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at the same time the texas governor, governor rick perry, is on his way back to his state as well. so, we will keep you abrevity of the situation happening in texas -- abreast of the situation in texas. thank you for being part of the "the real story" today. now to shep. >> beating back islamic state terrorists. word in major progress in the fight to keep them from taking a key town in syria fear the -- near the turkish border but word of a big battle about to go down in iraq, and if the militants win it, they could creep closer to baghdad. >> cops say a 19-year-old murdered his mother, father, and sister, because -- well, obviously because he owed money to a loan shark and wanted an inheritance. kid you not. wait until you hear what he did after the murder. most importantly today, i think, should this chimpanzee have the same rights as a
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person? should it? judges are considering that now. and the decision could change the way america treats its animals. and ebola. who you like better, cdc or congress? let's get to it. first from the fox news deck this afternoon. word that relentless air strikes in syria have islamic state fighters on the run, but the terror group appears to be preparing for a whole new fight in iraq, after a wave of terror attacks today left dozens dead in baghdad. over on the wall, the pentagon is calling operation inherit resolve. the daily beast web site is now reporting that the turkish
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government is allowing american drones to take off from their air best. if -- air base. if true that's big. possibly complicating the tense negotiations witch turkey, the state department reported that u.s. officials met directly with a kurdish political party, party linked to the group the united states and turkey call the terrorist organization. it's all mixed up over there, it's a jumble mix. and in the syrian town of kobani there are new signs of progress. it was on the brink of falling to the islamist militants before the u.s.-led coalition ramped up airstrikes. kobani is a key border crossing with turkey, and the united nations warned isis would likely slaughter civilians if it took this town of kobani.
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as the islamic state appears to be backing down, there's word the militants are gaining more ground in iraq, and doing so quickly. isis fighters reportedly have a town surrounded own three sides outside of dab. it's 20-miles to the west of the baghdad airport. local officials say the islamic state is lining up tanks and heavy equipment. apparently preparing for battle. i if that town falls it would include the towns isis controls-all of them leading in the same dregs. all of them leading to baghdad. iraq's capital city today, the scene of deadly chaos. officials say at least 38 people died in a series of bomb attacks. we don't know who is behind the
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bombings, greg palkot is live near the turkey border with syria. greg? >> reporter: centcom confirming what we have been seeing, u.s. jets very active for the past couple of days, fighter jets circling around and around over kobani. in the past 24 hours they have dropped 14 bombs, total of 53 airstrikes in just the last three days, and we have observed how they are impacting the terrorists, and the planes-under overhead the bad guys hunker down, centcom says they have hit 19 buildings occupied by terrorists today. when the planes are gone isis comes out. we watched bitter urban clashes between isis and the kurdish militia. contacts tell there was a new airstrike in the middle of a battle there. that indicates what we have been reporting, close coordination ten the u.s. and the kurds on the ground and contact confirmed that isis pulled back
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from several streets they were holding. he also made clear reports out today say that isis is withdrawing from the city are premature. they're pretty much an evil force here and a lot of fronts to be reckoned with. >> with us now from d.c., former state department spokesperson. thank you. >> always a pleasure. >> when you look down the river, baghdad is at the end of the line of cities, but is there real concern that baghdad could fall? >> no, i don't think so. that's a very tough target. i think they could probably get as close as the airport, maybe a little bit more, but remember, there are millions of shia faithful in baghdad, and i don't think that isis has the force to overwhelm them, but certainly would be a game, change areer -- game-changer to have them take the airport. >> i want to ask you, we know
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they have come down here, they got hit and then a number of bases and we know about ram mat diand -- ram a ramadi and fallujah. they wouldn't fight for the other towns. >> well, first of all, those other towns are largely sunni. second of all, they're much smaller and easier. they're much easier to surround and take and hold. but i think, look, two broader points to make. number one, i think what we're seeing is a very uneasy coalition against isis. you have turkey, iran, the gulf states, you have europe. they might all agree on the need to fight isis, but they don't agree on much else besides that.
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turkey wants to know the plan with assad and aren't willing to jump in until the u.s. and others are willing to commit to take out assad. we're not willing to do that. the they want to fight isis but see iran as much a threat as they do isis. so, there isn't -- there's a coalition, frankly in name, but i don't think there's a coalition in terms of long-term strategy. that's point one. point two. i think what you're seeing when you look at kobani and then look at iraq is, kobani is the problem of today, but even if we saved kobani, there's going to be another one tomorrow, and the fact of the matter is, there is no long-term military solution to this problem. the end of the day, the solution is political and cultural, and as long as you have identity-based politics, which i are divided along religious and sectarian lines, violence will be a part of the reality of this
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region, and so that's why when you see countries like iran, fomenting extremism, supporting see ya elements with arms and violent agendas, that does not argue well for the future of this part of the world. >> bless you, mr. ambassador, and thank you very much. >> okay. >> to recap, there's no military solution. the violence will continue. and unless you fix the government, nothing is going to change. so far there's not very good evidence that the government is fixed. watch this space. security council meetings at the united nations are probably going to be a little more awkward because venezuela just got a seat on the security council. yay, world. good job, world. venezuela on the security council at the united nations. probably good news for russia and china and cuba as well. that and the latest facts another ebola. i can sum them up in this sentence. ebola is not spreading in
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progress in the world. one our nation's harshest creditishings, venezuela, just got a seat on the unites nations security council. today's vote gives russia and china an ally on the council.
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analysts say it gives more power to cuba, which essentially runs venezuela out in that hugo chavez passed away. in 2006, chavez called george w. bush, el diablo, translated, the devil. also winning seats, angola, malaysia, new zealand, and spain. the new members join the security council on the first of january and will serve through 2016. venezuela, welcome to the body of nations. ebola now. as we reported yesterday, there is no spread of ebola in america. no change today. no ebola, and no reason for anyone to fear at all. the people in charge of keeping us all safe were not at their jobs today. they were pulled from their jobs to answer questions from our elected representatives. questions including, mr. cdc director, how high should a child's temperature be before the child's parent demands a
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test for ebola. real questions. going to hear it in a minute. of course the answer is, that was ridiculous question. the cdc director handled it better than that. listen. >> is it 104.4? 101.5? 99.6? i think there's some great confusion because initially when people were screening mr. wagner at the airports in west africa, the temperature threshold was 101.5. and then i think now the screenings at the five major airports, including hartsfield international in atlanta, it's now 100.4. when mr. duncan came for the first time to the texas presbyterian hospital, his temperature was, what, 100.1, and within 24 hours it was 103.
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so, when mom and dad are out there work and their child has a temperature and this fall is flu season and they're going to the doctor, they're going to demand being checked for ebola. give us some guidelines on what is elevated temperature and when should parents be concerned? >> first, parents should not be concerned about ebola unless you're living in west africa or the child has had exposure to ebola. >> told you it was a real question. no reason for concern at all here in america. where ebola has not spread beyond one patient and two healthcare workers. very sad situation for that patient and those healthcare workers. beyond that, there is no concern, and if little johnny or janey has a temperature, it could be flu. which killed 52,000 people in america last year. unless you have been contacted by medical professionals and been informed you have come into
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contact with one of three people who have ebola, of the 319 million people in our nation, you have nothing to fear. i have nothing to fear. ebola is not spreading. one more thing. cdc, congress. jonathan surrey is at the hospital in atlanta. what's the latest on the two nurses? >> reporter: emory university is releasing no information on amber vincent's condition, citing patient confidentiality rules but you seek her walking on her own power. that suggests she is beginning treatment in the very early stages of the disease. public health officials say early treatment appears to produce better outcomes in ebola patients. during hearings in washington, the one that you referenced, federal health officials said the other nurse, nina pham, remains stable.
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although her condition has not worsened they want to bring her to the biocontainment facility at the national institutes of health so she can receive in their words, state-of-the-art care. >> what more do we know about the isolation units? >> reporter: very few of them. one of them it as nih. one is here at emory where i am right now. only four of them in the country, but they're designed to treat patients with highly infectious diseases and equipped with the staff with the know, how, how to treat these serious diseases such as ebola. early on in this outwreak there was a belief that virtually any hospital in a modern country like the u.s. would be able to safely handle an ebola patient. the fact that two nurses at texas health presbyterian hospitals, which doctors say is a great hospital, even though these nurses were wearing full protective gear and were in a good hospital, they became infected while treating an ebola patient. that's changed some of the thinking.
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you may see more of these patients being sent to these biocontainment units or larger hospitals. dr. robert murphy at emory university center for health believes the patchwork of federal state and local authorities responding to ebola needs to fall under a centralized command structure. listen. >> we need is really one person who is going to run this thing from top to bottom. and the only person or group in the united states that is capable of doing that is the cdc. >> and it appears the cdc is taking a step in that direction. sending those go teams to anywhere that an ebola case is reported in the u.s. shep? >> jonathan, good of you. thank you very much. the bottom line, ebola is not spreading ins her. when you hear the panic, reject it as ridiculous. the head of the transportation security administration announces he is stepping down at the end of the year, he is john pistol.
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you probably hear him at the airport, hello, this is john pistol. thetas' longer serving administrator, served as deputy director of the fbi before being nominated for the tsa in 2010. in total he worked 31 years for the government. good grief. a source says he has already sainted a possession in education that will start next year. hopefully he won't leave the airports. it's comforting hearing him. hi, john, glad you're hear. another change for the obama administration, the second highest ranking official in the justice department announced he, too, is stepping down. deputy attorney general james cole is a veteran of law enforcement. cole will leave as soon as the end of the years. this is actually the third recent change for he justice department. just last month the attorney general, eric holder, announced he will formally step down next year. while the third highest ranking justice official, tony west, left earlier this month to
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become general counsel of pepsic. a political debate good at off to -- got off to a strange start. thank you, florida. look at this. look at this. what is interesting about this? well, it's really quite interesting and only in florida, and really, really awesome. baseball notice kansas city. for the first time in nearly three decades the royals will play for a title, i'm told. we'll remind you what the world was like the last time the kansas city royals won. good for you, kansas city. we used to just think of kansas city as a farm team for the yankees. look at these kansas city royals. you do the thing. i like the underdogs like the ole miss rebels. i like the kansas city royals. suddenly, and for this moment only, and the rebels for the rest of my life, amen.
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to third. fair ball. 29 years of frustration has ended! the royals are going to the world series. >> man, that is so awesome. good for you. you heard it. the first time since 1985 the kansas city royals are heading to the world series. kc completed a four-game sweep it up of the orioles last night. the royals are baseball's cinderella story this year by far. the team has not lost a game in this entire playoffs. they'll face either san francisco or st. louis, clearly 29 years is a long time. we wanted to look back at life
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in 1985. i was in college. ryan was a zygot. tell me what you know about 1985. >> '8405, the royals let by george bret, went on to win the world series and beat st. louis in seven. >> i believe there were alcoholic beverages there. >> brett is actually now vice-president of baseball operation for these royals. >> very cool guy. >> fox broadcast network had note yet launched. i was six, this is the 15th 15th year fox will -- tell cast the world series, and it was the first ban of smoking in a restaurant. smoking was still allowed on planes. the new coke -- >> you don't know new coke. >> i do. >> brilliant work.
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go, atlanta. >> and then finally for you, iowa, the hawkeyes, ranked number 1 in the ap college football poll. that has not happened since. >> that's like 1964 for the rebels. 50 years. wow, '85. thank you, ryan. now florida. oh, florida, the gift that keeps on giving. a potential debate that started off, well, weird. the republican governor, rick scott, is running for re-election against the former governor, the republican turned independent turned democrat charlie crist. they had a debate schedule but first one of them, well, neither of them -- watch this. >> as you can see, the two candidates who were invited to take part in this debate right now are not stepping up on the stage. ladies and gentlemen, we have an extremely peculiar situation right now. >> shades of obama-mccain,
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oxford, mississippi. governor crist then did come on the stage but not governor scott. turns out there was an issue over a fan. this electric fan. here's the moderator. >> governor crist has asked to have a fan, a small fan, placed underneath his podium. the rules of the debate that i was shown by the scott campaign say that there should be no fan. somehow there is a fan there. >> elliott rodriguez, pronounces to the world, somehow there is a fan there, and governor scott was not there. finally he did join them for the debate, with the fan still in place! >> ladies and gentlemen, that has to be the most unique beginning to any debate. we won't forget.
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>> we won't, because florida. steve harrigan lives in florida for us. kind of you. it's beautiful down there. that was just another in a series of awesome things we're covering today. >> shepard, people were just amazed when this happened. looked like for a little while on live television that one candidate was simply not going to come out. what was going to happen next? right now governor scott is saying that he never refused to go out on stage. this has been part of a series of response from the scott side. after the debate, some supporters of scott said kris had broken the rules. there were clear rules no electronics on the podium. fans specified. and finally, governor scott0s own words when asked during the debate about his absence. >> i waited until we figured out if he was going to show up. he said he was going to come to the debate. >> former governor crist, for his part, wondered aloud to the
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audience why the other side was making a big deal -- his words -- about a fan. >> a debate about a fan or talk about the education and environment and the future of our state? >> so there were no candidates at the podium at the very start, and then crist was alone for five minutes before joined by governor scott. >> then once they got together, did they have tea or did they actually do any debating? >> they did debate pretty hard. some clear differences between the two sides on the issues of minimum wage. crist wants to raise it. scott said, no, that would cut jobs in florida. on gay marriage, crist is for it. scott is against discrimination but for the traditional family. the two side have spent more than $70 million, mostly negative attack ads. 30% of the voters only think that both candidates are honest or esteemed themselves. the race is in a dead heat.
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>> wonder if anyone will show up. steve harrigan down there in florida. thank you so much. congress, governor, cdc. a teen reportedly confessed to killing his sister and both his parents. listen to this. a teenager confesses, yes, i killed my sister, my mom, killed my dad, and i did it so i could pay a loan shark. details on this case coming up. here's an unusual question about a chimpanzee named tommy. >> the question is, is tommy a person sniff he is, then we'll probably win the case. if not, we'll probably lose the case. >> is tommy a person? there's tommy. well? woman: everyone in the nicu -- all the nurses wanted to watch him when he was there 118 days.
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back to ebola now, which is not spreading in america. officials at texas health presbyterian hospital in dallas said they did indeed follow
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federal guidelines while treating the ebola patient who later died there health officials say two nurses contracted ebola while treating the patient. the nurses are the only two people who have become infected in the united states. nobody else, ever. the hospital officials made this proclamation because leaders of the national nurses union said the hospital did not properly train staffers to health the disease, therefore putting workers and patients at risk. so the hospital is firing back because ebola. we do not know exactly how these women contracted the virus, but plenty of nurses are blaming the hospital. is that right? >> that's right, shep. and the actual colleagues, the nurses who work with amber vincent and nina pham are
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speaking. the first days they were treating duncan they decide not have proper attire. they tried to layer gloves and were told to put medical tape on their nexts. they cite confusion. >> the nurses are not fear mongering. what they're attempting to do is actually have coin takenment, the highest -- containment and care for them patients to eradicate fear and eradicate this disease. but without action at a very high level -- how can we expect nurses to do this on their own? >> the hospital firing back, saying the assertion does not reflect actual facts learned from the medical record and interactions with clinical care-givers. our hospital followed the center's for disease kole guidelines and south additional guidance and clarity. the hospital went above and beyond the cdc recommendation. waste was well contained and located in safe and containable
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locations, and the hospital additionally, shepard, is saying the reason they wanted to transfer nina pham maryland because they have a staffing shortage because people are being monitored. >> thank you, alicia. >> a 19-year-old could face the death penalty are proofs say he confessed to kill his family so he could pay off a loan shark. investigators say this man, allen ruby, admitted he stole his father's handgun, then shot his mother, shot his father, and shot his 17-year-old sister. this was last thursday. in their home. south of oklahoma city. the police say the family's housekeeper found their bodies, four days later. listen to the 9-1-1 call she made. >> the whole family laying down on the floor in the kitchen. i think they're dead. they're ice cold. >> according to prosecutors, the son said he owed a loan shark $3,000, so he killed his entire family to inherit the estate.
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prosecutors also said that the dad was going to cut him off financially because the teen couldn't control his spending. according to court documents he took a trip to dallas with friends soon after murdering his entire family, and he and his buddies reportedly stayed at a five-star hotel and watched oklahoma beat texas on saturday. yesterday, a judge order the suspect held without bail. he did not enter a plea. drew finley joins us now. i don't know where to start with this. what are you thoughts here? >> well, he has a difficult road ahead of him because he is in oklahoma, which, along with texas and virginia, are the three most often used states when it comes to employment of the death penalty. his problem is he made a statement, and in the statement he says that he did this for financial gain. that is his father had cut him off -- remember, he was on probation because apparently a
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couple years ago he stole his grandmother's credit card and ran a bill up for thousands of dollars. his dad turned him in. and that's why he said he had to go to a loan shark for the money. he said he did this so he can pay off the debt because he would be the lone inheriting party in this family since he killed his sister as well. he would be the sole beneficiary. the problem in oklahoma is if you kill for financial gain, that is an aggravating factor that can satisfy a requirement to pursue the death penalty, and if a specifically cruel and torturous type of death -- cruel would be satisfying by laying in wait like he did. he has a tough road ahead of him when it comes to possibly looking at the death penalty. >> if he caws you and says he needs you to get him off the hook, what do you do?
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>> there's no doubt he is going to have to be evaluated. i've been saying, for ten years when you ask me questions on cases like this, you have to get this kid evaluated immediately. you look at the fact that the way he conducted himself ex-going to the ritz-carlton after killing his sister and mother and father, laying down and folks watching this can go on fox's site and see this -- laying down in a selfie picture, watching watching the ball game from the witness karl top -- from the ritz-carlton. that's indicate itive of hype omania behavior which is continue with bipolar. so you're going to look at that type of mental disorder and the degree to which it affected him. is it going to have him acquitted after he confessed to the killing? no but might save hem from the death penalty. that, coupled with his attorney is going to have to contact surviving family members and say do you want to live with a death penalty case for the next 20 years or resolve this case asap
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and let this kit be sentenced for the rest of his life in prison. a lot of families will opt for that. >> drew, thank you. can parents be legally responsible for what their kids post on facebook? think of that, parents and grandparents. can parents be legally responsible for what the kids post on feigns? state appeals court has ruled, 's next. until you hear the
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if you wind up behind bars you have the right to appear before a judge and challenge your detention because you're a human. and an american. animals, on the other hand, don't have those rights because, well, they're animals. but a group of animal activists is trying to change that. at least for the mammals they consider the most intelligent and self-aware. they're asking the court to recognize a chimp as a person.
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>> can you smile? big smile. >> tommy used to work in show business. it's now the star attraction of this trailer says business. >> this is where we have our viewing set one the public can view him. >> living in a treasure controlled barn in upstate, new york. >> he is going to show us dominance. this is his territory, his home. >> a home on which tommy's owners said he dropped $200,000. >> he has seven different rooms. he has a room he likes to sleep in, another room he likes to watch tv. another room he plays. >> might sound like a sweet setup but that's not how an animal rights group sees it. >> for tommy to be kept by himself, year are year, is like a human being being kept in a prison in solitary confinement. it's extraordinarily terrible for him. >> the nonhuman rights project filed the legal challenge on tommy's behalf. the group is trying continue voc a right known as habeas corpus,
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which requires a judge to review detention. a court last year ruled some rights do not apply to chimpanzees but last week the group asked a penal of appeals court judges to change that by declaring tommy a person. >> a being who can self-term and is social should not be kept in a prison and should be able to be viewed by the law as a person. >> strange as it may seem the legal system has it own definition of what a person is. it's already granted personhood status to nonhuman parties, like corporations and ships, giving them the ability to sue or be sued. but judges have never extended those rights to the animal kingdom. not even to our closest relatives there. >> basically, state law and federal law, they have to be in a cage. >> tommy's owner has inspection reports which show he complies with all regulations, and says he has worked hard to keep his chimp happy. >> kind of hurts when you hear allegations or allegations made
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and you hear comments, people thinking wire animal abusers here and not treating him properly, and we're -- we know how to treat him, how to take care of him. we've been doing it for 20 years. >> we expect a ruling sometime in the coming weeks. if the judges declare tommy a person, activists say they would fight to send the chimp to a sanctuary in florida and would eventually ask courts to grant similar rights to other animals that they consider intelligent. there's a particular mouse in my apartment i've been chasing. if it gets any rights i'm in deep trouble. the parents of a seventh grade keir be held responsible for what their son posted on facebook. hear this. that is the ruling from an appeales court outside atlanta. court documents say the son helped create a fake faint profile, pretending to be his classmate. the fake profile reportedly claimed the student is a gay, racist, drug user. the boy's parents reportedly
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punished their son after they discovered the profile. but according to the court's ruling, the facebook page stayed online for almost a year after that punishment. still accepting friend requests and who wouldn't friend such a person. the court's decision opens the door for a possible trial against the parents and their son. defense attorney evangeline gomez joins us now. military families understand this is reality because if you have a dependent and you're active in the military you do something bad, daddy gets it. that's the military. not that way in the rest of society. >> this judge is saying this is the common law. under common law parent thieves reasonably -- have to supervise their children and what the judge is saying, okay, we're not telling you, parents to say, no, no more computer for you, child. you can still get on the computer, but you as a parent got notice that your child was bullying another child online. and what you should have done, a
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reasonable personality would have gotten online and say, is this profile still up? is my child still engaging in these activities? if so it needs to stop and that didn't happen this year. >> how do you see it? >> i think the judge is right. this is a big problem in this country and elsewhere, and parents can't sit here and say i'm going to lend a blind eye to it. that's my child. you're going to now be held responsible if other judges want to follow suit, if you know your child is bullying another child and you continue to lend a blind eye to and it not get involved and stop it. >> the question is, how far you have to go? do you -- an argument they might make die have to actively stop them. that was done -- >> the site was still up and he was still actively sending out messages, putting up posts on other people's profiles that were very racist. they were very sexual in nature,
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and this is being attributed to this young seventh grader. in seventh grade your reputation is everything. >> the moral as a parent? >> the lesson, if you know, you received notice from your school, you child has engaged in bullying, make sure -- especially online -- make sure that all the posts, the facebook account, twitter account, have been removed because punishing the child and a child's school suspension is not going to suffice. >> that's interesting. could this be precedent-setting? >> well, that's the issue with this case. it's one of first impression and they're saying it could be precedent-setting if it goes to trial and the judge rules in the parents' favor. if not you can be sued civilly and can pay money for defamation. >> this is still in the works. we'll report back. >> exactly. >> thank you. >> markets have been moving all over the place. traders making money after the dow plunged hundreds of points over the last five days. what does it mean for your money, your 401k you ir at a.
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to your mobile with no interruptions. i've never felt so alive. get the future of phone and the phones are free. comcast business. built for business. over on wall street it was down for a long time today, and then up a little bit, and then down, and right now it's as flat as a pancake. quick look at the big board shows there's nothing there now. the reds and the greens at the top, that tells the story. that tells you the story the traders have made a boat load of money today and the day before that. the rest of us, nothing. nicole is live on the floor of the place down there where they do that thing. you look great. what is happening and why is everything so weird? >> well, thank you. and weird is a great way to say it. you showed the red and green there. it has been a wild ride. 19 straight days where we have had 100-point swings or more from top to bottom. today we were down over 200.
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up 70. we have had this volatility, and in the last five days we last five percent of the dow jones industrial average. what's going on? global growth worries. worries about europe. worries about the middle east. but it's the slower growth that has been number one. a lot of people thought the markets ran up too far. what happens now? after -- at one point we lost a thousand points in a week. but we did get better job claims numbers, and we have come off the lows of the market. people are starting to step in and bite a bit. you cannot freak out and sell and that's what happens. people started to get a little nervous and that questions whether or not we actually hit the bottom. so, there's been a lot of wild movement here. >> some great news, though. unless your an oil seller, this is great news. oil ischias again. -- oil is cheap again, yay.
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>> you have gasoline prices 3.16. the question is whether or not there's demand for oil, and you want a global growth story, not globe growth din -- dwindling. >> but gas is cheaper. sorry there's a down side. you can see nicole on the fox business network. go to fox business network network.com/channel finder. go see it.
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on this day in seattle 87, milli as rescue workers pulled baby jessica out of a well in texas. 18-month-old jessica mcclure had fallen down the hole two days before. the opening was to narrow for rescue workers to reach her. so they dug another shaft next to the well, and drilling sideways, and 58 hours late sher was free.
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she grew up, too, got married, had two kids of her own, but at one witness put it, she was everybody's baby jessica 27 years old today, and if you're too young to remember that, it means nothing to you. wow, 27 years ago? hoo. >> the guy at the center of the ebola storm getting grilled on capitol hill, and the one thing the lawmakers want to know. why no travel ban from ebola-stricken regions right now. >> do you know in this country how many we can happen? >> our goal is for no patients -- >> i understand. as long as we don't restrict travel and we're not quarintining people and not limiting their travel, we still have a risk. >> we're able to screen them, collect their -- >> what if i don't come back? a lot of people come in this country and we lose track of them. they don't come back. what happens then? >> you're right. needs to be solved in africa. until it