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you for watching. i'm paul gigot. hope to see you right here next week. we are learning a united airlines flight just arrived at newark airport from brus sels is right now being held at the gate. this is just outside of new york city, newark liberty airport. there's a sick passenger on board. fears circulate about the possibility of ebola and the possible spread from international flights. meanwhile federal health officials say the key right now is following ebola victim thomas duncan's trail of contacts back in texas before anyone else there is infected. hazmat workers stripped the apartme't where he stayed the deadly disease.
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welcome to america's news headquarters. >> we have an update on thomas duncan's condition, it has worsened. he's now in (áráical condition in a dallas hospital. ten people in texas believed to be at high risk after contact with duncan. peter in washington picking up the story from there. >> arthel, separately there was an ebola scare two miles from the white house where howard university hospital isolated a patient who recently returned from nigeria but the health department explained that the patient who is still very sick does not have ebola. here's part of an official statement. ebola has very clear symptoms that inhe have itably worsen over time, including fever, bleeding from the eyes and growing rash that consumes over 75% of the human body. based on the clinical presentation the medical team was able to rule out ebola. the patient will be treated for other illnesses. the only confirmed case of ebola
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in united states is thomas duncan in dallas. his family was finally taken out where duncan, who is in critical condition, was staying. local owe fishes say it was hard to find a place for the family to go because nobody wanted to take them in. someone offered a private home in a gated community near dallas this afternoon we heard from the cdc director who explained why a travel ban would not eliminate ebola here in the united states. >> although we might wish we could seal ourselves off from the world, there are americans who have the right of return. thq)e are many other people who have the right to enter into this country. and that we're not going to be able to get to zero risk no matter what we do unless and until we control the outbreak in west africa. that's what we're working very intensively to do. >> as we speak, that united flight from brussels to newark is being held on the runway
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until medical professionals can get on board. there is a sick passenger. we don't know what the symptoms are but we're hoping for more information any minute. >> indeed, when you get the information, you'll bring it to us or we'll bring it to the viewers ourselves. thank you very mu(r and we have another fox news alert, strong global reaction today after the radical islamic terrorists of isis committed another unspeakable act against humanity. that another beheading. now they threaten yet another american. you had confirming that peter kassig is the prisoner in the latest video. he is from indiana and former army ranger. he served in iraq and went to pthe middle east to help. he started a foundation to help áv)ian refugee and appeared shorltly after that video clip showing the beheading of alan henning, the fourth western hostage to be murdered by these
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people and david cameron says it demonstrates the urgent need to destroy isis. >> what we see with this organization is that there is no level of deprivety to which they will not sink. no appeals made any difference. the fact this was a kind, gentlemen, caring man who simply had gone to help others the fact they could murder them shows what we're dealing with. >> also condemning videos, calling these a quote heinous and cowardly murder of mr. henning. >> more coalition air strikes pounding is dis, but the terrorists are still advancing even as fighter planes and bombers hit targets in northern syria. there is heavy fighting on the border with trky posing new challenges to the u.s. led coalition. greg is joining us near the
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syria/turkey border with details. >> a lot of trouble on both sides of the border. we'll get to more close-up trouble in a moment but first, let's look at that continuing isis pounding of the critical syrian bordertown of khobani, they used tafrpgz and mortars to beat the town up seriously. the siege has been going on for two weeks but the last few days the fighting intensified and we heard small arms fire, that means there could be close quarter combat with the town's defenders, all of this despite four u.s. led air strikes near the town last night. gunned vehicles in an ammo dump blown up. incredibly no isis tanks were destroyed. yesterday we saw three out in the open. we also took in some trouble today, a little bit closer at hand, literally we took it in. take a look. >> tear gas, armored personnel
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carriers and soldiers filled the area here battling a protest against the turkish govq)nment. the kurds on this side of the border want turkey to do more for other folks on other side of the border. the town of khobani, it is a long fight and hard fight for them, the folks here want turkey to get involved. >> the turkish military was dealing with protesters and want to deal with khobani and they have problems with the rebellious kurdish population and don't now appear to be too interested. one final note, áoday was the start of a big muslim holidav there was talk of a cease fire but apparently this is just talk from what we saw today. back to you. >> indeed. greg, thank you very much. >> eric? >> the president of turkey is
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biden to apologize. he told students that erdogan said it was a mistake to let them cross the border to join isis. now he has fired back denying he said such a thing. i have never said that we made a mistake, never, if he did say this at harvard, then he has to apologize to the u.s., and the leader of syria, al assad making a rare public appearance amid the strive there. he attended prayers for an important muslim holiday in damascus, that event hours after the u.s. led coalition carried out more air strikes against isis. it was a helicopter flight on a mission to save a life. coming up, details of this crash that happened just as it neared the hospital. also, calls to restrict
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international flights as fears of ebola take hold in america. but the feds say that's not the answer. >> shutting down the ability to travel entirely is not the way to go in our judgment. we are doing a number of things to screen at the various different points, including keeping the airlines involved in this themselves and screening at arrival points but we're continually ee volume waiting whether more is necessary. i have the worst cold with this runny nose. i better take something. dayquill cold and flu doesn't treat your runny nose. seriously? alka-seltzer plus cold and cough fights your worst cold symptoms plus your runny nose. oh, what a relief it is.
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a medical helicopter crashing in northern texas, the helicopter carrying four people went down early this morning
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hospital where it was headed. i patient on board the chopper died. two medical personnel are in critical condition. the pilot is in serious but stable condition and the cause of that crash is under investigation. right now you're taking a look at the live picture of newark liberty international airport. that flight is p united flight that just arrived from brussels, 998, it is being held right now there on the tarmac because they say there's a sick passenger on brussels, the same airport that thomas duncan used to board his flight. duncan now in critical condition with ebola. united confirming there is an ill passenger but they don't know if he has ebola. they are waiting for the centers tore disease control to arrive at the airport and aanalyze that passenger keeping everybody on board isolated at the moment. an indication of what they are
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facing as flights arrive into our country from abroad. this happens as the federal government has been insisting ready for any ebola outbreak. critics are calling for more action and want a travel plan on international flights. chair of the house and energy commerce committee and also a doctor. congressman, welcome, we have the situation with this united flight being held on the ground. do you think there should be a travel ban? and if so, why? >> i tlink there has to be travel restrictions on persons coming from hot zones in africa. there are not enough workers out there. a screening procedure that simply relies on someone telling whether or not they've been exposed to someone from ebola is not going to work. we've already seen that. it happened in texas. i suspect if someone has ebola and want to get to the united states or exposed to it, they may not tell the truth. we don't ask the tsa and customs officials right now to have --
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to trust people to tell the truth where they've been and what they've been doing when they come here. i must admit i disagree with zr frieden when he says that would disrupt things. we could have ca)e and flights and services going to these areas as we should. it is extremely important we contain it there. !ut i'm not confident, i don't think the american people are confident that letting everyone come over and trust they tell the truth is going to be sufficient. >> duncan apparently lied on his travel forms when he left liberia. he was handling someone who traj bei ically died from ebola. why is ebola so different from sars, there was a travel ban on sars, congressman, because you showed symptoms. you may not show symptoms of ebola and may pass the temperature test like duncan "id and get here and boom, you got ebola. >> that's right. that's why there could be some
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other actions taking place. for example, do we ask some people to remain in hold or somewhere else if they come over here. i understand it's a global world but this virus doesn't care who you are or where you're coming from. the attack can be deadly with high likelihood. we have to have this in a different level of alertness and action on top of other things we're doing. i should see the aid going to other countries is essential, helping them even basics of sanitation that we take for granted, scrubbing things down, washing with chlorine bleach are extremely important for them but we have to make sure we're protecting our citizens as well with the public health threat. >> we do have a map of this. 26 countries so far have travel bans or restrictions. they are in africa from south africa to chad and even kenya, very westernized countries. congressman, if they've had a ban, why bottom line, shouldn't
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we? >> well, i think that's something we need to be looking at. i don't trust this virus is going to be willing to stop at a border because we want it to. we need restrictions from people coming over from there until they the incubation time passed that profsz they are healthy. we do not want to face this at our bo)ders, the president said it's highly unlikely it will get here and it has gotten there. this is serious. we don't want public panic. there's a lot of good people working on this and will continue good work. this part of getting the virus over here is still a serious concern. >> what do you hope to learn at the hearing next week? >> we'll ask what they've done so far and trying to get people from customs there and other aspects of the federal they are doing in after kaxt there's a lot of concerns about food control and contact and i also want to know what they will do if they've improved the
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system if there's an american citizen who needs to come here for treatment. right now i understand we only have one plane and long lag times to bring people over for treatment. i want to know what they'll do to help american citizens infected. >> those are the questions you'll be answering next week and we'll cover that hearing. thanks for joining us here on the fox news channel. >> thanks, have a good day. >> this month we're celebrating hispanic heritage month and looking pá truly remarkable stories. we'll tell you about miss usa, whose beauty is not just skin deep.
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♪ this month we celebrate hispanic heritage month.
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teaming hispanic heritage month. we are teaming up to bring you inspiring stories from the latina community. here's alicip kunia. >> tell me what it was like in those last few seconds before they called your name. >> right before they called my name, everything went silent. i didn't notice or even think about the millions of people watching on tv. >> trying not to crack. i was so happy. so overwhelmed with joy. i knew that the tears of joy would start falling. i did my smile and wave. ponce i got backed and turned ad saw all the girls' faces, they were so excited for me, and that's when i was, like, bawling. >> that second was five years in the making. pretty good for a shy girl who grew up in california and once lived in a women's shelter.
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>> not everything has been handed to me. pi my parents separated, and my mom didn't really have anywhere to go at the time, and that was a really good place for her to build her resume and get back into the work force sdwloosh it was very easy for people to judge. >> it is easy for people to judge, and i think sometimes there is a stigma that it's maybe a bad place, but i hope that me being miss usa that i can really expose the light that there is in that kind of place. >> hmm. >> reporter: she tries to expose that light when she can and visited shelters regularly in las vegas when she was miss nevada. >> you go back to shelters? you work with young women? >> i do. >> tell me about that. it must be something for them to turn around and see you. it's almost like a reflection. >> it's brought tears to my eyes before many atimes. they say, you know, you're mexican-american, and so am i. if you can do it, i know i can do it. i've had so many people tell me that, and it just completely warms my heart to know that i bring that to them. >> reporter: when she was 8, her parents' separation and the moving around did a blow to her confidence, so her dad signed her up for classes in tae kwon
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d doe. >> i didn't even want to do it. >> the two put on and what started as a bonding exercise quickly turned into so much more. >> it has taught me so much. it taught me discipline, perseverance, integrity, and then on top of that when he was 12 i started teaching. >> does it do something for you almost on a spiritual level? what is it about tae kwon doe that's so amazing? >> i have learned or come to learn over the years that tae kwon doe is more than just a physical sport. more than just the discipline. >> i don't know anything about tae kwon doe, so if you are teaching someone just -- if you had to teach one thing just to get someone away, what would you do? >> i like to call it the superman button. i hear the secret southwest does this to get through crowds. right here you press in a downward angle on the opposite person, and they're going to fall back instantly. >> push right there. >> hard. with force. i remember i was practicing to teach a class and my boyfriend was with me. i said can i practice on you
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real quick, and i had never practiced on him before. he said, oh, that really hurts. i know it work. >> she's currently dating the actor daniel bucco who she met at church and describes him as the perfect fit. >> he is just for me everything that a man should be. he understands me being miss usa, so he knows that when i'm at a red carpet event, that's me working. i'm really lucky to have a man that gets it because i feel like some men wouldn't. >> reporter: she hasn't always been so lucky in love. >> was there a time when you were victimized? >> i was never -- i'll say that i was never hit or abused in that way. i had a car window broken. i had a bruise on my arm from being grabbed and pulled so tight, and the first time he touched me that time where i had an entire handprint bruise on my arm is the last time i ever saw him. i just feel very blessed that i had the strength to leave because i know that it's hard because you feel like you're in love with somebody. >> okay. good for you. >> you're in a good place. >> i am. i feel like once you -- you
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neer want to say, oh, i'm glad i had that relationship, but i feel like i learned at a young age. i know the red flags. i will never deal with that again, and i'm kind of like a no b.s. kind of girl when it comes to dating now. >> reporter: with a year chockful of photo shoots, public appearances and red carpet ceremonies we wanted to know how this beautiful girl wanted to leave her mark. >> i've always wanted to be the best person that i can be and encourage other people and lift others up because i feel like that's what would make me more beautiful rather than knowing how to do my make-up or my hair. i still don't know how to do my make-up and my hair that well. i have i mean to help me. i feel like the inside is what's really important. >> can i hear people saying this drop dead gorgeous person just told us it's the inner beauty? >> i know. it's such a thing to say, but it's so true. i define buttedy as coming from the inside out. >> reporter: finally, we wondered if she has had a chance to sit down with the big man.
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opportunity to meet the donald. >> mr. trump. well, the only opportunity i really had was after the pageant when i won. i haven't had lunch with him yet. or dinner, or coffee. i think that needs to happen soon. >> so work on that. >> i'm not going anywhq)e. i feel like we have plenty of time. i'll be here for a while. i'm sure it will happen eventually. >> a remarkable young woman. thanks for that story, alease wra. for more, visit us at fox news latina.com. sxwlirchlgts coming up, we'll have an update on the situation that's now unfolding in newark liberty airport. that is where united flight 998 from brussels was being held on the ground because of a sick passenger. we'll bring you the very latesá on this situation at the top of the hour. m active. i never saw it coming....it hit me like a ton of bricks. pneumococcal pneumonia was horrible... the fatigue... the chest pains, difficulty breathing. it put me in the hospital.
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controversial cases on the docket as the justices return to work. it's a leaf. the new york and new jersey port authority now says the sick passenger who is on board united airlines flight 998 from % brussels, they say he does not have the ebola virus. that flag just arrived this afternoon from the brussels international airport. the passenger, they say, believed to be from liberia, appeared to be exhibiting symptoms that sometimes can be associated with ebola, including vomiting. pit flew from brussels and then flew to dallas with we now know the disease. duncan's family in texas, well, thief been moved into isolation to a private home, and their
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apartment there that duncan was staying that has been disinfected now by hazmat crews. brian joins us live with an update on this situation. hi, brian. >> hi, eric. well, texas health officials moving duncan to kwarn teened family members out of their apartment on friday with nothing but the clothes on their backs. the family relocated to a private home in a gated community offered up by a volunteer after hotels and apartments across the city refused them. bed sheets, towels, his belongings have been sealed in industrial barrels to be destroyed. a car duncan road in now wrapped in plastic. duncan's condition has worsened. he is now in critical condition at the texas presbyterian hospital. he was admitted sunday. he arrived from liberia to dallas-fort worth airport on september 20th and $ad been living in the ivy apartments when he started experiencing
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symptoms. listen to duncan's stepdaughter tell our fox affiliate in dallas what she told the paramedics on sunday. >> i tell them that man is from a viral country, so i want you guys to wear your mask because we been seeing those patients on tv from our country, so i want you to wear your mask so put it on so you can protect yourself. >> well, good advice. texas health officials are monitoring 46 people, including those paramedics who may have had some type of exposure to duncan. getting their temperatures taken daily. no one is showing symptoms. nine people are considered high risk, including duncan's four family members. this as the dallas district attorney's office is looking into whether they will charge duncan with aggravated assault charges for knowingly and intentionally exposing people to the deadly virus. duncan is accused of lying on his exit documents when he flew from liberia saying he had not been in contact with someone infected with ebola.
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now, two patients in the have ebola do not. they've been leader. >> all right, ryan. thanks she very or latest. eric, meanwhile, the cdc today is reporting progress in the investigation into the first ebola case diagnosed in the u.s. the director saying t$ey are in the process of assessing who may have come in contact with that original patient in dallas. thomas duncan has now been downgraded to critical condition. health officials have already cleared dozens of people who had contact with duncan, and frieden saying contact assessment is the the virus. >> everything we've seen until now reinforced what weave known for the past 40 years. we know how to stop outbreaks of ebola. in this country we have health care infection control and public health symptoms that are tried and true and will stop
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before there's any widespread transmission. >> frieden went on to say that the only way to insure zero risk to americans is to control the outbreak in west africa. west african leaders say with enough international assistance they ho(e to contain ebola by december. now, there's anoáher virus that has turned deadly. the centers for disease control confirming the fist official death from what's known as enterovirus. it's a respiratory sickness, and they say and warn that it poses especially. the cdc announcing that a 4-year-old boy in new jersey is the first confirmed death from enterovirus. cleaning crews were called in to oy's home to try to disinfect his room. the local mayor in his town says that the city will stand by the boy's family. >> i would like to express our sincere condolences to the family who lost a beautiful
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little boy. a little boy that brought so much joy to so many people. >> so far four other patients who have tested positive fju that virus, they've also died. however, health officials are still investigating whether that cause and role in their deaths. new reaction at(r'st isis following yesterday's beheading of yet another hostage. the terror group posting video of the apparent execution of alan henning, a british citizen who was kidnapped last december while delivering aid to syrian refugees. leeland vitter has the details. >> reporter: it took the national security council to confirm peter kasic is now in the hands of isis. the terrorist group released their latest beheading video true to form by displaying another hostage and saying essentially he is next. alan henning was a british aide worker kidnapped in syria and held by isis. he makes a statement in the video clearly under dur esin the minutes before his execution. on the tape what appears to be the same masked executioner as
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in previous isis videos speaks with a st)ong british accent and says because the american air strikes in syria kasic would be next. kasic, once served as an army ranger, even did time in iraq discharged in 2007. kasic is from indiana and went worker.middle east as an aide he was abducted in lebanon while helping syrian refugees turned over to isis. his abduction and detention by isis was not publically reported until now, and his parents took to youtube to issue a desperate plea. >> we are so very proud of you and the work you have done to bring humanitarian aid to the syrian people. we implore those who are holding you to show mercy and use their power to let you go. >> in recent weeks isis has executed four western hostages and posted their videos of two americans and two brits. it's unclear how many additional western hostages isis holds.
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national security council issued a statement saying they would continue to use every tool at their disposal, including u.s. military, to bring peter home. >> okay, leyland vitter. thanks. an emotional appeal today from the parents of hannah graham. she, of course, was the university of virginia student who has so far been missing for three weeks. crews are still searching the woods around charlottesville using an unmanned drone to look into hard to reach areas. a heart wrenching statement pleading for help. >> somebody either knows where hannah is or knows someone who has that information. ut appeal to you to come forward and tell us where hannah can be found. please, please, help end this nightmare for all of us. please help us to bring hannah home. >> must be so terrible for them. 32-year-old jesse matthew has been charged with abduction with
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intent to defile in graham's disappearance. we're going to switch gears now and talk about the cooler temperatures that have arrived. chilly and damp in new york city right now. a similar forecast across the northeast as a blast of cold air pushes down from the north. meteorologist janice dean is live in the weather center with the details. >> you got it. we had some snow across the upper midwest. wron if that's exciting or not, but for those of you that like the snow, you can see it on the radar. about, well, overnight last night and into tomorrow morning for parts of wisconsin and even illinois. just, you know, we're not talking about accumulating snow. just sáát wet snow to cause a little bit of a nuisance, and as was mentioned, cooler temperatures accompany this low pressure center as well as a very powerful cold front. we're looking at showers and thunderstorms really throughout the day for the northeast and parts of the great lakes. things should clear out on sunday. there's your forecast satellite radar imagery. today is kind of the yucky day.
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tomorrow much improved. moving in monday and tuesday. a cold front rolls through this region. tonight's lows, we could set some records across portions of the great lakes and the northeast up towards the midwest. a lot of 30s on this screen. you think the heaters might go on? i think so. maybe as far south as atlanta, georgia. 44 degrees overnight tonight. 38 in chicago. 45 in araleigh. on the flip side of this we're dealing with extreme heat across southern california. the fire danger is high. again, temperatures well into the 90s in a lot of these spots a'd interior sections for los angeles. we're going to be dealing with 90 degree heat for today and tomorrow, and then things cool off a little bit, but no moisture in this area, and that's what they really need. we are watching this hurricane off the west coast of mexico. this is hurricane simon. a very active season here in the pacific, and that's going to bring potentially some more life-threatening rainfall and mudslides and winds to baja, california. we'll keep an eye on it.
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lots to keep us busy in the fox news extreme weather center. >> you always stay on top of it. thank you very much. >> okay. well, the head of the homeland security agency promising a major overhaul of the u.s. secret service. coming up, we'll have the latest on what that means after that guy sprinted across the white house lawn and into the east room. the president road on an elevator with another guy who had a gun. the president is out there touting the economy while on the campaign trail. unemployment is down, but does that tell the real story? coming up, why critics say the latest numbers from the labor seem. plus, it's been an amazing find in the archives of a library of congress. take a look at this. you're looking at footage of the 1924 world series. who played? who won? what was the final score? we'll have the latest straight ahead. before we craft it into a sandwich. the amazingly tender roasted turkey --
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trying to mislead you about the effects of proposition 46. well here's the truth: 46 will save lives. it will save money too. i'm bob pack, and i'm fighting for prop 46 because i lost my two children to preventable medical errors and i don't want anyone else to lose theirs. the three provisions in 46 will reduce medical errors and protect patients.
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save money and save lives. yes on 46. time for our quick check of the headlines.
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the ignition switches are problems and fuel pump problems. pope francis wrapping up a meeting with vatican mans from across the middle east. the group calling on world leaders to denounce the uáq of religion to justify violence. christians and other religious minorities, they are asked to be given the right to return. former dictator jean claudq duvalier has died. he died of a heart attack. it was his corrupt regime that sparked that uprising in 1986 and sent him into a 25-year exile to france after his father known as papa doc ruled haiti with an iron fist for years. the secretary of homeland security promising to "transform and reform the u.s. secret service. now, that's after its director quit last week. in the wake of several high profile kurt failures, they include a man who managed to
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dart across the white house lawn and through the mansion before being stopped. what's the secretary's first move? molly hennenberg joins us live from washington with the details. molly. >> homeland security secretary jay johnson says he is focused on rebuilding the country's "trust and confidence in the secret service." part of that process, he says, is not just replacing juliet pierson as the director, but also opening up the secret service to external scrutiny. >> the secret service has never independent review, and so we're going to look at the security around the white house compound, and i have invited this panel to look at the broader issues. >> this follows a series of security braechz, including this september 19th incident where a fence jumper with a knife made it all the way into the east room of the white house. three days before that an armed private security guard with felony convictions road on an
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elevator with president obama. this week secretary johnson named joseph clancy as the acting director of the secret service. clancy, a former special agent in charge of protecting the president, retired in 2011 and was working in the private sector before the obama administration -- >> he is a good man. he has good character, and he is a strong leader. he served on the presidentip& detail. the important thing is that everybody respects him and wants to follow him. >> as for a permanent director of the secret service, secretary johnson says he will considq) candidates inside and outside the agency. in washington, molly henneberg, fox news no to the economy. president obama has been on the campaign trail for democrats trying to talk up the improving
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job situation. they announced this week that unemployment fell below 6% for the first time since the beginning of the recession there it is. 5.9%. of course, if you're not working and can only get a job you don't like, the number doesn't seem to mean too much. we asked people if the american economy and workers are better off than they were in 2008? 58% said that is mostly false. the columnist for the national review magazine. why do people feel worse if these numbers are gor'g down like that? >> well, the 5.9% number, eric, is a washington number. what does that really mean on main street? what it means on main street is, look, even if i have a job for many people it's 29 hours a week because my employer doesn't want to be part of obama care. or it's a part-time job. or i may be not part of the
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unemployed because i have dropped out of the labor force. we have the highest percentage of people not participating in the labor force since 1978, so that number is actually artificial. it probably would be 10% in an economy where we had normal labor participation rates. >> talk about the labor participation rate. we discussed this a lot. that really is more of a barometer of how the economy is doing, they say. 62.7%, has it been there since the -- >> we don't want to inherit jimmy carter's economy, for sure. >> what does that tell you, and it means -- they're tired of looking for work that they can't get or like. a lot of people are going on federal disability payments, which come every month and never expire once you get the status. >> in a speech where heed the president touted the fact that he says that there are millions and millions of jobs added since
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the recession and that he says his policies are working. >> well, look at the average wages. they're stagnant for six years. it took us six years to get to 6% unemployment. what we have seen is the federal with money, printed money, raise stock prices, stock prices are up. they're great. 80% of the stock is held by only 10% of the people and half of it is held by that dreaded 1% the president likes to talk about. the bottom line is if you own stock and are you in the top 10%, you are doing fine, but if you are 90% of the people who don't have a lot of stock, well, frankly, you've been treading water for six years. >> what's going to happen next year when they say the fed is going to stop that pumping? >> we're going to see some softening in these economic numbers. we're going to see some increase probably unemployment because this is all artificial. now, doesn't mean the economy isn't producing jobs, but it's
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not a sustainable basis that we can do because you can't print money forever. >> how does this affect what's going to happen next month? there's the job numbers added, you know, just under 250,000. month in the midterm whz they talk about the senate perhaps switching with the republicans, and how does all this fit into that if you have the president out there touting the economy and other polls show that's not necessarily the case? >> if the democrats lose a lot, you'll see a lot of democrats in the senate putting pressure on the white house that we need some kind of economic course change. maybe we should have the keystone pipeline. maybe we shouldn't have so many regulations that make it difficult to hire people. pmaybe we should ease up on capital gains tax. we have the highest corporate tax rates in the worl". i think you'll see democrats putting pressure on the white house if republicans take the senate. you'll also see a republican house putting legislation on the president's desk. he may veto some of it, but he may not be able to vietnam you >> if you get more republicans
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in the house approximate they pass this stuff, if the senate -- if the senate flips, they say to the president -- you know what he is talkint about? he has a pen. he won't even use it. >> you can say that for some things, but a lot of these bills are very important must sign twens department, appropriations bills for things like the commerce department. he may be able to veto some of them, but the keystone pipeline, i think he is going to have to sign it because the vast majority of the american people thinks it will help our energy situation and help us create jobs. >> that's environmental. his base are against it, and they've been dragging their feet on that. >> you know, after the election he is not going to need them anymore. >> didn't he say that to the russian president that he is going to have more leeway? he wasn't talking about keystone. ave more flexibility. finally with the american people and not just with the russians. >> remember that statement? john, thank you so much. >> thanks. >> for more on the state of the u.s. economy, what we can expect. talk about it tomorrow o' sunday morning futures. we'll talk with the big guy. look at him. former fefrl reserve c$airman
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alan greenspan. man, oh, man, if you think anybody knows about this type of stuff, greenspan and maria. what a duo. coming up at 10:00 a.m. on the fox news channel. >> i will be sure to tune in. all right, eric. thank you. coming up, a muslim woman claiming she was denied a job at a popular retail chain for wearing a head scarf. now the case against the company going all the way to the supreme court. wait until you hear how our legal panel thinks this one will turn out. plus, a few -- a new stand-up between pro-democracy protesters and beijing supporters in hong kong. we'll have a live report. create things that help people. design safer cars. faster computers. smarter grids and smarter phones. think up new ways to produce energy. ♪ be an engineer. solve problems the world needs solved. what are you waiting for? changing the world is part of the job description. [ male announcer ] join the scientists
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it is the bottom of the hour. at least five people have died, and one teen is in serious condition following a single car
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crash on a freeway in southern california. that group was returning from an amusement park when the car suddenly caught fire. >> hmm. an american base jumper was killed in an accident in the swiss alps. police say the 44-year-old misjudged his launch and fell from a nearly 10,000 feet peak. people are gathering today in new jersey to witness the beatification of a nunn. she is credited with curing a boy's eye disease in the 1960s long after she died. it's one step away from spr'thood. well, this monday marks the first day back for the supreme court. the justices returning after their summer break, and already grabbing a lot of headlines this session. here we go. the case of a 20-year-old muslim woman from oklahoma who lame she was denied a job at abercrombie & fitch. the store i' tulsa. because her head scarf conflicted with the company's dress code there.
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bringing in bob massey, a fox news legal analyst, and ken zimmerman is contributor to the international law journal. welcome to both of you. >> thank you. >> let's get right to it with you. so the lower court said that abercrombie & fitch "id not discriminate because samantha eloff didn't specifically say she needed a religious accommodation. do you think or how do you think the supreme court is going to rule in this one? >> well, i think when you look at it, companies have the right to set policies, and one thing for sure, abercrombie is a very visual store. when you walk by their store, they have pictures of their models. >> it's a smelly store too. >> absolutely. exactly. and the bottom line is kent and i actually communicate a little bit on this, and, you know, as you he said, look, at this point in time she did not disclose from what we know as an applicant some type of accommodation as a result of her personal and religious beliefs. as a result of this, when you
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look at the evidence that's been presented, it appears as if that abercrombie is going to have a very good argument in this particular case before the supreme court. >> they set their own standards. we're talking about dress code. how will that impact future employees, their ability to, you know, follow their religious practices and get hired at the same time? >> there are strong feelings on both sides of this argument. people sometimes get emotional q' religion is involved, but i think the points that bob raised are really important. she didn't disclose that she was wearing this for religious beliefs. had he didn't believe she was wearing it #or religious beliefs or so they say, and also, it's hard to see how they could have discriminated against her if they didn't know. i do think, like bob said, if you are a company, just like the flight attendants have for years, you can hold your employees to have high
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standards. you can say what their hair and makeup should look like, and can you say how they can dress. you can't intentionally discriminate against religion and other protected classes. so i think that's going to continue to be the way the company has approached this. >> by the way, abercrombie & fitch has since said that it has required to tell its employees that it can make religious exemptions to what they call their lookback. it's kind of their fashion dress code for the sales associates. go ahead. >> and if i may, and i don't know what kent's thoughts are on this. let's assume, like you just said, they have put this exemption in. i guess practically speaking, how do we know why they didn't they put the exemption in or the accommodation? in other words, the process could be inherently intrinsically defective and discriminate other even with the exemption because they could say that person didn't qualify, and i think that's something you still have to look at also. >> and that is what's going to play out, i think, in the court of public opinion. what do you say, kent?
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>> i agree with that. that will play out in a court of public opinion. i think the thing to look at is whether the discrimination, the alleged discrimination, whether it's intentional. if it's not intentional, it becomes very difficult to prove, and talls becomes difficult to prevent. i think you really need to look at what's intentional, and if there are other things happening, look at those on a case by case basis. it's the intentional discrimination that i think we have to focus on. >> okay. let's move on to another case that's grabbing a lot of national attention. this one is coming from texas. it's a case over a powerful @r% legal tactic used to combat housing discrimination. there's a fair housing group that claims the state of texas was approving more low income housing in black neighborhoods than in white areas. how will this play out? >> as kent was just talking about. this is the problem with the situation.
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the question is if you can't prove that this was intentional, then how do you -- how do you basically get around this issue? in other words, the question you look at is to say was there some type of strategic implementation that was intended to cause some sort of discrimination in the housing issue? it's discriminatory. that's a slippery slope. >> as you know this tactic is normally used bringing the audience back in. normally used in employment discrimination cases, but, you know, to bob's question, can it be applied to the issues of fair housing? >> you know, it's been the centerpiece of an effort by the current administration to try to crack down on what they perceive as unfair housing approaches.
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>> at the same time you can't take race into consideration, but you have to be responsible for having perfect symmetry on how the housing that you develop with these funds plays out for the races. in other words, you can't have a disparate impact on one race over another. that puts a state in a very difficult position, and it holds the state to a standard that i think would be hard to achieve. i think that's an issue here. sfla what do you say to that? >> i think kent is absolutely right. look -- the way it ultimately ends up is the way -- that's what courts look to in cases like this. so the question is going to be is there something within this intent? was it something that they actually designed to discriminate? that's why i'm saying as kent is absolutely on point and that is how are you going to hold them
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to this standard that is showing that while even in the absence they're in -- i have to tell i think it's a tough issue that the supreme court is going to be looking at. >> a tough issue because on the other side of that issue is the fact that people who are being discriminated against need protection as well. >> bob massey, kent zimmerman, thank you to both of you for joining us this afternoon. >> you bet. >> thank you, ken. take care, buddy. well, new details are emerging about that suspect who is wanted in the deadly ambush of áwo pennsylvania state troopers. court documents revealing that eric freen sent a text message to a long-time friend saying "all is good." he reportedly also wrote that he was heading back to delaware and that he would return the following week.
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so far there has been no sign of the suspect. protests in hong kong taking a violent turn today as clashes between pro-democracy protesters and beijing supporters quickly escalated. david piper is live in bangkok, thailand, with the latest. david. >> yes, those clashes are continuing, and hong kong's chief executive is now talking tough about sweeping the streets of those protests to see why it will take all necessary actions to make sure people can go to government offices and cools tomorrow. the police may try to move against the type offists. the crowds have grown in response to friday's violence. tens of thousands joined an anti-violence demonstration today after clashes overnight between pro-democracy protesters and fwrupz of business owners and beijing supporters.
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the fighting erupted in various parts of the city friday. business owners and pro-beijing supporters attempted to dismajdz the protest camps. the local -- that run many illegal !usinesses in hong kong were also involved. police arrested 19 suspected members. protest leaders allege police kol you'ded with their opponents or refused to intervene during the fighting. they deny this. in response the protesters have postponed talks with the government to try to find a solution to the crisis. they say the government isn't giving them enough protection, which they deny. chief executive strongly condemn the violence, but warned it was likely to continue until the protesters left the streets. the activists continue to surround a number of buildings including the chief executive's office, and there continues to be scuffles with rival groups. the demonstrators want full democracy and reject the plan to vet candidates to be the next
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chief executive. tense in hong kong. the clock is ticking to have iran have the ability to -- this is more than 50 members also stopped building those intercontinental missiles and supporting terrorism. you know, many are worried the white house will settle for a deal that could still let iran build a bomb when they want to. so is any deal a good deal? that next. and this dangerous man. the leader of the islamic terrorist group boko haram is alive and well despite the claims of the nigerian government. feet...tiptoeing. better things than the pain, stiffness, and joint damage of moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. before you and your rheumatologist decide on a biologic, ask if xeljanz is right for you. xeljanz (tofacitinib) is a small pill, not an injection or infusion,
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the nigerian militant group boca har am has posted a video on-line which reportedly shows
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their leader alive and well. nigeria's military has lamed to have killed him twice. first in 2009 and again last year. two weeks ago the military said they had killed a look-alike who had posed in the group's videos, but security analysts question the military's claims. the u.s. still has a $7 million bounty on sheku's head. the white house insists any deal with iran would stop them from having the ability to build a nuclear bomb, but, you know, others are not so sure, and, guess what, the upcoming dead lien on those nuclear negotiations on november 24th, well, they say nothing about tehran's intercontinental missiles or the military site they do not want us to see. so is any deal a good deal? former cia analyst and centers for security policy joins us now. fred, when it comes to iran and the bomb, what are you most worried about? >> well, erik, it's great to be here. these talks have attracted a greet graet deal of concern from
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right and left. yesterday in the washington post they said that the administration is planning some very dangerous compromises to get a nuclear agreement with iran, and these include we've dropped our demand that iran disassemble uranium centrifuges, to stop construction of a plant that could produce plutonium, and as you said, there's nothing in these talks about iran's deli+ery systems of ballistic missiles, which we know from documents that the i.e. has acquired are being developed to carry nuclear warheads. >> how can we agree to a deal, fred, that violates six security council resolutions? we've agreed with oáher nations and the security council that iran has to stop its uranium enrichment and instead we're giving them permission through a potential deal to do that? >> well, there was an interim deal last fall that know criticized was too weak and not consistent with the non security council resolutions, but the obama administration said be patient. let diplomacy take a chance, and what we're going to do is sqt up
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a situation where we will make some concessions to iran, we'll set up a situation so if iran makes a dash to a bomb, we can quickly swoop in and stop them. the problem is all the concessions that we have laid down will only delay iran's ability to make a nuclear bomb by a few weeks. >> that is amazing. not only that, parchen is a military facility. iranians say it's a conventional military facility. there it is. they will not let the iaea u.n. inspectors in there. they won't let them look at it, inspect it, see what's in there. at the same time the israelis say the iranians tested detonation devices that could only be used for nuclear weapons. what does that tell you when the iranians block the world from this? >> a key part of the agreement last year and of any final agreement which was supposed to be negotiated next month is that iran has to fully cooperate with the iaea and allow full access
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to nuclear facilities. well, parche' is where iran reportedly has been conducting explosive testing to develop nuclear warheads. facility that iran has not allowed the iaea to visit, and it's one of many questions outstanding that suggest that iran has a military program to develop nuclear weapons. >> pá do you think that iranians have to do in order to have the full confidence of the west when you got a situation such as parchen? >> well, the question here, erik, is that these faux are unsalvageable. we've given away so much. iran has given away nothing. basically we're moving towards an agreement that will do nothing to stop iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons and may last ten years or less. that's why the center for security policy is calling on congress to reject these talks and to establish a new american policy that's responsible on iran's nuclear program by passing sanctions that forces iran to comply with the six u.n. security council resolutions.
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>> bottom line, what do you think are the chances of iran eventually obtaining and building a nuclear bomb? >> i mean, realistically, i think the chances are very good. right now they could make enough nuclear fuel for one weapon from its reactor grade uranium in three to six weeks. that's according to three leading organizations here in washington. three to six weeks. what the obama administration has proposed might add two weeks to that total. just two weeks. so unless we do something right now to put the pressure on them, we're not delaying the program we're basically delaying when they'll get a weapon, but we're not going to delay them from getting a weapon. >> that is pretty chilling. fred flights, former cia honcho. thank you so much for joining us today in the fox news channel. >> good to be here. >> a historic falling of the raptors of an old garage. incredibly well preserved. the only known footage of the final game of 1924 world series and right on time.
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resources. we'll call it a factory. the mission is to ensure that women and other protected influence of getting the top jobs, like only's choices spring from his forehead, sending for the liberal theology for a lifetime. our attention turns to miss julie pierson who resigned as head of the secret service this week, only after hours after the president expressed confidence in her. democrats alike greeted her testimony, which was, to put it mildly, morbidly evasive and suspect. the media forced her hand and exposed a number of scary security failures. one that allowed a man with a knife into the white house on september 19th. reaching the last line of defense at the mansion's entrance, he easily overcame a
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female agent manning the is it the job of an agent to stop intruders for the white house? not if you're from the tuuh factory. the assumption is, they are all wonder women. how does this failure átup)e with the feminist code that a woman can do anything a man does? and why did his secret service spokesman initially say the intruder was arrested and unarmed just inside the doors? thoroughly lacking candor, miss pierson must have known that her agency had blown the would-be assassin. liberals prefer talking to someone rather than shooting them. it's clear miss pierson wanted a less confrontational secret service, more like disneyland where she used to work.
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miss pierson was promoted 18 months ago spch. gender ruled. she's just one of the series of ill-equipped women in top jobs not because they can handle the job. who can forget susan rice, lois lerner, kathleen sebelius, and, of course, hillary and the unresolved story of benghazi in what alarms us is that mr. only is willing to gamble his own and his family's security and the service of the quota factory. well, there's something really special that they discovered in the library of congress.
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