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the white house standing by the men who took a pledge to take a bullet for the president. this morning new details in the secret service prostitution scandal, agents being offered a lie detector test now. she got a ride home from the bar and hasn't been heard from since. the family of a ft. bragg soldier saying she may be in danger this morning. >> she's loved by all of her friends and family, and we all just really want her to come home. >> cnn spoke to her mother and her sister. we'll have the latest coming up. and it is here. take a look. some drivers already paying $6 a gallo...

Heather: back to basics, that's the one number -- number one issue. i would add my sister is a teacher so i would say more support for the teachers across the country as well. >> they need more freedom from the work rules, too, they need to be able to do their best and they can't do it now. heather: thank you very much for joining us, we appreciate it. gregg: north korea's controversial rocket launch ends in an embarrassing failure for the regime. so what can we expect now from the leaders in pyongyang and the future of their nuclear program? we'll take a much closer look. and mother nature,...

An awful lot of time on diversity, those are good things, but if you -- you have to get the basics right first. heather: so get back to the basics. union work rules are affecting our education. >> our education system is bu -- burratized. the unions make it impossible to update schools and provide the framework in which people can do their best. things are so bad now, only 26 percent of high school seniors are proficient in math and only 21 percent in science. heather: so what about grade inflation? that's another issue you brought up. >> we have had both in colleges and in high schools a lot ...

>> what about ralph giganti related to jimmy the chin. >> is that the guy walking around in his bathrobe? >> yeah, that's the one, trying to prove he's crazy. and you got joseph cologna. look at him! also over $400,000 a year. the son-in-law of the chin. >> that's why everything is so expensive there. this is money that is allocated to the port authority. >> the reason this is going this way is because under their union work rules, if you are a checker or a timekeeper, those are the people who keep track of everybody's hours, you are actually officially on the clock whenever somebody is workin...

For example, the language about teachers. on the one hand, many of us have wanted to see comprehensive change. but at the moment it feels like so much of the conversation about comprehensive change is falling on teachers and the solution seems to be break the unions. if you break teachers unions somehow that will improve education, as though what is good for teachers is not what's good for students. >> well, i do think that the union work rules are an impediment to great teaching and learning, but i certainly wouldn't pin all of our problems on that. we have a workforce that's not as educated ...