davy jones. andrew breitbart. bill: so sad. wife and four children growing up without a father. age 43. far too young for anyone to go. have a great day as best you can. martha: have a good day. the "happening now" starting right now folks. jon: good morning, i'm jon scott. jenna: hi, everybody i'm jenna lee. "happening now", more dangerous weather on the way as folks pick through what is left as deadly twisters go through several states. jon: key vote on health care mandate to require insurance coverage for birth he control. will employers get to opt out on moral ground? jenna: interesting question. he acts. he sings. he is law enforcement officer. i think he played basketball once or twice in his life. jon: couple good names. jenna: shaquille o'neal will be here with his size 23

shoes and talk about his work with the march of dimes. it is all "happening now.". >> that's what i thought. the ceiling tiles were coming down. i thought the i-beams would come down on us next. scary. don't want to do it again. >> it was terrifying. i had never been through anything like this. it did sound like the train coming through the living room. >> bathroom wall shower stall started moving. i said, uh-oh. this isn't good. >> sounded like thunder. >> when it first hit, i immediately fell on my back. that's why i have, i'm pretty sore from the shoulder blades. i cut my wrist. the countertop fell off and got me. >> it was definitely scare. i'm on the second floor and hear building tops tear open. jenna: folks in the midwest bracing for new storms after a string of deadly tornados there. a dozen people killed in

three states. twisters from nebraska, through kansas reported along southern missouri through illinois and kentucky. in missouri three people were killed. in the country music mecca of branson they say a tornado damaged some of the landmark buildings just before tourist season. three more people killed in tennessee as well and much more in harveyville, kansas. there is more damage there. it is in shambles there after an ef-2 tornado swept through the small town. perhaps the hardest hit community, the community on your screen, harrisburg, illinois. an ef-4 tornado packing winds of 170 miles per hour hit the small town while many were asleep. six people died there. mike tobin is there in harrisburg with more for us. hi, mike. >> reporter: more interesting what the tornado didn't destroy. the national bank building still standing but undamaged.

that was in the path of the tornado. the debris field looks like the area where the tornado first touched town. you see activity. diggers at work. all people picking through the debris. they're working against a deadline right now because the forecast says these blue skies overhead aren't going to last. another storm is headed in this direction. as we continue to look through the debris field there you can see some of the damaged buildings, some of the destroyed buildings. also utility trucks are here to restore power. come through this direction. you can see what looks like a strip mall that took a direct hit. this is one of the walls that supported the roof. it's gone. hear is the foundation. here is where with the wall attached. 170 mile-per-hour wind knocked it right off the foundation looks like this was electronics store because in the dei can see smartphones laying all over the place. in the foreground, one of the support columns, 170 mile-per-hour wind knocked it off the foundation like it was a matchstick. you will have people sleeping uneasily tonight because of that forecast,

calling for another storm system. the kind that generates more tornadoes and in this part of the country is right on the bull's-eye, jenna. jenna: it certainly is, mike. thank you so much for a look there in harrisburg. we have actually more from the town know. jon: let's talk a little bit more about the devastation there with eric greg. he is the mayor of harrisburg. when we spoke to you yesterday the shock was still palpable. how is your community doing 24 hours later? >> we're still putting our hand around this horrific event. as a community we're continuing to dig out, making sure we're taking care of those that have been displaced. those that are hurting and just trying to put our community back together and making sure that we're doing our due diligence to, to just be accommodating in whatever way that we can. jon: i know around the time that we were on air yesterday there were some reports that turned out to be in error that the debt to in your town had gone up to

10. the fact those were later renounced i dropped down i guess six is still the final number? i suppose as awful that number is it is a bit of a blessing. >> our hearts are broken for the six lives we did lose here in harrisburg, illinois. we're a very tight-knit community that care about each other and help each other. amazing thing i shared many times since yesterday is that people ran into the storm to help immediately afterward. they were coming in to help those that had been injured and had, unfortunately lost their lives. we're just pulling things together. we're trying to get our infrastructure, make sure it is where it needs to be. we've got utilities in there working around the clock try to get everything put back together. i can not say enough good things about our city workforce. they have done yeoman's work as well as many other communities that pitched in to help us at this time. this is just devastating. this is heart-breaking.

we witnessed what happened in joplin, missouri last year. now it has hit us as we're learning in many other communities across the midwest. our hearts go out to them as well and our prayers. this is just a very horrible storm system and we're certainly keeping our eyes open and we'll be very vigilant during the day tomorrow. in fact, this next storm passes. we just, we're just a bit shaken. we took a punch to the heart. we're hanging in there. jon: i have a sister and family members in illinois. i know it is a big-hearted state and this is a big-hearted nation. what do you need most? >> well we need first and foremost the thoughts and prayers of our nation. we need also, we're going to be posting some web sites up if the people, if they would like to donate and help us we certainly would appreciate that. again, first and foremost, prayer for those we lost, families and those injured. and as we, as the days pass

we'll start identifying more needs we will have and we'll make sure we get the information out there. we certainly appreciate fox news and coverage we're getting to assist us in that efforters i think our viewers prayers are on the way right now. mayor eric gregg there in harrisburg, illinois. we wish you well as you continue to pick up. >> thank you, sir, thank you. jon: also an amazing rescue story in kansas. look at this house in harveyville. a daughter managed to save his daughter moments bell the ceiling collapsed on her. she he and his wife explained. >> sounded like a train. i went to get our daughter in bed. she is handicapped. >> i'm screaming grab her. grab her. >> i pulled her out from under and we wasn't down to the basement and water runnings through the floor and came you up into the basement. we came out through the cellular door and saw the

church was all gone. >> i just wanted to cry. i was just so thankful. jon: the family does not have renters insurance they say they're thankful to be alive and they're planning to start their lives over. what a sorry. jenna: what a story. only thing you can say about that unbelievable. we're glad they're okay. the debate over our country's energy policy is heading into overdrives a prices at the pump continue to rise. look where a national average for gallon of unleaded today compared to a year ago. 35 cents difference. republicans critical of the administration refusing to green light the keystone pipeline project. they say it would provide thousands of jobs as well as energy security and stability. even former president bill clinton says build it. >> because the extra cost of running it is infinitesimal compared to the revenues that will be generated over a long period of time.

so i think we should embrace it and develop a stakeholde stakeholder-driven system of high standards for doing the work. jenna: during an appearance on capitol hill yesterday secretary of state hillary clinton was asked about her husband's comments. >> he's a very smart man. [laughter] but unfortunately is not bound by the laws and regulations any longer of the united states to make decisions that follow a certain procedure and that's what we have to do. jenna: that is a tough conversation to have around the dinner table at night. jon: i'm sure it is. jenna: about two hours from now the president will deliver a speech on energy from new hampshire. no way of knowing whether or not he will talk about what the clintons are talking about. that is right in the backyard of course, new hampshire is, of the president's potential rival, mitt romney, the former governor of massachusetts come november. all of that a hypothetical right now. jon, kind of an interesting place to pick to give that speech today. jon: so let's talk about it

with fox news digital politics editor chris stirewalt. he is the host of "power play" on foxnews.com. that was a really interesting moment when you have the former president advocating for the pipeline and his wife, the current secretary of state, who has to authorize it because that falls under her purview as an international construction project, she is saying no, not yet, not going to do that. >> well, i'm sure the secretary is well accustomed to respectful disagreements with her husband compared to some of what they have had to go through this probably pretty mild stuff. i'm sure they will endure and move on. jon: is it still a potent political issue for republicans, the fact that president obama has spiked this thing at least for now? >> oh gosh, yes. look, as you were just talking about, the high price of gas has a spider web effect through the economy and very much the same for political effect. president obama is trying out his campaign pitch which

basically calls for increasing the amount of taxes that oil and energy companies pay in a bid to pay for green energy that the president says is more environmentally friendly and will lead to long term american independence. that may not work in a lot of states but it might work in new hampshire which, if mitt romney is republican nominee would be the kind of place where he might expect to take electoral votes away from the president. it is a environmental message with a state with a lot of environmentalists. he tried it in the state of florida. something the president can do with certain swing state voters to soften the pain he will continue to experience from high gas prices. jon: maybe you can clear this up though because here's what i don't understand. the president is said delaying or trying to kill keystone because it would anger his base to let the pipeline go through and yet just the other day he was bragging about the fact that there is more drilling, more oil production in this country over the last few

years during his administration he says. how can he have it both ways? >> because he is a politician. that's what they like to do, jon. jon: i see. >> that is their favorite activity. i suspect we'll see the president rope-a-dope on republicans. he will resist, no, no, don't throw me in the briar patch. then at the end they will authorize this pipeline perhaps and do it at time maximum benefit during the full swing of the general election. but for now he leaves himself very much exposed with high gasoline prices and republicans keep talking about why won't you let us have the canadian oil? why won't you let it be shipped to the refineries that will bring down gasoline price? i don't know how long he can keep this straddle up. jon: chris stirewalt, digital politics editor. thanks very much. you have a web show to get to. the "power play" runs live on foxnews.com. chris will be there in, what just a 10, 15 minutes or so. fox news live.com, click on

the live pow "power play" webcast in the corner box. jenna: mitt romney hopes to score again on super tuesday. he is of course is not the only one though. what might help him keep the momentum in his favor? there is a lot of debate about the momentum. there are new signs romney is trying to reach voters on another level. we'll tell you what that is coming up. jon: have you heard of a little website called google? jenna: sounds familiar. jon: probably you used it once or twice. don't want to miss this. big privacy changes coming to that site. what you need to know before you launch your next google search. jenna: plus shaquille o'neal is here to go one-on-one with jon scott. jon: no, no, i don't think so. not in hoops. jenna: maybe he will talk about a few different things coming up later on in the show. we'll be back with more "happening now.". ♪ [ male announcer ] this was how my day began.

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jon: media and politics today, conservative commentator andrew breitbart suddenly died. a statement on his website just hours ago, announcing the publisher and activist has died unexpectedly of natural causes in los angeles. breitbart only 43 years old. we're told he was walking near his home just after midnight when collapsed. someone saw him and called for help. andrew breitbart was known as outspoken critic of the mainstream media. he worked to expose government corruption and media bias as well. andrew breitbart leaves behind a wife and four young children. jenna: right now in the senate we're awaiting the first vote on a controversial policy in the health care law. lawmakers consider a measure allowing employers to opt out any provision they oh pose on moral or religious

ground. that would include the free birth control coverage mandate. rick folbaum has more on this. >> reporter: jenna, senator roy blunt of missouri introduced this amendment. he tacked it onto a transportation bill. it does not specifically mention the word contraception. blunt says it is not about any specific medical procedure. it would allow employers or insures to opt out of pay in of the signature health care law on religious or moral brounds. as we know by now the law requires employers to provide free birth control for those on the plans. after a push back from conservative and religious groups a compromise allows religiously affiliated employers to opt out of paying for contraceptives putting costs on health insurance companies again. the blunt amendment would cover any medical procedure, any aspect of the health care law that any given employer finds objectionable. jenna: we'll continue to watch for that, rick, thank

you. jon: mitt romney's presidential campaign is trying to set the record straight on the candidate's reaction to the blunt amendment. this comes after an interview with mitt romney on the ohio news network yesterday. here is romney's initial response when asked if he supported the blunt amendment. >> i'm not for the bill but look the idea of presidential candidates getting into questions about contraception with in a relationship between a man and women, husband and wife, i'm not going there. jon: afterward the romney campaign backed away from the comments saying romney actually does support the blunt amendment the way the question was worded was quote confusing. michael barone is a senior political analyst for "washington examiner" for fox news as well. michael, when you read the transcript it was asked in a pretty confusing way. >> my reading of the transcript, jon, he was asked if he support the blunt bills which bans

contraception. that phrasing is inaccurate. the blunt bill does not, it is blunt-rubio amendment for one thing. so there wasn't a exactly a bill. but it doesn't ban contraception. already described in the previous piece that you presented accurately. and so romney was presented with a question where either a yes or no answer would have involved him in a contradiction of a stand he previously had taken. on one hand he had supported the blunt amendment and campaign reiterated his support in catch-up efforts after this interview. on the other hand he had opposed, as all the republican candidates do, a ban on contraception. there was no way he could answer this misleading and inaccurate question with a yes or no without seeming to contradict a previous position. jon: well, he did try to move the issue along. he gave an answer to the question that i guess he thought was correct, i mean thought that it was answered being answered in the way

that he had previously answered that question. then he said that's between a man and woman and let's go elsewhere. >> which is exactly the statement, you know, just leave it alone that he made in a debate in february. one of the earlier debates when george stephanopoulos brought up the subject and brought up the subject and brought up the subject and brought up the subject. rick santorum addressed it as some length and mitt romney said no, we're not going to talk about that, leave it alone. jon: michael barone, michael thanks. >> thank you. jon: "happening now" will be right back. feel the power my young friend. mmm! [ male announcer ] for excellent fruit and veggie nutrition... v8 v-fusion, also refreshing plus tea. could've had a v8. or annuity over 10 or even 20 years? call imperial structured settlements. the experts at imperial can convert your long-term payout into a lump sum of cash today.

jenna: head's up today to bank of america customers. your bank is trying to impose yet another new fee. when one bank does that you know other banks tend to follow. after backing off a controversial debit card charge. this new fee will penalize

customers who don't bake online or maintain a minimum balance. ashley webster of fox business network taking a close look at this. ashley, why are they doing this? >> good question. it is a all about money, isn't it, jenna. good morning to you. bank of america sparked outrage when they wanted to charge a $5 fee for debit card use. they backed off that but there are other plans in the works. they have been test selected in test states. let's look what bank of america is trying to recoup lost money from some revenue sources. 6 to $9 fees for basic accounts. other accounts would charge 9 to $25 per month. however you can get out of the fees. this is how they're going to do it if you agree perhaps maintain a minimum balance. you use the credit card more. you take out a bank of america mortgage, or as you say you agree to do online banking. b-of-a is not alone. jpmorgan chase, country's biggest bank, wells fargo

looking at ways to raise fees. to be honest with you banks lose money on very basic accounts. this is one way they're trying to recoup some of that lost money in very difficult economy. will not sit well with consumer. jenna: don't want face-to-face contact, right? >> right. jenna: no face-to-face. ashley, you're right. they will find the fees somewhere and bank of america starts doing it -- >> they always do, yeah. jenna: ashley, thank you. >> thanks, jenna. jon: well, a series of deadly tornados rips through the midwest killing at least 12 people and injuring dozens more, leveling homes and buildings and might not be over. also the "huffington post" is underfire a satire on rick santorum's religion. why some critics are calling it vicious and outrage just. a live update next. 

jon: happening right now the controversy continues on the campaign trail over religion. some critics are fired up over a new column that appeared in the comedy section of the "huffington post" website mocking rick santorum's roman catholics beliefs, refering to catholics quote, as a jesus-eating cult. shannon bream live in washington what was this column all about, shannon. >> reporter: one of a number of recent media posts taking aim at various candidates and religion.

larry doyle said he was raised catholic, quote and managed to escape. makes fun of commune rites and catholic church and pedophiles and ended this quote, only one in our great history roman catholic been elected and how tragically it ended? seeming to reference to the assassination of robert f. kennedy, jr. after backlash, doyle said the original was satire. it's traditional at this point for me to half-apologize of the to say that i'm sorry if anybody was offended but i really don't mind if anybody was offended. jon: how are catholic and frankly other religious leaders reacting? >> reporter: number have joined together. they sent a letter to the arianna huffington the publisher of "huffington post" and doyle's column should be taken down and apology should be issued. tony perkins of family research council signed onto the letter and here is what

he told us. >> to poke fun, demean, marge alize religious views is unacceptable, christian faith, mormon faith islamic faith. i think we need to be civil in our dialogue. yes we point out differences in religious beliefs and how they might impact our public policy stances that is all legitimate. >> reporter: well the letter also said that much of the media is now guilty of a brazen double-standard. that mockery of certain religions including islam would never be tolerated. that the way attacks on mormonism, catholicism and evangelical christianity are. jon: open season on christians is always acceptable or so it would seem in the media. shannon bream. thank you. jenna: we have a guest next hour that wrote the book in called the god strategy. the way religion is used as a political strategy. it will be interesting to talk to him about some of this what we're seeing right now. jon: will be interesting interview. jenna: a broader conversation. meantime, countdown everybody. super tuesday, 437 dell gats. 10 states, four republican

candidates hoping to win big. hear is the delegate count as it stand right now. mitt romney leading the delegate pack with 167. trailing him by 80, rick santorum. newt gingrich 32 and ron paul rounding out the list at 19. all the men would like to boost the numbers and do so on super tuesday but our next guest says, simply winning super tuesday, whatever that means, getting most delegates doesn't 100% secure the nomination. larry sabato is here. director for center of politics at the university of virginia. so, larry, you're saying that it is not over on tuesday. it will go on and on and on. why? >> well, i guess partly it's a wish on our part. this is great for pundits in the press but i think honestly, just so difficult with the new system of delegate allocation republicans have to accumulate 1144 delegates until at least late may, probably early june, maybe

even after the primaries have concluded. that's not to say that we won't have an idea about the nominee. i think we will clearly. and, that is not to say that one candidate won't get a big delegate lead. we're projecting mitt romney to get a net of at least 50 additional delegates over rick santorum. he should, romney should get about 212 delegates out of super tuesday. rick santorum, 163. gingrich and paul less than that. jenna: you're predicting in the state of ohio romney comes out on top there because that is the state normally we talk about a lot when we talk about super tuesday? >> well he probably will but we actually projected that he would have a narrow victory in delegates. one reason why is because rick santorum did not file in three congressional districts that means he gets zero delegates in those three congressional districts. it is important whether you file complete slates. look, the biggest reason why

mitt romney will have a decent to good night on super tuesday is because rick santorum did not file at all in the state of virginia. all of the states delegates, 46 at stake on tuesday, three later superdelegates, all of them probably will go to mitt romney, probably a few to ron paul but probably there will be a sweep for romney. well, that zero for rick santorum. zero for newt gingrich. he is not on the ballot either. jenna: interesting when you see we talk about a lot how organization become as factor when you get later into this race and you have to be on the ballot. by the way the president has been to ohio 17 times during his presidency. so that is again one of the reasons why we're focusing on the state of ohio, not onlyer tuesday the race overall in november, what is the significance of ohio? >> i like to summarize it this way. ohio has been right 27 of the last 29 times in presidential general elections. it's the best record of all

the states. if you only look at one state and of course you should look more broadly, if you only look at one state it is okay to focus on ohio. two times they were wrong by the way they picked republicans instead of democrats. they picked dewey in 44 and nixon in '60. other than that, 27 of 29 times ohio has been right. the buckeye state has a lot to boast about when it comes to picking winning presidential candidates. jenna: i wonder what is in the water? we have a great producer chad pergram on capitol hill. >> i know chad. jenna: larry, ohio, real quick the trend overall i was reading your crystal you're seeing trend between north and south, real divisions in the country you speak of regionally. tell us a little bit about that before we say good-bye?. >> most of the south is anti-romney. it will go to either santorum or to gingrich. the northeast, heavily pro-romney. some of the caucus states with mormon populations,

they go to romney. some of the other caucus states could go to santorum, gingrich or paul. so you are seeing some regional splits here. i don't know that it will necessarily carry over to the fall. any republican candidate will win the vast majority of the south and border states. not all of them but most of them in november. jenna: very interesting, larry. always nice to have you on a thursday. thank you so much. >> thanks a lot. enjoyed it as always. jon: a fox news alert and another sad incident of school violence to tell you about. this one happened in chicago at a school called the ami kids center. it is alternative school that provides education for kids who have had trouble in other chicago public schools. apparently a student pulled out a knife around 7:30 this morning, chicago time, stabbed at least two students. one of them has died. the attacker has been arrested and is being processed right now. the attacker is, we're told

a student at the ami kids inifiti school or center in chicago. that charges are pending against that student who is under arrest. again one student has been stabbed to debt. another student pretty badly wounded we understand in a stabbing incident at ami kids on the south side of chicago. we'll get you more information as soon as it becomes available. jenna: what a week it has been there in terms of school violence. right now we're watching some areas of extreme weather. after a string of tornados killed 12 people in three states. the twisters stretching from nebraska and cans to missouri, illinois and kentucky. harrisburg, illinois, which is on your screen was hit the hard evident. ef-4 tornado ripping through homes and buildings as you see for yourself. six people died in thal small down alone. the threat isn't over. new storms are coming. meteorologist janice dean is live in the weather center. jd, you told us yesterday you thought today, these storms today really should

demand our attention as well? >> actually, it's tomorrow. so friday through saturday night. jenna, i'm glad you pointed that out because i want people to be on their guard especially areas that were hit hard on wednesday in the overnight, the areas that you saw of course through the video. looking at the past 48 hours you see this storm system start to develop across the mississippi, ohio river valley and tennessee river valley, ef-4 tornado which is very rare for this time of the year, march, early march. we do typically see ef 1s, e f-2s but to see ef-4 at 180 miles per hour at 5:00 a.m. in the morning extremely rare. look at radar, almost same setup except we have more dynamics storms could be stronger. we have more ingredients involved. potent ingredients that could lead up to perhaps even more long-lasting, large, destructive tornados.

so friday evening into the saturday night overnight, again, one of the most dangerous times you can have tornados, nocturnal tornados. here are the ingredients we're talking about. so we have warm, moist air. warm air at the surface. unstable air mass. this is our cold front and the jet stream that adds the extra ommph in the upper level of the atmosphere. but we could see large, destructive, long-lasting tornados. jenna look where we're seeing them in some exact same areas hard hit on wednesday. so as people try to rebuild, they're going to have to stay indoors or seek shelter especially friday into saturday. looking at march, our tornado probability, there is our highest probability for tornadic activity. certainly along the areas i mentioned. ohio river valley, tennessee river and mississippi river. just to give you an idea we're already above average in terms of tornados. we saw over 80 reports of tornados in january. more than average on

february. then as we head, march, april, may, may is the busiest month for tornados. already above average. because we've had such a crazy winter with spring-like temperatures, i have a feeling this could be a harbinger of things to come unfortunately. jenna: stay close and we'll get the updates, janice as they come in. thanks so much. >> you bet. jon: a fox news alert and right now in the u.s. senate they are voting on the so-called blunt amendment, so-called sponsored by missouri senator roy blunt and marco rubio of florida. it is an amendment that would allow employers to opt out, if they choose of providing coverage for contraceptive services if they believe that those services, you know, for any reason go against their conscience or their morals. now this thing is expected to pass, that is, i'm sorry, it is expected to be denied.

it was part of the president's health care law. it has been famously argued and tweaked in recent weeks. but it is expected that democrats will muster enough votes to be able to defeat this thing, table it in essence. they're expected to pick up a few republican votes. they will lose some democratic votes but the blunt amendment being voted on right now in the u.s. senate. we'll let you know what the results ultimately are. jenna: google is putting its new privacy policy to work today. what you need to know the next time you google. and conservative commentator andrew breitbart has died at the age of 43. sudden news this morning. we have more coverage next on "happening now.".

jon: fox news alert just coming into the fox newsroom. information that the philadelphia airport is closed right now because of some kind of police

activity. what that involves we do not know at this point. but it's pretty, it's a pretty major development for police to shut down an entire airport. that we understand is the situation right now in philadelphia airport, at philadelphia airport. this comes on the heels of a problem at the denver airport just an hour or so, within the last hour. a plane bound from denver to san francisco while a bomb threat was phoned in on that united airplane and so they searched that plane. denver got the all-clear but there is something going on of a similar nature, passengers being evacuated at philadelphia, at least from one of the terminals there. we'll get more information on it, see if we can find out more what is going on at the filth definitely airport in just a bit. jenna: well, new next hour, today is the deadline to file charges against this young man. his name is t.j. lane. he is accused of opening

fire on a group of students at an ohio high school. prosecutors are expected to ask that this 17-year-old be tried on murder charges as an adult. iran's underground nuclear facilities, we heard a lot about them recently. apparently they may not be as elusive as the country thinks. new information suggesting why they are vulnerable to military strikes. a unique program in the florida everglades. man's best friend, rooting out a big enemy endangering the region's wildlife. we have a live report next hour. jon: some new privacy rules in effect for billions of users of google. customers now being given two options to agree to the new policy. either they can click a button saying okay, got it, or read pages of mind-numbing legalese. which would you choose? peter doocy is live from washington. so what happens, peter if google users don't want to accept these new terms? >> jon, then probably time for them to check out yahoo! or binge because google went

ahead and they condensed these 60 privacy policies they had for different services into one privacy policy for all their services the nuts and bolts of it are, they will collect all the information you enter when you create an account. then start looking at all the stuff you search or watch or map while you're logged into those accounts to help you out. google says they can actually help users to make sure they're never late and peaking at calendars and locations and local traffic patterns but sounds intrusive. but here is their reasoning. >> the new policy reflects our efforts to create one beautifully simple experience. it means if you'r signed in we'll treat you as a single user across all of our products combining information from one service with information from the others. so you have a better, more intuitive experience from the moment you sign in to the second you log out. >> reporter: and google makes most of their money on ads. this move is expected to help them target those ads at specific users, jon.

jon: so they will be looking at your calendar and maybe figuring out where you are in the world based on your gps location? >> reporter: sounds exactly right. >> sound like there are pretty serious privacy concerns afoot? >> reporter: people think you should opt out and you can't. that made the democratic co-chairman of the congressional privacy caucus ed markey come out and say, caesar was warned to beware the ides of march. with with google's new privacy policy etect tiff today, consumers should beware of the eyes of march. 36 attorneys general have also written a letter to google's ceo larry paige. that happened last week. they too think this is a violation of privacy but so far the ftc hasn't moved to stop this even though they have special control over google's privacy settings because of a deal they made after a different privacy problem last year. jon? jon: peter doocy.

peter, thank you. jenna: we'll have more on that breaking news out of philadelphia right after this quick commercial. report that is the faa is saying a ground stop is in effect for traffic at the airport and plane traffic. experiencing gait holds and traffic delays. we're trying to get to the bottom of it and bring more information. meantime a mom goes after drug dealers she says were pushing drugs on her son, heroin. she is facing assault charges for trying to protect her kid. that's her story. our legal panel weighs in next

jon: fox news alert. we have more information about what has been going on at philadelphia airport and it is a weird one of the all of a sudden a little after 10:00 a.m. somebody noticed that a, what they're calling a pedestrian vehicle, i

think they mean a civilian vehicle, a black jeep cherokee was spotted on the airfield driving along the runways. obviously that is a very, very dangerous situation when you have jets, passenger jets coming in, taking off and landing at high speed. one person, the only person in that black jeep cherokee was arrested. the police did an initial search of the car looking for explosives or other material like that. found nothing. what this guy was doing joyriding along the runways at philadelphia airport we do not know. as a safety precaution they shut down the entire airport, diverted all traffic for a time. we understand now that the runways have since reopened. you can bet authorities have a lot of questions to ask the driver of that black jeep. jenna: just not looking for a parking space, right. jon: that is a weird one. jenna: "happening now" on dry ground at last, a crippled ship finally docks. passengers were stuck on this ship adrift for days

and days. greg burke streaming live from rome. three days with no working bathrooms, greg? >> reporter: jenna, can you imagine? can you imagine the relief of being on dry ground finally? they were first adrift on the ship, the costa allegra. more than 1,000 people on the ship, totally adrift and a french fishing boat tugging them ever so slowly to the land. imagine what it must have been like. forget about the pirates. that was probably least of their worries but sanitation was another story. this started on monday when there was a fire in the generator room. that put out electricity and power. meaning no air on canning, no running water. no running water, means no showers and no toilets. quite a mess the heat was a problem. there were lots of elderly people on the ship. the average age was about 55. for the company costa cruises, italian company, the second major disaster this year. at least it was not a deadly

one of the they're trying to make the best of it offing money back. flights home if they want to get home right away. two days vacation in the seychelles which is normally lovely place for vacation. the peel on the boat will need two weeks to get over the last three days. the company and crew received mixed reviews this time from passengers. some saying they did a very good job. like on the concordia saying they were confused and didn't really know what was up. finally jenna, if there is any competition out there for worst holidays looks like at this point anyway, costa is in running for both first and second positions for 2012. not exactly the kind of award you want for your company, jenna. jenna: what are have we learned in this block. can't get on a cruise ship. can't go to philadelphia airport. better to stay home at this point. thank you very much, greg burke screaming from rome. wee appreciate that. we'll be right back with more "happening now."

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jon: a fox news alert. the so-called blunt amendment has gone down to defeat in the u.s. senate. it was a 51-48 vote. the senators defeat ago republican measure that would have allowed insurance companies or employers, i should say, to opt out of offering mandatory birth control and contraceptive coverage. roy blunt, the missouri senator, had offered that amendment as a way to allow employers who on religious or other grounds felt they should not be offering that coverage. they would be exempted from doing so. but it has gone down to defeat, 48 vote favor, 51 opposed of the so called blunt amendment. goes down to defeat in the u.s. senate. some senators say it violated the freedom of exercise of religion, others said it -- well, others had

just exactly the opposite point of view. obviously a very close vote in the u.s. senate. >> i had to sense something was wrong, when i had her in my ams, we went half way through the room and the sliding glass door went through. i tried to get on the bed, try to get a mattress over us, and we had to get out there. it happened so fast. very, very, very fortunate. jenna: harrowing tales of survival. the city of harrisburg, illinois declared a disaster zone, a tornado packing winds, up to 170 miles per hour, turning homes and buildings into piles of rubble. at least 12 people were killed in three states and the damage spread across parts of seven states overall. branson, missouri is one of the places hardest hit by

the blast of wicked weather, historic buildings demolished there, just before the start of a busy tourist season, a popular tourist destination. we're going to go live to branson, just ahead. >> reporter: rick folbaum in the control room, some stories you'll only see here, brand new stories over the next 60 minutes, including this one at the top of your screen there, you can see the kids and family members from chardon high marching to their school today after that awful shooting monday that left three kids dead and two more wounded. we have the latest on how people are coping and what's next for the 17-year-old suspect. take look here, this woman is accused of punching her son's drug dealer. at least that's what she's saying. we've got the amazing story. you'll have to hear it. then take a look at this guy, right there, the snake and the dog that are especially trained to find them. what did going on there? that and breaking news as the second hour of "happening now" starts right now.

jenna: a busy day, everybody. we're glad you're with us. i'm jenna lee, welcome to the second hour of "happening now". jon lots of stories to cover no the hour ahead. we're following a story about rick santorum that fell flat with his supporters and many catholics and religious people, conservative and religious leaders are demanding an apology from arianna huffington for allowing a column to be published on her website, it mocks santorum and his catholic faith, the column is posted in the comedy section of the website which recently was purchased by the aol corporation. the so called satire paints catholics as pedophiles and attacks the sackments of communion as a barbaric ritual based on cannibalism. it's just the latest antireligious slur from the left startinging santorum but weak waves. the author says he will not apologize and doesn't care if anyone wad. jenna: now to our top story,

we're awaiting reaction on capitol hill after the senate voted down the blunt amendment. the bill was introduced so employers could opt out of provisions in the health care law, based on religious or moral grounds. for reaction, mike emanuel is on live on -- is live on capitol hill. >> reporter: jenna, we just heard from senator blunt a short time ago saying this was about one aspect of the president's health care law that's not gone into effect, it was not all about contraception. he says it's about first amendment rights, freedom of religion. here's senator blunt, making his final pitch: >> this amendment does nothing to modify state or federal laws that are now in effect. if you've got those services now, there is nothing in this amendment that would change the world that we live in right now. >> reporter: so there was not a financial incentive in terms of an organization saying we're not going to provide contraception. senator blunt's amendment would have forced an organization to provide something of equal value to

their employees, but as you said moments ago, the measure went down 51-48 jenna. jenna: so now what, mike? what do we expect too where do we expect to head and as far as the democrats opposed to it, what was their argument to it because truly that will come up if this is approached in a different way. >> certainly this is an election year, so it's a heated issue here on capitol hill. one would expect it will come back at some other form at some point. democrats seem to be able to frame the debate about contraception, about being antiwomen. here's new jersey senator frank lautenberg on that: >> the republicans like to say they don't want government interfering in peoples' lives. then i ask, why the devil we are debating a republican amendment that limits a woman's freedom to make her own health care choices? >> >> reporter: that's just a sample of some of the debate here on capitol hill. we expect reaction to come shortly and one would expect

that this issue will be back jenna. jenna: we're watching those developments. mike, thank you. >> >> reporter: thank you. jon: "happening now", some presidential politics. mitt romney and rick santorum likel to split michigan's 30 delegates, although romney won his home state on tuesday. as the gop candidates are busy on the road ahead of supertuesday next week, ten states will award more than 400 delegates. more than one third of the delegates needed to win the nomination. romney, the candidate with the most campaign cash and best organization is holding a rally in north dakota before skipping to idaho, both states holding caucuses on supertuesday. rick santorum beginning his day in georgia where newt beginning rich is fighting to win his home state and get back into contention for the republican nomination. then santorum is across the country to washington state for a rally there. -- there tonight. chief polit cont

correspondent carl cameron is live from ohio, home to what might be the biggest prize on supertuesday. >> reporter: planes, buses, campaigns all across the country are advancing to supertuesday and today in georgia, rick santorum was again complaining about the romney campaign strategy that santorum says essentially hinges on negative attack ads, indeed in iowa and across the country romney has been outspending his rivals, two, three, sometimes 6-1 as was the case in michigan and this morning santorum made the case in georgia, not just for peach state voters but all across the states, including the buckeye state, that romney's attacks ad -- attack ads are depressing the gop. >> they've been able to win the race not by pointing -- painting a positive agenda but destroying with negative ads their opponent. good luck doing that in the general election. >> reporter: of course barack obama is likely to

have more money for attack ads on his own, so that could be a problem for republicans. mitt romney is in north dakota today and he's trout ago -- touting a victory that he had in the walk caucuses. it doesn't allot delegates. that's a process that's expected to play out in the next two weeks but he did beat rick santorum in the caucus and back to georgia, newt gingrich made a very, very bold statement, he said he has to win. the quote was, let me be clear. i must win georgia. gingrich went on to say that a big win in georgia where he leads by double digits and has for months, it is after all the state where he began his political career, would set up a possibility of him winning alabama and mississippi in the week ahead, then even kansas. gingrich is looking to sweep the south, the core of the republican base, and get back into this race. jon. jon: it's going to be a fascinating one to watch this week ahead. thank you very much, carl cameron.

jenna: ohio is in the news not just for politics but also because of this big story. prosecutors are facing a deadline to charge the suspect in that deadly high school shooting there. in the meantime, students of chardon high school head back to class for the first time since the tragedy and rick folbaum has that for us. >> reporter: it was an emotional day as students to chardon high headed to class, a lot of them wearing school colors, accompanied by their parents, taking part in a mile long march from the town square to their school building. their first day back since that shooting rampage that left three dead and two wounded. actual classes won't begin until tomorrow but they made that march earlier today. meantime prosecutors have until the end of today to file charges against the accused shooter, 17-year-old t.j. lane. prosecutors are most likely going to go for three counts of aggravated murder, some other charges, too, we're told. they're expected to ask the judge to try lane as an adult, even though as i

said, he's 17. authorities are learning more as well about the weapon believed to have been used in the killings, a 22 caliber handgun, that lane's grandfather legally bought at a gun shop in august 2010, he kept it in the family barn. it apparently matches the description of the weapon used in the shootings. and finally we're learning this was not lane's first run-in with the law. he was also accused of choking and punching another kid back in 2009. at the time his sentence was suspended. we will keep you posted on the developments out of ohio today, jenna. jenna: rick, thank you. jon: towns and neighborhoods across the midwest are recovering from those powerful storms that killed at least 12 people in three states. we'll get an update on emergency efforts to clean up and repair those stricken towns. and some new information on iran's nuclear program. some have suggested that it is too deeply buried for munitions to be able to take it out in an air strike. is that the case? maybe not. some new info on what could

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jenna: a quick update on the shutdown of the philadelphia airport. we're now getting an idea of what exactly happened at that airport earlier today. apparently a man just drove his truck right on to the runway, being chased by police. broke through a gate to get into there and now he's in custody, his truck has been cleared for explosives and other dangerous items and the airport was experiencing delays and stopping plane traffic but now as we understand it at least at this time the flights are resuming in and out of that airport. of course, check with your carrier if you're headed there today or expecting someone out of that airport

today as well. in the meantime i want to take you all across the country to california, where we're getting new video just in from our los angeles affiliate kttv. there's a fire at the lake park mobile home park in santa ana and apparently this just broke out about 45 minutes ago. we're going to keep an eye ton and bring you developments as we get it. jon: some new information now on iranian nuclear sites built underground to withstand the attack by the world's biggest bombs. tehran claims that facilities built into a mountainside bunker in northwest iran like this one cannot be destroyed by aerial attack. u.s. military planners, though, are saying not so fast. republican new hampshire senator kelly aiote is a member of the senate armed services committee and joins us now. senator, i know you have cosponsored a resolution that would seek to prevent iran or expressing the

senate desire that iran not get a nuclear weapon. militarily, are we in a position to be able to prevent it? >> i don't think that we can afford to have iran get in a position to have the capability of having a nuclear weapon. we know they're the largest state sponsor of terrorism. dempsey said before the armed services committee that essentially iran could also provide a nuclear weapon to a terrorist group, even if they didn't use the weapon itself so i don't believe we can contain a new leer--- nuclear-armed rand we do have the capabilities of taking out the underground sites and that's important that we're ready to do that and that we have that option on the table. also, obviously we'd like to see this resolved through sanctions and tougher sanctions have been supported on aby partisan basis in congress to make sure they don't obtain a nuclear weapon or the capability of putting one together. jon: but the language that you hear from the iranians is that their facilities are

inpreparing nabl, that -- inpregnable, that they are so deeply buried in the mountains they wouldn't be accessible. you don't believe that? >> that's what i'd like to believe, but certainly i don't believe that, and we have the best military in the world, we have bunker bomb capabilities and the iranians should know that we're not going to allow them to have a nuclear weapon, and that military option should be on the table, and if we have to take that step, i'm confident that our military has the capability of executing that step. now, of course, all of us would like to see sanctions stop them from obtaining a nuclear weapon or the capability of producing one, but again, that military option is there, and we think about this regime tomorrow or the elections in iran, i've also supported a resolution calling on free and fair elections tomorrow for the iranian people, because this regime is not only endangering the world, they're endangering their own people. jon: another of your fellow

republican senators, senator lindsey graham, spoke about that. i want to play that and talk to you about it more on the other side. listen in. >> if we could ever create a free and fair election in syria, in iran, the dictators and the ayatollah thugs and ahmadinejad whorks is the ultimate thug, would lose, so just keep the pressure up. jon: there is the suggestion there that maybe ballots and not bullets are the way to go. >> well, absolutely, senator graham is right. what happened in 2009, they had elections, they were a sham, and then the green movement happened, the iranian people took to the streets and called for free and fair electricals and democracy and at that time we should have stood with them then. our resolution says we are standing with them now and if we can get rid of this regime and let the people vote, no question they will vote to make sure they can have a regime where they're not repressed, harmed, and also this regime continues

to harm its own people by seeking to obtain a nuclear weapon or the capability of producing one. jon: a quick question about your fellow northeast senator olympia snowe, she really stunned capitol hill by announcing she's not going to run for reelection. how confident are you that another republican can take that seat? >> it was really disappoint to go hear about olympia not running again. if you look at what happened in the last set of elections in 2010, republicans are in charge of the legislature and they have a republican governor so i think it's the safe play for republicans but it's disappointing to hear that olympia was going to resign and not seek another term. jon: senator kelly ayotte of new hampshire, thank you very much. >> thank you jon. jenna: we have breaking news. you might recall over the last couple of weeks one of the big stories has been the americans that have been unable to leave the canada egypt and we just got word from the associated press as

well, senator mccain, by the way, talking to our own trish turner on capitol hill about this, that the seven americans that were in cairo have now left, they are on the plane headed back to our country, along with several others -- other democracy workers. they had all been run out of the country. just a quick note, though, this is not suddenly, how should we put it -- they weren't just allowed to go free. there were terms to put in for their freedom, and as we understand it, there was a bail price of $300,000 each that our country had to pay egypt to allow them to leave. just a reminder, our country also gives millions and millions, tens of millions of dollars in aid to the egyptians every year, and this has an point of contention, these americans, about whether or not that aid will continue. $300,000 bail, each, for these five americans, also the son of ray la hood, transportation secretary was among them, sam la hood. certainly we'll look for their stories as they come

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jenna: at least 12 confirmed deaths tied to violent storms that ravaged parts of the south and midwest. wicked weather probably doesn't completely sum it up. as you see the damage on your screen you see what it did to towns like branson, missouri. branson is a big tourist destination, big music center, historic theatres in that area. just days before the start of the tourist season this is exactly what the town does not need. gary anderson spoke to us yesterday, he is communications director, and we're glad you're with us today. you are are -- tell us what is goingnon the town today. >> we have a lot of cleanup going on, a lot of resources

provided from our regional friends and one shout out we want to give is to the city of op lin. they've been really helpful in not only helping us ahead of the time and the region in preparing us for a future disaster but as the storm actually came through they were one of the first to give us a call and offer help with emergency spoonsd also building inspectors and police officers and they've just been a real friend and neighbor to us. jenna: on the screen, we say branson, illinois but it's branson, missouri. i just want to be clear about that. because when you mention op lin, op lin of course is fresh in our minds when we think about tornado damage. and you say you actually, your town and other city officials learned a lot from op lin in the experience that they went through. tell us about how that changed maybe how you approached this disaster this time around. >> certainly we are not knowno missouri is not known as well as other states for tornadoes but after that last year in may and we saw the devastating power that that tornado had, we really

kind of kicked into gear our own preparations for this kind of event in the future. over the last year i think we've made a lot of efforts in making people more aware of what they need to do in the case of a tornado and also emergency response, and i think because of the preparations that were made, the damage was far less here in our community than it could have been. jenna: of course, we'd rather not see any damage at all. you know, that's the tough thing about the weather, it's so unpredictable, and we hear there could be potentially more storms coming through the area over the next couple of days. have you received any warning of that, and is there any sort of plan in place in case you get another bad set of twisters? >> we're certainly aware of that. the -- the tom that came on tuesday night, we had been anticipating that for several days and we're looking carefully at what's coming up next. right now, our efforts are trying to secure the locations that have been damaged and make sure that they're tight and they won't get a lot more additional water damage as the new storms come through.

but for now, we're really just grateful that the damage wasn't as bad as it could have been. you know, our hearts go out to those community that is have loss of life in their communities, but we're very fortunate we didn't see any of that here in branson. jenna: absolutely. >> we have a tourism season that's coming up soon so we're gearing up and getting ready for that, the whole preparations for that are a little bit interrupted, of course, because of the disaster, but in general, it was a small amount of our tourism infrastructure that was damaged. we have about 200 hotels in town, and only about a dozen, maybe 15 of those, that been severely damaged to where they won't be able to open this year. jenna: we'll remind -- and the theaters, only about five or six of the over 50 theatres in town have been damage dollars beyond where they'll be able to operate. jenna: it's a good reminder that branson is open for business and that is a good message to get out there, as i'm sure so many will still want to support you are over the next couple of weeks and make sure the damage is what

it is, but it hopefully won't be more because of the potential effects on the economy. gary, nice to have you and thank you for joining us. >> thank you jen gentleman -- jenna. jon: the weather system that did all that damage has moved out but there could be more trouble ahead. another round of violent weather headed for the heartland. janice dean, live from the fox weather center, j.d. >> reporter: unfortunately, areas that were hard hit on tuesday into wednesday could be hit again. i want to make sure if you live in those areas you are listening closely to your local weather forecast. so as jon mentioned, this storm is exiting, although we do still have a slight risk for severe weather, mainly perhaps hail and damaging winds. i'll show you that in a second. we're starting to see thunderstorms across the southeast and we actually saw a winter storm across northern new england with the cold side of this storm. here's the severe threat today for parts of missouri, for arkansas, and tennessee, and -- tennessee and kentucky, but again, if we see tornadoes, isolated, they will probably be weak

ones. however, as we head into friday and saturday, much of the same ingredients that we saw for wednesday's storms are going to start to fire up again, and the potential for long lasting potentially destructive tornadoes again, as we head, again, into friday and saturday. so those nocturnal tornadoes can be deadly. people need to pay attention to those. we'll be in the fox news weather center all the day friday and saturday. back to you. jenna: some talk about religion, some are using it as a political tactic. they've been doing it for years, right? our next guest says something changed with president ronald reagan. our guest is the author of "the god strategy", he joins us live next. a woman in trouble with the law for going after the alleged drug dealers, alleged drug dealers, who were supplying her son. she went after them with a baseball bat! why she's being charged,

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jon: fox news alert. we told you yesterday about the search for a coast guard helicopter that went down in mobile bay on tuesday evening. it was taking part in an exercise, a training exercise. the crewmembers on board were wearing those emergency suits that can help you survive cold water. they now have found the wreckable of that helicopter

underwater but the three missing cry men they were hoping to find were not there. -- crewmen. the good news perhaps because of those special suits there is the possibility they are still alive and floating somewhere in mobile bay. the finding a human being in a bod i of water that size is a needle in a haystack. the search continues. they have found the location of the chopper. they were able to inspect it and the three missing crewmembers not on board. we'll continue to keep you updated on the search for those three. jenna: we're getting some new details on the sudden death of andrew breitbart. he is the 43-year-old website publisher and conservative activist who died unexpectedly last night in los angeles. we find adam housley in the west coast newsroom kf covering the breaking story for us. adam. >> reporter: minutes before collapsed he was doing not surprising to people, on his

twitter feed, website updating statuses before he went outside and was observed collapsing. cpr performed on the scene. he was rushed to ucla medical center where he would die early this morning. that went down after he put his four children to sleep. he was very much a family man. family and friends told me last night was no different. he spent time with children put them down and 20 on went on twitter feed. he was best-selling author an conservative speaker took on everybody from acorn and an investigation that led to the resignation of former congressman anthony weiner. he changed way we know social media and how it interacts with the news. news sites he started on coin it to run reach 20 million people every day. everything from the huff fink post he helped start and run first six months. is his work with drudge report. matt drudge put a statement

at the top. part of that statement it says we shared a love of headlines and love the news and excitement about what is happening. there was not a single day we did not flash wit each other or laugh with each other or challenge each other. best-selling author, breitbart kept massive schedule everybody in the news media he was on the wrong speaking all over the country as he became a conservative icon and icon for the tea party movement. he recently spoke at the conservative conference cpac. here is part what he said. >> everything has changed in the last few years. conservatives used to take it and we're not taking it anymore. [cheers and applause] this is my war cry for 2012. you need to join me in this war against the institutional left. this is not your mother's democratic party. duh. [laughter] >> reporter: that sarcasm and humor would dart his

speech and news channels. in his book, righteous indignation he said i love my job. i love fighting for what i believe in. i love having fun doing it. i love reporting stories that the complex refuses to report. i love fighting back and famously i love making enemies. at end of the day i can look at myself in the mirror and sleep very well at night. we know he had heart issues. he had spoken about them in recent months. in fact last year his father-in-law, oars son bean, the famous actor spoken about that to the associated press. andrew spoken about it as well. the family believes it may have led to this. they're looking at that of course. we're told there will be an supsy -- autopsy performed. jenna. he leaves behind a very lovely wife suzie as well as four young children. jenna: thank you, adam, for more on the impact he ad on media, alan colmes, host of

the alan colmes radio show and member of our news watch panel, jim pinkerton, conservative writer and fox news contributor. he was a media star in some ways but in some respects, jim, was to bypass traditional media and harness the power of the internet to go straight into people's homes. >> you're exactly right. if the 1960s radicals, abbie hoffman and jerry reuben got famous because being flamboyant and media-savvy were around today they would look a lot like andrew breitbart. he was idealogical mirror image of them. extremely creative around creating web sites adam mentioned. and energetic and frankly gutsy and courageous. for example, having broken the anthony weiner texting story last summer, when weiner was holding a press conference, who was there to show up first, but andrew

breitbart. that is kind of guerrilla teeter we saw from the left in the '60s moved over to the right. jon: we have video of that event t was sort of extraordinary. see if we play some of it here. anthony weiner was to have a news convince to -- conference to explain this controversy on twitter. he had sent some photographs of himself to apparently his entire twitter feed when he thought it was going to one person. andrew breitbart was there and wound up center of attention. let's play a clip much that . >> you know what i would be accused of if i released this photo, i'm doing this to save his family, okay? if this guy wants to start fighting with me again, i have this photo. but i absolute, i'm not doing this for nefarious purposes. i would like an apology for him allowing for his political protectors, this was his strategy was to blame me, to blame me for hacking. oh don't worry, breitbart is

our regular whipping boy. we can accuse him of anything and the press will not hold those journalists to account no matter what they say. and so i'm here for some vindication. jon: it was an interesting case, alan. you know, he did have the goods on anthony weiner who ultimately had to resign. >> that was the last night i saw him actually. he was in new york that day. i saw him here at fox. come up to the radio show which he did. i got to know him very little bit couple times he sat down with me on radio. he was provocateur. jim used word theater which is good way to do it. what he did was political theater. jim is exactly right were abbie hoffman or jerry ruben were around today might look like different side of the idealogical spectrum andrew breitbart. he loved the battle and provoking the other side and had a lot of fun doing it. jon: ever ask yourself how a staunch conservative grew up in the hollywood world? >> i asked him about that his parents were secular

liberals. he i am self did not start out particularly political. as adam housley pointed out he worked for ary anna huffington his first entree to the web. i don't know if he became, i don't know radicalized and politicized as he went along, what he saw the left in his mind, speaking from his perspective and saw a lot of hypocrisy and felt need to make an issue of it and that drove his whole politica political/digital career, we'll have to leave it there, jim. i cut you a little bit short. i apologize for that. alan. aled lan combs, jim pinkerton, thank you both. >> thanks. jon: andrew breitbart 4 years old when he passed away suddenly. he leaves behind a wife and four children. we'll be right back.

jenna: religion and politics that is the big topic today. there is a growing perception amongst americans that religion is losing influence. at the same time, more politicians than ever are using their faith as a way to connect with voters. and our next guest says there is connection between those two things. he is the coauthor of "the god strategy". tell us about this. you looked at politics over the last, seven, eight decades. you are looking at trend in religion and way politicians are using religion in their political strategy. what did you find? >> you know it is interesting if you look from franklin roosevelt through george w. bush you find that the religious emphasis of presidents in their public communication declined almost, like clockwork, from franklin roosevelt through jimmy carter that sometimes surprises people. they think carter must have been very religious, he was the least reledge just of all the presidents we looked at. at least publicly religious. beginning with ronald reagan

in 1980 there is huge spike upwards of religious thrust by public communication and by candidates and presidents. that stayed high since then. reagan, clinton, bush, and the current president barack obama religiosity it quite substantial in public communications. jenna: to jump in there because it's bipartisan in nature. this is not divided among political lines or even religion. that it is just politicians putting religiosity as you put it out in front. why is that? why did that change with reagan did you think? >> what happened in the 1970s evangelicals who had been very concerned about some changes in society came off the political sidelines. they got very active. when you have a new group coming into the political arena, politicians want to woo them. they want to bring them over to their side. republicans were concerned that jimmy carter was doing that with his faith. so ronald reagan responded. it became very good politics, every candidate like you're saying in a bipartisan

capacity since has done this. what we see today it is less important to walk the walk as a presidential candidate or president. it is more important to talk the talk. you have to really show, you have to really show you're comfortable with religious faith. jenna: so, in your work, have you discovered that politicians are disingenuous with their own religion or just a genuine part they're choosing to share more? tough to be the judge of that. i guess god is only judge of that. that takes us in a completely different direction, david. >> you're right. as a person who does the research i don't know what people really believe. i just know what they say. what we see these candidates do, starting with reagan emphasized religion a great deal more. now, we do answer that with a question. we do address that question. and we say that, you know, this is part strategy and part genuine or authentic communication. it is always strategic it emphasize certain things, for candidate to say for example i've married 30

years that is strategic decision. they don't have to say that. to emphasize religious emphasis is always strategic. you couldn't get away with it. you couldn't do this if you didn't have sense this is really who i am. if a person fakes it the public smells that very quickly. what the candidate is public is looking for a candidate comfortal with fate but have to be authentic about it. that is the sweet spot for presidential candidates. jenna: as we look at gop race and santorum and romney of different faiths and different ways addressing it as we go on to november. we hope to have you talk more about it david. thank you very much. >> thank you. jon: an interesting story coming up. her son got hooked on heroin while in high school. she says she did everything she could to get him clean and succeeded. but then his alleged drug dealer wouldn't leave him alone. what this mother then did got her slapped with criminal charges. when you have diabetes...

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jenna: a missouri mom is facing criminal charges after confronting a man, a young man, allegedly supplying her child with drugs. her name is sherry gavin. she says her son got hooked on heroin in high school. his dealer wouldn't leave him alone even after he got clean. receipt he hadly trying to bring him back to drugs and showing up at their house and at work. this woman, on the screen. five foot tall. confront the the 20-year-old alleged drug dealer with a baseball bat. she is now says she is charged with sought. we have a former prosecutor and criminal defense attorney. tad, to you first, alleged drug dealer. was there anything that proves this guy was a drug

dealer other than the mom? >> you also have the testimony of clayton her son. in this case it is clearly documented that clayton went through several rehabs. he also got shipped to other people in his family so he could live and get away from this guy. so clayton identified this the mother's identify this buy. on several occasions. when she went to discuss with him her son, they discussed the drug dealing aspect of that. so yeah, he has admitted to being a drug dealer. no ifs, and or buts about that. jenna: there are no charges, right, tom, against the other guy she ended up hitting with a baseball bat. is the mom at disadvantage here. >> let's assume he is a drug dealer. we can all empathize with a son in the son of drug addiction. jenna: right on. thanks for taking care of the drug dealer. yeah. >> heroin is devastating to young teens in this country in recent years. that being said we can't condone a system of

vigilante justice. a mom, a petite mother showing up at the alleged drug dealer's house with a baseball bat, not only dangerous for the drug dealer, it is dangerous for the mom because there is no telling what that situation could escalate into. jenna: why would you want this case, a little unclear who is exactly filing the charges against this mother. who would want to, even take this case on? >> i think what probably happened is the alleged drug dealer, made a criminal complaint. and you know, despite the fact someone may be a criminal, he may have criminal convictions, may be a drug dealer, someone will make a criminal complaint i was assaulted with a baseball bat, the police and prosecutor's hand are tied to act on that. we may all say bravo for the mom, great job. if we condone that sort of system of justice really our system of justice will fall apart. jenna: tad, it is more along the lines of self-defense. she was talking to the kid. felt threatened. she is not big woman. she happened to have the baseball bat. as a defense attorney, what do you do i with that?

>> that is the one problem in the whole case the fact that she carried baseball bat to have her conversation. ultimately like you say, you don't bring a knife to a gunfight. if she is going down where this drug dealer is and other drug dealers are you will need some protection. she didn't bring a gun. she didn't try to kill somebody. she went down there to have discussion, like she told the companies cops when they came to talk to her after the incident. man reached into a car something that scared her and made her nervous. she took a swing at him at that time. that is self-defense. then he pursueder had a second time. that is when she took the second swing at him. both of those times would amount to self-defense. i agree, jenna, there issue bringing the bat but other than that -- >> it will take a lot more to establish self-defense that he reached into the car. he may haveth legitimately tried to protect himself. she has a baseball bat. jenna: by the way the reports do not have any personal reports from the alleged drug dealer in all this we really don't know

this side of the story. it will be a story we continue to watch. well, i let everyone else decide if they want to carry baseball bats with themselves. todd and tad, thanks very much for being with us today. jon: baseball bat justice. jenna: it is in your car. what are you going to do. jon: three days on the sea in scorching sun, no working bathrooms, no air-conditioning, very little food and water, not exactly "the love boat". we're live onshore with some very unhappy campers on the high seas. >> they would compensate anything. this would not cost us anything at all. i mean that is again russ from them, but of course you like to go the whole trip two weeks more up and to italy. wake up!

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