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>> i would cheat and click on the picture and then go back and fill it n. >> i am visually stimulated. >> that will do it for outnumbered. happening now starts in five singles maybe less. >> now one. a developing story. more dangerous weather threatening the south as the death toll rises in a tornado outbreak that is putting tens of millions of people in harm's way. we are waiting a new's conference in the wake of the nba scandal and don sterling. brand new polling on the president's approval rating and the prospects for the democrats heading in the november election. first an update on the deadly storms sweeping in the south. millions are bracing for more dangerous weather today.
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i am jenna lee. >> and i am john scott. severe weather could continue in this count we for more than 48 hours. 30 people have been killed and many more missing. 91 tornados in half a dozen states. from iowa to the gulf coast and all the way east to north carolina and arkansas hardest hit state. and they join us from mayflower. >> half of the fatalities were in the state of arkansas alone. 15 people lost their lives here on sunday night. the recovery process has begun. it is an ardous task and no doubt one that will take time. >> reporter: let me put it in perspective for you. i am six foot two. and this debris towers over me.
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it will take a long time to get the place back to where it was prior to the weekend storm. what was it. it was a mayflower rv sales and repair center. i talked to an employee, and he told me this giant parking lot was filled with this more than 60 rv's before the storm hit. and now you don't see a single one left. at last one intact. the storm moved in that direction eat and picked everything up and tossed it around like toys. oklahoma was part of the storm system that decimated part of the country over the week woke. in oklahoma, northeast tip of the state over thereby missouri. and actually, reports that a tornado warning was never issued in that area after those dangerous storms were moving in
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because it was such a fast- moving storm. the resident were taken by surprise and didn't have time to react and get into shelter. it is a community of 900 people or so. one fatalities and a number of injures and they look just like this, john. >> casy stegal reporting live. >> two confirmed tornados touched down in louisville and wen stop county. the county hospital was badly damaged. there was storm chasers catching up with one of the twisters in the louisville, mississippi. >> it is raining debris. it is it a large violent tornado and all sorts of stuff falling out of the sky. and the road is littered debris from houses. that is a storm chaser chosing to do. this the next guest road through
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a tornado with his family and found his home completely destroyed. we have the mississippi state septemberor ward. it is a pleasure to have you today. we are sorry for the way your family is impacted by the storm. can you tell us a little bit about what happened. >> thank you, jenn a and we are thankful to be able to do this. i listened from casy report out in oklahoma and commenting on the community that failed to get adequate notice. we anyhow for three days with this reporting on fox news and others that the storm system was on its way. and then as far as the cell that hit the town of louisville, we had full 30 minutes or more than that the cell was forming and confirmed tornado headed to our
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town. my family wife, and daughter and son-in-law and two grand daughters and dogs were in the interior bath rom and we survived. but a lot of things didn't. but our lives survived. >> we are grateful for that today. how old are your grapped daughters? >> one is 5 and 1 is nine. >> they are quite young and i can imagine it was terribly frightening. >> well, it was frightening and they were traumatized, but we have a strong faith in our family and we started praying the minute we knew the thing was there. and we had a revival in the bathroom and amazing how the lord carried us through. >> we have a photoof your patio,
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sir and there is i car on your patio. and imagine there is never cars around in the normal circumstance. it speaks to the power of the storm. tell us about this. >> sometimes we would park recklessly but never one upside down on the patio. that is my son-in-law's suv. he had parked there about 20 minutes before the storm arrived. i was telling you about this advanced warning. we were hunkered down. i don't know what taylor was watching. it is going to be here in one minute with 155 mile per hour winds and in 60 seconds all hell broke loose. >> senator, what do you do now? >> we have a house full of
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volunteers. lieutenant governor of the state of mississippi and his entire staff drove up from jackson, there was sen of them and they are carrying if you wereature out and bunch of other things. we have my son and nenow and my wife. and things that can be replaced. we have another system coming in from mississippi and we are trying to get as much out of here. well, state senator guiles. it is great to have you on the program and we wish and your family the very best and we thank you for taking time to speak to us. >> thank you, ser. >> skaury moments to a tv station in mississippi. one of the news teams had to leave in a broadcast. the meteorologist is giving up
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date and the signal freezes and when it comes back it is chaos. >> significant tornado touchdown. safe place now. safe place now go. go. now. the national weather service confirmed an ef2 tornado touched down right outside. everyone in there were okay. >> sounds like good advice from the meteorologist now. nasa giving the dramatic view showing how the systems formed over the last couple of days. the storms intensified and the cloud cover thickened and it showed how the storms developed in a matter of a few minutes.
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now the fox news alert out of the georgia, three people are in critical condition and two of them with light threatening injuries. wounding six people before turning the gun on himself. john roberts following the story for us live in atlanta. >> and john, police say they have no idea why a shooter had the fedex facility fulled a shotgun and started to shoot the co-workers. it happen 5:30 to 6 this morning. reports from witnesses that the fellow was dressed rambo style and had shotgun shells around his chest. the gunman described as a white male with sandy hair and shorts
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and tshirt. and died of a self inflicted wound. the were taken to nor by marieta. they suffered from blast affects from a shotgun. >> the 28-year-old male is critical in surgery. a 52-year-old female critical surgery. and two male crit kral and a 38-year-old male stable and 34-year-old female treated and released and a 19-year-old male treated. ntwo victims in surgery have been there since early this morning and the injuries are life threatening. fedex released this statement just a while ago saying our thoughts and prayer are with those affected and we are great will for the assistance of law enforcement. we are focused with the team
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members. fed exhas a large storage facility. they have to go through a metal detector and having the bags x-rayed. it is a puzzle how he got the shotgun and facility. >> get back to us if you find out anything else. another developing story. and concerning allegation against donald sterling. they pick up the story live from los angeles, william? >> one of the great unknowns, how will the clipper's players send a message. will they wear black or captain or coach address the fans and huge tv audience before tip off. we don't know. we know one opinion that matters is nba commissioner adam silver. he has several options.
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one, strip sterling of the team and let the log run the clippers until it is solid. life time suspension and 2.5 million and loss of draft picks and free agency for current players. and he can't go to games or talk to players and management and 53s a million dollar fine. players can boycott the time. and owners know their credibility is on the line. >> what donald has done in the nba and adam will deal with that and i am all for him taking the steps and should we kick him out and go outside of the constitution and take steps to condemn people for what they say in the privacy of their own home. it is a slippery slope and i don't want to get on.
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>> 15 sponsors terminated and will they hide their corporate logos or show solidarity. fans how to punish sterling without hurting the team. and following the nba commissioner, a large protest is planned and joining that chorus his own son-in-law and director of operations called the remarks desgusting and if they cost me my job, so be it. >> it will be forcing sterling to give up the time. what is more important to him. his wallet or ego. >> big question, we'll have the nba's news conference live on fox news channel. newly released documents on benghazi. changes to the infamous talking
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points linked back to the white house. >> and one airline might be dropping its fares. but you could end up paying more for things that used to be free. we'll explain that. and we'll hear about a controversial issue affecting tens of millions of school kids. common core edoccasional standards for bench marks. not everyone is convinced they belong in america's class rom. should it be a mandatory nationwide program? . okay, listen up! i'm re-workin' the menu.
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in an effort to tie the violence to the video and not a failure of policy. four americans died in the attack on the consulate in benghazi. ambassador chris stephens is among them. and these come out of a freedom of information act request filed by judicial watch, juan. and ben rhoeds writes an interesting e-mail on september 14th three days after the attack and let me put up part of it for you. regarding susan rice's upcoming appearance on the sunday morning chat shoes. and he writes, to underscore that these protests are rooted in an internet video, and not a broader failure of policy.
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that was one of the goals for her national television appearances. that's what they wanted to stress, what does that want to say to you, juan? >> it is politics and judicial watch said that this was a pr strategy pursued by the white house. i don't think there is any question about it and obviously it is it a political angle therefore in his view, judicial watch's view they were less concerned with the realities of what took place on the ground and you had high level people like rh odes. and it was passed on to jay carney and other top white house advisors concerned with the president's image and wanting to make sure the president came out of this looking like a strong steady steadfast leader and less concern with the actualities of what is on the ground. it was a political document. >> they were nine weeks out from
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a major election and that was on the bubble and could have gone either way at that point. was this all about insuring that the president looked good in advance of his reelection. >> the e-mails showed what we assumed. officials in the state department becomely describing this as an attack. you had others in the administration saying it was clearly in the intelligence community saying it was a terrorist event and perpetrated and well planned. and you had cia talking points scrubbed and edited and rewritten and susan rice said it was a video and the president and secretary of state state when they welcomed the bodies home. it was not revealing so much new but seeing it in type, that it is not we are going to lie because it is so politically dangerous for the president and
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pretend it is it a video. they said it is certainly a result of a video and reemphasize that the president's steadfast and leadership should be high lighted about everyone talking about benghazi. it is a befuddling situation, john, because you have four people dying, an ambassador for the first time in decades and no one to this date has been caught. it is hard to believe all this time later, republicans pointing fingers at each other why the investigation is not come up with more and a larger question of why the administration never tracked anyone down and held them accountable for this. >> we'll have to leave it there. and it is interesting information coming out of the request. thank you. >> and we are waiting the new's conference on the nba commissioner. and how safe is all of the
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personal information on your cell phone from the long arm of the law? big question today? >> and then there is this. shocking video of what appears to be a young skate boarding son off of a ramp. hey kevin...still eating chalk for hearburn? yea. try alka seltzer fruit chews. they work fast on heart burn and taste awesome. these are good. told ya! i'm feeling better already. alka-seltzer fruit chews. enjoy the relief!
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ultralow cost and pushing the base fare down 12 percent and increases the coast of everything. front teris based out of denver and it set me 460 for a vacation next month. unless you plan to travel with a briefcase, and nothing else. that price is no where near the price you will pay for the front. frontier is charging to bring on a carry on bag and stuff it in the bin, right. that fee by the way, 20 and $50 depending on when you buy the ticket. if you are checking a bag that starts at 15 bucks for the first bag for special members and the second is $30. and if you want a drink including water is 1.99. and you don't want a random society that starts at three
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bucks. bigger or better seat you will pay for. that fees go up and up and up. and the industry said that ticket prices of base fares bring in cent percent of the overall rev now and the rest come from the fees. and the next fee is the foe to use the bathroom. >> or the fee to land the plane. if you want to land that will cost you 50 bucks. >> reporter: if you plan ahead you can get a good flight. >> i had flight over the weekend and it was the worst ever. i am grumpy about the airlines. a florida father caught on video apparently pushing his son off of a skating ramp. department of children's and family are investigating this man's action. and the woman who didn't want to be identified said it is not the
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first time it happen. you can see the man push the six-year-old boy. >> the reason my son filmed it is because the father had done it three times proir to that. around the skate park for a while the woman was glad it was caught on tape. six years old and i am sure that is terrifying to look over the edge of the ramp for a six-year-old or anybody. >> i don't think it enforces the bopped parent and child either. 30 people have been killed in the last 48 hours after tornados in the south. and the danger is far from over. and we could tell you who is in the path. >> and the debate rages on how
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to educate future generation. a set of standards is the best supporters say. critics say there are major flaw. we'll debate common core. and valerie harper facing a 2 million lawsuit all because she wanted to keep the state of her health private. will that defense be strong enough to keep her from paying?
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a weather alert. another round of severe weather is expected in the west and south and they are hard hit by tornado outbreaks and need to be on alert for the next 48 hours. rick? >> hey, jenny, it is a slow- moving system and a lot of heavy rain in the east and get ready for potential of flooding in the east and worst of the rain in the south is in the pandhandle of florida and central gulf. and look at the satellite picture this is an upper level desturbance and you will notice things clear out and this is exactly where we had the storms yesterday. that same area under the gun today. you might think typically you have the storms and you are gone with it. noted in. eastern parts of mississippi and alabama. we'll see more tornados,
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developing. and tomorrow the storm system moving out to the east. and parts of florida and timely by the day on thursday, we are done with a six- day severe weather event. >> thank you. >> and back to politics. two polls to share. the president's job approval rating. the abc news washington post poll. 52 percent disappeared and it is not sitting well according to the new health poll. 46 percent have a unfavorable view. and 38 percent favor. this is despite the white house saying 8 million have seened up so far. >> a driver in canada who struck and killed a 17-year-old biker is suing his family and two
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friends that were cycling for $1.3 million. she claims that great pain and suffering. it is person to note that the driver was traveling 50 miles per hour. and she was doing 55. and she was not intoxicated at the time of the crash. we'll bring in our legal panel. a list. and doug, burns. to you firstissa. >> it is a ridiculous. negligence on the part of the kids on the bikes. >> because they were wearing dark clothes >> and shoo was going 55 at night. a cautious driver would slow down on outlying roads. she is claeming emotional distress. and the child that died, his
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brother killed himself later. wait a second you are talking about drama and emotional distress. wait a minute. i lost two of my children. it is incredible that it is brought. >> they are counter sowing her for $900,000. and is this's case where she gets out in front of an expensive case. >> we sort of a a agree that we have comparative negligence. and contributory negligence. i think everyone was at fault. the kids were not wearing reflectors and it is it an ill- advised lawsuit. i agree. but they have to sort out how
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much. >> another big story with big headlines in new york. valerie harper, well known actress from rhoeda, she was set to headline a play in broadway and found out she had brain cancer. now apparently she made a full recovery. and the producers of the show are susowing her for 2 million for not revealing a terminal illness. network under federal and state law, you don't have to reveal the medical condition and she did not think it was. it was lung cancer. would impact the yob. she wasn't directed to attorney on over. and for then to come back and sow here it will back fire. >> they had to replace her. >> valerie harper initiated the
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lit combagz and sowed for her few foe for being in the play not withstanding is that she couldn't do the affect. like our first story. it you need to know what is in the contract. >> because not paying hear and you told us it doesn't make sense. >> this would be way worse if the producer said you didn't tell us. it is a dowelling legislation back and forth. >> we'll have you back dpaen another time when we have resolution. >> and you served as secretary of state under president georging bush. check out the welcome in one college campus. we'll show you about that and what is it about eating
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hi, everyone i am gretchen carmson. coming up, what will the nba do with nba owner donald sterling. we'll have the press conference live in the top of the hour. and will this woman buy the clippers? you know who she is. the new interview with oprah and the nba intention. and linking the white house directly to the talking points. congressman jason cha ffetz will have more. and the missing malaysian airliner. we'll see if the claims are lejet on the top of the hour. >> developments on the controversial education program after indiana is the first state to abandon the national core
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bench mark. 44 other states all signed up for this. the gold using national standard ares to teach children. and more and more educators are pushing back against common core along with the families. joyy is a research fellow. and the national policy director at the institute. i know you have debated the issue. and i want to get to our viewer questions about common core. it is coming up in the political debates. audrie said leave it to the state and parents need to be involved. you say what to that? >> i am for getting big government out of our shoes and leave it to the parents and teachers who know best. people who believe common core
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will ruin it. it is a state led initiative and led by the 48 states and 45 states that adopted the conservative bench marks for english and math. and what we expect students to know for end of high school. >> what is wrong with common core and why they have issues with it three things to say to folks. common core is not research based. all of the research that support it was paid for by the same organization that went out and tried to sell it to the states. second one it is central planning and takes away the teacher's voice and parent's escrows. and they come in and boss in the class room. and the third one is that it is destroying school choice.
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and that offers which were the must opportunity to do. >> and michael what is the way to soif common core is successful? >> we have to let the teachers and experts try it out. and responding to joy's claims, none of those things are research based and they are not accurate approximate the community property core. and joy's group and many other opoepts try to kill it before it takes affect. and joy and i agree. indiana, they have lowered their standards than what they of the common cooper. njoy, you wrote on that topic because you were disappointed with what indiana is putting in place. what is the model for second when it comes to edcawing.
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>> i think it is good to let families and schools choose different ways of educating kids. i spent time in colorado. they have two different ways of not doing common core. >> rather taking away the individual's voice and influence their children and a better alternative is to give them to have power and control and centralized bureaucrats running education. >> where do you disagree with it kim from. >> you said it was a plan. and joy you say pehelped trade groups where no one is accountable for temperature joy, you take it up first and that is key. on where it came from? >> that is a deceptive claim.
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you heard michael said it was state led. the legal way to do things is given to us called congress. haft time national standard forks tried to do it, that was chaut forare the everyou can go to the honthe groups. it is mike, until this day we don't know whatted there or ght. yes a false choice. she is saying we have common system or common cooperate do we want high stand ardss or low.
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joy wants to change. they don't want common core. and indiana changed the standards and got rid of the core of what made common core so great. they got rit of the bill of rights and reading the founding documents. i believe they should read them. but talk about standards and not try to lump them in. >> it is a big economy of who that you are down down certainly it is wife going to be one of those hot issues as we get close to the mig term elections. mike motorcycle and joy, thank you so much for the time today. >> thank you. >> and on the topic of how our children learn and what they
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kids that eat chicken on the bone, like drumsticks, are likely to be more aggressive than kids who get their kichick cut into pieces. dr. brian russell is a carolina call psychologist and joins us now. this is the reasoning behind it. they say when you bite into a drumstick or corn on the cob, that you have to grimace. and if you grimace, it sends
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signals to your brain that you're going to be a little bit more aggressive. could that be true? >> okay, first of all, i can't believe that somebody goes to work every day and spends their life studying stupid stuff like this. i don't know how you get a job like that. but i put absolutely zero chicken stock in this study. people have been eating chicken wings, chicken drumsticks for millenn millennia. and i don't think it's made them any more aggressive. if you're a parent, it's fine, don't worry about it. >> this is what one of the researchers say. since biting food increases aggression and noncompliance, it may not be wise to serve young children chicken wings shortly before bedtime or to serve steak and corn on the cob in the company of dinner guests. >> it says children will be twice as aggressive -- if you buy two lottery tickets, you're
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twice as likely to win and you're not going to win. >> we have heard in the past if you -- if you have your face in a little bit of a smile, like this, that it sends a signal to your brain that you're going to be happier throughout the day. is there something to be said about your expression and making sure that you're staying in a happy place? >> actually, believe this or not, my ex-girlfriend did that study. and that is true. and i think that whatever effect you can get from that probably offsets whatever aggression effect is. >> you say you can do that -- i want to hear more about your dating life. sounds more interesting than this -- we'll save that for another time. >> okay. >> just to finish up here. does this impact children more than adults? could we be thinking about this, too, if i have the porkchop i might be more aggressive tonight than if i didn't? >> i think you need to be very careful.
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you go out for lunch and get pizza, cut it up with a knife and fork instead of biting into the slices. >> that's totally un-american. i have a question about research done by google and vodafone. they were saying that more and more now, children are simply losing touch with reality because of time spent online. we've heard this before. i would like your quick thoughts on it of whether or not you think that's really the case. >> i don't really think that teenagers have that hard of a time distinguishing their virtual life from their real lives. i think the problem is they're spending so much time online that they're not learning as much about how to navigate and communicate in the real world. >> perhaps we should do that over drumsticks or not, it's up to our viewers to make their own choices about what they serve tonight. dr. brian russell, great to have
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as you know, tapes were leaked of a racist rant friday night, allegedly the voice of sterling. owners, players, even president obama have demanded swift action. now it may be a question of whether sterling will be booted out of the league or forced to leave the team after getting frozen out by players and sponsors. our panel of analysts ready to way in, including jim gray in los angeles, sports and entertainment attorney, xavier pope and evan rosenbloom from tmz sports who helped break the story. evan, you've been on this for the last couple of days. what do you know right at this moment? >> we talked to some plugged-in sources telling us the commissioner is going to announce that donald sterling will be suspended indefinitely from the league. he will not be forced to sell the team but an indefinite suspension and he'll be fined we're told in the neighborhood of $5 million, which is not, surprisingly, the most he's ever been fined before. he was fined $6 million when we moved the clippers
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