. >> from america's news headquarters i'm jamie colby. mu reports about a russian ship that had vanished. it is known as the arctic sea and disappeared last month. now finland investigators say a ransom demand has been made. it was sent to the shipping company based in finland but russia areas maritime website says it is detecting signals off the french coast. france saying the signals must be coming from other russian ships. the intense wildfires burning out of control in california are being fueled by strong winds. state officials are very concerned that the winds could spark more fires. the wildfires are forcing more evacuations in airs already under a state of emergency and the california governor is expected to visit the fire zone today. now "forbes on fox" only on fox. i'm jamie colby. keep it right here. david: what is the best way to get americans back to work? cutting taxes or more government spending? we actually crunched some numbers and found several states lowering taxes this career, arizona, arkansas, idaho, maine, north dak

i'm jimmy -- i'm jamie colby. stay tuned. brenda: oil bushing, settling near $74 a barrel, the highest price this year. what is washington doing? guaranteeing $2 billion in loans so brazil can drill offshore there. gary b., shouldn't we do the drilling right here? >> i tell you what, brenda, this latest iteration is starting to make cash for clunkers look like a great idea because this is stupidity times ten. look, we have the technology, we have the resources, we want to have energy independence, whatever the heck that is. we have oil companies willing to drill. all they need is a clear path. obama is saying no, you can't do it here, bowing to political pressure, but i'm going to take taxpayer money and give it to brazil to do. i just -- there is no-par amter which i understand this argument. brenda: ok, julia. why don't you help us? why don't you inform the complainers here. >> ok, complainer, here we go. do we want to give our tax dollars to countries that are our frenemies such as saudi arabia to continue supplying gas to

i'm jamie colby. more headlines in 30 minutes. >> totally.hey start shooting in a week. >> i'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse. >> enjoy yourself. >> you know, some democrats calling town hall protesters angry mobs, but are the democrats actually acting like a mob? the top two democrats sending a letter to several health insurance companies asking for financial information on everything from salaries to bonuses to company retreats. these are the same insurance companies not too keen on caniglia's health care bill. ben, quid pro quo there? >> this is pure repression of free speech. this is the government squashing anybody who dares to challenge. this is as dangerous a development as i have seen in this very frightening administration all together. i hardly know what to say except i think mr. obama needs to take constitutional law once again. these people's right to speech is unquestioned. there is no harassing them. f.b.n. is moving a story -- fox business, everyone has to watch, is moving a story saying jay rockefeller is demanding

i'm jamie colby. i will have more head behinds in a half hour but now we return to the business block, only on fox. >> so congress handing out another $2 billion for cash for clunkers. it is more like clunkers for guzzlers? the plan meant to get more green cars on the road is getting gas hogs, too. i'm talking big s.u.v.'s and did you know you could buy a hummer in this plan? add that to the carbon footprint that scraps all those clunkers an eric says this green plan ain't so green. >> that's right, bren d.a. you can buy a hummer, a tahoe, a suburban. it should have been all american car, all detroit. whatever. we will move on from that. think about all the carbon you are remitting when you smash these cars. a little known dirty secret is that a lot of these cars aren't being smashed. they're turning up on the road again in other places in this country, and it's purely against the rules. >> actually, eric makes a good point, because scrapping the cars only reduces the co2 if the replacement provides m

i'm jamie colby. neil: is it any wonder why taxpayers are angry? >> the majority is against this plan. >> i want the insurance i have because i picked it. >> you have awakened a sleeping giant. >> you have set yourselves up on a level that you do not identify with your own constituents any more. neil: protesters turn up the heat so democrats are backing out of the town hall meetings saying they don't want to give these people a stage to perform. charles, that is pretty crazy. >> that is pretty crazy. the old saying you can't stand the heat stay out of the kitchen. the next one is close the kitchen. neil: but it is our kitchen! >> to me it is really first of all anybody who does this, any of these legislators that do this, these are premium madonnas, they are gutless, they make me sick. it will backfire. king george thought the colonists were pesky and loud mouthed and see what it got him. as far as not having the ton hall meetings i think it is antiamerican and antidemocratic and cowardly. neil: ben, do you think they are reading the healthcare pre

>> from america's news headquarters i'm jamie colby. there's been a bomb blast that rocked afghanistan's capital. exploding just outside nato's headquarters. it killed at least seven people injuring 91 others so far. this is the first major attack in kabul since february just a week before the election. the taliban claims responsibility. there are new details out about the deadly midair collision over new york's hudson river last weekend. the air traffic controller at teterboro handling the small plane involved in the crash was apparently chatting on the phone and now details that he was talking to his girlfriend about a cat. the ntsb said the controller initially failed to warn the pilot other aircraft were in his path. back to "bulls and bears" now. brenda: so, here is another lesson on stimulus waste. in new york the government happeneding out 200 stimulus bucks to any kid on welfare or food stamps. that is supposed to be spent on school supplies but check out what parents are reportedly buying. video games, flat screen tv's, cigaret

the >> from america's news headquarters i'm jamie colby. developing right now jim webb's office confirms he's won the release of an american prisoner in myanmar. john yet few was sentenced to seven years for going to the home of an opposition leader. yettaw is to be officially deported sunday. also in california the wildfires continue to burn out of control. they are spreading. strong winds are fueling the flames and there is concern that could spark new fires. the governor will visit the fire zone this afternoon. president obama taking healthcare reform to colorado today. it will be his third town hall meeting and you can watch it live at 6:25 p.m. eastern on the fox news channel. join me at 1:00 p.m. eastern for "america's news headquarters." back to "cashin' in" right now. cheryl: which did you think the stimulus was meant for, stimulating jobs or stem lating union paychecks? new york's transit union says it is is the latter. it plans to take $360 million in taxpayer money meant for transportation projects and use it for a pay raise. jon

i'm jamie colby. keep it right here. david: what is the best way to get americans back to work?ting taxes or more government spending? we actually crunched some numbers and found several states lowering taxes this career, arizona, arkansas, idaho, maine, north dakota, texas and they all have a lower jobless rate than the national average of 9.4%. rich, is it time to follow their lead? >> absolutely. the beg problem in this recession is high unemployment and the unemployment unfortunately might get worse. traditionally it is small businesses that come in and create the majority of new jobs after a recession. small businesses on the sidelines this time. people forget most people who run small businesses do not have corporations. they are taxed at the rate of personal income. so the more you lower income tax rates the more small businesses feel empowered and confident to go out and expand and create new jobs. david: neevepl, it is small businesses of the nation are the spine of the economy. they do most of the hiring. don't they deserve a tax cut? >> unfortunately the free marketer

. >> hi, everyone, i'm jamie colby. president obama is trying to clear the air on health care reform. in his weekly radio and internet address, the president is saying that opponents are making, quote, phony claims about the plan, including so-called death panels. mr. obama also calling for an honest debate on the issue, and republicans are accusing the president of being fast and loose with his facts on health care. part of that and grease is up in flames. -- part of that and greece is up in flames. a wildfire is burning north of the ancient city of athens. firefighter efforts on land and in the sky underway. greek authorities have declared a state of emergency. the wildfire began spreading earlier today when gale force winds came into play. there are no reports of injuries. more headlines in 30 minutes. david: all this time we have been told the pay czar was just going to target executives' pay with companies still on the government dole. the tarp companies. now it appears ken feinberg may be changing rules mid game.

i'm jamie colby.e want to tell you more about honda's extensive safety recall and we'll do that in a moment, but we start with washington's big push to pump up car sales and energy efficiency and it's the cash for clurpge clunkers program, a dried up as quickly as it started. caroline shively has more from washington. hi. >> hi, jamie. two days ago the transportation department thought they had plenty of money left for the cash for clunkers program, but it turns out the system set up for dealers to submit the paper work online is so swamped it only showed 1/10 of the interest. civilian dollars supposed to last through the fall got run through in a week and made dealers panic because they paid off the rebate on the spot and don't get reimbursed by the government until later. dealers worry they might be on the hook for the money, but the white house program says it will run through at least tomorrow. yesterday, the house rushed to put another 2 billion into the program, the senate takes it up next week.

. >> jamie: i'm jamie colby, this morning, the captain was the first american service member lost during the 1991 spergs golf war when his plane was shot done and the military we are told never gave up the search for the second generation navy pilot and the navy changing its official status with the kansas city native several times over the years, and as recently as march he was reclassified as missing in action, for more to caroline shivley, live with us in washington. caroline, good morning. let me ask you, first, how they found those remains and what testing has been done to confirm. >> reporter: sure, jamie, an anybodyi iraqi came to the marines and said he knew two men who would take them to the anbar province in the desert of iraq, and he had actually seen the bodies after being shot down, on the first night of desert storm and it took the military until this past week to actually find those remains and flew them back to the u.s. and brought them to a dna lab in maryland, for positive identification and this is jawbone and skeletal fragments were tested. >> jamie: do you know when

. >> jamie: i'm jamie colby, great to have you with us on this exciting day and if you are tuning in for the cost of freedom, no worries it will air later today at 12:00 eastern and only one hour remains now, before judge sotomayor takes her oath and becomes the 111th supreme court justice, caroline shivley is live after the supreme court monitoring the excitement. hi, caroline. >> reporter: hey there, jamie. it an historic day today, becoming the first hispanic justice, on the supreme court, sonia sotomayor and also as you said the first time cameras will be inside the supreme court building and we'll get to see it broadcast live less than an hour from now and here's the breakdown of what we'll see at 11:00 local, first, sotomayor will take the constitutional oath administered by chief justice con robert and a private -- in a private ceremony and her family is allowed in for that and no cameras and that is the oath all federal employees take and in the a public ceremony which we'll broadcast live when she takes the judicial oath and this is huge, because normally the closest you can

. >> jamie: good morning, i'm jamie colby. >> i'm rick folbaum, glad to be with you jamie, welcome to today's edition of america's news headquarters and let's go to mike emmanuel live in phoenix with more and mike, past couple of days, two more health care town halls with the president and any more on the agenda at this point? >> reporter: no, rick, really that was the end of a push, by the president for health care reform, and health insurance reform, as you like to call it now and he is basically going into vacation mode and two town halls in two days symbolizes the fact like he feels it is time to make a full pours push but you will not hear much in terms of event, public events on health care reform and he wrote a "new york times" op-ed today and there will be other things like that and obviously he'll have his surrogates talking about health reform and the president's final push for now within the last two dagens, when he did the two town hall events. >> rick: tell us the -- i read the press release yesterday and the town would be holding a town hall on health insurance reform, t

i'm jamie colby. >> i'm kelly wright.topping the news this hour, the health care debate heading to home towns across america this weekend. we'll show you what happened earlier at a town hall in georgia. >> jamie: the threat is growing and wildfires are growing fast and emergency, state of emergency declared on friday on santa cruz county, fire officials are saying that weather will make or break the attempts to put out the flames and we will have a live report from the scene. >> a homicide bomber makes his way through the police security in afghanistan, detonating a bomb, the biggest attack in the region is six months and we will have the latest on that attack and what it means for the presidential election set to take place just five days. >> jamie: but first across our nation today, many people are filing into town halls meetings and they're fired up and they're voicing their concerns on proposed health care reform. and one of the events taking place in georgia, with congressman david scott, who previously held town hal

. >> jamie: good morning, everyone i'm jamie colby. >> eric: i'm eric sean and many say it was bad enough scotland decided to frae the only person ever convicted of bombing pan am flight 103 that killed 207 people, 186 of them were our fellow citizens, americans. three days later, we're finding anger over the homecoming celebration continues to resonate. across our country. joining us now on the telephone is congressman fiphil gingrey, republican from georgia, what are your thoughts on a potential u.n. resolution by the obama administration condemning the release and the welcome home? >> caller: well, i am all for it. i agree with them, with obama's administration, and -- but don't agree with him on the health care reform ideas and the public option. but it is refreshing that i can agree with him on something. i think that... the resolution even if the security council with libya, as a member now, can beat -- at least we'll have our opportunity to express or opinion and present the resolution to the general assembly. >> eric: the u.s. ambassador, we have no word if indeed the administrati

. >> jamie: i'm jamie colby, senator enzi of one of three republicans who have been willing to consider a bipartisan bill in the senate and he's now thinking twice. senate leader harry reid says he want a bipartisan deal, if possible and other top democrats continue to say if the gospel doesn't agree to reform the way the president wants it, democrats will -- and harry reid said himself, go it alone. caroline shivley, live in washington. >> eric: so let's start with this, how significant do you think the remarks are by the senator this morning? >> reporter: i think it is significant, eric because it comes from enzi and if it was one of the other 39 republicans in the senate it would be a blow but not that big of a deal but he's one of the guys at the table. listening to him describing democrats' efforts in the g.o.p. internet address this weekend. >> both the president and the democratic controlled congress will reject the go it alone path they are currently on. if they do, we'll have a chance to truly work on a real bill, that will address those critical issues. >> reporter: did you he

. >> eric: good morning, everyone i'm eric sean along with jamie colby here in new york. divers recovering a 4th body from the cash site earlier this morning, and this is federal investigators, relying on eyewitness accounts and amateur photographs of the incidents like the one we have been showing you hear in the fox news channel, like this one, so dramatic and sad and to try and piece together exactly what happened and joining us on the telephone is one of the top aviation in the nation, mitch bowmeister, what do you do and where do you start when the mayor of new york says maybe there should be new procedures, how do you determine exactly what went wrong? >> caller: good morning, eric. let me just step back. i have flown this corridor myself, i have flown both high wing aircraft and low wing, fixed wing aircraft and i have been in helicopters in this corridor and number one we have called for a long time, to segregate the aerospace below 1100 feet, a busy corridor, above 500 feet and give the tour operators a specific slice of aerospace, in which they can operate. reme

i'm jamie colby. great to have you with us today. >> eric: i'm eric sh

i'm jamie colby. it's not an isolated incident as americans across the country are showing up for the town halls trying to express how they feel about healthcare reform and the nationalization or public option. >> eric: i'm eric shawn in new york. senator harken calls the outburst you call at the meeting scare tactics and misinformation. the police are even there. caroline shively has been following the heated debate from washington. she has the reaction. people were fired up at the meeting last weekend. is it continuing in to this weekend? >> certainly from coast-to-coast, we're seeing similar video coming from the town hall and cities across america. usually there's just a trickle of people. now hundreds are packing into the rooms. here is just a sample. listen to one in washington state. >> need a public option at the very least. we -- the suspicion -- >> this is great. i'm being heckled by the left. >> that's washington state. you also spoke about senator harken and play some of that video from io

. >> i'm jamie colby. good to have you with us as the president heads on the vacation. number two on the healthcare reform push drops the bombshell. no public option to. now, the question about the controversial part of the healthcare reform push were dominating the sunday talk shows, even before the sebelius news broke. caroline shively joins us from the bureau in washington, d.c. this is a bombshell, caroline. i'm curious whether killing the pub llic insurance option, turning it to to cocan op helps or hurt the bill's chances? >> it will do both. on the senate side, it would absolutely help. on "fox news sunday," ken conrad, democrat, gang of six, bipartisan group in the finance committee negotiating this. he says there are not votes for the public option on this side of thing on the senate. so he came up with the idea for non-profit co-op run by the companies. the insurance company instead of government getting involved. it would help on the senate side. opponents of healthcare should take a look at it. if you look at the house side, three committees passed a bill wi

i'm jamie colby. >> eric: i'm eric shawn. the vice president giving that explosive excusive interview aired on "fox news sunday" this morning. he calls the investigation into the c.i.a. purely political and claims president obama, in his words, is not prepared to do what is needed to proect the nation. live in our washington bureau, with the latest. what else did the former vice president say? >> good morning. the former vice president called the investigation of the c.i.a. interrogation technique asterable decision. he thinks it's a political move that the obama administration is caving to pressure from the left wing of the party and think it will be an enormous blow to morale of the c.i.a. more of the interview -- >> it's a very devastating effect, i think, it has on morale inside the intelligence community. if they assume they're going to be dealing with the political consequences -- it's clearly a political move. there is no other rationale for why they're doing this, then they'll be very reluctant. >> of course, what he'

i'm jamie colby. >> eric: i'm eric shawn. lawmakers turning up the heat on the debate on the sunday talk show circuit. look at wisconsin congressman paul lion who was on "fox news sunday" talking about why we're seeing such outrage at the town hall meetings. >> it seems that the rhetoric that was used to sell this plan is completely disconnected and contrary to the substance of the plan. when you put this in context of what has happened this year, bank bail-out, government take-over of auto companies, massive borrowing and deficit and now a huge takeover of the healthcare sector, making the fiscal situation worse, not better. that's not my words, but according to the congressional budget office, that has people up arms and has people coming to the town hall meetings worried about the legislation rushed through congress. >> eric: for the latest on healthcare reform, go to caroline shively in the washington bureau. caroline, there is a new call now we hear this morning to drop the government run health insurance plan known as t

. >> jamie: i'm jamie colby. great to have you with us. shannon bream takes you from here. america's news headquarters continues from washington. have a great day. >> shannon: a wildfire north of los angeles is threatening 10,000 homes. it tripled in size yesterday to more than 3500 acres. at least three homes have been destroyed and 1,000 homes have been evacuated. the u.s. forest service calls the fire "the perfect storm" of fuels, weather and topography. first we begin with a fox news exclusive. former vice president dick cheney hasn't minced words in his criticism of the obama administration. and now he's blaming the justice department after attorney general eric holder went forward with a probe of the c.i.a. molly has more from washington -- malani wilkes has more from washington. >> they called at it terrible decision to appoint a special prosecution. saying that the obama administration is caving to pressure from the left wing of the democratic party and calls the investigation a clearly political move. >> an outrageous political act that will do great damage long-te

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>> jamie: i'm jamie colby. the news continues now with shannon bream live from washington. wishing you a great day. thank you for joining us. >> eric: take care. >> shannon: this is a fox news alert. crash above the hudson. photographs, exclusive to fox news, show the tragic moment when a single engine airplane collided with a tour helicopter sending them both plummeting to the hudson river below. nine people are feared dead. ongoing investigation continues to unveil brand new information about just what happened. good afternoon from washington. i'm shannon bream. we continue to follow the news from new york where the airplane went down 24 hours ago. laura ingle on the jersey side of the hudson river. what can you tell us about the latest efforts there? >> we have watched the divers all morning long and i learned family members of the helicopter pilot are across the river in new york city at the medical examiner's office. they have the grim task of identifying their loved one. other family members of the other victims have been there as well and we understand that the itali

. >> jamie: i'm jamie colby. the news continues in washington with shannon bream live for you right now. keep it on fox. thank you for joining us today. have a great day. >> shannon: new information today on what critics call the death book. it's a 52-page manual veterans affairs is using for end-of-life counseling for the nation 24 million veterans. critics say the message it gives to severely injured vets is hurry up and die. a top v.a. official who was injured in battle says it's not true. a prominent senator is calling for hearings. i'm shannon bream live in washington for the next two hours. all the new developments in the study were on fox news sunday with chris wallace. caroline shively joins us from washington with details. >> hi to you, shannon. the controversy is over a booklet on the v.a. website called "your life, your choice." veterans can use it to decide what they want for end-of-life care, to figure out how they want things handled by their doctors. one part of the booklet, it lists different heal