jenna. jenna: busy day over there on capitol hill, james, thanks so much.old you voting is underway right now in the michigan and arizona primaries, and the outcome could be a game-changer for the republican race. different battles, though are playing out in each state. alicia ac u.n. a is liv acuna is live. >> reporter: arizona has 29 tell gather up for grabs. this state hasn't seen the same type of attention from the campaign as michigan has. to give you an idea how each state stands in the candidates' eyes this is how many events each one has had in michigan versus arizona. romney is locked in a bitter battle with rick santorum for bragging rights to his home state. things took a turn for the worst when word got out that the santorum camp used robocalls in michigan to urge democrats to vote in that open primary. here is romney's response. >> republicans have to recognize there is a real effort to kidnap our primary process. if we want republicans to nominate the republican who takes on barack obama i need republicans to get out and vote, and say no to th

jenna: i'm jenna lee. jon: and i'm jon scott.ma -- jenna: even though it's valentine's day, we with all still have the go to work. the payroll tax extension is set to expire at the end of the month. millions of americans will take home less money, and the president was just talking about that. jon: the president acknowledged the progress in striking a deal with republicans, but he says nothing is final until he signs the bill. mike emanuel live on capitol hill keeping an eye on that for us. >> reporter: hi, jon. president obama clearly sounds encouraged by what he is hearing from lawmakers here on capitol hill. the president a few minutes ago pressed lawmakers once again to pass the payroll tax holiday for the remainder of 201 and to also extend unemployment insurance benefits, with republican leaders now saying they would extend the payroll holiday for the rest of the year and not insist on paying for it. president obama sounds hopeful. >> now, the good news is over the last couple of days we've seen some hopeful signs in congre

jenna: hi, everybody i'm jenna lee. we are here in the fox newsroom. umar farouk abdul-mutullab facing life in prison when he's sentenced today. the feds say he was on a suicide mission for al-qaida back in 2009. just as his trial began he pleaded guilty to all the charges, they include 289 counts of attempted murder. jon: one for everyone on the plane. umar farouk abdul-mutullab admitting he hid explosives in his underwear and tried to blow up the airliner. fortunately it malfunctioned and only caused a fire. had it worked it could have killed everybody on the plane. today before the sentencing passengers on the plane will address the court. jenna: what do we expect to happen today, mike tobin. >> reporter: umar farouk abdul-mutullab represents himself but he does have a court appointed legal adviser. that legal adviser is in a very difficult position for trying to argue for leniency. the first argument he will present is the idea that umar farouk abdul-mutullab did indeed cooperate with the government, at least from his opinion, because he gave up in

jenna: hi, everybody, i'm jenna lee. we're here in the fox newsroom and "happening now", republican presidential candidate mitt romney celebrating a big win. probably a sigh of relief. jon: i imagine the romney camp is pretty happy. they beat newt gingrich and everybody else in florida's gop primary. 14 percentage points, the margin of victory over gingrich. now he is turning his attention to president obama. >> another era of american crisis thomas payne is reported to have said, lead, follow, or get out of the way. well, mr. president, you were elected to lead. you chose to follow, and now it is time for you to get out of the way. [cheers and applause] jon: well the former speaker of the house, newt gingrich refuses to give up. he says we will continue his fight to win the white house. >> this is the most important election of your lifetime. if barack obama gets reelected it will be a disaster for the united states of america. jenna: phil keating live in tampa with more on this phil, one of the things we talked about w

jenna. jenna: we can't wait to hear more, james. you for that breaking news and interesting development and we'll continue to watch that we have more breaking news in arlington, virginia. the president is there at a firehouse to talk a little bit about the economy. we got those big jobs numbers today. shows job growth and unemployment rate coming down. let's listen in to the president. >> good morning, everybody. >> good morning. >> jacob, thank you for that introduction. more importantly thank you for your extraordinary service to our country. i want to acknowledge two outstanding members of my cabinet who are here today. the secretary of veterans' affairs, rick shinseki. one of our finest, himself one of our finest veterans. obviously an extraordinary leader when he was in our army. i also want to acknowledge interior secretary ken salazar who is in the house. [applause] and we're joined by another president, the international association of fire fighters president harold berger is here. [applause] and this is a fire station that

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back to you jenna. jenna: dominic, thank you.on: well, extreme weather is hitting parts of the country. in kansas, a powerful storm, raging right now outside wichita, strong winds and hail breaking window, flipping car, and knocking out power. the storm lasted only about five minutes, but folks described the panic. >> the trailer trailers flippedr , then the windows on my car blew out. a little old lady was crying, everyone was scared but we were excited and just standing tarn and watching everything. it was crazy. jenna: windows of her car blew? that's incredible. take a look at southern oklahoma, at least one person is dead after a trailer park was hit with winds upwards of 70 miles per hour, recent -- rescue crews searching for survivors. one man was pulled from the wreckage. the search is still underway, though, jon. jon: where is that storm headed next? maria molina live in the fox weather center. reporter error fortunately the storm system is weakening and headed eastbound. i want to show you quickly where the reports came

i'm jenna lee. jon: i'm jon scott. good morning to you, we're here in the fox newsroom and "happening now", california, missouri, minnesota all hold presidential contests tomorrow. mitt romney is in denver, campaigning there fresh off his big win in nevada where he wracked up more conservative support than rick san tore ul and newt gingrich, romney now setting sites beyond the primaries and caucuses and right on the presidential election. >> president obama says he wants to fundamentally transform america. we want to restore to america the founding principles that made this country great. our vision for the future could not be more different from his. jen that's romney, gingrich not giving up his plan to take his campaign to the convention and he's confident things will opportunity around after supertuesday. >> my goal is with governor perry's help and others to be tied in delegates by the time we come around to texas. jon: let's talk about it with bret baier, anchor of special report. the question

jenna. there are a lot of reports, a lot of information coming from the campaigns it could go either way. that donald trump could support either newt gingrich or mitt romney. hear is the real irony of it. we're in a state where the unemployment rate is 12.6%. 36,000 homes were foreclosed on in 2011 and we're worried about what donald trump will do. he is not been foreclosed on. he is not unemployed. to the story at hand. donald trump will make some sort of announcement the next few hours, a big announcement. we believe it will be an endorsement. he met with mitt romney in september of last year. it was described by people involved as brief and cordial. don't forget donald trump was going to do a debate. he was moderating a debate couple days after christmas in iowa. mitt romney was the first person to call up to say, don't expect me to be there. since then they may have had a lot of conversations we don't know about because when mitt romney went to meet with trump back in september he made s

under federal law, jenna --. jenna: wait a minute, joey. viewers have this question, why as a parent, do i if i own the phone and pay the bill, not have access to what happens on that phone? especially when it is a minor in my household? >> well, here's the problem. the problem is the law, under federal law says you need authority from the service provider, right? the content originate tore. jenna: right. >> has to provide you with authority to get the information. if the content originator is not you, then it is problematic. so while there may be merits to what you're saying of course, there a lot of merits to what the state senator is saying the issue becomes whether a state can do this or whether it needs to be mandated more broadly by federal law. even if this bill passes the service providers will say, wait a second, you know what? i will honor the bill but get me consent form from your child. jenna: it is extra pay service that the state senator is suggesting. you pay extra for the service. the phone company says listen that is lot of

jenna? un. jenna: unbelievable to here the video. we're hearing more reports of iran quds forces meeting with the syrian government. we have the meeting with the russian prime minister happening there. what is the deal? what is happening inside the central government of syria right now? >> reporter: bashar assad comes from a group called the that is a reledge just sect. you have a sunni population and shiite population. the alawites are very scared. they are the minority and control the government and military. many people tell you they are fighting for their lives because they fear if they lose power they will all be killed. iran and russia both view syria as a long-time and key ally. you have iran helping by sending weapons. by sending men and equipment inside. we've heard reports of thousands of iranian revolutionary guard members heading into syria to help with the crackdown. from russia you have two things. number one, syria has a main russian navy base on the mediterranean where the russians base submarines. that makes assad a

jenna: hi, everybody, i'm jenna lee. "happening now", two american soldiers killed by an afghan soldier after american soldiers reportedly burned copies of the koran the taliban is the group telling afghans to kill our troops. we'll dig into more of this. jon: fran fran and -- freddie mac and fannie mae. first taxpayer dollars bailed them out. now we're footing their legal bills. jenna: a young man stumbles on a comic book collection and now more than $3 million richer. he will join us on set in about 45 minutes. >> love that story. right now gas prices pumping up to record highs for this time of year and there is massive sticker shock at one orlando gas station where the price per gallon hits a whopping $5.89 per gallon. some drivers pulling out of the station when they got a look at the sky-high prices. others shelled out for it and filled up their tanks. >> how much did you spend on gas today? >> $80. >> for how many gallons? >> 14 gallons. >> you think that is kind of expensive? >> absolutely. >> i got there and look

jenna:.alked about this a little bit with scott rasmussen but mitt romney is tapping into its michigan roots as gop candidates gear up for tuesday's crucial primary. the race appears more of a toss-up, brand new polls showing rick santorum has a slight, slight lead. steve brown in lansing, michigan, with more. if you're slight anything you might as well be slightly in the lead. >> reporter: slightly ahead is better than slightly behind but this is a very tight race. if you look at "real clear politics" average of polling in the republican primary here in this particular state, rick santorum at 33.8%. mitt romney at 33%. ron paul and newt gingrich further back. this is a state because of romney's roots here that set up to be a romney winnable state. keep in mind he won the michigan primary in 2008. his father was governor and ran amc so the romney name is pretty well-known here. romney led in polls here for months. now it is a toss-up and possibility of losing is a very distinct one and romney

>> jenna: we'll see.on: washington is keeping up on the pressure -- or keeping up the pressure on iran, but to what end? why tehran now calls new u.s. sanctions propaganda, and evidence of, quote, a psychological war. >>> a college athlete accused of killing his ex-girlfriend comes face to face in court with her family. up next, why potential jurors are facing some tough questions, even before his trial begins. [ male announcer ] you love the taste of 2% milk. but think about your heart. 2% has over half the saturated fat of whole milk. want to cut back on fat and not compromisen taste? try smart balance fat free milk. it's what you'd expect from the folks at smart balance. jenna: "happening now", jarreauo jury selection begins in the case of george huguely, he pleaded not guilty to first degree murder on monday when this all began. this is a crime that rocked the university of virginia and really so many of us across this country. there's his victim, yeardley the sister of his alleged victim, yeardley lo

jenna: i'm jenna lee.r grabs in the whole conference is who wins the title of true conservative. you don't get a medal for that. it's something that will be discussed. there is ann coulter right there. she is vying for that. it's all at cpac in the nation's capitol. they try to show the conservative gathering how they share the same values. we have our chief work ton correspondent james roads even whrosen who is there, covering all the events. >> reporter: as rick santorum took the cpac page at the marriott with his family this morning he could feel the wind at his back, most specifically and recently in the form of today's just published fox news poll of republican primary voters nationwide which show he has doubled his support in just 48 hours and stands essentially tied with delegate frontrunner mitt romney. to the conservative faithful here santorum said, i know you and you know me. he said not to compromise on their believes. he is fresh off history-state sweep. he never mentioned mitt romney by name

back to you, jenna. jenna: dominic thank you.formation on negotiations to extend the payroll tax cut and let you keep more of your paycheck. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel live for us on capitol hill. the republicans are apparently going to go forward with this plan that would extend the payroll tax holiday without paying for it. what do they say as their justification for that. >> reporter: that is an aspect that is making a number of rank-and-file unhappy. john boehner wanted to remove a political republican that was against them. the fact that apparently they were okay with taxes going up on 160 million americans. >> we are not going to let them raise taxes on working americans. we mid a decisio made a decision to bring them to the table so the games would stop and we could get this worked out. >> reporter: moving forward with a growing to a payroll tax extension without paying for it really seemed to loosen up the negotiations on a more comprehensive package, which is being finalized today, jon. jon: what abou

thank you very much. >> thanks, jenna. jenna: jon.x news alert, jenna, the president and vice president are there in washington making remarks to the national governor's association, gathered there at the white house. if you'd like to hear the president's remarks we have them streaming for you live on foxnews.com/happeningnow. coming right back. jenna: the price of gas and how to stop its dramatic rise fast becoming a political issues. some lawmakers calling for the release of oil from the strategic petroleum reserve. remember this? is this really a smart way to lower gas prices? is this something we want to do? we'll talk about that. our coverage of a shooting at an ohio high school continues today, the latest on this breaking story next.  this is an rc robotic cw. my high school science teacher made me what i am today. our science teacher helped us build it. ♪ now i'm a geologist at chevron, and i get to help science teachers. it has four servo motors and a wireless microcontroller over the last three years we've put nearly 100 mi

jenna: all right.r online privacy, that is according to a big story out of the "wall street journal" today. even if you think you've been blocking everybody and everything, apparently the company is bypassing privacy settings on millions of devices and tracking your every move on the web. why? what are they doing with this information? laura ingle is taking a look live for us in new york city. >> reporter: if you are using safari web pwroeurs and you have a mac device or iphone this may have happened to you. google's code that keeps you logged in has been allowing other web sites to see information about you, even though your privacy settings specifically sell apple you wanted this type of tracking disabled. when notified about this issue google told the "wall street journal" that they immediately disabled the code and issued this statement to fox news, quote, we used known safari functionality to provide features that signed in google users had enabled. it's important to stress that these advertising

jenna: i'm jenna lee. here fresh off winning all three presidential contest th-s week rick santorum campaigns in oklahoma today and he's sharping his attacks on mitt romney especially when it comes to the hot button issue of insurance coverage for birth control, or the requirement to cover birth control when you have insurance coverage. the growing debate over the provision of the new healthcare law that would force religious institutions to provide contraception benefits to employees for free. jon: the issue sparking outrage and protests with it critics calling the birth control mandate an attack on religious freedom. supporters say it's about women's access to family planning and healthcare. chris wallace is the anchor of fox news sunday and joins us now. is rick santorum benefitting, chris, or is his campaign benefitting from the publicity over this issue? >> i can't offer any hard numbers that would indicate that, jon. but it does stand to reason, all the candidates have certainly criticized the presid

jenna. jenna: james rosen, in washington today.on: well, just about no matter where you are get ready for an active week ahead weatherwise. a storm is forecast to stretch from the gulf coast states all the way to the northeast. it could bring rain, sleet or snow depending where you are. many areas like ohio already digging out from up to a foot of snow. maria molina is live in the fox weather center has a look ahead for us. >> jon, that's right. we'll look at several storm systems rolling through the country. it will be very active out there. we already had one system roll through the area over the weekend that brought very cold air not just for us here in the northeast but also areas as far south as florida and texas. highs in florida today only in the 50s. very cold for floridians. the all the cold air set stage for storm system producing snow as far as south as texas, oklahoma and arkansas. it is coming down across parts of the mid-south. arkansas, missouri, some of that stretching across portions of iowa and illinois. we have r

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jenna: it's very cool.reat new ideas, and we appreciate you coming in this. >> oh, my pleasure. thank you very much. jenna: we'll put some information on the web site too. jon: for those of us who have trouble getting up in the morning -- jenna: or to be an investor. >> we appreciate that too. jenna: thank you, paul. really nice to have you. >>> this is another big story today, u.n. inspectors set to release their report on iran's nuclear activities. why early indications of what's in the report are raising fears that, well, the nation is working on a nuclear weapon despite repeated damages. >>> plus, a man accused of murdering his bride on their honeymoon, he is the honeymoon killer no more. why? our legal panel weighs in. [ johan ] hello, piper. nice up-do. i see you're crunching numbers with a cup of joe... when you could be relaxing with a delicious gevalia. or as i like to say, a cup of johan. joe's a cubicle. johan is a corner office with a young, eager assistant... who looks like me. put johan on you

all right, jenna. that. >> reporter: thank you. >>> let's go to bill karins with the weather. >> i hope jenna didn't pull some of the wires out in the truck. let's talk about what the forecast is this weekend, what we're dealing with across the country. we had the snowstorm in colorado. pushing through omaha, lincoln, including des moines. rain for the southeast. eventually the rain will reach the east coast later this afternoon. keep that in mind if you have plans around carolina or virginia. super bowl, sunday, down there in the southeast, a little rain in the morning. tell you what. it looks pretty mild with the exception of it being just cold. everywhere else, what a beautiful super bowl sunday for you. >> good morning. we're dry this morning. a storm out west will be getting closer to us by evening, so rain chances go up. in our insta-weather plus forecast today, tempe >> all right. here's a completely scientific poll. who things the giants are going to win the super bowl? the patriots? wow. you'd

all right, jenna. >> reporter: thank you. >>> let's go to bill karins with the weather. >> i hope jenna didn't pull some of the wires out in the truck. let's talk about what the forecast is this weekend, what we're dealing with across the country. we had the snowstorm in colorado. pushing through omaha, lincoln, including des moines. rain for the southeast. eventually the rain will reach the east coast later this afternoon. keep that in mind if you have plans around carolina or virginia. super bowl, sunday, down there in the southeast, a little rain in the morning. tell you what. it looks pretty mild with the exception of it being just cold. everywhere el it just snowed, ee else, what a beautiful forecast for you. now, here's a look outside your window. >> good morning. i'm chuck bell and outside our window, we have cloudy skies in place, one or two slivers of sunshine but that's about it. clouds willower and thicken in the afternoon. temperatures in the mid-30s will rise to the mid-40s for a brief tim

and i felt very reassured when i moved in because i knew that it could be a home for barbara and jenna who were freshmen in college. and it would be the only home they could come home to because we -- our house was at the ranch, and when they came home from holidays, they would come to the white house to stay with us. so i had an advantage that very few first ladies, only louisa adams had had. >> but you were governor's wife. >> i was also first lady of texas. i knew how to do everything as first lady of texas from barb. >> oh, stop. >> really. the mundane things you don't think about. the christmas card, for instance. i knew we needed to get the artist that was going to do the christmas card very nearly the year. usually we'd pick the artist by march or april and they would start working on the art for the christmas card, and i did that at the governor's mansion just because i knew that was the way they -- that barb had done it at the white house. and so when we left the white house, when we moved out, we left a big notebook on how to do the christmas card for the next person because

all right, jenna.> reporter: thank you. >>> let's go to bill karins with the weather. >> i hope jenna didn't pull some of the wires out in the truck. let's talk about what the forecast is this weekend, what we're dealing with across the country. we had the snowstorm in colorado. pushing through omaha, lincoln, including des moines. rain for the southeast. eventually the rain will reach the east coast later this afternoon. keep that in mind if you have plans around carolina or virginia. super bowl, sunday, down there in the southeast, a little rain in the morning. tell you what. it looks pretty mild with the exception of it being just cold. everywhere else, what a be >>> good saturday morning to you. here's a look at our temperatures around the bay area. 30s and 40s outside. for the most part, add 30 to the numbers you're seeing now. we should be in the mid-60s for both the bay area, the radar obviously quite dry. we will see a few high clouds at times as we go through the afternoon. today's highs will

jenna? >> atia abawi in kabul. thank you very much. now here's lester. >> all right, jenna, thanks. now to politics. it's down to the wire for michigan's primary. and it's shaping up to be a two-man race with mitt romney and rick santorum neck and neck. both candidates are stepping up their game. with us now is david gregory, moderator of "meet the press." good morning to you. we've seen, especially in the last couple of days, these two santorum and romney really going after each other. we've talked about the huge risk if romney can't carry his home state. what about the risk to santorum? how big a risk is this for him? >> it's certainly important. santorum has this momentum and he's in the spotlight because of the contests that he won, because he's made michigan such a close contest now with mitt romney. but he's pledging to stay in the fight, and there's every reason that he will. he will go on to super tuesday, can go on beyond that rom romney's telling supporters, fund-raisers and others

i felt very reassured when i moved in because i knew it could be a home for barbara and jenna, it was the only home they could come home to, because our house was in the ranch and when they came home from holiday they came to stay with us at the white house >> you were governor's wife and you did that perfectly. >> yes, i was the first lady of texas. i knew how to do everything even as first lady of texas from bar. the things you do not think about. the christmas card for instance, i knew we needed to get the artist for the card early in the year. usually we picked the artist by march and april, and they would start working on the art for the christmas card, i did that at the governor's mansion because i knew that was the way that bar did it in the white house. when we moved out, we left a big notebook on how to do the christmas card for the next person, because we thought she probably would not know, like i did bus i had bar to watch. >> not me, i let the next person do their own thing. >> that raises a question, it has become a habit in recent years for out going presidents to leave

. >> and i'm jenna wolfe.s safe to say the music industry lost a titanic voice last night. >> i was just hit with an overwhelming sense of sadness when i heard the news. i loved her music and i think we all felt the horrible struggle she went through in the last few years of her life. >> it was hard for us as fans to watch her go through it. she called herself her own worst enemy. we sort of felt her pain, as well. >> we've been reminded just how many hits she produced over her career. she dominated the pop music charts for really the most of two decades from 1984 to 1999. she had eleven number one hits and an additional eleven top ten hits. on thursday whitney houston had been seened briefly with her longtime mentor clive davis and her daughter bobbi. >> later that night she attended grammy parties in and around the los angeles area and in these photos houston seems to be needing some help walking, leaving those clubs. the images are a far cry from the kwlamglamorous whitney hous that had become such a music