martha: a situation we've been watching in ohio where there is a school lockdown. eastwood high school remains under lockdown at this hour, live ammunition shells were found in a bathroom at the beginning of the school day and they are still concerned about the kissing. we'll keep an eye on that one. bill: taking no chances are they. for a good reason too. be safe out there today and over the weekend. martha: have a good weekend. "happening now" starts right now. we'll see you on monday. jenna: brand-new stories and breaking news. jon: following the huge storm that is bringing waves of snow, high winds across parts of the northeast at this hour. janice dean has new information on the storm. reports of an incredible security breach at one of the nation's busiest airports. tsa screeners allowing an undercover agent with a fake bomb in his pants through two screenings, including a pat-down and right onto a plane. where this all went down. the cdc warns of a nightmare superbug untreatable and often deadly that is spreading through hops across the country. doctors fear it might soon be too late to stop it. it's all "happening now." not exactly a happy way to begin your friday morning. but we are glad you're with us, i'm jon scott. jenna: i'm jenna lee. osama bin laden's son-in-law pleading not guilty to conspiracy to kill americans, this a short time ago in a federal court in lower manhatten blocks from the warl world trade center site. suleiman abu ghaith is not just in osama bin laden's family, he's also al-qaida's spokesman and apparently the top prop grandist. he's appeared in videos and praising the 9/11 attacks and warning of new attacks in the future. we are getting new information on how and when his capture went down. david lee miller is live outside the u.s. district court in new york city. what did we learn about his arrest? >> reporter: we learned more about the timeline. we learned that suleiman abu ghaith has now been in the united states for exactly one week. prosecutors told the judge that he arrived in the united states march 1st at 12:30pm and they also revealed that he was arrested overseas shortly before midnight february 28th. when they give those times, they are speaking about east coast times. further details were not given, no further elaboration about the case against him. as for security as expected it was very, very tight. there were about ten security officers inside the courtroom, which is usual in these types of cases, and lastly if you take a look now over my shoulder off in the distance you can see the scores of camera crews and reporters who are still in front of the federal courthouse here in lower manhatten, which as you said a few blocks away from the site of the former twin towers. they are awaiting the prosecutors and the defense attorneys to exit the building hoping that they will be able to say a little bit more about this on going prosecution. martha: it really seems to have happened all very suddenly david lee. we haven't been talking about the son-in-law of osama bin laden recently. here we are talking about him in court today. what evidence might come up at the trial? >> reporter: one of the things we learned today is that apparently the prosecution is going to introduce a 22-page statement, remarks that suleiman abu ghaith made to prosecutors after he was taken into kufpltd it does appear that much of the case, much much the case against this accused terrorist will be his own words and pictures that al-qaida recorded. the judge even quoted some of the material that is in the indictment. at one point suleiman abu ghaith is recorded as saying, speaking about the united states and i quote "the storms shall not stop especially the airplane storms." at this hour he was in a federal courthouse, he's going to be transported here to a detention facility. there is no bail. and ironically as he talks about these airplane storms over new york, he is here on a snowy day and this in fact the only storm that new york has had to contend with thanks to the great efforts of law enforcement, not just here but around the world. back to you. jenna: well said, david lee. thank you very much. we'll bring our viewers the latest on the story as it develops. jon: stories in washington in california today in regard to the 2016 republican presidential race. senator rand paul as you know making headlines this week with his near 13-hour filibuster. other possible co con tkepbd kers like jeb bush you are also stepping into the national sph spotlight. we are more than 3 and a half years away here car. >> reporter: it's not too early. there are at least 16 republicans thinking about running and there may be a few added and removed from the list. seven rand always filibuster is fast become being the opening ad of his 2016 bid. he has been saying for months now he's seriously interested in a run. he captured attention of the civil libertarians with his filibuster this week asking hypothetical use of drones in the u.s. against u.s. citizens. he's got presidential campaign in his blood, his father, ron paul, the former congressman ran twice. twice as a republican and once as a libertarian. senator paul grabbed the political headlines away from former florida jeb bush this web. this was supposed to be his big coming out party. after years of saying he was absolutely not interested in the presidency bush has a book out on immigration reform and has signaled to his support *ers that the door is open. he is giving a big speech at the reagan library at simi valley today as part of his return to the national stage. the jockeying is very much underway in the u.s. senate, the house and on the trail across the country. jon: two of 16. what about the others. >> reporter: there are nine democrats at least who are eyeing the white house. immigration reform could be really big in the republican party, and that scores for marco rubio, he's hispanic and could help his party appeal to minimum or. he's the key author of an immigration proposal with the path to citizenship. jeb bush used to support that but in his book says it should be dialed back to league lie station. ted cruz has had a tremendous amount of attention. a following has developed for feisty debut moments. he was born in canada. he may not be among the 16 running for president. that would make him constitutionally ineligible. it's a sign of how this overlaps, whether it's immigration. tea party status, rand paul and marco rubio very much so. rubio was the speak her of the house when bush was the governor of florida. now rubio likes to point to jim demint who is now the head of the heritage foundation and is also looking at a presidency for 2016. there is a long list of this. and this week with mr. bush and mr. paul sort of taking the spotlight and really getting mentioned as candidates the race is on three and a half years left on the last obama term. jon: and you're already covering it. >> reporter: you bet. jon: thank you. jenna: new questions about how to reaner skwraoeus the republican party. here is tom rogan writing in the week, saying quote, need a young voter, a minority voter, a single woman voter the odds are they put the president's name on their ballot last september. conservatives need a new recipe for outreach and engagement. he goes on in that article to suggest that the solution actually lies with conservative women, calling them a major asset to saving the g.o.p. monica crowley is a fox news contributor and radio talk show host. we'll talk a little bit about this. monica, about what about it being about the message not about the messenger. >> now the old saying if you want a problem solved jenna turn to a woman. jenna: i tell jon that all the time. >> is he listening? i don't know. jon: what? >> what? i actually think conservative women are the secret weapon or maybe the not so secret weapon are starting to rebrand, reenergize and relaunch the republican party. the party does have a lot of issues as you just laid out in reaching out to women and to minority groups. and crafting a conservative message that is going to appeal to them. that doesn't mean today hraoug -- deluding the message, but crafting them and communicating them in way that will resonate. jenna: aren't they well matched with strong provocative women on the liberal side? why would specifically conservative women be the key for the g.o.p. when they have counterparts on the other side as well, just as numerous and colorful. >> actually more numerous on the other side. i still think we are a center-right country, jenna and i think most americans are open to what the conservative's message is which is constitutional government, limited government, fiscal responsibility, lower taxes, economy growth. and i think the women who are now in positions of power, on the republican side, whether it's governor nikki hayley who has pushed back against government sector unions in herb state to great effect or you've got kelly yea ayotte. she was pushing against hillary clinton specifically on benghazi. you have the new mexico governor, susanna martinez who has pushed immigration reform very effectively. you have women in positions of power who are incredibly effective. a little under the radar but doing it quietly maybe most effective. jenna: what do you think they are up against when it comes to the quote unquote establishment. >> we can see this conflict this week with rand mall because we have a lot of great conservative men. rand paul, marco rubio, scott walk tpher wisconsin who are leading the charge. i think it's interesting that the women have sort of flown a little bit under the radar here but we've seen the conflict with the establishment as you point out, john mccain, lindsey graham pushing back against rand paul and ted cruz, and the new guard. women tend to negotiate those things a little bit more diplomatically, not less forcefully but more diplomatically. jenna: you say the women have the ability, specifically the conservative women you mention to reflect and express the message of the g.o.p. better over the next couple of years, or maybe to the advantage of the g.o.p. over the next couple of years. still let's go back to the message. do you think the g.o.p. message, the conservative message in this country is u know, put in the right form? is it actually out there in the right way to be kpwupbd, whoever is the one to communicate it? >> not right now. this is something that really needs a lot of work and maybe women can lead the charge on this. conservatives tend to argue in facts and facts tending to cold. when we talk about the deficit or debtor tax rates all of what we're saying as a conservative, i believe is accurate, but it tends not to resonate because it's not cast in more emotional terms. of i think what conservatives need to do is appeal to everybody, especially the most vulnerable among us by talking about how smaller government policies will lead to growth, will lead to protecting entitlement programs so that they are there for you and your children and grandchildren. case effective way, really grab people emotionally with the truth, how can we lose? jenna: basically the big take away is women rock, is that it? >> that's always the way. as you prove every day here on "happening now." jenna: i didn't ask for that people, i didn't ask for that. monica, thank you very much. interesting topic. we'll continue to talk about the message as well. jon? jon: i'll do my best. we have a fox news weather alert now. a massive late-winter storm is slamming the northeast right now. it is creating dangerous conditions for millions of people. some areas of getting buried in snow, others are dealing with serious flooding. meteorologist janice dean has been out in the storm, right now she is back in the warmth of the fox news extreme weather center. >> reporter: you're so kind to me, you're so kind. jon: we can't have you out there freezing all morning long. >> reporter: it's kind of fun. i bet you the folks in boston are like, uncle, we can't take any more of the snow. look at some of the snow totals. 18 inches in west walpole, massachusetts southwest of boston, that amazing shot you saw out of the boston area. boston has got even close to 7 1/2 inches. we could see one or two inches more. a foot or more in some of these areas. i want to point out our next storm system is right here across the southwest, that is going to move into the central u.s. this weekend. but we're still talking about this storm. this is the same storm that brought inches of snow across the midwest and the mid-atlantic and it just continues to spin and actually back -- back into the northeast. that's why we are getting all of this snow from philly, new york, albany, boston, and of course our producer trina says dean when will this end i need to get out of here at noon today. let's break it down for you. trinia this is 12:00pm as we go through 1, 2 it really should be out of the new york area by 3 or 4:00. i'm sorry lady you'll have to deal with the snow. 38 in boston. by friday night tonight into saturday it is out of here. that's the good news. we just have a couple of hours. look at this. look at the temperatures we are going to see. boston 47 on monday, 53 here in new york. 62 in d.c. if i could just mention this storm moving into california, this is going to be our next weather maker bringing rain and mountain snow to this region and then eventually into the central u.s. where we could have not only more snow for the midwest, but the possibility of severe weather as well from dallas up towards kansas city, certainly something we need to watch for and perhaps another coastal storm next week, jon scott. jon: look they had that drought in the middle of the country, they are still not caught up. >> reporter: absolutely right. this will translate to a break up of some of that drought. and don't forget to spring ahead on sunday, we lewd an hour. jon: thanks for the reminder but -- i like my long weekends not short weekend. >> reporter: we will have more daylight and spring will come. jon: all right, okay you've told me. janice dean thank you. jenna: a funeral is underway for convenient swal venezuela president hugo chavez. we'll tell you what is not going to happen when the ceremony is every. a waitress cards a patron and gets handed her own i.d. how that happened and what she did next. 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our legal panel weighs in next. >> what happened on june 4th i don't know how the mind works necessarily but i know that that was the most traumatic experience of my life. sometimes life can be well, a little uncomfortable. but when it's hard or hurts to go to the bathroom, there's dulcolax stool softener. dulcolax stool softener doesn't make you go, it just makes it easier to go. dulcolax stool softener. make yourself comfortable. >> like i said before, all of my -- i lied a lot in the beginning, and each of those lies tied back directly to two things, travis and protecting his ego -- his reputation and my own partially, and to relate it to any involvement in his death. so, i understand that there will always be questions, but all i can do at this point is say what happened to the best of my recollection and if i'm convicted then that's because of my own bad choices in the beginning. jon: that's accused murderer jodi arias making a dramatic final plea to the jurors who will decide her fate. she is asking them to believe her despite her changing her story numerous times. she could face the death penalty if convicted of murdering her ex-boyfriend travis, alexander. the jury submitted more than one hundred questions of their own over the last two days, and the questions are a final look into how the jurors might view the case against her. let's talk about it with fred t icc e a former federal prosecutor and arthur aidala a former prosecutor and defense attorney. gentlemen, we have heard from the jury. they seem awfully skeptical, fred. what do you make of the questions. >> you think? they are awfully skeptical and with good cause. i tell you, jon, one of the jurors asked the ultimate question which is, if you killed the guy in self-defense why did you bother to lie about it? her answer was even worse, she says, to protect his reputation. this jury heard this woman sit on the witness stand for eight days and run this guy down like a dog including calling him a pedophile. even when she's lying it's not consistent with the other lies she'll been telling. and they have ever reason to be skeptical. quite frankly if i was their defense lawyers i'd be nervous. jon: after 17 days on the stand, arthur, you've pulled rabbits out of hats before juries before. >> not even arthur could save this woman. jon: okay. do you think there might be at least a hung jury on the death penalty question? >> that is always the question of a hung jury, because even though awful these people ask questions, you don't know which jurors asked which questions, and i think -- 17 days, i'm trying to hi of an analogy to the broadcasting world. i mean it's just so bizarre and under heard of and she is coming back again. the bottom line is, maybe she connected on a personal level with one or two of the actual jurors, and they are going to say, let's not kill this woman, let's just put her in a cage without any chance of her ever getting out. jon: we don't know which jurors asked the individual questions. >> correct. jon: they all get submitted to the judge, the judge went over them, and then she asks them of the jury, but take a listen to this one. >> after all the lies you have told why should we believe you now? >> lying isn't typically something i just do. i'm not going to say that i've never told a lie in my life before this incident, but the lies this i've told in this case are -- can be tied directly back to either protecting travis' reputation, or my involvement in his death in anyway. because i was very ashamed of the death and also i wanted to ed today tpaoeu travis in a good way. i didn't want to de edify him or say hateful things about him especially now that he had passed away. i didn't want that to be construed as motive, for example if he was violent with me. jon: al arthur we've already heard what fred spent about this particular response. she spent weeks trashing the guy on the stand. what is your take? >> he passed away? she refers to him passing away? how about telling the truth for a change and just saying, listen i was scared, i knew i did this, i didn't want to go to jail for life so i lied about it. at least you're being honest with the jury. jurors want you to be honest with them. i mean, i actually kind of like this system, jon, which is rare, it is nothing like this in new york where the jurors are entitled to ask a few questions, 200 questions, but at least it gives them -- look they are deciders of fact if there is a question that hasn't been answered i think it is a good idea to let the jurors ask the question as long as it's screened by the judge. jon: what about that, fred? i mean, yes, she had answered in a way that may be implicated herself a little bit, she might have got even off better with this jury in this particular circumstance. >> you hear me say this all the time, when you've got to eat it you don't anybody he will an don't nibble and these what she has been doing throughout the entire case. human nature being what it is remember when someone does it to you you're actually angrier about it when you tphao they li. this witness got on the witness stand and lied to them. i think the jury will be angrier with her, because she tried to manipulate them. one of the answers that one of the jurors asked was were you angry with travis on the day that you killed him and she said i had no fear that day. >> it's suicidal. it's suicidal. it's a self-defense case, jon. you were afraid you were about to die and you want to kill someone to save your life. >> talk about stepping on the rake she is done. jon: a real slip of the tongue there. spoken like a former prosecutor. you picked up on that one. fred ticee, arthur eye call louisiana. thank you both. jenna: an 82-year-old woman kicked off a train for sing. the whole thing caught on cellphone video shot by another passenger. that lady is getting an apology we'll tell you from who coming up. we've heard the warnings about the automatic spending cuts. has the sequester really lived up to all the hype? former massachusetts senator scott brown is here and he will weigh in on that next. will weigh in on that. 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>> reporter: well good to see you, jenna. obviously they think this is a very positive sign. as you noted it is, it is the lowest unemployment late in four years. austan goolsbee, former white house economic advisor now on the outside, you remember him promoting the president during the campaign. he put out a tweet jobs report equals, whoop whoop. clearly celebrating a bit suggesting this is starting to turn the corner. a more measured response from inside the white house alan krueger who put out a statement, more work remains to be done, today's employment report provides evidence that the recovery that began in mid 2009 is gaining traction. that from the white house the recovery is gaining traction. important to note this positive number runs counter to the narrative the white house is talking about with the sequester. you remember when there was a poor economic growth number in the fourth quarter of last year, white house officials were saying there was negative growth because of the fact that people already bracing for the sequester, spending cuts would be so devastating to the economy. this suggested in february that things were not so bad, jenna. jenna: any woot, woot from the gop yet? what kind of response are we getting from them? >> reporter: that is good question. i never heard john boehner say woot about anything. he is not saying about the jobs report. quote, any job creation is positive news. he is admitting it is positive. but the fact is unemployment in america is way above the levels the white house projected when the billions of dollars stimulus bill was enacted and a debt that exceeds size of our entie economy. the john boehner turning focus from jobs to debt in the broader economy. important to note, liberal group campaign for america's future put out a statement, noting in their words you shouldn't break out the bubbly. there are still 20 million people in fine print in need of full-time work. 40.2% of those have been out for long term, at least 27 weeks. some good numbers here but the broader picture still very difficult, jenna. jenna: good context for us today. thank you very much. >> reporter: good to see you. jenna: later in the show we'll answer the questions about the jobs report. what does it mean for your household, household income, future work. what we're seeing for market with record levels on the dow. send your questions through the twitter handle a@happening now. try e-mailing us at happening now. @happening now at foxnews.com. we'll get your questions later on in the show. jon? jon: "happening now", the new claims the automatic spending cuts our nation got hit with, the so-called sequester have not lived up to the apocalyptic warnings we heard about. here is what kimberly strassel writes in "the wall street journal." jumping the shark is the something when it is exposed as ludicrous. this is the week the white house jump the sequester. it was canceling the public tours of the white house blaming budget cuts. here to talk more about it, senator scott brown, former massachusetts senator and a fox news contributor. you voted for the sequester when you were in the senate. did you ever think it would come to pass? >> absolutely not. remember, it was the president's idea. leaders, reid and mcconnell told all the members, we'll put up the select committee. it will not get into the draconian cuts. it will never ever happen. they failed and did another one and another one and year-and-a-half later here we are. jon: here we are with the white house closed to schoolkids because the administration can not find a better way to save a couple bucks. >> the white house offer and and seems proper that the president should have transfer authority the ability to get in there, reopen the sequester in a whole and delegate and do thoughtful, judicious methodical cuts, to, in the military. they need that. give it to hagel about. let him go in with a fine-tooth comb, with a scalpel and actually get in there to make the cuts that you need to make. jon: so in the meantime, we have learned that we have three white house calligraphers on staff. >> you could go on and on. jon: almost 300,000 a year. but we can't keep the white house open for tours? >> listen like pigs at trough. more money you give people in washington the more money they will spend, bottom line. remember senators, or congressman they do not get part of the cut. staff members do. they don't get anything cut. there is no skin in the game. the president does not want this authority pause he wants to make the republicans look bad. everybody knows it. and it is time to show real leadership. jon: we hired this man, barack obama, as an administrator. >> to make tough choices. jon: right. to do the tough work of government. is he, is he not going to do that? >> he could have the authority. they're willing to give it to him. he does not want it. he needs to take the authority and delegate, for example, harry reid should dell gate to committee chairs and ranking members, cut $1.2 trillion. do your jobs. we're not going home for a month. if you finish early we go home. we'll not take breaks and no week enledz off. we have to find a way to cut to continuers there is suggestion that president obama wants to embarass republicans in part in hopes to win back the house. >> that is not a suggestion. if you ask any governors at the recent governor's conference, mr. president, why don't you want ability to do transfer authority. i want it to be on you guys. jon: so there is also the senate to consider. right now the senate has a pretty comfortable majority of democrats but a number of democrats are retiring this time around. we have a look at some of them we can put on the screen. >> durbin, rockefeller, probably. johnson. >> these are four who have announced that they are retiring. carl levin, jay rockefeller, frank lautenberg and tom harkin. there are a couple of more who are considered likely potential retirements. tim johnson of south dakota. dick durbin of illinois. what are they? is there really any prospect for republicans to win back the senate do you think. >> it is always a possibility. i'm a republican and massachusetts was able to win. it was a presidential year i didn't fare as well in the last time but bottom line it is not over until it is over. you have senate you have extremes on left and right. in the middle there is not the group of moderates like me and kent conrad, olympia snowe, richard lugar, that bridge the gap with extremes on both sides. we have work to do obviously. i would like there to be more balance to continue on to have a fair and open debate. that's what we need. jon: good to have you in. >> thank you. jon: senator brown, thank you very much. jenna? jenna: jon, the cdc says it is seeing a rise in a string of deadly germs resistant to nearly all drugs. the doctor is in on what you need to know about these "superbug"s next. hey, it's me, progressive insurance. you know, from our 4,000 television commercials. yep, there i am with flo. hoo-hoo! watch it! 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[splash!] only hertz gives you a carfirmation. hey, this is challenger. i'll be waiting for you in stall 5. it confirms your reservation and the location your car is in, the moment you land. it's just another way you'll be traveling at the speed of hertz. jon: a fox news alert. out of the vatican we can now confirm the conclave to elect a new pope will begin on tuesday, the 12th of march. the cardinals have all assembled now in the vatican. they will have some preliminary meetings over the next few days and on the afternoon of tuesday the 12th, they will enter the sistine chapel, lock the doors behind them and begin the process of selecting a new pope. how long that takes is anybody's guess at this point. we at least know when it will begin, tuesday the 12th. jenna: well, frightening new warning from the centers for disease control about the spread of a string of germs that are resistant to nearly all drugs and kill nearly half the people they infect. according to the cdc these so-called "superbug"s are turning up in hospitals in 42 states. for hospitals, this drug resistance spreading to forms of bacteria that are currently treatable. a lot of concerns about this. dr. leigh vinocur, adjunct assistant professor at lsu health science center in shreveport. the doctor, the term cre is being used with these "superbug" articles that we're reading. what is cre? >> well, basically there are bacteria that live in the our gut. e.coli, they're called entero bacteria. they're normal in your gi track. they don't cause a problem. but if they get out that your bloodstream, get into your lungs, get into your kid anies, can cause serious infections. now this happens most often in really sick patients in the icu. they will have indwelling catheters for their urine. they will have catheters in their bloodstream. they will be on respirators. when your immune system breaks down that is when the bacteria can get out. what happened over the years since 2001 they have become resistant to almost every bacteria, every antibiotic, excuse me, we have. the last big antibiotic, carbopenu used to kill everything. now they're already resistant to that. so they areed carbopenu resistant entero factor. jenna: if you get this is there nothing that can be done? >> well, that's the problem right now. we don't have a got antibiotic. inlike mrsa which is the meth sill lynn reassistant staff, we have things that work to kill that in the hospital and in the community. right now we don't have a good antibiotic for these cres. >> doctor, if i could jump in, you mentioned mrsa. one doctor is a little bit skeptical about the press that this is getting because he says every couple years the public is frightened like something like mrsa. he brings it up as an example. he says, you know what, this is almost the evolution of bacteria in our society and we shouldn't go overboard. what are your thoughts on that? people hearing what you have to say are going to get scare and we want to put this in the right context. >> no, you're absolutely right, jenna. people dying from this, they're already dying anyway. they're in the icu. they're very sick. they're on ventilators, sick from something else, cancer. they're at the end of their rope and then they get this. me and you, we probably wouldn't be subject to this type of bacteria. but the other issue is, you have to be vigilant yourself. i agree, there is a lot of, you know, we shouldn't have a lot of hype but don't insist on antibiotics when you have a cold and flu. i spend more time in the e.r. and clinics convincing patients this is just a minor cold and flu. you don't need antibiotics. don't insist on antibiotics. jenna: we her that all the time, right? we hear all the time people get sick, you're feeling really bad. doc, can you give me anything for this? dr. vinocur are you concerned this spreading outside the icu and emergency rooms and becoming more mainstream? >> you always do worry about it. first we only saw mrsa in the hospital but i don't think at this point we're going to see this spreading outside of the hospitals. but the hospitals have to take precautions. you as a person have to take precautions. you know, ask for the shortest dose of antibiotics. now a days we can treat urinary tract infections for three to five days, not seven days anymore. and don't, finish all your pills. don't take family members pills. when you have a cold or flu, tough it out. if you have it beyond a up can of weeks, then you might have a secondary super infection with bacteria and need antibiotics. jenna: that's a good tip. >> if you're sick for a couple days, tough it out. stay home, rest, drink fluids. you don't need antibiotics. jenna: i'm looking at jon say, when you tough it out, because a lot of us could use that advice every now and then. jon: i'm just not going to get sick. jenna: you said it. i didn't, doc, but it was well-put. dr. vinocur, thanks very much for that. appreciate the advice as always. >> my pleasure. jon: there are new concerns about security at one of the nation's busiest airports when and you had undercover agent with a fake bomb hidden in his pants gets past two security checkpoints. where? 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the team that did this was part of the agency's version of internal affairs. no word yet on whether they were liking for something specific in terms of newark security. the mock bomb happened last month we're told. and again, tsa doesn't normally comment about these things but this one is getting a lot of attention. jenna? jenna: wow, that's scary. harris, thank you. >> reporter: sure. jenna: a story we'll continue to watch. jon: meantime usama bin laden's son-in-law is in a new york city courtroom pleading not guiltity to conspiracy to kill americans just blocks away from the world trade center site. the latest on his case and the controversies that surround it. plus a new job report out today. what it means for the economy, your household income and future work. americans are asking a lot of questions. we want to hear from you. you can send questions through twitter to the handle,@happening now. send us those questions. is diff; how we get there is not. we're americans. we work. we plan. ameriprise advisors can help you like they've helped millions of others. to help you retire your way, with confidence. ♪ that's what ameriprise financial does. that's what they can do with you. let's get to work. ameriprise financial. more within reach. jenna: right before high tph-pb on the easnoon on the east coast. one step choser to knowing when a new pope will be named. amy kellogg is live. >> reporter: the conclave will begin on tuesday, tuesday morning there will be a pro[speaking latin ] mass at st. peters basilica. in the afternoon the cardinals length tere the sistine chapel by seniority, take an oath before god and one by one cast their ballots. at the end of the day tuesday we expect to see plumes of black smoke or white smoke over the vatican. black would mean they did not come to a decision, white would mean a new pope. if it doesn't all get concluded tuesday the process will continue on wednesday. march 12th tuesday is the day for the conclave to elect a nah pope. jenna: amy, thank you. a rough week some say for the president. you first have a set back on the sequester, then a dramatic filibuster forcing a clarification on killer drones or at least attempting to. welcome to brand-new hour of "happening now," i'm jenna lee. jon: i'm jon scott. thanks for joining us today. on the surface it appears the president is changing course trying to win over the opposition by doing something very different from what he's done up to now like sharing outside with paul ryan and dinner with republican senators the night before. "politico" saying republicans are forcing the president's hand, quote, obama is doing things he's never done, like dine out this week with a dozen republican senators at a meal at which they talked fiscal issues, to reengage with lawmakers after almost two years of campaigning against them. house speaker john boehner calling the dinner diplomacy a hopeful sign saying, quote, this week we've gone 180, after being in office for four years he's actually going to sit down and talk to members. senator rand paul is declaring victory after his filibuster forced the drone issue onto the front burner. the administration now stating the president does not claim power to kill americans on u.s. soil using drones. here is "politico"'s take on that episode. the flurry of attention to the issue this week caught the obama white house by surprise. the white house appears to have miss judged the downside of its stances on tran parent see and how it could penned existing legal principles to justify the program, complications and fumbles by the attorney general and growing concern about some segments of the public. let's talk about it with joe trippi, john dean's campaign pherg, a fox new manager. and fox news contributor. did the president over play his hand, joe? >> i think the president's feeling now with the new reality, we are not in the campaign season. and i think what's happening is the republican -- i think he's realized he can't move republican votes in the house from the ou. most o outside. most of these members are in safe republican district. it's not going to be by brow beating them into it but by sitting down and working with them. the early strategy worked for his re-election and actually worked up until now but it doesn't look like it will work much further than that, that's why i chicago he's changed tactics. jon: it seems that he is operating as if he got a sweeping electoral mandate. he basically got 51% of the vote. it was still a pretty close election. >> look, he's only the second -- literally two or three presidents have got even over 51% in both of their elections. he was one of them. the other one was fdr and i think reagan. it's not that, it's when you're pushing off republicans it helped bring independents to him. the problem is we go into the 2014 election, each of these members of congress are in relatively very safe districts. the more you push against a republican the more that republican doesn't have to fear a primary challenge. i mean if it's coming from the president, that republican is solid, fighting the president, more solid by fighting him than working with him. so i think the president realized the only way to get anything done now is to change strategies and try to sit down and win it on the inside, not fight from the outside. jon: the question i guess is, is it too a little for the president to change his stripes? here is what the speaker of the house said, john boehner says, i'm hopeful that something will come out of it, referring to these meetings and lunches and dinners with the president, but if the president continues to insist on tax hikes i don't think we're going to get very far. if the president doesn't believe that we have a spending problem, i don't know if we're going to get very far. but i'm optimistic. despite all the sequester cuts and everything, the budget -- the federal government will spend more money this year than it spent last year, joe. >> that's right, jon. one thing when you read that i should point out that this could be a between a rock and a hard place for these republicans, because if the president now looks like, hey i'm sitting down, we are having dinner, we're talking, and then they vote no, then we sit down and talk some more we have dinner and they oppose him on something else, it could set them up in 2014 for if you want to get something done you've got to change congress i. mean, he's not on the ballot in 2014. there could be a trap here if republicans don't handle this -- if they handle it with sort after led foot i think it could be a problem. jon: the american people don't seem too much like the way the sequester thing has been going so far, that is some of the choices that have been made about things to cut. it will be interesting to see how it all shakes out. joe trippi, thanks for joining us. >> thanks, jon. jenna: right now the son-in-law of osama bin laden pleading not guilty this morning to conspiracy to kill americans. his name, suleiman abu ghaith. he appeared in a federalcourtrot steps away from ground zero. all of this for his alleged role as the terror group's top spokesman. they say he made an extensive post arrest statement totaling 22 pages. some makers to e are blasting the obama administration for bringing this very high profile suspect into the civilian legal system rather than a military tribunal at gitmo. >> the administration's decision here to bring this person to new york city, if that's what's happened, without letting congress know is a very bad precedent to set. we believe very firmly that the congress has tried to tell the administration when it comes to people like this. that we want them to go to gitmo to be held in military custody for interrogation purposes. jenna: the judge in the case says he will set a trial date at the next court conference, which is set for early april, so we'll watch for this. the case apparently is in civilian court and these where it's going to stay for now. in the meantime new developments concerning north korea today. the country responding to some new u.n. security council sanctions with more tough talk repeating a vow to ditch all none aggression packets with south korea. pyongyang has threatened a preemptive nuclear attack against the south and the united states. though the obama administration says it's fully capable of defending against such a move this is a lot of heated talk and a lot of furious rhetoric from north korea, fueled by the anger over the sanctions that have happened, and the joint military drills by the united states and south korea that happen every year in the region. north korea with some, again heated rhetoric today. it's almost a daily thing now, jon. jon: a little scary there. now our fox news weather alert. a dangerous nor'easter battering parts of new england again, take a look at plumb island, massachusetts, it's taking a beating. snow is piling up there, while peers wind an fierce winds and high wave are whipping the massachusetts coastline and homes as well. >> my family's lifetime of work, this is what my parents sent a lifetime working for. they didn't take vacations, this was it. we never went anywhere. this was our vacation. we got to stay here, and now we are going to see it slide right in the ocean. jon: another storm slamming ashore there. they have got even plenty of snow in boston, in that area in the last couple of months. they are looking very much forward to spring, which, yes it is in fact on the way. jenna: it's good to have that reminder in the future. kentucky seven rand paul hald thpaul had a epic filibuster this week. others barry covered it. 13 hours on the floor. no bathroom break, no snacks, few snacks. jon: he had a milky way. jenna: our news watch panel will take a look a the coverage on this political family. who chose to do what and why. new questions about safety measures at the wildlife sanctuary after a young woman is killed by a caged lion, a live report just ahead. >> everybody loved her. she came in every morning. if any of us was in a bad mood she lightened the load. she had a friday song that she sang every friday. she had songs that she made up for each of the cats. jenna: adam housley is on that story he'll join news a moment. brand-new numbers on jobs and on our economy. take a look at the dow, up again today. what is this all wit about? 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[ male announcer ] glucerna hunger smart. a smart way to help manage hunger and diabetes. jenna: new information today on that young woman killed in that horrific lion attack. 24-year-old intern diana hansen was cleaning the big cat's cage when apparently it attacked her. the coroner says she died almost instantly of a broken neck, and did not suffer. yet there are so many different questions with this story. adam housley has more from los angeles. >> reporter: a lot of questions. the story has changed pretty significantly too. we were original low told she was in the cat's cage with the cat. she wasn't supposed to be there it was after-hours and the cat aeu tpabgd her. no one knew why she was in the cage. now the story is she was in the cat's cage cleaning it and the big cat couscous, the four-year-old lion was in another cage, a holding cage and somehow that lion got out, got back into its enclosure where she was cleaning. as she was on the cellphone to a colleague swiped and hit her in the back of the head and broke her neck almost instantaneously. the loss is huge. not only for her family but for those who worked at the sanctuary with diana said she was a sweet person who loved big cats. >> even though she was only with us for a little over two months she was part of our family. she made instant friendships with everybody up here, everybody loved her. >> reporter: she was killed and when authorities tried to get her out of there, out of the cage the lion wouldn't let them close, the lion had also claude her and about it her as well, played around with her like a mouse who, one of the authorities said like a cat with a mouse. the 4-year-old lion couscous was killed in order for authorities to get there. now the question is, this facility has had no problems with security over the years. but this obviously is a huge security issue and one that is still being investigated. those who own the cat sanctuary say they will fully cooperate with the investigation. take a listen. >> we want to assure the community the safety protocols that are in place at the cat haven, and they were in place at the cat haven. we have been incident free for 16 years since we opened in 1998. we are cooperating fully with the sheriff's department in the investigation and hope we can determine exactly what happened. >> reporter: the cat sanctuary is 45 miles in the foothills above fresno, california, it remains closed as the investigation is on going. a lot of questions, jenna to see how this cat got out, if there were only two interns there, why were they the ones in charge, how this cat was in a holding facility and the latch was able to be opened by a big cat. that is a big question and part of the investigation, jenna of course. jenna: as we get more information we'll share that with our viewers. adam thank you. jon: if you're a bad guy here is your chance nor fame. smile. a new tool helps cops catch criminals 24 hours a day. plus, you won't find this in the travel brochure, thousands of sharks tweupl swimming awfull sharks tweuplin sharks sharks swimming awfully close to shore. an expert telling us how often we swim close to them without even knowing it. jenna: right now some unwelcome guests for spring break. some beaches in south florida are reopening today after sharks were spotted just feet offshore. we are not talking about a few sharks here and there, we are talking about thousands of sharks coming close not shore. it's part of a migration that takes place, a little late this year, but that's what they are doing. check this out, researchers reel in and tag a great white off the coast of jacksonville. while tagging her they named her lydia. pretty name for a pretty shark i guess when it's far away from you. scientists say she is the first great white to be captured and tagged off florida. with the ability to track her they will let her go right back into the ocean and watch for her heading close to the shore, which is what they would be concerned about. let's bring in greg marshal a shark expert who has dedicated the last 25 years of studying, exploring and documenting life in the social. he has a new series "kingdom of the oceans" that pre miers this sunday on natgeo wild. 25 years, greg. any close calls within the last 25 years? >> it depends how you characterize close calls. i've had wonderful experiences with sharks. the hair on the back of your neck sticks up every now and then when they get a little bit too close. the closest i've ever come is when the colleague of mine was unfortunately hit by a shark one time. but it's very, very rare. jenna: but no bites. >> no bites, i'm clean. jenna: 25 years is a longtime to be hanging out with sharks and maybe proves the point that, you know, in the grand scheme of things, maybe not so dangerous, greg, is it a good idea that they close off the beaches in some of these areas while this shark migration is happening? >> it's just sensible really. the fact is that shark attacks are very, very rare, extremely rare, maybe one in the united states every year that occurs, that results in a fa a fatality. it's extremely rare. but it's very sensible to take precautions and not be in the water when there are lots and lots of sharks around like this. jenna: we are taking a look at some of the sharks in the migration. black tips and spinners. what can you tell us about those and why they are my great nothing this way? >> they are relatively small sharks compared to a great white. great whites can get up to 20, 21 feet long. these sharks maximum length on these guys is probably ten feet, but normally they are only about five or six feet long. these are small sharks. the reason that they are migrating right now is because they are following the food. haiher rings, sardines, mackerel is moving up the close between in a and the bahamas and being constricted in the narrow alley right there. the sharks are following along to have a feed. jenna: how long will they stay in these big clumps before they disperse? >> as they start moving north the continental shelf broadens out right around palm beach. as they move know north carolina, south carolina they will spread out widely. jenna: then where are they head. we want to know when we plan our future vacation. >> the great thing is we don't really know. the cool thing is that for great white sharks we have the ability to deploy satellite tags on them. for the smaller sharks it's a little more difficult to know where they are going because they are not big enough to carry the satellite technology the great white sharks are. they go as far north as north carolina, as far north as cape cod. but they are generally further offshore there because of the continental shelf which is much wider. jenna: i was able to scuba dive with a two black tip as little while ago it is amazing to see them in the water, it is a little scary at the same time. some precaution is widely used. you have this new series that is launching. what can you tell us about it "the kingdom of the oceans." >> the key thing to remember is that it's a true national geographic blue chip natural history series, absolutely fantastic, from everything from emperor penguins in the antarctic to the great blue whale. spectacular wild life, spectacular behavior of natural history. it's what people expect of national geographic. jenna: it sounds like you've had quite the adventurous life. we look forward to having you back to talk about more of your adventures in the future. >> thank you. jenna: you can catch the first episode of greg's new show this weekend "kingdoms of the oceans" at 8:00pm eastern and 10 pacific. jon: kentucky senator rand paul rocking the political world this week. he said it wasn't planned bo buy ended up in a filibuster of john brennan as nomination. how did the media treat it? 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"the washington post" found room to put a couple of stories about paul's filibuster in its paper. "the new york times" did not. >> it's deplorable, it really is just deplorable. >> i think they did today, finally on friday, they finally put a front page story about how this issue was kind of jumbling up the politics, but they didn't specifically cover the filibuster, you're right. jon: and here is one senator who manages to throw sand into the gears of government for 13 hours. he said he didn't really walk in that day planning to do it, but he wound up doing it. he wasn't necessarily prepared with comfortable shoes and that kind of thing. but he did manage to get it done, and it just goes to show, i guess, you know, that -- well he accomplished what he wanted to accomplish. >> he didn't do badly for himself either. if you're one of 16 republicans who are now thinking about a presidential run, people now know who he is. they know more than they did a week ago, who he is. so he did the right thing for the country, raising the right questions and i think he did the right thing for himself politically. jon: that gets us back to the political stunt question. >> i don't know anybody -- other than i guess someone at msnbc is saying ridiculous things about it being a fundraising stunt. i think most people agree that rand paul would have done this regardless of who was in office, that this is a principled position and something he believes in. if there is some political benefit to him so be it. my sense is he'll do things even if they don't benefit him which is to back up his principles which is something that doesn't happen in washington. it's very news worthy. jon: again we ask this question all the time, if george w. bush had suggested that it was going to be okay to perhaps, you know, send a drone over atlanta or fort lauderdale or any other american sit and takeout a terrorism suspect there would have been how longs from the democratic side. >> we'd been having impeachment hearings. this is just ridiculous. the double standard should be so clear now to everybody, even if you support the president, i think americans have a right to know where he comes down on these crucial issues. and it's interesting that you get code pink and libertarians, and the tea party on one side, but that does say that there is some legitimate issues being raised. jon: interesting that it took this kind of a move to get this pronouncement out of the former law professors administration that, yeah, we are not really thinking it's legal for the president to kill americans on american soil with a drone. >> that's what i was thinking as i was watching i think in hour 11 i was asking, why does a senator have to stand and talk for 11 hours to get this basic question answered? i mean u know, they should have answered it already, but maybe an hour, two or three they could have answered it. >> and not just this issue, but benghazi, and the legal justification for a number of things that the congress has been asking the president about. it's a consistent policy on the part of the white house not to give up this kind of information. and i don't understand it. jon: it was an interesting week. most people haven't seen a filibuster like this before, and it was interesting to watch and interesting to see how it was covered. i'll have more with our panel on fox news watch, the runs 2:30 eastern tomorrow right here on fox news. jenna: other news, crime fighting is going high-tech in a new way. a website called crooks tube is launching showing some real crime scene video. it allows ordinary citizens to send tips directly to police and hopefully some of this will lead to an arrest. phil keating joins us live from our miami bureau with more on this. >> reporter: every week tips are coming in thanks to crooks tube users. think of this as neighborhood watch but on the internet. by daytime chiropractor greg goldstein, he's cracking the kings out of stiff necks but by night he's at home on his computer helping to crack unsolved crimes. he created this after a break in happened across the street from his parents' house which none of them learned about for days. every night he up loads crime videos sent out by the cops across the country. believing there is a little crime fight tpher all of us about 12,000 persons surf these videos on crooks tube. >> they feel like they are part of a gang, but a good gang again the bad guys. so as long as the gang keeps growing hopefully we could take our streets back. >> reporter: if a user recognizes a suspect they can type-in a tip on the website and they go straight to the cops on the case. nothing but positive feedback from police. after all every criminal has people out there who know him or her, so the more eyes out there looking at these videos ro potentially recognizing the suspects, well that only advances an unsolved case. plus the website is free for all of the amateur detectives among us. >> people are doing the right thing because it's not for the financial gain, it's because they want to do the right thing in their community, they want to help solve crime. >> reporter: tipsters also do remain anonymous. however if there is a reward in one of these unsolved cases that a crooks tube user helped solve they are entitled to the extra cash. jenna. jenna: interesting story, thank you. jon: in california folks are asking, where is the money? back in 2011 that cash-strapped state almost had to close 70 parks due to a lack of fund. now it turns out there was money for the parks all along, and nobody in authority has said anything about it. claudia cowan is on the case live in san francisco, claudia. >> reporter: the state park's department in california is in damage control mode after becoming a symbol of government incompetent. for more than 13 years tens of thousands of tax dollars sat unused in hidden rainy day accounts even as the state was moving to close 70 parks and volunteers were desperately scraping together donation toss keep them open. at first it was thought to be an embarrassing accounting mistake, but according to an investigation by the attorney general's office parks officials deliberately kept the fund secret. to critics it says as much about bad management as about the mindset in sacramento. >> someone that is working within a department and an agency it almost becomes their own and they think of it as their own and they get very protective of it. and that culture that they have determines their behavior, and obviously in this case it was the wrong behavior. >> reporter: well thanks to a new state law the secret stash which whoever's around $54 million will go back to the parks. and most donors, while outraged are not clambering to get their donations back. still park officials know they need an imagery boot and fast. >> what we have to do is turn around to our stake holders and constituents and visitors and say, watch what we do. watch what fixes we put in place. learn from the trust that we try to put in place for you. >> reporter: among the fixes, regular state-wide audits and new leadership at the top. the attorney general's office is also conducting a criminal investigation, so all those park officials who resigned in a hurry last summer, jon, they may not be completely off the hook. jon: interesting. they found the money. claudia cowan, thanks. jenna: cardinals are gathered in rome setting a start date to begin voting for a new pope. we'll get new incite on the action from the vatican from father morris ahead. a live look at the dow after getting new numbers on jobs in this country. and data on the housing market and how really american families are doing post recession. america is asking and we are answering. send us your questions on the economy, tweet us at "happening now" or at jennafn @jennafn c and our panel will answer your questions next. 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[ charlie ] try zinc free super poligrip. jenna: some are saying it's a bright sign for the u.s. economy. hiring is up, unemployment is down. that's what we learned today in our new jobs report. employers adding 236,000 workers to the payrolls last know. the new hires are helping to push the jobless rate down to 7.7%, the lowest hr*efl since december 2008. that is not the only reason why the number went down. we will talk a little bit about those who left the workforce. it took five and a half years but thanks to the surging stock market and the steady rise of home prices americans are apparently finally regaining the $16 trillion in wealth that they lost during the great recession. the federal reserve says household wealth is now at 98% of the pre recession peak. do you feel like you regained all that ground? how do you really feel out there? america is asking all sorts of questions about the economy and what it means for our families. here with us is steve moore senior economics writer for the "wall street journal" and also jeffery frankel was on president clinton's panel of economic advisers. great to have you. what do you think this report says, steve? >> hallelujah, right? this is a very good jobs report and it's about time. this recovery has been about half the pace of normal job growth. we finally got a pretty good number. a lot to really celebrate in this report, not only the 200-plus thousand new jobs, jenna but wages rose last month, you actually had people working longer hours, suggesting the labor force is getting a little tighter, and i love that number about wealth being back up, because that means we finally made up most of the lost ground from that terrible recession we had in 2008. but we are still three and a half million jobs sort of where we were in 2008. the wealth has been made up but not the jobs. jenna: jeff, what about that? people talk a lot about labor force participation. our viewers might hear that if we hat same number of people in the labor force as we did in 2009 unemployment would actually be above 10%. how concerned are you about who is actually in the workforce and who actually hasn't been able to get back in? >> well it is worry so many, labor force participation rate has been in a downward trend in 10. it peaked in 2010 and has been down ever since. the whole last year is good. i mean, it's unusual to have in one report in one month all the numbers point the same direction, that 236,000 jobs created, even more created if you just look at private sector jobs. unemployment rate down to 7.7% but it's not. i want to repeat it's not in this month or in the last year, because of a fall in the labor force participation rate. we had that problem earlier, but the labor force participation rate has been stable. jenna: interesting. i asked for the two of you to come on the air sometimes on opens ends of of the spectrum? let me disagree with one thing on that. i think the fall in the labor participation rate is a big, big problem. look, we would have -- if we didn't have the decline in the people looking for work the real unemployment rate according to the labor department, when you include people who either have part time jobs or people have just given up that is 14%, jenna, that is a very high number. we are not out of the woods, this has still been a very substandard recovery, in fact the worst recovery we've had since the great depression. jenna: one of our viewers has a question about sequester. obviously the jobs report is looking back on february and we've been told all sorts of things about what sequester is going to do to the job market. what do you think we should expect now moving forward because of the sequester? >> first let me just comment on steve. the problem with unemployment is still so high it is a particularly a problem that long term unmoment is so high. the participation rate is far below where it was in 2001. for the last year these things have been stable and it is good news moving in the right direction. must compared to what is a normal recovery, the bush recoveries in between the two bush recessions between 2000 and -- the end of 2001 and the end of 2007 was a rate of job creation -- jenna: wait, we are not here to argue the bush history especially because we also had the terrorist attacks and all these different elements. our viewers are concerned what is happening going forward from here. the sequester just happened. what is going to be the effect? >> i think it's amazing that recent numbers have been as strong as they are, as they have been given everything that is going on, which is, you know, recession in europe, also, but the cuts in government spending and the cuts in government jobs, which show up in these numbers, by the way, it's only private sector jobs that are growing. government jobs have been cut for the last year. and especially given all the uncertainty over this deadlock in congress that we've -- that we've unfortunately become accustomed to with the debt ceiling limitation debates and the fiscal cliff in january and now the sequester. i think it's incredible that the economy has held up as well as it has and i am very war lead about going forward. jenna: steve i'm going to ask you about higher gas price whes we comwhen we come back we. have to take a quick commercial break. many viewers are concerned with the higher gas prices. also coming up osama bin laden's son-in-law and former al-qaida spokesman pleading not guilty to conspiring to kill americans. a terrorism plot to play out in new york city, we'll bring you the very latest on that next. i'm a conservative investor. but that doesn't mean i don't want to make money. i love making money. i try to be smart with my investments. i also try to keep my costs down. what's your plan? 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>> well the numbers on unemployment benefits have been moving the same direction as the jobs numbers recently. the fact is every year, whether it's every month, whether it's a good month or bad month lots of people find jobs and lots of people lose jobs. a recession is a period when there are more people losing jobs than finding jobs and visa-versa you always have this flow in and out, and you can't just look at the number of people filing for unemployment benefits, have you to look at the balance, the net flow. jenna: the trend on both end is better. >> that's right. jenna: real quick let's get your thoughts on that. from what we've seen from the sequester, the jobs market and the jobs report is that something where we could make more spending cuts, austerity because the economy can get it. >> we need private sector growth and government austerity. we should not be raising taxes. that will cause businesses to contract. i think every dollar let the government spend is a dollar more for the private sector and private families to spend. cut government spending and increase private sector output. jenna: the economists said do both, though, jeff, what do you think? >> i mean steve moore should be overjoyed at the record of the clinton administration over the last few years because that's exactly what has been happening, whether you look at jobs or look at sectors of gdp, look at the fourth quarter, the government sector advantage and the private sector increased. i personally think it's much too early to say what the affects of the sequester will be, whether it's positive, negative or neutral. jenna: we'll reserve our thoughts for next month when we have you both back to talk about the jobs report. jeff and steve, thank you so much as always. >> good to be with you. jon: all right. some stunning new video of justin bieber, as you might have never seen him before. jenna: you're really anticipating this. right, jon? you can tell the excitement coming from you. jon: i am such a bieber fan. the pop singer losing it big time in a confrontation with the paparazzi, yes, the f-bombs were flying. we'll beep it out, next. like tender white meat chicken and vegetables in a golden flaky crust that's made from scratch. marie callender's pot pies. it's time to savor. to get our adt security system. and one really big reason -- the house next door. our neighbor's house was broken into. luckily, her family wasn't there, but what if this happened here? 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