a gas explosion in harlem, new york. crews spending the night frantically digging through rubble in hopes of finding survivors. right now two people are unaccounted for. more than 60 others injured including at least three children. the blast flattened two buildings terrifying the entire neighborhood. >> knocked me from my bed on the floor. it was really loud. >> i thought i was going to die in my apartment and my kids aren't going to have a mom. >> this is a look at the incredible before and after picture showing the magnitude of the blast. people in the neighborhood reported smelling gas near the building the night before the explosion. we will have a live report from the scene in our next half hour. >> also another fox news alert to tell you about. tragedy hitting the south by southwest music festival in austin, texas. two people are dead after a

drunk driver plows into a crowd outside of a nightclub. 20 others hurt 5 critically. the man then hit a cab before jumping in a car and trying to run. he is now in police custody. >> breaking news to tell you about overnight in the case of the missing malaysia flight. search crews finding nothing when satellite images had shown debris. this as the plane may have flown for four hours before it disappeared from radar. we have the developing story. >> this is a stunning report out overnight by the wall street journal. what they are saying is forget a lot of the factors we have been talking about here. instead focus on the engrin. it sends out a constant stream of data so the performance can be monitored.

when we talk about the search carried out since it disappeared on radar what the latest data suggests is the aircraft may have flown another four hours according to that engine download. that widens out the search area considerably. australia to the southeast to the northwest, india. deep into china. the possibilities are endless. if it did fly for four hours it raises another question, why waudz the trance po-- was the tr turned off. >> there's a situation where the transponder was turned off. no one could explain why. >> it would be at odds with the report from china showing the satellite images were it shows pieces of the wreckage, at least

consistent with a barlarge boei 777. it was in the flight path of the airliner so far they have come up with nothing. it appears it may be a dead end. heather? >> doug luzader the mystery deepens. thank you. this morning three people are dead in ohio after a massive pileup or several pileups stretched across the two-mile section between toledo and cleveland. 50 vibings were involved. >> it impacted the situation yesterday and northeast as late as early this morning and we are expecting more snow, additional snowfall totals expected today.

this is what already fell across up state new york, more than 14 inches of snow. up to 14 inches in vermont and across the state of maine. al least six more inches expected across the portions of the northeast. you can see it across up state new york and even into portions of maine. mostly over with across most of the state of massachusetts and the eastern part of the state that are looking at the snow showers coming down early today. windchill temperatures behind the storm very cold. this is what it currently feels like in the city of buffalo, 8 degrees below zero. single digits in new york city single digits further west in the city of chicago. marquette current windchill temperature 24 degrees below zero. we have strong winds over parts of the mid atlantic and western north carolina. winds out hear will be altz

strong as 40 to 50 miles an hour. we have a number of wind advisories in effect. highs well below average. low 20's in cleveland. further west not bad. upper 60d in kansas city and dallas. >> spring is on the way we promise at least at some point. >> thank you, maria. >> two local teenagers ordered to stand trial as adults for the brutal murder of christopher lane. they are accused of gunning down the australia baseball player last year allegedly because they were bored. th a third will testify for the prosecution and could have the charges reduced. a former associate of charles manson conflicted of murder in another place is granted parole in california. he was serving a life sentence for two murders but his parole

is not assured because there's a 120 day review period during which the governor jerry brown can july fy the parole board's decision. >> disturbing details about an american pastor thrown into i n iranian prison for preaching the christian faith. he has been shackled by guards and denied vital medical treatment. he was taken to the hospital last week after several prison beatings left him in chronic pain. but the american center for law and justice says during a family visit he was pinned down and hauled back to prison untreated. the atlj says the hospital visit may have been a move to impress the eu during a recent visit to iran. >> are we supporting our troops? president obama's budget has mashed the clashes to the military. a new report says it will hurt those who serve right in the wallet. a typical army sergeant could

lose up to 5,000 dollars in annual budgets. it calls for 5 percent increase in cost of military housing and cap on pay increases at one percent annually. a controversial part of obamacare the white house putting a two-year delay on individual mandate for many people who lost their insurance. elizabeth prann joins us live with what this means for you. good morning elizabeth. >> good morning ainsley. when the government announced people would be allowed to keep their health plans for more than two years there was a definition of the hardship exemption. what that means is those who can't afford plans are not required to pay a fine for failing to buy new insurance through october 2016 while testifying before the house weighs and means committee health and human services says this is not an individual mandate delay.

>> are you going to delay the mandate to individuals by government healthcare or pay tax? >> no, sir. >> are you going to delay the open enrollment beyond march 31s march 31st? >> no, sir. >> experts say this is another change to one of the law's core points and it is more than just a minor tweak. >> it is ironic it makes obamacare itself the hardship. slightly out of line but i think it is beyond the reach of irony so you didn't quite see it. all you have to do is say this is hard on me. you sign a paper you don't have to provide any documentation. it is essentially a cancellation that we mandate. >> they don't know how many have paid.

insurers tell people 15-20 percent of people signed up have not finished the project. many have not paid. >> elizabeth prann live in dc for us. >> time for a look at who is talking and the white house trying hard to spin david jolly's win in the florida special election in the same district president ob carried twice. jay carney saying the election was a draw and not a river ren du -- referendum on obamacare. george bush, columnist charles krauthammer says it is clear democrats should be concerned. >> not surprising they are saying that in the media. behind closed doors they are panicking. this is a woman who is statewide official almost elected governor of the state of florida in a district barack obamacare idea

twice way out raised her opponent. she still lost to a relatively unknown guy. the issue was obama and obamacare tieing her to obama and own care. this is sending a shock wave through out all of the states where there are obama democrats. >> obamacare in and of itself is the embodiment of obama's retired domestic policy over reaching extensive intrusive. i think the verdict is in on this. >> it was lights out at the capital at least on the dome. high winds causing problems for the power supply there. the lights this day inside the capitol building. dc pranksters taking advantage of the situation like josh birch. he made a statement lights are out in the capital, now is our chance. let's cease equal representation

under the cover of darkness! whose with me, dc? >> it took 30 minutes to get the lights back on. >> pope frances celebrating the first anniversary of his papacy. he is the first pope in decades to mark the special occasion outside of the vatican. he is spending the week outside at a len tin retreat with cardinals and bishops in a small town 15 miles away. he has broken many customs to keep simplicity in the vatican. >> fireworks when parents confront a school superintendent being paid more than half a million dollars. >> what those outraged parents are now demanding. >> a blackout crippled new york city ten years ago but that might not be anything.

>> a t-shirt to support the second amendment but it doesn't matter if the teen was expressing his first amendment right. ideal they say he can't wear that shirt.

>> if all of the board members consider yourself lucky. >> they don't get $910... (indiscernible) >> they are lashing out because of his high salary. he is agreeing to take a pay cut. parents say that's not enough. mary ann lafferty has more. >> hundreds of furious parents confronting the board over one of the highest paid school officials in it the nation. this is a district that lays off

teachers. >> we don't come here to be taken advantage of. that's all i have to say. >> i hold the board accountable forp lettifor letting this go a. >> you are an embarrassment to our area. >> i demand you step down because you do not represent us at all. >> angry words there. jose fernandez maze 653,000 dollars including an inflated benefit package. the california district is small just three high schools with 6500 students. at the meeting fernandez announced he would give in to demands to take a pay cut. he is refusing a 9 percent annual raise and on top of that will reject a 600 a month car expense 200 a month for cell phone bill and a million dollar life insurance col pee. they continued to express their frustration at the meeting. >> what would it feel like to

(indiscernible). >> the man throwing the money was on "the record" last night. despite that outrage nothing that is changed. >> they say we are going to cut our pay and do this for the next three months. in july they are going to stop doing it then it will go back and made comments after everybody left that after the media goes away it will be business as usual. i don't think there's going to be any change. >> after that meeting many were left wondering how the superintendent's salary was ever approved in the first place. >> thank you, mare mary anne. >> a 4-year-old boy is okay after being involved in a high speed car chase. a wanted man stole an suv from a grocery store. the boy was inside the car waiting on his mother to finish up shopping at the time. ryan stone drove the boy for an

hour before ditching it and stealing two more cars. the boy was jot newered. the boy was t boned police arrested him after a chase on foot. >> a similar encounter this time in washington state. take a look as a woman hopped into the driver's seat with two children still inside. you can see the mother run up to the car trying to get the mother out. at one point the oldest daughter tries to get out but can't. the mother chased her and she eventually dropped the children off on the side of the road tried to steal another car but a group of people stopped her and held her until police arrived. both of the children are safe. >> the new jersey teenager who sued her parents is waking up at home this morning the attorney announcing the development in a public family dispute. >> this is going to be a long road. one that they just started. she returned last night.

everything went great. >> 18-year-old rachel canning's lawyer filed an emergency application having the guardian appointed in this case saying the teen's parents are pressuring her to deny the lawsuit. the judge denied the emergency request. >> a housing authteen says he d the rules wearing the second amendment t-shirt. the principal told him to cover up the t-shirt. shane took his punishment but said there's nothing wrong with the shirt. the dress code doesn't say anything about guns. the school says the shirt might entice or encourage violent activities. >> the time is 19 minutes after the top of the hour. coming up this isn't exactly what the history books say. >> we lasted some 400 years operating under a constitution that clearly defines what is constitutional and what is not. >> why the congresswoman may want to check her math.

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in 2001 two years earlier from previously thought. u.s. news in san francisco will introduce a curved coin to commemorate the baseball fall of ham which celebrates the 75th anniversary this year. heather, ainsley, back to you. >> thank you very much. lauren simonetti joining us. he quit his job instead of taking responsibility for patient's death. one hospital administrator is still cashing in. >> one hockey fan demanded more taste less filling for his beer at the stadium. might believing a bad taste in his mouth. [ male announcer ] this is the age of knowing what you're made of.

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>> a fox news alert has the search for missing people in a harlem building explosion intensifies. we are life on the scene as firefighters are still working through the night to dig through all of that debris. dramatic new cell phone video showing the moment a passenger saves a baby's life in the middle of a flight. that hero speaking out this morning. >> you thought the gsa spending your tax dollars on luxurious hotel suites was bad, now another government agency living the high life on your dime as well. fox and friends tirs starts

right now. >> good morning. it is thursday march 13th. let's get right to the fox news alert. people are dead in a gas explosion in harlem new york. crews frantically digging through the rubble trying to find survivors. right now there are nine people unaccounted for. more than 60 others injured including at least three children. the blast flattening three buildings and terrifying the entire neighborhood. >> it was really loud. scared me to death. >> i thought i was going to die in my apartment and my kids don't have a mom. >> the incredible before and after picture showing the magnitude of the blast. people in the neighborhood reported smelling gas near the building before the explosion. we will have a live report from the scene coming up at 5:45.

>> to another fox news alert for you while you were sleeping tragedy hit the south by southwest music festival in austin, texas. two people now dead after a suspected drunk driver plows into a crowd outside of a nightclub as he tries to evade a pursuing police officer. 20 others hurt 5 critically. he hit a cab and tried getting out of the car and running. he is in custody. the missing malaysia flight. search crews finding no sign of the jet in the area you where satellite passengers were showing debris yesterday. this as investigators say the plane might have flown four hours after it disappeared from radar. forget for a moment where the

radar is, instead focus on the engine which it turns out sends bursts of data every 30 minutes so the manufacturer can keep tabs on how they are operating. it turns out they continued to drone on four hours or so after the plane lost contact with air traffic control. think for a minute what that does to the carrier which initially had been confined to areas around malaysia, thailand, vietnam. the possibility it through for four hours or so you are talking about a search area that includes india, china, australia. this plane could be almost anywhere in this part of the world. it will raises that tough, tough question. if we continue to fly why was the transponder turned off? >> there is clearly a situation here where the transponder was

turned off, no one can explain why. the in hollywood we have seen movies like home land where the governments around the world can track our every call and every movement. it is hard for the people of china and people in malaysia and all around the world citizens on board the flight can understand how 229 people can just vanish. >> do we know the trance -- this is a mystery. this would be directly at odds with that piece of chinese supposed wreckage. that appears to be a plane size or consistent aircraft crash. this was found near the original search area. this wouldn't be indicative of an aircraft that continues to fly for another four hours or so. ainsley? >> doug luzader life in washington. thank you, doug. >> to an extreme weather alert for you again. blame that, the weather for

this. deadly pileup in ohio. snow covering the ohio turnpike making roads too slick for drivers. that mess you are looking at left three people dead. the chain reks a crash stretching for two-miles between toledo and cleveland. >> maria menounos tracking what we can expect today. >> in indiana, ohio and even michigan did pick up significant snowfall more than 6 inches yesterday. we had reports of freezing rain a quarter of an of ice. we had snow totals across new england. parts of vermont picking up 17 inches of snow, 50 inches of sections of maine. this powerful storm system still on the move. it is producing heavy snow across maine, new hampshire and

vermont. those snow totals will continue to increase. we have cold air from canada. currently in the city of cleveland it feels like 2 degrees 4 in new york and only six degrees in chicago. you are below zero. so it is another cold one. the wind will be an issue in had philadelphia. as far south as tennessee and north carolina gusts 50 miles per hour possible along the coast especially. >> it is extremely windy out there. thank you so much maria. one of the most controversial parts of the obamacare. two-year delay on the individual mandate for those who lost their insurance through the affordable care act.

elizabeth prann joins us live with more. >> good morning elizabeth. >> we are talking about the hardship exemption in the law. usually that exemption now applies to people whose policies have been canceled or they can't afford a plan. those folks no longer have to pay a fine for failing to buy new insurance while testifying before the house weighs and means committee. kathleen sebelius says this is not an individual mandate delay. >> are you going to delay the mandate of individuals have to buy government approved healthcare or pay tax. >> no, sir. >> are you going to delay the open enrollment before march 31st? >> no, sir. >> he claimed it was in the bill. >> yes, it was. it was narrowly declined. it has been redefined so all you have to do is claim that going into the exchange would create a

hardship. >> while the administration says they don't know how many people have paid 15-20 percent have signed up meaning they have not paid. the officials telling polytheists lit co they were telling the white house. >> president obama makes another move to sign the executive order today giving over time pay for more salary workers. it targeted employees at banks, restaurants convenience stores and administrative jobs. the changes will take effect in 2015. >> president obama's 2015 budget has massive slashes to the military. it shows it will hurt those who serve right in the wallet. a typical army sergeant could lose as much as $5,000 in annual benefits. the budget calls for a 5 percent

increase in the cost of military housing and a cap on active duty pay increases one percent annually. sheila jackson-lee getting her history wrong. when talking about the constitution she was off by two centuries. >> how well it is that we have lasted some 400 years operating under a constitution that clearly defines what is constitutional and what is not. >> by her math the constitution would have been adopted in 1614. >> great story. new cell phone video released from a flight where a 15 month old baby stopped breathing. luckily a paramedic was on board. the hero that saved the day now speaking out. >> i looked up there was a baby as blue as a smurf. grabbed the baby turned it upside down. i did chest compressions cleared his mouth stimulated and he came back around.

>> he was scared, but he just let his training kick in. another passenger said when they heard the baby finally breathe it was a teary moment for everyone on board. no doubt. >> it is the end of the road for jeopardy champion arthur chu. he angered his plans for his quote all over the board style." he took home a total of nearly 300,000 dollars. he lost on a question about the british royal family. p wound up the third highest winner in the game show's history. 20 minutes until the top of the hour. they are supposed to use the tax dollars to make sure the water we drink and air we breathe is clean. wait until you hear what the epa was doing instead on your dime. talk about being up the creek, police realing and a mystery when they find an atm in a very unusual place.

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>> more now on the fox news alert. six people confirmed dead in a gas explosion in harlem, new york. crews frantically digging through rubble right now searching for survivors. robert moses from wnyw live at the scene for us. >> we are two blocks north of where that blast took place 20 hours or so after it happened. the pile is still smoldering. firefighters are still pouring water on to it. a resident called the local utility at 9:13 to report the smell of gas in the area. the utility dispatched the crew two minutes later but it was too

late because the explosion took place before the crew could arrive. debris was sent every where included on to the elevated train tracks nearby. the blast could be felt up to a mile away. here's what people in the area saw and felt. >> it knocked me from my bed on the floor. it was really loud. scared me to death. >> i thought i was going to die in my apartment and my kids wouldn't have a mom. >> this was a tragedy of the worst kind there was no indication in time to safe people. the national transportation safety board which investigates pipeline accidents is investigating this one. they are looking at how the gas line was maintained in that area and also if the calls to con edison the utility were actually heated. one piece of good news buildings in this area outside of the blast site has been deemed to be

structurally sound. as of right now six people confirmed dead nine people are still missing. heather, back to you. hopefully they will find the nine people and they will be okay. thank you. robert moses reporting live from the scene. >> a former da resign -- a form doctor is still getting a paycheck from the charlie anoth norwood veteran's affairs in georgia. jeff miller the chairman of the house committee on vet tan afrars says they have a lot of explaining to do. a number of people retired or resigned as a result of patient deaths at the georgia facility because of delayed care. should a company that receives billions in if federal subsidies be giving away things for free.

they receive 75 billion each year from the government. a residency government would give 24 riders a free round trip ticket to help inspire their riding. they are blasting the program saying that it is taxpayers paying for those free rides. amtrak insists that it is a low risk high reward marketing program. amtrak's yearly revenue not enough to cover its operating expenses. heather, listen to this story. you are paying for some government workers to live in luxury. the a new report says employees at the environmental protection agency misused tax payer money. and you won't believe on what. lori rockman joins us with all of the details. turns out we taxpayers have been footing the bill for pretty nice perks for workers at the environmental protection agency. a report by investigators from inside the epa found all kinds

of abuses and how they are using government issued credit cards. they found 75 of 80 transactions had waste fraud or abuse spending on jim member hips difficult cards ev-- gift cards even charity donations. th it found 79,000 was spent on what it characterized as prohibited or erroneous things. 93 percent of the transactions were used for improper purchases. here's the breakdown. epa workers spent more than 17,000 on gym memberships in some cases for their entire families. 7500 o split purchases where workers did transactions to avoid spending more than 3,000 at a time an amount that would put up a red flag. they also spent on 7,000 on hotels and 4,000 on food. the epa has a 14 billion budget more than the president ever asked for.

officials were ignoring a long list of safeguards designed to avoid this sort of tax payer dollar waste. >> here we go again. thank you so much. it is 12 minutes to the top of the hour. protecting men and women who run into the burning buildings to save lives. why did firefighters may have to remove it from their truck. >> and apparently this little guy knows that milk does a body good. the question is, does he finish it? >> first let's check in with steve dos see to s-- dos seocy what's coming up on "fox & friends." >> hope that little dog had cookies as well. >> looking at the right to work. 5 million bucks big in the lotto because of a traffic jam. so lucky. plus the fda revealing a new migraine head band you can wear.

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mislead any one. >> take a look at this. this religious image on an area fire truck had to be removed. the image shows a firefighter and a shadowy figure that some believe is jesus. the word "the lord is my shepherd" from psalm 23 is underneath. they want to make the image more inclusive of everyone. some firefighters say their line of work they like having the image there. >> there are some that are upset. our occupation sometimes people become very strong in their faith because of the things they have seen, done, had to do. >> the fire chief also says that the image was there when they bought the truck 16 years ago. and now let's take a look at some video that is going viral. watch this adorable 4-year-old delivering the news like a pro.

>> (indiscernible). >> no brainer. >> better watch out for our jobs. he is so cute. >> this dog really likes milk. the dog grabs a jug from his owner walks into the living room pops off the top, he goes on to chug the whole thing. i thought cats liked milk not dogs. strong bones for that one. >> police realing in a mystery when they find an atm in a strange place. >> it is one of the dangers of the job. why one reporter got smashed in the face with a purse.

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explosion leveled two buildings in harlem. six people now confirmed dead. president obama signing an executive order today giving overtime pay for more salaried workers as malaysian officials denying reports that suggest the plane could have flown four hours after it lost contact with air traffic control >> now it's time to look at the good, the bad, and the ugly. first the good. people donating feathers for penguins. they are so small a patch of oil no bigger than a thumbnail can kill them. next the bad. police in alabama trying to figure out how two a.t.m.'s wound up in the bottom of a creek. both machines out of money. the ugly, a pennsylvania reporter -- look at that -- smacked by a woman with her purse. the woman was leaving the

courtroom after agreeing to plead guilty but, listen to this, for posting nude photos of her husband's girlfriend on-line. >> i don't blame her. >> what a world we live in. >> thanks for watching. have a great thursday. "fox & friends" starts now. >> bye. >> good morning to you. it's thursday, march 13, 2014. i'ielisabeth hasselbeck. we start with a fox news alert. a deadly tragedy striking the south by southwest music festival overnight leaving two people dead. those breaking developments coming up. >> the mystery of the missing airplane taking a terrifying new turn. there is a report out there that says the plane could have been diverted toward pakistan for -- quote -- "another purpose." oh boy. we have brand-new details breaking on this thursday morning. >> we have a pop quiz. how old is the u.s.