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weekend. martha: look how cute that little guy is. caleb, right? beautiful dad-son moment. bill: well-done, bubba. we have to run. have a great monday. martha: we'll see you back on tuesday. "happening now" starts right now. jenna: we start off with a fox news alert. three people killed including 14-year-old boy and his grandfather after a gun man opens fire in suburban kansas city. i'm jenna lee. >> i'm gregg jarrett in for jon scott. police say a man in his 70s fired on a packed jewish community center and jewish retirement home yesterday afternoon. the suspect was taken into custody. police say he is raging anti-semite with a very long history of violence. one witness described the scene at the community center. >> we were just with the kid and parents were in the process of dropping their kids off when we were all ushered to be rushed into the theater for lockdown
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and we just had announcement made there had been a shooting on the campus and that they would keep us updated with anything else they heard. we were in there for about an hour 1/2. jenna: we're learning more about the victims today. mike tobin live in chicago with the very latest for us now. mike? >> reporter: jenna, moments ago, eric holder announced the fed will look into the possibility of hate crimes. because the individual that police believe opened fire on these two jewish centers has a long history of public hatred and public anti-semitism. of the victims, one of them is still unidentified. she is an elderly woman who was shot and killed at the shalom retirement community. now two of victims as you mentioned have been identified. a grandfather and a grandson. both of them methodists. they were at the jewish center to audition for a singing competition when the attacker opened fire. despite the early indications police locally are not ready to call this a hate crime.
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>> investigating it as a hate crime. we're investigating it as a criminal act. we haven't ruled out anything. i don't want to say terrorism word but this is again three hours into it. >> reporter: now the suspect has operated with two different names, frazier glenn cross and frazier glenn miller. publicly it seems he used the name miller more often. 73 years old. he has this long history of going public with his anti-semitic rant. weighs invited on howard stern show. "daily beast" says he ran for the u.s. house and senate with anti-semitic campaign slogan. the law center said he was grand knight for the kkk the law center sued him for intimidation against african-americans and the list goes on. preliminary charge is first bree murder. jenna: breaking news, mike, they will say whether they investigate it as federal hate crime and take it from there. seems like good reason for that. mike, thank you.
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>> reporter: got it. >> well the pay gap between men and women quickly becoming a major campaign theme for democrats as they court women voters ahead of the midterm elections. however, there's a new study out. it shows the actual pay gap a whole lot smaller than the 77 cents to every dollar that the white house claims it to be. that one certain factors are included, such as occupation, education, taking into account the gap disappears. one editorial from the pittsburgh tribune review calls the gender gap, nothing more than a false wedge issue. take a look at this. the writer claiming, quote, barack obama has divided this country since the beginning of his presidency. he has not been transformative. instead he has indulged one special group after another. women in this case. but also blacks, young people, the lesbian gay transgender community and hispanics in other instances. joining me now to talk about it, bob cusack, managing editor for
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"the hill." all right, so the washington post actually gave, i think it was two pinnochios for the president's claim the other day about this. fair or unfair? >> well, i mean when the editorial especially coming from "the washington posts" are going after you, then it raises some serious questions here. republicans don't feel the heat. they had a big vote in the senate and all the republicans were unified against the pay act legislation that democrats brought forward. gregg, when you look at this, democrats and president obama, they need single women to show up at the polls, there is no doubt about it. so this is part of the strategy of getting them to show up in the midterms. they show up in the presidential and looking possibly losing the senate and they need those single women to show up because mostly vote for democrats. >> bob, the presidents invariably has an effect on the midterm elections, even though he is not up for election and he is doing really poorly among
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women. so how much of a drag is that? >> well, you're not going to see him on the campaign trail, especially in the red states. his numbers are low. democrats are distancing themselves from the president. that is the key to victory, basically saying you independent from this white house. remember in 2010, the last midterm, president obama's party got a shellacking. that is what he called it. so these numbers, he has to get the numbers at least up to 50 and it is hard to see how he does that because he is not going to pass anything major through congress and, foreign policy, he is struggled on the ukraine-russia crisis. so democrats are definitely saying, we want your money and fund-raising ability but we don't want you to show up on the campaign trail and the president understands that. >> the other thing he continues to harp on now and again is, the issue of whether or not there is inequality in america but our latest polling data, "fox news" polling data, shows that's not
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something resonating with americans. >> yeah, i mean the problem here is that you know, president obama is not in his first term. he has been around for five years and so blaming bush and the first term, generally speaking it worked but, people get tired of that. it is like well, you have had five years to change this? certainly some republicans said if this economic record was, was a republican in the white house, democrats would be assailing it. so, whether it is fair or not the presidents own the economy and people are not optimistic. polls show it maybe it is getting a little bit better. overall people are not optimistic about the economy. >> bob, while unemployment statistically has come down, there's a huge disparity between the numbers, 6.7, and the real unemployment number which is 12.3% and if you look at any of the polling data, it also indicates that most americans
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think the recession is still going on. >> yeah. now, that's right. it is good news we were at 10% but a lot of people have given up looking for work. overall, that's what is dragging down -- the white house, remember the recovery summer a few years ago and then, that didn't work out. every time we see a good jobs report it is usually followed by a bad one. so it has been very inconsistent. that is going to be the problem basically between now and election. it will be economy here now will be the economy in the all likelihood that is in november. that's a bad sign for democrats. >> bob cusack, managing editor of "the hill." good to see you. >> thanks, gregg. jenna: fox news alert out of south africa. the judge temporarily adjourning the oscar pistorius murder trial after the athlete broke down yet again in the courtroom testifying about the moment he killed his girlfriend reeva steinkamp. pistorius claims he thought there was an intruder in his home. he went into that in detail today. he also says the killing of his
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girlfriend was a terrible accident. paul tilsley joins us on the phone from south africa. he got a up-close look. paul? >> reporter: general narcs prosecturo gerry nel was like a pitbull, with a dog in the bone hanging on to every word by oscar pistorius and not let anything, i mean anything go by. nel put it to the "blade runner" that reeva steinkamp fled for her life to the bathroom and asked why would she be standing there behind the door talking to you otherwise? not for the first time in the trial the judge stepped in to the pull the athlete's attacker off saying this question was a bit unfair. pistorius said he left steenkamp in the bed he asked when incredulity in his voice she never asked you where you were going. neither did she say she was going to the toilet. your version was improbable. when he fired his gun, nel pistorius could have hit a child a burglar who was not armed. the pressure from nel was
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never-ending. >> mr. pistorius, you now, you now have to give a lot of answers and you know why, mr. pistorius? it is because you know exactly, you fired at reeva. the other versions of yours can not work. >> not true. >> you did. why are you getting emotional now? >> i did not fire at reeva. >> well, the witness emotional, maybe take an adjournment again. >> reporter: pistorius forced adjournment twice by break down. nel was asking "the blade runner" was using his emotional state as a escape. prosecutor said pistorius was he said disproving self-defense and suggesting voluntary action. nel accused of pistorius hearing steenkamp fall on the magazine rack on the toilet after the
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first shot which made him change his aim to nor effectively hit her on the next three. and asked what to many is a big question. why if he thought it was an intruder, did he only four shots jenna? jenna: real quick here, paul, has the prosecutor presented any evidence? i know he has a lot of theories what oscar pistorius has done or did do. has he presented any real hard evidence to support those theories? >> reporter: absolutely not. he doesn't have any real evidence. he has the evidence of people who have heard things. nobody other than oscar pistorius, jenna, has seen a single thing. oscar pistorius is the only one who can tell us what happened on that fateful night, jenna. jenna: such an important point. paul, thank you as always. >> taxpayers could be leaving nearly a billion dollars on the table. we are just hours away from a deadline to get unclaimed irs refund. could uncle sam owe you money?
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gregg: well time is running out for taxpayers to get unclaimed irs refunds. the agency says there is hundreds of millions of dollars waiting for about a million taxpayers believe it or not to claim all that money. folks who did not file a return for 2010, for example, have until tomorrow to get their money back. john roberts is live in atlanta with that story. gosh, i wish that were me. >> reporter: yeah, i mean. there is a lot of money that is
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on the table here. in fact u.s. taxpayers, gregg, are about to hand the government a big fat easter present. 3/4 of a billion dollars the government doesn't deserve. in the tax year 2010, people left on the table, $760 million in unclaimed tax refunds. you mentioned nearly a million people didn't file a return in 2010. in a little more than4 hours the money becomes property of federal government. greatest number in california not surprisingly because of the population and texas and new york. highest average refund, alaska $649. second, wyoming, 648. , $640 in washington state. who are these folks? james robertson is with h&r block. >> many of them are young kids, students, people who just started out working that may have been under the filing threshold and not realized they could file a return and claim refund of with holding or they
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made estimated payments they could get those back. >> reporter: in addition to students the bulk of people who are due returns who haven't claimed them, retired individuals, low income workers and people who have not claimed the earned income tax credit, which for some individual, gregg, could be worth as much as $5,000 back. gregg: i'm glad you told me this because now i'm going to tell my oldest daughter, grace, who had a part-time job. she may be eligible for some with holding right? >> no question about it. there are a lot of young people, students in particular get the w-2 forms. they don't notice they had taxes withheld and they're due that money. what can you do about it? the only thing you can do between now and midnight tomorrow night is fill out and file a return. not like the irs will call you on the phone. hey, you have a bunch of money here, come and get it. having a tax preparer do it for you eases way. that will cost $200. with the average return of north of $500 you will still get money back. you can go back to 2010 if you
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already filed to make sure you got back all the money you deserved. people miss lucrative deductions like the child tax credit, child care credit, dependent care credit, nieces, uncles, aunts, even job hunting costs are applicable against your 2010 filing return. remember there is nothing wrong with avoiding taxes, gregg. as long as you don't evade taxes. that is the key. gregg: yeah, because i know couple of guys who are in the pokey or as shep would say the hoosegow over that one. >> don't want to do that. mitt romney said pay all the taxes you eand spot not a dime more. gregg: john roberts. thanks a lot. jenna: friends of yours in the pokey? gregg: yeah a couple of them. they're still there. all right, nobody likes paying taxes but it turns out there are different reasons the tax bug is on us. we asked in a recent "fox news poll," what bothers you the most about paying taxes.
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jenna: i can't wait to see these answers. 35% of those polled said the way the government spends our money. followed by 28% of americans who say the rich aren't paying enough. 14% said too many people don't pay taxes at all. gregg: 11% say the forms are too complicated. i'm with you on that one. jenna: absolutely. gregg: finally 9% say the biggest gripe about taxes how much they themselves paid? really? seriously? jenna: moment of reckoning, isn't it? gregg: by the way, friendlier reminder tomorrow, tax day, sorry about that. jenna: good reminder. we should remind everybody about that. while we're thinking about taxes how about the property taxes what is now the priciest pad in the united states? take a look at this. this sprawling waterfront estate in greenwich, connecticut, just sold for a record $120 million. gregg: does the pool come with that? jenna: does come with that. glad you asked, gregg. that makes copper beach farmly the most expensive single-family home for america.
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you get a lot for your money one would argue. swimming pool. two islands a mile of private beach. gregg: really? jenna: the main house, ha, ha, built in 1898. 12 bath rooms, 10 fireplaces. the dream home was originally listed last year for $190 million. so you got a price cut, right? the identity has not been revealed. gregg: who needs 10 bathrooms, really? lifetime and never use all those bathrooms, right. jenna: i'm prepare . for storage though. gregg: are you? see, there you go. you have got a beach but do you get the ocean with that beach? jenna: we have a lot of questions. we would not be instant buyers. that is good, 120 mil. gregg: speaking of beer, brewers say proposed new regulations could leave them with one hefty tab. coming up we'll investigate claims that the feds are trying to fix a system that ain't broken. plus oscar pistorius breaking down not once, not twice, all right, you're losing
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count. and he recounts the moments just before he shot and then he killed reeva steinkamp. >> can you remember what you shot. >> yes i can. >> what did you say. >> i screamed i say get the [bleep] out of my house. get the [bleep] out of my house. >> adjourn for a few minutes? ♪
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jenna: book to the case that captures the world's attention the judge adjourns the oscar pistorius murder trial after he breaks down after the moments about his shooting getting of his girlfriend. listen as he blames himself for killing her the emotional yet again by the prosecutor. >> even if there was an intruder
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that would have been an accident. >> fees follow. >> who do you blame for the accident? >> i blame myself. >> you at least blame yourself for an accident? which was what? >> i blame myself for taking reef is a's laugh for my lady. >> reeva could only been in position on the door, bullet in the right hip. why would she stand there, mr. pistorius, if she was cared. >> i don't know my lady. >> because zoo she was talking to you, sir. >> not true, my lady. >> all the screams and charges screamed at her and she fled for her life. why would she, is that not true? >> no, my lady. >> why would she stand up right at the door looking at you, looking at the danger? >> i don't know, my lady. i don't know, that is the how she was standing. i don't know. >> how do you think she was
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standing? >> i don't know, my lady. jenna: joining us criminal defense attorney and heather hansen a trial attorney. i was watching that part of the trial, live earlier. the judge after the exchange, stopped prosecutor, enough. she wasn't standing up. he didn't think that there is nowhere else to go here. what do you think about what the prosecutor is trying to set up? how effective is it? >> when you analyze what the prosecutor is doing he seems to have chosen his theory, murder. instead of letting the facts sort of play out and support that theory he is make up facts and cramming them up the judge's, in the judge's face because, no, this is what he is doing. for example, the fact that she was standing behind. door, talking to oscar pistorius? where did that come from? there is no evidence to support that? there is no evidence anywhere to support that. he is making up that fact. jenna: the reason where that comes in because they have proven, heather, apparently the first bullet hit reeva in the hip. the only that is possible if she
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was standing up facing the door. the prosecutor is making the leap, oh, you were having an argument but we really don't know that is the case. >> he needs to find a way to create premeditation. he is doing everything he can do that. you asked the question of paul earlier this morning do we have any actual evidence? we don't and prosecutor is bit by bit trying chip away at pistorius's story. on major things he stayed consistent but a lot of things he has been successful. jenna: what about those little pieces, jonna? the judge stopped case one time today, gave oscar a break. on friday she did as well getting caught in inconsistencies. oscar, if you're tired we'll stop the case. if you're not you got to keep going an make some sense of this. what does that say to you when the judge gets involved there. >> the judge needs to step in at some point. we heard a lost repet sieve questions secutor. badgering questions. sometimes i think is only under hot lights. he is trying to get oscar to break down to change his story.
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but those little facts don't amount to the malice necessary to prove the highest charge. but what they may amount to is something less like proving he was acting unreasonably not verifying that reeva was in ped before started shooting that bathroom door. that will get him culpable homicide conviction but not a murder. jenna: is that justice in this sort of case? heather, there was no one there to see it. that is the big question. >> big question, jenna, what is the punishment? because if they found culpable homicide as opposed to murder, she can give him house arrest, something less than 15 years. it is completely up to the judge. she will have a hearing about mitigating factors and aggravating factors to come to those conclusions. jenna: i have to ask you about oscar's behavior on the stand. another day, another break. he is so emotional actually can't get through an entire day. what do you think the impact on the case because of his behavior? >> i think it has become almost a non-issue. i think everyone is over it.
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the throwing up at beginning was very impactful. now sort of nothing. the thing i thought was really interesting the prosecutor points out every time oscar corrects him. i think that is to show, despite your emotion, despite your tiredness you still have it together enough to correct me. remember that when it comes time for appeal. it is an important part of the case. jenna: effective show, jonna? getting back to evidence. maybe this is part of the prosecutor gathering evidence of his inconsistencies? >> i don't think it has effective as the prosecutor wants it to be. we have to remember. there is no jury here. the really the prosecutor is pandering to the judge and assessors. the judge at times when oscar breaks down appears sympathetic. that can work to oscar's advantage. jenna: final question. interesting law in south africa, when you're on the stand you're not able to communicate with your own attorneys. here as well. i don't think they ever knew that. >> it is the worst. when you have, like over this weekend i thought about it a lot, because if you're that lawyer there are some things. he has been starting on stand
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fourth day. there are some things, remember this. we talked about that. you can not. so you don't coach that way. jenna: obviously makes a lot of sense. but when it is drawn out over some days one wonders whether or not this is badgering of the witness, jonna, it is taking too far, maybe not? >> the judge actually spoke sort of to that earlier when she addressed the prosecution and said this question is really unfair because he is at been asked 82 times and got the same answer. she is finally stepping in to help the situation. jenna: she is very calm. i like watching her. she is the one that will make the decision in the end. i will be interested in hearing her thought process through the end. great to see you both. gregg? >> you too. gregg: a new step in the hunt for flight 370. the search is going deeper and deeper into the indian ocean. we have a live report on the submarine now looking for wreckage underwater. and, the cost of your summer barbecue, it is going up
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big-time. beef prices, skyrocketing.
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jenna: just in time for barbecues getting started, record beef prices, highest in 27 years and there's no sign that they're going to come down any time soon. dagen has more. you say there's two key reasons? >> absolutely. it's always, jenna, supply and
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demand. supplies have been shrinking and demand has been rising. supplies in the u.s. have been hurt because of droughts in the west and the south in recent years so farmers, because feed prices have gone up so much, have cut herds. in fact, there's the fewest head of cattle in the u.s. right now since 1951. but at the same time, demand has been increasing from places like china and japan. luckily, higher prices usually cure higher prices. over the next few years, ranchers will be encouraged to expand their herds to take advantage of these rising prices and americans will probably eat something different. not eat as much beef, maybe eat chicken or turkey burger because the cost has gone up so much. jenna: in one of the articles they mention that, that maybe restaurants will start putting turkey burgers on the menu just in case. but when you want a burger, you want a burger.
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>> it's totally not the same thing. by the way, talking about pork, pork prices have gone up as well. there's been a virus hurting baby pigs and baby hogs. jenna: the bacon double cheeseburger is more expensive. >> right. a lot. jenna: this is a big story out of nevada because of the conflict with the rancher, the federal government and grazing fees. we don't talk about that but do grazing hit us as well as the consumer? >> grazing fees have been going up a lot but in the 16 states of the bureau of land management and forestry service overseas, oversee outwest, grazing fees haven't gone up in recent years. despite the fact and there's anamosity clearly between this rancher and the federal government. the government in some way does try to help the farmer. politicians don't like because
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these are their constituents, these ranchers and farmers, they don't want grazing fees going up but i'll point out that these 16 states that the bureau of land management oversees in grazing fees out west, it only represents about 5% of beef production in the united states. jenna: that's interesting. something it's a small amount of money. there's grazing on private land, state grazing fees and then the federal grazing fees. just depends on where the cattle are eating. jenna: wherever they're eating, the price is going up for the rest of us. we have more on the story next hour. good to see you. gregg: and the farmer and the government can be friends. oklahoma, remember? jenna: now we get to beer. is that the transition? got it. gregg: what goes great with a burger? beer. brewers say proposed f.d.a. regulations will do more harm than good. for years they've been given used hops and barley for dairy farmers for feed, of course. now the government is
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considering regulations on those spent grains to keep our food supply safe. garrett is live in chicago with more. >> the f.d.a. will tell you that the idea behind these regulations and is the health and safety for food for humans. dairy farmers have been doing this for centuries and it's never been a problem. here at revolution brewery, they get about 30 ton of spent grains they have to deal with each week. now, rather than paying more than $100,000 a year to just dump it in a landfill, the owners let dairy farmer take the spent grains to use as cattle feed. the proposed regulations would likely end that by requiring spent grains to be treated the same as pet food, making it more costly for dairy farmers and eventually customers across
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nation. >> we were setting a good example in the industry by repurposing this byproduct that otherwise would go to a landfill. potential physical -- potentially if it costs us more money, it will increase the cost of the beer >> there are more important things they could spend their time worrying about. >> without the spent grain, his feed costs could go up by more than $100,000 a year. now, those higher costs are largely why the f.d.a. has been flooded by comments from dairy and cattle farmers along with brewers and distillers. members of congress have stepped in as well asking the administration to reconsider the proposed rule. for its part, the f.d.a. is saying that it's working to develop regulations that will address those concerns while still ensuring the safety of food for both animals and humans. in a final ruling on these proposed regulations expected to come sometime next year.
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gregg: garrett, thanks. jenna? jenna: pro russian government seized another building in ukraine. a disturbing cabbingdown continues in moscow, including an american media outlet. we'll take a look at what this means and where things stand in that part of the world. plus a warning about a cyber bug that could target your computer pass with even your credit card information. how to protect yourself. we'll have that next. irement? i don't want to think about the alternative. i don't even know how to answer that. i mean, no one knows how long their money is going to last. i try not to worry, but you worry. what happens when your paychecks stop? because everyone has retirement questions. ameriprise created the exclusive confident retirement approach. to get the real answers you need. start building your confident retirement today. it says here that a woman's sex drive. increases the age of 80.
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jenna: world leaders calling on whos cow to condemn russians by pro russian gunmen in eastern ukraine. the pro russian forces seizing another police building over the weekend leading to a gun battle that led the ukrainian security officer dead and five others wounded. ukraine vowing to launch an anti-terrorism operation against the so-called russian militants. our state department denouncing russia. kremlin official accuses
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washington of starting an information war. here is the very latest on this. >> seems obama administration is realizing that russia doesn't really care if vladmir putin is condemned for 19th century behavior in the 21st century. now the head of the cocae conglomeration said that the voice of america on a.m. radio would not be renewed. he said of the voice of america, it's as if they broadcast from the underworld or a world that no longer exists. i view these stations as spam on our airways. he is the only russian journalist black listed by the u.s. over his role in promoting the annexation of crimea and in utter defiance of president obama's recent comment that r h russia is only a recent power, he said it's the only country that could turn the u.s.a. into
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radioactive ash. the silencing of voice of america in russia is an important tool as u.n. ambassador said yesterday. russia has a virtual monopoly on information. >> -- come barreded by russian disinformation and propaganda while ukrainians are being enticed by excitement and violence. >> the director of the voice of america said that the blackout is very limited in scope. >> it's not really much of a blackout. what the move that the russians have made affects only about 1% of our audience reach in russia. our big play isn't the small medium wave transmitter in a suburb of moscow. it's on the internet. >> state department is condemning the operation. state points out in the last year, russia passed laws imposing unprecedented
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restrictions on media other than the voice of america. back to you. jenna: we'll get into that now. thank you. gregg: in addition to the voice of america, russia has also been cracking down on other media outlets. back in march of last year, you may remember this, the anti-transmission from two private broadcasters, they blocked sites and proposed curbing free expression and pro kremlin executive was put in charge of a news website. the law now lets the kremlin essentially shut down online news sources. independence radio outlet was forced to merge with state radio and american journalist david satter was expelled. joining us is a former spokesman for four u.s. ambassador and fooks news contributor. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> what do you make of this? >> this is a real crisis, the fact that media route lets are being shut down and it's not just voice of america. the russians are really going
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through any independent media outlet that is trying to be balanced, not pro russian is being shut down or harassed. it's happening all over the place. we can't just sit back and allow this to happen. if you want to buy in to president obama's philosophy that either we go to war or we ignore a crisis, which i don't, i think there's a lot that you can do in the middle. that information parity, we can win this argument. this is an argument we should be relishing. it's about capitalism, about human rights, about greater freedom. this is what the people are hungry for and we should be going in and making that argument anywhere we can. gregg: i couldn't help but notice your reaction to san sa man that power, the united nations ambassador. >> she's right, that there is a propaganda war from the russians going on. no question. i agree with her on that. the problem is, she sits in the emergency u.n. security council meeting, she berates the russians for this propaganda
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ward and her administration is shutting down the radio program in eastern europe. we should be surging the funding right now and she just is sitting back and talking on the upper east side of new york about information parity. somebody needs to tell the ambassador when you're speaking in washington or upper east side of new york, ukrainians are not hearing you. we need to speak in their language right in the region. gregg: what's behind that? >> well, there's been this long debate, like david was saying, who runs voice of america, that they want to switch to the internet and that's all they want to do is shut down all the radio programs. the problem is that the elites in the eastern european region, in poland, bulgaria, all of the regional countries, the elites are listening to radio. they don't have as much internet access as we think they do. the other thing to remember is that having like twitter debates and -- you're going to reach the
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young people. it's very good. but you have to do both. you have to be able to reach the people who still have a radio and it needs to be a fundamental part of what we're doing. gregg: do you think this is a policy that is sort of set forth, if not, per se, but the mentality of the obama white house? >> yeah. i think that when president obama campaigned, he came in and he said, no more wars. i'm going to end all the other wars and i'm not going to start any new ones. that in and of itself is a very political statement to say. that we're not going to get involved no matter what happens, we're not going to go to war or use our military. that sends a terrible signal to all our enemies. gregg: right. that's your bye line, war or ignore. >> i think it's war or ignore and there's no in between. gregg: thanks very much. jenna: we'll continue to watch that story. meantime, back here at home, a dozen drivers shot at while heading down a highway minding their own business. new details and the search for a
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jenna: new information on a story we've been following. police ramping up their search for a gunman on a series of roadway shootings in the kansas city area. >> as you can imagine, there are some very tense drivers in kansas city, missouri right now as police try to solve a series of shootings on area highways targeting motorists. police have been searching the area around the southern part of the city known as the grand view triangle. it's where three interstate highways and u.s. 50 intersect. police have linked at least 12
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shootings around the area since early march. three drivers have been wounded by a gun fire. amazingly, none of those injuries is life threatening. >> we're very lucky we haven't had somebody more seriously hurt than we already have had. >> in some of the drivers didn't even realize that cars had been shot at. >> we just continued talking like, whoa, what was that? then went on about our time until my husband saw the hole in my car and we realized that it was a bullet. >> my check engine light came on shortly afterwards and found out my car was shot a second time that i was unaware of. a bullet must have went under the car and hit a part. >> officials are offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. jenna: scary. thank you. gregg: search for malaysian flight 370, crews are deploying
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a robotic submarine deep in the indian ocean. they're hoping it will find the wreckage there somehow. after failing to pick up any ping signals the last few days. here is the latest. david? >> look for the missing plane. as you said, they sent a submarine down to check for wreckage. the recent they are going to send the sub down is because there's been looking there for nearly a week. the batteries which powered the black boxes must have now run down. the area they've been searching is around 1,000 miles west of perth, australia. they believe the plane that was originally flying from malaysia to china over five weeks ago must have been diverted to there and crashed after running out of fuel. up until then was by dragging a
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pinger locator from the u.s. through the water. but that hasn't detected any signal since last tuesday. such teams detected four sounds over a week ago which they believe to be consistent with a black box signals. >> we need to pursue this lead as far as possible. analysis of the four signals has allowed the provisional definition of a reduced, unmanageable search area on the ocean floor. >> the submersible will slowly build a 3 d map of the ocean floor. the search area is about 500 miles square and can take weeks to map. and also, search teams have taken a sample off an oil slick they found for analysis to see if it's come from the plane. gregg: just an hour before midnight there. thanks. jenna: winter may be officially gone but the effects of the polar vortex could be lingering.
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seed your lawn. seed it! anncr: visit scotts.com/goyard for the chance to win a $25,000 backyard makeover. jenna: outgoing secretary kathleen sebelius with new energy to start off the week. gregg: secretary sebelius speaking out this weekend, telling nba "meet the press" that the time line for the obamacare rollout was, quote, flat out wrong and that finishing out her term with the obama administration was not an option. >> i said this many times, that
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the launch of the website was terribly flawed and terribly difficult. the good news was that we said it would be fixed in eight weeks. it was fixed in eight weeks. could we have used more time and testing? >> you bet and i said that from the start. but the site actually worked and great thing is there's a market behind the site that works even better. gregg: she said it could use more testing. what about that? bret baier, good to see you. and did that communication go all the way to the president? that's sort of the implication here, isn't it? >> sure. and who knew what when. we've been around a lot of hearings where kathleen sebelius has talked about that launch in different ways. and it has evolved until this interview in which after she has resigned, she said that it was just horrible. and flat out wrong for the time
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line to launch on october 1. i think the administration hopes that with kathleen sebelius goes some of that initial, horrible rollout talk and focus and then with the new incoming nominee, sylvia matthews burrell that they move forward to another chapter. it opens the door in this nomination to get new details and how people feel about it and how it's really working on the ground. gregg: a cynic would say that the president standing there and we were just looking at the pictures a moment ago, the president lavishing all of this praise on what a wonderful health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius was, last friday was a preemptive attempt for the white house to say don't trash us now because we're saying really nice stuff about you.
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but i suppose, look, that's how washington works. we're going to pat your back. you pat my back. she didn't outright trash the president over the weekend. did she? >> no. no. i mean, she fell on her own sword. it was the exact opposite. there were anonymous quotes in the "new york times" and other places about how the administration was so upset with her daily show appearance with john stewart and other quotes that they said she needed to go. she kind of tap danced around the question of whether she was fired or not and there was an interview the month before in which she said that she would stay on until the next enrollment period at the end of this year in november. but bottom line is that this nomination battle for the next nominee, currently the o.m.b. director, is going to be interesting. she'll likely get the votes she needs but along the way could be a bumpy ride about the specifics of obamacare.
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gregg: jeff sessions gave her a pretty hard time over the president's budget proposal when she was there to present it. this is not going to be a skate. >> no. it's not. she's well respected up there but you're right. last time she was on capitol hill, it was not a great hearing appearance for her and that back and forth with senator jeff sessions and it was many republicans and others looking at it said it was pretty evasive so the question is whether republicans will get some of the answers that they seek about how this pool of enrollees for obamacare, how it breaks down, how many young people there are and whether insurance companies will have to recalculate those premiums for everybody before the fall. gregg: sebelius never answered the question about how many of these were previously uninsured, how many are young people, how many of these are enrolled and
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not just signed up and the president is always very careful to use the phrase, signed up which is deliberately deceptive. i think by most accounts. so is she going to -- burwell going to have to answer the questions? >> eventually. you'll get to the point where the total package of obamacare and the enrollees and what that means for actual people on the ground, those facts have to come out there. and one would think that this nomination effort through the senate is going to open itself up to a lot of those questions. whether the answers come is another question entirely. gregg: all right. bret baier, host of special report, good to see you. >> see you, gregg. gregg: does the interview that kathleen sebelius gave in march tell a different story? we'll ask our media panel to weigh in on that coming up this
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hour. jenna: more sticker shock over premiums as a new survey of insurance brokers shows health insurance premiums have skyrocketed by more than 50%. national correspondent is live in d.c. with more. >> a recent survey of 148 insurance brokers shows obamacare sending premiums rising at a faster cliff than in recent memory. listen. >> so this was the largest percentage increase in any quarter since they've been doing the survey but a 12%, 11% increase puts it at the upper end of any increase we've seen for decades. >> that's the national average in a morgan stanley survey but the rates in some states are soaring. >> specific states is delaware at 100% increase, pennsylvania 28% increase. california had a 53% increase in their premiums.
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>> survey said the reason was obamacare. >> there are certain regulations, certain benefits that had to be in there. because of that it's driven up the cost of the benefits. >> 10 essential health benefits along with more than 20,000 pages of regulations, the current increases are for the first policies issued under obamacare in 2014 but insurance companies will soon have to set rates for 2015 as well and an lis fear the increases now mean even bigger increases next year. >> then they're going to see an announcement that next year's premium is 20% or 50% higher than what they're now paying. >> they don't talk about saving families $2,500 anymore. we've seen insurance premiums go up quite a bit over the period in which obamacare started to get implemented. >> now, even departing secretary of h.h.s., kathleen sebelius, acknowledged to congress that rates would rise next year,
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though she didn't talk about this year and if rates keep rising, affordable care act name could be in jeopardy. jenna: we just got done with open enrollment but it started up so fast. so people will have to shop again for insurance potentially, some of them z. and early summer you'll have the insurance companies setting rates for next year. they're not quite sure what they have for a risk pool but they'll have to set them anyway. jenna: thank you. great to see you as always. gregg: some severe weather hitting the southwest and the midwest right now, even tornados. at least three twisters in southern oklahoma knocking down power lines. other places could see damaging hail, strong wind, gusts and indeed heavy rain. i think there's even some snow in there. can i throw that in? meteorologist janice dean is live in the extreme weather
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center. >> no snow. four letter word we don't want to hear but we have a potent cold front. take a look at some of these temperatures. 33 in kansas city. 34-degree temperature between now and what it was 24 hours ago. 70 in atlanta. 74 in new york which we are rejoicing about. look at the 24-hour temperature change. we were in the 60s and 70s across the plains and now dealing with temperatures around the freezing mark and snow over parts of the central and southern plains. take a look at the watches and warnings courtesy of this cold front. that's one of the main ingredients we need for severe weather so we have a severe thunderstorm watch in effect for parts of texas, through louisiana. no tornado warnings but we do have severe thunderstorm warnings and we could see the potential for tornados as well as large hail, damaging winds throughout the afternoon and the evening. and the flooding threat is going to be high across some of these areas that have received really inches and inches of rain over the last couple of weeks so flash flood warnings where you see the marine -- maroon, severe
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threats across the gulf coast here. we could see hail, damaging winds and isolated tornados. tomorrow it shirts -- shifts across the mid atlantic. we'll see the rain but look at the snow. several inches across the ohio river, the great lakes, even towards the northeast overnight tonight and into tomorrow for western portions of new york and pennsylvania. we could actually even see a few flakes here in new york city so something we have to watch and the flood threat, several inches of rain. that means the potential for flooding and the snow on the map and easter is coming this weekend, if you can believe it. thankfully the snow will be gone by easter for these regions. gregg: i put away the shovel already. >> i blame you. gregg: i was tempting fate, wasn't i? >> i put our winter duds away as well. gregg: and my wife is not even
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in town to shovel. >> we've heard t. you're a broken record, my friend. >> it's old. it's really old. thanks. >> you got it. jenna: southwest flight diverted after a man tries to jump out of the plane. what the other passengers did and more dramatic details coming up on that. what appears at times like an old west style dispute, drawing armed militia groups across the country. we have the very latest on this. william? >> the battle here in bunkerville is over with the bureau of land management backing off and pulling out but how close did we come to seeing casualties over grazing fees and turtles? you'll hear first hand from those involved coming up. okay, listen up! i'm re-workin' the menu.
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jenna: fox news alert. word from the pentagon today of an incident on saturday that deserves our attention. a russian fighter jet made numerous close range, low passes over the u.s.s. donald cook. it's a guided missile destroyer. you're seeing a picture of it. it's stationed in the western black sea at this time. the fly overs were called provocative and unprofessional. russian jet made 12 passes over the destroyer in a 90-minute time frame, did not respond to multiple contacts and washirnin from the crew. this is not an unusual place for a ship to be but it's unusual actions from the russians. pentagon says there's no official communications with the russians about this incident on saturday but we're just learning about it now. we'll keep you posted as we hear more. gregg: new information in some crime stories we're paying attention to. a florida judge ruling robert
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corchado will remain behind bars after a hearing this morning. he's accused of cause that go daycare crash that killed a 4-year-old girl. prosecutors say the suspect is a flight risk. should stay behind bars. his bond remains at $110,000. a horrific discovery in utah. police arresting this woman, 39-year-old megan hunzman on murder charges after finding the bodies of seven baby of a garage in a home where she once lived. her ex husband discovered the body of one infant in a box. the investigators say they think she gave birth to the babies between 1996 and 2006. and a southwest airlines flight from chicago diverted to omaha after a man attempts a mid air exit. passengers helped restrain the unruly passenger. the flight arrived safely in sacramento about two hours after
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schedule. the f.b.i. currently investigating. jenna: sounds like a scary moment there for the passengers. protestors in an armed faceoff with the feds this weekend. people carrying assault rifles -- excuse me, carrying rifles on the road as well as one family fights to keep their cattle. the bureau of land management says they're backing down at least for now but will not give up its legal fight against the ranchers who it says are illegally using federal land for grazing and not paying their fees. bunkerville, nevada has the very latest for us now. william? >> let me tell you how this unfolded. and why the b.l.m. backed down in the interest of public safety. so on friday, and saturday, hundreds of protestors arrived from around the country. sympathizers with the bunkedies, self proclaimed patriots and militia. they have long guns, assault rifles and they saw his fight as
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their own. tensions escalated when b.l.m. refused to release bundy's cattle. police and swat arrived trying unsuccessfully to separate the two. about three dozen cowboys on horse back stood toe to toe with the federal agents who were holding the cattle in holding pens. backed up by militia, some on an overpass with guns trained on the federal agents below. >> those men did not know the militia was up there behind them. they thought they were on their own because they rode in on horse back underneath that bridge and couldn't see what was going on, on top. they stood that line of guns by the federal government against them without the knowledge that they had help. >> the federal agents were lined up with machine guns and tear gas and who knows what else. and we stood our ground,
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demanding that the cattle be released. >> feds were outnumbered and after 30 minutes they made a deal they would release the cattle if the protestors would let the agents leave peacefully. hours before b.l.m. had said it would stop seizing bundy's cattle. they thought cattle were grazing without a permit, a danger to the federally protected desert tortoise but the fed's roundup with about eight helicopters, while fast and effective, was also expensive and controversial. it happened during calving season and now they have about 18 orphaned calves who could not find their mothers. at least two calves have died. what do we have? we have the bundys assessing their damage, the government clearly misjudging.
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the feds had the sense and the protocol, rather, to allow and to pull back so there would not be any kind of casualties in this situation. many of the supporters here feel this is a game changer and that, again, somewhere around the country when there's a standoff with the federal government to overreach that they would say the battle cry is bunkerville. jenna: there's a little infrastructure set up for protestors that came. are people leaving or going home or staying just in case? what is happening? >> i would say -- well, probably about 95% of the people came home but i can tell you on saturday, you know, from one end of this area to the other was filled with probably 1,000 people. some on horse back. there were, again, many armed militia here as well. this is an open carry state. they had rifles, they had them in this position. they had sidearms and it was a very tense situation.
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when they -- bundy said the b.l.m. is backing off and i'm going to give them 30 minutes. they waited and they left and then you had the standoff but again, for the most part, it's over. back to you. jenna: good news resolved peacefully. thank you. gregg: i was talking to william over the weekend on saturday and he said -- and he held this up. he said they were this close to firing. jenna: that's good that tensions were able to go down. obviously there's more to the story. we'll continue to watch. gregg: lots more. wildlife trappers, trying to protect one town after a woman is dragged away by bears. a bug found in a computer program used by thousands of companies with the potential to leak your personal information. we're going to tell you about that and how programmers are trying to stop the damage from heart bleed. t!
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jenna: florida wide life trappers are on the hunt for a bear that mauls a woman. >> it's amazing. so far, florida wildlife officials have actually put down four black bears in search for the one that mauled 45-year-old terry frana. one bear was shot, the other three were captured and euthanized but they're not sure if any are responsible for the attack. it happened in lake mary near orlando friday night. frana happened on five bears rummaging through her garbage cans. normally bears will retreat when confronted by humans but not this one. a 200 pounder attacked her, knocking her down, mauling her. her husband says she was eventually able to get away and run back to the house where her son called 911 after she
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collapsed on the floor. >> she's fine, she's stable. she's still traumatized from it all but she really -- it's unbelievable. she's fine. she really is. >> the mother of four was treated and released from the hospital after suffering bite marks to her shoulders, arms and upper thigh. doctors also placed some 30 staples in her head and 10 stitches to cover up other lacerations. wide life officials plan to swab the dead bears to see if any of them have her d.n.a. on their teeth. any other bears caught will be euthanized or relocated. jenna: thank you. gregg: we're getting more information about a scary cyber bug making the rounds on the internet. it's called heart bleed and the tech experts say this bug can obtain a person's long-in password and credit card information. adam is live in san francisco with more on this.
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adam? >> we learned that heart bleed has been around for some time but it's come more to light. a pugh study came out saying that 18% of adults say they've had sensitive information stolen on the internet and 21% have had their emails or software compromised. keep that in mind as the heart bleed bug continues across the internet. it started last week or came to light last week and moved to the point where amazon, yahoo and others had to put in patches that are basically if i cans and remember users change their user names and passwords. if you use a website that has not put in a patch yet, it doesn't do any good to change your name or password. some company websites are still compromised. most of the major ones like google, yahoo, they put the fix in. it's called a patch. two, there are ways you can check to see which websites you use are safe. there's a number of places on the web now you can go and basically plug in the website
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and it will tell you whether or not it's still compromised. three, the medical industry is now very concerned because a lot of your medical records are shared and they think some of their sites and ways they use the internet may also have been compromised by heart bleed and four, the nsa came out on friday in a bloomberg report and a couple of other agencies said the heart bleed vulnerability was used to collect information about people. n.s.a. came out with a statement saying that's not true, they found out about it when everybody else did but it's causing concern with people who have an issue with the n.s.a. and the way they've been gathering information on people. as it goes towards the rest of the day today, a lot of companies are saying they have the fix in. a lot of them will have it up there on front where you can find out whether or not the sites you use are affected. important thing here to realize is almost every expert's determination, every single user of the internet is directly or indirectly affected by the bug.
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it makes sense to go to the website you frequent and ensure those websites do have a patch in. gregg: and what a name, heart bleed. adam, thank you. jenna: certainly get your attention. getting to the bottom of the resignation of kathleen sebelius. did the news correspondent drop the ball on finding out whether she jumped or got pushed out from the white house? our media panel debates that as we look at an interview she did. plus new concerns about e-cigarettes. what a congressional report is now saying. ready for action? take osteo bi-flex®. osteo bi-flex® nurtures and helps defend your joints° because it's specially formulated with joint shield (tm)... so now you can keep doing... and doing... and doing what you love. hi mom, dad... what'd you guys do today? the usual!
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jenna: wall street is rebounding a little bit after major selloffs last week. we talked about that. there were a lot of folks talking about a market correction. you heard that term. more than 130 points in the dow. the strongest retail sales report we've seen in 18 months. we have more on what we're seeing today >> good afternoon. essential a different picture than we saw on thursday and friday on wall street. dow was down 385 points last week and the s&p 500 had the worst week since june of 2012. we are seeing up arrows. dow up 137 points. you mentioned retail sales and we're seeing shoppers back to the stores the month of march. a rise of 1.1% so we're watching many of the names in that group pushing out some up arrows. tiffany, wal-mart, target and
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designer shoe warehouse. citigroup came out with a better than expected profit numbers so that was good news there. those fixed incomes still seem to be a problem overall for many of the big banks. citigroup came in with profit numbers that wowed wall street. citigroup is higher as well and web m.d. really wowing wall street. wow m.d. has been up about 20% throughout the day. everybody loves to self diagnose on the website. they've about surging demand there. advertising revenue goes up and so many folks love a lot of high flyers, linkedin, facebook, most of those names are bouncing back as well. twitter as well and yelp. most of those names with up arrows. the high flyers has done a little better today. they've been beaten down recently so we are in the thick of earning season. we're also watching the stock market moving in tandem with the 10-year bond.
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yields have been going up. so has the stock market. 138 points now in all 10 sectors we follow are doing better. technology as well. jenna: we'll take it on a monday, being up where we are. thank you very much. we'll continue to watch the markets the rest of the day as we've seen selloffs as of late. we wanted to show you something happening in kansas if we could qui quickly. there's a press happening in overland park, the area where we saw the shooting over the weekend. three people killed at a jewish community center in kansas city. we just told you at the top of our show around 11:00 eastern time that the justice department is looking into this crime as a hate crime. the local police have stopped short of doing that but it will be interesting to see how this investigation continues to evolve. let's listen for a moment and see what the latest is from kansas. >> we are taking the opportunity to confirm that for you today. first of all, from the first call at 1:01 p.m. until the suspect was taken into custody
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20 minutes later, our dispatchers received a total of 28, 911 or emergency calls related to the shooting. this information was instrumental in apprehending the suspect as it led to the critical description of the vehicle which was apprehended a very short period of time later. and i would point out that the second shooting has been reported by some agencies as having occurred in leewood. these crimes were committed in overland park. i had like to express my gratitude to the can highway patrol, the leewood police department and the johnson county sheriff's office in responding to our initial request for assistance during this active shooter incident. as you may understand, active shooters have fluid events and we have a protocol in this area where multiple agencies will respond and flood the area with any support necessary. and we are very grateful to our local community partners.
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as has been reported in the past -- jenna: we'll continue to bring you any headlines as we get them. the man in custody allegedly who shot and killed these people is reportedly a known anti-semite and that's one of the reasons why the justice department could be looking at this as a hate crime as they announce. we'll continue to watch the press conference and bring you any information as we get it. we'll turn to other news now. gregg: andrea mitchell is taking a bit of heat for her interview with kathleen sebelius on "meet the press." sebelius is the outgoing health and human services secretary. at issue here, the veteran journalist failing to point out contradictions in her accounts. a few weeks ago sebelius said she planned on being involved in obamacare in november. yesterday she gave a different account. >> the president and i began to talk, you know, after the first of the year and i went back to
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him in early march and said, you know, i'm really optimistic we're going to meet the targets. the enrollment is going well, the site is working well. i think once we finish this first chapter, you really should begin to look for the next secretary who can be here through the end of your term. and that really wasn't a commitment i was willing to make and he knew that. gregg: joining us is the contributing editor and writer for the american conservative magazine. alan colmes joins us, host of the alan colmes show. both are fox news contributors. so what do you think? was she telling the truth? >> don't know. she said something -- gregg: you don't know? ala, you don't know? >> i don't know if she's telling truth or not. i'm glad to shock you, gregg. i think she probably was. you mean to andrea mitchell was she telling the truth or smoke the truth when she was talking to the huffington post?
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gregg: i'll give you multiple choice. which one? >> i don't know and you don't know, either. i don't know at one point she thought she might be leaving and at one point she planned to stay. maybe things changed. conservatives would like to make a big deal about the fact she must have been fired. that shows how bad the obamacare rollout was. i'm not inside her head. i'm not going to call her a liar. i don't know the answer. gregg: when you tell me you can't be inside somebody's head, the red flag comes out. >> that must mean i'm inside yours. gregg: yeah. jip, what do you think? i'll bet no red flag on you. >> for sure on march 31, and hats off to p.j. gladnick of news busters who put us through the punishment of watching huffington post live to watch this. she said she helped the triumph
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of obamacare through the november election. and now two weeks later, she's leaving. of course, one early indicator that the president might not have been as happy with kathleen seen he will yus as she might have hoped and when he said 7.5 million number. sebelius is nowhere to be seen. watching who is where and who stand next to the president and so on, white house made a point of not having her nearby when they announced that number. that was sort of an indicator she was probably on her way out. but andrea mitchell gave her kind of an easy exit, didn't she, in that interview? it was very soft. gregg: let me help you out. i'll play another sound bite from kathleen sebelius. >> did he try to talk you out of it? >> it made it pretty clear t wasn't an option to stay on. i mean, i thought it was fair to either commit until january of 2017 or leaf with enough time that he would get a strong,
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competent leader. gregg: does that help you? >> no. she may have said one thing in one interview and god in another. it would have been good if andrea mitchell played whatever she said in the first interview. i don't know what kathleen seen he'll yus -- sebelius was thinking. i know conservatives like to make it seem like she was pushed out. what she should be doing is a victory lap over what you would call, jim, sketchy 7.1 million people that's been verified independently who signed up for the affordable care act. gregg: jim, i think it was even the president who called it a debacle and yet, on friday he was lavishing praise on kathleen sebelius who headed up that debacle. >> right. and there's plenty in the mainstream media more than happy top echo the praise.
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another called it a triumph and said that sebelius was mission accomplished and so on. she'll have plenty of cheerleaders in her career as she explains what a great job she did running obamacare, including the rollout. gregg: good to see you both. no red flags. jenna: is alan living in your head? what does that sound like? gregg: it's a really frightening experience. jenna: in your head, gregg. gregg: he's in my head. jenna: could the polar vortex we talk so much about that made a lot of us miserable all winter put a damper on spring, too? why it's causing pollen counts to soar and what you can and can't do about it. that's coming up. i think she tried to kill us. [ sighs ]
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jenna: polar vortex could cause your sinus to cause problems. it's creating a miserable
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environment forral al elergy sufferers. attending physician for emergency at saint barnabas in new york, do you have people coming to the emergency room for people with allergy attacks? >> we do. we get people with allergies to tree pollen and other things. jenna: it's easy to feel sick when you have allergies. >> it really is. and some people have a chronic cough. they think they have bronchitis all the time or pneumonia. it's very discon certaining for a lot of folks. jenna: they're saying, listen. everything is blming at the same time because we had such a bad winter. we're not having stages of different allergies. we're getting them all at the same time. are you seeing evidence of that? >> yes. what happened is the trees usually release pollen sooner and the grasses later, like the trees in the spring and the grasses in the summer months. seems like it's all going to hit at once and that's due to the harsh winter we had.
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so these folks who don't prepare are going to really have a lot of issues. jenna: how do you prepare? >> probably one of the most important things to remember is you should start your medications early before the symptoms really take effect. the other thing is you have to remember, as much as you want to open the windows and let in the fresh air and all the warm sunshine, you need to keep your windows closed to leave the pollen outside. use air conditioning, air purifiers, you need to shower every night once you come in from outside and that's also important with changing your clothes and having your pets outside. when they come in, you need to sort of decontaminate them. jenna: is it harsh to take a decongestant before you have the symptoms? >> chat with your doctor if you're on medications and other health issues. generally speaking if folks want to take an antihistamine, provided they have no other health issues, this shouldn't be a problem. but you should have a chat. jenna: the centers for disease
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control and prevention estimate that only one in 10 children when they're under the age of four can suffer from allergies but once they hit 10, it goes way up and that's something that parents should think about. the age of your child and how susceptible they could be for allergies, whether you're dealing with a child with a cold or allergies. >> many times you have to have a thorough examination by a health care provider. taking them to the pediatrician is not a bad thing to do when you're not concerned and don't know. usually the allergy symptoms won't give you fires associated with it. usually. but we get a lot of different combined cases and that's why medicine is still an art. jenna: as you've told us many times. the folks that have really bad allergies and i'm sure we all know some, is only the over the counter stuff, the stuff that you just get in your drug store, are you limited to that or is there something better or more aggressive that you can try?
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>> there's new medications coming out but many folks visit the allergist and they get shots which help desensitize you to the different pole ups and grss and stuff so you don't have to take as many frequent medications. jenna: do you have to wait until next season to see if it kicks in? >> start early on. it's not going to help you right away but it can contribute to probably surviving the summer than most folks. jenna: we'll have snow as gregg and janice were talking about so it could be a few more days. >> remember to get enough rest, stay hydrated and a good diet and vitamins and minerals keep your allergies down. and exercise. jenna: easier said than done. gregg: he had to say exercise, didn't you, doc? come on. i was with you and then all of a sudden, he lowered the boom. exercise.
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jenna: bubba is golf's top man today. he's getting fitted for his second green jacket after winning the masters yesterday. giving him the win over jordan spece we talked about it in 2012 after he won thinks first green jacket. take a listen. >> how did you keep your focus? >> inside the ropes on the golf
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course, it's easier. you're so focused on what you're doing. you're focused on your job, on trying to win the green jacket. you don't have time to think about the other stuff. if you do, you're probably not going to be in the lead. you'll probably go home early. jenna: jim gray is with us now. i hope i get the opportunity to ask him that same question again. two-time win in the masters, nothing to really snuff at, you know? >> one of only nine guys to win two out of three years, including guys like arnold palmer, tiger woods, great company to be in. jenna: what did you think of his play, just the way the masters went overall? >> he kept himself so under control. we didn't have the excitement. usually the excitement begins on the back nine of the masters. we didn't have that yesterday. nobody really made a run. jordan spece played tremendous but the whole tournament changed on the eight and nine holes. two birdies by bubba watson and
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two bogeys by spece and that changed the complexion of the tournament. jenna: good lesson about golf and life as well, i suppose, jim. i was reading an article about him today and over the last year, how he's approached the game. and the "new york times" was saying, here is this great moment, that he had to change his approach, that he had a meeting with his team which included his family and he talked about golf. what do you think has changed about him since his first win at the masters? >>ic he can be rough. he can be rough on himself and others, his demeanor and his whole approach. not everybody is always when they win, you know, ready to take on everything that goes with it. so much changes and he said, quite frankly, the reason i did so well this year is because all of the attention coming on the tournament this year wasn't on me. it was on adam scott. i didn't have to worry about the champions dinner. i didn't have to worry about the media obligations. i could worry just about my game. he doesn't have a coach, doesn't have a psychologist, does everything on his own so he can
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just concentrate on himself and be by himself and he's very likable and people want to be around him but he had to act like a champion and that takes a lot and he knows he wasn't getting it right. he admits it. jenna: he's a very unique guy. we see him, he gets very emotional. that's one of his trademarks and you see him with his son who he's so proud of. what do you think he means for the game of golf? how do you think his presence has changed or maybe invited other people into the game? >> you have to love this shot right here. he's kind of the people with the people. phil mickelson is so great with the crowd. this is great and the way he's interacting and his adopted son wasn't there last time. they were back at home. jenna: he was still a baby. >> they watched on tv and now he got to run out and there'ses a wife so i think bubba watson came from nothing. it was a hard working, blue collar family, his mom and dad. i think what he can mean for the sport of golf is anyone can rise
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from anywhere and be a master, be on top. jenna: two things about the kid, dressed appropriately and nerves of steel. no emotion when he was walking on the 18 grown green. calm as a cucumber. he knows what he's going to do. jim, great to see you. thank you very much. gregg: our top story now again, police and the f.b.i. are calling the shootings at two jewish centers hate crimes. three people were murdered, including a grandfather, young grandson, the suspect has a long history of violent anti-semitism. a lye -- live report next hour.
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a big crowd turning out in new zealand for the visit prince william and his wife. and paying respects was the air force memorial.
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and all part of their three- week tour of australia and new zealand. they are getting a lot of gifts for the baby. >> as babies are not to be. and we saw that with bubba wattson. >> and throw a baby in the mix it is fine. >> that's going to do it for us. >> have a great day, everybody. >> and fox news alert. a key dead line in ukraine and another government building falls to pro russian sources. >> the ukraine's interim president warning rebels that the military is about to get involved and that didn't stop the rebels from seizing the police station and calling on russia to help. hi, sandra, the situation in eatern ukraine is

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