vowing revenge after a u.s. soldier kills more than a dozen civilians in afghanistan. the consequences could have a huge impact on u.s. troops there and even our exit strategy. jenna: hi gas prices a pain for so many americans and now causing pain in the opinion polls for the president. karl rove is here with his take. jon: a fox news exclusive, speculation on a gingrich-perry team. could the southern duo be just the ticket to snag the republican nomination? it's all "happening now". there's new fallout after that horrible weekend massacre in afghanistan. good morning to you. i'm jon scott. jenna: a very big story. hi everybody, i'm jenna lee. the taliban are now vowing revenge against the u.s. after an american soldier left his base and reportedly gunned down more than a dozen afghan civilians

before dawn on sunday. that soldier, now in custody, accused of spraying bullets through two villages before burning some of the victims' bodies. the taliban saying in a statement on its website that it will, quote, take revenge from the invaders, and the savage murderers, for every single martyr. the president, president obama, calling the incident tragic, and shocking, the defense secretary, leon panetta, says an investigation is already underway. conor powell is live in kabul and we start with jennifer griffin at the pentagon for us. >> reporter: well, we know this accused shooter is a 38-year-old staff sergeant, meaning he was in charge of about six ole other soldiers, the father of two children, he served three tours in iraq, this was his first tour to r*f. he tphreufd december. he was working with special operations, green berets or navy seals to train afghans, lewis mccourt said extras could have an factor.

>> years away from my wife, my kids, my family, my community. stressful. >> reporter: lewis mccourt in washington state is the same base home to the army's first corps headquarters and fifth striker brigade from which a kill team of five u.s. soldiers were found guilty of killing civilians and checking body parts as trophies. u.s. military is not releasing the name until charges are brought against this alleged shooter, but sentences for previous atrocities tried by military courts have delivered shockingly short sentences. in haditha, where 24 were killed, staff sergeant frank wooterich was given three months and calvin begins of given life in prison but eligible for parole in # years. the military says in this case they are confident only one u.s. soldier was involved. >> i can tell you that we're pretty confident that this was just one individual acting tonight. -- acting alone. i can tell you one of the reasons we know that is

because when was noticed the individual left the outpost, it was noticed and reported up the chain of command, the command did exactly the right thing. >> reporter: joint base lewis mccourt has had a problem at mattigan hospital, the colonel in charge of that hospital was relieved of duty last month because he had ordered the reversal of many posttraumatic disorder designations because he said it would be too costly to the taxpayer. jenna: still so many questions on this story. jennifer griffin, thank you very much. jon: let's take you to afghanistan where the army is beefing up security in kandahar, preparing for retaliation from that attack. conor powell is streaming live >> reporter: this is -- there are fears this could get worse and especially considering we're only a few weeks following the burning of the korans here by u.s. soldiers. this is an environment that has gone very, very badly for the past two or three weeks or so.

now, the bodies of those that were killed by the u.s. soldier have been laid to rest today, but there is real anger down in kandahar. the president of afghanistan, hamid karzai, has called this an assassination and -- assassination and the afghan parliament have said they want this u.s. soldier to be tried in the afghan courts and military system. there is a real concern that the environment between the united states and the afghan government will only sort of decrease, that the distrust that exists will grow and grow and grow, and this type of incident is fueling fear among the afghan population. there are reports here in the afghan media that this was an organized attack, that there were multiple soldiers. thupb of -- none of this is true, of course, but this is the type of thing the taliban is outing out and it's beginning to circumstance operate in -- sick late in the afghan media, that are also poison the afghan population and the military, which is the main goal in afghanistan is

to protect the afghanistan population, so you can see where this is causing problems diplomatically, militarily and among the social population in afghanistan, jon. jon: if you wanted to script a scenario in which one person undoes the work of ten years of war, this is just about it. conor powell, reporting live from kabul, thank you. jenna: now this fox news alert. the death toll rising in the gaza strip in a fourth day of violence there, militants releasing this video behind me, in fact, showing what they claim are rockets launching into southern israel this morning. now, the attack follows a series of israeli air strikes that killed two palestinian militants and a young boy. the worst shines between israel and the hamas-ruled territory in months. leland vitter is live in israel with the latest. leland. >> reporter: as of now, jenna, we have about 220 rockets coming out of the gaza strip, here into southern israel. the iran dome, missile

defense system, has been about 90 percent effective in keeping any israelis from getting hurt or killed by these missiles, but i can tell you, as we've had incoming rounds here into this area, it's awfully scary in the line of fire. >> we're looking at iron dome battery, the differently defense system that the israelis have nut, and right now, it is tracking a missile coming out of gaza. that's the iron dome that just went off. and the reason it's fired is it's calculated the missile could conceivably hit some type of population area. we'll know in a second whether it actually stops. another missile from the iron dome. each one of those interceptors are headed towards the 200 missile that is have come out of gaza here in the past while. the sirens are continuing to go off here. it is impossible to figure out exactly where this missile from gaza is going to land.

this coming up, there's a missile that just hit no more than about 200 yards away from it, that black smoke. >> and ci tell from you standing here, you get a sense of the fear, there are nearly onehole israelis who live in this range, when they hear the air raid sirens go off. this began with the assas national -- assassination of a well known militant leader and as of now there's no hope for ceasefire as we hear the rounds that are pounding away at militant targets there, about 10 miles south of where we are right now. jenna: leland, we're getting a statement from secretary of state clinton, condemning, she says, in the strongest terms rocket fire from gaza into southern israel and she goes on to say we call on all sides to make every effort to restore the calm. real quickly, the reason why this story is so important is because people are watching iran. if these type of rockets are being fired now, the question becomes what happens if israel engages

with iran or vice versa. >> reporter: absolutely, jenna. islamic jihad is mostly responsible for the firing out of the gaza strip. they are definitely an iranian proxy. however, hamas, which has distanced itself from iran, is at least trying to stay out of this fray. but it certainly gives you a sense of right now, just one hit inside the gaza strip caused everything that we have right now. there's a lot of firepower pointing at israel, some hundred of thousands of rockets both from north lebanon where you have hezbollah and islamic jihad in the strip pointing from the north to south. it certainly would be in israel's crosshairs if there was a strike on iran. jenna: point of context for us today, thank you very much, leland vitter for us in israel. jon: fox news is america's election headquarters, duking from down south a. virtual dead heat among three candidates. ahead of the primaries in mississippi and alabama. the latest real clear politics average showing an especially tight race in

alabama, where mitt romney, newt gingrich and rick santorum essentially are all tied within the margin of error. john roberts, live for us from birmingham right now, john. >> reporter: good morning to you john. outside of the alabama theater here in birmingham where later gingrich and santorum will be appearing at an alabama republican party forum, we'll bring that to you on fox, of course, gingrich pushing hard in the deep south because he really, really wants to win alabama and mississippi. difficult for him to make the case he is a viable candidate going forward and resist those calls from the santorum campaign for him to get out if he doesn't win here. in alabama, currently, he is leading. in the polls, mitt romney is nipping at his heels and a new arg poll in mississippi has romney out in front, so newt gingrich is making the case as he did to chris wallace on fox news sunday that romney is a weak candidate, why would you vote for him. >> the romney catch has been trying to sell since last

june that i should get out of the race and that the romney is inevitable but the fact is romney is probably the weakest republican frontrunner since len ad wood in 1920 and wood ultimately lost on the tenth ballot. so yes, he's a frontrunner. he's not a very strong frontrunner. almost all conservatives are opposed to him, which is the base of the party. >> as you can expect, romney, not about to take that sitting down, talking to fox & friends this morning from mobil, alabama. he said this: >> final a weak frontrunner, what does that make newt gingrich? because i'm well ahead of him. so i'm happy to be ahead, and you know, he's a good guy, i don't begrudge him the fact that they're out there campaigning and working hard and getting some support, but ultimately i believe i'm going to become the nominee. >> rick santorum also pushing very hard here in the deep south. he had that big win in kansas over the weekend. upfortly, though, he is trailing in the polls here. but if he can pull out a win

in mississippi and alabama, you can expect that those calls from his campaign for gingrich to get out will become even louder, because he says they're splitting the vote, at least the campaign says, they're splitting the vote and if gingrich were to get out santorum would take all of these states in which there's been a very narrow outcome. jon: and the politics gets more interesting by the day. john roberts, live there in alabama. >> reporter: sure does. jenna: we hope it does because we have to talk about it every day! and rightfully so. we have a lot more from politics. you know, when you go to the doctors, you are screened for all sorts of things, even when you're healthy. the question becomes is that a good thing, is that something you want. coming up, we're going to talk to a long time physician about why he thinks hospitals should only stick to helping sick paeubgts -- patients. jon: i'll agree to stay out of the hospital! a twin engine plane crashlands in somebody's back yard. why it came down and what happened to the folks inside. jenna: gas prices are on a worrisome path, new polls show people are pointing at

the white house because of all of this. coming up, karl rove joins us for a look at how this could affect the president's reelection campaign. laura ] maine is known for its lighthouses, rocky shore, and most importantly, its lobster. it's the tastiest, the sweetest, the freshest. nobody can ever get enough [ male announcer ] it's lobsterfest at red lobster, the one time of year you can savor 12 exciting lobster entrees like lobster lover's dream or new maine lobster and shrimp trio. [ laura ] hot, right out of the shell. i love lobster. i'm laura mclennanfrom spru, and i sea food differently

jenna: a small passenger plane carrying three people crashes into a neighborhood back yard and the impact practically ripped apart the aircraft in general. take a look at that. the faa says the plane was on its way to mcclel and airfield in california when both of its engines began to fail, forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing. now, witnesses remember hearing it come down. take a listen: >> we were just all inside eating dinner and we heard something, they hit the telephone pole and crashed into the -- into the ditch, between my aunt and grandpa's house. >> there's a whole family here. there are five or six kids. the teen, all of our family is here, and if it hadn't hit that telephone pole i think it would have come in. jenna: that is a scary thought, isn't it?

take a look at plane. because of this, all three passengers were taken to a nearby hospital and all three of them are expected to make a full recovery. jon let's get back to politics now, and rising gas prices are affecting just about all of us. what a difference a year makes. the national average price for a gallon, now 3.80. that's 35 cents higher than a year ago, according to aaa. and that rise is hurting president obama in the polls. in a new "washington post"-abc news poll, the majority of americans now say they disapprove of the president's handling of the con phefplt his disapproval number, up to 59 percent. that is a new record high. even more, people say they are unhappy with the job the president is doing on energy and gas price, 65 percent disapprove. only 26 percent approve. joining us now, karl rove, former senior adviser and deputy chief of staff to

president george w. bush, he is a fox news contributor. and nobody knows political numbers better. so what's going on, karl? the president was on something of a roll, his approval ratings were on the increase. is it all gas prices? >> on the surface of it, it's gas prices. if you look at the poll today, nine out of every ten people polled in the abc poll say they're concerned about rising gas prices, two out of three say they're very concerned about it, and then we have nearly two out of three say that it's having a financial hardship, creating a financial hardship on their family, and over one out of three saying it's a very serious financial hardship, so gas prices are a big part of the president's problem. but it's not all of the president's problem. and if you look deeper into the numbers, there are some really bad numbers for the president inside them. 31 percent say they believe that his polices are making things better, in the

economy. but 30 percent say they're making things worse. and 37 percent saying they're not having an effect at all. so you have two out of every three of the american voters saying either you're making it worse by spending all this money and expanding government, or you're having no impact, and both of those numbers combined have got to create a real problem for the president when it comes to the economy. jon: here's another aspect of that poll that i thought was kind of interesting. when people were asked whether they're optimistic or pessimistic about the economic course of the nation over the next year, 49 percent say they are optimistic, 48 percent, pessimistic. so it's pretty much a wash. and yet, when asked about how they feel about their own families' economic situation over the next year or so, the numbers are going way up. i mean, 66 percent, two-thirds, say they're optimistic. can you explain that dichotomy? >> therein lies the problem for president obama obama. people are feeling better about their personal circumstance, and while it's 50-50 on optimistic and

pessimistic about the future of the economy, that's better than it has been, but yet, the president's job approval on the economy hits an all-time high. the disapproval hits an all-time high. why? i think it goes back to what i shared with you earlier. i think the american people say whatever is good about the economy is a result of tough decisions we made inside our family or that are being made inside our enterprise, not what washington is doing and not what the president is doing. they're saying the last several years, we've had to make tough decisions in our family, put our fiscal house in order, at the business where i work, you know, it's had to make tough decision, and i look at washington, and i don't see them making those same kinds of decisions so they're not giving the president credit for any good happening in their lives. and i repeat, when you've got two out of every three americans saying what you're doing is making things worse or having no effect at all, you're not in a position to make progress on the economy in the minds of most. jon: a quick take on the

campaign, a lot of your fellow republicans from capitol hill, down to the smallest towns in america, have been saying that this republican presidential primary is tearing the candidates apart. but when you look at where they stand right now against president obama, i don't know, a month a. president obama, versus mitt romney, was -- let's see, do i have this right? >> 43-52, yeah. jon: 52-46 against rom tphefplt now, romney is up 47--43, against santorum, mr. obama in january led 52-39 percent. now, it's a squeaker. mr. obama, 48 percent, 45 percent for santorum. >> yeah, look, republicans are going to get nervous about the bad things that each candidate is saying about the others and about the ongoing problems in the republican primary but the

bottom line is most voters are looking at this in terms of what is it president obama doing and what am i generally hearing from the republican field, specifically from the individual candidates, about president obama and they're matching them up. this is going to be a referendum on the president's polices and his activities and his agenda and as you can see the numbers show he's not in good shape and it's going to get worse after the republicans settle on a nominee. jon: it's going to be interesting to see who that nominee is and that man is going to have an awful lot of time to campaign against what he sees is the problems with this administration. >> absolutely. ojon karl rove, good to talk to you, thank you. >> you bet. jenna: there is new talk today of former texas governor rick perry reentering the presidential race. what he has to say about the possibility, and how it could affect the rest of the gop field. we'll tell you more about that. >> plus, how about living large like this, jon? a look inside a $78 million home in one of the country's most expensive zip koefpltdz i thought the market was

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jenna: welcome back, everybody. fox news, with an exclusive now. a new report suggesting newt beginning vich now considering former rival rick perry as a possible running mate. sources close to the gingrich camp tell our very own political correspondent carl cameron the two sides are currently holding talks about a possible gingrich-perry ticket. perry's office is releasing this statement this morning saying, quote, governor perry thinks newt gingrich is the strongest conservative to debate and defeat president obama, and truly overhaul washington. the speculation is humbling, but premature. our next guest doesn't call it premature, he calls this a bit of a gimmick, he's

stephen hayes, fox news contributor and senior writer for the weekly standard. a gimmick? why is that? >> it feels like a gym toeubg me. it's not the kind of sort of fortifying move that a presidential campaign would make, in particular because rick perry struggled to gain the support of many republicans and conservatives across the country when he tkphaeupl as a frontrunner, he had a very strong beginning to his campaign, he raised a lot of money, and then because of his performance in debate, largely raised questions about his ability to serve as president. it's not the kind of thing that a campaign, looking to make a national move, would do by suggesting this linkage between governor perry and fute gingrich. jenna: i can't believe i'm going to say it, but i'll go for it. nine, nine, nine. sometimes gimmicks work. sometimes they make us talk more and there's more buzz and they become something bigger than what they start. david: i think that's absolutely right. the problem is what's the long term possibility for something like this to work out. i mean, i think newt

gingrich has been very smart to focus on gas prices. i think we've seen the country is focused on gas prices, republicans in primaries are focused on gas prices, his prescriptions are good, but it seems to me that he's done it in such a way that smells of gimmickry. he's got the 2.50 placard on the podium, those are the kinds of things that people say well, i don't know how he's going to get it to 2.50. if he were just talking about gas prices and lowering gas price that is would be one thing, but 2.50, there's no way for him to actually deliver on that. jenna: something has to fit on that bumper sticker, right? if republicans are going to come out, whatever it's going to be, whether it's a slogan or whatever. what are you looking for in pairups or alliances, is there something you're watching as we get further along through this process and closer to move november? >> it's interest, i would say the story of this primary campaign on the republican side this time has been that endorsements and close associations with

otherwise popular politicians haven't worked for people. you can cite the example of nicky halely in south carolina, tim pawlenty in minnesota. you've got a series of examples where endorsements haven't mattered in any kind of serious way by putting one name next to another name. i think the hope here was to create some additional buzz, to get people to look at governor perry and say look, there's a strong southern politician, this is somebody who if he's associating with newt gingrich we should also associate with newt beginning rip. it just feels a little gimmicky. jenna: tim tebow is that one name. we'll see. all we can do is speculate at this point. stephen hayes with the weekly standard, thank you very much. jon: just an awful situation in afghanistan after that massacre. a u.s. soldier, reportedly guns down more than a dozen innocent civilians. this could have big implications for our troops there, and for the u.s. exit strategy. our panel of military

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in maryland, police prevent a potential disaster a. student, now in custody, allegedly after posting scary threats online about what he planned to do. a full report, just ahead. jenna: well, new threats in the wake of this weekend's bloodshed in afghanistan as the taliban calls for revenge against the united states. here's the story. an american soldier is in custody right now for reportedly opening fire on civilians and killing more than a dozen. most of them, women and children. now, this comes on the heels of the u.s. military's recent accidental burning of korans, both incidents certainly playing into taliban propaganda and complicating the already fragile relationship swre with the afghan government. ninety thousand troops are in afghanistan right now. we have to talk more about this. joining us now, retired lieutenant colonel bill caoan, and tony schafer with the center for advanced defense studying and tim

kinnett, former jag and prosecutor. thank you all for joining us on such a big story. tom, what's happening behind the scenes in afghanistan? where is this soldier? >> right now he's obviously detained in confinement. it's unclear as to whether he would already have counsel, but at some point in the very near future a. trial defense services counsel, that's sort of the military's version of a public defender, or legal aide, they're part of the ja g corps but they retain anonimity to avoid conflict of interest. i imagine it's one of the first things we'll hear from, in terms of a legal defense, is rcm706 insanity board to determine whether this soldier is able to face the charges against him. jengen we've only heard a few things about him and i want to caution our viewers, we still have a lot more to find out about the situation. but we understand, according

to our reports, that he had deployed to iraq, he is a father, he was based out of washington state, and colonel schafer, let's just talk about logistics. how does this happen? how did someone just wander off a base? >> well, this soldier was assigned to work with special operations forces, and frankly, when i was there, i could kind of come and go any time i wanted because i was working in that field. it doesn't excuse the fact that somehow, someone wasn't paying attention here. this kid was clearly under stress, all of our soldiers are clearly under stress over there and that's why it's so important to be working -- in the buddy system, you're supposed to always have someone else with you and frankly, that's one of the things i don't know is why that didn't happen. we've got to look at this from the perspective, this kid had two tours in iraq, we are an army, it's tired, it's been ten years we're doing this. we've got to figure on the how to get kids out of harm's way. and i think this kid was stressed because of the koran burning and of all the

things going on over there. jenna: we're only speculating now because we don't know. but the question is, what is the way forward in afghanistan, considering these recent incidents? like colonel schafer just pointed out, the koran burning and otherwise. >> the most important thing we need to be doing right now jenna is trying to talk to the afghan people. certainly the taliban have the upper hand on the information, operations part of what's going on. no matter what's happening inside the compound, no matter all the legal processes, the investigations, the inquiries, the wonderment on how somebody can do something like this, the many tours he has had, all these things don't matter to the afghan people. we have to make sure that our message, a message, a good, credible, understandable, and truthful mess message is being put out to the afghan people. the longer we're not doing that the taliban is jumping on all of this and using this against us and we may find ourselves in bigger trouble in the long tefrplt certainly we're going to see

casualties because of this. jenna: you wonder why the message is not instant and right on and immediate with the right residents for the audience you're mentioning. you were in vietnam. do you see similarities? people make that comparison between afghanistan and vietnam. is that a comparison you think we should be making now? >> the comparison i think is that we are indeed fighting a long term war, we pulled out the vietnam before we could finish that war, though we were winning at the time, if you look at the truthful depictions of what was happening. i think jenna we're going to find ourselves pulling out of afghanistan and this is going to become in my judgment a big political issue for the elections this november, about whether we stay or come out, and the next month or so we're going to see what the reaction of the afghan people is. most are going to want us to leave sooner rather than later, and from my own opinion, at this point, jenna, based on whag and where we seem to be going, i'm probably going to agree with those on this side that say maybe it's time to start

withdrawing now. jenna: if they're not dedicating to winning, colonel schafer, if we're not in it to twin and be vehicle tomorrowous, the question is why are we there now. we do have 90,000 troops there and these are the stories we'll hear. we'll hear about this one troop but we won't ever hear about a great battle or something a soldier has done that's heroic. it's only these stories that will get this attention. >> you're correct and that's the thing we've talked about before. right here with jon scott, i said we've got to go big or go home. now we're leaving these kids in place to do the near impossible. we've got to get on a path to vict very, it's getting on the offensive, going to the enemy, going after these guys. a lot of these guys are in safe havens in pakistan. we've got to figure out how to get our guys out of harm's way and achieve military objectives. frankly, the antiterrorism mission which was successful in '01, '02, '03, is the twi go forward. to make it very clear to the afghan people we want you to

be successful but most importantly we're going to sure what we believe is necessarily in our interest to make sue al-qaeda can't get a foothold. there should be our primary focus at this time. jenna: tom, what's at stake here? what does this guy face when he comes home, what's ahead of him. is it life in prison, could he be sentenced to death, something like this, if indeed the facts point to what we're hearing at least at this moment? >> sure jenna. i mean, it's very early, but what is pretty obvious, i think, what will happen here, is he's going to be charged with 16 counts of premedicated -- premeditated murder. that carries a minimal mandatory sentence on any of those counsel's of life con -- con 90, basically life in prison. also, he will be facing the death penalty in my opinion, if the jury convict kw*eubgt dollars him by unanimous verdict. that's the difference between the civilian and military justice system. you can have a partial verdict under the ucmj, but if that verdict is unanimous

he'll face a separate penalty phase on whether the death penality should be imposed. will he be executed, assuming there's a conviction, i can only say the military is -- has not executed anyone since 1961, although they have multiple people on death row now. they've been there a long time, most of them. jenna: again, early in the story, lots to work through. colonel, thank you, all of you, for joining us. we'll have much more coverage on this throughout the day today. >> thank you jenna. jon: recording the action of the police. it's becoming more and more common, people whipping out their cell phones, just in case. but in one state, recording a police officer in public can land you in jail. is that fair? we'll get into that. and french president carr sar coze yes, a little red in the face. we'll tell you about his unusual apology involving his son and a tomato. we're america's natural gas

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jon: "happening now", did you know that in one state, you can not record your -- record your local police? we have all seen videos like this, average citizens, capturing cop necessary action during every day events like traffic stops. tpwhu illinois, it's illegal to do so without the officer's consent and you can even go to jail if you do it. mike tobin is live in chicago, with a look at this controversy. mike. >> reporter: hello, jon. this law was written before everyone had one of these smartphones with a familiarra in it. in fact the law only addresses the audio recording and not the video, but if you're in chicago, you pull out your phone, record a chicago cobb without his consent you could be looking at not jail time. prison time. >> chris drew intended to be arrested when he stood out on chicago's state street, selling art without a permit. protesting peddler's hraurbgs he expected to be charged with a misdemeanor.

but when the police arrested drew, he was carrying an audio recorder. >> we were advised by guys that do this regularly in new york city to record everything. >> he was charged wa felony, for violating the illinois eavesdropping law which prohibits recording of police officers on duty without their consent. >> we weren't listening in on anything private. we were all public. in public. >> reporter: drew is temporarily off the hook. a circuit court judge determined that the law is unconstitutional, because it's overbroad, especially in a world filled with people carrying smartphones with cameras. but until the state supreme court ruled, the law is still in effect, you can't roared the cops in chicago. >> i'm going to enforce the law that is are on the books. it's the law that's on the books. >> reporter: so one illinois representative, elaine nekritz, is proposing a repeal of this law, get it off the books before all of the protestors and their videocameras show found the nato summit in may.

she's going to get pushback from the police, however, they are saying they are revictimmize victims by uploading them to the internet, and police say in tragic split seconds, cell phones could be mistaken for a weapon. jon. jon: mike tobin, interesting stuff. mike, thank you. jenna: the french president is either red in the face with anger or embarrassment, or maybe a little bit of both. for something his teenage son was caught doing. heather childers is here to explain this crazy story. >> and all those teenagers, remember the movie "attack of the killer tomatoes"? french president nicolas sarkozy probably isn't too thrilled about being a costar in the latest sequel. the fivey fruit has struck again, this time at the hands of sarkozy's 15-year-old son luie sarkozy. he and a friend hurled a tomato and marble at a policewoman from the presidential palace last thursday. president sarkozy has

apologized to the officer, but this isn't the only incident, by the way, involving sarkozy and food in recent days. last week, the french president's entourage was pummeled with eggs on a campaign stop. sarkozy is seeking reelection and trying to recover from the worst poll scores of nimodern day french president. it remains to be seen how this latest incident will affect his campaign. also, we should report that this isn't the first incident involving one of the sarkozy off spaeupbg recent hrerbgs pierre sarkozy, the 26-year-old son, caused stir in january when he had to be flown home in a government plane after an apparent bout of food poisoning. we're not making this up. no word, though, jen kwrarbgs on if the food poisoning, what he was eating, was either tomatoes or eggs! we'll leave that again for speculation. jenna: i have to admit, my brother and i, we got in trouble for throwing things off the bowl connie at our

house. not a tomato, but little pebbles and things like that. see, i wasn't the president's daughter. that's what makes the difference, if your dad runs a country! my brother and i, we got in big trouble. big trouble. heather, thank you very much. >> thank you for the full disclosure, jenna. jenna: i had to get that out in the open. i feel like i need to confess it! >> you can make miss takes, but when you're the president's kid, you got to be -- who was watching that guy! jon: maybe he's too busy running the country to keep an eye on his kid. how often do you go to the doctor's office? while we're told that early detection saves lives, some in the medical community are saying too many tests may actually be doing more harm than good. >> and take a look at this, a hot new piece of real estate hits the market. the catch may be the prize, but it's fun to window shop, right? we'll take you behind the doors of this massive mansion, next. [ male announcer ] for the saver, and a big first step.

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jon: a routine physical often includes a battery of tests to detect early signs of disease. now, early diagnosis and treatment saves lives, some say. but others in the medical community are now saying that all of these tests might actually have a negative side effect. overdiagnosis and overtreatment that can sometimes do more harm than good. dr. h. gil letter welch is professor of medicine at the dartmouth institute for health policy and clinical research, also author of "overdiagnosis dollars -- overdiagnosed, making people sick in the pursuit of health". so you say, doctor, we are maybe overdoing it? >> yes, i am. and i want to be clear. i'm a conventionally trained physician, i teach, i see patients, i do research, and i believe american medicine can do a lot of good for sick people. the question is how much to

engage the well in the process. jon: you're saying that the healthy ought to be just left alone, the title of your piece in the "wall street journal" was "if you feel okay, you probably are okay". >> yeah, i think what has happened over the last few years is the medical profession, the public health community, have sort of systematically exaggerated the benefits of early detection and they've downplayed or ignored entirely its harm. but the truth is, we all harbor abnormalities, and increasingly, our tests, be it chemical tests or imaging tests, can detect these abnormalities, so when we look hard for early forms of stkaoerbgs it turns out many ofes have them, but the doctors don't know which are going to be relevant and which are not so we tend to treat everybody, so that produces a downside to this early detection. while it may help some it

also leads others to become patients unnecessarily, they get treated, they suffer side effects from treatment, complications from traoerpblgts and even death. jon: but as the article points out, even just last week, the new england journal of medicine published a study that said hey, colonoscopies are helping reduce the number of deaths from colon cancer. doesn't that fly in the face of what you're talking about? >> not at all. first, even that finding has been grossly overstated. it was not a randomize dollars trial. i believe, though, colonoscopies probably does help reduce the death of colon cancer, but what we have to ask is what else does it do and probably the poster child for the problem that many of your listeners will understand is prostate cancer. in the best case, taking the most favorable studies it looks like you have to screen about 1000 men for ten years for one to avoid a prostate cancer death. if that's all that happened,

of course we'd want to be screened. but if only one in a thousand is helped, it becomes relevant to ask the question what happens to the other 999? and in prostate cancer screening it looks like somewhere between 150 and 200 will have a false positive test result. they'll have to be biopsies dollars. in the -- biopsied. in the case of the prostate that has to be done through the rectum and not surprisingly some get infected. in fact hospitalization rates are increased after a biopsy. jon: that's a good summation of the problem. >> the real problem is -- >> jon: tkr-rbgs we're going to have to leave. we're going to have to leave it there. i'm afraid we're out of time, but our viewers -- we'll put out the link to your article and the viewers will check it out. thank you very much. >> oh sure. happy to do it. jenna: if you're thinking about upgrading, you know, everyone does from an apartment to a house or something like that, or a palace, even, here's your chance! there's one for sale in

bradbury, california, forbes calling this the most expensive zip code out of bradbury. no wonder why. the asking price for this mansion, $78.8 million. jon: .8 3-dz. jenna: they have a huge kitchen, that back doorway has a massage room attached to it. the giant bedroom, complete with chandeliers and pool table as well, and a massive walk-in closet. it's just nice to just take it in! and we have probably a few more cars to buy to fill this garage, it holds about ten cars, and if you need to go to the movies, you don't need to drive, just walk down the hall, you have your own thaoert. seventy-eight point eight? what would you offer? onjon is there room for my workshop and table saw. jenna: important questions. you have to ask. jon: bet you could get it for 75. well, we're going to be talking more about the news of the day. "happening now" will be right back.

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jenna: fox news alert now, brand-new video coming in from the newsroom from a terrible school bus crash in indiana. this story still developing. heather has been watching it for us. >> reporter: here is what we know. one child and the driver did not survive. two other students are apparently critically injured. the school bus from lighthouse charter school in indianapolis was making its mourning rounds. witnesses say everything seemed normal, then they heard screams from the children on board the bus, violently colliding with the concrete pillar of an old railroad bridge. the bus left in a crumpled mess with one side of the bus peeled back complete lee from th completely. the injured were take into indianapolis hospitals. one of the children had to be rescued from under the front

wheel of the bus. tam lee pressley was on her way to work when she saw the crash and tried to help. >> i seen one of them laying on the ground covered up. and then my mom called and said she heard on the news one of the kids had passed away and the bus driver had passed away. that is very sad. it breaks my heart. one lady's kids was on one of the buses, she came freaking out, she was balling, freaking out, she didn't know if they are kid was on that bus or not. jenna not. >> reporter: about 50 children ages 5 to 16 were on the bus at the time of the crash. the uninjured students were taken to a school two miles away. it was about 7:45 this morning when the crash happened. the pavement was wet at the time. it was not raining. what caused this crash at this point remains a mystery. we know one student and the driver dead, two other students critically injured. if we have any additional information come in, we'll let you know and bring it to you.

jenna: we have some chilling 911 calls that have come into our newsroom. we will take those in, turn them around and give them to our viewers as soon as we get them. much more now on "happening now." jon: it is a push for momentum in the deep south. good morning to you, good afternoon, i guess i have to say now. i'm jon scott. jenna: two minutes past noon, there we are everybody, except if you're on the west coast, thanks for joining us. i'm jena lee. jon: over the weekend romney won in wyoming, rick santorum took kansas. national correspondent steve centanni live for us in washington for us right now. >> reporter: the primaries in alabama and miss mistaking on extra significance for two reasons, one because the candidates are clustered so

close to each other at the top of the polls, and because these states will be so crucial to the future of the newt gingrich campaign. the former speaker, who has already won two southern states, south carolina and his home state of georgia is winning his hopes on these two contests. he's campaigning today in pw mississippi and moves onto birmingham, alabama later today. a strong showing of rick santorum would give him moment momentum. he is pushing back gains claims that the math is against him that he can't win enough delegates in the remaining contests to clinch the nomination. >> governor romney has proven no ability to really be successful. the math is not the issue. the issue is evangelist, the issue is that governor romney has out spent me ten to one and is not not able to close the deal and not on the path himself to get to this.

>> reporter: mitt romney was campaigning with jeff fox worthy. newt gingrich says romney is the weakest since the 1920s. romney said look at the states i've won. >> florida, new hampshire, michigan, arizona and many other states. these are places where conservatives were asked after the race, who did they vote for and i won commanding lee in those states among conservatives. if i'm the weak frontrunner what does that make newt gingrich? i'm well ahead of him. i'm happy to be solidly ahead. >> reporter: ron paul has no events scheduled for today and is placing much farther down in the polls than history rivals. back to you. jenna: steve was mentioning the math. as we just told you the three states up for grabs include mississippi, alabama and hawaii. you have 110 delegates at stake there. so far in this delegate race mitt romney has the lead overall, 454 delegates, nearly

40% of the note well needs to clinch the nomination. rick santorum has 217. newt gingrich at 1 ao 7 and ro 107, and ron paul rounding out at 47. jon: a coalition of labor groups announced they will target specific companies. san and bream live in washington with more on what they have planned. >> reporter: in a press conference moments ago these groups including moveon.org and the seiu says they will are putting corporations on notice that they will be tracking every penny they spend on the political process this year. >> we are not going to stand for corporate america domain to super packs, we are going to challenge those donations, challenge efforts to hide donations through c4's and c6's. we'll challenge the wealthy individuals who are flooding our system with money, and we have many tools to do it. >> reporter: those tools include

boycotting and public pressure. today the groups pointed to an example involving target stores when they donated to a politically conservative group in 2010. they want to force corporations to get shareholder approval before they can spend on political issues. skeptics say that is the exact opposite of what unions who were a part of day's events do with their own members. >> this press is an example in an exercise in hypocrisy. they should look within themselves and say the proper way to do this is to give workers freedom to control their own dollars and not force them to spend it on political crew sides that they will disagree w-frpblgts leaders from a number of major unions are planning to spend $400 million in this year's election cycle. statistics show 92% of union spending in 2008 went to democrats. jon: 400 million bucks will buy you a lot of ad time.

shannon bream, thank you. fox news is america's elections headquarters. coming up more campaign analysis with our own bret baier. you can always go to foxnews.com/politics for up to the moment coverage, it is your front row seat to political coverage. jenna: we have breaking news out of maryland right now. police foiling a possible shooting rampage. we are just getting word authorities arrested a student who posted a threat on the internet saying he planned to cause mass casualties on a university campus. david lee miller is live in our new york newsroom with the later on this. >> reporter: a 19-year-old student at the university of maryland is undergoing and emergency psychiatric evaluation after authorities say he threatened to go on a killing spree. police say the some of for post aide message on the internet that read, quote, i will be on a rampage tomorrow on campus. hole flee i kill enough people to make it to national news. the threat didn't stop there. he allegedly wrote, quote, stay

away from the mall tomorrow at 1:30. authorities say when he was taken into custody he did not have any weapons. word of his arrest spread quickly. the mood campus now a mix of relief and worry. >> i was kind of scared, like, i don't know if i want to go to campus. >> and it's very unnerving, scary, off putting. we've heard of other tragedies across the count throw and we are very, very fortunate to have the dedicated force that we have. >> reporter: authorities say he was from fulton, maryland and was an exceptional stew tkefpblt he made the dean's list and was invited to join own elite group to study how signs and tech toll gee inch arrest act with society. the name of his research team, be pure. if convicted of making the death threats he faces six months in prison and a 2,500-dollar fine.

jenna. jenna: we'll continue to watch it, david lee, thank you. jon: new developments to tell you about in other criminal investigations we are following. in pittsburgh detectives searching for the motive in a shooting rampage last thursday. they are pouring over items found in the home of 30-year-old john schick. authorities say he's the one who opened fire in a psychiatric clinic, killing one and wounding six others before he was killed in a shootout with police. now we're hearing from the victim's father, his sense of loss overwhelming. >> at least somebody that loving, you wonder why, why he was taken from us, i don't know. it's just -- it's a whole in my heart. mike woel have been a great father, and i'm going -- you've taken that life away from everybody, and it just -- it was senseless. jon: also in maine investigators are looking into a shooting in a

small town on the coast, one man dead, three others wounded, one of them critically. so word on any suspect there. jenna: it's a big week for the republican candidates as they test their strategies for support in the south. the south so important and key to this campaign. bret baier joins us in a moment. jon: brand-new revelations about the early years of romance, richard nixon and his sweetheart before they got married. jenna: controversy over a new tv show with religious overtones, or under tones, or both i guess, it has some people fuming and the actors in defense mode. >> i wouldn't make fun of anybody's religion. there is a difference of making fun of and having fun w. the backdrop of our show is church. >> reporter: we'd like to know what you think about this on "happening now." it's our poll question of the day. just log onto

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jenna: former rutgers university student accused of using a web cam to spy on his roommate days before the roommate committed suicide has decided not to take the stand in his own defense. his lawyer informing the judge a few moments ago as the defense rested its case. prosecutors presented about 20 witnesses over ten days. the defense had its turn. now we're going to see what happens. in nashville police evicting the last anti-wall street demonstrators occupying the main square outside the state legislature. it was one of the longest standing occupy camps in the country. and six love letters between

former president richard nixon and his future wife pat going on display at richard nicks con presidential library and museum. they are dated 1938 and go until before their marriage in june of 1940. in their letters nixon recalls their first meeting, day dreams about their future and uses nicknames like dearest heart, and my irish gypsy, jon, sounds like pretty racy stuff. jon: i bet you he wasn't daydreaming about being president one day, or maybe he was. the latest polling for tomorrow's primaries shows an extremely tight race in alabama and mississippi. one of the problems engage the level of support for any one candidate is that voters in the deep south are highly unpredictable these days. let's talk about why with bret baier the anchor of the special report. pretty much a three-way race, pretty evenly split in the southern primaries tomorrow. >> reporter: that's right, jon, mississippi and alabama is an

important test for all of these candidates. if mitt romney could pull off the win in one of these states he would make the case that he has a win in the deep south. and that would be important for his campaign. newt gingrich needs two wins to show he's back in the game here. and rick santorum after a big win in kansas looks to solidify the case that he is the conservative in the race as this comes forward. one of the prors is that the states have very different demographics. as we've seen in many states going forward it's not a mono lit i can voting block, the southern voters. there are different cities that vote different ways, different parts of states that vote different ways. i think that will play out when you get into tomorrow and look at the specific areas that are voting one way or another. jon: newt gingrich obviously a congressman who served from the state of georgia for 20 years, the advantage ought to automatically go to the southerner one would think. >> reporter: sure, he's polling very well, depending on the polls you look at in mississippi

and alabama. new ppp poll out in mississippi has him up 2. in alabama the "real clear politics" average i think has romney up 2. but it's very tight at the top. gingrich is making the sale that he is the one who represents the south, and he's had this southern strategy. whether he can transfer that into a winning strategy is really the test that tomorrow is. jon: let's take a look at the numbers as we see them, those three candidates that we've been talking about, mitt romney, rick santorum, and newt gingrich all pretty much -- well gingrich a little farther back in this particular abc news washington news poll, the national poll. at least in alabama and mississippi all three of those guys are fairly close. if you look at the "real clear politics" average in alabama there is romney at 27.5. and we lost that poll a little too early. here is the rasmussen poll from

alabama, gingrich at 30%, santorum at 29% and mitt romney at 28%. if anybody is looking for these two states to help sort out this race that some republicans would like to see ended sooner rather than later it doesn't look like it's going to happen tomorrow. >> reporter: no and it could be a late night tomorrow night the way the polls are shaping up. it's important to know that there aren't a ton of poll tph s in these stew states. i two states. in alabama there is "real clear politics" average, that is an average of all the recent polls but there haven't been too many. there are a lot of question marks when you get to the states and where they stand. that poll that you're looking at from mississippi is march 8th. things transfer in a number of days you can have a big movement in polls depending on how the candidates do and how much money they are spending on the ground and how they are doing on the stump. really the big question mark is does mitt romney surprise, pull

off a win in one of these two states, and if he does what does that mean for the race? jon: he could argue that for a former northeastern governor from a very liberal state to be running as well as he is in those two states is something of a victory in and of itself. >> reporter: that's true, and you will make that argument no matter what happens tomorrow morning. i think you'll see a lot of arguments being made. newt gingrich may say that if he doesn't win both states that he is still showing that he wants to be on the ticket and wants to continue this fight. i think that that argument gets a lot tougher for him after tomorrow, especially if he doesn't within either of the two states. jon: i suppose rick santorum's appeal is to the most ard tkapbt sociaardand conservatives. >> reporter: he's been trying to emphasize advertising, and

manufacturing, especially in light of the contraception battle we've been through. he has made the case very well in kansas obviously over the weekend with a big win there. the question is delegates, and hunting for delegates, and that's what it comes down to, the magic number of 1144, and how each of these candidates gets there. right now for the candidates who are not mitt romney it's about preventing mitt romney from getting that number. jon: it's worth mentioning that mitt romney did win the wyoming caucuses there over the weekend. bret baier thank you. to keep up with all of the election coverage and the political grapevine you can catch more of bret each weeknight, he'll be here tonight 11:00am nor a special election wrap-up of the vote in mississippi and alabama. we'll see if the states can sort out these three candidates. jenna: next to iran's nuclear receipt. the former head of the masaad giving a stark warning about the

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jenna: israel's former spy chief speak being out in public. the former director of the top intelligence agency in israel telling 60 minutes on cbs that military action now against iran would put millions of israelis at risk. take a listen. >> if israel does strike iran the retaliation will probably take place right here. hezbollah could come from the north, hamas could fire from the south. >> it will be a devastating impact on our ability to continue with our daily life. i think that israel will be in a very serious situation for quite a time.

jenna: so that's in the scenario of a preemptive strike. israel's current ambassador to the u.s. has a different take. take a listen to this. >> over the weekend iranian-backed terrorists in gaza fired about 140 rockets and missiles at the southern part of israel putting about a million and a half israelis, that would be about 45 million americans under fire. i think we have to be very, very aware that these iranian-backed terrorists are filing this number of missiles now at us, imagine how many missiles they would be firing if they knew they were backed by an iranian nuclear weapon. >> two different perspectives peter, one is a preemptive strike, israel gets bombed. if there is no preemptive strikes and iran gets the nuclear weapon, i'm not saying the two are connected, we are dealing with a hypothetical, then you have israel also in danger of getting struck by not

only hamas and hezbollah but also by a nuclear iran. what do you do in this situation? >> there is no doubt, nobody has said that the decision in dealing in iran is easy, or that dealing with iran is something not -- that takes a lot of thought and a lot of conversation. there are consequences to an attack on iran, there are also consequences to not dealing with iran before it he becomes a nuclear weapon state. the question is it has to be in the mind of the lea leaders, which is the correct course? i mean is it more important to get iran before it gets the bomb, or is it better to wait until it gets the bomb and then try to deal witness then, perhaps containing it, which is one of the policies that is being floated around out there. obviously there is a lot of signaling going on towards the iranian regime from prime minister benjamin netanyahu, from president obama. they are trying to get to a positive conclusion here, but there are significant challenges

between where we are today and that positive conclusion. jenna: a lot of different posturing as you point out. do you think iran is listening? do you think they care? >> i think they are listening, they have to be concerned about this. they may be subject to military action by israel. maybe by the united states. so they have to be listening to what is going on. the question is, will it change course? now iran has come forward, as you know, with talks, you know, a proposal for talks with the international community about their nuclear program. the problem is, jeez, how many times have we seen this movie? we know how this end. iran is trying to run out the clock so it can cross the nuclear goal line in my estimation. so they are listening, the sanctions are probably biting. the question is, can talks or sanctions, or anything else get iran to change course on its nuclear program? that's the big question. then you have to put that in a space time continuum and figure out can you get to it before it

actually -- iran gets the bomb. jenna: he israel's ambassador went onto talk about the fact that we everee been having the conversations for 20 years. we've tried active diplomacy for ten years, six years of sanctions. israel is giving the message that, look we are done talking at this point. that seems to be the message coming from benjamin netanyahu. the question becomes then, what is our role? hard less of what israel does, if they are attacked then what do we do? if they are the ones attacking then what is our role? what's at stake or america here? >> as the massad chief said in his interview, he said this is just not an israeli problem, this becomes an international problem if iran becomes a nuclear weapon state. as the israeli ambassador to the united states says, he said once iran has the bomb they have a much greater freedom of action. we have to think become a year or so when north korea sung a

south korean warship with a loss of a number of sailors. they also bombed an offshore island and not much was done in retaliation for that even though these were unprovoked acts of war because north korea has a nuclear weapon and you have to take that into consideration. what happens when iran, which is the world's most active sponsor of terrorism. has talked about closing the strait of hormuz has the bomb? it changes your calculus of how you deal with it and it makes it much, much more difficult. you have to decide whether taking military action now is better than waiting until after iran has a bomb. that is a very tough policy decision for the american presidents or the israeli prime minister, or anybody else in that part of the world. jenna: it is a bit of a riddle, does military action prevent more intense military action later. that is something that a lot of

policy makers are struggling with at this time. one of the other things that came up in the 60 minutes interview, we had the notre dame that there are four main nuclear sites in iran that's what apparently the intelligence community is telling us. but in the interview it came up that maybe there is more than a dozen sites that would have to be hit in order for a military attack to be significant. how do you make sense of that? which is right? >> well, there are four, at least four sites, probably five. i would add that new site, which is the uranium enrichment site in the side of a mountain on an iranian military base, which they are really worried about, being able to get about that. they are talking about dozens, maybe even more than that. you have limited military capabilities, you have to go after these targets, what is your objective? are you trying to destroy the program out right, which obviously means you're going to have to go after mortar gets or just trying to delay the iranian program maybe a couple of years

or get iran to really come to the negotiating table after a strike. so it all depends on your objectives, your strategic objectives, and you back that with your military objectives and capabilities. it is more difficult for israel to attack iran today than it was in 1981 when they went again saddam hussein's nuclear complex. jenna: a lot of differences in that. peter brooks, thank you so much. >> thanks for having me. jon: new details on that horrible bus crash we told you about at the top of the hour. two are dead, including one two student. now we have the 911 tapes. we'll play some of those for you next. [ female announcer ] want to spend less and retire with more?

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jenna: we've been telling you about an awful bus accident? indianapolis. we have another one in washington state that we want to tell you about. this one near quincy washington where state patrol there say more than a dozen children have been injured, three seriously when a school bus rolled over in the central part of the state as you can see there on your map. we have minor injuries, relatively minor, like bloody noses and scrapes and bruises, but a medical air lift has been called in for serious injuries. like we said we are getting reports of three serious injuries, those who are seriously injured on this bus. 39 children on board. apparently no other vehicles were involved. we don't know the circumstances. a school bus roll over in washington state. one ever the questions that

comes up with the school bus accidents is about seat belts, whether or not some of the children had sea seat belts, in school buses we know sometimes that is not the case. it's not consistent from state to state. jon: brand-new video coming into the newsroom of the accident jenna was just referring to, the one in indiana. it's a story very fluid, still developing. you can see there that school bus in the center of your screen hit a bridge abutment at about 7:45 this morning indianapolis time. here are the 911 calls that just came in. >> ma'am, what is going on there? >> a school bus crashed into a bus and the bus -- the school bus crashed into a bridge and the bus driver is out. >> are there kids on the bus. >> yeah, we're getting them off now. >> is it northbound or southbound. >> southbound. >> and it's on emerson? >> yes. >> okay. all right, we've got someone on

the way. >> okay. jon: joining us on the phone for the very latest captain rita burris of the indianapolis fire department. the bus is rolling along on a wet road but it wasn't raining. what caused it to hit that bridge abutment? >> well at this time we're not really sure. witnesses told firefighters and police officers that they did not see anything unusual prior to the bus hitting the abutment, so at this point we are just letting the coroner do their kregs, as well as the impd. there could be an underlying medical issue that the bus driver had or something to that effect. but at this time we really don't know what the cause was. jon: the bus driver is deceased along with one child, is that correct. >> correct. jon: there were what about 50 students aeupblgts five to 16 on thiages five to 16 on this bus. >> they were headed to a charter school.

they had finished the morning pick up of all the school children and had almost reached the destination. the children range in age from 5 to 16. the young lady that was deceased was probably about 6 years old. she was either about 5 or 6. jon: that is the worst possible news. i guess in a way looking at the condition of that bus it's almost amazing that it wasn't worse than it was. i mean the entire left side of the bus is just basically peeled away. >> correct. and at this point that's what the investigation will show more. the bus appeared to have impacted somewhere around the a-b post, kind of in front of the driver and did a sardine can opening along the side of the bus. that's where most of the extra indication work happened by the fire department. there were four people they needed to extricate. most of those children were caught up in the seats and in the peeled-back portion of the

bus. jon: such a tragic story. captain rita burris from the indianapolis fire department. one little girl dead, the bus driver dead as well. two other students in critical condition right now. captain burris, thank you. jenna: high stakes diplomacy going onto end the bloodshed in syria. one of the world's leading negotiators urging the regime to end its crackdown. new violence today reportedly leaves dozens dead. greg palkot is live in london with the latest for us there. >> reporter: jenna, opposition figures i talked to are calling it an atrocity. the bodies are 50 people, mostly women and children found in the neighborhoods in the embattled city of homss killed and mute laided. they claim it is the work of the promilitia, others say it's the work of armed terrorists. we are also told assaulting

various towns in the northern part of that country, anti-regime towns. all this is happening, as you know, jenna the former u.n. general holding tax with syrian leader bashar al-assad. he pressed him for a cease fire to get inside the country for a political dialogue. they said to lower expectations. he might be right. the word is now they are waiting for word from bashar al-assad. syria being discussed. secretary of state clinton is calling the conduct of syria today shameful. she will be meeting on the sidelines of that meeting with the russian's foreign minister. they have been a big objecting stack he will of getting any international action together. times reporter marie colvin was killed covering that fighting in syria.

i've admired her reporting and courage. by the way, general eight is taking place in the town of oeus sister bay in long island new york. not far from my home town. it is a very small and sometimes dangerous world with. jenna: thank you very much. jon: christian and conservative groups are blasting a controversial new tv show that portrays southern christians. does it poke fun at them? does it take swipes at them? how would you characterize it? what if the show were mocking islam? newt gingrich says the show would they ever have made air. a fair & balanced debate on that coming up. what do you get when you combine the home depot

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chenowith and surrounds goss i have of texas soerb lights. here is a short clip. >> we are overjoyed at the recent return of one of our own back into our fold. let us open our hearts in support of her as she struggles to pick up -pt pieces of her shattered, tragic lifement and keep us ever mindful of the humiliation of sin, degradation and lack of morals. jon: the question many are asking is this show antichristian, light hearted fun or something truly abhorrent? the controversy has reached the highest levels, drawing comments from the presidential campaign trail. what about the media? are they accepting of it? it's talk about it with jim pinkerton a contributing editor and writer for the american conservative magazine. alan colmes is the host of the alan colmes radio show. alan first of all your overall take on this show. >> i can understand why people would object to it. it's not the first time or only religion that has been featured. look at big love on hbo that people objected to and the

learning channels, i think it was tlc that had all american muslim and certain conservatives objected to the fact that muslims were put in a positive light on that show. jon: i don't think you'll find too many christians saying that this show puts christians in a positive light. >> by making it an issue in the campaign and saying how terrible it is you're giving it more publicity and a head quart than it would otherwise have. jon: that is one of the concerns here. let's play what newt gingrich said about this. then i want to get your take on it both of you, after this. newt gingrich here. >> look at the new show that is one that has the word christian in it, and i want you to take that exact name, drop out christian and put in muslim and ask yourself, is there any network that would have dared to run a show like that, and you know the answer is, not a one, because anti-christian bigotry is just fine in the

entertainment industry. jon: the show now is called "gcb." it was originally titled good christian rhymes with witches. you can use your imaginations. it was based on a book of the same title. what about what newt gingrich had to say there, jim. >> i think he's exactly right. it's worth noting that abc which is owned by disney, you think that disney would be more conscious of its audience in this is marketing the same show overseas as good christian rhymes with witches. the b is clearly a clever attempt to hide from it. newt is exactly right. if it had been christian, only christian, if it had been muslim, behind due, buddhist, no other religion with the possible exception of mormons would get this kind of treatment from hollywood. what would really be daring is for hollywood to do a show called all american christians. if they thought about that in

hollywood they would get fired immediately. jon: you told me you're a church going man, alan. why is it that open seasons on christian is perfectly owe aeu. >> i was talking to my wife who happens to be christian. it's not okay. and i do think there would be a lot of push back from this. i understand why people pwo objecwould object to this. big love, you have book of mormon on broadway in spite of all the objections continues to flourish. i think what this show does, again i understand the objections, it shows hypocrisy which exists in all religions. jon: i think kristen chenowitz is a very good actor and singer. she was on fox & friends and says this is much to do about nothing. >> i read the bible and i pray. i am a chris tas, and there's been some backlash of, oh is this making fun of god. first of all i wouldn't do anything that did that because that is not who i am. i wouldn't make fun of anybody's

religion frankly. there is a difference of making fun of on having fun w. the backdrop of our show is church. jon: jim, do you buy that explanation? >> no, to be honest. let me also point out the other end of the title, the brhymes with witches, haven't we had a big discussion in the media with rush limbaugh and mar, and some have apologized, like limbaugh, mars has not apologized. shouldn't we be more sensitive to this? jon: if somebody wanted to do this show about the muslim community, alan they would probably take their life in their hands. >> there was a muslim show but they said it was too positive. should we allow the free market to decide whether it's a hit or a miss. if they flock to it and watch it

perhaps it's a hit. we should allow the market decide if it continues. jon: we'll see what the voters decide. i'm going to guess that maybe the ratings aren't going to maintain. >> i think this kind of conversation kind of helps the ratings. >> not from my end. jon: i haven't watched it but i won't be. thanks very much. jim pinkerton, alan colmes, thanks, both. jenna: our brave men and women fighting overseas, trained to handle any situation and now u.s. soldiers will be training for a new kind of mission in afghanistan. we have the details straight ahead. do you have anything for a headache...like excedr... bayer aspirin... ohh, no no no. i'm not having a heart attack, it's my head. this is made for pain. [ male announcer ] bayer advanced aspirin enters the bloodstream fast, and rushes extra strength relief to the sight of your pain. feel better? yeah...thanks for the tip! ♪ feel the power my young friend. mmm! [ male announcer ] for excellent fruit and veggie nutrition... v8 v-fusion, also refreshing plus tea.

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jenna: u.s. soldiers can handle just about every situation overseas. now they are training for a completely different kind of exer eyes. claudia cowan has more on that.

>> it's one designed to bolster u.s. afghan relation. before they are dereplied to afghanistan hundreds of civil affairs specialis are heading to fresno, california for a crash course on the war torn count throw's most vital industry, agriculture. >> it's one of the poorest countries on our earth. the food insecurity situation is chronic there. so if we can help get them a little bit more secure with their food supply, get them through that hungry season just a little bit better, that means they are on the road to stability, and growth. >> reporter: afghanistan is also the world's biggest source of opium used to make heroin, and profits from heroin sales in turn help fuel the insurgency. they will encourage poppy farmers to grow crops. they spend a week learning the basics from planting and soil to irrigation, key issues that face 80% of all afghan citizens.

the goal is to use that knowledge to build relationships with afghan farmers and help them out. >> if they've gained in their production, in their farm production, they are not as desperate to join into other operations that are against the united states. >> reporter: these soldiers and marines will also be able to link extremely poor farmers with the latest technology. it's an app for smart phones or ipads called e afghan ag which connects them with experts in the u.s. who can provide information, need back and possible solutions. this pre deployment program is funded by the usda as part of america's mission to help the people of afghanistan achieve agricultural sustainability through technology and outreach. jenna. jenna: claudia cowan, thank you. jon: unions and big labor groups are not show when it comes to using their influence around election time, so why are they so upset about corporations doing the same thing?

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