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>> good sunday morning to you, it is october 3rd, we have a fox news alert for you this morning. the white house expected to issue an alert today for americans travelling in europe. fears this morning an al-qaeda attack targeting western tourists is on the way. >> and candidates for california governor meg whitman and jerry brown pulling no punches on the scandal over whitman's former housekeeper. >> you should be ashamed for sacrificing nicky diaz on the altar of your political ambitions. >> don't run for government if you can't stand up and say i made a mistake, i'm sorry. >> the debate gets hotter than that coming up.
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>> and a new report gives the stimulus high marks, praising it for doing its jobs and coming in under budget, but if it's working so well, why are millions of americans still out of work this morning? our slogan this hour comes from chas in maryland, within of the best ways i know for my morning to start is to watch "fox & friends" weekend with clayton, dave, ainsley earhart. he nailed it. way to welcome. >> it's "fox & friends." >> good morning, good sunday morning, now, you sent him a tip that says ainsley is in, write this quote. >> i don't know how he knows. >> i think a lot of the-- we have the viewers that keep up on facebook. >> and chas knows. >> and i guess chas reads. >> ainsley earhart is here this morning. >> glad to be here. >> thanks for having me. >> and that's dave briggs and we've got a lot of into us to get to, including what you mentioned the terror alert for americans travelling in europe.
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we start with this fox news alert. the obama administration expected to issue a travel alert for americans in europe today after learning of an al-qaeda plot to attack cities visited by western tourists. julie kirtz will i have in d.c. with developing details this morning. julie, this is kind of strange, i guess if there's one word, it's vague. we don't know a whole lot why this is issued, right. >> that's right. this expected awill earth is down from a travel warning and it's americans travelling to one of the popular tourist destinations and dewe don't have exact timing, from the state department as early as this morning, living in and travelling to western europe to be extra vigilent. new intelligence suggests targets of a potential attack could be embassies, military bases, restaurants, hotels, banks and train sessions. this new development follows news that osama bin laden is
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directly linked to a planned multi-city plot similar to the mumbai india attack, and we're waiting for the expected alert, but we asked cia and homeland security officials what exactly americans should be looking for. >> well, as we saw in the case of mumbai, they entered seen carrying anything on their backs, explosives as well as ammunition and looking for commando type activity, so essentially, anything that would strike individuals unusual the shape of a bag that would be of the size of a large weapon in the case of mumbai, and the reports that we've seen, they are considering using assault type weapons. >> so, a lot to be aware of. the expected travel alert follows two new audio tapes by bin laden, friday and saturday, and also, part of what alerted authorities to the planned alleged terror plot in europe was the july
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arrest of a german, pakistani, suspect named ahmed sadequee. his interrogation had been a valuable source of information for western intelligence agencies on this and we'll bring you the latest as we get more information. >> julie, i'm curious, has there been any reaction from the european nations on this? are they upset about the lack of necessarily new intelligence on this and worried about what it might do to tourism? >> sure, they're worried about what it might do to tourism. many americans, students and others travelling to europe now over the next few months, always travelling over there, but u.s. intelligence officials sharing information with intelligence officials there they're taking this seriously. >> we'll take a look at that and it may be a shift from large scale attacks like 9/11, to these mumbai style attacks with gunman in hotels.
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>> they said the threat in july, how imminent is this. you cancel your plans if you're headed to europe. >> police commissioner ray kelly says we hear this stuff and it's hard because it's so vague. for the rest of the headlines, nate o-says thwo soldiers were kid, one by insurgents and other a bomb attack in the south and sfrn nate e-0 members were killed this month and rutgers university will hold a vinnell gill today as the campus continues to mourn the suicide of this student whose gay sexual encounter was broadcast on the independent. this as evidence is emerging that tyler clementi tried to get them to change his dorm room before he jumped off george washington bridge. two students were charged with invasion of privacy for posting that online and could face up to ten years online
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and critics of that charge should they should be charged with a hate crime. >> a rally organized by labor and civil rights groups. the one nation working together demonstration, aimed to show support for the democratic agenda in the face of expected g.o.p. gains next month and next month's mid term election, more than 400 organizations sponsored that event. former whose chief of staff rahm emanuel hasn't made his abouted for chicago mayor yet. the site is chicago for rahm, including his bio and a blog. right now it's promming an announcement via video message later today and those, my friends, are your headlines this morning. >> i'm sure we're waited with baited breath if he announces. ng i think we know he's in and rick reichmuth is here with
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the weather. >> a little bit of a cold morning on the way to work. >> chilly my friend, it feels good. >> it's kind of nice and a lot of people getting cold air even towards parts of mississippi and fras advisories and the cold air has settled much farther to the south and people so sick of the high temperatures. we have frost advisories and freeze warnings across parts of the plains and across years of the northeast. that's more associated with some of the elevation in the adirondacks, in white and green mounts. as you're waking up you can see the cold air off to the south. as far as precipitation goes, rain around parts of the great lakes and then notice here, across years of the mid atlantic and that's a pesky system, on and off from areas from virginia, upstate new york and likely into the day on wednesday, so get ready for kind of a gloomy start to the week. central part of the country is looking nice and across the west, another stm pulling in and going to park here as well and rain showers likely until friday across areas of the
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intermountain west and drop touches, but check out the extremes. across areas of the east around 15 degrees below average and around the ohio river valley and towards the northern rockies today. how about that 25 degrees above where you would typically be and you're enjoying summer-like weather across parts of montana. >> thank you, rick. >> thank you, brother. >> let's talk about what everyone was talking about in the world of politics yesterday, usually it's a boring day for politics, but not yesterday, the debaten 0 univision between meg whitman and jerry brown on the right and the moderator came out one of the first questions about her alleged housekeeper controversy. she had to answer those questions right away. take a listen to meg whitman. >> after november 2nd, no one could be watching out for nicky diaz and jerry, you should be ashamed, you and your surrogate put her at
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deportation risk and you should ashamed for sacrificing nicky diaz on the altar of your ambitions. >> blame her, blame me, you can't be a leader unless you say, yeah, i made a mistake. >> boy, the california race is heating up and they're getting at one another and here is the strong thing, california is breck, massive budget problems and education proms, you name it and here we are talking about a housekeeper. now, what jerry brown says is that meg whitman wants accountability for employers, she wants them punished when they hire illegal aliens, how can you call for that and have one who works for you. but again, meg whitman to remind you, this woman provided, nicky diaz she paid $23 an hour provided documentation showing that she was a legal alien. this thing is far from done.
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but fired her nine months before she announced and then of course all of this came out whether or not she received this social security letter in the male, did her husband see it, she says she never saw it, he says he may have seen it, but calling smears right now. >> well, she says she came out and asked her, did you know that your housekeeper for nine years was an undocumented citizen-- or not a citizen of the u.s.? >> she said i did not know and when she did find out she says shortly later, she did let her go. >> why is this such a big issue, to dave's point. they are dealing with a lot of issues, but of course in california 15% of the electorate there is hispanic so this has a large-- they're in a large hispanic population in california. >> right. >> more than 30%, they expect around 15 of the voters, yeah. >> 15% of the electorate to come out and vote who are active voters, but this could have a huge sway and this is why people are calling it the october surprise. >> as you know, it's gloria
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allred serving up the sacraficial lamb. this may not get her anywhere, but in further trouble. how about that proposed ground zero mosque this morning or the islamic cultural center as some of you call it. we're now seeing the first pictures this morning of this proposed mosque. the artist rendering, if you will, and i don't know, do these make you more or less angry about what is proposed near the site of ground zero? it is a not a very subtle building place. >> last week when i saw it on 60 minutes, it's when they showed them off for the first time and i was like, wow, that's a, that's a cultural center? it looks like a museum, bizarre. >> like a modern art museum. >> with an it in the basement. he says there won't be anyone picketing once they see it not picketing just for the cultural significance of it, but looks bizarre. >> it's not trying to blend into the local architecture. >> geometric openings, it
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looks like a honey comb to me and he says these are the renderings and the idea and the ground breaking two to three years away. >> the mosque on the first two levels, the basement level. >> basement, right. upstairs, a swimming pool, a gym, theater all sorts of things. >> who will be allowed to visit it, do you have to be a part of the faith. >> no, open to everyone. >> and they still have not found an architect for this building more starting fund raising for the 140 million dollars needed. let us know what you think about it and e-mail us at friends@foxnews.com. coming up on the show, chilling 911 calls released after an american couple was gunned down at a popular texas lake. >> there's word that he could get a new press secretary. it's talk of robert gibbs leaving a sign that the president's inner circle is
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falling apart? >> and will the argument ever be resolved? is cheerleading really a sport? two groups fighting in the name of cheerleaders? yes, cheerleader fights. "fox & friends." >> that's more of a sport than golf. >> absolutely. jeifer hudson here. before weight watchers, my world was "can't." but nowlose weight -- can. live -- can. stand here and not suck in a thing -- i can, a you can, too. [ female announcer ] join for free right now. weht watchers. because it works. [ female announcer ] join for free right now. is the only furniture lish with febreze freshness.
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>> welcome back. rahm emanuel is out as white house chief of staff and this morning, rumors are swirling about press secretary robert gibbs becoming the new chair of the dnc as president obama's inner circle falling apart ahead of the mid term elections. our panel this morning is a conservative commentator and president of regular photos united and walter shapiro, a
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columnist at politics daily. good morning to you. let's start with gibbs reaction quickly. he treated yesterday, i quote, have not had any conversations about the future. it is a great honor to have the job i have right now. i am very happy doing it. this is a story from politico. that aside. whether or not robert gibbs. i think he will in the next year or so, as far as leaving that position, but let's start with you, ron. is this a sign of trouble for the obama administration or par for the political course that the staff comes in. >> the turnover is not unusual and three years is it normal because it's a high pressure, but what i find interesting, it's a lot earlier than you would normally expect and i think with all the negative news about the obama agenda that claims of incompetence and not really being in touch with the american people, it puts a lot of pressure on folks and i think some of them are probably thinking other things i can do with my time. >> we do see this type of
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turnover after certainly, as you mentioned high stress, two years, but right before a crucial mid term, november election, this is strange timing because the democrats need all the help and all the support and continuity they need right now. >> actually, i don't think the timing is strange of life expectancy for a chief of staff is two to five years. the obama administration was particularly active throughout this period. throughout this tenure they've accomplished more than most administrations have done in four year term and for some in eight year term so that's an enormous amount of pressure. and the mid term elections actually take the focus away from government and place it more on politics. so this actually gives a time to transition new people in while the focus is on the political games. >> a big transition is the chief of staff, pete rouse is in for rahm emanuel and rahm is boisterous, a deal maker,
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he's a loud guy and pat rouse sits back, more laid back, if you will. will this represent a shift to the left for the president? because he won't have that deal maker, like rahm. >> well, i mean, the idea of a chief of staff is not an idea log, to a large extent a good chief of staff make the trains run on time. make sure that senators are not miffed. make sure that governors don't call the president of the united states and say how dare you, and make sure that do your staffers do not go sobbing down the hallway. >> what will change now? >> very little. if there's a critique of the obama white house, this is an opportunity to be less insular than they've been until now. people either come out of chicago or that the democratic side of the capitol hill and this is a moment to reach out and i do not see signs yet that they're reaching out. >> we see no reaching out. tara are the liberals happy to see rahm gone? >> well, rahm has been a
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blessing and a curse for president obama. on one hand certainly he has the nugsal memory having worked in the clinton administration and having been a congress militia and understanding how congress works, liberals blame him not all, but the loss of the public option and health care reform bill and that's going to continue to be a bit of an achilles heel for the president in terms of the motivating the best. >> they'd like to see a left turn. next, a new report gives the stimulus high marks, raising it for being under budget. why it's working why are 15 million americans out of work. >> she's the face of education reform, is michelle reed's mission falling apart. >> that for the last couple of decades the things we have been doing have not worked. >> one columnist thinks americans don't like being told their community is on the wrong track. she explain coming up. [ male announcer ] see this?
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>> a new white house report on the stimulus gives it high marks and praise for doing what was intended. and coming in under budget, but we've all heard the criticism how some of this money was spent. in some cases, tens of millions of dollars to create just a handful of jobs and 15 million americans are still out of work. so, can the administration really say the stimulus worked. ron miller, let's start with you. yes, it came under time and under budget. that's kind of like saying you know, as a sports coach, well, we ran the play that was intended, it may not have gained 50 yards, but it worked. i guess. so 9.6% unemployment, almost 15 million americans out of
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work, did the stimulus do what they intended it to do? i suspect whatever wrote that report helped themselves to liquid stimulus while writing it. read the bill and read where the money went it didn't go where jobs are impacted. didn't go into the private sector, the government, unions, to pet projects and things of that sort and a lot of that moan is still in treasuries coffers, it hasn't been released. >> they were brilliant, jobs saved, impossible to define that and say it worked by saying 3 1/2 million jobs. is this just political, though, tara, right before the november mid terms, is this just kind of a pr, pump up job? >> no, stimulus helped this economy. every independent analysis, including mit. rutgers, cdo. so they say that. but here is the thing about saved jobs. >> it helped. >> it helped the economy.
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it's almost 800 billion dollars. it had to help something. >> the economy was in freefall, so it was a stop gap measure, as far as saved jobs are concerned, that's important to the people whose jobs were saved. a lot of the contracts that are left go to private firms, government workers weren't paving streets and building alternative energy and wind turbines, those are private companies. those private companies were hem randalling jobs and the stimulus allowed them to keep their people employed and to those people who kept their jobs it's important. >> again, that's impossible to define who was going to be fired or going to be laid off. >> but-- >> go ahead. >> part of it is, no politician will ever run for reelection on the slogan, it could have been worst. they could argue the economy could have been at 10.5 unemployment. 11% unemployment, the failure of the obama administration in my view is not a big enough
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stimulus at the outset. and being so concerned about being blamed for spending the money badly, that they spent the moan too slowly. they should-- it should have all been spent in 2009 rather than doled out over four and a half years. >> the goal was 70% spent by this point and it has to that. that's the paul krugman, cristina romer angle they wanted a bigger stimulus. the question, will the sales job work on the american people. are they buying that this thing worked and will they in november. >> no, they're not going to buy it. the fact it there's no such thing as a jobless recovery in the minds of people still out of workment they need to get into the streets and talk with people. people are very, very upset. not only about the situation they find themselves in, but the feeling they're treating this money as if it was moan that they should be directing. they would have been better off taking that money and giving a check to the american people. that would have been more of a stimulus than what they did. >> tara is it going shake her
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head. thank you all for being here. a good debate. >> let's get out to clayton to find out what's going on. >> thanks, dave. the chilling 911 calls after a couple was gunned down in a texas lake. >> two groups fighting in the name of cheerleaders. they say it was a sport and do you agree, weigh in on that. >> and be aggressive. >> are you doing more on facebook than just finding old friends? new numbers show that most people are flirting, even when they're married.
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bury leaders in response to alleged threats of military attacks over their nuclear program. once again, he also questions who was behind the september 11th attacks. he made similar comments last month at the united nations. her husband, shot by mexican pirates as they rode jet skis on vacation. they were on a lake straddling texas and mexico, his wife who managed to get away made this desperate call for help. >> hello. >> yes. >> okay. are you sure that your husband got shot. >> yes >> david hartley's body has
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not been found. no arrests have been made. the hartley's high school sweethearts set to move to colorado next week. >> 15 years ago today, o.j. simpson was acquitted of murdering his ex-wife, nicole simpson and ron goldman. i thought we had some sound, apparently not. oj accused of killing the two in 1994 dubbed the crime of the century and millions, probably you included, tuned in to watch the verdict. o j's tan suit and shirt now on display in a museum in washington d.c. an emergency landing in heathrow airport, concerned that it was not shut properly. no one was injured. in denver, medics rushed aboard a frontier airlines jet when the child has hand, foot and mouth disease.
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highly contagious. >> at a rally for a republican senate candidate, mccain told the audience, he is not running for president. but he did say, that he'll work to keep new hampshire as a critical state in the primary season. >> dave. >> let's talk sports what a day in college football. number four oregon and number nine stanford out west, quite a show in eugene, over 1100 yards of offense and the ducks provided 630 of them and overcame an early 18 point deficit to hold stanford scoreless in the second half and michael james, 257 yards rushing and they win 49-10. outscoring them after 21-3 lead. next in tus caloosa, 47 yards
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on the ground and the defense holds the gators to the lowest points total in five years and there's cj mosley. 35 yard intertension return for a touchdown and again, the tide rolling right now. 31-6. yet, another whacky ending for lsu. definitely the raiseiest game of the day. lsu, tennessee, seconds left and mass confusion, third and goal,s players are running off and on the field and looks like tennessee won, right? wrong. too many pillars on the field and they had 13 on the field and so what happened? lsu got another crack at it and they took advantage. oh, doolittlely for tennessee was furious and somehow, the coach from lsu continues to pull out the bizarre victories. and speaking of sports, weather together over the ryder cup looks like they'll finish on monday, rick, a lot of rain out there in wales, can't get gulf jnd way. >> yeah. >> i know you're looking at the weather in wales.
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>> i'm actually not. >> yes, how does yorkshire look today. >> i was just looking for that. maybe a wales forecast. >> heading down there, i'd like to see that. >> clayton is going to help me out. >> huh? and coldest air we've seen making its way down parts of the south. the area of the great lakes, cleveland, moving up towards buffalo and across years of the outer banks as well and we have a little bit of rainy in the panhandle of texas and scattered showers around the areas of the west coast and this is what we'll be looking for, as far as precip today and anyway, you see the light rain and it doesn't mean everybody is going to get it. some of the darker colors, merricking heavier rains and looking dry and looks like it's going to remain dry as we move forward throughout much of the week. and cold air has moved in across much of the east and also a lot of warm air across
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parts of the west and 80's in montana. maybe the high plains are going to be warmer, but anywhere to the east of that things are cooler, 100 in phoenix today. tomorrow, your temps struck as the colder air filters in and you notice the blues back there and we might be seeing some temps across the appalachians for your highs for the day tomorrow and rain in wales, right, rick? >> it's been soggy. >> thank you, brother. >> thanks, rick. >> let's talk about facebook, the big weekend with the social network movie out right now. number one movie in america right now by the way. and so many questions about how people are using face book privacy settings within facebook and turns out according to men's health that people had a little bit of naughty habits when it comes to facebook, so much so, one of them has stood out to me, they don't list their current
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relationship status, they put it as single or don't list it at all. >> how do you get away with listing the incorrect status, how do you get around that? >> incorrect is one thing-- 24% they're saying it's incorrect or don't list. >> no they list it incorrectly on purpose. >> no, that's dog house material. >> how do you pull that off. >> really, 24% lie about their status? >> and even in the social network movie at one point, the co-founder of facebook, the girlfriend says, why did you change your facebook status to single? he said i didn't know how to change it. you mean to tell me the co-founder of facebook didn't know how to change his status on facebook? you do that and gets people in trouble. >> it does. facebook gets a lot of folks in trouble and say the survey from men's health and more stats. 59% of people say they've become jealous over their partner's interactions and 24% of facebook flirters used the
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social network to flirt with someone other than their current partner. >> and 70% of people say that they've used facebook to flirt. 70%. >> that's not surprising. you think about the number of young people on the site and then 5% admit they've used facebook to cheat. >> 59% have stalked partners profiles, like-- >> stalked. i have to admit not on facebook, but years ago on my space, where did the girlfriend on high school wound up and you look and you're curious where they wound up. >> that's normal. >> everyone's done that. >> is that considered stalking? >> i feel a lot of head shaking. >> i think it's more than that. that's 59%, no, 59%, i think that's like-- >> we've got a lot of restraining orders. >> aren't you spice add the 59 p-ers, i think that's 99% of people who look for-- at some points. >> we have one angel here.
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>> give me a break. >> that's not angel, wish we had a camera. >> nothing wrong with finding out what they're doing. >> could lead down the road. we've got a room full of stalkers, friends@foxnews.com. >> a question that might stir debate, is cheerleading really a sport? yes or no. this comes on the new heels, the new question can they get more opportunities for women in sports, specifically at the college ranks? a lot of folks in this country say yes, it's a sport. i'm one who agrees with that, absolutely, hard work and practice all the time. >> and from a scholarship standpoint, a judge ruling it's not a sport. the activity is under developed and disorganized for varsity athletic participation opportunities for students. >> i was a cheerleader for a year, the worst ever, not
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anyway, but i did live-- my college roommate a college cheerleader. always practicing and they have to keep their weight a certain-- can't weigh over a certain amount, always at the gym practicing like every day, yes, very hard and your weekends, every weekend you're at the game. >> maybe we can go into the cheerleading archive we have a folder in the control room, "fox & friends" b roll archives. they're flipping upside down and back flips and i compare that to college golf. look at this,'s not athletic? look at that. >> you know me i'm kind of a numbers guy and injuries, that's kind of what can defoon a sport. 104 catastrophic injuries in high school or college sports, half from cheerleading and over 25 wind up in the mnl
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room. this is about title 9 can they sm mri cut out cheerleading by calling it an activity or a club? >> i don't know how you would argue. because it's disorganized, it doesn't have all the edgecle backing. >> it doesn't have a post season or playoff system. haven't you seen bring it on? >> and that's where you did your research. >> i like it. >> i have. >> this is all about money, it's all money. >> it's about-- >> it's a money issue. >> they don't ever, there are no cheerleading scholarships out there at all? >> i too, i have no idea. >> the universities don't allow it. >> watch bring it on again and it will answer the question. >> let us know, friends@foxnews.com, on twitter as well. >> bizarre claims are filed in an effort to go get a piece of the 20 billion dollars doled out for victims of the gulf oil spill. one man applied for the full 20 billion. yes, one man, that's not all. the fraud claims piling up. >> he said, i want it all.
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apparently he made like $50,000, you know, anyway, then candidates who support education reform. getting voted out despite efforts from d.c. school chancellor michelle ray. >> i think it's actually quite irresponsible for us not to engage in some innovative programs and try to think outside the box what we can do to break this cycle. >> one columnist thinks americans don't like being told their community is on the wrong track. that's next and as we get close to the mid term elections, we want you to keep your eyes on political bumper stickers and we've got a lot of them yesterday. do you see any clever or funny or brilliant, snap a photo of it. your iphone, android, whatever, friends@foxnews.com or friends on twitter. send them to us.
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>> welcome back to "fox & friends" on this sunday morning. well, the new documentary waiting for superman, your school's chancellor, fighting-- excuse me, defending her actions to clean up washington d.c.'s failing schools. >> now the man who hired her is out of a job and reed's job could now be on the line. the author of "we've got issues" judith warner joins us now. thanks for being with us. >> glad to be here. >> so this movie getting a lot of press, a lot of people i know that have seen it said it's phenomenal movie and i have yet to see it, but i'm going to. is the message here that if you, if you want to run for office and you want to reform education, you can't talk about it because if you do, you're shooting yourself in the foot.
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>> well, the message as a movie is an earn is kind, improving teacher quality and viewing it in a very dramatic way and that's the message that the country has gotten behind at this point, but the message since the election seems to be that people don't like political leaders whom they perceive as being arrogant and this seems to have been the down fall and also by extension michelle reed. >> why-- >> excuse me. she cleaned oust, hundreds of teachers. >> even her own child's. >> got rid of her own child's administrator. is this about the power of unions or what you talk about, people don't want them to tell what to do even education. >> power of unions played a role, certainly, because the unions put a lot of money behind them, but there also was a kind of emotional side
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of this which is that rhee was strident and a tone that was easy to here that was disrespectful and people did rebel against that, even though so much of what they did was in their interest and acknowledged that the schools are getting better. >> what do you think accounts for this idea that you say people don't like the stern-faced do gooders, people red wing for office saying i'm going to change this, going to change that. president bush ran against that, people don't like reform especially in education, when we know we're failing. >> people don't like to be made to feel that they're inferior. this is a moment where the company is feeling particularly aggrieved on so many accounts. like the voters of d.c. they have a hair trigger intolerance for anything that sounds like some kind of paternalism or anything that sounds like someone saying i know better than you, i know how you should live your life. i know what you should do and
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that poses problems for politicians that come along and want to make it better. >> and the rage fueled the white tea party middle class movement. what do you mean by that. >> you certainly hear that anger and heard it over the past couple of years, over and over again and a lot of sarah palin supporters, for example, standing by someone they felt to be a real person, a person like them, a person who got them and understood them as opposed to the sort of intellectual elites who they felt were talking down to them or disconnected from them and i think that that feeling, that particular form of resentment and dislike plays out in so many forms and playing out in so many elections or has recently. >> what about the movie? what were your thoughts on the movie? >> i haven't seen the movie either although i've read about it over and over again and it's supposed to be an extremely powerful movie, but one which also had a pretty powerful reaction among some of the teachers unions and people who feel maybe it
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doesn't represent all sides of the education debate fairly. >> fascinating piece. >> it is. >> it's striking when you think about the way in which reform is unfolded in this country. we appreciate you joining us this morning. >> thanks so much. >> coming up on the show, the white house expected to issue an alert today for americans travelling in europe. fears this morning, an al-qaeda attack targeting western tourists could happen soon. >> and a group of hackers stole 3 million dollars, the veers read through e-mails. are you at risk. how you can protect your bank accounts and kemp it safe from online predators next. ♪ take the money and run ♪ go on, take the money and run ♪
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>> it's your news by the numbers this morning. first, 20 years, how long it's been since germany united. east oned soviet control and the west under democratic control. next, $7,000, how much mattsala had i sold it for, what she wore, the hair salon beat it. and clayton. >> thanks, ainsley. investigation in the united states and britain cracked an international cyber crime ring. hackers stole more than 3 million dollars from bank accounts belonging to small businesses and people across the united states. a simple e-mail containing the powerful zeus trojan virus launched that.
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and don jackson threatening intelligent at secured works, he joins us from atlanta. nice to see you this morning, don. >> hi, clayton. it's nice to be here. >> explain first of all. every week we're hearing about a denver type of virus and trojan virus, what is the zeus virus, how do we need to protect ourselves. >> well, the zeus virus is a kit, you buy it online so it's available to the public. it's a piece of software that's designed solely to do one thing and to steal money out of the bank account. one of the most advanced ones, and most features and most of the banks rules as far as how you access money. >> okay, so you just described for us what it is. let's take a look of the how of this thing and put it up on the screen as we look how it works. how does this thing infect our computers and manage to grab money out of our bank accounts or information about our bank accounts. >> sure, so the people that use zeus are going to try to target the people that have the most money in the bank
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accounts and figure out who runs the accounts payable, who pays the bill and accesses the bank account and send that person an e-mail look very convincing, going to come from your friend, someone else in your department or maybe from the bank itself. and the software is going to install itself on your computer if you click on a link or open the attachment. that's a copy of the software already installed on the computer and taking control of the bank account. >> we say on the show over and over again, and until i'm red in the face, you get e-mails from places often asking for your pass words. fake e-mails look like amazon.com and amazon says look, we don't send you e-mails asking for you to plug in your information, but people aren't listening to it and that's how a lot of these things are spreading, right? >> that's right. so many online services communicate with you via e-mail, a low cost option, a way to keep in touch with customers. the e-mails that the zeus operators use are very convincing and going to have
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information for you like your first and last name and bank account number and craft an e-mail that looks like your bank would send you. >> all right, even a little picture, an image maybe looks like it's coming from bank of america, and how to protect yourself. use a separate computer for banking and for bill paying only? >> that's right. so, sometimes the ways that get the most adoption so we're trying to do the most good suggesting that people use a separate computer when go jn line, use that computer for bill pay only, doing financial transactions only, specifically don't use it to surf the web or answer e-mail or do socialer networking, that separate computer set aside. only pull it out in the same stance as a wallet or a checkbook. a lot of people stay connected to websites and they log in one time. we stay logged into our gmail account on computers and
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basically we're staying connected more than before when we wake up our computer we're already plugged into the websites, do we need to be more aware to do there to log out all the time? >> well, so a lot of websites trust each other now and that can be a problem. it makes things easy for the users, but if you're using that separate computer, excuse me, and not doing the social networking not answering the e-mail on the computer that you're using to access the bank account it's not really an issue. >> okay. because you're not worrying about the websites you're logged into. >> one tip, keep your software up-to-date. is that your anti-virus software, keep that up-to-date. run those once a month, once a week what do you need to do. >> you're going to be familiar with your computer when you get it. all new computers have security software, and operating systems and programs that make it easy for you to read documents online and all of those applications have a way now of updating themselves. what you need to do is let
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your computer update itself when you're processed for an update, install it, don't miss it, there's a reason the update has been pushed. let it install and keep that up-to-date and that's going to close the holes that the zeus operators are going to use to get your bank account. >> if you get a random e-mail from someone you don't know, don't open it. thanks for joining us, great advice. >> thanks, clayton. >> coming up on the show, congress wasting no time getting out of d.c. to try to save their own jobs. what about helping the millions of americans who have lost their jobs? and then, dollar stores seeing a boost in sales, but some of the products you buy could be dangerous. exactly what you into he had to know about the dollar store purchases when we come back. ♪ proud to stand on our own
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gulf oil spill. one man applied for the whole 20 million himself. that's all minement more fraud claims coming up. our slogan this hour comes from for one of the notch weekend news gigs. there's no match for ainsley, clayton and briggs, from nancy. here we go. >> it's "fox & friends." >> i'm not sure if the coffee hasn't kicked in or maybe the cataract is flicking in the eye, you don't see things. >> brother, it's early. >> good sunday morning, good to see you all and ainsley is in for alisyn this morning, lots of news happening this morning as well and some of it's not good. >> absolutely, we start with a fox news alert. the obama administration expected to issue a travel alert for americans in europe today after learning that al-qaeda plot to attack cities visited by western tourists. julie kirtz is live in d.c. with the developing details, good morning. >> hi, ainsley, we do not expect it to be a travel
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warning, telling americans to avoid public places or cancel their travel plans or vacations to europe. but the travel alert is expected to urge americans in western europe to be vigilant. especially when it public places like train and bus stations and airports, tourists sites, banks and restaurants. again, this is not expected to warn americans against travelling to europe, but this new development follows two new audio tapes, osama bin laden. and news that bin laden is directly linked to a planned multi-city plot for europe, similar to the deadly mumbai india attacks. the plotters are believed to be hiding in the border regions of pakistan, which is where the u.s. originally stepped up drone fighters, missile strikes. >> i think with the tensions between the united states and pakistan, in the tribal areas of pakistan, the chances of a terrorist attack are pretty good. this is a plausible threat and
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i don't usually put credence in these things, but this very well could happen. >> and foreclosures are taking this very seriously. we're waiting for the expected travel alert, from the state department. officials say this should be taken seriously, as i said, but the alert falls short of a formal travel warning which would mean a stronger leak hood of canceled airliner hotel reservations, again, the senior u.s. intelligence officials telling fox a travel alert could come as early as this morning and we'll get you that as soon as we do. >> thanks, julie. >> strange, isn't it. european officials are saying, wait a minute, hold up a little bit. this is going to kill us in terms of tourism, in terms of people getting out and spending money, not necessarily a new specific threat. it's a very broad, a vague situation. >> right. exactly. we'll continue to watch that story this morning. another breaking story, iranian president ahmadnejad says that american leaders should be quote, buried. in a speech this morning, he called for an undertaker to
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bury leaders in response to alleged threats of a military attack over the nuclear program. once again, he also questioned who was behind the september 11th attacks. he made similar comments last month at the united nations. n.a.t.o. says two of its soldiers were killed in afghanistan, one died this morning in a battle with insurgents, the other killed by a bomb attack in the south and this month alone, seven n.a.t.o. members lost their lives. rutgers university will hold a vigil to remember this student who committed suicide after his sexual encounter was broadcast live on the web and there is evidence that student, tyler clementi tried to get school officials to change his dorm room before he jumped off the george washington bridge. two students charged with invasion of privacy for streaming that video, face up to ten years behind bars and sketches of the planned scattered showers mosque reveal for the first time. developer jamal says the renderings are preliminary and
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shows the team's desire to build something cosmopolitan and predicted once it's built the huge backlash against the facility will go away. heavy fund raising is set to begin 30 days from now. those are ut headlines. >> it looks like a museum, a honey comb museum. >> modern art institute. let's check with rick reichmuth with a check of the forecast. >> freezing temperatures down there, across places like mississippi, and frost advisories in effect for your morning, down across missouri into arkansas and oklahoma as well and those blue colors, dark blue are freeze warnings this morning and so cold air settles in across the eastern part of the country and today highs are well bow low the averages in areas in the east. if you've got cold spot generally, warmer air in another and that's across the west we've been seeing all kinds of high temperature records broken the last couple of days and across wyoming and montana get ready across areas of the east, this is a look at the next couple of days of the
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future radar and you see this rotation here continuing to bring a lot of rain to places like philadelphia. up towards new york and new england is going to be fine and inland across west virginia and parts of pennsylvania will be seeing quite a bit of rain and this is the current radar picture and this is the system that's going to get developed and stuck here across the delmarva. more rain across the great lakes as well and the central part is high and dry and remain that way all week long. across the west out of the gate, this system here is going to park here and likely all the way until thursday or friday, seeing the scattered showers in and around the four corners and maybe some thunderstorms that will spark some fires. here is your high temperatures. 50's and 60's and 40's across places in the appalachians and tomorrow, cool down a little across the west, l.a. and 64. thanks, guys. >> thanks, rick. there's a buzz word you'll hear a lot about in the coming weeks and heard a lot about it this week the first time making major headlines, that is mini-med.
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what is that, mini-med plans are offered by companies, mcdonald's, home depot, wal-mart. they allow workers to get in and health care and don't cover catastrophe and pay and take part of your paycheck ran affordable for prescription drugs and things like that, it doesn't cover in the case of catastrophe. >> and these mini-med plans may have to go. that's what companies are starting to discover under this new obama care. what are they? well, they're sngsly covering more than 2 1/2 million people, they don't cost a whole lot of money, but generally, they're capped and i think in the case of mcdonald's it's capped around $2,000 a year, aen only costs about 50 to $60 a month. >> well, this week, waves were made when it was learned by the wall street journal that mcdonald's may get rid of this plan unless the government would provide a waiver for its employees. they say obama care is going to slam them very hard, and mcdonald's says, wait a second, we're not denying
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that, but did come out with that. jay rockefeller from west virginia sent a letter to mcdonald's hinting they want an investigation exactly how they cover their workers. what portion of the money comes out of their paychecks and how is it doled out to their employees. >> now mcdonald's is wondering is this retaliation and came out and said we don't like obama care, is this retaliation and they're investigating us now, the democrats. >> at the core of this is a couple of statements that the president made regarding obama care. one, we've heard that the costs will go do unand now it's starting to be debunked, but the argument with this one, if you like your health care plan you can keep it and that may not be the case of tens of thousands of people that work at restaurants around the country because if you have one of the mini-med plans you may lose it and may have to pay more money and may have to go to the government plans because 80 to 85% of their money has to go towards benefits in the case of mcdonald's. so, a lot of companies are kind of waking up, reading through the 2000 pages and
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figuring out, wow, we may have to change our entire, the entire way we cover employees here. >> we had a conversation with a doctor in the hallway and said this is the beginning of this. you're going to hear a lot more companies issuing this type of warning in the coming days and mcdonald's response, this is false, we're not going to drop health care coverage for plow ice, regardless how the regulations evolve over the next several months. but we'll keep an eye on the story for you. speaking of the first wave of things coming, fraud is starting to emerge down there in the gulf in the wake of the gulf oil spill and you heard of this after katrina. what's happening now, the 20 billion dollar fund set aside for victims of the oil spill, the businesses hurt, but when there's a big chunk of money like this put out there there are a lot of people making false claims, in this part, nasty false claims, and you can see the example. >> he's --
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kenneth feinberg, in charge of doling ut 0 the money. a restaurant worker $18,000 income wants 5.9 million dollars emergency payments out of the funds and the guy who made $50,000 now he wants all of it. he wants the billion-- it's more than a billion. 20 billion. >> this is my favorite, another restaurant worker said the income dropped after the spill, but guess what, the restaurant closed before the spill ever happened like a few weeks before they went out of business and closed their doors and then he then blamed-- he blamed his business going out of business on the oil spill. >> doesn't add up. how about a shrimper, he had income about 90,000. he filed a claim, however, more than 2 million dollars. that's how he's been damaged by the spill. >> and then the businessman with the spill $50,000 and this is the guy we were talking about, he wants all of it. saying no one else deserves money. >> the whole enchalada.
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>> i want 20 billion. apparently 31,000 claims and investigators are saying, at less a thousand of them are just too fishy to give out money. >> it's heartening to see the government keeping a watchful eye on this and you know, there withas a lot of speculation, that fraud to be rampant and make sure that the money is doled out properly and correctly and kenneth feinberg, is paying attention to that and they're on top of it which is nice. >> it's a monumental task that kenneth feinberg has, we saw this in the wake of katrina and we saw more and more of it. >> let us know what you think of that e-mail. friends@foxnews.com. >> did you file for 20 billion. >> i asked for about 19 billion. haven't heard back yet. >> haven't heard back. point are phone flying above you and a new app can detail where it's headed and how fast it's going and that's not all. is this a good idea? we'll discuss. >> and congress wasting no
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in these tide detergents. >> members of congress bolting out of washington, headed home and trying to save their jobs and they're leaving a lot of bills in washington without voting on it. is this exactly what harry reid and other democrats want. former labor secretary and nominee, good morning to you. what is the fear that will happen in this lame duck
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session. what is it that harry reid and nancy pelosi want when they come back? >> they're hoping that the democrats that are giving them fits because they have to go back and reelected and therefore opposing some of the beg ticket items that the leadership wants, that they will come back if they've been defeated and vote a straight party line and push through things like a tax hike on americans, they'll get back and maybe push cap and trade legislation. there are all sorts of bills i think are in the hopper that harry reid and nancy pelosi particularly if they have lost their leadership positions would like to get through in that lame duck session. >> so the people, these congressmen will be voting in favor of their political ideology rather than the will of the people, sounds familiar. >> that's right. >> sounds like something we've seen before. but let's be clear, now, democrats at the point want to paint the republicans as the obstructionist, the reason
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that the bush tax cuts specifically for the middle class have in the been extended. will that work? >> well, you know, it's very interesting, because they could have gotten a bell through if in fact all of the democrats had gone along, they, after all, do have the majority in both houses of congress, but the fact was, there were some democrats representing either purple districts or districts that previously brand and know they have to go back and face the vote,and not willing to raise taxes. it's easy to say they're only going to raise taxes on the rich, but fact is, it is people in small businesses that have $250,000 of income per year that help create jobs. and so, any kind of tax increase, when you've got a weak economy, one that's barely out of a recession, is a very, very bad idea, and those democrats from those districts did not want to vote for that and that's the reason we didn't get a bill. >> yeah, i think at last count, linda, 38 or more dems in the house in favor of the
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extending the house cuts for all levels, maybe two years, tax cuts the major issue. what else could be passed in the lame duck session, if you will, that might scare the american voters at this point? >> well, of course, you know, there are all sorts of plans or perhaps new stimulus bills. those stimulus bills have not created any real jobs in the private sector, what they had done is bloated government. they've created more government jobs, and those are the jobs that frankly are dragging our economy down because they result in higher taxes it's not just the federal level, it's at the state and local level and all of that has been a kind of break on our economy. and this is the slowest recovery from a recession that we have seen in modern history. it's really been incredibly slow, despite the fact that the obama administration tried to pump in all of the trillion dollars in so-called stimulus spending, but that did not stimulate jobs, it stimulated
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jobs in the public sector and those jobs, many of them, will mean higher tax bills for people down the road at the local and at the state level. >> yeah, small businesses are afraid of what might happen if in fact the upper tax level does have a massive tax increase, following the end of the year. how about this cap and trade or climate legislation? that's a very scary proposal for, again, small businesses, might this kind its way into this lame duck session? >> well, it's not just for small businesses, it's for ordinary consumers, because what it will really mean is higher energy costs. and higher energy costs hit business in a big way because you i believe 0 have to have energy to be able to produce things, but it also hits consumers. businesses are very good at passing on their increased costs to the consumers. so it's going to be average americans who are going to pay for any kind of cap and trade tax increase. >> linda chavez, labor
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secretary and a fox news contributor. >> thank you. >> the next time your boss yells at you for playing fantasy football at work, explain it's good for you. president obama just got a new chief of staff and now there's word he could get a new press secretary as well. is the president's inner circle falling apart or is this just par for the political course, if you will. chris wallace, the anchor of fox news sunday. here with an insider's perspective when we come back. ♪
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>> welcome back to "fox & friends" on the quick headlines, how officials this washington say people may have been exposed to measles at reagan national airport. someone with a virus was in the airport terminal c on september 23rd and they were highly contagious and rahm emanuel's bid for chicago mayor hasn't officially kicked off, but chicago for rahm.com. the video announcement is expected some time today. >> well, now that rahm's out. rumors that there might be another defector from the president's administration, speculation this morning that press secretary robert gibbs is now being considered as the new dnc chair. >> is this a sign of white house inner circle is falling apart? chris wallace the anchor of fox news sunday joins us from louisville, kentucky because he's moderating a big debate between rand paul and jack conway, we want to start with
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the chatter about gibbs. good morning to you. is this a sign of things falling apart? because the timing is off before the mid terms and there is just the result of the political process after a few years? >> it's very much so the latter day, but no sign at all that the obama team is falling apart. the only one who really has left is rahm and it was a once in a lifetime thing, he's always wanted to be the mayor of chicago, as a chicago boy myself. i understand that that's really the most powerful job in the world. so, you get an opportunity to do things, they change mayors in chicago, but once every 30 years and-- >> but chris. >> i mean, what this would indicate if anything is simply the fact that it's a trial balloon. nobody is sure that it's even really true, but if it is means anything, it means that the obama team is very much focusing even before the mid term on the president's reelection and he wants his people in all the key places
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and obviously, taking complete control of the democratic national party would be part of that. >> well, rahm is one of the only ones to follow, economic team, cristina romer, part of the economic team, falling apart. >> orszag. >> and some say it's collapsing. would it be smart though hypothetically send out a tweet saying he's happy with his job. if he were to go to head up the dnc it's an extension of the white house, gives them an arm, a power arm here separate from the white house to run the dnc a smart move? >> well, yes, i'm just in the sure that gibbs is necessarily the right person. there are specific skill sets that robert gibbs has, he's a strong and smart political analyst, a good spokesman for the president, that's part of the job as a dnc chair. other parts of the job involve going out to donors and democratic donors around the country, and trying, trying to
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get them to cough up tens of thousands or millions of dollars. i just don't know and i'm not sure whether anyone knows whether that's part of robert gibbs' strengths. again, i would very much caution you against the idea that the team is falling apart, there may be some changes they need to make after two years, these jobs send to, tend to switch anyway, but the biggest thing, obama team of axlerod and garrett is there. >> and interesting to see how gibbs got along with the professional left as he calls them, if he took that position. let's talk about what you're doing today. moderating a huge debate for the kentucky senate race and we haven't heard much from rand paul. you can see, canceled a lot of national interviews after controversy early on. today we will find out some more about his views, we hope. >> oh, absolutely. and he's been campaigning hard here in kentucky. this is a key race, people are
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wondering why should i care about the kentucky senate race, two reasons, i think. first of all, i don't see any scenario under which republicans gain control of the senate if they lose the senate seat here in kentucky, this has been a republican seat, it was held by jim bebeguning, a key for the republicans, but if they need to get a net gain of 10, you lose kentucky, i don't see how they gain control of the senate. secondly, rand paul, the original tea party candidate who made a much better pundit, much better established candidate back in the primaries in the spring and so it will be interesting to hear what he has to say. his opponent, jack conway, the attorney general of the state, has been trying to paint him as an extremist, and paul has been trying to paint conway as part of the liberal obama agenda and what they'll be right here at the top of the hour on fox news sunday, debating key national issues and pressing issues here in the state of kentucky. >> and chris, this is the only debate he's a part of getting
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national attention, that will be on national television. >> i think there may be some others later, but this is the first national debate in the cycle. we have on fox news sunday, the only primary debate and that was the crist rubio debate charlie crist saying he was not going to run as an independent. i would refined you he's now an independent, but this is a big deal. and it's an important race in terms of the national prospects of the republicans and important also to see how one of the leading tea partiers does when confronted with some of his views. >> chris, give us a sample of your toughest question. >> i could tell you, but i'd have to kill you. >> how about how to properly say, louisville. >> yeah. >> i've been practicing that and let me just say that you know, there will be plenty to ask him about. this is an easy debate because these guys disagree on everything, economics, health care, entitlements, federal
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moan for drug abuse in kentucky, so it will be easy to get. and just as keith jackson says about football teams, they just plain don't like each other. >> i like that analogy. >> chris before we let you go, ron paul down there with his son for the first time giving a campaign speech. what's the mood around that speech? >> well, excited. i mean, primarily a tea party group and i think that there was a lot of energy for that. now, there is some position that ron paul has taken that his son rand paul, particularly on foreign policy, has not followed up on and you know, this is an interesting situation that rand paul is in. he's got a-- you know, convince uall the voters of this state that he can be senator and there's something of a move to the center on his part. >> there should be good television, chris, we're very much looking forward to it. the debate between rand paul and jack conway for kentucky senate coming up on fox news sunday.
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palestinian officials are backing abbas' refusal to negotiate with israel if it keeps building west bank settlements. israel refuses to extend the moratorium on construction there, and prime minister netanyahu is urging palestine to keep negotiating. a decision whether palestine will quit talks altogether is expected next weekend. her husband shot by mexican pirates as they rode jet skis on vacation, 0 and lake straddling texas and mexico, his wife who managed to get away made this desperate call for help:
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>> wow. david hartley's bowed has not yet been found. the hartleys, high school sweethearts, set to move to colorado next week. and colorado police conducting a new round of interviews now surrounding the death of jonbenet ramsey, recommendations of an advisory committee. they're not revealing details about the continuing investigation and who they want to interview at this point. six-year-old was found dead in the family's home back in 1996. the chamber of commerce and the department of labor announcing a jipt effort to help military members trance session to the civilian work place, that transition made much harder by the sagging economy. as you can imagine, the project will focus on 14 states and encourage the hiring of disabled vets. one in five veterans of the iraq and afghanistan wars, many of whom served in both are now unemployed.
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>> let's talk a little sports now. another week and crazy ending for the lsu tigers. tiger down four, with seconds left. mass confusion. lsu. third and goal and players on and off field. over his head, cross, tennessee celebrates the victory, hang on a minute. tennessee called for too many men on the field. they had 13. that's too many, clayton. what happened? >> only allowed to have five. >> lsu got another crack at it, folks, and took advantage. 16-14. coach dooley furious, you've got to use some clock, man. >> and 11 players, only 11. how do you have an extra two. >> lucky there. college football stay there. number 4 oregon, number 9 stanford, what a show out west, over 1100 yards total offense and the ducks come back 21-3 outscoring the
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opponents 49-10 from then on. 257 yards for michael james, three touchdowns. 52-31, the duck having a good old time in eugene. finally, to my alma mater, boulder, colorado, folks, that's where georgia went, unfriendly territory. that was an amazing catch though by the bulldogs receiver, aj green. but colorado gets the last say in this one, too much, rodly stewart. a big game and colorado rushes the field. can we go back to that. they rushed the field. don't storm the field when you beat a 1-4 football team. act like you've been there before. >> it's georgia. >> so good last year. >> georgia, five years ago, the same thing, university of pittsburgh, we beat notre dame and they had a pretty terrible season and we stormed the field. i think we were like 3-7.
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>> right. but, yeah, we beat notre dame. let's run on the field. there was-- >> a big win. >> rick, there was no alcohol at all. >> of course not. celebrate he wh you can. >> you're right, it's a good point. >> i know. college kids have fun. >> exactly. just don't drink and do it. >> right. >> hey, take a look at the weather picture, it's chilly out across much of at least eastern two-thirds of the country. if are' waking up in international falls, how about 28 and used to cold temperatures, feeling like fall for a lot of people and even though it's like winter and take a look at the picture, that was sent to me on my facebook page and this guy apparently mr. jekyll, a desert tortoise and michael sent this in and says he's burrowing deep, that means a bitter winter in joshua tree. i guess maybe the tortoise knows. send me a picture to twitter on facebook page. move forward and take a look at the satellite picture. eastern part of the country, a couple of problems to be had
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and one off the shore, that's going to park itself and develop the next couple of days and keep things in a little bit gloomy, mid atlantic towards the northeast and likely through wednesday, maybe even into thursday and so some problems there across the west and another system is going to park itself around the four corners and means scattered showers across the four corners and maybe up towards areas of nevada and idaho, if there's any good news about that, it's that it's going to drop your temperatures which have been so extremely warm and today's temps shaping up like this. all the cold air across the east and very warm, well above average across areas in the far northern rockies and missoula, 81 degrees. and far northern rockies cool down and the east will slowly slide off. so the cold temperatures around the area of the east is not going to last. a warm-up again and it's going to take likely until thursday or friday before that happens. all right, guys, send it back to you inside. >> thank you, rick. all right, what is clayton doing right now and how could
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it actually aid terrorists? i'm not kidding. what clayton's doing right now could actually aid terrorists because what he's doing is tracking planes mid air and that's what a new iphone ap allows you to do. >> yeah, this is a photo of the screen. we'll show you on my phone in just a second, but what augmented reality is, first of all, gives you a view through your phone of actual reality and this new app called plane finder augmented reality actually has flights that you can look at and scan in the skyment so up here on the left is a little map and it's kind of hard to see, but there's little red planes coming into the united states and withins i find a airplane here and turn it, it's a little difficult. a black box will pop up there's a plane coming in right now. and it has how far is it, 8 miles out. 8 miles now 7 1/2 miles and gives me the flight information and heading as it's coming into presumably i guess laguardia as it's coming into new york. >> that's terrifying and even
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its velocity. >> velocity and where it's coming from. >> security experts are saying, obviously, this can be a terrorist threat because it's targeting a plane-- a terrorist could look at this and say let me target a plane with a surface to air missile or let me direct another plane heading in that same direction so there can be a collision in the middle of the air, it's scary so they're saying we want iphone and want the google's android to get rid of this app. >> a quote from parliament one of the members blasting it, anything that makes it easier for our enemies to find targets is madness. the government must look at outlying such equipment. >> this is two bucks, folks. this is sophisticated technology and you can get it all for $2. why would you need to track a plane. what happens if the planes send out a signal that's broadcast very easily. why would you need this? >> i don't know that you need it. >> my question. >> i don't know that you need it and there's actually a lot of amateur pilots who have like small craft. >> that makes sense. >> a lot of the small pilots
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may have it set on the dash and then actually be aware of other planes around them that they might not have the internal system in their plane. additionally, you may be interested in finding out if a friend is flying in the united states or country where is my friend's flight, i have to go to the airport. >> there are plenty of apps that show the timeliness. and the creator says we've packed information that's freely gotten, we haven't had objections from the u.k. or everywhere else in the world. it's only real time to an extend. it's 30 seconds behind. if somebody wants to shoot down a jet they could buy their own sds-b or radar and that's true, if you're sophisticated terrorist you're likely not going to use a $2 app. >> let's not give anyone an idea here. >> the u.s. department of security is looking at this and if in fact if it's used
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for the wrong purpose. and other flights, diplomatic flightsen the united states government. senators that sort of thing and having access to that sort of information, that's what's scary when you think about it. the president of the united states and other flights. >> right. >> now it's time for very good news for the millions of you out there that play fantasy football. and today is the big day for all of you to get behind your computer screens and start tracking your fantasy teams. >> the good news is this, the fantasy football is apparently good for you. >> who is saying this? >> this is an actual study-- let's give you a little example what happens in this process, drafting your fantasy football team. >> larry johnson was the first i can, steven jackson. >> i'll take cadillac williams. >> i'll take joey galloway. >> i'm going to have to go with tom brady. >> if you can't beat em, join em. i think it's--
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i wouldn't have a conversation during football season. so, this just reminds me of other studies when we say there are certain studies that shut down or close down facebook and banks, i talked to an owner of a bank you know what, we turned off facebook we didn't want the employees to do it. people who have time spending a few minutes here and there taking breaks from the work are far more productive than when they don't have the stuff. having fantasy football is a way to break out of your work for a few minutes and check on your team and your stats. >> right. >> it's not bad according to this. >> specifically, what this company found, if you're telling your company that you can take personal time while on the job, then your company can turn around and say, okay on the weekends we can ask you to do a little work while you're at home on the weekend so it works for them in that way. that's why it's good for you to play at home and also,
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asked hr professionals, and two-thirds of hr professionals say they play fantasy football. >> really. >> so you can say why-- >> and productivity drop they say significantly as a result of people tuned into computers and everyone's watching march madness basketball and pretend they're in meetings, but they're watching basketball. >> you can't tell me if i'm paying employees out of my pocket, i don't want them playing fantasy football at work. that's why i don't work for you. >> look at google 80-20, 20% of employees time spent on stuff they want to do and actually have seen some of the big growth and experiences and innovation out of that 20%. >> sounds good to me. let us know what you think. is fantasy golf ball good for you at work. coming up a travel alert officially out. now, from the state department, warning americans about heading overseas. we will have the latest details. >> then, think all your hard earned tax dollars are going
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more information on our website at foxnews.com. and more developing details coming up at the top of the hour, guys. >> well, you think you know where your tax dollars are going and perhaps you think they're helping to pay to run your government. think again. this year, every dime you pay in taxes and more, is going out in payments to other people. joining us is the president of pen financial group. matt macauley is here to explain this essentially redistribution, right, gone amok. >> it's kind of like the government's robin hood. stealing from the rich and giving to the poor and taking money from people who actually make money and who are working in the country and saying many' going to take that and decide who gets this money and redistribute it. what's crazy about it is, they're bringing in, let's say x amount of dollars and giving out more than bringing in and the reason the deficit continues to grow every year. >> this blows my mind. how in the world is this
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sustainable. let's say i open a business, dave and i start an ice cream stand together and we have a certain amount of revenue-- we like ice cream. we have a certain amount of revenue coming in and hire five employees and don't have enough to pay the employees and we keep hearing employees, we go out of business. >> the government has a printing press so they keep printing money, it's a little different, but the bigger problem here, they're taking money and giving it to a lot of people who don't pay taxes and really at the end of the day it's for food stamps and you name it. welfare, which, okay, i agree with you, you have to do that, but the people giving money to are not bringing money into the government. they're taking the so-called wealthy, but the wealthy pay the majority of the tax receipts, but what's going to happen, you keep taxing the wealthy and you're going to slow down the economy and say wait a second, i'm making the money, but you're taking it. and i can't hire that 4th and 5th person at the ice cream stand and multiply by thousands and the unemployment rate jumps and ends up hurting everyone from the lower
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echelon to to the upper echelon and hurts everybody in the economy. >> is this something, the grass is growing over the years regardless whether it's democrats or republicans in the white house. >> it's been growing in a year and see in a chart right now, look at the line, in the last couple of years it's really spiked and i think that's a problem with the path our country is taking right now. you're not giving any incentive to people to work very hard because the government's giving you money to stay at the social level you're at. where is the american dream to build yourself up. build a business while you want to do that if only the end game is going to be taking your money and giving it to somebody else. >> where do they need to make cuts? where are they continuing it add jobs they can't pay for? >> well, a lots of times on medicare and medicaid. really, that's the money over extends on that it's amazing. unemployment benefits, 99 weeks, you look at a lot of areas where if i don't have to
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work, i can make decent money sitting on my behind here why would i go out and get a job. >> a scary proposition, what if the democrats use this as an argument to actually not extend the bush tax cuts for higher income and saying, well, okay, we're not taking in enough money so let's tax the rich even higher and cancel those bush tax cuts for the upper income people ap bring in, they say, an extra 700 billion dollars. >> that's my biggest fear to be honest with you, being a stock market guy, we saw the stock market rally the last couple of months hoping to get the extension november 2nd. if that doesn't happen, this economy is in a world of hurt. >> that graph says it, how the democrats could use it the dip when the bush tax cuts went into effect toward the end of the graph in blue, the government revenue going down. >> the middle class will hurt more than anybody. middle class will have higher taxes and payment for individuals. they don't get the money at
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the same time the taxes believe it or not will jump a bit, but the middle class, the workers out there will be hit harder than the wealthy, that's scary to me and contributing to this economy. >> it's a bizarre equation to say the least. matt mccall the president of penn financial. thanks for being here. >> thank you. >> candidates for california governor, meg whitman and jerry brown pulling no punches on the scandal over whitman's housekeeper, take a look. >> you should be ashamed for sacrificing nicky diaz on the altar of your political biggs. >> don't run for governor if you can't stand up on your feet and say, hey, i'm sorry. >> you should have heard it in spanish more of that debate coming up. >> buyer beware, you may think you're saving a ton of money shopping at a dollar store. we have tips to make sure you're not putting your family's safety at risk. ♪
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>> good morning, more americans, more than ever, now shopping at dollar stores, hoping to save a few bucks because of the bad economy. but are the products that they're selling really safe enough for your family? we're asking the experts. this is sue perry, the deputy editor for shop smart magazine. thanks for being with us, sue. >> thanks for having me. >> this is an interesting study. i love dollar stores. >> me, too. you can fiend great products for a lot less. >> absolutely, it's a great place to shop for certain deals and our readers are telling us they're shopping more at dollar stores. >> it makes sense. >> cleaning supplies, paper
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goods, party goods things like that. aluminum foil why not get it at a dollar store and save a buck. >> which products at the dollar stores are safe ones. . >> here are safe ones that we have here. wrapping paper and supplies like that, paper towels, toilet paper, party goods. cleaning supplies, aluminum foil. those are all fine. brand name goods, if you see the brand name and recognize it, that's a safe bet, too, at a dollar store and you're going to get it for less. >> what about look alike items. i understand there are some that can come in a package that you recognize, but not necessarily the right product? >> look at this, i mean, they look so similar. >> right. >> if you run down quickly and might be putting in product in enstead of the kraft macaroni. >> and be careful of the look alike products, anything you put in your mouth you want to be careful of. you don't know where it may be made, the off brand. there have been problems in the past with dollar store items that have been made in
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china and the products that are made in other countries are not held to the same nutritional standards as our products or safety standards so stick with brand names. >> if you're in the store and have the option to buy kraft or a name you've never heard of. >> i go in you put in your mouth, toothpaste, too, but the deodorant. >> and you have the sensodyne. >> even the deodorant. not putting it in your mouth. >> i hope not. >> and cleaning supplies, laundry detergents if there's a look alike, buy the look alike and save extra money because they have-- >> for anything in your mouth keep that in mind when you're shopping. what about the dangerous products. >> we found dangerous products and send the shoppers out and brought it to the lab and brought the christmas lights back. what we found is that
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electrical goods orring to stay away from at the dollar store. this is a risky product, you want to look for something called the ul seal. a safety certified seal on the product. sometimes they have it on the box and that's not good enough. the seal really has to be on the-- say on the christmas tree lights or the products themselves, wrapped around wire, this product had neither. >> and it could start a fire. >> absolutely, shoddy workmanship. underwiring could start a fire. >> good to know, i would buy that at a dollar store. >> and extension cords, same things in the extension cords. you want to look for the ul seal and sometimes they put a fake ul seal on. it has to be on the product itself. it's not on this one and it also has to have the ul in a circle. that's-- >> that's something i would buy, what about medicines. >> vitamins, medicines, you put in your mouth. the rule of thumb. >> don't buy anything unless you recognize the name. >> and we found meds that were past the expiration date.
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>> really? >> and what about batteries? >> they're faulty and cheap batteries they're not going to last long, stay away from the batteries, stay away from the electrical goods. stay away from the meds. look for expiration dates and check your meds. >> great advice, sue perry, thank you for being here. >> over to the green room with guys. >> thanks so much, ainsley. coming up on the show the first look this week at the mosque near ground zero. what will it look like? more pictures we'll have for you at the top of the hour. >> then, how much do you know about your own religion? apparently not a whole lot. we'll put you and ourselves to the test. the test. >> oh, no. captioned by closed captioning services, inc. our job is to listen and find ways to help workers who lost their jobs to the spill. i'm iris cross. we'll keep restoring the jobs, tourist beaches, and businesses impacted by the spill.
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but every smoker was a non-smoker once. and you could be again. for many, smoking is a treatable medical condition. so talk to your doctor about prescription treatment options and support. and make this time, your time. >> good sunday morning, it is october 3rd. we have a "fox news alert" for you, this morning. just moments ago, the state
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department officially issuing a travel alert today for americans in europe, fears an al-qaeda terrorist attack targeting westerners could be imminent. >> clayton: and candidates meg whitman and jerry brown pulling no punches on the scandal over whitman's former house keeper. >> you should be ashamed for sacrificing nicky diaz on the alter of your political ambitions. >> don't run for governor if you can't say i made a mistake, i'm sorry. >> dave: more of the debate coming up. >> clayton: and many kiefs marijuana possession are just a citation, $100 fine and will cost fewer and the thousand-dollar fines it used to cost. a good idea to treat it look a traffic ticket? we report, you decide. "fox & friends" begins, right now. >> i'm donny osmond, you are watching "fox & friends."
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>> clayton: thank you, don i thank you so much, we appreciate he woke up super early and so did ainsley earhart, in for alisyn camerota. >> dave: we start with a state department warning, moments ago, state department officially issuing and expected travel alert, to europe, today, after learning of an al-qaeda plot to attack cities visited by western tourists. julie kirtz live in d.c. with the developing details and now it is official, but it is vague, isn't it. >> reporter: the travel alert is a step down from an official travel warning, but it is serious, for one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world. the state department, about 8:00 a.m. this morning, here in washington, issuing the alert saying, quote, current information suggests that al qaeda and affiliated organizations, plan terrorist attacks and european governments have taken action to guard against an attack. the alert cautions americans,
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living in and traveling to western european cities, to be extra vigilant, saying, new intelligence suggests targets of a potential terror attack, include tourist destinations, restaurants, hotels, bus and trains and airports, and the travel alert from the state department follows news that usama bin laden is directly linked to a planned multi-city plot planned for europe and americans traveling in europe and paris this weekend did not appear too concerned. take a listen: >> only thing i was afraid of was, flights being cancelled, apparently everything is running pretty good. things are a little bit exaggerated. but, oh, well, what can you do. >> i would like to think that there is isn't a major threat, i'm not too worried, because i'm here. >> reporter: we have been reporting of course for days now the increased intelligence
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suggesting al qaeda is planning a multi-city attack in europe. the state department issuing that alert, a short time ago. the state department now recommending that americans traveling in europe, register with the u.s. embassy, their travel plans and also, with the u.s. state department travel web site. that is the latest from here. >> clayton: thank you so much, keeping us up-to-date on that. >> alisyn: another "fox news alert" to tell you about, italian newspapers reporting police arrested a frenchman thought to be an al-qaeda member, had notes and a kit for making bombs, and it happened in naples, italy, according to reports he is of algerian origin, his laptop and mobile phone were seized. another developing story, iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad says american leaders should be buried in a speech called for an undertaker to bury leaders in response to what he claims are threats over
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the nuclear program and questioned who was behind the september 11th attacks and made similar comments last month at the united nations. a gunman kidnaps 20 men traveling on vacation, together, in the popular tourist spot of acapulco, mexico. according to a friend, who managed to get away, the group was looking for a hotel, when they were snatched. right now, no word on a motive and a separate incident in durango, mexico, a shootout between drug gangs left 14 people dead. and we have new pictures into "fox & friends" of the coast guard rescuing 16 suspected illegal immigrants adrift in the boat. the navy and the coast guard teamed up to rescue the group, 40 miles off the coast of southern california. the rescuers saw them waving their arms to signal distress and their boat lost power, the 16 people are now in custodies towed. and those are your headlines. >> dave: let's head it over to rick reichmuth with a check of our fall-like conditions out
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there. >> rick: it is also still hurricane season and we have been active, nicole brought all of the moisture in across parts of the east. and two little systems that we're watching here, down draes across the areas of the atlantic that could develop the next couple of days. we aren't done, we have two months left before hurricane season is completely over with. this is what we have going on across the areas of the northeast. the futurecast, and here we are right now, we'll put it into motion the next two days. a lot of rain, drizzle at times an occasionally heavier rain across the northeast and toward the mid-atlantic, through wednesday and thursday, likely and you will have to bring your umbrellas with you. for the day today, as far as any areas seeing precipitation, inner mountain west dealing with some, stretching across the panhandle of texas and it will be mostly lied, no drenches and the eastern part of the country cooled down, much of the area across the ohio refer valley, 15
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degrees below where you are typically this time of year and heading towards the northern rockies, 25 degrees above average and we'll see a lot of records that will be shattered again for your day today. and the actual temperatures, this is what they look like, 81 towards missoula, 100 in phoenix, cold air across the east and we'll slowly watch the warm air migrate towards the east and it will be a slow migration and back towards 83 rapids city and minneapolis, warm by monday and tuesday and eventually towards parts of the east coast, we'll warm up, but it feels like fall, which is kind of nice. >> it is nice. >> dave: is the federal government mad at mcdonald's? we'll talk about that story coming up, and first we start with what is happening in california. the governor's race, is heating up, between the republican meg whitman and the democrat, jerry brown and they had their first univision debate on saturday, at issue, as you know is the former housekeeper of meg whitman, and
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she was an illegal alien and meg whitman said he didn't know that, mickey diaz, provided documentation to meg whitman and they bounced it back to the whis man household and the gubernatorial candidate says, i never saw the paperwork and had to idea she was illegal and dismissed her and this is the main issue, clayton, on saturday. >> clayton: the first question from the moderator during the debate from univision, and, let's listen to that first question. >> are you both willing to submit and take a detector lie test about the -- >> no point in me taking the test, she said she wants to do it, her veracity is in conflict. >> what would you have had me do, my husband and i played by the rules and the fact that your campaign, two weeks ago, was talking about this issue, the fact that you are joined at the
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hip with gloria allred, it was a political stunt, and, i think you should be ashamed... >> thank you. >> dave: gloria allred was a former supporter of jerry brown and campaigned with him in the '70s and gave money to him over the recent years and meg whitman says, gloria allred is holding it up as a sacrificial lamb and says jerry brown had something to do with it collusion on their half, it is awful, a state so broke, the main issue is about a former housekeeper and why? jerry brown said, let's hold employers accountable if they hire illegals, and, hispanics make up an estimated 15% of the electorate, in the state of california and this is apparently going to be the decisive issue. >> meg whitman emphatically said, i did not know she was undocumented or an illegal alien, she didn't know, she says and employed her for nine years and when she found out she let her go. >> clayton: and the question,
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whether or not her husband saw the letters and the bottom line, gloria allred says i was going to take to it court anyway and people reading it as a political smear, what unfolded this week and democrats are responding, west virginia senator jaye rockefeller sent a letter to mcdonald's, not complaining about the drive through, no, he wanted to let them know they are hinting at an investigation into what mcdonald's plans to do with their health care plan. he says he wants to know -- want five years of data from mcdonald's on how much the carrier charges, in premiums and how much they spend on health care. for mcdonald's, why? because this week the "wall street journal" uncovered the fact that mcdonald's may in fact cut these mini-med plans, for 30,000 of their employees. and they say unless they get a waiver from the government, under obamacare they'll have to cut it. >> mcdonald's did go -- they went public and said they were not in favor of the obama plan
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and now they wonder is it retaliation. >> dave: sounds like night are democrats coming after them because they were not in favor of obama's plan. >> dave: minute mi-med plans, 2 million people are covered by the plans yet they are small, hence the mini-the cap is $2,000 and ranges from 1 to 10 grand and they are cheap and that is dhee for part-time workers who bounce in and out and cost $50 for mcdonald's employees, no more than $100 across the country, for different companies. but, mcdonald's is saying, we may not be able to keep these because we have so many employees who pop in and out, high turnover ratio and part-time workers and these people like these, they are young people, they don't have a whole lot of expenses in terms of health care. >> and not making a lot of money. >> dave: at issue is the president's statement that if you like your health care plan, you can keep it.
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under the health care reform. that of course may not be true if companies like mcdonald's have to rethink everything. >> clayton: news broke not long ago about the proposed ground zero mosque, some are calling it, some call it the islamic cultural center down there in lower manhattan, and news broke a few weeks ago, hey, it is already a mosque and people are there, praying, beneath, in the abandoned burlington coat factory building and now we are seeing the first sketches, and the first computer images, and again, these are computer graphics about what it will look like, and sharif el-gammal wanted to make it look inviting and says basically once it is built no one will be picketing outside or complaining about it. >> dave: he wanted to blend into the local architecture, right? that is clear... most buildings in lower manhattan look like that, in fact. but they say it has hints of traditional architecture, as far as middle eastern patterns, and things of the like, but, again,
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let's remind you they have not hired an architect or started the fund-raising for the $140 million they need for park 51, so, these are merely as clayton pointed out, artists' rendering, but it looks like a modern art museum. >> this it is a go, it will be built in 2-3 years, it looks like a museum, honey comb look, futuristic, definitely modern. >> clayton: there's a swimming pool, a basketball court in it, there's a gym, there's a theater and on the lower level by the baseman is where the mosque, two levels of the mosque unfold. let you know what you think about it. does it stand out or is it inconspicuous? friends@foxnews.com. >> dave: coming up the massive bank bailout, t.a.r.p. ends today. did you know? it may have prevented a catastrophic depression but did it work to fix or economy? a fair and balanced debate, next. >> and arnold schwarzenegger makes getting caught with marijuana similar to getting a
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>> clayton: welcome back to "fox & friends" on this sunday morning, two years and $700 billion later, the troubled asset relief program, better known as t.a.r.p., officially comes to an end today. did it prevent a major financial melt down or is it another example of washington's wasteful spending? joining me now for a fair and balanced debate, matthew bishop, u.s. business editor at the economist and co-author of the road from ruin, and, peter morissey, professor at the university of maryland and former chief economist, u.s. international trade commission. nice to see you both.
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peter, let me start with you, according to economist, it was a success and we may end up making money, profit off of this. you are not buying night absolutely not. regional banks are still in terrible shape, 270 are failing, and more than 10% are stloeon t verge of bankruptcy according to the fdic, what the treasury did under bush and obama is piled tons of money into the largest banks an permitted them to become bigger than before, they were too big to fail before and they are bigger in 2009 they paid out huge bonuses with the taxpayers' money and main street is starving and wall street feasts. >> clayton: to peter's point, peter's point, matthew, it sounds interesting that they offer -- all of these big banks ended up getting all of this money and ended up paying out big bonuses and if they are paying it back, we could see a profit, as it a success. >> you have to remember the circumstances in which the t.a.r.p. was introduced, were really terrible. you looked at a melt down of the entire banking system.
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i think the t.a.r.p. managed to stop us going from 10% which we know is horrible unemployment to 20% unemployment, which could easily have happened, when you think where we were two years ago, in that sense it has been a success. now, i agree, there are a lot of things you could have done better and the economy still has a lot of work need to be done, and, in terms of the emergency treatment it was the right thing to do and it worked. >> peter, to his point we didn't go from 10 foz% to 20% and stav off a calamity, and we didn't hit the great depression, we merely hit the greatrecession. >> now the economy is more vulnerable than before, and many regional banks are failing and large banks are increasing their market shares. those big banks are up to their old risky tricks, and, congress passed financial reform legislation which will increase the cost of credit, to americans, without making the system safer. it didn't deal with the
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fundamental problems on wall street and we are now worse off than before the crisis. >> no, we are really not. we are really not worse off than before the crisis. i think we have stabilized the banking system and some of the regulations, that have been passpass ed are positive regulations but there are challenges, to figure out how to create jobs in the american economy and get the banks to lend again, but, as it stands, we are much better off than we were two years ago. >> matthew, but wall street may be sitting fat and happy but when you say we are in the worse off look at the amount of jobs that were not created and where we were, unemployment before the crisis unfolded and now, hovering around 10%, how can you say that. >> i think before the crisis, you know, we were in a bubble, there were a lot of jobs that weren't actually real jobs, they were jobs that were servicing the housing bubble and now, we have to create real jobs that will last, not the temporary jobs, selling mortgages that no one needs. >> to that question, peter, how do you measure success, whether or not it was a success, if
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president obama said he were not going to go above 8% unemployment, we know that didn't happen, but wall street is fat and happy and where is the success and the failure? how do we measure it? >> failure is all the regional banks and that service the small and medium size business, we are looking to create those other jobs that are not in real estate and finance and construction and simply those banks were not resurrected. during the saves and loan crisis we had the resolution trust. which was profitable, successful, and, basically, restructured the banking system. instead, now the worst players on wall street are bigger than before and are back to their old tricks, writing shady corporate bonds and shady municipal bonds and, basically, laying the groundwork for yet another crisis. >> clayton: peter came back to a point he made a few minutes ago and i want you to respond, financial reform, the -- chris dodd/barney frank reform, we may see more t.a.r.p. as a result of this, "new york times" reporting this morning, we can see 2, 3, 4, maybe another t.a.r.p. down the line?
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>> well, i hope not. i mean, i think the problem with the t.a.r.p., was that it was designed, you know, on the run and done in a hurry, and i think what they have put in place, are policies to make it easier to do a more targeted rescue and hopefully to make sure the banks don't take the kind of risks they took over, now, i think there is a real challenge, how do you get more money coming out of the banking system into the economy as a hole and i hope that that is next place the debate goes to. but at the moment, you know, i think that, we have -- in an emergency, you have to have the ability to rescue the banking system and, treasury secretary paulson thought he didn't have the power and that is why it was a mess when it happened. >> clayton: the final word on the dodd-frank bill and whether it sets us up for more t.a.r.p. in the future. >> it didn't undo the clinton administration, quote, reforms, permitting commercial banks and the casinos to merge. so, we are back to the situation where we have bankers that are earning very large salaries, when they really can't sustain them by borrowing at 5 and
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lending 579, which is what banks do and they tempted to get involved in frankly what are squirrely activities. and, they haven't cleaned up their act, with regard to, say, the mortgage processing, look at new york stock exchange crisis. so, i view this as a failure. >> clayton: all right, matthew bishop, peter morrissey, thanks for joining us on this sunday morning. coming up, do you realize you are captured on surveillance cameras, up to 100 times every day? who is watches you and is this an invasion of privacy? a closures look, straight ahead. and how much do you know about your own relive? apparently not a whole lot. we'll put you and ourselves, to the test, coming up. copd makes it hard for meo breathe. but with advair, i'm breathing better. so now, i can join the fun and games withy grandchildren. great news!
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>> back to "fox & friends," new video into the newsroom, the italian coast guard setting up efforts, a search for balloonists missing in the adriatic sea and hopes of finding the men alive after four days at sea, are close to zero. rutgers university this morning, set to hold a vigil to mourn the suicide of a students whose gay sexual encounter was broadcast on-line. as evidence is merging that tyler clementi tried to get the university to change his dorm room before he jumped off new york's george washington bridge. a quick look at your headlines, and, over to dave. >> dave: are relosing our religion? -- are we losing our religion? a finding from the pew research center, tested americans' religious iq. >> surprising, 57% of
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respondents said religion is important, but most people got only half or -- only got half of the 32 questions right. only 8 of the more than 3400 people surveyed got a perfect score. and, perhaps, most shockingly, atheists and agnostics actually scored the highest. our fox news religion correspondent, father jonathan morris is here, to put us to the test. >> i'll put you to the test, it is like celebrity jeopardy, because the questions are easy, dave tried to take it away from me, this is the cue card. here's the question: >> i'm going to ask, dave, you get to -- here's the first one, what are the names of the four gospels. >> easy, matthew, mark, luke and john, is that right. >> dave: i have no idea. >> dave, which of the following is not one of the ten commandments. one, do not admit adult tri, do
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to others that as you would have done unto you, do not sally or seep the sabbath holy. >> dave: b. >> which verse is closely associated with remaining obedient to god, despite suffering. >> job. >> elijah... >> job lost his family, his wife, i remember that. lost everything. >> i'm almost sure you guys cheated. last one, dave, what was the name of the person whose writings and actions inspired the protestant reformation, thomas aquinas, john wesley or ainsley... >> i'll admit this is a total guess, a. >> that's right. wait. no, it is martin luther, right? >> i didn't mention martin luther as a possibility.
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ainsley was the third... >> you cheated! you cheated. >> it was on the screen. >> very good. >> you guys did great, 4 for 4. >> that is how... >> dave: i was two -- one for four. i guessed . >> the point of the survey is not many americans know basic trivia about religion, but, the good news is, in my opinion, that religion or spirituality is not about trivia and people can have a relationship with god, and experience god, without knowing all of the facts. i have seen the most wonderfully spiritual people with very little education, and, so... >> when you seek out a religion it is okay not to go back and trace the history of it, more look -- seek out what it means to you and what the message is, what the teachings are -- >> yes and no. religious truth makes zero importance to anyone's life. if it's not true. right? and in other words, if i make up something, that happens to feel spiritual to me, i'm wrong, i'm
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wrong and it's not real spirituality. but, yes, i would say, the more we know, of something that is true, the more we can love it and people don't know basic things, it is hard for them to love their religion. >> i learned most of the basics in sunday school, though, and i don't know if many kids are going to sunday school anymore, i know, like, a lot of families do the church service and if they go at all. >> i think that was probably because your parents too that as a responsibility and they decided they want... i don't know if your case, but i would say, generally, it is a parent's responsibility now, to say, if i will say my kids are catholic or protestant, what is my responsibility to make sure they know the basic things, and they -- and the reasons behind that. the motivation. >> dave: i better do my homework. >> dave, whatever... >> you kill me on the sports quiz, i can assure you of that. >> dave: coming up, breaking news, the state department issuing a travel warning to americans traveling overseas. we'll go live to london, next. >> and point eyour phone at a
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and find out the nearsest subway, you are facing one direction and a new app is labeled an aid to terrorists, this morning, look at your screen. this is plain -- planeflyer augmented-ar -- planeflyer-ar, augmented reality and the black boxes are planes, when are scanning the sky with your iphone or android device, you are tracking aircraft, one is 20 miles out, ten miles out. >> dave: you can do that and track their velocity and path and the question is, is it agd terrorists, if you had a surface-to-air missile, could you shut it plane, right out of the sky based on the technology of a $2 app on your iphoiiphone your android phone, and the u.k. parliament is unhappy about that and the department of homeland security is looking into it and it costs you $2.
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>> clayton: i have the app and we bought to it test it out and it is difficult to see but ice scan the skies, near la guardia, aircraft is coming in, 20 miles out, the black box pops up and i can scan the skies and see what other aircraft are coming in and the idea is, okay, if they are going to cause collisions in mid-air, could someone on the ground be radioing to someone else in an aircraft letting them know the velocity, the direction, of these aircraft or shoot it down as dave said. >> we asked the first hour to send in your e-mails to us, giving us your opinions and dave says: all the information the app is offering is on-line, sensitive and military flights are not available on this service. and, flights also have the option to block their flight info. >> clayton: if you have the wherewithal and you are airline, knows to put the information out there to block the service, who will do that, run through -- that is additional work for the airlines, to submit it to this. >> dave: on the other side, it
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is fine if the information is available but the app makes me uncomfortable. the ability to instantly track flights on a mobile device could lead to all kinds of bad situations, the maker of the app stands by the, saying it is actually on a 30 second delay, and if you wanted to shoot down per se a plane based on the app it would fail miserably but it is information, hard to imagine a good ushgs we. if you want to find out if your relatives will get in on time, there are plenty of apps to tell you where and when it will get in. >> clayton: and it comes on the heels of when we are talking about, this major story and the travel alert already officially issued by the state department this morning, they are warning americans traveling and living in europe, after learning of an al-qaeda plot, to attack cities visited by western tourists. right now, greg burke is on the phone, from rome, with what security measures are already being taken there, greg, what can you tell us this morning? >> clayton, well, actually,
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things have not changed too much since this came out, however, since 9/11, they have been pretty careful in europe and i noticed when i go to the airports, in europe, you do notice a lot more security going in, sometimes people checking your passports, and they sometimes have soldiers on there, as well. and, what is interesting, here, is it's not exactly a warning, it is just an alert, however, that is enough to spook people and certainly the countries here will not be too crazy about it, because this is the big time for tourism, a lot of americans going to london, a lot of americans going to paris, and, these are both place that's are on guard, london has already been the scene of terror attacks on the system, and paris, certainly on the alert and a lot of times what the problem is, is, these are soft targets, you know? the subway system, that kind of thing, where the security is not so, so tight that that is the worry and of course so many people traveling both in london and paris and other big european cities, that of course is the fear that anything you could
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hit, a lot of tourists at one point. that is the latest from here, back to you guys. >> clayton: greg burke live for us this morning in rome. >> the rest of the headlines: officials say the bodies of three men were found at the side of the road in northwest pakistan, the men, not americans, the pakistani taliban is suspected in these deaths, and, apparent retaliation for recent u.s. drone strikes in that area. a note was found near the bodies, saying, quote, anyone who dares spy for the americans will meet the same fate. her husband, shot by mexican pirates. as they were riding jet-skis on vacation. they were on a lake which straddles texas and mexico and his wife, who managed to get away, made this desperate call for help: >> hello... >> what's the matter... >> are you sure your does got shot. >> yes, in his head. >> was she thrown off the jet
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ski, in the water. >> no, he was thrown out of the jet ski and he's in the water... i couldn't pick him up to get him on mine. >> ma'am, were you shot on the mexican side. >> yes. >> okay. did you see anybody. >> three boats. >> david hartley's body has not yet been found and no arrests were made, they were high school sweet hearts and set to move to colorado next week. with the midterm elections, a month away, several debates taking place, today, in ver month, gubernatorial race, democrat peter shunlan will go against the democratic and pick perry is sitting a campaign out until white releases tax returns and mark dayton against republic tom emmer, and, and kentucky senate candidates will face off on fox news sunday this morning,
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democrat jack conway, and republican rand paul will debate, you can watch it here on fox. and, finally, look at bacon. kevin bacon... the bust of the actor made actually of bacon. is being auctioned off in charity, for charity, creators hope to raise more than $10,000, the money will go to ashley's team, which helps children with cancer. >> clayton: where do you keep that, if you buy it. >> dave: the frying pan. >> away from your dog. >> dave: he never looked better to me. >> clayton: and more delicious, you have to keep it in the fridge, nearby, rick reichmuth is outside with the weather. >> rick: i was at breakfast the other day and kevin bacon was there. kevin bacon was there, at breakfast, having bacon. >> clayton: wow! >> rick: that is crazy, though. check this out, we have the hoffman family from chicago, and from indiana, and, one of them is going to be a broadcasting student, right. >> jechlt i am.
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>> rick: do you want to do the weather. >> it's chilly in new york! >> rick: a little bit of work to go. the weather picture, it is chilly in new york and chilly across a lot of the northern plains, chicago, guys, it is 43° now, so, it certainly is cold, the kohl'scoldest air we have sd filters across areas like memphis and shreveport, cooler air this morning and check out the picture sent in, nice fall delores, dave, you have something to do with this, these are your friends getting married, i like the picture, nice fall colors and those are aspen trees behind them, send your pictures, rickreichmuth@twitter and the eastern part of the country, we'll be dealing with more rain moving in, not heavy, not rain that will cause flooding but will be a nuisance and gloomy, starting tomorrow as the system develops offshore and willed stick around, likely until wednesday or thursday, out across the west, another system is also pulling in, and it will stall out across areas of the
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four corners and parts of the northern rockies, we'll be dealing with unsettled weather and it will drop your temperatures across the west, welcome news and in the meantime, today, temps cool. fall-like around the northern plains, into the northeast. all right, guys, back to you. >> clayton: thanks, buddy. >> dave: congratulations to the newlyweds, travis and stephanie, got married in veil, colorado. >> your friends. >> dave: you bet. and courtney freely has a show, clayton will be fascinated by. >> i'm excited about this new show and, good morning, everybody, happy sunday, have you ever stopped to think about who may be watching you? did you know there are about 30 million surveillance cameras in the u.s., capturing your every move? and, this new series on show time called "look" is showing you the world through your eyes of big brother and begs the question, where do you draw the line between privacy an stewart and with us now -- and securitys
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is the director and the star of the show. what a freaky concept, adam, how did you get the idea. >> i originally got the idea for "look" when i went through a red light, in los angeles, and i got photographed breaking the law. right? and so the picture was sent to me with the ticket at my house and i saw a shot of me making an embarrassing expression and i was unnerved at the idea that somebody could make my picture without my knowledge and mail it to my home address and i started to look around and think, what other cameras are photographing me without my moknowledge and i realized, cameras are everywhere, and we know they are in banks, but they are absolutely everywhere and i did research and 300 times a day we are caught on camera and i thought it was an interesting way to tell a story and making a movie through the point of view of surveillance cameras and the movie came out and now it is a series, premiering, late night on show time. >> you talked to people at
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security firms and did you... >> we did research and talked to security experts and went to malls and places where there are security teams and we -- i learned pretty interesting things, when we went to a mall security office, you think possibly, generally, the people behind the cameras in the security offices are professionals, and take their jobs seriously and many cases that is true but in one particular mall i was researching, all of the guys behind the cameras in the private room are -- were high school kids, basically and smoking pot and they were... they were using their cameras to zoom in on women's breasts and they were posting clips on youtube, and i thought to myself, as a private citizen, this is a little bit scary. but as a filmmaker, this is fascinating. i have to explore it. >> what did you learn about privacy from filming the show. >> the most important lesson i learned about privacy is definitely keep your panties on in the dressing rooms. that would be the number one
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thing. also, that -- the cool thing about, look, it is so current and right now, it is so common to walk down the street, take a picture with you and your friends in front of the movie theater you are at, a concert you are going, to and whatever is happening, up load to it twitter and it is geo tagged and if someone is motivated they know where you are and what are doing and who you are with. your whole life, voluntarily and involuntarily, is publicly out there. >> do you have any tips for us? we should assume we are photographed all the time, everywhere. >> actually i would assume that you are kind of always being watched. >> in weird places like under casino tables, in dressing rooms. >> i didn't want to ever cheat when i -- i didn't want anybody to say, there is not a camera there. you know what i mean but the truth is, everywhere that there is a camera in the show, there is really -- there are cameras there, i learned in 37 states, it is legal to have carries in dressing rooms, and, public bathrooms. and also, under casino tables.
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you know... >> and the lines are even more blurry when it comes to -- like talked about terrorism in airports and you know, any government... >> that is big brother. >> there are surveillance cameras watching you, that is big brother and now there is little brother, cell phone carries, facebook, youtube, social networking, all the information we are voluntarily putting out into the -- on on the show "look" you will see, not only this is surveillance camera capturing someone living inside their blackberry and texting but we pull the information and subtitle what the texts are. >> good luck with the show, thanks for creeping us all out on this sunday morning and you can check out more at looktheseries.com and they are also on twitter as am i, have a great sunday and i'll toss it back to you. >> clayton: amazing. >> scary. >> clayton: because this show is coming out we set up a secret
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hidden camera in the control booth at "fox & friends." look at that... >> dave: we're watching you. >> clayton: so much -- >> dave: we see the hand gestures. >> clayton: coming up, if you get caught smoking pot in california, no worries. the state is so deep in debt, yit can't afford to prosecute you, some think it is a great idea, fair and balanced debate is next. >> information might have pregnant women eating much differently, grab the chocolate, ladies! >> dave: there's the good news! >> ♪ ♪ be my baby now ♪ whoa, ho, ho, ho...
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>> there's the peanut butter, ranch dressing, pickles, pickles and ice cream, did your wife go through that, women gets all sorts of cravings argues apparently when you get pregnant but did you know what you eat and what aer -- what you eat and what you do during those nine months can actually play a
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significant role in shaping your baby's life. >> and, anne murray paul wrote a book "origins" how the nine months before birth shape the rest of our lives and is here to discuss it with us this morning and it is fascinating at times, frightening, because so many moms read so much, they are already paranoid about those nine months, and what might surprise expectant mothers about those nine months they didn't know, that really affects their child. >> well, i think what is most surprising about whatever i put in my book "origins" is you want a healthy pregnancy and healthy baby but you may not know what you do during pregnancy is actually affecting your child for the rest of their lives, perhaps, many years into the future. >> what i found was so interesting, sorry, clayton, you said a little bit of stress is okay for the baby, you hear, don't get stressed, stay calm. >> that is something a lot of women worry about but it turns out they should stop stressing so much about stress, because, just like if you take a test and
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are a little bit stressed, you do better than if you are totally relaxed and the same for a fetus, a moderate amount of stress, felt by the pregnant woman accelerates the brain development. >> let's talk about food, that is the issue here, and women, the late night cravings and waking in this middle of the night stofor snicker's bars and what do women need to eat to ensure the success of the child. >> one thing they should eat it is fish and a lot of pregnant women avoid it because they've heard about mercury and you can eat a lot of fish with good omega-3 fatty acids without eating high mercury variety fish. >> what would you recommend. >> smaller fish like, sardines and anchovies... >> yuck! sorry! >> we've covered the first two of the pointers, that you would point out and, one, don't stress about stress and networks eat healthy and some of the other ones, protect yourself from chemicals, and, toxins, and,
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then, the other -- okay, your point is, there, why is it so important to protect yourself and chemicals and toxins, what impact could it have on your child. >> we used to think the fetus was sealed away in the placenta, protected from whatever environmental pollutants the woman encountered and now we know the fetus is more vulnerable than anyone else to chemicals and we want to be sure as much that's woman can, she eats in a way that avoids pesticides and that she doesn't breathe, you know, pollutants in the air and certainly doesn't smoke and all of those things can affect the off spring's health and well-being, well into their lives. >> clayton: we mentioned chocolate. we have to get to chocolate. >> yes. yes, yes. a woman who eats chocolate during pregnancy, that is associated with a lower risk of pre-eclampsia, a dangerous high blood pressure condition and, the baby seems to have a happier, less fussy temperament.
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>> dave: that and so much more in the book, origins, fascinating and you will lea something, moms, if you pick up the book. we appreciate you being here, ann. >> thank you. if you -- if you break the law smoking pot apparently in california, no worries. one state so deep in debt it can't even afford to prosecute you. some people think this is a great move. a fair and balanced debate. coming up next.
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recovered, and elena kagan starts her first day on the bench tomorrow, for the first time in history, three justices will be women, the top cases on the docket involve free speech. clayton? >> clayton: thank you, ainsley. if you get caught with an ounce or less of pot in california, it is no longer a misdemeanor. it is a fine, like a speeding ticket. thanks to a new bill, just signed, by governor arnold schwarzenegger, is the state sending an irresponsible message? to debate we welcome the senator behind the bill, state senator mark leno, along with the founder of citizens against legalizing marijuana, karla lo well. also joining us, this morning, senator, answer the question we asked in the introduction... is this sending the wrong message to the youth of america, well, specifically, in california, that doing drugs is okay? >> good morning, clayton, thank you for the opportunity to explain this. in fact i think the message we are sending, if we are sending a message, is truth in government.
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we didn't change any penalty, the penalty has always been and in fraction, a $100 fine for possession of less than an ounce of marijuana. so, we had the anomalous situation, one misdemeanor in the entire california penal code which didn't allow for jail time, misdemeanors by definition are up to 6 months to 12 months in jail, a more serious crime, of course, is a felony, send you to state prison for more than a year and an infraction is by definition punished with a $100 fine, not unlike a traffic ticket and that is what possession of less than an ounce of marijuana has been for many decades and we are truthful and honest, calling it what it is and by saving california tens of millions of dollars each year in wasted costs and clearing our court system so more serious crimes can actually be adjudicated. >> clayton: i understand courts overburdened with this type of crime, however we're seeing an
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uptick in the amount of young people using marijuana. does the law send the wrong message to the youth of america? >> thank you, for inviting me to be here, i'm privileged to sit at the capital -- in the capital area of the great state of california. i believe that this bill has pushed california one step closer to the brink of being called the dope mecca of the world. the way we are going to solve the whole problem of economics has nothing do with this bill. it has everything to do with keeping our kids from using any illicit drug until they are 21. knocking out a pillar of prevention, the fine and the record, is certainly tantamount to saying, it is okay to use drugs. i am calling on the president of the united states today to come out and say, there will be no legalization of any illicit drug. there will be no proposition 19. there will be none of this, that reduces our country to less than it could be. we need the to the say, no
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legalization on his watch and i know you will say, the bill is not toward legalization but that is simply not true. >> clayton: i was going to say i want to throw though poll up on the screen and get the senator's response to it. here's the proposition 19. >> thank you. >> clayton: 52% support this poll, 41% oppose. your response to the poll numbers, senator. >> this is with regard to proposition 19, or -- i can't see the screen. >> clayton: with regard to proposition 19. >> well that really is another conversation altogether. and of course is being debated as we headed into the final weeks of the campaign season and polls indicate there is a likelihood californians support prop 19, to end the prohibition of -- as we used to have with alcohol on mayrijuana and let adults make their own informed decision. >> clayton: a play off of what karla said, it is interesting and we'll watch what happens in california, as it may affect the
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rest of the u.s. at large, we appreciate you joining us this morning. thank you so much. >> thank you, clayton, good to be with you. >> clayton: coming up we asked, you answered, is cheerleading really a sport? we'll hear what you say next, as two groups debate whether or not it is. and worth 2 in the bush? appraiser: well you rarely see them in this good of shape. appraiser: for example the fingers are perfect. appraiser: the bird is in mint condition. appraiser: and i would say if this were to go to auction today, appraiser: conservatively it would be worth 2 in the bush. woman: really? appraiser: it's just beautiful, thank you so much for bringing it in. woman: unbelievable anncr: geico. 15 minutes could save you 15% or more.
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>> are we on now? we're coming to america. we have been asking all morning, if cheerleading should be considered a sport, two organization are fighting to have it recognized by the ncaa and some of you agree, melissa gillis, on twitter says, anything you have the condition -- to condition for is a sport, 99.9% of people couldn't do what they do without training and not everyone is on board. amber from vermont says, is demolition derby a sport. >> playing the drums?
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