martha: 24 hours can change a lot of things. jon:. bill: catch you on the radio with brian. martha: we're coming up on the radio. we'll see you back here tomorrow. "happening now" starts right now. jenna: we start off with brand new developments in the cruise ship disaster. we're glad you're with us everybody, i'm jenna lee. jon: i'm jon scott. we'll go live to the tuscan coast of italy. the search for more victims is on hold there after the ship shifted on the rocks in very rough seas. that is sparking concern for safety of the divers the death toll officially stands at 11 now with more than two dozen people still listed as missing. >> still remarkable seeing that image even though we've seen it day after day. still unaccounted for, a couple from minnesota. jerry and barbara hile's families are waiting for word from the u.s. embassy and italian authorities amid growing outrage over the actions of the ship's

captain. prosecutors he abandoned the ship after the disaster struck. jon: the "new york post", owned by the parent company of this network today, calling him quote, chicken of the sea. now new reports that the captain claims he landed in a lifeboat before a lot of his passengers did because he simply fell into it as the ship started listing. greg burke is live. what is the latest there? >> reporter: well, jon, we're seeing some of the families of those unaccounted for are making their way to italy on a very sad trip. some are hoping for a miracle. most just hoping they can recover the bodies and also all eyes on that ship, earlier today. we took a little closer look. it's a beautiful day here in giglio, despite relatively calm seas the ship continues to ship ever so slightly. the cost stat concordia is perched on a ledge.

if it keeps doing that it could be dangerous for anybody inside. the search is temporarily suspended. salvage teams are getting ready to go into the ship. their first stip is to get the fuel off. that is dangerous situation if the ship is moving clearly. it is a long process, something that could take weeks. jon: greg, this captain, the guy the post is calling chicken of the sea, what's happening with him? >> reporter: well, jon the latest here he is under house arrest. francesco schettino as you've seen in the u.s. and italy is a name of shame. the italians are quite embarrassed about this as a matter of fact. we've spoken with some of them. he has been put under house arrest. there was a mob scene as he did go home this morning. his wife defended him, you have to understand the drama he has been through. what most people know are what the recordings say. i was speaking with one woman here in giglio. her house looks over the ship right now, asking her what would you say to him? first i would spit in his

face. told me a number of things i don't think i can say on family television, jon. jon: wow! greg burke reporting live from the italian coast where that vessel lies stricken. greg, thank you. jenna: this fox news alert. homegrown terror a huge concern in this country. now for the very first time the obama administration is providing law enforcement with information on common signs to identify violent extremists. i hesitate to use the word profiling. that will come up and we'll talk more about the story. catherine herridge is just getting information on this. she will join us coming up. we'll move to politics now. the final sprint to saturday's south carolina primary is in high gear and the candidates are going after the very popular undecided voters. in the meantime super pacs, the outside groups supporting the candidates are spending big in the palmetto state dominating the airwaves with they have ads. what one of the questions we're asking how are all the ads playing with voters? senior national correspondent john roberts

live in south carolina live with all of this. jon? >> reporter: they are the ads everybody loves to hate. going all the way back to the daisy ad johnson ran against goldwater in 1964 they are darn effective. they are all over the place here in south carolina. hear is the latest one that has been released. from newt gingrich's pac, winning our future. it features animated mock debate between president obama and mitt romney, with obama saying i agree with everything he says. i have adopted a lot of policies. $7 million and counting here in the palmetto state for the amount of monies and ads put up on airwaves. advertisers love it. what do voters think? we dropped by a coffee shop to talk to a few people. here is what elizabeth, an undecided voter told me about negative ads. >> it is a necessary technique. it is necessary evil like anything else. you can't say you will stop using any negativity in your campaign. that is not human nature.

you will not sell anything that way. you will not get your point across. people do want to know the good and the bad. >> reporter: do the ads actually change people's minds about a candidate? yes and no. people perhaps who don't do all the research they need to find out about a candidate may be plyable to some degree by the ads but ads that backfire. take the ron paul ad, hits rick santorum being in the same camp as al gore in the 1990s in the 2000 election campaign. this was put up by ron paul's campaign. i talked to sue thinking about going to war with ron paul leading her way, what did she tell me, she thought after witnessing the ad, listen to her. >> i was really surprised at ron paul saying, putting that add up because i thought he was better than that. so my decision was waffling again. i'm still not sure which one i should trust. >> reporter: so, jenna, she

thought she maybe made up her mind but now back in the undecided column again. the bottom line of all these advertisements, love them or hate them, they do have a very big effect. we'll continue to see them here in the next three days. jenna: we'll be watching for them, john, thank you so much. jon: well the former speaker of the house, newt gingrich, is sharpening his attacks against his republican rivals telling a group of conservative voters in florence, south carolina, they should rally behind his candidacy and a vote for rick santorum or rick perry is effectively a vote for mitt romney. meanwhile former alaska governor sarah palin giving newt some support last night on "hannity". take a listen. >> if i had to vote in south carol in order to keep this thing going i would vote for newt and i would want this to continue, more debates, more vetting of candidates because we know that the mistake made in our country four years ago was having a candidate that was not vetted to the degree that he should have been so that we know what his songses and --

associations and his pals represented and what went into his thinking. jon: well as you can imagine the former speaker responding in quite a positive way to palin's remarks, telling "politico", quote, we are thrilled. i talked to todd. we are just thrilled. it is a signal to every conservative the one conservative vote effect i have to newt gingrich and that is helpful. senior writer for "the weekly standard", steven hayes. he is a fox news contributor. her husband todd endorsed newt gingrich a while ago. were you surprised she said it that way on "hannity"? >> no. once todd endorsed there was something that sarah palin would do something to support newt gingrich. it was a qualified endorsement as you suggest, jon. i want to keep this going. i think we shouldn't settle on somebody right now. the longer it goes the better for the republican party. it was not the full, whole-hearted endorsement the gingrich team wanted.

where she said newt gingrich. it is a good sign for newt gingrich. jon: newt gingrich the candidate, conservative candidates if you want to call them that, rick perry, rick santorum should get out of the race. here is what he said. here is how he put it. >> people have to decide. if you vote for senator santorum, in effect you're functionally voting for governor romney to be nominee because he is not going to beat him. the only way you can stop governor romney for all practical purposes is to vote for newt gingrich. that is just a fact. it is a mathematical fact now. jon: that is what newt gingrich says. i want you to hear rick san francisco's response this morning on "fox & friends.". >> let's look at the record in this campaign. i'm 2-0. i beat newt gingrich not only in iowa by a lot, i doubled his vote total. i beat him in new hampshire where he had the union leader endorsement and spent millions of dollars. the proof is in the pudding. we've been very successful so far in the campaign putting together a message with a lot less money and

lot more discipline. jon: what about it, stephen? what about the advice from newt gingrich to the other two to get out of the race? >> i just don't understand why newt gingrich would say something like that. this is guy who had such a fantastic night in the debate on monday night. he clearly won the debate. he made consistent, conservative arguments that got the crowd at one point to stand up and give him a standing ovation. this was newt gingrich that people had wanted to see all along. then he comes out the next day and says something that just doesn't make sense. to call for rick santorum to get out of the race or to drop out is silly after santorum, as santorum pointed out on "fox and friends" has done better than newt gingrich in the first two contests. it is kind of vacillation you've seen from the good newt to the bad newt that gives people pause when they get to the point where they're right about to say, okay i will cast my vote for newt gingrich. jon: well, he has been on a roll in the polls in south carolina or so it would seem? >> he has. there is better way to make the argument. there is no question newt gingrich is doing well in

south carolina and may be poised to make a little bit of a surge here. you've seen in the past 24, 48 hours mitt romney's team refocus on way that suggests newt gingrich is gaining steam. they had a conference call on him this morning. they put out an ad this morning. put out a new web ad. all this focus, they're flying sununu down to south carolina to challenge newt gingrich, somebody critical of newt gingrich in the past. all this focus on newt gingrich certainly suggests they're seeing something maybe in their daily tracking polls that he is doing well. newt gingrich is in fact having sort of a resurge ant moment. to say that rick santorum and others should get out of the race or others should ignore their candidacies i thinks probably will strike voters as arrogant, something not helpful to gingrich's ultimate cause. jon: that ad you were talking about features former congresswoman susan molinari who served under the house under his speakership. she said he was undisciplined. that was the whole focus of the ad.

the romney campaign is worried maybe not just in south carolina but maybe long term about newt gingrich. >> i think they're primarily worried about south carolina. gingrich said several times that south carolina be all, end all for his campaign. he revised that a little bit yesterday afternoon but he made very clear he wants to win south carolina. when i was with him in south carolina, this gross back to mid-november, he was saying back then south carolina is where i am making my stand. i think it's a state most friendly to the kind of message that he has been giving voters. i think likely romney's team really wants to make sure he doesn't catch fire in south carolina. that he doesn't rise. there is 10 point gap in "real clear politics" average that he doesn't rise and surprise in south carolina. i think team romney believes strongly for good reason they have a firewall in florida. they have done incredible work on the ground in florida with absentee ballot program that will get them the kind of votes that they need going into the primary on january 31st, that i think makes them confident they will do well in

florida. i think they're primarily focused on south carolina and stopping newt gingrich there. jon: it is going to be a fascinating weekend. >> it will be. jon: stephen hayes, thanks for sharing your insights. we are your election headquarters. keep it on fox news. our special coverage of the south carolina primary, begins saturday, 6:00 p.m. eastern, goes deep into the night. jenna: that's for sure. this is another big issue going into the primary by the way. mitt romney getting hammered by his rivals over his taxes. they're jumping on, we know how much he pays on capital gains on his investments. what does this all mean? is it fair? what are the critics missing in talk about taxes? we have steve moore from "the wall street journal" coming up next. jon: we'll get into that. the battle over illegal immigration reaches the highest court in the land as the u.s. supreme court take up couple of deportation cases. both involve suspects came here as teens. how their parents time in the u.s. could play a roll in the court's decision. we're live with that story. jenna: jon, it is being

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or whether earned annual income. jenna: steve moore is senior economics writer of "wall street journal" has a piece online about this whole conversation, steve. 15% that is low low rate. if you look at the headline it can be misleading. why is that? >> yeah, jenna, great to be with you. think about where mitt romney gets his income from. this is important fiscal lesson for people to understand about our tax system. mitt romney is an owner in major businesses, most of which are corporations, jenna. and as you know, we have something called a corporate income tax. so that's 35% tax rate is taken right off the top of any profit that is a company makes. now if you're somebody like mitt romney or just an average investor, when you pay that 15% capital gains or dividend tax, jenna, that is after the company has already paid a 35% rate. so when i look at those effective rates that investors large and small are paying it is not 15%, jenna. that is a distortion. it is closer to 40 to 45%

when you take into account the corporate tax rate. this will be a big issue. you're exactly right. barack obama's press secretary already has seized on these numbers to say see he is not paying his fair share of taxes of the i don't think mitt romney have to apologize for being successful businessman. after all, when before in this country's history have you had to apologize for being a success? also i think it makes the case, jenna, for why we should maybe do what newt gingrich and herman cain and others have been talking about for months, which is maybe we should have a flat tax. jenna: interesting to hear the point. mention the president's press secretary. not just the president's press secretary, warren buffett out in "time" magazine cover story. he has this to say about this same tax rate, this 15% tax rate. "time" magazine writes this. buffett doesn't want to hovel capitalism, he wants to give it a heart. he says the way to do that is change our tax policy to insure that people who earn

their money from investments rather than by working for a paycheck, contribute their fair share. >> right. this is exactly the point i was just making. i wrote about warren buffett's taxes. you know when he said, jenna he pay as lower tax rate than his secretary or that, and his plumber, that simply isn't true because warren buffett is like mitt romney. he owns companies. companies pays taxes. jenna, why don't we get rid of corporate income tax together, pass taxes on individual, have them pay a rate of 20%? what i believe is most economically efficient and that is, fairest for everybody is to have a flat rate tax with no deductions, no carveouts for rich people. 15 to 20%. that way everybody pays the same rate. jenna if you're 10 times richer than i am, you pay 10 times more tax. that is something the american people would find simple, very fair and very pro-growth. jenna: some suggested that is where the conversation

needs to go to tax reform. obviously a big conversation, hopefully i earn 10 times than what you earn, steve. >> i'm so upset the idea that the rich are the problem in this country. everybody, we are an aspirational society, jenna. american people don't hate rich people. they want to get rich. that is what make this is country great. jenna: interesting to say we're really concentrate on the message and what is behind some of these critiques and also what the response is. we'll watching for. >> get the numbers straight. get the numbers straight. these numbers are very distortion shunned. new study rich people effective tax rate is twice as high as the middle class. jenna: we'll take a closer look at this through the the weeks and months. thanks a lot. >> see you later, jenna, here is what they have plenty of right now in seattle, snow. and that's pretty unusual for that city. if you live in minnesota, north dakota, places in the upper midwest this might not seem like a big deal, maybe

four or five inches on the snow on the ground so far but it is paralyzing seattle. we'll have an update on how this city is getting by. russia throws down the gauntlet. issuing a stern warning to the u.s. to not launch a military attack against iran and back down on tough sanctions. what it means to the growing tension in the middle east and balance of power. that is next. crisis on cape cod. why dozens of dolphins are stranded and a massive humanitarian effort to save their lives. that is just ahead.

jon: fox news alert. and it has been a controversial, well, a controversial issue for the administration. a new government report just out suggests that the decision on the keystone pipeline will be no.

the energy department is saying presumably, because 60 days is inadequate time to do required environmental impact statements the decision from the energy department is that the keystone oil pipeline that would take oil from canada down to, into the u.s. and i think all the way to the gulf coast ultimately, that is going to be a no. that's the decision according to industry sources from the energy department. we are efforting confirmation of this from the obama administration. also this. a new government report just out dealing, detailing the common warning signs that someone might be a terrorist. for the first time ever the obama administration is it providing top law enforcement officials with unclassified information on what it says is a growing threat. with us now, chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge. so what's in this report and who is seeing it, catherine?

>> reporter: thank you very much, jon, good morning. the obama administration is providing senior law enforcement from federal, state and local groups with this unclassified analysis of homegrown terrorism events and the common signs to identify violent extremists. now analysts from the fbi, homeland security and national counterterrorism center which is the nation's center for threat assessment reviewed 62 cases and here's what they found. individuals likely to commit violent acts often speak out against the government. they blame the government for their perceived problems. their actions are often so unusual or extreme that they catch the attention of others in the community and most significantly, the individuals become active on the internet to showcase their extremist views and to also connect with like-minded individuals. >> we are not immune to homegrown threats. we know that we have a lot to learn from our international partners on the issue of countering violent extremism. so, we have been engaged

internationally with a number of countries in exchanging best practices and really trying to explore what is meant by violent extremism in terms of what kinds of indicators, tactics and techniques we need to be watchful for. >> reporter: what analysts found is that a person's ethnic background and their economic status are not really good indicators whether they will engage in tear. in many cases and especially last couple years targeting the military. these individuals are college educated and they are not from poor families jon. jon: catherine herridge in washington for us. thank you. >> reporter: you're welcome. jenna: now this. the associated press is reporting that an iranian lawmaker says our president sent the regime a letter calling for direct talks. the letter, reportedly also warning tehran against closing the strait of hormuz. it comes of course with all this increasing tensions in the region and worries about the possibility of war. jim walsh is an international security expert with mit security

program. jim, we have to be careful with a report like this and consider the source and the motivation this iranian law make per you -- lawmaker. but you talk with a lot of folks in d.c.. do you think an attempt for a sit-down conversation is on the table? >> i wouldn't be surprised if this letter was sent. jenna, you're right to be cautious about the sourcing but it makes sense to me. if it is true it is not the first time this administration, president obama, sent a letter, a message to the supreme leader, iran's head of state. it makes sense for two reasons. you had the new threat from iran they would close the strait of hormuz under certain circumstances. i'm sure the u.s. wanted to put down a marker no way, this is red line and if you cross it that will be a problem. this is it one of the big motivations for communication. to tell iran and our p5 plus one partners, france, brittain and others are prepared to sit down in geneva to negotiate a solution to the nuclear problem and other problems.

i'm sure he took the message as an opportunity to reinforce that at a time a lot of folks in d.c. i work with are worried about a possible military strike. jenna: i reached out to the white house to find out a little bit more. i will paraphrase some of it. since taking office the president has been willing to engage constructively and seriously with iran about its nuclear program. we remain committed to diplomatic solution to this issue. is a diplomatic solution still possible, jim? >> oh, yeah i think it will be possible. is it going to be easy? no it is not and it may not ever happen. in some ways, jenna the only way to get what you want. we can threaten iran and stomp our feet and wave our finger and call them naems and they can do the same to us. at the end of the day the way iran changes policy and gets on a different track, particularly on the nuclear issue if the regime decides it is in our own best interests to move in a different direction. only way you get to that point through an offramp

that includes negotiations. jenna: do you think they are capable of that, jim? as we heard different reports from inside the country we've heard that the regime is painting this picture that now this question about nuclear power is really a controversy between the muslim and non-muslim world. that they really elevated this conversation to the west coming in and trying to tell them what to do. it has a religious undertone to it. are they capable at this point? was that type of philosophy to come to the table and negotiate? >> i hear what you're saying and i think there is also a lot of pride and nationalism wrapped up in that. there is a bad history here between iran and the u.s. all that is true, jenna. you're spot-on to say all of that. but it is also true we've had negotiations in the past. in fact you will remember back in 2003, there were negotiations that were successful and iran suspended, stopped its nuclear program for two plus years. so i think it is possible. you know, at the end of the day iranian leaders are not

suicidal. they want to hold onto power. if they make a calculation their chances of holding onto power without all these hassles from the international community and without all sanctions and everything else they will make that decision. now the question is, it is going to be the fine print. iran has to walk away with something where it can go to its own population, look, we won, whether they won or not but we need things in that agreement that put real limits on iran's program and allow real transparency, allow people in there to see what is going on. if we get that and iranians get what they need it is possible. it will be hard. no doubt about it. it will be hard. we've done it before but it will be hard going forward. jenna: jim, we look forward to talking to you about it. so much to dig into here. we look forward to have youing back as always. >> thank you, jenna, to the west coast, a real life hollywood horror story is underway. hikers make a gruesome discovery near the hollywood sign. details on the breaking mystery. seattle looking more

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few snow plows. schools there are shut down for the way. parts of oregon as well, winter storm warnings in effect. all that snow and sleet making for very treacherous travel. road conditions are dangerous as you can see on your screen. dozens of flights have been canceled. dan springer is live in seattle braving the he willments for us. hi, dan. >> reporter: hey, jenna. this is really a widespread storm all the way from oregon all the way to the canadian border. here in seattle they were predicting of 10 inches of snow. they revised that down somewhat two to six inches but that is it still a lot of snow for this area with all the hills. it began snowing in downtown seattle 4:00 this morning. it has been steady ever since. blowing right now. accumulation of half of an inch. other areas are getting pounded. south of olympia, 14 inches already. they're talking about four feet in the mountain passes. most schools as you mentioned are closed. dozens of flights canceled. bus routes have been altered to avoid the steep hills.

they're anticipating the worst storm since 1985 when they got seven and a half inches. the city is urging people to stay home. most people are heeding that advice. more than 100 snowplows and salt trucks are out now clearing the streets. the city is mostly a ghost town. people were stocking up on food and supplies yesterday, cleaning out store shelves. >> it has been super busy. people are getting twice as much as they usually get. families usually get dinner for the night. they have next three or four days. >> reporter: portland got its snow last night, two to four inches there. now it turned over to rain. 30,000 people in that area lost power and many more are bracing or outages today. they are getting whacked with 100 mile-per-hour winds along the oregon coast. that is hurricane-force winds. the silver lining if there is one, this snow will only be with us one day and unlike the storm in 2008 which paralyzed the city for an entire week they're talking about it changing to rain.

it will be a slushy mess but at least it will not be a lot of snow. back here live, a lot of people in seattle taking annual sport with a snowstorm. they come out to the hills to watch and watt to see if people get down the hills. we see a couple of people not in four-wheel drive cars sliding their way down. we've seen people on sleds sliding down. people are trying to get up and can't get up. a handful of people with four-wheel drive cars are making down the pretty steep hills. eventually they may close this down again. maybe six inches of snow in seattle. that is lot for us here. the city seems to be prepared with all the salt trucks out and all the closures. i think most people will take the day off. jenna: dan, when you are not doing reports are you and your crew taking the sled up to the top of the hill and testing it out? >> reporter: i'm waiting for another inch. i want to have as fast a ride down as i possibly can. it is great. it is beautiful here. we don't normally get a lot of snow. six inches is the total average for the year at sea-tac airport.

we're going to get that probably in one day here. jenna: we'll take a silver lining as you said. move on to rain and probably all for the best. dan, thank you so much. jon: so how bad is this winter blast going to get? let's check in with our meteorologist janice dean. she is in the extreme weather center. jd. >> i'm so glad jenna asked him, i want to know are you having fun out there? this is a big event for them. we'll see a steady stream of moisture from the pacific. as dan mentioned as we go further out in time it will turn into rain. still getting snow across seattle down towards the portland area. we revised some snow totals. certainly six inches not out of the question and areas north of seattle could see a little bit more, and especially in the mountainous regions. let's look at the winter weather advisories. people are advised to stay indoors. don't go out on the roadways. the snow will continue to fly throughout the day today. again on top what they already received two to six inches for the seattle area

but the mountainous regions will get leveled in feet over the next several days. so skiers, paradise, jon scott. back to you. jon: love that, but hey, seattle, snow day for the kids. it is a rare thing. let them enjoy it. >> absolutely. back to you. jon: thank you, jd. jenna: we'll move back out east now. the issue of illegal immigration going before the supreme court. justices are taking up two cases today basically decided people facing deportation can use length of time their parents lived in the united states as an argument in their favor. shannon bream, live outside the supreme court. she stepped out of arguments moments ago. how did they go? >> reporter: hear is the bottom line. two men appealed here to the supreme court. they came here as minor children illegally. eventually became legal permanent residents. but they got into criminal trouble sentenced to deportation. under the law they can fight the deportation if they satisfy number of criteria. one is certain number of years they lived here in the

u.s.. boat of them don't satisfy the requirement. what they're asking the court today to give them the years their parents have lived here, to credit to their account. it is their one hope, jenna of avoiding deportation. jenna: interesting analogy, crediting the account. makes sense to us as far as understanding what their argument is, shannon. what about the government's position? >> reporter: the government said no way. they argued to the justice there is nothing in the text of the statute that would allow that bargain. there is nothing in the legislative history either. here is part of the attorney general's brief. there is no logical or legal basis to consider residence of a minor aliens parents to consider whether the minor required necessary years of residence. on the other hand the attorneys representing two men, if the statute is vague, government must always construe keeping a family together. here is part of that irbrief. saying the time from the parents should go to the kids. it furthers congressional goal family unity through legal immigration and maintaining family relationship between lawful permanent resident parents

and minor children. remember we're talking about two men involved in criminal cases there was plenty of skepticism from the bench, jenna. jenna: real quick, when do we expect a decision on this? >> reporter: sometime june or early july. jenna: we'll look for that. shannon bream live outside the supreme court. shannon, thank you. jon: the internet as you know put as world of information right there at your fingertips but what if you couldn't get access to everything you want online? a new bill in congress aims to shut down certain web sites. it has google seeing black today. and the secret to staying young. the findings of a new study that researchers say could lead to a real fountain of youth. wake up!

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>> i feel tremendous. i'm ready to take on the world. whoo!. >> you will never be sick. we won't get any older and we won't ever die. jon: that is clip from the classic sci-fi flick, "cocoon" but could the be reality? searchers may maybe. dr. marc siegel member of fox medical a-team. what is this research about? >> we traveled to the university of the pittsburgh school of medicine. you won't believe we what found there. these are not embrey none quick stem cells. they are giving them to mice prematurely aged and able to extend the life span of the mice two to three times. treating diseases like dementia, bone problems, heart problems, muscular problems. unbelievable. they found out the cells, immature sells secret

something called factor x. factor x worked all over the mouse's body rejuvenating the mice. let's see what one of the head researchers had to say about this. >> now you can see if we can improve the lifespan of the animal but also the us too. we look at signs of osteoporosis. signs of neurodegeneration, with we delete those signs of aging which is very important. >> jon, dr. huard was very impressed with this factor x. he thinks some day it may make a pill for humans. jon: all right. that is my question. if it works for mice what are the chances you get some kind of a anti-aging pill for people? >> another doctor told me she which ared she banked her stem cells as a young person to use them later on toward the end of her life. may take five or 10 years but something we can look forward to in the near future. let's hear what she had to say about it. >> these stem cells may

secret something that has rejuvenating capacity. the fact it is a substance or mixture of substances, that means that we can reproduce these in laboratories and make thee in large quantities that is ultimate goal for therapeutics, whether a drug or molecule or peptide rather than using stem cells or cell therapy. >> john, she is talking about factor x. i'm looking for that in the future. i think we'll see studies in humans pretty soon. jon: keep us updated that is amazing stuff. dr. mark seeing he will about, thank you. >> thanks, jon. jenna: law enforcement is stepping up the fight in the war against illegal guns unveiling new technology able to detect weapons on anyone carrying them. why that has some groups up in arms. we'll tell you about that. dozens of dolphins stranded. the race to save them happening right now. why are they stranded? what is going on? we'll have the latest next. i'm going to own my own restaurant.

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jon: right now rescue efforts are underway in cape cod. crews are racing to save the lives of dozens of beached dolphins, nearly 50 of them found along the coastline last thursday. researchers say the dolphins might have run awhen one strayed too close to shallow water, and because they're kind of a pack animal or a pod, the rest of the bunch follows. joining us live is a rescuer. he is director of emergency relief at the international fund for animal welfare. what is the term, first of all? pod of dolphins? a pod of whales, right? >> yes. normally we call them a pod of dolphins and dolphins are very social creatures. jon: is that why they're all stranded, one gets stuck and the others follow? >> we believe that the healthy dolphins will not follow the doll phipps, will

not leave the dolphins that are in trouble and so that, when a dolphin gets in trouble it tends to bring in other healthy animals with it, yes. jon: a number of these animals through your organization and some others have been rescued, right? are they doing okay? >> yes. out of 27, which were known to be stranded alive, we managed to release 19 back into the wild. we have some satellite tags on some of those dolphins. we're getting good signals they're swimming and behaving normally and making it back into safe waters. jon: that is a good news. so often in the situations you hear about and perhaps you participated in some of these. you hear about rescues being performed and yet, by that point the dolphins are so sick or whatever, that they just strand themselves again. that doesn't seem to be happening here? >> no, it doesn't and we have learned over the years that once a dolphin strand on this part of the cape, which is a massive shallow

bays and mud flats, that they don't seem to be able to get out of it. so what we do is, we actually pick the dolphins up. when we transport them across cape cod to a beach which faces out into deepwater, out into the atlantic ocean. by doing that we seem to have a lot more success in animals being able to get back into the wild and survive successfully. also we now do very intense health checks on animals. make sure we only release those animals which are healthy and fit to survive in the wild. that seems to make all the difference. jon: i know it has been pretty cold and nasty up there. i'm sure it is tough work. thanks for your help. congratulations in the survival rate you've seen so far. >> thank you. jon: thank you. jenna: speaking of survivors, we have another little story, a little survivor to share with you. jon: love this. jenna: look at this baby polar bear, born on new year's day and was abandoned by her mother, for whatever reason.

she weighs about one pound. she is an incubator. she had a rough two of it but apparently is surviving so far. there is the little baby polar bear out of china today. sweet little thing, right. jon: looks almost human. so cute. jenna: that give as better shot. one pound, barely bigger than two hands there but again, doing all right. we like the survival stories. we have to bring these every once in a while instead some other news we have including this next story has really a lot of people on edge. this is one of the biggest stories this year so far and that is iran. iran raising new fears that reports indicate that the islamist may be arming a syria's bloody crackdown. we've seen this pattern before. we'll talk about the details up ahead. rescue teams in italy putting operations on hold as the crippled cruise ship, shifts on the rock. how can an experienced captain and crew allow

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jenna: fox news alert, the debt ceiling sparking a new showdown on capitol hill. we are glad you are with us, everybody, i'm jenna lee. jon: debt ceiling again. jenna: here we are. jon: i'm jon scott. today the house is voting on a resolution of disapproval rejecting president obama's request for another $1.2 trillion. the vote to boost the national debt is mostly symbolic. conservatives are complaining because the resolution really has no teeth. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel live for us on capitol hill. jon this measure generally enjoys support but they are frustrated. >> reporter: no question about that. leadership aids note there are

frustration because republicans are in the majority in the house but not in the senate. to pass legislation with real teeth you need help and cooperation in the senate as well. republicans say this resolution allows the focus to stay on washington's spending problem and the nation's debt today hrepl a. the leadilemma. the top leadership person says it's time for a plan and this issue. >> what i'm trying to do here with this resolution is send the message to the nation that we are concerned with it in the house. it needs to be dealt with for the economy and for the nation itself. >> reporter: the measure is expected to pass the house late today but is not expected to go beyond that, jon. jon: is there a dilemma for house democrats or really anybody who votes for it that they are seen to be voting the debt ceiling in an election year? >> reporter: certainly democrats and lawmakers are not excited about the idea of saying, i

voted to increase the nation's debt beyond $15 trillion, but what democrats are saying is they've had to do it before, they've done it under republican presidents and they've authorized paying the nation's bills, bottom line they are saying that this is a face-saving vote for the republicans, and that is what this is all about. >> this being a manufactured crisis from the outset. and i think that anyone who has witnessed the events of this past summer, where they took us to the precipice, on an issue that ronald reagan did 18 times, that george bush did eight times, in terms of addressing the nation fundamentally paying its debts. >> reporter: this afternoon we get the first fight on the house floor of 2012. you can expect plenty more, jon. jon: i suppose the difference is that when ronald reagan and george bush did it it wasn't the size we're talking about now,

bigger numbers these days. >> reporter: the numbers are bigger. jon: mike emanuel at the capitol. thank you. jenna: this fox news alert a big story we first reported last hour, fox sources telling us today that the keystone pipeline deal will be rejected. wendell goler is working on the breaking news, he's live in washington. >> reporter: we are getting this from industry sources still trying to confirm it from members of the administration who are reluctant to get out in front of the state department, which is where this announcement is expected to be made about mid-afternoon. the gist of it is that there is simply not enough time in the 60 days that the legislation gives the administration to run the environmental impact statement necessary to reroute the keystone xl pipeline along the aquafer in nebraska. they objected to running the pipeline through that, that caused the administration to hold up construction of the pipeline, and then nebraska said go ahead and start the pipeline,

and we will find away around this aquafer. the administration insisted that the route be determined before construction on the pipeline began. earlier today house speaker john boehner in anticipation of this announcement was sharply critical of the administration for holding up the construction of the pipeline. >> it's clear that it wouldn't create 100,000 new jobs here in the united states. we also see this morning that the canadians are in conversations with the chinese. >> reporter: boehner suggesting that because the ha u.s. has not started construction of this pipeline that the oil will be then sold to the the khaoeupb aoefplts the president caught between a political rock and a hard place on this. if you will. environmentalists objected to running the pipeline from canada to the oil refineries on the gulf of mexico and they seized upon nebraska's objection to

going through the sensitive aquafer as a reason for holding up on it. this construction of the keystone pipeline very much supported by big labor, by the unions, and by the oil industry as well. so once again, the state department to announce later today that there is simply not enough time in the 60 days congress has given the administration to run an environmental impact statement necessary to start construction of the keystone xl pipeline to bring oil from canada to the refineries in texas. jenna: a great run down, wendell. we are awaiting confirmation and the official reaction and we'll look for reaction to that news from all sides when it comes down. we'll turn now to what is happening in south carolina. time is running out for the republican candidates to win over vote tphers tha voters in that state. polls so mitt romney leading his opponents going into the primary. it's only wednesday, right. there is fierce competition for

the momentum necessary to keep some of these campaigns alive. carl cameron knows all about momentum, he's live at a santorum rally in spartanburg, south carolina. >> reporter: there is some sense on the campaign trail and with some of the internal polls that newt gingrich has some of that momentum and may be gaining on mitt romney. it's a narrow lead in some polls, even within the margin of error. it's very close. with one out of three south carolina voters likely to change their minds between now and saturday it is likely to go down to the wire and be a toss up to the final moments and when the final votes are cast. newt gingrich is take being heat and fire from across the board. mitt romney made fun of newt gingrich saying his attempts to take credit for job creation during the reagan administration is like al gore taking credit for inventing the internet. here at spartanburg at the famous beacon drive in rick santorum went aggressively after newt gingrich suggesting that he's arrogant, that he's saying

rick santorum can't compete. even saying he's completely detached from reality. he went further saying sometimes newt gingrich's ideas are just bad ones, listen. >> i don't have to be the smartest person in the room to come up with some hair-brained idea every 20 minutes. i'm going to be out there, and i'm going to be talking about solid, core convictions, and the principles that made this country great. that is what you can expect. i'm not going the flashist guy that is in the room. >> reporter: rick santorum the former pennsylvania senator blasting away at newt gingrich with some very, very colorful language, questioning his judgment, his conservatism and his ability to lead. mr. gingrich has been pressing his advantage after a strong debate performance a couple of nights ago. his crowds are getting bigger, his receipt particular boulder.

he suggested there is a possibility he'll win south carolina and therefore the nomination, listen. >> your support in the next four days can change history. if i win the primary saturday, i will be the nominee. i think it's that -- literally that simple. and if i don't win the primary saturday we will probably nominate a moderate and the odds are fairly high he will lose to obama. >> reporter: take that, mitt romney but don't rule out rick santorum and remember that both rick perry and ron paul are competitors here. ron paul had been polling in a fourth place position or for. i has not spent a grit deal of time campaigning in south carolina. in fact he's off the trail today. there is another debate tomorrow night. much can happen before saturday, and again about one in three palmetto state republicans could possibly change their mind. to saturday evening and probably late we go. jenna: i can't imagine what friday is going to look like. we have a lot to talk about in the week ahead. carl cameron, thank you so much. >> reporter: you pwefplt. jonyou bet.

jon: as republican candidates work to convince voters they have the best chance to win in number. new polls show that americans are split on president obama. the latest "washington post" abc news poll finds 48% of americans approve the job the president is doing. 48% disapprove. 52% feel the president did not get much done in his flee years in the white house. 47% said he accomplished a good or great amount. what does this mean for the presidential race, let's bring in the man you saw earlier there, washington times columnist charlie hurd. the president's approval ratings are not above 50% yet but they are way better than they were a few months ago. >> sure. president obama has done a very good job with sort of playing congress and working them over and sort of blaming -- shifting a lot of the blame that people feel about the economy on congress. congress of course, they are as low as we've seen congress'

numbers. they've got even even lower, you know, going up against president obama. but the problem that president obama faces is he still has sort of a bad economy. and while those numbers are better than they have been, and yet they are not -- you know, they are not disqualifyingly bad in terms of improving them over the next ten months this all is going to depend on the economy. if the economy doesn't get much better over the next ten months then he's going to have a real problem on his hands with the re-election. if it does improve and it continues to improve and gets better u know, republicans are going to have a real hard time. jon: another element of that abc "washington post" poll puts mitt romney up against the president in a hypothetical match up. they stack up pretty evenly, 47% for mitt romney, 46% for the president. obviously within the margin of error, essentially it's a tie. does that surprise you?

>> you know, it was interesting just a moment ago, you showed the footage of newt gingrich attacking mitt romney for being this moderate, which of course is a very bad thing in a republican primary, but, you know, mitt romney has done a very good job of short of presenting himself as sort of this very acceptable, very moderate republican, probusiness republican who can go up against barack obama and sort of paint obama as being antibusiness and being bad for the economy, and mitt romney will be this very good conservator of the economy and get things going again. he's very economy, and things like that. and in a weird way, you know, that moderate label that hurts him now i think could possibly sort of help, you know, help in his campaign against a head-to-head against obama. but, you know, this decision just today about the keystone pipeline, it's just -- it's amazing that president obama

would allow this to happen right now heading into election, when it's all going to be about jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, nothing else. jon: at least 20,000 jobs said to be attributable to the construction of that pipeline, and pretty good paying jobs, apparently the president, for whatever reason, has decided that cancellation is in his best interests, or the country's best interests. >> yeah, and what is doubly difficult about this is that the pipeline even has support from unions, which of course are an integral block of democratic voters. when you start talking about unions, and turning them away, you talk about big states like ohio, and pennsylvania, which kind of only begrudging lee we ly went along with president obama last tphaoeupl any way thelast time any way they were big supporters of hillary clinton. if he turns them off when he needs absolutely everybody out

there. there is plenty of evidence to show that there is a lot less enthusiasm for this time than your years ago, man he's going to have a real big problem on his hands. if decision, aside from it being not good for the economy, it's very bad politics. i really don't know what they are thinking. jon: charlie hurt from the washington times. char lease, thanks. jenna: a lot more information coming in on the keystone announcement. we'll work hard to confirm more as we get it and share that with you. we have the scoop on a scam involving yankee stadium. why an investor is calling foul as he strikes out for the house that ruth built. jon: a convicted murderer in a notorious home invasion wants a knew trial. a decision from the judge ahead. jenna: pulling the plug on some popular web sites. you might notice this if you got online today. why they are going dark in a battle over internet pirates.

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jon: new information on crime stories we are keeping an eye on. two suspects in theappearance of a montana teacher requesting an extradition hearing. that could delay their transfer from north dakota to face kidnapping charges. sheri arnold was last seen january 7th. cops say they fear she has been killed. a connecticut judge denies a convicted murderer's request for a new trial. joshua komisarjevsky was sentenced to death in the murders of jennifer-hawke-petit and her two daughters. cops charging a connecticut man with selling dirt he claimed was from the old yankee stadium. apparently he wanted to use the dirt in gift items like key chains. he's accused with making off with 35,000 bucks from investors. jenna: new information in what many are seeing as a snub, a big international snub at that.

pakistan rejecting a request from america's special envoy to visit that country, a reminder of the deteriorating relationship between us and the pakistanis these days. jennifer griffin has more. >> reporter: u.s. officials are saying they are not viewing it as a snub but the fact remains that u.s. special enjoy mark grossman who took over for richard holbrooke for the special representative to pakistan requested that he be allowed to come to pakistan to try and smooth the relationship, and the tensions in the relationship and he was rebuffed. he was told that the time was not right. >> we received word that the packistani government felt it would be best to wait until this parliamentary review is concluded. >> reporter: the parliamentary reviewed referred to by the state department spokesman has to do with the november 26th border shooting in which u.s. forces killed 24 pakistani troops after coming under fire themselves. that incident has placed a deep chill on the relationship and

pakistan is still preventing any supplies for u.s. troops fighting in afghanistan from kogs it crossing its border. the borders remain shut. the request to visit coincides with domestic political upheaval in pakistan that some pakistani observers have described as an army attempt to overthrow the civilian government, a cue of sorts using the supreme court. that tension between the army and its president and prime minister could lead to early elections in pakistan. in the meantime voice of america correspondent hatiff who we just showed ahh picture of, he was assassinated by two gunmen who killed him while he was praying in a mosque in the northwest frontier province of pakistan. another sign of just how tense this relationship with pakistan is. jenna: jennifer griffin, thank you. jon: right now if you're logging onto wikipedia you'd see this message, imagine a world without

free knowledge. wikipedia, just one of several big-named web sites protesting new legislation that some say will change the internet, and they say not in a good way. claudia cowan is keeping an eye on that live from san francisco. >> reporter: it is shaping up to be an epic battle, hollywood versus silicon valley. members of congress from northern california versus those from southern california. big money lining up on both sides, and scores of web sites on 24 hours strike regarding bills that are set to crackdown on sites whether it's music or movies made in the u.s. some say the bills would have a chilling effect on free speech. it would require blocking of sites that are the subject of internet piracy. critics argue the crackdown on piracy will not be the bill's

only effect. >> sopa places tremendous incentives towards anyone who does business with an american company to pull the plug on them without warning. so if anyone complained about something posted on a website that they didn't like they could most likely get that website pulled off the internet. >> reporter: those in favor maintain safeguards are in place to prevent such shut downs and today's protest by sites like wikipedia is misguided. >> i think it's very ironic that a website that is dedicated to providing information is in fact spreading misinformation. they simply haven't read the bill. wikipedia and other domestic web sites have nothing to worry about. we target foreign web sites. >> reporter: but the protest appears to be gaining steam. calls are flooding congressional offices, and now several members from both parties are dialing back their initial support. john, we may see some

significant tweaks to these controversial pieces of legislation before they come up for a vote. back to you. jon: keep and eye on it for us. interesting stuff, claudia, thank you. jenna: an expert's take on the cruise ship's disaster in italy. why the captain's latest remarks making his version of what happened even harder to believe. a walk in the park turns up a horrifying find. police hunting for a killer after a severed head is found near a famous hollywood landmark. >> few of the dogs began to play with the bag and what appeared to be an object. while the dogs were playing witness, at some point the object came out of the bag and they discovered that it was a head, a severed head. this is an rc robotic claw.

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jenna: this fox news alert a gruesome discovery in hollywood has police trying to i.d. the victim and track down a killer. julie banderas has more on this story. >> reporter: what makes the story even more gruesome, believe it or not is the only remains they have of this victim is a severed head, believed to belong to a male, unidentified at this point. the women who actually made the shocking discovery work as dog walkers. they had about nine dogs with them at the time. it was when two of those dogs started playing with a plastic bag that they noticed what was inside. police say the severed head didn't appear to have been there for long and there wasn't a lot of signs of decomposition as of yet. the hard part is trying to determine who it belongs to. >> it's a very extensive process. you know, there are a number of ways they can reference it, including dental records. hopefully somebody will be able to i.d. it, hopefully they'll be able to come up with a sketch of the victim in an effort to

identify who he is. >> reporter: that is the next step. investigators right now working hard to try to come up with some kind of sketch so they can get it out to the public so someone can actually identify the remains. the coroner's office is also going to attempt to identify the victim through dental records. one part of this investigation, at least to try to find the killer who remains unknown at this point involved the actual location where the remains were found, which is quite interesting, because it wasn't really hidden in the woods. investigators say that in fact it was not too far off a popular trail below the famous hollywood sign, and that the women were actually able to see it without even having to walk off the trails. police guarded the crime scene overnight and today detectives plan to search for additional human remains and other clues, jenna. jenna: a bizarre story. thank you. jon: we're just learning about the first victim officially identified in italy's cruise ship disaster. he was a musician from hungary

working on that ship. the violinist was helping children with their life jackets before returning to his cabin to retrieve his violin. they are finding it hard to believe the shocking chain of events in the deadly cruise ship disaster. captain peter veccio is a prove at maritime college. this type of thing is not supposed to happen, is it? >> absolutely not. specifically why it happened is all going to come out later once we get the actual voice tapes of what transpired on the bridge. that is part of the equipment that is on board of the vessel. jon: state of the art cruise ship, computerized and a half gigs and everything else. apparently this was the captain's wish to make a pass close to shore to salute some people on land who had relatives on board the ship. it just sounds too stupid to be true. >> it appears that way. one thing that is surprising is

that the ship had actually done this particular maneuver before. when you look at the route the ship should have taken there is plenty of water to navigate. the vessel deviated from that specified route, passed close to the island and this time it just went tragically wrong. why, specifically on the bridge, i'm not sure what transpired up there. jon: one of those on the bridge i think it was the captain, was quoted as saying that the rocks that they apparently hit were not on the charts. >> i find that very hard to believe. back at the school i pulled up some of the charts to look at that specific area, although i wasn't there at the time, it appears to me that the route that they took to make this pass by of the island just went wrong, an error in the navigation. jon: i'm no expert on maritime navigation, but as close as they are to the shore that just seems like a stupid place to be taking a thousand-foot vessel. >> absolutely. even if they choose to do that particular route, they are aware of mitigating factors, the wind,

the current, something that set the vessel off this particular time when they went on that so-called fly by, who knows. we'll see. that will transpire, though. jon: what about the captain's behavior in apparently leaving the ship himself before everybody else was off. it really is the rule in maritime issues, you're not supposed -- the captain is supposed to be the last one off, right. >> absolutely. part of the whole structure of an emergency procedure on board a vessel is the master is in fact the person in charge of all of the procedures, the captain is the one in command and gives the orders when to abandon ship and how to a been done ship and how this iabandon ship and how this is going to take place. even though the captain left the vessel there had to be a number of dedicated people who managed to evacuate 4,000 some order people in that amount of time with a minimal amount of loss

that happened there. jon: hats off to them. >> sure. jon: unbelievable behavior on the part of this captain. i guess the good news is some teachable stuff will come out of this from your students. >> certainly. we were looking at some of these lessons in class just today before i came into the studio. jon: captain peter veccio, thank you. >> thank you, jon. jenna: we are looking to confirm a big story with the white house that the state department is reject being the keystone pipeline deal. we are working on new reaction to that, getting a lot from viewers as well as lawmakers down in d.c. we'll have some of that for you coming up at the top of your next block. in the meantime security plans for the london olympics are something that a lot of bad guys would like to get their hands-on, terrorists included. thanks to a mishap it could have happened. we'll have the details on that coming up.

jenna: now this fox news alert. as we reported last hour sources telling us today that the keystone pipeline deal will be rejected by the administration because of concerns about having the opportunity to check out the environmental impact of this pipeline. and we've gotten some reaction from a few different sources now that we want to share with you. this is look at the pipeline by the way. we do not have it officially confirmed by the white house. there is word there will be a some sort of announcement 3:00 p.m. eastern time today. we're working to confirm it. while we're working to confirm it, lawmakers are reacting including speaker of the house john boehner through his spokeswoman, through his spokesman,

brendan buck. speaker boehner has this to say. president obama is about to destroy tens of thousands americans jobs and sell american energy security to the chinese. the president won't stand up to political base even to create american jobs. this is not the end of this fight. the reference to the chinese there is the understanding that canada is moving ahead and looking at a type line that goes directly east instead and will work towards getting the oil in the direction of china, into asia and so, that is where that reference comes from. apparently lawmakers are gathering on the floor of the house and we're working to get you a live picture of that. as we get more reaction we'll bring it to you. there is lot of reaction from you viewers out there, responding. you can write us at "happening now" at docks news dot-com. the environmental i am- am-- foxnews.com. we're hearing from farmers out of nebraska. this is good deal. we're depending on aquifer, there was debate bait here

and concern about that. we'll get you reaction from all side and keep you updated. jon: how high-tech is helping catch the bad guys. soon police might be able to detect whether a perp is packing heat even without leaving the a patrol car. david lee miller, live from the newsroom. seems like dick tracy stuff here. >> reporter: unbelieveable the technology is astounding. the date may not be that far from when police electronically frisk people for weapons. those being searched they might not even know it. the department of defense is helping the new york city police department to develop a type of camera that can see through clothing backpack, shoes and even walls. the device uses electromagnetic energy waves. the waves bounce off metal objects such as a gun. image would be displayed on a flat panel monitor in a patrol car as the device has only relatively short-range but police hope to expand its effectiveness to about 75 feet. people could be scanned

without their knowledge and that is what has some privacy advocates worried. >> of course it's worrisome because it implicates privacy when the police department tells us that anytime we walk down the street we're going to be subject to a virtual pat-down, even though we're not suspected of doing anything wrong, that raises privacy concerns. >> reporter: some critics of the technology are worried that the energy waves could have health consequences. all of the waves are much less powerful than x-rays. it is concerned that exposure could damage dna. privacy and health experts asay the technology has broader am cakes. terahertz scanners are being developed to not only detect weapons but explosives. by examining distortion rate of terahertz energy waves it is possibly not only to locate concealed explosives but determine what the chemicals are being used.

tear are hertz devices might be one day used at airports to screen passengers. might also be used by the military to detect roadside bombs. it could be a very powerful tool in the arsenal to fight terrorism. jon? jon: david lee miller. thank you. jenna: super pacs are playing a major role in this year's election spending millions of dollars to influence voters. super pacs are new kind of political action committee created in july 2010. they can raise unlimited sums of money from corporations, unions, associations, individuals and spend as much as they want for or against political candidates. however they can not donate money directly to the candidates and they must report the source of their donations on a monthly or quarterly basis. we were asking the question what impact this has on this first presidential election that has super pacs. we have the editorial and communications director for the center for responsive politics. what do you think of that? this is historical election

for lot of reasons including the super pacs. what impact are they having so far? >> this is the new 800-pound gorilla in the room, the super pac. there are 300 of them now almost registered with the fec. only a handful of them have been spending big money though. about 27 1/2 million dollars. almost a third of that has been spent by a super pac supporting mitt romney called restore our future. jenna: interesting. that seems to be the most successful one so far? >> well, it's the one that has had the most success raising monly clearly. jenna: interesting to see the ap analysis. the associated press took a look in the primaries what was the most effective way for candidates to get the message out whether through retail politics, through flyers, through dinners. they were looking at all sorts of ways. they said advertisement was the number one way voters in the primaries have been influenced thus far. is that all because of the super pacs because of their competition with each other? >> there has been, you know,

an unbelievable proliferation of ads this time around in the early primary states and i've seen one analysis showing that ads by super pacs have outnumbered ads by candidates two to one. jenna: explain that relationship with the candidates. because we hear it in debates. we hear it when we do interviews. you will hear a candidate say i have no idea what these super pacs are doing. i can't. it is illegal. explain to us the relationship they can or can't have with their super pacs? >> well, technically the super pac is supposed to operate independently of the candidate and not to coordinate with the candidate's campaign in terms of whether they're running ads or what their message is. in reality, a lot of these super pacs are staffed by former staff members for the candidates. and it's kind of like you don't have to conspire if you think alike. jenna: right. jenna: who is watching it? is there an investigation or a branch that is looking at their communication? is someone watching the communication between super

pacs and candidates? >> well, obviously no federal agency can watch day by day the sorts of communication. if there is a complaint filed with the federal election commission they can look into it. but in reality the candidates themselves can actually appear in ads for super pacs. they can raise money for the super pacs. there is very little that is actually prohibited. >> let me ask you what happens to super pacs if the candidates drop out? you mentioned mitt romney. we know he is the frontrunner at this point. but hypothetically say he doesn't make it to the end. then does his super pac, does it operate without him as a candidate? can it operate independent of him and switch alliance? do they have the freedom to do that? >> this is kind of a gray area what happens to the money in a super pac if a candidate drops out of the well the money can be spent in some other way. there are very few restrictions on that. in fact most of the super pacs out there are registered are not candidat

candidate-specific. so they can spend their money really any way they want. jenna: interesting to see so much money out there. that will be something we'll continue to watch. thanks for being with us. >> good to be with you. jon: could make profound changes in the shape of this race. jenna: absolutely. jon: there are new signs that iran could be helping syria in a brutal crack down on its own people. a congressman that just returned from the middle east will tell us what concerns him most r you today ? we gave peopleight off the street a script and had them read it. no, sorry, i can't help you with that. i'm not authorized to access that transaction. that's not in our policy. i will transfer you now. my supervisor is currently not available. would you like to hold ? that department is currently closed. have i helped you with everything you needed ? if your bank doesn't give you knowledgeable customer service 24/7, you need an ally. ally bank. no nonsense. just people sense.

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with tools and tactics now, what could happen if they have nuclear capabilities. peter welch is chief democratic whip and returned from the middle east where meet with leaders there about iran. let's start there, congressman? what was the rook an shun and conversation in the -- reaction and conversation in the middle east about the movements by iranian regime?. >> three things. there is widespread concern despite political differences in the region that iran is dangerous and having a nuclear weapon is extremely dangerous. provocation and other countries like syria are dangerous. there is strong support for sanctions but three there is great reservation and caution when it comes to the question of using military force with some apprehension about what that would unleash in the middle east. jenna: can you be more specific about that apprehension? what specifically are the countries worried about? i assume they're worried about a strike coming from the united states or israel? is that kind of the concern. >> that's right. well, and, yes.

they don't rule out military force but if you're qatar where you're 50 miles across the strait of hormuz they feel they will be on the receiving end of any retaliatory response. turkey is very concerned about the loss of access to natural gas that heats their homes in the winter. the u.a.e., which is a strong u.s. ally, likewise is very approximate neighbor and fears what would happen to it with a response and what happens to the sea lanes and their ability to export oil some they know that, if there is military action it creates consequences that you can anticipate but not fully foresee. so they're nervous about it. jenna: sure. a lot of people obviously stateside are nervous about it as well but how nervous are those countries about a nuclear iran? >> extremely nervous. there is no good solution situation here and sanctions, in tough sanctions, i support, broad support in congress for them. there is more talk here

about using a military option or laying that out there. but there is a even, if there is some criticism about the limitations of sanctions. i think all of us have to acknowledge the limitations of force and what the consequences can be. this is a very tough situation that has to be managed day by day, step by step. frankly i don't think congress is in a position to micromanage and turns into political debate and one-upmanship. we have commitment from the administration to use every power in its tool kit to keep iran from having a nuclear option. jenna: let me go to the point about energy availability in that region overall because that's a major concern about whether or not we have the oil supply. >> right. jenna: in the global markets to deal with the fact that iran could go rogue completely, shut down the strait of hormuz or have a military action with them in some way. i just got a statement from here from senator lugar. this is in relation to breaking news this hour about the keystone pipeline. he brings in iran and his

response to this report that the obama administration is not going to allow the keystone pipeline to go through. he says in the face of iranian threats against oil affordability, the obama administration once again is trying to blame congress and the state of nebraska instead of taking responsibility for american jobs and security. what do you think of the timing of all this, congressman? and that concern about whether or not we have the fuel to go forward? >> well, that's a good political talking point but the keystone issue right now is not whether the pipeline will or won't be built. it is weather it will totally short-circuit the environmental review process and short-circuit the inspeck tore general review process in the state department process by which the environmental review is done. the question is not whether key steen will or will not happen as far as the administration is concerned. whether you will completely bypass the review process because of political pressure in congress. i don't think we should. jenna: it will be interesting to see, again we get this confirmed from the

white house we're waiting on. still working on reports at this time, congressman. interesting to hear your insights after such a trip and we look forward to talking to you more about the middle east around some of these issues in the future, sir. thank you. >> great, thank you. jon: well, a lot of people thought it would never happen. a challenge by warren buffett met by one lawmaker. we'll tell you who is digging into his own wallet to help try to trim the federal debt. say goodbye to "ho" and hello to "whoa, yum." use campbell's cream of chicken soup to make easy enchiladas, cheesy chicken & rice, and other chicken dishes that are oh...so...whoa. campbell's. it's amazing what soup can do. try bayer advanced aspirin. it has microparticles so it enters the bloodstream fast and rushes relief to the site of your tough pain. it's proven to relieve pain twice as fast as before. bayer advanced aspirin.

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>> hey, everyone, i'm megyn kelly. mitt romney getting hammered by a half hour movie about his time in bain capital. two workers in the movie are taken grossly out of context an angry at the filmmaker. they join us live to tell us exactly what happened. plus is newt gingrich surging in the wake of his debate performance monday night?

chris stirewalt is here. the first lawsuit is filed in the wake of a woman's tragic death being trapped in the doors of an elevator in new york city. there is talk of criminal charges. we'll update you. and, iran now claims president obama has requested direct talks with iran's supreme leader. is that true? the white house will not comment. we'll have a full report. see you top of the hour. jenna: warren buffett says he will make good on his promise to double lawmaker's contributions to cut the federal debt of the last week he challenged republicans to put up their own cash and he would match it dollar for dollar. fox business network liz macdonald is not putting up her own cash. she is investigating in different ways. who is? who is putting up money. >> a gop congressman out of virginia, jenna. we have the letter from warren buffett. he is donating 15% of the his annual salary, totaled 50 grand over last two years. warren buffett says he is delighted. he wants to spur, he is

calling intramural basically competition between both republicans and democrats who can do their best to cut the deficit. remember this fight started because buffett said only gop. now he is saying both republicans and democrats he wants to join in this rivalry he is starting. jenna: they will take the money but any criticism for all of this? >> no criticism but the issue is, we've added equivalent of south korea and germany to the debt. if you confiscated all of warren buffett's wealth and everybody's salary in congress it would pay .1 of interest cost on debt alone. >> not even interest cost. not even debt, yeah. jenna: wow! this puts it into perspective, doesn't it? we need a lot more congresspeople, i didn't say that. a lot more dough than people could provide. emac, thanks so much. jon. jon: drop in the bucket. there is a new sign that newt gingrich could bounce back in south carolina. what the former speaker is doing to show he's in it to win it.

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>> well, documents outlining security plans for the olympics were left on a train in london. it is at least the second foulup involving preparations for the upcoming 2012 olympics there. julie banderas has more on what the documents are and who ended up with them. >> reporter: very embarrassing mishap. basically involved british authorities misplacing the government documents, police saying one of its officers actually lost the bag containing documents about security arrangements for the london olympics on a train. the officer downplayed the incident adding the operations were not operation -- operations were at operationally sensitive and saying the loss of materials is obviously a matter of concern but we are satisfied this does not compromise the security operation for the olympics. fortunately the documents didn't fall into the wrong hands. the passenger who found the papers which included details of contingency plans for the olympics did return them to police. that's the good news. jon: i hope they gave them a nice reward! >> >> re