liz macdonald is here. why did they do this? are vacating to pressure? s to have a better work force. that is the bottom line from the ceo at statement, it is half a million full-time and part-time workers they have come under heavy fire for doing things like spending $7 billion to $8 billion on stock buybacks, their workers have to take public benefits. there is a point to be made with turnover at wal-mart especially the part-time work force, you have to pay a lot of money to train new workers if you pay more money, maybe you can keep them in the door. stuart: maybe it works for them. maybe there is up a off. liz: maybe there's a pot in reduced training and similar costs. stuart: do they want to hire a quality worker? liz: walmart is aware who walks in the door. stuart: when walmart advertises a position thousands of people. liz: they have a workforce bigger than the u.s. army by some counts. people do line up and wal-mart does give decent benefits for the catch your job. you wouldn't get those benefits elsewhere but wal-mart raising the wage is similar

here with us today, harris faulkner, my partner in crime from the business network, fox business' liz macdonaldgist jewelry roginsky. #oneluckyguy the doctor is in. fox managing senior editor for health news and medical a-teamer. dr. manny alvarez. he for the first time is outnumbered. >> for sure. i have the green tie to make sure i matched you. i want to blend in. i don't want to be outnumbered. i want to blend in. >> let's hope we don't need any medical attention today. we have a lot of topics we need your expertise on for sure. >> you got it. >> first up, rallying behind

here with us today, harris faulkner, my partner in crime from the business network, fox business' liz macdonald. democratic strategist jewelry roginsky. #oneluckyguy the doctor is in. fox managing senior editor for health news and medical a-teamer. dr. manny alvarez. he for the first time is outnumbered. >> for sure. i have the green tie to make sure i matched you. i want to blend in. i don't want to be outnumbered. i want to blend in. >> let's hope we don't need any medical attention today. we have a lot of topics we need your expertise on for sure. >> you got it. >> first up, rallying behind their king the people of jordan standing by their ruler, king abdullah ii as he vow as hash and punishing war on isis after they burned alive a jordanian pilot. abdullah, a former pilot himself, pledged hit militants hard in the very center of their strong hold until his mill teary, quote, runs out of bullets and. jordanian warplanes bombed islamic state targets in syria. jordanian f-16s, dropping bombs on the headquarters for isis. as u.n. detailed atrocitieses isis committed against children including m

on our sister network, the one and only kennedy also from fbn liz macdonald.ay's #oneluckyguy if he is in trouble he can call himself because he a lawyer, legal analyst for the network. arthur aidala is back. he is

on our sister network, the one and only kennedy also from fbn liz macdonald. today's #oneluckyguy if he is in trouble he can call himself because he a lawyer, legal analyst for the network. arthur aidala is back. he is outnumbered. big news day. >> horrible news day. >> horrible news day. we want to get your thoughts. we have legal issues in the run down. kayla muraller was taken by isis in 2013. she was dedicated aid worker to helping those in need. mueller, selflessly went to the middle east to help the syrian people brutalized by civil war. the white house is saying over the weekend mueller's family received a private message from her captors confirming her death. the information in that message authenticated by the u.s. intelligence community. president obama in a statement says mueller, quote epitomized all that is good in our world. she is now the fourth american to die while in the hands of these terrorists. we're awaiting more reaction from the white house at "the daily news" briefing minutes from now. meantime president obama is expected to ask congre

liz macdonald, a lot of refineries. >> yes, apparently 10% of the refining capacity, the question isstrike like this that lasted three months. this was settled earlier that is what we heard from wall street, no confirmation yet. what we need to realize is that oil stocks that used to make gas are at levels unheard of since 1982 when the government started tracking it. even though oil is popping up gas and oil could trend downward because we have a lot of inventory. tom: that is where everyone is waiting for if there's a bottom coming up soon. switching subjects. tom friedman warning that the united states could see a large outbreak of the measles. there are least 102 reported cases in 14 states and fox news medical team, doctor mark stevens is with us. are you worried about this? >> yes, i am. we need an attitude shift, we have 92% vaccination rate in the country, it's not enough, measles is the most contagious virus known to man or woman. 90%, seriously. that means if you had it and i wasn't vaccinated and i was sitting here next year 90% chance that i will get it. tom: people say y

liz macdonald has more on this. ommission regulators are starting to look at individual financial terms and say your cybersecurity is not up to snuff. liz: the sec examine $150 on wall street to make sure they're cybersecurity walls are up. they found some of these to not have encryption in these will street houses so i know personally people at the banks are worried about insiders, we talked to the fbi. it is concern the banking industry needs to raise their cybersecurity walls. stuart: lou dobbs is with us and he is here to discuss another subject but he is up in arms about the sec looking at cybersecurity. >> the fact is the sec has been under the irresponsible every single banking regulator has been irresponsible on the issue of cybersecurity for financial institutions and broadly with the sec corporate america. there is no wall of protection between these cyberattackers and private information and it is because it is because corporate america and the financial system refuse absolutely to invest in that protectio

. -- liz macdonald. how did you fare? >> trying to figure this out.u're super-rich. >> no, i'm not super-rich. charles: what is it all about? >> about the policies the mayor has in place for affordable housing and like. that really matters he will set aside, for example, affordable housing units if you're middle class. median is about 67,000. the city council reports it is 200,000. these stories make a lot of economists crazy because the problem with it they don't take into account what lower brackets get in form of welfare benefits, social security benefits medicaid medicare, food stamps. they don't take that into account. they don't take into accounts high taxes other brackets pay and what they have to pay for mortgages, for college tuition and for health care costs and like. comes out in balance. not about, slicing up the national pie. it is about growing the pie right? charles: sure. >> that is the thinking behind this, is so distorted and off base all the time. charles: desperate that de blasio modus modus operandi. when you talk about slicing th

he reportedly owes more than $3 million in federal taxes and liz macdonald tells us other people frommsley have gone to jail for owing less to uncle sam. what's this -- leona hemsley chuck berry -- >> right. let's set up the story. so, you know, according to news reports -- and i've looked at al sharpton's, you know profit filings as well -- he personally owes reportedly $3 million in federal back taxes, another $778,000 in the state taxes. you know, his two for-profit businesses tom, owe roughly $800,000. so -- and his nonprofit national action network also has owed money, a lot of money, hundreds of thousands of dollars in his operation. some of this involves fail to even file tax returns. but we know now and i've dug into tax records i've talked to awe to haves, chuck berry went to prison for $200,000 pete rose went for owing $300,000. less amounts be i they ended up in -- but they ended up in prison. even leona hemsley for owing $1.7 million in back taxes. tom: right. so the big question is why isn't sharpton behind the clink? >> well that's the question and that's what people are

macdonald is captioning for you in real time. >>> good morning, i'm michelle griego. >> hi, everyone. i'm frank mallicoat. happy wednesday. it's 6:00. and liz is getting busy all of a sudden. take it away. >> the commute is really picking up. i'm not sure what happened. our 4:00, 5:00 hour were fine and suddenly in the last 10 minutes about three incidents popped up. so we have some hot spots going. we'll show you where they are. first to san jose. northbound 101 right before the mckee exit. that backup is still there even though all the activity is in the center divide. it's jammed from capitol expressway. and now we'll head all the way to berkeley in the east bay. you can see a tweet from "kcbs traffic" westbound 80 by university. it's a three-car wreck. so kcbs is sending out mobile 2 to see what's blocking and how bad the delays are. meantime we can see the backups already in hayward, southbound 880 before "a" street. it jams up usually around this time of the morning folks trying to get to the san mateo bridge. but the delays are worse than normal. that's your latest busy drive to work. here's roberta with the forecast. >>> looking tow

macdonald is captioning for you in real time. >>> good morning, i'm michelle griego. >> hi, everyone. i'm frank mallicoat. happy wednesday. it's 6:00. and liz all of a sudden. take it away. >> the commute is really picking up. i'm not sure what happened. our 4:00, 5:00 hour were fine and suddenly in the last 10 minutes about three incide