>> so that is one for the road for this tuesday. thank you for joining us live. tomorrow, are you normal or are you nuts? we're going to try to find out. >> that's right. and the unbelievable 911 calls coming in. morning. fox news alert now. we have new developments on two major stories breaking overseas. one step closer to home. the victims of the passenger plane believed to be shot down by those russian separatists last week handed over to authorities. the train carrying the bodies pulling into eastern ukrainian city a bit earlier today. good morning, everybody. as we follow this. i'm bill hemmer. welcome to "america's newsroom." welcome, heather. >> she is off. i'm heather childers. we are hearing the pro-russian rebels finally hand over to authorities two of the black boxes from the downed flight. bill: middle east is on fire. fighting in gaza intensifies

overnight. [gunfire] secretary of state john kerry is in cairo, egypt renewing his push for a cease-fire. we have two big stories we're watching again this morning. we have team fox coverage around the globe to bring it to you. conor powell is live in gaza city but first we want to go to steve harrigan live from ukraine. he was at the crash site. was kicked out by separatists in order to let international inspectors do the work they need to do but, steve, at this hour, what do you see? >> reporter: bill, 50 yards behind me what we believe is the nose of the that downed plane, for first time five days in international inspectors from malaysia, along with group of europeans from the osce are finally looking at that crash site a couple of things they will look for, any evidence tampered with, not just looted personal objects but pieces of plane taken away or as one osc

observer said, disappearing. we got a closer look a few minutes ago before some rather ragtag russian rebels but politely but at gunpoint moved us out. here is what the scene looked like at the nose of the plane. we're here what looks to be the nose of the plane of the this is the first time we've seen experts actually coming to the scene. international experts to see the damage here. one of the things they will be closely looking at, are things like this, on this piece of metal, likes several small, circular pock-marked holes. could be result of shrapnel. other problem we're looking at is possible looting at site. you can see the two bags here belonging to the pilots. small bags, since yesterday. those zippers have been open, some contents taken away. real concerns here five days in about parts of the plane that have been cut away or removed. perhaps part of a missile that were removed. after this site was untouched, unexamined for five days, first

time international observers will get first look at it now. i think the main question here is what kind of evidence can be found five days into a crash site which is already been picked over by locals and by the rebels when the very people leading the inspectors around are those accused of shooting down the plane. what we're seeing here might be a bit after public relations dog-and-pony show. nevertheless we're here and showing you what is going on in eastern ukraine. bill: a good question not yet been answered either, steve. what about the bodies. i mentioned them. what can you report about that? into more than 280 bodies, as up to body parts from a dozen more people moved out of rebel-controlled territory overnight toward the city of harkiv. they will be taken by plane to amsterdam where the grim part of analysis and dna identification will begin before the bodies are repatriated to their home nations given burial to their

families. slotter of -- sort of a long, slow, agonizing process but appears to be on the right track now, bill. bill: steve harrigan, thank you. eastern ukraine reporting live. >> fox news alert. gaza entering another tense night of fierce fighting between israel and hamas. [explosions] explosions and fighter planes filling the sky. israel hitting more than 70 targets overnight, reducing mosques to rubble. damaging a sports stadium and home after hamas military chief. defense officials say an israeli soldier is missing after a deadly battle in the gaza strip, add another complication for diplomatic efforts for a cease-fire. the fighting also in gaza city, a area devastated by airstrikes and miss silt. conor powell is there live for us. he has the latest. conor? >> reporter: heather, you're right, this is day 15 now.

there is no letting up in fighting here in the gaza strip. we are continually hearing sounds of artillery and airstrikes across gaza. there were serious small arms combat and fighting between israeli and hamas fighters last night. there was a lot of what appeared to be jets flying overand above, with some type of cover. israelis move into gaza strip for some type of military operation. here on the ground things continue to deteriorate. there is growing humanitarian crisis. right now latest numbers we have, nearly 600 palestinians have been killed. more than 200 of those come in the last 48 hours or. while the israeli death toll also increasing. right now israeli military saying 27 of their soldiers were killed in fighting. most of that coming in just the last 48 hours. it tells you, heather, just how intense the fighting has been here last really two days or so. but there is also a concern about as the fighting ramping up there are more civilians being

displaced. the u.n. saying 81,000 yesterday. that has jumped now to 100,000 palestinians have taken shelter in different u.n. facilities around the gaza strip. you can see everything is escalating. the situation getting much, much worse, head. >> conor, yesterday we heard israelis were denying this, what can you tell us to what we're hearing about this missing israeli soldier? >> reporter: so for the past few days hamas said they captured an israeli soldier during an operation, during a firefight about two days ago. today was the first day that we got any concrete word. israeli military saying they are still investigating. there is a missing soldier. officially they say though, they think that soldier has been killed. they just haven't been able to find bottomed different hamas is saying no, they actually captured the soldier. what actually happened it isn't clear but the real concern here, if there is a missing soldier, that this will only escalate the situation and make things much,

much worse as peace negotiations go on. it adds one more wrinkle that everybody has to fight and agree over will make this conflict probably drag out even longer, heather. >> conor powell reporting live for us. thank you. bill: back in this country now the crisis on the southern border, governor rick perry in texas ordering a thousand national guardsmen to the texas border with mexico. he says the feds have not done enough to secure it with thousands of children pouring in from central america. the white house dismissing the governor's move, calling it a political symbol. the governor perry says his people can not wait. >> i will not stand idly by but our citizens are under assault and little children from central america are detained in squalor. we are too good a country for that to occur. that is why today i am using my executive authority as governor of texas and activating the

national guard. bill: byron york, chief washington correspondent for the "washington examiner." byron, good morning to you. >> good morning, bill. bill: on the substance of the move, what do you think? >> i think governor perry is the governor of the state that is taking the biggest hit from all this. so i think it is pretty reasonable for him to want to take some sort of action and you know we have heard critics say these national guard troops will not have the law enforcement authorities of border patrol, which is true. on the other hand we've had so many stories of border patrol officers making sandwiches and washing clothes, for these young illegal immigrants, seems obvious more manpower, more hand would help this situation. so, you know, i think governor did what a governor has to do, when there is a situation this serious in his state. bill: from the white house, josh ernest said the following. i know governor perry is hopeful

that it will send an important symbol. what do you make of the white house response? >> i think white house response was essentially political. they said perry's move was political and they responded in a political way, because, josh earnest essentially said, if you listen to the whole briefing, look, if rick perry really wants to do something about this crisis on the border he can help pass comprehensive immigration which is of course the president's number one agenda item for his second term. they immediately put it into a political context. another thing that is important to remember, from what perry said yesterday, he said, look, you have got to remember, yes, there are children who need help in this situation, but only about 20% of those crossing illegally over the texas border are children, and there is about 8500 illegal immigrants who have been booked into texas jails for crimes since april. so, perry is essentially saying that the problem is much bigger

than just the children we're hearing about every day. bill: it is not cheap. $12 million a month for the people of texas paying for the bill. perry said one other thing. there can be no national security without border security, byron. >> that is absolutely a refrain you hear all the time from republicans and, any immigration reform proposal they have basically they say, has to begin with border security. one other thing. on that cost, that $12 million, the texans say they expect the federal government to ultimately pay that cost and if the feds don't, they will take them to court to try to get them to pay it. bill: thank you. byron york from washington helping us. >> thank you, bill. bill: good to see you here. coming up next hour, top of the 10 a.m. eastern hour, we'll talk to the lieutenant governor of texas to find out how this will work out and what we can find out from that. stay tuned for that. >> we do have a jam-packed show this morning for you.

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>> what you're looking at is a disaster going on right now with ukraine a disaster in iraq, a disaster in libya. there is not a single solitary success story in anything what they have done. now for the very first time since 1948, israel has reason to doubt america's commitment because of barack obama. bill: colonel oliver north slamming what he believes is a complete failure on american policy, foreign policy around the globe. lieutenant colonel ralph peters, fox news strategic analyst with me now. colonel, i imagine you don't disagree with oliver north and comment he made right there but specifically on a russia and

putin, you believe this whole incident is just a hiccup for vladmir putin? >> yeah, absolutely. bill, if just let me make a comment too about israel and gaza. john kerry just flew to the middle east to save hamas again. now as far as this disasterous, worrisome situation with vladmir putin, separatists in eastern ukraine, the butch customers in eastern ukraine, barack obama, president obama and those around him simply do not understand the world. they don't understand the world's brutality, its cruelty, savagery. they just don't get it. they're trying to deal with the world in terms of rational transactional analysis theories they learned at columbia or harvard. you look at somebody like vladmir putin and they do not understand him. putin, like all successful dictators, has a burning, rigid, sharp, focus on his own destiny,

and destiny of his people. and he, does not share the general feelings of empathy of other human beings. if you look at hitler, stalin, mao tse-tung and even saddam hussein, one of the common deno natetores, or two of the common denominators they have a sense where they want to go. they're men with a mission and lack empathy. bill: you're putting putin in the pattern of adolf hitler? >> in patterns, yes. he hasn't done that type of damage yet but in terms of psychological profiles. putin is not a communist, i doubt he ever really was. he is too smart to buy it. few soviets bought into in late years, but he was schooled in marxist, leninist environment and in that environment which did shape him, the fate of individuals doesn't matter. what matters is the collective destiny and as i have said many times, putin believes in russia's destiny and he is faced

by an american president who doesn't believe in america's destiny. bill: i know you saw this posting from a father in holland. >> yeah. bill: about his 17-year-old daughter. it is heart-breaking and reads in part, thank you, mr. putin. separatist leaders of ukrainian government for murdering my dear and only child? i hope you're proud to have shot her and her future and be able to look yourself in the mirror. when you read that, what did you think? >> two things. first of all, it moved me. second of, this is nothing to vladmir putin. it doesn't register on him. if putin had a theme song, it would be old rolling stones hit from early years, "heart of stone." as to the other great dictators he doesn't feel empathy with individuals. and then you layer on this russian attitude, and there is a cultural norm in russia that is very different from ours. it is best characterized, there was a remark variously

attributed to stalin and to a russian general in world war ii, when asked about horrendous casualties russia was suffering fighting the nazis, the answer was, we got a lot of people. it is about the fate of the collective. and for putin, one, the fate of one, lovely, intelligent young dutch teenage girl doesn't even amount to small change of he doesn't feel it. bill: do you think that he believes he can get away with this? >> yes. bill: does he think he can take a certain amount of evidence off that plane and claim it was not shot down, perhaps it just fell from the sky? i don't know in the end what the flight voice recorders will show, but i have to think that is pretty damning evidence. you have to go a long way, if you're going to try and avoid the blame. >> well, the evidence is overwhelming it was from the start, russian-built, russian-manned, perhaps

separatist commanded, sa-11 shot down that civilian airliner, period. it is embarassment for putin. bill: it's a hiccup. it's a tactical setback. in every confrontation with the west and our president so far he has toughed it out, he has won. he got his way every time. it is a dangerous pattern. although he is furious at the separatists, nonetheless he is not losing sight of his long-term goals. he believes he can weather it out, as with other dictators the big lie works. he can deny, marsh shuns shot it down and people will, on one level russian people know they did and on another level they will believe anything he says because of psychological need. even in our country, in all cultures, you see it, our president and those around him believe facts will out. most human beings what they need to believe psychologically,

nowhere is that more so than in the knighted domain ruled by vladmir putin. putin is not done with us. i'll tell you, if we don't stand up to him soon, it is just going to get uglier and uglier. bill: ralph peters, thank you. >> thank you. bill: 21 past the hour. heather. heather: with all the violence and tension in the world you would think the markets would be taking a pounding but we're expecting a big day on wall street actually. so why the surge? stu varney is up next with that. bill: you know what they say, the house always wins but not this time. the big heist that went down in atlantic city. heather: big one. >> oh, sounds like an oceans 11 or 12, or 13. >> that is big-time in this town. úr#b

♪ bill: it is a heist worthy of george clooney and brad pitt in vegas but no, it was not vegas. heather: no. bill: it was ac. two masked men stealing more than $180,000 from a casino in atlantic city, new jersey. police say the thieves went into caesar's early yesterday morning. one pulled out a gun before stealing two plastic boxes full of cash. the robbers got away in a car. the new jersey state police were on it. i wonder where rick leventhal was when that went down. heather: $108,000. that was heavy boxes. bill: leventhal is strong man. he is our expert on atlantic city. heather: we'll have to check that out. bill: get on it, rick. heather: well less than ten minutes to the opening bell with a big rebound expected today on wall street. the markets don't usually like global turmoil. they had lost ground this week

as tensions flare in ukraine and fighting escalates in gaza. what will drive today's rally? stu varney from the fox business network. i of course knows the answer for us. good morning, stu. >> crisis? what crisis? heather: one or two or three. >> look, six days ago the dow jones industrial average hit an all-time record high, never been higher. then came the plane shoot-down, then came gaza, the market sold off and look at it today. we're about to open higher again. in fact we may get back to another all-time record high by the end of trading today. you see the market doesn't care. money has no morality. if an overseas crisis does not affect america's economy or corporate profits of american companies, the market doesn't care. money has no morality. of the market is going up today because, we're distracted by what is going on with american technology companies. they still dominate. netflix is leading the streaming

revolution. and apple is going to make 80 million iphone 6s before christmas. that is the news that dominates. that is why wall street will go up, 50, 60,0 points at the opening bell. we have another record high maybe by the close today. money, heather, has no morality. heather: i wrote that down, money has no morality. boy, that is a mouthful. truer words have never been spoken. >> sad thing to say in many ways but it is try. heather: it is true. stu, thank you so much. bill: it is all green, varney. heather: going up. bill: all green whether london or new york. heather: true. bill: multiple crises around the world, speaking of money. the president is going out on yet another fund-raising swing today but there is one stop he is not making. we'll tell you why and what that means in the end. heather: and violence raging in the gaza strip. secretary of state john kerry is in the region hoping to broker a cease-fire but coming up hear

why some of the key players in the conflict, they say, that there is little chance he will get anything accomplished. >> well, of course there is hope for that but you know in the middle east it takes two to tango, sometimes three, and maybe four.

heather: president obama setting out on yet another marathon fund-raising trip today. this time he is expected to hit up to six campaign-related events for democrats through three cities on the west coast in as many days. critics are slamming the president for turning his attention to fund-raising during a time of so many international crises. but white house press secretary josh earnest, he brushed off those concerns. he insisted it would not be a problem. >> the president had all the tools at his disposal necessary to fulfill the responsiblities of commander-in-chief. heather: bob beckel, former democratic campaign manager, co-host of "the five."

rich lowery, editor-in-chief of "national review." thanks for joining us. bob, i will start with you. i know you did say you thought it was not the right decision for the president to attend the fund-raiser immediately following the crash of the malaysian flight 17. >> yeah. heather: so what do you think about the fund-raisers that are now on his agenda for this week? is that appropriate? >> i think they're appropriate now. look, i worked in the white house and traveled with the president. the fact is all the national security aprialtos he needs goes with him wherever he goes, but leaving that aside. there is optics to worry about, right after the crash was not a good time to do it. on the other hand for democrats facing uphill battle to hang on to the senate this fall, money is only thing they have advantage on. he is the one who can raise most money. if you have to make that determination, does he want to live two years under republicans in house and senate? i don't think so. if money will make a difference i say go ahead and do it, nothing he can do, nothing he can do about the malaysian airline crash that is not

already being done. heather: what do you think, rich? >> i agree with bob, optics initially are horrible. why does he go to a burger joint in delaware on the cusp of this horrible crash? every president does fund-raisers but motto of this president seems to be fund-raiser must always go on no matter what. democrats are desperate for cras he cares about domestic politics over international leadership. i wouldn't mind if he went to every fund raiser in the world if he weren't so weak in the response to this crisis as he has been for months. heather: it's a pattern of behavior though with the president. not just when small events happen. it seems to be large events. benghazi, we all know, we talked about it. he went to a fund-raiser in las vegas immediately following that incident. we were just looking today. immediately following the invasion of crimea, he was at a fund-raisers that evening. so it's a pattern with him. who is advising him? do you think maybe they do need to reassess how he is perceived in terms of a world view?

>> i think it depend on day by day what happens. when rich says, you know, that he appears weak overseas, i keep asking republicans, one question, what would they do? what would they do? in the crimea, what would they do about the malaysian airline crash? what would they do about gaza? what would they do? they can sit there and yell at obama all they want but i have not heard one concrete proposal, not one, except john mccain shooting his mouth off this is the worst situation in the world. united states is weak. how does know, number one? number two, what is the answer? >> i think there are a couple of things on ukraine that are obvious. one we should cut off entire sectors of the russian economy from the u.s. financial system. they will have limited effect if europeans don't go along but will have some effect. what we completely do, totally within our power to do unilaterally, arm the government of ukraine, legitimate, democratically elected government that is fighting

putin's thugs in the east to just to establish control over its sovereign territory. that is a no-brainer but this administration has hesitated even to gift ukrainian military socks. >> i think you will find that is not quite the case. i think cia has moved considerable number of weapons in ukraine. leaving that aside. not been done publicly. probably should have. i still don't know, look, this is complicated world now. as i was telling rich before the show. when it was cold war, you were with the ussr or with the united states. things seemed to be more orderly. old tensions rising up. they go back hundreds of years. iraqi situation is classic example. never should have have been in iraq and poise to the rise of iran and hamas. go back to that, republicans were all for it. so were a lot of democrats. heather: right. >> there will be a curse on their histories when the world take as look at this historically, realizes iraq was

a total and disaster for the united states. >> there are a lost complicated issues during the cold war as well and a lot of controversies how we respond to soviet aggression, an democrats tended to be on wrong side of every single one of those. >> such as? >> arms control. wanted unilateral disarmment. >> ronald reagan wanted unilateral disarmament. >> he did, only have buildup got soviets on wrong side. heather: we're here now with the situation. >> not complicated. putin's thugs are trying to dismember a sovereign, european country. that is not complicated. it is not subtle. it doesn't require a lot of nuanced understanding. it is simple. the fact is, that the u.s. has not led on this. the president has not spoken forcefully on it. he has not done the utmost things i can do, both in terms of sanctions and arming ukrainians. heather: perhaps meeting with eu, and meeting with germany specifically, they have a lost influence over russia. >> he talked to merkel probably six or seven times. the problem you have got with

the europeans they have become so dependent on soviet oil and gas they're afraid to make a move against russia. you can not force people to do that. i think this airline crash is the worst thing that could have happened to putin. i think this is beginning of the end of rise of putin. face it, outside of oil and gas, what has he got? he has a bankrupt country. poverty is increasing everywhere. there is no place for him to go. >> that is true if the west actually responds and u.s. has to lead. heather: we'll see. the president said there would be additional sanctions, there would be more to come but he stopped short of saying what that will be. >> there will be. >> thank you. bill? bill: right off the top there, november, right? important runoff today in the state of georgia. watch this race because voters head to the polls to pick a republican nominee for the senate seat being vacated by saks bichambliss. this is where all the action is come november, on the senate side of congress. all the states outlined in yellow are all up for grabs especially this one here in

georgia. how close is it in the senate right now? here now is the balance much power. 53 democrats, two independents who caucus with the democrats. 45 republicans. the magic number for gop is six come november. if they want to take that majority. john roberts is live down in georgia, here to talk about this race. this is a race that could have big consequences come november, right, john? >> reporter: good morning, to you, bill. it is important race, whoever prevails in republican primary today will meet belle financed democrat with a lot of name recognition, michelle nunn. daughter of former democratic georgia senator sam nunn. congressman jack kingston appeared to the edge with runoff. he was ahead in public opinion polls. 11-term congressman from savannah area, member about republican strategist but brought together a broad coalition of endorsements, everybody from the chamber of commerce to various tea party groups. kingston managed to avoid

anti-incumbent sentiment so pervasive in the republican party. >> i never got potomac fever. i never stayed in washington. i never thought for a second that washington knows best. i always tried to take georgia values to washington, not other way around. there is wisdom on the street but you have to listen to it. >> what could affect, low turnout. in last 2 1/2 hours. 40 people voted here in this pre-sent. also david perdue, the challenger, has most support among older voters, 65 and over. in day like today, bill, they are the most reliable who come out to the polls. bill: what about david perdue? he positioned himself as outsider, right? >> reporter: he is a bit of an inside outsider. he is cousin of former governor sonny perdue. he was appointed by perdue to the ports authority in georgia he also a ceo. he ran reebok and dollar general, which did very well.

pillowtex which didn't do well. he managed to rack up no big-name endorsements. which actually embellishes his position as the outsider. >> the outsider i never expected to get establishment endorsement. certainly not power brokers. certainly not special interests. they're scared to death with me because i'm trying to blow up the old model because it is broken and corrupt and produced results we have right now. >> reporter: certainly this is a nasty race. two politicians have positions close to each other. they have been left to attack each other though both of them told me if the other one prevails today they will get behind them 100% heading into november. bill: john, thanks. we'll watch it from here. john roberts live from atlanta. heather. heather: truck driver missing a turn, ending up right there, right in the path of a speeding train. the fiery crash. look at that, all caught on camera. bill: john kerry trying to get a cease-fire deal in the middle east. israel or hamas wants to hear from him.

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heather: welcome back. a truck driver in kentucky lucky to be alive this morning after his semi was hit by speeding train. here at moment of the impact, the investigators say the driver miss ad turn was apparently trying to overcorrect that when he got caught in the path of the train. the trailer was loaded with charcoal lighter fluid which cause ad massive fireball you see there. the driver taken to nearby hospital. he is in stable condition. amazing. bill: secretary of state john kerry is in cairo pushing for peace in the middle east.

his meetings with u.n. and egyptian fishables part of aggressive push to get some sort of a cease-fire with israel and hamas. his relationship with has cooled since talks in april. james inhofe, member of armed services committee. senator, good morning to you. >> good morning, bill. bill: do these sides want a cease-fire now? >> well i don't know but the first thing i thought of when kerry was arriving over there was, you know, he spent nine months working on this thing and got nowhere, absolutely nowhere. so you could argue that at least one side doesn't want a cease-fire. that is hamas. i think though, have to be very specific in what they would give up to have a cease-fire. i'm talking about the netanyahu now. he made it very specific what he would have to have from them. so i would say your observation might be pretty accurate.

they really don't want it. bill: what the prime minister said last night, i don't know where that sound is coming from. looks like it is quieting down now. what the prime minister said on "special report" with bret last night is that the egyptians offered a deal. hamas said no. others offered a deal and hamas said no as well. this is the other thing he says. now listen and watch this. >> this is the cruelest, most grotesque war that i have ever seen. not only does hamas target civilians, ours, and hides behind their civilians, theirs, it actually wants to pile up as many civilian deaths as possible. bill: the other thing he accuses hamas of doing is preventing women, and children and civilians from leaving areas where the israeli military, the idf, notified them bombs are about to land there. he believes they are intentionally keeping innocent people inside of buildings and homes? to be victims of these attacks? >> bill, we know that for that

fact this is happening. he is putting rockets, placing them very carefully in areas, in homes, in hospitals, in buildings, surrounded by the population. i think that, you know, this has been an observation that netanyahu made for a long period of time. they are actually responsible for killing their own kid. this is the way that they're doing it. bill: what do you think is the state of the relationship between benjamin netanyahu, israeli government and our administration now? >> well it is not, it is worse than it ever has been before, every? >> i believe that. look what happened the first time president obama got in office. he went on the apology tour over there. he said things i couldn't believe. he was talking about israel, our only really, good, consistent friend in the middle east. and so i don't think that is going to go unnoticed at anytime. i think his effort was to cozy

up to palestinians, terrorist groups, hamas and rest of them, that didn't work. now of course it is not getting better, john kerry, as one much three votes against his confirmation to be secretary of state. now he is over there, what is first thing he did? my criticism john kerry never thought a good idea came from anyone other than multinational group like the united nations. so when he arrived there, first thing he did was meet with the secretary-general. of course the other thing is try to give away money. i think he gave $47 million to the palestinians. i'm looking at it now, through the israel's eyes and saying is that, are they really on our side? and i don't know. i'm sure they have to question that. bill: there was former israeli ambassador that told israeli television last night they did not john kerry to come back. you saw the hot mic moment, he said, we're going back tonight. he was there by yesterday

morning. the question is, is he invited broker on this deal by both side or not? >> i don't think so. the reason i don't think so because both of them realized after nine months of efforts with all the resources you could have, nothing happened. it didn't work. and if anything, things actually got worse, because that is when the rockets started flying. and this is, you know, i just came back from israel. i was there with the iron dome and people operating that. they're anticipating at that time, that this is going to happen. so i would just have to suspect that neither side was really all that excited about secretary kerry coming in. bill: senator, thank you for your time. does not appear to be a peace deal at hand right now. and it appears we're also long way from a cease-fire. jim inhofe, thank you. >> thank you. bill: heather. >> heather: new report after all this time and all the hearings, learn letter's lost emails may

not be lost. we're live with those details. bill: riddle me that, huh? firefighters getting help from mother nature in what has become the biggest wildfire in washington state history. >> we've seen lots of fires. sat on our deck in the house, watched fires up on hills three or four times. but you never thought -- when you run a business, you can't settle for slow.

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bill: an american hero awarded the nation's highest honor for courage on the battlefield. army staff sergeant ryan pitts, age 28, with a standing ovation at the white house as president obama presented him with the medal of honor. sergeant pitts facing down the taliban during one of the deadliest battles in that war. he was seriously injured in both legs and arm, bleeding all the while, kept his finger on the trigger, firing at 200 enemy fighters, guiding in airstrikes

from above. >> this medal, ryan says, is the opportunity to tell our story. there was valor everywhere, according to ryan. today we also pay tribute to all who served with such valor that day. shielding their wounded buddies with their own bodies. picking up unexploded missiles with their hand and carrying them away. running through the gunfire to reinforce that post. fighting through their injuries and never giving up. bill: new hampshire native, ninth living recipient for action in iraq and afghanistan for the medal of honor. watched that yesterday live during the news deck. it was quite a moment. heather: they're always so humble when they accept that. really give it to their colleagues who didn't make it through. bill: exactly right. heather: firefighters in washington state might get a little help, maybe, from mother nature today, just a few weeks into the fire season. the pacific northwest is ablaze with about a million acres

burned. this video was taken from a drone in washington. that where the largest wildfire in its history isn't close to being contained, is not. the dry weather causing issues all across the region. william la jeunesse, live for us in our west coast newsroom with the latest. so what is going on now? >> reporter: well you know, washington, oregon are timber country and when fires get going there, heather they're very hard to stop of the carlton complex fire in central washington, largest in state history, 16% contained. 250,000-acres. that is half the size of rhode island. 200 homes destroyed, thousands evacuated. residents losing patience, nearly out of water and could be without power for weeks. >> we've heard anywhere from a week to seven weeks. so they're still analyzing the power line and length of it as far as i know. >> there will be a long one. this will be the longest one any of us have ever been on.

>> reporter: the good news? moisture and cooler temperatures this week. the downside, lightning. after weeks of hot weather, all it takes is a spark. 14 large fires now burning in oregon. the biggest there? 600 square miles burned. the cost of fighting these fires, heather, 20 of them in oregon and washington? $56 million. heather: size of rhode island. william la jeunesse, thank you. bill: national guard sent to the border. texas governor rick perry taking matters into his own hands. texas lieutenant governor david due hours is next to talk husband how they manage this live at top of the hour. >> this is responsibility of a government to keep their people safe. the federal government has responsibility securing our border. they're not doing. so the state of texas will do it. [ male announcer ] we're the names you know in the places you want to be.

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governor rick perry ordered a thousand national guard troops to secure the borded. i will bill hemmer. >> and i am heather childers in for martha. the ground force is helping battle mexican drug cartels and flood the incoming immigrants. rick perry said it is necessary because the government is offerioffer only lips service. >> lea i will not standby while we are under assault. we are too good of a country for that to occur. that is why i am using my executive authority and

activating the national guard. >> what will they do doing to the tune of $12 million in taxpayer dollars? >> not federal dollars but state dollars. let's go back 1-2 sentences. this started about seven years ago when i realized as the government the federal government isn't going to secure the border. they need to double or triple the size of the borderme rborde. seven years ago i started appropriating $800 million dollars with aircraft, and more state police, and yesterday we made the decision to activate as many national guard as we have our state police. 1,000 state police are rotating through on a surge we are running. we want more eyes and ears.

this is helping the state police, the dps and the border patrol stop the people coming in. this isn't about unaccompanied children. the federal government could solve that this afternoon if they pass a bill or have the administration say why against amnesty and the problem is solved. the accompanied children represent 5-12 percent of the illegal aliens crossing the border each day. i am worried about the 80% and that is why we are spending $12-$13 million for the national guard. because the federal government

has failed to secure the border and as a result, bill, think about it. >> you are making a powerful argument here. just a few pointed questions. is the intention to disway more from crossing or detering crime? >> the last. we don't have the roll in the children coming across but it can be solved by congress doing something for a containing and passing a correction to the loophole in the 2008 law or the obama administration saying we are against amnesty. we are focused on crime. the cartels are using these kids as a shield. the border patrol is absorbed by 50,000 kids. and since 2008, we have had 64,000 crimes committed by

illegal aliens including many murders. we are going to act. >> josh ernest said we are hopefully rick perry will not take the steps that generate the kind of headlines i suspect he intended. how do you spond to that? >> that is pure rhetoric from an administration that is sitting on their hands and has a problem acting in any area. i started putting money back for border security. we have the strongest border security of any state and spend $800,000 million of our own dollars to get this. this isn't about rick perry. rick perry and i feel strongly we have an obligation to support and defend the people in the

state of texas. and in my view, and i believe the governor's view, and that we will act independently of the federal government if the federal government will not do their job that they are required to under the constitution. >> it isn't cheap, as you know, the lieutenant governor in the state of texas, thank you. it has been a busy morning overseas with several new developments. secretary of state john kerry meeting with a top official pushing for a seize fire in israel. and the president is heading out

to do fundraising. >> the schedule is moving forward for the president so he is going to head out for a three-day fundraising trip. his team is working hard on the ground in the region and the president is keeping in contact with the secretary of state. and we have the violence increase in israel and palestinian. the president is going to three different cities with six different events. it is a big mid-term election. the white house insist the president has air force one and security phone lines to keep in touch with the team. but there is pressure on him about the fundraising >> when you ask the white house officials are they concerned about the optics?

>> they insist they are not because remember when the ukrainian crisis broke out the president was on the road and did fundraising in new york city. late last night there was one change for the upcoming trip this week. he was expected to be on jimmy kimel's late night show and now they say he is not going to do that. so they insist they are not concerned about the optics but as they tweak the schedule they are realizing maybe the criticism about the last week and the week before that fundraising image isn't so good. >> it has been a pattern, not just for weeks, but for years with this particular president. thank you for joining us. a breakthrough in the search for missing e-mails at the

center of the irs political targeting scandal. the commissioner testified that former officials lois lerner were gone forever and lost in a hard drive crash and the hard drive has been destroyed. now top officials are saying there might be a backup system. peter deucey is live. how are you, birthday boy? how are these out there? >> there is no doubt explaining why or how they exist but he testified saying there is an issue as to whether or not that all of the backup recovery tapes were destroyed on a six month schedule. so an investigator asks some of the backup tapes may exist and

we replied i don't know if they are or not but it is being looked at. the irs is having the doubts, according to issa, because they are not following the rules >> they didn't destroy them are or overwrite them is what cane is saying. >> what do you know and why are you just learning that now? >> they didn't take our order to preserve documents >> it is the treasurey journal sniffing around. >> what are the democrats saying about this? >> the top democrat thinks it is chairman to ask the commissioner to testify tomorrow so cumminings wrote issa a letter saying this has been a four-year

event holding a bunch of hearings and this approach unnecessarily squanders millions of taxpayer dollars. issa says he thinks the commissioner of the irs jumped the gun when he told congress the irs e-mails were destroyed. >> thank you, peter. it has been ten years since the 9/11 commission report detailed the events that led to the most deadliest attacks on american soil and they are issuing more warnings. >> and the terrorist moved in next door to benghazi at the embassy before the attack and the state department knew about it and ignored request. >> a massive sinkhole opens up under this woman's home.

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due in court after a highway in a crash outside of chicago leaving five people dead with an 11-year-old girl being one of the victims. the car crashed into several

vehicles stopped in traffic on interstate 55. four others injured but their condition isn't known at the time. new warnings today from the people that wrote the report on the 9/11 terror attacks saying america faces more threats now than every before. it is set to be report today and says complacency is setting in and there is a waning in the sense of urgency draining the funds. buck mckeon is here with us. thank you for joining us. you have seen elements of the report. does this surprise you? >> no, we get intelligence briefings and we know that al-qaeda is larger and stronger than other and isis is a big terrorist organization that is now the ones that are attacking

in iraq and have been fighting in syria that are trying to destroy the syria/iraq border. they are a huge threat. in fact, worse than al-qaeda. al-qaeda refuted them. we know they are quite -- fighting -- in africa and throughout the middle east and their ultimate goal, if they can set-up a large area where they can train and foster in the syria/iraq area, their main goal to is conquer the world and they will not back off. >> can you pinpoint one area, and if so would that be it, that is the greatest terror threat to america? >> there is not just one area. they are moving into wherever they can find an opening.

we have problems in various countries in africa and throughout the middle east we know there are problems and in the philippines they have caused problems. they are looking wherever they can find an opening or softsp spot. and i agree people are tired of war. we have been fighting the longest war of our lives. but if we let our guard down we will be hit and hit hard. >> what about iraq and syria? >> we are concerned about these 50,000 people that came across our southern border that are causing all kinds of upheaval. thing about the countries surrounding syria. jordan has hundreds of thousands coming in and all of the

surrounding countries people are fleeing because of the war and it is all terrorism sponsored. >> we talk about this complacency and americans not taking the threat seriously anymore. where do you think that sense of complacency is coming from? coming from the top, that being president obama when americans see his attitude and reaction to events that go on around the world? >> or lack of reaction and response. i think the problem that we see coming from the white house and the administration is they look at these problems around the world as isolated regional problems. but the world is starting to burn. it is like rome burning around nero. this is watt we see happening. if you think back of what the world was like when this

president became the president we had a war in iraq, we had a war in afghanistan and now it is spread throughout the entire world. we have done nothing to help. we pulled the troops out of iraq and now we see it going up in flames. i am worried about the same possibility in afghanistan. we see what is happening in syria. we see what is happen in israel. >> it has been busy around the world. president obama called out on the foreign policy by members of his own party with the fighting overseas and the seize fire efforts at a standstill and russia thumbing its nose as it. here is a high profile democrat

with tough words for the president coming up. >> and a surprise guest at a small swimming hole sends kids running home to mom.

a florida woman has less than two hours to clear out of her after a massive sinkhole swallowed half or yard. it has gotten 30 yards across and 40 feet deep. linda fisher has until noon to retrieve her belongings until

she is not allowed to go in. >> it is stable but if it rains it can go any time. >> crews are working to stabalize the home. multiple sources saying the cons consulant warned the united states about the militant group that moved in next door that benghazi location. why are we learning about this now adam housely? >> guys are getting more con pp ff confidivergent and get -- they

are getting more confident and you can see to the right of the red line is where the home was located. and within three weeks of the u.s. renting this compound that a group believed to be behind the attack moved in next door and everything was ignored. we talked to people with direct knowledge and it verified. they said quote we warned but didn't know what to do. they asked for sand bag and a machine gun to increase security and they were told it wasn't pleasing to the eyes of others with and would fright n residents. >> it is part of the administration's pattern

ignoring anything other than al-qaeda and allowing others to rent buildings next to a u.s. diplomatic property and not doing anything about it is just negligence. >> they said there was a request but they had not made a decision about it. and you learned more about the local militia? >> yes, we hired a local militia to provide security. and we are told the leader of the militia left on the 12th while the annex was smoldering and the people in the region and the people very familiar with the story tell us they had to look over their shoulder as they

were fighting that night. and more people were there than we realize and more is coming out every day. >> adam housely, thank you. latest report on benghazi from los angeles. millions more americans exempt from obamacare because of where they live. we will tell you where that is and what it could mean for the rest of us >> and transforming the mess that is the department of the va. a tall order as president obama nominee for secretary heads to capital hill for a conformation hearing. >> you will not pass this bill and fix the va issues. they are deeper and for many of us the hearing have been important about setting with the baseline is and start moving forward.

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the washington, d.c. court of appeals releasing an opinion on a lawsuit and jim angle has the ruling. >> this is a big blow to obamacare. the u.s. court of appeals issued an opinion saying the irs went too far in interpreting the law. it said that subsidies would be available in the exchanges established by the states. 36 states didn't establish their own exchanges but gave out subsidies anyway and the irs ruled it was okay to give out whether state or federal. but the court said that is not the case. you cannot do that. and it ruled that it is

absolutely not okay for the irs to do this and they went too far and they have in fact knocked this down. let me give you the quick language from the decision here. because we conclude that the aca restricts the section of the b subsidy established by the state we reverse the district court and vacate the irs resolution. it means millions of people in the state will no longer get subsidies and if their insurance is more than 8% of the income they will no longer be subject to the individual mandate. it knocks a hole in obamacare and it is unlikely the federal government will take money away from people getting it but going forward it is going to be chaos.

>> and going forward it will go to the supreme court? >> yes, there is another decision pending in another circuit and it will likely go the other direction. >> thank you, jim. bringing in dr. ben carson. a neuro surgeon and fox news n contr contribute. what do you make of this? >> this is exactly what i expected. but the obama administration and the irs said they could do what

they want. but it states that subsidies come through the state exchanges and many of the states decided they were not going to setup these exchanges. and the administration decided we can give them subsidies anyway. but it doesn't say that. you cannot come along and change the law at will. i think it will go to the supreme court. >> i don't think what your sense of that is but we will read it more and figure out the opinion. but this sounds like the supreme court has a redo on its hands if it wants or choses to go that way. >> it is probably good. because i suspect some of them had seconds thoughts about the initial pass. i am very pleased with what i am seeing happening. also, when the employer mandate hits after the election a lot of

people are going to be alarmed and all of those come will come together to open the eyes of the people. and i want people to know everybody should have good health care but it doesn't have to be done through the government. government in control of your life or individual control and responsibility is the question and it will bring health care in the economic system and lower cost. >> 4.5 million are being granted another exemption from obama and it deals with people that live in the territory like puerto rico. the number is 41 in delays.

>> it keeps going. this is another example because the cost is going to be too high. it was going to impact 14.5 billion more so they said if we move that out we can deduct that 14.5 billion and it will look like the deficit is getting better. this is all smoke in mirrors and gets go back to doing things in a reasonable and logical and clear way and it will serve the people. and that is what we want to do. why do we have to go through the all of the shenanigans? >> we will find out if that is the play that plays out. you made news in colorado winning a straw pole. you turn on the radio and hear a group drafting you to run for the white house and presidency.

what is your view by that? something you would make a move on? >> i certainly didn't give it much thought early on but every place i go now, you know, i was at a costco book signing and there were hundreds of people so excited so i cannot ignore it. i am starting to think about it. but it certainly wasn't in my bucket list when i retired. >> still? >> i am thinking about it. >> i gotcha you. you got some time. we will talk about again. your timing was perfect thank you. dr. ben carson, thank you. appreciate it. a senate conformation hearing today for the president's choice to head up the veteran's affairs department. robert mcdonald is set to appear before the veterans affairs committee. doug mcelway is live.

any major issues standing in the way? >> there is no doubt mcdonald is going to be facing tough and perhaps grueling questions given the scope of the problems with va. that said there is every indication he is going to be n confirmed and he has broad bipartisan support. they are eager to get this out before the august recess begins in eight days. times is of the essence and there is a great deal of urgency to act. >> the bigger prb maybe the passing of the bigger bill that is tied up in conference? >> that is right. both sides are haggering over

this bill and have been tied up for weeks. democrats want to use emergency spending to fund the bill that could be as high as $30 million starting in 2016. pp republicans want to use offsets. both sides want a fuel understanding of the depth before they throw the money in. there are indications of a late breakthrough and bernie sanders said he would use offsets to fund it so that is an encouraging sign. >> important to figure out how it will be managed. thank you, doug. >> president obama under fire from members of his own party with one democratic senator accusing him of lacking policy on anything. >> and an unwanted guest shows up at these kids's favorite

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a federal appeals court d l dealing a major blow to obamacare. a 2-1 ruling that deals with tax subsidies in the states that set-up health care exchanges. the right and left, before the ruling came out, felt if the judges strick down the law it could cut out the heart of obama. all of this means the nine justice of the supreme court will be hearing this. stay tuned for more on this. a leading democrat lashing out against the white house on foreign policy. west virginia senator joe mansion point to a leadership vacuum criticizing the obama

administration for not leading on the world stage and offering no clear view of u.s. policy. senator mansion said you lead by example and right now we are not leading. we are getting pulled in all direction and there is not a clarity of who the united states is and what we stand for. lou dobbs is here. >> good to be here with you. >> thank you for joining me. who are we? >> we are the world's super power and created half of the wealth since world war ii throughout the world and have done so at such a sacrifice and it is acknowledged by many of on the left. joe mansion, diane feinstein, robert menendez all acknowled

acknowledging the president isn't leading and reminding him what country he is the president of. it is a shame his own party has to remind him of his duties to the nation and our great people. >> we hear the phrase lead from behind be it comes to president obama. how did it make you feel when he came out? this first comments regarding the malaysian airplane crash. the first comments the day of and then the second day when his comments followed samantha powers who came out forceful. >> she was strong, determined and correct in her view she was expressing. the white house tried to ensure everyone the president of the united states and the ambassador were working together.

this president prefers ambig ambiguity. and this man isn't leading from behind even. that would cant improvement over the total lack of leadership asserted by the president. we are engaged in a radical war and israel is fighting for its life against hamas and in conflict against gaza and forces. and we have a president emmir r emploring contraint rather than talking about alliance in the tret to israel and western civilization. >> some would say this shows what he values when he heads off

to fundraisers across the country. and domestically we have another quote for you and this is also something that mansion had to say. the politics is holding our country down. the greatest of our country and who we are and policy is not leading our country. it is the politics of the day. >> you know, when president obama gave his speech at west point, he talked about the necessity to lead. he said the question wasn't whether we would lead but how which is remarkable that a man president of the united states for five years would have to talk about how he leads. he went on to say that we are talking about not only the peace and prosperity for the united states domestically but he wasn't content with that. he said we are talking about the peace and prosperity of the world. glowing rhetoric but totally irrelevant to his actions.

ralph emmerson said i cannot hear what you say because what you do speaks loudly. this president needs to reflect on that. he himself sought out the duty and responsibility and he is sadly and woefully neglecneglec it. >> and he has yet to make a comment about andrew tahmooress who is in mexican prison. >> this is a man with two tours of duty in iraq. he is a man who served with distinction and hasn't our our commander in chief mention his name even as we watch the crisis that this president helped

create on the southern border. it is unthinkable. it is inexplicit. >> do you think he should go to the border? >> i think the president should go to the border, mexico city, central america and act like a leader and resolve the matter. >> he has a lot of things he could be doing. >> great to be with you. >> "happening now" is rolling your way in 11 minutes. what is happening? more >> reaction from karl rove and bret baier on the implications of the obamacare bill. and ukraine separatist finally begin cooperating with the downed flight and the death toll rises between israel and hamas and what must the secretary do? we will talk about that. military medics fight to

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bill: couple kid running for their lives. for a pretty good reason. they were swimming in a pond in texas, all of sudden, eight foot, 300-pound al fate tore popped his head up and headed their way -- alligator. they got tour parents and parents called in the experts. >> regardless how big children say animal is, when they see something in the pond or in the woods, parents need to listen to them. this gator was stalk stalking those children and was a dangerous situation. bill: the gator was moved to nearby wildlife park and everybody is okay.

>> yeah. bill: that is perfect case of if you see something, say something. >> absolutely. bill: they screamed it. >> i like his big black cowboy hat. gator knew not to mess with him. >> good to have you here. >> busy day. >> "happening now" starts right now. see you tomorrow. jon: fox news alert and a huge ruling from the d.c. court of appeals. it hand down a decision that is a major setback for obamacare. just happened moments ago. good morning to you. i'm jon scott. >> how much of a set back, what does it mean for customers. those are big questions. i'm jenna lee. the court striking down key part of obamacare, subsidies for some customers. that will have major consequences for millions of people getting tax credits through federal exchanges. many states are using these federal exchanges. shannon bream is live in washington with more on what we're learning now. shannon? >> reporter: this is a tough blow to the administration and could totally change the equation with respect to h