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it's discriminatory. the discount is available for everybody. thanks for being part of the real story today. great to have you. i'm in for gretchen. here's shep. >> bowe bergdahl now meeting with an army general investigating his disappearance. what we learned about the sit down and what's next for the army sergeant. a court hearing accused of kidnapping a 4-year-old girl and holding her captive for months owned. did he really keep her in a shipping container. today questions about the evidence and how she got free. keeping your kids safe by tracking them with gps. >> it's narrowed to the exact street, exact location. >> the telling that let parents keep a close eye on their kids. with a built in panic button. but, parents, seriously? let's get to it.
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first from the fox news deck the afghan soldier who killed an american general and wounded many others, hid in a bathroom waiting for the moment to strike. that's according to an afghan military official talking about the ambush of major general harold greene. he is as i've mentioned the highest ranking american killed in action in 44 years. the official says that shooter had just returned from patrol with his fellow afghan troops. the other soldiers all turned in their weapons to the base as instructed, as is form. but the killer apparently kept his machine gun and went to the bathroom to lie in wait. a pentagon source tells fox news he fired at soldiers gathered outside a window, killed the general and wounded eight americans. the rampage stopped when somebody killed the shooter. we don't know whom. now the investigation is focusing on just who the gunman was. an official says he was an afghan soldier in his early 20s and had served in the army for
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more than two years. this man reportedly came from a province in eastern afghanistan, a region that analysts say is a hide out for fighters with the taliban ties. but so far we don't know why this soldier turned his weapons on american and coalition troops who are training afghan forces to take over when most of our troops pull out. lee gabrielle in our newsroom. >> reporter: a senior u.s. military official tells us the remains are major general greene is on their way to delaware. he specialized in developing equipment and technology for soldiers and he was married with two ground kids, a son who also serves in the army and a daughter. general greene was serving as the number two general in charge of command in afghanistan that trains afghanistan's security forces. >> he wasn't engaged in combat,
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he was engaged to help the afghan, to help with their future. that's even more difficult to take. he wasn't there as a soldier kicking in doors. he was there to help the afghan army. >> reporter: from having served in the military i can tell you this indicates a major accountability issue. now normally there's a protocol for soldiers to turn in their weapons and when a soldier and a weapon is missing, this should have set off major bells and whistles. >> they say attacks of this kind are on the decline but there were more just yesterday. >> reporter: that's right. there were two yesterday. we have a map of the location of one of them. it happened in south central afghanistan. a person killed seven afghan soldiers, stole their police car and took off. the killer drugged his colleagues before shooting them
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although a spokesman for the province denies that part. there will be an investigation into the insider attack that killed major general greene but worth noting that the majority of these insider attacks are not actually carried out by taliban infiltrators but rather by disgruntled or stressed afghan soldiers. >> lee gabrielle in the newsroom. let's turn the former assistant deputy director of naval criminal investigative service. nice to see you, sir. it's got to be mighty difficult to conduct an investigation in that area, under those conditions, isn't it? >> the challenges are really incredible. you're out there in a hostile zone, nonpermissive environment. in this case it's the army cid has to go in there, would have already secured a crime scene or is in the process of securing a crime scene, trying to collect evidence and intelligence on what happened there. >> two insider attacks just
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yesterday. are the numbers of these being down played to us or is this an anomaly? >> i don't think it's an anomaly. it's something we see here in united states. it's the insider threat that worries us the most. that's what we're seeing over there. >> are you concerned that these afghan soldiers, especially as the draw down is upon us will find themselves in a position to do this sort of thing more often? >> well, i think the concern is as our forces are down sizing, i hope that we have not also down sized our counter intelligence assets and those protecting the forces overseas. it would be to decline across the board. at a time when our forces are declining we may want to vigorously look at our counter attack forces. >> they have to have protection for them to do their jobs. your point is all about numbers. >> well, it's a concern.
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in forward operating bases in place like this the national defense university there you have a lot of personnel over there and i'm just hoping we have not diminished our capabilities with the down sizing of our troops. >> certainly hope not. sir, very nice to see you. thank you for coming. sergeant bowe bergdahl is getting a chance to tell his side of the story. he's the former taliban prisoner meeting now this morning with an army officer leading the investigation into his addition appearance according to military officials. some of his fellow soldiers say he deliberately walked off his base in afghanistan, well the small post and right into enemy hands. sergeant bergdahl spent five years in captivity. in order to free him in may the u.s. traded five taliban prisoners from guantanamo bay. since then officials say sergeant bergdahl has gotten therapy. and he's now working at a desk job in the army post in texas where today's meeting is taking place. his lawyer who is with him reportedly called today's meeting more of an interview
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really than an interrogation. that was his take on it. the attorney reportedly said his client is mentally ready and looking forward to answering questions. depending on what investigators decide analysts say sergeant bergdahl could face punishment, ranging from almost nothing to the death penalty. let's bring in the judge now, judge andrew napolitano is with us. i feel the way people view this is colored by their politics because you can look at it and say we don't really know. maybe this guy was completely stressed out and sort of out of it and just walked off, maybe done some drugs or something, who knows. or maybe he was a traitor. but we don't know. >> or maybe he was kidnapped. that's the reason why you have an investigation like this. and the investigators are professionals so they've already interviewed all the potential witnesses. they've already decided whether or not there's enough evidence to charge him and convict him of a crime. but under the law they have to give him an opportunity to talk
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to them. so there's no grand jury. there's no judge. it's just a conversation. what's unusual the person leading the conversation is the general. it's not normally the job of a general. normally someone work for the general. this general, sergeant bergdahl and sergeant bergdahl's lawyers and each side has advisers with them will be in the room and having the conversation. the conversation will give him an opportunity to give his version of thing. he done have to give his version. he can talk to his own lawyers during the conversation. they can suggest answers to him. they can whisper things in his ear. he can stop the conversation whenever he wants. he can terminate the conversation whenever he wants just like on the civilian side of things. >> there's been more investigating that's happened prior to the interview of sergeant bergdahl. >> absolutely. i would imagine the people doing the interviewing today have interviewed all of his fellow soldiers, each of his former commanders and any eyewitnesses to anything he did, even
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american civilians or if they can find them afghani civilians because they need to know in their minds -- these are prosecutors now not judges, they are prosecutors. they need to know what evidence they have. what evidence has shortcomings in it and how any words that might come out of his mouth today in this interview could help them with their shortcomings. >> a former judge on matters like thisis suggested to me the will get a pretty complete story most likely of his leaving the property. it's the period between then and the time that he was captured or whatever happened next that's more difficult. >> i think they probably assume that he was not free to leave. the question is did he freely enter into their captivity? what was his state of mind? they need to decide, is this a goofy kid? is this a naive guy? is this someone who was kidnapped? is this a potential traitor? is this somebody who gave military secrets in return for
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something? they need to come to a conclusion of where his mind was at the time he left his post and went wherever he went. >> and those things can largely affect what's going to happen to him for the rest of his life but finding out to some degree of certainty is going to be difficult? >> yes. it's for the investigators to feel what he would be like on the witness stand if they charge him with a crime and he takes the stand in his own defense. it's almost a free sample, if you will, of how he reacts to questions that come from government lawyers. flip side of this is, it's his opportunity and his lawyer's opportunity through his mouth to give a version of events which might talk them out of prosecuting him or talk them into prosecuting him for something very low in punishment exposure as opposed to one of the more serious ones as you indicated could be the death penalty. >> that's collaborating with the
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enemy working against your own country. >> or desertion which produced a death. one american soldier died trying to retrieve him. that death would count for that. >> intent matters. yes, what was his intent. this is the their first opportunity to ask him directly. they can infer his intent from the testimony of the witnesses. here's their opportunity to get his intent, his memory of his intent directly from him. >> it will be interesting. >> thank you, judge. inside the he bolla outbreak. as we wait to learn whether a man here in new york city may be infected, they think he is not, we're looking at the quarantine stations that have been set up at airports. that's next. honey, look i got one to land. uh-huh. (vo) there's good more... honey, look at all these smart rewards points verizon
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the cdc reports it can legally detain that person here until doctors decide whether he or she needs to go a hospital. cdc reports it has quarantine stations at 20 airports and border crossings. from honolulu to san juan, puerto rico. meantime the world health organization is reporting it's confirmed more than 1700 cases of ebola. more than 900 of the patients have died. that's a death rate of about 50%. officials have said the rate can be as high as 90% and right now doctors say there's no cure and there is no approved vaccine for ebola. what have the scientists and feds say approve first a treatment or some sort of vaccine? >> shep right now researchers are working on both at the same time and quite frankly you need both. in a perfect world you want to go into some of these high-risk
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areas and in a perfect world vaccinate everyone to prevent them from getting this disease in the first place. there may be logistical problems in getting rerefrigeratored vials. >> he ladies a research team at auburn university. they developed a compound that appears to prevent the ebola virus from disrupting the immune response in animal cells. that immune blocking property is one of the things that makes ebola so dangerous. so if you can stop that from happening, shep, you have a potential treatment. >> do they have plans or a time frame of using that on people? >> yeah. this experiment sexual drug won't be ready in time for this outbreak but it may offer hope in future outbreaks.
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but another experimental drug called zmapp were given to those two missionaries before they left africa. they are now in an isolation unit at emory university in atlanta and it's said they are improving. it's too early to know for sure whether zmapp is playing a role in their recovery. >> sounds like it might. the accused kidnapper of a teenage girl in new hampshire is back in court today. the defense and prosecutors are fighting over evidence in this case. look at this guy. that's coming up. you do a lot of things great.
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to stop the prosecutors from removing his mobile home and shipping container in his backyard to collect it as evidence. they want it to stay there. moments ago the judge ruled the home and that container will stay unless and until she can make a formal decision. the suspect's lawyers say they want to keep everything right where it is so that they can stew indict themselves. a local news station has reported the suspect kept the 15-year-old girl inside that shipping container during the nine months she was missing. investigators say the teen showed up back at her family's home last month. but they have not yet said how she managed to return. she faced her accused kidnapper during a different hearing last week. court documents indicate the suspect has a long criminal history and that police arrested him not once but twice during the time the girl was missing. kept her in a shipping container. and yet some people are saying well she might have gone on her
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own volition. she was 14. . >> isn't that outrageous. some 14-year-old girl coming back from school somehow she decides to disappear and the rumors are she's pregnant. how outrageous and disgusting. we don't know the circumstances under which she got home. she managed to get home. for nine months she's staying in that shipping container and nobody knows she's there. it's outrageous somebody would think she's there by her own volition. >> this emergency hearing, how big of a deal it is that they would move the mobile home and the shipping container somewhere else? >> not a big deal. frankly, i'm really surprised -- >> emergency hearing? >> i'm surprised the prosecution -- it's financially driven. once you move that type of evidence, chain of custody backs an issue. moved from point a to point z, this is who had it during this period of time. certainly it's not spoiled in anyway. but the defense can turn around if you move it shame on you
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which is why it was sort of twisted they would want it to stay and remain where it is because frankly it would strengthen their argument of course there's reasonable doubt. they taints the evidence. once they moved it from point a to point z, how can you possibly establish my client's guilt. >> what do we know about what this teenage girl has said? >> not much. >> not much? >> very close to the chest. most of it must be because she's trying to heal what occurred to her is probably sickening. right now all we have is the kidnapping charge. we don't know whether she was raped. presumably she is. we don't know. we don't know how many times she was raped. that adds up the multiple counts. he's facing one charge of kidnapping. once they unseal the indictment we might see multiple counts of rape. >> he was arrested it sounds like twice while she was missing is an interesting part of this. i mean what was she doing -- i
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don't know. >> no one thought to maybe look in his backyard? maybe say that storage container has been there a while. no one said anything. heard anything. it makes you start thinking about those three young cleveland girls that were held captive for ten years and how could they go undetected for so long. thankfully she's home. she's probably getting the help she needs to recover from the ordeal. >> my understanding someme o these rumors about a pregnancy, some of them might have actually come quietly on the back side from law enforcement? i think there are real questions about that. not to put any blame on her. again, she was 14. >> exactly. >> but, just a lot of questions. >> teenage of consent in new hampshire is 16. not to say that this was all voluntarily but if she did go voluntarily and kept involuntarily there was no consents in any case whether she went there by her own volition,
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kept against her will he's up for rape. >> she can't give consent. she's not old enough. >> exactly right. >> i don't think 14 is old enough anywhere. >> i can't think of any. >> no. >> thank god. >> mercedes, thank you. a rare burst of optimism in the middle east as the israelis say they would be willing to extend the kraent cease-fire. ahead what we're hearing and a live report on the ground in gaza. plus how the chaotic situation in the mid east and ukraine and other global hot spot are affecting us particularly when it comes to the markets and the money. maria bartiromo joins us with the money side of things. that's all coming up. ugh. heartburn.
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now call themselves islamic state militants in mosul. that's according to iraqi state television. isis fighters took over mosul back in junene the strike reportedly freed some 300 people who were in isis custody. also officials say car bombs in baghdad killed more than 50 people today alone. in australia a man slipped and got his leg stuck between a platform and a train. look at this. dozens of passengers pitched in to help. they literally pushed the train over. workers got him out. he's okay. we're getting a close up look at a comet. thanks to the european space agency spacecraft called rosetta, first-ever to get in a comet's orbit. the journey of 4 billion miles took a decade. next step land on the comet.
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i >> it's the bottom of the hour. hamas is sacrificing children and other civilians by using hospitals and schools as command centers. that's the word from the israeli
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prime minister benjamin netanyahu who spoke today on the second day of a planned three day cease-fire. >> israel deeply regrets every civilian casualty. every single one. we do not target them. we do not seek them. the people of gaza are not our enemy. our enemy is hamas. our enemy are the other terrorist organizations trying to kill our people. >> meantime an israeli officials tells fox news i quote, israel has no problem of extendsing the currents cease-fire without conditions. now this comes after israeli and palestinian representativein eg. the two sides are not meeting face to electrifies. egyptian mediators are working separately with the two groups. israel got out of gaza and are pulling back from the border. hamas has stopped all rocket attacks. officials say the fighting has killed nearly 1900 palestinians.
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and right at 70 israelis. united nations officials are warning that conditions in gaza could get worse, possibly leading to a real humanitarian cris and we may be on the verge of it. our rick leventhal is in gaza tonight. rick? >> reporter: that seems entirely possible. we're seeing firsthand how bad the conditions are, no power, no running water, no sewage. half a mill left homeless. we made it to the scene of one of the critical moments of this 30 day war. we're in southeastern gaza in the town of rafah. we've been asked not to film this area right over here. we're told that's where the main tunnel is located that was dug by hamas between rafah and israel and we're told that's where the three israeli soldiers were ambushed and killed last week whiching sparked a firestorm from the israeli military. there were fierce battles here along the border between the military and hamas militants
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than house was very heavily damaged. the owner of the home also told me that there's another tunnel that was located just over here. now he says he had no idea that these tunnels were here and i asked him how that's possible. how could you not know there were tunnels around your home. he said the israelis didn't know how could we know. he was surprised to find out as anybody else that they were there. we can't verify that man's story but it's in line with what t th prime minister said earlier today and what the israelis have been saying all along, hamas is putting palestinians in harm's way to further its cause. >> how bad is the rest of rafah, rick? >> reporter: it took a severe beating all weekend long and the town itself is pretty much shredded like the neighborhoods in the north that we showed you yesterday. it's flattened, essentially flattened. power lines have been ripped down. roads have been carved up. there are smashed vehicles and blasted buildings, many
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scattered with holes from heavy weapons and machine gunfire. people have been trying to navigate the streets. we saw a yoilt truck out trying to repair a single power line but there's so much work to be done and a lot more work to do if this peace and cease-fire doesn't hold. >> rick leventhal in gaza city tonight. the defense secretary says watch out for russia. he says it's possible russia will invade ukraine. secretary hagel said he's alarmed about the build up of russia troops. nato officials confirm russia has gathered 20,000 troops in that area, combat ready troops. nato also warns moscow could use a humanitarian mission or the guise of a humanitarian mission as an excuse to send in ground force. ukrainian troops moved in on the rebel stronghold of donetsk. the fighting is now close are than ever to the center of the city.
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witnesses there accuse ukraine as government of launching air strikes last night. ukrainian officials deny that they bomb the city. the president of netherlands has stopped the search of victim's remains opinion he says the area is too dangerous. the search will continue when ukraine is more stable. tensions overseas having an impact on our markets here at home and around the globe. our longest war in afghanistan. some of the hot spots. take a look at the wall. just three weeks ago the dow closed at an all time high, 17,138. yesterday it was down more than 700 points from that all time high. analysts cite ongoing tensions but a slew of other economic news. a live look now at the dow and we're just about even on the day. up and down kinds of thing.
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president you wantin tries to fight back. the russian president has blocked all agricultural products from the united states and other countries that have imposed sanctions on russia. that includes things like chicken and fruits and vegetables. the situation with russia seems to be weighing on the markets the very most. let's bring in maria bartiromo host of opening bell, 9:00 eastern time week days on the fox business network and here on the week ends sunday morning futures at 10:00 a.m. the markets are reacting to this uncertainty? >> it is begin, it's sort of like a slow creeping for the markets. the markets really have not been affected very much by some of these geopolitical issues. remember we went above the red line that president obama, you know, put for syria. nothing happened in the market. putin goes and drives into ukraine. nothing happens in the market. market continues hitting new highs. but now it's turning on economic issues. and really what's at stake is the european economy. this week there's a vacuum of
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information in terms of economic data except a european central bank meeting. they will do some kind of stimulus in europe. that's been leading and directing this market today. the fact that the combat ready troops are there at the border in ukraine and putin is fighting back with these agricultural bans people are taking notice and watching the european economy. you know, europe gets an enormous amount of its gas from russia. they are just handcuffed with russia. that's why they were so reluctant to go along with the sanctions, deeper sanctions with the u.s. at this point, it's sort of a wait and see moment because the economy in the u.s. is doing okay. it's bumping along the bottom. it's not terrible. you got a corporate earning story that's very strong. corporate earnings up 10% year-over-year. the big what if and big uncertainty is the russia story. people are reacting and having trading knee jerk reactions over tory headline. at this point it's not an all out okay we're focused on
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russia. it's not. traders and investors, one eye on what's happening with russia. europe is the u.s.'s largest trading partner and another aye on u.s. economy and corporate earnings. it depends. it depends on what happens with the european economy, what happens in terms of the next escalation out of russia and putin. at this point there's not a lot of room for error because shep, the markets have not reacted to all of this. it's all fine. look at where we are. even though we're 700 points away from the all time high you would have expected a lot bigger reaction from investors given the relationship of europe and russia. >> they are watching. >> yeah. >> maria we'll see you in the morning. a dollar doesn't go as far as it once did. i'm still too young to be saying that. we had to walk both ways uphill to school. there are some places you can go and buy some things for a buck
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as long as you're willing to do some traveling. our producer chris has the details. buying something for a buck. i don't know. that doesn't sound like you. what can i get for a dollar. >> in los angeles you can buy one hour street parking. >> where? downtown. >> downtown los angeles. >> according to lonely planet which surveyed readers and locals. it's a travel guide publishing company. in italy, you can buy a cheap bottle of wine. vietnam you can buy a bamboo hat. >> we should have those. that should be required wearing for everyone. >> in france you can buy 40% of a starbucks espresso. >> 40%. >> not the whole thing. >> india you can buy an unlimited rice meal for a dollar. colombia you can buy coffee and two biscuits.
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>> that's $10 here. >> my favorite, though, philippines you can get 35 to 40-minute foot massage for $1. >> $1. >> i question that. there's got to be a catch. >> probably. >> foot massages are not $1. that's true. that's a truism. you're laughing. when is the last time you got a foot massage. you never got one. you don't know what they cost. ahead the latest on the search for a little girl who went missing over the weekend and why the mom and dad say they waited almost a day to report that she was missing. there is weirdness here. 'll fill you in. plus gps tracking for children. if you really want your children to grow up and hate your guts, you can try this. a way to keep your children safe or helicopter parenting gone too far? the answer is b. alex, i'm a terrible parent whose children hate me for 1,000.
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rain in california, giving crews relief as they battle the wildfires out west. i have a map here. california fire officials say there are seven big fires. this is california. this is the map here. this is the sierra national forest. three of them there. then up here around fort bragg, another big one there. over here, this is an area in the mountains, it's called the lasin volcanic national park. three fires there. lightning strikes sparked most of them last week. look at these pictures. members of the oregon national guard flying fighter jets over a fire near the california border. would you look at that? scientists say those fluffy clouds form when intense heat on the ground cause air to rise. officials say this fire has burned an area about the size of pittsburgh since it started last month. the fbi has joined the search for a 6-year-old girl in
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washington state. according to the sheriff's office more than 100 officers from ten law enforcement agencies are working in this case. they are searching near the girl's home in bremerton. family members say they last saw her -- listen to the story. they last saw her when she went to bed on saturday. saturday night bedtime off you go. cops say the relatives waited almost 24 hours. she went to bed on saturday night and didn't report her missing until sunday night. the parents say she's left the house on her own before, so they weren't too concerned at first. now hear me. she went to bed at night. in the morning she wasn't there. they weren't too concerned in the morning. so it's 8:00, 9:00, 10:00. not concerned. 11:00, 12:00, 1:00 in the afternoon now not concerned. hasn't had breakfast or lunch. 2:00, 3:00, 4:00, 5:00. now by 5:00 or 6:00 okay now we're concerned. this makes perfect sense doesn't
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it. little girl goes to bed not seen for 24 hours. not really concerned until the next night. you win a parenting award. on monday social workers took the couple's two older children. they searched the family's home twice and wouldn't say whether they found anything. cops say both parents are cooperating with the investigation. nearly half a million kids do go missing each year in the united states. that's according to the fbi and now some companies are making wearable tracking devices for children. this type of technology has become more popular over the past few years. millions of people wear bracelets that monitor everything from work outs to calorie accounts. most of them are adults. not in this case. in this case makers of kid sport says it's gps bracelet that comes with emergency features. i wonder how many of these
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children really do completely despise their parents? >> i don't know, shep. you have to ask the kids. the kids we talked to were the kids of developers so they love them. this is actually for younger kids whose parents aren't ready to give them a cell phone just yet and they look like those funky sports bands. but inside is a gps tracking device that's registered to an app in their parents smartphone. let's say a kid wanders off in a mall, mom and dad opens up the app and pops up a map showing where the child is give or take 15 feet. we went the three dads who developed this to a big park in 0 berlin park, kansas. the kids spread out and we saw where they went. with the geofence these guys say this technology gives the parents and the child a little more freedom. >> it's like a the right my app and i can put spots right around
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the boundary where's i want her to stay within. so these riding that bike and happens to cross that boundary i'm hit immediately with a text right here in my phone that tells me she crossed it. >> now they come with panic buttons for kids to send a message to their parents and one model is a very limited cell phone. it has a safety latch. unless the child is shown how they can't take it off. if they or someone else messes with it a text goes out to the parents. one of the developers said he's been accused of making the tool for helicopter parenting. he insists it's just the opposite because it let's the kids go wand terrify neighborhood. they get to enjoy things the way we did to a certain extent when we were younger. he says he's been talking to law enforcement because as you can imagine this could help in missing persons cases. alzheimer's patients will start wearing them around their ankles and children with autism as well. >> you can put them on a 35-foot
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chain. you can chain them to a fire hydrant maybe out in the neighborhood. they would love you more. >> so you're not going be buying these and give them out at christmas? >> no. denver is a pretty cool city, right? it's even cooler now with the new laws. >> i think so. >> it ranks number seven. what do you think is the coolest city in america? >> what do i think is the coolest city in america? >> you're the only one matters. >> i love denver. i came here thinking i was going to be here for three years and i've been here 17. i love denver but i have a thing for san diego. >> both of those make sense. the number one coolest city in america makes no sense at all. we'll report on it in just a minute. okay. >> okay. >> austin is also on the list. number ocool. it just isn't. we know what's worse than giant tour buses that tie up new york city traffic. one of the tour buses who cops
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police say the driver who crashed a double decker bus was impaired. they still haven't said exactly what impaired him. just that he appeared to be on something. the story was breaking around this time yesterday. and it was a time to make funnel of the bus services and some people did get hurt. thankfully nobody was life threatening. the crash happened right there in times square. 46th and 7th avenue. it was an enormous tour bus. it rammed into another tour bus and injured more than a dozen people. most were pedestrians as it turns out. police arrested the driver of the red bus. witnesses say he was speeding through times square, which officials say sees some 350,000 people every day.
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jonathan hunt is here on the fox news deck. the driver is due in court this afternoon. >> the formal charge will be laid against william dalenbert. he's from new jersey, going to be charged with what is called driving while ability impaired. we are told, shep, he was most likely under the influence of a drug. what we don't know is if that was an illegal drug or some sort of prescription drug. we also wanted to find out answers to regulations to these tour buses today. are drug tests carried out on the drivers? do they have background checks? we reached out to the department of consume affairs here in new york city. they referred towels the department of transportation. they referred us back to the department of consumer affairs. so new york bureaucracy working as well as ever. not surprisingly, the part company of both buses involved in yesterday's cash, shep, refused to answer our calls or
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return e-mails. >> lawyers are on the way. people wearing colorful clothing. what would you say is the coolest city in the country? >> new york city. >> didn't crack the top ten. new york is between washington -- no, between oakland and dallas. >> washington is the definition of uncool. >> wait till you see where d.c. is. do not move. hang with us. y burn? try alka seltzer reliefchews. they work just as fast and are proven to taste better than tums smoothies assorted fruit. mmm. amazing. yeah, i get that a lot. alka seltzer heartburn reliefchews. enjoy the relief. get reait's crabfest atk, dip. red lobster! the years largest variety of crab. like new crab lover's trio! or try new jumbo lump crab over wood-grilled salmon. crabfest is now. but only for a limited time. so hurry in, and sea food differently! honey, look i got one to land.
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what do you think the coolest cities are? ridiculous. number four is houston. i'm not a hater of houston, but come on. number three is austin. kind of makes sense. number two, seattle. and the number one coolest city in the nation, jonathan hunt -- >> washington, d.c. what a joke. >> i think that the times square bus driver made up this list. >> somebody was on something.
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>> new york city, between dallas at number ten and oakland at numbmber 12. riverside, california makes the list. >> good if you like olive garden. >> good grief. washington, d.c. get off. paging dr. ben carson, dr. ben carson, stat, stat. we need you to provide some reasoned perspective on ebola. and tonight, that gentleman will. welcome, everybody. i'm neil cavuto. coming to an airport near you. major carriers continue to bring passengers in from countries right now dealing with the ebola outbreak, including nigeria, where there was a second death reported today. so to count, delta, united, air france, they're all still flying there and still bringing passengers from there here. with stops today in atlanta, new york and houston, more expected in the coming days. should we be worried?