jenna? jenna: interesting. believe the ceo, jamie dimon, said something to the effect this trade didn't violate the volcker rule, but violated his own principles as ceo. rich, thank you very much. >> reporter: thanks. jon: the frantic search for two young girls comes to a dramatic end. we'll tell you how these two sisters are doing right now. >>> plus, the president's push for clean energy may be about to cost you. a live report on what's happening now in the coal industry. also, rick folbaum live at the web wall for us. >> reporter: jon, ann romney could be the nation's next first lady. would you like to learn more about her? she spoke exclusively with our colleague, martha maccallum, and you can find the interview at foxnews.com, right on the home page. maybe you want to check it out over this upcoming break. and we'll see you with more "happening now," so don't go away. ok! who gets occasional constipation, diarrhea, gas or bloating? get ahead of it! one phillips' colon health probiotic cap a day helps defen

back to you, jenna. jenna: very interesting, liz. thank you very much.ith fox business. >> reporter: sure. jon: an american city in aas. the mayor-elect facing felony charges amid allegations of extortion, bribery, a stolen election and to top it all off secret videotapes of an exotic dancer. senior correspondent eric shawn live from sunland park, new mexico. eric? >> reporter: hey, jon. probably safe to say there is no place in america right now quite like this place, sunland park, new mexico. it is a city they say was stolen by voter fraud. this growing and mushrooming case involves allegations that include conspiracy, illegal voting, taxpayer public money going to pay for prostitutes, strippers, booze, even a lap dance tape. and the losing candidate who was caught in that lap dance tape, told me, it was all part of his opponents trying to fix the election. >> the people started to tell me that every time there were elections in sunland park there was a lot of cheating, fraud. [shouting] >> reporter: the people of sunland park, new mexico, are fed up.

jenna: dr. stop you there, if you're a parent and your child uses an inhaler, does the benefit of the inhaler outweigh the risk? >> absolutely. absolutely. as long as they don't have any other underlying cardiac condition or any medical problems like diabetes. you know right now this is not something to be majorly concern about. this is something that you have to be aware it could be a potential side-effect. you have to talk to the doctor. look for other contributing factors but absolutely many times these medications are saving lives and very severe asthma attack when it is no the controlled can be incredibly dangerous. jenna: right. i was just curious what the other options are if you have asthma? if you see someone with asthma and carry with them an inhaler. if that is something not fit for them are there other options as well? >> there are many kinds of bronco dial late tores. there are dial late tores with medicines. this is a new variety of chemicals being used and quite effective when you

jenna: this just in.ill happen with the united states postal service and we're just hearing from the postmaster agenda 600 urban and suburban post offices considered to be closed down will stay open at least for now. this follows announcement last week also from the postmaster general or the spokesman from the u.s. postal service that they were going to keep open rural post offices but just with shorter hours. there is lot of discussion about what d.c. should do if anything to help the post office. and the national postal service. we're still waiting to hear any recent lugz -- resolution on that. for now the 600 urban and suburban host offices and satellite stations that were proposed to close down are going to stay open. we'll keep you updated more on this. jon: brand new stories coming up next hour. spy drones used in the war zone, now they could be coming to the skies over your neighborhood. is that a little unsettling? we're live with the story. >>> also baseball great roger clemens getting some bad n

jenna. jenna: an unlikely team.s possible out there, jim, thank you. >> reporter: you bet. jon: right now the search for two missing female college students. police in both indiana and louisiana are now investigating potential links between the two cases. rick folbaum at the breaking news december w-bg that. >> reporter: jon, real similarities in these two cases, both women arblond hair and petite college students. they both went missing after a night of drinking with friends and more importantly perhaps authorities in both of these cases have looked into a white pickup truck as a part of their investigation. police in indiana thinking that there are enough similarities, at least to check it out. lauren speir missing for exactly one year now, disappearing from the campus of indiana university in bloomington after a night of partying. mickey sch u.n. ick went missing this past may 19th. a few days before her 22nd birthday. last seen leaving a friend's house not far from the university of louisiana campus. she was rid

>> yes, jenna.writer, remember, she worked for john edwards, so she's someone who was an employee of john edwards, a believer in john edwards, and she's coming forward and saying, hey, he told me this, he told me a lie, he told me to perpetuate this lie out there. that's going to resonate with the jurors. jenna: but, jennifer, if he knew about the money but thought it was just perm -- >> exactly. jenna: is it that big of a deal? >> this witness is not going to advance the prosecution's cause here because they have to prove more than john edwards knew money was going to hide this affair. they have to prove that john edwards believed that money, um, thought of that money as campaign money, that he was trying to avoid campaign finance laws, not that it was simply personal money being donated to help him hide an affair from his family. and the, and the lawyer, the estate lawyer for bunny mellon got on the stand and said exactly that. so the prosecution is not really doing a great job -- jenna: lis? >> i

jenna? this a little later on with steve moore from the "wall street journal." peter, thank you. >> for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that i think same-sex couples should be able to get married. jon: president obama now announcing his personal support for same-sex marriage, reversing his previous position. although the tiling seemed rather awkward, the president blaming it on vice president joe biden who recently expressed his comfort with gay marriage. something else may have been going on behind the scenes. chris stirewalt is fox news digital politics editor and host of "power play" on foxnews.com live. chris, where does george clooney come into all of this? >> well, certainly he is among a whole category of people in the entertainment industry, jon, very important base group for the president when it comes to fund-raising for his very expensive re-election bid. and mr. clooney is hosting a very fancy fund-raiser tonight for the president out in southern calif

jenna. yes, as a matter of fact, the demonstrators you see behind me, i'm going to step away so we can get a weather look, have already declared victory today a. gathering of some occupy-affiliated activists are planning on taking a walk down towards the center of the city, towards the headquarters of boeing, the big aircraft and military contractor, where they are going to have a demonstration that they describe as a celebration. why? because in advance of the word getting out that occupy folks were going to plan a nato tkreplistration at boeing, the boeing folks told their employees, please work from home on monday, so the celebration will be on these peoples' behalf or in their minds, is that they've already done what they set out to do, which is shut down boeing, at least that building, at least for today. demonstrations yesterday were both peaceful and nonpeaceful varieties. a long procession, the biggest of the nato demonstrations, worked its way mostly down state and michigan avenues

jenna. jenna: right. jon: no. it might be worse. how marketers are shrinking your wallet and maybe expanding your waistline. it's all "happening now.". happy wednesday to you. some big-time bonuses and you're footing the bill. good morning, i'm jon scott. jenna: always seems to be if there is a bill comes to us. jon: always comes due, doesn't it? >> i'm jenna lee. our government may be in the red but certainly did not stop it from reportedly shelling out half billion dollars in merit awards and bonuses to federal workers. get this, the numbers are actually down from the previous year when austerity restrictions went into full effect. still, 16 government employees walked away with extra $62,000 in their paycheck that is not bad. doug mckelway live in washington with more on this. doug, where do we start here? >> reporter: jenna, this information was obtained through a freedom of information request through the office of personnel management through the asbury park press. it access as databas

jenna: mr.alked about career politicians if you get elected the term of six years, are you telling voters you will only do one term? that you're not going to be in office for a few decades as we do see some politicians? >> i have no interest in being in office for decades. i strongly support term limits. and in fact i have committed to cosponsor a constitutional amendment to limit every member of the u.s. senate to two erms. every member of the house to three terms. that fight being led right now by jim demint and indeed by the five strongest conserve i was in the senate today, jim demint, mike lee, rand paul, pat toomey and tom coburn. i'm only candidate in the country who all five are supporting. they need reinforcements and strong conservatives in the senate. jenna: very interesting i will start there with your opponent. mr. cruz, we look forward having you back. thank you very much. >> thank you. great to be with you. jenna: with us lieutenant governor david dewhurst. lieutenant governor, yo

jenna: i'm jenna lee. with his victory in the section as prime aver primary governor romney gets what he needs to clinch the nomination. reportedly they are ready to shell out a billion dollars. planned parenthood is showing its support behind the president. carl cameron is live in washington with all of that. carl, the abortion debate does surface in presidential elections. tell us a little bit about what is going on today. >> reporter: the timing is exactly right, you nailed it. yesterday mitt romney clinches the republican nomination and today the abortion debate looms when planned parenthood will give its endorsement to the president. president obama is proceed choice, mitt romney is pro-life. romney trails the president in polls among women and the so-called gender gap is a very big deal. the president's campaign will hit romney over abortion again and again, planned parenthood is on the air with this attack spot listen. >> when mitt romney says. >> planned parenthood we'll get rid of that. >> romney

hey, jenna. romney actually spent the whole week bashing the president for his spending agenda and he will go to the sawyer bridge in hillsborough, new hampshire today. it is historic site. it is a bridge to know where. doesn't go anywhere. obama campaign argument and mr. romney will make argument it is waste of stimulus money. at the same time he is out with his first positive ad. it is something of a road map of the states he has to win for victory. it will play in iowa, north carolina, virginia and elsewhere. it is all positive talking about what he would do as soon as he is inaugurated. listen. >> day one. president romney immediately aproves the keystone pipeline, creating thousands of jobs that obama blocked. president romney introduces tax cuts and reforms, that reward job creators, not punish them. president romney issues orders to begin replacing obamacare. >> reporter: there's a spanish language version of it too. both all positive which romney noted yesterday, stand in contrasts to the

and jenna we'll be talking -- go ahead. jenna: that's okay.king with senator lieberman coming up a little later on. we have a lot of questions with him including what is happening with iran and the latest story about what the white house allowed hollywood to see when it came to the osama bin laden raid. lots coming up in half an hour with senator lieberman. new warnings that the u.s. economy will likely sink back into recession if tax cuts are allowed to expire, and spending cuts are also made. the congressional budget office, the cbo predicts the scheduled tax hikes along with automatic spending cuts will shrink the federal deficit but may also stall the economy. so consequence to that chief correspondent jim angle is live in washington with more on that for us. >> reporter: the congressional budget office has a fresh analysis of the impact of what many call tax maggedon, the simultaneous expiration of $500 billion in annual tax cuts that will take affect at the end of the year along with some spending cuts as you mentioned. cbo says if no ac

jenna. jenna: that is such an important point.k all the regulations are already set in stone but it is actually being developed probably right as we speak, peter. >> reporter: it is. jenna: good point. peter barnes of fox business. thank you. >> reporter: you bet. jon: if you didn't get facebook's stock you might be thanking your lucky stars right now. the company is still sliding on wall street after one of the biggest ipo's in history. the stock down again today. so why the facebook fizzle? a live report next. >>> plus, he's accused of murdering his wife. now prosecutors say another woman may be the reason why. more on the bombshell allegations and what they could mean for this case. a fair and balanced debate ahead. [ female announcer ] tide pods three-in-one detergent. pop in the drum of any machine... ♪ ...to wash any size load. it dissolves in any temperature, even cold. tide pods. pop in. stand out. or annuity over 10 or even 20 years? call imperial structured settlements. the experts at imperial can convert your long-term

jenna. jenna: a lot of questions on that, doug. talk a little bit about this congressman who is calling for the resignation of the tsa administrator. who is doing that? >> reporter: yeah. it is congressman paul bruin, a republican from georgia's 10th district. calling for administrator john pistole to resign immediately. he said numerous allegations surfaced that tsa agents lack proper training or simple professional characteristics when dealing with airline passengers. and that some of them are corrupt. there has been allegations that some helped to transport drugs through the screening process. he says that the tsa has become nothing more than a bloated, broken bureaucracy which violates american civil liberties while doing very well to insure their safety. very, very harsh words indeed, jenna. jenna: certainly. doug we'll continue to watch this story. thank you. jon: right now one of president obama's staffers set to testify at john edwards' campaign finance trial. jennifer palmieri is cu

jenna: hi, everybody, i'm jenna lee. new york police arrested pedro hernandez who now admits he murdered the 6-year-old boy back in 1979. >> he brought them to the scene of the crime which is now a store that sells eye glasses. hernandez describe today the detectives how he lured young etan from the school bus stop at west broadway and prince street. with the promise of a soda. he then led him into the basement of the vodega, choked him there and dissupposed of the body by putting it into a plastic bag and placing it into the trash. jenna: hernandez due in court later on, a painful day for the patz family, exactly 33 years ago today the little boy vanished on his way to school. so the timing of this something we're taking a look at as well. rick heaven that would's live with more. rick, we're hearing there's some news today on where the suspect is now. what can you tell us? >> reporter: jenna, pedro hernandez is reportedly on suicide watch at bellevue hospital. he is scheduled to be arraigned sometime today, he could be

back to you jenna. jenna: we're going to talk about how this might affect our markets, our economy in the united states later on in the show, greg. thank you very much. jon: a murder morgan stanleyry to tell but after a worker is found dead just hours after that horse race. the evidence police have uncovered so far. we're live with more on that. jenna: what a strange case that is. >>> also brand new information on the world's most wanted terrorist. al-qaeda leader ayman zawahiri. where secretary clinton says he's hiding out today. jon: plus she's be been accused of stalking nba players. you won't believe how close she actually got to them. jenna: wanted to take a shot, jon. jon: could have been a three-pointer, from that range! details on this crazy video, next. [ woman ] oh, my gosh -- it's so good! [ kristal ] we're just taking a sample of all our different items in our festival of shrimp so we can describe them to our customers. [ male announcer ] red lobster's festival of shrimp starts now! for just

jenna? jenna: jonathan, thank you very much. we're taking a few awed very hits throughout the reports. we'll be back with him throughout the day for more on the trial. jon: at least it is not raining on him today. the head of jpmorgan chase going before shareholders at the bank's annual meeting in florida. protesters from occupy tampa are gathering outside the headquarters where ceo jamie dimon is facing tough questions just days after the nation's largest bank announced a whopping $2 billion in trading losses. fox business network's adam shapiro is live in tampa with an update. adam? >> reporter: jon, that is correct. there are protesters behind me but not many. only eight showed up. far more shareholders inside the meeting. about 100 listening to jamie dimon explain the $2 billion loss and he went on to say that the bank believes in what they call the volcker rule the we agree with the intent of the volcker rule which would prohibit banks like jpmorgan chase from proprietary trading. essentially trading in their own accounts f

thanks, jenna. and now here is lester. >>> fans are mourning the loss of an american music pioneer, adam yauch of the beastie boys died after a long battle with canc cancer. the three musicians sold 40 million records and helped define the music of the '80s. here's nbc's charles hadlock. ♪ you have the right to party >> reporter: it was the party anthem that helped bring hip-hop to a pop music audience. >> they opened up mainstream america for rap. ♪ >> reporter: adam yauch was 17 when he first got together with friends in brooklyn to form a band. ♪ >> reporter: they would become known the world over as the beastie boys. their first album "license to ill" was released in 1986 and quickly went lat number. ♪ i'm trying to tell you now sabotage ♪ >> reporter: one of six albums to do so. they hit number one four times. ♪ >> reporter: and sold 40 million records worldwide setting the stage for future acts. >> any hip-hop artist today, they're driving down a road that run dmc and the beastie boys built to

i'm jenna lee, we're live in the windy city now, bracing for more violent demonstrations today as protestors head to boeing corporation headquarters to occupy , the occupy chicago movement claiming the multi billion dollar aerospace company avoided paying taxes because of its military contracts. jon: this comes after stepbs standoffs between protestors and police when demonstrators challenged police lines, throwing sticks and bottles. officers responded, making dozens of arrests. jenna: all this, just steps away from the lake side convention center where the president now hosts the nato summit. and today, world leaders set to discuss the war in afghanistan, as well as other key security issues. jon: we have live team fox coverage. steve brown is near the demonstrations right now. but we start with national security correspondent jennifer griffin at the pentagon. jennifer, i know that despite the protests outside, there is serious stuff going on inside. what is the president hoping to achieve at this summit?

jenna. >> michelle franzen. michelle, thank you very much. >>> we want to get the rest of the morning's top stories now from veronica de la cruz over at the news desk. veronica, good morning. >> and good morning, lester and jenna, and good morning, everyone. >>> there is a massive manhunt today in a rugged mountain area in southern california. nearly 250 law enforcement personnel are trying to find an fbi special agent last seen by his family thursday night. officials think stephen ivens is depressed and that he may have disappeared into the nearby verdugo mountains. the married father of a 1-year-old child has his service weapon with him. ivens isn't believed to be a danger to others, but he could be a danger to himself. >>> president obama held a rose garden ceremony saturday to honor the nation's top cops. he personally thanked the 34 officers who won a national police association award for their courage in the line of duty. >>> wildfires are a big problem in the phoenix area this weekend. in the past few day

. >> and i'm jenna wolfe. what do you thing are the chances that as he's going down, he's saying, let there be cardboard there, let there be cardboard there. >> i'm wondering if he's thinking maybe this wasn't such a good idea. he did have a parachute on and he could have pulled the cord. >> he walked away and he did well. >> we're going to talk to him later in the broadcast. >> it is memorial day weekend already. >> we're going to talk about the weather. temperatures in the 90s gripping much of the nation this weekend. tropical storm warnings are up, along the southeast coast. beryl is this year's second named storm. the hurricane season, by the way, hasn't even officially begun yet, but the weather didn't get the memo. we've got it all covered for you. >>> and then is it a mystery solved? a new jersey man has been charged in the murder of little etan patz. 33 years ago the missing child was put into the spotlight. >>> plus, we're going to look at history being made. this morning the space station crew is har

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but jenna's doing what's right for jenna. i got chills when i saw the replay of the video.ell she was shocked. she got to the front of the stage. she did that little hip pop. i think she's more prepared than people think she is. she's ready. serious what it is. i'm going to bring in these guys. comedian and contributor, dean. and wendy walsh. wendy and dean, let me say, wendy, you were in beauty pageants. i said, this is my sort of -- this is mi sort of male neanderthal -- beauty pageants isn't a right. who would want to enter a beauty pageant anyway. i want to see a transgender secretary of state not in a beauty pangn't. is that a buy yos on my part? >> of course it is. anybody can be what they want to be, don. we have to look at what our definition of gender is. there aren't just two genders. we talk about this all the time. it's a big, wide scale. where do we draw the line. >> don't get me wrong. i'm not saying that she -- i believe in transgender rights. what i'm saying is, some people find these beauty pageants superficial. there were people in the room who said, are t

but barbara and jenna could run and jump on it at that age. they also, when the obamas came for the tour, they showed sasha and malia all of those tricks from their childhood. at the white house, sliding down the ramp and jumping on the beds. so i really knew. and because i knew there was this really magnificent collection of white house furniture, i didn't move anything with us. we had just moved into our ranch house which is where all of our furniture went. so i brought one chest of drawers for my dressing room that was george's grandmother's, just to have that there, just to remember her. and then i brought some of our books, a few of our books. i also knew that we would get lots of books. so i didn't bring our whole library, and just brought personal photographs, and then had a wonderful time going to the big warehouse. you can't call it a warehouse, because it's really climate and temperature controlled with a conservator, storage space where all the white house furniture was and bringing back different pieces to the white house. >> to wh

jenna?right, chris, thank you very much. >>> he's made a name for himself chasing fugitives on his reality tv show "dog the bounty hunter." duane "dog" chapman has chased after thousands of criminals over his 30-year career, but now he says someone's targeting him and his family. since april 30th, they've received several threatening e-mails, like this one -- "you are next on my list and are the bane of society. i will deliver you to god." two days later, another one came in -- "i'm going to murder you and your family." very graphic e-mails followed over the next couple of days, each more disturbing and more violent than the one prior. the fbi is now involved, and dwayne duane "dog" chapman and wife, beth, are finally speaking out. they're joining us this morning. hi, you guys. thank you very much for being here. >> thank you for having us. >> let me start with how you guys are holding up. this is obviously tough to receive something like this. >> well, we're holding up. i mean, we're, you k

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