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moderation but alcohol in the drive through went mix well, cara says minors usually work at fastfood places and this gives their friends access good point. have a fantastic weekend. here's john in for shep. >> a cyber attack of enormous proportions and consequences. hackers stealing' information from millions of past and present government staffers. ahead, what we know about how it happened who got hit and how the chinese are responding to accusations they are behind it all. the air war against the islamic state. american pilots have carried out thousands of bombing strikes but don't seem to be doing much good. today we're going to get some answers as to why that is and perhaps what needs change. plus, he won the lottery but had no idea for weeks. and the winning ticket, wait until you hear where he left it. at the story of the plumber who struck it rich in this hour of "shepard smith reporting."
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i'm john scott in for shep today. china may now have dirt on millions of u.s. government workes both present and past, stretching back for 30 years. that's the report from the reuters news agency and others, as unnamed american officials blame china for what could be the worst ever hack attack on our government. however the white house spokesman said today the administration is not ready to publicly name names. the hackers reportedly stole names, addresses and social security numbers of federal employees. but unlike many major breaches there are signs the hackers were not after money but were looking for americans americans who might betray their country as spies. in fact one unnamed official says the feds are investigating this as a national security matter. meaning a foreign government is behind the attack, not just a bunch of criminals. according to a member of the senate intelligence committee the hackers appear to be looking for iíñation on people with security clearances, along with details from background checks.
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analysts say the chinese could then target folks who are deep in debt or have sick family members, people who might be willing to turn over american secrets for some much needed cash. the chinese government is not flat out denying the allegations. instead the chinese are daring the u.s. government to prove it was them. china's foreign minister says he wishes the united states would simply show more trust. it's fox's top story. pete use doocy is live in washington. what keels the hacker use the information for. >> reporter: to guess passwords for weapons systems using things that people put in passwords or have listed if they forget their pastword, like their birthday or social security number. and that means this virtual theft could soon have very real consequences. that is according to a reuters report that cites a u.s. official. and as for chinese officials they're not saying a whole lot about specifics but are saying they don't appreciate american accusations.
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>> translator: we hope the u.s. can stop being constantly paranoid and make groundless accusations. but instead show more trust and cooperation in this field. >> reporter: we're learning a little built about specific evidence pointing to the chinese. a cyber security firm is telling us some malware used in the attack is identical to malware used again anthem health insurance fire walls this year. they think it's all pointing to the chinese government. >> so the white house i know they've been asked about chinese possible involvement here. what are they saying? >> the white house is saying everybody is at risk. the federal government, private businesses everybody. but they're pointing the finger today at nobody. >> there is risk associated with making public what exactly our investigators have learned, and the reason for that is that we're dealing with a persistented a're sear --
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persistent at adversary and the less they know about what we know the better. so we're mindful of that as we talk in public. >> reporter: we still don't know what the u.s. is planning to do in response to the foreign government that is stealing sensitive information from american workers. john? >> peter doocy in washington, thank you. let's brick in a former white house chief information officer, teresa payton is ceo of a cyber security firm. teresa this -- the government has a system called einstein that is supposed to stop this kind of thing. why didn't it work? >> well, in this case, they do believe that it worked. it actually found the information that there were anomalies on the network and that's what einstein does. it looks for anomalies and alerts the dhs. we don't know once they heard about it in april what went on between april and now as we're
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just now learning about this particular breach. >> the government is offering things that you would get in a typical credit card theft kind of thing credit card monitoring -- credit monitoring, that sort of thing. these aren't hackers who are interested in using your credit card number to go buy something at amazon. is that going to be effective or useful here? >> it might be useful only from the standpoint of this particular cyber crime group magic decide we need a little money, that's sell this information. i think what really needs to happen here is all federal employees dating back to the '8s so, the time of big care and big shoulder pat pads and reagan, need to think i could be a target for identity theft or information i may have known in the past or know currently. so extra vigilance is required. be -- ask a lot more questions
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when you get a phone call out of the blue. ask yourself questions when you get an e-mail asking for information, and be vary guarded on social media. those extra measures and diligence will be very helpful in a case like this until we know more about who is behind it and what is the real motive. >> pretty disturbing. even the officers of the cia and other clandestine organizations have to go through the office of personnel manage: those are the kinds of files the chinese, if they're responsible, might have access to now. right? >> this is very disturbing, whether it's theuówqfujut or a cyber criminal outfit or not country it doesn't matter. the fact remains we have seen a systemic attempt at going after clearance databases. this is the second time opm has been breached, the state department and it shows we need a different way how to store
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data and segmenting data. at the white house we didn't keep the president's schedule all on one system, install one place. we knew that breaches could be inevitable so we would separate his schedule out into multiple disconnected networks. it's time for us to look at a different way of designing and be more on offense instead of on defense and protecting this information. >> teresa payton the ceo of a security firm. thankgvé you. >> thanks for having me on. >> despite the fact that isis is on the move, gaining members land andznapx money, the u.s. commander in charge of the air campaign against the terrorists says the air war is going great. according to the top commander the u.s.-led bombing campaign is quote this most precise into and displained operation. the airstrikes have taken a profond toll on the terrorizer army but there's evidence to the contrary, including the fact the coalition has fail to stop isis from marching on city after city. you can see here in areas that
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isis controlled in july of last year, just before the start of the beening campaign. now compared that to the group's territory last month. not much difference. of course there are plenty of other factors in the battle. the iraqis have chosen to run instead of putting up a fight in many cases and the pentagon officials say bashar al-assad war planes are helping the islamic state by acting as its air force in syria. jennifer griffin is live at the me. what did the u.s. command say about the rulings of engagement to are their air came pain. >> there have been allegations the rule for engagement are so string they can note get permission fast enough to kill isis targets. pilots are returning three out of four times with their bombs intact. u.s. planes conduct on average 14 strikes a day compared to hundreds a day during prior air campaigns. >> the comparison is being made to conflicts against field armies and nation states don't apply, and the folks making them
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haven't been in a fight like the one we're in now. this enemy wraps itself around a friendly population before we started there has never been a well-developed target set for that. >> lieutenant general john hesterman told reporters there have been more than 100 proposed strikes where the target was found to be a friendly force. highlighting the need, he said, for restrictive rules of engagement. he was pushing back on the recent criticism from former air force commanders who say that the rules of engagement are just too strict right now. >> three out of four air strikes that are launched apparently never happened. what about the effectiveness of the strikes that do go on? >> well, the air strikes have had little overall effect, as you mentioned in terms of pushing isis back despite pentagon claims otherwise. as of midnight june 3rd the u.s. and coalition have conducted a total of 4,347 air strikes. of those the u.s. carried out
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3,393 air strikes. today the air campaign hit another glitch because the iraqi f-16 pilots and technicians the u.s. has been training in jordan went on strike after their salaries were cut by iraq's defense minister by 80%. general hesterman pushed back on the idea that his pilots' hands are tied. >> the thought we're observing large numbers of terrorists and not killing them anywhere is fiction. and the relatively few target wes have not prosecuted in total wouldn't have changed the strategic or the tactical situation on the battlefield. >> the air force on the fence today after a series of articles from frustrate pilots flying missions against isis. >> jennifer griffin at the pentagon. thank you. we learned this week that the u.s. military did take out an islamic state building after a terrorist suspect showed it on social media. ahead, what we know about how this strike went down and how the military can use social media to go after the terrorists.
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more now on the air war against islamic state. the american general says forces were able to locate an isis headquarters and launch an airstrike because a group was braggen to the social media. the general called the person a more ron. what more do we know? >> we learned about this is the week and that's when the jenna
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charge of air combat command described how troops in florida found the post. listen. >> they're combing through social media and they see some moron standing at the command and in social media open forum bragging about the command and control cabe amendment for ice -- capability for ice sol these guy do some work. long story short about 22 hours later, through that very building three bombs take the spire building out. >> this is what a jdem looks like coming if a the type of planed used to fly. it can fly right into a target and what is key about the fact they used jdam is that's a weapon that requires someone to plug in specific gps coordinates. i spoke with the dod source who
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says there are specialists whose job it to sift through social media. >> how does that work? the social media component of fighting the war against isis. >> as i said people are sifting through information and technical experiment i spoke with said that this information probably came from an image that was posted to social media. take a listen. >> whenever an image is taken on a smart finance there's a lot of meat -- metadata about the camera and the location, the time the image was taken. these will be crucial pieces of information for the u.s. military in an attack like this. >> isis use social media extensively to recruit and post. experts estimate that supporters have 46,000 twitter accounts, hair not all active at the same time. and isis or it supporters post 60 to 90,000 times on social media per day. from my experience the military
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has to verify and reverify a target before dropping the weapon, and while a picture that was posted on social media may have led them to this isis target they would have to use other sources of information for example imagery like google maps but more extensive to make sure they were hitting the right target and avoiding friendlies. >> but they cacked quickly. >> career quick and that's an important point to make. 22 hours. >> thank you. the man who was the face of saddam hussein's regime for years just died. the former iraqi foreign minister tariq acies defend is his about through three wars. he was so loyal he named a son saddam. he smokes cuban cigars and spoke english fluently and made ridiculous denials about crimes against humanity his boss committed. he was the eight of spades. he surrendered in baghdad in 2003 when u.s. forces knock on his door and was sentenced to
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death for his role in the crimes. intervention from the vatican saved him from the noose. iraqi officials say he had heart attack in a hospital yesterday. tariq aziz dead, at the age of 79. we have heard it before. ukraine's president warning about thousands of russian troops at the border. now president obama is set to talk about the situation during a big meeting in europe this weekend, but guess who is not on the guest list? vladimir putin. so who wants to take on the russian leader? three shootings in one state in different months and now investigators say they're looking for a possible link. details on that next. (vo) me? i don't just wait for a moment. i watch for the perfect moment. the one nobody else sees. and when i find it- i go for it. (announcer) at scottrade, we share your passion for trading. that's why we give you the edge, with innovative charting
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police in colorado say another shooting death could now be linked to two other shootings that happened in the last few months. we report on the investigation earlier this week. here's the back story. in late april police said somebody shot a driver as she was traveling along an interstate. the bullet went through her neck but she survived. two weeks ago the cops said a body of a cyclist turned up on the road five miles from the scene. somebody shot him twice. officials said those two cases were connected but they did not say how. fast forward to this week. cops found a 65-year-old man bleeding on a sidewalk after somebody shot him. they say they tried to save him but he died at the scene. official says all three incidents occurred within 15-miles of each other in usually safe areas. this is all some 50 miles north of denver. there's been talk that a sniper could be responsible. the fbi special agent in charge says it would be inappropriate to comment on that. like a broken record, officials in ukraine are once
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again warning russian troops could be close to a full scale that as president obama gets ready to head to europe>záuju a meeting with other western leaders and president putin is not invited. first, ukraine's president says his army has regained control of a town in the eastern part of the country. ukraine officials blame the russian backed rebels for launching a new wave ofs q attacks this week despite a cease fire in place. it's been in place for about four months now. but officials monitoring the situation in ukraine told the united nations the violations have been more frequent and heavy weapons often quote missing from storage areas. ukraine's president once again said he was concerned about the thousands of russian troops inside ukraine and the buildup of soldiers along their border. >> translator: i can tell you the amount of reduction troops near the ukrainian border and the troops on the occupied territory toy is unprecedented.
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>> russian president -- i'm sorry -- president obama is headed to germany this weekend for the g-7 submit, year after the group kicked out russian president vladimir putin in protest. president obama is expected to push his fellow leaders to keep the economic penalties against russia in place. or as the who is describe i it, steady as she goes policy. critics say the strategy is not working and it is unclear which country has the stomach to deal with president putin. let's bring in rick grinel, the largest serving u.s. spokesperson ever at the united nations. vladimir putin is he going to be deterred from invading ukraine. >> doesn't look like it. he clearly is not deterred now. he is not backing off from all of the sanctions that we have put on and that the europeans have put on. >> they're not working. >> they're not working. he continues to move forward. you see on a daily basis that this cease fire, that everybody is talking about that was formed in february, -- the cease
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fire is not working and yet we see president obama's nsc spokesman saying, look, we're going to go to the g-7 and we're going to tell people that they need -- that we all need to stick behind the sanctions and stick behind the cease fire. well, the cease fire is not helding so we need to ratchet it up. germ enough isn't interested in ratcheting it. touch clearly want to roll this back. so a success out of the g-7 would be if americans can get everybody to hold the line. >> have to feel sorry for the poor ukrainian people. all start because they wanted a government that was more aligned with europe. right? they get steam-rolled by the russians. >> the russians are not stopping. there's a real concern now in the czech republic. moldova. a whole bun of countries in eastern europe that are very nervous about putin. what we are doing right now with the g-7 is trying to do by just kicking russia out of the
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g- is just really not working and somebody needs to go this weekend to the g-7 and say we got to ratchet this up. now, the canadian prime minister, stephen harper said this more than that the russians will not be able to get back some the g-8 if putin is there. he specifically drew the line with putin. which i think is a start. it's going to show we're really tough, and that they have no chance of getting into the g-8. >> well, putin has tremendous popularity in his own country partly because of his own manipulation of the media. who is going to tell him no? is he worried about the united states maybe some kind of military confrontation or other confrontation over this? >> president obama has removed the threat of military action off the table. all around the world. not going to start any wars. so president putin hears that. the europeans are not going to pick a fight because you have to remember that the germans right now, one quarter of their energy is coming from the russians.
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so, the germans have no interest, no economic interest, no backbone to stand up to the russians. we have a problem with europe. if we are trying to -- if the united states is trying to sayxcea we will follow europe or work with our european partners on something, forthfest it. they're not going to move. and there's economic reasons for that. what we have to do is we have to move the europeans. the united states has to create a plan, we have to step out. the europeans will eventually follow but we have to pressure them to. >> because russia because of its military hardware and power not what it used to be could not stand up against the united states and a united europe. >> correct but we have the problem we emoved the threat of military action off the table. we wave to use economic sanctions. if we start that, europeans will follow. >> thank you rick. the good news is more americans started actively,@rq! looking for work last month.
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another car before they caught him. >> one of john len unanimous' guitars which was missing is set to hit the auction block. a historian says the guitar vanished in 1963 and turned up 50 years later at a second hand store here in the u.s. the auction house indicates lennon used the guitar to write songs including "she loves you now and it could sell close to a million dollars. the news continues right after this.
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an extremity weather alert and a toward warning in effect in parts of colorado, includes arapaho, douglas and albert county. the national weather service says to find shelter right away. tune into your local tv or raidee for more. all of this comes after several tornadoes swept across parts of colorado yesterday and forecasters say more storms could be on the way. >> this in the town 100 miles
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south and east of denver. the tornado destroyed a few homes in the area but nobody reported hurt. folks reported third are toward citizen northern part of the state. one guy says he watched as a twister took out his neighbor's place. >> kept staring at it. and as it moved it devoured my neighbor's house just ate it. >> just ate it. he says the tornado tore through his shed but stopped short of his house. at this point maybe it would just be simpler to list the republicans not running for president because ten people have already announces their campaigns and yesterday advisers to the former florida gov jeb bush says he'll make his plans official on june 15th in miami. he poke at an event there earlier today and said he wants to be the guy to beat. one g.o.p. strategist calls him the technical front runner in a
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field of candidates that keeps growing. here's a look at the ten who have already made announcements former texas governor rick perry and south carolina senator lindsey graham joined this week. and hillary clinton has a lot less competition. just three other candidates thus far. she is also accusing her republican rivals of trying to make it more difficult for millions of americans to vote. fox news sunday anchor chris wallace joins now. why hillary clinton is taking on this line of attack right now? is there great concern out there in america about vote are abuse? >> well, there is great concern among some people in the african-american community and she was speaking to an african-american crowd predominantly about voter suppression. efforts by republicans to limit the ability of people to vote and went after several republican governors who have
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done things they say to try to prevent fraud when it comes to voting, whether it's voter i.d.s, things like that. here's the one interesting point. she called out a bunch of these republican governors for limiting the amount of -- the length of early vote in their states. guess how long early voting is in the state of new york? hillary clinton's home state. >> i have an idea. why don't you share it with us. >> there is no early voting in the state of new york. so when she is talking about republican suppressing the vote by shortening the amount of early voting time in their states in ohio, for instance, john kashich they have a month of early voting there in her own state of new york, there is no early voting at all and to give you a sense how dishonest this argument is, the "new york times" did an editorial today their loadedder toal, calling -- supporting hillary clinton and
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calling out the republicans for suppression but without even mentioning the fact their own state has no early voting at all. >> her state has obviously democratic senators and a democratic governor, for instance. >> exactly. >> if notice she got fairly personal and named those republican governors four of them by name. does that -- is that an indication that she considers them her strongest competition or do they make the best dramatic foils for this issue? >> well, she has to pick governors bus they're the ones involved in states. she can't pick senators. the question to get back to your original question, though, as to why she is doing this right now suspect to some degree she is trying to change the subject not say she doesn't believe this. this is a frequent democratic talking point. but in addition, at a time when you're getting hammered but the huge donations to the clinton foundation and potential conflicts of interest when she was secretary of state and the
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use of the private e-mails and handling of benghazi and this is having an impact on the polls. what better to shore up your support among the democratic base than to go back to one of the kind that is to say republicans are trying to suppress minority votes to keep them from voting because they'll vote for democrats and not republicans. >> let's talk about rick perry joining the race. i thought it was a strong speech. how would you assess what his entry brings to the run -- the republican race? >> i agree with you. thought it was a strong speech and he has a good record. look back at his 14 years in texas and you can say well, the oil industry or fracking or whatever but the fact it was the huge engine of job growth in our country over those 14 years having said all of that, you can't ignore the fact that rick perry ran in 2012 and did just terribly. stumbled all over himself.
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are people going to give him a second look? that's a big open question. and to a certain degree i think john he has to run a perfect campaign because we in the media, when there's a narrative out there about dan quail or about al gore exaggerating or things like that, anytime they do anything that most candidates would get a pass, they get a truth squad, and you know that any slipup that rick perry makes, any other candidate would be laughed off. with rick perry, it would be, here he goes again. so a lot of pressure on him and some people question whether he is running because he thinks he can win the nomination or running to redeem his reputation. he shot to the top of the polls in 2012. maybe he'll do better this time, be better prepared. >> 27 million people in texas re-elected him a bunch of times. chris wallace. >> that's right, 14 years. >> chris will talk with former pennsylvania senator rick santorum this weekend on "fox
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news sunday." chris will have thelay latest on the changes to nsa surveillance, the troubles at the transportation security administration and the boston terror suspect. he'll talk with two congressmen new york republican peter king and california democrat adam schiff. the labor department reports employersheadded 280,000 jobs in may but the unemployment rate actually rose, 5.5%, up slightly. hundreds of thousands more people started looking for jobs last month. economist says last month's strong jobs report shows employers remained confident to keep hiring even though the economy shrank during the first three moves of the year. peater barnes is live in washington. some good news but critics say wages are still lagging here.
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>> reporter: for me month wages took a healthy pop up .03 to 24.96 an hour, but over the last year wage growth has been bouncing up and down month to month, keepingsing it on the historically low side. but the white house says at least inflation at least inflation has been lower thanks to lower oil prices. >> over the last year nominal wages up 2.3%, which is a faster than inflation because the falling price of gasoline has really lowered the inflation rate. so it does put consumers in a better position to spend. >> but the employment policy institute says don't pop the champagne corks just yet. it says, quote 2.3% growth in wages is a move in the the right direction cut nowhere near the 3.4 to 4% growth we expect in healthy labor market. >> so, a lot of people are still out there looking for jobs obviously.
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who is hiring? >> well, here are the hiring sectors. education and health services add 74,000 new jobs lamonth. professional and business services were plus 63,000 positions. leisure and hospitality rose 57,000 jobs, and retailers hired 31,000 more workers but the mining and logging sector, which includes oil production, cut 18,000 jobs in may. the sector has lost 68,000 jobs so far this year because that drop in oil prices has cut production. >> thank you. >> you bet. >> problems overseas are also weighing on world markets and your money. the cash strapped nation of greece has just missed the deadline for a $333 million debt payment to its creditors the news tanked the dow yesterday. a greek newspaper reports the country will bundle the entire
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month's lone payments into one $1.7 billion at the end of the month. officials say many panicked greeks are withdrawing money from banks at a record rate and warn public coffers are empty. you can gate lot of good deals at the mall, but in this case the good deal was the mall. an entire shopping center sold for $100. that's next.
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disaster teams in eastern china righted a cruise ship that capsized to speed up the search for 340 people missing. teams have found more than 100 body outside. officials say their focus has now shifted from finding survivors to retrieving the dead. crews reportedly have been working to drain water from the ship. investigators say it had run into strong winds topping more than 80-miles-an-hour during a storm monday night. relatives of the victims say the
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cruise should have known about the bad weather before hand. the surviving captain and first engineer did make it off. they're in police custody. might be the biggest bargain you can find at the mall. a shopping center on florida's east coast sold for a staggering $100 in vero beach florida. the owners of the mall owed the bank some $70 million in back payments. but it said they hoped to get at least half of that during an online auction on tuesday. except nobody bid on the property. the bank bought it back for a c-note. since 2010 more than two dozen shopping malls have closed in the united states and one retail consultant predicts within the next 15 years as many as half of those that remain could fail. steve harrigan is live in our south florida newsroom now. steve, explain this $100 purchase price. >> that final figure certainly
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has raised a lot of eyebrows across the state. basically the bank was trying to unload a giant indoor shopping mall for half price $35 million. but after there were zero interest ode bidders it sold the mall back to itself for the fee of $100. it's a financial transaction that has baffled shoppers at the mall. >> it's pretty bogus. it's like everything else that's going on in florida right now. it's -- they probably know something that the rest of us don't know. >> all right inside the mall 40% of the stores have been shut down. it's the smaller mom and pop stores that have been hilt the hardest. >> and as i mentioned earlier a lot of analysts say the era of the big shopping mall is over. >> it really does seem to be coming to an end. i right now there are 1500 of these giant enclosed malls across the u.s. some analysts say at least 15% of those will probably fail in the next decade. it's going to be the lower-end
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scare away the sea lions from a part but during a test run it tipped over in a very unscary manner. crews actually had to rescue the driver from drowning. other bunch of folks turn out for the event the port's executive director says for a moment the sea lions got deathly silent, but then went back to their business. he says once officials dry out and repair the whale they may give it another shot. folks who live there say they are optimistic. >> i hope it works. we are so tired of listening to those sea lions. >> they say the sea lions damage the dock, block fishing boats and eat lots of salmon. know the moment when you find 20 bucks in pair of jeans it was like that for a plumber in new york but it was 136 million, instead of finding it in a pocket he found it behind a pipe. seems the guy pinned a winning lottery ticket to a wall in his basement and forth got about it
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for weeks. the ticket was in back of a pipe and when he finally thought to check it he realized he hit the jackpot. david lee miller is live. david, why did he wait so long to find out whether he won? >> reporter: that's the 136 thin busy question. a friend just trying to be helpful told him someone else, school teacher had won the powerball jackpot. fortunately the 56-year-old didn't throw away his ticket. instead he putted it away with other lottery tickets next to a pipe in the base0. his home that and when the story might have ended if not for some bad luck six weeks later anthony's truck broke down, giving him a little time to ruminate on powerball. he checked the tickets and it was life changing moment. >> i took the tickets and checked them on the computer, and i saw they matched. i'm looking at the ticket, looking at the computer, looking at the ticket, then the computer
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and i was just like -- i tried to breathe in and nothing would go on. so i thought i was having a heart attack. so i really grabbed the ticket, figuring they'll fine it in himy hand. then -- in my hand. >> after realizing he won he phoned the good friend who told him that a school teacher had won. he revealed, though, that, yes he was the real winner. john? >> what is he lonning -- planning to do? >> he says he is going to share it. the first phone call was to his 27-year-old son who is going to be get: 30% of the winnings -- 30% of the winnings. >> i didn't believe it, then he gave me the ticket and i checked on my phone and i thought i almost had the heart attack. >> at a ceremony yesterday a symbolic check was handed out. after tacks anthony keeps 38 million him son will
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15.5 million. and anthony's plans for continue working but take off a little time for vacation. travel plans include buffalo and upstate, new york, where i imagine he can buy a lot of chicken wings for his $38 million. >> you know he will be a very popular plumber. >> indeed. >> thank you. doctors can now figure out every virus you have ever had from a cold you years ago to a more serious illness you might not know about. all from a single drop of blood. that's according to the reporting of the "washington post," citing researchers who say they developed a new blood test. it apparently screens your blood for antibiotics which fight viruses and researchers hope cite pave the way for earlier detext of serious conditions. each test cost taz. >> we'll be right back.
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a woman says she has every right to auction off parts of the sun because she claims the owns it. she started selling pieces of the sun on ebay for a dollar each. the web site shut it down calling it a scam. now she is suing. she said she can but a the united nations so-called out-under space treaty only prevents countries from owning the stars and the planetes, not individual people. the trial reportedly will take place in spain next month. on this day in 1956 elvis presley shocked audiences. he was 21 at the time, shaking his hips and stomping his feet on the milton berle she. they got angry letters and elvis had to class it up and wear a tuxedo. his moves helped turn him into a household name. he was the -- 59 years ago
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today. love that song. i'm john scott in for shepard smith. the dow a little unhappy. neil cavuto is next. >> welcome everybody. i'm neil cavuto. it is the issue taking this presidential race by storm and guess what, it all started right here. >> fix it for the next 50 years we need start working on it now. and progressively raise the retirement age. people that are near retirement, or already in retirement, i don't believe there should be -- >> ten years away? >> something like that. >> if all the other republican candidate want to say they're goes to cut people's social security and cut medicare benefits after they paid in for 50 years of work and i'm the only one on the other side of the stage saying it wind chill dot that i'm happy to be in that short line. >> politically minute. >> mean is believe the[ government ought to honor