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>> brian: we'll see everybody here tomorrow. we're taking attendance. >> gretchen: have a great weapons. bill: good morning, critical question begins our broadcast today, could the deadline imposed by the white house kill health care reform? the president was adamant saying we need an up or down vote by next week but congress says they need time and that might be or could it be the end of the ballgame? good morning, i'm bill hemmer, welcome to "america's newsroom". martha: that's a big question we start with, good morning, bill, good morning, everybody, i'm martha maccallum, a senior white house official telling fox this is a one-shot deal, adding if the house cannot move the senate version of this bill, it's all over. bill: if that's the case, so with the house, goes health care. major garrett has been doing great reporting on this. rahm emanuel got an earful last night from house democrats. is this deadline issue complicating these talks in getting it done for democrats? >> reporter: it appears to be, bill. the continuation of that quote martha read is it's a one-shot deal, if it works, it does, if it doesn't, then it doesn't work out. the administration officials also told me i guarantee you we, meaning this white house, will not be talking about this issue in may. yes, there is posturing going on, the white house wants to move as rapidly as possible, so it doesn't have this issue into the month of may and extending possibly into the month of may. the white house, this issue needs to be dealt with, it needs to be dealt with now. rahm emanuel went to capitol hill to meet with senior house and senate democrats to talk about timing, process, policy, all of the nuts and bolts of this huge comprehensive health care reform bill and was told flat leily by almost democrat, get off this march 1st deadline for the action, we need more space. there is one of these democrats, henny waxman, a powerful california democrat. >> i was at a meeting with rahm emanuel and he was certainly informed we don't feel we want any deadline assigned to u. we want to pass the bill, we want to make sure it's the way it should be, and as soon as possible. but we don't feel that we have to have any particular deadline. >> reporter: house and senate democrats know they have so much work to do and the pressure of this march 18th deadline was only eight days away, makes it harder to lobby members because members think if the 18th passes nobody has to bother me anymore and they can scurry off away and not tell them how they are going to vet on pending legislation so for that and other reasons democrats would like the white house to be less adamant, and so far i've checked with the white house and they're not backing off. bill: to that point, then, so many deadlines have come and gone. >> reporter: right. bill: why does it even matter at this point? >> reporter: it's a natural question. the country has been saying we've been talking about this for a year, what does it matter, another week or so -- or two, and that's certainly the perspective. the white house believes look, we've got to deal with this issue and the president has to move on, he cannot have his entire domestic political initiative and legislative initiative sold by health care, it happens or it doesn't. the white house, it appears, if this goes down, will move on. the white house doesn't believe it will go down but wants a resolution and soon. as a practical matter, look at the calendar, the 18th of march would give the senate one more week to push this deal through, that's when congress on the 26th of march is scheduled to leave for a 2-week, unbreakable recess for passover and easter. you can't intrude on the recess. the white house argues the difficult climate is not going to improve by waiting two more weeks, having more town halls and more public discussion. vote and vote now, we'll take our chance. bill: thanks for that. still then we ask this question, what is the big deal with the deadline. check out -- check out the white house correspondence log, fox news.com. you'll see more about this issue and other options. what does it mean for health care? it means everything. fox news.com. martha: one interesting quote from one of the sources in that story, they said to rahm emanuel, the message to you is stop, enough is enough in terms of the pressure that's come from the white house on this. a big battle underway. then there is this today, another nightmare for toyota, and for one very frightened driver. the california highway patrol has now released the 911 call that was made by the driver of a runaway toyota prius, his name is james sykes, he says he reached down and tried to physically loosen the accelerator pedal on his three -- '08 model before he dialed for help. the pedal he says did not budge and the car reached speeds nearing 90 miles an hour. listen to this. >> hello this is 911, do you have an emergency? >> my car, it can't slow down. >> you can't slow it down? >> no. >> where are you? >> i'm -- >> where are you? >> i'm -- >> sir, i need to know where you are. >> highway 80. >> sir, you need to talk to me. sir? hello? sir, can you hear me? can you hear me? sir, can you hear me? >> oh -- >> can you hear me? >> yeah. >> what kind of car are you in? i heard a toyota, what color is it? >> blue. >> blue? >> yes. >> what kind of toyota? >> what kind of toyota? >> prius. >> a prius? >> yeah. >> and what's going on, your accelerator is stuck? >> yeah. >> yes? >> yeah, yeah. i tried to pull it back. i pushed down on the brakes, and the car shuddered, and kind of slipped. >> okay, how fast are you going? >> 80 something. >> you're going 80 miles an hour? >> 84 now. >> 81? and it's still stuck? >> yes. >> okay. what is your name? >> jim. >> okay. i'm notifying an officer right now and you're going to stay on the phone with me, okay? is there anybody with you, are you by yourself? >> exple tiff. >> sir? >> the truck -- >> sir? >> sir? is it the floor mat that's stuck on your pedal? >> sir? can you hear me? martha: wow, you know, this is a scary piece of 911 tape and there are skeptics that wondered, is all this for real, this man sounds genuinely shaken up in this tape, he says that his prius raced at high speeds for more than 20 minutes. when you hear him talk about a truck, he's worried he might hit a truck, he's trying to control the car as he's talking to her, and it's going 80 miles an hour, according to this report. and the highway patrol officers did arrive, and they helped him. we're going to have more of that tape and what happened next, coming up later in this hour. bill: meantime, the hearings on the hill, what a p.r. nightmare this has been for toyota throughout this entire ordeal. sales this month, however, are through the roof, they're up more than 50 percent, from the fox business network, stu varney is on that today, host of varnny & company. americans are looking for bargains and you've got answers why. >> first off, in the first week of march for this sales period that we're talking about here, toyota introduced some very generous buyer incentives, zero percent financing on a five-year deal, generous, indeed, okay? so you got the sales incentives there. that doesn't wholly explain a 50.5% sales surge in the first # days of march compared to the same period last year. in the middle of this dreadful publicity, when you're hearing stories like the one you just ran there with that 911 call, in the middle of all of that, sales surge 50.5%. you have to question, bill, whether or not the confidence of consumers in the toyota quality and brand name has really been shaken. how else do you expect a 50 percent rise in sales in an 8-day period? nobody was expecting that. bill: you can get a good deal and i guess the reputation precedes all the issues we've been talking about. nonetheless, 9:20, check out stu varney. martha. martha: this was a shocker. she calls herself jihad jane. that's the name she gave herself, she's accused of plotting with terrorists overseas and setting up shop right here in the united states. this is a picture of the woman, colleen larose, jihad jane, from pennsylvania, and sources say she was on a mission to assassinate a swedish artist to get back at him for drawing controversial cartoons of the prophet muhammad. she's clearly not your typical terror suspect. one prosecutor says this case underscores the evolving nature of the threat that we face, and you think about the recent cases and sort of the unusual places that a lot of these terrorists come from in the united states, steve centanni is looking into this from washington. good morning to you steve. what does this tell us about what we're up against in this country? >> reporter: well t. does show us, martha, international terrorists are trying more than ever to blend in, to be able to travel easily across borders without attracting attention, and 46-year-old colleen renee larose from suburban philadelphia is the perfect example. she's small, blond haired, blue eyed, looks kind of like the typical soccer mom, only one of a handful of women ever to be charged with terrorism in the u.s. according to the indictment against her, she tried to recruit people in the u.s., europe, and south asia, to, quote, wage violent jihad, martha. martha: how was she operating? and do we know whether or not she was getting anywhere? pulling off those goals? >> we don't know for sure, but certainly, authorities were concerned. she traveled to europe last year, and allegedly tried to recruit people to kill a swedish artist who drew a controversial cartoon of the prophet mohammed. several people were arrested in ireland yesterday, in connection with the plot. she even posted projihadist videos on her my space page and reportedly most dollars a youtube video in 2008 stating she was, quote, desperate to do something to help the suffering muslim people. and again, when she allegedly recruited people, she looked for, according to the indictment, to recruits that could travel freely, blend in with others and go undetected in the u.s. and europe. martha: no doubt she could do that, doing fancy stuff with passports with people she knew as well. steve centanni, thank you. bill: we're going to talk to steve emerson, our terrorism analyst, on this in 30 minutes and dig into this story. we're only moments -- days away from the deadline on health care and the white house is counting on sperg nanny pelosi to meet that deadline. former white house press secretary dana per ino is on deck. martha: the heat is on, a former aide to john edwards over this purported sex tape of the former senator and his mistress, a judge says andrew young better come clean on just how many copies of this tape really do exist out there. >> there is a sex tape? >> there is. >> and you've been offered big money for it? >> we were. martha: we have breaking news out of los angeles this morning, fox news confirming that actor corey haim has died, the l.a.p.d. says his death appears to be an accidental drug overdose. an investigation is underway. he shot to fame in the '80s starring in "the lost boys" and "license to drive", his frequent roles alongside actor corey feldman spawned a show called the two corves bill: what a tragedy that is, far too young. the new deadline that could make or break the democrats' push for health care reform, only # days away and house speaker nancy pelosi now under pressure from the white house to bring a vote on health care to the floor by march 18th, but there is stiff opposition to the bill coming from some democratic lawmakers. some supporters of the bill, are pe push -- are they pushing for a vote too fast? you see the date, march 18th, that's what the white house is looking for, march 27th, that's when the easter recess begins. dana per ino was white house secretary in the bush administration and is now a fox news contributor. good morning. >> good morning. bill: a story out that nancy pell's -- pelosi's grip on the house is slipping. >> i one time heard we're say she has a raucous caucus and she does. she span the full spectrum of the democratic party. bill: major was saying the democrats told rahm emanuel last night to back off, deadlines don't help. >> it's hard for a congress to keep to any deadline but hard for the white house to imagine this is going to go on and on and they needed to tell them something but what might had been better was if they agreed on a deadline and announced it at the same time. bill: let me see if i can get that calendar up. if this goes past the easter break, congress goes out for two weeks, back to their home district, if you don't have a deal done by april, will it never get finished? >> that would be my personal polity hope, from a communications standpoint, i think it's very hard to keep this going. they are losing air speed and altitude at white house on this bill and in the house, and so -- but i wouldn't put it past her to be able to get it done. she's been able to do things in the past, to pull people together and i think if the american who 3-1 don't want this bill really don't want this bill, they need to make sure the phones are ringing off the hook and the members know. bill: this is one thing we haven't heard about, how are republicans countering, what are they telling folks? the president is going to be in st. louis today, he was in philadelphia on monday. >> he has a bully pulpit and he's going to get all the attention, but obviously, republicans are having an impact. if the american people 3-1 are against this bill, they've done something right. they've argued the merits, for one, but the interesting thing is a lot of people don't typically like to talk about process, they think that's boring but in this instance where the democrats are going to try to jam through this bill on what's called reconciliation, new surveys are out showing the american people are disgusted by this, they think it's underhanded, a dirty trick, and they're not going to stand for it. bill: others would argue you have a democratic majority in the house and senate, if it was a good bill, it would be passed by now. >> good policy is good politics. if it's good politics, we would have a good policy. bill: let me turn you to another topic, karl rove is on a book tour and he talked about the tea party movement and what he was suggesting was this could hurt republicans if party that's right -- tea party backs republicans come november. what's your view? >> it could hurt democrats and republicans and incumbents in particular, anyone who actually has a seat in things that are safe probably shouldn't think that right now. if you just look at what happened in texas, i'm not an expert but in texas we had a governor's race, a republican primary, rick perry wins, is not forced into a runoff, but one of the reasons i believe he was not was but medina, a tea party candidate, took 19 percent of the vote and kay bailey hutchinson got 30 percent. bill: that's interesting because our focus that day after that vote was rick perry had beaten kay bailly hutchinson, two well-known figures, and beat her soundly. >> this happened when ross perot ran for president, who's he run on? on h. w. george bush. >> do you agree with what karl is saving -- say something. >> i think karl has it right, yeah. bill: new -- thank you, and thank you for your time. don't be a stranger, we'll take you any time. >> thanks. martha: he paid $787 billion to put americans back to work. and now a new report is uncovering that thousands of jobs that are being paid for by stimulus are going to people overseas. a senator is outraged over this and he joins us next. bill: also, she goes by the name jihad jane on line, the feds say she was on a deadly mission as the face of terror in the u.s. continues to change, more on this woman and what we're learning now. martha: here's a question for you this wednesday morning. is stimulus creating jobs for people in china? it turns out that 70 percent of the equipment that has been purchased for the clean energy jobs that we've heard a lot about like solar panels and wind turbines is actually coming from foreign companies and at this rate a new report says the u.s. could be building these and that we stand to lose 100,000 jobs due to all of this by 2015, which is not good news, with the way that the ploimght market has been going. five democratic senators are fighting to reverse this trend, though, all five of them voted for the stimulus package last year, and that is a package that has many americans sort of disenchanted and for reasons like the one we're going to discuss a bit today with senator bob casey who we're glad to have with us today. good morning senator, good to see gliew good morning, martha. martha: i guess when you look at this situation, we want to build solar panels and wind turbines and in some instances like the west texas case, the equipment is being purchased from companies in china, so it's creating jobs in china. so the first question that occurs to me is why would that texas project want that to come from china? why would they not pick a company here in the united states? there must be some reason. >> well, it makes no sense. when we have the ability, we have the workers, the skills, the knowledge, to create those jobs in america. so what we should do, and as you know, i'm a strong supporter of the recovery bill, it's having a positive impact on jobs, but when there's a defect or problem with the recovery bill we've got to admit it and fix the problem, and the way to do that, even in our legislation, senators schumer, brown and tester are working on with me, the way to do that is have the treasurer department put a moratorium on this, take a look at t. fix the problem. by saying two things, we should a buy american provision in the act that applies to this specific grant program that relates to wind energy projects, and secondly, the treasury department, when they're making these determinations, should consider and analyze the impact on american jobs. it's actually pretty simple. i can't believe that we have to pass any bill to do this. the treasury department and administration should do it without any act by congress, but if they don't act, we're going to pass this bill. martha: i hear you and the labor unions are very upset about this and i understand why they are. i go back to my original question, if i'm running this company in texas and i want to build the wind turbines in texas or want to promote clean energy and i'm going to bid that project out, i'm going to figure out who can give it to me at the best price, my guess is the reason this company in west texas went to china was because they got a much better deal. >> well, and that's one of the reasons why in our bill, in the buy america section, we have a waiver, if the cost becomes exorbitant, if the parts, component parts available aren't in the united states, we have the opportunity or the administration has the opportunity to waive the provision. but we should be committed to having a buy american provision that relates to this projects, and secondly, we should make sure that we're doing everything possible to create american jobs here. we can do this, and i hope the administration will work with us. martha: there's the notion that everyone wants to get behind, we would all prefer to see this money go to america and we want the jobs to be built here but we also know that one of the reasons that manufacturing has suffered so much in this country is because in many cases you look at the car companies, for example, unions have made it very difficult for american companies to build at a price that is competitive, and i know you've had a lot of union support in your political career, and i'm asking you, would you turn around to the unions and say look, you guys have to work with us on this, if you want to be competitive, you're going to have to be? >> martha, i don't buy the premise, i don't think this is a question of unions weighing down america. one of the reasons we have the quality workmanship in our products and work across the country is we have unions that have high skill levels, but i believe this can be corrected by the administration. they've expressed a willingness to work with us to correct it. we can fix this and make sure that american tax dollars are for the most part in almost every instance creating american jobs. it doesn't mean that every single job created will be here in america. we've got to make a better effort than this specific grant provision is making right now. martha: we all want to see american manufacturing come back and be as strong as it once was, and there's a lot of variables that go into seeing that happen and we hope that that is the future for this country. senator casey, it's very good to have you with us, thank you very much for joining us this morning. bill: especially when you see the jobs number every thrs, right? ticks some people off, right? in a moment a sordid tale involve ago text tape -- sex tape and john edwards, his former righthand man could face jail time for not having a full answer on the number of copies floating around out there. more than one, perhaps? martha: plus we have more of that scary 911 call, how the driver of a runaway prius was finally brought to a stop. >> what, jim? jim? bill: we are hearing from america's chief justice john roberts, getting back at the president, saying he is troubled by the way president obama called out the supreme court during january's state of the union address. roberts, speaking to law students at the university of alabama just yesterday, recalling the moment during the speech in late january, and now justice samuel alito on that tape can be seen mouthing the words "not true". the president was blasting the high court for a decision the week before that allowed corporations and unions to freely spend money on political ads. democrats delighted in that presidential dig and we've got reaction this morning at the white house can caroline shively who is covering this. what did chief justice roberts tell those law students in alabama, caroline? >> he said basically the states have turned into a -- the speech turned into a pep rally and he didn't like it. the point was in that video you were talking about, when the president slammed the recent decision on campaign finance laws and democrats, right behind the justices, jumped to their feet and started clapping. here's what roberts told the students: >> the image of having the members of one branch of government standing up, literally surrounding the supreme court, cheering and hollering, while the court, according to the requirement for protocol, has to sit there, expressionless, i think, is very tough. >> reporter: roberts went on to say i'm just not sure why we're even there. bill: this is remarkable. we don't find ourselves traveling down this road very often. so there's john roberts down there in alabama yesterday. what's the white house saying in response to this now? >> reporter: the white house press secretary robert gibbs made a comment last night in response. here's what gibbs said, what is troubling is that this decision opened the flood gates for corporations and special interests to pour money into elections, drowning out the voices of average americans. gibbs went on to say the president is very concerned about the influence that special interests have over government and that's why he spoke out at the state of the union. bill: more on this throughout the morning. we're just learning as it continues to develop, and caroline, thank you for that, from the white house, caroline shively. here's martha. martha: we have more on this frantic 911 call that was made by the driver of that runaway toyota prius. there's a few examples of this, but this man's car, this is jim sikes' car, he was dialing for help, he says the gas pedal was struck and wouldn't budge as the car is speeding up to almost 90 miles an hour. listen to this. >> listen to me, we have officers on the way, i'm trying to get ahold of a helicopter. i need you to answer questions for me. sir, if you can hear me, is there a way for you to take the car out of gear? >> i can't hold the phone. >> you can't hold the phone? can you put it on speaker? jim, if you can hear me, we have help on the way. >> i'm going 90 miles an hour. >> sir, if you can hear me, we have help there. >> they're there. >> i'm doing over 90. >> you're over # zero. >> yes,o, hold on, my brakes are almost burnt out. >> are you in cruise control ? sir, if you can hear me, you need to press your ignition button and hold it down. can you hear me? sir? >> [inaudible] >> sir? >> sir? holy cow, sir, you all right? >> woo! >> good job. bill: holy cow! martha: gosh, i mean, i still don't know exactly how they were able to bring this car to a stop. but this is one scary tape, and you can hear, she kind of loses contact with him because it seems at that point the police take over and he's now communicating with the police to get this car to stop. one thing you and i were talking about in the break is that he describes it, as he says in the beginning of all this, he reached down and tried to, you know, dislodge the accelerator with his hand, okay, and he couldn't do it, he said it wouldn't budge. now, ostensibly, this is happening because the car mat is getting stuck in the acoo accelerator but i ask you this, if that's the case and you reach down and move the accelerator, you could dislodge that carpet and unlock the accelerator, so that leads to all the questions about the computer system and whether this is technologically locked in. bill: what happened earlier that week, toyota was doing a demonstration to prove this was not the issue, then you have this, and clearly, you can hear the angst in this guy's voice. we asked the highway patrol officer, the man who pulled sikes over, you could hear him on the blow horn outside the car, he was asking the guy could you take the foot off the accelerator and that's how it wound up on -- up on the freeways of san diego. talk about a scary moment there. toyota recently recalling the prius, 2004-2009 were among the cars involved in the floor mat problem, that's when the accelerator had the potential to get trapped in the floor moot -- floor mat. toyota says if that happens the car would be difficult to stop. the prius, however, not among the cars recalled because of a gas pedal that sticks in the down position without interference from the floor mat. it's time to figure this out. you can hear that guy on tape. wow, is that a moment in california. >> do you have the sex tape? you said you will never release it? >> no. >> under any circumstances? >> unless somebody hold toss gun to my head. >> but not for any financial amount? >> no. martha: all right, well, it is the tape that sparked all the dram drama surrounding andrew young, he has only got two days to clear it up now, the former john edwards aide narrowo narrowly escaping jail time for the tape regarding evidence of an affair between the former presidential candidate and rielle hunter. a north carolina judge wants to know exactly who the youngs have shown this tape to, or else, he says. he's losing patience with mr. young and his wife. you'll remember that young acted as the former senator's scapegoat when news of edwards' child with rielle hunter broke, he said that was my baby. turned out it was not. so will you soon be able to google the john edwards sex tape? i mean, this is where this may be headed, folks. and can anything prevent that? doug burns is a criminal defense attorney and ann marie mcevoy is a prosecutor. welcome to both of you. the information that's coming out now from rielle hunter's attorney is that there was a suggestion that another guy said yeah, i went over to andrew young's house and he pulled out this tape on his computer and showed it to me. if that is the case you now have a digital version, which who knows where that stops, you've got the vhs version and another version given to federal prosecutors. where are we headed here? >> you're making a good point, martha. that is with the technology today, there are so many different formats it's almost impossible to prove a negative, that ironically sets up the defense in contempt of court, in other words, you know, i don't know who else may have pirated this, i wasn't clear on what the court was saying to me, but it's interesting, because my prediction is that they were reporting yesterday that the judge had jailed him and so on, but the reality is they're going to go back to court on friday and i think the judge is basically going to give him a very stern lecture and say, you know, it all ends now or else, basically. that type of thing. martha: and ann marie, based on the interviews and based on the fact that he initially said this baby was his, this guy's credibility is a little difficult for andrew young to get on his side right now. would you agree with that? >> absolutely. one of the robs as -- one of the problems as well is he also showed this to abc news recently, so he claims a lapse of memory as an excuse for not having told the judge about the videotape, that he couldn't remember he recently showed it to abc news? >> these are pictures right now of andrew young in court, battling all this, and the last picture you saw was andrew young with his wife who apparently was in tears in the courtroom while the judge was suggesting that 75 days in jail might be in their future. >> he could always give them a couple of days if he wants, he could send him to jail for even just a day or two or send him to jail for the full 75 days at this point. martha: doug, when you look at it from the perspective of rielle hunter and john edwards, for them the biggest concern i would imagine is that this could be a tape that is just out there in the ether and easily downloadable by anyone's computer, you want to see the former presidential candidate and the sin tore in this tape. cue it up. >> it could be embarrassment and lead to extortion. i'm not suggesting that's the case but we've seen it in other contexts, where very highly embarrassing information is out there, and it causes lots and lots of problems, so you're right. martha: ann marie, is there any way to stop that in this world? legally, is there a way to get rid of this tape if this judge wants to? >> to be honest, it's actually almost impossible. the problem is that you have the internet, you have the tape being on computer at this point, it can be on a flash drive, it's almost impossible to really be able to tell where it is at any given moment. martha: just a word, i'm going to ask both of you, because i'm out of time, do you think andrew young or his wife will go to jail over this? >> i think unlikely. i the judge is using it as a hammer for them and if so it will be a couple of days. martha: do you agree? >> i agree, he's hammering them. thank you. what a sticky situation that is. bill: that mystery continues in court. for days, we held out hope for a missing executive, a father and husband. what surveillance tapes reveal about the final moments of this man's life in new orleans. martha: the feds say that this is the face of a terrorist who operated on u.s. soil. she's an american. what else we know now about the woman who calls herself jihad jane. bill: back to one of the top stories this morning, our next guest says this is becoming all too common, a pennsylvania woman known as jihad jane is charged with using the intrrns to recruit jihad killers to carry out assassinations and carry out attacks overseas, federal investigators allege she had a personal mission to murder a swedish artist who drew controversial publishes of the prophet muhammad. her casing raising alarm because she is far from as you can see the typical suspect. steve emerson is my guest, deputy director of the investigative project on terrorism and author of jihad incorporated. steve, good morning to you. you have seen her postings online. what do they say, what do they look like? >> she was a full-fledged jihad machine, bill. not only was she a white woman who converted and then used her american passport to gain access to europe freely and to do reconnaissance on potential assassination suspect, but she recruited funds on the internet for jihad, she recruited volunteers for jihad, to carry out killings, she recruited women to use their marriage certificate to allow their husbands to carry out jihad, she was in contact with about five coconspirators, all of them in europe or southeast asia, and she was either being tasked with carrying out assassinations of the swedish artist or she was being -- or she told them, instructed them, what to do in terms of how to raise funds and recruit other jihadists. bill: how long was this going on, by the way? >> good we. -- good question. beginning in the middle of 2008, she saw a youtube video, apparently, that was a jihadist video and in the comment section, she said i want to volunteer to become a jihadist. a few months later, she was contacted by somebody in southeast asia who said well, we'll help you do that. and then she started this internet community with about five coconspirators, one of whom was in the united states, the rest either in europe or southeast asia, all of whom were committed to carrying out this assassination, or carrying out jihad in other parts of the world. what's unusual here is that she got away with it for so long. the question is whether the fbi actually had somebody on the inside watching it, or whether they retrieved the messages only recently. bill: that's a good question. she wasn't necessarily hiding when she's using the term jihad jane, online, born in michigan, later lived in texas, latest word in the fall, was living in montgomery county, p.a., outside philadelphia. >> right. bill: your point, steve, is that people like this woman, in america, are seeking recruits all over the world on the internet, it's happening more and more often. >> right. this is really an alarming development, because she doesn't fit the stereotypical billing of a jihadist looking to recruit. she actually exploited the fact and she mentioned it, that she looks white, she has an american passport. she even stole somebody else's american passport so that somebody else could carry out jihad in europe, and she mentioned the fact that some of her coconspirators look white or european, that they would blend in and not engeander suspicion. we in our organization track one of her websites which actually posted all these jihad videos which attracted, again, would-be volunteers. so she was a full-fledged jihad machine, very unusual to see this with a white woman convert. bill: and colleen larose is her original name, whatever she goes by now, age 46, she was arrested in october. i'm assuming the only reason we know about this right now is because the investigation was still ongoing, and that might go to your previous point that the fbi has been tracking her for some time. >> right. i think she was asked by the fbi last year, about whether, in fact, she solicited funds for terrorism. she denied it, she denied any postings, so the fbi knew at that point that she was lying,, so at that point, she kept monitoring what she was doing and kept it going as far as they could to see who else was involved, to see if there were other -- remember there are five other coconspirators that are not named, including one in the united states. i assume that person is going to be arrested very shortly. bill: not just that person, but i think there's a lot more to this story, as i think you would attest to, also. she, her appearance and also the american passport, helps make it easier for her to operate in this country, too. steve emerson, please come back when you've got more. i know you're on this story for us here. thank you sir. got a question about the story, we're igtrinned by -- we're intrigued by it, shoots an e-mail, hemmer, one line, shoot us a question, we'll get to it today. martha: the government's terror watch list doubling in size since that failed christmas day attack on a u.s. jet but the increased numbers could make homeland security's job actually harder. a live report. bill: also more on the breaking news out of california, '80s tonight star corey haim dead at 38. what police in los angeles are now saying. #ñ#ñ#ñ#ññññññ martha: it's spring training time in florida and it is big business, the pro teams have been moving operations out of the sunshine state for years, and now florida lawmakers want to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on incentives to help attract and retain those teams and keep them coming to florida. critics say the state shouldn't bankroll big time sports, citing the $2 billion budget decifit. check this out, the grapefruit league attracted nearly 2 million fans last year, some analysts say it broadened more than 700 -- brought in 700 million for the state last year. phil keating is live at the red sox training facility. he always get the toughest assignments. he's in forth myers, florida with more. i suppose supporters of the idea, it's all about money and jobs, probably, right? >> reporter: exactly. florida governor counter lee crist, as well as supporters in the state's legislature, they all say this creates about 9000 jobs for florida and generates nearly $800 million a year in tourism, and i can tell you in the city where the red sox have a 1:05 game against the rays, it is chuck full of boston snow birds down here, however, for economists, several say it's really negligible the impact of having pro team, especially for the limited time span of spring training in your town, whether the county actually benefits or loses they say is negligible, they studied many times when teams have left that particular county, and so supporters want to have a spring training retention fund in the state of florida so that getting stadium improvements doesn't always require going back to the stej legislature. martha: take the city of palms park, where you are, why is it in need of an upgrade? >> it is a good looking stadium, but there are, for example, limited club seats, there's not an open concourse for people to mill around, there aren't cup holders in the seats. behind left field, there is no monature green monster and no video screen, so the red sox are toying with the idea of leaving fort maies. we are -- they are now going to stay, it was announced, there's a new red sox park andis going to have a green monster. two years from opening. martha: phil keating, thank you very much. got to have the cup holder. bill: you do. how about the palm trees? for the folks in the north, doesn't that drive you crazy? enjoy it, phil. martha: nicely done. bill: in a moment, we shared a little of this, it was the ride from hell. listen to the terror in this driver's voice as his toyota prius barrels down the freeway in florida, he's on the phone with 911. >> oh -- >> sir? >> sir? >> sir? is it the floor mat that's stuck on your pedal? >> sir? can you hear me? bill: that was only part of it. this terrifying exchange goes on and on for almost 20 minutes time. reaction from a lawmaker who's been taking toyota to task. you'll hear that, top of the you'll hear that, top of the hour, three minutes away. it's tough to reach that five servings a day if you don't always like the taste of vegetables. good thing v8 v-fusion juice gives you a serving of vegetables hidden by a serving of fruit. 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they could stop health care in its tracks, carl cameron is live on the hill, good morning, will they doom the bill? >> reporter: they very well could. and it all hinges on whether or not the differences between the house and senate versions of the legislation can actually be worked out specific to the abortion language. in the senate, there is no out right prohibition on taxpayer dollars, going to abortion related services. that is highly objectionable to the house version and some of the house and senate democrats who actually made sure the so-called bart stupak amendment would be included in the house bill that banned taxpayer dollars from going to abortion services. that has been the law of the land, for years, under an amendment, named after henry hydro. today, bart stupak the michigan democrat leading the charge reiterated unless the status quo is maintained, it is entirely likely at least a dozen, perhaps more, will scuttle this in the house. >> there is at least a -- 12 democrats who have said they could not vote for health care, unless, we get those -- keep this current law which says no public funding for abortion and keep the hydro language languag been around 33 years and most americans agree with that. >> reporter: a lot of polls suggest, 60% of the american people think federal -- american taxpayer dollars shouldn't go to abortion services and what the senate version does is essentially say there would be one videos of programs, one series of products, available, in the national insurance exchange, wherein there would be a guarantee no taxpayer dollars would go to insurance -- abortion services. but, there wouldn't be an explicit prohibition elsewhere, in the so-called insurance exchange, and, it would require women to buy a separate insurance policy if they wanted an abortion services and you can imagine mothers and daughters contemplating that at a very young age or you may not be able to imagine contemplating it and see a bunch of objections on both sides of the issue developing. in the house, they passed a version that said no tax dollars, and the senate they left the door open and that is what the battle is about. bill: got it, and is developing now, carl cameron, thanks, thank you, carl on the hill there. here's martha. martha: an incredible tape, a driver's terror was caught on tape, the 911 call, released from the toyota prius driver, who was pleading for help with 911. to stop his speeding car. james sikes saying he could not stop the car no matter how he tried: martha: gosh. a scary tape. a california highway patrol officer, was able to track down sikes with this help of the 911 operator and guided him to safety, with a loud speaker. listen to this part: martha: boy, everybody involved in the is trying to give him any piece of advice to stop the car. and, that is the second incident involving a toyota prius, this week. which was, you know, somewhat affected by -- unaffected by this and a driver in new york says her car accelerated on its own out of her driveway and slammed into a stonewall and fortunately she was not seriously hurt and the incidents are only adding, of course to toyota's troubles, in this wake of these massive safety recalls, joining us now from capitol hill is a lawmaker, who has been very vocal on this issue, republican congressman darrell issa of california. he's the ranking member of the house oversight and government reform committee. congressman, always good to have you with us. welcome back. >> thanks for having me back and thanks for keeping an eye on this important subject, as finally nhtsa, toyota and our committee are doing the same, going out and looking at every one of these accidents, or near accidents, and trying to figure out if there is a thread of actual failure in one or more of these various events around the country. martha: i mean, this could not be worse pr for toyota. to the extent that, you know, some people have even questioned the validity of it and we're playing the tape for everybody and listen at home and see what you think, the man sounds genuinely in peril here, in this tape and you know, it raises a lot of question, congressman, about the floor mat issue and he was pulling on the accelerator, trying to release it, and the officer on the scene said there appeared to be no issue with a mat involved. and, does this tell us there is some kind of, you know, computer systems issue in this car as well? >> the one thing about a smoking gun, is that nhtsa, toyota and people from our committee, we are sending out there, are going to have a vehicle that, if it can be duplicated we can get to the bottom of it, one of the important things, that i think we should all remember, is these vehicles have been out there, for many, many years, and that is how end up with 8 million affected vehicles, and what we are looking for, is out of this rash of new runaway vehicles how many of them are real, versus, perhaps, have the same effect, that often happens when a big event happens and people want to be part of it, we are not taking for granted that this isn't real, just the opposite and we are looking into every one of them and nhtsa is reacting on a quick basis with the forensic people, so we can go vehicle by vehicle and i do not expect the vehicle to be released back onto the road until it has been tested like no other prius. martha: but, that is the problem. i think, people are very nervous, they are not believing what they are hearing about what the cause of all of this is. and i think it was ray lahood, got in a heap of trouble at one point make a generalization, about the not getting into the cars and if i had a prius in my driveway i would be nervous driving it, right now. should people be nervous driving these cars? >> you know, i think if you look at it statistically and look at the millions of cars out there, and you look, manufacturer by manufacturer, how many of them have safety recalls, not applied, i think you can feel statistically safe. but, if you don't feel personally safe, toyota has a program where they are coming out, taking your vehicle from right where it is, leaving you with a loaner, taking back your vehicle, going through all of the updates including shortening accelerators and so on and are doing what they can and we feel the government's responsibility, now, playing catch-up, on years of neglect, is to make sure that each of these are tested thoroughly, to really find out, is there another problem with toyota that has been undetected, and, you know, i have to tell you, that there is a possibility, but let's remember, the possibility is, fairly slim when you look at millions of cars, and, very few unresolved incidences, so, i don't want to either be with or not with ray lahood on this. i think people need to be personally comfortable, they need to ask if they are not uncomfortable what to do about it and i'll tell you toyota is responding to the people who have any kind of unresolved issue while at the same time instead of it being years, it is hours or days for nhtsa to get on top of one of these vehicles and find out what happened. martha: congressman, thank you so much, have a good day. bill: the irony is what stu varney reported last month. martha: 50% increase in sales. bill: first two weeks en march. martha: and, that is partly the american spirit, right? i'm going to get a today deal, it will be fine. bill: and, no financing for five years. martha: that man, though, he said i'm never getting into this car again. bill: 9 minutes past the hour, late night with david letterman, he tried to shake down letterman and now, joe halderman pleading guilty and apologizing to the late night talk show host, threatening to tell all about affairs letterman had with women on his staff and for the first time in months, letterman made mention of it directly on his show, last night in part thanking the d.a.'s office in manhattan. >> now, i have never been involved in anything like this in my life and i was concerned and full of anxiety, and, nervous and worried. and, the people in the district attorney's office, said, this will be handled professionally, this will be handled skillfully and appropriately. well, the matter was resolved today. and they were exactly right. it was handled professionally, skillfully, and appropriately. bill: for his part, halderman received 6 months in jail and a thousand hours of community service. and at this point, that case is now closed. martha: a sad story out of los angeles, a coroner's office there saying actor corie haim is said at the age of 38. >> reflection in the mirror... creature of the night, michael. just like out of a comic book. you are a vampire, michael, my little brother, a vampire. >> reporter: best known for his starring role in that movie, "the lost boys" and most recently appeared on an a and e reality tv show, and authorities say that he died early this morning, in burbank, california, at a hospital there, and an autopsy will determine the cause of his death. >> age 38. too young. first game the fiery attacks from the former congressman eric massa. and, then he sat down for his first interview, live on fox with our own glenn beck. >> are there tiger woods phone calls that will happen, text messages? >> no, i'm sure -- i'm sure there is text messages, because we bantered back and forth all the time. bill: that was yesterday and what about today, is it collateral damage, that has bonn bye-bye or could it hurt the democratic party? we'll debate that, fair and balanced, we report, you decide, on that, next. martha: look where we're going, bill, mars! mission to mars, with new top-notch technology, this little rover -- this little rover, come here, rover, roll over, red rover! may be able to show us the red planet like never before! 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[ male announcer ] get more complete relief with sudafed pe® triple action™. check your sunday paper for special savings. martha: right before resigning, former democratic congressman eric massa blasted everybody from the white house to his own party members, and, then, came the interview with our own glenn beck. see for yourself: >> now they are saying i groped a male staffer. yeah, i did. not only i groped him i tickled him until he couldn't breathe and four guys jumped on top of me, my 50th birthday, it was kill the old guy, i did nothing sexual i'm did things that were wrong and i shouldn't have allowed myself to be -- >> got it. okay. and you did nothing criminal. >> no. martha: i don't know what to say about that. bill: what an hour of tv that was. martha: the former senior advisor to senator clinton and, is that what everybody does on their 50th birthday, tickle me -- who knows what he is talking about, maria, what do you think about that? >> i don't know i think i'm sitting here shaking my head, the same way that so many viewers were, last night, and listening to the congressman, look, it is clear that this is a person who has deep rooted issues. and i hope that he gets help for that. he did the right thing in resigning, and i think it shows that the ethics panel that speaker pelosi put in place, did and is doing its job, and, i don't think this is going to come back and haunt democrats, because of that. i think we have dealt with it quickly, and, i don't think it will linger, the same way it has for republicans. martha: that was basically, the question that glenn beck asked, last night, brad blakeman does it have an impact on the rest of us and teach us about the way things are done in washington. what do you think, brad. >> i think new york has become a cesspool for democrats and they've had problems with paterson, spitzer, rangel, massa, i think new yorkers are fed up with it and this is what will hurt them and it's not just him, it is the others and there is more and this is it, district 29, the democrats are talking about putting in a county executive from a county who doesn't live in the district and governor paterson has a decision to make whether or not to hold a special election to fill the seat and if not there is no representation until november and there is lots of intrigue regarding district 29. martha: and i think there is more to come out here, and it is sordid and the sound bite, he said text messages will be the next thing we hear and in generally the country is better off if he goes quietly and that is that. but, let me bring this up. i want to show you an approval number, for congress. recently. okay? 14%. approve of what is going on in congress and, maria, this can only, you know, add fuel to the fire, people look at the guy and go, this is a united states congressman, for god's sake. and, what are we doing here? >> absolutely, i couldn't agree with you more, martha. i think that it absolutely shines a light, to what the american people are absolutely sick of. but, here's why i think the perception is much more damaging for the g.o.p. than it is for democrats. and, i'm not saying, you know, to brad's point, that the democrats don't have issues. clearly, both parties suffer from this. but, here's what has happened, recently with high-level elected officials in congress, that are republicans. they have -- david vitter is there and sanford is still there in south carolina and you had larry craig, who never resigned, but pled guilty to a crime. so, i think that those lingering issues are much more damaging to republicans... martha: i think, i think, the american people look at both sides and go, you know what? in a lot of these cases, not in all, throw the bums out, brad and i think that is what we'll see, across the board, in november. and i think it fuels the fire, though everybody goes, this is ba wacko, and put at arm's length. >> there is enough blame on both sides and we don't have a lock on morality, and certainly the democrats don't, of late. but, here's the bottom line, martha it will come down to the economy, and health care, what good is it if you don't have a job, and they probably will not get health care and we've wasted a year on an effort that did not put americans back to work and help the economy, i liked the fact in the interview, glenn beck raised the question of honor and he said this is your honor, sir, it is nice to hear that word. associated with congress, and what it should be. and, maybe that is, you know, something we all need to think about, a little bit when we head to the polls in november. maria cardona and brad, blake man, take care, you guys. bill: the high court taking on the white house. why the chief justice says president obama was just plain wrong. martha: interesting. and a little boy risking his life to save his family, wait until you hear this 911 call, that will send chills down your spine. >> can you come... hurry up! okay. the guys... they have -- [screaming. 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jamie colby has found one such town, madison, connecticut, what happened there, jamie, good morning. jamie: bill, good morning to you, at the time that the community voted to take this, what was an airport, at one time, the griswold airport and make it a public space with bird-watching platforms and hiking parks, and things where families could come and enjoy it, they showed up for a single item referendum, in bigger numbers than the presidential election and voted overwhelmingly, by 57%, to turn this not into a housing community which was planned, but into public space. but, now there is a bit of an uproar, there are advocates, in town, community activists that say it is wrong, that that is not what should happen and certainly don't want to pay the price of 9 million and we talked to the first selectman in madison, the equivalent of the mayor here in new england and he strongly disagrees. >> is anything good, a waste of money and the answer to that is no. that you have to look to the future. you cannot look at the nickels and dimes of the day-to-day. you've got to look to the future. jamie: and what mcpherson argues is by having the beautiful space, 42 acres, it could raise the land values of the homes here, the problem is, they paid $9 million to a land developer, that only paid 4.4 million in 2007 and given these tough economic times, that is the rub. >> so, seven years ago we had a budget of $2.5 million and now, we are paying $9.5 million, and the market has crashed. just doesn't make any sense, it's not right. jshg a jamie: and that is what you were saying, bill, the taxpayers have to pay for the development of the land but it is estimated a half million dollar home here, which is the median will pay $64 over 20 years, though they don't know what they'll put on the land and it could be more than that and actually, they say, those in favor, you have to pay a little to get a lot. listen: >> any time you spend this much money people will feel it. so you can't really say it is win-win. short-term you will feel it, you have a marginal increase in your taxes. but, over a long period of time, you spend money to get value, you end up benefiting from it. jamie: let's make clear there is no fraud in the -- alleged in the sale of the property by the land developer. they just don't like the price, it is a little bit of buyer's remorse it seems and they may benefit long term and don't want to pay for it right now, and there is a land trust, not for profit, bill that will raise 1.7 million toward the $9 million price and is expected to go to contract in may. at that point, this property will stop paying into the tax base, and that also will be a loss to the community of $50,000 a year. bill? bill: and it all adds up, jamie colby in connecticut, thank you, jamie. what is coming up. martha: pompano beach, florida, look at this -- i'm trying to find them, there are four workers -- there is one guy, stuck in the upper position on the bridge and they stopped the traffic and are trying to figure out how to rescue these guys, and we'll bring it to you, show you what is happening when we come back. stay with us. water vegetables need. so, to turn those vegetables into campbell's condensed soup, we don't boil it down, our chefs just add less water from the start. ♪ so many, many reasons ♪ it's so m'm! m'm! good! ♪ or annuity over 10 or even 20 years? call imperial structured settlements. the experts at imperial can convert your long-term payout into a lump sum of cash today. blend it. sprinkle it. sweet! 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[ female announcer ] splenda®. america's favorite no calorie sweetener. >> look at this picture here. look at this picture here. this is pampano beach, florida. and this is a hydraulic bridge that has become stuck and four workers were stranded literally on the top and there are firefighters there, rescue workers, trying to work their way up to them, and the fire rescue team responded. along the intercoastal waterway and when they were performing repairs on the bridge, when it was stuck in the up right position. and there were a number of workers on top of the bridge, strapped in with safety harnesses, and so know they'll be ac untokay until they get to and one of the guys is on the ladder making his way down, his day has been made, a whole lot better! martha: yeah. bill: but, possibly, three, maybe more than that, still stuck on the bridge, we're working the story, pampano beach, florida, happening here on "america's newsroom." martha: we heard this, the government's no-fly list, nearly doubled in size, the number of people who are not supposed to get on planes, since the failed christmas day bombing of a passenger jet. and these additions are said to include associates of the nigerian suspect, umar farouk abdulmutallab, as the senate hearing gets under way on capitol hill on the lessons learned from that attack. national correspondent catherine herridge joins us live in our washington bureau. what are the headlines coming out of this so far. >> good morning, martha, we are a half-hour into the hearing before the homeland security committee and we've had an opening statement from the chairman, joe lieberman and statement from the ranking republican. senator susan collins. and, the bottom line, is that in the case of flight 253, attempted bombing on christmas day, this is not a failure of the intelligence community, to collect information, it was not a failure of the intelligence community to share information, but, it was a failure to analyze information, and when i spook to people within the intelligence community one of the complaints they have, is that there is an emphasis, sometimes on hearing this information which is one of the problems before 9/11, and the people aren't necessarily stepping up and taking ownership for specific pieces of intelligence, that they feel could be critical, for example, in this case, some of the red flags, about the suspect, umar farouk abdulmutallab, has traveled to yemen -- his travels to yemen and warnings by his father, he had extremist ties and that is the crux of the hearing today. what is it the system needs to do now to analyze the information, so they can prevent the next umar farouk abdulmutallab from getting on a flight into the u.s. in the future. martha: hugely frustrating, to average folks out there. who listen to this and say why on earth was the person able to get on a plane and what do we expect later today on these hearings. >> reporter: it is frustrating to people, i want to address this first point but i don't think the average person realizes, the scale of the information that is coming into multiple agencies, on any given day. we just heard testimony from a member of the national counterterrorism center, nctc which analyzes information and he said some days, they get so much information into the center it is like the scale of what is in the library of congress and it is trying to literally find the needle in the haystack, and we anticipate later this morning, an explanation as to how and why the would say lives is expanded in -- the watch list is expanded in a significant bay way, 50% since december and two reasons, one, what is added to the list are known associates with umar farouk abdulmutallab, and, also more importantly, and specifically, associates of the american cleric in yemen, an war al-elahi, who is seen next to bin laden one of the single greatest rising threats to the u.s. because he's an american citizen. martha: he has clearly emerged on the scene as a result of all of this. thank you very much, catherine herridge, reporting from washington. bill: a wow factor, and nasa's plans for a manned mission to mars could be scrapped, and one of our robotic rovers on the red planet stalled and where does the space program go from here? meet the newest model of outer space explorer, a tunnel weed, a bouncing ball propelled by the wind and corie powell is the editor-in-chief of "discover magazine" come on over here, my friend and roll the animation, this is -- looks like a ball. pretty cool. >> it is a beach party gone wild! bill: really? on mars! see how it works. >> so, i mean, it looks goofy, it is a very, very simple thing and is a little, actually a miniature spacecraft inside the ball and the ball rolls with the wind, and you are seeing a couple of concepts here, and one of them is like a steel cage and one of them is inflatable like a beach ball, and, basically, it is going wherever the wind goes and what you do do is mass produce them and make them really cheap and send a bunch of them and some get stuck and it doesn't matter and you can cover -- >> you said the key word when it comes to nasa funding because the debate is going on and on, as to what we do with our program, but specifically, on these balls, we'll call them, okay, they have cameras. >> they call them tumble weeds and have sensors in them and obviously, while rolling around, they are -- you will not see a lot from a camera, you would be dizzy but they'll have chemical sensors and measuring the -- basically sniffing around for chemical evidence of life and if they get to an interesting place, could stop, you know, stick out legs and deflate, and poke out a camera and look around. here's the beach ball. bill: it looks cool,' party on mars but we are not going there. >> it looks give, when you first look at it and the idea is, sending humans to mars would probably cost several hundred billion dollars, for several hundred million dollars, 1/1,000 of the cost you could send a bunch of these things to look around and these things are honestly a lot more likely to find life. bill: it is cheaper, but is it better? i mean, it could get stuck and send it up there and can't transmit and hups cmans can mak adjustments. >> they can, these things -- they are basically going where the wind is blowing and what is cool about them is, like i said, you could send ten of them, 100 of them, and if they get stuck it doesn't matter and they could travel much further than a person could and are going into caves and places you wanted to explore and the coolest thing is, this one is a little bit far out but this is one of like hundreds of rover ideas, and -- >> robotics are the future here, and what i find interesting, aren't they experimenting in greenland and antarctica and they are rolling around now, in the test form. >> they are running tests and finding out what is happening on the ice sheets and this is real technology and they are not making it up. bill: it could be the next great break through. is it how nasa gates arounets a funding threats we have reported on, with the space program. >> honestly i'll go out on a limb and, as strange as it may look that is the future of human exploration. for, like i said, a hundredth or a thousandth of the cost of sending people to space you can send them to mars -- not just to mars, you can have robot sail bother on the lakes of titan and, robot balloons floating around on venus. bill: the imagination runs wild and, the future of robotic exploration, not human exploration, we're out of the mix. >> the stuff will be beamed back and they are deciding things and they'll twitter and send back virtual reality and, they'll be path find,and huma-- finders, a until then -- >> i'll get the first tweet from mars. thanks, for coming in. martha: this comes from wsbn in pampano beach, florida, where there is a rescue attempt underway, four workers have been stranded on top of a bridge that could not be 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as you, we'll look at why so many young people fear they may never reach the american dream. gregg: how democrats are asked to pass the senate health care bill, based on a promise that fixes will be made, later. a legitimate promise or empty promise and maybe a bit of trickery, thrown in, we'll talk to senator jon kyl, coming up on "happening now." martha: i want to bring this to your taxi, you are likely to hear the quote coming up on fox news channel this afternoon, dick durbin, senator dick durbin said moments ago on the floor, quote, anyone who stands before you and says, well, if you pass health care reform next year's health care premiums are going down, i don't think it is telling the truth. i think it is likely that they, premiums, would go up. what we're trying to do is slow the rate of increase and this comes on the back drop of promises to cut the cost of health care, through the health care reform bill and a quote getting quite a bit of attention, right now on the floor. and now this: it is the major issue that could roadblock health care overhaul, how to make sure taxpayer dollars don't go to fund abortions in the new insurance exchanges, congressman bart stupak standing firm against the language, that is in the bill, that is now before the house, look at this: >> bottom line is, there has to be no public funding for abortion and that has been the law 33 years and the president indicates he does not change current law. martha: another house democrat says the pro-life members should basically back off. >> i understand that they would like abortion to be illegal. but that is a health care bill, not an abortion bill, and we should not use a health care bill as a vehicle for the restrict -- to further restrict a woman's right to choose, there are 190 members of our pro-choice caucus and we will not let that happen. martha: the catholic church is a major part of the debate and congressman stupak mentioned his catholic religion this morning and there are more than 67 million catholics, in the u.s. bishop joseph corlioni is the bishop of the diocese of oakland, california, your excellency, great to have you with us today, thank you for being here, the catholic church is outspoken on the issue and has a lot of power, frankly in influencing its members across the country on this issue and what do you think, right now, about the back and forth on the issue of abortion, on capitol hill? >> i think it is clear that congressman stupak's thinking reflects the thinking of the majority of americans. do not want the federal funding for abortion in the health care reform bill. as well as the fact that the majority believe we do need a reform of the health care system. so, we're very grateful to congressman stupak for standing his ground on this. catholic bishops have been advocating for health care reform for some time and catholic bishops, actually for decades but we are advocating for health care reform that is genuine health care reform and that serves the common good, and respects certain foundational principles, namely, accessibility, affordability, respect for human life and dignity at every stage of life's development and conscious protections for health care providers and the second two seem to be contentious issues and especially the abortion provision. all we're really asking for, there, is it is not a question of whether or not abortion should remain illegal. i would hope that everyone thinks we should reduce abortions as much as possible, regardless of what you think the legal status of it should be. all we're asking is that the status quo remain in force with the health care reform, as congressman stupak referred to. this would be simply incorporating the provisions of the hyde amendment into the health care reform bill an i don't understand why that should be difficult to keep what we have now, incorporated into the bill. >> understood. and, what would you tell, you know, catholic voters out there, in what way, do you hope, as -- you know, a person who is speaking on behalf of the catholic church, right now, to influence this debate, how do you want catholic voters to speak out, if that is what you would like them to do? >> we urge our people to inform themselves of the issues, to form their consciouses properly and to translate -- consciences properly and translate that into action and inform their votes with genuine values and inform conscience and be activated on the issue, making their voices heard by contacting their congressional representatives, being spokespersons for a think health care reform. >> all right, bishop, it is very good to speak with you today, thanks for making time for us, it is a very important issue and, we should point out catholics represent 20% of the vote in in country and have a strong voice -- in this country and have a strong voice on this issue, thanks for being with us today. bill: while you were talking a that are getting a really big ladder, in familiar, 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does that come today? or does it depend on how the debate goes, that you are describing there? >> reporter: no, the final, final vote, comes in may. but, a lot of the underpinnings of the final vote will be laid out today an agreed to and that is important, and, can be rather contentious. take a listen to what one board member told me. >> the clash of ideals and that is something characteristically we have seen on the board, always, whatever the issue is, whether english, language arts, math, science, lake last year we had the biology battle and we always have the majority, minority faction and we'll see which will come out, prevailing. >> reporter: and they go line by line through the text, bill, to try and come up with what they think is a balanced approach and that is in the eye of the beholder and there are different viewpoints. bill: and that is the inside and on the outside, are there protesters and are people aware of this? >> reporter: oh, yes, it is very much being followed in texas an education circles around the country and we expect there will be a press conference today and protests today and fireworks inside the hearing room and fireworks out here on the lawn, bill. bill: brian wilson live in austin, texas there, if you want to follow this on-line, check out foxnews.com and there is an interactive look at everything happening, there, on-line and check it out, right now, on-line, 24/7. martha: this is the most incredible story of the day, in my opinion and it is coming up, stay right here. police say a young boy, 6 years old, may have saved his family's life. with a 911 call that pleaded with dispatchers moments before gunmen broke down the door. across america, people with diates have... one thing in common when it comes to their numbers -- - mine were too low. - too high. - all over the place. they'd like to discover what they mean... and how to best use them. and now they can. because the accu-chek aviva system now comes with... new, easy-to-use tools to help you discover... what your numbers mean and how the things... you do are connected to your blood sugar patterns. plus you get an educational video... to guide you step by step. with this tool i saw how little changes can make a big difference. you too can quickly see how food, exercise, and even the time of day... affect your numbers, and make healthy choices. you'll also receive a prescription discount card. i discovered what i can eat and how much. i discovered i only needed a twenty-minute walk. i discovered how to wake up feeling great. there's so much to discover inthe accu-chek aviva system. why not start your discovery today? all: i did. are calling a seven-year-old california boy a hero after gunmen broke into his home. he locked himself and his little sister in a bathroom and made this call: >> ca it will me what happened? >> they rang the door and they have guns, they'll shoot my mom and dad. >> right now? >> can you come really fast? and bring the hops, and men, a lot of them. >> listen to me, take a deep breath, i already have the police coming. >> and bring soldiers, too. martha: and bring soldiers, too. and as the boy was on with the dispatchers the gunmen broke down the bathroom door and he told them he had called 911 and they took off and the family is fine. bill: man oh man. quick shot before we go, they brought in another ladder in pompano beach, florida. these guys are going down, one after the other. thank goodness the la

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