isolated tornadoes. watching these storms erupt across iowa, we do have a severe thunderstorm watch for the next several hours, no tornado warnings but we ll keep you up to date. jon: please do. janice dean, thanks. okay. jamie: president obama in ohio this hour, just wrapping up his comments on the economy and the massive stimulus package at work. today, roughly half of that stimulus money has actually been spent, yet many americans feel the stimulus hasn t had much of an effect. what s more, the white house is now pushing for another round of stimulus spending. why is that, when there s still loads of unspent money? here to talk about it, paul gigot from the journal editorial report which we see 2:00 p.m. on saturdays but also the editorial page of wall street journal . great to have you here. good to be here. jamie: this is an interesting topic because americans feel very strongly about that stimulus package right now. what do you sense the sentiment is? public senment has tu
jamie: this is a fox news alert, president obama speaking on the economy and unemployment in columbus, ohio, the first time in the recovery act infrastructure project that will be underway in the country if you want to watch the speech it is streaming live on foxnews.com, your tax dollars at work in ohio. check it out, we ll monitor as well. some brand new information to bring you on the day s top stories in our second hour of helicopter happening now , i m jon scott. jamie: i m jamie colby, in for jane skinner, good to have you with us. jon: the times square suspect, three days away from an arraignment that makes him face more charges.
jamie: do you know who these kids are? well, according to their facebook, there were names on there, but apd, our police department, is investigating, seeing if they can contact the individuals that were in the photo. jamie: rick, he says they got lucky getting out safe. we ll see if they get lucky with any potential charges. thank you for telling us this story. the pictures are incredible. they are. they just send shivers down my spine when i saw them. jamie: thank you so much. thank you. jamie: more after the break.
natalie jack jon, she is the attorney for the boy s mother. natalie, thank you for joining us. thank you for having me. jamie: let me set the stage of what s happening now, the orange county sheriff s office says they re sticking by their story, they ve reduced the charge to false imprisonment, he could spend if convicted five years in juvenile detention, they say essentially he took this girl against her will and they say the surveillance video shows that, that he never had contact with his mother or her mother until they were reunited. what is your case, defending him? my case defending him is the videotape. that s all the evidence that we need. you see clearly, as edwin and his mother are walking in, there s a group of women walking out. they stop, they look around, as though they re looking for someone. they walk out to the parking lot, as though they re looking for someone. edwin sees a little girl, standing by herself, a three-year-old little girl standing by herself, he goes
it hasn t produced the new jobs that it was advertised as supposed to be doing. i mean, they promised that the unemployment rate would stay under 3 percent if they passed that. now it s still # .7%. 9.7%, 18 months later, so people are saying where s the jobs, where are the new jobs, so that s why the public is skeptical. jamie: they re certainly not in ohio because the rate is even higher than that, the president choosing ohio today to show this project at work. now talk of a second stimulus. right. jamie: president obama says he wants it, vice president biden says it s not the time to take our foot off the accelerator. the problem here is if you pass the new stimulus it s not going to be paid for in the sense of being paid for with cuts and other spending. so you got to either do one of two things: borrow more money, or you raise taxes. and the problem with the stimulus right now is that a lot of people think taxes are going up later to pay for it and that might hurt the econom