skate. we will see you on radio in about 20 minutes and then o'reilly and kelly and you'll never get rid of us. bye, everybody. see you later. jon: just days before a potential shutdown of the department of homeland security senate majority leader mitch mcconnell offs an exit strat fwri from the latest stale mate on capitol hill. welcome to the bifurcated edition of "happening now." i'm jon scott in the nation's capital. jenna: are you there to help the process along? jon: whatever i can do. if i can be useful, use my good offices to be a go-between i'm happy to do that. jenna: we'll take the exclusive interviews as well. i'm jenna lee in new york city. senator mcconnell is willing to put out a clean bill as long as

the representatives will do a stand alone measure. >> this is a historic event. this is a historic overreach by this president and it must be stopped. >> congress if it acquiesces and agrees to fund legal action that congress has rejected then it has weakened itself on a very significant way and would be noted historic. jenna: senate minority leader reid says his caucus would object to the deal unless speaker boehner agrees to vote on that clean d.h.s. funding bill. >> the problem is everybody, i'm waiting to hear from the speaker. we have to make sure that people understand the nature of this congress that we serve in. so to have senator mcconnell

just pass the ball over to the house isn't going to do the trick. >> let's bring in juan williams fox news political analyst and the senior editor of the national review and a fox news contributor. so where do we stand now? lots of finger pointing going on. but republicans, juan seem to be getting the blame no matter what happens here. >> yeah. i don't think there's any question about that. if you look at the poll numbers, it's clear. this has been pointed out to them. you have a meeting on capitol hill this morning among house republicans trying to find a way out of this. but at the moment, i think that they feel that, you know what? it's up to the senate to try to act, to push what the voters said clearly they want in the midterms when republicans did well. they do not want the president's immigration immigration plan. jon: senator sessions and others are very concerned about voting to authorizize what they see as an illegal power grab on the part of the president.

what other means do republicans have to fight back? >> yeah. look. the republicans are in a mess. they're sort of in a box community at thi difficult to see how they get themselves out of it. part of the reason here in this mess is because they decided to kick the can into the new year last year when they were voting on the budget. and at the same time while i have a lot of criticisms about the strategies that got them into this mess, it is amazing that when democrats were in the majority and republicans filibustered legislation, everyone said that the republicans are obstructionists. now that republicans are in the majority and democrats are filibustering legislation, the mainstream media still says republicans are the ones who are being obstructionists. you have democratic senators going out there insisting that republicans need to put partisan politics aside and move forward on this legislation even though republicans have passed legislation. it is amazing the wind in the sails of the mainstream media on

these issues. jon: talk about that for a bit. you know, it seems like there must be senate democrats who are very concerned. they don't like -- typically, just in broad strokes, they don't like seeing the executive branch grb power that the constitution says blngs to the legislative branch. democrats in the senate have been holding together as a block and blocking the process, procedure of this legislation. >> exactly right. we haven't seen any defection among senate democrats and the reason for that is contrary to what she said, there are lots of people who said that it's republicans who mrit politicize this. that's why mitch mcconnell is trying to separate those out allow a clean funding bill to go through and have a separate voting that he hopes some

democrats might defect. you're right. some democrats don't like the idea that the president has changed the immigration rules through executive action rather than going through the congress which is how immigration laws are supposed to be made. jon: so now mcconnell wants this idea of a clean funding bill and a separate vote on the d.h. schl, on the president's immigration actions. does that have a chance? would it satisfy both the conservative critics of the president and, you know, keep the defendant of homeland security open? >> i don't think so. i think it's sort of too cute by half but the real problem here is you have harry reid who is now the minority leader dictating to the house of representatives and trying to run the entire congress from the minority position. that's exactly the kind of behavior that people accused the -- that people accused mitch mcconnell of and denounced him for it but harry reid maybe because he shaz the cool

sunglasses now seems to be able to get away with it. jon: let's talk about another issue. white house also threatening to veto a republican bill to fix the no child left behind education law which is set for debate in the house today. this on the heels of president obama's move to reject legislation approving the keystone pipeline. he is living up to his word. you have to give him that. he is -- you know he said he would pull out his veto pen and he's doing it. >> yeah. i think one of the most amazing lessons coming out of the midterm election $ that barack obama, there's that old line about barry goldwater. turns out the last two years of obama's presidency are going to be like the first six years of his presidency. he's going to be a unilateralist and not compromise denouncing republicans for not compromising. jon: juan are the media paying attention to that? is this just going to be the way

it is? is the president going to take heat for that? >> i think he will take heat. i think it becomes a strong point for republicans if they try to portray the president as the one who is blking things but i think, again, going back to the polls on immigration and on the funding bill here for the department of homeland security, you're going to see people like tom ridge, republicans saying we shouldn't be shutting down the department of homeland security. that gives you an indication of the political problem facing republicans here. president obama hasn't even used his veto pen as much as his predecessors at this point but i think we're getting into territory where you're going to see an escalation of the veto more paralysis. i had some hopes that we were going to come to a happier day after last election, more compromise with republicans controlling the hill but doesn't seem to be that right now. jon: i agree with juan because the worst is yet to come.

you know the fox news polling says that americans support the construction of that pipeline and the president is not listening to them when he vetoes it apparently. thank you. jenna: certainly a lot happening on capitol hill today. top military brass testifying about two major security challenges facing the united states. crisis in ukraine and the battle to defeat isis. national security correspondent is at the pentagon following this story for us. jennifer? >> number of christians sid napped by isis on monday may be higher than first expected. they estimate 350 or more christians are being held by isis. among them women and children. images are already of these hostages are being released by isis on the internet. the fighting along the river in the wake of the isis attacks is increasing. christian fighters have teamed up with kurdish fighters to take

on isis. u.s. coalition stepped up air strikes, carrying out 10 yesterday in the area where the christians were kidnapped. next door in iraq during the past 24 hours u.s. air strikes have been stepped up there as well. three strikes destroyed 11 buildings on the outskirts of mosul, confirming what centcom officials said, that the coalition is shaping the battlefield around mosul for a spring offensive. the general is testifying on the hill while ukraine's president is taking selfies in. u.a.e. where he's gone shopping for weapons, weapons needed by the attorney general. he told legislators on the foreign affairs committee today he's recommending the u.s. provide weapons to ukraine now. >> russia is learning lessons from our responses to their actions. if they feel rewarded by the outcomes, this might embolden them to try them again elsewhere. >> right now, the decision of

whether to provide ukraine with more defensive weapons as they call them here at the pentagon rests with the president. >> thank you. >> iran's revolutionary guard practicing drills today through a waterway in which one fifth of the oil passes and for the first time drills involved a replica of a u.s. aircraft carrier. powell joins us live from our jerusalem bureau with that. conner? >> iran ramping up pressure on the united states both militarily and diplomatically as nuclear negotiations come to a head between the islamic republic and the united states and international community. iranians are calling these military exercises the great prophet. the senior official said that the drills are meant to send a message of iran's might to america. iranian state tv shows dozens of speed boats attacking replica of

the aircraft carrier that's really a floating barge while missiles fired from the coast started pounding the fake ship. u.s. military is downplaying it all. naval spokesman said iranian jewels like this are common and that even want u.s. holds military drills like this in the region so that it's nothing really to be too concerned about. u.s. officials say they're monitoring the military exercises and they say the navy though, u.s. navy is truly capable of defending iflts, that this is really not a big deal. they're definitely trying to downplay it as nuclear talks really are coming to a real apex here. now, the talks between iran and the united states are expected to last for several more months. but there's a lot of jockeying on both sides trying to get the deal done. there's also a lot of people in iran and the international community who don't want to see a deal get done and there's some thoughts that this exercise is meant to sort of put pressure on the civilian loadership in iran regarding these deals but also to sort of deflect iran's

muscles as well. jon: conner joining us from our mideast bureau. thank you. jenna: bomb shell allegations involving a senior state department official in charge of federal counterterrorism programs. he's now due in court later today after he was arrested at his d.c. home for allegedly soliciting sex from a minor. doug is on that story for us. >> daniel rosen is his name and he's held at jail and likely to be extradited. he was arrested after he sought to arrange sex with a minor. he had been communicating on and off for several weeks with a female detective who was posing as a minor in an online exchange. police won't say who initiated the contact. spokesman for fairfax county police say the police department has a proactive child exploitation unit that makes as many as 100 arrests a year for people seeking sex with minors. we're not making overtures. we're in a number of chat rooms

and sites. we go where the kids go and so do the bad guys. rosen is the director of counterterrorism programs and policies at the state department. state department source says that dan rosen was not responsible for homeland security. he was simply one of many office directors in the counterterrorism bureau. in a 2012 youtube video, rosen is seen talking about the lure of extremism for vulnerable young people. he describes how young people can be persuaded to crossing the boundaries. now, obviously he was talking not about underage sex here but terrorism. 'til he conveys knowledge about the use of chat rooms to connect with vulnerable young people. the state department has strict rules of security clearances. he's on administrative leave. jenna: thank you. jon: a real life courtroom drama playing out for an oscar winning director. in a sexual assault case dating

back to the 1970's. what a judge could do now. plus new fallout from suspected drug overdoses of students at a prestigious university. the action they're taking and what law enforcement just did and swift justice for the families of american sniper chris kyle and his friend chad littlefield, plus the chilling trial testimony we're hearing for the first time. sglm i had to kill a man today.

jenna: right now some crime stories to follow for you on "happening now." jury deliberation could start today in the sentencing retrial of jodi aris. jurors can decide whether she gets life in prison or the death penalty. she was convicted nearly two years ago of murdering her ex-boyfriend but that jury

deadlocked. we'll keep you up to date. film maker appearing on a hearing on the u.s. request for extradition on charges of unlawful sex with a minor decades ago. oscar winning director pleaded guilty to charges in california in 1977 but then left the country. if the judge refuses to hand him over, the case is closed. if he allows extradition a final decision will be made by the country's justice minister. update on that story and here at home, four students at wesleyan university now arrested on drug charges and suspended from the school. a connection with the suspected overdoses of 11 students this weekend linked to the party drug known as molly. jon: the man who killed american sniper chris kyle and his friend, chad littlefield, handed a life sentence without parole. it took a texas jury less than two hours to find eddie ray routh guilty of murder and we're hearing testimony from the trial. casey joins us live from the

courthouse in texas now. >> as you can imagine, emotions running high inside that courtroom last night. all of the family members crying and holding hands as that decision came down but there was one person missing and it was rather surprising. chris kyle's widow. the back story there, well, she jetted out of the courtroom late in the afternoon during the defense closing arguments, slamming her hand on the door. people turned around to look. happened as the defense attorneys hit once again on whether eddie routh's mother should have disclosed her son's previous violent past to the kyle family which she had not. she was the very first witness to take the stand, part of her testimony was regarding the last time she saw her husband alive. >> i said baby, make sure this guy knows that jack can be trusted 100% so he's comfortable saying whatever he wants to say. oh, yeah. no. i definitely will.

then said we loved each other. gave a kiss and hug like we always did. >> the parents of chad littlefield will be familiar faces through this whole thing. here every single day crying looking away from the scene as gruesome images of their son from the autopsy and crime scene were put up for the jury to see. another tough moment coming when routh's confession video played and he apologized for what he had done. listen. >> routh showing zero emotion as his fate was read aloud in the courtroom behind me, jon. jon: and it's life in prison with no possibility of parole right? >> yes. that was an automatic sentence and we anticipate his attorneys may appeal which is obviously

common in these types of cases. jon: thanks casey. jenna: we can see action on some of the most pressing problems of our time as big policy decisions may be coming down on the battle to defeat isis and the iran nuclear showdown. what the u.s. is planning to do what we should do. plus at home explosion on camera. why emergency crews were already on the scene when this happened. that's next. how do i get hotel deals nobody else gets?... i know a guy. price-line ne-go-ti-a-tor! i know this guy...

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right before the explosion, 75 people were evacuated from the area. investigators were called in because the neighbors smelled gas and they made the right call. six workers and seven firefighters were among those hurt in the blast. several other homes were also damaged. jon: some of the biggest foreign policy issues of our time as we get word obama administration is nearing major decisions on the battle to defeat isis iran nuclear showdown and the crisis in ukraine. john kerry refused to specify the direction the decisions are taking when he testified before a senate hearing. joining me now is the fox news national security analyst and former deputy assistant secretary of defense in the reagan administration. isis is dominating the headlines right now. they've managed to leverage relatively small fighting force into something that really concerned americans so the obama

administration is apparently ready to announce something. this president has been loathe to send in large numbers of ground troops. what's it going to be? what are his options? >> they think it's going to be a job that's going to take part of it and they're going to do some bombing and maybe throw 1,000 or so troops at it but it's a much bigger problem. not just isis it's al-shabaab al qaeda and they represent an ideology of extremist, violent, radical jihad which is we want to destroy civilization. to solve the problem to defeat them, you need an xek, diplomatic, military, alliance component and so far the administration isn't talking about that big picture. they're just talking about little here, little there and even my conservative people, friends who i admire they're talking about only the military part of the solution. it's got to be the kind of comprehensive effort we had to defeat the enemies of world war

ii. >> who runs that? >> we're the only country capable of leading. look at what's happened in the last couple of weeks. people said the ideological fight. president of egypt has stepped up and he said to his religious leaders, you have to solve this. just this week the center, the vatican of islamic learning he went to saudi arabia and he said, we've got to reform. so there are other groups and people who are stepping up. but only the united states is in a position of leading and that doesn't mean hundreds much thousands of american boots on the ground. it means the americans leading others to put their boots on the ground. jon: let's talk about the iran situation. iran may be the bigger threat really, if they get a nuclear weapon and all signs indicate they want to head that direction despite their protestations. there's talk that the administration is willing to let the iranians have a weapon or

have a program in 10 years gradually easing off the sanctions. >> three things for a nuke. you need the fuel and that's enriched u rainian or plutonium. you need a miss toil deliver it and you need a blueprint to pull it all together. the deal with iran does need to limit the missile, nothing to limit the blueprint nothing to eliminate the plutonium. we will -- they will pretend they're not going to develop nuclear weapons and we'll pretend not to believe them but they'll have a nuclear arms race in the middle east and introduce nuclear weapons into the same region that you have a genocidal death cult in radical islam. jon: finally ukraine. they are begging for weapons. should we provide them? >> i talked to a number of ukrainians. they're willing to fight to the finish. last week i sat with a russian

diplomat and leader. ukraine is caught between the east and west. my feeling if the ukrainians want to fight for freedom, give them the tools to do it understanding the outcome may not change but the price to the russians may be very high and it may deter them from the next step. jon: they withdrew from afghanistan because they were paying the price. >> is ukraine the russia new afghanistan? jenna: house lawmakers are looking at the relationship between the white house and the fcc. they're set to make new rules for the road with internet traffic. bionic eye lets a blind man see his wife for the first time in 10 years. we'll talk to the doctor who performs a remarkable new medical procedure next. >> it's a pulsing like. it's not like regular vision where it's constant. it's the flash and i've got to

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jon: house lawmakers set to hear testimony on the relationship between the white house and the federal communications commission ahead of a vote on a controversial rule governing internet traffic. peter is here in washington. he joins us live with the latest. peter? >> and there's so much secrecy

surrounding the big vote on internet regulartions because the public likely cannot and will not get to see 332 pages of new rules for governing the web until after an s.e.c. vote scheduled for tomorrow and we're not going to hear from tom wheeler, either because he wasn't going to show up at a house oversight hearing this afternoon seeking to find out how closely the white house helped and worked with the f.c.c. in drafting the new rules. so the hearing has been moved to a later date. now the chairman of the house energy committee, two republicans, have a joint statement out and it says in part, it's striking that when congress seeks transparency chairman wheeler opts against it. the last time a rule of this magnitude was voted on by the f.c.c., then senator obama was motivated to call for transparency at the commission. we continue that call today. there's also new speculation

that at least one of the three democratic f.c.c. commissioners may be having second thoughts about some of the regular lags up for a vote tomorrow. and since the other two commissioners are republicans, every vote counts. the hill newspaper reports the commissioner wants some of the new rules rolled back. we reached out to her office and they sent us this. commissioner continues to advocate for strong open, internet protections for consumers and looks forward to voting the item on thursday. there's also been confusion about how hard republicans plan to fight these massive new internet regulations. senator thune's office said as soon as the new regulations are finally made public he will push ahead but it does seem like time is running out to make significant changes to the rules before tomorrow's vote. jon: a lot of smoking mirrors going on here it seems. peter, thank you. jenna: three austrian men become the first ever to receive bionic

hands. the hands are controlled using nerves and muscles transplanted into the patient's arm. allowing them to complete tasks like holding food or throwing a ball. it's just the latest in the series of bionic medical breakthroughs. a minnesota man received a bionic eye allowing him to see his wife again after being blind for a decade. we're seeing his results after the procedure for the first time. >> it's a pulsing like. it's not like regular vision where it's like constant. it's the flash and i've got to be able to interpret the changes in that shape. >> let's do it again. jenna: certainly contagious. dr. raymond is an ophthalmologist and researcher at the mayo clinic and he performed the bionic eye for us. there's a delight delay. tell us a little bit about how this device works.

>> well the retinal prosthesis and bionic eye are nothing short of a medical miracle. this device allows a patient who has been blind for perhaps several decades to regain their sight through the use of a camera mounted on a pair of eyeglasses. the impact of this can be tremendous. jenna: and you install 60 ee locate -- electrodes into the patient's eye. does that hurt? does the patient feel that? >> no. he doesn't feel it. we're careful in covering up all the tish use. if you were to look at him, you wouldn't know that he has device implanted. his glasses are the only outside portion of the device that can be seen. it's truly a medical miracle and in my field and here at mayo we're used to seeing medical

miracles. jenna: you say it's the highlight of your career though. >> it certainly has. you know it's the dream of every physician to have that kind of impact on an individual and on a family and certainly i feel privileged and gifted to have been able to have the ability to participate in that for him. jenna: it is remarkable. just seeing that video and seeing the excitement and also his description of what he was seeing, the shapes and the shades and trying to put it together. can you explain a little bit about what the patient is actually experiencing? >> certainly. so he has a condition called retinitis pigmentosa. while his retina is largely healthy, it now longer has the pixels, if you will. the prosthesis is a device that

tammys to replace the functions of those lost pixels and it does so by electrically stimulated the retina. the retina isn't normally electrically stimulated so the percepts that he sees are tiny flashes of light organized in the 6 x 10 60 channel array. he has 60 points of stimulation or 60 pixels that allow him to interact with his environment and see. these tiny flashes of light do have about nine different levels of brightness and by moving his head side to side reconstruct a scene. jenna: when you see him look at his wife for the first time in 10 years and you see them look at each other it certainly is impactful and i think that's a little bit of an understatement. is the goal of this dwis, eventually, doctor that someone would be able to see 20/20? where do you think this technology is going? >> certainly over the past 25

years of development, it's been our dream as engineers to be able to design a device that can do that. while he has tremendous benefit from 60 channels if we were able to bring that up 10 fold to 600 channels we believe that he would be able to recognize faces and ultimately i think this is a matter of scale. if we can make a device that is 60 channels i believe that we have the capacity to expand that and bring it up to 600 channels or even more. so i do have tremendous hope that we're going to improve the function of the devices and extend the reach beyond perhaps patients with just this condition. perhaps to help patients with macular degeneration or perhaps even those who have lost their sight due to loss of their eyes or wounded warriors for example. jenna: before i let you go how long do you think that will take? you said 25 years to get to this point. but how far away are we from that little better technology and to see it on a mass scale?

>> well the answer to that question is always five years away but that was the case 20 years ago. i think that now that we have experience and we have momentum it's hard to say but i think that certainly in our lifetime and in viewers' lifetimes we're going to see devices that function at a much higher level. jenna: it's great to know you're on the case. i know you're both an engineer as well as a doctor. that lends your expertise particularly to this. i hope this is not the last time we talk. we hope to have you back soon to talk about other things you're working on. thank you for talking to us today. >> thank you. jon: absolutely fascinating. stocks are hitting new record highs. yesterday . take a look at the markets right now. federal reserve chairman yellin testifies this week before congress. joining us from fox business network.

>> it's not fun but the fed chair gets her annual drilling before congress. she was before the senate yesterday. the house today. it seems like janet yellin is reading the same old script but adding this morning that the central bank will take into account a wide range of economic factors as it assesses the economy. and yesterday this is important, she reiterated the fed's wait and see, its patient approach to raising interest rates. that drew stocks to record highs and also put the nasdaq about 1 1/2% away from its own all-time high. investors today are also looking at a bunch of consumer stocks. in fact, 12 of pem hitting lifetime highs, including lowe's and target and dollar tree. they each reported earnings this morning and sales went up at all of them. plus disney and visa broke out to new highs as well and a report on new home sales. better than expected but sales did fall to 481,000.

a little bit less than feared. still the housing market is struggling as the job market is just slowly improving and many americans cannot afford those down payments. in fact new census data show home ownership last year fell to a 20-year low. we're not buying them. jon: that doesn't sound good. thank you. you can catch lauren on the fox business network. find the channel in your area. go to fox business.com/channel finder. jenna: heavy fog causing major problems at a u.s. port. how long thousands of cruise ship passengers were stuck off shore until the bad weather moved out. plus the truck driver involved in that horrific train collision in southern california is now under arrest. why federal investigators say he abandoned his vehicle on the tracks triggering a massive derailment. >> the front car did a 180. it was facing south. it was facing north and over in the ditch by the time it stopped.

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jon: let's check out what's ahead on "outnumbered." >> it's always good to see you. less than a week from israeli prime minister netanyahu controversy is planned before congress, the white house is heating up war of words with our long time middle east ally. will his speech really be as they're calling it destructive? >> why both teams tried to lose not win, the high school basketball game and whether their punishment teaches the right lesson. >> a new way to tie. and some hollywood moms need a baby whisperer to learn that eye contact is a good way to bond with your new one. really? >> all plus our hashtag one lucky guy. "outnumbered" in minutes. jon: see you then. jenna: cruise ship finally able to dock at the port of tampa after being stuck off shore

because of heavy fog. weather giving some 2,000 passengers an extra day of vacationing even if they didn't want it. three coast guard vessels escorted the ship to shore last night and everyone is back. this dense fog is moving in. several cargo ships were also cast off shore until visibility improved. jon: new information on the california train cash we told you about yesterday here on "happening now." federal investigators say the driver of the truck did not get stuck on the tracks as first believed. now they say he abandoned his vehicle leading to this horrific crash that left three cars derailed and dozens injured. he is under arrest on suspicion of felony hit and run. we have more on this strange story. jonathan? >> jon, investigators working behind me here at the crash scene in bright sunlight. at the time of the crash it was

a very different scene pitch black so before dawn this morning, we went out to try to get a sense of the conditions and the way speed and light may have played a role. look here. it was right at about this time 5:45 a.m. pacific that the train was leaving oxnard station up this way and hurldzing down the tracks. we were told it would have been travelling at that point at a speed somewhere between 55 and 80 miles an hour. now, it's guided purely by the lights at that point and this pre-dawn darkness it was unlikely to have seen the truck stuck on the crossing with very much warning. think of it as driving along a highway at about 55 miles per hour, say with only your headlights to guide you in the pitch black. the driver did all he could slamming on the brakes. passengers describe hearing the terrifying screeching of those brakes as the train slowed down

not enough then came the inevitable impact metal on metal, train striking truck. now, the main focus of the investigation now are the actions of the truck driver. jose ramirez. why did he take the turn onto the tracks in the first place and why did he then abandon his vehicle there? investigators say it was not stuck. it was still able to move at that point. now, his lawyer says that he abandoned the truck to try to get help and simply forgot that he had a cell phone on which he could have called 911. the truck driver will face his first court appearance 1:30 p.m. here pacific time tomorrow. jon: unbelievable. jonathan hunt thank you. jenna: nasa astronauts outside the international space station. what they're trying to accomplish during the space walk

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purchase any new verizon wireless smartphone or tablet from comcast. visit comcast.com/wireless to learn more. jenna: right now nasa astronauts are out on a space walk on a mig to get the international space united nations ready for future arrivals by u.s. commercial spacecraft. we're following the story live from the miami bureau. >> a busy morning and speedy work. 260 miles up above the earth as nasa prepares to end the reliance on the russians to get our astronauts up to the space station. the space walk started just before 7:00 a.m. it will probably end early after the most complicated cable run of the space station 16-year history. astronauts playing space walking cable guys for about nine hours over two space walks. a third space walk scheduled for sunday. later this year two new

dockings will then be installed to allow the new space x and boeing u.s. made capsules to dock up there two years from now. he said previously their work is hard but always cool. >> it's fairly busy but, you know, not many places that you can go to work and float around and do this type of thing so it makes it very special. very special indeed. >> once space x and boeing launch astronauts we'll no longer pay russians $70 million a piece but pay american companies $58 million per person. the capsule can seat four to seven astronauts. it's testing is right on track, planning an unmanned test flight next year and aims to begin delivering astronauts in early 2017. boeing is building its c.s.t. 100 capsule at kennedy space center which is helping the economy on the space coast and sending up ages astronauts twice in

2017. the space walk today so successful, they have already begun doing some of sunday's planned jobs just to get ahead, leaving more time for selfies. out of this world selfies. pretty cool stuff. jenna: it's better than the regular selfies. we'll give them a pass for that. the regular selfies, sort of annoying but astronauts can do it. thank you very much. jon: i would love to have those. here's what we're working on for the second hour of "happening now." the clock ticking down to a friday deadline when funding for homeland security runs out. now republicans on both sides of that building behind me in the senate and in the house moving forward on a plan. will everybody else get on board, though? plus the moment a house explodes sending debris flying neighbors say it felt like a bomb went off. we have the latest on the

investigation into what caused it. also former miami dolphins player rob conrad lucky to be alive after falling off his fishing boat in the middle of the ocean. how he reached shore coming up.

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