That was picked up by blogger, with sarah palin tried to stay relevant. Because they reach millions of devoutly religious people. The problem is the article is fake dreamed up by the daily current and the Washington Post bought it hook, line and syringer. Of course the former Alaska Governor fired back with this. Hey Washington Post im having coffee with elvis this week and washed the moka most. Thanks to our panel. See you next week. Heather dire new warnings about the potential putting of sequestration cuts could have on the u. S. Military. Army Officials Say across the board cuts would force them to increase tour lengths for soldiers deployed in afghanistan next year and could put our National Security at risk. Hello welcome to a brandnew hour inside americas news head headquarters. Kelly im kelly wright. They say tours would have to be extended because the cuts would limit them to train brigades to replace them. Listen. In my opinion, sequestration is not in the best interests of our National Security. It will place an unreasonable burden on the shoulders of our scattered showers and civilians. We will not be able to execute the department of defense strategic guidance as we developed last year. I understand the seriousness of our countrys fiscal situation. We have and we will continue to do our part, but the significance of these budget reductions will directly impact to sustain readiness today and into the future. Kelly live in washington with more details about this. Steve, it sounds ominous to our National Security. Reporter that is right. Pentagon has been putting out this warning for a long time. Slash the budget and military training could be among the things severely curtailed at maintenance of military bases could be another. All of this could endangering are readiness for conflict around the world. That is what the army chief of staff is saying. He says that might happen if the sequester goes through. For example, it will curtail training for 80 of ground forces. This will impact our units basic war fighting skills and across critical specialties, including aviation, Intelligence Engineering and on an our ability to recruit soldiers into our army. Reporter so basically he is saying the budget cuts going through soldiers in afghanistan may see their tours extended because budget cuts will drastically limit training for brigades to replace them. Republicans say we cant allow them to take effect and continue to blast president obama. The president hats tailed faild to put forward a plan. Why . Because they see the sequester as an opportunity to push through another tax increase. Reporter the president failed to mention sequester specifically. He made another pitch for higher minimum wage and substantial reduction has taken place in the deficit. Over the last few years we have reduced the deficit by 2. 5 trillion which puts us more than halfway 4 trillion in deficit reduction that economists say we need. Now, we need to finish the job. Reporter so with the threat of that sequester looming over washington and looming over the pentagon, congress has taken a week off for the president s day holiday. Kelly steve, were going to be following this story and more on the impact budget cuts could have on our National Security. We will be talking to bob scales a fox military analyst. He knows what he is talking about. That is coming up later in the show. Heather meantime, some incredible events beyond earths atmosphere. Russians are trying to recover from a meteor that slammed into the ground. It was all caught on tape. The flash, the bang catching everyone off guard. First you can see the blinding light and then, the supersonic boom. [ siren ] heather can you imagine . The flash was like ten suns and saw the shock waves, it was chaos on the streets. You could hear car alarm screeching and windows shattering more than 4,000 buildings were damaged and many them were apartments and the government promising to fix them. Here is thing, that is a long time in the icy winter, about 200 people were injured including more than 200 children. Most of them hurt by falling glass. Nasa saying the meteor was about 50 feet and impact may have been 30 times stronger than the atomic bomb that hit hiroshima. Drivers are searching a frozen lake, this one near where it landed. 20,000 searchers looking for remains of the meteor but so far they havent found any. Kelly we have to check this out. An amazing video, an unrelated asteroid flying past earth, this one was much bigger and could have been more dangerous. It doesnt look so bad within safe within our atmosphere but this nasa of an makes shows the path of 150 foot asteroid. It came within 17,000 miles of earths surface and something so large has come to our planet. Scientists have been keeping a very close eye on this one, but there are a lot they have never seen them coming this big. Heather here to add to that, a mysterious sighting, this one even closer to home. Reports of a bright light flashing through the sky, this was in northern california. Kelly look at that. Heather you can see flying by on the right hand corner of your screen, witnesses saying it looked like a fireball heading west but astronomers dont know what it is. They say their telescopes didnt pick up any activity. The Carnival Cruise ship is under heavy scrutiny today as investigators try to determine what went wrong. Thousands of people were left stranded for more than a week after an engine room fire. A coastguard investigator says it appears the fire was small but happened in the right place to cripple the vessel. New reaction from passengers that they are more than thrilled to be back home. No bathrooms and no electricity and dwindling supplies turning their dream vacation into a nightmare. I know that the ceo or whoever made the decision to apologize he needs to go into room 7231 and shut that door and try to live in there for three minutes. Never again in my life will i walk around a cruise ship. Im done. Im done. [ laughter ] never again. Not going to happen. Ive had it. I will never they can take their flee trip and go where the sun doesnt shine. They dont know what they are doing. I am so sorry. Kelly meantime, the first lawsuit has been filed against carnival. Lawyers from texas say that carnival failed to provide safe and sanitary conditions. The passenger claims she suffered emotional harm during the ordeal. Heather the family of Oscar Pistorius who is charged with premeditated murder with the shooting of his girlfriend. Its setting off a firestorm in the international media. Speaking today his uncle says the athlete is numb with shock and grief. As you can imagine, our entire family is devastated. We are in a state of total shock about this tragic death of reeva which we knew well over the last few months. After consulting with legal advisors we deeply regret allegations of premeditated murder. We have no doubt here there is no substance of the allegation. Heather breaking down in court as he was charged. He is currently being held at a local police station. A bail hearing is scheduled for tuesday. Meanwhile, a prerecorded reality show featuring Reeva Steenkamp will air as planned. The model, she was among the latest celebrities called Tropical Island of treasure. She was excited about the show and bbc says the episode will air today after a special tribute broadcast. Kelly brandnew details about suspected cop killer Christopher Dorner and how he died. An autopsy showing the cause of death, a single gunshot wound to the head. Dorner led police in california on a massive manhunt for days and then the Police Officers body was found in a burnt out cabin. Adam housley is joining live from los angeles. Good to see you. What more can you tell us . Reporter it was quite a press conference when we got more information. Authorities say they believe that that press conference that he did die due to a selfinflicted gunshot wound. There is also some question as to whether or not he may have been injured the final autopsy will be released to the public will give us a better idea of what went down. They did show some of the weaponry that dorner had been using over his course of reign of terror, from high powered rifles to ten silencers. One of the rifles has word vengeance on the butt of the rifle. That was used to shoot out officers and kill four different people over the course of time. When you talk to officers who were there on tuesday when it went down at the cabin, they will tell you it was extremely dangerous for officers. The entire time we were there he would shoot at us. The officers were forced to take cover. We felt based on his behavior he was laying in wait for us if we tried to near the cabin, there was going to be another gun battle. Reporter number different ways to get him out using smoke devices. They would knock down the walls and windows. They used a loud speaker to try to force him to come outside but he wouldnt emerge. The family that owned the cabin they looked at the remains and as they looked at the burnt outside location they said it can be rebuilt but the lives of those lost cannot. Its a cabin, not a life. So dorner may have died there, its where the officer was fatally wounded. Those are the more important things. Reporter its where two officers were wounded and one was killed. Funeral is coming up this week. The other information we learned that every one of his victims was ambushed. Two officers, they were pursuing dorner but he biamd out of a truck. Because he was shooting them with a rifle they had no idea where the shots came from. They were basically shot and ambushed there up in the mountains. Kelly adam, thank you. Heather president obama has been hitting the road a lot over the last two weeks taking his plans for the economy gun control and education straight to the public. Most recently speaking to americans in north carolina, georgia and illinois. He is raising questions whether the president is maybe reaching out to the public instead of congress. John fund is a columnist and coauthor of the book who is counting . Ill ask you right away is his Public Campaign a cop out . Why not engage congress . I think the president is following in the footsteps of predecessors who said i need to convince the public to put the heat on congress to pass my program. Its a long time honored tradition and he is trying to rally support. Heather he wants to raise the minimum wage, expand preschools. Campaign first, negotiate second. As you mentioned its a strategy weve seen before and one that this white house and specifically has done before. They believe it worked for them when it came to extending the payroll tax cut in 2011. So, is the public sales pitch the way to go this time with these specific issues . I question that because, remember, the president went out on the road to campaign for his Healthcare Plan and it was not popular when he finished. Raising the minimum wage, people are not interested. They want jobs. I didnt hear a lot about creating jobs. In fact, if you raise the minimum wage up to what the president says, 9 an hour you will be eliminating jobs at the bottom end of the ladder, people who are teenagers and new workers. I question whether these microissues really appraisal to the macro concerns of the public. I was reading several articles and legislative director under president clinton for one, pa trick griffin, he equated the on the road sales pitch to shouting in the forest because he says there is no clear path to when we are going to get to the issues that he is addressing. You seem to be saying a similar thing . I think the president is a good speaker but for example he is raling against the sequester cuts but i am not hearing a clear alternative. We just went through raising taxes back in january. 75 of americans saw their payroll taxes go up. Again, i think the president is a good salesman, but you have to have a good product. So far. To use the old phrase from the commercial, where is the beef . Heather where is the beef . How are we going to pay for it . We appreciate your time. Thank you. Kelly new questions over what appears to be a multimillion dollar tax break for facebook. Raking in over a billion dollars in the United States alone last year but didnt pay any income taxes. 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Employees cash in the Stock Options and at that point there is a Tax Deduction for the company because even though it didnt cost facebook a nickel they treat it as wages and they get a deduction for it. Usually it doesnt wipe out a whole tax bill but Many Companies get big breaks. Reporter they will get more tax breaks for a total of about 3 billion and earlier this week president obama says it shouldnt happen. Save hundreds of billions of dollars by getting rid of loopholes. Reporter but facebook boosted his campaign and experts think that is why he doesnt single them out for tax reform. He has double standard when it comes out to picking examples to advance his agenda. He points to oil and Gas Companies taking questionable deductions which are legal under the law but he leaves out other Companies Like facebook that pay lower tax rates. Reporter so far facebook has declined to comment on their massive tax break. Heather thank you, peter. Kelly usually less violence is a good thing but with the murder rate dropping on the mexican side of the border and more immigrants heading home, real estate in sudden texas is starting to take a hit. Live in el paso with more details. Reporter great to see you. Apartment renters and people in the real estate business say they are happy to see the violence is coming to a slowdown however they say they will miss the business from people who move over into el paso to escape the violence. They will miss it when the migrants who are over here head back home. As the number of murders come to a decline, many mexican nationals in el paso are feeling safe to return home. Its positive news for the border city but bloom any for people here in the apartment business. We noticed the decrease here by 5 . We heard in other areas it was greater up to 10 . Between 2006 and 2010, more than 400,000 people had fled the carnage in juarez. Many came to el paso and got the nickname little mexico with so many nationals moving in. We noticed a lot of residents were the juarez area. They moved in the area and certain circumstances they owned homes in juarez but rented in el paso. There was 42 drop in murders in juarez. It has led many to return home. Local realtors are seeing a similar trend. The demand has slowed down. Kenny is president of the El Paso Association of realtors. They are feeling more comfortable. Not as nervous. They are staying over there and they are not as anxious to buy something and get over here as they have been. Reporter sales may be down but the hopes are high for el pasos sister city. Realtor we spoke to they, of course, will miss business over here, but it will be a long Term Economic wind when news gets out that the violence has slowed down in juarez. Hope is more businesses will be willing to move in. Kelly interesting dynamic. Thank you for that report. Iran Supreme Leader is issuing a new warning about his countrys Nuclear Program and tehrans intention of building a nuclear weapon. Heather but military officials warning about the dire consequences on our troops in afghanistan if the automatic budget cuts kick in in two weeks and why we could see fewer soldier homecomings like these. The boys used double miles from their capital one venture card to fly home for the big family reunion. You must be garths father . Hello. Mother. Mother traveling is easy with the venture card because you can fly airline anytime. Two words. Double miles this guy can act. Wanna play dodge rock . Oh, you guys and with double miles you can actuay use, you never miss the fun. Beard growing conte and go win whats in your wallet . Kelly welcome you back. Bottom of the hour, time for the top of the news. An autopsy report showing suspected cop killer Christopher Dorner died from a wound to the head. His body was found in a burned ou