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see some funny ones when i grew up and when i was chubby and all that. and then go down here and see where i will be visiting so i hope i get to meet a lot of you in cities across the country. i'd love to sign a book for you. thank you for being part of "the real story." i'm gretchen. here's shep. >> a half dozen more americans are now understand arrest accused of trying to join the islamic state fighters on the battlefield. why the fedñuu-ñ say they're not just wanna-bes. it comes as isis releases another video showing the execution of christian prisoners, murdered because they refused to convert. today marks five years since the oil rig explosion caused the worst manmade oil spill in american history. how is the gulf doing now? let's get to it. >> breaking news motor "shepard smith reporting," live from the fox news deck. >> a very serious develop just taken place in the last few minute in the middle east. a navy battle group is now on a mission to stop ships from iran
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before they can deliver weapons to rebel fighters. make no mistake. this is a major escalation in the fighting in yemen, and the proxy war we're in right now between iran and the united states. the pentagon just announced minutes ago it sent an aircraft carrier loaded with jets along with a navy cruiser to the waters off yemen. that is where the houthi rebels have nation's pro-american government on the run. the fighting has been playing out for weeks there. iran backs these rebels who took over yemen's capital forcing the president of the country to escape and militants are still on the move. thinking is iran is trying to get weapons and supplies to the houthi rebels, and the united states there is to stop it. saudi arabia and several allies have tried to beat back the rebels with airstrikes. the saudi's big concern is serious. its arch enemy, iran, could take control of yemen, which shares a long border with saudi arabia
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there's much more than at play here. iran made no secret about sending the weapons to the rebels. the government announced it was sending as many as nine ships of supplies to yemen, and iran didn't try to hide it at all. pentagon officials say it's as if iran is trying to tell the united states what it's doing. saudi arabia and egypt on the other hand already have ships trying to block yemen's waters. now the united states joins what could turn into a major faceoff between iran and the united states. and the west. let's get the latest break details from the pentagon. jennifer griffin what can you tell us about this news? >> reporter: we are just learning that the u.s. navy has repositioned the uss theodore roosevelt an aircraft carrier, escorted by the ussea[z normandy graded missile cruiser into the arabian sea with the purpose of intercepting suspected iranian weapons shipments to the houthis in yemen.
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>> why is this significant in terms of timing? >> are. >> reporter: it's significant because the uss roosevelt just arrived in the persian gulf to replace the uss carl christianson which had been supporting air operations over iraq. the roosevelt, which just arrived on station has now retransitted the straight of hormuz, reversing course and taking nation the arabian sea to enforce the blockade of yemen, and to keep shipping lanes open. clearly they are concerned about iranian resupply of the houthis. we heard a very defensive state department spokesman say as much today. >> there is a well-documented history of support of the houthi, including various state department reports, money weapons, support from very long time. >> i know there are statements in support of -- >> there's a lot of evidence. do you doubt this evidence? >> right now the uss ralph will join nine u.s. navy ships in the
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waters off yemen, amid reports a convoy of iranian ships are headed to yemen to arm he houthis. saudi arabia has been carrying out airstrikes against the iranian-backed houthis for more than two weeks. the u.s. is helping the saudis now. >> thanks. the united states has been boarding, with pegs, some of -- with permission some of the iranian ships. iran admitted it has nine of them headed to yemen. so the united states and saudi arabia is in the way. the thinking is the united states and saudi arabia will try to stop the supplies from going to the houthis. the houthis want to take over the country which boreds iran. iran is with the houthis. the united states is with the saudis. that is the showdown. and if they've try to board a ship, that has weapons or something for the houthis on them then what happens? joining us now is michael singh, the managing director of the washington institute nonpartisan nonprofit think tank in washington, its mission
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to advance american interests in thed the middle east. this looks serious. help us understand. >> we have already seen some efforts along this line. on april 1st there was an effort be u.s. destroyer to board a freighter suspected of carrying iranian goods to the houthis. i don't believe that turned up anything. but obviously the arrival of the uss theodore roosevelt the arrival of the iranian ships increases the muscle, maybe increases the tension here elm think for the united states, putting these navy vessels there serves a triple purpose even. number one, is simply to prevent iranian arms from getting into that theater of conflict and make the houthis come to the negotiating table rather than relying upon their military. second is to reassure american allies that despite nuclear negotiations with iran, we're still committed to countering the iranian presence and activities in the region.
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third, the shipping lanes. this is heavily trafficked water, three million barrels of oil a day going through the straits, so there's a real energy and economic interest there, too. >> okay the iranian ships are come can, let's say hypothetically with the united states believes is true they have weapons and resupplies for the houthi rebels trying to take over yemen. the united states says you're not going there. iran says, oh, yes, we are, and then what. >> those rainan warships would have to keep out of yemeni territorial waters. that's international law. obviously if you had a situation where u.s. warships are trying to board those iranian naval vessels it would be a significant sores of tension. my guess is that if the iranians are going to try to get arms into yemen it's going to be hidden on commercial vessels like we have seen in the past. there's a whole hoard of commercial vessels in these lanes. knowing which one may carry contraband and which one may not
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is hard. >> so just two shows of strength out here, the iranians, here's what we have. the americans, here's what we have. to foreshadow? i don't know. >> the u.s. vessels are there for specific reasons and will conduct different activities. the iranianfpg vessels may symbolic, though shat iran has a role here to too. i'd by suppressed if they were the direct carriers of those weapons. >> michael singh, thank you very much. >> thank you, shep. >> an american reporter who has been inside an iranian jail for nearly nine months all of a sudden faces charges including spying and collaborating with hostile government. according to his lawyer. that reporter works for the "washington post" newspaper. here is his picture. iranian officials arrested him in july last year. the executive edit for the "washington post" says the charges carry a maximum penalty of ten to 20 years in prison. the white house calls the charges unseward and says iran should release the man now.
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last month, president obama called for iran to release a total of three american prisoners and to help find a missing fbi agent. the islamic state carried out a mass slaughter of christian men, lined them up, shot them in the back of the head or sawed off their heads while the victims screamed in agony. a word from the terrorist's latest bloody execution video. appears to show isis killing two groups of ethopian christian in libam. they bee head one group on a beach and shoot the other group in a different area. we are showing you still images. also features an executioner with a north american accent. this is not the first time isis staged a mass execution in libya. in february, video showed the group killing 21 egyptian christians. catherine herridge is in washington. what are officials learning of the video. >> the analysis of the 29-minute
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video is ongoing and focused on the identity of the executioner because his mouth and face are covered. analysts are trying to determine through audio analysis whether the voice is dubbed over or in fact a north american is leading these mass executions inkç)86 libya. an analyst says portions of the tape appeared to be altered. drawing our attention to the beach scenes where the militants appear larger than life, and some suggest green screen technology may have been used. with the white house spokesman reading from a prepared statement condemning the targets of christians. >> that the united states condemns in the strongest terms they brutal mass murder by isil affiliated terrorists of what the murderers claim are ethopian christians in libya. we express our condolences. >> the latest video is described as having very advanced post production but no guidance from intelligence officials whether
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the individual or individuals were professionally trained or simply self-taught. >> i guess we're learning something about the presence of this group in libya now if nothing else. >> that's right. this is at least a the second time isis staged a mass execution in libya with an intelligence source telling fox the islamic state is consider are comfortable and confident operating there. u.s. and libyan officials confirm now more than a dozen training sites in libya for isis with one of the largest near the western border with tunisia. isis is now blamed for at least 20 other plots inside the country. >> we are not on the battlefield when it comes to social media and the ideological struggle. so you see isis growing in appeal. >> today the white house spokesman said the only solution would be a political solution to stop the violence but critics point out there is no central government to work with in libya right now. >> thank you.
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the united nations reports hundreds of thousands of people boarded smuggler boats in north africa last year trying to escape the terror attacks and civil war there. now rescue crews are searching for survivors after one of the crowded boats, capsized in the mediterranean sea and we're hearing hundreds of people may have died. a survivor claims many of them, locked below deck as the boat sank to the bottom of the sea, and the thinking is hundreds of people are trapped on that ship at the bottom of the sea right now. crews report some bodies are floating in the water but most still missing. that part of the sea is three miles deep and sit tallan police say divers won't be able to reach the bottom to search for more bodies. there's a map on the wall. smugglers were carrying migrants from libya to europe. they're trying to escape the -- all of the chaos happening here and make it to sicily if possible. investigators say the boat was likely headed to the country of
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malta or possibly further north to sicily. official says the ship began to sink over the weekend 70-miles off libya's coast, and it's not the only time this is has happen. european immigration officials say three other boats have called for help in the past few days, 900 people believed to have died and europe is in a major crisis as the headlines and newspapers across the region are asking how in the world can we solve this migrant crisis? a group of terror suspects the feds busted this weekend was not simply confused young men. but instead the group was hell bent on waging jihad in syria. that is according to the reporting of the fbi today. the feds say they arrested six friends from minneapolis yesterday. they're the latest americans accused of trying to join up with the islamic state fighters. investigators say these new suspects are part of avalancher group of men in minneapolis who tried to join isis and some of those other men have made it to
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syria. prosecutors say the suspects tried over and over to join isis, even though they knew the risks of getting caught. >> what is remarkable about this case is that nothing stopped these defendants from pursuing their goal. they never stopped plotting another way to get to syria to join isil. >> the arrests come after another bust in ohio last week. the feds say threat this man after he trained -- they arrested third man after he trained in syria. investigators say an isis cleric ordered him back to the united states to pull off a terror attack. recently the fbi director says the government has active investigations of possible home-grown terrorists in each of the 50 states. the millionaire volunteer sheriff's deputy who claims he shot and killed an unarmed suspect by accident has released at least some of his training records, and this comes after report that supervisors faked those="÷ records. we'll dig into that. plus the sheriff's message for the victim's family ahead. man claims a top airline has
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banned him from boarding its flights because he sent a tweet. the response from the airline and why the fbi is now involved. that's coming up on a busy monday from the fox news deck. building aircraft, the likes of which the world has never seen. this is what we do. ♪ that's the value of performance. northrop grumman.
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60 pages of documents. there are time gaps in them, periods of time we don't get to see. but they do appear to show the millionaire insurance executive did take part in weapons training and other courses. this comes after a newspaper in tulsa reported the sheriff's office faked the records. the volunteer was also a long-time friend of the sheriff, reportedly working for his campaign and giving donations, taking the sheriff on cruises to mexico and the bahamas. video shows the shooting this month. [shouting] >> on your stomach. now. [ gunshots ] >> i shot him. i'm sorry. >> the volunteer says he accidentally grabbed his gun instead of his taser.oéoa%
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>> if the documents are authentic but appear to show deputy baits had a fairly significant training record. he did take one taser training class which is all that is required, and from 2008 to 2014 he took three firearms training classes andt55qñ ten handgun qualification sessions. he scored proficient in all but three of the courses but none of the courses covered the gun that was used to shoot eric harris all in bates took classes on everything from identity theft to relations with the muslim world. it's interesting his training officers noted that during suppressful situations he didn't perform way and that became a common theme throughout his process of becoming an advanced deputy reserve. >> any word from the victim's
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family? >> reporter: the attorney for the family of eric harris has not issued any comment on the new records being released but remember, when that it report first came out that robert bates' records had been faked, the attorney says batescj played for the opportunity to play cop. there's no word on civil action but the sheriff issued the harris family an palming. >> first i want to speak directly to the harris family. we are sorry eric was taken from you. for this i'm sorry all involved and my sympathy goes out to the family. >> reporter: the family has not responded to the sheriff's apology yet. >> trace gallagher in los angeles, thank you. the mailman who flew the gyrocopter thing into the most secure air space in the country now talking, telling us what he
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thought would happen during his flight.
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the secret service confirms its officers arrested yet another white house fence jumper. it happened around 10:30 last night in washington. a secret service spokesman says a guy climbed over the fence on the south side of the white house complex. a 50-year-old man from the san francisco bay area and faces a charge of unlawful entry. last september a man with a knife jumped the fence and ran inside in the white house, looking for the president. agents tackled him inside the east room. the secret service director says there have been more than a dozen fence jumpers over the last several years. then there's that mailman who flew his gyrocopter into restricted air space andland on
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the u.s. capitol lawn. news he says he thought the feds would surround him and demand he land, but he did not think they would actually shoot him down. he is now under house arrest outside of tampa. he faces up to four years in prison. he said he wanted to call attention to the influence of money in politics. he said he was going to hand-deliver letters to each member of congress and said folks seemed to approve of his stun. >> i've gotten generally positive reaction from the people i talked to. the only exception has been my adult son who made it clear he loves me but really daytona like what did. >> the internet did. investigator says the secret service new of the mailman's plan long before last week's incident, like a year before. but the secret service claims it had no reason to think he would actually do what he said he
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would do. kevin is a reporter from the hill newspaper in washington. thanks. >> thanks for having me. >> sounded to whack to them or something. >> you know there are a lot of serious questions that are being raised on capitol hill about the security implications of mr. hughes flying this gyrocopter and landing on the capitol hill lawn. house oversight committee chairman raising a lot of those concerns, calling for a closed-door briefing with secret service officials to get to the bomb of how they -- get to the bottom our they were able to visit his house twice, asking about his plan. they clearly knew he had a plan to do this, and still he was able to carry it out. >> i don't know why -- there is a suggestion that a lot of people are surprised that you could fly tree-top level and land there and not get caught? who thought you could catch something like that. with what means would you catch something like that? >> according to the latest reports he flew under the radar from pennsylvania was able to
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fly that much of a distance, and make that landing on what is arguably one of the most guarded, nonfly zones in the country, on the capitol hill lawn. a lot of questions for secret service director joseph clancy who just took over the agency as a brash of bad headlines plaguing the agency for how it's handling such instances. this clearly is one of his first major tests how he handle is this fallout. >> they can't blame this one on a failure of imagination. that's what they blame 9/11 on. but you couldn't imagine that somebody would do this. except nor fact he told you he was going to do it. you probably couldn't have imagined it except for that little fact there that he told you. but then once he was doing it, what is anybody from your reporting suggesting they might have done for the old guy in the gyrocopter flying up there with his bag of letters. what should they have done?
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>> well, shep there were questions about whether or not they were going to shoot the gyrocopter and according to officials who made public statements in the last couple of days, if you got any closer they were prepared to do that, but i got to tell you that the lawmakers on capitol hill did not even receive an alert that this happened just yards outside of their offices on the capitol groundses in the mid-afternoon when congress is in session. no alert went out to lawmakerrers so a lot of serious questions and concerns being raised about how this is being handled both from the secret service perspective and also from a capitol hill perspective as well. >> good to talk to you. thanks. >> thanks. >> they were supposed to do what exactly? supposed to do what? there's an old guy in a whirly bird. a cop says, there's an old guy in a whirly bird flying at the treetop level. what is he going to do take out his handgun and shoot him?
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who will give that order? then he lanes on -- he -- the 2016 candidates and possible contenders descending on new hampshire now. none on icrow -- gyrocopters. that it mite get them headlines. maybe hillary should get out of the scooby thing. a coverup in the fbi's investigation into the anthrax attack. it wents to all kinds of places, went to nbc one came here to our building. and remember what happened then? they said the man who did it died. and they closed the books. our next guess is the guy who vested the -- investigated the attack, and he says, better think again. hang on.
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a fox report on the race for the white house. hillary clinton is in new hampshire home of the first presidential primary. she just wrapped up a meeting at a small furniture business. she won new hampshire in 2008 after coming in third in the iowa caucuses. she visited iowa last week tsunami. the three official republican candidates were in new hampshire this weekend. senators ted cruz, rand paul and marco rubio spoke at a g.o.p. gathering. it's a close race on the republican side. jeb bush is the front runner in the cnn survey, at 17%. scott walker second. with margin of error it's almost a statistical tie. senators paul and rubio are tied for their, followed by mike huckabee and senator cruz. things that do not matter at all this far out. all those words i just read.
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cybersecurity expert says
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united airlines has banned him from all of its flights because of something he tweeted. here's the back story. the researcher says his company finds security flaws in software before criminals can exploit hem. he says he was on his way to a conference in san francisco but security agent ford united stopped him at the gate in denver and would not let him on the plane. not the first time he had issues with the airlines. last week he said fbi agents pulled him from a united flight in new york. that happened after he sent this tweet in essence suggesting he could hack into the jet's communication system to deploy the oxygen masks. he says the fbi seized his laptop and other electronics without showing him a search warrant. lea gabrielle has this. i understand you spoke with this guy and he says he should have toned it down? >> chris roberts tells me he was on the flight reading a government report about how wireless networks could expose commercial airlines to threats when he tweeted. he said he was frustrated
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because hi company tried to alert the airlines to the problem. >> we alerted the airline industry for the last several years and have seen little to no progress and little to no movement in fixing the flaws. i will be hon, the tweet was four years worth of frustration bubbling to the surface. >> united released a statement saying quote, given mr. robert' claim he has manipulated aircraft systems while in flight, clear violation of united policy, we decided it is in the best interests of our customers and crew members that he not be allowed to fly united. roberts tells me he wasn't actually testing the aircraft during flights and he ss still waiting to hear from united themselves. >> doesn't sound like he is a problem. he says united hayes a problem. what about the problem? >> the problem itself -- according to the government report that came out last week, connections to the internet can, quote potentially provide
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unauthorized remote access to aircraft avionics. >> that's the problem. >> it is a problem. chris roberts says it's a very complex process to access the system and it takes a number of steps to be able to do it. take a listen. >> it's not an easy thing to do. and there are very few individuals or groups who i would be capable. >> united tells me it is confident that its flight control systems cannot be accessed through the method head described. >> he said they could and they said he was a problem and believed he had done it. that's why he was kept off the plane. >> all right. >> if only a few people can do it what happens if one of those few people ended up on the flight you're on? >> that's a question. the report indicated this is a situation that needs to be looked into. i will say this. he said there are very very few people who would actually be able to do this. it sounds more like something that would happen in the movies than real life but need to be
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careful. >> but according to your reporting, he said he did it. the airline believes he did and it took him off the plane and said you can't do it. something ain't right. >> he didn't say he did it in this report. he tweeted he could. he was being snarky. >> why did they pull him off the plane? >> when there's a threat to an airplane -- >> they say there is no threat. they said you can't do this. >> i think it is kind of like if you say i have a bomb any barks whether you think there really is one in the bag or not as an airline you have to take the person off the flight. >> this is in the airline said he can't do this and yet pulled him off the plane because they thought he might do it. something ain't right. >> all good questions. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> the fbi is hiding evidence that could clear the man it blamed for the deadly anthrax attacks in 2001. that is the claim that comes straight from the who was once in charge of the anthrax investigation. he is the one who says it's not right. the feds say the army
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scientist -- remember him? mailed the letters filled with anthrax. one came right here to our building. they want the news -- they went to news outlets and offices in congress. five people died and 17 singenned. the scientist killed himself in 2008. as prosecutors said they were getting ready to charge him with murder. the feds closed the case because he was dead. the former agent in charge of the investigation claims the fbi, along the way buriedy wealth of evidence that contradicts the suspect's guilt. he made the accusations in a civil suit he filed this month. the former agent says the feds fired him illegally after he filed a whistleblower report. he is asking for millions of dollars he said he would have earned had he not lost his job. we asked the fbi for a statement. so far we have not received one. the former agent joins us now. richard lambert spent years heading occupy the fbi anthrax investigation and is live with us. thank you.
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>> hi shep. good to be here. >> they fired you. your claim is they did so improperly as a result you'rekéduç suing. why should we believe that they closed an investigation when all of the facts weren't right? >> well, because there's been no mechanism to vet those representations on their part. the case never weren't to trial and congress has not conducted any type of congressional inquiry, so because bruce ivins did commit suicide there's been no trial and none of the exculpatory evidence has been produced. what congress and the american people have been treated to so far is a highly selected presentation of the facts that is really replete with material omissions, you're saying that there -- there are items within the evidence that would exonerate this man? do you have real doubts about whether he either was the sole perpetrator or was involved in the activity? >> i do have very genuine doubts
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whether he was the sole perpetrator. he may have been, but again, there is a staggering wealth of evidence to the contrary, and when you put it in the scales of justice certainly the balance does not tip to the degree of proof beyond a reasonable doubt in favor of eye vein -- his guilt. >> you sent a memo that ended up becoming public. >> yes. that's correct. in 2006, i filed a whistleblower report with the deputy director of the fbi, outlining the mistakes and the lessons learned from the anthrax investigation to date. and the0ld really educate the agency so that we don't repeat the same type of mistakes when the next wmd attack comes along and there will be one. that memo was never intended to be made public. it was intended only for fbi
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internal consumption, but through subsequent civil litigation, cbs news was able to get its hands on it and they featured many of my reporting facts on the tv show, "60 minutes." that made the fbi very very upset, and then they did to me in retirement what they could not do to me while i was employed and that is retaliated against me. they made allegations that i had been violating conflict of interest laws and conducted a year-long probe and fining no evidence they walked away from the allegations and left me stigmatized, without a job and also lost my home and my marriage over these allegations. >> now on the one hand you're saying the government may be white-washing what really happened here, at least not providing all the information. while at the same time suing the government for $2.5 million calculating future earnings lost and what you were asking for in the suit. you can see how that money might get in the way of people's
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thinking on the voracity of your claim. >> absolutely. and the anthrax portion of it is included in the suit, only to make clear what the fbi's motivation would be for coming forward and making this false legally unfounded allegation against me that i had been violating federal criminal ethics laws. >> here's what doesn't make sense to me. why in the world would the fbi the federal bureau of investigation, not want the public to know exactly who was responsible for the deaths of these people? why would they say, okay case closed, and not finish it? that's the part that doesn't make sense. >> well, the case is closed. it is a cold case. but it is certainly not solved. because, again, it's easy for the government to stand up and say, bruce ivins killed himself and is the perpetrator. here's the evidence we have of his guilt. and not have to produce any exculpatory evidence. had this case gone to trial,
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there's a supreme court case called brady vs. maryland that requires the government to produce to the defense the exculpatory evidence in the case. so far, congress, nor the american people, have seen any of the exculpatory evidence in the case. >> richmond lambert, we'll follow the suit. thank you for coming. >> thank you. >> it's been exactly five years now since the deep water horizon disaster. that's the oil spill in the gulf of mexico. we watched as the fire burned for hours and hours and days and weeks and months leading to the worst offshore oil spill in the history of this nation. five years later you see the bp commercials, everything is great. right? we'll head to louisiana for a live report. that's next.
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environmental disasters the history of the nation. the deep water horizon rig was drilling 40 miles off the coast of louisiana when the explosion engulfed the rig in flame. the fire burned for 36 hours before the rig finally sank. over the course of the next 87 days, millions upon millions of barrels of crude oil spilled into the gulf. it's the biggest offshore spill the country has ever known. bp's then-ceo put his not in his mouth morn once. not even a month into the disaster tony heyward told the reporters the amount of oil spilled was, quote, tiny, compared to the size of the gulf. he also disputed scientists claims there were large plumes of oil beneath the surface and made just about everybody angry when he said famous lirked like my life back. so did countless other people who needed help. the oil stained more than a thousand miles of coastline from place to place.
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devastated wildlife. forced fish and tourism based businesses to shut down in 2013 bp pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the rig workers' death. just last september judge ruled bp was reckless and acted with, gross, gross negligence, unquote. the oil giant would have been on he hook for an additional $18 billion, on top of the billions it agreed to pay but in january a different judge lowered the amount and now the government is appealing that decision. in other words, five years later this ain't over. casey stiegel is live in louisiana. what sense did you get from people there on how the recover has gone. not from the bp comer shall but from the people. >> reporter: when we're on the ground and talk to shrimpers and fishing boat captains and the rhys, they say that business just has not been the same since this disaster. as you well know, dozens and dozens of environmental studies have been commissioned over the
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last five years. some show declines in the wildlife, marine life population. others point to oil still in the water. what is more, one environmental list telling me we likely will not know just how much damage was done for years to come. >> i think that looking at past large oil spills, one thing they've seen is the consequences or impact of the spill are not known for a long time. we're still in that time. we don't know what the full impact of the spill is yet. >> reporter: a federal judge ruled more than three million barrels went into the gulf. i misspoke and said three billion. that number more than three million barrels. >> we're all very familiar with bp's pr campaign but aside from pr does it say what it's done to try to prevent another incident like this? >> reporter: it does. it says that many lessons were learned in the wake of this
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disaster. that new equipment has been developed, new technologies have been implemented, not just by the this oil giant but across the entire industry. you're looking at what is called a capping stack, a giant containment type vessel stories tall, that could now be deployed on top of a well head to stop a gusher like we saw here five years ago. also, enhancements were made to another vital piece of equipment. listen. >> one of the changes we made was to require all of our blowout preventers offshore to have two sets of what is called blind sheer ram. so that if there were a well control incident and you needed to deploy a blow-out preventer you wouldn't have just one shot to cut the drill pipe but who -- but two shots. >> bp says it has spend $28 billion in response, cleanup and claims. >> thanks very much.
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a 13-year-old boy from memphis has how muchs of followers on twitter and instaprogram after he posted ping tours like this online. posing with a gun. pointing a gun at the camera. and apparently, well, it is april 20th. but here's another photo, cash in one hand and apparently a bag of weed in the other. important to note here the 13-year-old is not facing any criminal charges. we're not accusing him of doing anything. merely he has a lot of followers. kennedy is here.
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i saw this story on my fox memphis. a local fox station there. he says he is following the lead of some other -- some rapper out of chicago. >> chief keith. chief keith is only 19 and has been dropped from his label and was under house arrest in his grandma's house and then made mixed tapes and got famous. he lost his house in l.a. has been dropped by the label. not wildly successful. why would the kid want to emulate something like that? i don't think he's very good. >> bud kids, a 13-year-old posing in a picture with what appears to be a gun and appears to be getting high and -- >> eights sad to me. he looks like a baby. the question is, where isry parents in his sister has a long record but you have to make a choice and at some point where are the adults in the kid's life. >> we tried to get in contact
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with the folks but -- thousands of follhat we start following at that age -- i almost sound like the old man who doesn't have kids. doesn't look good. >> of course it doesn't look good you're incentivizing madness, and 420 is not just hitlers rigger be a. it's the anniversary of columbine. >> see you tonight. forget about it. tylenol was ok, but it was 6 pills a day. but aleve is just 2 pills all day. and now, i'm back! aleve.
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on this day in 1912 fenway park hosted its first major league baseball game. took 11 innings but the boston red sox won their opener against the new york highlanders, we call them the yankees now. in the late 1940s, crews covered the giant left field wall in green paint whichern the nick name the green monster. fenway is the oldest ballpark in -- that major league baseball still uses and hasn't changed
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much. the manual scoreboard is still operated on the field. the sox played fenway 103 years ago today. when news breaks out we'll break in. a huge day on the market. here we go. >> you are looking live at the nation's cap you where a tornado watch has been issued for the d.c. area, stepping to bat -- extending to ball more. a watch, one step below a warning. conditions are such for conditions like a tornado. a warning is when you get to the opinion where either one has been sighted or conditions are ideal to make it imminent. large hail millions of people in its way. welcome erybody. i'm neil cavuto on a day when mother nature could be wreaking havoc or at least a lot of traffic on a very busy corridor to janice dean. >> it's been a very active weekend. this system has been a