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thanks for being part of "the real story" today. busy news week. today is friday. so tgif. have a fantastic weekend. i'm gretchen carlson. >> upheaval in the middle east. a new king in saudi arabia protesters in yemen chanting death to america after the president steple down word of a new u.s. attack plan to smash isis, and now a report that the islamic state japanese hostages are dead. plus, with gas prices plummeting why aren't plane tickets getting cheap center now we know what airlines are doing with he extra cash. >> a ski resort hotel claims a bunch of fraternity brothers destroyed the police, trashed the rooms. wait until you hear how much it costs to fix and it what is happening to that fraternity. all of that and new cheetos. let's get to it.
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>> a twitter account linked to the islamity state that the group killed two japanese hostages. officials have not confirmed the fate of the hostages bums the deadline from isis for japan to pay a $200 million ransom came and went overnight and there's no indication from tokyo it hand over any cash. the last word from japanese officials was they had not been able to get in contact with the terrorists. today the same isis-linked account tweeted that the countdown has begun and included a clock counting down to zero and pictures of past prisoners isis decapitated. the white house says the united states is working with the japanese to find out what happened to the hostages. >> the united states strongly condemns isil's threat to murder japanese citizens. we call for the immediate release of these civilians and all other hostages they may be holding. the united states is fully supportive of japan in this
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matter and stand in extol derritt with japan and are coordinating closely with them. >> in japan's largest mosque prayers for the prisoners. one hostage's mother broke down in tears while speaking to reporters. she begged japan to step in and rescue her son and for the terrorists to save his life. right now we're waiting for a news conference from the pentagon press secretary, rear admiral john kirby. we'll let you know if he talk busy the islamic state in any way. let's beginning with catherine herridge who is live in washington. now there's word that isis may have faked the video of the japanese hostages. right? >> well, the japanese hostage video is drawing new scrutiny from anallies who believe it was altered and possibly filmed in a studio because there appear to be multiple lying source -- light sources. look at the shadows behind the hostages. with only sun lot they we about in the same direction but here it suggests american one light
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source, one analyst says the video is odd and clearly an evident to intimidate tokyo. >> whether or not the video is fully authentic and the shadows teen be off i can't tell you. at a minimum this is part of islamic state groups' efforts to try to intimidate countries they think are not yet fully part of the coalition from joining in wholeheartedly. >> to put it in context, isis has a major media production arm and control of a half dozen tv stations according to the state department, and this recent video from the british hostage john can'tley was clearly shot in a studio ask the movement of his eyes and the length of his lecture suggest that he read the script from a teleprompter. >> normally after the execute these innocents they come out with a new video. there's not one yet, right. >> reporter: that's right. confirmation from the u.s. intelligence community is always based on the forensic analysis of an execution video and none has yet been posted. though u.s. intelligence officials say isis really has a track record of following
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through on these threats and at this point there's no expectation that this time will be any different. the japanese prime minister has been traveling in the middle east and told reporters in israel that radical islamic terrorism must be crushed, but significantly he did not rule out negotiations with isis and this afternoon he state department didn't have much of an update. >> we have essence those reports, i believe you're referring to reports on twitter. we don't have any confirmation of those reports. i certainly refer you to the government of japan but i don't believe they have put anything out specifically. >> reporter: that's ransom demand of $200 million is significant because japan recently pledged the exact same amount, $200 million to support the antiisis campaign in iraq and syria. >> catherine herridge in washington. the united states will stop at nothing to take iraq's second largees city back from control of the islamic state record according to thereating of "the wall street journal." it reports u.s. and iraqi war
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planners have started prepping for an assault to reclaim mosul by the summer. the journal quotes the head of the military central command saying he has not decided whether to recommend american troops on the ground. but he says the u.s. will quote, do what it takes. with is now is former u.s. ambassador to iraq christopher hill. the author of "outpost life on the frontlines of american diplomacy." nice to see you. thank you. >> thank you. >> tropes -- troops on the ground. the president says no. >> i think clearly retaking mosul is a human objective for the iraqi government. it has to be done southeastern than later. the u.s. wants it done but planned well. so that as we retake it we don't want a situation where isis can retake it again. so i think general austin and others are looking very carefully what they planning is, and i'm sure once the operation is launched, it will be successful. and i think it will be a further
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example of isis being really on their heals in iraq. the issue of course, with isis is eventually what is going to happen in syria? where the doesn't seem to be any friendly force to work with. >> mr. ambassador, if the general recommends troops on the ground is that he right way to go? >> i would be very surprised if we see troops on the ground. i'd be surprised for a number of reasons. i don't think the american people want to see that but i'm not so sure the iraqi people want to see that. you can always get an iraqi to tell you they'd like to see u.s. troops, but i think the majority of iraqis would like to see any lands retaken by iraq being done by iraqis. don't think there's a lot of support for that idea. >> some sobering comments out of the united kingdom how long it may take to deal with isis. >> i think it is important to be sobering about it. certainly the issue of isis and syria is going to be a really long-term proposition in the absence of any long-term
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political solutions going forward. so i think it's important to be very cautious and to try to tamp down expectations. attachment, i think the iraqi government feels that they're seeing their oil revenues drop because of the drop in oil prices. i think they're very worried about their own situation and that's why we have seen prime minister complaining he has not seen enough assistance. so there are different audiences here and different politicians trying to speak the odd theins. >> mend the iraqi prime minister's complaints, he need more than just the air assaults and looking a gift horse in the mouth. it did not appear our state department and our secretary of defense were too pleased about this. >> no. i mean he has a tough job. he has come in after prime minister al-maliki, a lot of 0 cleanup work to do, a sunni community not so thrilled about him. so he has a very tough job ahead of him and i can see him sort of
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call for patience from the iraqis but at the same time call for more assistance from the coalition. but i think secretary of defense hagel kind of shot back at him and said, look we have put together a coalition of 60 nations. subtext being that the iraqis could never have put together that kind of coalition itch think it's important for everyone to maybe cut a body a little slack there but at the same time remain focused on the mission. >> he is speaking to multiple audiences. thank you ambassador hill. the pentagon briefing has begun. we're waiting to hear about the fate of the two japanese hostages. so far, we have not -- no word from the pentagon on that matter. the moment they begin speaking we'll take you there live. >> one of the attackers attackers who terror riced paris is now six fight under. city officials buried the man accused of gunning down a police wal-mart and killing four hostages also kosher such market. security forces killed him at
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the market. officials say a few family members showed up as workers burdeny the map in an unmarked grave in a cemetery south of paris. this already buried the brothers to killed 12 people. pumping the brakes on cuba. just when it seemed like things about were to start opening up and the cigars were going to start to flow, the first u.s. delegation to visit have vanna in the last decade says not so fast. what happened? plus, major developments right now in ukraine. the rebels report they have just launched a quote, multipronged offensive and you can forget about a cease fire. the fighting has begun. vladimir putin is in the middle of this, whether he wants to admit it or not. what next in ukraine. it's next your eyes really are unique. in fact, they depend on a unique set of nutrients. that's why there's ocuvite to help protect your eye health. as you age your eyes can lose vital nutrients.
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prime minister said today we will survive any hardship in the country, eat less food, and use less electricity. they have more of the fighting in our slide show this afternoon. you can see a separatist soldier holding a rifle there where the fight has steadily become more intense. here, pro russian vehicles are on the movement nato and the united states officials say there are signs the rebels have already pushed farther west. this photo is from yesterday after mortar shells hit a bus stop in the rebel city of donetsk. that killed 13 people both the ukraine government and separatists blame each other for and the drones, just laid waste to the airport in donetsk. it is in ruins as fox reports this hour. the united states and cuba just wrapped two dives talks havana, but both sides say they still have profound differences on
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issues from human rights. big surprise. cuba's top negotiator says it would be difficult to restore diplomatic ties as long as cuba remains on the list of state sponsored terrorism. are we leaving them on this list? isn't that part of the discussion here, taking them off the list in exchange for their doom something? >> that's right. that's a process for the united states that's going to take months. it's a review process that's joan. a lot more work to do. president obama initiated the most significant change the generations. but u.s. officials say these are complex negotiations and there's no set date when the two governments will have embassies operating in each other's countries. on human rights u.s. officials will continue to engage the cuban people directly. >> we think that we need to make decisions in our own interests and take decisions that are going to empower the cuban people, but the verdict on whether that succeeds is still
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to be made. >> while the u.s. and cuban governments continue to negotiate through a host of significant difference they're also facing resistant wednesday their countries, with strong opposition and both cuba and the united states too better relations. also no said date for the next round of negotiations. >> a lot of people have been asking when american businesses can start operating in cuba. we don't know yet do we? >> it's beginning slowly. how much more from here is going to take time to figure out. mastercard announced it would stop blocking transactions in cuba on march 1st. the obama administration is trying to make travel easier allowing more experts to the island. the full ban lifting that, involves congress. >> officials have suspended a fraternity at the university of michigan. indep never lit after frat brothers and their guests trashed a ski resort. a representative of the resort says they did almost $100,000 in
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damages. there's some photos of the aftermath here. at the tree tops resort in northern michigan last weekend shatters windows, beds and furniture in tatters, and a kitchen which we'll show you now, pretty well destroyed in response the national fraternity signal fa -- cigna alpha m banned the fraternity. students from other frats and sororities were joining the party. >> investigators in california and nevada say they may have solved a string of killings from the 1970s. there's a woman who has already confessed and has been serving time all this time. she apparently did not do it. the new evidence and the reason for it coming up.
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the gypsy hill murders. killer convicted but wrongly and now investigators say they finally have a new suspect in the string of killings that horrified the san francisco bay area and left five young women dead back in 1976. almost four decades since the bodies turned up one by one. most of the victims teenagers. most of their body showed sign0s rape and now all these years later police say they lynch linked a man to at least two of the killings. they say dna evidence put this man at a couple of those crime scenes. they tell us they've also linked him to another murder in 1976. the killing of a student at the university of nevada at reno. that brings to six the total number of victims. the victim in reno is the woman on the upper right here. according to local reports investigators matched the suspect's dna to a cigarette butt near the spot where she
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died. that cigarette butt could lead a judge to exonerate this woman. back in the 1970s when she was patient at a mental institution she confessed to the killing of the university of me -- 1/2 nevada student. she has recanted her statement. her lawyer says she confessed to get a better room at the mental institution. she will have a retrial this summer. diane otherwiseman has been researching this says is and is live this afternoon from los angeles. diana, a cigarette butt does not a conviction make. >> absolutely not. does help place the defendant at the scene of the crime which is helpful burt they'll need more than that. they'll need to show m.o., need to eliminate any alibi evidence that he might have that could help in his defense. definitely the sheer presence of a cigarette butt doesn't equal a conviction. but it does speak to the volume
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that dna evidence has incredibly powerful and absolutely in a time back in the 1970s nobody could have ever throughout that dropping a cigarette butt at a crime scene could connect you to that crime because nobody could have foreseen this was the type of evidence that could be used in forensic evidence in the future. >> this suspect here rod any halboer, is in jail and has been interviewed bay local television station. he says -- i don't know anything. no knowledge about this. this finding a cigarette butt in and dna from 30 years ago doesn't make sense. it could be very difficult to bring together. memories are fuzzy 30 days later, much less 30 years. >> it's always difficult for both side when case aim -- cases age, witnesses disappear they die, memories fade evidence will start to disintegrate, lose
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its foreign sim value. so definitely makes it more challenging for both sides but the prosecutor has the burden of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that this defendant committed these murders and having the cigarette butt in both crime scenes places him at the scene of the crime which helps. makes sense that he would be careless enough to flick a cigarette where nowdays somebody might not do something like that because he never anticipated this cigarette butt could we used to tie him to these crimes use, this woman who had been in a mental hospital and confessed, you wonder how much that confession got in the way of the continuing investigation into this case. it appears if nothing else it was still open because they certainly put this dna together. >> absolutely. i think what is really remarkable is they're considering retrying her. i'm unclear why prosecutors see the need to retry this woman when seemingly the only thing that would connect her to this crime what her confession, and i would think they have a corpus problem in the sense of having her statement be the only
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connector between this act and whether or not she actually did it. it seems weak and it seems like a stretch. and i think it's even more damaging to the prosecution in her case that there is forensic evidence tie something other person, another person that is currently spending anytime custody for attempted murder. so we know he is a violent individual. i think that muddies the prosecution of her case as will. >> diana, thank you. >> thank you. >> new violence today in yemen which is turning into a potential nightmare for the united states. the pro western president and government are out. after they worked with the u.s. against al qaeda for years. so who is in charge now and what trouble does they pose? a live update ahead. >> airlines had absolutely no problem raising ticket prices when oil prices went through the roof. right? well, oil prices are in the basement now and the airlines are saving billions. so how about you fork a little over, planning to do that, are
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they were supposedly targeting leaders of the it should rebels. nobody reported dead. rebel leaders called for supporters to hold mass rallies today but there have been protests on both sides. >> thousands in the streets in southern yemen demonstrating against the rebels who have taken over. some are calling for the country to split in two as it was in the past before the western world deed it up. chances are there will be a civil war or a splitting or al qaeda will take over or the rebels will. that is iran's rebels. yemen's parliament has set -- is set to hold an emergency meeting this weekend. the state department reports it's pulling more staffers out of the embassy there. officials are in touch with a quote, range of officials. so who is in charge? john hudy with this live bottom of the hour from jerusalem tonight. >> shepard, to answer your question no one in charge at this point of yemen's government. adding to the already critically
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dangerous situation. certainly doesn't bode well for the united states. now, rebel forces however, have control of the country's capitol. now amid the turmoil yemen's par him is scheduled to hold an emergency meeting on hsu. under the yemeni law the parliament speaker would assume the presidency but that hasn't happened. if it does he is said to be align width the houthis, thoughties are said to be backed by iran. so there's concern iran will have more power in yemen, and they may use the chaos and havoc to exploit the situation. it could plunge yemen into even more sectarian violence.
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>> of course, john next door to yemen, solds diarabia had a new king and is waste nothing time organizing his government in the oil rich nation. state tv there reports king abdullah died this morning and according to islamic tradition there was a simple funeral and burial in an unmarked grave litsch was king for close to decade but ran the country since 1995. analysts say he strengthened saudi arainies relations with the united states by helping in the fight against al qaeda and the nuclear standoff in iran. his half brother has taken of the throne and promises to continue the countries policies. a reminder king abdullah is one of the most repressive nations in the world. the state department says saudi arabia tortures citizens, holds political prisoners denies due process and arbitrarily arrests and detains people. the late king abdullah's daughters advocated for women's right and nor that in 2002 he confine end them to dark and suffocating would rooms where
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they remain today. their mother is in compile in england. she married the king in an arranged wetting when she was 15 and he was 48. he died at 90. trace gallagher is live in the west coast news hub now. we know who the next two kings will be. >> reporter: we do. first in line is the crown prince, the half brother of king salman and the youngest son of the founder of saudi arabia the crown prince is in his late 6 0s, a decade younger and that's very important because king salman is not good health. the suffered a stroke two years ago and has very little use of his left arm. analyst says the naming of the prince was extremely fast. listen. >> i was not surprised that he was appointed. i was surprised by the speed with which this was done, and that indicates to me that the ruling family wants to make sure that there is no crisis no
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succession crisis for the future. >> and second in line to the throne is the nephew of king salman and had a lot of competition because he is injure one of hundreds of grandsons of the late king, the founder of saudi arabia. >> as they continue their refestive policies they're now dealing with a struggling economy. >> reporter: when the king passed away oil prices went up a little bit. now they're back down below $50 a barrel. instant oil represents 509% of their economy so income is dropping and unemployment is nearly 12% and saudi arabia's young people are push back. half of the country's 20 million population is under the age of 25. and they use the internet widely to criticize the kingdom as being old and out of touch. so, king salman is pushing to build more infrastructure to create jobs and even talk that the kingdom may soon allow women
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to drive. the hope is that would increase demand for cars and make it easier for women to get jobs. that is if old school saudis will actually hire them. >> trace gallagher in los angeles, thank you. analysts say it's unlikely the king's death will change the course of oil prices in the comes months. the price of oil has fallen almost 16%, now below 50 dr. a barrel. the airline industry is clearly loving every minute of it. southwest airlines reports it will likely save half a billion dollars. united and delta projecting savings in the hundreds of millions of dollars and could be great news for those airline shareholders. but customers not so much. fox business network's jolene is here some e-mail -- why are you picking on the airlines? are you kidding me? have you been on an airline lately? we'veing pick on them all we want. >> a lot of people are complaining that fares are not going down and they're not. here's a stat i want to show you
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right now. jet fuel is actually down 40% year over year, and yet fares are only down about 4.7%. >> why? why aren't they passing the savings along to us? they certainly pass the costs along to us when the price went up. >> checked bags everything you can name. the deal is they think that shareholders will do more for the company. they're going to try to use the money to buy back shares, help hour shareholers, give. the more credit or pay back debt they may have on hand or some airlines are actually reportedly using the money to lobby washington, for policies that are more favorable to who? not the customer but the airlines. >> that's what happen when we get down too airline. i have good news. new cheetos. 0 not a properly inflated bag. look at this. sweetos. it's coming out. these ones are cinnamon sugar flavored, much different from the cheesy orange cousins that
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are very popular in colorado and leave yellow stuff on your fingers. frito-lay reports it's the only sweet cheat to's snack in the grants0s history and i think we should try them. >> we should. >> is it okay to east on tv? >> i don't know. >> everybody dig in. these look kind of like churros. >> tastes like cereal. >> very good. you know -- >> not bad. >> never mind -- probable live get in trouble for that. ten grams of fat, but two% of the day's necessities riboflav vein is available in there. >> got to be healthy right? >> something to hang your hat on. never serve anything this good on the airplane. >> what do you like better the savory or the sweets. >> as an an tieder yellow or orange, as a dessert, this and all of it is terrible for us but
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delicious. jo ling nose to -- nice to see you. oops. the white house is now reacting to the dustup of the israeli prime minister's trip to the united states. he'll speak to congress but will not meet with the president. that is what they're saying right now. he'll speak to congress but won't speak to the president. so what does there is mean for a our relationship with the closest ally in the middle east? have you been able to see through this thing yet? can you see through what's going on here? seriously? open your eyes. i have a quote for you when we come back that i think sums it up perfectly. well, a mortgage shouldn't be a problem your credit is in pretty good shape. >>pretty good? i know i have a 798 fico score thanks to the tools and help on experian.com. kaboom... well, i just have a few other questions. >>chuck, the only other question you need to ask is, "what else can you do for me?" i'll just take a water...
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can count the fibs. the white house says it was not a slap in the face for republican leaders continue invite benjamin netanyahu to capitol hill without getting consent from the president first. prime minister benjamin netanyahu is set to speak to a joint session of congress in march even though he will not be on the guest list at the white house. it will be two weeks before israel's election and the white house press secretary says under a long standing practice the u.s. president does not meet with foreign leaders so close to an election. that's the second one because they do if they're big issues on the table and they have forever. at the same time, prime minister netanyahu is a harsh critic of iran, and the white house says the two leaders have a fundamental disagreement over how to handle the rogue nation's nuclear program. >> we prefer that the israeli prime minister share the president's view about our approach to resolve thing the international community's concerns about iran's nuclear program. he have done our best to persuade him. >> political analysts say netanyahu could move for stricter sanctions against the
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islamic republican. chris wall lace is here. yaw got to two there right? >> yes. two fibs. >> and then -- i found a quote today which i'm guessing you saw. this is from martin -- the former ambassador to israel from the united states and he has been a guest here a lot. look what he said. netanyahu is using the republican congress for a photo op for his election campaign, and the republicans are using benjamin netanyahu for their campaign against obama. he goes on to say unfortunately the united states' relationship with take the hit. it would be far wiser for us to stay out of their politics and for them to stay out of ours. hour about that. >> 100% right. i happened to be the white house on wednesday when boehner announced he invited and netanyahu accepted this, and a top white house official was flabbergasted said with got no advance warning. we found out about it. the white house when bane are announced it to the press and to make you get a sense of really
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how, forgive me, wicking this whole thing is that's correct of state, john kerry, met with the israeli ambassador to the united states for two hours on tuesday and ron durmer, the ambassador, never mentioned the fact that netanyahu was in negotiations and finally agreed to come to washington, not to see the president but to go to capitol hill, speak to a joint session of congress and criticize the president's policy. i have to say i'm shocked. >> it was secretary kerry who had a pretty good comeback to boehner's political stunt here. and i wonder what your authority is. if in the end boehner -- netanyahu won't back out of this because members of his own massad have said this is a horrible idea and so have members of his own political party him opponents are screaming that the newspapers over there are going wild over this. it just seems like they think we don't pay any attention and we are a bunch of complete more --
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morons, the united states citizens. >> here's the thing that is so interesting. it's two weeks before the election and supposedly -- i think martin has it right. bb netanyahu is an extremely savvy and successful politician and wouldn't come here unless he thought were to his political advantage. in israel is always the relationship between israel and the united states, and even when they're fighting with each other, the israelis want to know that the u.s. has their back. for netanyahu to do something that is going to be seen as such a deliberate and really pretty efree yous snub of president obama when president obama will be in power for the next year and three-quarters would seem to me to be a risky political strategy. he knows his politics better than i do but for him to come here and side with boehner against obama on iran seems to be very dicey politics.
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>> the last pressure, president bush, said you must stop the expansion of thelements. what does israel do? they expand the settlements. this president says you got to stop expanding the settlement and they keep expanding the settlement. and then leaving some in the white house to whisper netanyahu doesn't want a two-state solution. if he did he would be working toward one. it's confusing and complicated. >> let's talk about iran. i don't think anybody objects to the idea that prime minister netanyahu, who has a different view of iran, the at any rate from iran -- >> of course. >> and the negotiations that the west are carrying out with iran -- i don't think anybody octobers to that. it's an threat -- israeli leaders talked about wiping iran of off the face of the earth. for netanyahu to come here to ignore the president to not even let him know he was coming and to sneak in to come to talk before congress with the president's opponents to
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criticize the president's policy, that's a different thing. that gets to a question of diplomacy and protocol. >> i'm knew the last person without a book. i know mrs. soup is coming out with another book and gretchen has a book coming out about violinning and missmer and -- miss america. i'm the only one without a book. >> and boy if there was anybody who could write a book, it would be you. >> at least three payments about the rebels, something on cheetos. >> well, i hear you complain -- i thought you were complaining you didn't have a copy of low rain's new book? called, mr. and mrs. sun day supers which is coming out next tuesday use who is came up with the name? >> well, -- >> we don't call it supper in mississippi but i figured your harvard types called it dinner. >> no, she came up with suppers but we have them any day of the week and it was her idea. >> that's a great idea.
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>> they're scrumptious. >> i look forward to having some of the meals. i can't read but if i could i would. >> well, if you would like, low she'll give you a copy of the book. >> identity appreciate the food if she would just come up and -- everybody on the news deck would enjoy these. all we have is these cheetos. >> you're too busy having dinner with the president -- >> you were the one at the white house on wednesday when they -- netanyahu stuff bubbled. [laughter] >> goodbye shep. >> well, we have to promote the show. i have words on the prompter. >> you detect better. >> fox news sunday, he'll talk with the white house chief of staff who was at our lunch the a die, dennis mcdonough. he said hello, he will be there to talk about the threat in the middle east and the plans the president shelled out in --
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spelled out in his "state of t address. chris wallace will talk with a potential republican contender number 74. john case kasich. he is number 74. >> he is a serious guy. i i'd put him in the top half dozen. >> what are we going to do about the bush and the romney? >> i hope they fight it out for a year on fox news sunday. it's good for us. >> i read the other day, think it was media said you have to go through fox news sunday to get the republican nomination. i like that. >> it's the "fox news sunday" primary. >> any guess is your wife is going to cook, otherwise there's no reason for them to come. i hope you act better in the future. folks in the northeast are gearing up for what could be the-miles-an-hour major
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>> folks across the northeast -- a winter storm is hit to city. here in new york city two or three inch. nick gregory is live in the east side of manhattan. never heard new yorkers get so upset about a bunch of nothing, nick. is this something i don't know about? >> it's in a year when we haven't had anything so any threat of a snow, and sends everybody in a tizzy. the storm has had a history of problems. rain in the southeastern states as the storm intensifies and slides up the eastern seaboard we'll see the precipitation
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advance north. one key element missing is there's no arctic air in place right now so the storm has to generate its own cold air and will do that as it rapidly intensifies but not really clobber the immediate coast. looks like the have you're snow totals will be -- heavier snow totals will be found inleads and it's a fast moving snow. >> where will they have the most of it? >> looks like just inland. we're talking central eastern pennsylvania and particularly -- these are winter storm watches and warnings, so winter weather advisory for the city eastern new england, boston another thereof city is in the northeast the hardest hit. at five to eight inches and coastal maine. notice the cutoff, get away from the coast, an insure or two, maybe three outside of the city philly up to three or four and then kits off because the storm moves quickly and intensifies in a narrow band getting to western new york and western pennsylvania. nothing this time around but not
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storm threat on monday. >> nick gregory from wnyw. what new yorkers watch. see you tonight. thank you. well, check of the dow this day in history and whatever else we can cram in. that's coming up.
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today. now we have the fox news medical a-team. and cheetos that taste like breakfast cereal. happy friday. >> two weeks after paris, fears it could happen again. now the u.k. is warning of a very significant risk. it's words of an isis-inspired attack. senator ted cruz taking action over here. republican senator ted cruz says we have to file legislation today that would ban american citizens fighting alongside isis from ever coming back to the u.s. eric sayings it's about time and makes sense. eric, i always wonder what takes so long. seems to be