>> good morning. i am heather childers>> i am heather noward. it is monday march the 12th. thanks for joining us for f"fox& friends first". >> american troops in afghanistan bracing for retaliation this morning because the tal began is vowing revenge for a deadly shooting. a u.s. soldier accused of going on a rampage killing 16 afghan civilians including nine children. we know the 38-year-old staff sergeant who is currently in u.s. custody is a married father of two from the fort lewis army base of washington state. he arrived in afghanistan in december after three tours in iraq. >> we will glet the facts and

evidence take us to where it takes us to figure out what happened and hold the individual responsible, accountable through u.s. law. president obama condemning the attacks and giving condolences to the family. >> incredible video out of southern california. a plane crash sparking a 10 acre fire there. a plane crashing into a remote hilltop north of los angeles. amazingly the pilot and passenger walked out with minor injuries. the cause of the crash is under investigation at this hour. new cross border violence eru erupting. israel targeting several rocket launch sites in gaza after they inspired dozens of rockets into a town. the latest gaza air strikes since the crashes began 18 militants have been killed. the violence started after israel killed a top militant leader. >> family and friends say a

final farewell to the war correspondent marie colvin. she was killed in a rocket launch attack in retaliation for her slaughter there. loved ones remembering her in a wake over the weekend. she was 56 years old. a former marine is on a new mission, this one to adopt the dog who fought beside her in iraq. rex and megan levy went on over 100 missions in iraq including one that nearly killed them both. rex eventually recovered and was still fit to serve until he was diagnosed with facial palsy. corporal levy is afraid if her adoption is denied rex could be put to sleep. >> it's life or death literally for rex. it's his time to relax. he has done his duty. levy now getting help from senator chuck schumer to speed up the adoption process. that is your 5 at 5.

>> too three of those german she wereds at ho -- shepards at hom. nice doggy. ex clues of details about a deal that could actually change the political landscape. >> dealing going on. joining us live from washington, d.c. kelly wright. good morning, kelly. >> good morning to you as well. here's what's happening. republican candidates are vying for a win in alabama and mississippi as you know. presidential hopeful newt gingrich is capturing attention that could energize the conservative base or in fact turn it off. what if there is a newt gingrich rick perry ticket? what if it is introduced to the republicans? the former house speaker is involved in conversations that could lead to such a ticket being announced prior to the republican national convention in august. gingrich a says he hopes such a ticket will unite and attract the evangelical team party and

conservative voters within the core group of the gop. governor rick perry had not heard of the ticket and seems dismissive of it all. you may recall he dropped out of the race and endorsed gingrich even volunteering his services to help him. a senior aid to rick santorum says gingrich is making a desperate hail mary to create buzz ahead of the races in alabama and mississippi. romney cast says it prefers to keep focused on delegate counts in those two states. speaking of mitt romney and swing through the south he is getting some additional help from xheed combrcomedian jeff f. he will appear in mobile, alabama as well as bell luxury and richmond, mississippi. fox worthy's popularity in the south may help as he is locked

in alabama. the question is, who is smarter than a 5th grader? we will see that happens tomorrow. >> governor mitt romney and jeff fox worthy will be live on the program. >> and you are smarter than a 5th grader if you are watching us right now at 5:00 a.m. >> time for a look at whose t's talking. >> this morning robert gibbs is talking. it will be about the economy and not a referendum on obama. >> the biggest issues will be on obama. you saw a good economic jobs report on friday. we took a step on the long road to recovery. i don't think it will be a referendum. it will be a choice. we will have a choice about whether we will continue positive job growth or go back to the policy of cutting taxes

for the wealthy or ignoring the middle class. >> despite all that what he says according to polls by the "washington post" on abc the election could be a referendum on the president. that is because 59 percent of those polled say they disapprove of the way the president is handling the economy. that compared to 38 percent who say they approve. >> something else on tap john mccain is talking and blasting hbo's movie about sarah palin called game change. there's another movie where senator mccain and palin approve of a documentary called "the undefeated." take a look. ♪ >> i am very pleased to introduce to you the next vice president of the united states, sa

governor sarah palin of the great state of alaska. >> we also heard from john mccain over the weekend. he was talking about the movie "game change." let's take a listen to what he had to say about it. >> of course i am not going to watch it. it's based on a book that is completely biassed and with unattributed quotes and et cetera. what i don't understand and even in the tough world of politics why there continues to be such assaults on a good and decent person, sarah palin, a fine family person, a person who's nomination energized our campai campaign. we were in the lead and they continue to disparage and attack her character and her person. i admire and respect her. i am proud of our campaign. i am grateful she ran with me and i will always be proud of what she did p and humbled i was

able to get the nomination of the republican party of the president of the united states. >> that was john mccain yesterday on fox news sunday. >> let's take a look at the weather. we have our weather updates from maria molina. >> the country was just beautiful for the most part through out the weekend. >> pretty quiet over the weekend. we have a storm system we are tracking. through areas like texas and oklahoma. that was good news. ahead of the system the big story will be how warm it is going to get out there. guys, we are talking about temperatures that are going to start to feel like we are in the month of may for some areas and most of the east. we are looking for significant warming today. get out and enjoy it. it will be a beautifully warm day. we have the storm system that will be impacting portions of the south and great lakes today. it will slowly creep on eastward and it will move into areas like chicago. ahead of that system you will have a lot of warmth and humidity. with that combination with the

storm out to the west it will fire up scattered showers. keep that in mind if you are headed out the door grab the umbrella. no problems across the northeast. you could see problems in atlanta, chicago, portland. portland you are looking at a strong system across the northwest that will be moving in with delays. across the great lakes as we head into later on this afternoon. from chicago to grand rapids you could have hail and wind gusts. it probably won't be too much of a concern as far as tornados go. thank you very much. talk to you later. >> nice and brisk out there in new york city. >> a lot of sunshine. if i am to brew on this. called good christian bell. >> that leads us to our brew on this question. the show is causing quite a

controversy. critics say the show is anti christian. that's what they think. the outrage is making its way to the campaign trail. newt gingrich is an example of the bias found in the mainstream media. >> look at the new show that's on that has the word christian in it. i want you to take that exact name drop out christian and put in muslim. ask yourself is there any network that would have dared to run a show like that. you know the answer is not a one-. anti christian bigotry is fine in the entertainment industry. let's take a look at a clip of the show. here we have it right here. >> let us open our hearts in support of her as she travels to take up the pieces of her shattered tragic life. >> oh my gosh she is for me. >> people around here really care. >> here's what we want to know from you is good christian bells

anti christian and would anti christians ever air a show called good muslim bells? e-mail us what you think about this at fox and friendsfirst@foxnews.com. tweet your comments at foxx and friends first or friendsfirst@foxnews.com. keep your comments coming. the time now is 5:11 on the eastern side of the country. >> this just in ladies you can't call your husband a slacker for not helping out around the house. a new survey says it's all your fault. >> oh, really. he ignored an elephant in the living room but don't worry. barney frank is all over the fanny freddie mess. wait until you hear what he wants to happen now. we have a report coming up on fox business. @?

>> welcome back. it is 15 minutes after the top of the hour. here's what happened while you were sleeping. 5 top taliban leaders held in guantanamo dbay approved to be moved to a lower transfer. these prisoners are too dangerous to be released to gitmo. the super man bandit getting his wings clipped so to speak. vince roberts strolled into a kfc made a b line to the bathroom. he emerged in a different outfit and proceed to do fly across the counter reaching into the cash register. another customer tried to stop him but roberts got away with a measly 20e bucks.

this surveillance video helped nab him. >> all right. now some stories you can bank on this morning. fox business network lauren sim netty, lauren we are talking once again about gas prices slowing down a little bit. but that can always change. >> came down a little bit. 3.80 is your national average now. in the twpast two weeks we are by $0.12. every penny increase in the price of gasoline takes 1 billion out of the u.s. economy. barney frank is back in the news. but not for the reason you actually might think. he is calling for the head of the agency that oversees fanny and freddie to get the boot, but there's another reason why. explain that. >> he is coming down really hard on eddy marco of fannie mae and freddie mac. the reason would be these are the agencies we bailed out which is 150 plus billion back in 2008. >> a lot of folks might think

this guy devoget the boot becauf the housing problems. he thinks the agency isn't doing enough to help out homeowners. >> that's what he thinks. he says edie marco is not flexible enough, too rigid at this point. >> talk a little bit about the ipad 3. a lot of tanks. there may be a delay in the release? >> not quite a delay. it is alreanot in store shelves. you have to pait wait until friday the 16th. they have stock that will last two-days. they are sold out. those preorders are going to be delayed. if you ordered in time last week you will probably get it for the 16th. other than that you have to wait 2-3 weeks. >> did they not put enough supply in up front because they want to drive greater demand? >> they know demand is going to be there. even if people aren't really

impressed by the new ipad that we call the ipad 3 they know people are going to want it. they get the demand, the supply right and keep us waiting in line frantically trying to make preorders. >> thank you so much from the fox business network. let's head back to heather. actually, i am on camera. >> all right. 5:18 after the hour on the east coast. according to female votes the obama camp taking off full court press to try to win back women. here's a question. is it too little, too late? you saw that millions of dollars the fun media matters. now it appears george staros is getting a taste of his own medicine. we will tell you about that one when we come back.

>> it is 22 after the top of the hour as we take a look at the good, bad and the ugly. up next the good that will keep on giving. the lucky for life ticket costs $2 each. surprise 1,000 dollars a day for life. the bad billionaire is accused of trying to bribe the cousin of the ex-girlfriend to stop her lawsuit against them. the actress is suing him for $50 million claiming he backed out on the promise to buy her a

$2 million apartment. he conferred 250,000 dollars to ask his ex to drop the suit. finally a georgia woman wound up trashed literally after accidentally throwing her phone down a garbage chute. she went after it and slipped inside herself. she spent two hours inside before firefighters finally got her out. 53 percent of women voted for then senator obama helping them win the white house. two years later in 2010 women voters breaking for republicans costing democrats the house of representatives. they are set to launch a new strategy to try to win women back sending out 1 million pieces of mail to moms younger women and older women. it will cost half a million bucks. but will the pricey strategy

payoff in the general election? political former aid governor james mcgreevey, tara done is here and reporter michelle fields. good morning both of you. michelle, let's start with you. the president doubling down on a policy that is not necessarily a approved a lot of people in america. a res cany move? -- risky move? >> they are taking advantage of the side show with limbaugh and contraception in order to distract voters on his fatal policies and assault on religious woman. they care about jobs and getting the economy better. they don't care as much as about birth control and condoms as the president thinks they do. >> that is a fair point. women worried about getting food on the table and getting back to work. >> i think that you are right. women are concerned about how to

put food on the table that's where the republicans are missing the point here. they are the ones holding the hearings on cop trntraception. there are 3 million jobs that remain unfilled we need a strategy to figure out how to get these people unemployed into jobs. there are so many issues and they are talking about state legislatures are even talking about calling single parenthood a crime. >> hold on one second. michelle let's bring you back in. >> was that the right road for republicans to go down on? should they be folk culled on the economy and getting back to that issue? >> i think so. i think the candidates and santorum have put emphasis on social issues which i don't think is the right decision. they are the ones pushing the

whole situation and trying to make this a bigger deal than it really is. he wants voters to be distracted. he doesn't want them to remember about how we have all of these economic problems and failed policies. >> let's take a look at a quick poll here. the job approval rating among women 51 percent of those polled approve of the president. 48 percent disapprove. the president has a lot of work to do how much help do you think it will be? >> i think the president does have a lot of work to do. what we have seen is his approval rating among women continues to grow. i think that while contraception isn't the largest issue out there. the big issue is this whole debate is really -- birth control pills help women with actual physical illnesses ovarian cysts. there are women who suffer from this and other decisions. >> it is also a religious

issues. we will have to get back to this one another time. tara thank you so much. wi we will talk about this and more. >> remember allen gracin and he says republicans should die? take a listen to this. >> the republican healthcare plan is this. die quickly. >> the former congressman find himself in a life or death situation. all his own. we will tell you all about it. >> things bet heated for peter dues see who gets in the way of the pentagon's newest weapons. first this day in history in 1912 100-years ago the girl scouts of america was founded.

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>> good morning. welcome back to fox and friends first. >> thanks for sticking around with us. it's 30 minutes past the top of the hour on monday march 12th. >> take a look at your top five at 5:30. these are the stories making news. pressure on eric holder to step down. two more congressman adding their name to a house resolution calling for holder's resignation fast and furious. with their signatures a total of 120 house members have either publicly demanded holder's resignation expressed no confidence through a former resolution or both. >> araniran's president says th iran quote will not quote will not give an expletive for bombs war ships and planes. the former head of israeli's intelligence says iran is rational about the nuclear

aspirations. >> the regime is irrational regime? >> not exactly our rational but i think it is rational. he also says it would be reckless for israel to launch a preemptive strike. former democratic congressman allen gracin accused of running a red light and almost causing a real disaster. he is known for this rant. >> the republican healthcare plan is this, die quickly. >> while his ladies and gentlemened plan was to drive quickly, police in orlando say he ran a red light in his mercedes benz slammed into a bus. two people hurt. grayson and passenger were not. >> a student has been goofing off too much. parents are taking a different approach of teaching him a lesson. >> hey, i want to be a class

clown is wrong. >> michael says he is in the 7th grade. he got three f's. honk if there's something wrong with that. his dad said his punishment is the last resort maybe it's working. he is going to stop clowning around after spring break. >> ladies, do you have a hard time giving up control of housework over your husband? no, but maybe some do. a theme were mr. mom if he was in control of the stores. >> i am sorry. >> did i tell you not to touch the grapefruit. >> if that sounds familiar listen up there could be huge benefits getting control over your spouse. researchers found cortisol a hormone that causes health problems plummets in women when their spouses niche with the housework. women are their own worsen me.

45 percent of women say they hate cleaning but they don't want any one else to do this for them. >> headlines at 5:30 on the east coast. >> i thought cortisol was a stress hormone i thought something would go down. crowd control. it's an electro magnetic beam with fierce heat. what does it do? let's say peter dues see found out the hard way. >> the military says when it comes to nonlethal technology the future is now that i learned nonlethal can also mean not pleasant. >> you can't see it, hear it or smell it. but it makes unruly mobs do this. a nonlethal weapon that can be used to control crowds secure perimeters and keep pirates at

bay. it could be a game changer. >> you can shoot first and ask questions later. normally you can't do that. >> it is not radioactive and not a microwave and not a laser beam. instead a man size beam of millimeter waves. it can be thrown from thousands meters a way. whoever is standing on this x really hot so they move. >> it's about 50 degrees out here right now. i felt like it was about a thousand and i have never been inside a tub that somebody dropped a hair drier in but i would image that's what it feels like. after about 1.5 second, one 64th of an inch of my skin was 130 degrees. as soon as i stepped away it was over. the dod says there's no lingering effects. >> there is no cancer risk, no risk to a fetus or reproductive

ability it's juheat. >> it does have a drawback. >> we are propagating through the air so remember relatively blind of sight. we need to be line of sight for targets. >> a prototype costs $10 million. >> at quantity toe in virginia peter dues see, doocy, fox news. >> out of 11,000 people. >> he is very brave. we need to repeat no side effects will be just fine. before you leave the house this morning let's get your first degree weather update. >> good morning, guys. that is very nice right along the eastern coast of the u.s. with temperatures that are well above average. it is starting to feel like the month of may out there. you will be looking at warm temperatures from new york city down to miami.

we have an area of low pressure in the travel problems. it is doing so already this morning on the roadways where we have heavy rain along minnesota and northern parts of wisconsin. all of that rain spread further off to the south down into the tennessee valley and louisiana into the new orleans area. take it easy on the roadways. backside is drawing out across sex at thats and oklahoma. we picked up much needed rain over the weekend. some of this precipitation will come in the form of severe weather. keep an eye on that in chicago and parts of grand rapids. central portions of michigan. we are looking at seeing large hail damaging wind gusts and isolated tornados possible. it is not a major outbreak but be on alert living in the areas. i want to show you these temperatures. upper 60s for the i 95 corridor.

light showers across northeast. otherwise across the southeast looking good, too. new orleans 71 in atlanta. didn't get the cool down in the 80s for texas. 41 degrees in far go. so many temperatures are up to 25 degrees above what is typical for this time of the year. if you head west ward we will have travel problems as well across portions of the pacific northwest. 44 for a high in seattle. continuing heavy snows drive safely, guys. >> tlhank you very much maria. whitney houston's daughter breaking her silence for the first time since the singer's dud endeath last month. bobby christina says sree still talks to her mother.

>> i can hear her voice in spirit talking to me telling me keep moving, baby. i am right here. i got you. >> i can always hear her. >> is that when you hear her say i gotcha? >> reports of her that she wants nothing to do with her father bobby brown and wants to change her name to christina houston. >> guess who is going to washington? the four legged star oscar winner of "the artist" will attend the oscar dinner at the white house. the lorax taking the top spot at the box office. it raked in $39.1 million. coming in second john carter 31.6 million finally in third project x with 11.6 million bucks. heather? >> all right. thank you so much. let's take a look at the starting lineup. the roundup with all of the

sports stories making it at this hour. question mark for tiger woods forced to pull out of the final round because of pain in his left achilles. justin roads rally to go win the tournament. let's go to vanderbilt. they end the wildcats 24 game winning streak. it wasn't all bad news for kentucky. they still landed the number one seed for the ncaa tournament. also scoring top seeds michigan, syracuse and north carolina. listen to this. president obama trying to make some money off of march madness. the web site for his reelection campaign is running his own graphic contest. they are asked to donate money to the campaign. >> i tell you right now they can't win. it is now 40 minutes past the top of the hour. forget about breaking up it's

waking up. why we have five of the newest and coolest alarm clocks to show you straight ahead. it is your last chance to weigh in on this question. we want to know good christian belts the tv show is that program anti christian. will the network ever air a show called good muslim bell? >> i came to this country from south korea to make a better life. worked hard for excellent education. it gave me access to medical advances and giving patients the care they deserve. that is one of the reasons i am proud to be an american. ♪ @

>> good morning. we are back. 45 minutes after the hour. span the globe and see what individual stories are topping the hour. the end to attacks on civilians in syria. >> oo you can see civilians barely avoiding artillery shells. more than 100 people have been killed in clashes in the last few days including dozens of civilians. he went to syria to try to get them to end the fighting but his visit and request unsuccessful. then there is this. would wouldn't want 6 weeks of paid vacation. the swiss say they don't. voters have been casting their ballots on five national

referendums including extending the national holiday from 4 weeks to 6 weeks. the citizens there listened to the government when it warned them more time off would increase labor costs and put the economy at risk. very responsible on their part. have to give them a little attaboy on that. many christian groups say the new show gcb is an attack on christians. newt gingrich weighed in saying the mainstream media would never replace christian with muslim. >> is good christian bells the tv show anti christian? would abc ever sar a show good muslim bell? >> some responses included this reagan inspired tweeted ridiculing christians has almost become a sport in entertainment. never would they ridicule muslims. >> in all seriousness they

shouldn't air a show mocking any on one's religion. >> den niece rote this of course they would never have a show good muslim bells or good jewish bells. it's okay to show christians because they are supposed to turn the other cheek. >> keep the responses coming. you can e-mail us at fox friends@friends first or tweet us at fox and friends first. forget about breaking up. it's waking up that is hard to do especially with the daylight-savings time over the weekend. rest easy we have pretty cool alarm clocks that will help you get up. not bother your spouse too much. >> interesting stuff. let's check in wither rin bowling who is up to tell us. >> i am right here. you can do it live in the studio. >> what do you have going on? >> fantastic show.

>> we have a former two current and a future. we have former press secretary dana perino, jeff fox worthy, donald trump and a future potential president, let's call him mitt romney. >> what's the big topic? >> we are going to talk about how president obama is going to release his success story, energy success story. >> i will let you guys go. >> thank you for stopping by. >> at the top of the hour good stuff there. >> we will be right back after a quick break. don't go far.

>> it is now 52 after the top of the hour. time to sleep on this. if you had trouble waking up because of daylight-savings time we have just the thing for you. some very unique alarm clocks to say the least. joining us now is senior editor hayden lynch. thank you for waking up with us this morning. >> my pleasure. >> take us through the alarm clocks. >> it is already going off. this is a lark. it is a silent alarm clock. great way for someone with their partner not getting up in the morning. it tracks their sleep. it will give you a 7 day sleep assessment. >> this one. >> you can see it's moving. >> it will give you a 7 day sleep assessment it will tell you how you have been sleeping. it suggests what sleep patterns will be right for you. >> that's nice. pretty expensive. >> $100.

it can monitor it on ipad and iphone. >> and this one. that would wake you up. >> this is the sonic boom. very loud. >> it gets up to 113 decibels. jackhammer it has lights that will go off. you put that underneath your bed it will shake and vibrate your bell. if yours is too quiet. >> you wake up thinking an earthquake will happen. >> that will be too loud for me. >> this one -- with you hear this? >> is that birds? >> the aroma therapy alarm clock. about 30 minutes before you get up this will start generating nice bright light it gets you in the mood and then it will have energizing scent then you get major sounds. >> the scent could be like -- >> coffee, energy. >> lavender. >> lavender would be too soothing. that's a good idea.

now this one? >> this is the rolling away alarm clock. you can see by the wheels. it actually when it goes off, go right ahead. it will take off from you so you have to get up and chase it down. if nothing else you get a good workout. >> that would make bee angry. can you image being dead asleep you are searching around your dak room. >> once you find it you are awake. >> that is the point. >> this one? >> if you can't catch this too easily you want to get this. the flying away alarm clock. >> of course it didn't take off. it goes up to 9 feet in the air you have to track it down. >> try again. >> give it a shot? >> maybe it wasn't even. >> well. >> okay the thing is when it does work it clies up in the air up to 9 feet and it won't go off until -- >> you have to return it back into the base. >> it did work. >> in the sleep you get bumped in the head a whole other way to

wake up. >> which of these do you use? >> i use all five of them. >> no way. no you don't. >> i like this one particularly because you can take the wheels off and have it be a regular alarm clock as well. >> cost? >> we have about $15 for this. 50 for the sonic boom, 50 for this and 70 for the aroma therapy. >> thank you for having me. >> i told you they were unusual alarm clocks. >> coming up our word of the day is scrambled up. see if you can figure out what it is right after the break. stay with us.

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>> and the u. s. s. enterprise sailed the world's first and therefore nuclear powered aircraft carrier kicks off its final voyage. it's the shame ship featured in the movie "top gun." now it's time to get scrambled up. here's our word of the day as promised and gretchen carlson is coming in to help us out with this one. wow, this is a long one. >> amphibian. >> had something to do with the show this morning. >> aroma therapy. >> gretchen, you're good at these things. >> aroma therapy. good one. >> i was going to say something else that would not be appropriate for before 6:00 a.m. >> is that eric bolling? someone helped you out. >> no! no! >> there you go, gretchen.