weekend. jenna: right now we have brand new stories and breaking news. what exactly is north korea hiding we'll dive into concerns what are the real motives of the nuclear-armed regime? a case before the supreme court concerning your genetic makeup a showdown over ownership rights of the human body. a manhunt is on for this notorious criminal following a dramatic jailbreak. it is all "happening now." jenna: but first the big news of the day, nuclear armed north korea so far refeigning from launching a missile. how long will that hold? i'm jenna lee. good to be with you. rick: i'm rick folbaum in for jon scott. it is tuesday in north korea.

the country beginning a final day of two-day celebration for the founder of north korea kim il-sung. he is grandfather of the current dictator, kim jong-un. he is threatened attacks on america before leaving the region to head back to the u.s., secretary of state hillary clinton saying that the obama administration would be open to talk with the north if it began to abandon its nuclear program. national security correspondent jennifer griffin live from the pentagon. how significant is secretary kerry's offer for these one-on-one talks with north korea? >> reporter: it is certainly a change in tone since you saw the pentagon sending b-2 bombers and b-52 bombers to korea as part of the exercises. it is a change in tone. if you listen to the caveats north korea will give up the nuclear program and die chruk nearize. -- denuclearize.

what is interesting on saturday he was in china. he did not get the public, he did not get the public statement that he was looking for from china to tell north korea to back down from this missile test but it is not clear that china did not send a private message to the north korean leader there has been no missile test on the first day of the celebrations. here is secretary kerry in tokyo. >> we are committed to take action together, we, japan, the united states and the other countries that are i have met with in the last two days, are committed to make that goal of denuclearization a reality. >> reporter: so secretary kerry using a little bit of a carrot and a stick approach. again there is 24 hours left of these celebrations in pongyang so it's not clear that the missile threat has ended. rick: so the view of the state department from secretary kerry. what about at the pentagon, jennifer? do folks there think the threat from north korea is over?

>> reporter: well again the pentagon is in watch and wait mode. they have the aegis, the destroyers with the aegis missile radar, anti-missile radar on board. they have all eyes on north korea still. there is no sense of relief as of yet but there is a sense that this young leader is very unpredictable and maybe we'll get through these next two days with no missile tests. what is interesting the north koreans put out this propaganda video over the weekend showing four locations in the u.s. that would be blown up by their missiles. when they tried to show colorado springs, of course the location of norad and, u.s., many of the u.s. northcom, they showed arkansas instead. so it is not clear if the north koreans even have a good map of the united states at this point, rick. rick: jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. jennifer, thank you very much. in a few minutes we'll explore north korea's

motives as a nuclear-armed state. secretary kerry says the u.s. is open to talk if pongyong begins to dismantle the nuclear program but has the administration reached a point of no return? we'll talk about that with a couple expert straight ahead. jenna: a signs that bipartisan group of senators known as the "gang of 8" could introduced comprehensive legislation as earlier as this week. the lawmakers working on the hot button issue already defending their proposed overhaul. critics charge it would give those who came here illegally amnesty and negatively impact the u.s. jobs market. doug mckelway is live on capitol hill with more on this. doug? >> reporter: one of the concerns republican haves is border security. republicans say the bill all likelihood going to be unveiled tomorrow has a trigger in it. the department of homeland security has to have 100% observation, 100% surveillance of the border and 90% apprehension of anybody who tries to cross the border illegally. that has to be certified by

the department of homeland security before 11 million illegals, a decade from now, can begin to apply for green cards. who hear is the republican point man on the gang of eight, speaking on "fox news sunday" yesterday, senator marco rubio of florida. >> if at five-year mark they have not achieved 90%, 100% theys lose the issue to the border commission who will have money set aside to get to do the job to that number. >> reporter: chris wallace said whether or not this is really a trigger rubio suggested it is or is it some vague recommendation? here is senator durbin. >> every republican at the table said we have got to start with border security and get that right stick around to the rest of the conversation. i think we kept faith on that issue. >> reporter: based on the statement from durbin, vaguely worded as it was, it appears the "gang of 8" is all set to unveil perhaps early as tomorrow and

support the comprehensive immigration reform plan for 11 million illegals in this country right now. jenna: we heard a little bit from marco rubio, on all the big sunday shows coming out ahead of what could be a finally a view on this legislation there is still significant republican opposition. tell us a little bit what is happening within the party. >> reporter: there is significant opposition, especially among the most conservative wing of the republican party. senator jeff sessions is really concerned that this granting of citizenship ultimately to 11 million people will really hurt blue-collar workers in the united states. here he is speaking on this week yesterday. >> i think the public interest is to figure out how we can deal with the crisis we face. how we can have a lawful system that service the national interest without hammering the civil rights commission members have said the average low-income workers, the african-american and hispanic worker that's here. >> reporter: senator rubio goes to great pains tosy this is not amnesty for

illegals. there will be penalties involved, fines involved for people in the country illegally. they also have to pay taxes which is something they presently do not do. there will also be e-verify think biwhich employers hire nibble legal or with a green card or granted citizenship has to verify their citizenship through the database. jenna: a lot to do on this bill. doug, thanks very much. >> reporter: sure. rick: it comes exactly on one day a year, tax day. most of us do not look forward to it. in fact this year is the 100th anniversary of the federal income tax. it takes the average american 13 hours to comply with the tax code each year including filling out those forms, gathering up all the receipts and the paperwork this year the irs is expected to deal with more than 140 million personal tax filings. chief washington correspondent james rosen

joins us now. james, we'll presume you paid your taxes gotten in on time. talk to us about the nation's most prominent taxpayers, the president and the vice president, what them? >> reporter: rick is a little-known fact because i donated to the significant sownian a damaged capsule that hurt he willed me to from krypton to small farm in small veil i don't personally pay taxes. the nation's chief executive earned $800,000 last year. that is down from his earnings the year before. mr. obama paid a lower effective tax rate, 18.4%, compared to 20.5% the year before. the bidens paid effective tax rate of 1.4%. as it happens tax day arrives this year amid faint signs of possible compromise on capitol hill on never ending epic and epic fails over taxes and spending. >> would you, consider, excuse me, a grand bargain with serious entightment

reform, more serious than the president has offered so far if the cost of that is you get more taxes through limiting deductions? >> well, i don't view it that way. i view it as economic growth. my goal is to get the economy to grow robustly because that is the only way to of so our problem. i'm a believer we can't cut our way out of this and i'm a believer that we can't tax our way out of this. >> reporter: those tax-filers who have no health insurance should find out whether they will receive a government subsidy to purchase coverage under obamacare. rick: you're mother called. she is upset with the tall tale i told at the top of the report. the obama as donated a quart of they're income to charity which i thought was pretty significant. let me ask you. we know most americans don't like paying taxes. any data to suggest specifically what we don't like most about it? >> reporter: the latest poll, rick, the "fox news poll", registered voters conducted three weeks ago americans are mostly fired up about

what uncle sam does with the money. 43% as you can see on your screen. another 38% cited people not paying their share. that appeared to be the prime beef of labor leader richard trumka from the afl-cio he spoke via conference call with a fox news producer. my mother who has now passed, lived on half of a mine worker's pension, social security and some meager savings. she paid a higher rate than people taking home a couple hundred million dollars a day. now i'm sure your network thinks that is okay but we don't. we think that it is improper. we think it is wrong and we think those at the top should pay more are the report follow me on twitter at james rosen fnc i will tell you the city the irs identified as places boasting the highest and lowest chances of sole operators there are cheating on taxes. here is a hint. it not "smallville". rick: we always knew you were from another planet. james rosen in washington.

>> reporter: thank you. jenna: he spent nearly three decades living in the with virtually no contact with other people. police say he could be responsible for more than 1000 burglaries but apparently he can still attract the ladies, rick. what one woman is offering to help the man. rick: it is the glasses. jenna: a lot of handsome men have glasses. must be something else. what is taking effect today and what key lawmakers are saying about efforts to expand background checks. an important story you don't want to miss just ahead. ♪ (train horn)

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jenna: right now some crime stories we're following for you today including this one out of texas. prosecutors are opening their case against a violent drug cartel today, accusing the brother of two of the cartel top leaders buying race horses as a way to launder drug money and hide the profits. we'll keep you posted on

that. to maine, the man who spent three decade living in the woods as a hermit before a high-profile arrest on a string of burglaries. he just got a marriage proposal. that's right. and another person offered to bail him out of jail. he has friends of the not a merm empty at all. amanda knox said she was sexually harassed four for years in prison before being cleared of the her murder of her roommate meredith kircher. her book details the glaring errors and police work according to amanda knox and forensic evidence in the case against her. rick: brand new developments in the gun control debate as key measures of new york state's tough new gun laws begin today. folks with firearms reclassified assault weapons must start registering the weapons today. gun owners have to limit the ammunition in their magazines to seven bullets, except when at firing ranges. meantime on the federal

level, sponsors of the by l bri partisan senate proposal to expand background checks for gun buyers say the vote is too close to call. jonah goldberg, editor-at-large of "national review" and fox news contributor. pat too many any says they have bipartisan support and they have bipartisan opposition. >> that sounds about right. you have a lot of red states with democratic senators who are very, wary about the doing anything that gets them crosswise with gun owners and with groups that represent gun owners like the nra and manchin, toomey themselves is one democrat and one republican, right. >> my sense is that it is going to be close. i wouldn't be surprised if it goes either way. my guess something like this bill comes out of the senate and then die as slow, lingering kind of pathetic death in the house. rick: why so close though, jonah? if you look at the polling there seems to be overwhelming support.

there is very vocal group of people who are against this and against any kind of new gun control measure but on the whole polls show 91% of people are in favor of expanded background checks. are lawmakers not paying attention to that? they don't care? >> not all polls are equal, right? or not all pole findings are equal. 91% of the american people say, sure, background checks sound like a good idea. rick: right. >> but not 91% of the american people come close to caring very much about background checks. intensity on this is all on the gun-rights side of things. there are not a lot of people who are going to be pulling levers for politicians based upon the issue of background checks, except on the nra side of things. and so, and lot, particularly in red states, in republican districts, in rural areas, all of the passion and intensity is on the gun rights side of this. rick: on the gun rights side of it, the nra side of

things, a lot of fear or any concern any new gun measure will eventually lead to the bought -- government coming in and taking away people's weapons. is that a legit fear? do you see that happening in this country? >> sure, you're gun rights are more in danger in free america than free speech rights. gun rights are probably the most precarious of all of the bill, rights enshrined in the bill of rights and at the same time i think a lot of the opposition to laws like this are basically, the law itself, the tomb my-manchin bill is well-intentioned and not absolutely awful but would not do anything to stop sandy hook. it is not aimed at anything like that. what it would do because it has so many loopholes and exceptions for the kind of gun sales, the second it goes on the books, immediately what people will say, now we have to close the loopholes in that bill. after the next, mass shooting whether has anything to do with

background checks, whether anything to do with any of this, people will say well, the next step is to close those loopholes. a lot of people on the gun rights side make a very credible argument, this isn't going to work anyway, since this is counterproductive, and it comes from the just let do something school of politics, let's do nothing. >> why set up life to make it harder for gun owners in the future. >> jonah goldberg, editor-at-large of "national review.". thank you very much. >> thank you. jenna: if new developments in the murder of a texas d.a. and his wife and a prosecutor. who texas investigators are zeroing in on and what they found in the storage unit of this guy coming up. a wall of snow bear burying a hiker after an avalanche. the latest on efforts to find him. >> one. climbers it, came on them without absolutely, with no warning whatsoever. he said he was carried about a thousand feet. man: the charcoal went out already?

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jenna: well, right now searchers in washington are waiting for safer conditions to recover the body of a man buried in a avalanche. it happened saturday about 50 miles east of seattle. the man was hiking with two friend. an avalanche carried them 1200 feet down the side of the mountain. remarkably the two friend were not seriously hurt. now the victim's family is refusing to go home until they find him. >> we really hope that somehow he would break free and find his way off the mountain and we didn't want him to come down to an empty parking lot. >> i kept thinking he would walk out last night. it would be something he would do. he's strongest man i think i have ever known. >> there are a number of people that are waiting to hear an update and they want

to be here when mitch comes down off that mountain and we're going to be here for him. jenna: well, we wish them well. the search was suspended yesterday due to an elevated risk of more avalanches in the area. rick: switching gears now and breaking new developments in the murders of a texas d.a., his wife and another local prosecutor. investigators now calling a former justice of the peace the lead suspect as they carry out several search warrants connected to eric williams. so far he has not been charged with the killings. he is however being held on charges he made what authorities are calling, a tariffsic threat. casey stiegel is live in kaufman, texas. sayssy, what is the latest? >> reporter: rick, the terroristic threat is not clear. they're being tight-lipped about the case and did over the weekend as this was developing. what we do know 46-year-old eric williams is being held here at the kaufman county jail on $3 million bond.

williams a former justice of the peace which is an elected official of the courts here in texas, he was hired or fired i should say last year after surveillance cameras caught him stealing computer monitors from the county. his law license was also revoked. and he is currently appealing that case. but the victims here, kaufman county d.a. amike mclelland was shot dead in his home with his wife over easter weekend you may remember. assistant d.a. mark hasse was killed outside of the courthouse at the end of january, gunned down in the parking lot. both are the ones that prosecuted williams in this case. again he has not been charged with the killings. officials close to the investigation expect those additional charges to come in the next couple days, rick. rick: you can understand why investigators would be looking at this guy very closely. tell us about the search warrants. what have they turned up? >> reporter: well the dallas morning news newspaper is reporting that some 20

weapons were recovered over the weekend. also a white crown victoria sedan, allege ledly purchased under an assumed name. those items located in a storage unit about 10 miles or so from the crime scene. you can see from these pictures, state and federal authorities con ernl having on the area. right now ballistics tests are being performed on the weapons to see if they matched those used in the murders. interesting that crown victoria or a similar vehicle matching the description reportedly captured from a neighbor's security camera near the mclelland home the morning of the shootings. a search warrant executed on williams home. here is one of his neighbors. >> they were in and out of the front door, in and out of the back door, up and down the driveway. they had, in plastic containers and so forth, they had stuff stacked oh,

eight, 10, telephone feet deep. >> reporter: williams's attorney is saying that his client denies any and all allegations including the theft allegations from last year against him. the rick. rick: casey stiegel live for us in kaufman, texas. thanks. jenna: the outcome of this story could impact controversy issues like stem cell research. the supreme court is hearing arguments about whether corporations can patent human genes. what is at stake with the legal battle over this type of ownership. we'll break that down for you. also the most isolated regime in the world holding a party that no one else is celebrating and quite frankly no one else is invited to. this communist country turned nuclear armed state and there are calls for north korea to disarm but is the north following the playbook of another country, one that is not facing pressure to give up its nuclear weapons? we'll take a closer look

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rick: brand new information on the search for answers in the terror attacks in benghazi last september 11th. fox news learning that the number of house lawmakers supporting a select committee on that assault has grown substantially. the momentum follow as recent push by more than 700 special-ops veterans to establish the panel. u.s. ambassador to libya chris stevens and three other americans died in that attack. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live in

washington with the latest. catherine. >> reporter: thank you, rick. the letter from citizens united the same group behind campaign finance reform is part of a growing body evidence that is building behind a special congressional committee to investigate the benghazi terror attack. it gathers 23 major conservative groups and sponsors and reads in part, one of the legislative's branches most important functions is to conduct oversight of the executive branch with regard to our checks and balances. with regard to benghazi tragedy, oversight has been sporadic, tragic and incomplete. simply come inbooing the information from the three standing committees looking at the attack will not be conclusive. just a week ago 700 special operations vets also wrote to support a special investigation. republican congressman frank wolf who first tabled house resolution 36 to investigate the attack believes the growing support for the plan reflects the fact that members went home for the recess, got outside of washington and found out their con sit witness were behind the plan.

now more than 100 members of congress are on board. >> it is almost at a tippingpoint. you know when you have the hastert rule which is when a majority of your caucus supports something you have to do it. well, guess what? john boehner's really close to being, we're about a dozen members away from being at at majority of the caucus. so we're really excited. >> reporter: the mother of sean smith, the foreign service officer who was killed during the attack along with three others is now speaking out publicly in support of a special committee because of promises of secretary clinton and the president and others she said now ring hollow. >> nobody has gotten back to me at all, not one word, other than one clerk called me and started reading me from the timeline, which i already had. and that was it. >> reporter: senior house republican aide told fox recently that they felt the work of the three committees would be sufficient and would hold the white house

and administration responsible. that was before we went over the 100 mark in terms of support in the house. we'll reach out later today to see if their position is the same, rick. rick: catherine herridge live in washington. thank you, catherine. >> reporter: you're welcome. jenna: new questions about north korea's motives as a nuclear armed state. they come as that country continues a two-day celebration of its first leader's birthday. just this weekend secretary of state hillary clinton said the united states is open to talk with north korea, as long as it begins to abandon its you can into clear program. there are growing concerns whether or not kim jong-un's regime has reached a point of no return. a recent report in the "new york times" says this. quote, other officials said in background interviews that mr. kim is trying to get north korea into the same position as pakistan and, an acknowledged nuclear power that the west has given up hopes of disarming. frank gaffney is president of the center for security policy and formerly served in the defense department in

the reagan administration and joseph cirincione, works for the ploughshares fund. nice to have both of you back. >> thank you, jenna. jenna: one united states official saying publicly he hopes north korea disarms and there is a denuclearization of the region overall but you have officials saying in the background they're really concerned north korea is past the point that is really possible. what do you think? >> the official position of the united states and japan and south korea and china we have to denuclearize the korean peninsula, north korea must disarm but everybody recognizes that is not going to happen anytime soon. clearly north korea wants to win acceptance as a nuclear state. that is not going to happen. the united states is never going to recognize north korea as a nuclear state. it is not going to the, reproduce the mistakes we made in pakistan where we looked the other way and now pakistan has over 100 nuclear weapons. north korea somewhere

between six and eight nuclear weapons. we'll never let them get to pakistan level. jenna: how, frak, are we not going to let them do that? >> well, i don't have a clue. i don't think joe does either. i'm afraid simply insisting that they don't have nuclear weapons isn't a strategy. it. we all can hope that they will disarm but it is kind of like this idea that the rest of the world will do so too. it isn't going to happen. my concern hope is not a strategy. we're looking at a world that is far from denuclearizing with the notable exception of the united states. going in very much the opposite direction. every country that the we have to be concerned about is, either getting nuclear weapons or modernizing the ones that they do and north korea is simply a case in point. and there is one other place in which i think the parallel to pakistan is apt. the north koreans are likely to follow the pakistani lead in becoming what you might

call, nukes are us. trying to sell, as a sort of cash crop, if you will, their nuclear technology to still other nations that asspire to go down that road as well. the truth of the matter what we're doing as we respond to the north korean crisis, it is clear, we're already treating them as a nuclear weapons state, not like we did moammar gadhafi's libya or saddam hussein's iraq. jenna: frank, this point as well, jennifer griffin has interesting report at top of the hour, she always does, there are questions inside the pentagon whether north korea has an accurate map of the united states. so in some cases are we giving them too much credit, too much attention? does the attention that we're giving them and credit we're giving them match the threat? >> well, that is an excellent point, jenna, and frankly i think there is hyperventilating about the north korean nuclear threat. they do not have a missile

that can reach the united states. they do not have a warhead to fit on the missile and would stand the reentry vibrations and pressures. they're not a direct nuclear threat to us. they do have nuclear weapons. they could smuggle them out in the belly after cargo ship. we're in somewhat of a panic and that feeds into the north korean game plan. how do you stop them from becoming a nuclear power? we seen techniques applied by republican and democratic president in the past including the agreed framework in the 1990s stopped the plutonium production, stopped north korea making the core of a bomb. that agreement lasted eight years that is the reason north korea has only 6 or 8 nuke clears weapons, not 100. if they hadn't had the agreement they would be the size of pakistan. even though the agreement collapsed under bush administration. it stopped them in the process. the facilities deteriorated in the course of eight years. the key is to the stop them from reopening them. there is deal to be made there. they want things from us.

we should be willing to trade them in order to keep that plant closed, no more bombs. jenna: frank, secretary kerry essentially said he is willing to redo talks again. we should mention last year at this time we also sat down for some talks in beijing. a couple months later that is when the missile tests began. we have seen a pattern develop but what do you think about joe's point, that we go back a little further in history, maybe there's a model to follow? >> look, we can talk to them until we're blue in the face and have, and we can actually close down some of their facilities at considerable expense by the way in terms of political legitimacy and other kind of con eggs is. the and we have. the trouble is, that despite all of that, they have six to eight, god only knows how many nuclear weapons. they will get more and put them on missiles. by the way there is a satellite circling the earth right now, if it has a nuclear weapon on board could be used to deliver a devastating electromagnetic pulse attack against this country. these are things we can't

ignore or pretend aren't really simply because they don't fit the construct of a world i know joe would like to see arrive of one without nuclear weapons. you it isn't so. it isn't becoming so. and pretending it's so does not make us safe. i think the american people are, have enough common sense to recognize that is not a formula for their security or for that of other nations that rely on us for our defense. jenna: joe, give you a chance to respond to that when we start with the next segment. we love to have you both in the future. sorry to leave you there. i know i get you both going. you guys make a great pair on television. thank you so much. we look forward to having you back. >> thank you, jenna. >> look forward to it. rick: coming up an airplane slams into the sea in a popular resort island oversees. amazingly all 108 people on board survive. why inspections have just been ordered of the very same aircraft right here in the u.s. and there are a lot of those. plus in the wake of tragedies like newtown, new

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was in college. he was in manhattan. i raced there. he was wandering around the city for five days. he hadn't slept. he was convinced god have him on a special mission. he would cry one minute in great pain and laugh the next. how would you feel if someone you love killed himself? i raced him to the emergency room. the doctor made us wait four hours and said look, i can't help your son. you didn't even examine him. it doesn't matter. the law said he would had to be in immediate iminent danger. because my son didn't think he was sick and didn't want to take medication there was nothing they could do. bring him back of a he tries to kill you, hurt you or someone else. 48 hours he slipped out of the house. broke into a stranger's house. he broke in to take a bubble bath. luckily no one was there. he was charged with two felonies and breaking and entering and destruction of property. so i couldn't get him help. so the law wanted to punish him crime he is committed

because of is illness. jenna: would you. how old is your son now? >> he is 33. it is a typical story. if you have a mental illness in this country, 57 million americans any given year have a diagnosis after mental illness and you have a psychotic break, average chance getting help versus arrested is four to one, you will end up in jail rather than in a hospital. four to one. imagine if we had that statistics for heart attacks? jenna: that gives us something to think about. i want to mention about the conversation about adam lanza or james holmes the recent shootings we talk about mental health but we don't have a official diagnosis for either of these young men. >> that's right. jenna: we're assuming that there were things that were wrong or they were mentally ill in some way. i want to point out the facts are not there yet as precisely what was motivating them if that was a part of it. pete, how do you think that the mental health issue overall should be discussed as we're discussing other things like gun control legislation to try to

prevent these massacres from happening? >> i'm glad you pointed that out, jennas because you're very wise about that we don't know what those diagnosis, we don't know if those diagnoses led to the crimes that were committed. we do know in tucson, we do know in virginia tech these were young men who had mental health problems. we know they could have been prevented had the laws been changed so people could have interacted with them and had we had good mental health services. we don't know about the newtown shooter but we know that i think there's 140,000 people in connecticut who have a mental health diagnosis, half of them don't the if the help they need. 17% of the hospitals there have been closed down. so what we need to do is focus not on compiling lists of people and going, oh, we should stigmatize these people by keeping guns away. we should realize most people with mental illness are not dangerous, they don't pose a risk and we should focus on getting those who need help the help they need before we have a tucson shooting and a

virginia tech shooting. jenna: the issues comes back to public safety. >> right. jenna: when we're talking about these specific incidents and the logic of something like this, pete, doesn't it, that guns are the focus because if people that are evil or people who have mental illness or people who don't want to do bad things don't have weapons we can't be hurt and we don't want to be hurt. so that is kind of the approach. what do you think of that logic when it comes to mental illness? >> well, first of all people who have mental illness are not evil. we're not the enemy. mental illnesses, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, we don't know the cause of them but we believe they're genetic or environmentally produced. they're not fault of person. my son didn't do anything wrong to get a mental illness. most people with mental illnesses are not likely dangerous but most likely to be the victims. we have recognize a small sungroup of people who are in psychotic conditions may act out inappropriately. we have to make sure we get

them help or stop them from acting out. obviously gun control is an issue because are a way people have acted out. right now we have laws on the book that say if you're committed to an institution you can't own a gun. the devil in the detail. you know, i think 40% of first-responders to 9/11 reported having pts. did, a mental illness. are you going to bar these people from having guns? is it appropriate? jenna: pete, the legislation, because i will be talking to congressman issa coming up next hour. there are reports inside the house they might include mental health legislation with gun control as a way to try to get legislation out of either chamber. if we could have a, change the legislation what would it be? what a win mean for mental health and changing the system so people would get help sooner like your son? >> access to services. you know, right now, we don't have access to good community services. we've been cutting those

back. we shouldn't do what we did in virginia. after virginia tech we passed 42 million in new mental health services. everybody went yeah. next year we cut 50 million. we never changed one gun law. we made a long list stigmatizing people if you do this and have a mental illness you will have to be reported. we need to focus on good mental health care. stop, to get good people good care. that will help reduce the number of incidents like this. jenna: pete, great to have your perspective. we so appreciate your time. we look forward having you back on the program. thank you so much. >> thank you. rick: what an important discussion. when we come back a manhunt is underway for a dangerous inmate who managed to use explosives to escape from prison. we'll tell you where this is happening next. a boeing 737 crash land in the water. everybody survives. now an investigation underway in this country to make sure what happened in indonesia does not happen here.

rick: new troubles in the skies as the faa orders insfebss for boeing 737 airplanes. the agency's directive calls for examining the jet's tail for potentially faulty part that could cause pilots to lose control of the aircraft. all of this comes days after a boeing 737 for lion air in indonesia missed runway when landing on the resort island of bali. miraculously everybody on board survived. an investigation into the cause of the accident is underway. peter goelz is former director of the national transportation safety board. easy for me to say. so, peter, this is just a coincidence that these inspections are taking place. nothing to do with the crash in bali? >> it is just a coincidence.

in bali the they're now looking at whether a violent squall was located right off the end of the runway and that the plane might have flown into a very severe wind shear. they're recovering the black boxes. they have got one. they will get the second today. we'll know pretty shortly what happened in bally. rick: the footage there unbelievable. we should mention lion air does not have what you call a good safety record. this was the sixth accident in the last 11 years for that airline. >> that's right. it is banned flying into europe. the real message out of bali, sometimes regulations work. the faa required 16-g seats. these are seats that could withstand very severe impact. the passengers were sitting in them. they survived. it is good news. rick: what about inspections here? these are boeing 737s here in the united states. it affects over a thousand aircraft, 1050, at a cost of over $10 million. what do you make of that?

what would you say to travelers who are booking flights and wondering, maybe i shouldn't be flying on a 737? >> well, you know, this is just a small number of the 737s are that in the air. it is the most popular aircraft in use today. and what happens is, this is another situation where the system works. the faa, the carriers and the manufacturers looked to see every day whether the planes are working. in this case, a report came in on a fasten err that appeared to be corroding. they traced it back to a manufacturing he do tech perhaps at the factory. they're pulling the planes to look at them. remember it is not an emergency. 30-days, happens on a regular basis. it is what keeps us safe. rick: peter goelz, formerly of the ntsb. thank you very much. >> thank you, rick. jenna: you weren't asking me

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jenna: brand-new stories and breaking news this hour. eupl great lakes reform front and center. a plan could be laid out any minute now. will the rest of congress get on board? a big question. bret baier weighs in. he also has brand-new information for us as well on all of that. for millions of people it's the winter that will not end. record snowfall in some parts, and freezing temperatures leave most stuck in the ice. his courtroom tree at tricks have got him a lot of attention. the prosecutor in the jodi arias getting heat for his actions outside of the courtroom. we'll tell you what he did. it's all "happening now." the gang of eight working for months on a secret deal to reform our immigration laws.

now they are ready to refeel their plan. welcome to a brand-new hour of "happening now." we are glad with you are us. i'm jenna leave. do you ever feel they need a little jacket that says gang of eight or something like that. if they are going to be a real team they need something visual. rick: i think that is a great idea. we'll pass it onto them. i'm rick folbaum in nor jon today. the gang of eight with their special jackets finishing up the final details. they plan to unveil their proposal tomorrow and the measure could provide a math to citizenship for millions of people who are in the country illegally. republican senator marco rubio calls it a starting point. >> you will find that when we reform our legal immigration system we get these people that are already here now paying their taxes and not taking anything out of the system this will be a net positive for the country economically now and in the future. otherwise it's not worth doing. rick: critics, including some of senator rubio's fellow republicans are worried that the new system will provide amnesty for the millions already here illegally. >> even if you pass laws today

that appear to be effective, it doesn't mean that they are going to be enforced. we have in this administration a failure to enforce, so that is a big deal right now. rick: bret baier anchors special report on fox news channel. marco rubio showed up on my kid's cartoons yesterday. why was he on every one of the shows, brett. >> first of all he knows his brief not to say the other seven of the gang of eight don't know it well. but he really knows it. and he can articulate all aspects of it in detail. sometimes senators can talk about one aspect or another, or they have talking points given to them by aides. he knows pretty much every aspect of this or at least he appears to know it. and he is speaking from someone who is pretty conservative. i remember he what's elected at

the beginning a tea party candidate. he became a consensus candidate town there in florida, and he's really been someone who has been in the spotlight for a longtime. there will be conservative push back on this. but he's kind of leading the way, which is why he was on all seven shows yesterday. rick: and the cartoons. i'm just wondering, you know, you have some news just out. even though there is opposition to this on the right the fact that marco rubio is really pushing this and is one of the lead voice necessary this it did not hurt his personal fund-raiser. >> no, you've seen this in a couple of articles popping up that this is really going to hurt him and his potential bid in 2016. it's going to hurt him in fundraising because of a conservative bash lash. i just talked to rubio folks and they had their first quarter fundraising numbers. they have raised more money in

the first quarter than all of last year, they raised $2.3 million in the first quarter for both the pack and the reelect. remember he's not up for re-election until 2016. average, you know, at this time for a politician in an off cycle, which is what he is now is about, you know, 100, $200,000 a quarter on average. this is $2.3 million. they say they had more than 15,000 new donors identified, raised money from all 50 states, according to the rubio tphoebg marco rubio kwroe folks and more than half of the money came in low dollar donation. they are seeing a big push from his involvement and this potentially sets him up depending on how this all works out for a 2016 presidential run. rick: what is the biggest concern among opponents to immigration reform? is it the fact that amnesty would reward folks who have

acted illegally? is it the cost of immigration reform, or jobs being taken away from the american workers, or is the concern really, brett, on the part of republicans and opponents that we give all these people legal citizenship and then they go and sraoet for the othevote for the other side. >> i think there is a combination of things going on. i think the biggest concern is the trigger mechanism that the border security has to be first, that they have to know what is going on along the border and it has to be secure before the other things can happen. now the way rubio explains it, it is set up that way. but when the president talks about it, and when secretary napolitano talks about it they say the trigger is not yes necessary. that is kind of a poison pill in the eyes of conservatives. that is not what the gang of eight is dealing with, as rubio describes it and others describe it. that's one thing.

the other thing is the cost, and the questions about cost, that has been coming up. i think rubio and others have talked about how they are trying to dol deal with the cost and how they have a system in place where folks in this process do not get the federal assistance, obama care, et cetera, until they get to the end of the process. rick: thank you, brett. bret baier, be sure to watch brett with all the day's political news every week night 6:00 eastern time. special report right here on fnc. good to see you my friend. jenna: fox extreme weather alert. the calendar may say it's spring but a big storm is making it look a whole lot more like winter. lots of folks in north dakota are getting a day off. a record 18 inches of snow falling in the western and central parts of that state. we wish you well out there in north dakota. in the meantime folks in detroit are seeing white this weekend not as much but causing sufficient driving conditions, always dangerous and you always

have to be careful. take a look at these pictures from dilute, minnesota the harbor freezing leaving ships angered on lake superior blocked by a huge sheet of ice. in minneapolis a lot of disappointed baseball fans as the twins were forced to call off their game again the new york mets because of snowy weather. how often does that april in april, right? janice dean is live in the fox extreme weather center. is spring ever -- are we going to go straight to summer? you wonder if this means anything. what does it mean? >> reporter: i wish i 0 could do like a silver lining here. maybe the kid are enjoying a snow day, maybe? i don't know. jenna: i think the kid are annoyed too. winter is okay in january, february, march it's getting a little tiring, in april you're like i'm so done with this. we are in this pattern where we'll see several storm systems that will produce snow across the northern tier of the country and the threat for severe weather. cold enough for snow across

minneapolis, rapid city. denver, 31. ahead of this is where we have that warm, sultry air, that will give us the potential for severe weather throughout the work week. let's take a look at it. one storm exits, we are dealing with mainly wet weather along the east coast. another storm develops across the rockies moves into the central u.s. bringing 6 to 12 inches yet again of snow around the rockies up towards the northern plains as you can see more snow in the forecast. again i wish i had a magic wand to just make it springtime for everyone, but it's not going to happen, and real quick, rick and general aeu want to go over the severe threat with this because of the change in temperatures we'll deal with the potential for hail, damaging winds and tornado not only today but through tuesday, and look at wednesday already predicting a massive area for millions of people including oklahoma city up toward wichita where we have this moderate risk where we think all the ingredients will come together for perhaps a severe weather outbreak with destructive tornadoes. we will be busy in the fox news

extreme weather center. we'll bring you the very latest, back to you. jenna: always good information. thank you. rick: the gripping murder trial of jodi arias is set to resume a couple minutes from now. it's take bizarre turns. she is accused as you know of killing her ex-boyfriend travis alexander back in 2008. the lead prosecutor juan martinez is coming under fire for his behavior outside the courtroom. adam housley live in l.a. with more. what is going on, adam. >> reporter: rick, another day, another issue in the jodi arias trial. day 47 by the way. you mentioned juan martinez. you might remember a couple of weeks ago there was talk about many being outside and signing autographs and shaking hands with people that were fans of this trial and maybe of his antics in the courtroom. they are going to have a hearing and address that this morning. they are bringing in a producer from another network, grace wong has a video of this happening outside the courthouse. that will be addressed momentarily. the jury will not be present for that. as the report goes martinez was

outside shaking hand signing autographs. there is the producer right there that will be testifying today in front of the judge at least. and then of course the defense filed a motion for mistrial based on this. the judge is now going through all this. it will be discussed this morning. meantime we also know that alice laviolette the final defense witness was finally done on friday. she is being held on standby for another issue that has not yet been discussed. the jury will not be there for that. she could be called to the stand tomorrow. but i'll tell you after her cross-examination there was a couple of things that came out that didn't help her case, and then the jury got a chance to ask her questions. they asked her 159 questions that is second only to the questions they asked jodi arias, and this one was probably one of the more telling questions. take a listen. >> do you consider someone who says, no jury will ever convict me to be a person with low self-esteem?

>> it sound like a really foolish statement to me. i don't know what to say about self-esteem, but it doesn't seem like a good statement to make, that is for sure. >> reporter: that question coming of laviolette from one of the members of the jury. she has maintained all along that jodi had low selfesteem. the juror referring to video taken of an interview of jodi arias where she said no jury would ever convict her. she is now saying later on, jodi arias it was because she was going to kill herself. these what she said in her own testimony. another day in court. we are told there will be two rebuttal witnesses for the prosecution. we believe that is where it's going to go next. the defense may try to call one more witness as well. the judge had told the jury this case would be over by now back when jury selection was beginning in december. have you to believe that both side are going to, while trying to push their case, get this case moving along, because the

judge, again, started to become a little bit less patient in the court has the case continues to drag. rick. rick: not just the judge, adam. adam housley live in los angeles. >> reporter: that is for sure. rick: thank you, adam. jenna: the president's pick for labor secretary is facing fire today over a case he handled for the justice department, fire from one side that is. he's accused of cutting a deal that may have caused taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. we'll talk to one of the men behind that report. plus the u.s. calling on china to reign in north korea. what will it take to get action from china? we ask that question ahead. your doctor will say get smart about your weight. that's why there's glucerna hunger smart shakes. they have carb steady, with carbs that digest slowly to help minimize blood sugar spikes. [ male announcer ] glucerna hunger smart. a smart way to help manage hunger and diabetes. [ dennis ] allstate wants everyone to be protected on the road. whether you're an allstate customer or not. all you have to do is call. [ female announcer ] call and sign up for good hands roadside assistance today.

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rick: the president's nominee for labor secretary facing charges that he misused his power while at the justice department assistant attorney general thomas perez currently heeds the civil rights division. republicans are blasting the deal he made to get rid of a case that was headed for the supreme court. peter doocy is live in washington with more. >> reporter: there is a

brand-new joint congressional rao report that is accusing assistant general tom perez of flying to minnesota on february 12th of last year to make a secret deal with st. paul's mayor that is described dozens of times in the report as quid proceed could he. the department of justice would stay out of a whistle-blower lawsuit filed against the city of st. paul if the city would withdraw an appeal that was part of a supreme court case that perez thought threatened civil rights. he was in minnesota on february 12th last year. six days later the doj says they will not intervene in the whistle-blower case. one day after that the city of st. paul dropped their supreme court appeal. this report says, quote the agreement struck between assistant attorney perez and the mayor at that closed door meeting resulted not only in the withdrawal of the appeal but also the fatal weakening of a whistle-blower lawsuit potentially worth $200 million to the federal treasury.

but a former department of justice official says that republicans trying to connect these dots are off base. >> the term quid pro quo it makes me smile because it's such a loaded term. you have settlements in government litigation, you have settlements in private litigation and i think that the use of the word quid pro quo here is to try to suggest that something in appropriate happened when i think in fact you have almost everybody agreeing nothing inappropriate happened. >> reporter: and a justice department spokeswoman told us via email that the specific doj decisions not to intervene were made in the best interest of the united states, rick. rick: peter doocy in washington. thank you. jenna: ranking democrats in the house over shiite anjou dish airy committees are defending mr. perez. republican congressman darrell issa of california is chairman of the oversight committee part of this report that is out about mr. perez. congressman your critics say that these claims are dubious, that they are part of a broader

political campaign to undermine the legal safeguard against discrimination that mr. perez was protecting. your response? >> unfortunately that is exactly the question that should be asked. why won't you want the u.s. supreme court to make a decision as tow a civi to a civil rights claim? why won't this president who signed a new strength in whistle-blower statute want a whistle-blower backed up? the $200 million is not the principle here. the principle here is whistle-blowers come forward, they do so to our benefit, the cases are about recovering money that the federal government gets cheated out of that's why our committee is so involved in it. from a standpoint of civil justice senator grassley and chairman goodlatt are involved in the whole question of what was mr. perez' constitutional duty? he had a constitutional duty to support and defend. he also had limited role in that he went outside his role to strike this secret deal, flew to

minnesota to strike a secret deal, and now on the one hand they were saying there was nothing wrong with the deal. then they are trying to say there was no deal. clearly there was a deal. jenna: we heard a little bit from the former justice department official on that. skeptics might say that there is some timing behind this report, that this is all being released ahead of the senate confirmation hearing that was scheduled for thursday for mr. pa refpltz is it your intention to delay or prevent him from getting confirmed as labor secretary? >> first of all we do think that the president should seriously consider whether this person who has made statements both before the inspector general -- remember this is an investigation that has been going on for a while. the fact is before both career people within the administration and before our committee he has made statements that have lacked candor. that's not my statement, it's an ig standard. lack candor is code word if you're not a lawyer he basically didn't tell the whole truth or

he lied. those statements that are in our report, the details of how he misled are important. more importantly this is somebody who is supposed to have the highest standard. as an attorney he clearly did not tall the truth about private emails he had when one fronted with he said i only had one private email. we don't know that to be true. before he goes forward to a full cabinet position it would be good to know how often he plays fast and loose with the truth and whether or not he's been circumventing the federal records act more than once. jenna: we'll continue to watch this story. labor secretary is an important position especially given the economy. we'll continue to follow it. a quick question for you reuters had a report out citing unnamed congressional sources. i want to make sure the viewers are clear on that, that in some ways republicans in the house of representatives are devising ways to delay and weaken the gun legislation that could be coming out of the senate. how would you characterize the work of republicans and where do you stand on where that legislation that is coming from the senate, where it will end up

in the house? >> the amazing thing to me is that the senate is proposing fixes that would not have had anything to do with tragedy in connecticut. certainly for trying to find real fixes that would prevent a seriously dangerous individual from getting training in guns from his perfectly entitled mother. that is something to look at and we want to prevent gun tragedies. let's remember, the fix has to match the problem and they are right now very disconnected. would i like as to see proper background checks? would i like to see people who are either felons, or mentally ill not get weapons, absolutely. and i think on that the house is united. jenna: congressman issa pleasure to have you. always look farred to having you back. >> thanks. rick: new developments on the shipwreck off the italian coast that lead 32 people dead. who prosecutors could charge in the grounding of the coast ta concordia and why, next.

rick: right now new legal developments in the italian cruise ship disaster last year that killed 32 people. the ship's captain arriving for a court hearing today deciding whether to hand down indictments in the case. prosecutors want him to stand trial for manslaughter causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship before all 4200 passengers and crew had been able to evacuate. some of the crew members also facing potential charges for the way they handled the emergency. joining us on the phone from rome with the very latest on this josephine mckenna a reporter for grn. josephine i know you were at the hearing today. what happened? >> well, rick, this is a preliminary hearing as you said to decide whether there is enough evidence for captain francesco schettino and the other officials to be sent for trial. he arrived at the back entrance to the court with his lawyers and was immediately surrounded

by police. he was dress ned a dark suit -- dress ned a dark suit and refused to speak to the media. despite the serious charges he's facing one of his defense lawyers told the closed court hearing that the captain too was a victim of this disaster, and he had been made a scapegoat by the parent company costa cruises. he had interesting support today from a man called will cram gossard from the u.s. national transportation safety board who told the court he thought francesco schettino had actually avoided a tragedy of titanic-like proportions. rick: unbelievable. that ship still remains off the coast of tuscany there. talk to us about where this case heeds next, the preliminary hearing. what is eye ahead and how are the victims handling all of this? >> this case has a long way to go yet and the victims are still as you can imagine really traumatized. outside the court some of the lawyers said their clients are actually still in a lot of pain and still dealing with the traupl after this disas --

trauma of this disaster. 32 people died, hundreds of people rescued from the ship when it ran aground as you remember in january of last year. jon eaves, a mississippi lawyer representing 150 of the victims said the company had sacrificed passenger safety for prove it and he said -- profit. he said it too had to share the blame for what happened on the night the ship capsized. what he called poor emergency procedures, training and equipment. so there is still a lot of ill feeling and there is still a long way to go. we've still got quite a few hearings to go in this preliminary case even before it's sent for trial. it will take a few months before we even see the trial yet. rick: josephine mckenna joining us on the phone from grn joining us from rome, thank you very much. >> thanks, rick. jenna: world-wide tension really hitting a fever pitch with north korea poised to launch a missile any minute. that's what the reports say. any minute now. we'll see if that actually takes place. secretary of state john kerry is

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become a big crisis on the korean peninsula. the threat taking on new urgency today as people celebrate the birth dave the founder of the come admonition nation in north korea and with the celebration there are for fears that north korea has its finger on the button to launch a missile. secretary kerry is urging china to put pressure on north korea saying the stakes are huge. >> i believe that china by making clear its policy will join with others in an effort to try to make that policy real and implement it. and i think if we don't then all of our nonproliferation efforts on a global basis begin to suffer. if we don't give meaning to that policy it will have certainly less meaning to iran, or less meaning anywhere else, and i think everybody understands that. jenna: is china doing enough to help us resolve this crisis in are they going to help us. gordon chang is the automatic

author of nuclear showdown, north korea takes on the world. we heard from secretary kerry. here is what one chinese official said. china is firmly committed to upholding stability. we maintain that the issue should be handled and resolved peacefully through dialogue. what do you read there? >> we have heard that for the last ten years, and during that time china has promoted dialogue. but while it promoted dialogue it gave north korea the one thing that it needed most to make itself a real threat and that is time. time to build nuclear weapons and to perfect its long range ballistic missiles. this diplomacy is not cost free. the same thing with iran. they are racing ahead to build the bomb. china is giving iran time to do the same thing. it's the same chinese playbook, one country iran, the other north korea. jenna: what do we do if it's not to try to reengage. >> there are a couple of things. we need to get rid of the notion that only china can affect north korea, because we can. we can do it by turning on the charm or turning on the pressure

or maybe both at the same time. jenna: you can be charming and add pressure? >> and that's when we should be doing. jenna: i should do that as an interviewer. that would be key for me. what would it look like for the united states if we were to engage china and north korea and be both charming and putting the right pressure, what does that look like in. >> we need to get the south coreyence to close the industrial zone. jenna: to sput it down. >> we need into der ticket north korean shipping so they don't tell their technology to iran. we need to put pressure on china the at same time to make sure they comply with financial sanctions. while we put this pressure on we can always go to pyongyang and say look do you want to talk. we have to remember that the north koreans disspies the chinese and that border between korea and china has moved hundreds of miles in both directions over the last 600 years. the korean really fear the

chinese. jenna: that's what you say we should do. we have done over the last week or so, the president has canceled some of our military e sizes with south korea, done both to appease north korea to not ratchet up the rhetoric but also some say to appease beijing. should we be backing off this military exercises? what kind of message does that send? >> it send a message to the chinese that they can push us around. they've done this before as we've tried to put pressure on the north koreans. they did it specifically in 2010. i think what we really need to do is reassure our allies in the region. because our over flights of the b52s and the b-2s were not so much to intimidate the north koreans, that is an added benefit. that is to reassure the south koreans who are losing confidence in our ability to defend them. they have to know that we have their back. jenna: i'd like to you look into the future not too far just this web. secretary kerry said when he was leaving the region said the fact

that we did not see another missile test may show that we are turning a corner that we could be headed in a better direction. is that how we should read this? >> that is one possible reading. the other one is that the north koreans are doing what they did in december which is to ramp everybody's pressure up on a missile test, then say, oh, we are not going to do it now and then when we weren't looking they then fired off their three-stage ballistic missile. they could be doing the same thing with the two missiles that are on the east coast of north korea, or what they could be doing is firing off missiles from the interior of north korea because they have us looking at the coast. if they want to unnerve us the best thing they can do is do something that we don't expect. jenna: we'll watch for that. everyone was looking at today, will today be the day, it's a special celebration. we'll look a special look at tomorrow. they've been unpredictable to say the least. great to see you as always. >> thank you. rick: in some parts of the country efforts to save the environment are actually killing communities. many logging towns have been hit very hard. in parts of oregon conditions

getting so bad the governor wants to take over. dan springer is live in seattle with more on this. hi, dan. >> reporter: yeah, hey, rick, lawmakers in oregon are saying if they don't create a safety met that is being pulled by the federal government many counties will go bankrupt, places like curry county where the federal government owns two-thirds of the land. it's rich in prime timber land, since the spotted owl was listed as an even damage erred species logging has lagged 90%. they paid the counties not to log. it's called timer payments. the payments have been dwindling and every year are on the chopping blocks. many feel this is the year that they go away. county services that are scarce now could also go away. in curry county they have four deputies patrolling an area the size of rhode island. there is no response at night. they are looking to take over elections, building inspections and taxation and the most

controversial letting the governor impose attacks to pay for public safety. >> what we're becoming in the tim per dependent countries are the april pa lay sha of the pacific northwest. that's not what we want to be. >> reporter: leaders in these timber counties say they don't want the federal ral handout any more and they don't want a state take over them. want to get back to work but that would mean changing the environmental laws this allow groups to sue federal timber sales to death. >> the answer is loosen the regulations. let us use what we have. quit trying to come down and scare us and terrorize our citizens with taxes and impositions and taking over of services, and state involvement. that doesn't help. >> reporter: oregon's congressional delegation is working to ease some of those regulations at the same time pushing for payments to continue one more year. rick. rick: dan springer in the pacific northwest. dan, thanks very much. jenna: well, in other news we are learning more about the woman accused of stocking

superstar hugh jackman. apparently the latest frightening incident over the weekend is just the tip of the iceberg with the suspect. julie banderas has the khafrpling news focharming news for it. >> do you notice the facial hair. apparently the stalker doesn't like this. she grabbed a razor and threw it at his home. thought she would give him a quick shave. she had her day in court yesterday. this isn't the first confrontation with jack man. she's already on probation after he took out a restraining order against her last year in yet another run in with the family last month she told jack man's real life wife that she was quote going to marry her husband. she wanted to be wife number two. she says it's legal, what is the big deal. she wasn't too shy about it either. she has admitted to cops to trailing him, giving her reason as she was very impressed with x-men two. she is being held in lieu of $15,000 bond or 1700 cash bail.

jack man is frightened of the whole thing and tells the post. i hope the woman she gets the help she need. michael jackson's daughter paris says she is so thankful to have a father like she did. she says he was an incredible father. hshe opens up about the king of pop. the 15-year-old admits to a magazine that all her dad wanted for her kids was to give her and her brothers principals and blanket a normal childhood. paris said he wanted to give his children the childhood he never had out of the public eye. aann frank diary, anything written at the house in a amsterdam is not taken lightly especially if you are just finance bieber. in the museum guest book he writes that he hopes the jewish teenage store died in a natzi concentration camp would have been a beleiber. many shared criticism on the

museum's facebook beige. the museum didn't seem too bothered about it. she confirmed bieber visited and the museum was happy to have him and she didn't consider his remarks offensive. a lot of people now know about his museum, they got a lot of publicity. jenna: he went to the museum. >> i don't know why he would have gone there. you wouldn't think of a historical museum and justin bieber being paired together. jenna: maybe he's turning a corner, speaking of things that need to turn corners. >> reporter: with that comment i'm not so sure. he's 19. jenna: that is extent context. julie thank you. >> reporter: sure. rick: coming up disappointing news for customers at disneyland especially if you're a space mountain fan. we'll explain straight ahead. what ♪

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been a little bit late to coverage for this story, the trial of kermit gosnell on the screen facing fault am counts of murder. kristen powers writing, a lexus nexus search shows none of the news shows on the three major national television networks has mentioned the trial in the last three months. "the washington post" has not published original reporting on this during the trial "the new york times" saw fit to run one original story on page a17 on the first dave the trial. they've been silent every since despite headline-worthy testimony. jim pinkerton joins us and alan colmes joins us. gentlemen, good to see you both. alan what do you make of the way that suddenly after kirstin's piece and there have been a number of blogs that have mentioned this. and sort of cried foul that this story is not getting attention, now there dees seem to be some

movement. >> the fact is that there was no black out on this. this was covered in 2011 by cbs, by the nation, by npr. i think most people viewed those as certainly not conservative outlets and there was a gag order that the lawyers could not talk until just recently. and where were the conservative sites. michelle malkin for example made after the mainstream media, she wasn't covering it. "weekly standard" didn't cover it. national review didn't cover it. "weekly standard" had three stories on this at the same time six stories on justin bieber. the so-called mainstream media has done more than conservative media outlets have on this story. rick: i have a list of media coverage, jim, leading up to the trial. this is in the beginning after the charges were originally leveled. cnn did six segments. fox did three segments on this.

nbc did nothing. what do you make of the coverage and the charges of the black out. >> alan is right there was not no coverage there there wasn't much coverage. everything you need to know about the mainstream attitude towards the story was shown by marty barron the editor of "the washington post" who said he never heard of the story until he got emails from it, from readers, or citizens, and so none of his crack staff at "the washington post" had ever alerted him to this. again, there has been some coverage, again the difference is the quantity. chris smith who is a republican congressman from new jersey said that if gosnell had taken an ar15 and massacred seven children that would be big news, we'd all know about it then a hundred percent. instead it was an abortion doctor butchering baby and it's only now thanks to kirstin powers in large part getting real attention. rick: what do you think of that alan.

>> kirsten is a democrat. "usa today" is a mainstream publication. and smith wasn't talking about. franks wasn't talking about it. louie gomer the antichoice legislators weren't talking about it. perhaps for there to be abreu ha ha now blaming the mainstream media is an important story. i think it helps the pro-choice side because this clinic actually appealed to women who could not get legal abortions elsewhere. this is actually an argument to keep abortions legal, safe and rare. rick: jim there, have been a number of other websites that have been covering the story, news buskers which tries to expose liberal by as in the media has been on this story from the get go. i just wondered moving forward as we take a look at the coverage for the jodi arias case, for example, which we have a segment pretty much every hour on that. there is a cable network that is exclusively covering jodi arias 24-7 and then have you this story in philadelphia. what does it tell us about news

editorial policy in general? >> nothing good frankly. and there are other sites that have been covering the story closely. the chris smith quote was on life site news. i expect that is not on the tool bar of anyone in the mainstream media. there are plenty of right to life groups pushing this story hard. hats off to kirstin. she is a liberal, feminist pro-lifer. she is sincere all the way through on this. and give her credit and "usa today" c. this is not entirely a bad story it's a too late story. gosnell was arrested in january of 2011 and eight of his employees pled guilty in the last two months and his trial began on march 18th. and here we are a month later now waking up to you. rick: thank you both. jenna: we'll turn to business news ahead. gold is supposed to be a safe-haven in tough economic times. so why are investors heading for the exits? a close lock at what this means for the market and the dramatic fall in gold today.

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jenna: right now the dow taking a little bit of a hit. actually it's gaining momentum in the wrong direction. this is in part because we are seeing troubling reports about china's economy, a big driver of global growth, and one of the other things we're watching today is that the price of gold has now over the last few sessions plummeted at a rate we haven't seen since 1980. so what toes all of this mean. we have the fox business network's elizabeth mcdonald. what is going on, liz. >> what is going on is let's talk quickly about gold. if gold -- to if the tumble today hold this will mark the biggest drop since gold started trade be in 1974. so what we're seeing is gold tumbling, it's breaking down

below the 1,400-dollar level and it's not just what is going on in china china certainly is weighing on the markets right now, the dow is off 156 points, still holding fast at around 14,700. the storyline behind gold is being caught in a global commodity sell off, basically recession and earning weakness in other areas around the world. the other storyline that we're watching, we are watching what is coming out of europe as it peer taeupbs to gold. what is happening here is the european central bank president has said to cypress. we know they've been insolvent. they are scrambling to fix its fiscal debt problems. it is moving to tell about a half a billion dollars worth of its excess gold reserves. that's what kind presents is doing. the ecb president is saying to cypress any of those profits you make you've got to give us that money back via the loans that we gave you. so the worry is that this trend might take hold to other problematic countries in the euro zone they they could be

pressured to use their gold sales to pay back debts that. is a deep concern. the other issue too about gold is that as housing recovers aourrerecovers. real estate is being seen as a decent hedge against inflation, also stocks. gold was seen as a safe-haven. it was trucked around as being good essentially as cash. gold has been a bubble in search of a pin, it's only as good as its trade. it's demand versus supply and the federal reserve and central bank money printing that inflation story hasn't taken hold in countries around the world and the united states just yet. gold is taking a hit today, big time. goldman sachs also cutting its priced target 12 months down to 1390, some analysts say 1300 for gold. jenna: it's down $127 right now just today. >> reporter: that's right. jenna: it's fascinating to see

all the different elements involved. liz, thank you -fpblgts sure. rick: coming up, do you always pay attention when you're crossing the streets here in midtown manhattan. jenna: i just always pay attention in general. rick: just period. good policy, good policy. lots of folks looking down at their phones while crossing busy streets and avenues, and they are not alone. there is a new study out about it. we'll talk about that when we come right back. ♪ [ acoustic guitar: upbeat ]

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>> well, is it the phone to blame or is it the person? a new study blaming smartphones for distracting people when they cross the street. the university of washington's injury prevention center finding 30% were distracted. 6% were talking, 11% listening to like an i-pod. 7% looking at the screen and folks who were texting while crossing took longer to cross and were more likely to ignore traffic. >> and