spending, even the constitution. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle calling for an investigation. the conclusion that the irs came to that they did have agents who were engaged in intimidation of political groups. is as dangerous a problem the government can have and i don t care if you re a conservative, a liberal, a democrat or a republican, this should send a chill up your spine. this is something that we can not let stand. it needs to have a full investigation. i don t know where it stops or who is involved. whoever is involved, through a fact-based investigation and it has to being external. clearly shown they can t do it themselves. martha: serious stuff. let s go to chief congressional correspondent mike iaea manual who joins us live. what can you till us about the latest on that. reporter: fox news confirmed a pro-israel group called z street, it was targeted by the irs because it opposed president obama s on israel. that also suggests it was going after groups
leftover pieces from the formation of the solar system, the lego blocks. if you could study it in detail, we would learn all kinds of things about our own origin, about where the earth and the rest of the solar system came from. gregg: fascinating. corey powell, always good to see you. thank you so much. martha: new concerns that al-qaeda may be playing a bigger role in the carnage in syria. so will this prompt the u.s. and others to act? the lawmakers today grilling our intel sources. we re going to tell you what we re learning about that. gregg: and north korea moving missile launchers to the coast. possibly preparing for a test launch. we re watching it. putting our pacific allies within distance. what this move could mean for the region, we ll tell you about it coming up. [ male announcer ] there are only so many foods
right to a fair trial. we will, of course, stay on top of this. that s the latest for now. gregg: real life space cowboys. nasa wants to lasso an asteroid. i m not kidding here. the details coming out when it proposed its 2014 budget yesterday. take a look at this animation showing their newest mission to capture a space rock hurtling through the solar system. wow. kind of put a shroud arnold around it. corey powell is with discover magazine. good to see you. strikes me as incredibly risky here. can it be done? well, there have been studies about in this, there s a lot of theory about this. we don t really know if it can be done. this is probably the most visionary thing that nasa has proposed in the last decade, maybe even two decades, of really pushing the boundaries of what technology can do. you saw the animation, we ve got an idea you basically put a giant glad bag around it, strap a rocket to it, stop the
0 missouri jaf jay nixon will look at the severe damage. the threat of tornados extends from the ohio valley to the gulf coast. martha: we have complete fox coverage. maria molina is in the fox extreme weather center. kim hudson from fox affiliate ktti gives is the update from the ground. let s start with you, maria. good morning. i want to show you why we re looking at the risk for severe storms. ahead of the system we have warm temperatures. early this morning we re looking at temperatures in the 60s across georgia, alabama and the carolinas. that will help fuel thunderstorms. behind the front very cold air. between the two air masses that s where we expect the thunderstorms and severe weather to erupt as we headed later on today. yesterday we had 250 reports of severe weather from texas to louisiana all the way up into the northeast across parts of pennsylvania. areas of new jersey saw rough storms move on through through and very dangerous lightning of course as well with some of
martha: but with baby boomers retiring at the rate of 10,000 people a day. entitlement spending is set to explode. stuart, as we pointed out, there is a lot of enthusiasm that we won t rack up a trillion dollar deficit. reporter: the headline was all about the deficit is going to be below a trillion dollars. that s great news. the bad news and there is a lot of it. the next 10 years medicare will cost $1 trillion a year. obama-care subsidies will total nearly a trillion dollars. the cost of medicaid will double and the debt will go to the highest portion of tour economy than it s been in a generation. there is dismal views on the current state of the economy. 1.4% growth this year and the unemployment rate will rise at 8% and stay that way for years to come. martha: the cbo makes very clear we need to do some entitlement work and recraft these programs if we want them to be our for our children. why does the administration not appear to be too concerned about doing that.