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appear to be getting along in that photo. >> that is a kardashian list. >> and stay tuned for fox outnumbered on the web. and we'll be back with the tv version of us tomorrow "happening now" starts right now. >> and fox news alert. new allegations from the white house. house speaker john boehner accuses the administration and hillary clinton of not cooperating with a select house committee investigation. >> that has as the former secretary of state refuses to hand over the e-mails that happen in her time of state department. >> we have a terrible recruiting problem. >> young men busted on u.s. soil charged with trying to join isis overseas. how do we stop would- be terrorist from becoming radicalized here at home. >> it took folks time. >> and a mom charged with the
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unimaginable after dropping her toddler in a zoo's cheetah exhibit. could she end up like the cheetah in a cage? >> and a wild pursuit. a wild scene on the highway. police think that they are tied to either heists. it is all "happening now". >> and we begin on capitol hill as republican leaders push to get things done ahead of the 2016 election and try to hold on to majorities in both houses of congress. i am jon scott. >> i am jenna lee. >> republican law makers trying to show bipartisan works. the senate passing a flurry of bills including human trafficking and trade and
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medicare dock fix. they are keeping up the momentum going into 2016. this is bob cusack. you are in washington d.c. we are talking about the flurry of bills and a new eran of compromise. does it feel different? is there a different vibe on capitol hill? >> there is a different vibe jenna. if you look at the last congress it was worst ever. and now the republicans own the whole thing and mitch mcconnell has to preserve the fragile majority and they are putting up points on the board. john boehner said put points on the board. they are not tax reform or immigration reform. but legislation and that helps the gop. >> do the republicans deserve the credit or have democrats changed the way to help the compromise take place? >> first of all, it got off to
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a rocky start. the republicans had the department of homeland security debacle. but they have rallied since then. democrats come to washington and get things done and they are frustrated by the fact nothing is done over the last couple of years and there is a change of attitude on the democratic side and also the motivation in the republican side much stronger because now, they have to go into 2016. and this sets the table for the 2016 presidential race. and the congressional leaders don't want hillary clinton running against the congress. >> you think it is all simply political? you think there is really a feeling that we have to do a better job than we have done over the last several years? >> it is a combinapgz. certainly there are law makers who have good intensions and want to fix problems that are
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are facing the country. and a lot of senators leave because they are so frustrated with it the joe manchin is critical of harry reid's leadership. i don't think you will see big bills until a new president is in place. this is president obama's last issue. trade is moving in to the congress. >> tell us what can be done. you say no sweeping legislation. but there will be legislation about the debt ceiling and patriot act coming up as well. what can the senate achieve with the congress over all that could impact on you know our daily lives? >> certainly the debt ceiling is a huge fight. and that is probably going to be in the fall and that i something that affects markets and everything. and so there is always a show
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down and crisis when you have to deal with this thing. and the headlines get the stock market jittery. that affects every day americans and over all republican leaders say they will raise the debt ceiling and they want concessions on thepending from the president. that will be a huge fight no doubt about it. >> you think it will pay off if republicans in power now, how much will this affect him 2016, seemingly looking for productive than past years in congress. >> they have to show they can govern, mitch mcconnell has a fragile majority and the senate map favors the democrats and a number of republican senators up in states that president obama won. and they have to show they can govern and in the last couple of
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years they struggled to show in the house, there is a number of bills that john boehner couldn't get the vote. there are many tests ahead, jenna. >> thank you, bob. great to see you as always thank you. >> well tax season it may be over but the head of the irs was back on the hot seat in a hear nothing capitol hill. the house ways and means said irs made bonus a top priority after budget cuts rather than helping the americans that needed help filling out tax returns. more than 8 million calls went unanswered. dowing mcelway is still on hold with the irs. he has the latest. doug? >> reporter: hi, john the irs faced serious budget cuts in part of what the republican ways and means committee found to be
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unsustainable high spending. 50 million on conference and one costing taxpayers 1.4 million and training video including the infamous star trek parity video that was lambasted in the media that cost 60000 to produce. millions of reports of bad customer service in this filing season could have been avoided if the irs had not misallocated money. the irs cut customer service to pay for other activities. spending decisions led to 16 million fewer taxpayers receiving irs assistance this filing season. >> how much money do you collect in user fees? >> it varies in the range of $250 million. >> so out of that amount you
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chose to reduce dollars purposely dedicateed to customer service and to going to it. >> we got 0 funding for the affordable care act. we could not implement that and so we took hundred million in user fees out of customer and put it in it to develop it to support the filing season. >> he pointed out the agency's decision to spend money was statutory man dated by the very congress that demanded money spent on customer service. but the employee bonus and union activities. democrat john lewiscalled for more irs funding. saying you can't get blood from
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a turnip. >> negotiators, we heard about a framework deal. this is the important time for the p5 plus one. the goal to keep iran from getting the nuclear bomb. iran is pushing for the lifting of the sanctions and the west including the united states represented by secretary of state john kerry try to iron out the confessions that iran will make for the relaxing of the sanctions and the house committee trying to find ways to make sure te it ran adheres to the deal. >> the united states will have to take steps to significantly strengthen the deal and end up with the provisions and meaning the u.s. conditions if the deal is verifiable. and others have mentioned there are lejet mate concern that the u.s. administration will not succeed and that justifies congress's continuing involvement in the creation of
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this agreement. >> the next weeks are crucial. the deadline for a final deal is set for june 30th. >> a spokesman for a iranian asked for peace talks. hours after the saudi's declared the bombing campaign is over. more rebel position in the area. and john has the latest from the mideast bureau. >> reporter: john the port of a den, there is serious fighting there among the rebels and government forces. and there is also heavy air strikes by saudi arabia and the saudi- led coalition forces and perhaps the air strikes are the last blast in this of the saudi officials said they would take
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military action as needed. as mentioned, saudi military officials announced that the aerial campaign was over declared a and can the objective was achieved and a new operation calledrestoring hope would begin and focus on political talks and medical and humanitarian assistance for people on the ground and halting the huti on the ground. and also that is a possible stand off at sea. we talked about this with the u.s. and iran may have a bearing on how all of this plays out. military sources told fox news that the aircraft battle group continues to trail the iranian convoy in the sea suspected of
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carrying weapons for the rebels. there are mixed messages about this. state department officials say they are there to protect the shipping lanes. and military sources are telling fox news that our war ships are there again, keeping a close eye on the iranian convoy because of the ongoing situation in yemen. that remains on land and sea a precarious one. >> we have not heard any more air strikes, but we'll monitor the situation and developments. >> if it changes get back to us. john thank you. >> pope francis making a stop in another country on the way to the united states later this year where he plans to visit before sitting down with the president in washington. >> and thousands of migrants attempted dangerous crossings
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from africa and europe and hundreds perish at sea.
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>> the vatic an confirms he will be on the way to cuba before he to the united states. pope francis has openly opposed the embargo on cuba but opposes socialism. he will be the third pontiff to visit that country. >> and stopping the flood of migrants, 20000 have arrived in italy this year and hundreds more attempting the dangerous journey. and amy? >> reporter: hi, jenna, and the numbers of people who are wait nothing libya to cross over to
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europe are staggering and they are all over the place. some orgs say a million and the point is the season for the dangerous crossings and they are dancing around the issue of action ie possibly air strikes against the smugglers or boats in libya and isis strong holds in libia. since is sis gained a strong hold that caused more violence and caused more people to flee for their lives. they would only support action with help. >> and more than 500 were taken because the refugee camps are
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overcrowded. it is a hard time to determine the refugees. they have their eyes on northern europe. they don't have the obligation to take the immigrant on. the eu needs to be more than a assembly of countries that are members of the economic club. they need to be people who don't forget to give answers to today's suffering and in malta, the disaster and that killed 800 people. people are laying flowers in the morgue, they will be buried without their families. people in malta will leave messages, the world is weeping over the tragedy, we hope your souls find peace and happiness elsewhere. and rest in peace, you matter. >> the eu is having a major summit tomorrow on all of this jenna. they have a 10-point plan to try
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to a leviate the suffering and it is highly complex. they had scaled back the coast guard details in order to discourage people from getting in the waters. clearly that has not worked. jenna? >> amy, we'll see what they come up with. >> some people are calling her the cheetah mom. she is in court pleading not guilty. hear what the legal panel thinks about the case. >> the dow up 53 points and reacting to this week's earning's report. and we'll check in live with our friends in the fox business network.
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>> an ohio mother facing
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endangerment charges, michelle pleading not get after her son fell or maybe was dropped in the cheetah exhibit in the zoo. she danningled him over the barrier. the cats never bothered the little boy, but he broke his leg when he fell. windy is a trial attorney. and evafrjline is a defense attorney. madame prosecutor starting with you. what kind of mother drops a child in the cheetah cage. >> having both prosecuted and defended child endangerment cases thank god the injuries were not worst. she is charged with child endangerment because of the substantial risk she subjected her son in that position. how far away the cheetahs were and how far down.
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>> she supposedly had another child and trying to juggle them both. if you are doing that. why do you let one get that close to the edge of the exhibit? >> i am from the cleveland area and sewn the exhibit. >> you probably haven't dropped children in the cheetah cage. >> the pavilion is 2 or 3 feet high and there to see the cheetahs. they don't come in the area. she made a mistake. and she is a child care worker and no history of her and her husband having any prior child abuse or complaints. >> that's the best news here. she has a job in a child care sister. >> she should have known better. >> that is a little too harsh on her. >> the attorney for a guy convicted of killing his wife last month is asking for a new
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trial. the jury took six hours of convicting him of motoring his wife with. he is set to be doing. several aspects of the trial including more than 300 objections. >> and there was significant evidence that the woman was carrying-on affair with another man she had met and they had plans to linkup. and all of the sudden she turned up dead. the judge was too liberal in letting the testimony in this case. >> 321 objections in two weeks? i am surprised they got testimony in those objections. >> and all convicted criminals want a new trial and the issue is not how many errors that the judges make and do any of them support the rationale? >> and the jury to come to a verdict in less than six
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hours, i had jurors that long to pick a foreperson. >> one of the arguments that the defense is making hey, judge, the jurors several of them were weeping in open court when they pronounced sentence that must mean they have reservations of sentencing the guy to prison? >> that's one argument and the other argument perhaps they were appalled by what happened in this case and by what they thought were the facts. >> you don't think it is an appealable ground. >> it is a poleable. and there are other grounds. but you have to look at the other side as well. >> the jury in the aton pate trial. pedro hernandez confessed to murdering the six-year-old boyback in 1979. his attorney argue that hernandez is mentally ill and the confession is false.
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kind of an interesting request from the jury. they are asking the judge should we believe his confession? >> this is a tough one. the defense is arguing, show me the body. the prosecution doesn't have to show the body. but they need other independent evidence that he committed the crime. that's what the jury is struggling with. that is the nature of the questions they are asking about right now. how much evidence do we need to find and can we convict him based on his confession even if they believe it which sounds like they probably do. regardless of his mental state and he apparently has mental deficiencies, despite all of that they told them things about the death of the little boy, that only the murderer would know. >> you don't know. >> that's what the prosecution said. >> it is somebody read or said
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to him. i can tell you there are a lot of issues in the case and someone a prior defendant found culpable for a negligence and civil lawsuit. the issue here is i am going to have to say appellate conviction. >> this has been in the jury's hand for a while. >> where is the independent corrobating evidence? >> all cases that we are going to continue to watch. thank you. >> thank you. >> and john six men accused of trying to join isis. up next. talking to a sheriff on the front lines of the issue of how he confronts it. and plus a prisoner who escaped 40 years ago decides to turn himself in. what made the fugitive have a change of heart?
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>> now what is called peer to peer terrorist recruiting right here in the united states. after six men were arrested trying to join isis in syria all of the men were in minnesota. officials say westeners that go overseas are seeking friends back at home. >> we have a terror rekrauting problem be in minnesota. in this case it shoes how difficult it is to put an end to
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rekrauting here. >> and sheriff in minnesota is our guest. sheriff, it is great to have you on the program. >> thank you. >> you can see the policy and one group is really key to making us aware of an individual who could be joining a terror network and that group is the group of mothers, that they are co. mothers are key to this why? >> you know moms always know what is going on with their kids and they are forth right and want the best for their children and we are working with them trying to help them understand our american way and to be more vocal and talk to us about what is happening in their lives. >> how are they challenging that? you are talking about a somali community in our county and largest in the united states. why do you need to teach them
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about the american justice system, what kind of challenge is that for you? >> it is extremely challenging. sometimes culture, language social barrier and oftentimes in their country law enforcement is an oppressive arm of government. not so back here in the united states. >> so to get over that it isap obstacle. is there experiences moms came up to you and said sheriff, i am concerned about my kid and that panned out to be a lead for you. >> we meet with mothers all of the time in community roundtables and citizen academies and meet with them in the community centers and they have the same pressure their young people face growing up as mine and your kids too. gangs and culture and truancey and curfew and peer pressure and drugs. you name it they want the best for their kids and so we engage them in conversation and help
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them to understand what is happening. >> and i thought that was so interesting. based on your experience more than 30 years in the area that you are serving, that moms are crucial. i understand it as a new mom. it is first time we have talked about it on this topic. how did your area become an area of such focus on terrorist recruitment? >> it was born out of necessity back in 2007, we had 20 young men plus that left the twin centers and went to the horn of africa to fight with al-shabaab. and until one turned up dead we had no idea they left our community. we doubled down our efforts to not let it happen again and build community of trust and the last couple of years with isis
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and siria, we think we have a pretty good handle. we are making inrods in the outreach and instead of them traveling back overseas we stop them and prevent them from leaving. >> one thing that your team does you go to meetings every day and every evening and trying to do the community outreach. new york city had a big national story as far as outreach there are those in the muslim community here in new york felt targeted by law enforcement and how you navigate that there in your county? how do you kind of walk between those lines between wanting to engage the community and not wanting the community to feel targeted? >> that is a great question. here in the twin cities we practice policing as a strategy and encountering violent extremism.
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whether we use it getting kids out of criminal gangs and we don't use the community engagement team together and rather the other way around their job to build long- term communities of trust with individuals in the community. and a lot of information comes back and forth flow. and you see something and say something and all built on trust and that does not happen overnight. >> i know there are departments that shadowed you in the country and internationally to come check out what you are doing. it is very interesting and we appreciate your work thank you very much. >> thanks for having me. >> the senate homeland security committee holding a hearing about security on our border with canada. law makers raising concern over personnel challenges. 2000 agents are responsible for 5000 miles of the land on our
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northern border. 18000 agents bordering mexico. and the chief of border control said the disparity affects their ability to address potential terrorist threats. >> this changes all of the time and we have to be as responsive and predictive. >> authorities work closely with canadian border services to close the gaps. >> a kentucky man escaping from prison 40 years ago, turning themselves in and he told authorities that he gave himself up because he couldn't get health care. mike to bin is following this. >> the franklin county sheriff thought it was a prank when he got the call that a fugitive wanted to turn in. he found 66 year old david moore partially paralyzed with
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a stroke. he had no way to get health care assistance and he wanted to turn himself in. moore was crying and said he was tired of being on the run. >> he was very emotional and you know was i think glad to get it all behind him. neighbors knew him as ronnie dickerson. no one and not even the woman he lived with anyhow his identity. he was in a car wreck and provided false information and he didn't get the jail break thing down right away. he broke out of jail in 1971 and caught. and broke out in the next year and stayed out until 1975. and 1976 stayed out until he got sick and made that phone call. he has health care, and the jail nurses are looking in on him.
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north carolina has hours to pick him up. the original conviction was for larceny. >> i am sure he has a story to tell. >> mike thank you. >> it is a choppy session on wall street. investors seeing red and green all day. and batch of earnings and housing is helping to push things to the north. and the dow off 55 points and joining us from our sister network lauren what is driving the markets today? >> warm weather finally bringing out home buyers and sales of previously owned homes hitting a high. and prices rose. median 212000. and the dow is up 55 points and back above 18000. and getting a boost from mcdonalds and coke-cola on earnings and visa.
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>> we'll talk gas prices. they are relatively cheap and that is changing the kind of cars. >> we say the environment is important to us but when we come down to us our wallet is more important. edmond.comfound that 45 percent of the homeowners are trading in older green models for new ones and get this. one in five of us are on the part of thing for suv's instead. that is because gas prices are cheaper than last year. compare it to 366 a year ago, john. and a 1, 2, punch for an investor and lunch time favorite chipotle. they are raising prices and if you order steak, you will pay 4 or 6 percent more. and here's punch two. you want popular pork and my favorite, good luck getting it.
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safely we are told after an incident in the air. pressurization problem and perhaps one of the doors opened or partially opened and we are told a couple of the passengers might have passed out but again, everybody on board is safe the crew made an emergency declaration and landed the plane in buffalo, new york. and medical crew tended to those on board. and given what happened everything turned out best as it could be expected. this sky west fly on the ground safely in buffalo after a midair pressurization problem involving an open door. we'l more information. and we'll have to get more information as john mentioned and certainly a big headline there. and dash cam video putting you in the society of the police
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chase. the van we'ved in and out of traffic and cops had to pull off a pit maneuver. and one of two suspects tried to get away on foot and was tazed and taken into custody. police say it was a rough takedown and everybody is safe. the men are also suspected of sticking up two other banks in the state. >> we are glad they got them. >> arguments in court on the man trying to kill president reagan should get more freedom. for years, john hinkley junior has been held. james? >> john good afternoon, and we are in recess for lunch. our producer inside of the courtroom reports that at the beginning of the proceedings john hinkley supported a small
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ambushed president reagan and he is haunted by but in president reagan's daughter penned a column for the daily beast entitled "don't let me dad's shooter go free." she writes "for purposes of review here are a few other things hinckley was doing at st. elizabeth's. writing to mass murderers, ted bundy and charles manson and has girlfriends, most notably lesley devaeu who killed her 10-year-old daughter with a 12-gauge shotgun. we expect this hearing to last several days. >> the judge's ruling comes at the end of those several days we think? >> that's correct. >> james rosen, keep us updated. breaking news on the sky west flight 5622 that made an emergency landing in buffalo, new york.
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a fox news alert. we are getting more information about the sky west flight that landed safely in buffalo after some kind of incident in mid air. we've been calling it sky west flight 5622. it is a feeder airline that contracts with big carriers to shuttle passengers to their hubs. you might know this as united express flight en route from chicago to hartford connecticut, when one of the passengers according to the airline, a passenger onboard passed out. no mention as to why in this airline statement. they say the crew put the airplane on the ground. the passenger was attended to
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and everybody is okay. >> we have the statement from sky west so you can see what we are reading from the airline. initial reports were about a door on the airplane. we are waiting to confirm that. sky west flight 5622 diverted to buffalo, new york after a passenger lost consciousness. the flight landed safely in buffalo where the passenger received medical attention before being released. we working to accommodate the 75 passengers on another aircraft to hartford. still a lot of questions. >> it is a relatively small twin engine jet that seats 80 passengers. just about every seat was full. some terrifying times in the air. that flight is safe on the ground in buffalo. as we get more information, we'll bring it to you. >> we are talking about
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pressurization because of the different airline stories we had the last year or so. what would cause -- it's not the door then what could cause it? >> if you lose the pressurized air inside the cabin, the passengers can pass out. that happened in the payne stewart case the golfer. the aircraft lost pressure. that plane flew on with the crew and the passengers passed out and ultimately they died when it ran out of fuel and crashed into a field. that is a scary ending but not what happened here. one said there was something with the door. multiple passengers passed out.
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from the airline we are receiving it was one passenger that lost consciousness. in your experience if there is a pressurization issue, is it likely more than one passenger would be affected or could just one passenger lose consciousness? >> it is an individual case. they are running an altitude 7,000, 8,000 feet. if the cabin starts to reach an altitude of 9,000, 10,000 feet then oxygen masks will begin to fall and people have to get on oxygen. it's all an individual person how good of shape they are in. like somebody walking around denver they are going to feel it more than another person. >> it sounds like the airline handled things about as well as can be expected. they got that plane on the ground. they got help for the stricken
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passenger. they are accommodating other people who want to go on to hartford. >> sure sure. we are in the cockpit there we'll get a warning side if it's happening if you are above 10,000 feet that comes on a few hundred feet before that. soon as that alarm comes on we'll ask for an emergency speed to get the cabin down to a safer altitude. we would getting a warning immediately. >> this flight was on route from chicago to hartford connecticut, as united express flight. they were well over halfway. obviously, they would have been at cruising altitude they would have been way up there when this passenger took ill or the crisis developed. >> absolutely. probably the cabin altitude would have been between 7,000 and 8,000 feet at that time.
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>> does this surprise you that the airline wouldn't mention pressurization issssue this early in the statement? right now if you read the airline statement, it almost sounds like a passenger just fell ill suddenly. it had nothing to do specifically with the flight. >> without a final report there is only speculation on what happened with that one individual passenger. if there were many people affected i would see a bigger investigation going on. this person could have been drinking or on some medication and the high cabin altitude for them an altitude above 6,000 or 7,000 feet for them individually would have been more harmful than a person who is young and in good condition. >> great things for us to consider. thank you for your expertise.
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>> a ending. obviously the crew handled it well. continuing coverage on this developing story. "the real story with gretchen" starts right now. we'll continue with that fox news alert. passenger jet lands safely after a terrifying mechanical failure mid flight. the main door of a sky west plane partially opens causing the cabin to lose air pressure. one person onboard reportedly fell unconscious. the flight was going from chicago to hartford when the pilot declares an emergency. the plane was diverted to buffalo around now safely landed. trace gallagher has been following this and has flown planes before. what do you know? >> what you are saying is one of the reports you are getting. sky west airlines telling a dir story saying a passenger lost consciousness and that's why the plane diverted and landed in buffalo. the faa released a statement saying there was a

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