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now. i'll see you mr. hemmer on monday morning. bill: have a great week weekend, everybody. jane: good morning, i'm jane skinner. jon: i'm jon scott, "happening now", top box, is the white house close to a decision on where to prosecute the 9/11 terror suspects, if it's not new york city could khalid shaikh mohammed and the others end up back at guantanamo bay after all? jane: brand new details a the man who opened fire at the pentagon sub sway station whorvetion john bidelo bedell and did what he say on his blog have something to do with his motor snifs. >> at least six dead after a crash, a semi clipped that bus, flipping it over on bus y interstate 10 south of phoenix. breaking news from across the country and around the world. jane: we start this hour at the white house, they're responding to reports out today that say advisers to president obama are moving closer to recommending the 9/11 mastermind chail he'd sheikh mohammed and four coconspirators face prosecution in military tribunals. we know the administration has been reconsidering plans to hold the trials in new york city in civilian court. let's get to major garrett. major, where is this decision? is it eminent? >> reporter: it's not today but i'm told it's getting closer to the president's desk. nothing has been laid before the president for a final decision but so our viewers understand the mechanics of this, it was the attorney general eric holder who made the decision to have khalid shaikh mohammed and the four coconspirators tried in federal court, there's only one person who can overrule that decision, the president was united states. what the white house has been will go at for a considerable number of days and weeks is increasing congressional opposition and bills to prevent the administration from even getting its hands on money to have a jury trial or the federal court trial in new york. the administration is acknowledging that saying congress may give us no option, may leave us no room, so military tribunals not only are being considered but actively being considered, and i'm told to expect, well, let me rephrase that, i would not be surprised if we heard this decision announced before congress makes a decision on whether or not to endorse the president's health care initiative, because democrats are in a vulnerable political position on that issue, they don't want more political vulnerabilities, this might factor into overall consideration of the president's agenda. no guarantees on that but it wouldn't surprise me or people at the white house to see a decision in the not-too-distant future. jane already from the left they're calling this decision, if it comes, a betrayal. >> that's right. now, of course the american civil liberties union doesn't speak for all the left, they just speak for themselves but its direct be, anthony romero, spared no words at all in condemning preemptively perhaps this decision, saying very recently if this stunning reversal comes to pass, that's a big if, president obama will deal a death blow to his own justice department, not to mention american values. if the president flipflops and retreats to the bush military commission, the aclu goes on to say, he will betray his promise to restore the rule of law, demonstrate his principles are up for grabs and lose credibility with americans who care about justice and the rule of law. quite clearly the aclu, trying to apply whatever pressure it can publicly to get this decision not to be made, but every indication i get at the white house is the momentum is in one direction because of congressional pressure, and that's toward military tribunals. jane: major, garrett, thank you for -- >> at least for this case. jane: major you, thank you. jon: there are new jobs numbers out this morning, they show unemployment remains at 9.7% in this country, 36,000 americans losing their jobs in the month of february. so what's behind the numbers? let's talk about it with eric bolling, host of "happy hour" on the fox business network and "bis" with bolling on foxnews.com. a lot of people say the numbers were better than expected. >> better than expected in the sense that economists said we may lose 50,000 jobs, or 80,000 jobs just for the month. you know, there's a long list of low lights, a couple of highlights. that's one of them. you know, better than expected. we're still losing 36,000 jobs. you come out of a recession, you should be adding jobs to the economy, you should be adding 100, 150,000 jobs to the economy. we're still losing. that makes this what's called a jobless recovery. jon: some say it potentially presages the possibility of a second recession because we're simply not adding enough jobs to keep this thing going. >> for me, jon, it tells me that employers are slow to put people back on their rolls because they don't know what things like health care is going to bring. it's going to cost them how much more to insure part-time employees? so until those things are sorted out, you're not going to see major increases in jobs for the economy, even if the economy recovers. jon: what about the big storms that hit the northeast, did that hurt jobs? >> well, depends who you talk to. cristina romer, after the jobs number came out, said you know what, those storms really affected the jobs numbers. if you read into the bureau of labor statistics, the people who put out the jobs numbers, they said no, it really didn't have much effect at all. so when you look at it, probably not. remember that the period that they look at was february 7th through the 15th, and right smack in the middle of that was that big snowstorm on february 10th. >> eric bolling, thank you. >> thanks eric. jane: "happening now", somali pirates with moving off the waters of east after cash the french military has already sunk one pirate boat, the man soon season is over so the pirates are moving into the gulf of a devment n and indian ocean, making it a dangerous place to be. about 130 hostages are currently held captive, among them the british couple paul and rachel cland -- chandler, grabbed from their yacht in october. in 2009 somalis attacked 217 times, in some cases demanding large ransoms for the safe return of the crews and vessels. jon: students across the country hold a national day of action to protest cuts in education funding and tuition increases, this as states deal with falling tax revenues and budget deficits. several demonstrations got out of control. take a look. those are students in milwaukee, throwing punches and chunks of ice. their rally turned violent when guards stopped a group from delivering messages to the school chancellor. there was an otherwise peaceful demonstration. police arrested 150 for block ago major highway, one person was seriously injured when he tried to escape officers by jumping off an elevated roadway. other rallies were peaceful, including one in los angeles jane we've got new information on the gunman who shot two police officers near the pentagon, those shootings happened near the metro subway entrance, right to the pentagon there, in arlington, virginia, the shooter has been identified as 36-year-old man, john bedell, from hollister, california. investigators have found no immediate connection to terrorism. they say this appears potentially to be the case of a single jij who had, quote, issues. caroline shively is at the pentagon. how close did he get, caroline? >> jane, he got 20 yards from the building and 5 feet from the two officers he fired on. we now know the names of those two officers, jeff amo so. and marvin carrey, they returnedo carraway. they returned gunfire. it was a battle for about a minute right outside the pentagon, one officer shot in the shoulder, another shot in the thigh, a third officer was also shooting at john bedell, he took a gun shot to the head and later died at george washington hospital. he walked straight up to the pentagon, looking sharp, he parked his car, he walked up, he had a suit on, reached into his pocket, they assumed for a badge, like 26,000 other people do, walk in the pentagon every day, but instead he pulled out a 9-millimeter handgun. here's what police chief richard keevill told us this morning. >> he was very calm, there was no distress in his appearance, he walked very directly to the officers and he engaged. he was very well armed, i will tell you he had two, 9-millimeter semiautomatic weapons and many magazines. >> he also had more ammunition in his car which was parked in a parking lot nearby. keevill had high praise for the officers saying they did what they were trained to do. ever since fort hood they realize the military installations are more vulnerable and they've been training them for instances like this, jane. jane: caroline, what do we know at this hour about the motive? >> that's a big question. he, of course, shot in the head, unable to speak after that, died a short time later. john bedell did. now, pentagon police have brought in the fbi. what they're doing is combing through different internet postings trying to confirm if those postings where indeed from this john bedell. there are several from someone who appears to have a big grudge of the government, is a doubter of 9/11 who was also arrested for cultivating marijuana. take a listen to some of the audio posted by someone going by the name of j. patrick bedell. >> this organization, like so many murderous governments throughout history, would see the sacrifice of thousands of its citizens in an event such as the september 11th attacks as a small cost in order to perpetuate its barbaric control. >> now, as i said, jane, no confirmation from the fbi that that is indeed from the suspect john bedell. the fbi has a whole lot of work ahead of it. until they can decide that this crime scene can be closed, the metro stop right by the pentagon, still closed at this hour, jane. jane: caroline shively in arlington for us, thanks, caroline. jon: a series of major aftershocks rocks chile this morning, the strongest, 6.6 on the richter scale, chile's government has declared three days of national mourning as survivors try to pick up the pieces. chile's president says she's confident her nation will recover from the devastation but it could take every years -- several years. this dramatic amateur video shows a tsunami wave rushing into a coastal village. the video taken by a group of men who run for higher ground as the tsunami approaches. at one point a steady stream of water can be seen following them up the street, pushing debris and even cars in its path. jane: we're following breaking news, there's a bus crash on an interstate south of phoenix and six people we're told have been killed, more than a dozen hurt. harris has the details on this really awful accident. also, fast and furious at sea, the sea is investigating the crew of warships that were drag racing. the fallout? that's to come. jane: lot going on today, "happening now" in athens, greece, there have been clashes on the streets, the two largest labor unions striking against the government's plans there, an attempt to tackle the financial crisis in the country. in the middle, you're going to have to wait longer if you're going to get your hands on those ipads from apple, the company says the tablet will hit the store shelves on the thid of april. they originally set the end of this month. we don't know what's behind the delay. on the bottom, michelle obama's dress from inauguration night is going to the smithsonian, they had the white-strap, white chiffon gown that's being donated to the museum. all physical ladies since 1912 have made a contribution but not all have parted with inaugural gown. jon: new information on the deadly crash involving a bus on interstate 10 south of phoenix. harris faulkner has the details from the breaking news desk. >> reporter: looking at these pictures you can tell that of the 21 passengers who were on that bus, many of them were hurt, six dead, and now i can tell you after just moments ago at the hospital where the injured have been taken, that eight remain in critical condition. children were on that bus. there's an 11-year-old little boil with broken ribs that they're keying in right now. many of the victims have brain injuries, lots of broken bones. this is about 25 miles outside of phoenix. helicopters landed on the freeway, and they triaged to help the critically injured people on this bus. here's what happened. that bus that you see right there, somehow ran into the back of a passenger vehicle, and there were some chain reaction crashes, but the only injuries were on the bus. of the 21 passengers, almost all of them injured. the number there, 15, including the six dead. unbelievable situation out in phoenix before dawn this morning. and so now the very latest, at the medical center, they're trying to save the lives of the eight critically injured, doctors coming out to talk with reporters in the last ten minutes or so. i'll stay on this as this situation develops but you see the triage in the middle of interstate 10. such a sad situation in northern arizona today. back to you guys. jon: scary stuff. thanks, harris. jane the navy has been investigating two guided missile cruisers that were said to go drag -- drag racing in the pacific ocean. it happened on the u.s.s. john mccain and u.s.s. calvin, there are allegations that the captain endangered the vessel by allowing it to get too close to the mccain. she's been relieved of her command, she was demoted but the navy says that didn't happen because of the race, the investigation found she had assaulted and berated subordinates. jon: president obama makes his case to health care reform for house democrats on the fence. he's pulled more than a dozen members to the white house asking their support on the massive overhaul plan, he calls it the opportunity of a generation. but can the president get his own party on board? and police are looking for the guys responsible for a terrifying burglary caught on camera. we'll tell you why they ran out the door shortly after opening fire. jon: get you updated on what's happening now, take a look at top box, relentless rains, leaving parts of peru under water, homes even collapsing under all of the pressure as flood waters weaken structures across the region. reports say at least seven people have died. the second round of deadly flooding there this week. gas prices rising again. national average, up 2 cents a gallon overnight. 7 cents a gallon, from last month. it now sits at 2.72 ber gallon for regular, that according to aaa. in the bottom box, a real rocket's red glare, nasa launches its newest weather satellite overnight, the young man -- the unmanned rocket blasting off from careful canaveral. jane: a terrifying and violent robbery was caught on camera. from santa fe, new mexico, two guys enter a store, one pointing a 9-millimeter handgun, demanding money from the cash, gunman isn't happy, wants more, a single gun shot and he aims for the woman you see on the tape, just missing her by inches, his bullet hits the wall directly behind her. these two guys bolt from the store, they got away with handfuls of cash, police would love it if you have information for them, they consider these guys very dangerous, they think they're out to kill somebody, they describe one of the suspects as tall and skinny, armed with a gun, the other, short and skinny, both speaking spanish, appearing to be in their late teens or early 20s. call the santa fe police department on your screen there: jon: democratic leaders make a big push within their own party for health care reform. president obama, meeting with groups of house democrats, saying the bill is really just a first step. he promises to work with them to improve it in the future. this comes as house majority leader steny hoyer says separate legislation could clarify language on abortion funding in an attempt to stop the defection of 12 democrats allied with congressman bart stupak, an abortion opponent. house speaker nancy pelosi says she's confident the abortion issue will not derail this bill but there are a whole lot of questions about whether she can corral enough votes to pass it. let's talk about it with chris styrall the r of the washington examiner. the white house keep making promises about when this bill is going to be passed but it seems like if they had the votes now they would put it to a vote now, wouldn't they? >> well, right. i think they're being pretty strayed forward about the fact they don't have the votes now but they promise in two weeks, they will have the votes and can bring everybody on board. the major problem for the administration and leaders in congress is there's a credibility gap with their own members. right now, if you are ardently antiabortion and you're in the house, you have reason to believe that perhaps the final legislation won't include language thaw want, and as it stands, the congressional budget office has no bill to score and house democrats who are concerned about abortion have no language to look at, so what the administration is trying to do is wring out promises of support before that's tangible legislation and that's proving very difficult. jon: one of the congressmen who was invited to the white house to meet with the president was saying as quotedo quoted as saying the president said you have to help me do this, you have to help me maintain the strength of the presidency. since when is that part of congress' job description? >> right. and that's going right to the heart of the credibility gap, because you have house democrats, particularly, and now, maybe as many as eight senate democrats, who are facing very difficult election years right now, and it sounds like that they may be canon fodder in the president's plan, that they're supposed to take difficult votes to preserve the presidency, and a lot of these folks are thinking about their own beliefs and also the very real possibility that voters are going to fire them if they go along with this. jon: one of them noted after the health care summit that was televised from a week or so ago, the president has included some of the republican elements in his bill not so much to please republicans because he doesn't think he's going to get them on board, anyway, he wants to give conservative democrats something to point to and say here's i didn't changed my vote and decided to vote for this bill. >> that's right. you know, the president's argument is we did everything we could but republicans are so terrible we can't even get them on board when we give them what they want. republicans say that the things that have been included are more lip service than the actual policy points that they're interested in, especially on medical malpractice lawsuit reform, but it is a hope that the conservative democrats or red state democrats can go back to their district and say we did what we could but republicans are just worse than we ever even imagined. jon: what about the plea that nancy pelosi, the house speaker, made a couple of days ago when she said essentially you've got to vote for this because it's the right thing to do, even if it costs you your congressional seat. how is that going over? >> well, if you look at the math of speaker pelosi's district, it is very rarefied, elite, diverse, liberal -- maybe the most elite, diverse, liberal district in the country out on the tip of san francisco, and she may i think at least -- there are house democrats who believe she's disconnected from the concerns of people who have to run in states like kentucky, nebraska, and other states that went for senator john mccain and now they don't want to hear about what they have to do for the sake of the party. they want to hear about what they have to do to please their constituents. jon: wrap it up as if you're a whip here. where do we stand on this thing, is it going to get out of the house? >> well, look, the president's argument is he's willing to risk his entire presidency, his place in the history books, on this, and speaker pelosi makes the same argument. that's the strongest thing that they've got, is that you may lose your job, but we're willing to sort of wreck everything for our own careers on this if you go along. it can be a very persuasive argument, but when you get down to the end of it, we're talking about a very thin margin, and individual congressmen will have the opportunity to hold this up, and when somebody like bart stupak from michigan, when has maybe ten or 12 members who are going to follow his lead, this becomes very, very difficult. jon: crist stierwalt, thank you. jane: we're watching the markets 56 the -- after the february unemployment numbers have been released. some have given up looking for jobs. how do they earn money? we're going to tell you. and an icy day at sea, a ferry trapped with a thousand passengers on board. we'll tell you what's happening now. jon: bottom of the howrts u. -- of the hour, "happening now", in the u.s. we are used to sophisticated and slick political campaigns but in iraq, campaigns feature old school flyers, posters and rallies. >> jon, thousands of posters are plastered everywhere in baghdad, even stuck to palm trees, volunteers are in the neighborhoods passing out flyers, many candidates offers heaters, blankets, chickens for your vote. large rallies limited in number because gatherings are considered a target for violence. some yuan candidates dipping their toe into new media, text messages, facebooks. no finance campaign laws. jon: the unemployment rate holds steady at 9.7% as 36,000 americans lost jobs last month. nicole is watching reaction at the new york stock exchange. >> reporter: we are seeing the dow jones industrial average up 86 points, a majority of the dow components are in the green here, as the unemployment rate stays at 9.7%, the loss of 36,000 jobs was less than forecast, so that was good news. also, we saw hiring in manufacturing, firing in construction, also the census bureau hired 1 million americans, that will give a boost through april. the rest of the year we will see a hiring because of the census bureau. that will be good news as well. jon: a storm across the central u.s. will bring a mixed bag of tricks to folks across the nation's midsection. janice dean is in the fox weather center. j.d. >> reporter: the good news is we're going to get snow for your bee loved colorado rockies. there's the system we're talking about. and anywhere from six to 12 inches across the rockies. we have winter weather advisories for parts of the mountains, utah, colorado, and wyoming. let's close in on where we're seeing the freezing rain advisories for parts of north dakota. sleet, ice pellets, freezing rain overnight tonight, that's going to bring dangerous conditions to the roadways. so we'll keep you updated. jon, back to you. jon: janice, nicole, melanie, thank you very much. that's your news whip. jane: chile's newly elected president takes office next week, already he has named six new governors for regions in the disaster zones telling them to get to work. in the meantime there have been more aftershocks rattling the coastal area, not far from the epicenter of the quake. let's get to phil keating in santa cruz where a major winery was badly damaged. where are you exactly? >> reporter: we're in the caltaga valley, as far as chile's wine production goes, this is like season onlya and napa valley combined over there in california. this is wine country, the number four exporting country, importing wine into the united states after italy, france, australia. americans are con -- consume, chilean wine, it's a $1.3 billion industry but the 8.8 earthquake saturday did this to millions of bottles of wine, cabernet, merlot, and hears carboneurve reserve. we -- we're at the p ovment sada vineyard. the big vat, the fer mentation tanks, each one contains 100,000 gallons, they lost 80 percent of these tanks because of the earthquake. essentially it was red wine, all over the floor, and in this building, it still smells like it. around the wn this -- region this by far is not the only vineyard that suffered serious damage. up up and down the central chilean wise producing valleys, damage was big from the earthquake. however, the actual fields themselves really didn't suffer any damage so this is right now a financial loss in the immediate and short term for the industry. they think that if they can rebound and get the production going with some good item rat years they will be able to rebound and replace this massive amount of loss. as far as the earthquake this morning, the aftershock, a big one, 6.8, sent people in concepcion, which is one of the two hardest hit industries, people running in the streets, fearing more collapses. no reports of major damage. as for the death toll, it of at 802, then suddenly last night the chilean government resized that massively downward, down to 279. according to reuters, that was explained by a government source saying while the 800 figure was cl including a list of missing people, not necessarily lists of bodies that were actually recovered, and so the amazing aspect here is that this massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake, one of the strongest in centuries, only ended up killing at least so far, official death count at 279. so that really is a testament to the structural soundness of chile, which of course has a long history of major seismic activity. jane: phil keithing is in santa cruz for us, phil, thanks. jon: let's talk about another one, in this fox news alert, the u.s. geological survey reports a magnitude 6.5 earthquake southwest of sumatra in indo indonesia, it happened about half an hour ago, about 102 miles off the coast of the island. so far no word on a tsunami warning or any reports of damage. keep in mind, it was an under sea quake in the same general area that triggered those terrible tsunamis on the day after christmas in 2004, nearly a quarter million people killed, that was a much larger quake, 9.1 on the richter scale, one of the largest ever recorded. this one, as i said, about 6.5, an under sea earthquake but certainly big enough to trigger tsunamis. they're going to keep an eye on it in that part of world and we'll keep you posted as we get more information on this under sea earthquake near sumatra. the labor department reports the loss of another 36,000 jobs in this country, the national unemployment remains at 9.7% right now but not included in those numbers are many so-called discouraged workers, people no longer even looking for jobs because they simply don't believe there are jobs out there for them. the bureau of labor statistics reports about 1.2 million such discouraged workers. that number tripled since the start of the recession. jamie colby is live in our newsroom in new york. so who are these discouraged workers, jamie? >> jon, there are many, and they're all across the country, and basically what happens with these folks is they're every day americans, they worked their whole adult life and they find themselves now in a situation they never expected, unemployed. including alise negren, she worked for the same provider in -- employer for 25 years until she got laid off in 2007. she's looked for work but has no luck. she is collect be unemployment but she's also doing something this growing group of workers are doing, she's stopped looking. she says there's nothing out there. instead of sending resumes out, she's selling parrot food and supplies in an scwhrien business. >> i have completely blown through all of my savings, there is nothing left, my unemployment is going to run out in a few weeks and i don't know what i'm going to do because i have applied for over 600 jobs in the last 2 1/2 years and i have not gotten a single interview. >> reporter: economics professor joe foudy told me we're clearly facing the worst employment situation since the great depression and told me the discouraged workers like alise, the marginally attached workers, those finding part-time work aren't even reported in the unemployment statistics and all of them are waiting longer to find a new job. >> one of these that we know, the recession has taken longer for jobs to snap back. you'll see gdp numbers that tell you the economy is growing, wall street making money but the job market is the slowest to recover. >> reporter: they say you need 100,000 jobs a month, jon, to get everyone back to work but economists say we need to create 200, to 300,000 jobs a month for several years to start making a dent in the current rank of unemployed, and economists like foudy say it's critical those on the sidelines like alise continue to build their skills because you get a feeling of detachment and that ends up keeping people out of work even longer. you could also lose the skills you need to get back to work when the time comes. jon? jon: jamie colby in our new york newsroom, thanks. jane: want to go overseas where my packed ice has trapping dozens of ships in the baltic sea, including a ferry with a thousand people on board. it's the first time anything like this has happened since the '80s. amy kellogg is monitoring it for us from london. >> reporter: jane, it was not a job for the average icebreaker nor an experience for the faint of heart, ships, stuck in the ice, jane, between sweden and finland in the balance tick sea. it's not uncommon for this to happen at this time of year but for passenger ships, and you mentioned that one with 1000 people on board, one of them collided with another ship at one point during the ordeal, which lasted overnight, and the most dramatic moments, according to one man on board, were when everyone was told to head to the stern of the ship. people will remember the disaster in 1994 when an astonan ferry door opened up and it slipped and sank in the frigid baltic sea, killing 800 people but this story mercifully ended without incident after a larger icebreaker was sent from up north. the passengers ships, basically ferries packed with hundreds of people, they're duty-free shopping malls and they transport cargo, were ultimately able to dock at their destinations and the passengers disembarked this morning, everyone was fine. the ferries have been warned not to try to make the trip during this particularly difficult time weather wise, but thought they were big enough and strong enough to do it. there are maybe 20 to 30 further ships that are trapped higher up north, jane, but they're not really trapped, they're just waiting for an icebreaker to help them get into ports. so out of the cold water at this point. back to you. jane: amy, thanks. jon: a family of four, vanishes without a trace in southern california. they left food on the table, it wound up rotting in the kitchen, two dogs, all alone in the house, no food or water. next, the mystery of what happened to them. the fbi and police need your help. jon: on a day when the labor department announced that 36,000 americans lost their jobs in february, the president is talking about green jobs. these are live pictures coming to you now from arlington, virginia, he's visiting a company called o power, an industry leader in energy tissuesy and smart grid software. we're going to monitor the president's appearance for you. if you'd like to listen to your remarks yourself, it is streaming live on foxnews.com. jane: we want to update you on reports about 56.5 magnitude earthquake that has hit southwest of sumatra, indonesia t. happened we're told about 100 miles or so off the coast of the island, may remember the huge quake in that same region called the devastating tsunami in '04. right now we're hearing there is no widespread risk of tsunami with this one, the experts saying there may be local waves that are quite large, but again, at this point, no risk of tsunami. we'll keep you updated. jon: to a mystery now in southern california. a young middle class family of four, seemingly vanishing into thin air, a mom, dad and two boys going without a trace. they leave very few clues, however, the suv was found abandoned in a mall parking lot on a border town outside san diego. the extended family is desperate for information about them and now the fbi is getting involved. let's talk about it with sergeant dave martinez of the san diego sheriff's department. let's go through the timeline here, sergeant, if you woovment they were noticedo if you would. they were noticed missing february 4th, roughly a month ago, right? >> that's correct, jon. jon: and his brother, mr. mcstay's brother, went to the house to mind out what had happened to him. what did he find there? >> well, he went to the house and found no one there, obviously, and it's strange that he had not communicated with his brother, which is very normal. it was very uncharacteristic so -- them not keeping in touch. jon: so your investigators took a look at everything and this doesn't look like somebody who was planning to get away, or just go take a vacation or even hide out, disappear from the face of the earth. >> well, i have to tell you, this is a mystery to us. but we have found no indication that this was planned, and we're still looking into it. jon: there are two little kids that were missing here. we're looking at some video of them. the car was found near the mexican border. that might suggest that they maybe went into mexico, maybe they were kidnapped by some kind of a criminal gang or something like that, but your investigators haven't found any evidence that these people were involved in anything that would get them, earn them, the ire of criminals, right? >> that's correct, jon. however, we're still looking at -- examining videos at the border to see what is available and hopefully that may assist us. jon: joseph mcstay, the father here, was a designer of indoor fountains, right? >> that's correct. jon: and what about his wife, what do you know about her? >> as far as i know, she is a house wife, she may have dabbled in some real estate, as a notary, but not much. she was at home. jon: well, i know there is a reward out for anybody who can help find this family, joseph and summer mcstay and their two little kids. dave martinez from the san diego county sheriff's department, thank you very much. >> thanks for having me, jon. jon: you bet. jane: another story out of california, this much one lighter, a man in san diego has something worth a half a million dollars, something he has had most of his life, it is very close to his heart. he's willing to part with it, though, to get a house for the woman he loves. what is it? his lucky fiance, deb, they will be here to explain. ♪ the things we do for love ♪ the things we do for love ♪ jane: a collection of baseball cards could be a dream come true for a couple in love, the firefighter has been collecting this since he was a little boy, the collection is valued at more than half a million dollars. but clyde bone would like to get married and would like to buy his fiance a home. it's hard to get a mortgage these days, so he's made a huge decision,eagues offering to trade his entire baseball card collection, more than a million cards, for a house, for his true love. man, clyde! you've got hearts breaking all over the place. clyde and his fiance are joining us from san diego. first of all, whose idea was it, was it really your idea, clyde? >> you know, it was kind of a -- it's such a large collection, and an ability to combine our homes, we needed to do something with it, and i rent, and i figured it was a great idea to move it. i will admit, the craig's list ad that took place was her idea. jane: okay. so you weren't opposed to this, deborah! >> i didn't know it was going to go this far. jane: talk to me about what you've got, i understand 5000 yankee cards alone and 20 mickey mantles? twenty-eight mickey mantles. >> i have 28 mickey mantles of one specific card alone, the '62 tops. jane: in excellent condition? >> probably at least more than one. i was a great mantle fan. >> instead of doing this piecemeal on ebay or something like that, where did you get the idea to try to trade somebody for a house? >> out of traws fraition. -- frustration. it came in the middle of the night, i had been doing piecemeal on ebay and that was totally frustrating for me because i don't type, and as i walked by my computer on the way to the restroom in the middle of the night i noticed the computer was on, and i just -- i went -- i just said you know what, if a woman in san diego county with go on youtube and say she will marry for health care, hey, i'm going to try to trade my collection for a home. >> we don't know if she's had any luck on that yet. deborah, the guys around here just can't believe this, that somebody would do this for love. what's your reaction? i'm sure your friends tell you you're very lucky. >> yes, i am. he's a very sweet, romantic guy. >> well, good luck to you, i know you haven't had any offers yet, unless one has come in since we've talked to you. any this morning? >> this morning, we didn't check the computer this morning. we kind of wanted to stay away from that. but we've had about 15-20 different contacts, varying from houses. ized looked at a couple of homes already, and we have had some pretty substantial financial offers, and we have a gentleman who i hope he's watching is in son jose that has been very, very kind and generous and we're going to get together in the middle of the month to see what he has and see what i have. jane: you're further along than i thought. clyde and deborah, best of luck. just to let our viewers know, you reconnected at a high school reunion, so it can happen. let us know. >> it can. thank you very much. jon: good for them. great story. in texas, police are warning students to avoid some of the area's most popular spring break destinations where it's just too dangerous to party these days. we're talking about across the border. why? 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jon: let's hope they can bring those resources to a successful conclusion there. harris: absolutely. jon: harris, thank you. jane: a big business headline at this hour, new unemployment numbers just this morning from the labor department. the rate remained at 9.7 percent in february, companies slashed about 36,000 jobs last month. president obama addressed these latest numbers just a moment ago from a business in virginia. take a listen. >> in february our economy lost an additional 36,000 jobs. now, this is actually better than expected considering the severe storms all along the east coast are estimated to have had a depressing effect on the numbers. and it shows that the measures that we're taking to turn our economy around are having some impact. but even though it's better than expected, it's more than we should tolerate. jane: let's get to rich edson, rich, what's wall street's reaction been so far? >> reporter: well, jane, this morning stocks rose when the news broke. wall street expected the economy to shed about 50,000 jobs, but the overall picture is still troubling. there are nearly 15 million people out of work, almost 7 million have been unemployed for more than a half year, and more than a million say they have stopped looking for or work because, they say, there are no jobs available for them. the economy has a long way to recover, jane. jane: i guess it can't be all bad news out there, what kinds of employers are hiring? >> reporter: there is some good news, that comes with the number of temporary jobs added, almost 50,000. that's the step businesses take before they begin to hire full-time workers. education and health services are among the very few areas hiring throughout the recession, and the federal goth is also add -- government is also adding workers for the 2010 accept us, that accounts for 15,000 jobs last month. one area still in trouble, though, manufacturing, down more than 60,000 jobs making it nearly two million lost since the recession started in december of 2007. jane: what about the weather last month? does that play at all into this report? >> reporter: well, the white house, you heard the president right there, they've been saying the snow is hitting much of the country last month which will likely distort these job numbers. analysts have been debating that, still are. the labor department saying it may have impacted this report, but there's no way of really telling how much the weather played into hiring and firing. jane: rich edson with, thanks. jon: some angry internet postings made by a man who opened fire on two pentagon police officers last night, the attack at the subway entrance to defense department headquarters in arlington, virginia. the shooter's online rants showed resentment of the u.s. government and expressed doubts about what the government has said about the 9/11 attacks. the government, i'm sorry, the gunman identified as john patrick bedell of california, he was shot when officers returned fire. he later died of his injuries. the officers were treated and released from local hospitals. the chief of the pentagon police force says the shooter was heavily armed and probably acted alone. >> there is no indication at this point that there are any domestic or international terrorism nexus to this at all. it's probably at this, at this time it appears to be a single individual that had issues. jon: pentagon police say bedell had two 9 millimeter semiautomatic weapons and several magazines of ammunition, even more found in his car. jane: the u.s. geological survey is reporting a magnitude 6.5 earthquake southwest of sumatra. it hit, it's thought, about 100 miles off the coast of the island. the pacific tsunami warning center is telling us, though, there is rat this point no -- at this point no widespread risk of a tsunami. we also want to update you on what's happening in chile. they've been getting some strong aftershocks, and there was a tsunami that was triggered there. it killed more than 800 people devastating communities around 300 miles of the coast of chile. the president there says she's confident that chile will rise from this devastation. she's predicting, though, it could take three years to rebuild some of the hardest-hit areas. jon: right now the pressure is on democratic house leaders to round up enough votes to pass health care reform. the white house hopes speaker pelosi can lead the charge to get a vote by march 18th. that is less than two weeks from right now. it is not going to be easy. abortion just one issue that could be a deal breaker for democrats. our carl cameron is live for us in washington. carl, i thought the speaker, speaker pelosi, argued yesterday that this is a health care bill and abortion is not part of it? >> reporter: that's the argument even though it's, obviously, a medical and a health care issue for or so many, and because it's the abortion issue, it's very divisive, and it matters a great deal to democrats swell republicans in the house, and that's where the principle hangup's been. bart stupak who authored an amendment to the house bill that essentially codified existing language across the board and a host of other legislation and laws across the land saying no tax dollars should be used for provision of abortion services. that was not included in the senate language, and stupak and a bunch of democrats are insisting it be put back into whatever final product can possibly be put together for the president to sign. right now they are holding firm that they will not support this bill, they will vote against it which would more than undo nancy pelosi's hopes of the necessary to majority to pass in the next few weeks. hasn't been worked out, and stupak and the pro-life democrats are working with steny hoyer, the majority leader from maryland, who argues, obviously, by virtue of his cushions with them that -- discussions with them that this is not a nonissue, that it has to be dealt with if democrats hope to pass health care reform through the house. jon: i know there are a lot of deadlines that the president was pushing for, he was going to get it passed by the august recess last summer, then it was going to be thanksgiving, then it was going to be christmas, now it's march 18th. what's this deadline all about? >> reporter: well, arguably, it's the deadline that comes before the president goes overseas on a trip to southeast asia. but the political necessity of it gets more and more important every single day the 2010 midterms come. when 2010 sort of virus begins infecting any republican or democratic candidate's thinking, it's very difficult for them to get their arms around something as colossal as a health care bill. so the president recognized back last year if he didn't get it passed before last year's august recess, that could have had a profound effect on his ability to pass it at all. this really gets to be kind of a last-ditch effort because if they can't pass it in march, the likelihood of getting anything done after that is severely jeopardized. and, jon, democrats, nancy pelosi's democrats are frustrated. they want to get to the jobs agenda more thoroughly, and this is chewing up a lot of that time. jon: carl cameron in washington, thanks. jane: the tea party movement has been one of the big political stories over the past year, and a lot of people think this movement may be a big factor come fall. less government, less spending, less taxes, and they insist they're not about political party or organization, but there are some signs that tea partiers are going mainstream. steve brown is in indiana. for starters, tomorrow, it sounds like the indiana tea party is holding a senate candidate debate? >> reporter: yeah. there's really nothing more mainstream than an actual candidate debate. we're talking about the u.s. senate seat here in the state of indiana, the one left behind by evan bayh at the end of this particular term. and the tea party organization called silent no more has managed to get all five republican candidates to come to a debate. very much an insider move. so they're looking to shape or give voice or want to vet republican candidates here in indiana. jane? jane: should the indiana republican party be concerned that the outsider group has scored this debate? >> reporter: well, i did talk with marie clark, chairman of the republican party here in yesterday, and he said he thought it was a good move. they've got an opportunity to take a look at these particular candidates and that the candidates should come before them. but one of the candidates that is running for senate, a tea party organizer says that the state party should be nervous. largely, tea partiers would identify with the republican party, they believe that the party in its fiscal discipline or lack thereof let them down, so they're looking to reshape the party, in a sense, to make sure that their voice is heard and in some senses make sure that fiscal discipline is restored among political candidates. jane: okay. but if the tea partiers describe themselves as insiders, why do they want to avoid these party functions? is. >> reporter: that's a good question. i think they basically self-identify more with the republican party, and you do see some folks who are party insiders like christa create l, the decision-making body in the state of ohio's republican party, she has signed a tea party pledge with the cincinnati tea party organization saying she has been disappointed in recent years with what it is that the state party has produced for statewide candidates, how party candidates have acted once they've got into office, so they are upset. they want to let folks know that there are these people within their ranks, and these people want to have a voice in how the party is run. jane: steve brown in indiana for us. steve, thanks. jon: it's a major reversal by the white house in the works. what some senior advisers are setting in motion that could move the 9/11 trials far away from new york city. plus, a he heroic rescue caughtn tape just seconds before the train rolls in. the two rescuers, why they were even there. wait until you hear this one. eating healthy is important, but only vegetables can give you vegetable nutrition. one of these will get you more than half way to your five daily servings. v8. what's your number? 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>> reporter: well, a couple things. e spoke with a legal contact, and he told me that the working assumption now among those lawyers is that the case will come back to the military commissions. separately i spoke to an analyst who's familiar with the review, and he believes that this steady sort of drip, drip of stories we've seen about the possibility or strong possibility that the administration will reverse and send the case back to the military commissions including khalid sheikh mohammed who you saw right there is really an effort to test the waters to see what the response is. even this morning there has been a statement by a constitution project. they work closely with human rights first, and they are urging the administration to stay the course and to keep this case many the federal criminal system, jane. jane: catherine herridge in d.c. for us, thanks. >> reporter: you're welcome. jon: our next guest says it's inevitable the u.s. is going to hold trials back at gitmo, he says. coally tenson is senior legal fellow for the heritage foundation, he worked on this issue a whole lot during the bush administration. inevitable that these trials will be held at gitmo, coally? >> i think that's the direction we're moving, jon, and i think lindsay graham correctly sets the stage. you strike this grand bargain by sending ksm and his ilk back to commissions at gitmo, and then that puts the pressure on republicans and others who are, and democrats who are blocking the funding of a thompson correctional facility and closing gitmo, and part of the middle piece of that three-legged stool is creating a preventive detention statute that defines the rights and privileges of any detainees were they ever brought to the united states. and so i think this is part and parcel of putting detention policy including commissions on a much firmer, long-term footing. jon: but this administration has so much invested in civilian trials. i mean, we had the attorney general get up there and make that announcement that those trials were going to be held in civilian court in manhattan. wouldn't there be an awful lot of egg on their face if they renege now? >> yep. no doubt about it. the attorney general said a lot of things i'm sure he wished he hadn't said, but i think we need to focus on what's right. and if the administration is connect, and i believe they are when they say we should use all tools in our tool kit to fight and defeat this enemy, it should include federal court trials for some cases, it should include military commissions cases for war crimes trials, it should include preventive detention, and we need to have a place to hold people without trial. where that takings place, how that goes forward is what we're focusing on now, and i think actually you put those things in place, and it actually ups the ante and especially republicans who have been opposing closing gitmo. i actually think it works the other way and makes it more difficult for them to say no. jon: yeah, similar to what is going on right now with the health care debate, the president would seem to have the most problems here or potentially with the left who have been screaming about gitmo. if he stood up and said, i'm going to go back to the future, i'm going to go back to military tribunals at gitmo, a lot of republicans would be forced to stand up and cheer, wouldn't they? >> i think that's probably right, jon. now, this is not the solve all. just saying we're going back to commissions doesn't fix commissions. commissions under the bush administration were a failure for a variety of reasons, bun of the reasons it's -- but one of the reasons it's been a failure under the bush administration and will be a failure in the obama administration if they don't do something, and that is this: they have to adequately resource commissions. they node to take -- need to take the best prosecutors, stick 'em on commissions cases. thank and excuse the jags who are on the commissions cases now who don't have the requisite national security trial experience and then give the defense the resources they need, and then finally put in place a convening authority who will act, really push hard for these trials to happen. and i think that last piece is this the works, and we'll hear something from the administration about that. jon: we're going to be watching what happens. coley, thanks. >> anytime. jane: he's called the architect, karl rove. former president bush's senior political adviser, he's just written a book about the white house. his time there. we've got a revealing preview including what karl calls the new, the administration, the bush administration's biggest mistake. mmmmmm. mmmmmm. mmmmmm. mmmmmm. wow! you have got to be kidding me. 80 calories? 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>> reporter: he does. it was such a low point in the presidency for many folks in the administration, there was so much criticism inside and out about what was going on and the delay of the president getting there. when he finally was on the ground, he had a meeting aboard air force one, the major, the -- mayor, the governor, some other folks, but karl rove says not everybody was calm and capable at that moment. he says, quote, as they tried to share what they had, senator landrieu broke in with a wild emotional outburst about how children were dying. she calmed down, and the conversation resumed. a few minutes later, landrieu did it again. she established a pattern early on of making outlandish, totally unsubstantiated charges and ridiculous requests. rove does say, listen, we made a lot of mistakes. he says i never should have allowed air force one to fly over without the president being on the ground and stopping. he says it was the right decision for relief efforts but the wrong decision for the president's image. he also says he believes the president should have stepped in, taken over and allowed the federal government to take over and later just taken the heat for stepping over local and state officials. he thinks that's what they should have done. jon: shannon bream, interesting reading. thanks. jane: this man in phoenix ought to be grateful for this quick-thinking action. here's surveillance video from a train station. you can see him stumbling around before he ultimately loses his balance falling right into the path of an oncoming train. you can see the lights. luckily, these two assistants in the orange shirts there see it all happening, they rush out to his rescue, they flag down that train just in time. these two guys are rightfully now being considered for an award for their actions there. yikes. jon: hey, the white house knows not to count on house republicans to vote yes for a health care bill, but right now the same could be said for a lot of house democrats. tensions are running very high between liberals and moderates in the house on everything from abortion coverage to taxes. so can house democrats settle their differences? 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joining us for a fair and balanced debate, kim punk, terry holt is here as well, former spokesman for the house republican leader, john boehner. his clients, we should point out, currently include the americans' health insurance plan. i want to start with you, tim, we focus so much on this republican/democratic split, but there is tension between the house and senate side that really is part of the president's problem now. >> i think that's right, and thanks for having me, jane. you know, it's interesting, most people in washington, d.c. focus on the split between senate democrats and republicans. you know, whether you've got republicans or democrats in charge, it's also true that the house and senate sometimes are the hardest things to resolve. i think they're looking forward to this final vote and putting this reform into place. jane: terry, we heard from house democrats after they met with the president yesterday because he said do this because it strengthens not only my presidency and the presidency in general, our agenda, and this is a moment in history. take advantage of it. those are fairly strong selling points, are they not? >> right. but they're also in a position to weigh their own political futures, and this is, this bill that they're talking about passing in the next few weeks is essentially the same giant mess that the american people have rejected over and over again. and i think most democrats in the house and, in fact, a lot of democrats in the senate are weighing that there may be more risk than reward in this bill and that by making it about president obama it may be a miscalculation. i will never bet againstman si pelosi finding the votes. she'll threaten, cajole and promise her way into getting the votes she needs, but at the end of the day it's going to be a complex puzzle to put together, and it's going to be a epitome of that sausage making that we all have come to dislike about washington politics. jane: tim, you made another interesting point, and i want you to back it up, if you will. if this does pass through reconciliation, voters ultimately don't care about the process. why do you say that? >> i think voters, i think we in washington get too, we talk too much about process and not enough about substance. i think if you're talking about the average voter in ohio or pennsylvania, they're not concerned about how these bills pass, their concerned about what the -- they're concerned about what the bill looks like, and i think democrats are going to be comfortable defending an actual bill versus the caricature of a bill. president obama's got to make the case, look, you can only tout the pro-constituent aspect of this bill if it passes. if not, you might as well go ahead and take the vote and pass this bill. jane: terry, i hear you guffawing over there. >> well, not guffawing, but a chuckle about this. ultimately, he's right that voters are going to judge this bill by the substance in it, and they're going to find out that costs are going to go up, that premiums are going to continue to rise, that taxes are going to go up, and ultimately benefits are going to be reduced for millions of americans. so the republican in me says go ahead, go for it. but the american in me says that we've got a real problem in our health care industry in this country. we have to get at the cost problem in health care, and if we miss this opportunity because we're being too political like the democrats i think are being, we risk a moment where we have an opportunity to do something truly good for this country, and that's a shame. jane: tim, what's the possibility, it's been floated out there that somebody like bart stupak of michigan, pro-lifer, would get onboard if he gets a promise about preventing federal funds from being used for abortion, that that would be separate, that down the line he would get what he wanted just so he and the others would get onboard at this point. >> well, look, all these issues that are complicating health care reform right now whether it's abortion, taxes, moderates or progressives, these are all issues that have been dealt with before. the house passed this bill in december, and the house leadership and the white house are very adept at figuring out what the end game of this bill is. so these are complicated issues, and i'm not sure of the specifics of how they'd going to address mr. stupak's issues, but i know they're working to try to solve some of these problems, and they're good at it, and they've done it before. jane: tim and terry, thanks to you both. >> thank you. >> thank you very much verying if us. jon: well, it's feeling a little bit warm in new york city this today or maybe even in weekend, feeling a little bit like spring. that means april 15th is not too far away. tax day. sorry for the reminder. no doubt you are wondering what's deductible these days, what's not. who doesn't want a lower tax bill? if you know the calls you make on a company-provided cell phone are actually taxable income? yeah, that's the law. is that really something you need to worry about when you sign those 1040 forms? fox business network's peter barnes has more on that from washington. is that something people need to worry about for their taxes this year, peter? >> reporter: well, jon, we have the # 11 on this story. now, in the theory you do have to worry about it. congress passed a law in 1989 that says personal use of a cell phone must be taxed like any other company fringe benefit. you're supposed to account for your personal calls to i'mize all of them, but most employees and employers do not do this especially with those flat-rate calling plans today with so many minutes for one flat rate a month. most people think the law is outdated and a joke. >> i wouldn't probably have another cell phone because i just don't use it that much, you know? so it doesn't really -- i don't feel that that's taking any revenue out of the government. >> i do think it's something that needs to be repealed. it's not an expensive perk anymore. >> reporter: still, a few employers might include this on your annual w2 form, or they simply might just pay the tax for you. jon: has the irs really cracked down on this though? >> reporter: well, it did start about five years ago with more audits of employers that provide cell phones to their workers. in 2008, in fact, the university of california college system paid the irs more than $400,000 in settlements for personal use of cell phones it supplied to its employees, jon. jon: wow. so what is, what are you supposed to do about it? i mean, is washington going to fix it? >> reporter: well, yes. everybody agrees that this law is outdated and a burden on everybody, workers, employers and the irs. so the obama administration has proposed changing the tax code to get rid of it. congress is expected to approve this change. but the treasury department estimate thes the change will cost the government nearly $3 billion in lost tax revenue over the next decade. that is not chump change in trillion dollar deficits, jon. jon: wow. peter barnes in washington. peter, thank you. jane: we're watching protests in dwrees over the country's economic crisis, and these protests have turned pretty ugly. we're going to show you more of these pictures. the financial problems there could mirror what is going on in one state here. we'll explain. also harris has been working the story of a missing skier and snowboarder on the west coast, and she's gotten some new details. we'll get to her in moments. 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and scandal at the price is right, the game show dragged into court again. what they allegedly did to a barker's beauty. coming up top of the hour. jane: new details, now, on a search for what sounds like a missing skier and a sewboarder in washington state. harris has more details. is that right, harris? harris: yeah. crystal mountain was the area where these gentlemen should have shown up to check back with the ski patrol yesterday, they didn't. this is an update just coming from one of the many sheriff's departments working on this the. what we've just learned is there was a vacationing police officer who spotted two guys fitting the description of the missing skier and snowboarder yesterday about 2:30 local time there. this is before they would have been reported missing. he gave these guys directions back to crystal mountain because somehow or another they were out of bounds off the ski patrol area, but they never showed up. even with those directions. and so when they didn't check in to ski patrol, that's when the search began. they've actually put more aircraft into the sky now to try to use the good weather conditions and the daylight now to try to find these guys. they expected to find them already because sometimes skiers do two out of bounds -- go out of bounds, and usually they find them the next morning. were they trapped in an avalanche? is there something that's gone wrong? they're optimistic. they've got a faint cell phone and footprints near the area where this vacationing police officer said he saw the two skiers. jane: new violence in greece as an economic crisis is keeping that country on edge. the street protests we've been looking at this morning turned pretty ugly. take a look. riot police there used tear gas to keep the greek workers from storming the parliament building. inside, lawmakers passed a $6.5 billion in budget cuts including cuts to workers' wages. greece must make these drastic financial measures to restore market confidence in light of the huge budget deficit they're dealing with there. jon: of course, greece is not alone in its financial woes. take a look at what's going on in america's most populist state. there is worry that california's financial failures could have a bigger impact on the u.s. than greece's collapse could have on the european union. william la jeunesse live on that from los angeles. what are the parallels here between greece and california, william? >> reporter: well, jon, you saw the video earlier in your newscast of the protests in california. just like greece, they're over the same thing; budget cuts. both governments have huge budget deficits, out of control spending, strong unions, and bankers feel that one or both could basically fall into default without help. now, you might say, why should i care about california? well, member, people said the same thing about lehman brothers and merrill lynch and aig. the word is contagion, that basically what could happen is the dominoes begin to fall. you have a problem in california, that basically stops lending, and the entire bond market around the country basically freezes up, and lenders don't lend. and that is the fear. that was voiced last week by the chairman of jpmorgan chase who said, listen, greece is not a real threat to us. the u.s. banking system. but california is, and they're watching it very closely. jon? jon: i thought the worst of it was over for california? i thought they kind of fixed their budget problems? >> reporter: yeah, don't you wish. no, not at all. we have a $#21 bill deficit that -- billion deficit, and right now lawmakers only averted problems last year by using gimmicks. this year that is not an option. everyone expects big fights over deep cuts. here is a worst-case scenario laid out by several economists here. number one, the governor is hoping for an $8 billion federal bailout from washington. what if they say no? he also expects $10 billion in program cuts. what if lawmakers say no? the state goes cash negative in july, the bonds get downgraded and banks refuse to honor the state's ious. wells fargo did that last year. here's what experts believe could happen, and now another reason is the governor -- if you start cutting those social programs, jon, actually a 15 president cut is like 30% because for every dollar that's matched by federal matching funds, they'll lose that altogether, so i'm sure the democrats won't go along in the state legislature, and this is a theme that could play out over the next few months. that's why bankers are worried. you've heard the saying that what happens in california first, that's where the future happens. well, they believe that it could spread across the country. back to you. jon: all right. william la jeunesse in l.a., thanks. jane some call it a two-nation vacation, college students crossing the border to party for spring break but just out today, a warning for students and their parents. @=h jon: "happening now," we're just getting our first look at a picture of john patrick bedell of california. he is the man suspected of trying to shoot his way into the pentagon. this was a mug shot from 2006 when bedell was arrested in irvine, california, for marijuana possession and resisting arrest. that pentagon attack yesterday at the subway entrance to defense department headquarters in arlington, virginia. law enforcement sources say bedell posted online rants expressing resentment toward the u.s. government. he also had a lot of doubts expressed online about what the government has said about the 9/11 attacks. bedell was shot when officers returned fire after he opened pyre on them. he later died of his injuries. two officers were treated and released. the chief of pentagon police saying the shooter was heavily armed and probably acted alone. jane: well, thousands of college students headed south for spring break, excuse me, they cross the border into mexico. some call it a two-nation vacation. well, some students might want to put a hold on their plans this year because the texas department of public safety is issuing what's really an unprecedented warning telling students and their parents to listen up, stay out of any mexican border towns because it's just too dangerous. tila is in austin, what kind of problems are we talking about here? pretty significant ones. >> reporter: we're seeing increased levels of drug-related border violence in the cities along the texas border. and the amount of the violence that we're seeing makes us very concerned for the safety of the spring breakers who are coming from all over the united states. we want to make sure that they understand that it's probably a better idea for them to stay on the u.s. side of the border this time around. jane: you know, i was interested to read from the state department, they said they've seen shootouts during daylight hours and what is akin to small unit combat with cartels using automatic weapons and grenades. it almost boggles your mind. >> it's very or dangerous. and we're just concerned that the combination of young people, alcohol, being in an unfamiliar country, violence breaking out that we may not be able to help them if something happens. jane yeah. and how common is this? i mean, how many students do you estimate go across the border from, you know, we showed on that map places like the border towns of laredo and places like that. how many of them do you think actually do this every year? >> we know that thousands of them cross the board wither at rinosa and cities in between. it's very traditional for the spring breakers to go because the drinking age in mexico is 18. so a lot of them aren't allowed to drink in the united states. they decide, well, let's go over will and party. it's a bad idea to do that anyway, but with the prospect of potential violence breaking out we just really don't advise them going over. jane: last question, do the kids listen, do the parents listen when you issue a warning like in this? >> we've gotten calls, and i know a lot of the colleges and universities in the area have been getting calls from parents who are concerned: our advice as parents is to let the kids go on spring break but make sure they're going to stay on the united states side of the border. jane: good advice. thanks for your time. >> you're welcome. jon: ahead, a language school said to be caught up in a student visa scam that helped foreign nationals who never went to class go all over the u.s. it exposes weaknesses in a program that was supposed to get beefed up after the 9/11 attacks. host: could switching to geico really save you 15% or more on car insurance? 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