driver putting a big live python in the backseat of a cab. videotape taped it. taxi commission now investigating. i would have passed out. thanks for being part of "the real story." i'm gretchen. >> where in the world is this jumbo jet? now all of a sudden we can't get within hundreds and hundreds of miles. today a look at what we know and where it could have gone and we'll hear from an invest t gators who helped crack this sort of case in the past. i'll ask him about all the theories out there and we'll hear from a former 777 instructor who says this is absolutely mind boggling. plus, what we've now learned about this morning's blast that brought down two buildings here in new york city, so let's get to it. >> good afternoon to you and s. first from fox at 3:00 in new york city, somebody is definitely not telling the truth about malaysia airlines flight

370. that's about the only thing that we can report with certainty this afternoon as the search for the missing jumbo jet enters day five, 121 hours since it last pinged. malaysian military general denies he ever said what he actualakly said, that it flu hundreds of miles off course me did say it. they independently confirmed his comment. that's what one of the many contradictory statements that the agonizing family members crying in confidence or even a cover-up. this all started when a jet dropped off the radar screen early saturday morning in malaysia. this one. it happened right here. it had gone from here flying in that direction and it dropped off the radar right there. that's when it stopped pinging, going from kuala lumpur to beijing. it disappeared over the gulf of thailand. by sunday a full-scale search was under way around the place they lost the plane.

huge area. some 40 ships, 40 planes, couldn't find a single trace of it. then on monday officials surprised a lot of people when they expanded the search, not just in the red area here but all of this. they never said why. started searching from hundreds of miles from where they said the plane went missing. they never said why they are over here in an area where the plane never should have been. we got our first explanation for that yesterday when the malaysian military general quote as saying the plane was shown making a u-turn, all without any word from the pilots to explain why it would make such a u-turn. he said it happened after the plane's transponders went dark, raising the possibility someone turned them off on purpose. that would explain why searchers switched focus to this other area over here, far from the area where the plane should have been. which brings us to today. and a bizarre backtrack from the malaysian military. the general says he was

misquoted. but as i mentioned, the a.p. reports it had confirmed his claim with other top officials. and now an air force chief says there's no way to know what the radar picked up when it wasn't doing that pinging. they saw something on radar but they don't know what. it's important to point out this about face comes only after the malaysia faced tough criticism from family members for not letting them know what in the world is going on and not giving them information sooner. some relatives of the 239 people on board accused the malaysian government of hiding facts at best. and statements from malaysian officials aren't b making anything any clearer, just a couple of the quotes that we've heard today include, and i quote, there are things i can tell you, and things i can't. another quote. there is only confusion, if you want to see confusion. oh, there's confusion. family members say all they want is the truth. however, all that government officials gave them at the briefing today was the last words from the cockpit, right

before the plane vanished the authorities say one of the pilots said, all right, good night. like everything was absolutely normal. and then it disappeared. catherine heritage is in washington for us. are american investigators getting any more involved now? >> they are. the ntsb and faa are providing technical assistance to decode the data on flight mh-370's last known location. >> i think there are some radar tracks. i think the malaysians know they have them. i don't think they know exactly what they are. so i think by having faa and ntsb experts come in, maybe they can get a better idea of exactly what it is that they're seeing. >> the jet transponders found in the cockpit track altitude speed and location and sent out a unique code to air controllers. seasoned investigators say the jet apparently kept flying but now as an unknown aircraft. there is a separate independent data stream known as acard which

sends realtime information to the airline. >> all we got today from the officials over there is the last words from the cockpit. what are the details of that? >> after a briefing for the chinese media, reporters were told the final exchange was routine between the air and air traffic control in vietnam. after the flight was handed over to china's city, the pilot responded, all right, good night. and while the ma-370 never made contact with the chinese controllers a spokesman for the airline today said they are investigating allegations the co-pilot let two women into the cockpit but still didn't find any evidence suggesting pilot suicide or sabotage that was likely. >> we have no reason to believe that there was anything, any actions internally by the crew that caused the disappearance of this aircraft. >> the faa recently issued this airworthiness directive to take effect in april after reports of

cracking in the 777 skin which could lead, quote, to a rapid decompression and loss of structural integrity. this recent warning has clearly taken on more significance given what happened with flight 370. >> i'll say. thanks. let's bring in christopher voss now, he worked on the investigation of the twa flight 200 off of long island and now a managing director at insight security. christopher, i'm at a loss here. never seen anything like this. how about you? >> thanks for having me on. especially with the continuing conflicting information, chaotic streams of briefing coming out of there which confusions the situation. the few things we thought we could rule out based on the reported turn of the plane, even now that's in doubt. >> we are led to believe the plane continued to fly for an hour or so. i don't know why they think that now or maybe it's all old news. seems to me they don't know what

they're doing. >> i think that's actually absolutely the case. they probably don't have people on the instrumentation, the radar instruments that may have known enough to know exactly what they were looking at which is why it's a good idea that the ntsb and the faa are sending experts to help them decode it. until we get that information, which is there and will be helpful, those will be the solid clues as to what happened and where the airplane might be. >> any chance that somebody could have taken -- i mean, if you fly for a long time, even on a glide, is there any chance somebody could have taken this thing low and put it down somewhere? >> i think if that would have happened then there would have been some indication from either the flight crew, the flight attendants, or even a passenger. somebody would have gotten something out on a cellphone. and i think the one thing that we're pretty satisfied that we know now is with the massive amount of family members who got nothing on the phones, that whatever happened, the

passengers were completely oblivious to it up until the moment in time it happened. >> the is it still possible the plane exploded at the moment it stopped sending out the signal, and if so wouldn't they have found it down there somewhere? wouldn't something have floates? >> yeah, that's a really good point. twa flight 800, many other planes that have gone down in the water, things remain floating on the surface of the water for a long enough period of time for a search and rescue effort to at least find that. and it's very hard to believe that the plane would have hit the water or any place where they're thinking it might have and everything would have vanished without a trace. >> everybody points to that air france flight they didn't find the black boxes for two years but they found debris within 48 hours. >> right, exactly. the debris, oil slicks, fuel slicks, a lot of parts of the plane are capable of floating. and they would still be floating out there. and the search and rescue teams would have found them if it had gone down in the areas they've been looking in.

>> i guess eventually something will flow to shore if, in fact, it's in the drink, we don't know. >> exactly right. it should flow ashore at some point in time if it hit the water. on the other hand, it may have gone down on land someplace and they just haven't found it yet. >> former fbi retired special agent christopher voss. it's great to see you. >> thank you. we're watch for developments. they are about 11, 12 hours ahead of us so it's the middle of the night over there. we were actually think that this morning when we woke up we would say, oh, well, they found it in this area where they now realize it was. they don't even realize it was there. they do not know where this plane went, how it got there, why it stopped pinging. they don't know anything. it doesn't seem like they're withholding things. it seems like they're clueless. it's now been five days without any sign of this plane. one of the biggest flying in the skies today. so how could one of these things just vanish? and what could search teams be overlooking? give us your ideas on twitter at

shepnewsteam. a 777 flight instructor on what we should know about this jumbo jet. that's just minutes from now. here in new york city, what a morning. people blocks away say they felt the blast when an explosion leveled two buildings. and the sound of sirens filled the air as dozens of fire trucks headed to the scene. now at least two people are reported dead, others hurt. we do not know how many may be missing. the explosion in east harlem in new york city, what in the world caused it and how are they going to get it all cleaned up? ♪

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two five-story buildings, killed two people, injured more than a dozen others. right now more people are listed as missing. the mayor of new york city will not tell us how many. as firefighters continue to battle the flames our reporters in the area say there's a lingering smell of gas and smoke is still intense. it happened in east harlem. this is the location. 1646 park avenue. this is park avenue that goes uptown. this is the elevated metro north trains. they are shut down for now because that -- every train that goes north to the suburbs to the north, is shut down. and that's the only way people

can get up -- tonight is going to be nuts. here's the location in east harlem. this is central park, obviously. the upper west side, upper east side. they call this the upper, upper east side now. here's the rest of central park. here's times square. we're like right here. so that's the area in the city if you're interested. officials say the two buildings that collapsed were both five stories tall. one person says she saw people flying out the windows and that's a quote. locals near the scene describe the moment it all went down. >> it was an extremely loud explosion like a bomb. >> we're sitting there waiting for the store to open when all of a sudden, boom, the explosion. the train had just passed, the metro north. we thought it came from the train. but then we saw these boards like flying. so the lady just hugged me to try to protect herself because the glass from the store that just popped open. >> happened at 9:30. still burning at noon.

rescuers are waiting for the all clear to start searching through the rubble for the missing. jamie colby is in east harlem for us this arch. what's the latest there? >> i think the reason the mayor cannot give you those numbers or give us as well is because they really don't know. there were a number of residents in those two buildings that remain unaccounted for. and they are hoping against all hope that they weren't inside. let me show you some video of a witness that he provided us showing us the initial chaos. be described as they removed the first f(q%5m&ñ tox1m'pt local hospitals. the complication c2here, shephe, other than the air, is also the fact that there are active gas lines that remain under these two buildings. and once they start to disturb that rubble with an active fire scene that reached five alarm, it could continue to be even more deadly. listen to the mayor today. >> the only indication of danger came about 15 minutes earlier

when a gas leak was reported to conedison. coned dispatched a team immediately to respond. the explosion occurred before that team could arrive. as soon as the explosion was called in, fd and y responded literally within two minutes of the call for help. >> it's still taking all day to battle the blaze. two minutes the firefighters came, 250 responding firefighters to the five alarms that been downgraded. 24 people at least injured that they know of. two died, as you said. and two are seriously injured with life-threatening injuries. we expect an update from at least one of those hospitals shortly. >> you heard from neighbors earlier today who said, look, we smelled this gas last night. i don't know if it didn't get reported or lost in translation somewhere. i know crews are hoping they can get to the searching finish

tonight, right? >> well, darkness is soon upon us, and they do want to get through but they have to be very, very careful. they don't want to reignite the flames. we have seen new firefighters coming in as well, as they are somewhat fatigued from the day. and in the basement or the ground floor of that building was a church where last night they said they did smell gas but it wasn't until 15 minutes before the explosion a call came in to con-ed to respond. the question at this hour for all of us, you can hear our voice and my eyes were tearing, is there anything in the air that we've been breathing all day that was toxic. we did wear masks. it's somewhat subsided today. >> jamie, thanks very much, live for us. there's the malaysia plane. i still don't know what to think about that. critical meeting today at the white house between president obama and ukraine's acting prime minister who says russia is armed to the teeth and his nation is in grave danger. what are we supposed to do about it? and if so, how? we're live at the white house,

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it's a farce. today a u.s. navy destroyer joined the forces for a military exercise in the black sea just a few hundred miles off that crimean peninsula. any word on what's going on at this meeting there, rich? >> well, the meeting is still going on right now. we anticipate we will get word. this has been something that's more of a photo opportunity effort interim prime minister, someone the russian government doesn't recognize meeting with the president of the united states right now, meeting with the secretary of state earlier, and just a little while he'll head up to capitol hill where they are considering sanctions and aid and meet with congressional leaders there. >> rich, what if they vote, yes, do this? what does it mean? >> well, the g-7, of course the g-8 minus russia, putting out a statement saying there will be further actions from crimea vote for the referendum and then tries to join the russian federation. there is no spelling out of exactly what the g-7 of the united states or really anybody else could do.

secretary of state john kerry however saying in the world's eyes this vote is irrelevant. >> that obviously, in our judgment, would be contrary to the constitution of ukraine and an illegal act. i'm t not sure that it would be recognized under those circumstances. so there are a lot of variance here which is why it is urgent that we have this conversation with the russians and try to figure out a way forward. >> secretary of state john kerry basically saying it wouldn't be a proper election with russian influence there and you talked about with the ballot looks like. secretary of state headed to london this week. >> rich, the white house has turned greene but only for the purpose of this live shot. it's weirdness with the camera. thank you. you're not green at least. let's bring in michael, managing director of the washington institute and live. this is a mess, michael. what do you do now? >> well, you know, shep, obviously we have this visit by the prime minister of ukraine today. this visit it's to the white

house is meant to be a symbolic show of support now new ukrainian government, rebuke to russia which refused to recognize this new government in kiev. visits like this are also a double. edged sword because, you know, if the view back in ukraine is that, well, you know, you go to washington, new york, and come back empty handed that can sort of then rebound against you. and so the question is, what will we actually come forward with? what will the eu actually come forward with? understanding that our options are quite sir crumb subscric i- >> when you look to the east of ukraine, they have taken over various buildings, 11 of them. there are a number of regions more closely aligned with russia. what do you do if and when it goes there? >> obviously this is a big risk and you do see some of these more ethnic russian or russian-speaking regions of ukraine, you see this back and

forth, and it's concerning. near-term growth for the united states and europe is through the threats of sanctions, through the military whmaneuvers in the region, from grabbing any other pieces of ukraine. so far we don't see much sort of to suggest that moscow is headed explicitly in that direction but it could come at any moment. i think that is a big goal for the west. >> can ukraine get crimea back? and if so, how will it do that? >> it will be tough, shep. what we're seeing now the russia entrenching its position in the creamia through the deployment of forces and the severing of air links between crimea and the rest of the world and the referendum happening on sunday. so i think that's a much more long-term process and who knows when or how that will be resolved. so i think the bigger goal now is to, number one, prevent a further russian aggression and, two, importantly, bolster that government in kiev which faces a very dire economic situation of its own. >> they got money problems galore. good to see you.

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time for the top of the news. the mystery of the missing malaysian airlines jet. we're now get an idea of just how big the search area could wind up being. take a look at this. base toon the amount of fuel it could have flown anywhere within this radius. from australia to halfway into china. you can see india, japan, australia, all part of it. now india and japan report they've joined in the search operation. it includes dozens of ships and aircraft from 12 nations, but

vietnam reports it's scaling back because of conflicting claims from malaysian officials. so right now the search area is about 35,000 square miles. in other words, about the size of a state of indiana and they're doing that with fewer than 40 planes and 40 boats. so far the search turned up nothing, no wreckage, no debris, no black boxes, no soil slioil leaving nothing but questions. i guess we could get some answers at some point if they could just find the black backes. >> all commercial airlines are equipped with emergency locator transmitters. and these are essentially activated when a crash happens and they send out a signal to help search and rescue crews find that crash site. now, black boxes which are showing you right now are typically orange despite the name and they also contain emergency locator transmitters. now, for underwater crashes modern data recorders and cockpit voice recorders have

underwater beacons. they're powered by a tiny radioactive pellet and they continually send out sonic signals for 30 days. one of the challenges is that the strength of the signal is actually diminished over distance and also, shep, you know, the equipment that's used to listen for the signals have to be within line of sight. if the black boxes are buried in the stand, it could be difficult to find. >> such old school technology. i guess they're working to make this better though. >> they are. the u.n. civilization organization recently issued new requirements that would require the underwater locator beacons used to last for 0 days instead of the current 30 days. those are not supposed to go into effect for another four years. now, much of the effort to improve black boxes came out after air france flight 447 crashed in the atlantic ocean in 2009. it took nearly two years to find those boxes. but a former ntsb official tells me the cost to improve black boxes may not outweigh the benefit. take a listen. >> if there are two accidents a

year where recorders use and serves any useful function, it's hard to make a case that the airlines of the world have to spend millions of dollars to buy new recorders that are marginally more capable. >> now, the faa also been looking, shep, at ways to strengthen the requirements for emergency locator transmitters. >> none of it really makes sense to me because on the way back from kiev the other day we have wi-fi in the plane at 35,000 feet above the atlantic ocean. the whole way here. and they can't have those planes stream some information about where they are the whole time? of course they can. >> well, it's definitely something they're looking to do in the future and looking to improve this technology. and i think it comes down to what that former ntsb official said which is money. >> they have wi-fi on there because i pay for it. it's a revenue stream for them. i guess there's no revenue stream in all those lives at the bottom of the deep blue sea. let's get more on this and joining us now from washington,

former boeing 777 instructor himself, retired airline pilot, currently crowe of consultants. ross, it's nice to see you. thank you. >> hello, shepherd. >> i don't know how you make these things easier to find or what it is you can do here. do you have any thoughts right off the top? >> you know, you just touched on a very important thing. you said you were on the airplane and you could talk on your cellphone -- not on the cellphone -- >> wi-fi. i could communicate over the internet. >> believe it or not, most modern airliners like the 777 or 787 do have capability to stream out data and it's used basically for maintenance purposes at all times. they could be extracted at will or at times it could automatically send this information out to the airline

maintenance base. >> is it your sense that if these pilots were alive and well and could message back, hey, we got trouble, that they would have done it or is this not as weird as it seems to me? >> you know, pilots' first job is to fly the airplane and get it out of the mess that it's in, whatever is happening. so we don't immediately talk and try to say something. so if -- once they get the airplane under control, finish the checklist, then they probably have time to talk to somebody. and it's possible that they did and because in that area they may have been on the hf radios, that's an old-fashioned world war ii type radio communication, which unfortunately certain part of the world they still use it. >> that's comforting. don't fly to malaysia, note to self. have you got a gut on this

thing? do you have something down inside you that says this is probably what happened? >> you know, at this point, i think any idea, even if it's crazy, may not be a bad idea because, as you know, we've tried for what is it, five, six days now, none of the elt rz talking to us.unication from the aircraft. there's no debris field anywhere. so, you know, there's been some unconfirmed reports that the aircraft has been seen some other place. so obviously they're not calling me and asking me where to look for this airplane. but i would say expand your search, go to someplace else. you know, there are accessible jungles on the flight path of this aircraft, vietnam and -- >> i hope they didn't put the thing down in the jungle.

ross almer, nice to see you. we've been getting your tweets here. ryan has them. do you have anything good coming in, ryan? >> f-14 flier 7 here is asking,s a the possibility of a military missile striking the plane been ruled out? >> we oh, gosh. give it a rest. >> the plane was jacked, flown below radar. landed in military base or other field. but why, that's my best, probably wrong guess. >> you know, ross was just talking about that, they could land it on a makeshift runway. it's a big bird. i guess it's possible. who knows what the heck is in the cargo hole down there. i would like to know what was in there. >> another one here, if the plane did not crash, it and all aboard must be hidden. highly improbable. >> you know the stuff that came from the chinese text messaging service where they said, oh, these -- i don't know what to make of any of it anymore. go on. >> finally, so bizarre that at

this point i would believe that aliens took the plane. >> imagine you're a family member. 239 people, some at kids sitting at home, when am i going to skype with daddy and they don't know what to tell them. amazing. prosecutors in the oscar pistorius murder trial dropped a key part in their argument out of nowhere. looking at important evidence from his home, including the bathroom door through which he shot and killed the intruder. plus, theg us prodi,cal daur sued her parents and now ask to come back. they have to pay my way through college. i'm 18 but they have to give me more money. i tell you what my dad would have said, give me the key and get the hell out.

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lawyer. we have a recap in our slide show here. there she is. she wanted to go to college, i guess. here's the teen in court earlier this month. 18-year-old rachel canning, mom and dad here in the same courtroom kicked her out before she turned 18. she went to stay with a friend at the time. here she is swearing this hand to tell the truth. the parents claim she chose to leave home because she didn't want to follow their rules. their house, their rules. got it, kid? things like doing some chores and obeying their curfew. she said no. last week a judge rejected her recrest for child support and tuition payment, thank god. so far no response from the girl's lawyer but her parents' attorney spoke out today. laura has more of that in our new york city newsroom. >> this is a new attorney for the family. he held a brief conference a short while ago confirm that yes, indeed, rachel canning went home last night and says while this may be a happy situation

she went back there is a long road ahead for the fractured family, adding the less involvement from the courts, attorneys, and the media will help get the family back on track. >> this is a case that should have never been, okay? there are some cases that don't deserve to see the inside of a courtroom. this is one of them. at the end of the day nothing good can come from this case. >> no word on what may have swayed the suing teen's mind to move home. her parents' lawyer says her return was not contingent on any financial deal. >> probably got hungry. thank you. we got our first look today at some crucial evidence in the murder trial of the blade runner, oscar pistorius, now well into the second week. the evidence includes the actual bathroom door riddled with bullet holes from the night oscar pistorius shot and killed then model girlfriend in the head, the right hip, right arm, and killed her. the defense attorney accused ms. rf tampering with the evidence by leaving a shoe print on the door, among other things. also today a police forensic

expert swung the same cricket bat that pistorius used. he said the sprinter struck the locked wooden door with a bat to break it open. meantime, prosecutors have now dropped their claim that oscar pistorius was wearing his prosthetic leg when he t shot her. analysts said that had been a key part of their argument the killing was premeditated. oscar pistorius claimed from the beginning he was not wearing them and today the forensic expert agreed. you will remember ost kerr pistorius claims he mistakenly shot his girlfriend because he thought she was an intruder. prosecutors insist he murdered her after the two had had a long argument. our fox news senior judicial

the planning and the chasing. until today when one of the government's experts, a police forensic's examer with 29 years experience acknowledged that pistorius' version of the events is probably the true one, which is that he shot her without the prosthetic on his legs. it's very important because he claims that when he doesn't have those prostheses on he feels vulnerable. makes sense. someone attacking him, he can't really move quickly. the government claimed he had the prostheses on chasing her around the house. if he didn't have it on, he could not have chased her. and today, in court, while performing an experiment at the behest of the defense where the defense had this police officer get on his knees, as if to mimic oscar pistorius without the prostheses on and swing the cricket bat at the door the cop said, you know what, this is probably the way it happened, without the prostheses on.

the state may have to retreat from the argument that it was first degree murder. they still have a lot of charges against him but the significance of first degree muyu+ is the penalty is a lot more than the lesser degree of murder. >> we would have to suspend a lot of knowledge here. we would have to suspend the neighbors say there was all this scream that went on for an hour, we would have to suspend that he didn't check to see if the girl who was supposed to be in the bed with him, be in bed with him. if your girlfriend is there, is she okay? there's an intruder in the house. >> a lot of evidence against him but it's very unusual that the government will switch course midstream and even more unusual that this will come out of the mouth of one of the government's own witnesses, a seasoned nearly 30-year veteran. >> sounds very -- if it doesn't quit you must acquit. locked themselves into something that didn't work. >> correct. correct. i don't think it's quite as dramatic as that because you, just outlined the rest of the case against him, which is still a strong case. the government has a lot of evidence that this is a hot head who likes to use guns whenever

he gets angry. a lot of evidence of that. they have a lot of evidence he didn't care where she was, he just fired away because he probably knew she was in the bathroom and he wanted to kill her because they had had the argument. but to retreat and to change your theory midstream, doesn't always work out. >> makes it hard. sometimes you have a trail of blood from rockingham to bundy and you still can't get a conviction. >> correct. this is not a lay jury. this is one professional judge and two assistant judges who don't have a vote but who will participate in the deliberations and their memory will inform the decision of the judge who will actually decide it. and there's a volumes of evidence of him trying dupe the police which would make it difficult for him to get on the witness stand because if he takes the witness stand he will be answering dozens of questions, didn't you lie when you said this, didn't you lie when you said that, were you lying then or are you lying now? >> judge, we'll watch it. >> pleasure. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. fox sports now. more headlines here.

the justice department has launched a criminal investigation of general motors over its recall of more than a million cars. that's what sources are telling the associated press and other agencies. the fed reportedly saying ignition problems first came to light in some compact cars a decade ago. but the company avoid adderall until last month after 13 people had died. we're still waiting for gm's response to this latest report. afghan security forces say they fought off militants who tried to storm a former intelligence headquarters in kandahar and killed all three of them. taliban claimed responsibility for that attack. a man who spent nearly 30 years on death row in the state of louisiana for a murder he did not commit is now free. 30 years. prosecutors say they have new evidence that absolutely cleared 64-year-old in the killing of a jeweller. officials say the state will pay for it, at least $250,000.

less than $10,000 per year that they locked him up for a murder he did not commit. 30 years. there's a new report that finds that it years. there's a new report that finds that it costs nearly -- this is not -- why do we have pennies and nickels? why do we have them? wait until you hear what it costs to have them. and you will say get rid of the pennies and nickels already. what can you guy with a penny? nothing. headaches and holes in your pants. get rid of the pennies and neckles. why you ask? stay tuned.

get rid of them. the pennies and nickels. all of them. why?

because it costs taxpayers $105 million to produce the pennies and nickels last year over their valuable. they used data from the u.s. mint. we have a chart to break it down for you. as you can see, it costs almost 10 cents to make a nickel. geniuses we americans. we pay 10 cents for a nickel. it costs 2 cents to make a penny. what do you need them for? if something is 99 cents, what do you do with the thing? seriously. you get 100 of them. you can't buy coffee. nickels cost twice as much as dimes to make. according to the report the government did not start to lose money until eight years ago in 2006. i don't know. if i'm losing money on something i would probably end the practice. what are we doing? >> it's funny you say that. the canadians figured this out

and did away with the penny. >> the canadians figure out everything. >> why does it cost so much? because mining and manufacturing costs have gone up. remember back to 2006 what was going on when it was all about china and china was growing and needed all sorts of commodities to build homes and bridges. they needed copper and zing. as a result the penny and the nickel went up. as you double its face valuable. >> the other thing that costs us more is the reprinting of the dollar bills. what would we be saving $55 billion a day. >> it's unbelievable the amount of waste in government. to think this is an easy fix to get back that $105 billion. >> you know, sara had to go to

the bank to get these pennies and nickels. and we had to hire a body guard. you can't ship them easily. it's ridiculous. >> it is. a penny for your thoughts, all these sayings about it. there's a love affair with the penny that we don't want to get rid of it. it costs a lot to make it because of the cost of mining and manufacturing. we do look pretty silly. >> fox business network 9 to 11:00 a.m. eastern time. watch for her.

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