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. we are going to do what we can and get through it. that's all we can do. >> i have a son i have to take care of. he has to drink milk and stuff and use the water. he has to take a bath. as to when they can turn the water back on is anyone's guess. bill: mike, what's going on today. >> reporter: this is a scene that's going to be tapal around
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the toledo, ohio border. you have the people lining up to get a cool drink of water or a lukewarm drink of water. there is a long line of people lining up to get their water. directly behind our camera position you have members of the 200th squaw dwron the air national guard. they are filling up these water buffaloes are potable water. in a rare muse conference the mayor said tests show there was clean water but this will repeat because some of the tests were to closer to comfort. >> we'll get to the end of this' tunnel but when we get out of this tunnel we'll come out with what i hope to be positive outcomes and everywhere else in the news was this is critical to the environment of this whole
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community as well as the university community. >> reporter: the toxin create bid this blue-green algae can cause digestive problems and impact liver function and cause rashes. no illnesses reported yet. but it was responsible for 75 deaths in brazil in 1995. bill: what caused the it? what can you say about that and whether this is a surprise. >> reporter: it wasn't a surprise. this is something people have been watching for some time. it's caused by runoff from farms, fertilizer runoff. it's caused by an overload of phosphorous. usually the ate bloom gets pushed toward the center of the
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lake. not you winds and the waves were just right and it was pushed overred the intake for toledo and now you have a half a mill people without water. bill: in a moment we are waiting on the mayor of toledo. waiting on an update from that town. plus we are expecting to speak to the mayor this hour. so stay tuned for all that. we'll keep you posted. but 400,000 people have been warned. they want this thing to end. >> i want to be able to go back to cot fee shops and get the businesses back and running. an american docker infected with ebola was able to walk from an ambulance from an ambulance to an atlanta hospital. a second american aid work also
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infected expected to the arrive there tomorrow. >> i can understand why people are cared of ebola. it's deadly. it's gruesome death and it's a merciless virus. but i hope and that our fears won't overcome our compassion. we'll stop the outbreak in africa. but it won't be quick or easy. >> john roberts is live outside the hospital. >> reporter: the word from sources is so far so good with an optimistic word from his family. dr. bradley had take and turn for the worse in isolation in liberia when this extraordinary
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medevac'ration was launched. it had a bio containment unit build by the centers for disease control that dr. bradley would ride in back to the united states. mid-day saturday as walked out of the ambulance clad head to toe in that containment suit. ihis family confirms he was able to get a dose of experimental serum prior to his departure. that serum includes antibodies. a new preparation made by the nih that may have improved his condition. his wife says kent is in good
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spirits and they thanked everyone for their prayers. they say they have handled people with far more transmissible diseases than ebola. >> the doctor is not alone. what about the second patient? >> reporter: the nurse may have contracted the disease as she was washing instruments, sterilizing them. she is due to be back here tomorrow at midday. it seems to be following the same scheduling a dr. brantly's evacuation from. >> ier. >> yeah. from. >evacuation -- from liberia. she'll be transported to the use the noon tuesday. the nih expected to engage in
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phase one trials of an experimental vaccine before they enter the hot zone. >> reporter: their interesting, john, thank you very much. bill: what do you think? do you have a problem with the americans being treated on u.s. soil or do you a grow with that. big difference between the fear, what is talked about and what the reality is. >> reporter: how well it's being contained. bill: a 7-hour humanitarian cease-fire winding down in parts of gaza. u.s. military called for a truce in the gaza strip. that's firing from a bit earlier, 2,000 people are dead in the month long our between israel and hamas.
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israel scaling back its operation. just breaking a moment ago there was an attack in jerusalem, what happened in jerusalem north you be john? >> reporter: the details we are getting somebody got hold of one of these massive construction excavators and went ramming into a bus, knocking the bus over, ramming it several times. the bus driver, a couple passengers were injured. apparently not seriously but a pedestrian was run over and you killed before police shot and killed the driver of that construction vehicle. and at this point it is being called a terrorist act. you know, we have seen over the course of the last few weeks unrest in parts of east jerusalem and the west bank. a lot of clashes between palestinians and police and you are hearing the gunshots as the
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police open fire on the guy who took over that construction vehicle. >> bill: the military is bulling out the of parts of the gaza. but you a long the southern part of the gaza there is a town called raffa and there still operations there, what are you heard? >> reporter: you are right. there have been pair strikes. there was an d there a been airstrikes. the israeli air yair israel -- r force were going after the militants. the u.s. air force has had strong language against those strikes. the israeli military is going after hamas' rocket launch sites and commanders. there is a contingent that
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remain along the border. this is a battalion of tanks, part of that contingent of forces have been pulled out of the gaza and back into israel. we have seen apc's load on the back bed of trucks and movedden to bases. these guys are getting ready it looks like to leave as they pentagon their apcs. bill: thank you, john, john huddy back on the border between gaza and israel. >> reporter: isis widing its islamic state as the pentagon is shrinking the army with layoffs. >> we have no plans to impeach the president. we have to future plans. listen, it's all a scam started
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woman's front yard. >> i was walking from my son's house. he he lives next door. i was coming back home. i seen the airplane hit the top of the trees and nosedive into my front yard. >> reporter: the ntsb is investigating the cause. bill: isis taking over two more towns in the north of iraq. the u.n. says thousands have been forced to leave those towns. syria into western and northern iraq as the pentagon is laying off hundreds of army majors. some giving ping slips while serving on duty in how are you, sir, and good morning. these are largely kurdish towns.
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it's been our understanding the kurds are the best fighters. >> the kurds have been protecting these towns. they have been towns of refuge. the conventional wisdom in washington was the kurds are tough fighters they can handle the islamic state and caliphate. but the kurds we knew that we served with are middle aged guys. young kurdish fighters on the front lines are stretched very thin over 600 miles of frontiers are not veterans. the islamic state terrorist fighters are a well-organized militia and they have been fighting in syria for three years against multiple factions. they were fighting in afghanistan and iraq. don't underestimate the islamic
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state. they are formidable. ththe kurds are the one people n the region we should support. the obama administration continues to support the baghdad government and they are withholding weapons and support to the kurds. bill: you have to go through maliki's government to deliver all these hellfire weapons. that's where you start, right? >> the maliki government is broken. until al-maliki goes we shouldn't be giving them a anyone or single bullet. while the whole world led by the u.n. is ganging up on israel which is trying desperately to prevent civilian deaths, the islamic state, this emerging
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scal caliphate is slaughtering innocent people. in those villages, one of the towns up there in the northwest, the population is largey azadi. they are fire worshipers. the islamic state fanatics are going to butcher them. there is a looming genocide and nobody is paying attention. bill: what is happening when you are told that you are going to have to leave the army while on duty in afghanistan? >> it's shameful. but the obama administration feels the u.s. military is a
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menace to the world. as long as the funding continues to flow through legal corruption as i call it through the major defense contractors for junk weapon systems like the f-35 congress is going along with our military. our military will soon be so small it won't be able to accomplish one basic war let alone multiple contingencies. the military is ultimately about people. we have the best trained experienced veterans in the our history. we are getting rid of them to buy junk. congress and the president should all be ashamed. bill: ralph peters from washington. >> reporter: sergeant andrew tahmooressi's attorney next on the relation of his human rights.
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>> we started to break a little bit of news to our holdest last night just the early steps much trying to get him to understand that mommy is not on vacation and she is missing. bunches of oats. what i like is actually the flakes. it's got crunch, which i love. mmm. it's really good. honey bunches of oats. yay!
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molly: police say 38-year-old jennifer houston may be in the san juan island off the coast of washington state. a couple in washington state say they are certain they saw her on a ferry. >> it's something that is serious enough that we are going take a look at it and make sure everything pans out. she could be on lopez, she could
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be on shaw using the ferry systems. molly: a former new york city police versussate door and police sergeant is now the director of defenduniversity.com. wee we have been watching this unfold. what does it mean that there has been a possible sighting? >> it's a solid lead. i'm sure versus versuss have taken a look at the videotape. they want to make sure that all their "t" and "is" are dotted. if she did leave or abscond. they don't want to go to unfamiliar territory. >> let's look at what her
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husband has said. he has been on fox news channel talking about his wife and her disappearance. >> what i don't want to happen is for people to stop searching in other areas. let's let the facts come in from the police department of san juan county and we'll see where we are at from there. molly: they are saying let's not focus just on these island. he wants to see things expanded. >> this has to be investigated as a missing person, a possible homicide or suicide. they don't have a direction. when law enforcement doesn't have a direction it creates a host of work for them to do and it's overburdening. molly: the husband says the family has yet to see the video the law enforcement officers are look at. >> if they identified her in
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that potential -- in that video they don't want to impede the investigation. molly: they say we haven't seen any activity on the credit card. they saw her withdrawing a small sum and these island are 300 miles away from where she was last seen. in is no activity on her cell phone or credit card. either she is intentionally not doing it or not able to do it. molly: insight on what remains have much a mystery here. bill: mystery indeed. downpours triggering deadly mudslide. vehicles buried in debris. molly: it could have been one expensive tee shot.
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bill: major news on a city without water. that's the mayor michael collins. he says the bannen not dripping water has now been lifted. ohio's fourth largest city. the governor has been in town. john casey as well. a lot of people were told not to drink water or wash distinguishes. truck loads of bottled water were delivered from all off the state. the report came, by the way after a state task force called
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for a 40% reduction in the forms of phosphorous that go into like erie. here is the mayor moments ago. michael collins. >> the decisions we made in the early morning hours of this date to return to the two specific neighborhoods to do random samplingsn to establish whether we had an issue within the neighborhood has been resolved. all six test results came back no problems. there is no discernible. our water is safe. bill: our water is safe, that's good news. we hope to talk to him next hour and we'll ask him more questions about how this happened and what the those in this town need to
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know now. on the west coast, thunderstorms progress of to be deadly. this is southern california. massive mudslides and flooding sweeping through the san bernardino county. one person died as a result. officers saying self people rescued from that rushing water. one cash subject morning. house stranded in shelters as thick degrace cutting off access to two different towns. >> we have bulldozers and front end loaders working to clear this debris. bill: will carr knows what's going on. he's live in l.a. >> reporter: the rain has let up but there is heavy damage throughout large parts of
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southern california and san bernardino county which is east of los angeles county. the terms pummeled the area. flash flooding and mud shades swept cars off the highway. rescue workers had to smash car windows to save other people in the area. in forest falls the storm dumped so much rain the town had to be shut down. >> the road was blocked by mud, rock and boulders basically splitting the town in half. bill: are we expecting more storms and rain today? >> reporter: the forecast shows there should and lot of the sun but the cleanup is just beginning for many.
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keep in mind this is an area going through extreme drought. so the terrain wasn't so much rain. certain areas got up to 4 inches of rain. that's just as much as some areas have gone through in the entire year. molly: the 7-hour humanitarian cease-fire in gaza said to expire in an hour. they called for a sporadic truce and it's scaling back its operation in gaza. officials say the visions in gaza leadership are hampering press expects for a cease-fire. thanks for being here. i guess the big question is, does hamas want peace? >> i think they don't want peace at all. they know they are never going
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to defeat israel militarily. so they want to win in the court of public opinion. they do that by using their own children as human shield and run to the world and say seat world is the aggressor. stop trading with israel. divest in all the israeli businesses. why we'll see this lying down in the next week is both sides will see diminishing returns. israel has didn't most tunnels which is their strategic threat. hamas has seen the world court of public opinion has started to change. we aring the leaders of hamas. they are asking why are they using children as human shield? the world isn't change. the second thing that's happened is the moderate $sunni islamic states have been silent for the week. why? they have got more to worry
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about radical islam coming their countries. >> the funding coming from all other world as well. >> what can secretary john kerry do to move things forward. >> forget about gaza and hamas. they will only look at a cease-fire to rearm the fight. look at the opportunity that's presented itself which netanyahu talked about yesterday. he said there is a possibility for you allies in the area. go to bahrain and say can we craft a coalition here between moderate sunni states, israel and the united states that we all together fight the real enemy to all of us which is radical islam, groups like isis and hezbollah.
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molly: it would be remark fabl it came to possibility. when we talk about hamas do they have the discipline to hold the cease-fire? >> hamas is the gaza strip principles. there is another group of palestinians on the west bank of the jordan river and they don't agree with each other. the whole region is in a turmoil beginning with the arab spring. it's an opportunity if secretary kerry realizes this is a grand strategic moment. seize it. don't think little about a cease-fire. go for the big deal and the real threat to the united states the spread of jihad.
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welcome to new york, molly. bill: sad news out of culpeper, virginia. a town of 15,000. police say a family of 5, including 3 children found shot to death inside of their home in culpeper. the victims were two adults, both 35 years old and 3 children. two of the children elementary school age, at third was middle school age. according to detectives there, authorities received at 10:00 after a relative found the bodies inside. family of five. the investigation goes on as a homicide. the fbi keeping a close eye on the media. a fed hiring a firm to monitor the news coverage of the bureau. why would they do that and how much of your tax dollars is that
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costing? molly: lots of finger pointing over who is propelling the debate on the president. >> if you were to open up your dictionary of irony you would find juan williams in there because i'm saying the united states is lawless. themselves. i'm sold! he's a selling machine! put it there. and there, and there, and there. la quinta inns & suites is ready for you, so you'll be ready for business. the ready for you alert, only at laquinta.com! la quinta!
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molly: a diamond proves no match for a golf ball. the impact of that ball was so hard it knocked the diamond right out. garcia helped find the diamond on the grass. >> this could be the most expensive tee shot, a diamond in the rough. molly: garcia offered to buy that woman a new ring if the diamond couldn't be found.
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but fortunately it was. molly: there are so many golf ones. you can keep going with the diamond in the golf. >> the talk about impeachment is coming from the president's own staff and democrats from capitol hill. we have no plans to impeach the president. we have no future plans. it's all a scam started by democrats at the white house. bill: that's house speaker john boehner insisting his party has no plans to pursue impeachment. there but there is new fuel to the chatter saying the president will use his executive power to move on immigration by the end of this summer. >> he's going do what he can under the confines of the law. it will be the end of the summer. bill: while boehner is taking
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impeachment off the table republican steve king says action on immigration should get the ball rolling on the "i" word. >> that's includes the "i" word we don't want to say. bill: me, myself -- and i, ladies, good morning. >> we have to take a look wrat this is coming from. i don't think it's fair to say it's only coming from democrats. democrats love the impeachment word being thrown around. now, here is the problem. president obama repeatedly said on campaign trail and when he was in office in 2011 that he doesn't have the authority as
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president to unilaterally change immigration law. he already admitted he doesn't have that pour under the constitution. but here we are the president saying i'm going to go pat it alone if the congress won't work me. bill: you think there will be a court case any way? >> i don't any it's fair to accuse the republicans of stepping over the line when he's going to breach his authority on this. >> i agree with katie. a week ago we were arguing this is democrats being overly sensitive and trying to raise money off the issue. now we are seeing republicans bringing it up this week because it drums up their base before the mid-term elections in november. we saw them go through this deback with boehner not getting the bill he had originally
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passed. they had to say an additional day. >> at least they got something done. >> which is more than you can say about the senate. listen -- >> but they are so far apart. floils way they are going get anything done. bill bill: this is what the audience is trying to understand. katie, you first. what will the president likely do? >> we don't know exactly what he's going to do. it depend on what he wants to do in terms of pushing limited on what his authority is. we heard he might you have a 5 million new work visas for people living here illegally. we heard he might do some things with enforcement or not enforcement in terms of taking away the policies that are in place. the bottom line is you can only not enforce the law so much when it comes to immigration. if you talk to the agents on the
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glowntd i.c.e. and border patrol, they will tell you a lot of their authority is already gone. it's bare when it comes to their authority to enforce the law anyway. bill: so stay tuned for more on that. jessica, do you have a sense of what the president is willing to do? >> i would go with the proposal he made originally in the package he put forth which the senate and the house have obviously not passed. that's where i would start from, where he's look at money that would not only help deal with the current border try is we have with the children who are here but also help with the people we need skilled workers from other countries. bill: i don't hear in your answer blanket amnesty for millions. >> i don't see that happening. >> i do see that happening. you have the to take a look at who is running barack obama's
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immigration policy. you have murks noz who is head of the open borders group. and they are pushing for an open border policy. you have to loo look at la razad their stance. president obama is concerned about his base. he's not concerned about anything else. >> i would just like for congress to actually work and pratt says to be moving forward. we have been having this argument since 1986. certainly the president will do something to move this dialogue further. we'll see what happens in the november mid-term election. i think that will make a huge difference here. bill: indeed it would. >> one way or another.
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molly: it's been nearly two years since he lost the presidential election. election. mitt romney is making a comeback and is in high demand on the campaign trail. bill: there are growing concerns about the u.s. marine andrew tahmooressi's health. >> this was a marine who was in san diego to be treated by ptsd and it was complicated by the brutality in the penitentiary.
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tahmooressi's attorney is expected to call two customs agents. the attorney says he was denied his civil rights and the entire detainment process was unconstitutional. what is the attorney's strategy here? >> reporter: we are outside federal court in tijuana. we expect tahmooressi to arrive in two hours. his defense team will attack on three fronts. number one there will be was no criminal intents, the evidence to show that's is there was a sign directing traffic to mexico that was covered with graffiti and the hurks turn was virtually invisible and he made a 911 call to chp say he he was lost and those customs officials denied him his civi civil rights. and the evidence gained during
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that period should be thrown out. he was in san diego for ptsd treatment after two tours in afghanistan after tw. molly: why hasn't he been released yesterday? >> reporter: it could have happened in the first 48 hours when the prosecutor had the discretion to file or not to file. tahmooressi's attorneys instructed him to lie, that wasn't good. then the judge determined whether he had probable responsibility for the crime. his attorneys at the time did not file any evidence or call witnesses or show up in court. so this opportunity to have this case dismissed because it was an innocent mistake, that ship has sailed. that is gone. the trial is underway. the judge does not even have the
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authority to dismiss it at this time. we expect this to go all the way to november. the judge will have closing arguments and ultimately make his decision. cross-examination of those two customs officials. the defense will probably introduce video evidence of the fact much innocent mistake of his drive from san diego to tijuana. thank you so much. we appreciate. bill: water is safe. that's the word from a major american city after half a million were warned not to touch the water. what we learned coming up next. no problem. you want to save money on rv insurance? no problem. you want to save money on motorcycle insurance? no problem. you want to find a place to park all these things?
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children, found shot to death inside of this home. the victims were two adults, both age 35 and three children. two of the children were elementary school-aged, the third was middle school-aged. they're investigating this as a homicide. they arrived at the scene of this home around 10:00 sunday evening after a family relative found the bodies inside. it is not a big town. population 15,000 in culpepper. we're watching that to try to figure out some very difficult answers as to what happened inside of that home. in the meantime the fbi is planning a closer look at news outlets, grading story about the agency as positive, neutral or negative. what is up with that, huh? new hour of "america's newsroom." hope you had a great weekend. welcome to monday. i'm bill hemmer, and big welcome to molly line. molly: thank you so much. in for martha maccallum of course. the fbi wants to keep track of
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what reporters are saying about the bureau. "the washington times" reporting that the agency plans to hire a contractor to monitor the media and grade stories daily on the content and tone of coverage. but according to the paper, the fbi won't say why it needs the information or how it plans to use it. bill: maybe jonah goldberg has the answer to why. editor-at-large, nationalreview.online. jonah, good morning to you. why would they do this. >> could be some pr flaks are trying to justify their existence finding proof they're having some effect whatsoever. this is, this is a bad idea for the fbi insofar as larger department of justice has a real problem with the press. remember, they're the ones who monitored the ap's phones. they're the ones eric holder approved this unindicted
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co-conspirator warrant thing against our fox colleague james rosen. calling him a flight risk and you will of that. so they should really, admin mum they should be transparent. tell us why you want this stuff, what you are going to do with it. as it stand right now, the doj in general and this administration in particular have earned no right to the benefit of the doubt when it comes to this kind of stuff. bill: here's the statement about the work from the fbi, all right? quote, this shall allow personnel to have better situational a awareness and support proactive and reactive public communications strategies. what does that mean? >> that's washington speak for, we wanted to spend money on something cool so we can read clips about ourselves would be my guess at least. it is true, look, law enforcement is getting a different image in the public eye these days, particularly like the local police
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departments, their s.w.a.t. teams and all of the rest, changing attitudes on the war on drugs are a big deal. much the worrying about domestic surveillance is a big deal. so maybe they are trying to get their arms around public perceptions and their own media strategies about how to deal with it all. tell us that. say what you are going to do with this from an administration that was bugging journalists. bill: good point. you believe what the fbi is looking for a pr makeover and this is how you do it? into it is a really dumb way to do it, okay, we'll spend money to get a better sense, what our pr, our public relations profile is and in the process worsen our public relations profile and not being transparent in another thing that seems ominous. i generally think, what if this was bush, like the lowest form of punditry but sometimes it is necessary. and if the bush administration had this bad a track record how it deals with the press and lack
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of transparency and hypocrisy on issue of transparency and they did something like this you would see the aclu and all the journalist organizations going crazy about this. bill: is this report positive, negative or neutral? if they're watching -- >> i'm pest guessing negative. bill: i'm going neutral. stay neutral. jonah, thanks. >> good to be here. molly: fox news alert on the crisis that water crisis in toledo. a short time ago the mayor of toledo announcing lifting of nearly three-day ban due to algae toxins in lake erie. >> all six test results came back with no problems whatsoever. there is no discernible microorganisms within the system. this city, at this moment in tile, we are lifting in conjunction with the ohio epa, the no-drink, no-drink advisory. our water is safe.
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molly: mike tobin was there for the news conference and joins us now live. mike, if you could bring us up-to-date. >> reporter: i can tell you that mayor michael collins punk eighted the end of news conference that the water was safe to drink, taking a big drink of tapwater, saying cheers to the people of toledo. people can be safe taking a shower, drinking water, cooking. those who have not used water since friday, they have to flush the system. they are worried that all the people turn on the taps at the same time, overleading the system creating a whole did problem. the stations with water that the national guard was staffing those will close in hour's time. it was caused by something called micro sisten. toxin created by blue green algae. that is supported by water runoff, goes through the farms and picks up the fertilizer in the farms, dumps into the sewers
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and sewers ultimately leaking into the great lakes that. helps the blue-green algae flourish. they can't guaranty it won't happen again. the algae flourishes in a bloom and the bloom moves around lake erie. it was blown around and wind and waves it was blown over water intake that serves this part of the country. molly. molly: a lot of people will be happy to get back to normal to go back to the coffee shops and pick up something to eat and businesses can get back to work. this must have been tough on local businesses. you're talking about everyone flushing their systems to get things back up on line. is this not quite over yet? we have to wait for flushing end and businesses to ramp back up? >> by and large. particularly punk eighted by the vision all aid that the mayor used they want to indicate to everybody that it is over. you could have a whole different problem if everybody flushes the system all at once and that will stress the sewers and plumbing system in the general area.
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also they could not promise and wouldn't stick their next out to promise that the problem won't come back. the bloom, if you look like satellite imagery, it looks like that a giant bloom blowing around lake erie. it can move position depending on wind and waves. molly: mike tobin, we appreciate it. bill: we want to bring in dr. devi from nyu school of medicine. how are you. >> hi, bill. him fine. how are you. bill: good. how can person test and know that the water they're about to drink is safe. >> the person will not be able to test it themselves. if the mayor says it is fine to drink the water he must be very confident. at the same time, if people do have bottled water around and have some alternatives for a little while until the system gets flushed out it is probably better to go that route because the testing is a little bit, you know, it depends. hard to know what a toxic amount of these substances is because don't have people to test it on. you don't do those studies.
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bill: what is the substance in the western part of lake erie? what is that? algae but okay. >> it's a chemical they produce called micro sisten. we don't know too much about it but it causes cramps. it got into a dialysis center in brazil and infect ad bunch of patients there. it is hard to know exactly what the toxic dose is. bill: i used to use a system called britta. it didn't work in new york but works in most parts of the country. would you use that filtration system at home or kit you can buy at local drugstore or pharmacy. >> there is not a specific kit for this type of algae. not common enough for people to create that. i would suggest that if you have bottled water, other foods, you don't need to have water immediately. your body is able to get water out of foods you eat, that would abettor route to go at least in the beginning. people who are older need more water to sweat in this heat,
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people who are die bets ticks need water to control their sugar, for them you have to weigh the risks and benefits. if you're getting dehigh traded, have signs of that, not sweating properly or tearing properly it is better drinking water than taking a chance. bill: you can boil it too. dr. devi, in new york. >> nice to see you. >> a little trouble in the south. tropical storm bertha picking up speed into the atlantic. the storm taking aim at open water after slamming self caribbean islands. good news as forecasters say, the u.s. is in the clear. fox news meteorologist maria molina tracking it for us from the fox news extreme weather center. >> hi, molly, that's right. that is something we call a fish storm. pretty much over open water. a storm that will remain away from land area. that is welcome news. right now we have wind pretty strong at higher levels out of the west. that is helping keep a lot of convection and thunderstorms to be east of center of circulation
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with bertha. that is keeping it a tropical storm. is very close to being a category one hurricane. it is forecast to do by later today or into tomorrow. this could potentially be the first category one hurricane of the season for the atlantic. this is the track. great news. forecasters say away from the united states before eventually weakening and becoming an area of low pressure to the east of conditioned today. i want to take you to the eastern pacific ocean because out here we have activity. we have tropical storm julio and we have hurricane izel. this is currently a category three hurricane. it is forecast to head into the direction of hawaii. one good thing out here we do have cooler waters so it is forecast to weaken before making landfall out there as we head into thursday. let's head back to you, molly. molly: thanks for keeping us up-to-date. bill: there are signs that mitt romney could make a come back as democrats are pushing
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further away from the president today. we'll examine that. molly: one american with ebowl last, now in atlanta. the other on her way but should they be here? dr. marc siegel on the chance of an outbreak. bill: this missing mother, last seen during seemingly routine stop at a gas station. a possible break in her disappearance. >> we just have nothing. the information is very, everything we know is already out there in the media and we're just grasping at straws. anytime we hear about a sighting something. crickets ch] but did you know that the lack of saliva can also lead to tooth decay and bad breath? [ exhales deeply ] [ male announcer ] well there is biotene. specially formulated with moisturizers and lubricants, biotene can provide soothing relief and it helps keep your mouth healthy, too. [ applause ] biotene -- for people who suffer from dry mouth.
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bill: a massive search-and-rescue operation underway after a deadly earthquake in southern china. this is big too, 6.1 quake struck sunday afternoon. 400 people dead, 2,000 injured. those numbers expected to rise as crews continue sifting through the rubble yet again today. that disaster flattened nearly 12,000 homes which is -- molly: former presidential candidate mitt romney back out on the campaign trail. while some democrats are distancing themselves from president obama, the former republican nominee is reportedly in high demand, endorsing dozens of candidates ahead of the midterms. it has some wondering could it be an early sign of romney running again in 2016? joining me now, ed rollins, former campaign manager for reagan-bush, 1984, and joe trippi, former howard dean campaign manager. both fox news contributors.
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thank you both being here this morning. >> pleasure, molly. >> ed, start here, where does this go? is he that active on the campaign trail in he has three stops. one in west virginia. republicans hoping to pick up seat. is he being welcomed with open arms. >> most people have great fondness for him, having run twice. they may be disappointed he didn't win last time n comparison to obama he does well. there is long way to helping candidates raise money to running for president again. there are seven or eight republicans, serious governors. rand paul, others who will not step aside if he chooses to run. the advantage he does have, probably best fund-raising mechanism ever in place by a republican. can certainly put that back in play. i don't think he indicated he has any interest it at this point in time. molly: republicans say, hey, we have mitt romney out there on the campaign trail. we love him but democrats are distancing themselves from president obama. do you see that out there. >> it is not unusual at all for
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whoever the president is in a midterm, particularly in the second term to not be anything but a particularly with obama's favorability ratings pretty low. that is going to happen. people will do that. it has happened with just about every president save maybe ronald reagan i think, that that's happened to. i don't think that is a big piece of the story. what i find really fascinating though the both candidates that all obama defeated, romney and hillary clinton, on the democratic side are both sort of becoming party favorites right now. i mean she's clearly the frontrunner for the nomination if she seeks the presidency. romney definitely is, having a comeback within the party. i think ed's right. some of that is because he is not a candidate. if he became one, people would start remembering why they might not want to try that a third time but i think right now he is certainly enjoying a comeback in the party and is going to be somebody who can go out there, raise money and put part of his
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fund-raising apparatus that ed talked about putting that -- molly: we do have polls to show you that speak to what we're talking about here. if the presidential election were held today, this recent poll from ccn, 53% would choose romney over obama. another poll asks if the presidential election were held today would it be clinton or romney, in that race clinton put pulling ahead which is interesting for 2013. >> what that shows poll shows romney has base of the party. that is 42%. everything above that is independents and disaffected democrats. a lot of disaffected democrats relative to obama and independents are not there what is important to look at, nobody brings out voters in the off year. obama can't bring them out. romney doesn't bring them out. incumbents have to win races, drive their own, basically get-out-the-vote effort. molly: your thoughts on those
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polls stack up? >> it is why democrats would welcome romney being a third attempt by the gop to, for him to go. because definitely feel like hillary clinton would be able to take him on in the general and win. i think she is up about 13 points the poll showed. i think, again it is nostalgia for, goodwill towards him. i do think he has an apparatus that can help the party in terms of fund-raising to help the candidates. ed's right, those candidates, their campaigns that turn them out. hillary and bill clinton will be out there too doing the same thing. it will be very interesting. maybe romney will feel like the wind is at his back this time and will decide to go. molly: as we move to the midterms, already looking ahead to 2013, thanks for joining me. >> thank you. molly: appreciate it. bill: first glowing editorial and "new york times" running full-page ad for pot dispensaries. is "the gray lady" turning
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molly: the so-called largest closet in america, emptied out. this 3,000 square foot closet in texas, ransacked last week. a robber caught on surveillance, taking expensive designer bags, jewelry, shoes, clothes. the massive closet was just recently featured on tv. the homeowner says the media exposure might have played a role here. >> this guy was professional. he was completely covered.
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i don't think for one minute this person knew me because if this person knew me they wouldn't have robbed from me. molly: about a million dollars worth of items were taken in just 40 minutes. bill: u.s. doctor infected with ebowl last, the virus, reportedly showing signs of improvement. dr. kent brantley is currently undergoing treatment at emory university hospital. he arrived there from being flown from west africa. there are video getting out of the ambulance, walking at that point in emory hospital. a second american aid worker infected with the virus set to arrive in the u.s. for treatment possibly tomorrow. all of this raises question how wise this move has been. dr. marc siegel, member about fox news medical a-team. you were reporting on this all weekend long. good morning. you talked to a lot of people from the government and cdc and the government too. there is natural fear of this, i think understandable fear, you can understand that, can't you?
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>> we have to start with that, fear of unknown, fear of invisible killer maybe croak. -- microbe. fear it could get you out of control and fire of death. these are major fears. we amplify fears, bill. we amplify the fears focusing on this particular virus. did you know another virus, marchburg, almost identical was brought to colorado in 2009 and never spread? did you know that lasa fever, more epidemic in west africa, there has been eight cases in the united states. has never spread. similar to ebola, but ebola is in the news. bill: ebola is in the news and in the news for a reason, killing people in west africa. we never had a case of ebola recorded in the history of the united states. maybe the important point. the risk of outbreak here is extremely low. why is that? if so many people are dieing from it in contact with africa. >> first of all risks in west africa are very problematic.
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there is great deal of concern not being able to control it in africa, for very first time there is outbreak in such populated region in africa. porous borders. practices, washing dead bodies, staying close to six people. they're having trouble controlling it there they don't have the health care ruch truck there. if it shows up here and doesn't spread until you have symptoms and can't get it by breathing or coughing on someone or by casual contact i guarranty you the cdc will be able to isolate patients that have it and it will not spread. bill: guaranteed? >> i can't give you a guaranty. i say chances of it spread is extremely, extremely low. bill: these aid workers in africa, they were outfitted in all the equipment and still became infected with it. >> not like we have here. you made the point to me, bill, i want to tell you how smart you are. you made the point in these isolation units we can learn from this. dr. brantly is in an isolation unit in atlanta, emory hospital, being studied to see how he
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responds to the treatment. imagine how great that will be for other ebola sufferers. that is with we are in the united states. this is great public relations move for the united states to bring one of our heroes home and treat him here. bill: you can take the quilt to them and still treat them and protect them and study them without having to fly into atlanta, georgia, could you not? >> he got the antibody, the serum in liberia. you can give treatment there. in terms of studying every hour, every sweat, every urine, every blood sample you can't do it like you can under constant surveillance with the cdc. it wasn't centers for disease control that brought him here. it was samaritan's purse, the organization he works, for, granted. the cdc is on top of it. they're studying it and making sure it is contained. bill: cdc is across the street from emory university. >> absolutely. bill: is that the reason they chose emmy. >> that is one of the reasons. because they have that unit at
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emory. they have that particular unit. there are only four in the united states. that unit where they can contain him, where there negative air pressure, you're in spacesuits, where there are glass partitions, that is there at emory. bill: keep it safe. doctor, thanks. >> it worked before against sars which is much more contagious. bill: that's a great point. thank you, mark. >> good to sew see you. bill: a second patient tomorrow and on tuesday. >> we'll do well, we hope. bill: who molly, what is next. molly: we'll talk with a spokesman for israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. bill: federal loophole causes rates for cancer treatment to skyrocket and sticking patients with astronomical tab. why would that be? >> i almost died, what are they doing for me? i'm getting same same medicine in the same place by the same people for the same amount of time. woman: jimmy, all of these travel sites seem the same. captain obvious: tell your grandmother with the hotels.com loyalty program, she'll earn free nights.
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bill: got breaking news. 7:30 in los angeles. there are reports of more mudslides there. california has been so dry. they're getting all the rain. that is mount bald did i, california. that is san bernardino and north of los angeles. we were reporting earlier, mudslides over the weekend killed one and sent 2,000 people homeless. as camera goes in. you can see the damage on the ground. we're watching this for you. hopefully they get it sorted out. san bernardino mountains, 500 adults and children arrived at a campground sunday morning. crews were trying to clear the road with bulldozers to reach the group. national weather service and maria molina said the storm dumped up to four inches of rain into the mountains of east l.a. that will do it. 32 minutes past the hour. another fox news alert now from the middle east as israel's ground operation in gaza winding down. there is a temporary cease-fire that at the moment appears to be holding after this scene.
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[explosion] [gunfire] some of that video from fighting, street-to-street fighting at end of last week and hostilities. they're not over, with israeli airstrike killing leader of an islamic jihad militant group. reports of a possible palestinian terror attack a bit earlier in jerusalem. the level of fighting much lower than in previous days. we have a spokesman for the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. he is my guest now pro israel. sir, thank you for your time. >> good to be with you, bill. bill: there is a simple question here. is the cease-fire holding for now? >> well the cease-fire finished at 5:00 p.m. local time, which is half an hour ago. we are free to start offensive operations against am has targets in gaza but the -- bill: has it begun again or not.
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>> nothing that i can talk about yet. but we've been winding up work on tunnels. we believe we have most of the tunnels. we're end stages of that. once that is complete we can redeploy forces in defensive position. you have to remember, bill, we didn't want this conflict in the first place. we only did it to protect our people. we had to stop the rockets being fired at israeli cities. we had to stop the death squads coming out of tunnel. when we deal with the threats we can redeploy and defend oursselves. bill: how many fun nils have you found. >> dozens. dozens. hamas over the years built elaborate network of terror tunnels. their idea was to do a mass casualty terror attack, infiltrating at the same time, a high number of death squads into israel, armed with explosives, automatic weapons, rocket-propelled grenades. maybe 100 terrorists cross the
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frontier together, attacking communities all across the south of israel. but i can tell you now they can't do that anymore because we have taken out the overwhelming majority of those tunnels. bill: i was told last week you located 35. is the number higher than that? >> i think there is more on the way but we'll get them done before we pull out. bill: of those 35 plus, how many are destroyed, would you say? >> well, everyone that we have located will be destroyed before we leave. just a matter of the engineering unit doing its job. bill: there is a town in southern gaza called rafah. it is a border town. it leads into egypt. apparently there is a lot of activity even during the so-called cease-fire. what is it about rafah that has israeli military and government so concerned? >> we explicitly did not include rafah from the cease-fire. everybody knew that. there is ongoing combat operation. we're going house to house or
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tunnel to tunnel to deal with hamas. they have intricate tunnels and rocket facilities and command and control. only after we clear out cells there and terrorist infrastructure will we pull out of rafah too. bill: 3500 rockets fired from gaza into israel. how many more rockets does hamas possess? >> well whatever number they have it is too many but we estimate that they're down to less than a third of what they tarted with. first of all, because they fired all the rockets into israel and secondly because in the operation we've been taking out a large proportion of what they have got there, of their arsenals. the most important thing, when this is over, and hopefully it will be over soon, when this is over we have to make sure hamas can not rearm. we know iran will want to ship them new missiles. we know qataris will probably want to give hamas money to buy munitions. we've got to, united states, israel, other allies in the
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region, and beyond, we have to make sure hamas can not replenish its arsenals. because hamas is like a alcoholic with bottle of alcohol. they can't say no. if they have the missiles they will fire them. we have to stop them getting missiles. bill: based on the answer i'm going to guess you believe hamas at one point had in its possession 5,000 rockets. now how is it -- >> more. bill: more than 5,000. for the sake of this discussion, let's just keep it at 5,000. how is it hamas is able to evade any of your satellites or people on the ground inside of gaza working on behalf of israel, to either have a firm figure on the number of rockets and a firm number on the number of tunnels? why have they been so effective in evading when it comes to the tunnels and the rockets in this conflict? >> to be fair, i think we knew
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more or less exactly the number of rockets they had. it was closer to 9,000. and we have been following that very closely. we had good intelligence on that. we knew, unfortunately, that over the years that they had built up a rocket machine they could hit, try to hit targets in the very heart of our country, jerusalem, the capital and tel aviv and so forth. that was not a surprise. the fact we invested so much in defending our homeland shows clearly that we saw the threats of missiles from gaza posed. the tunnels we also knew about. i can't tell you we knew wherever specific tunnel was but we knew about the threat and truth is, only when we put boots on the ground on their side of the frontier inside gaza could we actually locate and find and destroy the tunnels because you need to have people on the ground, your special forces, your infantry units, to search the border area to find those tunnels and wee done so, final question. is the hamas leadership, be it
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political or military, are they willing to go for a cease-fire now, yes or no? >> up until, up until now, no. you know a lot of diplomats, a lot of experts put in a lot of time, a lot of time, and we had assurances from the qataris that were given to the united states, that were given to the united nations. they said hamas will agree to a cease-fire, going back to friday morning. and it was worked on over days, a lot of effort. and cease-fire kicked in at 8:00, already at 9:30 hamas violated cease-fire attacking our forces killing three of our young servicemen. hamas showed itself it is either both mendacious and dysfunctional or combination of them both. they didn't keep the cease-fire. and our faith in them keeping a future cease-fire is at rock bottom. bill: mark gregev, spokesperson for israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. thank you for your time today. molly: a 7-year-old girl
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sparking a whole new era for one giant toy company, lego. some of its most popular figurines, bob the builder, thomas the train. lego is releasing entire toy set just for girls all because of this letter that was sent by a 7-year-old. it went viral. she wrote the company, quote, all the girls did was sit at home, go to the beach and shop but boys saved people and had jobs and even swam with sharks. so the company took notice, releasing the research institute playset. it lets kids take on roles of paleontologist, astronomer, a chemist, using female figures. they cost 20 bucks. guess what? it already sold out. bill: that's great. molly: no surprise, that is great. bill: 7-year-old is target audience. she would know. molly: she wants to play with the good toys. bill: 20 minutes before the hour. landmark for the newspaper of record. "new york times" publishing a full-page, for-profit marijuana
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ad. comes only days after an op-ed piece paper advocating legalization of the drug. what is the "gray lady" smoking? we'll debate it. molly: what is up with this? 150-pound tortoise loose on suburban streets. the story behind the slow-speed chase. bill: he is not getting away, is he, molly? molly: he is probably not getting far. ♪ vo: this is the summer. the summer of this. the summer that summers from here on will be compared to. where memories will be forged into the sand. and then hung on a wall for years to come. get out there, with over 50,000 hotels at $150 dollars or less. expedia. find yours.
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with his family. all the l.a. tv stations were up in the air with helicopters following this wild chase. molly: step by step. he looks like a clark. handsome guy. well -- here we go. seems like so-called "gray lady" is getting a little greener. this full-page ad running in sunday's "new york times" for leavely, a website and app, that reviews medical marijuana dispensaries. comes on the heels of an op-ed in the times last month advocating legalization of drug. we have marjorie clifton, former spokesman for obama campaign. what are your thoughts on this. this is major newspaper. pretty big development. marjorie? >> well, advertising is the name of the game for newspapers and networks as we all know right now. so i mean you can't jump to the conclusion that "new york times" running this ad per se endorsing legalization of marijuana because they're actually getting ready also to run another ad
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that is advocacy organization against medical marijuana. they are allowing a conversation to be happening and absolutely, i look at it like this. if we endorse the guy on the dos equis commercials most interesting man in the world by running their ads that would be funny and nutrisystem only way to lose weight. advertising is what it is and what keeps media alive right now. molly: she makes interesting point. is this part of the conversation? they put out op-ed is and this ad and are they going hand in hand with this developing situation, tyler? >> i think they're continuing to identify things that this administration have done wrong which is not enforce the law. and that has, that is really the crux of the problem here because there is a federal ban on marijuana and the administration just decided not to enforce that. i think what "the gray lady" is talking about through "the new york times" editorial is look, you have to make a decision. are we still going to leave it banned and if so we need to enforce the law. if it is not banned then they
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need to let states handle whether or not independently in each state can decide whether or not that they have medicinal purpose or recreational purpose marijuana. but really i think they get to the crux of the problem and so, we need to make a choice. still a federal issue. molly: putting this in further context we have a quote from the editorial this, is from sunday july 27th. we believe the evidence is overwhelming that addiction and dependence are relatively minor problems. claims that marijuana is gateway to more serious drugs a fanciful as "reefer madness" of rape and suicide. harkening back to old propaganda film, kid trying to be lured into marijuana and terrible things happening after that. as this is developing in the major newspaper, is this sort of a step forward when it comes to what can be advertised in the newspaper? this is legal in new york. this comes in the wake of medical marijuana being
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legalized? marjorie? >> absolutely it is taking a new step. my guess a lot of other newspapers will be following. big ones are always first one to take that step. it was funny in the editorial the guy also says, given where congress is right now we can't actually expect anything to get done but it is sparking i think really interesting conversation. one that is a little bit tricky because kind of like prohibition, marijuana has been outlawed for so long, majority of americans, sort of a moral outlyer i guess. so it is a tricky issue and one he raises different sides on. frankly one i personally have no idea what the right move is on. molly: interesting too, one thing to note here, there is a lot of money involved as well. a full-page ad. base rate runs $170,000. is this also about the money tyler? >> yeah, look, print newspapers are struggling all over the world especially we're seeing a huge contraction of newspaper staff and operations in even in some of the majors.
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and so i think this is a little bit about the money but i think editorial, i think marjorie is right, i think editorial really presents the idea that this is a new conversation that needs to be had socially and politically and i agree. i think it is difficult to determine where anyone stands. molly: it is interesting to see where all this is headed. >> i will say this the having "new york times" to be first to run the ad has spark ad conversation. in a way they created great visibility for their newspaper. you know as you know we have to find ways to draw eyeballs to keep papers alive. molly: interesting. i saw a little agreement. there you go. >> oh, my goodness! molly: thank you both being here, marjorie, tyler, appreciate it. bill: shocking report on why the cost of cancer treatment is skyrocketing. how they're getting away with it. good question. >> in medicine you don't have that. of a choice. if you want to live, and the
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through a liquor store packed with people. the suv crashing through the side of that bilged, coming just feet from hitting those folks. there were about 20 people inside at the time. the crash, sending dust, glass, boxes, beer, flying. >> that can be replaced. if anyone got hurt or anyone got possibly even killed, with the amount of force that you can see, was a big possibility. molly: shattered glass. nobody hurt. not even the driver. she reportedly told witnesses that she meant to hit the brakes but instead hit the gas. bill: this is a shock too. cancer patients left reeling after opening their bills and seeing cost of their regular treatments, more than double and even triple in some cases. laura engle on this story. what is happening with these people? >> reporter: hi, bill. experts call oncology billing the wild west of medicine as hospitals across the nation buy up oncology practices turn them into hospital outpatient centers. even though a patient is treated
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by the same doctor and receives the same treatment the center can charge more for overhead. patients like beverly brown, we talked to, a breast cancer patient, her chemotherapy bills gone from $6,000 every three weeks to $15,000 for the same time period. >> if you're going to take aspirin, you know that, where you get it, how much it costs. this is a different kind of a drug. and so you're basically at their mercy and what they want to charge for it. >> reporter: in a legal loophole some of these medical centers generate additional revenue treating insured patients with drugs purchased under a federal program called 340-b intended to help needy gain access to expensive treatments. bill: what if anything can patients insurers do about this? >> reporter: not so much for patients. some insurers are pushing back. pennsylvania's largest health plan will not pay marked up fees
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for chemotherapy drugs instead pays market price. american medical association, says there are more costs involved when a doctor as office joins a larger medical network. when a physician goes to work for hospital it may appear to a patient nothing has changed but by law that facility now must comply with a more comprehensive scope of licensing, accreditation and other crediting requirements. national cancer institute says $127 billion is spent on cancer treatment every year and that number is expected to grow 27% over next six years. a long way to go. bill: laura engle. on that story. molly. molly: new information on the ebola outbreak. how two victims infected with the virus are doing today. what is being done to stop the spread of the disease.ou at humana, we believe the gap will close when healthcare changes.
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bill: did i tell you i threw out the first pitch? i have video. >> i've seen it, yeah. bill: plenty of time for that tomorrow. see you tomorrow. >> see you tomorrow. bill: "happening now" starts right now. jon: as another american victim of worst ebola outbreak in history heads back to the u.s. there is encouraging news about her condition and her coworker. good morning i'm jon scott. >> i'm patti ann browne in for jenna lee. dr. kent brantly arrived in georgia over the weekend on especially equipped plane and special gear. he is in quarantine in one of our nation's most sophisticated infectious disease units. as the disease spreads in nigeria.
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