over and over. all the maccallams slash gregories will be happy. >> and you. bill: i will do the same thing. i'm coming over. martha: "happening now" starts right now. jon: we begin with a fox news alert. brand new numbers on the economy. the unemployment rate unchanged in march at 6.7%. employers did add 192,000 jobs that could be a sign the economy might not hit as hard as some feared by the harsh winter weather. we'll have more on what these job numbers means for the millions of americans still out of work. we'll also keep an eye on the dow. you see it there, up 29 points right now as investors digest today's news. >> another fox news alert. as we learn brand new details about what happened moments before the fort hood shooting rampage. hello, everyone, i'm julie

banderas in for jenna lee. jon: welcome, julie. the report is that ivan lopez argued with other soldiers before going on that killing spree, killing three people and injuring 16, some seriously. some say angry words might have set him off. they're primarily focusing on the soldier's mental hood. rick leventhal is live in fort hood. what is the latest there, rick? >> reporter: jon, it seems clear specialist lopez was deeply troubled. he sought psychiatric help and was on medication. the question is, were warning signs missed? as you mentioned there is pretty compelling evidence according to the army there was some sort of a verbal altercation between lopez and one or more soldiers just before the shooting started. the focus of the army has been and is now on lopez's mental health, whether or not the mental health was motive for this shooting. we heard from friends in puerto rico, that lopez was deeply troubled by the death of his mother in november and angry

with the army, that he was only given 24 hours to grief for her in puerto rico. the base commander could not address that particular issue but did say yesterday there is very strong evidence that lopez's unstable psychiatric condition was the fundamental underlying cause for his rampage. and the general trigger event was likely that confrontation here on post wednesday afternoon. >> it was mentioned yesterday that there may have been a verbal altercation with another soldier or soldiers. there is a strong possibility that that in fact immediately preceded the shooting. >> reporter: another key question here, jon, if this was not premeditated why was he carrying a hand gun in the first place. he was not authorized to have it on post and why did he buy it and bring it with him to fort hood? jon: some of the answers i suppose could be on social media. he was active on social media, right? >> reporter: yeah he was. he posted some pretty chilling

comments back on march 1st, which happens to be the same day that he bought that weapon off base here. he bought it at a gun store in killeen, which is the same store that shoulder the first fort hood shooter, nadal hassan his weapon in 2009. on the facebook page, lopez wrote i was robbed last night, i'm sure it was two guys. finger ready. as easy as that he wrote i lost my inner peace. full of hatred. i think time the devil will take me. jon, we do have positive news to report. the 16 people who were wounded or injured in some way after wednesday's shooting have all been upgraded and all but three or four have now been released from the hospital. the three who were in critical condition yesterday have been upgraded to serious today, jon. jon: well that is a bit of good news. again another one of these shootings where there were warnings out there in social

media. >> reporter: apparently, yeah. jon: rick leventhal, thanks. >> fox news alert. brand new unemployment numbers just out. the unemployment rate stays put at 6.7% after 192,000 jobs were added in martha. is actually less than the analysts had expected and not where we need to be. with more on this, fox business network's lauren simonetti to explain. hi, lauren. >> reporter: hi, jewel. it was not a great report. let's start with the positive because there were good reports. half a million americans started looking for jobs last month. they felt confident they could get them. that is why the jobless rate stayed at 6.7%. the labor force participation rate rose to the highest level in six months. almost every single industry hired but factories shed a thousand jobs. wages however went down. the bulk of new jobs are paying less than $14 an hour, julie? >> millions of them are part-time, correct? a. >> reporter: absolutely this is something the fed is concerned

about. congressman eric paulson talked about 7.6 million part-time workers this morning. we want you to take a listen. >> clearly our economy is underperforming and she should be doing five consecutive years of below average. chair yellen cite ad number of statistics that indicated that our labor market is weaker than the official unemployment rate would suggest. for example, more than seven million people are working part time, even though they would prefer full-time jobs. the falling unemployment rate did not spark a significant increase in real wages. real average weekly earnings for all private non-farm employees are up less than 1% since the recession ended. nearly 30 6% of the unemhave been unemployed six months or longer. i will say that again. more than 1/3 of the unemployed in this country have been unemployed for six months or more. >> reporter: he said that twice. this persistent trend of long-term unemployment, 35% of unemployed workers without a job

for at least 27 weeks. the longer they're out of work, the harder it is for them to get back into the workforce, julie. >> the winter weather did not help matters at all considering how much snow and inclement weather. >> reporter: we saw it thaw out a little bit. january and february numbers are higher. >> let's look foreward to spring. thank you very much. jon? jon: big news earlier this week when the white house reached its obamacare enrollment goal. now eyes are shifting to the future of the law and it how it might impact november's midterm elections. despite the sign-up surge there are still a lot of problems. one theory is floating that democrats will take the fall. "national journal"'s ron fournier will describe it this way. will the democratic party suffer a reverse halo effect. will voters associate obama's party with health care, any problems with the system, anything from high premium to smug doctors get placed at democrats feet? let's talk about that prospect with ed o'keefe, congressional

reporter for "the washington post." michael warren, a staff writer for "the weekly standard." mike, the democrats own this thing. obamacare passed without a single republican vote. right now it is pretty unpopular. if that doesn't change before november, are the democrats going to take the blame? >> absolutely. they're already taking the blame on this if you look how many democrats are in trouble in a lot of races in the senate. democrats who voted for this law back in 2010, people like mark pryor, mary landrieu, kay hagan, mark begich, people like mark used dal in colorado are facing this. the reason it is simple, yes the health care law got 7.1 million to sign up. maybe. we don't know if they paid premiums yet but the law is having all kind of negative effect the on health insurance premiums. doctors leaving the market. doctor networks are shrinking. you can thank those things on obamacare. as you said, the democrats law.

they own it. they passed it. they signed it. and so i think they will face the wrath of the voters if this continues which indications seem to say that it will. jon: part of the question i guess, ed, is, how unwieldy will this thing still be by november? i mean the white hughes did manage to get its 7 million sign-ups. but as ed said, there are a lot of questions how many paid, so on and so forth. there are still coverage questions and back end questions about this that are yet to be answered, right, ed? >> and concerns in specific states and congressional districts and questions about how much rates might go up next year. they go up every year but conceivably they could get hung around the necks of democrats close to election time. that is part of the reason why you will see democrats start to make the argument while there are continuing problems with the law, repealing it would be arguably worse because if you look at polling, it suggests that on individual parts of this law, whether it is allowing kids to stay on the parents plan, women having birth control

coverage, preexisting conditions, no longer being an issue, americans like that. so democrats are likely to take that, look, republicans have been trying to repeal this law dozens of times in recent years. if they get control of the house and the senate, they will try to do it again and they could upend your health care yet again. whether that will work or not, it is an argument democrats increasingly believe something could be quite effective in close races across the country. jon: ed, we talked a little bit about the unemployment situation. 6.7% unemployment rate in this country and michael, let me throw this question to you, 6.7% unemployment rate, a lot of people are working part time who would rather have full-time jobs but there are, there are disincentives for employers under obamacare to create full-time jobs, are there not? >> that's true. you're hearing from a lot of small business employers. and larger business employers trying to get those numbers underneath 50, for instance, in small businesses, that's hind

everying their hiring. i want to go back to something important ed pointed out. polls says support for repeal is kind of soft. people want to see some provisions popular about obamacare restored. i think that's why if you're a republican running in tough races against incumbent democrats you have to be arguing about not just repealing it, but replacing the law with something better with an alternative. jon: right. >> barack obama achieved a great political coup saying republicans don't have alternative. i don't think that is true. there are a lot of alternatives out there but republicans need to talk about them. jon: ed, what about that? democrats say there are things that people like in obamacare. can they run on that and can they win on that? >> certainly democrats will run on individual pieces of it and saying they're doing whatever they can to fix it by sending official letters to hhs asking for corrections or perhaps supporting some of the republican legislation moving its way through. but on the point of republicans

coming up with alternatives, we saw bobby jindal this week, potential 2016 candidate put out meaty proposal. republicans keep talking about putting out some kind of a replacement plan. part of the reason they haven't done that, there is concern the moment they do, democrats take parts of it, look what they want to do now. they want to strike at individual pieces of the law and upend it yet again. we'll see. certainly we're starting to see more republicans sort of admit perhaps it is not going away and we need to work with what's there and change it. and that would, democrats argue, suggest they realize that repeal argument isn't necessarily going to be enough. jon: although there are still, still court challenges out there. >> that too. jon: that could dismanned he will large -- dismantle large parts. whole thing. ed o'keefe, mike warren. thank you. >> thank thank you. >> stunning developments in the oscar pistorius murder trial. the double amputee will be the first witness or at least was

supposed to be out of the gate when the defense begins its case next week but now he is not. why? we'll talk about it to see if this is a smart strategy. dangerous weather in the south and midwest. walls of rain, chunks of hail and black funnel clouds. it is not over yet. >> i don't know what to do? we're in the middle after storm like this. i'm not from here. >> the hail was, i bet you, it was this big around.

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julie: fox news alert now. live pictures of storm damage in hopkins county, texas. dangerous storms across the country. look at the aftermath there. including twisters and severe hail. the lone star state hit especially hard. tornado sirens wailing sending residents for safety looking for cover. some folks say the hailstones were as big as baseballs. this is the scene in a walmart parking lot. many describing the hail as

ferocious. ice chunks smashing through car windows. listen to the horrified eyewitnesses. >> it was a little terrifying. not going to lie to nobody. >> the hail i bet you it was this big around. >> hail was coming into the building and it was circling in the building. i have never seen anything like it before. julie: scary stuff. it might be spring but for some people the danger isn't over yet. garrett tenney live in chicago with more. hi, there. >> julie, national weather service reported as much as eight tornadoes touched down yesterday. one was outside of st. louis yesterday morning in university city. the ef-1 tornado in the morning was wide as football field and left a path of damage a half mile long. in the afternoon the area got hit by another storm that brought more strong wind and heavy hail. in all around 100 homes were damaged but thankfully there were no injuries reported there. but it is not just tornadoes that we saw. these storms also brought heavy rainfall and flash flooding warnings across missouri,

southern illinois, enkentucky and nearly entire state of indiana, covering roads, damaging buildings and forcing some to evacuate their hopes. the threat of severe weather and more rain continues throughout the day though as the storm is going to be working its way eastward but to the north, it is just the winter that won't go away. two weeks into spring now and the snow is falling again, making for some icy roads on this morning's commute. around a foot of snow is expected by end of the day for parts of minnesota as well as double digit snowfall for parts of wisconsin and upper michigan. the good news, julie, they are expecting temperatures into the 50s this weekend and possibly into the low 60s at some point next week. julie: garrett tenney, thank you so much, live from chicago. jon. jon: 6 0s sound good. julie: i'm looking forward to that. jon: new details about the woman accused murdering her boyfriend with the stiletto heel.

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pistorius says it was a mistake. however the prosecutors tell a different story saying it was intentional. joining me, fred tecce, former federal prosecutor and diana ice man, a criminal defense attorney. diana, what do you make of oscar pistorius's attorney to have his story, you know, take the stand and testify on his own behalf in this murder trial? good idea or bad? >> great idea, absolutely necessary. he has to get out his state of mind. he was the only other person there. so he has to take the stand and tell his version of the facts. he haste been testifying this entire time. julie: well he has, behind the scenes. he has claimed it was an accident and many don't buy that story, fred. now like i just said in south african court when the defendant agrees to take the stand, such as pistorius he has to be the first witness there, unless they have an application approved by a judge and it has got to be approved by the court in order for order of testimony to switch around. can that move hurt or help him?

>> well, i mean -- >> certainly helps him. >> i don't think it will help him. julie: why, fred, why would it help his move? >> because what they're trying to do, they're trying to get someone to testify to undermined the prosecution's testimony that woman eden long before pistorius said. it was inconsistent with his story. under the primacy and latency they think that is the most damning fact. they know quite well that the prosecutor is chomping at the bit to examine him and because the physical evidence destroys him and didn't call police or ambulance first and called administrator and makes him throwing up in court look completely false. julie: diana, the reason for our viewers why pistorius won't be first, because they say the forensic pathologist will take the stand first because that person is not available to testify later in the trial. but nonetheless, if this is going to help the defense, why would a judge then rule in favor of the defense? >> well, i mean there is no

reason to always rule in favor of the prosecution. the prosecution has the burden of proof in this case. julie: right. >> really a trial is set up and in this particular circumstance it's necessary for pistorius to testify last and it is to his benefit. what i mean he has been testifying all along, if you had a physical reaction to all evidence presented in court. it makes him look incredibly remorseful i think that helps. >> remorseful? it look like alligator tears, i'm sorry. julie: you don't buy it? >> not even a little bit. >> well he vomited in court. i think that is pretty serious reaction. julie: turn to another murder case -- >> he shot her! julie: let's move to another murder case. let me use my shoe as a prop, a stiletto heel. we have a confession in the trial of stiletto killer, ana trujillo. her 59 boyfriend had attacked her she used her shoe as

self-defense and she didn't realize he was hurt until she saw blood on the floor. how will the video affect the case. >> she has no chance either. if this was knife or screwdriver we wouldn't be talking about the case. the fact she stabbed the guy 25 times, 15 times in the head, quite frankly i think she is using wrong defense. i think better defense, we engaged in rough horseplay and got out of hand. no guy would convict her and certainly no woman. >> the two had been drinking that night, diana. she said she didn't see blood on the floor. how do you miss blood on the floor and sitting on top of somebody and striking them 25 times in the face with your shoe? >> you're absolutely right. because she did not use a knife or screwdriver this is notable case. she used what was accessible to her. her story makes sense. she said they were both drinking heavily. there is evidence to support they were both drinking heavily and stumbled at some point. she gains advantage.

grabs whatever was in her reach which was her shoe and starts to attack him with the shoe in self-defense. julie: fred, she said that he grew angry and jealous because when they were at a bar another man offered her to buy her a drink? does that hold water for the defense that he got angry and attacked? >> no. because it was inconsistent with the testimony of the cab driver. maybe that was true for the first 18 puncture wounds. but the other 25, taken out of self-defense. julie: turning on to the motto with nothing worse than a woman scourned here. i mean we're talking about pamela phillips, the socialite whose murder trial continues today. es spendingsly, diana a socialite accused killing, hiring a hit man to kill her ex-husband in '96 by blowing him up with a car bomb i should add. phillips never actually testified. she is charged charged with fire murder. the hit man she allegedly hired has been charged. will she be next? >> she doesn't have to testify. the fact of the matter there is

so much reasonable doubt in this case, so much time passed since this murder, someone is already serving time for this. this particular victim had so many enemies it is impossible to pin this particular defendant as the person responsible for this murder. julie: fred, the state had evidence that she basically married him for mon. she took out a $2 million life insurance policy. spent 400,000 of it to hire a hit man. is she -- murderer? >> yes. i will add, diana, good job, add her to the list of lawyers i got hauled out of bed in my pajamas by the fbi. good job but unfortunately no. the other guy committed murder, there is no evidence about it. the whole thing about the kill list was ridiculous. there is forensic evidence, computer evidence, communications with her and the hit man and she had all the motive in the world. i think the lady is going down like a sack of ham years fred tecce, diana, thank you both for joining us. very interesting. >> thanks for having me. enjoy your weekend.

jon: can we get the floor crew to take your shoes away, please? dangerous weapon. julie: i have five inches under my feet. jon: i'm not feeling comfortable with you in those shoes. julie: you shouldn't. jon: latest on the search for missing malaysian jetliner, almost a month after that 250-ton aircraft simply vanished. high-tech equipment deployed right now as time is running out for the batteries in those black boxes. also, this heisman trophy winner's legal troubles might not be over. the new investigation of rape allegations against him. plus those seven million obamacare sign-ups, sparking a victory lap from the white house. we'll ask if the mainstream media were fair and balanced in their coverage. ♪ [ male announcer ] evenore impressive than the research this man has at his disposal is how he puts it to work for his clients.

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jon: new information now on malaysia airlines flight 370. two ships with sophisticated equipment for searching underwater zeroing in on a remote area of the inian ocean. they are desperately hunting for the missing jet's black boxes. their batteries will soon run out, possibly as early as this weekend. the ships can hear the underwater pings those boxes send out. >> in regard to the black box, we will, we'll have to continue the visual search.

the visual search may give us wreckage that is still on the surface, and that will provide an ability to further narrow the search area into a smaller area. jon: flight 370 vanished march 8th, four weeks ago, on its way from malaysia to beijing. 239 souls on board. julie: florida state's quarterback jameis winston back in the spotlight for the rape allegations against him. now fsu is under investigation. so did its handling of the allegations against the heisman trophy winner violate the law? phil keithing with the latest from our miami bureau. hi, phil. >> reporter: hi, julie. according to an attorney for the alleged victim florida state university still to this day has not met with the alleged victim as it did with jameis winston

more than a year ago and winston himself potentially could still be punished by the school for his conduct on that night in 2012 when another young student up in tallahassee claims he raped her. criminal charges of sex assault though, those have been ruled out by the leon county state attorney for a case he said would unlikely lead to a conviction. winston himself only acknowledged that the two had consensual sex. the incident happened back in december of 2012 after a night of heavy drinking. eventually winston, two teammates and the woman went back to his tallahassee department. but the department of education's office of civil rights is investigating the university itself, whether it violated title ix rules, specifically, by delaying its investigation and meeting with winston alone, which is against legal guidance when it comes to alleged sex assault cases. fsu will only say, quote, we can confirm florida state has been notified by the office of civil rights investigation, however,

due to federal and state privacy laws the university can not comment. earlier this week up in tallahassee, winston and the national championship florida state football team held court with lawmakers at the state capitol. according to fox sports, two of winston's teammates have in fact now been punished by the school for violating the school's student code of conduct for what they did that night. one of them, a player, at the football team named risk cashinger, told police he videotaped the sex act in the apartment with his cell phone. later deleted it and threw away the phone. that even tried to engage in the sex act tivity with the other two that night. winston himself, he could also still be punished for a similar code of conduct violations if the school does continue pursuing this. and maximum penalty could be suspension if not ex-pullion for jameis winston. julie: wow, so the investigation how fsu handled the investigation of jameis winston

continues. we'll be watching it. thank you so much, phil. jon. jon: mainstream media have been patting the white house on the back this week for hitting obamacare enrollment goal while ignoring numbers of who really signed up. a report from one of obamacare's largest insurers, said as much as 20% of the enrollees have not paid their premiums meaning they're not covered. number of people receiving health care because of obamacare is well below what the administration says. why are the real numbers flying under the radar? judith miller, pull letssy prize winning reporter and fox news contributor. kirsten powers, columnist for "usa today" and fox news contributor. welcome to both of you. kirsten, do you agree with the premise, until people actually paid their premiums they're not covered? roughly one in five haven't paid yet. the numbers that the white house are crowing about are not necessarily real? >> yeah, i absolutely agree with that i can't think of any

explanation why anybody covering this wouldn't point that out because it is something that you've seen in the past, if you look at the state exchanges. they say about somewhere between, 15 to 20% of the people who put it in their basket don't end up purchasing it. so you have to assume that there is going to be around that percentage of people not actually purchasing it. now, some people will say, maybe it will be a little different. maybe they will be 10% because this is coming up against a deadline and so people will be forced to buy but i think that in reporting numbers you have to point out that typically there is, you know, a percentage of people who don't actually go through with the purchase. jon: the, charles krauthamer, who is frequently a guest of bret baier's on the panel, pointed out that these are, the 7.1 million number, judy he called a phony number and wonderfully precise. but you don't hear that from the bilge three evening newscasts

for instance. >> i think it is amazing we're finally getting some hard numbers out of the administration. but i'll tell you, jon, i may disagree with kirsten a little, after the negative coverage, the steady stream of negative coverage on this program, to finally meet their target numbers and exceed them for the administration has been something to crow about. of course we must always be skeptical of government numbers and skeptical of everything that the government says and claims but, i think a lot of media, a lot of us, clung to a failure narrative because of the problems that were associated with the rollout and because of a slow sign-up in the beginning that they clung to the notion this entire program was going to fail long after other facts would have led keptally-minded reporters to challenge that notion -- sketch i cannily-minded reporters. jon: one point i made on the air, kirsten, from the time we ended world war ii until the time we defeated the nazis, took

less time than building so-called website for obamacare. crowing about a website that actually works seems a little odd. >> i think if they hit the seven million number that is success. i think if they hit a six million number that is success. because it is remarkable it would get close because of all the problems that exist with the website. there is nothing wrong with them crowing about success. the issue is journalists are responsible for pointing out that the 7 million number is probably not going to ultimately be the number. now, it may be, and they may even exceed seven million but i do think you have to point out just because somebody, as like i said put it in their basket doesn't mean they're going to purchase it. i would also say there are still a lot of problems with obamacare. i consider myself an obamacare supporter. i want it to succeed but we can't ignore the problems that exist, that people are losing their doctors. that people are having to, pay

higher premiums for the same or less health care, which was not really what they were promised. jon: and, you know, paraphrasing, judy, what they're bragging about is the fact that we've started this enormous government program, we built a website that was so horrible that it is an amazing fact that it actually accomplished what we thought it might. i mean that is really what they're saying. >> that is an accomplishment. we have overcome the initial incompetence that led them, led us into this narrative but look, here are the bottom lines according to the cbo. by 2017, if the current numbers hold, you know, about half of the people who aren't insured may very well be getting coverage and that, as the -- "los angeles times" said, if current numbers hold, this will be the largest expansion of health care since, you know, in 50 years to uninsured americans. so the questions we have to be asking ourselves as journalists and asking the administration is, could it have been done cheaper, better, with fewer

problems? and you know, republicans were also responsible for offering alternatives which they didn't until very late in the game. jon: all right, judy miller, kirsten powers, we'll continue to watch coverage as this thing moves on. >> thank you. julie: highly contagious and oftoften deadly disease is spreading across west africa. as many as 120 people may have contracted ebola according to the world health organization. they believe the outbreak started in guinea, where as many as 84 people have died. amy kellogg live from london with more. hi, amy. >> reporter: julie, ebola is one of the most deadly viruses known to mankind and it has got practically, 90%, julie, mortality rate. there is no cure for ebola. you can imagine the kind of panic there is right now as health workers try to contain this virus. now ebola does break out in off from can every few years but this outbreak sun precedented

has shown up for the first time in west of africa. it moved from a remote jungle region to guinea which has population density of that of new york city. this outbreak is traveled large distance to multiple locations. right now in guinea and liberia, sierra leone and mali have suspected cases. senegal has closed its border with guinea. france and some former colonies in africa, french doctors are on high alert for any cases there. is no report of any cases so this is precaution. some international mining companies are pulling their staff out of guinea. the centers for disease control sent a team to africa and the frontier and it is very active to try to treat and limit the spread. ebola is passed to humans by bush animals, fruit bats, antelopes and chimpanzees. passed between humans only by

contact. causes fever, aches vomiting, diarrhea and internal and external bleeding. >> it causes a sort of immunological bad reaction inside of your body. your white blood cells start attacking you instead of the virus. this is what causes your organs to fail. >> reporter: julie, there is an incredible danger for people who treat the patients as you saw in the video. they have to wear bio hazard suits. it is very hot working in those suits. they can only stay in the suits working for 15 minutes at a time and always, in this time as well, medical people, medical personnel, have contracted the virus. julie. julie: amy kellogg, reporting live in lond done. thank you so much. jon: scary stuff. julie: yeah. jon: new details on the fort hood shooting. what base officials are saying about the gunman's argument with another soldier before the deadly rampage. that is coming up at the top of the hour. a simple change to your diet that could add many years to your life gunderman group. gunderman group is growing.

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julie: do you want to live forever? how about a couple more decades? a new study says you might be able to simply drastically reducing what you eat. with details, senior national correspondent john roberts in atlanta. john, do you want to live forever? >> reporter: there is new evidence, julie, the eating less, a lot less could dramatically extend our lives a 25-year long study from the university of wisconsin, found monkeys eating as much as they wanted were more likely to die from age related illness than monkeys who had caloric intake reduced 30%. the two monkeys side by side. they're the same age. the one on left looks a lot younger. the is calorie restricted. one on the right can eat what it wants. monkeys on lower calorie diet

live 30% longer but they would be more healthy during that time. >> if our theory is correct, we belief altered metabolism allows the body to be more efficient and live longer and healthier lifespan in that period of life but we don't yet know how that works. >> reporter: what is really interesting about this, a similar study from the national institute on aging reported two years ago found no significant effect from calorie restriction. so this new research has a lot of people buzzing today, julie. julie: what are the implications for humans in. >> reporter: rickey cole man wouldn't suggest the diet to anybody but a lot of people who do it, including st. louis attorney joe cordell who we talked to. he has been on the diet for 10 years now. was initially attracted to the idea of living to be 120. for him now it is more than just that. >> once i've been doing calorie restriction for a while, suddenly it became about the benefits i was enjoying here and now. you know, the added health. the added mobility and energy and strength and stamina. all those things that you start

experiencing very soon after starting calorie restriction. >> reporter: cordell told me it is actually not that difficult. what does calorie restriction mean? on a full diet, men eat 2400 calories a day. woman, 2,000. calorie restriction would take that down to 1600 for men and 1300 for women. get out low density, calorie vegetables, julie. it is tough to get down there, but apparently once you're on it, not too bad though. julie: it makes sense. we're eating healthier than we used to and living longer. you put the two together, right. >> reporter: most of us are still eating too much, julie. julie: that is true. do you count calories, jon? jon: how many beers in a 1600-calorie diet? julie: too many. that's why i have to stop drinking beer. jon: john roberts, thanks. >> thanks, jon. jon: a semi-truck left hanging over a bridge. the driver left suspended while his cab swayed in midair.

how he managed to get back on solid ground. plus, signs of life in outer space? hmmm, new evidence that shows one planet could have been hospital pittable.

jon: right now i want to take a minute about a documentary i'm hosting this weekend. fox news reporting, "enemies of the." we focus on stories of several americans who fund themselves under investigation by the government for seemingly arbitrary and even suspicious reasons. jon roberts sat down with the ceo of the famous gibson guitar company about federal raids that rocked that company back in 2011. watch. >> i thought it was a joke because, you know, homeland security raiding a guitar

factory, it just makes no sense. >> reporter: armed federal agents showed up at gibson's nashville headquarters and their factory two miles away. >> agents came in and told us to back away from our desks. kind of vividly remember that. who are these people? >> reporter: they weren't looking for bombs. they weren't looking for terrorists. they were looking for wood. jon: find out why the feds were after that wood. fox news reporting, enemies of the state, it airs saturday 10:00 p.m. eastern, sunday, 9:00 p.m. eastern. you have two opportunities to catch it here on fox news channel. julie: gibson guitars, beautiful guitars if you know how to play them. they're expensive. jon: i play three chords. they are a great guitar. julie: they are gorgeous and have birth dates marked on inside which is cool so you know when the guitar was made. really close call for a truck driver in ohio. take a look at this. the cab was left dangling off of

a bridge yesterday after the driver lost control apparently. it happened in columbus yesterday. rescue workers pulled the driver off that semi to safety using a ladder truck and a bucket. the driver is okay. police are investigating the cause of the crash. jon: front row baseball fan makes the catch of a lifetime. julie: a luck kirks lucky catch. jon: check it out. that is cardinals first baseman matt adams going all in for a pop up foul, a cincinnati reds fan snatches it first. that is fair grab, the legal's rule does not apply when a fielder goes over the rail. if you got it, the guy would have been out. but the fan got it instead. julie: too bad. russian president vladmir putin taking action after nato beefs up its forces in eastern europe about a russian invasion of ukraine. a veteran journalists killed in afghanistan just days ahead

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latest. some of the victims, i understand, are already being discharged. that's the good news coming out of this today, right? >> reporter: yes. five patients got to go home yesterday. at this hour one remains in good condition, and hospital officials say they expect that patient to be discharged later today. and then out of the three soldiers who were brought to this location in critical condition, they were serious this morning, but brand new information coming in, they have now been upgraded all three to fair condition. so they are improving, and that, of course, is welcome news. doctors say two of them required additional, second surgeries. scott and and white memorial hospital here received the most critical of the wounded. a few remain under the care of doctors at the hospital on post. remember, a total of 16 people were injured in wednesday's shooting here, julie. jon: and what else are we

learning about the gunman there? >> reporter: well, jon, he was from puerto rico, and there are some reports surfacing, some of his friends that are saying that he had become disgruntled with the army because he had difficulty securing time off in order to go back home to puerto rico for his mother's funeral in november. he was apparently very, very close with his mother. military leaders say that they are checking into that. they're also, obviously, digging very deep into his past. pedically speckling, we know -- medically speaking, it's been released that he was taking medication for anxiety, depression, sleep disorders. in his two deployments overseas, one to egypt and another to iraq, authorities say that he saw no combat because the 34-year-old's job as a military truck driver. but we still do not have any hard evidence yet as to a motive here. jon: casey steegal live in temple, texas. casey, thank you.

julie: attorney general eric holder speaking out about the fort hood shooting, telling a congressional panel today that a full investigation will be completed to achieve justice for men and women in uniform. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel is live on capitol hill. put the attorney general's announcement into context for us. >> reporter: well, julie, it was a house appropriations hearing looking at justice department's 2015 budget request, and before questions began, eric holder talked about the violence at fort hood. >> i have directed that the full resources of the department of justice as well as the fbi be made available to help conduct a toro federal investigation -- thorough federal investigation. as we keep striving the achieve justice on behalf of our pen and women in uniform by working to determine what happened this week and bringing help and healing to those who need it, my colleagues and i will continue to do everything in our power to prevent these horrific and far-too-common tragedies from happening again. >> reporter: there's also some discussion in that hearing about what more can be done by the

justice department to keep mentally ill people from getting their hands on firearms. they talked about better tracking and coordination, julie. julie: mike, the attorney general did get quite an earful today on the issue of fort hood. >> reporter: that's right. texas republican congressman roger williams represents the community, he offered prayers for the wounded and expressed anger about the way the 2009 attack was labeled. >> this administration's workplace violence designation clearly favors political correctness over truth and justice. nobody in america the thinks this was workplace violence. they know it was a terrorist attack. but lately in attack workplace violence, the victims of this attack have been denied the benefits, treatments and awards their deployed counterparts receive when wounded or killed overseas. >> reporter: and williams believes those who were wounded in the 2009 attack should

receive purple hearts if they were soldiers and the benefits that go with them. julie: mike emanuel live on capitol hill, thank you so much. jon: a veteran journalist is killed, another wounded in afghanistan on the eve of the presidential election there. a witness says ap photographer anya -- [inaudible] died instantly when an afghan policeman shot her and a reporter as they were sitting in their car. they were traveling with a convoy of election workers or delivering ballots to polling stations. the reporter is expected to recover. conor powell is live from kabul, afghanistan, with that story. >> reporter: well, jon, the runup to tomorrow's election has been bloody, it has been violent with attacks on campaign workers, candidates and, of course, journalists. the taliban vowing to do everything they can to disrupt tomorrow's election. we've seen tight security around the country, particularly here in kabul. now, tomorrow's election, though, is expected to have a high turnout. awful gans are expected -- afghans are expected to turn out in large numbers to replace

hamid karzai, but his relationship with the united states over the past year or so has really soured. the u.s. and karzai arguing over a number of issues, but particularly the bilateral security agreement which karzai has refused to sign, that has caw r caused a great deal of problems here particularly in planning for u.s. future security force here in afghanistan. but we spoke to dr. afghani, one of leading candidates here in afghanistan. he said in addition to tackling corruption, improving the relationship with the united states is a necessity. >> together we've come a long way. but there have been obstacles. the next decade is a decade of transformation in our relationship. envy will turn our relationship into the united states into an enduring partnership. >> reporter: like all of the major candidates here in afghanistan, he has said they will sign the bilateral security agreement, and he also welcomes a residual u.s. force here in

afghanistan going forward. he's talking about the same numbers that the pentagon are which are somewhere in the ballpark of about 10,000 american troops here in afghanistan to help train and assist the afghan security forces and also to launch counterterrorism operations. but like all the candidates, he must sign that agreement before the pentagon can issue a number of troops here in the white house d -- and the white house will ultimately have to sign off on it. a new president doing what president karzai refuses to do, which is to sign, jon, that bilateral security agreement. jon: conor powell, a lot of challenges ahead there in afghanistan. thank you, conor. general jack keane will join us live in just a few minutes to give us his take on afghanistan's first democratic transition of power. coming up. julie: also coming up, a close call caught on camera when a cargoes barreling through the front of this drugstore, missing a customer by inches. wow. and the latest on the irs

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julie: a scary situation at a cvs store in florida. a car plows through the front

door narrowly missing the woman at the checkout corner. the 84-year-old woman behind the wheel suffered minor cuts and bruises. when her husband got out to put the damage, she drove into the store. damage is estimated at $65,000. thank goodness that customer is okay. jon: yeah, lucky miss there. president obama's approval ratings have slipped since his re-election. many polls have him below 50% overall. interestingly, those same polls show more many of his policies are more popular than he is. that's in direct contrast to president ronald reagan back in the 1980s. when reagan was running for re-election against watter mondale, polls -- walter mondale, polls showed voters liked mondale's position on the the issues, but reagan won in large part because most americans saw reagan as a stronger and more competent leader. that has one author at national review magazine raising an important question: is president obama a reverse ronald reagan?

joining us now, mercedes schlap, former media spokesperson for president bush, marjorie clifton also, a former consultant to the obama campaign. ron fournier writes at national review, the chief political commentator there. here's what he said in one of his pieces. he said the rest, but he's talking about the rollout of obamacare, and he's todaying the respite now that they've achieved their seven million number allows obama's deep thinkers to the sit back and survey the political damage that has been done, and they'll find the landscape is charred. the president remains mired in a second term malaise. quinnipiac university poll released this week showed obama's approval rating locked at 42% which came on the heels of an associated press/jfk poll last week that had him at 39% with 59% of americans disapproving of his performance. marjorie, we mentioned you worked on the campaign. what happened to all that on the him and hope and change?

>> well, you know, i think their fundamentally -- they're both men, they're both two terms, that's what they have in common, and they both were dealing with a tough economy. polls change all the time, but what obama's dealt with is a very, very different economic environment than ronald reagan was in the '80s. you look at things like the cost of health care, it's up 241% than where it was in the early '80s and up 596% as the cost of higher education. so a lot of his policies have he been reflective of the times. he's more of an academic whereas ronald reagan was an actor, a positive, upbeat person. and, look, just look at how they age, they obviously get a little beaten down been the times they get toward the end. jon: ronald reagan was also governor of california which is bigger than most countries in the world. to call him an actor is not necessarily -- >> well, no. i mean, in terms of their fundamental backgrounds. i'm not saying that made him less qualified or more, but just

in terms of their style and how they present. jon: ronald reagan also had a huge problem of inflation to deal with. i remember in the carter years when mortgages were 13 and 14%. >> and 20% in the 1970s. he was dealing with a huge economic problem. stock values had dropped two-thirds of its value, they saw the liquidation of wealth happen. i mean, he was facing incredibly serious economic problems similar to the case as president obama. but to say that president obama is, you're right, he's an academic. he doesn't know how to be a consensus builder. he can't bring the two parties together. i think the pragmatist here was definitely president reagan. president reagan in his second term, the last two years, he had over 60% approval rating by the american people. he was able to work with tip o'neill, he was able to get bipartisan legislation done. when you look at president obama's soul legislative achievement, not one republican supported it. he hasn't been able to bring that over and be a true leader. a true leader is a consensus builder which is not what

president obama offers. jon: she mentions tip o'neill, marjorie. tip to kneel and president reagan were politically opposite as today come, but they did work together, and you didn't hear a lot of name calling going on, i mean, like the president slams republicans and slams john boehner. is that, is that his personality, or is that just what's happened to our politics generally? >> i think our political climate has changed dramatically. you look at where the parties are in general, and they've gone to both extremes. and i don't think that's something that benefits anyone. i mean, you know, to say that one's better than the other, both of them were dealing with equally traumatic and difficult times. the fact that obama's policies are polling well says a lot about an outcome there, so i don't think it's comparing. look, they're two different men, two different times, and i think, you know, the question is where does it leave the country and where are we now. >> right. jon: but despite that, i mean, president reagan had a higher inflation rate and, i believe, a higher unemployment rate to deal with coming out of the carter

years. >> right. jon: and, you know, within a couple of years the economy had roared back, growth, economic growth was up over 6%. we seem to be stuck in, i mean, malaise is a good word for it. jimmy carter made that malaise speech, but economically we are in a malaise right now, mercedes. >> that's right. i mean, i think that for president reagan it was about rebuilding or restoring the self-confidence of america. something that president obama has failed to do. we saw president reagan's economic plan work. on the other hand, president obama's plan -- which he spent over a trillion dollars in the stimulus program -- i mean, for crying out loud, our gdp is going to be, you know, lingering at 3.5% every year -- 2.5% every year until 2014 at the rate we're doing. when you look at the economic differences, clearly president reagan's policies worked. there was huge expansion. we saw gdp growth up to 7 and 8%, and again, i don't think we saw the same thing with president obama.

we could even look at the foreign policy analysis. i mean, quite frankly, when you look at the american people, there are basically only 42% believe that president obama is being respected by other leaders. president reagan was or very strong on foreign policy. he was able to have a victory of the cold war and the falling of communism. i mean, he clearly, u.s. leadership was present under president ray began which we're not seeing under president obama. jon: we are going to have to run. mercedes, marjorie, an interesting look into history there. thank you both. >> yeah. interesting. [laughter] julie: well, tensions mounting in the standoff over ukraine as nato beefs up its troops in eastern europe. general jack keane will weigh in next. plus, scientists making an amazing discovery on one of moons of saturn. what it means for the possibility of life elsewhere in our solar system. ♪ ♪

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built for business. jon: right now potential signs of the possibility of life in outer space. nasa says new data shows evidence of water on one of saturn's moons. harris faulkner from our new york newsroom with that. how much water, first of all, and how do they know it, harris? >> reporter: you know, it's interesting, jon, this is not just a droplet of o2, or water, i should say h2o. it's estimated to be the size of the great lake spear on, but no wartfront property for you -- waterfront property for you here, it's underground. we know there's a lot of ice on that moon, in some areas up to 0

miles of ice. so how do they claim to know about this new ocean? italian and american researchers made the discovery using a nasa european spacecraft exploring saturn and its rings. when that spacecraft flew by a certain area many times, the gravity of the moon would change the speed. scientists then measured the changes back on earth, and they say the findings show that there is water, a lot of it, up there. and by the way, the spacecraft is still at work. it launched from cape canaveral 17 years ago. jon: space in the headlines a lot right now, space junk to be specific. >> reporter: it's kind of like that movie, right? what we saw nearly take out the character sandra bullock in "gravity"? the real stuff just got a little bit too close to the international space station. it's like an intergrabbingic trash can, and the quick-thinking people had to scramble to move out of the way,

or that giant junk would have been within a thousand feet. that's pretty close in space. it's the second time this kind of thing has happened in a month. now, in the movie that we're watching a little bit of here, there was a big explanation about how nations leave their old, decaying satellites and other stuff to waste in space, and then bullock said that payment famous line, i hate space. i actually didn't hear it because with i was dizzy the whole time. anyway with, it's very dangerous. just a couple of weeks ago the iss dodged parts of an old russianwet satellite. jon: there's a lot of that stuff flying around up there. harris, thank you. >> reporter: sure. julie: major developments in the east/west standoff over ukraine as moss i cow recalls its ambassador to nato after member countries announced plans to beef be up troop levels in response to rush that's troops massing on ukraine's eastern worder. retired four-star general jack keen is a fox news military analyst. general, thank you so much. >> glad to be here, julie.

julie: this is adding insult to injury. i would assume that you would agree to russia's objections to moving nato forces within its boundaries to be appalling. after they just, essentially, moved 20,000 troops into another country. what does its eastern european neighbors do at this point? >> el, i mean, you put your finger on it. the gall of the russians to take a stand for the european nations to move troops around within the nato borders when they invaded another country and the next part of ukraine is absolutely stunning. this is exactly though, julie, the right move. this is -- we have to protect nato. julie: right. >> the russians have to clearly get the message that nato will defend every one of its 28 member countries. so moving troops, not just airplanes, into the baltics and into other border countries with russia is absolutely sending an unequivocal message loud and clear. julie: so what does nato do

next? russia has recalled its ambassador to nato over a policy of beefing up too far levels in the response of the buildup of russian troops on the ukrainian border, but how much power does nato have? >> nato has huge power. julie: does russia know that? >> oh, yeah, absolutely. they very much know the capabilities there. they toe will ignore this rhetoric, they'll ignore the wire brushing of an ambassador, get on with what they're doing, send a clear message to russians: lay your hands off of nato countries. and this is something we've wanted to see happen, and i think most people are absolutely delighted to see nato taking -- julie: what do you make of the a recalled its ambassador? >> well, the timing is pretty much driven by the fact that all these troops are still on the border of ukraine, and they could move into eastern ukraine or moldova, and if they did something like that, no military action would be taken against it, and it would further

encourage maybe the russians to do something with a nato country. so this is sending a very good message. julie: okay. and russia's move into the crimea region, obviously, speaks volumes. you know, it park sparked, basically, the worst east/west crisis since the cold war. what is russia going to do next? i mean, have they not already done enough? what should we fear for? >> >> nobody knows for sure, but i think what putin is trying to do, his issue is with the ukraine government which used to be when his stooge was there, yanukovych -- julie: right. >> -- aligned with him. now that government is aligned with him and the western general. he wants to change that chemistry. thus, the intimidation with troops on the border and possibility of actually moving into eastern ukraine. that's what he's after from a geopolitical perspective, and he wants to use the united states to help him with those negotiations with that country. julie: all right. now i want to switch topics. let's move into afghanistan. al tide is still -- al-qaeda is still very much present. we're supposed to be pulling out

you are u.s. forces by 2014. a huge mistake, in your opinion. >> if we pull all of our forces out in 2014, absolute. it's a smack in the face to the afghans and this participation in a 12-year war. listen, we're just about to have an election. it's a seminal event -- julie: tomorrow. >> it's the first major transition in power. that could not have taken place without the sacrifice that our troops and nato forces -- julie: absolutely not. >> for these last 12 years. julie: now, the retiring house intelligence committee chief tells "time" magazine president obama has gone kinder, gentler against al-qaeda and is leaving terrorists on the battlefield, and i want to quote him. mike rogers says the following: >>

well, you put your finger on et. the fact of the matter is that al-qaeda is on the rise in the middle east in general and in north and northeast africa. and when it comes to benghazi, julie, we were tracking ansar al-sharia or aas for a year and a half who conducted 20 incidents in the vicinity of benghazi which concluded with the burning down of the consulate and the killing of our four americans to include the ambassador. we know who these people are. we though where they are. there are what should have happened is the president should have issued a finding to the central intelligence agency just as president bush did with al-qaeda to kill and capture them. we have not killed a single one of them or captured a single one of them since a year and a half ago when that incident took place. the president changed the policy. the policy post-9/11 was kill and capture people who were killing us. he's put it back into the criminal justice system to investigate, to apprehend and arrest. and that is likely not to happen.

julie: general jack keane, thank you so much for talking to us today. jon? jon: texting and walking, most of us who have a phone are probably guilty of doing it, but new research suggests it can be as dangerous aztecsing while driving -- aztecsing while driving. the doctor's in with some frightening statistics. also lois lerner, formerly of the irs, she could be held in contempt of congress in the targeting investigation. some lawmakers argue she can no longer invoke the fifth amendment to avoid testifying. the new push for answers. >> ms. lerner, do you believe that there is not a smidgen of corruption in the irs targeting of conservatives? >> on the advice of my come, i respectfully exercise my fifth amendment right and decline to answer that question. @e@8ñúñ÷

julie: "happening now," the white house preparing to respond to a disappointing jobs report after the labor department said just 192,000 jobs were created last month. with the unemployment rate unchanged at 6.7%, chief white house correspondent ed henry is layoff with the latest. ed, the numbers are weaker than expected, but the white house and democrats see these as clearly positive? >> reporter: sure, julie. i mean, look, when you've got 3.7 million people who have been long-term unemployed, this white house knows they've got a long way to go, but they're going to point at the positive job growth you just mentioned and also the fact be you go back from 2010

til now, they've now created 8.9 million private sector jobs which, basically, reverses the 8.8 million jobs that were lost during the last recession. and i suspect that when josh earnest comes out in a few moments, he'll have something similar to what nancy pelosi said a little earlier this morning. listen. >> but i think 190,000 jobs is a good jobs report. we want more, but i would have to note that today we have replaced all of the job ares lost under the bush -- jobs lost under the bush economic policies and the recession that that took us into. >> reporter: bush recession, a phrase i suspect you may hear from democrats a lot between now and november. of course, the challenge for this white house is president obama's now been in office for five years and counting, and so in the midterms, republicans will be talking about his economic policies, not the bush policies. julie: yeah. perfect segway for my next question because i guess republicans are trying to make the pivot to obamacare going into the midterm elections. >> reporter: sure.

republicans think that's more fertile ground for them when you've got a white house to tout the fact that there's positive job growth, republicans going back toking reform. and that's exactly what eric cantor did in his reaction to this jobs report. he didn't focus on the economy, he focused instead on health care. he said, quote: obamacare-induced wage cuts hurt the people who most need the extra income. instead of helping solve the problem, democrats instead choose to propose policies that would eliminate hundreds of thousands of additional jobs. so it's clear you're seeing these battle lines drawn where the white house, democrats on the hill want to talk more about raising the minimum wage, other economic policies they think will be politically beneficial to them, but the republicans are going to try and make sure this midterm election is instead focused on health care. julie: ed henry live at the white house, thank you, ed. jon: turning now to the irs-targeting scandal, the house oversight committee set to vote on whether to hold former irs official lois lerner in contempt of congress. she, as you know, is a central figure in the investigation. she twice invoked her fifth

amendment right not to testify before congress. republicans argue she waived that right by giving an opening statement in her first appearance. joining us now, an attorney for some of the tea party groups that were targeted by the irs. she herself has testified before congress in relation to this issue. president obama famously told bill o'reilly that there is not a smidgen of corruption involved here regarding the irs. is he right? >> he's absolutely wrong, and he knows he's wrong. and the thing that's so frustrating, i think, to many of us and to a majority of the american people is that instead of doing what he said he would do last may when the president promised that he was angry about this and and he wanted to make certain that there was an investigation by the justice the department and people would be held accountable, that lasts about 15 minutes. and starting the end of june, first of july last year and even continuing through this day, the democrats have for some unknown

reason decided to fall into line and to try to thwart the investigation, to thwart getting to the truth. the justice department investigation has taken some very unusual turns in that they spent eight, nine months interviewing irs employees before they ever talked to a single victim. i don't know that they've yet talked to any organizations that were targeted. they've talked to me, finally, after i testified that they hadn't talked to me or any of my clients. so it's just, it's discouraging to me as a citizen and taxpayer because i believe very strongly from all the years of experience i've had before and after this scandal there's something seriously wrong within the irs. and we all have an interest as citizens in getting the irs to function in accordance with the law, and that's just not happening. jon: one of your clients is featured in this special report that i'm anchoring this weekend called "enemies of the state." wife and mother, you know, kind

of apolitical in houston, texas, until she got fed up with how things or were going. she got involved in politics locally, and she all of a sudden attracted the attention of the federal government. why? >> well, i think it's because, look, katherine is a wonderful person. she's smart, she's capable, and she's very dedicated, and she and other citizens in her area got together, and they formed an organization called true the vote which is dedicated to voter integrity and making sure our elections are honest and that we combat voter fraud. well, if you want to pick an issue that is going to really get the loony left crazy at you and angry at you, talk about voter integrity. she just thought, they thought they were just doing what good citizens should do and getting involved in the election process to be observers and poll watchers. but they really tripped a sensitive cord of this administration and the left, and as a result after she filed her application for tax-exempt

status in july of 2010 for true the vote, which took filing a lawsuit against the united states government to get it, she and her family were, they were personally audited twice by the irs, her company was audited twice by the irs, she had seven visits from the fbi, two visits from the alcohol, tobacco and firearms agency, a visit from to osha. look, this is not coincidental -- jon: we will get into some of that in the special that runs this weekend, but i want to make this a bigger picture question to wrap this up. for those who might be of the liberal persuasion, what's at stake here? i mean, this is the government picking on conservatives right now, but what if you're not a conservative? >> well, if you're not a conservative, you should still be concerned that the irs has become so politicized. this agency which is only supposed to be collecting revenues, which has now been with charged under obamacare with having all of our health records, with knowing everything

about every citizen and taxpayer in america, and do we really want -- i don't care what your political philosophy is, do you really want this agency, this most powerful agency that terrifies most americans to be able to come and attack you, audit you just because they don't like who you give money or to they don't like who you associate with? i think that's something that should be very troublesome to everyone regardless of your political persuasion. jon: we forget too often we are the government in this country or -- >> we're supposed to be. jon: thank you. >> thank you. jon: so what does it feel like to have the full force of the government bearing down on you? you'll hear some amazing real-life examples in our special. fox news reporting, "enemies of the state," it airs tomorrow 10:00 p.m. eastern time, again sunday at 9 eastern time. julie: well, right now new research on the dangers of texting and walking or texting in the anchor chair and not

really so much dangerous. but i am guilty of this. are you guilty of texting and walking? i do it all the time. jon: occasionally i will do it, yeah. julie: it's dairnlings. and apparently driving, obviously, and doing it can cause deadly accidents, but the statistics actually show distracted walkers have a high risk of walking right into harm's way. you see a lot of people in new york city texting and walking. >> absolutely, julie. texting and talking while using your smartphone while walking is more dangerous, they say, that even doing it while driving. 1500 visits to emergency rooms last year alone as a result of fractures and damages to vital organs. it's a very dangerous thing to do. people veer off course, people hit poles, people are hit by cars. remember the video of woman who was texting and walking at the mall and fell into the fountain? people laughed, but it isn't always a laughing matter.

>> i think pedestrian safety has been ignored somewhat, and the issue with texting and going across intersections is a serious public health issue that results in large numbers of injuries and deaths and a little bit more attention paid to it in putting the cell phone down while you're doing this can save a number of lives. >> text while walking in an emergency. there are apps for your phone with a camera so you can actually see what is happening around you. bad things happen on these streets, julie, and we know it. the best thing to do is to put this thing away until you reach your destination. i have to tell you, while i'm out here, more than 50 people went by me texting while walking. god knows what they're going to hit next. julie: i've never run into anything, that's because i've got eyeballs in my forehead. >> you do but not everybody. julie: thank you so much, doc. jon: you didn't give me a chance to finish this. julie: i'm sorry, please finish. what are you tweeting now?

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and the whole -- and the bush administrations. and the whole area of federal regulation doesn't get that much journalistic attention here if washington, much sexier to cover the president, the white house, congress, the supreme court, politics, and so i think that's part of the reason. it's not seen as a sexy topic, but it affects anybody who drives a car. julie: david letterman announcing yesterday he will be retiring sometime next year. he's not being very specific, but 2015 lukes like his -- looks like has last year. >> yeah. media love this guy. there's been a lot letters to letterman who absolutely did change the face of late night tv. what's getting less attention though, julie, is the fact that he was the most political of the late night hosts and pretty open about his liberalism. he had to apologize for making fun of sarah palin's daughter, why drag her daughter into this, and there was also that sex scandal. the country must las vegas him because he was forgiven despite the fact he admitted sleeping with women on his staff

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