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the dogs love it. and jim says if you have a dog, it's great. i you don't, it's, are you kidding me? and brian likes it as long as it's a well-behaved dog. that sound rational. thank you for being part of the "the real story." here's shep. >> iraq's prime minister feeling new heat today. this time from a fellow shiite. hours after president obama warned iraq's leader the message, your mess to fix, in pressure is calling for a new and effective government. that and a warning for the american advisors headed to iraq. a vicious moment caught on camera as a robber attacks a pregnant clerk. >> okay, okay. >> he sucker punched her. ahead, what happened after the punch and what the woman says about how she is doing now. and a velveeta re-call in a dozen states. could this criminal the college
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world series as my rebels march to fame. let's get too it. >> it's 3:00 on the east coast, noon on the west coast. i'm shepard smith in new york and this is "shepard smith reporting." the iraqi prime minister's support is crumbling as quick as as his countrile collapsing. the top shiite cleric in iraq, the man really in charge, is calling for a whole new government, one that can eeffectively lead all iraqis, shia, sunni, and kurd alike. the cleric i can co-ed what he heard from president obama that nouri al-maliki is to blame for the crisis in iraq and the shiite leader excluded the sunnies and re-ignited the aging old rivalry. isis have vowed to overtake the see ya government in baghdad. and city by city they seem to be closing in. the state department confirms the extremesses have overrun one
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of saddam hussein's old chemical weapons compound. it turn out mustard gas and sir rein. a spokesman says we do not believe the complex contains chemical weapons material of military value and it would be difficult if not impossible to safely remove those materials. meantime, iraq's military is awaiting the arrival of up to' hundred american troops, or military advisors as the president is choosing to call them. he says they will not go into combat. still there's been some shiites say they don't want any americans returning to their country. other cleric had this warning for the united states: our message to the occupier, we will be ready for you if you are back. jennifer griffin begins team fox coverage at the pentagon. how worried does the pentagon seem to be about the militants
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over saddam hussein's chemical weapons factory, what used to be one? >> well, pentagon officials say the material was so downgraded at the base that at the time the u.s. was in iraq, it was more dangerous to move the aging materials than leave them bur yesterday in bunkers. u.n. weapons inspectors removed or degraded the most dangerous chemicals before the u.s. invasion. >> an old facility. and our best understanding -- and we don't have perfect information but our best understanding is that whatever material was kept there is pretty old and not likely to be able to be accessed or used. against anyone right now. >> what has the pentagon more concerned is that isis fighters have taken another iraqi military base. it was supposed to serve as an air base.
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>> jennifer, one of the reasons we didn't leave troops behind was the fact that they status of forces could not be reached, an agreement where our troops could not be charged with breaking iraqi laws. it that fixed for the 300 going in. >> the u.s. dot not have a stat tuesday of forces agreement with iraq, and you're right, that is one of the main reasons the administration gave for not being able to leave any u.s. forces behind at the end of the war. the pentagon insists this is different. >> we're pursuing something in writing. the secretary is absolutely committed to making sure that our troops have the legal protections and he would not do that on a nod and a wink. >> some of the special operators who will serve ass a advisers are in iraq, at the u.s. embassy. the three to five teams of a does advisers will be sent very soon. and they lack of the agreement won't delay their deployment.
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>> jennifer, thank you. let's bring in mike barrett, former defense department intelligent officer from washington. i remember looking at clips recently of the vietnam war where the president said, we're going to advise them. we're sending them in to help our friends in south vietnam. the same words this time. how concerned are you about this bunch if at all? >> i'm pretty concerned about isis but also concerned about terrorist threats in yemen, threats across north africa so i think we'll be okay in terms of the obama administers and any kind of -- administration and any kind of mission creep because they make it obvious they're not interested in engaging militarily. we'll probably be too cautious as opposed to digging in too far. >> what about this abandoned chemical weapons facility? is that much of nothing or is there something to be concerned about there? >> there's two things to be a aware of. one is as the state department said apparently the weapons there are not of military val. you've that's an important
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phrase. military value means they're of a certain level of refinement. they can be deployed safely. the troops using them wouldn't have this blow back on them for example, and terrorists don't care. they're willing to behead people and conduct suicide bombings, so the other really important piece is to remember that the scientists who used to work for the baathist and sunni regime under saddam hussein, the scientist are the ones we should be worried about. those individuals teaming if with isis as the former military commanders under saddam, teaming up with isis. it's the science cysts that will be the threat. >> i was go to ask you about those guys. it's my understanding a a lot of people teams up with isis because they don't have anybody else to team with. they don't feel like they're part of the government, they want to be part of a new iraq and aren't. are we concerned they may develop some of the ideology of isis, they may actually start thinking and acting in that way?
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>> well, i think what we're really concern about they'll be the silent middle ground. let's support this, create a sunni borderland, an autonomous area, and then isis will use the violence they're willing to use to create essentially free rein operational space for themselves. so not much we'll have thousands and thousands and thousands of members of isis as it is that isis, by being the most willing to use force, will carve out a safe haven for themselves. >> mike, it's good to see you. thank you. >> thank you. >> lawmakers just finished grilling the head of the irs about e-mails he says the agency lost. this is about the investigation into targeting political groups. some republicans accuse the irs of keeping secrets from congress, but democrats are defending the commissioner. and he says he sees no reason to apologize. >> to say that this is the most corrupt irs in history ignores a
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fly over the united states starting next year. the drones that have crashed include predators, globe hawks, reaper and others, in one instance a nearly 400-pound shadow drone, like the one here on your screen, on the top there, reportedly collided with a c-130 transport plain over afghan. the plane landed safely with jut fuel pouring out of the wing, the drone destroyed in another case u.s. fighter jets shot down an armed reaper drone that got away from its handlers. cease are the ones in afghanistan. united states, iraq, and classified. so you can go right across the top and see june 5, 2011, a predator flown by the air crosser crashed. you can see where they crashed in the united states. this one on april 20th, 2010,
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a predator mq1b flown by the u.s. air force crashed in vehicle victorville, california, and that's what is raising these questions. if they're this many crashes under the military, what happens when these end up flying over the united states for inertial purposes. what -- for commercial purposes. the commissioner of the internal revenue service refused to apologize to congress today for losing e-mails related to the agency's targeting of political groups. he says the irs is still trying to recover the data from lois lerner and others. lerner is the former director of tax exempt organizations. the irs claims her hard drive crashed and the information on it was lost. irs officials say it happened to a number of staffers' hard drives around the agency. republicans see the whole thing as something very fishy, and today paul ryan accused the head of the irs, while under oath, of blatantly lying.
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>> you bury in a 27-page letter to the senate, asking for them to conclude the investigation that you lost lois lerner's e-mails during the time in question because of a hard drive crash. monday, our investigators asked your agency whether any other hard drives crashed and we learned that six other hard drives of the people we're investigating were involved. you didn't tell us that. >> we told you on monday. >> on monday. >> what did use -- >> because we asked you. >> what did you do with the information? >> you told us on monday because we asked you whether any other hard drives crashed. this is unbelievable. >> in fact paul ryan went on to say i do not believe you and the thought the commissioner of the irs was lying under oath. the commissioner said nobody ever accused him of lying below, and paul ryan re-upped and said i do not believe you, accusing him of lying under oath. there is no evidence to support that. none at all.
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>> the commissioner says the agency recycled lerners hard drive and it was probably destroyed. let's get to mike emanuel on capitol hill. watching that confrontation there, it's note just some, i'm asking you questions and you're getting me answers. we are to tell the truth and subjected himself to perjury, and paul ryan not once but twice or maybe even three times called him a bolds-faced liar. >> as feisty as you'll see a congressional hearing get and there's clearly frustration about th is kind of dribbled out in this investigation. we found another that the white house was told there was an issue with lois lerner others e-mail a while ago and lawmakerrers didn't hear about it until recently. >> why didn't the irs inform the white house but kept it a secret from congress. >> it was our public report that provide you this information. there's been no attempt to keep
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it's secret. >> some republicans take that dribbling out of information as a sign that he is not being totally candid with them. now, democrats have a totally different take on them. some were defending him and some were giving him their time so he had more time explain and some were ripping their g.o.p. colleagues. >> this hearing has been conducted as less as hearing as an inquisition and you deserve better. you certainly are obligated to give us truthful answers, and we appreciate that you're trying to. >> some of the frustration here on capitol hill, lois lerner's e-mails are gone, her hard drive destroyed. the servers at the irs at that time only kept e-mails for six months and its not clear if lawmakers will ever get the answer they're seeking. >> mike emanuel on the hill. is was watching as another democrat asked the irs commissioner, have you -- do you
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have any information involved at all in benghazi? and he said no. he said, all right, have you ever seen the president's real births certificate? he said no. he said my opinion is this is political showmanship and it it nose real or serious, the democrats point of view in a very testy hearing. >> police in florida say they captured a guy who punched a pregnant woman in the face in a robbery caught on camera. >> oh! broke her nose. pregnant woman. surveillance video shows the guy grab can the cash and then swiping the land line phone and taking it with him. after he left the pregnant clerk was able to stand up and hit the store's panic button. she had a broken nose. the manager says she is resting at home today and the baby is fine. the suspect faces charges including felony battery and strong-armoj$iu robbery.
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>> there might be problems in brazil. a big protest at world cup has turned violent. some pictures on the slide show here. here's the first image here about 2,000 demonstrators in sao paulo last night smashed windows at banks and car dealerships. this was a mercedes-benz dealership here. some protesters turned tires and pieces of wood and set them on fire there. the demonstrators have been defending a free public
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transportation system. free public transportation. wouldn't that be nice. this is the same city where team u.s.a. has been preparing for its next game. u.s.a., u.s.a., a big match on sunday versus portugal. and don't let anybody tell you we can't beat portugal. we can. a win could guarantee the u.s. a spot in the next round. get to the knockout, we can home. that's after the u.s. beat gap ghana the other day, 2, 1, on monday. that game set a ratings record across the united states. these some fans in miami watching monday's game. i was watching at omaha, nebraska, at the college world series. everybody was watching. this is chicago. thousands of people watched the game in grant park. so many people showed up there, you can see how crowded. they moved the sunday viewing party to a bigger field. world cup 2014 and u.s.a. is marching along. at least 86 workers at a federal lab may have been exposed to anthrax bacteria. that's according too the centers
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for disease control and prevention in atlanta. analysts say this could be the largest case of anthrax exposure in more than a decade. but agency officials say the risk of infection is quite low. the cdc reports workers at a high-level biosecurity lab in atlanta did not kill the bacteria before sending the samples to a lower security lab. it was not equipped to hasn't live anthrax. the cdcs deputy director tells john roberts in atlanta that the incident is incredibly troubling. >> we are very, very concerned about this happening, and we're very, very committed to ensuring it does not happen again. >> agency officials say they're still monitoring staffers and giving them antibiotics. we have the president of the national foundation for infectious diseases and a member of the cdc advisory committee. good to see you. big deal here? concerning? >> sure, it's concerning, and must be terribly disheartening
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to my friends at the cdc who take such strong professional pride in their work, that something like this should happen. but they're on top of it. they've been tour row, rigorous, transparent, and the risk to the exposed workers is low. >> explain why that risk is low with anthrax, live anthrax virus. >> well, it's the live anthrax bacteria, novelty the spores. the0s are the most hazardous, and so they're being seen clinically evaluated, being given antibiotics, offered vaccine. they're on top of it. i think the risk is really very low, and really nil to the community. i'm going to be at the cdc next week. i have no concern about being there. >> that's great news. what i'm curious about is how one lab is able to handle the live spores of the live bacteria, where this secondary lab was not. i wonder how it could slip through the cracks you would forget to kill it first.
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>> well, what can i tell you? the protocols seemed not to have been carried out for some reason, and believe me, they're trying to find out why that is. that should never have happened. as i say, the cdc takes terrific pride in the rigor of its work, and for something like this to have happened if disconcerting but they're on top of it, got it under control. >> good to hear. good to see you again. thank you. >> always. >> kraft foods is recalling cases velveeta because not enough preservatives in velveeta. company officials say packages of velveeta shipped to some wal-mart stores have unsufficient levels of sorbic and it could spoil in 5041 causing people to get sick. just kidding. the kraft could have arrived in
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structures. a little better picture of it now as sky fox has pulled out for you. as we get more information on this or should the fire spread, we'll take you back to yonkers in metropolitan, new york city. >> the white house says military action is not the solution to the crisis in iraq. the administration is calling again for political changes. we'll talk with fox news sunday host chris wallace coming up as we approach the bottom of the hour and the top of the news. so i get invited to quite a few family gatherings. heck, i saved judith here a fortune with discounts like safe driver, multi-car, paperless. you make a mighty fine missus, m'lady. i'm not saying mark's thrifty. les just say, i saved him $519, and it certainly didn't go toward that ring. am i right? [ laughs ] [ dance music playing ] so visit progressive.com today. i call this one "the robox."
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there is no military solution to the crisis in iraq right now. that's the word today again from the white house. iraq's prime minister, nouri al-maliki, is facing growing demands for him to step down himself political rivals are campaigning against him and vice-president biden will travel to iraq this weekend. ed henry is live from the white house. the president is trying to put pressure on maliki and is now
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getting hem from the religious leader. >> that's right. stepping up and says there needs to me unity here, and the top democrats on capitol hill are saying this is al-maliki's problem. the u.s. can hell in small bits but he has to -- can help in small bits. republicans are warning if we're not careful the situation we're seeing in iraq right now could play out in afghanistan over the next couple of years, as u.s. troops come home. listen. >> put another way, we cannot defend iraqis from themselves. only if iraq are leaders begin to show evidence of unity can we help them. >> so this fateful decision to look for ways to get out totally has come back to haunt us, and we're on the verge of doing the same thing in afghanistan. >> bottom line is the white house spokesman said both in iraq and afghanistan, at some
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opinion both of these sovereign governments have to stand on their own feed. >> i heard today there was a phone call between nouri al-maliki and putin of russia. what's up with that? >> very interesting. eyebrows being raised. the readout from the kremlin was that vladimir putin was reaching out, wanted to make clear he is supportive of iraqi efforts to get extremeis out of there. he might be concerned about his ally in syria, al-assad, very close to vladimir putin, business dealings, arms sales, et cetera. at the state department they side they'll welcome any help from vladimir putin if he wants to work in a positive way but it's not like putin has been working in a positive way with the u.s. lately. >> let's bring in chris wallace, the haves of "fox news sunday." good to see you. >> good to be with you, shep. >> there are any signs from the report can of our teams down there or elsewhere that nouri al-maliki might be coming to some sort of, let's work
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together, premise, that he has never found in the past? >> well, the reporting here wouldn't be as important as what you're hearing out of iraq, and as you reported at the very top of the hour, the fact that the grand ayatollah, the head of the shiites, just real quickly -- i know you have been explaining it -- there are three groups in iraq, shiites, sunnies and kurds, maliki is a shiite and has been supporting the shiites at the expense of the other two groups. today they had the grand ayatollah of his group, ali sistani, calling for a new more effective government and everybody read that as meaning he would like to see maliki out. that doesn't mean maliki necessarily is going to step out. he is a tough guy. been the prime minister since 2006, but was a tremendous underpinning or undercutting of his support to have the shiite
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top cleric in the country saying he'd like to see somebody else in charge. >> it wouldn't be an overstatement to say that shiites across the country listen more to the grand ayatollah than to nouri al-maliki and always have but he has been calling for this sort of a unity government for a long time, saying years ago that the only way to put iraq back together was to allow everybody to get along at least through the central government. >> that's right. there are at least three people that are being talked about now as possible shiites who could step in and instead of mall custom they just had -- people talk about this will be a coup or regime change. they just had a parliamentary election which was certified and they have to get together and form a majority. now, maliki's party had the most votes, 92, i think, but he needs 160 to have a majority in the parliament so now various
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factions can try to form a coalition, a ruling coalition, and you can see where some of the kurds, some sunnies and some of the splinter shiite groups could get together and try to kick maliki out. but they tried that before and he is a tough guy to have stayed in power that long in that country, says something about him. >> do you wonder if we will be seep, given the action taken by the white house and beyond, if we'll be seen as siding with the shiites in the middle of this, that sunnies and others across the country and kurds in the mother may say what's the united states doing taking sides in our business here? >> well, i think it's pretty clear, and supposedly u.s. diplomats on the ground, also a special envoy from the state department, have been in baghdad, meeting with factions and making it clear we want an inclusive government and i think making it pretty clear, if not explicit, we would like to see maliki out. it would not be surprising at all if secretary of state kerry
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ends up in baghdad perhaps as early as sunday, and i suspect he'll be making that opinion as well. so my guess is at least the leaders, if not the people of those various ethnic factions, will understand that the u.s. wants to see an exclusive government. which that includes maliki -- more like live not -- i think it will be clear. >> from the reporting it looks like isis caught them offguard where they rampaged through the cities where they had friendly territory, and once they got to a little opposition from iraqi troops which seemed to be trained and actually toeing the company line, they don't seem to be making any further moves. >> they certainly stopped. when you think we were talking just a week ago and they were within 75 miles of baghdad and there was some talk about last weekend would they have overrun baghdad, and there was a rot of sense of urgency and some kind of anticlimatic sentence when president obama was heading west and she said i'm going too take
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time on this. he had more time than a lot of people thought because we hear -- here we are week later and she shiites and the government is fully in control of baghdad, and some of the area around -- not to mention southeast of there, a where a lot of the major oil fields are. >> a very big important -- chris wallace, more on "fox news sunday" this weekends, and more from kevin mccarthy of california, and there have ban lot of questions. people on the far right said we warranted more of a tea party type. now they have that in the majority whip. chris wallace will break it down this sunday on your local fox station. check your local listings. >> the militants' deadly march through iraq has many families running from their homes and in baghdad people trying to hop flights out of town as the fighting creeps closer. we'll talk with a war
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than 300 people. if you take a taxi in have vanna you could end up in one of fidel castros old limos. the cuban government turned ten of the old cars into cabs. officials say castro used one of them to pick up former president jimmy carter in the airport in 2002. watch here. a motorcycle rider outside tampa hits a car, does a back flip, lands on his feet, and walkeds away. here it is again. the biker says he knew the only thing he could do was brace for impact. >> i just let it go from there. >> i was upside-down. i either land on my feet or my head and right every got done thinking that i land on my feet. >> landed on his feet and walked away. says he is fine but his bike is toteamed. cops did ticket him for not having a motorcycle license.
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police say the driver of the car got a ticket for making an illegal turn. >> the bloody fighting for control in iraq has more than a million people on the run according to the unites nations refugee agency today. reportersed on the ground say some families are staying in overcrowded hotels and many others are setting up camps anywhere they can find shelter from the hot iraqi summer in baghdad, hundreds waited in long security lines for one of the very few flights out of the capitol city. our correspondent has spent sex decade covering wars including six months on the front lines in afghanistan. sam, nice to talk to you. >> hi. good evening, shepard. >> give us an assessment of what it's like there now. >> well, the thing about baghdad is that it's holding its breath.
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the reality is that a lot of people are concerned strangely enough that nothing is happening. the reason for that is that this is a mixed city, city of shia majority but a sir significant number of sunni, and everybody is aware that isis and the baathists, the former members of saddam hussein's regular anytime who were fighting alongside isis is not just in the movement. it's moving moving into somethig bigger than that. they have -- there are eight cells here that could strike at any time and it that reason that it is creating the tension. they have not struck beyond what sadly has become routine here, since i've been here, about a week. there's been about eight or ten bombings with a total death toll of some 30 or 40 people. now, that sounds extravagant by
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anybody's standards but in the context of baghdad, that has been the practice now over many months and clearly about the of the bombings is -- the intent of the bombings is to strike sectarianor and that's what people are most fearful of. >> how tight is security? how many of these roadblocks are there and what is the sense of things along those lines. >> well, the city is -- there is a lot of roadblocks. they're also a great deal of traffic that is normal, and the reason for that in sunni areas is the people are staying off the streets, particularly young men, because their vehicles are being picked up by the shia dominated security structures and jails for no reason and without charge. so they're staying at home, especially young men, and at it's the world cup so they're watching that. but at the same time the city has got double the number of security personnel in a city
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that is already awash in it. every street corner has soldiers and police. averagored -- armored personnel carriers and you have this mass recruitment of shia militia, and seems to be the shia mill lilt ya is what the government seems to be relying on to reinforce the army. that completely folded up over the last ten days. does seem to be now holing the line 100 miles north on three different entries for the city, 150 miles. the isis are insurgent so they're not going to fight formal front lines. their tactic will be to come around the back of the formal, structured military and strike at their rear and their reinforcements and there have been a number of ambushes along those lines. >> sam kiley of sky news.
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i said you have been doing this for six decade. >> not quite six. two and a half. >> i hope you make it there. sam kylely. from sky news in the united kingdom. stay save. >> some scary moments for patients and families at a hospital. storms and flashfloods caused a mudslide just outside the building. wait until you see the pictures. a live report is coming up. (mother vo) when i was pregnant... i got more advice than i knew what to do with. what i needed was information i could trust on how to take care of me and my baby. luckily, unitedhealthcare has a simple program that helps moms stay on track with their doctors and get the right care and guidance-before and after the baby is born. simple is good right now. (anncr vo) innovations that work for you. that's health in numbers. unitedhealthcare.
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the business model. >> cassidy, you need a life and probably a web site for that, too. only costs you hundred. >> $27 a month. >> nice to see you. thank you. >> heavy rains trigger eat massive mudslide next to a hospital in minnesota and it was a bad scene, chunk of the hill some 300 feet long broken loose and slid on the parkway below, taking trees and brush with it. rescue workers say nobody got hurt. it happened close to the university of medical center in minneapolis. trace gallagher is live out in the west coast news hub. this was built on bedrock, right? >> it was built on bedrock but they're unclear how deep the bedrock is. clearly some of the hospital was built on softer soil. engineers are saying the building is structurally sound, which doesn't really help you much if the ground starts to fall away. i want to show you these white
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oxygen tanks. they're in front of the building like all hospitals have and they pose a potential danger so they have drained those oxygen tanks and they are now in the process of moving them away. we should know -- tell you that 20 of the employees of this hospital had to be evacuated, but so far, shep, not a single one of the patients has yet had to be moved. >> that's good what do they man to do next? >> the plan is to let the mud dry out. the cliffside dry out, get rid of the mud, and then repair that damaged part of the cliff. the problem is they're expecting a lot more rain this weekend. in fact, yesterday was the rainiest june day on record in the twin cities and this could be the rainiest month ever in the twin cities. so if it starts raining again they'll have the engineers back out to make sure the ground doesn't get more compromised. >> does your wife have a bunch of high heels? >> she does. >> i'm not surprised.
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