huge problem. right now there are 2 million foreclosed homes, homes that have been taken over by the banks or are in the foreclosure process. in the second quarter home buyers purchased nearly a quarter million foreclosed properties about a quarter of all the homes sold in that period. jenna: that is a lot of families affected. you look at the numbers it s actually people that are affected by that. peter thank you so much following the story for us in d.c., peter barnes. jon: right now investigators are trying to figure out details of what happened at a horrendous crime scene. a mother and her twin teenage daughters found dead in their colorado home. police say they are not ruling out anybody as potential suspects in this one. plus a terrorist attack near the u.s. emcee in yemen, a diplomatic convoy takes rocket fire but that was not the only
like this one. the plans are offer limits to you. neither states or federal agencies keep copies in their offices. a whole lot of folks live near the gas lines, they snake all across the country. there are 2 1/2 of fuel pipelines, enough to circle the earth one hundred times. carl weimer is here. carl, if i want to find out how long that pipe has been there, how old it might be, where do i go to find that information? reporter: well, a lot of that information is really hard to find. you can go onto the national pipeline mapping system and get a sense of at least where the pipelines are in a community, but a lot of the information like the age or when it was last inspected really is kept from the public. jon: why can t i just go to have federal agency and download the information off the internet. reporter: we re working on that. they ve got better about
getting a lot of action, and we re getting answers from the names of big names around the world. today s guest in the hot seat, charlie gasparino taking time out from the fox bit network. he has a brand new book that came out, bought and paid for, the unholy alliance between obama and wall street. let s talk to charlie about this as we go into the midterm elections. charlie, you have the inside knowledge of what s going on on wall street. are wall streeters backing democrats or is it backing the republicans? they are clearly hedging bets and backing republicans right now but i would say it s a head fake. one of the things i show in this book is this book a kind of is love story between jenna: i had no idea you were so romantic. or wall street guys, between the president and wall street. the wall street put him into office, giving him unprecedented amounts of money in 2007, 2008. right now they re a little mad about being called fat cats and are hedging a bit by giving money to
from politics to colorado mail-in ballots go to foxnews.com/aehg, we have your front row to politics. jenna: a business alert for you right now, a major banking scandal involving home foreclosures threatening to make the housing crisis even worse if you can believe it. some of the country s biggest lenders apparently bending the rules while trying to repossess homes. now state attorney generals and also lawmakers on capitol hill are trying to get involved. peter barnes reporting for the fox business network. this is a big story, peter, a lot of these lenders got taxpayer money -frpblgt that s right, jenna, house speaker nancy pelosi and other lawmakers calling for a federal investigation of all this by the department of justice, which says today it is reviewing her letter. the aflcio calling for a nationwide moratorium on all foreclosures until the robo signing controversy is decided
significant obvious trauma. no more details emerging. they are looking at every aspect, every possibility in their deaths from a murder suicide to some kind of foul play. everything is on the table according to police in colorado springs, colorado. back to you. jon: thanks. jenna: new information on a daring attack near the u.s. embassy in yemen. terrorists firing on a convoy there carrying a high profile british diplomat. this happened as a gunman opened fire on another western target in that country. a lot going on there. greg palkot is following the events from there. reporter: mortar or today, yemen in the capitol, sana, two individuals dangerous members of al-qaida in yemen, apparently they were along the side of a road, they pulled out an antitank rocket launcher and