to set a standard of efficiency. mica holding up a chart of leading administrators all of whom he contacted but all were unavailable to attend today's hearing. he lambasted gsa for the overly generous cash bonuses totally more like $44 million this year. >> gsa has 1% of the employees of the federal government, 1% and they received ten percent of the bonuses to show you how dramatically out of kilter this is. that is absolutely outrage just. >> reporter: the 2010 nference in crystal city, virginia, where $3.6 million in bonuses were handed out to gsa workers came under special scrutiny. california republican jeff denham ridiculed the gsa for defying the president's executive order that forbade such bonuses and conferences like this. >> we see conference after conference. not just conferences.

we found out now rather categorizing them as conferences but categorized them celebrations so they can get around the executive order of calling it a conference. >> reporter:. gsa executive director said his office is actively investigating that conference and many others after the acting administrate tore brought it to his attention following foia request by fox news and other media outlets. rick? rick: doug mckelway in washington. doug, thanks. jenna: fox news is america's election headquarters. right now a big victory in the texas runnoff election a victory that caused the nation's attention. tea party backed ted cruz beating republican nomination for senate beating his opponent, david dewhurst by 10 points. quite a turnaround from the first time they faced off. james rosen is live in washington on this. >> reporter: hi, jenna. we've heard a great deal of reporting and commentary how this marks a victory for

grassroots tea party activists over the entrenched republican establishment in texas. for sure this was the first-ever run by last night's big winner. former solicitor general, rafael ted cruz who is the republican nominee for the seat held by retiring republican kay bailey hutchison. david dewhurst was backed by governor i can rick perry was outspent three to one. includes captured, 53% to dewhurst's 43%. >> it is a testament to republican women, to tea party leaders and to grassroots conservatives. [cheers and applause] this is how elections are supposed to be decided, by we the people. >> reporter: after losing the primary to dewhurst on may 29, cruz enjoyed a nine week gap before last night's

runnoff. previously the longest gap between a primary and runnoff in texas history was five weeks. cruz used the 63 days wiselying raising money and earning free media. while he is a newcomer to elected politics, he attended harvard law, clerked at the supreme court for william rehnquist, worked in the bush 43 administration and married to a woman who works for goldman sachs. he received millions in support from likes of senator jim demint, sarah palin, freedomworks, led by former house majority leader dick armey, the club for growth and columnist and abc news commentator will and "national review" founded by william buckley, jr. ted cruz was backed by establishment in its own right. >> thanks for standing up for texas. thanks for standing up for texas. we got beat up a little bit but we never gave up. we can stand tall in knowing that we never compromised any of our values. [applause] >> reporter: cruz will

compete in november against democratic former state senator, paul sadler. jenna. jenna: james rosen in d.c., thank you. rick: turning our attention overseas now and syrian warplanes are firing on opposition fighters in the city of aleppo. that is according to observers working for the u.n. rebels are claiming major wins there as president assad makes a new push to rally his government troops in the bloody battle for the nation's largest city. world affairs contributor dominic di-natale has the latest from the region jerusalem. dominic. >> reporter: rick, this is the first time we've hadn't confirmation from the ground that indeed jet fighters and attack helicopters are being used against the rebels there. more from president bashar assad today. first time we've seen him in two weeks. trying to rally the troops because he wants readiness and willingness of the syrian armed forces to be the shield, the wall and the fortress of the country. very interesting he is now saying there are internal

agents inside the country helping foreign terrorists. that is how he has been describing the rebellion so far. curious he called the internal agents out. it indicates he is, conscious there is domestic political activists here. it could also be a reference to many defections we've actually seen from the syrian military as well. so a bit of a revelation there, rick. we're also seeing some very disturbing new video come out of the country. what appears, we're not able to verified it independently but appears that rebels in aleppo have conducted summary executions of the so-called government backed military. you can see them being dragged out and held up against a wall and shot, about three of them. there was a huge barrage of gunfire, celebratory gunfire which really adds an almost sense to what is going on inside the city. that is one of the reasons why the u.n. has been speaking out today about the degree of violence in the city.

the fact that there is very heavy weaponry on both sides of the regime and the rebels that could escalate to untold levels of violence and killing, more that we've seen so far, rick. back to you. rick: disturbing images and the news keeps getting worse from syria. dominic di-natale, thanks. jenna: back here at home, new information on the fort hood massacre. a house oversight committee holding a hearing on a key report examining the events leading up to the shootings back in 2009 and what role a lack of intelligence sharing and turf battles between the fbi and the army may have played in the tragedy. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live in washington with more. catherine? >> reporter: thank you, jenna. we're an hour into the hearing and the fbi is being pressed hard on a lot of investigation first reported by fox news why one of its agents allowed the american cleric anwar al-awlaki into the country in october of 2002 when there was an outstanding warrant for his arrest. for the first time the fbi publicly admitted they knew the cleric was coming back

to the united states yet there was no mention of this incident in the independent webster report. >> a lackey did return in 2002. there was a diplomatic security service, a dss warrant out for him. we knew awlaki was coming back. we had information he was coming back and the colorado u.s. attorney's office looked at the warrant, looked at the factual basis for the warrant it. was not an fbi warrant. >> reporter: what the fbi has testified to this morning in a nutshell is that anwar a la caulk -- lashg lak first was held in federal custody in 2002 and then released on the okay of an fbi agent. as the chairman of the committee said this morning, think how history would have been different for the families at fort hood. >> i'm concerned that the fbi may not have provided, and i think this is very important, i'm concerned that the fbi may have not provided the commission with

a full accounting of its prior interactions with awlaki, including the notable omission of awlakies return to the u.s. in october 2002, when the fbi dropped an outstanding warrant for his arrest. imagine if the warrant had not been dropped. and it would not be good if the fbi had not communicated to judge webster. >> reporter: one. issues they're looking at this morning in the hearing the fact that 13 people are dead and more than three dozen were wounded in fort hood in 2009 yet no one at the fbi has been fired, disciplined or demoted as a result of their actions. the independent review of the fbi's actions by judge william webster makes 18 recommendations. we also learned this morning that the cleric anwar al-awlaki was under full fbi investigation in 2002 when he had a lunch in the pentagon first reported by fox news and the fbi could not explain how that came to pass, jenna.

jenna: an interesting story we'll con to follow, thank you. >> reporter: you're welcome. rick: a crime that rocked the family of one of baseball's greatest heroes. now new surveillance video of the man suspected of kidnapping cal ripken, jr.'s mother for nearly 24 hours. she is okay. you. but he is still on the loose. where police think they got a glimpse of him we'll tell you. defense secretary lee on pa fet at that issuing a warning to iran's that iran may allow one of our biggest enemies to set up shop inside its borders. that is straight ahead.

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rick: right now some brand new info on some crime stories we're keeping eye on for you. police in maryland releasing surveillance video of the man suspected of kidnapping baseball hall-of-famer's cal ripken, jr.'s mother. she was found last tuesday tied up in her car the next day. the police take video from a retail store hoping it helps them find this guy and they can arrest him. in california a college professor accused of starting five fires last month arrested again on suspicion of plotting a shooting rampage at the high school his son attended. his 14-year-old son committed suicide in march after being disciplined in the school. police discovered graphic e-mails on the father's cell

phone describing a mass murder plot targeting students and administrators. cuba gooding, jr., wanted by police in new orleans. they say he shoved a female bar tender on bourbon street. they say it happened after she asked the oscar winter calm down after he blew up because tourists were trying to take his picture. jenna: this week coming from u.s. defense secretary leon panetta who is in israel right now. panetta says iran must either negotiate accessible limits on its nuclear program or face the possibility of u.s. military action. in the meantime iran is reportedly allowing the taliban to set up shop in the country and discussing providing that group with surface-to-air missiles. "the wall street journal" is suggesting this new partnership is to prepare for an attack and prepare as well for retaliation. major general bob scales is retired from the u.s. army.

he is also a fox news military analyst. and, general scales, you say what happens in this part of the world over the next two years will affect every single american. why? >> oh, i think that's right, jenna. i think a key element in this discussion, to get, if you will, beyond nuclear weapons.. it is clear that iran has a global as well as a regional agenda.. as you mentioned they're allowing the taliban to set up shop inside iran. the largest irrapian embassy in the world is in venezuela. they are connected with transnational gangs and drug dealers. the iranians have a strategy that they hope will allow them to grow in the region as the united states downsizes in the region and i believe that we've only seen the beginning of this i believe that while jobs and the economy will determine the next president, job one for the next president sadly is going to have to deal with this issue. jenna: getting back to the strategy, do the iranians have a better strategy than

we do? >> i think iranians have aggressive strategy where ours is increasingly becoming defensive in the region because the american people are tired of 10 years of war and the iranians sense this is a strategic vacuum. and they are dedicated to filling that vacuum with aggressive action. so, jenna, it is not just about nuclear weapons. it is about a much broader agenda that i think not only will hopefully, will prevent their presence from growing in the region but also in the rest of the world. jenna: do you think a more aggressive strategy by the united states is the key to, to selfing this problem, if you will, if the solution exists. if that is true what does that aggressive strategy look like? is it a military option? >> oh, i don't think there is any question that eventually it will come down to that. the only question, who are the ones who will seek to destroyer ran's nuclear capabilities? i don't think sanctions have worked. i think the iranian regime

is dedicated on expansionism. i don't know of anyone who will deny that the iranians continue to progress in their development of nuclear weapons. i believe after the january elections the most important single issue with with the new president will be coming up with a more aggressive policy toward iranian expansion in the region and the world, jenna. jenna: general scales, you see it will come down to the military option. that is what you see on the horizon. >> right. jenna: what is the tippingpoint for that? what turns our barrage of harsh warnings into actual action? >> that's a great question, jenna. that is what is being debated in the pentagon as we speak. i think our intelligence where iran is in the development of nuclear weapons is so poor right now, frankly the answer is no one knows. but clearly the united states or israel or the united states as part of a coalition is looking very seriously at preempting the iranians before they develop a nuclear weapon because

once that happens all bets are off, jenna. jenna: israel says, we do not put our faith in the hands of others even our best friends. that's their comment coming from netanyahu, the prime minister yesterday. >> exactly. jenna: general scales, nice to have you as always. thank you for your time. >> thank you, jenna, some gripping testimony at the drew peterson murder trial in illinois. why the former police officer's legal team, the defense team, is now accused of trashing the victim and what prosecutors are doing in response. the breaking details straight ahead. plus governor mitt romney back on u.s. soil after his whirlwind trip overseas. how the trip will impact the republican candidate's chance this is november. a fair and balanced debate just ahead.

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jenna: right now day two of

testimony is underway in the drew peterson murder trial. the former illinois police sergeant charged with first-degree murder in the 2004 death of his third wife, kathleen savio. harris faulkner is tracking the story at the breaking news desk. things are changing moment by moment. >> they are. on the stand a former neighbor of drew peterson we are told. the key is that neighbor was in savio's house when her body was found. the focus sticking on a second day to one singular theme and it is all about the discovery of savio's body in that dry bathtub. the man who has a habit of losing his wives, drew peterson expected back in court to watch it all play out today in illinois. here is what we're seeing inside the courtroom. prosecutors trying to paint a picture of drew peterson who wanted his ex-wife dead to keep her from collecting a large pot of cash from his pension and assets from a bar he owned. with the theory that

peterson drowned salve yo in the bathtub and staged the scene to make it look like an accident. peterson's six attorney defense team has gone after kathleen savio as emotional woman who was angry about her husband's younger lover. peterson married a fourth wife. she is missing. stacy peterson. that investigation unfolding simultaneously with this trial. there have never been any charges against drew peterson regarding stacy peterson's disappearance. back to you. jenna: we have a legal panel coming up next hour to work through the details about eventually what happens here. harris, thank you. rick: back to politics now and governor romney back in the u.s. after a three-nation overseas tour. the mainstream media has suggested that the trip was so gaffe-filled it was a distraction. some analysts are saying hey, not so fast. some suggesting that the governor accomplished quite a bit while on the trip, scoring political points with key voting groups like

jewish voters and those who think the u.s. should be doing more to counter the influence of russia. joining us for a fair and balanced debate, editor-at-large of hotair.com, mary katharine ham, a fox news contributor. and democratic campaign consultant ryan clayton. thanks for coming in. mary katherine, you first. did this trip help or hurt governor romney. >> i concede, have conceded he got off to a bad start with the olympic remark although true could have been stated better. set a tone he didn't need. moving on from that in israel and poland i think he made, broad, overarching very good speeches in israel. he made several contrasts with the president he wanted to make. calling jerusalem the capital of israel making contrast with jay carney at israel not naming the capital and not willing to do that. made the point we're willing to stand with israel if they come to the point they are willing to strike. they tried to detour israel

from striking if comes to that publicly at times including panetta himself. in poland, he made it clear we stand very closely with you and i understand the threats you're under. in both cases he made contrasts he wanted to make. rick: ryan, we talked about the constituencieses the governor was trying to reach. poland is a big catholic country and israel a jewish state. there are a lot of catholic and polish americans in ohio a swing state and jewish-americans in florida. did he -- >> this has been unmitigated disaster for mitt romney to insulting one of the world's great religions to inciting fear on olympic games and proclaiming anglo-american heritage. this is way to alienate a bunch of people in our country. we believe in religious freedom here in the country. we believe our diversity of this country is source of great strength. >> no one knows what you're talking about ryan. you're making stuff up.

>> everyone wants a peaceful olympic games. that is what we want. i don't know why mitt romney is running around europe and the middle east stirring up trouble. rick: in honor the olympics we would have two of you compete against team of pundits from taiwan so the satellite went down. just the two of you right now. >> hold on. hold on. ryan can't make stuff up, using anonymous sources where we go back to the heyday to give the queen ipods to make sure diplomacy is rolling right along. that is ridiculous. rick: i lit you get that in. polling from quinnepiac came out today was speaking of some of the swing states showing the president is doing pretty well at least three of them, ohio, pennsylvania, in florida. the president has a pretty distinct advantage. if this holds, merry catherine, is there any way governor romney can win? >> if these numbers hold it is not good for him. what you have to consider also, will the numbers of democrats they surveyed in these polls hold till election day?

that is nearly impossible. if you look at the question where they asked how many of you voted for obama in '08, in florida, ohio, those numbers outperform in this poll his actual numbers in '08 by 10 points. so you're polling 10 points more democrats than actual exist in the voting population possibly for this time around. i think that is problem for them. maybe you don't like to get too cocky about that. but romney has problems with empathy issue and likeability issue as he always does. interestingly with the high populations of democrat voters polled on the economy question which will be the number one question, even again. rick: and ryan, independents, the president is having problems with independents according to these polls. this is the group that really sort of delivered him the white house in '08. why would independents vote for this president again with the economy in such rough shape? >> yeah, well the mary katherine's point i think election is all about the economy and in that context, you know, president obama has done a great job getting our economy back on track. getting unemployment down and creating jobs for the

last three years but i don't know why mitt romney is traipsing around talking leisurely stroll through europe and foreign countries when he should be back here governing alongside us trying to fix the economy and getting country back on track. frankly if he will two to all the foreign countries should close down secret accounts in places like cayman islands and bermuda and switzerland and bringing money back home. rick: ryan you raise a lot of things. mary catherine, final word. >> i think ryan is sort of ridiculous. this is like, he going to ohio today. he is going to try to make is pitch. you talk to folks in ohio. they don't see things improving. i know that ryan likes to make up words about what romney is doing but i think it sounds silly when he is impuning him on every level. ohio -- >> mitt romney not make his millions shutting down factories and shipping jobs overseas. >> romney is talking in ohio today how the benevolent obama runs takes over gm has

to shut downplayses in ohio, small businesses that people owned that were gm dealerships. >> i want to be clear. you believe that mitt romney isn't storing any money in secret accounts in foreign countries. rick: we'll leave it there. that is different discussion. maybe you can tell us how you really feel. mary katharine ham, ryan clayton, thank you both. >> thanks for having us. jenna: hard when you have to draw them out so much. you did a good job about that. rick: i know. jenna: well in arizona, city drenched, the water washing away cars. we'll tell you the latest from this part of the country and folks that had to be rescued out of all this. new information in the "fast and furious" investigation. republican lawmakers releasing a new report on the failed gun-walking operation. we'll talk with one of the authors, republican senator charles grassley of iowa. hi, senator. we'll see you right after the commercial. big plans. so when i found out medicare doesn't pay all my medical expenses,

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jenna: quick weather alert for you now. parts of the southwest really getting slammed by

storms. a huge dust storm sweeping through the phoenix area. wind gusts blowing dirt up to 35 miles an hour causing serious visibility problems for drivers. it came after thunderstorms drenched city dropping an 1 1/2 inches of rain in 40 minutes, that's it, less than an hour. floodwaters flooded cars and forcing emergency crews to rescue those stuck in their vehicles. las vegas wring wringing out after a huge rainstorm there. crews are warning drivers not to cross standing water because a few inches can cause a lot of car trouble. we don't want that. janice dean is in the fox weather center. is this monsoon season is that what it is from. >> gold star for you. jenna: i got that from the weather team. >> monsoonal season mean as shift in winds and that brings moisture from across the pacific to the four corners. i wish we could push it more

to the east where we have severe to extreme drought. that is the radar in 48 hours. you see all the moisture moving in. unfortunately flash flood watches are in effect today and tonight as we expect more rain to come down in a very short period of time. we'll keep that in mind. all these areas are under flash flood watch over the next several hours. of course some areas getting too much rain. anothers not enough. we still have heat advisories up for over a dozen states today where the heat index value will keel like in some cases over 115 degrees. it just continues. record-breaking heat across the u.s. 111 in oklahoma city tomorrow. much the same on friday. if i could quickly get in a little tease here. we have something in the tropics, jenna and rick we're watching. this could become the next named storm. we'll watch it over the weekend. ernesto will be the next name. jenna: we'll keep an eye on that. jd, thank you. rick: a "fox business alert." it is d-day for the u.s. postal service.

the agency is bracing for the first-ever default on a payment of more than $5 billion leaving americans wondering what it means for our mail? fox business's adam shapiro outside the main post office in new york city with more on this hi, adam. >> reporter: rick, that is the key question, what happens to your mail service? according to the postal service, nothing. as of right now they no disruptions to mail service. there will be no delays to mail service in the immediate future. there is $5.5 billion default. this is a payment postal service delayed from last year due to the u.s. treasury. it is a prepayment on retiree health benefits. they're going to miss that payment today, plus another $5.6 billion payment in september. total, $11 billion. that is what they will default on. at some point they are going to get congressional approval to borrow funds into the pension fund which they overpaid roughly $11 billion. that doesn't get them out of the woods. the postal service is losing $25 million every day.

legislation is tied up in congress would allow them to cut from 550,000 employees down to 325,000 employees and eliminate saturday service. that is part of big cost-cutting moves. that $5.5 billion is the headline and they're defaulting today on that. rick? rick: adam shapiro live from new york city. adam, thanks. jenna: new reaction to the latest report on "fast and furious". the weapons from the botched gun tracking operation ended up in hands of drug cartels. some of them used in deadly crimes including the murder of one of our border agents. republican lawmakers in the first of three reports blaming the operation on five members of the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms or atf as we refer to it. now as we're waiting for the final reports, and an additional two, the justice department is responding to the first one. that's why we have today with us republican senator charles grassley of iowa, ranking member of the senate judiciary committee and one of the report's authors. nice to have you with us

today. >> thank you very much, jenna. jenna: the justice department has this to say about your report. they say it reeights many distortions and now debunked conspiracy theories. what is your reaction to that? >> my reaction is when they were asked why they were doing this investigation they didn't give us credit of doing our constitutional job overseeing that laws are faithfully executed and we raised questions about when guns are sold illegally and the justice department said they ought to be sold illegally, their response to us is we got in one report here, holding people responsible where previously they always accused of us doing it for political reasons, to make the white house look bad or the justice department look bad. they even accused us of doing it, being, racial indications about it. but here's where we are. we laid out in one document all the facts where, people can't hide, holding the

agencies responsible, and it shows that the fbi was not talking to the atf and they're all in the justice department. the drug enforcement administration and the justice department was given the ata, the atf, all the facts that they needed and all the information and atf wasn't paying any attention to it. so atf was kind of acting like the fireman when they had this gun-running, a fireman that was would start a fire because he wanted to put it out and the fire got away from him. that's why we had these murders. jenna: so the justice department says as your report reiterates what they have been saying the origins are in atf, they're in arizona and these five individuals have been dealt with because they have been reassigned. is that enough? what would you like to see come of that? >> well, yeah, you know, there's people higher up than these people that are involved over this. it is pretty hard for us to guaranty that statement. but here's what they reassigned people so they

don't have to talk to those of us in congress and respond to our subpoenas an all that sort of stuff. but, here's the fact. what i want to see is your question. i want to see the people that were responsible for this to be fired because if heads don't roll in washington nothing changes. jenna: so, let's go to that a little bit how you define success in this investigation and how you know when you're done with it, that you concluded all the things that need to be explored. is it simply, and i don't mean simply, but is it resignation of these five atf officials would that do it? is it the resignation of eric holder? what defines success as you're going through this investigation that already has spanned over a year and a half? >> three things. one who at the highest level of the justice department approved this? because these people down in arizona are somewhat scapegoats. number two, we got to get all the information to the brian terry family about his murder and they don't have

any information yet. and three, we've got to make sure a stupid program like this never happens in the future. jenna: senator grassley, we look forward to having you back when we get those two other reports we expect in the next several weeks. thank you again for your time, sir. >> thank you, jenna, coming up after a quick break, some brand new information for you on an international flight diverted to boston. the very common item that sparked the scare plus what happened to the plane. we're live live with that story. check this out, a camper in a swimming pool. how did it get there? even more important, how are they going to get it out? that's coming up.

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jenna: new next hour, some controversial mandates go into effect today. one of them requiring insurance companies across the country to offer free contraception to women. we're going to talk a little bit about this next hour. plus brain training for olympic athletes. why the top olympic

volleyballs stars got a little therapy. they said it was almost like marriage counseling before they headed out to the summer games. their doctor joins us with his tips. >> killer bees attacks are on the rise. are they heading to your neighborhood? what do you do when you see a swarm of bees anyway? what is the right thing to do? we're going to tell you coming up next hour. rick: this just in. a camper crashes through a fence and right into a backyard swimming pool. we're told the driver was rescued. we don't know anything about his condition right now. this rv about the size of the entire pool. you will see in the video the crews are calling for a crane to help them pull the camper out of the water. but as you can see, they have their work cut out for them. we wish them a lot of luck. we'll keep you posted on that. jenna: just a quick fox news alert. we want to show you where the president is today. he is making remarks in mansfield, ohio. this is one of his trips along the campaign trail today. he is out there in mansfield, central park giving address

to some locals there. if you would like to follow the president and watch his remarks, you can do so at foxnews.com. some new information on a security scare in the air. it happened onboard a united airlines flight heading from newark, you in jersey, to switzerland. the crew finding a camera in ran unoccupied seat and the tsa diverted the plane to boston because of all this. rick leventhal live in our new york city newsroom with more. rick, what about this camera? >> reporter: it turned out to be harmless t was just a camera. apparently forgotten by a passenger on previous flight. in our post 9/11 world, a simple handheld device can have sinister uses. counselter terrorism authorities say cameras canning used for triggers for bombs or explosive devices. two hours after taking off from newark to geneva, switzerland, a united airlines attendant notifies pilots finding a camera in a airsick bag and

no one claimed it. the pilots made an call to air traffic control, prompting one controller said i can't delay him. he has a big problem. i have to get him here quick. that is the when operation noble eagle kicked into action. fighter pilots from the massachusetts air national guard escorted the plane to boston's logan airport out of up dance of caution. during the emergency the fighter jet hat an emergency of its own losing avionics. the all the passengers had to leave the stuff back on board, get rescreened and the it was checked out by bomb techs and the flight is heading out to geneva today. jenna: a lot of weird things have been happening in the air as of late, rick. i know you cover ad few of these stories. the one recently about a needle in a sandwich. is there another incident? >> reporter: there were needles then and there is another needle now. it is not clear if it is connected or a copy cat. you remember six needles were found in turkey

sandwiches on delta flight from amsterdam last month. another needle was found by a passenger on a air canada flight from victoria, british columbia kra to toronto. they said it was a sewing needle. they're interviewing people that had access to delta sandwiches and now another sandwich is added to the investigation. jenna: who knew so many people were sewing? a big hobby out there, rick? >> reporter: maybe they're not sewing and putting them in sand witch. >> a road trip we need to do this summer. rest of us anyway. rick, thank you very much. >> reporter: you're welcome. rick: coming up potentially some new hope for troubled teenagers with so many young people dealing with depression, getting help can be tough. a brand new videogame is being developed that some say could help teens feel better. we'll talk about that. a wild scene as a man gets dragged for miles. his terrifying 911 call just released.

jenna: quite some news coming out of london on eight olympic athletes expelled for trying to lose in order to try to win. here's the situation. the female badminton doubles players from indonesia, south korea and china, disqualified from the olympics. they're accused of trying to lose matches, throw those matches last night, in order to receive a more favorable placing in the playoffs. south korea appealed the decision. that was rejected. indonesian team was planning to appeal as well but with drew its challenge. badminton drama in the olympics today. rick: all right. now let's talk billion a new

tool that could help teenagers who are coping with depression. a lot of young people suffering from depression. but they complain traditional counseling is boring. some places it is hard to find. so a team of mental health experts has gotten together with videogame developers overseas coming up with a new role playing game they say will help teenagers banish in the blues. dr. keith ablow, a psychiatrist and a member of the fox news medical a-team. >> thank you. rick: this caught our attention, because post-aurora, and post-tucson, where we see these young people, i'm not going to make a diagnosis but clearly they're dealing with some mental health issues. if there is a video game that could potentially reach them and help them, others like them at a younger age, sound like something that could be very worthwhile, right? >> sounds that way but here's the problem. it is not getting to the root of the why, why are these young people depressed? it is essentially papering

over that saying listen, have an avatar. literally gives you a fake character to shoot lightning bolts at negative thoughts. may distract you or feel better for a week or two. but it is not getting to the roots why your life turned toward darkness. i fear really, videogames, facebook, technology, these are things that weigh on your mental health, to, somehow turn it around and say, no, no to say it is the way out, no. cocaine can get you to feel better from depression until it crashes you into a worst depression. i would compare this to that. rick: the game focus according to the developers on something called cognitive behavioral therapy. what is that? >> cognitive behavioral therapy is basically saying listen, it is not necessarily your mother. it is not necessarily a trauma. simply you have negative thoughts and negative patterns of behaving. you know, habits that get you to feel lower than you need to. so if you can simply reverse

those and instead, when you feel bad, picture yourself shooting a lightning bolt at the bad thought. and get yourself out of that moment. well, sure, i get that. that can be part of the solution, but, if that's going to be your cure, what will happen is that, sooner or later the roots of the depression are going to drag you back down because you further down a path with no insight. insight is the cure for these things. rick: so maybe the videogame is not the answer. insight is the answer. for parents out there who are watching right now, who may be noticing things in their teenage children. >> yes. rick: mood changes, behavioral changes, that they find alarming, what would you say to them? >> i would say look, get a therapist. you know, medicines can be very helpful. psychotherapy can be very helpful. don't turn to the quick, easy fix, hey i will get them a computer game. we'll find out this is the most addictive drug we every

known, these alternate reality shows like second life.com. facebook to a certain extent. hey, i will give you facebook on steroids. you will be an avatar and not depressed in the videogame. wait a second. i am depressed because i can't relate to you as parents. you told me to forget feelings and pretend i don't have them. that would be a prescription for disaster the stay away from this video game. rick: dr. keith ablow, a psychiatrist. a member of the fox news medical a-team. thank you for your insight. jenna, over to you. jenna: turning back to politics. the tea party scoring a big victory in texas last night. ted cruz winning a very high-profile contest for a senate seat. what it means for the rest of the candidates in november just ahead. a bird strike taking a terrifying toll on this plane. how the pilot was able to land safely

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tea party favorite ted cruz beating the establishment republican in a runoff to become the gop senate candidate from the lone star state. what does his victory mean for all the candidates as we look ahead to 2012? rick: also today the very controversial women's health care mandate going into effect, forcing some companies to provide birth control for their employees. the fallout and a fair and balanced debate. jenna: plus, a four-pound bird -- that's all. does all kinds of damage to this very large plane. not quite the miracle on the hudson getting the plane to land, but some very tense moments as pilots try to bring the 151 passengers to safety. we're going to have all those stories for you all new on "happening now." jenna: well, a little tea party energy or maybe a lot helping one candidate cruise to victory in texas. we're glad you're with us, everybody, i'm jenna lee. rick: and i'm rick folbaum in for jon.

ted cruz is a favorite of the tea party, and yesterday cruz racking up a convincing victory in the republican contest to replace outgoing senator kay bailey hutchison. cruz getting lots of help, including endorsements from big-name backers across the country and dedicated volunteers working to get out the vote. >> tonight is a victory for the grassroots. [cheers and applause] it is a testament to republican women, to tea party leaders -- [cheers and applause] and to grassroots conservatives. rick: charlie hurd is a columnist for the washington times. charlie, this wasn't even close. >> no. i mean, not only was this a stunning upset victory, but it was a trouncing, it was a double-digit trouncing which makes it all the more sweeter for the tea party and for ted cruz. you know, every time one of the tea party has a victory like this, you know, the media tends to brush it off as some sort of

fluke or further evidence that the tea party is kind of riding over the cliff with a bunch ofback coes, and, of course, every time they have a loss, the media is quick to write the obituary. but we're talking about a much larger thing here. we're talking about, you know, conservatives have sort of been successful against democrats for a long time in the u.s., and quickly found out, you know, in the last ten years that they've got a bigger problem, and that is in their own house. and they have turned inward, and they have gone after the gop establishment, and they have, they have sort of brought far truer conservative principles back to a lot of quarters of the e republican party. and that is no small feat, and that victory last night is proof that those, that the people that support the tea party candidates, it's alive, it's well, and i suspect we will be seeing evidence of that over the next three months. rick: you mentioned the obituaries being written too early, as it turns out, for the tea party. maybe the correct obituary

should be written for the party establishment within the republican party or party centrists. and we've just gotten word of a centrist from ohio, congressman steven latourette who has announced he's not running for re-election. there he is on the screen there. a very close ally of john boehner's. what's going on with the centrists in the republican party? what does this say about their future? >> i think you're exactly right, rick, and the wrong obituaries -- the obituaries are right, but they just got the name wrong in each of them. what we're seeing here is, you know, and it's so funny to watch the media vilify so many of these tea party people. you know, they do it sort of broadly and not specifically because the truth is a lot of them are just, they just believe in a strict adherence to the constitution, they believe in fiscal conservativism, and so much, you know, so many of these republicans that stay in washington too long, they forget, they forget what they're here for, and they become really

good at compromising. and not just compromising in terms of trying to get deals and make things work, but actually compromising on principles and in a way that everyone here wins, everyone here in washington wins in terms of spending and things like that. but everyone that's paying taxes out in the rest of the country loses. and that's the kind of thing that the tea party and these grass root conservatives are trying to just rip out of washington. and they're doing a very good job of it from, you know, in the most unlikely parts of the country. not just places like texas, but places like florida and ohio. and it's, you know, i think for the gop it's very painful and very concerning in a lot of ways. but i think that the bloodletting in the end is probably going to be a good thing. rick: what's the takeaway for speaker boehner? making a deal last night with harry reid to keep the government up and running for another six months, a lot of tea partiers not happy with that deal. but what do you think is the takeaway here for the speaker as he tries to cobble together some

votes to get stuff passed in the house? >> look, as long as you have people in the legislative bodies trying to sort of cobble together legislation that can actually get this sort of thing, this sort of upheaval is going to be immensely painful. and i don't, i would not want to be john boehner right now as he's trying to sort of cobble together some of this stuff. but i still think that in the end it's a good thing. you know, on the democratic side, you know, you don't see the sort of introspection, you don't see the sort of house cleaning, saying, hey, we're getting away from our principles. they're playing the exact same politics that has sort of deadlocked washington for years, and i think brought about a lot of the problems that, you know, we have in washington today. rick: charlie hurt is a columnist for the washington times. charlie, always good to talk to you. thank you so much. >> thanks, rick. rick: and one of ted cruz's supporters, sarah palin, will join neil cavuto today with her take on the texas runoff

results, and you can catch your world, 4 p.m. eastern time, right here on fnc. jenna: president obama making several stops today in the battleground state of ohio. you can see some of our live shots on the screen of the president there, he just wrapped up his speech in mansfield. then he will visit an air national guard base, one of those bases on the list around the country that could be affected by some of the budget cuts. in the meantime, governor mitt romney is getting ready for another bus tour, two weeks before the republican convention. reviving the political guessing game about when he will announce his running mate. molly henneberg is live in washington with more on this. molly? >> reporter: hi, jenna. when? well, the easy answer is sometime in the next 27 days. now that he's back in the u.s. after his foreign trip, governor mitt romney's expected to announce his running mate before august 27th when the republican national convention starts. so now as you were talking about, jenna, the guessing game goes into overdrive, and here are the names most frequently

mentioned. rob portman, ohio, as you were you saying, is a key battleground state. tim pawlenty. virginia governor bob mcdonnell. new hampshire senator kelly ayotte. marco rubio, bobby jindal and wisconsin congressman paul ryan. romney, though, wasn't tipping his hand in an interview with fox's carl cameron. >> i'm not going to speak about any of the people who might or might not be considered as a vp contender. i've got nothing for you, not even the time frame. [laughter] >> reporter: romney did point to his team's new mobile app, the mitt's vp app, and people who download it, the campaign says, will get an alert on the big announcement day and will be the first to know who romney's running mate will be. well, almost the first to know. governor romney says the actual first person to know the decision will be his wife, ann. he says they talk about the vice presidential process every day. jenna? jenna: speaking as a wife, and i'm biased, i think that's

probably a good decision. >> reporter: yeah, probably good. [laughter] jenna: molly, thank you. rick: i'll second that. jenna: wise of you. [laughter] rick: today marks the first day when a lot of employers around the country are mandated to begin offering contraception coverage to their employees as part of the president's health care law. but some religious institutions not taking this decision very lightly. they're vowing to fight back. chief national correspondent jim angle with their reaction live from washington. hi, jim. >> reporter: hello, there. well, you know, today is a new day, some say, for health care because it now requires that all women's health care, including mammograms, all preventive care, be covered without a co-pay. listen. >> we're here to mark a new day for women's health in america. >> no longer will women go without birth control because they can't afford the co-pay. >> reporter: yes, the mandate includes something catholics reject as government intrusion on religious beliefs, a mandate, the full range of contraceptives

be provided at no cost, including abortion-inducing drugs. >> companies around the country, they have to either comply with it, pay very, very strong, excessive fines or go out of business. >> for the first time in american history, we will have a law that will require employers to violate their consciences and pay for things that are morally objectionable. >> reporter: in fact, a company in colorado sued on that very basis and got an injunction to stop implementation of the law. >> obamacare forces people to choose between two poison pills, either abandon your faith or face these massive fines and government lawsuits. so what the judge ruled in this case is that the interest the government was claiming, quote: pales in comparison, unquote, to the the infringement of the religious freedom of a family. >> reporter: that and 24 other lawsuits argue the mandate violates the constitution and 40 years of laws intended to prevent government from forcing people to violate their religious beliefs. the latest, in 1993, was

championed by democratic senators chuck schumer and teddy kennedy. >> it says that if you substantially burden the free exercise of religion, you have to have of a compelling governmental interest, and there can't be a less restrictive way of doing it. on all of these tests, the federal mandate on contraception fails. >> reporter: now, catholic groups other than churches, even anti-abortion groups, will also be hit with the new mandate and have also sued to block it. today a group of republican lawmakers also introduced a new bill to stop the mandate. back to you, rick. rick: jim angle in washington. jim, thanks. jenna: a midair mishap causes a huge tear in the nose of a united airlines -- rick: big. jenna: a tear? rick: look at that. that's from a bird? jenna: this is from a bird. what caused this big gap? we obviously already answered -- rick: oh, i gave it away. jenna: we've been teasing it all hour. how the pilot, though, managed to land safely and bring all the

passengers back down to earth. rick: speaking of birds, jenna, bird on a wire, why is london's mayor -- there he is -- dangling in midair? jenna: an excellent question. rick: i'd like to know too. stick around, a publicity stunt gone pretty wrong. the high drama coming up next. are you receiving a payout from a legal settlement or annuity over 10 or even 20 years? call imperial structured settlements. the experts at imperial can convert your long-term payout into a lump sum of cash today.

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jenna: well, right now some international stories we're following for you on "happening now." a typhoon in the philippines triggering some massive flooding and forcing the u.s. embassy in manila to close down. the water's waist deep in some areas, the deadly storm has left at least ten people dead. in the meantime, hundreds lining up in athens, greece, to receive free food from the far right golden dawn political party, but everyone in line had to prove they were greek to get the assistance. golden dawn in the past has been accused of carrying out violence

against certain ethnic minorities and is compared to, at times a neonazi group. the party denies that, but this is what they're doing right now in greece. and it may be a while, call it a hunch, before london's mayor goes zip lining again. boris johnson got stuck on the zip wire. he was seen just dangling midair over london's victoria park. what do you say to the mayor when you get him stuck up there? rick: how's the weather? jenna: that's right. his spokesperson says he's doing fine. a little embarrassed maybe. rick: probably. jenna: yeah. [laughter] rick: a midair scare for united airlines passengers after their plane collides with a bird creating a gaping hole in the aircraft and some very tense moments for everybody onboard. harris has been following from from new york city. what do you know, harris? >> reporter: well, a united airlines plane about to land at descrern international airport hit a bird, and coming into fox

news, pictures of a pretty impressive hole in that plane. the boeing 737 has a big hole in its nose, as you can see, and that doesn't even do it justice because if you can imagine how big that plane is, that's like several feet across. emergency crews going to the tarmac to escort that plane to the gate when the pilot managed to land it safely. 151 passengers onboard, they were coming from the dallas/fort worth international airport to denver. bird strikes happen from time to time, you know this. sometimes they can cause some pretty dangerous situations. today's gaping hole in that united airlines plane reminding all of us of the miracle on the hudson. remember that? landing on the hudson river on that cold january day three years ago. the plane, as you know, was disabled by a flock of canada geese. nothing that serious with today's bird strike, thankfully. another skilled pilot at the wheel. rick: here here. let's hear it for the pilot.

>> reporter: yes! rick: thank you, harris. jenna: dramatic new testimony in the drew peterson murder trial. the former cop accused of murdering his third why. a second day of testimony, that's the latest. we have the fight the prosecutors have over a key piece of evidence and whether or not they're going to be allowed to use it. every bit counts in this case. our legal panel's going to weigh in coming up. rick: plus, a gruesome discovery right near the hollywood sign. the human head found in l.a. what police are saying about a terrifying crime and the big reward that they're offering.

rick: day two of testimony now underway in the drew peterson murder trial, peterson is the former police officer charged with murdering his third wife. he's also the prime suspect in the disappearance of his fourth

wife, stacy. he has not been charged in that, and she's not been found. so far the jury has heard testimony from kathleen saab owe's neighbors, including the one who discovered her lifeless body in a dry bathtub back in the 2004 after peterson's lawyer turned his attention on the victim calling kathleen savio an angry woman. nice to see our panelists, p.r., the testimony from the neighbors about the state of the body in the bathtub, they went upstairs. the door had been locked, so drew peterson went to the neighbor's house to get the key, and they all went upstairs and found the body together. afterwards he was alone in the room with one of the neighbors who testified on the stand that drew peterson then made a phone call. after finding his wife -- and they were in the middle of a divorce -- after finding the body he makes a phone call and says to whoever he's talking to, people are going to think that i

did this. talk to me about that. >> well, i don't think we can really read anything either way. i mean, his position all along, and he's been very clear, is that people were going to think he did it, and they were going to look to him. he's almost been a little wit cavalier -- bit cavalier about it. the state has a very hard case. first of all, they're in the unusual situation where they actually have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that savio was murdered, so air got to get around and over the original coroner's report that ruled it an accident. second of all, there is no direct or physical evidence linking peterson to her home on the day of her death. so they're going to really have a much harder time in my mind than whether he called somebody and they thought he they were gg to link him to it or not. rick: i don't know, the mother of your children, your first response or one of the first things you say, joey, is people are going to think that i was responsible for this. does it sound like an innocent guy talking on the phone? >> oh, absolutely not, and the prosecution certainly, rick, is

going to play that up as suggestive of someone who is far from innocent here. there are four things the prosecution is going to do here. one, of course, is they have to show it was a death. as we all know, the initial ruling was that it was an accident. that is going to be overcome by expert testimony. it's going to be overcome by dr. baden and dr. bloom. the other things they're going to have to show, motive, means and opportunity. motivation, what would motivate him? as we all know, they were in the middle of a very contentious divorce proceeding. yes, the divorce had concluded, however, they were getting to the asset portion of it. he faced losing significant money, ownership in a bar, the money that comes along with that, his pension. when we talk about the other thing in terms of means, he's a former police officer. he's a guy who can stage a crime scene and knowing what the police would be looking for when they got there. and finally, when you look at the opportunity, who knows the mo, the modus operandi, of his wife better than him? when she would be home? he had the children, how to gain

access, how the layout of that home is structured. i think that the prosecution is going to focus on that big time here, and they are going to use evidence that you suggested just a moment ago -- >> joey -- rick: go ahead. >> the problem with all of that is it's simply suspicion. and you're right, a lot of people think that his behavior was suspicious, but suspicious doesn't get to the burden of beyond a reasonable doubt. rick: no, but prosecutors get convictions -- pilar, sorry to interrupt, but prosecutors get convictions all the time based on circumstantial cases. >> oh, absolutely they can. it makes them a much harder case is what i'm saying. i don't think anybody out there could say this case is a slam dunk. >> no, pilar, absolutely. you're right, it's not a slam dunk at all. but circumstantially, things begin to mount, and when you start focusing on the collect, you know, all the collective evidence, it wasn't an accident, and i think there'll be experts here when they exhume the body who tested it, world renowned experts, who will suggest that it wasn't.

and if anybody was in a position to -- >> well, joey, it's interesting you mention that, though, because this is what the defense is going to show. they're going to say that who was in a better position to determine the cause of death than the first pathologist who examined her body within a day of her death, not three years after when the body had been exhumed. if you read both autopsy reports, the first one is actually much more complete, and in the second autopsy dr. baden acknowledges that the body was in poor condition. so i think you're right, it's going to come down to medical experts, but the jury's going to have to weigh both of them. one closer in the time and one three years later. rick: joey, one last word. he's on trial for killing his third wife, his fourth wife is still missing, and folks are thinking this guy might actually get off, could that happen? >> to be fair, it could happen. we're in a csi miami type environment. people want hoard core, physical evidence. they want to know what did the

crime scene show? are there things which would be suggestive that he actually did it? and if you only have circumstantial evidence, a jury may pause and say i need more. while i do believe circumstantial evidence is there that can have a jury convict, it is a burden that the prosecution has to overcome to secure that conviction. rick: joey jackson, pilar prince, nice to talk to you. >> thank you. jenna: well, some controversial provisions of the new health care law sparking more conversations today because today is the day a series of new health care services, including birth control, start being available to women without them paying more out of pocket. what you should know about this today, what this means for our families and for health care in this country, next. the medicare debate continues in washington... ...more talk on social security... ...but washington isn't talking to the american people. [ female announcer ] when it comes to the future of medicare and social security, you've earned the right to know. ♪ ...so what does it mean for you and your family?

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jenna: well, beginning today some key provisions of the health care overhaul go into effect, mostly for women. many women will now get free preventive screenings, free counseling on preventing sexually-transmitted diseases, most women will get access to contraception and also coming as well for pregnant women or women that are postpartum, for example, they're going to have access for counseling and equipment needed for breast-feeding, all of that for free when they go to their doctor's office. judy waxman is with the national women's law center and sally pipes is president and ceo for pacific research institute. nice to have you both with us

today. >> thank you. >> nice to be here. jenna: judy, you worked on this law, you gave some input into it. just tell us how this is actually applied. today if someone wants to go to their doctor and wants to get birth control, for example, do they just automatically get it for free? >> no. first of all, none of it is for free. the new services for women that plans will have to cover will be rolled out. so starting today as the health insurance from your company renews or becomes a new plan, at that point then you will be able to obtain preventive health services, eight new services without an extra co-pay. meaning that you don't have to pay extra the day you receive the service. jenna: so your insurance company pays for it still, that's why it's not free, but you just don't have to offer the additional co-pay, do i have that right? >> that is correct. jenna: okay, i just wanted to

make sure. sally, what do you see the effect of this being? >> i think it's going to add to the cost of health care. the cbo has said the free services which came into effect in september 2011 and now today's law going into effect, i think it's going to push the cost of health care up. and, um, i think that's bad. it's bad for business. we're in a recession. we want employers to have the flexibility to provide the kind of health care that they think is best for their employees. and this mandate, i think, is moving away from that. and one wonders what will the ultimate impact be of this federal law on adding additional mandates to control what insurance companies have to offer in the plans and what companies have to cover. jenna: judy, on that point because it goes back to cost, what sally just said, that somebody is paying it. even though we may not have a co-pay for it. so what concerns -- >> yes, but -- jenna: -- do you have about just coverage in general and access to different services if costs

may go up to cover what the patients don't? is. >> well, preventive services are something that the american public has wanted for a long time. instead of having our health care system just treat sick people when they get sick, the point of this is to help people stay healthy and lower costs because their services they'll need if something is found early will be less expensive in the future. we're trying to make our health care system about health, not about being sick. jenna: judy, if i could, if something is free and there's no co-pay for that, does it automatically mean that people will actually use some of the preventive offerings? >> well, that's the point. the scientists that came up with this list feel that these are the kind of services that women should take advantage of because they will be healthier and have healthy families and be able to keep their families healthier if they take the services up.

so any payment up front is a deterrent to taking up these services. there are many studies -- jenna: well, and if i could, let me get sally in on this. sally, is there a comparable list for men so there is preventive services out there because of the health care law where men don't have to offer a co-pay, and they get some services that they didn't previously have? >> well, under the law, as i mentioned back in september '11, there are a number of things that are covered under preventive services including free prostate, the ps -- the prostate test, psa test for men. but i think the issue is what is going to be the demand. because i think -- i'm canadian, i grew up under government-run health care. the government had no idea what the demand for health care would be when people thought it was free. and then, of course, they had to set a global budget which resulted in denied care and lack of access to the latest technology. i'm very free under this free -- very concerned under this free

preventive services there's going to be a tremendous demand, and it's going to cause insurance companies to really think how are we going to stay in business to provide these services when the costs are completely out of control? jenna: one of those things that we're going to have to wait for a little bit to see what the effect is going to be as this is rolled out. it's one of the reasons we wanted to talk about it today, because today is the day the health d. says this is where things start to change. nice to have you both with us. rick: new surveillance video showing a bizarre scene in upstate new york, a man getting dragged by a pickup truck for miles after a fight with the driver. harris has the details. >> reporter: this one playing out in a store parking lot. two guys getting into a fight, an argument maybe over a woman police say. the driver, seth scuds, proceeds to leave the scene when apparently robert decides to hang on to the back of the truck. see? lots of surveillance video on this one. troy police saying the crime started there because scuds

should never have driven away when he knew there was somebody clinging to his vehicle. and robert was dragged for miles and miles, sometimes speeds up to 40 miles per hour. oddly, he manages to call 911 while he's hanging on. in,. >> you got hit by a truck? >> i'm hanging on to the back of a white truck. holy, holy -- >> reporter: wow. they had to use the bleep machine on that too. okay, police say it may have happened over a woman. prescription drugs may have play

add role. the guy who got dragged got hurt, cuts, bruises, and the driver now charged with assault because during the dragging police say he was throwing things from inside the truck and hit robert in the head. you can't make this part up. one of the things he threw was a brick. who carries a brick in their car? anyway, seth scuds, the driver, was just arraigned in court, is now out on $7500 bail, and he's due back in court this friday. rick? rick: don't quite know what to say about that, harris. thank you. [laughter] jenna: an update on a gruesome discovery in los angeles. police offering a $50,000 reward for information about the murder of a man, and you'll probably remember this story because this man, his severed head was found in a plastic bag near the hollywood sign back in january. the victim, now identified as 66-year-old herbie coronado, his hands and feet were found a day later by police dogs. authorities determined to find

out what happened to him. >> this is what the council does, take any advice from the detectives. they come forth and say, please, issue a request for a reward. and hopefully, something will come up. because it was a horrible crime. and if this person is out and did such a crime, they would more than likely do this again. jenna: well, neighbors say the 66-year-old man had a roommate and that a few day before this discovery they heard a commotion, some sort of commotion inside that apartment. if you have any information relating to this case, call the police tipline, 877-581-9247. rick: all kinds of stories. all right, they're olympic champions. kerri walsh jennings and misty may-treanor, as close as a married couple could be, when they're competing in beach volleyball, of course. but could coming help them win another gold? we'll talk about. plus, new information off an apparent shark attack off cape cod in massachusetts. why the sharks are coming closer to shore, we've got that for

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to go the distance with you. call now to request your free decision guide. this easy-to-understand guide will answer some of your questions, and help you find the aarp medicare supplement plan that's right for you. rick: we've got new information on a story we told you yesterday, so we want to update you on shark experts for the state of massachusetts who were saying that a man bitten in the waters off cape cod was probably attacked by a great white shark. and if that is the case, it would be the first such attack in the state in 76 years. >> injuries characterized to us, you know, by the eyewitnesses on the scene and also the species that occur in the area, the presence in the area, all this add up to the white shark being the most likely candidate. also, you know, given what we know about the other species in the area, it's not likely to be

a may coe, a blue or any of those other local sharks. rick: that same expert saying that a recent shift in the location of the shark population bringing more sharks closer to shore made the attack possible. the man who was attacked, by the way, is recovering at a hospital after surgery for deep wounds to his legs. jenna: well, now to the olympics. athletes depend on something more than just training and talent, although that certainly is a big part of things, isn't it? they have to stay mentally tough. take, for instance, kerri jennings and misty may-treanor. they've been playing together for years, they've been so successful. but before the games began they decided they needed a little help, a little psychological help. what they scribe -- describe as sort of marriage counseling. and the man who did that marriage counseling, so to say, we'll see if he'll describe it that way, the director of high performance psychology at the disc sports and spine center in

los angeles. doctor, nice to have you with us. >> jenna, it's great to be here with you, thank you. jenna: so why did misty may and kerri need your help? >> you know, it's exciting to talk about human potential. and they are dominant in what they do. they're the best in the world. and when we reach a place where we're consistently the best, one of the toughest things to do is winning after winning. now, this is their third go at beach, and the first motivation is easy, to win the first time, you know, we can be very clear with what we're hungry about. but this third opportunity things changed. jenna: sure. >> and so kerri has children, and misty has, you know, changed her lifestyle as well. so it was just a matter of fine tuning and getting them into a lock step so they're completely synced. and this was not marriage counseling -- [laughter] this is very gritty, high stakes training. jenna: okay -- >> taking a look at the mindset. jenna: yeah, we're talking about

this. we're seeing pictures, they've never lost an olympic match, they're going for their third gold medal, but they talked about the fact that they said they needed to reconnect, and that's how that comparison to marriage counseling, one of them said i have my partner on the volleyball court, and i also have my husband. so what exactly did you do in a session to help them reconnect and be their best? >> sure. the mental side of the game, it's difficult to develop because it's invisible. and one of the things that we spend a lot of time doing, and this is what's unique about sports psychology, is that we spend time to articulate very clearly what it is that they're working toward and how they want to do it. so we take those two variables, we get them very clear, and then, you know, what ended up taking place, i knew we were into something very special when the two of them looked at each other, and they just nodded. and this was toward the end of our work, and there was this very silent but powerful nod. nothing else needed to be said.

they knew they were completely connect with the the work they wanted to do. jenna: that's so fascinating. we're going to be watching them closely. they're not your only clients, you also talk to high stakes nba players, and one of the things i think all of us look at when we're watching the olympic games is the pressure that these athletes are under. they have the entire world watching them. just real quick, can you give us a little free advice on how to handle pressure like that whether or not we're in the olympics or otherwise? >> absolutely. so pressure, there's a great quote. if you think there's pressure, you're right. and so the first idea about pressure is that we have to interpret the experience as being too intense, too big for our capabilities. and that's where pressure comes from. so as a definition pressure is feeling as though you need to move faster than you normally do and being able to think faster. so the way that we dissolve pressure is by first training hard, dill gent, focused, very intense training both physically

and mentally. the second is to be able to trust that training, and that really comes down to managing high-performing mindset, being very clear on what you speak and how you speak to yourself. because that is really what determines pressure. jenna: i feel -- >> if you can get yourself into a place where it's very calm and very focused, you'll perform well under pressure. we all will. jenna: i feel better already, actually. rick, do you feel better? he feels better. we're on live television. there's a little bit of pressure. you can send the bill to rick, by the way. nice to have you with us today, very fascinating to listen to some of the therapy, the psychology behind some of these athletes, we really appreciate it. >> these are exciting times, and we're really excited to see what these athletes are going to do, and this is what is amazing about the olympics and our u.s. team. jenna: you're absolutely right. dr. gervais, thank you so much. rick: by the way, beach volleyball? we've been watching, my 7-year-old -- jenna: nonstop.

rick: we love the beach volleyball. jenna: apparently, they needed a little extra time together, and it's doing pretty good. we're going to root for them. rick: speaking of marriage, a couple divorced for almost 50 years taking a second chance at love. lena henderson and roland dais are ready to give it another go at the age of 58. take a look at -- 85. take a look at this. jenna: why not? >> they met when they were teenagers, they got married in 1954 and davis remarried when his second wife died several months ago, he got back in the touch with henderson and popped the question. she said, yes. the happy couple plans to be remarried this weekend in buffalo -- jenna: well, that's very sweet. rick: we wish them all the best. jenna: second chance at love. never too late. good message. lots of good vibes coming out of this block of news finally. thank you. [laughter] well, exclusive new information about the spending scandal at the gsa. turns out a lot of those conferences that we've talked so much about and this hot tub

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rick: right now some growing concern over a tax -- by attacks by so-called killer bees. on monday in phoenix three people, including two children, were attacked by africanized bees, and nearby a swarm attacked three dogs. one of the dogs died. last week in california bees attacking two people in a garden. the man suffered 80 stings, the woman 100 stings.

and in texas an aggressive swarm attacked a landscaper, stinging the man dozens of time and killing four dogs. back in 1990 the bees' habitat was limited to the very southern tip of texas. but check out 2009, a dramatic increase in their range moving further north and into the southwest and the southeast. dr. eric musson is a honeybee expert, and why are they migrating so far from where they used to be? >> the anticipation was that the africanized bees eventually would make what you and i would call kind of a smiley face across the country with about the southern third of the country having them and then on both sides going further up the coast. rick: what does it mean africanized? obviously, not all of these piece are as dangerous as the

ones we cited in the introduction. how does a bee become africanized? >> well, africanized bees are the result of an experiment where they took a european race of them, combined it with a african race, and the whole idea was in brazil to get the temp rate climate bees, the ones that we keep, out of the hammock drinking lemonade out into the food that was abundant there and make a honey crop. and they weren't doing very well. so the hybrid was put together so see if they could increase honey production and, hopefully, they would mel how low out -- mellow out a little bit. the problem is, they did get more honey, but the hybrid vigor, if you want to call it that, brought out a real, real strong defensive behavior. rick: so how do we tell the difference? what should people be on the lookout for if they're having lemonade on their hammock and they see some bees? when do you know you've got a real problem on your hands?

>> well, the unfortunate thing is that africanized honeybees and european honeybees look so similar that you can't tell them apart, and quite a bit of the time even the africanized bees aren't that hard to deal with. but occasionally, particularly if for whatever reason they become defensive, they can become extremely defensive and sting many, many, many more times than a european honey colony would. rick: real quickly, we saw the maps from over a ten-year span. do you expect this problem to get worse in the coming years as well? >> well, the increasing expansion is going to continue, some people have said they'll get all the way to canada. i don't know that there's anything to stop them, but i don't believe it's going to be that bad. i think they're just going to sort of fill out that happy face i talked about before. rick: dr. musen, thank you very much or for your expertise. >> you're very welcome. jenna: well, she's put anything times in the pool faster than

some of america's male olympic stars. a 16-year-old chinese swimmer who's already won two medals. the question her story's raising about doping allegations and the sometimes-brutal training that chinese athletes go there -- go through. a party?

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jenna: not even the thrill of victory is out of the tax man's reach. young women who took home the gold in gymnastics could get a visit from the irs. according to the tax forms, any prize money and the metal value is taxable. you have to remember, they earned a great deal of money already. jon: but with their endorsements they will find themselves in our bracket, won't they?

megyn: a high octane money contest. welcome to "america live." i imagine kelly. election 2012 is expected to be the costliest race in our history. today, there are new signs of the obama campaign, being concerned about the cast and scoffer. in last 24 hours we got a report that the president himself has donated to his own campaign and has even released a new video that shows the supporters how they can do the same. watch this. >> everybody should know that i really care about this campaign. and i believe and what our administration is doing and i want to make sure that folks know that i'm not just talking the talk, i am walking the walk. we depend on $5, $10, $20 donations. we don't get some of the massive tax to the other side and what they get.

we are america for the united states of america. and my occupation is president. megyn: chris stirewalt is our politics editor and host of power-play on fox news.com. you do have to laugh. it was a cleverly done piece. and i would like to get to that in a minute. but i'd like to start by putting this into perspective. your power-play column reported yesterday on how the president's team had added be my ticket fundraiser to his calendar after the democratic national convention. that by itself is a highly unusual move. now, the president takes to this video to try to show people how to get online and donate to him. what is going on here? >> they are desperate for money. they need a lot of money and they need it now. the fundraising that they thought they were going to get, the thought that they were going to receive come individual