open invite george clooney to sit in? >> yeah. hashtag one lucky guy. would you trade seats? >> i'll gladly vacate it. >> tucker survived. "happening now" starts now. >> just the last hour, the nba will make an announcement tomorrow about the scandal rocking the league and l.a. clippers owner donald sterling who allegedly was caught on tape making racist remarks. welcome to a brand new hour of "happening now." right now. we are about to get reaction from the naacp. the group had planed to give donald sterling a lifetime a chiefment award. it was going to be given in the next few weeks. this comes as sterling's own

players staged a protest. removing the jerseys and they turned the jerseys so it was not visible. and they wore black armed bands. >> and political ads start airing ahead. and a theme emerging with the candidates and laser like focus on women voters. this is from the michigan republican. >> congressman gary peters and his buddies want you to believe that i am waging a war on women. really? think about that for a moment. ♪ >> i am terry land. as a woman i know more about women than gary peters.

>> democrats are putting on a war on woman strategy. is that going to work? bret baier here on the fox news channel. we heard about it in the presidential election year. but this is a midterm election and a bit of a different animal. called war on women? >> i think both parties are going after women voters. democrats are reviving the argument they made in 2010. you point back to the presidential election. president obama carried unmarried women by 36 points and mitt romney carried married women by seppoints. democrats so the treasure trough getting out unmarried women who skew democratic in the midterm, it would be a huge thing for them. some of these races, you would

be surprised to hear they are going social issues so fast. mark udall in colorado immediately going to contraception and birth control and abortion issues instead of talking about the economy. >> we have a clip of that ad, from senator mark udall of colorado. we'll play it now. >> it comes down to respect for women and our lives. and so congressman gardener's history is disturb any. it makes abortion a felony. and gardener even championed an eight year crusade to outlaw birth control here in colorado. >> one of the issues, unmarried female voters don't turn out as reliably in an off year election as a nonpresidential year election. what do the democrats try to do.

>> they try to stir up the issues. but the problem is, they don't seem to be driving the day. and whether they can move the needle in unmarried women to get them to the polls this november, is really the question. i think when you look back at the last midterm election, it was essentially, the fact that republicans narrowed that gap significantly that i talked about earlier in 2012. the they didn't she up in the polls, the unmarried women that skew democratic. >> it is interesting and a clever marketing strategy. coining the phrase war on women. did it help the last time around? >> it did move voters, and why it is in the playbooks for the democrats. but the republicans have learned so far, just looking at a lot of

the campaigns in the country, they have learned the issue about going after women and toward women. you have seen the number of women candidates on the republican side who are strong including the michigan republican that you just played terry lynn land, she is leading in polls in michigan. that is a big deal as republicans spread the map and force democrats to defend in places they didn't think they would defend it is likely that the republicans could get the six seats they need. >> it is fascinating. bret baier watching it with us. >> deadly twisters ripping through the heartland and leaving 16 people dead and paths of utter destruction as thousands try to recover. take a look at imrages from arkansas. hardest hit areas is homes and

businesses destroyed after they barrel through an 80 mile area. this is a debris of the tornados. it is a process. we have people and dogs going through the rubble and trying to find who ever we can and whatever we can. and once we get to night fall again tonight, then search and rescue will slow down again. but at the moment until search and rescue is over and the county judge's office is coordinating the efforts. until we get word that search and rescue is done. >> and twisters touched down in oklahoma and creating destructive wind gusts and violent conditions. the first storm happen so fast they didn't have warning at all. tornados tore through kansas and caused extensive damage to homes and twisting metal and everything in the path of

destruction. pro russian militants to ittening their grip in ukraine. the mayor of a ukranian city is shot in the back. masked men seize another government building. >> they are streaming live in eastern ukraine for us. leland. >> hi, john. on the ground in eastern ukraine, heart of the crisis. new sanctions are met largely with a yawn. pro ukranian side will tell you they don't do enough and pro militia russians have not changed their tune. this is day four of the stand off. we head up there earlier and realized not much has changed. a lot of motion by the ukranian military but not a lot of progress.

network the ukranian military is moving hardware around for last week. and men and rocket launcher ares and those kinds of things but they haven't done going to take on the pro russian separatist. this is the last ukranian checkpoint. they are told to let everything but weapons in the town and they haven't done that much. there is no sews. and idea of uranians taking on the separatist so manies far fetched. >> and inaction by the ukranian military has emboldened the pro russian separatist and militias over the past couple of days. >> and that is widening out the foot prints and they control all of the city and took over one of the regional television broadcast centers yesterday.

they didn't like that they put out ukranian television and wanted to put out pro russian television. for a long time here, there is not a discussion of when the ukranian military or police will step up and take the separatest on in a significant way. we had a pro ukranian rally that ended with pro russian thugs comes in and boating up number of people there. it so manies to be if the ukranians are ever going to do anything to take the separatist on head-on. back to you. >> leland, thank you. one of the big stories of the morning is the indictment of u.s. congressman michael grim charged with things like filing false tax return and mail fraud. he is issuing a statement in his own defense and saying it is

a witch hunt and assassination of character. and if you would like to hear more. we have it live for ow fox news.com. >> and what is going on in ukraine and russia and the impact of eastern europe affects our stock market. and look at the big board this morning and stocks are up slightly. and fox business network iswith today. >> absolutely gena. in the back drop. sanctions and u.s. posing new sanctions against russia and targeting 17 companies linked to vladimar putin and 45 people and 19 firms and european union hitting 15 more individuals and the question is, is it making a difference. on friday standard and poors cut

russia's credit rating. people are pulling money out of russia to the tune of 17 billion. if they hit entire sectors of the economy tcould hurt not only russia but all of europe. but back here in the u.s., we started out strong out the of the gate and dow up 19 points and nasdaq slipping in the red and lost the social media stocks. and facebook and net books and linked in. they are having a tough goal. we told you we have a fed meeting on wednesday. we'll so another pull back in that tapper to 45 billion and on friday, we get april jobs. and investors looking for job creation of 200,000 or more.

and syrian president bashard assad is announcing his election for presidency. the civil war is waging on in that country. meanwhile this morning. we asked you to send in the stories you wanted to see. one wanted to hear about the barrel bombs. the civilians are living in danger and fear of barrel bombs that are dropped by helicopters by government forces. we are following up on this and more of your suggestions, keep them coming. search underway for a missing pilot. one plunging in the water below. we have an update on the search efforts out west on that. and horrific discovery of a real life house of horrors. what police found behind the doors that made most seasoned cops uncomfortable.

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a pilot is missing after two planes collided over san francisco bachlt they were heading home from the same air show. they are live from la with the latest on that, adam. >> reporter: it was a get together on half moon bay on the coast outside of san francisco. they had cars and motorcycles and planes. the two pilots were flying home in two different planes. one of a cessna and the other was a vint an war plane in

britain. they were flying north and cut over the northern part of the san francisco bay area and they clipped or collided. it is investigation north of the richmond bridge. the coast guard are continuing their search at this hour and the conditions are good for search asking they found debris. but not today. if you know the bay, those waters are murky and mostly shallow. it went down north of the part of the bridge. both pilots were turning to california in the gold rush foothills. nearby people who said the pilot in the cessna, had no chance. >> clipped the wing and lost the wing and spun violently. and death spin like that and you can't jump out and you can't get away. it is sad. that was the harbor master who

saw the plane go down. john, what is interesting, that second british war plane that landed safely 40 minutes later didn't stop in the gentleman avyagdz airports knowing that it clipped. it could have stopped at 7 or 8 run ones. that is part of the investigation and why the pilot continued on after the friend, the first pilot went down in the 210. >> i am sure there will be questions about that adam. >> absolutely. >> and now we asked for your stories for parts of the country to be talked about. one of our viewers brought this story. a say a man held his sister hostage inside of the house for years.

they found a 56-year-old woman, eleshgs ea norrods. who was malnourished and filty. they had to wear has mat suits because of the smell. she is recover nothing a local hospital. 58 year old arthur is facing multiple fell no charges and held on bail. >> if you are paying attention not only does today mark a second hour in a new time slot and the debut of our chat. go to fox news.com and click on america's asking to interact with our program. we want your questions on obama care and new york times and medicare spending and is it a preview of what is to come. our panel will weigh in on that in a moment.

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new information on why it is so expensive for health care in general. a front page story in new york times exposes the outrageous bills for medicare. one billed them 4 million in a year and works out to seeing 500 patients a day 21 patients an hour. medicare news is coming on the news that health care spend nothing general is on an upswing. >> we'll confirm that they signed up for new insurance. and elizabeth is senior manager in a company that pulls together the numbers when it comes to the health care debate. nice to have you both. >> thank you for having us. >> the medicare story is misleading. the physical therapist said i have two dozen other physical therapist working for me.

i just foil under my name and looks like i am doing all of the work it is a wink and a nod between the federal government and myself. i am told to do this. how do we know kwho is legit? >> i think you are raising a couple of important questions. the first important thing for us to do is not jump to conclusions about this particular provider. what we should talk about is the fact that medicare needs to get good weeding out fraud and abuse as the credit card companies. this is a nonpolitical issue. and something that folks can focus on incrosingly as we move forward. frankly the advantage of spending our medicare dollars honestly it is about the bigger issues. and until frankly we fix fraud

and abuse problem. people will point to fraud and abuse rather than answer the difficult questions. >> the times shoes democratically who is getting what and how to check up on them and raises the question of how good the system is. you are helping them on a personal consumer level. how does that type of a organization or lack thereof impact as a whole and how do we know what it costs? >> in general spending will go up. but you are right. people are asking more personal questions and they are not worried about the system as a whole but wondering how it pertains to them. and the big question is for the new enrollees will they spend more or less? one thing important to note,

medicare versus the under 65 enrollments. they are not used to using insurance and may not know where to go or where to use it for? >> are you seeing that as well. basic insurance. are you seeing the trends and what does spending look like now and in to the future? >> we are zeroing in here on an important trend and that is transparency and i think we know everyone in the health care system will be more transparent going forward. manufacturers will have a higher burden and clearer how their products are better than the competitor talk about exchanges. frankly we have empowered consumers through the exchanges and put them in the driver's seat, insurance carriers will have to provide information as they hop and prepare for the

plans and consumers can make more educated decisions. >> michael, it is not easy to read. it is difficult. on the consumer side, are you seeing that insurance companies are getting more transparent and making it clear to the customer what they have available to them? >> it is a huge educational component. you are right. it is another language. they are hearing the terms for the first time. and what elizabeth is pointing out. rising deductibles and increased choice and existence of technology and ability to shop once a year and pick a new plan. they are leading consumers to the burden of making health care choices. and while we haven't yet seen it from the providers. why does my mri cost this much?

do i really need the procedure or can i get something else? it will take a long time to permeate and take a long time for people to understand this. those questions will be posed and people need to be more educated. >> we do research when we go out to buy a car. and people are doing that when it comes to insurance and we'll so if insurance providers want to make it easier and people understand what they are getting and what they are not. you will be back with us. we have great questions coming from the viewers. and we'll take our questions to mike and elizabeth. articipate in the chat and g tweet me directly at jenna. >> and people are asking jenn a if this man is eyeing an a eye

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the south korea ferry disaster. and the coast guard releasing startling video from the initial.

the ferry captain and crow was rescued with the hundreds of passengers below deck. >> here's more. >> and david. >> hi, jenna, yes. the nowly released video comes from the coast guard of south korea show the captain leaving the ship and the crew being rescued and hundreds of passengers are below the decks and one of the coast guard told reporters they didn't recognize they were captain or vow. 15 crow members and the captain are detawned and some are charged with vealating mar time law. 476 passengers. 174 people including crew members were rescued and no one found alive. the government was facing

criticism. and already the freedom prime offered his lesination. and meanwhile poor weather disrupted the rescue. only one body was retroughed over the past few days. he was called a white knight and dark horse. we are talking about indiana governor mike pence. mike joins us with more. >> reporter: good afternoon. governor mike pence has served as six- time congressman and now governor of indiana and focused on his home state and the future will take care of itself. much of that talk is progress of people of indiana are making.

we have the lowest unemployment rate in the midwest and balanced our budget and invest in expanded educational opportunities and infrastructure. >> reporter: indiana is the first state to withdraw from common core and argues that education is a state and local function and decisions about textbooks should be made by partners ando schools. in terms of winning over the goff, he talked about freedom and the second amendment. >> we all know in this room firearms in the hands of law- abiding citizen don't threaten our families but protect our families. firearms in the hands of law- a boyding citizens. >> pence is happy to talk about the employment record in

indiana. the governor doesn't have to make a decision on 2016. but discuss his record and see if republicans are impressed. peps's profile matches well with the early stage contest and a poles to value's voters and evafrjelicals and conservatives in new hampshire. >> someone to watch that is for certain. mike, thank you. >> tomorrow on happening now. we'll debate common core fair and is that worth scraping? >> we'll get into what it is and where the debate is. >> it is controversial. >> and we spoke to you about health care fun funding and asked you to talk to us about the health care law. michael is with us. and elizabeth is back with us to

answer the requests. elizabeth this is from chris. why it is so difficult to know the true numbers when it come tots new health care law. this is what they do a lot. where is the biggest challenge so far? >> we are getting from a bunch of different sources. i think the most important thing for folks on viewing at home to remember. we'll get new enrollment numbers this week and they will be the number of folks who picked a plan and notes inially the people who paid the first month's premium and have coverage. that is important to keep in mind. and what we will see, the debate turned from enrollment to retention and more focus on whether or not people are invested in the now health shrnts coverage and continuing to premiums over time.

>> michael you work with consumers and trying to get them signed up for new health care, what you are seeing on the ground, does it so many like people are paying up front and getting involved and enrolling and making payments or is there an enrollment period where they are not committed to the plan they have chosen? >> there is a lot of desire on the consumer's end. the only number that matters to the consumer is one. it is themselves and their family. do they have coverage and is it affordable and do they understand what is in their plan? we are seeing a lot of insurance. and payment is not a issue initially. but what it looks like over time. will they make the pams month by month. >> michael, are you working through the websites and looking

at different paths to get people signed up for insurance? >> we are contracted with the federal government to plug directly in healthcare.gov. and so they are enrolling. and it is interesting to see consumer demand whether in a state or federal exchange it is really high. consumers looking at their own needs and trying to find the least path of resistance. >> and elizabeth, there is a lot of talk about what to do next. would it be where the law would be repealed or reformed. >> if there is drastic changes in washington d.c., and the law is repealed or changed. what does that do to the health care market? >> it is important for all of us to come to a common understanding that the affordable act is here to stay. and we take a step back and

realize that we are operating in a broad concept for sometime. and the next step for the a ca is going back and now we created a marketplace. how do we insure that people are making the right decision for them? that makes the case for additional transparency in the marketplace and people can identify if their med occasions are covered and if their providers for network and certainly for more competitive premiums over time. we know that people shopping on exchanges are hugely price sensitive and led carriers to try to compete based on premiums which is something we haven't sewn that much of up to this point. >> it is an interesting ripple affect. and elizabeth, michael, great to have you both with us. thank you very much. >> a horrendous story about

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time after falsifying mammogram results. rachel admits she signed off on 1300 reports. and ten of those women had cancer. >> and the technician said she had personal issues and stopped caring about her job. the judge ordered her six months behind bars and ten years probagdz and cannot work in the health care field. >> a kick off for the over the weekend. cvc uses it to emphasize the promotion for vaccine. and outbreaks of preventible diseases have surface. associated press reported that illinois saw 65 cases of pumps this year and measles affected many and making it the biggest outbreak. there are 26 cases of a pollio

like area in california. the anti- vaccine movement remains strong despite jenny mccarthy who questioned the validity of the of the vaccine is backing off her tough stance? joining me is dr. manny alvavez who is member of our medical a team and we'll do our best to tackle as much as we can. doctor, we mentioned the outbreak and the anti- vaccine movement, the reason why we are seeing outbreaks is less people are vaccinating their children. is there a clear connection tweep the two? is a clear con more and more parents are

questioning the need for vaccines because they don't know anything about the diseases. they never experienced them, themselves. they are with holding or delaying the vaccinations and this means the group of children are susceptibility and measles is imported it finds those children and spreads rapidly. >> i have been open about this for years. my position is that there is no link that i can find and this has come from many societies. tying autism to vaccinations. there is misinformation that the parents picked up from the media and internet. celebrity- like people who have no knowledge of science but they

have a gut feeling and they create chaos and we are seeing the consequences of. that you are seeing cases of measles and mumps. coming back, it is role sad. >> i am interested to hear your perspective. there are those with the platform like jenny mccarthy who came out and said something to the affect, after her son got vaccinated, she saw his soul leave his eyes. and that's what she recently said. >> i am nottant- vaccine and not a new position i adopted. for years i stated that i am provaccine and years i have been wrongly branded anti- vaccine. translate what the chance is. a lot of people look at her for

guidance rather than the medical professionals. >> if i had a choice between jenny mccarthy and dr. manny who is an expert on top of an expert and has a child living with autism. you have to go with dr. manny. he knows about this stuff. to challenge is so many people heard jenny mccarthy's anti- vaccine. she is an icon and got money and they know her and wants to take pictures and to go back against. it the train left the station and the only way to stop that jenny to be responsible and talk about the fact and say she is not anti- vaccine and she should encourage parents to get their children vaccinated. we could vaccinate children all over the world and save 25 million lives by 2020.

jenny mccarthy being irresponsible could cost us an opportunity to not save lives and that is what she has to address now. >> she could used her influence to start another trend if she started this trend. started t anti-vaccine trend. this is operating from the central premise that everyone just wants the best for their children. she's a mom and wants the best for her child. i'm sure all of us do. there are a lot of questions from our parents out there, fox news parents. they have questions about the preservatives in vaccines. they have questions about the timing of vaccines and weather center they should be asking more questions of their doctors. you guys are going to stick around. quick commercial break and we'll get those viewer questions to you right after the break. meantime, emergency crews are racing to help victims of those deadly tornadoes down south. searching through debris for survivors. we'll bring you the latest in a full report less than 15 minutes away.

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back with us. dr. manny alvarez and dr. chuck is back with us as well. a question from kristin. she says there is research that shows that there is toxic chemicals in vaccine preservatives an that's what has her concerned. what would you say to kristin? this is for dr. shackner. >> i would reassure her completely. in response to parents' concerns we now give children vaccines from single dose vials that don't need those preservatives any more and that's just because we were interested in what they were saying and responsive to their concerns. ask your pediatricians and family doctors about the safety

of vaccines. you will be re-assured by those people who take care of your children day in and day out. >> dr. manny, jenny mccarthy raises this point about the timing and asking about the one-size-fits-all mentality for vaccines. when a child reaches a certain age they get a certain bat riff vaccines. what could you say to parents who question whether or not their child is too young or whether or not it should be done all at one time. >> one thing that's lost in translaying is the evolution of vaccines. vaccines evolve in a different way now, a very productive way by the way they are being made so again we lose sight that medicine gets better with time. timing is important because once your child is in a school or in a nursery that you are exposing that child to other kids, now this is the perfect time that you have to kind of make sure that all the vaccines are in order. once the kid is out of the

house -- a newborn baby, you can pace your vaccines and so on and so forth and there is things that we need to give the baby whether it is a newborn in order to protect the baby from adults. once the child is now school age, whether pre-k or things like that, this is the time you have to vaccinate the children because you want to protect the child and others. >> great to have you all. i know it is a debate that could go on an hour. a brazen robbery caught on tape. how police say they hope to solve the mystery of the man behind the mask. rererered and sn thousand dollars per minute.

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will be the key to his identity. 6'2" weighing 190 pounds. a muscular build last seen wearing dark work pants and a grey long sleeve shirt. >> are they sure it was a mask? >> maybe not. "the real story" with gretchen carlson starts right now. thanks, guys. we start with a fox news alert. the worst may still be yet to come. unfortunately, severe weather could bring more tornadoes across the midwest and southeast today. hi, everyone. i'm gretchen carlson. so glad you are with me for "the real story" today. 16 people have been killed in oklahoma, arkansas after an apparent ef-3 twister destroyed dozens of homes causing tens of millions of dollars in damage. sheet metal, wood tossed and splintered turning some small towns into virtual wastelands now.