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school a decade ago. here's hayden getting his high school diploma two weeks ago. where is my graduation photo? oh, check out the hair. yikes. i'm gretchen. here's shep. >> there are new accusations that iranian hackers created fake social media account soyuz that could spy on u.s. military leaders and ambassadors and lawmaker and many others. fake profiles on facebook. youtube, linked in, twitter, an enormous scam, years in the makings. nigeria's president calls for the group that kidnapped hundreds of girls. photo shopping yearbook photos because teenagers shoulder's showing? guess the state. ahead, the teens themselves on why they're upset and school officials on why they did it.
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let's get to it. good thursday afternoon to you and yours. the white house says the president believes the head of the veterans affairs puts his heart and soul into this job, even as more lawmakers call for the secretary, eric shinseki's head to roll, and even after the damning review of phoenix, investigates cop farm what many who isle blowers already told us, that many americans who serve our nation had to wait months just to see a doctor. dozens of veterans, we're told, died while waiting. that is according to whistle blowers who claim the failures are nationwide. there's more investigation on that. so far the investigation is focused on the phoenix va and found that hospital workers lied about the actual times that veterans had to wait. the motive? according to one report it was pure greed. so that workers could keep
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raking in performance bonuses. the report found that in phoenix alone, some 1700 veterans never made it on the waiting list. they were lost in the system and may never have received care at all. the 0 report has dozens of lawmakers calling for the head of the va to resign, some demanding a criminal investigation. secretary shinseki calls the findings reprehensible but has not stepped down. some lawmakers are saying it's time to clean house. >> nothing will change in the veterans administration until we have new leadership and not just from the very top, general shinseki, but all of you got to find something else to do, because you're not here to do your jobs. >> ma'am, ma'am, ma'am, veterans died. get us the answers, please.
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>> still some lawmakers agree with the white house it's too soon for demand secretary shinseki's resignation. >> is him resigning going to get us to the bottom of the problem? is it going to help us find out what is really going on? and the answer i keep giving is, no. but the real issue here is that the president is the one who should be held accountable. >> president obama said yesterday it is extremely troubling and that he is extremely troubled by the findings. but the president has praised secretary shinseki's work in other areas in a moment one of the first whistle-blowers to expose the va failures will be here live. she says the hospital punished her in a big way after she came forward. let's get to the reporting first. mike emanuel on capitol hill. the fallout is becoming a problem for the president and the democrats. >> that's right. when the political allies of this white house are starting to bale, -- bail, you have big
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problems and now there are six democrats on the ballot lot in november, and all are calling for new leadership at the va. today the white house seemed to be asking for more time. >> i think that the president identified last week that he expected a preliminary report from secretary shinseki's internal audit soon, and when he receives that he can evaluate those findings along with the swim report from the inspector general and then assess where we are at that time. >> all i've talked to say they want to fix this problem for in the nation's heros and particularly those who have tough re-election battles in november. this is a difficult political problem as well, and so they don't want to be associated with this scandal. >> of course not. this is not a political issue at
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all. this is about our veterans. that crosses all lines. like everything in washington these days it is political in process without question. some want new leadership, others want a different approach. >> the top two republicans in the house of representatives today said their focus was elsewhere beyond secretary eric shinseki. speaker john boehner said the question he keeps asking, if shinseki resigns will that fix the problem, help lawmakers? he said, the answer is no. top republicans are focusing pressure and taking aim at a higher level. >> accountability for this starts at the very top. senior appointed leaders in the cabinets and agencies ultimately report to president obama. it's time the president specifically addressed what he plans to do to fix this problem now. >> so there you have a key house republican lawmaker calling for answers from the president
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himself. >> but that is all politics, mike. come on. just as you can't get rid of centerline second can i and think the problems will be fixed you can't demand from the president to come up with what to do until the knows what hasn'ts. the investigations haven't not even addressed the vital issues here, specifically did anybody die? this is politics, pure and simple. not the problem but the process. >> well, there's also the issue, though, shep, that eric shinseki has been the secretary since the very beginning of the obama administration so they say he should have atley known and raised some flags and had some solutions tos' -- to some problems. he has been there from the very beginning. >> this isn't a new problem. it predates obama by a long way. thank you. let's bring in one of the first whistle-blowers,
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dr. katherine mitchell, the head of the -- she took the allegations to senator job didn't john mccain. she was reprimanded and put on administrative leave for a solid month, based on claims she may have released patient health information. she is now back on the job and is taking time between seeing a previous patients and the one she is about to see to talk to us. i thank you for that. nice to talk to you, dr. mitchell. >> thank you for having me. >> the issue the day you went to senator mccain, is a understand it, is that there were some documents you were told were about to be shredded and you needed the documents to prove our veterans are not getting the care they need. >> there's actually two or three different stories. the night i helped hide the document, the new appointment request list, was back on the 27th of april. that's a document the oig subsequently included or talked about in their report, that they
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just released. i actually got -- did not get in trouble for that at that moment. when i turned in my ooh ig report to senator mccain's office the request was that my name be kept confidential. i talked about the patient waiting data manipulation, the poor response to suicide trends and other issues. my name was not kept confidential. there was not an out team. i ended up on administrative leave for 30 days and then received a written counseling for violating patient privacy when i stated i didn't and asked them to tell me what policy i violated, they refused to tell me stating didn't have the right to know because it wasn't disciplinary action. >> in other words, as the allegation goes, they were in the middle of a coverup and you were about to expose it. i just wonder, as one who has worked in this system and worked so hard for veterans especially those with a lot of problems
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after war. if they asked you on capitol hill or in the halls of power, what would you say is a good way to get started fixing this apparently very big problem? >> someone in washington has to have the integrity and guts to stand up and state we want to in the what the problem is at the va and it's every va employee's job to bringing for what you know, and there will be no retaliation against you. currently veterans groups have known it and the afge has known it, but the employees at the va want to talk. we have filed complaints and tried to work things ounce internally and no one has listened to us. right now i'm the first physical whistleblower that talked to the media. i don't know my standing. no one has said that retaliation against whistle-blowers is wrong. the current pathway to address retaliation against whistle-blowers takes two years and in the meantime they make your professional work life a
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living hell. i don't understand why no one in washington has stated that we want people to come forward with the information, that this is not a violation of hipaa if you have patient information to support poor patient care situations or dangerous situations, and that if there is retaliation, our response will be rapid and swiftly investigated -- >> catherine, got this load of people behind me who are very good and well connected in washington. they're about to get on the phone and make calls and see that if can't get somebody in washington to stan at some podium somewhere and say that. in the meantime, before we go, how it makes you feel when these politics on one side or another are basing the decisions on how they feel about things, what they believe about things, about the future of america's vas and their health care, on whether they're running for re-election and they're having a tough time. >> you know, until any politician is willing to come down and actually talk to the front line employees, whatever they say does not carry any weight with me. >> they haven't done that north,
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there in phoenix. >> no. correct. and i suspect not at any other va either. oar else the news would have reported on it. >> dr. mitchell, my guess is there are veterans across america who are thankful for what you have done and the peril that you have placed your own career and we'll follow this closely. >> thank you very much. >> dr. katherine mitchell between patients and on the phone with us live. there's word some lawmakers' friends on facebook are not really friend. they're actually iranian spies. a security firm uncovered a hack attack, one that targeted top american officials, and wait until you hear how the plan worked. is the russian president vladimir putin trying to build a new soviet union and he is now answering the question directly. putin speaks. presently.
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this shows the smoke from the downed helicopter. it happened near a stronghold for pro-russian militants that has been a flash point for deadly violence. russian president vladimir putin says he is not trying to create a new soviet union by forging a tradeupon with other countries. he signed a deal with leaders of kazakh tan and bell a reduce and hopes they can challenge the economic power of the united states and china. >> hackers in iran have been targeting high-ranking american officials since 2011 in the most elaborate social media cyberspying plan ever. according to a report from isight property onan hackers created fake accounts on linked in and facebook, and false profiles for staffers at news organizations. the hackers would post links to
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fake news sites, called news on air.org. it's not real. a lot of stuff in it is real, as you can see it still up and running, and as you scroll through here, china agrees, north korea agrees nuclearing a different is a threat, and articles from the "associated press" and egypt's new -- all these things are legitimate. but the overriding web site is not about that. the hackers populated the sites with real stories and then try to become social media friends with their target. intelligence expecters say hones the hockers gains the tarring's trust they started sending links to software, allowing -- investigators have not released the identity of those targets but say they include a four-star u.s. navy admiral as well as a u.s. law mostly ayad -- lawmake.
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>> using the internet to gain intelligence and this is not that new. what is new is that are using facebook so effectively. people cooperate. after the japanese reactor issue, you have this disaster, they actually went out and targeted people with fake messages about relief, and then when they clicked on they were able to compromise those continues of conditions. that is happening here. the key element is -- you can talk about all the malware detention systems and still comes down to the person, the ability to say, give me your personal information and i'm going to give it to you, and that's what is shocking, given the level of people that were hacked. >> they were using the names of somewhat famous journalists and others, and then having this as a backup, start a dialogue ask then send you something you need
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to open, anden you open it would install this malware ask then okay can read anything. >> low advance persistent threat. you into people that are not the highest in the organization but have access to credentialing and password, befriend. the -- you walk into a bar and target a person and say, let's become friends, and you get to know them and you send them an e-mail, and now you click on the link and that's to down'd the pay lot. >> it's not the e-mail itself but the link in the e-mail that is the problem. >> exactly. and -- >> how do they find this? >> that's an interesting thing. what happened is this traffic comes within the normal flow of traffic. it's hard during the normal course of operation to pick these things out. it's got to be the individual user who begins to understand when they're being approached, and signals, nope, this is not a part of money daily routine, and got to keep the security on the
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server. >> thank you. >> we learned today of a new agreement for private space ships to share america's skies with passenger planes. we'll get the details on that. now we know where the malaysian jet is not. investigators have just ruled out a ground tote -- grand total of 330 square miles of sea floor. so that leaves everywhere else. and wait until you hear the specifics of where the jet is not. alert the plane channel, time to go 24/7 again. stand by. the day we rescued riley was a truly amazing day.
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22 minutes past the hour now. we're now a step closer to hitching on to a rocket to space as tourists. the feds announced the deal with
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virgin galactic in new mexico and that clears the way for civilian spaceflight. they revealed its aircraft at a public a few years ago. this is the jet. it doesn't look like much but look at this. this next one, here's the plane, white knight 2 after new mexico and carries a rocket that breaks away from the rings. this is a jet and this is a jet and right here in the middle, this is the rocket that breaks away flight, suborbital flight. the company is setting up shop in space port america in the desert. this is a runway, a couple miles long, 100 miles north of the mexican border, and here's the nearly finished hangar on site there in space port terminal, they're calling it. sir richard branson hopes to launch the first flight with the end of this year.
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tickets are a quarter million dollars each. back to square one in the search for the missing malaysian airlines jet. australian teams say they know this. the jet is not in the area where they thought they heard pings, and wait until you hear why. we have a map of the area. according to investigators it's 330 square miles and also where the u.s. navy underwater drone began its search and found nothing. so the teams have stopped looking there. the united states spent $11 million on the equipment and aid, and word from one of them is when we heard the pings it may have been from one of our own boats and that's why they didn't tell us. it one on the exact frequency the black box from the jet was sending out. somebody just wasn't paying enough attention. leah gabrielle is on the fox
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news deck. where do they search now? >> it's a big ocean. australiaing deputy prime minister is still confident the final resting place of the plane is in the southern indian ocean and specifically along the course that's been indicated by the satellite analysis. he is referring to the arcs you see right here. specifically what is being called the seventh ping line, referring to the final so-called satellite handshake with the plane. as for the area ruled out, here's what he had to say. >> we concentrated the search in that area because the pings or the information received was the best information available at the time and that's all you can do in circumstances like this to follow the very best leads. >> well, right now the search -- the underwater portion of the search is on hold while they bring in powerful sonar equipment and mapping the ocean floor in the area. >> now these families keep having to live this hell. i was talking about the pings --
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when they thought they heard the ping from the black box, and it's 2.5 miles down there. you would have to be on top of it but they were hearing something from another boat. it seems incompetent. >> i can't imagine for the families. some people refer to ping as the satellite ping, others are pinnings heard underwater. but as far as the families, they've been doing interviews and you can see the anguish in their faces. [speaking in foreign language] >> this man's son was on flight 370 when it went missing and says he is upset because the malaysian prime minister doesn't plan to meet with the families while visiting china while other family members have been expressing their feelings about yet another dead end in the search for this plane. listen. >> it just is another slap in the face, another long road for us, and, look, i'm just
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shattered by the news. i'm absolutely shattered. >> as for malaysia airlines the union representing its employee is calling for the resignation of the malaysian airlines ceo and a representative of the union is saying it's not just because of the missing plane but because of years of bad substance for the airline. >> nigeria's president just declared a war against the terrorists holding the school girls captive but analysts say the kidnapping is already a huge victory for boca haram. reports show united states is number one in the world when it comes to being fat. the troubling details about mrs.' big problem coming up on the fox news deck.
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more headlines from the fox news deck. hundreds of people can go home in arizona a week after a
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wildfire forced them to get out of there. officials listed the- -- lifted the evacuation order an hour ago. officials in california say firefighters should get help from the weather today. one crew member is missing after an oil tanker exploded off the southwest coast of japan. a spokesman says it's not clear what triggered the blast. seven other workers hurt, some with severe burns? a cameraman captured video of sharks swim fugue feet from surfers north and east of orlando. wait, sharks in the ocean? he says the surfers weren't nervous but lifted their legs out of the water just in case and the fish eventually swam away. a note to summer people, the sharks were there first.
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>> gun men on motorcycles yesterday killed dozens of people in this northeastern nigerian village here. investigators have blamed boko haram for 200 deaths in the this pass month.
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let's bring in dan hampton a retired u.s. air force fighter pilot. what do you do? >> shep, if they were going to declare a war they should have done it five years ago or so when boko hardam ceased to be an idea idealogical group and started to get violent the way it is now. frankly, as you said, it's a mess. the official you quoted is right. these guys are punks and thugs roaming around in terrible country in africa and the nigerian government is ill prepared to take care of them. >> i guess if you're a fledgling terror group you need pr and it seeps capturing the few hundred school girls worked out well for
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them. >> yeah, and i have to pound out they're not the only group up there. there's al qaeda on the other side, they go back and forth across the border into cameroon and other countries, and you have to remember terrorists, his whole goal in life is terror, right? which is why they're kidnapping little school girls and not fighting armed men because they know they don't have a chance. somebody said this is a win, win situation for the terrorists and that is true to a point because nigeria has a huge population of unemployed, uneducated young males and they spend -- the government spends less than one percent of their $400 billion a 'er on education. so they have nothing else to do. so boca hardam is going to give them a cause, give them a crappy ak-47 assault rifle and make theme feel look they belong to something as they commit actives terror. >> couldn't this win-win thing backfire?
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>> absolutely. if enough of a backlash occurs, if the government of nigeria swallows its national pride and realizes they can't do this alone, and they need outside help, and if the people, the local population, decide enough is enough, they could rise up, they could have these vigilante groups we have heard about, seek out boko haram and cut them off. the u.s. is number one when it comes to being fat. that is according to the news study from the university of washington. look at the wall. researchers are now saying 2 billion people around the world or overweight. that's almost a third of all the people on the planet at the moment. and 13% of them are here in the united states. that's the highest percentage of any country anywhere. china and india combined have
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15%. the head researcher says no country has managed to reduce obesity. he calls the results of the study pretty grim. trace gallagher is live in our west coast news room on this study of how fat we are. what else are we learning? >> i think the most surprising number deals with children. obese and overweight kids have increased by 50%. take a look at these numbers. as of last year 22% of girls, 24% of boys, in developed countries like the united states, are overweight or obese. imagine one out of four kids. the adults aren't exactly getting skinny. 37% of men are now overweight or obese versus 29% back in 1980, and 38% of women are now overweight or obese versus 30% back then. keep this in mind. there are now more overweight or
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obese people in the world today than there were people back in 1935. >> does this study suggest why this is happening? >> well, the world health organization said we're eating ourselves to death. the simple answer is that between processed and fast-foods we have more access to them and they are cheaper than ever before. for example, you can go to place like taco bell, and you can get, for under $10, up to 6,000 calories, and the same guess for any of the dollar menu restaurants. sugar is another killer. it's supposed to be northern 5% of your diet but in kids it's up to 30%. in 1980, the doomsdayers were saying the future would be filled with a bunch of mass starvation. we have gone the other way. >> trace gallagher in l.a., thank you. we're working on a followup from the whistleblower who was here earlier. and we'll bring you that and the
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more headlines from the fox news deck. a gunman fired at the cashier of a gas station convenience store, demanded the cashier hand over the money in the drawer but a the cashier was behind bulletproof glass and did not
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get it. tuesday morning in detroit. police say they're still looking for the shooter and a secondman who was with him. people in turkey are getting the youtube back. that country's highest court ruled the ban on the web site is up constitutional. officials blocked youtube in march after somebody leaked the video of a government security meeting. the court at overturned turkey's ban on twitter. >> the international space station as three new members. two americans, three russians and ageisman now. mixed signs on our country's economy. the commerce department reports the economy actually shrank from january to march. analysts blame the rough winter and say things should pick up. they earlier reported it was up but they were wrong. on the other hand the number of americans filing new claims for up employment benefits fell last
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week to a near seven-year low. that's according to the labor deep. and look at the dow in the green today. analysts say traders are pleased with those unemployment numbers, we all are. jerri willis is here. economists expecting the economy to pick up soon. >> not everybody. retail sales have gone down, the housing market has slowed down, because interest rates are going up and there's not a lot of houses to choose from. so durable goods orders, something that -- the companies are doing buying durable goods, not so good. penning home -- pending home sales. this is about the future. so you're not looking behind to find out what happened. these are the deals in the next three months because its takes a while to actually finish the deal. that number is not positive either, up .4 of a percent. >> if you look at the charts and photographs -- graphs from 2007
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right when we were about to tank, and the charts today, they look a lot of like. housing, unemployment, durable goods, consumer spending. >> stand back and think about it. we have been in an expansion a long time. i had a fellow on my show saying we're going into recession. i don't know if that's true but there some negative signs out there people are starting to ask big questions especially about consumers. they're under duress no wage growth, the economy is not providing the jobs they need and they're seeing rise in prices for things they have to buy, especially at the grocery store. >> all right, jerri. >> i'll try to make it better. >> we republic -- we'll look for you in an hour. >> a high school in utah is in big trouble now for photoshops yearbook photos to make some of the girls appear more, quote, mod test, up -- modest.
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sarah, we have statement from a student and the superintendent. listen to this first. >> yes. so, plenty of girls who ends up wearing thicker tank tops and half of them got edited and half of them didn't. >> we only apologize in the sense we want to be more consistent with what we're trying to do. in that sense we're hoping we can help kids better prepare for their futures by knowing how to dress appropriately for things. [laughter] sorry. it's just -- wow, what a load. because -- oh, my go, go ahead. i'm not going there. >> this happened in utah. >> hello, utah. >> only some of the girls who didn't follow the dress code had their photos photo-shopped. here's an original photo, a v neck, tattoo, but in the yearbook the nextline is raised and no tattoo. >> this v neck was a problem. >> right. here's another student here. she is in a tank top. and then all of sudden in the
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yearbook she grew sleeves. >> this principal better not watch the fox news channel. he'll be -- we'll be photoshops a lot. >> here's another girl who grew sleeves in the yearbook as well. now -- >> shoulder ares a problem. >> a big problem, and tattoos. now, here is two different girls, both yearbook pictures, almost identical outfits and wasn't was not photoshopped and one did. that's why the girls are the most upset. >> she is wearing sleeves and this one she is not. so that's what they're upset about? >> incoin si. >> not up -- inconsistency. >> do you think when you hear these stories we're on a different planet? >> there's a lot of different viewpoints going on around there. >> you look great today.
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>> thank you. >> with sleeves. >> a major league baseball team is in a -- there's a criminal trial. now the lawyers in the civil suit claim the teams did not do enough to protect him. but a spokesman for the team says security was unprecedented. this is a big case with millions of dollars on the line. details are next. [ male announcer ] this is kevin. to prove to you that aleve is the better choice for him,
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dodger fans attacked him in the parking lot. the lawyers say the reason is he was wearing a san francisco giants shirt. it wasn't just a fight. one friend testified he saw one of the attackers land a hey hay maker to stowe's head and knocked him out cold and then another man started kicking while stowe was on the ground unconscious. the was put in a medically induced coma and russed part of his skull and this lifetime medical costs could reach $50 million. a couple of years ago these two member pleaded guilty. this is the criminal trial. this one deals with the dodgers and it's in civil car and its then-owner frank public court, frank mccourt had to sell the team after a messy divorce. stowe's lawyer says the team and its owner did not provide enough security. the other side claims this happened on opening day and there were more police and guards at that game at chavez ravine than any other in dodgers
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history. mercedes is our legal analyst. where are we? >> it's so pity full, stowe in the wheelchair, pair lied. - -- paralyzed, but legally it will be lard to show the l.a. dodgers had any idea that a criminal act of this magnitude could happen in that parking lot. >> hadn't there been a lot of problems? there were problems around the organization in the parking lot -- reporting on that kind of thing fairly often. >> that's a great point. if the plaintiff can show that stowe's lawyers can say you should have known this was happening, how did you not know this could be anticipated and if they can show this war foreseeable, you should have expected this, that's when the liable steps in. >> this is civil, completely different than criminal. the level of -- the level to which you have to prove something is different. >> yes. it's probability, not beyond a reasonable doubt. if you can show that 51% of the time you should have known, you
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have a real problem. but this jury -- look at this guy. >> when doctors say that you have a $50 million potential medical problem? $50 million? the big corporates that run these things are going to sick the lawyers on your. >> absolutely. the defense is going to turn around and say how could we possibly have known this man could have been savagely beaten and that's what happens in a lot of occasion when a crime is at issue. these two guys pled guilty to a crime and that's evidence that will come against mr. stow and his lawyers. >> we'll watch it. >> great to be here. >> a police officer in jersey is suing his own police department. why? he says his bosses refused to promote him or give him overtime because he refused to profile young drivers during traffic stops. this is happening in mendam township.
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in 2005 a former police chief asked him to hand out more target bid targeting younger drivers because it was good police work. the officer says he refused to do so it the department punished him. he still works there and is demanding what can he calls lost benefits, becames and rights. the police department reports it has not received the lawsuit so no comment yet. target the young ones. they're easy prey. we'll be right back.
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i don't just make things for a living i take pride in them. so when my moderate to severe chronic plaque psoriasis was also on display, i'd had it. i finally had a serious talk with my dermatologist. this time, he prescribed humiradalimumab. humira helps to clear the surface of my skin by actually working inside my body. in clinical ials, most adults with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis saw 75% skin clearce. and the majority of people were clear or almost clear in just 4 months.
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>> earlier in the newscast dr. katherine mitchell wag on the line, tells shoes was a whistle more in phoenix on the va scene and she says she wants a lawmaker to stand up and say we want whistle-blowers, and we called a lot of of them. congressman, it's my underring you want people to come forward? >> absoluteliment if someone is willing to give vital information to protect our veterans by giving disclosures and whistle blowing, we are going to protect them. >> this doctor says she wasn't protected. she got laid off, put on administrative leave and is still not sure of their future. >> a lot of unfortunate things they tried to happen that they tried to keep secret. we'll get to the bottom of it and we appreciate those and need those who are -- >> dr. mitchell, we did our best. when news breaks out, our team because breaking news
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changes everything. "your world" with neil cavuto is coming up. employment looks a little bit better and the dow looks better. cavuto looks best of all. >> i went through my oath and told the world i'm willing to put my life on the line and die for you. our guys left body parts some of them never melted back. and some are here now and their southerlies are still there and we have the audacity to turn our back on them right this second. i'll tell you something. all societies are judged by what they do for the least of them. of us. the least