many, many important reasons to get people health care coverage and i'm very glad we're doing it for this population. jenna: love to have you both back. because we went over a big span, the economics of it, the social justice part of it whether or

not we do it the right way. i hope you join us again. >> anytime. jenna: appreciate it. jon: the standoff with russia over ukraine. the secretary of state speaking with his russian counterpart today as president obama prepares for important they work fast on heart burn and taste awesome. meetings er fruit chews. enjoy the relief!

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ukraine's history as that country fights to preserve its territorial integrity. legend has it that kiev was founded by three brothers and a sister, memorialized in the statue behind me. in the 9th century it became the capital of kiev, the precursor state to russia. adopted christianity, built 400 churches and was the biggest state in europe. when it fell it was folded into lithuanian, polish and eventually russian empires. ukraine had a brief period of independence in 20th century but was quickly folded into the soviet union. this is where a statue of vladmir lenin stood until recently pulled down by protesters in final farewell to russian influence over this country. there was a famine in the region known as the bread basket of ussr. again there shouldn't have been brutal oppression under stalin. nearly 30 million ukrainians died because of starvation.

as punishment for not collectivizing tear farms, stalin took their food. that was a way of breaking their resistance and nationalism. many countries recognize ukraine's famine as a genocide. kiev was practically destroyed during world war ii. ukraine was one of the soviet union's bloodiest battlefields. eight million people were killed that doesn't include those shipped off to stalin's labor camsp as or executed afterwards. no one is talking about ukrainian troops going to war with russian troops but keep are concerned what comes next. they're concerned about the army being underfunded. citizens are giving supplies now to the armed forces to then them out in the event. jon? jon: that country very much struggling in the face of this russian oppression. amy kellogg. thank you. jenna: sports energy drink at a whole new level. we'll show you the drink that promises to give you a little extra buzz and a little alcohol

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