. >> reporter: peter johnson found wearing reading glasses telling the difference between the eyes and the screens. >> what's stunning is how quickly that strain disappeared. >> reporter: one more tip, check the license to make sure that there is no glare coming off your screen. they could make your vision blurry, causing you to strain harder to see what is there on the monitor. thank you for join us for 9news now at five. 9newss now at 6:00 starts right now. >> from the first local station with news in high every did -- in high definition. >>> new questions tonight about safety and security at metro. a new audit finding that metro has some serious problems, identifying hazards. way too little training for workers to avoid dangers. they have yet to update the plans to protect rail to dulles from terrorists. bruce leshan is live in tyson with a look at some

. >> reporter: peter johnson spends about five hours a day working at a computer. all that time staring at the screen takes its toll. >> i found my eyes got very tired from it. the screen began to blur. >> reporter: he suffers from computer vision syndrome, something that can be brought on not only by excessive computer use but other devices like smart phones. symptoms include eye fatigue, eye strain, headache, dry, itch you eyes, burning and tearing. what you do about it, tom the 20/20/20 rule. every 20 minutes look up and focus on something 20 feet away for 20 seconds to allow the eyes to relax. >> it will take the strain off of the muscles and you will feel a lot better. >> reporter: when at the computer we blink 60% less than normal, drying out the eye surface. they recommend using eye drops or blinking more. >> sounds like something we should be doing subconsciously but when you are on the computer and concentrating and working the blink rate goes down. >> reporter: peter johnson found relief using reading glasses designed for the distance his his eyes an the

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peter johnson, jr. in for clayton morris. he's depressed and phillies a late night loss we'll talk about in a bit. he needed the day off. >> okay. >> in the meantime, let's get after the campaign trail, president obama back in the white house after a four day campaign swing and he wrapped up in minnesota. julie kirtz is live with what he said. >> hi, this is his longest campaign trip as president and back in the white house as you said for a low key sunday and last night at the university ot mark dayton, the democrat running for governor, president obama continued to attack republicans arguing this election is a choice between tax cuts for the middle class for tax cuts for the wealthy, paraphrasing albert einstein, he said the true sign of madness, if you do the same thing over and over again, expect the same results and also paraphrased al franken. here is the president. >> i know that al franken taught me a little about the analogy of a car being driven into the ditch, although i guess al kind of embellished it a little bit

peter johnson, jr.behind them. >> gretchen: what happened to more regulation? the president with more explaining to do, eric bolling, is here to explain. >> steve: he's got a chart. >> gretchen: moments ago the labor department releasing the jobless claims. 462,000 people applied for unemployment benefits last week. that's the first time in three weeks the number of applications rose. eric bolling, the anchor of "follow the money" joins us now. good morning. >> about 450 is really bad. below 450 gets a little better. but i'll do it again. we hold this up almost every week. you really need to get 350,000 initial jobless claims or less for the economy to actually be adding jobs. what we're doing is we're still seeing an economy that's at best stagnant and probably losing jobs. so anything above 350 is job loss. anything below 350 is job growth. so the trend still elevated, 462. that's still a high number. >> brian: we don't understand why the market could be over 11,000 and going up and people not feeling

peter johnson, jr.ption for truth. >> brian: and a story that will warm your heart. the ronald mcdonald house received a donation that somehow seemed bigger than all the rest. it was from a five-year-old boy. the boy is here live to tell us why he gave away all his birthday money and doesn't end there. >> steve: excellent. >> brian: voting is a privilege that comes from being an american citizen. so you thought. but in maine, residents will decide whether or not nonu.s. citizens should be allowed to vote in local elections. chicago, already allows noncitizens to vote in local elections. should legal residents who are not citizens have a say in how we govern our nation? fox news legal analyst peter johnson, jr. will have the answer to that. >> good morning. it's kind of frightening actually. it's come and gone in the last ten years this notion that someone with a foreign passport by virtue of the fact they're paying tax, living in a community, should have the capacity to vote in local or school board ele

peter johnson, jr. explains.brain power. coming up on the show, we'll look at voter fraud less than three weeks from the election. the early voting issue and military members, possibly not getting their ballots counted. >> then mortgage giant fannie and freddie paid millions for tarp. >> an incredible inside look through the lens of a storm chaser. the amazing images from some of the most dangerous twisters. that's coming up this weekend. 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 o'clock eastern time. >>> the world watched as 33 thillian miners were rescued after being buried alive for 69 days. what can their amazing story teach us? peter johnson, jr. has a special message. >> good morning, gretchen. how often have you heard about hope in the past few years? and in these tough times, how often is hope become reality? not often enough, or so we think. this week the world rallied around hope for 33 men who were trapped in a mine in chile, who worried in the words of one family member, that they weren't sure that someone would even come t

peter johnson, jr.e, you can't buy any sugar drinks, people. is what we buy any of the government's business? huh? that's straight ahead. >> brian: we're paying for it. >> steve: federal prosecutors have issued a fresh round of subpoenas for a probe into john edwards campaign finances. he was originally accused of funneling money to an alleged girlfriend, reel hunter. the case has been dormant for a year. now it seems to be alive. new york city mayor michael bloomberg is teaming up with governor patterson asking the federal government to ban the purchase of sugar drinks using food stamps. the trial program would last two years and hopes to lower obesity rates. >> brian: the first criminal trial of terrorism suspect from gitmo and just minutes before the trial was about to start, a u.s. judge prevented the key witness from testifying. critics are calling this a major blow to the obama administration's effort to prosecute this type of case. fox news legal analyst peter johnson, jr. here to explain. so muc

>> gretchen: peter johnson, jr. is here to weigh in on that. >> this is quite incredible. 5633 soldiers that have been killed in iraq and afghanistan. even though there is a program with prudential by which they're supposed to provide insurance, life insurance paid by our soldiers, 6 million of them, but the federal government actually pays the dollars of $400,000 death benefit to the families. so what happens and has been happening is instead of people getting the check, they've been getting what's been called a retained asset account. a checkbook and prudential says listen, you don't have the whole amount here. whatever you need, write checks out. a lot of families have said, listen, that's not what we want. and also its focus is why is prudential receiving, say, 4% on investment dollars on that and paying out just half a percent to the families? so they're making eight times what they're paying out and so a lot of people, a lot of observers, including this one, is saying, secretary of the department of veterans affairs, why don't we just write checks to these families s

let's ask fox legal analyst peter johnson jr.nd of complicated. some of these big companies like mcdonald's reported last week they had something called mini med insurance programs. what are those? then what happened? >> mini med are low cost, low premium, low insurance programs mostly for part-time and lower wage employees in places like mcdonald's, sometimes staples and a lot of companies across america and under obama care, those programs are to be outlawed. so 30 companies reflecting about a million workers have gone to the federal government and said we need a break from the promise of obama care. i think the punishment of obama care, say, we don't want to lose coverage for millions of our employees. and so they've gone for an exemption but not only have they gone for an exemption, a lot of the major unions including the teachers union, the communication workers, the big unions that boosted big obama care have gone and they've gotten exemptions. so a lot of americans are going to have to comply but these folks are not going

that's why we called in peter johnson, jr. >> it's a tragedy. and everybody is feeling it.a child in a college or is going to go to college feels it. this is a child, mr. clemente just started college and then his parents get the word that he's in the hudson river for jumping from the george washington bridge. i think it's about two things. license and licentiousness. privacy has gone out the window. pornography is being accepted in this country. we are diminishing our privacy voluntarily. the web, web cams, phone cams, the internet. it's led to the availability of technology has led to us saying privacy is not important anymore and now we have a death that allegedly is as a result of this web cam incident. >> steve: so many kids these days live everything on the internet. they go to a party, they go to the grocery store, they post pictured and twit pictures. this kid, driven to this extreme. he's standing on the bridge and reportedly he twittered, i'm about to jump into the gw bridge. sorry. >> it's almost a disconnection from reality, as if that's another event to be post

he failed. >> brian: peter johnson, jr., you were successful in outlining both sides.stories that are just now being released. his daughter is here with a story that you don't know about the legend. but first, let's check in with another legend, our own martha mccallum. she'll tell us what's happening on her show. >> legend in my own time. thank you very much. we've got the latest on this renewed terror alert for u.s. travelers. brand-new information coming in that includes a warning about airport waiting areas. we'll tell you about that. could charlie baker be the next scott brown to stun blue massachusetts? he's here when bill and i join you at america's news room at the top of the hour. ♪ . >> gretchen: country music legend who has been gone for almost 50 years, you know who it is. he's about to release more music now. hank williams' daughter, jet williams, joins us now with the amazing news about new music. good morning to you, jet. >> good morning. how y'all doing? >> gretchen: very good. thank you. in this box set right here is what? >> actually what this box set

peter johnson, jr. sticking around. >> absolutely. >> steve: tomorrow, charlie crist will join us live on the television show and karl rove, so we'll see you then. bill: hey tkpwaoeurbgs thank you. a lot of news on the economy, let's start there and it's breaking right now, 462,000 americans, filing for first time claims last week, that's up from, well, last week, up 13,000, that's 13,000 higher, not good news, but labor departments say the number of people collecting unemployment benefits did fall to a level not seen in two years, so still, the recovery struggles on inch by inch for millions of americans looking for work. more on that in moments. >>> in the meantime, we seat new record last month, news in the foreclosure mess as well, u.s. lenders foreclosed on more than 100,000 homes in september, that's a new monthly record, according to the industry group realitytrak that follows the real estate market in the u.s. all that mess about foreclosures and halting and halting, and whether to sell a home f

>> dave: thanks to peter johnson, jr. for filling into clayton and welcome aboard to maria and, thanks to the official tailgating commissioner and join us for the "after the show" show. >> alisyn: we'll learn -- i want to know exactly what is tailgating and you'll define it. tailgating and you'll define it. >> i'll define it... captioning by, closed captioning services, inc. >> jamie: good morning, everyone, a serious sprint to the finish, shaping up as republicans and democrats are scrambling for votes ahead of the midterm elections. good morning, i'm jamie colby. >> eric: i'm eric sean and welcome to america's news headquarters. for this sunday morning. a live look, there is the prize, just nine days to go. and on this sunday morning there are new predictions showing that the house could shift hands and the senate is too close to call. what is the latest for the elections? let's begin with julie kirtz live in washington, bring us up-to-date. >> reporter: with days to go, the president hits the road again, in these days

johnson, former analyst with the cia. served in the u.s. state department office of counterterrorism. peterergian, cnn national analyst is at the center of law and security at nyu school of law and author of the "osama bin laden i know." and mohammad, cnn international correspondent based in baghdad. let's check in first with rehema in dubai. what's the latest from there, rehema? >> larry, officials confirm here earlier that there was no shipment coming from yemen towards the u.s. through dubai on emritz airlines flight ak-201 which was escorted by the u.s. fighters in the u.s. a suspicious shipment or package originating from yemen was discovered in dubai earlier tonight and it was found at a fedex cargo aircraft. the aviation officials said that this suspicious package has been sent to the lab to discover what's in this package. however, this happened many hours ago but so far there's not one statement that says what they found in this package. as we know, it's friday. the beginning of the weekend. now it's the morning, saturday. it's 5:00 a.m. in the morning nearly 5:30 and there were no

peter spends phi hours a day working at his computer. all of that time staring a the monitor took its toll. >> i found my eyes got very tired from it. the screen began to blur. >> reporter: johnson from computer vision syndrome, which you can get ott not only from extepidded use on the computer and other devices like smart phones. symptoms include eye fatigue, eye strain, headaches, dry, itchy eyes, burning and tearing there's not much we can do about the amount of time we spend on computers and hand held devices but there are things we can do to make our eyes feel better. >> reporter: doctors say to follow the 20/20/20 rule. every 20 minutes focus on something 20 feet away for 20 seconds to allow your eyes to rest. >> it will allow the muscles to relax and take the strain off of the muscles and you will feel a lot better. >> when we are at the computer we blink 60% less than normal. drying out our eyes. they recommend blinking more or using eye drops. >> it is sounds like something we ought to do subconsciously but when you are on the computer the blink rate goes down. >> reporter: hehe has reading glasses for the strain. >> it was quickly how it disappeared. >> now he can focu