>> good mother-in-law. it is august 23rdrd. for the second time this week random violence has taken a life. an 89-year-old veteran only to be savagely beaten to death by two teens. one of the three bored teenagers held for the murder of the athlete, what we know about his past. >> a state emergency issued for yosemite park where wildfires continue to rage.

fox and friends first starts right now. >> mid town manhattan lacking busy for this early hour. good morning everyyou are you are watching "fox & friends first". i am patti ann browne. >> lots going on out there. >> i am heather nauert. thank you for starting your day with us. >> a manhunt is underway for two teenagers accused of brutally beating a world war ii set veteran and leaving him to die. the teens jumped 89-year-old albert delton beating him so badly he suffered major injuries to his head. cops found him to the car and

took him to the hospital where he died yesterday. he was not just migrate uncle. he was a great person. >> police don't believe >> polie arresting two men overnight. they were planning to grab officers and execute them in a vacant house that's where they built a makeshift jail. they belonged to a group of sovereign citizen extremists. that's a group classified as domestic terrorist. listen. >> i never intended to harm orchid nap any within. >> i wanted to be able to donate things and turn them into ee ter internal affairs and to the da so these people could be brought

back under control. >> both of them are now behind bars and they have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder and attempted kid mappi-- kidna. >> new details on a tragic thrill kill of a baseball carment the teen accused of driving the car is linked with a string of armed robberies. jones is being held on a million dollars bond. last night the stevens county district attorney said on fox news he wants lane's parents to know he plans to bring the suspects to justice. >> this isn't reflective of our

society or stevens county oklahoma and express to them i am going to do everything that i can to make sure these three thugs pay for exactly what they did to their son. >> james edward his youth pastor describes his dark turn to violence. >> i never imaged any kid would be capable of this. when i look at the people around them eventually they are going to be bmake bad choices. he had positive inflew entses around him and he hads will a lot of negative influences around him. more than 100,000 dollars raised so far to help parents bring their son home to australia. >> aaron henderson's son is in

custody. he can see mouthing i love you to his family members who were in court. he is charged with murdering 27-year-old oden lloyd. he is pleading not guilty but he is being held in jail without bail. he will be at river falls court sometime in the next two weeks. fort hood shooter's fate now rests in the hands of 13 senior army officers. deliberations continue after major nadal hassan passed on giving a closing argument. will a verdict be reached today? we are hours away from day two of the deliberations with an army psychiatrist accused of gunning down 13 people and wounding others.

the trial abruptly ending deliberations when he took the floor. he has his own attorney. the defense chooses not to make a closing statement. it was an hour and a half to share the 700 pieces of evidence they introduced lieu out the court-martial. the fate of the army psychiatrist is now in the hands of 13 army others. they will return hours from now. colonel hendricks has two motives. he believes he had jihad duty to kill as many soldiers as he could. he added hassan did not want to deploy. >> for the 13 counts of premedicated murder and 32 counts of attempted pre-meditated murder they must be unanimous on one of the 13

counts of pre-meditated murder. >> elizabeth bran live in washington thank you. former egyptian president mub mubarak will now be under house arrest at a military hospital outside of cairo. the 85-year-old was forced out of power during the 2011 up rising. >> brand new developments in the crisis in syria. they have sent a top pofficial. they have the sites of three other attacks. the syrian government is denying any involvement. many are suspicious including the obama administration. they killed more than a thousand

people including children. >> wildfire outside of yosemite national park is now being described. ju jerry brown now calling a state of emergency. 268 homes in a nearby neighborhood have been evacuated and hundreds of tourists have been ordered to leave the area. that fire is one percent contained and 50 this as 50 percent of major fires burning across the person part of the country. >> hail pounding the denver area making it look like a winter wonderla wonderland. several golf ball sized hail. >> they are putting a height under an over pass. you can see people trying to

shovel through the mess out there. >> maria molina is looking at the fire dangers as well. >> we have a chance to see more thunderstorms across parts of colorado that's how we got the hail. it will not reach the ground so we could be seeing more of that today across parts of colorado an the rockies. moisture will be on the increase. we have an elevated danger of fire. it will increase later on today and into this weekend. >> something it won't do is pump up tropical moisture into parts of northwest and rockies. we will be looking at several inches of rain out here.

we really need the rain. we could have flooding concerns across parts of california. temperature wise beautiful day in the northeast. we had to deal with the thunderstorms through out the afternoon. much niers now. >> the nasdaq coming to a complete halt for more than 3 hours. how about it effect the markets today? lauren simonetti has that and all of your other top business stories. >> we are calling it nasdebt. the tlae our trading outage it was flat lining yesterday resuming at 3:25 eastern. $5.6 trillion worth of shares were paralyzed.

the problem means investors and regulators from wall street to washington uneasy about the super fast electronic trading days that dominate the market. some say this is a big unintended consequence of our technical times. here's another unintended conts whens for you obama care creating $350 million burden on business. restaurants grocery stores and delhis with more than 20 locations will have to calculate nutritional content with all of the food product the and poets it on menus and signs. those new menu labels don't come cheap. they were advertising in the super bowl. 80 percent of the adds of the big games are sold out. they are going for north of

$4 million this year. that's hundreds of thousands of dollars. fox broadcast the super bowl this year february 2nd at the new jersey meadowlands. um going to trying to no flight is needed this time. >> lauren simonetti fox business. >> it is try time to take the favorite viral video of the week. he can't run away so he goes completely limp. >> whenever the doorbell rings they stand straight up ready to greet whoever is at the door. finally busted. a dog caught on camera stealing an entire kitchen. it took winston the beagle many times but he managed to pull the

box to the floor. tweet or e-mail them to us and we will read them later on. you can go to the poll at foxandfriendsfirst.com. the president said al qaeda is on the run. robert mueller said something different. >> they will care toeterritoria threat down the road. >> al qaeda is not dead? >> no. >> what he says is the big he is threat for our country. >> parents up and arms we will bring you the latest on that.

>> good morning to you as we take a live look outside. people getting ready to have a good time on this fwra morning. serious news to bring you right now. investigators are still trying to figure out what caused a tour bus to crash injuring at least 50 people. the bus swerved and rolled on to its side before sliding down an embankment a few miles outside of los angeles. he was going too fast for the crash.

no one suffered her boyfriend ryan anderson stood with her mother after he walked out of the church. it is believed the batch tore co-star was also there. >> gee awe attempted to take her own life last week and died two weeks later at the hospital. >> thousands of documents leaked wikileaks are facing a new battle and this is with the army. he wants to be requested identified as a woman named chelsea. they used manning's gender identity disorder as parted of his dissent. manning wants to receive hormone therapy while he serves 35 year prison sentence at fort lev enworth. he wants to do that in order to prepare for an eventually sex change operation. the army says it doesn't cover those costs. manning's lawyer says it will fight to give the military to give him the hormone treatments while he is in prison. >> the terror threat forced the

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they are admitting bruce johnson was one of several people who had the phones and e-mails mistakenly pass taped by the fbi. they were tapping the phones of a disgraced city councilman. >> they are taking the voter id laws to the next several. they plan to sell the losue the you lone star state. texas is using a law in order to restrict voting on the basis of race. parents at an elementary school

are outraged after finding out the newly elected prints pal dana carter was making children kneel and waiting for them to december miss him. he put it in place as a safety measure but after several complaints gherting rid of it. >> coming up for a second time this week a random act of violence has taken a life. this time it was the life of an 89-year-old veteran to survived whorld war 2 only to be beaten to death by two teenagers. >> one tennessee theater owner is refusing to show a butler. on this day in history in 1992 "unforgiven" directed by and starring clint eastwood was the

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>> for the second time this week a random act of violence has taken a life. a veteran provide rorld war 2 only to be beaten to death by teenagers. >> an extreme weather alert a state of emergency issued for

yosemite park where wildfires continue to rage. a first look at the areas hit the hardest. >> what a list factor will be playing the next batman in just a minute. "fox & friends first" starts right now. >> two teens accused of brutally beating a world war ii veteran to death leaving him to die.

police in spokane washington say these teens jumped albert belton in a parking lot on wednesday night. they apparently beat him so badly he suffered major injuries to his head. cops found him and took him to the hospital and he died yesterday. >> he wasn't just a great uncle he was a great person. he didn't deserve to die like that. >> police didn't know that belton knew the attackers. manhunt underway. >> another tragedy details in a thrill kill of a college basketball star. michael jones the teen accused of driving the car his friends used shrinked to armed robberies. investigators say they recognize jones's ford focus from surveillance footage. all three boys involved in the shooting are in jail.

jones being held on $3 million bond. he wants them to know he plans to fwlij to justice. >> it is not reflected in stevens county oklahoma. expressed to them i am going to do everything that i can, everything within my power to make sure these three thugs pay for exactly what they did to their son. >> one of the suspects, his youth pastor describing his dark turn to violence. >> never imaged any kid that -- any kid would be capable of this. when i look at kids and the sishlg of influence surround them they are going to eventually make bad choices and they will become who they came out with. he had positive influences around him and he also had a lot

of negative influences around him. >> donations are still pouring in. 100,000 dollars have been raised to bring him home to australia. >> he spends his time run ago web site that calls for ethnic cleansing of whites. amo is his name. he is in charge of buying weapons and u.s. government. he got permission to run the web sites but he claims it was for concert tickets and lecture videos. a former supervisor telling them that everyone is afraid of him and worry one day he could go on a shooting spree. no word what if any disciplinary actions have been taken against

him. journalist michael hastings told a neighbor he thought his mercedes had been tampered with hours before he died in a fiery car crash. this according to a new report. hastings asked to borrow her car that night but he was scared. an autopsy report says hastings had a mixture of drugs in his system on the night he died. but they do not believe it played a role in the crash. >> p one crisis after another coming to a head in the middle east president obama has plenty on his plate. that will be put on the back burner today while he continues through pennsylvania talking instead about college tuition. doug luzader has more from the washington bureau. >> good morning. this has put the white house in an awkward spot. this is um possible to ignore.

he will spend the second day on the bus tour with a stop in new york and on to paren ton, pennsylvania. it is a world away from the images. children grabbed hundreds of them and coming to a chemical weapons attack. maybe the clinton administration is trying to buy some time now. >> at this time we are unable to determine the use but we are fo focused every minute of every day on doing everything possible within our power to nail down the facts. >> the united nations held a meeting on syria. the u.s. ambassador never did attend. >> where was ambassador power

that she could not take part of the in the emergency session. >> sips you ask, and i like to be transparent as possible ambassador power is on a prearranged trip. >> tell us where he was. there's no dishonor in having a scheduled vacation. >> he had a previously scheduled trip i don't think i need to go into more details from here. >> the office has gone into more detail saying she was on a personal trip of some kind prearranged certainly prtrip a- personal trip that made it impossible to come back. the accused fort hood shooter's fate is in the hands of 13 army officers. deliberations will begin today after a surprising move of hasan. he passed on giving a closer

argument. will a verdict be placed today? >> good morning. jurors breaking after nearly 3 and a half hours of deliberations. they will be back at it today just hours from now in order forearm me sigh kie kris to faith tface the death penalty they must be unanimous on one of the 13 counts of pre-meditated murder. he mounted no defense during this trial even abruptly ending deliberations yesterday when he took the floor acting as his own attorney. he said quote the defense chooses to not make a closing statement. this after the jury heard from the prosecution. toefrps took an hour and a half including testimony from nearly 90 witnesses. prosecuting attorney colonel stevens hendricks, steve

hendricks says hasan has two motives here he believes he had a jihad duty to wikill as many soldiers as he could and adding he did not want to deploy to afghanistan. he has sat mostly silent in his wheelchair. he raised few objections and only one time sending letters that the rampage was necessary to quote protect muss rlim insurgents. >> extreme weather across the globe. foik in the denver area hit with golf ball sized hail leaving many drivers stranded including this one here. they whad to shovel their way ot of the mess. >> spectacular video from canada. check this out. >> sucking it right down. >> that is unbelievable.

>> pretty cool. >> that is unbelievable. something out of a horror movie. a line of fog rolling over a mountain range caught on camera happening in a small fishing village of newfoundland. >> looked like a smaller version. >> the wildfire has nearly quad troubled in size. the flames which started on saturday is one percent changed since that time. it is down 9 percent. to get the latest let's go to maria molina. low humidity and the winds will see about 35 miles to the west. we have an elevated fire danger in the morning hours to the afternoon. in california the warnings have

been lifted because you are starting to see a little bit of an increase in moisture. that is welcome news. we have tropical depression it's not forecast to intensify with the hurricane but it is forecast to pump in the moisture to the southwest. we will be seeing some much needed rain across some of the areas. good news parts of utah and nevada. only person is parts of california may be using the rain. that could be a concern of course. otherwise temperature wise beautiful in the northeast. it will be a beautiful weekend as well in saturday and sunday with low humidity midwest upper 80s today. tab a look at sunday even 70 for some of you in the middle 90s. it is august, enjoy it. the time 41 after the hour.

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remember this? remember this? >> we are going back to wa washington, d.c. to take back the white house. >> he is considering another run for president in 2016. he has been seen in states including iowa and utah. he says the trips are just to help win back state legislatures. asked about the plan he says well for the time being he will be supporting hillary clinton. for the time being. >> fwhoe texting and driving is dangerous. what about texting and sleeping. it is a growing problem and is a symptom of serious health consequences. if you are texts in the subconscious you are not getting enough deep sleep. the solution move your phone out of the bedroom. >> how does that happen in the first place? i don't get it. >> he is apologizing for taking

performance enhancing drugs. he faces a 65 game suspension following a steroids investigation. in a statement he says quote i have no one to blame but myself. i know that over the last year and a half i have made some serious mistakes both with the information i failed to share during my arbitration hearing and the comments he made. fans are not satisfied. >> i would refer to say him he's using but at least he apologized. >> when you make an apology you do it in person you sound more genuine. >> he was the first of 14 players disciplined this year. >> i know you have been waiting and the caped crusader is revealed. >> where are you?

ben affleck replaces christian bale. batman and super man are on the big screen together for the first time. it is slated to open july 17th, 2015. what do you think of this choice? tweet us at fox friends first. it is 48 after the hour. it may be a hit but one owner is refusing to show "the butler" jane fonda is to blame. >> an astronaut what they saw in outer space? see what's coming up. >> how is it going. great show as usual. let me say coming up on the final all american concert series we have a great show because picnic tables mean one thing. barbecues, soon there will be food and ice and up there at the cma and the acm duo of the year

thompson square will be here live. this place will be packed. as far as the show itself. geraldo will be here and he is wearing a brand new outfit. you want them to pay for your college education, will we do anything more than tweet them? we will find out only when fox and friends start at the top of the hour. who will be in for steve doocy. we don't know yet. if you are a male get down here quick.

eight minutes of the hour. a ufo spotted by astronauts on the international space station? you could seat shiny mass as it traveled through space. nasa, however, says the object was just an antenna cover from a

service module that slipped off. >> sure. okay. well, a monster fine on a spanish beach. an unidentified 13 long sea beast, 13 foot long sea beast with horns washed up ashore. and it now has marine biologists stumped, apparently. one expert says it could be the backbone of a shark. what do you think that thing is? >> some people say a dinosaur. who knows? >> it is topping the charts at theet areas cross the country. but two theaters in one kentucky county are not showing "the butler." why? the owner, a vietnam vet banned it because of jane fonda. >> reporter: ike beltwell never flew over the seas of vietnam but you trained the pilots. >> 400,000 helicopter pilots were killed. >> so when jane fonda was seen sitting on an anti-war craft gun that likely killed some of beltwell's students, he and many

americans were outraged. >> jane fonda, in my opinion, is a treasonist person. >> reporter: decades and hundreds of apologies later, she starred in "the butler." her film will never hit the screen at his theaters. >> jane fonda had a wonderful opportunity to shoate worw the how horrible our prisoners were being treated yet she decided to call them baby killers and support our enemy. >> reporter: for young moviegoers in elizabethtown, it's a decision hard to understand. >> i'm kind of bummed out, actually. it seems like a really great movie to see about the history and what everybody went through during that time period. >> reporter: but beltwell stands by his decision and many stand behind him. >> hundreds of letters, maybe thousands -- >> reporter: in 2005 when he decided not to play fonda's last big screen appearance, only one out of the many e-mails,

letters, and calls was a negative one. and today, he says, his support hasn't faltered. a man electrocuted and caught on camera. and there is more to the story than meets the eye. why this man is probably in a lot of trouble with his wife. >> okay. and what was your favorite animal viral video of the week? we'll read your e-mails coming up. ♪ clearance event the dodge way? first wait till summer. then get the cars ready. now add the dodge part. ♪ the dodge summer clearance event. right now get 0% financing for to 72 months and no payments for 90 days on all dodge vehicles.

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time to take a look at the good, bad and ugly. the good, "duck dynasty" is america's favorite tv show. the official ratings are in for the fourth season premier and it qua quacked in with 11.8 million viewers. that is a new record. now the bad. this guy getting thrown out of a grocery store window in brazil. he went in to rob the place and

the only thing he left with, a bunch of bruises. ouch. finally, the ugly. >> no! >> a man pulling off an electrifying prank on his wife, she asked him to test the power by turning on the lights and he pretends he is electrocuted. >> oh, my goosh! >> time for your favorite viral video of the week. was it the dog that plays dead to avoid getting a bath? or was it the cat who stands up to greet people when the doorbell rings? or was it the pepperoni, the beagle who managed to steal a whole pizza from the kitchen counter? here are your responses. jane is e-mailing us, all the videos are cute. here is something funny about my cat, she likes to sleep in the dishwasher, turned off, of course. >> charlie says, my favorite this morning is the dog that plays dead. he's at least creative. >> he is.

>> according to our online poll, cat who stands up when the doorbell rings wins with 49% of the vote. >> no kidding? okay. well, everybody i hope you have a great weekend. supposed to be nice here in the northeast, at least. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> take care, folks. >> thank you, ladies. good morning to you. it's friday. it's august 23rd. i'm filling in for gretchen this morning. we begin with a fox news alert. a manhunt under way right now for two killers of a world war ii veteran. he survived being shot in okinawa with no match for the brutal attack allegedly by some teenagers. and he says black people cannot survive in this country unless a lot of whites are murdered and guess what? he works for the department of homeland security. his job, buying guns and ammunition. why hasn't he been fired? we'll tell you coming up. all right. you know him as a rock star. friends of "fox & friends." and now bret michaels is your hero, too. and especially after you see