i am bill hemmer. >> and i am alisyn camerota. a new york times cbs news poll find six in ten americans say they are disappointed in the obama president so. chris walla ce joins us now. is this the second term blues or obama care related? >> the answer is yes to both. obviously obama care is the main focus and you can see how unhappy people are for obama care. it is a tough year on a variety of issues that he failed to get his way with. and people are not happy with. it it is something troubling for republicans in this poll. while 41 percent approve of the president lowest number right after the roll out of obama care, when it comes to the generic poll, republicans lead but by only three points and that lends credibility to the argument that just opposing obama care is not enough. they need a firm agenda to say to middle-class and working class people, we have a program that, if you let us keep the house and take control of the senate, we'll push to put americans back to work. >> you are right about the same for republicans and so

. >> i am bill hemmer. nand i am allyson camerota. the storm knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of people and leaving air travellers stuck. we have the nows for you. rick is live in philadelphia. we'll start there. rick, how is it? >> reporter: well, the snow finally stopped and a light rainfalling and 34 degrees. if there is good news, the road is starting to thaw a bit. the streets are pretty empty. the government closed schools and courts and also shut down bus service at 10 o'clock this morning in philadelphia because it was too dangerous for the buses to travel on the road and they were getting in the way of the snow plows. here's more from the governor. >> they have reduced speeds on the turnpike and almost all interstates are that affected in the eastern common wealth. pen dot and the turn poik that banned truck ands double or empty trailers for the safety of all motorist. >> reporter: air travel is acted. 846 flights are cancelled and in dc they closed every runway. no planes taking off and landing. a total of 6,000 fl

welcome to hq, i am bill hemmer. good afternoon. >> and i am allyson camerota and that is president holland and president obama in a news conference. we'll bring you news. >> a lot of the topics, iran and nsa and syria. one of the biggest challenges facing millions of americans and that is obama care. >> there is a new delay and raising new questions about the law and amping up the pressure on the white house. bret baier will join us. he is the anchor on fox news chanement >> you heard the question take questions about the employer man date delay. >> it was a long answer to what has been a pretty short decision by the treasury department to delay the man date on small businesses, from businesses from 50 to 99 employees getting another year for the man date to kick in. they have another year before they have to essentially have insurance or pay this fine. it is seen as the president describes it as more flexibility. he's saying they knew from the starts there would be fits and starts and the giant law would be complex

i am bill hemmer. and welcome to heather. >> today's washington post is reporting that the administration is open to exchanging five gitmo detainees for the soldier. >> jennifer what can we say. hello to you. >> hi, bill. in the last week u.s. officials have floated trial balloons through the press suggesting that it the administration would be willing to trade five detained from guantanamo bay for the u.s. soldier. this prisoner exchange is not a new idea and floated by the state department before and appears to gain traction among the u.s. officials since midjanuary. there is no evidence that preparations were made to move the detainees from guantanamo bay. by law the administration would have to notify congress 30 days pending the transfers. admiral kirby was asked about the trade. >> he is not only a member of the bier dal family. >> there was a intercepted video from the soldier to the taliban. the even this latest apparent effort appears to be in an early stage. he is widely to it believed to be h

i am bill hemmer. >> and i am eric sean in for the bill hemmer.sh between the protest is shattering; that brief peacetalks. coming hours after the battled president and the protest leaders called for negotiations. president putin is going to send an armor there to try to nuge negotia negotiate. what is the latest death toll on the ground? >> reporter: the latest i have is 60 people and that is from an operation agent in kiev. i am not confirm that. but there have been a lot of deaths. i have seen pictures of at least 22 bodies. >> there were reports 11 bodies were brought in. the protesters say 32 and you say upwards of 60? >> reporter: that is according to one of the three appeopposit parties. >> now talks on police being held captive. information on that? >> reporter: i saw the still video and police officers being led through the crowd by the protesters. it is very possible that 50-60 police officers were taken/captured because there a huge number of police at the site and they withdrew in disorder this morning. >> we have seeing live pictures

send me a tweet@bill hemmer. >> and to me@alisyn camerota. we looked forward to hearing how you enjoyed your evening. thousands of subpeona documents in new jersey in the state house. this as a christie staffer subpeona in the investigation is stepping down. we have more from the new york newsroom. sounds like there is a lot of developments. >> today is a big day alisyn. subpeona ehails exposed the bridge scandal and a avalanche of more material. there is so much of the stuff that targets asked for more time to hand that in. the apparent abuse of trust and embattled chris christy had going to do with it which he denied. and the state legislator's investigative committee tells fox news that the panel will pour over the newly subpeona evidence. clearly it was an abuse of power. for what end, we are not clear. we know there was an abuse of power and the fact that five people resigned or been fired doesn't stop the possibility of this happening again. >> he wants to find out more about that claim for the lawyer of that man, david wild stein. in t

. >> and i am bill hemmer.re is two feet of snow and shaping up to be one of the snowiest winters we have seen. and massive car pile ups. and thousands of flight cancellations ahead of a busy holiday weekend and thousands of families in the south without pour in the bitter cold. we'll tell you how much more snow we might see in the next 24 hours. >> make it stop. >> another fox news alert for you. there are new questions about whether it was possible president obama did not know about the problems before the launch? there is documents that showed health and human service kathleen sebelius had meetings with the president 18 times and in many of those meetings, the health care law was on the agenda. stephen diamond is the washington times and political editor. >> hello. >> they met 18 times and kathleen sebelius said they never talked about the obama website problems, what does that tell us? >> i can't wait for the tell off memiors after the administration is over and we'll find out who was saying what, when. it

i am bill hemmer and welcome to hq. >>im heather in for alisyn camerota. the congressional budget office predicting half a million americans can lose their jobs if the minimum wage goes up. the administration said that is a myth. byron is a political correspondent with the washington examiner and fox news contributor. is this a fight that the administration wants to pick with the congressional budget office? >> no, no, no. with the election coming up and voters concern about jobs. it is a tradeoff in the proposed policy from the president raising the minimum wage. it would raise 900,000 americans out of pof are they and cause 500,000 or more to lose their job. that is a big tradeoff and the white house doesn't want to talk about it. if you listen to the advisor they think the number is term was 0 in jobs lost. >> he has trotted off to talk about obama care and now this with the minimum wage. what does it mean for the president's a agenda. >> he is fought the republicans accusation that he is not concern about jobs. >> and a lot of americans support an incr

welcome to hq, i am bill hemmer. >> nice to see you and reunited. widespread problems showed more problems than the administration let on. did the white house put people's personal information at risk? byron is a fox news contributor. we knew the federal roll out had problems and now we know just how bad the state roll outs were as well. >> department of health and human services anyhow about it and the white house knew about it. the failure as spectacular as the obama care roll out does not happen overnight. we are getting new e-mails and evidence leading up to the october 1st roll out that showed officials knew there were roll outs. and the latest on the state exchange the health and human services anyhow there were serious security risk in 35 exchanges and they were passing urgent memos and october 1st roll out date was approaching and higher ups said let's g. sorry about the security we'll go ahead. >> why did they do that? knowing the states were high risk why would they press ahead? >> think back to october 1st. we had a huge fight about repub

i am bill hemmer. you are not alisyn. >> no, i am heather childress in for alisyn camerota. telling the house committee that the obama care creates a disincentive for people to work. >> our briefing room in dc, ed, republicans will say it confirms their warnings about health care and the economy and all of the stuff they said for three and half years now. >> reporter: that's right, bill. the republicans are saying look, it confirms the suspicion that the health care law is killing jobs and democrats here in the house and capitol hill are pushing back that that is not what the cbo said. they suggested you may have full- time workers who might decide to be part- time because they are working full- time without health insurance and might find it better for the family and health care to be a part- time worker. and republicans like paul ryan said that will hurt the middle class and democrat chris van holland insists that the republicans are overplaying this. >> by 2017 cbo projects that people will be working fewer hours because of the incentives in the law. the affect will be se

i am bill hemmer. >> and i am alisyn camerota. republicans outraged of an e-mail from lois lerneroused to now rules to clafrng down on the tea party group. >> the president of the united states can go on national television on a day when people watch television. and say there is not a smidgeon of corruption in the irs targeting scandal. we allow people victim used by the internal rev now. >> the irs subjected me to rounds of inquiry and providing facebook and twitter and questions about my political aspirations and demanded to know what i spoke and content and where i inttended to speak. the lying has not spot. i represent the tea party patriots and they don't have the c4 status. >> who gave the irs the authority to say this? and how is it that the president of the united states can say there is no smidgeon of corruption? >> how can the president say there is not criminality when lois lerner are invoked the fifth amendment and the witnesses have not spoken including the two now? how can he draw that conclusion? congressman, thank

. >> i am bill hemmer. the affects over the next decade will be substantially larger and that adds a trillion to the debt and sheds 2.3 million jobs and lou dobbes is here on. this wow, this was dropped 90 minutes ago. what are we to think now? cbo. >> nonpartisan, bill. as you are saying and what we are looking at another round of devastating numbers for all americans. because of the results of this is there will be fewer jobs as you said and they projected that obama care would eject jobs and now they are saying 2.3 million in response to the burdens that are created by obama care. and built in to this is another number that is deeply troubling and that is projected budgets. had been set at just about six and half trillion dollars. just over $6 trillion. and they rise to 7.3 trillion in deficits. there is no good news in this for the obama administration and yet we just received this. if you have time for me to say the head line from the press secretary at the white house saying that with many factors aff

i'm martha maccallum, bill hemmer, we sent him back outside to tell us what's going on. , good morning again. we were here last hour just to give our viewers a sense how this is coming down. the snow's one thing, but when you see the wind coming up, chris, i don't know if you can catch that american flag across the street on the mcgraw-hill company, that's parallel. so that gives you a sense now of how the snow's coming down. martha, last hour, whole sidewalk was cleared off, and this is how much snow has been collecting the last 60 minutes. that's about 2 inches an hour. across the street, go up two streets up to radio city, you can barely see the sign for radio city music hall, and that gives you a sense of how dense the snow is and how much it's coming down. also there's a camera across six sixth avenue. there it is again, way up high. i want to say that's about 100, 150 yards from here, about a good 7-iron, martha, and the thickness of the snow and that wind when it blows and kicks around really creates an added dimension for a storm like this. they warped us, they sa

. >> i am bill hemmer. >> this fire storm is sending the nation into on uproar as republicans are calling for her to veto the bill. three republicans are urging the governor to shut the door on this legislation. >> adam housely is leading the coverage. what will the governor do? >> it seems like she is leaning toward the veto. she has until saturday to decide. she came home to a fire storm over the bill. the bill itself would allow business owners with strong religious beliefs to not service or cooperate with certain customers. it is being sold as an anti-gay bill. business giants like apple and american airlines are urging brewer not to sign this. and even the nfl is starting to weigh in because they are going to be hosting the super bowl. they are saying it would deal a significant blow to the economic growth potential. mitt romney tweeted vetoing this is right. he joins local business owners who are against this bill. >> there is outrage. confusion and a general feeling of why is this happening in arizona at a time when the economy is in the ditch, our schools are broken, our health ca

bachelor number two, bill hemmer. bill: step right up.rtha: obamacare has been front and center and will continue to be as we get closer to midterm elections as balance of power is back up for grabs in very real way. both sides are using the affordable care act in ad campaigns as you might imagine to attack and defend candidates. peter doocy is live in washington for us. peter, how involved are these outside groups really in the early ad campaigns we're seeing? >> reporter: very involved, martha, especially the right-leaning americans for prosperity who already spent close to $30 million since late summer to introduce americans to people they say are victims of obamacare. >> was doing fairly well, fighting the cancer and fighting the lukemia. then i received the letter, my insurance was canceled because of obamacare. >> reporter: that lukemia patient received two pinnochios by "the washington post" fact checker. they say she overstated out-of-pocket costs but she stand by her story and republican strategists say now is the time to introdu

bill: and i'm bill hemmer. good morning wherever you are.ing too routine already. it's been dead hi as well, at least -- deadly as well, at least 21 deaths, most of that in traffic accidents. we saw that pile-up in pennsylvania just a short time ago. new york city had about a foot of snow, north carolina, abandoned cars are still on the roadway today, and in washington the government telling nonemergency workers to stay home like this government employee in d.c. >> a lot of people do try to keep working from home and all that, but eventually i think i've canceled a couple of things today because i needed to come out on the hill with my kids. [laughter] just kick back and enjoy it. martha: you've got to do that once in a while. jonathan hunt live outside fox news headquarters in new york city. how's it looking today? >> reporter: well, martha, i know that the head of new york city schools got into trouble when she said this yesterday in the middle of a blizzard, but really here in new york it is a beautiful day today. the temperatures comfort

welcome, everybody, i am martha maccallum. >> and i will bill hemmer. invited the leader of the investigation who is a well-known donor to the president. the president said there is not a smidge of corruption. >> the person heading the investigation, gave $6,750 dollar to democratic campaign and the president's campaign a. lady invested in the president's success is leading the investigation and we are supposed to belie that is credible. >> that was jim jordan. chris is here from the host of power play on fox. representative jordan has a problem that the fact barbara is a maxed out donor. of the hundreds of attorneys available she was chosen to do this investigation. >> think about it this way: the obama administration has been called the most secretive in history and they are keeping investigators from doing what they do including protecting eric holder and other members of the administration. we are facing the moment, because of what the president told bill, and the way this is going, they could end up with a special prosecutor in their face. >> cleta

. >> i'm eric shawn sitting in for bill hemmer. it's a non-partisan report and predicts 65% of small business will supreme premiums go up. those plans cover 11 million people and employers will likely pass those on to guess who, the workers. martha: that is the way it usually works stuart varney joins us from the "varney & company" from the fox business network. tell us where the numbers come from. >> medicare & medicaid services office of the actuaries. they're bean counters. middle of the road bean counters don't take idealogical position. they studied employers with full-time workers less than 50. they insure their workers privately. the study found as you reported, martha, 2/3 of these employers with 11 million workers will pay more. they didn't say how much more but paying more. this study did not include any extra payment payments for deductibles. didn't include problems working out who is your doctor and who is your hospital. simply saying under obamacare because of what is called the community rating rule, these employers w

. >> send us a tweet@bill hemmer. >> and to me at alisyn camerota. >> iran increasing the anti- american anti- israeli rhetoric as we negotiate with them over the nuclear program. there is a simulated attack on tel aviv and a aircraft carrier. and claims that iran is sending war ships not far from our border. >> hi, ally, it is the iran state of mind as they are trying to flex their muscles. they don't believe that the iranian ships that are heading to the american border left iran. it is a long way down in the south other than coast of africa and no one thinks it presents a clear or present danger in the united states. it shoes how the iranian hard liners are thinking and the messages they are trying to send here and all of the negotiations about the nuclear program. this video that was put out by the iowa rannians is crude and along lines like a bad high school computer gravuc. it shoes the iranians response what they would do if they were attacked. and near tel aviv. and the nuclear reactor. the supreme leader shoes a video. and also attacks on u.s. bases. shoes using iranian drones.

i'm bill hemmer and welcome to america's newsroom. martha: we had days of warnings. tons of preparations. last time it didn't go so well if you remember. here is the headline of "the atlanta general constitution," "bracing for the worst." how is it look this morning, jonathon. >> reporter: i know this route is familiar to you, the downtown connector. normally at this hour it would be back to back with cars. but now it looks like a ghost town. officials telling people unless you have to be on the roads, much safer to be at home. but they have done a good job keeping the lanes opens. there are some overpasses and bridges which are inevitably icing over. we are standing on the 17th street overpass and there is ice forming here. sleet has been pelting us all morning so conditions condition to worsen. but the good news. most people heeding the warnings, staying off the roads and interstates and that's avoiding the horrible bottlenecks we experienced two weeks ago. bill: the power, what is the update you have there? >> the numbers keep going up. 55,000 customers statewide

bill: and i'm bill hemmer. the relationship between the united states and russia going through one of the arguably roughest patches we have seen since the fall of the soviet union. tensions rising in ukraine's crimea region to, ukraine calling it a military invasion. the ousted president just an hour ago speaking from inside russia. listen. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: russia has the right to act. i think that russia has to and must act, and knowing the character of mr. putin, i'm surprised at the fact that he is still so reserveed and keeping silent. martha: just moments ago. joined now by bret baier, anchor of "special report." bret, welcome, good morning to you. >> morning, martha. martha: yanukovych, nobody knew where he was. he has surfaced and held this press conference. he says he's surprised at the silence of vad anywhere putin on this so far. what do you think about these developments? >> yeah, it was really interesting seeing the write-ups and the whole thing about the press conference.

good morning, everybody, i'm bill hemmer. four snowstorms in new york city in seven days. beat that. tough to do. >> they have been really busy. bill: how are you doing, jamie? >> great to be back here. i'm here for martha maccallum. we've had 18 snowstorms this season already. it is all too familiar scene. first you get snow, turns to ice. there is wind. all around nasty winter weather. bill: laura ingle felt all of it. she is back outside again. what is it like? good morning. >> reporter: it has certainly been coming down all morning but not the snow dumbs we've seen in weeks past. certainly this latest winter storm is bringing bringing some dangerous driving conditions and traveling conditions for so many coming back from this presidents' day weekend. this is 8th know whichest winter in new york city. 65 inches in central park. that is double the yearly snowfall average is 27 inches. the record is 75 inches, set during 1995-1996 winter season. hopefully we won't see that again. pens will not be spared. philly gearing up for two to four inches. driving conditions are toug

hello i am eric shawn in for bill hemmer. nexplosive violence and shaky truth in ukraine. government snipers are firing in the crowd and protestors taking riot police prisoner. in the heart of keef cove. and we hear of churches and hotels turned in makeshift hospitals to treat the wounded and hold the dead. amy is live from moscow. >> another problem is that increasingly people are saying it doesn't appear either side his control of its own. that is a frightening prospect as they deals are being brokered and there is a diplomatic flurry of activity in kiev. in terms of the number dead, 30 was the latest we heard and the chief medic for the profesters said 70 of them is killed alone. it is hard to understand the true scale of the casulties. there are guns and snipers and this video showing government protestors and the opposition is now armed, to. it is chaos as they are wounded and carried around on the board or platsurface that are grabbed to use as a stretcher. ukraine's interior ministry said 67 police officers are taken hostage. and they have not commented and local me

i am bill hemmer. how are you doing. alley. >> drought- stricken southern california bracing for 3- 5 inches of soaking rain. but too much rain could trigger flooding and mud slides and putting lives on the line there. adam housely is live from gle glenndora, california. joishgs the rain started on oak grove drive. the water is coming and converging here in the middle. we walked up this way, this is one of the few hillsides that has some vegetation left and of the past that it is burned out. you can so the mud starting to come down lightly here. but a number of geoologist coming through here and police officers monitoring the mud flow. but gives an indication of what could come this way. it is coming down heavy in downtown la. near la where dodger's stadium there is an ongoing rescue two people and a dog are in the la river. you know it is a cement spillway and not a river like ittoused to be. it is driveway most of the year especially since the drought. rain coming down like this it swells and moves quickly. the ongoing

send me a tweet at bill hemmer. >> and send to me at heather childers. >> let the genius flow. >>> minersllapsed mine in south africa facing charges. they were working illegally in an abandoned gold mine. two are facing charges and an unknown number remaining in the deep tunnels because they are afraid to come out. they are streaming live with the latest details, paul? >> reporter: that you have locked up the behind me. they are coping a watchful eye in case more try to escape in the night. in all two men emerged since this drama began. what happens when they come up out of the surface? they have a thorough medical check and those men two of them are spending the night in police cells and will start to a pore in court tomorrow. these men underground are desperate and the subject of a new movie, and this movie shoes you what happens under grouvenltd there are fights and murders and they fight over a loa f of bread. there are said to be thousands of miners underground police told us today. and illegal miners are often in the operating mines, and sundicates are said to bribe staff to let the

. >> i'm bill hemmer. here's gretchen carlson. see you tomorrow. >> thanks so much. today on "the real story" senator ted cruz is here to respond to a new report on the benghazi attack showing our americans were vulnerable because of security that wasn't up to snuff. senator cruz live. the obama administration had a special touch when it comes to social media outreach, right? what happened with their social media approach to obama care they appear to be losing? we will have a fair and balanced debate for you. something from the ground hitting planes thousands of miles in the air. who the fbi is targeting in an effort to keep you safe. >> hem gretchen carlson. hope you're having a great day. breaking news with the debt ceiling debate. looks like it will all come to a head tonight when the house is expected to vote on a clean debt ceiling bill after a republican plan to tie any increase in the borrowing limit to restoring military pension benefits gets scrapped over concern it wouldn't get enough votes. now the gop planning to take up a bill no strings attached. stu is

good morning, everybody, i'm bill hemmer. four snowstorms in new york city in seven days. all too familiar scene. first you get snow, turns to ice. there is

i'm bill hemmer. martha: i'm martha maccallum. lois lerner back in the news to

i'm bill hemmer outside of our studios here. 48th and 6th avenue. since 5:00 this morning. just to my left this is the amount of snow that has a accumulated. it is, i

stuart: bill hemmer said more people are hurt negatively by this storm than any storm in many, many,e it is so drawn out. charles: and it is hitting spots that are not normally hit. stuart: a report on one, time warner cable and comcast getting together, $45 billion stock deal. low marks for customer service. 30 million subscribers when and if they get together. i say this is a good deal for streaming services like netflix because the delivery system, not via cable. charles: i don't want to say desperation, but certainly these guys are bulking up. we are not even sure it will be allowed to merge, but the one thing you hear from everyone, less competition, less condition means worse service. these guys already had that reputation so it will not be enhanced, that is for sure. stuart: the judge is here, he wants to weigh in on this merger. do you think of a greater agency will allow them to merge? >> yes, it is in the agency will allow them to merge even though they will control such a substantial portion of the market that they are dangerously close to controlling too much. something c

. >> first, we're going to check in with bill hemmer. what's coming up at the top of the hour?ing? okay. >> morning, guys. big decision for the arizona governor. we're watching that today. eric holder says, do as you like, not as the law states. what's up with that? we'll explore. and why would the va destroy the records of thousands of our veterans? we'll see you at the top of the hour, ten minutes away. ivitamine over one million hours of research. inside are specific vitamins and minerals to help support your heart, brain and eyes. centrum silver. for the most amazing parts of you. ... you might need to come closer... ... half a world closer! olet's say you pay your tguy around 2 percent to manage your money. that's not much, you think except it's 2 rcent every year. does that make a difference? search "cost of financial advisors" ouch! over time it really adds up. then go to e*trade and find out how much our advice costs. over tispoiler alert.dds up. it's low. really? yes, really. e*trade offers investmen advice and guidance from dedicated professional financial consultants

i am bill hemmer. you are not alisyn. >> no, i am heather childress in for alisyn camerota.ng the house committee that the obama care creates a disincentive for people to work. >> our briefing room in dc, ed, republicans will say it confirms their warnings about health care and the economy and all of the stuff they said for three and half years

i am bill hemmer. >> and i am alisyn camerota. e-mail from lois lerneroused to now rules to clafrng down on the tea party group. >> the president of the united states can go on national television on a day when people watch television. and say there is not a smidgeon of corruption in the irs targeting scandal. we allow people victim used by the internal rev now

bill: i'm bill hemmer, see you at 1:00 later today. "happening now" starts right now.rand new stories you see here first. >> five years ago today as we were dealing with a massive recession the president zioned his equally massive stimulus plan into law. did we get what we paid for? a question we will ask today. >>> disturbing twist in a murder investigation. a teenage suspect accused of luring a man to death on craig's list, claiming there are many more victims. we'll get into that. >>> a pilot hijacks his own plane. what he was demand something all "happening now." jenna: to our top story, democrats going on the offensive on obamacare. hi, everybody, great to have you today. happy presidents' day today. i'm jenna lee. jon: i'm jon scott. democratic candidates hoping to change the narrative on the health care law ahead of the midterm elections. "the new york times" today reports more democrats talking openly about props with the president's health care law but trying to emphasize that they want to fix

i am bill hemmer. how are you doing.icken southern california bracing for 3- 5 inches of soaking rain. but too much rain could trigger flooding and mud slides and putting lives on the line there. adam housely is live from gle glenndora, california. joishgs the rain started on oak grove drive. the water is coming and converging here in the mile

welcome to hq, i am bill hemmer. >> nice to see you and reunited.ead problems showed more problems than the administration let on. did the white house put people's personal information at risk? byron is a fox news contributor. we knew the federal roll out had problems and now we know

i am bill hemmer and welcome to hq. >>im heather in

gregg: i'm gregg jarrett in for bill hemmer. the jobless rate is falling to 6.6% but that won't make up for what analysts are calling weak numbers for the second month in a row. >> a lot of people talked about the weather. we knew there might be some distortion to this. we came in initially a week or so ago. people thought it would be 190,000. even taking into account the polar voir deks. no one thought it would be 114,000. it's an extraordinarily low number. everyone said 174,000 in december is wrong. it would be resides. it was revised by an extra 1,000. i have got to tell you, the federal reserve changed its policy in december and when they did that they were signal together world they thought the worst was off and we were probably going to get some momentum. we got the exact opposite so far. martha: 73,000 revised upward. >> reporter: 74,000 to 75,000. martha: what do you think? why aren't people hiring? >> reporter: i just came back from madison, wisconsin. i spoke to business owners there. these guys want to invest, they w

i'm bill hemmer. a big welcome back to martha. coming out of the mountains and back to the city. martha: out of the mountains and back to the city where there is more snow than the mountains sometimes. good morning i'm martha maccallum. this report is released just as the senate gets ready to debate the proposal to raise the minimum wage to $10.10. bill: my friend, this will cost a lot of jobs. how do you see it? >> raising a minimum wage is the mainstay of the president's economic policy cbo, government's own bean counters objectives down the line analysts say one-half million jobs will be lost by 2016 if you raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, bill. bill: i wonder if people thought that they conclude it will raise income. is that a fair tradeoff? >> let me get to that. 16.5 million people will get a raise, but, will only add $2 billion in real net income. that is a direct quote from the cbo, real net income, only goes up $2 billion. that is in a $15.5 trillion economy. one more item. 30% of all of that money, actually goes to people who are already making three times the

. >> i am bill hemmer.next decade will be substantially larger and that adds a trillion to the debt and sheds 2.3 million jobs and lou dobbes is here on. this wow, this was dropped 90 minutes ago. what are we to think now?

bill: and i'm bill hemmer.ting to tighter rules on drone strikes imposed by president obama and america's intelligence chief, james clapper, is said to update lawmakers on current and future threats to the homeland. martha: john bolton joins us now, former u.s. ambassador to the u.n. and a fox news contributor. ambassador, good to have you here this morning. >> good morning, martha. martha: a couple of things at play here, and the most important is whether or not this person poses an imminent threat to american lives overseas. what's your understanding of how, how bad this guy is and what he may be planning? >> well, i don't think it's an issue at all whether hek]xñd pon imminent threat. if we have information that an american citizen or anybody else has joined in taking up arms against the united states, he is a legitimate target in our war against terrorism, a war the obama administration doesn't like to talk about. it's not a question of whether he's an imminent threat. if he's on part of the enemy's side, h

i'm eric shawn in for bill hemmer. martha: we'll see you back here tomorrow. "happening now" starts right now. bye everybody. jenna: we'll start with ukraine. fox news alert on the crisis there spiraling out of control. at least 22 people killed in new violence in kiev after a brief truce fell apart. fires burning, protesters throwing molotov cocktails. the ukrainian president and opposition launched in a deadly tug-of-war. there are bodies on the streets where the main protests are taking place. this as we hear protesters have captured at least 67 police officers. that is the number we have now. it can change. also perhaps, capturing a key official in kiev, i'm sorry, the key official in kiev quits ruling party. perhaps coming to the opposition there is lot going on back and forth. this bloody political crisis is sparked by a dispute over the future of ukraine where the government aligns with. whether the government will lean toward the west and the european union or lean towards russia. we have a big debate and a live report moments from now. first, breaking

bill: i am bill hemmer, good morning.he very people who would benefit the most from obamacare. low income americans living beneath the poverty line. but they are apparently victims of a gap in coverage. martha: as many as 5 million americans who make a little bit too much to get medicaid, even if it is $100 per week. but make too little to qualify for the subsidies. the writer for "the hill." good to have you here. explain to us who is falling into this cap and why. >> these are a lot of childless adults more than 20 states around the country that have chosen not to expand their medicaid programs under obamacare. this became optional for stays as a result of the supreme court's decision in the summer of 2012 and a lot of at that point a lot of people praise the supreme court because they said states should have the option to either expand this program using mostly federal dollars or refuse not to if they oppose it. now what we are realizing is a lot of people will not receive government help even though they are destitute

. >> i am bill hemmer. nand i am allyson camerota.cked out power to hundreds of thousands of people and leaving air travellers stuck. we have the nows for you. rick is live in philadelphia. we'll start there. rick, how is it? >> reporter: well, the snow finally stopped and a light rainfalling and 34 degrees. if there is good news, the road is starting to

eric: hello, i'm eric shawn in for bill hemmer.ned a compromise agreement promising new elections and constitutional reform. but, sadly, the deadly political crisis is not yet over. martha: as we look live now in the streets of central kiev, unconfirmed reports coming in of renewed violence. you can see someone on a stretcher as we speak. it has appeared to have quieted down in some respects there. the demonstrators, though, have said that they will not res until the president -- rest until the president has resigned from. a reporter joins me now on the phone from kiev. tell me what is happening on the street, what the reaction is to this signed agreement. >> reporter: well, actually, it's like the guys on the street aren't even paying attention to it at all. i mean, today was extremely, is extremely crowded down on the street. there's lots of people going down there. they're bringing, you know, more food, more supplies, there's more guys signing up to join these barricade self-defense groups. their feeling is that today want yang

welcome to hq, i am bill hemmer. >> i am heather childers in for alisyn camerota.since president obama signed the economic stimulus package in to law. >> with a recovery package this size comes a responsibility to assure taxpayers that we are careful for the money they worked so hard to earn. i am a signing a team of managers to a sewn it is used wisely and well. >> how is that it group of managers working out. >> they must have been unlocked from their jobs. i don't think they showed up for work. >> how will history view the stimulus plan? >> it will be i think viewed as

. >> and i am bill hemmer.e one of the snowiest winters we have seen. and massive car pile ups. and thousands of flight cancellations ahead of a busy holiday weekend and thousands of families in the south without pour in the bitter cold. we'll tell you

i am bill hemmer live here in "america's newsroom." >> and i am martha maccallum.ry muscles conducting drills up and down and now the ousted president is

gregg: i'm gregg jarrett in for bill hemmer.

i'm bill hemmer and welcome to america's newsroom. martha: we had days of warnings.