brian. >>> kelly o'donnell with the story from the hill for us tonight. kelly, thanks. >>> tonight we have a dramatic change to report along the u.s. border with mexico. in recent years it has been a wild west of illegal immigration, but now, because of a sustained crackdown and a weak economy, things are actually showing improvement. our own mark potter reports tonight from the u.s./mexico border. >> reporter: on the mexican border at el paso, the daily game of cat-and-mouse is under way. between u.s. border patrol agents and mexicans trying to enter the united states illegally. >> wait to see if a group comes across. they have been testing us in different areas. >> reporter: with more border patrol agents, more cameras and the huge border fence, it is much more difficult than it used to be to cross illegally from mexico to the u.s. >> now we control this border. we own this border. it is our border. >> reporter: this man climbed the fence but was caught right away. >> there is just too much vigilance out there. it's hard to not get seen. >> reporter: of

brian. >>> kelly o'donnell on capitol hill for us. kelly, thanks. >>> depending on where you live where you drive, some times you see them at construction sites. signs that are designed to herald the stimulus money being spent on roads and on-ramps and the like. it was a lot of money, $787 billion in the end. it was five months ago. it was supposed to fix and build a lot of things and put a lot of people to work during a time of high unemployment. and the white house isaying -- be patient. the story tonight from our senior investigative correspondent lisa myers. >> reporter: at this road project in maryland, a sign tells all who pass by, that the money for repaving came from the stimulus package. the obama administration has encouraged states to put up the signs which can cost as much as $1,200 to reassure the public that the stimulus is working. jason dodge certainly thinks it's working. >> i was really happy. took a lot of pressure off my shoulders. >> reporter: he has three children and was unemployed until this job came through in

brian. >>> kelly o'donnell on the hill. across town in washington to the other part of this we mentioned our chief medical editor, dr. nancy snyderman, talked to the president about health care. we saw some of it. nancy is with us from the white house lawn with more. nancy, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. just three days after being abroad, the president today jumped into the health care reform debate, re-energized and pledging change and started with the ceremony in e rose garden then sat down with me this afternoon. wh i haven't heard anyone ask is for the american public to pony up too, this is going to require some give for all the stake holders involved? >> let me talk about what i think the american people are going to have to do. first ofll, the american people have to recognize that there is no such thing as a free lunch. so we can't just provide care to everybody, it has no cost whatsoever, you don't end up having to make any decisions. >> so self-responsibility?. >> self-responsibility is critical.

brian kelly of "u.s. news & world report, kobold franklin, syndicated columnist, and jeff giesea, a newspaperman. he is from the new media and has actually made money on the web. he is sold successful companies with fierce marketing and is looking for new opportunities. i shall see him afterwards with my proposal. [laughter] >> i would like to come back to something, the cost structure of the web. one reason that it is cheaper for google or yahoo! to of content is the they do not pay for content. they have links to another news organization that is paying a reporter and a photographer and an editor to sit through the trial or go through the court records are to cover the movie review or whatever, and then the link to a website is free. so there's a disconnect in terms of the people being paid to generate the content like some of us around the table, on the one hand, and on the other hand, the web sites better linking to us and there is not a financial relationship there. >> i would like to get to the poli

brian? >> kelly o'donnell on the hill this friday night. thanks for that. >>> big name hotels overseas, especially those with western ties have become the new target of islamic terrorists. six of them have been hit in the past nine months alone killing 200 people. and just last night, two more hotel bombings in jakarta, indonesia, killed at least eight people, wounded 50, including a number of americans. our own ian williams with us tonight from bangkok with the latest. ian, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. indonesia thought it was beating terrorism. there has been tight security at western hotels and no major attacks in nearly four years. but today, terror returned to jakarta. chaos moments after the blasts. two explosions minutes apart. they shook the luxury jw marriott and ritz-carlton hotels, sending the injured spending into streets littered with glass and debris. >> i went out of the hotel and everything was quite crazy. >> it sounded like the earthquake that we had about a year or two ago. >> reporter: at least eight p

. >> the action trader along with brian kelly, good to have both of you with us. let's start off with meredith's prediction that obviously is higher than what a lot of people are publicly saying, perhaps not a shock to anyone to think of unemployment to 13 percent per or higher. is there a trade that it goes there or worse in. >> yes, there is. my unemployment trade is your water company. you can debate that it's 14% or 11%, but the recession is not over and not going to be over for sometime. the legacy it will leave behind is the consume they're is more conservative and driven by fear. the rotation goes from things we want to things we need. water has to be on the top of that list. this company is a vertically integrated company and they own the reservoir and the filt rag to the home. wateis not going away. we had a good return and better profit margins due to increased efficiency. dividends before they seem not exciting, but nothing is more exciting. >> just so i clarify, y o.r. w. i waited until the screen came up to clarify. let's get to your unemployment trad

here now for the daily dose of "street signs," brian kelly and tim small's head of trading. thanks for joining us. me what you think of tech right now. are you a wading this earnings season with such eager anticipation as jim is? >> i'm await together on a macrolevel in terms of what the market will do. it will be important to see if these companies can perform. i'm not that excited about the earnings coming out, but hopefully we will get good news. >> we had a technical problem on my end. let me ask you what is your best trade right now. >> the best trade is rerise on and we finished a study of the wireless market and the results were clear. it was verizon, at&t and everyone else. verizon is post poised in the space in the space and verizon is the best capabilities and highest quality network and the most profitable wireless company. stock is tremendously oversold and anything down in the low 28 level and sub28. >> the hidden trade is buy taiwan. it's the i shares and taiwan index. you saw water shed event where china announced they can invest for the first time in 60 years

brian kelly is with us, jimmy, inconstitutional services director with us. do you know a company ha has done all three? >> i don't think so. i think the whole trend has been bottom line beats but top line misses. >> this sort of sticks out. i know both of you have taken the time to come up with earnings related trade. jim, another one that did  increase the forecast was in th auto industry. >> honda motor corp, this to me seemed like a layup. it's hard buying into a 7%  rally. but this is the real thing. if you look at the statistic, w went from a negative savings rate to 10% savings rate in a  short amount of time. in the time, i believe the consumer will come out of it a different consumer. in the past we had misguided brand loyalties, know it will b to one's own wallet. honda, according to cars.com is the leader in resale value. when you look at the big picture, it is better when you own a honda. the bottom line, when you get the situations where one industry plum et cetera as badl as it has been, the strong tend to gain market share. the

an institutional services director and options action trader and also brian kelly, president of conundrum research. thank you very much for joining us. your focus on the weak dollar trade. >> i am. we have been talking about tech, but the trade going on for five months is resumed. the dollar is trending lower and when that happens, the money starts slow and the commodities. the grs is what i'm look at. good revenue growth and good margins and good production on gold and silver. you get both of those, but anyone who trades in the space knows that none of that matters. what matters is if the dollar heads lower, you get more bang for the buck. they're over the last six months and seems to be something the money will flow through. we have little troubled days where everybody buys the dollar because we are scared at something and the weak dollar trade continues. >> what would make you take off the trade? i know dollar strength, but what is a signal that makes you think it's here to stay? >> one of the oil, gold, silver and something to start heading in. oil usually happens first because oil ha

let's ask brian kelly and scott nation's chief investment officer. great to see both of you. brian, let's kick things off with you. what's your trade of the day? >> my trade of the day is africa. and there was a big headline yesterday in the financial times about how china is going to diversify reserves. i would argue, one that it's not really brand new news. china has been diversifying their reserves for a long time by buying other countries. by buying other companies in other countries. but, what's different this time is that they publicly announced it. they have run under political pressure and problems in western countries, i'll call them, which include australia in that. where they haven't run into africa is africa. africa can is resource rich. they have 40% of the world's gold, 20% of the minerals and 20% of uranium. china has a big nuclear program so that's important. the easiest way to plate it would be the officer investors, afk, and not only they have china buying into africa but saudi arabia buying up farmland to produce soy beans for that country as well. >> thanks

kelly, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. one senator said he won't be able to sleep at night after what we heard here today. there is a new report that shows serious weaknesses in security at federal buildings. so serious, real bombs got past the guards. you're watching a security breach. government investigators shot these pictures as they carried bomb-making materials through security at a federal building. ten times at ten different buildings guards failed to detect explosives that officials say could do this. hiding in federal building restrooms, investigators put together improvised explosive devices that could be even more powerful. >> assemble the ied, walked around several floors, into executive and legislative branch offices with the device in a briefcase. >> senators were disturbed. >> i am in one of those buildings. there is hundreds of people in there. >> reporter: the federal protector service provides guards at 2,300 federal buildings nationwide. >> how do you explain to yourself how these things were allowed t

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brian: i also smelled like meat because i worked in a meat place. megyn kelly is here. apitol hill. that they will actually read the bills before they pass them, and guess what? some of the lawmakers are saying no. just as some democrats push for another stimulus, we learn where the first one is going. also do not call them the m word, the term is little people, and donald trump may be in trouble for not knowing that. . . . dave: cellphones cause brain cancer. these are some of the frightening stories we hear over and over again. our next guest says much of the medical information we hear is far from the truth. in her new book, she separates the fact from untended fears -- and unfounded fears. good morning to you. these are things we hear over and over again. i was frightened by the cellphone story. do they cause cancer? >> at the present time, we have no data that shows it causes cancer. dave: where did it come from? >> the research says maybe there is a link, but they do not take it to the next level to evaluate it further. for the short term, there is no link with the

brian: and other reasons. steve: and seattle to tell this story. good morning to you jay michael kelly.morning. >> good morning. steve: when i first saw that video without hearing the whole story, i thought whoever was driving that boat was probably dead. when you look at that picture, what was going on inside the cockpit? >> it was like being on a giant roller coaster, you know. it caught me by surprise and all you can do is really hold on and hope for the best. brian: hope did you buckle up. have you figured out since you are a pro what happened that caused to you flip like that? >> just a combination of a few things, you know, going almost 200 miles an hour. rollers have other boats and a little bit of wind and little roller and just next thing you know take off. and sometimes there is nothing can you do about it. >> jay michael as we look at the video again, i have been water skiing. i don't know how fast that is, maybe what 25, 30 miles per hour. sometimes that can be a little on the rough side. what is it like going close to 200 miles per hour had on what looks like a pretty calm

kelly. you did a great job of explaining it all. we will continue to follow this story. >> i hope so. gretchen: good to see you. brianamazing that deadline got pushed back. well, when we get to it. steve: absolutely positively by the end of the year. meanwhile, expect a busy day at car delearships nationwide. today is the official start of the cash for clunkers program. the government giving people who trade in their old gas guzzlers $4,500. if you buy a new car that gets at least 10 miles more per gallon you get an extra thousand dollars. many car dealers are offering their own incentives. go down to your car dealer and see if they got a good deal. brian: i know also on ledger this week is what's going to happen with the delearships and what the house is doing that would close for no apparent reason. does something stink? federal reserve chair ben bernanke says he has h. to hold his nose over the bailouts for big financial companies but that it had to be done. bernanke held a town hall meeting in kansas city to defend the fed's effort to help save the economy. bernanke said it made him angry that the government had

fox 5 learned that anthony kelly white just got out of prison on a drug charge and was on probation. paul wagner is in the newsroom with more. paul. >> reporter: brian, white has a history of trouble with the law. he's been convicted twice in prince georges county and has been convicted of assaulting a police officer. an officer noticed the temporary tags -- tags on his car were altered. as they tried to stop him,

brian: thank you for joining us. by the way, be sure to tune in tomorrow night, bret baier and megan kelly will hold a preview of judge site sotomayor's hearings, it's called judging sotomayor. the federal government is taking a look at youtube contest, the challenge, make your own 60 second public service announcement about flu prevention. secretary sebelius says once the h1n1 targets young people youtube seemed like a good way to reach them. the winner will receive $2500, go to flu.gov. thinking how to come up with more than a trillion dollars to pay for overhauling health care looks to be the question on capitol hill this summer. now, some top house democrats are proposing taxing wealthy americans, to help come up with the money. caroline shively is standing by and she has that story. hello, caroline. >> hi to you, brian. the house ways and means committee is proposing a 550 tax increase to help for health care. charlie rangel's plan would tax individuals making more than $280,000 a year or couples who earn more than $350,000. the chairman says the tax was back in 2011 and start around 1% maybe higher and the congr

kelly's court" is back in session. the local real-estate agent accused of being mixed up in murder. we're awaiting an update on 47- year-old pamela wiggins. you can see brian the fact of felony homicide. look at the smile on her face. this woman has just been charged with playing a role in the double murder that shocked the nation the victim's work byrd and melanie billings. police say that there were gunned down in their home during a military style home invasion robbery. ms. wiggins is a prominent beach rental agent. we do not know exactly right now. in any event, she was also apparently the landlord and friend to one of the prime suspects in this case. police say, she was not part of the deadly operation on the day in question. what was her role? but ask our panel. good morning, panel. this case is just so disgusting. it is so disturbing that we have to talk about it. every day that passes, the arrest somebody else. we find out of the plot to rob the store couple was far more extensive than any of us knew. so far, it has all been day laborers that have been arrested, people who at some sort of work connection to this family, but not ms. wiggins. how doe