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ng trick? bob says, play hockey. another suggestion, we use airheads candy, works every time. a good one. another, when i had a tooth that was really loose, i would eat all the apples i could get my hands on. also a very good way to get the tooth out. thank you so much for being part of "the real story." i'm gretchen. here's shep. teenagers and terrorism. a 14-year-old boy and 16-year-old girl arrested on terror raids. what could they have been plotting? plus, israel warns it still has the option of a military strike against iran's nuclear facilities. despite last week's framework for a new deal. it's and how president obama's defending his administration's plan for iran. and poisoned in paradise. an american family went on vacation and ended up in the hospital. the question now -- was it because of a pesticide that workers used at their resort. let's get to it. >> now, shepard smith reporting
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live from the fox news deck. first this monday afternoon, al qaeda's most dangerous branch is on the rise as fox reports this hour. analysts say lawmakers -- analysts and lawmakers say that the terrorists are taking advantage of one of the biggest messes in the entire middle east -- yemen. they say the group is using chaos there not just to rebuild but to expand. here is one of al qaeda's and yemen's regional commanders making himself at home if you will, in a presidential palace there. analysts say he tweeted this picture. they say he's one of hundreds of prisoners who went free in a jailbreak just last week. and here he is in this next picture sort of chilling on the phone with a weapon in one hand phone in the other. and again, he tweeted both of these pictures. analysts say that shows how freely the terrorists are operating in yemen where the suds supporting a saudi--- united states is supporting a suedy-backed war led by rebels in iran.
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our chief intelligence correspondent is live on fox top story from washington this afternoon. and the analysts are saying that al qaeda in yemen's also giving guidance to another terrorist group s. that right? >> reporter: that's right. an intelligence source tells fox news that al qaeda in kwloimyemen is providing guidance in somalia, like major plots that killed 148 people can support broader ambitions. the intelligence source says the al qaeda affiliate in yemen is providing advice fighters, and sharing bombmaking techniques that account for the mostoris sophisticated devices being recovered in africa. in mid-march, fbi investigators found a toyota pickup with ieds welded to the floor and back seat of the vehicle that had been tracked by the fbi from somalia to the port city of mombasa, kenya. a white house spokesman simply stated the obvious -- >> our work remains cut out for us, both in terms of the violence but also in terms of
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the scope of the humanitarian situation that we see there in yemen. >> reporter: the last reported cia drone strike was in mid-february. today the agency had no comment for our reporting. >> what about the americans now trapped in yemen? >> reporter: the best estimate is that several hundred americans, dual citizens who also hold a yemeni passport are stranded in the country. and over the weekend, a 40-year-old man from california is said to be the first american casualty. at the briefing a short time ago, the spokeswoman said those who stay behind were warned. >> we've issued 24 travel warnings -- >> okay okay -- >> no over the last ten years on yemen. we are clear with american citizens that this is not a place they should go. that we have limited ability particularly now to assist from a perspective. >> reporter: now stuckinyemen.com has been created to get to these people. the website says the u.s.
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government has a responsibility to protect americans in foreign countries, but abandoned that responsibility in february when the u.s. embassy was shut down. shep? >> reporting live from washington. thank you very much. let's bring in adam now, a former u.s. ambassador to bahrain and former state department spokesman. ambassador, how do you see this? >> well, it's interesting. i mean the state department spokesman said there's not much we can do. the cia had no comment because there's not much they can say. i mean, the -- we're out of the game in yemen. the place is being taken over by faction some backed by ran, some by saudi arabia, some backed by al qaeda. but we're out of it. do. >> do the saudis have what'sies in to take care of this -- saudis have what's necessary to take care of this? >> no. yemen is twice the size of wyoming. there's a 2,000-kilometer border with saudi arabia. it's like saying you know, do
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they have the ability to control the bored war mexico. i mean, there's no way. and so, you know a couple of days of air strike is all well and good. but unless you've got some serious force on the ground that is going to commit over time, it's a pin prediction. >> where would such a force come from? >> good question. the saudis don't have it. the americans don't have it. if we did, we wouldn't use it. there were reports that pakistan was being approached. look they would be going up against a capable enemy in hostile terrain. and they would need a lot of support logistical as well as equipment and that sort of stuff. again, i don't see it happening. this is a very tough fight in a very tough place. and it -- there's no quick solution to it. >> people stop you, if you're on the news every day, they stop and ask you questions about the news every day all the time. morning, noon, and night.
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no one has ever said the word "yemen" to me. i don't get the sense that people are aware of this. i don't get the sense that there's a possibility of making the vast majority aware of this. i think there will come a point with when they know about it? >> they sure knew when the "kohl" got bombed. >> how about now? >> let's see what could happen. the geographic point between the red sea and africa, it's like the straits of her musemuse. if that closes, all traffic will be stopped. if al qaeda regains its position and strength in yemen agricultural, launches a spectacular attack against the united states europe or saudi arabia like they tried to do and like the gentleman tweeting out of a palace in the east of aden is doing, they'll hear about it. look, yemen has the potential to
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be a catastrophic danger to the rest of the world the way afghanistan did. >> what should we do? >> nobody'd heard of afghanistan other than 1979. what should we be doing? >> we should be supporting the saudis. we should be trying to get in place a government in yemen that will work with us to shut down al qaeda. and that government, we may not like for a bunch of other reasons for human rights reasons, for other reasons. if we want to protect the homeland and want to put a nail a dagger through the heart of al qaeda, we've got to have a partner on the ground and don't right now. >> but as far as what we should be doing, those two things that you mentioned we're doing both of those, right? what we need to do is find some partner in a world where no partner seems to exist. >> yeah. i think saudi arabia's a valid partner and valuable partner. again, their resources limited. we should be working with elements on the ground in yemen that will work with us and saudi
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arabia against al qaeda. but that takes time, and it also takes people having -- having people inside saudi arabia. and by the -- sorry, in yemen. and oh by the way, our embassy's out of there. >> ambassador ereli a tough situation. >> always is. thank you. >> appreciate it. a 14-year-old boy and 16-year-old girl now face terrorism charges in the united kingdom. police say they arrested the teens in separate raids just last week. investigators say they believe the suspects were getting ready for "acts of terrorism." leah gabrielle here with more. a 14-year-old, 16-year-old, what are they going to do? >> right now we're waiting for details on who the teens are and actually what led to the arrest. we do know that the two raids happened in two different cities about 150 miles northwest of london. the teens are out on bail until their first court hearing in late may. meanwhile, we're getting word that south african police took a 15-year-old girl off a plane in cape town over the weekend. investigators accused her of
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trying to join the islamic state and returned her to her family which had reported her missing. and just last month, the united nations said that kids had become vulnerable to recruitment in iraq and syria. "children as young as 12 undergoing military training and have been used as informants to patrol, to man checkpoints, and to guard strategic locations. in some cases, they have been used as suicide bombers and to carry out executions." a recent u.n. report showed that the number of foreign fighters has been rapidly increasing in recent years. and the director of the national counterterrorism center told congress in february that the group is diverse. take a listen. >> the individuals drawn to fight in foreign: conflict zones do not fit any one stereotype or profile. they come from various backgrounds which highlights the need for comprehensive messaging strategies and early engagement with a variety of communities in order to dissuade vulnerable individuals from trying to travel to conflict zones. >> reporter: and this all comes
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on the same day that malaysia announces that 17 peemd were arrested sunday -- people were arrested on sunday for planning attacks there. >> lealea, thank you. president obama trying to sell a potential nuclear deal with iran, even as critics in congress and elsewhere prepare for a vote. next, what the white house is promising to do if congress tries to derail the negotiations. plus, the boston marathon bombinging trial ingtrial about to go to the jury. why defense lawyers say the admitted bomber does not deserve to die, coming up. "wow, how is there no way to tell the good from the bad?" so we gave people the power of the review. and now angie's list... is revolutionizing local service again. you can easily buy and schedule... ...services from top-rated providers. conveniently stay up to date on progress. and effortlessly turn your photos into finished projects with our angies list app. visit angieslist.com today.
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yuftd in, the man accuse -- just in the man accused of murdering three muslim college students can face a death penalty trial. that's the ruling from a jury j in north carolina. prosecutors say the man shot and killed those students back in february february. cops say he was angry over a dispute over a parking space at a condo complex near the university of north carolina, chapel hill. relatives of the victims say he targeted them because they were muslims. they have also pushed for hate crime charges again. a death penalty case is now possible. closing arguments underway in the trial of the accused boston marathon bomber. a federal prosecutor telling jurors the suspect wanted to punish america. he said dzhokhar tsarnaev targeted men, women, and children in the bombing almost two years ago now. three people died that day. hundreds more were hurt in the attack. during opening statements last
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month, attorneys for the suspect admitted dzhokhar tsarnaev did it but claim his older brother was the mastermind behind the attack near the boston marathon finish. the older brother tamerlan, died in a shoot-out with police days later. if the court finds the suspect, dzhokhar tsarnaev guilty, he could face the death penalty. president obama says he will move ahead on the iran nuclear deal without asking congress to sign off on it. he says it's a once in a lifetime opportunity. and the president's asking lawmakers to reconsider their push to have the final say over the argument. it's not final yet but the outline calls for giving iran relief from economic punishments as long as it scales back its nuclear program. the senate set to vote next week on a bill to let congress review the agreement. the white house says the president would veto that bill. supporters say they're close to coming up with enough votes to overreside a presidential veto. meantime, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu called the preliminary agreement a bad deal. he it says threatens israel's right to exist, in part because
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it would not shut down a single nuclear facility. now a senior israeli official says all options remain on the israeli table, including possible military action against iran. ed henry live at the white house. seems like the white house is trying to sell this plan in a big way. i saw him with "the new york times" editorial writer over the weekend. man, 45-minute interview, and really comprehensive. >> reporter: yes, absolutely. with thomas friedman of "the new york times." this morning doing an interview with npr. what white house aides call a full-court press to convince congress perhaps. since the president's calling for a nonbinding vote on capitol hill, it might not mean much. it's about reaching the american people to try to sell the deal. listen closely to what josh earnest said earlier at the briefing in terms of details here. >> we have gotten commitments that would shuts down every pathway to iran in a nuclear weapon. there are details to be worked
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out, details related to the inspection and certainly details as you asked about that are related to providing sanctions relief. >> reporter: and on sanctions relief, iran continues to put out talking points saying that sanctions relief for them would be almost immediate while the u.s. and the obama administration are basically saying this would be phased in over time. they are not on the same page. so when josh earnest says there's a lot of detail to be worked out, that shows there's still not a deal. >> not yet. certainly not. the credit nix congress especially are arguing that the president is acting ging unilaterally. >> reporter: you heard republican senator bob corker exclusively on fox news sunday yesterday saying there has to be a binding up or down vote on capitol hill. the president in "the new york times" interview would only talk about a nonbinding votes. republicans like lindsay graham say not good enough. >> obama is a flawed negotiator. his foreign has failed on multiple fronts, nobody in the region trusts him. the iranians do not fear or respect him.
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he'll never be able to get the best deal. >> reporter: this is the fundamental question for the president, though. in "the new york times" interview, he said, as you noted, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to get a deal with iran and try to prevent them from getting nuclear weapons. the president's approach is engagement with iran. you can see republicans very skeptical of that. >> ed henry at the white house. thank you very much. things got a little crazy in kentucky after the team that would never lose a game. the best team in the history of college basketball without any question, amen, close the door, all stop lost in the final four. we'll show what happened after the cops had to move in to calm the crowd. it's bad enough when somebody unfriends you on facebook apparently. but one woman is trying to divorce her husband on facebook. like legally. and a judge is okay with a facebook divorce. no pictures of trucks pulling boats. no photos of men working on ranches.
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a woman in brooklyn, new york can serve her husband divorce papers on the facebook. that's the ruling from a judge. the wife's lawyer tells the new york "daily news" that the marriage fell apart after the husband backed away from his promise to arrange a traditional wedding ceremony in their home country of ghana. the pair reportedly never lived together at all. the woman's lawyer tells the newspaper that the husband kept in touch only through phone calls and facebook messages, and she does not have his home address. the judge ruled that the soon-to-be ex-wife can send him up to three facebook messages. the lawyer reportedly says they sent out the first last week. so far no response. kennedy's here host of "kennedy," 10:00 eastern time on the fox network. divorce by facebook? >> yes, that's the new era we're living in. your facebook secretary as physical as your -- facebook
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account is as physical as your address. it's real. >> the idea that you can divorce on facebook, this is serious. this is happening, right? >> it shows a couple of things. one, our digital footprint is as important to the manhattan supreme court justice as your physical footprint. and even though this man tried to live off the grid, he wasn't successful. you know, he doesn't have any sort of physical record for himself. he doesn't have an address. doesn't have an address for his cell phone. he uses a disposable cell phone and facebook. he's so drawn to the social network, the judge said that's good enough for us. you can send them three personal messages. one each week. and if he doesn't respond he's -- going to grant the divorce. >> just grant it. just -- i don't know what else you would do. this was an arranged marriage some kind and didn't come together for reasons that i don't know, elude me. >> supposedly the couple did not consummate -- >> consummate. yeah. >> -- the marriage. for some reason we don't know, we can never know the contents
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of the human heart shep. he would not contact her. he would not live with her. he would not make body congress with her. and the only way they were keeping in touch was through as you said, the facebook. >> wow. >> that was it. the last shred. he wouldn't let her go. like a dove to be free and fly off and find another. >> right. much like the world hasality lou alitylowed a certain basketball team. >> ken condition. the anointed ones back home. the badgers will face off against duke tonight for the ncaa title. coach calipari says five of his players, five seven of his players are packing for the nba. yet, wisconsin took down kentucky saturday night in the most-watched college basketball game on cable ever. >> wisconsin with the unbelievable stretch drive to the championship game! >> badgers and fans erupted as the wildcats walked off the court, ending their season 38-1. some images in our slide show this afternoon.
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i'm going to show some. you should come over. >> thank you. >> slide show. this game tied up -- >> i forgot the popcorn. this is fun. >> kaminski -- >> frank the tank! unbelievable. >> all the way back to the finals of actually all season. going back to the finals of the conference tournament and decker -- my god. when wisconsin's sam decker sank the three-pointer and turned things around for the badgers. final score there was like 71-64. and you can see the wildcats' fans this is lexington. i guess they had decided it was -- >> that looks like staple center after the lakers' championship. >> a fait accompli i guess they decided. i heard them say the whole season was a waste. one of the players said. >> it's not a waste. that's what's wonderful about the tournament is you never know what's going to happen unless your name is shepard smith. and then are you an alien genius. you had duke, wisconsin, michigan state, kentucky, in the final four. you had michigan state and kentucky losing. you put wisconsin/duke in the
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championship. you did that. nobody else did that in the world, and you have wisconsin winning by two points. >> i do, 73-71. i was filling this out before the tournament because there was some -- >> that's not you on the ground -- >> no, this is someone in kentucky getting arrested. here they are partying in madison. go, bucky go. scc love? no. >> duke is sayinged no stinkin badgers. >> they don't. some executive was with one of ours from the fox sports people hanging out with the fox news people. >> as you do. >> as you do. and the -- one of my bosses called and said hey you need to fill out a bracket. i filled out the bracket and turned it in and put it on espn. the 99.2% on espn. >> his never seen anything like it. i had the worst bracket in the history of bracketry. if wisconsin wins, what will i buy you? >> you said you would buy me a brand new car. >> exactly. >> what kind? >> any car of your choosing.
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>> i have 73-71. i figure even if i get it right and it's 73-71 and wisconsin wins -- >> yeah -- >> -- i am definitely for wisconsin tonight. >> i know you are. >> i still won't win the bracket because people filled out -- there are 100 million on espn. >> i know. you had stumbles early. the point is your final four, it's impenetrable. >> i gave my rebels love. >> i had ucla in the final four. >> you didn't do horrible. >> not that well. none of mine made it. >> all right. good to see you. thank you. enjoy the game. >> indeed. "rolling stone" has re retracted its story on a controversial gang rape on the university of view campus. no one is going to be fired. the writer will keep writing for "rolling stone." fratternity at the center of the accusations says it is time for the magazine to pay for its mistakes. plus, the family members who went on a vacation in a luxury resort and wound up fighting for their lives. accusations that it's all because of what some workers sprayed near their hotel room.
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more headlines on the news desk. turkey blocked twitter and youtube again. officials say the websites would not remove photos of a hostage standoff that ended with a far left militant killing of a prosecutor last week. twitter has taken down the pictures. and turkey has lifted the ban. last year, turkey's highest court overturned another ban on those websites after audio recordings from a closed door security meeting emerged. at least one person hurt -- at least one person hurt after an explosion at a chemical plant in eastern china. that's what state media are reporting there. officials did not say what caused it. and if you approach george clooney's luxury villa in italy, keep on moving. the mayor reportedly says people who get out of their cars or boats within about 100 yards of the home will have to pay a fine
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of more than $500. he says the movie star and his wife, an attorney, deserve some privacy. stand clear.
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discredited, completely retracted, and now possibly heading to court. the university of virginia fraternity at the center of rape accusations reports it does plan to pursue "all legal options against "rolling stone" magazine" after an independent review found the magazine's piece on an alleged gang rape was a "journalistic failure." all the while officials at "rolling stone" say nobody will lose a job. a recap -- "rolling stone" published this article in november. it reported on a woman who claimed seven men had raped her at a frat house a couple of years earlier. the article sparked outrage, and the frat suspended all chapter activities. other media outlets also began pointing out holes in this woman's story and eventually a police investigation found no evidence at all of any rape.
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"rolling stone" later admitted the author did not fully vet her facts. it also requested a review which the columbia graduate school of journalism handled. today, columbia officials say the magazine failed to investigate reporting leads, they say editors made judgments about the gentlemanbution and fact check -- attribution and fact checking. as for blame, columbia journalism put it on the many staffers at "rolling stone." >> flat out whose fault was this? >> well, it was the collective fault of the reporter, the editor, the editor's supervisor, and the fact-checking department. >> in an interview with "the new york times" newspaper, "rolling stone's" managing editor says that he's reached many of the same conclusion that's columbia did, but he disagreed with the idea that the magazine put its reputation on the line here. he says the "rolling stone" reputation rests on a lot more than this one story. we have the top story at the bottom of the hour live from washington. how much trouble could "rolling stone" be in here in.
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>> reporter: you said it the fraternity at the center of the stunning article now says it will pursue all available legal avenues against the magazine. the president of that uva chapter adding, "the report by columbia university school of journalism demonstrates the reckless nature in which "rolling stone" researched and failed to verify facts in the article that erroneously accused the phi kappa psi clearly our fraternity and its members have been defamed." the uva president blasted the magazine saying rather than advancing efforts to combat sexual violence she says it's damaged them in that conversation. >> what more do we know about the columbia report? >> reporter: top to bottom, it says "rolling stone" got it all wrong. the author, the editors, those who should have been fact checking. the author responded to the report saying this, "in the case of jackie and her account of her traumatic rape, i did not go far enough to verify her story. i allowed my concern for jackie's well being my fear of retraumatizing her and
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confidence in her credibility to take the place of more questioning and more facts." columbia journalism dean steve cole says "rolling stone" has tried to wrongly, quote, his words, "take shelter you under the claim that it failed because it was trying to protect the subject of the story." he says she bears no fault. >> we do disagree with any suggestion that this was jackie's fault. as a matter of journalism, this was a failure of methodology and of policy and of practice. wasn't the subject's failure. >> reporter: both the author and "rolling stone" have publicly apologized to everyone involved in the article. as you said, it looks like no one is going to lose their job. >> shannon bream. thanks. a husband, wife and two sons have gotten for sick after being exposed to a potentially deadly chemical while on vacation in the caribbean. that's according to multiple reports. the family from delaware. a spokesman tells the local paper the mother has left the hospital. her husband and two teenage sons are in the hospital in critical
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condition. the spokesman says the teenagers are still unconscious. both reportedly had seizures. started last month. the family's luxury condo in the u.s. virgin islands. a report there, a resort official says before the family got sick, exterminators it sprayed a banned pesticide in an apartment below their condo. according to the feds, the chemical can cause serious health problems including severe lung damage and brain damage. a terminex official says they're conducting their own investigation and the says family is in the company's thoughts and prayers. mercedes coleman on the fox newscast. wherever they sprayed, it was in the condo below their condo. indoors banned for indoors at least in the united states. and they're very, very sick. >> oh, my gosh. unbelievable. first of all, this substance was banned in 1984. they knew obviously terminix,
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the company at issue, knew this was a banned substance. the neurological damage is unbelievable. here are two kids unconscious for the entire time. the father can't speak or move. the mother is still in therapy, occupational therapy because of the injuries she suffered. so it all boils down to terminix knew this of a banned substance, knew they couldn't do it indoors, knew that the catastrophic injuries that would befall a family that would be exposed to it. any family for that matter. and this resort they talk about how expensive it is per night. here's this family that -- that had these terrible injuries. >> this stuff is called metho gas. banned in the state since '84. who'd of thought? you stay in a nice place for a getaway, half the family's critical. >> unbelievable. who knows if they'll come out of it. the two kids are still in a comb amp they don't know the extent of the brain damage.
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the family should be looking at some civil lawsuit. they've lawyered up. they've got lawyers on the scene. lawyer has come out to make a statement on behalf of the family. they have two options -- they can bring a suit in federal court on the islands, which i wouldn't suggest it because who are the juries? juries are pro resort. you don't want that. or where terminix is headquartered memphis, tennessee. in federal court there. >> it's u.s. virgin islands. it's -- st. john? >> st. john. >> and by the way, they've issued a desist order against terminix. i wonder how many places this had been used and how many other people have been exposed. it's out of left field. >> and how many people don't know. i mean, some of the symptoms they came out -- boys had seizures the very day they were exposed to it. there was obviously the causation. but if a family doesn't have the illness immediately but it lingers, they may not make the link and think it was terminix. may have been what they sprayed
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downstairs or nearby. >> "rolling stone" -- quickly before we go -- the fraternity is suggesting they're going to use their legal avenue. sounds like the attorney will sue "rolling stone." what sort of legal -- how much trouble could "rolling stone" be in? >> could be a lot. first of all everyone -- it's been concluded. we talked about this when you covered the story. journalistic integrity out of the window. you're talking about defamation. now, "rolling stone" will say, how did we know? we said it was seven kids from this particular fraternity. but there's a limited number of individuals in the fraternity. there were names mentioned in the article. certainly someone can say, i was parts of this fraternity, people believe it's me, and frankly, they don't even have to show damages. whether you're accusing someone of a criminal activity of rape, of that extreme, you can't have to say my reputation's been sullied. of course it's been sullied. you've been accused of rape. it's big time. i'm sure they're going to try to get a defamation case on the books. >> wouldn't surprise me. mercedes, thank you. >> my pleasure. the germanwings co-pilot who crashed a plane full of
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passengers into the french alps nearly two weeks ago now logged on to his computer using the name skydevil. that's according to the reporting of the german newspaper. bild." the co-pilot also searched for suicide methods and information on cockpit doors in the days leading up to the deadly crash. they say somebody deleted the co-pilot's browser history from his computer. investigators were able to recover the following online search terms -- including acoustic trauma, manic depression bipolarity migraines, and impaired vision. those investigators say the cockpit voice recorder later revealed lubitz locked the door when his captain left for a toilet break and used the plane's controls to bring it down as the captain tried to break down the door with an axe. the crash killed all 150 on board. kenyans fighting back against islamic militants after the attack killing students.
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tena - lets you be you. kenya's military launched air strikes against islamic militants in somalia after last week's attack at the university that killed 148 people according to a military spokesman. kenyan officials claim the strikes destroyed two al shabaab training camps in southern somalia just across the border from kenya. a spokesman for al shabaab denies the bombs hit the camps claiming they struck farmland instead. the group took responsibility for the university attack in northeastern kenya thursday. analysts say the group does have links to al qaeda. the kenyan government claiming on twitter that this man, -- this man mastermind the attack. there's a reward of $220,000 for his arrest. jennifer griffin has details from the pentagon for us this afternoon. what's the pentagon doing to
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help out the kenyans here, jen? >> reporter: well, pentagon spokesman colonel steve warren told reporters the kenyan government has not asked for direct support from the u.s. department of defense in the wake of the attack on the university which he described as evil. however, since the end of december, the u.s. military has targeted and killed three top leaders of al shabaab in somalia using drones and intelligence on the ground. in december, the u.s. killed the chief of external operations for al shabaab. the kenyan government, as you mentioned offering this $220000 reward for the current head of al shabaab. in september the u.s. killed al shabaab's leader at the time. in fact the u.s. began assassinating al shabaab leaders in somalia in 2008. but they keep getting replaced, carrying out attacks on soft targets such as the westgate shopping mall in 2013 in kenya and now the christian university students. kenya has a 450-mile border are
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somalia. and al shabaab fighters move across with ease. the kenyan military has been part of a u.n.-backed peacekeeping mission in somalia that's targeted the al qaeda-linked al shabaab since 2011 when the kenyan military first crossed into somalia after several foreign tourists and aid workers were kidnapped. >> tell us more about the attackers, jen. >> reporter: well, in a shocking revelation, it of revealed this weekend that -- it was revealed this weekend that one of the four gunmen was the son of a kenyan government minister. abyou do r abdu rahim awlacki was a student who had a promising career. his father reported him missing. he is kenyan but ethnically somali from the region bordering gedo where the al shabaab training camps were hit in the past 24 hours by the kenyan air force. kenyan government officials have called on the muslim community to do more to monitor attempts to radicalize their young people.
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>> thanks. a fox report. from the headlines on the news desk -- work starting up again t oil platform that exploded in the gulf of mexico last week according to mexico's government-run oil company. officials say the blast killed four workers and three others are still missing. the company reports there was no spill, just a seepage that crews are cleaning up. no word yet on what caused the explosion. at home a man is dead after crashing his car right into a tour bus. happened last night near los angeles. cops say five people on the bus were hurt, but none seriously. investigators say it looks to them like the driver of the car was speeding. and prince harry will apparently not be buying a selfie stick any time soon. he's in australia now. listen closely to what he told a fan who asked him to pose for a selfie. >> no i don't do selfies. seriously, you need to get --
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selfies are bad. >> selfies are bad. he told her, and i quote, "take a normal photograph." tax day is next week, and the new health care law could affect whether many americans get big refunds or owe a lot of dough to uncle sam. we have more. plus, people from lucille ball's hometown want workers to take down a statue of the late actress because of how it looks. details next.
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jeb bush admits he made a mistake. he is not, i repeat is not hispanic. this after "the new york times" published the voter florida governor's voter registration form in 2009. fox news confirms governor bush checked the hispanic box. we all confirm he's not
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hispanic. today he tweeted "my mistake. don't think i fooled anyone." jeb bush does speak fluent spanish. his wife's from mexico. of course, he says he's thinking about running for president. meantime, senator rand paul is about to start officially running for president. the kentucky republican with a highly libertarian streak released a video on the computer web promising to take on washington starting tomorrow. that's when he's set to hold a rally louisville where it's predicted he'll kick off his white house campaign. the texas republican senator ted cruz is the only other major candidate in the race today. tax day about a week away. experts say millions of americans will get a big bump in their refund checks this year or owe lots of money to uncle sam because of the health care law. we have host of "the willis report" at 5:00 business report. tell us about this. >> about 52%, half of the people who took obamacare and got a
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subsidy, they didn't pay enough for the subsidy. they have to give money back to the federal government. they took too much in federal subsidies. now they have to pay it back. the fault goes to the federal government. what's more, the federal government sent out wrong forms to about 800,000 people who are on the aca, as well. so the government here struggling, struggling struggling to get obamacare right. you know it caused 47 tax law change. the irs just implementing it this year. it's a big thing for them to do. they're basically implementing the law. that's not typically what you think of the irs. >> some people will get money back for the same reason? >> well, you know, everybody -- some people get refunds. but the problem is most people thought they knew the refund to expect, right? you know how people wait for the refund? and suddenly they find out uh-oh, i took too much in subsidy. now i'm going to have to give it back to the federal government. >> big picture how is the tax season looking? >> pretty poor. it's not great. there's no service out there. even the head of the irs says
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he's giving crummy service this year. he blames cuts in his budgets. he said that. and he says refunds are going to take longer to turn around. it's usually three weeks. could be much longer this year. >> because of budget cuts at the irs. >> budget cuts and well, there's a lot going on. they've had a few troubles here and there. >> they have. they have had a few troubles. gerri, see you in an hour and six machinesinutes on the business network. fans of the classic "i love lucy" say they want a statue of the legendary comedian to come down because it's "ugly." the saw it statue is in her hometown. details -- i don't know. chris -- >> he's a fan. >> i was a fan. lucille ball, she was my -- my babysitter as a child along with the main babysitter. lucy statue -- not like she was a beauty queen. >> now, but wait until you see it. lucille ball was born in jamestown, new york. this is in seleron, nearby the
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memorial park there. viewers may recognize this iconic photo of lucille ball. it's from the episodelucy does a tv commercial," in "i love lucy." she's holding a bottle and keeps drinking it. >> tasty, too. >> it's tasti, too. there's alcohol. she gets a little drunk. with this picture as a frame of reference, an artist came without this -- >> what the hell is that? >> in 2009. >> that's supposed to be lewis? >> that is supposed to be lucy. here's a side by side, viewers can make their own decision. >> i'll make a decision. that's terrible. >> the mayor says tell cost from $8,000 to $10,000 to replace. he says he's not going to be using taxpayers funds. in the meantime, there is this facebook page -- >> good. >> we love lucy, get i.d.rid of the statue. the creator will start a fundraising website so fans can donate money. hopefully it will replace the statue. >> ba-ballou. they could have done without it entirely.
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>> the town is obsessed with lucy. they should be. it's her hometown. >> their thing. >> yeah. >> all right. thanks. >> yeah. >> we'll be right back.
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may be able to get every month free. on this day in 1896, athletes faced on and off greece for the first modern olympic games. leaders wanted to bring back a traditional from greek times when people competed to honor the god zeus. the u.s. and more than a dozen countries took part in the first games in athens with events including swimming gymnastics, and fencing. a few tourist even got a chance to sign up as athletes. nowadays, hundreds of nations take part in the summer and winter olympics. countries from around the world brought back an ancient tradition and made it their own. 119 years ago. . when news breaks out, we'll break in. breaking news changes everything on fox newschannel. the dow's having a good day. started off bad. and i guess investors are happy
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with the idea that they'll put off a rate hike, the fed will. the final bell, up 120 on wall street. "your world" coming up with stuart. more coming up. have a great afternoon. go, bucky. are we so focused on iran over there that we're taking our eye off a bigger threat right here? welcome, everyone, i'm in for neil cavuto, this is "your world." what if i told threw are isis sympathizers who have returned from the fight and are living among us now? i don't have to. homeland security secretary jay johnson just did. >> of the 180 americans who have gone overseas to fight in iraq and syria, 40 have come back. i assume that you're keeping close tabs on those 40. >> we have, in fact kept close tabs on those we