can >> good morning everyone. thanks for getting up with us. i am heather nauert. >> thanks so much for watching "fox & friends first". >> new details em americaing this morning surrounding the attacks that took place on an air base in afghanistan during leon pinetta's visit. good morning, ainsley. the guy who went after leon panetta or a group of marines apparently died this morning. >> we have been reporting on this all night long. this guy just died. officials say an afghan man was trying to attack a large group of u.s. marines assembled to meet secretary panetta yesterday. he drove a stolen truck into a ramp where panetta's plane was

about to land before. he reached the target the truck crashed into a ditch. the driver got out covered in flames that he likely ignited himself. overnight he died from the injuries. panetta's trip in the wake of an american soldier killing 16 afghan civilians. new overnight the soldier accused has now been flown out of that country and now in kuwait. afghanistan doesn't have the proper facilities need to do hold a soldier long-term. there's a chance he will be tried there down the road. afghan law americas outraged the move many of them asking karzai to suspend talks until the suspect is back on their soil. in case your invitation got lost in the mail -- >> did you get a chance to go? >> no. >> i wanted to go for the appetizer and figure out what salad fork to use.

huge state dinner honoring the prime minute prime minister and his wife. peter doocy live. invitation lost? >> yes. maybe it was an e-mail and it got stuck in my spam folder. they gave the prime minister and his wife a grill from illinois. they didn't get a chance to test it out. prime minister cameron and his wife samantha were honored guests at a party with a lot of high profile guests. george clooney was there he got to sit at the head table. there were rich people taking advantage of the free food including richard branson warren buffet and harvey weinstein both made pier rances. they also both donated big bucks to the president's reelection campaign. at the end of the nate the president and the prime minister toasted each other.

when we met two years ago we exchanged beers from our home town. one news story said david cameron and barack obama cemented their relationship by hitting the bottle. >> you don't get to choose the leaders you have to work with. all i can say is it is a pleasure to work with someone with moral strength, with clear reason and with fundamental decency. >> last night's first course was crisped halibut with potato crust followed by spring garden lettuces with shallot dressing and shaved breakfast rad dish. red wine reduction and french beans. dessert warm mired lemon pudding. there was wine paired with the course but we don't know which ones. >> i wouldn't know what to do with a shaved rad dish. that was your 5 at 5.

israeli air forces bombed the gaza strip. it was targeting a rocket launching site and a terror turnl. it comes hours after rocket fire hit southern israel. the attacks continuing after a cease fire that went into effect on tuesday. he begins a 14 year prison sentence. he gave a farewell speech outside of his home. >> tomorrow when i leave saying good-bye to patty and my kids will be the hardest thing that i have ever had to do. maybe there was something written in the bible in the old and new testament about who's sufferi through suffering comes wisdom. >> blago convicted of charges he tried to sell barack obama's senate seat. a woman is fighting for her life after police say her father

shot her. this happened at a courthouse in texas. bartholomew is accused of shooting his 20-year-old daughter and her mother. they were to testify against him in his sexual assault trial. he killed one he took off taking hostages. the hostages fought back grabbing his gun unlocking the door for the swat team. granger is in jail. his daughter is in critical condition in the hospital her mother treated and leased. >> hilary 2016. book it. they predict secretary of state hillary clinton will make another run for the white house in 2016. if joe biden wins a second term and runs for president he would she would probably not run for him. >> it is 2012 and we are already talking. >> an incredible story an infant kidnapped 8 years ago is found alive. this is what miguel warren

looked like the last time his family saw him. now the boy's god mother crystal tanner is behind bars and she has been charged with kidnapping him. she was supposed to be baby-sitting the little boy and she was caught after someone turned her in for alleged child abuys. he should be back with his family as soon as tomorrow. that is your 5 at 5. finally a look at who is talking. >> bill o'reilly riley last night during his talking points memo he took issue with the bias of the mainstream media and how it will impact the race. >> we know most of the media is actively rooting for president obama to be re-elected. used to be they tilted coverage ignoring stories that reflected positively on conservatives and republicans and hyping stories that effect doemocrats and liberals.

now national news agencies are lying to you using out of context quotes they get from web sites and fabricating things all in an effort to advance the liberal agenda. the danger here is the presidential election will not be reported honestly and americans who do not pay close attention will be deceived therefore their vote unfairly influenced. that's on them. you can't force people to be fair and wise. di >> dick morris is also on this morning talking about the 2012 election and who he thinks obama would prefer to run against? >> there's no doubt obama is doing everything he possibly can to get santorum as his opponent. that's why he did the contraception fight. that's why he -- they are running negative ads on romney for god sakes in primary states. 8 month before election day. >> trying to help rick santorum in the process? >> yeah.

>> take a look at the fox news poll on the 2012 presidential match up. when asked who they would ask for if it was today he got 12 percent over ron paul and gingrich the worst match up losing to the president by 18 percent. now it is time to brew on this. >> here's today's topic today. there's a lot of outrage taking place in central florida. here's what happened. the stars on the american flag have been repraised with a head shot of president obama. this flag hanging on the door of the late county democratic headquarters. a lot of complaints come wiing about this one. headquarters taking down the flag. some are saying that's not enough. if is it ever approacappropriat alter the american flag?

>> e-mail your comments to us at friends first.com. you can tweet us as well at fox and friends first. we will release your comments later in the show. >> a whole lot of controversy that's for sure. unemployment numbers are about to be released this morning. we have our job right here. the companies are hiring right now. >> why did chris rock call the tea party racist. show you what happened after that. >> not a good week for president obama either. his approval rating dropping 9 percent last month. 57 percent last may. this keeps up the white house may have to fish out bin laden

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>> welcome back. 13 minutes after the hour. here's what you missed while you were sleeping. crews in boston working the grave vard shift trying to restore power after an electrical power right now still 10,000 people without power. it could take hours if not days to restore. the subway system back up and running just in time for your morning commute. you thought you had the day off. syrian dictator's personal

e-mails leaked to the british newspaper. 3,000 e-mails revealed the strong man is hooked on itunes while his wife recently spent 10,000 dollars shopping on-line. he downloaded video games movies and apps and tunes by lmfao, chris brown and even blake shelton. assad reportedly sent his wife "god gave me you" as a gift. >> oh, my, that is quite a mix there. clayton, thank you very much. joining us from the fox business network lauren simonetti. a big day for goldman sachs after an executive published new york times as he resigned. >> he resigned in the new york times. resigning blasting the culture in the times about goldman's

management their culture calling it toxic and destructive and as a result goldman sachs shares wiping out 2 billion in market value. >> what happens next for the company? oo they have to defend themselves and they are but we are hearing several lawmakers and even the former federal chair saying this is indicative even after the bailout. >> this is done by fox. explain how this works. >> you see a poster alvin and the chipmunks. you scan it it's called fox movie wall. there you go. >> you hold up the smart phone it instantly down loads and you can watch it any time? >> these are new releases? >> alvin and the chipmunks will be available. 20th century fox is owned. >> they are having trouble

getting people in the theaters now they have this to compete with. lauren, thank you so much. clayton, back to you over there. it is 16 minutes after the hour. a convicted rapist holding a house full of girls at knife point. >> he threatened me. >> what threats? >> the caller hiding in the other room. >> president obama says government red tape is on the decline. true? a look at how you are really being regulated we will talk about it. ♪

>> president obama enrolled less bureaucratic tape. chief washington news correspondent has more. >> it was in his 2011 straight of the union address had a top to bottom review of the regulations put in place by his administration and others. >> when they put unnecessary fwurd enon businesses we will fix them. >> then acted 32 new regulations

at a cost of the american economy of 10 billion a year. 6.6 billion in one time implementation costs. indeed since he took office the number of rules in the pipeline bearing this $100 million price tag has grown 50 percent. >> they have a lot of regulation. look at the record. on present track president obama may be the most pro regulation president we have ever had. >> the greatest number of last year's main rules 1 million dodd frank after the democratic sponsors in congress. the most expensive came from the environmental tendency which had five major rules at a price of 4 billion per year. it will expand regulation. if you do that you are not doing your job.

they could never measure the savings you want when they prevent an outbreak of e coli that would devastate the beef industry or bull of mexico with impact on energy tourism and other sectors. >> i think the question is not how many regulations are good how smart they were. it is driven much more by the events of the thymes they live in than it is by the etiology of whoever is in the white house. >> another measure of the growth of our regulatory structure is the length of the federal register which last year ran to 82,000415 pages. it has grown by 20 percent over the last three years. twice the growth the register registered during george w. bush's first three years in office. >> new job reports due out this morning. before that comes out we will talk about cheryl casoni up bright and early with the top

three companies hiring right now. >> we are going to get initial jobless claims today. we don't expect any big news out of that number. unemployment still at 8.3 percent trying to get people who are hiring. the first one may surprise you. jewelers. >> people buying jewelry in the economy. that's what is so surprising. >> we have had a lot of the luxury names doing well over the past three years. >> a name like sterling is growing and they are hiring. here are the numbers for everybody. 700 jobs that are open right now they need sales people and managers. if you are full-time you get benefits, dental, medical, 401 k. i always highlight that. even if you are part-time they are big with fundraising for saint jude's hospital and they will train you. you don't need jewelry experience they will do that and pay you during the training.

>> a guy like me had no jewelry experience. >> you can do a job at sterling jewelers. >> true green. this is something i can handle. >> absolutely lawn care. these guys are across the country lawn services another growing industry despite the housing downturn we still have strength in this. 4500 jobs are going to be filling in 2012. they are headquarters in memphis. they have other jobs open in dallas and tampa. they have job centers. it is long-term but also the sales associates they need people to work on the web sites and people that can pick up the phone. all of that. >> housemanagement as well so that's good stuff. keith barton also on your list. here is your number three. >> obviously a global company. aerospace, defense, security they are becoming more of a technology company recently. a lot of military some of the business is military.

7,000 jobs they have available right now. a lot of these are engineering jobs which shouldn't surprise you. again this is a company they have 123 thousand people worldwide 572 facilities 46 states 75 nations. this is a major player and benefits are great 401 k, things like that. we shall see what happens with the pull back in the middle east how that effects them. analysts are looking at that now. right now we have the job. >> 7,000 jobs. you can catch cheryl at noon on the fox business network. also look for her column to help further your job search. and also casoneexchange.com that's her web site. you want to be a presenter? we will tell you about the college courses many of the folks majored in in school. a reporter asking chris rock a question gets the not so funny side of the comedian.

what the heck happened? we will play you the tape. first on this day in history in 1972 the godfather opens in theaters. @?

>> it is now 5:30 on the east coast. >> now for your 5@5:30. we start with a fox news alert. officials say an afghan man was trying to attack a large group of u.s. marines assembled to meet secretary panetta. the man drove a stolen pickup truck on to the ramp along the runway. before he reached the target the truck crashed into a ditch. the driver got out covered in flames he likely ignited

himself. today panetta is set to meet with hamid karzai. mary reed joining the chorus against calls for attorney general eric holder to step down after the fast and furious scandal defending holder saying he still has confidence in him. nancy pelosi also backing holder. new york state lawmakers making the data base the most expansive in the country. it will make them give samples. the data base goes too far saying it could lead to crime in laboratories. the broughter base will help them catch violent criminals and help them prove their innocence. look at this chilling 911 call

describing a moment a convicted rapist holds 6 of them at knife call. the call you are about to hear may be disturbing. >> he is threatening. >> what threats? >> i will stab you. >> the door is open. >> did somebody open your door or did you open it? >> they are screaming. >> police arrived within minutes stormed the house and arrested robert hill. none of the woman were physically hurt. authorities say hill broke the first floor window to get into the home. >> talk about someone who can dish it out but can't take it. you are about to see brand new video of chris rock attack ago journalist who asked him about scathing remarks he made about tea party.

>> you see the jourm list asking rock about an interview he gave with esquire magazine when he loses it and attacks the camera. this happening at the film festival in january. the shocking video just surfacing now. the lawyer says they are looking into it. i thought the camera guy just dropped it. he knocked it. >> certainly looks that way. >> you ever wonder what at that takes to be a part of the 1 percent? we have a look at what the average one percenters majored in in college. tell us a little bit about them? >> a research study found on average college grads earned double that with only a high school diploma over the 40 year career. if you are looking to be the 1 percenter you will have the best gods of getting there in pharmaceuticals check cal engineering and economics.

much slimmer with health, literature or ethnic or civilization studies. english lit make 48 thousand a year in the middle of their career and own make up one-tenth of a percent of the country's top one percent earners. as for what career is most likely to land you at the top that would be wall street lawyers. 1 in 3 are in the one percent. that's better odds than if you are a ceo. >> how much are have those changed or what extent have they changed? >> depends on what you are looking at. one of the most interesting things in this study is actually the look at whether or not college is worth it. as college gets more and more expensive despite the fact that on average grads are making double if you look at education majors over the course of the career they are making 180,000 more than those without 4 year degrees. if you take out the 100 thousand you missed out on for not working full-time over the four

years of school plus college itself they are ending up negative. >> it is certainly not for everybody. diane we will talk to you later. >> we have a shiny new toy. the brand new ipad goes on sale. people are already lined up for it. guess what? >> you don't have it yours is the old one. >> this is the brand new ipad which i have been reviewing for the past week. >> that's how you got your hands on it? >> that's how i got my hands on it. i want to tawalk you through a little bit of it. the screen is the big story. it is unbelievable. if you are watching on a high deaf television at home this ipad has a better resolution than your high definition resolution. >> when they call it ipad hd it is in high definition. >> the pixel density is so high. that means the text looks incredible on it. if you take a shot of the studio these high definition monitors behind us have less resolution

than the brand new ipad. take a look at photos in here. what people are buzzing about is how fast it is. it will look like glossy photos in your hand. my wife will kill me because i am putting up photos of her being 7 and a half months pregnant. >> looks beautiful. >> they look like glossy photos in your hand. it is ridiculously fast. >> you don't need to upgrade this one? >> if you have the ipad 2 you got it for christmas of course not. you will notice how much faster it is when you are jumping on the web. it has lte which means it's on the next generation wireless from verizon and at&t. >> what will it set you back? >> the exact same price. that's how they do it. 499. 499 for the base model the same as the first he generation. >> you are in love with the camera. >> the first time we had a camera it was not that good. now i am going to hold it up.

it has a 5 mega pixel camera so you can take great photos it shoots high definition video as well. it is really sleek. >> i can appreciate it's super cool technology. 15 million were sold in the last quarter in the u.s. alone, but not a lot of americans have these things. you have a lot of executives who have them a lot of teenagers who bug their parents for them. the average mernl is not going to have these things. >> 55 million americans bought one of these. 55 americans analysts expect them to sell 60 million i pads this year in 2012. now that the ipad 2 dropped in price to $399 that may be the biggest story of all. people who couldn't afford them before can run out and buy a brand new ipad. >> they have revolutionized things. >> my mom doesn't pick up the lap top any more. she jumps on the ipad. >> i love the text. >> maybe one of these days wii will get one. let's talk entertainment

news now. the judge is said to keep fluid out of the box. take a look at holly cavanaugh on american idol last night. ♪ >> wow. just 18 years old. what a voice singing celine dion's power of love. she and all of the other finalists up for elimination during tonight's results show. one person who won't be there the former contestant jermaine jones. they kicked him off after he they learned about his criminal past. big congratulations to actress charlize theron. she is adopting a baby boy, she named him jackson and ee from the united states. this is the oscar winner's first child. speaking of babies mom to be snooki's friends are here. deena, vinnie sam knee thmy the

stop by the curvey couch on fox and friends. one day it's presidential candidates the next day it's jersey shore. >> the situation with his shirt off. >> now for the starting lineup sports stories making headlines. resigned as head coach of the nix aft nicks after a losing st streak. mike woodson takes over. the change had been a fresh air for the knicks. they rouse to win over the blazers. meeting lasted 8 hours met with the broncos cardinals and the dolphins. ncaa tournament is set. south florida beating california in the first of four game last night. temple is up next for them. >> vermont gets past ver mar

71-69. the top seeded tar heels await them. the tournament tips off later today. march madness time if you didn't get the member row. more e-mails from the march madness bracket. >> let's talk about payton manning. where you think he is going to land. he went to tennessee, denver. >> i think denver looked impressive for him meeting with john elway. they wanted him to sign in denver before he got back on a plane. don't leave, payton. want you to sign before you leave town. where do you think he is going to go? >> i have no idea. i like him, though. good guy. they would be lucky to have him. >> a great team leader, too. >> it is now 39 minutes after the hour. do you like sushi? >> i hope you do. >> maybe not at this hour of the day. you just bought 60,000 dollars worth of sushi for a politician. we will tell you all about that. >> it's your last chance to answer our question of the day. is it ever okay to alter the

american flag. e-mails on that coming up next. ♪ >> growing up with family that flew the american flag every day filled with a sense of national pride. i am grateful for the opportunity to crew the national coast guard. that's why i am proud to be an american.

>> former democratic saturdtate senator accused of blowing 60,000 on sushi and lobster

dinners. pedro espada accused of splurging on spa treatments. someone has a lot of explaining to do. you are looking at what is believed to be a senior prank going way too far. you can see the high school completely trashed. damaged so bad class had to be canceled today while the mess is being cleaned up. they are looking for the culp t culprit. they may face criminal charges. may not graduate. >> for sure. taking it way too far. >> a lot of outrage over what is taking place in florida. this american flag the stars have been replaced with a head shot of president obama. this is on the door of the democratic headquarters in lake county, florida. >> which leads to this question, is it ever appropriate to alter the american flag. here are some of your responses. >> i agree with the veterans it's a national disgrace for a

picture of any one to be placed on the american flag. remington hernandez tweeted us and said our flag is a sign of freedom not political banner. i think it's appropriate if you are froesing something. >> apparently they were forced to take it down after getting so many complaints in particular from veterans. the flag is on sale. you can buy it on-line. >> can you image that up in it someone's yard what an outrage it would be? >> i don't care who it is any one on the american flag is not right. >> keep the e-mails coming. find us on facebook@foxx and friends first or twitter@fox and friends first. >> if you are putting on the weight is it time to blame your mother? the damage was done long before you were ever born. >> i am glad it's my mom's

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>> coming up in 11 minutes we are joined from colorado. we have a bunch of real estate questions. bad habits you want to keep. that is right. the cast of the jersey shore all kicks off with fox and friends.

kicks in exactly 10 minutes from now. new details emerging this morning about the man in afghanistan. this guy drove a stolen pickup truck along the ramp along the runway that is where his plane was about to land. before he could reach the target he crashed into a ditch. overnight we learned the man died from his injuries. panetta's trip a tense one in the wake of the killing of an american soldier killing 16 afghan civilians. he is set to meet with afghan president hamid karzai. the accused soldier has been thrown out of the country and he is in kuwait. joining me to discuss all of this is national security expert radical islam.com. his name is ryan moro. we hear about stories like this

what happened yesterday at the military base. you think how do our men and women continue the mission when you can't trust the people working there on the base with you. this guy was an afghan interpreter. >> it is very difficult because the taliban and military groups are able to infiltrate the security forces. keep in mind iraq was in worse shape than afghanistan is now. iraq was. i am seeing positive friends in afghanistan. as horrific as that massacre was the reaction to that by the afghans has been much more tame than i anticipated. >> much more thanl the unintentional koran burning. on the other hand someone argued folks in afghanistan are used to civilian deaths maybe that's why their response was not what you would expect it to be. >> maybe. you have to remember this is something as being highly covered. you have radical clerics out

there condemning it trying to fuel the fire as much as they can but the afghans aren't in an uproar like many people expected. if you look at the polls 70 percent of afghans supported military presence there. others thought it was the greatest threat to them personally. there is a lot of support for american soldiers in afghanistan. >> the question is whether they are willing to side with us or not. >> how accurate are the polls? >> inge they are accurate. there are 1,000 people protesting america and considering how big of a massacre this was and howie motionn -- howie motionn emotional that is. >> 23 thousand u.s. forces brought home by the end of the summer given everything that has happened do you expect that to be sped up? >> they may bring home an

additional 20,000 troops by the end of the year. some say 10,000. it remains to be seen. military commanders don't do that. when i look at the positive trends in afghanistan the afghans taking over the fact that panetta says the level of attacks. at the lowest level in five years i say we should not jeopardize that type of progress. that is hard fought. i would hate to see those gains lost. >> what is the role there it was the taliban and shifted to nation building schools, roads all of that. >> it has to be degrading capabilities so they can come in themselves. that brings pakistan into the picture. you have u.s. soldiers fighting in afghanistan we are not taking out the ied factories because it's too politically sensitive. >> afghan security forces need to ache over themselves.

when our men and women are training these people and you cannot necessarily trust these people given what has happened, given that they might attack our u.s. forces, how do you handle that? how do you work with these people, how do you train them? >> it requires tough counterintelligence. afghans on your side ready to rat out the bad guys. there will be future attacks like this but this is something we have had success dealing with in iraq for example. >> we are getting a little new information right now. apparently the attacks yesterday that occurred on the military base was not directed at the secretary of defense but was directed at the marines. leon panetta speaking out about that now. it is 5 minutes after the hour. let's head back to you. >> finally some relief from the long security lines at the airport. not for everyone. i will show you why.

now for your word of the day. all scrambled up. can you figure out what this is? can you figure out what this is? try to figure that out. we will put it up there for a second. stick around for the answer coming up. first our shot of the morning this is 1-year-old jackson waking up. we want you to see what you look like when you wake up. e-mail your photos. that an adorable son send your photos to us at friendsfirst@foxnews.com. adorable. happy birthday.

>> we take a look at the good, the bad and the ugly. first, the good here. the tsa is lightening up on security for senior citizens. they will be allowed to keep their shoes and jackets on as part of security. this is part of a new test program at four large airports. next we have the bag for you. if you're having a hard time shedding some of those extra pounds, there's a new study out there that shows we can actually be programmed to be fat while we're still in our mother's womb. you got to blame mom for everything, right? poor mom. things like a mom-to-be's diet can alter the d.n.a. of her unborn child. researchers link these changes

to a higher body mass index. finally ugly. a woman with tattoos on her arms with memories of her dead child was left shocked and outraged when a radio shack cashier wrote this on her receipt, ugly itch from tattooville. she refused to pay a $0.05 surcharge for a plastic bag. she requested a refund and this is what she found at the bottom of her receipt. that's awfully mean. why would you do something like that? >> i have to pay closer attention to receipts now. >> might write you a little nasty comment. time to get scrambled up. alisyn camerota is here to help us figure it out for the first time. there's an o on the screen. can you figure out what this word is slowly? there's an i. j. >> why do i have a harder one than you do? >> i got it. blagojevich. blago! take that, alisyn camerota. >> all right. "fox & friends" starts right now. have a gre d