to adjust the microphone. bill: you do not know how the sound is coming back to you, so maybe nobody could hear her. i do not think that it was staged for a minute. that was the most poignant moment. megyn: agreed. [captioning made possible by fox news channel] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- jane: good morning. developing this hour from afghanistan, our means are going after the taliban, but we are learning that some are using new tactics using women and children. jon: police say he kidnapped his ex-wife, struck her with explosives, and burned down the house they shared. jane: and a warning for users of craigslist.

you can stay safe when you are looking for a bargain. we will tell you how. jon: global threats, north korea, and iran on the agenda at the g eight summit. they are meeting in italy today. senior white house correspondent major garrett is traveling with the president. can the g8 do anything to boost major economic growth? >> one of the first steps it will take collectively is to keep economic development going. now the administration is considering a second stimulus. there is no talk of that here. when reality, though, for the g8 is that in cannot change the

global economy in the ways that it could decades ago, not without china and india. one thing that they can focus on, and we are told that it will, is having those g8 nations increase their financial regulation schemes and building on financial capital requirements. many believed ignored regulations work at the cause of the meltdown. since many here in europe, believe the g8 was principally responsible for identifying the beginning of the meltdown, those steps should be taken here. the president has put regulations on the front burner and now other countries are starting to file -- follow suit.

great book -- great britain just introduced a regulation package recently. jon: the to the members see the economy more clearly this year than they did last year? >> the world better hope so. just think about what was on their agenda one year ago when they met in japan. back then, economists said a global economic activity is ending a little bit but there is no crisis. they arwere more worried about energy prices. then financial institutions went into distress. they missed what was coming. right now, the world must hope that these collective industrialized and democratic economies can see the future better than they did one year ago. jon: thank you. the jane: we have new information on the marines

pushing deeper into a taliban territory. a conference call is going on right now with commanders on the ground. our troops are trying to clear out taliban fighters ahead of next month's election. the question that have been raised on the conference call -- it is there enough manpower and local support to do this? it sounds like some pretty interesting stuff. jennifer griffin is at the pentagon. >> they are still speaking to the pentagon press corps from afghanistan. one of their main complaint -- he was asked whether or not he had enough afghan forces to do the job. remember, they are going in with a counterinsurgency mission. they also have a new directive that they have to show cultural sensitivity, and they need afghan forces. the brigadier-general says that

he has only six afghan troops assigned to the mission and that is not enough. when he brought this up to the highest level, he was told there were just not enough afghan forces to go around. so that raises the question what they are doing some there if there is not enough support from afghans. jane: something else that you have interesting today is how these taliban fighters are getting away. >> there is a story that has been circulating about how the taliban are using the full body coverings that women in afghanistan where, in order to escape. there was a showdown between one marine unit and a family. the marines were showing some constrained by showing this cultural sensitivity.

they allow women and children to leave. when they went into the home, the taliban had snuffed out, dressed as women. these burke as cover you completely, so do they need female marines who can cut down the female women and not have the taliban slip through their fingers? this is not a new tactic, remember. there were rumors that usama bin laden wasn't walking around in similar clothing. -- was walking around in similar clothing. jane: we are hearing a top taliban member is in critical condition after a military offensive. 25 militants were killed in u.s. air strikes. jon: and the leader of north korea making a rare public appearance to mark the 15th anniversary of his father's

death. the 67-year-old leader lived slightly as he walked into the auditorium. today is the only major second state event since suffering a stroke last summer. tensions are running high after north korea test fired several missiles over the weekend and conducted a nuclear test. how do explosives get smuggled past security at several federal buildings in washington, d.c.? that is what a senate committee will be asking. investigators from the gao were able to sneak through liquid explosives and other devices into a congressmen -- congressman's office and walked around the building without being noticed. much more on this later on.

the price of oil is heading down for the sixth day in a row, slipping below $62. the market is down as well. jenna lee has the details. >> this time last year will have hit its peak, $147. we were talking about record high prices above $4. something important to remember about oil prices, they are affected by the season. we normally see higher prices in the summer and then we come down as we go into the winter. last year we came down quite a bit because we have this economic crisis. now one year later our prices are less than half at $61 a barrel. if this is the season high, it

will be interesting to watch the rest of the year. we would expect the trend to come down in the second half of the year, but investors are focusing on the economy again. there were concerns about the recovery happening not as quickly as people had thought before. oil products really feel the economy. -- fuel the economy. petroleum products are used in a wide range of things. because of that, we may see lower prices at the pond. right now the national average is $2.15. jon: i do not like for dollar gas, but it is getting close to $3 near me. >> it should come down a little bit, but you never know. if there is a sign for an economic analyst, the price

could go up. -- catalyst, the price could go up. jane: and a businessman in south carolina goes through a nasty divorce, told his wife hostage, and burned their house down. a reporter was on the phone with him as the standoff heated up. i was always going

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jane: i guess you could call in a real-life war of the roses. a divorce has come to an explosive conclusion in connecticut. one man is facing charges of arson, kidnapping, and reckless endangerment. he took his ex-wife from her workplace, held her hostage for 13 hours, told police he strapped explosive devices to her. they say she was able to escape. he set fire to their house soon after and started shooting at officers outside. he only gave up when the flames came close to the basement he was hiding in. he could be arraigned today from a hospital bed he is in. with me now is the operation's commander with eighth connecticut police. what set him off?

>> we are still investigating to find out. at this point, we are speculating that there was a family court matter to be dealt with. apparently, he was to sign over this particular house to his ex- wife. early that morning the abduction took place and neither of them showed up in court. that is what alerted friends to her plight, and that is how we got involved. jane: how is she doing? >> she is doing well. i do not know if she was released overnight, but psychologically, she will have to do some recovery. jane: he had said that he wanted you all to kill him. he wanted police to kill him. he also said that he set booby traps in the house.

>> those are accurate reports. we have a bomb team on the site right now and they are getting ready to begin sweeping the area, one to see if there are any explosive devices, and two, to determine if there were any devices that exploded in the fire, or if anything else was rigged to explode. we do not know if the information he provided was accurate or not. jane: thank you, commander. he picked up the phone and dialed a reporter with a local newspaper. she audiotape and videotape her conversation. in some sense, she was acting

like a hostage negotiator herself. here is a portion of the tape. >> i do not understand why you want a priest to give her her last rites. jane: and that is karen. she is with us on the phone. you knew him from a divorce case? >> yes, i was not that shocked that he called me because we spoke often and he referred to something big happening. jane: did you have any idea that this was what he was referring to? >> not at all. i thought it was just going to be another filing in court. jane: as a reporter, i would imagine there is the momentary panic of not wanting to make the

situation worse. how did you approach this? >> i knew that he could kill his wife any minute by i was also under pressure to get some information. i wanted to keep him calm. jane: i want to explain that that portion of the video we showed, he asked for police to bring a priest to the scene because he wanted last rites read to his wife, but at the same time, wanted to remarry her. >> he told me that he asked police to have the town clerk issue him a marriage certificate to get married, and that they had faxed it to him, and he wanted the judge who issued the divorce decree to marry them. jane: at the end of your phone

call, he said, basically, i am happy in this house with her. i am instructing her to explosives because she has her head on my shoulder? explain that. >> i think he never stopped loving her and could not live with the fact of living without her. he decided to show his love in this completely irrational way. jane: let us listen to another portion of the phone call that you had. >> tell him to get out of the yard. jane: tell me what was happening. he was not yelling at you.

>> no, he was talking on his cell phone, and i believe he was talking with negotiators on his house phone. he spotted someone in the backyard and demand in the manual for swat team procedures. he wanted to know what to expect. jane: do you believe that he and his wife are going to come out of this alive? >> i was afraid of that. i was so relieved to hear that she escaped. jane: kudos to you. you were asked calm at -- as calm as any hostage negotiator out there. can you believe it the day after? >> i cannot. it probably has not hit me, actually. jane: thank you.

jon: health care reform. the president says it is the most important item on his agenda. is it now on the critical list because of democrats?

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>> skyrocketing health-care costs on american families. the day, they have come together to do something about those health care costs. oh, reform is coming. it is on track. -- folks, reform is coming. we have tried for decades to fix this broken system, and in my stomach life, we have never been this close. jon: vice-president joe biden might be a little bit optimistic there. you heard him announcing a deal

with hospital groups to reduce costs by $155 billion over the next decade. meanwhile, president obama's plan to reform health care is running into roadblocks on capitol hill. the president is facing growing opposition not only from republicans but also from many democrats. several big hurdles include a proposal to tax workers on health benefits their employers paid for. meanwhile, liberal democratic groups are asking for a government auction, but that could lose the support of swing republicans and some democrats. another hard sell is the cost of this approaching $1 trillion. many are having a hard time finding the savings to pay for the plan. we are talking about this with a former communications director for the national republican committee.

debbie dingell is a member of the democratic national committee. the president wants this done by october. many are saying that this is a huge deal and they have not even started marching up the bill. they may not even get done by this year. what do you think? >> i think there is a consensus with the american people that the health care system is broken. there is a lot of discussion about dialogue, a lot of people putting obstacles off. it has taken decades, as you heard the vice president say. the american people want health care system of fixed. the time is here. jon: a story from the associated press says 59% of the public is opposed to taxing health care benefits to pay for reforms. that is what john mccain proposed, and then candidate

obama shot it down. how do they pay for this thing? >> that is the question. everyone wants health care reform. i do not think most people think about reform and taxes. they think about cutting bureaucratic red tape. the administration has not done a good job of selling this reform. it is not republican that stand in the way. democrats have enough votes to pass this on their own about moderate democrats do not want to vote for a public auction that gives people the option to go to government health care, which is a slippery slope. they also do not want their health benefits taxed. no moderate democrat wants to run on this platform in 2010. jon: here is a quotation from another democrat. he is questioning the idea of taxing health care benefits.

you cannot pass this if you do not have support, can you? >> the bill does not necessarily need to include a tax. it is not popular, but there are other ways to look at how you pay for this. all the things that karen said are right. we have to reduce bureaucracy, cut through the red tape. that is part of reducing the cost. jon: why the rush? we have been trying to reform this since the truman administration. if he is doing this, why in the first six months? >> people want change now. if you look at other industrialized countries, their citizens are able to get quality and access to health care. it is an outrage that we do not

have it in america. jon: she says people want change. i have read some surveys that say 80% of people are happy with their health care. >> i think the administration is misreading the public in terms of what they want in terms of health care reform. they do not need to be told that the only way to fix the economy is to pass a $1 trillion health care bill. the american people are very nervous over the size -- growing size of the deficit under this administration. i do not think the bill is going to pass under its current form. jon: thank you. jane: looking for a good deal? users of craigslist are learning the hard way if it seems too good to be true, it probably is, and it could be dangerous.

jon: an asset cyber attack that paralyzes some of our most sensitive government websites four days. among the targets, the white house, pentagon, and new york stock exchange. interesting speculation on who could be behind it. google taking aim at microsoft, introduced its own operating system. and a train operator, testing on the job. a passenger of record the video. so what happened to the driver? the jane: buy or be where, indeed. craigslist, you can buy just about anything. -- jane: buy or beware, indeed.

police say three individuals were held up by gunpoint from individual buying things from them. one woman was trying to buy a car on line. she thought she had a good deal. what happened? >> one case was recently this weekend. the perpetrator of the crime was placing an item on the internet. the buyer, the victim, response to the request, agreed to meet the seller in the location unfamiliar to them. in a couple of cases, and they came from out of town. they were faced with a person with a gun, taking their money, and in many cases, quite a lot, and fleeing. it is a very unsafe situation.

jane: how much money was taken in these cases? >> in each case, it was in excess of the $800. it is something that we are seeing as a trend this year, and we do not want to see this increase as these types of sites become more popular. jane: but bulletin's and ads in the newspaper have been around for years. there is a way to do this safely. what would you suggest? >> craigslist has some safety tips on there website, and we want to emphasize that. meet in a public area. make sure people know where you are going. bring a friend with you. and definitely stepping into someone's car that you do not know is not really a good idea.

jane: go somewhere where people can see you, and do not go alone. thank you. jon: are you spending less time in your car these days? if so, you are not the only one. the transportation study says traffic congestion is declining for the second straight year. high gas prices and the economy are the main reasons. in los angeles, it is getting better, but it is still the worst in the country. san francisco and chicago also seeing their traffic ease up. washington, d.c., however, is getting worse, coming in second. google announcing big plans today that could change the way you use your computer. they have introduced their operating system which will compete with microsoft. what is this all about?

>> they are going to call it google chrome os. we know they have a dominant position in the search marketplace, but what they are trying to do it is slowly, if you will -- it will take awhile to get into this business. they are trying to get into netbooks, small, inexpensive computers that people are getting into. google wants to get into that business and start using a very internet-friendly operating system. this would compete with microsoft, which is a daunting task. right now they have 97% of the market. this is the first step.

the operating system will not be available until the second half of 2010, so you can imagine that it is a little ways out. >> talking about microsoft recently, they tried to attack google in the search business by releasing bing.com. you have this tug of war between these two technology giants. microsoft wants to get into the search business. google now wants to get into the operating system business. jon: thank you. the car of the future. how would you like a $400 laptop for 99 cents? the jane: of course. courtney friel has the details. -- jane: of course.

>> don't you wish you could get more done inside your car? that is what people were thinking when they thought up this dream car of the future. there is no steering wheel or brake pedal, but you get in through the glass sliding door, tell it where to go, and relax on the counter which seats seven people. the card is the electric power and is run off of solar panels. my favorite part -- a bar. technically, you are not driving. do you need a new laptop? how about one for only 99 cents. that is the offer from sprint and best buy. it had broadband capability.

competitors are charging hundreds of dollars, and this sounds a little too good to be true, but you do have to sign a two-year contract with sprint. over the course of those two years, you basically pay $1,400. jane: we just went over that. if a deal is too good to be true -- jon: i think i rode in that car at disneyland. jane: thank you. janice dean is reporting from the weather center. >> hopefully, i can take credit for the nice weather in the northeast. jane: last night i swear a tornado only to hit my house. jon: there were tornado warnings in our area, and i slept through

all of it. jane: i do not mind bad weather, i am from chicago, but i was scared to death last night. i would do some testing. >> but today is beautiful. can i take credit for that? we have some thunderstorms and showers north of the new york city area near new england. and then across the gulf coast, a potential for severe weather. take a look at ours and thunderstorms over chicago. as we move to the central plains, that is when we have the potential for large hail and damaging winds. here is where we have our stationery boundary across the southeast. heavier rain moving up to the carolinas.

some areas in north carolina have some flood warnings. some showers in the maine and rhode island area, but nothing major. in the west, however, there is a moderate risk for thunderstorms. i am sorry, jon scott, i have no clue. i was off yesterday. jon: there were tornado watches for the general area. we had the windows open last night, and we slept right through. >> this is what happens when you have a new baby. jane: just for the record, we do not live together. not that there is anything wrong with that. >> jon, does she nagged you

often on the set? jon: you should listen to her during the commercials. jane: thank you. we are asking this question today. where will michael jackson be buried? there is no official word. we are outside the memorial at the staples center. what are we hearing? >> we all saw the casket coming into the staples center here yesterday. it even made the front page this morning. the question today is where is the casket now? we do not know when or where the burial will take place. there is some speculation. some believe it could still happen at neverland. of course, the family would need to obtain certain permits. they could cremate him and immediately bury him.

another option would be gary, indiana. another option is the forest lawn cemetery where the family was yesterday. no one really knows where this is going to happen. perhaps the question why it is the cause of death has not been determined. we also saw the death certificate be released to the public by the public health official. on the certificate, it said the burial site is still unknown. perhaps one reason is because the investigation is still ongoing. now we are hearing from the coroner's office that a small portion of his brain was removed to be a part of the investigation. they are doing tests on it, and then it will be given back to the family. maybe that is why the family is holding off right now.

jane: thank you. let us know if you hear anything. jon: all around the country you are told you cannot use yourself phone while driving. one train conductor did not get the message.

jane: imagine you are on the train and you see the conductor sending text messages.

well, one passenger on the washington, d.c. metro line took this video. maybe they thought that he was sleeping, but he was actually typing furiously. of course, a few weeks ago they had that deadly crash. courtney kealy is in washington with the story. who shot the video? i understand it ended up on the internet? >> it was a passenger on the blue line in maryland. the video was posted on youtube accompanied by details, saying that it looks like a train operator is sweeping, but he is actually testing. the train was on automatic at the time and was clearly not much of the tracks. if there was a problem, he would not have noticed. jane: talking about that crashed last month, there are no indications that the conductor was doing anything of the sort.

what has been the response from metro? >> a d c spokesperson confirmed the video. the conductor has been disciplined and has been suspended for five days without pay. the company has also reminded everyone about their company policies. jane: this sort of thing has happened before, like in los angeles. >> that is why the video is there a wracking. last week's crash was not due to an operator testing, but there were two cases. there was a train crash in southern california, the country's deadliest commuter train crash in years killing 14.

last month in boston 50 people were injured when a trolley around another one. that conductor was also text messaging. this is definitely in dramatic, a nationwide problem. jane: thank you. jon: a massive cyber attack it to us on the fourth of july. it crippled government website for days. now lot of people believe north korea was trying something. speculation and the facts when we return. want to know how fast it took my stiff joints to feel better? one pack. 6 days. that's elations. new elations. clinically proven to improve joint comfort... in as little as six days. drinking it every day keeps it working. elations has clinically proven levels... of glucosamine and chondroitin, in a powerful form that's more absorbable... than joint supplement pills.

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jane: want to see something explode? take a look at an alabama motel room as it explodes. police say a meth drug lab

exploded. something went wrong and the contraction blew up. one of the suspects went badly burned. the other two tried to escape but all three have been caught and face drug charges. jon: a cyber attack cripple's some of our government websites, starting with the white house. a south korea report says a similar attack occurred on some of its websites and are looking at whether north korea could be behind the attacks. a cyber security consultant is with us now from washington. what kind of attacks worthies? >> -- were these? >> they were denial of service attacks. jon: they say that it was pretty

sophisticated because they kept the website crippled four days. >> that is not unusual. -- for days. technology is always advancing and these days you can build liars' says that can change and more and which can be difficult to defend against. jon: de bombarded the website with so many requests that it overloaded the server? >> yes, the website has limited ability to deal with traffic. jon: what about these allegations coming from south korea? they believe this could have started with north korea. >> i have no specific information, but it would not apprise me. there is a variety of countries involved in organized criminal activities.

-- it would not surprise me. a denial of service attack is not particularly sophisticated, but it would not surprise me. jon: it is interesting that some of the agencies as possible for keeping the internet to care -- secure were the victims of this attack. >> everyone was under attack. every government agency is under continuous attack. is always difficult to create a perfect defense. as long as you are connected to the internet, you are vulnerable to some kind of attack. the attackers came to win that day and do this, so it can be difficult to follow. jon: if officials can trace them back to their home computer, and

the north koreans are responsible for this, should it not be easy to find out who is behind this? >> pinpointing who is behind a cyber attacks can be difficult, particularly when you talk about nation states who do this as part of their intelligence. it is more about trying to develop a circumstantial evidence case to be able to point to one single instance and say that is where it came from. what you do is try to develop patterns and identify the source of the pattern and, over time, come to a conclusion about where it came from. jon: thank you. if you want more on the story or any of the other hand lines, -- headlines, foxnews.com. jane: officials attempted 10 * 2

pass explosives -- 10 times to pass explosives through government buildings.

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-- hearings under way in the senate natural get your attention. officials were able to pass explosives and permit the building. agents even found one guard asleep after taking a painkiller. once inside, they were able to assemble the bonds and walk around freely. catherine herridge is watching this for us. >> one hour into the hearing they take a quick break. if there is one thing that sums up what we are seeing is this video which shows investing -- investigators not only purchased an explosive component, but they would be quite effective in any federal building. this definitely caught the attention of senators on the hill. the service within a homeland

security has been charged with protecting major federal buildings across the country, and senators have described it as an agency in crisis. jane: is wanting to get the parts in the building. how did they put it together once inside? -- it is one thing to get the parts in the building. the ban on that is right. -- >> that is right. first need to get past the entrance. then they needed to find a pretty secret place to put them together. in federal buildings, the batter was locked, but they were able to ask complete -- the bathroom is locked, but they were able to ask employees to let us in. >> we were able to assemble the materials in under four minutes after being let into the bathroom.

then we placed it in a briefcase and walked around legislative branch offices, traditional branch offices. -- judicial branch offices. >> one thing that got everyone's attention was how quickly they were able to do this. as you can see in the videos, these are very effective weapons. jane: what has been the response from security? >> the head of federal protective service spoke a short time ago and said he took full responsibility. he did not dispute the findings of the investigators. interestingly, he said this particular group has had a hard time making the transition to the homeland security department. you will remember after 2001 they brought together 22 federal agencies under the homeland security umbrella, and they were

among them. the second point he made was that his agency has done a lot of things that businesses have done to save money which is reducing the number of full-time staff employees, and in their place putting contract employees. investigators found that they were not really good at overseeing whether they had proper training and that certain standards. jane: the ranking republican on that committee will mean joining us in 30 minutes. thank you. -- will be joining us in 30 minutes. jon: president obama is at the g8 in italy. climate change is topping the agenda. the italian town was ravaged by an earthquake back in april that killed almost 300 people and

left thousands more homeless. some of those victims are trying to send a message to president obama. here is a play on his campaign slogan. jane: vice president biden announcing a new deal with hospitals across the country to cut costs and pay for a portion of this reform. in a meeting with trade groups, he said hospitals are ready to give up $150 billion in government payments, adding that that money could be used to help ensure americans. but the bill is still hitting roadblocks in congress. some are taking issue with this proposal to tax health care benefits. jon: a new report is shedding light on how some states are using their stimulus dollars. it is not exactly what the fed's

had in mind. according to the gao, many are using the cash to pay for short- term projects like road paving and to fill budget gaps. they are not spending on long- term improvements. worse yet, the report says the hardest hit areas are not getting the areas they need, and that is prolonging the recession. jane: millions of bottles of water are consumed every year in this country, but today congress is considering if the bottling water industry should face tougher regulations. water regulations that come from the tap do not extend to what you buy in the bottle. so what exactly are we drinking? caroline shively, who is in charge? >> the fda is in charge of bottled water, and the epa in charge of tap water.

the report says that they for the most part follow the same safety rules, but with bottled water, you have no idea what you're getting, including contamination levels. tap water has more rigorous reporting requirements. at this hearing they have been talking about some claims on bottled water that it gives you a sense of well-being, that it comes from only the poorest areas, when in some cases it is plain tap water that has been filtered. >> how about the makers of h2om? they claim they play music and sound at their bottling facility which charges a water to certain frequencies. would that the miss advertising? -- be misadvertising?

>> i am not a musician, but i do not think so -- but i think so. jane: is this a health issue? >> the gao has issued some recommendations about chemicals in water, but they do not expect any big health problems. jane: thank you. let us know if anything develops. jon: ever feel like you spend your life stuck in traffic? the average driver spends 51 hours a year in gridlock. back in the 1980's, in washington, d.c., drivers only spend 16 hours a year. washington, d.c. is still second, second only to los angeles as the worst congested

traffic city. atlanta, houston, and san francisco top out the top five. jane: speaking of drops, the airline industry is watching a new fare wars out west. they are all rolling out these new fares, roundtrips below $100? the rest of the industry seems to be following suit. analysts say they have not seen anything like this in 15 years. jon: new developments in the case of rod blagojevich. his former chief of staff is due in court today. his attorney says harris is expected to enter a guilty plea in his role of plotting to

squeeze campaign contributors of money. prosecutors say that he could shed new light on the final days before blagojevich's arrest. that is when officials claimed he tried to sell obama's senate seat. jane: could marijuana save california's economy? up next, the new debate on taxing pot. we also invite you to check out our opinion piece on foxnews.com/opinion. only two aleve can stop pain all day. that would take six tylenol arthritis pain. this feels good! ( laughing )

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taliban, the marines are doing the best they can. they are doing a great job taking care of what is going on there. there is a new pro-marijuana and stirring controversy in california. the marijuana policy project says it could help solve the state's budget crisis. it has a 30-second ad featuring a retired state worker who advocate legalizing marijuana and taxing it. that is supposed to run on several cable television news and cable outlets. some stations are refusing to run it, saying it sends a bad message. with me now is a spokesperson for the marijuana policy project. with me also is the executive director of the drug free america foundation. welcome to both of you. bruce, the idea is that you can

raise more than $1 billion in tax revenue to get california partially out of its budget hole if you just regulated and taxed marijuana? >> exactly. california is facing horrendous cuts to schools, health, public safety, all sorts of things. we have millions of california marijuana consumers who want to pay taxes on their purchases but are being denied of the opportunity. instead, we give them -- treat them as criminals for making a decision to unwind at the end of the day with something that is safer than liquor. jon: safer than liquor? >> absolutely not. i am appalled by the ad. it is preying on california citizens in a difficult time. first of all, $1 billion would

not be raised in taxes because people are growing pot in their backyard. how do you regulate that? do you figure out who is growing in and then tax them? idot $1 million in revenue would be generated. it does not even begin to cover the cost. -- i doubt $1 million in revenue would be generated. it was reported that substance abuse was causing the state $44 billion last year. if we legalize and regulate marijuana, we would increase those costs. so the $1 billion they claim to generate -- which i doubt -- which not it -- would not even begin to address these additional problems. jon: what about the claims that marijuana becomes a gateway drug, causing people to move on to more serious drugs? >> that is simply not true.

every independent study that have looked at this gateway theory has debunked it. the fact is, despite what she says, marijuana is much less addicted to alcohol, massively less toxic, and does not make people aggressive and violent. that $44 million is mostly from booze. jon: there is recently an article in "mother jones" magazine -- not exactly against lightning up on marijuana laws. this is what they had to say on the prospect of taxing pop. -- pot.

what about that? >> it is true we could anticipate more users and it is not the harmless drug that it is portrayed to be. it is the number one reason our young people are in treatment today. the number of young people getting cheap and have exceeded the alcohol. it is still known as a gateway drug. i deal with professionals across the country that are providing treatment and they will tell you that people do not start with heroin or cocaine. they start with marijuana, tobacco, alcohol. it is extremely linked to schizophrenia and other mental illnesses. also, these people are non-

smoking once in awhile to relax. they are smoking multiple times a day and staying high. i am not advocating that alcohol is a harmless drug -- it has destroyed a lot of lives -- but the majority of people who consume alcohol intentionally do not get drunk. everyone who smokes marijuana for recreational purposes spokesman for the exclusive purpose of getting high. do we want those people on the road driving and putting our family members at risk? jon: bruce, give us a response. >> that is nonsense. if you want to compare it with tobacco, tobacco smoking, which is regulated and legal, has dropped much faster than marijuana. if you think marijuana is that, why do you want to keep it unregulated?

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jane: giving back to our veterans. there is a new program that offers rehabilitation instead of jail time to veterans to get into trouble when they come back home. what are they hoping to achieve here? >> keeping veterans out of jail, if they are not a threat to the community. this was an initiative involving the district attorney, court system, and mental health facilities. they want to get them in treatment if they have fallen through the cracks. here is what we were told yesterday. >> these people deserve our best efforts to integrate them back into society and not let them

fall into what has been described as the buckle on the criminal justice system when they come back again and again. >> experts tell us better and will not seek help unless they know it is there. jane: how big is this problem of troops returning getting in trouble? >> nobody has any hard numbers on this. but certainly, there are some veterans who have some issues readjusting to civilian life. that is why they created this program. if they get in trouble, there is help for them. jane: how much does this program cost? i know it is just beginning, but is it possible to make this program available to everyone? >> they believe they have the money to pay for this. they have applied for some

grants. they also have veterans outreach specialist at the local branches to try to identify individuals who might need some help and get them that help from the va system. jon: scientists try to put the world's oldest bible back together. courtney friel is here to tell us how. >> before today if he wanted to see the world's oldest christian bible, you would have to go to four countries in two continents. now there is an online version that says it will give you a taste of how christianity was developed and how the text was translated from generation to

generation. the website has crashed so many times from people looking at it, so take a look on the website. you may have noticed advertisers are not just using movie screens to sell your stuff. now they are literally taking over the theater lobby. sprint will be installing kiosks in the lobby, and mobile phone customers can go up to them and stand there sprint phone to get an upgrade on food and other things. of course, other companies will be working to get their customers connected at the movie theater. jane: i went to the movie is the other day, 19 minutes of previous.

jon: i do not mind those. -- previews. jane: clearwater, florida. that is pretty nice. that looks nice. however, there are some worries that a new law could kill tourism faster than a ban on bikinis. phil keating is next cócó

jane: it sounds sick we are getting some pictures from italy where the president is for the g8 summit. in the meantime, let me show you what is coming up. jon: disturbing video of an investigator to begin in bomb making materials past security

at 10 federal buildings. jane: phil keating is in clearwater, florida. he got a nice assignment again. >> it is not necessarily a fun day at the beach, the way off in the gulf of mexico is a lot of natural gas and oil, and a bill going through congress could possibly bring oil rigs 10 miles off the shoreline. jon: you have heard about multitasking, but how about tax thing to set up a hit man? -- texting to set up a hit man? janethe president is in italy. we understand he is with the italian prime minister silvio berlusconi. they are looking at some of the

earthquake damage. the summit was moved to that city which experienced the earthquake, specifically to bring some business to the area, as well as to focus on that repair efforts under way. jane: there were some concerns about. even this week because on friday they had a 4.1 aftershock earthquake. for the first time they revealed they had an emergency evacuation plan for the world leaders, if something were to happen. jon: you do not want to push the top eight leaders of the industrialized countries in the world in one place with natural disasters. bret baier is watching the trip. what is the president's primary objectives? >> this is his first and g8 summit.

they will have a number of topics to discuss. some of these things are very productive. i have been to a number of them and they come up with goals that they want to reach, but other times they just communicate that they will agree to have communications at a meeting down the road. later this year there will be a meeting in copenhagen that built up in global emissions standards. there -- that will issue global emissions standards. there is an effort to reduce the world temperature by 3.6 degrees fahrenheit over the next 10

years. it has been a controversy. the u.s. has never signed on to it, and this administration could do it. they are also talking about the global economy and how each nation is dealing with the economic downturn, and what kind of stimulus each country will do. jon: major garrett made the point that last year high oil prices seemed to be a problem under discussion. no one seemed to see the economic collapse coming. obviously, and they would talk about that this time. >> in germany has expressed concerns. and german chancellor saying they are concerned about the debt and possible inflation that is being fused into world economies.

that is a similar stance to republicans here on capitol hill, concerned about where the money is coming from and if it is actually stimulating the economy. each country is doing things a little bit differently when it comes to the economy. there are some nations, like britain and france, who want to have a worldwide regulator. the u.s. has not yet signed on to that. jon: thank you. jane: back to the white house. some of the president's allies in congress are pushing for a new insurance czar to oversee insurance and make sure everyone's coverage is affordable. some say that they already do the job. the administration has already appointed two dozen czars, so

are they all necessary? mike emanuel is at the white house. what are these people assigned to do? >> is the energy and environment czar, carol browner. there are some new positions as well, a green jobs czar, and a guantanamo closure czar. some are suggesting that there are a lot of these positions as well as cabinet positions in the administration. jane: what is the main criticism? >> jack kingston offered a bill last night holding funding for these people, because they were concerned about all the power given to them and were not comfortable with the senate confirmation process. he was pushing to for senate confirmation of these positions.

the amendment was defeated but he and his supporters say that they will stay on the case to make sure there is more regulation about who gets these jobs. jane: thank you. jon: it was not a good day on wall street yesterday, and it does not look very good today. however, there is good news at a major electronics store. jenna lee? >> best buy. they were due to report earlier this week. they are testing a few things. they have the electric bicycles, segways, and other items. they are not being specific, but they just say that they want to improve the life of their consumers. here is what the products will be. one of them is a bicycle.

it looks pretty normal, costs a couple hundred dollars, but in the back here is a small battery. they give you a bit of extra push because there is a small battery motor. another company that we are watching it is this electric motorcycle. it is called the and russia. it is an electric motorcycle. -- in inertia. here is what it looks like on the street. it moves about 50 miles per hour. you can plug it into your wall and get a three-hour charge which will give you about 45 miles. it seems like something that you could have around. what is interesting -- it costs

$12,000, so imagine going to best buy and picking up a $12,000 motorcycle. they say they provide some financing, but here is the real mystery. who is running the motorcycle? i spoke to the ceo -- and this is interesting. they said they wanted to target women because it was light, there was no clutch -- not that we cannot drive one -- but i said that if you wanted to target women, you need to make it pink. he said, we already have one. you are going to start these things at the end of the summer. it will be interesting to see if they move from consumer electronics to some of these higher-priced items that you may not expect.

jane: i do not know who can afford $12,000 motorcycle like that. >> some people prefer motorcycles, so -- jon: maybe you can sell your $20,000 car and buy this motorcycle. >> and he gets a tax rebate for buying an alternative vehicle. jane: you have to see this to believe. undercover investigators walking past security guards at federal buildings in the country. homeland security, congress. without them, the makings of a powerful bomb. how did this happen on capitol hill? that is the question being asked by several senators. jon: also, we're taking you to italy. italy.

jon: senator joe lieberman calls

and the broadest indictment he has seen in years. the homeland security committee referred to house investigators were able to smuggle liquid explosives and detonators into federal buildings. once inside, they were able to assemble the bombs and walk around freely. how did this happen? joining us now is a ranking republican on the homeland security committee, susan collins. you are pretty steamed as well. we are paying for this security but it is not doing us any good. >> it is pretty troubling. the gao was able to smuggle a bomb-making materials into federal buildings. they had a 100% success rate. that shows relaxed security. jon: we remember when that guard

at the capitol building was shot and killed by a deranged gunman. if terrorists wanted to try this thing, obviously, the gao pulled it off, so they could do this, too. >> some of these components can be bought at a local hardware store for under $100. the materials are readily available. we have to depend on security guards and equipment to keep them out of the federal buildings, particularly, when we know that a lot of buildings are at high risk. they are obvious targets. jon: what do you say to people who say, what are we publicizing this, what are we telling the world that what should be some of our most security -- secure

buildings have these security holes? >> senator lieberman and i debated whether we should go public with these results. we decided that the findings were so alarming, unless we shined a public spotlight on these findings, we would not be able to enforce the type of corrective action that was needed immediately. this is not the first time that the federal protective service has been criticized. yes, there were previous reports and problems remain. we believed that by making this public, we would spur corrective action. jon: one suggestion is this agency had difficulty merging into the larger homeland security department.

is making in a separate agency a possible solution? >> that would be a cop out. this is not a organizational problem. it is a problem of leadership. it is also about holding people accountable. whether it is the federal agency or the contracts security guards who have been hired for the buildings, the gao did not find a problem once or twice. this was every single case. that suggests a systemic failure that needs to be remedied. jon: since one of the offices was that of a u.s. senator -- and named -- i am sure that it's pretty close to you. -- that it hit pretty close to home for you.

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jane: the fbi has uncovered a murder plot in indiana. investigators say a 30-year-old woman offered her co-worker her above-ground swimming pool and $200 to kill her ex-boyfriend. the way that she asked is very 21st century. she started by talking on their myspace page, and then she used her cellphone to send him a text message. he conceded in the transcript. -- you can see it in the transcript.

a few days later, she sends this message. that is a portion of the conversation. how did the fbi and the cracking this case? with me now is a special agent in charge. agent monroe, murder for hire v

ia text message? have you seen this before? >> no, this is relatively new. it is very 21st century, using text messaging to communicate back and forth. of course, the second element of this, the actual payment. jane: how did you get involved? how did it get beyond a co- worker? >> she approached a co-worker to hamper exports from murdered. instead of reaching out to someone who could do the job, he reached out to authorities. then our violent crimes task force received the case. jane: talk about how he wanted -- she wanted him to be killed.

it needed to be seen as an accident. i do not want to know the details. how did she want this done? >> she did not have specifics. the only thing that she insisted on was that it look like an accident, so that nothing would come back to her. that was one of the terms we agreed on. jane: what charges will she be facing? >> federal murder for hire charges. the payment method is something that we have not encountered before. she is facing a 10-year charge for this. regardless, it is a serious turn to and she was serious in her intend to have her former boyfriend murdered. now she and her accomplice are facing 10 years.

jane: describe the other accomplice. >> for lack of a better phrase, it was another ex-boyfriend that she had worked with. jane: we will be right back. . looking at bones just because they're inside you doesn't mean they're protected. oh, ladies. let's say you have osteoporosis. i do. you could be losing bone strength. can i get it back? (announcer) ask your doctor how to help treat osteoporosis

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jon: in new energy bill in the senate has the tourism industry of florida shaking in its flip-

flops. phil keating is in clearwater beach, fla. we are talking about drilling platforms. how close to the shore could they be built? >> from the speech in clearwater -- this speech in clearwater, about 45 miles. near the panhandle, it could be as close as 10 miles away. this is five years from happening, if the energy bill makes its way through the u.s. senate and stays as it is. there is an amendment that would open up areas. we are talking about drilling within 145 miles of florida. right now, there is a buffer zone. under the amendment, it would allow drilling 10 miles off the panhandle. there is an area where there is

believed to be about 2 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. the natural gas in that entire area is expected to be a lot. all of this will have to be explored. jon: florida has had experience with about oil spills -- with bad oil spills. >> yes, this area had an oil spill in 1993 when three ships collided, including two oil tankers. the tampa bay area is very well aware of the risk. oil industry executives say that is the big risk. it is the actual tanking. they say the oil platformsre