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for 25 bucks of the. bill: we've got to run. martha: see you later this afternoon. see you back here tomorrow morning. have a great april 1st, everybody. watch it for the fools. "happening now" right now. bill: fools are running wild. jenna: warning heeded. we have breaking news and today's top headlines and brand new stories you will see here first. jon: new details in a bizarre murder trial. what witnesses are saying about a woman accused with murdering boyfriend with a shoe, specifically a stiletto heel. outrage by americans held hostage in iran decades ago. a new job that could have a former islamic militant setting foot on american story. tragedy for nascar family of jimmie johnson of the deadly skydiving crash that has them all searching for answers. it is all "happening now." jenna: the day after the official obamacare deadline and
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now comes word that the administration has met its sign-up goal but the controversy is still far from over with a host of unanswered questions who exactly has enrolled. hello, everybody, i hope you're off to a great day. first day of april. i'm jenna lee. jon: april fool's day but no fooling. i'm jon scott. after website glitches, dozen of delays and fixes, enrollment is reportedly on track to hit the seven million mark the administration want thed. even a huge surge of demand slammed call centers and causing the site to shut down several times. we have break down of who signed up, age of enrolls and what they paid for coverage and did they have insurance before obamacare? the answers to those questions could spark more political problems related to it. joining us now, nina easton, senior editor, washington columnist for "fortune" magazine. she is also a fox news contributor. and juan williams, fox news political analyst.
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so, juan, the political analysis first. they got their seven million. are they dancing for joy at the white house this morning? >> well, they certainly exceeded expectations. i don't think anybody expected they would hit seven million which is what the congressional budget office and others said was the bar when they began before they had the table rollout for the first two months, jon. so the idea they got there i think they're really happy but as you said in the lead-in we still have a lot of questions to answer but for the moment there is joy in mudville. jon: nina, yeah, it is more than a matter of signing up seven million people. there are a lot of other subquestions that come now. >> that's right, jon. so the questions are, of these people, what percent were actually uninsured before? because, the, the purpose of obamacare was to, to insure the uninsured and from what we can tell from surveys and so forth, just a fraction of those who signed up actually lacked insurance before.
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so the question -- jon: something like, pardon the interruption, something like 1 1/2 to two million? >> yeah. well in medicaid it was about 1 1/2 to two million. and they're thinking in the enrollment and on exchanges maybe up to two million were uninsured out of six or actually, now the seven million. so you know, again, was all this disruption required? you know people losing their doctors, losing their health plans? was all that required in order to get to this relatively small fraction of the 45 million people in in country who lack insurance. jon: yeah, juan, there are millions of people who have lost their insurance because, you know, it didn't, it didn't meet the standards that the administration deemed were required so was there a less disruptive way to do this. >> that is one of the key political points. let me just say, i think there's pressure now on republicans to really come forward and say here's a better way to do this.
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and they're not anywhere close to having consensus about a plan that could be branded the republican alternative to obamacare. so what you have is a situation where the democrats, especially going into these midterms, i think still remain on the defensive about it but not nearly so much and there is more pressure now on republicans to explain how you would improve the status quo, even when it comes back to those who haven't had insurance before and the small percentage drop in the number of or percentage of people who have, didn't have insurance. i think democrats would say, look at the long term, two years, three years out, you will see even bigger numbers and i think that is what they're counting. jon: that is presuming some of the legal challenges to obamacare don't, don't throw a monkey wrench into the system. and nina, there are some out there. the d.c. court of appeals is hearing, you know, essentially deciding the question, was the law written in such a way that
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makes subsidies to those people who don't live in the 14 states that have exchanges, whether those subsidies are even legal. >> yes, interesting, jon, that you mention that this case has not gotten much attention but in fact it could undermine the economics of obamacare because the law says that you can subsidize people in state-run insurance, in states that have state-run insurance exchanges but it doesn't expressly say for federal insurance exchanges. so if the, if the court overturns that for some reason, that could be huge and keep in mind, more than 80% of those enrolling in obamacare are, getting subsidies. so, that's a huge thing to watch for. jon: juan, do you see that as a potential problem here? there are 30 sick states, said we'll not set up our own exchanges. based on, for instance, the maryland experience, maryland tried its own. spent 200 million bucks and the thing doesn't work. so those 36 states may have made
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a good decision. >> i don't know they made a good decision or bad decision. i will leave that for the viewer to decide. i believe from the court's perspective, from legal folks they're not counting on the courts overturning it, if they do, it would create political chaos would require that not only democrats respond but i think would put pressure on republicans as the chief critics to say here's our better plan that will withstand scrutiny from the courts. jon: yeah, we, after the whole health care system, the whole apple cart has been upended these last four years, hard to see people having the stomach for more, you know, wholesale changes. but it could happen i suppose. >> yeah. jon: juan williams, nina easton, thank you. >> thanks, jon. >> this is a 2007 chevy cobalt ignition switch. this is the same design that failed, shutting off vehicle
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airbags and killing innocent victims. we now know that the difference between this switch and one that would have worked properly was life or death. jenna: on capitol hill this morning lawmakers like massachusetts senator ed markey joining family members who lost loved ones because of faulty ignition in general motors cars. we're learning it took years for the auto maker to issue a recall. hours from now the ceo of gm will testify on capitol hill on this topic. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel has the latest on that. mike, what are which to expect here? >> reporter: jenna, we expect the ceo of general motors will be apologetic but you can expect lawmakers will want to know why it took general motors more than a decade to reveal a fault faulty ignition switch problem capable of stopping a car while in hoist. gm says, 31 crashes and 13
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fatalities have been linked to the problem. all the models have been recalled. here is what we heard about the new gm ceo so far. >> something went wrong with our process in this instance and terrible things happened. as a member of gm family as a mom with a family of my own this really hits home for me. we have apologized. that is just one step in the journey to resolve this. >> reporter: during her testimony on capitol hill she will also recognize she is speaking to lawmakers but also to the american public and millions of general motors customers. jenna. jenna: there are also some questions about the federal investigators as well on this, mike. what are lawmakers saying about gm, her apology and what they're going to be asking? >> reporter: jenna they seem responsive and seem to like the fact she is taking ownership and apologizing even though she was not the ceo during the time of this problem but they're also going to have some tough questions about why it took so long for the automaker to realize there was this issue and also some tough questions for
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the national highway safety traffic ad administration official testifying next to her. >> compare marry barra's comments coming out of nhtsa where mary barra apologized and nhtsa said it is not our fault and they offered no apology. they messed up too on two separate occasions. we don't know why. we don't know if they asked the questions failure to deploy airbags was failure to accessory switch position on the ignition key. >> reporter: stay one of congressional testimony on this issue here on capitol hill gets underway about three hours from now. jenna. jenna: some of our big stories today, mike. thank you. jon: big changes ahead for cars as the national highway safety traffic administration just finalized rules requiring auto makers to install backup cameras in all new vehicles by 2018. automakers are still petitioning with some alternatives but this is the rule change expected for now of the requirement expected to cost the auto industry
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between 500 and $900 million. car buyers will end up picking that up cost but the government says the new regulation is expected to save nearly 70 lives a year and prevent 1300 injuries in back-over crashes. jenna: new information now in the last words from the cockpit of that missing malaysian jetliner. malaysian officials releasing the full transcript and admitting they were wrong about the final sign-off. turns out the last words were, actually, good night, malaysian 370. not all right. good night. as they originally stated. what does this mean? william la jeunesse live in the los angeles with the story, william? >> reporter: jenna it sound trivial and it could be but it means that malaysian officials directly led misled the public for weeks knowing information they released was inaccurate. more important, malaysian air says that the first first
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officer fariq hamid or the zahaury shah. they have voice signature and could tell us either of them or someone else communicating with the tower. here are parts of that official transcript. the cockpit says, 3-7-0 maintaining level, 3 who have 50,-0. traffic control responds, contract, ho chi minh, good night. in fact the cockpit offers more standard, more formal, good night, malaysia air 3 three seven zero. they not explain the discrepancysy, the initial sharp left turn was quote, a criminal act by someone with knowledge of how to ply the plane unquote. so the search continues off percent, australia, 11 planes, nine ships. nothing, no sign or evidence of flight 370. this is a critical step. once the debris is confirmed they can determine where they
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think the plane actually crashed. they can get the ping locator in the water, that is important because the clock is ticking. the black box battery is due to lose power on saturday or a few days later. once that signal disappears, the chances of finding this plane anytime soon go way down. today's "wall street journal" also contains a detailed account of poor coordination, how two different teams used different flight information to determine where this plane crashed. their findings were 700 miles apart and led to a long delay, lost opportunities. so flight 370 disappeared march 8th. four weeks ago, where it is, and why it crashed, general that, re-- jenna, remain a mystery. jenna: remarkable we don't know more. remarkable and tragic at this point. william, thank you. jon: some new developments could have a family seeking justice once more. a third trial ordered for a man convicted of murdering his pregnant wife. why jason young will face a judge yet again.
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jon: right now a quick look at some crime stories we're keeping an eye on. an appeals court in north carolina orders a third trial for a man convicted of murdering his pregnant wife. jason young serving life sentence for killing his wife. we could soon learn the fate of an arizona woman accused fatally beating her husband with a hammer in 2009. jury deliberations resume shortly in the trial of marisa due waa. she claims the attack was self-defense. of the prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. the families of three young murder victims are raising money
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to find their killer. belevedere around film were gunned down last winter in san diego. the families are a holding a benefit to increase the reward for information hoping it will lead to an arrest. jenna: the governor of washington state is asking the federal government for a major disaster declaration saying financial losses for the mudslide have reached $10 million. some 30 fam listses are now without homes and death toll rising yet again to 24. dan springer from arlington, washington, with more. dan? >> reporter: jenna, the medical examiner's office in snohomish county increased the official death toll to 27. that reflects the three bodies found yesterday. you have 27 officially dead and 22 people are still missing. this is telling in that request for this to be declared a federal major disaster, governor inslee asked the government for enough money to pay for 48 burials. we now know that the first
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burial will happen on saturday. good weather yesterday really helped the recovery efforts. they're finally able to pump water out of the upon and keep it out. the debris is about 640-acres. geologists narrowed that down to 50 or 100-acre area where victims are most likely to be. we now know who they are looking. the county released names of the missing. on the list are four american. the youngest is two years old. oldest among those missing a 91-year-old woman. a team of scientists have been assembled to study this landslide. they want to know exactly why it happen and what if anything can be done to prevent future disasters. one member of the team wrote a book about noah's arc and teaches geology at the university of washington. dave montgomery says that every scientist looked at hill knew it was a major slide hazard, the county did not include the residential area across the river on the map of slide zones. >> flood hazard across the river
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on a hillside. one thing we learned in this tragedy, everyone in america now knows that in terms of mapping landslide hazards you don't have to worry just about where they start, you have to worry about where they go. >> reporter: meantime hundreds of kids got a nice distraction from the mudslide and all the sorrow. a dozen members of the super bowl champion seattle seahawks and seattle sounders went out to derrington to sign autographs and take pictures and kick a soccer ball around t was a welcome diversion for this community with a very long road of recovery ahead. jenna. jenna: nice of those nfl players to do that. it is still hard, still seeing images, dan, still hard to wrap your head around the mudslide of that magnitude. just unreal. dan, thank you very much. a story will continue to watch for the families there. jon: a new twist in the case after mississippi woman on death row. why she is now getting another chance at freedom and why her son could end up taking her place behind bars. plus new controversy over healthcare.gov. why our next guest says that the
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jon: right now a mississippi woman sentenced to death for capital murder is getting a chance to plea her case. 57-year-old michelle byrum scheduled to be executed last thursday but an appeals court brandted her a new trial, this after her lawyers argued they have new evidence in the case. arthel neville live in our new york city newsroom with who are. >> hey, jon. michelle byrum has been on the death row since her 2000 conviction of capital murder. convicted of being the master amend of a murder-for-hire plot to kill her allegedly abusive husband in 1999. here is the caveat, her son
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since said he did it, admitting to the murder in several jailhouse letters and interview with a court appointed psychologist say court documents. a mississippi supreme court opinion issued a new opinion yesterday and byrum's capital murder conviction was reversed. the case had been remanded to the circuit court for a new trial. >> it's a very big surprise, not that the court eventually saw things miss byrum's way but the way they did it. very shoredshort order. >> get back to the son's confession to the murder. he recanted when he was put on the stand. attorney general jim hood who had requested byrom's execution said his office will psych the court's reasoning for the reversal. 57-year-old michelle byrom has been on death row 14 years. jon? jon: arthel neville in our newsroom. arthel, thank you. jenna: today is a new controversy surrounding healthcare.gov. the central health care website
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experiencing multiple delays yesterday what was supposed to be a official deadline to sign up for obamacare. the problems started out after midnight going into monday. at one point the website was completely off-line. by noon it was back up, again, but it was then plagued by another issue that prevented new users from logging on to the site and enrolling in a plan. that problem was reportedly fixed about an hour 1/2 later but some users said they were still having trouble logging in. and most websites are designed to handle up to 500,000 users at once. healthcare.gov was having issue with around 100,000 users according to the government. despite costing hundreds of million of dollars to create the website. my next guest says that is like having a 250,000-dollar cash like a lamborghini that goes up to 50 miles per hour. morgan wright a cybersecurity analyst. what would be the point? >> you have to look good driving something that stylish. for the money they threw at this thing this should be setting
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land speed records. when i gave you my notes, at a minimum it should support 500,000 concurrent users. there are games, online games, world of tanks, that can support 1.1 million active concurrent users. why we can't achieve these type of benchmarks after all the money has been thrown after october 1st is unfathomable. jenna: you're saying that healthcare.gov is worries than an online videogame as far as functioning? >> absolutely. there are people who have spent 1/1,000 spent on healthcare.gov that get 100 times the performance. just an example why the government and private sector trying to do a consumer play is not working. jenna: one of the reasons why we wanted to revoice think topic, morgan, as we see the number of enrollees going up and more people are using this portal. more people using portal we have to answer questions about security for these millions of people. >> right. jenna: the government says these were software glitches, a software bug that as causing this.
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to an outsider like me okay, it was a software glitch. i don't know exactly what that means. what exactly does that mean? >> after six months and hundreds of millions of dollars they still haven't figured out to make the site work. every time you have a bug, especially one that took down the system for all the hours on that day it creates vulnerabilities. it means something you can exploit. there is a flaw in the system. when i testified before congress, and you had david kennedy on before talking how easy it was to get into the site, this perpetuates the problems because all the patches and fixes apparently have not worked if we're still down on number of hours on the most important day for this site in the last six months. jenna: morgan, do we know if the glitch being referred to is from a hacker or just from, maintenance, kind of like your car, after going so many miles it needs to be maintenance? >> yeah. jenna: is there a way to understand exactly what caused it? >> no. the equipment would be imagine, go back to our lamborghini thing. imagine it can't go 50 miles per hour but you're changing your oil every day. this site is down for
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maintenance on a daily basis. there is something fundamentally flawed when you have a site like this down for maintenance every single day and still doesn't work. october 1st was a big day. march 31st was the bigger day because that is when everything had to come together. people procrastinate and they should have anticipated excessive load that was going to be there. jenna: now that we've gotten through the enrollment period. i understand there is a little bit of pickup that can happen several weeks in certain states like oregon. folks have another 30 days to try to register online, we haven't really touched on the security side of it, morgan. do the software glitch that is are still existing expose an issue with security still with this website? >> absolutely. there still has been no end to end security test. there are still flaws in this. i mean, even the recent testimony in congress continuing on from mind, showed that there are still major flaws from a security side. i know they're saying we haven't been successfully attacked. when we talked about he have, that is one side of the shoe. the other shoe dropped now. now that we have got people registered we have to start
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worrying about the payment and billing systems. all of this will create another major problem because they're trying to get up to speed to the got billing system done. this will compound the problems between the security issues on the healthcare.gov site and what will be no doubt security issues on the payment system. jenna: wow, sounds big and obviously a big story we'll continue to follow. morgan, great to see you. >> that is not april fool's, believe me. jenna: we want a disclaimer. tough day. we're trying to navigate through. this is real. morgan, look forward to having you back as always. thank you. >> you bet, jenna, thank you. jon: your tax dollars at work. outrage as iran appoints a new ambassador to the united nations. he is a man linked to the iranian hostage crisis. now some former american hostages want president obama to keep him off american soil. also testimony resumes today. this woman is accused of murdering her boyfriend, stabbing him to death with her shoe. a stiletto heel. the latest on this bizarre murder case coming up.
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jenna: fox news alert. quick look at the white house where the president is welcoming the 2013 world series champions, the boston red sox, to the white house. opening day was yesterday. so we're into baseball season. that is nice blazer. you see the american flag blazer? stands out. appropriate for the white house.
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red sox, world series champs. we'll see who wins the prize to visit the white house next year. case of a teenager of killing a man she met on line moves forward. amanda barber's motion hearing. what she is telling a reporter about other victims. iran's new choice for its u.n. ambassador sparking a lot of controversy. why americans say having him on american soil would be a disgrace. we have a live report you don't want to miss. family of nascar driver jimmie johnson suffering a tragic loss. what the johnsons are asking for in the wake of a horrible accident. jon: new testimony expected today in a very strange case. that of a texas woman accused of murdering her boyfriend with a stiletto heel. the couple got into a fight on a night out last june or maybe after a night out. a taxi driver testified that anna trujio was out of control
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on the ride to her boyfriend's apartment. the argument escalated from there and the defendant used her five 1/2 inch heel to stab her boyfriend more than 25 times. her attorneys say the boyfriend as abusive and attacked him in self-defense. doug burns a criminal defense attorney. lis wiehl, a fox news legal analyst. very strange case. perhaps the strangest thing i've ahead, lis, they're not sure they will admit this particular shoe as a piece of evidence? why not? >> shoe will come in whether the stiletto which everyone is saying more of a half pump. it will come in definitely. the fact that she hit him 25 times, jon, in the face is going to belie the self-defense argument. that is really, hit him once maybe, you know, maybe she was injured, if they can prove that, the defense can prove she was shoved against the wall or something and she has got injuries from that, maybe once or twice. she hit him in the face while he was down and he bled out. jon: this is overtones of the
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jody arias trial, doug? >> very, very similar to the jody arias case. lis and i were discussing this. this actually raises kind of a complicated and difficult self-defense and here's the point. the fact a shoe was used militates against murder and so forth. >> right. >> we'll all agree -- jon: not premeditated. >> you would bring out a knife or something. would bring out a shoe. jon: never take a shoe to the knife fight. >> premeditation can be forked in an instant. for the sake of argument it was self-defense, he was attacking her, lis makes a great point hard to refute in the real world. you attack me, i slam you in the face with a shoe. i pass out. you can't continue doing it 20 times. that is why it is like arias. jon: the court reporter read back some of the testimony of what supposedly happened in this poor guy's apartment that night. let's listen to that now. >> rang the doorbell and the
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defendant, anna trujillo, answered the door with in her hands. ordering the defendant to sit on the floor. he looked in the hallway where the complainant leaned on his back, face up and not breathing. officers made, homicide detectives made the scene. they observed that the defendant, or the complainant appeared having struck the stiletto high healed shoe multiple times. the shoe was lying by the complainant's head and put into evidence. jon: that is part of the police report. the court reporter is reading at her arraignment last year back when she was first arrested for this crime. union, doug, it seems to me, that if he did push her around and you know, that's apparently the argument here, if he did push her around and grabs whatever available to her to stop the attack. isn't that appropriate? >> i think it is a very viable self-defense fact pattern and i think for sure you're going to
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see tons of evidence this was an attack by him. however, and i can sense looking at her -- >> ready to go. jon: she is chomping at the bit. >> chomping at the bit like dog over raw meat. lis will say you can't stab him 25 times. >> 25 times. will give doug credit. >> thank you. >> that she did call 911. didn't try to escape. didn't like jody arias to blame it on somebody else. that will be to her benefit. but the cab driver saying she was kind of crazy. she was drunk. the cab driver, by the way, jon, she was worried about this guy. are you going to be okay. the guy whispered to her i will be okay. >> interesting, jon, it is an interesting read. the prosecutors are worried about the point you made, it really looks like self-defense. they're starting their case by the way to show through witnesses he is a hothead. he is calm. i think that is defensive. jon: faces anywhere from five years to life in prison if she is convicted. we'll keep an eye on this very strange case to let you know
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what happens. doug burns, lis wiehl. thank you both. >> my pleasure. jenna: president bringing the boston red sox to the white house. he is speaking a little bit about the boston marathon bombing. we're coming up on the year anniversary of that. >> keeping up with his 18-month-old son. we're proud to have richard here today. give him a big round of applause. [applause] today our hearts are in boston again. we got the families of firefighters michael kennedy and lieutenant edward walsh who gave their lives protecting others from a massive blaze last week and their sacrifice, like the sacrifice of those made last year, remind us of the selfless courage of everyday heroes who put their lives on the line to help others. the first-responders, the brave citizens, the resolute victims of these tragedy, they're all boston strong and ultimately that is what this team played for last season. and every man behind me did his
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part to keep the team rolling. there was, bogarts, the up start rookie who took over at third base and didn't let up. tested veterans like my fellow hawaiian shane victorino and mike napoli came in during the off-season and shook off the rust and injuries to secure win after win. lackey, lester, the heart of the rotation that upped their game and begging their manager, john farrell to stay in for six, seven and eight innings. of course the legend, the only man to play for all three championship teams, the biggest bat in the dugout, big papi. big papi. [applause] love this guy. even white socks fans can appreciate these guys. but for all the big names, this was never a single superstar's team. if you look at the numbers, no pitcher won more than 15 games.
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no batter hit more than 30 home runs, yet they led the majors in runs scored. won the most games in the american league. had the second best era in their hard-hitting division. this team never lost more than three games in a row all season. they just had a lot of heart and it was that consistency that brought the red sox into the post-season. a drive to do more gore a city that had their back that is took them on to win in the world series. with the rallying symbol of boston strong, mode into the outfield and sewed into the uniforms, the red sox took the field against tampa and detroit with the full weight of their city behind them. when they found themselves in game 4 in the world series down 2 games to one the faithful cheered as jonny gomes knocked in a 3-run homer out of the park and giving a tie and giving red sox nation they weren't done
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yet. big papi let it rip earping world series mvp. cojay uhara was third choice closer signed as an after thought, cap ad post-season best in major league history with his splitter that sank into david ross's mit and won 4-2. koji looks so happy every game, jumping up on people. they all stormed the field, and duck boats. this is more than a trophy and a parade. when they visited bombing victims in the hospital. when they played ball with kids getting cancer treatment. when they start ad program to help wounded warriors get treatment at mass general. these guys were saying we're all on the same team. and i think big papi put it better and more color any than any of us could. i won't repeat his quote but the point is, boston and the red sox
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were one this season. and we knew last year, even as we mourn the loss and the lost and cared for the wounded and resolved to carry on that the moment would come when the sox would be champions again and crowds would gather for a parade down boylston once more and that is exactly what happened. that is how this team helped boston to heal and true to that spirit, in just a few weeks, something else we resolved last year will come to pass. on the third monday in april, the world will return to boston and run harder than ever and cheer louder than ever for the 118th boston marathon. that will happen. [applause] bottom line is, i'm proud of these guys. as a baseball fan i appreciate their comeback season. but more importantly as president i'm grateful for their character and their embrace of
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the essential role they played in the spirit of that city. you know sometimes sports seems like it is trivial. it is just an entertainment and then every once in a while you're reminded that sports represents something else and it has the power to bring people together like almost nothing can and, all of you should be very proud of what you accomplished. i know your fans are and, and i'm grateful to you as well. so congratulations to the boston red sox and red sox nation, good luck this season. may the best sox win! [applause] jenna: the president there, with a little bit of a -- to his white sox. they remain loyal to chicago there. the president with words for the red sox talking about what they contributed to the city of boston after the boston marathon bombing of last year. this year's marathon is on april 21st. >> might fit him better than me
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though. jenna: looks like it might fit him better than me. it might. but there it is, new red sox jersey for the president. the boston marathon is april 21st, patriots day in boston. a lost energy around that event this year considering what happened last year and president touching a little bit on that and there is a selfie we can look at later online. sure. the white house welcoming the red sox. we'll hear from the president later on this afternoon at 4:15 when he talks about health care. we'll bring you back to the white house at that time. iran's new choice for ambassador could trigger a showdown with the united states. the report link as veteran diplomat he is being called now to the 1979 hostage crisis. former american embassy workers health captive for 444 days in tehran are calling on the president to reject iran's visa application for this man. you see some video of course from 1979. eric shawn in new york city with
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the details on this story, eric? >> reporter: hello, jenna. don't let him in. the heartfelt plea from one of the americans held hostage in iran about iran's new ambassador to the united nations. 52 americans and our country held hostage by those student militants who seized our embassy. now tehran wants to send a translator hoe the iranian opposition was a member of that militant group to the united states as its new u.n. representative. we found him. his name is hamid labi. he is on linked in and boasts of his previous diplomatic posts. he told them he was interpreter for some of the freed hostages at the time and was not part of the storming of the emba system the prospect of his coming here is outraged. barry rosen, former hostage, who was photoed and held at gunpoint. he told fox news, it a disgrace if the united states government accepts his visa as iranian ambassador to the u.n. if the president and congress
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don't condemn the act by islamic republic, than our cap tivity and is suffering 444 days at the hand of iran was nor nothing. he can never step foot on american soil. others say iran chose him on purpose. >> this is a thumb in the eye of the united states. this is really iran's ambassador in america since they have no direct diplomatic ties. i think it is intended to show that this regime despite some of the pr moves we've heard about it, is still the same fundamentally anti-american regime it's been since 1979. >> reporter: the state department will not say if it will deny the visa and ban him. >> this is obviously confidential. we don't discuss individual visa cases. >> reporter: host country agreement with the united nations diplomats can generally own be barred if they pose a security threat. unless there is action he may
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show up there on first avenue. jenna? jenna: eric shawn, thank you very much. kt mcfarland with us, fox news security analyst this is april fool's but this is not an april fool's joke. i was stunned and our viewers have the same sort of reaction. what do you think is behind this request? >> they're doing this deliberately. what they're trying to show, this will play in the arab world, will play in iran, we may look at that, that is ancient history, and what what do we ca, look you can kick america like it is a dog and eventually america comes back, tail wagging, licking your hand hoping to be accepted again. this is a major mistake for a whole lot of reasons and we just should say, no visa. you take our people prisoner, hostage, we don't want you. jenna: you heard eric shawn said, that the state department says unless someone poses immediate security threat we clear them. we don't know if that is the case. >> that is immediate security threat.
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look what he did to american diplomats. the one rule of international law, you don't take diplomats hostage. you certainly don't take them for 444 days. you certainly don't torture them and abuse them. that is what this guy was part of. jenna: there is question about concessions being made by the obama administration, whether nuclear deal with iran or israeli-palestinian peace talks and release, potentially of an israeli prisoner, a spy we have in this country about the administration wanting to give these concessions to move along talks, for example, the nuclear talks with iran. why do you think that is the wrong move? >> here's the thing. if you look at the whole totality of it, the obama administration said we'll concede this and concede that to hope for a good result. well, it hasn't. if you look at russia. you can't possibly go into crimea there will be serious consequences. there are no serious consequences. there is red line in syria. don't you dare use chemical weapons. there will be serious military consequences. well there were no consequences. tell iran, we'll have negotiations and you will have to dismantle your nuclear
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program. they're not doing that. jenna: interesting iran's message to the world when asked about this guy is a moderate and he supports president rouhani and of course our administration called president rowhani in iran a moderate as well. what about the timing of this? we haven't talked a lot about iran. we have certainly talked a lot about russia. there is news about russia keeping troops on the border with ukraine. how do theogether especially because iran and russia have such a tight relationship in the u.n.? >> they work together for two reasons. one the administration says we don't want to be too tough on russia with getting a deal with iran which we think will be the crowning glory of our diplomacy. iran is looking at, another red line, no serious consequence, no consequence, who will stop us from developing our nuclear program. we got what we want out of that negotiation. jenna: our viewers have a lost thoughts. we have to take a quick commercial break. check our twitter account.
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jenna: qt mcfarland is back with us, national security analyst. iran is suggesting or asking for visa approval for a special envoy to the u.n. for a gentleman that has been linked to the 1979 iranian hostage crisis. maybe i should use the word gentleman lightly. he is a man from iran. let me ask some questions, kt, i don't want to get myself in too much trouble. mike has a question, has our foreign policy dug us too deep of a hole? he is asking is this something in addition to everything else shows the lack of respect world has for america?
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>> it definitely shows the lack of respect but it doesn't mean it is too late. we're getting kicked around and sand kicking us in the face. we survived jimmy carter. we'll recover the same way we did before. it will take a little longer. how we'll recover, america, we'll have a lousy couple of years i understand that four or five years from now we'll be at an economic renaissance, once our energy kicks in. lower costs of natural gas. lower costs of oil. not only is that great and spurs our economy forward but think of the the countries around the world where it puts them in trouble. jenna: brings us back to before the commercial break asking how the iran situation, this is request from iran, timing of situation with russia and ukraine, both of those economies dependent on fossil fuel. >> that's why i think to a certain extent iran never figured it needed that final deal. the initial deal iran got we would lift sanctions in exchange for them putting a pause on their nuclear program. there is so much pent-up demand for iranian oil to trade with
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iran, sell them stuff, get their oil in return by a number of countries in the world. now that those sanctions are lifted a little bit there will be a floodgate. they will get what they want. their economy will boom and they will almost get to the point of nukes. jenna: do they get approved here? >> if they do, people should ask really serious questions about the president of the united states, this is a deliberate slap on the leadership of the united states and again we were kicked like a dog when we were down in 1979 when they took our diplomats, who were legitimate diplomats and took them hostage. this is who we deal with it? i don't think so. jenna: we'll see if the state department does. if he gets approved not only lives at the u.n. and lives in a mansion on fifth avenue. >> a protest, jenna. you will be leading demonstrations. >> i don't know if i will be leading it but i might be covering it. jon? jon: unbelievable. it looks like the white house may have reached its goal for the number of people signing up for obamacare reportedly reaching seven million. that was their target. we'll look who actually signed up but it is not necessarily
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jon: big developments on our top stories and breaking news this hour. jenna: executives at general motors knew about the problems long before the cars failed and people died. g.m. new c.e.o. faces a grilling on capitol hill. lawmakers expected to ask how this could happen at an iconic american company. it looks like at least for now that the white house met its goal signing up seven million people for obamacare but serious questions remain. one of them, how many people actually paid for coverage. we're live with that. with summer on the way, we know grilling meats can contain some cancer causing substances sometimes. okay? guess what can make your steak safer? it's beer. that's right. beer. we'll connect the dots on that one. it's all "happening now."
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jon: there are new reports the white house may have hit its target of seven million enrollees for obamacare. welcome to the second hour of "happening now." jenna: we'll have to wait for the beer story. right? later on in the hour. jon: end of the hour. jenna: one of our top stories, of course, we're going to get to health care. first hi. there's a lot of key questions about health care, including who signed up for it. younger, healthy people who will pay for older, sicker people? also questions about whether their insurance is -- their information is getting to insurance providers. before that we see ed henry live at the white house with more. >> we're expecting the president about 4:15 eastern time in the rose garden. it will be interesting to see if this is a victory lap or a little more measured since this does look like administration has at least cleared one key mile stoeb that they can claim success on which is reaching seven million signups but as you
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suggest, you've got to read the fine print. there's going to be a lot of digging, scrutiny about these numbers in terms of who paid in, as you say, but also how many people were previously uninsured. that was a key goal of the law. how many folks are folks who lost their current insurance and are shifting to the exchanges? the white house spokesman made clear yesterday in advance of all of this that they believe this is a major comeback story for the administration given where they started with the website while republicaning like ted cruz are saying there's more that needs to be done. listen. >> if i had stood up before you in november and told you that we would be above six million on march 31, you would have laughed me out of the room. we were in a bad place in october and november. and it speaks to the determination of the president and his team to get it right that we are where we are. >> numbers are a bit of funny math. they're giving you numbers of who signed up. those numbers don't reflect, number one, who actually bought insurance and paid their first month's premium but even beyond
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that, they don't reflect the people who didn't have insurance. >> now, also remember that at the beginning when the website was failing, we were pressing for enrollment numbers, how many people have signed up. administration kept saying we can't possibly turn the numbers around so quickly. it will take us weeks. they were on a monthly basis. now within hours of the deadline passing, we're finding out from the administration, wait a second. we've crossed the seven million person threshold in terms of signups. these numbers are going to bear a lot of scrutiny in the days ahead. jenna: we look forward to more details and what the president has to say at 4:15 today. thank you. jon: there is a new political battle brewing over cuts to medicare advantage. republicans are now blasting democratic candidates for supporting cuts to medicare advantage in order to help fund obamacare. medicare advantage is a supplement to medicare through government subsidy. it is a very popular program
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among seniors who tend to vote strongly in midterm election. now about 60 house democrats are urging health and human services to keep medicare advantage spending the same. you see here republicans hold the majority in the house with 233 seats. democrats want to keep 199 seats or perhaps even gain seats but this medicare advantage fight could put that goal in jeopardy. joining me with a look at the politics of it, a staff writer for the washington free beacon. medicare advantage, very popular program. why are they cutting it? >> official reason they say they're cutting it is that medicare advantage payments are costing the government more than original medicare and they say the intention is they want to balance it out. cuts are the reduction of something that was stipulated in the affordable care act and that's why they are occurring. the simple answer to why they're happening now is because of what was stipulated in the affordable care act. >> so people's premiums are going up, co-payments go up. something is going to happen to
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ease the pressure. >> of course. there's always going to be a cost in why people like medicare advantage and why it's so popular. part of why it's so popular is because you have more expanded plans, more benefits and you also have lower co-payments so the cost will be that co-payments could potentially rise and you'll see people losing some of those benefits such as maybe a dental plan. jon: the white house is crowing today about the fact that seven million people apparently have signed up for obamacare. that was always their goal. if there are 15 million people, and there are on medicare advantage, 15 million people who are going to see cuts as a political calculation, that is upside down. >> it could be incredibly toxic because you think about who turns out at midterm elections. it's typically older people, people who are in medicare or potentially about to go into it. if you make that group of people angry, they're going to show you when they go and vote and that's typically who is voting in
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midterm elections. midterms do not favor democrats. it tends to favor republicans. to add this to it where you're going to make the group that you really need and that's going to show up angry is not really the best political audience. that's why you see the democrats panicking. jon: there are democrats like nancy pelosi, she's just one of many who are in completely safe districts, you know, she'll be there as long as she wants the job. democrats like that don't have to worry about this issue but democrats who might be in a little bit more of a swing district, they potentially have real problems because republicans are hammering them on this issue. >> absolutely and the people in the house are worried about it just because they don't want to lose their district. the odds of democrats taking the house are very slim. if you look at the senate, who of the tossup races right now are louisiana and north carolina. in louisiana 26% of their medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in medicare advantage plan. north carolina, that's 20%. that adds up to a lot of people showing up to the polls when,
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again, you kind of have a smaller turnout pool for midterm elections that a lot of them are going to be people in the plans. that's a high percentage that could see their plans change and the plan changes get announced in september, very close to the election. jon: obamacare was enacted only with democratic votes so you can't pin this on the republicans in any way. >> right. that's the issue they're really going to run into. you have the democrats saying we don't want to make the cuts, either, but because they voted for the affordable care act, you're going to have a difficult time pushing back for the republicans' claim saying that you voted for this because you did. jon: we'll watch the ads come november or leading up to november. thank you. jenna: another big story today, new c.e.o. of general motors set to take the hot seat to answer questions about a defect in some of their cars that has been tied to at least 13 deaths. and why the auto maker waited more than a decade to recall more than two million vehicles impacted by the problem despite
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knowing about the risk. rich is live with the fox business network with more on this story. what do we expect from general motors today? >> another apology. general motors, according to committee aides have cooperated with the families and then later today, according to the remarks, she will apologize. barris said today's g.m. will do the right thing. that begins with my sincere apologies to everyone who has been affected by this recall, especially to the families and friends much those who lost their lives or were injured. i am deeply sorry. hour, she's the top g.m. official and she's here to answer for all those committee documents that show that g.m. knew back in it had approved an ignition switch that didn't meet their specifications. jenna: there's goes about government regulators. >> another part of the hearing. ntsb admit their acting director
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is going to be here today to talk about charges according to committee documents that back in 2007 and 2010, there were red flags and they failed to launch an investigation. quote, according to dave friedman, the acting administrator saying that g.m. had critical information that would have helped identify the defect. he said g.m. never told him about that. the sub chairman said that at the very least, they're nhtsa are partly responsible. >> that's not an acceptable position. we need to find out what was going on there as well where they failed to protect the public safety. >> this afternoon's hearing kicks off after 2:00 p.m. they'll do it again in the senate tomorrow. back to you. jenna: rich, thank you. jon: a horrifying scene just minutes ago as a bus is sent flying into a tree. investigators are on the scene of an accident that it turns out
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sales for our troops. while the military says it will keep our fighting force more fit, critics say it's taking away our soldiers' right to smoke and purchase a legal product. national security correspondent live at the pentagon. she has more on that for us. >> the pentagon says no final decision has been made about banning sales of cigarettes to the troops but already, there's pushback from capitol hill. >> i think because they want to turn the marine corps into a job corps or the peace corps basically. i contained -- kind of see this as the unmanning of the u.s. military. >> that's duncan hunter who served in the marines in iraq. he said some of the traits that are unhealthy in society at large are the traits of a good war fighter. lawmakers want to know why the pentagon has time as it faces budget cuts and uncertainty overseas to focus on social
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issues. it's about the health of the force. tobacco use costs the d.o.d. an estimated $1.6 billion annually in medical costs and lost work time. smoking is the leading cause of preventible death. we estimate 178,000 current active duty service members will die from smoking unless we can help them quit. march 14 defense department memo issues guidance to the service chief. although we dropped distributing cigarettes to our soldiers, we don't encourage tobacco use. >> i don't know if there's anybody in america who still thinks that tobacco is good for you. maybe there are some. surgeon general 50 years ago made that statement pretty clear. >> others argue if someone is willing to fight and die for his or her country, he or she can
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decide whether or not to smoke. jon: arguments on both sides. thanks. jenna: just as obamacare open enrollment comes to an end, concerns that health care is rising at the fastest pace we've seen in years. we'll talk about the numbers we've been reporting to you. also some new developments. there's some fears on the korean peninsula with both countries exchanging rocket fire along a disputed seaboard border. and a new treatment for back pain showing promise. how stem cells could bring relief to millions of americans. before handcrafted jewelry was creating positive energy and a life of purpose and meaning was infused into a corporate culture.
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jenna: we're getting new information on rising tensions on the korean peninsula. both the north and south traded rocket fire along a disputed border as u.s. forces continue their annual exercises with south korea. this as an earthquake off the coast rattled some nerves. >> well, north korea is refusing to provide further details on what this teing would entail but warned the new form of testing is for, kwoept, bolstering their nuclear deterrence. yesterday north and south fired shells into each other's waters, forcing people on five south korean islands to evacuate their homes. south korea responded by returning fire after north shells landed in the territorial waters. earlier this morning, north korea announced it will conduct
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live fire drills in seven years north of the yellow sea boundaries between the nations. so potentially volatile circumstances topped op you about a magnitude 5.1 earthquake off the west coast of south korea sparking immediate questions whether north korea nuclear testing was the cause. however, initial reports suggest not since the earthquake took place 10 miles deep into the sea. and there's more. an unmanned drove crashed on a south korean island near a disputed maritime border with the north so now the south korean defense ministry investigating to determine if the drone was from north korea. jenna: good to keep an eye on that part of the world. thank you. >> you're welcome. jon: we're just getting word, tiger woods has pulled out of the masters tournament to have back surgery. he's had back issues for quite a while now. chronic back pain apparently is a problem that affects millions of americans. tiger woods among them.
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the second most common cause of disability in adults. now a new treatment using adult stem cells has been shown to have success and can help people avoid surgery. will carr joins us live with that story. >> this is pretty cool stuff. think about this. for years tens of millions of americans have really only had two options to treat chronic back pain and that's to have surgery or just live with the pain. but now there's a third potential option that's around the corner. what it does is it takes the adult stem cells and injects the cells into degenerating discs to help regenerate the spine. the company conducting the treatment recently announced the results from a year long clinical trial and doctors say the results have been spectacular. >> i think this is almost -- and this is really the holy grail. it's how do we treat your spine as you age but instead of trying to reconstruct it with screws or
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rods, we'll try to regenerate it. it's almost the fountain of youth of the spine. >> stem cell research has the potential to have a major impact on health care, attack he willing very serious diseases. it's a very essential part of regenerative medicine. >> so how much interest is there for this? well, take seth. he hurt his back wake boarding. he went from being a very active adult to being limited what he could do, including playing with his 2-year-old daughter. he said he would absolutely be interested in stem cell treatment if it became available. >> everyone is talking about stem cell, that's going to be the future. you're not going to need surgery, hardware in your back and to i be -- inject stem cells in your back and be better. >> it's overseen by the f.d.a. and if things keep going well, doctors tell me that they hope
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it could be commercially available within the next five years. jon: there are going to be millions of people anxious to see. thank you. jenna: we're going to continue to watch the crisis in ukraine. russian president getting revenge on the people of ukraine in their pocketbooks. we'll tell you what russia is doing now and have an update on the troop situation on the border of ukraine plus a top c.i.a. officer set to reveal what he witnessed the night of the benghazi attack and it apparently contradicts what the obama administration is telling america from the start. your mom could do anything.
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jenna: a tense situation in egypt right now. violent clashes in cairo yet again between riot police and college students that are loyal to morsi. supporters of the muslim brotherhood threw rocks and launched fireworks at officers according to reports. officers responded with tear gas, dispersed the crowds. jon: a fox news alert. nato says it is not seeing a pullback of russian troops from the border with ukraine. russian officials earlier sent signals they would withdraw troops from the border region. tepz of thousands of soldiers wore masks there. moscow says it's only for drills. moscow is also upping gas prices for the ukraine. greg has more. >> folks here in kiev getting
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discouraging news regarding the russian troop buildup from nato. kerry is there and they decided to intensify cooperation and support for the ukrainian military. perhaps most crucially they will cut off for all intents and purposes all cooperation on american and civilian level with the russians. this following its takeover of crimea and other threatening moves. as the ukrainian military continues to go through its faces, nato officials are also saying that they are not seeing any evidence of that pullback of russian troops from the border with ukraine. yesterday there were reports that russian president vladmir putin had said he ordered a gradual withdrawal but according to nato today, there's still a full combat force of 35,000 to 40,000 russian troops near the ukrainian border. from our sources here we have been getting some reports of a withdrawal of russian troops but officials telling us that could be a troop rotation and yes, u
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crepians also getting economic hit from russia. natural gas monopoly which supplies about half of ukrainian needs in natural gas saying today they will cancel the discount they used to give this country and they would hike prices by as much as 44% and they would also call in a whole bunch of unpaid bills from ukraine so again, the cold war between ukraine and russia heating up on several fronts. back to you. jon: keeping an eye on it for us, thanks. jenna: new health care law and a report shows health care spending rising to the fastest pace in a decade raising some concerns that it could become even more expensive for you to see a doctor. how will obamacare factor into this? especially when it comes to future costs for you and your family. c.e.o. of a leading health firm, you've probably seen avalear in articles on health care. nice to have you on the program. >> thanks for having me.
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jenna: let's talk about the cost, the reality of it and then talk about the enrollment numbers and what they mean over jaum. as far as what the average american family is going to be experiencing when it comes to health care in the next year and the years to come, what seems to be the trend when it comes to health care costs and how is that tied or perhaps not tied to obamacare? >> well, first of all, health care costs have really been going up for a very long time, very steadily. there have been in a lull period where cuts have not been going up as rapidly because of the economy. what we're seeing in the report is that costs are going up by 6% a year in real terms and that's what consumers need to be expecting. jenna: and what is the reason for that? >> there are a few reasons. health care is a labor intensive set of activities so it takes more time and people get paid more so that labor intense i
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havity is one of the major reasons. a lot of new technology that comes out is important and helps people fwut costs more money. think about expensive cancer drugs or think about new therapies for multiple sclerosis and the like and they're very important but they do cost. jenna: one of the things we were told about the new health care law is that if we had a more comprehensive plan for country, we would have a certain control oef the costs. is that the case? >> i think we're getting there slowly but if they get seven million people to enroll in the new exchange structure, that's only about 2% of the u.s. population. that's not going to drive the economics of health care, i think, as much. one thing that the law does do is to start making payments on the basis of quality and that is already, i think, having a positive effect by, for example, encouraging hospitals to make sure that patients are not admitted too quickly or when they go out of the hospital that
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they are not readmitted too often. jenna: the hospital will get a better repayment, a better reward if they don't see the riyadh mission of a parent and a patient coming back and coming back again. >> yep. there are a whole set of financial rewards layered in not only for hospitals but also health plans and health plans have to do well on certain quality measures in order to get paid in the medicare program, for example, and those are very important payment systems and ones that i think will have a positive effect on keeping costs lower. jenna: it's interesting that you mention in your answers to that question that really it has less to do with the number of people enrolled and more based on some of the new rules part of the law and i just would like you, if you can, because i know you're steeped in the numbers, the president will be talking about the overall national headline of how many people have enrolled so far. what should we consider about that headline? >> well, you know, what they're likely to announce is that
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enrollment was really strong the last month and that, in fact, they're getting closer. they might have even exceeded the seven million target that was the initial target for enrollment in the exchanges and that's the significant milestone for them. i do think for most americans, who are not enrolled in this program, the effects of the law are really those health system effects that we were talking about before, about differences in the way the people, the way the hospitals and doctors and health plans get paid. jenna: and how that will impact american families. just a quick final question. because we continue to hear this from our viewers, president mentioned in the past he would try to tackle the issue of 46 million uninsured americans and the c.e.o. said despite the gains from obamacare this year, still there will be 45 million people in the cannountry that w
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not have health insurance. what do we know about those numbers as we hear them the next several weeks? >> for starters, the number is actually coming down for the first time in the last decade. this set of policy $ modestly starting to reduce the number of uninsured people in the united states but we've made a set of decisions in this country to not insure large groups of people. illegal immigrants are not going to be insured. there will continue to be a significant group of people who are not insured until and unless we change our policies. jenna: great to have you on the program. thank you so much for your time today. thank you. jon: fox news alert. a bank of microphones in the u.s. capitol building, g.m.'s new c.e.o. may be stepping up to the mike to make a statement before her testimony on capitol hill. as you know, she's been called to the hill to talk about what g.m. knew about problems with its ignition systems in some of
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its vehicles. those ignition systems were said to have failed according to the national highway traffic safety administration. failed in ways that caused the air bags not to deploy and lives were lost because of it. she'll talk to congress about that. she is expected to speak before she goes in to testify. if she does, we'll take you back there live. also the c.i.a. top man on the ground in libya making a surprise appearance before congress testifying about the deadly benghazi attack. congressional investigators say he reported there were no protests that night. apparently, contradicting what former c.i.a. acting director michael murrell put in the talking points. he is testifying about what he knew leading up to the deaths of ambassador chris stevens and three other brave americans. chief intelligence correspondent cath lien is live in washington with more on that. >> thank you. two congressional sources tell fox news the c.i.a. top officer
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on the ground in libya known as the chief of station will appear for the first time this afternoon before that house sub committee on investigations. the allegation first reported by fox news is that former deputy director dismissed the chief of stations reporting that there was no protest. and based on communications with headquarters, as early as two days after the attack, the chief of station understood the burden was on him to prove a negative and that there was no protest. an email to murrell and other leadership. he wrote the attacks were not an advancement of protests. the chief of stations assessment is gospel. they question what evidence he had that was so overwhelming, he apparently dismissed this reporting adding that the episode is disheartening for every intelligence officer in the field who puts their neck on the line. >> this appears to be a matter of we're telling the politically we're reaching a different judgment and now putting in a
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position to have to disprove that. for people in the field, all of this is incredibly disheartening. >> he is also accused by republican lawmakers in the senate of misleading senators mccain and graham over his role in the talking points and by wrongly blaming the f.b.i. for key changes, the statements, even though not in a formal setting may be a violation of title 18, section 20, 1001. >> if you're spoken to by investigators or senators by part of an investigation, you have to be very careful. even if it doesn't have all the formal trappings of a hearing room where there are lights and you have a microphone and you're under oath, you could still be subject to the perjury trap. >> for his part, he said for the record that he welcomes the identify to testify tomorrow, jon. jon: let's hope for answers. thank you. jenna: first day of april, if you're looking for a good deal
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$102 million. don't want to forget the two on that. >> absolutely not. it's very important at that point, right? the mansion is in old money neighborhood smack dab in the middle of los angeles. so what is this $102 million getting you? a 50,000 square foot house that sits on 4.6 acres. step inside and you'll find 12 bedrooms, 15 bathrooms, a ballroom for 500, a two story library, a music room, a must in my family, a commercial kitchen, cutlery room, a staff dining room, staff offices, security center and a 3,000 square foot wine cellar. another favorite. and a tasting room. back outside, there are two motor courts, a pool, spa complex that you see right there, a tennis court, formal
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garde gardens. not to be concerned about the recent flurry of earthquakes in l.a. imported limestone blocks enclose a massive steel frame set on rollers in foundations to safe guard the structure in an earthquake. it was custom built in 2002. three billionaires engaged in a bidding war for the nearly five acre trophy estate. winner closing in 10 days and again, all cash deal. by the way, antique furnishings are included. i was going to get in the bidding war but i thought, i just can't. jenna: it's exhausting. do we know who the billionaire is? >> we don't but it was sold by a socialite. jenna: you like the music room and the wine cellar. i like the two story library. >> come on. are you going to try to show me up and be the smart girl? jenna: no. no.
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>> you can't drink wine with me? come on. jenna: you can have the music room to yourself. i'll be in thbrary. we'll meet in the wine room. >> let's do it. let's share. jon: is there a workshop? can i have the workshop? jenna: you can do your carpentry. jon: room for the table saw. that's all i need. jenna: we don't need the dust around. jon: dust collection is clutch. maybe the new owners of that can put one of these in their backyard. after all, they've got five acres? the world's tallest ferris wheel. it is now open for business. starting today riders can buy tickets for the high roller and get a whole new view of the vegas strip. at 350 feet tall, the roller beats the london eye by a whopping 110 feet. the ride is a half hour long and costs about $25. the project itself cost more than half -- i'm sorry, $550
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million. that's half a billion to build. jenna: you have to commit a half hour for the ferris wheel. would you do it? connell: if it keeps you from the gaming tables, you're probably saving money. jenna: true. you don't go to vegas just to shop. come on. startling new numbers on children's health. a doctor is in to discuss a study that a lot of youngsters could have cholesterol problems. beer and barbecue go hand in hand, right? pouring the brew on your meat in the form of a marinade could keep cans at bay. what does everything mean to you?
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summer getaway. when it comes to booking the cheapest air tickets, it may not be the website you search on more than the day you book them that matters. lauren? >> absolutely. if you're about to fly, we've got the best time to buy. hopper is the company that helps people plan vacations and they want to make sure that you don't spend more than the person sitting next to you on the plane. the best time to buy domestic as well as international air fare is thursday. i always thought it was a tuesday or a wednesday. they say it's a thursday. the savings here are small, between $10 and $25 but if you want to save a lot more, consider this. if you're travelling within the u.s., plan to depart on a wednesday and return from your trip on a tuesday. that mid week trip can save as much as $85. and for yaefr seas vacationers, make that trip wednesday to wednesday. you can realize savings of up to $120. that might not seem like a lot of money but if you're travelling as a family, it's certainly adding up and we'll take the savings.
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right? the average tax refund about $3,000. a lot of people, about 12%, 13% of people put that money towards a vacation. jenna: those plane tickets are expensive. >> i know. they keep going up and keep getting a lot less for what you pay. jenna: thank you. jon: right now roughly one third of our nation's children could be battling high cholesterol. that's according to stims from a study by texas children's hospital which looked at more than 12,000, 9-year-olds to 11-year-olds and looked at worrisome and the fatty substance in their blood that could mean an increased chance of heart problems when they get older. a member of our fox medical team, member of medicine at n.c.u. medical center, how are kids getting high cholesterol? i always thought that was an adult problem. >> it's related to the obesity epidemic we're seeing. one third of kid are overweight right now.
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they're eating all the wrong foods. they're eating too much dairy, too much saturated fat, too much meat. all of this adds up to obesity but we like to say it's baby fat. they'll burn it off as they grow up. it's leading to cholesterol going up and do you know what cholesterol leads to? heart disease. and they found in this study that high cholesterol in children ages nine to 11 is directly correlated with high cholesterol for adults. we've got to nip this in the bud. i'm all for actually drawing a blood test on a child and saying, your cholesterol is up. you'd better do something about it. jon: then what do you do? give kids lipitor or something like that? >> that's a good point. i'm not saying that. i don't want to give lipitor to a 10-year-old and say you're going to take this for 40 years. i would like it as an alarm for people to get their kids to
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exercise more. there are studies that show if you increase your fruit and vegetable intake, you decrease your weight. jon: a bit of good news here. two of my favorite foods, barbecue and beer, and it turns out if you can combine them, you find a way to actually reduce some carcinogens that can be found in barbecued meats. >> i wouldn't be responsible if i came on the show and said that everybody out there, take your meat, put it on the barbecue, just coat it in a little beer first. i say barbecue the eggplant, the zucchi zucchini. but if you're going to barbecue, if you are going to barbecue meat and this study was done in portugal where i guess there's a lot of barbecuing going on. they found a cancer causing agent found in meat when you stick it on the barbecue and you burn it. if you put bother on it first, it decreases those dramatically and do you know what? black beer work a heck of a lot
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better than other beers. use guinness. i love dark beer. that's the doctor's tip of the week. jon: it's marinating. you can't just spread it on apparently and expect the same results. if you soak it, soak the meat in a dark beer for some number of hours, that's the best result. >> and jenna will tell you that you have to marinade overnight to get the flavor anyway. jon: jenna is a great cook. thank you for your medical advice. jenna: i'm laughing. we can't have unfactual information on the air now. if you soak your eggplant in the beer overnight, then is it twice as healthy when you barbecue it? >> it tastes great but i don't think there's an additional value. jenna: i want to devil it up on everything. baseball is coming up. harper is one of the biggest names in baseball known for his superior skills on the field but he may not exactly be star
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there is no answer to the question. so enjoy the day and hopefully the joke isn't on you. >> and that's where the fool's errand is. >> and speaking of difficulties being an all- star outfielder there are not many things that brice harper cannot do. he can hit a long ball and run fast and make the catch, but you might not want him on the beach volleyball team. throw it back from the crowd and the wind throws it right back. >> it is the wind and elements. and so we take it off to. take the hand off with football. opening day for harper and he smacked his head trying to get a double play. they are going to boat the nets. >> and something happens and the end result is okay. >> and give them credit.
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>> and he can't throw that. and you have to watch out for his arms. that is good and protected. and thank you for joining us today. and have a great day, everybody. watch out and america's news headquarters starts right now. fox news alert. safety of vehicles parked in drive ways in america. a hearing and general motor's ceo on the hot seat. why did it take so long to inform people with the flaw in the ignition switch. family members of the crash victims talking steps where it is in place. >> we are the people left behind when a loved one got a supposed safe car, a gm car. they anyhow it was dangerous and defective. our daughters and sons and sisters and
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