right. what is coming up thursday at noon on fox sports 1? >> it's going to be the u.s. open is finally going tore here. fox sports is having all the coverage thursday friday and then over to the big channel, the network. thanks matt for being so quiet. >> you got it. >> wave good-bye, kids. there has been a tragedy in northern california, the town of berkeley. a balcony collapses from the fourth floor of an apartment building. at least 5 people reported dead. i'm bill hemmer live from america's newsroom. martha: this building is blocks from u.c. berkeley. there were 13 people on it. we don't know what caused it to small four stories and the building is reportedly less than 10 years old. bill: what is the latest on what we know today?

>> reporter: it's a grim scene this morning? downtown berkeley will four of the five people who were killed still on the ground behind me. we are waiting for the coroner to arrive. that elaborate wrought iron dark brown balcony still perched where it tumbled down on to the balcony below it. it appears the balcony disconnected from where it was attached to the outer wall. 8 are said to be in critical condition. the people were young people in their 20s from ireland. one witness to who drove at least one of the injured to the hospital said the group of was celebrating 21st birthday and had just renotched tables and

chairs for that -- from that balcony to make more space. they have not released the names and agers of the victims. but both men and women were involved in this tragedy. bill: is that building only residential? are there others? are they retail shops? what do you see from there? >> it's a multi-level apartment building. retail stores, we have a cafe here it's unclear whether of any these businesses will be able to open today. as i understand it, people are being allowed to go into the building.

but the people who live where the balcony landed are not being allowed to use that space for now because of the investigation. it's multi use. bill: there is one more report that fourth floor balcony proceeded to fat sidewalk below. that must have been an absolute tragic scene claudia. >> this is as very emotional scene here this morning. a number of people have gathered to look at this very bizarre sight. you can probably hear the helicopters supplying overhead and we are waiting for the coroner to arrive. it's frustrating for many of the people who come down here. we don't know the timeline much why this balcony collapsed. nor do we know if the names of the victims nor the ages.

but both men and women is all we do know that. bill report irish foreign minister put out a statement my heart goats out to the loved ones of the injured and deceased. martha: we'll have more as we move through this morning. with regard to 2016, real estate mogul donald trump is expected to bhaik he is calling a major announcement two hours from now. there is a lot of speculation that he may reveal whether he will run for the white house. he will be declaring a net worth of $9 billion according to the numbers every is going to release. eric shawn is live at trump tower in new york city. good morning to you eric. reporter: we know donald trump would be the only presidential candidate who has his own

clothing line. the millionaire developer of condos and office buildings and tv host of a reality show is expected to announce he wants to trade his residence at trump tower for the white house. in 2012 he flirt with a possible run for -- he flirted with a possible run for the white house. he accuses president obama of lying. he's pro-life, against gun control, wants to strengthen national defense and says iran is trying to build a nuclear bomb. always himself he's expected to say he wants to stop america in decline. >> the american dream is dead but it can be brought back. >> i would build the greatest wall twoirn country and mexico

that you ever saw. >> reporter: he's expected to announce his net worth after his announcement. double what "forbes" says. $9 billion. that already puts number the number one spot when it comes to the size of his wallet. march are's a fascinating man it's a free country. if he wants to run for president, indianapolis what he will do. how are the polls doing? >> reporter: he's in the top 10 at number nine just behind ted cruz. critics may scoff at the seriousness of this run calling it silly but he seems serious

and sincere about what he is troubled about the troubles in the our nation. he has called the rest of the field clowns. he could be trading his private 757 for air force one. martha: very interesting. a couple hours away. it looks like he has logo ready to go. it doesn't look like anything other than a presidential announcement. bill: hillary clinton meanwhile facing major backlash after her team banned a pool reporter from covering her campaign event. but a journalist suspected the clinton team didn't like what they consider unflattering

coverage. >> between the time they mailed me a confirmation and then they looked at our stories. bill: byron york is here to react to this. i think the pool for our audience is the creation of the press by the press. that's designed to save money and cover smaller events. that's why it exists. is this evidence the clinton team is trying to control who gets access or who does not or is this just one case. >> absolutely this is evidence of control. hillary clinton wasn't taking questions from the press for the longest time. now she is trying to tightly control the movements of the press that covers the events. some of them are in small

venues, they will designate a single report to cost event and send the account to all the members of the pool. this is something where the clinton organization -- what they did yesterday is not inconsistent with what they have been dwoght press lately. at her rollout at roosevelt park saturday the press was department in a tight control. when you looked at her 18-minute press conference. a press aid called on reporters from a list. the press was behind barriers. there is a lot of control going none this kin on campaign. bill: have any of those pieces been inaccurate? >> what he was referring to, we know now in part because of some of the daily mail reporting that a number of participants at clinton's liste events in

iowa were prescreened preselected, bussed to the events. they were not random interactions with voters. it was a carefully produced program by the clinton campaign. what the reporter involved here says he believes he may have been kept out as retribution for that. we don't know why the clinton campaign did this, but we do know they are putting tight restrictions on press movements. martha: texas bracing for another blow. tropical storm bill bringing rain to an area soaked from last week's rainfall. >> that led the press into calling us to see if we could

validate her claims to be african-american. we said no we are both caucasian of european descent and she is our birth daughter. >> reporter: despite what her parent say she identifies as black. her parent are live today to react to those new comments in a moment. martha: look at these guys, bill. unwelcome visitors and they are very close to shore. that is in st. lucie county, florida. an update on the vicious awful shark attack of two teenagers in north carolina. >> we are getting ready to launch them right now. >> the left arm is completely missing and a bite to the left leg. a 13-year-old weak pulse.

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will go behind closed doors to answer questions about email exchanges with secretary of state hillary clinton about the security in libya a year and a half before the benghazi attack. the book is called "clinton --" and there was apparently a lot of correspondence back and forth. peter schweitzer wrote the book. catherine herridge reports 60 emails were given over last night. about 180 pages in length. it's easy to get lost in these details. but why is sidney blumenthal important to this question? >> he was originally a style reporter at "the washington post" who entered the clinton

circle during the impeachment hearings in the 1990s. since then he has been a close political aide. he past was put on the board at the clinton foundation. he wanted a senior position at the state department but that was refused by the obama white house. he's a close confidante to the clintons. he's providing advice and that he had a motive or incentive to provide certain information to her because he also had these commercial ties with companies that wanted contracts in libya. so it goes to the heart of this issue of blurring the official duties hillary clinton had at the state department. bill: based on that when you get

to the question of what would be in their correspondence, everything and anything could be in their correspondence. where was he getting his information and what did she do with that information? >> those are great questions but we don't know the answers to that. he was paid at clinton foundation. he was using that perch to gather information in the emails that have been released, the indications are he's getting these from foreign intelligence sources. i don't know exactly what that means. a lot of it was dismissed. when secretary clinton forwarded the emails to the assistant secretary of state a lot of that information was dismissed. but this is all totally relevant top u.s. foreign policy and national security. if these were deleted by hillary clinton on the ground they were personal. there is no stretch you can make. this go to the heart of the decision she is making. bill: on that point when you

look at the situation in libya date many only gotten worse. who knows the state of that country a year and a half from now. that all becomes relevant when you want to become the president of the united states having looked back on the decisions you made to get rid of a dictate tore people didn't like, especially in the united states of america. >> nobody would argue libya is a disaster. we pursued an aggressive policy to overthrow this dictator. you can say that was good or bad. but the problem is there was no backup follow-up plan. you have got a strategic part of the world that's in chaos and seems to be a breeding ground for other terrorist organizations. it's a very troubling situation. bill: what do you think trey gowdy find in this investigation. >> i think they will find there

are even more emails that have been turned over. there is far more interchange of information here than people expected. bill: if it exists, right? it could be gone, it could be deleted. that's not a stretch. >> in this case what's curious to me is his attorneys said dsid blumenthal's attorneys turn these over on the eve of the hearings. i'll bet one of the questions he will be asked is are there other emails you haven't turned over. that's where it will get dicey. martha: tropical storm bill churning its way through the gulf of mexico right now aiming right at the places that haven't come close to drying out from the floods. we'll take you there live.

>> the latest on the two teenagers who nearly lost their lives. witnesses are talking comparing what they saw to the movie jaws. >> it was quite remarkable. almost unheard of after two attacks like that in a row in such a close area.

martha: a tropical storm is set to slam the lone star state and is expected to make landfall this morning. each share began is live in houston this morning. how is it looking there and what do they expect? >> reporter: a half-hour of steady light rain in houston that rain is expected to keep up throughout the day and into

tomorrow. they are worry about the effects of the rain, especially inland. we are expecting gusts of 40-60 miles an hour along the coast. but it's the rain which could get up to 12 inches. it could cause flash flooding inland in places like houston. they are worried about cars being flooded in highway under passes. they are wordied about flash flooding here again. -- they are worried about flash flooding here again. they issued voluntary evacuations along the coast. but some of those highways already flooded over. so that's at a stand still. when you go into stores you see empty shelves no bred, no water. -- no bread no water.

bill: heavy storms walloped that state last month. the national weather service said it dumped 35 trillion gallons of rain across the state. in houston alone flash flooding forced 2,500 drivers to abandon their vehicles. the price tag for cleaning it up falling in the ballpark of $45 million for kids who have school down there in houston, that's been canceled as well. that storm is gaining speed throughout the night. here he comes. rolling you have the coast. maybe he won't be as bad as he seems. this as well. a u.s. drone take out an al qaeda leader. with questions over whether the terrorist is actually dead linger. bill: the head of the spoaf can

naacp resigning after being accused of lying about her race. >> she was trying to say she was black her entire life. i don't have a problem with it but other people probably would. she obviously don't know way it's like to grow up black.

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most health plans. can. >> are you an african-american woman? >> i identify as black. >> when did it start? >> i would say about five years old. >> you began identifying yourself as african-american. eye was drawing self portraits with the brown crayon instead of the peach crayon and the black curly hair. that's how i was portraying myself. >> when did you start deceiving people. >> i do take exception to that because it's more complex than we identifying as black and

answering a question, are you black or white. martha: rachel doll bolezal breaking her silence. she refuses to say she lied about her race. her parents join me now. i know it's been a crazy week for you. when you have watch that. is that true? did she identify as black since the age of 5? >> that's fabrication that's false. that did not happen. she has never doing anything like that as a child though she was always attracted to the black people. we had friends from my jeer yeah and different places and african-american friends that we had in our circle, and she you know was used to relating to

people of diversity. but she did not ever portray herself. martha: she didn't draw herself with brown crayons and curly hair when she was 5? >> no, she did not. martha: i haven't gotten from you both what you think happened here. why do you think she is doing this? >> we don't know for sure. we are baffled and puzzled. martha: you must have some theory why she suddenly decided in 2004 that she was going to call herself black. >> she assimilated into the black culture and the african-american community now for 20 years. all we can surmise is somehow that identity has transferred from being part of a multi-ethnic family to our adopted children to then somehow

thinking she is herself multi-ethnic. let me ask you this question. how would you respond if i said, well we adopted these four african-american children, so we are going to identify, we are going to change our ethnicity. i'm now african-american, i'm black. how would you respond to that. martha: i guess i would say you are confused about your identity. i can only imagine way it's like for you as parents. >> i was going to say we were very open with our four adopted children. we adopted them as babies. we didn't tell them that we were black or we identified as black with them. we were just up front with them. and they didn't grow up confused.

martha: i saw your son and he did not appear confused about it. martha: she says she adopted your son isaiah who you adopted first. she says she has fill custody of him and awas in the audience on the program. why did she adopt the boy you adopted. >> she did not adopt isaiah. isaiah moved to live with her in his last high school years at his request and her request. but he is not adopted and she does not have full custody of him. >> the correct term is guardianship. she was pay ward and we cooperated that, transfer of guardianship. but technically we are still his adoptive parents, and that's the correct status. basically she is his older sister was awiredded

guardianship of her younger brother. martha: she was watching over him in his last years of high school. martha: i imagine this one is particularly sensitive for the two of you. let's play this. >> we connected on a very intimate level as family. >> but why point out an african-american man and say that is my far it when you know your father is a caucasian man. you * any man can be a father, not any man can be a dad. martha: she says mr. wilkinson is her father. >> that hurts deeply. for over 20 years rachael fondly referred to me as papa. >> this is an issue not just of identity but also of integrity. so as much as we are hurt as parents, we are also very

alarmed at the level of dishonesty that rachael is exhibiting. martha: why have you reached out to her? all this is playing out on national television, on the "today show" and here and elsewhere. i would manage just as a family and you put together this family, you have two biological children and four adopted children. larry, how do you feel about how this is all playing out? >> she clearly communicated to us multiple times don't call me i'll call you. so we have her phone number, we provided it to some of the news media, but we do not call her in honor of her request. so we haven't spoken with richle for he over two years. martha: one of the things i thought was interesting when she sued howard university

because she said they discriminated against her because she was white and pregnant. so she identified as a little kid as black but in howard she sued the university as a white person who was discriminated. then she said in later newspaper reports they referred tore as trans-racial and the next newspaper called me black and i kind of went with it. odd, no? >> yes. well, go ahead. >> rachael portrayed herself as black and made that disdink impression. but she also said she is african-american. and reported that -- record that on an application for a police commission. so all of those things become progressively more serious. >> i don't know how much time we have but let me quickly review

this detail with you. rachael went to school at bell haven college in mississippi. she was immersed in the african-american culture there. she applied to howard university. when she went to bell haven her art shifted almost entirely to african-americanentire --almost entirely to african-american portraiture. >> she is in jackson mississippi, she is immersed in this culture and community. when you talk to someone on the phone they sound southern. because she has been there for four years. they give her a full bright scholarship. they see her tart work portfolio is all african-american. she shows up two weeks later. the way i recall being reported

back to us, when she walked into finalize the registration a week bore two before classes started eyes were popping and eyes were dropping because they couldn't believe they award a full bright scholarship to a white woman. martha: bruce jenner-caitlyn jenner says i identified as a woman. she says since i was a little girl i identified black and i want to be -- want to be understood. >> she ising us to accept that but in the meantime rachael is rejecting her biological family and she is also rejecting reality. martha: you have been through a lot and we thank you very much

for being with us. for you i know it's a personal story about your family so we wish you well. >> we would like the same social justice within our family as she is seeking for the african-american community. martha: thank you. bill: chicago blackhawks part of a big sports story. watch. chicago has won your stanley cup third nhl title. they took the celebration into the streets into the wee hours of the chicago morning. congratulations to chicago. well done.

martha: good for them. i would have loved to have seen it go to seven games. it's great play on both side. i just like the attention it's giving to the sport it's a great, great sport. how late are you staying up to watch game 60s with -- game six with cleveland? martha: a u.s. airstrike take out the leader of one of al qaeda's biggest affiliates. bill: dozens of firefighters fighting and battling to keep the flames from burning down more homes. >> it went all all our houses -- it went around all our houses. it took out his neighbors home.

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bill: the u.s. dealing a blow to one of the biggest terror networks. the country of yemen. jack keane general number two dead confirmed that's a victory. >> >> absolutely. a setback for al qaeda. this is the organization that is regarded as the most dangerous al qaeda organization in the world. it's been designated to conduct out of region attacks. they tried four times with plastic bombs against the united states. one was thwarted by an informant, a double agent. the worther was the under wear

bomb and the other was plastic bombs put inside printer twices that never detonated. in january they went after "charlie hebdo" in france. and this is a very dangerous organization. bill: to that point they are not going away. and they are very goodking bombs. do you remember last april that video surfaced in yemen? there must have been four or 50 members of the organization in p.m. hon gathered in the same place in broad daylight. do you remember that, general? >> that was a stunning video. he exposed himself in full public view and they were thumbing their noses at us at the time. what has happened here is our intelligence community deserves a lot of credit for getting this

intelligence and being able to deliver a drone to the target. but al qaeda is expanding in the region. they are expanding in yemen because of the houthi civil war. but we have real challenges in yemen and isis. bill: the longer that civil war lasts, the more strength they can deliver in yemen. ' the kurdish fighters insisted the administration should be giving arms directly to the kurd. apparently in raqqa * where the islamic state declared their own capital city, apparently they beat back islamic fighters.

you are here to report what is intriguing to you is the isis fighters simply drove away and did not put up a fight. why is that significant? >> the town itself is a strategic center. it's a main artery that facilitates fighters and supplies coming into syria. this is a big loss for isis. what's interesting about it, the combination of kurd, the free syrian army and effective air power at today --air power at at kabahni. they not going to trade those number of fighters again. bill: does that tell you when confronted they will turn tail? >> when they think they will be

accurately targeted by air power, the pattern is they will not stay. when they left tikrit after they killed 5,000 shiia militia. when we got into the fight with effective and targeted air power they left. they walked out of there under the cover of darkness. when they know air powf will be effective the pattern now is they won't stand and fight. martha: we have video from the beaches at st. lucie county, florida, sharks switching right at the shore. the beaches just opens back up after this video was shot. and we have new details on that horrific shark attack in north carolina. >> we have a shark attack. the family is in shock.

we need an ambulance right away. >> the left arm is completely missing and a bite to the left leg.

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the girl lost a big part of her arm and has an injury to her leg. >> people are yelling get pout of the water get out of the water. call 9/11. then somebody was carrying in this terribly wounded girl it was one of the more distressing things you would ever see and also one of the more inspiring things to see how everybody responded very quickly and started treating her. martha: we have an expert from the marine fisheries. we all try to understand sharks, i know you spent your life trying to help everyone understand these beautiful animals. but nobody wants their teenage tore ends up like these two teenagers ended up. >> that's for sure. it's horrifying. it happens rarely.

but when it happens it's traumatic. my heart goes out to the victims and their families. we have been trying to figure out why these events occur. it's difficult. there is no role answer to niece questions. we look at patterns and see what's going on and try to figure it out. martha: knowing what you know, what kinds of shark do you have think this was and do you think it was more than one? >> based on what i know, and it's not much at this stage but this time of year there are two prominent species that have been implicated in attacks on humans. one is a tiger shark and the other is a bull shark. they are likely to be in that area this time of year. it's a highly migratory time of year. they are feeding on beaches. i suspect's one of those two

species. martha: what do you do to avoid this? i'm familiar with the area of cape cod where there are a lot of great whites. what should we do to stay safe? >> it's a great question and there is no silver bullet. humans for years have been dealing with these interactions. it happens very rarely. but it's traumatic when it does. all we can do is try to minimize the interactions by making conscious decisions when we go into the water. we are terrestrial animals going into a foreign environment. we dumb and lot of time of and energy into researching these animals before it's difficult. martha: thank you so as much for calling in. bill: minutes from now this is where one of hillary clinton's

top confidantes sidney blumenthal will testify.

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when she spokemy to some reporters and ignored his questions.u! martha: we love alan. so what happened? we have this news conference. long buildup to it. standing three feet from secretary clinton. and one of her aides pulled me to the front suggesting i would likely get a question. i was waiting my turn. i wasn't shouting in her face. i'm three feet from her. she goes through the list. they have a careful list who they will call on.

she turns and walks away. i was moving closer trying to get to her. secret person service person told me to move back. i was pretty annoyed by that. i didn't think secret service was supposed to be protecting them from reporters. fine to protect her for security reasons. i was trying to get her press secretary. what gives here? you got a question when you shotted at her in iowa. i didn't get a question. i said secretary clinton will you come back here or not? she said coming back to take questions. that was not exactly a question. martha: that sun believable. >> actually talk to the media. he said we wanted to give other reporters a chance today who haven't gotten questions except they also called on andrea mitchell from nbc who recently gotten called. that is great reporter. finally i noted to them. they called on nbc but called on msnbc reporter. two nbc questions and not a single fox question. people will think i was angry and i was whining.

no. we're covering this campaign as fairly as anybody. and we're going to be there every step of the way. clinton campaign doesn't want to call on us i will keep on pressing until they do. martha: what was their final answer why they did that? >> well, i don't really have -- private conversations, you know, there will be other events. i'm expecting she will call on me in days ahead. it is not about me but just become silly. martha: we're expecting she will call on you too. ed good job out there as always. thank you very much. better luck next time. bill: i love alan too. >> i was not mad at him. martha: yeah you are. yeah you are. >> maybe a little bit. martha: take care, ed. see you later. bill: on republican side jeb bush holding town halls in early voting states. in new hampshire fresh off yesterday's campaign announcement. 24 hours later another republican expected to make a big announcement in about an hour that will be donald trump.

chief political correspondent carl cameron live in new hampshire. start with donald trump. what do we expect one hour from now 11:00 a.m. eastern time. >> reporter: he is saying for months this would be huge announcement. everybody would be excited and surprised and thrilled to hear it and he is scheduled to come to new hampshire tomorrow. you don't make announcement that you're not running for president and then go to the first-in-the-nation primary state to continue telling people you will not run. this is not the first time donald trump threatened to run for president. first time in new hampshire doing this was in 1988 when he came up for first visit said he was thinking about running for president. then. and '96 and 2012. in each of these cases he always stopped short of the point making elaborate and detailed personal financial disclosures. just yesterday he announced his net worth is somewhere in the neighborhood of nine 1/2 billion dollars. there is a big series of steps and hints that he will give

the -- make the plunge. one day after jeb bush get into the race, donald trump will be here. one day after he got into the race. jeb bush will be here in derry in couple minutes. bill: he had fired up event in florida. that is home turf and home team for him. what does governor bush need to do in new hampshire carl? >> reporter: probably win it. he may not have as easy a time in iowa though he said he will compete there very aggressively. governor bush will have to go after his republican rivals including his long-time buddy marco rubio, fellow floridian and u.s. senator who is top tier candidate. there will be a lot of criticism. mr. bush said, essentially said that legislators don't have executive experience and given the circumstances of barack obama who became president after only a short couple of years in the u.s. senate real experience is necessary. and executive experience. he makes that case being a former governor of florida with a very conservative record. he was applauded for that

raucously yesterday. the other thing is he is sort of trying to make the contrast between himself and hillary clinton. the republicans have to make a choice among their candidates whether they like a conservative moderate establishment anti-establishment. they have to consider how they go up against hillary clinton. here is how jeb bush did yesterday in his announcement speech. >> the choice is taking shape. the party in the white house is planning a no sub spence primary for a no-change election to hold on to power to slog on with the same agenda under another name. that is our opponent's call to action this time around. that's all they have got left. >> reporter: jeb bush yesterday at miami-dade college. today he will be at the derry opera house fixture on first-in-the-nation primary state campaign trail the last five decades. presidential candidates from ronald reagan to barack obama and bill clinton and today jeb bush have all come here. right in the heart of the state. one of those places where

everybody has to come in order to mark history and hopefully make history comply marry day. bill: we'll see him later with sean hannity later tonight in prime time at 10:00 p.m. eastern time. carl cameron in new hampshire. martha has more. martha: let's get analysis on this and how jeb is doing in the crowded gop field. steve hayes, senior writer for "the weekly standard" and fox news contributor. steve, good morning to you. >> good morning martha. martha: he did a big rollout yesterday. what do you think? >> he did pretty good. this candidate will be somebody who runs on his record. he pointed to a number of things he did as governor of florida when he was strong conservative reform governor. made very clear that is the kind of race that he wants to run. he will rely very heavily on, not just what he has done, changes he brought to florida but the case he can get things done. you heard carl mentioned he took a shot at some of his opponents for giving good speeches or having been in the legislature but not having been an executive. i think that will be a recurring

theme certainly for jeb's presidential bid. martha: let's listen to a little bit of that. >> there's no passing off responsibility when you're a governor. no blending into the legislative crowd or filing an amendment and calling that success. as our whole nation has learned since 2008, executive experience is another term for preparation and there is no substitute for that. [cheers and applause] martha: you know that crowd clearly was a very friend crowd yesterday but it raises this question about firing people up and that is a question mark for jeb bush, is it not? >> yeah. i think it is. the question, a can he do it, and b how will he do it when he does? you heard jeb say repeatedly he wants to run joy fully and run a campaign of optimism. yet in the past several days we heard, read a couple of reports one in the "new york times" and one in the "washington post," described how he is prepared to go out and destroy scott walker, marco rubio and his other

rivals. i think we're likely to see some tension there. i expect those campaigns will raise the question of jeb bush, are you running joy fully as you promised or will this be a really nasty republican primary? he. martha: he said he would only do it really under those circumstances. now they are really neck-and-neck in low double digits a bunch of them, it will be quite interesting and it begins. steve, thanks so much. >> thanks, martha. bill: breaking news on a tragedy out of california. a deadly balcony collapse in berkeley earlier today. it happened at 1:00 in the morning in an apartment complex in the downtown area only blocks from the university. five people are dead. they were all irish students studying here in the u.s. eight others critically injured. it was a 21st birthday party at a downtown apartment when the fourth floor balcony fell off the side of the building. it hit the balcony below it and the sidewalk below that. what a tragedy, scene out there.

we've received out to the police department in berkeley. hope to have them in our program in couple minutes. martha: awful, awful scene. live on capitol hill as a close friend of hillary clinton set to talk to the benghazi committee today in private behind those closed doors. sidney blumenthal has been a figure in the clinton group of friends for quite some time. he will talk about the emails he sent to hillary clinton emails that have never been seen before and are not part of the public records that she turned over. so why were they missing? the latest on that. bill: also two convicted killers are still on the run today after more than a week of searching. some say the search is costing taxpayers a million dollars a day. are they getting help from someone somewhere now? we'll find out. martha: and they call it tropical storm bill and it is churning towards texas and the last thing they need there is more rain. so we go live to galveston. we'll bring you the latest from there. >> there is concern because it

is fairly large and moving this direction. so we expect it will be a rain event. we expect there will be flooding. we don't know where, how bad and how long the flooding will be right now.

bill: news out of phoenix. associated press say a man was arrested who they say they have charged who helped planned and provided guns for two others that drove to garland, texas where they carried out a shooting at the cartoon contest.

two phoenix roommates drove to texas. they were shot dead almost instantly as they charged that event with guns blazing. that event was on the 2nd of may. that news develops out of phoenix just a moment ago. martha: close clinton ally set to testify before the benghazi select committee this hour. we're expecting his arrival any moment to the doors on the right-hand side of your screen there on capitol hill. sidney blumenthal will go through the doors and they will close behind him for the testimony he will give. they will talk about 60 new emails he brought to the table that have never been seen before on the subjects of both libya and the benghazi terror attack. the committee is looking about answers for email exchanges between secretary of state hillary clinton on decisions made in libya. as you remember she said she turned over everything except the personal stuff and referenced her daughter's wedding and things people wouldn't have any interest in however these were not among

those turned over. rich lowery with us, editor of "national review," fox news contributor. we have former deputy secretary to president bill clinton. david, good to have you with us. what will focus of testimony will be today. >> what he was telling secretary clinton in the immediate aftermath from the benghazi attack. he seems to have shortly afterwards after the attack gotten the story right that it was terror attack but administration managed to put a message out that was different as we all know. the committee will also focus on i believe why there is this gap between emails he produced but hillary and the state department haven't produced. finally what i think is most interesting about the whole blumenthal episode is this toxic mixture of the clinton foundation and personal profit-making and advice to hillary clinton. this is someone, sid blumenthal, that the obama administration tried to ban from working with

hillary at the state department. he ended up doing it anyway and in effect, doing it at same time he was trying to make money in libya. that stinks to high heaven. martha: interesting. david, what do you think about that? the suggestion that sidney blumenthal is sort of a nexus, a person who represents the connection? we know he was working with business entities who had interests in libya. he was working with hillary clinton despite the fact that she wasn't supposed to have him as an advisor but she said he is a friend and he advised me. what do you think? >> well, i want to answer that question because i worked with sid blumenthal in the clinton white house. i first want to go back to something ed henry said on earlier segment. you reported he was upset that secretary clinton didn't call on him. i have a gift on ed, this is box of tissues. he cries called on and dab the tears. martha: you don't think hillary clinton should not have to answer ed's questions. >> she will call on him.

i'm confident call on him some day keep at it. martha: some day. how very generous. >> i will answer your question now. martha: okay. >> i think what is going on now is an attempt to distract from the policy fight that hillary clinton is winning against republicans. so if you can somehow change the subject really quick away from early childhood pre-k, away from wage growth, away from you will at issues that hillary is talking about to try to focus -- martha: that is what you're doing right now because we're talking about sid blumenthal's testimony. i understand i understand the distraction the republicans trying to do. what i think about sid he will get mad at me. i will say it on the air. i worked at white house when he submitted memos to the president just about every day on one thing or another. i would usually roll my eyes. i can't believe this is yet another sid blumenthal memo. up it foys. i think every now and then the guy comes up with something interesting to say but a lot of times he doesn't. i will bet you that what we're going to find in all the emails

he sent to hillary clinton thinking they were so important the reaction on other end was quite different. martha: that could be. that could be but the problem is that hillary said she turned them all over. now there are these new emails which were not turned over which clearly relate to issues of libya. libya will become a very big subject on course of campaign. hold on. let me let rich get in here. rich respond to all this. >> you're right. there wouldn't have been a benghazi special committee in the first place if the administration hadn't withheld a key email which was the advice to susan rice to go out there and talk about a video when even sid blumenthal, the day after or so knew it wasn't about a video it was a terrorist attack. this goes to the attitude some have called anticipatory obstruction of justice where you go out of your way to avoid giving information to the public for fear of what the public might conclude about it. and that is the whole reason she had the private server.

that is the whole reason she delete ad bunch of emails and went through it herself against the rules. that is what is happening here. martha: i don't know if we'll ever see the full measure what was on that server but we will find out. thank you david. thank you, rich. >> thank you. bill: 20 minutes past. new details on a daring prison escape and the extensive search for two convicted killers still on the run today. we have information on that. plus there is this. check it out. [engine noise] [cheering] martha: overrole. monster truck trying to set a world record when something went wrong. we'll talk to the driver who is behind that wheel. that is a pretty cool car. ♪

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bill: fox news alert. has the trail gone cold for two escaped murders. david sweat richard matt, eluding 800 officers combing new york. 51-year-old joyce mitchell charged with them escape allegedly having an affair with the inmates. we have a staff writer for the press republic. back with us today. you've been working hard. thanks for coming back. first question, joe, has the trail gone cold for them in a search that costs them about a million dollars a day? >> seems to be winding down. there is not quite as much intensity or excitement as we've seen in the past week. and, you know, for the casual observer it seems like it has gone cold. we're not hearing much officially about the search and what is going on day 11.

as you can see, i think it is raining in, foggy, just not a great day, conditions that they have been dealing with over a week now. bill: i was stunned when i saw that dollar figure of a million dollars a day in expenses here. now, joe there are reports about some sort of love triangle that joyce mitchell was having. have you been able to confirm any part of that story? >> no, bill, we haven't been able to get confirmation of on any of that. of course anytime there is a story like this you will hear all kinds of speculation and stories like that. we do know that there was some kind of a relationship. how far it went though, we haven't been able to confirm that. we'll still be looking into that. bill: joyce mitchell is already, she has been charged. apparently the d.a. was asked whether or not this could be a widening investigation that could pull in others this show the d.a. answered that question. >> it's possible based, i've

been saying over last couple days based on our investigations, there are other people that may be, may be arrested based on the information that we continue to receive on a daily basis. bill: now, joe, would that be somebody on the inside of the prison or the outside? >> we hear that it could be both. they are talking to more prison employees and of course her husband remains a part of this investigation as well. so, it could be either. bill: yeah. you also report about a prison policy change that just happened recently that may have aided the escape of these two men. what changed, joe? >> well, i'm told from people that work there that a prison is like a living, breathing organism. it changes day-to-day, week to week month to month year to year. policies are often adjusted. some of the more recent ones involve preventing officers from patrolling the catwalk behind

the cells at night because of complaints from inmates about losing power to their cells if they were disruptive at night. the cos would cut the power to the cells from that catwalk. and they complained about that. so the state put in a policy not allowing the officers to go on the catwalk at night. one of the, two of the towers are not manned at night on the main road here in dannemora. and there is a another one is, when they're sleeping they're not allowed to shine flashlights in their eyes because it wakes them up and they complained about that. so they put in a policy, preventing the use of flashlights. things like that, that has the guards frustrated. they feel their hands are somewhat tied. it makes it more difficult to do their job. bill: i bet it does. good reporting. joe, thank you. from the press republican on scene. we'll see whether or not the trail stays cold. joe, thank you for your time today. >> you're welcome. martha: meanwhile in texas the

evacuations are already underway as a tropical storm is moving in there in an area that is already been devastated over the recent weeks by terrible flooding. we have fox team coverage straight ahead. bill: also five college students are dead, eight others critically injured after a balcony collapse in california. the latest from police as to how this happened. >> looks like it may have collapsed from the fourth floor and then struck the third floor call connie just below it. but we don't know specifically, you know how it happened at this point. that will be all part of the investigation. lution. well, we have 30 years of customer records. our cloud can keep them safe and accessible anywhere. my drivers don't have time to fill out forms. tablets. keep them all digital. we're looking to double our deliveries. our fleet apps will find the fastest route. oh, and your boysenberry apple scones smell about done. ahh, you're good. i like to bake. with at&t get up to $400 dollars in total savings on tools to manage your business.

bill: he is the "apprentice" for president. donald trump 30 minutes from now in the trump tower from fifth avenue in midtown manhattan will make announcement in front of that bank of american flags. apparently he will have announcement about 2016. do not miss that we'll have the announcement on the fox news channel, 11:00 a.m. eastern

time. >> waiting for that. meantime tropical storm bill is bearing down on texas this morning bringing damaging winds and torrential downpours to already recovering area from horrible floods they have had there. some areas are expected to get eight more inches to a foot of rain in someplaces. officials in galveston county are already directing a voluntary evacuation. we have team coverage. senior meteorologist janice design is standing by in the extreme weather center -- janice dean. we'll talk to fox affiliate krv rob wu in galveston this morning. rob, how is it looking so far? >> guys as you can see the high wind here that has been pretty consistent all morning long. 30 miles an hour according to emergency officials gusts up to 60. they're not concerned about that at this point. their primary concern is the water, the waves and rainfall. you're looking at some waves crashing into the pleasure peer there, a -- pier a pretty

popular attraction. rain is on and off. heavy rains and followed by break and torrential downpour and pause like what you're seeing. roads around here already affected. they will keep a close eye on the water when the next high tide hit as little bit before 3:00 a.m. you mentioned the voluntary evacuation. that-is on a peninsula low-lying area, beach level. the city of galveston itself not expected to issue any evacuation. @@they don't expect it will come to that. city officials will have conference call with the national weather service around 10:00 a.m. that is when they have a better idea impact the storm will have. looks calm out here now. but more rain to come today and tomorrow. back to you. martha: that amusement park looks like it is in a tricky spot. rob, thank you very much. meteorologist janice dean is in the fox weather center with more on the storm. hi janice. >> hi, martha. the big legacy will be rainfall on top of historic rain we

received last month. we have high pressure anchored across the south sees. that is funneling all this moisture into corpus christie houston, dallas, texas as well. the center of the storm is making landfall, will make landfall within the next hour or so but it is not the center coming onshore. all these bands of rain and wind moving in. potential for severe weather as well. weak tornadoes could accompany this storm system. we could go through wednesday and thursday not moving too much. this area saturated from historic rainfall. that is the concern here, the potential for five to eight inches certainly in areas you see shaded in yellow and oranges. look here martha, in the pinks upwards maybe 10-inches. that could be potentially devastating for areas that have seen so much rainfall the last few weeks. martha: we remember of pictures we've seen of cars stacked up already. they're still trying to dig out from all that mess. janice thanks. we'll see you later. >> you got it.

bill: we're getting new information on this tragedy in california. balcony collapse in downtown berkeley, sending five collect students to their deaths on the sidewalk below. eight others critically injured and there was a 21st birthday party at the apartment when the fourth floor balcony fell off the side of that building. officer byron white, assistant public information officer for the berkeley police department on telephone. good morning to you. this just breaks your heart. what happened here, sir? >> yes this certainly is tragic. at about 12:41 a.m. we received a call about the balcony collapsing at 2020 kit ridge street. when the officers got here they discovered that 13 people had fallen from the fourth floor balcony here. four of which were pronounced deceased at the scene. one later died at a hospital. eight others were transported to nearby hospitals with serious

injuries. bill: how are the injured doing? are they going to make it, sir? >> we don't have an update on their injuries but i am told it is serious. bill: what is the record for that building? do you have it offhand, sir? >> i don't have anything on the building itself or its condition. i know it is a relatively new building. i would say built about within the last five to 10 years. bill: have you ever been called to that building for any construction issues prior? >> no, not that i know of. like i mentioned it is a fairly new building. bill: i understand. how many students do you believe were on the balcony at the time of the collapse? >> i am told there was 13 that fell. i don't know if that means there were others who did not fall but from what i can see, everyone who was on that balcony fell. bill: is that 40 feet above the sidewalk, sir? >> about.

and the irish foreign minister already sent out a notice to his own country people about this and expressing his sorrow for it. were they all students from ireland or were they from other countries? >> i can't confirm that. bill: so they weren't all irish on that balcony at this point you can't say? >> i just simply can't confirm that. i don't know the answer to that. bill: his statement is stung. my heart goes out to the families and loved ones of the deceased in this appalling accident. appalling indeed. far too young to leave us here. sir, how is the community doing as this starts to work its way through the town? >> well, as you might imagine, there is a somber tone there. i'm told from the officers who responded to the scene that it was quite disturbing. bill: i bet. have you spoken to the neighbors? >> no, i have not. this is actually a commodity merges area. so -- commercial area. this apartment building doesn't

have like houses around it. it is right next -- bill: restaurants or shops or mostly -- >> the coffee shop on the one of the corners of the building and it is right next to our main public library and there is a private college across the way from it. bill: wow. officer, thank you for your time. byron white on the telephone. our best to you and the community and family and friends and the irish community as well, sir. thank you for your time. something we do not like to report but that is an absolute tragedy we are compelled to do today. sir, thank you. good luck. >> thank you. bill: 22 minutes now before the hour. martha: certainly is an awful awful story. another one we're watching this morning the question of donald trump. so will he or will he not? we're awaiting his big announcement. he does everything big. and he is going to do that at 11:00 this morning or a little bit before. is he going to run? that's the big question coming up. we'll take you there live. plus this.

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bill: some disturbing video showing a deputy putting a 12-year-old boy in a chokehold before using a taser on him. >> choking him out. look he is choking him out [bleep] he is tasing him. what the [bleep] [bleep] bill: trying to piece this together. witnesses say the boy was riding a skateboard behind a shopping center in california when he was approached by the deputy who started hitting him. but officials have a different story. they say the deputy was sent to retrieve the kid whose mother reported him missing.

>> repeatedly asked him to get in his car let's go home. let's go home. at this point after being severely bitten bit juvenile our deputy deployed his taser in an effort to take control of the juvenile. bill: so this is southern california now. near san diego. the boy face as charge of resisting arrest with injury to a deputy officer. martha: hmmm. so we are waiting for a major announcement from real estate mogul donald trump set to take place at the trump tower here in new york city just a few blocks from here in less than 20 minutes from now. speculation that his speech could reveal his plans for 2016 in connection with this event. trump will disclose a report that details summary of his financial assets which he will reportedly claim gets up to $9 billion. he says oh, but that doesn't include anything from overseas according to these numbers. tom sullivan, host of "the tom sullivan show" on fox news radio. leslie marshall, syndicated

radio talk show host and fox news contributor. welcome to both of you. you see the podium. you see the american flags behind it. certainly looks like a presidential announcement. tom, let me go to you first, do you believe that is what it is and do you believe the nine billion number. >> nine billion. "forbes" says it is four billion. i don't really know. does it matter between billions between friends but i will, since donald does everything big i will bet you a large lunch at a drive-up window that he is going to not announce that he is running for president. he will do some sort of exploratory committee but i seriously doubt that he is growing to throw his hat into the ring. martha: yeah. you may be right about that. we may hear that it is an exploratory committee and, we'll see if he decides to run. leslie, what do you think? do you think you know he has got some pretty decent numbers. we'll show them in a moment. >> even though i would like tom to buy me lunch or buy me anything, i'm not in the

billionaire category, i'm sure he is closer to than me i agree with him on this i don't think this would be big enough fanfare. i think this is going to be a tease. and donald trump has done it before. you know he has teased well, with many things. whether it is reality show or bid for presidential run or i have some information on this and we don't hear the information. i agree with tom that will be a bit of a tease and announcement of exploring option of running and not the big reveal. >> martha -- martha: he has to raise some money. he has to leave the pac door open to raise money. >> this goes back to my days in california and where arnold schwarzenegger came out i will run for governor. i'm wealthy, i can't be bought. people were surprised i need to you contribute to my campaign. just because you're wealthy doesn't mean you will spend your money on your campaign. so yes, he will raise money but the other part about this you said his numbers are good. "real clear politics" has him like number nine on the list of

republican candidates but 538 nate silver's group, that does all the analytical stuff, says he has the lowest, he has very high name recognition but he has the lowest likability of any candidate in over 100 years going back to pressdential candidates according to nate silver. martha: numbers tom referred to. these are the top 10. jeb bush, scott walker, marco rubio essentially tied. ben carson, mike huckabee. you see the bottom of the top five rand paul ted cruz chris christie. donald trump is higher than rick perry. higher than some former governors of states. he has every right to do this, leslie. it is democracy. anybody can run that wants to run. he is prominent person who has done a lot of business over the course of his life and has every right to throw his name in there, does he not? >> of course, anybody has the right to run for president. and donald trump does have a

couple of things going for him. that helps you if you're running for any political position. one is name recognition. he has that. two is money. whether he has that whether he gets more money or not. here are a couple problems he does know. this is not california. look what happened here. somebody with no experience. the austrian terminator who became our governor, look what happened after that. please learn from california folks. donald trump has a personal issues in the past. adultery. several marriages. secondly he has no experience. he may love the military and vets. says that he can you know get rid of isis. i'm sure the pentagon chuck tells and looking forward to hearing that plan. can create jobs but -- martha: extramarital relationships do not keep people out of the white house. we've seen that clearly in the not so recent past. that is not a deal breaker. you know the thing is tom when he gets up there and he talks about stuff people respond. >> they do. martha: we've seen him at national conventions.

he is getting to the heart of the matter. you know what? america can be strong again. we don't have to put up with this. we don't have to be number 10 or number 12 how our students are doing or how we're doing economically. that message, tom it does resonate with people. they like it. >> it does. and his followers are very passionate about him. there is no question about it. i just don't think that group is as large as maybe he thinks it is but what really is reflection of especially after yesterday and this weekend, a lot of people are tired of the institutional candidates, the clintons and the bushes. they want somebody new. they like the brash talk of donald trump a lot. i just don't think he is going to throw his hat all the way into the ring. and again, he does have high name recognition but his likability is very low when it comes to the surveys of candidates out there. martha: a lot of mixed messages among the music being played there a song, dream on. we'll see if that is sending any

kind of message about what we're going to hear in a few minutes. thanks, leslie. thanks, tom. bill: dream until your dreams come true. do you think steven tyler will be there? martha: you never know with donald trump. bill: doubt it. jon scott is hire with "happening now." >> good morning, i will sing the song on "happening now." martha: we'll listen for that. >> we'll find out, is donald trump going to throw his hat all the way into the ring? his big announcement expected in the 2016 race. comes after jeb bush formally enters the race. we'll talk about both of their chances. plus a powerful storm moving ashore in texas. some spots could see up to a foot of rain. they don't really need it. also a horrific balcony collapse in berkeley california. at least five are dead. what happened there? we'll get into it. bill: what a terrible story that is. jon, thank you. see you in ten minutes. a spectacular flip that falls just a wee bit short. [engine noise]

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i think just give it to him right? tom meents monster jam 11 time monster jam world finals champion. our guest out of california. actually peoria illinois today. good morning to you. we saw this yesterday thought, holy cow, we have to get him on tv. why is this not a world record tom? >> unfortunately the criteria that monster jam set up for guinness, it flipped over the front tires and actually didn't land on all fours first time. hey, it was an awesome ride. we loved doing it. all about turning on the monster jam fans and we did that. bill: so you went too far then for the record to stand because you didn't stick the landing is that what you're saying? >> that's correct. unfortunately we didn't quite stick the landing, hey, we proved that the impossible is definitely possible. bill: i got it. you've done this in practice before right? i think you were successful half a dozen times.

in order for it to be valid you have to do it in front of a crowd and during a competition. what in the world does this feel like tom? >> it is the ride of your life. when you're in an 11,000-pound monster jam truck flying over to foot through the air -- 30-foot in the air it is amazing. what a great ride and wild ride and rough landing. bill: you're spinning in the air though. you have to feel like, hey i'm a little crazy right now right? >> oh, it is a riot. i mean i wanted to drive a monster jam truck since i was 10 years old. i took that dream. rode it all the way to the top in metlife stadium saturday night was the best. bill: i got it. you will, you're going to try this again but before i ask you about that, what's holding you into this truck? it is more than a seatbelt, isn't it? >> oh, tons of safety requirements. five belt harness. you know, r-3 to hold my head and neck together. a lot of safety involved in

monster jam. bill: i bet. >> you know i can't wait to try it again. bill: when is that tom? >> i don't know when the next time on the frontflip is but i'm going to try a double backflip this weekend in foxboro, massachusetts. 7:00. bill: send video for that, okay? we'll check it out. good luck to you. out of peoria illinois. meents. 11 world titles hope you get one more. stay safe. >> you bet bill. martha: good stuff. we're waiting for a major announcement we think from donald trump this morning. there is the scene at trump tower a few blocks from here. multimillionaire, billionaire, excuse me. whether or not he will run for president. we'll take you there live after this.

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coming from the lobby where the show is filmed. >> i will put you down for candidate? >> i will be watching. as well as a lot of other folks. we are moments away from an announcement from donald trump. i am jon scott. >> and i am heather childers in for jenna lee. the billionaire business man and host of the aprentice is going to announce if he is going to run. this is where donald is set to take the stage shortly and with him anything is possible. >> let's check in with the editor of the hill. donald trump has toyed with t