tomorrow we're going to be back here, the governor of indiana will be dropping by to talk about how that state is dropping common core. >> geraldo rivera will be here. he has not been governor yet. >> and then kevin mccarthy will be here. bill: fox news alert and the latest reaction. on obamacare. understand executives frustrated. even democrats saying enough is enough. john boehner wonders if someone is playing a trick on them. >> the administration is resorting to an honor system to enforce this. is this a joke?

bill: welcome back, jamie. jamie: i'm jamie colby. * is on assignment today. obamacare is extending again. today the white house is using the honor system to keep track of everything. bill: good morning to you. what's the defense for this decision? >> you have a lot of people from the administration as well as senator saying it's not so much that we are giving an exemption, we are not extending the deadline, we are giving an exemption for certain people who have had hardships beyond their control. we are just applying that here and that's the argument you have the spokesperson of cms. they said think is like elect today. the polls have kind of closed, but there were people already in

line. we are saying you were already here, you can still finish it. the fact they have this honor system make that argument fall apart because they are not enforcing where the end of the line is. you. bill: you mentioned the honor system and voting. >> what we did in december we are doing again which is to say if you are in line on march 31 at midnight, if you are trying to get through the system and the volume is higher than expected, we want to make sure you actually can complete the process. this is not an extension of open enrollment. it's just saying like you do on elect day. if you are in line to vote, we want to make sure you have health inn. bill: of course it's an extension. they want to beef up that number. but you come back to the honor system. who is paying? >> i think there is a mix. there will be people who are

angry about this because they don't trust the administration or what they are going to do next. and they are clearly political. this is not just for people who had a hardship. this is the equivalent of a store clerk saying we are closed but if you are inside you can finish shopping and not lock the doors and going in the back room. they have no way of enforce hoition supposed to be there and who is coming in after the fact. i think that hurts them. but it also sets up a problem for the insurance companies and insurers. they set their premiums months in advance and they need a general consensus of the amount of sick people and here is what we need to do and look at the premiums for next year. bill: these insurance companies, their head have to be spinning.

that goes to credibility. it was only days ago when she said the deadline sticks. now the change again. >> they keep saying, they keep saying march 31 is the date we are sticking with and the president said we'll have our enrollment numbers by march 31. then they are going back on that. i think there are legitimate reasons to give some people a bit of an extension because they did have a disaster rollout with the website. i think there could be a good argument that would allow people to enroll. but at this point it's you did have a delay back in december. they are still doing it more and more. but they are not actually benefiting the people they claim it with. it's a free-for-all because it hurts them across the board. no one knows what to expect. week ago they were saying march

31 is going to stick, and it hasn't. bill: baghdad bob is still alive and well. thank you. we'll speak again. appreciate it. jamie: a purveyor of all things. conservative pundits are saying the white house was deliberately dishonest. >> what's glint of law, for all those word, none of it matters because necessity get changed arbitrarily after the law passed. they were lying when they saided deadline wouldn't change. everyone knew they were lying. >> no back end on healthcare.gov. no way of knowing who is even rolled. no way of knowing how many have paid. the insurance companies have no way of collecting, and they had 3 years to do this.

that's what makes it tough for me to believe this is strictly and simply incompetence. jamie: democrats up for reelection are reportedly ready to admit obamacare is flawed. but they want to save their jobs. bill: a new fox poll finding the job tea parole at 40%. 53% disapprove. jamie: check this one out. the president may be looking for divine intervention. off to vatican city he goes. he has an historic meeting with pope francis. reporters from the political website with an interesting take on that meeting saying quote president obama was once the biggest superstar on the international stage and thursday he head to the vatican to

benefit from his replacement pope francis. ed henry is in rome. what did they talk about during this first meeting? >> reporter: perhaps the president is trying to get some of that popularity to wear off on him. pope francis captured the affection of millions with his direct approach reaching out to people. the president has sharp differences with the pope on social issues. but when you meet with him in public it's all pomp and circumstance and the suisse guard. they also exchanged gifts. they exchanged a book that has his reflection on the gospel.

there is issues dealing with poverty where they come together. listen to the president's reaction. >> [inaudible]. >> reporter: the president saying these reflections from pope francis will calm him down and give him strength as he weighs the policy decisions. he said he will keep that book in a prominent place in the oval offi they had private conversation i'm sure and they do agree on some thing. there is a whole range of issues. how do they deal with that? >> abortion, research, same-sex marriage. in this 50-minute private meeting there might have been some exchange of those differences. but the president did an interview with an italian newspaper and tried to focus on

where they agree. the president saying at one point of the pope, he i am ploarses us to remember the people, especially the far who were affected by the decisions we make. with a single sentence he can focus attention on a single issue. >> reporter: the president's gift included some seeds made out of a special chest made of wood from one of america's oldest cathedrals. with all of the photographers and the press some of it got knocked over but the president and the pope seemed to laugh it off. bill: possibly new clues in the search for flight 370.

a satellite detecting 300 objects floating indian ocean. it's believed it veered off its original course and crashed in the indian ocean. the search area is 600,000 square miles. that was the headline from this morning. jamie: almost a year since the terror struck at the boston marathon. there is a brand-new report on the intelligence that was missed leading up to those explosions at the finish line. reaction from homeland committee chairman michael mccaul. bill: a stunning admission from the conductor of a runaway train. how the driver said this happened. >> oh, god, oh, my god, oh, no,

oh, no. jamie: that construction worker seconds from death as a roaring inferno burns around him. he was inside there. do they see him? we asked people a question, how much money do you think you'll need when you retire? then we gave each person a ribbon to show how many years that amount might last. i was trying to, like, pull it a little further. [ woman ] got me to 70 years old. i'm going have to rethink this thing. it's hard to imagin how much we'll need for a retirement that could last 3years or mor so maybe we need to approach things dferently, if we want to be ready for a longer retirement.

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3 people dead, 260 injured. the investigation focusing on the older of the tsarnaev brothers. mike mccaul. congressman and chair of the house homeland security committee. based on your report and your investigation. you went to russia. could this have been prevented? >> we conducted a thorough investigation over the last year and we say a lot of warning signs were out there and a lot of flags went up. he was on the radar screen of the fbi. i believe potentially this could have been stopped and i think that's what the report delves into. why was he off the radar screen. the russians warned us he was

going to travel overseas and meet with extremist terrorists, why that flag wasn't shared with the fbi where they could have taken a second look at him when he came back in the use the. had they -- back in the united states. had they done so they would have seen a different version of tamerlan tsarnaev. he put youtube jihadist video up. he went to dagestan and i believe he met with extremists over there and was further radicalized and trains and came back and conducted the biggest attack in the united states since 9/11. bill: is this the job of the fbi? >> our job is oversight. i think we did that job with this report. i'm pleased to hear the fbi came out yesterday and said they are

implementing the recommendations of this report and the department of homeland security as well -- this far after 9/11 to not be able to connect the dots is really unacceptable. but i want to give credit to the fbi and homeland security to say we are" to follow these recommendations, and we are going do a better job of sharing the information. when ed davis the commissioner ofs police in boston said he had no idea there was a terrorist in his hometown. the fbi had not told him he had a case open on this individual nor had he traveled overseas as the russians warned us. that needs to change. >> reporter: the fbi interviewed him in 2011 and you wonder what page of that. your recommendations, refine the

policy surrounding travel record and information sharing with terror travel watchlists and develop efforts to mitigate terrorist defense. no offense but that sounds like a lot of what came out of the 9/11 commission. >> the "the boston globe" said the say thing yesterday. it's reminiscent of the 9/11 commission report. in this case there was a failure of communication. and i believe it resulted in what we saw happen a year ago. but i do think these recommendations are being followed now and can make a difference looking forward. but, look, the fact that he was flagged by customs and wasn't screened coming back in the country. had he been screened what would we have found on that screening?

we don't know. bill: the nsa is tracking the ton of information every day. should the nsa policies have stopped this? or should their policies have stopped this? >> they should have. there is an independent investigation into the intelligence communities and what they had. we look forward to hearing from them. overseas contacts, i think so. the russians did provide us with this intelligence they had about tamerlan's contacts with extremists in dagestan which is where the chechen rebels are, the most violent extremists on the planet. that went off the radar, was never caught. had we know known that and screened him coming back in the country, maybe we could have stopped it. bill: my colleague martha

maccallum will have an intriguing, and interesting report. i believe she talked to you and several others. i'll be in boston the day of the race on the 21st of april. hopefully we'll keep 22.6 miles safe this time around. martha: a fire department taking a major hit. they lost two brave men battling a massive fire. bill: rescuers are digging through tons of dirt and debris searching for survivors like this man in that deadly mudslide. >> i just kept digging and digging and digging with a stick until i could see a lit the light and i shoved that sucker up there and started waving it back and forth.

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bill: search crews say the death toll from the devastating mudslide is still at 16. the fear is some of the victims will never be found in that mud. >> in my 44 years of public service. 31 years as a state trooper and 21 years in the coast guard nothing prepared me for what i saw. i flew over it and said you need to see it to believe it. now that it saw it from the ground i still can't believe what i saw. bill: 90 people confirmed missing. the national guard is joining that search effort today. jamie: a fox news alert.

a massive 9-alarm fire left two boston firefighters dead. >> in 30 years i have never seen a fire travel that fast and escalate that quickly and create such havoc in such a short period of time. >> these two heroes ran into a burning building, got people out of the building. citizens were saved, that we do. jamie: you can just imagine the pain of losing two of their own. michael kennedy and edward walsh became trapped in the basement. but they died they and the other firefighters saved every single person that lived in that building. heroes. molly line live from boston with this. what do they know about the fire? >> reporter: this was a

9-alarm fire. more than 150 firefighters rushed to the scene to try to knock this fire down. it's still under investigation but it started in a four-story brown stone. it's a typical type of building for that area of boston. it went through all the floors all the way up to the roof. this happened just before 3:00 in the afternoon and the 40 miles per hour kid made the battle more challenging. the 2 firefighters lost their lives after rushing into save others. >> they called a may day in a short period time. they weren't in the building more than 2 or 3 minute when they ordered a may day that they were trapped. >> reporter: a prosecutor with specialized training has been

assigned to this case to help out with the boston fire and police investigators. they say it doesn't mean there is foul play, just standard procedure with a death. jamie: what else do we know about those who lost their lives. >> reporter: michael kennedy was 33 years old. a 6 and a half year veteran. he was single, resident of the hyde park neighborhood. lieutenant edward walsh had been assigned to engine company 33. he was 43 years old. a 9 and a half year veteran, the son of a firefighter, married with three children. jamie: we grieve with their families today. bill: the problems with

obamacare said to be so bad democrats caught up with their own plan to fix them. will it save their jobs? jamie: two twisters touching down in unexpected places, caught on tape by storm chasers. they have new technology to try to keep them out of harm's way. bill: why some critics say -- >> the first time this happened it was an act of war against the united states in downtown manhattan and the pentagon. they think war somehow is out of date.

jamie: democrats have been pretty honest about the fact that they are anxious about facing voters in the fall saying they want to fix obamacare. today six democratic senators will introduce changes they say will help the healthcare law. three of them are facing difficult reelection races and an onslaught of attack ad related to obamacare. so let's start with specifically

the changes that these senators -- i'll bet there are some on the sidelines that also want to propose fixes but maybe they are not as honest. >> the first is understand purchases across state lines to allow premarket principles and the most important is the new copper plans which would be lower premiums and higher deductibles. the democrats are betting the people will buy the plans, see healthcare costs going down. jamie: do you get coverage with that? >> how much is not clear but hopefully that won't sort itself out until after the november election. jamie: the timing is interesting. they say they will fix it now. why didn't they do some of the across-state-lines fix earlier. >> they are desperate because they are seeing the trend line

from the polling that this could be a republican landslide. as a conservative i don't want to count my chickens before they are hatched but they see the trend moving away from them. we saw the special election where the republican won in a swing district that had been trending democrat. the problem for the democrats is the only way to really fix obamacare is to repeal it. that's not in the offing. but the tinkerings at the margin will have little to no effect, particularly for the democrats coming up for reelection. jamie: they are not going so far as to say throw it out. are they watching the polling when they say should we recommendificking x, y and z? >> the white house is deeply committed to obamacare.

what monica is suggesting that might help some of these democrats, they can't do because the administration would cut them loose. they want too say we haven't eviscerated obamacare even though purchases across state lines won't help the individual exchanges which have been suffering. >> when you had ted cruz and others calling for delays, they wanted repeal and said let's retreat on this and play parts of it, they were called terrorists and traitors to the republic for doing it. now the white house is putting in all these delays and exemptions and waivers. jamie: is that helping their position, doug? on the one hand can they say we agree it' a little bit broken or a lot broken. we agree we are going to propose these changes we think will get us reelected, then pick on

someone like nate silver who they in the past loved or agreed with or endorsed when he said president obama will get reelected. now they are saying 6 seats will go to the republicans. they are coming out with a rebuttal to what he's saying. are they overreacting? >> what the left will do is criticize in as stark terms as possible anyone who they believe is deviating from liberal boxy. on healthcare the democrats are trying to get as far away from the plan without embracing anything that appears to be repeal or undermining the central tenets of a plan that i think is fatally flawed. jamie: do they hurt their position saying someone who is trying to fix it is wrong?

>> obamacare was never really about healthcare and health insurance. it was about the fundamental transformation of the u.s. economy and the country. they will never give it up. they can try to drive a stake delight. but as long as this president is in office it will be difficult to even change it. bill where some new jobless numbers came out an hour ago. 300,000 americans timed for first-time unemployment benefits. the stocks are yawning at that news. concern about russia. top law makers saying they have serious issues with vladimir putin. michele bachmann is one of them on the message she says the president must send now. republicans are demanding answers, platenning to hold the

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there will be the nato supreme commander on the hill today. we are hearing it from house members. we are hearing it from senate members. what are you so concerned with regarding putin and ukraine now? >> i met with general greedlove. i am very concerned. i slir the concern. putin is the former head of the kgb. an has a clear strategy for russia. he intend to amalgamate more power in russian hands because he sees no roadblocks in front of him. president obama has failed to put any roadblocks in his way. he intend to go full speed ahead. bill: there is the threat of continued sanctions.

i don't see the sanctions going to the iran left just yet. but the president was in europe. did he help advance this issue? >> the speech he gave was very professorial. but we weren't looking for a grand speech. we were looking for muscle backing up the words. that wasn't evident from the remarks that were given. if the eu and the united states of america doesn't stand strong against this very powerful leader who has very strong intentions with more land grabs and power grabs he will continue to move forward unabated. bill: if that's the case, what do you do? what's next? >> impose real sanctions. i think ronald reagan would have made sure the eu and the united

states have a robust economy. europe has a weak recovery. the united states has had a fairly anemic recovery. we need a full energy policy which is you build the keystone pipeline. legalize american oil production. open up every avenue of lng and fracking. that would break russia economically. if we take away russia's customers and open up energy production in europe and the united states. bill: you might have a lot of people agree with you on that. the president said europe needs to diverse if i their energy need. but is this administration willing to do any of what you just mentioned? >> not today. they may be willing to do lng,l. but we have many, many steps to

get there. for the president not to embrace a robust, full on u.s. energy program at this juncture. what is it going to take, bill, for them to do that? this is our best option. reagan deputy straighted you need a strong economy. that broke the back of the soviet union. president obama has done the opposite. he embraced a weakened united states economy and now he's weakening our defense posture. he can make an announcement we are going to build missile defense in polled and the czech republic. bill: that was dismissed during the early days of the first term. here is george will. i'll show you a fox poll right after that. >> they really believe the world changed when we turned into the 21st century, they didn't notice the first thing that

happened in the 21st century was an act of war in downtown manhattan and the back up. -- manhattan and the pentagon. they think war is out of date. bill: 52% of people in the latest hole think america is weaker and less powerful. 52%, a clear majority. >> that's what i hear from people all across the united states. and frankly across the world. i was just in london last week and i traveled up to oxford where i spoke before the ox union. across the world people see the united states in decline. fox is having a special called surrendering the united states of america. can you believe that these are the topics we are talking about today? that's clearly because of the

failed policy choices that this president has embraced. we are better than that. it's in the dna of every american to fight back. i think americans are begging for leadership and that's why i think the president's approval ratings are low. the most important thing is that america is strong both economically and from the national defense point. and george f. will whom i love is 1,000% right on this when he made his comment. the united states of america has to recognize these are serious, critical times. our president sent a completely wrong signal since day one of his presidency. bill: michele bachmann, thank you for your time. we'll see what happens today on the hill. jamie: could this be a game changer in college sports? a federal agency telling a group

of college football players they are allowed to unionize. >> oh, my god. bill: he had one chance. this construction worker trapped by a raging fire. the woman behind that camera will took you us live next. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] help brazil reduce its overall reliance on foreign imports with the launch of theountry's largest petrochemical operation. ♪ when emerson takes up the challenge, "it's never been done before" simply becomes consider it solved. emerson. ♪

jamie: heart stopping moments caught on camera a when a houston apartment complex goes up in flames. a construction worker is trapped on a ledge. you have to see how the

situation turned from bad to almost deadly. >> hold this one up right here. that one. this guy is on the fricking ledge. oh, my god. do they see him? >> that's dangerous! >> oh, my jesus! oh, my god! >> is that a construction guy? >> yes, he was inside there, do they fricking see him? oh, my god! oh, god! , oh, my god! oh no! oh, my god! >> the glass is melting. >> they need to get him.

oh, jesus! oh, god! oh, god! >> get closer to him. >> hell, he could jump from there. good grief. they need to move that truck up. oh, my god! i think we probably should be going. >> jump for it, man. >> hell, yes. thank jesus, thank you, god! oh, my god! oh, no, my god!

they got him! , oh, jesus. jamie: in just two minutes. karen is your heart still pumping? >> of time i watch it it is actually. jamie: you must have been so shocked at the end ahe finally reaches the ladder that the roof collapses. >> i can't even explain how it felt as we were standing there watching it from the beginning. i was coming back from lunch and i saw people at the windows. they said there was a fire. i couldn't really see much from where i was. i went over to the far southeast corner of our building on the 4th floor to get a better vantage point. it wasn't anything as big as what you see now on the screen. it was a smaller, more contained

area to the left of the roof. then it spread like wildfire. when we saw him on the ledge, i don't have word to describe how fearful we were for him. jamie: i heard you and others say a couple things. one was you could feel the heat. it's a 9-alarm blaze. i never witnessed one. what does that feel like? >> the windows in front of us were hot. they felt hot to the touch and we could feel the heat resonating through the windows and the glass. it was a breathtaking sight. i don't know how to even describe it. jamie: i wanted you to listen to the construction worker who must be so grateful for his life, especially when he had a chance to watch this video. let's listen to him this

morning. >> i said i'm going to die right here. god, you have got the help me out here. the on chance i have top survive was to drop down to the patio below. that was the on option. jamie: i shirt hope he got the day off. karen, what are your thoughts today for him and his family? >> i'm glad to see him. i saw the first interview with him yesterday. i had not seen him. i didn't know his name until yesterday. when they interviewed him i was glad the see he was okay. he had a minor injury and he survived. it was a miraculous rescue by the firefighters. jamie: our hats off to you for your steady camera work. i'm not sure we could have been that calm in that situation. thanks, karen. bill: the man had one chance. one swing of his body weight to try to make that deck below.

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bill: brand new hour here, we start with a fox news alert. eye-opening new polling shows a growing concern about the strength of america under the leadership of our president. welcome to a brand new hour here in "america's newsroom," i'm bill hemmer. jamie: is that first hour over already? bill: it went that fast. y'all jake wow. i'm jamie colby in for martha call lumbar today, good to be with you. there's a new fox be poll we want to tell you about, 52% of americans think our country is weaker than it was at the start of president obama's first term. bill: john bolton, fox news contributor, hanging out in vegas these days.

what does that polling number tell you? >> well, i think it's an indication that the american people fully understand that president obama's policies are leading to a weaker american influence around the world. and i think it's demonstrated perhaps as well as could be, anyone could expect by the president's speech yesterday in europe. where he tries to argue that whatever international stability there is has been caused by international law, international norms, international organizations and in the by american strength and power. i don't think the american people buy that. bill: well, there's some new numbers here too. but before i show you that, i think you would agree, i mean, the world's a better place when america's a strong country. but what the polling cases is that america's a weaker country. look at this now. you compare to june of 2002 to where we are, 2014. the question, is the united states the world's most dominant power? 59% say it is.

in 2002 that number was 85%. where's that drift going, china? russia? >> well, i think it's going in several directions, but clearly what people believe is that it's moving away from america. and as i i say, this really represents the fundamental dichotomy in views in america and western europe about what leads to international peace. if you think international peace and security is caused by international law and goodwill by, among nations, then you don't agree with the obama approach. but if you think it's strength that deters aggression and violations of national sovereignty, then you go for a policy that keeps america strong. militarily, economically and politically. and that's not the route obama takes. he does not trust american power, and he's unwilling to use it in most instances. bulk i bill well, the question about power and strength comes through now. president obama on russia specifically, tough enough or

not? 66% say not tough enough. you make the case that polls show a presidential candidate who takes a firm view of america on the international stage. explain that. >> well, i think the american people are very pragmatic. they don't get involved in the intricacies of foreign and defense policy. that's why they send people to washington, to look out for the safety of the country. but they do appreciate what the bottom line is, and the obama administration they see is undercutting american strength in the world and, therefore, making us more at risk from attacks by terrorists, from live ration or assertiveness or even military aggression as in the case of russia's movement to the crimea. i think they reject that. i think it's a very practical understanding of world affairs, so i think presidential candidates -- not to mention house and senate candidates this year -- who call for a strong america, not for a withdrawing,

isolationist america and certainly not for an america that depends on the u.n. to protect us, i think they'll do very well. bill: john bolton, thank you for your time. out of vegas today. appreciate it. jamie: there is a potential boost to ukraine from the international monetary fund that's offering up to $18 billion in loans to prop up the country's teetering economy. ukraine's prime minister is warning that everyone is going to feel some pain from what he says are necessary financial reforms including higherrer taxes, a freeze on the minimum walk and higher energy prices. the imf loan hinges on those changes. ♪ ♪ jamie: and the mystery continues, but there's more possible debris spotted in the search for malaysia airlines flight 370. 300 floating objects in the indian ocean, officials saying they were seen not too far from another sighting by a french satellite. william la jeunesse following

these developments live from los angeles. william, i understand the search was called off today because of bad weather. when will they resume? >> reporter: jamie, that's unclear right now. we're expecting bad weather for the next 16 hours, so that decision will probably be made tomorrow morning, local time around 6 a.m. but the good news is more photos that could be the airplane debris, bad news is, more bad weather. search planes were grounded because of poor visibility and turbulence. seven planes went out today, a few made it to their assigned areas before being called back to base. >> despite searching the area for two and a half areas, we were unable to locate anything visually. as i said, the weather wasn't very good for the search, and the swell and sea state was rather high in the area as well. >> reporter: so here's what they were attempting to verify. new photos taken monday by a thai satellite showing some 300 objects ranging from 10 to 50 neat long.

these foe e es -- photos were taken one day after a french satellite captured 122 objects the largest, about the length of a wing. for perspective, here's where all this is taking place, off the coast of perth. four satellites, four different countries all within roughly the same area over an eight-day period. and just moments ago, the kyoto news agency says a japanese satellite spotted ten square objects in the area, so the priority, jamie, get the stuff aboard a ship, confirm where it came from and then backtrack to the point of impact. jamie: all right, william, keep us posted. thank you. bill: seens from that movie -- scenes from that movie, american hustle, playing out in california. fbi agents conducting a huge sting operation. a broker was offered illegal gun sales in exchange for campaign donations.

claudia cowan's on that streaming live out of san francisco. claudia? >> reporter: well, bill, state senator leland ye, considered by some to be a rising star in state politics, now facing multiple counts of fraud, conspiracy, money laundering and influence peddling, the list goes on and on. the fbi affidavit accuses yee, seen here yesterday, of accepting more than $42,000 in cash and campaign contributions. he was running for secretary of state, probably not anymore. in exchange for the cash, yee allegedly offered political favors and firearms. he's accused of putting an undercover fbi agent in touch with arms dealers who could get rocket launchers from a rebel muslim group. he was indicted yesterday along with two today others arrested in a series of raids stretching from the bay area to sacramento. the case connects him to a

notorious san francisco gangster known as shrimp boy who operated out of chinatown and now faces eight criminal charges including trafficking in contra ban cigarettes. as for senator yee who represented most of san francisco, he's now free on $500,000 bond. his lawyer says he will plead not guilty to the seven criminal counts he now faces and, bill, he's due back in court on monday. bill: what's the reaction there in california, claudia? >> reporter: well, the reaction is one of shock really. although the democratic leader of the state senate has called on yee to resign immediately saying if he doesn't, his colleagues will suspend him possibly as soon as tomorrow. yee's arrest does cast another cloud over the democratic establishment. he is the third senate democrat to be arrested and get embroiled in corruption charges so far this year. his long political career now

very much in turmoil, bill, as he now prepares for the legal fight of his life. bill: thank you, claudia. claudia cowan's on that story in san francisco. scrawm jake and another democrat in trouble over accusations of corruption. it's charlotte mayor patrick cannon who resigned yesterday after the fbi nabbed him in a sting and slapped him with public corruption and bribery charges. cannon's accused of accepting some $48,000 in bribes from underagents who posed as real estate developers wanting to do business in charlotteful. bill: fireworks at a house hearing in the irs targeting scandal. >> we are, have never said we wouldn't -- >> i'm asking you yes or no. >> we are going to respond to the subpoena. >> sir -- >> yes? >> we are going to respond to the subpoena. i'm just telling you to respond fully to the subpoena, we're going to be at this for years, not months. bill: lawmakers want to know why they still do not have the documents they're looking for. trey gowdy was on that

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bill: house republicans taking aim at the head of the irs saying the commissioner is not doing a sufficient job of investigating. the oversight committee grilling him about the slow process of handing over the subpoena documents including the e-mails from former irs official lois lerner. darrell issa. >> the simple fact is your response to the irs targeting scandal has been both by the ranking member's standard and dismall by my -- dismal by my standard. this committee doesn't count how many documents are produced, but we do count when documents, clearly responsive to a subpoena, are clearly not delivered. bill: and so farer the not satisfied. trey dowdty from south carolina's on that committee. he's with me now. how are you, sir? good morning to you. did you move the ball at all yesterday? >> i think we moved it a little bit. i think the commissioner knows that he is on the doorstep of

contempt if he does not make a good faith effort to comply with the subpoena. we're not interested in the number of documents he's provided to date, we are interested in full compliance with a legal document which is what a subpoena is. finish. bill: so you're look for the e-mails to and from lois lerner, right? >> lois lerner, holly pass and a series of other irs employees. but what i told the commissioner yesterday -- bill: let me just pause you there a second. so how many employees is that? >> eight. bill: eight, okay. so what the irs is saying, they put 100,000 hours into this already? they spent $8 million to respond to your committee and four other investigations, and they've produced a million documents. is that true? >> i don't know how many hours they have put in. i don't reward effort, i reward results. and how many documents they send us, i mean, they could send us a copy of crime and punishment, that's a thousand pages, but

that's ooh not what we asked for. we want e-mails to and from lois lerner. now, bill, the issue becomes some of the information swapped on e-mail is confidential by statute. like your taxpayer information, they could not send us by statute without redacting it. so i'm fine setting that category aside. send me the e-mails to and from lois lerner that don't involve confidential tack payer information. start with that. >> here is the commissioner when he was asked -- >> at the rate we're going as noted by an earlier question, if you want all the categories of all the applications of everybody who's been through the c4 process for the last four years, we can do that and we will do that, but it's going to take years. bill: years? >> well, and, again, he's not reading the subpoena. if you send us four years' worth of confidential taxpayer information and you have to carefully redact all of the information, that may take a

while. look, bill, you and i have previously discussed e-mails that lois lerner has sent and received that have nothing to do with private taxpayer information. thiess theorizing about -- she's theorizing about the democrats holding on to the senate or holding on to the white house or how to get the sec involved in targeting c4 groups. that has nothing to do with confidential taxpayer information, and he ought to deliver that to us by friday. bill: yeah. you say you will hold her in contempt if this doesn't can work out. why not do it already? what are you waiting on? >> did you say her or him? bill: her. >> well, we're going to hold her in contempt no matter what, but that's a separate issue. that's because she won't answer our questions. he's been on the job for a few months. what he told us yesterday after the hearing is, look, i'm going to do -- i'm going to get you what you want, help me prioritize the order in which you want it. and i'm happy to do that. but i am running out of --

actually, that's not true. i have run out of patience with government entities who treat subpoenas like invitations to cocktail parties. you don't get to rsvp yes or no, you comply, or there should be legal consequences. and this body is too slow to mete out legal consequences when other entities don't do what we tell them to do. bill: yeah. you say you'll bring the commissioner back next wednesday and that he'll -- >> i would. bill: -- sit there until you get your answer. is that going to happen? >> i would. well, i don't run this rodeo, as you know. but i would have the head of the agency sitting at the table, because i promise you people work faster when their boss is having their time wasted sitting at a committee hearing. i bet you it wouldn't take years if he were sitting on it waiting to be done. bill: trey gowdy, thank you for your time. thank you, out of south carolina on the hill. jamie? jamie: interesting update. a landmark ruling that will allow northwestern university football players to unionize. what it's going to mean and how

the school's responding. bill: also a 15-year-old girl caught in a bitter custody battle pitting her parents against the hospital and the government. there is new outrage over the ruling that has left her family devastated. >> every other patient there could see their family, talk fully with them, do whatever they want. with her on mother's day, holidays, christmas, easter, totally isolated, couldn't see us, couldn't talk to us. cúp,@s#b

bill: lost luggage? a solution to that. police busting a group operating out of los angeles. a number of contract workers accused of stealing luggage from lax have now been arrested. that sting happening after a months-long investigation. >> tonight we're executing search warrants at 25 different locations in an attempt to

recover property and take suspects into custody. the suspects are primarily contract, current or prior contract employees, you know, from the airport service companies. they're not employed directly by the los angeles airport. bill: so that ring, apparently, broken up. we do not know, however, how many suspects have been arrested at lax. ♪ ♪ jamie: well, there are a lot of storm chasers out there, and rare tornadoes have touched down in california, all of it near sacramento. damaging at least a dozen homes. these twisters a reminder of tornado season and the danger that those storm chasers face. they risk their life and limb to make videos like these possible. something's being done now to try to keep them at least a little safer, and it looks like something out of the movies. garrett tenny joining us live from marshalltown, iowa, where they get a lot of tornadoes, that's for sure. so tell me that car behind you, whatever that is, looks like batmobile. what can it do, garrett? >> reporter: you know, a lot

of people say it looks just like the batmobile. of it's a cross between the batmobile and a tank really. this is dorothy, is what she's been named, and she is built to allow storm chasers from the iowa storm chasing network to get up close and personal to tornadoes. and they're able to do that because they took an e350 ford commercial van, added all of these layers of steel and armor plating and to protect her from all of the wind and debris as they get close. this is what the windows are made of, military-grade, half inch thick polycarbon ate, so nothing is going to be getting through those windows. you see this hydraulic system that this car has as well, 9,000 pounds altogether to keep this on the ground. this hydraulic system drops to the ground and raises the vehicle up to protect it from degree getting under the tires, as well as to protect the car from getting flipped onto its side, that's how a lot of cars do get turned over during

tornadoes. but all of this is in the name of research, and as they are doing this, that's the number one thing that they keep in mind, is staying safe. that's why they've added everything you see here. jamie: tell me if it's equipped with cameras and also what kind of research they'll be ding. doing. >> reporter: yeah. they have got two cameras on the front, also some on the inside, and here on the side as well, they live stream this to the web and give it to the national weather service also. this camera, though, is a slow motion camera, and the purpose of that is to capture the damage of tornadoes to see just what parts of structures go first so that we can actually improve the building integrity so that, hopefully, one day buildings can better withstand tornado-force winds. >> if you get closer to the storm, then you can actually slow down that footage and see what goes first during a tornado and maybe even give it to structural engineers so we can eventually build houses stronger that can maybe withstand tornadoes one day.

>> reporter: so 9,000 pounds, all of the equipment you see here and still, jamie, it gets more than 10 miles per gallon. how about that? jamie: my goodness. well, that's a plus for that community. thank you so much, garrett tenny. bill: new concerns the administration to extend the health care enrollment deadline decision. what that means for insurance rates for you starting next year. jamie: and it's significant, but it's a small discovery in space. ♪ bill: way out there, huh? ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ bill: two issues on obamacare, new concerns about the decision to extend the enrollment deadline and the back end of the system we're reporting has yet to be fixed. that's an issue for many reasons. also insurers say giving people more time could make it harder to calculate your rate for next year. stan is a former health care executive, hospital ceo. he also wrote the book "political malpractice: how politicians made a mess of health reform." how are you, sir? good morning to you. >> terrific. good morning from oklahoma. bill: thank you. thank you for your time today, and good morning from new york. now, we know the deadline's been extended to mid april and maybe even beyond that.

who knows? just click the box, right? >> that's exactly right. bill: but with that end web site issue, if that has yet to be fixed, what does that mean? >> well, that that's a terrific problem potentially for patients who actually could sign up for coverage, pay their premium and then expect a subsidy from the government, but because there's no direct interface between the exchanges and the insurance companies, they could arrive at a provider, and the insurance companies have actually not received payment from hhs, the subsidy payment, and find out, in fact, they are not covered. bill: so from a patient's perspective, how does it impact them? i've got a sense that the price is going to go higher, is that right? >> well, absolutely. and the second half is that when insurance companies are required to do everything manually rather than automated, the additional overhead expense is terrific. and remember, as part of the affordable care act there was this thing called medical loss ratio which limits the amount of overhead and profit that the

insurance companies can have versus the amount that they pay for medical care. so with this pressure on additional overhead, that creates a whole new set of incentives to increase premiums. bill: yeah. why is this taking so long? i mean, just on the back end system we knew it wasn't working in october, and now we're six months down the road working on seven. >> yeah. it seems to me that the focus was trying to fix what was initially broken which was, which was what was reported in october, and they sort of left this back end to the last moment, and now it's evidenced itself, and it's going to create a huge problem if they don't fix it quickly. bill: we don't know who's really covered, who's really paid. do you think the administration has those numbers and they just haven't gone public? >> i don't think we really know. the difference between those that are actually on the web site, that actually get signed up, that actually have paid a premium and/or whether the government has sent its check

into the insurance company to cover the subsidy. we know none of that. bill: and what's the effect of that? >> the effect is, as i said, a patient in good faith assuming that they've paid their first month's premium can show up at a provider and think they have coverage and find out, in fact, they do not have coverage. that's the worst of all worlds. bill: what do you think of the honor system idea that's been floated this week? you just need to check a box and say i'm interested, and you'll be counted. what's the effect of that? >> it's the insurance companies' worst nightmare. you know, the problem that they have is the problem of adverse selection, and that's too many old and sick signing up. and so what you've done is you've given the young and the healthy an opportunity to continue to delay signing up, and with this opportunity that they could just say that they've tried and they were not successful this honor system allows them another opportunity to sort of officegate and delay signing up which, again, creates additional upward pressure on

premiums. bill: back to that question about who pays. is it true, do you believe, that we really do not know who has paid, or have we just not been told? >> i don't think we know, honestly. i think more accurately because it's a manual system and because there's no way to get accurate day from a manual system at this point, the insurance companies don't know and, frankly, the exchanges don't know. so perhaps we're making assumptions that may or may not be true. bill: also there's this confusion too. the president said on sunday, quote: if you're an american who wants to get covered or if you know someone who should, it's now last call for 2014. that was sunday. it's thursday. the rules changed again. >> yes, exactly. and we keep moving the line, perhaps for political reasons. but what it does create in the marketplace is tremendous uncertainty on the patient's part and certainly this continued upward pressure on premiums which we're really going to see the effect monthses

from now. bill: yeah. what are the insurance companies doing with all this back and forth, this ping-pong match here? i imagine their heads are spinning. how are they dealing with it? >> well, you know, the interesting part was the insurance industry was one of the biggest supporters of the affordable care act, and of everybody who's sort of taken it in the neck in this process, the insurance companies are sort of number one. so the biggest supporter, i think, the administration has taken the most advantage of. and if i'm an insurance executive at this part, i have to be very, very disappointed in the way our industry's been treated after we were very supportive of the act to begin with. bill: you're very interesting to talk to, stan, thank you, out of oklahoma. enjoy oklahoma, okay? >> thank you. bill: we're jealous to. [laughter] jamie: this could be a possible game changer for college sports. a federal labor board has ruled that northwestern university football players can unionize,

meaning today qualify as employees. critics are warning it could open the door to strikes and lockouts at the college level, and the university has responded, quote: northwestern believes strongly that our student athletes are not employees, but students. unionization and collective bargaining are not the appropriate methods to address the concerns raised by student athletes. there's going to be a lot of talk about this one. we haven't seen anything like that in college sports in a long time. bill: got a challenge at northwestern and another one floating out of west virginia too. we'll see which way it goes on that one. people think we're moving toward paying athletes, we'll see whether or not that's the case. vatican city, we go. president obama will hold a news conference in a matter of moments now as he comes to the end of his european tour. he was with the pope a short time ago. so haha's the -- so that's the, what's that? that's the screen we're getting -- jamie: roma. bill: all right are, right on. we'll take you there when it

gets under way. in the meantime, new reaction to a bitter court battle. a family fighting with the commonwealth of massachusetts and the hospital for custody of their 15-year-old daughter. the parents say the girl has a physical condition, doctors say it's psychological. who's right? jamie: an emotional interview you did with the family. also this, a grandmother who's nearly evicted from her home for flying an american flag. >> the contract opportunity state whether or not they can withdraw the approval, and so in that sense the contract is vague. hey, i notice your car is not in the driveway. yeah. it's in the shop. it's going to cost me an arm and a leg. you shoulda taken it to midas. they tell you what stuff needs fixing, and what stuff can wait. high-five! arg! brakes, tires, oil, everything.

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bill: so a item in oregon nearly kicked out of her apartment over an american flag. the woman's landlord ordering her to remove it from a one doe or face eviction. the property company does not allow colored drapes in the development. however, the property manager apparently had a change of heart in oregon. >> she apologized for all the stress the had caused, and she

wanted to see if i was willing to agree to their compromise. bill: well, we're told the landlord will install flag pole in the woman's front yard. ♪ ♪ jamie: there's some new reaction today to a judge's ruling in the case of a teenager that is caught in a bitter custody battle. normally, that's between parents. this is a hitting different. we have been -- this is a little different. we have been following this story. a judge giving massachusetts now permanent custy of the girl -- custody of the girl. her or parents are fighting to bring her home to connecticut for more than a year, saying she isn't getting the care that she needs in the hospital she's in. here's her dad on "america's newsroom" with bill yesterday. >> every other patient there can see their family, talk fully with them, do whatever they want. with her on mother's day, holidays, christmas, or easter, totally isolated, couldn't see us, couldn't talk to us. is there's been a little evil

game plan that's been going on by boston children's. jamie: now, the family's been very accusatory. dr. keith ablow's a member of the fox news medical team, and though he does practice in the area, he hasn't been involved in this particular case toe you've followed it, keith. sharon is a family law attorney, and there are very interesting family law issues here. thanks to both of you for joining us. >> pleasure. >> you're welcome. jamie: let me start with you, keith. the bottom line is you say every parent should be very worried by this ruling because if your child is sick and you could potentially lose custody, what difference does the diagnosis make? tell me about that. >> well, exactly right. look, these past, the parents brought their daughter to boston children's hospital looking for help. this is a complicated condition. they've been told that it's a physical, bodily condition called mitochondrial disease. that was made by new england medical center in boston. so here's a family that's

struggling to understand the physical symptoms of their daughter who are then accused of causing her a sigh yacht rick illness -- psychiatric illness, of wanting her to appear sick and giving her the idea she's sick in order to feel very important or to feel that she's dependent on them or whatever the matter might be. the trouble with this is other doctors disagree, and god help all parents, because if you take your kids to boston children's hospital and they have an amorphous, ill-defined set of symptoms, lyme's disease turns up in many cases like that, chronic fatigue sin.com drop, depression, if boston children's says, well, we can't explain it and these parents seem very strange like they're too invested in their kid's illness, you could lose custody of your kid. that's crazy. jamie: in this particular case the judge did rule that the child will remain in the hospital under the custody of the state. the participants want to --

parents want to bring her home, but the judge did suggest he wants to find a place closer to the parents. but you heard the father, sharon, talk about how they weren't able to see their daughter on mother's day of all days. but boston children's hospital is a reputable hospital, and they've issued this statement. it's long, but i feel we have to be responsible about this. i want to ask your reaction, but let me read it in its entirety. we understand that the nature of the case has prompted questions and sparked strong reactions, but our clinical team has always acted in the best interests of the patient's health and well being according to the high standards we follow for every patient placed in our care. this case was a complex matter, presenting an array of challenges and obstacles that we cannot discuss out of respect for our patient's privacy and legal confidentiality requirements. we've been unable to provide a full and accurate picture of the case, but we are confident that the treatment plan developed for our patient was the best course given the issues surrounding her medical history, the evaluations and observations of her care teams prior to or arriving at

boston children's and after she was admitted here, our patient made progress while she was in our cower and has continued to progress since she left last january to enter a residential facility in framingham, massachusetts. now, we know hipaa won't allow them to say more than this, i assume, sharon. what can this family do now that they have permanently lost custody of their daughter legally? >> they can reapply for custody in six months retroactive to december pursuant to the judge's order and the statute. what people don't understand about these kind of situations are this is a dependency and neglect action. somebody called the department of children and family and reported that the this girl was being -- that this girl was being neglected or abused by her parents. the state steps in, they investigate, they file an action, and they make a determination. the determination was that the girl was being neglected. jamie: but another professional

team kiss agreed. disagreed. >> well, the it's a state, it's a court, it's a judge who makes that determination. so whatever evidence was brought into the trial if there was a trial, the judge had to make a determination. and, obviously, found that the parents weren't doing what they should have been to care for this girl. when that happens, then the state develops a treatment plan for the parents. and they have to do certain things, they have to jump through certain hoops. it's -- jamie: but you're saying, sharon, they can't go back for six months to ask for custody, it's a done deal? >> it's a done deal. but they lost custody after about a year. they didn't comply with the treatment plan. because it's sealed, nobody knows what that treatment plan was. but what people need to understand is the state gets involved, the social services gets involved. they are god. they are like a bulldog with rabies. they latch on, and they don't

let go. jamie: okay. >> if they tell you to wear pink on thursday, you wear pink on thursday. jamie: well -- >> and, obviously, from the news reports this father was very outspoken, criticized the hospital, you know, threatened -- jamie: well, let me, sharon, before we get -- >> well, why wouldn't you? jamie: i have to leave it there, we have some breaking news, but to both of you, it's a complicated case. that's the ruling, done deal. we'll see how the medical community reacts as well. dr. ablow, i'd like to have you back on that. tanks to both of you. >> sounds good. bill: down to houston, texas, emergency crews on the scene, reports of shots fired at a local tv station. police in houston say multiple shots fired earlier today, this is ktrk. it's the abc affiliate there. an e-mail to staff says no one injured. employees were told to shelter in place and stay away from the windows. according to houston police, a woman apparently in custody, and

that's been confirmed by a local station there. and a photographer on the scene says vehicles in the parking lot also were hit. i mentioned that's the abc affiliate. obviously, some police cars there have gathered, so we'll see what comes of this, if there is more than one person that's been apprehended. jon scott, meanwhile, "happening now" our way here in new york. what's coming up, jon? jon: on the international scene, we are getting new and disturbing reports about a buildup of russian trips on ukraine's -- troops on ukraine's eastern border. and what exactly could the u.s. and europe do about that? a live report ahead. plus, the countdown on to the now-unofficial obamacare deadline for enrollment. democrats in the senate scrambling to try to minimize some of the political damage, and we're awaiting big news on new jersey governor chris christie. it's all "happening now." bill: good deal, jon, thank you. we'll see you top of the hour. back to houston in a moment, just looking for more news on that.

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jamie: better shape up or ship out. there's new grooming regulations about to go into effect for the army, and they are saying that anyone with a tattoo on their head, their hands or their neck will not be allowed to enlist. meanwhile, soldiers who currently have the banned tattoos, well, they won't be affected by it. they won't be booted for sure. but some are getting inked

before it's too late. >> for my brother, because he passed away, and he always wanted to join the army and jump out of planes, so i kind of did it showing, like r your personal own expression x they're just taking that away. i don't like it. jamie: people do things for a lot of reasons, and the new rules were approved back on march 6th, and they allow for only four tattoos below the elbow or knee. ♪ ♪ bill: there might be a whole new planet on the other side of pluto. it's named 2012vp113 jokingly dubbed biden, get it? corey powell, how you doing? >> vp biden. bill: correct on that. two images, this is the arrow, obviously, pointing to it. but there are three dots on here. one is red, one is green, one is blue. >> right. bill: what's significant about it? >> right. this is the actual discovery

image. basically, two astronomers were looking one little patch of sky very, very far away looking for exactly this kind of thing. stars don't move, anything that's like a planet does. so this is color coded. they're looking for one thing moving, and they color coded it to show all these stars are staying still. this thing is moving, and the way it's moving -- bill: so this is just one object. >> it's one object. pluto's in a whole different part of the sky. bill: so this is way out there. >> more than twice as far away as pluto. of. bill: unbelievable. why does this matter, corey? >> well, i look at it, first of all, as an exploration question that, you know, we know where we are on earth, we've mapped our planet. our solar system is still full of surprises. this object is something that astronomers said shouldn't even be there. there's a whole other solar system wrond beyond the planets we know that are full of these things that are sort of planets, sort of comets, some of them

they call dwarf plants. -- planets. we're seeing our neighborhood. we're seeing what's around us. and then the second part is we're seeing where we came from. bill: go back to the other image, because we're over here on the left, right? [laughter] >> we're over here. bill: pluto's out here. and this thing is way out here. >> right. that's another qualifier planet. -- dwarf planet. if you want to find out where biden is rotated, keep walking about another 30 feet that way. bill: wow. we can see that far. >> and this is the closest it gets. when it really gets cooking, it's 15 times away as pluto. takes 4300 years to go around the sun. bill: i don't know how you know that, but i trust you. [laughter] what is a dwarf planet? >> it's scientists saying there are things out there we don't really understand. a dwarf prant is catch-all term for something. it's round like a planet, it sort of looks like a planet, but with it doesn't orbit in a

regular way like all of the planets that we knew growing up. bill: would this be part of our solar system? >> it's part of our solar system. bill: would it be outside? >> it's a whole new zone. they're calling it the inner ort cloud. all you need to know is there really are these two solar systems, the one with the classical planets and then this whole other zone that we haven't exbrotherred, and now -- explored, and now they're saying there may actually be an even bigger planet, something bigger than the earth -- bill: i guess that's the point i was going to, because you study this all the time. is that why it's so significant, because there's more beyond that? >> there's more beyond that, and then there's more beyond that. i think what we're seeing is, you know, if you watch the show cosmos, i've been kind of glued to that, in the last episode they were talking about the discovery of comets and of, you know, our place in the solar system, we're still learning that. we're still learning this right now. bill: yes, indeed we are. just like you're out of space, i'm out of time.

>> but this is where we came from. this is why we're here. oceans, continents, air -- bill: thank you, corey. good to have you back. back after this. ♪ they lived ♪ they lived. ♪ they lived. ♪ (dad) we lived... thanks to our subaru. ♪ (announcer) love. it's what mas a subaru, a subaru.

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bill: say, good-bye, jamie. >> bye-bye. have a great day. "happening now" starts right now. jenna: we start off with fox news alert. we're awaiting joint news conference with president obama and the italian prime minister. president obama is expected to talk about his 50-minute meeting with pope francis today and crisis with italy as well. they're both in the g7 which is unified of its criticism of vladmir putin's pressure into crimea. both lead remembers expected to take questions from reporters. we'll bring you the news conference as soon as it happens. right now, today's top headlines and brand new stories you will see here first. jon: a win for a minnesota teen in a case that could have national implications when it comes to social media and student's rights. we're live with more details on