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tomorrow, jeff will be gone, hopefully. >> he'll be in the after the show show start not guilty 12 seconds. >> we'll have arnold schwarzenegger and pete hegseth will be our guest. >> you picked the wrong day to be here. >> this was great. >> i hated it. >> more in the after the show bill: nicely done. breaking news, a fox news alert. a shooting at the world's largest naval base. a u.s. sailor and one other person is dead in norfolk, virginia. welcome to "america's newsroom." martha: i'm martha maccallum. this happened late last night on board a destroyer that recently returned from deployment. bill: steve, what happened? >> reporter: there are very few details it's all under investigation. especially what the motive might have been for this attack.
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>> we had two fatalities. one male salor and one civilian suspect. there was a shooting at pier one naval station norfolk. >> reporter: the u s.s.mahan was docked at the time. the gunman was killed by security personnel who responded to the scene. he was reportedly a civilian and was authorized on the base. but it's not clear if he had permission to be on board that ship. the base was on lockdown until authorities were able to determine there was no ongoing threat. security is time and get together area where the ships are docked. the navy base is one of two
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centers of navy activity. won in norfolk and one in san diego. it's not on the largest navy base in the country, but the largest in the world. it covers 6,000 acres and 60,000 military and $civilian personnel assigned to the base. activity at the base have returned to normal as law enforcement tries to determine what happened and why. martha: the scene in norfolk is eerily similar to a tragedy at the washington naval yard. 12 people were killed when a former civilian contractor walked into the navy yard with a shotgun and opened fire. police eventually shot and killed the gunman. the suspect's name, aaron
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alexis. his mental state was never reported to the government and his clearance was never revoked. the search for answers in the missing flight 370 put off. bad weather is forcing crews to call off the search until tomorrow. they are concentrating on open waters 1,200 miles off the coast of perth, australia. the top australian officials put the difficulty of this search into perspective. >> we are not searching for a needle in a haystack. we are still trying to determine where the haystack is. martha: the clock i ticking. the battery on the black box has only two weeks of power left.
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doug, what's the latest on the search? >> reporter: it was an unproductive day. a storm so common in that area of the world has called off search efforts. the malaysian. he announced yesterday at the plane went down in the middle of the southern indian ocean. some saying the malaysian government's response to this has been inept again has demonstrated incompetence with that remark. >> i would love to hold out hope for families but that plane went south. >> reporter: the radar analysis was based on new techniques based on the doppler effect. when a train passes by or a car passes by and you hear that
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descending sound from the horn. anything that make waves from the ocean to sound waves and light waves. they were able to more closely pinpoint the location of that plane using the doppler effect. that's how they decided the plane went down in the indian ocean. martha: the technology is remarkable. reaction from the chinese government? reporter: they are demanding to see this new satellite data. keep in mind the evenings in this part of the world between these countries is emreally high. it was extremely high even before this incident. ing threats from islamic terrorists. and china has deported some
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islamists to malaysia. there is a lot of bad blood in both of these countries. martha: dog, thank you very much. bill: overwhelming anger from the families and the victims on that plane. bail * that was a scene at a hotel in beijing as we were given word from malaysian officials they believe the plane went down in the indian ocean. many family members had to be dragged not you tears. some relatives reportedly told the plane went down over water by way of text message. malaysian airlines said it wanted the families to know. the world found out. they said relatives will receive $5,000 and more payment will be
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coming. martha: unbelievable. the clock is ticking to find the black boxes from the flight data voice recorders that send out pings that can be picked up by special microphones. after that it no longer send that signal out after 30 days. then them have to use sonar which creates a man of the owing floor. that's how the flight recorder from the air france plane was located. it took two years and $40 million. bill: as the challenge to obamacare focusing on the law's mandate that copies provide con twcon -- provide con two pro --e
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contraceptives to their employees. >> reporter: they say it's all about religious freedom. the christian owners of hobby lobby say they have no octobers to what the mandate is about, contra accepting. they say they cannot possibly underwrite those in direct violation of their religious beliefs. they said they would never get between any employee who wants to access those drugs, they just don't want to underwrite them. >> this is unquestionably a religious exercise. refusing to pay for something that could take a human life. the question is not whether it's the green family or corporation. the question is if it's their
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religious exercise the answer is yes so it ought to be protected. >> they are taking this very seriously. they said they would expand this from the usual 60 minutes to 90 minutes in arguments. bill: how has the administration testified itself and how has it >> reporter: it says no company has a right to the provide preventative health benefits. the administration argtd that a corporation unlike a person cannot have religious convictions. here is a spokesman for the constitutional accountability center. >> employers can't impose their religious beliefs on their employees. americans don't give up their
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religious liberties when they go to work for a craft store store wood maker. >> reporter: argument.kick off at 10:00 eastern. we'll expect a decision by the end of john. bill: thank you, shannon bream on that. martha: there are roughly 500 locations across the country. they employ 13,000 people nationwide. it's hobby lobby owners. they crib themselves as conservative christians opposed to certain kind of birth control. bill: these are those against the hobby lobby complaints with their rally on the steps of the supreme court. we want to know what you say at home. should a private company be required to provide birth control under law? send us a tweet. you can talk to us on twitter
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throughout the next two hours. martha: we have a jam packed show starting with two daredevils pulling off a crazy stunt. look at this. >> you ready? martha: i watched this whole thing. it is incredible. that is what it looks like. in case you are never going to do this personally, this is wait would look like to base jump from the freedom tower. unbelievable story. bill: new information about the train derailment at chicago's o'hare airport. police are look at the driver of that train. martha: 911 calls a released
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president obama expected to address the situation later today after an unscheduled meeting with the leader of kazakhstan, a close ally of vladimir putin. the president coming under fire for his handling of this so far. >> when he says it should have ended with the cold war he's admit together world he's living in a fantasy world. bill: no g8. does did matter? no sochi in june, they won't go there. is this a big deal? >> not really. it's a symbolic gesture by the g8. it's nothing to write home about. this is another symbolic response that reaffirms to vladimir putin that he's not being seriously challenges by
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the u.s. and europe. bill: some saying about kicked out of the g8 would not be a problem. >> he would like to be part of that club but what he really wants is control over the ukraine. i think putin is a careful analyst of the west. i think he knew what he wanted. i think he calculated his costs and benefits. if this is a pin prick by the west we have to shrug it off. if armed address on the continent of europe bothers you then you should do something more than these insignificant symbolic sanctions we imposed. bar russian financial institutions from the american financial markets. that would get their attention. talk about putting you train and
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georgia back on a path to nato membership. bill: there is a cbs poll that reflects how hair cans feel about it. it finds whether you are republican or democrat, the u.s. has no responsibility to do anything about the russia or the ukraine. >> i can't comment on the accuracy of the poll. but the answer to american interests around the world are no subject to polls. the president need to explain to the american people why we need to address the russian address against crimea. the president doesn't talk about it. he sniffs at the significance of it. he disdains to explain what is at stake here and i think we are bearing the consequences. i don't think the public opinion
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polls tell you what to do, i think they tell a real political leader what the problem is he needs to solve. bill: ukrainian troops are being withdrawn from crimea today. the. he of the ukraine says the possibility of a military invasion is very hive. we are very concerned about the concentration of troops on our eastern bored. how concerned are we it goes to the next step? >> putin said i have no designs on the crimea, that was right before he took it. he said he has no plans to put military forces in east crimea. i think putin wants a regime in kiev he can dominate. i think further military intervention is plan b as is partition. i think he beliefs he hold the
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high card. he seize no pushback effectively from the west. -- he sees no pushback effectively from the west. he met with the foreign minister to get the kind of government putin wants. bill: kerry and lavrov met again today. we'll see if anything comes from it. martha: dramatic video from a massive car pileup. look at that mess. a moment from the out of control vehicle situation. look at this. and it got even worse. bill: rescuers looking for survivors after this massive mudslide. a mountain moving in washington state as we hear the chilling sound of people calming for help.
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bill: a massive car pileup caught on camera. this in minnesota. watch here. you okay? you okay? bill: let many hope they were. that vehicle slammed into others. a video was taken by one of the drivers involved. the police say the bad weather and lack of vigilence contributed to this crash. the highway had to be closed for two hours. amazingly only one person treated for injuries. by the way, it's march 25. no one seriously hurt. martha: rescue officials are racing against the clock for any
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signs of survivors who may still be in that deadly mudslide in state. 14 people are confirmed dead. at least 100 have not been accounted for or mission. we are hearing the -- or missing. we are hearing the 911 calls that started to come in as the mountain started to move. >> the houses are gone. there are people yelling for help. martha: dan, both the death toll and the number of missing are rising today, right? >> reporter: that's been a confusion and difficult story to report. usually the numbers got to other way. it started out as 18. now it's 108.
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they are still look for survivors. one county official said yesterday he's a man of faith. he has seen miracle rescues in the past. but he said at some point this has to move top a recovery operation. -- has to move to a recovery operation. search crews trying to get through a massive debris field of mud, rocks, parts of home. the stories are heartbreak. a family from california came up to search for their brother who is a navy commander and his wife. another woman is fleerk her daughter. >> my heart is shattered in a million pieces. my son and his friends were digging with their hand trying to find any sign of her. >> reporter: officials are inviting 60 volunteers to help them the search effort. they are keeping the media well
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away from the area because there is still the threat of land movement. but they are allowing 60 people in darrington to come to the site and be deputized to join in the search. martha: this has been a disaster for the people of these communities. but it's also considered a federal disaster, right, dan? >> it was called a federal disaster yesterday. the national guard has been called in and they are on way to join the effort. 29 of the 49 structures were full-time permanent homes. you have over one square mile of state highway covered in 15 feet of debris. there is no way of telling how many cars and how many motorists are buried. >> there is a square mile of
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slurry on top of family homes. i know these families are anxious to get every resource possible and we intend to do that. >> reporter: some people who have seen the disaster close up compare it to the 198 ought eruption of mount st. helens and there are fears this disaster could be comparable. bill: those 911 calls are tough to listen to. will spring ever get here? that's washington, d.c. where it's snowing today. and it's almost april. live to our he can real weather center to see how many people will be hit by this one. plus there is this ...
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martha: unbelievable these scenes. you can feel for these people. they have been through hell the past 17 days. the families of the devastated 370 flight victim accusing malaysian officials of withholding information from them, and top law makers agree. >> the fbi and cia have said that there are no links to terrorism found yet. our government is not ready to say that the plane has definitely gone down. across america, people like basketball hall of famer
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martha: malaysia's. he says satellite data confirms flight 370 went down in the indian ocean. but congressman pete king is not convinces of that. >> there is nothing mare today than what we had and they haven't gone as far as the malaysian prime minister. they are trying to get the attention away from the fact that malaysia has done such a terrible job. martha: mike boyd, an aviation analyst joins us. martha: that news broke during our show yesterday. they said this flight ended in the south indian ocean.
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and those people were all lost and we regret to infor you this is the case. do you think that's premature? >> i think the malaysian government wants to put this behind them. they were trying to say we have a definite group now and it's all over. but i think the statement made by the p.m. yesterday or date before was all about trying to put it behind us and let's move along, counselor, and i don't think that's a proper way of doing it. >> martha: no debris from the plane has been pulled up on to any ship or identified by serial numbers or actual pieces of this plane. but what everyone is going by ... >> we have been looking at the data for the last 7 days and comparing it with other malaysian triple 777 flights on our network and we can rule out
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the northern pathway because none of the pings we got match with the northern route. but they have much match with the projected southern route. the match is pretty much inescapable. martha: he then went on to say i wish i could tell these families there i any hope, but he believes there is not. >> i agree there isn't any hope but i don't agree that's the final word. martha: when you look at the technology they are using. they talk about the doppler effect. if you drive down the street and you honk your horn people at different points along the way will hear different frequencies of the horn. they did mathematical equations
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to nail this down. i describe as a lot of moving parts. what do you think that technology and that map? >> they say this is the first type it's been done. you can draw some conclusions there. even if the airplane was headed south we don't know where it went down. i think this is an attempt by inmarsat. i think what the prime minister did the other day was unconscionable. martha: the weather is bad in that part of the ocean. do you think the malaysian officials have been successful in putting this to rest, that people will stop looking? >> no, china lost 150 of their citizens, they are not going to play mr. nice guy on this. they are going to push this. also we have gotten so much misinformation. when they made the turn, when
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the guy said good night. when it went down to 12,000 feet. i don't know how it could do that and then go back up to cruising altitude. there are so many unknown things here. the focus will go back to kuala lumpur and what were you guys doing. martha: also the searches for the black boxes. time is running out in terms of the ping signal and it may have some answers as to what happened in the cockpit. >> it sure may. certainly what happened with the airplane. you can't rule out a catastrophic failure. there are so many loose end we need to look and see if something else went on. the airplane made a turn, that will be the crux kft issue as to what happened. martha: when you look at that diagram and see that turn to the west, it raise so many questions. in your mind do you go back to
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the suicide mission theory or do you think there was a catastrophic failure of some mechanical kind here? >> the cat some ofic argument is plausible. but why did it make the turn? there was no may day and nothing. i understand if you are in the cockpit you navigate the airplane first and flight. there is too much going on that says to me something happened in that cockpit and i'm not necessarily sure it was a fire or mechanical problem. martha: you have got to find some answers for those families. you feel their pain when you see what they are going through. thank you so much, mike boyd, we'll see you next time. bill: you thought the vortex was lifting? think again. millions of americans are experiencing one more snowstorm. that's d.c. getting hammered.
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it's expected to be a lot worse up through new england and maria molina is with us on that. >> reporter: this could have turned out a lot worse for so many people along the northeast. if this storm was farther west we would have been looking at major snowstorm for chicago and philadelphia. so it but it has tracked east which will keep novel totals down across the region. virginia and west virginia and the higher elevations in the appalachians that could be looking at significant snowfall. otherwise. we'll be seeing * heavy snow out here. gusts possibly over 50 miles an hour at times out there.
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that's the case as well for maine. they could see up to a foot of snow, locally some higher amount. we have blizzard warnings for the cape and eastern parts of the state of maine and a foot of snow possible out here. very cold temperatures behind the storm tuesday, today and also into tomorrow. so get ready, it will feel like winter. bill: you are not making many friend. we sometime love you, though. martha: a piece of candy crush. the company behind the smartphone game is set to go public tomorrow. let's take a look at the big board. it's 106 today. up tripping digits. we'll keep an eye on the markets. bill: are you a fan? martha: i heard of it. i think it may have made its
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round at my house a couple times. bill: the new york times, a usually white house friendly newspaper says the white house is the most secretive in a generation. martha: a daredevil stunt from the top of the freedom tower. wait until you see what these guys did. unbelievable. we can come back tomorrrow. and we promise to keep it that way. csx. how tomorrow moves. what a day. can't wait til tomorrow.
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martha: a former judge was locked up for contempt of court after he got into an argument with a trial court judge. >> i have never seen such a disgracefudisgraceful farce in e legal career. he is now out of jail on his own recognizance.
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bill: new york times reporter james ricen saying about the current white house, the greatest enemy of press freedom we have encountered in at least a generation. let's talk about that with bob beckel and rich lowry, a fox news contributor. do either of you disagree with the characterization he's make it? >> i disagree. this is a national security reporter. national security information in an age of terrorism is hard to get. they have created some creative ways to rel press information now. >> this is clearly the most phobic administration we have had when it comes to leaks. every administration is concerned about them at some
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level. when they involve national security they can be extensive. all the other administrations combined in american history, this is the on the administration ever to label a reporter, our own reporter james rosen a criminal coconspirator. bill: they locked fox news out of a meeting with talk about the new treasury secretary of. >> that has to be part of this discussion, as well. richard knicks on had it the d richard nixon hated the washington host but he wasn't locking them out. i think it plays into the hostility to the press. bill: he said they want to narrow the field of national
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security reporting and those who stray will be punished. this goes back a long way. when you talk about administration people can be prosecuted. it is at an all-time high of all the administrations together. they are tough on release of information to the press but on their own people who release information. it goes both ways. >> no one will ever be prosecuted for a leak that's favorable to the administration. you are never going to get anyone for leaking information related to the bin laden raid or any story the administration wants out there. so the other issuer is the selectivity. bill: every white house tries to defend and protect its information and put out its
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message in the way it wants to. but ricen's point is it has not been done in decade. he says the rest of the media has been too timid to push back. >> the press generally has a favorable view of this administration so it's been reluctant to blow the whistle. >> if you have bad news you shouldn't be leak it. if you have good news you should be leaking it. the "new york times," they are one of the great obama advertising operations we have in the press. there is no right for the press to get this information. these are internal he can changes on national security.
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you have the trite free press -- bill: do you agreet media has been too timid with this administration? >> sure. i think a lot of people like him and dish agree to the extent they are the most controlling press operation i have seen in my years around washington. >> it many taken bob five minutes to come around. bill: thank you. martha? martha: they conquered new york's tallest building. gosh, can you imagine? seriously. look at this. they posted their brazen stunt to youtube. now four men are in police custody for what police are calling lawless and selfish
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bill: tensions are moscow are not going to have an effect in space. contract cosmonauttwo cosmonautt on board. martha: stunning video of a brazen space jump off the world trade center building in new
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york. they recorded the descent with a helmet camera. >> reporter: it took a lot of investigative efforts to track down the daredevils who slipped into the night undetected add their incredible plunge. four men surrendered and were arrested yesterday in connection with this stunt. three base jumpers and one man serving as lookout. here is that video giving viewers a firsthand account. authorities are not amused as you can imagine. the u.s. police commissioner issuing this statement. these men violated the law and placed themselves as well as others in danger. these arrests should send a message to anyone thinking of
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misusing a landmark in this way. hard * any word from the jumpers themselves? a lot of people are angry at the security breach? >> reporter: they were released on bail after their arraignment. one of the jumpers told reporters it was easy to gain access through a hole in the fence. they say they never intended for anyone to find out about this or get hurt. the port authority issues this statement. the port authority joins the nypd in condemning this lawless and selfish act. one of the jumpers worked construction at the wtc and violated respect and reverence for this site. that follows on the heels of a 15-year-old who was busted for sneaking in and making his way to the top undetected.
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martha: if you watch the whole video you can see him on the sidewalk stuffing the par chute into a backpack and getting out of there which he did successfully for several months. bill: opening arguments set to begin any moment at the supreme court in the fight off contraception. judge andrew napolitano will tell us if hobby lobby can win their case. martha: the white house set to make a big announcement of their own about the nsa spying program. stick around after this. [ telephone rings ] [ shirley ] edward jones. [ male annncer ] with nearly 7 million investors... oh hey, neill, how are you? [ male announcer ...you'd expect us to have a highly skilled call center.
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putting religious freedom against big government. hobby lobby is taking on the contraceptive order in the obamacare. and obamacare is facing a very big legal challenge. it's biggest deadline is within site and it could cost millions of americans plenty of dollars. welcome to a brand new hour of "america's newsroom" i am martha maccallum. >> and i am bill hemmer. by march 31, every american will be required by law to have health insurance or pay a fine. and millions don't have the coverage. >> charles payne is here. the clock is ticking. >> the clock is ticking but no one is hearing it. we have people emploring people do this but it is falling on
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deaf years even with the findings out there. the administration is down playing the target saying it was 7 million and now saying it is already a victory. >> let's put on the fines on the screen that will kick in. 1% of your yearly modified adjusted gross income. they are not huge numbers. but given the lack of a handle on the people who signed up, are they going to find the people who didn't? >> i don't think so. i think it will be a political ploy no matter what. people signing up and actual getting coverage are two different things. 6 million people lost coverage so only 400,000 people who were
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insur insured. now we have people forced into more expensive plans and to go out and fine people on top of this, i think it would be a dangerous move. >> 38 million uninsured and you are saying 400,000 that didn't have insurance before. >> e-health is getting an avalanche of young people because they can buy catastrophic plans. not a good sign for the administration. >> i think we will see that more
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and more. >> how many are signed up? the white house says the number is at 5 million but that is way below the goal from a few months. the budget office projected 7 million and now adjusted to 6 million and millions got notice their health care has been canceled because the plans didn't meet the standards according to obamacare. so the flight mh370 was canceled as there is horrible conditions in the indian ocean. they said quote we are not lo looking for a needle in the hay stack because we don't know where the stack is.
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>> here australia prime minister. >> everything is speculation until we have debris. >> william is here. when they start the search again, what is the priority when the search begins? >> the priority, as the defense minister said, they have to find some evidence or prove. the operations were suspended because of the high rain and low clouds. the battery of the black box is designed to only last a few more days. it has the answers people are looking for. the u.s. navy set a ping to the area. >> if it is anywhere near the center of that sound channel
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which is about a kilometer deep then you should be able to hear the long distances. >> find the debris by plane and work backwards from modeling to the point of impact and they look for the black box there. >> impactful video when the families were given the news. what about the families? >> the talk about the airline continues and now they are mad at the government. hundreds marched saying they thought it was premature to declare everyone was dead. and thousands calling for a
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boycott of malaysian products. >> why you make the conclusion that no one is alive? none of them survived? i don't believe that. if you make that conclusion, you must have evidence. >> this news was incredibly hard for the family members, this is released out of respect for the relatives. >> there is call for the ceo of malaysian airline to resign because it text people hours before the press conference that no one survived the crash and getting it by text is controversial. president obama is expected to speak at the gathering of
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world leaders in the hague in the netherlands. craig is here, what has been discussed in the russia standoff? >> the first step was the president gathering the g7 leaders and kicking russia out of the g8. and maybe that knocked vladimer putin back on the world stage, they are brushing it off and moving ahead in ukraine. you have 20,000 troops on the ukrainian boarder and there are fears they might be moving in. we saw the ukrainian troops being moved out and the russian are moving forward and taking basis and brushing off the moves being made. i think what the president wants to do is get european leaders on board for tougher sanctions than the european have done. but the european leaders are scared that the tough sanctions
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will boomrang against their own economy. >> crimea is gone and under russian control clearly. what else do we expect to hear from the president on any of this today? >> he has a news conference coming up and we will get a few questions. every time he is in europe he gets questions about the nsa surveillance programs. the europeans are very upset about that and murkala had her calls listened into and there is pressure on the president to reform the programs. and that is why you saw the leak saying the president wants to move the meta data over to the
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phone companies rather than letting the nsa have them. >> thanks, ed. we will talk about that coming up. >> the contraceptive getting it's mandate in the court today. hobby lobby making the case to defend what they call their own religious rights. and there is this -- >> i think in one of his e-mails he said every day is a gift. that is how he lived >> the family of phillip wood, one of the missing passengers on flight mh370, still holding out hope he is going to be found. >> and a child saved after being swallowed by this mudslide. the latest on the search for those still missing. >> he is stuck and his pants
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came off. the mud compacted him around and created a suction and he could not move.
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and father is among those missing. 14 people have been confirmed dead. >> to this big story as oral arguments begin moments ago in the supreme court. the justice are hearing the landmark case from hobby lobby. this is a huge day. this case gets to the heart of the obamacare mandate that businesses provide contraceptive coverage for employees as part of any plan that can be approved. we have our judge analyst here. what is at the heart of the case in your opinion? >> religious liberty and whether or not the congress can compel corporations to violate their religious liberty of the shareholders of the corporati corporations. do corporations have religious liberties or just individuals? can the owners of the corporation impose their own
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religious standards on the corporati corporation itself? and can congress do this to anybody? make you buy a product that is going against the teaching in your heart. >> let's listen to the sound byte from one of the attorneys to see arguing on behalf -- >> refusing to pay for something that could take a human life. the question is not whether it is the green family or corporation, both of whom are part of the case, but the question is is this sincere religious rights and it ought to be protected >> it is interesting she said it could take a human life. this isn't just traditional contraceptive coverage. this is coverage for abortion as well. it comes in one package that
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orders to entities that employ # 50 people or more to make it available. this isn't to say women are not entitled on their own to get these services, but it is the employers right to not pay for it. >> and the government has said the church doesn't have to cover these plans that include contraceptives, but the next leap is rather a private corporation can also say it is against our beliefs. but an employee who exist and works in the united states of america, under the law that says everybody must be covered by a plan that is up to their definition of what is good to them, can say if this is where i want to work, why shouldn't i be
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covered under the same plans. >> and i will give that employee an answer: because your wish to be covered by contraceptives by the employer is a good they provide to you. but to follow your religious beliefs is a right. >> so you have to work it out. >> or go out and pay for it yourself or get the federal government that subsidizes billions in the policy to pay for it which is probably what will happen if the supreme court rules against the federal government. >> that is what they did with the christian taxpayers. >> that mean all of us. they took it off the table of religious organization and put it on the insurance table and said you pay for it because they
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will not funnel the money toward the contraceptives. >> this is an unforeseen consequence of the supreme court's ill advised decision finding all of this constitution on the grounds if you don't do it, we will tax you. >> it is going to be interesting how the chief justice rules this. his decision was the entire plan would levy a tax on you, rather than a fine, is what allowed this plan to go forward and we have not heard from the chief justice since then. >> it is a bizarre condition. the government argued it wasn't a tax but the supreme court court we call it a tax. this was a cobbled together
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compro compromise by people that don't agree to salvage the legislat n legislation. and another challenge is can the government subsidize concern categories >> that is in our to be category. >> bill hemmer has an opinion on that >> of course he does. president obama speaking her hague here at the nuclear summit closi closing ceremony. and the president received a chairmanship that is passed on to him. we are awaiting a decision in a custody battle pinning a hospital against a family and a 15-year-old girl >> i hope for the best and hope the nightmare is over but the way things have been showing i
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the u.s. is loosing its edge as an employment power house. the labor statistics has people
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looking for work at 63% and the united kingdom is doing better for the first time in 40 years. this is depressing. >> this has been going on for a long time. one of the real problems with the obama economic policy is the labor preticipation rate is going down as well. this is an inflection point because when you have a country like great britain with a declining power beating us on this rate where more young people are working. when their labor participation is greater than ours you have to look at the obama
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administration. we had a financial crisis in 2008 and it has gotten worse under the obamacare economic policy. don't be partisan but coming out of a financial crisis, you need to stimulate the economy. then turns around and destimulates the economy by threatening taxes, obamacare, regulations on banks. this is the most schizophrenic policy this country has had. >> give me an example of a pro-growth policy is in the administration? is it printing money? >> that is not the administration. that is the fed. when you keep printing money, retirees don't make a lot' on their investments in the bank
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and you have to go out on the risk scale to make money. so raising interest rates might be good for certain sectors >> half to 2/3rds fall into the category of america's baby broomers. we saw that coming a decade ago >> you can create a bigger social net to help the people or create jobs to help the people get the jobs and one of the problem with the president's policy is that in creating that social help and forcing people out of the workforce and people that need jobs can't find it. and people are underemployed. you can find a good job. part-time work, less money, there is a real problem. >> you know this is a hard working country when you give
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them the opportunity to do that. when does that come back? >> listen, i think most americans want to work. i don't think people want to be on food stamps and unemployment. but they need jobs. and they need decent paying jobs. the problem with the obama economy is it hasn't produced either. he should fess up and compromise with the republicans. he has shown horrible labor market. >> we will see if that changes in january. >> malaysia says flight mh370 crashed and ended in the indian ocean following evidence from the satellite company that tracks its final hours. >> we can rule out the northern pathway because none of the
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pings match with the northern route but match with the southern route. >> not everybody is convinced this has been sold. are officials looking in the right place? >> and why this girl was kicked out of school for helping a friend.
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we know the u.s. navy's high
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tech black box locater is on the way to the indian ocean. cathlen bangs is here with us. >> glad to be here. >> you were with us 24 hours ago when the malaysian prime minister came out saying we concluded flight mh370 ended in the indian ocean and you said i doubt it. >> i am a pilot so i am trained to be spectacspectacle. we know the plane departed from kuala lumpur and made it over it's last weigh point in the area. and then radar tracks it making a left turn over thailand and then 200 miles offshore to the nor north/northwest and lost touch
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with it. we would be looking in those areas in the past and i am just not sure we should be basing everything on the satellite ping. >> this shows the currant and drift. this is where it has moved. advance it one time and we'll show the viewers what you are talking about. route one and route two. and all of the attention is on route that goes through the southern area. why are you suspicious of this? >> i am a little more comforted there is a second company and other scientist have looked at the data but they are basing this off a new technology they
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have never used. this is used in a maritime business. >> would you conceive they are right? >> i hope they are right and we are looking in the right area. but we are not looking back at where the airplane's last decision. >> and because you asked we have this from viewers: how does one evaluate the quality of a ping, and how does the location reveal a path rather than south? i thought he was referring to the black boxes when i saw that question, but i think it is reference to the comment. >> some people are like why are we not looking in the northern corridor. normally if we had three satellites you would triangate. but they have a ping and
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measures time and the frequency is changing. and looking at the million to a second and imploring doppler shift they can determine where it is coming through. >> and that is like weather radar doppler? >> yes and when you hear a police siren you here at it one pitch when it is approaches and another pitch as it is leaving and that is the doppler shift. >> if it is in the southern indian ocean, what is the biggest certain about finding the back black box? >> they have it narrowed down to
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a size of alaska right now. >> if you have a question, tweet us. >> all of that is making you think of the loved ones who are lost and holding out hope and that includes phillip wood's family, a north texas man's family who was aboard the flight. casey talked to them. how are they doing? >> they are frustrated and c confused after the malaysian prime minister made the announcement the flight landed over the indian ocean and there is no survivors. the family is waiting like the rest of the families. they are saying they learned this information about the plane not from a text message but from
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wood's girlfriend who lives in kuala lumpur. >> i don't know how sure they are. it is little frustrating when they are absolutely certain no survivors but no wreckage or anything. so i am ready to accept that he is no longer here. and at the same time, i would like more proof. and more answers. >> answers that all of the families members who had loved one on board that airplane are still searching for despite that announcement by the malaysian government. >> phillip wood was from texas but has been living in asia. >> that is right. his family is here in texas and we was just here visiting his family. his son just graduated from
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tex texas a and m. we was living in bejing and was going to maybe to kuala lumpur to live with his girl fp friend. his family is waiting like the rest of us to see if the wreckage is in fact from flight mh370. >> it is impossible to imagine what these people are going through. >> the president suggesting a big change to the nsa spying program but could it put some in a tough spot? and there is this: >> no one could have causing the issues and why the film direct's adaptation of the old testament is the least biblical movie
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i was waiting for the water. the movie "noah" being released and the producer bragged saying it is the least biblical movie you can see. they don't use the word god, but creator >> you wonder what inspired him to do this biblical movie about "noah". >> it looks pretty good and intense. we are waiting for comments from
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president obama moments away. he is expected to reveal a new proposal to end the bulk collection of phone data. it will put the bulk of the information back into the companies and stay there. they could be forced to cough up the foreign records. jehmu greene is here and lars as well. jehmu, what do you make of this? when the president looked into this and it exploded and you had everyone saying they were not comfortable with the plan. the phone companies said we don't want to collect the data for you and that is what the president is saying they are
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going to do now. >> well, i kind of look at this as if the question of does the nsa need to know when i call my mother? probably not. but when the president first came into the office, he was incredibly hawkish and this is a sign of his maturity as a president. he stepped up drone attacks, killed bin laden, and now he is looking at how to balance needs for social security and liberty and living up to the values that this stuff shouldn't be happening in secret. >> interesting. lars? >> hackish? the president is anything but that and you can see that in his
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foreign policy. but the president has been in charge for the last five years and didn't do anything about this, and i don't think he would had it not been for snowden. i think snowden is a trader and deserves to be tried and executed. but the president is trying to solve this and he's going to dump it on the phone company and they will not do it unless congresss passes a law and they will collect the data. when they say it isn't likely they will need the phone call to my mom, but the difference in is in 9/11 we know a fact from the call to yemen would have been tracked to the hijackers if we have that >> we are spent $1.5 billion on
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the data processing center in utah. we built a center for $1.5 and they will not need this data to be stored and people are raising the questions of whether or not any of the data has been used in a good way. i think people the fears they are recording your number with your mom. and it raises the question on why we are doing this and another question on snowden. you think he should be executed but a lot of people are saying this vindicates him.
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>> i don't think it vindicates him and i agree he should be held accountable for his traderist ways. but as the government is collecting information it is necessary to protect our security, but it should not be done in secret. all of this should be transparent. this should be the president obama that people voted for in 2008 and we are seeing him coming around to it. not just replying to a public issue but he had to come in as a democrat and be more hawkish and that is what me did. he stepped up the drone attacks and did kill bin laden and increased sanctions on iran. >> the nsa chief at the head of the scandal, chief alexander, is
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retiring. he is going to sit down with bret baier on special report at 6 p.m. eastern. looking forward to that. that will be interesting. >> a lot to talk about and jenna lee is talking today on "happening now." >> a few minutes away from a news conference from the president obama and the prime minister of the european union and cutting down to the deadline of the obamacare sign-up. >> big show at the top of the hour. we might get a decision in a long running custody battle pinning a hospital against a family. the latest on the 15-year-old girl and her fight against a
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>> a colorado girl got booted from school for going bald for her friend. cameron shaved her head with her friend who is going through chemo. something the girl's mother called brave. >> friends support each other. this is a brave girl and we should all support her in the fact she made the decision. it is a big deal. >> the school says cameron broke their dress code was her head
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was too distracting. the school turned it around after a huge support for both of these girls. we well-placed support. >> and massachusetts judge holding a key hearing as a connecticut family is hoping to regain custody of their 15-year-old daughter. justina pelletier has been a ward of the state for more than a year after the department of children and families stepped in because the parents tried to remove her from boston hospital because they rejected a doctor changing her treatment for a life-threatening disease. we have a prosecutor here. what will the judge decide? stay in the hospital or come home? >> that is the issue. will justina pelletier be able to come home.
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i remember the law professor talking about family rights and he would say put timmy on the table and that is what is best for the child. and that is going to be the court's primary decision. is justina pelletier in a better position with the state or family >> the hospitals and doctors have questioned her mental state at the moment. when you consider that and i am talking to a lawyer now, not a doctor, do we know if she expressed a desire to leave the ward and join her family? >> my understanding is she does want to go home and is communicating. based on the reports i read, she feels like a prisoner. he was confined in a psych ward for nine months and saw her family once a week. there are now armed guards
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during the supervision. her education has decreased and she is not aloud to be photographed with her family >> the family says if it can happen to their daughter, it happens to anyone. what does the judge do, anna? >> that is the scariest issue. that is what the judge needs to consider. balancing test. is she in a better position with the state or the family? what is concerning is her health as not improved but down done. if she wants to go home and t family is willing to comply with the court, let her go home >> does that decision happen
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today or not? >> we don't know yet. he has continued it so many times. i hope for the family that the decision comes down today. >> thank you, catherine. >> the president is set to speak overseas and we will bring you that live. cúp,@s#b
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martha: that's it for us. bill: you did the two yesterday. martha: i did. bill: i did the one. martha: see you back here in the morning. bye, everybody. "happening now" starts right now. jenna: fox news alert. president obama is about to make remarks from the hague in the netherlands. more leaders meeting there in the shadow of the crisis in ukraine. the news conference happening a day after russia was kicked out of the one-time, group of eight, making it the group of seven, at least for now over the situation in crimea. the tight circle of world's top economies will operate as the
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group of seven but of course there is still an opening for russia that they're leaving at this time. there is debate whether or not that opening should be there. we'll bring you the president's remarks as soon as he begins. but first right now breaking news on today's top headlines brand new stories you see here first. jon: high drama expected in "the blade runner" murder trial. will oscar pistorius take the stand in his own defense? senate majority leader harry reid standing firm on a decision not to push back the obamacare deadline. what that could mean foredemocrats in november. forget spring, we're tracking a new snowstorm for you. it is all "happening now." jon: and we will get back to our top story "happening now" in just a moment. hello to you, i'm jon scott. >> hi, everybody, i'm jenna lee. we're a

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