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was my birthday. i can't even tell you what my feeling is right now. it's just unbelievable. >> best part, if you didn't pick that up, it was his mom's birthday, two-run homer. >> today is the crisis in ukraine about to blow up? there are big changes as fox reports this hour. new word of security forces in ukraine killing russian militants. that's a first. and it could be just what vladimir putin needs to justify a military move. here at home, are you ready to fork over more money for internet access? the feds are backing a plan to let some companies buy more bandwidth for faster service. it's not equal anymore and we could all pay the price. this is what it looks line we you try to smuggle hundreds of thousands of dollars taped to your body. so, why were they carrying out -- all that cash? he says he had a good reason.
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let's get to it. first this thursday afternoon, the home owner who says he killed two teenage intruders in self-defense said it was, quote, cleaning up a mess, he said a mess that was worse than spilled food, worse than vomit. the comments were part of a six-hour odd you recording then man made before and after the shootings h 2012. a jury heard parts of the recording at his murder trial. the shooter says he feared for his life when the teenagers broke into his home in minnesota. state law allows the use of deadly force to defend yourself. a castle law. but prosecutors say he went beyond protecting himself. that he murdered these two unarmed teenagers in cold blood. premeditated. prosecutors say the recording shooter made helped the case. he rambled to himself hours on
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end. reporters say the home owner talks in the recording about getting an attorney. that was before the shootings happened. he said, and i'm quoting here, i realize i don't have an appointment but i would like to see one of the lawyers here. it's not clear really whether he was actually talking to anybody at all. the recording also reveals the shooter took his truck out of the driveway before he shot anybody and parked it somewhere nearby, then walked home, guessing that he wanted them to think no one was home. he told investigators later the was planning on cleaning his garage. in the recording he said, and i quote, i left my house at 11:30. they were both dead by 1:00. he later said he was doing this civic duty, and he refused to live in fear. he said if the teens, quote, i don't see them as human. i see them as very minimum. he said about the dead teenage girl, like i give a damn who she
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is. that she was going to go through her life spoiling things for a people. at one point he says i'm sorry to much regret. i try to be a decent person. defense lawyers argue that the prosecutors shot down the hour's worth of audio into 29 minutes and questioned what was left out. the jury earlier heard the parts ofed the recording that captured the killings and provided a timeline of exactly what happened. after he shot and killed that first teenager, he spent minutes wrapping the body in a tarp. more than ten minutes passed on the recording before you hear the gunman reload his weapon, and that is when the second teenager called out for her cousin, and he then shot her. not once but several times. as she lay there wounded he said, on the recording, you're dying. then he called her a bitch and future what he told investigators was a good clean finishing shot. he left the bodies in his house a fuel day before he called the cops. he said it was because he didn't
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want to bother the police on thanksgiving. he is charged with murder. does he deserve it? mike tobin is live. what's the latest? >> the medical examiner has been on the stand, and said the home invaders were shot a total of nine times. 17-year-old nick brady, shot three times, his cousin, 18-year-old haley, came down the stairs ten minutes later and was shot a total of six times. some shots were at close range. according to the testimony she didn't die right away. she struggled to breathe and smith pulled her into the other room and fired what he described as the good-clean finishing shot. some of her blood was on the side of the resolver. >> the medical examiner talked about the tox tolling report -- toxicology reports. >> no drugs or alcohol in the system of nick brady. he was sober. however, a different resort for haley. marijuana and a component in cough medicine. >> all right, mike, thank you.
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let's take this to an attorney, arthur aidala, a contributor to this program, fox news analyst and criminal defensor attorney. the question is, was it premeditated? that's accord though prosecutor. they used the time win he shot her and the good clean kill shoot, good time for premeditation. >> the whole issue is, did the threat end? was the threat abated? they're in his house, shep. that's the bottom line. this is not trayvon martin, people out in common areas. they entered his house. and it's not like he set a trap. he didn't like leave the window open a bag of cash sitting there. >> he did leave food around and hid his car. i hear you. go on. >> so, it's so tragic, it's horrible. nobody knows why they're in there -- >> the there to rob him. >> well, according to him they'd been there so many times.
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maybe they were there to hang out. if you listen to help 29 minutes they're some things that don't appear he was playing with all the cards in the deck. but doesn't matter to some degree. one thing is consistent, yours house is your castle. >> when the girl is lying on the floor bleeding and still alive and she said, you're dying, was the threat gone before he fired the kill shot? >> absolutely. >> that's what the prosecutors say that makes this premeditated murder. are they right and. >> that fan of time. that's up to the jury whether they're right. the jury indianas to see the house -- >> by the letter of the law, you have stood in this forum and said premeditation is not a matter of time. premeditation can happen over a period of years or days or seconds. >> correct. so the bottom line is, if the evidence comes out that she was clearly incapacitated, on her back -- >> for instance, when he said, you're dying. >> correct. then he just goes and gives the final parting killing shot, a
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jury could reach a verdict of murder and a jury can say we don't care what the law is. this guy has been robbed so many times. he didn't do anything wrong. he is in his basement. they brought it upon himself. 12 jurors could have the same set of facts, and you have different verdicts. >> he can defend his castle. he can defend himself, if he believes there's a threat he can do anything up and killing someone to eliminate the threat. >> that's a fining of fact. >> and as a defense attorney, couldn't you make the argument, this man is terrified? >> yes. >> this person is in his home. the threat in his mind at that moment was off that was going on had nod ended. >> they have the ed to back it up. the post traumatic stress disorder. he had been burglarized so many times. put up the odd slow surveillance
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and the video surveillance, maybe -- he did absorb the threat differently than a reasonable person would, and that's why he felt like he had to end their lives. otherwise they would never go away. >> the prosecution expected to wrap this afternoon, then the defense and then to the jurors. >> the south korean ferry disaster and with more than 170 people now confirmed dead, the relatives of the missing passengers are getting much more frustrated. today families surrounded government workers, pushing and shoving some. to some relatives accuse the government of lying to them about the progress in the investigation. those families had set today as a deadline to find the rest of the body, but 130 or so are still listed as missing. of the most of the passengers were high school students. meantime, cops arrested four more of the ferry's crew
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members. one of them explicitly said that it was his fault and that he is sorry. but another crew member says, she was under command to abandon ship. while other passengers were still onboard. this comes as the south korean coast guard releases sonar images of the ship lying underwater. officials plan to use cranes to raise the shop answer the fond the bodies. three american doctors have been murdered at a hospital. ahead, what we know about those who pulled the trigger and why. word of some possible progress in the effort to bring home an american soldier, whom terrorists have held captive for many years. what we're hearing about sergeant beau bergdahl. nobody ever stomped their foot and asked for less. because what we all really want...
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people are still dying in afghan and our doctors are now among them. a security guard shot and killed three american doctors at a hospital there, according to officials who say two of the victims were a father and son. it happened this morning in kabul at cure international hospital, an american-funded charity facility that specializes the treating mothers and children the suspected attacker of the afghan public protection force.
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in other words, a cop. his job was to guard that hospital. a spokeswoman says five doctors were walkinged in hospital compound when the guard, who was supposed to be protecting them, shot and killed them. health officials confirmed one of the dead was a doctor who had been working at the facility for feign years, and the father and son doctors were visiting the hospital. an american nurse was also hurt. police took the gunman into custody and he is recovering from surgery at the same hospital under heavy security. think of it. he shot the doctors there, and the rest of them are now working on him. no idea why he did it. lea gabrielle has more. what are we learning more about the doctors? >> the officials at the hospital where his -- hometown hospital in chicago said he had been a pediatrician for 25 years and had been in afghanistan for nearly a decade. colleagues at the clinic spoke about the doctor who was killed.
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the clinic wasgraph -- was grieving and they're heards are broken. >> a great loss for his family, for those who worked with and the people of afghanistan. he was a loving, caring physician, who served all of his patients with the jut most of respect. >> this comes as we have seen an uptick in violence against civilians in afghanistan. this is the second insider attack there this month against civilians, and, shep, it's unclear if the taliban was responsible. >> another story in afghanistan, beau bergdahl, they've held him captive for years and years, and now there's some movement in his case? >> we're hearing is that the people who are responsible for holding beau bergdahl captive may be willing to cut a deal. that's according to two military officials who speck with the "associated press." now, sergeant bergdahl was captured by a terrorist organization with allegiances to the taliban in afghanistan in 2009.
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officials say there have been a lack of communication between the u.s. organizations, the u.s. agencies responsible for the bergdahl case, but one of the agencies denies this. today they said, quote, we are working hard every day using all the military intelligence and diplomatic tools at our disposal to see sergeant bergdahl returned home safely. he was last seen in a proof of life video in december. >> he has been treaded like a piece of meat. hopefully they can get him home. the latest u.s. push for peace in the middle east may be collapsing. you see, israel has cut off talks with the palestinians, after an agreement made between rival palestinian groups, including hamas. israel prime minister benjamin netanyahu told nbc news his government will never negotiate with a palestinian government backed by a terrorist organization, which is what israel calls ham grass. hamas has killed hundreds of
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israelis in suicide bomb examination other attacks is and is sworn israel's destruction. prime minister netanyahu says that's stir tile to reverse the agreement. if they do not the israeli government is threatening new economic sanctions. >> in ukraine, the government reports its forces have killed pro russian militants and now russia is acting all up in arms and reports the troops are on the move near the border. the russian pratt vladimir putin says he entire internet is something but a cia project. why the former kgb guy about to do? stay tuned. the day we rescued riley,
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ukraine's fighting back and russia is responsibling in a big way. officials in kiev said ukrainian fors killed as many as five, quit, terrorists, while storming three pro-russian checkpoints. the russians have come into ukraine and set up checkpoint and taken over buildings and ukraine has had enough. at one checkpoint militants burned barricades made of car tires to create a smoke screen against ukrainian helicopters. all of this just north of a city that pro-russian forces now occupy. militants there say they are ready to repel any ukrainian attack, and, quote, we will defend ourselves to our last drop of blood in another eastern ukrainian town, ukrainian officials say they've cleared pro-russian protesters from the local hotel hall there tops say 30 masked men stormed the government -- the building overnight, and started beating the demonstrators with baseball
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bats. russian president vladimir putin blasted kiev's push against the militants and the russian defense minister said thousands of troops along the border are starting new military exercise, and president putin warned of consequences for ukraine's leaders and accuse odd them of attacking their own people. think of this. the russians have come into ukraine and taken things over. when the ukraines try to answer that, the russians put their troops on the move. it's instant. the ukrainians say the protesters are from russian. the headlines, dramatic escalation, ukraine is fighting and killing people. they have been very, very restrained. >> you bet they have. they know that what putin wants more than anything else is to create a pretext, for greater russian involvement, with demonstrations, with a -- and
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getting the ukrainian government in kiev to go after militants. kiev knows this and the last thing they want to do is give putin the excuse to respond militarily, which he said he'll already do. he declared last week that russia has the right to step in and defend not just russian nationals but any russian speakers. >> is this enough? will putin make this attempt now? >> i don't think so. the -- the rain ukrainian's have been pushing cautiously. the ukrainian military is not very good, which is why when the sent their armored personnel they were taken over.
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they don't want to increase the tension but they have to do something and they're moving cautiously so we the three to five protesters killed but that number is not verified. >> one of our recent wars, kept reminding us, you have to win over the hearts and minds. he is stealing them. cut off communications, kiev's communications in crima, cut off the internet. they can't see us there, only see russian state television and russian propaganda. they own the minds. >> the interesting thing is that recent polls show it's not working that well. you have russian agitators taking ore buildings, but they're being directed by russian intelligence agents and special forces. every poll that is taken shows that a majority of the country, even in the russian speakingest, doesn't want join with russians. >> they want ties to the west. >> they look east towards moscow and now conditions are not good.
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>> they can look at crimea and people are standing in line for food. they have problems. an american journalist says he is now free and safe after pro-russian gunman kidnapped him two days ago in eastern ukraine. militants accuseed him of spying and bad activities, they called it. a -- they beat him, blind-folded him and tieds his hands and then eventually started treating him well. and he is now true. president putin took jabs at the internet. he says it's all part of a cia project, and pledged to protect russian interests online. antirussian government activists in russia have been using the weapon to organize protests and spread their ideas. this week, the parliament passed a law that requires social media sites to keep their servers in russia and save all information about their users for at least six months. what happens when you restrict
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the people's ability to communicate with each other? mr. putin might want to check his history books. just crossing now into the fox news deck, we had to see this coming. the new york yankees suspended pineda for pen games for pine -- for ten games for pine tar. last night the was a smear on his neck, and they were saying, check out the neck, and sure enough. he admits using pine tar. it's not an excuse that everyone does it. you have to be better than this. he says, quote, it was cold. i couldn't feel the ball in the first inning. i didn't want to hit anybody. or nobody is what he said. cleaned it up. this is the second time in the starts -- second time in the starts he used a foreign substance and will likely miss just one start since the yankees have an off day in the next ten days, pineda suspended. it would happen fence the red sox, too, wouldn't it?
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heit was cold here last night. felt like chicago. i was at a geraldo event, you had to wait outside and the women at the fox news channel with their big hair, not going wail and they were an unhappy bunch. very unhappy. they're better now. we're expecting the prosecution in the home invasion murder trial to wrap up its case. then the defense gets is chance to explain why the admitted killer says he feared for his life. this is before he fired the one clean kill shot. we'll hear from a reporter who has been modulating developments. >> we'll explain the huge news on the so-called net threw adult without the tech talk because the tech talk is confusing. what do the internet rules mean for me, my surfing, my wallet? that next. [ male announcer ] this is kevin.
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>> headlines. first stop, wyoming. officials lifted evacuation orders one day after an explosion of a natural gas plant. there's no word of anybody hurt. investigators are looking into the calms the second blast at that plant in the past month. new mexico, the feds are blaming bad management and ineffective safety measures two months after the radiation leak at a nuclear waste dump that contaminated 21 workers. california. a fight over the hot sauce is cooling down in irwindale, east of los angeles. locals say the smell of the hot sauce from the factory is burning their eyes and throats. the. >> why do you hate hoe door? we'll be right back.
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we reported earlier in his hour on the home invasion murder trial and the man who says he killed two unarmed teenagers in self-defense. we told you about the audio recorder in which the shooter said he was doing his civic duty. prosecutors say it shows preplanning. he planned the killings, parked his truck away from his house making look like nobody was home. he sat patiently in the basement with a book and snacks, waiting for the teens to breck in. one of them had done it several times in the past. the prosecution expected to wrap up its case today. next the defense gets its chance to explain why the gun minimum feared for his live,' in state law in minnesota you have the right to use deadly force to defend yourselves. reporter with the brainerd -- just stepped out of the courtroom. what happened? >> earlier today the medical examiner shared her take on things, her autopsy of the two
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teenagers and is now being cross examined by the defense. >> what is this man's demeanor? >> quiet. doesn't really turn around. doesn't face the families. i think some reporters have spotted some moments of tears. definitely emotions, and to what extent and why is not known. >> sarah, what is your sense of how well the prosecution believes it's doing in making this case that this was murder in the first degree, premeditated? >> reporter: tough to say. the feel like they're making their case it was premeditated and that -- i said earlier, in one of my stories, there is this idea of someone who is either a scared map or a vinal plant at the, and through -- vigilante,
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and through the recordings from his basement and statements to law enforcement, that he was waiting for his to happen is what they're pushing. >> the evidence, according to the prosecution, suggests that. i wonder if you have heard from the defense whether they expect to call him as a witness? >> that's been asked several times and at this time they haven't said. early on, his attorney said that could happen. he could take the stand but at it mr. smith's decision. >> this trial has to be all the talk there, and i wonder where the community is on this if there is such a thing as consensus. >> it's one or the other. either they feel hi was justified or they don't, and if you ask people, you definitely get polarized opinions. either he is guilty or not. >> has discussion of the law come up, this castle law, or the majority of people seem to be in
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fav of that? >> definitely been in discussion. how far is too far in defending your own home, and that's the heart of this case, how far is too far. when it comes to that. and that really is -- that they're argument. >> sarah, thank you. >> thank you. >> the law is specific about what is too far, this particular law. the law says, you have the right to defend yourself and use deadly force if necessary as long as there's a threat. once the threat has ended, then you can't do anymore. the question is, did this man belief the threat had ended? did he in his mind say, they can't hurt me anymore but i'm going to kill her anyway. if he did that he is guilty of premeditated murder. if he thought i'm so freaked out i can't make good decisions, then he's not. the feds said to propose changes that could affect the speed of our internet connection
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and how much my way. the chairman of the federal communications commission said carriers will be able to provide faster service for companies that can afforded. enemy flux, youtube, skype, which can stream video of. under the n new rules they could pay internet providers for more speed to make sure their content reaches cutchers. -- customers. that means no mother buffering or boarding signals, which sounds good. but opponents say the rules are complete 180 from the federal's earlier position, that everyone should have equal access to the internet. you don't have to be rich. you can be a kid in a basement taking a video of your cat and it gets the same priority as netflix. called net neutrality. the net belongs to the people. the feds deny this is a total turn-around, but they're not telling the truth. the fox business network's
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gentlemenry -- jerri willis is here. >> that's going to mean higher prices. netflix paid comcast for that access and our prices went up. so its happened in the past. the other thing that happen is what's happened to cable prices? they've gone up so you have to assume they'll go up. the average bill, $128, up 166 in the past ten years you. say net neutrality is dead. if this propose proposal goes through net neutrality is dead, i think. >> you can make this argument both ways and sound completely sane and logical. you should be able to make money off the internet. why wouldn't you be able to? >> always been that way. there's always been equal access. but more and more often now people want more netflix is 33%e traffic on the internet at right. they want to make sure their
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customers could download that tv, no slowup in what they were -- no slowdown no diminution in the quality of video, and other people will be elbowed out. >> if you're a little guy who puts a site up and has great content, yours moves like anybody else but in this new world the big companies would have all the advantage, much like cable is right now. >> you have that right. there will be people who have a disadvantage, and i think it might bear on the political conversation. at the end of the day, it's not in the guys with the big horns that need to be heard. >> that's an interesting development. >> it is. >> one we hoped use not come along. net neutrality made sense. i always hope for the best. wish every day were friday. >> but it ain't. >> thank you, jerri. >> thank you. >> did you hear about this next one? a student who graduates from the university of south florida can
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celebrate and throw a party but not be able to do this. take a selfie. where is the ipad. now we're supposed to take a selfie, because we have them so we're supposed to take one. >> let's take a selfie. >> never comes otherwise very well for me. >> you look agreed. >> put it up on the wall. hi, look at that. so stupid. right? >> it's a little stupid. look at that. on the wall. >> there's the photograph. those are the words you read. much more interesting than our selfie. there's a lot going on in here. >> there's the cameraman. >> people everywhere. they're everywhere. hello, go nets. anyway, that selfie -- can't do that at the university of south. in. officials say it slows down the ceremonies which always go long. officials are asking students to refrain from stepping, marching, or strolling to get their
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diplomas. just walk normally, please. you regulate some things, now you are starting to look stupid. can't take a selfie. >> you can't march? what are they going to do of you do? >> they should get out conveyor belts and put them in wheelbarrows and drop the diploma in there and adopt -- deposit them on the other side and say don't come back. >> the feds now are apriling to regular lace e-cigarettes. critics say they're a hazard for children and some of this stuff comes from china and you don't know what's in there supporters say the devices helped them quit smoking. we'll tell you what proposed rules do and do not cover. there's a lot brand new about tobacco regulation. now they're into cigars and pipes and e-cig rids. those litt things still get you.
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just in to fox news. the white house is stepping into the middle of the mess in the middle east. secretary of state kerry making statements on the situation and saying, i quote, we'll never give up hope for mid-east peace. he was not specific how to fix it. israel breck off talks with the palestine palestinians and brought the u.s.-breckered process to the brink of collapse, after an agreement between rival palestine palestinian groups, including hamas. the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu sits down on "special report" on fox news channel. >> talk about being cash strapped. cops arrested a man one hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash strapped to his bid. we have the pictures. the man was heading to hong kong. police checked him at the border. he had -- they were like, you have very large calves.
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he wrapped over $200,000 over his legs and waist. all of this was on his body. all of it. you can see basically had shin pads made out of -- here you can. there's the shin pad. guards say the man looked nervous going through the security checkpoint and when they asked to check his bag, the guy dropped it and tried to run away, and inside that bag another quarter million dollars. in total police say the guy was carrying 580 grand. he claims he was going to use the money to buy a house. when police asked him why he didn't just try to mail a check or do a bank transfer or something normal he said he was, quote, quite greedy. they handed him over to customers. >> for the first time the food and drug administration issued proposed rules for regulating
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e-cigarettes. it will yous requiring government approval for new products and health warning labels and a ban on sales to kids or anybody under the age of 18. for the most part, the rules would not keep companies from advertising e-cigarettes, which they do a lot. and would not ban flavors like chock has and bubblegum, which are clearly meant for geriatric set. critics claim it could attract children and could provide a gateway to real cigarettes and the devices and nicotine liquid inside pose serious danger. during the month of february, poison control centers logged more than 200 calls about e-cigarettes, mostly involving children. jason joins us now on the deck. not just e-cigarettes, but this is an important development. >> big development. the fda administrator called it the wild west until now and it will continue to be the wild
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west for the next several years while the regulations good into effect. that will take two years. this clamps down on significant ways. can't sell them to kids. can't advertise them the way you before, healthier than regular cigarettes. now you have to prove that. other regulations will clamp done a bit but analysts from morgan stanley, says this is not going to hurt the growth of the industry. >> the lobbyists are going crazy on capitol hill already. all these companies have a huge lobby in washington. >> that's right. well, the major tobacco companies, every one of them is now in the game because they realize, even though it's a fairly small market -- $2 million compared to $80 million they make in the u.s. each earon regular cigarettes, pretty small. there's projects e-cigarettes
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could make regular cigarettes obsolete within 10 to 50 years. so they're taking this seriously, and while the regulations are been written they want a hand in that. >> now for the first time they're going to be regulating other tobacco products, pipe tobacco, cigars. so if you chose to say, all right, these products, when used as directed, kill you, you can't use them anymore but you can use these. >> that's right. and the real issue with these right now, there's so many known unknowns. how up -- ununhealthy are they? nose most scientists say they're less dangerous to your health than regular segue rid -- cigarettes and people think they can quit discussfully. young people, when they start using them, that has people
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worried. >> you said known unknown. you could be a defense secretary. >> i stole a phrase. >> thank you, jason. one small nation is suing several world powers, including the united states, over nuclear weapons. that country had been testing ground -- a testingground for dozens of bombs after the second world war and claims each nation should have gotten rid of those nukes by now. suing the united states over nukes. a live report on the case is next. if i told you that a free ten-second test
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nuclear weapons based on a treaty from more than four decades ago. here is the country of the marshall islands right here. not a lot of reference points. this is hawai'i over here. midway, over here, is guam. so it's out there in -- there it is, marshall island. you can see they're remote. the united states conducted 67 tests there over more than a decade after world war ii. officials say one blast in 1954, was a thousand times stronger than the atom bomb that devastated hiroshima. people on the islands suffer medical problems and in the lawsuit says nine countries, including the united states, have violated the nonprolive treaty of 1968. they claim the other nations have not disarmed and instead
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are moored concernizing their arsenal. trace gallagher is live. what more in the way of details on this federal lawsuit? >> we know it's filed against president obama as well as the departments of defense and the depth of energy and basically accusing the united states of not even trying to disarm nuclear weapons and is now requesting can the supreme court require the u.s. government to comply with the 1968 treaty that you mentioned. the lawsuit also says if the u.s. does not believe that the treaty is binding, this it should publicly come out and say so. the u.s. has long said its goal is to disarm but needs other countries to cooperate. an interlawyer tells me the suit is not baseless but does not stand a high chance of success. >> do they want money or? >> they don't want money, any compensation. what the marshall island wants is two things. they want these nine countries
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to agree the international justice court "the hague" is the proper venue, and they want to know where these nine countries stand right now on disarming nuclear weapons. the international law firm handling the suit says they want these answers in one year but they are in it for the long haul. listen. >> people tend to underestimate the davids and overestimate the goliaths. so, are they small in comparison? absolutely. should they be dismissed because they're small? absolutely not. >> it's worth noting this is the first lawsuit of its kind. trace gallagher, thank you. >> breaking news developing. a shelter in place order at a military installation. that's right after this.
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breaking news. a naval base at point loma is on lockdown, san diego. on twitter, the navy reports no shots fired but two people in custody, and there's a shelter in place order there now. the navy reports it's because of, quote, law enforcement incident. our station there, kswb is covering it for us. we'll take you back there should there be more. on this day in 1800, then-president john adams started the library of congress. he approved, get this, $5,000 to buy the first batch of books for capitol hill. 14 years later the british invaded washington, burping most of the city to the ground, including the congressional library. thomas jefferson offered to donate his personal collection to help restock the library. it holds millions of documents and video and audio reportings. but president adams cut a become
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