at university of california, berkeley. she understands pole vaulting is 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

department of homeland security. democrats hold firm waiting for republicans to present a bill that does not strip funding for president's obama's immigration plans. republicans celebrating yesterday's approval of the keystone oil pipeline, a measure the president says, he will veto. meanwhile, our latest "fox news poll" finds americans overwhelmingly unhappy with congress's performance. 72% disapprove. let's go live to capitol hill and chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel. mike? >> reporter: republicans note recent polling 60% of the american public supports building keystone xl pipeline. now that congress passed legislation, gop leaders say the ball is squarely in president obama's court. >> the president i would just say this, do the right thing. sign this bill and help us create more jobs in america and create a healthier economy. >> now where we are as otherred indicated we're hoping common sense will prevail here and the

president will sign this extraordinary jobs bill. >> reporter: with congress stuck on funding homeland security after the end of the month seven indiana house members have written to fellow whoser senator joe donnelly urging him to reconsider votes against taking up the house passed $40 billion measure. they urge differences with that legislation, funding homeland security should be resolved through the democratic process. meanwhile house democratic whip steny hoyer said it would only take 10% of house republicans to okay a so-called clean homeland security funding package. clean would not try to strip president obama's executive action on i am my disoperation. another top -- immigration. another top democrat took swipe at gop. >> rather than doing responsible thing, pass as clean dhs bill negotiated with democrats and republicans, senate republican leadership decided repeatedly to

bang their head against the wall. they have done it three times. they must enjoy it. >> reporter: with lawmakers leaving on a week's recess. it will be down to fund wire funding homeland security when they return to capitol hill. jon: mike emanuel, thank you. jenna: iraqi forces fending off an isis attack at the al-asad airbase where hundreds of marines are helping with training there in iraq. eight isis were killed. meantime, congress wrapping up week of counterterrorism testimony. the house armed services committee holding a hearing this morning on the current state of islamic extremism. captain chuck nash joins us later this hour on his take with the fight against isis roughly six months after it began. first, john huddy live from the middle east bureau with the headlines of the day.

john? >> reporter: jenna, the attack on this airbase as you mentioned was stopped almost immediately. it is not clear whether the militants got on the base or were stopped along the security fence perimeter. that said, proximity to al-baghdadi as you mentioned is of concern and some believe it is a threat. take a look at the map. this gives you an idea how close it. the al-asad airbase is couple miles, only five miles outside of al-baghdadi where isis taken control. this is the same base where 400 u.s. force, 300 marines have been training more than 800 iraqi ground troops. so there is a large military presence and contingent there. the base has come under mortar fire but that hasn't really posed that much of a threat or much damage. it is also a massive base, iraq's second largest roughly the size of boulder, colorado, 25 square miles. it is surrounded by a heavily guarded security fence. it is located in the anbar

province though where isis still controls a lot of territory. so there is definitely concern this could be the first of other ground attacks to come. now, in another development, kind after bizarre development having to do with isis, the terror group says that it is holding an israeli spy hostage. they say in an interview with iraqi or isis-linked magazine this 19 man from east jerusalem says that he was enlisted by the mossad here in israel to go to syria and spy on isis. now this guy's family says they had no idea about that. were shocked to hear the news. had no idea about his plans and say he was not a religious person in the first place. that said though there have also been media reports here in israel that possibly he went to syria to join up with isis. so it is a very bizarre story, jenna. that continues to develop. of course if we get anymore information, we'll get it to you, guys.

back to you. jenna: they have this propaganda magazine telling all sorts of different stories. it is hard to know what is the truth. john, thank you so much. jon: boko haram is following through with on threats targeting countries that are helping to fight that terror group. in chad a lakeside village home to 3,000 people fleeing violence in nigeria. it is unclear how many civilians were killed. a chad army colonel said boko haram scattered after the attack but troops are pursuing them now. jenna: we'll keep an eye on that. cease-fire deal in ukraine could crumble before it takes effect. some footage of the heavy fighting overnight in eastern ukraine after talks to restore peace to the battered region. cease-fire is said to begin on sunday but many people living in ukraine's east say they will believe it when they see it. greg palkot live from kiev ukraine with more.

greg? >> reporter: rebel fighters in eastern ukraine appear to be trying to change the facts on the ground and doing it in a very deadly fashion. just about exactly 30 hours to go before the cease-fire is supposed to take hold there. russian-backed separatist its are pounding strategic transport hub. the latest word we're getting 11 ukrainian soldiers dead, 40 wounded. the town is on the dividing line between the two fighting sides. the rebels want it for theirs. in the rebel held cities of donetsk and luhansk have been hit by ukrainian shelling. 13 civilians were killed by shelling in the region. the key deal is to move heavy arms like artillery tanks back as much as 30 to 45 miles. that has got to be done starting monday. that is a lot of moving, that is a lost guns. we have indications some of that is happening already. here in kiev, one year after the revolution that toppled the pro-russia corrupt government here which in fact led to a lot

of the problems as well, the war-weary people see the agreement in a cautiouslystic tone but also with a lot of skepticism. we asked them will it work? here is what they said. >> i hope so. i'm not sure. >> i think previous agreements didn't work at all. >> reporter: previous didn't, and so this one? >> i hope it will work. >> i think no. >> reporter: you think no? >> no. >> reporter: like many analysts out there, many of the people we have been speaking to think that vladmir putin made out best in this deal. one person on the street confiding to me, he can't be trusted. back to you, jenna. >> good point, fair point to raise, one we'll continue to explore throughout the show. greg, thank you. jon: in a crowded field of potential republican presidential candidates one person is getting a lot of attention these days. according to "the wall street journal" the financial industry is warming up to wisconsin governor

scott walker. and he is set to attend a series of fund raisers with big dollar donors when he visits new york city next week. let's talk about his prospects with a national reporter for "the washington post." and daniel hall per, online editor for "the weekly standard." things for being here on this friday. >> thank you. jon: that "wall street journal" article was pretty glowing colby, about his fund-raising potential. wall street likes him and wall street is apparently not alone right now. >> yeah, you know "the washington post" called i am the it candidate right now. you had to look no further than "the washington post" and "the boston globe" on the same day this week put out huge stories on scott walker's college years. he is the candidate everyone is talking about. he is a conservative republican but he comes across as a moderate. it is something that a lot of these candidates don't have. so he can bridge that gap. he can bring about policies of a ted cruz but have the demeanor of a jeb bush and republicans are excited about that. jon: in their minds he is a huge

contrast daniel to president obama. >> absolutely. i think the big central conservative republican argument against obama boils down to one of competency. a lot of republicans conservatives, they don't think president obama is competent. scott walker meanwhile exudes competence. he turned around the state of wisconsin, a liberal state. he has won elections. that exists conservatives. they think he is, is the answer the remedy to the solutions that president obama you know, the problems that he has created and so it exists republicans because they think that this guy can govern well, which is what the next republican president will need to do. jon: but, colby we saw last time around there was virtually a new leader in the republican field every week. is there a danger or a problem from potentially peaking too early here? >> absolutely. he is the first so-called, frontrunner, other than jeb bush that we're all talking about right now. we saw that in 2012.

there was a new so-called frontrunner, maybe every week and then the risk would be, they would say something or do something and then they would plummet. you saw scott walker in london this week being extraordinarily cautious and careful not to answer questions, like questions about evolution and other things that could make headlines. but he is going to make headlines anyway. the difference with scott walker and some candidates he saw in 2012, he is a governor, he is a serious person. he has govern ad state a swing state and has done it well. he doesn't have a congressional voting record that is all muddled people can target him with. he is a strong contender. jon: he won three elections in a state not always very friendly to republicans. we asked our fox well, our "fox news" polling unit asked people to give letter grades to these candidates, to suggest how they think they would do as president. interesting, first of all nobody gets an a but scott walker

actually leads the pack in this "fox news poll." he gets a b. ben car son comes in b-minus, rubio, b-minus. huckabee, cruz jeb bush, i'm sorry, rand paul, john kasich and rick perry all get c plus. very bottom of the pack, chris christie gets a c. daniel what does that say to you? >> republicans are very critical about their candidates and they expect a lot of them and want to learn more. taking them seriously. a b is a solid grade. there is lot of room for improvement. what does scott walker think about foreign policy? we know he is competent running a state but foreign policy doesn't have much experience in. people want to know what he thinks about these issues. same with all these other candidates. they have their strengths. they don't have as big profiles as somebody like hillary clinton. so republican voters want to get to know these guys. they want to know what

aspirations are for the country. they want to know how they talk to them. there are all these things that will come out in the next 11 months when the voting starts that i think will be extremely helpful. jon: fair or not colby, so much this early struggle is not so much about ideas and how you would govern, it is about how much money you can raise right? >> that is always what it is. you saw mitt romney and jeb bush started battling out for donors and fund-raisers when it looked like mitt romney would run. when it became clear a lot of his old donors and supporters were leaning toward jeb bush he pulled back. in beginning stages here who can garner most support. who can really fill their covers so they can go out and run successful campaigns in iowa and new hampshire and onward. jon: colby eqitz from "the washington post." daniel halpern from "the weekly standard." >> thank you i. jenna: a lawyer found stabbed to death at a posh hotel blocks away from the white house. what police are say about a

person of interest. bitter cold temperatures. take a look at this map right? it is an excuse to stay home with your valentine i suppose. it is tough, jon. that does not read fun. jon: a whole lot of freezing. >> right. meteorologist maria molina is standing by with the full forecast for all of us. plus students and police come face-to-face and it gets physical. what prompted all of this. [shouting]

there's a gap out there. that's keeping you from the healthcare you deserve. at humana, we believe the gap will close when healthcare gets simpler. when frustration and paperwork decrease. when grandparents get to live at home instead of in a home. so let's do it. let's simplify healthcare. let's close the gap between people and care. jon: the latest on some crime stories we're keeping an eye on now. deadly shooting along a mardi gras parade route in new orleans. one man is dead, another critically injured and a suspect in custody is being questioned. washington, d.c. police are looking for the public's health and offering a $25,000 reward for anyone who can identify a person of interest from surveillance video taken at a

luxury hotel. this after a lawyer was found stabbed to death in his room there this week. caught on camera in california, police are searching for this man wearing lingerie breaking into a pickup truck. the thief -- jenna: really? jon: calling the bra bandit, ran off into the desert with clothing cleaning supplies and loose change from the truck. jenna: what a bizarre commodity nation. bring you up-to-date on that story when we hear more. fox extreme weather alert for you. millions of people around this country feeling the freeze. bone-chilling temperatures across the country biting even some of warmest states. this brutal cold-snap, it is brutal is about to get even more severe. meteorologist maria molina with details from the fox news weather center. what can you tell us about this? >> today might feel warm for some people when you look at numbers coming up for monday morning across the northeast. it is about to get a lot colder out there. the actual temperatures are forecast to be below zero for

some areas in new england. talk about looking at current windchill temperatures. they are pretty brutal out there. feels like 18 below in burlington. even as you head farther south look at asheville the 12 degrees is current windchill temperature. we're tracking a storm system that will be impacting parts of new england. we're mentioning how many areas are picking up more than 50, 60 inches of snowfall, widespread area of new england. with very a winter storm, a powerful one, bringing blizzard conditions to the area. we have blizzard warnings in down east maine, new hampshire, eastern parts of massachusetts right along the cape. extreme coastal areas. widespread across maine that will look at whiteout conditions, potential wind gusts of 50 miles an hour. extreme coastal areas along the cape. looking for wind gusts 70 miles per hour. snowfall accumulations will be

quite significant. we could look at more than a foot in spots. here is timing of storm system by 3:00 p.m. we think the storm will ramp up and produce a lot of heavy snow across the area. that will continue through the overnight hours into sunday morning. for some areas stick around the day on sunday before the system gets out of here for the start of the work week. snowfall totals quite heavy at times across parts of maine. where you're looking potentially a foot of snow. boston could pick up a foot of snow from the storm system. jenna, i want to show you forecast morning low temperatures across the next couple importancings because it will get much colder out there. below zero across portions new england. monday morning these are not forecast windchills, these are actual temperatures below zero in buffalo, pittsburgh. one degree forecast for new york city. those temperatures will also be below zero. factor in the wind and the windchills will be dangerously cold out there. jenna: wow, it hits home.

seeing those numbers. maria, thank you. jon: maria's mom called from miami. wants her to put on a sweater. jenna: it is a little chilly right. it is a good tip good tip. jon: new wave of coalition airstrikes taking out isis militants near the syrian iraqi bored as terrorists attack a base in iraq where hundreds of u.s. marines are training troops. we'll talk with captain chuck nash about the situation there on the ground. >> get out of there, come on. jon: watch as officers pull off a swift-water rescue after a car rolls over into a creek. the camera doesn't get much closer than this. mounted on the rescuer's body. >> go ahead. >> got you buddy. >> pulling him out of the windowit' right now. ...that sound good? not being on this phone call sounds good. it's not muted. was that you jason? it was geoffrey! it was jason.

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jon: dramatic rescue caught on a police officer's body camera after a car flips upside down into a rushing creek. >> we'll get you out of there come on. jon: police in dallas just releasing this video after getting the call for help. officers found the car on its roof, water pouring in. they were able to pry out the driver and pull him to safety. amazingly, the driver was not seriously hurt. jenna: wow lucky there. great rescue there. u.s.-led airstrikes striking isis terrorists in northeast syria today near the iraqi border. meantime in iraq's anbar province government forces fend off isis attack at al-asad airbase, big airbase, where hundreds of marines are training iraqi troops. this base is short time from the town of al-baghdadi which the militants now largely control. chuck nash is retired navy captain and a fox news military

analyst. nice to have you captain nash. how vulnerable are our marines today? should we be concerned about their safety based on the latest information? >> well, anytime you have troops in a combat zone like iraq we should be concerned but i would not be overly concerned. massive installation and although there are 320 marines and probably some special forces there training, they're training an entire iraqi division. so the place, they're more than enough folks to defend the facility and the facility was set up to be defended. so, for the isis forces to present a very clear major danger, they would have to mass and as soon as they mass, we'll take them out with air cover. so i think this is something to be concerned about, yes but not overly concerned. jenna: interesting to see the news though, about what our own people could be dealing with in

the region and contrast it with what is going on politically in washington d.c. with the president asking for authorization for use of military force and congress going back and forth about whether or not that is going to be approved. how do the politics of what is happening in washington d.c., on that debate affect anybody we do have on the ground already in iraq? >> it doesn't affect them at all, jenna. the troops that are deployed, in iraq or anywhere else in the world, they're going to do their job. they're mission oriented and focused doing their job. so the politics that roil washington d.c., really has very little effect on our deployed forces. >> for example, if the marines felt under threat, could they fire the first shot? or do they have to be wait to be attacked, just because we're not, quote, unquote, at war with isis in that definition? >> yeah. i don't think they're going to plan offensive operations.

for example, i would not expect our forces to be used in an offensives operation against the of al-baghdadi to try to get the isis forces out of there but by the same token there is nothing in doctrine that makes you take the first shot. so, no, you're not going to absorb the first shot, if you think something's coming preemptive self-defense is preemptive self-defense. jenna: we want to make sure our troops can protect themselves. >> absolutely. jenna: numbers we have, moving constantly, place isis 31,000 strong that's according to the cia take us back and how you feel about our battle against isis over the last six months and what we need to do over the next six months to make sure that we continue to weaken them? >> well i think they have been very successful in recruiting and the people that they're recruiting are borderline

mentally deficient. these people are psychopaths because if you would sign up an organization that is doing what these people publicly acknowledge and use as their recruiting media, then there is something wrong with you seriously wrong with you. and for them to be able to pull that many people, i think something like 700 frenchmen who are over there right now. if you look at some of the countries that have per capita highest number of recruits, it is the scandinavian countries. so these people are extremely disaffected and they have to be more than a little off to want to join an organization. jenna: but they're dangerous so how do you defeat them? >> you have to kill them. you're not going to negotiate these people back into sanity. once you take somebody with that kind of a mental bent and then you put them out there and give them weapons and you actually let them go kill people you will not rehabilitate those folks. you will have to kill them.

jenna: captain nash always nice to have you on the program. gives us something to think about. thank you very much. >> you bet. jon: as more of our daily life moves online we become more vulnerable to cyber attacks. now president obama is outlining ideas about keeping our personal and information information safe from predators. as a new intelligence report suggests that cybercrime is bigger threat to national security than terrorism. plus the federal government now investigating the brutal murder of three muslim students. was their religion a factor? fbi director james comey is not shying away from controversy, breaking blunt remarks about racial bias and policing. our media panel takes that on next.

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use caution when driving or operating machinery. common side effects include nausea trouble sleeping and unusual dreams. chantix absolutely helped me quit smoking. ask your doctor if chantix is right for you. jenna: we've seen time and again how our security can be threatened by attacks from cyberspace like hacking of sony pictures or hacking perhaps of our personal information personal financial information. we're now waiting for the president to address that growing risk. at a summit focused on cybersecurity and consumer protection. kevin corke is watching this from the white house. kevin? >> jenna, good morning to you and you're right because from the white house's perspective it is all about the approach to combating not just cyber threats but mitigating the chance for more cyber attacks. i think you touched on something urgely important. what does it mean for you and me, and those watching at home about our personal security and safety online and more broadly the nation's security?

the president is expected to unpack the idea that cyber tools are necessary and should be utilized in every opportunity to obviously fight cyberterrorism. take a listen to what he said last month in a speech at the cybersecurity center. >> cyber threats pose enormous challenge for our country. it is one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face as a nation. neither government nor the private sector can defend the nation alone. it is going to have to be a shared mission. government and industry working hand in hand as partners. >> reporter: in a partnership but as you can probably imagine jenna, there is plenty of pushback on the hill especially given what happened with the nsa spying program. a lot of skepticism. look what cory fritz a spokesman for house speaker john boehner saying today, quote, unilateral top-down solutions will not solve america's cyber problem.

the president should work with republicans to implement common sense measures that passed house recent years, with strong bipartisan majorities but stalled in the democratic controlled senate. what is the situation. work with us together with a plan that will benefit the safety and security of american people. we'll watch the story all day from the white house. for now, back to you. jenna: sounds great kevin. thank you. jon: the director of the fbi james comey is confronting a politically charged issue at least during a speech at george town university. comey says it is time to acknowledge racial bias among police and disconnect between police departments an communities of color. listen. >> we are at a crossroads. as a society we can choose to live our lives every day raising our families, going to work, and hoping that someone somewhere will do something to ease the tension. to smooth over the conflict.

we can roll up our car windows, turn up the radio and drive around these problems. or we can choose instead to have an open and honest discussion about what our relationship is today. jon: joining us now, lynn sweet washington bureau chief for "the chicago sun-times.." and rich lowery, editor for "national review." also a fox news contributor. thanks for being here, both of you. >> hi, jon. jon: lynn, how are comey's remarks playing in the national media? >> well they certainly made news just as eric holder's remarks made news and president obama's remarks made news when it comes to the tough situation of dealing and respecting police and still dealing with situations that may seem race related. so, i don't think that the, what was said was not as remarkable in this case as who said it, the fbi director. jon: comey's remarks kind of, i don't know book end i guess what his boss, rich, said in

2009. eric holder, the attorney general, outgoing attorney general, said that we are a nation of cowards when it comes to discussing race. >> well, right and media loved this speech, jon. they love this narrative the left, and administration love this narrative that we have a fundamentally racist criminal justice system, even though the best research shows that's not the case and, at times the speech was pretty juvenile, to be honest. he is quoting avenue q, the musical for the proposition that everyone is a little bit racist. i don't usually go to broadway musicals for my social science research so. i was not impressed. jon: we have elected the first black president, lynn. i mean does seem like things have come a long way in this country. why is that not being, that kind of credit not being noted here? >> well, there has been change but as president obama always first to say, change is hard and

i think this will be one of the great unfinished, one of the great unfinished matters that the obama two terms will have to acknowledge. actually what's interesting is that attorney general eric holder who is waiting to leave as soon as his successor loretta lynch will be, when that will be, he wants to create an institute for racial healing and reconciliation. those are his thoughts now, that he told me in an interview recently. so if anyone thought that more than 100 years of racial strife in america probably double that, could be cured in a few years no matter who the president is, i think that would be naive assumption. jon: we're still looking in pretty good place on that score look what is going on in the middle east. standby. we want to get your thoughts on another developing story. the fbi is launching federal investigation into murders of a

three muslim students. a husband and his wife and neighbor gunned down in chapel hill north carolina. more than 5000 people attentiod religious authorities. they are looking whether religious hate played a role. jonathan serrie joins us from atlanta. >> reporter: jon, fbi issued a statement assisting the chapel hill north carolina police, assisting the age i. it open ad parallel inquiry to determine whether or not or federal laws were violated in this case. funeral and prayer vigils around the country, drawn thousands of concerned citizens calling on authorities to investigate religion was a factor in the shootings. all three victims were muslim. >> i won't speak much about the investigation today at all because this is a time to be together. i would just recommit that we're

examining every possible investigative angle to include the potential for a hate crime. >> reporter: friends say the three victims volunteered at local homeless shelters, providing dental care and raised money to assist refugees overseas. their alleged attacker, 46-year-old craig steven hicks, faces three counts of first-degree murder. police say their preliminary investigation suggest that the shooting stems from an ongoing dispute over a parking space at the condominium complex where the accused and the victims lived. the defendant's wife spoke to reporters. >> i can't say with my absolute belief that this incident had nothing to do with religion or victims faith but in fact was related to the long-standing parking dispute that my husband had with the neighbors. >> reporter: and the defendant in this case has requested representation by a public defender jon? jon: jonathan serrie reporting from atlanta. let's bring back lynn sweet and

rich lowery. you heard the statement from craig hicks' wife rich. the media don't seem to want to accept that. >> yes. jon clearly this is hate crime one level or another. it appears he hated people who took his parking space. it is horrific crime it is horrible heartbreaking but the facts suggest so far, we have to wait and learn more that they don't fit the narrative some, especially media commentators want to put on this is explosion of outbreak of islamophobia and a hate attack targeting people for their muslim faith. jon: there has been worldwide condemnation of the american media reaction, lynn and muslims especially all over the world are berating the american media for not playing up what they see as a religious religious aspect to these murders. >> well, this is something that i started my career as a street reporter in chicago and i would

cover crime and once a neighbor dispute is involved in anything, you have to be very careful from drawing perhaps a larger conclusion and i think rich said it well. you know it is a horrific crime and it is a hate crime and it may be that as his wife suggested, that not only is there a parking dispute but she didn't rule out completely what might have motivated him. once you have neighbors involved, it goes back to just some basic reporting but i think that is a pretty hard message perhaps for people looking at united states and looking at this horrific crime but let's remember when the horrible oklahoma city bombings happened, a lot of people jumped to conclusions who it was and ended up being timothy mack way. jon: good remember, good reminder there. lynn sweet, rich lowery, thank you. >> thanks, jon. jenna: international effort is underway to combat global warming. a look at global divestment today and what it could mean for your money.

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jon: dozens of students pepper sprayed in sydney, australia as they tried to stage a protest. [shouting] jon: several required medical care. students were speaking out about proposed cuts to university funding. they were trying to disrupt the education minister during funding talks. jenna: students on hundreds of college campuses around the world want their schools to divest themselves of oil fuel stocks. global divesting day. some economists say the movement lacks some common financial sense. william la jeunesse live from the west coast newsroom with more on what this is all about. hi william. >> reporter: well, jenna get this, students at university of california already voted to divest from nine countries including the united states for drone strikes and jailing too

many minorities. it is easy to dismiss their idealism if you own stock, drive a car, have a child or pay taxes today's story could affect you. today is world divestment day on some 85 campuses here in the u.s., students are demanding that the university divest themselves of any company that minds coal, or drills for oil and gas. all in the name of climate change. >> on global divestment day we'll show fossil fuel companies we are truly a force to be reckoned with and taking back our future. >> students will hang banners protests confront trustees. stanford is already out of coal stocks and 19 small colleges did get out of oil and gas stocks. supporters like author naomi klein claim they can shape the debate and demonize oil like they did tobacco in the 9 's, when dozens of universities did divest portfolios of cigarette stocks. fbn's tracy byrnes says,

students will ultimately hurt themselves. >> you have a right to those profits. if those profits are so illegitimate that harvard shouldn't be invested in them they're also so illegitimate that taxpayers have a right to a much larger portion of them. >> if they shortchange a portfolio, that means the kids are getting shortchanged. that means their parents will have to pay more money. that doesn't help anyone at the end of the day. >> reporter: so oil companies claim they're not worried if that is the case jenna, why are they calling reporters, hiring lobbyists and buying studies to tell us this is no big deal? this is probably just the beginning. back to you. jenna: william, thank you. jon: hot date this weekend? jenna: yes. thank you. i do. jon: we'll tell you about a new restaurant payment strategy that could burn an even bigger hole in your pocket. like the american spirit the bald eagle is flying higher and stronger than ever. we'll tell you why next. ♪

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jenna: america's symbol, the bald eagle flying back from the brink ever extinction. in 1963 the majestic bird was in danger of extinct shun and put on endangered species list. measures put in place, banning ddt and prohibiting killing of eagles and protects nest sites contributed to a come back. they were off the list in 1990s. there is questions whether they were successful in nature. there are now 69,000 bald eagles across the united states, giving

brand new generations of americans a chance to admire them. cbs news is reporting jon, in places like pennsylvania, there are actually so many bald eagles now they're fighting for places to put their nests. that is actually a great assignment you might see a bald eagle flying by. jon: see them right up the hudson river north of new york city. really cool. this time of year even. many diners will experience something different this valentine's day. a new pay up front reservation that takes some of the risk out of running a restaurant but what could it mean for the future of dining out? claudia cowan has details on that from the home of good dining san francisco. claudia? >> reporter: that's right, bon appetit, jon. booking a table at fancy restaurants is getting easier thanks to new software that is giving people more options reducing number of no-shows and keeping costs down. at trendy lazy bear in san francisco, the chefs start prepping each morning for a

lavish dinner party that night. >> i'm the chef of lazy bear. i want to welcome you here. >> reporter: 11 course tasting menu for exactly 40 people. no more and certainly no less. >> we wanted to make sure we had 40 butts in the seats so no one was sitting next to empty seats. it would kill the communal experience. >> it is time for something special. >> reporter: so much like theaters and stadiums, lazy bear is selling tickets. guests go online to book their seats and pay for their meal up front. >> do you have a reservation with us. >> yes. >> reporter: no walk-s in allowed. no refunds if they can't make it. no problem said the food did is who paid is $20 each for a memorable dining experience. >> i had no problem. signed sealed delivered i enjoy a couple weeks later. >> reporter: guests are locked in chefs from the los angeles, chicago and others are devouring the savings. >> over the course of a year

between no-shows and food costs we saved over $500,000 a year. >> reporter: nick, who helped develop the dinner ticket system predicts it will -- >> fundamentally change the practice of how we book and eat at restaurants. >> reporter: and he says the appetite for his idea is growing more than 600 restaurants expected to start selling dinner tickets this year keeping their costs down and one hopes, passing savings on to customers, who at least financially will be motivated to show up. jon? jon: makes a lot of sense. claudia cowan, thank you. >> here's what we're working on for the second hour of "happening now." is the u.s. combat role really finished in afghanistan? that's what the white house says but now we're learning of a possible secret war quote unquote, according to "the new york times." we'll get into that. you know how it goes, roses are red, violets are blue and apparently most flowers come from overseas. who makes sure the flowers for your sweetheart are safe when they arrive?

we'll get into that next hour.

jon: we'll be back with more in one hour. jenna: "outnumbered" starts now. ♪ ♪ >> this is "outnumbered," i'm andrea tantaros, and here with us today, harris faulkner, katie pavlich, from our sister network, dagen mcdowell of "imus in the morning", and today's #oneluckyguy a stand-up comedian who's been a writer for multiple shows including jay leno and a regular on "red eye" -- >> you had to mention that. >> you take so much abuse on this show. being on with you and greg it gets uncomfortable, because they're so mean to you. >> i know exactly. he's fixated on my lips. >> you know what? a lot of people are because women pay top dollar -- [laughter] >> there you go. >> well i did have work done. no, when i was 8, my