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people start drinking at 10:00 a.m. i know nothing about this even though i'm swedish. if you start earlier, you're an alcoholic every day. >> and england, they know how to part. i yes, they do. here, sheriff. googled yourself lately? see anything you didn't like? they have decided googles and other search engines should remove links for information that is embarrassing and what that may mean for privacy in the united states and why judge napolitano says don't bet on it in america. who wants a marry a killer? convicted killer wanted for one killing and his past hasn't stopped one woman from falling deeply in love. coming up, the jailhouse wedding plans. plus-
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[ gunshots ] the pentagon's secret strategy for dealing -- listen now, the pentagon secret strategy for dealing with a zombie apocalypse. it's not a joke, part of a training exercise. ahead, the united states military versus the walking dead. let's get to it. >> first from the fox newsdesk from this wednesday afternoon right now, mothers are waiting to find out whether their sons are dead or alive, wives waiting to sear whether their husbands will ever come home for hundreds of families in turkey, hope is fading with every passing minute. rescue workers have been racing to find survivors after a coal mine exploded. officials say as many as 245 people died or at least that many and many suffocated or suffered severe burns. more than 100 others are still
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missing. i'll show you exactly where this is happening. you recognize italy very quickly. this is istanbul over here. it's down in the southern part, well south of istanbul. the mine is in the hills of so ma, in turkey, about 300 miles south and west of istanbul. the country has a long history of mining disasters. this is shaping up to be one of the worst turkey has ever seen if not the worst. we are now getting heartbreaking pictures. we put them up in monster. this is not the right slide show. we'll show you those pictures later. at any rate, it is a horrible situation there hoping hope against hope that someone may have survived the whole thing. we will do to leah gabriel in the newsroom. is that right? to you. >> 450 workers have been rescued so far according to the mining company. they have pumped oxygen into the mine but they say hope is
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diminishin diminishing. >> some are mourning their loss while others waiting for any sign their loved one might make it out alive. i spoke with a former mining supervisor who said this is a dangerous mission for rescue workers. >> one thing about recovering miners after an explosion, there could be another explosion, pockets of gas. when there's a fire in the mine, you have carbon monoxide you have to concern with. >> authorities are saying the deaths have mostly been caused by warm and hum carbon monoxide poisoning and the white house is ready to help with this. they have been begging in turkey for the government to go in and regulate and investigate in these mines predicting this sort of thing would happen as short as one week ago. now this. it is clearly a very dangerous job and especially so in turkey. >> you're right.
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turkey has one of the worst workplace numbers. and workers exploded in anger as the prime minister visited soma and called him a murderer for ignoring warnings about the safety of the mines. and some with their faces painted black like coal gathered outside the headquarters of the company that owns the mine and said it put profit before safety. they recently inspected it in march and no issues were found. >> leah gabriel. live updates throughout the hour. if you find some unflattering photos or something you don't like, do you have the right to delete the link from search results? you don't in the united states. now in europe the judge says
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even if that em bar raszing information is true, people can ask for it to be deleted. it could have an impact on the future of the internet. the judge yesterday ruled the internet's power to distribute information threatens fundamental rights to privacy. i the ruling does not affect what shows up on individual websites like those of news organizations and whatever. it does affect searches through google and the like. the judges say it also places a higher standard on public officials and data that has scientific or historic value. critics say the decision may lead to censorship and may inspire similar legal challenges all around the world. reps for google say this is a statement, this is a disappointing ruling for search engines and online publishers in general. we now need to take time to analyze the implications. judge napolitano is our senior judicial analyst and being doing that. privacy means different over
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there than here. >> it does. in the european union where their constitution is the size of a telephone book instead of ours, a couple pages. they have something, ready? the right to be forgotten. we don't have that right here. the way they interpreted it, this was the highest court in europe, there is no appeal from this decision. if google wants to do business in europe they have to comply with this. the right to be forgotten, if there is something in a search engine you don't like, you want that element forgotten you can ask for it to be removed and google will remove it. the interesting interplay is when it is not removed from the u.s. and removed in europe and somebody in europe tries to get a united states court to enforce that european right against google. >> not going to happen. >> i don't think it will happen. over here, google's freedom of
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speech will trump the so-called right to be forgotten. >> you can say anything whether true or not and it can be googled and it will be seen. even if something is not true, you still can't force it to be deleted, especially if you're in any way a public figure. >> if something is not true and you have the time and money and wherewithal you can bring a lawsuit and force them to reveal your sources. if you're a public figure they can say about anything they knew unless they knew it was wrong. if you're not a public figure and the item is not true, it's easier to prevail. people don't file these lawsuits. they are hong, tortuous and expensive and the defendant, google, god only knows what it's worth, has the wear wal to wear down the plaintiff. litigation is not the answer. >> the right to be forgotten. i never heard of it. >> i never heard of it either
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and i study this stuff for a living. >> i'm trying to think what i would give just to be forgotten. rob all the banks on the planet. >> unbelievable. >> think how many people would give everything just to be forgotten. in europe you have that right. >> you have that right. this will spread throughout europe and have a cascading effect on other servers in europe. you will see this litigation but i think it will be dismissed. no country in europe has the equipment of our first amendment. >> they're about to have some lawsuits over there. >> they are. as stewart barney would say, more money for the lawyers. sending in the drones. i know, right? it's astounding. >> doesn't stop. >> in this case, the united states is sending in unmanned aircraft in the skies over nigeria, to try to track down those hundreds of kidnapped girls. we're also hearing about american marines on the move
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according to officials in the pentagon and said they moved 300 marines to naval situation in sicily after general unrest in syria and northern africa. the group boko haram released a chilling hostage video showing some of the school girls and apparently forced them to convert to islam and threatened to sell them as sex slaves. jennifer griffen at the pentagon. what do we know about these drones we've sent in? >> we know from u.s. officials they say they have not yet located the girls of yet. the u.s. military is flying not just man surveillance flights as we reported but also the unmanned global hawk. they're searching an area the size of west virginia and new england in northeast nigeria. there is no evidence, according to state department officials if the girls were split up into smaller groups or moved across the border.
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>> any indication the united states plans to send more help of any kind to nigeria? >> i can tell you the pentagon said those marines sent to sigonella were sent to embassies like north africa and yemen where there is trouble, not to deal with the nigeria situation. sus susan rice said it is the responsibility of nigeria to provide security for their people. >> to the extent they make requests of us or others to provide support, we're open to entertaining those. obviously, as i said at the outset, the most important thing is to locate the girls. there's no point in sending any kind of additional support if we don't know where they are. >> state department officials confirm today certain american laws are having an effect on the u.s. government's ability to work with the nigerian military to find the girls. the lahey amendment bars the
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u.s. military from working with certain nigeria counter-terrorism units accused of human rights abuses. the united states is still not able to share intelligence it has with the nigerian government because secure protocols are not yet in place. >> jennifer, thanks. the man who yesterday claimed he was god, i'm god, i'm god, after run single into a television station and ramming his truck into the thing is charged with -- get this, attempted murder charges. we have video and we have to credit them, as we have done in the upper right hand corner, captured after the crash, look here. police say that's a stolen landscaping truck. the driver smashed it several times into the building. witnesses said he ran into that building, barricaded himself for hours. cops saw he passed the time watching live news coverage of
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the standoff he had created. they said he was mentally disturbed, at minimum. that's a quote from police. cops eventually stormed the building and arrested him. he faces a long line of charges including second degree attempted murder although there is no indication he tried to murder anybody. cops say he has emotional issues. yesterday, he had a tool that could have been used as a weapon. that was a golf club. it remained in the vehicle. we'll see about these charges as time goes down. canada's greatest export, justin bieber is in trouble with the law, this time attempted robbery. this is a little sketchy here. what did the biebs actually try to steal. and the prime suspect in the death of natalee holloway ready to tie the knot, the problem is vanner shoot is locked up in
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justin bieber. he's back and facing even more legal trouble. los angeles police are investigating him for a ttempte robbery of a cell phone, kind of. it went down near a family entertainment center in los angeles. the gossip sight all knowing all hearing tmz said it was contacted by a woman who filed that complaint. he and his entourage were playing mini golf when she got in a fight with somebody. she tried to take pictures of the fight and he did not like that. he demanded she give him her phone.
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she didn't want to give him her phone. the biebs ripped it out of her hand as the story goes. this picture shows security guards trying to stop the situation. biebs is the one in the red hat, and said why don't you just get out of here but not before reportedly making her daughter cry. he is not commenting on this latest investigation. this is the latest run-in with the cops. they arrested him in miami for drugs and alcohol and arrested in toronto home of the smack croaking mayor and still faces charges for egging his neighbor's house in los angeles causing thousands of dollars in damage. now, the charge is he tried to steal a phone. that's not really what he was doing. he was trying to make sure she didn't have a picture. she showed him and didn't have a picture and claims he tried to steal the phone. the law is particular on it,
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doesn't it? >> absolutely. this guy seems to be made of teflon. everything he is doing rises just to the point of criminality but not enough for charges. the prosecutor would have to show he had the intent to permanently deprive her of the cell phone meaning he was not ever planning to give the cell phone back. there's a problem of proof in that instance in this case in that he handed her back the cell phone according to her own allegation before deleting any photograph because the cell phone was locked and that lends to the idea he wasn't going to permanently deprive her of the phone. >> like everyone who has an entourage, mini golf is part of life and like any entourage and young man you must have a fight there and you know he wouldn't want the picture taken, so he went to try to get it. given what he did do what might a more reasonable charge be?
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>> misdemeanor, simple battery. you're not allowed to touch someone or grab someone's phone out of their hand or cause any harmful or offensive touching without their consent. that's exactly what he did. he had no business butting his hand in her purse and grabbing her phone or out of her hand. he seems to think he ae's abovee law. >> if you wanted to, you could settle with justin bieber. >> you could if you wanted to, but not from a criminal privilege. you could. >> you could go to the biebs and say, wow, i was thinking i wanted to buy my own lamborghini mercy, similar to the one you were driving in south florida. if i were able to do that, i might forget this whole thing, mr. diabetes. that would be bribery, right? >> it would be bribery, possible extortion and in bad taste. realistically the penalties for misdemeanor simple battery are not going to be severe he will
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buy this woman a ferrari or l lamborghini in lieu of facing criminal prosecution. >> we'll watch it. i'm sure there will be something else before it gets to the courts. the gift that keeps on giving. >> ior ran van der sloot now, he's getting married. he is wanted for the disappearance of natalee holloway and serving time in a maximum security prison for killing another woman and wone stop him from marrying his pregnant gifford. wait a minute, maximum security prison he and his five month pregnant fiance, he's been there in longer than five months. how did they do that? the pregnant fiance and he have already bought wedding rings and plan to tie the knot sometime in the next month. they're still wondering who will be the witness, like a prison
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guard. he is serving 18 years for murdering a college student in peru. that's just the beginning. he pleaded guilty to murdering her in a hotel room and they met in a casino. police have arrested him not once but twice in connection to the murder of natalee holloway and the teenager went missing back in 2005. he also faces extortion charges in the united states when his sentence is up in peru because he tried to extort money from the missing natalee holloway's family. he's a wonderful person. i'm sure there will be matrimonial bliss. emotional day for survivors and family members of 9/11 as they relive the grief again. the accept 11th memorial museum is now open for previews. our rick leventhal has gotten a look at the artifacts from the dark day we've never seen before coming up on fox news channel. hey. i'm ted and this is rudy.
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scheduled to attend the opening ceremony tomorrow at the site where thousands of americans died and twin towers fell. and finally getting a look at the museum at the bedrock of what used to be the world trade center in manhattan. it not only explains the events of that day but serves as a memorial for the men, women and children who died there. items like scorched books and shoes found in all the dust downtown. in some cases there, the only traces of the victims that search teams never found. rick leventhal is in lower manhattan this day as he was on that fateful day. i hear it is an incredible experience, rick.
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>> reporter: it really is. it may be tough for many visitors to handle emotionally because they'll be reliving the horrors of 9/11 minute by minute. the museum has trained staffers for people who may be emotionally distraught and built in early exits for any who may be in the middle of an exhibit and feels the need get out quickly. >> this is the aftermath. >> reporter: thousands of images and haunting reminders and pieces of inspiration from the worst terror attack on u.s. soil. >> this is the world trade center cross that provided so much spirituality and comfort, particularly in those first few months with the fires still burning. fire burning 99 days, it was hell on earth. to have these symbols there at that time was very important. this is engine 21. we use this truck to help tell the story of the first responders. you see some of their equipment. captain billy burke was the
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captain of this truck. he ordered his men to safety out of the building, stayed behind to try to rescue a paraplegic. it's unfortunate those three perished but shows you the sacrifice the first responders made to get everyone out who could possibly be gotten out. this is a piece of the antennae on the north tower. even though it's a tiny section when you see the whole antennae in the picture, you can see it's a powerful collapse that happened, metal columns sheared off, really gives a sense of the destructive power behind the attack that day. this is a bike rack that was near the site that these bikes were all unclaimed. and they went about their routine and weren't there at the end of the day to go home to see their families. it's a powerful reminder they were who we are and did what we do everyday.
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>> tomorrow morning, the president will be here, along with a number of dignitaries for the opening ceremony. after that the museum will be open for the 9/11 community the next three days, first responder survivors and 9/11 families and the cost of the ticket is $24 to help cover the $63 million annual operating cost of the museum. >> it's no secret you were down there the day it happened and reporting on it ever since. i wonder for you who witnessed it all, what was it like going through it? >> reporter: i got chills any time the subject comes up. being in that museum was amazing, the low ground and foundation hall so huge and you see so many artifacts from that day and reminders from that day, definitely difficult for a lot of people to see but important just the same. >> no doubt. a tourist attraction. i heard a lot of people speculating, the director of the thing that there will come a
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time it may be the number one tourist attraction in the city. >> reporter: it may well be except the fact they have to limit the fact any number of people at a time. they can have 25, 30, 40 million go through a year but they can't handle that much. the numbers will be lower and almost everyone will want to see it and i think they probably should. >> i hear you. rick leventhal, good to see you, my friend. >> president obama to push to get more money to fix the nation's crumbling roads and bridges part of a $300 billion transportation spending plan. a live look on the hudson in new york city, back behind me, i guess. it said a live look. there it is. that's cuomo, the governor of new york. the president will be there. that's the bridge behind him, construction to fix the 58-year-old bridge now, costing more than $400 billion and commuters set to pay for it with
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tolls. we are good at tolls around here. the white house warned there are thousands of jobs at risk if congress fails to pump highway money into the white house trust fund and congressman are wondering how much the white house wants to spend. >> reporter: this is a two prong approach for the president. first he says he wants to streamline the approval process to get these bridges up. with the tapestry bridge that would average three years and said they got this one through in about a year and half. the second is $4 billion over the next three years the president wants to spend on the highway trust fund. administration officials say half of that would be funded with the federal gas tax, no increase there, just the normal federal gas tax projected to bring in that much money over the next few years. on top of that tax increases on corporation corporations by cutting the loopholes and where republicans have an objection and the administration says they have a difference with republicans
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politically pointing out the republicans want to save these tax breaks for corporations and not put people to work. the republican response to this is basically why doesn't the president when he talks about permit i permitting projects give the okay to the keystone pipeline. mitch mcconnell wrote it's a real challenge to listen to the president talk about the permitting system when he's been sitting on the permit for the country's largest shovel ready program, the keystone xl pipeline, for five years. they run out of money sometime this summer, projections are july to september. congress is trying to find way to temporarily extend this perhaps for six years and continue to run into the same problem congress always runs into, where will they get the money. sh shep. >> yes. in a place where they fight and don't do anything. your car is there and
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sitting there and the wheels are moving but you don't do anything. they are learning the roads. bet they don't find the potholes. google gave some people a ride along. there's a laser on the car's roof and uses sensesers and realtime map data. it's not all smooth sailing. the car switches lanes to the right, probably illegal, not like we haven't done it and cut off another driver up there. despite all that, google says the cars have never caused an accident and it will be about six years until we can all own them. six iers, that's pretty quick. fox business network gerri willis is here. you got a ride in one of these things? >> not the google one. every carmaker is putting them out. a mercedes-benz s 550, a sweet ride over $100,000. $200,000 with this package. it accelerates, brakes, keeps a distance between you and --
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>> my car does that. it won't take the wheel and won't change lanes for me. >> they want you to have your hand on the wheel but if you don't, there's a sensor that starts going off. you know what? i did not like. >> it the car didn't slow down as well as we do. >> it doesn't start -- let me show you. here we go. >> [ screaming ] >> oh, my gosh. i touched the brake. i couldn't stop. >> but it did it. >> i felt it come down. >> you heard your abs brakes engage and belt tighten and it's getting ready and i will stop this car because you're not doing it and if you can't i will have you ready for a crash. >> go on. >> we're just talking about our cars. i was supposed to -- i was not supposed to stop the car but i couldn't wait for the car to stop for me. i didn't like that. >> i know. it's not cool. >> it made me so longest. >> going over the long island expressway, whatever yours is, long island expressway is the
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worst. i've driven a lot of roads. driving along you hit 80 or weaver. >> 85, 90. >> with the crowd and all of a sudden there's a backup because there just are and all the traffic comes to a stop. the car does not slowly slow down and everybody in the car gets thrown around, your "big mac" gets mixed up. >> it was not comfortable. i don't want to give over that power thinking about gm and ignition switches ythey can't gt right, are you kidding me? >> they want to give me a ticket? i ain't driving it, the damn thing is driving itself >> until it starts asking for my mcdona mcdonalds and then it's done. >> the president is talking. we have ginormous infrastructure problems in this country and we need money to fix it. how do we do that? the president is talking. how do we do that? >> here in new york state, if we
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do a better job rebuilding our roads, rebuilding our bridges, upgrading our ports, unclogging commute times, the alternative is to do nothing and watch businesses go to places that have outstanding infrastructure. behind me is the old bridge, longest bridge in new york, one of the busiest bridges around. as any commuter will tell you, it is crowded. it carries a lot more traffic than when it was built back in 1955. at times you can see the river through the cracks in the pavement. i'm not an engineer but i figure that's not good. but right now right now, thanks to governor cuomo and your delegation led by patrick
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maroney and jerry ned lller, al of whom are here today, stand up congressional delegation. we're proud of you. thanks to their outstanding efforts, workers are building a replacement, the first new bridge in new york in gift yearyear -- 50 years, called the new, new york bridge. that's a fine name but with the next bridge name, you should come up with something a little more fresh. here's the thing. this never happens. you are building this bridge ahead of schedule. three years ago, after republicans in congress refused to pass multiple bills that would have put construction workers back to work, i took action on my own to fast track the permitting process for major projects like this one.
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normally, it would have taken 3-5 years to permit this bridge. we did it in a year and a half. in a year and half. [ applause [ applause ] >> that meant we were creating thousands of jobs faster while doing right by workers and tending to the environment. the vice president's in cleveland today at another project we fast-tracked, the rapid transit station that will make life easier for a lot of residents there. today, we're releasing a new plan to apply the same strategy to other major projects all across america. we're announcing 11 more projects to accelerate, get moving faster from boston south station to pensacola bay bridge to new light rail projects north and south of seattle. we're cutting bureaucratic red tape that stalls good projects from breaking ground. we're launching a new national
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permitting center to implement these reforms. we are aiming to put every major infrastructure project on a public dashboard so everybody can go online, track our progress, hold us accountable, make sure things are coming in on time, on budget. make sure your taxpayer money is being used well but also make sure we're putting folks back to work rebuilding america. that's our goal. >> that's the goal. somebody has to pay for the fixing of the bridges or they're going to fall down. major problems across the country. let's hope they can work something out. lots of newsbreak right now. some possible trouble in orbit. the germans rely on russians for all kinds of things, natural gas not the least and russians rely on getting to the national space station. you have to pay putin to get up there and now putin is saying we will back away out of this national space station and make the national space station dead.
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is hi just flapping his gums or something to this? a fire in carlsbad, california, thousands have just been told to evacuate. we will have live coverage and pictures. in addition the turkey mine explosion has just hit 274. looking for unrest? you watch turkey.
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hour. they have to prepare for the absolute worst. there are five fires total right now. this is the one in carlsbad. it doesn't look like a lot here. they move so fast because it's so dry. there is an evacuation center set up in an elementary school. and evacuation at camp pendleton. those two go together brilliantly. we have video at camp pendleton and you can see the fire there. there are five fires in southern california. there is no question this is going to be a disastrous fire season. they should have gotten rain for months on end, not a lot of rain like the rest of us get but enough to get moisture in there and they got none. so now they're very worried what the fire season is going to bring. the santa ana winds are back and el nino as well. there is talk over all the cities there what is to come.
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sure enough on this 98-100 degree day in carlsbad and camp pendleton and beyond, the fires are starting and we are just on the very beginning of fire season. the tension over ukraine is now reaching new heights all the way into orbit. one of russia's deputy prime ministers says russia will stop letting the united states use russian made rockets to launch military satellites because those economic penalties the united states slapped on moscow, say you do to us we'll do to you and russia will quit working with the united states to run the international space station after 2020, four years earlier than the white house requested. a nasa spokesman says russia has not notified the agency of any changes. none of this is official but since the united states ended the shuttle program because we ran out of money, remember? american astronauts had to hitch rides on russian spacecraft. nasa officials say they're working with private companies to change that possibly in the next few years. either way, space is supposed to
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be about science and almost never gets dragged into politics and it was a symbol of the united states and russia after the cold war and japanese astronauts landed safely back on earth after spending six months there. ugh, six months, can you imagine? if it keeps up, there is no way to know howmonths. can you imagine? if will ththis keeps up, there way to know how long the cooperation might last. let's bring in nicholas burns, professor at harvard. they talk tough, professor. >> well, they do. i think this was predictable that putin would find a way to hit back at the united states for the sanctions that we expected against him and we were right to direct those sanctions. but it gives us an opportunity now to have some vision and hopefully in a bipartisan basis for the future of nasa. it should want us to be more self reliant. we shouldn't want to depend on you putin for rocket technology.
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and also means that we can now work with our true allies, japan and the united kingdom and fr s france, they all have big science technology and capacities. maybe combine with them on the next generation of rocket technology so we can be independent of the russians in space. they have been ap n unreliable partner. >> in behihindsight, does it se foolish that the united states would rely on putin of kgb fame? we look like a bunch of morons. >> well, this was actually a bipartisan agreement back in the 1990s. president clinton, then president george w. bush, now president obama, that we would work with the russians, and this was president yeltsin's russia, to see if we could work on a peaceful basis. i was involved on this as a
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white house staffer for president clinton. and so i think it was a good idea. hasn't turned out to be. hasn't turned out to be good for the dwruunited states. we need to shift gears. >> yeah, we do. he probably has a citi thankyou card and gets 2x the points at restaurants. huh the citi thankyou preferred card. now earn 2x the points on dining out, with no annual fee. go to citi.com/thankyoucards
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that corporate trial by fire when every slacker gets his due. and yet, there's someone around the office who hasn't had a
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performance review in a while. someone whose poor performance is slowing down the entire organization. i'm looking at you phone company dsl. check your speed. see how fast your internet can be. switch now and add voice and tv for $34.90. comcast business built for business. there is breaking news. carlsbad, california, city officials have reported that evacuations are mandatory. they're sending out 11,000 notices to homes and businesses. get out of your homes and businesses now and head to shelter. at least one home in carlsbad was seen on local television up in flames. so it's not as about if they have been safe from this yet. this is one of five fires that we know about in and around san diego county.
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they're battling very hot, very dry windy conditions. the wind is coming from the desert toward the sea and it's giving them fits. a fire on the outskirts of san diego had threatened more than 10,000 homes yesterday. it is now but 25% contained. the fire alert is high. and i've just gotten word in the last five seconds that two homes have been burned to the ground in carlsbad and many hundreds more homes are directly in the path of these flames. the hope was that the winds would not be as significant as had been predicted. here is the thicng. if the winds are more stagnant and some are coming from the sea, your humidity ririses a bi. instead, they have the winds coming from the desert to the sea at 98, 99, 100 degrees depending on where you are. but it is extremely hot and the resources are stretched thin. like i mentioned, it's the
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beginning of fire season. so here is their battle plan now. they're trying to get certain neighborhoods that appear to be in trouble next. they are saying cut back your brush. sprinklers at the railroadeeady. it is the news break, we'll break in.
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fox on top of government waste gone wild. today stunning allegations that some obamacare workers are being paid to do nothing. welcome, everyone. this is your world. the company is called circ off the. it received a contract to help sign people up for obamacare. now a whistleblower saying the company is trying to conceal a lack of work at processing centers in missouri, kentucky and oklahoma as it continues to hire more