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>> i went to school in kentucky for kentucky fried chicken. i like being here. i like the people and i like the customers. no such thing as retirement. what would i do at home? it's great here. >> mary lou's daughter following in mom's foot steps has been on the job for 34 years. the patriot ex sox won for president george w. sh. breaking in the last hour, the pentagon making military moves over ukraine. president obama sending hundreds of troops onto russia's doorstep. will president putin get the message this time? it was supposed to be a training exercise at an airport. explosives strapped to a rental car designed for dogs to sniff them out. what happens when somebody rents the actual car? plus as it turns out asteroids slam into earth a lot more than you think. the only thing that's kept the space rocks from killing thousands is sheer luck.
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first open the fox news desk this afternoon, prosecutors say is a couple of guys used their prep school educations to become drug king pins. taking advantage of their business smarts to create a booming drug monopoly. the accused ring leaders are graduates of philadelphia's renown renowned haverford schools. they hired a network of dealers who sold drugs in high schools around philly. we have the mug shots on the big wall today. mostly preppy young men, some even wearing suits in their booking photos. prosecutors say do not be fooled by this image. they say these guys were selling a long list of drugs from pot to cocaine. investigators showed off some of the evidence they seized. rifles, ammo, drugs and piles of cash. notice the lacrosse stick in the corner that's the reminder of the lives they once had. as for what went wrong, this could be telling.
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one accused ring leader told police he wanted a constant supply of pot in schools because he had trouble finding it when he was a student. the other outlined his business plan for investigators, telling them it was successful quote because everyone between 15 and. leah gabriel is here on the news des welcome more with me. how do police say this operation worked, leah? >> prosecutors say the ring leaders used incentives to get their clie -- according to the district attorney, 25-year-old neil scott worked in a medical marijuana dispensary after he left college. he moved back to pennsylvania and started having drugs mailed to his home in 2013. scott worked with 18-year-old timothy brooks to distribute the drugs. together they developed a network of nine sub leaders at eight local high schools and
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colleges. >> this was not a game. these people were in business. they were in business to make money. and they were going to do whatever they needed to do to make sure that no one threatened their business. >> well, prosecutors say that both of them encouraged their sub dealers to meet a quota of selling one pound of marijuana per week. if they did that, then the sub dealerers got a better price for drugs. >> a great school, a great place to get education. they seemed to have everything going for them. why would they take this route? >> it seems that way. but both of them actually dropped out of college. and the older of the two told police he was having some trouble with money, and that's why he got into dealing drugs. prosecutors say that text messages between the two reveal that scott, the older of the two, was actually giving brooks advice on how to run his business in one of the text timothy brooks says quote i'm trying to start a business and learning how to run this. scott responds, just keep finding customers and we'll both make more than enough money. the district attorney says the goal was for them to create a monopoly in the local high
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schools and colleges on selling drugs. brooks's attorney says he was basically depressed after he left college and that he is taking responsibility for this. >> leah gabriel, thanks with us here. you can rent a car with gps. you can rent a car with a luggage rack. but in alaska one rental car came with a hidden surprise inside. some police department explosives. police were using them as part of a training exercise for bomb-sniffing dogs at ted stevens airport in anchorage. the explosives were still attached to the rental car when a customer drove off with the car. official say they eventually tracked it down and the driver was said to be not hurt. fox urgent now. the u.s. is sending hundreds of troops to countries along russia's western border in response to the crisis in ukraine. that's the word moments ago from the pentagon. it says 600 soldiers will conduct training exercises over the course of another week in poland, lithuania, latvia and
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estonia. they say troops will begin arriving in poland tomorrow. vice president joe biden met with the acting prime minister in kiev today, warning russia will face further isolation if it promotes more instability in ukraine. >> we call on russia to stop supporting men, hiding behind masks in unmarked uniforms, sewing unrest in eastern ukraine. >> the u.s. will give ukraine's government another $50 million in aid to help stabilize the country, we already guaranteed $1 billion in loans for ukraine and we've given it millions of dollars in other assistance. ukrainian officials say pro russian forces have now taken control of government buildings in at least ten different towns. these are some of the largest in eastern ukraine. they also say gun fire hit a ukranian military plane that was flying above one of those cities earlier today. none of the crew members, however, was hurt. meanwhile, russia's prime minister says the financial
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restrictions that western leaders have imposed on the country quote must not go unpunished. bill richardson, former u.s. ambassador to the united nations is my guest now. sir, it's good to see you again. welcome to you. >> thank you, bill. >> i want to get a sense of how you believe this administration is handling this. john mccain was with us earlier today. you know he is on tv just about every day pounding away on the administration, saying you must give light arms and a bit more to the government in ukraine. you have to at least open the window partially on that. so far it has not happened. do you agree with that decision? >> well, i think it's going to happen, bill. i think what the administration has been holding is watching if the russians are going to comply at all with the geneva agreement which as you know they have to get the russian separatists to disarm, to get out of those buildings. that hasn't happened. so i think you're going to seat
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administration ramp up as they're doing with troops in the baltic states that are part of nato. secondly i think you're going to see some pretty tough sanctions coming in the next few days. and then lastly, i do think that that decision on the light arms, on goggles and body armor for the ukranian military will be approved. there was some approval of some light military nonlethal weapons that happened i think in the last day. but clearly russia seems to be on a path to continue this very very negative cycle. and they're going to have to find ways to bear the brunt of getting some heavy sanctions on them. they're dependent on the international economy. there's been investment flight from russia. they're not going to like sanctions from the u.s. in the banking, in the energy, in the economic area. hopefully our european allies,
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especially germany, will join in on these sanctions. but russia's not complying with the agreement in geneva last thursday. so there's going to have to be consequences. >> someone argued that vladimir putin does not care about these sanctions. do you expect this administration to go ahead and approve light arms in ukraine as a first step, is that right? >> yeah. i do think they will. maybe not quite yet. but what we don't want to do is to provoke russia and give them an excuse to go over the entire eastern ukraine. but it's very evident now, bill -- >> would you say that decision is days away or weeks away? >> i think it's days away. i think now that this decision on the american troops on some of the baltic states and poland, estonia, some of those is a signal.
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but i think what really will harm the russians are the sanctions. the sanctions that would have bite. russia is an international economy. and they're in a recession. and putin has gotten very popular with this military move. but when some of his business leaders and oligarchs start telling him that the price of sanctions is damaging their economy, i think that's a leverage on putin. >> bill richardson, thank you for your time today. good to have you on. we'll speak again. thank you. >> thank you, bill. robot planes patrolling our skies. the feds now allowing the first outdoor test range for drones in the united states. and eventually we might have thousands flying above your head but what happens when something goes wrong? have you thought about that? that's next. and just give them the basics, you know. i got this. [thinking] is it that time? the son picks up the check? [thinking] i'm still working. he's retired.
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some volunteers in texas are suing the federal government after the the faa told them they could not fly their drones to help find missing people. a company has called texas equisearch. they helped look for natalie hollow way and katie anthony's daughter in florida. the company uses a fleet of of drones as part of its operation. a couple of months ago the faa ordered imit to stop until the feds set up rules for commercial drones. that's not expected to happen until september of next year.
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right now you need permission from the faa to fly drones in the u.s. for quote business reasons. but these searchers claim that does not apply to them since they use the drones for humanitarian work. now they're asking a court to let them start flying yet again. now, the government says they're reviewing the appeal. while they sometimes let companies use drones in emergency situations they are quote not aware of anybody asking these guys for help right now. john roberts is live in our atlanta news room on that. john, good day to you. this happens to be a big day for drones. >> bill, it does. because the faa as part of its examination into whether drones can fly widely in u.s. air space just approved the first outdoor test range that's in north dakota. and we got an exclusive look inside one of the other five test ranges at texas a & m university in corpus christi. researchers are wrestling with all kind of issues as to how to safely integrate drones into u.s. air space and what they might be best used for, some hurdles they're tackling, how
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can drones stay away from other aircraft, address privacy issues. almost every drone has a camera on board. an a danger the drone's gps navigation system could be hacked and the drone sent off course. texas a & m university says that is a big concern. >> if it was in a very populated area, obviously if it's a long drone and someone brings it down it could cause a lot of damage or harm. and we certainly don't want that to happen. >> the researchers say in order to avoid that the civilian gps system may need to be hardened, encrypted like the military system so it can't be hacked, bill? >> besides search and rescue, john, what are some of the other uses for drones we'd find? >> initially the researchers say applications far away from populated centers. crop surveys, for example, checking out transmission lines for electrical grids, oil and pipeline surveys, something like that. but blue skying it in the realm
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that anything is possible, companies like amazon, dhl, domino's pizza envision a world where drones might deliver your everyday goods or pizzas. while applications like that might be a long way off, this researcher reveals a world where drones may be a part of everyday life. >> hopefully in our lifetime, every household will have a drone, a pet drone, how about that? that can help you as an assistant. go do chores for you or something. >> everybody wants a pet drone, don't they? ultimately, bill, the ipt congratulation of drones in u.s. air space may be driven by the almighty green back. because texas a & m researchers predict that drones in texas alone could be an $8 billion industry. across the country, $80 billion. so bill, there's a lot at stake there. >> so long as they don't run into each other. one large pepperoni to go. john roberts in atlanta. president obama meanwhile on his way to washington state to visit the scene of last month's deadly mudslide there.
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the president set to meet with survivors, victims families and search workers. we're told he'll fly over oso. 41 people con filmed dead. crews say they're still looking through the wreckage for at least four more victims that. mudslide also destroyed dozens of homes. earlier this month, the president declared it a major disaster, making those affected el vibl for financial aid. after a stop in washington the president heads further west to asia for about a week overseas. a jury today is listening to audio recordings capturing the moments a man shot and killed two teenagers who had broken into his home. prosecutors say he waited in wait for those teenagers before he murdered them in cold blood. the defense says he tried to protect himself and only acted out of fear. we'll break down that case, both sides, next. life with crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis
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prosecutors say the man who killed two teenage intruders in his home planned the deadly shootings, waiting patiently for the kids with his guns and snacks and water by his side. the killings happened back in 2012 on thanksgiving day in central minnesota. the accused murderer is smith, a retired security engineer for the state department. he says he was defending him self inside of his own home. his lawyer says he was hiding in his basement out of fear after he heard a window break and footsteps upstairs. smith described to police in chilling detail what happened next. he says one of the intruders walked down his basement steps and that he shot the teenager the second his hips were in clear sight. then he told police he shot the teen again, this time in the face, wrapped his body in a tarp
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and dragged him into his workshop. minutes later he says a girl came down the steps and he shot her as well. now, smith claims she laughed after his rifle jammed so he grabbed another gun and shot her again. he then said he finished her off with a shot under her chin because a .22 caliber revolver quote doesn't go through bone very well. smith left both bodies in his basement, says he did not try to contact police until a day later because he says he didn't want to screw up their thanksgiving break. those audio recordings played in court just yesterday. and today the jury heard separate audio from inside the man's home. he says he'd set up the recording devices to protect his house from burglary. jurors reportedly heard several gun shots. at one point the suspect told one of the teens "you're dead." the shooting victims were cousins, both were unarmed. but investigators say the victims were linked to a few other local robberies. under minnesota law, this is important now, a person may use
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deadly force to prevent a felony from taking place inside of his or her home. authorities have said that smith still went too far, shooting the teens in the head after they no longer posed a threat. now, annie young joins us now with more on this. she's the defense attorney and a former prosecutor. so you can see it from both side. good day to you from san diego, california. >> hi, bill. >> how do you see this? do you see this man giving himself a legitimate defense under state law as we understand it in minnesota? >> bill, this is going to be a very tough case on both sides. because if you think about it, i read the minnesota statute. you're right. you have to reasonably believe it you are going to face some sort of great bodily injury or death or you're trying to prevent the commission of a felony in your own home. the real issue for the jury to grapple with is, was mr. smith's actions reasonable given the circumstances? i think a big hurdle for the prosecution is going to have to
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overcome jury nullification. will a jury empathize with him and say he was the victim and these people were breaking into his home, or will the defense have to overcome the burden of his actions? the fact he shot multiple times and did not report this right away? if this was really a self-defense why did he not report this right away? >> state law no duty to retreat inside one's home residence. but there is a duty under law to quote act reasonably when using force in self-defense. >> that's right. >> now, as a prosecutor how can you prove he was lying in wait? >> i think the prosecutor is going to use building blocks to try to prove his case. he was sitting in the basement, he had snacks and water with him, he had two loaded firearms and he had a tarp. he had all this waiting for him. so i think the prosecutors' main argument is going to be, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, this is not about self-defense. this is about revenge. he was mad that these teens were breaking into his home. instead of protecting himself, he took matters into his own
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hands, and he took it upon himself to give revenge back. i think that's the prosecutor's strongest argument in the case. >> you say the prosecutor added a second degree charge to open up a window of sorts. and the window you believe they're not confident they can get a first degree conviction. why do you think that? >> i think given the facts and circumstances i think the prosecutor knows that the jury may empathize with this man. i think a lot of people get very sensitive when you think about i'm the king of my castle. i'm the king of my home. if anyone comes into my home i have the duty to defend myself. and i think that the prosecutor knows that in advance and knows that the jury in fact might sympathize with him and might go his way because they may not want to convict. so i think they're opening this door by giving the jury a second option. if you don't believe he's guilty of first degree then he's guilty of second. >> quickly how do jurors take his own words? do they help him or hurt him? >> i think it really depends upon the facts and circumstances. i think those audio recordings are going to be crucial in this
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case, bill. he's saying she laugh and he shot. but then if they're hearing recordings of him saying you're dead right away and they don't hear laughter, that really may poke some holes to his credibility. so i think the jury's really going to have to listen to those recordings. if he testifies then they're going to have to take that into consideration. >> we'll see when that happens. anna young, thank you for your time out of san diego. appreciate it. >> thanks, bill. railroads are carrying more deadly chemicals than ever and taking them through busy cities and towns all across america. now the nation's transportation safety chief has a warning for anybody who lives near the tracks. can you guess which world famous figure this kid grew up tao? for the first time, a secretive family is opening up its family photo album.
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more of today's headlines from the fox news desk. cruise have suspended their search from the air for any
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wreckage of the missing malaysia airlines jet. they say stormy weather including a tropical cyclone cuts down on visibility and poses a safety hazard. more than a month has passed since the jet was missing with 239 people onboard. here in the u.s. the rate of existing home sales dropped last month. the slowest pace in nearly two years. that's according to the national association of realtors. analysts blame the higher prices and mortgage rates as well as fewer homes on the market. and cell phone video captured a police officer shoving and tripping people after a state championship soccer game. this happened on saturday north of austin, texas. the police have suspended the officer with pay. no word of anyone seriously hurt. we'll have much more from the news desk with bill hemer coming up right after this. in motion. staying active can ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, this can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain, and improve daily physical function so moving is easier.
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that's from the nation's top transportation safety official in washington. she's warning that more trains than ever are carrying the potentially explosive materials such as crude oil and gasoline and toxic chemicals. and she points to recent crashes as proof of the potential for disaster. like the oil train explosion in canada about a year ago that levelled a town and killed almost 50 people. the safety chief says something like that could easily happen here if the industry does not make some big changes and do that soon. trace gallagher live with the news from l.a. and how much of an increase in these types of chemicals are we talking about here, trace? >> reporter: pretty significant, bill. we're talking about a 440% increase in just the past eight years. the ntsb chief says ten years ago if you had a freight train that was 100 cars long, maybe one of two of those cars would be filled with crude oil or ethanol. and now there are times whenever every single car is carrying hazardous freight.
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while the transporting of materials has skyrocketed, she says the rules and regulations have not been adjusted at all. we should also note there is a huge shortage of ntsb rail investigators. folks, there are currently 20 investigations and only 10 investigators on staff right now, bill. >> so the ntsb is investigating a certain type? >> it's called a dot 111 tank car. the ntsb chief says they're simply not safe enough to be carrying hazardous materials. the problem is, those tank cars make up seven out of ten of every tank car that's active in the united states. in fact, those tank cars were the ones you mentioned earlier, that catastrophe in canada? those are the tank cars that were used in that. but the ntsb chief says the cars need to be retrofitted or removed all together. sometimes money trumps safety.
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h listen to her. >> that people will be driven by money. there are a lot of recommendations we have issued that have not gone anywhere because the cost benefit doesn't support them. and so it does come down to money. >> yeah. big problem with the dot 111 is they do not do very well under the pressure of derailment. there are more than 225,000 of these cars actively on the tracks right now. >> and that's a lot. thank you, trace. trace gallagher on that from california. it is a supreme court showdown that could change the way we watch television. the nation's highest court hearing arguments today on whether or not a new york city start-up company called areo is illegally stealing content from the major television networks and then rebroadcasting it to its own subscribers for a fee. fox, by the way, is one of the plaintiffs in this case. want to show you how it works on the wall. broadcasters like fox and nbc,
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abc and cbs, they take signals for free over the public airwaves. aereo subscribers rent an antenna from that company. it's about the size of a dime. that antenna grabs the signal, records it, and then threw the cloud system that's available now, stores it in the cloud. aereo subscribers then can play those programs on their devices whenever they want. sometimes only moments later. the broadcasters argue that aereo is violating copyright by stealing the signal without paying them a cent. aereo claims it does not have to pay for programming which is available for free over public airwaves. therein lies the case from. the fox business network, peter barnes has the latest live from the supreme court. peter, did you get a sense of the arguments back and forth about how the supremes may rule on this case? >> reporter: yeah, bill. it seems that a majority of the
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justices, six of them by my count, reserved their toughest questions for aereo asking a lot of questions about its technology, about its business model. about why it shouldn't be paying the networks for this programming. for example, justice elena kay beg kagan says it's exactly the same as watching cable. chief justice john roberts said he could see no other reason for aereo's technology other than to circumvent township right laws. the lawyer for aereo says our technology is special. it helps our customers to individualize and access the programs they want to see, bill. >> peter, the magical question ultimately. what if aereo wins? what happens? >> well, the broadcasters and analysts are saying that the networks could perhaps start their own streaming video services that you pay for to compete with aereo.
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they could start their own pay cable channels. they could start moving some of their best programming, like their sports shows, to cable, pay cable channels. here's what the lawyer for the broadcaster said. >> if a company like aereo can somehow provide content to lots of paying strangers without engaged in a public performance, i think the networks at least some of them will have to rethink the way that they provide content. >> and the court is expected to rule on this case by the summer. and i do want to make sure that everybody understands, just because the justices seem to ask the tougher question of aereo doesn't mean they'll decide against aereo or for the broadcasters necessarily. >> tough to read the tea leaves. peter barnes at the supreme court. another big supreme court case could have a national impact on college admissions. the justices today ruling that voters in michigan do have the right to ban public colleges and universities from considering a
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person's race in admission decisions. a lower court had earlier ruled that a ban on affirmative action was discrimination. the supreme court in a 6-2 vote said that was wrong. the supreme court ruled the lower court was wrong to set aside that ban. also the supreme court today ruled that an anonymous tip is all a police officer needs to pull over a driver on suspicion of reckless or drunk driving. a senator ran a traffic stop in 2008. officers in northern california said they found 30 pounds of marijuana inside of a man's car. but they only pulled him over because somebody had called 911 anonymously, saying that driver ran the caller off the road. the suspect's attorneys say police did not have enough evidence to conduct a traffic stop. today, rather, the supreme court disagreed on that. and now we're getting our first look at what north korea's dictator looked like as a kid. according to state media, this was to help celebrate the first
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meeting between kim jong-un and his country's air force. in the background a slide show revealing photos of kim the younger. he was much younger. they were reportedly taken when he was around five years old wearing an air force uniform. he even gave a salute in one photo. another image shows the dictator inside an airplane cockpit. you can see and hear all the applause that came with it. south korea is warning that the north could be planning a new nuclear test to up the pressure before president obama's upcoming visit in seoul, south korea. a spokesman for south korea's defense ministry saying the new test could come at any moment. our chief correspondent jonathan hunt is watching that with me in the studio on that. the evidence in this case, jonathan, is what? >> reporter: the evidence is in the hands of south korean official right now. we assume it is satellite imagery from some of the many satellites that constantly monitor north korea's nuclear sites. they have not shared those images with us. we can assume they've shared
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them with u.s. officials who aren't confirming anything at this point. south korean officials say the preparations they've seen at that nuclear test site are very similar to those that preceded north korea's last nuclear test back in february of 2013. as for why they would do it now, it's a question we always ask. almost certainly no coincidence that president obama is heading to the region later this week. he'll be visiting japan and south korea. the troubles with north korea will be top of the agenda in both of those countries. and the north korean leadership would like nothing more than to put their imprint and steal the attention during those talks. >> certainly the worries here that north korea would go ahead and test another weapon. the other worry is that it would share technology. >> and that's always been a big concern. and it's in particular with whom they might share that technology. i spoke earlier to noted north korea expert gordon chang who pointed out that in his view, the north korean nuclear program
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is essentially a testing ground for iran's nuclear program. here's gordon chang. >> every time there's been a north korean detonation, iranian technicians have been on-site in north korea. the iranians are taking away very valuable technology. they're learning about their own program. while we negotiate with the iranians in geneva and we think that the iranians have put sort of a stall on their program, they're really racing ahead not in iran but in north korea. >> and that dangerous alliance of iran and north korea is according to gordon chang and other experts one of the most pressing reasons why the u.s. and others need to stop north korea's nuclear program. but as we know, bill, we tried that before. easier said than done. you're right. we'll watch that trip this week. thank you jonathan hunt here. there is only one thing keeping a giant asteroid from hitting a city and killing thousands. that is sheer plain dumb luck. it could be only a matter of time until that luck runs out. what the asteroid experts have
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fmpblt y feds say they mistakenly gave the go-ahead for a new product called palcohol. the idea to add poud for whatever liquid, stir and drink up you. can see there's a v for vodka and r for rum and on down the line for ready made cocktails. the makers of palcohol suggested putting it on eggs to quote start your day off right. they say they were just joking about that, but they also say don't snort it because it will quote mess you up. the company reports it's reapplying for approval but not everybody's buying the government's mistake. the head of the site that first reported the whole thing suggesting the fed may have heard from some lawmakers who wanted more information. bottom line, no powdered booze anytime soon.
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no palcohol. the only thing preventing a city-killing asteroid from slamming into earth is blind luck. that from a former nasa astronaut and ceo of a top research firm. remember this asteroid hit a southwestern province in russia just about a year ago. that blast shattered windows and injured about 1,000. scientists say it had nearly 50 times the power of the atomic bomb dropped on hiroshima during the second world war. researchers say they recorded dozens of these explosions since 2000. most of those blasts over the past 14 years were too high up in the atmosphere to do any damage. still those scientists say as steroids hit earth up to ten times more often than they had thought previously. derrek pitts is chief astronomer at the franklin institute in philadelphia. how are you doing, sir, and good day to you. >> thanks, bill. >> you say you've seen plenty of
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close calls in your career. >> over the last ten to 12 years, we have seen a number of reports of as steroids passing between the earth and the moon. some of them we have not known about beforehand. some we have only learned of as they've been passing or after they've been passing. there's plenty of evidence that there's plenty of material still out there in the solar system flying tharnd that could impact us. >> you say one of the things we need is a defense system to protect ourselves. other people have talked about this. what do you think works? >> well, what really has to happen is we have to survey what the population of these possible giant asteroids or reasonable-sized asteroids are and we need to know what their trajectory is if they're going to intersect earth and win. then we have to build a system that can really go out and nudge them off course. we need to be able to identify these asteroids early enough that if we send a spacecraft we can send it well ahead of time that can move it off course. >> how do you do that? can you canvas the universe?
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can you see the solar system to a certain depth? >> what we can do, we can map what's around the earth without much difficulty at all. we use a space telescope just as suggested by the 612 foundation to survey just for asteroids and identify those that look like they could cause some damage to earth at some time in the future. while we are doing the survey we develop the space capability to be able to send a spacecraft out to be able to just push the asteroid ever so slightly out of the way over the course of its trajectory. >> give it a nudge. >> just give it a nudge. >> do you sit up at night worrying about this? that asteroids could hit? >> i don't sit up at night worrying about it, bill. but it is something we need to do something about. we do have a chance. there is a chance that something like this could cause considerable damage on the planet. it does not necessarily even have to strike a populated area. an asteroid large enough that strikes the surface of the earth can throw enough dust up into the atmosphere to cause serious
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problems around the world for decades into the future. so we need to do something about this. >> if that's the case when what you're arguing is that size matters. >> yes, indeed. that is the whole story here. size matters. we've identified the very big ones that could destroy the planet outright. we know that there's nothing we have to worry about for at least 100 years. however, it's the smaller ones that we haven't built detectors for that could ruin an entire region or maybe a small country. and it's those that we have to be able to pick up and do something about sooner than later. >> derrek pitt, thank you for your time. appreciate your knowledge on this, okay? >> thank you. >> sleep well tonight. thank you very much. ukraine's leader is ordering a new push against prorussian troops in the eastern part of that country. across the border, an estimated tens of thousands of russian soldiers in position waiting their orders. a live report from eastern ukraine on the next move. you, my friend are a master of diversification.
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the other crew members who abandoned the ship instead of saving the passengers on board, and many of whom were high school students. and now on the move, according to officials in turkey, video showing the "uss taylor" sailing along the city border of istanbul which happened as vice president joe biden was wrapping up the trip in ukraine. the black sea has huge strategic value in the crisis, and the only warm water port off of the crimean wall area. and also, we reported earlier that the pentagon is sending 600 troops along russia's western border for military drills, and meanwhile russia's military has been conducting its own drills just across ukraine's border. and now we have a report from
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donesk. leyland? >> well, there are still a number of buildings here including the regional parliament building where they are digging in and ready for a fight. today after vice president biden left, the president of ukraine announced the resumption of what he called anti-terrorist activities gaiagainst ut the separatists, and after that announcement, they said they are ready for a fight. visiting their stronghold yesterday, it appeared they are ready for a fight. tanks in the center of the streets of that town with the russian flags flying overhead, and russian flags at the main buildings there, and all of the men of the militia were going out with body armor and rpgs, and they are confident that they can take on the ukrainians if they come, and if they do come,
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the russian separatists might get help as putin showed his fangs again by conducting military drills by the ukrainian border which has some 5,000 troops there by the border. and president putin says he has the right to reserve to use force to protect not only russian interests, but russian supporters inside of ukraine. today, vice president biden announced about $5 million in aid for the military if the russians tried to come over, and if they do, they will get plmor than that. >> and thank you so much on the ground there in ukraine for us today. >> and how far would you go for your pet? one man dressed up with his bulldog in matching tutus to win a contest. ready for action?
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of course, all dogs are beautiful, but the judges of the beautiful bulldog contest in des moines, iowa, can only pick one
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w winner e. they have been doing it a drake university to honor the school mascot and the bulldogs went all over to take home the crown. some owners and pets were wearing matching costumes. the winner was lucy and she gave the owner a big prize, a big wet bulldog kiss. that is a wet one. >> on this kay in 1964, the new york world fair opened south side of manhattan in the burrow of queens, and it show cased new and different technologies. a giant steel globe called the unisphere was the centerpiece, and still up today. and predicting what the future might hold, and the folks were dead set on moon colonies and outside were flying saucers and rocketships, and there were 1 mi million visitors. today, there are no moon colonies anyway not yet, but some of the landmarks are still there, and the world's fair got
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under way in flushing med dose and it was 50 years ago today. i'm bill hemrin in today for bill, and i will see you later on today, and until then, we have bill cavuto. thank you, hammer. the president likes to say that the obamacare debate is over, but are the independent voters saying not so fast. >> welcome, everyone, i'm in for neil cavuto, and this is a big fox poll raising concerns for the democrats in the midterm election elections, and that is because 54% of the independent voters say they will vote for candidates who vote against obamacare, and 29% say they will vote for a candidate who fights for obamacare. and even the massachusetts democrat thinks that his party will pay a hefty price for supporting the health care law. >> it will be tough for