the gang of eight working for months on a secret deal to reform our immigration laws. now they are ready to refeel their plan. welcome to a brand-new hour of happening now. we are glad with you are us. i m jenna leave. do you ever feel they need a little jacket that says gang of eight or something like that. if they are going to be a real team they need something visual. rick: i think that is a great idea. we ll pass it onto them. i m rick folbaum in nor jon today. the gang of eight with their special jackets finishing up the final details. they plan to unveil their proposal tomorrow and the measure could provide a math to citizenship for millions of people who are in the country illegally. republican senator marco rubio calls it a starting point. you will find that when we reform our legal immigration system we get these people that are already here now paying their taxes and not taking anything out of the system this will be a net positive for the country economically now and in
it not smallville . rick: we always knew you were from another planet. james rosen in washington. reporter: thank you. jenna: he spent nearly three decades living in the with virtually no contact with other people. police say he could be responsible for more than 1000 burglaries but apparently he can still attract the ladies, rick. what one woman is offering to help the man. rick: it is the glasses. jenna: a lot of handsome men have glasses. must be something else. what is taking effect today and what key lawmakers are saying about efforts to expand background checks. an important story you don t want to miss just ahead.
you know, right now, we don t have access to good community services. we ve been cutting those back. we shouldn t do what we did in virginia. after virginia tech we passed 42 million in new mental health services. everybody went yeah. next year we cut 50 million. we never changed one gun law. we made a long list stigmatizing people if you do this and have a mental illness you will have to be reported. we need to focus on good mental health care. stop, to get good people good care. that will help reduce the number of incidents like this. jenna: pete, great to have your perspective. we so appreciate your time. we look forward having you back on the program. thank you so much. thank you. rick: what an important discussion. when we come back a manhunt is underway for a dangerous inmate who managed to use explosives to escape from prison. we ll tell you where this is happening next. a boeing 737 crash land in the water. everybody survives. now an investigation underway in this country t
have ever known. there are a number of people that are waiting to hear an update and they want to be here when mitch comes down off that mountain and we re going to be here for him. jenna: well, we wish them well. the search was suspended yesterday due to an elevated risk of more avalanches in the area. rick: switching gears now and breaking new developments in the murders of a texas d.a., his wife and another local prosecutor. investigators now calling a former justice of the peace the lead suspect as they carry out several search warrants connected to eric williams. so far he has not been charged with the killings. he is however being held on charges he made what authorities are calling, a tariffsic threat. casey stiegel is live in kaufman, texas. sayssy, what is the latest? reporter: rick, the terroristic threat is not clear. they re being tight-lipped about the case and did over the weekend as this was developing.
should focus on getting those who need help the help they need before we have a tucson shooting and a virginia tech shooting. jenna: the issues comes back to public safety. right. jenna: when we re talking about these specific incidents and the logic of something like this, pete, doesn t it, that guns are the focus because if people that are evil or people who have mental illness or people who don t want to do bad things don t have weapons we can t be hurt and we don t want to be hurt. so that is kind of the approach. what do you think of that logic when it comes to mental illness? well, first of all people who have mental illness are not evil. we re not the enemy. mental illnesses, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, we don t know the cause of them but we believe they re genetic or environmentally produced. they re not fault of person. my son didn t do anything wrong to get a mental illness. most people with mental illnesses are not likely dangerous but most likely to be the victims.