k here at four oastern. "happening now" starts right now. >> and we with start with the fox news alert. breaking details on the suspects in texas. and including the path and possible ties to terror. we are covering all of the news "happening now"ing now. >> the presidential field doubles in size. ben carson and carly fiorina tossed their hats in the ring. how will they impact the white house? and women, untold story of female warriors who served long side special ops in afghanistan including those who made the ultimate sacrifice in our country. >> and the crew finds themselves in the worst position possible. they are told to don survival

soughts as the coast guard swings into action. it is all "happening now". but we begin on this monday with an fbi investigation spanning two stats as investigators put together the pieces of the shooting at the prophet muhammed cartoon in texas. >> they were killed in a violent shootout outside of dallas. and one of them identified as elton simpson from arizona. and investigators are trying to figure out what led to the attack. johnathon hunt is live with more. johnathon? >> it is still a busy crime scene behind me here in garland. bullet casings and evidence markers lie all around the car in which the two shooters arrived here. they came armed with assault

rifles and body armor and apparently no match for one alert cop armed with a pistol. >> bofth them had assault rifles and started shooting at the police car. the police officer in that car returned fire and struck both men, taking them down. there is a second very busy investigation going on today in phoenix, arizona. take a look at these pictures. an apartment complex home of the one suspect identified. elton simpson, a man investigated for potential ties to terrorism. fbi agents and police arrived in the apartment complex late last night and hurrying neighbors out of the surrounding area. >> they told me to love and i

couldn't stay in the area or get in my house, i just had to go. >> and now the shootings happen here in garland outside of a meeting organized by the american freedom defense initiative and that is a competition for the best cartoon depikdz of the. and that is deemed blasphemous by many muslims. and they said today, that these shootings which injured one security officer, he is now released and show the release for her kind of organization. jenna? >> certainly more to the story and we'll continue to share it with our viewers throughout the hour. thank you. >> more than 200 businesses were destroyed in the baltimore riots and hopes are calm and hopes are high and the relative calm will continue and protest staying

peaceful and baltimore's mayor is lifting a curfew and the emergency is expected over the next few days doug? >> hi, john and baltimore is a changed city over the past 24 hours and gone for the most part are the legends of national guard troops and helping with riot control and morning rush hour is pretty much back to normal and the focus is turning to the police and charged in the death of freddie gray and also the arguments over the broken windows policing in baltimore. billy murphy spoke on fox news sunday and blame the former baltimore mayor and president democratic candidate martin o'mally. >> this was a street sweeping

eergz like no other. why are you going to do this and i am going to break with you if you don't stop. >> and echoing that sentiment is david a long- time police of the baltimore and said in a interview. they were policing real estate and xrekting from crime. they weren't nurturing informants or learning how to properly investigate anything. they were just dragging the stats. this is the only industry left and just became hunting grounds. >> there is another story and side. baltimore police were focused on riot control. since tuesday eight homicides and 12 shootings. one more thing walking back to my hotel, i stopped and chatted

with new jersey state troopers packing up and getting ready to leave, those guys feel they have a target painted on their back and their difficult and dangerous jobs are deeply underappreciated and expect a back lash directed as the police forces all across the united states. jon, back to you. doug thank you. and we want to hear from you. in the wake of those riots in baltimore. and our live chat is up and running and go to fox news.com/"happening now". >> in a search for a common touch so to say, dr. ben carson and carly fiorina. and mike huckabee expected to jump in tomorrow. the candidates share one

overriding goal trying to reach out to the ordinary americans and show they can relate to every day concerns. can the gop do it? . we are getting fresh new faces and names in the campaign. david. what do you think of the addition of carson and fiorina in the gop race. you have an african-american doctor in ben carson and a woman in carly fiorina and that seems obvious but in a race against hillary clinton, she will provide the republicans a way to go after clinton in the way the male candidates can't. and we'll so if they can excel and get in the top tier. i am not betting on it but bring something interesting in the race. >> but if you look at both of their narratives they came from

places that you wouldn't have placed bet on them either and went on to wild success. that's what they have in common. and it is it is the nation's problems. and so i am not in the system. right now, there is a real lack of faith. and it was simply about the outside is. >> and whether or not the candidates resonate with the independents. and the new york times is an

interesting piece. and gop hopefuls try to woo the 20 percent. and it was interesting the times quited a pugh poll, people still believe that republicans are indifferent to working americans. 57 percent said the republican party doesn't care about the middle-class. can any republican candidate over come that perception of the party? >> good news for republicans, it only takes one candidate to change the perception. the bad news they need to find him. the republicans nominated the mrutocrat mitt romney who declined to offer a defense for his wealth or what he had to done with it to help people. and magnify and compound it you didn't build that slogan. and it was over the billboards in inform tampa.

most americans are not entrepreneurs they are employees and they go and are hourly and salaried workers. republicans have figured this out and they need to speak to the americans, particularly in a time when the people feel the economy is rough, and put candidates up like marco rubio that might be able to do this. can they connect successfully in the election cycle in the way they were not able to in the last election cycle. we'll see who they put up and how they are doing their job. >> it is a question of whether the candidates will be in step. and i am listening to our viewers on twitter who are interested in what ben carson and carly fiorina has to stay. i am curious about the tension and how it plays out.

how do you think it will? hillary clinton will hammer away the fact she is more experience and the world is too scary for a rookie to come on and be the leader of the free world. you will see her play to her strengths as she faces someone that is an outsider. if she faces marco rubio and that is certainly the tough tension. people are sick of politicians and they are afraid to get someone like hillary clinton if they don't have experience and that is a real choice for the voters on the republican side in the wide open field when they takedown someone who is a big machine like she is. >> we'll see what actually takes place. and whether or not any of them

receive the nomination. david great to have you. >> and just a note for our viewers you are catch carly foraina. and it will air tonight. >> and a vulnerability of the critical infrastructure in our country. the danger cyber terrorism pose with one click of the mouse. the royal wait is over. fourth in line to the british throne and the little princess finally has a name. we'll reveal it from across the pond next.

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>> an electro magnetic pulse attack. and executive director of the advisory board is joining us

now. and wrote a piece to the journal and that is enough to get our attention. >> thank you so much for having me. >> you have a resume and you worked as an intelligence officer and you looked at what is facing our nation right now. and why is this a great concern to you? >> it is the greatest threat that our nation faces. and it was deeply classified and throughout most of the cold war. and declassified much of the information about emp that was publicly known and it is one of the least understood threats that we face. if a terrorist organization or north korea or iran detonated a single nuclear weapon it would destroy the electrical grid and our infrastructure and put at risk the lives of the

american people. we all depend or live off of electricity electronic civilization. and it is a threat for nation. in 1859 and 1921, they are inevitable and it will happen again some day. there was a nasa report that said we just barely missed by three days being hit by a magnetic super storm. it could take out electrical grids worldwide. >> how do we prepare for something like this? we are grossly unprepared for this to happen. how do we better prepare ourselves? i consider the article and the department of defense has known for 50 years how to protect from the emp. norad has decided to move back

to the mountain to protect itself from the emp threat and spend money to further protect themselves. >> for our viewers, the most important resources in our government are identifying the threat and moving in a mountainess area because the threat is so serious? >> one of the most important military commands norad is protecting itself from critical defense. and the civilian infrastructure and electrical grid is not protected and it is all well and good but what happens to the american people? >> what does it to protect united states. >> the emp commission estimated 2 billion that's what we give in foreign aid to pakistan to protect the national electric grid from emp. and protecting all infrom

structure 10-20 billion. but protecting the grid is most important nothing will work without electricity and under a worse case scenario you could bring it back before we lost millions of american lives to starvation. >> you advised members of congress and you have done that for years now? what reaction are you met with when you sit down and said this is serious. and what are you met with as far as willingness to address the issue? >> i have to applaud the house of representatives and the members of congress and the house has tried very hard to protect the country. they heeded the warnings from the emp. congress tried to pass the grid act. and it was supported by every member of congress unanimously

passed the house, but i have to criticize washington it is so broken that you have situations where for instance a single senator. >> i have to run to breaking news. teeslan and building what is going on with tesla, the private sector. building bucses that you can build in your own home. and go quote, unquote, off the grid. to make sure you have added security. what do you think about that. do you have something in our home and something our viewers would consider while we wait for more reaction from washington? >> there are things you can do as individuals and communities to protect yourself. the technology from tesla. these batteries, if you -- solar panels anything that gets you

off the grid would be good. the system advertised in an article is a realistic way to get yourself off the grid and protect your family although it's more expensive-buying a conventional generator. there's more cost effective ways to do it. i wouldn't encourage anyone for taking steps to protect their own families and communities from this by investing in batteries or something else. >> we certainly talked about it because we think it's an important story. there's lots more work to be done. but we haven't started on it. doctor pride, great to have you on the program. >> a foxnews alert, a new york city police officer has died. he was shot in the head over the week en. family of 25-year-old brian moore decided to take him off life support. officer moore, a five-year

veteran were following someone acting suspiciously. he turned and fired. the police caught demetrius blackwell. officer moore, the third nypd officeer in six months to be fatally shot in the line of duty.

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right now, two days of talks wrapping up between the taliban and afghan government as these efforts potentially end more than a decade aid of conflict. the role of the american military still present on afghan soil. he served three tours of duty in afghanistan, he's the right guy to talk to this been b. these allegations from the new yorktime americans forces under the guise of training and

advising are acting more aggressively. considering we're very much at war, and on the offense in afghanistan, what is your reaction to that piece in the times? >> any time we have soldiers in a combat environment, you have to essentially recognize that they are at war. certainly on a war footing. 24 hours a day. 7 days a week. to think otherwise would be p pretty detrimental not just for us i think, at home but for the guys on the ground. that's when politics start to override kind of tactical common sense. >> you're saying wait a minute. the white house is telling us the war in afghanistan is over. but you're shaking your head. that's what time is doing as well. saying it doesn't seem like it. >> the taliban, every year there's a spring oh fensive thate offensive. we're at 70% fatality rates this time than last year. this year we're at 700.

if we want to say any progress that we've slowly made stay not devolve the way we see iraq fall apart we need to step up support. >> based on what you learned in three tours, what do you think we have to do. >> you have to keep pressure on the enemy. even though there are discussions taking place between the afghan government and taliban, the fact of the matter is, you always have to remember, at least something we need to remember afghan has pretty significant neighbors. it has iran as a neighbor and pakistan as a neighbor. those are very influencing partners in this but, you know to be honest. i think we need to keep the fight up. we need to reengage. let the rules of engagement ease off. we need to reengage with choice air support assets. it's one of the things we need to have the will to do it or not. i don't want to have our soldiers there, young men and

women. to sacrifice with one hand behind their back is a disservice. either do it or let not. >> interesting. my husband being among them in iraq specifically he has the same attitude which surprises people here at home who have not been on the battlefield. which is willingness for those in the fight to go back and continue the fight until it's done. talk to us about that. politically, count hear a lot of lawmakers say that. and also the public. you get a feeling, what about lives, and being able to protect our soldiers in the right way. we don't want them getting hurt over there for a purpose that we don't completely understand. what do you say to ha that? i think individuals like your husband and myself are probably biased. and it takes something to step aside and look at it from a bigger picture. it's hard to step away from the fact these aren't names and letters that we sign as a president. these are friends of ours that died. that's american blood on foreign

soil. to a certain extent that's hallowed ground. you're saying it's worth it to finish the fight. >> it's worth it in the sense if we want to stop afghanistan. we've got iran pakistan and you've got isis which is increasingly becoming problematic. i think if we want to ensure afghanistan as a country. they have to have a safe enclave. there is some work in that fight. unfortunately. politics at home. there's a lot that deploy. i don't think we're listening to anybody. to be perfectly honest with you. we have a president that doesn't want to call offensive operations. we have congress that can pass a budget and defense department under sequestration. you talk to anybody in the

military right now. we're on the back foot. we're not able to train so we're not ready as we are. a lack of commitment overall. sad fact our guys are on the frontlines right now. >> as "the new york times" suggests. actively engaging when it needs to happen. nice to have you on the set. john? >> more on men and women. remarkable story for a woman who served on battlefields in afghanistan despite women working in ground combat units. and they're looking for clues that could tie the shooting in texas to other terrorer activity. breaking details, next.

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investigators putting together the pieces of a shooting. the two gunman killed after opening fire outside of the event near dallas last night. the security guard was injured. drawings have sparked violence around the world. including the offices of the satirical magazine. those cartoons are used as an excuse for violence. investigators are looking into the terror links to the texas attack. katherine is just outside of washington for us now.

katherine. >> thank you. a senior law enforcement officials confirms to foxnews that one of the suspects has been identified as elton simpson. the 25-year-old was a subject of recent counter terrorism investigation where he lied to federal investigators about his desire africa and join al shabab. the fbi is at this hour sweeping the phoenix apartment complex tied to the texas shooting. investigators exploring whether simpson sent out a series of tweets prior to the attack using the #tax taxattack. we believe he traveled showing premeditation. investigators are consider whether the two men had delectis were inspired by a foreign terrorist group with analysts drawing attention to a series of tweets by an american jihadi with the al qaeda affiliate al

shabab. the tweet was sent by a british jihadist based in syria who goes by the name al britani. #texasattack. this account has been disabled. and reporters were told the suspects wore body armor, more evidence of premeditation and texas, anticipated the event could be controversial. >> because of the way we were set up. we were able to stop those men before they were able to penetrate the area and shoot anybody else or attempt to shoot anybody else. and for that that plan was successful that we set up. >> within the last couple of hours the chairman of the house homeland security committee, republican congressman, who was also from texas said in a statement this morning that freedom of expression was attacked in garland, texas as it

was in paris. as you mentioned jenna. >> katherine. thank you. >> she told me mom, it's all about family god and country. that's what it's about. and so i was very proud. very proud of her. >> a new book ashley's war gives untold story. now ashley has won the rights to turn the rights to a movie. gail. we think that women are not serving in combat your book explodes that myth. >> this is really the story about some of the most tested

special operations leaders asking how are we going to win this war. ten years in. 2010. if we can't talk to afghan women. we need american soldiers finest american women in uniform to go along cy the battlefield alongside special operations night in night out. to talk to women and see if what they could learn to save troops lives. i think it is the ultimate story of female friendship in the unlikeliest of places which is the special operation battlefield. >> i was surprised that the army itself realized that they needed this kind of a unit. they needed women's help. >> that's right. admiral olson was the first navy s.e.a.l. that had the idea that we needed knowledge and women to talk to women. you had americans from alabama to alaska who were motivated by

the desire to be alongside the best of the best on a mission that mattered. serving their country. they are this incredible group of friends who will forever be connected by what they saw at war at the tip of the spear even while women were officially not in ground combat units. but the obvious complaints women are never as strong, they'll never be as fast they'll slow men down. how will those questions be answered by this combat support team? >> i hope people see in these pages a look at a world we've never seen. they were all fierce, all fit. and incredibly feminine. they had to show they were women in the heat of the night operation. i had rangers serve 12 to 15 deployments. some of the best soldiers in the united states military said these women brought value to the battlefield. helped us accomplish this mission and a job well done stands out.

i think they answer that question. >> i know the book is, as of now, a best seller. it's a story that people should read. "ashley's war." gayle, thank you. >> it's a privilege. thank you so much. new developments in the boston bombing trial. relatives are dzhokhar are traveling to make the trial. your tax dollars paying for the trip. feel free to be yourself all day. just switch from denture paste to sea-bond denture adhesive seals. holds stronger than the leading paste all day... without the ooze. feel secure. be yourself. with stronger, clean sea-bond. mary jennings has never won a marathon half marathon, 10k or any other k. but mary doesn't run to win. she just loves to run. recently she ran across helpful information

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candidates for president. is that a good thing? don't miss my take top of the hour. five russian relatives of boston marathon bomber dzhokhar tsarnaev are traveling to the u.s. for the sentencing phase of the trial. tax payers are funding the trip. six fbi agents are hired to guard them while in the u.s. dan shore is a former prosecutor. talk about a fair trial. we the american people are spending this kind of dough to pay for protection -- first of all the plane tickets and protection of dzhokhar tsarnaev's trial. it can't be cheap. >> absolutely. we're paying for the whole trial. but the part that bothers me the most is is it not insane to bring family members of a terrorist to the country, number

one or number two? >> i assume they're not on the no-fly lift? >> probably not >> their testimony is not going to make or break the case. if your mother, brother, sister, brother can't say something nice about you, nobody can. he would be better off if independent third parties help you escape the death penalty. >> but it shows he has people who love him. >> it's about the criminal justice system asking the jury to agree to execute somebody. we have to give them every possibility to bring in people they want h that are favorable to them. none of these witnesses will say he didn't commit these crimes but the defense only needs one juror disagree with the death penalty and his life will be spared. if they get some sympathy through family members that's something the defense will pursue. >> this is a death penalty qualified jury they all said under the right circumstances

they could vote for the death penalty, right? >> they have to say that in order to get on panel. i believe the strategy is, as dan said, if they can convince one of those jurors to not vote for death. then you don't have a unanimous jury and he won't get put to death. just one. you don't have to convince all of them. >> so the attempt to present this young man is a misguided youth under the sway of his older brother. >> he's misguided and under the influence of his brother. that's why he did it. he was very deliberate. he knew what he was doing. he planted the bomb near people. now the question for the jury is do we sentence him to death or life in prison. the defense says we're not asking you to set him free we're just asking you not to execute him. >> let's turn our attention to colorado where the trial of james holmes is underway.

johnna while the prosecution really has to proveta this guy was sane at the time he committed these acts how are they doing on that score? >> first of all. this is really unusual. colorado is one of a handful of states i believe it's 14, that require the prosecution to have the burden of proofing sanity at the time of trial. versus all other states that have the burden to prove they are insane at the time. what the prosecution has to do here is show that all of the planning and all of what mr. holmes did the day he killed 12 people and injured 70 was not part of a psychotic episode air quotes but rather purposely done plotted and planned, so that he knew the difference between right and wrong when he committed the act. >> what about all of the planning. doesn't that suggest the work of a sane mind? i mean there was all kinds of pre planning that went into this. >> right. this is not a very strong defense. insanity is a defense of last resort where there is no other

legal or factual defense. he put himself in body armor. that shows he's thinking he is doing something wrong. he targeted specific moviegoers as they were leaving the theater. he booby trapped his apartment so law enforcement would get hurt. this is thought-out problems. >> i know in the boston case the prosecution asked the judge please let the family members testify quickly so we can put the fbi agents back on the street no longer protecting the tsarnaev clan. thank you. two former officials linked to governor chris christie appearing in federal court today, charged with shutting down lanes of the george washington bridge as political payback. what do they have to say about those accuseizations? that's just aahead. plus the coast guard pull these people out of the water but the search for a fourth one is still under way.

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we're taking on water. our stern's sinking. we're sinking right now. >> doesn't sound good. right? pretty calm for such a message there. the coast guard searching for one person after a fishing boat started taking on water 14 miles off the coast of washington state. three fishermen successfully abandoned ship in a life raft and were successfully pulled to safety but the boat's blaster reportedly still on board whether it capsized and sank. anyone with information is asked to call the coast guard. investigators are tryingo figure out exactly what happened. new legal developments in the bridgegate scandal that's been looming over new jersey governor chris christie. two former allies of the governor pleading not guilty after being charged in a scheme to close lanes of george washington bridge as political

payback. what's the latest outside district court in new jersey? >> reporter: there were two not guilty please in federal court in newark. the lane closures on the george washington bridge not only caused traffic tie-ups for days but poll ratings for governor chris christie plummeted in the garden state. his fired deputy chief of staff bridget ann kelly appeared in court. she was the form he official who wrote that infamous e-mail "time for some traffic problems in ft. lee." charged with nine counts of fraud, conspiracy wire fraud, civil rights violations. she was arraigned with her top/pointee to the new jersey/new york port authority. kelly's lawyer says his court appearance is the longest they've ever been together and they did not conspire those lanes. he blamed the prosecution's star witness, david weilstein, the former christie political ally

who pled guilty on friday. as kelly stood next to him, she insisted she will be cleared. >> she's been maligned for the past 16 months. my total belief in everything i hold dear is that she's been maligned unfairly and i want to know after we're found not guilty who gives her the apology? i know you've been writing a lot of opinions about miss kelly. but i want you to be fair now. i want you to do your job now. i would never risk my career my job, my reputation for something like this. i am an innocent man. >> reporter: the defendant will not rule out the possibility of calling governor christie at the trial who's always denied any involvement. the trial date is set for july 7th but will likely be delayed.

>> thank you. many states are still recovering from a brutal winter. now we're just learning how expensive it actually was. the american association of state highway and transportation officials are reporting that 23 states reported spending a combined $1 billion on winter road maintenance. that includes 6 million tons of salt and 8 million hours of plowing. boston snow totals broke records with 110 inches falling in just six weeks. one state even reported using 216,000 gallons of beat juice which can help salt stick to road surfaces. what's ahead for summer? >> has the snow melted in boston yet? >> that's a good question. >> send us your pictures if you've seen your backyard there in boston. a new mission at mcdonald's. the ceo of fast food giant says he wants to turn it into a "modern progressive burger company." that means promises of better

food and a new focus on giving customers what they want. mcdonald's has been struggling with dropping sales. in other news britain's new princess born early saturday to kate middleton and prince william has been named charlotte elizabeth diane flaadiana. a gun salute was fired in her honor. she will be princess charlotte of cambridge. what do orange juice, a man stuck on a basketball hoop and "star wars" all have in common? they're part of "happening now's" final 30 next.

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time for our final 30. the guinness record has been broken for the largest amount of freshly squeezed orange juice. a hammer wielding man had to be rescued after getting stuck

upside down on a basketball hoop in seattle during mayday protests. and it's today's official holiday for fans of "star wars." they greet each other with the phrase may the 4th be with you. a nod to the classic movie. >> thanks for joining us everybody. >> "the real story" with gretchen starts right now. the fbi now searching a second vehicle in the investigation following that attack at a contest for cartoons of the prophet mohammed. hi everyone. hope you had a great weekend. i'm gretchen carlson. we're here to bring you the real story on that one and much more. police now searching for clues in an apartment collection in arizona. they've been seen going in and out of one of those units examining cars and talking to neighbors. this is the scene outside the event last night in garland, texas. gunman opened fire injuring a school security guard before being killed in a violent shoot-out with police. today police praising that response saying they were on high alert given the provocative