this weekend it is going to be the best show you've ever seen on "fox & friends." you ever book a vacation and see the photos, they look fantastic you get there and they look terrible? experts will break that down. we'll be watching. terrorists seizing control of an iraqi town and attacking an airbase and falling as u marines fought them off at least at that base. good morning everybody. i'm gregg jarrett in for bill hemmer here in american's newsroom. >> i'm heather childress. nice to be here today.

peter, how does this impact americans on the ground in iraq and what's the latest on this attack on the airbase that just happened? >> gregg we're just in the last few minutes getting this report that there were eight isis fighters who attacked the al asad base outside al baghdadi which isis now has welcome complete control over. al baghdadi, just about three miles away from where more than 300 u.s. marines are teaching iraqi troops how to fight. reports are it is just a 13-minute drive to get from this town, al baghdadi to the al asad airbase just outside of town. this morning the press secretary, josh ernest says the president was pleased with the progress the iraqi troops were making and the u.s. is having success stopping isis in iraq

but that iraq is a dangerous place. >> not the only dangerous place. americans evacuated very quickly the facilities and embassy in yemen? >> gregg they've left a lot of stuff behind including at least 25 vehicles with the keys in the ignition that are in good enough shape to have been used by diplomats in a dangerous city like sanaa until just a few days ago. there are conflicting reports now but the state department is saying now that hasty evacuation wasn't their fault. >> the situation as you've referenced in your opening here is just too volatile to be on the ground right now.

concerns about the future of yemen for the yemeni people. that's not all. as the americans moved out, al qaeda moved in. they heard the houthi rebels were going to take control of it so al qaeda made a move of it and they also freed more than 60 prisoners behind bars there. >> lots happening this morning with breaking news. peter, thanks so much. >> another terror group, boko haram is spreading into new meantime another terror group, boek coalition made up of these west african countries lays out a strategy to wipe out terrorists.

no word how many people were killed or hurt in that attack. gregg: u.s. senate easily voting to confirm ash carter as secretary of defense. total senate vote was 93-5. the carter will have to hit the ground running though if he takes over from the outgoing secretary of defense chuck hagel. congress is weighing president's isis war proposal. tensions are high with russia notwithstanding the deal. >> violence continues in ukraine, despite a cease-fire set to begin on sunday. ukraine's government claims at least 11 soldiers died with fighting with russian backed rebels overnight. meantime the white house says any decision to arm ukraine's military is now on hold for the

time-being. greg palkot is live for us in kiev. gregg greg what is the latest on going fighting and other reactions to the deal? >> reporter: heather, rebels in eastern ukraine seem to try to change facts on the ground in a very deadly way. fighting continuing in the east with just about 30 hours to go to the start of that cease-fire. russian-backed separatists have been pounding a strategic hub. latest figures along with those soldiers dead, 40 ukrainian soldiers wounded. right on the dividing line between the two fighting sides. putin says the city should go to the rebels because the ukrainian troops are surrounded. in the rebel held cities of donetsk and lou hands. 13 civilians killed last it 4 hours. the key element of this deal is to move back the artillery pieces and heavy arms.

that is supposed to start in the next 24 hours. that is a lot of guns and a lot of moving heather. >> you've been talking to people in kiev. what are they saying. >> reporter: we wanted to get a feel heather for what these war-weary people here in ukraine, specifically kiev think about this deal. we got some cautious optimism a lot of skepticism. take a listen. >> i hope so. i'm not sure. >> i think previous agreement didn't work at all. >> reporter: previous didn't so this one? >> i hope it will work. >> i think no. >> reporter: you think no? >> no. >> reporter: opinion we got from a lot of people on the street echo what a lot of analysts are saying, that vladmir putin made out in this deal. there is no time frame for pullout of russian troops which he claims are not there anyway. pro-russian rebels run the russia-ukraine border for foreseeable future.

pro-russian separatist its get broad autonomy in the breakaway areas. we finally talked to hose people, heather off the square. one year ago this month this was a bloody battlefield with the people here rising up against a corrupt regime and eventually toppling that edge game. that made russia very angry. we're seeing results now. >> we remember that quite well. greg palkot, thank you. gregg: more violence in ukraine. lawmakers throwing punches at each other in parliament. [shouting] well fighting kept on going and going until security finally stepped in broke it up. the fighting began over a controversial bill that would divide land as restitution to communities affected by the fighting. the fighting --

>> wow. one accident at a military base in southern california sending nearly two dozen marines to the hospital. this happened yesterday during a training exercise. officials say a fire extinguishing system it went off inadvertently and went off inside of a assault vehicle, exposing those inside to a hazardous chemical. the hospital later releasing all but three of those marines to resume training. the others were kept overnight for observation. >> well, did you notice it is a little chilly out there. this weekend by the way expected to bring dangerous cold temperatures to the entire eastern half of the united states. forecasters calling for single digit windchills all the way down in georgia and alabama if you can believe. that if you live up north, well, you might want to stay under the covers. 10 to 20 degrees below zero is projected. all this haing as new england getting ready for yet another storm. there are fear this is one could really pack a punch.

>> we've been fortunate we haven't hadauz the power outages and the trees down but with what is predicted to be 50 mile-an-hour plus winds maybe hurricane gusts there could be substantial power outages as well. >> i'm a little bit nervous. we have some damage here. the next storm it will definitely be worse. gregg: along with the fierce winds some areas are bracings for more than 20 inches of snow. i came in this morning the digital clock outside said eight degrees. but that didn't take into consideration for the windchill. i think it was zero. >> what it really felt like. try coming in 2:00 a.m. gregg: no thanks. >> it woke me up, that's for sure. one of the most respected print journalists in the country has passed away. david carr wrote aclaimed, media equation column for the "new york times." he overcame an addiction to crack cocaine in the 1980s to rise to a starring role with the paper. he was found unresponsive in the

"times" newsroom last night. he was pronounced dead at hospital. david carr was just 58 years old. gregg: breaking news we've been telling you about at the top of the hour. isis terrorists killed as they tried to attack an airbase where marines are stationed. we're here to talk to general jack keane about what is going on. >> plus three muslim students shot dead in north carolina. they are laid to rest but was their death caused by a fight over parking or something more? gregg: and the president taking some heat for clowning around with internet site buzzfeed. all in good fun or beneath the office? we'll debate it. >> deadline for signing up for health insurance is february -- >> not like any other wednesday. >> that is not right. february -- man. >> wednesday. >> february 15th.

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heather: a fox news alert for you. a live look at capitol hill. where house speaker john boehner is joined by other members of congress right now to officially sign the keystone pipeline approval act. the bill passed a bipartisan support and is about to go to the president. president obama's desk. the president of course has said that he will veto the bill. gregg: isis terrorists taken out

by iraqi security forces very near an airbase where we've got about 320 u.s. marines can currently training iraqi troops. all eight militants were killed in the attack. general jack keane joins us, military analyst chairman of institute of study of war. always a pleasure, general, to speak to you. react to this breaking news that isis not only went into this town and took it over yesterday but then now most recently launched an attack on the airbase where we've got all those marines. now they were beaten back but what does this tell you about the strength of isis and maybe the weakness of our counter strategy? >> yeah. listen gregg, great to see you again. the fact of the matter is you know, isis could not take that airbase. they didn't have the force generation to do it but that is not what their intent was. their intent is to grab a headline penetrate maybe kill

some people, damage some equipment. they got the headline like a few weeks ago in kirkuk where they launch ad fairly sizable attack and killed a kurdish commander and others. where we are with isis in iraq is simply this. their ability to take new territory stalled for weeks even though they had the capability to try. they have not taken new territory. that's a fact. what did that? air power. that's a good king but i think what this is and it is implied in your question, is this exposes and is a reminder to us but how tough it is going to be to retake the territory that has been lost. in the military terms that is counter offensive. to retake mosul, and fallujah in anbar province not far from where this attack took place. that will be challenging because the local forces doing that are not that strong. we are providing a minimal amount of support to them. and that is what the problem is.

that strategy is not great. gregg: i want to play for you just a moment, 12 second sound bite from the president two days ago as he was announcing his request for authorization of military force. here it is. >> i'm convinced that the united states should not get dragged back into another prolonged ground war in the middle east. that's not in our national security interest and not necessary for us to defeat isil. gregg: general, is that a false choice because boots on the ground doesn't necessarily mean a prolonged war, does it? >> yeah, he does this consistently because, as part of his presidency for the last five years it has been the disengagement from the middle east and never be involved in a war like iraq or afghanistan again, regardless of justification. so he puts that false choice as you accurately describe it, as a choice between 130, 150,000 u.s. troops involved in a war that would last 10 years. that is no what we're -- nobody

is making a recommendation that i'm aware of in the united states military, in the pentagon as policymakers or analyst who is look at this like myself who would ever make a recommendation like that. we're talking about providing enough training assistance apache helicopters and other things to strengthen the weak hand in iraq. if it does fail to have some coalition combat brigades to back them up of a limited number. no one is proposing a long, protracted war with hundreds of thousands of troops as the president is saying. in that aumf though, he, i have never seen anything quite like it. he treats ground forces as third rail. in other words we shouldn't tough it. as a result of that, if we if the agrees with that what we are saying is, we are not going to defeat isis in iraq or in syria because we need effective ground forces to do both and the polls that appear on fox say, the american people, 60 percent plus realize if you

are going to achieve victory against isis you have to have a ground force. that means an effective and decisive ground force and we do not have that now. gregg: i'm glad you brought up the poll numbers. i want to show awe different one and this is really pretty stunning. this basically says that 73% of americans think the president has no clear strategy for defeating isis. the are they right? >> well, that is absolutely stunning. i have never seen that before. so what has happened here, is the american people are being informed by exactly what is taking place and i think this great network is doing tremendous job doing that when you see those kind of poll numbers. they are absolutely right. we need a decisive ground force to do that. the one in iraq is weak and the one in syria does not exist. we have nobody we can partner with on the ground to defeat isis. only way to do that is shut down

assad's air power. the president will never do that even though saudi arabia, u.a.e. turkey and jordan are all advising him to do that. so then we can get after isis. he will not do that because it will be a backlash from iran who is supporting syria and that would, that would interfere with the president's number one priority, which is a nuclear deal with the iranians. and so, his plan, his thought process, in my mind the overwhelming conclusion is, the strategy is not about defeating isis during the term of his presidency. his strategy is really a nuclear deal with iran. gregg: general jack keane, always a pleasure to speak with you. thank you, sir. >> good talking to you, gregg. heather: still to come stunning testimony and dramatic dash-cam video in the "american sniper" trial. this, the police chase that led to the arrest of the troubled vet. he's accused killing chris kyle and his friend. why police say the suspect

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heather: welcome back, the fbi launching its own separate investigation into killings of three muslim student in north carolina. police say that they previous the shooting was the result of a parking dispute. but many people are insisting that there is a whole lot more to it. jonathan serrie is reporting live from atlanta with more. what is the fbi involvement in

this investigation? >> good morning, heather. the fbi issued a written statement recently saying that it is assisting chapel hill police in processing evidence that they're gathering in connection with this case. this triple-shooting that occurred on tuesday. the agency says it is also open its own parallel preliminary inquiry to determine whether or not any federal laws were violated related to the case. >> i won't speak much about the investigation today at all. because this is time to be together. i will just recommit that we're examining every possible investigative angle to include the potential for hate crime. >> civil rights groups have been calling on authorities to investigate whether the victims religion was a factor in the attack, all three, were muslim. heather? >> what do we know about the suspects? >> yeah, that suspect is 46-year-old craig steven hicks. he faces three counts of

first-degree murder. he is described as an atheist. although police are looking into weather a hate crime was involved, their preliminary investigation suggested the triple-shooting erupted over an ongoing dispute over parking at the condominium complex where the suspect and victims lived. hicks wife spoke to reporters about the case with help of an attorney. listen? >> it has nothing to do with the victim's religious beliefs. it had everything to do with a mundane parking spot dispute. >> and the defendant in this case, has requested a public defender. his next scheduled court appearance will be on march 4th. heather? heather: jonathan serrie live for news atlanta, thank you. gregg: if you're still watching television chances are you haven't been outside yet. you may not want to because it is really freezing outside. people bundled up pretty well outside of our headquarters on sixth avenue here in manhattan. we'll look how bad the cold-snap

could get. heather: stay inside and watch us. gregg: yes. heather: president obama, have you sign this? gregg: cool shades. heather: messing around with the online media to promote obamacare. sparking a debate whether there are, maybe there is more serious things he should be worried about than getting the perfect selfie. ♪ >> thanks, obama.

gregg: fox news alert. eight homicide bombers reportedly from isis got into iraqi military base where hundreds of u.s. marines are training their iraqi counterparts. it all happened at al-asad airbase, west of al-baghdadi. that would be these would-be bombers reportedly killed an isil counterattack almost

immediately by isf, counter attack almost immediately. the report claims that the islamic forces were at least a mile 1/2 away from the attack and militants were not a direct threat. heather: new controversy after a new obamacare ad shows president obama clowning around, in an effort to get young people to sign up for health insurance. video is drawing some fire because it was recorded on the same day the white house announced the death of isis latest american hostage. kayla mueller. watch this. ♪ >> the deadline for signing up for -- the deadline for signing up for health insurance is february -- >> not like any other wednesday. >> that's not right. >> wednesday. >> february larry, man. >> wednesday. >> february 15th.

february 15th. in many cases you can get health insurance for less than $100 a month. just go to healthcare.gov to figure out how to sign up. february 15th. heather: the president seen taking self fist, making goofy faces, playing game of airball, one day before asking congress for new authority to go to war with isis. juan williams, fox news analyst, mary catherine ham, editor of hotair.com and fox news contributor. thanks for joining us. the way the whole thing ended, that is what i wanted to talk about. the president says yolo man. for people who may not know what that stands for, yolo, stands for you only live once. you know who is not alive, juan kayla mueller. this was shot on the same day that information was released regarding her death. so do you think that that was appropriate? >> it is not appropriate or

inappropriate. i don't think it has any connection to miss mueller's sad demise. clearly the whole country is upset about what happened there. it is engaged in a terrible war what i think are horrific bestial type people here. what we're talking about here is a totally different issue, which is the president funding around in pursuit of trying to get more people to sign up for health care and, if you measured that effectiveness of these ads it is off the charts. within the first hour you had 100,000 people watching the president goof around and therefore, increased audience or potential audience for people who would sign up for health care. heather: mary catherine, do you agree that the timing of this has nothing to do with what we're talking about today? >> well he does have a pattern of doing highly unserious things on very on heels of very serious events. i don't think that is a great look for the white house. on this one i think i'm less

concerned with the timing and more concerned with the sheer silliness of it. i mean these selfie stick is widely recognized as the most undignified human creation in all time. i include the "50 shades of grey" vermont teddy bear in that tally. so it is, not exactly presidential. i'm not like, all presidents have to be super serious all the time but this one was pretty out there. selfie stick. heather: i can understand trying to attract millenials is what the administration saying he was trying to do here because they are below their numbers in terms of signing up for obamacare at this point. they have 7.7 million. the goal was nine million so juan, do you think the president, doing all these silly acts will inspire these young people to sign up? >> certainly was the case i guess, was it last year, heather, between two firms with

zack galfinakus. he got number of views but a bump in numbers of people signing up for health care. they hope they will see the same type of results. i was thinking about what mary catherine was saying i tend to agree, i'm a little older than mary catherine i think it's a little beneath the dignity of the office gosh, why the president is doing this? nixon was an laugh-in. clinton on arsenio blowing a saxophone. i understand these people want to president of the united states want to come across as more human but at some point, i think you don't want to end up somehow demeaning what is the highest office in the land. heather: at least, pick your opportunities. i wonder who is advising him when doing these things. he could have wait ad day or two after announcement about kayla mueller, the same day when we're running out of our embassy in yemen. as you mentioned mary catherine,

this is the not first occasion this has happened. following beheading of james foley. he was seen minutes later smiling on a golf course after benghazi. took off next day for a fund-raiser in las vegas. who is advising him? >> yeah i think he does want to reach these millenials. i have no problem doing an interview with buzzfeed which i don't think is below the dignity of the office. i think that was a good interview. that is fine for alternative outlets to get these kinds of things. this is not my favorite part. it really does not exactly look intimidating to folks like putin for instance. i'm not sure how you bo and stand on equal footing and discuss those things after you have done the selfie stick. here is the thing. when you try to convince people to buy thousands and thousands dollars of health care and usually don't need because they're healthy, i don't think that will cut it. heather: somebody needs to clean as well, juan. >> wiped out, yeah.

>> thinking what mary catherine said about putin. putin on a bare-chested on a horse, i don't think he has anything to complain about. >> that's a fair point. fair point. >> thank you both for joining us. we appreciate it. >> thank you heather. heather: bye-bye. gregg: sock it to me? who said that? you may want to put a coat on if you got one about especially if you're going outside. it is going to be really difficult out there, hard to escape the cold this morning. half the country is stuck in an arctic blast, stretching as far south as florida. here in new york better in the teens this morning. and isn't expected to get in the 20s. meteorologists maria molina is inside and warm in the extreme weather center which is not so extreme when you're indoors. >> not so extreme in here but across parts of the midwest. across the great lakes and east coast it is very extreme. we want to show you some current

temperatures out here. keep in mind these are actual temperatures, not the windchills out there. currently the number is zero degrees in buffalo. number is five below zero in burlington. single digits in the boston. factor in the wind, what is feels like in burlington, 23 below zero. 12 below in boston. looking windchills as far was as chicago and green bay and parts of the northern plains. we have blizzard watches issued across portions of new england. we've been talking about how much snow new england has been picking up recently. many areas over 50 inches of snow and take a look at this another storm system coming saturday into sunday. blizzard watches across eastern parts of massachusetts including the cape all the way through parts of down east maine. widespread area looking at blizzard conditions this weekend. wind gusts 60 miles an hour especially along coastal areas. some areas look at more than a

foot of snow potentially. the same spot picking up a lot of snow out here across massachusetts up into maine, forecast for boston. we have two main models american and european. one is producing more snow for the city of boston. overall that's a lot of snow. you're looking at a foot of snow coming down there as we head into this weekend. otherwise temperatures will be very cold. this is saturday, teens for chicago. cold air moves eastward by sunday, very widespread even areas across georgia alabama and gets colder farther west by monday. denver a lot cooler out there. highs only in the 20s. gregg: wax up the skis. this is on opportunity. >> greg i was thinking about going skiing in new england this weekend, forecast temperatures too cold for me skiing. gregg: go to utah or someplace. heather: we'll check back with you on monday to see if you went skiing. gregg: if i could get olivia to go with him she is like, i

don't know. too cold. heather: stay home. drink some hot chocolate. new concerns about president obama's executive actions one immigration. >> important only citizens participating in the election process. the president's action gives access to five million people to get social security cards and driver's licenses. those are the documents used in our state to register to vote. gregg: hmmm. heather: so will the president's plan open the doors to allowing illegal immigrants to vote? gregg: new details about this week's massive powerball drawing. we now know where one of the three winning tickets was sold but we don't know who the winner is? how could that be? heather: not me. not you. gregg: no, definitely not. ♪ this is the equivalent of the sugar in one regular soda. and this is one soda a day over an average adult lifetime. but there's a better choice. drink more brita water.

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heather: somebody's about to get a lot more of it. a gas station in north carolina sold one of the three winning tickets in wednesday night's $564 million powerball drawing. can you imagine? meaning they get a piece of the prize as well that the convenience store. they get $50,000 of the money. the store says they're very excited for the winning customer after getting the news from the lottery. >> i guess about 1:00 this afternoon we to the a call from the lottery. it is exciting to be able to experience a customer of ours that has life-changing experience, selling lottery is all about, having fun and participating in one of these great events. it is pretty cool. heather: no one has claimed the approximately $188 million prize yet but they do have 180 days. two other winning tickets were sold in texas and puerto rico.

gregg: somebody email me and let me toe. there are new reports that president obama's executive actions on immigration will actually create a big ol' loophole. that could allow illegal immigrants to register to vote. of course you have to be a u.s. citizen for that but state election officials now tell congress that granting drivers licenses and social security numbers to undocumented people will let some of them slip right through those big cracks. >> because of that action, the unfairness that is involved we now have non-citizens learned in last few weeks non-citizens getting social security benefits non-citizens getting tax refunds. non-citizens getting in front of legal immigrants and process they go through to legally come to the country. now we learn today non-citizens might in fact might easier to -- gregg: michael warren joins us, staff writer for "the weekly standard." reaction to this is all over the place. some democrats i saw, said well if it happens it is not

probably going to be millions of people voting illegally. it doesn't take a lot of votes to unduly influence an election does it? >> maybe. some of those democrats are saying hey, if you try to do something about this that is suppressing vote. that is a little bogus. if people are registering to vote and they're not supposed to be because they're not citizens or convicted felons or they're too young or too dead then that is a problem. i think, you know it is not suppressing the vote to address. that i'm scratching my head why republicans are focusing on this, having that hearing yesterday on capitol hill because illegal immigrants people who oversay the visas crossing borders, they're not coming here really to vote they're coming here to work and earn money to have economic impact. i think that is actually what republicans should be worried about, i kind of agree with democrats it will be small somewhat drop in the bucket compared to a much bigger problem that illegal immigrants pose to the economy. gregg: now that you bring up the

economic impact apparently the head of the irs, not apparently, i saw him say it, confirming that once millions living here illegally receive their social security cards, they can do down to the -- go down to the irs office and receive tax refunds even if they never paid taxes because they're automatically eligible once they have those social security cards, for the earned income tax credit, whether they're working or not. i mean, talk about a huge economic impact. >> yeah, i think that could have economic impact. an even bigger impact that these, immigrants are to use a phrase taking jobs at lower wages. if you look at the way the economy is, the best thing you can say for it, kind of puttering along, doing better than it was maybe four or five years ago but wages are still stagnant. sometimes real wages are dropping. you have inflation. things are more expensive. so the real question is, why are we allowing more people to come

in here to work at lower wages and to do these jobs when so many people out there actually have stopped looking for it? i think that is a huge problem that republicans ought to be addressing and instead they're dealing with what i think is much smaller problem with voting irregularities. gregg: does it strike you as odd, when the irs commissioner says well, the white house nobody in the obama administration bothered to pick up the phone and get my input about the consequences of the president's amnesty plan and there are a great many negative consequences? is that surprising? >> not really. the president and white house sort of went around congress. not surprising going around the irs commissioner and not even consult them about what the consequences could be because of course this is what the president wants. this is what the white house wants to do which is to allow the immigrants to stay here long term, for all the benefits that you might offer in their view to

the country and to the party. but i really don't think that, that republicans are really thinking about the long-term implications of what this could do really addressing those economic concerns. gregg: michael warren, "weekly standard," good to see you, thanks. >> thanks gregg. heather: president george w. bush weighing in on isis. what he had to say about the terror army as we are hearing about the coalition forces stopped them from getting anywhere near our marines in iraq. gregg: and they call it puply love but one dog show really showed one dog show how much she cared about her owner by paying her a special visit at the hospital. look at this. >> we looked up, there was this dog running across the lobby. >> missed mom. all i could say. she missed mom and knew to come and see mom.

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gregg: proof now that dogs are truly man's and women's best friends. minute sure schnauzer adorable dog in iowa sissy runs away from home something she had never done before but she turned up about four hours later at a hospital 20 blocks away from where her owner nancy was staying while undergoing cancer treatment. >> we started looking at the tags, it had address and we saw how far way this dog had lived as far as going at least 15 blocks to get here. it was quite an amazing journey the dog made. >> woke me up saturday morning around 5:30, mom, i bottom something to show you. she came over with this wigley, squirmy dog. sissy was excited. making happy whining noises. just all excited to see me. i said did you sneak the dog in

here? she said no she snuck herself in here mom. gregg: nancy and her family are amazed where sissy knew to where to find the owner considering she never been there before. heather, dogs noses are tens of thousands of times more sensitive than ours. heather: oh, really? gregg: they can detect odors in parts per trillion. so maybe she followed the scent. >> it was true love. gregg: yeah. heather: could not be kept away. that is great story. man's best friend and women's as well. president obama planning to announce a new executive action this time on cybersecurity. the white house unveiling that yesterday, before the president huddled with top tech firms with san francisco today. kevin corke live for us at white house. why is the white house focusing on cybersecurity? >> heather, actually what they're boeing going to say if it is better to protect against possible cyber threats and potentially cyber attacks and sharing information's part of

the fight. you may remember we heard similar refrain from the bush administration in the white house wake of 9/11. sharing of information so valuable in the fight against terrorism and obama administ administration, that is, that is saying that is fruitful strategy moving forward. president's arrival in california, just ahead of that big conference and you talked about that this is part of a broad strategy by the administration and specifically by his national security team to drill down on that effort. >> american leadership is also addressing the pressing need for enhanced cybersecurity. as more of the world comes online, we're leading an international effort to define the rules for how states engage with one another in cyberspace. while insuring that the internet remains a powerful tool to drive future advances. >> reporter: national security advisor susan rice saying part of a long-term strategy to

uncover possible threats before they mature both domestically and internationally, heather. heather: kevin is there some sort of controversy about a snub at this conference? >> just a bit. ceos of google, yahoo!, facebook will not be there, instead sending senior company officials. this is part of an ongoing rift between the administration and some of the silicon valley tech giants about the nsa spying program. you may remember they have been uncovering a lot more information than perhaps those companies were aware of. it has been a rift continuing to grow. obviously apple will still be represented. tim cook says he will be there. heather: kevin corke live for us. we appreciate it. >> you bet. gregg: new claims that the white house knew the location of americans being held hostage by isis for weeks maybe months. for some reason they delayed a rescue mission until it was too late. we'll speak with the parents of james foley one of the americans murdered by isis.

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heather: we begin this hour with a fox news alert. iraqi security forces able to fight off an attack by isis on a key air base with the help of the coalition. welcome to a brand new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm heather childers in for martha. gregg: and i'm gregg jarrett in for bill hemmer. eight homicide bombers attacking the facility in iraq's anbar province. it was at one time a very key u.s. military installation, but it's still home to hundreds of marines. leland vittert joins us live from the white house with the breaking details. what more do we know about this attack? >> reporter: we're getting more information from senior defense officials. evidently, the gate where this happened and where the fight went down between these eight bombers from isis and iraqi security forces is about three kilometers, about a mile and a half from where those 300 u.s. marines are inside this base.

we sent drones and apaches meaning attack helicopters but it was over before they arrived and neither fired a shot. the geography is very important in terms of where the base is just next to the town of al-baghdadi, iraq. isis now controls 90% of that town and makes it, obviously, very easy for them to launch attacks as they have in the past using artillery and those kinds of things where the u.s. marines are. >> isis could not take that air base they didn't have the force generation to do it, but that's not what their intent was. their intent was to grab a headline penetrate, maybe kill some people damage some equipment. >> reporter: we don't have any idea if there were any iraqis killed in this fire fight, we do know however, there were no americans hurt doesn't appear there were any americans involved in trying to fight them off. just how dangerous the u.s. mission is, you don't have to be

on the front lines to be in grave danger. gregg: tell us more about the base itself that was coming you should attack. >> reporter: it's -- under attack. >> reporter: it's a very large base very storied history in terms of the u.s. presence in iraq. back in 2007 president bush visited this base, gave a speech to the troops. in that speech he said what happens in anbar, meaning anbar province, that part of iraq, matters to the national security of the united states. and this is one of the very big bases that the u.s. had there when the u.s. pulled out. obviously, they left. it was also one of the first place that advisers went back to back last year when u.s. advisers came back to iraq. now there's about 300 advisers there training all these iraqi troops who are conceivably going to go out and try to fight isis on the ground. gregg: leland vittert live at the white house thanks for the update. heather: isis now claiming that hi yesterday boumediene is living in territory controlled

by the islamic state according to the terror group's french-language magazine. she became the most wanted woman in france after her husband killed a policewoman last month and then shot to death four shoppers at a kosher grocery store in paris. police eventually killed him during a raid on the grocery. gregg: the white house admitting it was caught off guard by last month's overthrow of yemen's government. the dangerous security situation forcing this week's evacuation of the u.s. embassy. president obama's counterterrorism directer telling a u.s. senate committee that yemen's american-funded army failed to oppose the advancing rebels there in the same way iraq's military refused to fight isis militants last year. heather: former president george w. bush delivering a lecture on leadership and speaking about isis terrorism and evil. >> yes.ville's real -- evil's real. murdering innocent people to

move their political point of view has been is and always is evil. heather: chris stirewalt is fox news digital politics editor and he joins us now. thank you for joining us, chris. >> sure. heather: we just heard president bush say evil is real, there is no light gray. do you think president obama and this administration believes that there is light gray? >> uh, i don't know. this president certainly has talked about evil and has certainly referred to isis as evil and committing acts of evil. however, when you hear the strenuous rhetoric when you hear the decibel count even for george w. bush talking about the issue, it is clear that he sees things in a different -- he sees different contours than president obama does. heather: different contours. and, you know, just the latest news, breaking developments as we were on the air, eight isis

bombers attacking the al assad air base in the anbar province, 300 of our marines based there. our other troops evacuating yemen, the embassy there. what is president obama's strategy? a lot of people are asking that. >> well, our most recent fox news polling suggests americans don't think there is one. and as we famously recall from the president last summer saying that he didn't have a strategy and that they're working on one. well he says there is one now but as you point out the instances you point out as well as some others indicate that whatever the strategy is, it is not faring very well for that region. and so now the president finds himself facing a it's very similar to the one george -- a test very similar to the one george w. bush faced in his presidency. after midterm setbacks president bush essentially had to accept that he had chosen or had made a mistake in opposing a

troop surge for iraq. he he accepted that and starting with 20,000 troops down and pushed it, sold it hard with his party even when there was strenuous resistance got it done and was successful in doing it. he changed course. what we're seeing with this president, however is an unwillingness to change course. he's going to double down on his previous strategy of a sort of slow and low aerial bombardment of the islamist militants in the region regardless of what we see coming back from the region. heather: you know, he campaigned on getting us out of old wars and preventing us from getting into new ones. i found something you wrote yesterday in your article. you talked about president obama building ahamster wheel for the gop on isis. [laughter] explain that. >> well, look the president says he doesn't need the authorization that he has sent to congress. he would like to have it, it would be a nicety that would demonstrate unity. so what's going to happen now is the republicans are going to

rend their garments and tear their hair out fighting over which unnecessary and meaningless language will be embedded in this legislation that the president will then take, drop in a desk drawer and subsequently ignore and continue to conduct this operation exactly as he is and exactly as he wishes to. but the republicans are still going to spin their wheels while there are other concerns that the president would probably not like them to be focused on, particularly the peace treaty that he is trying to strike with iraq -- or with iran and other issues for the region. heather: well, as evidenced today, isis nor al-qaeda, neither one appear to be slowing down. chris stirewalt, thank you. >> you bet. gregg: day three in the american sniper murder trial. new details emerging yesterday about the suspect who is accused of killing chris kyle and his friend. authorities also releasing dramatic dash and body cam videotape showing the police on a high speed chase as eddie ray ralph tried to get away and then

moving in to arrest him. will carr is covering the trial he joins us live outside the courthouse in stephenville, texas. will, do we know just how raffle was able to kill -- ralph was able to kill both of these men, murder them allegedly so quickly? >> reporter: well, good morning, gregg. it appears ralph shot kyle first. keep in mind, kyle was a trained navy seal and the most lethal sniper in united states history. then ralph turned the gun on littlefield. we're expecting testimony to get back under way shortly and a short time ago taya kyle walked up to the courthouse for the third day in a row. late yesterday the medical examiner presented graphic autopsy pictures explaining exactly how ralph killed kyle and littlefield. ralph shot kyle six times including to the right side of his face and jaw also in the shoulder, arm and side. littlefield was shot seven times including in the back and at the top and back of his head. while these pictures were shown,

ralph remained emotionless much like he has been throughout the course of the trial so far. on the other side, tears were widespread for taya and members of both families, gregg. gregg: what else do we know about the moments after the shooting will? >> reporter: well, we know that ralph stole kyle's truck. he then drove to taco bell, bought two bean burritos and then drove to his house. that's where he got in some back and forth verbal negotiations with officers saying at one point, quote that he had taken a couple of souls and he had more souls to take. then dash cam video from a police officer's car captures ralph peeling out in kyle's truck. he leads officers on a dramatic chase for about ten minutes before he was taken into custody. the prosecution is saying that he knew exactly what he was doing. that he knew it was wrong. that's why he ran. the defense is maintaining that ralph was legally insane. gregg: prosecutors call that flight as consciousness of

guilt, but you have to b to have that consciousness and therein is the debate. will carr, thanks very much. heather: american aid worker kayla mueller just declared dead after being held by isis, a long and torturous wait for her parents. so what is it like for the families of these hostages? we will talk live with the parents of james foley, the first american hostage to be murdered by these terrorists. plus this -- >> i think that there's a lot of things about me that are unlike any other candidate out there. you know we wouldn't have the founders of microsoft and facebook and apple and plenty of other places out there each of those folks left to start those companies about the same time i did, in my senior year. gregg: according to howard dean, though, that's a problem if you want to be president. really? why the former dnc chief says you should be worried about a potential scott walker run. heather: and a new controversy for the v.a. new claims that

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gregg: the latest death of an american hostage at the hands of isis kayla mueller, reminding the nation of just how very difficult these horrific situations are for the families of the innocent victims. kayla, who was working as a humanitarian aid worker, when she was kidnapped in syria in 2013. last year american journalist

james foley and steven sotloff both publicly murdered by isis after being held captive by islamic extremists. 40-year-old freelance video reporter james foley was in northern syria when he was abducted by terrorists thanksgiving day 2012. he was held for nearly two years before his murder. u.s. special forces failed to rescue foley and other american hostages in july of last year. james foley's parents, diane and john foley join me now live on the set. and thank you both for being with us. >> thank you. >> thank you. gregg: i know how very difficult this may be for you to talk about, but we do appreciate it, and we offer our sincere condolenceses. >> thank you. >> appreciate that. gregg: catherine herridge, who's been all over this story, tells us that the white house knew about the precise location of where at least eight western hostages including your son was being held, but they sat on that

specific intel. they even knew down to the precise building, but they sat on it. what's your reaction, what can you tell us? >> well, you know, all i know -- communication was very poor that's one of the things. so the government really wasn't telling us anything. so we -- it was all classified. so all we know, all i know is what i was told by the french hostages who came out in march of 2014. they, the four of them had a lot of very specific information for our government. so um, i don't know how soon our government p engaged with the french government and those -- i do know from the fbi that our agents had difficulty accessing those hostages. gregg: mr. foley, do you believe that your son might be alive

today if the obama administration had acted on the intelligence when they had it instead of waiting for at least seven weeks, maybe longer? >> well, that's the $64,000 question. it's hard to have a definitive answer on that. you know, it's just hard to answer. i mean, the problem is how would that have taken shape? we don't negotiate, we don't pay ransom so that would have only left the military intervention -- gregg: a rescue operation which was eventually conducted but apparently isis learned about a rescue attempt before. >> well, i mean, i don't know that either. but when all of the european hostages were released it only left the americans and the british people still in

captivity. the isis group is evil and vicious, but i don't think they're stupid. and i think that they must have understood that eventually an attempt to extricate the hostages was going to come. because that was our mode of operation. gregg: national security adviser ben rhodes said, "i can assure you, we have done everything." and then there is this statement from president obama, take a listen. >> as tough as anything that a i do -- that i do, having a conversation with parents who understandably, want by any means necessary for their children to be safe. and we will do everything we can short of providing an incentive for future americans -- >> [inaudible] gregg: do you think he did everything? >> it was very hard to know. i didn't -- we didn't feel jim

was a priority. even though we were told that from the very beginning, that he was. and just to trust that everything was being done. but we don't have much evidence of that mainly because of very poor communication. no one seemed to be accountable for these americans who were captive together. and no one could give us answers. >> yeah. i just want to to make very clear that we are very grateful for those soldiers who participated in that raid because it was obviously very dangerous on their part. >> absolutely. >> and we're very grateful for that. again, i think it was very late in the game. so the result speaks for itself. there was nobody home. gregg: is there a part of you that says, wait a minute, if they had acted on the intelligence during the course of seven weeks before isis found out about a potential rescue they could have gotten them all out and safe and alive?

>> in all honesty, i think isis was always aware of a potential for a rescue. i think that -- my own opinion is that the european nations were negotiating to get their hostages out, and i believe that under those circumstances they did not want a military intervention until those young men were released in order to protect them physically. so i don't think there was ever a point where isis didn't expect some form of intervention at some point. gregg: with respect to our government and their lack of communication as you expressed it are you left frustrated? disappointed? angry? >> very disappointed. jim, you know, counted on our government to get them home. that's what all the hostages say. jim was very hopeful and confident that our government

would find a way. we don't want jim to have died in vain gregg and that's why jim, with jim we've established a foundation so that we can encourage really a reflection on the american hostage policy definite improvement in communication all around and collaboration with our allies if you will -- >> we're specifically looking for the establishment of a dedicated hostage unit which will have the ability to coordinate all aspects of the government and focus on release of the particular hostage. and in that unit we would be hope very much for frequent, concise and meaningful communication. the trip along the way is as important as the end result and we don't feel that we were part of the answer. we felt often part of the problem. gregg: all right. diane and john foley our

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then changed his mind and said he's not going anywhere. that's when all of his supporters jumped ship. he met with the democratic leaders of the house and senate, they both told him to resign. the secretary of state, who was called back from a meeting in washington to presumably be sworn in as the next governor met with kansas city offer. suggesting that he was unstable. then the democratic treasurer piled on with a news conference of his own. >> i came to the conclusion that this is the right time to ask the governor to do the right thing for the citizens of this state and step aside focus on his criminal defense and let somebody else lead the government. >> reporter: to make it all stranger the governor has apparently gone into hiding. his staff won't answer questions, and nobody knows exactly where he is, heather. heather: such a crazy story. and even if he resigns he still faces plenty of challenges, right? >> reporter: that's right. governor's facing criminal

investigation by the state attorney general also a democrat, and the fbi's reportedly also opened an investigation. they all center on his fiancee sylvia hayes, who made over $200,000 as a consultant at the same time she was the acting first lady and an unpaid adviser to the governor. two men who got her the jobs were close campaign advisers to the governor who then were handed jobs in his administration. hayes and kitzhaber have both hired criminal defense lawyers. she has not been seen in days. if kitzhaber decides to dig in and fight, he can survive for at least several more months. oregon does not have a means by which the legislature can impeach and remove him, so so he can stay there for a while. heather: i didn't know that a girlfriend or fiancee could be the first lady. i didn't know that much. >> reporter: well, exactly. when she moved into the governor's mansion, there were some eyebrows raised.

she had a web site to that effect, and she was an adviser of his. heather: thank you, dan springer, live. gregg: breaking news on wall street the dow jones industrial average going above 18,000. now, that's a real milestone. yes, it did hit it two days before christmas, if i recall, of last year but then it dropped lower. of course, a lot of the lower indices have been a result of the nose dive in crude oil prices, but that has popped now back above $60 a barrel and perhaps correspondingly so, too, is the dow jones industrial 30 averages up above the 18,000 sort of the psychological milestone. we'll see if it stays there. in the meantime can a college drop run the country? be governor scott walker is firing back today after howard dean questions where his lack

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gregg: the ranks of isis growing bigger by the day. a dangerous trend as the terrorist group expands into new territories, posing a major challenge for national security and utah policy. chief -- and u.s. policy. catherine herridge is live in washington with more. what are you able to learn from today's testimony before house around services committee? >> reporter: well, gregg, food morning. the maintainingaway so far is this really is a war of ideas

that cannot be won with kinetic action alone, and in the last two years there is now an arc of instability that spreads from yemen in the east to iraq in syria and then into north africa with the collapse of yemen. this morning the principal witness before the house armed services committee is the former director of the intelligence agency, michael flynn, who you see here. he's a critic of the administration's refusal to identify the threat as radical islam. >> i wouldn't sit here today and say isis is an existential threat to this country the broader ideology. but the broader ideology is one that will get inside of our blood stream, get inside of our dna, if you will and will permeate over time if we don't do something about it now. so it doesn't help us to just kind of wait to do something. >> reporter: separately, fox news was first to report that the rise of isis in iraq was documented in the president's daily brief. this is the top intelligence product presented to the

president for at least a year before the terror group pushed through large swaths of territory last summer, and this completely undercuts the white house claim that they were all taken by surprise when the intelligence community clearly was not, gregg. gregg: catherine what does the loss of american embassies in the region mean for the white house? >> reporter: well, the white house now has less diplomatic tools at its disposal to deal with this issue, having closed embassies in syria libya, yemen and with no presence in small where for quite some time, this makes a diplomatic solution harder to find and also setback for counterterrorism operations because the u.s. relies on host goths for targeting -- governments for targeting intelligence in those regions, gregg. gregg: katherine her ridge reporting live in washington -- her ridge reporting live in washington, thank you. heather: a fox news poll showing americans rate the potential 2016 republican presidential field as average.

voters were asked to grade contenders based on how well they might do the job, and results were pretty surprising. take a look. no one received an a. wisconsin governor scott walker got the highest grade, a b. ben carson and florida senator marco rubio both with b-. they outpaced the rest of the pack with new jersey governor chris christie receiving a c. julie roginsky is a fox news contributor and former political adviser of senator frank lautenberg and kevin jackson is executive director of the black sphere, author of "race pimping." and a radio talk show host. thank you both for joining us. >> thank you. heather: so no one gets an a. what do you think that means about this field of contenders so far julie? >> i think it's super early. four years ago we had michele bachmann winning the iowa straw poll and rick santorum winning

iowa. what's important is it's important that donors right now who are deciding who to support and behind whom to put the big money. but i really don't think it's important for the voters right now because they're not focused at this point. you know, come see me a year from now and if those grades hold up, i'll say some of those people are in trouble, but i think it's anybody's game right now. heather: kevin, did any of the ratings surprise you? >> not at all. as i've been going around the country on my book tour, aye talked to audiences about scott walker, and he's been coming up quite a bit. i think his ability to win two very contentious elections has put him in the forefront. but i look at the gop and i think to myself, what an amazing group of folks. we've got two cuban people we've got ben carson running, i mean, it looks like what the democrats would be running and be very proud of. i think if you juxtapose that against what the democrats have against hillary clinton and the cast of characters there, jim webb and martin o'malley and

various others, people who are very much unknown and, of course, they've thrown in elizabeth warren, i think, honestly, the democrats are more squared than mike tyson -- scaren than mike tyson at a spelling bee. [laughter] heather: you teed me up, because the democrats aren't faring any were better in terms of the grades of some of the front runters. hillary clinton a b+. joe biden elizabeth warren. julie, what about democrats as we head towards this race? >> democrats seem to be unifying behind hillary clinton. i said the same thing back in 2008. but, look i think hillary clinton -- unless something miraculous happens -- will probably be the nominee. it looks like from the grade she was given that democrats are fairly happy or actually pretty happy with their nominee. so going based on just that one poll alone, i think hillary clinton's in a very good spot going into the general election.

heather: and before we run out of time, i want to pull this up. perhaps it's a sign that folks are concerned about walker. this from howard dean: >> you serious? >> i am absolutely -- >> i like that line. >> are you serious? >> yeah. >> he didn't -- >> he didn't finish college. >> i think there are going to be a lot of people who sorry -- >> do you worry about people who don't finish college? >> i worry about people that are president of united states not knowing much about the world and not knowing much about science. heather: kevin -- >> what a -- heather: -- what do you think? >> what a classless comment. next thing we're going to hear hey, ben carson's wasted youth on becoming a brain surgeon when he could have been a community organizer. scott walker has proven himself turning wisconsin from financials from the red to the black, giving that state something to be very proud of. and here's howard dean belittling him because he didn't

go to one of those colleges. barack obama went to one of these colleges, and he's torpedoed the economy. heather: you have mark stucker burg, bill gates, peter jennings who did not graduate from high school, the list goes on. a lot of people who have done very well. thank you both for joining us. appreciate you. bye-bye. gregg: on the flipside -- [inaudible] turned out to be real wing nuts. you know who they are. a labor dispute on the west coast is having a ripple effect on the rest of the country. 29 seaports that receive products are mostly shut down, and that means well, your cars, parts, clothing, furniture electronics, a whole lot more just sitting on dozens of ships offshore maybe on palettes -- pallets onshore. jonathan hunt joins us live from los angeles with more on this. how might this effect the country's economic economy? >> reporter: well gregg you've got something like $1 trillion worth of goods come

through these west coast ports annually in the united states. so if those goods are floating out there in the pacific somewhere on these huge cargo ships rather than on store shelves, then the store owners are going to suffer the truckers who deliver those goods to the the stores are going to suffer, and ultimately, consumers will too because prices will probably go up. it is such a serious situation that some lawmakers say president obama has to get involved personally. listen here. >> we believe this is the greatest threat our nation faces right now, and we want him to be focused on this and be able to act swiftly with the support of the members of congress, both parties, behind him to get this thing done and make sure our economy doesn't go back into another recession. >> reporter: now, there are 29 west coast ports involved in this. they represent something like 25% of all u.s. international trade. now, offshore now at the ports of los angeles and long beach

are something like 15 of these huge container ships stuck waiting. if you go north oakland california tacoma washington at least another 11 of those ships stuck out there. and there is no resolution in sight right now, gregg. both sides seem stuck on their position and in the meantime as i say, the economy -- according to people like representative schrader -- is really on the brink of suffering very, very badly, indeed. gregg? gregg: all right. jonathan hunt in los angeles thanks. heather: well, what kind of picture would have people saying things like in this? >> wow. >> what are they holding anyway? >> it looks like -- >> a bot of -- bottle of booze? [laughter] >> that's terrible. heather: this selfie. it's a school bus driver, and he's in a whole lot of trouble. gregg: police releasing the video of a suspect in the american sniper murder trial

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or confusion. today's the day to ask your doctor about levemir® flextouch®. covered by nearly all health insurance and medicare plans. heather: take a look, it may be the stupidest selfie ever taken, and parents in one ohio school district are furious. take a look. this is a school bus driver taking a photo of herself behind the wheel with a beer and then she puts the picture on facebook. the bus company says the bottle was unopened and the driver was at the end of her shift so there were no kids on the bus at the time. the unidentified driver has been suspended, by the way while the school district and the bus company investigate. ♪ ♪ gregg: the american sniper murder trial is taking a dramatic turn as we learn more about the man accused of killing chris kyle. a police officer testified that

eddie ray ralph told him he had, quote, taken a couple of souls and had more to take. authorities also released dash cam footage of police in a high speed chase before ralph finally surrendered. lis wiehl is a fox news legal analyst, doug burns a former federal prosecutor. good to see you both. >> thank you. gregg: in the law fleeing is considered to be ed of flight as consciousness of guilt. >> you don't, you don't flee if you don't think you've done something wrong. you just stay right there. but he fled because he knew he'd done something wrong and that is -- >> well -- gregg: what if an insane person is acting irrationally and simply leafing and driving erratically as part of the insane behavior? >> well before you even get to that you go right to the trial textbook, and that tells you every time a government lawyer argues sense of guilt the defense lawyer says he panicked. that's the comeback okay? every single time. gregg: do you have to be sane to panic? >> no. conscious of guilt --

consciousness of guilt usually wins out. >> right. >> he did make a number of comments consistent with insanity. he talked about the apocalypse and anarchy -- >> but he told the officer that what he was -- when he was asked whether he knew that he'd done something wrong, he said, yeah. gregg: dud you know what you did today is wrong, right? answer: yes, sir. although what you did today he did a lot of things that day -- >> stole the pickup and all of that. gregg: maybe he was admitting to theft. >> and that's what a good defense attorney is going to argue. >> good point. >> he fled the scene he admitted he did something wrong,er go he knew he did something wrong. the standard for insanity defense has changed -- gregg: you know what you did today is wrong, right? answer by ralph, yes sir. well, that's a leading question, and crazy people will agree with anything. >> exactly. and the other point is, you

know, it may have been many hours of questioning okay? he had said -- and this is the way i would argue it to the jury -- he had said throughout the interview many many things consistent with insanity. gregg: yeah. >> and then the ranger tries to clean it up with a conclusive one-liner -- >> no, no, not consistent with insanity. yeah, he's crazy he's a crazy person, but not consistent with legal insanity. gregg: let me ask you this, and by the way, we should just say legal insanity in texas, as it is in jurisdictions, so severe you do not know right from wrong. you can't -- >> exactly. >> and the defense has to show that. the prosecution doesn't have to -- gregg: and by a preponderance of the evidence, the burden is on the defense. >> exactly. gregg: all right. but let me ask you this one of the things the jurors have considered is the text message chris kyle sent to chad littlefield -- >> absolutely. dreg greg -- as they were in the car with the killer "this dude is straight up nuts." >> kyle is not a psychiatrist he just said nuts like you and i

would say -- gregg: but it's relevant. >> it's relevant. and he also said by way if i don't kill these two, their going to kill me -- they're going to kill me. but i do agree with lis, after the hinkley acquittal as it were or not guilty by reason of insanity the defense was eviscerated tremendously. >> and jurors do not like the insanity defense. >> yeah. >> whatever legal they do not like -- gregg: it works less than 1% of the time. >> they don't like it. they don't like people not talking responsibility. gregg: good to see you both. heather: "happening now" coming up at the top of the hour jon scott has a preview for us. jon: new developments in the fight against isis, airstrikes reportedly killing 20 isis terrorists, but isis also now threatening a town where american marines are training iraqis. we've got the lates a shaky ceasefire not stopping the fighting in eastern ukraine. what is russia up to? and race in america an interesting speech from the nation's top cop about racial

divisions in this country. are the media doing enough to talk about race? we'll get into it, "happening now." heather: all right, thank you, jon. jon: thanks, heather. heather: some serious hot wheels plunging into a sinkhole turning into wrecks, and now one year later the museum where they were on display is revving one of them back up. ♪ ♪ [ female announcer ] if you don't think "i've still got it" when you think aarp then you don't know "aarp." life reimagined gives you tools and support to get the career you'll love. find more real possibilities at aarp.org/possibilities.

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corvettes. security cameras capturing the collapse which formed a hole 40 feet by 60 feet deep. luckily, the museum was closed at the time, nobody was injured. the museum unveiling a zr-1 blue devil. look at that baby. heather: whoo. gregg: whoo which has landed on the bottom of the whole. the car now fully restored. the museum's insurance special describing the mood. >> there's been a wave of emotions. you know, ultimate lows looking down in the hole and seeing these cars when we're the caretakers of the car, that's an ultimate low. but to see the car in all of its glory is an amazing amazing emotion. it's a great high. gregg: workers are still repairing the damage but the museum points out that the sinkhole has become something of a tourist attraction itself. ♪ my funny valentine sweet come kick valentine -- comic valentine -- heather: hey i'll take that

vette for valentine's day. a lot of you will be showing your love with flowers tomorrow making in the busiest time of year for your local florist. but it is also the busiest season for customs inspectors as hundreds of millions of blooms arrive from overseas. steve harrigan is live from a warehouse in miami. how big of an operation is this? >> reporter: heather for miami international airport it's 22 million flowers a day. it really has customs and border patrol experts working around the clock, because nine out of every ten flowers you buy or receive for valentine's day actually comes through the airport, so they are shaking out bouquets, finding slugs beetles and, at times, cockroaches. >> to find one unexpecteddedly at home, you're completely grossed out and not pleased but when you're looking for it, you're looking for it. so you're a little more mentally prepared. >> reporter: what the customs

people are really looking for is anything unusual, either disease or a pest that we don't have in the u.s. that could really cause harm here heather: heather: oh my goodness. you just ruined it for a lot of folks. we're going to be looking for cockroaches now in our flowers. thank you, steve. gregg: cockroaches in flowers? heather: hopefully, the inspectors get them out. gregg: that's an ugly thought. a major milestone for the keystone pipeline as republicans take the final step to approve the bill urging the president to put his ink on it. has anything changed at the white house? captain obvious: i probably wouldn't stay here tonight. man: thanks, captain obvious. captain obvious: i'd get a deal for tonight with deals for tonight from hotels.com.

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not for everyone. i have never seen something. >> the go pro-on the top of the poll? >> it is. good idea. love the gopros. >> nice to be with you today. >> it was a pleasure and fun. have a good weekend. "happening now" begins right now. jenna: we start off with a little politics. democrats and republicans in congress battling for american hearts minds and allegiance while their job approval remains near historic lows. we hope you are having a great friday. welcome to "happening now." i'm jenna lee. jon: write your member of congress a letter on valentine's day. i'm jon scott. a leaving for week-long break not before a few accomplishments here or lack there of funding