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 the pacific.

>> she is right behind you working on that very storm. then this principal asks her students to speak english in texas and this is what she got for it. >> you crossed that moveable red line, you will be drummed out of public life. perhaps you will be terminated. you'll be fired. you'll be harassed. you'll be called all sorts of names. >> why is no one coming to her defense? we'll look at that in about 30 minutes. meanwhile, mornings are better with friends. >> you're watching "fox & friends." that's a great way to begin your day. >> we begin this day with a fox news alert. overnight the crisis in iraq exploding. president obama at 9:30 last night announced to the nation he has authorized targeted airstrikes against isis. doug luzader is live in washington, d.c. with what the president said last night. douglas. >> reporter: good morning. a couple of aspects of this, one has to do with

the humanitarian mission but the tricky part here is the possibility of airstrikes. based on what the president said last night he is looking at the city of rabbil as his trigger point. strategically important. when you look at this red area controlled by isis militants irbil is the last holdout. there are u.s. military advisors stationed in irbil and there is no question the white house was under enormous pressure to do something. >> earlier this week one iraqi cried to the world there is no one coming to help. today america is coming to help. we're also consulting with other countries and the united nations who have called for action to address this humanitarian crisis. >> while a lot of focus on the president is on irbil we also want to talk about the city to the west of there, mosul. there is a dam just north of mosul. it is strategically

important and it is a very complicated facility to operate. there are reports that isis militants have now gotten control of that. why is that such a big deal? look at where this dam is located. again, north of the city of mosul upstream from baghdad along the tigress river. if they control the dam, they control water supplies to a good portion of the country of iraq. this is one of the reasons why some administration critics say there needs to be a more robust response to this threat that isis poses. >> i think we need to give 24/7 air power around the kurds and we need to very aggressively go after isis. and by defeating them significantly in that region, they will pull back. i believe we can do it with bombers and with their precision weapons. and we ought to have very liberal rules of engagement and not this restrictive rules of engagement that they've come up with in iraq and afghanistan.

>> the president, though, last night making it clear that he is taking a very cautious approach to this kind of one step at a time. also making it clear that this will not involve any u.s. combat forces on the ground in iraq. anna, steve, brian, back to you guys. >> last night around 9:30 the president got heend the microphone. you knew it had to be serious. he gives a live address, talks for about 22 minutes. in that address he says we're moving into iraq. and i thought he is very direct, concise, and then afterwards goes out of his way to say we're not starting another war there. engt humanitarian -- i think the humanitarian effort is laudable, typical of what we do. also i think we have to recognize that isis is an enemy of america, let alone the iraqis, who at this hour are in the process of replacing their prime minister al-maliki, about four years two late but replacing him. >> the president last night

announced he was going to allow these targeted airstrikes. but the curious question is why now? where has he been? this has been going on with isis building steam over there for months now and we've seen genocide, and yet he's acting now. this is a far different tune than what he's been singing so far about the many successes in the country of iraq. >> we've removed 100,000 troops from iraq. we've ended combat missions. we are on track to remove the rest of the troops, bring them home by the end of this year. >> in iraq we've succeeded in our strategy to end the war. we're leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant iraq. ending the war was a mistake; i disagree. 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 winding down our war in afghanistan. >> that is clear that was a mistake kicking everybody

out in 2011. big mistake because look at where we are now. >> isis is gaining steam in syria and iraq as well. we've noticed this seven or eight months now. in fallajuh, isis took over. is this a campaign of the president in the middle east. the people in the world that want to kill us, the majority of them are aware they're in the middle east. and yes we need to save these 35,000 people because we're america. they either die at the hands of terrorists or die of thirst or hunger on the mountaintop. yes, we need to help them but what are we going to be doing long term? >> the kurds, our true allies in the rejn, people we can couldn't -- we can count on, looking for

autonomy, their economy was thriving. now they're getting killed; guess what? by the weapons that isis took from us because the iraqis ran in fear and are now beating up on the kurds and taking those regions and threatening their existence. joining us, a man who knows this region. how grim do things look and do you think the president is taking the right step with this move announced last night? >> if we analyze the two steps, one says if isis gets closer to irbil where we have staff and diplomats, we will do our strikes. what if isis goes to other cities and other places, control the dams and beyond? two, we can drop aid to those 40,000 or so on the mountain. and if isis interferes with that operation, we're going to strike them. so these are the measures to stop isis from coming into the capital of

kurdistan or interfering with that refugee problem. my question is how are we going to bring the refugees back home into the valley of sinjar? the president did not cover that point. that is an issue now. >> clearly it was a strategic disaster on the president's part to bring everybody back. there should have been some sort of residual force. now we look at where we are given the fact that isis has a lot of our hardware now. they've robbed the banks in their way, persecuting and killing christians left and right. then you've got to wonder where has the president been on this? >> in your introduction you said very clearly it was a strategic mistake on how we exited iraq. not the principle of exiting iraq. we did not leave behind us -- in the sunni area where isis is in control, allies and mad ras gave everything to mr. maliki and he suppressed the

sunnis, took care of the madras and isis was able to seize half or one-third of iraq. >> a lieutenant general yesterday said they are a 10,000 man army. there is only way to defeat an army. with an army. do you see it as something we have to do now, bigger than the insuj is i that we won -- bigger than the insurgency? >> absolutely, an enemy of iraqis, of the arabs, of the middle east, of israel and the international community. european union officials told me that they are concerned that isis already has somewhere between 1,800 to 3,000 jihaddists, half of whom are going to go ba to the west. we're talking about hundreds. remember, two guys with the bomb in boston, one guy in fort hood. we have hundreds of jihaddists. if isis is successful in

iraq they're going to come back to the west. not good news. >> in iraq clearly christians are being persecuted. but it is not just there. it is all over the world. in mosul we have 30 churches and monasteries under isis control where at one time there was tens of thousands of christians. now there's close of zero there. this is a problem around the world. what needs to happen? >> first of all, what we see is that the jihaddists are on the rise in many spots as you saw on the map. we see it in the boko haram in nigeria going widely against christians and the females. we see it in egypt. we see it in sudan. would he see it in syria of course. as you mentioned, in mosul and iraq. if you time it, of course persecution has been there for many years. if you time it and go back a few months, when we released those taliban leaders, it put the jihaddists on steroids around the world and you see persecution going high. you can look at the archives and make that

judgment. >> it certainly did embolden them. walid farris joining us live. thank you. >> thank you for having me. >> we have other breaking news out of israel. heather nauert joins us with more on that. >> good morning. so much going on overseas today. after three days of peace, the war in gaza is back on, this after hamas launched rockets at israel. israel responded by resuming airstrikes on targets across gaza and the i.d.f. is mobilizing at the border. police in gaza saying israel launched ten strikes and that seven people have been hurt. this all unfolding after peace talks that had been brokered by egypt hit a deadlock. while you were sleeping tennessee senator lamar alexander cruised to another primary win with 50% of the vote. during his victory speech alexander said the problems facing our country can be

overcome. >> you read much history, you know there's much more, that we have many more difficult problems back in the earlier days of our country. we're just as strong as we ever were as a country. we just need a different kind of leadership. >> also cited last night the matchup of the governor of tennessee. voters will choose between governor haslem and charlie brown. sad news out of the west coast. it is a tragic end in the search for missing jenise wright who vanished from her home in washington state. authorities found her home in the woods a short dance from where she lived. >> i cried. she is just a little girl. say a little prayer for her. >> just six years old. investigators say they hope the autopsy today will provide answers. here we go again. a top obamacare official

who oversaw the botched rollout admitted to losing important e-mails. marilyn tap ner who works for the centers of medicare and medicaid telling congress she may have accidentally deleted e-mails instead of saving them and because it wasn't initially reported it may have broken the law. this comes after the i.r.s. admitting to losing thousands of e-mails that belonged to lois lerner. >> heather thank you very much. right now tropical storm iselle had been a hurricane, now closing in on hawaii, while reyes didn't take cover -- while residents take cover. it outer bands wreaking havoc in paradise, these images from yesterday knocking down trees, causing power outages on the big island alone. >> whoa! that is huge. >> if it makes landfall it will be the first tropical storm to hit hawaii in 22

years, and there is a category 3 hurricane right behind it. >> maria molina, nothing like we mentioned surprises you. you talked about it yesterday. and you are in the weather center to give us the latest. >> take a look at this radar image. i want to look at the eye which continues to inch toward the big island of hawaii. you can see right there on the radar image, a lot of rain around that eye and it is continuing to move there. over the next couple of hours we expect landfall in the big island of hawaii. by the way, there has never been landfall in that island of hawaii in recorded history by a tropical storm or hurricane. there are other areas of hawaii that have seen storms rolling through but this could be the first time in history we're seeing this happen. a lot of rain associated with the storm. we're talking about up to a foot of rain possible in higher elevations. we're talking 13,000 foot high mountaintops across the big island. that is a big concern in terms of flash flooding, mudslides and landslides.

maximum sustained winds at 70 miles per hour moving 10 miles per hour towards the west. it was moving quicker in the overnight hours. now it slowed down. over the next few days it is forecast to continue to weaken and move south through the rest of hawaii. that is welcome news for places like honolulu. julio, category 3 hurricane, maximum winds at 120 miles per hour. that storm is forecast to stay north of the hawaiian islands but still several days out. we'll keep an eye on it. >> remember fast and furious, that scandal the u.s. government put in the hands of mexican cartels a lot of weapons. brian terry, as you know, was murdered with one of those guns back in 2010. now another illegal alien has been charged in his murder. the department of justice announced yesterday that rosario alvarez, in this

country illegally was indicted. he recruited mexican bandits to prey on people stealing their drugs and cash. >> the vice president of the national border patrol council outraged. listen. >> we catch people and due to prosecutorial discretion, we let these people go. why do we have immigration laws if we're not going to enforce them? why do we have a border patrol? why do people like brian terry die, robert rosas and now javier vega? what do we have to do to take this threat seriously and be able to do our job? >> javier vega an off duty broarm agent was -- proarm agent was killed in front of his family.

that catch and release policy causing problems in more ways than one. >> if you catch somebody and they are in the country illegally they depot them but time and time again that does not happen. in a couple of cases guys have gotten murdered. >> 17 minutes after the hour. this story is insane. a driver shot behind the wheel but that didn't stop him from chasing down the gunman. >> 911 emergency. >> i just got shot? >> are you hit? >> yes. they took out my window and i think my arm is shot. i'm trying to catch up to him now. >> wait until you hear how it ended. >> in god we trust is america's national motto but having it on a simple energy is causing a major controversy. stick around for this. you're watching "fox & friends" on this friday morning.

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overnight the world health organization declaring the ebola outbreak in west africa an international public emergency. since the outbreak began in march nearly 1,000 people died in guinea, liberia and sierra leone. sergeant bowe bergdahl

says he wants to leave the army and go to college. his lawyer says bergdahl wants to get back to his normal life and, quote, make up for lost time but first he has to overcome an investigation into why he deserted his base in afghanistan if indeed he did. steve? >> thank you, brian. one county in texas has decided to add our nation's motto which is in god we trust to some of their official paper work and the decision has some people up in arms. tarent county's tax assessor made the decision to add the motto to his office's envelopes and it will be prinked on tax statements last year. critics call this a clear violation of the separation between church and state. joining us right now is tarent county tax assessor ron wright joining us from dallas. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> what were you trying to do by putting "in god we trust" on your

correspondence? >> the surprising thing is that this is controversial. it shouldn't be. it is the national motto, and i think it is a timely reminder of the values upon which our nation was founded. it's historic. it's iconic. things that are iconic to americans like the motto and the pledge of allegiance and the national anthem, these things helped define us as a people, as a nation. >> last night at the conclusion of the president's speech on iraq, he said god bless america. he said god bless our troops. he invoked god right there. all you're doing is invoking the national motto, which is on the money, but you said it's been controversial. what have people been bugged about regarding this? >> well, they have claimed that it violates the constitution, it violates their constitutional rights, that i'm inserting religion into a secular

office and things like that. they've -- you know, there are people that are perpetually offended and agrieved. they are always going to be bothered by things hike this that don't -- by things like this that don't bother most americans because most americans like the motte taupe and want it continued. the beauty of the motto is it speaks to all religions. it doesn't favor one over the other whether you're christian, jew, what have you. it speaks to all of us. >> i read in one of the local papers down there that at one point even though your county has two million people in it they only received one complaint. somebody did write an open letter to the fort worth newspaper and it said in part, i consider that a violation of the doctrine of the separation of church and state. it is true my coins and bills contain this phrase but it has been on those for years. this is something new and a lot closer to home. those are my tax dollars and i don't want them

funding a religious opinion. is it a religious statement or do you think it is a patriotic statement? >> it can be both. one could view it as a religious statement. one could view it as a patriotic statement. i see it as both. the thing is her mention of cost, the total cost of this was $3. >> what? >> $3 for the plate. yesterday we received a letter from a lady in kansas who was very supportive and included a check for $3 to cover that cost. >> look at that, ron, you caused all this trouble with $3. here's a five. i would have gotten change back. do you have any intention of changing this? >> absolutely not. absolutely not. god stays. >> all right. good enough. ron wright joins us from dallas, texas, today to talk about how they have put the national motto on the local tax bills. thank you very much, sir.

>> thank you. >> what do you think about that? e-mail us friends@foxnews.com. coming up, this story is insane. a driver is shot behind the wheel but that didn't stop him from chasing down the guy who shot him. >> 911 emergency. what are you reporting? >> i just got shot? >> are you hit? >> yes, i'm hit. they took out my window and i think my arm is shot. i'm trying to catch up to him now. >> did he? wait until you hear how this all ended. this principal asked her students to please speak in english in texas. and you know what? she was fired. how did that happen? we'll be right back. ♪ ♪

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it is 6:30 in new york city and we've got a fox news alert for you right now. overnight the crisis in iraq exploding. president obama last night in the white house

authorized targeted airstrikes against isis if necessary. elizabeth prann up already in washington, d.c. elizabeth, what is the president saying? >> good morning. like you said, the president pulling the trigger calling for airstrikes if necessary against islamist militants in northern iraq, specifically if advancements are made toward irbil. the u.s. is dropping humanitarian aid to the tens of thousands of religious minorities homeless and stranded on or near mount sinjar. >> when we have the unique capabilities to help avert a massacre -- and i believe the united states of america cannot turn a blind eye. i directed our military to take targeted strikes against isil terrorist convoys should they move toward the city. >> those who are being persecuted are christians and other minority members of a religious sect called gaziti. many convert to islam, pay a tax, flee or die. the humanitarian aid being

dropped overnight includes bundles of fresh drinking water and thousands of meals ready to eat. >> thank you very much. >> tropical storm iselle closing in on hawaii. the outer band knocking down trees and knocking out power to some 5,000. this is the first tropical storm to hit hawaii in 22 years. >> we got this picture from space. there is a cat 3 hurricane behind that. right after one you got another. >> and we've got maria molina to make sense of all of it. >> good morning. you pointed out julio, that category 3 storm. that one has been intensifying over the past 24 hours and it looks very impressive on satellite. you can clearly see the eye right there and a lot of outer rain bands starting to wrap around it. it does have moisture to work it. it looks like dry air on the western side of it is trying to influence it. right now that forecast for that storm is for it to stay north of the hawaiian islands as we head into this weekend.

we hope it continues to move away from the island over the next computer model runs. iselle does look rather disorganized but it doesn't matter what looks likes on the satellite image. it is about the impact. in hilo we are receiving reports of 55 mile per hour wind gusts and we're expecting that to ramp up. maximum sustained winds with iselle at 70 miles per hour. it's very close to hurricane status. that would be 74 miles per hour. that movement, it is slowing down. ten miles per hour. that was a lot quicker yesterday and during the overnight hours. that is why landfall originally anticipated several hours ago has not happened yet. on the radar image you can clearly see that eye starting to inch towards the big island of hawaii. a lot of heavy rain with the storm system. we're looking at up to a foot of rain. along some of the higher elevations that is going to be a big issue in terms of possible mudslides occurring out here. we have mountain peaks as high as 13,000 feet.

steve, you pointed out something important earlier. it looks like there is a cutoff there with the radar image. those are those mountains. they cut off the radar so you can't see that rain falling down out this but that rain is there and is going to be there for the next couple of hours. >> maria molina with the latest on the two big storls out there. -- big storms out there. first tropical storm in recorded history to hit the big island. >> this story coming from the houston chronicle. a principle named amy lacy was fired from hem stead middle school for telling students in her classroom they need to speak english. it is a heavily populated hispanic community. it doesn't seem like anybody is coming to her aid. this is what she says. i informed students it would be best to speak english in the classrooms to the extent possible in order to help them prepare for these tests. this is not my rule or that of the district but per state regulation. even so, i did not suggest that there would be any adverse consequences for any students speaking

spanish at any time. i merely encouraged students to speak english in classrooms by advising them it would be to their advantage to do so especially with regard to state testing. she has been put on administrative leave. according to the houston chronicle, not allowed to speak publicly. >> laura ingraham debated that last night with bill o'reilly. >> there's a red line that the left will establish and reestablish. maybe one day it will be you can't tell people to speak english. the next day it will be you can't refer to the washington redskins as the washington redskins. the next day it will be you can't ever say that bilingual education is a bad thing. we don't know where that red line is but if you cross that moveable red line you will be drummed out of public life. perhaps you will be terminated, you'll be foyersed, you'll be harassed, you'll be called all sorts of names. >> this principal now, her contract was not renewed so she's speaking out because the gag order has been

lifted. it is extraordinary. she says -- she said i didn't tell them they couldn't speak spanish. i simply said it is a state law. you should speak english to prepare for the test. it's absolutely true. she also said that apparently some of the kids during class would talk in spanish and she would say please don't talk and they said it's our right to speak spanish. and to that, she responded, wait a minute, we're teaching class. it's our right as the teachers for you to please shut up unless you're inquired to give an answer. >> think about how your kids learn french, german, in any classroom. the teacher, professor makes sure the students speak that language. >> go to facebook. we're going to put that question up. we want to know how you feel. does the teacher have a right to do that and keep her job? i thought it was impossible to fire a teacher these days especially if you've

been doing it for so long. 24 minutes before the top of the hour. heather nauert has been following a blizzard of news. >> we have a lot of news going on. he could spend the rest of his life behind bars. after eight hours of deliberations, jurors in detroit found theodore wafer guilty of murder. wafer shot a teenager who showed up on his front porch screaming and drunk. he says he was fearful for his life. the teenager's family says thesm vindicated -- they feel vind ceated. >> we have what we need to move on with our lives. >> sentencing is set for august 21. this story we're about to tell you is revolting. police say a group of teenagers attacked a school bus driver in baltimore using a trash can and a fire extinguisher. after the attack the teenagers took his bus on a joy ride. the three eventually ditched the bus. they took off but didn't

get far. police catching up with them and then arresting them. the driver scraped and bruised this morning but otherwise okay. some terrifying moments in florida. that is an alligator lurking in the water. there were people there attacked by this alligator. a nine-year-old boy was bitten three times while swimming in a lake south of orlando. >> he knows we're looking for him so he's taken off and trying to stay in safe water. this guy is a big boy. he's not aprayed of people. i think -- not afraid of people. i think somebody has been feeding him. >> the second attack happened in tampa. a woman was bit while canoeing on a river there. both are in stable condition this morning. neither gator has been caught but they're on the lookout for that guy. this story is insane. a gunman opening fire on another driver on a california freeway. that driver was shot three times but he wasn't about to let the suspect get away. he went after the guy. >> 911 emergency.

what are you reporting? >> i think i got shot. >> are you hit? >> yes i'm hit. they took out my window and i think my arm is shot. i'm trying to catch up to him now. >> that is kenneth baker going as fast as 98 miles per hour. >> i didn't want this man to get away. i knew if he were to leave me or if i were to break off from the pursuit that i would never see him again and he would get away with his crime. >> police eventually arresting the gunman. they have no idea why he fired at baker. the two don't know one another at all. and that is the suspect right there. and those are your headlines. brian, what have you got? >> you know summer is coming to a close when the interns have to say goodbye. it is sad news. chris has to say goodbye today. you chose as your final appearance weather or sports? >> i actually chose the weather but because of the hurricanes today, i get to be with brian for sports.

>> it only took two hurricanes to hit hawaii after 22 years. it was the second one that put her over the top. that hurts me to the core. with that i'm going to move aside, kristen, this is your time. >> a scary moment at the pirates-marlins game last night. marlins pitcher dan jennings hit in the head by a line drive. he struggled to get up, then puts his hands on his knees. medical staff say he suffered from a concussion. jennings was carted off the field but gave a wave to the crowd. he later tweeted the scans were negative. seems i'm going to be okay. the support shown tonight has been unbelievable. speechless. god is amazing. landon donovan considered one of the best american soccer players ever is calling it quits. donovan announces he will retire at the end of the m.l.s. season. the 32-year-old played in three world cups for the united states but was left

off the roster this year. donovan is the top goal scorer in the m.l.s. history. >> that was great. >> thank you. >> is this what you want to do for a living? you want to be on air? >> i would love to do that. it's a dream. >> you're a senior. after this people can bid for your services. >> thanks so much. i loved it. it was fabulous. >> finish out strong. thanks, kristen. >> a fox news alert. another one as we wait on how wall street is going to react to the president authorizing airstrikes if necessary, in economy. he says the economy getting stronger. >> there's almost no economic metric by which you couldn't say that the u.s. economy is better. >> what about the dial metric? are people buying what the president is selling? we break down the details and the dials next.

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15 minutes before the top of the hour. all eyes on wall street to see how the stock market will react to the news. the president authorized airstrikes against isis in his humanitarian effort. this as the president makes a case that the nation's economy is stronger and americans are better off today. here to take a closer look

is is lee carter. you have a unique way of dialing in and looking at the president's words and how it relates to leadership. here's the first one. >> let's look at the track record. let's look at the facts. since i have come into office, there is almost no economic metric by which you couldn't say that the u.s. economy is better and that corporate bottom lines are better. >> the red lines republicans, the blue lines democrats. that is how they respond. >> that was a steady decline. people felt he was completely out of touch. i think any time a leader starts with let's look at the facts, let's look at my track record, you sound defensive and out of touch. people say i'm going to tune you out. >> the numbers reveal he is not saying something incorrect. it is about how you feel? >> it is a visceral gut reaction and people say i

don't buy it because i don't feel the way you're telling me it is. people feel jobs aren't growing and they think he is out of touch and being defensive. >> hillary clinton said people don't feel the economy is recovering so she feels something maybe the president doesn't. you grade that how? >> a d plus. just because the facts are on your side doesn't mean they're accurate to anybody else. >> let's move on to something else. here's another thing with the president talking about being in touch with the american people. let's listen. >> so if in fact our policies have produced a record stock market, record corporate profits, 52 months of consecutive job growth, 10 million new jobs, the deficit being cut by more than half. >> speaking to the economy, these numbers are right but you give him? >> a "c."

>> why? >> he has the facts on his side but he has his facts, woaf our facts and -- we have our facts and you're never going to win when people don't feel the same way. he's got to show the path forward because people aren't feeling it right now. >> the numbers show there's 52 months of jb growth -- job growth. however we have much more to go because not a lot of people are feeling that. that would have given him a higher grade? >> much higher grade. people would have felt where they are and where they are going and that would have shown leadership. >> we'll have you back here to grade what he said last night. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> 12 minutes before the top of the hour. coming up, terrifying moments on a busy highway. flood waters rush in taking cars along the way. watch. >> get out! >> oh my gosh!

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good morning. 52 minutes after the hour. some terrifying moments on a busy highway. check out this incredible video. flash flood waters rush in, taking cars along the way leaving an elderly couple stranded in their prius seconds from disas whenever a few brave -- disaster when a few brave airmen step in n get out! >> get out! get out! >> joining us now are three of those brave heros, sergeant adam dixon, first class christopher jones and airman first class christopher fitzgerald. thank you for joining us this morning. >> good morning. >> adam, i'll start with you. you see this water, initially it's about boot height and then goes to waist height and you see this elderly couple in a car not able to get out. what's going through your mind at this moment? >> well, i first saw them, there was no water. we were just trying to push them out. that's when i started talking to

them. but then when the water came, we tried to get them out of there. >> and airman first class christopher fitzgerald, what do you see happening and what made you decide to spring into action to help? >> i was back in the truck and when i saw what happened, like the water started going over the grand marquee, so me and my supervisor, we both jumped out of the truck and ran down there to help out. didn't know what was gog -- going to happen. never expected the water to get there before we got them out. >> christopher jones, do you feel like your training as an airman, did that help new that scenario and give you the gumption to go at it? >> yes, ma'am. basic training definitely teaches you to perform under pressure. i also learned a lot from training with my supervisor and my ncose, seeing them spring into action kind of helped me

follow that example and do it when it applied to me. >> adam, how difficult was this and were you scared? i see another car coming down, too. were you worried that was going to pin you? >> no. for some reason i was kind of calm. i knew what i had to do. i knew i had to get these people out and that was the only thing i was really worried about. >> christopher jones, do you feel like a hero this morning? a lot of people are calling all three of you by that term. >> hero, no. i'd like to think that -- anyone would have done the same thing in that situation. it just came down to being at the right place at the wrong time, being able to help out when you're needed. >> it's a great thing the three of you guys did. thank you so much for your time and i know that that elderly couple is so happy you happened to be in the right place at the right time and decided to spring in action. we appreciate you being here this morning. >> thank you. 55 minutes after the hour on

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hello. good morning. today is friday, the 8th of august, 2014. i'm anna kooiman in for elisabeth hasselbeck. we begin with a fox news alert. president obama taking america's military back to iraq. >> earlier this week, one iraqi cried there is no one coming to help. today america is coming to help. >> what happened to a stable self-reliant iraq? all the details coming up. hawaii bracing for impact. residents and tourists holed up in shelters as two storms bear down on the islands. we're tracking it all. another arrest in the murder of border agent brian terry, but is it too little too late and will more innocent americans lose their lives? >> why do we have immigration laws if we're not going to

enforce them? why do we have a border patrol? why do people like brian terry die? >> great questions. brian terry's uncle is here this hour and says enough is enough. it is 7:00 o'clock in new york city and you're watching "fox & friends" right here on the fox news channel. >> hey, america. this is famous dave and you're watching "fox & friends". we've got a fox news alert. overnight the crisis in iraq exploding. president obama has authorized targeted air strikes against isis. doug luzader in washington with the latest. >> reporter: up with has to do with humanitarian mission, but the tricky part here, this possibility of air strikes and based on what the president said last night, he is looking at the city of rabil as his trigger point. strategically important because when you look at the red area all crawled by isis, it's the

last big holdup, plus also there is a u.s. presence. there is no question the u.s. was under enormous pressure to do something. >> earlier this week one iraqi cried, there is no one coming to help. well, today america is coming to help. we're also consulting with other countries and the united nations who have called for action to address this humanitarian crisis. >> while a lot of focus from the president is on irbil, we want to focus to mosul to the west of there. there is a dam just north of mosul. it is strategically important and it's a very complicated facility to operate. there are reports that isis militants have now gotten control of that. why is that such a big deal? look at where this dam is located. again, north of the city of mosul, upstream from baghdad, for instance, along the tigris

river. if they control the dam, they control water supply to a good portion of the country of iraq. this is one of the reasons why some administration critics say there needs to be a more robust response to this threat that isis poses. >> i think we need to give 24/7 air power around the kurds and we need to very aggressively go after isis. by defeating them significantly in that region, they will pull back. i believe we can do it with bombers and with their precision weapons and we ought to have very liberal rules of engagement and not restrictive rules of engagement they've come up with in iraq and afghanistan. >> reporter: the president last night making it clear he is taking a very cautious approach to this, kind of one step at a time. also making it clear this will not involve u.s. combat forces on the ground in iraq.

>> so doug does an effective job of spelling out how bad this crisis is. we also got an e-mail from general garner in the area. he says they're running out of ammunition, are the kurds. isis forces are using america's stuff that we gave to the iraqi army, cutting edge equipment that they just left there and ran for their lives to overpower the special forces in the area and were thought to be the protective force for everyone. right now they have to cover 600-mile area. meanwhile, christians as well as small sect is being crushed and they're taking the lives of the dead fighters and they're making them marry the isis fighters who happen to be available. that's how insidious and ugly this group is that is spreading through the area ten to 12,000 that we should look at for what they are, an enemy of the u.s. and the west, along with the iraqi people. >> this is something that's been going on for months now.

we've known about this for seven or eight months, isis picking up speed in iraq. but why are we just now acting now? the president taking to the state dining room last night speaking for about 20 minutes, speaking reluctantly. there were hundreds of protesters. ed henry said outside the white house yesterday, a woman advocating for these 40, 50,000 religious minorities on the mountain who are faced with either dying on top of the mountain of hunger and insist this and heat exhaustion or having their heads cut off if they go to where the terrorists are. the president heard their cry and he spoke. but what have we been hearing for the last couple of years from the president? he campaigned on getting out of the middle east and here is a listen to it. >> we've removed 100,000 troops from iraq. we've ended combat missions. we are on track to remove the rest of the troops. bring them home by the end of this year. in iraq we've succeeded in our strategy to end the war. we've leaving behind a

sovereign, stable and heavy-reliant iraq. ending the war was a where is stake, i disagree. bringing our troops home was the right thing to do. the war in iraq is over. we welcome our troops home. we have welcomed our troops from iraq. we are windowing down our -- winding down our war in afghanistan. >> this morning after the president ordered targeted strikes on isis, the problem is not that we got out. the problem is how we got out. clearly it was a strategic disaster to pull everybody out. there should have been some sort of residual force left there so that what is happening right now didn't happen. of course, it's happening right now and now we've got to figure out what to do about it and the expert on this topic joined us one hour ago and said if isis continues their march, which it looks like they will unless we stop them, you know what? once they're done with iraq, they're going to move throughout the middle east and we are next.

>> european union officials told me that they are concerned that isis already has somewhere between 1800 to 3,000 jihaddists, half of whom are going to go back to the west. we're talking about hundreds. remember, two guys what they've done in boston. one guy what he's done in fort hood. we have hundreds of jihaddists if isis is successful in iraq, they're going to come back to the west. it's not good news. >> that is somebody who really understands that region and called the arab spring before it was the arab spring and knew it would be a disaster. also last night the "new york times" reporting that in the green zone they had emergency meetings about replacing prime minister al-maliki and we know how terrible he has been for a leader so far. >> we also know there has been at least one air drop over the mountains. that's what it was all about 'cause you got 40,000 people stuck in the mountains. there has been an air drop. they got some water there, but it's only to a fraction of the people there. also there have been some air strikes, but we understand they have been from the iraqi air

force. >> some say the turks are taking action. >> that was some speculation, but iraqis said that was us. it could be both. somebody who has been calling for action for eight months is illinois congressman and iraq war veteran, adam kinzinger. he joins us right now live from chicago. congressman, good morning to you. >> thanks for having me. how are you? >> what did you think of the president's remarks last night? >> well, look, i want to have cautious optimism here. this may be the beginning of a broader campaign. he's always reluctant. you can never imagine the president coming on national television and saying he's going to crush isis because he doesn't frankly have the courage to do that. but this may be the beginning of a small move. i commend this. but look, this is going to be more than just creating humanitarian corridors or saving the 40,000 on the mountain right now. this is going to continue to happen until isis is crushed and

this is only going to grow. they're not going to stop. their blood loss is not going to be satisfied. the only thing that can happen is that the west, the united states has to provide air power to iraqi troops. one thing to keep in mind, when american forces get engaged on the battlefield, the first thing they coo is call for air power to come in and crush the enemy. the iraqis are going to need the same thing if they're going to take their territory back. >> it sounds like at this point the air power is -- i heard from somebody in washington last night, the air power is there. essentially to clear the way so that these humanitarian air drops, they don't get shot out of the sky when coming in. beyond that, that could explain why it's targeted. it's not going to be very broad. is that really enough to crush isis, because if you can't do it, then what? >> yeah, no, this is not going to be enough to crush isis. again, i think -- the president is a very cautious person to a fault. i think he's just kind of toe in

the water a little bit. this will continue to spiral out of control and the longer he takes to make the decision, it's a -- isis is a very bad group, and also in syria. this is going to continue to get worse. there are hundreds of western passports fighting for isis that are clean that could come back into europe or the united states. it is their stated goal to attack us here at home. this is in our core interest not only to prevent genocide, not only to save people, but to perfect our home land here. this is dead serious. i called for these strikes eight months ago and only continues to get worse. >> let's talk about that because the urgency is coming from the 40, 50,000 people on the mountain top that we want to try to help aid so that they don't die, right? but the real issue is americans are worried about putting troops back on the ground, boots on the ground in iraq. the president saying he doesn't want to do that, but at the same time, yes, everybody is sick of innocent -- our heros dying, but we need to protect our homeland.

what's the long-term strategy here? crushing isis, how are we going to do that? >> look, i don't know what the president's long-term strategy is. i would never take the idea of boots off the ground off the table. you can do it personally, but to say it, you're only telegraphing to the enemy what we won't do, which gives them an opportunity to do what they will do. america has this idea we're war weary. i understand it. but the reality is we can't pick the world that we live in and we live in a world with very evil people that want to kill us, want to kill our families and want to right now create a genocide on 40,000 ethnic minorities. i wish we had a different world. we don't. >> one thing we have to do is get the kurds modern weaponry. they know how to fight and organize. they are unbelievable at it. but they're using antiquated equipment. they are our true allies in the area. they would help secure that 600-mile border. what do you think to people who say we're war weary? guys like you are the ones who

fight the war. shouldn't you guys have a say? >> i fully agree with you. i hear this idea of war weariness and it shocks me that the president of the united states is on television telling the american people how war weary they are when the military, the ones that should be war weary are the ones saying we have to defeat this, we have to protect the home lapped. you're absolutely right. the military members i know, i still serve, do not like to see this happen. and frankly, understand that this is a major threat to their homeland and their families and we're ready to crush them. >> they assemble in open right now. isis is sitting this wide open. we have drones in the area. this is the time to hit them, before they start hiding. >> and they're murdering people, innocent people, they're murdering in droves. it's just a sad thing to see. it's time for the president to stand up and say america, i know you're tired, but it is in our national interest because in ten years, history is going to judge us very, very harshly. >> what he did last night was a

step in the right direction. the big question is what comes after that? congressman from illinois, thank you very much for joining us on this important friday. >> thanks for having me. and a fox extreme weather alert. we're going to tell you about now. tropical storm iselle close not guilty on hawaii. the outer bands knocking down trees and cutting power to thousands of people. this is the first tropical storm, believe it or not, to hit hawaii in 22 years. maria molina is tracking it for us. >> good morning. you mentioned the downed trees and power outages. now they're also getting reports of damage to roofs across parts of the big island in hawaii. so we are seeing those tropical storm conditions increasing and even though iselle is a tropical storm, we do have hurricane warnings in effect out here across the big island. that's because we could see hurricane force winds and a lot of heavy rain as well out here. flash flooding also a concern. there was a warning that was just issued out there across northeastern parts of the big island. flash flooding already starting to occur. we could see up to a foot of

rain in some of the higher elevations, especially up on top of some of those mountain peaks. they're as high as 13,000 feet. there is a look at those warnings you can see across the big island. tropical storm warnings across the rest of the portions of hawaii. i want to show you an update that we did receive. that's iselle has weakened a little bit more. right now maximum sustained winds at 60 miles per hour. you have to wonder what impact those mountains are going to have on this storm. we do think that should help to weaken it. it has also continued to slow down, moving to the west now at 7 miles per hour. here is a better look at the center of circulation, continuing to get closer and closer to the big island. i do think that we could be looking at landfall coming up before the end of the show this morning. you can see it right there getting closer and closer. a lot of heavy rain around that eye as well. >> all right. thank you very much. it is now about quarter after the top of the hour. we turn to heather nauert who joins us. >> good morning. we've got a lot of things going on this morning. i want to start in the middle

east. after three days, the war is back o. this after hamas launching octobers at israel this morning. israel responded by resuming air strikes across gaza and mobilizing at the border. israel launched ten strikes and seven people have been hurt. this all unfolding after those peace talks that were brokered by egypt hit a deadlock. back here at home, while you were sleeping, tennessee senator lamar alexander cruised to another primary win. he defeated joe carr with 50% of the vote. alexander says the problems facing our country could be absolutely overcome. >> you read much history, you know there is much more that we have many more difficult problems back in the earlier days of our country. we're just as strong as we ever were as a country. we just need a different kind of leadership. >> the matchup for the governor of tennessee come november, voters will choose between

republican governor bill haslam and charlie brown, the same name as the cartoon character. a tragic end to tell you about in the search for a missing six-year-old girl in washington state. police found the body of the girl in the woods not far from her home there. >> i cried, sad. she's just a little girl. say a little prayer for her. all we can do. >> investigators hope that an autopsy will provide some answers. our prayers to that little girl. just days ago she vowed to never try sneaking on a plane again. >> obviously they'll be on the watch for me, so i wouldn't dare attempt this again. >> they were on the watch for her. that is a serial stow away. she has been arrested again at the airport in los angeles. police say she was on a scouting mission. earlier this week she slipped past three tsa agents in san

jose, california and flew to l.a. without a ticket. why can't we do that and save some bucks? those are your headlines. >> because it's illegal. let's start with that. thank you very much. we told you a little while ago about this former principal in texas, amy lacey. she made national headlines last year when she reportedly told her students at this texas middle school you got to speak english. well, she was placed on administrative leave. there was a gag order. eventually the school board decided, you know what, let's not renew her contract. she was fired. she is now speaking out and telling exactly why she told kids you really should speak english in class. >> she says i informed students it would be best to speak english in the classrooms to the extent possible in order to help prepare them for these tests. this is not my rule or that of the district. but her state regulation. so what she was saying was that the teachers were telling her, these hispanic students were speaking spanish not just to

each other about what was going on in their day, they were doing it while the teachers were giving instructions and it was her belief and the teacher's belief that they were thinking they could get away with this by claiming racism. so she put this out there and a lot of folks on facebook talk being it. >> here is an example of this. say we speak other languages. it's not her place to say that. she should lose her job. >> as she said, it is, however, a state regulation down in texas because it is the official language of texas. phyllis said on facebook, of course she should keep it. her job. if we go to another country, they don't change their language to adapt to us. we are the united states. we speak english. learn it. >> when we go to other country, we speak english anyway. >> you can use your google translator. it works very well. >> uh-huh. >> coming up straight ahead, another arrest in the murder of border agent brian terry. but will more innocent americans lose their lives? >> why do we have immigration laws if we're not going to enforce them? why do we have a border patrol?

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we have seen devastation that tornadoes can bring to a town and now a new movie that opens today brings the terror of actually being inside one of those twisters to the big screen. >> get down! cover your head! stay down! >> that is just one of the scenes from "into the storm." here to tell us whether or not it's worth you going to is fox news contributor and founder of nerdtears.com, kevin mccarthy. this is an update on the movie from, what, 15, 20 years ago? >> that's correct. by the way, i have to bring up the cow in that movie. they have homage to that sequence. if you watch this movie closely, there is a cow flying around.

>> kevin, in "twister" that, cow flying was really fake. >> right, right. but now adays, the effect -- it's 18 years later. the effects look so much better. this is a film that you just need to turn your brain off and go in and enjoy the special effects. the acting and the script and the dialogue are absolutely horrendous. but it's a pure -- it's a popcorn movie. you go in and enjoy it. the movie basic israeli about a huge storm system hitting a small town in oklahoma and it's documented by people trying to survive the event. here is the cool thing. they used a lot of practical effects, so all the actors, they were getting wet. they had 140 miles per hour wind machine. they were being flown out on wires. it looked really, really cool. it adds to the realism. it's a movie you just go to for 85 minutes, sit down -- >> how many stars? >> three out of five. it's fun. it's a fun movie. nowhere near as good as

"twister." >> what was their extra budget? >> yeah. that's a good question. i don't know the budget. >> i was watching some highlights from the teenage mutant ninja turtles. pretty funny, right? >> here is the deal, i grew up on this particular film. all these characters, it was an animated show in the '80s. there was a movie in the '90s i watched 100 times. i had the bed sheets and t-shirts. going back and watching this, it was aeneas stale i can't thing for me. this time around, they're rebooting the series. the reporter takes down the evil villain. if you're a fan of those movies, i definitely recommend it. it's a nostalgia thing. a lot of parents ask, is this appropriate for my children 'cause it's pg-13? it is a little violent at times. but not too much bad in the movie. i would recommend for ten and up. i do not recommend the 3d. do not waste your money on the 3d ticket. i gave it three out of five.

>> does it stay true to the '80s cartoon? we all remember the song. do they all have the same characteristics as they did back then? >> of course. they're doing the whole cowabunga thing. they digitally create them from wearing suits. if you're a fan, i recommend it. three out of five. >> sir, thank you very much. 26 minutes after the top of the hour. coming up, wonder where all your mail is? you better check a dumpster. a postal worker caught on camera chucking letters into the trash. is one of those yours? we don't know. and another arrest in the murder of border agent brian terry. but is it too little too late? will more innocent americans lose their lives? >> why do we have immigration laws if we're not going to enforce them? why do we have a boarder patrol? why do people like brian terryft

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a fox news alert at this hour. the u.s. poised and ready to strike in iraq. the missions have begun. president obama authorizing targeted air strikes against isis if necessary? >> when we have the unique capabilities to help avert a massacre, and i believe the united states of america cannot turn a blind eye. i directed our military to take targeted strikes against isis terrorist convoys should they move toward the city. >> specifically if advancement is made towards irbil, a northern city in iraq, home to american servicemen and women, then we're going to get even more aggressively involved. >> while you were sleeping, u.s. cargo planes escorted by fighter jets dropping aid to a group of 40,000 religious minorities trapped on a mountain top. >> apparently only a fraction of them wound up with the water. also for the past eight weeks, religious minorities have been haunted by isis, or isol, faced

with a choice. convert to islam, flee, or simply die. the humanitarian aid being dropped overnight included bundles of fresh drinking water for thousands and meals ready to eat. the big question is when will the next batch come and the batch after that and what are we going to do about isis? >> ultimately if we are able to feed them on the mountain, how do we get them off the mountain if we're not going to do anything except for give them food to live? >> this could be their last meal if we tonight do something to get them off. >> here is the problem, we only have one aircraft carrier in the area right now and the good news is, over the last few weeks, we've been putting a lot of drones in the air. so we have been moving them in the right direction. >> we'll stay on top of this all morning. also this trop iselle, just 30 minutes from making landfall in hawaii. right now the outer bands are knocking down trees and cutting power overnight to thousands of people. >> surf is up out there obviously. take a look at this picture from outer space.

the satellite shows you got a cat 3 hurricane right behind the storm that's about to make landfall. maria molina tracking both of them. it's going to be a crazy weekend in hawaii. >> yeah, that's right. you have these two storms that we're tracking across the pacific. i have to say, taking a look at the radar here, we've been talking about how imminent that landfall is with iselle across the big island. you can already see that center of circulation starting to creep on shore. within the next 30 minutes, it should be official. we're going to be hearing word from the national hurricane center and surrounding that center of circulation, you do also have areas of very heavy rain. that red yellow shading is where we could be looking at very significant rainfall and as much as a foot of rain is possible, especially along some of the higher elevations of the big island of hawaii. it has weakened some. now maximum sustained winds at 60 miles per hour. we still do have those hurricane warnings in effect because you could see hurricane force wind gusts. a hurricane is just 74 miles per hour. so you're very close here. you're looking at a strong tropical storm making landfall.

it's moving rather slowly as well, at 7 miles per hour. it moving slowly means that you're going to be seeing those impacts for a longer amount of time across the big island. here is a look at the forecast over the next few days. continues to move westward and continues to weaken and then of course, julio right behind it. category 3 hurricane. forecast now to stay north of the hawaii islands as we head into the weekend. we'll keep tracking it. let's head over to you. >> thanks. heather nauert is following the rest of the news. believe me, there is a lot of news this morning. >> good morning. it is a busy news day. he could spend the rest of his life behind bars after eight hours of deliberation, jurors in detroit found theodore wafer guilty of murder. he shot a teen-ager who showed up on his front steps screaming and drunk. he said he was terrified for his life. so the woman's family says they feel vindicated by the jury. >> we have now what we need to move on with our lives. >> justice was served today.

>> it was. >> the sentencing is august 21. here we go once again. a top obamacare official who oversaw the botched rollout admitted to losing important e-mails that congress needs to investigate. she told congress that she may have accidentally deleted e-mails instead of saving them and since it wasn't immediately reported to the national archives, the health department may have broken the law. this comes on the heels of the irs admitting to losing thousands of e-mails that belong to lois lerner. this video is pretty crazy. it's an out of control car and it goes over a wall and then into the air, crashing into two police helicopters. take a look. okay. you see part of it right there. this unfolding in arkansas. people ran to save the 71-year-old who was trapped inside the car. no word on why he lost control. then caught on camera, u.s. mail carrier going postal.

look at this right here. yeah. tossing in paychecks and other hail into a dumpster. residents in cincinnati say we knew something was up. we haven't been getting our mail lately. they decided to ask questions. this guy recorded the postal worker and ended up catching her in the act. the post office says they're investigating and that worker has been put on leave. she now could face federal charges. >> lois lerner said she should have thought of that. >> that's probably where my publisher's clearinghouse check is. >> it's not just those checks and paychecks coming in, it's bills. so is that a viable excuse? like the dog ate my homework? >> i hope so. >> thank you very much. meanwhile, the fast and furious fallout continues years after the murder of that man right there, brian terry. another person indicted in the murder of the border patrol agent back in 2010.

the seventh person indicted in the murder and by the way, he is in this country illegally. >> this all coming on the heels of the death of another border agent killed this week at the hands of two illegals. shouldn't this serve as a warning? our border isn't secure enough and the consequences can be deadly. >> everything that we told you is not new to our guest. his name is ralph terry, brian terry's uncle and founder of the brian terry foundation. ralph, what's your reaction to this latest catastrophe? >> we were shocked to learn that border patrol agent vega was murdered by illegal aliens and these two men here illegally in the country have been deported between the two of them, six times in the last four or five years. each time serving 30, 60 or 90 days in jail and a $10 fine.

this time they did the ultimate. they committed murder. they told police that they're guilty. the real tragedy is that border patrol agent was murdered in front of his wife and children and his father and his father was also injured in the incident. brian terry foundation will be helping to support the vega family, the widow and children. that's one of the things that we do at the brian terry foundation. we support agents that are killed. >> sure. and we just showed brian terry, your relative. of course, the other news is that a seventh illegal has been charged in connection with the murder of brian terry as well. but what's curious -- you've done such a good job describing what's going on down there. over the last couple of months, sir, we've heard so much regarding this invasion on our

southern border with these kids and their families and stuff like that. we've heard from a number of people on capitol hill, the border is secure. really? >> i think recent events -- >> it's not secure. >> they are not secure. >> ralph, i want to get your thoughts on this, we just recent ly had sean moran, the vice president of the national border patrol council on the channel saying what's the point of even having these border laws? listen. >> we catch people and due to prosecutial discretion or custody redeterminations by ice, we let these people go. why do we have immigration laws if we're not going to enforce them? why do we have a border patrol? why do people like brian terry die? robert rosas, louis aguilar and now javier vegas if we are not going to be serious? what do we have to do in this country to actually take this

threat seriously and be able to do our job? >> so the two suspects who actually have admitted to killing javier vega, one arrested four times for entering illegally and another twice for the same thing. what do you think about this touch and release -- catch and release policy? >> i'm sorry. could you repeat that? >> what do you think about this catch and release policy? they've been arrested. they go out of the country and just come right back in. >> i think it's ridiculous. i don't know what the policy should be, but i think the policy that are in effect today are failing the public miserably. people are dying because of it. >> we want to help with you the brian terry foundation. how do we do it? >> honorbrianterry.com. there is a number of tabs there that will let you know wt we're doing, what we've been doing, how you can help us

monetarily so we can help the border patrol agents and their families. we just now recently awarded the 2014-15 scholarships for the brian terry foundation. we ordered five scholarships to young college kids going into criminal justice and law enforcement. these students go anywhere from -- i think we've got one in alaska, two out of california and two here in texas. we're real proud of that. >> great way to salute brian terry. ralph, thank you for joining us today from dallas. >> thank you for having me. 41 minutes after the hour. still ahead, should parents teach their kids about gun safety or leave them in the dark? you will meet some families on the other side of this break about this heated debate. yep. al sharpton's good buddy in hot water this morning. serious charges that could land him in jail for 20 years. ♪

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after 72 hours of peace, the war in gaza back on. this after hamas launched rockets at israel early this morning. so for the very latest, let's go

to conner powell who is there at the israeli-gaza border. conner, are you surprised by this? >> reporter: not particularliful there was hope this 72-hour cease fire would hold. there were negotiations going on. despite the sort of brief calm here of the fighting here has resumed and the negotiations between israeli officials and palestinian officials have actually broken off just before 8:00 a.m., which was the deadline for the cease fire to be extended. israeli officials left cairo and hamas began firing back into israel. we've seen at least 30 rockets be fired from gaza into israel today. four israelis have been injured in one of those strikes. israel has responded by firing into gaza. just in the last few minutes, we've seen several strikes into gaza. big ones. at least one palestinian has been killed that we know of. but the fighting here resuming and both sides seem to be digging into their position. hamas saying until the blockade

around gaza is lifted by israel and egypt, they will continue firing rockets into israel. israel saying that as long as rockets are being fired, they're going to continue to respond in firing air strikes into gaza. both sides really not backing down, brian. fighting here continuing, at least 1900 palestinians have been killed and 67 israelis during this fighting. five weeks now. one of the longest conflicts in this region. >> conner powell giving us the absolute latest. thanks. it turns out the u.s. learned about this truce breaking up on twitter. coming up, should parents teach their kids about gun safety or leave them in the dark? meet the families on both sides of this heated debate next for over a decade,

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heartache this morning. a small oklahoma town after an accident so tragic, even the local police chief had a hard time holding back his tears. >> the young lady was searching or looking around, found the weapon, was pulling it out of the drawer and the gun discharged as she was pulling it out of the drawer. >> a nine-year-old girl dead after finding her father's gun.

nearly 2 million children under the age of 18 are living at homes with loaded and unlocked firearms. so when it comes to educating our children about our guns, where do you fall? is it a hands off policy? is that the way to go, or should we be arming our kids early on? you're about to meet two families, one on either side. dan roberts with his daughter and colette martin with her son. good morning. thanks for being with us. >> good morning. >> even the five and nine-year-old up early with us. thanks for being with us. which side of this debate are you on? >> clearly cheyenne has been around firearms since five or six years old. as an instructor, i knew it was important to remove that curiousity factor. they're secured when she's not using them. by law i have to keep them secure from her access unless she's using them. don't necessarily agree with it, but i have to do it. however, i don't think that it would be a risk for her to have a loaded rifle or access to it

if she needed it. i grew up that way. my father gave me a rifle when i was seven years old. he made it very clear what would happen if i didn't use it properly. i never had a problem. >> okay. colette, how about you? >> i would say i'm, as gun owning family as well, i'm not antigun. so i want to be real clear on that. i am very pro-gun safety. i am very pro-responsibility. and as gun owners here in new york, ours are locked up at all times. ammunition is separate. this is over and above state requirements and most responsible gun owners i know have a similar storage plan. because even though i know the likelihood is that nothing would happen, i can't take that risk with a five-year-old who is my joy and my responsibility. so we go over and above the storage requirements of our state. >> dan, i wanted to get your response to the news that we just had about the

nine-year-old. imagine that hits home with you if you have a nine-year-old. >> sure. >> does that make you doubt at all your decision to not just teach your daughter about them, but to arm her? >> she's only armed under direct supervision. it's not like i'm running out to run errands and say okay, you're in charge. but no, i don't think that the decision for our family brings any questions about that. it's certainly a tragic situation. but the flip side is you had an incident last year in oklahoma where a 14-year-old girl was home alone and someone broke in and found her hiding in the closet. she fired her mother's gun through the door and by all accounts, including from law enforcement, probably saved her life. >> right. we talked about that story earlier this week during the series, young and armed. your reaction to this news this morning? >> i've been following these accidents because as i said, i'm very pro-gun safety and i do try to work with guns working toward that. so once that happens -- the story came out that this is a

girl who grew up in a home with guns. obviously i would think any of us, the responsibility is incumbent on us, both to teach our kids about gun safety and store them appropriately, which was not done in this case. so the tragedy of it is that most of tes, and we've had ten children accidentally shot this week alone in this country. that to me is a tragic number. it doesn't have to happen. almost 100% of them are preventible. >> what do you do when other kids come over to the house to play with your daughter? curiousity can get the best of kids. >> yeah. again, they're always secured unless we're actively at a match for her or taking her to practice or something like that. so any of her friends that come over, they have no way to get to them anyway. it really hasn't been an issue that's come up for us. >> we need to wrap things up. we want to hit home with everybody is that parents ought to talk to their kids about this and also talk to their friend's parents about it. say, do you have allergies? do you have a pool? do you have a pet? do you have a gun?

and that way it's all out on the table. >> thank you. >> thank you. 55 minutes after the hour. fox news alert, the president says he's ready to strike terrorists in iraq if necessary. but is this tough talk strong enough? geraldo and his brother almost lost their live when is they were ambushed there in 2004. he's live top of the hour with his take. man: thanks, captain obvious. captain obvious: i'd get a deal for tonight with deals for tonight from hotels.com. and you might want to get that pipe fixed. even 10 miles away. they can see the light of a single candle. look after them with centrum silver. multivitamins for your eyes, heart and brain. now, with a new easy to swallow coating.

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good morning. today is friday, the 8th of august, 2014. i'm anna kooiman in for elisabeth hasselbeck. a fox news alert. the president finally announcing action 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? geraldo is here live with his take. also landfall is being made right this hour, the state of hawaii, the big island, being pounded by the first tropical storm there in more than 20 years. that's right. we're tracking the storm's path and the cat 3 hurricane right behind it. and the principal asked her students to speak english in texas. and this is what she got for it.

>> if you cross that moveable red line, you will be drummed out of public life perhaps. you will be terminated, you'll be fired. you'll be harassed. you'll be called all sorts of names. >> wow. fired. this is the united states of america. i think we speak english here. according to all reports, the gin box are here and mornings are better with friends. we start with a fox news alert. the crisis in iraq exploding. president obama has authorized the targeted air strikes against isis if necessary. wendell goler is live at the white house with what the president is saying. in particular what the president said last night at 9:30 to all of us. >> reporter: no indication of any air strikes yet. but the president spoke after american military planes had already dropped food and water to tens of thousands of people trapped on a mountain top in northern iraq. he said the u.s. will protect

the embassy in baghdad and several hundred special forces he sent to northern iraq last month. he was, however, clearly reluctant to take the action and he assured the american people he was not resuming u.s. involvement in the war in iraq. >> american combat troops will not be returning to fight in iraq because there is no american military solution to the larger crisis in iraq. the only lasting solution is reconciliation among iraqi communities and stronger iraqi security forces. however, we can and should support moderate forces who can bring stability to iraq. >> reporter: the president said the isis terrorists have been especially brutal, rounding up families, conducting mass executions and enslaving women. his aides say the u.s. military involvement is only possible because iraq's leader have made progress toward a more inclusive government, collect ago kurdish president and a sunni to a

senior position in parliament. still some critics think the threatened air strikes are not enough. >> i think we need to give 24/7 air power around the kurds and we need to very aggressively go after isis and by defeating them significantly in that region, they will pull back. i believe we can do it with bombers and with their precision weapons and we ought to have very liberal rules of engagement and not this restrictive rules of engagement that they've come up with in iraq and afghanistan. >> reporter: senators lindsey graham and john mccain say mr. obama should order air strikes on isil forces in iraq and syria and provide military aid to sunni iraqis and nonshould be inclusive on a different government in baghdad. >> wendell goler live at the white house. four minutes after the top of the hour. the part of iraq we're talking about, nobody knows better than geraldo rivera.

>> we have just been attacked. we've just been sniped! we've been hit! we've been hit! wait a second! wait for the bus! where is the bus? okay, go! go! >> that apparently was in 2004. geraldo joins us live. that was pre-isis. >> pre-isis, but it was the same people. sunni extremists. we were going to mosul. the striker brigade had replaced the 101st airborne. it was a time of great flux and turmoil. as we were approaching the base, we got bush whacked. our car got hit 14 times. a driver in the second vehicle got hit in the arm. it was pretty hairy stuff. but that region so close to syria, so important to the oil industry, a big, big thriving city. when isis crossed the syrian border, and i sat right in this same seat, i urged president obama then to hit those columns

flying their arrogant black flags. >> wide in the open. >> in the open, unlike gaza where you have civilians and military bunched together. there were the columns in the desert. that's the high desert. you can see them for 30 miles away. why he didn't do it i think is really shameful. now thankfully to save this christian community and these other minorities, he is contemplating it. we have not yet heard that he has done it. but i just don't understand why -- i understand the revulsion americans have about getting involved in another war. but this is an existial thing for the united states. >> did he not define the enemy. he said there they are. that's not our problem. when they get reconciliation in baghdad, then we're going to see some reform. >> i don't give a damn about reconciliation. this is an extremist terrorist enemy that has global ambitions. this is an enemy where rarely do they put themselves in a

concentration where they can be vulnerable. they have done that for two months. we have held back. we took our finger off the tricker. as a result, they've taken over a third of iraq now. >> they took over our humvees. >> let's hit the abrams tanks they're using so arrogantly. hit them now. hit them hard. even if maliki and iraq go to hell in a hand basket, this is an enemy. there is nothing bad that happens when you kill sunni extremists who are vowed to kill you. >> should we be rallying the british and french to join us? >> i don't give a damn about them either. >> we do need some help. why should we shoulder it all ourselves? >> i appreciate that, brian, but i think if we wait for them, if we vacillate and wait for them -- this is not like libya where the french dragged us kicking and screaming. this is a situation where it's us against them in terms of the sunni extremists. we've got to hit them when what we have now.

>> the president pulled on american heart strings, the 40, 50,000 people, these religious minorities on top of the mountain. they were either come down and be beheaded by terrorists or die of thirst and hunger up on the mountain. that gives us the urgency. but it's the bigger picture and if americans are reluctant about putting boots on the ground in iraq what, does he need to say to americans with how the world is interconnected and this could be a disaster? >> i think the president should have taken the cue from the pope. pope francis called this a humanitarian crisis weeks ago. this is not the first time christians have been assailed in northern iraq. it's just the most egregious and the most urgent because this big community has been displaced. but they were being taken over, these christian villages weeks ago. the pope said this is horrible. >> he had an urgent appeal to the international community to end the tragedy now underway, to act to protect those affected or threatened by violence and to

provide aid, especially for the most urgent needs for the many. so the pope is asking the world to react. we're the only ones reacting. but we're doing it in such a limited way. >> we have a great weapon that they don't have. we have the drones and we have the hell fire missiles. these are effective weapons against infantry in the open. we must have -- we should have unleashed them many weeks ago. we should use them yesterday, today, tomorrow. we have to stop -- imagine, we went to war in afghanistan after 9-11 to root out the al-qaeda cells that were hiding in the desert of afghanistan all the way in south asia, thousands of miles from anything of u.s. interest. we went after. here we have iraq 300 miles from israel. 300 miles from the suez canal on top of the world's greatest oil reserves, a place where europeans and north americans with -- maybe with bad

intentions come and go, with clean passports. they come through, they get laundered. then they come here. i think this is really -- >> what about the kurds sitting with antiquated weapons right now and they're being attacked by u.s. weapons with isis behind them? >> last week you had the very good fighting force, i've been with them. you could go to kurdistan now, there is mcdonald's. there is peace in the streets. there is integration. why didn't we help them last week and the week before? i just don't understand. it is as if the revulsion over war and the reluctance of the american people to get involved in another war is holding the president back. last night was interesting in the sense that he urged the saving of the 40,000. but this could be -- it's too late. it may be too little, but we have to urge them to do something now. >> it's not that we got out. it's how we got out. obviously it was a disaster. >> i was on the last convoy out. >> you were.

we're going to switch gears. there has been troubling news. an off-duty border patrol guy was murdered by a couple of illegals. now there is also news that another illegal has been arrested and indicted. actually was -- >> in the brian terry case. >> exactly. he was in custody, but he now has been -- a grand jury handed up an indictment against another illegal. all these illegals involved with the murder of our border patrol guys. sean moran is vice president of the national border patrol council. he says look, that southern border supposed to be secure, it is not. >> we catch people and due to prosecutial or determination by ice, we let these people go. why do we have immigration laws if we're not going to enforce them? why do we have a border patrol? why do people like brian terry die? robert rosas, louis aguilar, now javier vega, if we are not going to be serious? what do we have to do in this

country to actually take this threat seriously and be able to do our job? >> they want to do their job, but the word from washington is let them in. >> i don't think that's the word from washington. >> well, that's what's happening >> i understand how unpopular my views are on this topic. let me preface -- i get it. i understand that most people don't agree with me. unlawful immigration, undocumented immigrants, the trend was way down until this children's crusade in recent months, which is driven largely by a misunderstanding and sometimes an intentional propagandizing of the president's leniency and compassion toward the dream act students here. he said okay. if the kids were brought here through no fault of their own, they can stay. that message was then taken, perverted by the coyotes and the smuggling network in central america to mean kids, if you can get there on your own, you can

stay there and it led to the unintended consequence. the president should have responded to this a year ago and should have made clear to these students and these youngsters that this was not the reality that they would be deported even after they made the 1400-mile trek from guatemala. so the president should have done something a year ago. it is his fault largely now because of the misconception that he allowed to metastasize. >> whatever, it's happening. >> but i have to say this, people have to look at the big picture. from 1990 to 2010, that 20-year span, violent crime in the united states dropped dramatically. every survey from 1990 to 2010 showed that undocumented immigrants commit far fewer crimes than citizens of the united states. they are not driving a crime epidemic here. a case like brian terry's tragic murder give that impression and

it's false. >> there is also the impression that why is it that these guys involved in these heinous crimes against our people, they were deported. they should have been -- >> they keep coming back again and again. >> remember, fast and furious and brian terry and what happened there and why it was so outrageous. brian terry was probably killed with weapons our agents gave to mexican drug criminals. >> right. >> it was more tragedy because of bureaucratic craziness than it was a story about undocumented immigrants, i maintain. it was drug gangs and there was a shootout and it was u.s. -- >> it was a dumb idea. >> it was a dumb idea. no one truly held responsible for it. we lament the passing of brian terry. but to continually hit, and i took on matt drudge the other day, continually hit this situation at the border as if it was this extensionial crisis for the united states, i think just

exacerbates the situation. >> geraldo rivera joins us every friday. >> i do. >> opinions all over the place. that's why we love him. >> i love you all. >> trop iselle making landfall in hawaii. the outer bands are knocking down trees and knocking out power to thousands. take a look at this satellite image that's a cat 3 hurricane to the right of the screen. and it's right behind the tropical storm. maria molina taking a look at both. maria, it's making landfall in hawaii right now and it's going to be a rough weekend. >> yeah, it's going to be a rough weekend and a rough day today, especially. we're looking at flash flooding occurring here. once that center makes landfall across the big island of hawaii, it will be officially the first time that that island has seen a direct landfall from a tropical storm or a hurricane. the toll that the mountains are taking on the storm system right now are significant. it's starting to look very

disorganized. maximum sustained winds right now at 60 miles per hour. you can see right there, that's the center of circulation just inching closer and closer and we'll see whether it officially makes landfall. a lot of heavy rain around that eye wall. we're going to be seeing significant flash flooding being a concern and rocked by the mud slides also because some of the mountains are high as 13,000 feet. so there is a look at the latest. the pressure has been also rising. so that's a sign that the storm weakening, moving toward the west northwest at 9 miles an hour. there is the forecast track. but i quickly want to show you the track for julio because this one is forecast to move farther off toward the north and that will be very welcome news. right now that storm, a category 3 hurricane. let's head over to you. >> the one-two punch. meanwhile, as we told you this morning, the truce is broken in the gaza strip. israel and hamas are going at it again. heather nauert has got more. >> good morning. this is a fox news alert. after three days of peace, it's now back on. this after hamas launching

rockets at israel early this morning. israel saying 33 rockets were launched. take a look there. israel responding by resuming air strikes on targets across gaza and the ids is sending tanks to the border there. police in gaza saying that israel has launched ten strikes and that at least seven people have been hurt. we'll watch the story throughout the morning. here at home, tennessee senator lamar alexander cruised to another republican primary win. he defeated tea party challenger joe carr with 49.7% of the vote. carr got 40.5% of the vote. also last night it was decided the matchup for governor of that state in november, voters will choose between republican governor bill haslam and charlie brown, the same name as the cartoon character. we'll watch that one throughout the year. investigators have some tragic news. an autopsy they hope will give new clues as to what happened to cause the death of this six-year-old girl. her body was found in the woods not far from her home in

washington state. you may recall she went missing last weekend. >> it's sad. she's just a little girl. say a little prayer for her, you know. all we can do. >> that is so hard for folks in that community there. investigators say that this is a criminal investigation. an old pal of reverend al sharpton is now facing charges of lone sharking, extortion and illegal gambleing. he was arrested in new york. he faces up to 20 years behind bars. pagano was reportedly linked to an unsuccessful mob attempt to recruit sharpton to distribute drugs. those are your headlines. >> a lot of stuff going on. >> absolutely. thank you very much. he's now running new york city. >> sure. that other channel also. a driver shot while behind the wheel. you're not going to believe this. he ends up chasing down the

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quick headlines now. group of teens using a trash can at a fire extinguisher to attack a school bus driver in baltimore. police say the teens took his bus on a joy ride. they were all arrested. the driver walking away with some scratches and a couple of bruises. a texas principal fired for asking hispanic students at her school to speak english. now amy lacey is telling her side of the story. she says she wanted to help students with standardized testing that's only in english. and it's not the kind of show and tell you would expect at a school. oklahoma teacher is arrested after police say she showed up to work drunk and without shoes or pants. sounds like scotty. police finding an empty vodka

bottle in her car. she was booked on public intoxication charges and forced to get dressed. anna? continuing our fox news alert now. president obama vows that america is ready to strike 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. we're also consulting with other countries and the united nations who have called for action to address this humanitarian crisis. >> with christians on the run all over the middle east, is this too little, too late? here to break down the crisis in iraq, fox news legal analyst, peter johnson, jr. >> it's been very little and it's been a long time coming and it may be too late, but this is the president's beginning, miss opening salvo on his war on terror. he declared in a legitimate way a war on terror that is very

much his and that he owns forever. this will have dramatic consequences around the world and dramatic consequences with regard to the jihaddists who will see this as a ramped up attack again by america on jihad. >> what we're seeing the beginning of is this humanitarian aid. is this just something, a smoke screen? >> the humanitarian aid is something that has promoted and provoked the president. he understands finally the hardship that christians have been undergoing in iraq. in june of 2014, 35,000 christians living in mosul. now mosul is empty of christians. 12 or 13 years ago there were about a million or million and a half christians in iraq. now estimates of two to 400, thousand. all churches and monasteries in mosul are under the control of isis. >> because isis has told christians you either convert so islam, you pay this religious

fine, or we're going to kill you. >> correct. but the president can say this is humanitarian. he can say i'm waiting on the reunification of iraq. he can say i'm looking for a more inclusive government. but what he is understanding for the very first time and he can't go back on it -- is the per knishes, evil power of this al-qaeda affiliated organization called isis that has designs on the middle east in a califate. will they take syria? will they take jordan? can they take israel? when he talks about genocide, he's understanding and believing that genocide and jihad are equivalent entities and he's acting in a way that he's going to have a very hard time turning back. first humanitarian aid. then he's saying he's going to strike convoys going to towns and cities in northern iraq. the kurds. this will continue.

this will get larger over time. it will be difficult for him to turn back once he's acknowledged the power of isis. >> we have known about isis gaining steam in syria and iraq and all over that region for months now. you wonder why now. is it too little too late? >> dramatic turn of events that may not be able to be turned back. >> thanks so much. 26 minutes after the hour. still ahead on "fox & friends," the story is insane. a driver is shot behind the wheel, but that didn't stop him from chasing down the gunman. >> are you hit? >> yes, i'm hit. they took out my window and i think my arm is shot. i'm trying to catch up to him now. >> wow. wait 'til you hear how it all ended. then it's the story that everybody is talking about. a bear walking like a human. we know the video is real. do we? the reason why he's walking like that. you're going to have to stay tuned to figure this thing out

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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. we're also consulting with other countries and the united nations who have called for action to address this humanitarian crisis. >> that was the president addressing the nation last night at about 9:30 eastern time. an extraordinary address in that i'm sure he never expected to do it. chris wallace joining us right now.ould you rate those remarks last night in its goal and its candidness? >> well, look, i don't know. it's obviously something the president didn't want to do. he very much pride himself on being the man who ended the war

in iraq. but sometimes even when you're president, you have to bow to reality and the reality was the situation in northern iraq was collapsing, both in a strategic sense, there is a humanitarian sense. i think the president felt he had no choice but to react and i suspect most people -- i think a lot of people in the country are going to have problems with it because they don't want us to get involved again. but i suspect most people in washington will support at least a limited u.s. role again in terms of trying to blunt the isis attack. one specific thing that's interesting, the president didn't want to go after isis in mosul, for instance, in some of these cities it's taken over because they very much integrated into the civilian community. it would be a situation like hamas and gaza. but if they're on the march in places like approaching irbil, or on the march in sinjar mountains, then they're more

exposed and that's when he talked about attacking the convoys. they're an easier target and opportunity to reach them and take them out. he hasn't actually launched any air strikes yet. he's simply authorized them. >> sure. chris, cbs is reporting a top white house advisor are predicting u.s. intervention in iraq will be part of a very long military campaign. of course, right now all we've heard is targeted air strikes. but the big question is, how much can they really do with that and how do they get those people off the mountain if all they're doing is shooting at the people down on the ground, the isis guys? >> i suppose if people are surrounding them at the bottom of the mountain, if you blast them to bits, then you're going to have opportunityies to evacuate the people who are there. look, what this is going to do is it doesn't take -- it stops the isis advance if you want to pursue it going toward irbil, there are hundreds of thousands

civilians there, there are kurds who are maybe our most reliable allies in the mess that is iraq today and there are americans there. so you can stop the advance. you can't actually reverse the gains they've already made and the decision as to whether to do that, and there are a lot of people who think we have to, that would involve a very prolonged military involvement and that gets us back to the situation we had a month ago which is you've got an iraqi government which is very divisive, that the sunnies feel dealt out of and despite our best efforts and the best efforts of a lot of other people, including the iraqis, they've been unable to get maliki to step down and put a unity government in there. so i'm not sure that in terms of really rolling back isis you're able to do that. you can maybe stop them, but you can't roll them back until you get a situation in baghdad that's more stable. >> this one of many crises going on around the world. >> no kidding. >> what is our action going to say to our adversaries around

the world? are they watching how we handle this right now? >> absolutely. there are different people who will give different arguments about it, having covered ronald reagan for six years, i kind of believe in peace through strength, which is the idea to the degree that your enemies fear you and your allies are certain they can rely on you, that you're able to project strength and often times that's the way to get peace. obviously there are a lot of critics of the president who feel that this president has done the exact opposite of that. best example being setting the red line in syria and then not enforcing it. you can't draw a direct line and say that therefore caused, but it is interesting to note that after that, we've had the situation of isis and syria and iraq. we got the situation of putin in crimea and eastern ukraine. so you bet people are going to be watching to see is this just a speech by the president? are there just a few token air

strikes? is it really a muscular effort to project u.s. force? that's going to have an impact not only in iraq, but around the world. >> not a slow news weekend. what's on your show? >> well, we're going to have the very latest on the situation. we're going to talk to general jack keane who will give us a talk. we'll talk to senator lindsey graham of the senate armed services committee who has been a critic in asking for u.s. action and by sunday we'll have a better sense as to whether this is a token or whether it really is, as i say, a new policy. there you see talking about this question of tax inversions where u.s. companies reincorporate as foreign companies with millions of dollars in taxes. chris koonce, who thinks it's a failure of economic pate idealism. and john angler says look, it's legal and it's legitimate. >> tell that to apple. see if chris koonce will do that. it will be interesting to see your show this weekend because you're going to have to be at the top of your game. america is counting on you. don't let us down. >> you know, that's the way i

feel every week, brian. thank you so much. >> you're welcome. >> thank you, chris. and over to heather nauert with a look at what else is making headlines. >> really putting the pressure on there. this first story is insane. coming out of california. a gunman opened fire on another driver on a freeway there. that driver was shot three times. but he wasn't about to let that suspect get away. he went after him. >> 911 emergency. >> i got shot at. >> are you hit? >> yes, i'm hit. they took out my window and i think my arm is shot. i'm trying to catch up to him now. >> despite getting shot, look at that bullet hole in his car. he hit speeds of 98 miles an hour to go after the guy. >> i didn't want this man to get away. i knew if he were to leave me or if i were to break off on the pursuit that i would never see him again and he would get away with his crime. >> police eventually arrested the gunman. they have no idea why he fired at baker.

the two have no history with one another, but good thing nobody else got hurt there. he could spend the rest of his life behind bars after eight hours of deliberations. jurors in detroit found theodore we'ver guilty of murder. he said he was terrified for his life. the woman is the victim, her family says they feel vindicated by the jury. >> we have now what we need to move on with our lives. >> justice was served today. >> it was. >> sentence not guilty that case is august 21. new developments in the irs scandal. federal judge has just refused to allow a conservative group to hire a forensic expert to locate lois lerner's lost e-mails. this happening at the same time that a top obamacare official at the center for medicare and medicaid who oversaw the botched rollout of obamacare admitting to losing some of her e-mails.

she told congress that she may have accidentally deleted them. we showed you this story earlier in the week. mystery solved about this bear. we just found out why that bear in new jersey is walking around like a human. we all thought it was a human in a costume. but animal experts say it is a bear and that this little guy hurt his front paws, pablo when he was hit by a car. they say it hurts him to walk on all fours. so locals tell us that they're used to seeing him. they've nicknamed him vinny. he's apparently a baby, barely three years old. don't you feel awful about that now, guys? >> there was speculation whether or not it was fake. there was a guy in a suit. that's vinny, folks! it's just vinny. >> it's just vinny. >> he's not going to "let's make a deal." >> coming up straight ahead, what's the latest on beau bergdahl?

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that's the news. now it's time for music and some stars, brian. >> absolutely. i don't know if you know it, but the gin blossoms are here and these people couldn't be happier or prouder! this is robin, their lead singer. he's been playing all morning. we're thrilled to have you here. you sound fantastic. >> thank you. >> you played in 25 countries, about 120 dates a year. you're here this morning. but what is the journey been like to get here in -- here we are in 2014. do you remember the early days in the '80s? >> yeah. we remember everything. being here now is in a way better because we know more than we did and we're much better band than we were before. >> i think i -- i guess i understand we get a lot better when you're making your way up. through the '80s, ten years. today the story goes in your industry, you can get famous on youtube without a record deal. is that true and would you rather come up now or the one

you guys came up? >> i'm glad we came up when we did. we were part of the old music industry where they would groom bands and you recorded on analog tape and stuff like that. having the internet levels the playing field, but at the same time, it's easy to get lost next to the nabisco cookie web site, or whatever. >> i understand. you went to iraq and played for the troops in 2010. what was that like? we've got some photos to go through. >> the food was great at the commissary. we really enjoyed the food. >> what about the soldiers and the troops? >> of course, they were awesome. we were filled with pride to be able to perform for them. i got to start a show by saying, happy thanksgiving, baghdad. so that will never happen again. >> hopefully not. it's great you're here and you're safe. "follow you down" you'll be playing in just a few minutes. you guys like that song, right? gin blossoms are here. bill hemmer is coming up in ten

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