if you have a good tip. we will give you credit. always remember "the spin stops right here." >>heather: good morning. >>heather: good morning, july 19, thanks for getting up with us and watching "fox & friends first". >> and now the top five stories this hour, and some extreme weather to talk about. we have severe summer stor clobbering the northeast, 100,000 homes and businesses now without power across seven states. this was the scene in manhattan where golf ball sized-hail slammed on to the street.

ex nfl player took this picture, look at this, from an airplane above queens, new york. you can see the rain looking like a giant vortex over the city. that is scary. parts of massachusetts to vermont with hail and lightning but no major injuries are reported. on the down side there were wide-spread airport delays that could create a backlog of flights throughout the day. >>heather: and the parents of homegrown terrorist anwar al-awlaki are, get this, suing the u.s. government. the aclu filing a lawsuit on behalf of the parents claiming the drop strike that killed their son and two others was unconstitutional. the justice department has fired back saying it was justified. al-awlaki you remember, was a major al qaeda figure. he was linked to the underwear bomber and the ft. hood shooter.

>> united flight towns around not once but twice because of a strong smell. shortly after taking off from honolulu passengers detected what they describe as maybe electric electrical odor and the captain decided to fly back to hawaii. when the smell disappeared they took off again on the way to los angeles but an hour into the flight, the odor returned and they were forced to go back. united telling all passengers, sorry for the inconvenience. >> three muslim men from london are charged with traveling to pakistan to getterror training. the suspects intended to carry out acts of terror and they told others how to get training. two of the men live near the olympic sites but police say they have nothing to do with the arrest coming ahead of the games. police arresting two others for having copies of an al qaeda magazine.

>> millions of dollars from the military will keep rolling in to sponsor nascar and bass fishing. the house of representatives voted to continue to spend $72.3 million on sports sponsorships to get recruits. critics say they were not effective but the defense department should be allowed how it recruits according to supporters. >> and now, a fox news channel exclusive. hannity had a major exclusive interview last night with george zimmerman who is charged with second-degree murder of trayvon martin. speaking publicly for the first time since the shooting he discusses the events, the threats to his life and give as message to the trayvon martin family and the american people. >> on the 9-1-1 call he is running he said to dispatch. is there any chance as you look back on that night and what happened and the nation obviously is paying a lot of

attention to this, trying to, maybe, get not mindset because we have learned that trayvon was speaking to his girlfriend supposedly at the time, that, maybe he was afraid of you and didn't know who you were? >> no. >> why do you think he was running, then? >> i, maybe i said "running," but he said --. >> you said "running,". >> he was skipping, and he wasn't running out of fear. >> you could tell the difference? >> he wasn't running. all he wasn't actually running. >> that is what you said to the dispatcher. >> i wish there was something, anything i could is done that wouldn't have put me in the position where i had to take his life. and i do want to tell everyone, my wife, my family, my parents, my grandmother, the martins, the city of sanford, and america,

i'm sorry that this happened. i hate to think that because of this incident, because of my actions, it is polarizing and dividing america. and i'm truly sorry. >> there was a bounty put on your head by the new black panther party wanted "dead or alive." no one has been arrested. do you feel your life is in jeopardy? >> yes, sir. >> by the black panther party? all among others. >> you have had multiple death threats. all look what happened in the case, because it became so publicly. spike lee is tweeting what he thinks is your home address, reverend sharpton and nbc tries to use this case to bring up the case of racial profiling. what do you say to spike lee who did not know the facts. or to al sharpton and those who rush to judgment?

>> i cannot guess their motives. i would just ask for an apology. >>heather: later today we will hear more from george zimmerman and he reveals if he has any regrets. and, also, he discusses the moment he and trayvon martin came face-to-face. >>heather: very interesting interview. >> brand new fox news polls are out this morning, about the presidential election and the state of the country. >> the results show that mood in america could be very bad for president obama. and peter doocy is covering the story, live for us from washington, dc. peter, what is this telling us? >>peter: i don't want to alarm anyone but the 2012 election is not be held today so do you not is to head to the polls but if it was, here is how it would breakdown. president obama would take 45 percent of the vote. mitt romney would take 41 percent of the vote. the president's number hasn't

budged in a month but is down two months since this time last year and romney's chances are the same as last july, but higher than last month. as for the independents, president obama is winning there right now, too. he has 38 percent of their support. slightly better than last month. romney has 34 percent of their support. three points better than last month but 28 percent of the middle of the road voters are "unsure." and although the president is leading the race right now in the fox news polls as the american public kicks around the idea of who they want their next president to be, 64 percent actually think government is the problem giving current economic conditions. just 23 percent think the government is the solution and 8 percent are mixed and say "it depends." and 62 percent of voters are not satisfied the way things are going in the country today which is much higher than the 38

percent who are satisfied with things in america right now. and the information the polls are based on were taken from sunday to tuesday of this week. so they are current. they give you an idea the way folk are leaning 110 days before the election. >>heather: 110 days will go by fast. >>heather: and your mind could change before then. now, time for the first weather update. janice, we have the storms that cleared but it is still hot, hot, hot, across the country. >> ladies, winter will be here soon enough. right? >>heather: will we remember all of the daytime highs when it is like, 30 degrees out there? i don't. >> it is still hot. there is relief on the way for some of us. you can see the greens and yellows, that is a cold front sagging south, so, some areas will feel a drop in the heat.

other areas not so much. this is the heat index. that is the temperature with the humidity combined, what it feels like, it will feel like 101 in louisville, and 99 in washington, dc, and 105 in kansas city. the cold front will sag south and tomorrow, new york, 72. can you believe that? 80 in cleveland. 81 in chicago. but, again, it will just be the northern tier in the mid-atlantic that will feel the relief. so, to show you an example, average in chicago, 84 today, 92 friday, and 82. new york, average 84, today, 83, friday, 72. we will enjoy that temperature. satellite radar showing the storms exiting the northeast. we will see the potential if severe weather across the ohio river valley and parts of the northern plains. we will bring you the latest in the heat and the storms. >>heather: 72, a very good

number. now stories you can bank on this morning. signed, sealed and not delivered, the post office's money problems are growing worse as lawmakers try to figure out what to do over the age. and now lauren, we are talking about a $5.5 billion payment due august 1. >> a couple days away, and they are warning, again, they will default if nothing is done by lawmakers and that default could come sooner than we think. it is not just the $5.5 billion that is due and another $5.5 billion is due the end of september so that is what the age is facing. a glimmer of hope is the service will not be disrupted and the post am service workers still are paid. the house of representatives goes on recess in august so it will be done. >>heather: from an agency that can't pay to another agency that is told to "pay up," capital 1,

$210 million fine agreeing to pay that sum to settle charges that the call center representatives urged customers into paying for pricey add on services such as payment protection telling them those services were free when they weren't. the settlement, the first ever for the new consumer financial protection bureau, the money going back to the affected customer. but, also, the case is not isolated and we could see other banks face charges. all and over half of the revenue is from credit cards. finally, fun news, the "dark knight," rises opens up at midnight. >>heather: people are waiting in line. i will not be there but the third and final batman movie opens time from time warner and will gross about the same at this weekend's box objection, big money not studio and bigger money for the scalpers. we are seeing tickets being

resold on e-bay and craigslist for $100. you cannot see "dark knight," rises in 3-d so that the crimp the sales. >>heather: we will see. i will stand in line with you. >>heather: you have to pay me to stand with you. >> we appreciate it. >> are you standing in line healther? >>heather: definitely not. >> terrifying moments caught on tape for a two-year old boy and his sister attacked by a stranger. >> and the no-fly list not a problem for terrorist whose want to take out american planes. hi, i'm phil mickelson.

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>>heather: good morning, everyone, now 16 minutes after the hour and now the quick headlines. texas carrying out the first execution with one lethal drug rather than using three. that state changes their procedures after the supply of a drug expires. the man killed a 23-year-old stockbroker in 1998. >> and the annual list of the best hospitals in the united states by oceanus and for the first time, massachusetts general in boston is now ranked number one, and johns hopkins dropping to number 2 after being in the top five for two decades. and mayo in the top three and then cleveland clinic and ronald

reagan ucla. >> and now look at who is talking and karl rove and charles krauthammer are talking. they are discussing the president's comments last week that if you have a business, the government helped you build it. here is charles on how this has impacted mitt romney. >> having the one thing that romney has going for him now, you watched him in that clip, and he has a spring in his step. i think obama has made the gaffe of the year when he said if you created a business you didn't build it. that phrase "you didn't build it," should be hung around obama until the end of the presidency. >> although democrats say in the totality of the statement, that he was talking about teachers and government helping with roads and the push back. >> i read the totality of the statement and it is worse if you read it all. essentially he has the view different than the majority of americans which is enterprise, initiative, the markets are what

drive america's wealth and excellence, and government is a parasite and lives off the excess of wealth, in the form of taxation. obama has the view at the heart of american excellence and achievement is government and not enterprise and romney ought to take the headline of the "wall street journal" and "lender versus staples." >>heather: also karl rove tells us what he thinks is behind the president's comments. >> he says this, i think in part, because he is exhausted. look, being president is a demanding job. running for president is a demanding job. and you take as much time out of the president's schedule as he has, and you have 100 fundraiser. he has had more fundraisers than his protect says -- his

predecessor and yesterday in texas he did four, and rushing back to washington and doing his job and you have that kind of pressure where the political side of the white house is saying you have to raise money, you have to raise money, you have to raise money, and you have responsibility as president, you are tired. we are 111 days from the election, remember, maybe 112 days and the president is making these mistakes because he is tired. >>heather: here is another interesting angle, karl rove is talking about romney's potential v.p. pick saying it would be best to way a couple weeks before the convention to announce the person's name because that could give a nice convention bounce. >>heather: good idea. >>heather: in the meantime have you gotten a ridiculously everpriced medical bill? we have all experienced this. getting a discount from your doctor might just be as easy as asking the right question. we will tell you how to go about doing this.

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packagings ignited. this could cost the fire chief his job. he says he has been put on leave for not responding to the emergency fast enough. >>heather: thank you. it is bad enough taking a trip to the doctor but sometimes getting the medical bills after can make you feel more sick. >> here with tips to trim the cost is our guest. good morning. so, if you do not have insurance, negotiate the cost of the bill with your doctor. >>guest: some providers will negotiate, offer to pay not service upfront in cash. that will help knock off an extra 20 percent from the bill, and, however, if you do not have the cash ask for extra time to pay that bill. you can ask for an extended repayment. >> they will do a payment plan for you? >> exactly, sow do not have to rely on high interest credit cards. >> i have asked doctors to negotiate and they look at me like i am crazy. >>guest: you know what, it works especially with dental

care services, but if you do suggest you will pay in cash upfront if the full service, they could be willing to wiggle, use wiggle room. all scrutinize your bill. how do you do that when it is so complicated with the charges? >>guest: eight out of ten medical bills have some time of billing error so it is important to go through the bill and call the health insurance company and ask them to go through the bill. if you see anything that looks off, call and get that straightened out. all look for generic medicine to help save. >>guest: not all name brand drugs have generic version available. so, you can research alternative drugs in the same class that are less expensive and offer the same benefits. speak with your doctor about that. if nothing is available ask your doctor for samples of that name brand drug to offset the total cost. all anyone who spent time not hospital knows they, tylenol is

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>> good morning, welcome back. hope you are having a great day. >>heather: thank you for joining us, and thank you for watching "fox & friends" this morning. and now the top five stories at this hour. and extreme weather to tell you about. we have brand new video from fox newsroom. after a string of very violent storms, hammering the northeast,

rain, hail, lightning and wind, making a mess out of things as far west as ohio. you can see giant trees snapping in arlington, massachusetts, many falling on cars, homes and power lines. 100,000 people in seven states are without power this morning waiting for it to be restored. all the skies opening in new york, raining out the yankee and blue jays game. fans last night running for cover. the storm did bring a little bit of relief from the heat. fortunately, no one was hurt. we will talk with janice. >> radio calls being released not shooting of a california highway patrol officer. he stays calm and tells backup to slow down when he realizes he will be okay. >> i've been shot twice and the suspect vehicle, blue, blue, with 24" wheels and bullet holes on the driver side.

slow down. one of the shot is in a vest and one in my hand. not life threatening. >> the unidentified officer was parked on a highway looking for speeders and a manhunt is underway for the shooter and the driver who was in the shooter's car. >> the white house is underfire this morning for encouraging immigrants to go on welfare. this time lawmakers are demanding answers of a partnership between the usda and mexican government which is promoting food stamps for mexican nationals. early this month we told you of a similar campaign to use spanish language radio ads to advertise welfare. those ads have been pulled but the united states and mexico partnership is not. nearly 46 million americans are on food stamps at a of $72 billion a year to taxpayers. >> yet another california city going for broke. city council members in san bernardino declare a fiscal

emergency. it is home to 210,000 people, with a budget deficit of $46 million. it is the third california city to seek chapter 11 protection in less than a month, and the city of compton is expected next. >> chilling attempted child abduction in philadelphia caught on camera. the suspect puts his hands over the ten-year-old's mouth and tried to snatch her. she falls down. her little brother was screaming, just two, and he scared off the guy and he leaves in the white sedan. it has damage in the back of the car. if you have information on this case call your local authorities. and glad the kids got away. way to go. >> and he is just two busy, that is why the white house says, too busy, president obama has not met with the jobs counsel in

month and that outraged romney who says it shows the president is more concerned with keeping his own job than helping millions of americans who need a job now. and doug is live in washington, dc with this angle. >>doug: after a few days on defense the romney campaign is on an aggressive tact and they are going after something we have not heard about lately: the job council. the president attended another fundraiser late yesterday, and you see him returning to the white house and the romney campaign is comparing that record pace of presidential fundraisers to the number of meetings the president has had with his jobs council. >> in the last six months he has held 100 fundraisers. guess how many meetings he had with the jobs council? zero. zero not last six months. so it is very clear where his priorities are. his priority is not creating

jobs for you. it is trying to keep his own job. that is why he will lose. >> the jobs council includes two dozen business and labor leaders who are supposed to give the white house advice on job creation. their last meeting, according to the white house website, was january 17. the white house yesterday defended the president's schedule. >> no specific reason but he has a lot on his plate, but he continues to solicit and receive advice from numerous folks outside the administration about the economy. about the ideas that he can work on with congress to help the economy grow and create jobs. >> the ranched up attacks by romney could affect the growing concern among many conservatives that romney campaign was not forceful enough going after the

president's record. back to you in new york. >>heather: thank you, dow. and now, the weather, before you leave the house you want to check in on the weather. >> there could be more rain on the way, janice? >> if you are traveling across the eastern seaboard especially the big cities including new york, boston, washington, dc, call ahead. we had a lot of delays last night because of big thunderstorms that rolled our way. things are clearing out nicely. so, if you are headed to the airport you will not have problems this morning but we could have backlog and we could have potentially severe weather. we had over 300 reports of severe weather yesterday and last night. across the west, a little bit of rain in southern california and new mexico but, all in all, very quiet. this area across the upper midwest and northern plains we could see showers and thunderstorms and even stronger weather in terms of severe weather. so dakotas and bismark, and

grand forks, damaging wind and isolated tornadoes and across the ohio river valley. so we will keep an eye to the sky. the highs today, cooler temperatures across the midwest, great lakes northeast, but across the central united states, still, very warm at 105 in kansas city. good news. bad news. hopefully a silver lining you found somewhere. >> the midwest and parts of the west need the rain. we hope for rain for them. >> i will do a rain dance. >> we like it when you dance. >> time now for more of hannity's exclusive interview with george zimmerman who is telling hannity his thoughts when he first spotted trayvon martin and the timeline of events that led him to shoot the teenager. >> the 9-1-1 call everyone has heard you said that all of a sudden you found someone would looks suspicious, he may be on drugs, that was an early comment

you made in the 9-1-1 call, what made you think he was suspicious, and what made you thing he might be on drugs? >> he was suspicious because it was raining. and he was in between houses. and cutting in between houses. and he was walking very leisurely for the weather. and i didn't, it didn't look like he was a resident that was checking mail and got caught in the rain. >> was he talking to you a lot during this fight? during this, when he was beating you, because you are saying he was beating you and pounding your head not cement. was he talking to you during that time? >>guest: yes. >> he was saying what? >> cursing and telling me to shut up and finally telling me he was going to kill me. >> he said those words and he said it -- when did he first see your gun? >> after we were on the ground i

shimmied with hill on top and it made my jacket rise up and he was on top of me and he saw it. >> what happened after that? >> i felt him take, he had, after he couldn't hit my head on the concrete anymore, he started to try to suffocate me. and i continued to push his hands off my mouth and nose particularly because it was excruciating having a broken nose and putting his weight on it, and that is the point in time when he started telling me to "shut up." >> why did he tell you to "shut up." >> i don't. >> we heard the screams on one recording from a neighbor calling police, and there has been some dispute whose vote -- voice that was. >>guest: that was my voice. >> that was your voice? >> absolutely.

>> the police said they heard 14 screams you were screaming that loud. >> yes. >> do you regret getting out of the car to follow trayvon martin that night? >> no. >> do you regret you had a gun that night? >> no, sir. >> do you feel you would not be here for the interview if you did not have the gun? >> no, sir. i feel it was all god's plan and for me to second-guess it or judge it, there --. >> is there anything you would do differently in retrospect? >> no, sir. >>heather: will that interview help or hurt george zimmerman during his trial? we have attorney and former new york city homicide prosecutor, thank you for joining us this morning. >>guest: great to be with you. >>heather: how did he do? >>guest: pretty well. not warm and fuzzy witness but not as a guy with anger issues or a rabid racist, and he did

not come across as someone who went out looking to kill someone. remember these types of interviews do not always go so well for defendants. we remember sandusky gave an interview that was such an utter disaster that the prosecutor put it in at his trial. over all, from a defense perspective he did pretty well. >>heather: in that segment he was talking about the timeline of events, so, did he lay the ground work for a good self-defense argument? >>guest: i absolutely believe he did. we do not know what the prosecution has up their sleeve and we did not know if the jury will credit his version as true. but if you take his version of events, and you give that same version at trial and if a jury credited that version as true he did lay the ground work and make out what i believe would be a valid self-defense claim. >> if you were his attorney without have him testify? >>guest: i think he has to testify at trial. because a self-defense claim

depends on a state of mind of the person accused, no one else can get into george zimmerman's head so he has to testify. but based on what i saw i would feel comfortable as his lawyer putting him on the stand. >> a lot of times people are advised not to give interviews beforehand. why do you think he did this? was this a good idea? >>guest: i think he had to do it because the prosecution released the information early in the week about this witness number 9 who accused him of molestation and the family was accused of racism and you do not want only one side getting their version out to the jury. beyond that, he has to testify because no one else can say what he can say. no one else can give that perspective. >> he said in that interview he was the only one that witnessed the shooting. the actual shots fired. >>guest: right, and he gave a very vivid version, more than we have heard to day as to the specific events. his head was being pounded

against the pavement over and over again and he thought his head was going to explode. >>heather: thank you very much. nice to you have. heather in >>heather: now 17 minutes before the hour and still ahead forget the "no-fly list," terrorist whose want to take down airplanes can become pilots, trained here in the united states, and no questions are asked. we will tell you about this. and the most famous portrait not world but more than 500 years after it was created we may have finally discovered the real mona lisa. [ manager 1 ] out here in the winds,

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>>heather: good morning, now 15 minutes before the hour. and now stories making headlines

overseas. we start in syria this morning, where government forces continue to shell neighborhoods near damascus. this is a day after a bomb killed three members of president assad's inner circle. and next in russia, where drivers getting the shock of their lives. a burning car explodes on a highway. look at this. >>heather: it took firefighters 15 minutes to put out the fire, and amazingly no one was hurt. >> finally, in italy, the remains of mona lisa may have been found buried under the church, leonardo da vinci's famous muse is believed buried 470 years ago and now tested and compared to those of her ancestors. how about that. >>heather: amazing what they can do. the sun is not shining in the solar industry after another

federally funded solar plant closes their doors after receiving help from the government. diane macedo is here with that story for us. >>diane: good morning, so, the company is shutting the solar plant a year after opening despite receiving more than $20 million in federal tax credits and grants. the las vegas review journal says they began selling equipment online yesterday and former manager tells the "wall street journal" the plant had 700 employees has idle since may. most solar companies blamed chinese subsidies for their inability to compete there were "a lot of quality issues and stuff coming back because of function at issues." the plant was highly touted by lawmakers when it opened especially nevada senator harry reid who blames the death of the company on the c.e.o. brian robertson saying many investors pulled back after he was killed in a december plane crash and

the company announced 200 lay off as month later but a representative said the plant would ramp back up by 2012. and the company received $15.6 million under a bush administration grant and more in tax credits under obama will join a growing list of solar companies that failed despite getting taxpayer money. solyndra received $535 million in federal loan guaranteed and beacon power had $43 million loan guarantee and abound solar got $70 million loan guarantee all bankrupt. so now they join these other companies. >>heather: the time, now, is 49 minutes after the top of the hour. next, terrorists find a way around the federal "no fly," list. they are becoming pilots. we have a live report on that and a weather man's worst nightmare. and that is not the ugly part. but, first, we will check to see

what is coming up on "fox & friends" this morning. >> good morning, the perils of live television. coming up, the parents of trayvon martin will be live on the program to respond to the george zimmerman exclusive that sean hannity had and you have been running here on "fox & friends" this morning and senator marco rubio, could he be the number two guy? romney is about to name someone. and new york jets head coach will join us, keeping with the pigskin thing, hall of fame quaterback joe montana on our play ask along with 100 wounded soldiers. all on "fox & friends" which starts nine minutes from now on the for which news channel.

channel.>>heather: a shocking new government investigation finding it is still too easy for potential terrorists to get flying lessons at schools here in the united states. and now all those details for us. >> this is so scary. new information to tell you about this morning, more than a decade after the 9/11 terror attacks a new report from the government accountability office shows that you can be on the u.s. government "no-fly list," and still be able to get training to be a pilot in our country. the security loophole here was raised during a hearing examining the homeland security department program which screen those wanting to attend flight schools here in america. after 9/11 there were a lot of background checks put in place but not extended to american citizens ignoring the risk, potentially cause by homegrown terrorists. the chairman of the house of

representatives homeland security subcommittee is baffled. >> there are foreign nationals in the united states training to fly just like atta and the other 9/11 hijackers and not all of them are getting a security background check. is that risk based security? i don't think so. >> in light of the discovery new security procedures are already underway. >> we found the t.s.a. has taken a number of positive steps to work in the area to help enhance security that general aviation facilities. >>heather: right now there are 500 u.s. citizens on that "no-fly list," and the t.s.a. does not have the authority to do background checks on americans who want to train at flight schools unless the person already has a certificate from the f.a.a. so the good news here, they did scoff the loophole and they are doing something about it. >>heather: we hope they close it quickly. thank you. >>heather: thank you.

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