>> you people are loving the weather machine, jon scott. s do, jd. >> high-fives of people booking tee times this afternoon. folks that like winter, not loving me today but i will say that, you know, it has been good being the weather machine. look at the temperatures above average across much of the u.s. that's been really the rule all winter but incredible temperatures across the northern plainses intowards the mid-atlantic. it feels like spring. where is the cold air? still bottled up way up north. alaska has one of the coldest and snowiest. because the temperatures are warm we have not seen snow across much of the country. we've seen spring-like weather across the south bringing not only rain that they need but isolated, rather, many tornados. in some cases this is the third greatest january for number of tornados. look at snow depth and departures. just over 24 inches for buffalo. boston you typically see more than this. 46 inches of parts of main when you see 60s. ski resorts are hurting. john, people who like springtime and winter lov

you better hurry up, jon scott. i'm exposing everything. y is pulling some popular streets. the -- treats. snacks you may never ever see again. jon: what? ♪ jon: do you have a sweet tooth? really who doesn't, huh? jenna: jon is asking this. keep going. jon: you better grab that big side of snickers or 2006 candy bar while you can because pretty soon you won't be able to find them. rick folbaum knows why. >> reporter: did you know one of the biggest candy companies in the world has a broad based commitment to health and nutrition? the mars spokeswoman says they do. because of that the company is downsizing its jumbo candy bars. mars, inc. makes snickers and twix and m&ms. the company will stop selling chocolate products with more than 250 calories in them. that 540 calorie king-sized snickers bar that satisfies you will have to get your satisfaction another way. not just jumbo sized candy. this is where fox news investigation comes into play, guys. regular-sized snickers bar we got from the vending machine outside, 280 calories in this thing,

jon: good morning i'm jon scott. jenna: i'm jenna lee. key talks on iran's nuclear program. the second visit in less and mao. jon: iran is putting on a show of military force conducting land-based military exercises after sending two warships through the suez canal over the weekend. those ships dock nothin docking in syria. it's only the second time that iran has done this. >> as our enemy threatens us we want to show our power, we want to show that we are the guard of the region and the straight o the strain of hormu. jon: what should we make of iran a growing to meet with u.n. inspectors jennifer. >> reporter: on the one hand they are projecting themselves military, sending two destroyers through the suez canal, parking them in a syrian port to show support for the bashar al-assad regime and apparently laying down the gauntlet to israel. expanding operations at the fardo underground nuclear facility buried deep within the mountains. at the same time sending a letter to secretary of state hillary clinton and others that they are ready to negotiate and allowing the inspectors

i'm jon scott. fox news watch is on right now. >>> you to have accept it, my gosh, back in my days, they used aspirin for contraceptives and it wasn't that costly. >> it was bad joke. he shouldn't have done it. it certainly does in my opinion reflect on the campaign or me, he wasn't doing it as part of our campaign. >> that was g.o.p. candidate santorum to strong media to the remark you heard there. one of the supporters said about the issue of contraception earlier in the week. jim, it got all kinds of media attention. it was essentially blamed on the santorum campaign, why? >> santorum has strangely enough chosen to big donor to super pac to be on stage with him. it used to be present tense of distance between them but it's through the media. it's a part. >> jon: i think judy is in ordering in agreement? >> absolutely and media about, just wait until they hear everything that rick santorum believes about contraception and women's rights. >> he is leading in the polls. numbers rick santorum at leas

jon: i'm jon scott. "happening now", a three-state sweep for rick santorum. jenna: the former pennsylvania senator celebrating victories in minnesota, missouri and colorado, a trifecta. jon: 45% of the vote in minnesotas caucuses. ron paul coming in second, with 27%. mitt romney, 17 and newt gingrich with 11. jenna: 55% of the vote. romney followed with 25%. paul had 12. gingrich wasn't on the ballot. we'll quiz you on all the numbers later. hope you got them all. santorum is talking a bit about his strong showing. >> the last few weeks we weren't doing particularly well in the polls in florida and nevada. we were doing great. in getting kind of support that we needed to keep this campaign going. our fund-raising as our best two weeks last two weeks and we felt it. jenna: chief washington correspondent james rosen is live in washington with more with all of this. hi, james? >> reporter: how long before they play the theme of rocky at rick santorum's events? with the knockout he scored last night the rick santorum is the rocky balboa in the 2012 cycle. mitt rom

. >> i'm he jon scott in for shepard smith. a man caught trying to blow up the u.s. capital today. he ran into a couple of problems. the guys he thought were his al-qaeda buddies were really undercover agents and the suicide vest he was wearing was a fake. he is a moroccan man, 29 years old and lived in the u.s. for more than a decade illegally. he even went with undercover operatives to watch an explosives demonstration. but the whole time he was plotting to kill americans agents were just setting him up for a fall. catherine herridge. they had this guy under surveillance the whole time? >> reporter: as fbi agents searched two neighborhoods in suburban washington conflicting reports emerged about when the suspect first came to the attention of law enforcement. the associated press is reporting his landlord a year and a half ago thought he was making bombs. federal court documents present a different story stating that the fbi first learned of his suspicious behavior after he brandished an ak 47 at a gathering. in december he redoubled his efforts to commit jihad. he did a practice

i'm jon scott, fox news watch is on right now. since birth control is the latest hot topic, which candidate believes in birth control, and if not, why? >> the first, is there's a legitimate question about the power of the government to impose on religion activities which any religion opposes, but i just want to point out he did not once in the 2008 campaign, not once did anybody in the elite media ask why barack obama voted in favor of legalizing infantside, let's be clear here. >> newt gingrich going off cnn's john king in the debate this week, this time, as you heard, a question about birth control. newt gingrich has generally done well in these debates. generally, always invoking some kind of attack on the media. is it working for him? >> well, it's worked pretty well for him. it doesn't seem to be keeping him in first place or anywhere close, but it certainly has brought up a major dynamic of this presidential contest and frankly every republican contest, which is they're the democrats and media and both kind of ganging up aga

good morning to you, i'm jon scott. jenna: hi everybody, i'm jenna lee, we're here in the fox news room and "happening now", jon just mentioned that compromise, other people are calling it an accommodation. either way t. requires health insurance companies to pay for contraceptives, and it's not sitting well with many religious groups, including catholic organizations. they say it violates their religious beliefs. i don't know jon health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius is testifying before the senate finance committee for the first time now since defending that mandate in an op-ed article. jenna: we have a live look there. chief washington correspond ent james rosen. >> reporter: at issue is this ruling, first announced by the hhs secretary in january, mandating all employers provide free contraception to women. when catholic affiliated charities, hospitals and schools objected saying that would violate the dock rial opposition to birth certificate, the senate comp missed past friday which mandated the con

thomas, jim pinkerton contributing editor the americanonservative magazine and host, alan colmes, i'm jon scott, fox news watch is on right now. >> . >> jamie: i'm in this race because i care about americans. >> i'm not concerned about the very poor, we have a safety net there. and it needs repair i'll fix t i'm not concerned about the very rich, that's fine. i'm concerned about the very heart of america, the 90, 95% of americans right now who are struggling. >> jon: mitt romney on cnn the day after winning the florida republican primary, the media focused on the very first part of his phrase there, jim, where he said i'm not concerned about the the very poor. everybody jumped on that and said, a-ha, here is a multi-million dollar nair out of touch. >> they have to weigh the safety net a trillion dollars in the federal budget. ignore that. whenever the media are confronted by the quotes, they can apply the dan quayle rule or the barack obama rule. the barack obama rule you ignore 57 states, you ignore clinging to their guns in religion or the dan quayle rule, you focus and pound away forever on

jon: i'm jon scott.ssachusetts governor beating out rival rick santorum last night solidifying his claim as frontrunner in the race for the republican nomination. what are the real changes of either candidate beating president obama in november? charlie hurt a columnist with the washington times is joining us live. there has been a lot of gloom among republicans and conservatives who say that president obama's poll numbers are rising, the republicans are tearing each other apart and they are not likely to win the white house back in november. >> it's completely understandable that after this long, drawn out dogfight where, you know, you've had the frontrunner, mitt romney, who everybody has thought should have wrapped it up by now, he keeps getting pulled down by these other candidates who pop up and sort of drift away as people get to know him better. if you step back and look at the much larger picture i think that once this gets behind us, and last night mitt romney did a lot to put it behind us, i th

jon: i'm jon scott. of the world's most dangerous outlaws, one government, one ideology group joining forces to become a bigger threat. catherine herridge live for us in washington with that. >> reporter: good morning. the nation's top intelligence adviser james clapper said bubbly what many intelligence officials have discussed privately, there is an alliance between al-qaida and iran. they asked clapper to define the relationship. >> what is your understanding of this secret deal so-called between iran and al-qaida? >> iran and al-qaida have had sort of a -- to a certain extent a shotgun marriage. i think iran has harbored al-qaida leaders, facilitators, but under house arrest conditions. >> reporter: clapper's comments cannot be seen in isolation. in prepared testimony before the senate intelligence committee in late january he wrote, quote, some iranian officials probably including the supreme leader have changed their calculus and are more willing to conduct an attack in the united states in respons

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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 is whether romney ca

. >> i think the groundhog might have been onto something, jon scott. aid six more weeks of winter. jon: we don't need meteorologists anymore, right? >> oh, come on, he is a little fury guy kind of cute but what does know. i predicted the super bowl. jon: yes, you did. >> we'll talk about what is going on across the country. we have a wintry mix across texas, across oklahoma, across the panhandle there. the light precipitation over the northwest. fairly quiet weather pattern. we had the snof move across the mid-atlantic and northeast. things are changing a little bit. we'll see some of the cooler air invade much of the country. look what happens as we head toward the weekend. jon was alluding to this. we have a clipper system and a system offshore will provide accumulations for cities like d.c. all the way up towards boston. we'll quickly monitor this over the next several days to see what happens. we could certainly see some winter in our future. taking a look at temperatures right now, certainly cooler than we have seen especially in the month of janua

crowley and jim pinkerton the conservative magazine and daily beast columnist, kirsten powers, i'm jon scott, fox news watch is on right now. >> . >> jamie: welcome back, some happened, and wolf blitzer said omg. >> let me repeat it omg. look at this. and right now 64% of the precinct are in. mihm is 775 ahead in the votes. >> it's o my god, wolf, you can say oh, my god. they didn't say you couldn't say oh my god. you can't say shotgun, but you can say oh my god. omg? >> and wolf blitzer reacting to the performance and wolf's performance on tuesday night. and santorum's win not anticipated by most in the media giving you shape to the g.o.p. race and the coverage as well. on the heels of santorum's success, a fox news poll asked voters what best describes the race for the g.o.p. nomination. 17% say it's over and that romney will win. and so, jim, were the media blind sided by rick santorum's performance? >> i think not only the media, but everybody else, including all the highly paid consultants around romney, this is one of the times where reality just kind of bumps the scenario here pretty

and we invite you to stay tuned for live coverage of the funeral for whitney houston and jon scott andre going to be here for that, which wins at 11:30 a.m. eastern time and we'll also have live reports from the scene, including from kelly wright. i'm uma pemmaraju, now back to cavuto on business. for the the latest headlines go to foxnews.com. >> well, vote might be a dull, doesn't stop the white house from giving a jolt. a tax credit for plug-in electric cars and charging it up to 10 grand. ben stein, i think i know how you feel about this. >> a long history of the government trying to pick winners and subsidizing in various industries, it almost never works, a terribly expensive idea and waste of money. if americans want electric cars they'll take it without the incentive. and taking $10,000 from a taxi driver or someone working at k-mart, or a yuppy in berkley wanting to buy an electric car, doesn't make sense and the history of success in these ventures has not been good. >> no problem with that, except if theupies in berkley were buying the cars. i know go to whole foods all the

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we invite you to watch coverage of that, jon scott and i are here for the coverage, 11:30 eastern timepe you'll join us. >> brenda: rick santorum raked over the coals for saying this. >> there is income inequality in america, there always has been and hopefully, and i say that, there always will be. why? because people rise to different levels of success based on what they contribute to society and the marketplace, that's as it should be. >> brenda: gary b, you say he is absolutely right? >> 100% right, brenda. in fact, income inequality are the ability to achieve income inequality is what made america great. it allowed people or people like henry ford or andrew carnegie and bill gates even to go out there and take a log the risk so they could earn a lot of money and they did so and they brought great innovation and productivity to the country. and people that want income inequality, you have to look at america in the 30's, we had great income inequality then and it was a terrible time or look at the soviet union, look at communist china. china now, no, brenda income inequality means t

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

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martha: let's go down to the newsroom now where jon scott is getting ready for "happening now." : we will pick up right where you're leaving off. at one time we thought the race for the white house this year would be just pretty much about the economy. well that is no more. social issues suddenly front and center in election 2012. the president is backing down in a controversy over birth control. we'll talk with joe trippi, paul gigot. monica crowley, and kristen powers. the president speaks live to announce his new position about 12:15 eastern time. it is a very busy day, plus four days the u.s. could wind up in a war against iran before the election, and how exactly are those nuclear scientists dying in iran? some new reporting. we'll get into it today. martha: you've got a big show. thank you very much, jon, we'll look forward to that, jon scott in the newsroom. a new look inside the deadly italian cruise ship disaster. the frightening moments as told by those who lived through this whole thing. watch some of this. >> the announcement, everybody is waiting for is finally made.

jon: i'm jon scott.he bombings in india and the former state of georgia involves israeli vehicles. knelt net says iran is the world's top initiator of terror. leland vittert with more for us now. >> reporter: this could have been a lot worse. we can now confirm that the wife of of the israeli military attache will survive. this was her car delhi. a motorcycle drove up alongside and attached a bomb to the side of the car. it also hald in the som happened in the soviet republic of georgia. that is not the case in dehli. it happened within a couple of hundred yards of the prime minister there, a highly secured area here. this is the 4th anniversary plus one day of the death of a hezbollah chief who was killed in a car bomb attack in damascus syria, a notorious militant behind the beirut bear racks bombing that killed so many u.s. marines, behind the embassy bombing in argeneral te argentina. hezbollah promised revenge for that. the irans so far which back hezbollah, provide a lot of its money and operationa

maybe in the next two hours, we'll get jon scott with a little sampler. we are moving to developments in the gop white house as voters across three states head to the polls today. we're glad you're with us everybody, i'm jenna lee. jon: i'm jon sko*fplt we're here in the fox news room and "happening now", caucuses in colorado and phaeupbdz primary in missouri today, mitt romney fresh off his big tpwheupb nevada and florida is acting more and more like the frontrunner focusing his attacks on president obama instead of the gop rivals. >> so this president, he was elected at a critical time. when the nation faces real challenges, as a patriot has been quoted as having said, either lead, follow or get out of the way. this president was elected to lead. he decided to follow. now it's his time to get out of the way. jenna: so that is mitt romney and what he has to say. in the meantime, romney may be keeping an eye on rick santorum, who supporters are among social conservatives, and santorum is hammering away at romney's conservative credentials, especially when

jon: i'm jon scott. a homicide car bomber rams the gates of a nato base in eastern afghanistan triggering a blast that killed at least nine people. two dozen more, including u.s. troops were hurt. this follows six deadly days over the disposal of korans at a bagram air base. conor powell is streaming live from kabul with the latest for us now. connor. >> reporter: this is a crisis that is being fueled by anger, and fear, and neither of those seem to be disappearing any time soon. we got word that the u.n. has actually decided to rehroebt awful its international workers in afghanistan out of safety and precaution after the 7th day of this crisis in afghanistan the taliban set off a massive car bomb, on the military side of the airport in eastern afghanistan. nine people killed, two dozen wounded. the taliban claims responsibility saying this attack today was in response to the burning of qurans last week by u.s. troops. the situation remains very violent and angry on the part of afghans, and a lot of frus

jon: i'm jon scott in the newsroom "happening now." jenna: seven states banning together on a controversial issue asking to join a federal lawsuit blocking a mandate that religious organizations must offer healthcare, including birth control. they are asking a federal judge to declare the law unconstitutional. let's talk to senior judicial analyst gentleman nepal ta nap poll tan owe. >> reporter: the constitution requires that in order to bring a lawsuit in federal court you must have standing. standing means that you have been uniquely harmed by what the defendant has done. so who would be harmed here? a catholic employer would be harmed, who would be forced to purchase health coverage that violates the teaching of the catholic church. for example the archdiocese of new york which employs 10,000 people, the university of notre dame which employs 15,000 people. they would be ideal candidates to bring this lawsuit, but not the state of tpheb r-r. the attorney general of nebraska may ardent lee believe that this section of owe bama care

good morning, i'm jon scott. jenna: hi everybody i'm jenna lee, here in the fox news room, "happening now", according to iran state media in a clear sign to israel a top military leader warning of a major attack if iran a threatened, in the meantime, tehran placing severe limits on a u.n. nuclear inspection team for a second day preventing them from visiting any disputed nuclear facilities and raises concerns iran is inching closer to building nuclear weapons and just keeping it a secret. jon: our national security correspondent jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon with momplet so exactly what did this iranian official say, jennifer? >> reporter: jon, this is the first time we've heard an iranian leader, a commander of the armed forces taking about taking a preemptive strike. let me quotena cnn muhammad hejazi, head of the forces, he said, quote, our strategy now is if we feel our enemies want to endanger iran's national interest and want to city to do that we will ability without waiting for their actions. i