stop glorifying hate for the sake of selling a magazine or continue at your own financial peril. have a great weekend. >> after day ofs angry protest and mounting public pressure, president obama reacts to a highly controversial verdict in the george zimmerman trial. at this hour, many are reacting to the verdict as well in support of a man who died after fighting george zimmerman. you're looking live right now at downtown manhattan. one of 100 cities where rallies are being held to ask americans to remember trayvon martin. is the president forcing attorney general eric holder's hand in new testimony charges the irs may have been involved. congress money trey gowdy says the scandal goes way beyond accusation, it's the work of two

rogue irs agents. and a new budget battle on capitol hill. republican senators meeting with president obama. and senator mike lee says congress shouldn't vote for any plan that includes funding for obamacare. all that, plus the world remains on royal baby watch. hello everybody. america's news headquarters, live from the nation0s capitol, starts right now. >> one week after george zimmerman is acquitted. rallies and vigils are being held across the country, reacting to the verdict. trayvontrayvon martin's parentst to appear at separate rallies in their son's memory. one even is happening right now in downtown manhattan.

reporter: what we're seeing right now, over 200 people who have come from harlem, and are now gathering here in downtown manhattan, at the federal course indicates, bowon say and jay-z addressed the crowd and are about to speak for the first time. this is one of over 100 of these rallies happening, vigils for trayvon martin happening across the country, from atlanta, where martin luther king, martin luther king 3'm is -- martin luther king, jr. 3 resident is set to speak and we'll see a brian na -- sybrina and reverend al sharpton so calling for a more aggressive probe by the department of justice into the george zimmerman verdict. they say that george zimmerman racially profiled trayvon martin and, therefore, violated his civil rights. these rallies are meant to call upon the federal government and

the d.o.j. to look into that. now, president barack obama, you can hear the crowd behind me but president barack obama addressed this yesterday and said the federal government really can't -- lowered expectations what the federal government can do. >> i know that eric holder is reviewing what happened down there, but i think it's important for people to have some clear expectations here. traditionally these are issues, states and local governments. the criminal codes. and law enforcement is done at the state and local levels. >> zimmerman was found guilty there have been protests and rallies across the country in new york, a thousand people went into times square in los angeles they war bit more violent. people actually blocking interstate 10, a freeway in los angeles. people have been wearing hoodies and are rallying all around. churches have been organizing,

and these vigils today are meant to be more peaceful. president obama actually said yesterday that he didn't condone any violence in my protests and any violence would actually dishonor the memory of trayvon martin. i spoke to people here, and they are, well, feeling a little hopeless. based on the verdict, but they're hoping -- still trying to hope the federal government will intervene and get involved. again, over 200 people, and people are continuing to file here, and we'll keep you updated with the latest developments as sybrina fulton and al sharpton speak to the crowd. >> thank you very much for the update. >> you know, when trayvon martin was first shot, i said that this could have been my son. another way of saying that is, trayvon martin could have been me.

35 years ago. >> the president's remarks about the verdict in the zimmerman trial directly moved him into polar rising race debate. he is asking the americans to do, in his words, soul searching, but is this politicizing the issue of race and putting more pressure on the justice department to open up a civil rights case against zimmerman? joining us now, jordan, the executive director of the american center for law and justice. welcome, great to have you here today. the fact the president stepped into this raises concerns this is fueling the race debate and trying to use the ploy to pressure the doj to step in with civil rights charges. >> it's interesting. this is the third time the president has gotten involved directly and the remarks on his own civil rights experience you can't take that away from the president. he can speak to that and he does a good job of explaining some of the outrage in the african-american community. i get that. at the same time, he is, i think, fueling this idea to

people that the doj and eric holder, he said specific lyrics they're looking at this, but he added a part which i'm not sure people have picked up on. clear expectations which i interpret as, as most importants have, there's no civil rights charges. we looked at this a year and a half ago. >> the fbi investigated this. >> there was no charges filed. so, clear expectations, and this idea that we're not supposed to have a political debate around this. so i can -- but what is -- we're really looking at the president's words. i'm not sure the folks who are at the rallies today picked that up, that the president is saying, not going to happen eventually. he is going to have eric holder pursue it. >> some people are concerned the president's remarks are doing more to create a divide in the country rather than bringing people together. >> i don't see dish pointed this out throughout the week as we have been talking about the different issues the president is phasing, controversies and issues of healthcare, the irs, and then this. the idea that george zimmerman

is no one's hero. that george zimmerman is not a -- someone to look up to as an example. what it shows to most people if you do discharge a firearm, and end up killing someone, whether they're black or white, it's serious and you may face murder charges and that's why i don't think for the most part you have seen rallies pushed on people there, was no spontaneous massive outpouring. wasn't the state attacking trayvon martin. this was individual to individual. not a rodney king situation. wasn't police brutality. >> no evidence of racism in this trial to begin with. >> no one is accuse -- george zimmerman has his own different racial background. he has mother i emigrating from peru, he was mentored for african-american kids, and so to go too far in demonizing him is not right and to try to divide people along are you on the trayvon martin side or the george zimmerman side, sometimes tragedies happen. it doesn't mean someone is guilty of murder, too and i

think here you can be angry at the prosecution who felt a lot of pressure as well. look at a miscarriage of justice, how about the state having to get involved, bringing charges they couldn't prove and then zimmerman being found not guilty. >> what about the president stepping in now and reacting to a situation that happened in the state of florida, and that state's laws, and what impact on the states that do have, for example, "stand your ground" laws, even though that wasn't part of the trial. >> which is the majority of the states. the president's team is saying though the defense didn't use it, the judge used it as part of o'instructions and the jury was told about. so zimmerman did not invoke it. he could have as an annual immunity from the civil case probably coming against him. he is not free from a lawsuit yet and that's what that is for. the idea is the president -- this is much like the clear expectations. basically said, we can look at the state laws but it's up to the states. i hope everybody who is outraged does realize that the president,

who for the most part is getting praised from those who are upset about the verdict, realized there's not going to be civil rights charges and if you have issue is with the state laws go to the state because we're not getting involved. >> thank you for your insight. i appreciate it. >> and this fox news alert. sad news out of the nation's capitol today. veteran journalist helen thomas has died. she was the first member of the white house correspondents association and the group's first female president. the club group e-mail id their members and said thomas died in her apartment this morning. she was 92 years old. and later in this hour we'll take a look back at her career that spanned ten presidencies. >> secretary of state john kerry arriving back in washington, fresh off a trip to the middle east where he announced a breakthrough in the mid east

peace process. >> expectations are fairly low for this round of talks. but the fact that secretary of state john kerry was even able to get the israelis and palestinians to come to the negotiating table is a fairly significant achievement. few authority they would get this far. last night secretary kerry announced after a three-year stalemate the two sides will meet in direct talks. but already some of the usual problems that have plagued previous talks are emerging. the palestinians are not happy that the israelis are not agreeing to negotiate along then 1967 borders, nor is israel agreeing to halt the construction of jewish settlements inside the west bank and other disputed territories, and israel doesn't want to begin talks with the palestinian authority can't guarantee an agreement would end the conflict. ham mass -- hamas is not part of

the process. secretary of state kerry wrapping up his sixth trip to this region since march. last night he praised the authority and prime minister benjamin netanyahu. if things go as expected, the representatives will meet in washington in the next week or so to hold these talks but few thingness the process ever go as expected. so we'll have to watch and see what happens. but there are some cautious optimism here that something could be in the works and maybe larger agreement, but really there's also a lot of worry that this will depend, like previous efforts have in the past, uma. >> turning now to a story that has dedicate royal watcher on edge. all eyes on the door of one london hospital for any sign that the royal baby is on the way. crews have been staked out in front of st. mary's hospital for days, hoping to catch a glimpse

of dutchess kate or prince william. the dutchess has been splitting time between her london home and her parents house outside the city. later we'll talk with our royal expect with more on the arrival of the new baby that so many people are waiting on. >> well, lawmakers on the house oversight and government reform committees are saying they saw elfed that irs efforts to target conservative groups is directly tied to higher-ups appointed by the white house. this after a former irs official testified that contrary to earlier claims that low-level agent were to blame, it was an irs chief counsel who had a direct hand in the targeting scandal. joining us, trey gowdy. thank you for joining us today. >> yes, ma'am. how are you? >> i'm fine. thank you. so, now you have a former irs tax law specialist who goes on the record saying that the irs office of chief counsel

appointed by the president was involved in the widespread targeting 0 conservative groups this. flies in the face of claims it was too rowing irs agents to be blamed for the scandal. what impact does this have now? >> well, it means that all six of the defenses so far used by our colleagues on the other side of the aisle in delves of this administration have collapsed. i've counted six defenses. one was this was two rogue agents in ohio, and that was a defense that was furthered and advanced by none other than jay carney, who repeated that false defense. so, what we know is that this was not confined to ohio. that d.c. irs office's fingerprints are all over it. one of the two political appointees -- only two political appointees at the irs. one of is the office of chief counsel. this is what is important to keep in mind. we have had political activity in this country since before the founding. 50% means what 50% has always meant.

so, why the different analysis for conservative groups starting in 2010? why this new metric for evaluat 5:01c4 organizations that are conservative? the analysis is the same. it's always been. political activity more than 50%. why does it need to go to the office thereof chief counsel in d.c. to approve these applications and some of this approval processes have taken years. >> one of those so-called rogue agents this week testified, and says she was just following orders from washington. this was the news that came out of the hearing. what does it mean if the legal counsel of the irs was in charge of the targeting scheme? >> well, it means, again, that we can't believe much that comes unfortunately from the spokesperson for the president, who, again, repeated this was a rogue operation in ohio. we can't believe that defense. we also shouldn't believe the other defenses that progressive

groups were targeted as well. i've never really understood that defense, that because we're going to act improperly towards more than one group, that's a defense. but what it means is, what we were told initially is demon stab blue false. this was not confined to ohio. it's got washington'ss all over it, and we need to be careful going forward that we view whatever we're told from this administration with a jaundiced eye. >> this week at the hearing fireworks were erupting with democrats like eigentleman cummings seeing republicans are trying to infer that the white house was directly involved in the scandal and wants it stopped do you have any direct evidence at this time of white house involvement? >> well, let me say at the outset, uma, i like elijah cummings very much but the last time i checked jay carney works

for the white house. you can't say the white house wasn't involved when the spokesperson for the leader of free free world is perpetuating a myth these were two rogue agents in ohio? how do you square that, when the spokesperson for the white house is advancing a demon -- is that in the new defense in this town, that the president himself was involved? nobody has alleged that president obama was involved, but if that's the new standard for propriety, that as long as the president himself was not orchestrating something, that there's no harm there? jay carney works for him. jay carney took it upon himself to advance this false narrative and the notion that you can now claim the white house wasn't involved is just balderdash. it's false, wrong, i would use another word but the fcc would get involved it's just wrong.

>> thank you for your remarks. i appreciate it. >> yes, ma'am. >> hoe risk story out of texas. a mother has died after reportedly falling out of the texas giant roller coaster at six flags in arlington. take a look at these images. witnesses say the woman wasn't properly secured in her seat but investigators have not determined if that is true. six flags says the 14-story coaster has the steepest drop of any wooden coaster in the world. >> today is a day of remembrance in aroar remark colorado, as the community marks one year since that movie theater massacre, coming up. one of the survivors will be joining me live and he takes a look back on the past year and shares with us how he is moving on. >> congress is gearing up for yet another fiscal fight. this time obamacare may be on the chopping block. republican senator mike lee will be joining us here live. stay with us. every day we're working to be an even better company -

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cambridge awaits the rival of her bum of joy. the media is camped outside the hospital where kate is expected to be giving birth but could the royal couple be giving everyone the royal slip. we're in london with the latest buzz on the birth of the royal baby. welcome. great to have you here. >> thank you. great to be talking to you. >> you know, here we are in the midst of summer, very high profile story, part of the fairy tale of william and kate. you have late-break degree tails. >> i do know that -- found out how the notice is going to be sent out once the baby is been. the palace press office is going to send e-mails to all the royal reporters at the same time that an easel is going to be put up in the forecourt of buckingham

palace which is nice little nod to tradition when they used could stick a board on the railing of buckingham palace to make the announcement, and then following that, twitter and facebook and all the social media, but that's how it's going to be announced, and when prince charles was born on april 14, 1948, they sent out a teletype to the bbc, and he was born at 9:14 in the inning and it wasn't until after 10:00 that the bbc announcer made that known. >> a lot of new technology. we've really come a long way. let's talk for a moment about the fact that many people are speculating and saying now that she is overdue. that her due date is passed and at any momentum -- any moment we could seebe seeing a delivery. >> i think it's an incredibly public event, and kate and

william are very, very private people. so, few firm details have actually come out of their office about things like due dates. so the first due date was speculated as the 12th, and there's been some speculation in the last couple of days, that it might be the 19th. now, if it is the 12th, i know because my daughter gave birth over here a year ago and they very, very rarely allow anybody to go beyond ten days. so, if it's the 12th, it could be immeant. if it's the 19th, we could have a little bit more of a wait. >> some very interesting -- kate has been able to take the lead on this, and shielding her privacy. she has been able to do that in spite of the world's media at her doorstep. she has, she did a lot of public duties until a month ago, and then she withdrew into seclusion. it was interesting that when the queen was pregnant, she stopped

appearing in public when she was only four months pregnant. so she had five months of seclusion. hard to believe. but kate, of course, has a very supportive and embracing family, and she has been spending a lot of time with them at their home, with her parents,. they have quite a large house they bought. and spending time at the place in keynesing ton palace, and has certainly managed to elude paparazzi, and i think they have handled it very well because they are so concerned about privacy at this time. >> indeed. we're all actionly await -- anxiously aweight. and at any moment we could get the word, and when it happens it will be headlines around the globe. >> now, your turn to pick the news and this is your chance to choose from a list of the more colorful stories that caught our

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welcome back. let's take a quick look at the stories making headlines right now. rallies planned today calling for justice for trayvon martin. organizes want to get the department of justice to consider a federal civil rights case against george zimmerman. the jury found him not guilty of second degree murder last week. >> fox's hilt show "glee" returns. a week later than planned because of the death of the star, cory monteith. the season premiere is now set for september 26th. the producers will use the extra item to reconfigure the storyline. new information on the ill fated asiana flight that crashed two weeks ago. the san francisco fire chief is issuing an apology to the family of one of the three chinese students who died. she was actually killed after an

emergency fire truck struck her, not from plane crash. the 16-year-old landed near the plane and became covered in foam. >> and the financial crisis rattling the bond market. detroit bond prices falling sharply a day after the city filed the largest municipal bankruptcy. could hurt the demand for bonds from all municipalities. >> concerns of the nation's budget has lawmakers looking for ways to get a deal done. the house and nat have both passed separate fiscal plans about remain far apart on workg out a lasting deal. joining us now, mike lee, who said he is not going to vote on my budget deal that includes funding for obamacare. welcome. great to have you here. >> thank you. >> you say you're not going to vote for any type of appropriations bill that includes obamacare funding at this time. because you believe it's fundamentally unfair to do this

at a time when the grant exemptions for a year for small businesses and not for individuals across the country. >> that's right. the president has told us he is not going to enforce the law against employers. those employers who have lobbyists who who can gain access to the white house. meanwhile hard working americans, families will be on the hock unless they comply with the law's exacting demands. the president is telling us he is not going to implement the law completely because it's not ready, it's too complicate. he can't. if that's the case, he notice going to follow the law, the american people shouldn't fund it and that's what i intend to do is follow that command from the american people. don't fund it, especially because he is not ready to follow it. >> some are questioning why tie the funning for obamacare to any kind of appropriations measure. >> the one power that congress still has and very jealously guards this be power of the purse so to fund something you have to go through the house and

senate and that means you have to have a lot of republicans. republicans and some democrats are recognize this law has serious problems and not ready to be implemented. those believe that need to put our money where our mouth is and say we're not going to fund it. >> what do you think is the reason behind delaying the implementation of obama care for small businesses at this time? >> it's difficult to say. the white house didn't offer much by way of explanation, but the senate would argue that this has a lot to do with partisan political considerations. going into the 2014 election cycle the president understood that companies and workers alike were concerned about what the employer mandate was going to do to the job market. and perhaps that played a role. in any event, the law doesn't give him the authority that he just took. this is legislative power that he tried to exercise. just as the supreme court rewrote obamacare twice last year, which is why i wrote a

book about it, the president has followed the supreme court's lee and has now amended obamacare. not once but twice. that's wrong it was wrong for the court to do and the president to do it and congress shouldn't fund him in that effort. >> this is the only way you feel you can hold him conditionable for what he has done and. >> the only way. this us our last stop. the continuing resolution which expires september 30th will have to be replaced. this continuing resolution debate is the last stop before obamacare kicks in january 1, 2014. so if you're against obamacare you have to be against funding for obamacare. >> behind this backdrop people are saying the implementation of this is so convoluted, it's so hard for people to really understand how this is supposed to be put into place at a time when so many businesses are struggling to stay afloat. >> businesses are struggling to stay afloat, and importantly, -- remember what we heard from the teamsters and two other big

unions this week. they, who backed the law, are now saying, look, this is a problem. we have promises, would be able to keep our own doctor or keep our own health insurance. the administration is backing away that because the law makes that's impossible. so this is an american issue now and those who are concerned about obamacare's implementation, those who understand that the president has now conceded this law is not ready to be implemented should demand their members of congress in the house and senate should refuse to volt for any continuing resolution or other appropriation measure that funds obamacare. >> do you think the gone will hold firm? the g.o.p. must hold firm because they controlled the house of representatives since the 2010 election. the g.o.p. controlledded houses continued to authorizes funding in continuing resolution for obamacare, they thought the supreme court would take care of it, or thought we might win the presidential election. that hasn't happened it. this is our last opportunity to

stop obamacare. >> senator, a pleasure. >> two u.s. navy jets dropped four unarmed bombs near the great barrier reef. the jets were running low on fuel and forced to make the emergency decision, the navy says the pilots intended to drop, didn't have clearance to drop them where they wanted to and now officials are working with australian authorities to determine how and if they can retrieve those bombs. >> well, there's a threat of thunderstorms which could cause dangerous conditions for crews battling a massive wildfire in southern california. 700 homes have been told to evacuate and a state of emergency is underway. the northeast could finally get a break from the oppressive heat but comes at a price. they may be dealing with strong storms as well, and our meteorologist is at the weather center with more on the threat of the strong storms. janice?

>> yes, we have the threat for strong storms across the ohio valley in the northeast, which will break the heat bus over parts of the southwest where firefighters are dealing with multiple wildfires, and you can see the showers and thunderstorms starting to fire up. this is technically what they call the monsoon season across the southwest, a seasonal shift in winds that brings in the moisture, but with that we could see thunderstorms and it's been so dry in this area, that could actually lead to more wildfire danger. looking at the temperatures right now, cooler along the coast but interior sections still very warm. and let's take a look at that fire that they are dealing with in southern california. it's called the mountain fire. and right now just 15% containment. temperatures are a little bit cooler but we're still looking for the potential of some thunderstorms in the area. so while we need the moisture, we don't need the dry lightning which could spark more wildfire danger. back to you. >> lots on the plate there all right, janice, thank you very much. >> well, a bizarre, horrible

story out of texas. four men found captive inside a house of horrors. i'll tell you why investigators believe these men, one of them, military veteran, were targeted. and one year after the movie theater massacre in aurora, a community remembers the victims. all business purchases.

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a tip from a neighbor has led to the rescue of four elderly men held host garage a houston home police believe they may have been homeless and kidnapped so their captives could collect their checks. the door to the home was nailed shut when the rescuers arrived. >> they were being held there

captive and the suspect, who was detained, was taking their disability checks or their veterans checks. their checks. they were given scraps to eat. very little food was provided to them. they didn't have access to a restroom. so it was less than ideal living situations for them. >> one person is in custody but police are saying there were other people living in that home but not in the same conditions as those captives. >> less than one year since the aurora theater shooting where 12 people were killed and 58 others injured. separate rallies are being held at a park in aurora. sandy hook families joined aurora survivors in reading the names of people killed in gun violence over the past year. nearby a gun rights group held its ownry rally. an aurora survivor was on a cross-country bike trip with a friend when he was shot in the face, arm and neck.

now he is here to tell us how he is moving on. thank you for joining us. i know this is a veer emotional day for you. what are your thoughts as we look back on this very somber anniversary? >> it's amazing to me it's even just been a year. some days it feels like a few days. some days it feels like decade. i just feel so fortunate that i'm standing here today talking to you and that i'm able to live my life as injured as i was. that i've been able to recover. >> you are an amazing example of resilience and courage. what has been your -- the main thing that has really been able to get you through this emotionally. your faith, family? >> i had a network of friends and family around me and that made all the difference, and thankfully the people that i went to the theater with also

survived, and that's really helped in my recovery. buttoned that, the advocacy i have been with mayors for illegal guns, fighting for gun violence prevention, has been therapeutic. >> you still have shrapnel in your body because the wounds are too deep for them to come out. >> that's right. yeah. i have eight pieces in buckshot that will remain for the rest of my life. >> as you look back on the fateful day, what runs through your mind knowing that this is a situation that didn't have to happen; that you had a situation where people were just going to a movie on a wonderful summer night and they were looking forward to a great time, and yet violence can happen anywhere. >> and it was absolutely shocking to me. i at any time think about it all. it was too much before this experience, and suddenly i was kind of confronted with this

horrible tragedy, and i realize thread are over 30 people who were murdered with a gun every single day in this country, and you're exactly right. this violence happens anywhere, to anyone, at any time, and so that's why at it so important to me to be advocating for measures that can reduce the exposure of our public to this violence. >> we're happy that you are doing well, and that you are moving on with your life in a very positive way. thank you so much for joining us today. you're an inoperation to us all. >> washington is mourning legend after a groundbreaking journalist, helen thomas, passes away. was a fixture in the front row of the white house press briefings for decades. after the break we remember her remarkable life. could save you fifteen percent

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welcome back. ten presidents with nearly 50 years covering the white house. groundbreaking journalist helen host led a remarkable life and career. she died at her washington, d.c., apartment at the age of 92. now we take a closer look at her

time and career at the white house. >> reporter: some call her the most permanent resident of 1600 pennsylvania avenue. helen host covered the white house for nearly 50 years. >> this is the ringside seat in history. it is a cliche but it is true. >> reporter: she made ten presidents sweat. kennedy, johnson, nixon, ford, carter, reagan, bush xli, clinton, bush xliii, and obama. she said each president was treated same as the last. >> now i will take your questions. helen. >> mccain said he resented being called clinton or clinton-like and a few other things. what do you say? >> well -- my question is, why did you really want to go to war h. >> to assume i wanted war is just -- just flat wrong, helen. >> do you know of my country in the middle east that has nuclear

weapons. >> helen, this is my inaugural moment here. >> reporter: born in kentucky in 1920, thomas grew up in detroit. midst of the second world war she became a copy girl at the now defunct "washington daily news." and joined united presser and national in 1943. she all but asigned herself to cover the white house in 1960 doing so for upi and eventually her news service. her life was a compellation of firsts. the first woman to close a presidential news conference with the polite -- >> thank you. >> thank you, helen. >> reporter: -- first female officer of the press club. first female officer then president of the white house correspondents association. the first woman member, then president, of the prestigious gridiron club. known for its skits satirizing politicians. ♪ >> reporter: she bragged about her blunt style and few press

secretaries could tame her. >> you people call for open must and trance parent. >> i let's have this discussion at the conclusion of the town hall meeting. how about that? >> no. we are having it now. >> helen, i find it unfortunate you use your front-row position bestowed upon you by your colleagues to make such statements. >> you are perhaps familiar with that. aren't you, helen? >> reporter: even presidents celebrated her often appearing to respect her for holding them accountable. >> can i have a press conference? >> reporter: or maybe to keep her in their sights. >> i had to laugh because i think that -- i -- i think i walked in where angels feared to tread. >> reporter: how true that would be when in the summer of 2010 thomas, who was of leb meese did he sent, abruptly resigned her post after saying on cameras

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vigils planned across the country coming almost one week after the verdict in the george zimmerman trial. hello, everyone. >> good to have you here. this is a brand-new hour inside of "america's news headquarters." demonstrations are scheduled today in 100 cities. including new york, miami, washington, d.c., and atlanta and philadelphia. all of this after the florida jury found the former neighborhood watch volunteer not guilty in the death of trayvon martin.