neutralizing the isis threat. the president and nato allies now promising to come up with a plan to go after the brutal terror army, but we still don't know just how they plan to do it, with some worried that waiting for a strategy is making matters worse. this as we learn that isis' savvy social networking operation is attracting more young people in the u.s. to sign up for jihad. we will explore the growing threat here at home. you will also hear from someone who knows firsthand what it's like to survive as a terrorist and follow those who live to kill nonbelievers. and a fox news exclusive. dramatic new details about that fateful night in benghazi when ambassador chris stevens was killed in a terrorist attack. a u.s. security team says they

were held back from responding to the attack by a top cia officer. >> if i gave you that 30 minutes back, would they still be alive today? >> yes, they would still be alive. >> are you in on that? >> i strongly believe if we'd have left immediately, they'd still be alive today. >> now the state department is directly contradicting their stand-down order claim. we'll ask former cia director james woolsey to weigh in. and mother nature plans to pack quite a punch in states where millions of people need to brace for some powerful and serious storms that could cause some real problems on the ground later today. hello, everybody, i'm uma pemmaraju, "america's news headquarters" live from the nation's capital starts right now. and we begin with our top

story, going after isis and preparing for any threats here at home. with congress returning next week from its recess, the president will be meeting with key leaders on putting together a strategy to stop the group's campaign of brutality and destruction. this as the president wraps up meetings with nato allies which are now promising to help in the effort to confront the islamic state. leland joins us now with the very latest. >> reporter: i took three press conferences for the president to articulate a clear strategy for dealing with isis. yesterday he seemed to stay on message. >> we have to act as part of the international community to degrade and ultimately destroy isil. we are going to degrade and ultimately defeat isil. you systematically degrade their capabilities. >> reporter: republicans remain unconvinced, saying that while the president has defined a mission, they point to a lack of a plan as further evidence that the white house is bungling the

response to isis and allowing the terrorist group to grow into a terrorist state. >> the fact that we have let this go, and especially over the last seven, eight months as we've watched these columns of isis fighters travel city by city and have not hit them by the air, this is irresponsible. >> reporter: we have learned that the president will meet with top congressional leaders at the white house on tuesday. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell issued a statement about that meeting saying in part it has become clear that the president's plan as outlined in his west point speech to train and equip the militaries of partner nations as the united states draws down its conventional forces across the globe is not tenable. continuing, the threat from isil is real and it's growing and it is time for president obama to exercise some leadership in launching a response. so now the big question is what exactly is that meeting about? is it perhaps a prelude to ask

for congressional approval for a larger military campaign against isis or is it simply justifying the current policy. that, uma, is yet to be seen. hopefully we'll know a little bit as the week begins and congress gets back in session. >> all right, leland, thank you very much. we can continue to shrink isil's sphere of influence, its effectiveness, its financing, its military capabilities to the point where it is a manageable problem. what we can accomplish is to dismantle this network, this force that has claimed to control this much territory. >> those are president obama's evolving words, telling the world over a period of days how he plans to deal with isis terrorists. it's been a tough go for the president, who received lots of

push back from critics, when on wednesday he called the terror group a manageable problem. by friday his words were much tougher, now that he's put together a coalition to take on the islamic state militant group. however, when he talks about the coalition, we still don't know what these countries will do and if it's going to be up to the u.s. to shoulder much of the responsibility. joining us now with reaction, former cia director james woolsey. great to have you here, sir. >> good to be with you. >> let's talk about the evolving words this week. how frustrating was it for you to hear those words evolve over a period of days? >> shrinking isis until its manageable is not exactly the battle cry of freedom. i mean the president has a problem with language. when he first said a red line couldn't be crossed by syria by using chemical weapons against its own people or we would take very firm action and then he stepped aside after syria used

chemical weapons and sort of shrugged, i guess, well, didn't really mean it, turned things over to the russians essentially, his problem, he's a constitutional scholar lost among the thugs. he doesn't really have a feel for how to deal with people like putin and assad and isis, i don't think. >> you know, we are hearing now that a coalition is being put together, but i have to ask you, we are hearing reports from our own reporters about the fact that the white house has known for a year now about the growing isis threat and that intelligence officers have been monitoring isis on the ground over a period of months. so why now this scramble to put together some kind of action? why at this point do you suspect it's happening? >> i think things got bad enough from a public relations point of

view by the public reaction, particularly to the two beheadings, that they decided they needed to deal with it. but this is part of the problem with this administration. they focus on the message. and if the message they think or the narrative, as they call it, is getting out of whack, then they take action. but -- in order to try to bring reality to somewhere close to their narrative. but the narrative is what matters to them first and foremost. it's like trying to design your country's military capability to deal with public relations. it's just -- i mean i can't imagine harry truman, for example, acting like that. >> the white house is saying we are not at war with isis, but you have gone on the record saying that we are indeed at war with this group. >> well, they're killing our people. we have retaliated against them

in a limited way. over iraq we're using air power to some extent, not over syria yet. if someone says he wants to completely destroy you and starts using force against you and they have a state now, beginning state about the size of great britain, what does it take to have us admit that they are at war with us, even though we're trying not to be at war with them by not reacting effectively. >> i want to switch gears here for just a moment and talk about the information, the special that fox news has put out about the people on the ground who are now coming forward from the attack in benghazi saying that they were given orders to stand down. that they were told not to immediately run in and take whatever measures were needed to help those in need.

what's your reaction to these developments? >> i think i want to withhold judgment until i see what several people say. in a tense and confused situation like that, people can say one thing and it's not exactly at the time they thought. one needs to just get the details of this clear. but it looks as if at this point that they were not raising the issue of standing firm because they thought that the white house really didn't want them to. so this business of trying to read what's wanted by your boss and to say what the boss wants is distinct from what's accurate and clear is really dreadful. in those jobs you've got to call it straight and you can't sit there and say, well, i think what the white house staff told me i ought to say is such and such and so i guess i better just say that. no. >> i want to let our audience

hear what the state department reaction was to the allegations that are being put out there at this point. let's listen in. >> there was no stand-down order given from anyone. there has been no evidence to support that claim throughout this entire process. it keeps coming up and every time it does, we will keep saying there's no evidence. >> i know you say it's a very difficult situation but it looks like the state department right there is saying what those guys have told fox news, that they aren't telling the truth. >> well, it kind of depends who was in what position, exactly what they say was said. this is something that one needs to be quite clear about before making a judgment. but i don't think what they are saying now looks very good for the woolsey, good to see you. thank you for joining us us with your insights. appreciate it. well for some time now homeland security has been warning americans about jihadi terrorists and now comes news

that a minnesota mosque is taking steps to oust a member of its community due to fears that he's a terror recruiter. he's accused of talking jihad with young people at the mosque. the fbi has kept him on its radar ever since 2007 when he traveled to somalia and allegedly spent time at a training camp there. shaw says he's not a terrorist. there's also news that a 19-year-old somali woman is the latest minnesota recruit to leave home to join isis in syria, leaving her family and community still struggling to understand why she left. >> this young lady, she was misguided. what is causing somebody that came here to have a second chance in life, what is pushing that person to go to unfamiliar territory, like syria, and to fight a war that our religious leader is saying is very wrong. >> many people are alarmed over the way isis is targeting young people in the west via social

media campaigns urging them to travel to syria and become jihadists. for many it's difficult to understand the mindset and why this recruitment effort is gaining momentum. our next guest knows firsthand to live as a terrorist and he grew up fighting under the green banner of hamas. despite his indoctrination, he abandoned its violent ideology and now embraces christianity. his remarkable story is the focus of the new documentary "the green prince" which is out just this month. welcome, it's great to have you here today. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> before i get to your incredible story, could you help our audience better understand why you think young people here in the west are attracted to the jihadist networks and are actually willing to travel to the middle east to take part in these atrocities?

>> people from everywhere are immigrating to parts of the islamic state. this is the islamic state. this is the islamic dream. in the concrete reality, this is an islamic problem and there are many muslims everywhere in the world that are frustrated and they don't want to face reality. they want to live in the islamic fantasy. they find it much easier to behead people and be violent. this is a manifestation of the islamic ideology and i think this is a time for humanity, for the free world to face this danger. we've been saying this for many years. we have to act before it's too late, i guess. >> why do you think the social networking offensive has been so successful in convincing some of the young people from this

country to believe in that mission? >> well, again, this is -- their devotion is not for isis, it's not for a political party. their devotion is for mohammed, for allah. those are the actual terrorists. nobody is talking about this. it exists in the koran, it exists in the behavior of mohammed. the founder of the islamic faith. now when we see the beheadings, the brutality of these radical movements, it takes us back 1400 years for what mohammed did to the jews, to the christians, to the people who did not believe in the islamic faith. and they are just following the footsteps of their prophet. >> now, your story is an incredible one. you lived as a terrorist for years, starting at the age of 5, learning about unspeakable violence which also led to your spending time in an israeli prison, enduring torture there, and later rejecting hamas.

you did this about-face and only to later spy for israel. why did you turn your back on hamas? >> well, first of all, i was brought up into that environment. if you were born in that environment as a top hamas leader, what would you be today? i was brought up in that environment and i had to stand for the truth. i witnessed lots of violence in prison. hamas was killing palestinian people. i start to realize that israel was not the enemy of the palestinians. it was the radical ideologies that was in the mosque, that was in the teachings of the koran, and at some point i had to choose between humanity, between emancipating my soul or staying in the captivity of the radical islam. so basically i left that

lifestyle. i've never been a terrorist, by the way, but i was brought up in that environment. and when i decided to turn my back on my father's belief system, unfortunately he disowned me and he does not talk to me anymore. >> i know you've paid a heavy price for that, for turning your back on hamas. you are now a christian and you're using your position, as i understand it, to save lives on both sides in terms of moving forward and trying to make a difference. can you tell us more about this? >> yes. you know, for many years working together with israeli intelligence, i was not sel or intelligence. i was inspired by the christ conscience that is beyond the religious boundaries. i don't follow christianity or christians, i follow christ's conscience. and christ's conscience is not a religion, it's a higher conscience.

and we basically fought for the sake of humanity. we stopped suicide bombers who were targeting americans, israelis, palestinians, arabs for many years. at some point i realized or i came to realize that our fight was against a ghost. hamas, the islamic state, hezbollah, boko haram, all these terrorist groups are basically masks for the same face. the islamic ideology. this is our long-term fight should be against -- the free world should unify against this radical islamic ideology, and this is my recommendation. >> well, you've led an incredible life. it's been an incredible journey for you. we thank you very much for joining us and sharing your story with us. >> thank you. thank you. >> now i want to know what you're thinking at home. what do you fear more, the threat from isis overseas or homegrown terrorists? tweet me your answers @uma

pemmaraju and i'll definitely read some of your responses later in the show. breaking today, white house officials are now saying president obama will not act on immigration until after the november midterm elections. the president pledged executive action by the end of the summer. immigration advocates -- this will offer some relief to vulnerable democrats in tough senate re-election contests. the new timeline for action is to happen by the end of the year. well, a search and rescue operation once again under way off jamaica's northeast coast. crews are looking for any sign of a private plane that apparently slammed into the atlantic yesterday. u.s. fighter pilots were scrambled to shadow the unresponsive jet they say they saw the pilot slumped over the controls and the windows had frosted over. aboard were lawrence glazer and his wife, jane, both experienced

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welcome back. crews in california are fighting a new wildfire burning on the edge of yosemite national park. the blaze, ducked the bridge fire, breaking out yesterday in mariposa county. it's burning at least 300 acres so far. 700 homes and five businesses are under evacuation orders at this time. california state fire officials are saying there's been one minor injury, but no damage to structures at this point. as of last night the fire was about 10% contained. the cause of that blaze still under investigation.

the recent brutal murders of american journalist steven sotloff and james foley proved that the threat is real. these two journalists, guilty of nothing more than doing their jobs, beheaded on video by terrorists using them as pawns, valuable for propaganda and fund-raising. covering warfare is riskier than ever before when conflicts were between armies from rival nations and the battle lines were once solidly defined. our next guest considered foley and sotloff his friends. award winning filmmaker matthew van dyke is no stranger to danger himself, once serving as a freedom fighter in libya against gadhafi. welcome, it's nice to have you here today. >> thank you. >> the committee to protect journalists is reporting that three foreign journalists and 50 syrian reporters are thought to be honls right now, which shows

no one is off limits these days. they're targets in that region with many people telling stories of those who don't have a voice, that's why they're there. it takes courageous reporting to bring out the truth, yet it's simply getting too risky for so many out there. what impact could this have if more news organizations begin pulling journalists out? >> well, they already have. there used to be a lot more journalists going to syria than they are now. in 2012 when i was making my film in syria, there were probably a dozen journalists there at the same time and now you'd be hard pressed to find any press in aleppo who are foreign journalists. the risk is too great, the insurance costs are too high. it's a serious problem. >> it's a serious problem and the fewer journalists you have out there, the fewer stories that you have about the people who are being affected by the events out of their control. >> right. and this is exactly what the t

assad regime wants. there's nothing happier than the world has forgotten about syria while we're pofocused on isis. >> foley and sotloff were going where others don't go to tell stories of people. it was a sense of mission for them, wasn't it? >> yes. they both had a passion for what they did. they believed strongly it in. they believed the stories ought to be told and they did it at great risk to themselves. james foley was captured in libya. after being released by the gadhafi regime, went right back to libya and then went to syria. steven sotloff had also reported in libya and had been to syria more than once before he sgla disappeared. >> you also showcase that with your new documentary that documents the impact of war on syrians. what do you hope people who see it come away with? >> i made that film to encourage

people to care about the syrian conflict and to support the revolution. you know, i want people to understand what's happening. a lot of the world is disconnected from events far away, but the values that we have and the values for democracy i believe are fairly universal and i want people to identify with the syrian struggle and support them. >> i want to show our audience a clip from your documentary, if we could play that now. >> i have to go. i have to do this. i'm not afraid of death. >> i joke that i always keep one bullet left in my gun for myself. >> you must keep one bullet here in syria. you keep it for yourself. if the regime gets you. >> these are very compelling stories and quite sobering. you are telling people about individuals who are half a world away, yet they are people like

you and i and they are just trying to live their lives in peace. >> right. and this is why i chose mali and noura for this film. they both speak english and have similar hopes and dreams as people in the west. they're just like people you might have in your neighborhood. nor is a journalist risking her life and malia is a young rebel commander, very articulate, very bright, very funny and witty who's now had to go from civilian to warrior for the freedom of his people. >> it's a very moving documentary. i want to ask you really quickly before you go, do you have plans to return to the front lines yourself and cover the story that's taking place in iraq and syria right now with isis? >> i'll be returning to iraq in the near future to deliver aid to christian refugees that have been driven from their homes by isis. i've launched a fund-raiser online that's been successful so far and i'll also likely be doing a fund-raiser in new york

as well for that cause. >> and where can they go for that information? >> the fund-raiser is on indy go go. it runs until late september. and the fund-raiser in new york i'll be posting details on my website, matthewvandyke.com. >> all right, matthew, thank you. all the best to you. >> appreciate it. an asteroid as big as a house. get this, is getting ready to buzz by the earth this weekend. former nasa astronaut tom jones will be joining us to talk more about this close fly-by. and more missing e-mails in the irs targeting scandal. yes, that's right. a live report on what we're learning today. stay with us. >> we're sega baying abuse of p. this administration -- with the irs it was one year ago that the

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welcome back, everybody. well, it may seem hard to believe but there are even more missing e-mails from the irs scandal targeting conservatives. this news coming as the irs inspector general investigates what happened to lois lerner's e-mails, which the former irs official says disappeared in a 2011 computer crash. elizabeth pratt is joining us with the very latest. >> reporter: the internal revenue says five employees have lost e-mails per take to the tea party targeting scandal after a number of computer crashes. one lawmaker says they still may be out there. jordan is calling the irs commissioner in to testify about the reported exchange server drives which may

not have been destroyed due to budgetary constraints. back in june during a hearing, he testified that backup drivers no longer exist, however not addressing the exchange servers aro the possibility of them still being recovered during that hearing. >> i am advised the actual hard drive after it was determined it was dysfunctional and with experts, no e-mails could be retrieved was recycled and destroyed in the normal process. >> reporter: as of friday the irs saying additional employees, including cincinnati processing agents, a technical adviser to lois lerner, a tax law specialist and a group manager in the tax exempt division experienced computer crashes. they too lost e-mails. house overnight and government reform committee chairman darrell issa reacting in part, saying the irs' ever-changing story is practically impossible to follow at this point, as they modify it each time to accommodate new facts. this pattern must stop. of course the irs shooting back to critics saying in part the

irs has found no evidence that any irs personnel deliberately destroyed any evidence. to the contrary, the computer issues identified appear to be the same sorts of issues routinely experienced by employees within the irs. jordan does say, however, there are 760 exchange server tapes that could potentially be a source for those destroyed e-mails sent or received by lerner. back to you. >> all right, elizabeth, thank you very much. well, president obama pushing hard for an international coalition to fight isis. will that include israel now that we know steven sauf lauf was also an israeli citizen who while in captivity managed to hide his deep jewish faith. joining us now to talk with us, mark regav, a spokesman for prime minister benjamin netanyahu. welcome, sir. great to have you here today. >> my pleasure to be with you.

>> let's talk for a moment about the events as they have been unfolding over the last few days. i know the prime minister was particularly anguished by the death of mr. sotloff. >> he was, and we all were because the way these murders are carried out, it's so brutal. it's so medieval. and it's not one, it's not two, it's a whole series of violent acts, gruesome acts that exposed exactly what we are up against. these extreme islamists of isis and their cohorts from the other terrorist groups, they are a danger to us all. >> i know that israeli intelligence is obviously among the best in the world. what are you learning now about isis that we really need to pay close attention to here at home? >> well, our estimation, our analysis is that isis can still be taken care of. that what we need is action now

against isis before they manage to take more territory and to compound their strength. we think it's important to act now against isis and we think it's also' there are many regional partners. many regional actors that can be brought in as allies in this

effort. isis threatens all of us, just as the other islamic extremists do as well. >> but there's been a lot of frustration, at least here in the u.s. we've been hearing about concerns for the fact that the white house has not come up with a clear strategy at this point. how do you respond to >> obviously i speak for the government and it's crucial to have an answer and process that thought out very carefully. i know senior officials have been speaking to their counter parts in washington. it's important that we deal with this threat and build that alliance. those allies that will be our partners in this effort and that we defeat isis just as we have to. i'd like to stress again it's not isis alone. isis is one branch of a very poisonous tree that includes other terrorist groups, hamas, hezbollah, groups in somalia an

sudan, groups in nigeria and the iranian government. i'd remind the viewers, just this weekend the u.n.'s international nuclear watchdog has once again said the iranians are not coming clean on their nuclear program. an it's crucial that we don't allow that islamist regime for tehran to get their hands on num clear weapons. >> let me ask you really quickly about the cease-fire with the palestinians at this point. where do things stand? >> well, so far the cease-fire is being honored an that's a good thing. of course israel is interested in the cease-fire continuing, but we have very few illusions about hamas. they are a radical islamist organization and we have to be ready for any contingency. i hope the cease-fire lasts, but if it doesn't, we'll be ready to meet the challenge. >> thank you very much for joining us for your insights today, we really appreciate it. all the best to you. >> thanks for having me.

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.éxjyq . . welcome back, everybody. now let's check some of the top headlines making news today in today's fox news flash. an autopsy on comedienne joan rivers has proved inconclusive so far. the new york medical examiner says further tests are needed to

determine if the cause of death, she died on thursday a week after going into cardiac arrest during a routine procedure. her funeral is set for new york tomorrow. a u.s. doctor infected with ebola now in stable condition at a nebraska hospital. rick sacra is the third american aid worker to contract the virus. it's not known how he got infected. he was delivering babies at a hospital in liberia and not treating ebola patients. and search continues to find a private plane that crashed near the waters near jamaica. the plane flying from upstate new york to naples, florida, when the pilot apparently became incapacitated. u.s. fighter jets were scrambled, reported seeing the pilot slumped over at the controls and the windows being frosted over. on board, though, two experienced pilots, real estate developer lawrence glazer and his wife, jane. that's a quick look at some of the top stories right now in today's fox news flash.

okay, everybody. you may want to stay indoors in many states across the country if you're in the northeast or in new england. strong to severe storms are expected this afternoon and into the evening. those storms could produce hail, strong winds and even isolated tornados. meanwhile, the midwest is dealing with power outages from a major storm there. some 350,000 customers in the detroit area alone. the category 3 hurricane norbert will be causing flash floods in the southwest and dangerous swells in southern california. well, talk about a close call, folks. an asteroid zooming by the earth, way closer than the moon, believe it or not. we're going to hear from astronaut tom jones who's going to weigh in about this very close call that's on the way.

. . welcome back, everybody. well, take a look at this. lava threatening a small subdivision on hawaii's big island, creeping up through cracks in the ground. scientists are warning that the lava could reach those homes in about a week. right now, there haven't been any evacuations but some people

are trying to move out their livestock just in case. hawaii ae hawaii's governing issuing an emergency declaration. spectacular pictures there. all right, a 60-foot asteroid is on a path towards earth. it is expected to zip by tomorrow afternoon uneventfully but at very closef/x range. tomorrow nasa astronaut tom jones is joining us on the phone with reportmore about this specr event. welcome. great to have you here. >> hi, uma. >> you know what i think is so interesting is this asteroid was just discovered just a few days ago. how was it overlooked? >> it's pretty small as asteroids go, about 60 feet across. there are about a million of those roaming around coming close to the earth. so if it got a little closer it could be as dangerous as the one back in 2013 that sent 1,000 people to the hospital, but this is going to miss us safely by

about 20,000 or 25,000 miles. >> it's as big as a house, i going to zip by very close to the earth, the kind of scale where it's about ten times the size of what we would see -- the moon? >> it will miss the earth by one-tenth the distance to the moon. this is about 25,000 miles out. it's not going to hit any of our satellites or threaten them, but it's a reminder that there are about 999,000 other asteroids like this one out there we haven't found yet. we've only found about 11,000 of these. there's a lot more to find so we can feel safer. >> still a scary proposition for folks who envision a scenario where the earth gets hit by an asteroid. will people be able to get a good view, as i understand it's going to be best seen over new zealand? >> yeah. southern hemisphere where it will be nighttime. it will be tomorrow afternoon

here on the east coast. we're out of luck here in north america, but folks down there if they have a sizeable amateur telescope, they may get a glimpse of this small object as it zips by. nasa is searching for cousins like this one cousins to this rock for possible use in the asteroid capture mission they plan for the 2020s. having astronauts visit it in about 2023. >> that would be kind a mission, to lasso an asteroid. most of us are just going to miss it, we won't even know it's zipping by. >> we won't be able to see it. there may be amateur video that comes down from the folks in the southern hem fear we can look at tomorrow. but i think it's great to know that we're in a very interesting part of the solar system. we're really orbiting in a cosmic shooting gallery. it's a good thing that space agencies of the world are slowly coming together to search together and then mount the flexion mission if one was necessary. >> absolutely. well, lots of asteroids coming a

little too close for comfort, but we're glad this will be a safe distance away from us. tom jones, thanks for joining us. great to you have here on the program. >> bye-bye, uma. your twitter responses are coming up. plus, don't forget to tune in for a fox news special report, firsthand accounts of what really happened in benghazi when fox airs 13 hours of benghazi, the inside story. that's 5:00 eastern time and again at 9:00 tonight. stormy ev. she needed a good meal and a good family. so we gave her purina cat chow complete. it's great because it has the four cornerstones of nutrition. everything a cat needs for the first step to a healthy, happy life. purina cat chow complete. share your rescue story and join us in building better lives. one rescue at a time.

welcome back, everybody. we've been asking you, what is your biggest concern, isis terrorists abroad or homegrown terrorists in the u.s. charlotte is worried about homegrown terrorists. she says if okc and boston can happen, natural citizens and immigrants are more than capable of doing great harm. sammy says she's worried about isis overseas, specifically the ones that are able to cross our boerds undetected. and ralph adds he is equally concerned baufz because without isis and groups similar, homegrown terrorists would be rare. thanks to all of you who submitted responses for us today. we really appreciate it. that will do it for me here in d.c. but "america's news headquarters" moves on in new york. don't miss fox news sunday tomorrow. chris wallace interviews former massachusetts governor and republican presidential candidate mitt romney. check your local listings for the time and channel.

i'm uma peopmmaraju. make it a great day, everybody. hello, everyone. i'm kelly wright. >> i'm julily banderas. president obama is backing off his pledge to act on immigration before the end of the summer, instead, waiting until after the midterm elections. plus, the search is under way for a private plane that disappeared with this couple inside off the coast of jamaica under mysterious circumstances. new developments in the irs scandal. those missing e-mails from lois lerner may not be missing at all, this as the agency says it has lost e-mails from five more employeein