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our thanks to party city. they're fantastic for decorating the set. dp did such a great job, and for all our costumes as well. >> and the disney store, too. logon for more of the aftershow show. >> i need to be oiled. the budget battle, government shutdown, and the troubles obama care roll out, all keeping the spotlight on the president's domestic agenda, and now new problems popping up on the foreign policy front with growing concerns among world leaders like germany's angela merkel about reports the u.s. wire tapped her cell phone. now, germany's interior minister is demanding answers. a good sunday morning to you. welcome to america's news headquarters. >> the new fallout from the nsa fine scandal taking center stage
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on the foreign policy front. peter is live with more on this story. >> and we saw hundreds of americans from across the political spectrum march through the streets of d.c. yesterday, trying to make enough noise outside the capitol to convince congress to pass some legislation that would ban nsa mass surveillance programs, but you fast forward to this morning, the chairman of the house homeland subcommittee on counterintelligent peter king, said it's not smart to address these data collection systems in public because we don't want the enemy to learn too much. we also heard from another republican, mike rogers, he defended this surveillance programs and used a historical example to address the perils of ignoring what's happening with our enemies and our friends. >> think about this. in the 1930s, we had this debate before. and we decided we were going to kind of turn off our ability to even listen to friends who
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have -- remember, sometimes our friends have relationships with our adversaries, and we say we're not going to do those things. that wouldn't be appropriate. look what happened in the '30, the rise of fascism, the rise of communism, and it resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of people. >> the white house promises they are patching things up with our allies, saying, quote, we're taking a look at those programs to insure it meets the standard that the president has laid out and we're going to continue to confer with our allies through our regular diplomatic channels to address the concerns they have raised. the concerns of the german government will soon be raised in person in washington. they're sending intelligence officials overseas to get the story about the extent of u.s. surveillance on their chancellor and others. gregg? >> peter live in washington. thanks so much. right now, we're getting new information on the stabbing that
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had police searching the campus of indiana university early this morning. police say one suspect is now in du custody and a second has been identified but is not believed to be dangerous. officers found a victim with stab wounds in an apartment on the school's main campus in bloomington. police ninitially told students to lock themselves in a safe location, but the campus has now been given the all clear. they said the victim was slashed in a fight. he was taken to the hospital. >> in nort carolina, police there made an arrest after a terrifying accident at the state fair. the ride operator has been charged with asult with a deadly weapon. investigators say a ride called the vortex may have been tampered with, compromising critical safety devises. on thursday, the ride began to move as people were trying to exit. witnesses called 911, describing the horrifying scene. >> this is 911.
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you just called with an emergency? >> yes, there was -- we're at the state fair, and the ride turned upside down and dumped everybody out. there are people who are hurt really bad. like their heads and stuff. >> okay. >> and there's one guy that's not moving at all. >> we're at the state fair, the vortex ride, and the ride broke loose and five people fell straight from the sky, 20 feet drop. >> five people were injured. three of them are still in the hospital. police say there still could be more arrests in the case. a deadly weekend in iraq. a homicide bomber attacking a group of soldiers guarding the streets in northern iraq, killing 14 people. in the meantime, in baghdad, a wave of car bombings killing more than 40 people, injuring dozens more. iraqy investigators say those bombs were planted in cars in public areas very close to businesses and in parking lots. this is the latest of several
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coordinated attacks in recent months. >> tension is growing as we get more reports emerging on iran's nuclear program. now israel is threatening to act after reports say iran could beless than a month away from building a nuclear weapon. this as a senior official in iran said the country is still enriching uranium to 20%. that's just a small step away from reaching weapons grade. the reports contradict an earlier report that the country reduced enrichment to a maximum of 5%. this news just weeks ahead of the second round of negotiations aimed at ending iran's nuclear weapons program. john bolton is the former u.s. ambassador to the united nations, a senior fellow at the american enterprise institute and a fox news contributor. ambassador bolton, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> why don't you give me your general assessment of the latest reports. >> what they highlight on an
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urgent basis is just how extensive the work that iran has done already really is. they're not racing to build one or two nuclear weapons. they're building a capacity in their nuclear program where when they decide to break out and weaponize, they could put together dozens of weapons. so this timeline that we hear about, i think, demonstrates that iran's capacity is already so great that the negotiations that we've been having with iran are simply a way for them to buy more time, and why these comments you're hearing from the israelis should be a real warning to us that time is very important. >> let's go to israel since you bring that up. how, without the backing, the big bite of the u.s., let's say, how effective is the bark of israel? >> well, the bite is effective to strike iran now would be, i think, at the outer limit of
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israel's capacity, but remember, they don't have to do the amount of damage that the united states would be capable of doing. what israel has to do is break iran's control over the nuclear fuel cycle at key points. the uranium conversion, not much talked about, but moving uranium from a solid to a gas, and uranium enrichment, and israel does have that capability. would they prefer to have the united states do it? absolutely. is there any chance it's going to happen under president obama? no way. which is why the spotlight is on the very difficult decision that israel, i think, will soon have to make. >> when you say soon, how soon are we talking about? weeks, months? >> i think every day that goes by increases the risk that in facilities we don't know about, in locations we don't know about, in places like north korea that we can only speculate about, that iran has already crossed the nuclear finish line, which means the risk of retaliation for any strike by israel or the united states would be a nuclear response.
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i think israel may already be too late in some respects, and every day that goes by only increases the risk for them. >> meanwhile, ambassador, the white house and the state department is asking -- they're asking congress to hold off on enacting any additional, any new sanctions against iran because they want to give the current diplomatic talks that are under way right now, give it time to breathe, to see if that could possibly work. what do you think about that strategy? >> look, i think the administration's approach is nothing less than appeasement. i think we have to be straightforward about this. i don't think the economic sanctions that congress has imposed or is considering are going to stop iran's nuclear weapons program. but they do put pressure on the regime, and they're an indication of the toughness, the strength, of the american position. when you see the obama administration lobbying against these economic sanctions, it's a clear signal to the tehran that
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stronger bargaining position in these negotiations. there's no reason to make substantive compromises when they see the white house making them for them. >> where do you see this going? is new conflict in the middle east imminent? >> no, not necessarily. i think the greater risk is the administration is effectively going to make all the concess n concessions that iran wants, legitimize their nuclear weapon program, and that will lead to much greater long-term risk. >> thank you so much, sir. >> thank you. for a lot of veterans, the transition from combat to everyday life can be fairly tough. many coming back can suffer from visible as well as invisible scars of war. this morning, we meet a group trying to help them cope by sending the vets back overseas. rick reports on the healing journey to the holy land. >> u.s. military combat veterans in israel, visiting some of the
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holiest sites on earth, thanks to a charity calls heroes to heroes, hoping to heal post traumatic stress disorder. >> why not take them to beth bethleh bethlehem? to the western walls, to the stations of the cross, why not give them an option to start again? >> ernest was an army corporal in vietnam in 19 sfenlt. a cover man for a mine and tunnel dog tracking enemy trails and booby-traps. >> they hit a landmine. they blew apart in such a bizarre fashion that wasn't something i was supposed to see at 19 years old. >> my arm right here. >> ernest came home with ptsd, struggling to adapt to civilian life. he credits his wife with helping him find focus and purpose. a licensed mental health
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therapist and elder in his church, he's extremely grateful for this gift of a spiritual journey to the holy land. >> it's a once in a lifetime thing. i believe my steps were led by the lord to go this direction. >> i'm looking for something that's going to dramatically change my point of view, my way of life. >> keith, an iraq war veteran, also suffering from ptsd. he threw his name in the hat for the heroes to heroes trip, hoping for help with his stress and anxiety and tells us it's working. >> i slept better. i don't have to look behind me because i feel safe, i feel confident. >> they are funded entirely by private donations. it kaus $7,500 for each trip, and ten more will be chosen for next year. >> thanks, rick. let's go to new jersey with governor chris christie is spoking out about superstorm sandy relief. nearly a year to date after it roared ashore, it said sandy
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victims have all the right to be frustrated, but he's telling the associated press that washington and not his administration is to blame. explaining that it took congress three months to approve the $51 billion relief package. sandy killed at least 182 people and costed $65 billion in damage in the u.s., making it the second costliest weather disa disaster in american history behind only hurricane katrina. >> baseball fans are up this morning and chattering about the wild finish to game three of the world series. take a look. >> grounds one, pedroia makes the play. throw home. two out. over to third, it gets away. allen craig is going to come to the plate. and the throw is -- the umpire making the call. they're going to say he's safe.
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>> all right, now, you have to look at this really closely in slow motion. two outs, bottom of the ninth. their legs get tangled. see how he's kicking up his leg. after a bad throw from home, the ump made a rare obstruction call from the red sox. the cards are now up 2-1 in the world series. this is going to go down in world series baseball lore. >> but you think it's the right call in. >> i think it's the right. all the umps agree. joe torre said, yeah, that's the right call. if you look closely, he kicks up his leg to try to trip, allegedly. was it accidental? intentional? the umps say you can't obstruct like that. >> otherwise, me may have made it to the base before the ball did, to home plate? >> yeah, i mean, look. it's so hard to tell. but the umps are all over it.
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the third base umpire, home umpire, there's also one out in left field. they all agree. wow. amazing. a lot of fun to watch. >> that was a lot of fun. now we go back to this. >> serious stuff. >> the serious stuff. texas senator ted cruz going hunting in iowa this weekend. we'll tell you why some political analysts think this may signal a potential presidential run in 2016. >> a slew of website glitches gr crippling the rollout of president obama's new health insurance exchange. why one republican governor says the worst is yet to come. heart healthy, huh?!
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texas senator ted cruz went hunting in iowa, fueling speculation he plans to make a presidential run in 2016. he was joined yesterday by a fellow republican, steve king. king hosted past gop presidential hopefuls rick
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santorum and rick perry for similar hunting outings in the first in the nation voting state. obama care's broke insurance exchange website causing major frustration, but today, bobby jindal said the website is the least of the problems associated with new health care prm. >> i think they'll eventually fix the website, but this is the easy part. the real critical issue is when it comes time to schedule your grandmother's cancer surgery, what is going to happen then? this is symptomatic of a bigger problem. is this administration the most incomitant or most liberal in recent history? to quote hillary clinton, what difference does it make? this is an incompetent rollout, but it shows government
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shouldn't run health care. >> joining me, chris wallace. i was talking to a member of congress yesterday. they have been trying to get her to testify since august in advance of the launch. and she wouldn't do it. and finally will this week, and this congressman said there's a lot of pent-up anger over this. this could be a real political bludgeoning, this coming week during that congressional hearing, right? >> it's going to be tough, and i think it will be tough both for republicans and democrats because a lot of democrats, you know, they're the ones who own this bill, and as you see in the senate, this is a house committee hearing. 11 senators, democratic senators, are now calling for a delay. either of a few weeks, in some cases for a year, of some part of the individual mandate because they say, you know, you can't penalize people for not buying a pruth that your system prevents them from buying. and i suppose, look, you know, since probably it was good that
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she didn't testify before because she would have said ask was going fine like all the contractors did. they would have that to hit her with. now they can just hit her on the promises of obama care. >> the president promised you get to keep your plan if you like your plan. it's interesting, i got a call several months ago from a friend of mine who is a doctor, who has a individual plan and got his cancellation notice and it said because of obama care. it was tens of thousands getting canceled, then hundreds of thousands. there are 14 million in the individual marketplace. half of them are getting canc las cancilation noticed or already have. that's another big problem for president obama, isn't it? >> a huge problem because exactly as you say. if it was one central promise that the president made as he was selling obama care, was if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. if you like your plan, you can
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keep your plan. what people didn't realize and are now beginning to realize, not just the employer mandate and individual mandate. there's also a coverage mandate. if an insurance company wants to sell insurance, it has to have benefits, a lot more than they used to have. the result is if you have a policy and you're happy with the policy and the price, you're now being told, 300,000 in florida, 160,000 by one company in california, your policy is canceled as of the first of the year. and you know, in some cases, the new policy they're going to have to get, they won't be able to keep their doctor. it will be a different plan and it will be more expensive. >> lots of problems, and you're talking about it on fox news sunday. chris wallace, good to see you. we'll be right back. a confident retirement. those dreams, there's just no way we're going to let them die. ♪
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weekend in italy. look at this. mt. etna erupting, sending lava high into the sky above sicily. etna's europe's tallest, most active volcano. it closed the airport for several hours that night. extreme wert now with a storm brewing in the rockies. and it could bring a real blast of winter with cold tempers and potential for serious snow. chief meteorologist is live in the fox weather center. so how serious are we talking about, rick? >> it's the places that would like to see snow this time of year, the higher elevations in the rockies, the wasatch of utah. the cold air is a little bit in place. missoula cold this morn, but in general, the warm has been west. i want to show you one troubled spot. very heavy rain fell overnightt. some yare yauz over 4 inches. over beaumont, scattered showers
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across arkansas and louisiana. then we'll turn our eyes to the next storm. right now, bringing snow across the canadian rockies but it's going to dive down for everybody in the west. right now, winter storm warnings across areas of western montana, and central and eastern parts of the area. take look at what the forecast radar does. pulls the storm out here, so by monday morning, snow falling across the higher elevations in and across the pacific northwest. it continues all throughout the day on monday to pull down across the southwest and then heavy snow across the high plains. it's mostly going to be a higher elevation mountain area, but those are the ski areas that love snow early on. >> college kids tossing back a couple of beers, nothing new, but there's growing evidence it could do long-term harm.
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time now for sunday housecall. >> and i'm grg. joining us is dr. marc siegel. associate frofessor of medicine at nyu, and author of "the inner pulse." >> and dr. samadi. chief of robotic surgery. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> let's start with this. there's underaged drinking, a growing problem in the u.s., and new studies shows the long term effects are more dangerous than once thought. this week is national college alcohol awareness we

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