earan president charles taylor, accused of selling blood diamonds and buying diamonds for rebels who murdered people in africa. campbell got a pouch of stones from a dinner party from the president years ago but says she doesn t know if they were diamonds. we will have much more in a live report in the next hour of happening now . jenna: any naked pictures lately? jon: hope not. jenna: if you ve gone to an airport, you might have. the marshal service is admits to saving 3000 body scan images. john birr birdy is senior counsel for epc, suing to get rid of the standards and suing the marshals to get the images back. how much did these guys get to back at? these are detailed naked images that are taken by the airport body scanners. technical experts have likened these to a virtual
believe are more effective and more privacy protective than the scanners being rolled out by the tsa. as far as i know, the tsa hasn t taken any action on that. jenna: it s a tough question because we have people as we know trying to get on planes and bombs in their underwear. would you be for a choice, saying i m a passenger, and i choose to go through the body scanners, would you let me choose? absolutely, if individuals choose to go through the body scanners, that s fine. epic doesn t oppose body scanners in all circumstances. let me remind you something, the technical specifications we obtained reveal the machines do not detect powder explosives and could not detect the explosives in the christmas day bombing attempt. they re not unconstitutional, they re ineffective. jenna: have you ever been through one of these machines. i have not. jenna: are you going to try it? i might try it if it s offered by the tsa. jenna: all right, well, let us know, john. we really appreciate you
the pilot who flew the e know la bay s son says this is about thement to an apology to japan. that and much more at the top of the hour on america live. jon: a fox news alert on that bus accident on i-44 in missouri. the state department of transportation says two people are dead now, reports of dozens injured. the morning anchor for our fox staying ktvi in st. louis, john joins us on the phone. what can you tell us? john, as you mentioned, yeah, two confirmed deaths right now. this the two buses were from st. james high school, that s in st. james, missouri, and they had just finished a week of band b camp, and they were celebrating by going to six flags over mid america which is outside of st. louis. and for some reason one of the buses crashed into the back of the semi tractor-trailer, the other bus crashed into the back of that bus, and 50 kids onboard
house speaker nancy pelosi recalls house meekers from summer recess. shannon before the house vote it s got to get through the senate, right. reporter: it does. we expect that to happen today, john. senate majority leader harry reid is very confident. he s already celebrating. he knows he has the votes he needs to get this past a filibuster. it s about the community s first responders, the paychecks they need to make things meet and they ve always been there for us, the teachers, the civil servants, police and fire. the least that we could do is be there for them. reporter: the democrats say this is going to save possibly hundreds of thousands of jobs for folks like firefighters, teachers and send medicaid assistance for the states. that does trigger the house
they had a real tough time in their closing arguments, because the judge asked them specifically, tell me how has it been that the 18,000 marriages that have been in effect in california, how is that harming people who are heterosexual? and the lawyer said, they haven t been, i don t know how it harms them. jon: interesting too that you had two legal heavy weights that were on opposite sides of the bush-gore in florida. reporter: brilliant guys. ted olson did the closing. i think i read, john, he said 5 he s had 52 cases before the supreme court of the united states and has won 46 out of 52. a very important thing if i might add for our viewers, the judge in san francisco issued what is called a stay order. what that means is he s given the proponents of proposition 8 until friday to try to get the 9th circuit, which is where this case will be appealed to to