brian: great interview, you ll be joining me on radio. real quick, on what we were saying before and the problems with xm sirius, if you re upset that fox could be going away, tweet at sirius xm or go to their web site, www.siriusxm.com. see you tomorrow. bill: all right. good morning, everybody. new details just into fox news from the ntsb and this investigation into issues with one of the largest commercial planes you will find anywhere. the focus on the battery maker used in boeing s dreamliner jets. this is big story. we ve been watching it for some time. now we have a little bit more direction as how safe it is on board. we re back from washington, d.c. he is sconced back in our home in new york. martha: good morning. good to be back. good morning. i m martha maccallum. that is not the way you want to leave a plane necessarily. so a burning battery is what
afternoon. bill: certainly will be emotional when it happens. 10 minutes past the hour. some of the stories we re watching in america s newsroom , prince harry talking about his time on the front lines in afghanistan. wasn t done in the wrong way but just, . go the other way. bill: doing his country s work. more of the prince s take on that war in a moment. martha: chilling rescue caught on tape. a woman falls on the subway platform on the tracks. wait until you see what happens. we ll show you the tape. it is an unbelievable story. bill: tough words from a conservative commentator suggesting the president s mission now is to reverse everything that ronald reagan put in place 30 years ago. our panel debates that in a moment. this was really obama unbound and i think what is most interesting is that obama basically is declaring the end of reaganism in this speech. jenna shared her recipe with sharon,
carrieses 250 passengers. they have the batteries in the center the investigation. three minutes past the hour. martha. martha: back to see now where the house majority leader says they will have a vote tomorrow on the debt issue. guess what they will do? they will be allowed to keep borrowing money through may 19th. they will hit the debt ceiling mid-february. this pushes this whole thing back a couple months. doug mckelway is live in washington with the story. doug, surprise, surprise, right? reporter: surprise, surprise, martha. this is the no budget, no pay bill. it would suspend the debt limit until may 19th at which time the debt limit would automatically increased beyond the present $16.4 trillion to accommodate whatever the u.s. borrowed at that time. it makes the extra borrowing contingent upon this. if either chamber of congress fails to pass a budget by april 15th.
bill: so the president proposing universal background checks for all firearms arms sales. what about criminals to get their weapons illegally? william la jeunesse is on that story live in l.a. with more now. william, good morning. reporter: yeah, bill. they say laws for are the law-abiding. background checks are supposed to stop what the government calls prohibitive possessers, illegal immigrants, adjudicated mentally ill and felons who face few penalties for it. maricopa county jail in phoenix, arizona. is it hard for a person with criminal record to get a gun? no. reporter: while washington debates back ground checks for law-abiding gun owners. where do criminals get their weapons. people usually go through other people to buy it. i say 95% off the street, crime guns. reporter: survey of 18,000 prison inmates found 40% get their guns off the street, 40% from friends and family. 4% from pawn shops.
with secretary of state hillary clinton we mentioned this last hour, martha, what senator corker told us, you know, how much were you aware and how much attention did you give to the growing islamist movement in northern africa? so not only is it benghazi but these other places that are now hot spots. martha: huge concern in linking all those things together. we hope we ll hear a little bit more about that in terms of what is going on from the state department and from hillary clinton. so how about this? this is part of what bill was explaining to you. a harrowing survival story from one of the seven americans who lived through that deadly hostage siege that played out in algeria in the desert. steven wysoky of colorado, hid under his desk for 2 1/2 days while he could hear militants pacing back and forth and searching the building for him. can you imagine how terrified this man must have been? his wife says he was able to survive on a pint of water. he and a few colleagues made a ru