they're going to want to cash in as quickly as they can, right, because their moment is now and congratulations to all of them. bill: great olympics, a lot of fun. martha: yeah, "happening now" starts right now, see you tomorrow, same place. jon: good morning to you, it's monday, and it's march, i'm jon scott. jane: i'm jane skinner, "happening now", more pictures of the aftermath of the earthquake in chile, it's considered 500 times more powerful than -- than the one that devastated haiti. survivors are still trapped in the rubble. jon: in the middle box, new developments in the battle for health care reform, an issue that affects every single american. there's word today the white house will push to change your health care system through a process called reconciliation. senate democrats would need only a simple majority, 51 votes. would they, and what are the political risks? we have reaction from both sides of the aisle. jane: on the bottom, a confession from beyond the grave, the bomber behind the devastating attacks on a cia base in afghanistan is now telling how he supposedly lured agents into that trap. take a look at our newsroom where news is breaking, things are developing across the country and around the world. as soon as we get details, you know we bring it straight to you. jon: the nation of chile is now asking the rest of the world for help. two days after that massive quake killed more than 700 people there, making an urgent appeal to the u.n. for generators, field hospitals, and water filtration equipment. this as military troops take control in devastated provinces in the center of the country. soldiers there firing tear gas as looters pillage whatever they can from stores in the hardest hit areas. the damage, not only in the quake zone. coastal towns also reeling from a tsunami sparked by the quake. entire houses lifted off the ground, and pushed inland. and new video just coming into fox, purportedly of the moment that 8.8 magnitude quake struck early saturday morning. journalist jen ross on the phone now from santiago. i know, jen, there have been many, many aftershocks, some of them sizeable. if must still be a terrifying place to be. >> it is. because some of the aftershocks have caused more damage to buildings that didn't seem to have been as badly hit with the very inquires quake, and of course structures are now unstable and it's increasing fear in the population and with good reason. new destruction can happen as a result of the continuous movement. jon where were you when the -- jon: where were you when the big one hit and what was your reaction, what did it feel like? >> i was in bed asleep, 3:30 in the morning, and all of the sudden the room started -- started to shake, the bed started to shake, sort of like turbulence at first. it took a little while to register. i ran to my daughter's room as soon as we realized this was a strong one. and i grabbed her to keep her away from the windows, and stood in the door frame with my husband as things started falling off of the walls, the paintings started falling off of the walls, all the shelves, everything was breaking, we could hear glass breaking around us, and the walls and the floor were shaking, and it was complete darkness because it was the middle of the night and there was no electricity, and it was pretty terrifying. jon: what is the mood of the people there where you are? i mean, we see these images of looters going through stores. it sounds like it's a very desperate situation, and we're only a couple of days into this crisis. >> it is. and it's extremely sad. in concepcion, it's not only doors but overnight, some people were taking up arms and actually going into house us and looting houses where, you know, people hardly have anything left, and so communities were trying to band together to protect themselves. it's a terrifying situation down further south, but even in santiago in the capitol, we've had cases of supermarkets being looted, and there's really no reason for that here at the moment because there is a level of normalcy that's been restored in the capitol. but people start to panic. they think that food is going to run out and it sort of sparks this pack mentality, and that's one of the problems that we're facing right now. jon: must be very frightening. jen ross is a journalist, joining us on the phone from santiago, chile, thank you. you can get up to the minute information on the earthquake by logging on to foxnews.com, right there on the home page, you'll see the link in red, click on that, breaking news, dramatic video and pictures from the quake zone. you can also click on the how to help tab to find easy ways to donate to reputable organizations that will help. it's there on foxnews.com. jane: we want to get to your health care now, will the white house be seeking a simple majority vote on nine democrats -- on the democrats' reform bill without republican support? that would mean using a parliament tear procedure known as budget reconciliation, you've probably heard of it by now, it would allow senate democrats to pass the measure with just 51 votes instead of the 60 they usually need to overcome a republican filibuster. major garrett has the latest, he's at the white house. i guess it seems they're moving in this direction. any confirmation? >> well, it's obvious from what you hear from the white house, a couple of things. all we're looking for is majority vote, we're going to air votes on that in a second and the process has been used before, but remember this, jane, if in fact democrats in this white house believe that reconciliation was such a simple, ordinary procedure they would have used it when they had 60 votes. when they had 60 democratic votes they believe they should have passed health care under regular order using all the form procedures in the -- normal procedures in the senate, now they don't, they're switching this to the seldom-used budgetary and parliamen area procedure -- par parliamentary procedure to push it through not with just democratic votes but with the opposition. >> the health care reform has already passed health care in the house and senate, and we're not talking about changing roles here, all the president is talking about do we need to address this problem and does it make sense to have a simple up or down vote on whether or not we want to fix these problems. >> reporter: a simple up or down vote. that means, jane, of course it would be 51 democrats, maybe just 50, and vice president joe biden could pass the vote as the chair of the senate. that would means republicans voting against it. in the era of bipartisanship , it would be against, not for health care. jane: can republicans stop it if they want to? >> >> reporter: there are a number of issues that arise wherever you use this seldom-used procedural tactic known as reconciliation. lots of amendments and other brings can be brought to bear to force democrats to cast a lot of votes but in the end, it's going to be very difficult if the bill makes it to the senate. now, why did i say if the bill makes it to the senate? because many believe first the house has to pass the existing senate bill. can they do it? one republican in the senate doesn't think so. >> i doubt seriously that there will be enough house members, house democrats, who will risk their careers to vote for this legislation the second time around. >> remember this, health care passed in the house, jane, with five votes. democrats have already lost three seats and the republican who did vote has said he wouldn't vote a second time, so they're on the razor's edge, and it's important, there's no bill yet. there's a house bill and senate bill and a presidential proposal, so there's no real legislation, so we're a long time from this taking legislative meaning or having people decide what they're going to goat for or against. jane: major is on it, thanks, major. jon: if democrats do decide to push health care through with a simple majority vote, one man could have a huge impact on the process and he's not even an elected member of congress. more on this potential new player in the health care debate, let's go to james rosen in washington. who are we talking about? >> reporter: this individual is so obscure his title is almost unpronounceable but he is the man at the center of the mal strom. we speak of 63-year-old allan fruman serving a second tour duty as a parliamentarian of the united states senate and although there are different interpretations, and imagine, different interpretations an capitol hill, it is the senate parliamentarian which decides which aspects of the health care bill the democrats would seek to pass. fruman's moment in the sun comes because president obama and the democrats, even after last thursday's 7-hour summit at the white house cannot muster, as major was saying, the 60 votes necessary to kill off a potential filibuster. to circumvent that option the democrats are pondering the use of reconciliation, a kind of legislative 2-step typically only used with budget bills, and under current rules it is the parliamentarian who takes out the scalpel if there are provisions that affect policy first and the budget only incidentally. on fox news sunday this past weekend, host chris wallace pursued with the senate's number two republican why the parliamentarian, the gop might not be estimate he'd with reconciliation. >> you could offer hundreds and hundreds of amendments, eve of which would require quorum calls, votes, you could tie the senate up in knots if you want to. >> sure, but nobody wants to do that and there is no debate on the amendments. that's the point. you could offer 200 amendments and nobody would ever have any debate on any of them. that is not a procedure designed to reach a good conclusion. >> reporter: earlier this morning, the former senate parliamentarian told msnbc that the president of the senate, that would be vice president joe biden these days, is not bound to take the parliamentarian's advice, though anyone who tells you they know exactly how reconciliation would go is probably more a contrarian than a parliamentarian. jon: you have several hundred shoes left to drop in this battle. >> like amelda marcos. jon: thanks james. jane: it's the deadliest attack on cia personnel in more than a quarter century, this guy accused of blowing also and nine others up in afghanistan. he has a videotape and he supposedly describes the way he scammed himself into this facility in afghanistan. also dawn brancheau turned her love of animals into a career, the sea world trainer dragged under water by a killer while, she's going to be laid to rest in a short time in chicago. we'll have more. jon: take a look at what's happening now, in the top, veteran sea world trainer, killed by one of the park's orcas is laid to rest an hour from now, dawn brancheau died of traumatic injuries and drowning when the orca pulled her under water in front of 20 spectators. trouble at one of the nation's busiest airports, the main run way at jfk, shut down for repair for the next four-months. it is expected to cause delays and those will have ripple effects across the u.s. airlines are cutting flights now and that could translate into higher ticket prices as well. in the bottom box, new developments in the case of missing san diego honors student chelie king -- chelsea king, a registered sex offenders is a suspect in the disperrance. -- disappearance. a look at the investigation coming up. jane: new videotape has surfaced of the bomber who attacked the cia base in afghanistan. in this video, allegedly recorded before his death, he claims that he fed american and jordanian intelligence agents misleading informs to gain their trust and ultimately used that trust to get inside the operating base known as chap noneastern afghanistan and once inside he detonated his explosives. nine people were killed, including the four people you see here, all employees of the cia. i think we have that picture we can put up. steve centanni is in our bureau in d.c. if you believe this tape, what do we know about the plot and about this guy? >> reporter: well, bawali is a jordanian physician working an jihadi websites and in jordan, intelligence officials tried to recruit him to work for them. on this tape balawi calls the opportunity a dream come true and mornings jordanian and u.s. intelligence officials for what he calls their stupidity in seeking to enlist him. he appears in the 44 minute tape holding a rifle and what he says is a block of explosives, a tape apparently made just before the mission. the suicide mission in december. on it, balawi also points to what appears to be a wrist watch and says it's actually a detonator, so that's just a little bit about this latest tape to come out from balawi. jane: how did he supposedly get in the position to carry out the attack and detonate his explosives? >> he was apparently showing intelligence officials videos of him with al-qaeda figures and also gave a variety of so-called tips about al-qaeda locations, all designed to gain the trust of his handlers. most of the tips were actually false, but a few of them were accurate. his initial plan was to kill his jordanian handler but when he got the chance to visit a cia camp in eastern afghanistan, forward operating base chapman, he changed his strategy and planned that suicide bombing instead and that's where the attack was carried out, of course, last december, killing seven cia agents and that jordanian intelligence official, jane. jane: one last question, what is the cia saying about this tape, is it authent snick. >> they're having no direct comment on the video, whether the authentic or not but one u.s. counterterrorism official did react in general by saying the fact balawi was a murderer and terrorist is already well-known, as is the fact that he did not stop, not even for an instant, precise and effective operations against al-qaeda, the taliban, and their violent allies. there's been no public statement on the authenticity of the video, jane. jane: steve centanni in d.c. for us, thanks. jon: in the battle over health care reform, you've heard it called reconciliation, a procedural tactic that allows the passing of legislation with a simple majority vote. so now we're hearing it by another name. white house calling for an up or down vote. so will this language help sell health care reform to the american people? and what are the political pitfalls? karl rove is here with his take. we'll get that in a second. also armed robbers hitting a jewelry store, but they leave behind a big clue, a four-year-old boy. new information on this bizarre case in three minutes. jon: the white house is signaling its support for pushing through health care reform without republican support. the administration seems to be calling for a simple up or down vote, also known as reconciliation. the option would let senate democrats pass a measure with a simple majority vote. it would prevent the gop from blocking the bill with a filibuster. with hid-term elections looming a lot of democrats are nervous about making any moves that could upset voters, house speaker nancy pelosi says democrats will have to be brave, even if they fear their jobs could be on the glien they know this will take courage, took courage to pass social security, it took courage to pass medicare, and many of the same forces that were at work decades ago are at work again against this bill. but if the american people need it, why are we here, we're not just here to self perpetuate our service in congress, we're here to do the job for the american people. jon: joining us now, fox news contributor karl rove, he served as senior adviser and departmentsy chief of staff for president george w. bush, you heard nancy pelosi there saying it will take courage, karl, how much courage is there among senate democrats to pass this bill? >> well, easy for her to say that coming from a district where john mccain got 15 percent of the vote, but there are 83 members of the house of representatives whose districts are red enough they were carried either by george george w. bush or john mccain, 48 were carried by both bush and mccain, so look, before we even get to the senate and its 51 vote, we're going to be in the house, where nancy pelosi is going to need to get 217 votes and that's because you cannot pass, i don't think, you can pass a reconciliation measure that reconciles an unpassed, unsigned bill. you have to have a senate version of the health care bill pass by the house and signed by the president before the senate can take up a reconciliation measure and try and pass something by 51 votes. jon: and -- >> the first jon: go ahead. >> the first thing nancy pelosi has to do is find 217 votes to pass the stinky senate bill that was passed on christmas eve that's got the louisiana purchase, the cornhusker kickback, all the provisions and something the two things the house doesn't like, a tax on cadillac insurance plans and very leak language on abortion. remember the house has a number of prolife democrats who said we're not voting for health care unless it has strong prolive language, that's not present in the senate bill. the first thing nancy bell beloo pelosi has to do is get a bill through with 217 votes that is going to be very difficult to pass. jon: less than a week ago on february 23rd and 24th, fox news opinion dynamics took a poll and asked americans if the president can't work a compromise at the health care summit of last thursday, should he start over or try to pass the current bill. 59 percent said start over. that sounds like a pretty resounding argument against this up or down vote, rec sill airks whatever you want to call it. >> absolutely. look, let's be clear about this, the democrats will be forced to use this parliamentary maneuver to pass a bill they cannot get passed in the house of representatives, with a two # 55-178 margin, or that they can't go back and fix in the senate with a 59-41 managein. i mean, this is how bad it is, because enough democrats say this is poison for me in my district, this is not good health care for my political future or as a country, as a matter of fact. so i'm not voting for it. jon: similar results from usa today, fox news had the same kind of result, but usa today had a poll, should the senate use essentially this up or down vote, reconciliation to avoid a gop filibuster. 28 percent said yeah, 27 percent said they oppose, and 25 percent say strongly oppose. you've got right there 52 percent of the country saying don't do it. if that's the mood of the country, karl, why is nancy pelosi so invested in apparently taking this course? >> because if this bill passes it will be a permanent expansion of the government, the government will in essence take control of 1/6 of the american economy and in some peoples' minds from the left of american politics, this permanent expansion of government, with all the spending and taxes that will come with it, is a worthy goal. but again, this thing starts, we're focused here on the reconciliation process, which is the senate, but the senate in my opinion cannot move to reconciliation unless there's a law that it can reconcile, and that requires to have that law, it requires a house to pass a senate bill before we can ever get to that. jon: real quickly, if it's so unpopular with iffy members, how would she have the leverage, nancy pelosi? >> she's very tough, for senior members, she can say i'm going to take away your subcommittee chairmanship, for freshman members, she can say your career in the house is going to be ugly, you will be denied the kind of opportunities to pass legislation, earmarks, get spend fog your district or committee assignments you like unless -- look, i've been in members with senior members of the democratic lea