suburbans areas of oakland. they acted more like slot machines in the '30s giving out cash to lucky players. bill: a little something, on that. we've got to run. martha, we'll see you soon though. see you on o'reilly and radio. jenna: we start off with a fox news alert. a historic reading on the health of our condition my today. first quarter gdp fell at an an equal rate of 2.9%. that was much steeper than was reported last month of the economy's worst performance in five years. most importantly, we have never seen this type of negative number, except during or just before a recession, since we first started collecting these quarterly gdp records back in 1947. a big number today. here is a look at wall street. some suggest this is evidence how bad the winter was for so many. we'll talk a little more about that, what it means about the state of america's economy throughout the day today.

jon: breaking right now, dramatic 911 calls today of a woman claiming to have been kidnapped by a an escaped murderer. he is center of a massive manhunt. i'm jon scott. jenna: i'm jenna lee. good to have you here today. the woman tells 911 that she was briefly taken hostage by timothy buffington. he walked off a work assignment on a colorado work facility saturday night. the woman made the plea moments after managing to escape. >> 911. >> i was kidnapped and i just got away. we need some assistance. as soon as possible. because he is armed. and he will shoot. >> who has he threatened? >> he was threatening me and people that have, that is the the point. are you sending help? >> yes, ma'am. jenna: live in our new york city

newsroom with more on our lead story today. jonathan? >> reporter: jenna, seems incredible but it does appear this convicted murderer just walked right off of the ground of the ramble williams correctional facility in pine bluff, arkansas, south of little rork. he had been doing yard work at a house on the ground of the prison. he broke into that home, stole a shotgun, and briefly held that woman there as a hostage. she then escaped. here is more of her 911 call. >> he has four dogs, a shotgun, ammo and other keys. he can get more weapons. he has all of our house keys. he is in my dad's state vehicle. keys to get stuff out of the state vehicle, everything. >> okay. where is he, where is he at? >> he inside of my home. >> reporter: now the only confirmed sighting of timothy buffington in four days since then on surveillance video

knocked on the door after nearby house, having changed to camouflage gear from prison whites. police dogs have not picked up a scent then. foot, horseback and helicopter search so far failed to find any trace of the 47-year-old. back in 1998 buffington murdered his ex-wife, shooting her in the back of the head as she sat in a pickup truck with her boyfriend. he was sentenced to 20 years and due for release in 2018. officials say he has clean disciplinary record while in prison and no escape attempts until now. he is 5'6", about 182-pound and apparently has scars on his upper left arm and right wrist. cops warn anyone who seize him not to approach him given as we know armed with at least one shotgun and ammo. by the way, jenna, he apparently told that hostage he took for a short time, he wanted to go somewhere and think. jenna. jenna: big question where that

is. jonathan, thank you. >> reporter: sure. jon: politics now. new fallout from the dramatic runoff win for six-term mississippi senator thad cochran, barely holding off a challenge from a tea party-backed candidate. cochran's victory could actually spell trouble for the gop. my next guest quotes erick erickson, editor of redstate.com, who says, this become as longer term problem for the republican party. its core activists hate its leadership more and more. ron forney yay, he is senior political columnist and editorial director for "national journal." the man who quoted erickson in that column. looks like thad cochran is headed to the general election. is he going to win? >> yeah, probably i think conventional wisdom happens to be right in this case, if he had lost, democrats had outside of chance of picking up mississippi. nonow, i don't think they have a chance. jon: you say his win is not necessarily good news for the

republican party. why? >> short term it is a, it's a victory. this is what the republican party wanted. it is what the establishment wanted. but what is going on big in politics, both on the right and the left, is, people are tired of washington. they're tired of politics as usual and they're sick of both parties. and you see this, this essay by erick erickson, you can sub out the word democrat or republican and put in word democrat and sounds like howard dean in 2004. it sounds like elizabeth warren wing of the party now. sounds like rand paul, libertarian wing of the republican party. there is a populist movement bubbling out there that is finding a way to have some influence over a very dysfunctional political system right now. jon: it does seem like there is a dearth of new ideas in washington right now. >> oh, yeah. any good ideas die in their crib. neither party can get over itself and reach across the aisle to get anything done. jon: and that is what you're

pointing to in the, in the thad cochran victory, the fact that other senators who contributed to his campaign, other corporate, you know, pacs and so forth. >> yeah. eric make as real good case. he talks about outside money and cajoled democrats and corporate lobbyists and gop establishment figures in washington all turned the election towards cochran. that might be a good thing for the party in the short term but what he is talking about is this system of, he calls it marionettes. a guy like thad cochran is basically a marionette and people we don't elect and we have no influence over who are controlling the strings. and he has some pretty vivid image riff i thought at some point he argues that people will get out their knives and cut those strings and will take back their politics. whether that happens from the far right where eric is or the far left where

elizabeth warren's wing of the party is or somewhere in the middle i don't know, but i do know we can't keep going the way we're going now or, most americans are just going to walk away from the system. jon: let's talk about one of the things that republicans are virtually united on. that is their opposition to obamacare. you say that there is a major challenge coming up concerning obamacare. the fact that this thing is rolled out and millions of people have signed up does not necessarily make it a success. >> right. disclosure here. i'm someone who would like to see the act work and whose family already benefit from it, having two young adult, young adult daughters but the problem is, i watch the president and his people pat themselves on the back and have victory parades got to the goal of eight million or nine million americans signing up through the aca. well the fact is, you have to sign up as an individual or you pay a fine. so, big deal. you got a lot of people to do something they have to do or pay a tax. now the hard part begins.

how do you implement the employer mandate? how does that affect people like myself who have their insurance through an employer? that is the only way this law works. there is a lot of money they're planning on getting through the system from companies that don't provide insurance and therefore pay a tax, to get out of that insurance payment. that's the redistribution of wealth from the businessmen to, and businesses to people who can't afford insurance now. now you could be for that as democrats and barack obama is but you have to explain it to people. you can't just, say, hey, we won, we won the election. here is the law, now take it america. jon: you point out there are a lot of big companies that are limiting part-time workers to less than 30 hours a week to keep them under the requirements, keep them from having to put them on their health care rolls. >> right. actually i was building off of really good story by a beat reporter for "the washington post" in the paper yesterday where she points out, and this is, reporter that

doesn't have an axe to grind either way, there are a lot of companies who are already pulling back on hours and number of employees they have and pointed to democrats who favor the bill, who have problems with it and worried about the employer mandate. this will not be an easy thing to do. what worries me, which should worry anybody who is, whether you're for or against this bills is it is very complicated, especially how the irs implements it. there are two problems there. one, this is an administration even its loyalists have to admit has not been very good on governing, not been very good on managing and this is a management job. number two, i mentioned irs. we didn't trust the irs before the scandal. now there is really reason to worry about what is going on in the irs. they have in their hand a success or failure of a bill that affects 1/5 of our economy. that is pretty unsettling thought. jon: they also in their hands a lot of people's personal information now. interesting. >> they always have, but they always have. what worries me about the irs

investigation it hasn't been an investigation. republicans have done a lousy job of investigating this and white house has been trying to walk away from it. jon: now they have your health records as well. ron, from the "national journal," good to have you on,. >> thanks. jenna: let's turn to the irs scandal now. new polling show most americans want to get to the bottom of what happened. a whopping 74% of those surveyed by a "fox news poll" say they want congress to continue investigating irs until someone is held accountable. the irs commissioner is taking a breathering from capitol hill after getting hammered past couple days on two hearings on the lost emails. congressional correspondent mike emanuel has been there step by step and he join us now. mike. >> reporter: there seems to be a lot of digging and fact-finding off-camara outside of the hearing room trying to get answers to some questions about those missing emails. >> they're claiming they lost emails. in the 21st century, emails

just don't go missing. it just doesn't happen. and there doesn't seem to be an explanation other than, we don't know where they are. >> reporter: three intense hearings in the house are done and headline came from official with national archives who said in questioning, the irs did not comply with the federal records act. so it broke the law but not telling national archives those emails disappeared. more than two years, a former official lois lerner's external emails to outside groups and other agencies are missing and lerner is not talking to congress. irs blamed hard drive crash and democrats blamed old technology or lack of proper funding. leading democrats are trying to contain the scandal from spreading. >> regardless of how many times the republicans claim the white house was behind the irs actions, there is still no evidence, none. that the white house was involved in any way with

screening applicants for tax-exempt status. >> reporter: got two committees in the house, bipartisan investigation in the senate, trying to get to the bottom of the irs targeting of conservative groups, and what about those missing emails and what may have been contained in those messages. jenna? jenna: despite all the hairings, still the questions remain. mike, thank you. >> reporter: thank you. jon: a major break through in a murder case to tell you about. it went cold some 25 years ago. why these two men are behind bars now charged with that crime. also, the united nations reporting the stunning death toll for this month alone in the iraq crisis, amid new claims the white house did know this insurgency was coming. our live chat is up and running. we want to know what you think. do you feel like the economy is recovering where you are. the national numbers out this morning, pretty bad. log on to foxnews.com/happeningnow. click on the "america's asking" tab. get your thoughts in there.

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>> if somebody could have found out that leaders were going to literally betray and cave in and desert, that would have been terrific but we don't have people embedded in those units and so obviously nobody knew that. i think, i think everybody in iraq was surprised, people were surprised everywhere. jenna: new fallout from comments like that one from secretary

kerry insisting that no one really saw the latest upheaval in iraq coming. now new reports that simply isn't true. the senior intelligence officialing telling fox news there was present warning about the deteriorating situation. we have a you know spokesman and diplomat and fox news contributor and jim walsh, international security expert at the mit security studies program. start with the first part of that question, rick. why does this matter? >> well it matters because there is a whole bunch of actual implications to putting together the pieces of intelligence. the one thing we have to remember intelligence is an estimate. it is not a science and too many people that have never read intelligence or that have never gathered intelligence think it is just one of these things that, like a science and it's not and it's one of the most important reasons why when we have leaks or we have individuals who give away how we get intelligence, how we gather

it, why that is so concerning. >> let me ask jim a little bit about that. jim, is this picking off what rick had to say, a failure of intelligence or a failure to plan proactively, whatever the situation is on the ground? >> i think rick raises a good question. there was some reticence on the obama administration to share the intelligence for the reason that rick cites, they were afraid the maliki government would turn around and give it to iran. there is a lot of mistruth there. if you step back and look at this, intelligence only matters if the maliki government woos interested in having it and had capability to act on it and i don't think neither of those things were true. for two years they were not interested in getting u.s. intelligence. drones would not tell you how bad of a shape the iraqi army was in, and intelligence wouldn't matter, when the guys took off the uniforms and joined the other side, that has to do with how maliki has torn apart the iraqi army. that is the core problem.

jenna: those guys we are referring to are the members of the iraqi army that zook off -- took off their uniforms, put on civilian clothes and decided they would be part of the fight. let's go to the question, rick, that jim answered there, whether or not this debate about intelligence is even relevant right now. that is in the rear view mirror. we're on this road now, what about planning in strategic way and are we doing that and do we have resources so that we have good information to make the right decisions? >> in the intelligence community there is thing called nice to know and need to know. what we need to know is what information is going to affect our national security. that's our number one criteria. i think the evidence was there many years ago when we saw the iranians in lebanon and saw how in syria, the original syria up rising in the very beginning was about democracy-seekers. and we didn't act and iran started to fill the vacuum. and now we is sectarian

violence. jenna: ric, you said we should have have a plan anyway, regardless of information available to us, we should have a plan? >> you have to read the intelligence and put together a plan. you just can't say, oh, this is nice to know. you have to act on it. jenna: interesting that rick brings up iran, jim. i like to ask you about that. interesting report out of "new york times" that iran is supplying drones and other military equipment to the iraqis for the very purpose part of being a broader effort to gather intelligence. what is up with that? i know iran is your specialty. what are they up to and are they filling a vacuum we should be in. >> u.s. and iran ironically enough are doing the same thing for the same reason. iran is worried iraq will fall apart. geography matters here. iran and iraq share a long border f sunni extremists take over iraq, that pose as direct threat to the vital interests of iran. they don't want to see that happen. we don't want to see that happen. we're sort of doing the same thing. we're both putting intel assets

into iraq now. we're both sending advisors. both countries, as far as my reading of iranian press are reluctant to put boots on the ground. they will do it if they have to but don't want to. jenna: i have to run because i'm up against a hard break, should we be more aggressive than the iranians about intelligence. >> we should collect more. at end. day this is the iraqis have to fight this. we can do anything in the world but it won't change anything if iraq doesn't get its own house in order. jenna: look forward to having you both bake back. >> thank you. >> thank you. jon: you heard of peeping toms but peeping drones? coming up the bizarre investigation underway after one woman spots an unmanned aircraft, this one hovering right outside of her apartment window. plus a tight runoff race in mississippi ends in victory apparently for the establishment republican. the long-serving senator there, so, what does it mean for who wins control of the u.s. senate come november? the changing political map.

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and get the fastest wifi included. comcast business. built for business. jenna: welcome back, everyone. a scary situation for a sea at tell woman who said she spot ad drone hovering outside her apartment woman at inopportune time. the woman told police she was getting dressed sunday morning to look up and saw the unmanned craft and it camera in front of her. >> very scary and felt violating. it appeared video cameras are on it. that caused me alarm because i wasn't particularly dressed for a camera by any means. jenna: the man had the drone to

look at developments in the area. the whole thing is misunderstanding. >> i feel awful. we didn't do anything wrong. we operate safely and, i stand by the way we operate our business. jenna: what do you think? police are now investigating the incident. the drone in the meantime, reportedly grounded until further notice. sounds like a good idea. jon: maybe in this circumstance i think so. major blow for the tea party following yesterday's nail-biter of a runoff race in mississippi. republican incumbent senator thad cochran manages to hold off his challenger but just barely. what does it mean for the balance of power on capitol hill moving forward. who will have control of u.s. senate once the dust settles? larry sabato, director of center for politics at the university of virginia. larry, regardless of who won, was this particular seat you think likely to stay in republican hands in mississippi? >> very much so.

democrats held out hope that if chris mcdaniel had won he would be controversial enough so that their nominee, former congressman travis childers, could be competitive but i think that's highly unlikely. in mississippi, in a midterm year. but i'll tell you how it does help the republicans. they're not going to have to spend a dime in mississippi in the general election. they might have had to spend money for mcdaniels since he is not incumbent. and there were some democrats at the national level prepared to use mcdaniel as the face of the republican party in other races. so i think in that sense, the national party leaders were probably pleased, although they won't say so publicly, jon. they don't want to offend the mcdaniel supporters who are mopping mad about the results. jon: let's take a look at the map that you have put out of where things stand right now for control of the u.s. senate. a lot of colors on that map,

larry. the red states obviously are states thaw expect will remain in republican hand. the blue states are solid democrat. light blue, leaning democrat. but explain this map for us. what is the takeaway here for our viewers? >> yeah, we're trying to hypnotize with you that, jon. jon: well, you've done a good job. >> so many strange colors. look, it boils down to this. right now the democrats control the senate 55-45. right now, the republicans are very likely to pick up three democratic seats, west virginia, south dakota, montana. that brings it down to 52-48. that means republicans have to pick up three more seats. where would they do it? alaska, louisiana, arkansas, north carolina, and possibly some other states that are coming in and out like iowa, where there is a strong republican candidate who has just been nominated. do democrats have a chance to gain some republican seats and balance some of those republican

gains? i don't think so. democrats believe they have got a 50/50 chance of beating mitch mcconnell. i don't think they followed mitch mcconnell since his first election in 1984. i don't think he will lose. they think they have a shot in georgia. i don't think they do. there isn't a logical place for democrats to pick up seats. they are in the process of bleeding seats. they have already bled three and republicans are very competitive in a half a dozen other seats. jon: yeah. your map. just so i can disstill it down for the viewer, has 48 democrat, 48 republican, and for tossup seats coming up. will be an interesting election. thanks for giving as you preview. larry sabato, university of virginia. >> thanks, jon. jenna: u.s. government releasing terrible new numbers on the economy. we'll look at the numbers and get to the cause of what is causing the u.s. economy to shrink dramatically.

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first quarter with gross domestic product falling at an annual rate of 2.9%! that is the biggest slump in five years. with more on all of this, lauren simonetti of the fox business network. so in light of this report how's everything leaking? obviously a business, big disappointment, lauren. >> huge disappointment. but the market is up. the dow ask gaining more than 50 points despite the effect that we're shrinking. economy contracting in the big way over the winter. we have not seen a number for the gdp this bad since the depths of the great recession. you know what, jon, you can't blame it on bad weather? we cut back on shopping, spending, eating out between january and march. even exports to other countries, they fell almost 9% in the quarter. even the white house seems worried, saying this, quote, the recovery from the great recession however, remains incomplete and the president will continue to everything he can to support the recovery. the recovery that is just

sputtering. at the same time this gdp report was released about three hours ago, we also got a report on durable goods for may. so well after the warmer weather arrived. and that number also a big disappointment. in fact it was negative. businesses placing fewer order for defense equipment, for computers, cars, toasters, all of that falling 1% last month, jon. jon: people feel like we didn't get out of the last recession. >> yep. jon: you know, if you get another couple quarters like this we could be entering another one. >> so this recovery is very much looking like another recession, absolutely. and even if we jump back and have much stronger gdp print for the second quarter, i mean you will have to do a lot of heavy lifting to pick up for what we lost in the first quarter. one economist, was trying to put number about how much the snow and the wind and cold affects things. he says about $15 billion. that is still a lot of money. you can blame it on the weather and a lot of other things. like you said, the recovery feels like a recession for so many people out there.

jon: it sure does. those are not good numbers. lauren simonetti, fox business network. thank you. >> thanks, jon. jenna: islamic terrorists allegedly kidnapping 91 more people in nigeria over the weekend, some of them toddlers as young as three years old. we say more because this is in addition to the more than 200 schoolgirls still missing after boko haram abducted them in april. but the international movement to get those children back may be losing steam. with a headline from the "washington post" reading, boko haram, just kidnapped 60 more women. does anyone care? joining us now, the director of the africa center at atlantic council who looks at some of these groups and what they are up to. peter, let's address the question right away, with much going on in the world, why should we care about this? >> well we should care because as attention focused on boko haram we saw the group for what it was. it is an islamist, violent extremist group that, like isis in iraq, like that bab previously in somalia has moved

beyond simple hit-and-run attacks to actually gaining control of territory and holding it. currently, it holds an area in northeastern nigeria roughly the size of the state of maryland. and this is a area the government has no entry into, no control. in fact the black flag of al qaeda flies instead of that, the nigeria flag. so this is a group holding territory. from that base, attacking other areas just like the 90 people they have just kidnapped just in the last few days. jenna: that is so interesting to put it into the broader context of seeing terrorists gain ground in different parts of the world and meeting very little opposition when they do so, peter. how do you see it in as part of this larger context with so much conversation looked at in iraq and rightfully so, how, how do you, how do you place it in the world? i don't want to say prioritize, but how do you look at it within this broader context what this means? >> well it underscores the fact that we need to be serious about these groups. we need to pay attention to

what's going on. we have the information but we often don't, it doesn't rise, in fact the one thing i will say in defense of the social media campaign was it forced the international community to pay attention to this issue. three years ago, when i first testified in congress on boko haram, there were literally a dozen people in the room counting witnesses and two members about congress. two weeks ago the hearing room was overflowing. we paid attention two years ago, perhaps, three years ago, we wouldn't be in the place where we are today. the same probably could be said for iraq and other places. jenna: interesting you mentioned the hashtag diplomacy. that has been criticized because the result hasn't been that the girls have been brought back home. the 200 that initially went missing. peter, if you look at last several years you mapped out, you so interesting to see that, you go from an empty room to a full room on this how do we avoid making the same mistakes another two tore three years down the road? what must we do to get better results? get the kidnapped girls back and

make sure terrorists don't gain ground in different areas of the world where we don't see them? >> we need to do the best information we can. that includes baseline information, them against, best analysis. and then we need to think outside of the box and not let our intelligence analysis be conditioned by political overtones or political agenda. secondly, what we also need to do, we need to look at corners of the world where perhaps they are not front and center. northern nigeria has never been front and center of american diplomacy or political interest until very recently but these corners, these ungoverned spaces there, parts of libya and other places around the world where terrorists can be ignored safely by us and build up their resources. thirdly, we need to realize terrorists are very dynamic. extremists, change and adapt and we can't fight yesterday's war today. jenna: quick final question for you. because the focus is so much on the middle east, we did a story yesterday about al qaeda

affiliates in syria communicating with al qaeda affiliates in yemen to gain bomb-making skills. just curious for this specific, group, peter, how well is the communication between different groups in africa and outside of africa? getting back to what sort of national security threat does that pose us? >> well boko haram, the group we're talking about, was nearly destroyed several years ago but a remnant survived. that remnant got help both from al-shabaab in somalia and more importantly from al qaeda's north african affiliate, al qaeda in the islamic ma greg. they learned from them not just tactics but suicide bombings which never occurred in nigeria before but also ideology. they became more virulent and extremist. these groups exchange information. they picked up kidnappings for ransom which had not occurred in nigeria before but was mainstay for financing of al qaeda in the islamic maghreb.

same way that security services and militaries learn from each other. jenna: always interesting to talk with you, peter. thanks for making time. we appreciate it very much. >> thank you, jenna. jon: mcdonald's now just a click away. coming up on the company's new ordering app. some say it's a way for the franchise to get around the whole minimum wage debate. islamic militants practically in control of northern iraq, so could nearby jordan be next? brand new information and some accuse the white house of ignoring the potential threat.

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jon: we are 15 minutes away from "outnumbered" at top of the hour. andrea and jedediah are part of the team. what is coming up? >> thanks, jon. trouble bruering around the world. iraq, syria, nigeria and ukraine. what do americans think about how the president is handling it all? not too much. brand new fox polls tell the story. >> president bill clinton coming to hillary's defense on the comment that can't seem to escape here. >> i love this story. high-profile female ceo was two hours late coming to a meeting. would it be a big deal if it were a guy? >> come clean, do you flirt? i do? who is better directing a flirt. see what our #oneluckyguy at the top of the hour. jon: if i showed up late for the newscast i don't think jenna would notice. >> that's not true.

jenna: we all would notice. exactly. jon: that will be an interesting segment. we'll look forward to that. jenna: i think we know who wins that question. jon: i'm outnumbered here. jenna: you are. jon: thank you. jenna: we have big news coming from capitol hill. speaker boehner during his weekly address breaking some news in fact. when asked if he will sue the white house over executive orders, he had this to say plus more. >> the constitution makes it clear that a president's job to faithfully execute the laws. in my view the president has not faithfully executed the laws. we have a system of government outlined in our constitution with the executive branch, the legislative branch and the judicial branch. congress has its job to do, and so does the president. and, when there is conflicts like this, between the legislative branch and administrative branch, it's, in my view, our responsibility to

stand up for this institution and in which we serve. >> -- against the president? >> this is, this is not about impeachment. this is had about his faithfully executing the laws of our country. jenna: not about impeachment but where does this go from here? we'll work our sources, get awe timeline, so we fully understand what this means. speaker boehner says he will sue the white house. what he is pointing out the white house through so much executive action is not going through proper channels of checks and balances, specific powers afforded to congress. so news from speaker boehner just moments ago. we'll keep on working the story and get you latest developments as soon as they come in. jon? jon: following new claims today that the white house may have repeatedly ignored warnings about the growing influence of the islamic terror group isis in iraq, there are new questions now about whether similar threats in nearby nations also are being ignored.

chief tell intelligence correspondent catherine herridge live in the washington bureau with new information on that. >> reporter: good morning. the chairman of the powerful house intelligence committee telling reporters this morning there were multiple warnings about the rise of isis in the region and they were ignored by the administration. >> i argue this is the result of an indecision, which i argue, indecision which is a policy failure. this is not a intelligence failure. it's a policy failure. ultimately the president of the united states. this is his policy. >> reporter: barring a major counter oaf offensive in the region, rogers telling reporters it is highly likely the group will maintain its positions unless it overreaches. he confirms there was major opportunity for airstrikes in the region but that was missed at a time when the group was on the move and vulnerable to attacks. in addition, he spoke about al-baghdadi the leader of the group isis and he indicated this is a group that is in conflict

now with the al qaeda core in pakistan as that in fact al qaeda core in pakistan was not against the group in iraq and syria because they were too violent but because they wanted to move too quickly to external operations targeting the west. >> i think they are a little bit, as i said earlier, drunk on their success, and really do believe that this is their time to outshine them. it was all about isil wanting to do external operations based on the large number of western passport holders and zawahiri didn't want to do that yet. he wanted them to focus on iraq. >> reporter: as for the number of americans who are now fighting along isis, the senior intelligence official told reporters that this is a given and that the current strength of the group is now, the best guesstimate you will, 10,000 between iraq and syria. the majority in syria of 7,000 with remainder in iraq, jon.

jon: one of the questions will we be able to intercept the american fighters if and when they ever come home from the battlefield? >> reporter: well, this is, we heard earlier this week from the fbi director who said there was no higher priority for the bureau to track american citizens going into syria and returning to the united states but to a certain extent this is situation where you don't know what you don't know and their best track on most of these cases is the use of social media as well as their flight travel. jon: catherine herridge, our chief intelligence correspondent in washington. thank you, catherine. jenna: you're welcome. back to politics in a moment. new fallout from a republican primary. how the winner in a very crowded field could impact the battle to gain control of congress in november's midterms. we're live from oklahoma with that story. plus our live chat is up and running. we want to know what you think. do you feel the economy is recovering where you are? we're asking the question in light of the new gdp which was a big disappointment. go to happening new and click on

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tom coburn but the winner was tom lange ford. chief political correspondent carl cameron live with more. carl? >> reporter: out-of-state super pacs were making a lot of noise in the state and voters didn't pay a lot of attention to it. james lankford, two-term congressman, elected in the 2010 tea party revolution won his race last night with better than 50% to avoid a runoff, 56%, beating tw shannon, first black house speaker and youngest speaker in the history last night. two conservative candidates, both popular battled it out. tea pare and super pac ads came into the state and couple of cases sort of hijacked with the race with messages neither candidate actually approved of, ultimately didn't help shannon pull off victory. the establishment because mr. lankford is number five in the republican leadership is being credited with victory. this is local oklahoma voters decided who they liked best and not liking to be told how to

voight with outside interests. mississippi race, thad cochran, the long-time incumbent won yesterday. tea party and conservative republicans this morning now invigorated, angry, saying that the republican leadership in washington just doesn't get it. they will not give up. they will keep fighting to demand change but on republican establishment side, both in mississippi and particularly here in oklahoma, everybody pleased they believe the right man was nominated and oklahoma voters made their own decision. jenna. jenna: carl, thank you. jon: a quick look at brand new stories we're working on bringing you in the next hour of "happening now." a world cup soccer player appearing to sink his teeth into an opponent. the public nichement he could face for his third alleged incident of biting. also, a new mow quito-born virus making rounds in the caribbean and reports it is already here in the midwest. what you need to know about it. fourth of july is coming, and that means this,

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