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good afternoon from the deck, the final words from sergeant bowe bergdahl's captors, don't come back to afghanistan. and they warn that if he did he wouldn't make it out alive. that's from a video the taliban showing militants handing over the last prisoner of war. five taliban commanders were traded for bowe bergdahl. bergdahl is wearing a white robe and his head is shaved. he has a lot of ticks. the group of masked insurgents walks with sergeant bergdahl, the american forces give him a quick pat-down before the helicopter flies away. the videos released is fueling some republicans criticism that the prisoner trade is a taliban victory. military leaders defended the deal calling it the last best chance to get sergeant bergdahl
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out alive. the pentagon is also pushing back on a different controversy all together, whether sergeant bergdahl was a traitor who did not deserve to be saved. some of sergeant bergdahl's fellow soldiers said he deserted his post and walked away right into enemy hands but the defense secretary chuck hagel today vowed a complete review of sergeant bergdahl's conduct and caused we're only hearing one side of the story so far. >> certainly, i think a bit unfair to sergeant bergdahl's family and to him to presume anything. we don't do that in the united states. we rely on facts. >> the secretary also said that he did not have any information to back up claims that soldiers died searching for sergeant bergdahl. in fact, showed that the first two american troops killed after the disappearance were inside a compound, not out looking for sergeant bergdahl.
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some fellow soldiers say the attack happened when forces defending the compound were stretched thin because of the search but pentagon officials tell us air surveillance was ramped up not decreased during the search. critics have blamed another six deaths on the search but those happened months after sergeant bergdahl's disappearance, after the most intense searching had ended. so for now there's an investigation. it will take time. en fir griffith is live at the pentagon this afternoon. looking at the video are there clues about sergeant bergdahl's condition. you see those ticks and the way he's sort of handling himself. any right minded person would wonder. >> reporter: he doesn't show any signs of malnutrition in the video. bergdahl is blinking rapidly as his taliban captor frocapproacho say good-bye. it seems his eyes were adjusting to the sunlight as if he was blindfolded which is typical.
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he walks on his own and doesn't appear to be injured. pentagon officials say last december they intercepted two proof of life videos that caused them to be concerned that his health was deteriorating. bergdahl was pronounced by military doctors to be in stable condition. >> back in 2010 we know they conducted an investigation into his disappearance. they hadn't heard his side of the story. it's classified. but it's my understanding you've gotten some insight there? >> that's right. according to well placed defense sources that read the army's 15-6 investigation, bergdahl walked off base at least once prior to june 30, 2009. in other words, it wasn't his first time doing so. members of his squad told investigators at the time that he walked off base before out of boredom. his unit mates are revealing what they learned as they were searching for bergdahl in those initial days. >> we heard over the radio
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chatter that there was an american looking for someone who spoke english so he could talk to the taliban. i heard that right over the radio and fright the interpreter's lips right when he said that. that alarmed everybody. we knew at that point he had already walked away but now we knew that he was attempting to contact the taliban on his own accord. >> reporter: now we learn defense secretary chuck hagel will appear before the house armed services committee on june 11th next week to discuss the bergdahl case. it's the first public discussion. >> jen griffin, thank you. let's look at the video and the still pictures we compiled from it. you picked some things up from this. take us through. this is the first picture. this is sergeant bergdahl -- they are going quickly.
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this is the perimeter. monster wall does its own things. monster, could you back up. >> there he is. what i saw in this when i saw the video is there's a rapport between these two individuals so obviously he has, this is his handler. who what we do know is that these individuals that have him here, they are familiar with him. i believe that these captors or these people that have him in the perimeter, at least this one is familiar with bergdahl. >> now, the next picture was the one with sort of the perimeter set up and some guards on the place. what do you take from this? >> what i take from this and the perimeter that they have around the vehicle is that they are set up in a war fight setting, and these are individuals that have training. the way the perimeter is set up around truck and the way they got the high ground tells you that these are war hard fighters
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they know what they are doing, they are trained, they are not yahoos holding this guy and keeping him for ransom. >> in the third picture you say you can tell who the u.s. operators are and who is the interpreter. >> in this picture this individual who is a train operator is not happy to be shaking this guy's hand. i've heard that some news agencies are reporting that he was awkward when he shook with his left hand, that that was just awkwardness. this individual and this guy right here are both in a war fighting stance. they are ready to go to guns if they have to. look, the same as if you and i volunteered to go get a baby out of a shark's mouth. that's what they flew into. they flew into the "shark tank" right here and they are depending on this individual and this individual up close if something happens and then they got the back up of this crew that so bravely flew into this open canyon.
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>> the translation of this where at the end of the video they say we want to deliver a message to americans but couldn't deliver that message. you talk about these in the red circle. >> these are guys that, of course, the helicopter has its own crew members. you have to have a break out force. i'm positive that these individuals are there to support in case a fire fight happens. i'm not really in agreement -- we have no choice whether or not this video came out but let me just tell you one thing the american people can take away there. this is how fast these scenarios happen and this is how dangerous the environment is that these individuals work in. our military veterans do not -- it's not just 24. they are not just acting out hoping that the other guy is shooting blanks. this is real. these individuals right here, right here and even this interpreter and this helicopter crew put their life on the line, anything could have gone bad in a moment's notice there. >> my understanding there was an agreement worked out in advance that both sides had something to
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lose, both sides had something to gain. if there was a degree of confidence this would go without a hitch. >> you can't go into that fight thinking that. if you look at the way this negotiation came out they got to hand their guys over with a hug and a hand shake on the side of the road. our warriors had to fly into a hot lz with rpgs that could take out any of these helicopters any time and take a prisoner they haven't seen in five years that potentially could have deserted and even committed treason by going over and sympathizing. they don't know if he's wearing anything. >> are you comfortable talking about this man in this way before an investigation is complete, before we hear his side of the story? it doesn't sound like the kind of thing america normally does. we usually wait until we hear both sides of the story. if he committed a treason or a traitor handle him that way. let's get the facts first.
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it just seems like putting the cart way before the horse. >> i don't disagree with you but this isn't just something that happened. five years ago, wee been hearing about this for years and years. five years ago when he walked off the troops that were with him they were vocal about it then. there's a lot of talk behind-the-scenes. we know he left and it was suspicious when he left at best. so, you know -- >> i didn't know that. are you saying it was wrong for us to go get him? >> i don't think that at all. i would rather have seen a military operation where they went in and found out where he was at and do it at the conventional way. >> the white house said they were afraid he would get killed in that and imagine what a horrible situation that would be politically and otherwise. >> they are facing that wrath of that political decision now. >> not going in? >> not going in. you're is going to negotiate and there's a lot of -- >> i hear you. >> obviously who ever negotiated
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got the five best people they could get out of guantanamo and now they are back over there -- they will be back. >> our understanding what they asked for was 15 and some money. our understanding what they got was five and no money and -- i hear you. there are plenty of questions to be asked. i don't think we sitting in a studio on a 12th floor of a building in midtown don't have the qualifications to answer those questions. should we truth the secretary on the investigation. >> no. i think this defense secretary, susan rice and the rest of the obama administration, this -- i'm saying this from a veteran standpoint. i want to stay neutral. they have shown in the past couple of months we're not looking at professionals where we can measure them by the size of the detail of their perfection, we're measuring them by the size of their mistakes and that's amateur hour. i just don't know where their politics end and their legality
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and their war fighting starts. >> that's a dangerous thing. that's a dangerous thing to suggest. you just suggested that the defense secretary hagel might be putting politics above national security here. do you think that's what the defense secretary is doing? >> i think every administration that comes in slowly going down that road. when you fight a political war rather than you go in and you take the fight to them, when you commit to a fight you have to fight. if you commit to a political war you will never know the outcome and i can guarantee you it will never be effective. >> are you speaking of the war in iraq, in afghanistan -- >> i'm speak being of both of those warriors. especially in afghanistan it turned into a political war. what do we have out of it 13 1/2 years later. it's a political upheaval about the people in guantanamo. the real objective of this fight has turned into politics and we lost our mission objective. >> turned into nation building, didn't it?
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serious parliament speaker announced president bashir assad won the election in a landslide. the man murdering his people by hundreds and how to sands won election. yesterday's vote held in government controlled areas only. if the rebels held the area there wasn't a vote. there was no doubt at all who would win this absolute sham according to international observers and the united states. the opposition has denounced the election calling it a complete farce. this is the first time in decade there was even a number of candidates on the ballot which does not matter at all. syria has been under the rule of the assad family since 1970. the country is in the middle of a civil war. 160,000 people have died and
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bashir al assad has murdered his own people. the release of sergeant bowe bergdahl is sparking complaints from lawmakers. we'll have more on that later. meantime an official tells fox news that the white house also bypassed top intelligence officials and there's word that the administration considered another option to free sergeant bergdahl. what was that? catherine harris is with us from washington. >> a military intelligence source confirms to fox news a second option was pursued which didn't involve the swap of the five taliban prisoners. the goal was to establish discussion with pakistan leadership with direct ties total ban. u.s. personnel were tasked to make contact directly or through a third-party with the goal of getting bergdahl and an option on the table was cash versus prisoners. military intelligence source said this option was put on hold in december of last year when it was made clear to the team that the administration intended to
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pursue a prisoner swap and in the briefing at the last hour the defense department spokeswoman said several options were considered and did not dispute our reporting. >> what about the accusation of the white house bypassing the intelligence community? >> u.s. intelligence officials now confirm that the bergdahl swap was an an accelerated track and no formal assessment representing the view of the entire u.s. intelligence community was pulled together which made the opportunity to push back against the proposed transfer extremely limited. in 2012 the director of national intelligence james clapper and then defense secretary leon panetta were against with transfer since the news broke over the weekend, the cia, the national counterterrorism center and clapper's office have been noticeably silent. a spokesman for clapper said he had concerns but the conditions of confinement limited the risks but we frankly don't know what those conditions are. >> thambgs very much. much more on the bergdahl story
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wow. what a traffic disaster on the east coast. this bridge here will be closed for weeks or even months and now one of the nation's most congested interstates has got a whole lot worse. this is interstate 495 here and the bridge over a river in wilmington, delaware. some of the support pillars started to tilt which they shut the bridge down which on its own i'll show you in just a minute. first you can see the bridge is
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right between philly and baltimore. this is 495. let's pull out a little bit here. excuse me. this is philadelphia up here. baltimore down here. and in the middle it's just a complete disaster. some popular beaches in delaware and maryland are along the way not to mention the commuters driving up and down the coast. pictures from the slide show here to give you more information about it. normally some 90,000 cars and trucks and other vehicles go over this bridge every day and now it's just workers. you can see they shut the thing down. there's a reason. two of the columns here appear to be leaning. the second and third ones from the left. this one here and this one here and authorities noticed it in a routine check and shut the thing down. highway officials say eight columns all together are affected after they checked. they are working on the soil sampling underneath saying there's no danger of collapse. engineers first discovered this problem on monday when they noticed one of those columns was tilting four degrees to the
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right but enough frankly to close down the bridge. they are doing all kinds of work. the ground underneath the pillars may have shifted. they are check the soil. what a mess. this was yesterday's "morning rush" on iran 95 where many had to take a detour. the detour routes, the surface streets were a mess and drivers say same thing today and lot more roads. officials are asking folks to take public transportation. again this may go on for weeks or according to authorities even months in the baltimore area. wow. 17-year-old accused of stabbing to death a classmate reportedly because she wouldn't go the prom with him. he pleaded not guilty to murder in a courtroom. the girl was 16. witnesses say the suspect threw her down a set of stairs, choked her and stabbed her over and over with a kitchen knife. it all happened just hours before the junior prom in milford, connecticut south of
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hartford. chris plaskin in the principal's office covered in blood. he said i did it arrest me. during today's hearing attorneys elected to have a trial by three judge panel instead of a jury. they said the panel is better equipped to hear mental health evidence but didn't confirm whether they would pursue an insanity defense. let's bring in a lawyer now. they got a mess here. >> they do. >> where do you begin with this? >> sadly once again we find ourselves talking about the intersection between our youth, mental health and fatal responses to really common every day problems. so this kid, the evidence clearly shows has attacked this girl allegedly because she turned him down for prom. so we have an every day situation that kids deal with or should be able to deal with and
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our youth seem to continue to show us over and over they can't deal with these problems and they are resorting to violence as a result. >> of course all of them aren't and it would seem year to any casual observer this kid has something wrong with him and i guess that will be investigated. does it play a part in the trial by the judge >> it does. what we saw today was this defense, they waived their right to a probable cause hearing, really, because there's no question that there's enough evidence to charge this person with what he's been charged with. he's also waived his right to a jury which as you know is a fundamental right to -- everyone's fundamental right to have their case heard by a jury. he waived that right and elected to have his case heard by a three judge panel. >> you usually do that just from a lawyer's perspective when you think that the emotional part of thing that might play on a jury wouldn't work on a jury, the emotion won't work so they
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rather go with the facts. >> not only will it not play to the jury it could hurt him with the jury. this case is so tragic where you got the death of a high school girl that was an honor student and, on the eve of her prom at school. the facts are -- will likely cause the jury to be passionate against him. >> if they launch an insanity defense and it works, it's not as if he'll be out in the public, right? >> it's not. the public really does not like the insanity defense because they feel like it let's the person off. it's really not the case. it's really more of a question of is this person going to serve his time in jail or in a mental institution. we know right now he spent the last to months since his arrest under suicidal watch in a mental institution. >> tough one. thanks so much. lawmakers from both parties are protesting the gitmo prisoner swap that freed sergeant bergdahl. president obama defended the
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for sending recall notices to families of car crash victims. one woman tells the reuters news agency her daughter died a decade ago but gm sent the mom two notices last week asking her to get the car fixed. the company reported 13 people died. prosecutors in germany are investigating leaked documents that u.s. list jebbed in on challen chancellor angela merkel's phone. president obama promised to cut down on secret surveillance. we're getting a colorful
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defense secretary chuck hagel has assured the family of bowe bergdahl that he has the full support of the pentagon when it comes to his medical care and reintegration into society. according to a senior pentagon official or defense official just a short time ago. that official now tells fox news that secretary hagel called the bergdahl family and spoke with the parents for about ten minutes. the source also said secretary hagel wanted to make sure the family knows the pentagon's focus is on the sergeant's well being. two top senators today voiced very different views of the exchange of five gitmo prisoners for sergeant bowe bergdahl. the republican lindsey graham said the deal blew up in the
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face of the administration. >> i think the white house was looking at a twofer, to announce in one week we would withdraw from afghanistan ending the longest war in u.s. history and oh, by the way as commander-in-chief i secured the last captive of that war the only captive. >> but harry reid said fortunate's critics who are playing partisan games here. >> safe return of american soldier should not be used for political points. when a man or woman puts on the uniform as a united states servicemen, it has america's uncompromising support. >> other top lawmakers from both parties said the white house left them in the dark about this deal. chair of the senate intelligence committee, diane feinstein has suggested the swap was illegal. she said the law requires a 30 day notice of any plans to transfer prisoners from guantanamo bay. the white house was insisting that the swap was legal, saying it couldn't wait 30 days because
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bergdahl's health was so bad. it also apologized for failing to notify senator feinstein. the senate just a couple of hours from now is set to hold a closed door meeting to question pentagon officials about this deal. let's get to mike emmanuel who is live on capitol hill. what do we know about this meeting. >> reporter: big time briefing. one from the state department and one from the director of the office of the director of national intelligence. the early headlines on the return to u.s. custody of sergeant bowe bergdahl have not been what obama administration officials expected with soldiers from his unit, questioning his service and disappearance five years ago. there's also the reaction from a prominent democrat angry the deal was done without notifying congress. >> it comes as some surprise and dismay that transfers went ahead with no consultation, totally not following the law, and in an
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issue of this kind of concern, a committee that bears the oversight responsibility. >> reporter: a state department spokesperson said their focus remains on getting bergdahl the care that he needs but clearly administration officials are hoping some of those senators will come out of this briefing expressing support for the deal. >> the meeting a couple of hours away. are we expecting to hear from anyone on what happened in there or are they supposed to keep it secret. >> reporter: it's supposed to be tight lippedx people coming out with basic comments on what they learned and where they stand on the issue. chuck hagel one week ago from today is due to old an open hearing before the house armed services committee and it comes as there's a push to declassify what the u.s. knows the five taliban figures that were given up as part of this swap. the top republican on the senate intelligence committee has seen the intelligence and says they held high level positions in the
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taliban. >> the fact of the matter is that these are five of the most dangerous folks in the world. this is mullah omar's board of directors, his fab five team. >> about two hours from now all 100 senators are invited to get a whole lot more information about this swap involving sergeant bowe bergdahl. >> mike, let us know what he'll find out. even if the president had givening k30 days notice was the prisoner swap itself sflel our senior judicial analyst, judge andrew napolitano is with us. was the swap itself, five of them for bowe bergdahl legal? >> no. there are two legal problems with it. one of which you just discussed with mike emanuel. the statute requiring the 30 days notice prohibits the use of taxpayer dollars or federal funds to pay for the removal of anybody from gitmo if the
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congress has not been given 30 days notice. first challenge to the government's behavior is that he unlawfully spent known physically get these guys out of gitmo and to qatar. >> congress couldn't have said no. he just had the obligation to notify them. >> correct. he signed the statute into law. the other problem that's far more -- the other unlawful behavior is far more problematic for the president and that is the argument that by releasing these guys into the theater of war in the middle east, he has provided material assistance to a terrorist organization. fact, the taliban has been declared by the congress and the president to be a nonstate terrorist organization. fact. federal statute makes it a crime punishable by ten years in jail up to life in prison for materially aiding a terrorist organization. fact. the courts have ruled any
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assistance, knowingly and intentionally prostride a terrorist organization by an american makes that american liable for prosecution. >> you're accusing the president of the united states aiding and abetting the enemy. >> yes. yes. it's pretty clear. right there. ther for the president's behavior. that's the nixon argument if the president does you want it's not illegal. >> your first point is that he returned these combatants to the theater. the president argues he sent them to qatar and they will be held to qatar for a year. >> that's the president's argument. when the president was questioned about this in poland yesterday he acknowledged it is probable that they either won't stay in qatar for a year or as soon as they leave qatar they will return to the theater they once inhabited. >> aiding and abetting the enemy. is that a matter of interpretation.
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>> yes. >> it's your interpretation that theth of the united states has broken the law and should be in prison. >> i don't know if he should be in prison. it requires somebody prosecute him. he's the chief law enforcement officer of the land. but the congress should be aware of the fact that this statute was arguably violated by the president. the bar -- >> aiding and abetting. >> not aiding and abetting. it's different. providing material stoons a terrorist organization, an organization that the congress and this president have characterized as terrorists. and the assistance is human assets that he has returned to this organization. >> he makes the argument he didn't return them. he makes the argument that he scene them to a neutral place and that he believes they may -- >> a person is presumed to intend the natural and probable queens of his behavior and the natural and probable consequences is they will end up back with their colleagues at the taliban. >> what you're saying is that in
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that you can't provide anything material like weapons or technology -- >> or money. >> or money. you also can't provide any humans -- >> i will say in fairness to the president, case has never been scrutinized by the courts because no one has made this challenge. >> because under the constitution the commander-in-chief can do what he wants in the way he sees fit with prisoners of war. >> but he can't break a statute in the process. he can't spend money that's not been authorized or aid a terrorist organization. if he sent them to qatar and going to stay in jail in qatar this argument wouldn't hold water. but because he said yesterday point land he knows eventually they will leave qatar and go back to their colleagues and the taliban the argument should be explored about whether or not he materially assisted a terrorist organization by this bizarreí.d prisoner swap. >> all right. judge napolitano thank you, sir. >> the housing crisis is far from over and could get worse.
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that's according to a new study. wait until you hear what it finds. many americans are still struggling to afford their homes. that's a news flash isn't it? many americans are still struggling to afford their home. the news flash is in the numbers and wait until you hear them from our friend maria bartiromo from the fox business network coming right up.
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still having a very tough time getting by. according to a new survey, 52% of americans have trouble paying for their homes. 52% of adults. so much so that they have had to make at least one major sacrifice in the last three years to make sure they pay it on time. sacrifices like taking another job or cutting back on health insurance. if that's not enough nearly one in five believes, one in five believes that the worst of the housing crisis is yet to come. maria bartiromo joins us now with the details. she's anchor of opening bell and sunday morning futures here on the fox news channel. that's a lot of people. >> would you have thought we would be in a much better place in the recovery at this point given the level of interest rates. look at the ten year interest rates, the ten year yield that's at 2.5%. the ten year bond lending to actually take out a home, 4.19%.
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these are new record lows. so you would expect this market a lot stronger but there are a number of things holding it back. first, prices are up. it's become more expensive. prices for the average home are up 20% justin last two years. why are they up? not because a market that's on fire that you see all this euphoria, they are up because of a limited amount of supply. so we got limited finite amount of land and amount of homes that they are still work through. that's the only thing that's been pushing prices up. not necessarily this fantastic demand. second thing is, obviously, it has gotten tougher to get a mortgage. the lending standards were so loose back in 2007 and '08 so we wanted the lending standards to get tougher. they got so tough it shut certain people out of the market. then there's just the overall demand story. it's not there. do not under estimate the impact of unemployment. do you know people between the ages of 20 and 24 are facing an unemployment rate of 10.6%.
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that's much worse than the overall national average of 6.3%. that doesn't tell the story because it doesn't include the people that stopped looking. at the end of the day unemployment if you're afraid you're not is going to get a job, lose your job, your neighbor is going to lose your job you're not going to go out and put money down on a big ticket item like a home. the end market demand is a big deal, unemployment is a big deal. the idea that getting a mortgage so easy, it's not. it's gotten a lot tougher. >> not any more. maria bartiromo, we'll look for you tomorrow morning. >> i'll be there tomorrow. >> and then on sunday morning. a big change is coming to the 2016 super bowl. have you heard about this? take a look at the logo that the nfl released today. notice anything different? we used to be all about roman numerals, it's a regular old 50, the number 50 not the roman numeral. the league had always used those roman numerals until now.
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next year it's xlix and super bowl 50 would have been super bowl l. it wouldn't look right. they said the switch is a one time thing just for super bowl 50. super bowl li is set for 2017. more coverage on sergeant bowe bergdahl's release. he has to go through a special intelligence debriefing. analysts said getting answers could take quite the amount of time. we'll baby town the process. that's next from the fox news desk.
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at any rate, clinton, highland, pike, and ross counties outside cincinnati, this pink area. if you're in this general area right now, take cover because this is a warning, not a watch. the worst of the two. get inside a build, get something over your head, away from the windows. a warning in the cincinnati area. if you're in the area, change over to a local you trust and get weather information. this goes until 4:15 eastern daylight time. >> at some point, sergeant bowe bergdahl will be back here in the united states, we're told. like others who have returned from captivity, he's already going through a process called reintegration. it involved treatment and questioning. leah gabriel served with the special forces in afghanistan and has dealt with similar situations in the past. what happens here? >> three things are immediate as soon as he's recovered and brought in the helicopter. they have to verify his identity, make sure he's not a threat, and tend to his
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medically. i'm holding a form that every service members fills out before they deploy. it includes pictures and things like birth marks and scars as well as statements about personal information so the recovery team can ask them questions only they would know the questions to, things like what year did you get your first pet. earli earlier, i spoke to a s.e.a.l. who has first-hand information about those operations. >> there's security personnel onboard, and they're watching the demeanor to make sure they're not a danger to the rescue force at the same time. you don't know where their heads are. >> the person will be immediately treated, and that intelligence will happen as soon as they're in the helicopter. >> how does the debriefing going on? >> i have been involved in intelligence debriefing. they'll start right away. some of the most important information you can find out is the first information you find out. that's because it's untainted.
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it's still fresh in the person's head. right now, bergdahl is in phase two of the reintegration process, which is an unclassified process. we're putting information on phase two on the screen for you. this is where, this usually happens in theater before the person sees their family. the final phase is going to happen when he returns home, and when he is reunited with his family. it's worth mentioning that a lot of intelligence can be gained from the way the transfer of prisoners happens beyond anything that bergdahl actually said. >> interesting. thank you. we'll be right back with a final look at the market for the day and the top of the news right after that. okay, listen up! i'm re-workin' the menu.
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on this day in 1989, not one but two major events unfolded that would shape the course of human events. first, a massacre at tiananmen square in beijing. nearly a million pro-democracy demonstrators, mostly young students, crowded into tiananmen square, calling for an end to communist rule. demonstrations went on for weeks, but on this day, witnesses say chinese soldiers killed hundreds of unarmed demonstrators and people watching from the sidelines. public officials have failed to speak about it and they cover it up. in poland, a different atmosphere as citizens helped bring an end to communist
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leadership by parming in poland's first semi-democratic election. two events that changes the face of communism around the world and both happened 25 years ago today. when news breaks out, we'll break in. here's cavuto. come on. >> that's it. i'm pointing it. [ bleep ] [ bleep ]. >> unruly passengers are disrupting flights. that's just one example. it's becoming, actually, an almost routine occurrence. that latest incident happening last week. >> houston police officers were forced to go onboard a plane and arrest an unruly passenger. >> authorities say it was his unruly behavior on a flight from philadelphia to london that forced the plane to turn around. >> after that unruly passenger tried to open one of the doors in midflight.
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