>> a great morning, good morning, to you,. >> happy monday, 2nd of april, 2012, thank you for watching "fox & friends". >> and your five at five, dramatic rescue. happening last night in the middle of the pack. not just any rescue this is a coast guard boat that reaped two british sailors floating 200 miles off the coast of california. their yacht was battered. in the video you can see it was hit by a monster 70' wave during around the world race. the sea is so rough that the rescuer could not parachute down to get them, both were resolution coupled and treated for injuries. >> a minute after the hour, hours ago a plane crash in snowy

field in siberia left 31 people dead. 12 survivors hospitalized with serious injury and burned. russian aviation officials trying to figure out what caused the prop plane to go down shortly after take off. >> three osama bin laden widows are busy. two of the older children will be in pakistan court charged with illegally entering and living in that country during bin laden's nine years on the run. the widows are from yemen and saudi arabia, if convicted they could face 10 years in prison. >> wild flames in east boston, forcing 16 people including three kids on the street. the seven alarm was a top floor starter and spread from one floor to another. a good samaritan was driving by and topped to save anyone that was left behind. because of him all the residents were able to get out safetily.

three firefighters suffered minor injury and the cause of the fire is still unknown. >> big one. >> and a big knit for country music invading the las vegas strip. the stars in sin city for academy of country music award. ♪ i wonder ♪ would i give my life >> okay, thank you forgetting our day started. not only is he safer mading us this morning and last night but he gave a touching tribute. to the troops. with his performance of "for you," and miranda lambert and her husband make sheldon took home the award for female and male vocalist and taylor swift taking home "entertainer of the year." >> thank you so much to the fans. i am so happy about this.

i want to say to my fellow nominees, i respect you so much and i love you. >> we have to tweet whether we like that new lock. >> i hardly recognized her. >> a special night devoted to a new jersey couple who got married. they are so happy. on stage. and their honeymoon begins, where else, drum roll ... they will be live on "fox & friends" at 8:15 eastern. those are the five at five headlines. >> three minute after the hour demonstrators cross the country are talking. thousands took to the street to protest the killing of trayvon martin. >> they are hardly quiet amid calls for police to arrest the shooter, george zimmerman. as we reported the plan panthers

calling for violence against the volunteer. >> trayvon martin's parents condemned those actions. >> the fact that the black panthers have been involved saying there is a bounty on the head of george zimmerman this will turn people against your son's cause. >> first and for most, me and my family, as well as my attorneys, we are promoting nonviolence on this issue. we want a peaceful resolution. we are promoting peace. we are not responsible for anyone's actions. for the most part we are looking for a peaceful resolution. >> geraldo we don't condone that in any way. the only people we want to make an arrest is the law.

authorities. for the record we did not acquiesce or suggest anyone, black panthers or anybody, trying to take the law into their own hands because then we will be guilty of what we are saying george zimmerman did. we are taking the moral high ground. >> this developing over the weekend, officials have confirmed the cries for help on the 9-1-1 call are those of trayvon martin and not george zimmerman. >> what a family. great to hear them to take that stand. >> romney was campaigning in wisconsin and he said this. >> this president can't run on his record. and so he will try in every way he can to divert to some other kind of attack. and try and have people disqualifying our nominee which will probably be me, and instead of talking about where we have been and where we are going. >> he has confidence.

what are you going to say? he must be feeling good and more and more high profile republicans are rallying behind him. >> and it does seem although democratic leaders see him as the inevitable because they are sharpening their attacks. and now like to the washington borough. steve, good morning. >> well, the crucial primary tomorrow with winner take all state of wisconsin may see the g.o.p. race, many see this as the g.o.p. race ending. the democrats are stepping up attacks on presumed nominee, mitt romney. >> he is out of the touch. i can't remember a presidential candidate in recent past who seems not to understand by what he says, what ordinary middle class people are thinking about it or are concerned about.

>> the romney campaign in wisconsin and other top democrats secretary of state, hillary clinton went after him criticizing the statement that russia's america number one geopolitical foe saying the comments show his views on foreign policy are outdated and democrats are attacking, republicans are jumping on board, including the senate minority leader. >> it is absolutely apparent it is in the best interest of our party at this particular point to get behind the person who is obviously going to be our nominee and to make the case against the president of the united states. >> all of this is discoupling news for rick santorum whose homes are dwindling but he predicts may will be a good month for us. the race goes on. he is pulling out of wisconsin a day before voting returning to pennsylvania, his home state, the polls show he is trailing romney by from 5 percent to ten

percent in wisconsin. back to you. >> thank you, steve. time, now, and there it is, first, want to know what the weather is when you go out and maria has it all. >> good to see you this morning. it will be a warm one across parts of the center of the country and across the southeast. and it is already warm out there early. and now it is 71 in dallas-ft. worth, and 72 in memphis, and in the 70's for kansas city, well above average temperatures, up to 25 degrees above average for those areas stretching to the northern plains but some of the warm temperatures are in place early like dallas and kansas city and they will set the stage for possible severe weather so we will highlight the areas later. but, first, we have shower early across portions of southern new

england with snow shower mixing in with that and the temperatures are closing out for that precipitation in the form of snow and i don't thing we will see accumulation or travel delays this morning but you should grab the umbrella across new england and, otherwise, new york city and philadelphia, you are drying out with the rain early, and to the west we have an area of low pressure that will push east, possibly bringing in severe weather across the central planes, the rockies, it will bring if areas of snow but not significant. just snow showers. boston, new york city, memphis, dallas, not expecting weather-related delays but there could be a spotty shower in boston, massachusetts, and the severe weather area we can see large hail and damaging wind gusts from austin through dallas-ft. worth and wichita, kansas, and to target zone, today, as we head into the afternoon and evening watch out for possible strong to severe thunderstorms, otherwise, northeast, you will warm up

nicely later today and average of 57 for new york city and cross the southeast, extremely warm and 85 is the high in dallas and 83 in new orleans and brownsville making it almost into the 90's with a high of 88 and midwest locking warm, and kansas city, 87 degrees. >> here comes the sun! >> time, now, to "brew" on this. >> i cannot believe this story but we have to learn more. california police arrest a pastor for reading his bible, out loud, outside the dmv. >> he is charged with impending an open business although the dmv was closed. before our question of the day douglas has more. >> the creation of the world is invisible. >> in february last year pastor was arrested. after reading the bible in front of this dmv office in

california. >> this is what the united states is coming to. >> you can preach on your own property. >> lawyer calls it another example of christian persecution in modern day america. >> he was cited for impeding an open business but the dmv office was closed. >> it is crazy. crazy. to see this in america when he was arrested, you can not preach to a captive audience. that does not make sense. the dmv was closed, they mad no bizarring him. >> he thought the protect was protected because he was on public property and he says he wasn't blocking everyone and he was standing over 50' from the entrance of the dmv. >> he is feeding an intimidating situation for people who want to get a driver license renewed. >> a constitutional attorney says preaching in public is okay. but not when the audience has no choice but to listen.

>> you are under arrest. >> he does not have the right to intimidate others and embed their ability to do normal daily business activities such as go to the dmv. >> the police say by reaching in front the dmv is forcing people to listen to him. and that is not okay. >> if the doctrine in the captive audience is going to apply broad brush no one will be able to go to a public park where people are playing parks and playing football. >> not end he was charged with trespassing, can he says had nothing to do with captivity audience. >> i thought that was interesting because they arrested him and that is his job to preach but it leds us to the question of the day, california police arrested the pastor for reading a bible allowed outside the closed dmv. is that fine?

or over the line this tweet us your comment or you can shoot us an e-mail to "friends first," but when i go to the d million v i say a few hail mary's because those lines are killer. >> you report, you decide. an interesting story. >> on a monday morning we told you over the week that visa and master massacred -- mastercard computers were hacked. >> and romney's face, did he know it would happen? he fell for his own staff's april fool'sject? did you get fooled on april first? if you missed it, also, here are the highlights from last night's academy of country music award.

♪ no good ♪ he will break your heart ♪ why can't you listen to me ♪ why you got to be ♪ so blind

>> nice to see you on monday morning, at 17 minutes after the hour. colorado wildfire victims are finally being allowed back inside their homes this morning. nearly 50 families have been evacuated for the weekend after a control been got out-of-control and left two people dead. at this point they say the fire is 97 percent contained. and a developer of the keystone xl pipeline says he has found a new route through member avoid the environmentally sensitive sand hills that the white house cited when it denied the

project. the developers say the details are the proposal will be released dug public hearings with the nebraska officials. >> yes, bank on this. about your bank this morning, your bank. that's right new details coming out about a massive credit card security breach. joining us is lauren from the fox business network and i will go through my wallet. >> first of all if you have a visa or mastercard pay attention because we hear that up to 1.5 million cardholders were hit by a potential security breach because of global payments. this is a processor, third party processor. you will be contacted by this point. the say the situation is contained and there is a conference call in three hours. >> keep us posted. the markets, some say this year is looking good, and we get the 401(k) quarterly statements and

the dow and nasdaq, bank stocks doing well. >>guest: look the first converter, the start to the year has been phenomenal the best quarter for the nasdaq since anyone none and the best for the s&p 500 there since 1998. if you are worried going forward, okay, maybe we are seeing a slow down in china but this morning their manufacturing data is better-than-expected, but april is usually a good more for stocks so we will be okay for a while. >> i am really smiling on this, and some folks necessity -- know why. bucker king has a new menu. >>guest: it does look like mcdonald's menu but starting today, and there are ten new menu items, we are talking testing 400 flavors of vanilla ice cream to come up with the evening cream they chose, so

this will be you new, with smots and more spending $750 million working on this. >> i spent two years as a burger king girl, and you will get an apple pie. >> whopper is different now. it now just has one slice of cheese rather than two slices. >> great to see you. 20 minutes after the hour right now. and, next on the run down, he burned him sex in his two children to death, a gruesome ending after being named a pennsylvania in his wife's disappearance and there is band new evidence in the josh powell case. and the jetblue pilot would freaked identity? this morning his wife is freaking out setting the record

straight.

>> if you are on the west coast, record rainfall with a roof collapsing in spokane and a train was derailed after 300 feet of train track was washed out. no one was hurt. did you know that today is autism awareness day? new numbers released by the cdc fond one in 88 kids in the united states have been diagnosed with the disorder, a 78 percent officer over just one decade. and they will check out, why. this story is troubling. a family in turmoil, and new details after it was released. in a disappearance of a utah

mother, and we have been following it and the details are troubling and involve the father, kids and police. >> evidence from unsealed files brought to light friday have authorities in washington state and utah at odds over how the disappearance should have been handled. the hand written will saying she did not trust her husband and if she died it may not be an accident. her birthday was found on the floor next to a sofa that appeared to have been cloned and life us policies totaling $1.5 million with her husband as the beneficiary. josh powell always maintain the his innocence but a washington state prosecutor says that this would have been enough to lock him up in his state. >> i have read enough to say there is direct evidence in here, circumstantial evidence in here, and there is motive. there is everything but the body. >> she was reported missing in 2009 and josh claimed he saw her

before going camping, a midnight catching trip in subzero temperatures but he told police his mother went with him but she did not come back, and the utah police stand by the actioning says there was not enough evidence to arrest him and have not ruled at murder and kidnapping. >> my department is committed to locating susan and bring a resolution to this case. that is why it is still active. >> a lawyer for josh's dad requested the documents be unsealed, and he is facing child pornography and the investigation into his dad left job to lose custody of his boys and he murdered them and committed suicide setting his house on fire last month. >> so chilling. i remember the neighbor calling and saying she was worried about the boys. >> a supervise visit he was having and the social worker was outside, and, yes, the 9-1-1

tapes. very chilling. >> new 27 minutes after the hour. good morning to you. up next the feds find a huge new problem with ten of thousands of g.m. cars bursting into flames. >> and you have to see the expression on romney's face when he falls for an april fool's prank court sis of his campaign staff. on this day in history in 1902 the first full time movie theater opens. where? los angeles.

>> i am a rookie in the morning on "fox & friends" but i am having a blast. >> april 2, 2012, 5:31.

the top five stories at this hour, a major donor for president obama's re-election campaign accused of fraud. he is accused of impersonating a bank official in order to steal $650,000 from a swiss businessman so she couldable luxury home in florida. she has been given, or was given more than $50,000 to the president's campaign this year, and it is not known if the campaign will return the money. >> overseas, the muslim brotherhood promised they would stay out of egypt's presidential election back in may but no more. the islamic group banned from politics in that country nominate add candidate who is one of 450 candidates running for president there. >> federal safety regulators trying to determine what is causing engine fires in the g.m. best selling passenger car. 19 have burst into flames.

no one has been hurt. >> and, she is speaking out. the wife of the jetblue pilot who had a midair back done gave a statement and says her husband was "not intentionally violent toward anyone." last week he ran through the cabin screaming before passengers tackled him to the floor of the plane and the plane made an emergency family. she says she is focusing on her husband's recovering and thanks the the for working with the problem successfully. >> and a special homecoming. >> he is coming. >> daddy! >> yes! >> we love to see this. 13 months since they were all together. he was stationed in afghanistan. >> all day, all of us, we were

like dreaming. not, really, doing it, we just are still back there, still doing what we were doing and, just to be here, it is like a dream. >> one of the first things the family will do is make a trip to the water park, and those are the five headlines at 5:30. >> so i will step up and send them. >> there you go. president obama refocusing the campaign on fair share message repeating the call for congress to act on the so-called buffett rule but is this a good idea? >> folks talking about it and we are we are following it like in washington. all this plays into a theme for president obama headed into the fall the idea of a nation divided along economic lines. president used the address over the week to push the theme of higher taxes on millionaires what he called the buffett rule after billionaire investor warren buffett.

>> we can settle for an economy where few people do really well and everyone else struggles to get by or we can build an economy where hard work pays off again. where everyone gets a fair shot. and everyone does their fair share. and everyone plays by the same rules. that's up to us. >> this something the white house really began picking up on after the occupy wall street protests began last year, the idea of a specific 30 percent tax on millionaires may not have much of an impact on the finances but the president argues that this is a matter of fatherness. >> when it comes to paying down the deficit and investing in our future, should we ask middle class americans to pay even more at a time when their budgets are already stretched to the breaking point? or, should we ask this of the wealthiest americans to pay their fair share. >> senate is going to take up the president's buffett rule later this month and it is not expected to do that well.

republicans have argued that tax hikes, especially ones like the buff fell route that target investment income will discourage economic growth at a critical time. >> thank you, steve. 23 minutes after the hour and time for "look who's talking april fools." >> you knew this was coming someone would be the subject of a joke and it was romney. and it was by his staff. congressman paul ryan and senator johnson call the hopeful off guard when they played this joke. >> romney will be the next president of the united states. >> april fool's. >> april fool's.

>> this really is a small crowd. >> guys are really bad. >> that was go. you get used to laying to a full house, that was funny. >> he was a good sport. >> he was. here is what he said. >> you know it is april fool's day? i forgot. they turned me into the april fool this morning. those gives. your senator. your congressman. downstairs is a room like this one and it was all set up with the black step, we are standing back this and you wonder what happens bewe get started. they have a line that says romney stands here, johnson there, paul ryan, all stand leg and paul ryan goes on first, and he, this is downs stares, and there is not a person in the room. and my staff says to me, there is a small, it's a small. we did not get much of a turn

out this morning. it's really small. but it will be okay. it will be okay. so i hear paul ryan give the same introduction, he is down there, and so, now let's welcome republican johnson and romney and i go out there and it is completely empty. no one is there. i thought this is going to look really bad on the evening news. so, not only did they do it but they caught it on camera. this is notice: forgive but remember. >> it sounds like he is auditioning to be leno's fill in. >> a where storyteller. >> a good way to see a different side of him. on a serious note, you know this because fox is the place to be, tomorrow, wisconsin voters head to the polls, also in the district of columbia and maryland for their state races and you want did keep it right here for all the results and the

action. >> 38 minutes after the hour and before you leave the house this morning your weather with maria. >> good morning, guys, good to see you early this morning and across the northeast, if you live out here we are looking at quiet weather day. over the weekend we have shower and areas of rain moving law and light snow over parts of southern new england but today is better and it will be a sunny day with a lot of sunshine and dry weather. however you will have to dole with breezy conditions. especially later in the afternoon where you can get gets up to 30 miles per hour. above average temperatures again across the southeast. and, also, across the plains and up to 25 to 30 degrees above average and the warm weather will cause strong to severe thunderstorms in texas and southeast in member with large hail and isolated tornadoes possible. stay alert. here are the high temperatures and how warm it will be. 88 in kansas city and 87 in

memphis. extremely warm for another day to kickoff the work week. >> great to see you. >> that is our morning red carpet. lady antebellum was one of the big winners last night at academy of country music awards. ♪ i haven't seen you ♪ in ages ♪ sometimes i find myself wondering where you are ♪ >> they say a long is worth a million words. listen to that. no wonder they took home the cries for best vocal group and sang "dancing away with my heart." last year's american idol scotty mccreery? he won best new artist. good for him. congratulations, scotty. social media star ashton cupper

-- ashton will play steve jobs in a new movie. shooting begins in may. and "hunger games," big weekend holding on to the number one spot at box office, the blockbuster taking in $61.1 million, less than lottery. and wrath of the titans opened in second place with $34.2 million and "mirror mirror," at number three. do i sound like a sour loser, anna? >> 20 minutes before the hour and time for the starting lineup, a round up of the sport stories making headlines. the ncaa championship matchup, kansas beat out ohio state to head to the final matchup in a final four of 64-62 facing kentucky would beat out louisville after big slam dunks

kentucky wins 69-61. likely the end of his amazing breakthrough season as jeremy lynn -- lin will have knee surgery. >> in the matchup between the pittsburgh penguins and philadelphia gets ugly. in surprise. the two teams are heated rivals battling for a victory in the second to last game of the season. multiple brawls break up and the referees not knowing which to break up. all fights or a brawl between the coaches, both kicked out of the game and in the end philadelphia won 6-4. but? ent that way so many watch hockey? >> am i wrong to think that is why people are there? >> 42 minutes after the hour and great to have you here this morning, when we come back he got caught on an open mike, and

he must be concerned about his health care legislation, what will happen in the supreme court. was last week one of the worst of president obama's first term? and did california police cross the line by arresting a pastor for reading a bible in a public place? tweet us your comments or shoot us an e-mail.

>> in the washington times in an article last week they claimed it was the worst week, ever, for president obama. look at the latest approval

rating from rasmussen, 47 percent approve and 52 percent disapprove. was it the worse week over? here for a fair and balanced debate, former congressional candidate. thank you for having us. >> michelle, first, you have to start with the health care overhaul. obamacare and the supreme court. how did it go? >>guest: horribly. the argument in favor of obamacare essentially was laughed at in the supreme court. we saw obama talking about trayvon martin insighting a race war, and he told foreign leaders that concessions are coming their way and now we saw the budget was rejected by each republican and each democrat. >> we will get to that the whole house saying no, that is not our budget. >> but what about health care? americans are looking for it and a lot don't want to be pay, how

did the president do? >>guest: we will not get a decision from the supreme court until june so it is way too early to say what we know is going to happen. if you thing you know what will happen i would like to sell you a bridge. i heard you had one. just kidding, i saw that in your comments before. so, michelle, talk about that budget you brought up. >> it is not exactly the budget that everyone was looking for and the president got a unanimous "no." what is next? >>guest: the thing, democrats know if they voted for obama's tax increases and more spending toward energy and welfare it would be a political suicide so they all voted "no," and every republican voted no. >> those are the facts. and now trayvon martin and the story from florida that touched so many our hearts, president speak out on it, how did you feel. >>guest: the president should speak on it, a family lost a child. any of us could have been trayvon martin's mother or father. right now i want my president

exercising emotion on this, whether it is hoodies or not we are living in a nation of pier and we need to change that. >> it would be nice if everyone has compassion and keepness, he did die and other children die, too. is the president saying what you as an american wanted to hear? >>guest: no, what americans want are, they want a better economy, they want jobs they don't want the president personalizing a dramatic situation which we know barely anything about. what people want are jobs. >> do you thing he escalated it? >> of course, of course he did. after he came out and spoke, there were twitter accounts saying "kill zimmerman," and they tweeted his address and he made the event that was already dramatic more intense. >>guest: i would like to comment. the president saiding in different than the tea party governor said on it, that we need to have an investigation here.

this is not something that is a one-time incident. we have a last children in our nation dying because of gun violence, and we need to do something about it. again, i want my president to get if there and heal the nation. and it was the right moment to speak and i am happy that he did. >> i want jobs. >>guest: i want jobs, too. >> that is what the president should focus on. >>guest: the president has been focusing on jobs and the economy. >> where are the jobs? >> you both have your issues, and voters, will, too, thank you for being with us. great to talk to you today. >> in 49 minute after the hour and a big week ahead. there is breaking news coming in right new related to osama bin laden. we will have the full step right after a quick break. and now what such on "fox &

friends" next. >> firsts i know you are curious, we will way in on parent whose want to ban the ice cream man from the playground. also, kids are having temper tantrum and we will react. did you know oil makes more than gasoline? how about lipstick? and donald trump and "fox & friends" gets started in a few minutes.

>> a fox news alert, throw of osama bin laden's widows and two older daughters sentenced to 45 days in prison, and fined on $110 for illegally entering and living in that country during bin's nine years on the run. his widows are from yemen and saudi arabia. after release product jail they will probably be deported. >> fill her up, that cup not only. we asked you to "brew" on this. the california police arrested a pastor for reading the bible out loud outside of the closed dmv and was charged with impending business although they were closed and before we get to our question of the day, douglas has more. we asked if california police

arresting the pastor was fine or over the line. here are responses. >> keep the e-mails coming we love to hear from you. >> the bumper sticker reads why am i the only one on the planet who knows how to drive? but wait until you see the train wreck the guy caused. >> and the word of the day is all scrambled up. stick around for the answer.

>> that's my favorite animation right there. it's now 58 minutes after the hour and we're taking a look at the good, the bad and the ugly? first, the good. the results of the annual airline quality rating in. the performance of the nation's top 15 airlines improving slowly. but surely. on time performance, numbers of bags lost and involuntary denied boarding. whatever those are and the complaints, they improved slightly overall last year. the bad. a new study revealing unbalanced education at university california campuses. what's that? well, researchers are saying the humanities departments in particular have been "hijacked by a leftist agenda." u.c. officials, they disagree with those findings and finally,

the ugly. driver of this car might want to rethink his choice of bumper sticker. the man crashed in new york city yesterday landing like this? take a good look at his bumper sticker, though. it says "why am i the only one on the planet that knows how to drive." that man was not seriously hurt. he's not used to driving here. >> apparently he's driving upside down is what he likes to do. time to get scrambled up. gretchen carlson is here to help us out. big story today. gretchen, you know? >> how about a veggie omelet. that's what i want scrambled up right now. >> or something. >> it's not coffee here. >> thank you. ncaa? >> basketball. >> that's my girl. >> good job, vana. >> thank you so much. >> gretchen, have a good show! >> thank you, you, too. >> "fox & friends" starts now! >> and good morning, everyone