just got confirmation. we ve got originally when the explosion happened, there were 126 people on board, 114 have been accounted for, we have 99 surveyors that are in a boat that s going to be coming back to port fucion and we had 15 medical he vacs, some of medivacs, which of which were in critical condition. gregg: given the current, do you have an idea, a general region, of where the missing 12 might be, assuming they re in survival suits and a raft? with the weather conditions there were light seas, light winds, five knot winds, seas were no more than 2 feet, the search area is going to be pretty concentrated as of right now. we ll take everything into consideration on that search, they ll look at different patterns of where a life raft could go, there could be potential persons in the water as well, they ll cake they ll take that into consideration and in a search close by to cover those bases. gregg: were there enough
actually begin to shrink those government stakes so that late a bit later on this year. har march brand new polls show that americans prefer u.s.-made cars over cars made in asia. check this out, according to the associated press, the survey today, 38 percent of car owners say u.s. cars are the best. won t that make them happy. in detroit this morning, 33 percent, about 5 percent, say they like cars that are made in asia. the poll was conducted in march. toyota was involved in a recall mess, and that as we know is ongoing. they re still recalling cars. according to the poll, more americans say the u.s. makes better quality vehicles. so there, how about that this morning. gregg: good for us. martha: indeed. gregg: all right, did they cross the line or are they heroes, getting a raw deal? a controversial trial taking place in iraq today, a court marshal of one of three navy seals accused of failing to protect the terror detainee who says he was assaulted while in custody, the detainee,
raves, and did witnesses say we saw the 12 get into a raft, anything like that in. we haven t gotten word on any of that. the investigation will come to light once the search and rescue aspect has been concluded and then we go to a pollution response, and then they go into the investigation portion of the case. gregg: i know you re with the coast guard but do you have any idea what happened here, what caused the explosion? nothing right now. like i said, our primary focus is the search and rescue of those 12 and then we ll work with the management service to look at an investigation once they can we want to try to stabilize the sea and look at mitigating pollution and try to get to the root cause. gregg: mike obarry of the coast guard, thank you very much. my pleasure. gregg: many of you are at your computer, while you re watching america s newsroom . if that s the case check out fox news.cole while you re online, there you can follow the very latest developments, you can see
fill the open seat and we ll have top republicans and democrats there and harry reid and also, senator mitch mcconnell, and representing the democrats an republicans from the senate. and, also, the top leaders from the senate judiciary committee where the nominees have to go through and get vetted and voted on before he or she goes to the full senate floor heading up the committee, we have patrick leahy, the democrat and jeff sessions, the top republican and all of them will have discussions today and you know, the senate is just slightly different than it was last year, when justice sotomayor was confirmed, because they had a filibuster proof 60-plus votes and they don t have that and they are working on the bipartisanship, gregg. gregg: the president talked about diversity on the high court, a lovely fungible term and is sufficient entally vague and ambiguous and could mean anything and elena kagan i would argue brings diversity to the court because she has never been a judge, any id
starting to turn around for them, thank you very much. our money! martha: exactly, happy to see you as well, as always, brian wilson in washington, we want to know what you think, what is parked in your garage? what do you like? are u.s. made automobiles better than cars made by asian countries? for a while there, the thinking was quite the opposite. is that really changing? log onto foxnews.com and click on you decide or weigh in on the question and see what other folks said and now, more than 20,000 people voted, you guys are good voters and they logged on and voted and we ll see what everybody thinks, 42% agree so far, cars made in the good old u.s.a. are better. gregg: i would say the current american made cars we have in our family, the car we have in our family is far superior than the others i ve had in the past and i think they ve really improved their quality. it is a great car. martha: manufacturing in america, right. gregg: you got it. fighting words in the windy city as