he'll spend the next two years focusing on cutting the deficit. one of the things on the chopping block, perhaps tax deductions on your home mortgage interest. uh-oh! >> that will be great. her constant and incurable hiccupping thrust her into the spotlight. she is making headlines again. this time for murder? "fox & friends" starts right now. >> that's really cool. makes you want to get in a car and drive across the country, doesn't it? >> absolutely. >> just talking about mount rushmore and all the great memories as a child going to locations like that and you saw the statue of liberty as well. >> beautiful animation. hats off to the design team. rich o'brien and company. >> every time i see mount rushmore, i think of sonny bono who said cher thought it was a natural phenomenon.

>> really? >> that's probably one of many moments like that in that relationship. anyway, let's talk about this. president obama takes his economic and political message to rhode island today as the last full week before midterm elections begin. doug lazader joins us live from washington with a preview. good morning to you, doug. >> good morning, guys. the president is going to woonsocket, rhode island today to tour america webbing, a relatively small company there but we'll be talking about different initiatives that the administration has undertaken to try to grow some jobs, new loan initiatives be tax cuts and things like that but it's to send this message that the white house in the president's estimation is not anti-business. it may be a tough sell in a state like rhode island, the unemployment rate there is nearly, nearly 12%. so that's a state that has been particularly hard hit in this recession. the real reason, though, the president may be taking this trip is to attend a couple of big fundraisers there today. he's got a democratic congressional campaign committee event at the convention center

there in rhode island and then another event at a private home so the white house looks to raise a lot of money today. they're going to need it to try to overcome this enthusiasm and gap they are facing. the one good news maybe this associated press poll that's getting some play this morning indicating that about 1/3 of likely voters and it's always difficult to discern who is actually going to turn out the vote but 1/3 of likely voters may have their minds open. they're completely undecided or not all that committed to the candidate that they're now supporting so that means that the president may be able to get in there and chip away at some of those voters and get them to his side. not much time left, though. just eight days. back to you guys. >> doug live for us with the breakdown in d.c. thanks very much. >> that's incredible, knowing that all your campaign, all the money spent, all the appearances made, everyone that endorsed you, still a third can switch candidate entirely and maybe even parties. and it all goes down to eight days. this is like super bowl week.

>> when you think about the runup to the super bowl, brian, what is it that they -- both the teams say? they say we're gonna win, right? forget about those polls out there that show that the house surely will fall to the republicans and the senate not so close. anyway, we had both the leaders of both the parties on the sunday chat shows and essentially they echoed what you would expect them to say. they're gonna win. >> here's the amazing thing to me. a third of the voters don't know who yet. you have such animosity at least in my mind between republicans and democrats now on the issues. there's no coming together on this. a fact that a third of all voters don't know where they stand. that's amazing to me. let's watch the showdown between steele and kate. >> the voters are tired of the fact that the federal government has not listened to them over the past two years, has moved in its direction as itsen rhythm and they want to pull back on that and i think you're going to see a wave, an unprecedented wave on election day that's

going to surprise a lot of people. >> these races are very close but from this point forward, it's all about turnout and ground game and we're seeing good early voting trends. we have work to do but i think we can do it. >> hard to believe that tim kaine honestly believes that. it seems as in every early voting trend and polls shows that republicans have outdrawn democrats. when you talk about primary voters, this is probably the most significant. for the third time in decades, more republicans turned out for the primaries to vote for their candidates. >> that's why they're talking about a wave. meanwhile in "the new york times" today it talks about looking forward and it's interesting, you know how many times do we hear the president of the united states when he was running say when i go to washington i'm going to extend my hand to the other side. well, as it turns out, it took 18 months for the leader of the free world to sit down with the leader in the u.s. senate on the republican side, mitch mcconnell

and it all started with a story they tell in "the new york times" today about how trent lott was talking to tom daschle, you know, these -- they're not gonna pass any sort of a treaty on, you know, with russia regarding nuclear arms unless the two sides can get together. so next thing you know, tom daschle tells the white house and they finally have a meeting. >> yeah, it was interesting because the synopsis of this whole article is you have to have mutual trust. yeah, you do. mutual trust between two parties to be able to come to any sort of compromise but the bottom line has to be a trust level before you can try to discuss the issues so is that there? and after the midterm elections, will the president have any kind of a mutual trust. not only with democrats and his own party but with the republicans? >> i just saw this. bill galston who i remember hearing this during the clinton years as the domestic policy advisory, he said this, the biggest prom saer note he handed out during president obama's run to become president during the campaign was trying to overcome

the red and blue america into one america and the perception is he didn't work hard to redeem that note and i don't think he wants to go down in history as a president who promised to overcome polarization and ended up intensifying it. but that's exactly what happened. and the reason is -- and i i didn't think it would come down to this. he doesn't schmooze. he doesn't make calls for bill clinton and george w. bush says what do we need to get it done? he got calls from president clinton in the middle of the night to say how do we get through on this or shake hands and have a private conversation? >> he made the promise way back when. here's what he said. >> i hope and expected that we could get beyond some of the old political divides between democrats and republicans, blue states and red states, that prevented us from making progress for so long because although we're proud to be democrats, we're prouder to be americans. >> there we go. great promise but as we know

now, you know, that did not happen. and if the republicans do control one of the houses of congress, don't look for -- the president's got to go ahead and try because they'll be in charge of half of congress and it's interesting, there's stories out there this morning. even before we vote in eight ta focus on in the next two years? he'll be thinking a lot about deficit reduction. ok in, the next two years, he'll be thinking about maybe the democrats wouldn't be in such a pickle right now had he thought about it during the first two years of his office. >> yes, because it's record-breaking spending in the first two years in office and one of the only ways that i remember him talking about cutting that deficit is to not extend the bush tax cuts to everyone. i think that $700 billion or $700 million if you didn't extend it to call. you get confuseed with the m's and b's in this day and age. >> vice president biden said when he said the republicans spent $700 billion on the collection. he was off by a bunch. if he says he's going to focus

on, according to reports, so-called insiders. going to focus on deficit reduction and focus on updating or repairing or changing slightly in a major league way but using the format from president bush of no child left behind. that might be two areas in which they can get together and tea party activists, g.o.p. as well as democrats might be on the same page with that. if that happens, what you just said, steve, and the house goes republican and the senate stays democrat which even michael steele was saying yesterday could happen, they said it will be the first time since 1930 so those who say they know exactly how this is going to play out really have to have great memories and be quite old. >> they're very, very old. meanwhile, let's talk a little bit about -- we've been talking about the deficit commission. they're supposed to release their findings on november 1st. >> they couldn't get it done on election day. >> the goal is to save 1/4

trillion a year. it looks like social security, medicare, medicaid off the table at this time right now because those would be long-term things and they need immediate debt reduction. as it turns out, one of the things on the table is our deduction on our home mortgage interest because that costs the federal government close to a trillion dollars a year. >> a lot of people won't like to hear that news if in fact that would happen because a lot of people, that's why they buy houses, right? they buy a house because they know that they're going to be able to deduct that interest. here's other stuff on the table. the child tax credit. that would affect gazillions of families and also the idea that you can pay some of your health care costs with pretax dollars. you know, a lot of people take advantage of that. that may be out as well. but here's the thing, they also say they might have two separate reports, that the republicans will have their report and the democrats will put out their. what good will that do? aren't they supposed to come to a consensus on the report? so they're gonna have this whole debt commission for a year and

come up with nothing of a compromise? >> isn't that what they did with the study group? gates was on it and other prominent democrats were on it and they came out and said here's my report. if they come out with two reports, i agree with you,otal waste of time. >> thanks for saying wow about the point i made. >> it came from the gut. >> it did. most everything about you does that. a breaking story overnight and shocking update about the teen once known as hiccup girl. she has been arrested in connection with a murder in st. petersburg, florida, back in 2007, she appeared on several television shows including this one because she could not stop hiccupping. police say that same woman now 19 years old lured a victim to a home where two men robbed her but the victim fought back and was shot and killed. all three suspects now charged with first-degree murder. another developing story overnight in texas check out this amazing video, a twister so powerful it flipped the cars of a freight train right off the track.

tornado touching down in the town 45 miles south of dallas and the twister tossed a semi truck off a highway, destroyed homes and tore a roof off a school. a second twister spotted in the town of lone oaks. four people were hurt. injuries not serious. the campus of northern illinois university is on 24-hour lockdown after a body is found in a nearby park. it's believed to be that of 18-year-old freshman student ant net keller. she disappeared after telling friends she was going for a walk to find inspiration for an art project. that was about a week ago. it's not the first time tragedy has struck in niu. they were the site of the deadly shooting rampage in 2008 that left six people dead. opening statements begin today in the murder case of washington intern chandra levy. it's expected to be the testimony of the defendant, she was out for a jog at the time. her disappearance, of course,

made more mysterious because she was linked romantically to congressman gary condit who was once in fact considered a suspect. those are the headlines for a monday morning. >> all right. you got a stunning revelation, iran giving a lot of money to the afghani government. the motive -- to drive a wedge between the united states and afghanistan. is this really the right time to talk about bringing our troops home especially in that country? >> and the money is coming in garbage bags. then 72-year-old superman getting a make-over, not only will his face and costume change but his story as well. >> uh-oh. >> that's right, the man of steel, a make-over. [ female announcer ] with rheumatoid arthritis, there's the life you live...

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>> the u.s. war in afghanistan, well, effort there may be undermined by one of our country's biggest enemies. afghanistan president hamid karzai now admitting he received cash payments from iran. this comes after iran denied a report that it was paying karzai's chief of staff millions of dollars. >> so what does this mean for the american mission in afghanistan? with us right now is visiting scholar with the american enterprise institute and "new york post" columnist dr. arthur herman. good morning to you, dr. herman. >> good morning, guys. how are you? >> fine, thank you very much. all right, they're admitting today, yeah we're taking great big garbage bags filled with millions of dollars from iran. what's that mean? >> well, i think we have to understand the larger context for all of this. of course it means they're receiving them from a country that's very much our enemy even as our sold years are fighting and dying to save afghanistan and to keep it free.

look at the context in which this is happening. that is karzai and his cronies fearing that this administration has no commitment to that war in afghanistan or to the region and that they've got to get one step ahead now and think about their options for how they're gonna survive and not end up dead in a ditch somewhere when the islamists take over. >> what you're saying, dr. herman is mind boggling. you're saying that the obama administration, that karzai is one up on the obama administration and went to iran or continued to build that relationship because he knows the troops are going home. >> that's how politics works in that region. you always want to have one foot in both camps at all times. and since negotiations with the taliban, for example, isn't that they're trying to sell us out. they're afraid that we're gonna sell them out and the speed --

the indecent haste with which this administration has geared to withdraw troops, to set deadlines, not just in afghanistan but also in iraq, all of this suggests to them that we're not really serious about protecting afghanistan or about projecting american power in that area. >> and this comes, doctor, as al-qaida is coming back with a vengeance over there. >> and with it, their taliban allies as well. look, the situation from a military standpoint is really quite, you know, is pretty clear. and right now, our problem is our troops on the ground, it's not our general. general petraeus knows what he's doing. we have the best trained forces over there to fight this kind of war. our problems start at the top. not just in kabul but also in washington, d.c. and in the white house. and they've got to get serious now before this whole region begins to topple and fall over and become an al-qaida

stronghold. >> wow. amazing development this morning as we're now reporting that karzai admitting that he takes cash from iran. dr. arthur herman, thanks so much for your thoughts this morning. >> it's been a great pleasure. >> thank you, sir. 18 minutes after the top of the hour. no more speculation. bret favre breaking the silence, confirming some of the rumors but not others. is anyone buying his story? we'll talk about that. >> then president obama heading to rhode island today spending all his time in the most liberal states in the country right now. we'll break down his strategy next. is it working?

>> couple of quick headlines for you if you're just waking up right now. the cholera outbreak that has killed 250 people and sickened more than 3,000 others in haiti has spread now into the capital of port-au-prince. more than a million earthquake survivors are still living in tent slums. as the disease hits the camps, it could cause a major medical disaster. bank of america admitting it found errors in the foreclosure paperwork. errors include missing signatures, misspelled named and wrong payment information. the bank restarts foreclosure proceedings today in in states. brian? >> hey, do you remember what president obama's mantra was, there are no red states, there are no blue states, only american states? well, listen to this only a few weeks ago. >> i hoped and expected that we could get beyond the own political divides between blue states and red states that have

prevented us from making progress for so long because although we are proud to be democrats, we are prouder to be americans. >> well, it seems the president is seeing blue during the final days before the midterm election sharpening up his rhetoric. is this a preview of his own re-election strategy? we're joining right now with washington insiders linda chavez, former secretary of labor nominee and a democratic pollster. linda, it's not exactly a red and blue merger over the last almost two years. are you surprised? >> well, i'm not surprised because the president frankly there's a lot of buyers remorse out there. a lot of the people who voted for president obama would not do so today. and so what he has to do in order to minimize the losses come november 2nd is to solidify the base. that means going to places where he can get democrats out to vote. they need a larger turnout than you usually get during the

election so it's actually a strategy that he really has no choice. >> here's what he said, mark. this is the domestic policy advisor to bill clinton. he says i don't think president obama wants to go down in history as a president who promised to overcome polarization and ended up intensifying it. that in saying what he's assessed over the last 18 months. you feel the same way? >> you know, i don't. i think bill has made a mistake here. the reality is the president an intensified partisanship. we've had great polarization in this country but that's really because the republicans have decided at the beginning of his term as a matter of political strategy, they were going to say no to everything and they did so republicans who had been for cap and trade, newt gingrich on television ads in favor of it all of a sudden to change his mind and say no. republicans like mitt romney who adopted the health care plan in massachusetts that the president eventually adopted said no, i'm not going to be for it. so we had a political decision the republicans made to just say no. that's really what's intensified this polarization. >> newt gingrich, cap and trade program, i don't remember. do you? >> the ads are on your network.

>> this has been the most ideological president in recent memory. this is a man who ran as a centrist, people thought they were voting for a more or less moderate democrat when they elected president obama and instead, they've gotten a very ideological, very left wing president and, of course, you've got congress with nancy pelosi and harry reid who have helped take the president's agenda far to the left and i think americans don't like it. >> do you see the fact -- do you see it as a problem, mark melman that it took him 18 months to meet one on one with mitch mcconnell and that was on the urging of trent lott. >> you know, honestly, i don't think it's a huge problem. the reality is the president within weeks of being inaugurated met with the entire republican senate caucus and he's had regular meetings with the leadership. this is not fundamentally about schmoozing but about a political decision that the republicans said to just say no. they will tell you that's their political strategy and that's

what they've done. >> i think it has much more to do with the fact that the democrats thought they had a big enough majority that they could get away with murder and that's essentially what they've done. they have driven this agenda. they have not tried to reach across the law -- the aisle to get more republican support and not compromised. >> that's really not factually correct. the stimulus bill, for example, the recovery would not have passed without republican votes. it had republican votes. not a fair statement. not a fair characterization of the reality. >> i think it's fair to say that you couldn't be anymore polarized. who's to blame? you make the call. friends at foxnews.com. steve and gretch, take away. thanks a lot, mark. thank you, linda. >> thank you. >> thank you, brian. she's about to leave the president's economic circle. christine romer has some advice. keep spending in that's next. >> they're not u.s. citizens but soon could be able to vote. what happened to becoming a citizen first? >> now you can curl up with one

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right about saddam hussein hiding weapons of mass destruction. new photo evidence just surfaced showing chemical weapons confiscated by u.s. troops after the 2003 invasion. the photos are among 400,000 pages of classified war documents released by the web site wikileaks. so bush was right. they had them. >> ok. accused canadian terrorism suspect is expected to cop a plea today at the start of his war crimes trial at gitmo. now 24 years old, he was just 15 when he was captured by u.s. forces in afghanistan. his -- he faces life in prison for killing u.s. special forces sergeant chris spear with a grenade. his secret plea not up to par with president obama's goal to make these military trials transparent that i can tell. >> the wife of that american man said to be gunned down on the mexico border while he was on the lake jet skiing is calling out congress and the president for not doing enough to find her husband's killer. tiffany hartley says she wants to be a voice for people who

live on the border and are afraid to speak out because of the drug trafficking violence. >> ultimately, i'm talking to people in congress, and i don't want david's death to go in vain but i want people in america to realize that this is a big issue. >> the couple was jet skiing late last month when her husband was shot by gunmen who ambushed them on the mexico side of the texas state. >> superman is about to get a whole new look. the man of steel is 72 years old but looks like he's going on 20. the younger, edgier clark kent wears a hooded jacket, jeans and skinny ties. he changes into superman. kent has down sized, too, he's a little bit shorter and a little bit thinner than fans are used to. the new superman is featured in d.c. comics, the new earth one graphic novels which put their classic characters into the new world. i don't know if that's what his parents had in mind.

>> the problem with superman these days is he used to go into a phone booth to change, right? have you seen a phone booth? >> i saw a phone booth at the cedar on saturday with no phones in it. >> see? it was the time-out room for my son. yep. >> time to take a look at what's going on in the weather. take a look at this. hurricane richard has been downgraded to a tropical storm. richard is now hitting northeastern guatemala after pounding belize and honduras as a category 1 hurricane. thousands of tourists were rescued and evacuated as well. already some reports of flooding. as you can see right there. meanwhile, it's only late october but they're already skiing in colorado. loveland ski area opened its slopes this past weekend. the first ski area in the state. >> rockies have been covered with snow for a couple of weeks now. all right? very nice. >> i know you have to talk about football. there were a lot of upsets, right? >> including one last night. we did go into the wee hours of

the morning. week 7 full of huge upsets. first the saint, they're super bowl champs. browns didn't care. they beat them up big time. yes, check out this 68-yard run by reggie hodges. he's the punter. it's the longest run by a punter since the mergeer in 1970. that includes practices when they're on the run. cleveland goes on to win 30-17. it was three int's for drew brees and in denver, oakland raiders scored the points most ever in franchise history. raiders win 59-14. and gretchen, you probably want to for your own -- >> you know what sni? >> bret favre thought he'd have one other dramatic victory in his arsenal. it didn't happen against his old packers. this coming back to the final replay. vikings trail by four when favre, back to the end zone, or does he? >> touchdown!

>> it goes to replay. ruled out of bounds. right call -- >> come on. one foot in. >> you'll see the next play. favre for randy moss, packers win 28-24. the vikings now 2-4 on the year. after the game, they blamed their quarterback. speaking of favre, fox sports reporting the 41-year-old quarterback admitted to leaving voice mail messages for the former jet employee but denied sending any lewd photos when he played for the team if you know what i'm saying. she's deciding whether to come forward and talk to investigators. they're still trying to speak with her. over the weekend, the big talk is she's talking with a lawyer whether to come forward. he continues to avoid talking about the situation saying it's a league issue. he was very honest in saying what happened and tried to contact her again when he came into town for an hbo joe buck show last year. >> yeah. >> coming up on "kilmeade &

friends" we have the great stuart varney. i wish i knew what he was wearing. that's joining us from 9:00 to noon. >> did you want to see what he was wearing? >> more than anything else. >> watch this. >> the national debt is bad, at least for now. that's what christine romer says and others are going farther saying we haven't spent enough. stuart, i know, these stories make you so hot under the collar. for a monday morning, i don't want your blood pressure to go to oblivion but this makes you mad, right? >> all the polls say the democrats are going to lose big next tuesday so now they're pointing the fingers and the left is separating off within the democrats and saying look, we should have spent a whole lot more on stimulus. then we wouldn't be in this kind of trouble. that's what paul krugman is saying today in "the new york times." he's the guru of the left and then we have kristina romer saying this is no time to cut the deficit. you have to keep on spending.

the left is sort of saying we should have spent more. we got to keep spending. we wouldn't be in this mess if we did that. >> what's the theory on this? the theory is if you take all the money out of the marketplace, you can track too much. not only psychologically does that send the wrong message but you can't get anybody into business. >> the theory is the government is the only player on the field capable of stimulating demand. therefore, the government must spend money. that's the theory. >> clear and simple, that's right. should we be listening to christine romer? she's the now departed member of the president's cabinet who said if you spend all this money, unemployment will never go, i promise, above 8%. >> yes, she was with the office of the stimulus plan. >> how did that work out? >> not too well. it did not work as advertised. it was advertised to keep unemployment at the peak of 8, 8 1/2%. obviously did not work. >> even the president -- >> he should have spent more. >> even the president said that there were no such thing as shovel ready jobs so i don't know how she can make this

argument. here's what i'm inferring from this. >> i know where you're going. >> ok. if she is in favor of not reducing the deficit right now, then she should be in favor of extending tax cuts to everyone. because apparently, according to the administration, the one reason they're not going to do that is it increases the deficit. >> she doesn't actually say that in that piece today. you are inferring. >> i want to know what you think about it. >> i don't think she would agree with the idea of extending tax cuts to everybody. she would extend tax cuts to the middle class maybe for political reasons but absolutely not to the rich. >> soak the richer auto. auto soak them, baby. >> the vice president did indicate a compromise could be forthcoming on those tax cuts over the weekend. >> really? >> yeah. >> what kind of compromise does the vice president have in mind? >> they've already proposed maybe $350,000 for the rich maybe getting out there. that's been batted around. lifting that cap a little bit. >> really? >> i'm glad you brought me this piece of news. i'm supposed to be informed about these things. i'm not. >> varney & company, you can

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in it, she claims she hooked up with the golf great 20 times and accepted money one time because she wanted to pay her bills. and a home washes away in washington. yes, that's really the name of the town. giant waves wiped out the grant family's cabin. 20 years ago, they moved their home to higher ground and it was not high enough. steve? >> thank you, brian. >> only american citizens have the right to vote. at least that's the way it's supposed to work but in portland, maine, a ballot question could change that on november 2nd in eight days. if passed, noncitizens, people in this country illegally but are legal residents would be allowed to cast a vote in local elections. chicago passed a similar measure and the question is also on the ballot in san francisco. so does giving legal residents the right to vote diminish the value of citizenship? ire ra lman is a spokesperson for the american federation of legal immigration. good morning to you. >> good morning.

>> what this comes down to, the people who are behind this say look, these guys are already in this country and they're paying taxes. they should have a say in local government. what say you? >> we are not a nation of taxpayers. the common denominator is we file a return with the i.r. s. once a year. we are a nation of citizens. that means something and one of the few privileges reserved for citizens is the right to vote and the right to determine the future of the country and the right to determine the future of your community. simply paying taxes doesn't mean you have that right. you pay taxes because if you live in portland, maine, you're using the services. your kids are going to the school and you're using the libraries, the parks. you should help pay for that. look. people who are in the country legally. they can live in this country for five years and apply to become citizens, swear an oath of allegiance to the country and make sure they are really committed to the future of this country and they can cast their vote like the rest of us. >> sure. it comes down to this. if you want to vote, become a

citizen. that's clear. >> exactly. and there's really not a great impediment to it. all you have to do is come to this country legally, live here for five years, stay out of trouble and we allow you to become a citizen. we welcome you becoming a citizen and having the voice in the future of this country like the rest of us. it doesn't seem too much to ask that we reserve that privilege of voting for people who have made that commitment to this country, who have taken that oath of allegiance and said my future is with the people of the united states. i'm here to stay. i have a commitment here. >> ira, if this passes, what's your worst fear about it? >> well, you know, it is supposed to be reserved just for local elections in portland, maine, but once you're in that voting booth, there are all sorts of opportunities to vote for other things. you know, we ought to -- and it opens the door. as you pointed out, portland, maine is not the first city to do this but it opens the door. it continues to devalue what citizenship means in the united states. we're slowly losing what it means to be a citizen, what it means to have this commitment,

to really be part of this society. we're not just a bunch of people who share a piece of geography. there's something deeper. if we don't keep that, a nation will tend to fall apart. >> makes a mockery of the way we've done it for a couple of hundred years. doesn't it? >> you know, the right to vote, right to determine your future is something that people have died for in this country over centuries. we are simly going to -- the city of portland, maine is giving the opportunity to people who have not made that full commitment to have a voice. that really does devalue citizenship and citizenship has to have some value. otherwise, what does it mean to be a citizen of the united states? >> well put. all right, ira, thank you very much for joining us today with your perspective from seattle. >> thank you. >> you bet. what do you think out there in tv land? do you think if these people do pay taxes up there, they should vote in local elections or absolutely not? e-mail us right now, friends at foxnews.com. meanwhile, do you want your kids

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>> in this month's issue of "rolling stone" magazine the president admits he listens to rap music including jay-z and lil wayne and you can tell i

don't listen to that. but with lyrics filled with foul language, violence and derogatory phrases is this really setting a good example for young people in america? with me now to discuss is the author of "losing my cool, how a father's love in 15,000 books beats hip-hop culture" thomas williams. and president of the eagle academy foundation, david banks. good morning to you, gentlemen. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> so the president does this interview, to me it seems as if he's trying to become relatable to the younger audience who may in fact turn out on november 2nd and vote. thomas, is it smart to say that you listen to this kind of music? >> well, the first thing is it has to be recognized that any discussion of hip-hop music is really a discussion of culture and ideas. it's not just music. it's a lifestyle and a culture that's affected generation or two of african-american youth in this country. >> positive or negative? >> it's my position that it's overwhelmingly become a negative

influence. >> and so david, you believe that this is a good idea for the president to align himself with these stars? i mean, probably as mentioned was to look hip like he's avanguarde and with it. >> i think the president was trying to be cool and showing he relates with young people which is actually, you know, a good thing. but i don't think that hip-hop is really the problem. i don't think that the president's taste in hip-hop is a negative thing for our culture. the reality is that young people are listening to music. they're listening to hip-hop music and the -- all the reality is that the older generation also listens to hip-hop music. you know, we don't always relate to some of the negative lyrics but everybody is actually listening to hip-hop. >> so we know that these lyrics are derogatory against women, we know that there's vulgarities involved in them. but david, you actually say that the problem especially within the african-american young community has nothing to do with music. it has to do with coming to school. >> i work with young people every day and the reality is i'm

not competing against hip-hop culture. what i'm competing against are crime. i'm competing against drugs and unemployment, gangs in community. and parents who just don't get involved at the level that they need to be involved. that's really what we should be concerned about. no one is really overly concerned about what's happening with the lyrics in specific songs. that's not really what you're problem is. >> do you agree with that? do you think that it's part of the culture and therefore, we should be wary of it? >> i don't think that it's as simple as lyrics. we have to be worried about the ideas in people's heads and lyrics are simply the means of conveying ideas so i'm not worried about foul language but i am worried about the idea that lil wayne is currently incarcerated right now and he represents a lifestyle that many people try to emulate but never will -- will never do successfully and so he sends a message. barack obama sends a very different message. when barack obama says that he -- he has lil wayne on his ipod, whether he means it to be or not, that's an endorsement.

>> i don't condone the behavior of lil wayne or others who are involved in violence or any kind of masogginist lyrics, i'm saying in general hip-hop lyrics should not be beaten down or say that the hip-hop culture is a problem. >> very interesting discussion. thanks for your time this morning. >> thank you. >> coming up on the show, security always tight around the president. does he really need 500 hotel rooms in the same building? that story is straight ahead. and "the new york times" refused to publish pictures of cartoons depicting muhammad in a negative light but the paper has no problem publishing positive reviews for pictures like this mocking the catholic church fortunate. the president of the catholic league is here. tay at rest... while a body in motion tends to stain motion. staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, staying active can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain so your body can stay in motion.

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right off the track. we're live in texas with the damage this morning. >> when will politicians learn? west virginia democrat joe manchin admitting he liked the health care bill but didn't know exactly what was in it until it passed. nancy pelosi said if we did it that way, that would be a good way. is that what voters want to hear right now? i don't think so. >> speaking of the speaker, brian kilmeade, she's the greatest of all time, just ask president obama why the commander in chief says nancy pelosi is one of the finest in history. "fox & friends" hour two for a monday starting right now. >> that's pretty impressive. we know that it's eight days until the big election day and it's going to be a really exciting finish especially when you hear what our reporter has found out and is going to reveal in a matter of seconds. there's so much left to be decided. >> there is. and that all has to do with a

very recent poll. president obama taking his economic and political message to the very liberal state now of rhode island today as the last full week before midterm elections gets under way and joining us live from d.c. with all the details, doug lazader. good morning. >> good morning, guys. we'll go over that poll number first. this is an associated press poll that came out and it looks at persuadible voters. these are the voters that either haven't made up their minds at all or they're kind of softly committed to one candidate but their minds are still open to change. 33% of likely voters are considered persuadible. that would save you very good news for democrats which means there's a big pool of voters there that you can still kind of woo, the problem is when you drilled deeper into that number, more of those voters support republicans than democrats. so, you know, you kind of look at this either way. nevertheless, that's a pretty big pull when you consider

everything else in this campaign cycle. as far as the president, he's making an appearance at american cord and webbing, highlighting how they've benefited from the administration's tax cuts and new loan initiatives and trying to send a message that this white house is not anti-business. it may be a tough sell in a state like rhode island. their unemployment rate is 11.8%. that's obviously much higher than the national average. that state has been particularly hard hit and i want to leave you with one other thing i will shamelessly steal from this morning's "washington times" they have an article here, bookies see g.o.p. winning the house, they say republicans are favored now by that irish group, patty power, to retake the house at 1 to 33 odds so right now, the bookmakers are predicting a big republican win in the house if not the senate. back to you guys. >> patty power not sending a wrestler in the 1970's, am i right? >> i think that's -- that's after the jump, i think. >> yeah. >> that was probably it. >> it's the guy who i used to root for being half irish. thanks, doug.

>> i got to tell you, one of the most likable politicians on with chris wallace yesterday and joining us to talk about it, dana perino. dana, one of your great jobs on sunday is to not put on football yet. not watch the pregame shows. but also to watch all the sunday shows. you saw joe manchin with chris wallace. >> sure did. and it was quite a performance. he said something that i think voters not just in west virginia but across the country would find distressing. >> you're exactly right and we've got that soundbite. roll it! >> as far as they did and the weeds of the bill that we didn't know about, no one else knew about it until it come out. knowing that, i would not have supported that and voted for it at that time. it ends up, what, 2,000 pages or more. >> ok. sorry to have that reaction. but you're governor of the state and now you're figuring it out it has 2,000 pages. i guess he agrees with nancy pelosi. she said you'd find out more

about it after you read it and after it was passed. >> this is not an inspiring or confidence inspiring moment by manchin. as governors, sure, you weren't voting on the bill but you have a tremendous responsibility because you will be implementing a lot of that bill. and the governors had just as much a responsibility to know what was in the bill. if you had people, remember, going to those town hall meetings in the summer of 2009 and voters had read the bill when the congressman hadn't even read the bill. for him to admit that, one, he probably thought it might help him, i guess, try to have some sort of plausible denyability about the bill so he could help win his race but it's not just because of that comment but it's a series of comments like that. the feeling in west virginia. i think that that race will go to there on november 2nd. >> his approval rating is close to 70% but on the national level, he's not resonating because people want somebody to

accept a rubber stamp from the president and his only option by the political experts was to say, i didn't know what was in the bill. i heard republicans say that and be outraged about it. i've never really heard a democrat say that before. >> well, also remember, he's in -- governors are usually well liked. they can be quite popular in their state. what i have a feeling is people who might like him as governo don't necessarily want that attitude following him to washington where they would be represented in washington. where people really do understand that if we are going to slow down the left ward tilt of the country, you need to have a balance in the u.s. senate. that's playing into the fact he'll lose in eight days. >> and the politic polling average right now shows it's neck and neck and within the margin of error. let's move on to talk a little bit about that something the president of the united states said recently. he said this about the speaker of the house.

pelosi will go down in history as one of the finest speakers in the history of the u.s. she is elegant, beautiful and beautiful just don't realize she is tough. all right. apparently, he has not seen her approval ratings because the people of the united states would not agree with the president. >> well, let's separate one thing. so she is incredibly accomplished. she is the first woman speaker. you might not like the legislation that she passed or rammed through but she got it done. she was able to get cap and trade done when harry reid was not. history will judge. on the other hand, there are many democrats running against her. last week in the daily caller, 49 conservative blue dog democrats on the record told that reporter, john ward, that they would not support her for speaker. and so that can happen to any speaker so look, i can understand why democrats might say she's been the most

effective and one of the finest and i think that history may judge her that way, if you look at what you're supposed to accomplish as speaker. when it comes to helping her fellow democrats this time around, she's actually become a liability. >> bobby bright, j marshall, jason altmeyer, scott murphy, mike mcmahan, these people all over the country have basically said whether she's minority or majority, she does not have our support. >> but the reason, dana, is because those are conservative democrats. isn't that what it is? that the president and pelosi have seen eye to eye on trying to gin up the far left base of the party. these are the conservative democrats that don't agree with some of those policies. >> right. one of the reasons i think a lot of them will lose, gretchen, is because while they'll say now that they didn't agree with it, they voted for it. >> sure. >> and they might have felt like their arms were twisted. >> good point. >> the reason the voters are all mad for them is they say they're

conservative democrats. they say they're for fiscal responsibility but then they vote the other way and that's why people are mad. >> and that's why the -- let's take a look at the speaker's approval rating. now at a record low of 29%. 56% as you can see right there disapprove of her. meanwhile, on the other side of the capital is the house -- rather, the senate majority leader and that would be harry reid. and listen to harry reid, how he's taking credit for saving the planet. >> people have been hurting and i understand that. and it doesn't give them comfort or solace for me to tell them, you know, but for me, we'd be in a world wide depression. >> oh, really? >> can you tell he's running? >> but for him, there would be a lot of things that america would maybe be feeling better about. he's inflating two things. most economists and republicans and democrats at least ones that

voted for it, now bear with me, believe that the actions taken to shore up the banks in the fall of 2008 is what helps prevent a depression in our country. whether it would have been worldwide, i don't know. >> it started during the administration. >> that's right and supported by senator obama at the time and senator mccain at the time. harry reid did not want to push through that bill but he was shepherded by senator mcconnell who said we can do it together. very tough to do. my hats out to them for that. what people are so mad about is the follow-up that democrats pushed through that was the $780 billion stimulus package in february of 2009 which was not handled well, which was promised to keep unemployment at 8%. and people are smarter than that. they know that those two things are separate. >> right, they hate tarp but tarp has cost us about $50 million and that number is going down from the $700 billion

that's been asked for because it's been paid back with interest. >> that's how it was designed. >> that's how it was designed. but you're not getting any of that stimulus money back. >> right. >> right. all right. dana, always great to see you. hope you have a great week. thanks so much. >> all right. bye-bye. >> 10 minutes after the top of the hour. check out this incredible video. a twister so powerful, it flipped the cars of a freight train off their tracks! joining us right now from our station kdfw down in rice, texas, is adrian armbullo. good morning to you. >> good morning, steve. rice is located about 45 minutes south of dallas. the winds were very powerful. as mentioned it flipped over those freight train cars and 18 wheeler as well. ripped the roofs off school buildings and damaged some homes. perhaps hardest hit is this school complex. this is what's left of an athletic field. the fencing ripped up and these light posts here, used to light up the athletic field and

snapped them in two. there are a bunch in this area. it's around 6:00 last night that people reported hearing the sirens. that was followed up with some lightning, and then they spotted that funnel cloud. a number of people were hurt during the storm. they were driving on a major highway down here. saw that funnel cloud, swerved, tried to get out of its way and they ended up colliding into each other. at least four people hurt. taken to the hospital. their injuries, though, believed to be minor. nonlife threatening, no reported deaths. we talked about the damage at the school and homes, at least three homes believed to be totally destroyed. so powerful again, flipped over that 18 wheeler and you had shown or talked about at least the freight train cars being flipped over. that's happening just down the way there, you got crews out here all night trying to upright those cars and get them out of this area. steve, send it back to you. >> all right, adrian, thank you very much. that home video looks like something out of a movie. >> where did they have it planted where that was able to pick that up?

>> i'm not sure. the rest of the headlines for a monday. we have another breaking story overnight. a shocking update about that teen once known as the hiccup girl. police in st. petersburg, florida, charging her in a murder back in 2007, she appeared on "fox & friends" because she couldn't stop hiccupping. police say that same woman, now 19 years old, just admitted to luring a man to a house where two suspects robbed him at gunpoint. when the man fought back, they shot and killed him. all three suspects now under arrest. the campus of northern illinois university on 24-hour lockdown after a body was found in a nearby park. it's believed to be that of 18-year-old freshman student antoinette keller. she disappeared after telling friends she was going for a walk to find inspiration for an art project. tragedy struck niu back in 2008 when a deadly shooting rampage left six people dead. officials now saying than american swimmer who died in the middle of a race died of overexertion, not a heart attack.

pennsylvania's swimmer went under during a race near dubai over the weekend. his body found two hours later. the winner of the race said the water and air temperatures were too high to hold the event. his body will be turned over to the united states and those are your headlines. >> all right. >> meanwhile, straight ahead, "the new york times" refused to publish cartoon pictures of muhammad but the paper has no problem publishing pictures like this. the president of the catholic league says the president is mocking the catholic church. he's here next. >> then no more friday night football in one high school game is called off because birds are blinded by the lights. we're not kidding. find out where straight ahead.

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>> yeah. cool animation. new york's archbishop timothy dolan is lashing out at the "new york times" after they viewed as what some see anti-catholic events. he said the common, casual way that "the new york times" offends catholics' sensitivity is something they would never think of doing, rightly so, to the jewish, black, islamic or gay communities. >> joining us is the president of the catholic league, bill donahue. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> so you believe that there is this very obvious double standard that exists with "the new york times." right? >> that's true. you mean, a couple of years ago, they showed a picture of the blessed mother with dung on her. you couldn't pick out the pornographic images. they were using this as an example of the book of museum of art in the late 1990's and they were talking about the danish cartoons that they wouldn't publish. now, look, "the new york times" has never found an anti-catholic tv show, movie, exhibition or

play that it didn't like. if it didn't like it, it didn't like it on the artistic merits but they had no problem with bigotry against catholics. >> in particular, what's got the archbishop steamed is the fact that on october 15th they published these two things. one was a review of an anti-catholic in his estimation and i'm sure yours as well, anti-catholic show called "the divine sisters." plus an art exhibit that pictured cardinal o'connor in a very unflattering manner. >> the play that be regarded -- the movie has been regarded as vulgar and irreverent by the people who like it. it's not even about my opinion. the picture of cardinal o'connor showed the picture of a condom and they used the words we're not going to use on television. this kind of filth. you know what's amazing about it, if everybody practiced what the catholic church teaches in terms of sexuality, you wouldn't have people dying of aids. who gives more money to aids than any other private institution in new york? archdiocese of new york.

who went out of his way to help people dying of aids? cardinal o'connor. 27% of all the world's money spent on servicing people dying of aids comes from the catholic church. we continue to get it by the gay bigots. >> let's look at what "the new york times" said in response to that. while archbishop may not like the art under consideration, "the times" job is to review on some cultural events even though some may not agree about the artwork. >> it's startling to think about this. look, they -- there's a lot of artistic stuff going on obviously. they take this one picture and promote it, the one that marks catholics. they didn't have to do that, just run the review. you know what's going on "the new york times," they hate the catholic church's speeches on sexuality. it's a gay friendly newspaper. and their anti-catholic has been there for a very, very long time. >> bill donahue in catholic

league, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> they served overseas but may not be able to vote. the agreements to mail soldiers' ballots on time aren't worth the paper they >> this is an incredible story. a family agrees to let someone stage their home. now that person is living there. even the police say they can't get them out of the house. they join us. [ male announcer ] for fastidious librarian emily skinner,

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>> time for the news by the numbers. first a million bucks. that's how much the government spent chasing a bogus times square terrorist plot for five months. investigators say the man from new york city made up the threats to get back at a business associate. next 800. that's how many the hotel rooms booked for the president's upcoming trip to mumbai, india,

that includes all 570 rooms at the taj mahal hotel, the site of the 2008 terror attacks. $41.5 million, how much the movie "paranormal activity 2" raked in at the box office claiming the top spot. "jackass 3d" came in second. hard to believe that. >> it is. hard to believe it was once in first. after outrage over military members not receiving their ballots in time for the vote, the department of justice extended the deadlines. sounds like a good plan, right? our next guest says the doj didn't put it in writing and the extensions might not be honored leaving our troops without a vote. we're joined by the former voting section attorney and founder of the military voter protection project, eric eborsol. there's a difference between what they're saying they're doing and this term agreement and what they're bound to do. >> yes. one of the first things you learn as a law student agreement

has to be enforceable and what the department has been touting as agreements in several of these states aren't agreements at all but really, all they are is a recitation by the department of justice as to a conversation the department had with the state on the violations and how the state plans to self-remedy it but the big problem here is they're not enforceable and that's really the big problem. >> you had the move act. that is an official act, right? and we know that there's been a problem with that, didn't get the ballots out in time and in many cases, it's because the primaries were so late because within the move act, you need a 45 day window, correct? >> that's right. you need a 45 day window. in some cases, one of these compliance letters is from nevada. it didn't have a late primary. it had a primary that didn't get the ballots out. >> that's something -- that was something that could be remedied with this thing called express mail which the post office actually has. here's what the department of justice says about what you're saying. the department stands ready to

sue any state under the ukava -- under a suit that fails to uocava that fails to count ballots on military and overseas voters submitted on or before this date deadline. it might be an agreement but they're willing to account on it, can they? >> well, i'm glad they're ready to act about a week before the election when we've been going on them for this issue for well over two to three months trying to get them to act and put agreements in place that will be -- be enforceable and to make sure that our service members have rights. not the hope for some future action. you know, with a week before the election, our service members need to have agreements in place that protect these voters and provide them certain guarantees that they're gonna have their rights defended and these compliance letters just don't cut it. >> eric, do you think there's an agenda here to not count the military ballots because a lot

of times the percentages say and the after votes say that they go republican? >> you know, i really -- i don't necessarily think there's an agenda here. i just think that they were ill prepared to defend these military voting rights and didn't put the procedures in place that would ensure that the move act was enforced. >> eric eversoll, thanks so much. just incompetence, no agenda. all right. >> hopefully they'll get it done by next year and especially two years. straight ahead, rumors of saddam's weapons of mass destruction. were they true? the shocking evidence that just surfaced thanks to the wikileaks leak. and the woman whose husband was gunned down on a jet ski telling president obama to wake up and look in the backyard and those weren't her only strong words. plus no more friday night football at this high school. games called off to keep birds out of the danger zone. ♪

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>> thank you, "fox & friends" singers. >> i know. >> i want to meet them. >> they're obviously not us. >> yes. that's true. >> if we started singing in the morning, people would be like click, click. click. like i said, clicka clicka click. sorry, steve. anyway, let's do a couple of headlines for you right now. it turns out president george w. bush was right about saddam hussein hiding weapons of mass destruction. new photo evidence just surfaced showing chemical weapons confiscated by u.s. troops after the 2003 invasion. the photos are among 400,000 pages of classified war documents released by the web site wikileaks. some of the stockpiled weapons were supposed to be destroyed after the gulf war in 1994 but hussein was defying the united nations and keeping those wmd's under wraps. >> at gitmo today, the accused suspect is expected to cop a plea at the start of his war

crimes trial. he's 24 now and 15 when he was captured in afghanistan. he faces life in prison in the death of the u.s. special sergeant chris spear who was killed in a grenade attack. his secret plea if it does indeed happen isn't what you thought we were going to get when president obama said he promised to make military trials more transparent. >> meanwhile, we're getting word of a shooting massacre at a drug rehab center over the california-mexican border near san diego. the attack happened in the popular tourist city of tijuana. as many as 13 recovering addicts were gunned down by a gang of armed men who made them lie on the floor and then sprayed them with bullets. >> the wife of the american man thought to be gunned down along the mexico border on a jet ski, well, now she's calling out congress and president obama for not doing enough to find her husband's killer. tiffany hartley says she wants to be a voice for people who live on the boarder and are afraid to speak out about the drug trafficking violence. >> ultimately i'm talking to

people in congress and i don't want david's death to go in vain. but i also want people in america to realize that this is a big issue. >> the couple was jet skiing late last month when her husband was shot by gunmen who ambushed them on the mexican side of lake falcon. >> all right. meanwhile, let's take a look at friends weather. did you see there was a rainbow there, too? >> run with it, steve. >> we have widely scattered showers all the way from new england right on through the mid atlantic and we have, in fact, a thunderstorm, line of them rolling through the tennessee valley at this hour down through portions of dixie. from the central plains south of texas it's nice and dry and back through the four corners area. meanwhile, currently as you step out, if you're in caribou, maine i would wear something heavy because currently it is 29 degrees there. the chilly spot on this map. we've got 50's in the big northeastern corner cities down through the mid atlantic where we pick up some 16's and along

the gulf and much of florida and texas temperatures in the 70's now. later on today on monday, things will warm up. san antonio on the river walk, 92 degrees. same for dallas/fort worth. along the gulf coast through portions of florida, temperatures in the 70's and 80's as well. raleigh, 77. it's going to be 70 beautiful degrees today in cleveland although they might wind up with a shower or two. caribou, hang on, folks, eventually you will be above freezing. at 44. and that's your fox telecast. >> how do you sum up 4,000 weekend football games in just 90 seconds? try just knocking it down to the best. yes, it's your weekly dose of awards for great performances and shocking upsets. it's brian's best time. first up, best player, david bollens. why? the defensive lineman had not one but two int's against drew brees who is really good but has a best selling book but i don't

know if it will be in paperback. browns won 30-17. maybe he will save his job. next up, the best catch goes to kenny brit. he had 225 yards receiving and two scores including this 80 yarder from kerry collins. he was in jeopardy to not playing this week due to a bar brawl. forgives and forgets. they sit atop the afc south and now 5-2 on the year. collins three touchdowns. it's our biggest upset. no doubt about it. it happened in denver, oakland raiders score most points ever in team history. 59 points on the denver broncos. they looked kind of good against the jets. look how open zach miller is as the tight end. mcfadden had four of the eight touchdowns on the day. raiders win 59-14. they're all alone in second place behind the chiefs in the wacky afc west. i guess i do, in fact, believe the chiefs are for real. that's a quick look at what's

happening in the world of sports. not all of the world of sports. what about high school football where they base a tv series on? high school football down south is huge especially on friday nights. >> you're talk about "friday night lights" right? the lights are factoring into football games on the island of kawaii in hawaii. so it turns out that these types of sea gulls apparently are seeing the light and thinking it's the moon. and so what they're doing is flying, flying, flying all around trying to get to the moon, whatever they're trying to do and they get tired and they fall down and being eaten by cats and other types of animals. >> now that means they're not going to play football anymore on friday nights. they've moved the games now to saturday afternoons to try and save the birds. >> yeah. there's the bird right there. it's a newells sheerwater and it's interesting, back in 23005, the federal department of wildlife notified the county and said, you're in violation. you're driving these birds nuts. so you -- here's what you can do. see those lights up there? put shields around them so that the light just goes down and the

birds won't become disoriented but ultimately they decided you know what? we're not going to do that. we'll have them play during the afternoons on saturday. when you look at now, at how many kids are showing up, about 1100 fans are showing up for the games now which is down about 200. the other problems is now they're playing out in the hot hawaiian sun. they got to worry about heat exhaustion and stuff like that.u got to go out there and start drinking liquids and start hydrating three days ahead of time. when they come off the field, they douse them with ice water. it's crazy! >> i think that -- i say screw the birds. i think football, let these kids play football. birds will adjust and learn to fly at other times and they won't get eaten by predators on the ground who obviously are hungry. >> boy, i'm glad you're not a veterinarian. >> mutual of omaha's wild kingdom, growing up, i learned a lot. >> from early on.

>> apparently you didn't watch enough episodes. >> i mean, i watched cheetahs eating -- eating deer. >> sure. >> i watched tigers eating other animals. isn't that the way nature works? >> i don't know. >> survival of the fittest. >> i don't know how i feel about this one. i'm not going to go one side or the other. why don't you? let us know how you feel about it. you can twitter me, too. >> i'm with you. all they would have done is shield the lights so they shoot down and they would not have been in violation. >> why did they do that? >> they do it down in florida. >> that's a good idea. >> i think people in florida has to stand up and say it's too hot for these kids to be playing during the summer in hawaii. straight ahead, a family agrees to let someone stage their home in hopes it will sell better. now that person is living there and even the police say they can't get her out. those home owners join us live. >> and he's been abusing his body with drugs and alcohol for decades. so how has 61-year-old ozzie

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atlanta. good morning. >> good morning. >> you put your home on the market and find out about this company called creative show homes and they recommend you have what's called a resident manager that moves into your home to help you sell it, right? >> right. that's what they do. they set up resident managers in order to stage and have the home in a sell ready condition any time. >> so you had already moved out and you are in another new home. so right now, you're paying two mortgages. what happened when this resident manager then moved into your home? >> when she moved into the home, originally, she moved in september 14th. the creative showhomes told us the house is to be show ready in 10 days and it was another week and a half before we realized we had a big problem when we had a prospect come by and they were not able to get into the home. >> and you did what? >> well, at that point, we went to the house. i did personally. and saw that it was nothing like we had been promised at that point, i talked to the resident

manager and she told me that they had never staged a home and that was then verified with creative show homes that they never did and they didn't inform us of it. at that point, they had -- they informed that they were in the process of evicting her and that's why we got concerned. >> now you have this woman named katrina living in your home. she's changed the locks on the door. you cannot get into your home that you own. what are the police doing about this? >> well, creative show rooms changed the locks and gave us the key on thursday last week. so that we can actually get in. but we haven't gotten in because she has the door latches on so that we physically cannot come inside. the cops said they cannot help us because we have a contract with the staging company, that it has to come from the staging company in order for us to do anything and as a matter of fact, she had called the cops from the staging company on monday of last week when they tried to get into the house and do their locks change.

and the cops were escorted off creative showrooms instead of dealing with her. >> wow, let's look at a statement from this company called creative show homes whom you hired. we understand the frustration by the homeowners and have quietly continued to do a good job. the home continues to be monitored and as with all other homes, the home will be returned as it was received by us. it is not easy in the current economic environment for anyone. we have taken every step imaginable to go about correcting this issue in a reasonable, and proper manner. that's from don clark. does that answer any of your questions? >> no, no. definitely not professional, definitely not what we expected. they have not communicated with us. if it was that we were behind them in telling them who to do, they wouldn't be telling us anything. legally they could have evicted her before this. it puts us down to 30 days they could still be there. they did not do legally what they were able to do. >> this is one of those stories

where people will scratch their heads and say how could this possibly happen? unfortunately, it's your real life story. hannah and devon, please keep us posted on how this all develops. >> thank you so much. >> thank you, gretchen. >> wow. unbelievable. right? coming up on our show, he drank four bottles of cognac each and every day. how in the world is ozzie osborne still alive? the scientists have decided to study his d.n.a. reveals the results here first. and on this date in 1825, the erie canal was completed. on this date in 1955, the first microwave oven was introduced in ohio by the tappan company and the number one song on this day in 1969 "i can't get next to you" that was by the temptations.

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>> congratulations. meanwhile, 61 years old, ozzie osborne has done more to abuse his body. i love that animation. ozzie osborne has done more to abuse his body than most people ever will. drugs, booze, smoking. he bit the head off a bat. so the question is -- is there something special in his d.n.a. that is keeping him alive? that's exactly what nathan pearson tried to find out, the

director of research and has just finished studying ozzie osborne's d.n.a. he joins us today from boston. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> why did you want to look at ozzie osborne? >> the flip answer is why not? but in many ways, ozzie is a good representative for all of us. he's successful as a personality. we've seen him in his everyday interactions. he's like us but he's a great musician. he's got an addictive personality which is poorly understood by science at this point and he has some interesting traits like he has a tremor that may relate to parkinson like symptoms and so we're curious scientifically about him that way. >> ok. so you've just set it up. let me do some more. let's take a look at things we've known about him and his addictive personalities once upon a time. he's on a headstone, that's weird. four bottles of cognac a day. developed a 42 a day habit. taking cocaine, morphine, lsd, and as i mentioned a moment ago,

he's bitten off the head of a bat. so did you find, nathan, anything in his d.n.a. that would explain how he has been able to drink swimming pools full of booze and live? >> no smoking guns, we didn't find any rabies for the bat either but did find an interesting variant in his genome that's near a gene that helps the body process alcohol and break it down and get rid of it and this variant is in a little segment of d.n.a. that turns that gene up or down. he's got an unusual spelling in that variant and we don't know exactly whether that makes him turn that gene up more than other people or down. it's easy to speculate but we don't know yet. >> sure. we've got a graphic that shows what the research has shown. and you touched on this a moment ago. he is 6.13 times more likely to have alcohol dependency and 1.3 times more like to have a cocaine addiction. 2.6 times more likely to have hallucinations while smoking pot.

i understand as well in addition to all that other stuff, his body has -- breaks down caffeine differently and in fact, he says the caffeine and all this stuff gives him quite a jolt. >> yeah. we were -- we were curious about this and as you noted those other numbers, you got to take those with a grain of salt because a lot of the part of the genome influences those numbers. when it comes to caffeine, it looks like ozzie breaks it down more slowly than a lot of us do. we weren't sure about this and we found the variant of it and we asked sharon about it. and she laughed right away and said when ozzie takes an espresso, it basically sends him through the ceiling so he can't quite come down off of coffee as well as some other drugs. >> that's crazy. lsd, no problem. tall cappuccino, blow the lid off. you've studied ozzie osborne and learned a lot of stuff about his d.n.a. make-up. a lot of people watching would be surprised to know this is a very expensive process. if they had their own human

d.n.a. mapped out, what could they tell about themselves? >> it's getting to the point where we can tell some really interesting things and one of the first fronts of insight is on drug metabolism. this is a good explanation of why ozzie interesting to look at today. when we go to the doctor or the surgeon for -- and go under anesthesia, for example, there are variants in the genome that can predict how well we'll respond to the anesthesia. it may be important to know some of these things now. as medical science advances we'll know more and more as we get more sequence and all their other health profile and trade profile to go with it and start putting two and two together. we'll be able to say a lot more about you. >> nathan, interesting conversation. thank you very much for telling us more about ozzie osborne than we ever knew. thank you, sir. >> you're welcome. >> all right. >> straight ahead, incredible new video of tornadoes caught on camera. one strong enough to flip over the cars of a freight train. we're going to go live to texas with the latest. then what if we told you if

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>> gretchen: good morning, everyone. hope you're having a fantastic monday. it's already october 25, 2010. we'd like to thank you for sharing your time. check out this video. tornado, big one. it was so powerful, it flipped the cars off a freight train, right off the track. more new video and a live report straight from texas. >> steve: here is an october surprise for you. one week out and polls suggest one third of likely voters are still up for grabs.

they haven't decided. both parties say they've got the path to victory. we're live from washington in 60 seconds. >> brian: to a cold heart jail cell, the girl who fascinated america because she couldn't stop hiccupping faces charges for murder. wow. "fox & friends" starts now. >> gretchen: we added ooze to it. you heard the rooster. now we got a few things. >> steve: team america. >> brian: one goal is left in life. i want to meet those weapon, the women who basically sing for us. >> steve: the "fox & friends" singers? >> brian: that's what i'm hoping for. >> steve: i can make that happen. >> brian: okay. i'd like to see them. >> steve: i got to make some phone calls. >> gretchen: coming up, president obama right now is taking his economics and political message to rhode island as the last full week

before midterm elections. joining us live from the white house with the details is wendell goler. good morning to you. >> good morning. surprisingly light campaign schedule for the president this last full week before the election. he's headed to rhode island to campaign to speak for the democratic congressional campaign and back to the white house. vice president biden out all week to campaign for democratic house hopefuls in eight states. it's looking increasingly like the president and vice president biden will have to work with a republican-controlled house next year. political analysts saying probably 90 democratic controlled house seats are in play right now. that's ten times as many as the number of republican-controlled seats in play. the president told the national journal, democrat also need what he called a proper and appropriate sense of humility about what they can accomplish

in the absence of republican cooperation and also said, quote, i think it's going to be important for republicans to recognize that the american people aren't simply looking for them to stand on the side lines. they're going to have to roll up their sleeves and get to work. the president said it will be nearly impossible to make progress on education and clean energy and some foreign policy issues without a democratic-controlled senate. back to you. >> gretchen: wendell goler, thanks very much for that update. >> steve: brian, i told you i could find out who is singing that. i found out. rich o'brien's assistant, jennifer procter. >> brian: she's the back up singer. >> steve: she did the singing. >> brian: wow. her career will go right through the roof now. it's just one woman? >> steve: yeah. >> gretchen: let's talk about this, it's only eight days to go before the big midterm elections. both sides are saying they're going to win. can you believe either one or the other?

that new poll that's been out, one third of all likely voters hasn't decided yet. so they could be swayed. >> brian: i think both are cheerleading. let's hear michael steele and then tim cane and tale tuck more. >> the voters are tired of the fact that the federal government has not listened to them over the past two years, moved in its own direction at its own rhythm and they want to pull back on that. and i think you'll see a wave, unprecedented wave on election day that's going to surprise a lot of people. >> these races are very close, but from this point forward, it's about turnout and ground game. we're seeing good early voting trends and we can do it. >> steve: they both say they'll win. although you got to wonder whether or not tim kaine really knows in his heart of hearts they're going to lose at least the house. >> brian: even the "new york times" came out on sunday and said 40 democratic votes toss-ups. 20 are leaning gop.

they basically said the house belongs to the republicans. >> steve: and already some top democrats are coming up with a narrative and excuse for why the republicans beat us. essentially it's this, outside spending by the republicans and their friends and business and whatnot killed us. although when you look at -- and we showed think graphic on friday -- when you look at the top outside groups that spent money, you got a big union at the top, then you got the chamber, then you've got cross roads on the republican side. but three of the top five are, as you can see, democrat union force the most part. and they don't really talk about that. >> gretchen: the interesting thing is remember that narrative started about ten days ago where the democrats were basically saying, and accusing the republicans of having foreign money coming in and saying that that part of it was going to get the attention of the american voter. did that really catch on with the voters? did they really care where any of that funding was coming from? apparently they'll continue to

use that narrative as we get closer to the election. >> brian: michael steele was asked that question and said we can't do it. the til man act prevents any foreign gps or cross roads, these two huge republican groups are fundraising from going out there. michael steele said prove it. i thought harold was right when he said nobody cares. everyone cares about jobs. what party is going to turn around the economy and deliver job as soon as and you're still waiting on the side line and who you're going to support. look at the poll. how committed are you to your candidate? 59% say you know who you'll vote for and 19% could change your mind. probably vote for, that's 22%. >> gretchen: i find that fascinating because you would think that -- it appears like the country is to divisionsive and like they're on one side or the other, and maybe these are

independents who once upon a time voted for president obama and perhaps reconsidering. is there a guilt association with the fact that yeah i voted for him, so maybe i'll continue to give him another chance up until election day? >> steve: if you live in a battle ground state, you have been inundated with all these ads on tv and a lot are attack ads. about a third of you still might change your mind before you go in, close the curtain and pull the lever. >> brian: here is the other poll that i think we should share with you. do you prefer your republican or democratic house candidate? 45% say republican. 38% say democrat. you refer that. >> steve: that's with likely voters. that's the key because we've been talking over the last couple of months really about the enthusiasm. who is most enthused about going and voting and all the polls right now show that the republicans do have the edge there. >> gretchen: so what will president obama's playbook look like after the midterms if that

happens? what if the republicans control the house? what if the republicans control the senate? that will be a very interesting situation for the president and the policies that he wants to continue to try to push through. it will own even be interesting in the republicans control the house and the democrats still control the senate because they'll have to be that idea of compromise. or will there? remember the when the president said he will call in the republicans and have a lot of meetings together? did that ever really happen? many republicans are saying no, that never really happened. >> brian: yeah. let's listen to the president setting the tone and will that tone change at the very least, he'll have senate majorities on november 2. let's listen. >> i hope and expect that we could get beyond some of the old political divides between democrats and republicans, blue states and red states, that prevented us from making progress for so long because although we are proud to be democrat, we are prouder to be americans. >> steve: there you go. he talks about how he's going to

make sure that he brings in people from the other side of the aisle and yet, the "new york times" today talks about how tom daschle was meeting with -- chatting with trent lott. remember when we used to run things and trent lott said, they're not going to be able to pass this nuclear proliferation thing with the russians unless they get together. as it turns out, the president of the united states did not meet with the head republican. that guy right there, mitch mcconnell, one on one, for the first 18 months. didn't do it until august of this past year. so it just goes to show you, it is so polarized not only in front of the cameras, but behind the cameras as well. because trent lott said clinton used to come him up all the time, go over for coffee in the residence at 9:15 in the morning. the president of the united states currently does not have that relationship with people on the other side of the aisle. >> gretchen: that's interesting because this president promised hope and change. it's interesting to see now

potentially that president clinton actually was doing a better job of reaching out to the other side? so i don't know what that says about the hope and change. one thing we know for sure is president obama now says he will focus, likely to focus on the deficit in the next two years. a lot of democrats may be scratching their heads right now saying, could you have done that to help us get reelected come tuesday? could you have done that a little sooner? >> brian: it will be hard to say if you're a republican, the president wants to see me about cutting the deficit, i'm busy. if they're willing to make some of the tough choices that maybe they're making in the u.k. and cutting everything down. you see the reaction in france and greece, and they riot. the u.k., they don't. are we going to have to make the same cuts? the other thing he talks about, no child left behind. and passing stalled free trade agreements. which free trade might be controversial these days. >> steve: for a lot of americans, the biggest deduction they have when they do their

taxes is the deduction for home mortgage. now according to some items out there today, the deficit commission that's supposed to report on december 1, apparently they're not going to touch social security or medicare or medicaid. but on the table still is getting rid of your home mortgage deduction which costs the federal government $1 trillion. how would you like that if that just poof, went away? >> brian: a lot of people won't buy another house. >> steve: they'd buy a bigger house because they know they get the deduction. >> brian: what's happening in the news? >> gretchen: we have to start with the in connection with news alert because shocking update about teen once known as hiccup girl. she's just been charged in the murder of a man in st. petersburg, florida. back in 2007, jennifer made national news, appearing on "fox & friends" because she could not stop hiccupping. police say that same teen now 19 years old, just admitted to luring a man to a house for two suspects robbing him at gun

point. when the victim tout back, they shot and killed him allegedly. all three suspects are charged with first degree murder. another developing story, overnight in texas, check out this video. a twister, so powerful it flipped the cars of a freight train right off the track. here is an incredible photo of the tornado touching down in the town of rice. that's 45 miles south of dallas. the twister also tossed a semi truck off a highway, destroyed homes, tore the roof right off a school. a second twister spotted in lone oak, all together four people were hurt. but no one was seriously hurt. opening statements begin today in the murder trial of washington inintern chandra levy. the case expected to center on the testimony of jail house informants. he is charged with murdering levy in a park in washington, d.c. nine years ago. her disappearance made more mysterious because she was linked to then congressman gary condit. he may testify actually at the trial. those are your very quick headlines. >> steve: all right.

>> brian: 12 minutes after the hour. nancy pelosi, the greatest speaker of all time, that's what president obama says. his explanation that has many americans scratching their heads. >> steve: what if we told you that if schools got rid of just 5% of the worst teachers that would make the entire education system all right? the man behind the proposal from the movie "waiting for superman" coming up next.

>> brian: the movie, "waiting for superman," has been a wake-up call to america about the major problems with our public educational system. listen. >> the difference between a really good teacher and a really bad teacher is one year of

learning per academic year. students with high performing teachers progressed three times as fast as those with low performing teachers. yet they cost the same to the school. a bad teacher covers only 50% of the required curriculum in a school year. a good teacher can cover 150%. >> brian: wow. our next guest says he has the remedy for america's schools. >> gretchen: joining us is the man you saw in the clip, eric, the senior fellow at hoover institution of stanford university whose research was used in that documentary, "waiting for superman." good morning to you. >> good morning. how are you? >> gretchen: we're doing fine. we both saw the documentary and we thought that it was great. every american should see this documentary to learn more about the public school system. you have been researching this and what did you mean about the fact that only just 5% of ineffective teachers, if we got rid of those what, would happen? >> well, we could bring our country up to near the top of the world in international

competition for knowledge. that's really important to us. it makes a big difference for our long-term national future that we have a really well educated work force. >> brian: how do you figure something like that could have such a great impact? >> i was surprised, frankly. we've known for some time that there is a big difference among teachers that really good teachers are really good and really bad teachers are just the opposite. we all know it from our own experiences. but the research has now been pretty precise in how much difference it is. my work was simply at this point, to look at what would happen if we could trade in some of the bottom teachers for average teachers. the main point of this is that we have a really good teacher force on average, but there are a few that just stop all progress in a year. and we have to make some decisions.

>> gretchen: those are the ones that typically the unions protect because the unions protect all teachers. unfortunately, in the always considering the effect that that has on the kids. so let's look at that graph which you have come up with that shows if just 5% of ineffective teachers were eliminated, that our performance would go up .28 to .48 standard deviations and we could at some point reach the levels of finland, who are at the top of the world. you're saying get rid of the bottom of the teachers, 5%, the bottom 5%, that's it. right? >> that's what this research says. it says that the unions have not done most of their members a service by protecting the bottom because they lump our really good teachers together with our bad teachers and it's time that they start paying attention to this. >> brian: maybe if we get a formula in which the unions can live with, you can live with, maybe we'd get them to agree with that because this has been a conversation changing

documentary which you participated in. thanks so much for your time and your research. >> thank you for having me. >> brian: okay. >> gretchen: five-year-old boy did something unheard of for a kid his age. he gave away all of his birthday money. the reason why will touch your heart. >> brian: a government land grab. that story is next.

>> brian: quick headlines. the campus of northern illinois university is on a 24 hour lock down after a body was found in a nearby park. it's believed to be that is of

an 18-year-old student. the student disappeared more than a week ago. bank of america admitting it found errors in its foreclosure paperwork. the errors include misspelled names, wrong payment information. it's only reviewed about 1% of the cases. steve? >> steve: yep, it's your land. a trio of sisters out in california locked in a battle over land that has been in their family for close to two decades. after requesting permits to make minor repairs on a vacation home along the california coast, they bought with their father in 1982. they were told they would be given the okay, as long as they gave up or surrendered a portion of their property to the state. now they are fighting the coastal commission's demand, saying it's nothing short of extortion. this is one of the three sisters leading the fight against land grab and joins us live from los

angeles. denise, good morning to you. >> hello. how are you? >> steve: fine, thank you. so about 20 years ago, your family bought this property. i understand then in 2002, you applied for a permit to fix it up. that's when the heard from the state. what did they say? >> actually we did some minor repairs under over the counter permits and then when we were continuing, the state then threw this at us that they wanted to have a mile long stretch of coast line in order for us to finish our repairs to our house. >> steve: let me get this straight. you buy some property and you buy it there because it's along the coast and now the california coastal commission says they want your strip of coast. >> yeah. that's how it is. actually it began at the county level just during the regular permitting process and then it continued. the county eventually removed

the easement requirement and then the coastal commission put the easement requirement back on. so this is a extortion, in exchange for us being able to finish the repairs to our house. our house is just a small farm house that we're using for our family. we've never got to spend one night there because we've had to stay in hotels and motels or camp out just to be able to be on the property. we've never been able to do that. >> steve: it's crazy. here is denise's statement from the california coastal commission. they say the county of san louis obispo subsequently approved a permit for the construction that included a requirement for a public access easement along the shore line. plaintiffs could have challenged this action and related public access requirement, but did not. that from christopher patterson. all right. when you look at it, i'm with you, it sounds like they're saying, okay. we'll let you fix up your house, but first you've got to give us some of your prize property.

>> that's correct. we never applied for anything that would have any easement requirement on it. we couldn't imagine that they would even ask for something like this and then on top of that, we never signed anything. we never agreed to it. we did all the work on this house that we had done was under previous permits over the counter. so now then when they presented us with this oh, by the way, you need to sign this agreement to give us a mile longaccess to your property, we said no, we're not doing this and we didn't do any more on the house. >> steve: i don't blame you. >> it's interfering, if we were to do something like that, it would interfere with our cattle operation and -- >> steve: plus the liability, because the county wouldn't be liable if somebody got hurt along that property because you would be. it is such a lousy situation. thanks for bringing it to our attention. denise -- >> the pacific legal foundation

is who has been helping us on this case. >> steve: that's good. >> they have the best property rights attorneys in the country and they're helping us take care of getting this through. >> steve: we're going to keep an eye on it and find out what happens. denise, thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you. >> steve: e-mail us right now. is that crazy or what? yeah, you can fix it, but you'll have to give away your land. nuts. meanwhile, we've been showing you this incredible video of twisters tearing through texas. we've got a live report to show you the aftermath. and should citizens of other countries have american voting rights? some politicians think so. is this the beginning of the end of citizenship as we know it today? then nancy pelosi is the greatest speaker of all time. that's what president obama says. his explanation not what many americans want to believe. that is straight ahead on this monday.

>> brian: your shot of the morning looks like this. exactly like this. meet the all new superman, now 72 years old, getting a makeover. yep. in the latest rounds of comic

books, clark kent will look like a handsome 20-year-old support ago hoodeds and skinny tie. he'll be a bit shorter and thinner to squelch the hgh rumors in an attempt to bring classic super heros into the modern world. >> gretchen: i don't like it! i want the old superman? i want the one we always looked at. pulling his coat over like this. i like the old fashion guy. >> brian: you want dean cena. >> gretchen: would wouldn't. >> steve: maybe they're trying that to make him more like the kids who would be buying the superman comic books. >> brian: there are certain things you don't mess with. >> gretchen: of course, but i still like the old guy. >> brian: you don't change that or ironman. >> steve: we'll always have superman the way he has lived once upon a time. >> brian: in a wrong way. >> steve: that's right. >> brian: if you're an adult reading comic books, you need to grow up. >> steve: yeah. let's talk about what's going on in politics. eight days until the midterm

elections and west virginia governor joe manchin, who wants to be u.s. senator from west virginia, said something crazy yesterday that a lot of people went, huh, about health care. listen to this. >> reaching as far as they did and the weeds of the bill that we didn't know about, no one else knew about, no one got -- i would not have supported that or voted for that at that time and i think many people didn't know about the bill ends up, 2,000 pages or more. >> gretchen: two things come out here. he's a governor of a state, so he would have been in charge of putting health care into action. so he probably should have read the bill. number two, did he say that because now just like cap and trade, we're in one of those commercials he's shooting it with a gun as a democrat, is he now trying to distance himself from health care? >> steve: from his record. >> gretchen: yeah. >> steve: because he said he was for it initially and now he'd like to repeal it. >> brian: but it's so amazing that a democrat -- by the way, to your point, gretchen, 'cause

medicaid in the bill, it's expanded and they have much greater responsibility and that's what the states do. they have to find that money. oh, so everyone went crazy. they said, for a few years, we'll pay your bill, but in a couple of years, you're going to pay your own bill. >> steve: that was a cornhusker kick back. >> brian: everyone gets it for a couple years, but sooner or later it will be in the states alaps and have trouble balancing their budget. so manchin says i have not read the bill. if mitch mcconnell said something like that, but this is substantial. since he started criticizing president obama, saying i'm going to sue the government because what they're doing about the call, they're saying look at the picture of me and george bush, he's climbed back into this race. it is now within a percentage point of each other. a virtual tie. joe manchin against john raese. >> gretchen: political unknown for the most part, who amazingly is neck and neck with a very well-known and popular man in west virginia. >> steve: all right. meanwhile, the president of the united states weighed in on

speaker nancy pelosi. he said pelosi will go down in history as one of the finest speakers in the history of the u.s. she is elegant, beautiful, and people just don't realize how tough she is. >> gretchen: the approval ratings say something different. when you look at the latest poll, it's the lowest ever for her, 56 for her disapprove of the 29% of the country approves of nancy pelosi. earlier we had dana perino on and she said this. >> one of the reasons i think a lot of them will lose is because while they'll say now that they didn't agree with it, they voted for it and they might have felt like their arms were twisted, but the reason the vote railroads so mad is because they say they're conservative republicans and say they're for fiscal responsibility but then vote the other way and that's why people are mad. >> brian: democrats do know how

unpopular she is because nancy pelosi basically told them do whatever it takes to get reelected. get your seat back. rip me to shreds if you have to, that's my el torializing. look who has gone on the record and said she will not be my speak whenever we put this up for a vote, whether she's speaker or minority leader, representative jim marshall, bobby bright of alabama, lincoln davis, these are democrats who said she's not going to be my leader. i think they're tired of being bullied. maybe their gut, they knew they shouldn't have voted for the plans, but thought they would coast to reelection if they did but it was the opposite. >> gretchen: that's their own fault if they voted for an unpopular plan. that was your own personal vote. >> steve: yeah, you're on record with it and that's why people are doing backtracking. according to politico this morning, it looks like if the democrats lose control of the house, nancy pelosi obviously would no longer be speaker, but look for her to retire as early

as 2011. >> brian: amazing that president obama has got to go to california to shore up the vote out there. that's such a blue area. >> steve: it's his fire wall. >> brian: nancy pelosi might have mite have a hard charge. >> gretchen: let's do a couple headlines for monday. vice president joe biden hits the campaign trail today to support this guy. >> the republican health care plan is this, die quickly. that's right. the republicans want you to die quickly if you get sick. >> gretchen: since making those comments last year, florida congressman alan grayson has seen a huge drop in the polls. he's hoping that biden's stop will improve his numbers. the only independent poll has him behind daniel webster, 43 to 36. >> brian: calling him taliban dan wasn't effective an ad. >> gretchen: i'm surprised joe biden is going there. >> steve: his plane will land quickly. >> brian: and leave quickly.

>> steve: carl paladino, he's not backing down, despite what the polls say. moments ago, he accepted an inveigh taking for a final debate with democrat front runner andrew cuomo. >> we would love for you to come here and debate andrew cuomo, give you an hour, uninterrupted. >> i'd love to. >> you commit? okay? >> we'll work on him. >> steve: so he's in. paladino in his very first run for office is running about 20 points behind democrat cuomo. >> brian: that was the easier booking. turns out president george w. bush may have been right about saddam hussein's weapons of mass destruction. new evidence shows chemical weapons confiscated by u.s. troops just asked for the 2003 iraq invasion and for a couple of years after. the photos are among 400,000 pages of classified war documents just released by the web site, wikileaks. >> gretchen: three beaches could reopen today in santa barbara, california. they were closed following a deadly shark attack that took

the life of a college student. since then, there have been no other reports of shark sightings. a 19-year-old man was body boarding. experts believe it was a 15 to 20-foot great white. >> brian: wow. >> steve: a developing story overnight in texas. check out this incredible video. look at this. wow. a twister so powerful, it flipped the cars of a freight train right off of the tracks. you're looking right at live aerials of the aftermath. joining us from fox affiliate, k dfw in rice, texas, is adrian. good morning to you. >> good morning. they're dealing with a lot of damage out here this morning. sun is coming up, so we're getting a better idea of how much damage was done. the winds so powerful, knocked over those freight train cars, as well as an 18 wheeler. ripped the roofs off of buildings as well as some school buildings. we're in a complex that house

has middle and high school. this is some of the debris you'll find here at the athletic field. this iron beam, usually 7 feet tall, 30, 40 pounds, take a look at the field here. the fencing, all ripped off that was surrounding this baseball field. the outfield wall has buckled. to the right here, you can see these light posts. they used to light up the athletic field, they snapped in two. right around 6:00 o'clock local time yesterday that people heard the sirens that was followed up by strong wind and lightning and then spotted a funnel cloud. that led to some injuries. drivers along the interstate here swerve to do get out of the way and ended up colliding into each other. four people taken to various hospitals with injuries. none of those injuries believed to be life-threatening. no reported deaths as of right now. but a lot of property damage in the area. we showed you some of the damage of the school. we know several homes have been destroyed as well. as you had mentioned, extremely

power winds knocked over an 18 wheeler. out here live at the scene, we see down there, some of those toppled over freight train cars there on their tracks and the winds so strong, just knocked those freight train cars over. you're actually looking at the bottom of those cars right now. some of the workers here trying to upright those. they have been out here all night long, have moved some of the damaged cars out of the area. we anticipate what's going to happen today, crews with the national weather service will be out here trying to categorize how strong the storm was. american red cross is out here and one thing we know that folks are dealing with, a lot of missing animals, missing pets and farm animals in this area as well. with that, we'll send it back to the studio. >> steve: we thank you very much. you can hear in the background there a helicopter. i think we've got the output of the helicopter. there you can see as the sun comes up in texas this morning, they are starting to look at the damage and it is widespread.

>> gretchen: wow. we reported that four people were hurt in this. luckily none of them seriously. we'll continue to follow that for you here at fox. should citizens of other countries have american voting rights? some politicians think so. so is this the beginning of the end of citizenship as we know it? peter johnson, jr. up next with his prescription for truth. >> brian: and a story that will warm your heart. the ronald mcdonald house received a donation that somehow seemed bigger than all the rest. it was from a five-year-old boy. the boy is here live to tell us why he gave away all his birthday money and doesn't end there. >> steve: excellent.

>> brian: voting is a privilege that comes from being an american citizen. so you thought. but in maine, residents will decide whether or not nonu.s.

citizens should be allowed to vote in local elections. chicago, already allows noncitizens to vote in local elections. should legal residents who are not citizens have a say in how we govern our nation? fox news legal analyst peter johnson, jr. will have the answer to that. >> good morning. it's kind of frightening actually. it's come and gone in the last ten years this notion that someone with a foreign passport by virtue of the fact they're paying tax, living in a community, should have the capacity to vote in local or school board elections. it's a slippery slope to destroying the importance and the purpose of citizenship in this country and unfortunately, it's kind of a stealth measure by the democratic party to increase the ranks of their particular party. >> brian: are these green card holders? >> the issue is someone that is legally in this country hold ago green card, would have the right to vote in a school board, at a

city council election, san francisco, portland maine, we have it in chicago. we did at one point have it in new york city. what we're saying is, it's fine that you have a green card. you haven't attended citizenship classes. you haven't shown a proficiency in civics and taken a citizenship test in english and you're holding the passport of a foreign country and you swear allegiance to that foreign country. so what we're saying, the people are for this are saying, well, as a matter of fairness, because you're contributing to the community, that's equivalent to the voting rights of a u.s. citizen, whether naturalized or natural. >> brian: so this is what we're looking at right now, peter. so i guess we have to be aware of it, to take action maybe if you're upset by it, to take action in your state before it comes -- >> i think we have to understand what the importance of citizenship is in this country and i think the people have to

be aware of it. >> brian: peter johnson, jr., we'll see you tomorrow. >> good to see you. >> brian: straight ahead, it's a story that will warm your heart. you got a five-year-old boy, here live. he's going to explain why he's giving away all his birthday money to charity. that's next. first, let's check in with martha mccallum for what's on her great show. hey, martha. >> it is a great show. good morning. thank you very much. we've got eight days to go and they're big ones because a third of the voters out there still have not made up their minds about who they're going to vote for. it's anybody's game right now. we've got brand-new numbers coming from scott rasmussen. as president obama changing his tune on what he calls the most frustrating part his presidency. bill and i, top of the hour.

>> gretchen: five-year-old boy decided to do something different for his birthday.

he asked his friends to give money instead of toys so that he could donate then to charity. he and his father join us now. good morning. >> good morning. >> gretchen: so, you're only five years old. right? >> right. >> gretchen: and for your birthday, you wanted some toys, right, but you decided to do something different. what did you decide to do? >> donate to the ronald mcdonald house. >> gretchen: and how did you come up with that idea? >> i was at ronald mcdonald in the spring, i saw they could only handle new toys, i thought i could donate some of miff toys from the upcoming birthday, but then me and my dad thought we would tell my friends to make a small donation to the ronald mcdonald house. >> gretchen: craig, that's where

you come into the picture. you were helping as dad to help him pull this off with his friends. so did you have them donate money or did they donate the toys? >> we asked his friends as a parent, i know that it would be somewhat difficult to run out and try and give birthday presents for all the birthdays that we have this coming year. so we thought it would be great to donate five or ten dollars and he could donate that to ronald mcdonald house and they could use it for their general fund. >> gretchen: why did you want to help people? >> because of my mom. >> gretchen: right. your mom is sick right now. right? >> right. >> gretchen: craig, why don't you fill in the details. i know your wife has been struggling. >> yeah. he doesn't know any different, but his mom is a two - time brain tumor survivor and constantly struggles with the

effects. we've been very fortunate to be blessed by wonderful neighbors and friends and our temple, and we thought it would be great to be able to show others that it's important to help people out when they have hard times. >> gretchen: i know you collected $288 to give to the ronald mcdonald house. did you deliver that money? >> yeah. >> gretchen: what happened? >> i gave them a big check. >> gretchen: i know that you have plans for your next birthday. what are you going to do with your next birthday? >> i'm going to tell my friends to make a donation to the ronald mcdonald house again. >> gretchen: and craig, i know he told you that it wasn't about being on tv, right? >> yeah. i think what drew out is what touched me the most when we

left, after he gave the check, and he came out and said, you know what, daddy, i want to do this again for my sixth birthday. i said, you probably won't get your picture taken or get on tv again. he goes, that's okay. that's not why we do it. that, to me, just really warmed my heart. >> gretchen: what an amazing story and so often in these days of bad news, we don't report a lot of good news. we're so glad to be able to share your good news story today with all of our "fox & friends" viewers. thank you so much and thanks to craig, to dad as well. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> gretchen: all right. that will lift up your hearts today, won't it? come back with us, two minutes away, more "fox & friends."