>> it is friday august 8th, a fox news alert. ready to strike, president obama taking action and aut riding air strikes against the terror in iraq. why the sudden change of policy? hawaii is bracing for a direct hit. we are hours away from the first of two storms expected to make land fall there and the storm's strength is already being felt. maria molina is tracking the severe winds in hawaii. >> the white house, wait until you hear who got past security and why they only got a time-out. "fox & friends first" starts

right now. >> good morning to you on this very busy news day. i am heather nauert. >> i am heather childers. let's go to the fox news alert. the crisis in iraq exploding. president obama autizes targeted air strikes against isis. elizabeth prann is live for us. what's he saying now? >> he's calling for air strikes if necessary against militants in the northern region if they advance to the northern city in iraq. they will drop humanitarian aid to tens of thousands religious authorities stranded on a mountain top. >> targeted air strikes to protect our american personnel and a humanitarian effort to take action if these terrorist forces threaten our personnel or

forces anywhere in iraq. >> those who are stranded are christians and other minorities from the religious security. they have been prosecuted with isis many face the choice convert to islam, flee or die. some news agencies are saying the number of freeileeing chriss are much larger than reported and they are without food, water or shelter. isis is taking control over the two-mile wide mosul dam. there are those in the u.s. who suggest the administration needs to act swiftly and aggressively. >> i am worried what targeted air strikes means. we need to give 24/7 air power around the kurds and need to aggressively go after isis. by fee defeating them

significantly in the region they will pull back. i think we need to rearm -- we never are rearmed. we need to arm them so they can de fenned themselves but we cannot just do pinpricks. we must have 24/7 air cover there. they dropped drinking water and thousands of meals ready to eat. >> elizabeth prann live, thank you, elizabeth. >> is president obama really taking the right action? is will it work to stop isis and what is next if the president says we won't have boots on the ground. thank you so much for joining us so early this morning. busy night. no doubt you have been monitoring what has been going or no. what does it mean when you hear targeted air strikes? (speaking on telephone) >> targeted air strikes means some sort of limited action.

it means there's a limited set of targets and restrictions on what we will and will not do. it doesn't mean if we find an isis target we will de fete -- defeat it. he said to protect american personnel. that means potentially they may be up near the mountain where this potential massacre is about to happen. looks like the president is taking a humanitarian approach here as opposed to an offensive operation. it won't be an attempt to defeat isis. you have a pot boiling over where radical group wants to slaughter christians in the northern area. looks like the president is still continuing to dabble here humanitarian aid to protect americans but it looks like we have some troops up there possibly that could lead to an escalation. this is a situation we have to watch close.

>> in your opinion is this the right option or is it too little too late? >> it is of course too little too late. you have a situation that has become untenable. you have such a radical enemy. modern say nazis slaughtering christians as quickly as they can also gaining more growned in lebanon, and syria, elsewhere. they are on the march. this is not enough. you have to go after them offensively not just because it's iraq but it is such a radical enemy he demonstrated it wants to strike us and allies every where. we are doing nothing. we should be helping as the previous guest mentioned. we should be supporting the iraqi army more robustly. we should be defending christians and others being slaughtered. this is dipping our toe in the water that isn't going to effect the outcome.

>> i have to ask you when we talk about what we should be doing do you think that would involve boots on the ground? >> there are will are boots on the ground and advisors. the question is what do we allow them to do? how much air support do we provide? i would argue it would be required at some point boots on the ground in order to deal with a threat like isis that is so radical and dangerous. this president isn't going to do that. we could do a lot with some special operators and a lot of things from the skies. isis is gathering in groups in large formations like they did with they dutook over iraq. if tens of thousands of people are dying on a mountain top there needs to be action. >> thank you for joining us.

now to another fox news alert, after three-days of peace hamas resumed rocket fire into israel ending a fragile truce. hamas official claim they rejected all of their demands in the talks. there are targets across gaza and they are mobilizing at the border. a housing project has been hit and there are casualties. not yet clear if the renewed fighting will de trail the cairo truce talks. 67 israelis have been killed. >> another republican primary the senior senator defeated joe carr with 50 percent of the vote. the problems facing the country he says can be over come. >> if you read much history, you

know there's much more, we have many more difficult problems back in the earlier days of our country. we are just as strong as we ever were in the country we just need a different kind of relationship. >> alexander out spent carr 5-1. and the tennessee governor's race. that will be in november. voters will choose republican governor bill has cal and charlie brown ethe name of the iconic cartoon character. his facebook page supporting a picture of himself good grief. >> closing in on hawaii while residents cover there wreaking havoc in paradise knocking down trees causing 5,000 pourer outages on the big island.

>> whoa! that is huge. >> glad they are staying out of the water, at least they appear to be doing so if the storm picks up strength the it could be the first hurricane to hit hawaii in 22 years. then there's another one right hined it. you can see hurricane julio on the map gathering strength and hitting in a few days. >> maria molina has the latest. >> good morning heather and heather. now we have the cell that we were tracking it was a hurricane until just a couple minutes ago. was downgraded to a tropical storm the weakening has occurred. it was at a maximum sustained winds then at 70 miles an hour. only looking at a difference of 5 miles per hour and still stronger gusts. hurricane force winds are still expected there as far as the gusts go across eastern portions of hawaii and the big island.

land fall comes the next couple hours possibly even sooner. it is slowing down at sea. we are looking at the movement toward the west at 10 miles per hour. moving quicker at 17 to 18 miles per hour. there's why we are looking at a later land fall. the center 50 miles south of hilo, hawaii. some of the rain bands already on shore. the amount of heavy rain we are expecting on some of the higher elevations. there are mountain peaks that are as high as 13,000 feet. they will be looking at runoffs possibility of mud slides and even land slides. if it makes landed fall later this morning which we are expecting it it would be the first tropical storm or hurricane if it happens and reintensifies. we don't think it will make landed fall. on the heels we have a category 3 hurricane.

right now the track is north of the islanded. >> maria molina. >> insider attack in afghanistan now returns home. landing at dover air force base in carrying major general harold greene's body in a casket grace the with the american flag as you can see right there. greene is the highest ranking officer killed in combat since the first war. 15 coalition troops were also hurt in tuesday's shooting rampage. a dramatic day in court as a guilty verdict is handed down. after 8 hours of deliberations jurors in detroit convicted theodore waiver of murder. he shot an unarmed teenager in self defense when she came there drunk and screaming. it is drawing comparisons from trayvon martin's case.

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>> america is coming to help. overnight president obama now giving the green light for limited air strikes on the terror group isis in iraq. can america really prevent a possible genocide in iraq. ed henry pressing the administration for answers. >> sis sisis on the march from . there's a possible genocide reverberating around the globe. >> they are moving in iraq near the city of sevelle where diplomats and civilians serve iraqi forces. >> they are pinned on a mountain by isis without food, water and shelter. >> it is a situation we are deeply concerned about and monitoring. >> they stress this was a problem of the iraqi government as making and no u.s. military option could solve it long-term.

>> there is about to be a possible genocide of 40,000 people and you are saying we are seriously concerned. we are monitoring it. >> it is something we are closely watching. >> we are watching people maybe being slaughtered. >> we are actively supporting the iraqi security forces and kurdish security forces. >> they added u.s. military action can only come if it is in america's core interest. >> we can prevent an act of genocide that's what we are doing there fore authorize targeted air strikes if necessary to help forces in iraq as they fight to break the siege on the mountain and protect the civilians trapped there. >> the situations are decided on a case by case basis. two years ago the president made a more specific promise at the holocaust museum. >> pref venth mass atrocities and genocide is a core moral responsibility of the united

states of america. >> oned iraq millions of christians are being persecuted around the world. the president's critics say he and others have been slow to react. >> everyone has an obligation to deal with the issue. they are forcing elderly people to convert. they are beheading people. >> in other news terrifying moments when a gunman opens fire on a california freeway. one man hit three times in the arm while driving. he wasn't about to let the suspect get away. he went after him and called 911. >> 911 emergency. >> i got shot. >> he sped after the car going up to 98 miles9t(u an hour. >> i didn't want this man to get away. i knew if i broke off on the

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>> a fox news alert. we could strike at any minute. president obama authorizing air strikes against isis if necessary. he says he will help the 40,000 people held hostage without food or water on a mountain in iraq. what happened to the iraqi president that obama described in 2011 when our troops withdrew? >> we have removed 100,000 troops from iraq. we have ended combat missions we are on track to remove the rest of the troops and bring them home by the end of the year. >> we succeeded in the strategy to end the war. >> we are leaving hined a stable sovereign iraq. bringing our troops home was the right thing to do. the war in iraq is over and we welcomed our troops home. >> we have removed our troops

from iraq we are wining do-- winding down our war in afghanistan. >> did he make the right call? does this mean the u.s. is going back to war? log on to "fox & friends first" facebook page for a live debate. >> declaring an international emergency as the ebola outbreak spreads to a fourth outbreak in ginny, sierra leone and liberia. the united states now sending in experts to help sending in 12 disease experts from the cdc ordering families of diplomats to leave liberia. is warning against nonessential travel for everybody else to west africa. 1,000 people have died many more affected. >> they send the secret service

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>> it is friday august the 8th. president obama authorizing air strikes in iraq. why the sudden change in policy? >> hawaii bracing for a direct hit. we are hours away from the first of two storms making land fall. maria molina tracking the fierce winds and enormous waves. at no times a special delivery a postal service caught dumping a bunch of mail in the trash. >> fox friends -- "fobbix and friends first continues right now. >> i am heather childers. >> i am heather nauert in for ainsley earhardt today. overnight the president authorizing air strikes in iraq. >> doug luzader is live for us

in iraq. >> u.s. cargo planes dropped humanitarian supply to a group of citizens trapped on a mountain top near the syrian border. if isis militants continue a push toward the city of eirbil u.s. planes may target. food and water dropping off of planes like this one to help thousands of iraqi citizens part of a small religious security trapped on a remote mountain threatened with slaughter by isis. the next step would be air strikes if the isis militants continue to close in on the city of irbil where the u.s. maintains a diplomatic facility. >> as commander of chief i will not allow the united states to

be baggdragged into fighting anr war in iraq. american troops will not be returning to fight in iraq because there is no american military solution to the larger crisis in iraq. >> the president promising no combat forces on the growned in iraq. white house forces say they wouldn't have gained so much momentum if they had a stronger presence in iraq. >> it fired a. who negotiated a long-term agreement. he wanted to be able to boast in this reelection campaign. as a result we are nowhere near it. >> where we stanned now is in the midst of a humanitarian mission. we will move toward air strikes if they push towards major cities. it all depends on what they do next. heather?

>> doug luzader in washington. a temporary show of force. let's talk to colonel schafer at the center for research. let's talk about what the president said last night he said no military solution to this? do you agree? >> solution has to be something that we helped de stabilize iraq and we are responsible. the president is being naive to the fact that there are things that we must do to stabilize the region and they have a responsibility. most importantly here delaying this first our withdraw as krauthammer said causes us to go the direction we have. the delay over the last few months have impacted adversely. >> tony you bring up delay. this has been delayed since at least the month of january when fallujah fell. there has been significant can the evidence of atrocities committed against christian groups there for quite sometime

why is the united states just acting now? >> the humanitarian effort has gotten so severe we are talking about 40,000 people on a mountain top who are be slaughtered if nobody helps. the kurds have been doing everything they can to try to maintain it. we ought to throw in with the kurds on this they have a plan and more directly here there's a dam at stake. this mosul dam. this dam is manipulated by the isis terrorists could basically literally take power away from iraq in a larger sense as well. >> or like sthey could flood ou their enemy. >> the president's miss characterization they are paying the price for that. >> do you think we will see

significant boots on the ground as a result? >> we should consider air strikes immediately. we should do something called the act of 2014 where we go out and destroy the equipment left behind. we demand a nato type organization that would see the saudi arabians turkish egyptians today going in there with their boots on the ground. we would support them we would not be the ones with the boots on the ground. >> let me ask you this. a lot of americans based not just in baghdad but also in irbil in the northern parts of the country. are they safe or are you concerned about a benghazi type of attack? >> i am absolutely concerned. we have sen the -- sent in more troops than the president has admitted. we have more troops than we have been told. isis is effective they have the elements of sadam hussein's former military and these new

very violent al qaeda throwaways. nobody is safe. we have to take more direct military action with air strikes and consider action from allies. >> thank you so much for getting on early this morning. >> another fox news alert we are following for you on this busy news day. after three-days of peace hamas has resumed rocket fire into israel effectively ending a t g fragile truce. israel rejected all of their demands hamas says in brokered talks. in response they are resuming strikes on targets across gaza and they are mobilizing at the border. israel launched 10 strikes and 7 people are hurt. nearly 1900 palestinians and 67 israelis have been killed in the month long conflict. >> back here at home another republican primary win. senior senator defeating joe

carr with 50 percent of the vote. carr had hoped voter anger would be enough to win but alexander easley had the advantage in fundraising. he out spen the car 5-1. >> residents take cover in hawaii. the outer bands already wreaking havoc knocking down trees causing at least 5,000 power outages on the big island. >> whoa. that is huge. >> if it makes landed fall it will be the first tropical storm to hit hawaii in 22 years. there's a category 3 hurricane right behind it. we are tracking the storms in the weather center with maria molina. >> we are getting word from the national weather service we are seeing reports of winds up to 54

miles an hour. the storm continues to inch toward the islanded. you can see some of the circulation on the scan. we are looking at the potential here over the next several hours across the big island as the storm continues to move inland. it is moving slower than it was yesterday. yesterday was moving at about 17, 18 miles per hour. we thought landed fall was going to be a couple hours ago. now the storm has really slow the down. now we are looking at longer times. we are not expecting significant impact in honolulu but you will be seeing some of the outer rain bands brushing the islands heavy

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>> overnight the crisis in iraq explodes. targeting air strikes gensz iag isis. the president has difficulty with conflicts in the middle east. he says this about why the president has waited so long to act. >> the president i think is totally disagreeable over the iraq war felt the afghanistan war we know the on too long disengaged from the middle east. he made a strategic mistake, shannon right at the beginning of this pricrisis when he said primary issue is iraq political reconciliation and that will be the condition for me to take any action. when really the primary issue has been from the beginning is tonight isis. >> the president saying he has ordered the possible air strikes to protect american diplomats embassy employees and u.s.

troops. >> the texas principal is making headlines this morning after she was fired for asks hispanic students at her school to only speak english. now amy lacy is telling her side of the story. she says she was simply following state guidelines and wanted to help her students with standardized testing. perhaps the worst part of the story is not one single parent stood up for her after this. >> people have a certain view of what is happening to this country. they think their culture is under assault. they are pro i am gran t-- immi but not pro what's happening to this country. board members are free to their positions. >> the superintendent says lacy was fired for more than just her controversial announcement over the intercom. a lot of people talking about it. >> let us know what you think. the time 46 minutes after the

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reverberating around the globe. >> terrorists have continued to move across iraq and in the city of mirbil where american diplomats serve and american military advise iraqi forces. >> up to 40,000 pinned on a mountain by isis without food, water and shelter. >> it is a situation we are closely monitoring. >> josh earnest expressed this was a problem of the iraqi government's making. >> there is about to be a possible genocide of 40,000 people and you're saying we're seriously concerned, we're monitoring it. >> this is something that we are closely watching and it is something that -- >> watching. people might be slaughtered. >> what we're doing is we are actively supporting the iraq security forces and kurdish security forces to con pront this problem. >> earnest said the u.s. can only solve the problem if it is in america's core

interest. >> i therefore authorize targeted airstrikes if necessary to help forces in iraq as they fight to break the siege and protect civilians trapped there. >> earnest said these situations are decided on a case by case basis. two years ago the president made a more specific problem at the u.s. holocaust museum. >> i made it clear that preventing mass atrocities and genocide is a core national security interest and core moral responsibility of the united states of america. >> beyond iraq, millions of christians are being persecuted around the world and the president's critics charge he and others have been slow to react. >> everyone has an obligation to deal with this issue. these people are being killed. they're forcing elderly people to convert. they're beheading people. >> after two major passenger plane disasters, malaysian airlines is set

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two minutes till the top of the hour. before you leave the house here's what's happening today. overnight the crisis in iraq exploding. president obama authorizing targeted airstrikes against isis as the u.s. goes on an humanitarian mission. tropical storm iselle in hawaii. it is knocking down trees causing thousands of power outages. general motors recalling nearly 200,000 of its s.u.v.'s for the third time in three years to fix power window switches that can catch fire. vehicles include older trail blazers and envoys. >> time to look at the ugly. first the good. a marine reuniting with his service dog. next the bad, a u.s. postal worker could face federal charges for tossing letters and a lot more into the dumpster. people in the ohio neighborhood had been wondering where on earth their mail was.

now they have the answer. the ugly. mets fans surprised after receiving this gift. that little image is a phillies logo. oops. >> thanks for joining us. "fox & friends" starts now. bye. good morning. today is friday, the 8th of august, 2014. i'm anna kooiman in for elisabeth hasselbeck. a fox news alert. the president takes action on the crisis in iraq. >> earlier this week one iraqi in the area cried to the world there is no one coming to help. well, today america is coming to help. >> he says he's ready to strike, but when and how? we break down all the angles. >> then hawaii bracing for two summer storms, one of them now a tropical storm. the other a hurricane. a tropical hurricane. maria molina is going to explain it all because it is changing in