we will be on it for you have it covered. great to have you back. jon: and the coverage continues in this fox news alert. heather: thank you for joining us. american bombs falling once again on iraq. jon: president obama giving the go-ahead for strikes. the pentagon announced after 18 fighter jets the one you see here striking a piece of isis mobile artillery. the demings militants were using it to show kurdish forces in the town where american personnel are house. callincalling for military assie for these people trapped by radical religious terrorists. he had this message for them today. america is coming to help. fox news coverage this morning. greg is in london for us on this

surge and the persecution against christians in iraq and around the world. first, at the pentagon the latest on the u.s. airstrikes area did >> it is safe to assume a military strike by isis may have been falling where the american forces are. as many as 40 providing training and targeting information. this is very important to illustrate, it would be disastrous if the american soldiers were to be taken out by terry fire or captured by isis forces given the president has said he does not want boots on the ground. there are a few boots on the ground already. president obama: as commander-in-chief i will not let united states begin another fighting in iraq. as to support iraq is taking the fight the terrorists, american combat troops will not be returning to the fight in iraq. >> this morning's airstrike was carried out by two f-18 flights.

george w. bush in the northern gulf dropping two laserguided 500-pound bombs on just one mobile artillery piece being pulled by a truck. the pentagon believes the strike was successful. follow last night to maintain airdrop a nearby mountain west may 40,000 starving ethnic and religious minorities have been fleeing toward slaughter with no escape routes available to them. we heard from chuck hagel in india saying it was successful with 60 of the 72 reaching the people stranded. the president's decision is coming under an array of criticism. a statement put out by speaker john boehner says in part "the president's authorization of is appropriate, but like many americans i am dismayed by the

ongoing strategy recount in the threat isis poses to the region. the white house has remained disengaged despite words from iraq leaders, congress and members of his own administration. to that point, is interesting this admission has not been given a name. two people at the pentagon and others in the administration it may be quite intentional, other states the military footprint not insignificant given the fact this president is lowest to use military force. jon: in the military books we will never look back in operation so went so. thank you. heather: tens of thousands of christians live in iraq, they have very little food, very little water. one example of christian

persecution on the increase. in iraq and around the world. following from the london newsroom has more on this. >> heather, christians around the world, worldwide are being targeted nowhere more dramatic fashion than you're watching inside iraq. the militant group isis driving up residence in the biggest christian town in the northern part of that country, some 100 christians said to be on the run as we speak. churches and shrines were destroyed, they gave the automateultimatum to them, convo islam or die. christians are said to face some sort of hostility in 111 countries around the world. in another report number christians killed because of their faith doubled last year over the year before. nine of the top 10 most dangerous countries for christians are in muslim

majority countries. in egypt for example worshipers are being gunned down, churches burned down especially last year as president of muslim brotherhood leader mohammed marcy. nigeria very dangerous place for christians of all ages. 270 school children captured by the islamic group where they were mainly christian and were mainly forced to convert to the islam faith. in sudan watching with pope francis applied a young woman sentenced to death for converting to christianity from islam now has been released and is now in the states. pope francis has called on prayers around the world for the christians and all those caught in the crossfire right now and perhaps all those around the

world. back to you. heather: thank you, greg. jon: say strike originated from the aircraft carrier george hw bush operating in the persian gulf. our in-depth coverage continues with some of the decision-making that led to this point. retired from the u.s. air force leading campaigns in iraq and afghanistan. how effective can this be in scathing off this crisis brought on by the isis fighters, general? >> it can be extremely effective if it is conducted as part of a cohesive strategy and plan. what you see unfolding in northern iraq today is not unlike what happened in april of 1991 in the same region, except instead of saddam hussein's forces attacking the kurds in northern iraq, you know has isis

attacking the kurds in northern iraq. back in '91, if you recall, there were over 700,000 kurdish refugees pushed up into the mountains, and as a result the u.s. securities counsel passed resolution 688 which essentially was the rationale for standing up the first no-fly zone in northern iraq. as a result of that u.n. effort, principal part being airpower, the refugees were restored, the villages restored and we went back to peace and stability in that particular region. similar kind of impact could occur today with the proper planning and execution of okay heracoherent strategy. jon: you say we don't need boots

on the ground. >> we don't need u.s. boots on the ground with the exception of extension of other government agencies and/or a couple of special forces folks. think of the model people have tended to forget of the enormous success of the model used in the first three months of operation during freedom in afghanistan. with the introduction of united states airpower in three months the united states removed the taliban regime and still the regime friendly to the united states and eliminated al qaeda training camps. all in a matter of 90 days with indigenous ground forces. so you need the boots on the ground, but not necessarily u.s. boots on the ground. what we bring to the equation is what the kurds currently don't have, that is the precision air capabilities working in conjunction with those

indigenous forces can be very effective halting and removing isis forces. jon: general, thank you. joining our coverage, retired navy captain and military analyst and operation providing comfort back in the apostate 90s flying mission to protect the kurds and provide air support. i am curious, check, the two 500-pound bombs we understand it as far as we know, that is all that has been dropped to this point. one f-18 can carry a lot more than that, why such a relatively small show of force at this point? >> i think they're walking into this intentionally arming the aircraft for specific missions, the mission was to go after the artillery piece and they didn't need any more than what they were carrying. i agree with everything the general just said.

one of the most important things to use airpower effectively is to go after targets that are airpower friendly, concentrations of ground force. if you don't have a grounds force to force the opposition to coalesce into a lucrative targ target, you wind up with what happened in serbia where there were no ground forces and the serbian military was able to disperse, so until you can gather them all up to defend themselves against another ground force, your airpower is really not the weapon of choice. jon: i wondered about that, ways to prevent isis from sending a few hundred fighters carrying machine guns up the mountaintop and slaughtering it that way? i don't necessarily need to use heavy weaponry to do it. >> what they're looking at initially was to get them up and starve them to death.

now we are dropping food and water to them, but you cannot keep doing that forever. i think the model that will probably be used with an effort like providing comfort and if memory serves 23, 24 nations, pulling that all together to make that work. with the critical difference that is happening in a hot war zone to provide comfort we told the iraqis to stay out of here while we resettle and put airpower umbrella over the top to protect them, and it was an incredible threat. until we can make isis understand this is credible and we will smoke you if you don't listen to us, again where is the ground force, where is the coalition going to come from?

jon: chalk, thank you. >> my pleasure, jon. jon: what extent, if any, should the united states try to prevent a genocide in iraq? we want to know what you think. get your thoughts into the conversation. heather: the november ballot is taking shape, seven republicans winning their primary despite being the target of tea partiers in conservative states. the latest with a decisive win over his challenger. high, carl. >> it sort of completes a sweep for the g.o.p. senators. 50% of the vote against six rivals. so, now it means this was alexander's morning after

explanation on exactly how all these incumbents targeted by super-pac, organizations and grassroots types managing to pull off the triumph. listen. >> i think we have campaigned, we have had good candidates and the show that we can govern. we want to take the presidency in two years, they can trust us with the government. accessing the debt, obamacare and the border. i think that is why it happened. >> republican incumbents and democrats and everybody highly, highly unpopular. first escaping the primary when the former vice president's daughter dropped out of the race in wyoming. and then trouncing the tea party rival by 3-1 margin. mitch mcconnell, the tea party backed from kentucky weekly controversy.

in south carolina, lindsey graham faced six republican rivals, the busy we split up the vote and beat them by more than 40 points. in kansas, pat roberts got a big scare winning the primary. the mississippi the rivals still trying to get the results of the race overturned. that is 7% of the candidates have win a lot of open seas like nebraska, oregon, so they have been contributing winners but have not been able to knock off the incumbents. heather: thank you, carl pitt jon: to americans continue to improve after contracting ebol ebola. what they're doing to keep the largest recorded out rake from spreading further. new fighting on the gaza strip as hamas hits a cease-fire with new rocket attacks on israel. the latest in a live report from the israel-gaza border.

plus as a pentagon announces new airstrikes in iraq launch on the george h to be bush, one military sources telling fox news about how the attack is changing the situation on the ground

jon: right now in the middle east, hamas immigrants breaking the cease-fire. the jewish state respond with her strength across gaza after egyptian brokered peace talks hit a deadlock. the latest. >> efforts to extend the 72 hours cease-fire failed earlier this morning as negotiators left cairo earlier today and then began firing rockets into israel from gaza. the fighting has picked up, though it has come down a little bit but by no means has been

what we have seen a left two weeks or so b. both sides responding. israel targeting hamas throughout gaza. we are hearing there is another effort to try to bridge the gap between hamas and israel right now. an effort to restructure a cease-fire starting tonight around 8:00. trying to get it back up and running, whether or not that happens is anybody's guess. there is some hope that could come to an end. jon: thank you. heather: in the middle east fast-moving developments in iraq as the pentagon announces new airstrikes and trust. not protect vulnerable civilians but also some people on the ground.

>> targeted airstrikes to protect the american personnel, and mentoring efforts for thousands of civilians trapped on a mountain without food and water and almost certain death. heather: kt mcfarland, former dippy assistant secretary of defense in the reagan administration, so a two pronged approach. maintain effort a good move on the part of the white house? >> one more ingredient. the humanitarian assistance is great, they are not starving. secondly, the strikes, retired army general i talked to this morning says they have been extremely effective but a third ingredient and almost the most important one, we need to arm

the kurdish. they are ready to stand up to the hound of hell. they don't want the boots in the ground, happy with airstrikes but they need the promise. they cannot defend in 1000-kilometer border with ak- ak-47. if we arm the kurds we have a chance resolve this situation. heather: we are hearing no boots on the ground, but when we come back after this break tell me how we can protect those americans who are already there. so stay tuned. jon: a governor many experiences poverty firsthand. joining us with what he learned. >> this is private property. >> all right.

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themselves they cannot defend themselves. the kurdish military is good, fighters, but they are underequipped. if we give them the equipment they can defend their own capital and defend the america americans. let's think for a minute what happens in the territory gets overrun. you would have the isis troops with control over water, over dams and over oil. the best military equipped and the richest terrorist group on the planet. we cannot let that happen. heather: i hear you saying part of the answer to that is helping arm the kurdish, but what about a long-term strategy. some of the strategy coming out today saying he is dismayed by the lack of an ongoing strategy beyond day today. >> it has been okay in technical issues but no ability to look

beyond tomorrow. what will happen is they will fight each other tribe to tribe, probably for a generation. we don't want to be in the middle of that fight, but we want to have a safe haven where christians, religious minorities and pro-american groups will be. in northern iraq. pro-america willing to fight and have got oil. what is not to like about this guy? heather: thank you. jon: global health officials order a bola, the biggest and longest outbreak on record and the world health organization taking an extraordinary response to stop the spread. nearly 1000 people have died in west africa. two missionaries are recovering in atlanta after being infected. the u.s. center for disease control elevating the response to the highest level recommending against travel to west africa.

heather: nominee for california governor spends a week on the street as a homeless person for work. california comeback has become somewhat of a slogan for the current governor jerry brown. but he wanted to see the so-called comeback for himself. >> this has been one of the hardest weeks of my life. i spreading to find a job and take care of myself. i have run out of money and had to turn to a homeless shelter for food. but i leave the optimistic because the people i have met have not given up on themselves or california. heather: republican nominee for california governor joins us now. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me, i really appreciate it. heather: why did you decide to do this? >> the data says 24% of californians today live in poverty. i wanted to see who is right. jerry brown or the data.

i had $40 my backpack, just a change of clothes, for seven days tried to find a job. restaurants, car dealerships, packed boxes, anything. nobody was hiring. on parking lots, ran out of money, had returned to the homeless shelter for food. i realized for millions of californians they are being left behind and jerry brown doesn't even acknowledge their struggles with the people don't want welfare, they don't want food stamps, they just want jobs. heather: so how do we make that happen? it was going to come to an end within one week, he obviously had a film crew with you. probably your cell phone, but for those folks who are out there, they don't have a day their homelessness is going to end. how do they get a job, why is the job not out there?

>> i got a taste of what they are struggling. that case was tough. here is the thing, the poverty crisis is man-made. we have regulations growing out of control driving them out of state. just this week we announced moving their factory out. that is how poverty is created. in the central valley we have a terrible drought. they are laying off workers, families are struggling. they are trained the food banks for food. we can put people back to work. heather: we did reach out to jerry brown, we have not heard back from him, but i want to take this to a wider level beyond california. it is the highest in the count country. do you see this as a solution for the wider problems all

across the country? what should we do? >> we need to transform our schools to get a good education and adopt progrowth economic strategy for the businesses can grow, and they can hire be at when another factory picks up and leaves america and goes to china or goes to india, guess what, poverty in america goes up because good jobs are leaving. they had not adopted progrowth policies to jumpstart the american economy. that is why it has been one of the slowest recoveries. many more americans would be working and our economy would be moving. heather: thank you for joining us. we appreciate your insight. thank you. jon: there is a new study of sleep and sleep aids focusing on

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jon: the fox news alert on the top story, u.s. launch airstrikes in northern iraq against isis militants after the go-ahead last night to protect our personnel and facilities,

but some point exchanges at the white house briefing also caught our attention. watch the white house spokesperson doing some dodging at the podium, here it is. >> he is preventing a genocide. >> the reason that is an important question is because we have seen a couple of different situations where there have been conditions where innocent civilians were under extreme duress and at a heightened risk of slaughter. >> that is a pretty basic interest. >> each of these instances right weighed on a case-by-case basis in terms of what the united states america can do to implement those situations. of course united states has been and will continue to be a beacon

of freedom and respect for basic human rights around the world, and that is a balance. jon: for more on this, investigative reporter and author. both fox news contributors. when you watch that, what do you think the american people are thinking when the spokesman for the white house is not able to answer what preventing a genocide is in america's core interest. >> he sounded like a 12-year-o 12-year-old, there is a lot of fouled. it is disheartening but explain why the world is in the condition he is in right now. loolook at the fiesta state ands dramatic as genocide, everybody should have an answer to that very quickly, and that young man did not.

there is a shot of the press, literally jaws drop. looking back at him, also it is quite telling and it is sure the president should have seen that or his advisors should have seen it. jon: this is administration alone tens of thousandscome across our borders on humanitarian grounds. persecuted by gangs or whatever in the home countries, why is preventing the slaughter of 40,000 christians and other religious groups, why is that not humanitarian? >> the administration might have to explain why we have done nothing when 140-50,000 have been killed. why we do nothing when christians are being threatened

except make some nice speeches. this is a difficult question for josh earnest to answer given the way his president has defined very limited nature of the engagement in iraq. i want to salute ed henry and others who have absolutely insisted the administration began to answer some core questions about what the foreign-policy is. jon: interesting pointing out this bomb dropping we started last night after the president took to the podium doesn't have a name. there was desert shield, desert storm, but this one they are not going to give a name two. what do you think? >> this is an orphan in military and organization. we already have as others have pointed out more than 80 people, this should not be just about protecting americans in the

middle east. what about the kurds, our allies in the middle east, why are we not doing more to protect them? does america's word mean anything? you're beginning to see the success on air, and it is long overdue. jon: i am sorry, we have so much going on today. give you a follow-up question next time. >> thank you. heather: we are going to talk about that. a fascinating new study on sleep, researchers designing astronauts monitoring sleep before and during spaceflight. the study focuses on a very specific group of people but findings could apply to you and me, the general population. the study's lead author, a sleep medicine researcher.

thank you for joining us. why was this study different? >> our study was the largest study of sleep, many of them multiple times. 80 shuttle crewmembers and 21 crew members from international space station. we found there was a high prevalence of sleep deficiency both during spaceflight and in training leading up to spaceflight. heather: how does this relate to the population? what can we learn from this study? >> before spaceflight they were averaging less than 6.5 hours of sleep, and we know from ground-based studies, laboratory studies and field studies that less than six hours of sleep is associated with performance decrement.

heather: which we would not want for our astronauts, it sounds incredibly dangerous. >> they were sleeping six hours per night, a little less than six hours per night on the shuttle missions in a few minutes more on the international space missions. heather: and using sleep aids. >> that is right. when we experience sleep deprivation, the sleep that builds up, you can go to sleep more quickly, usually. but in spaceflight the astronauts more than three quarter of them rely on sleeping pills. heather: even when they are not getting the appropriate amount of sleep, even when they're thee given that opportunity they cannot go without the sleep aid. >> and going all the way back to the apollo era. heather: how much sleep should we get per night on average?

>> generally between 7-8 hours. heather: most of us do not get seven or eight hours. appreciate your work. jon: president obama making the call to launch strikes on iraq a soil. how will it affect midterm elections? a closer look at the politics overseas. and the premiere of fox news reporting "live free or die." a small business owner does the math, and here's what he found. >> those employees, have asked them to check the exchange to see what the cost would be. and what they report back to me is not necessarily positive news. >> my would be close to $300 per month. >> $8000 deductible. >> that is awful insurance to go down to 5000 bill pay.

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heather: let's check out what is happening. what is coming up on your show? >> u.s. bombs dropping on terrorists and iraq as a first round of aid reaches some of the thousands of people fleeing religious persecution. including christians. what more can he was due to protect them? >> one american school district testing for steroids. the right move or going too far? >> and asking about how they balance it all. what about the dad who are putting their job to spend more time with the family? all of that and your hashtag one lucky guy at the top of the ho hour. >> we will tune in, thank you. jon: american fighter jet striking this morning against militant forces in iraq. two faa teams dropping bombs on a piece of artiller

artillery. offending is in a town housing . mr. obama proving a humanitarian aid drop for the refugees left trapped and threatened by radical muslims. the staff writer at the weekly standard. generally world affairs, foreign affairs not a big item when americans go to the polls. do you think that will change this november? >> probably not. we cannot predict anything september, october surprises may becoming a little early with august and these kind of strength but generally foreign-policy probably doesn't play a role as much because the president is not on the ballot. you do have a few republican candidates for senate have

expertise on these sort of things because they fought in iraq, we have to see what happens here. there is some conversations going on in washington, speaker john boehner talking but the president needing to have more of a clear plan of what he is doing right now in iraq so you could see some back and forth between congress and the president on this. that can spill over into the election campaign. jon: is part of the problem or part of the hesitancy to unleash more forces in iraq just the very fact he campaigned? the reason he holds the office he does is because he campaigned on iraq being the bad war. >> absolutely. his self-deception for president obama about what his legacy should be. he ran 2008 to be the guy to end the war and ran in 2012 to be

the guy who ended the war in iraq and now seems to be dragging back to iraq kicking and screaming almost because the fact on the ground changed things. the administration talking earlier about what josh earnest said and the difficulty he had defining the principle of going into iraq. it has been any war in iraq military involvement is bad, so having to go back and rethink what his legacy in iraq should be. jon: trying to keep it as limited as possible, apparently. thank you. heather: and not naming it. coming up in the second hour of "happening now," a terrifying crash caught on camera. passengers screaming gliding with a truck. what may have led to the crash. and an update on extreme weather

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jon: big r big back lash over the opening of a new museum featuring, african desert tortoises on the roof with ipads showing nearby ghost towns. one woman started the petition to pull it installation. she called it animal abuse. she collected 3,000 officials. officials have no plan to move the ipads before the exhibit ends in september. i'm not sure why that is art. heather: how would you like something stuck on a your back walking around all day long? jon: i would not. let the tortoises go free. that's what i say. heather: they live long lives these tortoises. jon: they don't need an ipad. heather: no. jon: we'll see you back here in an hour. out up in beard starts right now. >> bye. -- "outnumbered." ♪ >> on this friday, this is "outnumbered" i'm harris faulkner. here today, sandra smith, jedediah bilah, business ten

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