>> i want to share with you what new york city looks like at 5:30 in the morning when you walk to work. that's the chrysler building in the background. >> it's beautiful. >> is it? >> i think it's beautiful. "happening "happening now" starts right now. see you tomorrow. jon: now all that snow on the new york city streets is starting to get yucky. jenna: not pretty now. jon: tens of millions of americans a krscross the northeast as a snowstorm heads north. the winter weather not quite as awful as thought in some areas but nearly 8,000 flights cancelled. good morning to you. heather: i'm in for jenna lee and welcome to "happening now." jon: new york city was spared

the worst of it but long island and eastern maryland getting hit with snow. people brace for whiteout conditions. massachusetts is under a travel ban. they expect up to two feet of snow in boston where it's coming down faster than crews can remove it. that's where molly is live right now. how is it going there, molly? >> it's actually a pretty incredible sight. the travel ban still in effect so cars are not supposed to be out on the street. there's just the occasional pedestrian. it's really sort of eery to see all the businesses closed down all the coffee shops closed down this morning. but with any luck we'll be able to start getting back to normal as the day continues. the snow is still coming down. that doesn't make things easier. one thing that does the bright spot in all of this, despite the snow, it's pretty fluffy. it's not all pactful stuff. it's really light and fluffy like this still 30,000 power

outages despite that light fluffy snow. majority of the nantucket, off the coast of massachusetts, they were hit really hard. everybody there out of power and also down on the tip of the cape, from provincetown they're having some major power outages there. otherwise, scattered power outages, most ol cape cod and the south shore. other than that lucky as far as hower outages are concerned across the state of massachusetts. out in the western part of the state, just about 40 minutes way from the city of boston that's where we might see record totals. as the snow continues to fall. you know, this blizzard warning stays in effect throughout the evening. the travel ban yet to be lifted. we're expecting a press conference a little later this afternoon where we'll be able to get new details about what the -- what is going to happen the rest of the storm. jon: what's the idea behind the travel ban? just trying to keep the streets clear for the plow crews? >> to keep everybody not

essential, that doesn't absolutely have to be on the records, you're a medical worker or job involved in the government, communication where you have to let people know what's going on but the idea is to let the snow crews, these guys are on the sidewalk over here but let the big crews get out there and get the snow off the roads. here on the city streets, you can see they're absolutely covered. big piles of snow being pushed up everywhere in the neighborhoods. they're going to have to find a place to put all the snow as well so a big challenge ahead. this storm far from over as the snow continues to come down. jon: i'll bet phoenix is looking good to a lot of football fans there right now. molly line thank you. heather: and those that aren't there, can they get there? a lot of people are asking. of course, this winter storm is on the move as parts of the northeast continue to get pounded by heavy snow and high winds. maria is in the fox weather center. i know you've been covering this since way before the break of dawn. where is it headed now? >> the storm system really impacting hard areas like long

island and also across new england, coastal areas all the way to maine picking up very significant snow totals. the storm system took a shift towards the east so about 50 miles to the west we would have been looking at a different picture, more like what was predicted in new york city so a very tough forecast across the northeast and now we look at the totals and very heavy amounts across long island. molly and i mentioned worester and they picked up over two feet of snow. snow still coming down across the areas and we continue to see the blizzard warnings in effect as well. the concern is not just how much snow is coming down about one to three feet but also the very strong wind gusts. gusts easily over 50 miles per hour along some of the regions in new england. that's introducing blowing and drifting snow whiteout conditions, very dangerous out there. so blizzard warnings remain in effect. we expect the snow to continue throughout the day today and for northern new england, that will

continue as we head into early tomorrow morning. there's a look at the radar widespread areas of snow across parts of the northeast. heavier bands of snow across western massachusetts right now as that band moves westward over the last couple of hours. over to you, heather. >> thank you very much. we'll check back with you. jon: there are new hearings today into the deadattack over the 2012 attack. democrats a cruise the committee chairman south carolina republican of excluding them from meetings with witnesses. congressman says that sources are not required to meet with both sides at the same time and democrats are free to conduct their own private meetings if they would like. joining us now, senior editor of national youth amy is also with us, associate editor and columnist at the hill. we have long heard, you know

republicans have suspected that the obama administration was trying to stonewall this investigation. now there is a report that 15,000 new pages of documents have suddenly turned up. does that justify republican complaints? >> well republicans have waited a long time for this information and the chairman pointed out at the start of the hearing that the recent the select committee exists even though a house intelligence committee report this fall concluded there had been no malfeasance, he's saying because we're seeing not only fewer redactions to a whole separate basket of documents, 25,000 plus this brand new submission of 15,000 never seen before documents to the congress that this is evidence that the select committee needs to exist because no standing committee has ever been given all the information since this event in september of 2012.

the problem is for republicans, it's a political one. as they fight over how to conduct this investigation, they have to make sure they answer to the pressure from the conservative base to continue to pursue this no matter what, even if it drags on another year into the presidential season and to hammer hillary clinton over it, the former secretary of state. at the same time they really don't want this to become a political service that the public will sour on before an election. jon: is this potentially candidate, hillary clinton's worst nightmare if in fact she is running for president? >> well we don't know for sure because we don't know what's in a lot of these documents. to be sure that hillary clinton does not not been goesy talked about very much anymore, and that's one of the main reasons why there's a concerted democratic effort for a very long time to mock anybody who takes any interest in the benghazi story, any further effort to find out exactly what happened, it's always seen as nutty or prisoner trayed as nutty and conspirator yal

that's what i think it's largely about, he's trying to sort of work the reps in advance and cast the committee as a partisan hack, you know this is all a partisan witch hunt and all the rest so as to you know anticipate and downplay anything that the committee might actually find. it's an old game and it might work given all the benghazi fatigue out there. but if you have to choose who is the hack in the picture, i'm going to say you know it's probably cummings. jon: you point out that the house intel committee maim out with the report i think in november that said you know no malfeasance, no blown cover or blown coverage by the c.i.a. that this attack you know could not have been anticipated and so forth. but if they've got 15,000 new documents that nobody has seen before or have not been released before was that a premature

conclusion? >> well, the leadership thought it was even though that was a republican, you know, committee coming out of majority in the house which is -- which was republican in the last congress as you know, concluded that it was not adequate investigation and that further investigation was needed and that's why the select committee was created. but the interesting tussle thing about the tussle that's going on right now is that the majority is meeting with witnesses and leaving the democrats out, which the chairman is admitting is allowed in the rules and the democrats need to start meeting with their own, with the witnesses as well and asking their own questions. i will give them credit for keeping this fight, you know in private for two months. they've been complaining since november and they only just two months later made their letters public. as i said, gowdy is in a position where he needs to pursue this. there is information that congress has never seen before. there's stuff we don't know obviously about what happened the night of the attack the

administration has never been able to answer certain questions about that. houfrp, this is a political risk and the leadership has always known that and that's why he's tried to create a situation where he started in this committee in the fall on a very measured and prudent tone being friends with the democrats and starting off on a practical note. they don't want this to become politically poisonous as it gets closer to election as democrats can say all republicans do in congress is investigate things and don't pass any bills. jon: and the chairman says that he has bent over backwards to be fair to democrats on this committee. is that true? >> by all accounts it is. obviously if the democrats on the committee are under marching orders to politicize this they will. but gawdy has given them privileges they don't normally have. you know, select committees have

always worked by this arrangements and what the democrats are trying to do is make it sound as if this is a tooef -- deviation of the rules of fairness. house intelligence committee report was by a lot of people's likes, deeply, deeply flawed. and was sort of set of originally to put the benghazi thing to bed and not have republicans deal with it anymore. i highly recommend the cover story from the weekly standard from a few months ago after that report came out that really poked a lot of holes in it. jon: we should put that on our website for folks who want to read it again on our "happening now" show page. thank you both. >> thank you. heather: this just in. isis in libya reportedly claiming credit for a deadly attack in libya today at a luxury hotel in the capital city of tripoli. that according to the terrorist monitoring group. authorities say at least eight people were killed when gunmen

stormed the corinthia hotel on the mediterranean coast and the attack included a car bomb. senior foreign affairs correspondent following this story for us from our london news room. greg? >> this is just another example of the chaos which is engulfing libya since the fall of dictator. detonators detonated the bomb outside of the capital of tripoli and that's where foreigners and libya officials say. next the gunmen burst into the lobby, burst bullets and worked their way in the hotel. it was about 9:00 a.m. many guests were out, many evacuated. they were cornered on the 21st floor by authorities, reportedly wearing suicide explosive belts. they killed themselves. at least eight people have died, including five foreigners but no breakdown on nationalities there. there had been reports that

americans were at the hotel and were evacuated safely. we're running that down right now. we do know that the u.s. embassy has been closed since last july there in libya, it's such a mad house. as for who exactly is responsible, yes, we're seeing these reports, too that an isis chapter now active in libya is claiming responsibility, even one saying that this is revenge for an american commando raid which nabbed an al qaeda suspect there last year. more likely what we're hearing, probably all has to do with the in-fighting between the factions and the militias in libya. western libya is run by an islamist regime. their self proclaimed prime minister was staying at the hotel. he might have been the target. he escaped unharmed. libya right now, well they're freer fire zones, safe havens for terrorists and other militants and militias. they represent a danger to the u.s. even if no americans were involved there today. heather: greg live from the loned or on -- london bureau

thank you. jon: a woman shot to death in 1979 with no identification has been identified. she was a jane doe. her old friend solved the mystery more than 30 years later. department of justice is watching our cars. what uncle sam is now accused of doing that has critics raising privacy concerns. and we want to hear from you. should we speed up and expand the u.s. investment in weather forecasting technology in light of the failures in predicting the storm? to join the conversation, go to fox news.com. click on "america's asking."

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traded intelligence to be used against the u.s. laura is here now with more on this story. >> hi heather. while the f.b.i. nagged only one alleged russian spy, there are actually two others named in the criminal complaint. the men are accused of conspireing together economic intelligence on behalf of russia's foreign intelligence service. prosecutors say new guinea and others were working to collect intelligence russia and were also trying to recruit new york city residents as intelligence sources. he was arrested yesterday in the bronx and appeared before a federal judge and was ordered be detained and enter a plea. the other two men no longer reside in the u.s. and are protected by diplomatic immunity. eric holder said these charges demonstrate our firm commitment to combating attempts by covert agents to illegally gather intelligence and recruit spies

within the united states. the investigation followed the 2010 expulsion of several russian spies from the united states including anna chapman who made headlines with nine others who were accused of working for the spy ring under the same russian spy agency the f.d.r. chapman pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy and returned to russia as part of a prisoner swap. prosecutors say he covered up his covert acts posing as an employee in the manhattan office of a russian bank and could face 15 years in prison if convicted. heather: i wonder if he'll be on the cover of maxim. >> you never know. jon: somehow i doubt it. heather: thank you laura. jon: new information now, the justice department is building a national data base to track cars across the united states in real time. according to government documents, the program scans and stores millions of records about motorists but it is now raising privacy concerns as you can

imagine. shannon joins us from our washington news room with more on that. >> according to the aclu which has been tracking programs for years, there are actually dozens of local, state and federal agencies that are using high speed cameras to read license plates around the clock, often storing the information regardless of whether the driver of a particular car is guilty of a crime or even under suspicion at all. quote, license plate tracking programs have flown under the radar of courts and legislators for far too long, silently collecting information about ordinary americans in the cover of secrecy. when programs are secret we have no way to ensure they conform with our values and the law. government sources say the programs are helpful for fighting crime, skaping license plates and providing law enforcement for hits on missing cars like missing charge. it is not new that the d.e.a. uses the license plate reader program to arrest criminals and

stop the flow of drugs in areas of high trafficking intensity. this program includes protocols for who can access the data base and all information is deleted after 90 days. many agencies will not answer for these programs at all. they refuse to acknowledge they even exist, how the information is being used and shared and how long it's actually stored. privacy advocates in groups like the aclu say the toughest part is mounting a legal challenge because as we noted, you can't sue over the programs when you don't even know or can confirm they exist. jon: a lot of mysteries there. shannon, thank you. heather: russia's president not letting economic collapse slow his push into ukraine. hear why our next guest says vladmir putin is like an addict who doesn't know how to stop. uld make it happen. right? wrong.

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jon: new info on some crime headlines we're keep anning eye on. body of a teenage girl found shot to death in an upstate new york cornfield in 1979 is finally identified. tammy jo alexander was 15 to 16 years old when she disappeared in 1977. her family never filed a missing persons report. but a high school friend tried to find her on the internet and told authorities of her disappearance. d.n.a. from her half sister confirms the identity. tight security at a federal courthouse in chicago where two brothers will be sentenced today for their role in a mexican drug lord's $2 billion trafficking operation. prosecutors asking for lean yens 10-year sentences because the twins became informants and helped bring down the drug lord

known as el chapo and a jury of 13 women and five men will be sworn in thursday in the murder trial of aaron hernandez. he's accused of orchestrating the 2013 shooting death of semi pro football player odem lloyd. heather: russian government announcing a plan to freeze spending after standard and poor's downgraded russia's credit rating to the worst in more than a deck ate and yesterday president vladmir putin appears to be doubling down on ukraine and his military in spite of the crumbling economy. k.t. is former deb ti assistant deputy of defense in the reagan administration and fox news analyst. thank you for joining us. >> thanks heather. heather: so what is the deal here? the ruble is worth -- it's the lowest it's been in years, worth half as much as it was just last year but yet, vladmir putin continues to push forward. what will it take to stop him? >> well you know heather it

makes perfect sense why. vladmir putin needs ab enemy right now. he needs his people to rally around him. he wants to stay in power and so he's got an enemy. who is the enemy? the west. united states, ukraine. he's got to have an enemy to focus the attention of the russian people away from their dire economy and towards an external enemy. here is what's happened. a year and a half ago, vladmir putin's popularity was below 50%. half of the russian people did not want to see him stay in power. but then the ukraine crisis happened almost exactly a year ago. what did vladmir putin do? he responded to it by whooping up ultra nationalism in russia. he said the west is out to get us. the west is trying to enslave the russian people. the west is trying to question and do away with russian sovereignty. therefore, the great russian people, you have to rally around us and we have to sacrifice even more and we have to stand up to the evil west. and you know what? it worked. his popularity went from less than 50% to now 80% 90%.

russian people like what he's doing and he's feeding them a steady diet on the state controlled russian media. >> which is why they are accepting when he makes announce manies like last month that he's going to increase the military's budget which is already very large to a third, increase it by a third while their economy is crumbling. >> yeah. and i think ultimately he's going to run into big trouble. the russian economy is not going to get any better. russian economy has high oil and natural gas prices. they're not going to go up to where they were. as a result, that's their main source of income. who buys russian cars? who buys russian computers? the world buys russian oil and natural gas and if those prices are low, their income stream has run into major trouble. to stay in power, i think vladmir putin has to ramp up the anti-american rhetoric. i think he has to ramp up any challenges to the west. now, at the end of the day 18 months from now, two years from

now, the russian economy is going to crumble and maybe vladmir putin's fate crumbles with it but for now, i think he becomes a very dangerous, wounded bear. heather: and that being said, all of this is how it affects the people living in russia. what about neighboring countries? what about the other european countries? what do they need to do if anything, in response to russia's increase in their military? >> i think vladmir putin gets it. he understands that nato or the west they don't want to have a conflict with him. they don't want to respond. so as long as he doesn't provoke them to the point of an armed attack against ukraine or krimea or any of the countries on the russian border land the west doesn't want to respond. he has come up with a phony war. he sends russian special forces into the border land countries they hook up with the ethnic russian populations and they cause trouble. the first he sends in they're not regular russian forces. they're called little green men because they don't have uniforms

but they're causing political instability nonetheless. i think that's what vladmir putin is going to continue to do and the west is going to not be sure because it's not an armed attack so the west is going to be very -- have a very difficult time responding especially heather, because as we've seen in the last month or two the european economy and european politics are in trouble. heather: k.t. mc farland thank you for joining us. nice to have you. >> thank you. jon: k.t. was asking who buys russian cars. well there are some problems with durable goods orders in this country and that's part of the reason the markets are falling today. as the department of commerce reports, december durable goods orders were down 4.3 -- i'm sorry. 3.4% in december. this after a decline of 2.1% in november. the dow down 347 points right now. we are seeing several important quarterly earnings reports today, caterpillar reporting

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jon: right now a quick look at what's still to come this hour of "happening now." two officers shot after a police swearing-innerceremony. what happened after a gunman opened fire. new information in the murder trial of a mom accused of poisoning her son with salt as jury selection gets underway. and prince harry taking on a new role in the army. how heath taking care of his -- how he's taking care of his fellow soldiers. heather: to breaking news now. the israeli military strikes back after several rockets struck the golan heights. the military says it responded with artillery fire, hitting one target. israel says those rockets came from syria. john huddy live in jerusalem with more. john? >> reporter: yeah. heather, the israeli military

said it fired 20 artillery shells at that target believed to be where the four rockets were fired from earlier this afternoon. now, here's the latest information we have. two of those rockets landed on the syrian side of the border two others landed in open areas in the golan heights. no one was injured, nothing damaged, but there were reportedly casualties in syria though we don't have numbers at this point. that said, the alert levels here in israel are back to normal. but the question at this point remains was this a deliberate attack against israel or just spillover from the ongoing fighting in syria? there are reports in the lebanese media the rockets may have been intended for syrian rebel positions near the israeli border, so it may have been stray fire. that has happened before. but this does come just nine days after an airstrike attributeed to israel hit a military convoy along the border in syria. several hezbollah operatives

were killed in that along with an iranian general s and both hezbollah and iran have been threatening retaliation. and since then israeli forces have been posted along both the lebanese and syrian borders in the event that another attack were to happen. you know, not just a couple rockets though, it must be on a much larger scale for anyone to believe that this is some kind of attack on israel. okay? so that said things are getting back to normal in the golan heights. but at this point, we're waiting for more information. we're also waiting to see, heather, if anything else happens. back to you. heather: john huddy live from jerusalem. thank you, john. jon: the blizzard of 2015 grinds parts of the northeast to a complete t halt, causing massive headaches for travelers. air and rail transportation shut down yesterday as tens of millions braced for a potentially historic storm. nearly 8,000 flights canceled,

travel bans are in effect in some lawyers. with -- in some areas. with some tips on how to make things easier, seth kaplan, managing partner at airline weekly. first of all, explain the number of cancellations to us. it didn't used to be when a big blizzard hit that you'd have 8,000 flights canceled. >> yeah. it didn't used to be that way at all, jon. you're right a big change. they really used to try to fly as long as it was safe to fly. but, of course, you don't know when exactly that moment's going to come, so you ended up with planes and people kind of stranded everywhere. images of passengers stranded in terminals and in some cases aboard aircraft away from the gate. so airlines, partly prouded by the government said you know what? we're going to be more proactive about canceling flights. cancel lots of flights in advance. the upside, jon is the good news is you don't have those awful situations anymore. the bad news is you get there, you have to cancel a whole lot

more flights in advance, and that's what they did. jon: the airlines figure people would rather wait out the storm in their living room or the office rath or than go to the airport and have to sleep on the floor. >> exactly jon. far more people inconvenienced now than let's say a decade ago but we don't see those people. and, you know, they are more comfortable. they are, as you said at home or perhaps in the homes of their relatives if they were stuck away and didn't get back home, not those awful situations. but far more situations than we once had. jon: all right. if you were booked on one of those 7,000 flights -- and there are a lot of people still trying to get home or, you know, get to their business meeting after this event -- what do you suggest they do? what's the best way to go about getting themselves on an airplane? >> yeah. well the good news, first of all, is if this had to happen there's basically no better week it could have happened. last week in january very low demand time for travel. so fairly a good number of empty seats in the next few days. let's face it, you are basically competing against all your

fellow travelers for those empty seats. give yourself a leg up by just being creative. you know the airline's going to look automatically for you for that next seat on the same route you're traveling. but if you're supposed to fly to or from laguardia and you don't mind using jfk tell the airline. if the next empty seat is from there, you might get to where you're going a little sooner. also try to pack light, try not to check bags if you can. not only will that save you money nowadays on most airlines, but also when you need to make a last minute change when you see a flight going out from another gate the first thing the gate agent will ask you is did you check a bag? it's much easier to let you make that last minute switch if you didn't. jon: all right. seth kaplan, good advice there. thank you. >> thank you, jon. heather: well, a mother accused of killing her 5-year-old son using salt. we are learning some new information about how prosecutors and her defense lawyers plan to persuade the jury in this murder case.

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jon: a little snow never stopped harris and andrea. [laughter] they are here. let's find out what's coming up on "outnumbered." >> well honey, it's always hot on "outnumbered." t. >> that ice true. >> the powerful blizzard boston virtually shut down at this point. and when they can expect relief. we'll talk about it. >> plus today a new hearing on the benghazi terror attack that killed four americans including our ambassador. the stunning report that shows that the administration refused to call this terrorism potentially putting other american lives at risk. >> and lance armstrong back in the headlines. why the fallen sports star said he'd probably dope up all over again and says now may be the time for the public to forgive him. >> he is a dope. [laughter] all that plus our *oneluckyguy who is not a dope. >> i love how you don't hold back. >> i really need to learn to say

what i'm thinking. >> break that filter. hi jon. jon: we'll see you in 15 minutes. harris and andrea, thank you. >> sure. heather: well some new information into a bizarre and heartbreaking case. jury selection is underway for the trial of a mother charged with murdering her 5-year-old son by poisoning him and then documenting his declining health on social media. laws city spears is accused of intentionally feeding her son salt at toxic levels. joining us now is former prosecutor doug doug burns and fox news legal analyst lis wiehl. thank you for joining us. >> pleasure. >> lis, how do you defend this woman in this case? >> well you bring many an expert to say she has money. [cheers and applause] en by proxy and it has been used before in different trials to say look, you know, she's a sick woman. it's an insanity defense basically, that you want to take the attention, if you will, to yourself. and the way you get attention in this world -- according to crazy

people crazy, by the way, i hi not legally crazy -- but you take that and say oh, it wasn't me, it was this insanity, i didn't know right there wrong, i wanted the attention of my child, and the only way i could get it was the child getting sicker and sicker -- heather: and that's an important point to make, crazy versus legally crazy. >> right. but the defense is not following lis' in my opinion very good advice, and they're not going to use money. [cheers and applause] en by proxy syndrome. set yourself up to the hero and then also blogging in this case, posting it on social media. but they're not using it. >> but you know what? they're smart not to use it. if i were the prosecutor this that case, and that's usually my role, i would say, are you kidding? this woman is using this kind of excuse, and meanwhile she's posting it on social media? heather: and this is one of the first cases where social media has come into play.

>> right. heather: you have this woman who is blogging daily sending out tweets before -- >> she wants attention. >> it's interesting you say that because, you know, social media -- while we've had ate a while, it's -- had it a while, it's still relatively new. you're following day by day this whole saga. one point back to what we were debating, if the defense doesn't use money. [cheers and applause] en that handcuffs the prosecutors -- >> because the window is not open, exactly. >> -- who would normally say the only reason she's doing this is because she has this problem. >> right. >> ironically, it could help either side in certain ways. >> she's got to take stand though, if she wants to make that case. heather: she seems willing to say a lot. >> oh, my goodness, she loves saying things. she's got to say, oh, i love my kid, and then you put an expert on from both sides to say that's not a legal defense from the prosecution's point of view.

heather: this child has continually been hospitalized since the child was born in 2009. >> right. heather: has the system in some way dropped the ball? >> absolutely. heather: organization after organization -- >> yeah, good point. heather: -- they've investigated this and they've let it go. is that something that could be used -- [inaudible conversations] >> you know, when you talk about state agency to poll that through -- >> that's true but on many levels, you know, this was a problem in the making which is very common, by the way in any kind of criminal situation that usually things do develop over time. killing a child is called fill to side. you have homicide, patricide, filocide. >> most people can't even fathom that a mother -- but you think of susan smith all these women out there that have done it and made up these horrific excuses and have been found to be excuses but still legal -- heather: i was in north carolina at the time of the susan smith.

how difficult will it be for a jury to find this mother guilty? >> i think lis is right on the money. you can say whatever you want about the case the evidence, but the reality is people scratch their head saying wait a minute, how is a parent going to kill their child? i agree. and i think it makes the case harder. now remember, she's charged with a murder theory and a manslaughter theory, so i wanted to just make the point quickly you may see some compromise down to the manslaughter. heather: she also did internet searches in terms of salt poisoning. >> she did. very important. >> that shows premeditation. it was a premeditated, slow -- think about this. this child died over the years since he was born in a very slow and methodical way at the hands of his mother. >> it's terrible. i agree. >> and the situation whether it was murder or not, the entire thing documented online. >> right. heather: for the world to see. >> poor child. >> thank you both for joining us. appreciate it. jon? jon: what a story.

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♪ ♪ heather: well, two with officers shot after a police swearing-in ceremony in minnesota are expected to be okay. you can hear the shots on the video from the city council meeting. a group of officers was leaving a city council meeting in new

hope minnesota -- [gunfire] you can hear it there. >> get down. heather: just outside of minneapolis when the gunman opened fire on them. two officers were hit, others shot back. >> at approximately 7:15 hours when the swearing-in ceremony was completed, the officers left the council chambers. at that point in time an adult male engaged these officers with a handgun and began firing at them. two officers were struck by the gunfire, other officers were able to return fire, subsequently killing the suspect. heather: after scrambling for safety the council members were escorted out. no word yet from authorities on a possible motive. ♪ ♪ jon: well, a member of the british royal family taking on a new role to help injured soldiers. prince harry is now working to help suck or wounded soldiers -- sick or wounded soldiers get back to work in civilian life. julie banderas is here with the fox 411 on that.

>> you know, this family never ceases to ill press us. the royal family giving one more reason why people like them. first it was prince william's visit to the u.s. with his wife, duchess kate and now it's prince harry who is known as captain wales in the early who has found -- army who has found a new calling. according to people magazine, the 30-year-old prince will be helping the sick and wounded either return to their military roles or gain meaningful employment and care this civilian life. he will carry out his work in london for several months and continue his service of helping with the paralympic-style invick discuss games a source that kensington palace tells people it is quote a natural progression. this is something he is both committed to and is passionate about in both his army job and his public royal role. the source also refers to this as just another chance for the prince to use his military job to quote, get a better understanding and experience of the process and help put

procedures in place to help those who have been wounded. harry, of course, has gained much praise as the founder of the invictus games, and the next games, by the way, are in 2016. when you hear these stories you just have to wonder how proud princess diana would be of her two young princes and now grown men, her two sons living out her legacy. they really have a lot to thank her for i believe, because she was very much way. jon: going the extra mile. >> yeah. really great story. jon: interesting. julie, thank you. heather: thanks. still to come marking 70 years since the liberation of auschwitz, survivors of the holocaust gathering in poland, some returning to the nazi concentration camp for the first time in decades. and details emerging about the death of comedienne joan rivers. the lawsuit that details the missteps an outpatient facility made while caring for the star.

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