>> look at that shot ment beautiful shot. >> i am ainsley earhardt. >> i am heather childers. we are going to begin with fireworks during a late night hearing after a scathing report reveals it is worse than ever imaged. the report uncovering a long history of manipulating appointments and wait times so workers could get bonuses as hundreds of vets go without care. >> calls for eric shinseki to step down. >> it was a rare scene on capitol hill. three top va commissioners were called in 40 veterans died at a phoenix va facility. congressmen became upset when

their answers were dontoo diplomatic when they said the now documents were not secret. >> i didn't think they were secret. >> you spent easter weekend with your wife i don't know how you could think it was so appropriate to turn such a critical serious mission into a personal holiday. >> it was an easter weekend. i thought it was appropriate my wife could join me. >> set trans di -- veterans die. give us the answers, please. >> the report found that 1700 veterans seeking care at phoenix were at risk of being gort ten or lost. more than 200 veterans waited average 1500 days about 80 percent of those waited more than 14 days. house veterans affair jeff

miller and keenan are among the latest to call for the secretary to step down. >> we are comparing it with public and private hospitals outside of the military system. to be able to identify problems before they become as acute and chronic as you are seeing here that that hasn't been done. >> press secretary jay carney says president obama was briefed by the findings of the report and found them quote extremely troubling. >> elizabeth prann life in washington. thank you. that takes us to a fox news alert at this hour. an american service member is dead after a helicopter crash in southern afghanistan. u.s. officials would not confirm if there were any other injuries f or the cause of the crash.

they plan to move all u.s. troops from afghanistan by 2016. >> the president playing defense on foreign policy at west point. president obama used his speech to try to explain the porn policy agenda but wound up sounding more defensive and confused. >> america has been stronger relative to the rest of the world. those who argue otherwise and suggest that america is in decline or seen the global leadership slip away are either misreading mist ohistory or engn partisan politics. here's the bottom line. america must always lead on the world stage. >> the president's critics say it presented a peak policy posture for america. >> it is a particularly sad day in america when the president of the united state feels

compelled to say america isn't weak we really are a leader we are strong. if you have to tell people you are jong than you are not. if you tell people you are not weak, than you are. >> i think the main focus is on the president, a very, very weak president maybe the weakest in our lifetime. i know in my own experience spending time in the middle east all of the way back to desert storm they are all convinced the american capacity to lead and influence in that part of the world has been dramatically reduced by this president. >> many house republicans also thought obama or president obama signalled priamerica is weak on foreign policy. >> a shocking turn as the marine sitting in a mexican president fires his attorney minutes before his hearing. what prompted this last minute

mix-up. >> changing attorneys is likely to prolong his stay but he needed an attorney he could trust but that was not the case now. he fired his attorney. tahmooressi wanted to tell the truth and claims his attorney wanted him to file a false statement the day after he had been arrest theed saying he had never been in tijuana when in fact he had. they disagreed on strategy. >> i need to respect everything they decide. i wish andrew and his mother all the best. andrew is innocent he shouldn't be here and he will get out of this mess. >> i am suing, i am furious. i am furious. i sent him an e-mail i said how can you make my son say something that wasn't true? it's going to make him look not dreadible right from the get go. >> tahmooressi came in in a jump

suit and shackled like other prisoners. he nodded to reporters before he went in. he faces 5-20-years in prison. i am told there's no interest there no prolong the hearing especially with an immigration bill on the hill. they don't want to give any american lawmakers a reason to vote against it or keep the bill bottled up. finally they say it needs to play out by the book in the mexican judicial system to show the world they are indeed reforming the system. ainsley and heather back to you. >> edward snowden says he wants to come back to the united states. he is living in russia on temporary asylum after leaking thousands of secret documents. he claims he was a spy and spoke

about the program because he is an american. he believes he's a patriot. >> being a patriot doesn't mean prioritizing service to government above all else. being a patriot means knowing when to protect your country>> securi. >> secretary of state john kerry says a patriot would never run away and snowden should man up and come back to the u.s. >> aaron hernandez killed two men over a spilled drink. hernandez pleading not guilty the ex patriot becamed ago dated and told the friend one of the victims had deliberately bumped into him inside the club and spilled his drink. he allegedly tracked the victim and his friend down and shot them. he is already facing charges in

the killing of pro football player otis lloyd. >> officials in the born no state region of nigeria say the girls managed to get away from the captors yesterday. 279 girls are still being held hostage by the terrorist group. two of the girls have reportedly died in captity because of snake bites. 20 others are said to be sick. >> happening today the homeland securi security. jay johnson is expected to be grilled on immigration enforcement when he testifies later this morning before the house judiciary committee. earlier this week the white house put off any new unilateral actions to halt deportation. >> the weather is much different yesterday than it was on tuesday. i am hearing more flooding is expected today. >> a lot cooler here as well.

>> we had the front bringing in the cooler temperatures. good to see you. hello everybody. across parts of the gulf coast we have a large upper-level low. this has been an extremely slow mover across parts of the south. yesterday's flooding reported across louisiana. parts of minnesota, also into alabama. this will continue over the next several days. we have a number of flash flood watches into luis you over parts of the panhandle. the heavy rain will move eastward, parts of florida would be seeing rain as well, too. that will be a concern for flooding out across those states. otherwise take a look at the high temperatures across the center of the country. in rapid city you are looking at

high temperature of 90. upper 80s in dallas. >> doesn't sound too bad. >> thank you, maria. >> he is officially out of the u.s. open. the golfer still recovering from the back surgery back in march. it will be the 6th major he missed because of injuries. no word on when tiger woods will be back on the golf course. >> miya angelou was an inspiring writer and that made her a legend. she was just as poetic in 140 characters on-line than in print. the last tweet was a fitting final message. she said "listen to yourself and in that quiet you might hear the voice of god." angelo died at her home at wake forest university. she was 86 years old.

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the attacker has been identified as a ukrainian tv reporter the 25-year-old has a history of pranking celebrities. most recently he snuck on to the red carpet and dove under america fer era's dress frightening the actress. he faces a battery of charges. >> very bizarre. >> singer george michael waking up in the hospital. ♪ >> the singer rushed there late last night after collapsing in his london home. the 50-year-old has had a set of medical problems. last may he suffered a head injury after falling out of a moving car on a highway. ainsley? >> the wife of radio legend casey kasem.

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black smoke rising. 7 other crew members have been rescued. we have bombshell developments about the search for the missing malaysia flight. for three months it will be suspended. they now say the under water ping detected last month in the indian ocean did not come from the plane's blacks boxes. they believe it was from some other man made source unrelated to the jetliner that vanished in march. >> reports of planes on fire sparking an alarm on twitter. andrea zimmer tweeting this photo to more than 700,000 followers. am i alone seeing a plane on fire on a tarmac in logan. turns out it was a training he can size. zimmer tweeting later, wow, test burns and training ops should be

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>> good morning. it is thursday may 29th. a brand new report reveals secret and deadly wait lists at our nation's va hospitals are worse than we even first thought. now growing calls from both sides of the i'll for secretary eric shinseki to shep down. >> dangerously close to the edge. how this climber ended up cling thing to the side of a cliff 13,000 feet in the air. >> no thank you. >> yogurt verses twinkie. which one is really worse?

what you need to know before you eat your breakfast. "fox & friends first" continues right now. ♪>> what if you duwung th dunk twinkie into the yogurt. >> welcome to "fox & friends first". i am heather childers. >> i am ainsley earhardt. 31 minutes after the top of the hour. the va scandal after the scathing report reveals it is worse than ever imaged. >> the report uncovering a long history of manipulating appointments and wait times so

workers could get bonuses all while our veterans suffer. >> doug luzader is in washington as calls for eric shinseki to call down. >> what we are learning now is the problems of that phoenix facility were widespread. it may be system wide. support for shen sec can -- shis crumbling. some could not make it on the waiting list. for those lucky enough to make it on the list they waited 115 days for an appoint thmenappoin. they were basing employee bonuses on these fake numbers. >> these secret waiting lists could be at every va facility in the country. >> i don't think they were secret. >> how did you not find them dr. lynch. you were there. >> i did find them. >> how many were on the list.

you told me you didn't look at the list. >> i told you we didn't document the numbers. >> president obama was said to find the report troubling but still standing behind eric sin she c sec can i although that support may not hold. to add to the va's troubles another accusation last night that one of the officials sent to investigate the facility in phoenix turned the trip into a vacation. >> you spent easter weekend there with your wife, how you could have possibly thought it was appropriate to turn such a critical serious mission into a personal holiday. >> it was the easter weekend. i thought it was aid appropriate that my wife could join me. >> the questions here how extensive is this problem and what could be done to fix it. >> we know the phoenix facility had all kinds of issues. he says that 42 other facilities operated the va are now under

investigation. heather and ainsley? >> thank you very much. we appreciate it. doug zoo laider joining -- luza joining us. an american service member is dead after a helicopter crash in southern afghanistan. u.s. officials are not confirming if there were other injuries or the cause for that-kra. just as president obama says he will remove all troops from afghanistan by 2016. >> sending a confused and weak signal on foreign policy. he tried to use his speech at west point to defend his foreign policy on al qaeda. he appears to change hz tune on the agenda in afghanistan. >> the leadership on the border between pakistan and afghanistan has been decimated and osama bin laden is no more. the threat no longer comes from a centralized al qaeda leadership. it lessens the possibility of large scale 9-11 attacks.

they call the president's afghan policy quote stupid and say he doesn't understand the u.s.'s responsibilities around the world. former vice president cheney reacted last night on "hannity." >> the reason we went into afghanistan is because 19 guys armed with airline tickets and box cutters in afghanistan were supported in afghanistan by al qaeda. osama bin laden killed 3,000 americans on 9-11. we went in there with very, very good sound reason. we have been very successful at this point. it is unwise and it will reinforce the notion that we have a leader who doesn't understand leadership and

commitments around the world. snoi den giving an interview saying he wants to come back to the u.s. he claims he was a spy and he was serving his country. he thinks he's a patriot. >> it doesn't mean prioritizing service to government above all else. being a patriot means knowing when to protect your country. >> secretary of state john kerry says a patriot wouldn't run away and he should come back to the u.s. >> the marine sitting in a mexican prison fires his attorney just minutes before his first hearing. this morning the veteran still behind bars. he arrived in a mexican court

flashing a brief smile to the cameras. he faces charges after crossing the mexican border with three guns in his car. the change in teams changes his testimony because they knew lawyers were not ready to answer questions. his mother says the attorney was fired because he encouraged her son to lie. >> as soon as andrew could get to a telephone the day of his disclosure and he called me up we are within 72-hours of the arrest he said mom where did you get that attorney? i said why? because he just made me lie. what do you mean he just made you lie. he just made me say i have never been to mexico. mom, i have been to mexico. >> tonight you are going to want to watch this sergeant andrew tam rotahmooressi was on on the

record. >> they goofed when they sent out an alert on may 17th saying an illinois man showed evidence of infection by the virus that causes middle east respiratory syndrome. the illinois man was told by the cdc to self isolate or stay at home or wear a surgical mask. >> medicare takes out billions for improper healthcare. they report medicare paid out 6.7 billion in 2010 for a healthcare visit that were inproperly quoted or lack documentation. this comes after another report found more than 1600 physicians consistently billed for the two highest paying codes. >> how about something cute this morning? the akron zoo in ohio welcoming these adorable new spaces two baby snow leopard cups one male one female. they will spend the next month with their mom before the public

can see them. this is only the second time in history snow leopard cubs have been born. in the next few weeks they will have a naming contest. get yours ready. >> the weather will be good. but you are talking about the possibility of flooding as well. >> across parts of the gulf coast. that's what we are looking at the floods right now. i want to show you a storm system we are tracking across that area. a very slow mover has been lingering across parts of the south over the last several days. we have already seen reports of flooding across texas, louisiana. take a look at where it is right now. still across louisiana bringing areas of heavy rain this morning in mississippi and parts of alabama. this is where we have the watches in effect. we have flash level warnings where flooding is ongoing across parts of southwestern alabama. as much as 6 inches of rain locally even higher.

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welcome back. another near miss in mid air, this time an alaskan

airline flight packed with passengers almost collided with a cargo plane as it tried to land. the planes coming within a quarter mile of each other. last week two united airline planes almost crashed coming within 400 feet of each other. that is too close for comfort. stuck on a mountain with no way down, a 19-year-old hiker stranded 13,000 feet in the air along a peak in rocky mountain park. the hiker spent the tphaoeupt shivering -- the night shivering in the park until he was rescued. >> if i slipped one feet more, i would have fallen to my death. >> he didn't. he survived. the young hiker had no previous mountain climbing experience. ainsley? >> you know that music.

tom cruise and emily blunt star in this new blockbuster that is out of this world. joining us with an inside look at "edge of tomorrow" our very own michael tammero. >> imagine being able to live the same day over and over until you got what you had to do that day right, the premise for the $175 million latest blockbuster from tom cruise. he plays a p.r. person thrown on the front lines of an alien war, destined to get killed out of the gate. the thing is he can come back over and over until he can figure out how to tkpwaoet the enemies. -- how to defeat the enemies. they kicked off this latest movie with something never done, a three city international tour done in 24 hours. we met up with them last night at 12:00 at lincoln center and asked them all about whose idea was this. >> i thought this was definitely tom cruise's

idea. it's not my idea. but i was excited. a cool way to promote the movie. >> everyone thinks i came up with it. it was actually warner brothers. i thought it would be a lot of fun. it was fun. >> the movie stars tom cruise and emily blunt whom i love from "the devil wears prada." it is the intense ecosuits they wear that turns average soldiers into super soldiers, tom cruise told us some of the process of planning that one into it. >> with the suits, you have this -- because we're wearing it and i spent a lot of time researching and developing it, it was a lot of fun. >> how heavy was it? >> very. at different times i had the wings and gun and a live weapon, we got up to about 125 pounds. >> set to open june 6,

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>> well cock back. two minutes till the top of the hour -- welcome back, two minutes till the top of the hour. growing complaints about the resignation of general shinseki as we learn deadly wait lists are worse than we thought. president obama tackling youth sports concussions today, meeting with parents and kids and coaches to educate about the issue. the mystery man hides envelopes stuffed with money in public places and tweets out clues. time to look at the good, the bad, and the ugly. first the good. the brother and sister from south korea turning into overnight internet sensations over that little girl's new take on the twist. next the bad. if you're having yogurt for breakfast, leading yogurts

including yoplait and dannon have more sugar than twinkies. the gulf coast is educating students about modesty as part of their campaign. good morning it is thursday, the 29th of may, 2014. i'm anna kooiman in place of elisabeth hasselbeck. a devastating new waiting -- new report shows the waiting lists are real and the costs are deadly. >> i told you we didn't document the numbers. >> this morning one man is being targeted. we are live in washington. >> is edward snowden a hero or a traitor? you may change your mind about him after you hear his