stop picking winners and losers in the tax code. get rid of tax help enjoyed by the wealthy so more of their income will be subject to taxation. reporter: democrats criticized ryan for not identifying which deductions, loopholes and preferences he would give under any kind of tax system. ryan as chairman is writing an overhaul of the tax code. next year they plan to identify those. that is the plan. when you identify what democrats and republicans do to the tax code. athey agree you have to lower tax rates. to get rid of deductions to do so will be a awfully difficult fight. jon? jon: rich edson reporting from washington. thank you. the. jenna: it is certainly not what you re used to seeing as graphic images replaced company logos on, you can see it there, on cigarette packs. why the change? what is up with that? we ll have more on the story coming up on happening now
kill you, and cigarettes cause cancer. it s aiming to scare smokers but tobacco companies say it s violating their rights. they say it s not there to scare spokers, it s there to protect people. judge andrew napolitano is back with us. are you a smoker. no, no, god, no. jenna: we had to search for a pensacola of cigarettes. one has quitting smoking creates serious risk to your health. why do cigarette packs have warnings like that on them right now? one would think that the first amendment which protects freedom of speech and commercial speech, and it does, but the supreme court has carved out an exception to that, and the government can insert itself into that as long as it s truthful. they can force tobacco manufactures to say, smoking can
here. bill: find any eggs in the yard. martha: we found a few. a little too much chocolate. but we ll get over that. happening now starts right now and bill and i will see you right back here tomorrow. jenna: the white house talking what to do if north korea goes ahead with a provocative plan. what we are talking about is a long-range missile the rogue nation says is a satellite that will launch within a few days. jon: that mild winter was really lovely, now folks are paying the price, dangerous brush fires erupting, roads burned, traffic snarled for miles. jenna: we think you know smoking is really, really bad for. so do we need to see graphic labels like this on cigarette packs? the feds say yes. are the images a real deturpbt or just a little bit over the top? we ll talk about all of this on happening now.
families. so there are going to be cases like this that arise in the future. the government also argued the twins could never be beneficiaries because they were brought into being by a surviving parent who knew that her deseesd husband would not be alive to contribute into the pool of social security benefits. we ll find out what the justices think sometime before the end of the term in late june. bret? bret: shannon, thank you. six african-american south carolina voters are asking the high court to hear their challenge to the state s redrawn congressional and state house districts. earlier this month a lower court ruled the redrawings are fair and do not discriminate against black voters. a federal appeals court in kentucky has upheld a law requiring bigger and more graphic warnings on cigarette packs. it s one of two lawsuits filed by tobacco companies against the new labels. in the other, a federal judge blocked the new requirement arguing it violates free speech. a moment ago i
starting with the mall. there s a big walmart over there. here is a strip mall. this was a cell phone store if you walk in here, you can see there they are, cell phones, all the inventory still here. it is well guarded with police help. i have to tell you, instead of looking at the daniel and destruction like this here s what people are looking forward to, to the clean-up as you can see the workers over there cleaning this town up. they re putting on new roofs, they re securing what they have. and all the things that are not in the good enough conditionton withstand a little bit of wind, they re going to bull doze it and tear it down. here s the interesting thing though that we re hearing, brooke. you can talk to chad meyers about this. another storm system is brewing, and they re preparing for that one, as well. yep, we re hearing friday, don lemon. thank you so much. want to move long next on reporter roulette. nick paton walsh is in afghanistan for us. two more american