jenna: the plane that had to make an emergency landing in the hudson river in new york city made a hero out of the captain, captain sully, of course, that plane is headed for an aviation museum in charlotte, the road trip hit a minor snag, the wings couldn't clear a street corner. it's on its way now but rough side! thank you for joining us, everybody. gregg: "america live" begins now. martha: a fox news alert right now on the new fallout from bad economic news, rock o'clock the administration today, the white house and president obama now on defense, following reports that long term unemployment numbers are now worse than they were during the great depression. welcome, everybody, to "america live", i'm martha maccallum in for megyn. we are now awaiting the white house brief thank will get underway moments from now and we do expect it will get new reaction from this administration on this series of bad reports we got on the economy last week, finishing with that very tough may unemployment

figure that pushed unemployment to 9.1%. over the weekend, top administration officials and lawmakers really downplayed the grim economic news, even pointing fingers at some points. take a listen: >> every economist knows that the monthly numbers are highly variable, so you want to look at a little bit more than just one month before concluding anything. >> what happened? the president has been there 2 1/2 years. why hasn't he done that yet? >> he's done a great deal of it. i think if he hasn't taken the action he did that the situation would be worse. he pulled from us the brink of a financial crisis, from an economic crisis. martha: all right. there you have it, mike emanuel joins us now live at the white house. mike, they're going to have to get, you know, find new ways to say this and make this sound like we're in a good situation. what's the latest message from the white building behind you? >> reporter: well, martha, we heard president call it a bump on the road to recovery, that disappointing jobs numbers, mitt romney seized on that right away

and says that's not a bump, -- we heard the president talking about head winds coming at our economy, instability in the middle east, high gas prices, tragedy in japan and the jobs numbers on friday overshadowed an event he was hoping would put some positive spin on economic news, he went to a chrysler facility in battleground, ohio to talk about what he had done help rescue the american auto industry but it was overshadowed by the disappointing jobs numbers, and as you heard, his key economic adviser austan tkpwa*ls bee saying they're trying not to get too high or low about one economic report but clearly a big disappointment for the white house. martha: you can understand people out in front on this with the message want to put as positive a spin on it as they can, but it wasn't just the jobs numbers and there was the only number that tkpwa*ls bee addressed. it's been a very tough stretch with a number of bad figures that we got out last week.

>> reporter: that's right. we talked at one point last week about how property values, home values, were down in 18 of the top 20 markets except for washington, d.c. and seattle, washington. then you also look at consumer confidence, and so if consumers are not confident about the economic recovery, they're not going to the stores, they're not going to go buy big ticket items, guess what, the businesses don't have to hire people to make more of those items, they can get by with the staff that they have. and so it really is a vicious cycle, if you will, in terms of one bad economic report can feed into many other facets of the economy and really make it look like a long hot summer for many americans who are looking for work, martha. martha: that's for sure and those businesses are seeing their own prices and costs rise as well, and that's been tough for them. mike, you've been watching, you'll be in there and keep an eye on it. thank you very much. >> thank you. martha: one unemployment statistic that is getting a lot of attention today, across the u.s., 45 percent of unemployed americans have been jobless now for more than six months, so that is

the highest percentage that we've seen of the long term joblessness since the great depression. here was the president's only response on friday to the may jobs report. listen to this: >> there are always going to be bumps on the road to recovery. we're going to pass through some rough terrain, that even a wrangler would have a hard time with. >> no! >> we know that. martha: since those remarks, the president's critics have said the numbers are a lot more than a bump in the road. coming up we're going to have a fair and balanced debate on what this fight for the president is and for the millions of americans who are still looking for a job. that's coming up. we'll get a drilldown on the numbers and what we can expect over the course of the summer. meantime, drama at the federal courthouse where a powerful french banker pleaded not guilty to sexual conduct today, dominic strauss-kahn is accused of attacking a housekeeper at a luxury hotel, the

62-year-old arrived at court and here he is coming out of his car and heading in to some angry crowds out there. look at this: >> [booing] >> [yelling and booing] >> >> shame on you! shame on you! >> [yelling "shame on you"] >> chanting "shame on you. i've rarely seen a crowd of that size when we watch somebody walk into the courtroom, as we saw in that situation, that was his wife arm in arm as they went in and we're now learning the maid at the center of that case may be willing to take the stand in this trial and that will be an explosive moment. julie banderas has more for us at the courthouse. jalie. >> reporter: yeah, there were about 100 maids, by the way, screaming "shame on you", the maid has lawyered

up for the second time, hiring two new attorneys, one them coming out, speaking earlier, talking about their client as a single mother who had that job as a maid at the sofitel hotel to raise her daughter and basically try to make ends meet, he came out to say his victim and client will not back down to all the pressure after what he's calling a smear campaign against her. listen: >> the victim wants you to know that all of dominic strauss-kahn's power, money and influence throughout the world will not keep the truth about what he did to her in that hotel room from coming out. >> reporter: strauss-kahn has hired a high priced legal team and the team has in turn hired private investigators to check out the accuser's past. experts say no aspect of her life or personal history will go unscrutinized. sources close to the case saying the defense is expected to pursue the issue

of whether it's even physically possible for an unarmed man to force a person to engage in oral section. they maintain the sex was consensual. >> our judgment, once the evidence is reviewed, it will be clear that there was no element of forcible compulsion in this case whatsoever. any suggestion to the contrary is simply not credible. >> reporter: now, typically most cases like this would go through weeks or months of investigation. then the two sides would decide on either a plea deal or trial. but this is no ordinary case. the defendant, a high profile and powerful global figure is not going to admit to any of the embarrassing accusations. strauss-kanda pleading not guilty to the seven counts read to him this morning, including criminal sexual act in the first degree, punishable by up to 25 years in prison, and attempted rape in the first degree, a violent felony, punishable by up to 15 years in prison. strauss-kahn's next court date, scheduled for july 18th. it is one of a series of

many pretrial proceedings. no word yet on the beginning of this trial, when it's set to begin. martha. martha: stay tuned. julie, thank you very much. jalie banderas at the courthouse downtown in new york. and it is nighttime now in israel, but things are still very tense at the israel border with syria and here's the reason why. take a look: >> >> incredible scenes on the ground there. syria says that 22 propalestinian demonstrators were killed this weekend when more than 1000 people tried to storm the border with israel. at first, israeli security forces fired warning shots into the air but when the crowd began to attack the fence along the border, soldiers then fired at demonstrators. the area protestors trying to get ahold of is the golan heights. israel won that land from syria back in the 1967 mideast war.

reena ninan is live in northern israel with her reporting on this. reena. >> reporter: hi martha. it's not just the border we're watching. we're also watching inside of syria, what could be the start of a possible civil war. k tv reporting as many as 80 policemen were killed by gunmen today and that the people in the area are requesting that the army step in and the opposition forces there are saying that is not true, they do not want the army to come in and use that as an excuse to brutally attack the people. the other story we're watching as you mentioned, the border here, as propalestinian supporters march with the 1967 war, when they seized gaza, sana'a and east jerusalem, the clashes between israeli forces and propalestinian supporters, there were funerals held for those killed, israel saying 22 people are dead is inaccurate, that that's overexaggerated. most of the deaths were caused by land mines that had exploded. the violence has been a good

diversion for president assad of syria who has been having international pressure focus on the more than 100 people who were killed since friday in clashes with his own security forces. more than 1000 people have been killed since the unrest began earlier in march. martha. martha: reena, thank you very much. so we could soon see a launch of a new pipeline that would bring 700,000 barrels a day to u.s. refineries, but now we're hearing that the white house may have some plans to kill this project if it does get to the president's desk. lou dobbs joins me in a moment from now, he will weigh in on this decision that has very big impact on the united states, and of course, for consumers. take a look also at this: >> right now. >> oh my god! >> get away from me. >> i didn't do anything. you can't punch him in the face. >> martha: wow. the teach ner that video is now facing abuse charges after punching a student.

but wait until you hear the background on this, and how all of this turned out. there's more to that story, folks. and there is outrage today over plans that some say will disrespect the battlefield where so many americans lost their lives on d day. we're going to tell you what's going on.

martha: well, if you missed this yesterday we wanted to share this picture with you former first lady nancy reagan visiting her husband's grave yesterday at the ronald reagan presidential library in simi valley, california, the day marks seven years now.

hard to believe it's been that long since his passing. mrs. reagan placed flowers and gathered her thoughts in a somber moment you see pictured here. the moment marks the cen centennial of president reagan's birth. there is a new tug-of-war over a proposed pipeline that would deliver 700,000 barrels of oil to u.s. refineries every day. better yet, the oil comes from u.s. ally canada, where they are looking to expand the keystone pipeline so that it would snake from canada right down to that nice pivotal position there on the gulf coast. a move they say would pump $20 billion into the u.s. economy and create jobs along the way as well. so environmental groups are against this, because they are concerned that it will leak, about environmental concerns that might crop up with this oil pipeline. they think, these environmental groups, they may have the president on their side on this one, although we don't know for sure yet. let's get all of this

measured and figured out with lou dobbs, host of lou dobbs.com, good to see you lou. >> great to be with you martha. martha: he's got a lot on the decision plate because he's getting from environmentalists it's a bad idea, yet we are in such dire str*eves with the gas prices, everybody has to pump gas into their car. >> as you're saying, this president thinks it's a very -- faces a very important test in this decision. today is the last day for comments in the first phase in deciding the direction of this, republicans pushing hard to get this thing resolved tpwheu fall and environmental groups of all stripes are saying this pipeline cannot go forward, we need to focus on so-called clean energy, not what they call dirty energy, which is fossil fuel. this country is desperate to exploit and produce our own energy resources and those of our neighbors to the north and the south, mexico and canada. if the president decides to stop this pipeline, it's a signal for i think an absolute calamity

economically for the country. martha: he has said that he's interested in an all of the above energy approach, that they want to do cleaner ways of producing more traditional forms of energy and pursue windmills and green energy and the like, right, but there have been times when he hasn't walked the walk on that clearly, with drilling -- this would be an opportunity for him to sort of throw a bone to that group. >> yeah, and throw ago bone is precisely what it would amount to. when we're looking at a nation with the richest energy resources in all of the world, this president has done nothing to develop, to -- to exploit, develop and produce the energy resources of this country. this pipeline runs from alberta, the oil sands and the shale, that would bring all of that energy down to curbing, oklahoma, then into the gulf coast. it's critically important for this president, any president, right now, to take a leadership role and show that we're going to be energy-independent.

he he's talking about that. martha: yeah, and that's the thing that i think is a potential home run with a lot of his constituencies, when you talk about oil independence and that this oil comes from canada, and it gives us the potential to, you know, sort of plumb this relationship with an ally, doesn't that sell even with his base? >> no, it does not. and the environmental groups want him investing in windmills and solar, and they have -- they apparently believe the american people are so stupid that they don't understand these alternate energy sources are marginal at best. when meanwhile, we are sitting atop the greatest energy resources in the world. as i said. we've got to exploit them. this president, with a stroke of the pen, could get this country moving again. instead, he's choosing to be an idealogue, he talks in many different directions but a way forward, he can't seem to find when it comes to energy. martha: it has to be signed off on by the state department, i assume,

because it's a canada issue. >> right. >> to bring it in. but then the next step would be that the epa or the department of energy could appeal that decision made by the state department. the state department seems to sound like they think it's going to go through but if the epa appeals t. then it's going to wind up on the president's desk. >> the state department's initial study and report to the president and to the public is supported. it talks about job creation and the need for that energy epa is an ideological -- it's an apparatus. it could be -- the way it's being run now, it could be part of the upper area of the soviet union 40 years ago because they through regulation are carrying out doctrine and policy, and if they prevail here, i think 2012, that election, will be pivotal in the country's history. martha: it's a big stkeurbgs and if the president does go against it you can bet he's going to hear about it on the campaign trail and debates and all of that is correct so i'm sure they're watching this decision and

maybe it won't land on his desk and he'll have to make it. thank you, lou, great to get your insight on it. you can catch lou dobbs, lou dobbs tonight airs the week nights. we have stunning testimony in the casey anthony murder trial, the state's forensic expert testifying about what they discovered in the trunk of casey anthony's trial. is this testimony the smoking gun that the state needs to convict casey in the killing of her two-year-old daughter caylee? greta van u.s.ern joins us live from the courthouse moments now with new stuff on that case. that's coming up. remember this scene, tuscaloosa, alabama? two months ago a man so terrified you could hear him breathing as he was running and recording this incredible piece of tape, lives lost, homes were wiped out. we're now live on the scene with the newest story in tuscaloosa, the good news that you have not heard, next.

march it's been more than a month since a series of powerful tornadoes ripped a 6-mile path across tuscaloosa, alabama, the day was april 27th, tuscaloosa's mayor says the devastation was catastrophic. parts of that city were entirely wiped off the map. today, we go back there to see how the people of tuscaloosa are doing. steve harrigan is live there. steve, what can you tell us, what can you report from that battered town? what a tough time it's been for them. >> reporter: martha, those tornadoes unleashed 10 million cubic yards of of debris, about 60 percent of it is still on the ground here. many of the ruined house,

some 7000 of them, have markers from rescue crews. that zero on the bottom mean for dead bodies were found in that house. we can't say the same about the neighbor's. forty-three killed in tuscaloosa, 240 in alabama, but in the middle of this destruction, in these ruins, we are seeing people really giving it their all to rebuild. >> put a nail around this back side. >> when william robinson repairs his roof what he does not see are neighbors whose homes and lives are gone. >> it's hard. he lost a lot more than we did. >> 10 percent of the tiny town was killed or injured one month ago. >> 93. >> the robin sons and other survivors are decided to stay, they've gotten help from fema, trailers, and grants, volunteers across the state continue to give out food, cleaning supplies and clothing to those who have lost everything.

this little girl picks pajamas but with so many destroyed, the help does not get everywhere. >> i the think people living out in the tent certainly in 100-degree weather is sad. >> this man spent the day in the tent, afraid to leave because it may be looted. >> fem what has spent $70 million, the grants you can get if you fill out the right paperwork, anywhere from a few hundred dollars to $30,000 to help rebuild your home and business. har march what a picture. steve, thank you very much, steve harrigan in tuscaloosa. back to the economy, there is growing backlash about comments the president made about a troubling new report on friday. take a look: >> there are always going to be bumps on the road to recovery. we're going to pass through some rough terrain. martha: is that enough? that is the question. both sides of that argument,

after the break. and then, there is panic over the weekend on a soccer field. look at this video. that is the kind of bouncy house that your kids take their sneakers off and go into and it's flying off a soccer field. more than a dozen kids were injured, putting their lives in danger. look, everybody is just running towards this thing. unbelievable. we're going to talk to one of the dads who had two children in there. then there's this coming up, a high school teacher is now facing some heat for a classroom brawl that she got into with a student. see why the videotape in this case does not tell the whole story. >> stop, right now! >> oh my god! >> get away from me. >> i didn't do anything. you can't punch him in the face.

martha: this is dramatic new video, getting nationwide attention today. a teacher from florida is now under fire because she punched one of her students after he allegedly backed her against a wall, calling her obscene names. this is a cell phone video taken from inside this classroom. you look and see what you think. >> get back. right now. >> i told you step back. >> oh my god! >> get away from me. >> he didn't do anything,

you can't punch him in the face. martha: look at that. i mean, that is an unbelievable -- he was clearly backing her into the wall. she's 64 years old, she swings at the student, you can see it right there, and you hear somebody in the room say you can't hit her, the students are yelling at the teacher for fighting back. trace gallagher picks up this story for us in our west coast newsroom. trace, what can you tell us about what's going on her >> reporter: sandra hatsau has been at the school 26 years, she says the student licked one of the classroom windows and left saliva there, he refused to clean it up, she told him to go to the principal's office and shen he unleashed she says a barrage of obscenities at her and then you watch the video of this thing and she's against the door and the student who is clearly taller than the 64-year-old teacher, kind of pushes her up against the wall again. i'm going to play this again. listen and watch her throw

two punches. >> step back right now. i told you, step back. >> oh my god! >> get away from me. >> he didn't do anything, you can't punch him in the face. >> reporter: you heard the kid say oh my god he didn't do anything, you can't punch him in the face but you saw that right there, the teacher was kind of in the doorway. he's leaning up against her, she hits him once, it doesn't connect, the second one he clearly connect the, because he then snaps back. originally she was charged with child abuse charges, and now the state's attorney has skid to -- decided to drop the charges, not to file anything because he's not clear if from this videotape she was self-defending herself, and that's why the charges were not filed in this thing and sandra hatsau wants her job back. she's in the school 26 years, last year, she was voted teacher of the year by the students at the school and she has no background at all of any disciplineary

problems. she wants her job back. martha: incredible. that is -- it's incredible. you know, first of all, you can tell the classroom is out of control at that moment. i mean, all the students are up out of their desks, everybody is watching this thing play out, she's literally backed against the wall. it's hard to tell if that's the door or the blue area on the other side of the area is the door, and you know, i mean, it looks like self-defense, and it's just an -- you know, now she's lost her job and wants her job back. we don't know what the school is saying about that yet, trace. >> reporter: we don't, but we should tell you before this kid grabbed his cell phone and started the video taping that's when the obscenities were allegedly released by this kid, that's what got the kid to grab his cell phone and start videotaping, and then you saw the rest of the story. he was clearly, though, pushing her. martha: we know for sure -- he's treat her disrespectfully, he's leaning in her face and screaming at his teacher. trace, thank you very much. we'll be back to talk to trace in a while.

there's new question about the administration's reaction to a series of really bad numbers that we got on the economy last week, and they finished off with probably the worst number of all last week, which was the may unemployment number. we're now awaiting the daily white house press briefing. we're going to keep one ear to that, we'll tell you if they make any comments noteworthy that we want to bring to you, and we'll do that, but after -- after a week of bad news, it was a list, housing numbers were bad, the manufacturing numbers came in weak, consumer confidence came in weak, then this was the president's reaction to the unemployment figure, 9.1, after that came down on friday: >> there are always going to be bumps on the road to recovery. we're going to pass through some rough terrain. that even a wrangler would have a hard time with. we know that. >> all right. martha: here's the bottom line as we get into this. how is this being presented. brad blakeman, former deputy assistant to president george w. bush and dick

harpoutlian, good to have you here. brad, let me start with you. one of the president's jobs in his office is to help people sort of be optimistic about the future, right? and it could be argued that that's what he's doing, he's telling everybody to hang in there, and that things will get better. >> i think quite the contrary. it's very aloof and also dismissive. hey, things happen, the economy is bad, i know the economy is bad, but he's not telling us what he's doing to gin up the economy. mr. goolsbee just said recently that it's the private sector that needs to create jobs. surprise surprise. this is something the republicans have been advancing for years. and it's not the public spending money on public projects. it's the private sector ginning up the ingenuity and creativity of the private sector without government interference that will create jobs so hopefully they've learned from their mistakes but it remains to be seen what the plan is. but it's not acceptable to say the economy is bad, and

we have bumps in the road. he's been saying that for the last couple of years. martha: is that acceptable, dick, to you? >> i think brad's got it a little -- history is a little distorted with brad. it took the republicans eight years to get us the precipice of the worst economic situation since the great depression. >> dick, that is tpha*upb sense. -- nonsense, you know it. you guys controlled the house house and senate. >> no, no, no, no. >> prebush -- come on. >> brad, let me finish. don't be rude now, let me finish. the president has had control of this government for 27 months. bush had it for eight years. you're not -- this is like -- >> we don't control the entire government. >> wait, brad. brad? >> martha: let him finish his thought, then we're going to debate. dick, thin your thought. >> let me finish. this is like riding home with a drunk driver who wrecks the cash puts it in the deck, bends up the axle, then once you restrain him somewhere and start driving

home, the car is so damaged, it's going to take a while to get there. you give the keys back to the drunk driver? i don't think so, and i don't think the american people are going to do it next year. the economy is improving incrementally, it's going to take a while but guys, you screwed it up so bad it's going to take us a while to get us out of this mess. martha: we're almost three years into this administration, and there have been a lot of suggestions about a better way. and brad, you know, i don't know even politically if it's a good route to take that, you know, this is still george bush's fault, and you know, the other drivers who dick is talking about who are at the wheel. >> the people whose fault it is is the congress, under democratic control who spent us into oblivion and now, you know, let's harken back to the time obama was senator, running for president, he had all the answers as a candidate, sadly as president, he has none of the answers. martha: here's the problem with what both of you are saying. nobody wants to hear about the past anymore. people are at home probably

screaming at their tv set right now saying who cares? right? and they don't want to hear from this administration that it's anybody's fault in the past either, anymore, dick, they want to move forward and now you're hearing from austan tkpwa*ls bee that he believes the private sector might be the way to go after we spent almost a trillion dollars in government spending and stimulus to try to get this engine moving, now they're saying you know what, maybe when those business taxes and payroll taxes kick in and those people start feeling it, those businesses across the country, that's going to be the engine. >> i'd say two things: one, that the republican plan as proposed in their budget plan cuts dramatically in a number of different areas that do education, sort of speeding our seed corn, but more importantly, this administration is making progress. not perhaps at the rate everybody else wants, but to somehow -- what is it you're going to do, are you going to cut their taxes further? you want to eliminate regulation? you know, we have thousands,

hundreds of thousands of people that rely on the regulation for medical devices. food, i mean -- airplanes. you want the top of your airplane ripping off? what is it that government regulates? environment? martha: i just think, you know, i think that people believe that they're still -- i think people believe there's a lot of waste and i think it's -- >> what isn't? >> martha: i think the -- >> i'll tell you exactly what it is. government -- >> martha: i got to go. >> lower taxes. yes, lower taxes. eliminate capital gains. >> my god. >> eliminate the death tax, create the environment by which the individual will invest and this economy will take off. and now goolsbee is starting recognizing that and admitting that is the way to go. so do it! >> we had that. george w. bush did it and look at the results. martha: gentlemen, thank you as always, we love seeing you every monday, we'll talk to new a week, fellows, thank you very much. coming up, we're going to get to this case that is gripping the attention of this nation.

forensic experts have given new and disturbing testimony in the casey anthony murder trial. and this could be some of the most damaging testimony for this young woman so far. we're live at the courthouse, greta van u.s.ern has been watching this play out live, she has today's brand new developments. she'll be here in a moment. then we will bring you this. the french have announced some big plans for the normandy coast. just ahead, we're going to show kwru it has some american veterans' groups very upset.

martha: a fox news alert, big developments today at the casey anthony murder

trial, forensic experts have taken to the stand, and they've offered the court very grim testimony about what they found in the trunk of casey's car. listen to this: >> when you first obtained the can that we talked about with the carpet sample, you said it was sealed, correct? >> yes. >> when you first opened it, what was your reaction? >> well, i jumped back, the odor was extremely overwhelming and i was shocked that little bitty can could have that much odor to it. >> did you moody recognize the odor emanateing from the piece of carpet in the can? >> yes. >> and what did you recognize that odor to be? >> it was recognized as a human decomposition odor. >> that you've smelled many, many times before? >> 20 years' worth. martha: disturbing.

greta van u.s.ern joins me from "on the record", of course, give us your take on what you heard in there today. >> you know what, you're only going to hear this from me, this was the dumbest idea the prosecution could do was put that witness on. he is a novel expert, a smell expert, an odor expert, and why in the world did the prosecution do this. they're so overtrying the case. look, the defense does not dispute. they say it was an accident but they don't dispute the child was in the trunk, number one. number two is that the mother, syne anthony, on a recording, a 911 call, is heard saying that it smells like a dead body, so the jury already knows that it's a dead body in the trunk of the car. so what does the prosecution do? much like marsha clark did in the o.j. simpson case, they call a novel expert, something that hasn't been done before, a smell, odor expert, put him on the stand, they are hand o'clock the defense an appellate

issue should she be convicted. i wouldn't in a million years do it. prosecutors are so tempted to overtry their cases but all they do is give gifts to us defense attorneys. it's a perfect example. so very dramatic, but strategically, i wouldn't have done it if i was the prosecution. that's stupid. martha: tell me, why do you think the fact that he testified could give them some advantage on appeal? >> because every you put an expert on a witness stand, if it's a new expertise area it has to be tested if it's something to be an expert in. this person sniffs. what makes this person a great sniffer compared to the ordinary person? we've already heard from cindy the mother that she smelled it and it smelled like a dead body, the brother lee testified it was potent. they are getting so far down in the weeds and even if they don't win in the court of appeals should she be convicted why in the world do you hand over an unnecessary issue to the defense? the defense hand disputed she was in the trunk, she said gentlemen said they died by dozen and the body

was removed and the prosecution says it's murder. why did they do this but for the fact they can't resist? they're overtrying the case and giving a different to the defense. martha: that's an interesting analysis. we have a live shot, we're looking at casey anthony as the case is underway there. so you know, it sounds as if you're saying you think the prosecution should draw the straightest line possible to intentional murder, that that's what needs to be proven here. how would you recommend, how would you go about that in a straighter line way? >> i wouldn't put in all the extra stuff they don't need, and the best reference to the viewers is most of the viewers know or watched the o.j. simpson case, remember they spent weeks in the weeds on the dna, in the civil trial where they had a favorable verdict in the plaintiff they spent a day and a half. if you want to give ammunition to the tkwepbts, as a prosecutor, so everything but the kitchen sink is into the case and throw in a lot of junk, because courts of appeals look to see whether you were prosecuted fairly, whether there was extra junk that should not have been

admitted and when you put on testimony like this which is novel, this is not routine stuff, this is dr. michael baden talking about a blood test, this is talking about someone who opens a jar and sniff it is and says a h-fpl, that's a dead body! that's a problem, that's a different to -- a gift to the defense and the prosecution is on this particular -- now, does that mean they won't win, not necessarily, does that mean the defense is going to win, not necessary dle. i'm only telling you tactically and trying cases is not only a science but an art f. i was prosecutor, i would keep a tight, smooth, compelling -- and they don't need it! no one is contesting the body is in the trunk, so they junked it up with this. martha: greta, very interesting, not to mention the fact that -- >> jeanine perille disagrees with me by the way. martha: i thought it was odd he was chuckling through his testimony about this. it was all very strange. greta, thank you. gret tkwra will be there -- greta will be there throughout the course of the case and will be "on the record", on the fox news

channel. there is controversy in alabama as the state gets ready to follow arizona's lead. they're going to pass a law that cracks down on illegal immigration, now in alabama. we're going to show what you might derail that whole idea in that state. and remember this story from last week? a soldier surprised his girlfriend at a baseball game with a great wedding proposal moment. and that apparently was not enough for this couple. their latest surprise, next.

march there's outrage today over a proposed plan in france thato plant in france that would build a massive wind farm off the historic d day beaches.

war veterans are furious, saying this disrespects the battlefield where so many americans lost their lives some 67 years ago today. trace gallagher joins us live from the west coast newsroom with more on this story. >> reporter: hi martha. we're talking about dozens of wind generators and these things are massive, each one stands 525 feet high, that's about three times the size of the statue of liberty. you can see by the map here, they would all be roughly 10 miles or so off the coast, off the beaches of normandy, but the supportis say, if you look the at artist rendering, which is next, you can see that probably from the beach you'll be able to see these because they are so high. this is a r-pbdering. they won't be in use until 2015. opponents say that many of these are bad news for tourism, for fishing. some of them who stormed the beaches 67 years ago say, and i'm quoting here, these generators will change the

entire seaescape, destroying a view which evokes memories of the most astonishing invasion in military history. others, as you know, call this area sacred ground. on omaha beach alone, 2000 u.s. forces lost their lives, 67 years ago today. as far as the wind generators for france, they want them to catch up with the germans and the brits. france has none. they say all these together will provide about the same amount of power as two nuclear reactors. martha: you know, when you visit that site, it's an historic moment. you can look at that water as if you were standing there on that day and see it in exactly the same way. so that would meetly marr that historic site. trace, thank you very much. we'll talk about that story coming up a little later in the hour. there is a troubling new poll that came out, and it really paints a very disturbing picture, and it shows that many americans are angry, truly upset.

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martha: fox news alert, people are being told to get out as raging flames are tearing through parts of arizona at this

hour, and that is a brand new hour of "america live" just beginning. i'm martha maccallum. more than 300 square miles, look at these flames. completely consumed by wildfires in. whipping winds -- in arizona. bone dry conditions creating the perfect storm, unfortunately, for the flames to spread. now, thousands of firefighters from as far away as new york city are there to help. this battling inferno as folks are scrambling to get out of their homes. >> um, but again, i have to think positive, and we're all there to help whoever did lose his or her home. and i'm just hoping that it wasn't us. we're all safe. i'm here with my -- i've got my husband and my daughter, we're safe. and we were able to get our photos out, and we're family, we're safe. >> i think we just handled it from the standpoint that whatever's going to be is going to be. we have no control over it.

we hope for the best. martha: boy, that's certainly the right attitude. strong folks there. adam houseley joins us live from los angeles with more. >> reporter: two major fires, one in the south. they're starting to get a bit of a handle on. the one that's causing the most concern is the wallow fire. it's burning about 160 miles or so east of phoenix. it's an area that's very popular in the summertime, a lot of people get away from the heat, go up into the mountains, the terrain is very steep, very difficult to fight fires. a lot of small communities there. no large cities, but a lot of towns and campgrounds that really swell with tourists over this time of year. right now, as you can see, the flames are absolutely massive as they burn through a significant area there. in fact, 193,000 acres have already burned, that's the third largest fire in the state's history, and right now they're saying 0% containment. it's burning in and around the town called greer which only has

200 people during nontourist season. there are more than 2500 firefighters from several western states as far as away as new york trying to battle this fire that's burning. the worry is this, it's very dry in arizona. california has had an unnaturally wet may and june, arizona got no relief from water or rain, so everything's dry. they have a lot of wind down there, wind gunfights 30, 40, 50 miles an hour, now the threat of dry thunderstorms and possible lightning strikes. and martha, this fire, though, wasn't started by a lightning strike even though that's a threat that could happen, this fire was started by an unattended campfire. martha: thank you very much. more than 300 square miles, that fire is covering an area about the same size as the five boroughs of new york city. and we're getting incredible

images, many of them from you, fox news viewers. we appreciate those photos. keep sending them, if you can, obviously, don't put yourself in danger. if you do have video as well, please, do that. u report at foxnews.com. that helps to tell your story across the country. president obama's leading economic adviser now saying that it is the private sector, ultimately, that will save america's ailing economy. after a week of really dismal reports that we got on housing and consumer confidence and the debt, the white house now says that more government spending is not the way to get to go here. instead they're calling on the private sector to pull the country out of the ditch. stuart varney has some thoughts on all this, he's the anchor of "varney & company" on the fox business network. good morning, stuart. >> reporter: martha. martha: talk to me about the response from austan goolsbee and his comments that, you know, to accomplish this we need to

see private sector growth. >> the plain fact is that president obama is in no position to double down with a big new spending plan, big new stimulus plan. we've gone through more than $3 trillion worth of stimulus altogether, and it has not produced desired results. so they're turning the tables. they're now saying it's up to private enterprise to pull this car out of the ditch. why don't you use the $2 trillion that you've got in cash waiting on the sidelines? so the pressure is now not on government spending because you can't get any more of it, it's on private enterprise, pony up your dollars. there's a problem with that. private enterprise says, hook, we've got a whole new raft of regulations coming at us in energy, health care, finance, banking, it's all coming at us. and we've got the economy that's just stalled. we're not sure that there's real growth coming. the result, martha, is a stalemate. no doubling down with a big new stimulus program from the government, and private

intervise anxious -- enterprise anxious and unwilling to commit trillions of its own. martha: not only the regulations, but i hear business owners talking about their own rising prices, stuart. they're afraid to take new people on as employees because all of their costs keep going up and up and, you know, they're worried about the bottom line of the business and keeping everything they've got there working. >> reporter: a business before it hires new people looks into the future and says what are my costs going to be a few months down the road? we all know gas prices are at a pretty high level, food prices are rising, energy prices are rising and more importantly than anything else, perhaps, health care costs are rising. would you take on new workers if you know that your basic cost structure is going to go up just down the road, and the economy has already stalled, and you're not looking at good growth in the immediate future. the answer is you'll be reluctant to commit all that money you've got. martha: yeah.

hunker down and protect what you've got mentality, and that's what we're seeing. stuart, thank you so much. with the latest on what the white house is doing to improve the economy. we're seeing some very disturbing, really, poll numbers that have come out. doug schoen put these together, he's going to be here in a minute. but they show that americans are angry about the state of the economy. a huge number say that they are nervous now, they weren't before, but they're nervous about their retirement. some of them are talking about the fact that their relationships have been hurt in all of this as well. very serious things to look at around the united states with regard to this. just ahead we're going to talk about how all of this leads to a troubling warning from one of the country's top democrats today. so send us your thoughts. you can send me a tweet at martha maccallum as well. already getting interesting about how that's affecting your life with regard to the economy. let's talk about immigration for a moment as well. that issue is taking center stage today in alabama. the governor is reviewing an

arizona-style bill that would allow local police to do more to crack down on illegal immigrants in their state. at the same time, we're hearing new threats if alabama goes forward with this, so it's looking like a similar situation to what we've seen in arizona spreading to more states. trace gallagher has that from our west coast newsroom. once again, ladies and gentlemen, trace gallagher. >> reporter: this bill easily passed the alabama house and the senate, it's now waiting for the governor's signature. the governor, republican robert bentley, said he wanted to take the weekend to think about this. it's a holiday in alabama today so it's not going to happen now, but the governor did say back in his state of the state address he would sign the bill. it's very much like arizona's s.b. b. 1070, it allows police who pull somebody over for a different crime to question their immigration status. it would also make it illegal for illegals to apply for work

in alabama. businesses would have to use e-verify, and if businesses hire illegals knowingly twice, they can have their business licenses revoked. here's both sides of the issue. listen. >> individuals in the united states, they are not going to mexico. and the warrants here in alabama. so all this is is a power play, it's a control play, and that's form of intimidation. >> if we continue to have the illegal community think that we're a sanctuary state, they will continue to grow. right now we need jobs. >> reporter: you heard him say sanctuary, this would prevent alabama from having any sanctuary cities. the aclu has vowed they will fight the law, and the u.s. supreme court upheld last week arizona's law that goes after employers who hire illegals. the other part, the controversial part that police can check immigration status,

that clearly is about to go before the supreme court. it's unclear right now how the obama administration plans to approach this alabama law if governor signs it, martha, which we expect him to do. martha: trace, thank you very much. so just to put this issue in context for you, according to the national conference of state legislatures, in the first quarter of this year alone state lawmakers in 41 states have brought forward 260 law enforcement-related immigration bills. that is a lot of legislation out there that is seeking to address this issue at the state level. so many of those bills address the determination of lawful status during a traffic stop or arrest. they give federal responsibilities to state and local law enforcement agencies on that. very interesting. it's cooking, really, all across the country on that front. and critics say that she botched a bit of american history. but did sarah palin really get

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martha: well, a massive volcano in southern chile is putting on an awesome display. a column of hot ash was sent six miles into the atmosphere. look at these lightning displays. that is really interesting. no reports of injuries, thankfully, but the eruption forced more than 3500 people from their homes and disrupted flights as far away as argentina. >> you realize that you messed up about paul revere, don't you? >> you know what? i didn't mess up about paul revere. here's what paul revere did. he warned the americans that the british were coming, the british were coming, and they were going to try to take our arms, so we've got to make sure we were protecting ourselves and shoring up all of our ammunitions and our firearms so they couldn't take them. martha: that was chris wallace

on fox news sunday, last week she described revere's ride as this. she said, quote, he who warned the british that they weren't going to be taking away our arms by ringing those bells and making sure he's riding through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free. so that has been the back and forth on that. a bunch of historians have weighed in and said that they actually agree with her account. lots of folks say she got it wrong, he didn't warn the british, but those historians have, in some ways, backed sarah palin's version of the whole thing. all in all, it shows no matter what she does or says she gets a whole lot of attention, and it raises questions about her intentions for 2012. let's bring in fox news contributor michelle malkin who joins me now. it's amazing, something like two million hits on youtube of people who checked this out, wanted to see what she said, you know, and what was revealed by these historians is that when he was captured, he told the

british, he said, look, there's hundreds of people coming to protect those stashes of ammunition, and that bears out that part of the story. so what say you, michelle? >> well, i think i defer to all of those boston-area colonial historians who seem to conclude that she was more right than wrong. and, of course, you're not going to get any retractions or apologies from all of the anti-palin snackers who were playing a gotcha game. she's absolutely right about that, and what i love about sarah palin, i called her a supernova last week when she launched this bus tour, she knows how to push the media's buttons. and it's a long way, we've come a long way, baby, from decades ago when it was the boys on the bus, the beltway establishment journalists who would decide who the front runner was in a presidential season. who would be the ones who paved the road to the white house. she does her own thing, and that's what shakes up the establishment when you're on the left or the right.

and i think that this particular episode is just one more example of a lot of intellectual sanctimony of people who are trying to paint a false narrative, that she is stupid, that she's dumb, that she's ignorant of american history when, in fact, it's a lot of these attackers who themselves have been shown to be quite ignorant. for example, several months ago, it was last fall when she told tea party activists that they better be careful about not partying like it's 1773. and then you have the likes of pbs commentators and other liberal scribes snickering that she had gotten the date wrong when, in fact, the boston tea party happened, when? 1773. it's also, i think, a good expose of the double standards because you never hear this huge human cry every time there's a gaffe from president obama or joe biden, for that matter. martha: why do you think that is? chris wallace interviewed her

yesterday, they went back and forth on a number of issues from afghanistan to what needs to be done with the economy, and he said, you know, he'd never seen her better than in that interview, in his opinion, yesterday. is any of that changing in terms of how she's swepted? -- interpreted? she says, i don't care about the mainstream media, i'm just going to do my thing, as you say. >> i think the immediacy and the strength with which palin and her supporters are able to respond and not back these narratives. i watched the undefeated palin documentary over the weekend that steven k. bannon put together, and i think it showed the fierceness with which the liberal media is now engaged, i think, has changed the calculation for a lot of grassroots conservatives and conservative leaders, and palin is at the vanguard of this. and they're able to question these double standards. i mean, you look at someone like barack obama who's asserted that we have 57 states, who thinks europe is a country, who claimed that his father served in world

war ii when he was 10 years old, who thinks that afghanistan primarily speaks arabic instead of pashtun and farsi. it goes on and on and on, and yet you never see the editorial pages of "the new york times" or "the washington post" or all of these smug pundits on the other cable tv stations going on and on about how stupid and moronic the obama administration is and how they spend every day rewriting history. martha: yeah. your comparisons are very interesting. you know, what do you think about her? do you think that she is getting -- chris wallace was trying to get out of her whether or not her reaction that she got on this bus tour, which was tremendous, she, you know, blew mitt romney off the front page of the new hampshire newspapers, do you think it changes her mind about what she's going to do? >> well, i don't know what's in her mind right now, but i do know this, that this is her election and her race to choose. and if she gets in it, she's in it to win it, obviously. i know that's cliche. but i think the response of the

liberal elite, i think the response of the liberal media who have been trailing her on this bus tour, desperate to grab onto her and to milk her for all she is worth. i mean, that's the thing, at the same time they attack her, they benefit greatly from the phenomenon that she is. and like i say, when you combine the mama grizzly movement and the tea party movement, there is nothing like her. and i think that's what scares so many -- martha: that's why she gets so much attention. >> can yeah, absolutely. martha: you know, looking at your web site, michelle, you cover all of these issues every day, but there's also a box on there that talks about your cousin who's now been missing for three months, right? talk to us a little bit about your search for her. >> thanks, martha. i'm so glad that your show and megyn kelly in particular have, also, been very helpful in spreading the word. my cousin is now 19 years old, she went missing on march 5th of

this year in the university district of seattle. she's a university of washington freshman, and we have not had any communication at all from her. there are no leads in the police investigation. i have been very open about the frustration that our families has felt in trying to get information about her. we've set up our own family web site, find marizela.com. we also have a private tipline for anyone in the pacific northwest or anywhere else for that matter who might have any indication of where she might be. and it's just 1-855-marizel. martha, i can tell you that my heart goes out to every family who's had to deal with something like this. i've been blessed to have a platform to spread word about her, but there are hundreds of people that go missing every day that don't have this kind of platform. i think there has to be a lot of policy changes in terms of coordination between local, state and federal authorities when it comes, in particular, to

young missing adults in this country. martha: well, our thoughts are with you and your family, and we're happy that we could get that phone number out there. and you're so right, there are too many other families who are in your situation, so our prayers are with her, and we hope everybody saw that. we just put the phone number and all the information up on our screen. michelle, thank you very much. always good to see you. >> thanks, martha. martha: who can forget those angry town hall meetings two summers ago during the health care debates? remember these moments? >> let us ask a question! >> can we ask a question, please? martha: it turns out these folks are just the tip of the iceberg. the brand new numbers that show americans are sick and tired, and they're not going to take it anymore. unbelievable data coming up on that. send us a tweet at martha maccallum. we'll be right back.

martha: all right, fox news alert now, u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton talked about the political crisis in yemen a short while ago saying that an immediate political transition is in yemen's best interests right now. she declined comment on whether president saleh should return from saudi arabia where he's receiving medical treatment. all of this comes as a newaway of deadly -- new wave of deadly violence has erupted there on the streets today. we know the biggest development over the weekend was that the president of yemen left the country to get medical treatment after his palace was attacked late last week. a rocket attack on his compound. but now there are new concerns that if he stays away or there's not a transitional government, al-qaeda could be waiting in the wings to take control in yemen. greg talcott's following all of this for us live in our london

bureau. hi, greg. >> reporter: hey, martha. yeah, definitely a mixed scene coming out of yemen today. there were reports of more clashes, but also some jubilant dancing in the streets because, technically at least, the yemeni president is out of the country, and that's what the folks have wanted for a long time. he was flown this weekend to riyadh, saudi arabia, to treat injuries ip curred on that -- incurred on that friday attack in the presidential palace by the opposition. in his place is his vice president technically running things, and the opposition quickly endorsed him. they see him maybe as some kind of transitional figure, but there are a few hitches. first of all, saleh says he hasn't stepped down, and his aides are saying he might come back from saudi arabia in a couple of days. even if he doesn't return, my own sources, martha, are divided on whether he will come back or not. he's planted his brother, his so sons, his yous, and they

could -- nephews, and they could still cause problems. it's only united on the hatred of saleh. you've got military figures, student leaders, tribal leaders, they all have their own agendas, and there's one other organization in yemen that has a distinct agenda, and that's al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula. they are dangerous, they're dangerous to the united states, and they are profiting from this confusion and political vacuum. back to you, martha. martha: greg, thank you so much. greg talcott. and there is shocking video of yet another bounce house. this never used to happen with these things. this is the fifth or sixth time we've seen in this summer. thirteen children were inside this time, though, we're going to talk to the dad of two of those little children moments away. that's coming up. and how about this sort of sentiment that's out there of americans being fed up? we have dramatic new poll numbers that were done by doug schoen about how angry people are feeling coast to coast and how it's affecting their relationships and their sleep

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of e. coli, sprouts from an organic farm are not the cause, so they're starting over. and the murder trial of a convicted sex offender getting underway in clearland. anthony sowell is charged with killing women and hiding the bodies in his backyard. and a huge advance that could revolutionize the way doctors treat skin cancer. it involves targeted drug therapy based on the patient's own genetic information, and it is showing very promising results. so put on your sunscreen and read that good news. we'll talk about that later as well. so from pram to to -- president obama to the economy to the weather. new polls show that americans are angry about so many things right now. it's not a good situation. 81% say that they believe that the economy is not delivering the jobs that we need,81%.

we're going to look deeper with doug schoen, he did all of this polling. also joined by rich lowry, editor of the national review and a fox news contributor and fox business correspondent cheryl casone. what a good group i have here. such great, smart people. so, you know, doug, this caught my eye as soon as i saw this. it's unnerving, and let's just run through a little bit of this so people get the fact that this is a whole picture that you're painting here. impact of personal economic situation, are you nervous about that? because of your personal economic situation, are you nervous about retirement? 70%. >> right. martha: say they're nervous, doug. >> used to be that people felt retirement was guaranteed because of public or private pensions. that's not the case anymore. close to three-quarters are really unnerved by the current economic climate. martha: let's take a look at the other ones, and i want to get everyone's reaction. impact on marriage, has your

marriage been affected by your economic situation, 57% say, yes, their marriage has been affected by what's going on in the economy. and let's keep going here, have you lost sleep because of your anger about the economic situation? 56% say they have lost sleep. when you saw these numbers, were you surprised? >> i was. i expected there would be some degree of uncertainty dislocation. but this level of arguable familial and personal instability took me aback, so i was very surprised. martha: are you surprised, rich? >> no. with all respect to doug, i don't think you need to be doug schoen to analyze these numbers. we tend to look at these economic numbers as dry statistical matters, but every uptick in the unemployment rate is a human tragedy. it's not just an economic problem, it's a psychological problem, it's a family problem, it's a spiritual problem. and at the same time you have the economy weak, everyone thinks our major established institutions with the possible exception of the military have

failed us in some way. so this is a very guessing time to be in america. martha: it is. and, you know, cheryl, the economy is a science, but it's also a human science in terms of people's confidence and how they feel about the future. all of those things impact where we go. >> well, no wonder that three-quarters of america say that we're on the wrong track as a nation. think about it, your house is worth half of what it used to be, and everything that we're paying for has actually risen substantially over the last eight years. if you look at the cost of chicken, for example, that's up more than 50 president, coffee -- 50%, ground beef, an american staple in our diets up 42%. so it's not that we feel bad about it, we're actually paying for it. no wonder folks are so stressed out and angry. martha: and it raises a lot of concerns just about the fabric of our culture and who we are when you have people who are feeling so unnerved and so unsure about the future of, you know, their marriage and whether or not they're going to be able to retire and all of these things that really create the american dream. and jim carville, actually, was

reported as saying today he thinks that these numbers make 2012 more challenging for re-election. he also said, you know, he said i don't like to say this, but civil unrest could be imminently possible. that's a frightening -- >> it's amazing that people are even talking about that kind of possibility. and it's an extremely volatile time. i think neither political party has truly grappled with this situation. president obama we've heard for years he's going to pivot to jobs, pivot to jobs. his big initiative of his presidency had nothing to do with jobs, it was health care. and you have republicans obsessing with the debt, which is a big problem, but it's not as important as jobs are right now. >> unaccustomed as i am to agree with rich, i have to say he has this exactly right. neither party has an agenda to address the economy, jobs or balancing the budget. the american people are deeply upset. they looked at the prices that cheryl cites, and they say, how do i make a go of it? the american dream is gone, and

what carville talks about is not that farfetched. martha: i think about pivotal times in the nation's history, abraham lincoln, presidential length and how important it has been in these kinds of moments, and, you know, i wonder what 2012 will say about americans' assessment about whether or not the president is doing enough in that regard. rich? >> well, you know, that will be the big question of this election. martha: yeah. >> i don't think foreign policy, i don't think the debt, i think it's all the economy. and the debt's a subset of that, but it's all the health of the economy. and if you have an economy like this where people are worried about their jobs, they're out of work, where the value of their homes are down, where their incomes have been stagnant, and this is not just an obama problem, it's stretched back into the bush years -- martha: absolutely. >> all of that is a huge weight on his reapplication. >> you mentioned jobs and i am the business person on this panel. unemployment, most economists are telling us, will stay at

about 9% into 2012. that is an election year, as you all know, and this is what this president has to deal with. how he handles that. we had all that stimulus spending that was supposed to create jobs across the country, it didn't. government jobs were created, now we're seeing as the data comes in every those government jobs disappearing because the stimulus spending is ending. so it's got to be the private sector. martha: right. and austan goolsbee was saying that, he believes the next move is from the private sector. it just raises so many questions, doug, about how they're assessing this whole situation at the white house and what, you know, what their next move is going to be. >> you know, i've been in the room with president clinton, and when you get this kind of bad news, you really, frankly, panic. it was clear they don't have a message, they don't have a strategy, they don't know to be optimistic or pessimistic. they really only have one secret weapon. that's the republicans who, as you correctly point out, have no objection. martha: well, you can go the jimmy carter route or do what

they're trying to do which is president obama comes out and says, you know what? you're going to hit bumps in the road. this was a bump in the road. do you blame him, rich, for trying to be as positive as he can? >> it's a natural reflex for a president to be positive in these circumstances. the problem with the analogy like we hit a bump in the road, it seems to minimize what for people who are out of work or scared of losing their jobs is an enormous problem that. martha: it smacks of being out of touch. >> what's lacking is a clear agenda to fix the problem. what are you going to do for me to address my problems? so far i don't think the white house has a compelling answer. >> well, doug, he keeps talking out of both sides of his mouth. one side the private sector has to do the hiring, but then they attack the private sector whether through taxes or regulation. you can't have it both ways -- >> i think that's exactly right. >> business owners are saying i'm just not going to hire until you change the way that you approach the business executives. >> there's a big advantage obama

has right now is people have not quit on him yet. they still like him. if you see these sort of numbers continue, they will quit on him, and it'll be like a jimmy carter experience. martha: cheryl, rich and doug, thanks -- >> thanks for being the bearer of bad news. [laughter] martha: throw up your windows and yell, i'm mad as hell, folks. all right, coming up, a horrifying scene on new york's long island. what caused this bounce house that's supposed to be a fun day at a soccer field -- it's unbelievable, it's hard to believe that more people were not injured in the this. but there were 12 kids in there. we're going to talk to the parent of two of those children who watched this happen, and he'll tell us how this played out and what the kids said about how they managed. also coming up, today marks a very solemn and important moment in our country's history, the 67th anniversary, today, of d day. ahead we will give you a unique opportunity to hear from one of the heros of that fateful day.

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of two of this children who were involved in this accident. richard, welcome. thank you for calling in. >> thank you. martha: tell us, you know, what happened, and what your children said they experienced. >> well, my two older girls, ages 5 and 7, waited on line for a while to get into this two-tiered bouncing room. there was no wind, and all of a sudden i feel a strong wind coming, and it just keeps coming and keeps getting stronger, and we looked over, and the larger part of the structure, the inflated structures which was a slide started un, you know, coming undone, unstabilizing. and fortunately, all of the kids who were pulled off it just before it went airborne. and i can't so much judge heights, but it went minimum 50, likely 100 feet in the air, and i'm waiting for kids to fall off of it, i swear the god. and then i looked in the bounce

house that my girls are in starts unstabilizing and bouncing around and sliding, and that happened to break free from the air pump. and the thing comes at me, and i think i can grab on onto it, ant just flattens me. i had a 3-year-old that i had moved out of the way just before that, but it was a great, great team effort. the soccer coaches, the parents, they all did all that they could to stabilize these things. but truly, you were helpless, helpless to the wind, you know, but, of course, my girls were extremely upset, but one of the first things they said was why did they let the air out of it? and my other girl said that was real bouncy. because they were just in there bouncing around. [laughter] it was when the air got let out, you know, when the rest of the plastic came on top of them and so on. they were pulled out, it was an amazing group effort long before, you know, i mean, police and emfs got there quickly,

but the families, the coaches all did a sensational job. martha: richard, they thought it was part of the ride? were any of the kids -- [laughter] you know, that's, in many ways, i guess, a typical child reaction. >> right. martha: you know, sometimes those things can be terrifying when kids start jumping around and kicking each other in the head. >> yes. that's why our 3-year-old wasn't in it. martha: you think that first piece went 100 feet into the air? >> it had to be 100. i thought they were going to find it two towns away with bodies in the it. and, of course, that's what we thought was going to happen to the bouncy one. i was trying to grab it, but i was not match for it. martha: are you ever going to let your kids go on one of those again? >> no, not outside. martha: my kids were just in one a couple weeks ago, but i've done too many of these stories. richard, thank you.

we're glad your kids are okay, and there's a woman in the hospital in serious condition, we hope she makes out okay in this too. >> absolutely. it's like an act of god that saved us all. thank you. martha: thank you, richard. thanks for sharing your story with us. all right, well, today marks a very important anniversary. it is the 67th anniversary today of dday, the invasion of the beaches on normandy, france. an american hero who was there that day talks to us from the beaches of normandy next. >> the boys. [applause] >> these are the men who took the cliffs. these are the champions who helped free a continent, and these are the heros who helped end a war. there are

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>> you were young the day you took these cliffs, some of you were hardly more than boys with the deepest joys of life before you. yet you risked everything here. why? why did you do it? what impelled you to put aside the instinct for self-preservation and risk your lives to take these cliffs? what inspired all the men of the armies that met here? we look at you and somehow we know the answer. it was faith and belief. it was loyalty and love. martha: a wonderful speech. their actions truly did change the course of american history and world history. 67 years ago today american and allied forces stormed the beaches of normandy, france.

today more than 40 world war ii veterans are reuniting, gathering on the french coast, to rededicate a monument honoring the d-day invasion. captain malvin walker landed during the second wave on omaha beach. he was a platoon leader of company l, and he joins us now live on the phone. captain, welcome. thank you so much for speaking with us today. >> thank you. and i want to, first, say i'm a regular on fox news. tell bill, sean and greta hello for me. martha: we certainly will, and we thank you so much for your support. and i know you've made the trip back many times, but, you know, what strikes you still, and, you know, tell us what it was like for you, first of all, when you landed there in the second wave on omaha beach. how old were you, and what do you remember? >> well, i was 23 years old on d-day, and of course, the second wave landed about 9:30.

the water was red, the sand was red, and the tide was coming in. and it was total confusion on the beach. if it weren't for small groups taking initiative, i don't think it would have succeeded. martha: you know, when you look back, we're looking at pictures now of that day, june 6, 1944, and you listen to the words of president reagan when he celebrated the 40th anniversary there at normandy beach, you know, he asked that question, why, you know, where did you find the bravery? where did you find the courage as such a young man to take on such an enormous and courageous task with all of these other men? >> well, of course, anyone who says they weren't scared is lying because it was, it was a tremendous situation.

the germans, of course, had all of the beaches zeroed in, and they could fire wherever they wanted because they knew exactly how to set their guns. and they were very accurate with the machine guns, the 88s and rockets. and, of course, there were about six million land mines on the entire coast. martha: right. >> which was also a disaster. martha: well, you were -- >> and as the tide came in, of course, the wounded drowned and so forth drew about a four-yard band of bodies and body parts in every direction we could look. it was very horrible situation. martha: well, sir, we thank you

so much for your service to this country. i know those memories are very difficult, and we're a grateful nation to you and all of the young men who fought that fight on the beaches of normandy. we thank you very much, captain walker, for joining us today. that is it for "america live." i'm martha maccallum. studio b gets started right now with shepard smith.

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