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martha: see you tomorrow. bill: where elsewhere we be? martha: see you tomorrow. jon: hello, happy thursday to you, i'm jon scott. jane: i'm jane skinner, "happening now", in the top box, the president getting ready to hit the road to try to sell this health care overhaul as the house gets ready to take up the new fixes bill hammered out by the senate. we'll explain. jon: he's the most wanted man in the world and today there is new word of threats by osama bin laden to kill soldiers if the u.s. kills khalid shaikh mohammed. jane jane and a driver crashes into a swimming pool. what would you do? the neighbors willer here to tell us what they did. we're working on many stories to bring you over the next two hours. jon: fixes to the health care overhaul to be headed back to the house, democrats are calling this situation a minor glitch. senate majority leader harry reid blames it on two provisions violating congressional budget rules, but is this an opportunity for republicans to make even bigger changes? let's check in with carl cameron, live on capitol hill. tell us what are the corrections that have to be made, carl? >> reporter: they're technical, related to the budget. they're not health care-related, they're education-related. folks might remember in addition to health care lawmakers were considering an overhaul of the student loan program. so as a consequence, there's a provision about pell grants and another student-related loan program that violates budget rules, the math, adding up the total reduction of the decifit is off a little bit so they're making these drafting errors, these clerical revisions and in the process that will make a change to the bill and under reconciliation that can't happen, so the senate version -- the house version has been alter by the senate which means it goes back to the house and they've got to agree on the changes. that will probably happen today. the c-span junkie types, this is a great lesson in government civics because things will work at an extraordinarily fast pace and we'll see a bill go to the house and the president actually in -- potentially in one day. jon: when it gets back into the house they're going to vote on it almost right away, it sounds like? >> yeah, there are obstacles that have to be overcome, the rules committee of the house will have to have a meeting and draft provisions for the date, dividing time for dea -- debate, things like that, they'll assemble the house and vote on it. the numbers are there, the house proved it when they signed the bill and sent it to the president, the health care law that's been signed, so they've got the votes to do this, it's really a matter of the technicals but it's an illustration of how massive this piece of legislation is and the fact that they haven't prosed all their ts and dotted their is and something to be said if there's a concern for one problem, maybe there's a million of them and you haven't covered them all. jon: if republicans are hoping to make a change in the bill, it doesn't sound like they're going to accomplish that. >> they don't have the votes, for the last day and a half, they've been trying to amend the package, the democrats have successfully beaten back every single one of them, not even by voting on them buttain ling them together. overwhelming numbers in the majority, they're iebl to use legislative maneuvers to sideline the amendments without even considering them, really, and on the point of order, the budget reconciliation act itself is what's derailed the bill and sent it to the house but it's a temporary problem because the house is prepared to fix it pretty quickly. jon: carl cameron, live on capitol hill, thank you. jane: we're awaiting for the president to get aboard air force one, there he is, live acts from and ruse air force base. he's on his way to iowa today, he goes to sell the health care law. major, here's a question for you, why does the president need to take a trip to sell a law that's already on the books? hasn't he won? >> reporter: he has won and the white house wants to celebrate that victory. just to pick up a moment, my carl cameron, what he was talking about, i was having a conversation with a couple white house officials about if there is any concern here about the senate having to send the bill back to the house and they said no, no concern at all, the house is ready to go, as a matter of fact, a couple of white house staffers have friends on the democratic side of the house who they're going to watch college basketball with and the message is we'll be late, but not too late, don't worry, we'll be there and watch baseball tonight and get the bill passed. there's not one shred of concern at the white white housings, that whatever passes in the senate and it has to be voted with in the house, it will be dealt with and rapidly later tonight. why this trip to iowa city? look, the white house wants to continue to say not only did we try, did we per veer but we succeeded and this bill will work well for you, the white house was very happy to see a galup poll showing rising support for the health care reform but a day later it went back down, so the white house knows, to put it mildly, ambivalence and uncertainty about what this bill, now law, is going to mean to most americans, so the president wants to convey it's going to mean better things than you've heard and mark my words, the president will say, once you begin to feel it, once it begins to change your life, you'll be happy with those changes and the white house believes with the power of his rhetoric and if you will, majesty of the white house, that message can be spread and spread adequately. iowa city is the place they've chosen to begin that new campaign. jane: is there a reason they've chosen iowa city and will this be the only stop? >> reporter: not the only stop but there's a very good reason why iowa city. let's go back to may 2007 when this was not a president but a candidate and a long shot one at that and about then there was 200 volunteers for the barack obama for president campaign in iowa and the campaign knew if he was going to deal with a serious issue to challenge frontrunner hillary clinton, it had to be health care, there was no other issue that the obama campaign could confront hillary clinton on and gain attention from party activists and think tanks and democrat machinery than health care so it was the first big policy rollout for the obama candidacy and it chose iowa to do it because it had to win the caucus to have credibility long term and the hard long fought campaign, a caucus which they ultimately won but they believe setting down this marker on health care, when then candidate called for universal health care, set them on their way to that eventual caucus victory. jane: major garrett at the white house for us, thanks major. oxox-- jon: in the fox news room, a dangerous trip for the man first in line to the british thrown, prince charles is in afghanistan now visiting british troops, he went to camp se bastion in that country to pay tribute to those troops fighting the war on terror there, part of the nato forces. of course those forces are in afghanistan on the hunt for osama bin laden, the world's most wanted man is declaring a death sentence for americans if the u.s. should execute khalid shaikh mohammed, the alleged planner of the 9/11 attacks. there's a new audiotape purportedly from the terror leader that airs an al jazeera, the threat comes as the obama administration considers whether to try the alleged mastermind and the two co-defendants in a military tribunal or a courtroom. the last audio message aired in january. pakistani police arrest two men in the kidnapping of a little boy from england, the suspects both wanted in a string of crimes, including kidnapping, ransom and 22 murders, the case drawing international attention, when the five-year-old from britain went missing. the boy who is originally from pakistan was snatched at the beginning of the month from his grandparents' house in pakistan, he was found 12 days later wandering around a field, thenie u -- reu united with his parents in britain. authorities arrest a pakistani woman and -- man and woman, they are suspected of collecting the ram son the parents paid to the kidnappers. jane: health care happenings on the hill, we're monitoring a weekly news conference by speaker nancy pelosi. if she makes headlines, we'll bring them to you. speaking of headlines, the big business headline has to do with the unemployment numbers, new ones are out today, the labor department saying 442,000 americans filed for first-time unemployment benefits last week, that's fewer than analysts were expecting. jenna is here to explain what we can do with this good news. reporter and it is indeed good news that we have to share, this is the fourth straight week in a row that we have seen americans filing for first-time unemployment, that number dropped. if we look at the 4-week moving average which irons out volatility in the week to week number, that's lowest since september 2008 and we really want to see that 4-week moving average go down. that's a good sign. a quick note, when economists are look at this number, many are describing it as an improvement, as weather, but -- as better but they throw in a dash of fragile about this recovery or slow about this recovery, so they're tentative about it but all in all, a good number, we want to see this number come down and it is. jane: do the numbers show that hiring is starting to pick up? >> reporter: not exactly. what we look at continuing claims, that's the number of people that after the first week of getting unemployment continue to collect it for several weeks after that. that number is below the highs we saw. it used to be at 6 million about a year ago, now it's below 5 million but still higher than expected. what that shows is that as people are collecting unemployment, they're kind of moving through the line, they're collecting extended benefits and emergency benefits. they're not necessarily getting new jobs. so we'll see about job growth friday, that's when we get the next jobs report and that will show if we added jobs in this economy. jane: thank you jenna. jon: most parents sign a medical release form at the beginning of the school year without exactly knowing what they're agreeing to. dan springer is live at ballard high school in seattle, washington with interesting ramifications of that kind of decision. dan. >> reporter: yeah, john, we -- jon, we now know that consent form could have your kid go off site to an abortion clinic for an abortion without you ever knowing it, but not only that, also mental health treatment and drug treatment. more on that coming up. jon: and if you want to jump on dan springer's story during the break, check it out on our site, log on to foxnews.com/live shots. lots of extra information from our correspondents and producers. plus, a long little -- get along little doggy, from the wild, wild west, horses running free! how did they round them up? you'll find out in three minutes. >> ♪? >> ♪ the wild, wild west. >> ♪ >> ♪ jon: a fox news alert, we towld prince charles is in afghanistan. we just had a video feed coming in of his address to the troops, and of course, now we've lost it. no sooner did i introduce it than the feed went away. we understand that -- there he is, he's back again. let's listen in again to what the prince had to say. >> i do hope that at the end of the day, all your labors will come to fruition. because it surely will, considering how much you put into it. thank you all very much. jon: if memory serves correctly the british have the second highest number of troops in afghanistan, behind u.s. forces. part of the nato contingent that is there trying to stabilize, rebuild that country and, of course, capture osama bin laden. jane: here's something you don't see every day, a stampede through san diego, cameras were rolling when the dozen horses or so went on their little own adventure, running through the streets, parking lots. luckily nobody was hurt, the horses weren't hurt. a rancher believes that wild horses possibly from mexico upset his animals in their pens and basically coaxed them to make a run for it. all in all, it took about two hours, plenty of ropes and human beings to corral the horses. they're back safe. jon: how many times have you signed a permission slip or consent form no your -- for your child's school? probably dozens. some parents in washington state are outraged, at the beginning of the school year they signed consent forms so the child could be transported after campus for medical care. here's where it gets tricky. they never considered abortion might fall into that necessary category. obviously, dan, parents are upset about this, they say they should have the final say over their kids. what happened here? >> reporter: well, washington state does not have a parental consent nor parental notification law so a girl of any age can go into an abortion clinic and have an abortion without the parent's knowledge, the thing that got parents riled up at this high school is the school actually helped facilitate this abortion. they contacted a taxi company and had the taxi come pick the girl up, take her by herself over to an abortion clinic, have the abortion, and that taxi brought her back here and the mom was never notified. she's hot about it, she's upset because she believes that that consent form she signed should have spelled out that the treatment that they get at the school includes abortion. it says reproductive services but does not say abortion. as we found out since then, there are other service was that are included in that. you can come here and get mental health treatment off site, you can get drug counseling off site and the parents never have to know about it because of this confidentiality agreement that the state has. jon: there are some parents who say these clinics are important, right? >> reporter: well yeah, they say if my daughter orson does not have a good enough relationship with me to come and tell me my problems, mental health, drugs addiction, even abortion, then at least there's a place for them to go to get the services they need. the big question is do they need them without the parental involvement. some people say a 15-year-old kid is absolutely not prepared mentally to be able to make those decisions on their own. jon: dan springer in seattle, thank you. jane: volume aino watch in iceland -- volcano watch in iceland. there are concerns where all this red hot lava could cause flooding and what they're going to do about this. take a look, a 73-year-old, the victim of a game called catch and wreck. kids as young as nine, beating and robbing random victims on the street and are telling police they're doing it all for fun. we're going to talk about how to make this stop and talk to one of the victims. they're also dealing with flash mobs, kids flooding the streets, causing riots and vandalism. one of the store owners there said it was like a tsunami of kids coming from everywhere. we'll talk to authorities trying to get a handle on all of this, flex.campbell' -- alnethxt. jon: "happening now", some tough talk from iran's president, mahmoud ahmadinejad says more sanctions against its country will not stop its nuclear program. in the middle, volcano alert in iceland and new fears another eruption will melt the glacures and unleash all kinds of flooding there, evacuation orders in effect for folks nearby. a balmy spring in northern new england could be bad news for maple sirup makers -- syrup makers. the sugar season usually lasts into april. jane: two very dangerous situations in philadelphia involving kids there as young as nine years old. the first is really a violent version of what are called slash mobs, it's when teenagers use social networking sites like twitter to gather at a designated area, in this case, though, they're there to wreak havoc, roughing up property and bystanders. this week alone 28 teenagers were found guilty of felony rioting for storming a department store. the second problem they're dealing with in philly is catch and wreck, it's a random game where kids gather at a local playground, they surround people they believe are homeless, beat on them, and stomp on them. take a look, vintent papa, an elderly man that ran a candy store, he was in the hospital, he suffered a heart attack as a result of these beatings, left shoe prints visible on his head, he had internal injuries, had to be put on a ventilator. bell india moore was surrounded by the catch and wreck kids when she took a shortcut home from her job and turns out neither she nor mr. papa were homeless. >> when i fell, they started kicking me and calling me all kinds of profanity. >> we're joined by seth williams, philadelphia's district attorney. good to see you. let's start with the catch and wreck, these kids who are as young as nine just beating people up. i understand in one of these incidents, one of them was armed? >> this behavior is senseless. that's all i can say. it's lawless, and we're doing everything we can to ensure public safety in philadelphia and we're going we're going to charge the juveniles to the fullest extent of the law. jane: many of the -- what do the parents say? >> we're going to hold them responsible. these -- these kids think it's funny and it's senseless and criminal. jane: when the police asked what the heck were you doing, the kids were laughing about it. >> it makes no sense and it's disgusting. i almost want to throw up thinking about them injuring people and making a game out of stopping people. it's just unacceptable, we're working with the police commissioner and the school district superintendent to bring an end to it. jane: let's talk a a little bit, too, about unrelated but just as disturbing, this is pictures we're watching of the so-called flash mobs where everybody texts each other and end up in the same place and in one case, the one i referred to, it sounds like they were rampaging in a department store, knocking over customers and clothing and stuff. is this a curfew issue, do you crack down on parents there as well, how do you get control? >> we're hoping this is a passing fad but unfortunately, we've had three separate instances of juveniles sending text messages, facebook messages, my space, all sorts of messages to meet in specific cases to fight. but when you have a thousand kids converging at a specific location, only if 5 percent are there with a criminal intent, it's way too many and way too many converging on a place. we are charging these kids with felony riot, we've had 29 found guilty, we'll act swiftly, justice will be severe and the court system is cooperating with us. we have to get the message out, this is unacceptable behavior for these juveniles, parents must be accountable for their children. jane: some in the community say the budgets have been cut and they have nothing to do, the after-school programs have been cut. this is interesting from your mayor, who is black, quote, i don't think people should be find be excuses for inappropriate behavior, there's no racial component to stupid behavior, parents should not be looking to the government to provide entertainment for their children. is it just that these kids are bored, what's the deal? reporter. >> people don't have a constitutional right to the idiots. there are plenty of recreation centers and libraries. yes, we have to have more programming for kids and this isn't a problem because of the curfews because things are happening for the most part right after school. we have to police the kids, i'm taking care of my children, i need everybody to take care of theirs but when kids don't avail themselves of libraries or recreation centers, they're going to be arrested.

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