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hello, everybody. bre breaking news out of libya. before dawn local time state department evacuating its perce personnel out of the bem embassy in tripoli. a spokeswoman says the fighting between rival militias is getting too close. what's described as a temporary shut down comes two years after the benghazi attack killing four americans. we are following the developments closely. >> this is one of the situations where the u.s. wanted to get its people out while they still could safely rather than having to fight their way out of tripoli later. a convey left the embassy at dawn under the cover of f-16s, drones and a rapid response force that ended up not being needed. they drove from tripoli west to
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the border. there were about 70 diplomats at the compound and 80 u.s. marines that had been providing security there. tripoli itself has become the scene of increasing chaos and violence. essentially it is a lawless city with warring militias and no real military presence to speak of. recent attacks on the airport made driving the best option they had had. a defense source says that the pentagon had been saying for awhile it was time to go and finally the state department agreed. evidently the ambassador and some of his staff are going to e remain in the region, but from what we are hearing, there are no plans to return to tripoli any time soon. the evacuation has to be looked at with the memories of the attack on the consulate in benghazi where four americans were killed including the ambassador. the state department did not want another attack in libya and the iranian hostage crisis makes
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embassies prime targets. this broke here, afternoon in north africa where it took six hours. they have just issued a travel warning urging all americans in the country to leave immediately for fear of either kidnapping or other kind of violence and simply saying the embassy is not in a position the u.s. government to help those inside libya. >> a intense situation, thank you for the update. appreciate it. we clearly understand, i understand, that palestinians need to live with dignity, but at the same time, israelis need to live free from rockets and from tunnels that threaten them. >> now to another breaking story that secretary of state john kerry still hoping for a long-term solution as we watch and wait to see what lies ahead
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as we enter the final hour of a 12-hour humanitarian cease fire between israel and hamas. this happening against the background of international concerns over the mounting death tolls. both sides are under pressure to stop the violence. joining us now for the latest on what continues to be a difficult situation, john hudy who is at the border. john? >> reporter: there's two elements i want to bring you and our viewers up to speed on. number one, israel security cabinet has reportedly agreed to extend the humanitarian cease fire. as you mentioned, it was supposed to end in an hour until midnight. we're waiting for official confirmation. that according to many reports. the second development, u.n. special on va for the middle east peace process has called for a cease fire to last for 24 hours. those are two significant
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developments. this, as u.s. secretary of state john kerry as we reported, continues to talk about something regarding a cease fire. last night security cabinet rejected a week-long temporary cease fire basically the sticking point has been allowing israeli ground forces to continue to go after hamas's network of tunnels. many of which lead here into israel. as we have seen militants have attacked israeli soldiers here on the israeli side of the border. this adds the ground offensive has lasted over the last few weeks, 18 days, now day 19. 31 tunnels so far very have been discovered. 15 have been destroyed. that's something the israeli military wants to continue doing. so two significant developments.
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the security cabinet reportedly approving a cease fire to last until midnight and then also u.n. special envoy to the middle east calling for a 24-hour humanitarian cease fire. we'll keep you posted on these developments. >> john, thank you very much reporting there on the ground from the gaz sa and israel border. for reaction on the current cease fire which we have been reporting ends in less than an hour, let's bring in the general secretary of the palestinian initiative who is joining us now from the west bank. welcome, sir, great to have you here today. >> thank you. >> i know that your party has no a armed wing and does not use violence, but it is a right to occupation, you are an independent politician, however, you are in contact with leaders. are you hearing anything at this point about the report about whether this cease fire is going
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to be extended midnight your time? >> on the palestinian side, all the parties, all the groups welcome extending the humanitarian cease fire as long as possible. and then they are also calling for a complete cease fire. that would be associated with what secretary kerry is talking about, which is lifting it on gaza. during the last eight hours, the rebels 151 of palestinians killed that they could not access during the last three or four days because even the medical services and the medical personnel could not get to injured people and they assume some of those were bleeding to death and nobody could get to them. so far the death toll on the palestinian side is 1,000 people and about 5,600 people injured.
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90% of them are civilians, women and children. this should stop. palestinians are the most interested in having a longer lasting cease fire and also a solution of the problem of the siege. >> a very, very sad situation knowing there are casualties. many casualties. do you think the palestinian people are being well served by hamas as being part of the unity government at a time when we continue to hear the report that hamas is planting its rockets at schools and hospitals along with using its own people as human shields. even in recent days, the u.n. has reported finding rockets in two palestinian schools. what do you say to this? >> i say what you have just said is unfortunately not that is represented by the israeli
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propagan propaganda. this is dominating the international media. but it doesn't make it correct. in reality hamas i don't think is using people as human shields. they are fighting, that's true. i really feel worried when some people in the world start talking about the right to defend itself but they don't talk about the rights of palestinians to defend themselves. i'll give you an example of how untrue this statement about human shields is. rece recently israel evacuated the strip, which is about 1.8 million people. this makes it the most densely populated area in the world. the people who were evacuated by shelling their homes were told to go to shelters of the united nations. yet 12 of the schools were
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attacked by israel itself. >> let me ask you this, sir u. is it your belief then that there's a policy underway to target innocent civilians in gaza? >> absolutely. the army keeps talking about. i pointing the targets, about how accurate their air force is and how accurate their army is. they talk about that all the time. what's next of the killing of 1,040 people including mostly women and children. what's the explanation of sniper killing children who are 4 and 5 years old. in my opinion, the ez raily army doesn't care. it's a very dangerous theory. >> let me ask you this it. i understand your point of view there.
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let me ask you this though. israel wants the underground tunnels destroyed. should it have the right to do that since the tunnels give terrorists access into israel? what about that network? >> that can be destroyed without a war, by make iing peace. i don't think any country wants anybody to attack it, but that applies to both sides. the root of the this problem is the israeli military operation. 47 years of military occupation. we have the israeli army controlling our lives. two days ago we marched peacefully, more than 25,000 people marched in the most peaceful manner demanding just access. we were encountered by the army shooting us. we did not have rongts. we did not have tunnels. yet 250 palestinians were shot
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and 6 of them lost their eyes and 6 became critically injured and one died. and yes they killed nine other palestinians just because they were demonstrating against them. we need peace. we need security for both sides. >> both sides definitely need peace. sir, i wish you well. thank you very much. i appreciate you joining us today, sir. >> thank you. >> now joining us in response, former ambassador to the united nations and fox news contributor dan gillerman. mr. ambassador, you just heard that. before i get your reaction to the comments, what news have you heard about the report about the fact that the cease fire will be extended? >> good to be with you. i heard john's report. i think he's doing a terrific job under very difficult
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circumstances. and i think that he may be right. i think from what i hear that the israeli cabinet is on its way to approve a further cease fire until midnight, which would mean another four hours of this existing cease fire. i think that that is going to happen. i doubt whether there's going to be any further extension, but i do hope that palestinian people who are discovering the horrific rubble and the destruction and the devastation that gaza suffered will use this extended cease fire in order to actually march towards the bunkers, which are under hospitals and schools where their cowardly leaders are holed up while they use their people as human shields and protect and demonstrate against their own leaders, who brought
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this havoc and destruction upon them. we did not seek this it confrontation. we e showed a lot of patience and restraint for nearly ten days while being shoved by thousands of rockets. no other country in the world, i think you know that very well, the united states would not standstill for 10 seconds if a rocket was fired from one of its neighbors. we waited not 10 seconds, and not 10 hours, but 10 days until we finally once in. once we're in there, we have to finish the job. >> you heard the comments. what do you say to people like him and the critics saying israel is doing little to protect the palestinians or their property and you're firing at innocent civilians as they protest peacefully? >> i know them well, and quite frankly, i give them more credit than that and i don't believe
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that even he believes what he's saying. he and his people, the palestinian authority have suffered the brutal, cynical, murderous ways of hamas themselves. he probably remembers that they were actually in charge of gaza and had the chaens to turn gaza into a better place and hamas overthrew them while murdering most of their people and throwing them out of there. so i don't think there's much love among the palestinians for hamas. we know what the egyptians think of them. the egyptian president said hamas brought it upon themselves and they are the ones to blame. it was their prime minister all those years ago that said there will not be peace until they learn to love their children more than they hate us. obviously, they u haven't learned to do that because people who put miss ls in schools and hospitals do not
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love their children. people who do that must understand if you go to sleep with a missile, you cannot be surprised if you don't wake up in the morning. the israeli army is the most moral in the world. it is being very, very cautious and very careful, but when you hide missiles and keep your people as human shields, unfortunately, innocents do get hurt and we really dprooef that. believe me, while for us every dead palestinian child is a horrible mistake and a tragedy, for them every dead israeli child is a cause for celebration. that's the difference between us. >> that's a very sad situation for they on both sides. let me ask you this. initially israel thought there would be less than 20 underground tunnels that it needed to destroy to stop the further terrorist activity into israel. yet it appears the network is far more extensive. given the sophisticated security, how were they built
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without israel trying to shut tem down before they were completed. >> you know, israel has known about the existence of the tunnels for a long time. a soldier who was held in captivity for over five years was kidnapped by hamas militants who came out of a tunnel. we did try in various ways to verify where those tunnels are, but although israel has developed a very sophisticated iron dome, which targets missiles at significant height and still been unable to find a system which will find each and every tunnel. but now that we are in there, we are discover iing more and more our intelligence is getting better and better. we're getting to those tunnels. in fact, i believe that the main condition for israel to extend
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the cease fire further than the next four hours will be to allow to to continue its mission to destroy those tunnels and at the same time diminish hamas's rocket launching capability and then we can go to the next stage, which i think could be the demilitarization of gaz gaza after hamas has been weakened to a point where they never dare to raise their ugly head again. >> you're saying, though, you expect the cease fire will continue for another four hours and not beyond that and that the reason for the cease fire extension is to move forward with the destruction of these underground tunnels? >> well, there could be an extension. we'll have to study the situation very carefully. but one thing i know is very clear there's a consensus about it in israel, within israel,
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across parties and around the world in most countries, and that is even if there is a longer cease fire, israel will be allowed, must be allowed to destroy all existing tunnels because no country would allow its villages, its dining rooms and schools to be above tunnel exits where any minute hamas murders could come in and maim and kidnap our people. so we will not live with this reality and we will make sure it comes to an end. if there is a cease fire that allows us to do that, we may very well agree to it. >> mr. ambassador, thaung for joining us on what is a difficult day in your part of the world. we appreciate you joining us with your insight. >> thank you. turning now to what's happening over in ukraine.
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more bodies from the malaysian airlines disaster are now in the neth netherlands. two cargo planes taking off today from the city where the bodies have been brought after the horrific crash of the malaysian airlines jet. they are being take on to a forensic center for identification. international observers are saying there are still remains at the crash site, but they are hard to get to because of interference by pro-russian rebels. today russia's foreign ministry lashing out over the latest round of ukraine-related sanctions imposed by the european union. accuses the u.s. of spreading lies about the involvement in the flight 17. time is running out for congress to act on the immigration crisis before its summer recess. will they do anything before they take a vacation opinion. meanwhile border patrol agents are working overtime.
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breaking news at this hour. the 12-hour humanitarian cease fire now extended for another hours. you heard it here on this newscast. the cease fire happening after high level talks led by secretary of state john kerry. now we are hearing that israel may expand the ground operation in gaza significantly. oliver north is joining us with more on this along with russia es escalating military actions. welcome, sir. great to have you here. let me begin with your take on the cease fire. what's your view of how this is being handled? >> i don't think john kerry deserves a lot of credit for this. when you look at what's transpiring shs the israelis answered a call from the united nations to allow another humanitarian cease fire to take place. the first three cease fires, the first of which was negotiated by egypt, were violated by hamas. that's number one.
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number two, ensuring that the cease fire can continue is less the responsibility of the united nations than it is of israel allowing it to continue. the united nations has proven that it cannot be trusted. i u remember vividly, and you and i spoke of this, when i came back from one of my trips from israel two years ago talking about the idea that the united nations insisted as humanitarian supplies, much of which were paid for by u.s. tax dollars, that concrete had to be brought in to rebuild gaza. it didn't rebuild anything aboveground. it was put into tunnels, arsenals and storage facilities for rockets. when the two schools were found to have rockets in them, hamas schools in gaza, those rockets were then handed back to hamas and they were taken out of the schools and put probably in another hospital or a mosque.
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the reality of it is a mosque is not doing anything to further their own cause in had this. the only friends they have got in the world supporting this terrorist organization is the government in turkey, which is a muslim brotherhood, the and the ayatollahs in tehran that provide the rockets. other than that, israel is waging its own self-defense because of the ineptness of the united nations at being able to control anything. the same situation is today along the border between ukraine and russia where international observers have been out there now for almost a month. it continues to be enormous gunfire that takes place all along that frontier and e we saw what happened when the investigation into how the malaysian flight 17 was shot down how long it took to get
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international sectors, even crash investigators on the ground out there. nothing to do with the military. simply to get people on the ground to recover bodies. it took almost a week to do that. all because of the ineptness of quite frankly the united nations. >> we're also hearing that putin's moving ahead with moving his military hardware on the border against ukraine and that rockets are being fired from the russia side of the border into ukraine. he doesn't seem to care what the rest of the world thinks at this it point. >> well, putin at least has a strategy. we know what putin wants. he wants to expand the old russian empire and have the nations that are nearest to him. he's doing what he has to do in order to achieve that objective. the problem is we have no western leadership. we have no western leadership because the american president has decided it's more important to fundraise and play golf and raise tens of millions of
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dollars to support his campaign, but he's not doing the right thing by this country or the western world. he's totally awoled from where he ought to be and that's paying attention to things and even using the bully pulpit to say this has got to stop. there are ways to make it stop. if the president wants to use his bully pulpit, he can issue an executive order today that says no business that does any business with russia can do any business in the united states. that will stop it. i can assure you. that's the kind of thing that was down with south africa in the '70s. that's the kind of thing that was starting to be done with iran. this is the president who has just lifted a lot of the sanctions against iran so he can claim that the talks are continuing and ultimately the iranians are going end to up with nuclear weapons. >> it's a sobering outlook. always great to see you. thank you for joining us today. >> my pleasure, thank you. after the break, we're going
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welcome back. the 12-hour humanitarian truce now extended for four more hours. this brief cease fire making it possible for medical supplies and food to reach gaza as some residents return to see what's left of their homes. joining us now with a view from gaza city is connor powell. >> reporter: this temporary cease fire is not the one secretary of state john kerry were hoping for, but it's been extended to 16 hours and it's
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held all day. we saw streets that have been empty. people going to supplies they still fear that the fights will resume later tonight, but much of gaza was awake today moving around, sort of seeing their houses. as we saw today, much of the city and the entire gaza strip has been destroyed. this area has seen some of the heaviest fighting in the past three or four days. everything is destroyed. buildings are burnt out. there's rubble everywhere. >> as you see, nobody can go back for his home. no animals, no electricity, nothing. >> reporter: workers are still pulling bodies from the rubble. it will take days before the death toll will be noun, but the damage unlike anything palestinians say they have ever seen before. people are getting a first look
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at what's left of their homes. the priority is grabbing what they can, personal items, mattresses, anything they can take to safety. several people said they couldn't even recognize their own homes after fighting. anger and frustration is everywhere. many blame israel, the united nations, the egyptian president and the u.s. for the destruction. some even blame hamas. but support for hamas remains strong. this woman says, we will rebuild, we will resist, we will fire rockets for the sake of our own homeland. it's not clear what will happen tonight at midnight local time when the cease fire is over. many think the fighting will resume, but there's also the potential that maybe a long-term agreement will be reached. right now, we are getting word that the death count for israeli troops is up to 37, two more were identified as having been
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killed today. more than 115 palestinian abomination of desolations have been pulled from the rubble. we expect more to be pulled over the next couple hours. >> connor, thank you for the update from gaza city in a difficult situation that continues right now at this hour. thank you very much. maybe some narrow circumstances in which there is humanitarian or refugee status that a family might be eligible for. if that were the case, it would be better for them to apply in country. >> as the border crisis continues to fuel tensions and stretch resource, the white house may be ready to okay a plan to give refugee status to those fleeing honduras. this as we're dealing with a flood of people, mostly children, arriving in the u.s. every day looking for a new
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life. joining us now, two men who have a firsthand knowledge of what's taking place at the border right now. hector garza and jared sealy, gentlemen, welcome, great to have you here. >> thank you. >> nice to be here. >> hector, let me give with you. we had you on a few weeks ago. you gay us great insights on what you and r your colleagues have been up against. tell us if anything has gotten better or if it's worse when it comes to caring for these children. >> well, it's important to note that our border patrol agents are the united states first line of defense against these criminal organizations that are trying to enter our country. now the situation continues. it's a very serious situation. some people are calling it a humanitarian crisis. some people call it a refugee situation. we call it an abuse of our immigration system. the border patrol is trying to
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do the best it can. >> has it gotten any better since we last spoke? >> well, over the last few weeks shs the situation still continues. we have seen a slight decrease many apprehensions. we do know it's a fluid situation. the drug organizations and cartels have the ability to adjust to our operations. so it's just a matter for us to catch up where the situation is left off basically. it's still very serious. we have a a wide open border. >> we're hearing there's growing concerns over the safety of theefz children. what's being done to keep them out of harm's way as they are being looked after at these facilities at the border? >> well, the border patrol takes great care of these children that are in our custody. they receive medical treatment. our agents are going above and beyond providing toys to them, trying to make them comfortable and provide a situation that is what we would consider normal
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for children their age coming over. they are not being abused. they are basically being looked after and cared for as much as they could be in a detention facility. >> you know, the reports of abuse are coming from people who are concerned and say they are hearing from kids themselves. there's a lot of kids out there. it maybe difficult to keep track of all of these children. but you're saying you're doing everything you can to keep them safe. hector, do you find that the border patrol agents are hard press pressed to do the job you were hired for in the first place? many are still serving as caretakers for these children. >> in this situation, we still continue to limit the hours that our border patrol agents can actually work. we think it should be the opposite. we believe homeland security should be allowing our agents and be providing our agents more man hours to be able to do their job. like jared mentioned, our agents take great care of these children. many of the concerns are coming
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out of these facilities. our agents were outspoken. they did notify managers to make sure that proper care was being employed in this type of situation to care for the kids while they are in our custody. >> you're saying that you're actually being told you cannot work extended hours to do the job that you have been hired to do to work at the border to try to prevent the illegal drug cartels and those folks from coming over in addition to the work and caring for the children? >> that's correct. at this present time, our hours are still being limited for border patrol agents. we are being restricted from working a certain amount of hours per week. we believe the administration should be providing proper fund ing for our border patrol agents. they are our first line of defense. >> i hear you. i have 30 seconds left. let me ask you quickly. you're being told you can't work
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extended hours but governor perry is asking that the national guard be called in. will that make a difference? >> the national guard is limited in what they can do to assist us. back when the national guard was first deployed for operation jump start, they were restricted to observation duties. any help would come in the form of them reporting crossings to the border patrol so the border patrol agent could make an apprehension. so they are not as skilled or specialized as far as the training as a border patrol agent, so they are restricted in how they could help. >> are you saying they would just be in the way? >> i'm not saying that. i am saying that border patrol agents are skilled officers and received extensive training and experience out in the field.
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national guardsman proibl wouldn't have exposure to. >> you have a difficult job, but we appreciate you sharing your experiences with us and sharing your thoughts about what is a difficult situation. all the best. >> thank you. the obama administration is mulling the possibility of giving some of the thousands of illegal youngsters who are flooding into america refugee status. we want to know what you think about this. is this a good idea? tweet me your answers. i'm definitely going to read those answers later in the show. after a very public spat between the chairman of the house and senate veterans affairs committees, where do efforts to fix the veterans affairs department stand at this point? and a wall of dust, but this time it was a welcome sight. find out why, next. fpz i think the biggest value of truecar...
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a wall of dust rolling through phoenix. that storm forced drivers to pull off the highway and grounding some airplanes. nobody was injured and no reports of any major damage. the storm bringing in welcome relief in its wake with lower temperatures and thunderstorms after record breaking heat earlier this week. that's a relief for those guys. so many people died and gave so much effort to the birth of the new libya and we're very hopeful that together all those people will recognize that the current course of violence will only bring chaos and longer term difficulties. >> that's secretary of state john kerry's reaction on the state department pulling out its percent until of before dawn today. will the violence escalate?
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secretary of state john kerry says the embassy isn't shutting down permanently, but activities are suspended until it's safer. the 12-hour humanitarian truce now just extended for another four hours. palestinians fleeing the fighting have been back to survey the destruction to their homes. several foreign ministers along with secretary kerry are trying to negotiate a more permanent cease fire. russian condemning sanctions as it tries to pressure moscow to help end the fighting in ukraine. . that includes travel bans to certain regions. negotiations to fix the department of veterans affairs is back on track. there was a setback when the chairman of the house affairs committee clashed over how to iron out the differences in their competing bills. that's a quick look at some of the stories making news today in today's fox news flash.
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. welcome back. the news headlines are enough to make fearful fliers even more anxious like the disappearance of 370 along with the shoot-down and a crash of an algerian jetliner. 2013 is the deadly eflt year for air travel since 2010, but even so it's very safe to fly. brian ennis is joins us from new york. >> reporter: while 25 million americans have anxiety about flying, you add the transasia crash in taiwan and the air algerie crash, you can understand nerves are rattled. this is the deadliest year since
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2010. this puts a stop to three years of airline fatalities lessening. 2012 and 2013 were the safest in history with over 70 million flights worldwide over two years and there were just 52 accidents. >> the situation we're in is that we're flying a great deal more, double the number of flight hours for commercial aviation than was true 20 years ago. yet the fatalities are steadily going down. we are certainly improving our safety record and improving it enormously. >> reporter: better navigation technology has made midair collisions and crashes less likely. planes can avoid wind shear and flight data is being share internationally andrew teenly. the survival rate has increases
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to 95% of accidents where there are survivors. they also have stronger sights and nonflammable materials. and although the two malaysian airline accidents happened under unusual circumstances, the industry still takes them seriously and has taken steps in being proactive, which experts say is a positive sign. we've seen after the ukraine crash that the faa is taking serious steps about understanding where they route planes. after malaysian flight 370, more serious talks about whether or not we're tracking mraebs plane the right now. the faa is others have been more proactive. bottom line, it's safer than ever and you have a higher risk of being in a fatal accident driving to the airport than you do on flying. >> brian, live from jfk in new york city, thank you very much. it's one of those ideas which make you say, i wish i had thought of that. up next, an adult take on a classic arcade game where the winner gets a cold one. woooo.
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because of the breaking news in gaza, we cannot get to your twitter responses but i'll continue the conversation with you at home online after the show. don't miss fox news sunday tomorrow when chris wallace interviews benjamin netanyahu. check your listings for the channel. that will do it for me in d.c. before we go, a nebraska couple putting a grown-up twist on a
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classic arcade game. instead of using a claw to pick up a stuffed animal, you pick up a beer. it's $2 a beer. that will do it for me. make it a great day. this the 12-hour cease-fire in gaza being extended for four hours. it was expended to expire at 1:00 p.m. eastern, 8:00 p.m. in gaza. the new deadline is midnight their time, giving the two sides until the end of the day to agree on another extension or long-term plan. the bloody conflict between israel and hamas started nearly three weeks ago, and it has left nearly 1,000 people killed. we'll have fox team coverage on this developing story. but we begin in libya where the u.s. is telling americans to get out. amid a deteriorating security
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