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it's hard not to have that on sunday to look forward to. what will we do for ourselves? we'll have to prepare for the show and watch the news i guess. jon, have a great weekend. jon: "america live" starts right now. megyn: fox news alert president obama offering up what white house aids are calling and accommodation not a compromise to his controversial birth control policy. welcome to "america live." i'm alisyn camerota in for del kel. the president announced a plan that no longer provides rehraoeupblg just institutions to provide contraceptive coverage to employees. this had become the political hot potato angering people on the left and right who teld it was unconstitutional and an infringement on religious freedoms. instead insurance companies will have to offer free birth control
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to these workers. here is more from the president. >> today we've reached a decision on how to move forward. under the rule women will still have access to free preventative care, that includes contraceptive services, no matter where they work, so that core principle remains. but if a woman's employer is a charity or hospital that has a religious objection to providing contraceptive services as part of their health plan, the insurance company, not the hospital, not the charity, will be required to reach out and offer the woman contraceptive carefree of charge. i've been confident from the start that we could workout a sensible approach here. just as i promised. i understand some folks in washington may want to treat this as another political wedge issue, but it shouldn't be. >> reporter: chris stirewalt is the fox news politics editor and
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host of power play on foxnews.comlive. it seems from the outside as though this issue sort of blew up much bigger than the white house ever expected. >> reporter: look remembers this starts january 20th and moves forward to today. we are still far from over, you can tell we are far, far from over on this subject, but basically what happened was the department of health and human services, kathleen sebelius, the secretary there promulgated a rule, said here is the new rule, everybody has to provide these kinds of things, the morning-after-pill included, sterilization procedures included, regardless of religious exception. excluding churches, but charities that are run by churches that oppose this were fold they are not going to have a choice. a lot of pressure spins up on the right immediately. then senator tom casey from pennsylvania, joe manchin from west virginia, other sort of red
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state or swing state democrats stepped forward and said this is not going to work. what the president is trying to do today is straddle. he's trying to say, he still has the authority to require this. he's keeping the rule but saying that he's going to shift the onus off of the religious institutions themselves and onto their insurance companies, he's hoping it can make it stick. >> reporter: chris the white house was very clear before the president came out to make the statement to release information that this was an accommodation, not a compromise. you speak washington ese, what does that mean? >> reporter: what it means is that the president, if he is seen as caving in on this issue to the catholic church, to people concerned about religious liberty then he will offend a very important part of his base, women, and we heard divides inside his own administration, women on the left who say this is an issue of providing
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pre-contraception. this is a moral issue for them too. if he's seen as caving in it's not going to work. probably the worst news for the t-t today i president today is that the reaction from the left has been very favorable to what he's done. that sounds good but he probably didn't sell it to those on the right, so the straddle may not have worked. >> reporter: thank you for helping us understand this. many catholic leaders were huge critics of the original policy. we'll get reaction from the president of the catholic league and we'll ask him how he interprets this change and what impact it will have on catholic voters. fox news alert for you now, because the largest gathering of conservative leaders and activists is underway right now in washington. three of the hour republican presidential hopefuls are speaking today, including mitt romney at this moment. let's listen in. >> the very heart of american conservatism is the conviction that the principles embodied in
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the constitution and the declaration of independence are uniquely powerful, foundational and defining. some see the hand of providence in the crafting of these principles, others are more likely to credit the brilliance of the founders themselves. i think a lot of us, like me, see both at play. but conservatives all agree that departing from the founding principles would represent a depar tour from the greatness of america, from our mission, from our freedom, from our prosperity, from our purpose. i know that this president will never get it, but we conservatives aren't just proud to cling to our guns and religion, we are also proud to cling to our constitution. [applause] >> the wisdom of our founding documents is that they see the nation's prosperity not as a
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product of government, but as the product of individual citizens, each pursuing happiness. the key to the success of the american experiment is this. america doesn't just exist for the people, it has been made exceptional by the people. [applause] it's this brilliance, a free people, pursuing their own dreams, achieving success in their own ways, that's what's propelled america and has made us to be the most prosperous nation and most powerful nation in the history of the earth. now there are a lot of politicians on both sides of the aisle that have forgotten that if they ever rile understood it at all. they've fallen under the spell of washington. politicians, you know, they are routinely elected by promising that they are going to change washington. but when they came here they
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became creatures of washington. they begin to see government as the answer to every challenge, and the solution forever problem. at every turn they try to substitute the heavy hand of government for free citizens, and free enterprises operating in a freeman's. they think government knows better and can do better than a free people exercising their free will. and this president is the worst offender. barack obama is the poster child for the arrogance of government. [applause] and so as i say across this country, this election really is about a battle for the soul of america, and it's going to come down to a choice, a choice between whether we want a nation to be of and by washington, or a nation of and by a free people. and we conservatives believe in freedom, and free people, and
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free enterprises. [applause] >> reporter: you're listening to mitt romney there speaking live before a cpac audience. he's talking of course about his vision for america. if you'd like to watch more of that you can do that at foxnews.com. it is streaming live for you there right now. well, syria's government is intensifying the brutal crackdown on its own people. alternate least 28 people have been killed in twin bomb attacks in syria's financial center. syria's regime blaming what it calls foreign-backed terrorists. this as syria's full tilt assault on the city of homs enters its 7th day. syrian forces are making their first moves on the ground to seize control of the city that is seen as the epicenter of the rebel's resistance. hundreds of people, including women and children reportedly killed this week alone in homs. syrian activists say 6,000 people have died in the up
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rising. waddominique d-natali is streaming live for us. >> reporter: it's been a very ugly and bloody day yet again in syria today, most particularly in aleppo, that is the largest city in the north of the country, some 25 people apparently killed. nearly as many as 200 people injured as a result of two strikes on military installations and security installations in the city there. this is according to syrian state tv who showed very horrific live pictures of the casualties there, including one corpse that had been decapitated from the force of the blast and other bodies on the ground with limbs missing, too sensitive to show on u.s. tv. the government blaming terrorists is how it described the opposition. they struck back right away and said it was a cynical ploy by
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the government and they are the ones that per traited the acts. foreign journalists are given very limited access to syria at the moment. in homs continued violence there, and there are several thousand syrian troops who surrounded and cordoned off the city and are moving in very closer. you talk about moving into ground positions there, the free syrian army is effectively conducting a guerilla warfare. the arab league is trying to come up with a solution to help end the violence. so far, no, no tangible results coming out. people here in the region feel there will be continued violence until some solution is actually found. back to you. >> reporter: thank you for the update from there. should the u.s. and the west do more to help the syrian people, and what can we do? fox news national security analyst kt mcfarland is going to
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weigh in in ten minutes on "america live." there are major developments this afternoon in the battle of forcing religious institutions to offer contraception coverage to employees. the president now says that will not be the case. so does the fight end here, or is it just heating up? plus, a new effort to help americans who lost their homes or oh more than their homes are worth. could this end up hurting our fragile economy? and men may be from mars, but they won't be going there any time soon. details on a plan to cut nasa funding. plus we'll ask a former astronaut about the future of u.s. space exploration. >> by the mid 2030s i believe we can send human humans to orbit mars and return them safely to earth, and a landing on mars will follow. and i expect to be around to see it. [applause] k that that's something
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alisyn: israel and the u.s. announcing a successful test of a joint missile defense system over the mediterranean sea. this is footage you are about to see from a previous test launch of the arrow weapons system developed by the u.s. and israel. it's intended to intercept ballistic missiles fired from iran. you can see this test was a success. coming up in the next hourly land vittert is live in jerusalem for us on this huge step forward in israel's security. syria's regime is stepping up it's assault on the city of homs killing at least 28 people, injuring nearly 200 more. this as the white house is finding itself under increasing pressure to do more to oust syrian leader bashar al-assad. fox news national security analyst kt mcfarland host of fox news live depcon3 joins me
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live. we understand an envoy is traveling overseas to put together a friend of syrian coalition, involving ma rocco, france, bahrain, turk key. is there anything this coalition can do to stop what is happening in sear wra? >> you know there is very little anybody can do at this point because the united nations, and particularly russia and china have vetoed anything that might even smack of a slight condemnation on the part of the united nations. at best, maybe what these friends of syria can do is have some kind of a safe harbor for refugees to flee to. but the military option with syria, even the diplomatic option with syria is really not there any more. and there are a couple of reasons. the first one is that syria -- okay, first of all syria has some very powerful friends. unlike, for example libya where far fewer people were killed than in syria already.
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but syria has iran. and this is iran's major ally in the region. iran is not going to give up syria without a fight. the second thing is who do we help? there is no real syrian army, not like there was with libya. so we can't really give military assistance to something that doesn't even exist yet. and the third thing is that we're pretty stretched thin. we've got two aircraft carriers in the persian gulf. we are sending the third one there. the president has already said he's getting out of the middle east, he wants to pivot to asia. it leaves us without very many options unfortunately and sadly. to me the issue really, sad as it is to see what is going on today in syria, the issue really isn't syria, the issue is iran. because iran uses syria as its neighboring's tail. if you want to kill a snake you don't just top off the tail you chop off the head. that's why we really need to confront the issue that we've got with iran and the nuclear weapons and their expanding into the region.
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alisyn: what are you suggesting we do about iran? >> i think we've got to do something right now to cause their economy to so teeter that it really chancess, so that the iranian people themselves rise up and demand regime change. the same way that reagan so stressed the some of yacht economy in the middle 1980s that the soviet people rows up to change their regime. if we don't do that and don't do it soon we will be stuck with several louse key options, and that is to bomb iran knowing it will ignite a regional war in that middle east and in fact even coming back to haunt us in the united states, or let iran get the bomb which means every country in the region will nuke up and the next conflict you have in the middle east, for 3,000 years there is always a conflict in the middle east could well go nuclear. alisyn: you think if we hurt iran financially that would have an effect on syria, stopping this brutal crackdown.
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it's been going on for 11 months. 5400 people including women and children at least have been killed, but you think that would stop if we hurt iran in that way? >> unfortunately it wouldn't stop it fast enough. here is what i'm proposing. if we have an option c for iran. when i worked for harry kissinger. option a, bomb iran, option b let iran get the bomb. you want option c, which is to stress their economy. whhow would you do that? by sanctions that really prevent iran's oil from getting to the world market. that is 80% of their gnp. if they were unable to sell their oil on the international market because we use banking options to stop them, then iran is out of money in a matter of weeks or months. at that point no matter for hezbollah and hamas. no money for the syrian thugs. no money for all the
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unbelievable subsidies they give their own people. the iranian leadership at that point is so busy hanging onto their heads they don't have time to do all these other things. alisyn: always great to have your expertise. thanks so much. >> thanks. alisyn: shocking new testimony in a high profile murder case involving a college lacrosse player. he's accused of beating his ex-girlfriend to death in a jealous rage. what the jury is hearing about george huguely from people that knew him yet. we're going to take a closer look at the president's option to help out people who are in for lows you are. >> it's good for our neighbors, our communities and our economy. . it's good. honey, i love you... oh my gosh, oh my gosh.. look at these big pieces of potato. ♪ what's that? big piece of potato. [ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup.
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alisyn: new concerns today about the 26 billion-dollar foreclosure settlement involving five of the nation's largest mortgage lenders. the deal is meant to put cash back in the pockets of struggling homeowners that were wronged by abuses in the mortgage industry, but there are fears that it could trigger a new wave of home seizures. fox business network's cheryl pasoni is here. how does the deal work? >> we got this major settlement with the banks yesterday, the $25 billion settlement. many "wall street journalists" that cover the banks says it has a two hold effect on the banks. these five names hold 55% of outstanding mortgages across the country. what does it mean if they have loans underneath them that are in jeopardy. they have potentially foreclosures they have not moved forward with. that is the problem, that is the next wave of this to hit. yes you've got money settlements
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going to certain people. yes you'll have some refinancing happening under the big settlement. moving past that on to the next thing. that's how wall street is, we always look at the next thing, the next thing, more foreclosures will hit in 2012. that is the real problem. these banks because of the 16-month saga going on with the federal government, with the state attorneys general is you'll have new foreclosures hitting the market over and over because they've been hold officer for the last 16 months. the banks have been holding onto these loans, people are delinquent. there are squatters in some of these homes, those homes will be a new chunk of foreclosures and it will start hitting in the next two to three months. that's bad for housing. that's what we didn't want to see. to be honest with you we were expecking this to happen. alisyn: that is ominous. what does it do for the economy as a whole? >> frankly we've gone getting some good data, whether it's on jobs, whether it's on consumer sentiment, we got some of that today, not bad economic date a.
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but every economist that you talk to will tell you you've got to get housing fixed. how do you get housing fix stphed that would be by job creation in this country. the administration on the other side and the president has a 5 to $10 billion plan that he'd like to get passed in addition to the $25 billion settlement he says we need to help the struggling homeowners. i've talked to some that are very much about free markets. you know what they told me. let this all fall. this people are in homes that they can't afford foreclosure has to happen. that could be the bottom that we are looking for in housing and the economy could build from there. alisyn: this sounds like a different tack than that. thank you for explaining this landmark deal to us. one of the big stories of the day, the president announcing what he calls an accommodation over his controversial birth control policy. we will get new reaction from religious groups, a live report.
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plus, bombshell testimony in the trial of a college lacrosse player accused of murder. what a romantic rival of orang george huguely saw him do before he saw him beat to death yeardley love. a man escapes from a psychiatric hospital who was stalking madonna. another celebrity he could be going after right now. >> when he doesn't take his medicine he's very violent. because of the level of psychosis he always has the potential to become violent. absg the calcium they take because they don't take it with food. switch to citracal maximum plus d. it's the only calcium supplement that can be taken with or without food. that's why my doctor recommends citracal maximum. it's all about absorption.
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alisyn: a fox news alert because of a dramatic turn of events. the president announcing an accommodation to his birth control policy. now we have new reaction from catholic leaders. lauren green is live in our new york city newsroom. >> reporter: catholic groups say the president's accommodation is not a game changer because it still leaves out scores of organizations and businesses who have objections. the lawsuit against the mandate said this is a compromise designed to protect the president's reelection chances,
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not conscience. hundreds if not thousands of religious institutions are still left in the cold and will be forced to violate their religious convictions. a spokesman from wake forest issued a statement saying the president's accommodation both resolves the religious liberty concerns and respects the interests of americans who would like to have these important health benefits. the plan recognizes the government should not force religious entities to pay for benefits not provided by their faith. the usccb has been raising the battle cry or religious liberty for abortion and gay adoption. the contraception mandate is part of a larger concern over religious freedom. a source i talked to said the bishops will still going to send the message that they will not
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back down. alisyn: now to the possible political fallout. alan colmes is the host of the alan colmes show, and david webb, gentlemen, thanks so much for being here. alan, why this about-face. >> obviously this is getting pushback so he's trying to please as many peoples he can. i think they calculated 77% of women favor this and 58% of catholic women and he didn't think there would be political fallout because those people who oh poise would probably not vote for him anyway. but i think he's trying to find a way to make as many people here happy as he can. alisyn: what do you make of it? >> that's the argument that foes back and forth and never gets resolved. but let's go to the constitution on this.
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the constitution protects the rights of the individual or the organization prohibiting -- the government basically telling any religious institution what to do. the president went past that. this is yet another failure of obama-care, and what comes with it. this is in effect another form of waiver on top of 1,200 waivers to resolve a problem within it. the president may appease his base. he's trying to look like he did not have a loss here. but what he has done is still using blunt force by telling them we'll have demand insurance companies and companies that are not religious institutions go along with this. >> institutions are not people. opinion spite of the fact the supreme court and citizens united says corporations are people. alisyn: was the white house naive to think this wouldn't cause a firestorm? >> maybe a little bit.
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they didn't expect the kind of pushback or they would have had a different plan in the first place. but the fact that he's willing to accommodate is a positive thing. >> willing to change? he was not willing to change. he got a lot of pushback on this. this a conundrum. if you want to get into bed with liberals and certain policies and you have to fight them on policies that goes against your tenets, that's the forced change. >> if you are a public institution with a public accommodation, you employ people. all faiths, you take taxpayer dollars, you have to play by the rules, that's the way it works. alisyn: the new accommodation is no longer will catholic universities or hospitals have to provide the benefit for free.
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it's up to insurance companies. >> it's not healthcare reform as much as insurance company reform. it's all about insurance companies. this is the focus. >> we needed in this country veal reform in healthcare delivery and insurance. what we got was this obama-care package that didn't resolve the existing problems. another waiver informed to accommodate another group. we are not resolving problems. if you have a problem go to the insurance companies first. the obama administration knows what they are doing. sebelius knows what they want to do. it's unwilling change. >> the best change, medicare would give everybody coverage. alisyn: does this issue go away on the campaign trail? >> i think it won't be as big an issue for the president as
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conservatives would like it to be. people who oppose this would not likely vote for him anyway. what he has done today helps him even further. >> it does hurt him with independents. independents will decide the election and independents will look at this as a government intrusion, the government being in the business of telling you what to do, what to buy, how to act. independents do not like that. they look at the constitution and look at the rights of the individuals, the constitution protects the rights of one individual. >> a minute ago you wear saying it protects institutions. now you are saying individuals. >> a church from the government. >> the constitution protects persons. alisyn: just to take the steam out of any arguments that mitt romney, or ron paul or rick
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santorum or newt gingrich could have made on the argument. >> we are still back to the economy and jobs. 1.2 million people have lost the workforce. they are not going to vote on this issue. >> they are taking the social wedge issues that you would rather focus on. >> we can multitask. >> mitt romney presided over a similar plan and never even spoke out against the same plan obama originally came up with. alisyn: david webb, alan colmes, thanks so much for coming in. there is shocking new testimony against the former university of vermont lacrosse player on trial for killing his ex-girlfriend yeardley love. those who knew george huguely * are taking the stand to talk
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about his behavior. >> they are finding out his problems with alcohol and the role it may have played. witnesses testifying that huguely was out of control. he was drinking excessively in the days and weeks surrounding the crime. one witness says huguely drank all day leading up to the murder. no one is saying he did not kill yeardley love. the trial is to decide whether it was murder in the first degree. premeditated murder or whether the killing was unintentional, involuntary manslaughter. that's what the defense is trying to prove. the defense' argument will be that george huguely could not have planned to murder yeardley love because he was too drunk to do that. all this testimony about his drinking problems might help the defense. former friends of hugely and love taking the stand walling
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that the violent nature of their relationship. one witness talking about responding to a woman's cries for help, only to find huguely grabbing love in a choke hold. fbi computer experts were able to retrieve emails where huguely writes to love, i should have killed you. a disturbing relationship to say the least. a tragic end and a trial going on to decide the fate of george huguely v. alisyn: bombshell claims in the begun walking program that armed dangerous criminals. a former dea chief is now speak out. lonely planet. while nasa is curbing efforts to explore mars. a bigger picture. what it means for america's
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alisyn: new nuclear plants in georgia could begin operating four to five years from now. president obama says using more nuclear power could cut the u.s. dependence on fossil fuel. >> by the mid-2030s i believe
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we could send humans to orbit mars and a safe landing to earth. and a landing on mars could follow and i expect to be around to see it. alisyn: there is a big uproar in the space community. scientists say nasa is about to cut some exploratory missions to mars because of cost overruns in other projects. but even before the cuts are made, lawmakers are fighting tooth and nail to preserve missions to the red planet. let's bring in the author of "unlocking the secrets of the solar system." budgets are tight. everybody is tightening their belts. what does not going to mars mean for our future? >> it will continue the momentum we have built up. we have the rover spirit. an opportunity that has had such
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success on mars. the mars see you tense lab will land in august. if we pull back now we'll lose all that momentum and have to put back the team that accomplished these great things on mars. alisyn: there were two joint missions with europeans scheduled for the year 2016 and 2018. they were going to mars and they would cost $1.4 billion. what were we hoping to find there had we gone? >> the message from the science community was very clear. the next logical science step is to bring back samples from the surface of mars so we can look for clues to biology and understand the history of that planet and compare it to earth. but that's an expensive undertaking. it looks like that's going to be on the chopping block of this new budget. alisyn: was some of this for
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bragging rights so we can say we are still the world's leader in space exploration, and if so, is that worth it? >> i think it's more than bragging rights. this our competitive base in high-tech in the 21st century. when you dissolve the team that does these things, that dots human exploration of the solar system you will lose the opportunity to do other things as well. it's a challenge to our young students and explorers to put a team like this together. that's a real loss in our leadership. alisyn: $8 billion is the replacement of the hubbell telescope. is that worth it? >> it's called the webb telescope positions in space to far exceed the capabilities of hubbell. it had technological challenges that have runt costs up to $8
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billion. it looks like it's squeezing things like mars exploration. nasa has to try to prioritize these. that's a challenge with all of the science communities competing. but it does look like the cut the administration wants to give nasa, at the expense of one mission like webb. alisyn: if money were no object, what would you like to see us do? >> the point i would make is over the last 20 years nasa's budget has been flat. yet in the last five years the federal budget domestic spending has grown by a third. nasa always takes its cuts. it's always given up its share. we have cut back to the bone. this looks like the repercussions will be the loss of our robotic technology.
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that's receding as we make these budget cuts. alisyn: former astronaut tom jones, thanks for joining us with your expertise. the u.s. and israel coming together to take on the threat of a missile attack from countries like iran. testing a new weapons system. what it can do if confronted with iran. it started with a rescue dog. we'll tell you what happened. then breaking new developments in the hunt for a convicted stalker whose targets included ma don and halle berry. he has escaped from a mental hospital. but my nose is still runny. [ male announcer ] truth is, dayquil doesn't treat that. really? [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus fights your worst cold symptoms, plus it relieves your ruy nose. [ deep breath ] awesome.
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alisyn: new reaction from a local news anchor who was severely injured when she was attacked by a rescue dog. we showed you video of the dog being saved from a frozen colorado pond. this turns terrifying after max's owner brought him on live tv. watch this as the anchor woman gets too close. >> you are gorgeous. so glad you are okay. gosh, have a great weekend. happy valentine's day. alisyn: that anchor is a 15-year tv veteran in denver. she was rushed to the local hospital and examined by a local trauma team. she writes she is on concerned about viewers who might have
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been upset by seeing that attack. we have breaking news in the hunt for a crazed stalker. robert hopkins served 10 years for breaking into madonna's home. what do we know, rick? >> reporter: we are getting reports he has been captured. this guy did 10 years in prison for stalking and threatening madonna. you saw halle berry on the screen with madonna because she was reportedly his next target according to some. he was found not far from the hospital. police had called him dangerous and psychotic without his meds. they asked the public for help finding him. he had gone to madonna's house, scaled a fence on her property,
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threatened to cut her throat. the pop star testified she had nightmares after the intrusion. he was released in 2006. but soon after he had another run-in with the law and that led to him being arrested again and hospitalized at the mental institution. as for halle berry, friend have been saying she thought she could be his next target. there were reports the actress was so upset after hearing of his escape she was planning to leave the united states. the "sun" newspaper in the u.k. saying berry and her boyfriend and young daughter were planning to leave the u.s. and go to france. now if she goes to france, it could only be to the eiffel tower because he's back in a hospital one week after he was able to get out. alisyn: president obama announcing a major shift on his administration's birth control policy. but is it enough to please his
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alisyn: spreading the blame for
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a federal gun-running sting gone horribly wrong. a former special agent for the dea saying it was widely known at the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms was letting guns walk into mexico. this part of the botched operation known as fast and furious. we were told only 7 or 8 supervisors knew what was going on. but now it sounds like there was widespread knowledge of it. >> reporter: we are 70 miles south of tucson. the population is 11 people. we are in a remote border crossing where on two occasions ice agents stopped guns being smuggled south. they later learned they were part of an operation. i.c.e. was told to back off and not interfere with fast and furious. now we are learning other agencies knew more than they let
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on. >> there is going to be a disaster. someone is going to get killed. unfortunately brian terry is that nightmare that came true. >> reporter: tony coulson says atf wasn't the only agency with a hand in operation fast and furious. >> two occasions that i know of that weapons atf were trying to walk into mexico, i.c.e. interest creed and seeds those weapons. interest -- interceded and seized those weapons. >> reporter: this lasts for more than a year as the atf tried to identify the money men behind fast and furious. according to documents both the dea and fbi knew who these men
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were but didn't bother to tell the atf. their names were written on call sheets, but the atf never saw them. the fbi also admitted both men were confidential informants, making them off limits and unindictable. the atf spent a year looking for two guys on the fbi payroll. so the price that was paid to keep their identity secret was some 1,500, 2,000 guns going south, many dead mexicans and the death of a border patrol agent. alisyn: more on mexico. the mexican army seized 15 tons of pure methamphetamine.
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the army said a major meth production lab was involved. it's mexico's biggest meth bust, equal to half the seizures worldwide. it's thought to be the property of the sinaloa drug cartel. this is part of the bloody drug war raging south of the border. 48,000 people have been killed since december 2006. 13,000 of them murdered in just the first nine months of last year. that's 48 murder per day or one every half-hour. 241 americans are among the dead. just ahead, a live report on the expanded travel warning from the state department. we have new developments. it shows a missile being fired
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from a plane over the mediterranean sea. the country successfully testing its aeromissile defense system of missiles launch from iran. >> reporter: what this was was a successful test of the radar that tracked the missile. take a look at map. the missile was fired 1,000 miles deep in the mediterranean. 1,000 miles the other side of israel is iran. this was a test like what would happen in a real war situation. the video we have shows this ballistic missile fired off of an f-15 and traced by the radar system. it's much like "star wars" in the sense that a ground based missile would fire off and blow this incoming missile up. so far the missiles have helped
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the israelis to help them develop this system and it has 14 successful interceptions. this new radar provides an extra layer of accuracy. why is that so important? well, as you know israel talked a lot about blowing up nuclear's program and attacking it. the shabab-3 missile could be aimed at the israel population systems. the only thing to protect is veil is this missile system. i checked with sources close to the defense communities. he says this is no coincidence this test happened right now and the israelis are being so public about it being so successful. they want reassure their own population and let the iranians
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know we have something to counter all your missiles if you decide to send them to tel aviv, jerusalem. there are millions of israelis if iran launched a massive attack. alisyn: thanks so much for showing us all that, leland. the battle for the conservative vote is heating up today in washington at conservative political action conference. mitt romney, newt gingrich, and rick santorum all taking the stage. santorum addressing the crowd first, urging them not to pursue a quote hollow victory in november by compromising on their choice for the republican presidential nominee. james rosen is live in d.c. tell us the headlines, james. >> reporter: lots of them. former massachusetts governor mitt romney ranked up a short time ago telling the cpac faithful that he was a
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conservative governor of massachusetts and he vowed to lead conservatives by becoming a pro life president who will keep tax hikes off the table. in his 27 minute here where he was introduced by the head of the american conservative union who says romney meets our test. romney never mentioned santorum by name but says the former senator shares much in common with barack obama. >> politicians are routinely elected by promising to change washington. but when they came here they became creatures of washington. >> reporter: he spoke of having toiled in the vineyards of conservativism. he avoided direct mention of his closest rival. but santorum zinged romney for
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building the massachusetts healthcare program. >> we his to the voices who said that we had to abandon our principles. and our values to get things done, to win. but we hear those same voices today, that we have to learn our lesson, that we should no -- that we need to compromise, do what's politically reasonable, and go out and push someone forward who can win. >> reporter: the latest fox news poll was out this morning. of republican primary voters nationwide. since rick santorum swept three states you find santorum
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essentially tied with 33% with romney. this represents a jump of 13 points for rick santorum, a slide newt gingrich by 5 points. so it would appear to validate the notion that rick santorum is drawing support away from newt gingrich. we'll hear from the former speaker later on at cpac. alisyn: if you can still hear anything at cpac after that train rumbled through. alisyn: there is an accommodation on the controversial issue of contraception. will this statement from the president put the issue to rest? >> if a charity or hospital that has a religious objection to providing contraceptive services the insurance company, not the hospital, not the charity, will be required to reach out and offer the woman contraceptives.
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alisyn: wait until you see this close call year young children and a driver this school bus. the bus bursting into flames moments after the driver got everyone safely off the bus. the investigation into the cause is underway.
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we have breaking news because there are new developments in the contraception controversy. but will this help put the issue to rest? the obama administration stepping back from a rule that would have required religiously affiliated organizations to provide birth control. president obama says it will fall to the insurance companies, not the employers. >> if the woman's employer is a hospital or charity that has religious objections to providing contraceptive services, the insurance company will be required to offer contraceptive carefree of charge. bill donohue is the president of the catholic league. the insurance company, not the institution, has to cover the birth control. are you pleads with this change? >> no, i'm not.
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he made things worse. no wonder planned parenthood and naral are running the flag up the pole. our healthcare coverage is done by christian brothers it's a catholic outfit. are we to be told that some gal comes to work for me and she says i want an abortion-inducing drugs, and i'm told by the obama people, you can go to christian brothers, another catholic group and they will give you free abortion-inducing drug which the rest of us at the catholic league have to subsidize? is this man out of his mind. maintain what we have had for 200 years. very simple. leave me alone. you can get contraceptions across the street. why don't they think of the catholics as the amish. all we wanted to do is to be
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left alone. let me tell you something. you know when you raise people's expectations, then you insult them again? i know what this is about. it's devious. what he's trying to do is a political calculation. it will work to some extent but not as much as they want. the last couple week liberal catholics and conservative catholics coming together in a loosely formed coalition against obama-care. this is a way of peeling off those liberal catholics letting them come back into their secular camp and they will be able to say, see, these these bishops, you can't compromise with these people. my ridge rights are not devicible. he has taken this to the boiling point and he will pay. alisyn: there is a poll that says 58% of catholics believe
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employers should have to provide contraception. >> how that question is framed determines the answer. the rasmussen poll which gives people latitude. should there be exemptions? now it's 77%. the first one was incomplete. it didn't talk about federal penalties against the catholic church. it's not just a first amendment issue. people think about the pill. that's fairly i knock -- innocuous to most people. now we have people of no faith repaired to join with the catholic league. he only made the situation worse. alisyn: do you feel like catholic leaders were cut out of this decision? >> real catholic leaders.
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the archbishop dolan tried to get a meeting with obama. he got it in november. president obama said you willen happier when you find the result. you can't raise people's expectations. did he think everybody was born in chicago and we can't figure it out? i'm from new york and i'm street smart. i'm not going to buy this thing. let september come and the world series. we are not going to forget this in november. alisyn: you take this to the polling place or is there something -- what's the action. >> there are already lawsuit.. but what you see is in the legislation, a new one by rubio. this will be fought in the courts and the court of opinion. this is the most serious infringement about it federal
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government on the rights of catholics and others in 200 years. alisyn: does this not stop the actions attorneys general were taking to stop this? >> there are 28 states that have something analagous but not quite. there is a trap door where you can self-insure. he doesn't even have the woman paying out of her own pocket. they want to us pay for abortions. that's where this is going. i wasn't born yesterday. alisyn: bill donohue, thanks so much for coming in. we understand you have strong feelings about that. >> how did you figure that out. alisyn: great to see you. new developments regarding the growing violence in mexico. there is a new warning the state department is issuing. stunning information on the controversial pardons of former governor haley barber as the mississippi supreme court is getting ready to rule on whether they were valid.
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alisyn: we want to show you new scenes of chaos on the streets of greece. striking workers are protesting a new wave of government austerity measures. police firing teargas at demonstrators who threw stones, and molotov cocktails. this was the start of a 48-shower strike against planned
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paycuts. they want to aissue arrest warrants for international lenders saying they have subverted. some of the convicts pardoned by hally barber in mississippi, wore convicted murderers. >> reporter: the court hearing arguments on whether the former governor's pardons were legal. the hearing began yesterday. and not surprisingly as you mentioned, they say the lawyers representing those pardoned say that the former governor's moves were 100 legal and the courts cannot do anything to change them. but the state's attorney general says the state's constitution requires a notice in which
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states, that a felony case has existed. that there must be a publication. pardons cannot be grants until a newspaper ad has been issued 0 days prior the pardon. the attorney general of the state says that requirement was not immediate, rendering the pardons illegal. here is what he says about it. >> i'm confident the position we have taken, the court says our argument. if you don't really know how to read judges when they ask questions. a lot of times they are playing devil's advocate and having a little fun. >> reporter: barber's lawyer is arguing the pardons were legal. before barber left office he granted par dobs to 198 people, some of whom who had been convicted of violent crimes.
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there was a temporary restraining order for five of those felons. they were working in the trustees program in the governor's mansion. that program has since ended in light of the controversies. the new governor put a stop to that and wants the supreme court to make its decision. alisyn, we'll let you know. alisyn: rick folbaum, thank you. parts of mexico are now considered more dangerous than iraq and afghanistan. we have a live report on the new warning for every american traveler. plus john stossel and why you can't trust anyone these days. the hottest action flick of the year and not a professional actor in sight. we'll talk to the actors of a hollywood blockbuster starring some of our bravest americans. >> three days ago two cia agents
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and a decline in first class mail. police launch an investigation after a congressman's mailbox was stolen. sir paul mccartney getting a star on the hollywood walk of fame. the musician said he never those would see the day and he had his former beatles band mates. here is a disturbing story. the u.s. is expanding travel warnings in response to growing violence in mexico. the state department urging americans not to travel to these areas in northern and central mexico unless it is absolutely necessary. u.s. citizens have fallen victim to gun fights, kidnappings and carjackings. catherine herridge is live from our washington bureau. i just book pad spring break trip for my family and me to go to mexico. what do i need to know?
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>> reporter: this latest warning from the state department is urging americans to avoid all non-essential travel to 14 states. this extends a warning that only applied to 8 states. gun battles have occurred in broad daylight. during some of these incidents u.s. citizens have been trapped and temporarily prevented from leaving the area. the military seizing 15 tons of pure methamphetamine. an amount equivalent to half of all see sewers in 2009. -- all seizures in 2009. this connection between the drug war and violence in mexico is well understood. the violence in mexico was raised just 8 days ago by a california congressman during the year's most significant intelligence hearings on capitol
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hill. >> 50,000 people have been killed in mexico in the last three years. we had a discussion recently, as horrible as the number of deaths in afghanistan and iraq are, i suspect they may be higher in mexico. catherine herridge the timing of the travel advisory is important because it comes just ahead of the spring break where mexico has personally seen a surge in the tourist traffic. he cord together advisory americans are warned in acapulco they should not stray more than a couple blocks from that major boulevard along the beach. alisyn: it looks like the east coast is still safe. catherine>> reporter: hopefullys where you booked. >> i did. alisyn: winter is back in parts of the country that have been enjoying milder weather.
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snow will blanket some areas in the midwest and the northeast. even the south won't escape a hard freeze. janice dean is live in the fox weather center. >> reporter: across the ohio river valley. and we could see flakes across alabama and georgia. also see something vein being pulled up from the gulf of mexico across the central gulf states. nothing major here, not going to see any severe weather. then you can see that snow kind of creeping in across the ohio river valley up toward the mid-atlantic and the northeast where we could get anywhere from 1-inches of snow. there is the future radar heading into saturday. you will get a light mix in d.c. in boston it will be a snow event lingering into saturday night. it's out of there sunday. we'll see those lake-effect snow showers. some areas down wind could get 6-12 inches.
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that's the highest accumulation across portions of west virginia up towards pennsylvania. in the mountains and ski resorts you need to see it. alisyn you mentioned the cold air starting to sink down from canada. they are starting to feel the arctic air. not the coldest air mass of the season. but one of them. we haven't seen a slot of cold air all season. 25 for tomorrow's high in chicago tomorrow. alisyn: most americans want to trust the government, but should we? should we trust the media? john stossel is host of "stossel" on the fox business network explains why. why are we so untrusting. >> reporter: for good reason. government lies about the budget and us heading over the cliff.
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the media has bias, and you should trust me i would like to say, we try to go back and forth between each side to get to the truth. but i have confirmation bias. if it's from somebody i like, i tend to believe it. if it's something i have seen and remembered, i believe it. people think there is more violence on the night of the fool moon and more babies are born. nosed, it's just not true. but people hear the sirens and they notice if the full moon and they remember that. go to an emergency room, ask the cops and nurses they will tell you there is more action, but there isn't. that is confirmation bias. that's what we are tackling this week. alisyn: let's take a look. >> these guys will spend $3.80s trillion of our money. don't we have to trust them? i'm aassured when they say ... >> we agreed to $2 trillion in cuts and savings. >> great, but is it true? and how would we know? how gone through the piles of
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paper. turns out they want to spend more to solve problems like global warming. >> this rollercoaster is headed for a crash. and we are in the front car. alisyn: but don't trust that. you are always looking into whether we can trust the government. on balance, can we? do they say more true things than false things? >> reporter: i suppose. you have got millions of government workers saying here's your check. that's true they are handing you a check. but on the big stuff they have a lot of clever tricks as to how they mislead us. on the budgeting when they say they make a cut, it's not the cut you and i would make. it's a cut in what they wanted to spend. it's still going up beyond the rates of inflation. a little less and they call that a cut. alisyn: back to your point about the full moon. you also talk about some other wacky notions that americans
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hold like large percentage don't believe we land on the moon and the apollo landing was staged. why do people ignore evidence? >> reporter: because the world is complex and a conspiracy appealing. even larger numbers think the bush administration was part of 9/11. that's people couldn't keep their mouth shut. people come up to the airport and say do you know about this conspiracy? three people can't people a conspiracy. it fits their world view. it's confirmation bias. alisyn: we can watch it tonight 10:00 p.m.? >> reporter: actually tomorrow. alisyn: some people think he tried to pull a fast one. this multi millionaire adopting his girl friend apparently protect his fortune after a tragic accident. his children are speaking out now. what they say about their father's legal move to protect
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now there is a new film about some of the most elite special forces, the navy seals. but what is unusual is it stars a group of navy seals. it's so great to talk to you. i had a chance to see the movie and i haven't been able to shake the images ever since. i even recreated some of to it my children, even thought it's violent. let's start at the beginning. how did you get permission from the navy to shoot this movie? >> we enters an exploratory phase to take a look at what does telling the story look like? how do you be authentic and represent the men and community and not impact the training cycles or deployments. so it became an engineering exercise. le. alisyn: you used active duty navy seals. these guys are private.
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they avoid the limelight. how tide you convince them to be in the movie. >> the eight seals we saw to be in the movie. at first we were going to use actors. so we asked the eight guys and they all turned us down. they said we are not actors, we are not hollywood guys, we are navy guys. we said think about it. this is an opportunity for to us get the record straight of who you guys are and you can have a hand on it and make sure it' authentic. alisyn: the action scenes are so chilling. what was it like shooting these? >> it was a thrill of a lifetime to keep up with the guys. some of the actions are actual ops going down in realtime that we embed our cameras into. what you are seeing is how it goes down in a realtime environment. alisyn: the question is are we revealing secrets.
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there is a lot of stuff in this movie that the normal civilian would never have known. >> the film showcases the capabilities overall and we were sure working hand in hand with the guys that we don't give away tactics. the navy had a complete chop on the movie so they scrubbed the entire film so nothing classified was involved. and we had the story in our hands. they gave us complete control of the story. >> they allowed us to have creative control so we could tell the story honestly from our perspective. >> you include their family. what was that like? >> their families are a major part of their lives. wives and their children behind them are more heroic than them. we wanted to showcase that. what these wives go through when their husbands are on deployment
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for 11 months out of the year. our lead just got back from afghanistan and his wife has five children. she is the most heroic woman. i wanted to show the sacrifice they have to go through. alisyn: it's heart wrenching watching the good-byes. why am i calling a tough guy like you, motorcycle racer, mouse? >> i started racing when i was 4 years old. it was a good racing name. now i'm a broken man with a kid's name. alisyn: how did you get theatrical performances from the navy seals. not anybody can act in a movie. >> we chose men that were very con if i comment who they are. and they have nothing to prove. that was important to us. they don't care if the camera is there or not. they are doing their job. they are not an actor playing a character. they are just being themselves.
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we felt they were really great at that. alisyn: does this chain it way movies will be made in terms of the hybrid? you used real stories based on real stories with real people in the most dramatic fashion imaginable. is this what movies will look like in the future? >> we would like to think so. we think it's time to change course and get away from the cgi. so many action movies are fake. we wanted to bring audiences back into a real action environment, bring back the live action movie. alisyn: where did you shoot this? >> all around the world in three continents. >> they were in between deploiments and workups. they are active duty. we had to augment their training. they have a job to do and we didn't want to interfere. the film took over a four-year period to make. we had to be respectful of when
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they were training and not get in the way of that and help augment it. alisyn: these guys are so private normally. what is their reaction now that they see themselves and their families on the big screen. >> i think they are proud to represent their brothers across the board. these guys aren't some silly rambo dude, they are great men who are extremely intelligent, family guys, and they wanted to communicate that as well. alisyn: it opens nationwide february 24. it's the most haunting best movie i have seen in years. congratulations on the special accomplishment. thanks so much for coming in and sharing it with us. good luck with it. coming up. violent protests in yemen producing scenes like this one during the arab spring last year. today one poignant moment frozen in time, crowned photo of the year out of 100,000 entries.
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alisyn: a photograph being described as poignant and compassionate hold the title of photograph of the year. it shows a veiled woman comforting an injured man following a protest in yemen during the arab spring. the photo shows the human consequence of an enormous event. there are new developments in a
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court trial raising some eyebrows. florida millionaire john goodman made headlines by adopting his 42-year-old girlfriend. some say this is an attempt to protect his financial assets in a pending criminal suit. rick folbaum has details. report are's 48. and she. >> reporter: he's 48 and she is 42 and he's effectively her dad. this has been challenged by his children. they don't want to split their inheritance with the girl friend. a local guardian representing the teenaged children is asking the judge to toss out the recent adoption of the girlfriend. they say goodman's move to adopt
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hutchins shirked public policy on adoptions. the adoption request was grants. goodman's attorney says he's not trying to gain control of his children's trust. he's trying to protect the trust if he end up in jail. why is he worried about jail? because he's facing a criminal trial for leaj edly killing -- for allegedly killing scott wilson in dui manslaughter and leaving the scene of an accident. police say a drunken goodman ran a stop sign in his black convertible bentley and slammed into the car driven by the recent college grad, killing him. experts estimate the adoption will net miss much ins almost $9 million -- miss hutchins. and up to $9 million in extra
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cash the agreement authorizes her to ask for each year. the criminal trial is set to take place march 27 and we are waiting to hear about the challenge from goodman's kids all of which means we'll be hearing and talking about this story for a little while longer. alisyn: it's so bizarre on many different levels. his girlfriend is now his children's sister. >> reporter: correct. alisyn: is there no age limit on adoptions, do we know? >> reporter: that's a good question. i'll have to look into that and get back to you. the criminal case is taking place in one county in florida and the judge says what was granted, the adoption in another county is not his jurisdiction. he can't do anything to change with the other judge decided. so the adoption went through, i'll find out if there are any age limits. they are only six years apart, the two of them. alisyn: thank you.
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