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this is the fox report. at this hour, the state department extending the time line, keeping some of our u.s. embassies and consulates closed in the wake of a terror warning. and some lawmakers are not mincing words, calling it the most serious threat we faced in many years. what they now know about it, to americans overseas. >> after benghazi, these al qaeda types were really on steroids, thinking we're weaker, they're stronger. >> those operatives are in place because we received information that high level people from al qaeda in the arabian peninsula are talking about a major attack. >> there's been an awful lot of
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chatter out there, chatter means conversation among terrorists about the planning that's going on, very reminiscent of what we saw pre9/11. >> fox report, so what is possible? what we're learning about the enemy's latest strategies to kill us. and our best options to keep americans safe. also a witness says the driver was looking for blood, summertime on the board walk for hundreds of people shattered by someone on a mission to mow down the crowd. >> he sped up and purposely, looks like purposely was swerving back and forth to run over as many people as he could. >> he was intentionally doing it, he wasn't honking his horn or anything, he was doing like 40 miles per hour and just hitting people. >> in minutes, how police say the suspect stalked his targets before the deadly crime. i am harris faulkner. we begin with new information on an al qaeda terror threat prompting washington to take record precautions around the globe. embassies, consulates remaining
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closed, a worldwide travel alert in place, and new details giving us some idea about why so many of our leaders are concerned and obama administration official confirms to fox news intelligence suggests al qaeda affiliates in yemen planned for something, quote, big and spectacular. and a source also telling fox news there's fear about terrorists possibly using surgically implanted bombs around the world. security outside u.s. embassies remaining tight. blast walls, troops, bomb squads being deployed. facilities in countries like yemen and libya. 22 embassies from north africa to east asia were closed today. in the past few hours, the state department telling us 19 of those will stay shut down until end of the week as a precautionary measure. lawmakers reacting to the threat today, including intelligence committee member tom rooney who
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says intelligence gathered points to a danger like we haven't seen in many years. >> this is much more specific than anything we saw before benghazi or boston. so this is in tune with 9/11/01 with regard to chatter. we have to be diligent. >> steve centanni begins from washington. steve, what else are sources telling fox news tonight? >> reporter: one says this threat is not a dress rehearsal as previous warnings have been in the bush and obama administrations. the 22 embassies and consulates were shut down for today only, but the state department saying this evening the closures are being extended at some of those locations while others reopen for business tomorrow. several lawmakers said the threat is much more serious than anything they've seen in recent years. >> we're on a high state of alert. i have been given every assurance we're doing everything we can to prevent this threat from happening. i must say, this is probably one
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of the most specific and credible threats i've seen perhaps since 9/11, and that's why everybody is taking this so seriously. >> discovered it monitoring al qaeda operatives, finding a huge upswing in communications or chatter, indicating a terrorist plot. harris? >> and steve, i understand the white house getting credit from another top republican lawmaker. >> reporter: yes, quite a few. these republicans according to benghazi as a lesson learned by the white house, and generally applaud the president's handling of the current threat. as you know, four americans were killed when the consulate in benghazi, libya was attacked last year. the white house came under intense fire for its handling of that crisis. this time around, administration officials are getting a thumb's up. >> taking the right approach to this. benghazi was a complete failure, threats were real there, reporting was real, and we basically dropped the ball. we learned from benghazi, thank god, and the administration is doing this right.
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>> reporter: it is not known how the planned attack would be carried out or the exact location. harris? >> thank you very much. the next guest calls the al qaeda threat very specific. republican congressman peter king of new york sits on the house homeland security committee, and chairman of the committee on counter terrorism and intelligence. he joins us by phone. congressman, are you with us? >> harris, i am with you, certainly i thank you. >> since we first learned about the threat a few days ago, all we spent much time talking about is what al qaeda wants to do to us. we know that the president's drone program has been engaged. what are we going to do, if anything, to change course or will we stay the course the way we are to go after them? >> the president should continue doing everything he is doing. i think we have to realize this is 24/7 when the president says that as he did several months ago that we are back to a pre-9/11 stage or that al qaeda has been decimated, that's not true. al qaeda in many ways is more
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dangerous than ever. i think we have to not be holding back on interrogations, have to take more aggressive action. i would hope our cia and other operatives in the field can do their job without worrying about eric holder or somebody investigating them six months from now. >> you have so much access to much of the intelligence gathered about the types of plots. first of all, from the beginning you said this one is different. why? >> it is different because it is so specific, because the sources are so credible. the sources here are totally credible. they're very specific about how large the attack will be, how significant it will be, and pretty much giving dates or a time period in which it would occur. so considering the credibility of sources and what they were planning to do, i've never seen one that's this credible.
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usually we have to connect the dots, you have bits and pieces. this is not connecting the dots, this is direct. >> you mention time periods, time line. we're finding out that has been extended by keeping most of those embassies and consulates, 19 of 22, closed until august 10th. i know that's out of abundance of caution is what we're being told, but what else should we know about that? >> well, we should know that there is a certain time line that we've seen, and we have to do all we can, stay on this, investigating it fully, see if, for instance, is the attack still planned, have they pulled back? it is possible actions we have taken have caused them to change their plans, or are they trying to sucker us in, giving one day, hoping we will pull back, and two, three days from now starting the attack again. this is inexact science, you try to analyze all of the things that are out there, and have to decide if there's still no attack, hopefully there won't be in the next several days, then
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we'll decide what we do as far as embassies and level of security. in any event, we have to i think be more aggressive going after al qaeda, not just taking out the top people, but being on the ground and doing more interrogations. >> congressman, before i let you go, i want your opinion about something. we're starting to learn more about this enemy and the fact that this enemy is embolden now, new leadership, replacing bin laden. how do you telegraph down the road how things may change in terms of how we treat them if they are changing? >> there's always concern with al qaeda. al qaeda and arabian peninsula, the one most dangerous to the united states, that's the affiliate that most wants to attack the u.s. mainland, and the leadership, they have new leadership that's taken over. i believe they're more focused attacking the united states. they had a hiatus there after
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awlaki was killed, and there was a power struggle in the arabian peninsula. unfortunately for us, right now we have people in power that want to attack the u.s. mainlands. >> one of the areas specific to the threat i read about is yemen. are they enough of an ally to help us out in this? i was reading earlier they promised to help, but what should that look like? >> well, i think the president of yemen and government of yemen is doing all they can, but is limited in what they can do. so much of the country they don't control. we had some success against al qaeda in the arabian peninsula in yemen. the fact is a lot of yemen is beyond the government's control, and there's only so much the government can do. again, they're working with us, but primarily it has to be conducted by the u.s., and can't be tying the hands of our intelligence operatives or military people. >> all right. the terrorists themselves singled out august 4th sunday, today. as americans go to bed tonight, congressman, what is the headline we need to know? >> so far so good, but we can't
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let our guard down. >> congressman peter king from new york, we appreciate your time. >> thank you, harris. right now, a suspected killer behind bars on a $1 million bail charged with murder for targeting people who were on a boardwalk in california. now we're learning about one of the victims who did not escape this alive after a car was used as a deadly weapon on that boardwalk. >> i just see this car driving through like there's a girl latched onto the hood of the car, and he's swerving, and he knocks the girl off of the car, then he is just like running into crowds of hundreds of people, going out of his way to hit people. [ male announcer ] come to the lexus golden opportunity sales event and choose from one of five lexus hybrids that's right for you, including the lexus es and ct hybrids. ♪ this is the pursuit of perfection.
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of people on the popular venice beach boardwalk. we're told this is not an accident. a 32-year-old woman here from italy on her honeymoon was killed. 11 others hurt. the driver left the scene. then two hours later turned himself in. surveillance video from the nearby cafe called the candle is where a fundraiser is scheduled to be held tomorrow for the victims. it shows the man getting out of his car apparently to survey the scene before going on the attack. 38-year-old nathan campbell now charged with murder. bail set at $1 million for him. we still don't know exactly why he did this, witnesses certainly had a lot to say. >> to create mayhem and massacre a lot of people. >> he was looking for blood. >> it was packed with people. they started to spread to the sides, he gave it gas again, and started weaving, hit six or seven more until he made a left this way and took off. >> we're told the carnage spread
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for blocks on a boardwalk on a typical summer weekend draws as many as 150,000 people. dominic de-natale has spoken with witnesses that say the woman that died shortly after she was hit, they saw it and described it to you. >> reporter: yes. let me show you video. we can't show you the audio, it is too disturbing to hear. at her side, her husband, one of the witnesses, describes how much anguish she was in. >> naturally he wanted to go to his wife. he kept screaming her name and trying to get to her. so there were a number of us that were trying to keep him in a space that he was safe and his
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wife to get the attention she needed. >> reporter: they were walking the boardwalk, got there in moments, by the time she got to the hospital, died a couple hours later, harris. >> dominic, your cell reception is not as clear. we appreciate the report. thank you very much. search and rescue found the body of a snowboarder, buried alive when an ice tunnel collapsed on top of him. it happened on or gone's mount hood at the white river glacier. the man out with friends when he was caught in an avalanche yesterday afternoon. this picture, taken of him just before it happened. wow. rescuers used that photo to narrow down exactly where he was. his friends did try digging him out, but rescuers say there was too much snow and ice piled on top of him and it was thick as concrete. >> it was described as a school
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new claims about our nation's top secret snooping program. lynn greenwald, reporter that interviewed nsa leaker edward snowden and broke the whole story, greenwald says some members of congress are being denied to basic information about the national security agency. he claims two lawmakers turned over documents showing how their requests for details on surveillance programs and secret courts that oversee them have gone ignored. meanwhile, some rare bipartisan agreement as two top lawmakers on opposite sides of the political aisle are now on the same page, urging president obama to get tough with russian president vladimir putin over edward snowden. peter doocy with the news from washington. >> reporter: if it wasn't for edward snowden, most members of
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congress would have no idea how the nsa operates, according to one republican that calls the nsa leaker a whistleblower. >> without his doing what he did, members of congress would not have known about it. there's allegations this information was given to congress, of course congress passed the patriot act and fisa amendment act,rs of congress were not away on the whole what the programs were being used for. >> reporter: the joint chiefs chairman couldn't disagree more. martin dempsey says it wouldn't surprise him at all if china and russia already downloaded all the secrets on snowden's computers. >> he is not doing this to make some statement or spirit debate. he has caused us considerable damage to intelligence architecture. our adversaries are changing the way they communicate. >> reporter: in the wake of russia's decision to grant temporary asylum, they call on president obama to back out of a
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planned meeting this month with russian president vladimir putin. >> for the president to meet with putin a one on one meeting later this month would give him respect he doesn't deserve after all he has done. >> this is a stab in the back, a slap in the face. i actually agree with senator schumer, that has to come with consequences. >> reporter: the firm that most recently cleared edward snowden in a background check is now being investigated by a grand jury, according to "the wall street journal." that company, u.s. investigations services does more background security checks for the u.s. government than anyone else. harris? >> peter doocy, thank you. they got a look at newly disclosed documents that show how often the nation's top law enforcement agency enlists criminals to help in crimes and gives them permission to break the law. the documents show agents authorized an average of 15
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i am harris faulkner. this is the fox report. if you are just joining us, here is the newest information on the terror threat coming from al qaeda. an administration source confirming to fox news terrorist chatter picked up by intelligence exceeds anything seen in more than a decade. and there are specific concerns about terrorists using surgically implanted bombs. and while the embassies and consulates and hot spots in the middle east and north africa
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were closed for today, now word as a precaution, 19 of those will remain closed through august 10th, the end of the week. thank you for being with us. >> thank you for having me. >> you have thoughts about the chatter among top al qaeda operatives. it is more threatening than what was going on before 9/11. how so? >> because al qaeda has gone much bigger than before, including even after the strike of 9/11, networks, operative leaders are spread in more than 22 countries, close to 30 countries on one hand. on the other hand, they have not been stopped. the central issue of al qaeda is those that are creating more ways of al qaeda. that has not been stopped. we are facing a greater threat than ever before. >> i was reading today, doctor, that they're looking kind of for
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real at this point, and that their new leader wants a more centralized al qaeda. what does that mean? many think al qaeda is different than lennon, more of a rational, calm, cold-blooded strategist, that's true, but the difference is not between leaders, the difference is between the generations involved in al qaeda struggle, the generation today, the one that reads inspire magazine, for example, that has been exchanging e-mails with their leaders from yemen are different from those that visited us on 9/11 or those who committed actions under bin laden in the '90s. it has mutated into something much bigger, more modern, and more sophisticated. >> interesting, those terrorists would have been children on 9/11. what you're saying is they've grown up, they're part of the
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terror factory you talk about. last night, four star general jack keane said that president obama and the current administration not only underestimated but dangerously misunderstood this enemy. first watch, then i want your thoughts. >> we have never intellectually come to grips with what this movement truly is. it is a political movement designed to dominate most of the world. we sort of ignore that. certainly to control the region that we have a lot of interest in in the middle east. secondly, it is an ideology grounded in theological and philosophical beliefs that drives it using jihad to achieve their ends. so when you kill a leader, harris, like osama bin laden, the movement goes on. >> you echo each other a little bit. but you say you go a step further, the enemy is building, will not be deterred. what's happening. >> true, harris. actually, the general is right, it is about an ideology, no
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doubt. and one more point, the administration unfortunately and its advisers have refused to engage this ideology, to confront this ideology. from memos the past few years, says there is no ideology. if you actually don't recognize it exists, it will continue to exist and recruit more people. as important also are the forces that we should have allied ourselves with against the jihadists. look what's happening in egypt and tunesia and libya. who is demonstrating on the streets against the islamists and their allies and the jihadists? the youth, women, minorities. we didn't have a strategy to ally with them the last ten years. by now, we have anti-jihadist and anti-forces. >> part of the ideology, is it religious, one group against the world? >> it is perceived by the jihadists that they are the ones that represent the whole part of planet earth. that's how they see it in the same way the national socialist or fascists of italy imagine
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they represented the future of the nation they represented. the reality is these are very small portions in the arab and muslim world that want to impose their views first on their own people, egypt refused them, tunesia is going to be refusing them, after that they want to impose it on the entire world, including on americans, europeans, africans and others. >> i tell you what i am reading, going a little off course. you bring up egypt, these countries have their own chaos going on, isn't that an entry for al qaeda and others to move in? >> if we are smart enough in that chaos, we would identify our allies, the 30 million egyptians who marched against the brotherhood, against the islamists would work with them, and the jihadists that grow in the sinai and elsewhere and strike with the egyptian army against them. we need to be clear. that's what is missing. >> you are developing policy on the fox report tonight, that's what i hear. one more point to cover. recent jail breaks in southern
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countries put some of the most dangerous people on the hunt, they're hunting us. that will be their plan. who has gotten out that you worry about? >> first i worry about those that got them out, harris. look at what's happening. hundreds have been freed in different countries and different couldn't nents, in libya, in iraq, and before that, in egypt, two years ago. still, there is international coordination between the jihadists and al qaeda doing this. second, those freed are the equivalent of those that attacked us 9/11. we were attacked by 19. hundreds freed. do the math. people can do the math. >> who are our greatest friends in this fight? yemen says they're going to help us out. i asked this of representative peter king earlier in the program. your thoughts on it? >> i think there is a core in yemen would like to fight with us. there is a core in every one of these countries. what we need to do is get those cores together. we have nato in the west, we need a nato of anti-al qaeda
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forces, bring them together and think of joint strategies together fighting that fight. >> before i let you go, you have the civil war going on in syria, and we're getting ready to arm rebels, if we haven't already begun that. your thoughts where we are participating in the muslim world, where that gets us as we face this threat? >> for syria, it is simple, but complicated underground. we don't want hezbollah and iran to win. don't want al qaeda to penetrate the opposition. by equations, what is left for us are seculars of the syrian opposition. we need to reach out to them as much as we need to reach to their equivalent around the arab world. we need a different architecture from what we have now. >> i don't often get my questions from twitter, but there are good ones. last one for you. how do we win? >> we need to understand where the enemy is, we need to acknowledge in front of our public that the confrontation is on. we did not yet defeat al qaeda, but we can defeat al qaeda if we choose whom the right allies
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are, the youngest, brightest, women, minorities in the middle east, those are our allies in the fight against al qaeda. >> i often say our viewers are the smartest people on the planet. they prove it with that good question. i'll let you go. thank you for joining us. >> thank you, harris. after a series of long delays, the trial of the alleged fort hood texas shooter major nidal malik hasan will finally begin this week. he is accused of opening fire on an army post, killing 13, injuring 30 others. he admitted to the crime and faces the death penalty if convicted. adding insult to injury to the victims, his son has been able to continue collecting his salary since the shooting. brian yana has details on this. brian? >> good evening. the military trial for major nidal malik hasan begins tuesday, this after four and a half years of delays in which has san has been collecting $300,000 since the fort hood
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shooting. he faces 13 counts of premeditated murder, 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder, reportedly continues to receive a military paycheck of $7,000 a month. current law allows official active service members who are suspects to be paid until conviction. the former army psychiatrist admits he fired on hundreds of soldiers, awaiting health checkups before deployment to afghanistan on november 5th, 2009, killing 13 and wounding more than 30. he says he committed the mass shooting in defense of taliban terrorists. yet the obama administration characterizes the attack as workplace violence, not an act of terrorism, shipping victims valuable benefits. manning was shot six times. >> fighting to have his actions that day considered an act of terrorism so that those that were killed and wounded can be recognized as somebody killed and wounded in combat. >> manning and victims cannot be
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awarded purpeple hearts or combatand the status. even if he is convicted, there are years if not decades of appeals. death penalty, cases in the military justice system are rare. no active duty soldier executed since 1961. he will be defending himself, which means he could potentially be questioning victims of his own crime. harris? >> brian leap is, thank you. president ahmadinejad has been replaced by a new president. sworn in today in open session of parliament there. in the audience, leaders and dignitaries from more than 50 countries. it is a nation, an islamic republic. we're always keeping an eye on it. the u.s. long suspected iran is developing nuclear weapons.
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it is currently under u.n. sanctions under orders to stop enriching uranium. the world is watching to see what approach the new president takes. con or powell has more. >> reporter: he has long been a member of iran's senior political leadership, but his victory in june was a surprise in and out of iran. he is known as a reformer and pragmatist. he vowed to jump start the economy and end international isolation. iran's economy has suffered greatly from international sanctions in place because of iran's nuclear ambition. but the new president has limited power and control. the real authority in iran, the supreme leader controls all nuclear and security decisions, and even though he is considered a moderate, may change the tone coming out of tehran, he is unlikely to convince religious
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leaders to end iran's nuclear program. still, the white house said it is willing to work with him if iran, quote, engages seriously. >> conor powell, thank you. people caught in the path of deadly flooding, our top story as we go around the world in 80 seconds. pakistan. a monsoon dumps several inches of rain in hours. doctors blame deaths on building collapse and electrocution. officials warn more rain may on the way. japan. the country's space agency launching a rocket, delivering tons of cargo to the international space station, and seated among the supplies, a tiny robot. the first of its kind to help the crew on the station conduct experiments and perform routine maintenance. france.
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to experience the precision handling of the lexus performance vehicles, including the gs and all-new is. ♪ this is the pursuit of perfection. just hours from now, hundreds of thousands of bay area commuters in california could be left stranded. two unions representing the bart transit system announce a possible strike for monday. that would cause major gridlock in san francisco and beyond. unions battling with management over wages, benefits, safety issues. workers walked off the job for four days, then agreed to a month long cooling off period. that's over. now the strike is expected to happen if a contract deal is not reached by midnight. an 18 wheeler goes off an overpass, crashes onto the highway below. our top story as we go across
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america. texas. that truck now a burned out shell, the driver dead, investigators saying he was heading west in grand prairie, a dallas suburb, when his big rig slammed through a guardrail, landed on the turnpike below, the crash shutting the highway for hours both directions. no one else was hurt. pennsylvania. two boys in danville credited with saving their dad's life. he had a seizure and collapsed on the family vacation. six-year-old marky called for help. >> i told mommy, daddy isn't normal. >> the three-year-old sprung into action. help arrived to take dad to the hospital who has several broken bones. no word what caused his seizure, he is awaiting test results. meantime, he is just proud of his kids. >> very nice. wisconsin, happy national mustard day.
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people heading to national mustard museum in middleton to celebrate the taste of the yellow topping. >> so many varieties, flavors, textures. >> 4,000 hot dogs served with mustard from all over the world. more than 450 different kinds showcased. >> goes back a long way, unlike ketchup, mustard has character, class, flavor and it's good for you. and from mustard to dogs of a different kind, california racing to be the fastest weiner dog. that's fox watch across america. tying the knot in time. a pennsylvania couple got married this weekend. the ceremony held earlier than planned so their two-year-old son could be their best man. logan has a rare terminal
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illness, his parents had been putting it off hoping he would recover. doctors say logan only has a few weeks to live. they moved up the wedding date so he could be part of it. >> this is the little guy we did this for today, he is just not feeling good now. >> under the circumstances of what the doctors told us, we decided to go ahead and do it while he was still with us. we did everything as soon as we could. >> god bless that family. look at him. most items for the wedding were donated. a fund was also set up to pay for his medical expenses. we wish them the best. trouble on the track in nascar, one driver keeping his tires cool and taking the checkered flag. we'll have your winner. how long will the suspension be for a-rod. major league baseball reportedly ready to make a big announcement. pete schraeger is back from his honeymoon! too much information. he is ready to chat sports with me inside the fox report.
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hi, i'm terry and i have diabetic nerve pain. it's hard to describe, because you have a numbness, but yet you have the pain like thousands of needles sticking in your foot. it was progressively getting worse, and at that point i knew i had to do something. once i started taking the lyrica the pain started subsiding. [ male announcer ] it's known that diabetes damages nerves. lyrica is fda approved to treat diabetic nerve pain. lyrica is not for everyone. it may cause serious allergic reactions or suicidal thoughts or actions. tell your doctor right away if you have these, new or worsening depression, or unusual changes in mood or behavior. or swelling, trouble breathing, rash, hives, blisters, changes in eyesight including blurry vision, muscle pain with fever, tired feeling, or skin sores from diabetes. common side effects are dizziness, sleepiness, weight gain and swelling of hands, legs and feet. don'drink alcohol while taking lyrica. don't drive or use machinery until you know how lyrica affects you. those who have had a drug or alcohol problem may be more likely to misuse lyrica. ask your doctor about lyrica today.
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superstar alex rodriguez better make a super deal with the league. reports say if he doesn't do so by tomorrow, mlb could ban him playing for life, all over use of performance enhancing drugs. he wants to play with the yankees so bad, he is going to fly to chicago. >> a-rod, not how his career was supposed to end. we'll see what happens. he could still appeal if there's a suspension. joe gerardi says they're going to pencil him in the lineup tomorrow against chicago. >> what does that mean? >> pencil is not permanent.
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we'll see. baseball may suspend him for not only the rest of this season but the rest of next season as well. technically he can appeal it, but there's a clause in the latest collective bargaining agreement that bud selig can use if it is for the best interest of the sport, can overrule all appeals, say a-rod is gone. >> really. there you go for him. keep us up to date. would you? tiger woods is kind of the tiger woods, prescandal. >> he hasn't won a major since the scandal, won another nonmajor today, bun by seven strokes. he is 0 and 17 since the scandal in the majors, trails jack nicklaus for that record. with this victory, he is three tournaments from tying sam sneed for all time in pga victories. all eyes next week in rochester when he has a show in a major. hasn't been able to do it since the scandal. >> i wonder if people go what scandal, if they are, let's not
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fill them in. >> we don't have to go down that road. >> save it for another occasion. casey cane with nascar, said i want to be there, hash tag. >> poconos, not far away. his second victory of the nascar season. edges out a teammate with hendrick motor sports, jeff gordon that got second place. this is crazy, there were all these crashes. jimmie johnson led most of the way, his tires went out, got into a spin. casey cane is set for the final show down, looks like he looked up the position. >> it was entertaining. kahne winning, his te. he was on the run nearly two decades. whitey bulger, one of the nation's most wanted fugitives.
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if you play, get a ticket. powerball jackpot got bigger. no one hit the winning number in yesterday's drawing. the pot is $400 million. if you live in any of those 43 states or are on vacation in the virgin islands, buy your tickets for wednesday's drawing. odds of winning, 1 in 175 million. but i believe in you! let's do fox fast forward, looking to some of the big stories coming up this week. monday, closing arguments in the trial of alleged mobster whitey bulger. he pled to weapons offenses and other crimes. san diego mayor bob filner will begin two weeks of full time therapy, facing several
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sexual harassment claims. remember, he is a hugger. they're looking into a possible recall effort against him. tuesday, opening arguments in the court-martial for fort hood shooter major nidal malik hasan, accused of killing 13, wounding dozens more in a 2009 rampage. facing the death penalty if they convict him. on this day in 1693, the world got a little bubblier with a french monk, dom perfect in i don't mean. first discovered champagne, probably more myth than fact. at the time, the famous holy man was living in france and fid egg with a way to make white wine with grapes. somewhere he hit on something special. the bubbly began to throw 320 years ago today. that's how fox reports sunday august 4th, 2013. a busy news weekend. here all night with prime time updates. i am harris faulkner.
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thank you for joining us. have a fantastic week. "huckabee" starts. great program on jobs. don't move a muscle. have a good one. coast, red eye. >> tonight, on huckabee. >> >> we should be doing everything we ca tonight on "huckabee." >> we should be doing everything we can as a country to create more good jobs that pay good wages, period. >> the president talks a good talk, but what's the truth about today's job market? >> i have been long term employed four years. >> i have never been unemployed. this is the first time. >> they're both part time. >> it is depressing, defeating, humiliating. >> the real unemployment numbers and the real stories behind them. having the freedom to maybe start your own business because you know you'll be able to get health care, and i
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