obesity. martha: show me a kid that doesn't rip out the toy, they rip the bag tone, rip out the toy and trade them. bad idea. see you tomorrow. jon: and good morning it you -- to you! i'm jon scott. jane: i'm jane skinner, live from the senate floor, debating changes to the health care plan, and the fireworks are just getting started. that doesn't look like it, does it? we've got it for you. jon: a huge man hunt in california for a man who tried to elude police in a very big way. he has charges including attempted murder. jane: the family of the trainer killed by the orca at sea world is in court, they would like the judge to stop the release of surveillance video that shows the attack. take a live look at pictures from the nerve center, that's new york's world headquarters in middown manhattan are all the knews is pouring in.

jon: first the bill, now comes the executive order, president obama about to put pen to paper again signing an executive order that restricts funds for abortions, it was this order that helped democrats pass health care reform by convincing prolife democrats like michigan congressman bart stupak, seen here, to back the bill. major garrett is live at the white house for us and major, will we see this executive order signing? >> reporter: not live and not on video. we will see in all likelihood, the white house assures us, actually, a photo of this executive order signed at 2:30 at the white house attended by bob casey of pennsylvania and 12 house democrats very interested in this issue, but no live coverage, just that white house photo, in sharp contrast to the two liveie vents yesterday signing the underlying health care legislation itself. jon: does this really change anything? >> reporter: from the white house perspective, no it does not. what it says is it merely

reamps and restates existing law from the hyde amendment in the seven '70s that prohibited direct federal funding for abortion, however, bart stupak, as you mentioned at the open, states because of the federal law creates these community health centers and federal funding for that, to specifically make sure the community health centers are not to receive any federal funding for abortions, and he says that is a specific improvement over the hyde amendment. jon: congressman stupak, whm we see here with the president, he has compared this to pretty big presidential moves in the past, right? >> reporter: yes. stupak is under a bit of attack from the prolife community for what they say is accepting something that doesn't really fundamentally change federal law at all and isn't nearly as stringent as the original amendment that he put in the house bill and for that he's being attacked, he says this executive order about to be signed by the president should be compared to the emancipation proclamation signed by president abraham lincoln or president

truman's signing of an executive order in 1948 to de segregate the armed forces. in both those cases those sitting presidents were quite sure this changed existing law. this white house says this current one about to be signed does not. jon: major garrett, live at the white house, thank you. jane: we're watching the senate floor, live at this moment, where members are hotly debating amendments to the health care law, the so-called fixes to the plan the president signed into law, this is where republicans are hoping to remove some of the provisions in the package, one bone of contention, the takeover of the student loan industry. here's tennessee senator republican lamar alexander, take a listen. >> one washington take over after another. that's why i'm saying i think we ought to hide the yellow pages from these flows, they find something in the private sector, they can say we can put out the -- cut out the profit, cut out the business, why doesn't the government do it. jane: molly henneberg, she's

been watching all morning, the debate right now going on, what should we know what's taking place? >> reporter: this is ever changing but here's our sense of what will happen on the senate floor, as they finish the debate on fixes to the senate health care bill reform that was passed by the house, in an effort to move this along, the top democrat in the senate, harry reid, just this morning gave up all the time allotted to democrats for speeches. now, that still leaves seven hours, 25 minutes given to republicans. so that doesn't mean you won't hear from democrats today. both sides have agreed to split that time, 50/50. although it's unclear if both sides will actually use up all that time given to them. but it appears the debate will wrap up in the 5:00 hour today, then they'll proto most of the vote. jane: what kind of amendments are the republicans proposing? >> a number of fixes they would like to see added to the bill, new hampshire's judd gregg wants the cut in medicare in the bill, he wants any money gotten wa way to be put back in for seniors, he says lawmakers

have to take steps to, quote, make medicare more solvent. senator john mccain is proposing an amendment to strip the deals with individual lawmakers, the so-called louisiana purchase, strip them from the bill, and they were used, republicans say, to get votes from democratic lawmakers. jane: what are the chances of any of those amendments passing? >> not much. even senator gregg says he doesn't expect any of them will pass. he says all of them likely will go down party lines. keep in mind, if there are any changes to this fix-it bill, it will have to go to the house for another change there. jane: molly will let us know if any more fireworks explode, thanks. jon: international intrigue at the white house, president obama meeting with prime minister bin gentleman min netanyahu twice yesterday, but unlike other meetings with world leaders, this is about the only picture we saw. there were no videos of the actual meeting, no joint news conference, no photo op as you would normally see

during such a high level visit. that probably had something to do with the tone of these meetings. mr. netanyahu is publicly rejecting the administration's request to stop construction of new settlements in a disputed area of east jerusalem, an area palestinians claim will one day be their capitol. jane: secretary of state clinton says the u.s. has an insatiable apfight for drugs and that is fueling the drug war in mexico. she was in mexico where she pledged long time support to president calderon, she told him the united states must do more to stop the smuggling of weapons into mexico and said the united states is about to reveal a drug policy reducing demand in this country for those illegal narcotics. jon: high level talks with another key american ally taking place in washington. le over the years, pakistan has stepped up its efforts against taliban forces in its borders and the u.s. is encouraging it to keep the pressure on.

mike emanuel is live at the pentagon with brand new information for us. so mike, with the pakistanis in town, secretary of defense gates and admiral mike mullen were asked about this recent aggressive approach that pakistan is taking. what did they have to say? >> reporter: that's right, jon, the chairman and secretary of defense on capitol hill were asked about the pakistani relations and what they've been doing recently and they went out of their way to praise the pakistanis. let's take a listen. >> it has really been extraordinary in my view, seeing what pakistan has done over the last really more than a year in terms of becoming engaged, in terms of their operations, in terms of understanding, that they now face an existential threat. >> the military has -- has worked hard to get the support of the pakistani people, and that was very low a couple of years ago, and now it is exceptionally

high. jon: admiral mullen going on to say there is a trust that is building between the u.s. military and the pakistani military, working both sides of that border, jon. jon: i know officials from both countries have been working on building a better strategic relationship between america and pakistan. what can you tell us about that? >> reporter: well, that's right. there are meetings going on at the state department today, and among the things that they're looking at is broadening the relationship from just a security relationship to education, agriculture, and civilian energy. so really looking to take the u.s.-pakistani relationship to the next level, which is something that the u.s. is very happy to do, as long as the pakistanis are cooperative in terms of fighting terrorism on their side of the border, jon. jon: what's the bottom line at the pentagon from where you are, from the u.s. military perspective? >> reporter: as general mcchrystal was surging the additional troops on the afghan side of the border, if the pakistanis keep their pressure on their side of the border it's a win-win for everybody. so they are very happy at

this building, knowing the pakistanis recognize the threat of the taliban not only in afghanistan, but to the pakistani government's existence, and so they are quite happy with the work the pakistanis have been doing in recent months to take in the fight to the taliban and terrorists on their soil, jon. jon: mike emanuel at the pentagon, thank you. jane: we've been watching a courtroom in florida, the family of a sea world trainer killed by a whale there is this morning asking a judge to prevent them from enduring more pain, they're trying to block the release of surveillance video of her actual death. plus, a new warning for parents out there, a very popular baby product is now part of a massive safety recall. we'll tell you if your product is affected, coming up.

jon: happening now, in the top box, a deadly pirate attack off the coast of east africa where for the very first time ever private security guards killed a

somali pirate during an attack on a merchant ship. we'll have more on this story in a live report next hour. in the middle, new details about the american man de naind north korea, the boston man is described as a devout christian who rallied against pyongyang, the rogue nation set to put him on trial but so far the state department has not been notified of charges against him. on the bottom, help for the unemployed as the house reps to send another jobs bill to the senate today. this one could mean billions of dollars in new construction projects for local governments. a warning to parents about baby slings, the cloth carriers that allow you to barry -- carry your baby close to your chest, the commission recalling more than 1 million of the infantino sling slingriders, saying this sling has been linked to three infant deaths last year. also under recall the wendy bellissimo baby sling, more than 15,000 of them sold in the united states and

canada. the commission says babies, especially those under two months of age risk suffocation in the slings because the fabric can press up against the babies' noses or mouths. jane: the family of a sea world trainer who was killed, they've been asking a judge not to release surveillance video that showed the actual attack by this orca that killed dawn brancho, the family arguing the video is too intrusive and it was a private tragedy for the family. what are you learning? >> reporter: not just video but pictures in perpetuity in the public's eye. that's what the family is trying to fight. very emotional in the courtroom today, you saw the woman with the hanker chef up to her lips, the mom of dawn brancheau, her brother and husband in court today as they're trying to appeal to the judge. there was a temporary injunction put on last week saying you can't go forward with any more releases of this material until both sides have come together to try to figure out whether or

not this is fair to the family. the medical examiner's office and orange county sheriff's office are those in particular that they want to prevent releasing any further video recordings or photographs, and so whairp saying is can you please extend that injunction, so the judge will do that. but the judge has not ruled on whether or not those pictures and videos will permanently be out of the public's eye. for right now, we could see those pics and moving video come back from the day of her death, dawn brancheau, again, dragged to the bottom of the tank by an orca, dragged by her tony tail to her death, her family having to view images over and over as this case stays in the headlines but for now on injunction for any release. we'll see when the judge rules on whether or not that will become public. back to you. jane: thank you very much. jon: right now, the united states senate is debating some fixes to health care reform. but the senate bill is law now. and its biggest challenge is coming from individual

states. a new "rasmussen poll" shows 48 percent of people want their state to sue over the health care reform law. we're going to talk with a state attorney general who is doing just that. we'll ask him if he thinks he can win against the feds. that's next. the screenings that happen here

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snowstorm in colorado, bringing 2 feet, denver airport has been canceling flights. jon: the fight over health care reform is far from over, or so it would appear. attorneys general in 14 states are now suing, challenging the brand new health care law. our next guest is among them. utah attorney general mark shirkliff is with us. welcome. >> hi jon. jon: on what basis are you challenging this law? >> well, look, we are basing it on the constitution. it doesn't matter how laudible or great the federal government wants to do something, you have to follow a law. this is a nation of laws. so we believe that the individual mandate is a violation of not only the tenth amendment and states rights but individual rights. never in the history of this country, jon, has anybody ever required an individual to buy a product or service as a condition of citizen thank you and then fine you if you don't do it. we believe that's unconstitutional and who but

attorneys general who are tasked with protecting states' rights to stand up and sue. jon: you're saying the requirement that people buy health insurance individually, that you find unconstitutional. >> we do. yes. and now, the federal government, they will argue that somehow this is an expansion of their commerce clause power but there are big cases in the last decade in which the courts have said that commerce power is not without limits, it has to have commerce at its core and has to be something not left to the states. well, health insurance has been left to the states and on decision on whether i have health insurance, whether i seek coverage, what type of health carry want, what kind of procedures i have, that's an individual decision, that's not interstate commerce, so we believe they've gone beyond their power, and there's no other way to stop them but to challenge it in court. jon: most of these attorneys general who are fighting this thing are republicans, such as yourself. does that make it look like this is simply more republican versus democrat

battling? >> well, certainly cynics will say that. we do have one about him, buddy calwell in louisiana. we'll have more. i joined with democrats and sued republican administration officials if we believe their actions have violated states rights. it has nothing to do with the policy. many parts of this health care reform are laudible. doesn't matter how good it is, you have to do it right and legal in this country and they haven't done that, so we have to stand up for states' rights in the tenth amendment, i believe more democrats, a.g.s, will join in as they see the responsibility to their state and as states pass the laws that prohibit the mandate as utah and virginia and other states have done, more a.g.s will be required to join the suit. we have a great court in virginia and we have a good chance of winning this suit. jon: you where written, along a oren hatch, that this law is a threat to liberty itself. what do you mean by that?

>> look, to force on american citizen to buy a product or service is a direct attack on your individual liberty. this isn't like states making you buy auto insurance where you're insuring the people you might hurt or where you -- and you still may choose not to drive an automobile or choose not to have insurance. in this case, it doesn't matter who you are, if you're self-insured, doesn't matter if you're healthy and don't seek health care services, you must pay a penalty. that flies schiewtly in -- absolutely in the face of individual liberty in this country and it's astounding to me that people will say the end justifies the means in this case. it's the process, we don't care what the process is. jon: you wouldn't participate in this lawsuit if you didn't feel you could win, but there are a lot of experts who say look, federal law trumps state law and the states don't have a prayer of winning here. what do you say? >> well, look, the feds, if it passes any law that contradicts state's law, theirs is good? that's not the way the system is set up.

the constitution says in the tenth amendment, if it's not directly empowered under the constitution, that power is left to the states. certainly the federal courts over years have expanded that commerce clause power. we understand that. we're in federal court, challenging the power of the federal government. so we know it's an uphill battle, certainly. but most of these experts you're citing are ivory tower intellectuals. we are attorneys general, we have great staff and experienced lawyers, we believe we have a chance of winning this, and the courts have recently said you have to have a limit to this expansion of commerce clause power and even the taxation power, so we think we have a good argument, we hope more states will join. we don't want to kill everything, we just want to make sure the mandate and medicaid expansion and some of the problems with the law are done correctly and lily. jon: weeching watching. mark shercleff, thank you. jane: speaking of utah, a fascinating in the southern part of that state, archeologists find a new dinosaur species, they found the bones at a base of a cliff hidden deep in rocks

near the bluff. researchers from the natural museum of history think it was buried by a sand do you know that collapsed 185 million years ago. it's believed the dinosaur was 10-15 feet long, four or 5 feet high or so. researchers say there are more remains yet to be discovered in this specific area. jon: first the bank foreclosures -- forecloses on your home, then another group zeroes in. an illegal scam that targets empty houses. a live report on how that works, straight ahead. and why a government watchdog says the administration's foreclosure program that's supposed to help people is doing more harm than good. jenna lee will be along to explain.

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jon bottom of the hour now, time to check in on the top stories and happening in the top box, saudi arabia arrests more than 100 people suspected of plotting terror attacks on the kingdom's oil installations. middle box, tiger woods, getting some advice from another golf great. arnold palmer says tiger should be more open with the media when he returns to the master's next month. bottom box, one day after signing the massive health care overhaul bill, president obama is getting ready now to sign an executive order reaming long standing restrictions on -- reaming long standing restrictions on the federal funding of abortions. jane: the battle over health

care is heading to the campaign trail, democrats and republicans are campaigning on the stands they took on these reforms, releasing ads targeting opponents in the november elections, for either supporting or opposing the bill. steve centanni is looking at this ankle. what can we -- the angle. >> democrats and republicans are gearing up for a major ad campaign for the mid-term elections. for their part the republicans have already launched a website slamming democrats for passing health care in the first place and calling for the resignation of house speaker nancy pelosi. here's part of that ad: >> pelosi's health care takeover, they don't want any more of their big government agenda. two point five million jobs have been lost in the year since obama and pelosi started trying to ram through their health care takeover. it's time to focus on jobs and cutting government spending. it's time to fire nancy pelosi. now, that's a cause worth

celebrating. >> fire nancy pelosi. so that's the way the gop is coming up with a full guns blazing, tv ads also in the works, tarringing vulnerable lawmakers who backed the health care plan. the campaign will start later this week and it calls for the defeat of those members in november. jane? jane: how are the democrats responding, what are they planning? >> well, they're also planning to fire back. no surprise, of course. they're targeting republicans who voted for health care, planning to spend at least $5 million on a tv and radio ad campaign. now, it will thank some 25 democratic members of congress who supported health care bill, and ten republicans who voted against it will be targeted at the same time. one democratic source confirmed the ad, and said this is just the beginning. democrats think they have a good opportunity to defend their position on health care and minimize any damage that might be coming their way in november. jane: and the stakes for the democrats? >> reporter: of course, they will probably lose some seats in congress and the dnc campaigned, joined by

other progressive groups, is trying to minimize any possible damage in november. and no doubt, there will be major focus on democrats who hold seats in districts where voters supported john mccain two years ago. out of the 49 democratic members in those districts, 20 did vote for health care, and those will be the ones democrats will try to protect and the ones republicans will try to unseat, jane. jane: steve from washington, steve, thanks. jon: a fox business alert for you now, new homes sales dropping last month, the commerce department reports the sales of new homes fell 2.2% in february. it is the lowest level on record since 1963. and the fourth consecutive month of declines. that number blamed in part on the stormy weather that might have kept potential buyers on the sidelines. jane: also a government watchdog is now slamming the administration's foreclosure prevention program, special -- special inspector general says the $75 billion program

really falls short of its goal and may ultimately do more harm than good. jenna is here to explain what it means. >> reporter: he said the government overpromised and underdelivered, that's the message from bar off question today and -- baro barovsky. there's a difference between a temporary modification and there seems to be disagreement between the inspector general on what this program is exactly supposed to do. according to barovsky, the government opened the doors for this plan, february 2009, accepting mortgage modifications or applications for that and what that did is created a huge backlog, because they didn't have enough people in place to deal with it. because of the backlog, you have a whole bunch of folks with temporary modifications, with very few with permanent modifications, and whether it's the government, a bank, a lender, when you offer someone temporary relief, often times it's a bandaid to a larger wound, and a few months down the line, they find themselves in the same

problems they had in the first place. so right now, we have a little bit over 10 percent of the people that actually have temporary modifications, getting permanent modifications. so that's a little more than one out of ten that actually have relief that they can count on. jon: and those new home sales numbers, not good. what do those tell us about this market? >> reporter: they tell us it's not good! jon: okay, we're done! jenna: if we can show a graph, as jon was saying, it was the 1960s, this is what it looks like, you see the spike in the 2006, 2007 range and then the big drop and with new home sales, despite the buyer tax credit, low rates, whether it's a new home, existing home, you're not seeing a whole bunch of pickup in this market. if you combine that with the other news we heard about temporary modifications for different mortgages, you have people that are looming potentially on foreclosure, that only those -- then those homes come on the market and you have a bigger

problem, because you're not seeing a whole lot of relief or pickup in real estate at this time. jon: -- jon: there's more bad news. foreclosed homes are easy targets for thieves. orlando salinas with more on that. orly? >> reporter: jon, we are as you said in brookfield, florida, fernando county. this is sort of a rural part, if you will, i wouldn't say so much rural, the homes are spread out, probably a good 50, 100 yards -- come on here for a second. we're talking about a problem where you have a glut of foreclosed homes. this is a big deal around here and all around the country. here's the problem, jon. so many people have foreclosed on their homes, the banks own the homes, so you have a lot of these owners, the banks, who are nowhere near here. over here, used to be a fridge, jon, over here, phil, used to be the dishwasher, they even took the kitchen sink. this over here used to be

the oven, the range, the microwave. take it there, phil, over by the light. this was part of a home that was really just trashed. anything that these people could take, they took. we're talking about thieves who have been casing the area, and they watch and they understand that the homes are empty. here's the problem with these beautifully built homes that people had bought as investments. they had brand new appliances put in here, jon, and the bad guys knew that these homes were filled. there was nobody here, so they began to take them. six on -- almost $70,000 worth of equipment, of appliances, have been taken. we have a guest real quick, teresa tyner, teresa, come in here for a second, teresa tyner is with white diamond realty, she is a realtor that's been in this area for quite some time. your homes that you're leasing, they also were hit, but the good news here is police have started a brand

new kind of way of tracking these people down. tell me about it. >> the sheriff's department is really helping us out a lot. they have a gps that they're putting in appliances and actually we just received some of our appliances back because there was a gps in this. we want to let the thieves know, if you're feeling lucky, go ahead and steal the appliances because the chances are the sheriff's department is going to get them back. >> beautiful. teresa, thank you very much. there are roughly 80 or so homes in fernando county that were hit by these thieves and as you heard teresa tyner say now, they have a gps they're putting inside the appliances, putting them back inside the foreclosed homes, so thieves, if you're feeling lucky, go ahead and see if you can avoid the cops who put the cpss inside the appliances. jon: orly, thank you. jane: we are getting to a man wanted in three armed robberies. this guy is also accused of trying to kill two police officers. harris has new information.

and to stay trim, women have to work hard. very, very hard. this is what the new research says. i'm going to be asking dr. siegl why my coanchor can sit here, i kid you not, and eat three pastries in ten minutes' time while i sit here with my glass of water and he's still skinnier than i am! the doc is up next, with the answer, i hope.

jon: right now a man hunt underway in california, the santa ana area, for a very dangerous criminal, 35-year-old john figarella trying with chargedo charged with trying to kill two police officers. he's also wanted in connection with at least three armed robberies. harris faulkner has new information at the breaking news desk. >> reporter: it's interesting how this has come together, this man is accused of trying to run over two police officers, they were in pursuit in him,

had led him on a high speed chase, they cornered him in one area in santa ana, california and just as they thought they had him, he hit the accelerator and would have killed the police officers had it not been for a great deal of fortune and them being able to jump out of the way. meanwhile through dna evidence now and some surveillance tape, they figure out who tried to run them over, allegedly. they say it's this guy. through the dna evidence left inside the car, and at this place of business that he's allegedly robbed, they figured out that it is john fi -- john figueroa, this is the heist in that area and there was an earlier one on christmas eve where there was another man with him but in the video, he's the one with the big gun, i'm told, john figueroa, 35-year-old garden grove man, now charged with trying to run over the two santa ana police officers. here's the tipline if you

can help, they consider this guy tore armed and dangerous you heard jon say it, take it seriously: also, if you see him, immediately you can always call 911. a man hunt is going on in southern california for a guy who would kill two police officers. they consider that to be a heightened sense of danger because it means it's an open season on anybody else. jon? jon: for sure, harris faulkner, thank you. jane: this you might find a little annoying, get set to work overtime if you're a woman and want to stay fit as you get older. a new study finds that women need at least an hour every day of moderate exercise if they want toward off the pounds that come with -- the extra pounds that come with age. that's triple the amount recommended by health officials in this country. dr. marc siegl is part of the medical a team and is brave enough to walk into the lion's den today. i guess this is confirmation, kind of, of

what we already new but what exactly do they look at here? >> first of all they looked at women over 50 and traced them for 30 years. this is a harvard study, it was done extremely well, if you it's an observational study. what they found was that women that were thin to begin with, that have a body mass index, we call it a body mass index, meaning your weight for a given height, the taller you are, the more weight we let you have, that's body mass index, the women under 25, body mass index, that's like you, jane, very thin, very thin, those women, followed for 13 years, only kept that weight down if they exercised an hour a day. that's a lot of exercise. jane: iture iso it sure is. when they're talking about moderate, it's not just taking the stairs at work or walking around the block. >> they include the stair master, trade mill, walking, yoga, all different kinds of exercise because a lot of people may only get on that treadmill after an hour a day but may walk after an hour.

jane: you're telling me 30 minutes is not enough? >> i think it is enough. i want to go over this. first of all, we're always talking about weight only. why is it always just weight? it shouldn't be just wait. it should be how do you maintain being healthy. other studies have shown that half an hour of exercise a day is enough to help you ward off heart disease and strokes and cancer. that's what i'm most interested in. the half an hour figure. i think this is a little bit too high. jane: my heart may be healthy but my butt will still be big! why can jon sit here, i kid you not, you saw him scarf down the two rolls, he has cinnamon buns, he'll eat four in an hour and i have my glass of water. >> i had, too, before i came on. >> it's fat fair, they didn't test men in this. >> here's the issue with men and women, here's why they're different. i learned on the second day of medical school that women were superior, they have better metabolisms. jane you at least say that. >> my wife tells me to say it but i actually mean it.

here's the problem, when women get over 50, their met object plism changes, they go into menopause, theest again goes down, the hormones are out of whack and that's why they gain weight easily. younger women have this better, though. jane: no kidding. i've noticed. doc, you're a good sport to put up with me but i couldn't believe it when i read it. of course we have to exercise three times harder. >> per is good for you not just for weight loss, it helps the happy hormones, you burn fat better, carbohydrates better, oxygen burns better. jane: i wouldn't be so nasty if i worked out more. thank you. jon: she's always happy. the illegal immigrant issue, mostly kept out of the health care debate but things are about to heat up again and if you were worried about the high cost of health care before reform, just wait. what happens if 12 million illegals get added to the system? and move over mr. ed! you can talk. but this guy can paint.

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jon: here's a hot one, a north carolina school board hands down a controversial ruling, voting to end the policy of busing students based on family income. it will now reassign them to schools closer to their homes. but critics say this new policy, they call it resegregation. jonathan serre is live from the atlanta bureau. >> reporter: this decision came down during a contentious school board meeting, at times police had to escort demonstrators from the meeting room, they even arrested three of them. even so the protests outside the board meeting was so loud at times board members

complained they couldn't hear each other in the meeting hall, but county officials voted 5-4 to end the policy of assigning children to schools based on income, that policy was intended to make sure that no school had more than 40 percent of their students on subsidized lunch programs. when it was first adopted in 1999, economics-based busing was seen as a way of moving beyond racial preferences while still ensuring this advantage had kids access to equal opportunities but parents living in the suburbs complained kids were having to travel too far to go to school. last year they elected a new majority to the school board that opposed the economics-based busing policy and ultimately that majority voted last night, again, 5-4, eliminating this policy. the school board will spend the next 15 months developing so-called neighborhood zones, and assigning school children to schools a little closer to home. jon? jon: jonathan serre from

atlanta, thank you. jane: we have several stories we want to get to you, health care and other stories, we know it aggravates you, but we want to bring you another story, a horse that paints, buggs. his owner says buggs started painting. she wanted him to beat the winter blues because he was stuck in his stall all winter. look at that. people are buying the works, paying up to $125 each. carol jensen is on the phone from will walkie, wisconsin. how did you know that buggs had such talent? >> i realized i have a very smart horse and he was getting into trouble, and -- because he was bored, and i thought he needed a job, he needed something to do, and he's very -- he started out being kind of nippy, so i kind of channeled that talent he had with his mouth into teaching him to pick up

things and hand them to me, and i'm an artist, and it just seemed like painting was the next step. jane: who do you teach a horse to paint? >> well, it's a lot of little steps. i started off just having him touch the end of the brush, and then when he was doing that, i asked him to put his lips around t. and then hold it with his teeth. it took a couple of weeks to get to the point where he would actually hold it for me for any length of time, then once that was done, then he learned to move his head around, so i actually physically put my hands on his head and moved it up and down, and i used a type of training that is positive reinforcement, so when he does what i ask him to do, he's reinforced for it, and he picked it up very quickly. jane: do believe -- do people believe you? because you're an artist, do people believe that he's the artist and that you're not embellishing it?

some people look at this photo and say he looks quite proud. >> i think he is. he's got a lot of self-esteem. he thinks very highly of himself. but i take photographs as i'm doing the paintings, so that i can point out to people he is really doing the actual physical painting part of it. i'm picking out the colors, and handing him the brush with the paint on it, but then after that, i really don't have much control over what happens. jane: before i let you know, i wanted to let our viewers know that you use the money you get for charity. >> yes. buggs has donated quite a few paintings to some charitable organizations that are involved with therapeutic riding, and horse rescue. jane: good for you carol! that's actually really beautiful work. we're going to put some of it on our blog, foxnews.com/happening now. there he is now. look at buggs, look at me, my very first art show thunderstorms if you look online, there's a horse movement out there.

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jon: breaking news right now from california where police officers fear they are being targeted. the police chief says four city pickup trucks torched are part of a continuing threat against his department. hello, i'm jon scott. jane: and i'm jane skinner.

serious concerns this latest episode may be linked to the three previous booby traps believed to be set for police officers. tim gain is at the national guessing, he's -- desk, he's got more. >> reporter: i want to show you a picture, that's the lead story on fox's ktla affiliate. it was discovered burning late last night. police chief out there says the incident is considered a threat against the department. officials now putting up a $200,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible. the attacks have involved booby traps at the headquarters and the targeting of officers. there's been a couple of incidents. december, a gas utility line was redirected to fill the office with gas. in february a modified handgun was rigged to fire. two weeks ago a dangerous device was found near an unmarked car near a task force member. just last friday someone called 911 and said a police car would

be blown up as revenge for a law enforcement sweep earlier this week of local motorcycle gang. so far there are no official suspects in the threats or potentially deadly incidents, but last week authorities led raids on the vagos motorcycle gang. thirty people arrested. to the investigators looking at surveillance video. k-tv all over this story, anything breaks, we'll bring it right back to you. jane: jim, thanks very much. jon: the final chapter in the more than yearlong battle over health care reform may be playing out right now in the u.s. senate. take a live look at the senate floor. there's senator chuck schumer. lawmakers are debating the reconciliation part of that bill. the changes to the new health care reform law negotiated by house democrats. senate democrats are confident this thing will pass, republicans, though, say they

are not giving up trying to block the bill just yet. carl cameron is watching all of the action live on capitol hill, so where are we in the debate right now? what's going on, carl? >> reporter: handful of hours left in the actual debate. democrats have essentially relinquished most of their debate time, they're debating one another off the republican clock because democrats are trying to get this over with. harry reid essentially said democrats are done, we're finished talking, it's time to go to the voting, and he turned back to the democrat time. a blizzard, an absolute frenzy of 10-minute votes on a host of points of order that the republicans have proposed, all of which are designed to just change the bill just a little bit because, jon, if it changes just a little bit, it doesn't go from the senate to the president's desk to be signed into law, it goes back to the house where the representatives would have to vote on it again. they hope by putting up some of

these amendments which are controversial and in many cases popular, democrats will be forced to vote against popular ideas. for instance, one of the amendments is to ban special deals like the cornhusker kickback and the louisiana purchase and all those. democrats are going to have to vote against banning such special deals in order to keep the bill clean and, thus, send it back to the house. it puts them on the record on some things they'd perhaps rather not vote on. jon: when do we expect the final vote? >> reporter: it'll probably go into this evening, at some point they'll get tired of going all day long and having these rapid-fire votes and presumably make a decision to go until midnight and try to end it all together or wrap up with all of their voting on amendments and points of order and finally go to final passage. it only takes 51 votes under reconciliation. that could come as soon as tomorrow which would make an awful lot of u.s. senators happy because they're trying to get out of here for the easter break. republicans have almost resigned

themselves to that reality, and now it's time to look at the election of 2010. jon: nobody knows more about campaigning than you do, we are less than eight months away from election cay, so -- day, so how is this going to affect the midterms? >> reporter: it's likely the democrats will get a boost in the polls, but before health care became law the health care debate and atmosphere politically was negative. there are about 30-35 truly jeopardized at-risk democratic incumbents who are in danger of being bounced by republicans around the country in terms of house candidates, and in the senate there's probably 5-7 currently democratic-occupied seats in danger of being picked up by republicans. republicans have been saying that's where their attention now rests. democrats are trying to act confident and excited about their big victory in terms of getting health care signed into law, at the same time they still know they have a big battle ahead, and those democrats who were vulnerable before health care became law are still

vulnerable now, and in many cases they voted against their president and party and now find themselves sort of trying to campaign in an atmosphere where incumbents and democratic policies are not as above lahr as they were in -- popular as they were in 2008. jon: thanks, carl. jane: the health care law that will eventually insure 32 million more americans excludes illegal immigrants, but now immigration reform is said to be one of the next priorities right on president obama's agenda, so that leads to the question, what happens to health care costs if 12 million more people were added to the system? william la jeunesse is in our l.a. bureau, he's been look spoog the numbers. william, what does this mean for undocumented workers in states like california? >> reporter: well, jane, as big as this bill is, this is the elephant in the room. illegals represent about 15% of america's uninsured, and lawmakers essentially kick their costs down the road. but as you mentioned, maybe not for long. this spring democrats are expected to introduce comprehensive immigration

reform. and basically, that means addressing the health care cost issue again. let me give you some numbers. there are roughly 11 million illegals in the united states right now, about 35% have health insurance through their employer. about seven million, however, are uninsured and earn less than 400% of the official poverty level. now, what does that mean? it means for the very poor 100% of their expenses will be covered by federal taxpayers through medicaid. the rest will qualify for federal subsidies costing up to $5,000 per end roll lee. -- enrollee. that puts their health care cost for illegals from 10-$30 billion a year. jane: what's the argument for covering illegal immigrants? >> reporter: well, the argument is that, number one, they're younger and healthier than the native population, but secondly, many argue it is an issue of fairness. that if they are working here and paying taxes, they should receive care.

>> it's just simpler and, therefore, more efficient if you simply say everybody who works gets health insurance, everybody who has low income, we'll help you get insurance, and we'll move forward. people don't come to the unite for health care, they come to the united states to work. >> reporter: so, so even though illegals were not addressed in this bill, jane, when you look at a figure of 10-30 billion dollars, that makes that cbo cost target that we've heard so much about absolutely obsolete basically a day after this bill was passed. so we'll be tackling this issue once again this summer. jane: william la jeunesse in l.a. for us. thanks, william. jon: it is believed to be a first in the fight against high-seas bandits terrorizing one of the world's busiest shipping lanes. private security guards shot and killed a somali pirate who was trying to hijack their ship.

greg talcott is live in london following this story for us. what happened here, greg? >> reporter: jon, the incident was described to be by one insider as a dangerous ratcheting up of the arms race between pirates and the good guys. the details of the incident are these, a panama flag cargo ship off the coast of somalia was attacked by pirates. the pirates were armed with guns and rpgs. on a second pass against the ship, one of the pirates was hit and killed by an armed security guard on the ship that was being targeted by the pirates. the pirates, though, tough guys, a spanish navy ship in the area responded, they fired, too, against the pirates, this time warning shots. the pirates didn't stop. finally they were nabbed, six pirates and one corpse taken into custody by the spanish navy. the pirate boat's full of holes, a lot of fighting going on from both sides. uni ware -- unaware if anyone

was hit on the panamanian ship. jon: there are some implications here, aren't there? >> reporter: yeah. there's a big debate going on in sort of the piracy security community whether it's a good thing or not to have private security guards on these ships. one expert told me it was deeply worrying, what happened this week. the international navies are piling on pressure, the pirates are taking on more extreme measures in the last six months. we have seen a real increase in violence on the high seas, add into that mix these private security guards which are increasingly being used by ships and you've got sometimes a deadly combination. they cannot always be well trained and that's when things get really dicey. another insider told me that, in fact, the private security guard on the ship that was attacked off the course, they were african, somali, kenyan, maybe not quite up to western standards. still, with the international navies themselves admitting that

they can't guard every single ship out there, again, as you noted, more and more ships are taking these guards onboard, and it could be the wave of the future. we'll see where that takes us, jon. jon: greg talcott live from london, thanks. jane: a brutal crime caught on videotape, a hotel clerk stabbed in the middle of a robbery. police are releasing this video of the suspect, they have some new clues we're going to tell you about. plus, health care reform is the law of the land now. some republicans who are fired up say the fight, though, is far from over. >> you can put lipstick on a pig, mr. president, but this is still a pig. jane: tennessee senator lamar alexander is here live with us next. are you receiving a payout from a legal settlement or annuity over 10 or even 20 years? call imperial structured settlements. the experts at imperial can convert your long-term payout into a lump sum of cash today.

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jon: the hunt is on right now for a suspect wanted in the brutal stabbing of a hotel clerk in florida. as police release new surveillance video of the violent crime, harris faulkner is in our new york newsroom.

harris: jon, wait until you see this video. by the way, the only thing left behind was a right sneaker from the suspect and his baseball cap. there was quite the struggle. take a look at this, a red roof inn. two people going at it with a knife in the hand of the suspect here. this guy pleading not only for his life, but apparently trying to, according to police, trying to tell him how to get what he wants and just leave. they're trying to get into this mechanism on the wall that has cash and also into the cash register. he's just trying to get this guy, get what you need and leave, and in this meantime this guy pulls out a knife, we're told it's 6 inches long or longer. the suspect described as a white male in his early 20s. last seen wear what you see here, although this is not completely in color, wearing a blown leather jacket, jeans and sneakers. again, the 53-year-old clerk got away with his life, stabbed twice in the shoulder, but he's going to be okay. again, here's the description.

police looking for this guy. they may have a little dna evidence with that right sneaker and brown baseball cap, but in the meantime, they want you to call the tip line, 800-873-8477. back to you guys. jon: harris, thank you. jane: in your top box, more than a million baby slings are being recalled, there's a slingrider and wendy bellissimo models both made by infantino. they may be linked to three different deaths n. the middle, new numbers on the housing front. sales of new homes fell unexpectedly last month to the lowest on record. and on the bottom, oprah winfrey has settled a defamation lawsuit with the head mistress of her south african school for girls. that trial was supposed to start next week. jon: the clock is ticking for senate republicans in their fight against the new health

care law. they cannot filibuster, but republicans can introduce as many be amendments as they want to a reconciliation bill of fixes, and if inty of those should -- any of those should pass, it could send the bill back to the house for a new vote. one of the gop's biggest arguments is that the new law's uncertain costs add more uncertainty for the economy. >> businesses aren't hiring. why aren't they hiring? they aren't because they have a fear of the future. they don't know what to expect going forward. they are not going to start hiring people until there's a comfort level that the economy has stabilized and that we are in a real recovery mode. jon: joining us now, tennessee senator lamar alexander, he is the chair of the senate republican conference. senator, you have seen many things go the other way for you in this health care battle, rulings even from the senate

parliamentarian went the way of the democrats. some say the republicans ought to just pack it in, accept the status quo and take this law as a done deal. that's not what you intend? >> well, the law is a done deal, but the bill that we're working on is not. we've got a responsibility to the american people to make sure, a, democrats don't abuse the senate rules and, b, if there's anything we can do to avoid the extra taxes, extra medicare cuts, overcharging of student loans that's in this bill, we ought to do it. jon: have they abused the senate rules? >> well, we're going to find out when we start raising points of order later today. jon: all right. you mentioned these student loans. you don't much like the way the student loan change has been incorporateed into this bill. >> no. i think we need to hide the yellow pages from these guys on the other side. if they can find it in the yellow pages, they think the government ought to be doing it. what they did over the weekend is breathtaking. they took over 19 million

student loans, it's a washington takeover of the program, and what they also were doing is overcharging these 19 million students to help pay for the health care bill. about 1700 or $1800 on average, anyone who has a student loan over the next ten years, will pay into the government to help pay for the health care bill and other new government programs, so i'm introducing an amendment to say let's reduce the interest rate on government student loans and the democrats don't vote for it, they'll be voting to overcharge 19 million students to help pay for the health care bill. jon: no surprise that democrats see this as a monumental achievement. let's listen to senator christopher dodd of connecticut and then get your reaction. >> thank you, all, very, very much for what you've done for our country. don't ever forget this moment. as a result of what happened 11:52 yesterday morning in the east room of the white house, america has been changed forever. jon: is there, is there

political peril for republicans in being seen as trying to block something that at least some in the country see as necessary and good? >> perhaps for some people, but i agree with senator dodd, this is historic. but it's an historic mistake, and the mistake is that we're expanding a health care delivery system that everybody in the country knows is too expensive instead of trying to reduce its cost so people can afford to buy health insurance. that's what republicans have tried to do, and that's what we'll continue to try to do. jon: is there any concern, we spoke earlier to one of the attorneys general who is suing on behalf of his state, in this case utah, to try to block this thing because he believes it's unconstitutional. is there anything in the way that this is working its way through the senate in some of the rulings of the senate parliamentarian, for instance, that you or others feel might raise constitutional issues just in the process? >> well, it's too early to say that. what we're doing now is offering amendments to take out the

sweetheart deals, the overcharging of students on the student loans, to take out the taxes on people who make less than $250,000 which the president promised he would not do, and then we'll get into the points of order, and there may be some constitutional issues raised derg that period of time. jon: do you think tough the likelihood of being able to send this thing back to the house for yet another vote? >> well, it's hard to predict. if the democrats vote straight down the line for more taxes, more premium increases, more medicare cuts, more overcharging students on the loans, more sending to the states these extra costs, then, no, we won't succeed, and the only place we'll be able to succeed is in november when we'll do our best to get some checks and balances in washington, d.c. which we badly need. jon: senator lamar alexander of tennessee, republican, thank you. >> thank you. jane: can you imagine a happy meal without a toy? there is a new proposal to ban those little spaceships and dolls. a lawmaker that is behind it

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jane: "happening now" in the top box, six world powers holding a conference call today to talk about a u.s. proposal for new sanctions on iran over its nuclear program. we'll keep you updated. in the middle, a police cruiser crashes in st. louis. the officer was taken to the hospital. no word yet on his condition. look at the damage there. we're working to get more details. and on the bottom, the postal service taking the first step toward cutting mail delivery to five days a week. it's put in a request to drop

saturday delivery. jon: a new proposed ban challenges a modern american tradition, toys in children's fast food meals. a california lawmaker wants to stop or at least limit restaurants from handing out toys that he says encourage children to eat fatty, high-calorie meals. he says these meals don't make for a happy, healthy waistline, but critics say the war on childhood obesity is going too far. joining us is the lawmaker behind the proposed ban, ken yeager. also with us, california restaurant association ceo jacques condi. ken, you want to take the toys out of happy meals and other restaurant giveaways? why? >> well, the reason why we are doing this is that we understand that childhood obesity is a national health care crisis. one in three children in santa clara county and in the state of

california are either overweight or obese, and we have to seriously take a look at all the things that are sort of making our children overweight or obese, and one of the things we're trying to do here is to dissociate the connection between toys and unhealthy fatty foods. jon: what about letting the participants make that decision? >> we think this crisis is so huge that parents are going to need some help in this. again, one in three children in california, that's a staggering amount. and as this cohort of young kids, you know, go through and age, we understand that they are having health problems that are unprecedented. these are kids who are having health problems that we associate in overweight adults, and we also know that type ii diabetes, which is a severe illness for adults, is also going to be increasing to the point where in some populations we're looking at one in two adults having adult diabetes. jon: all right.

judd, how does the california restaurant association answer those arguments? >> well, the arguments he's making relative to diabetes and obesity rates we agree, and the statistics are true and troubling, but you can't cite a bunch of statistics and follow up with a statement and that statement be true. we're concerned that this absolutely is overreaching. taking toys out of restaurants isn't going to address, address the issue here, and last time i checked, the driving age was 16 years old. i've read articles by the supervisor where he talks about 3-year-olds can't make decisions about fat being in food, but parents can. it's ultimately the parents' responsibility here. jon: ken, what about, you know, you get a toy in crackerjack boxes. it's kind of a tradition, why not just let the parents and the restaurants make the decision? >> well, you know, the fast food industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars in marketing campaigns aimed at children, you

know? it's almost too much for parents to have to compete with that. and so the whole focus on this is on the toy, you know? if the toys were associated with healthy foods and healthy meals and come into our restaurants because we have, you know, good food, that would be fine. b >> restaurants are flexible and involved in creating healthier options for families and kids. this really is missing the mark

tremendously, and i've got to say this is why people are so, you know, frustrated with our elected officials, because we've got so many other issues in our communities. the santa clara county, for instance, is $250 million in the hole, and the supervises are spending time and staff's time researching a proposal to ban toys in meals. i mean, taking the collective, you know, will of the people and, you know, trying to extract it out and ban, and ban toys in the restaurants, it just doesn't make sense. jon: we'll keep an eye on this proposal as it goes forward. thank you both. >> thank you. jane: and, jon, just as you were speaking, we're getting some information into the newsroom, one of the local reports in new york, wabc-tv is reporting that doc gooden has been arrested in new jersey after police say he got into a car crash while under the influence of drugs with a child in his car.

doc gooden is 45 now. he has been charged, according to wabc, with several offenses including driving under the influence of a controlled substance and endangering the wellfare of a child. we're working to confirm this independently. an important hearing is underway on the hill looking into the failed christmas day terror plot, how a nigerian man who actually was on a terror watch list, whose own father tried to warn authorities about him got on on to a jet with deadly explosives. what do we do with the next guy that tries it? we'll talk about that coming up. ? ? so is campbell's healthy request soup. low in fat and cholesterol, heart healthy levels of sodium, and taste you'll love. girl: this is good for my heart? chef: you noticed. [cheering]

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omnaris combats the cause. jane: bottom of the hour, "happening now," some of the stories we're following. we're learning more about what went on in a closed door meeting between president obama and benjamin netanyahu. wendall goler has it for us. >> seeking clarification of israel's announcement of a new jewish housing project. president obama and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu spoke for over two hours last night. netanyahu told lawmakers earlier in the day it's no different than building in tel aviv. the white house is trying to restart peace talks between israel and the palestinians. jane? jane: san francisco restaurants are putting a surcharge on diners' tabs, all to pay for mandated health care. claudia cowan's on that. >> reporter: hi, jane, that's right.

it's not just food and drinks on the menu. under san francisco law, restaurants must provide health care benefits for their workers, and most are passing the costs on to their customers. supporters say this program is providing health care to 50,000 people who don't have health insurance, but restaurants have filed suit claiming this employer mandate violates federal law. jane? jane: foxnews.com is continuing to follow the details on a private security guard that killed a somali pirate. diane's in the newsroom. >> reporter: officials are calling it the first of its kind clash where these guards left two skiffs riddled with bullet holes. as more and more of these guards board merchant ships, we could see more of these attacks, and there are no regulations in the place to say who's responsible. we have more on the story at foxnews.com's newly-launched world page. check it out, jane. jane: thanks to you all. jon? jon: you like to give those gift cards, maybe you've got a couple in your wallet?

well, there's some good news for you now, the federal reserve just issued new rules to make sure more of that money goes into buying what you want, but they don't take effect just yet. jenna lee is here with more. jenna: you know who had a gift card in their back pocket? our esteemed camera guy, chris. you know $87 billion of gift cards were bought last year, but not all of them were spent. and if you don't spend it, you can lose it, and

>> there's different levels of lists, apparently, and then there's many different agencies that try to work together to make sure that the right people or the wrong people aren't getting on these flights. but there was just, again, a breakdown just like at fort hood with the chuter there -- shooter there. there's a breakdown between the federal agencies communicating with one another to make sure that american citizens are safe. jane: how do you possibly going forward streamline this whole process when we're talking about thousands upon thousands of names on this list? >> you are. these lists are huge. but that's the whole goal of this hearing that we're having today, and that's the goal, i think, that the agencies want to achieve. but at the same time, you have a little bit of a disagreement or

a big disagreement, i should say, with some of us on the right versus the left when it comes to what civil liberties or miranda or things like that should be given, you know, what are we sacrificing for the sake of security in return for making sure people have certain rights, or whether foreign citizens should have the same rights. and those are the same things that i think are combating factors but, hopefully, after this hearing we'll be able to continue to move forward, but there is no answer right now with regard to if a guy's father would come into an embassy like yemen and make this complaint, that's still according to people that were testifying isn't enough to raise him to the level of putting him on a no-fly list and, you know, that was alarming to me. jane yeah, that is alarming. what has improved since the 25th of december that you can reassure us that something like this would be prevented going forward? >> well, they know they made a mistake. they know they, they acknowledge the fact that just because the guy's name was misspelled in what's called a visa viper, that

embassy sendout to look out for this guy or the fact that the guy's father came in, those dots should have been connected and they would have had what they needed, the standard to put him on the no-fly list would have been a reasonable suspicion as we're more familiar with it in the u.s. court system, and that's just, you know, basically the standard that they're using, that this person is a serious danger. and they do recognize that they made a mistake. they're not trying to say they did everything that they should have, but like you said, this process has thousands of names on these lists, but there's, there's too many lists, there's too many agencies, and one of the things that i would like to see is as we were supposed to do homeland security really streamline the process. it's a one-stop shop. the error happened here and it'll never happen again, and we just don't have that yet. we still have too many agencies with their fingers in this pot, and it needs to get better.

jane: you know who's in charge. congressman tom rooney, republican of florida, thanks for your time. >> thank you. jon: new home sales numbers are out, and they are not good. in fact, they hit a record low last month. what that means regarding america's long-term economic recovery just ahead. because metlife removed ifsthe guesswork.er combining the insurances family's need most,

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or visit lifelock.com. ♪ megyn: hi, everybody, i'm megyn kelly. ron paul is here today, he says this executive order president obama's about to sign on abortion is unconstitutional. ann coulter got booted out of a speech she was supposed to give, our guest says she got what she deserved. bevny goldberg on attacks against the tea party, is rosie o'donnell the next oprah in and stossel, top of the hour. see you then. jane: "happening now" in your top box, a deadly cargo train crash in norway. six empty cars broke loose and

crashed into an oslo port. at least three people have been killed. in the middle, new information on that crash of a police cruiser in st. louis, unfortunately, that police officer was killed. trying to figure out the details of exactly what happened here. and on the bottom, relatives of the seaworld trainer say they will suffer harm of the surveillance video of that attack is released to the public. a temporary injunction was issued last week, and the judge now has to decide whether to make that permanent. jon: u.s. new home sales falling to a new record low. the commerce department reports they dropped by 2.2% last month to a seasonally-adjusted annual pace of just 308,000 making it all too clear the trouble that our housing market still faces. james rosen is live from d.c. with more. this drop in new home sales, that came as a real surprise to a lot of economists, right, james? >> reporter: it did, jon, not only because new home sales were

expected to rise, but because they publicked, as you said, to a record unseen since records first kept since 1963 marking the fourth con sective -- consecutive monthly decline. analyst had been optimistic because the mortgage application index had risen sharply and the average interest rate for an adjustable rate mortgage had dropped. if you chart new home sales over the last two decades, you get a work of abstract art that i call anatomy of a bubble. you'll see the housing boom if we can show the chart on your screens that persisted for 15 years starting in 1991 when the annual projection started rising from about 400,000 to a peak of 1.4 million in early 2005. looking just at the period of the great recession which began in december 2007, we've seen the decline that began in early '06 accelerate. the 625,000 new home sales we were charting probably with great dismay 15 months ago has

now been cut by more than half. you see that brief period of rebound we saw in the first half of 2009, perhaps some optimism that flourished with the inauguration of a new president. that, jon, has certainly evaporated at this point. jon: so what do economists say are the reasons for this record low when, as you say, sales were expected to rise? >> reporter: well, february saw sharp declines in both consumer confidence and in something called the expectations index which measures how comfortable consumers are taking on a major obligation. another possible factor here may have been the apocalypse. in the northeast, new home sales fell 20% from the month before, 18% in the midwest, only 5% in the south and they rose 21% in the west of the united states. the one positive in all this is the rise in the median sales price for new homes both over the proceeding month and year to year. if you look at median prices for new home sales over the last two decades, that has stayed fairly constant, yet by and large, jon,

buyers are prowling for cheaper homes. close to 70% of all new home sales last month were for homes priced below $300,000. jon: let's hope a big part of the decline is due to the weather and that'll turn around. james rosen, thanks. jane: fox has now independently confirmed that dwight gooden, also known as doc gooden, was, indeed, arrested this week. he was arrested yesterday in the morning about ten minutes before 9:00 after police say he got into a car accident while under the influence of drugs and that he had a child in the car with him. gooden's 45 years old, he's now facing a slew of charges. he's been released on his own recognizance, confirmation that doc gooden arrested for driving under the influence in new jersey. we'll bring you more when we get it. he's on the loose after eluding capture for nearly a year, but this is no criminal. he's being called the mystery monkey of tennessee. this prime -- tampa bay.

the latest on the monkey manhunt next. ♪

jon: "happening now" in the top box, live at the white house briefing where press secretary gibbs just said president obama has asked israeli prime minister netanyahu to take confidence-building steps toward palestinians. the briefing is streaming live for you on foxnews.com. middle box, new details, now, about the american man locked up right now in north korea. the boston man described as a devout christian who rallied

against pyongyang. the rogue nation is set to put him on trial, but our state department says it has not been notified of the charges against him n. the bottom box, more help for the unemployed as the house prepares o send another jobs bill to the senate today. this could mean billions of dollars in new construction projects for local governments. jane: well, a hunt's underway right now in florida for a monkey. state wildlife officials have been looking for a monkey. he's been on the run, believe it or not, for more than a year outsmarting everybody. he got away again just two days ago. he was spotted here swinging from a backyard tree in tampa bay, ended up in a swimming pool and stole some grapefruits. authorities aren't exactly clear where he came from. he's captivated, though, people across the country because there is a facebook page that has more than 16,000 fans, most of them saying, go, monkey, go. rooting for this guy to get away. gary morris is with the florida

fish and wildlife conservation commission. gary, what's the story with this? everybody says this is one intelligent primate. >> well, primates in general are more intelligent than a vast majority of the species that we have on the planet, so they manage to figure things out, and they're pretty adaptable. jane: well, it's said by witnesses that he actually looks both ways before he crosses a street. >> yeah, that's what we've heard, but we know that there are some dogs that can do that too. jane: what about tranquilizing him? he's been hit with several different darts and it doesn't seem to faze him? >> unfortunately, what's happened is that in these events we have a lot of people around, a lot of press around, and the animal's adrenaline levels are really high, and when that happens and the energy levels are way up there for the animal, the drug does not have the effect it should have. jane: so when he knows he's on tv, his adrenaline gets going? >> it's a bit more than being on t. there's quite a bit of commotion, and it makes it

difficult to capture this animal. unfortunately, the levity that has tended to surround this animal has probably caused the perception of the animal to be much different than what the reality is and what the dangerous are to the animal and the people. jane: you say this thing actually is really dangerous. >> it has the potential to be dangerous, particularly if people try to approach it or feed it. the vast majority of nuisance wildlife issues is caused by people feeding it or trying to inappropriately interact with these animals. once the animals become less fearful of people, that's when you start to find destruction of property, pets being attacked and even people being injured. jane: there is a tip line for the monkey on the run. it's on your screen there. gary, one last question for you, how do you go about getting him after a year of this, luring him out and actually trapping him? >> well, it's a difficult situation particularly with primates. they're much more difficult to trap than other animals.

we need to lower the level of stress around the area and get him in a situation where we can effectively apply the dart and the drug. jane: all right, gary, let us know if you have any luck. gary morris is with the florida fish and wildlife conservation commission. we'll keep you updated on the monkey manhunt in florida. jon: and while we're talking monkey business, check this out. the newest member of chicago's lincoln park zoo. his orange head may look a little weird, but it's normal. the orange head attracts other females and helps them learn how to be mothers. those other females sometimes grab the baby and hold it before its mother takes it back. the orange color will fade after about six months and he, or she, gets the all-black adult coloring. zookeepers don't know his gender -- jane: oh! they're fighting. be gentle with that baby, that little redhead. jon: toughen him up. jane: it is crucial in the

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