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lot of breaking news today. we will follow the story about ty the dog lost at the l.a.x. airport. thanks for being part of "the real story" today. here's shep. >> congress gaveling for the first time since the midterm shakeup. still months away from the new republican led congress taking over up there. can this lame-duck session do anything? then, a husband in court, acc e accused of celebrating his anniversary by shoving his wife off a cliff. how his attorneys are trying to convince a judge this is all a big mistake. also, details of the diamond heist that played out steps from our studio at this time yesterday. it was breaking during this news cast. now we know at least how much they tell us the haul was during these robberies. on one of the most secure blocks in all of new york city. let's get to it.
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>> now "shepard smith reporting" live from the fox news deck. >> from the deck, rush a ya's president vladimir putin is flexing his military muscle. the russian defense department announced plans to fly bomber planes on patrol not far from the united states coast. a bold move as our relationship with russia reaches its lowest point since the cold war. the bombers are set to fly into the gulf of mexico. russia's defense ministers says the bombers will make regular patrols from the arctic ocean to the caribbean and over the gulf of mexico. the officials say russia has to have a military presence there during, quote, the current situation unquote. of course the united states and europe slapped russia with economic punishment over its invasion of ukraine. today, nato's top commander said more russian troops are flooding into ukraine, coming now, bringing tanks and artillery and combat forces. russia denies it all.
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no doubt russia is looking to expand its borders. earlier this year russia announced plans to build its military presence world wide. officials say that they're in talks with all of these countries about building bases. some of them just a short flight from the united states like cuba, nicaragua and venezuela. more russian planes and ships could increase the chances of a potential run in with our military. what if there's a mistake? this week a european watchdog group reported a dramatic rise of encounters with russian and nato poreses. it reported dozens of incidents three of which it claims carried a high probability of triggering a direct confrontation. one of them a near crash between a russian spy plane and a passenger jet. none of this is routine stuff and vladimir putin is in unchartered territory. jennifer griffin at the pentagon this morning. it's one thing to flex your muscle, it's another to put the whole world in jeopardy. >> that's right, shep. there was also that recent hunt for the suspected russian
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submarine off the coast of sweden that got the u.s. military's attention. 40 incidents involving the russian military coming in to near confrontation with nato members since putin's invasion of crimea. the pentagon reacted to the announcement from russia's defense minister today that russia plans to extend its long range bear bomber flights to the caribbean. spokesman colonel steve warren downplayed the threat and said the russians have patrolled in the gulf of mexico in the past and we've seen the russian navy operate in the gulf of mexico. these are international waters. one obstacle for russia is refueling. that's why russia's military is in talks with cuba and venezuela for air basing rights. pentagon officials don't see the move as a serious threat but it is a reminder that putin is trying to make his military mores visible and assertive. last september russian bombers, the strategic bombers that could carry nuclear weapons, reportedly practiced cruise missile strikes against the u.s. >> jennifer grinffin, thanks so
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much. author gordon sjeng is with us on the news desk. what is he doing? >> he's saying to the rest of the world look i can do whatever i want, the united states can't stop me, a new friendship with the chinese, they will finance what i'm doing, so i'm going to grab what i want and that's clearly georgia, ukraine, eastern ukraine. it's awful. >> but why does he -- he's doing it because of his own economic situation? >> well, i think so. because last year the russian economy grew 1.3%, which was below every estimate. this year it's going to 0.5% growth. and that was before the recent funds in oil prices which is bringing oil prices to its three-year low and russia depends on selling hydrocarbons to western europe and the chinese. >> what advance vang does it give him to take over and fly his bombers in the gulf of mexico. >> putin has always said he was going to reassemble parts of the soviet union he felt were taken
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from russia unfairly at the end of the cold war. clearly right now he is going to do that while the united states is certainly distracted in a number of other areas and the chinese are going to finance him because they have just signed up a major oil and gas deal and this is going to be important for putin because now he's going to have the money to fly those bombers in the gulf of mexico. >> this probably sounds deja vu to some of our viewers under reagan it was so simpler. >> it was similar. what reagan did towards the end of the cold war was to drive down the prices of commodities. >> that's what did it. >> that's what brought the soviet union to the end. they no longer had the money to support their military and keep their people happy. what we're seeing is the same dynamic. the prices for russian commodities are coming down but we're not intentionally doing it. if we were to start to push commodities down with saudis this would bring putin to the edge. >> but he still has the chinese. would that not be an affront to the chinese if we were to do such a thing? >> it would because they both see themselves as on the same
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page, see the united states as a common adversary and why they're molding their militaries together, the russians are selling front line equipment to the chinese and that's why they're now cooperating in east asia as well in other places. >> what's going to happen, though, if there's a mistake, an accident between one of these throwback bombers of the russians and something we're flying around? >> we saw this during the cold war when there were a number of near misses. we were fortunate to get through that. >> we got lucky. >> the problem right now is that putin thinks that he can use nuclear weapons not as instruments of deterrence but weapons of aggression because at the end of august he talked about using nukes to hold on to what he grabbed in ukraine and he learned a lesson, he got away with it so he's going to try it again and now the chinese have seen, oh, putin can doy can't we do it as well. because we've heard chinese threats to use nukes before. now they're going to become emboldened. >> gordon chang, thank you. >> thank you. >> protesters in turkey, have you seens this? roughed up three american sailors called them killers and
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shouted "yankee go home" and somebody recorded the whole thing. watch this. >> go home. yankee, go home. yankee, go home. yankee, go home. >> yankees go home. this happened in istanbul and did you see that, they put a bag over the guy's head near where the u.s. guided missile destroyer was docked for maintenance. these guys were minding their own business. the attackers here reportedly threw orange paint at the sailors and tried to put bags on over their heads. activists posted this video of the attack on-line. >> we find you as murderers, as killers. we want you to get out of our land. >> u.s. officials say the sailors were not hurt thankfully and they made it back to the ship safely and the navy now canceled shore leave for everybody on that ship for today at least. tensions are very high because of the battle against the islamic state along the
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turkey/syria border. reuters are reporting the activists are upset over a raid in 2003 in whiches u.s. troops put bags over the heads of 11 turkish soldiers in iraq. this is a nato ally. what do you do about this some. >> turkish police reportedly arrested 12 students in connection with the incident. the group that took responsibility for the harassment of the u.s. sailors are the turkish youth union, a group of university students who formed in 2006 who in their words oppose american imperralism and turkey's bid to be part of the european union. steve warren referred to the incident as ugly, disturbing and referred to the attackers as street thugs, adding their actions brings discredit to turkey's re nouned hospitality. >> what do you do about this? i mean americans can't let our people be treated like that? >> certainly not. turkey has been drifting away from nato. it's been drifting away from the united states for some time. so although we couldn't predict
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that this would happen at this moment it was clear that we were going to see incidents of this and probably see more in the future. >> gordon, thanks. here at home congress back in session. lawmakers meeting today for the first time since mid-september. republicans won control of the senate in the midterms last week. the new congress gets started in january between now and then, that's the lame duck congress. there are -- there is still a lot the lawmakers could do and some things they have to do to keep the government from shutting down. the gop picked up another senate seat. the associated press reports dan sullivan is the winner in alaska, defeated mark begich. only louisiana is left. that runoff is next month. mike emanuel is live on capitol hill. is there an agenda and what is it? >> many ideas to what they could do but many on capitol hill would say, this is the must do list. funding the government beyonds december 11th. could be a short-term extension. could run through next september. so-called tax extenders,
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preventing retroactive tax increases, defense authorization and annual legislation providing authority for our troops, and terrorist risk insurers giving cities protection if there is an attack. the republican leader in the the senate says this is an important session. >> put him in good faith to makes this institution function again for the american people. >> apologies. that was the democratic leader. the senate majority leader. also a hearing under way, lots going on on on capitol hill. a hearing under way this hour looking at president obama's $6.2 billion request to fight ebola. shep? >> what about the new push for keystone xl pipeline? >> well, mary landrieu the democratic senator from louisiana is facing a runoff election on december 6th. landrieu in the last hour on the floor of the senate said she wants to bring up keystone xl pipeline for a vote in the coming days. the idea being, showing support for a project that is popular
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back in her home state in that pipeline project. meanwhile the senate majority leader struck a cooperative tone. >> i'm ready, mr. president, to work with him in good faith to make this institution function again for the american people. i saw firsthand how a strategy of obstruction was debilitating to our system and i have no desire to engage in that manner. >> it is not clear if landrieu can get 60 votes on keystone xl pipeline but would show voters influence on energy issues and hoping that will make a difference in the runoff, shep. >> she's going to need a big difference. mike emanuel on the hill. thanks. we reported yesterday on the diamond heist in new york city. it was happening during this hour. the suspects we've now learned are still on the loose. and look at these surveillance photos. we're hearing now, one thing i was sure of yesterday we would never learn whatever it was they got away with because it's diamond district. i was wrong. i'll share that with you coming
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they got $2 million in watches and precious gems. that's what the robbers got from manhattan's diamond district across the street here in a holdup we told you about yesterday. cops are still looking for two suspects. they got away clean. take a look. we'll show you where this happened. this is a fox news headquarters. this is 6th avenue right here. 48th street, 47th street.
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47th street is the diamond district. halfway between 47th and 50th street. 50th street red because yesterday was veterans day and they had a parade going on. was that connected? i don't know. that is what was happening. here's where it happened. the new york post is reporting that the store's owner says one of the suspects pistol whipped his father before taking off with an accomplice. officials say the single block in manhattan has, get this, more than 4,000 businesses in one block. it brings in an estimated $24 billion a year. you wonder who i i don't walk on this street. when $24 billion in a place, somebody's going to want to come get it. kind of like yesterday. security in this area is ridiculo ridiculous. chamber of commerce president describes it as fort knox. laura ingals has the district. she's in the diamond district. what's going on? >> i'm standing in front of where this all went down, number 23 right here, and detectives remain on scene, up and down the
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block, gathering evidence and interviewing witnesses who say they're still in shock this all went down in an area where there is so much surveillance as you mentioned. now taking a look at what it looks like today police have set up a command center where they are processing information looking at fingerprints and dna evidence that's been gathered. the two men slipped away after grabbing expensive hardware as you mentioned from the watch standard jewelry store. one of the alleged robbers posed as a delivery worker to get buzzed in while the other one stood lookout outside the shop on the 8th floor. the fake delivery man demanded the owners hand over the goods once inside and police say one of the store's employees or the father was pistol whipped when he walked in during the robbery. from rooftops to entire buildings the area was quickly searched by s.w.a.t. and k-9 units. >> they said hands up. come out of the rooms. with machine guns. so i was scared. i said i don't know what's going on. i don't know how it happened to
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be honest. with security that we have. and in the beginning, more than the robbery end of it, i was more scared about a terrorist attack or something because you wouldn't expect a robbery to even attempt or even get away with it. >> reporter: >> the jewelers i've been speaking with all day say they have specific protocols about how they buzz people in on floor where they are big ticket items, photo i.d. we don't know the details of how this went down and what protocol was followed. >> you got clowns to the left and jokers to the right. i would ask them what's going on. honestly, any idea who these guys are or where they went? >> they don't. right now the police aren't telling us what leads they may or may not have. they are looking for the twos guys. take a look at their photos. this is a black man 6 feet tall between 40 and 50 wearing a dark trench coat and a hat. suspect number two described as a black male, tall 30 to 40
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years old. true religion jeans, they got close enough to see that. black zipper hoodie, sneakers. if you have information the nypd wants to hear from you. here's the number, 1-800-5 7-tips. >> what kind of hat again? >> kangle. >> brown kangle hat. >> yeah. >> laura, you get home, hurry up now get back here where it's safe. >> what's a kangle hat? [ inaudible ]. >> that's not what you're wearing. >> that's a kangle hat. >> zoom in camera four or whatever camera that is. that's a kangle hat. where were you yesterday at 3:00. >> right here. >> all right. >> i don't remember you being here. diamond district. they got a guy for you. how tall are you? >> i was here. >> starting from the bottom. the man who prosecutors say may have pushed his wife off a cliff is controlling and obsessed with money. that's according to the dead wives's brother. so what does the family say
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put it around your neck like a chain around the phone, one of those lever things out there and have us on there all day long. even watch us in bed at night, judge. >> not a bad idea. >> watch around the clock. >> man facing murder charges after his wife fell off a cliff or something like that during an anniversary celebration will soon find out whether he will
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get out on bail. his named harold henthorn and his hearing happening today. the victim toni henthorn and someone took out three life insurance policies in her name worth some 4 to $5 million. someone. family members say they had no idea the policies existed but somebody did make a claim on one of those policies hours after she quote fell unquote off the cliff. the wife's brother told the associated press toni and harold got married, he seemed controlling and obsessed with money. now the cbs station in denver is reporting the husband got more than $400,000 in life insurance payments after his first wife died more than a decade earlier in 1995. as it so happens, a car fell on her while she was helping him change the flat tire. so she was changing the tire while he was standing up. this happens, doesn't it, married people? officials say they have reopened that investigation. fox news analyst judge napolitano with us. we can't connect the dots yet
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but they're sitting out large in front of us. >> what's interesting the hearing today is a bail hearing. he's charged with first-degree murder and the rule of thumb for judges and first-degree murder cases is no bail. why? because the penalty is either execution or life in prison. >> a reason to run. >> right. the incentive to flee is tremendous. the general rule of thumb the government has to show why you're a flight risk except for first-degree murder. as a practical murder you have to show to the court why you're not a flight risk. in the process of presenting this evidence, the government will resist it and in resisting it they can present the judge with anything about his background including the car falling on the wife the first wife the life insurance policy from the first wife, the mysterious policies with the second wife. >> why can't we figure out who has the policies? the cbs station in denver says he got some of the money. >> privacy laws actually protect the person who took these policies out. at some point it will become known. >> it's anment prosecutors will subpoena that information
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because they want to present it to a jury if they can show there's some relationship between whoever took those policies out and the defendant who was her husband who they say killed her so he and others could become enriched by her death. >> is this special unique circumstances there to get a death penalty? seems like if anything would apply it would be this? >> they have not asked for the death penalty yet, however they have a window of time in which to ask and that window is not closed. the decision here has to be made by, drum roll, eric holder. eric holder, why. this is a federal prosecution. because she died on federal property in a national park. now the feds ordinarily don't prosecute murders unless the defendant is an officer of the government or a victim was the officer of the government or the crime took place on government property. that's the case here. >> this is more complicated than your average case of this kind. >> yes, it is. it's so lurid. it's the type of thing we see in state court. the feds usually don't get cases
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like this? >> yeah. >> adding the federal government involved here will add a level of complexity and from my point of view and i think the point of view of your viewers, a lot of interest. >> yeah. but you got to figure they might be able to get him on 95 thing if he was responsible for that but that evidence is old and those memories are old. >> no statute of limitations on murder but if the evidence is old and the memories are faded it might not work. but so far, a prime ma fay shah case, look at the basic facts, enough to charge him with both crimes. >> 19 years it's been. >> that's right. >> do you remember things 19 years ago? >> very little. >> first crime took place on private property would not be a federal prosecution, two separate trials, one in the state in which the car fell and the other in the federal government where the national park was where his former wife fell. >> where i come from, if the wife is changing the tire while the husband is looking on you can get something for that. they can put you in jail in the lafayette county jail just for
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that. i don't know about everywhere else. i think 19 years ago come to think about it i was working here, i think 20 years will be like next week i started working for this company. >> for me 17 years. >> and they haven't -- >> we're both still here. >> i bet we get a watch or something. >> remember the florida recount? >> oh, gosh. >> seems like a lifetime ago. >> not long enough. >> tem percent and tensions rising in the middle east. we reported on this a little bit. now at least one palestinian official is accusing jewish settlers of burning a mosque in the west bank. we'll speak with a former ambassador and adviser to president obama who spent much of his career working for peace in the middle east. a serious situation as we approach the bottom of the hour and the top of the news. how much money do you have in your pocket right now? i have $40, $21. could something that small make an impact on something as big as your retirement? i don't think so. well if you start putting that towards
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girlfriend's home on sunday when a man got out of an suv and shot him. investigators think the vet was the target. five of the world's biggest banks have agreed to pay more than $3 billion according to officials in the u.s., uk and switzerland. it's a settlement over accusations that those banks tried to manipulate currency trading. the feds say they're investigating barclays's banks. activists say currency trading has a huge impact on economies around the world which ends up affecting all of us. and in dallas, some movers rescued a city worker whose truck ended up in a creek. the men used a hammer to smash the window, a knife to cut the seat belt and a rope to pull the guys out. officials say he had some sort of medical emergency and is doing better.
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the first floor after israeli police say somebody tossed a molotov cocktail at a synagogue. the latest back and forth one day after israeli troops opened fire on palestinian protesters in the west bank. officials say one demonstrator died. that happened after investigators say palestinian au tackers stabbed and killed two israelis, including an israeli soldier. also today, the israeli government gave early approval for the construction of hundreds of new homes in a jewish area in jerusalem. that announcement is sure to add to the building tensions in this region. with us now, fox news contributor ambassador dens nis ross, served as a special assistance to president obama and special adviser to former secretary of state hillary clinton. thank you. >> good to be with you. >> what's building here? i hear talk about the third intifada. is that overstating things. >> i don't know that it's overstating things. there was an intifada that erupted in the end of 1987 that
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erupted as a result of a car accident in gaza and nobody had foreseen it. the second intifada occurred in the fall of 2000, in the aftermath of sharon going to the temple mount. there were riots throughout the area at a time when there were negotiations trying to resolve all the courses of the conflict and many thought -- many in the region thought we were actually going to succeed and it erupted at that time. so now when you have a climate where there is isis in the region where there is an encouragement of extremism and terrorism by some, it shouldn't be shocking if we see something happen here even if what we're not seeing is highly organized demonstrations of the sort that we saw that accompany both the first and second intifada. this may not be the same but should be worrisome, particularly in jerusalem one of the things that's different if
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you look at the second intifada, you had violence and demonstrations, you might have bombings in jerusalem, but they were carried out by people from the west bank, they weren't carried out by jerusalemites. now we're seeing action in east jerusalem who are responsible for this even if it's not organized it should be a source of worry. >> who is the peace broker now in. >> that's an excellent questionp. we don't have an active set of negotiations under way. whenever you have no real process of negotiations, there's a vacuum and usually the extreme tend to fill the vacuum. so there really isn't a broker right now. clearly secretary kerry is going to the area. he wants i think pursue what he was pursuing before. the question is, is a negotiation at this point on the course of the conflict likely to be successful or are there other steps that should be taken to diffuse tensions, to find ways to restore belief among the israeli public and
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palestinian publics about the intentions of the other. right now, there's a disbelief that is characterizing both and i think that makes it very difficult to negotiate anything. >> we have a newsroom there, of course, and a number of staffers who work there. and without getting into too much detail, i think they're really concerned. >> well, i understand why. because the violence that you're seeing right now is completely random. it involves things like a stabbing or the use of cars. we saw a cars used in canada. now you've seen several cars driven into what were either bus areas or the tram area, the train, in jerusalem, it's completely random, it's without any warning. the shinbet, the israeli, what is the israeli security forces most, you know, used to deal with possible threats, they're very good at dealing with what is an organized threat, if it's coming from hamas, coming from,
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you know, the oscar martyrs brigade. when it's an individual who decides they're just going to act because the climate is an electric climate, that becomes very difficult to predict. that's why i say the real focus should be on how do you defuse tensions. certainly there has to be a price for those who carry out these kind of acts and the israeli government is trying to deal with that but there needs to be an effort to deal with the larger palestinian public and create some sense of possibility at the same time. >> i'm out of time but i wanted to ask you about this, one of the things they're doing now is destroying the homes, anybody who does anything is called a terrorist, sort of as a blanket by the israelis. what they're doing is they're warning people if you do something like this, we're going to tear down your house and your family and children will have nowhere to live. very controversial. >> it's not a new housing demolition -- >> it's controversial. >> it is controversial and we've seen historically at times it's worked and at other times it's been counterproductive. >> ambassador ross, nice to talk
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to you. thank you. >> my pleasure. >> israel to be watched and we will. we're getting our first look at what iran's military claims is a new stealth drone ripped off from the united states. iranian state tv broadcast this video today which i'm about to show you. it shows this unmanned aircraft soaring through the sky. this is a video from al alam iranian state television. the official with the revolutionary guard says the elite unit built the drone using secrets it uncovered from the american drone it captured. they're not good at videoing. he claims they deciphered the u.s. technology and made it better. a pentagon spokesman says he doesn't buy that because they thought from the beginning even if you get this drone you can't get the technology out of this drone and the secrets. that's what they're saying. leah gabriel with us. they don't believe this? >> as you know i came from the intelligence community and my take is this, i can buy a fake rolex on the street somewhere for 30 bucks. >> you can. >> but the quality just not the same. here take a look. this is what they claim to have
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copied and improved. this u.s. sentinel was allegedly captured in iran in 2011. iran's military claims they were able to decode the information and reverse the drone. iran says their version you see here flying is lighter and faster and uses less fuel and can fly longer thanes u.s. sentinel because it's made without any metal. iran says that their drone is less detectable by radar. today the head of iran's revolutionary guard poked fun at the u.s. saying, quote, the mini stroke americans suffered will be complete by watching this footage. a pentagon spokesman dismissed iran's claims saying replica is the operative word and there is no way this matches american technology. iran says it will build two to three more of these drones by the end of march and that it plans to mass produce them next year. shep, i mentioned the u.s. drone they copied or as you put it ripped off is the called the sentinel, maybe iran will call this the fencenel. >> it's phony.
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nice to see you. >> nice to see you. >> president obama wrapped up his three day trip to beijing announcing an environmental agreement with xi jinping. president obama says under this deal the united states will cut carbon emissions. president xi did not agree to specific cuts but says china will try to reach its peak carbon emissions by 2030 if not sooner. oh, goody. this sounds imperfect. >> well, as you can imagine, shep the agreement drew immediate criticism from republicans and house speaker john boehner called it the latest example of the president's crusade against the reliable energy and majority leader kevin mccarthy warned it will increase costs an reduce jobs. kentucky senator mitch mcconnell soon to be the senate majority leader delivered the view you would expect from coal country. >> i was particularly distressed by the deal apparently he's reached with the chinese on his current trip which as i read the
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agreement, requires the chinese to do nothing at all for 16 years while these carbon emission regulations are creating havoc in my state and other states around the country. >> now republicans may have a tough time challenging the deal since the supreme court has ruled the epa can regulate greenhouse gas emissions as pollutants. still it is the first time that the chinese have agreed to any limits on their greenhouse gas emissions. environmentalists are welcoming the deal. the chinese are putting a new coal fired power plant on line every eight to ten days and their air pollution in beijing is so bad, they literally have to close factories and take cars off the street for the summit they hosted. president obama suggested the deal also sends a signal to india. >> together we hope to encourage all major economies to be ambitious. all countries developing and developed, to work across some of the old divides so we can conclude a strong global climate
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agreement next year. >> reporter: the agreement commits the chinese to max out their greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and more than double the power they generate from nuclear energy by then. shepard? >> wendell, thanks. the family of the only person who died from ebola in the united states after catching it in west africa has settled with the texas hospital where he died. the details as we know them, coming right up.
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it was 3 degrees there. another pick from denver, halloween less than two weeks ago, temperatures look at bowsman, montana, is that a beautiful place or what, temperatures below freezing there. forecasters say more than a foot of snow may have fallen on minnesota because, well, minnesota administrators at a high school in minneapolis called it a snow day but the principal asked the students to work from home on computers and ipads. here's an example of wearing color in the snow looking better. remember this guy over here. see this guy. he was wearing white. now how does that look. now it's gray. over here this chick in the pink looks better. just a note for you foefg these later. this three feet of snow on part of mish gap's u.p., the top. they say the cold weather is on the move and will reach the east coast by tomorrow. we are heading south. relatives of the only person to tie of ebola if the united states have reached a settlement with the hospital in texas. attorneys for the family would not say how much it was for but a very good deal and i quote. thomas duncan caught ebol while
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in west africa where u.n. officials say the disease has killed more than 5,000 people. duncan did go to the emergency room in texas just a couple days after he arrived from africa. he had a 103 degree fever so high someone put an exclamation point next to it. despite that the hospital released him and gave him antibiotics. officials at texas health presbyterian have apologized. what else do we know? >> we know the minimum amount they will be getting more than half a million dollars. the reason we know that texas law puts caps on how much money people can collect in a medical malpractice suit. $250,000 from the doctors and then another $250,000 from the hospital itself. but, lawyers for the duncan family well they went around that. they did not file a malpractice suit. instead they reached this settlement so all of those caps went out the window. now through this entire ordeal, you recall, thomas duncan's family was extremely critical of
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how texas health initially handled this case. today, it was a pretty different tune. listen. >> i also want to thank texas health presbyterian hospital for standing up -- stepping up and owning up to their mistakes and doing the right thing to make sure it never happens again. that's an honorable thing to do and i respect them for that. if i got sick and texas presbyterian was close to me i would go and get treated for it. >> the hospital says it, too, is grateful they have reached this point of healing they say for all parties involved here. >> all right. casey in dallas, thanks. for the first time in the history of humans scientists say they have landed a spacecraft on the surface of a comet one traveling at just 41,000 miles per hour. ahead the first images from the surface of the comet and the problem with the lander that could threaten the whole thing. plus, tonight, 10:00 eastern time, here on fox news channel, part two of the special, the man who killed osama bin laden, our correspondent peter ducey
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it's a mission ten years in the making. one scientist called it a big step for human cilization. live in the south florida newsroom with some of the details. that landing filled with all kinds of drama. >> yes. space drama after 4 billion miles travel over ten long years and then on payday, first, the thruster fails and then the harpoons fame to deploy. but it all appears that at least so far everything seems fine on top of that comet. earlier this morning they sent this first picture as it left the rosetta mother ship. when the rosetta sent this of the fillet heading down to the comet. when a radio confirmation of touchdown made the 300 million mile journey back to earth, elation. >> so we are sitting on the surface. talking to us. we are there. it's done its job. we are on the comet.
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>> this afternoon's final media briefing out of germany also revealed it appears it bounced once before finally screwing itself into the icy rocks. so technically speaking, shep, it landed on the comet twice. >> we are on the comet. what are we supposed to learn up there? >> i's all about science, shep. comets are thought to be the building blocks of our solar system, and maybe even the source of all of our water here on planet earth. so the fillet is going to heavily photograph and analyze the comet's composition and rosetta, the mother ship, will follow it as it flies all of the way back towards our sun. very soon we should be getting the first panoramic pictures from the comet's surface. that, never been done before. >> it looks very easy, but it isn't easy. it's, in my point of view, a miracle. >> nasa sent its congratulations to europe and of course the orion, its first planned mission
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in the 2020s, is to put astronauts on to a comet, shep. >> say it for it for us. >> which? >> we are on the comet. >> we are on the comet. >> thank you. well, that happened. phil, thank you. >> yeah. we'll check the dow in a minute or something and then we'll hand off to cavuto, so things will get serious. our apologies.ry new thi s. s. 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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