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it, but many skeptical about the whole situation. thanks so much for the brief analysis. >> thanks. >> thank you to you for being part of "the real story." i'm gretchen carlson. now to shep. >> all together now. for the next few minutes i'm going to give you the facts on ebola. it will take just three minutes. but first, today, give what we know, you should have no concerns about ebola at all. none. i promise. unless a medical professional has contacted you personally and told you of some sort of possible exposure, fear not. do not listen to the hysterical voices on the radio or television or read the fear provoking words on-line. the people who write and say hysterical things are being irresponsible. here are the facts. a man contracted ebola overseas. tragically he was dying in a texas hospital. he was at his most contagious while showing the most severe symptoms, that's how ebola works. and a health care worker at the
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hospital got the virus from him. she is doing well, she says. skyping with her family from isolation just jed saying she's blessed to have so much support and such great medical care. the cdc director told all of us he did, indeed, expect other health care workers at that hospital who treated that one dying patient to contract the virus and that's now happened. another health care worker at that same hospital now has ebola. they tell us they're transferring her to emory university in atlanta. now before she showed symptoms, she flew from cleveland to dallas on frontier airlines. they say she should not have done that but she did. as we know if you don't show symptoms you are not contagious. she did not show symptoms according to the doctors. still, medical professionals are contacting everyone who was on that plane to make sure each person is okay. the cdc director says chances
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are very slim that any of those passengers is sick. now, big picture, this is important. you have to remember, that in the middle of all of this, you have to remember that there is politics in the mix. with midterm elections coming, the party in charge needs to appear to be effectively leading. the party out of power, needs to show that there is a lack of leadership. so the president has canceled a fund-raising trip and holding meetings and his political opponents are accusing his administration of poor leadership. for the purpose of this fact dissemination exercise, those matters are immaterial. again, these are the facts. we do not have an outbreak of ebola in the united states. nowhere. we do have two health care workers who contracted the disease from a dying man. they are isolated. there is no information to suggest that virus has spread to anyone in the general population in america. not one person in the general population in the united states.
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suggestions have been made publicly that leaders and medical professionals may be lying to us. those suggestions are completely without basis and fact. there is no evidence of any kind of which we at fox news are aware that leaders have lied about anything regarding ebola. i report to you with certainty this afternoon that being afraid at all is the wrong thing to do. being petrified and that's a quote, is ridiculous. the panic that has tanked the stock market and left people fearful their children will get sick at school is counterproductive and lacks basis in fact or reason. there is no ebola spreading in america. should that change, our reporting will change. but there is nothing to indicate that it will. best advice for you and your family at this moment get a flu shot. unlike ebola, flu is easily transmitted. flu with resulting pneumonia killed 52,000 americans last year alone.
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a flu shot will reduce your chance of getting flu. so get one. we're going to a team of fox news correspondents now working different angles of the ebola situation. beginning with our correspondent alicia outside the hospital in dallas. what do we know about the second health care worker to have contracted the virus from the dying patient? >> hi, shepard. her name is amber vinson, in her 20s. she's relatively young. later on today as you mentioned she's going to be transferred to emory university hospital in atlanta. the reason that they're transferring her there is they have a high risk germ unit. that's very important. she is also engaged to be married and in the days before diagnosis was planning her wedding with her mother and fiance. now her apartment is under quarantine as it is being sterilized and inspected and her neighbors are being notified. the cdc explained why she was at risk. >> i will just say that the second patient as well as the first had extensive contact with
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the patient when they were having substantial amounts of both vomiting and diarrhea. the assessment of the team is that in those first several days in the hospital, a variety of forms of personal protective equipment were used. >> reporter: so it was messy and there were a lot of people involved and as the mayor said this morning, it's going to get worse before it gets better. shep? >> changes from airlines today, right? what are they doing? >> yes. specifically with frontier airlines because vinson traveled from cleveland to dallas on monday evening, this was the night before she came down with that fever and right now the cdc and frontier airlines is trying to reach all 132 passengers who are on that flight from cleveland to dallas. the cdc says it needs to interview themp. the director says vinson should
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not have flown. the cdc says the 75 other health care workers who came into contact with duncan have new rules. >> we will from this moment forward, ensure that no other individual who is being monitored for exposure undergoes travel in any way other than controlled movement. >> reporter: and now the city of cleveland is responding. its public health department is saying it will educate folks and put out a statement in an abundance of caution cleveland hopkins international airport is taking steps above and beyond cdc guidance to disinfect key areas of the airport. kent state university also issued a statement. it is now taking precautions because vinson is related to three of its studentsp. to be clear, vinson was never on the campus. according to kent state, but it said in part, out of an abundance of caution we're asking the patient's family members to remain off campus for the next 21 days and
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self-monitor per cdc protocol. abundance of caution. that's what's happening here and now in cleveland. shepard? >> thanks very much. of course people who are exposed on the front lines to a patient who's dying, are the ones who are most susceptible to getting this disease. you heard the report there. don't want to be graphic about it but it's messy. think what a bad flu is like. this is worse. and there were a lot of fluids everywhere and two people have contracted this. now the nurse's union is concerned. the nurses have a union and they say look, our people are not prepared for this at this moment. we need more training. trace gallagher following that and in our west coast news hub for us. >> to be clear, the national nurses union does not represent the nurses at texas health which are nonunion and the national nurses would not identify the nurses they spoke with or how many but they are saying a number of protocols were broken given a list here that the nurses had to use medical tape
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to secure openings in loose-fitting garments and they were concerned that their necks and heads might be exposed, that hazardous waste was piled up to the ceiling and that lab samples could have been contaminated and they had to interact with thomas duncan the ebola patient who died with whatever protective clothing was available finally saying that even if they had contagious fluids they had to use that clothing and they treated other patients while they were treating duncan. the hospital has responded saying this, quoting here, we are sensitive to the demands being placed on our caregivers who are working intensively to provide quality care to all patients and we will provide new information as decisions are made. shep? >> all right. trace, what are cdc officials saying about all of this, big picture? >> well, the cdc acknowledges that they could have been more aggressive as soon as thomas duncan arrived in dallas. they should have sent a more aggressive response team to the dallas hospital and they're not
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saying that these nurses' allegations are false. in fact, they're saying they're in the process of trying to fix it. listen to the cdc. >> the single most important way to get consistency is a site manager and we have now ensured that 24/7, there will be a site manager who will monitor how personal protective equipment is put on, taken off and what's done when people are in it. >> reporter: yeah. the cdc says the biggest goal they have right now, shep, to try to clear up all the confusion there is in dallas and there is an abundance of confusion down there. >> that seems clear. trace gallagher in los angeles for us, thanks. i mentioned politics in the middle of this because politics is in the middle of everything. the president had a fund-raising trip scheduled. he's canceled that fund-raising trip and holding a meeting of the cabinet at the white house in response to the ebola situation that's happening only in one hospital in texas.
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doug mcelway is at the hospital with us -- might as well be -- at the white house with what's happening. hello. >> hi, shep. as you mentioned the president was scheduled about this time of day to be leaving the white house to attend a series of campaign events and fund-raisers in new jersey and connecticut. late this afternoon, all of that was canceled. the president, obviously, responding to so much of the widespread panic that we're seeing across the country. he has canceled those fund-raisers. you can imagine the juxtaposition the optics of the president attending fund-raisers when so many americans are concerned about this. press secretary josh earnest is engaged in his briefing as we speak right now and he's trying to reassure both the press and the public that the administration is being guided by one thing, not panic, but by science. here he is. >> this administration has been guided by the science, by our medical experts who have experience in dealing with the ebola outbreaks.
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for almost four decades now, the global health community led by the united states has been dealing with ebola outbreaks in africa. >> earlier in the day the administration's point people on the ebola virus epidemic held a conference call with reporters. hhs sylvia burwell and also dr. tom frieden of the centers for disease control. admitted that this latest health care worker in texas to come down with the virus flew the day before she was admitted to the hospital and flew with a temperature of 99.5 degrees before she boarded the flight. the national institutes of health says that constitutes a fever, although it is below the threshold for obama -- for ebola fever of 100.4 degrees. so that shouldn't raise any more doubts in their minds. shep, but it is. as we're seeing from widespread panic across the country. >> oh, my god. doug, i appreciate it, but i
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think we both know there's no widespread panic across the country and we both know -- i think we know that and we also know if there is widespread panic it's not based in fact and it's not based in reason and i think more than anything, those are just words people on tv sometimes use. but this is serious in that two health care workers have in texas. it's serious in west africa where it is spreading and it is an epidemic where they don't bury people in the same way they do here don't have facilities like we do and one person with ebola stays in the house with mom and dad and grandchildren. that makes it spread and that's awful. we don't have widespread panic in america. we should not have it. we don't have an outbreak. we have two sick people from one dying man. and the rest of this should stop because it's not productive and
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it's not worth ratings and it's not worth politics an we all need to stop it. because some day there may be a real panic, some day something may start spreading that they can't control and then you know what we're going to have to do? we're going to have to relax and listen to leaders. we're not going to panic when we're supposed to and we're not going to panic now. we have to stop it. wall street, though, is panicking, but that's wall street. i mean, what do you expect? the dow has taken its steepest fall in more than three years. would you look at that. it's not as bad as it was earlier in the day. but there is not widespread panic on wall street and there is not widespread panic in america. if you notice widespread panic around you f you see something say something like don't panic, that's dumb.
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breaking news. the dow is just tanking on us. you figured it was going to. you have been seeing the signs of this. gerri willis here from the biz. it was down -- >> 460. >> 460 earlier today. widespread panic across the nation. >> well, i'm thinking about my 401(k). the best thing to do today, a whole lot of nothing. >> nothing. >> this is not a time to be selling. it's a time to sit back, wait and see what the professional traders do on the marketplace. i have to tell you, though, we have wiped out all the gains of the dow for the year right now. that's what we're looking at. the market was poised pore some
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kind of pullback. a lot of people saying it's likely we're going to have some kind of sell-off. what we saw today was what they call a flight to quality. >> wait. a flight to quality. from risky stuff to quality stuff like? >> gold, treasuries. >> treasuries. >> going to things we feel safer in that are slower, pokeyer, not the stocks. that's what folks -- >> you won't get a big high off them, but won't get a big low. one thing the most valuable thing i learned about you from the markets, but i think the most valuable is if you look around everybody is going crazy you be quiet. and if you look around and everybody is quiet sitting on their hands go crazy. it works. it really does work. >> i think we all know the stock market traders are a mood ring, right? they're panicky. they're very prone to emotion, right? you want to sit tight. you're saving, you and i and everybody else watching your show right now, are probably saving for retirement. they want to put their kids through school, long-term goals. so that means -- >> the grandkids or whoever is special in their lives. >> you bet.
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so it doesn't make sense to get involved in this mess right now, down 3316 on the dow. a lot of people not just talking about ebola. ebola was the trigger possibly. dow futures tanked this morning on the news that there was a second person involved in this whole ebola scare. >> that was irrational. i get it. >> well -- >> airlines. >> she has contracted -- >> a health care worker. >> that worried, tanked stocks. other issue, global growth not good. people are looking for good news right now. they're not seeing it in the markets. i ink that's what's going on here. >> rebels are 6-0 first time since 1964 we're 6-0. and i've not talked about this on television because if i start i can't stop. the entire college football world is centered on the state of mississippi for the first time since enough with the kitten, a full grown cat. >> what i say to that. >> life is good. >> we're favored by 17 over tennessee at home this weekend
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which is too many. if we lose you know what it will not do. >> what will you not do? >> i will not panic. because we are already bowl eligible and everything is fine. >> everything is great for you. your life is fantastic. >> no one i mow has anywhere near ebola. >> good. >> and nobody had to sell all their stocks today to make ends meet thank god. >> those were the professionals. >> they're just the professionals. >> regular investors can be smarter. >> they can. you know what we can do? >> what? >> relax. >> take a breath. >> good to see you, gerri. >> good to see you. >> hope you have a great rest of the day. >> i will. >> i'll watch for you the rest of the day. >> excellent. >> america's new war. well maybe there's a little panic there. the battle for an important town on the border between syria and turkey. this is very important. and we'll have the details on it coming right up.
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the pentagon is reporting it may have killed hundreds of islamic state fighters in battle for a key town in syria. we can show you what we have on this from kobani on the big wall. officials say the fighters jets overnight launched close to 20 air strikes near the town in kobani in syria. the strikes took out multiple isis positions and hit more than a dozen buildings that had militants inside them or at least occupied in the past. don't think. analysts say that strikes are helping kurdish fighters on the ground make progress against the islamic state fighters. the kurdish peshmerga are doing very well up there. as we've been reporting kobani is not a couple miles from turkey itself. militants have been trying to take it over since last march. i meant last month. march would have been a long time. but so far turkey has not joined in this fight.
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though, it's kind of talking like it is. it isn't. in fact, this week turkish fighters bombed kurdish rebels in a different part of turkey, not helpful. and the u.s. still has not reached an agreement on using the bases inside turkey to launch operations. we need the base and they're saying no. in iraq, pentagon officials say fighter jets launched a handful of air strikes near haditha and baiji north of the iraqi capital about 50 miles from the town of khan al bag gaddy. sources told us militants had circled that town. today we have no update on that situation. all that as president obama yesterday called the war a long-term campaign saying there will be days of progress and periods of setback. let's bring in ambassador dennis ross, a fox news contributor. ambassador ross served as a special assistant to president obama, special adviser to the
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former secretary of state hillary clinton and adviser on the middle east decades dating back to president reagan's administration. where are we today? >> i think we're in a process where, in fact, we will have days as the president said where we have gains and days where we're going to see that isis has some gains. isis wants to create symbolic victories because it uses that to try to enhance its appeal. the more it looks like it's standing to us and effective, the more it looks like it is a growing concern and draws in a sense more followers. the key for us is, to emphasize their weakness, not their strength, the key for us is to focus on the setbacks that we can inflict on it, and the key for us is to begin to give greater visibility to where there are successes. one example being truth is today, you can drive the iraqi military can go from baghdad to kirkuk it couldn't do that before. >> if it sought to. >> that's true. where it can't do so well, isn't
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doing so well is in an bar province, in the the west of baghdad, and the fact is, baghdad airport i think is under some threat at least from rockets and mortars. >> you know, i'm hesitant these days because during the last iraq war they kept telling us things that turned out not to be true and that's concerning for all of us as journalists and for people in the regular public as well because we know that over the last couple of days, they got an important base, that there was a strategic withdraw as the iraqis called it to another base, so they have all of these weapons that came from the united states and all of these people, these iraqi fighters with isis coming at them, and no signs yet they will fight back and we know if they don't fight back, which they haven't in the past, isis will take all of our wasn't again and that's not a good thing. >> no. look i think the fears that you're pointing to are legitimate, but there are some areas where we're beginning to see some of the sunni tribes, the shahmar tribe, they are fighting back. our big need at this point is to
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be able to mobilize the rest of the sunni tribe so that they will do what they did before. now one of our problems is that because those sunni tribes have fought al qaeda in iraq which was the precursor to isis and defeated them with our help, in 2007/2008, they had a series of promises, they feel they were left in the lurch, it's going to take some time to convince them that we're going to be there for them, that they're going to be armed, their a going to be financed, they're not going to be left alone and the more we get them, the more you're going to be able to not just defeat isis but be able to discredit it which is the real end. >> discrediting the real end. that really is it, because the ideology really is the thing that you're combatting. if you give them new hope other than this misplaced, misguided ideology, then you might stand a chance for a victory. >> absolutely. that's the case. look, we have got to be in a position where we demonstrate once again that they're a failed
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pretender. they're the latest in the series of pretenders who think somehow they're going to restore their greatness to the middle east and they're going to be the champions and the platforms for producing it. they will not. they will lose in time. the sooner we can have an and inflict symbolic deet de feet them the better. >> that's so on point. ambassador ross always nice to talk to you, thanks very much. >> my pleasure. >> we're going to change gears. the top of the news for you, i don't know if you heard about this 10-year-old boy accused of killing a 90-year-old woman. police say she was yelling at him. prosecutors say they will try that boy as an adult because really under the pennsylvania system, that's kind of the only option on paper, but do you lock up a 10-year-old boy for the rest of his life or do you come up with something else? the attorney has vowed to fight it. we'll have all the details when we turn to the top of the news right after this. before earning enough cash back from bank of america to help entertain some friends at the beach. before earning 1% cash back everywhere, every time.
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headlines. at least 12 people reported dead, five more missing after a blizzard and two avalanches in mountains of northern nepal. one official there says it could take days for crews to dig out some of the bodies from the snow. two u.s. astronauts have just wrapped up a successful spacewalk. nasa reports they made a repair aimed at restoring full power to the international space station. nasa had put a stop to nonemergency spacewalks for a year after the series of glitches, including a water leak that's nearly caused an astronaut to drown in his space suit. and 13 rare photo negatives from then future president john f. kennedy's wedding and they're up for auction today. they showed jfk and jackie cutting the cake and celebrating with the family dog in rhode island. the year was 1953. bidding for the set reached nearly $20,000 on-line.
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testing two potential ebola vaccines here in the united states including the first human trial in this country. rich edison live at the walter reed army research hospital outside washington. what do we know about these human trials going on? >> well, shep, they're going on right here at this research hospital center and what you're looking at here is the test cases are given the vaccine, they're monitored initially on a daily basis and the next couple weeks another group of test cases will come in. they will be given a stronger version of the vaccine and two weeks after that, a stronger version. researchers are looking to see how they react, what kind of antibodies they're building to the ebola virus and side effects to this. we should get initial results in mid to late december. may seem like a long time off but researchers say they have moved up this timeline. >> once the regulatory agencies say that this is safe to move on to phase two, then we'll progress from there. the timeline is at this point being compressed but it's
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unclear when aroduct actually might hit the market. we took about six weeks to do what would normally take about six months. >> now the vaccine that they're testing here developed by the canadian government. it's been licensed to a private company called new link genetics. there's more government and private testing go going on a short drive at the national institutes of health in maryland. there they're partnering not only with the u.s. government, the u.s. government is partnering with glaxosmithkline, major pharmaceutical company, and a german pharmaceutical company, and they've announced xl bios has gotten the clinical testing on this. a major partnership here to try to move this along, different components working the private sector, the government, to try to get this out, get this tested, get this approved and, of course, these private companies stand to make a lot of money off of this if it's widely distributed as do the governments. shep? >> thanks very much. rich edison for us this afternoon. a bombshell report in "the new york times" claims there was an apparent cover-up by the
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american government involving u.s. troops. according to the report, the secret casualties of iraq's bane donned chemical weapons from 2011. iraqi troops encountered and were wounded by chemical weapons remaining from years earlier in saddam hussein's rule. according to the reporting of the times, 17 american service members and 7 iraqi police officers became exposed to nerve or mustard agents after 2003. the newspaper reports the military denied some service members proper medical treatment for their injuries and told them not to talk about the chemical weapons they found. jennifer griffin has the latest from the pentagon. what's the pentagon saying in response to these allegations of 17 american soldiers? >> shepard, the pentagon says there will be no defense department review of these 17 cases, but would not comment on whether these soldiers were given a gag order not to talk about their encounters with
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suspected mustard gas and sir ran filled artillery shells in iraq. >> right now our best estimate is it's around 20 that we believe through that period mid-2000s to 2011, 2010, were exposed to material from chemical ammunitions. >> the defense department acknowledged the discovery of those chemical munitions back in 2006 and said at the time more could be found. in fact, isis militants overtook a military base in july where some of these decaying chemical weapons were stock piled. however, few think these chemicals could be weaponized at this point. >> this is the opposite of a suggestion that the intelligence and saddam hussein had an active what would they call it weapons of mass destruction campaign in
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existence. he did not and this is almost proof of that according to the times. >> really these are sort of different wmd than what were used as justification to go to war in 2003. fox reported in july of 2004 that u.n. weapons inspectors found stock piles of these decaying chemical weapons that were from really the '80s and early '90s, chemical weapons in artillery shells. >> we're not sure how many more are out there that we haven't found but we found 10 or 12 sarn and mustard rounds. >> at the time defense secretary donald rumsfeld and others tried to use the revelations to justify the skeptical members of congress that the presence of these weapons suggested saddam hussein was, in fact, hiding wmd. a declassified intelligence report from 2006 estimated 500 chemical weapons were found, but they were from old stock piles that in some cases the u.s. provided saddam hussein.
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>> my conclusion is there's nothing new there, nothing at all. we're talking about can fisters which may have contained saran or mustard gas from the 1980s. >> the question now is whether these 17 soldiers will now get the medical treatment they may need as a result of their exposure to these chemical agents. shep? >> all right. jennifer griffin at the pentagon, thanks. now to the story i was telling you about before the commercial of a 10-year-old boy who's behind bars fox reports this hour after prosecutors charged him as an adult, a 10-year-old boy, charged him as an adult, because he beat to death a 90-year-old woman. investigators say this little boy was visiting his grandpa's house north of philadelphia where the 90-year-old woman was staying. according to the police, the boy admitted that he did hold a wooden cane to the woman's throat and then punched her nearly a dozen times in the throat and the stomach. the 90-year-old woman. police say the 10-year-old boy
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claimed he was angry after she yelled at him to get out of the room, but that he was only trying to hurt her, not kill her. yesterday a judge ordered this fifth grader held without bail. now under pennsylvania law, criminal homicide cases, have to go before an adult criminal court. there's no system in juvenile court for this sort of crime. but a defense attorney says he'll try to move it to juvenile court anyway. anna marie mcavoy with us, former federal prosecutor and adjunct professor at theed f forham university. this is tough. what do you do. >> one of the things they will have have to determine is whether he is competent to stand trial for this crime. what do they do with him? does he know the difference between right and wrong? did he understand as a 10-year-old that doing this to her, could cause her to die? he says all i wanted to do was hurt her. did he have the knowledge of -- and understanding and intent to
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do this or was this just some sort of rage he went into and maybe he has a diagnosis that maybe somehow explains this and he needs treatment. it's a difficult situation to know what's going on at this. >> anne marie in the adult world it doesn't matter. >> right. >> if you hit someone, trying to cause injury, not trying to cause death, and you kill that person, it doesn't matter what you were trying to do. >> right. >> it can be murder one. this is a 10-year-old. >> so when we're looking at a youngster we have to see do they understand the difference between right and wrong. normally at 8, most children are what they say swearble. you can bring them into court and they can testify. the understanding they generally do understand. certainly the courts, the lawyer already has said he wants a competency hearing to seer this through the system or not. there are difficulties. for instance, he made statements, he was read his rights, did he understand as a 10-year-old what his rights were and he had a right not to make a statement? he said i killed her.
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you know, i killed the lady. an adult would know perhaps that they have a chance to say it or not. a 10-year-old isn't going to know that. it's difficult. the problem is you can't just put a 10-year-old in a juvenile system who's already committed murder. what if he hurts one of the other children in the juvenile centers. >> you're responsible. >> that's a problem. and god forbid somebody gets hurt. so it's a very difficult thing to have a child this young who's done something so extreme. >> one life taken, a lot of lives ruined. they'll push for a change. we'll report on what happened. >> thank you. the pentagon reportedly covered up the fact that chemical weapons had injured u.s. troops in iraq and kept some troops from getting proper medical care for their injuries. as i reported already that's according to the new york times. details and response from the pentagon coming up.
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they're too into it for me. some pictures to show you. serbia was hosting albania or serbia were hosting albania and somebody flew a drone carrying an albanian banner over the field, so the of beating it into them. what happened from here. you know, who is it the guy with the chair on the sidelines. texas tech. who was the coach? anybody. bobby knight. very bobby knight of him. we take goal posts and parade them around the town square. we don't do this. i recommend they don't do this. they say that they're debating possible punishments against both team and serbia may have to
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play in belgrade without any fans in the stands the next time they play because that's too much. weather alert, hurricane gonzalos has threatened a cat 4 on track to slam bermuda within days. national hurricane center reports the storm now has maximum sustained winds, sustained winds at 130 miles an hour in the worst of that thing right there in the middle. right now it's a little more than 600 miles south-southwest of bermuda. the storm reportedly killed one person already, two other people reported missing, any chance this will affect nous any way? let's get to the main man. the chief meteorologist in the weather center. >> shep, not a direct impact from this which is great news. the strongest atlantic storm since 2011. gives you an idea of how big it is. this system across the eastern seaboard some of the moisture from gonzalo will get pulled up into this system and we will see increased rainfall totals. possibly some pretty significant
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flooding across new england through the day tomorrow. but the main storm gonzalo right there, 130-mile-an-hour storm and really all sites set on bermuda with this thing. all the models are in agreement that we weit's going to get clo bermuda. this hurricane the strongest winds are in a smallenter of this. so, you know, it's kind of like getting thread through a little bit of a needle here. we'll see what happens. this is one of the model depictions here. you can see the hurricane swirling there. go towards friday morning and this hurricane getting there by bermuda. bermuda pretty much set to handle strong storms but this will be likely the strong nest a long time. want to tell you another hurricane potentially getting towards hawaii. we're going to watch this by saturday morning as well. folks in hawaii this could be their third scare this year from tropical systems. >> i don't know who they made mad but they've done it now. hawaii, good grief. thanks, rick. >> you bet. fox report now more of the headlines from the fox news
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deck. oscar pistorius ruined an entire family when he killed his model girlfriend. that's what reeva steenkamp's cousin said at the blade runner's sentencing hearing in south africa. the first member of reeva steenkamp's family to testify. she got so emotional the judge had everybody take a break. he's facing 150 years in prison for what they call negligent homicide. we would probably call it something less than homicide. at any rate the defense is arguing for house arrest saying he suffered too. he claims he shot steenkamp by mistake thinking she was an intruder. prosecutors say he murdered her after an argument. prisoners dangling a guard upside down from a roof from a riot in brazilp. inmates threw at least six off the roof and they all survived. this is happening now, about 500 miles south and west of rio. police say the prisoners are still in charge. that sounds familiar. but they have agreed to release
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one of the dozen guards they're holding hostage. here at home, oners have is suing more than 30 companies accusing them of selling knockoffs of its chuck taylor's sneakers. do you think? the defendants include sneaker. including skechers, walmart and k-mart. so far, no response from any of those companies. knocking off chucks. protesters in hong kong have gotten ugly. activists blocked a key tunnel, and police released their batons. this is about democracy. right now they have one country, two systems. hmm. they want that to continue somehow.
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prodemocracy democrat stwrators went head to head with police in hong kong in some of the worst violence since the demonstrations started two weeks ago. hundreds of coughs used helper spray, tore down barricades, and dragged away dozens of activists. the protesters are demanding more freedom to select their own candidates and less control from china's communist government the lee gabriel is with us on the deck. what do we know? >> she said, the police department spokesman in hong kong says -- and also that seven officers have been temporarily reassigned. take a look at the video. local news station first aired this, saying the beating went on for four minutes. it answer to be plain clothed police, and police say they'll look -- but they still place
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blame on the protesters. >> in an aggressive manner, kicked our officers, attacked them with umbrellas, and snatch new barriers. even with their arms raised, this just could hardly be a peaceful means of protess. >> the first election to choose beijing -- sorry, to choose hong kong leaders is coming up in 2017. they protester are upset over a plan to have a pro-beijing committee prescreen the candidates for the election. >> it's basically chinese control. that officer -- or leader was just saying that the protesters in some way have turned on the cops. >> that's right. before we were seeing the protesters block main roads, thoroughfares, but last night -- actually tonight we saw hundreds of protesters outside the police headquarters. they're angry about the alleged brutality. a hong kong attorney says, if the allegations are true, the
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officers involved are guilty of guilty of criminal assault, and it's such a sensitive time. >> this case is serious because it is very unusual for hong kong police to behave in such manner. and that's why so many people are paying attention to it. >> now, he says that those responsible must be brought to trial, shep, to establish that rule still stands in hong kong. >> the dow is about to close, the news is getting better. we'll have it for you after this. so i can reach ally bank 24/7, but there are no branches? 24/7 it's just i'm a little reluctant to try new things. what's wrong with trying new things? feel that in your muscles? yeah... i do... try a new way to bank, where no branches equals great rates.
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new beard, little girl who changed the face of history, 154 years ago today. when news breaks out, we'll break in. it was down 460 at one point, but now down about 1%. so that's better. stocks rocks, as a second health care worker tests positive for ebola. at one point today the dow surthe worst intraday plunge of the year down 46 on points, but cutting its losses at the close, the dow finishing down 172. some of the airline stocks hit hard early on also coming back a bit. here's what started it all. the cdc saying that second health care worker amber joy vincent, took a commercial flight one day before showing symptoms of ebola. flight officials say she never should have been allowed to board. the president cancelling a fund-raiser to deal with this.
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