never sheered. estimated to be carrying more than 40 pounds of wool. shannon, we're three hours into a cease-fire to end the war between israel and gaza, actually just for a cease-fire, not a specific end. but so far this peace seems to be holding. we'll look at the deal the two sides have struck. we will get a live report. plus remember those reports that dozens of veterans died while waiting for care at this hospital in phoenix? government investigators say no, that's not true. there's not a single death linked to those long wait times, not one. we'll get more on that. and just days after islamic fighters chopped off the head of an american journalist and threatened to kill a second american we're now learning about a third hostage they're holding. an american woman. let's get to it.

now, shepard smith reporting live from the fox news deck. >> the united states is now flying surveillance drones over syria, a move that could lead to strikes there in syria against the islamic state militants. remember the phrase "mission creep"? this is not that, says the administration. we report for you to decide. senior u.s. officials say the drones are gathering intelligence on the terror group while the pentagon puts together a possible attack plan or series of plans again possible for the president. the military's already attacking inside iraq. the president has not signed off on any military action inside syria. but they say it's possible the president could order air strikes at some point. president obama today spoke to veterans in north carolina and again said he will not send any troops into combat. >> the answer is not to send in large scale military deployments

that overstretch our military and lead for us occupying countries for a long period of time and end up feeding extremism. rather our military action in iraq has to be part of a broader strategy to protect our people and support our partners to take the fight to isil. >> the president has called on other nations to help fight, the quote, cancer, of the islamic state. according to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general martin dempsey, jordan, and turkey would join the battle on militants. any indication that we're getting any closer to air strikes in syria? >> well, shep, there's certainly a lot of meetings around here. secretary of state john kerry had been on vacation for the month, now being pulled back from nantucket having a meeting with the president just one day after defense secretary chuck hagel who was here also behind closed doors with the president. those are indications at least

that they're null l mulling their options especially in the wake of those surveillance -- the drones that you mention to try and find targets for possible air strikes. then if you read other tea leaves, the president speaking to the american legion today in charlotte, left the door wide open to expanding air strikes beyond iraq into syria. listen. >> we'll continue to take direct action where needed to protect our people and to defend our homeland. rooting out a cancel like isil won't be easy and it won't be quick. >> we should note that just because surveillance is being conducted it does not mean aird. number one military experts say you also need intelligence on the ground to pinpoint possible targets against isis and that's very hard because we don't have a lot of intelligence on the ground in syria given the civil war there, number one. number two, spokesman told reporters that the president hasn't made a decision either

way, shep. >> one question, will the president go to congress now to seek authorization for any possible strikes as required by the constitution? >> it's an open question. one year ago this week the president mulled air strikes in syriand a then pulled back at the last moment after a walk on the white house lawn, the south lawn with his chief of staff dennis mcdonough, look, instead i want to go to congress and build a consensus. he didn't get that consensus. look at this photo posted by white house photographer pete sousa on their instagram account. once again the president walking with dennis mcdonough. does that mean they're mulling do they pull back, do they go forward or go to congress? a fellow democrat for the president, senator tim kaine said i urge the administration to use the next two weeks to clearly define the strategy and objectives of its mission against isil, then bring it to congress for a debate and authorization vote. so pressure there from the left anyway for the president to come

and get it authorized by congress. but when i pressed josh earnest about this, he was trying to make a distinction. when the president said he was going to congress to consider air strikes it was in response to president assad's use of chemical weapons. in this case, it could potentially be air strikes in response to the beheading of that american journalist, james foley, and they seem to be trying at least to draw a distinction here that that would be in the president's prerogative under the war powers act to go ahead unilaterally to protect the american interests, protect the american homeland if isis grows. >> let's bring in former fut national security adviser for george w. bush and so much more for many years. good afternoon. >> good afternoon, shep. >> you said repeatedly that you think striking in syria is the right thing to do. is now the time and under what

circumstances? >> i think it is the right time because we've held back. the president, as you just heard, didn't do anything last summer and isis grows and grows and grows. the danger is now to the u.s. homeland. obviously the surveillance flights are very important, but isn't it amazing that it took until late august, 2014 before we're doing surveillance flight overs syria? we don't have any sbeintelligen we don't have actionable intelligence. we have to do the targeting and get it right. isis has obliterated the border between iraq and syria. there is no border. >> my time is limited and that's the only reason i interject. if we begin now in syria and we don't stay to finish the job, whatever the definition of finishing the job is in this case, and i've not been told what that is yet, don't we run the risk that more extremists will be created just as they were created by the war in iraq

which you were such a proponent of back in the day? >> i don't think so. i think the president was dead wrong in saying that the american occupation produces extremists. those extremists are coming from all over the world. >> you don't think that the vacuum that occurred because of american occupation over all those years and a failed war effort created a vacuum that allowed these extremists to find a place to be? >> no, i think that the vacuum was created when the president pulled out too quickly. we need to strengthen the -- >> he couldn't get an agreement for his forces with the government. the government of a leader of iraq that was never a friend of america from the beginning. surely we all know that by now. >> we know that about maliki. but the president sends in troops now without having the kind of agreement he said he had to have a year ago. we need to protect the united states. we need to prevent isis from getting larger and larger and larger. we need to strengthen the forces that are fighting them on the ground in the region. the kurds, the iraqis, some syrians and air strikes are

going to be part of that. we've seen in iraq already, you know, it can work. it is working. >> the reason they have the weapons that allow them to do this is because the iraqi army, which when it stands up, we stand down, melted and gave them the weapons, but why are we to believe that this time for first time in the recent decades of american conflict that this time arming the enemies of our enemy is going to be the right thing to do? history over the past 30 years doesn't it respectfully suggest that that doesn't work? >> no, i don't think that's right. let me take the kurds that are willing and ready to fight. if we give them the where with al, the tools to to fight -- >> that's what we said about the iraqi army. they're fighting for a place where they've always been. they feel strongly about it. i understand the difference. but the end has been the same in each of our recent conflicts. >> i would argue that what we did in iraq was under president obama was pull out much too quickly so that the iraqi army

didn't really get a chance -- >> he pulled out because we couldn't get an agreement from the iraqi government that if our soldiers got caught in the middle of something, that they would not be tried under iraqi law. that's why he pulled out. did he work hard enough at it, you can make that argument. >> i do make that argument. he got an executive agreement with the prime minister of iraq. a year ago he was saying that wasn't good enough. now all of a sudden it became good enough. when the president finds a way, he wants to do it. >> at what point when is this over? in iraq the original goal was to go in and liberate. then ten years later and a trill dollars later and a thousand dollars later we have one of the most disastrous situations in this nation. the goal was to stop a genocide and to take care of american citizens who were at the base in baghdad. all of a sudden we're flying drones over syria and considering air strikes there.

what is the end? how does america know when this involvement is over? >> shep, we're in a long war with a violent islamic extremism. we can't walk away. they want to attack us, and attack the homeland. as long as they're trying to do that, we have to be trying to stop them. >> elliott abrams in the middle of a very difficult situation. nice to talk with you. >> thank you. >> we now learn more about a third hostage in the hands of islamic militants. she's a woman working for a humanitarian group in syria before her capture last year. an investigative source tells fox news the hostage is 26 years old from the west coast. u.s. officials and family members will not release her name because they fear for her safety. the state department would say that they're holding a small number of american, unquote. the reuters news agency says that officials in qatar are

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fox news has confirmed reports that israel has accepted an open-ended cease-fire with hamas. others have fallen apart in a civil war that's killed 2,000 people most of them palestinians. this cease-fire is maybe different as you can see. this was the scene in gaza just a short while ago. celebratory gunfire. israel has agreed to ease its blockade of gaza in an effort to

allow relief supplies and construction materials into the region. egyptian officials announce the truce, the new one, shortly after israel bombed two high rises in gaza this morning. those buildings reportedly, according to the israelis, we cannot confirm, packed with homes and shops. no reports of anybody killed, but a palestinian official said more than two dozen people were hurt. guards say they evacuated the building after getting a warning that the strikes were on the way. we have the news live in gaza city despite the heavy palestinian death toll, hamas tonight claims victory. >> yeah, well, that's correct. hamas is basically saying, shepard, that israel related to its demands. israel agreed, as you mentioned, to ease the blockade restrict n restrictions, not lift them entirely which is something hamas wants. also israel has agreed to ease the off-shore fishing restriction and so hamas, spite

hamas is claiming victory. and we saw, as you mentioned the celebration on the streets. we continue to see that. there's parties going on. we're hearing music instead of the -- over the last seven weeks rocket fire and air strikes. in fact, there's a pool party going on right now here at the hotel. it's a huge contrast to what we have seen over seven weeks and the heavy, heavy air strikes particularly this week, shepard when israeli fighter jets have been just bombing all of gaza strip leveling, as you mention, these high rise buildings going after hamas militants. right up to an hour before the cease-fire went into effect, 7:00 p.m. local time, noon eastern, rockets were being fired out of gaza at israel and israel responding again, like i mentioned, with those air strikes. shepard? >> presuming the cease-fire holds, john, what happens next? >> well, and that's -- yeah,

presuming it does, that's a big if. because as you know, since we've been on the ground myself, rick leventh leventhal, conner powell, we've seen several of these cease-fires fall apart even after they started, a couple days after they started. many remain skeptical this will hold. but if it does in a month, both sides, israel and hamas, will sit down and go over broader discussions about both sides' demands. israel telling hamas to disarm, hamas wanting the whole blockade to be lifted and also to build an airport and seaport among other demands. for now the celebration continues here in gaza city. >> u.s. and israeli officials say that they're leaving no stone unturned in the search for a missing american student who reportedly disappeared after he went hiking in a forest just outside jerusalem. this is 23-year-old erin sofer. he's from new jersey. he's been missing since friday of last week.

he was a student at a yeshiva, a joosh religious school. they're investigating even the possibility that somebody may have kidnapped him or palestinian militants may have kidnapped him in some way. update as we get them. a father murdered a drunk driver minutes after that driver killed the man's two sons. the father's attorney says there just isn't enough evidence to prove that. we'll break down this case with a defense lawyer coming. plus we're monitoring two hu hurricanes now. it is hurricane season for sure now beginning in september. ♪ ♪

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a horrible night to report on. a small plane crashed and killed

four college student last night near cleveland. that's according to officials from case western reserve university. they report three of the students were on the varsity wrestling team and that the fourth was the pilot. we have some pictures to show you in our slide show. a horrible situation here. here you can see what's left of that little prop plane. rescuers say that the flames had really engulfed it. the plane crashed and exploded shortly after takeoff. school officials -- get this, school officials say the victims ranged in age from 18 to 20, haven't released their names just yet. no word on where that mane was headed or exactly what caused that crash. a father on trial now for the alleged murder of a drunken driver. think of it this way, a drunk driver crashes and kills your 2-year-old or killed two of his sons. and now he killed the drunk driver. he's back in court today. happened just south of houston back in 2012. his name is david barrajas,

along with his 11 and 12-year-old sons. he was pushing the family truck on the side of the road after it ran out of gas. that's when the drunken driver plowed into the group and killed the two boys. prosecutors claim barrajas just shot and killed the driver minutes after the crash. mr. barrajas denies that. investigators say they found the holster and home but not a gun. his attorney argues none of the evidence directly connects him to the murder. if a jury convicts him, he could face life in prison. defense attorney diana iseman joins us now. these bullets and this holster are a problem for this man. >> a classic case of using circumstantial evidence in a criminal case. oftentimes there's a misconsense that it can't be used to prove guilt, but that's not true. the law is very clear in that it allows for the prosecutor to prove beyond a reasonable doubt certain facts that could infer a

legal conclusion. so in this case the question's going to be was it enough that there is a holster for the firearms, that there was a fragment of the bullet and clearly in this case the defendant had motive. but the bigger question here becomes is this a sympathetic defendant? and this is the kind of case that you win or lose in jury selection. who your jury panel is made up of will make all the difference for both sides in this case. >> i guess this happened in just the minutes after this crash. you can imagine the heartache and anguish of a father who just witnessed his two children being killed by a drunk driver. but the point here according to prosecutors is the legal system should have taken care of that and it wasn't his place. >> right. prosecutors really want to send a message that there is no room for vigilante justice, but as a defense attorney, i would want to find jurors on my panel that have young children, that can sympathize with what this father was going through. as a prosecutor i would amend to

add a voluntary manslaughter charge to basically be able to argue the heat of passion defense because i think it would be really difficult to find 12 jurors that would agree that this father should be sent away for life. >> a mighty tough case. nice to talk to you. thanks very much, diana aizman. >> nice talking to you, too, thank you. a new report casts serious doubt on the claims that dozens of veterans died because of delayed treatment in a v.a. hospital. there is no doubt there was delayed treatment. of this we're certain. but the deaths now are another matter. the findings from the department's own watch dog, we'll have those for you next. plus the leaders of russia and ukraine shake hands for the cameras. are you kidding me? ukrainian officials say they have new evidence that russian paratroopers crossed the border. you think the russians are making their way into ukraine to take over territory so they can have a path to crimea? they are!

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headlines from across america. texas first, a woman and her five children in the hospital after an explosion leveled their house in dallas. that's according to emergency workers on scene. they say they believe a gas leak started it all. vermont, police there say former fbi director louis freeh was hurt after he apparently drove his suv off the road and hit a mailbox and a tree. happened yesterday north and west of boston. no word on his condition now. he retired from the fbi back in 2001 and in 2011 penn state hired him to investigate child abuse accusations against jerry sand dusky. cops say they need your help

finding this suspect accused of starting up to seven fires outside the los angeles area. they say at least two fires broke out inside churches while people were worshiping. investigators say none of the fires caused any significant damage or injuries. the bottom of the hour and the top of the news coming up next.

investigators cannot prove accusations that dozens of u.s. service members died because of delayed care at veterans affairs hospitals. that's according to the government watchdog group that looked into it. this all started when a doctor accused the phoenix v.a. of, quote, cooking the book, hiding wait times for appointments and treatment. he said as many as 40 veterans may have died as a result. secretary of veterans affairs eric shinseki ultimately resign in may. but now the department's inspector general has just revealed that his office cannot find any evidence, none at all, of a link between those deaths and any delayed treatment.

this link, they say, does not exist. still president obama said today our veterans deserve better. >> the misconduct we've seen at too many facilities with long wait times and veterans denied care, folks cooking the books is outrageous and inexcusable. >> the president said he's taken steps to prove mental health care for veterans and ease their transition from pentagon to v.a. medical programs. but republican chairman of the house veterans affairs committee says the administration is not doing enough adding white house claims that v.a. is improving when it comes to accountability, transparency and protecting whistleblowers don't add up. what else are we learning from the report? >> shep, the v.a.'s office of the inspector general looked at the electronic health record os more than 3500 v.a. patient including the 40 that a doctor in phoenix said had died because of delays in care.

here's what the report found. said quote our analysis found that the majority of the veteran patients we reviewed were on official or unofficial wait lists and experienced delays accessing primary care, in some cases pressing clinical issues requiring specialty care. while the case reviews document poor quality of care, we're unable -- this is a key part -- we are unable to conclusively assert that the absence of timely quality care caused the death of these veterans. now, we're still making our way through this whole report, but it seems to be very critical of the phoenix v.a. in particular. the report says as of this past april there were more than 3500 veterans waiting for appointment but not on the phoenix v.a.'s official electronic waiting list. many were on those unofficial lists. and the report says senior officials there were aware of it all. >> there's a new secretary of veterans affair. >> he put out a statement

apologizing to veterans who experienced unacceptable delays in receiving care and promised that, quote, we'll work hard to rebuild trust with veterans and the american public. secretary mcdonald spoke at the american legion conference today. his department said today that over the summer the v.a. had contacted around 266,000 veterans to get them off of wait lists and into clinics. shep. >> molly henneberg from d.c., thanks. the fate of europe and the world depends on finding a solution to the conflict between russia and ukraine. the two leaders met in belarus' capital city of minsk. >> the goal of my visit to minsk is to begin the difficult process of finding a political compromise. >> president putin says russia

respects ukraine's sovereignty. let me say that again. president putin says russia respects ukraine's sovereignty. i don't know. the lie meter just pinging in here. it's like all turned the red. clearly russia respects ukraine's sovereignty. are you out of your mind? he goes on to say he does not if it burdens other countries, namely his own. >> translator: russia has always respected and will respect the sovereign choice of any country in organizing its political life and forming economic and military units, but we hope it won't damage other members of the international community and won't happen at our experience. >> don't you love that translation voice? so absolutely imperfect for who it will not happen at our expense. putin getting down off his horse to slay people steal another country. u.s. and western leaders have repeatedly accused moscow of secretly invading ukraine.

you know why they do that? because that's what he's con. he's sent troops to the border. we know because we see them. video of ten captured russian soldiers whom they say had crossed the border with dozens of infantry vehicles. russian media outlets say the troops crossed into the territory by mistake, i guess like they mistakenly lly took part of the country. crimea, i guess that was an accident. one soldier said they were cannon fodder. ukrainian officials say they caught the troops near a town about 70 miles from donetsk. the associated press reports several ukrainian shells today hit a market just outside donetsk. the potential new front in the fighting has opened up in a town along ukraine's southern coast. the town lies along a major road that runs to crimea. oh, listen to that. the road runs to crimea. why would they accidentally end up there? oh, because russia needs a road

to get to its new place that it just got by accident, crimea. it's comical if not so horrible. of course, some analysts said that president putin has been trying to land a land bridge to crimea. seems the analysts are exactly right. there it is. when he took this, we said next he'll need a bridge. where will he get it? right where that was. you know what he did? just got him a bridge. mr. ambassador this has been like the most frustrating takeover i've ever witnessed. first he's taking over crimea, but he's doing it so quietly that you can't really even pin him on it. then all of a sudden he has it. now he's getting a world to crimea and the world's just sitting here watching him. >> the world is watching him, as you say. now they have clear evidence. they have these ten russian soldiers who are there by accident according to months you ko. >> yeah, by accident. >> by accident, yeah. this is hard to believe. we know that they've lied to us before. they've clearly lied to us

again. and what the world should be doing is recognizing this for what it is. this is aggression of one country against another sovereign country and the world should respond. >> in what way? >> in the way -- in several ways. number one, we ought to expand the sanctions that the europeans and the americans have put on that are beginning to bite in russia. but that's not enough. that can't be enough. we need to provide weapons, defensive weapons and other support, military support to the ukrainians so they can defend and regain sovereignty over their entire country. and the third thing we should do is provide financial support to the ukrainians. >> we arm the ukrainians and they end up in a war with the russians and this war spreads to nearby countries which are nato countries, then we've got a full-fledged thing going on. do we need to think about this more, or should we jump right in there and do this? >> we, of course, need to think about this more. however, we also recognize that

aggression unpunished, unacknowledged, unresponded to only leads to more aggression. that can't be good for nato. it can't be good for europe. it can't be good for world peace. it can't be good for the united states. >> he did this same sort of thing in georgia, but he did it with a lot more pomp and circumstance. what seemed to me unique about this operation from the very beginning is the sort of social media quietness of it all. he took crimea without firing a shot. all it took was a large bag full of lies and patience and he did it right under our noses. >> he did it under our noses and then by the -- at the point of the gun, at the end of a gun, he had a false, a sham annexation referendum. and this was clearly recognized by the entire world as a sham. and yet he says that he's annexed it. the world has not recognized it and should not recognize it. >> we're talking about the same

man who by all evidence -- can i prove it? no but by all evidence his troops are accused of shooting down a jet that killed 300 people. you would think that just has not happened. 300 people are dead because of him and it's like it never happened. >> and it's a shame that it took that kind of tragedy, that kind of action against a civilian airliner to bring the europeans around. but it finally did bring the europeans around. they finally were able to put on, bring up the political will to put on serious sanctions which are biting into the russian economy. >> serious sanctions like the ones that can cripple the cuban economy and topple the dictatorous leader there, fidel cast -- oh, wait, that didn't work and sanctions didn't work anywhere every in the history that i can find. can you find one time? >> we can. we can find a couple. we can find the iranians are now suing for peace, if you will. they are negotiating to give up

their nuclear weapons because of sanctions. >> one thing and doing it is another. i can't find an example of when the sanctions actually worked. >> another case was south africa. south africa finally changed their way from apartheid because of international sanctions. it does need to be international. it can't be unilateral sanctions. >> you're right. mr. ambassador, it's nice to see you. what a mess. all right, weather alert. why don't we do that? forecasters say they're monitoring two hurricanes right now. they're probably both putin's fault. they're threatening to churn up heavy surf onf north carolina. two coasts. meteorologists say hurricane marie, an impressive looking thing there, isn't it? it has a pretty well defined nye the middle, when you get that separation in the clouds there, you know, pretty tough. it's a cat 2. winds about 100 miles per hour. officials in southern california worned that it could create dangerously large swells and rip

currents. for now you can see surfer enjoying the waves. that's cabo san lucas. you see phoenix up there. more about hurricane marie. it's a-churning. >> it was a category 5, 160-mile-per-hour sustained winds. category 2, 100-mile-per-hour winds. but the good news is moving away from land and it is going to weaken. but yet, the surf is going to be high. 10 to 15-foot waves. it has been very active in the east pacific ocean. there's how many storms we've had. that's the average of 15. we're at 13. eight hurricanes, the average is eight. and we're above major hurricane in terms of averages. that's cat 3 or higher. we've had five of them in the east pacific. back to you, shep. >> there's one in the atlantic right now, but it looks like it's scared of us. >> that's a good thing, right? we see surf and rip currents.

be careful as we head to the labor day weekend. this is crist onnal and it is a hurricane forecast to move north and eastward, then it will be iceland's problem but just an extra-tropical storm. we're getting into the peak season september 10th. that's typically when we see most of our tropical activity. we're watching several features here. one in the gulf of mexico and one east of the lesser antilles. >> i was going to ask you about this one right on the southern tip of louisiana. it has weird tropical characteristics this mess. >> it is a stalled front. we're going to have to watch it because this time of year there's a lot of activity in the gulf of mexico. the water is warm. i don't think it will become something, but we'll watch it. >> we could also use rain down there in the bayou. word today that the feds are worried a potential lone wolf may strike within our borders of retaliation for u.s. air strikes in iraq. we've been worried about lone wolves since 9/11. we're always worried about that.

welcome to the new normal. have we forgotten about normal? lone wolf always a danger. a warning over possible islamic state sympathizers who are right here in the united states. ugh. heartburn.

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here's one to think about. the fbi and homeland security are now warning that u.s. air strikes in iraq could provoke attacks from islamic state sympathizers here in the united states. fox news has confirmed the two agencies did indeed send a bulletin to local and state and federal law enforcement officials and in that bulletin they warned of a potential threat, a potential threat from a lone wolf. but according to the bulletin itself, there is absolutely no evidence of a threat. the chief intelligence correspondent katherine harris is live in washington. they don't have any evidence at all, yet they send out a warn. there must be more here. what is it? >> well, there's really been mixed messages on the status of the isis threat from the

administration. a short time ago at the state department briefing a spokeswoman described the administration's approach in this area as consistent. >> they've threatened to attack the homeland. we take those threats very seriously. what you're seeing here is a response to our growing concern about the counterterrorism threat. this is not new this past week, neither is our response to it. >> four days after the execution video of journalist james foley was posted online by isis, the joint bulletin was issued warning there could be retaliation in the u.s. by isis sympathizers for air strikes in iraq. lone wolf offenders present law enforcement with limited opportunities to detect and disrupt plots which frequently involve simple plotting against targets of opportunity. in other words, you have individuals who are part of the social media trend which isis and they see an opportunity and they take it and because they're

not working with other individuals like you see in traditional plots, law enforcement says it's almost impossible to disrupt, shep. >> it's an amazing way to -- there was a if you were some foreign organization recruiting in the united states was almost impossible because how are you going to get in touch with these people. now they're crazy internet on the internet this islamic state. >> isis will continue to use these hashtags to spread its propagan propaganda. this was used to piggyback on the social media traffic from the california earthquake. those who are part of the new digital jihad are the biggest wild card. >> i think the threat coming from isis is very serious. it's strategic. it doesn't mean that the organization is in control of what they can do in the united states. >> you raise a good point because it was not that long ago maybe post 9/11 that the view in the intelligence community was you had to have this one to one

contact with individuals, sort of the mentoring thing for someone to cross the threshold to violence. that has changed. people who grow up with social networking are able to make this intimate virtual connection that helps them get over that threshold and in this case either go to syria to join these groups or to act potentially here in the united states. >> catherine herridge in on yo next flight by keeping the person in front of you from reclining. but a fight over that gadget ended up diverting a flight over the weekend. think of it. i'll lean back and i won't let you. you'd be so popular. and we want to know is reclining your seat on a flight rude to the person behind you? that's what they say, you know. tweet us @shepnewsteam. we may read your tweet at the end of the program. if you find yourself behind me, i don't know, on a flight, expect for there to be reclining and may i apologize to you in advance here and now. you're driving along,

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device refused to use it and a verbal argument later resulted in an emergency landing. does it go again? there it goes. that's how it clicks on there, right there, see that. good idea, but it's only good if you're using it. not good if it's on your table. gerri willis, you should be watching that. are these even legal? >> they are legal. the faa says the individual airlines can make the call, right, allow it or not allow it but every airline said no, let's not do it. here's what united said. don't allow customers to use device that prevent seats from reclining, except they did. >> the person in front may not know why the seat isn't reclining. the woman turned around and threw a glass of water on the man who was complaining that he was, you know, being impeded. >> that's a good idea. >> jenny crawford did that to me once at a football game and i apologized to her 38 years ago.p got so loud they had to land the

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