the feline free. and this cute dog couldn't wait to play in the snow. as you can see, she has some difficulty with the ice. naturally her adoring owner caught it all on camera. thanks for being part of the real story today. will the united states actually declare war on isis? a top democratic congressman is now introducing a bill to do just that. but would that mean the possibility of u.s. boots on the ground? how much would it cost and how would it work? plus, financial crisis for vladimir putin's russia. with world of the world turning its back on moscow, the kremlin now desperate to keep the country from collapsing. and finally, would you buy a house that folds into a cube? let's get to it.

first from the fox news deck what happens if you deal with the terrorists? the terrorists who call themselves a state, the islamic state. sounds like jordan is about to do some negotiating and maybe a prisoner swap that would set a notorious al qaeda killer free. right now there's no comment from any u.s. official. today, the major dane january government signalled they are willing to free the terrorist from death row in order to save this hostage, the one over here in a white shirt. he's is pilot. united states policy bans any negotiating with terrorists. but the state department spokeswoman will not say whether jordan should follow that same standard. she said there is a range of reports out of jordan as if the country's intentions aren't perfectly clear. >> that is our policy. i don't think there's any secret about that to other countries around the world. otherwise in terms of reports of

what is being considered or may or may not be considered, i would refer you to the governments of jordan and japan. >> i'm confused by your continued reference to the range of reports. seems like they stated that's the intention to swap the prisoners. is that in your view still unclear? >> well, i think -- i don't think i have to spell out for you the range of reports out there. i'll encourage you to google when you get back to your desk. >> we googled it and it confirmed that they reported the country will make the prisoner swap. whether they want to talk about that at the state department well, that's clear they don't. the government here even quoted a government official by name. this swap would free this woman. an al qaeda terrorist. she is an islamic state hero make no mistake. she confessed to working with her husband back in 2005 to bomb hotels in jordan.

60 people died in that attack including her husband who blew himself up. she tried to. but the bomb didn't explode. word of this possible swap comes after another isis hostage appeared in an online video just yesterday. he reportedly says he and the pilot have but hours to live unless the terrorist walks free, unless that isis hero is let go. the militants claim they have already executed another japanese prisoner. that caused an enormous outcry in jordan demanding the government give in to the demands of the islamic state. a similar scene in japan. crowds holding a vigil demanding the journalist released. the hostages mother pleading with the prime minister to save her son. so, what to do? leah gabriel is here. it seems the japanese hostage

life depends on really what jordan does now. >> yes. this seems to put japan in a pretty helpless situation. the group of around 150 people who held a vigil today outside the prime minister's residence. goto is seen here apparently holding a photo of a jordan pilot. he was a freelance journalist captured in october. his mother read her plea to reporters. listen. >> translator: prime minister please save kenji's life. please do not give up on negotiation with the jordan government until the end. >> well, japan's prime minister called this video threat a

despicable act and he ordered his country to work with jordan to try and win the release. >> we'll let you know what they end up doing. meantime, we're learning more information about the status of things on the ground. >> we sure are. the humanitarian situation is getting even worse. that's because they aren't able to get supplies and food into around 600,000 people because the u.n. doesn't have an agreement with armed groups. they are in islamic state controlled cities there. kurdish forces say they have pushed isis out where they have been battling them for months. you can see there is not much for people to come home to. clearly in shambles. kurdish fighters saying they plan to clear isis out of the villages nearby and we'll see if they're able to do that. the war on isis, should we

make it real, make it a declared war on the islamic state? they are pushing right now a bill to authorize exactly that, war against isis. president obama has said he doesn't need the okay from congress, but he'd like to have it. this particular bill would approve the use of force for three years, but only in iraq and syria. get this, it would ban sending u.s. troops to fight on the ground. whatever happened to keeping all options on the available as the secretary of state john kerry requested. jennifer griffin with that news. what does this mean for the military and its fight against the islamic state? >> well, shep it does three things. it negates the 2002 authorization that was passed prior to the iraq war and it will negate what was passed after 9/11. quote, ground forces in a combat

role does not include special operations forces or other forces that may be deployed in a training advisory or intelligence capacity. they have spent more than a billion dollars and deployed 3,000 troops to iraq, but neither the president nor congress have demanded a new authorization. >> what's the pentagon saying about the strategy in place now? >> it's a mixed picture indeed. there's a strong sense this may not be over in three years. they were on the hill today to talk about looming budget cuts. >> i believe this is the most uncertain i've seen the national security environment in my nearly 40 years of service. >> the u.s. strategy so far has relied on air strikes and yet the air force has fleets of planes that are grounded and an aging staple of war planes. >> we have 12 fleets of airplanes that qualify for antique license plates in the

state of virginia. we must modernize our air force. >> no reaction as of yet from the pentagon about the new suggested amf which is much more narrow than any military would want. urgent news just coming in. with this as an umbrella if you will, what happens in california often spreads across the nation. with that, health officials in california have just declared that e-cigarettes are a public health threat. california is the biggest and certainly the most influential. they say e-cigs emit cancer causing chemicals. it goes onto claim they get users hooked on nicotine. the devices have recently exploded in popularity. they are largely unregulated and their makers claim their

products are safer than smoking tobacco. well, not necessarily according to california. they say it's urgent and it needs to happen now. so the battle is on. make no mistake, big tobacco is very much in the game of big vaping now. the number of kids vaping has gone way up and that concerns health officials in california and beyond. so to regulator not? this will be a war with big corporations against big government. more on the debate over that bill, the one that proposed isis prisoner swap. should jordan swap an isis hero for a jordan pilot? we'll speak with a former navy s.e.a.l. who worked on hostage negotiations in iraq next rnlts and have you heard the insane new iphone sales stats? they sold more in the last three months than they sold in all of

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>> dealing with isis. should a prisoner swap happen? there is a potential prisoner swap upcoming between jordan and the islamic state and a bill to authorize u.s. military action against isis.

let's bring in a former navy s.e.a.l. dan, good to see you. thanks. >> good afternoon. >> what you do, if you negotiate with the islamic state is elevate them to that of state. i wonder how dangerous do you think that might be. >> this is very dangerous. it now is giving a reinforcement to the idea they have established an islamic caliphate. so this is a very, very challenging development and it does not bode well for future situations. >> what's jordan supposed to do here? >> well, here's the challenge. ironically enough this woman ra she da was captured in jordan. when i was in iraq on some of the cases of the day this woman was offered up in demand for

exchange of hostages in some of the cases we were dealing with firsthand. we stuck to the old policy of no concessions. we traded five senior ranking taliban commanders for bergdahl and now we've kind of set this precedent. the u.s. has a hard time to tell other countries to stick by our no concessions policy when we violated a policy in place for many, many years. so i see this as a challenging development and another slippery slide on the dangerous slope of making ak yes, sir sense to the demands of terrorist groups. you can expect more of this to follow. >> the white house would say it didn't do that but i know where he you're coming from. what do you make of this bill being talked about on the hill to declare war against the islamic state and further ban u.s. troops from fighting in it on the ground? >> well, again it doesn't pass

the smell test from a guy that's been over there in that environment, both iraq and afghanistan and elsewhere. i don't understand how we can say we're going to defeat an enemy combatant, yet we're not going to commit combat troops to defeat the enemy. these air strike campaigns alone, the only war ever ended by an air strike was world war ii when we dropped atomic weapons and that's certainly off the table here. i don't understand why we're not using past history in afghanistan, how we were successful in the initial days after 9/11. we had to put combat troops into the fight partnered with arab partners or the kurds in this case. we're not willing to take the steps to get the job. >> you're not saying at this moment the troops should go into this the middle of this chaos and all the complications,

you're not saying put them in. what you're saying is don't take them off the table? >> no well of course we shouldn't be taking any option off the table. i don't know why we're telegraphing every move to the enemy and taking options for us off the table that have proven successful in the past. it just doesn't make sense on so many levels. again, i'm not advising and in the uniform anymore. these are just my opinions but based on a lot of experience in that region and that part of the world. >> lots of experience. a former hostage negotiator himself. nice to see you again. >> thank you. the refugee crisis in the war zones is deplorable. now angelina jolie is calling on the international community to do more for the displaced people of iraq and syria. this comes following a recent visit she took to a refugee camp in iraq. the actress and united nations

envoy says she's visited iraq five times since the year 2007 and that this most recent trip she took was like nothing she's ever witnessed. she writes for many years i have visited camps. every time i sit in a tent and hear stories. i try my best to give support. to say something that will show solidarity and give kind and thoughtful guidance. on this trip i was speechless. syria, she writes, is in flames. the doors of many nations are bolted against them. there is nowhere they can turn. jolie continues with the spread of extremism, the surge in foreign fighters and threat of new terrorism, only an end to the war in syria will begin to turn the tide on these problems. without that we are just tinkering at the edges. they report more than 13 million iraq and syrian refugees are in

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tommy thompson made history back in 1988 when he found the sunken s.s. central america that most people called the ship of gold. history januarys called it one of the most valuable in america. during a bad hurricane it sank back in 1857. up to 21 tons of gold sank with it to the ocean floor. 8,000 feet below the surface. now investigators -- ib vest tors got money together and paid the treasure hunter more than $12 million so he could go find the gold. an investment which they were hoping for return. he never gave them a penny. he told the gold to a marketing group for about $50 million. then investigators say back in 2012, he vanished. when they searched his home, they found prepaid cell phones and wrappers for $10,000 stacks of trash. they finally tracked him down at a hotel in palm beach county

florida. the x you see there where he found the ship off the coast. they have not filed criminal charges, but he may have trouble repaying his investors. an associate says all the proceeds went to legal fees and bank loans. all $50 million. that's a big loss. that's a huge law bill. >> it's a fascinating story. the ship -- the sinking of the ship actually caused a financial panic in america because so much gold had been lost. to find it so many years later and then the litigation that ensued, it's a crazy story. >> he just disappeared, apparently packing the gold with it. >> he sold a lot of the gold about $50 million worth of it. people associated with him said there were no real profits, that it went to the cost of the

expedition and other loans. the investors wanted their money. it ended up finding over $50 million in gold. this is a very sophisticated venture, especially in the '80s. they want their share for helping him and they are also angry that they don't have any of the proceeds. >> what is the lawsuit? is it by these 160 some investors? >> there's two main investors who are suing now. others also can sue. the litigation was going on for a while. he was ordered by the judge to appear in court. when he failed to do so, they issue a civil arrest order. he went on the lamb. he never responded to this arrest order until he was just arrested in florida. now he'll be extradited back to ohio. >> any chance these investors are going to get any money out of this deal? >> we know he had about a million dollars in one bank account. you'll have to see what other

assets he has. he did sell the gold. the question is what happened to that money is it hidden is it seizable. those are the issues we'll see fought out in court. >> i bet somebody had some good parties. thank you. >> thank you. have you checked your investments lately? prepare for a headache. we'll break down the roller coaster ride that wall street is on along with apple's huge sales success for the new iphone. plus, vladimir putin and his government have a new plan to pull russia right out of the economic cellar and it's going to cost billions and billions of dollars and will it work. you just got a big bump in miles. so this is a great opportunity for an upgrade. sound good? great. because you're not you you're a whole airline... and it's not a ticket you're upgrading it's your entire operations, from domestic to international... which means you need help from a whole team of advisors. from workforce strategies to tech solutions and a thousand other things.

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apple is crushing it. whoever would have thought we would ever see numbers like these. sales through the roof over the last three months of 2014. beating wall street expectations by a mile. profit up 38% from the previous year.

and the company reports it sold more than 74 million iphones. a jump of almost 50%. that's equivalent to this. selling more than 34,000 iphones every hour every day for three months. jerry willis is with us. she's the host of the willis report, 5:00 eastern time on the fox business network. >> i got to tell you this has never happened before. i think that's the important point to make here. there's never been a company that's reported this much in profit in one quarter. $18 billion the wall street journal says. if you took 435 of the s&p 500 companies, added up all their profit since 2009, you get to that number. it's hard to explain to people how big this report is. >> it's china, isn't it? >> that's important. 40% of that increased iphone purchase price is falling to the

bottom line. it's profit. you got to sell cigarettes to make that much money. >> what about the dou today? >> it hasn't been that big of a lift. the dow does not contain apple. can i please tell you the exciting news for you? >> yes. >> the watch that apple is going to make coming out in april. >> the battery life isn't long enough i don't think. >> it's just not pretty. >> there are a bunch of watches though aren't there? >> engineers design them -- >> they make us get a new iphone every two years so the well never runs dry. it's amazing this business model. >> it is. it's smart. i upgrade all the time. the iphone which we thought was dead, now alive again and much, much bigger. let me tell you more about this market. take a look at the wall here. highly highly fluctuating all through january here. we had meeting preboarding.

what happened is we had the oil prices going down yet again to a six-year low. and you know the market doesn't like that. >> speaking of that the stock market might make your stomach turn these days, but it's nothing compared to what's going on in russia. so where is russia reigning man of the year this year? vladimir putin's government today announced its so-called anti-crisis plan. don't you love that? a bailout to the tune of $35 billion. this plan focuses on propping up banks and big companies. it is not clear exactly what gets cut to pay for everything. officials say cuts to the military and social programs are absolutely off the table. keep in mind, life in russia for regular russians has gone from bad to really terrible. analysts say you can point out a combination of reasons for that. russian's currency is in free fall. oil has plunged and did so again

today. don't forget russia is also reeling from the penalties over the war in ukraine and the takeover of crimea. with us now, former assistant secretary of state. he's a professor of practice at george washington university. thanks. >> hi, shep. >> russia has a plan. >> you add to the list syria. saudi arabia's mad at russia because of its continued support for al assad. this is virnl wous in many elements, not only in russia, iran, the islamic state all have less money in the pocket to cause problems around the world. >> there were some who thought that because of his money problems and everything else that he might stop the push in ukraine, but he hasn't. it seems he's ratcheted it up. >> i think this is an effect ty weapon. he's paying a price for this, but he does have a cushion.

obviously he's hemorrhaging money, but he's got a favorable balance so it will take some time before he reaches a crisis point. secondly he remains very popular inside of russia. it's very popular at home. so i think it's going to take -- there's a pressure point. it's a good strategy but it's going to take some time. >> you said the middle east is the driving force in his problems. >> well, i think you know, what has helped us in terms of the lowering of the cost of oil primarily as an actor like saudi arabia. they're doing it for their own purposes. because, you know, they want to see al assad leave and iran throws them a life line russia throws them a life line. from a saudi foreign policy standpoint they can you know raise production to protect their market share and that has a very serious impact on russia,

iran here even, venezuela is really in trouble because of the lowering cost of oil. >> you said putin and russia have a cushion. do you have a sense for how long they can hold out with prices this low without some sort of economic collapse that would turn the numbers against him which really could change a course? >> if you look back to the end of the cold war the lowering price of oil had a significant amount to do with the collapse of the soviet union. so you know russia is vulnerable. it's a large economy, but relies on the export of energy. that said there are some -- some comfort points to putin. for example, to the extent that the european union now with the election in greece, if the european union has trouble reaching consensus on more sanctions against russia, that can offer a little bit of a life

line to putin. obviously perversely if putin raises the ante in ukraine, increase -- you know escalates the crisis, that actually -- markets can respond to that and we can see the price of oil go up. putin's got some cards to play. on balance over time, this is a strategy that's going to raise cost to him. >> thank you, pete. appreciate it. >> any time, shep. >> it finally stopped snowing in new england and they're starting to dig out there. the storm dumped nearly 3 feet of snow in parts of massachusetts and was one of the biggest snowstorms to hit boston since the 1930s. check out people trying to dig their cars out. hurricane force winds toppled sea walls and flooded towns all along the coast. some 7,000 homes and businesses still have no electricity with temperatures expected to dip below ten degrees tonight. much of nantucket is still in

the dark. one guy there said wind gusts were so strong that it felt like sand pelting his face not slow. thousands of people stranded at the airports finally start getting back home, at last. le ven thal has left rhode island at least and made his way to la guardia. >> reporter: the arrivals and departure boards are a lot cleaner today. very few cancellations here this afternoon. there were 157 cancellations at la guardia this morning, mostly do to a lack of equipment and the storm's ripple effect. 633 total cancellations coast to coast today. that's obviously a huge improvement over the past couple of days. most major airlines are flying back into new york's three major airports and expect to be at or near a hundred percent by tomorrow. bradley international also

returning to normal operations. so many airlines couldn't get their planes into these airports during and immediately after the storms so there were no planes to fly people out of the airports. now there are. >> rick, thank you. how are things at your place? how would you like to live in a house that folds up into a cube? that's what one company is now proposing. i guess you could take your house and run before the snow showed up. this is a fold-up cube house. >> exactly. >> we do not like the cube. >> no more cube here but you can get one if you really want one. there's this company in canada. it's like a 10 foot by 10 foot by 10 foot cube that has all the essentials you need. the idea is it's portable. you could drop the whole thing mid construction into a condo. they're saying it has everything

you need from a bedroom to a kitchen. now i don't think you're going to be cooking your thanksgiving meal here, but it's got a fridge oven dishwasher. each side of the cube is essentially a different room of the house. you have a bathroom with a full shower and sink. all the amenities. kind of like -- >> it's style and modern. >> yeah. it takes care of all the necessities. >> you would have to build a structure over the top of it. >> right, some sort of interior shell. >> how much is it? >> they don't have a price on it yet. this is just the pro toe type. i guess they're going to wait and see if it takes off. >> the cube house. >> cubitat. >> all right. thank you. when we come back, what's next for two former vanderbilt university football players. a jury has convicted them of rain. the two teammates raining a student in a dorm room.

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they're getting after it again. deadly fighting today between israeli troops and hezbollah in lebanon. it comes after an air strike killed six hezbollah fighters earlier this month. israelhisisrael has not confirmed nor denied. lebanese troops fired missiles. the israeli prime minister said israel would respond forcefully to the attack. we have pictures that would indicate they've done just that. you can see it is scorched to

the end from that attack. here you can see smoke rising from a village in southern lebanon. israeli soldiers reportedly pelted this area with dozens of artillery shells. u.n. peace keepers patrolling the area in armored vehicles, the latest fighting killed a spanish peace keeper. this image shows lebanese troops patrolling the border near israel. some escaped to nearby towns to avoid getting caught in the cross fire. the truth is the last war between israel hezbollah and lebanon was in 2006. since then they've been loading up on rockets on the other side of the border. there are now said to be some 50,000 of those rockets and the clock is ticking. here at home, it took a jury just three hours to convict two former vanderbilt university football playering of raining a student in the dorm room.

and the details are horrible. now the attention turns to two other teammates who also face charges. yesterday, the jury convicted them on charges of aggravated rain and sexual battery. prosecutors say one took the victim, then the 21-year-old back to his dorm room. that's when he encouraged three of his teammates to rain her. his attorney says the client was not guilty because even though he took photos of that very attack and shared them with his friends, he did not have sex with her. actually what he should have said is he did not rain her. meantime, the attorney blamed the alcohol saying the players were so drunk at that time they did not know what they were doing. they say he not only raped the victim, but also urinated on her. we have the update from the west

coast news hub this afternoon. what else are we learning about the two other teammates yet to stand trial? >> the first one he already testified during the first trial and turned out to be a strong witness for the prosecution. he actually described what happened in that dorm room when the cameras were not recording. he claims he never touched the woman and only took pictures, but that may not matter because as you said one of the other players who did not have sex with the victim was still convicted. however the prosecutor said his role in the crime was limited, so he may be allowed to plead guilty in exchange for a lower sentence. as for banks, his odds appear to be very grim. he is not only accused of touching the victim but also of inserting an object into her. he and the two already convicted could be looking at dead cake kads in prison. >> and the victim spoke out? >> yeah, the victim who she

does not remember the rain but sat through every single day of the trial. as each guilty verdict was read, she held her mom's happened and cried. she then thanked the prosecutors, detectives and victims advocates calling them her heros. she also issued a statement read by an assistant drone. >> i'm also hopeful that the publicity this case has received will lead to a discussion of how we can end sexual violence on college campuses. finally, i want to remind other victims of sexual violence you are not alone you are not to blame. >> the da said he hopes this case sends a message that he will prosecute cases of sexual violence. shep? >> thank you. a fox report now. and more of the headlines. 29 years ago today the space

shuttle chal engineer blew up. the crew had the who would have been the first teacher in space. today, nasa held memorials for the seven astronauts. and the prosecutor in pennsylvania says he will ask for the death penalty for eric frein. he's the one charged with shooting two state troopers in september, killing one of them. after a 48-day man hunt. his lawyer is not commenting on the death penalty division, but says eric frein plans to plead not guilty. >> the woman who could be the next attorney general went to capitol hill today. perfectly clear. and that's coming up.

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president obama's pick to replace the outgoing attorney general eric holder today faced senators who would have to confirm her. analysts say they expect loretta lynch to sail through the confirmation confirmation, but she could run into opposition from some lawmakers over some of her comments. senator patrick leahy asked her to clarify her position on waterboarding. she said waterboarding is torture and torture is illegal. and there's more. mike emanuel with the news on capitol hill. what did she say about some of those surveillance programs? >> loretta lynch is the united states attorney from brooklyn, new york, so she has a reputation for bringing terrorists and cyber criminals to justice. she was asked about some of these counterterrorism tools or techniques that are part of her

professional background. >> do you think the nsa program, terrorist surveillance program that we have in effect today is constitutional? >> senator, i believe that not only is it constitutional and effective, i know there are court challenges to it and certainly we will abide by those court regulations. >> right. >> but it has been a very effective tool in managing -- >> but you're okay with it being constitutional from your viewpoint? >> certainly constitutional and effective. >> and loretta lynch made it clear that if she is confirmed, fighting terrorism will be job number one. >> and some questioning on president obama's executive action on immigration. >> that's right. a variety of senators have tried to draw her out on the executive action on immigration. she says she was not part of the obama administration's discussions over that executive action, but she was asked if she agrees with the justice department's legal analysis. >> senator i have had occasion to review the olc opinion that dealt with the department of

homeland security's request for a legal framework and how to prioritize removal of undocumented immigrants under their jurisdiction. i did not see a grant of amnesty there or a pathway to citizenship. >> lynch says if confirmed, she will maintain her independence, won't hesitate to tell her colleagues no if that is her legal analysis. bottom line, she's done pretty well today. and all indications are she should get confirmed. >> mike emanuel on the hill. thanks. we cannot rewrite history but we can write history. those are the words of a judge today, who threw out the convictions of nine black men from south carolina in a case dating back to the 1960s. the men were known as the friendship nine. eight college students and a civil rights organizer. they made headlines for sitting at whites-only lunch counters in rock hills south carolina in 1961. the court convicted them then of trespassing. most of the men said they chose prison time over bail to send a message that the civil rights movement was far from over.

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dramatic rescue of three children in a burning apartment caught on a fireman's helmet cam. >> how old is she ma'am? >> three kids inside. happened sunday in fresno. firefighters there say the kids were unconscious and their mother had left them home alone. the oldest one but 4 years old. at last word, all three kids were critical. on this day in 1915, congress created the coast guard. lawmakers actually combined two agencies, one to enforce trade laws and catch smugglers. the other in charge of rescuing

people at sea. and the coast guard has been rescuing people ever since. from the beaches of normandy to our waters here at home, and congress created a real lifesaver 100 years ago today. "your world with neil cavuto" starts now. it is looking like the prisoner swap we cannot stop. welcome, everybody. i'm neil cavuto. and now jordan is dealing with isis agreeing to swap a female suicide bomber for one of its pilots captured by isis militants in syria last month. but it does not send there because japan's prime minister is under growing pressure to work with jordan too to win the release of a japanese hostage isis is threatening to kill in a matter of hours. the former cia operative is saying the white house is powerless to swap it since it swapped five