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out. >> mine is a teen burg from a & w. a lot of childhood memories in that one. don't know if they still make it. >> they do. >> cool. i real get one. i'm gretchen karlson. shepes next. >> we're looking at the just-released full transplant of the last words of the crew of malaysian flight 370 and controllers on the ground. we'll see how investigators are searching for hidden clues. the accused craigslist killer back in court. she told a newspaper she lured more than 20 people to their deaths. but the suspect's sister says he teenager is just ripping off the plot of a tv show called "dexter." we'll take you inside a minisub researchers are using to check ought the lasting effects of the bp oil spill, and they're lasting. let's get to it. good afternoon to you and
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yours from the fox news deck. first from fox at 3:00, we're looking at the head of america's biggest automaker, on capitol hill. we have been listening for the last hour. her company is accused of overlooking a deadly glitch and issue ago re-calls a decade to late after more than a dozen people died. the ceo of general motors is right now testifying on what investigators call the central problem, a faulty ignition switch. family members of some of the victims today blasted general motors for not acting sooner, not warning them their loved ones' lives were at risk. some of those victims were verydown, including 16-year-old amber marie rose. she had reunited with her birth mother in 2004. but just a year later she tied when her chevy cobalt crashed and the vehicle's air bags did not deploy. her mother says gm was more focused on profit than on safety.
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>> we're the people left behind when a loved one got into what was supposed to be a safe car, gm car, car that gm knew for years was dangerous and defective. our daughters, sons, sisters, brothers, mothers, fathers, wives, and husbands, are gone because they were a cost of doing business gm style. >> it was not the only case in 2006, these teens, natasha and her friend amy were riding in a chevy cobalt when the car suddenly lost power and slam into trees. that was in wisconsin. investigators found the ignition was in the accessory position, not the run position, and that they air bags failed to deploy. natasha's father says gm need is to take responsibility for all of the lives it shattered. >> my wife, jane, lost everything. natasha was her only child. there will be no boyfriend
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troubles no, wedding day jitters , no grandchildren no family member to care for her as she grows older, just a forever hole in the heart. >> at the start of testimony the general motors' new ceo who took over in january, apologized to the families and friends of those who died or were hurt. she said she could not say why it took so many years for the company to announce the safety problems but that executives will now find out. now is too late for so many. mike emanuel with the news live on capitol hill. what else was the ceo telling lawmakers. >> mary barra says she is the person responsible for resolving this situation. she is the person in charge of gm. now she also said easterlyon that gm is taking the deadly defect very seriously. >> this is an extraordinary situation. it involves vehicles we no longer make, but dame to light on my watch so i'm responsible for resolving it.
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when we have answers, we will be fully transparent with you, with our regulators, and with our customers. >> there's been a fair amount of "i don't know" since chev is the new ceo and says they turned over 200,000 pages of documents to the housite committee and she had not reviewed the information. >> i was lisping to the questions -- listening to the questions. lawmakers sound angry. >> they want to know why it took general motors so long to act on this information, that the switches in the automobiles were bad. bottom line they are saying that gm had critical information a long time ago. >> we now know that these switches were defective from the start. in february of 2002, gm's ignition switch supplier, delphi, informed the company the switch did not meet gm's minimum
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specifics but gm approved it anyway. >> there will be tough questions for the representative from the ntsb. an agency that was extremely tough on toyota for its accelerator problems but apparently blew it on these gm switches. >> mike emanuel, live on capitol hill where the hearing is joan. what about the victims and their family members? what can they expect to get here in the way of justice? phillip is an attorney. it's not going to be easy for them. >> i think what you're going to see is gm, which fumbled this ignition switch issue, is going to go into overdrive, pardon the pun, trying to reduce the amount of damages they're going to need to pay, because they say they want to actually compensate everybody. people want be to fully compensated. what's full compensation for the victims and what gm think is it full compensation are two different numbers. >> you have to prove that gm
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knew and didn't care and knew people were dying and didn't make the two dollar change. >> the worst for gm is when you show they knew. the longer they knew, the worse it is. the more they disregarded warnings, the worse it is. you get an e-mail saying the switches are not terribly good, and someone says, let's take care of that, that's very different from how to, i beg of you, change the switches, the switches are going to kill people. na, never mine, we can afford it. those are two vert different kinds of negligence and corporate misbehavior, and it's going to come down to what is in the e-mail. if you have to see who exactly warned, what the language was, was this just an ordinary viewup in business or was this cruel, complete disregard for safety at the expense of the bottom line? two very different useds and yield very different monetary
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awards for the victims. >> a much, much larger number of people owned these vehicles or drove these vehicles from time to time. can you see a scenario under i which those people who are not injured, who could have been because of what gm did or didn't do, they have action? >> they might in the toyota instance that you just talked about, people who had diminution of value of their cars did recover, about a quarter of the value that toyota settled for was diminution of value. you won't get the huge numbers if someone loses their life or is injured, but if you can't sell your gm car because people are scared of these switches, then, yeah, you could maybe recover but the number is much, much lower, the fewer people they can show were killed as a result primarily, proximately, of the switches. that's the killer for gm. >> gm, like any other big corporation, has a herd of very good lawyers. you have to if you're a big
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corporation. sometimes a little guy doesn't in this case and. >> in this case you class action lawyers who can smell money, and they will get funding from litigation finance. they'll be able to go through tens of thousands of e-mails. it will be in the e-mails and also in the former employee' gm and delphi. they can't go after current gm employees without a lawyer present, but at my company we good after former employees. they have things to say. they don't have to have a lawyer with them if they don't work for gm anymore. they can tell you, ask for this in discovery, ask for that in discovery, make sure you ask for this document, you should be seeing this department's records and be asking about this guy who used to work there with me, and i think he now lives in japan, but he saw everything. that is really golden intelligence, and unless i missed my mark, they've probably got people spreading out right now, starting to make those calls. >> if your mom died in one of
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these crashes that's exactly what you would want. testimony continuing on capitol hill on foxnews.com. here in new york city, police say one person is dead after a head-on crash between a charter bus and a pickup truck, this morning on long island. the driver of the truck died and what a mess its. video shows rescuerses pulling somebody out of a bus window. the bus driver and passenger were the only people on the bus and that both were seriously hurt. they also say they had to use the jaws of life to free the bus driver. investigator says the truck had apparently drifted across the double yellow line into the bus' past. >> president obama set to speak about the number of americans who shined up for insurance under the new healthcare law, and the number has skyrocketed. the white house says it topped its original goal. republicans have changed their story and say that is not the
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>> expecting to hear from the president in an hour now that the white house announced it has topped its original goal of getting seven million people to sign up for the new healthcare insurance. this is a white house photo here of the president just moments after he got the news. all the president's men and women in the room. valerie jarrett there.
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the president seems happy and should be. the government scaled back the original target to six million after the disastrous rollout of the web site. got a live look at the white house. there's the web site. the president is set to speak in the rose gadden in just a bit. the republicans are pointing out there's still a lot we don't know about the seven million people, including how many already had insurance and how many actually finished the process by making their first payment. you haven't made your first payment, we don't have your money and you're not helpful to us. ed henry is on the lawn. say what you will say, it's a good day in the oval office. >> it's sun sunny in washington for the first time in a long time, and the gloomy mood by the white house may be being lifted. we anticipate when the president is in the rose garden an hour from nowing are he will be hitting republicans over the argument of repealing the law
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outright by saying there's millions who now have insurance because of the law, he'll argue, and why do you still want to repeal it? and also going to talk about how they're feeling pretty optimistic here after a stumbling start. here's jay carney. >> with the remarkable surge in enrollment, seven million 41,000 people signed up for health insurance before the midnight deadline yesterday. and that doesn't count the last day surge in signups in more than a dozen states that run their own marketplace. >> so bottom line, we're expecting the president in the rose garden next hour to give us a new figure that may be a bit higher than the 7.04 million who say have signed up because some states are still reporting information. >> some republicans are saying they don't believe that seven million number tells the whole story,. >> reporter: for a number of reasons. as you noted, if people have not actually paid their premiums
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they technically do not yet have insurance. studies suggest maybe 80% of people who signed up have actually paid their first premium if that's the case, 80% of seven million is closer to five or six million, not seven million, who actually enrolled. here senator mitch mccome the republican leader. >> we don't know, of course, exactly what they have signed up for. we don't know how many have paid. what we do know is that all across the country, our constituents are having aen unpleasant interaction with obamacare, whether they can sign up for a policy or not, what they're discovering is higher premiums, higher deductibles. >> you see that argument continues. another big question moving forward is going to be, remember the law was designed in large part to insure people who were uninsured. and in fact we do not yet know how many people who were previously uninsured are now
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part of the seven million figure because, of course, there were hundreds of thousands if not millions who were kicked off their existing plans. i pressed jay carney, what's the net-net here in terms of people previously uninsured who irnow insured. he says they don't have that number yet but hope to have it soon. >> ed henry on the north lawn. thank you very much. congratulations on the sunshine. >> nato cut its ties with russia in response to russia's annexation of the crimean peninsula. the secretary of state john kerry and other foreign ministers in the united states-led alliance ordered an end to civilian and military cooperation. nato called the actions in ukraine unacceptable and adding, we cannot go on doing business as usual. unquote. diplomats told military officials to come up with new ways to strengthen defenses. >> the s & p500, record territory, the dow had been up
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an enormous number. we're up 66 right now. analysts say that traders are encouraginged by comments from the new chairwoman of the federal reserve, suggesting the fed will keep interest rates low. that makes them happy. u.s. manufacturing also reportedly grew. to the slightly faster. slightly faster pace in the month of march. it's been nearly four years since a bp oil rig exploded the gulf of mexico causing one of the worst manmade disasters in modern history. now a submarine is set to go to the bottom to see whether the gulf is recovering. why don't you take a guess. a live report on the operation, bp, that's coming up. ok, here's the way the system works. let's say you pay your guy around 2 percent to manage your money.
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>> it's been almost four years since the deep water horizon oil rig exploded in the gulf of mexico, killed 11 workers and triggered the costliest environmental disaster in the history of the nation. now science 'tis are using the world's oldest research submarine to dive to the gulf floor and inspection the long-term impact of the bp spill. this is alvin, as it's known. three people can fit on the thing. this is one of the first imagines from 1954. and then allyn vas traveled -- alvin has travel all over the world. here it is a decade later, and then more recently, 2002, researchers used it to look at ocean volcanos off the coast of alaska, and now, it's making its return to the gulf where the rig
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once stood. remember that picture? and who will ever forget this being on our television screens for weeks and weeks and weeks on end. it took crews months to cap the oil well. now experts are hoping to get a closer look at the lasting effects of the spill, and not rely just on those commercials we see. john roberts is live with more. tell us about the research teams. >> reporter: we can tell you that the alvin has been substantially upgraded sense the earliest pictures. really high-tech inside. the lead researcher on the expedition tis the university of georgia's samantha boyce. she the last time she traveled to the bottom around the well was december 2010. she says the bottom is usually teaming with life, but what she found when she got near the well head was barren desert with nothing alive. that was as heartbreaking as what people were seeing on the surface. >> it's gut-wrenching you saw
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the old beaches. it's an emotional impact. you see these beautiful, white sand beaches and they're just covered with oil. and you see an oil bird, and people go, oh, that poor pelican. that's the reaction i have when i see oil on the sea bed. >> she was scheduled to go down to the ocean floor this morning. we expect she'll be back up at 6:00 our time. >> did they give you an idea what they were expecting down there, john? >> reporter: she doesn't know, shep. she is hoping to see the same sort of recovery we have seen on she fur fast, fish and shell fish are back as or the tourists. but her worst fear is she'll get down there today and find that nothing has changed in the last four years, because she says what is on the surface doesn't tell the whole story. >> you can't see the bottom. all you see is the surface. you see the water, it's blue. you see the pelicans flying around. you don't see what is underneath
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the surface, and that's what we're trying to do, to look inside the system and see what is down there. that will tell us about about the health of the overall system. >> she says she plans 22 dives in total over the next month, all over the gulf to get an idea how widespread the recovery or the lingering damage is. >> john roberts, thank you, sir. the number of people confirmed dead from the devastates mudslide in washington state has risen again. the number number is 27 people tied. that's according to an emergency management official on scene. the number of people reported missing has fallen from 30 yesterday to 22 today. as we reported yesterday, recovery teams have been wading through thick mud and what they call toxic sludge from sewage, propane, and other household chemicals. officials say hazmat teams are on scene now. the governor of washington, jay inslee, estimated the total damage has reached $10 million.
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he has asked the fed to declare it's a major dollars. >> investigators cockpit reportings may provide clues and the officials just released the transcripts of those conversations. we'll bring you the latest on this as "shepard smith reporting" continues after this.
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>> more of the headlines. chaos in turkey's capitol city as police fire water cannons at hundreded hundreded of demonstrators. they're protesting the unofficial results of the election showing the ruling party making sweeping gains. opponent says the election was rigged. this comes day after the government blocked twitter and
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>> here's what is new today in the plane investigation. investigator says now they're examining the last recorded conversation between ground control and the piloted of me missing malaysian airline flight. looking for signs of stress in the cockpit. it's been 22 or 23 days and that's what they're doing. it is astounding. the official word came from the malaysian government officials today. they've also fully released the transcript of that conversation. remember just yesterday we couldn't get a transcript of the conversation. today, finally.
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more on that in a minute. "the wall street journal" newspaper is reporting a blockbuster, a lack of coordination among investigators caused search teams to waste three entire days looking for that massive jet in the entirely wrong part of the ocean. planes and ships shifted their focus to a new area which is seen here. that happened on friday. the journal reports the change came after authorities more fully merged satellite and radar data that investigators had been examining separately. you have satellite dat here and radar data here, and they didn't even put them together to see what is really going on. today the head of the australian search team said this is the most challenging case he has ever encountered. >> this could drag on for a long time, but i think at this stage it's very important to pursue the leads -- i rule call them leads -- the evidence presented to us. >> time is of the essence. analysts say the pinger in the
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plane's black box may go silent in a matter of a few days. trace gallagher is in los angeles with a look at the new technology the search. first our correspondent, lea gabrielle is here. a former pilot and certified commercial pilot. these documentses don't show a lot. >> what they show what appears to be a very normal conversation between the airlinerarting with them getting their route clearance, then switching to ground controllers at the airport, eventually to the airborne traffic controller after takeoff. the final transmission, good night malaysian 370, came when he plane was about to leave malaysian air space. the next still we be to forrens include examine the tape. this begs the question, with
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these very normal transmissions why the government held on to these transcripts. as you know, they originally reported a different final transmission than what this transfer actually showed. >> because of all that makes you wonder whether they have something to hide. we can tell you the latest on the search efforts. >> they've been continuing to scour the area, just trying to find any debris that may have been from the missing 777. now, today they had 11 planes and nine ships. they were concentrating on an area less than half the size of the actual search zone, but according to the agency coordinating the search we weather was not optimal today. the lack of physical evidence on where the plane may have gone has led toluate of guesswork, and today the head of an organization for people who operate airlines say they really need to have better technology for tracking airlines. >> this can't happen again, making sure that aircraft can be
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tracked in real-time so this can't happen again. that seems to be the -- should be the priority objective. >> now, he is also calling on countries to be better about changing passenger i.d.es against a database of stolen parts and malaysia is one of the countries that, according to this gentleman, does not do a very good job of checking the addiction. >> in this case didn't check at all. >> apparently not. >> apparently not. the search business is dangerous, too. australian officials hey deployed a flying air traffic control center to help search teams from -- help keep them from crashing into each other. we have a photo on the wall over here. officials say that air craft uses an advanced radar system to moner to the skies above the search area. planes have been flying so low, new zealand air force officials warned pilots to watch out for ships, and remember, investigators say part of the reason finding the plane has been so difficult is there is essentially no radar coverage over that part of the indian
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ocean. or that they weren't sharing information and looked in the wrong place. anyway, trace gallagher is live. >> reporter: this is a modified version of the 737 and the radar can cover 156,000 square miles of area. the search area right now is 240,000 square miles. so, this thing covers a pretty good chunk of that. it can also cover up to 30,000 feet. as lea was saying, 11 plays and nine ships involved in this so this will control all the ships and all the planes, and as you know, this is some very low visibility areas they're searching. some planes are flying as low as 200 feet. so not only will the plane kind of dictate where all these aircraft and shippers going, it can also speak to the various international agencies to make sure they are also in tune with what they're search planes are
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doing in the ocean. >> trace, on other matters, a lot of peep upset with the malaysian government, with the malaysian transport minister seems to be as frustrated with how others are handling the investigation. >> reporter: which is frustrating the families of the passengers. they say every three weeks of getting bad inflammation and no information. now you have the malaysian transport minister coming out and pointing fingers, asking why boeing and rolls-royce and other u.s. agencies haven't spoken out. he went on chinese television and said this. listen. >> but at the same time i want to see the information also sent out there because we pay millions of dollars to buy the airplane, fly the engines, pay for the expertise, and now those technologies is being questioned by the world. >> reporter: did they pay for the expertise? is the question. remember, the early days rolls-royce came out and said they tracked the engines for
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more than four hours but the company has said very little since. boeing offers a service that uses high speed internet to track plane's control system and fuel consumption, even communication, but malaysia air apparently did not sign up for that service. of course, very unclear if it would have worked in this case anyway. we should also note, they're also pushing for these black boxes to become ejectable out of the plane and to float, and some are saying that might be a way that you could get information quickly in a situation like this and air france, which took two years to get the black boxes from the bottom of the ocean. >> if i could live tweet from a jet, which i can, if it has wi-fi on it, why can't they live-stream what is happening with those black boxes? why do you have to fine it? why can't it just be sent to the proper authority? >> they can. that's the whole point here. like you were talking about.
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the while opinion is putting money into the planes. a lot of these 777s, 747s have high-speed internet so they can do this and boeing has the capability of doing it right now and could do it. i it's about money. putting the system in place that actually streams. rolls-royce is constantly getting information from their engines back to their base in the uk, giving them information about how the engines are operating. the acar system does the same for the play soyuz they're low on fuel, the engine is overheating, they can give information back to the base so as soon as the get on the airport, they maintenance crews can be out there and turn that stuff around. so the information is already streaming. the question now is, do they want to put the money into these 777s to have the black boxes stream the information constantly so you would have everything, including the voice from the cockpit and the ament sound from the cockpit, and some say that could be a privacy
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concern involved when you're talking about communications back and forth. >> that's a concern. maybe they will just continue the merging of the airlines and then when there's only one left, then we'll be all about us, the passengers. next we'll hear from an airline industry consultant who says he believes there's been a coverup. and not a small coverup. he says somebody is trying to save face. and we may never find the wreckage of this flight. that's a fact. we may never find the wreckage of the flight. the expertstle you chance are best that we never find what is on the bottom of the ocean. at some point something will float ashore but aside from that, coverup? hello, malaysia? ♪
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18 minutes before the hour. continuing coverage the search for missing malaysia airlines jet. as we reported here investigators released a transcript of the final communication with the cockpit.
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mike boyd is the president of boyd group international. mike has told us he believes this looks to him like a coverup. i need specifics, mike. >> well, start with the specifics of the first 24 hours. we have people running around the gulf of sigham when the malaysians knew the airplane made a u-turn. >> knew and it didn't tell a soul. >> didn't tell anybody. people are risking their lives, buzzing around the gulf of saigon to find an airplane and thigh now. the latest thing for the last three weeks they told us the last cockpit voice that couple out was, good night. now say say it's something else. it would say to me why wouldn't they come out and say that wasn't right a week ago. now it's something else. the whole thing -- i understand the chinese dragon is angry and it should be because they lost 153 people and the malaysians are not coming clean. >> you wonder, though, what it is that malaysia would have to
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hide under your scenario? >> absolutely. i mean, malaysian airlines is like the malcolm milk toast of asia airlines. nice airline, not much to speak of. no profile. i don't know. it could be face. it could be something really screwed up and they don't want to let the world know about it. i don't know. we know this. they haven't been up front and now this latest thing with the cockpit transcript, that's another -- i think a smoking gun that somebody needs to sit them down and say what is going on. >> i don't know how anybody to make that mistake in the first place. they came out, leaders of the country, spoke in news conferences, handed out written were the last word we got, and it took three solid weeks before they could have told us what a child of five could have told news ten seconds. >> you wouldn't buy a used car from these people. and then the they let a search tapes -- now they have an air
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traffic control plane to control the search. they're -- >> where are the malaysians in the search? >> it's their airplane, it's their 52% owned airline, and they're sitting there complaining that people say we don't know what we're talking about. well, they don't. >> is there a concern the malaysian government might be held liable in some way because it's a part owner of the airline or a majority owner? >> i would think they would be. they've got to be held responsible for the failures over the last three weeks and this latest one with the transcript, clearly shows they can't act like the world is treating them badly. they have let this get out of control or they've intentionally left it get out of control. >> the malaysian airlines does not sign up for this reporting this, live-stream reporting that rolls-royce provides for the engines. that's like having an alarm system and not getting a connection. do we have a way of knowing if domestic airlines don't sign up or is this a malaysia thing. >> these services save you
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money. they monitor the engines. y just like we heard earlier, when the airplane lands they know the fuel regulator has to get changed and they're off. it's maintenance issue but one those of things they don't want to subscribe to it, shape don't have to. >> they ought to tell everybody who is subscribing to what. that's just me. if your windshield wipers don't work i'd like to know before you drive me down the street in that bus. that's it. >> it's one of those things. the airplane has a hard time flying on empty to all tanks. that's a competitor. >> that's probably howed it ended. nice to see you. >> thank you. >> fox report now, more headlines from the fox news deck. mississippi's supreme courtarded a new trial for a woman on death row. prosecutors ashe asked her son to kill her husband back 1999. defense lawyers claim the son confessed he decided to pull the trigger himself, but the jury never heard about immigrant.
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state prosecutors say this is rare move by the court so they plan to ask for an explanation. >> man overboard during a round the world yacht race. officials say the british sailor spent more than an hour in the pacific ocean during rough weather yesterday. crew members finally pulled him back to the boat. officials say he is getting treatment for shock and hypothermia. >> somebody just bought this mansion in los angeles for more than $1 million. it's the highest price ever paid in los angeles county. official says the anonymous buyer paid cash. the place is 50,000 square feet with a lawn the size of other soccer field and 3,000 square foot wine cellar. pigger than most houses. $100 million. for that you could have a beautiful two bed room in manhattan.
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>> the united states is reportedly considering handing over a convicted spy as part of a deal to get the middle east peace talks back on track. the white house is not confirm organize denying the report from the "associated press," and fox news channel cannot confirm it either. nevertheless we continue. the spy's name is jonathan pollard, in then 1980s he work as a u.s. naval intelligence analyst before the feds convicted him of spying on the united states for israel. he is serving a life sentence in north carolina but eligible for parole next year. israeli leaders have pushed for united states presidents to pardon or release jonathan
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pollard. u.s. officials oppose any early release. the obama administration is now considering freeing him before passover, which begins in a couple of weeks. it's apparently part of a deal that would include the release of hundreds of palestinian prisoners but not a freeze on construction of jewish settlements in the west bank which the palestinians have demanded. instead israel will show what it calls great restraint and not issue new housing contracts. negotiators set a deadline for the end of april to agree on a framework. so the clock is sticking. secretary of state john kerry says both sides want to quote, find a way to move forward. the sister of the accused craigslist serial killer says the suspect made up parts of her story using a plot from a popular tv show. just stole right from the tv box. remember miranda barber and her newlywed house? charged with murdering a man whom they meat -- met on craigslist in november, stabbing him 20 times.
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barbara said she killed more than 20 other people and then lost counseling of the number of victims. her statements that's not true. she is says barbara was obsessed with "dexter" the tv show about the serial killer and show stole in of the storylines when she talked to reporters. the sister made the' comments to a newspaper in western pennsylvania. investigators say there's little evidence to suggest her claims, she killed a bunch of people, are true. also today, the 19-year-old suspect was back in court and rick is line. what hasn't in cower? >> reporter: an evidentiary hearing, pretrial and defense motions and item from a correction officer who was in the room when she gave her first jailhouse interview and that corrections officer said that she heard miranda say things that made her sick to her stomach and she'll never forget
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it. the question is, is any of it true and in her second interview at the daily item newspaper, miranda gave a few more details of other alleged murders in raleigh, north carolina, mexico beach, florida, and big lake, alaska, and while police say in to the towns there are no unsolved homocides the chief says there are possible -- it is possible there are victims the cops don't know about. >> a prostitution subculture, runway juvenile subculture. those people disappear every day. she is part of multiple subcultures where people do go missing and can kind up deceased and nobody may know. >> reporter: miranda reportedly says she is weeing to talk to -- willing to talk to the fbi and her lawyer won't let her do it. >> her story sounded ridiculous and sounds like the family
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doesn't believe it either. >> the sister says she is a liar. the father says she is a compulsive liar. they say whatnot you can't believe what she says and they also confirm this is a girl with at lot problems, abused as a young kid, ran away from home, uses drug. police sale she is guilty of one murder, the craigslist killing, and the reporter who interviewed her in jail says she was believable when she gave some more details about some of these other alleged murders. >> in the second one she said people were looking for pieces of bodies and she said you're not going to find that. >> they i would find body parts. >> body parts. >> of course, shep, that hasn't happened, at least not yet. >> thank you, rick. dexter was believable, too. we'll be right back.
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>> some of the world's biggest countries getting into the funny business all part of april
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fool's. one showed the temperature control settings. >> every passenger will be able to customize the temperature from their seating area to a wide range of presetters. >> seems like a no brainer they can have their open temperature control. >> let's say you'd like to feel like you're sitting in a tropical paradise while flying to newark. well, simply select cancun afternoon. and soak it all in. >> must be nice to be an airline that can still make jokes. that's one of the many fake ads out there. rob i at his thing where he was more of these. i thought hln had a hilarious thing. >> fresh direct, online grocery delivery service, putting owl their eagle caught, 41% off. cheetos has she-toe, a cheddar
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cheese scented cologne police and then the pizza box made out of pizza, and then one web site did legos -- >> we're out of time. now adele. >> you're looking live at the white house with the president moments from doing a little cow crowing about enrolling. healthcare signups numbers we're hearing are off the charts, are they just off? this hour, this whole enrollment issue up close. the numbers the media is whooping up, but are they really on the up and up? we tally, you decide. >> welcome everybody, i'm neil cavuto. to your health, the president is set to say the healthcare law is off to great start because he hit the seven million mark and then some, if you have been reading and watching media coverage of this supposed milestone you might mark it down