18-acre complex. gretchen. update at the white house. the anti-climb mechanism. all right. hopefully it will keep people out. peter, thank you. we ll see. so the deadline has been extended now on the nuclear deal with iran. but if we don t strike an accord does this mean we re sending this bad boy to tehran? look at your screen. do you know what that is? what is a massive ordnance penetrator? we all ate at one point or another. today, tomorrow the next day. mcdonald s sold billions of burgers worldwide. burger king may have the crown but who do customers say is the best fast-food joint in the u.s.? bringing us to our question of the day. what is your favorite fast-food restaurant and why? we ll try to read your comments coming up at the end of the show. tweet me your answers @at
havana a heads-up hey, we re coming. gretchen. big changes coming up. also big changes going on behind you. what have they been doing to the fence at the white house behind you this morning? they re making it a lot harder to climb, gretchen. there have been bike wrecks temporary bike racks to keep tourists back after a pair of high-profile fence jumpers, including one guy who got into the white house, which was not good. as of late this afternoon, there are going to be sharp metal points on what s being described to us as a removable anti-climb feature. it s going to be affixed atop the fence that wraps the lawn. we re told that the design by the feature was drawn up by the secret service, and then the parts were built by rock island arsenal joint manufacturing and technology. it s the army s metal manufacturer. crews will be working on this for six weeks, and the new, sharper points will eventually wrap all the way around the
was used to create an opening so they could get the hacksaws in there to start their cutting. okay. but it s hard to tell at this point. all right. rod, joyce mitchell the woman who was supposed to pick them up when they actually came out of the manhole that night, she got scared didn t do it. right. are you surprised that they had no plan b? because a lot of people thought, hey, they re already in mexico by like the third day. are you surprised? i am surprised. i think a lot of folks in law enforcement are surprised. here is why, gretchen. this escape was sophisticated, meticulous as i indicated. they d been planning it for a while. you would think that if joyce mitchell wasn t there they d say let s resort to plan b. their plan b was to get lost in the wilderness as we know. that s where they ended up headed towards the canadian border. they wouldn t have gotten across the border but that s what their plan b was. it obviously didn t work out for them. 20-some days for a
another night. right now the authorities, gretchen are saying that they believe that the prison guards may have been asleep. both nights they were asleep and missed these guys. here is what s startling about this though gretchen. this planning started back in january of this year. david sweat has already alluded to that with the authorities, that they ve been planning this breakout for a while. they recruited several people from inside the institution. as we know joyce mitchell is one of them. i understand there is another prison guard that they ve just indicted. so they recruited people to be part of this major scam. that institution has some huge problems that they really need to correct. joe, what are you hearing about what else is going on inside? the reports are now that they really didn t need power tools, that it was only hacksaws. we re hearing that as well. it s kind of hard to believe that that could happen, but who knows. the one of the items brought in was a punch. an
contract action when you get a bill that s exorbitant. the only thing that this ez pass terms and conditions states is that if you commit certain violations you ll be charged up to $50 plus additional quote, administrative fees. they do not tell you what the administrative fees are. therein lies the rub, gretchen. rebecca, this one gentleman who owed $11,000 in fines i guess it was reduced to $2,200. he still says he is suing to get the money back because he was unaware that he was racking up the fining. that s it. he s saying look i m happy to pay the toll. i m not happy to pay what these administrative fees are. what jonna was saying is right. he is saying i wasn t apprised of what the fees would be and quite frankly, i didn t have intention to defraud ez pass. i changed my credit card number. the credit card should have advised their monthly payers