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>> wait a minute. , he didn't get that yet. bill: what was going on there? martha: written 20 years ago, top 10 suggestion and didn't get the job. guess what? bill: got it now. martha: got it now. "happening now" starts right now. jenna: we start off the day, a new lead for the hunt for malaysia airlines flight, objects of interest, washing ashore in southwestern australia. hello, i hope you're off to a great day. i'm jenna lee. jon: i'm jon scott. australian authorities examining the material including a large piece of metal with rivets. they plan to go deeper, taking the search in the indian ocean far below the surface. a u.s. navy robotic submarine, scanning 120 miles of seafloor thus far has come up empty until now.
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the william la jeunesse with wie latest on the search. >> reporter: jon, ironic considering numbers of miles flown by the search planes, somebody walking on a beach, 180 miles south of perch, found three pieces of debris in the sand. australian officials say a rectangular piece of metal with rivets and fiber carbon coating on one side, quote a object of interest. in context there are three million rivets on a boeing 777. but boats also use rivets. airline insulation is unique. to a trained eye it will be obvious. local police obtained the objects. they sent photos to authorities in malaysia and australian transportation board, said, i'm quoted, the more we look at it, the less excited we get but it has not been ruled out. as for the underwater search, jon, more rough seas and bad weather prevented the bluefin
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from going out and mapping the floor where the pings were heard. they have requested another high-tech drone capable of going deeper. bottom line, flight 370 disappeared 47 days ago. so far officials have no hard evidence, nothing tangible or concrete, jon of the crash. jon: that 120 miles, 120 square miles ocean floor, they have searched that is tiny piece of ocean. >> reporter: you're right about that. 80% of the area with the black boxes they covered that. they need to go a mile deeper. hence the another undersea robot. jon: william la jeunesse. what a story. thank you. jenna: america sends a message to russia over the ukraine crisis. national security correspondent jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon with more on this message and what exactly we're doing. jen, how large of a buildup of u.s. forces are we talking about about? >> reporter: within the last hour, jenna, roughly 150 u.s. paratroopers arrived in poland.
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pentagon officials say their deployment is a direct response to russian aggression in ukraine. an army company from the 173rd airborne brigade combat team based in italy will begin exercises with nato ally poland later today. another 450 u.s. paratroopers are being sent to estonia, latvia, lithuania, closer to russia to send a signal that the u.s. and nato will not accept any adventurism by russian troops in the baltics. they are expected to arrive monday. >> would be very helpful if they removed their forces off the border and took concrete actions to respect the sovereignty of ukraine. for our part, what we're going to do, we'll constantly look for ways to reassure our nato allies and partners how seriously we take our obligations. >> reporter: the u.s. already deployed f-15s and f-16 fighter jets to poland at baltic nato states, jenna. jenna: in our reporting to the pentagon, in general what message do experts think this is
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sending to vladmir putin and to ukraine? >> reporter: well, 150 u.s. troops doesn't sound like a lot but they, and what is being, is notable that they're not being deployed to ukraine. the only thing that has been deployed to ukraine so far, jenna, is vice president joe biden who was armed with several million dollars in non-lethal aid. today's, today russia's foreign minister, sergey after love, accused the u.s., quote, running the show in ukraine and instigating unrest and tension there. in the u.s. there are divisions between the white house and state department we're told about what the u.s. should offer ukraine. >> ukrainian interim president came to this country and asked for weapons to help the defend his country and the munitions to support him and we denied him that request. that was absolutely a terrible decision on our part. >> reporter: meanwhile the borders.show no sign of pulling
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and the pentagon has said that the 600 u.s. troops being sent to poland and the baltic states will remain there until the end of the year and more u.s. military support could be on its way if the russians don't pull back. jenna? jenna: we'll watch what happens next. jennifer, thank you. jon: there is new political backlash to tell but this morning over the proposed keystone xl pipeline of the state department delaying a decision on approving that project until after the midterm elections in november. the timing raising serious questions about the administration's motives here. let's talk about with joe trippi, former howard dean campaign manager and fox news contributor. ed rollins, was national campaign director for reagan-bush in '84 and national campaign chairman for mike huckabee for president. he is also a fox news contributor. so, joe trippi, to you first, the news comes out this off the-delayed pipeline is delate
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yet again and the white house dumps this little nugget out to the world on good friday when nobody is paying a whole lot of attention. is there any coincidence there? >> i don't really think so. i mean what happened is a judge that was appointed by the republican governor of nebraska ruled that the governor didn't have the right to approve the pipeline and it had to go through the state's public utilities commission. that is now going to hang out in courts until probably after the election. there is nothing to approve until there is a route. the state department, the administration can't really approve anything until there's a route to approve and that is part of what's going on here. jon: so you would have us all belief this is to be laid at the judicial branch? >> well it was a judge, appointed by the republican governor. i'm not, i'm not laying it at the feet. that is just what the process has been. look if this was politics, there are six members, democratic members of the senate that are
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up right now. if the president was playing politics he would have approved the pipeline and saying they were the six, mary landrieu and begich up in alaska, all, pryor in arkansas, convinced him to approve it, that would boost democrats chance in the six senate seats that are up in a way that would be, i mean that is, that is the political plus in you're going to do that. jon: check in with your buddy ed. ed, do you sense any politics here? >> nice talking points joe. came directly from the white house obviously. at the end of the day nebraska made every adjustment. argued about the course once before. we'll get it through the state. meet all the environmental demands. the most important thing here the state department studied this and studied this and studied this and could find no environmental deficiencies. they have made two reports. this basically will create jobs. this will create more energy for the u.s. this is a very important thing to one of our most important allies the canadians. this should be built. should have been built two years
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ago. this has been a six-year process. at the end of the day it is about liberal contributors to the democratic party who are environmentalists. at the end of the day it is about the environmentalists. they're disturbing labor unions. they want this. natural constituency. this needs to be built. also would send a very strong message to the russians we clearly are on a path to be oil independent and basically be another provider to other energy sources around the world t needed to be done. it needs to be done. >> here is how the editorial writers at "the boston herald" see it. they wrote yesterday, with this delay the president is both proving that his party is bought and paid for by wealthy green donors and cementing his reputation as terminally indecisive. what a combo, the paper went on to stay. ed, there is guy, tom stier, a liberal billionaire, who really hates this project and spread his money around. is that what this is about in your view? >> certainly he has a voice in the white house. he promised to put $100 million
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into these congressional elections which is gigantic sum of money. and i think to a certain extent he is being listened to. i also think the president sees environmentalists as very important constituency. whether they turn out or don't turn out is always the case in the midterm. it is more about his legacy or energy being provided to this country or jobs which we desperately need. jon: joe, do you think he is fearful he doesn't want to anger the green side, the left of the democratic party? there are traditional labor union supporters who say this was a gutless move by the administration to hold off on this thing? >> no, i don't think so at all. i wish stier would take all 100 million and run it against the six democrats saying they support the pipeline and people should vote against them. this isn't about, if the politics of this, given what is up in the senate and majority of the, that is up in the senate, and the states, the red states that these, that these seats are up in, all points the other
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direction. there should be no fear of this guy running those ads against these democrats. that would help them. it would be an independent expenditure that would help democrats win the senate seats if we were to do that. i don't see this as it being political in that sense. i think there really are other problems with the route and with the timing and with what a nebraska judge has ruled recently that put the administration in this position. jon: but, ed, if, you know, they can't come to some agreement on getting this pipeline built, is that oil just going to sit in the ground? >> no. it will not sit in the ground. the canadians said they will sell it to china if they don't sell it to us or try to move it across the country by truck which is absurd. pipeline is safeway to do it this is safe project. needs to be built and very strong message as i say to the russians that american is on the verge of being independent of foreign oil. also become a bigger exporter and we should get this thing done. jon: and it would provide a lot
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of jobs, so say the labor unions. ed rollins, joe trippi, thank you both. >> good to be with you. jenna: ahead on "happening now," a man charged with first agree murder says he needs a visit to the tattoo trial or he can't get a fair trial. you can sort of make it out in the photo. you will hear more of what he would like to do. tragedy for hundreds of families in south korea. search crews pulling more bodies from the sung inch passenger ferry. the latest on the criminal investigation coming up.
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jon: right now new info into some crime stories we're keeping an eye on. police are searching for a sacramento woman who vanished without a trace over easter weekend. investigators consider 29-year-old danielle pruden to be at risk. they say it is out of character for her not to be in contact
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with family an friends. a kansas man on trial for first-degree murder requesting the court to allow him to make alterations to that tattoo on his neck. take a look at that. he is worried that the ink could give jurors the wrong idea. the tattoo spells, murder. attorneys for michael dunn, now asking for a delay in his retrial saying they need more time to prior. i may have called him a woman. michael dunn obviously a man. he has been convicted of attempted murder for opening fire on the teenager's three friends. jenna: to the nightmare offer the coast of south korea. 150 people are confirmed dead. the passenger ferry company says that number is expected to go higher. david piper following the story from bangkok thailand, david? >> reporter: jenna, it has been a week since that ferry capsized off of south korea and divers continue to search at this hour
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t remains a difficult and complicated operation. they have managed to reach the third and fourth floors of the submerged, up side down ferry. divers can only stay under water for maximum of 60 minutes, often much less, despite the length of time since the ferry sunk, south korean officials are still calling it a rescue operation. but it's a mission that is becoming more complicated. to search each cabin they have to, for instance, break down the walls between them because they are all compartments. a multly legged underwater robot is also soon going to be used to help in the search. the disaster has become a national tragedy for south korea with so many children dead or still missing. the revelation that the crew abandoned vessel while many passengers were still on board. most of those on board the ferry were students on a school trip. counsel something being provided to survivors and classmates to help them cope with the sinking. >> translator: there is not just
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sadness but also a lot of guilt. there are also a lot of emotions, anger and rage. also some students can not even express their emotions and are in a dazed state. >> reporter: and today police raided the offices of the shipping company and have also banned executives from leaving the country. back to you, jenna. jenna: such a horrible story. david, thank you. jon: you middle east be feeling this. statistics say it is true. america's middle class is no longer the wealthiest in the world. we'll tell you how it is that we've been displaced. plus prep school graduates accused masterminds behind an intricate drug trade at one of philadelphia's wealthiest schools much how police say they finally caught up with these guys.
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jon: right now, new details on a massive drug ring targeting affluent students in philadelphia. authoritying arresting these two men and a handful of their accused dealers. they are charged with masterminding a national drug smuggling operation that began in california and ended in a wealthy philadelphia suburb. arthel neville has that. she is live at the breaking news desk. >> reporter: hi, jon. authorities say this was a definitely a money making venture. it came to a stop yesterday when police confiscated marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy, hash oil, semiautomatic weapons and some cash. they also arrested two of the main suspects allege led behind the drug trade. 25-year-old neil scott and 18-year-old timothy brooks. now this all taking place at high schools in some affluent areas outside of philadelphia. towns known as the main line is how the drug sting operation got its name, main line takeover project. officials claim the project included shipping large
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amountings of marijuana from california to pennsylvania. they say scott, the older suspect, ran the operation and brooks, who is 18, allegedly supervised subdealers at the area high schools and these were not just any schools. they included the prestigious haverford from which both brooks and scott graduated. apparently they were on the lacrosse team. some of the public schools that were part of the drug ring educate students with some of the highest s.a.t. scores pennsylvania. authoritying say the investigation began in january and text messages revealed the plan that reportedly offered incentives to subdealers such as lower drug prices and being able to buy them on credit. so including scott and brooks, eight people have been arrested in the case. and an arrest warrant is out for another suspect. and there are two petitions for two juveniles. they face a host of drug, criminal conspiracy and other charges. all but two of those arrested
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attended the high schools included in the drug ring. jon? jon: i know that story is really rocking philadelphia. >> reporter: you know it is. jon: arthel neville. thank you. jenna: well american middle class is no world's richest apparently, this according to some new analysis from the "new york times" that finds we lost that distinction to our neighbors to the north. what it means. we have charlie gasparino, senior correspondent for fox business. charlie, walk us through this, if you will. what is it really telling us about the middle class in this country and other countries? >> reporter: we should point out this is a trend that has been going on a long time. the middle class has been shrinking, over the last 20 years unfortunately, rich people gotten richer thanks to the stock market. poor people have grown. middle class is caught in the middle. it is really a matter of global economics. the problem is the prescriptions being used to deal with this, higher taxes on the wealthy, making small businesses pay higher taxes is actually counter productive to the middle class. the middle class, my dad was a
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bartender. he worked in a restaurant. i talk to restaurateurs all the time. because of high taxes and all the regulations it is very hard to keep people at work. those are jobs. those bartending jobs that pay decently are the bridges from the middle class to a better living for your children where they, you can put them through college. those jobs are disappearing. they're disappearing partially because of, let's face it, construction jobs and manufacturing jobs are going overseas but what was supposed to take its place is these small businesses, these small business jobs, entrepeneurs and that is very, very hard to be an entrepreneur right now in this country. jenna: let's talk a little bit more about that. by the way i've been asking for the eggplant parma john recipe -- >> my dad couldn't boil water. i learned from my mother. jenna: charlie will not share that i'm sure it is delicious with the background from his folks. charlie, we talk about trickle-down economics, we hear that a lot. let people have a success, do not beget the rich because
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they're wealthy and their wagers are growing and middle class is not. >> right. jenna: why isn't that happening? the point of the article saying that the rich are getting richer and trickle down impact is not getting that. with all respect to the "new york times," i have a lot of friend there. we had five years of obama-nomics which is hardly trickle-down economics. that is the opposite. taxes heaped on regulations. that gap between rich and poor has grown. middle class people have been getting screwed. if you think about it, what do middle class people put money in? a lot are not not stock market. they put it in the housing market. the housing market is very much related to the overall economy. housing prices have bounced off the bottom but not much. so middle class people are getting squeezed in this economy quite frankly is the president's economy. this is no longer george bush's economy. it stopped being his economy two years into it. the policies he needed to get the housing market back, get the general economy moving that would help the middle class has
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not worked. jenna: are you saying, charlie this is a permanent trend? is this something going on from now into the future or is this cyclical? is this a pause in policies and it can change? >> i think it can change. here's the thing. we'll not be able to compete with india and china and other places for, for manufacturing jobs. they can pay people pennies on dollar. china employs slave labor. we'll not do that how do you increase productivity? how do you get jobs going here that are decent-paying? you have to get people to be entrepreneurs and stop taxing people to be entrepreneurs. i'm telling you talk to restaurateurs in this city, how difficult it is to hire people in the jobs as bartenders around waiters. those jobs, okay, they're not best-paying but they're bridges for their kids to get something better and go to college. that is how my parents did it. those jobs are dwindling i believe because of taxes and regulation. we need more entrepreneurs. a why tax entrepeneurs? that is what we do all day in
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this country. jenna: that is something we'll be talking about. that is the a good question, is this new normal for american dream or is this a stage? >> or can we fight out of it? jenna: seems like a big question. i have will work on rest peep. i'm not giving up. >> i will give it to you off-camara. jenna: charlie, thank you. jon: what would reagan do. new evidence in a double-murder trial. a man accused of killing two teenagers who broke into his home. he claims it is self-defense. what shocking new recordings revealed in court. bullying isn't just a childhood problem. a new study showing damaging effects can linger well into middle age and beyond. eason, wiu be a sound sleeper, or... a mouth breather? well, put on a breathe right strip and instantly open your nose up to 38% more than allergy medicines alone. so you can breathe and sleep. shut your mouth and sleep right. breathe right.
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jenna: welcome back, everyone. right now a quick look at what is to come in "happening now." childhood bully. new study reveals how long the effects can last. we'll talk to dr. chuck about that. investigation of chicago serial killer john wayne gacy. the unrelated crime police say it helped solve. a little boy giving back in a big way. what inspired him to use his personal savings for a program aimed at saving lives. jon: new info for you now in a double-murder case we've been following out of minnesota. the jury in the byron smith murder trial, listening to chilling audio recordings of the moments he shot and killed two teenagers inside of his home. smith claims it was self-defense.
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garrett tenney has that. he is live in chicago for us. garrett. >> reporter: jon, these audio recordings are a key part of the prosecution's case that byron smith, that he wasn't, someone who was just trying to defend himself, but was a vigilante out there to serve justice on his own terms. the jury listened intently to the audio recordings. you can hear in them the sound of shattering glass as 17-year-old nick brady broke a window of smith's home. the 65-year-old was sitting in his basement and could hear the footsteps of the intruder walking around and comingdown stairs. two shots rang out hitting the teen. then a third shot to the face because smith told investigators, quote, i wanted him dead. 11 minutes later you can hear the teen's cousin, hayley keefe officer coming into the home, walking downstairs and stumbling as he shot. he tried to shoot again and his rifle jams and he told the girl, quote, sorry about that.
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before unloading self round in from his revolver and calling the eight teen-year-old an expletive. the client was terrified after targeted by burglars a dozen times and stealing several guns and thousands of dollars a month before the shooting. he told the police quote, i have a choice being the shooter or getting shot. the defense points out that the two teens were linked to several other area robberies, though they call it a tragic incident all around. the boy scout leader is facing life in prison and charged with two counts of first degree premeditated murder and two counts of second agree murder. later today the jury will see video recordings from security cameras smith set up around the perimeter of the home and where they will view the actual break-in, jon. jon: how was it that the gunshots came to be record the in the first place? he was actually recording what was going on that day? >> his attorney said he was living in fear around had a
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handheld recording device he had going for six hours during that time all together that day. they narrowed it down to 15 minutes recording from what the break-in took place to the end of the shootings though. jon: you can hear the glass breaking upstairs. clearly there was a break-in going on? >> you can hear it on ad i don't recordings and video recordings from the security cameras you can see the whole thing. there is no question there was a break-in that was underway. jon: the question is, was his response appropriate to the break-in? garrett tenney, stay on it for us. thank you. >> reporter: you got it. jenna: ahead on "happening now," you remember the daredevil, air quotes, daredevil who post ad video speeding all the way around manhattan in 24 minutes. apparently he didn't learn his lesson. we'll explain. we'll hear from a remarkable nine-year-old boy whose amazing act of generosity inspired an entire community. >> i was saving $300 for a ps4.
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what's your policy? jenna: coming up next hour, he is usama bin laden's cousin and an al qaeda commander. where he is emerging now and what his location could mean for the terror group's efforts to recruit and train new fighters. a new report finding out that the irs is shelling out new bonuses with less-than-stellar records from drug abusers to tax cheats. how much irs gave workers with disciplinary strikes. giving patient as second chance to see. it is called the bionic eye. how it works and who could benefit from it. it is an amazing invention. we can't wait to tell you about it. jon: well a daredevil driver is in hot water again. police in new york city arresting speed demon adam tang for driving on a suspended license in the bronx. he lost his driving privileges after this video went viral,
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when tang, who goes by the alias, after free duck, going around the island of manhattan, 26 miles in all in 26 minutes. that is no small feat in new york city. the video garnering more than 800,000 views on youtube. with the judge raising tank's bail from 5 to $15,000. we may have seen the last of his lead foot for a while. jenna: let's hope. jon: let's hope. >> a new study on effect much bullying whether these effects can last long after your child leaves school. victims of bullies as children suffer well into the adulthood even into the age of 50, 60 we have dr. charles williams, drexel university psychologist. we know him fondly as dr. chuck. nice to have you on the program, dr. chuck. let me ask you about bullying in general. is it actual bullying that impacts someone so much they
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feel the impact later in life or is it the time that the bullying happens? because you're young and impressionable? >> no, i think it is the actual bullying. we really have to sort of drill down to the psychologically harmful effects, the negative effects of bullying. that happened in real time, as you mentioned, could linger well into our 40s and 50s. what we know that bullying can be emotionally damaging. it affects yourself esteem. you feel bad about yourself. you develop a poor self-concept, you feel shame. all these things can be damaging to our psyche in the interim and later in life. that is why it is really important for us to talk about these things. jenna: you liked this study. you thought it was a good study to look at. showed people that were bullied when they were younger and had depression and anxiety disorder and committed suicide with issues dealing well into the 40s and 50s. how do you prevent that.
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>> you prevent bullying. that time and again i said it starts in the home. when you have kids that go to school and bully, a lot of it is treating kid who are different badly, whether you're christian, muslim, black, a little bit overweight, short. i was four 11 until in the 10th grade, imagine that not that i'm huge now. these are the reason why we bully. kids learn to treat people diff from what happens in the home. if parents teach their kids to respect diversity and difference, we won't have the issue. beyond that, believe it or not there are adults right now, superintendents, people on school boards, teachers, principals, coach, who think bullying is okay. they think it is a rite of passage but this study is an eye-opener. it teaches all of us not only as kids but as adults bullying can do a lot of psychological harm and is damaging so we need to stop it because of that. jenna: i was reading, so interesting, the university of texas at arlington did a study
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last year. at schools with established anti-bullying perhaps, had higher rate or higher likelihood of becoming victims of bullying. and so that raises the question about how to approach it. i know you say, dr. chuck, it has to started in home. if it is not. then, should a study like that deter schools from addressing it head-on because of fear it actually causes more bullying? >> well that is an interesting study. what i would say this, jenna. learning how to treat people always starts in the home. however if you look at the research, the research says that when kid report being bullied, they say 79% of the time, almost 80% of the time it is happening in our schools, which is why most states have anti-bullying laws on the books, with new jersey having one of the most draconian, some would say with anti-bullying bill of rights. we know how governor christie does his thing. he is a pretty tough guy. that is where our kids are. that's where we spend a lot of
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our time and that we have no choice. what we see happening people are reporting bullying more in schools with anti-bullying programs. like marketing. if you talk about it more it looks like it is happening more. jenna: let me talk about, if you fall victim if you will, really bad bullying, not their fault, happens to them in school, how do they prevent themselves being victimized later in life? being in the 30s and 40s, say i'm this way because i was bullied in high school. how do you prevent that feeling of being a victim for the rest of your life? >> well, what i think aside from having these anti-bullying laws on the books, we have to add to that, because of this research that we provide mental health counseling. so if you have been bullied it is good to go to psychological professional, school counselor, community counselor to work through that, may be hard to work on your own to build self-esteem, to help you know it
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wasn't your fault. you can two from that to have healthy, productive, adult relationships. >> quick final question on totally different topic but plays in here. >> sure, that's what i'm here for. jenna: i want to finish on lighter note. i am getting my money's worth. i have a whole lot of things to talk about. there are studies on this, and how we develop as we get older there was interesting study that looked at group of studies that actually we become nicer as we get older? and amongst our group here at "happening now," we have questions whether or not that was actually the case. is that true, dr. chuck? we psychologically, do we get, do we improve with age? >> i think we do improve with age. you definitely have. i have, right. i think that what happens is, and i said this to a person before i went on the air, especially with men, you become more sensitive, more caring. it is not about being tough all the time. i cry at babies now. don't tell anybody i said that. as i see a movie where someone is getting hurt i can feel that
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now. i noticed that 20 years ago i wasn't like that. so i think there is some truth to that study but the other thing that happens when we get a little bit older, i would imagine, 70s, 80s maybe it goes back the other way, things start to hurt. our hips, back, all that. maybe that is why we're a bit crotchety. jenna: we talked about being grumpy on the program as we, right around age 70 for men. >> right. as long as my hip is okay, jenna, i will be okay. when my hip starts to bother me i will start to be a little aggressive maybe and crotchety. jenna: at that point we might cut you a little bit of a break. dr. chuck, great to see you as always. thank you so much. >> thank you, jenna, nasa astronauts are doing some outdoor work this morning. two astronauts at the international space station making a space whack or spacewalk i should say, replacing a backup computer that failed testing. phil keating is live in miami. i guess everything seems to be going he well up there, phil. >> absolutely, despite the fact
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these american astronauts spent much of the morning spacewalking and screwing around quite lift rally. they accomplished this critical computer repair job in just about 45 micro gravity minutes. at 10:00 a.m. eastern time rick mass squawk yo and steve swanson came out of the airlock over asia and unscrewed the multiplexer computer or mdm for short. it is critically important because it is only backup to control the solar array joints that provide power to six men living in space. once they hit the western hemisphere, daylight returned and they inserted the new computer around screwed it snuggly into place. >> you have a new mdm. >> excellent work, gentlemen. >> reporter: at one point mission control, someone in houston thought they saw on video screens an errant tool floating away into space. that could be dangerous as it
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could damage the exterior of the space station. neither astronaut could find it or discover anything missing. so down in houston they're now reviewing that tape, jon. jon: phil keating. the water in the spacesuit issue though is that an issue again today? >> reporter: absolutely. that is one of the main things engineers down in houston were analyzing during the spacewalk. but today no water issues up in space. you may remember last summer, luca palmenttieri his helmet filled with gallon of water while he was walking. the spacesuits were scrubbed and that seeped to fix the problem. somewhat routine spacewalk allowed astronaut as little moment of bliss up there. >> steve. >> looks like we're coming over ecuador and peru, that area. >> that's right. he was a geography major. >> reporter: that was other kind of screwing around in space. they accomplished the whole job,
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total spacewalk time, one hour, 36 minutes. after all taking in the view while you're spacewalking, isn't that why millions of people dream of being astronaut, jon? >> certainly what i did. phil keating in miami. phil, thank you. >> reporter: all right. jenna: new information on a decades old cold case. how authorities say an investigation into a serial killer helped solve a murder he didn't commit. also we're going to introduce you to a nine-year-old we can all be proud of. a boy forgoes videogames to help save lives. you will meet hector coming up next. the performance review.
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jenna: we have an inspiring story out of texas we're so inspired to tell you about. hector montoya, like so many kid was saving up for a playstation 4 this christmas. when a fire struck the community, he thought the money would be better spent to prevent the tragedy from happening again. we have hector montoya and his mother with us today. great to see you. how are you doing today, tech who are? >> i'm doing good. jenna: tell me a little bit how you came up with this idea. >> i was watching the news in january and i seen that a mother and a child had died in a fire. and i had $300. i asked my mom why didn't they have a smoke detector? she says some people do, some people don't. i had $300, i thought saving a life was more important. i put it all in smoke detectors.
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jenna: so you went out, took the $300, and what did you do? did you go to store to buy smoke detectors? did you talk to the fire department? how were you able to take your $300 and help so many families? >> hector actually went and bought the smoke detectors and got together with the grand prairie fire department. and got them to help him put them out and in different neighborhoods. , for people that really needed them. jenna: we're seeing that in the video. we're seeing you in the video, that you were able to go inside the homes and install a few fire alarms. what was it like to do that? >> it felt really awesome that i was helping people. jenna: and what do people say to you? what do people say to you when you came up to the house and knocked on their door and said, hey, i have a fire alarm, smoke alarm for you? >> they said that, that's a wonderful thing. they said, it is a good thing
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you're doing. jenna: mom, you must be really proud of your son? this is a really good idea. it is not easy to give up a playstation. >> no, it's not. we're very proud of hector. hector has a big heart and he is a very good-hearted child. so if he can help anyone he will try. >> hector, what do you want to be when you grow up? >> i want to be a firefighter. jenna: oh, that's good. sound like you're starting early in that can require. if you're ever in new york city you come by fox news. we'll show you around the studio. we might convincer to you change the career to television. i think the firefighting sounds up your alley. maybe we can go by a firehouse or two. hector, does that sound all right? >> that sound all right. jenna: cool. nice to talk to you both. monti, hector, thanks for joining us today. jon: and we'll buy lunch. jenna: we certainly will. jon: illinois authorities just revealing new information on a decades-old keeled case. investigators trying to identify victims of infamous serial
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killer john wayne gacy. they solved a murder but they say that gacy did not commit it. arthel neville has details. she is in our new york city newsroom. >> reporter: hey, jon. investigators identified the remains of a man in 1978 never returned to his home just a few miles from john wayne gacy's house. they also say they know the identity of his now deceased killer. now the cook county sheriff's office announcing the findings moments ago in a press conference. they are saying this is the result of an ongoing effort to name several unidentified victims of gacy. now he was executed by the way in 1994. so, the press conference just taking place in chicago just moments ago, providing the answer of a family of edward bodiant which they spent decades trying to discover who killed their son when he was 22 years old. he was not killed by gacy but the gacy investigation led to answers in the murder. it is believed that bodian was
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killed by a man named jerry jackson of missouri. jackson died last year. but this latest discovery brings some solace to the family. his now 86-year-old father says, edward bo ditch. an was driving his sister's car on july 23rd, 1978, when he dropped a friend off and told her he was heading home. no one ever heard from him again. that august, jackson, the man who allegedly killed him, was taken custody in carruthersville, missouri, when he was found driving that car which his family reported stolen. in 2008, hikers discovered a partial skeleton in a forest, preserved in the same general area where jackson told police years before he that had taken some remains there. it was, they had few shreds of clothing and no identification of the cause of death. so that investigation went nowhere. however, the medical examiner's
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office there exhumed eight of gacy's unidentified victims, from, from dna tests and it was bodian's sister at the press conference, saying had not not done the simple dna test they would not found remains of the brother. jon: we'll be right back. thanks, arthel. [thinking] is it that time? the son picks up the check? [thinking] i'm still working. he's retired. i hope he's saving. i hope he saved enough. who matters most to you says the most about you. at massmutual we're owned by our policyowners, and they matter most to us. whether you're just starting your 401(k) or you are ready for retirement, we'll help you get there.
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jon: happening now, new outrage over workers cited for disciplinary problems and some who failed to pay their own taxes rewarded with hefty bonuses and even time off, can you believe that? hello, i am jon scott. jenna: i am jenna lee. you work at the irs, don't pay taxes and you still get a bonus? jon: yeah, why not. government efficiency at work. jenna: a brand-new report inspector general that shows
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during a two-year period during 2010-2012, the irs paid millions of dollars in bonuses to thousands of employees. cited for everything from drug use to filing fraudulent tax returns. that is not all, national correspondent lives in washington with more on this. reporter: if you and i fail to pay taxes, there will be trouble but that is not true for some employees who got rewarded for doing just that. during the two years periodmac, 2800 employees with conduct issues resulting in display action received $2.8 million in compensation rewards and more than 2000 hours in time off. 1100 of those had federal tax compliance problems they had not paid their taxes. 10,000 hours in time off.
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inspector general said in a statement while not inhibited, providing awards to employees who have been disciplined for failing to pay federal taxes appears to create a conflict with the irs in charge of ensuring the integrity and a system of tax administration. the irs promised to complete a review of the program by june. questions are being raised about another important government agency. the one finding a self at the eye of the storm over obamacare. despite the botched rollout of health care and the website, the centers for medicare and medicaid services employed more people at the highest government pay level in 2013 then the year before. those employees earned at least $113,000 per year and the report says half of the 400 highest-paid workers in 2012 and stayed on the job last year received raises averaging $4700
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in 2012. now it is unclear why the employees got raises and federal workers have not gotten a cost-of-living increase since 2010. jenna: a lot of interesting questions that have to be answered there. thank you. jon: new questions of obamacare on democratic candidates in hotly contested races around the country. a brand-new fox news poll shows controversial law was the only difference between candidates, and the majority of independent voters would vote for the candidate who would fight against obamacare. despite this, some democratic candidates are embracing the law. take a look at this ad. she is trying to become her states next governor. >> tom corbett has decided not to take the money. as governor, i will take the medicaid expansions for those who need coverage. it is exactly the kind of leadership i will bring as your
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next governor. jon: but not all democrats are taking the same approach. in one recent added top top super-pac highlighted arizona congresswoman ann kirkpatrick was take facing uphill election battle this november for her own stance against obamacare. watch. >> is here. in small towns and wide-open spaces. ann kirkpatrick listens and learns. that is why she blew the whistle on the disastrous website: it stunning ineptitude and worked to fix it. jon: let's talk about all this with the washington bureau chief of the chicago sun-times. a fox news contributor and editor at large for the national review online. welcome to both of you. i suppose it is fair to say even among democratic candidates, those who are sort of running from obamacare out number those few we saw embracing it as in the first commercial clip that was played just now. >> no matter what you have to be
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very blunt and very careful, this is something that is district to district, state by state. you have to factor in obamacare is a reality, it is something a lot of people are benefiting from. some people are having higher cost, dealing with policies that are cancelled, but what is interesting is in the governor races the states have taken the medicare inducement from the federal government covering a lot of people. you cannot just say we will talk these people off their health insurance now. republicans have to deal with in how they're going to respond and deal with it. jon: democrats are fond of saying there are parts of obamacare that people like, for instance being allowed to let her 26-year-old stay on a parent's policy. >> that is right. and i think lynn is absolutely
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right. there are 500 races, but only 20 or 30 competitive races. each will play a little bit differently. it is absolutely true obamacare creates a headwind for democrats. a problem in part because barack obama is a problem. he is unpopular in those swing districts, the states mitt romney wants, so a lot of democrats can run full force for obamacare because they are in blue states, in others they can't. democrats kind of cherry pick the best parts obamacare good like young kids staying on the plan or what have you without ever tying themselves to obama. it'll be case-by-case in a lot of these.
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jon: we asked whether a candidate's position on obamacare will be an important factor in the 2014 vote, 80% of republicans said it will be. 72% of independence said it will be, 67% of democrats say it will be. that doesn't reflect whether they are going to be in favor of or against obamacare. but republicans are more fired up about the whole issue than anybody else. why is that? >> people have staked out territory. the number that is fascinating from what you are bringing to the viewers is the fight will be over the independence who might be persuadable. if you are a real democrat or republican, you're not voting on just obamacare, you have positions. it'll take a lot for a
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republican to vote for democrats. the matter what is going on. unless it is family. you see the fights for swing voters, independence, that is where the battle for diplomacy. jon: the clip we showed is actually geared toward, are they geared toward independent voter out there? >> some of these with democrats running on obamacare there are primary races to run over the core primary vote. the independence that wants to talk about it, they are different creatures and one of the thanks a lot of us haven't focused on enough is a lot of tea party people these days will not call themselves republicans. they call themselves independent. part of that, 25% margins for independence against obamacare, lot of those people are pretty hard-core conservatives so fed
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up with sellouts in all of this, they don't call themselves republicans anymore. jon: identified as independence is growing. interesting. thank you very much. jenna: prisoners could see them go free. moving forward with the plan. removing drug offenders from prison. those convicted of nonviolent crimes, create new guidelines to make it easier for these specific offenders to apply for clemency. chief political correspondent live in washington with more on this story. >> thousands of federal inmates could soon be released in the justice department announcing guidelines for nonviolent drug offenders from president obama. they were making it very clear
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emphasizing the promise this will not put the public at risk. >> it should not be understood to minimize the seriousness of the federal criminal law and it is designed first and foremost with public safety in mind. >> they put together a series of requirements to apply for this. they have to be serving under an old law that is greater than the sentence would be under the current law which has since been reformed. the crime they are guilty of has to be nonviolent without any serious links to organized crime. it would have to serve at least 10 years of their existence, no other criminal history, a good prison record and no other history of violence. it is pretty elaborate process. after the time of the obama administration there will be several thousand inmates really. jenna: we know congress designed
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little bit of a spring break. how do you think congress in general will take this recent announcement? any indication? >> they will be a little upset, but bipartisan support in the house and senate for making it fair and more reasonable. back in 2010 they pass the fair sentencing act with bipartisan support. this year there working on a smart sentencing act adjusting other laws, but also happening in an election year. conservatives who think this could reverse the recent trend of a drop in crime rate. conservatives like rand paul and ted cruz and others who think it is not a bad idea conceptually. because it is an election year, lot of democrats are worried this could put pressure on them particularly if something were to go wrong. and yet there is little doubt on
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what the president is in part doing here is to activate the liberal base that supports all of this otherwise looking like an election year. jenna: great to see you as always, thank you. jon: serious new concerns of the cost of obamacare. why your doctor or hospital could end up footing much of the bill. protesters sending president obama a message. more dramatic video and the reason behind the violent protests coming up. also, a doctor skipping out on $100,000 plus tab that he ran up at a certain establishment in the city of new york. jenna: this story is really something. jon: he says he shouldn't have to pay the bill. we will tell you why coming up. the day we rescued riley was a truly amazing day.
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jenna: major unrest in the philippines about 100 protesters clashing with riot police outside the u.s. embassy. opposing a visit by president obama and a deal to boost u.s. troops, aircraft and ships in the country. that would be for disaster response and counter the growing threat for china. this to be on top of the 500 u.s. military personnel stationed in the philippines since 2002 providing anti-terror and intelligence training the ongoing fight against al qaeda. it's in may happen i regular basis. jon: violence erupting as well in rio de janeiro. the gunfire you can hear the distance as crowds clashed with police. one body found after several shootouts last night. home explosives lit in tourist areas. happening a few hundred yards from the size of the brazil
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olympic taking place in 2016, brazil will host the world cup a few months from now. jenna: concerns of the provision under obamacare. there is a grace period when people stop paying insurance premiums leaving doctors and hospitals footing the bill. more on this story. reporter: hello, jenna. even though we don't do how many are paying the premiums, another aspect of the law temporarily rewards those who stop paying. >> section 1412 of this law offers in 90 days grace time for those who have subsidize obamacare exchange plans and stop paying the premiums. >> only the first 30 days or covered by the insurance companies and then they are still entitled to another 60 days of coverage. >> insurance company covers you for the next 30 days and you are still entitled to care for
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another 60 days. who pays? the doctors and hospitals have to eat it. that is a strange feature of the health reform. >reporter: the american medical association is so concerned this they did not pay for premium they can lose the insurance premium. it goes on to let you know if you lose your coverage you may be obligated to pay the full cost of services that we provide to you. they were because doctors and hospitals may not even know if someone isn't paying the premiums and no longer has active insurance. they urge the administration to make insurers notify doctors as soon as a patient falls behind in washington state passed a law requiring insurers to do that. >> doctors and hospitals accepting the insurance changes are taking low fees and agree to those low fees, to discover the
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patient hasn't paid a premium so they will not be paid at all will be an unpleasant surprise. >> some believe you may have to bailout providers who many cases are obligated to treat anyways. the administration once more doctors and hospitals to produce obamacare leaving them on the bag on cost would have the opposite effect. jenna. jenna: as always, great to see you, thank you. jon: explosion leveling an entire town. why one safety board now says this was preventable. also, a doctor visits the same new york strip club four times. now says he should not have to pay his bill. how much was it? just $135,000 but it wasn't his fault.
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jenna: writes now investigators leasing a new report showing a deadly blast that level the town last year could have been intentional. reporter: the u.s. chemical safety board officials saying the explosion resulted from the failure of a company to take necessary steps to avert a preventable fire and explosion. also from the inability of federal, state and local right which we agencies to identify a serious hazard. these primary findings released five days after the one-year anniversary of the explosion that killed 14 people. one of the worst industrial
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accidents in texas. avoidable, but it happened. something they probably will not ever forget. he caught the explosion on his cell phone. listen. >> can yo are you okay? >> please get out of here. please get out of here. >> fertilizer in a form of white pellets of ammonium nitrate soaks the area where it was stored in a wooden warehouse inside a building that did not have a sprinkler system. they did not violate any standards and there are no state or federal zoning regulations to prevent such plants from being located near residential areas. also ammonium nitrate is not classified as an explosive in the u.s.
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when it closed in 2002, the chemical safety board said it recommended ammonium nitrate be included in safety regulations used by the epa and osha. neither agency had adopted the recommendations at the time of the explosion. jenna: thank you. jon: at doctor claims he was drugged after racking up a huge tab at a new york city strip club. last november this new jersey cardiologist apparently made four trips to the club called scores in 10 days. in the process he managed to run up a bill of more than $135,000 for dances, food and drinks. we cannot make this stuff up. he signed for it using his corporate amex card, but now he refuses to pay saying an employee must have slipped him
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because he never would have approved the charges. joining us now, our legal panel for the day, former prosecutor. to you first, what is his defense? he said he could not have been him, he had to have been drugged by employees at the club. >> sure, $135,000 bill above some people's houses. in this case contending there was a slip and you have to prove it either through blood results that show he had something abnormal in his system, shoulder was a direct causation somebody put it inside his drink. barring that it will be difficult because the preponderance of the evidence, 51, 49%, has to be shown on one side or the other two in the case. i don't know how they will do that without showing he was slipped the drink you are talking about.
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>> one trip you can understand, two trips, but four trips? >> that is the problem. wthat ended up being 135,004 days, we're not going to return a second time or a third or a fourth. it is really happened, it is a serious crime. if you're robbed of tens of thousands of dollars, you go to the police. this is something a major criminal event. he had done nothing and later on he said he was drugged on four occasions. highly unlikely. there is supposedly video surveillance that shows he voluntarily entered the club on each occasion. it is a hard story to believe. jon: the manager said he was coherent until he saw the bill or maybe his wife saw the bill. is that what is going on here?
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>> typically the most logical and simple answer is the most correct one, but it comes down to video, comes down to how he is acting, if he appears to be lucid at the time he was making these orders, so all of that will be in evidence. my inclinations he is just posturing right now. i think again they will settle before going to court and this is a ploy to get the damages down. jon: what about the credit card company? they are the ones who let $135,000 in charges go through. >> this guy has a very high credit limit. much higher than mine. they're going to have a civil dispute between the customer, they will have to fight over whether or not the customer has to pay this amount of money, but he would have to show he was drugged, and as we have been discussing, that is hard to believe. we can look at the credit card list and see his signature. the look like somebody who is
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not really clear about what is going on scribbling something. lot of information we need to know. a hard case for this customer to make. jon: spreading the love that that particular establishment. let's get down to the naked truth here. jenna didn't like that. the cover charge, a bottle of champagne will run you $1000 in this place. meals easily $250 per person, and you can cap the dancers using your credit cards so you don't have walking around with a wad of cash in your pocket. clearly the guy could easily run up that kind of built in for visits, right, john? >> it has been a long times i've been to any strip club for that matter, but i guess, $1000 per bottle? shouldn't he be using that money
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more deductively, donating it to somebody who really needs it? jon: good point. >> that is a lot of bottles of champagne. a lot of entertainment. hard to see how you get to that kind of money. jon: maybe he is just a big tipper, that is all we can say. we will follow the case and let the viewers know whether he gets anywhere with this one. thank you both. jenna: you handled that like a pro. the questions were direct. he treated him fairly. jon: he is a cardiologist. jenna: can you imagine you are reading this story in the morning, he is your cardiologist. maybe he was there like the night before your surgery. a lot of questions for this dental men. jon: he had a heart attack when he saw the bill. jenna: stop.
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jenna: right now some major concerns about a top al qaeda commander this man is psalm same's cousin. he is based in syria and may be setting up camp to train and recruit new followers. chief intelligence corresondent catherine herridge is live in washington this story. so catherine, what more do we know about this operative. >> reporter: this operative is very open and public and has a twitter account with more than 14,000 followers. he tweeted information about key meetings between al qaeda senior operatives and al nusra front and used it to show martyrdom propraganda. he is known as a leading fighter in syria. he is wanted in saudi arabia on terrorism related charges and leads al qaeda so-called victory committee which is responsible for setting policy and setting the agenda for the terrorist
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network. counterterrorism officials sight nasr's pedigree and third cousin of usama bin laden. two of his brothers were picked up and held at guantanamo bay. nasr emergence in syria, that the network is sending senior core leadership to syria to build alignances with other groups. they suggest that al qaeda's presence in syria is not affiliate but a extension of core leadership in pakistan. >> we've seen them move into syria in significant numbers, it tells me that they actually not only feel safer there, but they have more flexibility there than they do in pakistan. >> reporter: nasr court made the with another senior al qaeda core member inside of syria, al-siri so he is certainly not alone, jenna. jenna: catherine, thank you.
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>> reporter: you're welcome. jon: more trouble for general motors. federal legitimatetores are looking at a possible break defect on the 2014 chevrolet impala, following complaint from one driver, that the emergency braking system activated multiple times without any warning. we're learning as the company is trying to fend off dozens of potentially costly lawsuits over its handling of a defective ignition switch. adam shapiro joins us live from the fox business network with more. adam. >> reporter: jon, those lawsuits could cost general motors millions of dollars in legal fees. late monday evening they took a action to. they filed a motion with the same judge that approved gm's 2009 bankruptcy to ask him to reaffirm a portion of the restructuring agreement. that agreement shields gm from incidents and problems that took place before july 10th, 2009. that is the day the bankruptcy restructuring went into effect. it is also the day old gm went out of business, new gm, the company we know today was born.
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lawyers representing vims estimates injured as a result of gm's faulty ignition problems filed their own motion asking the judge to dismiss part of the restructuring agreement. they claimed old gm committed bankruptcy fraud because it knew it had a problem and failed to disclose it. gm says it has taken responsible for its actions and will keep doing so. it has recalled 2.6 million vehicles so far this year. unrelated to the recalls is the new potential problem. the national highway traffic safety administration is investigating reported malfunction of the automatic braking system on the 2014 chevy impala. it has what is called an autonomous braking system which automatically activates when the car is in ink danger of hitting something in front of it. nhtsa ereceived a complaint one driver that the system acted several times without cause. the car stopped at once moving 40 miles per hour, causing another car hyped it to crash into the impala.
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nhtsa open ad preliminary valuation to determine the frequent sir, scope and consequences of the alleged defect. of course none of that good news for gm, jon. jon: i like an old-fashioned car where you see an incident ahead you step on the brakes yourself. >> it works as long as brakes are working. i had a 64 studebaker and i lost the brakes one day and it is no fun. jon: what happened to the car. >> the car was on a hill and we were going up and i able to stop. jenna: adam is fine as well. jon: i will tell you the story of my 54 chevy belleair. >> like to see that sometime. jenna: like to see photos of that sometime. a hollywood couple with handling questions whether or not they're going a little too far with all of this. why tori spelling says she will never trust her husband again. you get the fox 411 on that. one wild ride how a hot-air balloon ended up on a major california road bay. -- roadway.
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>> happening now, passengers making an unexpected landing that ended up right in the middle after busy roadway right near san diego. the owner of the balloon says the pilot was on his way down but missed his landing because of strong wind gusts in the area. the incident backing up traffic for hours. certainly causing a few people a little frayed nerves as well. several police officers and fire crews were on site to help clear the road. luckily besides all this, no one was hurt. jon: well this has nothing to do with a balloon but the ups and downs of reality tv star tori spelling very much on display with the premier of "true tori," taking you inside her troubled marriage to dean mcdetermine not. jenna: i like that, jon. that was good. jon: i'm trying to be versatile here because i never heard of show, but julie ban knows all
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about it. >> boy is her life a reality show. talking about airing out your personal dirty laundry, tori spelling and her unfaithful husband, dean mcdermott, premiered last know in the first episode of "true tory." they try to patch up a marriage broken by adultery. mcdermott, admitted cheating on his wife and checked into rehab. he said sex was an escape like drugs and alcohol. he went on to say this about his section life with the 90210 actress. >> we had a great relationship the we would have a great sex life. >> we would have sex once every two weeks. it wasn't fantastic. >> i know -- >> what? what did say? i guess that's why tory says she is not ready to allow the father of her four children to move back not home. smart thinking, story. -- tory. justin bieber's favorite cough
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syrup was pulled off the market. i'm not talking robitussin. this is high-end cough syrup has reputation for widely abused drug according to "tmz" and a favorite among the likes of bieber and other artists. the representative for company that makes the syrup, given recent media they made the bold and unprecedented decision to remove all the sales of the codeine product. a bottle of scissors used to cost around 800 bucks. grammy award winner chris brown's attorney apparently are down a key witness after the judge postponed his assault trial for what could be months. this after brown's body card, chris holzy was found guilty of assault on monday. he was supposed to be testifying on brown's behalf. both are accused of punching a man who tried to board brown's tour bus outside after washington hotel. pending the appeal, brown will return to california jail cell
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on separate charges and reappear in washington court in june. those are the tales of, celebrity lives that we're following. jon: can we go back to tory and dean more a minute? that was therapy session with camera in the room? >> yes. they allowed the cameras n doesn't look like that marriage is going so well. jon: that is touching. >> i'm not therapist but -- jon: julie banderas, you can play one on tv. thank you, julie. >> sure. jenna: growing concerns in colorado over the safety of edible marijuana after the newly legal treats there linked to a rise in emergency room visits. by children and owe potentially linked as well to two deaths. alicia acuna live in denver with more on this, alicia? >> reporter: hi, jenna. doctors say part of the problem nearly all of the regulations the state put into place focus on sales growth, and public consumption of pot that is smoked but 40% of sales in colorado so far are edibles.
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curiosity over pot-infused cookies, candy and soda pop took a darker turn when children's hospital colorado reported increased e.r. visits. >> typical age we're seeing pretty young. >> reporter: toddlers, dr. george says being treated for unintentional exposure. some admitted to critical care. >> these edible products are more concerning because a child does not know the difference between a marijuana-containing product and non-marijuana-containing product. >> reporter: in colorado, recreational and medicinal marijuana is legal but smoke in public is illegal. they spend a lot of time on education. >> we tell them, start small. we recommend 10 millie programs to start especially if they have never done it before. >> reporter: the whole thing put cops and lawmakers in a quandary, you would notice a kid doing this, most wouldn't take note of a minor eating this. >> one product can be five, six, seven, eight servings.
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>> reporter: in march a college student eight six times the serving of an infused cookie. police say he jumped off the hotel balcony. a coroner called it marijuana intoxication. some lawmakers want edibles immediately recognizable as a marijuana product. >> this is modest step to make sure consumers and kids are making informed decision what is they're putting in their bodies. >> reporter: restrictions just passed the statehouse. it is on to the state senate. jenna. jenna: alicia, thank you. jon: boots on the ground in eastern europe. where u.s. troops are heading now, to try to help keep russia at bay. and get this. the reinventing the eye. we'll talk with a surgeon who is giving sight back to the blind. ♪ sfx: car unlock beep.
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and helps keep your dishwasher sparkling. the owner of a vehicle, with a bumper sticker, "turrible" your lights are on. you wanna get that genius? not mine. on the passenger seat, there is a collection of charles barkley highlight dvds. must be a big fan. and the license plate reads "sir charles." i'm gonna get some drinks with my capital one venture card. be right back. earn unlimited double miles with no blackout dates from the capital one venture card. forgetting something, sir charles? what's in your wallet?
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jenna: right now the miracle of medical innovation giving a michigan man a second chance at sight and us insight again into a incredible invention. a bionic eye, much like this one being fitted to one of the first patients ever to receive the surgery. the eye use as tiny camera and transmitter housed in a pair of glasses to transmit impulses to the retina's remaining healthy cells. allowing patients with some degenerative eye diseases glimpse of objects and faces they may have not seen in years. joining us the doctor who performed is surgery from the university of michigan kellogg eye center. this is incredible, doctor. can you walk us through this bit by bit. we're talking about artificial retina. what is the artificial retina made of? >> so it is really a ray,
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electrodes placed on the surface of the retina and there is a cable there, basically transmits information that is seen on a camera, on to the array and the electrodes electrically affect the nerves that transmit the signal to the brain. jenna: it sound incredible. how is it to do the surgery with that beer? >> yeah, you know, the surgery is long. it is a four-hour operation and you know, every step has to be very carefully done. measurements have to be made. we spend a long time doing the measurements that the array, electrodes fall exactly on the perfect position on the retina. jenna: we certainly have a lot of respect for your talents on that end. because the man we're talking about now can see some of the images he hasn't been able to see. but it is important that he has to wear that set of eye glasses as well, doctor.
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can you explain why? >> right. so the camera is actually mounted on the glasses and, when, you know the camera sort of allows him to see the outside world and it transmits wirelessly to this set that lies on the retina. jenna: who can benefit? i am sorryo interrupt. i'm sure our viewers think, how does this work? i know a lot of people with bad eyesight for example. >> right. jenna: this is specifically for degenerative disease. can you tell us who would be able to benefit from this sort of technology? >> that's right. so the fda has given, allowed us to implant on patients with retinitis pigmentosa. this is inherited retina disease where patients lose vision over time. they may have, you know, relatively good vision and later on in life they lose vision completely, in some cases. in other cases it is a very variable. so if patients who have no
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vision essentially, their light perception of vision or no light perception vision in both eyes and who have retinitis pigmentosa can have this implanted. >> this is fascinating. this must be really exciting for you? >> it was very exciting procedure to perform. jenna: it was excitings for us. we're not even in your field. we thought it was really something to talk about. thank you, doctor. great to have your time. i know you're very busy and we look forward to see where it goes from here. thank you so much. >> thank you. jon: shades of steve austin, the 6 million-dollar man. outgoing late-night host david letterman always quick with a joke aimed at chris christie but new jersey's governor is taking to twitter and he might just get the last laugh. we'll show you why. ♪
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well, david letterman may not leave son enough for chris
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christie. after a joke about his weight and implying christie is the father of the year the word fat in father. oh, letterman, i am really goppa miss your fat jokes. wait no, i am not. and one fan looking forward to the change. >> i am sure colbert would not make any fat jokes. >> starting on monday. happening now will come to you at 11:00 ooeftern. and our second hour begins in 1 o'clock p.m. outnumbered debuts monday at nop. harris faulkner and rotating cast of very interesting members of the fox family will bring you the news with a twist. one man and four women. >> outnumbered.
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and i think one man can take on four women. it is an even match. >> we'll see how you feel about that. >> it begins on monday noon eastern. have a great day, thanks for joining us. america's news headquarters starts right now. u.s. troops going into eastern europe. i am bill hemmer. >> and i am doing well. and 160 soldiers a ratifying for war games. there are reports that more russian soldiers pouring in eastern ukraine. they join us live from the pentagon, jennifer? >> you are right. roughly 150 u.s. paratroopers arrived in poll land this morning. the army company

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