>> two guys in a costume. not a real bull. >> that's bull, jen. >> i know. sorry. >> that's not the real running of the bulls. but it's still a cute picture. thank you for being part of "the real story." here's shep. >> the u.s. government is now getting involved in the crisis in the middle east. this comes after a proposal for piece between hamas and israel went up in smoke before it really even began. now a new warning from israel's leader about what will happen next. talk of fines of up to $500 a day just for washing your car or watering your lawn. the incredible drought hitting hard in golden state. and relief may be a long time coming for lots of farmers. how would you like to take your next flight perched on a bicycle seat. just for commuter airlines, right? the new airplane seat that you have to see to believe coming

up. so let's get to it. good afternoon to you and yours. first from the deck this afternoon, the prostitute accused of injecting a google executive had come from a wealthy family but spiraled down a rabbit hole of sex and drugs and damaged men. the daily beast is reporting the woman's father is a ceo and she went to an expensive private school in atlanta before spending time at a school for troubled teens in the state of maine. the suspect here is now 26 years old. her facebook page filled with modeling photos and includes poems about heroin, be trail, and vengeance. police sale the woman was dating a night club owner and rock singer in atlanta, when he died of a heroin overdose last year. investigators say just days earlier, shed a falsely accused him of domestic violence and she hung up on the 9-1-1 operator as

her boyfriend lay dying on the floor of their home. note the ring she is wearing here. it reads, dead girl. months earlier the woman posted this ecard to facebook, quoting, you are lucky that a. so terrified of prison, unquote. she posted a caption with it reading in part, so bleeping true. and stupid laws and rules. now, the accused high-priced hooker could face years in prison. prosecutors charged her with manslaughter after they say she left that google executive to die and even stepped over his body to finish her glass of wine. she reportedly told police she had 200 wealthy clients. so, what's the rest of this story? trace gallagher is in the west coast news hub. what else were learning about this woman's past? >> we know that high school friends say she had an eating disorder and used to cut herself and she had a number of abusive sexual encounters, and alex

tickleman herself admits she began using heroin in high school, and we now know the police identified her by her distinctive tattoos-one that says, until death do us part and one that said, hell is love. her father is the ceo of a clean energy firm in northern california and apparently is a big-time poker player. he once won a tournament and nearly $500,000. in fact the father was at a poker tournament when his daughter was arrested for killing that google executive. >> what's him? what more are police saying about the google executive's death? >> police are now saying the high surveillance video camera on the yacht show that alex tickingman was mixing up the heroin she injected herself first and then she injected him, and he soon after grabbed his heart and collapsed, and for seven minutes, shep, she actually walked over the body, cleaned up the scene, drank a glass of wine, and never tried

to help. they say she is, quote, glacially gold. two months before the google exec died her boyfriend in atlanta, died from a heroin overdose.that case she called 91 and hung up and 9-1-1 called back. >> tell me exactly what happened? >> um, i don't know. i think my boyfriend overdosed or something, he is -- won't respond and he is -- i don't know. >> why do you income it's an overdose? >> um, because there's nothing else it could be. >> okay. >> his death was ruled accidental but now they are taking a second look at that, and we should note that alex tickleman also dated another man who is now in prison for giving a lethal dose of heroin to another young woman. >> thank you very much. let's bring in ashley merchant, criminal defense attorney. ashley, this is not a murder case. i was surprised to read that.

explain that. >> right. this is definitely not a murder case. this is a manslaughter case because they can't prove she had the intent to kill him. what she did essentially was she did an awful act, administered heroin to him, which is unlawful, and during the course of that he died, and the death resulted. so that is why she is facing a manslaughter charge and not a murder charge. >> if she administered arsenic and it killed him, would that be manslaughter? >> that actually could be murder. that would be in the california code that could be murder because if she administered arsenic, she intended to kill him. heroin's intent is not kill a person -- >> might have been in her case. >> it could have been but that would be difficult to prove. the state has to prove she actually intended to kill him, and the took the first dose and it didn't affect her the way it affected him. >> i wonder about prior bad acts. if this boyfriend -- we don't know the circumstances. we know they re-opened the investigation. if in some way they can prove

she administered highway haren to him and he wasn't a heroin user, could that have a bearing on this case? >> definitely. they can bring this in as a prior bad act to show she had this m.o. and is more likely to know that heroin can kill someone. otherwise she could say, hey, this was an accident. i had no idea that me injecting my boyfriend with heroin could result in his death. now she can't say that because they have a mod does operandi, this as a common scheme or plan of hers and she full well knows the consequences of giving someone heroin. >> she can't claim lack of knowledge here. she had a bad streak. i think they'll be able to prove that. >> right, and she is also at risk of facing charges here in georgia if they decide here to change the manner of death from accidental to her actually injecting and rule it a homocide. she may be face mortgage serious charges here in georgia because of what happened in california. >> ashleigh, if you were defending this case what is the

first thing you would do to get this defendant off the hook? >> i would probably have her evaluated for a mental evaluation, because it sounds like she has something in her past that has mademer essentially not have empathy for people. watching the video of her while the a gentleman was dying, she clearly has michigan that has removed her from reality. so i would want to know and make sure she was actually memory competent to stand trial and have the mental ability to tomorrow the required intent. that could be a powerful defense if she doesn't. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> to the weather now. you probably heard the polar vortex has returned. that is not true. this is not a polar vortex. what is happening to the central and northern parts of the country is not about 0 a polar vortex. it's bullets the jetstream which moved because there's climate change. heard about that? look at these temperatures in the wall. this is tonight's lows. 62 in memphis. 70 in new york.

the bluff city, colder than ours, forecaster says the air from the gulf of alaska is making its way south. not going to break records but will make things chilly for july. janice dean at the extreme weather center. we were watching the outdoor camera. i thought some people were florida down sixth avenue. it was pouring. >> this amplified jet stream bringing the cold air from the northwest and the polar region, and the cold front moving eastward, bringing a threat four severe weather in the afternoon. a big story is the cooler than average temperatures, 10 to 30 degrees below average. we'll set records but not blockbuster records. it's happened before and it's quite refreshing across the great lakes and west. you can see where the warm air is situated ahead of this cold front. so looking at some of the lows

tonight, 40s and 50s, turn off the air conditioners, save on the bill, open up the windows. it's going to be quite nice. then by friday things start to mott rate. so a quick shot of cool, refresh are air, so there's good cold temperatures reaching as far south as the tennessee river valley heading into wednesday. >> for the west coast, no break. >> that's even the bigger story here. a lot of these folks don't have air conditioning and we'll be dealing with temperatures close to 100-degrees in the northwest and rockies and certainly set records here. big dome of high pressure not budging because of the blocking cold front, that blocking area of low pressure across the great lakes to look at these temperatures. we will certainly flirt with record high temperatures and then it's going to feel even warmer than that with the humidity. so, close to 100, over 100, and some of these areas that don't typically have air conditioning. so, certainly watching those two stories, and briefly mentioning

the threat for severe weather. flashflood warnings for new york city, d.c. thunderstorms in the forecast thought the afternoon and the evening, and some of those could produce tornadoes. so we'll keep an eye on it and bring you the latest in the watches and warnings. >> thank you very much. appreciate it. word of the first israeli death now in the latest crisis in the mideast. how it happened, and israel's new threat from hamas. militants reject the cease fire. some incredible images from inside the costa concordia, the cruise liner newly race raised from the watery depths.

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>> israeli officials are now reporting the first death on their side of the border in the latest round of fighting in the middle east. mortar fire from gaza killed an israeli man near a border crossing. prime minister benjamin netanyahu is threatening great force against hamas after the militants rejected a plan for a cease fire. the israeli military reports its forces launched at least a dozen air strikes on gaza after hamas turned down the proposal from egypt. large the reason they turned it down is because none of the demanded of hamas were even discussed. they weren't even mentioned in

this peace plan. many on the hamas side say they felt rejected, even snubbed. israeli officials say they agreed to plan but hamas militants did not and kept firing rockets. the israeli military reports some of the rockets reached deep into israel, including near hive fathom this is gaza down here. right on the sea. this is the west bank. all the firing is coming from here in the gaza. there's tell alleve. they've been close to tel aviv before. you see haifa at the top. there's a very important power plant up there the militants would love to hit. sirens went off in those towns 60 miles north of the gaza. u.s. secretary of state john kerry is condemning the hamas attacks and says the white house will continue pushing for a cease fire. easier said than done when both sides are not at the table. john hudde is in gaza city. what's the situation on the ground there like tonight?

>> well, shepard, i was just kind of looking over me shoulder before you tossed to me because there was an air strike moments ago. the night skies has been illuminated a couple times here in gaza city. rocket launches and then air strikes like the one i just mentioned. that continues in the wake of this cease fire agreement that broke down. israel accepted. for seven hours they held off on firing at hamas, starting at 9:00 a.m. local time, and over that period of time hamas fired 70 rockets at israel. so, after about seven hours israel had enough and launched several missile strikes, clung we saw earlier this afternoon that shook the building that we're in. so far -- you mentioned this at the top, shepard, one person has lost their life in israel. throughout the course of this, only a couple people have been injured in israel. now we're getting word a man was killed by, according to israeli

officials, hamas mortar fire on the israel-gaza border. that's the first fatility. there's been damage and injuries but the first fatility. on the other side of the border in georgia, close to 200 palestinians have been killed and more than 1200 have been injured, and at this point more than 17,000 remain in u.n. shelters, including one we went to the other day, and a lot of these people just escaped their homes with nothing but clothes and some didn't have shoes on. >> prime minister netanyahu spoke to the nation. what did he say? >> he said that israel was going exert quote-unquote great force against hamas because of hamas' unwillingness to sit at the table or accept a fees fire agreement. many in israel's cabinet are calling for a ground invasion, for things to step up more. forget the aerials but some want troops on the ground to come

into gaza and occupy gaza. so we're waiting to see if everything kind of intensifies through the night, and based on the last eight days we're assuming that will be the case. >> john, thank you very much. well, you can forget no more leg room. who wants that? one planemaker is apparently trying to hit it big with what could be the most excruciating seats in the history of air design. it's not pretty. the patent of the new bicycle like things. ♪ ♪

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20 minutes past the hour on fox news channel we have haunting images from inside the costa concordia cruise ship that

capsized off the coast of italy in 2012 and killed more than 30 people. yesterday workers managed to float the cruise ship and then begin the process of towing it away. i want to show you some of these photos on our monster wall. this -- part of the ship was above water and piano state above water and wasn't badly damaged. the rest of these are from down below. other photos show rotting furniture from the part where the ship went underwater. you can see this very ugly chair that still standing upright somehow. and this is sort of a table from a booth where you might eat. it was longer than the tie tack tan, had a casino, bars, spas, and dining areas, and you can see a mess of tables and chairs piled up on top of each other. investigators say the captain jumped ship after he steered the vessel right into the reef there. and that he -- while he was

showing off, as they put it. he is now on trial for manslaughter. those workers have since turned the ship back upright and they're set to tow it away for scrap. later this month. the time lapse there showing you as they floated it and the people there at that resort area will be very, very glad to get it off the view of their coastal folks. just when you thought airplane seats couldn't get anymore cramped and awful, air bus has filed a patent -- a patent -- for what looks like the most uncomfortable plane seat imagined. one of our producers calls it's torture device. the cushions are shaped like bicycle saddles. see how this person is sitting. they don't even let you wear shoes. this person is sitting on what amounts to a bicycle seat. you can see the length of the armrest there for those who still have it. the seats can fold up to save space. so no tray tables. the tiny armrest, barely any leg

room. look at all the people crammed in there. this is an artist's rendering. analysts say it could make travel even more affordable by cramming more passengers on the plane. why don't the just duct tape us to the outside. sometimes it feels kind of like that would be better than what they're putting us now now. anyway, they reached out the folk at airbus for a statement: we file hundreds of patents each year. this is what innovative companies do. most of these never become reality. it's protecting intellectual property rights. >> we have a travel consult can't here. this would be for short hauls, maybe from here to pittsburgh. and surely you can stand being like this. no. >> the idea is that this is supposed to be for short duration flights about it's still in its conceptual stages. they filed the patent and hope

any none of us will have to be part over those contraptions. >> it's very sardine-cannish. >> a torture device. >> can you show that. the seat to the right -- we're 2010ing this -- the seat to the right are folded down so -- i guess so we can get in and out. >> basically as it folds down you've might have a little more space to squeeze through. actually reminds me of a mass tandem bike, everybody exercising together. is it really plane? >> they really don't care about us anymore. >> apparently not. >> do you know of any other thing wes might be encountering when we're flying the friendly skies? >> this is not the first company that has done this. >> really. >> ryan air -- >> oh, ryan air, good. overseas somewhere. >> standing room only. >> standing room only. >> can you imagine? can you imagine? a whole aircraft of people standing, holding on --

>> like the subway. >> exactly. >> and ryan air tried that. how did that go. >> luckily it failed. the regular -- regulators shut down this. >> what do you use for a seat cushion for flotation? >> dutry to drag the whole thing out there and pull it up when you jump off the plane? really is -- i don't think they've actually discussed any of the safety measures on the patent so far. >> what's going to have to happen to make flying -- i don't mind the subway. i don't take it very often anymore and i don't mind bus travel. it's all better than flying on a commercial airliner. what is it going to take for them to care about us? >> there's an evolution happening. there's a couple of really cool websites, and it's a membership program where you can actually purchase like a last-minute

private aircraft flight, and some of those types of flights that are evolving are making private aircraft travel a little bit more, i guess, cost efficient for the average consumer. i think we're looking at a stage where people are standing up and saying we don't want to feel like cattle. that reminds me of a cattle. we are all little pigs and cows. >> we all look exactly alike there, too. awful. >> nice to see you. hopefully this never happens. if it does it will be something new to complain about. >> exactly. >> we would like to know what you think about these crash test dummies or the bicycle seats. tweet us@shep news team. we may read your responses later. new revelations from nsa leaker ed snowden reportedly show intelligence agencies found yet another way to spy on us online. great news.

>> more spying. >> now one of our allies is considering a low-tech trick to outsmart the cyberspies, and inside the cia cafeteria. now we know what cia employees do not like about their lunchroom. don't know how we got through the day without knowing already.

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a fox report now and more headlines from the fox news deck. a typhoon slammed the philippines less than a year after another typhoon killed thousands of people there officials say the new storm flooded villages and tore the roofs off homes. last november's typhoon what the deadliest natural disaster in the country's history. in san diego, witnesses attack man who apparently tried to steal a van with a woman and child inside. that's according to the man who shot this video on sunday. those witnesses wrestled the

young man to the ground, stomped on his hand. police arrested him. >> and the pentagon is letting f-35 fighter jets return to the skies, but under limitations as they put it. they faced a slew of equipment problems, including an engine fire in florida. the program cost the pentagon an estimated $400 billion.

a packed subway train crashed deep beneath streets of moscow at the lowest point of their subway system. killed at least 21 people and injured more than 130 others, according to emergency officials there. we have video from inside the thumb. you can see rescuers trying to reach victims through the twisted wreckage. investigators say it is still unclear exactly what caused the train to jump the tracks but they say it had nothing to do with any possible terrorism. the u.s. could soon double the amount of money it gives israel for its iron dome missile defense system. a senate subcommittee approved a bill that includes more than

$350 million, setting aside that amount for the system. the israelis say the iron dome has intercept lots of rockets, and israel reports the rockets are still flying now that hamas rejected a plan for a cease fire. john busse is here. really know surprise they would reject something that barely even included them. >> it just goes to show, you want to have a deal where everybody agrees on who the broker is going to be. in this case it was egypt. and the hamas says, look, egypt is not a fair broker. they have been tough on hamas, the new military government there. unlike the muslim brotherhood before that negotiated the last cease fire between hamas and israel. hamas wants things that egypt is not willing to give it. >> like an open border crossing. >> exactly right. so, going into this, it was

really dicey whether or not hamas would agree to any cease fire under the term brokered by egypt. >> netanyahu is -- the israeli prime minister netanyahu is getting a lot of pressure from the right, from hawks to his right. i guess some from the left. saying send in ground troops. >> they don't want that because of the increased cash tide it's likely to cause on both sides. israel primarily but also the public opinion of what is happening in the gaza strip. with casualties that are already mounting there. so, what is likely to happen here -- we are going to watch this employout until hamas runs down on the rocket supply and then agrees to a longer term cease fire. >> is that your thinking? a ground incursion, say, on the north with hezbollah in lebanon is one thing, but the population density, they just live right up on top of each oomph it's like a crowded big city. >> 1 point 7 million people --

1.7 million people in an area the size of two washington, dcs. that's crammed. you can say that israel wants to do that because it can locate the tunnels and rocket replies, militants, headquarters, and address those issues within gaza, but getting there and getting out is the big issue for them, and that's where the cash advertise come into may. >> so, now, with all these competing forces, and i guess if you're hamas, your goal now would be to drag them in? >> your goal now is to try to make this as painful for everyone until there's some agreement on the return of palestinian captives by the israelis, and opening of the border crossings, and hamas needs economically to get supplies into georgia sample remember, this is part of a much bigger problem for the obama administration. jay solomon and carol lee have written about this. there's this arc of unstableity.

all these countries in turmoil, central asia and east asia, disagreements between japan and china and south korea. the obama administration is caught back on this. a lot of history is playing out now, particularly in the middlee east. the lanes between iraq and sirarch all of one story for the obama administration, and at this point it's an incredibly, complex, giving -- difficult one to solve. >> the germans are going it old school. there's word that germany is considering using less e-mail and more type writers in the wake of the latest claims of u.s. spying. that's what a top investigator apparently told a television station. worth noting russia suppose lid did same thing an ed snowden leaked all the documents. and the newly published files

from ed snowden reportedly show a british intelligence agency has developed ability to impersonate spammers on e-mails and texts and manipulate online polls. we're learning about trouble the central intelligence agency in the cafeteria. in 2010 the web site, muck rock, filed an official government request to see the cia's staffer's comments about the lunchroom in langley, virginia, and those those staffers had lof complaint. ours is pretty good on the fourth floor. but apparently they're not so great at cia. what is happening in langley? >> attitude adjustment seems to be the first issue. one work wrote, why can't there be nice are food handler, attitude every day. then condiments. please put back the individual

catsup, mustard and mayo, and then the jazz salad. supposed to be a grape and prochute to salad but there were no grapes, only cherry tomatoes masquerading as grapes. >> these poor people. >> compliant processed tea and the chicken portions were too small. >> i feel so bad for them. i don't either, actually. what things to complain about. have you eaten fourth floor cafeteria? >> third floor. >> it's pretty good. >> it's pretty darn good. >> not nearly as expensive. >> and they're nice. >> they're very nice there not apparently at langley. >> no. >> freedom of information requests are -- you and your friends may have more in common than you think, even down to your dna, according to researches at really and university of san diego. they find that friends are more

likely than strangers to share dna code and there are a lot of factors. seriously? gerri willis is here, those of the willis report. exhaustive research. >> i know what you're thinking. five grads spit in a tube and those are the results. no. no. no. there's a lot of stuff out there. in fact, 1400 friends, close friends, their dna was surveyed 1.2 million strangers and got this from the massachusetts study which you have heard of. all the hard data. >> a good one. >> this is interesting, too, and the researchers were sort of surprised. they did not expect such a high correlation. >> have they come up with a reason why, pray tell, we might -- friends might have similar dna structures. >> they're grasping at straws, but you mentioned one in the intro, which is that people with similar genes may have similar tendencies that nudge them to go to the same environments, like apparently sense of smell is

something that brings people together so if you like the smell of coffee in the morning, you might both end up at starbucks. and then there's this, that you may have a similar skill set, and that skill set gets sharpened when you're around people with the same skill set. so let's say your both smarty pants engineers. might be in the same room in college, spending time together, become friends. that's all i got for you. >> that does make sense. i thought you explain why dogs and their masters start looking alike. but it does happen. >> it does. especially when they dress alike. >> that doesn't happen near me. that's your thing over there. at the business network. >> my neighborhood. we have a dog parade for the fourth of july. >> i'm so happy for you. all the dog lovers everywhere would love to visit. where do you live again? the blade runner, oscar pistorius in a dustup at a nightclub. why was guy out?

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negotiators gave themselves a deadline of this sunday but also say they can give themselves an extension of up to six months. the u.s. and other world powers are offering relief from financial punishments to iran if it agrees to limit nuclear activity. 14 cars of a freight train went off the track in southwestern virginia last night. officials say nobody was hurt. they say the train carrying nail polish but none of it spilled. no word on what caused derailment. more trouble for the olympic track star and accused murderer oscar pistorius after he apparently got into a mixup in a trendy nightclub of the weekend. prosecutors say he shot and killed his girlfriend, reeva steenkamp after an argument he said he thought she was an intruder. so, on saturday, family spokeswoman says the played runner, oscar pistorius, was hanging out with his cousin in

the v.i.p. section of the club when a man, quote, started to aggressively interrogate him about the trial. this is why you get security, oscar. that rep says the two argued before pistorius asked the guy to leave him alone. and the man finally left. but the other guy had a completely different story. he tells a local newspaper that pistorius was drunk and insulting his friend. he says the athlete started poking the man in the chest, saying, would never get the better of him. so he pushed pistorius into a chair. the blade runner fell, as the story goes, and that's when the bouncers broke it up. he was in a club while awaiting closing argument inside his murder trial. sounds like the perfect thing to do. >> maybe not smart. >> rick live van that -- leventhal is with us. >> the guy who he had the dustup with, described as a businessman, jarred mortimer, and is getting his 15 minutes of fame in south africa. he and the blade runner have some friends in common,

including a guy who testified against pistorius in his trial about how the accused killer fired a gun through the sun roof of a car while out for a drive. so mortimer says that saturday night pistorius got in his face, talking about how his friends back-stabbed him and then bragged about how influential his family was and that's when the alleged poking and pushing began. this club, called the v.i.p. room, has a v.i.p. room. >> was he in it? >> yes. >> that didn't help should have had security. impact on the trial? is it possible? >> prosecutors have long argued that pistorius often loses his temper, but this is not part of the case. this is not part of the facts of the case which have already been presented to the judge who will ultimately render a decision. that will happen sometimes next month, we believe in the meantime we have to see if someone will bring up in closing arguments, pistorius faces life in prison if convicted of killing reeva steenkamp, and for the first time since the

anniversary of their death the blade runner took to twitter, hours after the nightclub skirmish, posting spiritual messages including, lord, today i ask you bathe those who live in pain in the river of your healing. according to a spokeswoman he regrets his decision to go to a public place over the weekend and we can expect he probably won't go clubbing anytime soon. >> he tweeted that to god. >> well -- >> wonder how people talked to god before twitter? >> i believe they prayed. >> he should think about doing that. >> he might need prayer. >> and a lot more. folks in california trying several different strategies for fighting the crippling drought. some drilling wells for water to newly proposed fines for wasting water. hundreds of dollars 0 day. california, the drought, and our changing climate. the details are next.

nine minutes before the hour. the drought in california is getting so bad state lawmakers are voting on whether to fine people $500 a day for excessive water use. they define excessive water use as wasting water when you wash your car or run a sprinkler on your lawn. officials say almost 80% of california i now experiencing extreme drought conditions or worse. that is up 11% from last year. researchers say it's cost farms and the agricultural industry more than a billion dollars. the demand for drilling new water wells is higher than ever. the number of permit applications in some spots has tripled in just the last couple of months, with a wait list that extends for more than a year. our will carr is live from mcfarland, california. tell us about the drilling boom.

>> hi, shep. with this historic drought a lot of people have lost jobs but not these guys. they're working 24/7, nonstop, drilling these water wells, in large part because the farmers have seen little to no rain and have not gotten any water from the state. so many farmers are turning to wells that the drilling companies tell us they have a two-year backlog but even if the we wells the farmers say they're still well below the amount of water they need. >> everybody is more or less in the same boat that we're in. we're trying to keep our crops alive, keep our people employed. >> not everybody is so lucky, though. we have spoken to several farmers and residents who say that waiting a year and a half two years to get a well is too long and they may move out of the area, and even if they do get the well, to get a large well, it could cost up to $600,000, but some of the farmers we have spoken to tell

us they have no other choice. >> will carr, mcfarland, california. we told you about the airbus company filing for a patent for new bicycle saddle kind of things for more space on the airplanes airplanes so we can be more miserable. we asked for your tweets and i guess we have gotten some tweets. >> a lot of reactions. one guy says maybe airbus will install pedals and then they can save on fuel costs. next guy says, bicycle seats on a plane, are you kidding me? looks like a gym. >> gyms look better than that thing by a long shot. >> this -- that one -- this person says, bring on the bike seats. dying to try this. i can pay $100 to fly across the country round trip. and finally, -- not working -- kinks in the system -- this guy says he done think airbus has to

worry about anyone stealing that patent. >> why not patent it if you think you might use it. >> the airline wanted to come up with this. >> put you on bicycle seats. i'll pass. we'll be right back.

>> a mom says she taught their three-year-old son about the duane jerry of getting trapped in a hot car and he used that lesson to help save an elderly man who was stuck in his car. happened outside a church in knoxville. a man says the car door wouldn't open from the inside, he was trapped for five minutes. when he saw the. boy walking around the parking lot and he started yelling and mouthing, i'm locked in here. the little boy ran inside and grabbed a pastor. >> he kept pulling at my hand and eventually i turned around and said, what is going on? he said, locked, locked.

>> the pastor then unlocked the car. the man says were it not for the little boy he doesn't know how long he would have been trapped inside the vehicle. and on this day in 1903 a dentist from chicago placed the first order for a model-a automobile with the ford motor company. a month earlier, one henry ford had signed the papers to start the company with a dozen stockholders. ford's model-a was a big hit. it had the most powerful passenger car engine of all the time. a few years late third model t would drive ford to the very top of the industry. of course, the company is still one of the big three carmakers here in the united states. but ford motors can do it first order, the model-a, and that happened 111 years ago. when news babies out we'll break in because breaking news changes everything on fox news

channel. everybody here on the news deck stays here all afternoon, watching for breaking news across the country and it should happen we'll interrupt what you would rather see and bring you the news. have a great afternoon. [shouting] >> you should be ashamed to call yourselves christians. >> that's why we need to stand upped for the rule of law. >> compassion is the rule of law. >> first the shouting, now the shutdown, because now we're hearing no buses carrying illegal immigrant children will be coming to oracle, arizona, today. is this guy the reason why? she sheriff who sounded the alarm here now. welcome. i'm in for neil cavuto and this is "your world." tensions mounting in oracle. protesters on both sides clashing and the talk that busloads of illegal immigrant children were about to