tranquilized him and got him down to safety. firefighters cut the jar off his head. >> we have a bunch of ufo tweets. we'll retweet some of the most interesting ones. i'm jenna lee. here's harris in for shep. >> we begin with an extreme weather alert now. the first named storm of the season could soon become a hurricane. arthur is threatening to wash out the holiday weekend for a lot of people. millions of people are in the path of the storm. tropical storm ather is on the move up the east coast. you see it on the right of the screen. in florida, it's creating currents and dark skies over beinggoers. red flag warnings have not stopped people from trying to stop. this is a great risk. they don't listen. at this hour, forecasters are saying arthur is taking aim at the carolinas. forecasters say the storm could bring heavy rain, dangerous winds, just when hundreds of thousands of families are

celebrating unless day. a different scene than what we see now. blue skies, calm waters. this is atlantic beach in north carolina. it looks like from what we're seeing on the map it's about to change. let's pull in janice dean who is now next to me on the fox news deck. this storm now is taking form. we can clearly see this. >> absolutely. take a look at the satellite radar imagery on the big board where we're seeing a tightening eye. you can see that. this is actually the best i have seen the storm look since it became arthur. it is a strengthening storm. we have hurricane hunters out there investigating. we have a new advisory at 5:00 p.m., and that will give us the coordinates, the wind speeds. i think the wind speeds are going to go up. >> they're going to go up? >> i think we'll possibly have a hurricane overnight tonight, a little earlier than anticipated. >> where are we on the season? >> we're early. typically, we see the first named storm, a hurricane, mid-july, so we're a little early. we were talking about el nino

cutting back on the season. it only takes one storm to make it a bad season. >> we don't want to overdo, overburden people, but we have a lot of people getting ready to travel. anybody doing to catch a break in this? >> i think the northeast is looking at a bit of a break, but we have to watch. these things are a bit fickle, so every track that comes out, the new one at 5:00 p.m., but there is what we have right now, a 60-mile-per-hour sustained wind storm. 74 makes it a hurricane. we anticipate a hurricane possibly overnight tonight and tomorrow, and the track brings it very close to the outer banks, beautiful beaches there. the big story is the fourth of july holiday. if this was just a tropical storm and a hurricane, there's a first one, so there's a lot of emphasis, but this is one of the biggest holiday weekends in the country. >> i want to put a finer point obit's not just about rain. you can change your plans, but it affects people in the air, ground travel, and it can be dangerous. the track of the wind is much

more than it was a few hours ado go. >> if we're talking about a strengthening storm, there's nothing in its path. land is what tears the storms apart. it's got the gulf stream ahead of it, okay, the infamous gulf stream waters of 84 degrees. it's fuel to strengthen the storm. nothing in the path, taking a look at the steering currents. the cold front moving across the east is what is going to push it out to east. >> that's why it helps people in boston. >> absolutely. still keeping a close eye on it. it it moves west of the cone of in certainty, more impact. we'll see coastal surge as well as beach erosion. if it moves moyer to the east, we're dealing with winds, rip currents. >> a change of plans, simple. >> absolutely. as i mentioned, the cold front is moving through. i want to point out we have watches and warnings in some of the biggest cities in the northeast coastline. as the cold front moves in and what paicks the storm up is wha

is going to steer this arthur in the next 12 to 24 hours. hail, damaging winds, and isolated tornadoes. we have already seen tornadoes in upstate new york. >> you walked in about ten minutes before the newscast and were filling everybody in. can you come back? >> absolutely. the hurricane hunters are flying in right now. twee get periodic updates from their travels and what they drop into the storm to find out what the winds are, and we'll give you the update, but the full update comes out at 5:00 p.m. eastern time and we'll be the first to have that for you. >> janice dean, always honest, we appreciate it. thank you very much. for more on the danger over the coming holidays for those who really want to go to the beach, we showed you the surfers, they don't listen, they just want to be out there. how is it looking, phil? >> hi, harris. we have the final band of rainfall associated with

tropical storm arthur just in. arthur is way off in the distance, north-northeast of us. the class system about 115 miles from coco beach florida. the tropical storm warning from basically where we are up to jacksonville is now lifted by the hurricane center, so there's only one thing to do for the locals here in cocoa beach, get on the surfboards, but all weekend long, millions will be going to the beaches, and rip currents will be a major danger, so certainly keep that in mind. make sure there's a life guard nearby. there is dangerous, as well, whether it's a tropical storm of a hurricane, check out what happened in ft. pierce, florida. five teenagers, all girls, all recovering with minor injuries after being stranded on rocks when five-foot rake waves star raking up. heroic rescuers pulled them out, and they're all right, up in north carolina on the beaches there, the barrier islands, it's

sunny, gorgeous, a beautiful day, but the rest of the fourth of july weekend not looking promising. here's why. a look from space, about 250 miles up, onboard the international space station this morning. that is tropical storm arthur. it looks big, only getting bigger and stronger, currently packing 60-mile-per-hour sustained winds. those are expected to go to 80, 85, and tomorrow most likely turning into a category 1 hurricane. back here at the beach, a lot of fun right now, and for once, florida, the most hurricane state in the nation, is looking pretty good on this first name storm of the season. >> as it scoots its way up, it will make its way in a different way. i'm glad the people dpoun there are doing well. the big threat is always storm surge, phil. >> absolutely. especially with this tropical storm, and what may be a category 1 hurricane. really skirting the coastline of the u.s. so there's uncertainty, and it still could mean a lot worse

than skirting the coastline, but anywhere from really charleston, south carolina, to bloomington, cape hatteras, nags head, up to n newport news and all the bay up to new england, a lot of risk on flooding. and the national hurricane center, the debut test of their new interactive website, if you go to nationalhurricanecenter.org, you can find a link and put in a zip code, and it will give you whether it's going to be a 1-foot, 2-foot, 3-foot sunchlg and what the anticipated flash flooding will be in the area. important to remind yourself in hurricane season, more people are killed because of the flash flooding and the storm surge than from the flying debris from the hurricane winds, even though visually those are so much more dramatic. be safe this holiday weekend, but really, a wash out for a lot of holiday travelers. >> phil keating, thank you very much. let's go to the border with

mexico where people continue illegally streaming across it to get into the country. protesters have blocked bus loads of children and families from entering a bus sdagz. that happened about 60 miles north of san diego. demonstrators turned back three homeland security buses after a stand-off. they were transferring them from overcrowded facilities in texas. the feds say more than 50,000 children are come into the nation since october. let's take a look at the monster wall. they eventually rerouted the buses from marietta to an immigration facility within view of the border. city officials say they have been told to expect bus loads more to arrive every 72 hours. william is live in our west coast newsroom. what else has happened at this protest? >> well, there was a counter protest as well last night, and the two had to be separated by police. those bus loads were the first of many scheduled for marietta. the mayor urged residents to

turn out if he couldn't get straight answers from the feds, how many, would they stay, would they go, would they be screened? residents blocked the road when the illegal immigrants caught in texas but flown the san diego that morning tried to enter the facility. the crowd chanted, go home. counter protesters called them inhumane. the buses detoured to san diego, some were released to relatives. statistically, up to 75% will stay. >> i'm sicked and tired of seeing my tax dollars wasted. >> we have our own veterans. we have homeless mothers. we have a lot of people living on the streets in l.a. we need to take care of these people first. >> several children were treated for lice. others were hospitalized when they failed health exams. illegal immigration is up. deportation is down 40%.

right now, it's an issue of space, something the feds don't have. >> if deportation is down, that makes perfect sense. once they get here, they're not leaving. i'm curious, what is driving the sudden immigration surge, particularly with children involved? >> number one, the administration says the surge is driven by poverty and violence. agents say that is not intearily accurate. here's why. kids say they're coming to stay with families. some adults are reciting a script saying incredible fear and persecution. they look coached. some admit relatives are telling them to come before the u.s. cracks down. unaccompanied minor app apprehensions jumped. 40% of the border patrol isn't patrolling the border. they're doing paperwork. they're in planes daily escorting people to different cities. >> as long as they keep coming

into texas, they're going to keep sending them to us. unless congressional or someone else steps in and stops it. >> agents say the smugglers are making $5,000 to $8,000 a head, something the very criminal basically financers are enriching the networks we're trying to stop. >> $8,000 a head. they're estimating 50,000 children. that's a lot of cash. two little girls accused of stabbing and nearly killing a class mate, all because of a made up monster called slender man. prosecutors have charged the 12-year-old suspects as adults, but after what happened earlier today, at least one of those children may never stand trial. stay close.

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his body reportedly turned up burned in a nearby forest. the killing hours after tens of thousands of people had attended a funeral for those three israeli teenagers. investigators say those teens, one of them a u.s. citizen, went missing on june 12th. police say their bodies turned up on monday. they have blamed hamas for their killings. >> one of the two children accused of stabbing a class mate to appease a fictional horror kakt, slenderman, is not competent enough to stand trial. that's according to two doctors. one for the prosecution, one for the defense. both girls appeared in court today outside milwaukee. we're not showing the faces. the girls, again, are 12 years old. the judge ordered a hearing for august 1st to determine if the one girl we mentioned is in fact competent to stand trial. they lured a friend to a park in may and stabbed her 14 times. she managed to survive the attack. the two girls told police they were trying to impress

slenderman, a tall boogie man featured on blogs. they have charged the girls as adults with convicted murder. drew is a criminal defense attorney and he joins us now. drew, good to have you along today. >> good being here, harris. thank you. >> early on, we heard arguments that any 12-year-old who would stab another child 19 times might potentially have a mental disorder. but that wasn't official. are you surprised by what happened in the court today? >> well, a couple reasons i'm not surprised. one, the individual court today is represented by tony cotton, an excellent lawyer, very savvy and very knowledgeable of the law. what tony is trying to do in the case is what he should be doing. that is establishing competency to assist in a trial. our system is based on being able to sit with your attorney and say, let me look at the evidence, let me understand the evidence, the trial techniques you're going to employ. a 12-year-old who is 11 years

old at the time in fifth grade, is incapable of doing that. most adults don't even understand the criminal justice system, let alone a fifth grader. that's the issue that took place. there were two witnesses who testified, one hired by the court and one by the defense, and both agreed the child was i ink inci incompetent to appreciate the criminal justice distest system. >> it says she can't help in her own defense. therefore she should be adjud kalted. they knocked this down to juvey court. i'm confused. a lot of people can't understand their cases. they're not knocking them out of court. >> well, harris, let me explain to you. what is really weird about wisconsin is they do things backwards. a lot of jurisdictions, i would say most jurisdictions, you start off in juvenile court. if the case is so heinous, like a brutal murder, it is then transferred to an adult court. in wisconsin, because of the

charge and the fact they're over 10 years old, the law requires without discretion that it starts as being treated as an adult and work backwards. the prosecutors didn't have a choice, but there was also no choice for the judge once two psychiatrists got on the stand and said this fifth grader cannot appreciate the system. and harris, we have to be careful. we can't compare you and i and our ability to understand the system with a child that's worried about the decision and their ability to understand the legal justice system. >> what does it do for the other little girl in the case, though? >> i think we're going to see the domino effect. i think we're going to see the other child determined not to be competent. you have to understand the diagnostic tests they're using are designed for adults. so even the testing they're using, these kids are not going to understand any of the questions. these are the kind of questions that grown-ups are used to

dealing with. they're intelligent type tests that an 11 and 12-year-old are incapable of understanding. >> real quickly, just to play devil's advocate, and we would hate for this to happen to anybody at any age, 12-year-old little ones having this happen, but the little girl survived. what does this say when other kids commit crimes? if you don't understand the case before you based on the questions asked, you won't have to go forth? >> i think what it says is we're dealing with kids that are so young and vulnerable that this even character on the internet is having this kind of impact on them. you know, to prepare for today's show, i studied this slenderman thing. it's awful. the fact these kids are so young, they're influenced by this, let's just know there's no room in a criminal justice system that has to worry about murders that flock and kill people for insurance policies and deal large amounts of drugs and rape people.

that's what our criminal justice system needs to by saved for. >> as you said that, we popped up the fictional character. it's a made-up boogie man. drew findlay today to help us break it down, thank you very much. >> thank you. paying up at the pump. the word there, up, is what has meaning. gas prices hitting their highest level in years. any relief in sight? that's next.

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just in time for the july fourth holiday, gas prices set to hit their highest levels in sirx years. that's according to aaa. reports the national average for regular unleaded fuel is now $3.67 per gallon. that's 20 cents higher than this time last year. aaa predicts, though, nearly 35 million americans will travel at

least 50 miles by car over the holiday weekend. kate rogers joins us now, a reporter for foxbusiness.com. what's driving up the prices? >> harris, prices began climbing in june. there was a ton of unrest in the middle east and iraq, due to isis. they took over the second largest city and there were concerned they would take over baghdad. as a result, crude oil went higher. gas prices climbed, and consumers got hit. if you look at a six-month chart, prices have been climbing steadily and they're holding over $3.50. the good news is experts say they're not set to climb higher. >> i'm a little confused because what you're saying is going on in the middle east may or may not tend to work itself out or whatever happens there, so what do drivers do in the meantime? >> there are simple things you can do to help cut back on what you spend at the pump. the first thing is to drive the speed limit, which is tough for me because i'm always speeding around. number two is to take the extra

weight out of the back of the car and the trunk. number three -- >> that could be people you know -- i'm kidding. >> number three, make sure your tires are properly inflated. you should drive around with your windows rolled up and your ac on instead of driving around with our windows down. and the next is to look at sites like gasbuddy.com or download different gas price comparison apps. demay be worth it to get off a local highway and go to a local city or town and get your gas there. >> gasbuddy.com, i haven't done that in a while but i may have to break it out. >> they're great for comparison. >> thank you very much. as an al qaeda spin-off group moves across iraq, you heard the relation to that and gas prices, they're taking town after town. that nation's leader is warning that violence can draw the entire region into cay aus. what about our troops inside iraq? dplz rr news on that. also, this friday, brian

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i'm leah gabriel with the fox reports. a spokeswoman for general motors says the automaker is still trying to figure out what caused yesterday's explosion at a metal stamping plant northeast of indianapolis. the blast killed one person and injured five others. emergency crews record a cargo plane slammed into a building killing four people after a botched takeoff. police say the plane may have hit an electrical pole. investigators say it was hauling

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no one in iraq or neighboring countries is safe. now that sunni militants have declare their own islamic state. that's the warning today from iraqi prime minister nuri al maliki as the country's troops battle extremists in saddam hussein's home town of tikrit. iraqi television is reporting this is the first video of troops staging an attack to take back the city about 100 miles north of the capital, baghdad. fox news cannot independently confirm that at this point.

isis militants, as we have been calling them, and their supporters have taken over a large area in iraq and syria. see the red lines. they have erased the border between two countries at this point. just days ago, extremists declared land and the state governed by sharia law is theirs. jennifer, now washington has issued a counter warning to the iraqis. what's the message? >> well, harris, essentially to get their political house in order. vice president joe biden called the speaker of the iraqi parliament today, and here is the message from the white house. >> it's not fighting to take over iraq. they're fighting to destroy iraq. and that's why it's important for iraq's diverse population to come together, that's why it's particularly important for the political leadership to come together to place the interests of the country ahead of their own political ambitions. >> this as russian war planes landed in baghdad to provide air

support for the military. the government has expressed frustrations that usf-16s they brought and were scheduled to arrive this fall are taking too long. the russians moved in to fill the vacuum. >> you can imagine people's sensitivity when you hear about americans on the grounds. we're up to numbers above 700. what more can we expect from the military at this point? >> there's 650 u.s. troops out of the 770 authorized by the president. they are on the ground in iraq. the drones that the u.s. are sending will be based out of baghdad. the pilots will be operating in baghdad. 90 u.s. troops are participating in assessing the iraqi military. the chairman of the joint chiefed talks about how they would assess the military before committing more resources. >> will they hold? what's their make-up? are they still a force that represents all iraqis?

are their leaders confident that they can do the jobs they're being asked to do? and then, when we have that assessment in hand, we'll make -- not i think, we'll make some decisions about whether there's other kinds of support we can provide. >> the original plan was to set up a joint operations center in the north of iraq. that is on hold right now. if they do so, then an additional 90 u.s. troops would be needed for that as well. the pentagon has not ruled out sending more troops, harris. >> jennifer, thank you very much. we appreciate it. a suspect in the terror attack on the u.s. outpost in benghazi, libya, will stay in custody until his trial. that decision from a federal judge in washington today. abu khattala was in court today. his own attorney even says he should stay behind bars. the attack killed u.s. ambassador chris stevens, sean smith, and gren doherty and tyrone woods. they captured khattala.

we have been reporting, he pleaded not guilty to conspiracy. the feds plan to add more charges to that. catherine herridge is live at the federal courthouse in d.c. what happened in court today? >> i was about 25 feet from the benghazi suspect, and as you walked into the courtroom, he seemed quite relaxed, wearing a green jump suit with the word prisoner in white letters on the back. the government laid out its case for pre-trial detention. they allege he's a flight risk, that he's guilty of a violent crime and they have eyewitness accounts, forensic evidence, and khattala's post-capture statements in order to make their case. the defense counters the government has made a series of broad generalizations and conclusions about his alleged role in the terror attack and they falter the government for not providing access to at least limited evidence until the morning of the hearing.

one of the key things based on the evidence that is now available to us is they see two principle hurdles for the prosecution in this case. number one, this is not a traditional crime scene that was secured by the fbi where they could bag and tag evidence and deal with these chain of custody issues, and the second is bringing over witnesses from libya to the united states and then swearing them in to give testimony during this trial, so that will be unprecedented as well, harris. >> kath catherine herridge reporting live. you were listening and you have response to what she was saying. >> yes, the government does have hurdles. remember, whatever he told them, the intelligence interrogators in ten days on the ship cannot be used against him. that leaves the government with relatively little evidence because the scene was not secured as a crime scene, as

katherine pointed out. and the government's documents today in which they made allegations about his behavior, they didn't say we have witnesses to support this. they said, there are witnesses to support this. they don't physically have the witnesses here. they have to go and get them 10,000 miles away. they can't kidnap them. they're witnesses. they have to persuade them to come here, somehow interrogate them, and bolster their credibility before the jury. you could argue that this was gitmo at sea. we believe, those of us who watch these things, that the government acquired some interesting -- i don't know if it was useful, interesting intelligence information from him. it appears he was not the ring master, but he was there and he knew what was going on. no allegation he had a gun in his hand, no allegation he orchestrated anything. just an allegation he was there and he was among the people that were moving about before, during, and after chris stevens

and the others' deaths. >> so interesting to hear president obama and others among the democrats talking about closing gitmo. when you can sort of re-create it on the high seas is what you have said. let's move on. they have to put forth in the pretrial detention hearing a reason to keep him behind bars until the trial comes. any chance he would go free? >> no, there's no chance he could go free. first of all, his own lawyer concedes there's no place for him to go. essentially, he was kidnapped off the streets, a lawful kidnapping, kidnapped off the street in libya and brought here. he has no roots here whatsoever. the first question the judge k asks as a bail hearing is, is there a reasonable chance if i let this person go, he'll come back in the courtroom when we need him? the answer is no. there's no reasonable chance he'll come back. a bail hearing is a waste of time. >> very quickly, what's next? >> this will take a slow, below

the fold, back-page pace as that slow, methodical litigation begins. as the government begins to get information about its case to the defense, the defense analyzes it and decides how to reduce it, and portray it in a light most favorable to the defendant. it will become a run of the mill standard criminal case, all be it one with a lot of interest because of the death of the american ambassador and his body guards. >> let's change topic. i would be remisif i didn't get to the next one. real quickly, hobby lobby, the ruling by the supreme court this week, since monday, dust is settling. what has surfaced in your mind that we should know about this ruling. >> this was not the grand sweeping articulation of the free exercise of religion that a lot of us had hoped for. if my boyhood friend and college class mate justice alito had been able to write the decision

he would have wanted to write, it would have been a dissent. the only way to get the chief justice to join the decision and make it a 5-4 majority was to rule on the narrowest grounds, and those are these. can a regulation issued by the department of health and human services, the contraceptive mandate, trump a statute written by congress 20 years ago which prevenlts such a regulation. answer, no. did you hear me mention religion? no, it's about it trumping a statute. >> do we think we'll get there? >> get where? >> including religion? >> yes, because i think of the 60 cases pending throughout the united states of america, all kinds of groups, including the university of notre dame and the archdiocese of new york. all those groups will now prevail as a result of this. you add up all those groups together, you have a huge number of americans who will not be getting health insurance that covers abortion, contrary to

what the lawyer in the oval office promised them. >> that's a huge puncture, precedent as you would say in your attorney speak. >> yes. >> good to see you. thank you. have a great fourth. >> anything you're wearing today that's not red? you get her shoes? >> it came in one zip lock bag. no, just kidding. an enormous new survey on the best and worst fast food restaurants in the country. i volunteered, they didn't pick me to taste test. after tens of thousands of burgers, fries, chicken sandwiches, tacos, you'll see which places came out on top and which fell to the bottom. that's coming up, along with the story of a barbecue sauce designed by a super computer. they needed me to taste test. they did not ask.

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i have directed tsa to implement enhanced security measures in the coming days. at certain overseas airports with direct flights to the united states. it did not specify exactly what security measures, of course. now, abc has reported, you know, this perceived threat that some kind of undetectable explosive is being developed and western operatives are being trained in syria. this explains earlier this year u.s. officials warned about the potential for explosives in shoes, toothpaste tubes and makeup. no word on a specific target or a timeline for this latest threat. remember, just two months after 9/11, of course, prosecutors say the so-called shoe bomber tried to light explosives in his sneakers on a flight to miami before passengers tied him to his seat, and christmas day, 2009, the underwear bomber set himself on fire when his device failed to detonate. the feds have blamed al qaeda in yemen for that attack. that's the same group that they say plotted to take down cargo

s. using printer cartridges packed with explosives. we'll keep you posted and bring you the latest on this as it develops. >> appreciate that on the breaking news. steve, thank you very much. now, on to something completely different. americans will spend more than half a trillion dollars eating out this year, according to the national restaurant association and a surprising survey out today ranks the best and worst fast food chains in america. over to the monster wall. that is a very big mcdonald's m. like bigger than me. according to consumer reports, mcdonald's has the worst burgers among the nation's top fast food chains. mcdonald's? the worst chicken? kfc. taco bell, the worst burritos. consumer reports surveyed more than 32,000 subscribers for the study and we reached out to each of the companies for a statement. here's what mcdonald's spokesperson told usa today. we're proud to serve 27 million

customers in the u.s. every day. it's important to listen to their feedback. maria bartiromo joins us, anchor of opening bell. right here on the fox channel. mcdonald's is the worst, so who is the best for a burger? >> the upset, harris. it's interesting because these are category leaders and the leading categories within these companies are losers. right? mcdonald's hamburgers. chicken at kfc. the leading burger, we learned, is a regional burger place called habit burger, followed by in and out burger, another good one. the leading chicken, chick-fil-a. boston chicken as well, boston market. for burritos, chipotle, qdoba. i think what is really interesting is these are smaller regional chains that have taken the lead in terms of the top,

you know, leading categories here. because people's tastes are changing, and as younger people emerge and come into these restaurants, they want more than just low costs. it used to be you went to mcdonald's, burger king, because you wanted the cheapest meal. now people want quality, and they want to make sure it's fresh. so this whole health craze we're talking about is actually impacting these companies quite substantially. >> that's so interesting. my husband is going to love this because he loves in-and-out burger. i never heard of habit burger. >> it's a regional burger place. >> i don't know if we can find this out on the deck, maybe you know, but didn't mcdonald's buy chipotle? somebody big bought them, right? >> i don't think mcdonald's. we'll check on that. chipotle was an ipo, an incredibly successful ipo. >> i wish i bought some of it. >> it really did well. chipotle, one of the selling points is it's all fresh.

people feel like yes, it's fast food, but it's good quality and perhaps you're saving on the qualities. that's really the trend going on. unfortunately with the larger chains, the franchisees are part of the issue because they want to keep cost down. they aren't saying we're going to pay up for quality. so the franchisees are also part of the issue, i think. >> so mcdonald's diivisted in 2006. >> it's still a public company. >> if i'm mcdonald's, the other big names, the big corporations, do i bend, do i say i'm going to subsidize you, you have to run down the street and get fresh lettuce? >> i think you have to. they will lose customers if they are not at a minimum perceived to be on the health track. we're living longer. the cost of genomics has come down. everybody is all about, my kids will live to 100. it's about healthy living.

that is probably one of the biggest trenldz we're seeing right now. if they don't get on that bandwagon, it's their leadership to lose, their business to lose. >> it doesn't affect me because i still eat the fried foods. i like the fries and fries and . maria, good to see you. i'm hungry. let's go to lunch. decades ago, amelia ehhart disappeared. ahead, we'll talk live with the modern day amelia. that's right, that's her name, her parents named her that. right now he's trying to finish her namesake's trip and she just touched down in tanzania. stay close. it's 7am and steve is already thinking about tomorrow. which is why he's investing in his heart health by eating kellogg's raisin bran ® good morning dad. hi, sweetie. here's another eye opener, not only is kellogg's raisin bran ® heart healthy, but its a delicious source of potassium.

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exactly 677 -- 77 years after amelia earhart disappeared, another pilot is flying the same route. 31-year-old amelia rose earhart said her namesake inspired her to start flying ten years ago and she fell in love with it. if she's successful on her new journey, she'll be the youngest to fly around the world in a single engine plane. today she tweeted, on this day in 1937, amelia earhart went missing. her spirit of adventure lives on in many women around the world. today she landed in the african nation tanzania, the afterwhalf point of her journey. amelia, are you with us? >> thank you for having me on. i'm here. i've been sitting at the base of kilimanjaro. >> i want to give viewers an opportunity to learn about your

schedule, because it is grueling what you're doing. >> it is. flying between six and nine hours a day. i got the idea that i wanted to see the sun rise around the entire globe. so every morning we launch about 5:30, 6:00 in the morning and take off east bound. >> you say we're flying. you have a flight crew? >> i do. i have a co-pilot with me, shane jordan. he's sitting right here with me. having a companion on a flight like this is incredibly important. there's a lot of special media to do because we're live tweeting during the night, so it's thankful to have somebody to share these views with. >> do you think your parents naming you this predetermined your destiny before you were born? >> i think so. free throwing up, i got accused a lot, so it took me a long time to grow into it. but when i turned 18, i started

seeing how amazing it was to be named after somebody so influential. so my parents ask me all the time, are you sure you weren't forced to do? i say absolutely not. you don't do something for ten years being forced to do it. >> so you're halfway there. what's next? where do you go next? >> boy, tomorrow morning we wake up at about 4:30 and head into the islands for a fuel spot. we'll fuel up and fly into the maldese, australia, over the south pacific, which is where amelia earhart disappeared 77 years ago today. thinking about in this afternoon as we were flying all the way across the continent -- >> i have to stop it. i'm sorry that i do. but thank you for joining us today and wish you god speed on your flight. thanks for joining us, everybody. we'll be right back. ugh. heartburn.

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is so in following her, amelia on twitter, follow her trek, 24,000 miles around the world. we enjoyed talking with her. loved being with you. now here's neil. destroyed. not e-mails, veteran applications for benefits. not just put aside, try deep six. not fiction, fact. the man who blew the whistle on it all, here. welcome, everybody. i'm neil cavuto. just when you thought this veterans affairs scandal couldn't get uglier, enter one scott davis. he works for a v.a. center in atlanta, and what he discovered there has been shocking every american everywhere. scott, good to have you. tell us what you saw, what you discovered. >> thank you for having me, neil. i was asked by the