bill: we will see you later. megyn: "happening now" starts now. [captioning made possible by fox news channel] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- jon: kathleen sibelius is holding a briefing now the white house about patient safety and medical liabilities reform. of course, this all fits into what republicans say ought to be on the health care reform bill. republicans would like to see medical liability reform. let's take a listen. >> foster better communication between doctors and their patients. insure that patients are

compensated in a fair and timely manner for injuries while reducing the incidence of frivolous lawsuits. finally, reduce premiums. those goals are consistent with the principles defined by the joint commission and institute of medicine, as well as the goals contained in legislation that president obama as a senator introduced in 2005. jon: health and human services secretary kathleen sibelius there, with the administration tipping their hats to republicans who have long claimed that reducing malpractice standards can reduce costs for health care. we will continue to monitor that. jane: 824-year-old lab technician at yale university is in court awaiting arraignment. raymond clark is his name.

he was taken in custody this morning at a hotel near the yale campus. he was arrested for the murder of annie le, the 24-year-old graduate student whose body was found stuffed in a wall of this laboratory. associated press, and when asked if he understood his rights, he simply replied, "yes, your honor." bail is set at $300 million. they call it a case of workplace violence, but they did not elaborate. there has been a sigh of relief at the yale university campus because of the arrest. they have issued a statement saying that they presumed to be innocent until proven guilty, and he should be afforded all rates -- rights of the accused. but he also said that clark's

lab passes have been revoked. he is no longer allowed to access campus buildings. that is not a surprise, because he is sitting in jail at present. jane: we will let you know if anything else develops. jon: meanwhile, president obama is announcing he is pulling the plug on plans to build a missile defense system based in poland and the czech republic. he promises a new one that is smarter, stronger, and swifter. the bush administration proposed the anti-missile shield to defend against attacks from iran, but the system anchored russian leaders because of its proximity to their borders. president obama made it clear that the goal has not changed. >> are clear and consistent focus has been the threat posed by an iranian ballistic missile program, and that continues to be the basis of what we are

proposing today. in confronting death threat, we welcome russia's cooperation to bring missile defense capabilities into a broader defense of our common strategic interests. jon: jennifer griffin is live for us at the pentagon. jennifer, what does the defense secretary said? >> what is interesting is that robert gates was the one superposed this ground-based missile system to president bush in 2006. he is the one who came out just a minute to go -- just a minute ago and says that anybody who thinks they are scrapping missile defense for europe does not understand what is going on. he says this new system will be fielded six or seven years earlier. here is what he said. >> those that say we're scrapping missile defense in europe are either misinformed or misrepresenting reality of what we're doing. i believe that this new

approach provides a better capability for our forces in europe, for our european allies, and eventually for the homeland. i recommended it almost three years ago. >> what is interesting is that there was a change in intelligence lately, suggesting that long-range intercontinental ballistic missiles from iran are not developing as rapidly as they thought they would three years ago. if you look at the developments in the last three months, iran put a satellite into space which many say suggests they are making progress on a long-range ballistic missile. they also tested a two-stage fuel rocket on may 20. so that is a step forward. it is not clear why the pentagon is pushing so hard suggesting intelligence has changed, but

that is the reason they are giving for shifting direction away from this ground-based system to these mobile systems that will be on board ships -- onboard ships. they will be on board -- onboard naval ships in the mediterranean. jane: jenna, what to the numbers look like? >> hello, everybody. what we need to pay attention to is that the trend has been higher both in the stock market and the job market. you see fewer americans filing for unemployment week after week now. that is a good sign. but we still have 545,000 americans filing for unemployment in one week alone. it to see improvement, we want to see that drop below 350,000. also, we're paying attention to the number of americans

continuing to collect unemployment week after week. that number remains very high. that shows us that once you're out of work, it is difficult to get back in the job market and find a job. and that goes back to what the fed chairman said earlier this week's -- week. we have not started to see mainstream signs of recovery yet. jon: president obama heading to maryland today to press for health care reform. he will hold a rally later this hour at the university of maryland in college park, one day after max baucus unveiled his version of a health care plan. after today's rally, the president will take up the plant -- keep up the campaign to get his plan passed this weekend. he will appear on five talk shows sunday, capping off with a visit to the david letterman show on monday. meanwhile, his toughest audience

is on capitol hill. lawmakers are still struggling to finalize a plan that would reshape the way you receive medical care. the plan unveiled yesterday by max baucus is being considered by the full committee now. it is all about your health. carl cameron is live on capitol hill, feeling healthy, we presume. what is going on today? are democrats ready to back the baucus plan? >> no. they're going by the plan line by line, looking at the provisions. this is a draft. it is not actually legislation yet. the committee has to go on work -- go and work on it. this is his proposal, and he is throwing it out like food to a shark tank, and they will start amending it. which means that eight months of work is about to change dramatically. we do not know the details, because there are some

amendments. it is a difficult problem. democrats and republicans are both facing a lot of opposition and concern. there will be a lot of amendments. what was unveiled yesterday will god in christ, grown in scope -- go up in price, grow in scope. jon: when you talk about price, you have to wonder, how is the deficit going to be affected with all of this? >> analysts say it will actually bring the deficit down $50 billion over the next 10 years. and they did something interesting. they did a 20-year analysis. that is almost unheard-of on capitol hill, because as they have said, when you look 20 years ahead, there is no precision. it is not an educated guess. it is just a guess. the likelihood of things coming to pass as they predicted south

after what would be five presidential elections into the future does not really matter. they say that costs will begin to drop its plan is implemented -- if this plan is implemented 20 years from now. jane: more investigation into the activities of acorn. the governor of minnesota and the governor of california, tim pawlenty and arnold schwarzenegger, are calling for investigations in their states. this comes in the wake of undercover video that appear to show acorn workers encouraging illegal activity. acorn says they will now launch their own independent investigation. jon: an up day -- update on monday's and test error rates in new york city. -- an update on monday's anti-

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jane: new concerns about the possibility of a terror plot being hatched here on u.s. soil. the fbi has been busy, raiding locations from new york city to colorado. let's take a listen to what the director has to say about it. on monday, the fbi carried out raids in queens. they found backpacks and cellular phones, raising concerns about a subway bombing plot. no arrests were found -- made. yesterday, the fbi raided the home of a terror suspect in colorado. they seized several boxes from his home in the suburbs of denver.

they also searched his relatives' homes. we have a former director of counter-terrorism at the white house national security council. what should we be worried about, if anything? what is going on here? >> i suspect what is going on is that the fbi had reason to be specific -- suspicious, and they moved quickly, possibly because of obama's visit to new york on monday, to disrupt any plot. jane: there are a couple of reports out there that we have not confirmed independently. one comes from denver, saying that authorities have gone to several home depot stores in the denver area looking for people who have bought a specific type of acid. it can be used to make bombs. they came with credit card numbers, looking for receipts from the store.

npr reports that their sources say this is the first time since the 9/11 attacks that the fbi thought they had a group with that kind of capability. so you hear these things and link them together, and you say, "why is the fbi director playing down the threat?" >> there have been no arrests. this is interesting, because it is an attempt to prevent an attack. before 9/11, people would have spent more time studying those guys and doing collections. but now, they are trying to preempt a tax instead of risking having an attack occur and losing intelligence. jane: there are reports out there that they feel that this operation may have been launched prematurely. they had this guy under surveillance and would have liked to watch him a bit more. how does that work when you deal with local law enforcement, like

in new york city where they are so good on intelligence? >> in this instance, they probably had some good intelligence and decided that they needed to act quickly. in other circumstances, they probably would have waited to see what happens and put in microphones and surveillance devices, trying to see what else is going on. but it is highly likely that if they had extremely concerning intelligence about these individuals early on, they would act to try and stop it. jane: there suspect claims to not be a terrorist. >> the fbi does not make mistakes like that. it is likely that this person is dirty and evidence will emerge.

but they have made decision to not make arrests and get information anymore, realizing the entire investigation would go south. now that they have been alerted, you are not able to collect the same information. they may have prevented an attack. we will never know. jon: another big issue today. democrats are hoping to pass health care reform, but they need a very united front. they need all of their party to stick together, plus one in the senate. with 59 democrats, they have a daunting task -- making enough people happy. can they do it? also, we will take you back to yale university. we are awaiting comments from the university president of the rest of this man -- the arrest of this man, charged with the murder of annie le.

her body was found stuffed in a lavatory wall on sunday -- laboratory wall on sunday. these are live pictures of the arraignment. he is being held on $3 million bail. he did not interrupt sleep, but says he understands the charges. -- he did not enter a plea, but says he understands the charges. quality and reliability...

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jane: i want to show you more videotape of the arraignment of raymond clark, the 24-roll lab technician arrested this morning for the murder of a grad student

named annie le. it is a sad story. her body was found the day she was going to be married, this past sunday. clark said he understood his rights. he is being held on $3 million bail. the arrest warrant has been sealed in this case, so we're waiting for more details on the motive. the police called it a case of workplace violence, but they did not elaborate. we're also waiting for the yale university president to make a statement. we expected at the bottom of the hour, about six minutes from now -- we expect it at the bottom of the hour, about six minutes from now. jon: democrats hope to bring the bill for health care to the senate floor with no support from republicans. to do that, they need 60 votes.

there are 59 now. massachusetts needs to fill the seat left vacant by senator edward kennedy. what is it going to take to get a yes or no vote? we have an adviser from the romney campaign, and richard goodstein, a former adviser for the clinton-bork campaign. what about it, richard? you have serious differences, even among democrats. what jay rockefeller wants is not what ben nelson wants. how the democrats get all 59 of their membership to say yes, and cherry pick a republican? >> first of all, it may well be that 60 could be the number -- jon: isn't that politically convenient? the lot they had when they have a republican governor gets

changed back with a democratic governor. >> i think they think that the notion of having two senators is not an unfair thing for them. if you ask the public if they think a majority should rule or not, they think 51 is a majority. but let's not get into that. here's the answer to question -- to your question. the initial reaction to this has been rather muted. you are not hearing that this is dead on arrival. that is what you hear when you have people dead-set on achieving something. what you hear from ben nelson is that he needs to see the whole bill. even the president was singing a different tune. for anyone to jump to conclusions because some senators, harry reid included,

that their reaction was not positive should surprise no one. jon: $860 billion is the cost of max baucus'proposed . the cost will go north from there. >> the democrats have to sew up the divergent views in their caucus and find their way to that 59 number. so one thing is, there will be horse trading. the inside game of washington will not be on full display, but it will be happening at full speed. there will be a mark and the financial services committee in the next week or so -- there will be a discussion in the financial services committee where the democrats will go back and forth to try and get this bill to a place where they can agree. finally, if we can reconcile

this bill and go to the floor, that represents a process where amendments will be offered. and that will be the trickiest, most fragile part of the discussion. a lot of people are going to be trying to rope a steer, and to get to a place where there could be success will be very hard when a lot of different strings are pulling at it. so the democrats have to do a lot of work to get their house in order, and the guy who has to deal with this needs to be baucus, the finance committee, and the president. they need a hands-on approach to get it done. jon: it would be an embarrassment to the president if he could not get 59 senators on his plan, right? >> absolutely. we had something very similar in the run-up to the stimulus. could he get it through? would he get republicans? at the end of the day, he did. i think she will get democrats,

because at the end of the day, democrats believe that they need to deliver for the constituent. i think the question is republicans. they see themselves on the wrong side of history with medicare. do they want to be there again? i think at the end of the day, they see that the current system is unsustainable, and my prediction would be that there would be some who would step up and say, "you know what? i think something is better than nothing." >> i think we're going to see real reforms. it has got to contain costs, and it cannot put the nose of the government under the proverbial tent to open a way towards a big public option. ultimately, this thing is to look a little bit like a christmas tree and put ornaments on it to get to 60 votes. jon: it is going to be

interesting, that is for sure. thank you both. jane: we are still waiting for the president of university to speak to the press in connecticut about the arrest this morning of a lab technician in conjunction with the murder of a graduate student named annie le. her body was found in that building the day she was supposed to be married, this past sunday. raymond clark was arrange a short time ago in a court room in connecticut. he did not enter a plea. the question that needs to be answered now is motive. relief of zyrtec®, plus a powerful decongestant. zyrtec-d® lets me breathe freer, so i can love the air™. (announcer) zyrtec-d®. behind the pharmacy counter. no prescription needed.

jon: the gentleman in the box next to me as white house spokesman robert gibbs. he is briefing the media about a huge development that has just been announced. president obama says he is pulling the plug on the land- based missile defense program in

poland and the czech republic. it was designed to shoot down intercontinental ballistic missiles, presumably to be launched from around -- iran. the bush administration did not feel comfortable with the situation. according to mr. gibbs, there has been no quid pro quo with the russian government. the u.s. is pulling land-based missiles out, but there is apparently no deal from russia to continue -- no kind of a trade deal, i should say. let's talk with our washington managing editor. bill, no quid pro quo with russia. it would seem that if the u.s.

was going to give up on something to russians so badly hated, which should get something for it. -- we should get something for it. >> someone asked me this morning what america gets out of this, and i think that the administration hopes to get russian cooperation in the un -- u.n. as they push a new round of sanctions. they are treading the tangible components of missile defense -- rockets in poland, missile defense and the czech republic -- for the intangible components of diplomacy. some argue that a new round of sanctions by the united nations, which russia might not be able to go along with, would not mean much. understandably, this is a big victory for russia.

you have a resurgent russia. look what they did with georgia. he was expected to oppose the missile defense system, although he has expressed ambiguity about it in the past. he did an interview with bill o'reilly and indicated that the system will stay, and i'm sure you'll hear that clip tonight. but i think the risk for obama now is that he is putting out this thing. this is an improvement. we will have the short-and -- short and middle-range receptors on ships. but i think critics will say that this reinforces the position that obama is weak on security in general, acquiescing to russian demands. i think the polls -- poles and czechs would rather have a land- based system. at a time when iran is

bellicose, is a tough sell for obama to say their threat is not as serious as thought and therefore we can do away with the land-based system. jon: thank you. jane: back to new haven, conn., and the developing use on raymond clark, the 24-year-old graduate student arrested for the murder of annie le. he did not enter a plea this morning. police put him in custody several hours ago after comparing his dna to 200 pieces of evidence they have. annie le's body was found stuffed in a wall in a laboratory basement on the day she was going to get married this past weekend. police have sealed the arrest warrant, but they say it is no random crime. take a listen. >> it is not about university

crime. it is an issue workplace violence, which is becoming a growing concern around the country. jane: we are joined on the phone from new haven. workplace violence. whether talking about here? >> ray and annie each other well enough to exchange text messages and email. minutes ago, walked out of this arraignment -- i walked out of this arraignment. in walked a clean-cut american. a confused and frightened kid. he said he understood his rights, which were the only words he said. but bail was set at $3 million, which is quite expensive.

jane: what was his demeanor like in court? >> he looked nervous. he kept looking at his lawyer for affirmation. but he also looked a little bit tired. obviously, if he knew he could be arrested at any minute -- he knew he could be arrested any minute last night. jane: he was arrested not at home, but at a local hotel. why? >> he wanted to stay away from the media. jane: it sounds like he knew this was coming and may have not slept a lot. >> correct. jane: police did not elaborate this morning on the idea of workplace violence. they say that the two knew each other well enough to exchange messages. bottom line, what are we looking at here? >> the main thing they are considering right now has to deal with the way she was

trading at the laboratory mice. -- treating the laboratory mice. he was upset with the way the cages were. police are almost about to rule out a romantic relationship. it is still unclear. we do not have access to e-mail or text messages. but it appears that he was upset with the way that she was handling the laboratory animals in general. there's a protocol that laboratory people are supposed to go about doing these things. but apparently, the issue he had to deal with is hygiene of the mice, from what we could tell. jane: interesting stuff, match. let us know if anything else breaks. jon: the president of yale is

speaking out about the case. let's listen. >> what happened here could happen anywhere. it says more about the dark side of the human soul than anything else. we are deeply indebted to the men and women of the fbi, the connecticut state police, the new haven police, the yale police, and yale security. they have truly worked tirelessly and cooperatively since annie le's disappearance last tuesday. we are a close community, with deeply shared values. monday night's candlelight vigil gave testimony to the caring and compassion of this place. we will continue to offer comfort and consolation to annie's family and friends and to all the people who work here. we will honor her memory by rededicating ourselves to the

highest and best values of this institution. thank you. now i would like to ask my colleague, laura smith, president of local 44, to come to the podium. she represents sealed's 3400 -- yale's 3400 technical workers, of which raymond clark was one. jon: richard levin made that statement. he is the president of yale university. the murder of annie le, as you can imagine, has absolutely rock to that school. one of the thing the president did say as well this morning is that raymond clark's employment history gave no indication that he was capable of such a crime. of course, levon stressed that he should be innocent until proven -- levin stressed that he

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this is the congressional record. no names, no meetings, no purpose, no controls, no accountability. in addition to their $170,000 salary, members of congress have joined its overseas -- john getz -- junkets overseas. they fly first class for up to $10,000, when coach could be in the hundreds. so far, congress has refused requests for disclosure. consider their $13 million travel tab last year, all of it on your time. occasionally, members may get to the war zone. but more often than not, it is romantic places like france or italy, often with their spouses. this trip went from d.c. to

switzerland to germany to discuss final test -- finance, economics, and trade. the cost was $50,000 in meals and lodging alone. the military picked up the travel, easily in excess of $100,000. >> it comes close in some cases where a business becomes more of a vacation. >> it is not just lawmakers. it is their staff, very frequently, going instead of them. here's a 10-day trip to france, kenya, mali, and ehi -- ethiopia by 10 members. it has gotten out of hand. no one is doing anything about it. jon: thank you. jane: we have live pictures from the university of maryland coming in, where a health-care

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jane: we want to show you some live pictures from antioch, california. this new search is about to get under way at the home of phillip garrido, accused of kidnapping jaycee dugard as she was headed to the school bus and keeping her there for 18 years. investigators are looking and bone fragments they have already found in the area. what prompted such intense

searches? two other child abductions from the 1980's. this possible link, look at the possible -- striking similarities. eric, the similarities do not end there. tuneup -- talk about these girls and what they have in common. >> from the beginning, they were both blond haired girl with fair complexions, blue eyes. could have been sisters. there was a car involved in both of them. a four-door sedan described as a kind of the doubt. very similar to the one that the recovered from the phillip garrido property. jane: side-by-side, you can see another picture of phillip

garrido from years ago. a sketch of a suspect that is believed to have taken mikala. these are pretty eerie. a pretty gaunt figure with stringy hair. phillip garrido's photograph was from the same decade. jane: let's listen to shepard smith's interview with mikala's mother from yesterday. >> they said there were girls in the backyard. she said that there was a core group of five girls in the backyard. and other girls that came and went with a man. i believe that one of those girls could be my daughter. jane: one neighbor said that she saw more than the three girls

in the backyard, may have seen a gaggle of girls at some point. talk to me about what we know about these bone fragments. are they human? >> they do not know at this point. testing could take some time. jane: eric curry is with "the oakland tribune." we will let you know as soon as we hear anything else. thank you for your time and information. >> thank you. jon: the director of the fbi is considering an investigation of acorn off. he is not alone. at least two governors are ordering investigations as well. but with the strength of zyrtec ® , the fastest, 24-hour allergy relief, i promise not to wait as long to go for our ride. with zyrtec ® i can love the air ™ .

[captioning made possible by fox news channel] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- jon: reaction coming in quickly to president obama's plans to scrap a missile defense system

for eastern europe. he says that the new plans will be cheaper and more effective. john mccain calls this new plan seriously misguided. jane: the fbi wants your help catching these guys called the buckshot bandits, they claim to have bombs. jon: nasa is looking to the moon again, and releasing amazing pictures of lunar surface. jane: acorn, coming under fire in the wake of some undercover videos that are pretty startling, allegedly showing acorn employees encouraging the illegal behavior. now the governor, arnold schwarzenegger, is calling for an investigation in his state. lawmakers on capitol hill are calling for their own investigation. there is word that there may be a reaction from the department of justice. what are they saying about

this, kathryn leleck >> it is clear that the acorn issue is on the -- catherine? >> it is clear that the acorn issue was on the radar of the fbi. here is an exchange between or and hatch and the fbi director. -- senator orrin hatch and the fbi director. >> have you been made aware of these incidents? >> clearly, given what you have said this is something that we would look at in consultation with department of justice. >> we would appreciate it. >> clearly the first step has been taken with the fbi acknowledging that they will consult the department of justice over this issue. jane: how did they decide if an investigation is necessary? >> a short time ago i spoke to

the no. 2 at the civil division, he said that a number of steps could be taken. first, fbi agents would go out to various parts of the country to not only gather data -- mortgage applications, for example -- but they will also interview people. he said that the threshold for that happening was pretty low, given the complexity and the video tapes themselves. once the data is collected it would need to be reviewed by the department of justice. he said that if they felt that there was good evidence, they were most likely to look at the issue of tax evasion in human smuggling. the individuals in those videotapes posed as a pimp and prostitute, feeling that what we have seen so far that would be a possible direction for the justice department if the evidence is collected. jane: thank you, catherine. jon: in just the last hour he

went from being a person of interest to being charged with murder. raymond clark, charged in the death of annie le. her body was found stuffed behind a wall of a campus laboratory. clark did not enter a plea. investigators have yet to give a motive other than saying that this is a case of workplace violence. police said they were not aware of any romantic relationship between them. clark worked as a lab technician where annie le was last seen. the 24-year-old had planned to get married last sunday, the day that her body was found. jane: one man, setting fire to his ex-girlfriend home, leaving two girls in critical condition. police are looking for brandon william jones. he had a fight with his ex. he returned earlier in the

morning -- early in the morning and through i and molotov cocktails. a neighbor was able to break a window and get the girls out. the police are questioning and that were seen to jones that day. the girls are in critical condition. jon: it is used to solve cold cases across the country. now we are learning that one state is missing dna evidence from some 12,000 convicted felons. it includes the dna of one man accused of killing seven women over 21 years. the dna for walter ls, collected in 2001, actually -- the dna for walter ellis, collected in 2001, was mislabeled. it belonged to his cell mate.

the situation was called deeply disturbing. the department of justice is investigating. jane: you are looking at live pictures of president obama's health care rally in maryland. the push for reform is about stop there. he would appear on five sunday morning talk shows this weekend. monday he is going to visit the set of "david letterman." mr. obama said that he would be altering and landmark strategic decision made by president bush, the united states is going to shelve a plan land-based missile shield in poland and the czech republic. it was meant to shield allies from a potential long-range nuclear threat from iran. the president is sending that decision tup. wendell, why is this such a big deal? >> the president, scrapping this

plan, but not the idea of a missile defense. the bush administration had planned a station in poland, which the russians worried could be used against them. the obama administration is going to use smaller missiles that will not be seen as much of a threat. they will be cheaper and would be able to be deployed much sooner. >> officials say that it would be 2013 or later before the plans came on line. jane: reaction from republicans has been fast and furious.

>> officials say that that is based on the initial report that the administration was scrapping the entire idea of the missile defense system. jon: called the decision dangerous and shortsighted. john mccain said that it raises questions about the security commitments that the u.s. has made to the czech republic, which is where the radar are re and interceptor missiles were to have originally been based. they said that the change was based on intelligence that they were developing missiles much faster than expected in iran, taking much longer to develop a short -- long-range missiles. officials say that nothing has changed regarding the security guarantees to poland and the czech republic, both members of nato, and an attack on any member of nato brings a response from all of the others. jane: thank you. jon: $6.5 billion, that is what

government bean-counters say it will cost to maintain a border fence with mexico. the government accountability office said that the hefty price tag is on top of $2.5 billion on top of defense segment building. the obama administration has no way of knowing if these extra dollars for stemming the tide of illegal aliens. construction of the fence began under the bush white house. >>jane: that teenage pirate accused of attacking a u.s. ship is going back before a judge today. the only surviving pirate, he faces life in prison. he decided to give himself up. his partners in crime were not so lucky. navy seals snipers killed them in the rescue of richard phillips.

jon: nasa is going to showcase some new images from its lunar reconnaissance or better. it has been mapping out america's future return to the moon. phil keating has more from miami. what are we expecting to see from the moon? >> bilal would never before seen images, it has been orbiting the moon or about two months. -- for about two months. images having -- images have been sent back, you can see footprint trails left behind by the landing astronauts of the 1970's. massive boulder fields and relatively new crater impacts from meteor impact we have not seen before. jon: why are they doing all of

this mapping? >> several reasons. one, we do not have a really good topographical map of the move blight -- map of the moon like we do of planet earth. pretty soon, you'll be able to look at the moon the way we look at the earth on googlemaps. they are looking for evidence of water/ice and has primarily identified the south polar region of the moon, where the sister craft of the lro is going to smash into the lunar service -- lunar surface on october 9, which will be measured for four minutes by a following satellite, sending that data, looking for evidence of water ice, going back to earth before

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between $3 billion and 20 billion dollars every year. jon: the most recent robberies by the so-called baby boomer and it, a hispanic man in his home 50 cost, -- 50's, he demands cash. more dangerous, the buckshot bandits wanted in at least five robberies that took place this summer. in some of them bandits' left behind a device that they claimed was a bomb. only two buckshot bandits targeted each bank. investigators believed it could be made up of four to six different robbers. stephen may is with us now, the fbi bank robbery coordinator.

you have a particular concern about the buckshot bandits? >> their last robbery was in july, they were a very dangerous group. they were demanding money, leaving behind a hoax device in the bank. they wait for the police department to show up, shut the bank down, evacuating everyone out of the bank, shutting down any streets in the area. they are a dangerous group that we want to get off the streets. jon: the theory is that the violence could accelerate. >> in all bank robberies there is a chance of escalation, especially if they are carrying shotguns.

they could always shoot off a round in the bank. the robbers to be surprised. there could be a shootout. we need the public to help law enforcement identify these people and get them off the streets. there is reward money, and i will give the information, we do get out reward money. anyone that calls in remains anonymous. shepard: the baby boomer bandits, apparently not as much of a concern, he is the most recent fee? >> -- he is the most recent thief? >> no witness has described him

as carrying a handgun, but you never know. often we find out that they did. we are looking for the public's help on that one. we have great pictures of him. someone out there must recognize him. by all means, if anyone recognizes that individual, please call in. jon: if anyone would like to get another look at the images we have on the screen right now, you can go to bankrobbers.org? >> we have photographs from the region that we cover, looking at many of the serial bandits in the area. jon: we will also have it on our fox news website. 888-cant-hide. that is the number call. we appreciate it, steve. jane: the senate finance

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it is going to save as much as $1 trillion in health-care costs, meaning $1 trillion less in pressure on deficits and debt in this country. i think that he is going in the right way, covering 94% of the people. jane: our viewers, the plan would increase the cost of insurance, forcing people to purchase at, those subsidies would be paid for by taxes, requiring even more subsidies. it is a recipe to ruin health care and bankrupt the country." your response? >> that is absolutely absurd. that is not backed up by the

independent analysis of the congressional budget office, which says that this would reduce the deficit in the first 10 years, reducing health-care costs by over $1 trillion. their editorial is not on the objective news page. that objective news is that this is going in the right direction, not increasing premiums 7% to 8% from what they would be. jane: this plan does not contain what has been called the public option, does not have your idea of co-ops, which would be funding -- funded with startup money from the government to compete with existing insurers. michael steele called that a back door to a public option. some have raised questions about whether it would actually even work. when enough people sign up?

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jane: at the bottom of the hour, here is what is happening -- caught on tape, more calls to investigate acorn after workers were seen advising people on how to avoid paying taxes. jon: two american couples forced into hard labor in egypt for forging papers. >> we are in new orleans, where they are trying to use security cameras to make things safer. the system does not work, $6 million, and the reason is new orleans style boondoggle politics. jon: a white house spokesman is

trying to sell the president's decision and announce this morning that would scrap a land base -- sell the president's decision announced this morning that would scrap the land based missile defense system in the czech republic. what will this new strategy look like? let's talk about it with the former deputy assistant secretary of defense under president reagan, can be helped to develop the star wars missile -- caity helped to develop the star wars missile defense system. great to see you. president obama says that we can accomplish a lot of what was intended in poland with sinn systems? can we? >> -- ship-based systems? can we? >> the bigger question is are we giving up something that getting

more in return from the russians? this has been an important point. what are we getting in an exchange for a promise not to deploy this in polish territory? are we getting cooperation on the embargo on iran? which obama is supposed to talk about within days? are we getting cooperation in stopping their aid to nuclear programs? or are we getting help in stopping in the deployment of a defense system to iran? if we are not getting any of those, we have made a bad deal. if we are getting older -- all free, then it is a good deal. i am worried that this is a goodwill gesture that is fuzzy and warm. jon: your questions are echoed by mitch mcconnell, republican leader. here is what he put out in a news release, "this decision is

shortsighted and harmful to long-term security interests. we must not turn our backs on loyal allies in the war on terror. the administration has received no commitment from the russians to reduce the threat from iran." the administration has said that there is no quid pro quo with the russians. there is no agreement, no need to do any of the things that you talked about. >> if we have done this without getting anything back, it is one of the bigger mistakes we have ever made. president reagan knew how to negotiate to get something in return. jon: trust but verify. >> our biggest threat in the world is iran getting nuclear weapons. that should be the president's first priority. to stop that nuclear program, you need russian cooperation. if he is not getting russian

cooperation, i think that we have been taken. jon: there are things that we could have asked for from the russians, including that air defense system that they want to sell the iranians. >> russian has -- russia is planning to sell this state of the art system to iran. once iran takes the liberty of that system, they can shoot out of the air any potential israeli attack. so, this is a very key moment. benjamin netanyahu went to moscow last week on a secret mission to ask the russians to delay giving that to iran. was that part of the deal? i do not know. we will not know for a couple of weeks. jon: russians are heavily involved in making the iranian nuclear program possible. >> absolutely. iran needs russian help in their enrichment of nuclear energy.

to enrich it to the point of being a weapons-grade capability. if iran does not have russian cooperation, it makes it more difficult. finally, president obama has said that if they do not come to the negotiating table ready to talk about their nuclear program, the united nations might slap an embargo on iran, which is completely dependent on imported gasoline. 40% of their gasoline is imported. without russian cooperation, that embargo is not affected by their. jon: thank you. jane: two american couples have been slapped with harsh prison -- harsh prison sentences in egypt for trying to adopt children with forged documents. they are going to be paying thousands in fines. adoptions are illegal in egypt. children can live with foster parents without ever taking on

their name. jon: the pilot of a small corporate jet is likely to be -- lucky to be alive after walking away from a fiery crash in california. take a look at this video from outside of san francisco. you can see the air plane smashed into the ground and burst into flames. the faa says that it went down right after takeoff. amazingly, the pilot was able to walk away. one witness described the frightening events. >> you could tell that he lost power, it was like he was doing a stunt. he was trying to bring it back with no power. he clipped the side of the building and the airplane just spun around. shepard: the pilot was the only person on board, he was able to crawl out without assistance. the faa is investigating what caused it to go down. jane: would you like to go to the french quarter of new

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>> right now we are watching, on one of our incoming promotes, these are the closing arguments for the defense of a former football coach in kentucky. he was a high school " -- football coach accused of reckless homicide and wanting endangerment because one of his players died after a brutal football practice last summer.

max died last august and jurors must decide whether to find him guilty of reckless homicide or want and endangerment, or to acquit him. -- wanton endangerment, or to acquit him. this defense attorney is a colorful guy. what he is telling the jury is yes, the coach denied his players water. yes, it was a hot day and other players were feeling the effects. he argues that the coach did nothing wrong. listen. >> there is no expert but came in here. their expert, our expert, any expert could come in here. >> next up, the prosecution is going to make a chance to make

its closing argument. then the case is going to go of the jurors. the case of the former kentucky high school football coach accused of pushing his players to hard and causing the death of one of the players. back to jon and jane. jane: thank you. the city of new orleans has more than 200 guys in the sky, surveillance cameras designed to keep citizens safe. the system has been plagued with legal and operational problems, forcing residents to take matters into their own hands. brian wilson is in the be easy for us. what is going on? >> the security time -- security crime camera system here does not work. the reason is louisiana-style boondoggle politics. september 9, a private security camera captures images of

carjackers in new orleans. within minutes a high-speed chase is on. when the driver threatened to run over other police officers, he was shot and later died. the entire thing happened to it directly beneath one of the crime security cameras. as is often the case, it was not working. when we arrived this week the camera had been removed for repair. these are the subject of an ongoing civil suit. the mayor is expected to be called as a witness. the former chief of technology of the city is the acknowledged target of a federal investigation probing the problems. the mayor and the technical chief were best friends. they were such good friends that they took vacations together. it was those expensive vacations and how they were paid for that is raising eyebrows. documents show that in 2004 and

2006 vacation trips were funded by the company that ultimately receive the crime cameras contracts. 88 gigabytes of e-mails have been seized on the topic, but they vanished from computers at city hall. we wanted to ask the mayor about this, but he was not taking questions. mr. mayer, do you have any comment about whether you are going to testify? meanwhile, some citizens are not waiting for the city to get its crime camera system working. todd installed a neighborhood system and his cameras recently captured key evidence when and a neighbor hood restaurant was robbed. he is exasperated with politics in the city. >> we struggle and struggle to pay our taxes and we get

nothing. >> we are told that in any given day in the city of new orleans and the majority of the 250 crime cameras that do not work. that guy that you saw there, when he captured neighborhood robbers, the city took the video and touted it as their own, so desperate they were to claim that the system was working. they retracted that comment later as an honest mistake. jane: to read more about this, logon to our website, foxnews.com/nowheretohid. lots of good stuff on there. jon: two men were flying their seaplane, you can see it submerged and inverted now. it went down in lake otis. looking at it here, does not

look like -- well, maybe it is. we are told that it was a sea plane. they lost their engine. somehow they had to set down the water. the airplane became inverted. as a result those guys had to be rescued. we understand that they were taken to the lakeland regional medical center. we will give you more information as it becomes available. jane: a community group in the cross hairs, undercover videos, we will be talking to a lawmaker that wants to follow the money. government money. taxpayer money given to this group.

jon: the governor of california, calling for a probe into acorn in the wake of those videos of employees at acorn advocating illegal acts, including evading taxes. acorn has launched its own internal review. our next guest wants to track down all the money that acorn has received from the federal government. with us now, a ranking member of the house committee on oversight and government reform. have you been able to add up how much money they have received? >> we can not. they are members of many organizations. after you look at acorn, you have to look at affiliate's. last year be published 88 pages of a criminal activity that went

on, some of the above average matrix of different companies to try to understand how this criminal enterprise was formed. we are only at the tip of the iceberg, one of the reasons we are asking the various cabinet positions to give us a report on an investigation because they are the ones that have actually spent the major pockets of money. jon: the federal emergency management agency just gave acorn $1 billion for emergency preparedness in new orleans. that is one of the grants that other members of congress have said hey, the federal government should get its money back. jon: -- >> absolutely. acorn was born in new orleans, raised in chicago. there is no surprise that they can consistently get dollars to fund their operation. jon: can a police themselves? they said that they are going to take a hard look at their operations, getting to the bottom of what is going on in their local chapters.

>> acorn is so closely tied with operative wings of the democratic party, as well as support for continued the legal immigration in hiding that, of what they call community activism as inherently become so corrupt that they cannot get past their culture of people that come in with good intentions, in some cases, but find an organization that supports the wrong things. jon: it is also tied in to the obama administration, correct? >> both sides are tied to the obama administration. obviously the president gave them a large amount of money to help in the election. there is a close relationship. they are part of a very big organization in chicago. all that we are asking for at this point is a fair investigation of where the federal dollars have been spent.

obviously the census bureau made the right decision in trying to suspend all ties with this organization. jon: thank you, congressman. >> you are welcome. jane: this is an incredible story. he died trying to pull a fellow story -- a fellow soldier to safety. today he is awarded with the highest military honor. . if you've had a heart attack caused by a completely blocked artery, another heart attack could lurking waiting to strike. a heart attack caused by a clot, one that could be fatal. but plavix helps save lives. plavix taken with other heart medicines, goes beyond what other heart medicines do alone, to provide greater protection against heart attack or stroke and even death

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jane: keep watching, because an hour from now, a staff sergeant will receive the medal of honor, the highest award. he died while trying to rescue a fellow soldier in afghanistan. james rosen has the incredible story in d.c. james? >> he was only 30 years old in june of 2006, but already he was a seasoned veteran who knew how

to game trust. three summers ago, and he was on his second tour of duty in afghanistan, taking part in an arduous two-date march up the treacherous -- two-day march up into the mountains near the pakistani border. an opposing force of 50 men suddenly and ferociously attacked with a barrage of rocket-propelled grenades, medium-arms fire, and small- arms fire. at least one man was down, hit by enemy fire. the major general who commanded monti's unit picked up the story this morning on "fox and friends." >> he said, "he is my soldier.

i am going to get him." three times, monti went out to rescue bradbury. the third time, he was mortally wounded. his unit eventually beat back the enemy fighters. just a tremendous, phenomenal leader and noncommissioned officer in our army. he is a true bureau for our country. >> president obama personally called the monti family earlier this summer to inform them that he would receive the medal of honor. that is in addition to a bronze star and purple heart. jane: that ceremony will get under way at about 2:00 eastern. that is going to do it for us today. we are going to send you over to martha and trace. [captioning made possible by fox news channel] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- martha: