>> reporter: shell-shocked. nice being with you. bill: mart is on this afternoon for megyn. good being with you. bye-bye. jon: the american soldier accused of gunning down civilians in afghanistan meets with his lawyers for the very first time. what charges will he face? it could be a crucial clue in the hunt for a missing teen, what police just found as they try to find a girl who vanished on her way to school. massages may be moving out of the spa and into the world of medicine. many doctors say your massage is so good for you it should be covered by health insurance. it's all "happening now" " and a good monday morning to you, and to you as well, i'm jon scott. jenna: i'm jenna lee. we kickoff this week with wild weather breaking out all across the country. we start first in colorado where crews keep an eye on the winds after a wildfire forced the

evacuation of an entire town over the weekend. firefighters containing the flames for the most part now but are still battling hot spots at this time. most of theee evacuate ooh wees getting the all clear to return home, that is a good thing, but some farms are still under evacuation orders. to the heartland now and reports of tornadoes touching down in oklahoma. twisters also tearing through nebraska, damaging homes, and even derailing train cars. and the dangerous weather still a very real possibility today. we'll talk a little bit about what is going on out west now, a rare avalanche warning in northern arizona after heavy snowfall there. a little bit of everything today maria. >> reporter: that is exactly right. we have everything covered, extreme warmth across the east will continue, temperatures up to 40 degrees above average in the midwest. a lot of weather to talk about. we want to start off with snow across parts of arizona. it's still coming down across

arizona, parts of the central rockies,. martha: of montana. we are expecting another storm system from the pacific northwest as we head into this evening and wednesday because that system will continue to dump very heavy snow for the cascades and onto parts of the northern rockies. over a foot possible. road closures will be very likely. further off to the east the same storm system is actually producing a risk for severe storms yet again today. it will be a greater risk than it was last night. thunderstorms are over texas. severe watch shaded in yellow until noon today, the conditions are favorable for thunderstorms to develop that could proceed views severe weather. we will continue to monitor the situation. as the storms continue to push eastward they are going to enter conditions that are even more favorable for severe weather across eastern central texas and

oklahoma. tornadoes will be possible. longer track tornadoes will be possible across the region shaded in red and that does include big cities, dallas, waco, austin, and antonio, if a tornado warning is issued for your area seek shelter immediately. stay away from windows. go into your basement. if you don't have a basement go into the lowest interior room of your home. as we head into tomorrow the storm will slowly track eastward. looking at more severe weather possible tomorrow across louisiana, southern parts of arkansas and eastern texas. you know what, if all that wasn't enough we are looking at flash flooding concerns along the same area. jenna: unbelievable. very good points made there. thank you. jon: well, another day, another battle in the republican race for the white house. rick santorum is challenging mitt romney to a one-on-one debate and blasting the former massachusetts governor on several issues, saying his positions are similar to

president obama on issues like healthcare, cap and trade and government bailouts, take a listen. >> i'd love to be able to get one-on-one with governor romney and expose the record that would be the weakest record we could possibly put up against barack obama, but still we are hanging in there because people are seeing, they are coming around to the fact that we can't nominate such a weak candidate in the general election. jon: with us now chief political correspondent for the washington examiner and a fox news contributor, byron york. senator santorum wants to debate mitt romney one-on-one. would that be a good idea? >> that is up in the air. debates have been kind of a double end sword for rick santorum. remember at one of the debates in florida he was extremely effective against romney on the issue of romney care, beat him up good on that. at the last debate in mesa, arizona, he made his famous admission that he violated his own position and voted for no

child left behind and taken one for the team. romney has used that against him effectively. romney would never agree to such a thing, if there were such a debate it's unclear whether santorum would help himself or hurt himself. jon: i suppose what he's trying to do is marginalize the importan importance of newt gingrich in this race. >> right after the ohio primary one of his advisers said if we had a one-on-one race against romney we would be beating him by 10 points. that is assuming that if gingrich was out of the race all of his supporters would go to rick santorum. if gingrich left the race according to the latest fox poll a large number of voters would go to santorum but enough to go to romney so he would still keep his lead. jon: we have the poll on the screen right now. santorum shoots up 7% if gingrich gets out of the race but romney shoots up 5%, that is almost a wash.

>> that is enough. what really matters here is whether santorum is thinking about trying to win the race, that is reach 1144 delegates while romney is left behind, or whether he's simply trying to prevent romney from getting to that 1144 number himself. now newt gingrich has said openly that is what he's trying to do, he's no longer talking about winning the g.o.p. prim primaries, he's talking about keeping romney from getting to 1144. that could happen but only if santorum and romney stay in the race. jon: you mean santorum and gingrich. >> i'm sorry, santorum and gingrich stay in the race. jon: over the weekend santorum was pledging this he wins illinois he will win the nomination. if that's the case, why was he in louisiana? >> that is interesting. the illinois prime air raoerbgs big, big deaprimary, big, big

deal coming up tomorrow. with that prime air row coming up santorum was in louisiana. given how he performed in alabama and mississippi winning both of those he's a good bet to do well in louisiana, not as good a bet to win illinois. remember, he looked good for a while in michigan, looked good for a while in ohio, and romney ended up winning both of those. he's got to kind of win illinois to show that that pattern doesn't continue with romney managing to win not big, not in a landslide but he won them both. jon: byron york. thank you very much. >> thank you, jon. jenna: right now the soldier accused of killing 16 afghan civilians is set to meet with his lawyer for the very first time today. formal charges against army staff sergeant robert bales are expected this week. still a developing story, and our chief washington correspondent james rosen is live with the latest. >> reporter: although the formal charges have yet to be filed in this case a fuller picture of

the u.s. soldier at its center is fast emerging. according to documents oblted by "the new york times." staff sergeant robert bales was arrested a decade ago on a misdemeanor charge of an assault on a women in a hotel room in tacoma, washington. the charges were dropped off bales reportedly paid a fine and completed anger management training. he would marry a different woman who whom he is still married shortly there after and they have two children. he has at times performed heroically in the armed services, including three grueling tours of duty in iraq and the one in tkapbz cut short. the striker brigade in the second battalion third inch fran tree regiment took part in a gun battle in a holy city in iraq in january of 2007. the americans killed 200 enemy fighters in a bid to salvage a downed u.s. helicopter.

blaes' attorney, john henry brown who has previously defended ted bundy and the barefoot bandit spoke with the reporters last night about his new is high profile client. >> i haven't spoke to him a couple days. he was okay on the phone. certainly willing and anxious to see us. we are going to meet with him today and the jag people, and the military people. it's going to be a busy few days. >> reporter: in the march 11 shooting rampage in southern afghanistan in which sergeant bales is the suspect 16 afghan civilians were killed including nine children. jenna: more on the story as we get it, james, thank you. jon: some brand-new developments to bring you in the iran nuclear showdown. what israel is now saying about teheran's nuclear ambitions and how it could impact the jewish state's plans for what it may do about iran. the supreme court set to take up a very unusual case involving twins conceived after their father died. are they still considered his

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jenna: just in, new information on a deadly school shooting in france. police stepping up security after a gunman opened fire on a jewish school this morning in the southern city, killing four people including three young children. we are learning a little bit more about the gun used in this horrific crime and how it's significant. greg palkot is live in london with the latest. >> reporter: that is a crucial bit of information. let me get to that in a moment. let me layout the crimes for you and our viewers. it all happened at the jewish school in southern france. according to officials we've been speaking to all day, a 30-year-old rabbi heb brew teacher waurs killed and his children, another child age 10

and another man was seriously injured. a gunman dressed in black rode up on a motorcycle, opened fire, and shot at point-blank range into the children. he used two handguns. witnesses spoke of a horror, a seen of mayhem and carnage then he fled away. french president nicholas sarkozy is at the scene, he described the assassinations as coldblooded. he's leading a massive manhunt in that city of some half million, police, choppers all involved. all of this after two other incidents in the past web. in those two incidents three french soldiers were killed, one badly injured. the unit there had seen action in afghanistan. among them north africans, muslims, blacks. here is the linkage. similarities, striking similarities. the same shooter was dressed in black, he rode a motorcycle, and now again we are learning from judicial sources in the past 15

minutes, he apparently used the identical guns, the linkage there absolutely clear according to officials on the ground there. my experience, jenna in southern france, i've spent time there reporting on a scene there, there are many anti-semitic incidents, there are also many anti-muslim incidents. the fact that the two earlier incidents involved soldiers as well might also point to an islamist terror line to these incidents. that is all this officials are looking at now. they are not making any conclusions right yet. but the probe is heating up and the manhunt obviously very, very big. jenna: stay on the story, greg, thank you. jon: a new report on the iran nuclear showdown says israel now agrees with the u.s. assessment that while teheran is definitely trying to build nuclear weapons it hasn't yet decided on the actual construction of an atomic bomb. does that mean that an israeli

military strike on iran's nuclear facilities would be postponed? michael sing is the former senior director of middle eastern affairs at the national security council. michael, what is the specific meaning of this conclusion that the iranians on the u.s. have come to about iran and its nuclear ambitions? >> well, jon for a longtime now the u.s. conclusion has been that we don't have sufficient evidence to say definitively that iran is putting together a nuclear weapon. that is very different jon from saying that we have concluded that iran is not seeking a nuclear weapon. there are always intelligence gaps that make definitive conclusions difficult. if luke at iran's nuclear program and all the things they are doing there is really no other plausible conclusion is that they want to at least leave open the possibility of having a nuclear weapon stphaot fact that they have put so many of these facilities underground and hidden them from inspectors, that leaves more gaps in the knowledge. >> well that's right. iran has a history of doing secret things with nare nuclear

program, of hiding their facilities and that makes the task very difficult for intelligence analysts. you'll never have an intelligence analyst who is going to say to the president or the prime minister of israel, we know what the iranians are doing here because they are doing their best to keep it from us. jon: they say their nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, for medicine and electrical generation. obviously that country is loaded with oil. if they want to generate electricity they have oil that can do it a lot more cheaply than nuclear power right. >> that's exactly right. they have tremendous natural gas reserves as well. if you look at the types of things they are doing, the weaponry search, the advanced work they are doing on long range missiles, there is no possible purpose for those things. the timeline the israelis in particular have in mind is not when iran builds a nuclear weapon, you know, by then it would be far too late. what the israelis have in mind is that movement of the nuclear

facility to the under mountain facility that would put it beyond the reach of a military attack, that's what israel has in mind in terms of a military action. jon: you say that common-sense should prevail here regarding what the iranians are really up to. what do you mean by that? >> well, what i mean here is we should have a realistic debate, jon, about our policy options going forward, rather than continuing to have the debate about what the iranians are really up to. i think their activity speaks for itself. iran wants a nuclear weapon. in the past you've had iranian leaders talk about wanting a nuclear weapon. we need to focus square low on what we do to prevent them if getting it rather to look to hide in wafrt uncertainties in the intelligence are. jon: michael singh, thank you. >> thank you, jon. jenna: major developments in the search for a missing california teen. what police are saying about 15-year-old sierra lamar, and all the breaking news in a live report coming up next. plus chicago mayor, rob emanuel

hitting a political bump in the road, the issue, traffic cams and accusations of pay to play politics. the low down from the windy city just ahead.

jenna: right now a desperate search underway in california after police discover a cellphone belonging to a missing 15-year-old. this is an important link, a clue here. heather childress is tracking this story. >> reporter: it is day four and still no trace of sierra lamar. she was last seen friday morning on her way to school, but she never made it. as you mentioned, one possible lead in the case that came yesterday, investigators found sierra's cellphone in a field a few miles away from her home in morgan hill, california. 25 miles south of san jose in

santa clara county. police found the phone sunday by tracking its electronic ping. investigators scoured creek beds, fields, all of that overt weekend for any clues into her disappearance. search dogs by the way apparently lost her scent at the edge of her driveway. family and friends are hopeful that she is still alive and they say she would not have runaway. >> i talked to her, said goodbye and gave her a hug and things were good. and i told her i loved her. >> i can't believe that she would not contact her friends and let them know that she is okay and do this. she would never want us to go through all this pain. >> come home, baby. please come home. you're not in trouble. everyone dar dar everyon -- everyone wants to see you. >> reporter: a desperate mom and dad. she is 5'2", brown hair, last seen carrying a pink and black purse. anyone with information on the teenager's whereabouts please

call the santa clara county sheriff's department at the number on the screen. and by the way, she was moved to morgan hill this year from fremont, california, transferring as a som sophmore. we'll bring you any additional information as you get it. jenna: that can be a tough transition. hopefully they find her. thank you. jon: a plan to blanket the city of chicago with a network of cameras to catch speeders, well it's hitting a speed bump of its own. mayor rob emanuel touting safety for this program. others are saying it's a money grab for the city and a political kickback to the company that will install the cameras. mike to be inch is live with a look at that from chicago. >> reporter: when rob emanuel campaigned for mayor of chicago he campaigned on a pledge to change the culture of the insider's game that has been the tradition in the city of big shoulders. now his plan to install

automatic speed cameras around the city has many appearances of old school chicago cronyism. a guy named greg gold tpher is a consultant to retflex. they are poised to make tens of millions of dollars if the plan goes through. when emanuel was running for congress goldman organized the foot soldiers. and formed the action committee for a better chicago that helped get pro emanuel aldermen elected. >> they shouldn't become just lobbyists and the lobbyists shouldn't be having deals at city hall. >> reporter: emanuel is selling the program as a tool to keep people say. one ald der man says in her opinion the speed camera program will not do much for the safety

of children. she believes it's all about the revenue that will be generated. and the chicago tribune reports that the mayor's office will not provide data to back up their claim that traffic deaths have been reduced significantly in areas where the red light cameras have been installed, jon. jon: something smells late fishy in chicago, doesn't it, mike? >> reporter: sometimes it does, jon. jon: mike, thanks very much. mike tobin. jenna: from chicago back to new york where the occupy wall street movement is sparking new protests and arrests six months after it all started. new concerns now about a threat from an apparent supporter of the movement, why the nyp tk-rbg is taking the warning very seriously. we are live with that story. then the politics of rising gas prices. we've been talking about this a whole lot. will the pain at the pump truly affect the presidential election? [ male announcer ] this was how my day began.

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is a tricky one. car even gave birth to twins 18 months after her husband had passed away. they knew he had cancer, he had banked his sperm for this particular situation. when she applied for social security benefits for the twins she was turned down. for years she has been fighting through the court system. today her attorney argued before the supreme court that those children do meet the definition under the social security survivor benefits statute that they should be receiving benefits. he said that the father had signed a note saying any children that come from this marriage are my biological children. they had planned ahead for this event. the government says not so fast. what you're dealing with here is a statute that was crafted in 1939. they argue today there is no way congress could have perceived this particular situation but it is increasingly happening. the attorney for the plaintiff in in case, the one seeking the benefits for the mother says think of all the military cases where men are going off to war and leaving behind sperpls so if they don't make it their wives can expand or start a family without them. it's a very real 2012 problem

being decided on a 1939 statute. it made it for a day of tricky arguments. it will be decided some time before the term's end at the end of june. jenna: what a fascinating case. hreubt interesting to see which way the ruling comes down, shannon. thank you very much. more on this as we get it. jon: the tension palpable in new york city right now after more than 70 protestors were arrested over the weekend. they are marking the six-month and rers sraoe of the occupy wall street movement and the controversy is far from over. david lee miller is live in our new york city newsroom. he has details on all these arrests. david. >> reporter: that's right, jon. at this hour new york city police are trying to learn the identity of the man who sent out a threatening tweet over the weekend telling occupy wall street demonstrators and i quote, we won't make a

difference if we don't kill a cop or two. now the tweet was posted saturday night by someone using handle after protestors and cops clashed in zuccotti park. they are trying to get a subpoena to learn the tweeter's real name, the man behind the tweet. he lives in florida, says he's in the military, and never actually attended an occupy wall street rally. he says his remark was taken out of context. >> i never told anyone, hey, why don't you go out there and kill a cop today. >> reporter: demonstrators are trying to revive the occupy movement. over the weekend here in new york city there were a total of 74 arrests, including one woman who suffered a seizure after she was taken into custody. police have charged that woman with assault, and they've released a video, that's what you're looking at now, showing the woman only moments earlier elbowing a police officer in the face. she is now being evaluated for psychiatric problems. the weekend's violence began after protestors on the six-month anniversary of the

occupy movement returned to zuccotti park which is where the movement was first born. violence began after they tried to set up a permanent camp. >> the police began to use the barricades, holding it chest high, pushing people back, beating them back out of the park, off of the sidewalks and then pushed them back across the street onto this sidewalk. pushing people down in the process, hitting them in the face. >> reporter: the occupy movement says it is not backing down, and although the reoccupation of zuccotti park has failed they are trying to set up camp in another location, this one manhattan's union scare. a statement by the group says and i quote, squash us in one park we will reappear in another. jon: that guy is acting so surprised that they got pushed back by the police, they knew it was coming, didn't they. >> reporter: police told them you cannot set up any type of camp and the protestors intentionally disobeyed and that is when the police decided to move n. they had ample warning about the consequences of what

they were doing, jon. jon: david lee miller. david, thank you. jenna: gas prices are up for the 10th consecutive day. the average price for gallon is $3.84. there is a whole lot on the campaign trial from both sides about gas prices. how much do those prices at the pump actually come into play in an election? we have the presidential historian and professor of history at rice university. historically speaking, doug, how do gas prices really sway or not sway voters? >> well it sways voters quite a bit. it's one of the advice rel feelings bee get about how the economy is doing. it's summer months. if you have kids they are home from school and you're trying to maybe take a trip and you're starting to pay exor pwa want prices for gas. unfairly we blame presidents, whether it's a democrat or republican it doesn't matter we blame the president for high gasoline prices. it particular lie cost jimmy carter in 1980 when we had

double digit inflation. we had visuals on the night knee news of long gasoline lines and a gas shortage and high prices and people rejected carter for re-election. jenna: i don't have to tell you this. sometimes there is calm par sons made between president carter tennessee president obama. what similarities do you see especially when it comes to gas prices? we are not seeing long lines but it's an issue that is coming up ahead of this election. >> there is the similarity there. they were pol polarizing. the ted kennedy wing of the party challenged him. you see president obama doing record fundraising, 34 million in february and unified the democratic party. with that said the similarities are going to be with the oil crisis that is looming. both carter's big problem was with iran with the hostage crisis and now you see this president hostage to what the nuclear program in iran, and it's making the markets very

skittish. the demand now is for global oil, it's a million more barrels a day, 89 million barrels a day of being consumed, and because china is a great new oil consumer the united states is struggling with our oil policy right now. jenna: one of the reasons we wanted to talk to you is we certainly are talking a lot about gas prices but we were wondering, driving gas prices is something of modern times, it's not something that necessarily goes back a hundred years for obvious reasons. i was curious in your studies if you see something similar to gas prices as a indicator of approval or disapproval ratings. when you look back over the history of presidential elections are gas prices an anomaly or is there something similar we can look to in the past. >> the gas prices are an indicator to how the economy is doing. if you remember the carter years, remember jimmy carter crated the department of energy, then he put solar panels on the

white house and was promoting alternative fuel revolution, and it went sour on him. it seemed exciting in 77, by 1980 it was a disaster. with president obama you'll finder lee when he ran the last time around it was all about climate change and new alternatives. you don't hear him quite as much talking about that, just like carter backed off, because the reality is we live in the age of petroleum. every since henry ford made the model t gasoline prices are imperatives. so much of our goods, at a walmart or mom and pop shop are getting brought if by trucks. if diesel prices go up your prices in the stores will go up. president obama is overseeing a recovery right now in the economy, but the big uncertainty is going to be at the gas pumps. and if you start hitting $4, $4.50 gasoline and it's steady staying there it will be a disaster for the president. jenna: the record price for the national average $4.11 during

the burke administration. it will be interesting to see 50, a hundred years from now how this time was viewed and how much gas prices were a factor in 2012. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. jon: a bikini model arrested, why this cover girl might soon be turning in her swimsuit for a prison jumpsuit. we'll tell but that. and massages, they may be more than just an expensive treat at the spa. this stress reliever can have hidden health benefits. dr. marc siegl will join us. m .

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student in high gear in california when they spot the 19-year-old's car. a college co-ed may be dialing back their party an antics. could it be true? much more coming up next hour. jon: massages, once reserved for a day at spa are not just for pampering any more, there are new studies that show massage high school a wide variety of health benefits, and the presents ipress is on by some in the medical community to get massage therapy covered by insurance. dr. marc siegl is a fox news medical a-teamer. massage is good for you, much more than just the relaxation, doctor? >> reporter: the more i look into this the more i think that may be the case. there was a big study in 2006 in the archives of internal medicine that looked at massage

and found that people with problems of arthritis of the knee that had swedish massage for eight weeks in a proceed showed significant improvement in how their muscle function, less fatigue. the muscles get very tense. by relaxing them you can do a lot more especially when you have art right us. i want to explain what i mean by swedish massage, that is the most common used. deep circular motions, kneading, vie basing. jenna vibration. jenna: this is an attempt to get a massage chair in the fox newsroom. you go to a spa and get the lavender oil and all that or does it have to be a real true medical massage by a professional, a doctor. >> reporter: it doesn't have to be by a doctor but someone who is a licensed massage therapist. you're making a great point

here. not everyone at the spa with the low lighting is getting that. they decrease the amount of stress hormones in your body, that they increase your ability to fight off infection and improve your immunity. those studies are late suspect. it's too early to say this is a cure all. 10% of americans are now getting massaged and it's increasing every year. i think a medical massage, or one by a licensed massage therapist -- jenna: massages by the way that are on the screen are particularly very g just as a side note. have you ever had one, doc, a hot stone massage. >> reporter: yes, but with my schedule -- muscles get very tense, they get tight end up and there is a medical reason for actually relaxing them and decreasing the amount of fatigue. jenna: should jon's insurance cover the massage? then we don't have to pay for it. >> reporter: jon in particular i can't weigh in on because i know he has certain medical issues,

knee problems, knee problems. jon: back, you know, carpal tunnel, you name it. >> reporter: i want to add in by the way massage is not for everyone. if you have recent wounds or blood clots, pregnant women you have to be careful about giving massages. for most people i'd like to see insurance cover this. certain other things maybe insurance shouldn't cover. but i'm all for massage. jon: i have herniated disks in my back, i've been getting massages, it's great. it takes care of the back pain. >> reporter: it might decrease medical costs. i'm all for massage. you have to make the time for it. jon: tell them dr. siegel sent you to the massage therapist. jenna: preventative medicine may be covered in the new healthcare law. we'll see. >> reporter: right, we'll see what else we have to kick out, right, jenna. jenna: thank you very much for that, it's nice to have that support, you know, in case any

of you out there would like to just take a little break this week, right? well it's certainly not model behavior, what this international swimsuit model is accused of doing and why it could hand her behind bars for a very longtime. also, he received the medal of honor and now this war hero, who already gave so much to his country is giving back to his home state. what today coat a myer is doing to help the people of kentucky, next.

jon: right now a swimsuit model is in a world of trouble. simone farrow busted in australia after investigators accuse her of masterminding an international drug ring? hum, heather childress is working this story for us, live

at the breaking news desk. >> reporter: that is true, not so model behavior landed this swimsuit model simone farrow in some big trouble. the 37-year-old under arrest accused of being the mastermind, actually of a world-wide drug ring that shipped methamphetamines around the world by fedex and even the postal service, all of this from her hollywood apartment on sunset boulevard. investigators say she did it using at least 19 aliases. the model was first arrested back in 2009 but after posting a $150,000 bond in february she took off, but not for long, she was arrested just last week in australia. now for her part farrow denies the charges. she claims she was in hiding because someone is trying to murder her. but investigators, they aren't buying it, they say it was all just a high-fashion facade and she was the brains behind the on going criminal enterprise involving at least seven people by the way. she was a bikini body he will,

an opinion up girl, a penthouse pet named the sexist woman in the world three times. she was promotes herself as a singer songer on her website. she wants to be a reality star. she may have found her reality show behind bars. jon: i bet she'll have a really great mugshot. you've got to get it for us. >> reporter: you think? trading in a bikini for traoeups, i don't know. jonstripes, i don't know. jenna: medal of honor recipient dakota myer showing he's a hero on and off the battlefield as he helps tornado victims in one of the hardest hit areas in his ohm state of kentucky. rick leventhal is live in liberty tee, kentucky with more. >> reporter: this town has been hit very, very hard as we know and is still in need of a lot of help. the home that was here is reduced to abou bits of rubble.

you see trees mixed in here as well. this entire hillside was forested. all the trees were knocked down until dakota and his buddies came in and carved it up and cleared it out and helped the people who lived here. >> marines have given up their freedom every day. i wanted to find a way to give back. >> reporter: well this is one of the hundreds of homes that were either damaged or destroyed in west liberty, a small town that was in the direct path of that twister, took out about 60 miles across earn kentucky. blake hatch eris one of dakota's buddies. you loaded up a buzz saw and chainsaw, it's quiet right now. you've been doing incredible workout here. tell me why you decided to make this trip. >> i don't know. i seen on the news as soon as all the storms came through. i said somebody has to help these people out. we are late getting started because they had everything shut down here. i tried too do the right thing,

treat people like you want to be treated. if it happened to me at people i hope people come and do it at my place. >> reporter: you've got a landscape company, dakota has 25 events every month. >> and we have a guy that runs a lumber company, a saw mill, a log million and all of that. he said he'd pack up and go with us. my uncle randy has a full time job. he said he would head out and go with us, and my dad with j & b construction, he helped us out and furnished trucks and trailers and head out and come up here. >> reporter: you guys are doing great work. all this was covered in trees and debris. they have gone through with chainsaws, carved up all the logs, cleared out all that stuff so that now other trucks can come in and haul it away to return west liberty to normal. the town itself is still in very bad shape. they need a lot of help.

they hope this will inspire others to volunteer. jenna: it certainly is inspiring. what a story blake told us. thank him on our behalf. we wish the best to the people of west liberty of course. rick leventhal, thank you. jon: right now there are new questions about the u.s. military and afghanistan as tensions rise after the murders of those 16 afghan civilians. will u.s. troops be coming home even sooner than planned? also, tornadoes women through nebraska and oklahoma, some remarkable video to show you, funnel clouds doing major damage there, and the danger is far from over. sky hook !

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jon: coming up this hour on "happening now", could recent event necessary afghanistan mean u.s. troop pull outs earlier than the agreed upon timeline? how politics could factor in

the conduct of the war. >> a college student vanishes from a california campus. why some of his friends think a book he read might explain his disappearance. >> and how social media are changing the way kids behave from spring break to college parties, parents out there might be able to rest a little easier. jenna: hi everybody! hope you're having a great monday, thank you for joining us, i'm jenna lee. jon: i'm jon scott. a powerful weather system with the potential for heavy rain and flash floods, now moving across oklahoma. less than 24 hours ago, a similar system sparked two possible tornadoes, including this funnel cloud that was caught on tape. the storm system is wreaking havoc across oklahoma and nevada. we're just getting brand new photos into the newsroom of the damage from the two suspected tornadoes that touched down in nebraska in the north platte area.

jenna: earl emler, response recovery supervisor joins us on the phone. that north platte area is important to the state as i understand it because of the railroads there? >> yes it is. union pacific has their main lines that supply most of the east-west rail traffic to the nation through that area. jenna: are there -- is there damage to the track? >> the reports we're getting, everything is so early, they had rail cars overturned. it doesn't sound like there's a spillage of anything, so we're hoping it's minor derailments out there. jenna: what kind of damage have you seen so far? >> obvious hrerbgs i'm in lincoln, about 200 miles from north platte, what we've been told is there were pneumous house damages, we have reports of two or three that were destroyed, and we have two injuries last night, one was with an

individual that had to be removed from a destroyed home, and another one was a truck driver on interstate 80, i-80, that his truck had been overturned and he was transported to a hospital. jenna: we're seeing brand new photos. i'm sorry to interrupt. this is the first time we've seen photos from the north platte area of nebraska. we just got them into the newsroom from a local newspaper that shows us for the first time exactly what sort of damage we're talking about and what is relatively a rural part of the state. earl, did these folks have much warning about these tornadoes? >> we started getting -- apparently on scene locally. we knew we had weather systems in the area -- a weather system. on the ground, we started hearing reports, were hearing reports of tornado activity, possible funnel clouds spotted and that was confirmed by the national weather service and they put out the warning at 9:30 last night. jenna: what's the weather like today? is there any further concern today for more storms like

this? >> it doesn't appear so, but we're in kind of an unstable environment right now. it has been unseasonably warm here, in the 80s, which is very unusual, and it's been staying warm at night, which i think tends to feed these systems. jenna: yeah, absolutely. my little brother played for the nebraska corn huskers, and spent time out there, and beautiful land b certainly not in march, with that warm, when we were out there, that's for sure. great bunch of folks in nebraska, earl, we appreciate the time today, go con huskers, i'm a little biased on though but i'm going to say it! one of the things that earl mentioned is that unstable environment and that's something maria molina told us about, that moving east and we're getting amazing looks at ohio that brought dramatic skies and lightning

towards the ohio state university campus. you can see the light as it hits the ground. one family saying the same lightning storm may have sparked a fire inside their home last night, so that shows how close this is to peoples' homes and how dangerous they are. we'll have more on this wild weather across the united states throughout our show today. jon: let's talk a little politics from -- politics from america's election headquarters, a big prize found grabs in illinois where rick santorum is facing an uphill battle. mitt romney is ahead of the polls. in the race for delegates romney is ahead with 521, santorum has 253, newt gingrich, in third place, with 136, and ron paul is trailing in fourth with 50 delegates. fifty-four delegates, up for grabs tomorrow in illinois. steve brown is keeping an eye on this race, live from

chicago. >> reporter: when you get close to a race you can see the resources fan out. senator john mccain hit the local talk shows and morning news shows in the chicago area. on the abc local morning show, mccain was asked about the tenor of the campaign, and the nastiness of it, and mccain was bemoaning the intervention, if you will, of the superpacs in this particular campaign, and all the attack ads that they've run. the irony in all of this is that the superpac, which has run the most attack ads is restore our future and is arguably the reason why mitt romney has been propelled through this primary campaign and tops the leader board in terms of delegates. out in vernon hills last night mitt romney was talking a lot about the economy. he's been spending time in the sururbs, an area in which he is going to find the richest vein of voters

and he was talking about the economy and the president and his opponent as economic light weights, his opponent largely in this state of course is rick santorum who out on the campaign trail responded to mitt romney's jabs are being an economic lightweight, trying to hith romney where he once lived. >> you really believe this country wants to elect a wall street my nans ear as president of the united states, is that the kind of experience we need? someone who is going to take and take after as he did his friends on wall street and bail them out at the expense of main street america? >> reporter santorum has spent time in the far western portions of the state and downstate, basically south of i80 in the state of illinois. it is believed that is where you're going to find more folks that are much more friendly to this brand of populist politics. so you see a contrast, romney working in the city where the richest vein is thought to be an santorum working outside of the city, turnout is going to be key tomorrow. there is nervousness amongst romney backers that a

turnout being low could tighten up the race and we could be in for yet another in a series of long nights on primary contest night, jon. jon: it's going to be interesting to watch. steve brown in illinois, thank you. the latest polls there show romney is ahead. the real clear politics average of all the polls puts romney in front with 39.5%, rick santorum, second with 31 percent, newt gingrich in third at 13.3, ron paul with 8 percent. he's in fourth. bret baier is the anchor of "special report". so what about it? a are you predicting a late tomorrow tomorrow -- tonight tomorrow -- late night 20er78? could this become the squeaker that everybody was talking about? >> it could become that. it appears that romney has a solid lead in the latest polls but you know what? we have seen many polls before contests that were way off, and traditionally, rick santorum, so far, has outperformed the polls going

into a state. the key for rick santorum is the unstate of illinois, a conservative section, how they come out, how they turn out, will determine how that state goes. as steve rightly points out, the delegates matter, and in illinois, there are certain districts where san santorum will not be fighting because he wasn't able to put a slate of delegates on there so romney automatically will have an advantage no matter what happens in the overall state. jon: in five of those 18 districts the santorum campaign didn't get on the ballot. some suggest that that is a sign of a disorganized campaign. >> well, his campaign will push back and say early in the process, when they didn't have any money and it was one candidate in a truck, going to 99 counties in iowa, they didn't meet the requirements, in a couple of states. virginia, another one, where they didn't have the organization to get on those ballots. we've talked about all of that. newt gingrich was in the

same boat for a couple of places. but now, you're in a different ballgame, and now he's predicting if santorum, if he wins illinois, this will change the race again. the question is, delegates, and now, the effort on santorum and gingrich's part is to prevent mitt romney from getting to 1144. jon: well, the question is also about money. mitt romney has it, the others don't so much and mitt romney was ahead in the polls before, as i understand it, he started his real serious advertising campaign, kind of an antiromney campaign -- sorry, an antisantorum campaign there in illinois. >> it makes a difference. it makes a big difference. but one of the things that you have to factor in in some of these states is there is somewhat of a backlash sometimes to negative ads, and they do work in the large picture, but we've seen in several instances, in exit polls, where perhaps there's a bit of a backlash about all of

the money. if you look at the per-vote cost that romney, santorum and gingrich have spent on each vote so far, romney is winning by more than 1.2 million votes. but he's spending a lot of money to get there. jon: it's my understanding that illinois uses kind of an unusual delegate system that other states don't have, and that also favors romney, because his delegates are people who are well known in the state. >> reporter: right. and they are big names, and obviously, they have their own organization in each one of the areas of the state. clearly, this sets up for mitt romney. the question is whether illinois has changed demographically and whether conservatives in the seventh part of the state, the downstate, makes a difference for santorum and it's something we'll watch. if it becomes a late night and we're not going to call this race aerblgs that's probably not a good thing for mitt romney in the long haul. jon: you've had a couple of those late nights so far!

>> we skwr in-- we have indeed. jon: i don't know whether to wish you a late night because it keeps things interesting or let you get to bed and get your beat sleep. >> we'll get it right, no matter what. we'll get it right! >> jon: that's what we like to hear. bret baier, thank you. >> sure. jenna: new numbers in the race for campaign cash. they show the president, president obama, rakeing in more dough than the republicans, collecting donations from 1.4 million paoefplt there's a potential weak spot in the fundraising effort, according to some reports, of those donations. only 11,000 are for $2000 or more. this lags way behind what president bush received at the same point in his reelection campaign. but the president is doing his best to catch up. last friday alone he collected more than 5 1/2 million dollars. jon: and ron paul is not giving up the fight on the republican side. political pundits might dismiss his chances of winning the republican

nomination, but the texas congressman says he is running to win, and to fight for the political causes in which he believes. paul says he's friendly with mitt romney but denies rumors of a political alliance. with royal supporters and collection of delegates paul could be a power broker of sorts at the republican convention this center. jenna: well, we have this in, this is a special report for jon scott but it has to do with his denver broncos and we're getting reports at this time coming from espn that peyton manning who recently left the colts is signing with the denver bronco, this after whether or not he was going to sign with the tennessee titans or maybe the san francisco 49ers. apparently it looks like at this time he's going to the denver broncos. what does that mean for tim tebow? again, only reports at this time. but initial reports coming from espn, is that, jon, the broncos may be looking to trade away tim tebow? we don't know if that's true. jon: love tim tebow.

you know, i got to say it, peyton manning engineered some last minute comeback victories over the broncos the last couple of years and i never liked that guy! now if he's going to the broncos, i have to learn to love him. jenna: that means a lot for us during football season if jon is not happy. tim tebow was good for the team. jon: tim tebow is a class act and i'd like to see him stay with the team. jenna: we don't foe if -- we don't know if peyton manning will may. we'll see. jon: life is strange in the nfl. the fbi is getting involved in the case of a florida teen who was shot to death, police say, by a member of a neighborhood watch team. the reason he says he made that tragic mistake. we'll get into that. plus, the mysterious disappearance of a college student, breaking details from our breaking news desk, just ahead. e excedr... bayer aspirin... ohh, no no no. i'm not having a heart attack, it's my head.

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jon: right now new information on several stories we're keeping an eye on. saint patrick's day celebration necessary canada erupt going chaos. look at this video. up to 1000 young people, spilling into the streets of london, ontario, causing heavy damage and leading to at least 11 arrests. the mayor vows to crack down with tougher curfews and stronger laws. new word on formal charges for a u.s. soldier suspected of killing 16 afghan civilians. military officials say they may come sometime this week, those charges. staff sergeant robert bales set to meet with his attorneys today for the first stkpwhraoeupl and raging flood water necessary new zealand, authorities warning people on the north island to stay indoors as heavy rain saturates the area, threatening to cut off entire towns. jenna: the parents' an unarmed teenage boy who was shot and killed in florida last month are now asking

the fbi to get involved in the investigation and it might be because race is thought to be a factor here. you can see the teenager on your screen, a black teenager, he was shot by a white man, volunteer fog neighborhood watch. and we're now just hearing the 911 calls as we continue to look at this case. steve harrigan is live in miami with more on this story. talk to us about the reaction, steve, over the last month. >> reporter: jenna, the reaction has continued to grow. today in the courthouse in seminole county, there was a protest led by florida black law students, and we're expecting more protests later in the week, including one led by reverend al shap torn. the protestors are angry there's been no arrest necessary this case, no arrests of that neighborhood watch leader george zimmerman. zimmerman spotted what he called a suspicious person inside his gated community, he called the 911, operator and they told him to stay inside his car and zimmerman did not listen to those instructions and here's part of that call:

>> we have break-ins in my neighborhood and there's a real suspicious guy. this guy looks like he's up to no good or on drugs or something. he's got his hand in his waistband, something wrong with them. he's coming to check me out. he's got something in his hands. i don't know what his deal is. >> we got him on the way. >> they always get away. jon: martin stanley is pushing hard for a federal investigation. they want the justice department to take over. they say they don't trust local police in central florida. jenna: so zimmerman, the one on the phone, has he been arrested, have there been any charges filed against him? >> he has not been arrested in this case as yet. that's where much of the pressure is coming from. keep in mind that florida has a stand your ground law as far as guns go that someone can use a weapon if they're a licensed firearm own ner self-defense so local police say they've done nothing wrong, they

don't know where the fuss is coming from, on the other hand you where massin's -- martin's family saying this was a young man, a family friend who went to the grocery store to buy skittles and iced tea and was gunned because they say because he was black by a 28-year-old wannabee cop. jenna: more details as we get it. jon: there's a desperate search underway for a california college student, 19-year-old matthew hye, missing from san diego christian college since the sixth of march. matthew's friends say they are concerned about their safety, the parents asking for the public's help in finding their son. heather childers has the update. >> reporter: the san diego christian college freshman who mysteriously disappeared from campus march sixth has not been seen since, and since the search began, law enforcement officials have confirmed seeing the one-year-old's car, though, a 2-door, green hyundai on

highway 26 near indio on march 15th. a family and friends held a vigil sunday. students have put up posters across campus trying to help with the search, and hye's friends mentioned this, they say he admires a book called "into the wild" in which the author is known to have camped out in the indio area leaving behind family, friends, possessions, all this search of spiritual knowledge and communion with nature but his parents say he's not an avid outdoorsman and supported -- started a facebook page called find matthew hye, in an effort to gather any information they can. the page now has almost 1300 followers and matthew hye is described as 5 feet ten, 140 pounds, has a beard and mustache, the police department is investigating and they ask that you call this number if you have any information at all: >> we can add to it this.

we spoke with his dad moments ago, he says there's no update to give you but the weather is not cooperating, it's bad out there where they're searching and the roads are covered in snow. if they get any additional information, we'll get it to you the jon: let's hope this is not another into the wild situation because that book did not end well. jenna: pushing the fast forward button in afghanistan, some say u.s. forces could be on their way home sooner than you think but how likely is that, a u.s. withdrawal possible in afghanistan? and plus, are are we seeing a calmer, gentler spring break? come on! why those wild and crazy times are not so wild and crazy anymore. we'll see.

jenna: want to come in with this fox news alert. welcome back, everyone. what you're seeing on your screen is sandy springs, georgia, a standoff situation is apparently happening in this neighborhood, and our very own john rob certificates live on the scene to tell us a little about what's happening there. john. >> reporter: good afternoon to you jenna. just passing through the area, saw these police cars running through an area of rosswell and long island drive in the northern part of atlanta, just south of the perimeter. the town is actually called sandy springs. what happened, according to captain pete dujohn at the sandy springs police department is 9:45, at this residential condominium complex, two-story building, in a fairly nice area, a low crime area, this fellow walked into the leasing thoeuf morning, complain thank somebody was messing with his water, that somebody was doing something to the water. he may have said that somebody was trying to poison my water. he was waving a gun around. as far as we know, didn't issue any direct threats to

people in the leasing office, but certainly, just the implied threat from waving around a gun is enough to trigger some activity. then he left the leasing office, went back to his apartment in this complex. that's when police arrived. they now have the sandy springs s. w. a.t. team assisted by officers from atlanta cordoned off the area and have surrounded this guy's apartment. according to the captain, they are trying to make contact with him. he may or may not -- this is a guy in his 30s, he may or may not have an infant in the apartment with him, so they're taking all precaution, of course. you don't want to just break down the door in case there's a threat to a child potentially with this fella. captain dujohn just went to get a briefing. we should have an update in the next little while. a tense standoff at this point and no indication that any activity is imminent, but s. w. a.t. team, sandy springs police, atlanta police, at this guy's apartment, they have it sounded -- surrounded, they have the m-4 arrivals

pointed at the apartment. they have us moved across the street. we are in line of sight of this fellow's apartment. this has been going on since about 10:30 so we're spwoel the second hour of it here and no sign this is going to end any time soon but so far, no indication of any shots fired or any active threat, other than the fact that this guy has got himself inside this apartment. jenna: you said it's a low crime area, you described him walking into this leasing office, this 30-year-old man. did he threaten anyone with that stkpwh*upb and have officers been able to make any contact with him over the phone or speaking through the wind snow have you noticed anything like that? >> yeah, two points on that. obviously, any time you start wave ago gun around there's an implied threat. whether or not he issued any direct verbal threats to people in the leasing office, unclear at this point. they are -- last i heard from the captain was they are trying to make contact with this fellow. he wasn't aware if

negotiators had actually done that, but obviously there is some urgency to get in touch with this fellow, to say hey, we understand you've got a problem, we want to listen to your problem and have this end peacefully. walk out with your hands clasped behind your head. they're trying to get that done. at the moment we don't know whether they've made contact with the fellow. we saw two or three officers from the s. w. a.t. team getting close to the apartment, then they backed off. unclear as to whether or not he might have threatened him from inside the apartment or not. but they do want this to end peacefully. it's a highly populated area, there's about 11 or 23 buildings in this complex so they don't want any bullets flying around. that's the last thing they want. jen skwra*epbd whether or not there's an infant in the apartment is another question. big question there. thank you, john roberts, sandy springs, georgia, and the standoff we're having, at what is apparently an apartment complex. we'll be back to john as news warrants and in the

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jon: there is danger of more than tornadoes as severe weather moves into the plains after twisters set southwest oklahoma and nebraska last night, one storm damaged power lines near willo, strong storms with the potential for heavy rain, flash flooding and hail are moving across texas, they're expected in arkansas as well. here's a look at yesterday's

reports from the national weather service storm prediction center. janice dean is in our severe weather center right now and it looks like another scary day in, what, still winter, right j.d.? >> reporter: officially spring arrives tomorrow jon, but some of the temperatures we are seeing, very summer-like. in chicago, we have seen temperatures in the 80s for the last several days and this cold front and low pressure system ejecting from the rockies, giving us the potential for large hail, damaging winds and yes, tornadoes across portions of texas through oklahoma and across the plains states. so this system is really just starting to get its act together. i suspect we're going to start to see watches and warnings throughout the afternoon and even into the evening hours. so if you have a weather radio, make sure it's on and you're listen to go your local weather forecast. but you can see it's very cold across portions of the southwest and the rockies, so that cold air combined with that warm, humid air as the front moves through, that clash of the two air masses is giving us that

classic setup for tornadoes. wherever you -- wherever you see the yellow, that's the risk for severe weather. we can't rule out that possibility. that area in red, where we think the ingredients are going to come together for supercells with that large hail, damaging winds and certainly, tornadoes. so throughout the afternoon, jon, we're we're going to keep u updated on the watches and warnings as they come to us. >> reporter: central texas has to really be on guard. jenna: a series of recent incidents raising new questions about the end game in afghanistan. relations between the u.s. and afghanistan, entering what some are describing as damage control mode, with the murder of 16 afghan civilians, straining ties even more. now some are suggesting the u.s. could speed up its withdrawal from the war zone. i'm sure you've heard that before. but some are now suggesting that we could pull out even before the u.s. election this fall. here now, lieutenant colonel tony schafer, center for advanced studies and author

of "operation dark heart". this is an article in bloomberg this morning that talked about this withdrawal and the author says -- says there will be no mistake the hold on afghanistan is unraveling and the troops may come home as quickly as military logistics will allow. logistically how quickly can be pull these troops out of this country? >> a year at best case. i talked to a central commander about this, and his eyeballs on target assessment of looking at everything, it would take us -- if we decided today to be out of there as quick as possible, a year. so no matter what, jenna, we've got a year left, and the question becomes what do we do, what can we do, within the context of a year, even if we decided tomorrow to leave. frankly if we do beyond a year we're talking about being out by 2014. any way you cut it we willgy

out by 2014. jenna: some have described it to me as being at half time or even the third quarter of the football gale and turning to your team and saying you, you know, it doesn't matter if you win or lose, try to make it through the fourth quarter, then we'll go to the locker room. sue: exactly. jenna: that hit home for me hearing it that way, because i can't imagine what this means for the troops on the ground. >> look, from day one, this has an flawed strategy. what the president announced the strategy of five districts, announcing we're going to leave after a certain time of -- amount of time, it's like going into normandy, saying we're going to hit these beaches, do this and now this. it's silly, from day one. >> can you repair it? >> no. it's not about troop numbers, it's about mission. jenna: if we can't repair it -- pardon me for interrupting. if we can't repair t. colonel schafer, why have anybody there? if i had troops there and you can't repair that sort of damage, and i had to sit there for another 12 months,

that would be horrendous for me and my family. >> it is. it is. and this is why the politics being involved in defense is so bad. we got the white house right now more concerned about winning an election and not appearing to fail rather than doing what's necessary to get on the often i -- offensive. there are two things that have to happen to be successful. we've already met the mission requirements, al-qaeda longs are long gone, second, we've got to get back to looking at them in other place, pakistan, get on the offensive. third for afghanistan, we've got to find a reconciliation process between the taliban and the pashtun-led -- the karzai government, they're pashtun, and they reconcile. pakistan is key to that. we continue to pretend otherwise, we continue to pretend we can throw force and afghanistan -- they're never going to tufb us. we were there to do business in '03 and '04, that's why we were on tofp things with 10,500 troops. now with 90 we become occupiers. we have to take a step back, get our forces out of the way. there's a mission there, a force, don't get me wrong

but taking the -- taking the body blows from the taliban and karzai government is not the way for our troops to be treated and they deserve better. we need to get back and do something necessary on real objectives, rather than to sit there and point out, we already know we're leaving, we're going to be shot if we're not there. jenna: and i would be remace if i didn't mention that they say it's going to take place this season, and the troops are dealing with this as we're having this conversation at home. general, thank you. >> thank you. jon: there is growing evidence that young people are toning down their acts and improving their behavior when it comes to spring break. social observers say teens and young adults are not quite as wild as they were in years past. what makes for the change in bee behavior? it's not a newly strong

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jenna: coming up today on "america live", the big picture question about health care. what if the president were to lose to rick santorum, say, what would his hss department look like on the catholic issue, for example? politics, health care? and a bit of whiplash, folks. that's coming up. and half of likely voters say they expect the supreme court to shoot down the health care law. what that could tell us about reelection. and why the folks who really may know what happened in fast & furious about suspiciously absent from the investigation so far. we'll see you coming up at the top of the hour on "america live". jon: well, it was long considered a rite of passage

on college campus, spring break, an american tradition involving swarms of students, flocking to warmer climates for a little fun. the vacations are commonly known as hot beds of bad he kwraeuf -- behavior by teens and acutes but that could be changing. there is new evidence young people are toning down the party antics. the question is, why. did they sud beenly have a spiritual awakening? are moms and dads cracking down? the answer might be attributable to social media are teens self-editing their behavior because they don't want to be embarrassed online? let's talk about it with dr. bryan russell, a psychologist and torn. doctor, the public square used to be where people were shamed for bad behavior. social media today, might they be playing that same role in some ways? >> yes, jon, i think so. i would like to tell you that i think young americans are rediscovering a healthy sense of shame, where that

healthy shame that lets you know when your buy haveior is -- behavior is bad and needs modification and linking self esteem to the less confusing self-respect which everyone should have with unconditional self esteam which nobody should have but one, finances are constraining spring breaks but in a practical sense, young people have realized that things that get photographed, videotaped, posted on the internet, can be seen by employer, by graduate school admissions officers, by significant others, and can do real significant long term damage to careers and educational opportunities and relationships. jon: so the outlandish behavior, we've been playing spring break video that's pretty tame but the outlandish behavior, topless stuff, drinking competitions, that kind of

thing, that seems to be, well, at least coming under control? >> that's what we're hearing anecdotally. it will be interesting to see what fox fox affiliates will be really able to capture in the next couple of weeks, but if students, if young people are doing more of the right thing because of fear of consequences that's a good first step, but i'm still waiting to see real generational attitudinal change, because we've got to keep in mind, jon, this is the generation that needs to rejuvenate the american mon pe and when you have people doing things out of fear, that's intrinsic motivation, people doing the right thing only because of outside pressure. what i'd like to see and what i know about psychologist suggests, people will do better in life in all shall peers is if they have intrinsic motivation where they personally believe it's important to do right thing even if no one is watching and know they wouldn't get caught. jon so what happens in vegas

or daytona or key west is all over the web instantly. >> it doesn't stay in daytona and key west. that's a good anything and it's -- thing and it's a start but we need so -- need to see that attitudinal shift and i'm waiting for that. jon: doctor, thank you. on the subject of social media, we hear about how important it is for fundraising and getting out the vote efforts, but could social media someday replace traditional outlets much the way debates and tv ads have supplanted newspaper entkorgments and train tours? just how much influence will social media have on the upcoming presidential election in 2012? the answer could surprise you, coming up. call imperial structured settlements. the experts at imperial can convert your long-term payout into a lump sum of cash today.

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jon: you might have heard the discussion about the supposedly huge role that social media, facebook, twitter and all the rest, played in the 2008 election.

president obama used it well for fundraising purposes. some argue, though, social media are just now scratching the surface, broadcast news, tv ads and debates are still the most important way to reach voters, but that may no longer be true for voters in their 20s and the role of social media in elections will just grow from here. how important are social media and why does it matter to you? let's talk about it with jim pingerton, and alan coomes, both fox news contributors. the question is, jim, how long before social media essentially helps elect a president in this country? >> i think possibly pretty soon, maybe even this election year. who knows. just to give you an illustration of what's happening in the social media world, this video that i know fox that is been covering, the joseph kone video about the ugandan warlord has gotten

80 million, with an m, views on youtube in a couple of weeks. by contrast, to give you the sense of what it takes to win an election in america, rick santorum won the iowa caucus with less than 30,000 votes. again that was one state but nonetheless you see the scale there, operations like facebook and youtube offer to potential candidates. jon: i guess the question is, are candidates going to be able to handle or, you know, to grab the power of those social media that go from individual to individual? what do you think, alan? >> i think as you get newer and younger candidates they certainly will and it appeals to a younger electorate which gets younger all the time. depending upon your point of view, sarah palin would use facebook or twitter when she wanted to connect with supporters, she would say something on the facebook page, it would immediately gain traction, and the danger is of course if you hit send a little too soon

and make a mistake, you can get yourself in trouble, but this is the wave. this is what's happening. jon: the pew research center, though, jim, says that twitter and facebook play very small roles in electoral polices these days and cable television is still the dominant force. >> i think that's probably true as well, and that is, look, when you go on -- as your candidate, you're sell ago personal alt and what does television thrive on? it thraoefbs on person agents. people like to watch paoefplt we're not robot, not machines. however, the challenge will be for a cantate who was an attractive, compelling, persuasive personality to say look, i got this tool that enibles -- enables me to reach 10 million or 100 million people basically for free as alan said through a facebook or twitter feed, if you can persuade people to follow you and be part of you, hopefully from your sake, your own compelling

personality and issues and everything else will win the day. so it's probably a hybrid of television and social media. >> there's one other factor which is youtube. a lot of people who are not sitting in front of a television, and this is true generationally, where certainly a younger dem straf -- demographically doesn't sit in front of a cable box but they'll see clips, so what people see are condensed clips which they're seeing on the internet, not on cable television. jon: alan, jim, thank you. thank you for the discussion. they are frequent guests on "news watch", our panel thaeubgs on the medioo takes on the media coverage of the media's biggest news stories. jenna: a dramatic comeback out west thanks to a special government program, talking about wolves, their population is swelling, bringing them back from the brink of extinction, but the governor of idaho is none too pleased with all of this saying the program is costing his state.

dan springer is live with more. other other -- reporter a lot of history this. for years politicians fought the effort to reintroduce -- to reduce gray wolves and now they're fighting the fed toss keep paying. wolves have returned since 19 five, they came off the endangered species lists and in idaho, there are around 1000. the wildlife service says ides must maintain at least 150. they have been aggressively lowering the population by encouraging hunters to kill them and now comes word the federal government wants to stop paying ranchers for the losses and for the state to manage the population. it's got leaders crying for wolf money. >> the bigger story, and probably the most prolific of the story, is the fact that they were forced on us, that we didn't agree to it, that they were forced on us in the first place. and that caused us a lot of problems.

>> reporter: governor otter says wolves continue to kill cattle and elk which costs millions of dollars in lost business and hunting revenue but conservationists says conflicts with down between conflicts and wolves and the elk have gotten stronger, they say -- they oppose using tax money to kill the very animal that the government spends, about $100 million, to rescue. >> that's what the livestock industry and republicans in western states do, they go back to washington, ask for money, and say leave us alone. >> the federal money to compensate ranchers who lost cattle to wolves could run out in the next couple of years. meantime the ninth circuit court of appeals just ruled that hunting wolves can continue. jenna: glad you're in the safety of the studio at least at this time, not too close to the subject at hand! thank you very much, dan springer. jon: lot the lot of drivers

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jenna: right now the warm weather has park rangers urging caution as bears come out of hypernation. at yellow stone national park they are undating bear warning signs. it's probably a good warning in general even if you don't sigh the signs. the search is underway in georgia for the driver ever a hot air balloon. he had five skydivers with him when they got caught up in a thunderstorm. the skydivers bailed out, not the same for the pilot. space-x plans to launch its dragging capsule from cape satisfactory and a half racape canaveral next month. jon: thank you