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house and senate and hurts all of us, betty is voting because she says taxes are killing her in maryland. thanks, everybody, for writing, be sure to join us tomorrow for election day. thank you for being part of "the real story" today. here's shep. >> one day from the mid-terms with control of the senate at stake. ahead we'll look at where he key races stand and how the outcome could affect our politicians getting anything done for us over the next two years. plus, british banker accused of murdering women, and putting the body of one woman inside a suitcase. are there more victims out there? why did he call the cops on himself? plus, the spaceship disaster in the desert. investigators know what happened. right before the virgin galactic crash, and we have new illinoiss from moment everything went wrong. so let's get to it.
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>> word of major defeat for the so-called moderate syrian rebels who are a key part of the u.s. strategy to fight the islamic state. accord together "washington post." they're reporting that militant from al news a, a group linked to al qaeda, they have taken over the stronghold in the idbid province. it seems clear this is what happened. and some of the rebels have received antitank missiles under a secret cia program. so think of it, our antitank weapons, went to our friends over there, and now they've been taken by our enemies. pentagon officials do confirm al-nusra fighters have gathered in the area marked in red on the map. that's major supply line for the rebels. they want that line, the terrorist do, and they're vowing to take it.
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analysts say at times the al-nusra front and the free syrian army hat worked together to fight the syrian president bashar al-assad. he has been slaughtering his own people but al-nusra has turned against the rebels after the u.s. airstrikes targeted the group. u.s. officials say they've been training and providing weapons to the free syrian army to defeat the islamic state, and that strategy, in this battle, went up in smoke. jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon. what more do we know about al-nusra's gains in northern syria? >> right now, we can tell you that the al-nusra front is four miles from the border crossing between syria and turkey. this, as you mentioned, key supply line for u.s.-backed rebels. the so-called free syrian army. the gains made despite u.s. airstrike targeting the group are outlined by this u.s.-backed warlord who was seen as a key
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player on the ground in syria. the cia backed him in the last two years, training his men, providing him weapons. he posted this video on saturday after retreating from his headquarters in idbid. he opportunities the head of al-nusra. evidence of his retreat is a setback for the u.s. forces on the ground, as we have seen of late. >> so, the ground forces that are in essence working alongside our air support, were defeated and badly and quickly. what u.s. officials saying about this? >> well, u.s. -- senior u.s. defense officials and the white house say they cannot confirm with the latest u.s. intelligence there has been a complete rout of the free syrian army as reported by the "washington post" and others, in northern syria. but the white house spokesman indicated the latest intelligence provides a mixed picture. >> we're still -- we certainly
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are aware that rebels in syria are engaged in a multifront conflict and that conflict is taking a toll on them. >> the pentagon officials would not say whether they have lost track of the antitank missiles that the cia has provided to factions of the free syrian army in the past year. there is video reportedly showing the al qaeda-incorporated al-nusra front taking over some of the stockpiled weapons from the u.s. warlord and his fighters. >> wow. jennifer griffin at the pentagon. thank you. i say wow because it's all there. it's all true. they just won't mention it because history tells us, if you have a big victory, they tell you all about that. if you have a big loss, we're analyzing it. well, we have the video, and we know exactly what happened let's bring in adam, former state department spokesman who was ambassador to bahrain. nice to see you, ambassador. free sir yap army, our ground
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forces. they not only routed them, they took their weapon asks now the terrorist have antitank weapons not to mention everything else this group got from the united states. i don't know why they don't want to come clean with us but it's clear they don't. >> well, yeah. the administration is in a bind in the sense this is a nightmare because it doesn't want -- it's been very careful who it gives weapons to because it doesn't want them to fall into the wrong hands and this is precisely what seems to have happened. >> we have been careful who we geoff weapons to for decades ded generations and we have a history book that shows you how many weapons end up in the hands of our enemies. now who is the ground forces? what do we do about the border crossing from syria into turkey? if they get that border crossing, anybody will tell you we're in serious, serious trouble. >> i think what this shows us is a couple of things. number one, they might be free and thigh might be syrian but they are no army. the fact is that this is
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disorganized bunch of militias that we're training, but that takes time and we don't have time. second of all, looking for moderates in this part of the world, at this time, is like looking for water in a desert. the moderates have either been killed or fled and we're left with a very bad set of options. >> all of those things are true, and yet from our leaders, from the white house itself, we're going degrade and destroy them using our air support with fighters on the ground, and among them, the free syrian army. the moderates inside syria. well, that's what they've been saying. now they won't say they've lost these battles, important at mitt they've taken over our tanks. will there come a point they have to admit this strategy is not working? because we have all the evidence to suggest this strategy is not working. >> we'll have to look at the trend lines. this clearly appears to be a defeat of the guys we're supporting. can they rally? can they be a credible force?
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maybe. i don't think the trendlines are good about they're not willing to call it quits yet. >> not only not willing to call it quit i, aren't ready to admit exactly what happened. even in the fails of video of evidence and journalists reporting. we'll see how this moves forward. thank you, adam. we have just learned that police -- when police in chicago arrested the 19-year-old accused of trying to join the islamic state militants they arrested his younger sibling. again, they arrested a 19-year-old and his younger sibling, according to prosecutors. they say cops picked up all three last month at o'hare airport in chicago. the 19-year-old, now charged with supporting terrorist. police say he was heading to turkey when they got him. the siblings are 16 and 17 years old. they're not facing any charges so far. prosecutors have not named them because, obviously, they're minors. but they say the two also used, quote, barbaric rhetoric and were planning to act on it.
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the homeland security department is adding new screening requirements for europeans and other travelers who do not need a visa to enter the united states, according to the homeland security secretary jeh johnson. u.s. official are concerned about western fighters returning from syria. secretary johnson said that travelers from countries that fall under the visa waiver program need too give more information about themselves and more importantly their contacts. most of the countries are in europe. this is the second time in less than a week the secretary johnson announced security changes. last tuesday, he announced extra security measures as federal buildings in big cities across the nation, without specificity. might want to hold off before placing your next online order, especially if your thinking about shopping for the ohio. a new study shows huge businesses are charging customers different prices, in some case based on the equipment they use. in other words, are you on the computer or the phone? and what tide you pay last time you bought something?
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discrimination, though there's more to it than that and it's more widespread than they previously thought. researchersed a northeastern university in boston compared the price of 16 popular ecommerce web sites from major retailers from hotels and car rental sites like the ones here on my back. the study found that popular travel sites like cheap tickets and orbitz, showed higher prices to those who logged on as nonmembers even though membership is free. researchers say travelocity offered cheaper prices to those on apple devices, and hotels.com and expedia randomly led some people to hotel that cost on average 10% more. gerri willis is with us now. how do they explain this? >> they say it's not true. there's no price steering no price manipulation. that's not happening.
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let me give you one quote from orbitz. they say oh tells have complete control over whether to make rooms available on our web site. they may limit or wholly exclude the number of rooms they make available. additionally, hotels either wholly determine or heavily influence the amount the consumer says. so they're saying they manage prices and they do it in real-time and the prices change every time. that's something very different from what the authors of the study say. >> the authors say there's easy way tuesday tot get around this. >> sign up as a member. it's free and may help you get a better price. dump your cookies, a history of where you have been as you browse, and that tells people what you like to buy, what your tastes are, how much you're willing to spend, and just make sure at the end of the day, you understand what it is you're buying. shop in different part0s the country when you out there because the prices are different in different states actually, which is shocking. and it's buyer bewear but the
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rules north clear. that's part to the problem. >> you can get the hotel from the hotel's web site and then might get it from some other secondary market and the prices are completely different. not much difference between that and this. >> not mitch difference between that and this. that means you have to shop around. that's the bottom line. >> the bottom line on all of this. >> check around, look around. but the reality is, you may get different prices at different times depending on what is in your browser. the best guess right now is make sure you're a member of sites you're doing business on, shop around and dump the cookies. >> dump the cookies. >> don't east the cookies, dump the cookies. >> you can say goodbye to plastic hotel keys. the next time you're on vacation your smartphone may be allow need. starwood hotels and resorts, and other companies announce is it's roll ought smartphone hotel keys for iphones and android
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devices. it will use the phone's blue tooth technology after you download an app. you can opt into the service the day before you arrive. the app can show you your room number and activate your blue tooth key when you're room is ready. so you walk up, tap on your phone, and just like that, the door unlocks. no undoing the keys that go blank and you have to go downstairs. starwood reports it plans to have the feet tire installed in 150 hotels by early next year. the british businessman accused of murder, killing women and then calling cops to his apartment after he kills them. and wait until you hear what he supposedly included in his out of office e-mail replay about this stand of mind. >> an attack behind bars and word that somebody stabbed vander absolute, and he could be
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16 minutes past the hour now. joran van der sloot could be in critical condition after his fellow inmates stabbed him at a maximum security prison in peru. that's what the lawyer and his new wife are telling dutch news outlets he is still the prime suspect in the disappearance of the american natalee holloway in aruba in july he married a peruvian woman while he was in prison. she had a baby girl in september. guess they have conjugal visits. now prison officials denied the new claims he was stabbed and they've called his wife a,
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quote, compulsive liar, unquote. so who the hell knows. van der sloot is doing 28 years for murdering this woman, whom he met in a casino in peru, after natalee holloway went missing during a trip to aruba a decade ago. officials will extra date him to the united states after he serves his sentence in peru. >> a banker now faces murder charges, accuse of killing two women and stuffing one body inside his suitcase in his apartment in hong kong. he is a british man who worked for bank of america. police say he called them to his highrise on saturday. there cops say they found him standing over one of his dead victims. they say he was naked -- i should say, she was naked, unconscious, had cuts on her neck and rear. a few hours later investigators say they noticed a suitcase on the man's balcony with two feet sticking out. so a suitcase on the balcony
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where the dead woman was, with two feet sticking out, and a few hours later the cops noticed. inside the suitcase, the rest of the body of the second victim. investigators say she likely died a few days before in the apartment they say they also found a large knife, cocaine, and sex toys. a local newspaper reports cops also found some 2,000 pictures and videos of the two women on the man's phone. they're reportedly also looking for more possible victims. they won't tell us why. british media report the suspect quit his job last week. there's word his one-time fiancee cheated on him a couple of years ago and he was devastated of it. he apparently wrote on facebook just last week that he was starting a, quote, new journey, and he reportedly called him an insane psychopath in an out of office e-mail, a message which he said he would be out indefinitely. ashley merchant is a criminal defense attorney and is joining
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us live. ashley, i don't know. dead woman on the floor, cocaine pile, woman in a suitcase with her feet sticking out and a guy who says he is an insane psychopath. confusing. >> definitely confusing. the fact he called the police to come out when he has dead body on his porch, and he has another woman who is dying right there. that is what is really surprising to me. why he would be the one that would actually initialate contact with the police, and tells me he might not haven in his right mind. >> so how do you approach this as an attorney? >> well, from what he said in court, he wants to actually walk the hong kong government through the crimes and then re-enact the crime scene wife. immediately have him evaluated because he ha suicidal tendencies from his history and was not acting in his right mind. at nights he needs to have an evaluation to see if he had some type of a compulsion, suffered from mental illness because you have to try to mitigate what he has done.
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seems clearcut. so the only real hope is some type of mitt face. >> i don't understand what kind of person who committed murder would then go back and re-enact the crime scene on his or her own. >> exactly. he volunteered to do that. he did not ask for bail, which is odd. he could have post evidence bail. he -- posted bail. he asked not to be in police custody anymore and asked to go to a jail so that the police could not continue to interrogate him but hi asked to go back and re-enact the crime escape, which is very strange to me. all of these things don't add up and tells me that maybe there's something else going on there below the surface, in his brain, that is different, that might give us some answers to what happened here. >> i would probably also have some questions for investigators who failed to notice on the balcony the woman's feet sticking out of the suitcase. that's just me. >> right. especially since one of the neighbors said they had been smelling a vial smell they thought was a dead animal. if there was a smell why tide the investigators not look and
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try to find out what was in the suitcase. >> good question. thank you. >> we're seeing the final poll reports when americans choose who will control congress, we'll tell you where the races stand right now and what the percentages are from the reporting groups and does it mean if the republican have the house and senate. that's coming right up as we approach the bottom of the hour and top of the news.
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>> a fifth doctor has died of ebola in sierra leone, one of the west african nations battling the disease. doors at new york's bellevue hospital have upgraded the condition of dr. craig spencer to stable. he has been in isolation for more than a week. health officials say he started showing symptoms after he returned from treating ebola patients in south africa. the feds say hyundai and kia agreed to pay $100 million after investigators say the overstated gas mileage figures on car window stickers. company officials disease nye they broke the law. almost deyears after the costa concordia cruiseliner sank, workers found another body as they were dismantling the ship. coast guard officials believe this is the last body they'll find. they also believed that last time.
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it's the bottom of the hour, time for the top of the news, hours left for candidates to make their case tuesday the mid-term elections. the balance of power in the nation's capital and possibly president obamas agenda for the final years in office. we're watching a lot of important races. every seat in the house of representatives is up for grabs as long as governors in three dozen states. programs the biggest prize is control of the u.s. senate. on the wall, here's the current balance of power. democrats run the senate, obviously. republicans have to gain six seat and now you need a majority of 60 to get anything dub which is part of the reason we have been in the predicament we have been in for the last year or so. a final round of polling shows the g.o.p. with an enormous amount of momentum but with several key races still close, nothing i guaranteed. we have team fox coverage this afternoon. ed henrys is at the white house
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and rich with the poll numbers. >> tight races, several states featuring candidates pulling within a couple points of each other. republican congressman cory gardner i opening a lead on incumbent mark udall, in iowa, another seat, joni antiis over -- in louisiana, mary landrieu leads bill cassidy. however to win one candidate has to secure at least 50% of the vote. if not. voters try again next month with the top two. and in north carolina, kay haggan has a small lead. >> republicans have found themselves unexpectedly defending a couple of seats here, right? >> right. especially in kansas. the democrat drop us out, leaving senator pat roberts up against independent greg ohrman
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in georgia, david purdue us up on democrat michelle nunn, other state where the winner needs at least half the vote so this runoff would be in january, after the new senate convenes, and in kentucky, mitchell m-connell wants to be the republican majority. he has to win his election. he is up in in the average polling about eight percentage points. >> the president went to the campaign trail this weekend, tried to rally support for democratic candidates for governor in pennsylvania. ed henry with the news, live at the white house this afternoon. white house seems to be expressing confidence in this election. but of course there's a caveat. if they have confidence, there's something up here. >> vice-president joe biden was on cnn basically saying he believes democrats will hold the majority in the senate but in the next breath said, if we don't, we're ready to compromise with republicans and that seems
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a little mixed message, and similar from josh earn net at the podium today remember we started in recent months, the president on the trail saying he is not on the ballot but his policies are. that made it seem like it was consequential. things like pushing for minimum wage hike, immigration reform. they're on the ballot so he wanted democrats to vote for him, today josh earnest said this is not that big of an election. >> it would not be wise to draw as broad a conclusion about the outcome of this election as you would from a national presidential election. i'm not suggesting we're in a position where there should be in conclusion that's drawn from the outcome of this election. office course there should be. but that conclusion and any analysis you do is different than the analysis you would do on a true national election. >> bottom line, like any white house, deep into a second term, knowing that a mid-term election result might not be good for the president, they trying to temper
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expectations here big-time. he when they thought they had a bert shot they were saying it's inconsequential. now they're saying, nothing to see here, move on. >> the mid-terms in the second term of a president are often ugly, and you wonder if the republicans take over, iss there then a shakeup in the building behind you? >> i asked josh earnest that. he says he doesn't think people being hired or fired won't matter to the public. it's inside baseball. there's no doubt some truth to that but if you go deeper, look at the nbc "wall street journal," when they were asked, would you like to see a change in terms of leading the country, great deal of change, quite a bit of change, equals up to 67% of the electorate suggesting they think there into be a massive change here from the president in terms of leadership, regardless of election results and when i
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pressed josh earnest on that he didn't suggest there were any major changes. republican senator rabid -- senator rand paul said, the president said his policies were on the ballot and that's why republicans like rand paul are trying to push the notion this is a referendum on the president, win or lose. >> let's turn to historian douglas brinkley, professor at rice university. great to see you. thank you. >> thanks for having me. >> as a casual observer, one might find it interesting that when the president said, my policies are on the ballot, he did so because the american people overwhelmingly support their platform, for instance, health care, equal rights and equal representation, minimum wage, immigration reform. and yet the populous is seeing this as a fear election. we're afraid of what is happening and afraid of this president. at that time strategy has worked, hasn't it? >> it has worked. but usually happens in mid-term
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elections, presidents, as obama said a few years back, get a shell yacking. this time rind for president president obama, things like obamacare, the handling of ebola, isis, and doing some damage to president's polls, and somewhat astoundingly you see democrats just fleeing barack obama. they don't really want him campaigning at their side. bill clinton and hillary clinton seem to have all the oxygen in the democratic party. so if you're the president you just want to get this election over with. you're still commander-in-chief but you still have an awful lot of executive power. >> can we look to history to find out whether they'll be able to get anything done if the republicans take over both houses of congress and the opposition party has the presidency? >> i hate to say it's very doubtful much is going to get done, much big. might be a very brief window for immigration reform, put the truth is, with this speeded up modern media cycle, we're
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basically going to be running for 2016 a week after these mid tomorrow and with the republicans wanting to shake hands with the president, they're starting to trachea little bit. ostracizing him. doesn't seem to be much incentive for the g.o.p. to cut deals with the president. so i think you'll have a perhaps hillary clinton will call it a do-nothing congress, but the right's going to say these were failed obama years. nobody seems to be saying is the economy has recovered quite a bit, and the wall street is soaring. just doesn't seem to be part of the debate right now. >> it's not part of the debate. i wonder what you think of what could be the makeup of this new senate. the senate -- no one will have 60 plus. no one suggested anyone will have 60 plus. so you don't have filibuster proof. and if the republicans are the majority party, it's not like it's one thing. there's the agent of some moderate senators in the g.o.p., and then there's sort of the ted cruz wing, and you wonder which will take full front,.
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>> that's where the democrats have the edge. it's forgone conclusion that hillary clinton is practically going to get a core nation. the republican party -- i know, but somebody has to get in there. somebody would have to really challenge her in hard way. let's just make the leap there's not a big skissism in the democratic party, and the republicans have to decide if they're a rand paul party or rick perry texas conservative party, on and on, and that's wide open right now. i think the democrats just want to get this election day over. >> i'm sure they do, and runs cannot wait for it to happen. thank you so much. >> thanks. >> we'll have coverage all day -- night tonight and tomorrow, this campaign weekend, president obama said democrat does poorly in mid-terms and voters just don't show up, and he said even ukraine has a bigger voter turnout, and that country has a, quote, war going on. last week voters in ukraine elected the most pro european
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parliament in that country's history but did not stop russian backed rebels from holding their own election in cities in the east. they just set up boxes and did their own dang thing. russian officials said their country will respect the separatist election held over the weekend. european union officials are calling the elections illegal, which they absolutely are, and say they violate the terms of the cease fire that started in september. 4,000 people have been killed since april and not including the 300 or show that died when ha jet was shot out of the air. >> after a decade of construction, a milestone at the site of america's largest center. one world trade center is now welcoming its first workers. nick wallenda, staring death in the face again, walking over the skyline of chicago blindfolded. the televised event of the hour?
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fox report now and more headlines from the fox news deck. lava is now less than 500 feet from the main road in a town on the big island but a official says the flow has stalled and rain helped cut down on some smoke. they say 50 homes are still on alert to face evacuation. at least 60 people are now dead after the worst suicide bombing in more than a year in pakistan. that's according to local police. investigators say the attacker blew himself up yesterday near a checkpoint along the border with india. an offshoot of the taliban claimed responsibility. no bail for the man in
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massachusetts accused offed raping a 13-year-old girl, then going on a cross-country crime spree. cops say he ditched his electronic monitoring device in august, then kidnapped, raped and robbed women during his six weeks on the run. today he pleaded not guilty to the first round of charges, another hearing set next week. 13 years after the attacks of september 11th, one world trade center is now open for business. happened today. and the first ten indians are moving in. -- tenants are moving in. ryan has the details. there was a time when it seemed like the thing would be delayed by government bureaucracy for but out in it's real. >> con con con densa moved people in, the plan is more than 3,000 people will move in next year and they'll occupy 25 floors, floors 20 through 44. just so you know, one world trade, the billing is 60% --
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>> i didn't know that. better than it was. >> much better. other tenants include an ad tumor, legends hospitality, they have the cowboy and yankee stadium, and the government got in on the act. the general services administration agreed to lease 275,000 square feet. mr. hot dog. >> i remember him. >> in case you're looking, the higher the floors, run for 89 to 100 tuesday per square feet, and if you need more of deal, the middle floors, 69 to 75 per square foot. to give you an idea, lower manhattan prices range 50 tuesday per square foot, so these are a little steep. >> but the view is these. ryan, thank you. no harness, nod in no problem for nick wallenda, the tightrope walker who crossed crossed the grandcanyon and niagra falls on two-nitch inch cables has done it again, this time above the windy steady. >> let's do this, baby.
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>> with that the daredevil stepped out on the wire 60 stories up. >> that's the hardest part, waiting to go. i want to get on the wire and get across to the other side. >> his feat, a two-parter, first walk, 4 other feet over the chicago river from marina city towers to a taller skyscraper across the street. >> there's some wind. >> a tricky walk with the chilly winds in his face. >> some strong gusts, sometimes where there are crosswinds and definitely a lot steeper than in training. >> you're doing fine now. >> unfortunately i planned on doing a selfie right about here but i don't like this movement so i'm not going to. >> as the discovery channel cued the dramatic music, wallenda said a prayer. >> thank you, god, for theazingn me. what an amazing blessing. >> he made it to the other side in six and a half points but that was just the mid-point of
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his walk. after a quick breather he returned to a second wire between the marina towers-this time placing a blindfold over his eyes. >> we good? yep. >> two steps. >> erelying only on his father's voice and a pinging noise to help him find his way. >> looking good. >> i think he probably saw he shaking like a leaf. i wanted to make it to the other side. >> a little more than one minute and 45 steps later. >> three feet. >> one more step. >> nick wallenda established off the wire -- stepped off the wire, allowing america's second city to exhale. >> everywhere. >> love you guys. >> what is wrong with these sometime can't even look at the screen. when -- i just -- i don't
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understand guinness world record reports he broke two record, one for the highest tightrope walk on an incline and the other for the highest tightrope walk while blindfolded. nick would lean do says his next -- wallenda says his next stunt will recate one of his grandfather's walks, do hand stands on a tall wire over -- gorgeous in the state of georgia. hand stands over the gorge. news from the future. the feds now say they know what happened seconds before virgin galactic spaceship two broke apart. all we have learned about the future tourist to space plane that went wrong.
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the feds have come out with this, the very japan galactic spaceship broke apart mid-air after a device used to slow the aircraft's speed during its descent deployed too soon. this was breaking on friday. virgin galactic had been testing the plane ahead of potential space tourism flights. investigators say the crash killed the copilot on the left and seriously hurt the pilot, on the right, who was able to parachute to the ground. he is still in the hospital. we have pictures from before and after the crash that are now from our reporting on friday. here's how it looked before they war taking off from mojave desert, and here it is seconds after it took off. we talked about the separation from the plane that carries it to the spaceship, and there you can see the separation and you can see it separating from the mother shape, blah blah, and now you can see it start to break
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apart. this happened just 11 seconds after the carrier plane released it. investigatorsay it could take up to a year to figure out exactly what went wrong here. town trace gallagher live in the west coast news hub. hi, trace. >> focusing the investigation on the two devices that slow the spaceship down. they're called feathers featherd create drag so the paceship can return back to atmosphere. there are two steps to deploy the feathers. one they have to be unlocked and the happen has to be turned elm the data recorders and video recorders onboard the space ship show that the copilot unlocked the feathers well before he should have, and it's very unclear as to why he did that. but then here's the biggest mystery. listen. >> what we know that after it was unlocked, the faithers moved into the deploy position and two seconds later we saw
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disintegration. that's the fact. we'll find out the analysis as part of the investigation. >> so, in other words, the copilot unlock them and then for some reason they deployed on their own. that was nine seconds into the flight, two second later, the spaceship blew up. >> on friday there was no way to know exactly what happened, trace, but one thing we did know they changed the kind of fuel they used in those engines. has there been any discussion of that? >> well, this was the first time ever used these type of engines, using a manned space flight, and you talked about the fuel. we had liquid fuel and rocket ships and solid rocket fuel. this was actually fueled by a type of nylon, and it wag ignited by nitrous oxide. some rocket scientists warned virgin that night truss oxide at that time that altitude is unstable and dangerous, and in 2007 they had an engine test blow up on the ground that killed three engineers.
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the halloween cruise turned into a real scare for passengers when the ship hit something in the water. a picture of the bahamas celebration after it docked here. you can see it tilting to the side a wee bit. happened after the she left the bahamas for florida on friday. panicked people rated to grab life jackets. >> the lights blew out. we were eating. it was total chaos. nobody able to manage what was going on. we're stranded on the island for two days with no information, no food for 24 hours. for 24 hours no food. >> passengers say they thought it was some sort of halloween prank at first. it was not. and nobody got hurt. >> fans of apple will now have to wait longer to get their
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hands on the smart watch. the tech blog is now reporting one of apple's top executives say the apple watch will not hit store shelves until spring of 2015. apple had at one point claimed it would be ready for release early next year, without making the time frame very clear. apple's ceo tim cook unveiled the watch in the fall, along with the new iphone 6 and 6 plus. >> on this day in 1948, dewey defeats truman, at least according to the reporting of the chicago tribune to be fire lots of newspapers, and big ones, predicted that thomas dewey would bet president harry truman. historians say truman pulled off the comeback by taking a train trip across the country, talking directly to voters. at one rally supporterred yelled, give 'em hell, harry. he did. the slogan stuck, and harry truman had the last laugh 66
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years ago today. he loved the paper and they're still collector's items. >> "your world" with neil cavuto is coming up right now. >> thank you, shepard. what the hell was harken thinking? tonight a beauty of a dustup over a beauty of a blunder. the senator who is trying to dial it back. the would who wants to be senator is giving it back, and the former republican presidential candidate says comments like those are why democrats should never come back. today, more like running away. it's that ugly. welcome everybody, i'm neil cavuto. let's just say the reaction has been do taylor swift and for one tom harken not at all pretty. >> i was offended that senator harkin would say that. it's unfortunate that me and many of their party
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