investigators are trying to figure out a cause in philadelphia and they now say it was a gas leak to blame for a house explosion that injured eight people including a baby yesterday. the city officials are saying it happened when a contractor was working on a water heater in the basement of that house and he remains in the hospital with critical injuries. bill: to the president taking another swing today at what he calls income inequality in america which he says is morally wrong and he will argue government has a responsibility to fix that. this growing inequality, not just of results, inequality of opportunity. this growing inequality, it is not just morally wrong, it is bad economics. bill: all right, mary ann marsh, former advisor to john kerry and mary catherine ham, editor-at-large, hot air dot-com. ladies good morning to you. i want to debate the morally wrong. brit hume, his take on how you create wealth in america. republicans tend to worry about the health of the goose.
done about changing the education system around. i don t think there is any question. this sound like we re all on the same page here on this panel but i just think this is so overwhelming. it is stunning to me, given the civil rights accomplishments of in our lifetime, that people don t see this as the civil rights challenge of this generation to get that education system right. and just one added point, on something that bill o reilly said, he said, you know what? you can t just tolerate this kind of rap gangsta culture that comes into the kids who are coming from maybe broken families, don t have good schools. watching tv. entertainment is rappers talking about bitches and hos and celebrating violence and go to jail to be real man. that is criminal what they re doing to our young people. kelly: mary catherine ham agrees with you. mary catherine, i m taking your last word because we got to go. no problem.
males that age. overall black unemployment, 14%. white unemployment, 6.6. the reason? in many poor neighborhoods there is chaos, violence, and little discipline in the public schools. kids are not learning. with the african-american out of wedlock birth rate at 73%, many young blacks are unsupervised and prone to imitate bad behavior. kelly: juan williams, fox news political analyst. mary catherine ham, editor-at-large for hotair.com. she is also a fox news contributor. thank you both for joining us. let s weigh in on what mr. o reilly says. juan? well, you know, at the heart and soul he s right. there is no getting away from the idea that 73% of these children born out of wedlock, to me, kelly, just makes my heart, i hurt over this. and i think that it, signify as breakdown in terms of black family life. it s a huge, huge problem. but i would also add here that
coins. coins are more expensive to produce than bills, advocates say it is still worth it because the coins last up to 30 years longer than a paper bill in circulation. hmmm. martha: we are back outside the hospital at st. mary s. so much of the waiting game here is what the child will be named and of course in england they never miss any opportunity to bet on anything. i m here with my friend rory scott of paddy power, one. top entities taking bids on the royal name. you have a cute little guy now. yesterday we didn t know whether it was a boy or girl. everybody thought it was a girl so all those people were wrong. how are we doing with the royal baby name? 120,000 bucks in 24 hours. push the total market past half a million pounds. that is extraordinairery. moist of the money on the name, george is the current favorite, regal george. seeing a lot of money. it is 7-4.
that are not being allowed to speak and also some people that apparently signed sworn statements of silence. i call upon the state department to release them from those commitments. bill: all right, sir. we ll see where that goes. thank you for your time. thank you. bill: steve stockman, noontime, a 60-foot scroll. we ll see how it goes sir from capitol hill. thank you. bill: 17 minutes past the hour. let me get back to london now and martha. martha: it is family time here at the hospital, bill, at st. mary s. we just watched carol and michael middleton walk in. no doubt a very joyous moment as they see their daughter for the first time as a mom and meet their grandchild. prince charles, we re just learning from the press secretary to from the duke and duchess of cambridge, charles is expected to be here five p.m. london time. so noon very shortly. clearly the plan is for the family to meet here and then we ll find out when we ll actually get a look at the baby