let's go to bill hemmer and hit the magic wall. >> bill: good evening to you.n touch screen, you talk about the hispanic vote. it is critical especially in one particular part of florida. this tha is the southeast. we can show you go back to the primary of 2008 when john mccain beat mitt romney in the state of florida four years ago. mccain was a winner then by five points. beat him 36-21 and so many votes came right down here in miami, dade county. 370,000 registered republicans in this county alone and three-quarters are hispanic or cuban american. we'll look tonight to see if romney can pick up some of the votes that mccain took from him four years ago. early indications in jacksonville will tell us how romney is doing and gingrich is cutting into his votes. romney an easy winner by some points four years ago. in the southwest part of the state. down around naples, a lot of retirees, romney owned this territory four years ago, 49-22%. 36% of the population lives along the i-404 corridor the center part of the state. election after election, these are swing v

bill: i'm bill hemmer.aying the justice officials knew all about the operation but did not stop it. 70,000 documents related to the operation fast and furious. here is the chairman of the committee moments ago, darrell issa. play this. >> today is groundhog day again. this committee has lost its pa patience to wait longer, we will not wait until next groundhog day to get answers for the american people, for brian terry and others. the important things i am going to ask today is what can you do to bring this to a close? what can you do before the ig completes her investigation to allow the american people to see change that tells them, this is no longer going on and it won't go on in the future? lastly, before i recognize the ranking member, it is this majority, at least, committee's believe that this is an operation that included reckless behavior at a af. failure to push harder and inform memory by the f.b.i., a u.s. attorney who clearly didn't do his job in way that anyone should be proud of. we now have

i'm bill hemmer. welcome to "america's newsroom". martha: that directed at me. what did you do? i ran around with my family all weekend. good morning bill, good morning, everybody. drivers are waking up to this morning. aaa reporting a national average of $3.65 a gallon. prices topping enough if you live in some parts you could pay five bucks a gallon on board. bill: president obama says there is no silver bullet. is there or is there a chance of relief. charles payne. fox business. first the news, it has gone up yet again. >> it has gone up yet again. bill, according to aaa $4.25 by may. that is the summer driving season. demand will go up even more. we don't know what will happen with some of these outside forces. geopolitical tensions coming out of iran. certainly something big is brewing there. also policies, bill. they play a huge role in all of this as well. bill: they certainly do. you're saying 4.25 by may on average? >> on average, 4.25 by may. a lot of people now, i talk to experts every single day, almost sever single one says 5 bucks is not out of the realm of possibi

with us now the co-anchor of america's newsroom bill hemmer is here. >> hello, shepard, these two states for all the wrong reasons by the way. show you this on touch screen billboard. economy, the landscape. green level you have run a sur surplus for the past three and a half years. you are in one of the lucky states. michigan foreclosures number six out of all the states in the country. the employment rate in the state has been so high for way too long well above 10% for a while. 9.3. a full point higher than the national average. michigan has been racked by this economy. arizona frankly isn't much better. arizona number three in the country in foreclosures behind nevada and california right now. unemployment rate at 8.7%. still above the national average. watch how the economic picture plays out throughout the night here. watch how taxes, deficit spending see how all of that plays out among the two voters in the states. the results from four years ago from 2000 will when mitt romney took on john mccain here in the state of michigan. this is romney's native state, remember, he went into

bill: i'm bill hemmer.ator john mccain, a romney supporter saying the shakeup just hurts the party. >> i think it's kind of expected, particularly since the pros kes ha process has been strung out, and it's a number of primaries where it's not winner take off like it used to be. from a pure partisan standpoint i'd like to see it over as soon as possible. the adversary is president obama and as soon as we focus on the better off we'll be. martha: i don't know if senator john mccain will get his wish. joining us now from washington is bret baier, the anchor of special report. good morning. good to see you this morning. >> reporter: up early this morning. it's amazing there is just not enough coffee. martha: not in the world, right? talk to us about last night. it's remarkable the way we have seen sort of each -- i was saying toed rollins it's like a movie and the beast keeps coming up and getting knocked down and there is a new one out there, rick santorum is rising up to be a real formidable person in this r

i'm bill hemmer. happy morning to you. martha: hello, good to see you again. bill: quick turnaround. martha: everybody good at home i hope. i'm martha maccallum. good morning to you. by the numbers this one was very early last night as we know well. romney got 46% of the vote. gingrich got 32%. this has become a two-man race. santorum 13. ron paul got 7% last night. he had not really campaigned down there. former house speaker newt gingrich was defiant when he came out to speak to the people of florida last night. he said this is florida from over. >> florida did something very important coming on top of south carolina. it is now clear that this will be a two-person race between the conservative leader newt gingrich and the massachusetts moderate. [applause] and the voters of florida really made that clear. bill: so that was gingrich again late last night on the results quickly on the touch-screen billboard from florida. we show where romney won. in the florida orange nonetheless, romney at 46% and newt gingrich 14 points back at 32%. where did romney do well?

good morning, everybody, i'm bill hemmer. hope you had a great holiday weekend. welcome back to "america's newsroom.". welcome to patti ann. >> i'm patti ann browne in for martha maccallum it is a big deal. bill: greece promises austerity measures including unpopular cuts. stuart varney, good morning to you. in a word will it work? >> for now, no, long term. they're already talking about a third bailout that will be required. there is a report to that effect as of this morning. you see, bill, all of this money has to be repaid. how do you get blood out of a stone? the greek economy virtually collapsed. 8% shrinking. 20% unemployment. they're being called upon to repay a total of what, $300 billion? it is not going to happen. they will need another bailout at some point in the future. bill: what does it mean for us here in the u.s.? does it mean much, stewart? >> no, financially not. we don't want to be like them. we don't want to have our debt situation gets a bad as greece's situation and end up in that situation. it is a warning to us more than anything else. bi

greg: i'm bill hemmer. house is open to options, it's not clear what the options will be. >> there are no magic solutions to rising oil prices and the pain that americans feel at the bump. the fact is is that the president is very aware of the impact that the global price of oil has on families, and this is not something that this administration discovered, or rediscovers every spring as some politicians do. martha: steve centanni joins us live at the white house. what exactly is the white house planning to do, do we think, steve to combat the rising prices. >> reporter: the white house has talked about what they call a comprehensive strategy all along, not one thing but a combination of things to deal with this problem. as you mentioned something jay carney referring to as an all of the above ae approach. as this problem is clearly a big one for the white house the administration is facing new questions about what could be done. yesterday press secretary jay carney said there was no legislative strategy be

glad to have bill hemmer back in the house. i'm martha maccallum. vative voters in both missouri and minnesota could throw everything into flux if they deliver a strong showing for rick santorum, possibly. martha: mitt romney not focusing on his competitors, he is taking straight aim at the president. >> this president what's elected at a critical time when the nation faces real challenges as a patriot has been quoted saying, you either lead, follow or get out of the way. now it's his time to get out of the way. martha: joined by bret baier, he joins us live from washington and we'll be doing the coverage tonight. good morning to you? does it look like we could get a three-way split to keep this interesting? >> reporter: it is possible. going in mitt romney looks like he has some momentum in colorado, he did there four years ago. in minnesota it's not the same ball game. you have his sur owe gates, tim pawlenty says this state often goes to the more conservative candidate, it's a caucus. they are kind of doing some -- laying the groundwork for a loss

. >> i'm gregg jarrett in for bill hemmer. body was found in the bathtub on the even of the grammy awards. martha: they're withholding autopsy information until the toxicology is released. >> beverly hills requested a security hold. there will be no additional information put out as far as what was discovered in the room, any details of that nature. gregg: casey seeing gal is in los angeles. why is it boeing to take weeks for final autopsy report? >> reporter: sadly we've been through this together before, haven't we. the stock ecology will take eight weeks because the blood and tissue samples have to be sent off to a independent laboratory for testing. l.a. county coroner he is office will not rule an official cause of death until that time. of course the toxicology well know from cases in the past is crucial because it will show if there are prescription or illegal drugs in her system at the time of her death, or if there was alcohol in the system. and they were just talking about that security hold. that is something very t

i'm bill hemmer. this wild primary season. welcome to "america's newsroom." martha is out. welcome, patti ann. >> thank you, bill patti ann: good morning. winning there could put him over the top. bill: both can states say they are ready for a good night. >> have a good day tomorrow at the polls what do you think? [cheers and applause] >> this sure has been fun these last 10 days or some we started off, what, 15 points down in the polls. now we're leading in the polls. bill: larry sabato, center for politics, university of virginia. good morning to you, sir. first, if mitt romney wins michigan, what does that mean? >> it gives him real momentum again. he has had it several times prior. but this is a critical moment because next tuesday 10 states vote in super tuesday. the biggest delegate pile yet. the biggest day in the primary season yet. and he wants to do well in one state above all and it happens to be your home state, bill, ohio. bill: flip it around. because you're right, it has reached a critical state. what if santorum pulls off the upset in michigan? >> it's probab

bill: i'm bill hemmer. fix polling numbers hot of the press.ith 23stapbtrick santorum is in second-place. martha: let's bring in bret baier, anchor of special report. what do you make of the numbers? romney has 33%, but rick santorum is creeping up in a big way. >> reporter: if you take a look at the second columns our polling unit took an extra night. you can see the change, rick santorum at 17%, then the surge to 30% on the 8th and 9th. when you put them all together that's how you get the 23%. when you look at the 8th and 9th and the surge that took place there, that is significant and that means the santorum, whatever we are seeing, momentum on the ground is real. martha: that has got to have the romney folks nervous. they have seen many folks nip at their heels, and now they are surpassing them. this is now versus january in this poll. romney at 33%, down from 40 in january. santorum was at 15, and now at 23. gingrich also gets a little bit of pop in this poll and polls about the same. >> reporter: this is a slip for romney, and you see sa

bill: i'm bill hemmer.his report coming claiming the bulk of arsenic detected is the type known to cause cancer. martha: that is very disturbing. this follows another investigation that showed levels of arsenic in some fruit juices. laura ingle with the latest developments. how serious is this. >> reporter: medical scientists and experts sounding alarm buying products containing brown rice syrup. this research by dartmouth college, a brown rice syrup, found in some organic powdered infant formulas could contain dangerous amounts of as sick, -- arsenic, six times more than the environmental protection agency considers safe for the water supply. they find elevated levels in cereal bars, energy bars and drinks energy shots used by endures rans athletes. researchers point out arsenic occurs in several forms, some more dangerous than others. they found the inorganic which is generally thought to be more harmful than organic arsenic. they need more long-term studies to determine what amount would be a real risk t

bill: i am bill hemmer. there are storms in places like kentucky.hey are destroying dozens of homes across the midwest knocking out power for thousands. ktvi's kim hudson quacks us througwalks us through some of the discussion in her town. >> we are just west of st. louis. let me tell you about the chaos they had to deal with here starting at 2:30. take a look at this power pole, it just snapped. one of many along this road. st. charles rook roa charles rock road that snapped last night. as you can see traffic is still affected hours later. the pole when it came down, lines went down all across highway, or in tere state 2 270. shut down all lanes of the road northbound and southbound for hours. the power company was able to get the lines off the road, open traffic not just on 270 but on st. charles rock road as well. look a little further east on st. charles rock road, those lines are down. we have several of these poles down. there are several businesses, as you can see, that will not be opening today as the missouri department of transportation is

bill: i'm bill hemmer. kai reexplodes. live pictures in tahrir square. to protest after a soccer match was deadly to the tune of 74 killed earlier this week. martha: greg palkot joins us from london. what is the latest, greg, on these tourists and their condition. >> reporter: we've been talking to officials at the u.s. embassy in cairo, they are confirming to us what they hear. two american women age 60 and 65 were yanked off the bus along with their tour guide. three others were left on the bus, it could be that they were targeting americans. they were headed back to the red sea resort of sharmal. the kidnappers are demanding release of their fellow people who are charged with crimes. they have been targeting tourists fors past months and years. now that they are having trouble with the government they are taking advantage of that and of course guys this is not good news for an already sagging tourist industry in egypt. martha: you know firsthand about the violence that erupted in tahrir square after the fall of hosni mubarak. this has been a very comp

i'm bill hemmer. heather: i am heather childress in for martha maccallum. he rates 8% ahead of santorum. bill: that is the latest polling from scott rasmussen. good morning to you. >> good morning it's great to be with you. bill: arizona mitt romney last the lead. >> this is lead is way down from where it was before santorum's sweep a few weeks ago. rick santorum is surging as he's become the alternative to mitt romney. the other thing worth noting here, romney support is down nine points, and the combined support for newt gingrich and santorum is up 9, that is something we've seen all across the nation. bill: you did a poll 17 days ago, santorum shot up like a rock. it's really phenom malto see what he has done. head-to-head when you put romney and santorum together this is a dead-even split. look at that 46-45%, scott. >> if you compare it to the first numbers what you see is santorum has gained 14 points, romney only picking up 7. gingrich supporters overwhelmingly say if their guy is out of the race we are going to vote for rick santorum, or maybe anothe

greg: i'm gregg jarrett in for bill hemmer.t of hundreds killed in the streets of sear yeah, the government tries to crush a more than 200 people deed in 24 hours. the toll may be higher than what we saw in libya before nato forces stepped in. washington pushing for a coalition to stop the violence. secretary of state hillary clinton warning of a catastrophic outcome if we do not act. martha: one of the biggest stories over the weekend with regard to this is that russia and china put up road blocks at the u.n. to try to do something about the situation. >> what happened yesterday at the united nations was a travesty. those countries that refuse to support the arab league plan bear full responsibility for protecting the brutal regime in damascus. martha: strong words from hillary clinton with regard to russia and china. leland vittert is live on the story for us in jerusalem. what do you hear about what is going on on the ground in syria. >> reporter: we can confirm that all u.s. embassy staff and their families are out of syria

that's where we start the i'm bill hemmer. some fireworks last night. martha: interesting night, huh? always very interesting. good morning, bill. good morning, everybody. i'm martha maccallum. we had the final face i don't have on the primary calendar. all four of them out there last night trading jabs where they could. rick santorum was on the defensive a bit as we've seen others who have surged to the top of the polls do. here is some from last night. >> the reason we have obamacare, the senator you supported over pat toomey in pennsylvania. arlen specter, pro-choice senator you endorsed in the race over pat toomey he voted for obamacare. if you had not supported him. if we said no to arlen specter, we would not have obamacare. don't look at me. take a look in the mirror. >> he is out there on television ads unfortunately attacking me i'm the great earmarker, when he not only asked for earmarks for the salt lake olympic s in order of tens of millions of dollars, sought those earmarks and used them, governor of massachusetts, 3 or $400 million. i would

bill: rod, bill hemmer here good morning to you. >> hey, bill. bill: we appreciate all your expertise. is it common for the s.w.a.t. team and fbi to respond immediately on a crime like this? >> abs slautly. very common. you will start seeing a whole lot more of that. in law enforcement now, bill, we have protocols in place and unfortunately we learned from columbine and virginia tech. anytime there is shooting at federal building there is response that has to take place i will mead. including fbi, atf and ohio, i know personally the bureau of criminal investigation out of columbus, ohio. they have already been notified as well. the reason you get all the agencies involved, bill, you can get so much information so much quicker because everybody has a certain responsibility. for example, the atf can quickly determine much faster than the local police department where that weapon came from, the type of weapon, if there are other weapons out there, they will conduct ballistics tests right away. all of these things go into place. so it is not unusual

bill: i'm bill hemmer. good morning. sam, a staggering 23% since 2008 just before the president took office. that is things like housing, welfare, health care and retirement. based on that number, it continues to go up, martha. martha: of course you, the taxpayer pick up that tab. eric bolling is the host of fox business network's "follow the money" and "the five." joins us with his whiteboard. >> i have the whiteboard. martha: this heritage foundation studsy astonishing. >> it is huge. martha: scary part year after year, people are depending more and more and more on checks from the government. what is going on? >> more people getting more money, using more taxpayer dollars. here's the problem. when you can literally live off the fat of the land and make $32,700 on average, 67 million people doing that, that means $2.5 trillion coming out of the system of the takers. the makers, who are about 50% of the population, only bring home 32,448. so for the first time ever, if you don't work, and you live on government subsidie

good morning, everybody, i'm bill hemmer. welcome to your friday edition of "america's newsroom". martha has time off with her family. >> imheather childress. the drama playing out late yesterday afternoon. investigators trying to figure out what happened. >> the situation began what we characterize as a incident of workplace violence involving two federal agent in their office space. when the incident escalated one agent fired several round at the other agent wounding hill. >> we're like a family in law enforcement. when something like this happens it impacts us all. in the face of tragedy and adverse triwe're strong and we support one another and we're here for each other. bill: the supervisor targeted in the hospital at this hour. multiple gunshot wounds. casey stiegel with the latest south of los angeles, long beach, california. casey good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. local news reports suggest a motive might be some kind of a disciplinary action going on between the supervisor and that agent when this shooting happened. immigration and customs enforcement or i.c

gregg: i'm gregg jarrett in for bill hemmer. martha, good to see you. how about surge by santorum. he is a in a statistical dead heat with mitt romney. martha: according to the pew center research poll the one you're looking at right now he leads by two percentage points. put a bunch of polls together in the "real clear politics" national polls, santorum a razor-thin margin ahead of romney. the gingrich and paul, 18 and 12% respectively. byron york, "washington examiner". good morning. what do you make of the move by santorum? is it legit? >> absolutely. this is the momentum he built in the wins week ago today in colorado, minnesota and missouri. newt gingrich and santorum argued if they had a one-on-one shot against mitt romney they could do well. that is kind of what santorum got in colorado, must siri and minnesota because newt gingrich didn't play. in a lot of those santorum won. he crossed that the threshold of electability which they worried about santorum. martha: you look at the situation, you think herman cain and all the other players who rose and fell. with santorum is t

. >> kelly: and let's go over to bill hemmer. n tell us how th the race came down. >> bill: red white and blue you can throw in the color orange, what you are about to see on this map is nothing short of domination in florida. this is realtime voting here. 66% of the voting in today, all 67 counties spread out. two colors so far on the screen, romney in orange and gingrich i guess you would call it a lime. romney right now is taking part of the state where he wanted to capture where mccain did so well four years ago. down in the southeast part, connecting to collier county and look here in the middle of the state. it is almost all original, that is the i-4 corridor, where swing voters and independent voters live and work in. many analysts may conclude this portends well for romney in the general election but this is a republican primary in florida and not open to all voters but watch that part of the state. for gingrich his argument will come right in here. tal that has si and leon county over in the west and jacksonville, this is

first let's check in with bill hemmer for what's on at the top of the hour. >> i'm honored, fred. prompter that your show needed to be promoted. what happened to wizard of oz? didn't that win? >> gretchen: that was going to be my guess! >> that was a tough year for the academy awards. >> steve: you want to go upstairs and do his show? >> newt gingrich says your gun rack won't fit in your chevy volt. how gas prices suddenly exploded in the political arena. what do voters see in rick santorum? larry sabato analyzes some new polling numbers that tell an interesting story for the next two states, arizona and michigan. guess which republican governors are trying to cut taxes? this is fascinating. how about a tax break if you grow a mustache? lather up. we'll see you in ten minutes on "america'sne newsroom" three. one. -two. -three. -one. -two. -three. [ male announcer ] with the bankamericard cash rewards credit card, earn 1% cash back everywhere, every time. 2% back on groceries. and 3% back on gas. automatically. no hoops to jump through. -it's as easy as...one. -two. -three. [ male

first, let's check in with bill hemmer for what's up at the top of the hour. >> how are you doing?ur home. how the foreclosure rate is going in the wrong direction. we'll explain why. think arizona needs a militia to guard its own border? our guest will argue in favor of that. and the nuclear arms consideration that has republicans up in arms. martha and i will see you in ten minutes here on "america's newsroom" >> juliet: it's so weird, all of the crew guys are staring at the television for some reason. she's only 19 years old. she's taking the modeling world by storm. kate upton just named "sports illustrated" new swim suit cover girl. she's joining us right now. kate, we'd like to see you live -- there she is. hello. how are you? >> hi. good. >> juliet: congratulations. >> thank you so much. >> juliet: what does it feel like to be the cover girl? when did you find out? what was it like? >> i found out monday on david letterman with the rest of the world. it was such a surprise. i'm so excited. my family has always been into sports and "sports illustrated" was always in our house

>> i'm bill hemmer. the price of gasoline crush any chance of recovery? stewart varney on that.ould be historic unless washington acts. what did high ranking u.s. officials tell israel about attacking iran? general keane will handle that. and santorum and romney, the story changes by the day. we'll see new eight minutes on "america's newsroom". >> steve: ladies, "fox & friends" has gone wild. >> gretchen: we're joined by host of jack hannah's wild count down, jack hannah, you brought special friends as he usually does. good to see you again. >> good to be back. >> gretchen: who is this? >> a kangaroo. >> steve: why is he licking eric? >> he was trying to breast-feed over here. >> gretchen: that's why eric is holding him now, because i was the mama in the house. >> it has three babies at one time. one leaving the pouch at six months. then breed the same day. >> eric: this guy will get big? >> the mother pushed out of the pouch. she does that sometimes. they get five feet tall. you call a group of them a mob. they go 30 miles an hour, hop about 30 miles an hour, hop 25 feet at a t

. >> steve: let's check in with bill hemmer for a preview of what happens this 12 minute. >> lots comingd conservatives gather in washington. we'll talk to michelle bachman about what they want to hear from their candidates. also friendly fire, the president is taking heat from democrats over this contraception ruling now. no budget, no problem, says the white house. we'll ask george pataki about the dangers of not having a plan. is the air force taking god out of the military? a republican congressman wants answers. martha and i will see you in 11 minutes here on america's newser room with great grains cereal. they steam and bake the actual whole grain while the otr guy's flake is more processed. mmm. great grains. the whole whole grain cereal. [ male announcer ] for our town. [ dog barks ] for our country. ♪ for our future. ♪ this isn't just the car we wanted to build. it's the car america had to build. ♪ the extended range electric chevy volt. from the heart of detroit to the health of the country, chevy runs deep. >> steve: republican rick santorum surging ahead after his three-state