alert. a south carolina police officer is behind bars for murder. >> an unarmed black man shot multiple times in the back. >> good morning ladies. that police officer could be headed to death row. a witness capturing the horrific exchange that left a father of four lying dead in the grass. [ gunshots ] can you see walter lamar scott running from officer michael slager as the officer fires eight shots at the coast guard veteran. the confrontation happened during a routine traffic stop. the officer pulled him over for a broken taillight and said that he feared for his life because scott took his stun gun during a scuffle. the taser line does appear to be attached to scott as he's running from the officer right before the shots are fired. >> you make a bad decision, don't care if you're behind the shield or just a citizen on the

street. you have to live by that decision. >> officer slager is behind bars at the defense center in south carolina after being denied bond at a hearing late last night. scott's family now demanding justice. >> i don't think that all police officers are bad cops, but there are some bad ones out there. and i don't want to see anyone get shot down the way that my brother got shot. >> the family plans to file a civil lawsuit against the police department in north charleston. the justice department is also looking into the case. ainsley? thank you, anna. a tournament tragedy. seven people are now dead after their small plane crashes on the way home from the ncaa final. conditions fog in central illinois could be to blame for that crash. two out of the seven are identified as employees of illinois state university. here are their pictures. the deputy athletics director

and the associate head basketball coach tory ward. the two-engine cessna going down less than 2 miles from the airport. the electric company that cut off power to a house where a father and his seven children died of carbon monoxide poisoning has been subpoenaed. they said the electric was disconnected for safety reasons, and not because he was behind on the bill. the company says that it found a stolen electric meter on the mobile home last month. police subpoenaed the company to document exactly when it did or what it did and when. the family was using a generator for power. todd, his two sons and five daughters seen in this family photo, all found dead on monday. overnight hundreds of firefighters battling flames on top of a building in los angeles. look at this. you can see the flames shooting from the fifth floor of a six-story office building with thick, black smoke pouring into

the sky. firefighters pulled a man and his wife to safety through a window after they were trapped by the growing flames. >> right thousandnow i can say they are heaven sent. they did a great job. in less than three minutes they were there. >> the cause of that fire not yet known. the lights are back on in washington, d.c. this morning after widespread power outages the white house and state department were affected. power was knocked out during a state department briefing and even yoe prauoprah was left in the dark during a celebration for the maya angelou postage stamp. they believe a fire in a maryland sub station is the cause. rand paul announces his run for president for 2016. >> today i announce with god's help with the help of liberty lovers everywhere, that i am

putting myself forward as a candidate for president of the united states. [cheers and applause] >> paul now the second candidate to fishily announce his campaign. leland vitter is live for us. good morning, leland. >> good morning to you. with a little more than four years in the senate, rand paul has positioned himself as an outsider despite his credentials. he remains a mix of libertarianism. he strikes a different tone than many of his republican competitors. a doctor by trade, he says that his message will appeal to a variety of voters. >> fu raise defense spending, which i do think we need defense spending, i would cut domestic spending the exact same amount. there are conservatives, several of them who are running or may run who say increase defense costs at all costs but i don't

care if you pay for it. >> he opens himself up from conservative hawks who say he is weak in the area. >> rand paul supports president obama's negotiations with iran, but he doesn't understand the threat. >> paul begins his first day as an official candidate in new hampshire today and continued his kickoff touring south carolina, nevada and california. the latest fox news poll taken before paul's announcement has him in sixth place among likely republican voters. many analysts call him a long shot but they say three does have a path to the nomination. >> he's got to find a way to win one of the early contests. iowa's dominated by social conservatives. his father had a good organization there. i think his best shot would be new hampshire which is an open primary. independents can vote in the republican or democratic side.

and there's a chance for him to bring the isolationists to pro-peace, pro-dope progressive, independents and the republican primary to vote for him by emphasizing his libertarian principalseiples and outlook. senator john mccain is running for reelection, seeking his sixth term in office as a senator. he says it was an easy decision because there's still a lot of work to be done. >> there are threats to us that thanks to this failed presidency and the incredibly hands-off, leading from behind foreign policy, the country's in grave danger. >> he was first elected to the senate back in 1986. he will be 80 years old on election day next year but still has a lot of energy left. meanwhile, rahm emanuel won

a runoff election defeating jesus garcia. emanuel thanked voters for giving him a second chance, but he has big problems, including a financial problem and violence in the city. the town of ferguson just tripled the number of african-americans on the city council. now three of the six seats are held by black residents which more easily mirrors the demographic of ferguson. voters came out in droves doubling the amount from last year's elections. the jury in the boston bombing trial had a lot of questions for the judge. molly line is hearthere with the latest. >> reporter: after seven hours of deliberation, they have yet to reach their verdict. given the defense attorney's repeated admissions in opening and closing argumenting that sar

never was involved in the boston marathon bombing acknowledging it was him a multitude of guilty verdicts would be no surprise. but it may take the jury some time. it is long and complicated, carrying 30 charges, 17 of which carry the possibility of the death penalty. there are three conspiracy counts and a multitude of weapons charges related to bombs and a ruger gun. as jurors neared the end of their first day of deliberation, they sent two questions to the judge. the questions were not disclosed, but he did schedule an 8:had45 conference with lawyers to discuss them. now we're going to talk about weather. multiple hail pummeled several states. >> wow, look at that.

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the controversial statement coming from the easter prayer breakfast. >> speaking in a roomful of christian leaders days after easter, president obama decided it would be a good time to go off script and accuse christians of hateful thinking. >> as a christian, i am supposed to love. and i have to say that sometimes when i've listened to less than loving expressions by christians i get concerned. but that's a topic for another day. [ laughter ] i was about to veer off. [ laughter ] i'm pulling it back. >> hmm, he's pulling it back. the supposedly candid comment eliciting laughs in the room but it's unclear what he was about to say before moving on. back in february, he likened

isis to christians during the crusades. >> during the crusades and the inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of christ, and our home country, slavery and jim crow all too often was justified in the name of christ. >> this trend of anti-christian he rhetoric by the president is seen by some as the actual cause of the horrible persecution of christians around the world. >> are i thinki think there's a reason the president doesn't want to talk about persecution of christians because in part his policies are responsible. the growing hostility toward christianity here at people is fostering an environment where terrorists feel free to kill christians because of their faith. >> there's speculation that president obama was referring to the controversial religious freedom acts in indiana and arkansas when he made the comments. >> thank you, jackie. that brings us to this

question. was president obama taking another swipe at christians? what message does it send to our enemies as we try to fight islamic extremism. send us an e-mail and we'll share those later in the show. >> i wonder why the audience was laughing at that as well. a woman with cancer kicked offer an alaskan airline flight back to florida because they said she needed a doctor's note to fly. >> i have multiple mileyloma. >> she told the airline crews sometimes she feels weak when she flies and she put on a surge cal mask to avoid germs. that's when she was told she needed a note to fly and her entire family was escorted off. >> i was hurt, and then i was concerned about how is it going to look to other people. and how would my son feel.

i felt like i was being hauled off to jail or something. >> as a result she missed several chemo therapy appointments. they comped the flight which was headed to california. they said we are very sorry for how the situation was handled. while we had best interests in mind it could have been handled differently. fox news looks at how states are breaking the law to get illegals behind the wheel. >> reporter: one is a valid driver's license from the district of columbia. the other is not. how about these from colorado? by law they should look nothing alike, but they do. >> if you could assign a letter grade they would get a resounding f. >> reporter: because in spite of clear language meant to separate a driver's license from a simple

i.d., some avoid the law to avoid the illegal immigrant lobby. >> they've gratuitously would try to do much more than necessary for the sole purpose of stigmatizing individuals. >> reporter: the feds say the real idea has nothing to do with stigmatizing anyone. >> three 9/11 hijackers obtained state i.d.s using fraudu length documents. >> in the case of california, they're accepting, you know, hundreds of documents issued by foreign governments that are very difficult to verify. >> reporter: this is a california license on the left, a state i.d. on the right. though it says federal limits apply, they're almost identical. compare that to illinois which uses different colors and utah a different design.

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it is wednesday, april 8. a fox news alert. a shocking shooting caught on camera, as a police officer shoots a suspect in the back eight times as he's running away. the brand new charges and what we have learned about the moment before. the white house allegedly hacked at the hands of the russians. how the hackers got in, and the worry that this is just the beginning. and a criminal takes a page from "mrs. doubtfire's" book. ♪ you look like a lady ♪ >> the bank-robbing bandit police are looking for right

now. fox & friends first continues right now. ♪ ♪ good wednesday morning to you and your family. welcome to fox and friends first if you're just waking up. >> it is half past the top of the hour. right to that fox news alert for you. gut-wrenching video could send a police officer to death row for shooting an unarmed black man. >> good morning to all of you at home. that witness video giving north charleston police enough evidence to arrest one of their own men for murder. [ gun fire ] >> just listen to that. you can see walter lamar scott running from officer slager as he fired eight shots at the black 50 year old coast guard veteran and father of four. it happened during a routine

traffic stop. slager pulled scott over for a broken taillight and says he feared for his life because scott took his stun gun during a scuffle. you can see the taser line appears to be attached to scott as he's running from the officer right before he fires the shots. the city's hair says this is an isolated incident within the police force. >> we've got 343 police officers in our department. this is a bad decision by one of those 343. >> officer slager is behind bars at the detention center after being denied bond at a hearing late last night. >> we can't get my brother back, and my family is in deep mourning for that. but through the process, of justice has been served. >> the family plans to file a civil lawsuit against the police

department. the justice department is also looking into this case. >> anna coyman, thank you. a plane crashes on the way home from the ncaa final. two of the seven are identified as employees of illinois state university. the deputy athletics director aaron leach and the associate athead basketball coach, tory ward. the cessna went down less than 2 miles from the central illinois airport. del marva power says the power was disconnected for safety reasons and not because he was behind on his bills. they found a stolen electric meter on the home last month. police subpoenaed the company to document exactly when it turned off the power.

the family was using a generator instead. todd, and his sons and daughters seen in this family photo were found dead on monday. a federal judge will not lift a temporary hold on president obama's executive action to prevent millions of illegal immigrants from being deported. judge andrew hainan granted that injunction suing to overturn the president's actions. it is already appealed. cuba is on the verge of being removed from the state sponsors of terrorism watch list. a new report confirms that the state department has been assessing the communist country for some time now and is ready to recommend the decision to the white house. cuba has been on the list since 1982, accused of providing support to terrorist organizations. it comes as the u.s. and cuba

restore diplomatic relations. kentucky rand paul announces his bid for president of the united states. >> >> it's time for a new way a way predicated on justice, opportunity and freedom. >> paul using that speech to lay out his plan for america, saying it's time to take back the country. leland vitter is live in washington to break down senator paul's message for us. >> good morning. with a little less than four years in the senate rand paul has positioned himself as an outsider despite his credentials. his message remains a mix of conservative libertarianism. his message will appeal to a broader odd yips, especially younger and minority voters. >> if you do nothing, you'll get 11 million more. i think having no immigration reform is a starter. you have lawlessness on the border and there's a national security risk to people who just walk into our country. the first thing you have to do

is secure the border. i think there's a vast consensus on that. and if we had a bill to secure the border it would pass. >> despite his job inside the belt way, his message remains quote, defeat the washington machine, and he's already attacked from the left and the right. but they are take him seriously. the super pac linked to hillary clinton launched a page called paul off the wall.com. and he will not be alone on his five-state kickoff to begin today in new hampshire. a liberal billionaire is dispatching protesters to his very first campaign stop. >> leland vitter live for us. thank you. one of paul's biggest weaknesses, some say, is his foreign policy stance. many saying that it's even more liberal than president obama's. >> whatever name you want to put on paul's position, isolationist or noninterventionist he is the

one republican who is the closest to obama in his view on foreign policy. arguably he's to the left of obama on nsa, on surveillance on the use of drones, essentially on the war on terror. >> he is not running for office next year but president obama is still bashing likely presidential candidate scott walker. when asked about governor walker's suggestion that he would nix any nuclear agreement with iran if he were elected as president, the president had this to say. >> it would be a foolish approach to take. and you know, perhaps mr. walker, after he's taken some time to bone up on foreign policy will feel the same. >> not one to take criticism lying down walker quickly shot back, noting the failures of president obama's own foreign policy, saying whether it is cutting a bad deal with iron, calling isis the jv squad or

touting yemen as a success story obama's lack of leadership has hurt america's safety and standing in the world. former white house press secretary ari fleischer says that the jabs by president obama are just a review of what's to come. >> the president lowering himself to that manner of tit for tat. he is not running again. you have a president so eager just to take shots at people who aren't even running against him. i think you're seeing a preview of barack obama's post presidency where he can't control himself and he can't resist lowering himself into political mud. it's wrong for a president to do that. it will be wrong for an ex-president to do that. and the time now is 37, specifically, after the top of the hour. hackers hitting your travel plans. the brand new ways that thieves are stealing your identity. and dangers in diet pills and supplements that many of you

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was happening. right now cyber crooks might be using your personal information whenever they see something valuable that they can steal. time magazine recently listed some of the areas where you may be susceptible. hackers use stolen frequent flyer miles to buy tickets and upgrade seats. we've seen the recent attacks on health insurance companies and it turns out they are using stolen medical benefits to see their own doctors and obtain service. a rare occurrence is when they use your name. and you don't become aware of it until a police officer stops you for a wrong turn or some other traffic violation only to learn there's a warrant out for your arrest. some are using ransom viruses locking you out of your computer. they refuse to unlock your files until you transfer thousands of dollars to them in order to have those files unlocked.

and finally, they steal your social security number and open credit cards in your name. check your credit report every four months. to look for suspicious activity. ainsley, back to you. >> i just wish people would do the right thing, adam. and then we wouldn't have to go through all this stuff. you can log onto fox business.com/channel finder. rand paul's offering several items, including that eye chart for $20.16. he is an eye surgeon, and he says we need a president who can see clearly. you can also pick up some i stand with rand flip-flops. you can get your hands on that beanbag toss game called corn hole. and you can buy an autographed

pocket constitution. it's going to set you back $1,000. >> i have a pocket constitution already. you can sign it, ainsley. i won't charge you a thing. >> we are this much closer to having a woman on the $20 bill. the website championing this change is called women on 20.com. and they've released their four finalists. thousands voted for the four women. the site is planning one final round of voting before sending a petition to president obama. the goal is to have the new cash in circulation by to2020 the 1 hundreth anniversary of a woman's right to vote. russian hackers are being blamed for an attack on the white house. they were able to get sensitive information including the president's private schedule. we are joined live from

washington with more on this. >> we knew there had been a hacking incident involving the white house computer system last year, which would have given hackers in theory, access to the president's scheduling information as well as upcoming announcements. what we're learning now is that the russians may have in fact been responsible for this. the president's deputy national security adviser would not say much about this. listen. >> we don't confirm cyber intrusions. we've spoken to the fact that there was an event last year. we have classified this and we take regular precautions but we don't talk about where cyber intrusions are originating from. >> what they will say is that no classified information was leaked here. heather? >> so, doug have security measures been updated at this point? we would hope so. >> we just heard him say they

don't really talk about those specific measures. one would certainly assume that they've done everything they can to try to close whatever access point they found that these hackers apparently violated last year. >> thank you, doug. >> thanks. it is 14 minutes to the top of the hour. secret spies. the bombshell report about when the government started tracking billions of private phone calls. and role reversal. a dog takes a kid for a walk or drag. the viral video that will have you laughing all morning. who's walking who?

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paul makes it official but does he really have a path to victory? and what about those who say he's left of president obama? also talking to christians, he called christians less tape so you can decide. he is only 12. is that fair? should they make an exception we'll talk about that. do you have a horrible boss? sheryl casone is here on how to make that boss work for you. we have a busy morning kicking off in ten minutes from now. >> that's not fair. in the meantime wite are following a fox news alert. the man accused of bank rolling terrorists is expected to be arraigned on charges he raised funds to send americans overseas to fight with isis.

the feds nabbed three of his alleged accomplices in february. he already admitted giving money to one of those men. a shocking discovery in iraq is bringing soldiers to tears. mass graves filled with bodies of 1,700 iraqi soldiers killed by isis have been found. the remains are being exhumed so they can be identified. the soldiers were kidnapped from a former u.s. army base and executed last year. tikrit was taken by iraqi forces last week. we all know about the nsa data collection but what if we told you it's been going on for decades. according to a report from usa today the dea began monitoring every phone call from the u.s. beginning in 1992.

the information collected helped track drug cartels and ruled out foreign involvement in the 1995 oklahoma city bombing and that became the nsa program. a health risk for anyone who is taking a work loss. bmpa has been linked to the banned substance efed ru. they documented the ingredient in nine supplements but never named the products. there are no known health concerns related to the stimulant. doctors are suggest avoiding them anyway. diet squt exercise. what started as an innocent dumping of new goldfish into a colorado lake has turned into an invasion. >> there they are in all their glory. >> it's like guzillions on there. >> you can see the orange in the

reeds. >> experts estimate nearly 4000 gold fish are calling a boulder, colorado, lake home. they are threatening the area's entire eco system now. wildlife officials are considering shocking the fish. >> at that man put it t guzillions of them. >> eight minutes till the top of the hour. christian faithful under fire by the president. >> listen to less than loving expressions by christians. i get concerned. >> well, is this really the right message to be sending your e-mails are up next. a criminal takes a page from mrs. doubtfire's book. "fox and friends first" continues right after this break. ♪

it is now three minutes before the top of the hour. here's what you need to know before you leave the house. the justice department looking into the shoot hg death of an unarmed coast guard veteran by a white police officer. that officer is on jail in

murder charges after the video captured him shooting the man eight times. day two of deliberations in the boston marathon trial. the jurors asking the judge two questions. blue bell creamery expanding its recalls to include more products that have tested positive for listeria. the banana pudding ice cream pints made between february 12th and march 27th. and time now for the good bad and ugly. up first, the good. this couple having it their way for life. that is joel burger and ashley king. the newly engaged couple learning burger king is footing the bill for their wedding. the bad who could forget one of hollywood's best disguise disguises? love that movie. from cleaning house to a life of

crime. california police are looking for this bank robbery suspect. they're dubbing him mrs. doubtfire the bandit for his female disguise. watch as a child is dragged across the street by a st. bernard. it is time for your brew on this response. president obama has taken a swipe at christians. calling some christians less than loving. >> we asked what does this message send to our enemies? it sends the message that he considered christian unkindness heinous than muslim terrorism in general beheadings in particular. >> cathy writes he gived fuel to radicals by saying these things. >> it says he doesn't understand biblical christianity t. not surprising considering his time

under rev wright. >> you can log on to the "fox and friends first" facebook page. we hope you have a great day. see you back here tomorrow. "fox and friends" starts now. good morning. today is wednesday, april 8th. i'm elizabeth hasselbeck. a fox news alert. what you are about to see is graphic. now the police officer in that video you just saw has been charged with murder. we have breaking details for you straight ahead. meanwhile rand paul running for president as a different kind of republican. can he really convince independents and democrats and other republicans to get on board? we're going to talk about that. espn's bracket champion denied his $20,000 prize because he's 12. should that -- the network make an exception?