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Send us your e-mail or tweet us as well. heather: lawmaker in louisiana proposing a bill to ban imitation firearm at school, school events and near campus ground. violaters could face six months prison. clayton: fox business alert, thousands still stranded as delta tries to get back to normal again following the days of delays. heather: lauren simonetti from fox business with an update for us, lauren. lauren: good morning, a headache it is if you re flying delta today. a storm in atlanta back on wednesday set off domino affect that has resulted more than 3500 ....
Left the kids alone to go shopping. next to washington, d.c., and the sister of petraeus whistle-blower jill kelley went public for the first time with attorney gloria allred by her side. natalie khawam stood by as allred read various statements about natalie s character and said that her client shared a social relationship with the petraeus family. and finally by a vote of 6-5, san francisco supervisors voted to ban public nudity in the city s castro district. violaters face a $100 fine, but people can still be naked on special event days such as gay pride or the folsom street fair. all right, how about some sports? carmelo anthony went on a scoring binge with 29 points in a 102-80 victory over new orleans. the knicks have eight wins and ....
But we activity, but we haven t sanctioned the violaters in order for these countries and these companies to understand it s no longer possible to do business as usual with iran. jenna: we ll watch for that and see if the heat is turned up. netanyahu speaks today with the president by phone and speaks with mitt romney as well. thank you so much. great to be here. gregg: last hour we heard from senator lindsey graham slamming the administration s handling of the murder of u.s. diplomats in libya, and he talked about the reluctance to confront our enemies. a new fox news poll finding 43% of voters disapprove of how the white house has handled the response to the attacks while 39% approve, 17% not sure. monica crowley s a fox news contributor, radio talk show host; julie roginsky, also a fox news contributor and former adviser to democrat senator frank lautenberg of new jersey. good to see you both. ....
Today, fraud is actually decreasing, it involves only about 1% of participants, much lower than those days where there was an actual physical food stamp, you know, the coupon instead of the debit card that is swiped nowadays. but fraud is increasing, as you said, in sophistication, often committed by grocery store owners themselves, and it cost taxpayers $330 million in 2008 alone. one witness described how food stamp trafficking commonly works. a recipient will go to a restaurant or bar, and this is not a place where they would accept ebt cards. um, but they would go there, and the restaurant or bar would go to a grocery store and buy, say, $200 worth of groceries, and then they would for the bar or restaurant, and then they would give the recipient half, 75%, you know, something off of the ebt card. reporter: the violaters tend to be small, independent stores, not the major grocery store chains. ....
Are oftentimes children or the dependents for whom the food stamp was initially intended. but most important to remember that most grocery store chains do not commit this kind of fraud. the violaters tend to be small, independent stores, and the closer those stores lean towards selling primarily liquor and cigarettes, the more likely they are to commit fraud. most are, most that are found committing fraud are barred from participation, and they must also pay restitution. but there tends to be a lot of recidivism. that corner store may go out of business but often is bought by someone affiliate with the the old owner who applies fraudulently to participate in the program again and many of the panelists today described the need to ramp up scrutiny of the food stamp application program. that s where a lot of the fraud is committed. jon: i think all the taxpayers out there would like to get to the bottom of that and crack down. doug mckelway, thank you. sure thing. thank you. for us to ....