ralph gets serious and says a truly-meant apology that was proven by their actions. todd, i got balloons and a stuffed animal from my girl. yeah, s-e-x. you know what i mean. i'm gretchen. here's shep. new claims that russian. backed rebels have shot down two more jets over ukraine as we get the first word about what's on the black boxes from the malaysia airlines crash. another passenger jet crashes. this time while trying to make an emergency landing. dozens reported dead, but some apparently fought through the flames and survived. plus, the missing wife of a united states marine. court documents reveal incredible details including accusations that she was having another marine's baby. and the day she disappeared, she was going on a hunting trip with her lover who was also married. so let's get to it. now "shepard smith reporting" live from the fox news deck.

>> good wednesday afternoon from the deck. think the russians are backing down now after separatists are accused of killing 298 innocents on a passenger jet, you'd better think again. russian-backed rebels say they blew two ukrainian fighter jets right out of the sky today. and not far from where that doomed malaysia airlines jet went down. the separatist website claims they shot down ukrainian jets like this one. the rebels say one pilot died and that right now they're hunting for another who ejected. the fighter jets went down about 20 miles south and east of where the boeing 777 crashed and killed everybody on board. the united states and ukraine accuses separatists of shooting down the jet with a missile. they deny the charge. but the evidence speaks volumes. u.s. officials go even further and blame the russians for creating the conditions that led to that disaster. but they say they do not yet have any direct evidence that russian forces pulled the trigger. now nearly a week after the crash, investigators say they reviewed one of the jet's black

boxes, and they say there's no sign that anybody tampered with it. of course, it will take time to review all the data. also today, the first of the victims' bodies arrived in the netherlands. the country that had the most of the victims held a mourning day today. ♪ >> 40 coffins arrived in holland today on military planes. crews say it could take days to transport all of the bodies. meantime, dutch officials heading up the investigation say they still have not been able to access the crash site. teams on the ground say the site still isn't secure. the frustrated australian prime minister says the chaos at the scene means some victims' remains could rot at the crash site for months. >> it's quite possible that many bodies are still out there in the open, in the european

summer, subject to interference and subject to the ravages of heat and animals. >> the ravages of heat and animals. the tension has even ukraine's lawmakers turning on each other. a debate over how to defend the country turned into a brawl. steve harrigan is in the east of ukraine in donetsk. do we know if the rebels used the same type of weapon today that brought down that civilian jet? >> reporter: shepard, it's not likely at this point. those two ukrainian government jets were downed while flying at a lower altitude. they're generally infantry support jets, su-25s. they were helping support a ukrainian offensive right now very close to the border with russia. so flying low enough to be struck by shoulder-mounted less sophisticated anti-air missiles, man pads. that's what likely brought these two down, as you say, right near the russian border and right near this crash site. it's no accident that the lead dutch investigators haven't yet

even made it to the site when you have this hot war going on all around it with more planes knocked out of the sky today, shepard. >> incredible scenes of tribute and a contrast there for those who went to the netherlands today, the bodies of those victims. do we have a sense yet for how long the identification process may take, steve? >> reporter: a real remarkable turnaround in how those bodies were treated after two days in the sun, a day on a soviet refrigerator train car where the air conditioning was broken and transport planes suddenly met by military honor guards and into their own hearses, a real turnaround as far as respect goes. the identification process has begun immediately. some of those remains and bodies will be instantly identifiable. others could take anywhere from days to weeks depending on the conditions. so it could still be a long process for many of the families waiting repatriation of their loves ones. >> steve harrigan in the eastern area of contested ukraine. steve, thanks very much. a senior official tells fox news

now that the obama administration is ready to slap russia with more economic punishments if that country does not help end the fighting in ukraine, and clearly it has not helped yet. the united states today banned people and companies with american ties from dealing with some of russia's biggest companies including the kremlin-run oil company. that official says the united states could take even more extreme steps if russia's president, vladimir putin, doesn't get the ukrainian rebels to stand down, which clearly so far they have not. let's go to washington now and former united states ambassador to ukraine, william taylor, is with us. ambassador taylor, thank you. >> thank you. >> you'd have thought in the days after 298 civilians met a bloody end that they might be able to calm things down a bit. it has been quite the contrast. i mean, they are still at it. >> they are still at it, and this goes back to mr. putin's choice. he can either continue to support these rebels, these separatists, and to keep them

still at it, as you say, or he can disavow them, move away from them, he can cut them off from the supplies and the equipment and the weapons and the training and the leadership that's clearly been going across the border from russia into ukraine. we have to decide, we have to figure out what he's going to do, whether he's going to double down on the separatists or whether he's going to disown them. >> we like to think that we run the world, but we don't. and it's the europeans right now who are the problem. it's the europeans who are not stepping up. i understand all the reasons. i think a lot of our audience does as well. but how long can you will et this guy murder people? >> he should not be allowed to let -- he should not be allowed to murder people at all from now on, forever. the europeans do need to step up. they need to step up today. my sense is that the shooting down of this aircraft, this civilian airliner, is a game changer, is a change that -- >> doesn't look like it yet. >> it doesn't look like it yet. they need to -- but there are

indications, at least statements, that they understand that the europeans understand, the british, the french, the germans, the dutch, of course, understand that this is different from it was last week. it needs to change. >> i don't know how it's different. if i'm sitting in london right now and these russian oligarchs, mind you, as many of our viewers know, have a lot of their money locked up in london by the billions of dollars. so suddenly the united kingdom is going to go, okay? no, they're not. and so far the same from angela merkel in germany. they get 40% of their energy from over there. this is a real mess. >> this is a real mess, and you could go on and talk about the french. >> you could. >> who are about to sell one or two naval ships to the russians, to allow them to move their helicopters. this has to stop. i believe that the discussions among the europeans prompted by the strong steps, relatively strong steps that the americans have taken last week and again indicated today will lead them in that direction. >> the hawks around here will

tell you that vladimir putin only understands one thing, and that's force. of course, they say that about everybody and everything on earth, but in this case they might be right. >> they might be right. and there are people presumably talking about force, but i don't think it's the united states says talking about force in ukraine. what we are talking about doing is supporting the ukraine in their security efforts, building up their security capabilities, hardening the nato defenses against any other moves by the russians against any nato allies, having nato work with ukraine and have joint exercises so those kind of things need to take place. but the economic pressure is the immediate steps that we can take. >> the former u.s. ambassador to the ukraine, william taylor, with us from d.c. mr. ambassador, thank you. >> thank you. well, it's been a disastrous week, obviously, for the asian airline industry. another jet crashed today, killed 47 people. this time some passengers actually made it out alive. this one happened in taiwan. it was a transasia turboprop

jet -- i said jet, i meant plane -- a turboprop that crashed and broke apart, destroyed homes and cars on the ground. rescuers pulled 11 survivors from it. bad storms in the area had already led to airlines canceling some 200 other flights, and there's video from the scene on our website at foxnews.com. the united nations releasing a blistering report on the impact of the terror group isis in iraq and whether security forces did enough to protect civilians. plus, more on the ultimatum for iraqi christians. and we've seen more than a dozen oil train derailments in the past year and a half. one killed 47 people. now the feds say they have a plan that could help prevent some future wrecks. so what will they do? that's coming up from the fox news deck on this wednesday afternoon.

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held a meeting today to discuss the fighting and the latest isis fighting and the group's threats to christians in iraq. remember, isis forces and those who joined with them have already captured a wide swath of the country over the last couple of months. the red slashes up on this map show you just how big this sunni militant-controlled area is. and you can see it also stretches over into parts of syria. in fact, a large part of the north and east. iraqi officials say that in recent weeks, isis has transported oil from iraq to syria for processing before they sell it in mosul in the north there. the same city that isis forces have given kris chabs an ultimatum. that ultimatum to christians, convert to islam, pay a tax, or die. fox news chief correspondent jonathan hunt joins us with us on the deck. convert to islam, pay a tax, or die. this is a desperate situation for non-muslims. >> yeah, and for anybody who is

a non-sunni muslim, shia muslims also facing the same threats. but to focus on the threats against christians in mosul just about one decade ago, there was something like 100,000 christians. in the face of this ongoing violence and these threats, there are said today to be just about 200. many of them fleeing for their lives. and this, according to the u.n. special representative for iraq, is why. listen. >> christians have been given an ultimatum to convert, pay a tax, leave or face imminent execution. they're facing systematic abductions, killings or the destruction of their property. the houses of minority residents in the city have been marked. >> and just to explain that a little bit, the isis militants are acting according to a tradition of the jizya contract which offered protection to

non-muslims if they paid a protection fee in effect. now, the only options that isis is now giving non-sunni muslims are in that area or convert to islam or face death as isis puts it by the sword. >> aside from converting, does anybody have any solutions? >> no easy ones, certainly. the iraqi army quite simply does not have the ability to drive isis out of the areas which it has taken control of. the iraqi government has not exactly been a paragon of tolerance in its treatment of shia muslims. that is one of the reasons why we are seeing these situations. now, so much so that the u.n. special representative said the only way to solve this is what he called a political and social package addressing the concerns of all communities. that hardly seems likely to come about in the current climate, which is why that special

representative said the following, shep, which to me was the most sobering sentence of his entire long presentation today. he said, quote, it is clear that iraq will never be as it was before the fall of mosul. not much optimism there. >> no, certainly not. jonathan hunt, thank you. here in north america, a series of explosive train wrecks over the past year has transportation officials now calling for a total overhaul of how trains move oil and gas around. 47 people died last year in canada when a runaway oil freight train caught fire and exploded, leveling most of an entire town. investigators say that tanker cars are too easy to rupture. under a proposal from the department of transportation, thousands of older rail tank cars that could carry fuel would be phased out over the next couple of years. regulators say that they're considering a speed limit of 30 miles an hour near cities, but railroad executives say that

would tie up train traffic all the way across the nation. word broke this afternoon that the feds are now extending a travel ban on flights to israel's main international airport in tel aviv because of safety concerns. and you'd better believe israel's going to take a hit in tourism. that's next along with what the leader of hamas just said about what it would take to stop this fighting. the crisis in the middle east as "shepard smith reporting" continues in a moment. (vo) watching. waiting.

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breaking news, there will be no truce in the middle east. a live look at gaza city. the leader of hamas says that the group has rejected an offer for a cease-fire and says that in the future, hamas will not accept any proposals to stop the fighting unless and until

there's a complete lift of the blockade on gaza. a blockade that israel and egypt imposed some seven years ago. john huddy live along the border with more. john? >> reporter: jayeah, shepard, shears been an intense amount of fighting. in fact, things have really accelerated just a short time ago. we've got a lot of this. take a look. as cease-fire talks continue, the action does as well here on the israel/gaza border. flares are being put up in the distance for israeli troops as they continue to move in on one area in particular. this is an area that has seen intense fighting over the last 16 days since "operation protective edge" started. and in particular, the last six days as the ground assault has continued. now, forces continue to move into that area. you can see all the flares. we see artillery fire, cannon fire in the distance. we hear machine gunfire as well. and now more rockets are being

fired out of gaza, targeting israel. and these look like the long-range rockets. so as the fighting continues on the ground, we're hearing that those rockets that were just fired were actually targeting the airport in tel aviv. and the fighting continues even right now, shepard. i can hear artillery fire in the distance. so whether any cease-fire agreement materializes, it sounds like, as you mentioned at the top, that's not going to happen. fighting very much continues behind me here along the israel/gaza border. shepard. >> john huddy live for us, thanks. there will be no truce, as i mentioned, and no united states airlines will be flying to israel at least for another day. the federal aviation administration has extended its flight ban from yesterday, now forbidding any american jets from going into or out of tel aviv's airport for another 24 hours. the faa's initial order came after a rocket landed about a mile from tel aviv's airport. you can see the rocket strike

over there off the airport. it's the only major airport in israel that accepts flights from abroad. the state department today confirmed that hamas does, in fact, have rockets that can reach that airport. >> hamas's anti-aircraft missile capabilities are still being determined. we don't have confirmation that hamas has launched heat-seeking missiles during the conflict or that they have access to missiles like those we saw bring down the tark in ukraine. the faa working very closely with the intelligence community, with people that do analysis on these kind of things before they make these determinations. >> now, in addition to the faa's ban, more than a dozen international airlines have also canceled flights to tel aviv. it comes at the peak of the tourism season in israel. last year tourism revenue amounted in about $11.5 billion. analysts say last year was a record and that this year was on track to top it by about 10% before the tensions erupted and

deadly fighting. maria bartiromo anchors "opening bell" on fox business. hamas standing up saying this is a great victory, not allowing planes to land there. what a blow to the economy. >> absolutely. and you know, hamas wants to isolate israel. what better way to isolate israel than to just ban flights in and out of the country? look, tourism is very important. you mentioned the $11 billion in tourism revenue. add to that another almost $3 billion just for hotel revenues. so that is also under the tourism umbrella. so you really have the consequence of impacting economic vibrancy that was the case in israel for a long time. look, tourism is incredibly important. we're already seeing incoming tourism down because of the gaza rocket strikes, and already it is accounting for about 5% of exports. tourism overall is 1.5% to 2% of gdp. sounds like a small number. it's not. it actually is an increasingly important number for israel. so now you've got all sorts of

people basically saying look. the u.s. is against israel once again. and they're questioning whether or not this is because of safety concerns or because it's a rush to judgment. you have to believe there are safety concerns, shep, but is this going to continue beyond 24 hours? that's where the rubber meets the road. >> secretary of state kerry, like the israeli government said land over here, please show the world that this is okay. i don't know how you take chances in this day and age. >> look what michael bloomberg did. he gets on an et al flight and goes there. i'm not trying to make any point. i just want people to know that it's safe. again, he's obviously trying to make pa poithat point. >> there was a time if israel were having a war with gaza or even hezbollah out of lebanon, that in tel aviv they're sitting around drinking coffee. it's a whole new world now. >> and unfortunately these things feed on one another. once you have the u.s. airlines having a certain tact to cancel all flights, then you have the

foreign airlines following suit and then any word of any more fighting, you no he, making it look like it's getting worse and worse. which we don't know around that airport. this is the first time we've actually seen hamas be able to get so close to this airport. >> maria bartiromo from "opening bell with maria bartiromo" weekday mornings. see you in the morning. >> thank you so much, shep. we're getting a slew of court documents in the case of a marine's missing wife. now the police say the pregnant wife is apparently dead. after she went on a hunting trip with not just another marine but another marine who is her lover and who is also married. the details ahead. plus, do you live in one of the nation's laziest states? the feds out today with a brand-new list and some of the results may surprise you. the laziest state in all of america. the truth is, the states aren't lazy. we're the lazy ones. [ male announcer ] hands were made for playing.

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police are now searching for a missing marine's wife. they say someone in here eventually shot and killed her after her lover discovered she was pregnant and took her on a hunting trip. that's one of the new details we're learning from court documents. they show that the woman was apparently having an affair with a married former marine. i know, there are no former marines, but he wasn't active anymore. anyway, he lived next door and he could be the father of her your hon unborn child. the woman is but 20 years old. according to documents she told a friend the two planned a special day together to celebrate her pregnancy. that was when she went missing more than three weeks ago. police have been searching for her ever since, and they've been doing so in the joshua tree national park. the area is very remote, as you can see here. you have to go out at least three large swipes. this is desert palm and la

quinta and palm springs, california. so it's about due east of palm springs and really out in the middle of nowhere. they say cops and hundreds of volunteers have scoured a huge section of the desert there in southern california. and you can see how remote the area was. court documents show the former marine told police that he did go hunting in the park but said at the time he was alone. the documents also show that he changed his story. first he claimed he hardly knew this woman, and later he said well, they had kissed, but she denied having sex with her. and then there's this. according to court documents, the man's wife told a friend that without a body, detectives didn't have a case against her husband and her and that those detectives would never find the body. trace gallagher is live at our west coast news hub for us this afternoon. trace, never find a body, that suggestions she knows something. >> yeah. well, they know a lot, shep, because police are finding out through court documents they

found out about this affair initially from another neighbor who confirmed that, in fact, christopher lee, the former marine you talked about, and erin corwin were having an affair and then corwin's friend back in tennessee, as she confirmed the affair including text messages to back up her claim and one text message she says that erin told her christopher lee was worried that if his wife found out about this whole thing including her being pregnant, that she would divorce him and keep him away from his child. but now police believe that wife is now heavily involved. and not just saying that the body won't be found, but also telling her landlord that police missed something when they searched the couple's home and saying that she had to berate her husband for not keeping his lies straight. that couple, by the way, has now moved back to alaska, and the marine you see there, jonathan corwin, has now taken an extended leave from the ma enradio e rines while they search for his wife. >> what more do we know about police evidence?

>> the lover, christopher lee, admits he had a .22-caliber weapon. they also found shell casings, but they can't find that weapon either. they did find the car of erin corwin a short distance from where she lived, and there were shoe tracks leading away from that car just a single set, and they disappeared at another car's tracks and the tracks of that car, guess what, they match christopher lee's car. her lover, the search for erin corwin goes on. police still say this is a missing persons report until they get some hard evidence, which they do not yet have, shep. >> trace gallagher in los angeles. trace, thanks very much. let's get to mercedes colwin now. fox legal analyst. the woman is married, she's 20. >> right. >> she's married to a marine. she goes on a date. >> hunting. >> hunting trip with another marine who has his own baby and his own wife to celebrate, and

she never comes back. >> exactly. doesn't it sound like these wagons are circling and the fly is the ointment is the lover's wife who comes forward and says they'll never find the body. doesn't that just tell you, one, probably she's complicit in what happened to this young woman. and two, that she knows a lot more than what she's saying. >> when she said you don't have a case without a body, she's not far off. >> well, but -- >> i mean, you do, but -- >> it's harder to prove because there's always -- what's reasonable doubt? some juror can say, you don't have a body. you can't tell me how she was killed. you can't tell me definitively who killed her. and without that body, you don't have those ballistics. that's one thing about jurors. they have that csi effect. they always look for all the evidence. why doesn't everything just line up? and especially when you don't have the major evidence in a murder, the body, it becomes very questionable. we saw that with a lot of the cases we've covered. >> so if you're investigators, you have to hope for mistakes which it sounds like they've got with this woman blabbing and "b," lean on people and hard. >> great point because they're

going to lean on the wife or husband. it sounds like the husband has already been flubbing with detectives, changing his story. he's the weakest link. their defense is only as strong as the weakest link. they're going to start to lean on that husband who may ultimately crack. >> what you do is you try to get one to tell on another in exchange for something. >> exactly. start with the husband and say look, you have life in prison, that, parole, but if you don't give up your wife and what happened to this young mother, then there's really no deal in hand. >> mercedes colwin, we'll follow it. thank you. a new survey shows more teenagers are turning to human growth hormone or hgh to get ahead in sports. according to the partnership for drug-free kids, 11% of high school students, nearly one in ten, admits that he or she has taken hgh at least once in the last year. that's almost double what it was in 2012. the number was about the same for boys and girls. 12% of boys admits they took hgh

versus 9% of girls. again, these are the ones who admit it. researchers blame online marketing and a lack of drug testing in high schools. they also say some students took hgh to improve their looks. not just their athletic abilities. well, do you like -- do you live in a happy place or a miserable place? there's a new study which shows which cities in america are the happiest and which are the most unhappy. i don't really believe in this one because i think they're wrong about one city. aren't you pretty happy right now? >> i'm happy in new york city. >> i love it here. it's not like we have a hard life here. we don't. but i don't know. most unhappy places. louisville? really? >> louisville at number three. so shep, this study -- >> i really like louisville a lot. >> yeah, it's a pretty nice place. >> yeah, they've got horses beautiful country and great people and lots to do. most unhappy place in america, third most. congratulations, louisville. i don't buy it. >> researchers from harvard and university of british columbia. >> no wonder. >> in canada came up with this.

they analyzed data from the cdc over the past decade. it looked at people who lived in various places all over the country and asked them, are you very satisfied with where you live or very dissatisfied? number three was louisville. number two was pittsburgh, pennsylvania. >> pittsburgh. wait, wait, they have fries on salads, pierogis and the steelers. maybe it's the steelers part. >> pretty happy. number one is new york and these researchers say that the reason that people tend to flock to new york is maybe because of the higher salaries. but in turn, they're pretty miserable. >> do you know what i think about that? i think they found the places where people bitched the most, where people complain the most, i should say, i guess. where people complain the most. maybe that's what it is. because we're not unhappy here. we just fight it out. >> i'm pretty happy. >> fight it out. >> philadelphia was also number ten. >> here are the happiest cities. happiest cities in the america. wait till you see number three. look at that. how could you be happy in that place? >> d.c. comes in at number

three. >> good lord, the swamp that they drained and put a government in it. >> norfolk, virginia, comes in at number two and richmond is number one. >> i like richmond. and norfolk, too, very much. i don't know about this d.c. crap, though. >> yeah. >> all right. so you're happy in d.c. and you're angry and sad in new york. whatever they say. meantime, the centers for disease control and prevention in atlanta released its list of the nation's laziest states. you know, i know where this is going. it always goes there. >> i think they just like to believe it, once a year they come out with this list. >> this one from alabama. >> sweet home alabama at number five. >> i'm sorry. >> but this list is about sort of how much time you exercise during your leisure time. so if your job is, you know, carrying around lumber, that doesn't count. >> right. but it should. >> i just hope they're hustling in tuscaloosa. that's my number one. >> sounds more like auburn to me. >> they can be lazy in auburn all they want. number four is louisiana. it's hot. yeah.

>> long, hot summer. >> yeah. and number two, tied, tennessee and west virginia. >> okay. the laziest state in america. >> mississippi. >> we top a lot of lists. >> alabama is very thankful for you guys. >> we used to say we were thankful for louisiana and arkansas. now we're the laziest, fattest, the poorest. >> it's all a lie. >> it is a lie. oxford ain't like none of that. nice to see you. stop being so lazy. >> i know. got to go tell everybody to hustle back home. >> you're anything but lazy. nice to see you. it's like a biblical plague. blanketing entire areas along the mississippi river. ahead, some incredible images and how those bugs are blamed for a highway crash. and then there's this. stop paying thousands of dollars for car repairs you don't need. no, this is not a geico commercial. coming, how to avoid rip-offs at the repair shop. and save yourself a bundle.

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slide three now. local media reports indicate that the bugs made the road so slippery from squished bugs that they caused a three-car crash on a highway. look at that. incredible. here's another gas pump. apparently may flies love gas. according to researchers in our brain room, adult may flies live from about two minutes to two days. they only live -- they only live long enough to get it done. just to reproduce. look at this down here. look at that. that's dead bugs. think what it would sound like to step on that. crunch, crunch, getting blood and guts all over your feet. move out of wisconsin. they're not even unhappy in wisconsin. look at the close-up here. look at that. they're everywhere. a hatch of these bugs in minnesota in 2012 was reportedly so bad that officials had to use a snowplow to clear the roads. may flies in wisconsin, don't you know. well, if you own a car or truck, then you know it costs a

lot more than just the sticker price. take a look at our wall. hmm. there i am. i don't know what that is. according to the latest data from aaa, the average american owner will spend nearly $9,000. that's so weird. that's the weirdest looking thing i've ever seen. anyway, it includes things like gas. gas and insurance and auto maintenance. but analysts say millions of americans are paying more than they should. thousands of dollars more. the federal trade commission and the better business bureau report one of the biggest complaints they get every year is auto repair fraud. gerri willis is with us with some special tips how you can avoid auto repair fraud. she hosts "the willis report" at 5:00 eastern time. how do i avoid that? you don't go there and then you avoid it. >> sometimes you've got to have repairs or you've got to have maintenance, right? once you're out of warranty, you have to establish a relationship with an independent repair shop, right? and it's got to be people who

know you're coming back. you're not here one time just to do something. you're coming back so if you have a problem, if they do more than they should, if they upsell you, they'll be in trouble. also, so the language of cheaters is transmission or engine flush. if they're trying to take advantage of you, especially women, you know who you are, they're coming after you, the flush, the transmission or engine flush. and one of the things you can rely on is the owner's manual. and then we'll tell you exactly what kinds of upgrades you need over time to keep it running the way you want it to. >> it's free and clear. various makes and models. we've got camaros, cadillacs,si. it's not the ignition switch.

everything from modes that don't work to tears in airbags, all kinds of different things. go to our website, ger gerriwillis.com. this is 17,000. >> this is like 12 million that they've recalled. >> so they have now, as i understand it, they have, as i understand it, they have now recalled more cars than they've sold in the past two years. >> that's great. general motors, congratulations. gerri, thanks. >> you're welcome. more of the headlines. first, washington state. investigators there say a helicopter crashed as it was picking up cedar blocks for a logging operation north and east of seattle. told you about this yesterday when it happened. investigators say the chopper's tail clipped a cable and spun right out of control. officials say the pilot survived and that paramedics took him to the hospital with facial wounds and possible internal injuries. massachusetts, prosecutors

have filed more charges against a 15-year-old boy whom they say killed his teacher. they say this time the teen choked and beat a woman worker inside the youth detention facility where the state is the beat a woman worker inside the youth detention facility where the state is holding him. he's already pleaded not guilty to killing this high school math teacher. he now faces additional charges including attempted murder. minutes from now, we're expecting big news from facebook. t they've faced criticism for -- i think this means trendier. trendier siting. fox business news's jolene kent will join us to tell us what these trendinger sites are. this multi-device charger.

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facebook is set to release its quarterly earnings in just seven minutes. the social media giant is raking in the cash and performing much better than it did just a couple of years ago after its botched initial public offering. now analysts expect facebook to report $3 billion in revenue, a 55 increase from last year. total revenue has grown almost every single quarter, doubling in the last two years, everything but q-1 of '14. >> well, all about mobile ad revenue. more than half of the revenue coming into facebook is on your smartphone. those tiny little ads are doing very well for facebook. their entire mobile strategy is becoming very successful after they initially dropped the ball. what you should know is take a look at this. the global mobile ad revenue, facebook of all is second place

in the world. they're already inching closer and closer to google's mobile ad share, 46%. this is becoming a must-advertise place for brands, nor companies, for everything you consume. >> deck hands, has anyone in this room ever clicked a mobile app? anyone? i haven't either. >> that's what they're trying to change. >> yeah, good luck. >> they're implements this buy button inside the app. if you want to know where the cool kids are going, there's this theory that facebook is a long-term or short-termms to problem because the ads revenue keep going up. a lot of companies believe this is the way you reap young people. >> the kids used to be on facebook now they're on snapchat, instagram. >> you mentioned instagram. that's the one to watch. embassy facebook owns it. bought it for a billion dollar. they've started running ads. we're starting to get word on

what that is if it's even working. >> numbers after the bell. thanks a lot. we'll be right back.

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and on this day in 1988 the hard rock legends guns n' roses topped the billboard charts for the first time with "sweet child o' mine." the band formed from the ashes of two other rock groups based out of los angeles. a year after they signed gnr released their debut album featuring the single "welcome to the jungle." the track was slow to take off really in the beginning and the band didn't see much success until the catchy rift "sweet child o' mine" hit the airwaves. many consider this song among rock 'n' roll's greatest and the album is now considered a classic. and guns n' roses hit the big time 26 years ago today. sadly this just reminds me of

guitar hero now. kind of annoying. guitar hero ruined a lot of songs. i really enjoyed guitar hero before it became passe and awful like facebook. maybe we'll have something old from the '80s like all of us. dow no good. see you later. this just in, just don't fly to tel aviv that is because the faa just extended for another 24 hours its travel ban to israel. too dangerous and six days after the downing of that malaysian airline, too risky. when michael bloomberg says too much, the former new york city mayor defined that ban and soon talking to us. first to conner powell in gaza city on how folks there are dealing with the ban. >> reporter: we understand really for the first time in the past several days where efforts have been under way to try to negotiate some type of