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hysterical. nate would like to see a republican version of "the west wing." interesting idea. and mike would remake "cheers" set in o'brien's pub, he is farm familiar with from california. more interesting characters. thanks for being part of our story today. here's shep. are the feds about to give iran a $50 billion signing bonus for a nuclear deal? $50 billion? and what for exactly? the state department is now responding. we'll bring you that. plus hillary clinton, of course facing the accusations they did political favors for foreigners in exchange for cash donations to her family's foundation. but her aides say consider the source of those accusations. and are there any hard facts to back it up? we go live to the campaign trail. so let's get to it. and first on the deck this tuesday afternoon, word now an air strike nearly killed the
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leader of the islamic state. a man snalysts claim is more dangerous than osama bin laden ever was. the british newspaper "the guardian" reporting al baghdadi was seriously hurt and taken a back seat in fighting. the pentagon is not confirming that or anything else about this story. the coalition strike reportedly happened about a month ago in northern iraq near the syrian border about 100 mimes west of mosul. the "guardian" sites 0 a source, al bagbaghdadi's injuries were so severe naming a new leader in case he died. the source says al baghdadi is recovering. this is not the first time reporting an attack injured or killed the terrorist leader and arguing not a game-changer had he died. not that it's not good news but not a game changer. meantime iraqi forces making progress in their battle guess isis. against isis.
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's the iraqis say they've captured parts of ramadi where isis had taken overven a children's hospital. showing soldiers firing from that hospital. u.s. marines are training troops not far from there. details of the story. what else are u.s. officials saying about the report of are this isis leader badly wounded? >> reporter: the pentagon isn't denying air strikes the day al baghdadi was reportedly injured, according to a spokesman, he wasn't specifically targeted in the strikes. if that it true essentially a lucky report. there have been false reports in's past of his injured or killeded. for example, quoted last year severely injured in a raid by government forces. in krit woundcritically wounded.
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and also al baghdadi wounded in an air strike and called his survival a miracle. asked for the latest report by "the guardian," a three-car convoy attacked focusing on local isis leaders and three were killed. >> dead or awe live, many analysts say it doesn't matter big picture? >> reporter: right. according to "the guardian's" report since al baghdadi killed making decisions. political and military leaders within isis. there are several deputies who keep him in power and the group has people who run the military a legislative council, spokesman and someone overseeing the social media network. we know who they are and there are large amounts of land potentially future leaders can hide. at the map, isis currently controls neas these areas. al baghdadi had a number two man who reportedly died in december. you mentioned, "the guardian" reports isis came up with a
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succession plan when al baghdadi was reportedly injured. we don't know what that s. thank you. graham wood contributing editor at "atlantic" magazine wrote an extensive article for last month's issue called "what isis really wants" and on to talk about that. nice to see you again. >> good to see you. >> ba daddiebaghdadi big picture, doesn't matter. a fantastic p.r. organization isis the idea your leader is struggling and slowly failing is not one that woulds for your cause either. >> right. baghdadi is supposed to be a warrior. keep saying he's at the front lines. of course if injured, that might be evidence he actually was there. but really he's supposed to be a warrior leader sort of like maybe like mel gibson in "braveheart" right there fighting with the rest. not able to do that then he might not look like quite the leader they want to have. >> surprised at all nobody's getten intel on this? sounds the way you're putting it that i don't know video or a
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picture hobbled would be a helpful thing? >> it would be a helpful thing and we haven't really seen any pictures of him since he actually showed up in public in the middle of last year. so it's not surprising that we wouldn't have seen him. you know, i think one possibility is that this is being floated maybe not truthfully as a way of flushing him out, making sure he shows his face. has at least a recording, to show he's still alive to his oh supporters. >> that's happened before. since we talked about it before and you wrote about it anything changed in your mind about what isis really wants? >> no. not really. isis has been relentless in trying to control territory. trying to institute a caliphate along what they call a prophetic model. it's harder for them since the military push especially from the iraqi shia side has continued. >> has recruiting changed at all? for a while have great success
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with recruiting. that it changed? >> one thing changed you they can no longer say they're expanding. the battle of kobani for example, showed american-assisted kurdish force can push them out of cities they tried hard to control. more difficult for them to recruit when they're no longer an obviously wane lyly winning team. >> a lot of politicians at home like for you to be afraid they're around the next corner. has that changed at all? >> i'm sure there are still supporter of the islamic state in western countries who still want to blow themselves up but i still think that the main thing they want to do, go to the islamic state and fight there. we should be thinking of them as trying to go assist an enemy elsewhere rather than attack us at home. that time may come botut not yet. >> we have inserted ourselves, whatever you call it in this in a lot of different places. are we acting in a way that serves our own self-interests or
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not? >> right now we are cautious. a good thing. serving our own self-interests means making sure the islamic state doesn't overrun some of our allies in the region. we have been helping them to keep that from happening. we haven't done anything right now that that will clearly bounce back to hurt us in ways we could have avoided, though. >> is it your sense on the other sichd the side of the border from saudi arabia caused changes over the last couple of eck woos what we're trying to do make sure whenever there is a new government in yemen we'll be ale to put someone in there who works for us and the rest is just i don't know, moving pieces around on the board? >> yeah. well yemen is basically in flames now. no we we have really in good options and i don't think there's any really reliable livers oflive ers ish -- livores we have the power to move. >> graham wood great to talk to
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you. come back. >> thank you. >> livg from yale. i mentioned yemen in part big, big changes happening in yemen. everything you knew about what was happening in yemen. saudi arabia dropping bombs. everything you knew. just changed. the saudis so nope. that's over. think about it. the american warships headed there, reported on that yesterday. now we got a great, big aircraft carrier with 6,000 people close to 10,000 americans are about to be right there and what happened? whoop. saudi arabia is done with bombing. why did that happen? what does that mean? that whole conflict. we'll get to that in a second because it's brand new and breaking. plus the latest on the u.s. ships trying to stop iran from delivering weapons to yemen. remember? our ships are there. saudi arabia said no more dropping but what are our ships doing? what if something goes wrong there? we have 9,371 about to be stationed there. there is no war. look here. everything is fine. just repositioning everything. there's nothing to see here. thank you.
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why? they say they've achieved their military goals in the battle against iran, backed fighters in yemen. the houthis. achieved their goals yet the saudis say their mission entered a new phase and is not over. achieved the goals but it's not over. more on this in a moment. meantime, an official with close ties to the white house says it is not even close to making a decision an whether navy teams should board a convoy of iranian ships in the waters off yemen. remember? the pentagon announced, said an a aircraft carrier with 6,000 people onboard and jets now close to 9,000 people as many as ten ships total from the united states there, but what are they doing there? not boarding anything. they are just there. they're there to say, iran, think about this before you arm these houthis again, because, hello. we're here. defense officials say it's all part of a mission to stop that convoy from delivering any weapons to rebel fighters in yemen. if in fact, it's doing that. the fighters, the houthis and
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at iran's support have the country's pro-american government on the run and have for quite some time. the navy's mission seemed to mark a major escalation in the proxy war between iran and saudi arabia with the united states supporting the saudis. now, this is kind of what appears to be a sort of pause in this proxy war. like maybe the proxy war was getting too big so we sent over the big guns, aircraft carriers. of course, the pentagon says, we're just repositioning. this is very routine of a thing. very routine. fox news learned the united states now has a total of nine war ships right there. trailing the iranian convoy. for more on the routine repositioning we turn to genre griffin live at pentagon. the way they put things to us, i kind of get it. >> reporter: that's right shep. as you've mentioned, state-run television in saudi arabia announced within the last hour it is halting air strikes over yemen and not clear if this was in response to a call for a
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cease-fire by the iranian president hasan rueouhani. in terms of the u.s. aircraft carrier trailing them, fox news learned the white house is "not it even close toic ma do making a decision about boarding or conducting a search of the iranian vessels." >> a lot of misreporting. a lot of cable tickers, shipping going to intercept iranian ships. that is blatantly one true. this disgreet movement is for a discreet purport. >> reporter: nothing discreet an an aircraft carrier. the atmosphere at sea is tense off the coast of yeppen in en inyemen. the carrier "uss theodore roosevelt" ender the aden and launching aircraft we're toll
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ind told including fa-18s. they are being escorted by iranian warships. there are now a total of nine u.s. navy warships, you mentioned, and three support shippers operating in the area stretching from the southern red sea to the arabian sea. the u.s. warships are entering a u.n. -- enforcing a u.n. arms embargo against yemen passed by 14 nations excluding russia last week. iranians deny, of course narcs that convoy is carrying weapons but the u.s. intercepted weapons en route to the houthis as far back at 2013. shep. >> aircraft carrier and 11 other ships move into a the area where iran and saudi arabia are in the middle of a dispute and we should stop it? come on marie. a possible showdown with iran at sea, the possibility 0
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there when you have 9,371 americans on boats and tension and wars going on. there are possibilities. that's a fact. there's word that the united states could pay billions upon billions upon billions of dollars to iran to get them onboard with the nuclear deal. the report first came from the "wall street journal" newspaper and since then many our news organizations are picking it up. we cannot confirm it but many reports claim that the government would not rule out the so-called signing bonus of $50 billion, a reporter asked the state department spokeswoman if that's true. here's marie harf. >> many iran might get upon signing -- >> reporter: right. so a couple points on that. i've talked to the folks who i think this originated from the side of hill briefings. those who briefed the hill, talked to folks on delegation. people are perplexed about what these reports were referring to, because as we've said and i repeated yesterday the iranians will get under a comprehensive
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agreement the sanctions relief after they take the related steps. so obviously all the details ow that will happen and when are part of the negotiations. >> 35 seconds of a non-answer jennifer. did they get $50 billion if they sign this or do we not know yet? the deal not final? we know it's not final but is that part of the talks? >> reporter: basically what you're hearing is the state department not denying that iran will be given a "signing bonus" of up positive $50 billion for agreeing to a final nuclear deal that curtails its path to a bomb. nuclear talks we engs inned in geneva began today and negotiators from until june 30th to reach a deal. already iranians received more than $11 billion in unfrozen assets as part of sanctions relief during the interm agreement. >> at the pentagon this afternoon, thank you so much. >> wow. the u.s. military and armed forces from the philippines kicked off their biggest joint exercise in more than a decade.
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this comes as analysts say china is trying to grab more control of the south china sea by building islands there. military officials say more than 11,000 american and filipino troops are partoning in ten-day drills. a discreet show of ships by yemen. i don't know if this is discreet or not. ask marie scharf. practicing an assault exercise in the western philippiness. the drill simulates, simulates a retakinging of an island an enemy invaded and here's why that's really important. nearly three years ago china seized control are part of an island chain off the coast of the philippines saying the chinese started to build their.man-made fortress. here it is. i call it sand land. they are building land where water was by raising sand and
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making it land. complete with an air strip. another picture. u.s. officials warn china's artificial islands could raise tensions in the region, they call it, the great wall of sand. and as you can see there are exercises here, and i would guess that this, that you see here this -- this is also very discreet. chinese officials defended the move claiming that it's beijing's territory. not, and for public use, not for any kind of military buildup. another that will be a conflict eventually. today we just have 12. that's a new one. hundreds of american paratroopers begun training in ukraine. as the country fights pro-russian rebels along the eastern border according to the pentagon. the ceremony yesterday marked the start of the training operation. spokesmen says the paratroopers will spend six months teaching "defensive skills to the ukrainians." russia is already pushing back.
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a kremlin spokesman says the reuters news agency, that the paratroopers, presence in ukraine could destabilize the situation. destabilize the situation. again a little war gone on there. that guy and we are prayerarachuting in very discreetly. western officials accused the russian president vladimir putin of supplying weapons to the rebels and even sending troops across the border, satellite reconnaissance video and others prove that he did. discreet. a woman claims southwest airlines, a crew there, crew members left her husband to die in the bathroom, because they thought he was drunk and out of control. we'll speak live with the woman and get response from southwest. that's next.
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43 past the hour. airlines actions causing a man his life. the claim in the lawsuit from a man's wife saying southwest airlines left her husband to die. the wife happens to be a southwest flight attendant herself. a job she's held 16 years. she says the airline did not follow its own procedures, and that they could have saved her husband. he was a finance analyst and contributor as it so happens to cnbc. ard couprd aaccording to her lawsuit he ran to the bathroom minutes before the flight landed. the sheriff's department claims southwest crew members called him unruly after finding the man slumped over and groaning in the bathroom. officers removed everybody else on the plane before getting to that man inside the barthroom some 30 minutes later by that time unconscious and on the bathroom floor having suffered a
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blood clot according to a lawsuit. he later died at the hospital. the woman filing the suit says his wife i feel letdown by my work family. they dropped the ball. this crew made horrible decisions. 's in a statement from southwest airlines, according to crew reports it was an unfortunate medical event we believe our flight attendants handled appropriately and professionally. joining us now is kelly, her husband richard died on that southwest flight and she's live on the line with us. ma'am, i'm so sorry to hear about your husband. thank you for coming today. >> thank you. for having me. >> it's my understanding that the crew rather than radioing we have a medical emergency, which would have brought para paramedics radioed we van unruly passenger who loshged himself in the bathroom, please clear the plane for the? is what in essence what happened? >> correct. exactly what happened d. he explain while in the bathroom,
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able to explain to them something's up with me, i'm hurting? >> no. there's never any communication from the flight attendants with my husband. >> and do they accuse him of being drunk or unruly or something before he went into the bathroom? >> i have no idea. what they accuse him of. all i do know is they -- did say through the 911 call to the police station that he was an unruly passenger. >> huh. if you have an unruly passenger if that's what the authorities believed, this would be standard operating procedure. wouldn't it? >> if somebody was unruly, correct. >> but -- and they claim that's what he was? >> correct. which he was not. because there was never any communication, and from what the police reports state that the flight attendants gave their, what happened on the aircraft right after the incident, and from what the flight attendant stated was that when they did open the lavatory door to peek
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in to see him he was slumped over and he was groaning, and crying, and whimpering and all they could see was the top of his head. >> my understanding the medical examiner later ruled he suffered from oxygen deprivation 30-plus minutes and my understanding from the airline it took about 30 minutes to get everybody off that plane. that's your timeline? >> and it took -- southwest airlines, they didn't even call 911. it's the sheriff that found my husband in the lavatory, that did make that phone call to 911, and then from then it took the paramedics 30 minutes to get to the aircraft. >> you work for this airline? >> correct. >> your husband died in the bathroom of a plane. did you have conversations with your employers and if so how was that? >> no. i have not. huh-uh. i was -- someone did call me from southwest a supervisor from my base, just to see how i was doing, and she actually
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didn't even know my husband passed away. it was like a few days later. >> do you still fly for them? >> correct. yes i do. i'm on a leave. as of this time right now, but, yes, i do still fly with them. >> what are you seeking in this lawsuit? >> i'm seeking i just -- i don't want this to happen to anyone else. i'm -- i want southwest to admit what happened. i want -- i want justice for my husband. i want justice for my cases like this the only thing you can seek is money. >> correct, and they -- they just want to sweep it under the rug, like they -- they pretended it didn't happen for seven months. i never got -- they never reached out to me. nothing. they sent me a card, and then they sent some flowers. to my house. after my husband's funeral. like, they have not contacted me for -- nothing. about this.
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and something like this cannot -- my husband deserves justice, and someone needs to speak up for him. >> kelly, very sorry for you and your daughter sydney a 5-year-old, at home without her dad now. >> oh, my gosh, and -- they had the -- the most extraordinary relationship. my husband was an amazing man, and amazing father. >> oh, kelly on the line with us and we'll be watching the case and appreciate your coming today. >> thank you so much for having me. >> of course. and we'll be right back. there's some facts about seaworld we'd like you to know. we don't collect killer whales from the wild. and haven't for 35 years. with the hightest standard of animal care in the world, our whales are healthy. they're thriving. i wouldn't work here if they weren't. and government research shows they live just as long as whales in the wild. caring for these whales, we have a great responsibility to get that right. and we take it very seriously.
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because we love them. and we know you love them too. 40% of the streetlights in detroit, at one point, did not work. you had some blocks and you had major thoroughfares and corridors that were just totally pitch black. those things had to change. we wanted to restore our lighting system in the city. you can have the greatest dreams in the world, but unless you can finance those dreams, it doesn't happen. at the time that the bankruptcy filing
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was done, the public lighting authority had a hard time of finding a bank. citi did not run away from the table like some other bankers did. citi had the strength to help us go to the credit markets and raise the money. it's a brighter day in detroit. people can see better when they're out doing their tasks, young people are moving back in town the kids are feeling safer while they walk to school. and folks are making investments and the community is moving forward. 40% of the lights were out, but they're not out for long.they're coming back. more headlines, the senate set to vote on attorney general nominee loretta lynch at long last in the next few days. leaders of both parties say they cut a deal to end the deal over
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abortion funding and human trafficking bill delaying the vote. analysts predict the senate will confirm her. meantime, look at this. >> come on -- stay with us. >> come on. >> police pull a man out of this burning suv near dallas. cops say he was unconscious. clothes on fire as the officer and witness dragged him out of the car, and his family says thanks to the rescuers he recovering in a hospital. and cops say a woman used a shopping cart to make her getaway after ripping off a walmart outside pittsburgh, and there she goes. they say she loaded up that cart even checked off items on her list and then rode through the parking lot. at last word, she was still on the fly.
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>> that was easily the hardest day of my life. easily. >> then imagine facing years of staggering medical costs that you simply can't afford. >> she was born, it was about eight hours of therapy every day. it was very scary. my husband and i sat there and we thought who's going to quit their jobs? one of us has to?
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incident. ferguson police involved in a standoff after responding to report of a shooting there in ferguson. our understanding today, ard coulding to the city of ferguson media statement on this police standoff they went to this address 420 warford street in ferguson and a suspect according to police, reportedly shot his brother in the head. now, the victim's been transported to a local hospital and was a alert being transported. according to police. the shooter, again, according to police, barricaded himself inside the house. a middle school and elementary school right around there on lockdown. and the county police tactical team is calmed to assist and it appears that the county police tactical team has arrived. so suspect in shooting of own brother barricaded inside house in the city -- look at that. left of your screen. these cops are guns drawn and ready as any police officer would tell you they would be in a standoff like this. with a man whom they know is armed.
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they know he's armed, because they tell us he shot his own brother. anden since then a number of protestors have arrived, according to local reports, a number of protestors arrived in the area. there are updates i'm getting from the st. louis post dispatch newspaper, they're online edition of a stltoday.com. there are actually two of these standoffs going on, two simultaneous standoffs in ferguson and st. john's. both in st. louis county. a tense situation. the left side of your screen, man apartment the suv vehicle the white suv, cop car, then under the tree, another man, and another and another and another one, you know, everybody has surrounded this house and they all have weapons drawn and presumably are trying to get this suspect out of there. it would appear the front door is open, but i believe this is a duplex. i haven't been told this, look how it's set up's two front doors, clearly. the one on the righthood signed
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wide open. on the left, closed all activity appears on the left side. that may be a duplex. look at this. units all arriving here back behind the van. so they have a standoff going on in ferguson. we were told that a number of protestors arrived at this scene. i'm not entirely sure what business, a protestors would have up in the middle of this because authorities told us this was a purely domestic dispute. a woman disturbed by this in some way, led off by authorities in this camo sort of uniform-age. at the top of the screen i see another one of these units. it is clearly a duplex. these are duplexes it looks like. i'm pretty sure. and this man is holed up in the left-hand side of the duplex as we look on the right-hand side of i don't are screen there. so there are some lots of big police vehicles outside and lots of tactical units have arrived.
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st. louis county appears to be in there with its teams and at this moment we just wait to find out what in the world has happened and why this guy won't give himself up. from all we know, the victim in this, the person shot in this, we don't know what led to this and we don't know who was the instigator or anything like that. i'll say the person who's been shot and taken to the hospital was at last word really doing pretty well all things considered. he had been he was conscious and responsive, according to authorities, as they were taking off to the hospital and then police attempts to deal with the person who did the shooting here did not go well. now, according to the police in ferguson actually the sheriff's department, and everybody else, this began shortly before 1:00 local time there. they're in central time. so about an hour and a half -- about an hour and a half ago.
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central time. so about an hour -- about an hour and a half ago. and since then, this has been going down pretty much nonstop. it was just minutes ago that the vast majority of the tactical teams arrived, and now we look live at this scene which is always -- if you talked to police officers -- the ones that i know and have over many years of covering police activities and being a crime reporter back in the day, and cops will tell you the thing most difficult is domestic disputes. normally by that they mean a man and wife a husband and wife who are at home having problems and authorities have to come up and get in the middle of it. it is a nightmare for authorities. this also has been labeled by the authorities domestic. so you've got two brothers who were in there. and the last thing you want to do if you're authorities is enflame anything.
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and certainly you don't want to get any of the other officers who are just there trying to keep the peace and keep everybody safe, you don't want to put them in any dang. it's a difficult situation when you end up in someone's home. they know the lay of the land there. they know where, for instance, there might be another weapon they know it how to get in and out better than you do. it's a familiar environment to them. it's an unfamiliar environment to the authorities who just want to keep the peace. and keep anybody else from getting hurt and in some ways they're at at disadvantage going um into the middle of a domestic dispute. in addition domestic disputes allow for people under normal circumstances they would not do. your emotions are so enflamed because this person you know and presumably love you're in some sort of dispute with them, which landed the police there, and sometimes bringing authorities into this you know, environment that is yours and your spot, can enflame things and cops are very well aware of this, law enforcement on every level. they train extensively how do
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deal with domestic disputes and that it's brother on brother does not mean it's any differ. clearly, tensions are high. that's clear from the response. now, it seems to me completely unfair to make any sort of, you know, connection to this and events passed, except one of the complaints made against authorities here in this county was that they acted with unnecessary force based on the situation that was in front of them. i'm not saying that's what they did. i'm saying that was the accusation. and in subsequent meetings as they continued forward with the protests, which happened in ferguson, after the cop versus kid, and a man killed, after -- during those tensions they eventually changed their tactics. if you'll remember, st. louis county came in at some point and began to take over. they've had many changes that have happened in ferguson since. a large majority of african-americans who had voted in the past for reasons detailed
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here for many weeks came out and voted and they've had some governmental changes. they've had changes in their police departments and everything else so just casual onlookers here we might be able to look and say well, they got a lot of people there and a lot of machines there and a lot of guns there for one guy who's holed up inside a house but their goal is, if you ask any law enforcement officer the goal in this matter here is to keep anybody else from getting hurt. and they brought in what they apparently believe to be, the right amount of force to try to contain this person and keep anything else bad from happening that might happen. if tensions are still high there or whatever. so the situation is we've got a number of police officers from, i presume, st. lucie county and someand -- st. louis county surrounding this place. they brought in many backups. i know because we were watching a few minutes ago. brought in a tactical unit with what appeared to be, just counting as they came out well
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more than a dozen people coming out of a tactical vehicle, and now it would appear that authorities are on the move and center in position to keep themselves from being injured, if possible. this is as one who worked in south florida a long time and watches these operations, this looks -- looks pretty typical if large in number weren't one man barricaded inside his home. what i don't believe happened. i don't believe he has any sort of hostage. assay that because normally that's something authorities would tell you. what wreev gotten from authorities is that he's barricaded himself inside the home and reading their official release now to the news media, which says, absolutely nothing about any sort of hostage. now, i say that, because often if there's a hostage you want to get people in there and start doing negotiating to make sure that nothing happens to the hostage. you have a bigger challenge on your hand when there's a hostage. if someone is barricaded inside a building often what happens is, you let that situation just
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still watching things in ferguson, missouri, where a standoff is taking place. showing you the arrival of all of these tactical units. we have been told they would be coming in and sure enough they have and our understand, i've checked over the commercial. there's no reason to believe he's in there with anybody else. what they believe is he's just holed up news this house single guy with a single gun who shot his brother. and they have brought out the long arm of the law nap is for sure. they've surrounded everything in this ferguson neighborhood at the duplex there. we'll keep watching it. i want to get you another urgent because this is breaking. probably heard this earlier -- fox confirmed the boss who said she could not fire federal agent for having sex parties with
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hookers will soon be out of a job herself. that's according to senior government official to fox news who tells us that the director of the drug enforcement administration, head. dea, expected to resign. following the justice department report that found not only did federal drug agents have parties with hookers they let colombia drug cartels foot the bill. both parties went gonzo on this after the dea chief during a hearing said there wasn't much she could do about it saying she was powerless to fire the agents. instead they received unpaid suspensions of no more than ten days. again, the head offed dea now expected to resign. the talk show host dr. oz plans to respond to critics who want the surgeon fired from his job at columbia university. probably heard about this.according to a spokesman. a letter sent demanding the
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university remove dr. oz as vice chairman of the surgery department claiming the tv show host shows an egregious lack of integrity promoting quack treatments for personal financial gain. he admitted to a senate panel some products endorsed did no not have scientific backing and e-mails leaked into sony hack suggests that dr. oz wanted to promote certain health products on his show including wearable devices by sony one of his show's producers. we reached out to dr. oz and columbia for comment. the spokesman says the university is committed to faculty members freedom of expression. trace gallagher with the rest of these from the west coast. what else do we know about the leaked e-mails, trey? >> reporter: shep, about the time dr. oz was planning to strike up a relationship with those who make those wearable health devices like the wrist bands that track your daily steps all the calleys burned, dr. oz realized sony was also becoming a major player in the
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industry oh dr. oz center of an e-mail to the ceo of sony entertainment, i'm quoting we should leverage the sony driven success of our tv show into other areas where sony thrives like health hardware. and hardware. and e-mails also show sony and harpo were concerned about the doctor apeeving before congress. the e-mail says we feel we should not give the media who looks at ozas a snail oil salesman anymore, any fodder to further this perception. the dr. oz show is in its 6th season. he will respond to his critics on the air on his show tomorrow afternoon. >> the media looked at him as a what again? >> as a charlatan or snake oilsiesman. >> i wonder why that is. thanks very much trace. fantastic seeing you. stuff still going down in
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ferguson. it's a duplex we were right about that. they're surrounding the thing. the tactical units are out. everybody is there. we'll continue with coverage in a moment i got to go to a commercial. we'll be right back. every truck can tow a boat. every truck can climb a hill. every truck can haul a trailer. but not everyone can say they're the fastest-growing truck brand in america.
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standoff continues. pictures from ktvi over ferguson missouri. they got plenty of officers out there surrounding the single guy in the single home. he's said to have shot his brother. the last word from police the brother is doing okay. we don't know how long this is going to go on. we don't know how this is going to end. we will do -- because we're your friends. we will watch this for you. later on when we know what happens we will let you know. the jury deciding whether the boston bomber should live or die. today saw the convicted killer
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flip his middle finger at a camera. prosecutors say that's proof that dzhokhar tsarnaev is unrepentant and unchanged. they say he made the gesture to a jail celcamera a few months after the deadly attacks two years ago. the sentencing phase of the trial began today. earlier this month the same jury found him guilty on all 30 charges. the defense attorney admits her client did it but claims his brother was the master mind. three people died and more than 260 were hurt in the bombing in 2013. let's bring in a criminal defense attorney. there's no guarantee on this at all. >> it's not guaranteed. boston tends to be a more liberal city. this group in particular tends to be against the death penalty. we know from polls in that area that they continue to be against it. and perhaps are even more so than when the trial started. >> most recent poll for just that.
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life in prison, 61%. death penalty, 26%. and that was from a local television station i believe. i wish i had that. wbur poll from voters in the city of boston. they are family members of the dead and victims of this who don't want the death penalty. >> on friday there was an op-ed on the boston globe from the parents of a 9-year-old boy saying to end thing a 19 and the death penalty. they're saying we have two young kids at home. if there are apeelds after appeals these children are going to have to go through this every time there's another appeal. if you lock him away and throw away the key they won't have to deal with that. two survivors who are newly weds, same argument. they don't want it to happen. that's not to say there are some victims that don't want it. the jury is supposed to consider
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the aggravating and mitigating factors. >> this could go on for weeks. we'll watch it t. thank you. much more ahead throughout the day. i'm shepard smith. the world with neil cavuto after a quick commercial break. 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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forget about with whether these u.s. warship gicize stopped an iranian convoy in its tracks. i want to meet the u.s. senator who says we better stop this iranian nuclear deal in its tracks. kelly aayotte is here. what are those iranian ships bringing to yemen? if it is weapons for fighters do we board them? so far the administration is not saying. the senator sure is. she's here in a moment. first to jennifer griffin on tensions that a
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