drinking and could call it students abusing it. and causes proms with individuals, with society, were not tax it? they should be focusing on keeping our employees working and keeping things going in the state. in massachusetts, douglas kennedy, fox news. juliet: the countdown to the november election is on. go to foxnews.com for nonstop updates from reporters, out in the field. producing on hot ballot issues and races going on around the country and click on the follow fox link at foxnews.com/politics. rick: interesting story straight ahead. three of the nation s largest mortgage lenders are putting foreclosures on hold. we ll tell you why and what it means for all of those americans who might be at risk of losing their homes. don t go away, we ll be right back.
with other lending institutions? i think so. i think a freeze across the board is inevitable. rick, this is an election year and politicians are going to fall all over themselves to step up for the home owner, from blumenthal perhaps in connecticut, jerry brown out in california they re all going to step up here, but in the end, rick, in the end the foreclosure process will continue. there s a couple million in foreclosure now. i expect millions, millions more. rick: what happens though if some of the foreclosures are reversed? i don t know what the right terminology goes. what if the banks decides well, we have thought you were in foreclosure and would like to work out a deal. what would that mean for the housing market and for the economy as a whole in all of a sudden. if even a portion were to go away and home owners able to work out a lower monthly mortgage interest rate or have
sight on what case he thinks will challenge the high court and kagan the most. dozens of palestinian leaders meeting today to discuss the deadlocked mideast peace process the news is not encouraging for dip pats trying to save the-month-old talks between the palestinians and israelis. details now from jerusalem. what can you tell us leland? reporter: it appears those talks that began a month ago in washington are all but over. of course, like everything in the middle east that could change. the palestinians are heartening their line in terms of concessions they want from the israelies to return to the negotiating take. there was a meeting today with president abbas and his advisory council. they voted not to return to peace talks until the israelis have halted all construction on the west bank. earlier this week there was a settlement freeze that ended that 10 month freeze ended and quickly settlers began construction on the west bank. the israeli prime minister
the criminals and getting officers in place and again, trying to prevent the crime before the criminal even has a chance to strike. a very interesting concept and l.a.p.d., by the way, rick, thinks this could be the way of the future with policing in other parts of the country as well. rick: well, it certainly does sound promising, casey. how does the l.a.p.d. plan to use this information. reporter: well, it s going to help commanders staff the streets, basically. all of the people that are out on the streets enforcing the crime, it will flag areas where crimes are more likely to occur. right down to the neighborhood. down to the specific building. now, l.a.p.d. is quick to point out this sounds like a movie the minority report, but they say that this is not a substitute for good old-fashioned police work. they re not out on the streets making arrests based on the probability of what could potentially happen. they obviously have to have probable cause and things like that to make t
control and elizabeth is live in atlanta. how are the clickers changing the landscape of the classroom? well, classrooms simply don t look like they used to, rick. these students are bringing these clickers, like you said a perfect example how technology is changing the way we learn and about 2 million students bought the clickers with the fall textbooks this past semester, they bring them into class and turn them on and syncs up the computer and a multi-temp choice computer and they immediately click the response and all the results posted up on the screen so it does a number of things, first of all, the professor gets nant gratification so he or she can change the curriculum or adjust the lecture accordingly and classroom sizes are bigger for the shy learner ready to participate and not singled out if the answers aren t entirely correct. is this changing anything