Its monday morning already. I am ainsley earhardt. I am heather nauert. It is monday march the 4th. It is time for the top 5 5 00. Later this morning crews will pin nish demolishing the florida home where a massive sink hole swallowed a man then killing him. They workers have managed to roo recover some of the familys items in the rubble including an American Flag and a bible. God is in control. We have each other and thats all that matters. You never know what one moment is going to bring to us. It is likely the bottom of the victim jeb bush will ever be found jeff bush will ever be found. More than 100 cardinals from around the world gathered for their first round of meetings before the conclave to elect the next pope. New yorks archbishop Cardinal Dolan one of those tanding the meeting. The cardinal says they will discuss other key issues facing the church not just potential successors. This isnt the New Hampshire primary. Nobody would campaign. We are just getting to know each othe
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get a life she deserves. heather: the department of health and human services declining to khentd. later on her aunt will be on at 8:45. new developments in the irs scandal. lawmakers are holding a hearing today to find out why the irs spent almost $50 million on conferences and they also want to get to the possible kickback that has came with the spending. on the heels of two irs employees put on leave for accepting $1200 in free food and gifts at party in 2010. they were tasked in enforcing the obamacare overhaul. and deadline for eric holder to explain his testimony has come and gone. deadline was close of business on wednesday and holder said he knew nothing about the potential prosecution. it was later discovered that he played a hand to get james rosen s personal emails. despite pressure to resign, he plans to stick it out. there are things i want to do, things i want to get done. once i have finished that, i ll sit down with him and we ll determine when it s ti
0 f.b.i. is legally able to obtain including business records and pursuit of, quote, foreign intelligence information. in theory the documents show the obama administration could be blanketedly collecting records if there is a suspect of wrongdoing. the information is considered data and transactional information rather than communication. it doesn t require individual warrants to be accessed. the documents have not been independently confirmed with fox news, however, we do know verizon and the nsa have not had any immediate comment. but they don t have any comment. we ll be looking into that one throughout the morning. that is exactly why the judge andrew napolitano was so concerned about the patriot act. it may apply in theory. the government may want to supply to it bad guys but it could affect all of us. patti ann: a tragic story, michael jackson s daughter paris was rushed to the hospital after a possible suicide attempt. friends say a serious suicide attempt not just a cry
so it s not threatening any homes. it s underneath the fence in the backyard. good news here, no one was hurt. that first sinkhole, however, opened up thursday night, again, less than two miles away. that is where the man sleeping in his bedroom was swallowed up by that sink hole, jeff bush. his body is not going to be recovered. we have been speaking with his brother throughout this situation and here is some of what he has to say this morning. what i would like is some kind of memorial set there for him. a head stone, a bench, somewhere where my mom could sit, sit with her son. that s what we want. that s all we want. closure for my brother and my mom and dad not to have to go through this no more. now that house has been demolished and stabilized. they have stabilized that area. but again, engineers will be out at both sites trying to determine exactly what is going on in this area this morning. gretchen? gretchen: all right. april kellogg live for us in florida, thanks for th