next, the martha stuart of marijuana.rtually all your imptant legal matters in just minutes. protect youramily... and launch your dreams. at legalzoom.com we put the law on your side. stuart: breaking news, the house just voted to approve the paul ryan budget, goes to the senate where doesn't have a prayer of going anywhere. they don't say the house will probably approve a continuing resolution which would keep the government running and open until september. liz: i think the american people are really tired of it. go do your day job and pass a budget and get your fiscal house in order. stuart: we will do it again today. charles, we will make money with a company i have been to know. charles: you know this one pretty well. stuart: i do. charles: you were not there when i started the company? stuart: get on with it. charles: it is an amazing thing. not the sexiest areas in the world, but two of the hottest growing, the numbers have been phenomenal, a new facility down in brazil taking in the latin america market. the margi

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martha: stuart, thank you very much. >> sure thing. martha: stuart varney., that is one to watch. many european countries have big issues as we were just talking about. five countries have needed bailouts from the european central bank from the imf along with cyprus. it includes, greece, spain, ireland and portugal. the economies there are slowing. germany the fifth biggest and great britain at number 8 and italy at number 10, all shrinking in the last quarter. the entire eurozone is losing huge numbers of jobs. a record 19 million people in the eurozone are now unemployed. tough times. bill: will be that way for years. rocket fire now in israel. police are saying hamas militants in gaza fired two rockets into that country slamming a border town. as president obama meets with palestinian leaders today in the west bank. conor powell is live in the town of sirot, israel, southern part of the country where police say one of those rockets landed. conor. hello. >> reporter: well, bill, israeli officials actually upped the number to four rockets that have been fir

martha: stuart what's your feeling which way this would go? >> i think it will be a no vote and i think there's a real crunch --. martha: no to the bailout. what do they say to russia? >> in the long run, what do they say to russia. there is all this $30 billion of hot russian money in cyprus banks, some of it could be seized. on the other hand there is this offer, hey, don't worry about it. we'll bail you out, just give us oil and gas. does europe want russia controlling such a strategic asset right in the middle of europe? it is a very complicated situation. martha: one last thought here, sort of the monday morning quarterback on this, does martha: stuart, thank you so much. stuart varney. see you later on fbn. bill: remember "snl" in 1980s. ma and pa hammer. last ones in the door to get the money. so many countries have huge issues. along with cyprus, that includes greece and spain, ireland and portugal in red there. the economies there were slow and germany the fifth biggest. great britain at number eight. france the 9th largest. all shrink

martha: stuart, thank you. we'll keep an eye out this morning as stuart said, futures look to open higher. bill: what a shame if you missed out on the run? we saw it coming. stuart points out for five or six months it was up and up. martha: it is difficult to time the market. we'll see people with 401(k)s benefited. bill: we mentioned napolitano in the hearing? it is not going to happen. it was postponed. because of snow of course. martha: because of the snow. so there's a little more money for sequester. throw it right in the pot. bill: it adds up. we're getting moving on a wednesday. the top republican in the senate slamming the white house. what mitch mcconnell says the white house is focused on instead of the crisis we're facing right now. details on that, martha. martha: he is the governor of the state that has the largest border with mexico. why he now says he is extremely concerned about what's going on with the release of illegals from prison. >> a parently there are dozens who survived the attacks in be

martha: he includes tax cuts, tax hikes, i should say but doesn't include obamacare. he would like to see that go. >> he wants that out of here. >> stuart thank you very much. bill: you've been waiting 1400 days and finally we got a budget. so now we know. martha: it is exciting. takes less time to pick a pope. put it that way. at least we think so. bill: in the modern day. martha: exactly. bill: in "america's newsroom" the new polling shows public view since the election. is the honeymoon over? some numbers tell a very interesting story on that topic. martha: this one is not going away, folks. the fight whether or not you can bring those kind of knives, little pocket knives on a plane for the first time since september 11th. now a lawmaker is demanding to have this reversed now. bill: also if you golf, four, look out. what popped up on this course that gave, well one golfer quite a surprise. >> i was just yelling for them to get a rope, get a ladder and i need to get out of here. y is wrong ♪ ♪ i don't wanna be right [ record scratch ] what?! it's not bad for you. it just tastes that way. [ female announcer ] honey nut cheerios cereal

martha: stuart, we like the part of you that is european. we like a lot of things about europe but not necessarily the economics. thank you so much. >> thank you, martha. martha: we'll see you soon. bill: burn your passport. you're not going back. thank you, stuart. with no hope in the world. the catholic church turning to selecting the man to replace the benedict xvi and lead the world's one billion roman catholics. amy kellogg still at her post outside vatican city in rome, italy. amy, what in the world is next? >> reporter: well, bill, the vatican still does not have a cardinal count. in other words the cardinals keep flying into rome. they're getting ready for that conclave which, in latin, latin word which means with a key. in other words, a secret meeting under lock and key that will take place in the not too distant future. apparently it all starts out very gently and subtlely without people naming names. eventually the cardinals start to warm up to one another and talking about specific individuals. they would like to see take the pos

martha: stuart, thank you very much. stuart varney. weighing in on this. we'll break it down a little bit more. if you factor in the underemployed which stuart just mentioned, with the unemployed the jobless rate is more like 14.3% in this country. that is more than double the national rate and that affects 23 million americans. theorem employed part time for economic reasons. eight million americans in that basket. the government is saying that the labor force participation rate, this is a huge factor here, 63.5%. making it 14 consecutive months under 64%, the longest stretch we've seen at low, low numbers like that. that is how many americans out there working and part of the participation of the labor market, 63.5%, the lowest number since the 1970s. that's a look at the whole picture. bill: the stock market too has been booming. we'll see if it stays that way when it opens in 22 minutes. when is opens at nine 30. >>> he made no secret of his hatred for the american government. we're awaiting the start of funeral for the late hugo chavez. 30 heads of st

stuart. good to see you. >> martha. martha: this is the latest example of a business owner who says that the health care plan is forcing him to raise cost, raise prices on consumers. >> that is precisely the situation. mike has eight of the five guys franchises in the raleigh-durham area. he sees obamacare coming at him. it will cost him a lot of money, $60,000 a year to be precise. he is preempting that and say i will raise prices. mike ruffa, five guys, very typical of dilemma faced by literally hundreds of thousands of small businesses all across america. they can see obamacare coming and here's the choices. if they have got 50 employees working more than 30 hours a week each they have to provide them with health care or they can pay a fine. or they can cut their hours of workers so they don't qualify for obamacare or, they can pass through the costs. one of those choices. here it comes. you know you have to do something. in this case they're making burgers more expensive. sorry about that, martha because i know you

martha: interesting lesson. stuart, thanks very much. it throughout the day as i know you will. let's look at bigger picture of europe's debt crisis. five countries needed bailouts from the european central bank and imf. greece, spain, ireland, portugal as stuart mentioned. germany the fifth biggest. great britain at number eight. france with the 9th largest. italy at number ten. they all shrunk in the last quarter of last year. europe is basically contracting. the eurozone is losing huge numbers of jobs. a record 19 million people are unemployed. it is a tough picture and one we need to watch closely here at home. bill: sure do. no telling when that thing will get straightened out. >>> more rough water for carnival cruise lines. another disabled ship of vacationers, limping back to port. legend arriving yesterday. a leading senator calling for a passenger bill of rights. what would be in that bill? peter doocy live in washington. what would this bill of rights do, peter? >> reporter: bill, it would guaranty refund for passengers who get

stuart. >> sure. bill: martha. martha: april 1st is the deadline for the senate to bring a budget resolution. how long has it been since the senate came up with one of these? 1412 days. it goes back to april 29th, 2009, almost four years since they have done the essential component of their job is to develop a budget for this country. that is not a actual budget by the way. what they have to come forward with is the guideline how congress plans to proceed. that is how things work. the guideline. not just the actual budget. bill: if you were driving over the weekend, pump prices were dropping after three months of increases that is like january, december, february, it is not like until this year. average price of gallon of regular, $3.70 a gallon down five cents from a week ago unless you live here in new york where you pay over 4 bucks a ghoul lon. martha: a little cheaper over the other side of the river. go to new jersey to get your gas. >>> all right, so the united states and south korea kicking off skroint mili

martha: a lot of cash out there. stuart, thank you very much. we'll see you later. bill: now we moved to the powerful winter storm targeting the mid-atlantic and the northeast bringing wind gusts more than 60 miles an hour in parts, but the biggest problem could be the flooding. there is a significant threat stretching from the state of delaware up through massachusetts and right in the bull's-eye of all this, you see there in new jersey? townses still trying to recover after superstorm sandy. rick leventhal from new jersey. what do you see there, rick? good morning. >> reporter: not nearly as bad as they predicted but there they're definitely have some issues on the jersey shore. this is on the dunes in the region right now. not nearly that bad. the town of brick township south of us the mayor said they dodged a bullet. we can show you where a dune was breached. the water reached the coastal highway. the authorities had to shut the road down. they have crews working to rebuild the dune, hoping to avoid further problems when the high tide returns around 4:00 this af

stuart old lady. it was a beautiful young woman. >> about the children, martha washington had four.he yao lived all of them. by the time she met george there were two living children. what was his attitude toward these children? did he take them on as his own? >> he really did. later on he famously adopted the grandchildren. washington loved children. i think washington was rather sensitive to the fact that he had no children of his own, and that would be a subject of pure speculation, which hasn't prevented historians from speculating. the fact is he treated her children very much as if they were his own. by one estimate, she brought 20,000 pounds to their marriage, and he spent a good deal of that immediately send i away for orders for toys, for wax dolls, for patsy, the daughter, and he spent quality time with them and, of course, lost both of them. it was a shattering experience. patsy, who died of epilepsy, one day at dinner in the dining room, and jackie, who had not participated in the revolution, until the very end and joined his stepfather's staff, came down with most peopl

stuart varney, thank you. leading our coverage there. here's martha. martha: we'll keep an eye on that.:30 the dow opens. we'll see if it opens higher. yesterday's close it was at a 52-week high. it saw its highest close since october 9th, 2007. it was off 2.06% from the record close of 14,164 in 2007. that is the number to watch today as things open up. interesting to see. bill: we shall, yeah. also unions are gearing up for a major battle in detroit, michigan. michigan governor rick snyder, republican, declared a financial emergency in motown on friday, announcing the state will be stepping in to take control of the city's finances. detroit city officials say union contracts might be the first it go. the city alone has almost 50 unions. it owes about $15 billion it can not pay back. much of that is going to union retirement plans and other benefits. detroit the largest city in the country to lose control of its finances to the state. martha: new threat from north korea today, to cancel the 1953 sees fire that ended the korean war essentially. it comes as the united nations considers n