i'm heather childers. >> gregg: i'm gregg jarrett. a van plummeting 50 feet off an overpass landing near the bronx zoo killing everybody including three children. and bear with us, we have a few signals problem because of the high winds, anna, give us the latest what you have learned. >> reporter: this is terrible situation out here. we are just outside the bronx zoo. we're told the van carrying all seven people that died plunged over the overpass of the bronx parkway and landed on the property. that is why we're here. we have confirmed with the nypd that the van was carrying four adults and three children. none of them survived. we are also learning that the driver was a female. the officers say about 12:30 this afternoon the driver lost control and hit the median and

crossing four lanes of traffic smashing in the guardrail and plunging into a ravine. the van landed in a train yard that have monorails when they are not in use. when our crew got to the scene it appeared to have been cut open on the side by the jaws life. there is a large police parenser. we watched a hazmat vehicle. it's unclear what caused the female driver lose control. we have not learned the names or ages of any of these victims. it's not clear where the van was coming from or where it was... >> gregg: as we feared we have lost the signal. we apologize. but all seven people who were inside including three children are dead after this vehicle plunged about 50 feet over the railing. it was van. we have no idea how or why it lost control, but we're trying

to get details from the scene. we'll go back as that develops. race for the white house shifting into high gear, both candidates wasting no time turning their sights on one another. the commander in chief taking a few jobs at mitt romney. romney camp was firing back of the new obama ad featuring the killing of osama bin laden. >> former president bill clinton plans to attend three obama fund-raisers. bill clinton is helping the campaign in other ways as well. he took part in that controversial obama campaign ad highlighting the president's decision to bring down osama bin laden and questioning whether president mitt romney would have made the same decision. they are slamming the president's campaign for

politicizing the killing of osama bin laden. here is ed gillespie. >> this one of the reasons that president obama is one of the most divisive presidents in american history. it was a unifying event for all americans, an event that governor romney congratulated him and intelligence analysts for completing the mission for killing osama bin laden. he has managed to turn into a divisive partisan political attack that former defense secretary called sad. john mccain called shameful. most americans will see it as a sign of a desperate campaign. >> reporter: president was criticized for visiting on the taxpayer's dime pushing for low student loan rates. but the president's defenders says the latest ad is appropriate. >> certainly it's not over the line. just a few years ago, president

obama then a candidate said in a speech if we had actionable intelligence of a high value target in pakistan we would would get that high value target. mitt romney said it was foolish. >> reporter: so the president has fund-raiser tonight outside d.c. but mitt romney had no campaign events today. >> gregg: steve centanni, thanks. >> heather: mitt romney may be the presumptive g.o.p. nominee but the primary contests go on. ron paul winning the louisiana caucus with an overwhelming count of delegates and they count for in june. that will decide how many paul will take on to the national convention in august. newt gingrich preparing to pull out of the race. the former house speaker plans to officially end his about bid for the white house on wednesday. here is the current delegate count, mitt romney with 844.

newt gingrich has 137. ron paul 79. just a reminder, 1144 delegates are needed to secure the nomination. >> gregg: yet another yacht race on pacific turning deadly. third yagt catastrophe in the last month. u.s. coastguard said one collided with much larger vessel during the 125-mile trek. three crew members are confirmed dead a fourth is missing. the race passes through big shipping lanes and coastguard said it's possible that a much larger ship to hit a sailboat and not even know it especially at night. they have suspended issuing permits in races in response to two earlier disasters, one that killed five people april 14th and another that injured two people on march 31st. today's race had already obtained permits.

>> heather: investigators now looking through a survivalist bunk they are washington. peter keller, he appears to have killed himself inside in hiding for a week police say he killed his wife and daughter. officers had to blow off the top of the bunker with explosives because the hideout was apparently rigged with booby traps. more than a dozen guns and gas cans and stacks of ammo, it took him eight year to carve it all out. >> gregg: we have an update on extreme weather story we broke here yesterday. straight line winds sending a beer tent crashing on to a group of people a right after a cardinal's baseball game killing one man and zwrerg 11 others. >> i was going to take shelter but the storm came out of

nowhere. reaction everybody was running under tenth then i saw this, sure enough the next thing you know it blows over. it lifted up and it completely ripped it off. >> gregg: city had been under a severe thunderstorm watch and warning. >> heather: and trouble to secure our borders. the government and nonprofit agencies is scrambling to keep track of child immigrants crossing into the country. last week, 100 children were taken to air force base for temporary housing. it's estimated over 6,000 minors have crossed in the u.s. alone in the last few mow, many from guadalajara or el salvador. it's not what is creating this new spike, when overall immigration appears to be going down. >> gregg: haiti's president

returning home after getting medical treatment here in the u.s. he spent two weeks in miami recovering from a blood clot in his lung. in the meantime, as his country continues to recover from that devastating earthquake in 2010 that left hundreds of thousands dead but 54 orphan children that were a airlifted have finally been adopted. laura ingle has more from pennsylvania. >> former pennsylvania governor ed rendell made headlines by air lifting more than 50 children out of haiti days after a massive earthquake destroyed their orphanage in january 2010. most of kids on the plane had people waiting to adopt them in the states. a dozen did not including ten and brother. the state department let them into the u.s. anyway.

>> caretakers took all the kids to holy family children's home in pittsburgh, one by one the others were adopted. they were fearing they would be sent back to haiti until the new moms stepped in. >> i found out they whether looking for a home and i talked to mike and children and fell in love with them. >> eileen works at holy family. she volunteers there. despite having six other kids, owens family took stanley and kensley in. >> god had a plan for us. >> the boys' adoption were finalized in mash. a moment that he remembers well? >> i started to shake and started running. >> the boys have new last names. next step, new nationality. >> we are in the process of becoming a u.s. citizen. >> they have to wait for

citizenship but the hardest part over. >> we have waited a long time. >> what a great story. our thanks for laura for that. >> heather: a pair of army paratroopers find themselves in need of rescue themselves. this happened in washington state. it happened during a routine training jump at lewis mccord, 70 mierlts miles southwest of seattle. winds left them dangled in trees and firefighters they managed to bring them down one of the paratroopers but it took especially trained county firefighters to rescue the other ones. the woman was dangling 750 feet in the air. fortunately nobody was hurt. >> gregg: that would be a long drop. we want to take a closer look at hollywood and washington's big date night. the annual white house correspondents dinner. did the barbs fly. president obama taking cracks of everyone from congress to mitt

romney. >> since then, congress and i have certainly had our differences. i try not to take any cheap shots, but that is why i wanted especially thank all the members who took a break from their exhausting schedule of not passing any laws to be here tonight. i guess governor romney is feeling good about things because he took a few hours off to see the hunger games. some of you have seen it. its movie about people who sponsors and brutally savage each other until only one contestant is left standing. i'm sure this is a great change of pace for him. [ laughter ] >> gregg: show host jimmy kimmel had some zingers of his own. >> mr. president i know you won't be able to laugh at jokes about secret service, cover your

ears if that physically possible. i do have a lot of joke about these the secret service. i told them for $800 i wouldn't tell them but they only offered 30. [ laughter ] i want to thank the washington hilton for hosting us. president obama wanted to move it to the kennedy center but the republicans wanted to keep it at the hilton and they compromised and here we are at the hilton. >> gregg: president gave as good as he got. he was a target. >> heather: remember what happened last year, night before the bin laden raid. >> gregg: all right. big changes tha at the pump, gas prices are falling. we'll have details in your headlines coming up next. >> heather: and not so haen happy anymore. this could be the end of the mainstay of the fast food industry. brenda buttner will be here to

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>>. >> heather: welcome back. time for quick check of headlines, four adults and three children died when the van they were riding in slipped over a railing on a highway in new york city. falling more than 50 feet into a rail yard near the bronx zoo. republican presidential candidate mitt romney saying the u.s. should do everything it can to protect the chinese activist that is reportedly hiding at the u.s. embassy in beijing. good news at the gas pump, prices continuing to fall. according to aaa gas dropping a nick toll an average of $3.82 a gallon. >> gregg: california courts recently ruled that mickey dee can stuff happy meals.

nationwide the number of kids meals sold at fast food joints down by 6%. leaving industry ex perts to rethink their marking strategies and joining us to talk about it, i see those fries there, brenda butner, anchor of "bulls and bears". reason i love brenda, she brings in props. >> i'm not giving this one to you. >> this is hamburger happy meal. the reason i brought it. i think kids, so what? kids may not be wanting this for a variety of reasons. parents may be buying the cheaper dollar hamburgers and splitting them up. i love mcdonald's. >> gregg: doesn't everybody. >> i love the french-fries. this is the reason i hate the happy meals. it's something -- my house is full of these things. they work for 30 seconds and then they are in every underwear

drawer in the entire house. [ laughter ] >> kids don't want these anymore. mcdonald's and many fast food are responding. they are most innovative company. their sales are up in europe. what company has sales up in europe? kids don't want them anymore, you are not going to get them anymore. >> gregg: mack making is reducing the sodium level and being very smart about it. burger king has discontinued the big kids meal. kids, i think it's not cool anymore. i've out grown the kids meal. >> gregg: can i have the toy. >> maybe. >> gregg: i get the toy when i take my kids. it is cheaper to buy one adult meal and cut it in half or in thirds. big hamburger is big and

marketing strategies are changing? >> they are but i don't what i don't understand, the are saying the clown is the same as joe camel. >> gregg: come on. >> can you say hamburger is god's food. it's the favorite thing in the world and it's not the same as a cigarette. >> gregg: first ronald mcdonald was willard scott. >> i just learned that. maybe our doing the segment was not the best idea because we're going to be fighting over there th. >> gregg: ways trying to find a mcdonald's photograph, 1955 the original mcdonald's. but they were all alike. they were identical. if you look up on the sign, mcdonald's 15 cent hamburgers, you would kofeel feed the family for under a buck. >> what people have to learn that regulations are not going to do the work.

market will do the work. if kids don't want it, but mcdonald's comes out with smooth thinks. have you seen mcdonald's lately. it looks like a nice restaurant you go go and sit down for a nice meal for cheap. >> gregg: what also has changed is students, young people are much more aware of calories and fat and so forth. i sit down with the dinner table and my daughter has been taking nutrition class. dad, do you know what you are about to eat. put the mcdonald's picture. 15 cent hamburger. >> i remember when mcdonald's opened in my town. that was it. >> gregg: you would just go to the window. there was no seating. >> if i was on the day i would go to mcdonald's. [ laughter ] >> gregg: what if the marketplace dictated instead of government? >> i think so.

they are innovating and they are making money and nobody had to come down and say get rid of ronald. this court case got thrown out. >> gregg: the judge thought was ridiculous. pleat have that! brenda butner. >> maybe one. >> gregg: one little fry. you can catch her on "bulls and bears" at 10:00 a.m. right here on the fox news channel. >> just wait. >> what did you say hamburger's are god's food. >>. [ laughter ] >> there you go. >> bless you. >> all right. >> new trend is feeding america's appetite speaking of that. for all things new, pop-up restaurants, instead of chefs investing a ton of money they are finding clever and unique ways to dish out good food to

customers. hi, casey. >> reporter: if there is a fish fillet in that bag tell that is to send it over to los angeles. we're not talking about fast food but we know that opening an restaurant can be extremely risky venture. it can cost upwards of half a million dollars which is why in some big cities like l.a., some chefs are looking at more temporary routes and for some, it is translate go into a big business. >> for master chef, owning his own restaurant isn't the winning recipe for his success. >> i think it's more about freedom, to do what i want. >> he heads up the popular pop-up trend, a restaurant with no permanent home but plenty of reservations. >> i think he is the first

person and only person of his true caliber and training that has chosen as a full time business model. >> pop up restaurants that set up shop for a few days and weeks or months in spaces not their own. >> it doesn't matter where we are. >> it takes the pressure off. >> this is your chance to experience great food in a casual setting. >> it's also the perfect opportunities for aspiring chefs that one day want their permanent space. >> they can show their talent and you need a chef to is a following. >> reporter: which is exactly the plan. a seven-month pop-up in a defunct italian zbluant i think every chef of brick and mortar is ultimate goal. >> reporter: they save a lot of

money when it comes to advertising dollars because they rely on social media and also word of mouth to create a buzz. some of these restaurants will only be open for two days and they'll close up and pop up somewhere else, absolutely fascinating concept. >> heather: thank you very much, casey stegall. >> gregg: john edwards getting ready for a tough week in a court of law. former aide and on his wife saying they helped use campaign donations kor up an affair. we'll take a look at what is to come. >> heather: and if the team just want to play the sport he love but he is getting questions about gender discrimination. >> i'm the it's not like i'm dominating but i'm not the worst.

>>. >> heather: time for the top of the news. seven people dead after a van plunges off an overpass near the bronx zoo. everyone inside was killed including three children. >> investigators say a tent that collapsed in st. louis killing one person had previously passed insuspects to withstand winds up to 90 miles an hour, 50 mile-an-hour winds toppled it yesterday. one person killed in a grenade explosion in at a church in deny

yeah. they believe al-qaeda linked militants are behind the attack in somalia. >> gregg: john edwards' trial heading into week two. accused of spending campaign contributions to keep his mistress from outing their relationship. he is trying to keep a low profile as had his private life goes public. that is about all he had to say. prosecutor's star witnessed, andrew young telling jurors all kinds of sordid details of his boss's fair. young's wife is expected to take the witness stand this coming week. she was only on the stand for 30 minutes before they broke for the weekend. after railing on edwards during brief but fiery testimony she had a lot to say. joining us is trial attorney general rachel and defense

attorney, kirsten, this is prosecutor question so i'll put it to you first. yung andrew young admits he was using money illegally and spending spinning all kinds of lies and peddling a book to profit from it. if you are prosecutor how do you convince a jury, yes, our star witness is a big fat liar but please believe it? >> i don't know if you have to convince the jury. that underestimates the intelligence of jurors are. whenever aide witness that had dirt in their background, i would tell them the jury sees through it. if you try to whitewash it. >> gregg: he has truckload of dirt? >> who would you expect to be accepting boss ease child somebody isn't a choir boy. he is not of the most up standing character giving what he was willing to do. >> gregg: the book thing is a problem and big money grab.

rachel, on the other hand, young is a cooperating with it. he has immunity. why would he lie. the he has immunity? >> jurors are smart enough to listen to the law and understand what the law is. when the judge instructs him on the law on this, they are going to know that you need to show that the campaign funds went to something that you wouldn't have done otherwise unless you were running for president of the united states. you don't need to be running for the president of the united states to want to cover up your miss stress. so it's going to be difficult. >> gregg: was it used to try to hide a personal embarrass from the time his wife or to protect his campaign. kirsten, edwards claims that that the money was a personal gift and not a campaign contribution and in fact gift taxes were paid on on it and much of it was not funneled

traditional accounts. is that a problem for prosecutors? >> the defense has to be careful with those claims. those things are going to infuriate a jury. when the people of the united states believe campaign finances have been changed, they don't want funneling into third party accounts and calling it different things. that is going to be make the jurors mad at the defense. >> gregg: the indictment, it says the donors or two of them falsely listed expenses on memo lines of checks for things like antique tables and chairs. isn't that evidence of a conspiracy here an attempt to hide the real purpose of the money? >> absolutely evidence of something going on. whether or not they are going able to connect that to john edwards violating campaign finance laws is going to be difficult to do.

the department of justice overstepped a little bit because this is the first time and also unprecedented. it's the first time where they have gone after somebody who is a third party donor. in this case you had two people cashing checks that were then providing the money. it's connecting the dots is going to be hard. >> gregg: it really is will. the other problem, one of the other two two-donors died and the other one is 101 recluse who is too frail to travel. that helps edwards doesn't it? the chief witnesses are unavailable. >> i don't know if it edwards. lighten for the memo on the checks that is specifically outlining the fact she knows where the money is going and she is trying to cover it up. those will be in front of the jury. it's also of that generation that care about campaign finance reform. >> gregg: there never has been a

prosecution like this before. if prosecutors win this case, i mean all kinds of personal spending could conceivably be regarded as illegal. i think of gym memberships, maybe even haircuts, that is slippery slope that is dangerous? >> i agree. it's very slippery slope. i think ultimately campaign lawyers and election lawyers have all said not only is this not a criminal matter, it's barely a civil matter. i think this has been a bit of a witch hunt. even if the jury convicts john edwards because nobody likes him an appeals court is going to overturn the conviction because sluatd black and white. you need prove you wouldn't have spent this money otherwise. >> gregg: how do you get in the mind of john edwards if he takes the witness stand. he is clever enough he may do that. all right. thanks very much. good see you. >> good to see you.

>> heather: coming up taking credit for saving the u.s. auto industry. a top advisor of the romney campaign saying the white house decision to bail out gm and chrysler was actually mitt romney's idea. our power panel weighs in next. plus one of the world's largest powwow says going the gathering of nations, bringing hundreds of american tribes together. we'll have that next.

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>>. >> heather: new battle playing out on capitol hill for the votes of women. senate democrats planning to hold on vote on paycheck fairness act that would protect women if employers asked about salaries paid to male colleagues. the measure could put republicans and mitts romney on the spot. if he opposes it ko he could get a backlash in the fall from female voters. let's go to eleanor rat they are and judith miller and also a fox news contributor and mary walter radio talk show host. let's get some of these stats out of the way. for women, according to a lot of statistics make 77% of what males do. if you look at president obama's

own white house his own staffers. there is another study out that says his staffers, women make 18% less than their male counterparts. so my question to begin with, is this. instead of allocating who gets legislate go who gets what. should they do something else. >> the caveat and what their experience has been. whole point of the democrats job bill is compare the experience. so that you can take a look at how long somebody has been in a job and then compare it to male salary. >> i have very little sympathy for the republicans on this one. we've had a steady pattern with respect to women and opposing legislation that advances women's rights and if they are uncomfortable but they are going to have to make another vote to

widen that 20-point gap between governor romney and mr. obama, mr. obama in the lead, i would say that is their fault and stop doing things like trying to do away with spending for planned parenthood which a lot of women get their health care. stop opposing for a measure that would punish women about treatment. they made it. >> i feel that trying to unionize and how to pay their workers, do we have to employers on the bulletin how much everybody is making. why can't employers pay their employees what they wanted. what if they are paying more the men? [ laughter ] >> what would happen? >> i was going to say the legislation. >> but i'm sure there are

companies where women get paid more than male counterparts. >> but if you don't like you are being paid or somebody is making more than you are, i worked in a job and employer is saying why are you work here. you have a husband and why are you working? >> so it's a man or woman. >> you can't just move from company to company. >> but a while? it may not happen. >> listen, government telling employers how much they have to pay. >>. >> but again, is that the way you want to run your business, that is your choice. >> no, it's not your choice. it's against through the discriminate now. >> i just think eighth slippery slope, posting how much everybody makes and it's going

on be a union operation. >> it's not penalizing people. >> and go to your boss and ask how many people you are paying everybody else. grapevine tells you very quickly. >> women in general have trouble asking for more money. >> we don't stand up and say hey wait a minute. >> is it about equal pay or sit as you are saying other things. >> it's going to start but you watch. it's going to be a cascading thing. if this person is making and boss can't say, you know what you show up to work a little later than this person so i'm paying them more because you don't show up to work on time. >> this is about embarrassing the republicans. that is why the democrats are bringing it up. >> heather: a top romney aide is

claiming that bailout general motors was actually romney's idea. it was wnak 2009 urging the car companies to get the financial house in order. but he neglected to mention the romney's column, let detroit go bankrupt. i'm going to start with you. >> stubborn things but the fact that governor romney opposed the bailout. it worked and as joe biden foot in mouth said aptly, osama bin laden is dead and gm is alive and who do we have to thank both of those things. romney can't have it both ways now. this part of stimulus package worked. the bailout worked. let him take some credit for it. >> but he called for managed bankruptcy. >> but he also said this is

crony capitalism on a grand scale. >> i agree with judy miller. facts are stob onshore. >> i think the romney campaign needs to get their act together and come out with one message. saying that a managed bankruptcy that sounds like romney a businessman would say to do. i think they need to get the message straight. >> heather: this is something he is going to spin another direction? >> they are trying to spin it. they are spinning it well. >> what does he need to do to get out on the same page. >> he needs to pull this guy back. [ laughter ] >> and he has gotten in trouble. i'm sure he is capable campaign person but this could be embarrassing. >> the final word, hey, look, romney said it he is going to be painted with it. that is just the facts. you pull out one line of the

op-ed and pull out another line of the op-ed. >> so still, what these auto companies needed was more money, an injection of money that would enable the unions to make the concessions they needed to make to keep the companies alive. without the money there wrrnt wouldn't have been a deal. >> heather: coming up next, wart on terror one year later. can you believe it. may 2nd of 2011, he made the call to raid osama bin laden's compound. how have things changed. but a new warning from intelligence officials. and now i build them. i am a bigger is better kind of guy. i absolutely love building locomotives. i knew i wanted to design locomotives from when i was very young. [ jahmil ] from the outside

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>> welcome back, tuesday mae 1 will work one year since the death of osama bin laden. navy seal team 6 taking it down the terror leader. but terrorism experts warn that the threat from al qaeda is still very real, say that this terror group is planning payback. our power panel is back. mary, i am going to start with you this time. so you think the threat is still real and we need to be on guard? >> i think it would be foolish

not to think that the threat is still real. they may be diminished and hobbled somewhat. but they are like cockroaches. because they have a different name doesn't mean they are not a terror organization. al qaeda may be diminished and we may have hurt them and gotten to them. but that doesn't mean if you take out one, there are not 12 other organizations mind it that want to get to us because of who we are. i think we would be foolish to know be on our toes and i thought that daniel benjamin announced that the war on terrorism was -- finished. it was over. >> heather: what would be the reasoning behind that. >> gregg. >> the white house corrected that statement-- the distinction they draw, they say that george bush was waging a war against terrorism throughout world. the obama administration decided that it had to focus and focus like a laser on al qaeda, all of

the affiliate and it is al qaeda-like groups and wanna bes. i have to say as someone who has covered terrorism for 30 years now, they have been remarkably successful. they have taken out osama bin laden and anwar al-awlaki, the head of the major organization that was going to be the successor to al qaeda in yemen. they have increased the drone attacks in pakistan and yemen. they are fighting al qaeda affiliates all over the world. they have taken out two-thirds -- you are giving that credit to the obama administration? >> this has been a 10-year campaign that has spread the gamut. it's george bush, but obama has taken the ball and rup with t. i think it will be very hard to crit sipeicize him on this particular aspect of counter terrorism. he is done a very good job. >> ellen? >> i agree that it will be very hard to criticize president obama on counter terrorism because he is doing a lot of things that george bush and wanted to do.

on the other hand, my personal view is -- >> heather: wait a minute! >> the drone attacks are indiscriminate, they are taking out people without trial. i have real problems with it. >> suicide bombers. they are pretty indiscriminate too. >> i understand. but i thought we were a moral nation that rules and is ruled by the rule of law and trial and -- >> sure. >> innocence until proven guilty, et cetera. you can say that this is a battlefield. but how is yemen a battlefield? >> because it has over 1,000 al qaeda members who are looking for a place -- >> but the united states has not declared worry in yemen. >> but we have declared war on al qaeda. yes, obviously, the united states isa i moral nation. but when you are dealing with terrorists like al qaeda, you are not dealing with people of

moral character. so how do you suggest we deal with it? >> we find a way to bring them to trial and to make sure that if we are going to be using drones in countries like yemen, that there is a specific congressional authority to do so. >> we would be speaking german. >> that is not true. we had a very specific declaration -- >> bombs are indrillinate. we bombed the heck out of them. >> we had a specific declaration of war for that part of the world. we don't in yemen. >> heather: i want to salute ellen. the left has been extremely silent on the issues she is raising. why? because they don't want to criticize the president from a civil libertarian view. there are, ellen, i agree with you, tremendous questions raised by some of what the president is doing. you never hear the liberal establishment in this country -- >> i don't know. it keeps another 9/11 incident

from happening, i'm all for it. if it can protect our troorngs all for t. you said good job to george bush. you kinda did. [overlapping dialogue] >> between a half million and a million people not to die. so thank you. >> heather: that's our conversation today. gregg? >> gregg: we will have the latest pictures of the deadly accident near the bronx zoo, seven people including three young girls, killed when their van plummets off an overpass, near president bronx zoo train yard. we'll have the latest on the scene. [ gans ] [ marge ] psst. constipated? phillipscaplets use magnesiu an ingredient that rks more naturally with your colon than stulant laxatives, phillipscaplets use magnesiu

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>> heather: a fox news alert. a horrifying accident are in the bronx zoo in new york city, leaving seven dead, including three children. i'm heather childers. >> gregg: i'm gregg jarrett. this is a brand-new hour inside america's news headquarters. >> heather: we have brand brand video of the incident, just in to fox news. police say the victims were in a van that lost control on an elevated highway, flipping over the guard rail and falling 50 feet to the ground below. we go live to the scene in the bronx, new york, with more. >> reporter: we are right outside the bronx zoo because we are told the van carrying all seven people that died did plunge over that overpass in the bromption river parkway and landed on zoo property. we are confirming with the nypd

that it was carrying four adults and three children. none of them survived. six of the victims, femea. one male, my producer just say that this driver was a 45-year-old female -- a 39-year-old female also in the car. two victims elderly, the kids ages 3, 5 and 15. around 12:30, the driver of the van lost control and hit the median and crossed four lanes of traffic and plunged over 55 feet into a ravine. it landed in a train yard, where the zoo stores their monorails. the van did not hit a train, but rather, landed in a heavily wooded area. when our crew got to the scene, the van was cut open by the jaws of life. there is a large nypd presence here. we watched a hazmat vehicle roll through, as well as a large nypd flat-bed truck. it is very unclear what caused the female driver to lose control. we have not been given the names

of any of the victims. we don't know where the van was coming from or where it was heading. the story is developing. we will update you as soon as we can. but nobody at the zoo was affected, not employees or visitors. back to you. >> heather: thank you very much. thank you. weather update for you now on a story we broke on america's news headquarters yesterday. straight-line winds are being blamed for a tent collapse that happened at a cardinals baseball game in st. louis. one man was killed and up to 100 were injured. listen to the bar owner describing the scene. >> my son called for -- not an ambulance, we are calling for 20 blrngs whatever they got. i would say most people got hit by something, abrasion, probably a couple concussions. but it's my customers. and... so they...

they all became paramedics. >> heather: the city had been under severe thunderstorm watches and warnings. >> the race for the white house shifting now into high gear. president obama and mitt romney turk their sights on one another. the president taking jabs at romney during the white house correspondence dinner last night. the romney camp criticizing a new obama campaign ad touting the killing of osama bin laden. steve centanni is in washington with more. what's the biggest campaign issue at this point? >> reporter: it's the economy. no surprise, of course. it took up a fair amount of air time on the sunday talk shows. here's mitt romney aide ed gillespie attacking the president. and a white house campaign adviser, rob gibbs, defending him. >> what you have in a

government-centered economy are fewer job, stagnant incomes, higher prices for gas and electricity. what you would have under a president romney and a pro-growth economic agenda would be more job, rising incomes and lower prices for gas and electricity. >> this president wants to build on 25 consecutive months of private sector job growth, 4.1 million jobs and to institute strong values of fairness and responsibility, build an economy that lasts, invest in our children and their college education. >> reporter: there are plenty of issues like health care, immigration and foreign policy, but the economy will probably top the list. gregg. >> gregg: what is happening on the campaign trail today, steve? >> reporter: mitt romney has no campaign event, though has supporters did appear on the talk shows. president obama has a fund-raiser in northern virginia, outside washington, d.c. and appearing alongside

bill clinton in the first of three fund-raisers where the two presidents will appear and seems to indicate a closer cooperation between the clintonsons and the president in this re-election effort, in spite of a fierce rivalry between barack obama and hillary clinton. gregg? >> gregg: steve centanni, in washington. thanks very much. >> heather: greek, fox news has confirmed that newt gingrich, perhaps not surprisingly will end his presidential bid on wednesday. bret baier speaking with senior sources, gingrich is expected to express his support for mitt romney. the two reportedly spoke by phone last week. >> gregg: new violence in nigeria leaving 16 dead, seriously injuring many others. gunmen attacking church services on a university campus, using small explosive, hid nen sode cans -- soda cans to draw out and attack worshippers running for help. no group has claimed responsibility for the attack.

a gruesome discovery in pakistan. police say the body of a missing red cross worker from great britain has been found. the 60-year-old doctor had been held captive since january. authorities say a note attached to his body claims he was killed because no ransom was paid. the doctor was running a health care program in southwestern pakistan when he was kidnapped in the street near his office. >> heather: a potential key witness in the case of a missing arizona girl coming forward. six-year-old isabel cellas vanished from her tucson home more than a week ago. we broke that news here. police say leads have been pouring in since the release of this surveillance video that shows a group walking near her home the night she disappeared. officers have spoken to a man who claims to be in that group. they will not say what, if anything, came out of that conversation. listen to the police talking about the search, the ground search for isabel. >> going canvassing five times

in that three-mile radius. i think now we can seesay we are comfortable that we checked that entire area. so... that's a way of measuring the progress. i know there is quite a bit more to do but that's where we are working at irvetion because of tucson's close proximity to the mexican border, u.s. marshals are circulating the picture of the first gradener mexico. authorities there are checking hotel, bus terminals and other businesses. police are hoping a new $50,000 reward will lead to some new information. >> gregg: apple reportedly going to great lengths to avoid paying state and federal taxes -- and doing it legally. the new york times in a front-page story says the technology giant's strategy includes subsidiaries in low-tax nations and it appears to be working because one worker estimates that apple saved nearly $2.5 billion on its

federal tax bill, just last year. >> heather: the world trade center once again, the tallest building in new york city. tomorrow, workers are expected to arrest the -- erect the beams that will make the unfinished freedom tower eclipse the empire state building. the skyscraper is set for completion next year. tell top out at a symbolic, 1,776 feet, the year the declaration of independence was signed. >> gregg: time to pop the champagne cork for a royal celebration. today is the one-year anniversary -- wedding anniversary for prince william and kate middleton, known as the duke and dutchess of cambridge. it's been quite a year since they exchanged vows before a worldwide audience. we have more from london. >> reporter: april 29, 2011, the world watched as commoner kate, married prince charming. the wedding was seen live by an

estimated 2 billion worldwide. many have continued to watch katherine, the dutchess of cambridge as her first year as a royal. >> suddenly, she is propoled into this world, and she doesn't have seemed to have made a foot wrong the whole year. >> reporter: countless cameras have captured the couple in their new roles as ambassadors. from the first trip to canada and america, to kate's first public speaking engagement. >> i'm only sorry that william can't be here today. >> reporter: royal watchers say they have rollregaly fulfilled expectations. >> they manage to be friendly and formal to the right degree, as well as being dignified and traditional. >> reporter: but not without minor glitches. william's military deployment in the faukland islands brought tension to the 30-year anniversary of the war with

argentina. and katherine's sister was in a party in paris with a toy gun. and folks are talking about a possible new member of the royal family. so attention turns to what happens next. the young couple will be on hand in the coming weeks to help queen elizabeth mark 60 years on the throne. for good practice for a future king and queen. fox news, greg palkot. >> heather: you throwing a party for that? tonight? >> gregg: no parties. i am all partied out. >> heather: no party here. could there be a new debt crisis looming on the horizon? coming up, why student loans might be the next big bailout. >> gregg: over 47 million americans don't get enough sleep. that could have serious health consequences. why so many people could be in for a rude awakening, next. you where we go. but not how we get there.

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>> gregg: it is being called one of the world's largest powwows in albuquerque, new mexico. thousands of native americans taking part in this three-day festival with dapsing, singing, traditional foods, craps and even the crowning of miss indian

world, more than 500 tribes represented at this year's event. >> heather: well, with college tuition rising nearly twice the rate of inflairksz the next big bailout could be student loans. the problem, the cost of a college education has just about doubled over the past decade and the size of the student loan debt program is roughly $1 trillion. so could this lead to a possible default crisis? let's bring in brenda buttner, anchor of bulls & bears and senior business correspondent. is this a very real possibility? a student loan bailout? is it a good idea? >> it's a huge issue, certainly. the problem is that borrowers in their 30s owe $30,000, $40,000, which keeps building and building. a couple of things are unique to student loans. the first thing is that they are

backed by the government. so it's almost impossible to get rid of by bankruptcy or anything else. you cannot get rid of these loan, essentially. they will follow you to death. and that's one huge problem. so i don't know how we would deal with it because right now, we are looking at july 1, on many student loans, the interest rate goes from 3 to 6.8%. the other huge issue is the recession, so people can't start to get the jobs to help them repay the student loans. >> heather: yeah. >> it is not the same as the financial crisis and the other boons go to bust that we have faced. >> heather: the delinquency rate right now as of 2011 was 27%. >> yeah. >> heather: so with what you are saying, that delinquency rate will probably go up? >> that's huge. it is going to cost the federal government a lot of money. uncle sam -- we will end up bearing the brunt. we have already in a sense, we

bear the brunt because we have given the student loans at very, very low interest rates. many people believe there is something to be said for that. i had many student loans and i am grateful for the federal government for doing that. but we are essentially at this point, people have to borrow so much to go to college that you are almost an indentured servant when you graduate. so it's very, very difficult to get past that and to actually pay it off. >> heather: what's the answer? what do we do about it? >> there is some -- you know, out of the box thinking. some people say, you know, just make college free. have an education tax and send people to the colleges where they should go. i don't think that would ever go over here in the united states, though some european countries do something very similar. i think it's going to take -- i think it's going to be taken

piecemeal. but if we just keep the interest rates low, then there is not going to be any systemic change, then this is going to just -- it could be one of the big, big problems about to explode. >> heather: in terms of a bailout fwe were to go that route, isn't that really just rewarding bad behavior? >> you take out a loan, you know have you to pay it back and you say, oh, well, you don't have to? >> i mean there is moral recklessness to it. >> heather: moral recklessness. i like that. >> the thing is that other students are going to say, i am going to borrow a bunch of money and the federal government will bail me out. >> heather: that's the same point. >> i think it is different here. students -- many students intend to pay it back, but right now, they don't have jobs. i mean, part of it is the economy. some people are starting to say, is college education worth it

for everyone? should some people go to trade pool and start making money right away? a four-year college education at the tuition rates right now does not mean the best route for everyone. that's something we as a nation may have to start coming to grips with. >> heather: get the costs under control, for sure. i want to know why greek got burgers and fries and i got you. that's great. good enough for me. >> gregg: i have seniority. >> heather: ohhhh! [chuckles] >> heather: by the way, you can catch brenda and her burgers and fries and everything else on bulls & bears at 10:00 in the morning. >> gregg: you ate that burger, didn't you? coming up, we will have several stories to tell you about, including the deadly yachting accident in the waters off california, mexican authorities joining the search for survivors. we will have the latest on that. and our campaign insiders are in the building.

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>> gregg: it is bottom of the hour, time now for top of the news. seven people dead in a tragic accident are in the bronx zoo in new york city. a van flipping over a railing, then plummeting more than 50 feet below, killing everybody

inside, including three children, the youngest just 3 years old. >> heather: a deadly yachting accident off the california coast. three crew members killed. the coast guard is looking for a fourth sailor, who is missing. officials think the yacht was hit by a much larger ship, possibly a freighter. >> gregg: in a glimmer of good news for drivers, gas prices dropping about a nickel this week, according to triple-a, the average price for a gallon of regular is $3.82. >> heather: this week marking one year since a dramatic u.s. raid that killed al qaeda leader osama bin laden. it was may 2 when a navy seal team stormed osama bin laden's compound in campakistan. 12 months later, where does the world stand in the war on terrorism? peter doocy reports. >> reporter: it's almost a year since operation geromron no and the chief counter terrorism adviser made clear today that al qaeda didn't die with osama bin laden. >> we have degraded the

organization significantly over the past deck scpead the past several years in particular, taking off the battlefield, the founding leader. we're determined to destroy that organization. we are going to destroy it but that's going to continue to requireitous maintain this pressure on al qaeda, whether it be in pakistan, afghanistan afand yemen. >> reporter: brennan says that aviation is still a target and the form early target of the cia's unit said that we took out al qaeda's leader, their big target is likely ours. >> they are not in the game of symbolic attacks. but the tit for tat, killing of osama bin laden is something special for them. i think they will keep their eye on a tooth for a tooth, eye for an eye procedure and try to aim at the president, whether it is this one or the next one. >> reporter: but the chairman of the house intelligence committee says there is no specific threat to our home laifnltd all the affiliates have this affinity fars these anniversaries so they're going to try to find -- where all the pieces come together for them

next week, they will take it. they might not. they are patient. they might wait. >> reporter: the obama campaign is highlighting the raid in a new campaign ad. when john brennan was asked if it's appropriate to politicize the anniversary, he said he doesn't do politics. >> heather: thank you very much, peter doos newashington. thanks. >> gregg: we are about 7 months away from election day. we are seeing a tough battle ahead for both president obama and mitt romney. our latest polling showing the two candidates are neck and neck right now. the president's job approval has ticked up a bit, over the last two weeks, now at the 50% mark, that's a gallup poll. take a look at this. "the wall street journal" editorial board weighing in. mitt romney has an even money chance to become america's 45th president, they

write... >> gregg: what about that? we have pat caddell, a former pollster for president jimmy carter and a former republican congressman for new york. gentlemen, good to have you back. doug, let me start with you. what does that mean? does that mean, the editorial that romney has to be bold? >> he has to be bold, specific and have a vision. right now, what the president's approval at 50% and the race tied, the american people are spli. but 61% in a fox news poll said that obama didn't have a jobs plan or an economics plan and 58% said the same for

romney. so what the journal is saying is that the desire for a clear plan, clear ideas, amid deep-seated skepticism. >> gregg: give us something specific, pat? >> i have to say that was as good a political memo as i have seen in a while. >> i agree. >> in terms what have it argued. it said, what you put up on the screen, gregg, which is, we near a political moment. this is a jump ball. somebody's got to have something they can argue other than the other guy is bad. what they were arguing for roumingny is what he needs to do. same problem the president has. when you are in a jump ball and understand one thing that's important. we see it in these two polls. the president's rating is 50%, versus 45%, for instance. you know what? that's a gigantic difference. that 5 points, 80% of the time, a president will win or lose. >> gregg: let's put up the

gallup poll. there it is. that's ticking upward from basically even. you know, over what? a week? >> that's the distance i'm talking about. that is where the election hangs because at the 50% level, he's more likely to get elected. at 46, he's more likely to lose. >> gregg: congressman, the other subtitle of that gallup poll, independent preferences have shifted to obama. independents. >> to me, pat and doug have hit on this repeatly on our show, which is the first guy who will offer a positive vision, specifics, i am going to do this on day 1. i am going to do this to change this, instead of trashing the other guy, tell us why i should vote for you. if romney were to do that -- he has time to do it, he could take this election. he can win this election if he does what reagan did and come out with a positive plan that he believes in and tries to sell

it. >> gregg: right now, they are trashing the other guy. >> that's right all they are doing. >> gregg: let me play the latest obama ad, quite controversial. take a listen. >> that's one thing that george bush said that was right. the president is the editor in chief. nobody can make that decision fur. look, he knew what happened happen. suppose the navy seals had gone in there and it hadn't been bin laden. suppose they had been captured or killed. the down side would have been horrible for him. >> gregg: the claim that romney wouldn't have taken out osama bin laden, doug? >> i think that's a political mistake, effectively lowers the office of the presidency to do that. i think that romney missed a huge opportunity himself to embrace the success of the raid and say, mr. president, why are we doing this? i think both of them, frankly, have missed real opportunities

to elevate, after the one-year anniversary. >> let me tell you, historical context. this reminds me as john kerry running as a hero. you don't need to do it that way. what you said, doug, which is important, think back to the only debate that ronald reagan ever lost in his life, against walter mondale. you know why? he got up and praised the president, totalsy stunned reagan -- >> reagan was befuddled, the voters loved it. here was the mean attack dog mondale, saying thank you, mr. president. if romney had said, mr. president, you deserve great credit for this. pie the a, i think any american president, i would hope, would do the right thing. he would have gone up, don't you think, john? >> i think he would look more presidential if he would act like a pot this one, romney, i'm talking about. makes obama look small. -- >> we are trying to exploit -- >> this is the problem, gregg,

we have discussed this before. the teams around the candidates, the president and mr. romney, they are so into one-ups-manship that they can't see a larger mosaic of a narrative here. >> gregg: hire's the one-ups-manship. i want to be fair to mitt romney. here's his remark this is week. >> americans have always been eternal optimists, but over the last three and-a-half years, we have seen hopes and dreams diminished by false promises and weak leadership. to all of you, i have a simple message: hold on a little longer. a better america begins tonight. it's still about the economy and we are not stupid. >> gregg: doug, some people are saying this is his best speech

yet. i wonder why? >> well, i think best speech -- a lot of speeches came before weren't so great? it is not focusing on newt gingrich and the others. >> the beginning of a vision. thoosht. but as the -- that's right. but as you suggested, similarly, it's the outlines of where he intends to go combined with some negativity on the president. he hasn't done what pat and john were both suggesting to get into the specifics of where he is going to lead america, what he is going to do and what our hope is for the future. i don't think he has done that. >> gregg: no. right now is the time he needs to do it -- not six months from now. >> i think he's afraid to. i think what happened recently, he was at a private fund-raiser, romney. at the fund-raiser, there was supposed to be no press there. he said, i'm going to consolidate agencies and close some down and gave other details. and it leaked out and the obama campaign jumped on him. i have a feeling the romney team

is deathly afraid -- >> they are making a huge mistake i. i agree with you. but i think that's why i. one of the reasons reagan who was viewed as a very risky person, had high negatives in the spring of 1980, one of the reasons he won was because he embraced kemp roth this. man, who was the oldest man running for president had a new idea about what to do with the economy, supply-side economics, whether you liked it or not. and we attacked him with voodoo economics and the carter side, bush had in the primaries. but he had something to make a case for. so besides all of his conservative convictions, he had something to help. romney needs this. romney needs ability to go out and lay out three or four speeches and take some risks. >> gregg: to the extent that he laid out a tax plan. >> he's criticized for favoring the rich and they're going to hang that around his neck. >> he's had a couple of tax plans and flip-flopped on whether he wants to raise tacks

on those over $200,000 or exempt them from the tax cuts. he hasn't think about coherent. but what pat was suggesting is really it. there isn't a specific plan, vision like herman cain's 9-9-line. >> he's got a 59-point plan. >> 59 points. he should call herman and figure out how it formulate 7-7-7. >> he had to revise it and refine it and talk about the specific tax rates. but he needs a thematic thing. he needs a thematic approach. here's the things iing would do and here's the message of how america will change the day i'm elected. >> gregg: why is he not doing it? >> i think it's his nature. i think his nature is not to put new ideas. he goes with what is around now. >> i think there is something else. i think what is going on, his advisers are saying look, with the poll numbers we were talking

about before, this is a 50-50 election. the economy's getting weaker, we don't have to take the risks involved to put out a plan, being criticized, as you say. events will work to our advantage. not what i dolled -- >> seven months. >> but to be on the defense, to wait for event, hoping events. yes, events may work fur, but let me say, newt gingrich will be leaving the race, during his campaign, when he was at his best, he was saying what he would do day 1, day 2, day 3. people may not have liked him, but it sounded dramatic. that's what romney needs. >> gregg: we have to pause and take a quick break. our campaign insiders will be back in just a moment. lots more to talk about. heather has breaking news. >> heather: yeah, coming up, a tragic accident killed seven people, four adults and three children, plunging to their deaths. we will have the latest on the crash that happened near the famous bronx zoo.

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it fell more than 50 feet into a rail yard, are in the bronx zoo. investigators say a tent that collapsed in st. louis killing one person had previously passed inspection to withstand winds of 90 miles per hour. 50-mile-per-hour winds toppled that tent yesterday. good news at the gas pump. prices continuing to fall. according to triple-a, gas dropping a nickel this week to an average of $3.82 a gallon. >> gregg: the winner of the white house must reach 270 electoral votes. if the election were held today, mitt romney would be in trouble. take a look at this map, based on current polling, the president would take 227 votes compared to mitt romney's 170. the yellow -- i want to point out three yellow states in particular, battleground states.

those are too close to call -- florida, ohio and pennsylvania. there are several others. but they don't have as many votes. the red is republican. the pink is leaning republican. the light blue leaning democrat. the dark blue and look at california with i can't see, but 55? electoral votes, the grand-daddy prize, solidly blue. let's bring in the panel. dough schoen, pat caddell and john leboutillier. gentlemen, what do you think of the electoral nap? congressman? start with you. >> first of all, this real clear politics thing radio is in the last week, the polling from state by state, putting leaners in a little bit. romney has a longer way to he has more states to catch up in. there's the map again. number 1 on the map is ohio. you mentioned t. republicans have to win ohio to get to 270,

generally. >> gregg: and florida. >> he is behind by 6 points in ohio. it is not then of the world, but he has work to do. >> so many of these states are now in yellow on our map. three or four months ago were against obama. some of the states he's leading in, they were against. obama has had progress in these states. the problem with romney is that he has to win almost all of those states in yellow. he has to win florida. he cannot lose virginia and north carolina on top of ohio. >> gregg: pat, as we said last week, he's won those states in primaries. and he's come out of them more unpopular -- >> damaged. >> obama has had a huge head start in terms of grassroots organizing in each of these states. even if that's only worth a couple of points, in a very close race, that could make a difference. one other point, the job growth in those swing states usually heavily taxed states, has been

slower than the rest of the country. that will be a drag on the obama vote, not enough to make a decisive difference, but a close race could make all the difference. >> if that's the bad news for the president this week, when you see "the wall street journal" yesterday with a front-page analysis of all the indications of the economy slowing. we talked about this on the show. if we have the same case -- if we have the same phenomena of the last two years with the false spring, when the economy slows up, or unemployment goes up and the president's campaign strikes me that if you step back from the substance of it, there is an air of desperation to it because they're frantically going this way and that. while they have been able to get the saudis to pump more oil, that's why the gas prices are down. there is only so much they can control. >> they don't have a narrative, either, to be fair. they don't have a plan for dealing with economic

uncertainty or weakness in the same way that romney lacks a plan, too. >> gregg: gdp slowed down to 2.2%, first time unemployment claims were flat. things should be trending back -- >> and a double-dip recession, which could be a precursor for us. you know, there are big problems, economically. >> gregg: what should the candidates do in the week ahead? doug? >> obama needs to have a narrative, for his re-election. pat and i have called him a political short-order cook. he will offer incentives to young people, old people, women. that's not going to win an election that is as close as this one. we need a narrative that answers a question, gregg, that hasn't been addressed at all. what will the president do in the second term? we don't have an answer. >> he's going to virginia and ohio, i think, right? >> you know, this is -- i want to say this, finally, the republicans blew the whistle, screaming. now he's going to pay for these campaign trips that the taxpayers have been paying for,

so blatant. but he's going to the swing states. but that doesn't solve the narrative problem. you cannot promise this group and this group and attack another. he is the president. the issue is how will the second term be different from the first term? >> i want to hit one more thing, how does a v.p. choice play into this? when you look at the swing states, let's assume they stay swing battleground state it's florida, ohio, pennsylvania, places like that. santor num pennsylvania -- kasich in ohio and florida and rubio. >> he could. but we believe he will pick after a lot of leaking and trying people out, that he is going to pick senator rob portman of ohio, who fits the romney mold. pat doesn't like this mold, but it's a conservative, play it safe strategy -- >> no risk. no problems with credendials-- no pizazz? >> that, too. >> the slogan was -- dare to be

cautious. this is the romney campaign. you are the challenger. i'm sorry. that's going away the ballgame. he needs much more attractive help. he doesn't have to go to sarah palin. >> gregg: remember the last time they did that. there is a middle ground. >> rubio will raise some of the same problems sarah palin had. >> in the end, the vice-president ain't going to do anything. >> gregg: got to go. campaign insiders, as always, thank you. you can get more every monday, 10:30 a.m.@livefoxnews.com. they will be here on sunday. follow them on twitter as well. >> heather: tens of millions of americans are suffering from the exact same problem. they don't catch enough zs every night. coming up, how the lack of sleep could be devastating for your body. stay tuned. the best part of angreat meal?

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>> gregg: are you reaching for a seconds or a third cup of coffee -- every day just to stay awake? and you are not alone. according to a new report, 30% of americans are sleep deprived,

having a big effect on everything from work performance to driving. and in some cases, can make you sick. >> heather: let's bring in a member of the fox news medical a-team and chief of breast surgery at staten island university hospital here in new york city. >> reporter: thank you for having me. >> heather: what should people strive to get in terms of hours of sleep that are needed? >> reporter: infants need 16 hours and god bless my it is one, she takes them. teenagers need 9 hours and adults need 7 to 9 hours and we are recommending that adults take that 7 to 9 hours because it really affects work performance and driving performance and cant can make you ill. >> gregg: why aren't people sleeping? >> reporter: the study came out that said that workers, people who are -- 3 out of 10 workers are not getting enough sleep. day shift workers get more sleep than night shift workers. >> gregg: right. >> reporter: if you are on the night shift, try to maximize

your sleep time during the day. in addition, you may need to take time off from that evening schedule, if you can. people who work more than 40 hours a week, most americans are working more than 40 hours a week. >> heather: yeah. >> reporter: that's a major reason we are not getting sleep. >> heather: that would make sense. what if you can't get 7 to 9 hours a night? what can you do to compensate? >> reporter: take naps during the day. 20-minute power nap goes a long way in the lunch hour. the best time to take it is 8 hours after you have woken up. in addition to that, you can use stimulants such as caffeine. but be careful because the effects of caffeine will wear off and it won't give you the stimulation that you need. but most importantly, protect your sleep time. eat early enough so you don't go to bed on a heavy stomach. don't exercise too late because that can keep you up. turn off the tv when guto bed.

close the books. don't stay up reading. and you need to protect that schedule. put yourself in a dark room so you sleep well. >> gregg: if you are not getting the good r.e.m. sleep that, really hurs you? >> reporter: >> heather:r official, people who work with heavy machinery because it affects cagative skills and reaction time. so if you are working with heavy machinery, that's a problem. sleep depriivation accounts for 20% of car accidents every year, that's 60 thousand car accidents. >> gregg: heart disease, diabetes? >> reporter: one of the main issues with sleep depriivation is that it can affect your hormonal response and sugar levels, so adrenalin responses increase and you increase the sugar in the circulation and that increases insulin, which can lead to diabetes and it can lead to heart disease. >> heather: is it ever too late to change your patterns?

somebody's thinking, i need to get more sleep. you can reverse some of the damage that has been done when you are talking about things like cardiovascular or diabetes? >> reporter: you may not be able to reverse it unless you are adding exercise and diet as well. it may not be reversible. but you certainly can protect yourself from further damage. you know, rest -- sleep is very, very important. biologically, it's important that our body gets the rest in order to regenerate and to heal from the trauma that our bodies go through. >> gregg: can you catch up -- people say, i am going to catch up -- sleep on the weekends. >> reporter: eventually, your body will tell you you need to catch up. they put a study and they put people -- gave them sleep depriivation for a two-week period, not one hour of sleep, but they went less than 6 hours of sleep. after two weeks, cognitive impairment and reaction response were that of people who hadn't slept a full 48 hours. so it has an important impact.

>> good to so see you. i am going to go home and go to bed. >> heather: me too because i will be here at 5:00 a.m.! i will be up at 1:00 a.m. >> gregg: that's it for us. have a great week. fox news sunday with chris wallace is next. i'm really going to miss you.

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