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jenna: a lot of big news stories to round out week. hello, i hope you're off to a great friday so far. i'm jenna lee. jon: i'm jon scott. new hope for the search for malaysia airlines flight 370 three weeks after it went down. five aircraft spotting objects of various colors during today's search in a new section of the southern indian ocean. objects that could be debris from the plane. the new search area for the lost jet moved about 700 miles to the northeast after new data analysis suggested that the plane flew on its ghost mission faster and ran out of fuel more quickly than previously thought. william la jeunesse live in our l.a. bureau with that william? >> reporter: well, jon, international team of experts which now includes the ntsb and the faa, they went back, reexamined recalculated early radar data from the first three hours of flight when the we were told the plane went up to 40,000 feet from 35,000. they determined that flight 370 went faster than previously thought, using more fuel and thus not going as far along that original arc. so the search planes are looking in this new area about the size of new mexico. currents not as strong, not as much debris drift. it is closer to period of time giving search planes more time in the air -- perth. officials insist that moving it again 700 miles is no big deal. >> this is the normal business of search-and-rescue operations that new information comes to light, refined analyses take you to a different place. i don't count the original work a waste of time. >> reporter: so 10 planes went out today. five report seeing objects including this new zealand p-3 which reports seeing several white or gray objects. an australian plane saw several blue or gray rectangular objects that is important because rectangles don't occur in nature. both planes dropped gps locators or buoys on the debris, to allow search planes or ships to react square the debris. searchers are analyzing photos taken of the debris. they have already sent a chinese patrol boat in the area to pick up the most promising pieces. >> you drop one of those buoys right next to what you originally identified as an interesting object. the mark kerr buoy should drift with the object sending a location back to the ship to get it on top of it. >> reporter: they will track with the debris but because objects differ with size, weight and shape the winds will push them differently. it is hope lull any they will be able to retrieve the objects and that they hope they belong to flight 370. jon: we hope they get some answers t has been a long, lon search. william la jeunesse. thank you. jenna: new signs that russia may be getting ready to intrade ukraine. reports that troops positioned near the border of ukraine are camouflaging their positions and establishing supply lines. greg palkot is streaming live from kiev with more. >> reporter: folks here are trying to figure out as they remain on edge, exactly what russia has in mind. ukrainian military is gearing up and one top official tells us that the thread of invasion is real and that the forces here are preparing for the worst. russian troops on the border, we are told are front line, tactical armored units and they are encircling ukraine from nearly all sides. another top analyst we spoke to questions the claim from russia that these are simply exercises. he goes on to say the next few days could be key. according to moscow these alleged manuevers are suppose only last to the end of the month. if the troops stick around they might have something a little more aggressive in mind. the thinking here too, that russian president putin will not invade until there is more widespread protest and unrest in eastern ukraine. that is being tracked closely. that watts pretext for annexation of crimea just a couple weeks ago. putin by the way praised the action of the russian military in crime over the last couple weeks. praised their quality and morale. that was announcement from moscow. another statement coming from another individual, the ousted ukrainian president viktor yanukovych, he called the protesters who gave him the boot imposters and he would not recognize the presidential elections planned for this country in may. there is a lot going on here, jenna, for this fledgling democracy to stay bysy with and nervous about. back to you. >> a story we'll continue to follow, greg, thank you. jon: the white house is feeling pretty good about some new obamacare numbers. reporting that more than six million americans have signed up. that is still below their original goal of reaching seven million by the end of this month. but the administration focusing on a surge ahead of the enrollment deadline saying one 1/2 million people visited the obamacare website on wednesday alone. elise veibeck is a staff writer for "the hill." she keeps very close tabs on the progress of obamacare and joins us now. six million people, are you surpriseed? >> a little bit, i am. frankly last fall when all the problems were happening with website, very few people thought they could make it to four million. now we see they made it to six, which they downgraded to their new goal of six million. i think it's a major achievement for the obama administration. i think the white house is really riding high. now the question is, they announced a new special enrollment period for some people who were unable to enroll so far on healthcare.gov because of problems or other situations. and they haven't named a deadline for that new special enrollment period. so that's what we're looking at now. when can people actually stop enrolling at healthcare.gov? jon: what is the behind the surge? just pause the deadline was coming up and a lot of people are procrastinators? is finally that they have the website fixed? what is it? >> it is both things. procrastination is big measure in filing for health insurance and filing your taxes. people wait a long time to make decisions. health care is obviously very complicated as people decide between different plans, weigh the different costs involved. in fact many people are visiting healthcare.gov, five, six, seven times in order to make their decision. so certainly we expected a surge at the end. we saw one at the end of december before the january 1st deadline and we saw similar surges in massachusetts which as you know, passed the predecessor to this law. jon: but isn't it true that these numbers don't really reveal a lot? we know that about five million people, last we heard, five million policies had been canceled outright. these could just be folks primarily who already lost their insurance policies as a result of obamacare and they're replacing them, right? >> certainly part of the population is probably those people although many people who had their policies canceled by insurance companies were i am immediately renewed or chose another policy from that same insurer without even going to healthcare.gov or their state exchange. so i think we're talking about apples and oranges here a little bit. certainly there are major questions how many people will gain health insurance overall this year. will the uninsured rate actually tick down given the number of cancellations in i think it will slightly but i think you raise important questions that people are really going to have to study in the next few months. jon: of these six million policies signed up for, how many have actually paid their premiums, do we know? >> another good question. we know it is probably 80 to 90% that paid their premiums. that is now in the hand of the insurance companies to track down those customers and make sure they're paying their first bills. you can imagine as an insurer, as a business person you do want to make sure the revenue is flowing in people try to use their coverage. you can't leave providers, doctors, surgeons out there hanging providing health care services without being having paid. jon: go ahead. >> no, go ahead. jon: there is some disparity as well among the various states. in someplaces where sign-ups have been vigorous, things are looking a little more promising i guess? >> that's exactly right. that's where we should all turn our attention to next. it is very easy to look at main line numbers and say, hey, did the white house ultimately achieve its goal which is seems to have so far? but when you have so many enrollments in states like california that have been so successful for example, and few enrollments in states with lower populations, with older populations or sicker ones, those are the states most likely to see premiums go up. those are the states that in particular needed very strong enrollments and might not have gotten them because of problems with their exchanges or because of disinterest in the public there signing up for this program. i think as reporters we'll be looking very closely at the disparity between states and what it is likely to mean for people's premiums. jon: how are they doing in oregon? did they get the website fixed yet. >> doesn't sound like it. oregon is very interesting. it has been on the cutting-edge of health care policy yet they still can not seem to make this online marketplace work. this is real shame for people in oregon that want to sign up coverage and raises questions about what the government was doing. jon: bill gates, microsoft folks, one state to the north in washington, part of the problem. elise veibeck from "the hill." >> thank you, jon. jenna: certainly more health care throughout the day today. we also have new concerns of an eastern ukraine invasion by russia. young crimeans turning to the past. they're using it to show their current feelings for russia and what that means for us as well and what we do next. a woman who pushed her newlywed husband off a cliff to his death. she learns her fate. the emotional sentencing today. check it out. i can't believe your mom has a mom cave! today i have new campbell's chuy spicy chicken quesadilla soup. she gives me chunky before every game. i'm very souperstitious. haha, that's a good one! haha! 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(whistling) jenna: young woman in montana could spend the next three decades behind bars aft judge sentencing jordan graham for pushing her husband to his death just eight days after their wedding. will carr with the latest from los angeles. >> reporter: well, jenna, jordan graham took the stand yesterday and she became very emotional. she cried but the in end it did not have a very big impact on the judge. authorities say that back in july graham lured her newlywed husband, cody johnson to glacier national park and pushed him over a steep cliff where he fell 300 feet to his death. authorities say she then went home, created a fake gmail account and tried to use emails to convince detectives during interrogations that cody disappeared with friends. surveillance video showed the newlyweds at the park. graham admitted they had been there. they had been arguing. that johnson grabbed her by the arm and she got angry and she pushed him and fallen into the ravine. prosecutors said the entire time they never thought it was an accident. >> the message will send a message and you kill someone, subject to federal jurisdiction, you will be prosecuted swiftly and severely punished for your crime. >> reporter: friends have said that the couple never had any violent encounters but they also said graham became very depond dent about the marriage. in the end she pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. she was facing life in prison, jenna but she got 30 years. jenna: well, the latest chap per, maybe the final chapter, we'll see, will, which was a bizarre you very much. >> reporter: you bet. jon: very sad. new jersey governor chris christie speaking out today after a new report clears him of wrongdoing in the george washington bridge controversy. we'll look how all of this has been covered in the media. and, everyone remembers these images from the cold war era. could we see it all playing out again? jenna: right now tensions ratchet up in ukraine new questions about how far vladmir putin is willing to go and whether we're heading for what could look like a modern-day cold war. russia's takeover of crimea and the military buildup near the border with a wave of soviet nostalgia these are pictures from crimea recently. young people taking to streets waving the soviet flag and singing the old anthem. we'll talk about this with a member of "wall street journal" editorial board. we quoted his columns many times and to the back recently from crimea. you had lead in your column you shared with your readers and share with our viewers as well. you're not in nice fashionable, restaurant bar in crimea. what happens? >> you could be in new york city. these kids were dressed like us, exactly like us. with their iphones out. playing rock music familiar with us. suddenly on the karaoke machine they put on familiar start to the soviet national anthem. a couple of guys sitting next to the table with me and my friend, got up and started grabbing microphone and starting singing, you know, more or less in tune the soviet national anthem with the stirring last line about, you know, glories of lenin and all that. jenna: how old were these -- i mean were those that lived through the soviet days or not? >> not at all. these guys seemed like they were in that i recall early 20s. maybe six of them. this is the case across crimea and russia now. they have a lot of young people who are embracing these soviet symbols and have a nostalgia for a place they didn't even see themselves. and barely know. jenna: what do you make of that? >> i think it is definitely not a nostalgia for class struggle or, you know, informed by, you know, their reading of marx and lenin. much more the way vladmir putin has manipulated those symbols to mean, you know, one, when we were great. when russia was great. when the west didn't push us around. so it plays to both a feeling of russian pride and shoafism i -- shoaf vennism i guess you could say. a complex, inferiority complex about the west and i think it is a really, very worrying trend obviously because after the soviet union did fall apart, they did try to, you know, democracy, free press, free speech. but i think with a very clever propaganda, you have to give, these guys know what they're doing in the kremlin. they have brought back soviet themes that are essentially authoritarian rule and, really do manipulate very well the public there. jenna: the seduction of power seems what you're talking about. those days when russia was powerful in their mind? >> absolutely. russia was a great country, when it was a great empire. remember russia is very much defined by its empire. jenna: interesting to watch the president's comments this week and traveling in europe addressing the situation regarding russia and ukraine. he had an interesting quote. >> sure. jenna: want to read this this interview from cb s news and he sat down with scott pelley this morning. this is what he said about vladmir putin's and his intentions. the deep held grievance at loss of soviet union. would you have thought after couple decade there would be awareness of the thought on any russian leader the path forward is not to go back to the practices so prevalent in the coldware. what do you make of the comment? you've seen the people. what do you think of the general assessment by the president? >> it is an accurate assessment but we don't need a geopolitical analyst in our president. we need a geopolitical actor. who realizes what vladmir putin is doing and takes necessary steps to try to check vladmir putin in ukraine and, really does do something, something more serious than has been willing to do so far, to stop putin from completely redrawing the post-cold war order in europe. jenna: some listening to you though and thinking, if the young kids in crimea want to be part of russia, who are we to stop them? what do you think about that? >> i think that support for the softsoviet past is very much skin deep. these kids do love their iphones. they do, a lot of them have traveled, to turkey, to the west and if vladimir. jon: part of the reason vladmir putin is doing this now. russian economy is very weak and he has no other way to mobilize support and done it well here. suddenly if russians day-to-day lives feel the economic pain not only of western sanctions or vladmir putin's fairly awful economic policies that support is going to disappear. no one there wants to go back to what the soviet union really was. jenna: so you see the emptiness potentially in propaganda you're talking about. that being said, we have our own propaganda beyond just the sanctions. what is the message that the west could portray to ukraine and rest of europe that would combat what you say is fairly strong propaganda from vladmir putin. >> you know, it is very well-done, very sleek. also hollow and cynical. the west has to stand by its principles. you know, i think lectures from president obama about the sanctity of international law and vladmir putin, this is not the 21st century. we are in the 21st century and vladmir putin is doing what he is doing. the way we respond to, we support democracy in ukraine. we are committed to ukraine's survival as a free state. and russia can join this world. these guys in that bar are part of our world in imany ways. they are on twitter. they have access. they do travel. it is not very hard to show them where vladmir putin is leading them is not a very happy place. jenna: are they reading your articles? you're on twitter as well. do you know if they read some of your staff, matt? >> they do translate me and i get a lost unusual emails from russian leaders. >> we look forward to your travels and having you back in the studio. matt, thank you very much. appreciate it. jon: a new report clears new jersey governor chris christie in the traffic jam controversy. some critics are calling the report a sham. how will the main street media react if it happens to be the report is on target? stocks looking up, 120 points right now. a live report what is moving the markets on this friday. óqoqúúñ jon: still to come new jersey governor chris christie set to hold a news conference this afternoon after a new internal investigation clears him in the bridge traffic controversy. we'll look at the media response. plus a big delay in the oscar pistorius murder trial. does it help or hurt "the blade runner"'s case? a powerful new painkiller raising some concerns. the manufacturer is even taking steps to prevent abuse. should all of us be worried? we'll get into that. jenna: "fox business alert" now. checking in on what the markets are doing this week, we'll look at the dow trading up nicely, turning positive for the week on relatively good economic news. nicole petallides is here with what is driving these numbers. hey, nicole. >> jenna, looking good on wall street. the dow is up 120 points, off earlier highs. technology is leading the way. most sectors have up arrows. personal income and spending also decent. the worries about the ukraine crisis, that you were just covering, the raise of interest rates, next year, said people were looking at that all of these things decided at least for now. also the bank stress tests. we made it through that we also had top stories we're following very closely including microsoft bringing office to the apple ipad. analysts thought microsoft was losing billions in revenue. satya nadella, the new ceo made a polished debut. he plans to bring mobile apps to be a top priority for microsoft. walmart suing visa for $5 billion. this is over the credit card swipes. visa is one of the few names in the dow with a down arrow. good news for tesla, safety regulators let it go. they don't continue to look into the fires with the model s. tesla making more precautions, putting a shield under those batteries. so that is another caution to fight fires. that is good news for tesla. that stock is up about 4% now. jenna: we'll take good news on a friday any day you but good on a friday. nicole, thank you. a quick business note. you don't want to miss maria bartiromo's new show, "sunday morning futures." premiering 10:00 a.m. eastern time on the fox news channel. that is coming up this weekend. watch it and set your dvrs, two hours from now new jersey governor chris christie will hold a news conference. comes on the heels of a taxpayer-funded investigation that ultimately exonerates christie in that bridge traffic jam controversy. what will the mainstream media do now? with us, judith miller, pulitzer prize-winning reporter and fox news contributor. kirsten powers is with us as well. news day columnist and fox news contributor. welcome to both of you. judy, the governor has taken a lot of heat because this investigation was paid for by new jersey taxpayers. they contracted with a private law firm to handle the investigation and everyone is saying, oh, this is, these are a bunch of of friends of christie, even though the guy who led the investigation has never met christie in his life and is a lifelong democrat. seems like the governor can not win either way. what's your take? >> well, look the media spin on this is the best exoneration that taxpayer money can buy. because there are some questions about both the tone and substance of the report, jon, i don't think this story is going to go away. now governor christie is his own best advocate. he always is. he told diane sawyer last night that he trusted too. that was his problem. but i think the real problem is that he is either going to come out of this looking corrupt or clueless and neither of those is anything that aspiring presidential candidate wants to be. jon: kirsten what is your take on the report? >> well, i don't think it helps him. in fact i think it hurts him because the report, the certain nasty personal tone particularly took toward the woman who he is trying to blame all of this on and, sort of, and portraying him as, somebody who trusts too much or somebody who is betrayed, these were the people he hired to be very close aides to him. it wasn't just one person. there were multiple people involved in this. for some reason the woman has become the scapegoat in this story and the report is filled with extremely sexist references to her about her personal life, about the fact that, you know, sort of implying she was mentally unstable because she had, apparently had a breakup where someone dumped here her. i'm not sure why that would be relevant. she had to care for a relative in the hospital which is something we've all done. doesn't make you mentally questionable. so i think in the end it, and the fact that, as you alluded to in the beginning, people associated with it, there were people associated with it who were allies of him and doesn't seem like a fair report. jon: diane sawyer spoke with governor christie bit last night. she had a piece on abc "world news." i want to play you the first clip from that and get reaction to how the whole thing is being played out in the media. >> daled wide steen said at a 9/11 event he talked to you about traffic. -- david wildstein. it is a little am buggous. did he? >> i don't have recollection of that. david we spoke briefly that day. i don't have a rec recollection of him, i didn't say, hey by the way, governor, i'm closing down lanes on the george washington bridge to stick it to the mayor, is that okay? that i would remember. jon: it seems like the media have are not willing to accept the fact, christie's word that he didn't know anything about this, judy. >> why should we? why should the american people or the media who are paid to watch for the american people not exercise natural skepticism about a denial that may be politically motivated and essential? i mean look, i don't think we know yet what has gone on. if i fault the media it is that everyone jumped to a conclusion that he was automatically guilty, had to know, should have known. let's let this thing play out. i agree with kirsten. this report will not solve anything and to slut shame mrs. kelly, the woman involved and say she was emotional and blame her, i think will do the governor a lot of harm in the long run. jon: if the, if the state investigations come to a different conclusion, kirsten, what does it mean? >> meaning, well, if they came to a different conclusion that they found that he knew something? jon: well, this report basically exonerates christie. says he didn't know anything bit. >> right. will, i think that obviously if a different report found that he knew something, then that would be extremely newsworthy and extremely harmful to him. where he sits right now he has been exonerated by, you know, basically an internal investigation, which i don't think most people think of being much of an exoneration. and i think still raised a lot of questions when you have somebody saying i had this conversation with him and he is claiming he doesn't remember it, well, is that person lying? i think we have to get to the bottom of that. jon: let's talk about another story that's in the news these days. obviously the obamacare deadline coming up at the end of march. there has been a grace period offered. the new white house numbers show that six million people have enrolled. are the media treating this with the proper skepticism, judy, or are they taking those numbers and running with them? >> no, i think they're reporting the numbers, jon, but i'm not sure we actually believe them. what we're certainly doing is raising questions about what the number means. if it is six million and we don't know that, are those six million healthy people, very sick people who are going to raise the cost of premiums? how many of these people who signed up are actually going to pay their premiums? there are some questions we don't know and once again i know it's tiresome to hear, but this is a long-term experiment that is playing out state by state. i mean, my gosh, if you're in oregon you have to sign up for this program by hand because the computer network system is still such a mess. so i think it's going to be very hard to draw some hard, fast conclusions about the success or failure of this program. jon: what about that, kirsten? has it become just a numbers game at this point, if the white house meets enrollment goals they get great headlines? >> well they will get great headlines if the enrollment numbers end up being six million or higher as they should. that doesn't mean that people will stop following the story or stop being concerned about perhaps, you know, people's premiums going up too much or talking about people who lost health care or people maybe unhappy with the health care they just signed up for. so i think it will continue to be a story, but if it end up being correct they hit the six million number, it is a big success for them. jon: especially when they started with a website that doesn't work. >> exactly. jon: kirsten powers, judy miller, thank you. >> thank you, jon. jenna: new and powerful painkiller about to become available. why many medical professionals are questioning the safety of this drug. what you need to know as well. a major delay in the oscar pistorius murder trial. what this could mean for the defense and momentum of this case next. @e@8ñúñ÷@@@0@ú when folks in the lower 48 think about what they get from alaska, they think salmon and energy. but the energy bp produces up here creates something else as well: jobs all over america. thousands of people here in alaska are working to safely produce more energy. but that's just the start. to produce more from existing wells, we need advanced technology. that means hi-tech jobs in california and colorado. the oil moves through one of the world's largest pipelines. maintaining it means manufacturing jobs in the midwest. then we transport it with 4 state-of-the-art, double-hull tankers. some of the safest, most advanced ships in the world: built in san diego with a $1 billion investment. across the united states, bp supports more than a quarter million jobs. and no energy company invests more in the u.s. than bp. when we set up operation in one part of the country, people in other parts go to work. that's not a coincidence. it's one more part of our commitment to america. jenna: new next hour, the latest on death toll in that devastating mudslide in washington state. 16 people confirmed dead with eight bodies located but not yet recovered. officials say the number of people missing or unaccounted for stands at 90. the top of next hour we'll learn a little bit more about that. also a disturbing new study linking antianxiety drugs and sleeping pills to increased mortality but not certain why. a smash-and-grab robbery in high-end jewelry store. that guy, he is using a sledgehammer. police capturing one suspect but still looking for the second. details ahead. jon: a big delay in "the blade runner" murder trial. the oscar pistorius case now, ad journed until aprilth because one of the two court assessors was hospitalized. south africa does not have a jury trial system. assessors are people that help the judge try the verdict. pistorius killed his girlfriend reeva steenkamp last year and the question is, was it murder? we have fred tecce, former federal prosecutor and phil snyder, a former criminal defense attorney. phil, if you're helping in a criminal case and you get some kind of a break like this, a long period of time off, does it help you, does it help of prosecution. >> absolutely, in this case it helps the defense and here's why. there is effect called primacy and recently. primacy is beginning of the case, recently is end of the case. those are the two most important times in jury trial or in this case a bench trial. in the state's case the most important witnesses were the beginning witnesses that heard screams and say there were multiple gunshots. now in this case there is delay, that takes it farther duration away and allows the defense more time to prepare and hopefully the judge will consider consider the defense's case and spend less time focusing on the state's primary evidence. jon: fred, the judge and two assessors heard the prosecution case until now. all been prosecution. all anti-oscar pistorius. now they have a week to think about it. >> not only that, phil's a great lawyer. right analysis, wrong outcome. primacy and latency a exactly what we're talking about. but here is the thing. they heard the state's case which ended what i thought was compelling testimony and first shot game through the door and ripped through this woman's hood or hip and blood spatter everywhere. they have a week for that to peck colate and sink in. people filter information based on conclusions they have come to. now they look at the defense case, having thought about this for a week. i think inures to the prosecution benefit big-time, not that they need it. jon: phil, there is awful lot of, this is a pretty tall hill for the defense to climb it seems. there was testimony she had eaten a couple hours before the shooting which happened at 1:00 a.m. oscar pistorius claimed they were both in bet asleep by 10 p.m. there were screams heard ahead of the gunshots or maybe basically concurrent with the gunshots. doesn't sound like the story that he told investigators really matches up here. >> no. oscar has a difficult time. take away the keystone cops because they did a horrendous investigation but the state's powerful witnesses were these original screams that documented that she was in the bathroom screaming. he could have heard. so the most important testimony is going to be oscar. if the judge believes oscar's testimony, he could be set free. if not, he has an uphill battle. he will be spending a lot of time in prison. jon: fred, you're the former prosecutor. if he gets on the stand, what is the first question you ask him? >> if he gets on the stand what is the first question i ask him? i go through with painstaking detail the inconsistencies between his testimony an the physical evidence. you know what i ask him, jon, i first question i ask him, why is it your girlfriend is lying bleeding dying in the bathroom, that the first call you make is to the administrator for your estate. you didn't call the police. you didn't call the ambulance. they were the second and third calls. that is the first question i asked him. jon: so that suggests that his motivation here, well, had, was about anything but reeva steinkamp? >> correct. common the fact of the matter is he pumped four bullets through the door. the first one hit her in the hip. if he was shooting at intruder he would have heard screams and stopped. any first year law student will be requisite of murder is first two shots. guy goes to the door and shoots. i don't care if he has his prosthesis on or not. human nature is you cower. i think the evidence against the guy is overwhelming. jon: phil, what do you think? does he stand a chance of escaping a conviction in this case? >> i think he stands a chance only because, fred makes a good point that the first call he made was to that administrator. however, everything that oscar has said to this point has been backed up. now the only question that remains, and it is an enormous question, why didn't he alert reeva when he thought there was intruder in the room? that is going to be the most important question, and i don't know how he will answer it but if he does answer it i think the judge could give him leniency and not convict him of first-degree murder. >> how about cell phones in the bass room? you don't take cell phones in the middle. night. we'll see what happens but i think the guy is guilty. jon: there were pretty incriminating text messages as too as well brought into evidence. >> exactly. jon: fred tecce, phil snyder. thank you both. >> thanks for having me. jenna: we'll continue to watch that case. meantime a powerful new pain killer is about to hit pharmacies. some critics are worried that it is so dangerous and so addictive there are calls to make it illegal in several i states. what is this all about? 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>> feel drowsy and could fall. constipation, but makes the pain better. 100 million people are living with intractable pain. jenna: that is what they say. the statistics are that 100 million people in america, of three with us living with some sort of chronic pain. interesting about this drug. just yesterday the governor of massachusetts came out and he wants to make the drug unavailable in the state of massachusetts of the he has such strong feelings about it. why do you have concerns about the drug? >> i'm not arguing the merits of zohydro. i think it is setting blocks back to the days of crushable oxycontin which is formulation that can be shot intravenously and snorted. so it has high value on the street. >> political move, because there is only one company that has crushable form of the medication. so they picked on this to take it off the market. it will, because politically a good thing to do. jenna: because of the addiction and people having pain killers. >> overlooking that people that need it. >> there was, really after oxycontin came out in 199when the drug epidemic really surged in this country n 2010 they yanked it from the market because it was crushable. they had to reformable into noncrushable form. jenna: you would being okay to reformulate it non-crushable. >> they are working on that form and i don't understand why we have to wait. jenna: interesting point, dr. garner, if some people are living with chronic pain and this doesn't work for them, what about those people that you know, we're, they're not addicted? someone living with pain and you want -- >> citizen needs pain medication. better not give it to you because i'm wore remembered about the drug addict who will senator it. doesn't make sense. >> this is the argument used by the drug companies, if used properly there is no problem and it works fine. but the fact is, and all the politicians in seven states are trying to yank this drug from the market because it isn't used properly and won't be used properly. only by a small minority. there are drugs that are stronger than zohydro on market that are long of-acting work well. jenna: several others could be used? but are they single ingredient hydrocodone? >> no but there are other drugs opiates. >> this is medication with a family member with intractable pain you want the medication to come through right now. >> right. but wouldn't want another family member to died of an overdose from it. jenna: two sides of the story. dr. garner, talk us through this the fda has advisory panel, independent advisory panel. looks at different drugs and makes recommendations to fda. advisory panel said -- >> 11-2. jenna: said we don't think it should be on the market but the fda approved it. >> i tell you if the fda hadn't approved it, they would have to two back, turned down one drug similar on the market they have to review all the drugs on that class market. this would throw the painkiller market in turmoil. would have to review oxycontin and all other pain medications because of it. they couldn't afford to do that. they decided it is no worse than other drugs. >> why hire panel of experts. jenna: take the recommendation or not. >> right. jenna: that is what the fda panel is set up for. dr. saltzman to your point, is it about drugs available on the market or the way we're treating addiction we should be really focused on. >> well, it is both sides of the story. this drug in particular is disaster in terms of public health. and, i'm on the front lines. i treat opioid addiction. i see damage that it causes in families, individuals and towns. it's a disaster. jenna: what is the risks of this drug in real life? >> could trickle down into the hands of the drug addicts and people that are drug abusing and my patients. >> what doesn't? >> for sure. >> what doesn't trickle down. >> but crushable, inprojectable, iv shootable, and senatorrable drugs are really the thing that everyone wants. they have a high street value. >> don't want the child, i was told one of the addiction people, baby, one-year-old will get it and swallow and die. what is the one-year-old doing? where is the parent watching that kid? jenna: interesting two sides of the coin. the drug is available to people that need it or poses too much after risk as well to the community. >> that is what the politicians are talking about. jenna: thawing both. appreciate it. jon? jon: programing note as we approach the weekend. president obama came into office promising to be a transformative figure who would move the country forward but to many it seems if america is in retreat now. in fox news reporting, surrendering america. we examine the administration's plans to surrender the control of the internet, the proposal to reduce our army to the lowest level since world war ii. the decision to abandon america's manned space program and administration's hesitance to fully exploit the nation's natural energy resources to global strategic advantage. surrendering america, premiers tonight at 10:00 p.m. eastern and runs on saturday 10:00 p.m. eastern time. sunday at 9:00 p.m. eastern time. jenna: nearly three weeks after flight 370 disappeared the search for the lost plane is shifting again. why crews are moving hundreds of miles north in the indian ocean. new complication for recovery efforts for after horrifying mudslide in washington state. s go, oh, oh, ♪ ♪ oh-oh, oh, oh, la, la-la, la-la, la-la ♪ ♪ na-na-na, na-na-na--n some things just go together, like auto and home insurance. bundle them together at progressive, and you save big on both. ♪ oh, oh-oh, oh, oh hey, it's me! 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[gasps] there's my steps! i should stop talking. perfectly paired savings. now, that's progressive. jon: stroke of noon on the east coast, we begin with a fox news alert. we are awaiting a news conference out of washington state. okay, the news conference just getting underway there, i can see. they're offering us the latest on the recovery efforts from that massive mud slide that devastated the small town of oso, at least 25 people are known to have died. that number expected the rise significantly. we are going to monitor the news conference, bring you the latest e -- details as we get them. jenna: the white house celebrating an obamacare milestone just days ahead of a crucial deadline. welcome to second hour of "happening now," i'm jenna lee. jon: i'm jon scott. the administration says more than six million americans have signed up through the federal and state exchanges. still unclear though how many of those signing up previously had health insurance. whether the figures include young people and whether they've actually paid for it. doug mckelway live at the white house with more. doug, obviously, good news for the administration, but it comes as a key group of democratic leaders is breaking ranks with the white house over fixing the law. >> reporter: that's right, jon. just three days to go this the march 31st deadline until the end of open enrollment, and the administration claiming they've got six million people who have signed up for health care insurance. aboard air force one this morning, jay carney said this is basically good news. he said, i don't think that can be judged as anything but significant progress given that we burned, essentially, two months in the open enrollment period because of the faulty web site. but critics say the administration still will not say exactly how many people have paid for insurance. unusually harsh words from congresswoman marsha blackburn this morning on fox news. listen up. >> i think that they are lying to us about who has paid, who has not paid, who is getting subsidies, how much they keep pushing off. they don't want to give us the numbers. >> reporter: critics are also asking why was it necessary to make yet another tweak to obamacare? just this past wednesday? that gives an indefinite extension with no penalty. insurers say it makes it difficult to calculate what premiums will be next year. they are also concerned that people might hold off on signing up for health insurance this they get sick or injured. listen to michael tanner of the cato institute. >> the fact is that someone could incur medical expenses and then sort of retroactively go back and sign up for insurance after the fact. it's a little bit like being able to drive your car into a tree and then going back and buying auto insurance. >> reporter: and that is one of the reasons that a group of centrist democrats in the senate are breaking with the administration to propose some legislative fixes to obamacare. they are basically reading the tea leaves. a recent fox news poll just released last night shows 56% of americans are still opposed to obamacare, only 40% in favor of it. jon: so they've trotted out this new proposal. what's in it? >> reporter: yeah. basically, you know, obamacare has three different layers to it, the three plans. it's got the bronze plan, the silver plan and the more extravagant gold plan. this would add a fourth layer of plans, the so-called copper plan, and that would allow people to have lower premiums but at the same time have higher out-of-pocket expenses. it would also borrow from a gop plan which would allow insurance companies to sell insurance across state lines. unsure at this point how this is going to fare in the senate, but as you though, senate majority leader harry reid has said that he would not allow any legislation to come to the senate floor that will change obamacare as presently written. so we'll see what kind of fate that endures. jon: interesting. doug mckelway at the white house, thank you. jenna: more on the health care law now. we have some brand new fox polls shedding new light on the president's signature piece of legislation. here's the first one. just 40% of registered voters favor the law while 56% say they oppose it. perhaps more telling, just 40% approve of the president's handling of health care in general. that's up just slightly there an all-time low while 57% disapprove. a great panel for you, joe joe trippi, former howard dean campaign manager along with ed rollins, national campaign chairman mike huckabee for president, both fox news contributors, and what a treat on this friday to have you both. >> thank you. >> good to be with you. jenna: ed, what's the more important number, the six million that have enrolled so far, or are the poll numbers more relative to what we're looking ahead for in the midterm election? >> well, i think the white house should be complimented for getting their web site fixed. they now have six million people signed up. we have no idea who they are or whether they're going to be able to, basically, get doctors. they now have minimal coverage. the problem here with this plan is it does need to be fixed if it's going to be the law of the land, and it can't just be fixed by executive order. there are major, major deficiencies in this, and even though more people be covered, can you get doctors, can you get the health care, and what's it going to cost? no one quite knows, and there's a lot of promises made to these people. sign up, you're going to get government subsidies that'll cost you nothing, at the end of the day, it's going to cost an awful lot of money. jenna: interesting, joe. what about what democrats are doing in the senate that doug also just mentioned? the law still needs to be fixed, so some democrats are proposing fixes. is that a smart political move right now? >> absolutely. look, ed's right, the law needs to be fixed. democrats, many democrats who voted for it have been saying for months that, look, let's fix it, not end it. and, frankly, the person people are there on that one. i mean, the number of people who want to repeal it completely hasty minished down to 29% -- diminished down to 29%. so most americans are in sort of -- there are things we like about it like the 26-year-olds and under can be on their parents' plan and pre-existing conditions and all the things we've talked about for the last several months. but they also see all the, a lot of the questions that ed raised need to be fixed and feed to be answered. and so -- need to be answered. so i think it's very smart for senate democrats, those democrats that are doing this, to move in that direction. jenna: an interesting question moving forward, too, open enrollment doesn't start until november 15th this year, so we're after the midterm elections, and that's when people are really going to see what's going to happen to their premiums. i just want to read this quick quote from the kaiser family foundation president. he had an interesting take on the six million number. he said this: jenna: so that's an interesting questi, ed. if all politics is local, then what does this mean for republicans? >> well, his points are extremely valid, and kaiser's been on the forefront of providing good care across the country. i think at the end of the day it's now the law of the land. is it going to work and are people going to get what they think they're going to get be, and i would argue, no. each time we have sort of peeled back the op onand find out -- onion and find out more and more things, we've had doctors on this show and other shows on fox that say, you know, unfortunately, i can't afford any more medicaid patients. i can't, basically -- i can't give the patients i have treatment. i can't send them to get an mri. and equally important all these people who think they may have coverage today when they go and have big, big deductibles, all of a sudden they may think they're getting cheaper insurance, but the deductible portion they have to pay is enormous. we did nothing in this bill to reduce the cost of health care in america, and i don't think we made it better. jenna: that's interesting, joe, because the impact of the health care law politically, is it really a story for 2014 or more of a story for 2016? >> oh, no, it's going to be a big story for 2014 and probably into 2016 as well. but the kaiser foundation is right, the spokesman, when he talks about local. i mean, one place to look is washington state where the report came out this morning or yesterday, i think, that it now turns out that the state's reported that 180,000 people signed up directly with their insurance company for obamacare not going through the state exchange, only 120,000 people in the state went through the state exchange. so it may be actually -- i mean, we've got plenty of things that are wrong. it may turn out that the actual sign-ups are much better than what we've seen so far because that, the people that are going directly to their insurance company for obamacare are not showing up in that six million number. the administration could literally be somewhere near seven million, their original target, right now wile we're talking about will they make it. they may have already done that. jenna: the big question still looms, though, whether or not those people were previously uninsured or whether they had insurance and switched over and whether we're going to see the impact on cost that ed brings up. >> and whether they're young or old. if they're young, then we have benefited. if it's a bunch of old people that respect very well like myself -- [laughter] it takes ten young people to support me, and i think that's the critical question here. jenna: well, we'll see. we'll see if we get the break dunn on the demographics because so far we don't have the numbers. that's where we're at today. i mean, ed, i can't think of the ten -- there'd be so many people volunteering of the ten young people to support you. i can hear them now. [laughter] >> keep'd ahive. to see you bot. thank you. >> good to be with you. jon: right now the weather is complicating search efforts in that devastating mud slide in washington state. up to an inch after rain expected today. that could make the already-unstable slope of debris even more dangerous. authorities also giving an update on the recovery efforts as so many families await word on their loved ones. dan springer live in arlington, washington. i know they've been having a news conference, dan. what's the latest? >> reporter: well, the latest, as you mentioned at the top, jon, is the confirmed death toll has not changed, it's still 17, but the key number is 90. that's the number that they believe are still missing, they believe that's a good number, so the presumed death toll, they say, is going to be much higher than that. they say it's going to go up substantially from the 17 figure right now. the process is painfully slow as probably everyone has figured out by now many. all aspects of it. finding the victims requires in most cases a dog getting a positive scent, then a searcher poking down into the mud with a shovel handle. if that doesn't work, they carefully turn over the muck and debris. if they find a body, removal can take and does take hours, and then the medical examiners can take days to identify the victim and determine the cause of death. and this is going on over a square mile graveyard. >> if you could imagine houses, trees and a bunch of mud put in a blender and run for a bit and then dumped back on the ground, that's what it looks like. it's absolutely devastating. the conditions are very rough going. very difficult to move around. >> reporter: and this rain is making everything more difficult. there's a flash flood warning downstream of the landslide. upstream there's a flood warning as well. they're expecting the river to rise two feet over the weekend as they could get as much as an inch and three-quarters over the next three days, jon. jon: wow. and there's talk that they might never find some of those victims. how are the families coping? >> reporter: well, more and more of them are now coming out and and sharing their stories and sharing their grief because now it's becoming more inevitable that there will be no survivors. we interviewed one woman who has lost in the only her parents, but also her daughter ander daughter's fiance -- and her daughter's fiance. they were planning a summer wedding at the house that was swept away, and now the family is planning a memorial service for all four a week from this sunday. another woman opened up about her unimaginable loss. two days ago searchers founder mother's body, and yesterday they recoveried the remains of her four-month-old baby girl. >> my mom was such a strong person x -- and i'm not, i'm not as strong as her, but i'm going to be. and i know that, i know that she would be here and she would say, tashy, just don't give up. it's going to get better. there's only up. there's only up. >> reporter: rain, of course, a huge part of this story. so far i just got off the phone with the national weather service, so far 16.2 inches have fallen in the month of march, normal for this month is 7.2 inches, so more than double normal. it's the second wettest march on record in this already-wet climate. jon? jon: yeah. and, obviously, a factor in what caused that mud slide. wow. dan springer, thank you. jenna: well, two brazen thieves target pricey watches at a jewelry store. tear smash and grab -- their smash and grab robbery caught on tape. and washington, d.c.'s strict gun law is back in the spotlight after a gun collector is found guilty of attempting to pez up lawful -- possess unlawful ammunition. we're going to break down his case. and the search for flight 370 changing course yet again. why crews are now focusing on a different part of the indian ocean. 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>> reporter: well, becauseically, jenna, because they received new analysis of radar data which suggests the plane ran out of fuel sooner than originally thought because it was flying faster than they thought. the new analysis came with the help of boeing, the maker of the plane. the new search zone is 434 miles closer to perth. here's how the australian authorities explained it. >> the key pieces of information being analyzed relate to early positional information from the aircraft and its later polling of the satellite through its aircraft systems. the few information is based on continuing analysis of radar day about aircraft's movement between the south china sea and strait of malacca before radar contact was lost. >> reporter: ten planes went out to the new surgery zone today, five of them reported seeing objects that are rectangular in shape including the best visual sighting yet by an orion p3 search team. those photographs are now being analyzed, jenna. jenna: so we had those other reports, and our viewers know this of the different satellite images showing debris in the old search area, so what happens to the old search area? does no one go pack? >> reporter: well, essentially, all planes and all ships are being pulled out of that more southern area. a chinese patrol ship is expected to be the first one into the few search zone as early as saturday. it will begin the search on the water. all ten planes today flew over the new, 680 miles northeast of the old search area. >> this is the normal business of search and rescue operations that new information comes to light, refined analyses take you to a different place. i don't count the original work a waste of time. >> reporter: the new search area is 80% smaller than where they were looking before. it is also much more shallow, and the weather there is less foreboding which is good for the recovery teams if it's actually the area where the plane went down, jenna. jenna: hopefully they find something tomorrow as they find the debris. jennifer, thank you. jon: well, there is outrage over a guilty verdict in a very strange trial. this man was convicted after a s.w.a.t. team raided his house. what did they find? 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a single shotgun shell and muzzleloader slugs in his home. the judge sentencing him to time served and a $50 fine, plus now he has to register as a firearm offender. therewe told you a little bit at joe's story yesterday. now today we have emily miller, she's the washington times senior opinion editor, author of "emily gets her gun." she has been following this story very closely. first of all, how did it start? is -- how is it that police drew a bead on this guy? what did he do to bring such attention on himself? >> well, less than two years ago he was going through a nasty divorce, and his estranged wife at the time went to the police and said he threatened to kill me, and he has guns in the home. when it got to a judge, he dismissed the charge. but the police took the part about he has guns in the home and went to his house and without a warrant demanded they could search it. and they did. that was later thrown out. but they came back a second time with a warrant. they searched up and down, they handcuffed him, put him face down on the floor, used a s.w.a.t. team to take his child outside, out of the shower, and in the end they found a shotgun shell and a box of muzzleloader bullets which this is a modern bullet so it has gun powder, but a muzzleloader would just have the top part. and that's how it's charged. jon: they didn't find any weapons, they didn't find any shotguns, any -- >> no. jon: -- any ar-15s, assault rifles -- >> no. he is a gun owner, he is a hunter. he's been a hunter since he was a kid, but he keeps his guns and arms at his sister's house in virginia. so his wife, obviously, lied -- his ex-wife obviously lied about that part x that's why it was dismissed. so, no, he was never charged with a gun. this has all been because d.c. has this law that in order to have just ammunition, you have to have a registered firearm. of that's the only reason that i can walk into fox news in d.c. with these. nobody else here could, because i have a registered firearm. he didn't, so that's how he went to court, and that's why the judge found him guilty on wednesday of this crime after a four month trial. jon: he was on "fox & friends" and told the hosts what it was like when the s.w.a.t. team raided his house. i just want to play this for our view ors. >> did they put you in handcuffs in. >> yes, they did. they put me and my then-girlfriend in handcuffs. they herded all the children into a separate room, wouldn't -- all five children into a separate room, wouldn't let us talk to them while they proceeded to, essentially, ransack the house. jon: now, is he a bank robber? [laughter] is he, you know, a guy that the nation needs to be worried about? >> you know, jon, and i'll tell you, the most heartbreaking things, and i've written about his case and dawninged to him -- talked to him for almost nine months now was in the court at the sentencing, and he had to plea for leniency. this is a man who has never had a criminal charge, and he said to the judge -- judge warren is the one who convicted him -- he said i'm not a criminal, i've never been arrested before this, and they did put him in jail for the night over this ammunition. he said i've been a law-abiding person, i support my family and children, i've never done anything. i am a gun owner or, but it's fo purpose, and it's just shocking that a person like that had to ask for leniency. jon: he's a hunter. >> yes. he is a hunter. and that's how he had the shotgun shell as a mow momento,u know? and he explained to the judge that he was a hunter, and one time the shotgun shell misfired, and he kept it as a momento because the deer then hit a tree, basically committed suicide at the same time, so he got a deer but didn't shoot him. and he said that's why he had the shotgun shell. in the end, the judge didn't rule on the shotgun shell, and the government insisted that part be kept open because the judge wanted the court to open the shotgun shell to see if there was gun powder in it, and the government lawyer as well as the police said there was no safe way that could be done in a courtroom, and they need to be done in a laboratory. it was like, "law and order" couldn't make up a trial as ridiculous as this one. jon: what is driving this? the attorney general for the district of columbia is a guy who does not have to face voters, right? >> yeah. urban nathan is the unelected district attorney for d.c. x this is just his prosecutor to have y'all tack because he hates guns. but it's all different if you're friends with him because just one year ago he decided that david gregory, the nbc anchor who illegally brought a 30-round magazine onto his set was not a lick, was not a risk to public safety and did not decide to prosecute. but somehow this same district had two attorneys on this case at all times, these two prosecutors prosecuting this man, and i sat in that courtroom every time. this has been going on for months. and they treated him like he was a murderer. and, i mean, nothing he could have done could have hurt anyone. jon: so david gregory is a fine, upstanding public citizen, but this man is somehow a threat. >> yes. that's exactly how the system of justice works in d.c. you can't elect the attorney general, and if you're a rich, liberal, powerful anchor, jon, i think the you came, you probably would not be able to get away with it. [laughter] jon: yeah. >> in d.c. but at least, you know, david gregory could, but just a regular guy who is a hunter, you know, and that somehow being a law-abiding citizen. and i might add mark looked into it and found three murders by gun that same night that the cops were raiding his house. so it just goes to show priorities. jon: an awful lot of attention being paid to this poor guy. emily, thanks for writing are about it. we'll keep our viewers apprised. he's appealing, right? >> yes. he is appealing both on the technicalities of the muzzleloader bullets, but also on the second amendment rights, and that's the bigger case going forward. jon: emily miller from the washington times, thank you. jenna: just incredible. jon: it is crazy. the guy gets arrested for having a shotgun shell on his desk. jenna: unreal. jon: no guns in the house. jenna: we're going to continue to watch that. i know jon will stay on that. well, new jersey governor chris christie is set to hold a major news conference following the results of the investigation clearing him in a bridge traffic jam controversy among other things. how is the media handling this story so far? 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>> we'll scrutinize coverage of investigation of chris chris at this, commissioned by the governor's office. it has credibility problems and holes and key players would not cooperate with the investigators. what is fascinating, chris christie decide to sit down with diane sawyer. she is pretty aggressive with him. he has to deny he knew nothing about the closure on the lanes on the george washington bridge that he didn't create a climate which his aides thought would make him happy. on msnbc, acting like the prosecution, attacking this investigation, i say every nine or 10 minutes. jenna: nine or 10 minutes. you timed it out. you have a stop watch? >> it just seems that way, right. and i raised the question in a column this morning, excuse me, jenna. jenna: go ahead. >> even though this investigation may well be flawed, it is led by a former new york city deputy mayor, what if it turns out christie as far as his own involvement was telling the truth, the report is right? what do rest of media do having blown this up into a big scandal? how would that affect chris christie as potential 2016 candidate? a lot of pundits are coming on saying he irref vocably damaged but maybe he can rehabilitate himself if it turns out he was telling the truth despite all the negative headlines? jenna: maybe he will be recipient of many apology notes. >> i would not hold my breath. jenna: we have a big press conference by him next couple hours. that will give you things to talk about. >> i'm going to predict, go out on a limb, that press conference will less less than two hours. jenna: you think he will answer every single question out there. >> i think it will be short, sweet, answer questions and go raise money. jenna: we're taking your bet though on justly. we'll figure out what the stakes are after that. megyn kelly's office doing a center view with the governor and we'll see how the story moves forward. real quick, howard, a name keeps coming up and talk about it like everybody should know this name, nate silver. he is a big name when it comes to numbers. you will be taking a look at who he is and some of the battles he is confronting, tell us a little bit about that. >> he is a data guru and made necessary name and worked for "new york times" and predicted in the 2012 election, obama palm had overwhelming victory and liberals loved him. he moved to es spend and said the republicans have 60% chance of capturing senate. democratic senate committee is attacking him. this is guy is trying to do his job. maybe his prediction is wrong. shows you when you don't please one side, they can turn on a dime and go ahead and trash your reputation. jenna: he was spot-on during the last election which is why everybody is looking at him in the last election results were what they were. >> he is a smart guy. like predict stock market you never quite know es special think far out. >> i love data gurus. howard, we look forward to seeing you this weekend. >> thank you, generics i don't predict the stock market but i can tell what you it is doing right now. it is up 117 points as you can see. the dow having a pretty good day which isn't always the case on fridays. a lot of times friday sees a selloff. it is there for you, 16,381 on the dow jones industrial average. jenna: fox will debut a new show in our powerful business lineup as well. catch the premier of "sunday morning futures" with the host maria bartiromo sunday 10:00 eastern time here on the fox news channel. jon: there are new concerns about core return shun in the democratic party. the fbi arresting and raiding the offices of some lawmakers this week. a look at what this could mean for the party and the midterm elections. also, a new push for women's rights in saudi arabia. why activists hope president obama can help put women in the drivers seat there. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ you want a way to help minimize blood sugar spikes. support heart health. and your immune system. now there's new glucerna advance with three benefits in one. [ male announcer ] new glucerna advance. from the brand doctors recommend most. jon: right now president obama is inside saud hoping to bolster ties with that middle easten nation. many in saudi arabia feel the u.s. turned its back on the sunni kingdom by engaging in nuclear negotiations with its shiite rival, iran. the president just sat down with king abdullah a short time ago. meanwhile activists are using the occasion to push for lifting a ban on female drivers there. many small groups of women have begun driving cars daily as part after campaign. they want president obama to view the issue from a human rights perspective and try to help change the driving laws in saudi arabia. jenna: some high-profile raids raising new questions about the future of the balance of power in congress. the fbi arresting or raiding the offices of four lawmakers this week, all democrats. our chief washington correspondent james rosen is live from d.c. with more on this james? >> reporter: good afternoon. the idea of politicians winding up in trouble with the law or under the proverbial ethical cloud is certainly not new nor by any means confined to a particular party but this week's arrests suggest that the democratic party could face fresh problems in the realm that political consultants and message gurus like to refer to as optics. most extraordinary remember was arrest of california's democratic state senator, leland yee who faces federal corruption and gu yee, who is from san francisco, allegedly conspired with another individual to solicit campaign contributions from undercover fbi agents beyond legal limits and promises to connect one of the fbi agents to an arms dealer. there is patrick cannon, the democratic mayor of charlotte, north carolina, ensnared in an fbi sting. cannon faces federal corruption charges alleging he accepted more than 48,000 in cash, airline tickets, hotel rooms and luxury apartment from under cover fbi agents posing as real estate developers and investors. neither of the embattled officials entered a plea. neither. tainted democrat as federal level which could complicate republicans and advocacy groups to exploit the advantage in the midterm election year. >> i think the question politically whether it becomes emblematic of the national party. that to some extent depends on media coverage. for instance in 2006, that is with the drumbeat against republicans was this culture of corruption. that to a large extent was effective because it was so consistently covered in the media. >> usually politicians robbing on democratic side tend to be ethnic as in these cases. china town boss in san francisco and black mayor of charlotte. there is another politically correct reason to step over the real identification as democrats. >> reporter: if republicans do try to turn the tables and tout a democratic culture of corruption you hear talk intensified talk of democrats of new jersey's republican governor chris christie and "bridgegate" scandal that consumed his administration and perhaps congressman trey radel dill, the freshman florida republican resigned his seat after pleading guilty to cocaine possession. does this sound me but sound like could be ripped out after episode of "house of cards?" jenna: hard to make the comparisons if you really watch "house of cards." oh, you got to watch this series. i realize what imrecommending which is quite dark you. >> hope for better on the part of the real lawmakers agreed. jenna: we hope. but we're not so sure, right? james, thank you. >> thank you. jon: you want to pay attention to this. a new study links some of the most common antianxiety drugs and sleeping aids to increased risk of dying. the disturbing new study. we'll talk about next. aflac. ♪ aflac, aflac, afc! ♪ [ both sigh ] ♪ ugh! ♪ you told me he was good, dude. yeah he stinks at golf. but he was great at getting my claim paid fast. how fast? mine got paid in 4 days. wow. that's awesome. is that legal? big fat no. [ male announcer ] find out how fast aflac can pay you at aflac.com. jon: new study linking several common antianxiety drugs and sleeping pills to an increased in death. researchers followed thousands of users of drugs like am bean, the sleeping med cakes and xanax and valium. they found people that took the drugs had more than double risk of death. it is not known whether the drugs were the cause of increased risk. we have someone who may have some of the answers here. dr. nina radcliffe a practicing physician as well as anesthesiologist. are you surprised at these results? >> surprised by these results. there was a study several years ago, if you take just 18 pills of am we enin one year that -- ambien increases your risk of death four times. we know the risks are there. it might be insomnia and anxiety causing a increased risk of death. jon: things like ambien, they sort of depress the nervous system, right? could, you're an anesthesiologist, you have to be careful what you do that. >> they can depress the nervous system. there are side-effects if you take it with alcohol and narcotics with many people take. they can cause side-effects or get behind the wheel. there are some accident that is occur driving drowsy. jon: this study didn't necessarily say the drugs are direct cause of increasing death. >> that is absolutely right. key point what you're saying. there is link and association. this is not saying that these drugs in particular cause it. what they're saying, is that people who take these drugs have it. it might be having a disease. cancer, patients who have cancer, they have apings sight and difficulty sleeping either from concern for their diagnosis or from pain. this makes it more difficult. they may die from the cancer but not necessarily taking these pills. jon: so the people who did the study, it was a pretty significantly large study, they were not able to control for the underlying conditions, the reasons people were taking some of these midcations? >> right. absolutely. they tried to but the problem you can't determine severity of the disease or stage of cancer or severity of heart disease somebody has. jon: what is the takeaway? obviously if you don't need to take valium. if you doesn't need to take ambien, don't take isn't. >> absolutely. >> the problem is seven million people suffer from insomnia. we're sleepless and nation under sedation. 16 million prescriptions filled for ambien and other type of sleep aides. that is a concern. my headache home message it is okay to take it for a short period of time. but if you're taking routinely for long periods of time. we need to look at the underlying problem. what is causing difficulty sleeping and what is causing anxiety. should we get to the root of it, not put a bandaid on top of this. jon: but can that be found? a lot of people say the only thing that works for me is ambien and something like that? can you find root cause of insomnia? >> we're not cleaning your to let's or kitchen but have good rid walls before going to sleep. putting a baby sleep. make the lights dark. read to them. a quiet serene environment to get to sleep. we need to stick with that as we get older. adultings need that as well. >> when i read to my kids always put me to sleep. getting horizontal at 8:00 at night. >> me too. jon: all right. >> thank you very much. jon: doctor, good to have you on. >> thank you. thanks. jenna: russia's military buildup along its border with ukraine raising eyebrows at the pentagon as the world continues to warn russian president vladmir putin to say back off. one town saying good buy to norma jean. where she is heading next. i think she tried to kill us. 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