50 percent he needed to avoid a runoff in his hope for the senate. his opponent is this young man, ted cruise, a houston lawyer and former state solicitor. he is backed by sarah palin: from day one, the strength of this campaign has been tens of thousands of tea party leaders and republican women and grassroots leaders that have stood up and said enough is enough. we want our country back. this race is ground zero in the battle between the moderate establishment and the conservative tea party tidal wave sweeping this country. martha: that man has got a lot of folks fired up and talking about that race. so the runoff is july 31st, tea party favorites have won primary necessary indiana, and nebraska, so they perhaps will have a very strong presence in the senate if they prevail. we ll talk about that that about that coming up later. bill: fox news alert, british supreme court just denying an extradition
surfacing in the disappearance of a groom. do you remember this story? who vanished from his honeymoon cruise seven years ago. george smith s family always believed that something in this case just did not add up. i ve also been traumatized by royal caribbean s actions and their attempts to sweep this tragedy under the carpet and from the get go portray this tragedy in a false light in order to protect their image. martha: they want to know how this happened, and the evidence may reveal new suspects in this case. george s family joins us live here in america s newsroom next. (bell rings)
is glaring me missing, although there was a crowd watching, no one intervened or helped the officer. the person who recorded this on the cell phone apparently did not bother to use that phone to call for assistance to help the officer. fortunately, this had a relatively happy ending, especially for the officer. bill: indeed it did. david lee, thank you for that. david lee miller on that story for us in our newsroom in new york. martha. martha: coming up, a possible break in a cold case. a newlywed who must earously vanished during a honeymoon cruise. remember this story? that was seven years ago. but now there is new information in this case. the fbi, with an incriminating video in the george smith disappearance. bill: also what sparked this reaction? we re going to talk to the lawmaker you re about to see about what was going on. i got to figure out how
martha: this story has gotten a ton of attention this week from the classroom to the slammer. new outrage over a texas judge s ruling that jailed this 17-year-old honors student for missing too much school, essentially, but we re going to clarify that in a moment, diane tranreportedly worked two jobs to sport her family and her lawyer says she missed some days because of exhaustion from working two jobs to support her siblings and family. now the teenager now has as a result of this a criminal record. she spent 24 hours behind bars, and she was fined $100. here now, judge andrew napolitano, fox news senior judicial analyst to hash this out with us a little bit. judge, what do you make of this? it seems completely unreasonable, given the situation. well, it is unreasonable, and we ought to correct what is a public misconception here. she was not jailed for truancy. she was not jailed for failing to go to skao. texas statutes do not authorize incarceration for
arrest, bill. bill: a case that continues more than a year now, greg palkot, thank you on that story out of london. martha: we ve got a fox news alert now. we re looking at something that s just crossed the wires. we were talking before about syria and u.s. action that would be taken to crack down on what s going on out there now and we can tell you the u.s. treasury has imposed sanctions on sira, on their bank, to attempt to limit bashar al assad s government access to the global financial system. so there has an worldwide call from our allies and from americans to get more involved in this situation to the extent that we possibly can. and now we re seeing that the u.s. treasury is trying to crack down, at least financially, on sira syria to try to limit the purse strings to the greatest extent they can and perhaps that will cause some change in behavior in syria. who knows. we will see. bill: it s almost june, right, this thing started in february, 15 months ago. so watch it. thi