japan as we sadly know is the case, there is concern the tremor could break enclosures and rhino would run free. they want to make sure they're ready for a thing. that is practice rhino attack. bill: is a one terrific halloween costume. martha: we should do that in here. we never know. bill: brian kilmeade at 11:20. martha: see you back here tomorrow, folks. jenna: we prepare for every circumstance but escaped rhino isn't one that we worked in the newsroom for. jon: no rhinos in the newsroom today, thanks goodness. jenna: we're glad you're with us. i'm jenna lee. jon: i'm jon scott. "happening now", a three-state sweep for rick santorum. jenna: the former pennsylvania senator celebrating victories in minnesota, missouri and colorado, a trifecta. jon: 45% of the vote in minnesotas caucuses. ron paul coming in second, with 27%. mitt romney, 17 and

newt gingrich with 11. jenna: 55% of the vote. romney followed with 25%. paul had 12. gingrich wasn't on the ballot. we'll quiz you on all the numbers later. hope you got them all. santorum is talking a bit about his strong showing. >> the last few weeks we weren't doing particularly well in the polls in florida and nevada. we were doing great. in getting kind of support that we needed to keep this campaign going. our fund-raising as our best two weeks last two weeks and we felt it. jenna: chief washington correspondent james rosen is live in washington with more with all of this. hi, james? >> reporter: how long before they play the theme of rocky at rick santorum's events? with the knockout he scored last night the rick santorum is the rocky balboa in the 2012 cycle. mitt romney may be apollo creed or the clubber lang.

he is set to be in mckinney, texas where he will meet with local pastors. after that the former pennsylvania senator will hit voters lone star state . only candidate yet to win a nominating contest remains mired in single digits. gingrich was not on the ballot in missouri. he fared poorly in colorado and minnesota. he too has his sights trained on texas and other southern contest like 76 delegates up state for in his home state of georgia next month. romney congratulated santorum on quote, his good

night but gave supporters in denver how the frontrunner plans to handle the santorum insurgency. >> this is clear choice. i'm only person in this race, republican or democrat, who never served a day of time in washington. in the world i come from, leadership is about starting a business, not trying to get a bill out of committee. >> reporter: minnesota by the way was the first state where governor romney did not place first or second in this primary season. jon and jenna. >> 197 delegates assigned but nearly 2100 total. >> reporter: about 8%. jenna: along with the rocky analogy bringing it together. james rosen kicking us off today. jon? jon: for more on rick santorum's victories and what it means for the gop race, talk to paul west national political correspondent with washington bureau. paul, mitt romney said he would not win all the states all the time but it is a triple set back for him,

isn't it? >> and it wasn't what they expected and a very expensive setback for romney. he is now going to have to redouble his efforts in michigan and arizona which are the next two states to hold primaries. he will have to spend a lot more money than he probably wanted to or expected to as a result of what happened yesterday. jon: are we in sort of a no-man's land or no candidates land right now? >> we're in a new phase in the campaign i don't think a lot of people expected. i think a lot of people figured this race was really over, we know now that it is not. we know it will go on for at least another month and probably a lot longer than that. jon: seems rick santorum sort of benefited from the romney-gingrich fight. those two have been attacking each other, let him, what, the unbloodied competitor? >> exactly. that will change now. you heard a little bit of it last night with romney going after santorum in effect by talking about washington politicians who want to get bills out of committee but

santorum is giving it back to romney pretty quickly. he was on tv. this morning including on your network talking about how romney would have been a washington insider if he hadn't lost the 1994 senate race in massachusetts. jon: what about newt gingrich? can he hold off this santorum surge? >> i think it is going to be hard for gingrich. i would not be surprised to see santorum pass gingrich in the national polls sometime over the next week or so and really gingrich will have to fight really hard at this point to remain relevant in the race. he is not going to quick but he will have to show in a state like ohio for example, that he can win someplace outside the south. jon: even in states where mitt romney won last time around he didn't do as well this time. >> no. what happened yesterday was a real rejection of romney. we didn't have exit polls. we didn't have entrance polls. so we're sort of flying a little blind on what happened but basically you had party activists who simply aren't ready to

accept mitt romney as the nominee and they made that pretty clear yesterday. jon: but lot of these, i mean these were basically nonbinding contests yesterday. the voters could go in and maybe express a frustration vote or a dissatisfaction vote without ultimately having it mean a great deal in the long run. >> sure. well that is certainly the case in missouri the missouri race had nothing to do with delegate selection but minnesota and colorado are exactly like iowa. they are the first stage in the delegate process. santorum claims he will do even better in the next phase as a result of how well he did last night and he may have a point there. jon: santorum down in the delegate count but he can legitimately claim he won more states than mitt romney, right? >> right. he has won more states. romney has more delegates as you showed on your screen, more delegates than all the other candidates put together and he probably will be the nominee in the end but it is going to take him a whole lot longer and cost him a whole lot more

money to get there than it would have otherwise. >> yesterday made it a lot more interesting. paul west, tribune national bureau chief. thank you. >> thanks, jon. jenna: now this fox news alert. syria stepping up its deadly crackdown on anti-government protesters. we're getting reports of as many as 100 people killed today in a new round of shelling at homs, the city at the center of the uprising. part of an assault that started saturday and reportedly claimed hundreds of lives. all this comes as russian prime minister vladmir putin warns that the world should not interfere what he is calling now syria's domestic affairs. interesting pairing there. syria's government and russia. leland vittert is live with the latest from jerusalem. let's start with what happened this morning. leland, bring us up-to-date. >> reporter: we're getting word from activists inside syria they are now in fact beg, pleading for the outside world to intervene. one video posted by somebody in homs said, where is the

u.s.? where is the u.n.? where is the humanity? the situation on the ground appears to getting much worse. the city is running short on food, water. electricity has been cut off and medical supplies are running extremely low. 100 people a day on average are dying there. the video that's coming out of there is still amateur video. it is ringed by syrian tanks, the town of homs, 1.2 million people inside. there is no way for us to get in the video coming out is shot by amateurs putting their lives on the line to show the world what is going on. as you might remember yesterday the syrian president told the russian foreign ministers, one of the few friend syria has left he was committed to ending violence today. we see that assault on homs intensify. jenna? un. jenna: unbelievable to here the video. we're hearing more reports of iran quds forces meeting with the syrian government. we have the meeting with the russian prime minister happening there. what is the deal?

what is happening inside the central government of syria right now? >> reporter: bashar assad comes from a group called the that is a reledge just sect. you have a sunni population and shiite population. the alawites are very scared. they are the minority and control the government and military. many people tell you they are fighting for their lives because they fear if they lose power they will all be killed. iran and russia both view syria as a long-time and key ally. you have iran helping by sending weapons. by sending men and equipment inside. we've heard reports of thousands of iranian revolutionary guard members heading into syria to help with the crackdown. from russia you have two things. number one, syria has a main russian navy base on the mediterranean where the russians base submarines. that makes assad a big-time ally. syria is big-time arms buyer from russia. that is something they want to protect.

russians thought they were hoodwinked allowing military intervention inside libya. and they will not go so far to let the international community do that to another friend. jenna: interesting dynamic. great roundup. back to you as we get more breaking news. jon: more on a mysterious illness to tell you about. teenagers from the same school developing ticks that seem to mimic tourette's syndrome. we'll look at what could be causing this mysterious affliction. jenna: dr. marc siegel went and visited some of the patients. move over, red bull, there is a new way to get the caffeine fix. i'm not sure jon tried it. jon: i have not tried it. i'm not sure i want to. jenna: all you have to do is breathe it in and you get that. is this safe though? a caffeine inhaler? jon: we'll talk about it. plus new 9-1-1 tapes from the night l.a. dodgers star james loney hit three cars with his maserati on the freeway. why he will not be charged in connection with that accident. [ male announcer ] drinking a smoothie with no vegetable nutrition?

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>> well the debate continues about a mysterious illness affecting teenage girls in upstate new york. the girls attended the same high school. they began showing symptoms similar to tourette's syndrome late last year. now a varied group of medical professionals is treating them but they disagree on exactly what is causing their symptoms. medical a-teamer, dr. marc siegel joins us right now. dr. siegel, you interviewed these girls. what's going on? >> jon, i also interviewed both doctors involved that has the big controversy what is causing their problems. i must say the girls themselves are the extremely nice and they feel very

vulnerable and they're very concerned. this is the real deal, whatever they're suffering from. they're definitely suffering from stress as part of this, jon. i want to you watch them and hear how they sound. >> i was like walking with my sister and everything and then like, i started to freak out. and then i had a panic attack. i just started to like -- >> had an episode in school and my right arm start flailing and i made really weird grunt-like noises. ever since then it has been on and off. >> you know i was actually very impressed these are normal, young teens but i did feel there was definite possibility here this was a mass psychiatric reaction that spread almost like something contagious. and we have another interview to show with dr. jennifer mcveig. had of buffalo, new york. she treating them at dent neurological intuesday.

she feels the media made this worse, stoking fire and paying too much attention in a nonmedical way. let's listen. >> usually with any kind of conversion disorder or mass psychogenic illness it will get better with time t takes time to heal. the reason it has on so long we believe because there has been so much media attention to it. >> jon, as you were saying this is another side to this story. there is physician in new jersey who i also interviewed who feels strongly and may be basing this on things we've been saying on fox news, how do we know this isn't a environmental trigger? how do we know this isn't an infection of some kind, something called, pandis which is neurological inflammation after infection? how do we know it is not that? hair this from dr. triplegi in his own words. he feels they need toe be treated medically and he is treating them and they're getting better. >> the remarkable thing there are anti-inflorida

tories probably sitting in your medicine cabinet right now you could use to treat these girls and get them better, better than some of the more involved therapies including psychiatric medication. >> jon, i actually am dub just about his -- dubious about his diagnosis but i think he is connected to the parents and children and it may be a good bedside manner and hands on medicine that is helping them get better. >> regarding media exposure there are reports out that the media in that part of the state have stopped running videos of the girls. is that likely to help? is it causing some effect on this case? >> i think it is and i don't know if it is the media itself or the fact that the media doesn't necessarily ask the right questions. jon, i started interview with you telling you i'm not a doctor treating these girls. that is the key thing here. i'm not a doctor treating them. even though i interviewed them i don't know everything. i think the media sometimes jumps in too fast and comes to conclusions prematurely. this is very, very hard case

to figure out. right now i'm leaning towards thinking this is psychiatric contagion but i don't know anything for sure and we need to keep watching and keep learning. jon: dr. marc siegel, a member of our fox medical a-team. a weird story. >> absolutely. thanks, jon. jenna: well l.a. dodger first baseman james loney will not be charged in an accident on the freeway last year. we first told you about it then. at least one officer on the scene says that this athlete was asleep at wheel. he refused to take a breathalyzer test. spitting the mouthpiece back at cops. rick folbaum has more why prosecutors are now giving up on this case. rick? >> reporter: jenna, because they say they don't have the evidence to pursue the case at this point. though loney did hit three cars and was arrested for driving under the suspicion at the time of alcohol. a blood sample pell testing alcohol level was negative a just released 911 call starts out with witness sees the accident, while on the

phone with the dispatcher realizes loney is trying to get away from the scene. take a listen. >> reporter: in a reese interview loan any who is 27 years old he doesn't even

remember being asked to take a breathalyzer test once the police arrived. he was clear to leave the hospital he took them to without anyone ever coming to talk to him and ask him about the accident. loney is gearing up for spring training. taking part today in the dodgers community caravan volunteer events across the area. no doubt happy to hear he won't face any charges over what happened last year. back to you. jenna: maybe we need dr. siegel on that one too. >> reporter: i have some questions for dr. siegel yeah. jenna: rick, thank you. jon: all right. an exclusive investigation by "the washington post" is shedding new light on earmarks pushed by your members of congress. millions of your tax dollars going to pet projects that may be benefiting lawmakers families. a live report on that coming up. also, we're hearing the dramatic 911 calls after josh powell set fire to his own home killing his two young sons as well as himself. an update where that

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jenna: certainly been a big topic, congress's approval ratings are in the taping to say the least. most polls put in the low teens or so. an exclusive investigation by "the washington post" exposes more about our elected officials the paper takes an in-depth look at congressional earmarks. this is pet projects to benefit a lawmaker's state or district are slipped into larger bills and some of those projects are benefiting the members family either directly or indirectly this report shows. all of those projects funded with, we can't forget this, your taxpayer dollars. here's a couple examples. california congresswoman nancy pelosi helped secure $50 million towards a light

rail project in downtown san francisco that is trying to build a station just blocks from a comercial buildinged by her husband. oklahoma senator james inhofe helped secure $2 million of widen of a road that runs next to his wife's property near tulsa. thois are a few of long list of funding projects that raise some eyebrows. we have the national reporter with "the washington post" and part of the team that investigated all of this. so, kimberly, big question i guess after two days of listening to the reports, how bad is it when it comes to earmarks? >> well, that's a good question. i don't think that we were thinking of it that way. we weren't thinking how bad is it. we were really were talking an unprecedented systemic approach looking at all of their financial records and then comparing it to the earmark requests that they asked for. and what we tried to do was just tell readers something that they're supposed to learn from financial disclosure forms. you're supposed to be able

to see the intersection between a member's financial interest and their holdings and whatever they do on the hill. in this case earmark, requesting special money, and what we were able to find was that, time after time they were asking for either earmarks that were right by property that they owned or in many cases they were asking for earmarks that went to organizations their family members work at, in many cases directly to programs that their family members run. so very tight, close connections there. jenna: let's pick up off of that, i saw how careful you were not to try to speculate by the motivation of lawmakers for some of the projects. take nancy pelosi as an example. i'm from san francisco. so i'm familiar with the downtown area. this light rail project may be built around where her husband owns a office building but there is hundreds and hundreds of businesses in that area that could potentially benefit so is there.

>> that's correct. jenna: is there anything you can glean how, how a reader should look at this report? because we still need to know if lawmakers are taking advantage of our taxpayer money but we don't want them disadvantaged because their families live in districts that they serve. >> that is really good point. members, when they're in the position where they are representing a district, they have people coming to them and asking them for help. and so when in the era of earmarks which, there is temporary moratorium at this point and an effort to permanently ban them has not happened, but, certainly they are in this position where they are supposed to be looking out for people in their district. i mean what we really focused in on and looking at here is failure to disclose. jenna: i'm sorry to interrupt but let's pick up off that. you did say in the piece multiple times that ethics commissions reviewed some of the projects because some lawmakers passed them through those commissions

submitting them. does the public always know some of the connections? >> no. when you go to the ethics committee as a member of, as a member of congress that's a private, confidential conversation that they have and the ethics rules are so lax and permissive, when they go to them to say, hey, by the way my son works for this company, is there a problem for me giving money to the company? there is routinely what we saw time and time and tile again the ethics committee gave them an opinion it is fine. the rules allow for this. the only way that you can know as a member of public or reporter can know that these exthicks opinions exist that the members discloses. you go to them, hey, in each of these cases hey, did you ask if this is okay? and in the process of asking that question we learned how lax and permissive the rules are. one case, hal rogers's case,

they talk of the fact with some of his earmark funds he secured, they repaved the driveway bib, abutting his property and for people who don't know what the that bib is, it is part of the sidewalk that dips down so when you come out of your driveway you can back out onto the street. that we're talking about that close. jenna: very close to home. to the point that you're trying to make. that is what is interesting. you. >> they don't have to disclose that. >> it is an important point. headline out of this, it may be legal but may not be necessarily right. that is something readers can make their own opinion on when they look at the work in the "washington post". a very investigative piece. kimberly, thanks very much for coming here to talk about it. >> thanks for having me. jon: iran is warning israel not to attack its nuclear facilities. you might be surprised by the reason. what a top member of the

revolutionary guard says about his nation's military capability. jenna: a stunning victory for former pennsylvania senator rick santorum. former arkansas governor and former presidential candidate mike huckabee joins us to weigh in. you have a couple questions for him. jon: indeed i do. no one was able to stop josh powell from brutally murdering his own sons. those close to him. we're hearing some of the 911 calls as the flames engulfed his home. wake up!

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her parents i should say. the social worker calling 911 after she was locked out of the house and it burst into flames. some of those audio tapes we'll play for you now. >> the kids were one step ahead of me, they are 5 and 7, they were one step ahead of me and he slammed the doctor in my face. >> you think he might have done this intentionally? >> yes. jon: dan springer is live in seattle. i guess there are other 911 calls as well, dan. >> reporter: jon, we knew that that 911 call from the case worker was going to be dramatic at one point it was a very long call, about 13 minutes. at one point she told the 911 ropter that she could hear one of the boys crying inside the house and she couldn't get inside. very tough stuff to listen to. we've learned that the prosecutors in utah had been pursuing the susan powell disappearance as a first-degree murder case for at least six months. also police say josh powell made

a $7,000 bank withdrawal on saturday, 24 hours before torching his house and killing his boys. no word on what happened to that money. and there were many other 911 calls released by police yesterday, including calls from neighbors who were frantic watching the house burn and calls from people who had received last-minute emails from josh paw he will. >> i saw on the news that there was a problem today and i did receive a strange email from him that he sent at 12:05 today. >> okay. >> he hasn't personally contacted me, but i did receive an email. >> what does the email say? >> i'm sorry, goodbye. >> what happened? >> god, i don't know. >> do you see smoke and fire? >> yes, a loud huge boom, and there is crap filing all over the place, dark smoke. there's other people that can see it. >> reporter: also a local prosecutor here in washington state said powell's final act amounted to a confession that he killed his wife, jon.

jon: lawmakers there in washington state are already looking into this? >> reporter: they are. they want to look into what happened in this case, and if something else could have been done. the lawmakers who oversee the department of social services are looking into why visitations were allowed to take place at josh powell's house. we've learned that he just rented that place a couple of months ago but was apparently still living in his father's house about a mile and a half away. initially the court-ordered visitations were caking place in a neutral location, which experts say is standard procedure in cases where a parent is under criminal investigation. >> here we have a guy who is a person of interest in the disappearance of his wife. you have the guy's father who is in jail for some other disgusting stuff related to children, and the supervision is okay for visitation, but a visitation at the home is just not appropriate. >> reporter: also, last night police searched a storage locker that was rented by josh polaroid, and the funeral for the boys, jon will be saturday.

jon: just awful all the way around. dan springer live from seattle. dan, thank you. we are america's election headquarters. a decisive victory for rick santorum in three states last night. key to that vote, social conservatives. exit polls show they voted big for rick santorum despite a huge push by mitt romney for those votes. one man who is very nam with social conservatives, former arkansas governor, presidential candidate. current host of huckabee, mike huckabee joins us live on the phone. with you surprised that rick santorum swept all three states yesterday? >> reporter: i really was, and more surprised by the margin. it was significant, a very, very big night for rick santorum. i think what it shows is that this race is a long way from over.

after each contest there are usualee the pundits that come on and say, romney is the inevitable, he's the likely nominee, it's a matter of time. i think what we saw yesterday is nobody is the inevitable anything, other than the inevitable fighter to try to stay in this race. jon: minnesota especially surprising to a lot of people, the former governor tim pawlenty has endorsed mitt romney and yet mitt romney came in third there. >> reporter: that was a huge surprise. and i think one of the things all of us were looking for is the analysis of what the voters were saying. did they vote overwhelmingly for rick santorum because of this issue that has blown up this week with the catholic church? i do think that's key rated an unbelievable outrage, not just among catholics, and not even just among christians, but against fair-minded people who don't think the government has any business in dictating the parameters of the practice of somebody's faith. jon: you think rick santorum as a practicing catholic is in part

the beneficiary of some of that. >> reporter: in part because he's catholic but i think the other part, no one has been more articulate on the issues for life, and for marriage, and what often are called the value-voter issues than rick santorum. he's talked about it, made it a center piece of his basic campaign, and i think he's maybe done the most effective job of articulating why those issues are important and it's resonated with voters this week. jon: governor huckabee, familiar to folks here on fox as the host of the huckabee program. governor, thanks for being with us. >> reporter: thank you, jon, great to be with you. jenna: this certainly will be one of the big issues overt next six months or so leading right up until the november elections. iran claiming the u.s. and israel are in no position to attack iran's nuclear facilities. that's from a senior military guard official. they say they are both susceptible to attack and wouldn't dare strike iran.

we have brett stevens with us. you say how should israel bomb iran question park and the how is in parentheses, how is that? >> the how is connected with the should. israel should bomb iran if it's going to strike decisively. if it's going to have a surgical attack that will set the iranians back by six months or one year, then the question becomes what is the point of that? if it's going to use the strike as a first stage in a broader program of regime change joined by the united states, then that is worthwhile. jenna: let's pick up on the joined by the united states part. there seems to be some confusion or concern out of washington that israel may act alone and strike without a great deal of heads up for us here back at home. do you think we have a plan in place, if they do that? >> i hope so. and, you know, what you're seeing now especially in the last few weeks, when there's been a great deal of chatter about the possibility of an

israeli strike on iran is a reflex of israeli mistrust and disappointment in the obama administration. you saw just this week president obama signing, or executing congressional sanctions against iran's central bank, but it's too little too late. iran by the view of our own defense secretary is within a year of having an effective nuclear capability. israel can't afford to wait two years to see whether american and western sanctions are really having effect or changing iranian minds, and the window is closing. jenna: we had this election in november and the time period before that. you say there is a big difference between president obama now and what he may do or not do as a newly reelected president. >> i think that's right. that is the israeli calculation. i think israelis are convinced that right now it's not in president obama's best interests to actively propose a strike for political considerations.

you saw the biggest applause line at state of the union was his stand for israel and to oppose iran. i think they think an israeli strike is a bad idea. i believe this administration this is they can live with a nuclear iran. people in jerusalem don't agree. jenna: some say that it's a bluff. that you shouldn't listen when they are talking so loudly. >> the difference is as the israeli defense minister put it iran is entering a zone of immunity, they will have too much material, too deeply buried to be susceptible to an israeli strike, and that window is closing for them unless they take advantage of this opportunity, they will have to live with a nuclear iran which will be devastating for israel's interest. jenna: so much more in this

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service guarantee cannot be offered to residents of new york. jon: new next hour, charlie hurd digest the rick santorum sweep last night. new polling from scott rasmussen with a few surprise. a love triangle murder case from the 08s i 80s is being tried right now. can dna evidence a quarter century old hold up in court? the army weighs in in our story of medivac chopper in afghanistan. is us policy costing u.s. troops who are wounded on the battlefield? jenna: the white house is reportedly looking to reach a compromise with with catholic leaders who are upset about a requirement to cover contraceptives in employee health plans under the new healthcare law. religious groups say any

compromise isn't good enough because it would violate religious principles. we are taking a look at bits and pieces of this today. let's start off with the white house. what do we know about this report of compromise and what that would mean. >> the short of it is that it is an election season. white house aids say the president was actually quite surprised by catholic leaders back hr-rb ove backlash over this. leaders who are outraged by this. that's given the republicans campaign fodder here. the white house said the only groups to be excluded from obamacare are churches and places of worship, but that catholic-based universities, hospitals must offer contraceptives, sterilizations and the morning-after-pill, and this is key, without co-pay here. monday, health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius defended the white house decision with a very firm op.edu piece in usa today.

the backlash has the president stepping back a bit on his position. he is trying to find compromise. he met with women's groups yesterday. the white house is weighing all kinds of options here. it's unclear if anything short of an all out reversal on the decision will be acceptable. jenna: it will be interesting to watch this story. thank you very much. jon: if you don't have time for that cup of coffee, but still need your caffeine kick there might be a way to get it. it just takes seconds, some experts say it my not be that safe. [ male announcer ] drinking a smoothie with no vegetable nutrition? ♪ [ gong ]

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you puff it, it shoots a lemon lime flavored powder into the user's mouth. most of that powder we understand is caffeine. the question, is it safe. dr. steven garner is an emergency specialist and chairman of radiology as new york's methodist hospital. >> for adults it's safe. i'm some are read about emergency room visits. kid will come in with arrhythmia attacks. this is not age restricted at all. jon: caffeine does stimulate the heart. i'm wondering b you're not supposed to use more than three shots of this a day, as i understand. kids being kids. >> who knows. lemon lime, they'll come up with

new flavors. who knows what is the next flavor of the day. jon: what happens if you ingest the entire bottle at once. >> it may cause heart arrhythmias, or a heart attack. not uncommon to see this in late-night emergency room settings. kids that use it every day are going to get osteoporosis. you can't object soerb the calcium and magnesium you need for the bones. it could lead to this in kids, not adults, kids. it disrupts their attention span. you get them in school they are not attention driven. jon: it's described as an ara sol, it's not designed to go directly into the lungs. >> it's a powder, really. you puff it in. jon: it hits the tongue. >> it's the kind of thing kids want to experiment with. i went and tried to find it today. i couldn't find it yet. once they start advertising for it you know the kids will figure this is a good way to get a high. it's banned in the olympics, caffeine because it's a performance improving

medication. it's looked upon as a drug and it's addicting. kids trying to get off of it are going to get headaches and irritability. jon: the argument is you could also drink eight cups of coffee. >> yes, a kid is less likely to drink eight cups. that takes a lot of effort and time and running to the bathroom. you can just take a little puff. this would be the wave of the future, you know, nothing. jon: dr. garner always good to talk to you. jenna: i don't know if people are going to give up their lattes. jon: i'm not. jenna: i don't think jon is. a very cute story here, a pair of dogs in need of medical attention new where to find it. they walked unaccompanied through the doors of a corpus christi hospital, curled up right underneath a secretary's death. although the hospital only indicators to humans, they got them the treatment they needed. they are looking for new homes.

they have pretty good noses, we know that for sure. jon: very cute and smart. mitt romney leads in the delegate count but rick santorum has won four states compared to romney's three. how do last night's victories change the republican race? also, you've probably heard of flash mobs breaking out at shopping malls and on busy city streets, now cash mobs are promising to help local businesses. how do you get in on that kind of action? ♪ money don't get everything it true. what it can't get i won't use. i want money. ♪ ♪ [car engine runs] [doors open]

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>> reporter: in the second hour of "happening now" "happening now" is all new stories you'll only see right here. the army is going to respond to a story we did yesterday questioning the effective of rc medivac teams. are there unnecessary delays in

getting the wounded off-the-field. a teenage girl in missouri learns her fate. she claims that she killed a young neighbor just for the thrill of it. we'll have that story straight ahead. also, take a look over here, this is a trial going on in los angeles, california, a retired detective on trial for a decades old murder accused of killing a romantic rival in a case that puts a 26-year-old dna sample under the microscope. rick santorum is trying to keep the momentum after big wins yesterday. the second hour of "happening now" starts right now. jenna: jenna: that was a big story. jon: we have charlie hurd talking about rick santorum in a bit. jenna: he's taking center stage today claiming victory in three states. many thought mitt romney would take your home state of colorado, did not happen. a new day in politics and we are glad you're with us, everybody, i'm jenna lee.

jon: i'm jon scott. the santorum campaign gets a huge boost winning colorado, minnesota and missouri. he is looking to reset the republican race and try to seize mitt romney's mantel as front runner. can he do that? joining us is charlie hurt. you wrote a column yesterday before the results were in that suggested this it's going to be mitt romney. can rick santorum really mount a surge at this point? >> he really did have a surprisingly good night last night, and, you know, you can't do any better than that. the problem of course being that it is -- it's more of a beauty contest than anything else. there were no delegates awarded, and it's also kind of getting late on in the context now to mount this sort of, you know, surge. the problem for mitt romney, of course, has been that he's faced so many of these contenders that have court of come up and tried

to coalesce the sort of ante mitt, the population of mitt voters that aren't comfortable with them that it gives you great pause. the advantage for rick santorum right now is there are fewer people now in the field than there ever have been. and if there are fewer people to sort of split that anti-mitt vote, and if he's able to pull that together and start raising money, that is key, he's got to start raising money and he's got to start winning contests where he gets delegates. then, you know, maybe we could be looking at something late. but that window is closing, and it's closing fast. jon: one could argue that mitt romney had a pretty bad night last night but newt gingrich had a really bad night. >> nobody had a night like newt. i think that newt -- if anyone thought that newt wasn't over before now i think it's clear that newt is definitely over at this point. he finished fourth in one of the contests. that is just not the sign of somebody who is carrying the

mantel of sort of one of the frontrunners. the other person to watch, of course, is ron paul. you know, there is no real, realistic path to victory for him, but he can act as a spoiler. if he stays in this race as long as i expect he will, because he does raise good money, if he stays in the race it's going to keep somebody like rick santorum from coalescing that anti-mitt vote. if he were to surprise everybody and get out, that to me would be the most dramatic thing that we could see happen i think. jon: candidates who want to show the mantel, carry the mantel of being the presumed nominee, they tend to leave their competitors aside and address the president whose office they want to take. that's what mitt romney has been doing. but last night we heard the same kind of thing from rick santorum. listen. >> ladies and gentlemen, i don't stand here to claim to be the

conservative alternative to mitt romney. i stand here to be the conservative alternative to barack obama. [applause] jon: so, can he make that case? >> yeah, i think he really can. i mean, you know, obviously he's been in washington for a longtime. and, you know, you can point to votes that he's taken. he's taken a lot of votes, and he was in senate leadership, which means he had to take a lot of smelly votes. but he is -- he's got pretty good conservative credentials. the problem, as i see it, is that, you know, in a place like south carolina, where social conservatives, fiscal conservatives do very well, he did very poorly there, and he did poorly there after having at that point we thought it was a tie in iowa, he should have carried that momentum, he started raising money after that. he should have done much better in a place like south carolina. but so far, you know, he's won where he's done best is in these three beauty contests last

night, and in iowa where he spent literally ten, 12 months on the ground, traveling the entire state, as the rest of the campaign goes you simply can't -- that is just not a feasible way to do a campaign, you know, going forward when you start getting these multiple state nights and going for months. jon: and the problem too is that rick santorum still lacks the organization and the money that the mitt romney campaign has. >> mitt romney has a lot of money, he's raised a lot of money, he has the best campaign you could possibly buy. and what that means is that over the long hall he's going t haul he's going to be in such a better position. look at what we've seen so far. how many people have come up as sort of the anti-mitt under scoring just how intense that sentiment is among republicans, but he's taken every single one. he's outlasted every single one of them and is still in a

position with a lot of money to go forward. i would still say most likely he will out last even santorum after last night. jon: charlie hurt is a columnist with the washington times. charlie, thanks. jenna: we heard that twice today about mitt romney out lasting everybody else. but we never know. we don't want to call it too soon. in the meantime a congressional committee is taking up what it calls an issue of economic freedom, one that pits unions against a number of governors. jim angle is live in washington with more. >> reporter: the issue is pretty simple actually, where the workers in private industry or government should have union dues automatically subtracted from their salaries whether they like it or not. and voluntary or not how much

they have to spend their money on political things they don't agree request. >> do unions have a right to know what is being taken, what it's being used for and why in fact being taken from hem. >> reporter: unions in 27 states can subtract money from paychecks. other states have right to work laws that prevent that. the supreme court ruled that any workers that have money taken from their checks have a right to object to it being spent on anything but collective bargaining, meaning political campaigns or lobbying. democrats agree on that point. >> unions may not force their members to pay for political activities they disagree with. unions are already subject to extensive administrative procedures and reporting reurp reporting requirements to insure they comply with those laws.

>> reporter: one uaw member says it happens any way because workers can't find out how much of their money is spent on political activities. >> my union was using my union dues to push a political agenda that i oppose. up to 40% or more of union workers actually vote for republican, that means almost 6 million union workers in the united states alone feel harassed and persecuted because of the political activities of their union officials. >> reporter: republicans i have issa says while it may be hard for workers to know how their money is spent. in 2010 alone unions spent $1.2 billion. the largest unions were representing government workers and service workers. jenna. jenna: jim angle for us in washington. thank you. [chanting] jon: it's a fox news business

alert. the chaos continues in greece as coalition leaders there inch closer to striking a deal. they are considering still more austerity measures, trying to put together a $170 billion bail out and avoid bankruptcy for the entire nation. ashley webster from the fox business network is keeping an eye on that and joins us now, ashley. >> it's like groundhog day but it's not a comedy, it's a completes nightmare. every day they face the same problem. they are running out of money, they have big bills to pay. another bill next month of $19 billion. they need yet another bail out. the european union and the monetary fund say look, okay but you'll have to promise and enact some strong austerity measures in order to get the bail out money. some of the sticking points, cutting minimum wage 20%. cutting pensions by 20%. cutting the public sector by some 15,000 workers this year alone. 150,000 workers over the next

three years. the whole aim is to trim more than $4 billion from the greek budget. as we've seen the protestors outside the parliament building people are not happy in greece. they say they've endured years and years of recession and you want us to cut more. leaders are meeting in the building trying to agree on the latest austerity measures. jon: they seem to think a lot of the things given this them by the government they are entitled to keep. >> there is really no choice for the greek leaders. if they don't get the money then we have a messy default. how can that affect the united states? well, it could be chaos in the banks system. there could be a run on banks in other weak european countries. as we know this banking system, global banking system is all intertwaoeud. i intertwined.

it could have an effect on american banks. jenna: the economy is going to be a major issue in the presidential race. this is something that scott rasmussen is constantly looking at. he will review new poll results for us in a few moments from now. the mysterious death of a young, pregnant mother. now her husband is on trial for the second time, and rick is at the web wall, rick. >> reporter: we are following politics at foxnews.com as well, jenna. in case you missed it stapbt r-r was on fox & friendrick santorum was on fox & friends. if you go to foxnews.com, all the politics you need, you can click and watch the interview rick santorum gave to the gang this morning. more of "happening now" after a quick break. don't go away. wake up! that's good morning, veggie style.

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today. a forensic psychologist endorsing john hinkley's jr.'s request for more freedom. saying he would not pose a significant risk to the public. he was found not guilty by reason of insanity in the 1981 attempted assassination of president reagan. he did shoot the president and wound him. the murder trial of a former lacrosse player now underway. george hugley faces murder charges in the death of his girlfriend yeardley love. he is accused of violently shaking her during an argument back in 2010. according to the prosecution that led to her death. a retrial underway in the case of a murdered pregnant woman in north carolina. michelle young's husband accused of beating her to death back in 2006. a jury couldn't reach a decision last summer, and now prosecutors are trying the case again. jon: a fox news alert and a brand-new poll just out showing mitt romney back on top in the republican race for president.

romney now holds a 7 point lead over newt gingrich in a national poll of republicans conducted on monday by rasmussen reports. two weeks ago newt gingrich was ahead in that poll by 7. independent pollster scott rasmussen is president of rasmussen reports.com and joins us now. this poll taken on monday, before yesterday's results mr. mitt romney took something of a drubbing, would we expect to see something different as a result of what happened yesterday in those three states? >> there mighting changes. we'll find out in a few days when we go back and poll. i wouldn't expect it to be a total reversal, the way it was after the south carolina results. the romney campaign should be a little bit concerned here, it's just a very soft frontrunner position. that's what this poll shows, last night's results showed. even when we asked head-to-head, would you prefer gingrich or romney, gingrich or santorum the frontrunner can't get above

50%. he has an awful lot of work to do if he wants to wrap-up this nomination. jon: you didn't just poll voters about how they felt about the republican candidate, you asked how they feel about mitt romney versus president obama and there are some interesting changes in that poll. romney down 47-43 against the president in that poll. >> that's right. we track this every single day right now. but the average for the last few weeks as been about a 4-point margin in favor of the president. what we've noticed is if you went back and looked at all of 2011 the the president was getting in the low to mid 40s, right around the same range that romney was. now the president is getting in the mid to high 40s. his position has improved, romney is not. you see the president is opening up just a little bit of a lead. jon: when you put those poll results on a chart, and we've got that, it shows how the president's numbers seem to be on the increase just a little bit. they kind of traded places there

throughout much of -- late 2011 and earlier this year, but the president seems to have opened up a little more consistent lead against mitt romney in that bar graph. can you explain that? is that a sign that the president's popularity is on the rebound? >> yes. there is a lot of republicans that are concerned saying, oh, it's because the republicans are too busy beating up on each other. actually the president's job approval rating is up. for political junk he's i it's hard to believe, but it is outside of the political venue. consumer confidence is at the highest levels in the last four years. people don't feel good about the economy but they feel less badment as that improves the president's electability goes up. jon: the voters deaden lee split and whether the president is doing a good job or not. you also asked people about

their preferences for congress. obviously it's an election year, but the congressional elections will be highly contested as well. you've got republicans just asking folks whether you like a generic republican or a generic democrat to represent them. it's pretty evenly split, 43-41 republican-democrat. how is that number changing versus what you've scenery sent lee? >> we track this every week. last week, actually the democrats were up by a point, first time in two and a half years they've been ahead. generally this has been getting closer. the republicans for most of last year had about a 6-point advantage. it's been tightening in recent weeks and i expect it will stay very close as you go on. there is a great way to keep this in perspective. we also asked people who would do the better job, the current congress are, or people selected there the phone book? the phone book won. jon: looking forward to the results of your next poll. in the meantime folks can check

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jon: new information in the case of a missouri teenager who confessed to killing a nine-year-old girl. we have the breaking developing -plts on a case that's been in court for nearly two years. >> reporter: this is a tough

story. we should warn the viewers the details of this case are graphic and disturbing. they say alyssa bustamante was a killer with no remorse. the defense says sheee tkefrs she deserves freedom some day. she allegedly lured a nine-year-old into the woods promising a surprise. when the little girl got there she was strangled and stabbed and had her throat cut by the 8th grader. then she was buried in a shallow grave that alyssa bustamante had dug ahead of time. one of the most chilling parts of this murder, after she confessed to the crime she wrote in her journal that it was amazing, a pretty enjoyable experience. she wrote she did it because she wanted to know how it felt. she cried on the stand yesterday for the first time in two years when the prosecution made a passionate plea for a life sentence. her grandparents left the courtroom, her mom had abandoned

her but showed up for the first time yesterday at the trial. alyssa bustamante said if i could give my life to bring her back i would. the judge gave her a sentence of 30 years, with possibility of parole one day, exactly when she would be eligible is not clear. jon: a sad story all around. jenna: an update to a story we did necessary about new concerns about the effectiveness of getting wounded troops off the battlefield for life-saving medical treatment. an army specialist stepped on a land mine in december. he survived that but died after it took them an hour to get him off the battlefield and bring him back to the base. army policies require armed escorts for medivac helicopters, which can reportedly cause delays, and that apparently was the situation here. this report caught the eye of congressman todd akin a member of the house armed services committee whom we spoke to

yesterday. take a listen. >> the air force is obviously doing it a different way. they have helicopters that have guns on them that still can pick up patients. the question is when the people in afghanistan pay no attention to the white cross on the helicopter does it not make sense to put machine guns so that you don't have to wait for the escort helicopter? jenna: joining us live lieutenant general john campbell. operations officer for the u.s. army. he just returned from afghanistan. let's start with some of the basics. why aren't medivac helicopters armed. >> thanks very much for the opportunity. first off medivac helicopters in the army is told by department of defense that we have this mission. we are the only service that controls medivac helicopters. in arming of the helicopters is not really think the issue. you mentioned that it was a policy. there is not a dod, not an army or a theater policy that mandates that you have to arm or have escort helicopters follow medivac helicopters that are armed. so we do not arm our helicopters, they have a red

cross by the geneva convention. they are trained, manned equipped to do nothing but medivac missions, and we think that is very, very important. we continue to learn lessons learned and we want to do everything we can and make sure there is no doubt in people's minds that we will do everything we can to make sure we get our patients out. it's a balance to the risk of the patients and air crews as we go in to bring our pants out. jenna: that is such a delicate balance. we understand that. the situation in december that kind of sparked that story where specialist clark lost his life raised some red flags. it took 50 minutes to get a helicopter to him. according to reports on the ground and we are seeing video of the mission because a former green beret turned blogger was on the mission with the army, according to his reports an ap apathc was not available to

escort this medivac helicopter, and that caused the delay. and the delay apparently attributed to his loss of life. are you saying that that requirement to have an armed escort wasn't really the case here, that maybe something else was going on? >> i can tell you from my experience on the ground, that decision whether or not to provide an armed escort to a medivac helicopter is made on the ground by the theater commander. it's based on a lot of decisions. basically the threat on the ground. we want our helicopters that are manned, equipped and trained purposely for the medivac mission to be able to do that. we make that call. in this particular case i don't know all the particulars and again under investigation, but if the guy on the ground says that we need to get medivac hells very quickly in there and the conditions on the ground are so that we don't need to provide over watch, that another armed aircraft provides to it then they can make that call on the ground. we are all about doing everything we can to insure that

we get our patients out and get them back, and a 92% success rate is very, very good, the highest we've ever had. we want to learn lessons from this and get better. jenna: it's interesting you mention it's under investigation, this particular situation. it bears mention again that you've spent a lot of time in afghanistan, your son is deploying to afghanistan, you have a lot at stake here, professionally and personally. we want to make sure we talk to you and get and indianaing of whether or not the army needs more resources on the ground. do you need more apache helicopters, do you need more medivac helicopters, are there some things that we could provide as a nation to you that you need in afghanistan to do the job better, more efficiently, to get 9 2% to 100%? what can do you. >> we appreciate the great support from congress and the american people for providing us the resources. as a commander on the ground every single night we would take a hard look at all the resources and dedicate those resources for particular missions.

i don't think there is an argument on apaches or the number of helicopters over there. i talked to theater as early or as late as yesterday. did not have that concern with the commander's on the ground that they needed additional helicopters. we continue to move those in. the other piece out there is about the air force versus the army. we had a great meeting with our air force counterparts yesterday. they have a particular mission with the type of helicopter on your show yesterday and that is for combat search and air rescue and it's in the for medivac. they have august phepblted the army where we've needed them to do that and we are appreciative of that fact. i don't think it's a resource issue, the demanders on the ground have enough flexibility to make those calls. when we have cases that soldiers do not make it back in time for the hospital every one of them is looked at hard. jenna: to clarify for viewers who may not have seen that conversation yesterday. there was a question whether or not the air force has resources to send what is a version if you will of a medivac helicopter, a smaller crew, different capabilities to this area to get

this soldier out and whether or not there was a policy problem with releasing the air force to do that because this was an army unit. you're saying that is not the case, that is an important part of the story as well. >> absolutely not. the air force has august phepblted our medivac when they can do that. they have different capabilities based on terrain and weather. when we need them they've been able to do that. their primary mission is search and rescue, pilot recovery. the army has the mission to provide medivac for all of our services. even when the air force aircraft have gone in many times we dispatch apache to provide our best support for them even though they have machine guns on the air force helicopters. i think we're doing everything we can. jenna: we're glad that you're with us. we are glad that you are back home, and best to you and your family. we look forward to having you back on again. >> thanks very much, jenna lee. jon: a little more politics ahead. former pennsylvania senator rick santorum making a huge come back in the race for the white house winning three states last

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jon: we are america's election headquarters. there is now fallout from rick

santorum's clean sweep last night. he wins the missouri primary as well as the minnesota and colorado caucuses. how are the candidates reacting? alicia ac u.n. a for us live. >> reporter: the candidates are back on the campaign trail putting their own spin on how things shaked out last night. rick santorum is riding his momentum into the state of texas where he is courting republicans for the 155 delegates there. he acknowledged his win in missouri was basically a beauty contest with no delegates attached but says it's important. he told bret baier this last night. >> well, you know, that is the same process in minnesota and colorado that iowa goes through, and mitt romney seemed to spend a heck of a lot of time and energy in iowa, this time and four years ago. these caucuses manner. this primary in missouri is going to be a huge indicator. we got over 50% of the vote.

>> reporter: as for mitt romney, a senior campaign adviser says in the coming weeks look for romney to make a mor a more distinct difference between himself and his rivals, something the candidate is hitting on already. >> this is a clear choice. i'm the only person in this case, republican or democrat who has never served a day of time in washington. in the world i come from, leadership is about starting a business, not trying to get a bill out of committee. >> reporter: as for ron paul he greeted supporters in minnesota, thanking them for his second-place finish there and assured he would continue. newt gingrich is visiting a jergins factory today. he didn't make a speech last night. earlier he said he figured santorum would fare well. the state of maine wraps up its week-long caucus on saturday. on february 28th arizona and michigan have caucuses. washington state, onto

march 6th, super tuesday, ten states hold contests and del tkpwart delegates are up for grabs. jenna: a former l.a.p.d. detective is on trial for murder, accused of shooting and beating her ex-boyfriend's wife 26 years ago. there is a lot of twists and turns to this story, rick, and you have some of the back story for us. >> reporter: shooting and beating and biting, which is very important in this case, we'll explain why. when this murder was committed dna testing wasn't yet the gold standard for investigators, but now 26 years later it's what has allowed police to arrest stephanie lasa ruz. she is a former los angeles police detective who is accused of beating, biting and fatally

shooting sheri rasmussen, the woman who married the man that lazarus was in love of in college. the defense says the retired detective is innocent. the evidence is based on dna samples collected from her which match dna found in the bite wounds that the victim sustained in that attack. the chances that the bite marks came from someone other than l lazarus is minuscule. jenna: let's see what dr. baud den thinks about this. a forensic pathologist, famous. has dealt with so many big cases. a cold case from the 1980s.

this dna evidence from the bite. how big of a deal is that? >> it is a big deal, it's probably the most significant forensic and physical evidence that is going to be introduced at the trial. what is interesting, back in 86, before dna, dna comes in 1989, if somebody was bitten a swab would be taken with something like a q-tip to look for the blood type of the perpetrator, abo blood type. jenna: they weren't looking for dna at all in the way that we understand it. >> that's right. because of the bite mark they took the swab and kept it in a package, and the package did seem to deteriorate over time but not the dna. jenna: that's what the defense is saying, though, that a lot of this evidence has been mishandled. you've got the paper of the package is open, and you see the vial sticking up from the top, there is all these questions about how well it was kept. do you think that will fly? will that affect the case? >> i don't think that will fly.

that will be complained about by the defense, but even if the package deteriorates the dna doesn't. jenna: that's it. there is nothing that can spoil it? >> no, i don't think anything can. we have dna from mammoths a hundred thousand years ago, and we dug up some bodies in russia. jenna: she bit this girl. they say she went after the wife of her lover and bit her and now what the prosecution is saying is that she also shot and killed her. >> yes, what they did -- she was there, the dna shows she was there, and she bit her, and what is of concern here is that she was shot three times. they recovered the bullets. they never asked to check it against her gun, the detective's gun. jenna: that is a key part of it. this detective was off from work the day that this murder happened, and she reported that her gun was stolen from her car

several weeks later. >> right, not immediately. nobody went to check her gun, even though they knew that she was the jilted ex-girlfriend and the family said, look at her she probably did it. jenna: if you were the forensic expert on this case, what other questions would you ask. what would you want to bring in other than the dna evidence on the bite mark. >> the other thing would be to compare the bullets to the gun, which they could have done for a few weeks before she said it was stolen. check her alibi, where she was on that day. jenna: she called in sick. >> was she at home? and also she had fingernails. remember the broken fingernails, woman's fingernails at the scene. jenna: they didn't match her. they said there are hair samples at the scene and also fingernails that did not actually match the defendant which cast doubt on whether or not she is the one that did it. >> that would be an issue that will come up at the trial.

the fingernails themselves, just see if she had any broken fingernails. i don't know if they checked her to see if she had any fingernails. jenna: a cold case is becoming hot again. >> the dna is going to carry the day under any circumstances. jenna: lots of allegations, we'll see where it goes in court, jon. she got married. she has a family who is on trial and she'll see if she'll be in prison for longer. jon: what a case. thanks. a new phenom mom popping up across the nation. what are these so-called cash mobs? what about this growing trend? that is next. are you receiving a payout from a legal settlement or annuity over 10 or even 20 years? call imperial structured settlements.

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boehner talking about the healthcare mandate that would require all employers regardless of faith and believe to offer insurance coverage for contraception. here is part of what he had to say. >> if the president does not reverse the department's attack on religious freedom then the congress acting on behalf of the american people and the constitution that we are sworn to uphold and defend must. jon: we will continue to keep an eye on this controversy, have more as we get it. jenna: a new trend called cash mobbing is sweeping the nation apparently. promising to give local businesses a big financial boost. organizers in rhode island are hoping to cash in but they are not the only ones. david aspen is with us with more on this. cash mobs, have you ever been a part of one? >> i have not. they don't take credit cards. usually when i wear my street clothes i do have cash. i'm looking at denver, colorado,

michigan. gainesville, florida, knoxville, tennessee. these are places where most of the businesses is carried on by small business. small business is the backbone of our economy as we know they are the ones getting killed by the national retail stores, the walmarts, et cetera and they are the ones that the cash mobs focus on. they are the ones who folks in the community are trying to pump up their volume. in tennessee 97% of all businesses are small businesses. over 50% of the community is employed by small businesses so they are targeting the small places. jenna: we talked about other retail mobs where the kids rush in in a group and steal things from the store. that's not this. this is different. this is a different outcome. how do you get to be the store where there is a cash mob. >> that's a very good question. somebody has to choose the businesses. and interestingly enough probably this is the one thing that occupy wall street crowd has done right. jenna: in your opinion. >> in my opinion. they have switched from protesting and throwing stones

at cops and everything to doing some of this. in some areas. they are the ones who pick businesses that have been in the community for a longtime for generations. they inform the businesses beforehand, so if they want to staff up they can do that. they inform the local newspaper and media outlets and inform the local bar so they can go and have a drink afterwards. the whole thing is pretty well planned. jenna: you show up with $20 in your pocket. the aim is if you're part of that mob you spend the money. >> you spend the money. you get nice discounts as a result of that. everybody benefits. it's a small town thing. it's not going to change the economy in any big way, but it can't hurt, right. jenna: especially if you're a small business and you're struggling. if you're part of a cash mob send us a photo. >> justin tuck will be on power at 9:00pm. jenna: we have a lot of patriot

fans in our control room. >> we talked about that insurance mandate that is causing so much controversy, apparently governor romney in massachusetts in 2005 required catholic institution toss do the same thing. so is romney care really that much different from obamacare? we'll be talking about that. jenna: we'll have to have you back to talk about that. david asmen. jon: i'd like to reward david asmen for coming over here. we appreciate you coming on the program. jenna: he's a big spender that jon scott. jon: there is your a hrourpbs for this week. we first brought you this story earlier in the week. as much as $3 billion in presentation metals lost in a shipwreck until now. an undersea explorer claiming he found the sunken treasure. even if he recovers it does it belong to him? we are live with an update, coming up.

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jon: a treasure hunter claims he discovered a world war ii shipwreck carrying billions of dollars worth of platinum. even if he retrieves the cargo will he get to keep it? molly line is live in east boston, massachusetts. molly. >> reporter: the story has a lot going for it. there is intrigue, adventure on the high seas and a sunken treasure with what the treasure hunters hope will be billions of dollars of platinum and gold. to talk about it with me is greg pwraorbgs. he is the co-founder of subject sea research out of maine. what makes you think you've got

the right ship? you have historical documents and you've been looking for it. >> we know it's the right ship, we are positive. we saw the name on the but of the ship which is the most exciting day i think we've ever had. we've seen boxes down there that matched boxes of other buell kwropb boxes. we've seen precious medals. the next step is to get out there and pull it up. >> reporter: we are talking about a ship 700 feet down in an area with whipping currents and tough weather. >> you've got that right. if it was easy everybody would do it. this is probably the most difficult thing we've ever done. it is doable. we have to go out there between weather windows and fight the currents. there are great white sharks swimming around the boat at times. we've seen everything out there. it's a hard job but we are equipped to do it now and we are getting ready. >> reporter: speaking of sharks obviously there is something to be said of finders keepers here.

you would like to keep this pressure if you can bring it up to the surface. but there might be a lot of people interested in this. how do you stake a claim. >> we filed a federal ad a federal admiralty claim. we followed all the legal things and the maritime laws, and we will continue to do that and bring it up. >> reporter: this was a british merchant vessel sung in 1992 by a german u boat. it was a payment by russia to the u.s. what about the different governments involved here, britain, russia, the u.s. >> what people fail to realize it's a bank to bank transfer. it's private banking that did the shipping. the governments are standing there saying, well it may be mine, it may be mine they have no proof that it was. it was the private banks and the banks are no longer in existence. worst case scenario we may have to pay back the value of the material when it was loss buy is

around 50 million. >> reporter: thank you so much, i appreciate it. good luke on the rest of you good luck on the rest of your adventure. jon: molly, thank you. we'll be right back. hey, did you ever finish last month's invoices? sadly, no. oh. but i did pick up your dry cleaning and had your shoes shined. well, i made you a reservation at the sushi place around the corner. well, in that case, i better get bk to these invoices... whh i'll do right after making your favorite pancakes. you know what? i'm going to tidy up your side of the office. i can't hear you because i'm also making you a smoothie. [ male announcer ] marriott hotels & resorts knows it's

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