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peter johnson, jr. >> a delight. thank you. >> join us for the after the show show. we'll see you tomorrow. >> so long, everybody. bill: the report saying 300 people are being held are now free. back here in the u.s., people here are feeling anxious and pessimistic. those are two of the words being used to describe how americans feel about our country's future.
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the majority of people are blaming washington. molly: the is from traition is taking its toll on the white house, the congress. the president's approval rating dropping to 4. >dropping -- dropping to 40%. over half of americans don't approve of the job he's doing. >> this is a bowl filled with bad news. 70% believe the country is heading in the wrong direction. 80% are down on the country's political system. >> i think the big number is 21% say they believe their children's lives will be better
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than their own lives. 76% say they have no confidence that will be the case. this is not just bad news about people not liking congress or the president who will only be in office for a few more years. this is about the entire future of the country. so many of them have seen their standard of living go down off a number of years. we found out that the median household net worth. people right in the middle has declined from $87,000 in 2003 to $56,000 in 2013. household income right in the middle has gone from $55,000 in 2000 to $51,000. people over the course of a decade hope to get ahead and instead they are actually going
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backward. bill: this first on the president, then congress. approval of the economy is at 42%. that's right at the bottom based on this polling. foreign policy is 36%. that's an all-time low. congress job approval at 14% which is even worse for congress than we had seen prior to this point. but you make a jump in your argument to 2016. 2 and a half years from now. what is the point your making? >> there are local factors, there is this inertia and gerrymandering that help one party keep control of congress over the years. but in 2016 it's fair to say the person who wins the white house in 2016 will be the person who best addresses the concerns of these millions of americans who have seen their standard of living go down.
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those very people who say the country is on the wrong track and those who say they have no confidence their children's lives will be better than their own. bill: the politician that find that voice will be successful. >> mitt romney failed to connect with those people. the candidate who does connect will be the winner in 2016. bill: what do you think at home, the office or your mobile device. how would you rate the status of our country. send us a tweet at molly line or bill hemmer. talk to us on twitter this morning. molly: a fox news alert. searching for the reason for the assassination of an american officer in afghanistan. army major general harold greene died in that attack.
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he's the highest ranging officer to die in combat since the vietnam war. >> every time we lose someone it's difficult. when we lose them in come bait's even more different. he wasn't engaged in combat. he was there to help the afghans. he was there to actually help advance the afghan national army and security forces. molly: was major general green the primary target? what do we know about this attacker? >> depending -- the pentagon is saying they don't have any reason to believe the attacker was not an afghan soldier. officials are candid about why the threat posed by men we train then fight alongside is so
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difficult to gauge. >> i think we have been very honest that the insider threat is probably -- it's a pernicious threat and it's difficult to always ascertain. to come to grips with the coach it anywhere you are. particularly in a place like afghanistan. afghanistan is still a war zone. >> the white house responded to news of this attack by saying the casualties declined as american efforts in afghanistan started to wind down but with major general greene's death they are reminding about the risk our servicemen and women take with service abroad. molly: will anything damage in the army in the aftermath this attack? >> reporter: major general greene is the highest ranging
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officer killed in combat since vietnam and it will send shock waves. >> not that a general's life is more valuable man a private's life. it's just the knowledge that an assassin can break in and kill a general, what about me. major general greene's family in falls church, virginia says he will be you are aboutived in arlington national cemetery. bill: he leaves behind a wife and two children. both his wife cyan and son
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matthew served in the u.s. army. molly: is there any trust between americans and the afghani people? we'll talk with colonel oliver north. >> you think about the families who have loved ones overseas and the amount of anxiety they must have when they do these reports and hoping it's not one of theirs. in this case with general green we lost one. colonel north coming up. a government website intended to make federal spending more transparent is uncovering problems for america's budget. how about $160 billion missing from three federal programs. what's going on here? stuart varney, good morning to you. what is going on. this money isn
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stolen. this is lost as in not accounted for. six years ago the government set up a website. this is where you go to to find out who spent what. this is the government's attempt to be entrance parents. go to -- to be transparent. unfortunately what the agency spent and what the website says they spent do not match up to the tune of $619 billion. there is a mismatch. 100 assistance' programs spending $5 billion a year don't show up on the website. there was a fore matting problems between the agency that spent the money and the office that reported it. the office of drug control did not report to the website, they thought another agency was going to report the money. there is a mismatch between the
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agency that spend the money and the agency that reports it. bill: department of interior did not report spending for 163 of 265 programs. you referred to this. the white house failed to report any of the programs it's directly responsible for. >> the government says they are trying to improve and they transferred the authority for the transparency office from one office to another. you can't have transparency. if you don't have an accurate record of who spent what there is no transparency. bill: someone was quoted saying information drives decision. 2% of the agencies don't know where the money went. >> another website problem.
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molly: speak of website problems. a massive data breach putting a million passwords at risk. who is behind this cyber attack and what they are doing your information. bill: hawaii bracing for a 1-2 punch. two hurricanes taking aim at the islands. molly: did the tea party beat out the republican establishment in kansas? herman cain on the big implications for november. >> unity must happen if we are to keep kansas red. it must happen if we are going too defeat the obama agenda and send harry reid packing. p÷úñ
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hours it will be the longest break since the violence started. bill: senator roberts is the latest incumbent to hold off a tea party challenger. both candidates are calling for party unity. >> we cannot afford a fractured party. the stakes are jt too high. >> something has gone terribly wrong in washington and we have to do something about it. we have to change washington. but we have to be that change. bill: in washington's 7th district, dave trott was the winner. i talked to herman cain about what all this means today. herman cain, welcome back to
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america's newsroom. how are you? what do you think of the strength of the tea party after watching the outcome we watched last night ins? >> the tea party movement is alive and well. i never expected tea party-backed candidates as some people like to call them to take congress by storm. there have been some victories and there have been some losses. the key thing is it's causing many of the incumbents to move more to the right relative to what the tea party message is. especially in the senate bill, you don't turn a big ship overnight and that's why so many senate candidates that are incumbents running as republicans are winning. bill: so you think they are moving off the mark. but you have incouple tbhents this election cycle that have survived in texas, kansas and
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mississippi. >> i think that the because of longevity and low turnout. if a senator has been there for one, two, three terms, he or she has kissed a lot of babies, hang a lot of hands. you cannot turn this ship overnight. but i think the tea party movement in terms of its impact on incumbents candidates as well as some of the tea party candidates winning, i think it is still very strong. bill: to that point, the "wall street journal" poll shows congress' approval rating is 14% which is even lower than any of the polling we have seen over the last couple years. only three incumbents have lost in this election cycle.
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eric cantor was one. but only three so far. >> it's back to that low voter turnout. there was another poll that said 50% of the people are dissatisfied with their own representative or their own member of congress. that's a first. i think the dissatisfaction is growing but it's not necessarily translating at the ballot box so far. but it does indicate that incumbents are going to have to be much hear with hair message and more consistent with the conservative message if they are to survive. >> senator roberts who survived last night said the following in his victory speech. we cannot support a fractured party, the stakes are too high. the republicans need 6 seats to win the senate come november. will they get those six seats or is it too close to call? >> i believe they have the ability to get those six seats.
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it will depend upon all of the republican candidates having a very clear, harp sharpened message about the issues relative to the conservative principles people are looking for, especially undecided voters and independents. in fact they have to run strong campaigns. that's not just how much money they spend. i believe the mid-term elections will be some of the most vicious, nasty, false attacks on republicans we have seen in history because the democrats have nothing to run on. so the republican candidates are going to have to be hear on their a-game to counter the nastiness that i expect coming from democrats all over the country. bill: you have got 9 ought days to watch that. thank you, her man. molly: a tragic end to the search for that missing mom in
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oregon. but police still have plenty of questions on what happened to jennifer huston. bill: heavy rains that led to serious damage and a big mess to clean up. >> i don't know where to start. they have been working really hard. i don't know where to start in a mess like this. when folks think about what they get from alaska, they think salmon and energy. but the energy bp produces up here creates something else as well: jobs all over america. engineering and innovation jobs.
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the quake hit sunday in southwestern china. heavy flooding damaging homes in carbon county, utah. water swept mud and debris on to the road. molly: an oregon wife and mother missing for nearly two weeks found dead. police discovering jennifer huston's body in a wooded area 25 miles from her home. >> we don't suspect foul play. because this is a pending death investigation we are not releasing the apparent cause of death. molly: not the ending anyone wanted. do we know how she died? >> reporter: not yet, molly. police say they have a good indication but they are not releasing that. they could release the you a top $i results as early as this
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afternoon. but every indication is this was a suicide. they made the point that foul play was not suspected and the public was not any danger. her car was found on a dirt driveway by a property owner. they called police and they found her body less than 50 yards from that vehicle. she was wearing the same clothes she was wearing when she disappeared two weeks ago. police wouldn't answer questions about anything else by the body such as a weapon. the car had not been in an accident. view rrp i knew right away. i said was that suv a late model 1999-2000. i said was it a dark green and he said yes, i said that's it. >> reporter: the vehicle was taken to a crime lab for analysis to confirm there was no
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mechanical problems with this car. mol already a lot of the man hours spent. why did it take so long to find her. >> they a canopy of trees but it was probably there the entire time. police missed it. they had a lot of ground searchers in that area. the property owner said houston had to remove a rope gate to get to that spot. and she turned off her cell phone. no one could understand why this vibrant-looking mother of two young boys ages 2 and 6 who was about to celebrate her 10-year wedding anniversary would just disappear and we may never know. mol require's a rather sad ending to a story people have been watching from across the country.
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bill: you have been warned about this. you might want to think about change your passwords. a massive online security breach apparently pulled off by a russian gang. over a billion use i are names and passwords have been stolen, confidential information for email addresses. >> it's being described as the largest known theft of internet data ever pulled off by small group of hackers operating out of a small town in south central
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russia. they thought the russian government has nothing to do about it but they have not done much to target hackers. it targets mom and pop blog pages. they are using the data to launch waves of spam on social web pangs. all of this revealed from a computer security firm from mill walky he. they decided to go public to the press before they turned over the information to authorities. bill: what's being done to deal with this online security? >> reporter: the overriding fear is this is just one more sign of a cyber war that will be very hard to win. there have been other recent instances of digital hype.
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in vietnam hackers were able to get information from broker paneling firms and hearing in eastern europe stole data from target stores. even that's milwaukee firm that uncovered the russian cyber scam offers at a price to see if your information has been stolen. in the words of one expert, the ability to attack is surpassing the ability to defend. the internet is turning out to be quite the wild west right now. bill: gregg palkot out of washington today. molly: president obama said he will used the penn to take action on immigration in the
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next few weeks. it would stop deportation for millions but it would have a big effect on democrats in the upcoming mid-terms. >> the president is using immigration and a series of other issues including the republican lawsuit and the talk about impeachment to gin up the democratic base and get equal excitement. >> reporter: joining me now for more, alan colmes and brad makely, a former assistant to president george w. bush. if this happens. if an executive action is taken, will it hurt democrats as we near the mid-terms? >> i think it should help them. it's time members of congress stood for something. but they are too cowardly to do something. either he's an ineffectual leader who does nothing or he's
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doing too much. let me quote from a republic kansas can press release. they are telling him to take action then threatening to go after him if he does. molly: the key thing about mid-terms, this rallies the base. we read in some of those polls there is an enthusiasm gap. people that support these measures on immigration feel strongly about it but people who are against it where more passionate about it. is that a factor? >> today we saw the pops you guys released at the top of your show. if it wasn't for bad news, the obama administration doesn't make news. whether it's right track-wrong track. i caution alan.
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we have a way of doing business in this country. it's called the constitution. the president needs to follow it. when the house passions a bill on -- when the house passes a bill on immigration and the president goes on vacation it doesn't give the president the authority to act unilaterally. they passed a bill on immigration but they didn't give the democrats what they wanted. they solve a crisis by an amount of money and not the intent of where the money would go and whether it would mean anything. >> could this help or hurt republicans out. >> congress doesn't like 12% or 14% approval rating. you can talk about obama having locatings at 22% -- obama having
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approval rating at 42%. but congress is much lower. if the democrats stand for something that's a net plus for people who wants to move forward. molly: republicans need 6 seats and some of those seats could be coming from red states. that's where the voting is happening. what are your thoughts on that? could this be something that changes the mid-terms? >> my thoughts are this election is going to be around. i think the american people are fed up with a president that acts unilaterally. they are fed up with a president who passes bills without reading them. the american people are sick of that kind of business and they are sick of a president who acts in degradation of the constitution. in alan likes history you will take a look ated the mid-term
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and you will find out it's not a good track record. with this president's approval rating and whether the american people feel -- >> congress has a 12% approval rating. tell me where the president violated the constitution. >> the way you pass a bill is by the house passing a bill, the senate passing a bill and the president considering it. it's not where the bill goes to die on reid's death so the president says congress isn't acting. the congress isn't act but reid refuses to entertain bills. >> why did john boehner issue a press release, i just read what they said. molly: we'll keep a watch on this issue possibly with reaction brand-new the end of
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hurricane julio is not far behind hurricane i selle. it could reach the island as a strong tropical storm tomorrow. bill: 60 muslims killed in an airstrike in iraq. the strike targeting a prison isis was using as a religious court. those being held by isis are now free. you know we are shipping i the dozens if not the hundreds hellfire missiles to support the iraqi government there. what do you make of this strike so far based on the limited information we have. >> it's good news if it's true. the fact is the maliki regime in
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baghdad is still very shaky. isil made significant gains while we were distracted by ukraine and elsewhere. we need to be backing a new shiite-led government that would bring together the three iraqis, if you will that want to stand up to isil. if this report is true, it shows isil is not invincible and it's the first real reversal they experienced since they invaded iraq to become part of their new caliphate. bill: we have 200 personnel. clearly we are helping the iraqi government guide them. >> there is a lot of u.s. troops and others on the ground trying to advise, assist and guide the so-called pro-maliki regime's
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iraqi security forces. bill: they can't do it without us. colonel, new information moments ago on the as nation of major general harold greene. we are finding that the gunman used a nato machine gun hidden in a bathroom on first, reaction from the u.s. army on his death. >> any loss that we have, any one we lose whether they are a private or general officer, any loss is a tough loss. the fact that he has 30 years serving in the army is a statement on what a true hero and warrior he was. bill: it's been a long time since we lost someone of his rank. what does this killing mean? what does it indicate? >> our hearts and prayers should go out to his family and his on
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matthew is a second lieutenant in oklahoma, an a til relationship officer. all the other -- he's an artillery officer. there is something suspicious about the timing. the perpetrator may well have been a sleeper jihadist simply waiting for a moment to commit his form of jihad. probably used that head or latrine as we call it when i was there to visit u.s. troops. this is a major training facility for the afghan security forces. there is no chatter about any unusual suspects or speculation of the taliban taking credit for this attack. i'm told the perpetrator like so many others who conducted these insider attacks was likely a radical islamist who joined the
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afghan security forces specifically because he wanted to carry out jihad and waited for a target of the opportunity. bill: i understand he had 200 jobs open and 10,000 afghanis apply. how do you get them and figure this out. the enemy is living with you, that's a tough tough thing. >> that'shy what's happening in iraq is so different. vetting and clearing personnel is the responsibilities of the host government. whether it's afghanistan or iraq or maybe even jordan or turkey. you have got u.s. personnel exposed to that threat anywhere you have got jihaddies. the host nation can only do so much in clearing them. we have been out there for many of those small teams much americans working with locals. all of those guys are vulnerable to this kind of thing if the host nation is not doing the kind of clearance they need.
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that's why many senior officers have a personal security detachment who accompany them on those interview missions or their going out simply to inspect and make sure our resources are being properly applied to the fight. bill: the drawdown is coming. what are the implications now in that battle and war in that country. >> i don't think this issue being in the wrong place at the wrong time when a lone wolf is going ting change the schedule of deployment. but i think it will increase the need for vetting, whether it's 10,000 troops we leave behind or fewer. it will increase the need to do the same thing in iraq, jordan and turkey. the review of those pfd and vetting procedures for u.s. personnel ought to go on as a routine matter. to confirm the local there to
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help, support, train and enable are actually being done the proper way, bill. bill: colonel, thank you. oliver north there in washington. molly? molly: 13 wildfires burning in california all at the same time. can firefighters get it under control? bill: as a u.s. border patrol agent gunned dune on a fishing trip and the killers, illegal immigrants who had been deported multiple times.
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molly: water skiing without the skis and doing pushups and splits all while reaching speed of 60 miles an hour. you know, everybody has got something. bill: he's water skiing on his feet and hand. you know how much that must hurt to do that. 45 miles an hour. that water feels like a driveway. molly: i have never had that much success trying to water ski. bill: self towns in drought-stricken california, thunderstorms and high winds fuel the 13 major wildfires. they are getting a little bit of moisture. will carr is with us in l.a. >> reporter: there are fires burning all across california.
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some forced towns to be evacuated. one fire burned 35,000 acres and it's 35% contained. evacuation orders were lifted yesterday in the bald five. the beaver complex fire is one of nine burning in oregon. firefighters say cooler temperatures and scattered showers helped crews hold the line. >> when it's calm we try to take advantage of that. get in and build as much fire line as we can. we can't get firefighters in close because of safety concerns. it could be a problem for aircraft to fly. >> reporter: several of the fires have been started by lightning and the irony is much of the west coast is in severe drought right now. many people have been hoping for rain. we had self thunderstorms in recent days. it brought the rain and the lightning which started these fires. if there is any good news,
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humidity is up and there is extra moisture in the air which has helped a lot of the firefighters. bill: what about the financial toll? what are you seeing right now? >> right now on the west coast there are 30 fires burning. 30 large fires burning in five states. the federal money is draining. the secretary of agriculture is trying to tap into $500 million that's suppose nod go to other forestry projects and use the money to try to fight the wildfires. money is set aside strictly for firefighting will run out the end of this month. large parts of the west are in extreme drought so we are expecting many more fires throughout the rest of the year, bill. bill: thank you, will. it could be a long august. molly: the cease-fire in the middle east is hanging together, at least for now. so what's next? one former american president is
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designed to help the driver in you... ...care for the passenger in them. the subaru legacy. it's not just a sedan. it's a subaru. bill: look at some stinging new poll numbers for the white house showing americans are sick of washington. shocker! the president's approval rating reaching a new low in this survey as well. new hour here of "america's newsroom." i'm bill hemmer. hope you're having a great morning. how are you, molly? molly: i'm doing great. i'm molly line in for martha maccallum. according to wall street journal/nbc news poll, 40% approve the job president obama is doing while 54% don't. chief white house correspondent ed henry live on the north lawn this morning. ed, seem to be pretty tough numbers, bad numbers especially on the economy. >> reporter: you're right, molly. that's the thing to highlight. if you look at nbc-"wall street journal" poll, it shows widespread economic
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anxiety among american people when president is cheering on a recovery. if you're somewhat dissatisfied about the economy, 64, somewhat dissatisfied, 35%. the contrast is stark, last friday the president at news conference, hey, we got a new jobs report, over 200,000 jobs created in july. he said energy, tech and auto sectors in his words were booming, and went on to say our engines are revving a little bit louder. this poll suggests that the american people might not be buying that. economy is getting betser based on statistics out there, unemployment rate and other things like that, but they're not feeling the recovery. maybe they don't feel like the engines are revving. they feel like they're in neutral, molly. molly: foreign policy crises, many all over the world, seem to be a taking a to, right? >> reporter: if you look at foreign policy numbers suggests widespread dissatisfaction how america is viewed around the world. america's roll in the world.
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62% somewhat are very dissatisfied. 35%, somewhat or dissatisfied. similar to the economic numbers. why that is significant. the president will get another bite at apple. will have a news conference, 5:00 p.m. eastern hour, to wrap up the african summit he has been hosting here in washington this week. he wants to take questions from the white house press corps, talk up what he is dealing with africa, and crises around the world but the american people seem to tell him in the poll they're not satisfied with how he is handling all of this. molly: ed, thank you for keeping us up-to-date. bill: a bit more analysis, chris stirewalt, fox news digital editor and good morning to you, brother chris. >> good morning, brother bill. bill: what is the takeaway? you write, when the world seems to be falling apart reflects how americans feel about leadership. is that what you see here? >> oh, big-time. this is a president who is in a crisis of confidence with his
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electorate. these are people who, you see in this poll are very anxious about, yes, the economy but they have been pretty anxious about the economy for a long time. we've learned to feel bad about the economy, new normal ain't so great. on foreign affairs which used to be the president's strong point, we see crisis after crisis. whether it is ukraine. whether it is ongoing difficulties with putin in other places. whether a civil war in syria. whether problems in israel. whether rise of a kala fit state in northern iraq and iraq and syria. -- kala fate. they are not more unhappy than they are with the border crisis and that is the place where the president is pushing hardest and talking the most. that is bad news. bill: is the u.s. on the right track or wrong track? we look at this every time elections pop up. 1% say the country right now is on the wrong track. i found this interesting in this poll. in the poll by "wall street journal," among
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respondents in the 12 states that have the most competitive races for the senate come november, 58% disapprove of the president's job performance. how significant is that 58% number, do you think? >> enormous. there is a strong correlation. history shown incredibly strong correlation between a president's overall approval ratings and the performance of his party in his second term midterms. that is one of those things that is true. only not true for bill clinton in 1998. bill clinton was a heck of a lot more popular in 1998 than barack obama is this time around. other thing is key in 2010, when the presidentes party got swamped, absolutely swapped by republicans in midterm, the republicans were faring worse in head-to-head matchup and president's job approval numbers were dramatically higher. there are less seats up for grabs but this overall is a very dire depiction of democratic hopes keeping senate in the fall. bill: i talked to herman cain last hour. he has a radio show every day out in georgia.
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it goes out across the country. he asked him whether republicans will take senate but by an edge. i don't know what you're position. your looking at races every day. what you're suggesting these numbers are ominous for democrats? >> i think if election were held today, which it ain't, the republican was get eight or 10 seats. they would get more than what they need to take senate majority which is 60. i think they could be looking at double digits but certainly eight. election not held today. it will be held 90 days from today. over that time a lot of things can change. people will say stupid things. money is spent. this is getting set up for democrats to get swamped to lose senate. they will become less enthusiastic to knock on doors to get to the polls. it will be a self-fulfilling prophecy. bill: does it appear the president is more public in the last week or so, then we had seen in the weeks previously? or is that just, is that a fair observation at the moment? >> he is.
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he is talking more. whether that is a good idea that remains to be seen. there are probably plenty democrats wish he would hold fewer press conferences and be bear on the loose a little bit less. they would probably like it if he stays at camp david. bill: ain't going to happen. he will raise money. thank you, chris stirewalt. >> you bet. bill: in washington. nice to see you, chris. molly: america's election headquarters. the results are in for a key race in kansas. three-term republican senator pat roberts beating back a tea party challenger. 48-41% victory against dr. milton wolf in yesterday's primary. chief political correspondent carl cameron is live in kansas city, kansas. carl? >> reporter: we're awaiting for gop unit breakfast where last night pat roberts pulled off the nomination for fourth u.s. senate term against a very tough tea party challenge from dr. martin wolf. it was rough.
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results show it. pat roberts was unable to crest 50% and won only 7% of the vote. a long-time incumbent against first-time candidate was tough. his remarks he used specifically to send a message to republican party, tea party rebels, insurgents making trouble for washington incumbents. republicans in kansas and nationally can not afford the kind of intra-party frat at that side we've seen recently. friends, we can't afford to waste scarce resources and energy tearing ourselves apart. we can not afford a fractured party. the stakes are just too high. >> reporter: of course the stakes he says are blocking the obama agenda. very, very tough race and it has been awful lot of republican incumbents faced tea party challenges. not one incumbents in the u.s. senate were defeated this year.
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one lore left, lamar alexander in tennessee and he is leading polls. yesterday even before polls closed in kansas and mr. wolf was prepared to unify defense the establishment incumbent he had been bashing last few months, listen. >> it is important we as republicans unite. we have a president and this white house who is destroying our country with his policies. it is important the republicans take that senate. >> reporter: so the tea party may have lost its last best chance to knock off incumbent this morning. republican party of kansas, sam brown back for governor as well as pat roberts and down ballot candidates will get together to bury the hatchet in tea party versus republican establishment battle. these were two conservative candidates both with voter support from tea partiers and republicans. there was crassover on both sides. degree which disunity in the gop can be a threat, they're hoping to erase that this morning. molly? molly: carl cameron, thank you so much covering those midterms for us. we appreciate it.
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bill: sergeant bowe bergdahl will answer questions today as the military investigates his capture by the taliban in 2009. we just got this picture, new one of sergeant bergdahl provided by his lawyer. first picture we've seen since he was released. sergeant bergdahl recently returned to active duty at fort sam houston in texas will be questioned with his his lawyer present. he cast released five years after his capture in afghanistan. they want more information around that disappearance. sergeant bergdahl was released in may with a release of five senior taliban leaders who were held. molly: president obama set to speak moments from now after the open of the african leaders summit in washington. the speech comes amid escalating ebola fears in africa and about cases right here at home. we'll monitor for any developments. you can watch it in its entirety streaming live on foxnews.com. bill: the former president causing uproar about
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controversial hamas saying it has to be recognized, not a terrorist organization. former mayor rudy giuliani weighs in on that. plus there is this. molly: a landslide taking out one home, threatening several more. we will tell you where that is happening. bill: also this off-duty border patrol agent is murdered, trying to protect his family from robbers who police say are illegal immigrants with many arrests and deportations. >> they were there. vehicle drove by. they noticed it. then they turned around came back. two individuals got out. told them they were going to rob them. tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, staying active can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain so your body can stay in motion. because just one 200mg celebrex a day
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molly: terrifying moments for one neighborhood in utah when a landslide caused this to happen. the home in north salt lake collapsed when mud and rocks piled up behind it after a weekend of heavy rain. at least four other homes were also threatened. the neighborhood has been understandably evacuated. authorities hope to let some families come back in at some point today. fortunately no one has been hurt. bill: so the three-day cease-fire now between israel and hamas holding for the moment. talks are underway in cairo to extend the truce and work out a long-term deal but hamas militants vowing they will never disarm. former president jimmy carter calling on washington to
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recognize the terrorist organization as a legitimate political force. and he slamming israel's military campaign in gaza, writing in an op-ed the following. there is no humane or legal justification for the way israeli defense forces are conducting this war. israeli bombs, missiles, artillery pulverized large parts of gaza, including thousands of homes, schools and hospitals. there is more in that as well. former new york city mayor rudy giuliani here to react to this. he calls it a legitimate political actor. >> very hard to understand what has become of jimmy carter. i certainly never agreed much with jimmy carter but i admired him, particularly his humanitarian work. but he has gone off "the deep end." maybe he is feeling guilt over having to some extent empowered this whole movement in the first place. look, no one person caused all of this out of control islamic terrorism. a lot of it has to do with the organizations themselves but if there is one american
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contributed more than anyone else is jimmy carter and inability to keep the shah, overthrowing the shah shah. what that did. shah overthrown. hostage crisis, ayatollah. trace 90% what is going on in the middle east right now to the mullahs, ayatollahs. they're creating problem. they're supporting hamas. now how he could be asking us to support a terrorist group is totally mind-boggling. bill: when he was president too, he met at camp david. that was a big deal when it came between israelis and palestinians. >> he was being extremely weak president but seemed to have the best interests of united states at heart. i have thought he made a lot of mistakes but all in the right directions with the right intentions. until obama he would have to say the weakest president in last 50 years in foreign policy, domestic policy. double-digit inflation. long lines. bill: malaise. >> hostage crisis. who is stages get released day ronald reagan comes into office. weak president, strong
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president? he is dealing with allegra sy that is probably the worst one of any president in our lifetime obama's given him a good run for maybe, giving him a little notch up. but reality, this is absolutely irresponsible statement. this is a terrorist group that is killing people. that is terrorist group putting children in the way of the bombs. we've seen pictures of it right? pictures of schools with the bombs going off. if somebody is bombing my city, new york, from someplace else, a boat, on hudson river, and on that boat are children, but they are now bombing my city with 1,000 missiles and lucky enough maybe to intercept them because i have this great dome defense, but for or five or 60 or seven, a, 10, people of my people killed, potentially thousands are killed, i have to take the boat out. i have to take the boat out. bill: they had elections in the gaza strip and hamas won.
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only recognizing its legitimacy as political actor, one that represents a substantial portion of the palestinian people can the west begin to provide the right incentives for hamas to lay down its weapons. >> jimmy, read history. they elected hitler. elections are not democracy. that is not what, this is simplistic, you know, kindergarten 101 view of democracy. let's have election. and putin wins 98%. crew chef wins by 103%. bill: castro, 99% of the vote. what i did not see in the piece that he wrote, any talk about the 9,000 rockets that have been smuggled into gaza or the 35 some odd tunnels. >> is on their side. should sign up as a spokesman for the hamas terrorist group. bill: do you think this administration supports some of that? >> i think this administration sees jimmy carter much like, maybe not quite as powerful much like bill clinton did. bill clinton ever told you honestly what he thought of jimmy carter would have heck of
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an interview. jimmy carter's problems, the problems he created when president, problems with foreign policy, problems he created that lost bill clinton his governorship in alabama when he put all of the boat lift people, or half of them in arkansas. i don't think they pay a lot of attention to jimmy carter but are there hamas sympathizers within the state department? absolutely. bill: i think what this conflict has shown us how isolated hamas really is. when the egyptians don't support this point of view. >> they are supported by turkey. they are supported by qatar. they are supported by certain elements in the state department. and we've heard comments from both the president and from, from the secretary of state that sound somewhat more sympathetic to hamas than to israel. it is clear in this situation, whatever else you think of the crisis in the middle east, that hamas is the actor here. hamas is the one who created this, has caused it and refused up until now, we have new one
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now, five cease-fires. bill: thank you, rudy. >> thank you. bill: the mayor, with us in studio today. rudy giuliani. we'll talk again. >> thank you. bill: appreciate it. molly, what is next? >> unanswered questions this morning what happened to a missing oregon woman. police finding her dead two weeks after she mysteriously disappeared. they don't suspect foul play so what happened? bill: talking about every-day heroes. we show you incredible rescue of a man stuck between the train and a platform and the people who worked to save his life. >> it is really woman, defines incident like this, everyone pitched in. 50, off people, all pitching in, men, women, children, pushed the train back to help someone in trouble and could have been at risk of serious injury. that is really nice, unusual but it is great when it happens. female announcer: through sunday at sleep train,
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bill: heart-stopping moment and a lot of team work averting tragedy at this train station. a man falling into a narrow space between the train and platform. his leggetts caught. he can't get out. a passenger then alerts a platform attendant who tropes the train from leaving. that is when everyone jumps into action. jumping to push the carriage away from the platform. men women and children give it all they got. mission finally accomplished. happened during the morning rush hour at sterling station in perth, australia. that will make your -- he is okay. molly: that will make your heart pound. getting crushed between the train and the wall. that will do it. bill: a lot of folks helped out. molly: a tragic ending to the search for the oregon wife and mother. jennifer huston found dead nearly two weeks after she
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vanished. police finding her body not far from the suv after a man discovered vehicle on the property. >> i never put the two and two together when i saw the suv. this is not a good situation even if it is on my property or anybody's property. it is a sad, sad situation. molly: rod wheeler, former homicide detective and fox news contributor the thanks for being here with us this morning. >> sure, good morning. molly: tough topic. this is not ending that anyone wanted but police have said there is no evidence of foul play here. they're not saying exactly, what everything they know but what are your thoughts. >> that's right. i can tell you that is initially what most police investigators will say, anytime, molly, we find a body in a situation similar to the horrific situation that was found yesterday with jennifer huston. now when the police first arrived on the scene, and i have had a number of viewers email me asking this question, how can they make that statement that there is no foul play involved? what they are saying is that there is no apparent signs of foul play. you know, when we first arrive
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on a scene, when we first find a body, we're looking for outward signs on the body of foul play, such as gunshot wound, stab wound, defense wounds, things like that. if you don't see that typically what you will say is there is no initial or apparent signs of foul play. that is just the first stage. the second stage is for the medical examiner to examine the body. the outward signs of the body and conduct a toxicology test to see exactly what was in the decedents body. that will play a significant role, especially the fact she had sleeping pills. it was reported she had purchased some sleeping pills. if that was the case, and if that even contributed to the death, then the medical examiner will be able to determine quite quickly, molly. molly: you know, lovely lady, married two young sons, two and 60 years old. >> yes. molly: her family said they can't imagine she would have left on her own free will. there is evidence that she ran errands before possibly heading off into the woods here. >> right.
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molly: your thoughts on the situation, how things are stacking up as the investigation unfolds? >> there are three stages, real quickly. there are three stages to a death investigation to try to put pieces together, if you will. the first stage is obviously examination of the body and any evidence that may be associated with the body that is found. the second stage is the correlation, how does that evidence, correlate to the woman's death and the police investigation because don't forget now, the police investigators are still continuing to talk to her family members to try to develop somewhat of a profile. and then the third stage of the death investigation is the interpretation of all of this information. and then that includes the information from the medical examiner. so i think it is only going to take a day or two to get the medical examiner's initial report. here is something very important. it will take about two more weeks for the toxicology tests to come back. that is going to be examination of what chemicals was in her system at the time of death. molly: rod wheeler, thank you so much. as search for jennir huston
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comes to a close. >> sure. thank you. bill: new questions about the immigration policy after off-duty patrol agent is murdered. the two suspects who were deported many times found their way back into the country. what is going on here? molly: plus, living on the edge. who needs an elevator when you have got one of these? ♪ listen up... i'm reworking the menu. veggies you're cool... mayo, corn dogs...you are so out of here! ahh... the complete balanced nutrition of great tasting ensure. 24 vitamins and minerals. 9 grams of protein... with 30% less sugars than before. ensure, your #1 dr. recommended brand
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were. police say the two suspects came up and tried to rob them. vega pulled out his gun and men opened fire. casey stiegel joins us live from dallas with the latest. this agent's father, also shot as well. >> reporter: molly, just a terrible story. he however is expected to be okay. he took a bullet to the hip. but there was nothing that could be done to save the life of his son, javier vega, jr. a u.s. border patrol agent for more than 60 years. a 36-year-old marine corps veteran, leaving behind a wife and young children, who witnessed this murder. happened in santa monica, texas. that is stone's throw away from the border with mexico, down near the city of mcallen. hours after the shooting a tip came into small town sheriff's office led them to the suspects. the two men did admit to the crime. something started as a robbery but then went terribly wrong.
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>> while they were there, vehicle drove by. they noticed it. and they turned around and came back. two individuals got out. with appearance they were going to rob them. >> reporter: the two men have been formally charged with capital murder. they are now being held with out bond, molly. molly: these two suspects have a pretty lengthy rap sheet, right? >> reporter: yeah they do, especially with i.c.e. immigrations customs enforcement. according to court documents that have been obtained by fox news, one of the suspects, 30-year-old, gustavo tijerina. who you see on the left, has been arrested no fewer than four times for entering the united states illegally between 2007 and 2010. he had been deported. the other man, 40-year-old, ismael hernandez, has been deported at least twice we know of. the local sheriff down there telling us he believes these two men are somehow connected to
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dangerous cartels. just a terrible story, molly. molly: casey, thank you so much. horrible thing to happen to this family. thanks for bringing us the story. bill: we'll talk a little more about it with julie roginsky, former political advisor to new jersey senator frank lautenberg and matt kelan. tough, stuff story. matt, you can come and go as you please, right? border is wide open? we'll send you home and you can come on back when you want? >> i think it crystallizes the problem a lot of americans are feeling right now. that the border is set up to help illegal immigrants and not american citizens. this is only one of the many cases of violent crimes against innocent american citizens. at some point the american people will say enough is enough. i think they're at that point now. bill: julie are, they at that point? >> look, i mean the problem here nobody in washington seems to have the will to do anything about this and you watch the house of representatives go through, i don't know what kind of contortion to get some sort of border bill done. bill: they got it done.
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more than the senate did. >> tell you something, senate had good "gang of eight" bill that went nowhere because the republicans opposed it. the house did not get it done. the what the house got done to deport a bunch of d.r.e.a.m. act people who grew up here. didn't do much to secure border. bill: republicans say this guy was shot and killed. >> don't put my words in my mouth. bill: just asking. >> not republicans fault. fault of people that shot and killed him. bill: this person was arrested twice and deported. >> and got deported. bill: these guys are coming and going. here is big picture, to both of you. if you have true border security maybe guys don't come and go as they please. if you don't have true border security they can do what you want. >> what kind of border security? we'll never 100%. there is no way. no fortress america we'll be able to build. israelis built a fence even they're having infiltration.
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we'll not build a fence across entire mexican border. bill: 1200, 1200 miles of border between texas and mexico? let me make the point here. then i will let matt respond to this, okay? since rick perry initiated his border patrol agents going down there, the biggest area where people were coming across rio grande area, there is 60-mile stretch, cut in half by off% a few days they started. matt, go. >> bill, at some point we have to get past talking points and rhetoric that the left keeps throwing out here around actually secure our border. we're at a point now where we have terrorists in iraq saying they're coming here. we have criminal cartels trying to get into our country to sell drugs, to perpetrate violent crimes. instead of pointing fingers we ought to be passing a law which republicans in the house tried to do, and white house and harry reid unwilling to cooperate and actually secure the border. we have to secure the border. >> i don't know know what securing border means. does securing border making sure
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zero people are able to come through. >> arrested four times. don't come back in. >> how? how? >> four times is enough. after the second time it should have been over. >> over how? >> agent would still be alive. >> over how, putting a bullet in the guy's head. >> put him in jail. >> put him here in jail in the united states? who will fund that? who will fund that. bill: julie what sureyour solution. >> you want to talk about, secure the border, fund it. can't run around going back to the district and talking how you want to secure the border yet you refuse to provide. >> funding in the republican bill was to secure the problem. the president's bill there was no money to secure the border. bill: hang on, julie. go, matt. the. >> president's bill hat 1% of the $4 trillion to secure the border. we have to stop the flow of criminals coming across the border. shouldn't we want to know who is coming into our country? >> well i would say to you this. first and foremost this president deported more people than any other president before him. before you talk about how he is
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weak on immigration, a lot of people on left don't support him for that reason second -- bill: all right. make it quick. got to run. >> second point is, you want to talk about securing border you have to provide the money for it. republicans provided money to deport dreamers. did not provide money to secure border. bill: thank you, julie. matt, thank you as well. to be continued. >> thanks, bill. >> all right. a waterfront restaurant sinking to the bottom of a river. take a look. this defunct restaurant called jeff ruby's once floated on a barge in the ohio river. it had a string of pretty bad luck. it closed in 2011 after the restaurant broke loose from its mooring and floated down the river? while diners were inside. bill: i know that restaurant. oh, that is my hometown right there. jeff ruby's place. yeah. molly: not so much now. bill: i think ruby knows in the end that joint was haunted because it is sitting down on the river. molly: down under. bill: down bit river! first year of obamacare having dramatic impact on the lives
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across america. fox news reporting, looking at the rollout in one state. new hampshire, where the motto is live free or die. have a sample. >> from 2008 to 2010 she served in the new hampshire house as democratic representative. but this is one democrat who wants nothing to do with obamacare. >> we will opt out. we're being asked to pay for things that we simply don't need. >> price has been with her partner for nearly 20 years. tying the knot in 2010. >> i am married to someone of the same sex but yet i'm being made now to purchase birth control coverage and i'm being made to purchase pregnancy coverage. i'm 50. my partner is 57. i'm quite sure we don't need birth control. bill: fox news reporting, live free or die, obamacare in new hampshire. it is hosted by bret baier. you can check it out friday night at 10:00 eastern time. again on saturday at 10:00 and sunday at 9:00. so you get three options this
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weekend. check it out. molly: a new hack, this time a billion online passwords stolen from thousands of websites. what they're doing with it. plus, can you ever really trust what happens to your online information? bill: police making a arrest of a bus crash at very busy times square midday afternoon that injured a lot of people there. >> i heard explosions and i ran the opposite direction. i thought it was a bomb. >> something wrong with the bus, because it went so fast. >> crazy. the bus driver came at very high speed.
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bill: fox news learning a bus driver has been arrested and charged with driving while impaired after a crash involving two double-decker tourist buss in new york city. happened near the ticket booth in the heart of times square. the force of the collision knocking over a light pole and injuring more than a dozen. >> we had a few possible broken bones, but that was the worst there were.
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everybody, like i said is stable. everybody is going to recover from this. thank god that nobody was really badly hurt. bill: amen to that. most of the people injured were pedestrians including a child in a stroller. that could have been a lot worse. molly: i, when i first saw it pop on television yesterday, i think all the crowds in times square bill: but crowds and traffic probably prevented the buses from going faster than they were. otherwise we could talk about a lot of more serious injuries or past that. molly: certainly scared a lot of people. a massive online security breach sparking new fears over your online safety. "the new york times" reporting a gang of russian criminals stealing more than one billion internet passwords. the breach affecting some 420,000 websites. no word yet on which ones specifically. for now the stolen information is primarily being used to send spam over social media. we have a foreign policy national and homeland security
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expert at the heritage foundation joining me now. thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me on the show. molly: let's talk about just how staggering these numbers are. is our information ever safe when we punch it into the internet? >> well, it is never 100% safe, no and these numbers are orders of magnitude greater than any breach in the past but we do need to keep it somewhat in context and we can talk about that if you like. molly: yeah. when you're talking about how big these numbers are, and we've seen previous breaches, just around christmastime the big target breach, is this much, much bigger? are we talking about massively mumuch larger? >> when you put all the numbers together, yes, it is much, much bigger, but if you think about the 1.6 billion individuals that are talking about, and the 420,000 websites, it averages about 3,000 people per website.
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so some of these websites are actually by internet standards very, very small. it is unlikely that this really has affected the big megasites, mastercard, visa, those places. but remains to be seen when they announce who actually is on this list. molly: you know, another factor here, the alleged perpetrators, russian criminals, so, it is tough to prosecute folks like that or go after them. the russian government hasn't done a great job so what can we do? >> there is is not a lot we can do. the russian government traditionally leaves these guys alone. as long as one they don't do crime in russia. and two, they take taskings from them periodically. in this case apparently there are some, there has been some crime in russia, so maybe we will get some cooperation with them but that does remain to be seen. molly: what else strikes me as spooky here? not just credit card numbers we're talking about, we're talking about names and passwords, that sort of thing.
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does this make it more impactful for people? >> i hope that it does make it more impactful. they need to understand they do have responsibility to have good cyber personal hygiene. there isn't time to delineate what all that means. you need to do a better job protecting yourself. understand the bad guys trying really hard to get your information. molly: when you talk about cyber personal hygiene, i don't hear that phrase a lot. what is just one little tip people should do? one thing they really should think about? >> they should use different passwords for all the different sites, if one gets compromised they don't get into everything. you have to use good passwords. you have to change them periodically. molly: all right. steve bucci, giving us insight into how big this breach is and what we hopefully, although maybe there is not much we can do to protect ourselves. thanks for joining you. >> thanks for having me. bill: you hear these stories all the time. this is a massive deal so.
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is not so great and what about the costs? we'll dive into that. plus massive buildup of russian troops and equipment on the ukraine border could be trouble for that tense region. we'll explore the possibilities. "happening now" less than ten minutes away. bill: jon, thank you. as western african countries battle the deadliest ebola outbreak on record, the cdc here in the u.s. is looking to keep the disease from spreading into this country and one line of defense starts at the airport. dr. marc siegel is live at j.t. k international, queens, new york. doctor, good day to you. what steps are the cdc taking? >> good to see you, bill. the cdc is all over this. first of all they started in west africa, screening people before they come in. then once you're in the united states, the centers for disease control has 20 quarantine stations including one right here behind me at terminal four at jfk international airport. the cdc is taking about 2,000 calls a year but it is
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skyrocketing now with the ebola fears. the cdc has the legal right, bill, to detain people who they think could be suffering from this disease. i talked to dr. steve monroe, who is the deputy director at cdc in charge of emerging diseases and animal-borne diseases about these quarantine stations. >> if there were a person who had the potential high-risk exposure and was exhibiting symptoms, they would be put into a isolation room. this is not equivalent to a hospital isolation room but just a separate room at the airport. so that they could be better assessed and then moved safely to a hospital in their city of entry. >> bill, over the weekend cdc issued guidelines to hospitals about what to do and here's how it goes. if you got flu-like symptoms, you're suffering from a fever and you just came from west africa, hospitals are instructed to isolate you. bill?
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bill: what are the reactions from the passengers that come and go? what are they telling you? >> bill, i've been walking around jfk all morning and asking people, i talked to the national guard stationed here about this, they say it is business as usual. talked to a passenger who got off a plane from south africa said nothing. they think it is isolated to west africa. but i spoke to a passenger, moses, who landed here from west africa and he talked about how everyone is on edge. >> i was feeling kind of, because i don't know what it is like i said. i haven't real read bit and i don't know if it is airborne or whatever it is but, they have been saying on the news. so it is kind of a little bit scary to have, i mean to get that, or maybe have it on your way back home. >> bill, the world health organization now confirming 932 deaths and british airways, stopping traffic to parts of west africa, sierra leone and
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liberia. you can imagine here at jfk where people are still flying in from west africa, people are continuing to worry. bill? bill: british airways canceled their flights for a month's time. fear is always a component in these stories. as a doctor, what do you advise on that emotion? >> bill, i think that people need to look at the numbers. we're talking about 1500, even if it is underreported, 1500 to 2,000 cases of ebola in west africa. that's a lot if you have it but the chances of you going there and getting it and bringing it back here, very, very slim. the chances of somebody here having it, especially with our health care infrastructure, almost zero. bill: let's keep it at that. thank you, doctor. marc siegel at jfk for us. >> good to see you. bill: good to see you as well. molly, what is next? molly: a zip line like you have never seen before flying through the sky with nothing but concrete beneath you. bill: yeah.
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>> all right, for all the daredevils out there, check this out. the largest urban zip line, 800 feet down, seven seconds.s. ropes were attached to skyscrapers in panama city, down to the marina below. the daredevils finished ride naturally with a parachute jump right to the ground. bill: look at that now, right? you drop for seven seconds. gravity takes over >> marina didn't r doesn't look safer. bill: that is panama city. i bet that place sells out. they must be up for the ride.
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water skiing. daredevil? >> super tramp. on his hands. got a million different tricks. was that his face? i think that might have been his face. bill, molly, let me tell you something, going ha mile-an-hour in that water. i've done this before. >> you done this before? bill: i tried. i make 3 1/2 seconds and fall in a big heap. like a yard sale all over the lake. what this does to your body, the bruises you take a way when you try to learn it, they are brutal. >> you know, takes special people. everybody has a gift. this is somebody's gift. bill: that's pretty good. we seen water skiing on feet before, but war skiing on hand and chin, that is talent. >> exactly. you know what the highlight has been for me? that picture of you throwing out the baseball. bill, oh. we've had enough of that i think. i don't know, have we? you know, honestly, we could watch it every day. >> understandable. i would be really proud.
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bill: great to have you new york. >> been incredibly welcoming. bill: tell the folks in boston hi. >> i will. bill: happening now. have a great day. jon: it is 160-game season plus or minus. that pitch will live on for a long time. >> that's for sure. jon: brand new polling out on the mood of america and not good news for washington particularly for president and congress. good morning, i'm jon scott. >> i'm arthel neville in for jenna lee today. president obama's approval rating taking another dive, hitting a new low in the wall street journal/nbc news poll with just 40% approving of the job he is doing. that is not much different from what our own "fox news" polling found, showing that 42% approve of the president's job performance. jon: congress, well it is doing even worse with the
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