. >>> and good evening, i'm jeff fournier, a ton of hot air building across the bay area, pushing the fog across san francisco. we'll have more on the heat-up coming up. also a spare the air day, with quality for the east and south bay. how hot coming up in just a few minutes. >> thank you, jeff, also ahead at 6:00. stay out of the water. or should you? why a serious shark warning at a local beach is leaving questions tonight. >>> and getting sick at school, why the design at classrooms is at issue. >>> and shelling out extra money this year. bad news. we'll be right back. >>> the dramatic differences between the integrity of the old eastern span of the bay bridge and the new one under construction were presented to sacramento today. the video from the earthquake showed how the pancake, the 50-foot section of the upper deck, the engineers say when the span was built in 1939, the materials were not as well understood. they say the new design is able to withstand double what the old bridge could. and the california rail authority at the first stage of the $900 million contract in the fr

ron fournier wrote a list of bullet points. media's fundamental job is shine light in darkest corners of government. if we stand pr for anything is transparency and accountability. meeting secretly borders on hypocrisy. >> the magazine talked about eric holder didn't think about having these meetings until he was reading the "washington post" at the kitchen table finally sunk in maybe the media was upset with him. >> this president was also troubled and therefore he asked the attorney general to examine his own department and his own conduct and come up with recommendations for fixing the problem in 45 days. excuse me, what is going on here? >> jon: the irs scandal is not going away but the coverage seems to be. >> mistake details focused in the irs scandal over targeting conservative groups. had the media moved on ignoring the story? when it comes to fact checking, do the checkers need check something answers next on news watch. .. ♪ and she forgot to pay her credit card bill on time. good thing she's got the citi simplicity c

miss fournier, while a minor certainly, also had a heart condition.there are some mitigating factors here, are there not? >> i wouldn't call them mitigating factors. monster targeted teenagers like alex morris when he was a teenager, when he was 15 and 16 years old, with their marketing. and mr. morris, the evidence is going to show, that he consumed between two and four energy drinks a day for the three years before his death so we're confident -- >> what are you seeking? what kind of a settlement would you be willing to accept from monster? or what is it that you want from them? >> we want monster to stop marketing their product to children, teenagers and young adults, and we also want monster to put a warning on their product so that consumers know that those with underlying heart conditions should not be drinking energy drinks. energy drinks can be extremely dangerous for anybody with an underlying heart condition and the big problem is that many children, teenagers and young adults aren't old enough to know that they have heart conditions, so a l

capital floor a bloody mass over the health care debate is bad if you are magazine and journalist ron fournier of the national journal recently said obama has raised a jihad against the press making it more likely it will have done wars jihad against the press so of course that made headlines this was a great headline recently to mcconnell decries i.r.s. jihad against obama critics yep senator mcconnell said it and then the media waned to printed up in headlines everywhere the use of jihad in terror isn't limited to describing obama related stories though this was a great headline that popped up is it time for the great jihad against networked storage jihad against networked storage for computer data yes that is an epic emotional struggle for believers against nonbelievers and as for terror every news out. jumps to use it to describe everything from the weather to dogs all of these headlines popped up in the last few days deadly tornadoes heavy flooding terrorized central oklahoma scream they terrorize you troops with first paid horror channel wild hogs terrorizing port st lucie neighborhood t

anyway, thank you, ron fournier and michael steele. >>> up next, do the republicans want answers or usinghe irs as a proxy for the president and what they see as the evils of big government? that's ahead. this is "hardball." the place for politics. >>> we're coming back with the latest troubles for the irs we've been talking about and republicans who want to blame it all on the president. "hardball" back in just a minute. >>> we're back. the irs was under attack again today on capitol hill. conservative and tea party groups targeted by the irs testified before the house ways and means committee this time. there was no lack of emotion or fireworks from the witnesses or the members of congress. let's watch. >> i'm a born free american woman, wife, mother and citizen, and i'm telling my government that you've forgotten your place. >> this isn't somebody dropped a piece of our tax return out on the sidewalk inadvertently. they deliberately provided our donor list to the very political opponents of ours who have been seeking that information for a long time. >> what happened to you was unfair.

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yesterday rouen fournier at the national journal said this administration has lost credibility becausey keep changing their story and flatout lie. >> i've been called a hypocrite for exactly you pointed out, gretchen. if you supported the patriot act, you must support president obama's version of the patriot act and what the n.s.a. is doing. then absolutely incorrect. the patriot act was set up to target foreign intelligence. there had to be at least one person on the line involved that was outside the united states and then you could go from there. the difference is -- and president obama didn't like that, but he took that program and expanded it by multiples by saying not only do you not have to be a foreigner. i can target americans. i can target groups of americans. i can blanket all of verizon customers. that is not what the patriot act was written about. we had sensenbrenner tell us that's not the point of the patriot act. president obama said the patriot act was bad and expand it by multiples is very hypocritical. somebody is being hypocritical. it is not me. i would say it is t