one is going for november 11, 2011! better get to work! bill: they do not work for the state lottery. buy a ticket! martha: bye everybody, see you tomorrow. jon: good morning, a fox news alert, some breaking news on the economy, i'm jon scott. jenna: hi everybody, i'm jenna lee, the news is disappointing, 462,000 americans filing for first-time unemployment last week. that's just not the number that the market was expecting. that number is up by 13,000. proves that many companies are still reluctant to add jobs in this very sluggish economy. jon: then is the foreclosure mess across the country, realtytrak looks at foreclosure rates, it says this economic started taking shape in september with banks looking at 100,000 properties for the first time, in fact, foreclosures made up 31 percent of home sales in the month of september. now, of course, several big banks are stopping all

foreclosures because of faulty paperwork, and attorneys general in 50 states are demanding some kind of an investigation. jenna: according to a new report, investors are also stepping up the pressure on some of these banks, demanding they pay up for mortgage mistakes. what does it mean for the banks? is this the second wave of the crisis that everyone has been talking about? let's ask pao*eufer schiff, president of euro pacific, author of "how an economy grows and why it crashes". peter, do you want to call it a second wave, a double-dip what what's really going on with the economy now? >> there are a lot of waves to come. we're standing in the ocean and there are tsunamis that haven't hit. you know, the foreclosures are not the problem, they're part of the solution. the problem is a lot of people bought homes they couldn't afford and they actually need to leave those homes so people who can afford them can buy them. they need to rent something they can afford. what this is going to do is hurt the banks two ways: number one, it increases the risk of making a mortgage because if it's difficult to foreclose, that increases

your risks, what means mortgage credit is going to be harder to come by, mortgage rates are going to rise. more importantly you have a moral hazard here as homeowners or people in homes that they really can't afford, once they realize how difficult it is to get them out with a foreclosure, there is a very powerful incentive to stop making your mortgage payments because you know you're going to be living in that house for a long time before you ever have to make another payment. jenna: so peter, according to this report in the "washington post", this is what's happening, consumers, the courts, we see the states now, attorneys generals, getting involved, to try to figure out what exactly is going on in this mortgage market. now this report is saying that major investors, hedge funds, pension funds, are going to banks and saying hey, if you made a mistake, you're going to pay me and you're going to pay me now and that's going to cause a huge hole in the bank's balance sheet. that balance sheet that we the taxpayer just worked to repair. >> yeah, i think for the people who own these mortgages this is like a loophole, like a get out of jail free card because they don't want them to begin

with, they're losing money, but if it turns out the banks and the securitization process somehow did something wrong and now the owner of those mortgages doesn't really have the right to foreclose, they can come back and say hey, this is fraud, this is -- these are not legitimate, i want my money back, i want to cancel this transaction, and if we have to move these mortgages back on to the books of the banks you'd better believe they're going to fail again and of course, who's going to have to get stuck with the bill for another bailout? it's going to be the taxpayers. and of course, i still think all of these banks are going to fail again because the real crisis is the dollar crisis that could hit next year. that could send interest rates through the roof, and all the banks that we bailed out, they're going to be coming with a -- for another handout, only it's a much biller bailout next time. jenna: we have seen recently the dollar take a dive, gold is trading higher. i don't want to get too much into the trading scheme of things but let's talk a little about the solution here, because the economy has proven to be resilient, even in tough times. how do we fix this?

>> it hasn't been resilient. the problem was every time we had a crisis the fed shot it up with another round of stimulus, so all we got is more drugs when what we needed was to go cold turkey. so i think we're really headed for, you know, almost like an overdose on this government stimulus and you're seeing that in the currency markets. the dollar is hitting a record low today against the australian dollar, against the singapore dollar, it's almost a record low against the yen, it's at a record low against the swiss franc, at a record low against gold. look at the price of silver, it's up over $1 in the last two days. all of this shows the dollar losing value. look at commodity prices, look at agriculture, and all of this is going to impoverish a great number of americans because the cost of living is going to go up dramatically, every american is taking a pay cut, every time the dollar loses value. this is a direct result of what the federal reserve is doing, and they're doing this because they refuse to allow us to confront reality. the reality of the enormity of this problem that was created by years and years

of bad monetary policy, bad fiscal policy, you know, we did it under bush, we're repeating it under obama. this economy is a complete mess. we need to allow the markets to cure it. jenna: i understand that this is your perspective on the economy but why are you still here? i mean, why are you still an american, why do you still live in the united states if things are so bad? >> well, look, they're bad, i have family here, i have friends here, but you know, i am setting up a business off shore, because the regulators are making it so difficult to expand a business in america, it's so difficult to hire people in america, that i'm moving more of my hiring in capital investments to other countries. i mean, that's a wave. but you know, it's not very easy. there are a lot of people leaving the country and believe me over the next few years, many, many more americans are going to leave, particularly younger americans who are looking to build a career that want to succeed, they're going to be looking for opportunities in other countries, because those opportunities are going to be diminished in this country by a government that is layering more regulations on an already overregulated economy, and

they refuse to let the market function. jenna: we always appreciate your perspective and we do welcome you back, even if you want to do like a remote from that off shore place you're going next time! peter, thank you very much, we'll talk again soon, thank you. >> sure thing. jon: the world watched and celebrated. maybe you watched, too, on "happening now" yesterday and then when that last miner, shift foreman luis urzua emerged from that underground tom the cheers were heard around the globe. right now, all 33 of the chilean miners are enjoying freedom. still in the hospital where the president of the chile will visit each one of them. president pinera held a news conference promising safety changes for mines in chile but there are also questions about how the men will adapt to a normal life after a two-month ordeal underground. adam housley is covering this, streaming live from the regional hospital in copiapo, chile, right adam? give us the latest on their

condition. >> you got it, copiapo. right now we're getting good news. one second, guys. i got something to show new a moment. about those conditions of the patients, we're told the good news, jon, a couple may be released as early as this afternoon and a few others may be released tonight. there are several that they might keep a couple days longer than the original intent of just 48 hours because they're having a few issues, psychologically, and they want to be monitored a bit more here. the doctors tell us they'll watch them over the course of the next six months and at the same time, the president says they'll pay their salaries over the course of the next six months, as everything plays out and as they try and get their lives back in order, jon. jon: when they pulled that final maybe to -- man to the surface, the mine foreman or shift foreman, as i understand it, what was it like for new. >> right. you know, it was quite a moment, because the journ -- as a journalist you want to stay removed a bit from it but in a story like this that's so positive, our views -- crews had big

smiles across our face, people were blairing sirens, confetti, balloons, it was quite the celebration and we were intermixed with the families, the encampment a few hundred yards from where the rescue was taken place so the families were camped 30 feet from us, so you get caught up in it. you hear the story of a man who volunteered to go 28 and he hadn't even seen his first child ever, those stories warm your heart and at the time, you know, amid so many bad stories, even with chile, the earthquake earlier this year, it's good to have that, an jon, this is what i was going to show you, the poster. you're seeing posters and flags all over this country, and i even asked the president about this in moment ago in english, he responded to how his country has reacted and what his thoughts are about how this is going, the way the world is watching and there's a couple of things they learned, one, respond quickly, two, firmly and don't be afraid to ask for

help and he thanked -- thanked the united states and australia for helping get these workers out alive. jon: and the rescuers that went down in that mind, half a dozen or so, huh? >> the last one came out and that ned gomez came out half past midnight, so a little more than 24 hours after the operation began, he was the last one out, and the media coverage had his removal, because he was the guy that said i'll go first. imagine that, getting in that capsule, going down 2000 feet to see the men stuck there since august 5th and not knowing for sure if he would come back out alive and he went down there, stayed the entire time, made sure every man got in that capsule and got out safely, so he got out last and he's quite the hero and that was quite a moment to see that guy out to hugs and all sorts of applause. jon: it's an incredible story and really the whole world has taken a lift from it. adam housley, great job covering it for us, thanks.

jenna: well, there's the music and we have less than three weeks until voters go to the polls. control of the senate is hanging in the balance and a fiery debate in delaware could help voters there decide who should take vice president joe biden's former seat. we have republican christine o'donnell and democrat chris coons, both going on the offense last night. james rosen was there, he's joining us live from wilmington, delaware today. james, the big question, who won, who lost, was it a tie, what's your assessment? >> reporter: well, you have to keep in mind, jenna, that the polls show christine o'donnell trailing chris coons by double digits, most polls edging towards 20 points, and so if nothing too exciting happened, chris coons could be said to have won. last night we saw in the debate both had their moments where they struggled. christine o'donnell, for example, could not produce a recent supreme court decision with which she disagrees when asked to name one, chris coons said where

one neutral observer said he was obfuscating when asked whether or not he would tend the bush era tax cuts to all brackets. one of the sharpest exchanges was the health care reform bill that president obama signed into law. >> one out of four democrats have gone on record saying that they oppose obamacare, they realize that we made a bad mistake, and what this bill does is it gives a massive government control over health care. uncle sam has no business coming into the examination room, coming between you and the doctor, and that's exactly what this bill does. >> that's a great slogan. you toss it around everywhere you go. >> reporter: on foxnews.com, i posted a lengthy writeup, analyzing the debate in some de detail -- detail, where the respective manners of the two candidates are concern, i concluded that christine o'donnell comes off as the approachable girl in high school, cheerful, optimistic but not entirely confident of herself, and chris coons, with his somewhat dire

demeanor resem bled the uptight dad on "that '70s show", jenna. jenna: a very vivid description, i read your writeup and it's a great one and all viewers should check it out. one of the things you were able to bring to the table was that exclusive interview you had with christine o'donnell after the debate. she's far behind in the polls, james, how is she going to make up that difference? >> our interview with o'donnell took place in a somewhat boisterous, noisy setting, kildair's irish pub in downtown delaware where christine o'donnell had scheduled a post-debate reception. she noted that she was down by a similar margin during the primary season at a similar point in the campaign. she even noted that on primary eve, she was down by 46 points, she only had achieved 47 points. >> i won by a very strong margin, and -- [inaudible]

>> i don't think the polls, while they are accurate among likely voters -- >> [inaudible] >> there is another debate scheduled over the next hour between the candidates here in wilmington, delaware and they have two more scheduled before the contest comes to a close, jenna. jenna: nice, james, when work brings -- brings you to a pub, late at night to do a little extra research and reporting! james rosen, thank you. check out the writeup, foxnews.com. thank you james. want to show you everything else we have going on on foxnews.com. i want to show you that, our happening now website, if you go to the america's asking link, this is our link to what we have going, a chat on the board, if you take any of your questions to our town hall later today. what we want to do is really

tap into what you guys want to talk about regarding the mid terms and elections. you can see here, hairs has posted something. harris, i see you're up and on the boards, chatting away >> reporter: i've been up for about an hour now and some would accuse me of need to go get a life but i enjoy it! jenna: we wouldn't acruise you of -- accuse you of that. >> it's begannerred some response. doesn't the gop seem a tad overconfident? polls have been wrong before obviously snafgan, probably not their birth name, wants us to ask that at a panel, with the town hall that starts at the top of the hour. now is the time to get your questions in, chat live with me and jenna has outed me, i love to do a little chatting, or you can respond on the blog, go on our e-mail. go to our page, you'll see the different ways, get your questions n i'm going through them, we all are here and we'll read some of them on the air. back to you. jenna: that's what we want to do, we want to hear from viewers. that's why we're doing this. jon, we're also going to get

them up on the chat. jon: i'm going to send harris a message in this commercial break. hey, remember the bizarre case of the pizza bomb every, a delivery man arrested for -- arrested forbou armed robbery of a bank? details in that case, comingin . details in that case, comingin . up.

jon: new developments in a gruesome crime, as jury selection begins in what's become known as the pizza bomber case. the horror unfolding seven years ago as television cameras rolled, a pizza delivery guy, arrested for a bank robbery, told police there was a ticking time bomb strapped around his neck. nobody knew what to do. turned out he was right, the bomb goes off, killing him. a woman is charged in the case and today, the difficult job of picking jurors. harris has that story, she's at the breaking news desk. >> reporter: you set that up perfectly, difficult job of picking jurors, marjorie dale armstrong is the person on trial for all of this and jon, it's day three of jury selection, because they're trying to get people, and

they know they have a lot of people out there in the public in this area who saw this going on, so they're trying to get this jury so the case can move forward. it was back in 2003 that the victim had a bomb strapped around his neck, he was forced to rob a pnc bank, and it went off, even though they said they had given codes to discarm it, that didn't happen. marginally dale armstrong is accused of, along with three other men, conspiring to rob this bank and in the death of this one man. one of the people that she supposedly conspired with is already dead, one has already pled guilty in this case, so she could face a life in prison, but seating that jury could take some time, too. this trial, expected to draw 60 witnesses. it's the pizza bomber trial. and i'll be watching it very closely. back to you guys. jon: harris faulkner, thanks jenna: a fox news alert to

you now, into indiana, where we're seeing some of this picture coming to us by way of wish, greenwood, indiana there, there was a worker, construction worker that was trapped in a trench, fell in this trench right here the state road 135, and the county line road in greenwood. so we were watching closely for the rescue here. we believe that he was able to get pulled from that trench and you're seeing kind of the residue there of the rescue going on. we'll keep you up to date as this develops, jon. jon: president obama holds a live town hall meeting today, hoping to reignite voting interest among young people. this meeting airs on mtv. the president, of course, was a rock star, two years ago, rallying people to get out and vote. does he still have that cool appeal that worked so well in 2008? plus, you might recall this horrifying ordeal that unfolded at the university of texas, just a few weeks ago, a gunman, carrying an ak-47, opens fire on campus. just-released video and the

chilling 911 calls to share with you. >> i was in my car, he looked at me, and i sped off. i can't believe i didn't hit anybody.

jon: 19 days away now from the crucial midterm elections and right now the president is getting ready to rock the vote as he prepares for a youth town hall meeting this afternoon, but a new poll shows his cool appeal to voters under 30 might just be cooling off. shanon bream is live in washington. what do these latest numbers show us shannon? >> reporter: of course we know that young voters were more engaged than ever during the 2008 election, presidenting for president obama over mccain by a 2-1 margins. it cooled off a bit. back in february last year, young voters gave the

president a whoping 71 percent job approval rating, to now, it's dropped 13 percent, to 58 percent approval. the democratic party is also slipping with young voters, too, in 2008 when that group was asked what party do you identify with, the democrats held a 32-point advantage. well now, they still hold a 20 percent point advantage but they slipped 12 percent in just one election cycle jon. jon: what's behind the dropoff? any indication? >> reporter: well, the administration is aware it's lost touch along the way with a large chunk of the youth vote. you'll notice the president has been going to college campuses, appearing with rappers, things like that but heather smith, with rock the vote, says a lot of young voters out there are wary. >> you can't just expect someone to turn out, ignore them for two years and expect them to come back two years later. we're smarter than that, we're satisfyier than that -- savvier than that. we know you need our vote,

you're coming back so there's skepticism. >> it was like having a great first date and waiting for that phone call or text, and young voters haven't gotten it, and she said a lot of voters who voted for president obama are graduated now, dealing with the reality of paying bills and taxes and looking for jobs and the fact is a cool doesn't pay the bills, jon. jon: looking for jobs is especially tough right now. >> it is. jon: shannon bream, thank you. jenna: ahead of today's youth town hall the democratic national committee is releasing this ad. take a look at it: >> two years ago, you defied the conventional wisdom in washington. you proved that the power of every day people was stronger than the forces of the status quo. on november 2nd, we face another test. if the other side does win, they will spend the next two years fighting for the very same polices that led to this recession in the first place. we cannot sit this one out. jenna: for more in today's

power play, let's bring in chris stierwalt for more information on this youth vote, the elusive youth vote, chris. give us some context, though. how important is it, really, to get young people to vote? >> well, that's sort of the problem. when it comes down to the youth vote, you're looking at the historic high that president obama drove in 2008, at 18 percent of the vote. that was up exactly 1 percent of the vote from 2004, with john kerry and george w. bush. so the problem for democrats here is that the president is spending a lot of time, an awful lot of time, and money and resources, trying to woo these voters, but when you look at mid-term versus general election performance, jenna, you get down to this, it's possible that only ten or 11 percent of the electorate this year are going to be kids, are going to be voters under 30, and that means trouble. jenna: it's interesting, chris, in your power play that you wrote up, there is

a cool factor, but the cool factor, you say, doesn't have as much to do with the candidates as it has to do with the cool factor of a presidential election versus the cool factor of the mid terms. >> well, right. how are you going to convince a kid -- i keep saying kid but young voter -- that harry reid is a cool cat that you need to go out and vote for if you're going to unlv or a school out in nevada, you say hey, you need to get down there and vote for this guy, harry reid, he's awesome, not gonna happen. jenna: same could be said for sharron angle. >> exactly. no one has accused either of the contestants in the nevada senate race this year of being cool sates -- coolicals, but president obama, definitely that was his brand and was telling young voters to do that, so they went out for him but more and more, perhaps, they told their parents, baby boom age, that this obama guy is really cool, you've got to be with him, you've got to be part of this movement, it's happening right now and it was very appealing, especially to baby boom voters.

jenna: a trickle down effect well -- well, maybe trickle up. i'm distracted by what an 18-year-old chris stierwalt would ask the president in an mtv town hall. i might have to let you ponder that, chris. >> it would have been very dorky, jenna, i promise, very dorky. jenna: chris, thank you very much. i wouldn't use dorky to describe your column, just so everyone knows! you can get your politically powered up power play every day on your iphone, that's very young and cool, by the way, log on to foxnews.com and click on the link for info on how to download, it's a great app, be in the know, on the go, as we count down the days to the crucial midterm election. jon: gunfire on campus, caught on camera, police in texas, releasing surveillance camera and 911 calls, security cameras show colton joshua tooly, walking through the library, carrying an ak helicopter

47, 911 operators, fielding calls as students and staof ran for cover. >> he was walking on the south side of the university, had a suit on, it looked like, with some kind of head gear, it was an ak-47t. looked like. >> there is a man on campus, who is shooting a gun. >> yes, we are working on that. you need to take cover, get inside a building. and get into a room, lock the door, and do not open that door unless a police officer tells you it's okay. jon: tooly fired several shots without hitting anyone before police cornered him, that's when he turned the weapon on himself. despite some rosy poll numbers, there are some potential hiccups and road blocks to a republican takeover of congress in the midterm elections. who better to ask about that than this gentleman, karl rove. we're going to be talking with him in just a minute. we have a great live chat about politics and the election, going on right now. we are taking your questions and your comments. harris is monitoring it for

us. harris. >> reporter: actually, you know what, this is like eaves dropping on somebody else's conversation, jon, because people are really firing their live postings off. it's america's asking on our page, click on it, get part of the live discussion. tom neighbor asks president thinks it's tough getting his agenda through with a majority, what's it going to -- what's he going to do next year without one? of course he's counting on things turning very differently for the president on november 2nd. scott writes, i wish a candidate would stand up for two term limit phos senate, eight years for the house. what do you think? i'm monitoring the live chat, i'd love to chat with you, so do so. we're back after the commercial.

jon: right now the balance of power, by the looks of the polls, republicans are poised for a pretty big gain in november in the house house d senate. a powerful wave that could give them the 40 seats they need to retake the house, maybe even more than that. plus, possibly the ten seats need to retake the senate, where democrats and the two independents they caucus with hold a 51-49 edge. the odds for that are still longer, but could road blocks and hiccups still occur for the gop? fox news contributor karl rove is with us, he's former senior adviser to president george w. bush and deputy white house chief of staff. karl, there was a piece in the "new york times" that suggested democrats are going to need help from

republicans themselves who must still avoid serious mistakes, misjudgments, and a sense of complacency. do you see that happening in the gop? >> i don't think the gop is going to give the democrats much help, but what was interesting in that article was what was not said, and this is the strategic framework for the general election is pretty well set. the issue agenda is pretty well set, peoples' attitudes about those issue items are not going to change that much, those work to the disadvantage of the democrats and the advantage of the republicans, but it did make a number of good points, that there are tactical steps along the way where republicans could falter and democrats could gain, there could be scandals or questions about individuals running on the ballot, in a few states like nevada, this are third party options. in nevada you cannot only vote for a third party, you can vote for none of the above. there could be a financial advantage for the democrats that was not spoken of in that piece but it's probably one of the most important things to come into play on a tactical level here in the

final two weeks of the campaign. jon: let's look at some of the individual races, and there's an interesting one underway right now in ohio where steve griehaus is trying to defend the seat he won from steve chabbitt and he's actually firing back against the democratic congress at campaign committee? i want to play a clip of that and get your reaction: >> now the ccc is walking away let's send a message to the dccc, let them know you stand up for candidates who stand up for your principles. i need your help, go online, make a contribution, help in this race and send a message to the dccc and all americans. jon: he's upset that he apparently has lost some of the campaign funding the democrats -- democratic campaign committee has decided that spend that money elsewhere. >> at this point in the game, both committees, republican and democrat,

don't have enough spend on the races that need money spent so they need to make decision, triage the races, pull out of races where they're way ahead or behind, and they're pulling out of this race where they're behind and the democrat is responding to it by basically saying i took all these hard votes on the stimulus, spending, decifit and obamacare and now you're walking away for me and running a web ad appealing for funds to make up for the democrats. we're seeing this elsewhere, jim marshall, georgia democrat is beleaguered and has now come out and said i will not vote for speaker pelosi, he joined two or three other democrats, one, congressman bobby bright of alabama, had already said he was now voting for pelosi after saying he didn't know whether he was going to vote for her because he might become sick and die, quote, before the vote, so you're starting to see these weird reactions as candidates get pressed in the final stages of the campaign. jon: karl rove is a fox news contributor. karl, thanks. jenna: a new tax could be

coming soon to a near you and we're not talking about the bush tax cuts, we're talking about a tax that many have said it would boost this economy but a new study says it could kill american jobs. we'll have a live report on that in a moment. also a guy in oklahoma, recording his college football video blog, when this happened: >> let's go ahead and begin with a thursday night game of the big 12, kansas state playing -- >> jon: -- jenna: did you hear that? sometimes earthquakes make a sound. more on the bizarre earthquake that shook folks up in oklahoma.

jon: an earthquake rattled central oklahoma, of all places, it had a magnitude of 4.5 and a lot of people felt that quake and you would at that magnitude, including this sports blogger who was taping his online show when the room started shaking. >> all right, ladies and

gentlemen, it's time time now for my pitch, let's begin with a thursday night game at the big 12, kansas state playing -- >> jenna: i hope he was about to say something good about the neck's corn huskers! jon: whoa! >> we just had an earthquake. we just had an earthquake! jenna: and it quickly went from a sports blog to one of, well, the news. the spokeswoman for the norman police department says officers started running from the station because they thought a car had actually hit the building. two people unfortunately suffered minor injuries, in this rare event in oklahoma that we covered for you yesterday. jon: you can tell, even those beefy football players get scared. jenna: right! >> jon: a trip that is called bizarre, mahmoud ahmadinejad speaking to a strong hold in southern lebanon, a stone's throw from the israeli border and the scene of fierce fighting

between hezbollah and israel in 2006. reena ninan is live from jabil, lebanon, le land vitter is on the israeli side of the border. first to reena at the rally. it appears we're having trouble getting that signal in from reena. let's go to le land for his report. leland. >> reporter: this is the lebanese border with roll, you can see soldiers have been driving with machine guns all day, tensions are high, you can see the barbed wire fencing there. up this hill is a lebanese village. this is where it gets interesting. they've built a replica of the dome of the rock, but flying on top of that replica is not the lebanese flag, it's an iranian flag. they paid for it. it's though as they are marking their territory. overhead all day, we've had spy drones from israel and also two israeli attack apache helicopters.

one of the things they've been looking at, one of the things all israelis have been looking at, is a picture of president ahmadinejad, staring down towards the israeli side. we're going to loosely translate the arabic for you, it says "yes we can", the man on the poster is someone who said he wanted to come and destroy israel. now, you have to understand, of course, one of the reasons for president ahmadinejad's visit is to meet with the hezbollah group, an iranian group that they not only arm but control. a senior israeli defense source told me earlier, he said essentially, they view this as a commander, meaning ahmadinejad, coming to visit his troops. this is a very scary situation, jon. you might remember, in 2006, these were the hills where the rockets flew over here into israel and the israelis are very scared that as hezbollah is rearmed by iran, that they are getting ready to start yet another war, this one controlled by the iranians, and both sides say it will be much, much worse than what we saw in 2006. jon: that is scary.

leland vitter from the israel-lebanon border, we had hoped to bring you reena ninan on the other side of the border where that rally with ahmadinejad has taken place. unfortunately because of the technical problems we can't bring it to you at this point. we'll get back to her at some future point. jenna: we will. also, ufos in the big apple of all places? a bunch of folks, calling the police when they see strange lights in the manhattan sky. ufo? or easily explained? we're going to ask that question next. speaking of outer space, visitorsor -- visitors you can count on, small rock that is hit the earth every day. why scientists say we need to worry about the kill -- he's little guys, not the killer asteroids of hollywood.

jenna: "happening now", a lot of you are on our live chat talking about tax and there's a lot of discussion

about that value added tax that may help our country make up for the deaf set but new information says it could cost a lot of jobs as well. ashley webster is here to break it down from fbn. >> vat, yuk! having lived with vat in europe, this is a tax that's easy to implement and boy can it generate a lot of money. it's value added at every stage of production. a survey done by the national retail foundation said if you add this tax, it will generate a lot of money no doubt and help cut into the decifit but the price you pay is going to be tremendous. they say it could lose 850,000 jobs in the first year, even worse, retail spending would drop by about 2 1/2 trillion dollars. jenna: why is that? when we talk -- let's talk about the retail-related, i'll use this as an excuse to talk about shoes. if i was to buy a pair of shoes, for example, would i pay more when i go up to the register and pay or is it just that the shoes themselves are going to become more expensive to buy?

>> they are just going to become more expensive to buy. unlike sales tax when you go to the register you get your receipt and say okay, it was this, plus, 10 percent, whatever it is, whereas with vat, that's why they say it's hidden, sneaky, in the value of the goods. you don't see it. that's the problem. so if it's 10 percent vat, it's going to go up 10 percent. jenna: something would be added to the leather. >> to the wholesaler, then eventually to the consumer. jenna: real quick, ashley, a lot of people from both sides like this idea for this country. >> and a lot don't. it's really borne out of desperation. we have this huge decifit and they're desperately looking for ways to knock that decifit down. how about this, cut government spending? would would actually create 250,000 jobs. jenna: are you going to get on our chat board on happening now.com? >> i've been there! jenna: you have? we have questions for ashley. a lot of people have questions about these taxes go up. maybe ashley will jump on our blog. jon: ashley, we will answer your questions!

jon: thank you jon. >> >> jon: that's how hollywood sees it, but killer asteroids aren't necessarily the ones that bruce willis takes out in the movies. but even little space rock that is can zing into earth with little or no notice, sometimes packing the explosive power equal to hiroshima atomic bombs. who better to talk about this than with the science guy, bill nye. we're talking about something you scientists called neos, near earth objects, right? >> yes. jon: how big do they have to be to cause this kind of a problem? >> well, it's hard to say, but let's say 10 meters,

30 feet could destroy a small city, let's say 40 meters could destroy something like portland, oregon. it could be a great concern. jon: how many are out there? that's not very big. >> no, no, and this is where we get into this thing, there are millions and millions of them and the great difficulty is you can't see them. they're so small, compared to other astronomical objects, you just can't find them, and we say all this because there was this famous explosion or air burst in conguska, in 1908 in siberia and nobody was around. you know, the earth had about a quarter as many people, and this thing exploded, way up above the forest, and knocked down trees for kill meters, miles and miles, in every direction, and so nobody was there to really see what it was, nobody was very confident, it was this rocky meteorite or metallic

meteorite that burns and explodes all at once. jon: but i always thought that these objects, when they hit the quarter's atmosphere, they essentially burn up. >> oh, yes, they do. most of them burn up. and earlier in the solar system's history, there were a lot more of them, like -- and we tell you this, look at the surface of the moon, it's poc-marked and cratered from all this activity in the early going, this is 4 billion years ago, 4 1/2 billion years ago. now there are a lot fewer of them around, but once in a while, people like the planetary society raised concern that we should be keeping an eye on these things as best we can, and that would be developing better radar technologies, better optical technology, and the main thing is to have the resources to have people keep an eye on things, and a part of this prorbgs as we get more technologically sophisticated, like you and i are talking on television, as we use more and more electronics and stuff like that, when you get these sort of events, they're going to cause bigger and

bigger trouble. jon: ouch. bill nye, stick around for just one second, because we have another question for you. jenna: we definitely need you science guy to answer this question, because this happened in new york city, a ufo mystery, some are calling this. we're going to show our viewers what we mean, the police department, the faa, no one really knows what this is, and you can see, we saw people standing on the corner taking a punch of silver objects in the sky. not much of an explanation out there when the police and faa -- and the police and faa don't know too much about it, science guy. what do you think this was? >> okay. okay. to some, this is proof of the paranormal, and aliens are visiting us! and it's only a matter of ways before it's all over! jenna: you sound sarcastic. >> to me, it likes like a group of mylar silver balloons you might get at the florist or something like that. so when you call the faa, and they go we don't know what it is, but they also

might mean we really aren't that especially concerned with what it is. jenna: gotcha. >> a bunch of mylar balloons from the forest. now, we should not be throwing mylar birds into the sky and having birds ingest them and ruin their chance phos reproductive suck section that's all bad and mylar balloons thrown around like this are trash, but to take it from something in the sky, i can't see, to something in the sky that is very threatening is quite a step. jenna: all right, bill nye, the science guy, we appreciate the perspective, the context, and calm down, everybody! jon: >> critical thinking. jengen i'm not much of a believer, but if i'm the skeptic, you know i'm going to get kidnapped, right? i'm going to be the one, right, on the special that gets kidhapped by the aliens. jon: we will be sure to protect you, jenna. jenna: i'll do a phone-in. jon: please do, just like the kid in et. >> new next hour, hours after the last miner, pulled out in chile and we'll take a look at how they survived

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at the site. if any news breaks we will bring it to you. nearly awful the 33 miners seem to be in very good health but they face emotional and psychological challenges as you can imagine. officials want to make sure they readjust after the grueling ordeal so the miners will be monitored for at least six months after this. in the meantime as folks across chile celebrate the rescue, they have been invited to presidential palaces, book and movie deals, vacations, there is a lot to this story and we'll be watching it as life begins again for the miners. they've become a symbol of hope for all of us around the world. coming up later geraldo rivera will join us with more on their amazing survivals and tell us something new that is happening at foxnews.com. jon: new information now taliban-backed insurgents

targeting nato troops with deadly accuracy in afghanistan. a bomb blast killing three more troops in western afghanistan just one day after six other soldiers also were killed. all this happening as the arbegan government meets with taliban leaders in hopes of ending the violence. connor powell is streaming live for us from cab bull. >> reporter: 2010 has been the most violent year in afghanistan since the start of the war nine years ago. u.s. and international deaths have skyrocketed. now there are reports that the heavy fighting is forcing some taliban commander's to begin thinking and talking about a political solution to end the fighting. u.s. and afghan officials confirm there have been high level talks between taliban and afghan officials and u.s. forces are helping facilitate these talks. this was part of the strategy from the beginning. in 2010 they beat up the taliban so they had no choice but to

talk -- jon: it appears we have lost our signal to connor powell. it's pretty amazing to bring you reporting from halfway around the world. connor powell talking about the new impetus on the part of the taliban apparently to come to a political solution that could end that long war there. we'll tabs on it with connor and with you. right now a political slug fest taking to the airwaves in one of the country's most watched contests. in california people are being bombarded with campaign ads in that state's tight senate race. california senator barbara boxer and her challenge for carly fiorina both shelling out big bucks to get in the last word before november 2nd. bill yam -- william la jeunesse is live with the store raoefrpblgtsz on virtually every

issue carly fiorina and barbara boxer are polar open sits. this race close even in september but then boxer took a lead when she unleashed this ad about jobs. >> carly fiorina as krerbgs o she laid off 30,000 workers and shipped jobs to china. >> reporter: true hp cut jobs after a merger but its workforce actually doubled under carly fiorina. >> she tripled her salary. >> reporter: her pay declined 15% during her six years at hp. >> what boxer is trying to show is that carly fiorina is not as nice a person as she comes across in the ads. >> reporter: in response carly fiorina calls boxer a hypocrite for repeatedly taking campaign cash from firms that off-shore u.s. jobs. >> this is barbara boxer's california, trillions in reckless, waste less spending. >> reporter: true boxer sponsored some 600 bills to increase government spending and just a dozen to cut it. >> boxer says the stimulus is

working? >> it isn't working for me. >> reporter: boxer says her policies helped save jobs in california especially in government. >> negative ads work because people pay attention to them. >> reporter: carly fiorina hit boxer twice, once on being arrogant. >> could you say senator instead of ma'am. it's just a thing i worked so hard to get that title so i'd appreciate it, yes, thank you. >> reporter: another for voting against funding for troops body arm or. >> they said they voted against the money to make a political point. there is no political point worth my son's life. >> reporter: boxer says she is not anti-veteran, just antiwar endorsement time this is a toss up. the l.a. times went with boxer sayin.it was the san francisco chronicle that endorsed neither.

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>> reporter: jenna: right now a new theory in the case of a missing american reportedly gunned down on a lake by so-called mexican pirates. harris as hundred update to the story. we've been watching this closely, harris.

>> reporter: david hartley is thought it to be perhaps now by researchers at a global security think tank may have been a victim of mistaken identity by one of the drug cartels. a drug trafficking organization down in mexico. there is a theory out there now that this may have been what happened. it doesn't solve the mystery of exactly where his remains are, and his wife in the picture, she was with him, she says he was shot in the head while she was on a personal watercraft in the falcon lake which is a tributary off of the rio grand about a week and a half ago. this doesn't solve the mystery of what happened to him in terms of putting his memory know rest, which is what his family has wanted. the mexicans have brought the military on pwroerd and they are trying to see if it could lead to answers. very problematic in the case. that's the very latest thing that i'm watching here. david hartley may have been a

victim of mistaken identity, by setas, that cartel drug organization. jenna: thank you very much for the update. jon: right now researchers at the university of miami are hard at work fitting sharks with their very own gps system, not so they don't get lost in the ocean but that they can track hair habits and help the shark population flourish despite some over fishing. >> reporter: sharks play a very important role in our ocean eco systems. they are the apex predator. before gps technology if you didn't see the shark's dorsal f eurbs n on the surface you didn't know where it was in the water, where it was my gating to or where it was feeding. thanks to the miami researchers, researchers have a good idea of what the sharks are up to. this is how you manhandle and

eight-foot bull shark. this doctor does it without getting bit. the university of miami marine scientists has tagged about 20 bulls, tigers and hammer heads with gear bolted through their dorsal fins. they follow their migration and eating patterns on the internet to better understand them. the species has dekhraeupbd 70 to 90% since the 1950ss that is a hundred million sharks killed every year. >> they eat the diseased fish, they control the behavior of the animals, and they are at the top of the food chain. >> reporter: this seven-year-old is a second grade shark activist. she raised $2,000 selling shark cookies and lemonade in

minneapolis to adopt this shark. she'll track it at home. and the doctor injured himself putting him back in. his tail whipped him overboard. fortunately for him he didn't stop to eat. after being on the boat for about ten or 15 minutes with that pipe pumping water through its gils to keep it objection natured and alive the shark just wanted to get away from the humans. they are very important and sharks are a lot closer to you when you're out swimming off the beaches, always an issue for many down here, the vacationers in the florida beaches. the sharks essentially are less interested in humans than they are in the fish out there. jon: i've been scuba diving with sharks. we should point out drilling through the dorsal fin doesn't hurt the shark. >> reporter: the researchers believe they don't have any feeling in the dorsal fin.

that was the only way to put it in there with the four bolts. jon: that's for the report. jenna: we're taking a look at foreclosures in the month of september and they are way up. a hundred thousand is the number. that's the most we've seen since this housing crisis began. why this month, why this now. an economist from the fox business network is here to talk about it. we talk about the bottom of the market are we there. >> you're right it is the record of the wrong kind for obvious reasons, the housing crisis has been going on for years now and more people going into foreclosures, obviously not good news. the other side of this is that some experts will tell you that it's encouraging in some ways to see foreclosures go up, as painful as it is we have to go through pain at some point. if there is going any healing, if the foreclosure crisis is going to end we have to go through that and see the bottom. jenna: this is actually banks

taking homes, that is not foreclosures taking notes. is the number going to go down now? we've seen it go back up and now is it time? >> almost definitely. we have a lot at the fox business network as well, this investigation into the foreclosure of issues that have been going on in terms of whether or not some of the bank employees didn't read the documents before they are signing them. now you have 50 states attorneys general looking inch to it. as this goes on a lot of banks are halting the foreclosures. since they are doing that you almost definitely will see a slow down in foreclosures. that is not necessarily good news. it will prevent the pain as i referenced earlier from taking place. we won't be able to work through the inventor row as quickly as we might of. jenna: tough story. we'll take this report, it's sad though. >> it's been going on for years and it's not getting any better. the fact that this investigation is happening is not necessarily going to help. it will prolong the inevitable.

jenna: hopefully at the back end wherever that is the housing market is more secure. con he will, thank you very much. jon: chile's president is meeting with some of the rescued miners in the hospital. doctors say most of the men are doing very well. we're waiting for several to be released maybe as soon as today for a big reunion with their families and loved ones as the world waits to hear firsthand about what they went to during their two months underground. geraldo rivera will be along to give us a look at some of the amazing stories they have to tell. two candidates who went head-to-head four years ago are fashion off again. scott tip son is fighting to take away john salazar's seat on capitol hill. it's one of the races we are watching, and mr. tip ton will be joining us live great ahead. . with olay, challenge that with regenerist anti-aging eye roller.

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jenna: back to chile today and it still brings a smile to your face knowing that the 33 miners got out alive. this press conference that is taking place right now is the rescuers, the ones that were standing around some of the mine there, also the ones that went down. we heard that the man, manual gonzalez the first man to go down in the rescue capsule and the last one to come up will be speaking. i'm not sure if he's there. i seem to recognize him there as one of the men standing around. but it's tough to tell. geraldo rivera will be joining us to talk about the untold stories of the miners. we will be joining us shortly. we'll see you in a few minutes.

jon: control of congress very much up in the air as we get closer and closer to election day. democrats now hold a large majority in the house of representatives, but republicans hope they can pick up enough seats to swing the chamber their way. let's take a look at colorado's third congressional district which could play a key role in what happens in washington. your years ago democrat john sal louisiana czar easily defeated republican scott tipton to get re-election. this time they are squaring off again and this time the race is extremely tight according to the polls. the candidates meet for their second debate tonight. joining us now is scott tipton. we asked mr. sal louisiana czar to join us, he said he had some pressing issues. jonyou lead in this case four years ago, why is it so tight now.

>> we had a congressman that voted to triple the national debt in this country. voted for the death tax, and obamacare, voted nancy pelosi 97% of the time. he's out of touch, he's bought into washington d.c. we need to be able to get jobs, not bigger government and that's what our campaign is about. jon: what is the stimulus doing for you there in southwestern colorado. >> absolutely failed. john sal louisiana czar liked to boast about his stimulus. when we do the math there were $677,000 per check. we could have cut a check to every man, woman and child in the third district for 7 or $800 and probably had a greater impact. we need to get the private sector back to work. we are putting proposals in our campaign to do just that. jon: sal louisiana czar runs a very -- salazar runs a very

negative ad about you. i want to play that for you and get your reaction. >> when greedy fat cats got money to bail them out. they said no. tipton served on the board of a bank who took bail out funds and he has a financial interest in banks that took money in bail outs. jon: you are billed as a multi-millionaire? >> i worked hard. i started my own business. it's actually native-american arts. i work with members of the and a half virginia who he tribes. i hope we haven't reached the point in the country where hard work and trying to be a success is a shameful thing. if we look truly at that ad it's a desperate campaign. i've nevada been a banker. jon: you were described as a banker. you've never been a banker. >> i've never been a banker. i think the grand junction sent ta knell described it best, they

said it was shameful. one of the writers out of the denver post just called it a lie. they've been called to task, in fact we'd actually put out from the colorado state republican party an injunction to try to stop the ads because they are so false. it shows a desperate campaign willing to say and do anything hoping to get back to washington. our people are not being fooled they know it's about jobs. jon: what about the accusation that you served on the bank board that took bail out funds. >> i served on a bank in colorado, and that was four years ago, and they never received direct stimulus money, that was through the parent corp. race, zion, i certainly didn't profit. jon: to play devil's advocate for a minute, john salazar is a member of the blue dog democrats and has a conservative record.

>> voted for the stimulus, $780 billion on the backs of the taxpayers. voted to triple the national deficit in this country. he voted for obamacare taking away $500 billion from senior citizens. adding 100 trillion plus dollars on the backs of the american taxpayer. we choked off private investment, we've choked off private development of jobs. we have to be able to get our people back to work. jon: scott tipton is the republican candidate for congress in colorado's third congressional district. we did ask john salazar to join us, he was unable to make it today. the two will be debating tonight. americans have a lot of questions these election season. we want to help answer them. send us your election questions, go to our website foxnews.com/"happening now," america's asking and our special guest panel is going to be responding. we have great questions already. we want to hear from you. [ male announcer ] gout's root cause is high uric acid.

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jenna: new information coming into our newsroom right now from chile where doctors have been check being out the miners who sur shraoeufd the -- survived the record 69 days. the first rescuer and the last one out is about to appear at a news conference. relatives are getting ready for the mines to return from the hospital with big welcome home parties. you can read about it on our

website. it's for lifestyle reports and a twist focusing on latino cultural. geraldo rivera is the host of garaldo at large. he is here to talk about how much this story meant globally but particularly in latin-american as well. >> reporter: it was particularly electrielectrifying to the peopf latin america. i think it had a global impact. generally speaking americans aren't as emotionally engaged in foreign dramas as we have been in this particular case, and the reason i think is that, remember apollo 13. jenna: sure. >> reporter: apollo 13 was that houston, we have a problem when the capsule had an explosion on it and the whole world, specifically the united states, but i mean everybody generally was engaged in the drama of watching whether or not she's astronauts would survive. it was all the ingenuity and

improve sayings and technological knowledge and know-how not to mention the true grid and courage that allowed us to bring the astronauts home. i think this is the apollo 13 for the 21st century. here we watch as the men are trapped two months down below. the insurmountable rock they had to cut through. the engagement of jeff heart and the other americans and technologically speaking being the first ones to reach the mines. everyone being emotionally invested. the way the drama unfolded, safe and sound. we heard about their dramas, this one had a mistress, this one was the oldest, this one was the youngest, the other one says what about my over time. it became a communal event. jenna: what do you think that happens next. >> reporter: i think the country right now is going through a period of may lace -- malaise.

i think it reflects a lot of dissatisfaction and people that are disgruntled. i hope this event and happy ending brings us more together. i think if these guys if they manage it correctly and stay united there will be movie deals, endorsement deals. jenna: will you take a role in one of those movie deals. >> i'd play the. >> reporter: i'd play the role of the guy with the miss three and the wife from my old days. jenna: you have a lot of good tidbits and fox news latino. there is some span language material and also english. at the top of the first news latino page there is a word caliente, hot then it has your name right next to it. >> reporter: i can't imagine about the architects of the site ever thought to join us. but you know seriously about fox news latino this exciting new website is the united states

census has completed it work. what it shows is a demographic tsunami. latinos are already the nation's largest minority. aside from being an ethnic minority we have already affected the pace of life in the united states. everybody gets a burrito, goes to taco bell, they like salsa, they listen to j-lo's movement. they watch me here on fox news, we are all now part of the fabric, the wonderful mosaic of american culture. this is a website that not only celebrates that, it talks about the news and lifestyle and those kinds of aspects of life but also encourages people to think of this as we are all in this together, and we are just spiesing -- spicing up the pot a little about it. jenna: i'm starving. it's lunchtime. if you want to check out the news version of the fox news

online family you go to fox news, latino.com, a lot of great things there. hgeraldo has a special on the chilean mines this weekend saturday at 10:00pm. we discovered a lot of stories related to the chilean miners didn't we yesterday. jon: it was fascinating. we had a lot of viewers writing in to ask why the flag of texas was so prominently displayed. they were making a bit of a mistake and they weren't alone. a texas county is now apologizing after mistakingly putting the flag of chile on their voting ballots. town administrators are now blaming a former elections official for the mix-up. they are not realizing that that is not the flag of texas, that's the flag of chile. they didn't notice the mistake

until an overseas voter caught it. in all fairness the texas flag does look a lot bike chile flag. the only difference is the blue field on the chilean flag is in the top left corner, on the texas flag as you can see the blue runs all the way down the left side in the lone star straight. they say the predecessor added an absentee insert as davy crockett as a candidate and it was spelled davy with an e and it shouldn't have been done that. >> reporter: they are celebrating this wonderful triumph. we applaud them. greg was down at the chilean bar all yesterday afternoon, my brother. jon: america is asking a live

chat about politics and the president. it's only here on fox news. harris faulkner is joining in the national conversation. you might say she is leading the conversation from the breaking news desk, harris. >> reporter: i tell you it's not just asking, they are commenting all sorts of things here. i think we'll bring in another camera to see the live chats. have you to go through facebook or twitter. what is cool is when you chat with me i can sometimes see who you are if our picture is posted. slick willie 007 wants to know why are what most gop candidates not running on barack obama but what to do about making america better. how about stimulus for the peeps? it's about twice the length of a tweet on twitter. i asked for lots of questions and i really don't even need to jon and jenna because people are all over it. if he have great questions coming up for the members of our panel and for the president if they could have him over for their own tall hall this is what

people would ask, it's america asking and a whole lot of fun, back to you guys. jon: we'll be answering those questions with our panel in just a bit. harris, thank you. jenna: and what we wanted to do with this town hall. we have less than three weeks to go to election today. we want to know what questions you want answered before you go to the polls. every day until november 2nd we'll take your questions to some of the brightest political minds. and we appreciate your comments. you can email us directly, chat with us live at america's asking tab right there. there is even a twitter account if you want to use that. this is all in an effort to provide you the best perspective so you can be the most informed voter you want to be come november 2nd. let's bring in our town hall panel today. charlie hurt is the washington bureau chief for the "new york post." nancy is a former senior adviser for john mccain. doug shoone is a fox news

contributor and we welcome you all. lots of questions about nancy pelosi showing up on the chat board. nancy pelosi's is basically guaranteed in her district in san francisco. can she possible me plea resign after losing the perks in the house. >> it's a possibility. newt gingrich resigned after the republicans lost the majority i guess it was in 98. the real question is would she want to stay in the house if the democrats, and it's certainly possible lose the house? i think there's a very real possibility that nancy pelosi will find other ways to use her talents. that is a decision that is down the road with a number of if's. jenna: we are having a lot of folks weigh in both on the house and the senate. charlie here is a question for you. we are getting broader questions not just about the mi midterms. rob wanted to know where do you see the country going in five year. that's the question he'd like to

ask president obama if he had the chance. what do you think is the right answer coming from a politician when they are asked where do you see the country five years from now? >> i think president obama he's usually good at answering that sort of open-ended questions like that. i think his primary goal in addressing something like that is to look at -- assume that we have made real progress with getting out of the crummy economy that we've been suffering under for a couple of years, and finding ways to, you know, he has established something of a good record on education, in terms of reform and things like that. but really, if he hasn't made -- if he hadn't carried us behind the economic malaise i don't think he has any other sort of -- no other vision would matter at that point. jenna: that's an interesting point. it's definitely a tough question. here is another tough one coming from jonathan talking about the republicans. saying to the folks on our board

here, make sure you vote for a conservative, obviously that is the way that he's leaning and knock down party lines. jonathan's point was that the republican party doesn't represent some of the conservative values that some voters want. how do you navigate that when people say hey vote republican, because it's this way. you have third party candidates presenting their values and some are conservative. >> i think the most information thing for people to look at is does the individual running represent the direction, to refer to the prior questions, the direction that you want the country to go in. for example if you are upset as many, many americans are, whether they are republicans, independents or democrats if you're upset about the spending then you want to vote for a candidate who you believe has the intestine alfor the taoud and political will will bring spending down. i also think you should pay attention to the type of person they are, the character of the individual. are they talking about policy? are they talking about real

things, or are they just demonizing their opponents? we've seen way saofp of ha -- too much of that in this election. jenna: intestinal for the taoud. that maybe the advice for our chat all today. great comments along with charlie and doug. we have a lot more questions for you guys. jon has a few more. jon: including what is the meaning of intestinal for the taoud. we have more coming up including the answer to this question. sue asks on our live chat i'm wondering how democrats and republicans can put out false ads on air. aren't there rules and regulations about putting false ads out on television? oups. oups. plus five dollars in coupons to get you started. campbell's condensed soup. pass it on. campbell's.® it's amazing what soup can do.™ [ commearlier, she hady vonn! an all-over achy cold... what's her advantage? it's speedy alka-seltzer!

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megyn: hey, everyone i'm megyn kelly. 21 states are suing the feds to have the healthcare law declared unconstitutional. the much anticipated ruling in that case expected at the top of the hour. we are on stand by. speaking of healthcare, costs for large numbers of seniors are about to go up under that new law. how is that going to play at the

polls in three weeks? we report, you decide. a stunning exchange between our own bill o'reilly and the ladies of the view. why did two of the women get up and walk out on bill this morning? you'll see it here. plus, the stars of sister wives, the show about polygamy are under police investigation. turns out that is not legal, or is it. in "kelly's court," see you at the top of 1. jon: america is asking town hall, you get the answers you need before election day. let's bring our panel back in. doug you are the polling expert here. david didn't leave a last name he put this question on our blog. it's about that delaware race, christine o'donnell against chris coons. he says christine o'donnell attributes her success, is there evidence to support that? >> i think there is evidence to suggest that she was able to

mobilize nontraditional republican primary voters and they doubled the turn out over i think what there had been in the last midterm election. that being said her chance for victory, jon, which is i think she is a distinct underdog. that chance for victory is based upon the same phenomenon repeating itself in the election. it's nontraditional voters turn out for christine o'donnell, they have a -- she have a chance to win where now people like christine o'donnell are underdogs. jon: they are writing about the prospects of a third party and the question goes sort of like this from a bunch of people. democrats have had their shot for the last few years. hreps -- republicans may get a shot in the next election. if they don't deliver what are the chances of a third party arising?

>> to start off with i would say that the chances are pretty low just because throughout the history of the country third parties have really struggled to sort of take hold. but with that said, i think the people that are writing in have a great point, because if you go back to the 08 campaign, president obama's campaign and you listen to the tea partiers this time it's remarkable how much in comn a lot of those people have in terms of their dissatisfaction with the government, and their feeling that the government doesn't listen, their feeling that the government is growing into areas of our private lives and personal lives that it has no business. and if those people could sort of get over a couple of the sort of key differences between the two of them, they are on the polar opposite ends of the political spectrum but they have a lot in common. it would be a powerful, powerful voice, a powerful force in

politics and i think could perhaps develop into sort of an independent streak that would -- could reshape both the democratic party and the republican party, think i think would be a terrific thing because it would make the parties more in line with what i think are the more principled supporters in each of those parties. jon: nancy here is one for you. you have been sort of the republican strategist and adviser. ken winter from bowden maine rights how will republicans undue healthcare if they don't take both houses? nancy? >> i don't think they can. to be perfectly honest. i wonder more whether court challenges would have an impact. obviously there is going to be some activity undertaken, but it's a real conundrum, and when we look forward into what could occur between now and the next

election cycle, dare i even bring it up, if the republicans take the house, but they still don't have the executive branch and they don't have the senate, you really do not have room for a lot of movement there. you've got a fierce debate that is on going but not necessarily a lot of legislative outcomes. the question is how will that eupimpact the electorate going o 2012. who will they be frustrated the most with. jon: as long as the president has the veto pen one cannot imagine him undoing what he has called his signature issue of his term to this point. thank you very much for being with us. charlie hurt, nancy, doug shoene. >> thank you very much. jenna: thanks to the viewers for all the great questions. they asked if we pre screen our town halls like the president does. the answer is no, we do not screen. you're welcome to chat among you ares. we did invite the president to

come on our town hall because we are asking viewer questions and not much else. we'll keep you posted. you never know who will show up. we'll see you tomorrow, american is asking. everyone knows what they look like, mcdonald's happy meal. there is a twist to this photo, the burgers and fries. here is a hint it's a meal that lasts a real, i really long type. a young moon's jog turns into a foot race with the police. why? officers found his attire or lack thereof too offensive. the dash cam was rolling, wait until you see this. [singing] ♪

jenna: jogging normally wouldn't get you tazered by police, but jogging naked is another story. cops in west melbourne, florida are seen on a dash cam tase erring a boy who they saw jogging naked. they stopped and warned him. the jogger didn't listen and got the shock of his life. he's facing charges of resisting arrest, indecent exposure and no word on motive exactly. jon: doesn't look like he did his face too much good either. fox news is on the job hunt. right now the job situation, the number one issue and voters' minds. we just learned today 462,000 americans filed for first time unemployment benefits last week. one industry synonymous with u.s. economic strength is seeing a bit of a resurgence and it is welcome news for one state in particular. peter doocy picks up the story

from the other side of the newsroom. >> reporter: one ever the geographically smallest states in the union seems to be doing okay. and that would be connecticut. they added 800,000 jobs since november and 600 thousands of those jobs is manufacturing. we took a trip to olbric stainless steal and metals. the metals they make there can be rolled six times thinner than your hair and all the products are used from solar cells to pen tips. they had to layoff people, but they brought back 30. they gave employees bonus us in the first half of this year. >> the rescission 2009 our sales went down like everybody else, 20, 30%, but we are coming out of it. people are reinventorying. we have a number of new products

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