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you. stay safe and hurry home. susan says god bless and protect you who selflessly serve to protect americans. thank you and know you are cherished. thank you for protecting my freedom here at home. i am forever grateful and teach my kids of your voluntary sacrifices. here's john. >> heather, crews say they've found dozens of bodies and more debris off the coast of in indonesia days after a flight disappeared off radar with 162 people on board. i'm jon scott. officials announced the sad discovery. family members had gathered at a crisis center and wait for updates. relatives watched as indonesian tv showed a body floating on the water. one man collapsed. workers took him out on a stretcher. we blurred the video showing some one of the bodies crews
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found. crews also brought back a suitcase and an oxygen tank. they say the waves and strong winds made it difficult to pluck items from the sea. teams also say they discovered an emergency exit door and there's word that searchers spotted what could be a piece of the jet's fuselage. on the wall, the yellow shows the entire area they were searching. that red square where crews found the bodies and debris. that's just a few miles from where they lost contact with the plane. the plane disappeared from radar just minutes after the pilots requested to fly higher to avoid bad weather. officials did not give an immediate okay because other planes were in the air space. indonesia's president says the focus right now is on a massive and speedy search operation. he expressed sympathy to those who lost loved ones. >> translator: my deep condolences go out to the families of the passengers and crew. i'm feeling their loss and pray that they're given all the courage and strength to face this tragedy.
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>> the big question remains what exactly caused this crash. trace gallagher is here with more. what are we learning? >> we have these radar reports that show the plane was at 32,000 feet then went up to 36,000 feet then suddenly plunged. it could be evidence of a stall, one of the few things is they want to recover the bodies for the families' sake but they want to do autopsies because autopsies on the victims can tell if they died on impact, before impact or after impact. that could help in the investigation. we all know the cockpit voice recorder is key because if there was a stall in this case, you could hear the stall warning. it picks up ambient sound, so you would be able to hear that as well as any engine noises then finally the flight data recorder. that will give you things like the speed of the plane, the angle, the engine performance. you piece those things together to get a clearer picture of what
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was going on in the final seconds of the flight. >> a lot left to do in this investigation. what happens next? >> we talked about that piece of the chuk of the fuselage that you mentioned they think is in about maybe 80 to 100 feet of water. that's a good sign because you can send military divers down, these elite divers and they can recover this evidence very quickly, the black boxes and so on. there is also now, we're told a u.s. destroyer on the way. it's a destroyer that has that sonar mapping equipment that we all became very familiar with during the missing flight 370 search. that will map the sea bed to give them a better idea of exactly where things are. they'll also have elite divers on that. listen now to the ceo of airasia. >> the plans for airasia now is to ensure that we work with all the regulators to ensure that we will bring a speedy dks for the family s
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families. >> this is key. this is a piece of luggage they found, not a scratch on it. but every piece of debris that's picked up, they're cataloging, which means they're putting the coordinates of where they found it so they have an idea what was where, when they discovered it when they put this whole investigation back together, it again, will give them a lot more answers. >> trace gallagher, thank you. joining us now aviation analyst mike boyd. mike, we just mentioned they're finding this debris about six miles away from the last location, known location of that airliner. first of all, it didn't glide very far it. sounds like it either went virtually straight down or it broke apart in flight. >> that's what it sounds like. keep in mind it's been a few days and the currents can take some of this debris away. so generally speaking, at the beginning we knew where the airplane was, just couldn't get to it. the reality of it now is to get to more of this debris before it floats off into the ocean.
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>> why would it take them two days, you know? we showed the square earlier of the search area. why did it take two days to even find what they found? >> you'd have to ask them, but one of the things is it's a sea. if you have 60 square miles of ocean, that's a lot of ocean. 600 is even more. you're looking at a relatively small patch where you'll find debris even though it might be spread out. those are the kind of i thinks this happen. when things float to is faurs, you find it, but it may not be where it went down. >> even the bodies themselves are going to be part of the investigation. they're going to help reveal what happened here. >> yeah, absolutely. we know they weren't wearing life vests, so we know there wasn't a lot of time ahead of this crash for people to don life vests, and it would take some time to do that. we also know that as you just heard earlier, what they do is look at what caused death, did they inhale fumes was there fire on board the aircraft
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things like that. i suspect what we're going to find is just trauma. >> at this point it does look like the airplane broke apart, the question is did it break apart when it hit the water or did it break apart at 35, 38,000 feet. >> that's an interesting thing. it was not given permission to climb but the latest information says the plane was climbing. that could indicate somehow the airplane itself decided it was going to climb and could have stalled that way like the air france airplane did and just went straight on down and then broke up when it hit the water. >> could severe turbulence lift an airbus 320 4,000 feet? >> it certainly could. you have an updraft that could happen. whether it's likely i don't know. but it could have. but we have had incidents with airplanes doing this on their own. there was an airbus owned by air new zealand a few years ago. it was on a test flight that went smooth into the water, straight on down, because of some device that got ice lock.
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>> you know, in this day and age, if i lose my iphone, mike, i can push a button and find out where the thing is. why do we not have that same kind of technology on board airliners with all their sophistication? >> well, i would think to start with, we haven't needed it in the past. we had air france we had 370, now this. you can make the argument it doesn't happen that much. the real issue we need to look at is malaysian 370 something was done with that airplane, and if we had a tracking devirks we'd know it. that alone should push us into getting devices where we can track aircraft only because it's happened once where someone took an airplane and we never saw it again. we have the technology to do it. it's a case of just having the moral fortitude, if you will, to get it done. >> is that expensive? is that part of the issue here? >> it's a lot easier than the throwaway comment is put a cell phone in the back and we always know where we are. it's expensive to put anything
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on an airplane. you have to be waivers certificates and stuff like that. but just to have a device that goes ping, ping and says i'm here, here doesn't necessarily have to be something that costs millions per airplane. that's just my opinion. we'd have to get an aircraft engineer to get a final on that one. >> are you venturing an idea on what what brought this plane down or is it too early? >> it's materially, but maybe with the airplane deciding white climb and coming down, maybe stalling. we will know as soon as they find those black boxes. >> that should not be long now that they seem to have found the debris field. mike boyd aviation analyst. >> thank you, sir. another incident in the region today. fortunately looks like no one was hurt. in the philippines an airasia jet overshot a runway while landing during windy weather. happened in the city of manila. the high winds may have been a
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factor. the plane got stuck on a grassy area near the runway. airline officials say the passengers used the emergency slide to get off the jet. so far nobody reported hurt. protests in the streets of los angeles after cops release an autopsy on a man who died in a police shooting. ahead, the demonstrations and what that autopsy actually revealed about the confrontation. and the l.a. manhunt for a suspect who shot a rifle at police officers. one guy in custody but another is very much on the loose. that's next. i know i have an 810 fico score, thanks to the tools and help on experian.com. and your big idea is hot dogs shaped like hamburgers? nope. hamburgers shaped like hot dogs. that's not really in our wheelhouse... you don't put it in a wheelhouse. you put it in your mouth. get your credit swagger on. become a member of experian credit tracker and find out your fico score powered by experian. fico scores are used in 90%
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we are monitoring the situation in california after a night of protests. crowds gathered in the streets blocking traffic on a major highway in los angeles after officials released the autopsy report on a police killing of an unarmed black man. his name izell ford. he died in august after a struggle with two lapd officers. in the report medical examiners say cops shot ford three times including once in the back, and they say the wound of his back had a muzzle imprint, suggesting cops shot him at very close range. police say one of the officers shot ford because he tried grabbing his partner's gun. an attorney for the ford family say police knew he was mentally challenged. we're joined with more. >> jon, what the coroner's report does not tell us is the
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direction of the bullet. why police stopped ford no narrative from the officers and no witness statements. all the type of information that would allow one to determine if this was a justified use of deadly force. this is graphic, but what you're about to see is as detailed as the autopsy gets. ford took three shots including one to the back, so close that gun left the muzzle imprint on the skin. it's called tattooing but the autopsy withheld those photos that would allow experts to determine where the shot came from. >> if the person is not armed, then a gun should not be drawn on them! too much innocent blood is laying in the streets of america in the izell ford case. >> protesters attempted to stop traffic but were stopped by police who say ford died in a scuffle when he went for an officer's gun. >> there is nothing in the coroner's report that is inconsistent with the statements given to us by the officers.
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we still are searching for witnesses. we still are looking for other versions of events. >> the inspector general and the district attorney continue to investigate that use of deadly force. jon? >> william, police in los angeles already on alert with protesters, but they say they're also looking out for a suspect accused of shooting at two cops over the weekend. we reported on this yesterday. police say someone fired a rifle at a patrol car as it drove through south los angeles. cops fired back and eventually arrested one suspect. nobody was hurt in the shootings, but police say there's another suspect on the loose, and he could be armed and dangerous. let's go back to william for this. >> jon, police treated this as a possible ambush, not unlike the one that happened in new york city city. officers saw a muscle flash a
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visible blast from a gun. they returned fire and later caught an 18-year-old an recovered two weapons. it's possible that they inadvertently drove into a gang shooting, but that remains under investigation and the city-wide manhunt continues. >> william la jeunesse, very busy in los angeles right now. thank you, william. it's still far below historic highs. the national law enforcement officers memorial fund reports 50 police officers died in gun violence this year. last year the number was 32. when you include all deaths in the hineline of duty 126 officers were killed, their average age 41 years old. thousands of people protesting in moscow right outside the kremlin. ahead, what has them so upset.
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and what is vladimir putin going to do about it? also, the flu epidemic in america, it is killing children. more than a dozen so far. and health officials warn even people who got the vaccine are at risk. more ahead.
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former president george h.w. bush now back home after spending about a week in the hospital. his spokesman says the 90-year-old former president is resting up and he's grateful to the doctors and nurses at houston methodist that took such good care of him. he went into the hospital last week with some breathing trouble. the flu virus has killed at least 15 children in the u.s. during this flu season, which apparently has not reached its peak. that's according to the centers for disease control and
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prevention. the feds say nearly half of all states are reporting a large number of flu-like cases. you can see them in the states that are red, orange and yellow. they say the hardest-hit areas are in the midwest and southeast. officials with the cdc say 90% of all flu cases this year have come from one particular form of the virus and that this year's vaccine may not be all that effective. we're joined now by an attending physician at the nyu langone medical center and a professor at the nyu school of medicine. doctors have to guess the season before basically what the virus is going to be that's attacking people this year and their guess wasn't so good this time around. >> it wasn't so great because the virus didn't mutate. that's very hard to proceed dikt. by the time they knew it had mutated to this extent, it was too late to fix the vaccine. they figured that out in march, that's too late fr a vaccine that comes out in october.
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>> those of us who got the flu shot, we shouldn't be surprised if we get the flu. >> it's still better than nothing. and it's not a great match but will probably offer some immunity but not's we had hoped. >> i like to think i'm in reasonably good health. if i get the flu, there's probably not too much to worry about, but the very young and the very old. >> that's right. children, anyone over the age of 65 or anyone who has asthma lung disease or heart disease is particularly susceptible if you have an immune system problem but even a healthy adult could be knocked out by this year's strain because it is quite severe. it causes more complications than the usual strains. >> it is too late the get a flu shot? >> definitely not too late at all. this flu season could go on for several months. you want to wash your hands with soap and water if that's not available, using an alcohol-based sanitizer is very important. if you are sick, call your doctor very quickly because there are antiviral medications
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available that if given within the first 48 hours, could help shorten the duration and lessen the severity of the disease and hopefully keep you out of the hospital. >> i had something over the weekend, some congestion you know achiness, is that the flu or is that a cold? >> it's not always easy to distinguish. but really the flu knocks you out. you feel like you've been hit by a truck body aches, fever. you get out of bed. there's a nasty cold virus requesting around. i had it. but if you're still able to go to work, that's probably not the flu. when in doubt, call your doctor because they can help you tease out the difference. >> there are some drugs that will help knock out the flu and maybe not -- >> -- completely, yeah but it can help. people think it's a virus, there's nothing i can do. there are antiviral medicines that can help shorten the duration or make you feel less sick and hopefully prevent some of the severe complications. >> you say those ought to be used in the first 48 hours. >> that's right. no. >> you don't want to lie in bed in misery then daul your
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doctor. >> especially if you have a choild you suspect may have the flu. >> i always thought there wasn't anything you can do about viruses. >> this year the cdc themselves are recommending people speak to their doctors early because they're saying these antiviral medications are important for this strain. >> especially if you have young kids or older folks in your life, take good care of them. >> that's right, you do. >> thank you. >> thank you. thousands of protesters hitting the streets in moscow after a judge convicted the top rival to president putin. police let protesters stay outside the kremlin for about two hours before ordering them to leave earlier today. a court convicted a leader of the russian opposition movement of fraud. ablists call it baypack for challenging putin. tensions have already been high in russia. officials there have predicted a recession next year. the economy's taking a hit from falling oil prices and western sanctions over the ukraine conflict. two albanian sailors died while trying to secure that greek ferry that caught on fire
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killing at least ten passengers. that's according to police. the sailors were reportedly trying to attach a line from a tugboat to the crippled ship which is still drifting between the coast of italy and albania. the fire broke out on a car deck on the vessel. rescuers reportedly saved more than 200 passengers. they're still searching for possible missing passengers because it's unclear how many people were on board. the tiz lammic state is stepping up its propaganda campaign after it captured a coalition fighter pilot in syria. the u.s. is disputing part of the story in the group's online magazine. plus an about face from lawmakers who once threatened to break a reporter in half. that congressman now saying he will resign after a guilty plea that could send him to prison for years. that's coming up on the fox news deck.
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more headlines from the fox news deck. funeral services under way after a fire tore through a shopping mall in pakistan's eastern city of lahore. at least 13 people died. police say shoppers and workers could not get out quickly enough because the building had only one exit. a government official says a short circuit sparked the fire. at least four people died after a bus slammed into a car, then ran off a highway before smashing into some trees. that's according to police in central germany. they say almost 40 people were hurt and that many of the passengers were senior citizens. no word yet on what caused the crash. in california four hikers spent a long and cold night in the woods before rescuers found them and air lifted them to safety. it happened north of los angeles where temperatures dropped into the 30s overnight. they're all reportedly doing okay. the news continues right after this.
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the islamic state militants have released a photo that they claim shows the coalition pilot that they captured in syria. fox news cannot confirm the image is authentic. it appears in the propaganda magazine along with a so-called interview with the jordanian pilot. he says a heat-seeking missile brought down his jet but he ejected before it crashed. militants claim they shot down the plane near the islamic state's city of raqqa. but officials deny that isis actually brought down the jet. activists say photos show isis fighters dragging the pilot from the crash site. jordan is one of five arab allies helping the u.s. bomb islamic state targets inside syria. this is the first reported case of isis capturing a service member from the coalition. of course, the u.s. is also fighting isis in iraq. christopher hill is a former u.s. ambassador to iraq and author of "outpost -- life on
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the front lines of american diplomacy." it would appear that isis is trying to make maximum use of the propaganda value of having this pilot. >> that's certainly their m.o. any time they get their hands on a foreign prisoner, they try to make maximum propaganda value. in this case they're trying to say they're capable of shooting down high performance aircraft since the f-16. however, the u.s. has said that it was mechanical trouble. >> if isis does have the ability to shoot coalition war planes out of the sky, that changes the complexion of this battle significantly. >> well, it's hard to say. if there really is a capability there, the f-16 is equipped with all kinds of evasive capabilities. it is a reminder of a couple things -- one that even running air operations can be dangerous and dangerous to our pilots. secondly, that some of these
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arab coalition partners are actually in the fight, which i think is a good sign. but for this pilot, this is a very tough situation. >> where are we in the fight against isis? i mean, you know, a year ago we weren't even talking about this enemy. now it is sort of all consuming when it comes to american foreign policy. >> i think one can make a few points here. first of all, isis was quite the juggernaut in the spring and summer, certainly the momentum of isis has been very much broken by this coalition, by this approach led by the united states but certainly joined by other forces. so i think that's pretty good news. secondly i think the iraqi military has kind of steadied itself and we've seen some recent gains by the iraqi military. thirdly, i don't think the overall effort is going to be to try to regapein territory as fast as possible. i think the assessment is a sort of center of gravity of isis is
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not so much trying to regain the territory they've taken but rather kind of to break their will break their ideology and otherwise weaken them and i think there's good signs there. the real problem remains, however, even if things go well in iraq as they appear to be going, they still have a real mess in syria with no sort of political way forward. we don't support the regime under bashar al assad but we certainly have problems coming up with an opposition. i think in 2015 we really need to pick up the pace in terms of looking at eventual political solutions for syria looking ahead. >> you say you've got to take on their ideology. can you do that with air strikes alone? >> well, no, you can't do it with air strikes but you've got to have some diplomacy not with isis but diplomacy with some of theary -- the other arab countries, to make it clear this is not a muslim against the rest
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of the world thing. this is a bunch of extremists who have kind of had their day and now by putting together a coalition including muslim countries, islamic countries, that this is a very good sign that they are not quite the sort of clarion call for all muslims to unite. so i think air strikes needs to be a part of it but as your question suggests there needs to be other aspects of it namely to get other like-minded islamic countries and, frankly to stabilize iraq. and i think there's some good signs there. >> ambassador christopher hill, ambassador, thank you. officials in somalia say the intelligence chief of the terror group al shabaab died during a u.s. drone strike yesterday. the pentagon confirms the strike, but u.s. officials are saying only that it targeted a senior al shabaab leader, and they do not know if he's dead. according to the pentagon, the strike happened 200 miles west
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of somalia's capital mogadishu. al shabaab is behind the deadly mall attack in kenya. here in new york, the congressman who once threatened to toss a reporter off a balcony says he'll step down. he pleaded guilty to one count but now he's made an about face. this decision is made with a very heavy heart as i have enjoyed a rr special relationship and closeness with my constituents whom i care about deeply. so why the change of heart? >> well yesterday grimm had a meeting with house speaker john boehner who was apparently very convincing that it would be best for the party if grimm were to step down. it would be stuff for him to serve his constituents while he's serving time in a federal pen. he admit to felony tax fraud in connection with a restaurant he co-owned before being elected in 2010. but he'll be known for that
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moment in the rotunda in past january. >> for the record, grimm did not break that reporter in half. he officially resigns next monday, the day before the new congress convenes. >> so what happens to his seat? >> it will be up to new york governor andrew cuomo whether or not to have a special election and local politicians as you can imagine, are already positioning themselves for a possible run for the seat including richmond county district attorney daniel donovan who may be best known for impaneling the grand jury who cleared an nypd officer in that death of eric garner.
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donovan said he's getting a lot of phone calls and he's flattered and he's seriously considering running in this race. >> grimm's constituents elected him after all this trouble came out. >> they did. they're very supportive there. it's a republican district. and it could go republican again. >> thanks. >> sure. >> crews are back at work on a huge veterans hospital after the feds ruled the project was hundreds of millions over budget. that's according to the veterans affairs department and the contractor. federal officials now say the hospital will cost more than a billion dollars to construct. we're live in denver with that. >> hi jon. republican congressman mike kaufman of colorado said he'll introduce a bill to get the v.a. the extra money it needs to finish this hospital, but he's going to include a provision he says, to prevent the v.a. from being in charge of any future construction projects. >> the people that are spearheading this new hospital, which is a much needed thing to
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me are acting like selfish children. >> veterans say they are the once suffering as they enter their aging medical facility in denver. but countless delays finger pointing and a bloated budget keep them waiting on the promised new center in aurora, colorado. the v.a. admits it has badly mismanaged construction. >> i apologize to veterans here in colorado and to our taxpayers. >> in 2008 congress authorized $568 million. in 2010 it upped it to 800 million. >> every major construction project that the veterans administration has right now is hundreds of millions over budget and years behind schedule. >> according to a 2013 report by the u.s. government accountability office, several of those unfinished jobs around the country are on average 300 million over budget. in december a federal appeals court agreed with kiewit turner that under the v.a's current
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design it could not be built for less than $2 billion andy the company walked off the job. work has since resumed but now with the army corps of engineers oversight. the v.a. will again run out of funds in just a few months and will need congress to come up with the cash. and we hear this estimate of $1 billion, but the v.a. says it actually doesn't know exactly how much this is going to cost and, john, in terms of completion, it says it hopes to get this done quote, some time in 2017. >> it hopes. >> hopes. >> key word. alicia acuna thank you. turns out those were not little green men in the sky. it was just the cia. the agency today claimed it was responsible for at least half of all ufo sightings in the u.s. in the '50s and '60s. the agency tweeted in part quote, reports of unusual activity in the skies in the '50s?
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it was us. the tweet includes a link to a previously confidential report about test flights of the u2 spy plane. the agency was flying that plane, which is capable of very high altitudes. parents with students heading off to college will want to stick around. we're learning that some states and schools are offering special scholarships for families who tend not to qualify for additional aid. jerry willis will explain. plus, wait till you see what happens when a suspect tries using explosives to rob an atm. the incredible surveillance video coming up.
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. breaking news now. and it's something of a weird one. a wall collapses at the morton salt factory outside chicago. you can see the salt just piled up on top of people's cars in a
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parking lot. more on all of this. there's the salt. as the wall apparently gave away in what appears to be some kind of a storage room. look at the cars there at the bottom of the footage. and really entirely buried in morton salt. yes, when it rains, it pours. luckily it is not raining in chicago right now. a bunch of firefighters on the scene. they seem to be mostly standing around. doesn't look like there is human life there, butreatened, but we don't know. an attempt to use explosives to break into an atm blew up in the thief's face. the surveillance video is incredible. you can see the guy putting something on the machine before it detonates knocking him to the ground. he then runs away empty handed. cops say when they got to the scene, the atm was completely destroyed. it happened in the city of darwin way out in west australia. cops say they're still searching for the suspect. you know he's hurting today.
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in south korea, a court has approved the arrest of a former korean airlines executive who made headlines for delaying a flight all because of a bag of macadamia nuts. the former executive is the daughter of the airline's chairman. witnesses say she forced a flight to return to the gate in new york and she kicked a senior flight attendant off all because her snack was served in a bag and not on a plate. prosecutors have not yet filed criminal charges, but according to south korean law, authorities can arrest any suspect for up to six months if there is concern that the suspect could flee the country or destroy evidence. meantime the court also issued a separate arrest warrant for a current korean air executive. he's suspected of pressuring employees to cover up the so-called nut rage. here at home a lot of high school seniors will soon learn whether they've been accepted to their number one choice for college. according to the reporting in "the wall street journal," many states and schools have started
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offering special scholarships to students whose families don't typically qualify, includeing middle-class families. gerry willis has details. what's this all about? >> so there's a big group of people out there middle class folks who cannot afford college for their kids. you got to be familiar with that. a bunch of schools, harvard washington and lee, northwestern, these schools are giving out scholarships for middle-income people. 50,000 no, 110,000 $150,000 net income in a household and you can still qualify for the middle-class scholarships. families earning 65,000 39% of them had debt student loan debt of 30,000. so think about that. that's really not payable. i have to tell you that's a lot of debt for somebody earning $65,000. you can't really pay that down. so the effort here is to try to fix that. although this may not be the
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right way, in my view, the reality is this is what some of the schools are doing. >> why are they doing it? >> because the debt is so burdensome burdensome, so overwhelming. take a look at these numbers. graduates from four-year programs a year ago. they borrowed an average of $27,300. that's up 13% over five years up 19% over a decade. this covers the years of the recession when we had no increase in prices and anything, yet college costs continued to go up and up and up as the government lent more and more and more to people to finance those educations. >> what about the markets? 2014's been a good year. >> yes sir. >> we're almost here. what's happening? >> we're losing a few points. down because asia and europe struggling here because the greek parliament cannot seem to elect a president. lots of concerns about that. let me tell you something here that's important to understand about these markets. this is very low volume today. it's a holiday week not a lot of conviction, not a lot of traders out there, so this is a
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small move on light volume. i wouldn't be too worried about it but you have to keep an eye on greece. remember how they've impacted our markets before. >> greece has a gdp roughly equivalent to the city of dallas, as i understand it. >> very good point. it's teeny, teeny, tiny. the fear is that problems in greece could roll over, hurt other european economies which are struggling right now with their economies. we'll have to wait and see. >> nothing against dallas. love dallas. gerry gerri willis thank you. a fox report now, hls from across america. let's go to texas. 40 years in prison for a woman who admits helping her husband kill a district attorney, his wife and another prosecutor. two weeks ago a judge gave her husband the death sentence for one of the murders. they happened last year outside dallas. investigators say the couple wanted revenge against the prosecutors after the husband's conviction for stealing county property. that cost him his job as a justice of the peace and his law
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license. arizona firefighters rescued a man whose car ended up in a canal in phoenix last night. they say he was cold but okay. police say it looks like he lost control of the car. louisiana, a baby in baton rouge born on the same day as both her parents. mom and dad already had the same birthday, now baby makes three. >> she did come early and thank god, you know we're really blessed to have a healthy baby. and to have her born on our birthday, just blows me away. >> dad calls the little girl a birthday gift that keeps on give. folks heading to vegas to ring in the new year can expect a rare snowstorm. a live update from the fox extreme weather center next plus one country is dealing with thousands of bottles of potentially deadly fake vodka in its stores. more on that ahead. s on savings accounts? that's right. it's just that i'm worried about you know "hidden things..." ok, why's that?
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a deadly tropical storm sweat through the philippines killing at least 31 people according to crews there. crews are still out searching for survivors. the mayor said a dozen people died when the landslide buried part of the highway. crews could still hear people screaming trapped under debris. rescuers still working to get them out. tropical storms slammed some areas still recovering from a typhoon that killed nearly 4,000 last year. back in the u.s. millions could face cold temperatures and even some snow on new year's eve. forecasters say much of the country can expect below average temps when we ring in the new year. people in las vegas and other areas could see snow up to 3 inches for folks celebrating on the strip. the last time las vegas has seen any measurable amount of snow
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was back in 2008. meteorologist janice dean is in the fox weather center. what happens in vegas? >> they need to be wearing their coats. ladies out there on the strip it is going to be quite crazy. the cold air is in place. they just need the moisture. i think that would be kind of cool to see some snow flying for sin city new year's eve. let's take a look at the current temperatures. yes, dangerously cold with windchills well below zero. minus 23 in international falls. minus 15 in fargo. some of the coldest air we have seen so far. people need to stay indoors. are we going to see snow across the southwest? yes, in a lot of places, specially the mountainous terrain. we have snow advisories and winter terrain. we could see icy conditions heading into new year's eve. there is your forecast radar as we head into new year's eve or new year's day.
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certainly, snow towards portions of new mexico and arizona. interesting to see if we have some moisture for sin city on the strip new year's eve into new year's day. forecast precipitation, john scott, in some areas 6-12 inches, which is great news for the skiers. >> i always liked skiing on new year's day. >> let's take a look at it. the only game in town is this lull across the southwest. very cold air for much of the country. so for kimberly guilfoyle and bob beckel they need to be bundling up for times square. cold is really the word for new year's eve. john scott back to you. happy new year to you slam. >> happy new year, janice dean. >> thank you. officials in the u.k. are saying fake vodka has hit store vel shelves in the country spiked with some of the same chemicals you would find in antifreeze or windshield wiper fluid. it reports that gangs have bottled this potentially deadly
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fake liquor to profit off the extra demand around new year's. reportedly, there are thousands of the bottles out there with counterfeit labels. officials are telling party-goers to avoid drinking the stuff at all costs. we'll be right back. óqoqúúñ@
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on this day in 1978, ohio state university fired long-term, legendary coach woody hayes and did it because he punched a play are a day earlier in the gator bowl. they trailed clemson with seconds to go but a clemson player intercepted a pass ending ohio state's chances. as the linebacker was getting up tv cameras caught hayes punching him in the throat. he even got into it wi players. the next day, the school dumped him, delivering the final blow
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to his legendary coaching career 36 years ago today. i'm john scott in for shepard smith. thanks for joining us today. i'll be back tomorrow. >> "your world" with neal kabuto is up next. you are looking live at new york's times square. in 32 hours, this place will be jumping. will police be standing down? welcome, everybody. as americans prepare, new york city bracing for the next shoe to drop. anti-police protesters vowing to disrupt this new year's festivities. worrying the police may beholding back because of fear of their own safety. to david lee miller on the staggering stats. >> reporter: police protesting the policies of new york's mayor, because they do fear for their own safety are v