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organization in its ifrefforts find out more about why babies are born premature and hang out withthy guy more, aden lamont born premature, but doing fantastic. 2014 march of dimes ambassador. thanks for being part of "the real story" today. i'm gretchen. here's shepard. coming up -- it's not coming up. we're trying to get information on a tornado. i'll have that for you in seconds. tens of thousands of children flooding our borders without anybody looking for them. many searching for safety or better lives. are we supposed to take care of them or send them back? >> we're talking about children as young as 5 and 7 years old. this is a humanitarian issue. plus, in iraq, a campaign of blood, intimidation, and fear. as militants move across the country. we will speak with a journalist live in baghdad. and with the state department deputy spokeswoman about secretary kerry's effort to calm the crisis.
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so let's get to it. now, "shepard smith reporting" live from the fox news desk. >> good afternoon. a confirmed tornado on the ground in central indiana. northern marion county. the national weather service reports it's located very near the indianapolis motor speedway. janice dean in the extreme weather center. is it on the ground, janice? >> yes, it is on the ground confirmed. we have pictures. we're efforting pictures in and around the indianapolis speedway. the motor speedway. this is a very isolated cell but within this we're seeing strong rotation on radar, and yes, this tornado is on the ground. if you live in the indianapolis region, anywhere north and east of this, you want to be seeking shelter immediately. obviously a heavily populated area. this is the cell we're watching. the super cell that has developed this tornado and the warning is good for the next 15 minutes or so, shepard. we've been watching it really within the last 15 minutes to
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half an hour with this cell that's really blossomed into a tornado. we are efforting pictures, but certainly twitter is lighting up with indications that there is a tornado. a large tornado on the ground. certainly we'll bring you the very latest, but the radar is indicating strong rotation with this isolated cell, but of course, it only takes one, it only takes one tornado moving through a heavily populated area to make this a news story. >> janice, thanks. i want to show a view from a different radar site. this is a long line of thunderstorms as you can see. it heads from -- this is poplar bluff, missouri, up through l e louisville. indianapolis. here's the motor speedway. here's the red dot. looks smaller on this great big map. it's an intense line of thunderstorms there and that tornado which was reportedly on the ground at least in the last couple minutes is still on the move. if you are in that area, tune to your locals. they're going to have pinpoint radar there for you and be able to tell you exactly what to do. the long and short of it is, you
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shouldn't be in front of the tv but in a safe spot somewhere in the center of the house with something over your head if possible and interior walls, no windows around you. a serious situation in indianapolis. if you look, it really stretches all the way up into the detroit area. beyond that, up into missesaga. we're going from canada down almost to memphis. there's the beginning of it and theened is up there. a typical spring pattern as it's coming, moving across the east coast eventually. it will make it toward columbus and make its way over into the parts of the east coast. we have pictures, to my understanding, our fox station in indianapolis is giving live coverage. here's the pinpoint radar i was mentioning. let's listen. >> steadily now at about 20 miles per hour up from the southwest. go to the basement. you need to stay away from the windows. you need to go to your safety shelter right now. where do you go for a severe thunderstorm that's producing a tornado? when a tornado warning is issued, you go to the basement. you stay away from the windows.
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you want to go to an interior room. if you do not have a basement, go to an interior room and put as many walls between you and the outside. this storm is extremely dangerous, wrapped up in rain. it's been producing fairly large tornado that's been a destructive one at this point. we are concerned of those areas on the city's near north side near meridian hills up along u.s. 31. storm tracking northeast. bob? >> we are getting some damage reports in. we want to check in right now with steven jones, the brownsburg fire marshal. steven, are you still there? can you hear me? >> yes, i'm still here. >> tell me what you saw, where you were and when you saw it. >> i was in a training over at the wayne township training academy. tenth and raceway. the tornado came out so we took a break from class to see what was going on. it was just kind of a steady rain and as the storm came this way, to the southwest of us, it was -- you could see debris up in the air.
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the wind had not kicked up where we were at, but we could see the debris up in the air that something was coming our way. if it was a tornado, it was kind of hidden in the rain. we couldn't see it. but there was debris probably is 100 feet up in the air we could see of limbs and different parts of debris blowing in the air heading to the northeast. >> so that's to west of indianapolis, itself, in brownsburg. as you can see, the blue area on the left hand side of your screen shows the area where it's headed. we're going to move on to national news. if you're in the indianapolis area, fox 59 with local coverage live and uninterrupted. tune there if you're in the indie area. tens of thousands of children are right now without their parents. locked in crowded warehouses. surrounded by razor wire. children by the thousands. meanwhile, in congress, lawmakers are bickering over who to blame. grilled the homeland security secretary on the unfolding humanitarian crisis along our own southern border.
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more than 50,000 children, 50,000 who came into this country on their own, illegally, without their parents. federal officials say it's happening in record numbers. up 90% from last year. we have an illustration over here in the wall. immigration officials say the kids are mostly not from mexico but from guatemala, el salvador, honduras, escaping violence in these areas and extreme poverty. their parents paid smugglers thousands of dollars to sneak them into the united states. it's a long and dangerous journey that many of these children do not survive. those who make it to safety often don't get far. when border agents find the children, they take them to government guibuildings such as border control centers, even an air force base. according to "los angeles times" many sleep on plastic mats and dirty floors with flimsy foil blankets. republicans argue, of course, president obama's policies are causing the surge. >> i think this administration
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is inviting these kids, inviting illegal aliens to come to this country and wants to give them legal status and i find that intolerable. >> republicans point to the president's 2012 order that protects some children from deportation but applies only to those who enter the united states before 2007, not these kids. besides that, there have been many, many, many interviews with these children. and according to the human rights organization, nobody has found any kids who say they're here because of politics. this bickering that's happening, well, we'll report, you decide. in the hearing they say the horrible conditions in the children's home countries are to blame. pure and simple, it's so bad where they're come from and their parents love them so much that they put them in -- give them to smugglers, do whatever they can do to get them out of the horrors of here. imagine this trip all the way up to our southern border. and into these camps. and sleeping with foil over themselves. with no parents around at all. seem better than what they had here at home. not politics.
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poverty. horrible situations. and violence we really can't even imagine. they say they need to deal with these problems in central america first. >> perhaps we could completely fence the border and build a giant mote with alligators to keep kids and people away. we could put these kids on a bus and drop them off at the border with guatemala. i don't think any of those are consistent, one, with the law, two, with our values, three, with my conscience or the conscience of many of the people in this country. i think we have to address the issues in those countries of origin. >> wet or dry rule for cuba, and yet these thousands of kids coming from extreme poverty and crisis and we lock them up in detention camps and blame each other as politicians. pretty disgusting, isn't it? >> meantime, the children keep coming. the obama administration estimates it will detain 90,000 of these children by september. so what in the world is a caring nation to do? leah gabriel, just unbelievable. >> you know, shep, it really is.
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you drilled it home. administration officials say they're coming here because of the horrible conditions in countries they're coming from. now, as you mention, about 52,000 unaccompanied children have shown up at our southwestern border this year. the increase started in 2012 and grown exponentially. today the head of homeland security says part of the problem is this belief that america will just accept these children. >> there is this disinformation out there that there is a per misos, what we're hearing, free pass. you get a piece of paper that says, welcome to the united states, you're free. that's not the case. >> well, secretary johnson tried to address the issue at the source with a letter that ran in spanish language outlets over the weekend saying in part, "the desire to see a child have a better life in the united states is understandable, but the risks of illegal migration by an unaccompanied child to achieve that dream are far too great and the permisos do not exist."
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the government can't send children back to their home countries. the law requires they two to health and human services. you mentioned the administration estimates it will catch 90,000 children trying to come into our country illegally by the end of the buckdget year. last year, fewer than 2,000 were returned home. >> lea gabrielle, thanks so much. we're going to update you on the incredible situation in iraq with secretary of state kerry. we'll do that in a minute. plus, toothpaste bombs for terrorists. word that al qaeda militants are work on a brand new generation of exploesives. bombs that contain no metal at all so they can slip through airport security presumably. so how real is this threat? that's coming up from the fox news deck.
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tell the world it was a massacre. those words from a villager in iraq. he spoke to the "washington post" after surviving an attack by isis militants and sunni fighters. one man told the piaper he and his family pretended to be dead to fool the attackers. thousands of supporters have already swept through this large red swath of an area across syria and iraq stretching from the northwest border down into central part of the country and not all that far now from baghdad. an iraqi official told "the wall street journal" that rebels control most of the military airport in talafar.
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the "gejournal reports" they to another country outside of tikrit and grabbed weapons in the process. american weapons left behind for the iraqi army which the iraqi army abandoned and now as always seems to happen, our enemies used them against us. on top of that, an iraq we military official says these forces and militants are still fighting over the country's biggest oil refinery in the capital of baiji. remember, they told us, oh, we have this oil refinery under control. well, they don't. they have parts of it under control. the main part we're told. parts of it controlled by these militants and they're continuing to push. we'll have more later on what that could mean for gas prices around the world and in the united states. in the meantime, the united nations reports more than 1,000 people have died in the fighting in iraq this month. most of them civilians. the most since the united states pulled out. today, secretary of state kerry told fox news during a visit to iraq, the iraqi people are responsible for their own
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defense. maria joins us now from baghdad. she's the middle east correspondent for "the wall street journal" and is on scene. maria, how would you assess the difference between today and recent days and where we are in this crisis? >> thanks for having me. well, it all seems to be blurring together, to tell you the truth. just seems to be a one battle victory after the next. after the other for isis. at this point, though, there is some real concern that isis has actually already, or about is infiltrate the capital. there's been some sectarian violence, shia families found brutally murdered. you know, just in the capital, actually. the refinery, that's quite worrisome for the government because that's the largest oil refinery in the country and the kurds in the north are increasing their hold on their territory and also starting to sell oil illegally or that's to
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be disputed whether it's illegal or not. yeah. so the government's really losing a lot of oil revenue between this baiji refinery news today and the kurds starting to, you know, turn on their pipeline. >> you know, the reason i asked was, we get these conflicting reports first about the refinery in the north, but more importantly, about what exactly is happening in baghdad. and whether the iraqi forces have the wherewithal to withstand whatever isis may do in baghdad. are they ready for a confrontation now as the central government suggests to us that they are? >> well, i mean, the central government has constantly, you know, beefed up its, you know, battlefield victories and battlefield posture. i mean, frankly, i don't think that anybody really is giving too much, you know, face in
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whatever the government says in terms of how they are on the battlefield. no, i don't think that anybody really believes the government is actually prepared to deal with isis' threat on the capital, itself. you know, at the end of the day, no government is really prepared for any insurgency. insurgencies are very tricky. you know, forces to -- it's a very tricky threat to try and weed out. i mean, it's just -- all it takes is one suicide bomber slipping through a crowd to create real damage and havoc in a city. and that could be anywhere. >> and the hope is that they're able to stop that, but early going, i guess it looks like they won't. maria abi-habib, reporter with "the wall street journal." her fine work now and 24/7. update on a confirmed tornado we've been reporting in central indiana. the tornado warning has now been extended to 3: 35 p.m. eastern
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daylight time for the next 30 minutes or so. right now we're talking hamilton and marion counties. we're seeing tweets from people who say tornado sirens are going off where they live. we though that tornadoes have been on the ground, but we frankly have no specific reports of damages to homes or businesses and no specific reports of anybody having been injured or at least three minutes ago when i began the interview. news deck, is that still true? still the case. so this tornado is reported to still be on the ground and on the move, but right now we have no reports of anyone hurt or any buildings damaged. if that changes or if we get further information on this, we'll take you back there with the help of our station fox 59.
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21 minutes past the hour now. technology designed to make, well, something's happening here, but i don't know what it is. can we go back to the prompter, please, and continue with the segment. technology designed to make airplanes safer could make it more dangerous to fly, the conclusion of the fed's investigation into the deadly asiana's airlines crash in san francisco last summer. the pilots relied too heavily on cockpit technology they did not fully understand. the feds said three people died when the boeing 777 approached the airport too low and too slowly. the back of the jet slammed into a seawall, sending the whole thing skidding down a runway. airline official told investigators that the pilots believe the automatic controls would keep the jet flying fast enough for safe landing. al qaeda-linked terrorists are working to develop a new generation of bombs to smuggle on to commercial airliners according to a report from abc news. look at the wall over here, you'll see that the report shows
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that two notorious al qaeda afill yata fafill affiliates, one in syria one in yemen are building up to create, quote, devices that don't contain any metal. abc reports this helps explain why u.s. officials warned for the potential for explosives in shoes, toothpaste tubes and makeup. there's no word for a specific target or timeline for the latest incident. after 9/11, prosecutors said the so-called shoe bomber tried to light explosives in his sneakers on a flight to miami before passengers tied him to his seat. christmas day in 2009, witnesses say the underwear bomber set himself on fire when his device failed to detonate. the feds blamed al qaeda in yemen for that attack. that's the same group that they say plotted to take down cargo planes over the united states using printer cartridges packed with explosives. michael belboni is former homeland security director for
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new york state and live with us on the deck. bombs that don't contain metal and can't be detected in airports. >> peroxide-based bombs. it's a smaller bomb. when you have a car bomb, you use fertilizer bombs, fuel bombs. when you put it in a cavity, an attempt on a saudi prince using a cavity bomb, again, it's all peroxide based. >> peroxide based bombs aren't new. i think we did those in science lab as a kid. >> it's what you put them in, put the different pieces together. there was a plot where they wanted to put bombs on planes comiing from britain to the united states. those were the types of liquids that resulted in tsa warnings against bringing liquids on. you see a progression. whether it's a shoe bomb, underwear bomb, the bombs in the cartridges. this is what they're doing all the time. s shep, a lot of people don't appreciate this. the forces in yemen in particular are spending so much of their time and effort to develop these devices.
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and they don't have to worry about any other appropriaprotoc. now in the middle east because of what's going on in syria, they have places where they can actually develop these things without a lot of scrutiny. >> huh. and how do we find out about this? and what do we do to stop it? >> the intelligence is coming out of there pretty fast and furious. it's been out for a while. they've been up -- i spoke with dhs officials today. they've been looking at this for a long time. so they're really preparing to make sure that everything's up on this, but they know the threat is evolving. that's the problem here. so what we have to look for, you know, again, better scrutiny of passengers getting on planes. of course, cargo detection. because peroxide, again, doesn't have metal in it. the metal screening is not going to prevent it. >> thank you very much. well, michael, i'm sorry. all of our communications are fallen apart. an update on the confirmed tornado on the ground in central indiana now. we're getting our first reports of damage. our local station, fox 59 reports the tornado near the
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indy raceway destroyed three homes. spotters saw a second tornado in nearby plainfield. in other words, there have been two tornadoes confirmed. whether two are still on the ground or not is something we don't have a handle right this moment. wxin is our local station working to get further information as are our bureaus. and we'll bring you more information as we get it. this is live coverage now coming in from fox 59. and you can see they've been able to get pictures in of some of the damage. they have a car that's streaming live on the right hand side of the screen and some street team pictures on the left side of the screen. so we know there's damage. we know of no injuries, but when we have anything further on this, we will take it to you right away. the president of egypt is refusing to go along with a request from the white house to free the journalist sentenced to years in prison for being journalists. they did nothing wrong. they did their jobs. but the government over there doesn't like the message. so they locked them up for two of them seven years and one of
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eat up. keep heart-healthy. live long. for a healthy heart, eat the 100% natural whole grain goodness opost shredded wheat. doctors recommend it. s fox report now. more of the headlines from the fox news desk. at least two people are dead including a teenaged girl after a shooting outside an apartment complex in miami this morning. that's according to a city official. cops there say they're still looking for the gunman who fired up to 16 shots and they say they're not sure of a motive. police in the area say as many as ten people got hurt. witnesses say members of the terror group boko haram kidnapped 60 more girls and women and 31 boys in northeast nigeria. security forces deny it even happened. boko haram took school girls as hostages in april threatening to sell them as sex slaves. vladimir putin withdrew his
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request. putin says the ukrainian government should extend its planned cease-fire beyond this week. still, both sides accuse the other of violationi inviolating cease-fire. continuing coverage of breaking news out of indiana and the rest of the days headlines as "shepard smith reporting" continues next.
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the president of egypt says he will not step in to aid three al jazeera journalists after a court sentenced them to seven years in prison. they face terror related charges simply for doing their jobs. their crime, reporting the news. but the egyptian leader says it's the court's decision and he will not intervene. despite calls from the united states and most other western governments for him to pardon those journalists for they did nothing wrong. the three staffers are an australian, canadian, and an egyptian. security forces accuse them of supporting the husbamuslim brotherhood. al jazeera claims it's not true and all the evidence suggests there's nothing true about it.
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the network denies accusations it's a mouthpiece for the muslim brotherhood. today journalists from around the globe protested the convictions. they've been tweeting support. some photos out in support as well. and the numbers really are astounding. this is the level to which this is an attack on freedom of the press is really hard to get through. i know you got some pictures in. >> yes, shep, this morning al jazeera held a moment of silence at their news station. you know what, actually, i had other pictures but it just went -- >> all of our equipment has frozen. >> it's kind of crazy today how it's doing that. >> ridiculous. >> i was just flipping through that. >> it's not just yours, it's all of them. fear not. this happens to me every minute. >> also a huge group outside this morning around the same time al jazeera, also their crews had tape over their cameras, tape over their mouths using #freeajstaff, also #journalismisnotacrime.
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tweeting pick her tures protest hard. >> i don't know what we can do. this could happen to anybody. at this time. if you said something against the egyptian government. the egyptian court. they had these people in cages in court. they actually admitted that they didn't have the evidence. and they showed pictures that they said were fake which were not. then they said we have more videos but don't have the wom equipment to show the videos. it was a disaster. joining us now, u.s. director of the non-profit organization, reporters without borders is with us. thanks so much. >> thank you for having me, shepard. >> i don't know where to begin with how unbelievable this is. what can be done he, if anything? >> to make you understand what's going on, useful to remind you of the context of this witch hunt. so, to be clear, egypt has never been a paradise for journalists. not at all.
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since the removal, all the government have frtried to reprs the media as much as possible and control the information. the situation declined considerably since the army seized power last july. by that, i'm thinking more than 60 journalists who have been arrested. i'm thinking of the dozen of journalists right now in jail. i'm thinking of six journalists actually have been killed since last july, covering the protest. you just have to understand the new regime is actually persecuting all the media which are considered as supporting the muslim brotherhood and al jazeera is the main target. >> now, you say supporting the muslim brotherhood, but we know two of these journalists, our colleagues at cnn, wolf blitzer, fareed zakaria, others have worked with them. i've heard nothing they are truth seekers, all they want to
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sfind out what's happening so they can tell people about it. for the egyptian government, the truth is less than helpful and that's the real problem. >> exactly. it's very important to say that the journalists were sentenced to seven years yesterday are very well known and experienced journalists. they used to work for cnn, bbc, "the new york times." it's completely clear that this trial is a sham. and this trial is just violating freedom which are actually guaranteed by the new constitution that president sisi -- so we're just calling the president to implement the new constitution which defends freedom of the press. so there's no need for external intervention. the egyptian regime should supply its own constitution. >> what they would like to do, they would like for journalists who want to report the truth to the world to stop coming to their country and stop reporting. has that been the effects of this? >> you know, to be more precise, it's more than -- in egyptian
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there's extreme polarization of the media between the media which are supporting the actual government and the media who are supporting the muslim brotherhood. so this extreme polarization of the media is, of course, reinforcing the polarization in the society, itself, and that's one of the important elements of this context. >> delphine from reporters without borders. thanks to you and your organization. all our best to our friends at al jazeera. we're with you in lock step. 90 american forces are on the ground in iraq now according to the pentagon. they are the first as many of 300 so-called military advisers. a phrase you might remember from vietnam. at any rate, the ones president obama said he would send to help iraqi forces. our secretary of state john kerry is also in iraq. he is today. he called for leaders of kurdistan, that region in the north, to support a new iraqi
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government. to help push back islamist militants and their supporters. kurdish leaders, however, hinted that kurdistan probably doesn't want to do that. remember, kurdistan is really an autonomous region that stretches across a few countries in the middle east. shown here in the green area shaded on the map. you see up there in talafar, mosul, kirkuk. part in turkey, part of it here in syria. actually, no, part of it in the north of iraq. the north of iraq, that's the one place that's really stable. the kurdish troops there, they call them the pashmurga, are the only ones fighting back against the militants who joined in with them. and those kurdish forces have been very effective. last week, they took control of the oil-rich city of kirkuk and now there are no signs that they're willing to give it back at all. state department deputy spokeswoman marie harf joins us now. nice of you. thank you. >> thanks for having me, shep. happy to be here. >> what's the situation now?
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>> well, as you said, secretary kerry's on the ground now talking to all of the leaders in iraq about forming a government that's inclusive that includes the kurds, the sunnis, and the shia, to move iraq to a better place because you're absolutely right, those special operators are on the ground today. they know how to fight terrorists like isil better than anyone. that won't matter unless iraq's leaders including the kurds step up to the plate. >> did you just say special operators are on the ground to attack isil? because that's the biggest fear. that's exactly what the fear is. that these special operators, these advisers are going to turn out to be advisers just like they were in vietnam and that all of a sudden this thing is going to escalate. you can smile about it all you want, but that is the fear. you're the one who said they're ready to fight isil. i hope that's not the case. >> i said they know how to fight terrorists like isil better than anyone and that's what they'll be advising and assisting the iraqis doingthemselves to make
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that perfectly clear. they're there to help as they step up to the fight as advisers in the role. >> have they made progress to getting the leadership to be inclusive? i've seen no signs of it, no indication that nuri al maliki budged in any way. >> we're about to have a new government, shep, formed as soon as possible and we'll see very soon whether iraq's leaders understand how serious the situation is and want to take their country to a better place. because, again, nothing we do will solve's iraq problems for it. we really need the iraqis to step up. prime minister maliki or whoever the next leader of iraq is to do just that. >> hey, up in kurdistan, i know that there were talks and they've gotten some degree of cooperation up there, but is there any indication that kurdish president is going to support the central government? >> absolutely. so secretary kerry talked to a number of kurdish leaders who said they would support a government formation for a federal unified iraq. they understand the severity of the problem. the iraqi army has been working
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were closely with the pashmurga as you mentioned to fight the threat tonight. we know there will be a new government that will includes iraq's different sects. >> what level of concern is there by the time we get all this stuff together or they get their stuff together with whatever help we can give, that baghdad will be in jeopardy there? we spoke with a reporter from "the wall street journal" earlier this in newscast who said attacks are already happening in baghdad, that people have already been murdered by these terrorists. >> well, we know the security situation is very fluid and what we're tries to ying to do with advisers is help the iraqi army get back on their feet and push back. provided them with additional surveillance and reconnaissance to find where the terrorists are operating, but we know the threat from isil is real. we are confident, though, if we work with the iraqi army and if their leaders step up that we can push back against this threat. >> yeah. the sad part is the iraqi army has melted away and their leaders have never stepped up. not once from the very
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beginning. i don't know what kind of pressure can be applied now. i mean, what they face is either losing all of their power and probably eventually their lives, or staying in there and falling to defeat. you know, which do you choose? >> well, there are parts of the iraqi army that are still very capable units. parts of the iraqi army did surprise people by melting away, but there are still some elite units here that we're working with. we do think we can do after this terrorist threat from isil very aggressively. as you said, the pashmurga is doing so as well. that what we're focused on doing with the advisers and munitions we're sending them. as we all said, secretary kerry said we have a number of options available to us including military options if we think it makes sense to use those. >> well, i certainly hope it all works out. marie harf from the state department. frustrating for all of us. technical difficulties. apologize for tone. >> thanks for having me. i want to get back to this tornado that's gotten more serious now in indiana.
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we have local media reports that crews going door to door in the town of plainfield where a number of homes are damaged or destroyed. they're trying to find out if there are survivors within the rubble. our local station reports a different tornado near the indianapolis speedway did destroy three homes there. reports that that twister was rain-wrapped. so as you were looking from your home or driving down the road, you kcouldn't see it. it looked like a wall of rain and would come many and knock everything over. the last of tornado warnings is set to expire in a couple minutes. let's listen to fox 59 to see if there are changes as we've been going along. on the left hand side of the screen is local radar. on the right hand side, live pictures. let's listen. >> marion county, we're essentially in the clear from the storm. castleton, the carmel area, points south and west, you're clear. fishers, you're about to exit the heaviest of rain with the storm. that storm up i-69. southeastern corner of madison -- southeastern corner of hamilton county.
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moving toward madison county. the tornado warning that has been issued continues until 3:45 p.m. we're waiting for the national weather service as to whether or not they're going to expand or continue that warning. i think they may continue it into madison county just because we're still seeing at least some wall cloud activity. >> so the good news is the funnel clouds, themselves, are no longer on the ground. they've either broken up or gone back up in the clouds. and we're less than a minute aw away now from the expiration of the tornado warnings so hopefully the worst is over. now to get the damage reports in and when we get those, we'll bring them to you. this is breaking news coverage on fox news channel. the season's freshest flavors,
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there is breaking news now on fox news channel. a federal judge has just ruled that the united states government violated the rights of 13 people on its no-fly list. when it took away their constitutional right to travel. this court also ruled that the government didn't give them a reasonable way to challenge the fact that they were on the list in the first place. so this is big because it's the first ruling to label the no-fly list procedures unconstitutional. this particular legal fight started back in 2010. 13 people challenged the fact that they were on this list. 13 including 4 military veterans. today, they won. a federal judge has ruled the u.s. government violated their rights by putting them on a no-fly list and deprivining the of constitutional rights. the crisis in iraq is
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driving up gas prices in the u.s. according to the reporting of aaa which reports the national average for regular unleaded is $3.68 a gallon up 11 cents from this time last year. secretary general of opec insists there's no shortage of oil. there isn't, but he also says the cartel is ready to boost necessary. jerry wi gerri willis is with us. how much are analysts saying the prices are going to go up? >> aaa is saying by the fourth of july we will have six-year highs for gas prices. not good news for consumers who have been seeing prices go up everywhere from the gas pump, to the grocery store. take a look at the six-month chart. this gives you a sample of what's been going on this year with gas prices. they've only gone up and up and up. you understand the pressure consumers are feeling right now with their wallets. their salaries aren't going up. wages aren't on a tear, but gas prices certainly are. >> yeah, and that affects the entire economy because that reduces expendable end come.
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you know, disposable income is gone now. >> you don't have a choice to buy gas, right? you have to use it. what's more, gas is an input, what economists say, into everything else. if you're making widgets, you're using gas. driving to school, you're using gas. everyone is using it. >> sounds like we need a new plan, doesn't it? gerri, thank you. >> you're welcome. next, a pentagon program so grueling many of our own special forces can't pass it. we'll take you live to the school where our fighters train under water. when you run a business, you can't settle for slow.
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that's why i always choose the fastest intern. the fastest printer. the fastest lunch. turkey club. the fastest pencil sharpener. the fastest elevator. the fastest speed dial. the fastest office plant. so why wouldn't i choose the fastest wifi? i would. switch to comcast business internet and get the fastest wifi included. comcast business. built for business. u.s. officials say they expect green berets to make up most of the 300 military advisers that president obama is sending to iraq. they're part of the military special forces. a highly selective group of
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troo troops. here in the united states, one of their elite training facilities is marking its 50th year. it's in key west. military members from the united states and other countries train to become combat divers who take on the difficult and dangerous task of navigating missions under water. about one in three students enrolled in the course fails. our steve harigan is at the facility in key west this afternoon. >> reporter: keep in mind, these students to begin with are already rangers or green beret army special forces members. really for 1/3 of them not to cut the muster in this course tells you how tough it is here. they're celebrating their 50th anniversary of featuring combat drivers how to fight on the surface and under water. really the best of the best. one instructor explained to me the stress of this course comes from having to do everything in the water. >> when we put them in the water first under stressful situations, breath holding,
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under physical exertion, the weaker, less prepared tend to get their heart rate up to high they can't continue with the event and will come to the surface. >> reporter: here in this controlled environment, these soldiers are undergoing drown proofing. they'll eventually have their hands and feet bound. they often give you a leaded weight belt to wear in some of the exercises. i have one here on now. they tell me it will take novices straight to the bottom. i askedinstructors what do you do if they're stuck down there? we wait until he figures it out for himself or until he passes out. >> well, i'm not going to wait to see if he passes out. many suggest that would be good television. i don't think there's any chance that steve would pass out. steve has survived everything. i did not know he was jumping into the water, and he's alive. good to go, sir? he's good to go. we'll wrap up the hour. and top of the next, coming up.
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just a few seconds now to the top of the hour but i wanted to update you on the tornadoes in central indiana. the videos come in, what we've gotten from the ground there. you see it in the distance and some damage there. sounds to me like some of the official reports from police by twitter and otherwise in the early going may have been exaggerated. but there are damaged homes, damaged buildings. they're out doing assessments now. fox 59 is reporting at least two tornadoes in the area damaged a number of homes. so far, no reports of anybody
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hurt. the tornado warning is over but severe storm warnings will last until the early evening hours. 7:00, 7:30 at night. more information as we get it. it's the top of the hour an time for the top of the news. here's "your world with neil cavuto." >> it's worse than anyone thought. an explosive new report blaming shoddy care for the deaths of up to 1,000 veterans. nearly a billion dollars paid out for medical malpractice. the senator exposing it all is here. welcome, everyone. i'm in for neil cavuto. this is "your world." contained in this 123-page report just released by oklahoma republican senator tom coburn and the title says it all. "friendly fire, death, delay, and dismay at the va." it does not paint a pretty picture of what our veterans are going through. historic wait times at va hospitals. billio
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