like a relief when stories end well. yay for mazy. bill: well done. we got a run. martha: see you tomorrow, everybody. have a great day. "happening now" starts right now. >> fox news alert and don't hold your breath on construction of the keystone pipeline. that project essentially put on hold now until after the midterm elections. good morning, i'm jon scott. >> hi, everybody, hope you're off to a great day so far. i'm jenna lee. we told you about the potential of this yesterday on "happening now." it is reality. bipartisan energy bill falling shorts on votes in the senate. republicans demanded amendments including one for the canada to texas pipeline which supporters say could contribute to job creation and energy independence. opponents say it doesn't. it will not contribute quite as much. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel live on capitol hill with the latest on this story. so, mike, how much frustration is there this morning regarding the keystone pipeline and where

does it go from here? >> reporter: jenna, moments ago, senate republican leader mitch mcconnell called the united states senate a graveyard for good ideas under senate majority leader harry reid's leadership. here is a sample of some by partisan frustration. >> keystone is project almost everyone knows, will create thousands, thousands of good jobs at a time we need them very badly. it's a project the american people support overwhelmingly. but of course the far left hates it and far left controls today's washington democratic party. >> i thought it was important to pair it with the keystone pipeline because while there is strong support for the efficiency bill on the democratic side and significant support on the republican side, the republican leaders wanted to build and many of us including myself, the keystone pipeline. >> reporter: landrieu would be love to be able to deliver keystone to louisiana which is

an important energy state. she is on the ballot in 2014. now it appears this is on the backburner until after midterms, jenna. jenna: as we heard in the sound bite, mike this, is bipartisan or was a bipartisan bill in many ways. if this did not work, what hope is there for lawmakers to accomplish any other sort of bipartisan measures before the midterms? >> reporter: there is very little hope at this point. there is tax extenders bill, $85 billion in terms of continuing some tax credits that are very popular on both sides of the aisle. so we expect the senate to work on that next. they are confirming judges on a rolling basis. they're also looking at a highway bill that needs to be rethorrized. and there's a water and sewer conference report which i'm told is a big deal with local governments. but at this point very small potatoes after this tax extenders bill and very small potatoes maybe, jenna. jenna: mike emanuel, thank you. jon: we are awaiting a rare and

solemn event at the white house right now. president obama will present the nation's highest military honor this afternoon. 27-year-old former army sergeant kyle white to receive the medal of honor for repeatedly running into enemy fire to retrieve his wounded and fallen comrades during an ambush in afghanistan in 2007. when the shooting stopped and night fell, white cared for wounded men and calling in radio reports, directing close air support until help arrived. jenna: what a story. meantime quite a story out of a congressional primary race in key battleground state, keith chris co, the democrat facing "american idol" alum, sudden did i dice after north carolina home. aiken is suspending current campaign activities. he is in the lead by a few hundred votes. jonathan serrie is live for us in atlanta. >> reporter: family members say keith chris codied in an accidental fall that occurred in

his home at asheboro, north carolina. he was raised on a dairy farm. chris cowent on to harvard to get an mba. served in president nixon's commerce department. founded an elastics company in north carolina. served as the state's commerce secretary under former governor beverly purdue. democratic challenger clay aiken wrote quote, no matter how high he rose to white house, governor cabinet he never forgot where he claim from. less than 400 votes in the primary but if late ballots place him behind chris co, democratic party officials in the district will select the nominee to run against republican incumbent renee ellmers in the fall. incidentally congresswoman ellmers has also released a written statement on chris co's passing saying, quote, his kindness and dedication to his principles were models. we should all strife toward and he will be dearly missed. keith chris cowas 71.

jenna? jenna: jonathan, thank you. >> reporter: certainly. jon: talk about the 2016 presidential race, new concerns three rising republican stars, ted cruz, rand paul, and marco rubio could receive same kind of criticism a guy named barack obama faced when he ran for the white house, that they simply do not have enough experience. all of them are first-term senators. legitimate criticism or just a potshot? joining us now, ellison barber, staff writer at the "washington free beacon." it is interesting, when you think back to you know, i mean president obama had been in the white house for six years now, but he was a very junior senator, still kind of making his way around, learning his way around the senate when he was running for president. >> right. jon: these three guys, some say, fall under the same kind criticism. >> right, i think the criticism of being too green is something that people like in washington. i think it certainly matters but

i'm not sure is really resonates that much with the public. the thing i would point out with these three senators, by the time 2016 will come around they have more experience than barack obama. he had 2 1/2 years. rubio and paul ryan will have six and ted cruz will be at about four. still not a lot of executive political experience but they do have a lot. look at background, rubio has significant amount of those three because he has been in state legislature since he was 28, he was speaker of the house in florida. that helps him, i think one will have most difficulty of criticism being too green is probably ted cruz. jon: the old saying is that every u.s. senator wakes up in the morning, looks in the mirror and see as potential president. there are a lot of senators who would like to win that office but actually fairly rare that somebody goes right from the u.s. senate into the white house. barack obama being one of the rare, rare exceptions. >> right. some people are saying if you look at who the republicans usually put up as their presidential nominee do it in a

line who so supposed to be next. the last two elections that hasn't worked very well. so i'm not sure that will be a main deciding factor. jon: you think it is a wide open election? >> i think it is. if you look at polls it clearly is amongst the base. i spent last year attending tea party rallies. they said they were sick of washington and wanted someone up there as an outsider. people among the base, voting in primaries who they will prefer is election held today someone who isn't considered a career politician and not washington insider. i think it will benefit republicans in primary election, i can do this. i don't have a ton of experience exactly being a career politician but i don't you guys want that anyways. jon: think of more successful recent presidents, ronald reagan, governor of california, george w. bush, governor of texas. bill clinton, governor of arkansas. i mean it tend to be that presidents who had executive office experience from a

governorship of one of the states tend to do pretty well. >> that's true but if you look at george w. bush, he served one term as governor before he became president. that is not a lot but i do think what matters more than maybe the exact amount of quantity of time you have what you do within that time and there's a reason why when you talk about these three senators everyone knows their name. whether you like them or not they have had a major impact in short amount of time. orrin hatch, republican from utah. been there for 37 years now. if we went and asked do you know rand paul or orrin hatch? more people would recognize rand paul's name. what matters is what you do in the amount of time that you have, maybe than having say, 10, 15 years of executive experience. jon: part of the problem though, you know, don't you think that a lot of people are looking at some of the activities, these three, and others are up to say, they're just positioning themselves for a white house run? >> absolutely and i think that is a problem a lot of them run into. but i think any politician you can say that.

they're always posturing for the next race and next election. i'm not sure if you listen to the gop base, they seem fine with it. if someone has less amount of experience we'll see how it plays out. jon: you think it is a wide-open race? >> i really think it is amongst the republicans absolutely. jon: ellison barber, from the "washington free beacon." thanks. jenna. jenna: a dramatic video of a house explosion after police show up on the scene. we'll see what sparked this deadly situation. more on this coming up. tragic situation in a mining accident in west virginia. we have miners family members remind us of dangers that come with the job. >> i look at him as a hero. there are a lot of people do things every day that you could risk your life at. this right here takes a special person. my dad is my hero. >> they're heroes. you don't know what will happen from time to time. you don't know if you will get to tell them you love them again. with ink plus from chase like 60,000 bonus points

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severe thunderstorms causing flooding in partsparts of northeast ohio. streets and houses inundated with water. some folks had to be rescued after being trapped inside of their own homes. developments in the gosh washington bridge investigation as lawmakers hear from governor christie's long time press secretary. he is expected to be questioned about what happened before and after the lane closures that led to all the troubles on the bridge. twitter getting a mute button today, one that allows users to silence their friend without unfollowing them. jenna: hmmm. jon: welcome development. >> deadly mining accident in west virginia trapping and killing two workers. molly henneberg live in washington with the very latest on this. >> reporter: jenna, fox news has now confirmed the identities of the two miners who died in this accident. they are eric legg, 48 of twilight, west virginia. also gary p. hensley chapman, west virginia. they were empty brodie number

one mine around 8:45 when mining officials say coal outburst, meaning coal and gas burst out of the mine that may have led to a roof collapse. rescue workers worked all night trying to find and get to the men hoping they survived. now we know they didn't. crews were able to recover the bodies of and there are no reports of injuries in this accident. patriot coal, headquartered in st. louis, missouri, owns the brodie number one mine. federal investigators said the mine had a pattern of safety violations. for context here, it is not unusual for a coal mine to have safety infractions as coal mining industry is very dangerous and there are many rules and regulations. west virginia governor earl ray tomblin is asking them to pray for families of the dead, saying quote, this is a very difficult time for our mining community. jenna. jenna: thinking of those families today. molly, thank you. jon: the u.s. is stepping up the search for hundreds of young girl kidnapped by terrorists in

nigeria. general jack keane weighs in on the new tool in the hunt. also a domestic dispute takes a terrifying and deadly turn. details in a live report coming up. >> best information we have at this time, is that officer was fatally shot as he entered the home. other officers arrived, and a short time later, the home was engulfed in flames and later exploded. okay, listen up! i'm re-workin' the menu.

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on what went on. jonathan? >> reporter: jon, cops were first called to the house in brentwood, new hampshire, after neighbors heard two men arguing an one of those men screaming. officer steven arkel was among the first to respond and the first to actually enter the house where he was shot dead almost immediately. at least one other officer tried to get in but was driven back by gunfire. then a s.w.a.t. teams gathered outside, flames began pouring from the roof. a short time later you see it right there, a huge explosion destroyed the home and shook the neighborhood. the suspected gunman, identified by officials as 47-year-old michael know land is believed to have died inside of the home which he shared with his father, walter noland. the elder mr. note land, who was 86, was wheeled away on a stretcher before the fire and explosion. his injuries from what we could see did not appear serious. we did not have an update on his

condition. officer steven arkel was 48 years old. he had been a part-time police officer for 15 years and coached sports at the local high school attended by his two teenage daughters. >> i join all granite staters in morning the loss of brentwood police officer, steve arkel who died tonight doing his job, protecting his community. >> reporter: there will be a candlelight vigil for the officer tonight and prior to that, jon, at around 1:00 p.m., officials are due to hold a news conference at which we're likely to learn more about what prompted this tragic series of events. jon? jon: he sound like a great guy. >> reporter: certainly does. jon: jonathan hunt, thank you. >> reporter: sure. jenna: other big news, the u.s. stepping up its role in nigeria for the search of hundreds of schoolgirls abducted by the terror group boko haram. a senior u.s. official confirming to fox news the pentagon deployed manned surveillance planes as nigeria

government said, it is weighing all options including a possible prisoner swap. let's bring in retired four-star general jack keane, retired army chief of staff and fox news military analyst. nice to have you with us today. >> good to be here. jenna: a big story that unfolded last several weeks and a big story in nye gear yaw for weeks. the challenges of finding two or three schoolgirls. why is it difficult to find 2 or 300 schoolgirls. >> well, first of all, even surveillance aircraft, i'm assuming they also providing satellite coverage to the nigerian government and its military. we have an mc-12, which is fixed-wing aircraft, has sophisticated intelligence on board. the fact of the matter, jenna, use of surveillance aircraft we usually drive them to a specific area based on intelligence and they look in that area for something of value to us. if we don't have a specific area to drive that aircraft or to drive even a satellite coverage,

it is very, very challenging. jenna: needle in a haystack challenging? >> it is partly, it is partly that. but look, that video, our people will study that video. it is revealing in of itself, just a casual observer looking at it. it is not for rested area, deeply for rested like they suggested. has a open sky -- forrested. try to identify, vegetation, type of terrain and steer themselves to type of area. the problem we don't know when that was taken and those girls could in fact be someplace else now. jenna: how truly impactful do you think we could be? >> i think we could be fairly helpful trying to assist them how to go about this our people are very experienced. so i think thinking through the problem and analyzing it, how best to apply resources is part, what this team can do as well. and then provide resources as needed. but it is a tough situation. i think the best, the best thing that's happened is boko haram

has reached out to the government and is wanting to talk to them about an exchange. and that certainly means that those girls, at least, most of them are probably alive and willing to be bargained with, to get the muslim, boko haram members out of jail. so that's a step in the right direction. jenna: these guys are really bad guys, general keane. i don't need to tell you that of the you know it, this boko haram group in general. do you think we should be bargaining with them? >> i think that is the nigerian government's call. right now they're saying they are not going to do that but in fact they are doing it and that is truly what happens with most governments dealing with terrorist. public stance, no negotiations but privately they do negotiate and i think that is going on. boko haram is a very dangerous organization. it is another radical islamist group on the rise in north africa and in the middle east and they all have the same purpose, to control territory, influence people and impose radical islamist beliefs,

customs and tradition on the people. jenna: on that point because we talked about it kite a bit, and ambassador bolton discussed it last night with get tax focusing on growing threat of terrorism in northern africa, a wide area taken over by these groups. you mentioned it several times on our show. it is a area about the size of texas. it so far hasn't impose ad national security throat as far as we know. what does this tell us how bold the groups are coming and when does the tipping point happen when it suddenly moves to be african issue to one of our own national security? >> given what happened to us as a result of radical islam and the fact it is driven by ideology and that is the thread that connects all of these different groups even though they're in different geographic locations and they may operate a little differently and certainly may not swear allegiance to zawahiri in pakistan, the fact of the matter they're

idealogically the same. we have no comprehensive strategy to defeat this ideology. that is one of our major props that this country is facing. we should be having shared partnerships with countries that are dealing with this issue. sharing intelligence, sharing training, sharing technology. sharing equipment. we don't have a single geopolitical alliance like nato we used to destreet the soviet union with this part of the world. it is sad that is the case. we can do much to help these countries as other countries can as well. it's a growing menace. the other thing, jenna. we learned as a result of 9/11. if we allow radical islamists sanctuaries to grow and fester as we did with the one in afghanistan for almost 10 years that eventually can become a menace to the united states, to europe and to other countries. we learned that hard lesson. jenna: that gives us a to think about, not just what happens to this story and this chapter but what happens next and how do we

destroy these groups, these bad guys that are out there. general keen, quickly we have another story we're watching. we'll talk a lot about nigeria across our programs today but there is another story, this investigation into delays at veterans hospitals, allegedly these delays led to dozens of deaths. we have the veterans affairs secretary that will testify before the senate this week. just in general, as a veteran, someone who served this country for many years, what is your reaction from the story? what do you want to hear from the secretary of veterans affairs? >> first of all our government and american people made a tremendous commitment to our veterans. 150 hospitals, 820 clinics, 300,000 people administering to nine million veterans. no other country in the world ever made a commitment to that but right in front of us, jenna, we seem to have a major problem. to break it down simplistically is, we have a huge demand on our veterans and we don't have the capacity, at least it appears, based on evidence that is coming forward, we don't have the capacity to be able to meet that

demand. we're not responsive to the health care needs and we're not as responsive as we should be to process their disability claims. something is fundamentally wrong and it needs certainly addressing. jenna: how? >> first of all, i think the congress has got to bore in on it. that is number one. i don't think the white house is going to do anything more than what they have already done and that is to shore up the va in general. we eventually need to hold people accountable inside of the va for their performance. it appears, i mean i don't look at this every single day, but appears that is not being done. that has got to be changed. and secondly, if we have a major issue here with resources, and demand, i think we need to review of the entire va system, to see if the 21st va system, this wonderful enterprise that we have, is truly, has the capacity to meet our veterans needs. that has got to be done. jenna: some big questions there.

general keane, great to have you on the show as always. look forward to having you back. >> always good talking to you, jenna. take care. jenna: next hour of "happening now" we'll get reaction from another veteran on scandal employing the va. it is causing hard looks in the mirror how we all care about veterans. we'll talk about that starting at the 1:00 p.m. hour. jon: there are questions about facilities all across the country. jenna: it's a drip, drip, drip of information from different states across the country, not just one. jon: yeah. in the meantime we are astraighting new developments in the oscar pistorius murder trial. this half the prosecution calls for the athletes to -- athlete to get a mental evaluation. what a judge's ruling could mean for the outcome of the case. >> he allowed letters to be in his prem ses. -- premises. one wouldn't expect him to allow that. >> one would expect the letters --

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jon: a fox business alert and some good news for your 401k as both the dow and s&p 500 which started the day in record territory seem to be inching even higher. lauren is live with the fox business network with more on what's going on. >> good news. stock market is on a terror. we're seeing new records for the dow and the s&p 500. we like that. the s&p 500, those are the big popular, widely held stocks that

you probably have in 4091, even taking out the 1900 level for the first time ever today. if you look at the dow, pushing closer to 17,000 just a couple of hundred points shy at this point. we still have a rally from yesterday. investors bought stocks in companies large and small. they are up again today. that is good news and the stable, larger companies like the blue chips, they're turning in another solid performance as well and then the industrials, delta, southwest, c.s.x. railroads among others pushing to record highs along with a broader average. mind you that all this came on a day when we saw a big pullback from the consumer. retail sales rising a tenth of 1% last month showing that despite the warmer weather, shoppers aren't feeling too optimistic. again, we have this tale of two markets, right? main street versus wall street. one healthy, one not so much but stocks at record. we like that.

we hope the good streak continues into tomorrow. >> did you say delta is on a roll? >> i knew i was going to get something for that. yeah. stock price. jon: there was a period of two decades where airlines could not make money. baggage fees are good for something. >> i thought you were going to tell me a story about a terrible experience. jon: no. i'm fascinating when airlines can all of a sudden make money. >> baggage fees. you got it. jon: that's why. >> see ya. jenna: we're expecting a key development in the blade runner trial today. the judge could rule on the prosecutor's request that pistorius undergo a psychiatric evaluation. that could take a month and definitely impact the trial. this after a psychiatrist testified for the defense saying that the athlete suffers from an aing sglit disorder. paul has been in the courtroom all along and joins us on the phone from south africa. >> hi. it was a moment that you'll see on tv.

the prosecutor paused and then turned to the rest of the defense team and gave them a sly, almost mischievous smile. he said that the athlete, oscar pistorius, be sent to a mental institution. he argued with a psychiatrist for the defense admitting as she did that pistorius with a gun is a danger to society, the athlete must be evaluated before the case can continue. he said if psychiatric wellness is brought as a defense, it would be the third defense presented since the trial started. first self defense, then accidental shooting, now this. and the prosecutor argued that the defense team had only thought to bring in the psychiatrist this late in the trial because the blade runner's performance on the witness stand had been so poor. the judge will rule wednesday morning here whether pistorius

will be sent to a mental hospital for up to a month. if he is referred, it will be a massive shock to the athlete. currently living at his uncle, swanky, three-story mansion. he'll trade luxury to a government cell, a building that is straight out of a hitchcock movie. jenna: thank you. jon: so for more on this, let's bring in our legal panel. doug burns is a former prosecutor and lis wiehl is a fox news legal analyst. what do you think about it? the defense put on this wednesday who winds up saying, yeah, i think this guy is a danger to society. >> it was not good for the defense there. to me, it really wreaks of a last minute ditch effort to change the story, the narrative one more time, now to say it wasn't self defense. it wasn't all of that. it was a mental disease or defect. not quite that much but to bring in the psychiatrist at the end of the trial.

it always makes me nervous for either side when they try to change their narrative so close to the end of the trial. the prosecutor is right? asking we want an independent psychiatrist. judge, give us that. jon: does it hurt pistorius' defense to have this mental evaluation potentially scheduled? >> absolutely. it's funny. they say in sports it's hard to keep your emotions in check in the heat of battle. same thing in trials and having been there myself many, many times, you know, they just completely change the focus and they turn around and they got really cute because they said, you're not going to believe this, he has ainxiety to the point where he's overly concerned with security. do you know how artificial that means? meaning that's why he would have overreacted and thought it was an intruder. back to lis' point and your point, they raise this mental defense stuff so the prosecutor jumps all over it. >> the prosecutor has the chance to rebutt what the defense has brought in. that's fair.

to be able to say you brought your person, paid and hired for, we need an independent person that the court can assign to give us an independent analysis. it will slow up the trial for a month or so. jon: they're talking about a potential 30-day stay in a cribbing ward. >> that's good. a lot of times there's the d.a., the people are cynical and experts will say anything. i don't agree with that, having practiced for 28 years but the reality is you are going to get a shaded version one way or the other. here you have an objective analysis of his medical state. >> if this were an issue, if this were the defense, general aing sglit defense, and they're saying it was back from when he was 17 months old, don't you think that they would have thought about that before 31 days into the trial? >> that's just what we lawyers call sand bagging. >> trial lawyers never do that. >> they sand bag the prosecutors. >> that would never happen. >> raise this thing at the 11th

hour. jon: don't you think that chess move backfired? sure sound like the prosecutor made a real strong play here. >> and this is in front of a judge. judge knows all about that. they started with two different theorys and now they're going to a third. >> and this judge, when she heard them say with a straight face he has aing sglnxiety to tt where he's overly concerned with aing sgl -- anxiety, this judge shaking her head. jon: thank you both. >> my pleasure. jenna: let's check out what's ahead at the top of the hour. >> democrats may be facing an uphill battle in the midterms so what polling shows about public attitudes. >> plus a stunning move in a heart of football country. why one texas town is shutting

down tackle football for an entire grade of boys. >> and what would happen if you hooked a man up to a machine that simulates the pain of childbirth? could they handle it? probably not. >> they would cry like babies. what about our hashtag one lucky guy? who is that going to be? coming up at the top of the hour. jenna: jon is volunteering. are you volunteering to be hooked up? >> i handle pain pretty well. >> really? jon: i do. >> you want to deliver that baby, huh? jon: i didn't say that. >> right. jenna: he likes the big reward at the end. i will see where they draw the line. look forward to that conversation. i know jon does as well. in the meantime, we have a remarkable breakthrough in fighting cancer to tell you about. can our bodies melt away tumors? can we do that ourselves? a top cancer researcher in this country who made a remarkable discovery joins us moments from now. and why police suspect a case of road rage and what could happen to the drivers involved.

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jon: a fox news alert. new reports this morning that six ukrainian soldiers were ambushed and killed in eastern ukraine marking a significant escalation in the tactics of the rebels there. here is the latest. greg? >> that's what we're looking at, jon. we've been getting details. six ukrainian soldiers killed. we're told nine ukrainian soldiers injured. they were ambushed outside the town about two hours from where we are right now. they were in a convoy. they were transporting ammunition and attacked by, we are told, 30 separatists. again, just this comes a day after the same separatists declared independence for the area and declared that the ukrainian troops were an occupying force and must leave within the next 48 hours or they would face their wrath.

we were just into that area this arrive not far from where the attack happened. we heard from the ukrainian military. they're being attacked regularly, mortar and gun fire and militants looked in an angry mood. significant escalation that we are tracking in the battle now between ukrainian military and the rebels in this region. jon: so the tension is ratcheting up there. thank you. jenna: brand new research on a cancer treatment that uses our own cells to fight very aggressive forms of the disease. our next guest says he has seen tumors begin to melt away using this process. dr. steven rosenburg is chief of surgery in bethesda, maryland. i know you're very busy doctor, one of the lead researchers in cancer but this is a remarkable story about what you saw helping one woman use their own cells to

attack the cancer. the simplest way, how does this work? >> we've been working for many years to try to find new cancer treatments based on stimulating the body's immune system and we've published extensively on the ability to remove the warriors of the immune system from a patient's body, identify the immune cells that can recognize the cancer examine give them back and we've been doing that in patients with metastatic melanoma for a long time. how do we attack common cancers like colon and pancreas and ovary and prostate? so we've developed a new technique now where we generate a patient's own immune cells to recognize the mutations that occur in the d.n.a. of that tumor. that's what actually makes a normal cell into a cancer cell. so by attacking those mutations that make the cancer cell what it is, we can apply a highly

specific treatment against the cancer and not against any normal tissue. so this development of the patient's own immune cells against their own cancer mutations is what this describes as highly experimental, certainly not ready for prime time but it does demonstrate that it is possible to treat patients with common cancers using this kind of cell transfer immuno therapy. jenna: the patient in this study, she's a mother, had a highly aggressive cancer that spread to her liver and her lungs. what is happening to her now? when you said you saw the tumors melt away, what do you mean by that? >> we treated this woman, a 46-year-old woman who had cancer in the bile duct that's part of the live he were. she had been through previous chemotherapies but the tumor kept growing. we took her immune cells from her tumor and could identify the exact cells that recognize her

mutations. we gave they are -- her treatment over seven months now and her tumors started to shrink and are still shrinking as of now, about eight months later. jenna: she's not cured, so to say, and it might change the way we look at treating and managing this disease. how does this go from being in the experimental stage to being prime time? >> the major reason for the publication was the demonstration of a technique that could be used to identify a patient's own individual mutations that we could target the immune system against and this just showed it was possible but it's going to require a lot of development now before this can be used to treat large numbers of patients. this was in a sense a proof of the principle that you could specifically target the cancer and not the normal tissue. jenna: it's incredible. you've been working so many

years on this disease as we mentioned, one of the leading researchers in the country. just for you personally, what was it like to see these results and to see this work? >> well, this is what i do as a rollercoaster. everybody i take care of has advanced cancer. we've tried a lot of things that haven't worked but it's thrill to go see this new approach work and this one patient and we're now aggressively around the lock trying to simplify the procedure and use it for other patients. certainly quite thrilling to see it work in this one patient. we have more work to do. jenna: thanks for letting us join for part of the ride on the rollercoaster. for so many of our viewers, their families are affected by cancer so we wanted to take a moment and talk about the things you're working on. we hope to have you back. thank you for taking the time today to speak to us. >> you're welcome. jon: dash cam video captures an incredible accident. an incident of road rage apparently that put other drivers at risk. now we're learning who is behind the wheel in this collision.

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tanker truck. that could have been really, really bad. jenna: disastrous, really. arizona police officer falling victim to a deadly wrong way crash. he was on his way home from work when he was killed by someone driving on the wrong side of the road. apparently this guy was driving fast, quick and affecting a lot of people. today we're hearing the frantic 911 calls from witnesses who were almost hit themselves. >> there's a guy going southbound on the northbound lane on 51. he almost hit me. he's probably going -- i don't know. he's going 80, 90 miles an hour. >> he was in my lane. i just swerved at the last minute. jenna: the officer was a 13-year veteran of the police force known for his work in the community. jon: court action today linked to the boston marathon terror attack as three friends of the only surviving bombing suspect pushed to have their trials moved out of massachusetts. they say it's because of the publicity that surrounds that

case. molly is live outside u.s. district court in boston. >> big developments today. judge has agreed to three separate trials for these three friends of dzhokhar tsarnaev, the surviving boston marathon bombing suspect. these three friend are accused of taking actions after the bombing. the judge said there would not be a change of venue despite the fact the defense attorneys said there was too much intense media coverage for their clients to get a fair shake. both are from kazakhstan, have pled gui not guilty for swiping items, including a laptop computer, backpack and parts of fireworks from dzhokhar tsarnaev's dorm room after the bombings. a man from massachusetts is accused of lying to investigators, two counts of making false statements. it's possible one or more of

these will be called on to testify as late as today. there's significant discussion underway in the courtroom as to whether or not they'll be permitted to be cross-examined if they take the stand today. this is a constantly developing story. three trials, first one set to begin the end of june. jon: thank you. jenna: we're waiting for reaction from the white house on a range of hot topics from u.s. involvement for the search of hundreds of girls in nigeria to rocking veteran as fairs administration. very latest coming up.

jenna: miniature californian running for her life in busy traffic, finding this little chihuahua on the loose darting in and out of heavy traffic. the officers were able to spot her on the median, lure her over with a protein bar and animal control says the 2-year-old pet will be adopted if the owners aren't found but apparently, they tell you not to play in

traffic but this little dog was apparently put there on purpose. probably, right? do you need a little friend? jon: i think i have my hands full with winston. thank you very much, though, for thinking of me. see you back here in an hour. jenna: "outnumbered" starts right now. >> this is "outnumbered." today's hashtag one lucky guy is brian. he is outnumbered as you can see and he's looking fantastic. are you happy to be here today? >> what have you been talking about? i haven't seen you in a week. i'm getting the tweets. con grt -- congratulations. i'm looking to please. >> i like that in a man. we're off to a good start today. a