ready for opening day until 2017. the new park will cost $672 million. the county is going to pay for a lot of it, too. including space for shops, restaurants, hotels, whole community there. taxpayers will help fund it but officials did not say how much they ll have to play. the team has played at turner field since 1997. it was constructed for the 1996 olympic games. it will have ten thousand fewer seats. a guy in new jersey won the forth largest powerball jackpot in history with his long-time girlfriend by his side. now the girlfriend is no longer by his side. they ve plate and she is suing him for a share of the wings
in los angeles, he ll speak at a rally for senator barbara boxer running against carly fiorina, of course, and then he moves to las vegas to pitch for harry reid in a tight race with tea party favorite sharon angle. after spending millions of dollars on the virtual fence along the mexican border, the u.s. government halting funding now for the project. a watchdog group says the $672 million boeing project is not working. the cameras and sensors set up along the 53 mile stretch in arizona are providing spotty coverage. texas republican representative michael mccall would like to see homeland security try technology the military uses in afghanistan. and those are your headlines. speaking of afghanistan, geraldo rivera not too far fro pakistan right now and joins us live on fox & friends. good morning. what are you up to? hi, steve, gretchen and brian. actually, we stumbled upon a re-enlistment ceremony we re happy to say prior to my report,
all right. 14 minutes before the top of the hour. here s what else is happening on this thursday. according to the u.s. army, three crew members were killed when a uh-60 blackhawk helicopter crashed in germany yesterday. the soldiers were on a training mission. after $672 million, the virtual border fence between the united states and mexico, doesn t work. 23 mile stretch was supposed to go into ser last month but boeing says glitches kept popping up. now, homeland security is apparently thinking about cutting its losses. great. brian? ever wish your boss would walk a mile in your shoes? a new reality show can i continue? a new reality series challenges bigwig xektd actives to do just that, give up their fancy
terrorists trying to enter this country. but with so many technical glitches and logistical problems and after spending almost $672 million, the government apparently has nothing to show for it. the project was started in 2005 and was supposed to be done by 2011. joining me now, executive director of the secure border initiative network, matt borkowski in charge of the project. matt, thanks for joining us. good to be here. what is the problem here? well, the problem here was that we attempted to put up fence. it s not really a fence. we attempted to put up a series of cameras and radars that we felt we could buy commercially. in other words, they re already available. you can buy them from the vendors, and you can put them up. and we also attempted to connect them, using computers, so that i could give somebody a computer monitor depiction of everything all of these cameras saw. we thought doing that was not going to be a particular challenge. and it turns out that it is a partic
the development of the software, although you can get it fundamentally sound, it tends to have bugs that you need to work your way through so that s been the challenge. to say the least, a lot of money, $672 million and no one anticipated the problem that homeland security chief janet napolitano describes as unacceptable. i think that that s a fair assessment. we did not anticipate it because we felt that these cameras and radars were available. in hindsight we probably should have known better, so i would agree with that. sometimes when you re eager to do something that you think is an urgent priority, you re willing to take a little bit of a chance that these things that you buy will work. but i think we have learned that even if you think a problem is easy, you need to manage it as if it s difficult. and that s what we re doing now. so you re trying to correct a mistake, but meantime, you ve got people wondering how vulnerable we are. not just the issue of immigration which is