what to do if north korea goes ahead with a provocative plan. what we are talking about is a long-range missile the rogue nation says is a satellite that will launch within a few days. jon: that mild winter was really lovely, now folks are paying the price, dangerous brush fires erupting, roads burned, traffic snarled for miles. jenna: we think you know smoking is really, really bad for. so do we need to see graphic labels like this on cigarette packs? the feds say yes. are the images a real deturpbt or just a little bit over the top? we'll talk about all of this on "happening now." we have a lot of great stories for you today, and we're going to start with this one, all systems go for the launch of a north korean long-range rocket that may be able to reach the united states. we are glad you're with us, everybody i'm jenna lee.

>> reporter: i'm greg jarrett in for jon scott. a satellite launch could happen any time between thursday and monday. the white house just saying this launch would be a quote, clear and serious violation of u.n. resolutions and raise tensions on the korean pennsylvania where 30,000 u.s. troops are stationed on the border between those two countries. south korea cueing th accusing the north for making preparations for a third nuclear test. greg palkot is following this for us. what is the later. >> reporter: the stakes are very high. north korean ow officials are saying that this launch will go forward, and our own experts are saying it looks like it will happen as well. all preparations and the assembly are said to be done. north korea says this is a civilian, peaceful satellite

launch. the u.s. is saying it could be a true test of the technology involved in an intercontinental ballistic missile. the launch window opens up thursday morning korean time, wednesday night eastern time. i have one expert saying they will try to get it off maybe as early as then. we are told there is a chance of success, but they haven't really successfully done this yet, and that's why the neighbors of north corey, especially south korea and japan are out alert. there are ships out in the sea, there are missiles at the ready. they say if any bits of this rocket comes near their territory, they are going to shoot it down, and that's fighting words for north korea, greg. >> reporter: are there other preparations going on in pyongyang? what can you tell us. >> reporter: yes, on sunday it is the 11th on verse reof the birthday of the found srer of north korea.

he might have one more, possibly deadly trick up his sleeve. reports continue today of possible preparations in north korea for what would be their third underground nuclear test. north korean officials were pressed on this today, they are still denying it but the evidence is pretty strong, and again they have done this in the past an in the past right after these long-range missile tests. everybody watching, everybody waiting. >> reporter: greg thanks. jenna: bring it on. that is essentially what iran's leader is telling the west, just days ahead of a new round of nuclear talks with the u.s. and five other world powers. ahmadinejad saying his country can withstand a european oil embargo for two, maybe three

years, that embargo part of the international effort to force iran to abandon its nuclear program. jennifer given is live at pentagon with more on this. jennifer, president mahmoud ahmadinejad had quite a bit to say today. what else did he share with the iranian people. >> reporter: he was traveling around iran and he spoke on national television saying as you said that they have enough hard currency to basically withstand an oil embargo by the west for two to three years. he says that they would not need to buy -- to sell, excuse me, to sell another barrel of oil for the next two to three years. that is a little bit hard to believe, considering that 80% of iran's budget is based on oil exports. iran also today announced that it would be cutting off oil supplies to greece, that is the third european nation that it is trying to preemptively cut off oil supplies to. remember the eu has imposed an oil embargo set to go in effect

in july. iran trying to talk tough ahead of the friday talks in istanbul, which will be so cushion. so many in washington at the state department say the talks in istanbul are iran's last chance to curtail it's nuclear program. jenna: iran seems to be claiming that they arrested a major terrorist group within the country. what do we know about that? >> reporter: the details are very sparse. what they are saying is that they have arrested members of what they say is a zionist backed/israeli backed terrorist group. this is typical rhetoric from the iranians when they face pressure on the nuclear talk. they have provided no evidence that they have arrested anyone with any links to israel. when iran is feeling pressure it is not unusual for them to try and blame israel, the zionist

enemy as they like to indicate, so this announcement that they've arrested members of a terrorist group coming ahead of the friday talks. again, after friday when they meet in istanbul, if there are further talks iran has managed to convince the west to have those talks held in iraq in baghdad, jenna. jenna: very interesting. it's only test. if this is the posturing we are seeing ahead of friday we will expect more of this throughout the week. jennifer, thank you very much. >> reporter: rick santorum back on the campaign trail today after a break to celebrate easter and of course be with his daughter bella who suffers from a rare genetic disorder and was hospitalized. now santorum is hammering out a strategy to win his home state of pennsylvania and a whole lot more. joining me now is the executive director of "real clear politics," tom bevin. good to see you. romney has won almost 60% of the delegates.

at that pace he could reach 1144 by june 5th when voters go to the polls in five different states, including delegate rich california and new jersey where romney has a substantial lead. is there therefore a credible way for santorum to w remember, st the nomination from romney? >> i think it's looking more and more unlikely at this point. santorum would have to win 80% of the delegates from here on out. he hasn't picked them up at that pace thus far and it's hard to see how he would suddenly and miraculous we turn things around. that being said, you know, he is heading into his home state where the santorum campaign says they have a good chance of winning. there are winner take all states, including texas which has over a hundred and something delegates. the santorum folks think if they can get through pennsylvania they may be able to breathe a little bit of life into their

campaign. romney is marching inevitably toward that 1144 number and santorum has sort of acknowledged that. >> reporter: i was looking the "real clear politics" averages for the state of pennsylvania. santorum has a 1.7 scant lead, clearly within the margin of error. if he were to lose his home state would that be the file nail in the campaign coffin and what would that do to his long term as p aspirations, assuming he's looking forward to 2016. >> there would be immense pressure on him to get out. there is an argument that look, rick santorum if he wants to pre-investor any sort of viability for 2016 he should exit gracefully and not cause a big bunch of problems for mitt romney. i don't necessarily buy that argument. i don't think that -- in 2016 there will be a whole host of new republicans coming in, rising stars in the party.

i don't know that santorum would necessarily northbound that mix. i think this is his best and only shot. he's out on the campaign trail, he's getting people to his event. they are telling him to stay in. gingrich has diminished, santorum has over performed the polls, even though he's lost. he's hearing from folks that want him to say, and he's hearing from the pundit pundits telling him to get out. he's a stubborn guy. >> reporter: he's made a a group of conservative activists urging him to stay in. their strategy is to try to pressure newt gingrich to get out believing that would help unite conservatives behind santorum. you know, tom when you look at what newt gingrich is doing in some of the recent primaries, i mean he is getting such little of the vote. last tuesday he got just 11% in maryland in dc, 6% in wisconsin. that won't make a difference to the benefit of rick santorum would it. >> it would make a little bit of

a difference. santorum lost wisconsin by 5 points. if you had grown gingrich votes in there it would have made a difference. any votes that go anywhere other of santorum to a non-romney candidate could make a difference the santorum folks would like to see gingrich exit 4 race. he's become a bit of a traveling sideshow. he's not part of any of the real discussion. the rational nor gingrich staying in the race is a lot less for santorum at this point. >> reporter: the memorable line for newt gingrich was, quote, running for president turned out to be a lot harder than i thought it would be. thank you sir. jenna: may 5th, saturday may 5th it will be an important date, less and month away. khalid shaikh mohammed and the

four other plotters will face a military tribunal, may 5th they will be formally arraigned. they will face several charges, including terrorism, hijacking and murder. they all face the death penalty. the actual trial, ace understand it, could take several months. one has to wonder if it will start to take place before the november elections. this is own important first step to awful that. all of that. >> reporter: my guess is it would. it is before a military tribunal. there is a jury. it's a long process. you have a lot of pretrial motions ahead of time. jenna: we'll be up against that 9/11 anniversary before that. also up today the white house is pushing back on a new report claiming the president's healthcare overhaul will add to the nation's skyrocketing deficit. we're going to take a fair & balanced look at what the truth is here coming up. >> reporter: fires spreading across the northeast right now fueled by high winds and try

conditions. where the danger lies in a live report next. jenna: plus, unmanned aircrafts and unmatched assetts on the battlefield. what do you want watching you, in your town,. >> reporter: or your house. jenna: and north dakota might have national implications, we'll have that coming up.

jenna: quite a bit of weather across the country to tell you about. severe storms pounding northern oklahoma. check out this funnel cloud caught on camera in woodward where the national weather service confirmed a twister touchdown last night. and east of sharon as well. in woodward the hail the size of a softball, damaging homes and

vehicles. that can really be damaging, injuring at least three people there. gregg: relentless fire spreading across parts of the northeast right now. firefighters containing about 75% of a wildfire burning hundreds of acres in southern, new jersey. crews expect the wildfire will be completely under control by the end ever the week. brush fire in eastern long island destroying two homes and a commercial building. mandatory evacuations in effect. more than a hundred fire agencies are responding to that emergency. in the staten island bureau of new york city, a large compost fire is now under control. more than 200 firefighters responded to the five-alarm fire yesterday. heavy smoke could be seen for miles. jenna: certainly a lot going on, especially out here on the east coast. maria molina is joining us to tell us more. >> reporter: good to see you. remember that winter that we just had basically with the lack

of snow across the northeast that everybody was so thankful for. unfortunately the lack of moisture now we are looking at drought conditions across the northeast. that is providing fuel for the wildfires to get going. it's dry out there, the ground is very dry and we are looking at breezy conditions with lack of rainfall, conditions that are favorable for wildfires to spread quibbling lee. quickly. we have red flag warnings from the new york city area to north carolina and portions of florida because it's so dry out there. we are not expecting much relative humidity as we go into the next few days. generally dry from new york city all the way down into parts of the southeast. tuesday afternoon, wednesday afternoon and even as we head into thursday, so the forecast for the next few days does not look too good. we expect the dry air to remain in place in some of the lower levels of the atmosphere. we have a storm system across canada that is bringing moisture into the northeast. you get rain showers evaporating

before they reach the ground. we will look for that slight chance for a shower or thunderstorm across portions of the northeast today and also into tomorrow, but of course the other big story, jenna was severe storms across parts of oklahoma and texas yesterday. another risk today across the texas panhandle. jenna: thank you so much. we appreciate it as always. we appreciate it when our viewers send us their images of the news stories we're covering. you can check out the scene from my viewer home in mt.~ sinai new york. the ridge brush fire has destroyed two homes there and firefighters are trying to get it under control. maria told us the weather is not going to cooperate necessarily to get it under control. if you have any videos or pictures you can upload them and we might put pictures or videos on television. gregg: we are getting details from a leading conservative economist who says president obama's healthcare law would

increase the federal deficit not reduce it. this report says it will add at least $340 billion to the deficit, which as you well may know runs over a trillion dollars. the white house, however, dismissing this report. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel is in washington with more. mike, what does the study tell us? >> reporter: gregg, essentially the point you just made that the adds to the deficit and doesn't actually save money. the republican trusty for medicare and social security writes quote, because the aca relies upon many cost savings already required in some form under previous law, and because it tapped those savings to finance an ambitious expansion of federal spending commitments the government's fiscal predicament is significantly worse than before the law was enacted. the suggestion is there is some double counting of proposed medicare savings used to pay for an expansion of the program and also used to keep medicare

going, gregg. gregg: what is the white house staying about this stud re. >> reporter: jay carney called it a partisan analysis. he says he was a member of the bush administrative council. they write, quote, this new math fits the old pattern of miss character rations about the affordable care act when it shows that it reduces the deficit. they are looking at different analysis than were released today. jenna: north korea closing in on a new long-range rocket hraufpb, butt u.s. says it's nothing more than a weapons test in disguise. what does this mean for us, our security and the security of the region in full? we are going to talk about all of those different parts of the story coming up with peter brooks. a 13-year-old hailed as a hero today for taking the wheel after

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jenna: tracking major developments in north korea there where officials say that a long-range rocket is fully assembled and could liftoff in a few days. leon panetta urging north korea to scrub the launch and regards the move as a serious provocation. we want to remind everybody that the u.s. has about 30,000 troops on the border between north and south korea joining us now is peter brooks, a senior fellow at the heritage foundation and just returned from a trip to south korea peter good to have you

back with us. >> good to be with us. jenna: you were talking at a public forum about what to expect from this launch. what should we expect? >> yes, i was in seoul, south korea last week to talk about this. they are obviously very unnerved by the idea that north korea is going to launch a long-range missile, what it means for regional security and the relationship with the united states. there is news coming out of south korea that we may be seeing a nuclear test some time this year, that they may be preparing for that. jenna, the last time they launched one of these long-range jackets in 2006 and 2009 it was followed by a nuclear test. this is going to be a year of provocations from pyongyang, no doubt about that. jenna: what does that mean for us at home? >> if they do get this satellite into orbit, remember they are calling this a satellite launch, it actually is the same technology that is required for an intercontinental missile.

the dirty little secret is if you can put a satellite into space, put it into orbit you have the capability of putting a war head on a long-range rocket and firing it to a target anywhere on the earth's surface. if they are successful doing this. and some people believe they will be able to do so because of their work with iran. iran put their satellite into orbit in 2009 that they will be under threat of a north korean intercontinental missile. jenna: i'm glad you mentioned iran. we have the five-party talks, includingermany with iran on friday, and i was speaking with jim walsh yesterday on this show, a security expert from mit and he says the timing of this potential launch and the talks he didn't really see a direct tie between them. what are your thoughts with having these two countries making moves seemingly at the same time? do you make anything of that? >> i'm not sure. i mean i think if north korea launches this missile it will over shadow the talks that will

take place with iran. i mean i think in my view, jenna is we've seen this iranian movie so many times and for some reason we think we are going to see a different ending this time. we've been negotiating with iran since 2003, that is nine years now, so i don't expect much to change. but the fact of the matter is, is that many people, including some in seoul that i spoke to believe that iran and north korea have a cooperative relationship, on nuclear and missile issues. in other words, iran put its first satellite into orbit in 2003. we believe iran is working on an intercontinental ballistic missile, and north korea has exploded a nuclear test a few times already and iran is moving in that direction. there are rumors about observers going back and forth. we know there is a proliferation issues where the technology has passed over china into iran.

there is a symbiotic relationship between these two countries. jenna: if this is a successful launch we have the troops on the border. i'm not suggesting that they suddenly go into action, but what is the move by the united states if this is indeed successful? >> we have to understand the threat that we are up against. we have to be concerned that north korea will develop a miniature riced war head to put on top of that missile. missile defense matters come to the forefront. we've been pushing missile defense for many, many years. the bush administration has made great strides witness. the obama administration has not been that enthusiasm as i can about it. we need missile defense bases, alaska, california, land base missiles there. we have to make sure that north korea uns that any sort of provocation along these lines will be met with resolute force if necessary. so they need to understand that there is a problem here. jenna: we will watch for the test and assess as it happens.

whether or not it does happen is another big question, whether or not they successfully get that up in the air. peter thank you so much. we look forward to having you again. gregg: this is an amazing story, quick thinking middle school students knew precisely what to do when their bus driver suffered a heart attack at the wheel. you can't see the bus driver slumped in his seat. you can see jeremy, a 13-year-old student rushing down the aisle and taking over the wheel. he steers the bus to the right side of the bus and yells for the other students to call 911. jeremy is being called a hero. he and another student attempted cpr on the driver for his part jeremy says he didn't want to die, so he raced into action. >> everyone was asking questions, oh, what happened? there is a bus out there. what did you do, jeremy? yeah, i'm like, oh, well i just drove the bus to the side. everyone is just all excited about that. gregg: the bus driver said to be in grave condition at a

hospital. the students are routinely told what to do if something happens to a bus driver, and obviously these kids, especially jeremy were paying fast attention. good for him. jenna: go, jeremy. maybe he should get an honorary driver's license early because of that, what do you think? gregg: let's not take it too far. you know teenagers behind the wheel. some new concerns over the use of drones inside the united states. the feds using a drone to bust a man in north dakota. he's suing and it's racin raising all kinds of concerns on privacy. fair & balanced debate straight ahead. good news for folks underwater on their mortgages owing more than what they are worth. the feds are offering help, but that could cost you big time. we'll tell you all about it. are you receiving a payout from a legal settlement

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jenna: important news now on the housing market. >> reporter: the white house wants lenders fannie mae and freddie mac to help out struggling homeowners. the chief regulator for the government sponsored agencies is expected to make it happen, but it could come at a huge cost to taxpayers. not everybody thinks it's a good idea right now. james rows even as the story. >> reporter: the head of the federal agency that oversees fanny mae and freddie mac is not sold on writing down the principle on hundreds of

mortgages held by lenders, a proposal that some are calling an election year bailout. ed demarco has resisted calls by timothy geithner to quote unquote take another look at the mass and see whether the $100 million in for gage forgiveness the administration's proposal would cause taxpayers wouldn't wind up as a net gain by aiding the recovery. demarco i will lewded to the fact that about 80% of borrowers whose homes are currently underwater, which means their home is worth less than what is owed on the mortgage are in fact staying current with their mortgage payments. >> whether we consider this to be a could he hra collateralized loan, the real information point is here that folks underwater on their mortgage know they have an obligation to make their mortgage payment, they should do so and should be encouraged to do so.

>> reporter: fannie and freddie went broke and that cost taxpayers 183 billion. secretary geithner argued for more federal action to revive the housing market. >> these challenges can only be addressed by government action to help speed the recover row and repair the damage remaining from the crisis. and with the reforms and investments to lay the foundation for stronger, future economic growth. that means taking action in the short term to support growth, helping americans refinance their mortgages, investing in public infrastructure projects. >> reporter: since the taxpayers took them over in what is called conservatorship almost four years ago fannie and freddie have provided over a million permanent home loan modifications. this the plan is agreed to there will be a lot more of them soon, and costly to the taxpayer, jenna. jenna: we'll see what happens, james. thank you. gregg: a bizarre legal case unfolding in north dakota.

rodney broussard is the first person to be busted by a drone. joining us live to talk about it lis wiehl, a fox news only lis. and joseph debenidito, a lawyer. cows wander onto his neighbor's property. he says he's going to keep the cows. the cops say he can't do that. he gets a high poured rifle and chases the police off his property. here is what a attorney in north dakota said. the alleged crimes were committed long before a drone was going to be used. it was only used to make the arrest safer for both the

brousarrads and law enforcement. they had a warrant, right. >> they did have a warrant. i worry about slippery shroefplt you can geslope here. a crime was committed, the crimes on the cows. you can get a warrant for that. where do we end with that? gregg: he was allegedly terrorizing police with high-powered rifle. >> i got that, you need a drone for that? go in with an arrest warrant, it's over, don't bring in a drone. gregg: isn't it safer if you know where on this huge property where he is and you can see whether he has some weapons? >> i will agree with you under these particular facts and circumstances the use of the drone is not soee tkpwaoepblg just, but if liz brings up if they are bringing in a drone for six cows can you imagine what the federal government would do if they believed you were tony montana or pablo escobar? every citizen of the united

states has a reasonable expectation of privacy in their home. the use of this drone is no different than the f.b.i. storming your house and searching every single room. the fact that they are flying up above makes no difference. gregg: what about the 1989 u.s. supreme court decision and in fact we'll put it up on the green. the supreme court said any member of the public could legally have been flying over reilly's property, this is a different case, he was growing marijuana n a helicopter at the altitude of 400 feet and could have observed reilly's greenhouse. the police officer did more, and the supreme court said, you know what? you didn't even need a warrant to use a helicopter. how is a surveillance drone any different than a chopper. >> another supreme court said you have to have the warrant to go in. remember the cases i've talked about. the heat-seeking device you have to have a warrant, anything like that coming from your house you have to have a warrant. here, maybe not so different, maybe here the drones were okay because they did have the warrant and they knew the guy, they wanted to get him in

custody and it was a huge property. gregg: i'm not sure you need a warrant. stick around for a moment. jenna: judge napolitano is listening. >> i didn't think she knew i was going to be ruling on this case. i'm surprised the police got a warrant, and i'm glad that they did get one, but i think this is very, very dangerous territory for america to be in. do we really want to live in a society where unmanned pieces of plastic can watch us wherever we go at the whim of a cop? i don't think so. gregg: it's the whim of a cop and a judge who signed the warrant. >> i don't think it matters whose whim it is, without some broad consensus amongst the country to become a high-tech east germany where the country watches everything we do.

i'm against that. jenna: we had a tony montana reference as well. judge, thank you very much for that. the judge will be with us in just a moment on a different topic. gregg: for the final decision we'll just have to wait for the cows to come home. jenna: come on. did you just think about that the entire home. gregg: i love the cow aspect. jenna: thank you to our paraphernalia for weighing in on this issue. the judge will stick around with us to talk about another growing controversy. that's why i have a pack of cigarettes on set. i'm not going to light up. you never know what can happen. there is growing controversy on graphic images on packs of cigarettes. how far with the government go to warn consumers about its product. judge nash is back with us, he's going to weigh in on that, coming up. only $79.99 for a lucid by lg ?

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gregg: brand-new stories coming up the next hour. backpacks banned on a college campus. one university takes extreme measures after getting dozens of

bomb threats. is there a fine line between safety and overkill? break out the tissues if you haven't already. doctors say this allergy season is especially bad, due in part to the mild winter. we'll tell you just how bad it's going to get and we'll give you some tips on how to deal with it. plus, lots of questions and drama over exactly who bought the winning mega millions lottery ticket in maryland. now the real winners are stepping up to claim the prize. we'll have details in the next hour. jenna: you may have seen those disturbing commercials on tv warning smokers about the dangers of smoking. really warning anybody. the fda is calling for graphic images, like the ones on your screen to appear on packs of cigarettes, with written warnings saying, smoking can kill you, and cigarettes cause cancer. it's aiming to scare smokers but tobacco companies say it's violating their rights. they say it's not there to scare spokers, it's there to protect

people. judge andrew napolitano is back with us. are you a smoker. >> no, no, god, no. jenna: we had to search for a pensacola of cigarettes. one has quitting smoking creates serious risk to your health. why do cigarette packs have warnings like that on them right now? >> one would think that the first amendment which protects freedom of speech and commercial speech, and it does, but the supreme court has carved out an exception to that, and the government can insert itself into that as long as it's truthful. they can force tobacco manufactures to say, smoking can make you sick, that is a truthful statement. but this goes farther, this suggests that smoking will cause you to die, hence the pictures of the autopsy. jenna: some would argue that that is a truthful statement too. >> yes, but the graphic picture

of tha that says this is the likely result of smoking, and they have the fda to demonstrate the likelihood of this it continue do so with a sufficient degree of probability that they can interfere with freedom of speech. remember, in order to interfere with a tobacco company's freedom of speech it's a very high bar for the fda to reach, and these pictures, according to federal goodl judge leon whose decision is being appealed means the government has force you to disparage your own product. jenna: faced with evidence that the current warnings ineffectively con sraeut risk of tobacco use and that most people do not understand the full risks, the acts, new warnings are reasonably related to promoting greater public

understanding of the risk. that is his opinion, that is why he said, listen, september of 2012 we're going to see these pictures on a pack of cigarettes. >> that's why this case is before the supreme court now, because the ruling from which you read probably goes too far. and in case you're worried that as the antismoking person that i am, the government wants you to smoke, because the government collects over $50 billion a year in taxes on tobacco products, and it's already budgeted that money for the next three or four years. jenna: why isn't the government doing that nor other things as well waoefplt did a big piece responding to the 60 minutes special about sugar and how it can be terrible for you. we also know that some people feel that about salt. why don't we see these same type of warnings on, you know, sweets, or on really salty snakes, why not? >> just like the story we just did with the drones, we are at a watershed in our so side now where we have to decide whether we want to keep being

responsible for ourselves, or put our safety and our health and our happiness in the hands of bureaucrats. i would prefer to take care of myself than put my safety and happiness in the hands of bureaucrats, but society is going to have to make that decision pretty soon. jenna: well put, judge. we will continue to watch this case. the cigarettes will go back to where they came from. we are not going to keep them on set. >> good. gregg: if the smokers could see the lungs of a dead smoker in an autopsy they'd never smoke again. jenna: that is what the argument is for showing some of these pictures. gregg: that's true. jenna: you think everybody needs to see them all the time? gregg: i smoked for years when i was in school, then i sat through an autopsy. that was last cigarette i ever had. jenna: well that's the argument on behalf it. gregg: speaking of smokes, dangerous fires burning out of control and folks across the northeast are right in the middle of them. we're going to tell you where. plus, syria is supposed to be under a united nations

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gregg: military attacks reported in syria despite a cease-fire that was supposed to start today. that is amateur videotape waoefplt cannot verify it's ahh then advertise a taoefplt it reportedly shows explosions in the city of homs which has seen some of the heaviest government assaults in the year-long uprising. leland vittert is live in jerusalem with more.

the cease-fire deadline starts today, but it's not looking like much of a cease-fire right now. >> reporter: not looking like one much at all. they that 48 hours to finish the withdrawal of forces and on thursday they are supposed to totally stop firing. it looks like it is getting worse not gets on the ground. the pictures are horrible. take a listen to the sounds. this is the opposition's video that they have uploaded from the town of homs. they say so far 30 people have died today, another 70 injured, and the government there in syria is saying they are pulling their troops out. gregg, we've seen no indications from anybody on the ground that substantiates the government claims that they are beginning to withdraw their forces. gregg: leland, what happens ne

next? >> right now the u.n. security council is meeting about the syrian issue and about the cease-fire that doesn't appear to be taking hold. remember, inside the u.n. security council syria has a very strong ally in russia and in china both of whom have blocked any kind of resolution that actually has any teeth against syria. so in all likelihood bashar al-assad gets to continue today what he has done all along, which is continue this kind of violence against his own people, killing his own people. remember, it was a u.n. security council resolution that came ahead of the intervention in libya that stopped this kind of massacre of civilians that we've seen in syria, but so far it appears that is unlikely to happen, at least right now, because russia isn't changing sides. gregg. gregg: leland vittert live in skwr*erlz, thanks very much. jenna: big names on capitol hill getting behind mitt romney now even though he hasn't clinched the g.o.p. nomination yet. so is this part of a larger

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the stars are starting to align at least for the gop and potential candidates for president, mitt romney. you're going to give they a shrug at the start! we're glad you're with us, i'm jenna lee. gregg: i'm gregg jarrett, filling in for jon scott. mitt romney still has to get delegates to win the nomination for president but a lot of folks seem to think hey, he's got it all sewn up. take a look at this, a poll from the pew research center finding a vast majority of republicans, 74 percent, do believe that romney will be the nominee but 21 percent think there's a chance for somebody else. joining us from cq weekly magazine where the cover story looks at republican support for romney, this is the managing editor fred barbash. thank you very much for being with us. in terms of endorsements in the last ten days or so, it's been a great week for mitt romney. let's put it up. these are all the big name

endorsements on capitol hill. >> right. gregg you got paul ryan, eric cantor, marco rubio, tom coburn, ron johnson and tea party favorite jim demint saying i don't question his conservative credentials, meaning romney. >> right. gregg: but you write there's a lack of enthusiasm and excitement. why? >> well, he doesn't connect with them any more than he connects with the american people. but more significantly, in his case, if you look at what the republican leadership and the rank and file in that party on the hill stand for, he's kind of been the opposite. you know, with the romneycare in particular. they're looking for somebody who embodies the principles that they stand for to make a run against somebody they consider a deeply vulnerable president, and i think that romney never fit that bill for them. you remember they went through these stages of sort of anybody but romney, get

me a nonromney, get me chris christie, jeb bush, anybody but romney and it didn't work and he met rejection all the way, so what you've got as a result of these endorsements is an attempt to get santorum and gingrich out of the race because they know it's over now and a lot of damage has been done and they don't want to prolong this. it's going to hurt them as much as it hurts romney but there's no great enthusiasm for romney on the hill. gregg: isn't it odd to see members change the rules to backload it, more proportional on the front end because they wanted to prolong the primary season and now all of the sudden they want to end it, a lot do, because they want to avoid a war fight, huh? >> i don't think anyone anticipated this primary. not only the nastiness, and you know, somebody up there, one of them told me that the best thing that happened to romney was newt gingrich. when newt gingrich won the primary he won in south carolina, that really scared

them. the potential for gingrich or ena santorum at the top of a ticket made them fear for their own jobs, so that's really i think -- here you're dealing with the sort of fear factor to some extent, and then i don't think they fully appreciated the damage that would be done by issues like contraception. rick santorum talking about satan. that kind of thing. that's exactly what they don't need, gregg. gregg: how important is it to have a successful top of the ticket if republicans want to win the u.s. senate? >> it's pretty important to have a successful top of the ticket, particularly for the senate race. there's a lot of evidence that if you've got the potential, as they do now, to take the senate, then the top of the ticket could make a difference, particularly if the top of the ticket is really flat. you know, i think if it's pretty even -- a pretty even race it might not have that big impact. you wouldn't necessarily expect a lift from the top of the ticket,

but if the top of the ticket is a disaster, then they could lose seats in the senate, they could lose the house, theoretically, for that. i mean, that's going to have a big effect in a presidential race. gregg -- gregg: it's a terrific piece entitled "signal from the hill", managing editor of cq weekly, fred barbash, thank you very much. >> nice to see you gregg. jenna: three of the winners of the largest lottery in history come forward to claim their share of the mega millions jackpot. doug mckelway is not far from maryland. do you want to confess anything to us doug? >> >> reporter: i don't have any fake tickets or i'm not going to have a press conference to hire an attorney, i can tell you that much! this trio who will share the third winning ticket of the mega million jackpot prefer to remain anonymous, they call themselves the three amigos but they're not movie stars, they work for the maryland school system, they

watched the media coverage of murland wilson who claim to have held the winning ticket and they joked that they know the real winner. >> we can definitely say that these are the only winners of the jackpot. so if you are referring to maybe some news items of interest last week, i can say that that is not the winner of this jackpot. >> reporter: repeated calls to murland wilson's attorney was office went unanswered, as to the cell phone, her mailbox is full, but the real winners are opting for the cash payout of $34.9 million after taxes, the state of maryland gets a $13 million chunk of the winnings, a testament to the apparent character of the three, none plans to quit his or her job, one teacher saying i can't do that to my kids, meaning her school kids. among the immediate plans,

the man told lottery officials he planned to help his children with clij expenses, pay off his house and buy a sister house, one woman plans to go backpacking through europe and another plans to tour italy's wine country, and in other indication of sound judgment, the first thing that the first winner when she found out she had that winning ticket was to take it to her mother's house and put it in the safe, notified the other two and the three of them called a financial adviser who in turn called lottery officials. sounds like they've got good judgment. jenna: congratulations to the three amigos, and we'll watch for the new lamborghini that shows up, just in case they decide to do something different with the money! doug, thank you. >> just in case. gregg not very many teachers in a lamborghini. tinder box conditions igniting brushfire conditions across the east coast, firefighters battling big blazes in new york and new jersey, fires burning as far south as florida. at least 1000 acres burning

on long island, fire officials there saying the high winds are making the situation unpredictable. rick leventhal is live in the new york newsroom. >> reporter: gregg, april is wildfire season but it's this unusual to have this many fires over this large an area and the risk of more blazes is very real. we have a map of the red flag warnings that are still in effect, that stretches from western south carolina through north carolina, maryland, delaware, and southeastern pennsylvania, also includes new jersey and the new york metropolitan area. out of long island a perfect storm of dry, warm and windy weather is fewing this fire over vast stretches of areas out over the east, 35 departments responding, containing a thousand acre blaze on three sides but losing three homes and a business, another 2000 acres are burning near the brook haven national labratory complex, a federal nuclear research facility. but no buildings or labs have been hit there. state police helicopters are dropping water and officials are hoping for rain, too.

>> with the water drops, we hope we can get ahead of this thing, but you can never predict. we're cautiously optimistic. >> are we at the mercy of the wind? >> you always are with these things. any wildfire, you're always at the mercy of the wind. >> in staten island, new york, a fire at a landfill went to five alarm, nearly 200 firefighters from 44 units responding, three suffered minor injuries, the smoke forced closures and delays on nearby roads and highways. in new jersey, firefighters have now contained 75 percent of the blaze that's consumed about 1000 acres, and the pinelands of burlington county. dozens of firefighters have been on scene there since yesterday, digging ditches to keep the flames from spreading to nearby homes. the firefighters there say they should contain this by the end of the week. the cause of many of these blazes, still under investigation. by the way, the winds that gusted to 42 miles per hour yesterday have now died down, but these dry conditions are continuing into spring.

so officials are still cautioning against any outdoor burning, gregg. gregg: rick leventhal, rick, thank you very much. will the weather cooperate with the firefighters? janice dean is live in the fox news extreme weather center, hey j.d. >> reporter: as rick mentioned, the good news is the winds we saw yesterday and through the weekend have died down a little bit but the fact that we've seen a very mild weather, a very -- and very dry conditions is leading into this very active fire season across the east coast. so suffolk county, no, we're not going to see any measurable precipitation, conditions are going to remain dry and even though we're not going to see the wind gusts in excess of 40 miles per hour, it's still going to be breezy and that's not going to help things. our drought monitor, dry to moderate conditions across much of the east coast, so we're not into extreme or exceptional drought but it's not going to help things as we head into the summertime. wind gusts, we have a low pressure system moving across the northeast, and that's going to leave breezy conditions, 15-20 miles per hour throughout much of the

work week. so we're going to keep an eye on this area, certainly, and you know, pray that those firefighters contain those wildfires across the northeast. also looking at the potential for severe weather, yesterday, we saw two reports of tornadoes that gave us injuries across parts of oklahoma and the severe threat continues today. a small area, but we're going to keep an eye on the texas and oklahoma panhandles. gregg, back to you. gregg: janice dean, thank you very much. jenna: right now we have a fox news exclusive for you, a hacker claiming to be a patriotic american grandfather waging his own cyber war on terror. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has this for us live from washington. hi catherine. >> reporter: jenna thank you and good morning. this guy goes by the handle the raptor on the web, in an exclusive interview with foxnews.com he claims to be a grandfather and former member of the military with at least one kid on active duty and his twitter account is active and he seems to take pride in the demise of the radical websites.

on march 25th, raptor tweeted all three of al-qaeda's top tier web forums, al shamuk, mu gentleman what deed, tango one, fuzz you, ayman, a reference to the leader, and eight days ago, raptor seemed to tweet the counterterrorism community writing for years intelligence officials are relied on al-qaeda forums to gather insights yet after all these years we're still at war. these websites were down for ten days' time, one of the longest periods on record and as the fbi director told congress recently they are the life blood of the new digit it will jihad. >> most of the arrests that we've made over the last year, year and a half, have been lone wolves, those individuals who have been radicalize dollars, trained on the internet, have the capability of developing i.e.d.s, and other mechanisms on the internet. >> reporter: these web forums are used to spread the hateful ideology of al-qaeda 2. o, the new generation of american

recruits. that includes adam gadan, on the left, from california, oman hamai from alabama, anwar alar lackie, the new mexico-born cleric killed by the cia last september, and whoever or whatever may be responsible for taking down these sites, it's very difficult to independently verify the claims from raptor but he seems to subscribe to this view that it's one thing to kill a man and quite another to kill his ideas and what we've seen from al-awlaki's death, it has inspired terrorism in the united states, jenna. jenna: hard to know anything for sure, he's outside the government, a vigilante, if you will? >> reporter: this is really a propaganda war, sort of a battle of ideas. he says he's not part of the government. we can't independently verify that, though u.s. government officials have said privately they were not part of this takedown but in the past the british intelligence community has been involved in similar episodes. jenna: if anyone can find them, catherine, my money is on you by the way! on the record for that.

very interesting story. thank you. >> reporter: you're welcome. gregg: women in one big city told to be on alert for a man described as a well dressed groper. we're going to tell you where police are searching for a suspect. and a thin strip of plastic may help save the lives of our troops on the battlefield. we're going to show you how. >> are you an allergy sufferer? this could be a very bad year for you, thanks to the mild winter we had. find out how you can alleviate the pain and suffering when our panel of docs weighs in a bit later. go to foxnews.com/happening now, click on the america's asking tab and ask your questions for our doctors. hey, did you ever finish last month's invoices? sadly, no. oh. but i did pick up your dry cleaning and had your shoes shined. well, i made you a reservation at the sushi place around the corner. well, in that case, i better get bk to these invoices... whh i'll do right after making your favorite pancakes. you know what? i'm going to tidy up your side of the office.

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gregg: right now, new information in some crime stories we're keeping an eye on. he's avoiding police but not his facebook friends, a washington state man updating his status while on the run.

travis nikalasin was convicted of five felonies, including domestic violence and burglary, and he is wanted for parole violations, but he updated his relationship status to single, and told a friend that he, quote, got away from cops. a new york judge ordered everyone to stay -- a woman to stay away from alic baldwin this, canadian acoo actress accused of stalking the star, arraigned in a courtroom on charges and aggravated harassment. >> new york city looking for a well dressed groper, the suspect allegedly touching four women in different neighborhoods across the city. jenna: while the u.s. is working to withdraw combat forces from afghanistan, the military is turning to the latest technology to try to keep our troops safe. i.e.d.s cause more than half the casualties last year in afghanistan, and now one company says it's developed a very thin plastic that can save lives and prevent injuries. alicia acuna is live in

denver with more. >> reporter: hi jenna. countering the -- if countering the devastating impact of ieds has been a struggle, because when driving over the bomb the sheer force of that explosion is so powerful, when it hits the floor of the vehicle it will often kill the soldiers inside. we visited a company in colorado who has u.s. defense contracts for a product that helps limit that blast and they do it with plastic. >> as you can see -- >> >> reporter: mike bujin is ceo of skydeck and that is a 5-pound ballistic helmet. >> with all the confidence in the world, okay? nothing. >> reporter: plastic sheets similar to the one that protected bujin's hand have been placed in 17,000 war zone vehicles to save soldiers' lives and limbs. >> we absorb 71 percent of the blast energy that would normally be absorbed by the soldier. >> skydeck works by using

opposing cones that collapse upon each other on impact and the work began as material for running shoes and became a patented substance used in multiple contracts with the u.s. defense department. the impact testing is done in a lab, where i get to take the bat of science to three average tiles. >> go ahead and hit those. >> next, the decking material goes on top. and whoa! >> it didn't do anything. >> then a standard piece of foam, normally used in iraq and afghanistan. >> and it went right through. >> went through and cracked all three tiles. >> skydeck has doubled in size over the past three years and also jenna, they keep a number of war vets on staff, because they, more than anyone, understands what this means. back to you. jenna: sounds like a good idea. alicia, thank you. gregg gregg a terrifying ordeal, sparking panic, an f18 jet suddenly crashes

into an apartment complex in virginia beach, the 911 calls, just released. patti ann brown getting them ready at the break news desk. a wave of bomb threats leaving a campus on edge. what's being done to keep students and faculty safe and catch the culprit? man: 1939 -- my parents ran across an ad for a hot dog cart. my mother said, "well, maybe we ought to buy this hot dog cart and set it up someplace." so my parents went to bank of america.

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>> it hit an apartment complex, and i saw the -- i saw the -- um, um, the pilot bail out..the th pilot did bail out, i saw him, but it hit the apartment complex. >> o. hold on one second. >> the apartment building is on fire. >> we're getting people started out to you okay? >> okay, thank you. >> stay on the phone with me okay? >> there's lots of planes here. >> i know, i know. can you see any injuries?

>> i don't know. the apartment building is completely destroyed. just a big explosion, ma'am. jenna: wow, the chaos following that crash of that navy jet into an apartment complex in virginia beach on friday, this is what you were just listening to, the 911 tapes that were just released. patti an brown is here with more. >> reporter: you can hear panic and confusion after that fa-18 hornet barreled into an apartment complex in virginia beach, virginia on friday. >> hello yes, we had a plane explode. >> a what? >> the plane. >> do you know if anybody is injured? >> i have no idea, the place is on fire. i don't know. get everybody out there. >> it's a terrible fire at the mayfair muse apartment building. >> okay. >> oh my god, it's -- >> what's the address? >> it's exploding or something. >> what's the address over there? >> mayfair muse apartments, senior community. it's a -- the whole thing is on fire. >> okay. just keep me on the line for

a second. >> the blaze is terrible. and something keeps exploding. oh my god, all those old people? oh my god. oh my jesus. jenna: hearing all those chilling calls just reinforces how miraculous it is that no one was killed in this disaster. two crew members and five civilians on the ground were treated at hospitals and released and five apartment building were damaged or destroyed. the navy has already begun to compensate victims and provide legal assistance to help them fit out claim forms, those affected are 5e8 ilfor a payment of $2300 more is expected as this process goes along jenna. jenna: incredible that no one was killed. unbelievable. patti ann, thank you. >> reporter: thank you. gregg: new information on dozens of bomb threats at the university of pittsburgh. these threats began two-months ago, leaving students and the faculty on edge, and by mid-afternoon yesterday, there were four more threats. meanwhile, security is taking extraordinary measures to lock down the

campus. ken trump is president of national school safety and security services, bill daley is former fbi investigator and senior vice president of control risk security consulting. good to see you both. the bomb threats began in february, bill, but they've been escalating. it's no longer just one building, we're talking about multiple targets on campus, so far about 25 threats. what do you make of this? >> gregg, certainly to me, it seems as though the perpetrator or perpetrators of these threats are increasingly -- they're kind of lined -- aligned in the sand with the administration. what they're trying to do is show perhaps how smart they are, how they're able to cause mayhem and destruction to the school and in some ways, i'm concerned that as this goes on further and they tighten security that they may look to carry out some other threat against the university just to show they're out there and able to do it. gregg: ken, authorities say some of the threats came via e-mail and in fact traced to a computer in austria, but that's really led nowhere. and now, some of the threats

are even showing up handwritten on walls on campus. given all of that, in your experience, typically who would this be? >> it's very common that the individual involved with this, or individuals, is somebody that has some connection to the school in question. the current or former student, a disgruntled current or former employee, someone with some knowledge and close proximity. there's always the possibility that it's someone who's making a random threat but chances are it's someone associated with the school which could be eventually a good lead for investigators, and the challenge with the internet means law enforcement has to serve subpoena, track that down. the good news is that's a lot easier in the long run to detect than it is just a random threat. it's going to take time and in the meanwhile, you'll get continued threats. gregg: what really got our attention here, bill, was the letter the provoas sent out to -- provost sent to the students and staff. the university will limit

access to buildings once they have been swept and cleared. it's important to understand that book bags, backpacks, packages will not be allowed bill, this is a college campus, for goodness sakes. you've got to have books. >> well, you know gregg, in the near term this seems to be a way to address both the issue of confidence, that the administration is trying to do something proactive, as well as address the immediate concern that somebody might bring some device into the buildings, and so i near term, though it sounds a bit kind of coarse and extreme, especially for a college catch us setting, i think right now this is what they have to do to contain it, to sweep the buildings, to know that if a threat does come in there's at least a minimal chance that something actually got into the building. gregg and ken now they're limiting, every building can only use one egress access, so you've got long lines of students trying to get through just one tiny little entrance. some profs have given up and are holding classes outdoors

whenever possible. are you concerned that all of the automatic evacuations that have been taking place may be the wrong approach? >> the best practice, contrary to what is sort of intuitive to the lay person is to evaluate the threat on a case by case basis, by school and law enforcement, to avoid automatic evacuations. one of the bigger concerns, unless there's an obvious device or immediate imminent threat, but the biggest concern is when you have professors individually choosing to go outside of the security procedures and take someone outside, the whole class. that could expose them to greater out-- outside visibility and a potential target for a shooting or other type of violent attack outside than if they stayed inside and worked with their security officials. so the person who's going off on their own may have good intentions, but security that's heightened is going to mean heightened inconvenience as well. gregg: sad situation. ken trump, bill daley, thank

you both. >> thanks gregg. jenna: a rare look on the economy from former president george w. bush. mr. bush, weighing in on the debate over tax cuts. we'll play some of that for you. plus, how one little talked about country is now at the center of escalating tensions between israel and iran. we'll tell you where it is and what's going on, next. [ kate ] most women may not be properly absorbing

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gregg: president george w. bush is in new york city today, making a rare public remarks about the state of the economy, and well, the tax cuts that bear his name. fox business network's david asman is there live. hi david. >> reporter: hi gregg. even though we've had the same personal tax codes in effect for more than ten years now, they're still known as the bush tax cuts, even though they are essentially the status quo. this is manager that even bothers george bush. you might think if he had a tax cut named after him he'd like it. well, he doesn't. here's what he had to say about it earlier today: >> i wish they weren't called the bush tax cuts. if they were called somebody's other tax cuts they are probably less likely to be raised. but if you raise the -- if you raise taxes, you're taking money out of the pockets of consumers. >> reporter: what president bush was really saying is that, you know, everybody in an election year is looking for somebody to blame, and because bush

has some baggage with him, they think that if the tax cuts are associated with bush's name, democrats won't want to have more tax cuts or they'll convince voters that tax cuts are somehow a bad thing. that's what president bush was saying, and he cares so much about tax cuts, and the need to get much stronger growth than what we have now in order to get our economy back on a solid footing again that he wishes they'd strip his name out of the discussion of tax cuts. gregg: call them the george washington tax cuts! whatever. >> >> reporter: the point is what he thinks is that we could grow stronger -- we're only growing at 1.7% growth rate back in 2011. we should be growing at 4 percent. that's what this conference is about. gregg: david asman, thank you very much, david. >> reporter: you got it. jenna: some new information from iran, just days before nuclear talks are set to resume, president ahmadinejad is claiming iran can withstand this european oil embargo for two or three years and can manage its

economy without oil exports. tehran cut off oil sales to greece today, ahead of the embargo fully enforced by the e.u. in a few weeks. iran has already cut sales to england and france. the e.u. voted to impose the ban starting in july because of iran's controversial nuclear program. big question though about whether or not russia or china is going it get on board and they're big customers. as the world waits to see if nuclear talks with iran this week will produce results or happen at all another country is getting more taings. asker by january -- azerbaijan, while it's a predominantly shooa muslim country, like iran it has distinctive characteristic, its strategic location makes it particularly important as a possible area from which israel could launch an attack or land its planes eventually. it also is a place that some

suggest cultivates spies, can conduct surveillance or engage in other pursuits, whatever they are, involving international intrigue. joining us now, elan berman, vice president of the american foreign policy council and author of-tehran rising, iran's challenge to the united states", and senior international policy analyst at the rand corporation and author of "coping with a nuclearizing iran". welcome you both. ali, azerbaijan, a lot of people haven't hard of this country, it doesn't come up in normal conversation on a regular basis. do you continuing changes the equation as to whether or not iran can or will attack iran? >> one of the challenges that iran has militarily in strike -- that israel has of striking iran t. doesn't have tremendous refuelling option. jet fighters might have hard time getting to iran and coming back and there have been some reports and rumors that israel and azerbaijan

for israel to use azerbaijan's oil fields. if that's an option it could make it easier for israel to target iran. it's not necessarily a game changer but iran is definitely worried about azerbaijan being used by israel as base for attacks against itstory. jenna: it's not a game changer but iran obvious -- but someone inside the administration is concerned about this. from foreign magazine, an unnamed intelligence office says this, we're watching what iran does closely, but we're watching israel and azerbaijan and we're not happy about it. why wouldn't they be happy about it? >> i think the administration puts a premium on being the only actor in the room and to eliminate free agents and obviously the israeli-azeri relationship that's evolved over the last couple of years is very much a relationship that's taking place outside of washington 's line of sight for the most part, it's a relationship that connotes

how seriously israel is taking the iranian threat, and it's a relationship that because it's evolving independently is inherently unpredictable. the administration wants everyone to be walking in step and in line, when we get to the negotiating table with the iranians at the end of the week, and relationships like this, relationships that could expand israel's freedom of action make it more likely that israel will act independently. jenna: ali give us insight into the region as well. you think of a country close to iran, you think of a country that is a muslim country, you know, maybe they wouldn't want to get involved in all of this, but they certainly wouldn't want to be friend with israel. it sounds counterintuitive. what does this say about how the countries in the region view a nuclear iran even though we haven't heard from the azerbaijan government, they're not talking. what does it tell us? >> there is a lot of tension between iran and azerbaijan. iran is ruled by a theocracy, and azerbaijan is

secular, and iran, they speak turkish, like independent azerbaijan and they are worried azerbaijan is create be instability in its own territory, that it's -- azerbaijan accuses iran of helping islamists that are fighting the government, so there's a lot of mutual tension between the two countries. they don't often clash overtly, but azerbaijan is definitely afraid of iran and doesn't want it to be strong and have a nuclear weapons capability, at the same time, azerbaijan would be concerned if israel uses the area to attack, we have to be careful in looking at the stories, the israeli-azerbaijan cooperation. there is cooperation between the two, but it's not clear to what extent azerbajina cooperates with israel.

jenna: it is going in both directions, and it will be interesting to see which emerges as the strongest and ilan, that comes to our own security when we talk about a nuclear within. -- iran. where are the other countries as far as denouncing publicly a nuclear iran and will pressure from other countries in that region specifically like azerbaijan maybe potentially, can that affect the conversation? >> well, it certainly can, and in fact, across the board, in the muslim world, you're seeing a lot of hesitancy, a lot of fear, about the prospect of a nuclear and even a nearly nuclear iran, and this is translating into both public pronouncements, but also, quiet cooperation among actors that wouldn't usually cooperate with one another. israel and azerbaijan is an example. the type of defense activity that you're seeing in the southern gulf and cooperation between the gulf cooperation council states and central command is another.

i think the common theme here is that a rising iran has the potential to destabilize the iran at large and countries are mobilizing and making alliances to try to counter it as best they can. jenna: very interesting, ilan, ali, thank you very much for joining us, we'll continue to look at this through the coming days. gregg: important subject. paying the piper for all that warm weather we enjoyed? the balmy winter, prompting some early trips, though, to the doctor's office. our panel with tips on finding allergy relief. [ rosa ] i'm rosa and i quit smoking with chantix.

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jenna: the campus at colorado state university, rocked by a brutal assault on a group of freshmen. the suspects, all members of the school's football team. patti ann brown is here with the latest on all of this. >> reporter: that's right, jenna. the latest is that it may have been a hate crime. one of the victims says the attackers shouted antigay slurs before and during the beatings, the victims say they were at a party friday night, some csu football

players were there and victim j.d. haley says the players were looking for trouble, yelling at anybody and everybody in his words. haley and three friends left to walk home at around midnight. he says an suv pulled up alongside them and the players shouted homophobic insult, haley says his friend, donny gosha, yelled back, prompting one of the players to jump out of the vehicle and start viciously beating gosha, haley says other players piled on to he and his friends intervened. all four he says were beat ended by the players with gosha and haley requiring hospital care for multiple injuries, including a shoe ilprint on gosha's back. >> kicked me in the face. that's where i got this. high two eyes are extremely swollen. a lot of pain there. >> first guy that came out, he was 6-foot, 250, second guy out of the car was six, three, 270. >> reporter: three juniors have been suspended from the football team, mike arapo, noredly cape and michael

kulhotlz. the university is conducting administrator hearings first to get the facts. meanwhile fort collins police are conducting their own criminal investigation into the incident. so far, no arrests have been made, but jenna, it seems this case is far from over. jenna: hard to look at some of their injuries now, a little while after it happened. patti ann, thank you very much. one to watch. >> reporter: thank you. gregg: a winner without feet of snow or days on end, those loving it in the northeast but some of us now paying for it in the form of extra awful allergy, itchy eyes, runny nose. we're going to tell you how you can get some relief, coming up next. the next generation of investing technology is now within your grasp with the all-new e-trade 360 investing dashboard. e-trade 360 is the world's first investing homepage that shows you where all your investments are and what they're doing with free streaming quotes, news, analysis

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jenna: some major problems

230 although -- for allergy sufferers after a very warm winter, and some of the side effects, dr. bassett at nyu medical center joins us and dr. mckerry is with us, physician and professor of public health at john hopkins hospital. welcome to you both, i know our viewers are anxiously awaiting your tips. if our crew is any indication we're suffering a lot from these allergies this year. dr. bassett how do you know when it's a real allergy and not a spring cold? >> big tip is i for itch iness, itch iness of the eyes, nose and throat drives people crazy, particularly people with seasonal allergies. it's important to have a plan in place, visit your aller gist, get treated. we're going to talk about survival tips so people can feel better and make sure they don't have a cold, but have seasonal allergies. testing is simple and aller gists can do it within 15-20 minutes. survival tips, avoidance -- >> jenna: one of the tips i was reading in the newspaper, one of the tips

was wear water proof mascara which doesn't sound like it was going to solve anything, at least for gregg! maybe for me. dr. mccarry, what about the itchy eye issue. george says listen, i can't do anything to stop the itchy eyes, i feel like i should consider a shot. what would you say to someone like george? >> well -- >> jenna: dr. mccarry first, then you dr. bassett. >> sunday glasses are really the best preventive measure for the itchy, watery eyes and classic for the allergies to pollen. this is the fourth warmest winter in record, and the pollen counts are so high in march, a lot of people thought they had the flu when in fact they had these pollen reactions. i think that's one of the best thing you can do, sunday glasses -- sunglasses. >> if i showed up with sunglasses to anchor the show, it wouldn't work. i don't think it would work! what should i do inside? >> we talk about wash wisely. sunglasses, i have them here, they block pollen

entry, shampooing your hair at nighttime to get rid of the pollen. your hair is a pollen magnet. by avoiding hair gel, wearing a hat, i have my pollen hat here, all of these things will reduce pollen entry from coming into your bedroom, your pillow, you wake up feeling refreshed the next day. it's about planning ahead. jenna: dr. basel, we also have a question about pollen inside the house. once it's in, is it just in and there's nothing you can do about it except suffer or is there something we can do to make sure that that pollen that's irritating us is not going to be an issue? >> indoor air fillration, a portable filter or home ventilation pitter -- filter that goes into the central heating or air conditioning system is a wonderful way to clean the air, reduce exposure to airborne pollen, mold, things that can drive you crazy throughout the season or throughout the year. have a plan in place. people that suffer, as you mentioned, allergy shots are very helpful, the only treatment known that alters

the progression of the disease. and if you suffer like a lot of my patients, you want to do something about it, go for the long term relief. jenna: just the thought of a shot, doctor, i don't know if i want that shot and i hear time and time again, dr. mccarry, for friends who say listen i've tried everything, the claritin, the benadryl, i've done every single thing out there and knicks dollars all of them and nothing seems to be working, is there a strategic way to go about allergy medication and when do you know you've really hit the point where maybe you should consider the injections that dr. basel was just showing us? >> that's a good point, because those medications are really the first line after prevention, and there's other things, there are sometimes inhalers, but if you can't modify your lifestyle and get around it and the medicines aren't working it's important to get tested-you get a shot. dr. basel will agree, only about 30 percent of the people truly have the allergy, and a lot of people, the pollen just affects their day to day rhinitis. a lot of people wake nup the morning and blow their nose,

it's not an allergy, it's normal rhinitis, baseline life, and those people are especially at risk for the pollen sort of affecting their breathing and causing some sneezing, even if they don't have the true antibody. so it's important to get tested with an aller gist. jenna: good advice. dr. bassett, any final survival tips? >> two things, an apple a day not only keeps the doctor away, 70 percent of people with seasonal allergy, fruits, vegetables, nuts, can aggravate aller agrees and know which plants are good, the lilac and iris, it's not a good flower for people with allergy, the iris, much better. see what works for you and your family. jenna: thank you doctor, very nice, nicely done. nice to have you both. hopefully our viewers get help, because i know, when you're suffering from allergies, it's tough, you just kind of sit there and suffer alone, so not today, gentlemen, not today! thank you very much to both of you. >> you'd better stay clear of those flowers.

they're pretty, right? >> jenna: got to be careful. that's not an excuse not to buy your wife flowers on the way home. i was going to buy you flowers but you have allergies! not going to work. gregg new fallout from the outrageous spending scandal involving a federal agency. coming up, new details on who just got punished and the investigation into who signed off on using almost a million dollars in taxpayer money to fund that las vegas boon doingel. -- boondo dpvment gle. ♪

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