sides. that is just my own editorial. julie, and mercedes, i'm going to owe you a lot of time next time we have had a lot of breaking news today. thank you for quigg -- quick comments. >> now it's time for shep. >> he has now posted his biggest lead. the biggest lead yet in a brand new poll. now some of donald trump's rivals are just hours away from finding out whether they meat the cut for the first g.o.p. debade. signs that hillary clinton could face more competition from vice-president joe biden. now secretary clinton is taking to the air waves with her first commercial. then president obama authorizing american forces to help some syrian rebels or help some of the rebels in syria fight the islamic state. the same rebels trying to topple syria's dictator. could this put the united states deeper into yet another middle east conflict? and parents know that hanging around with the wrong crowd can hurt a kid's grades.

but there's word now the crowd that can really hurt a report card is the opposite sex. that. let's get to it. it's monday again. first from the fox news deck. a just released poll shows donald trump has again widened his lead. it's huge. that's most of his republican rivals struggling to reach double digit support but not the donald. the poll shows donald trump leading with 26%. jeb bush and scott walker statistically tied for second. the remaining 14 candidaters in the single digits. the top ten contenders get a spot in the primetime debate on fox news channel. tomorrow is the deadline to make the cutoff. tonight most of the candidates will be in new hampshire for what organizers are calling a forum, not a debate. a forum.

one contender who will not be there is donald trump. we have live team fox coverage. ed henry; first carl cameron is live in washington. feels like this changed. feels like something is different today. something is very different now isn't it? >> well, the heat is on for all the field. as you say the determines of who gets to be in the 9:00 p.m. primary debate, the primetime debate, is going to be from an average of five polls. this monmoth may or may not about one of them. this poll shows kashich is in ten inch place and could make the debate, he only announced a month ago and was at the very back of the pack and now finds himself perhaps at tenth. donald trump remains the front runner absolutely outright. and he slammed five candidates yesterday in a tweet at a koch brothers forum for big donors,

and he said they are potential puppets attending the koch brothers' summit in california, which sounds a lot like the kind of accusations democrats have been making about republicans for selling out to the kochs jeb bush and four others takenned the koch summit. today he outlined immigration priority including border security before any illegal immigrants here now can be considered for legal status. a whole bunch of other polls are expected including a fox news poll. so the jockeying will be sentence. the polls show a three-way battle for the last two seats in primetime between kashich credit christie and rick perry. >> there's something happening in new hampshire for republicans. not a debate. what do we expect from it? >> do not expect donald trump. not going to be there. he sent a letter to the newspaper hosting the event saying he wasn't going to go because he doesn't think he'll get the paper's endorsement. an odd reason and odd move since

the event was meant to inform voters in the state with the first primary, and he turn it down. most of the candidates, including trump are trying to downplay expectations. he says he is not a debater and is going 0 be up against a bunch of pros. ben carson had a funny take on this yesterday. he said the donald is creating tremendous help for carson's campaign because fewer people are talking about carson's lack of political experience, which he said is a good thing but in the process he drew attention to it himself. >> carl? thank you. >> uh-huh. >> hillary clinton's releasing her first campaign advertisements now. and vice-president joe body bide is said to be kind of maybe talking about getting into the race and making a possible run toward the white house in the number one slot. secretary clinton set to start running her ads tomorrow in iowa and new hampshire. we're told -- which hold the first to presidential contests. >> when i think about why i'm doing this -- >> sect clinton is a clear front

runner but vice-president biden has not ruled out challenging her. now fox news learned that he has hired two long-time campaign advisers. team fox coverage coins ed henry in washington. what? >> reporter: he brought on ted kaufman as well as mike donalden. long-time political advisers and they were brought in, in recent days to help the vice-president since they're close to him personally deal with the crisis of his son beau, dying. ted kaufman will follow, and they were helping the vice-president deal with the family crisis but also true that these are two long-time advisers who can help him put together a presidential bid, and that is putting the clinton team a bit on defense. here's the communications director. >> i have agreat deal of love for vice-president biden a lot of respect so do the clintons, everyone on the campaign, and we're going to let him make his

decision and otherwise stay out of it. >> reporter: if he wants to get in the has to do it rather quickly, probably would have to announce by the end of this month. people close to him say because hillary clinton, for all of her self- inflicted wounds still has a commanding lead on the democratic side and has big head start in terms of fundraising. >> have to wonder where the white house would be in a world where both the vice-president and former secretary of state -- it's a predicament. >> people close to the vice-president hayes been upset they thought the president and his top aides were tilting towards hillary clinton before the vice-president had even made a decision. jen left the white house to become communications director for hillary clinton's campaign. president obama a couple years back did a joint interview when hillary clinton was leaving the job of secretary of state stocker tout her many accomplishments. that left biden people wonder

why he appeared to be tilting towards clinton, but josh earnest today was saying, don't leave joe biden out of this. listen. >> the president certainly believes a spirited contest would be in the best interests of our party and in the best interests of our country. >> and those ads for hillary clinton, big money behind that. a million dollars in iowa, million dollars in new hampshire. they start returning tomorrow, interesting as well the timing because it's two days before the republican debate on fox chance for her to put her message out there before the republicans do theirs. >> thank you. the president says now that the white house is taking the biggest step ever to fight climate change. the president has just announced a plan to force u.s. power plants to make additional cuts to greenhouse gas emissions. the president says if we do not limit carbon dioxide output, people around the world will face more extreme weather conditions help says they can also see a rise in health problems including asthma. the president says if we don't do something soon, we may not have a chance.

but critics of the president's plan including lawmakers from a dozen states, are promising to sue the government to stop the proposed regulations. blake is live in washington. whatted did the president say? >> president obama cited pope francis when calling crime change a moral obligation and said this afternoon from the white house that no challenge poses a greater threat to our future than a change in climate. the clean power plan, called for the reduction of carbon dioxide emission by 32% over 15 years out to 2030. on top of limiting carbon partly cloudy from power plans the admission says this will create tense of thousands of jobs, make herons healthier because cleaner air rooss the amount of heart and asthma attacks and will lead to cheaper energy bills. he's the president. >> the kinds of criticisms you're going to hear are simply excuses for inaction. they're not even good business sense.

they underestimate american business. and american ingenuity. >> reporter: critics are not buying this win. john boehner is labeling this national energy tax saying, and i'm quoting here, i believe the final plan is an expensive arrogant insult to americans who are struggling to make ends meet. >> some critics say they plan to sue. >> reporter: governors and attorneys general are lining up, threatening either to ignore the rules outright or to take legal action for what they see as government overreach. however, when asked about this today the white house press secretary josh earnest said they feel there is every legal justification for the clean power plan. bottom line, both sides are likely about to lawyer up. >> blake, thank you. right now there's a cop killer on the loose and police in the mid-south, memphis in particular are trying to huntygexw himñutñ gñy7.&÷[%kdownejnbu thetin%y search next.xx:ç0

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it's rare that this -- in tampa florida they've never seen this much water in this short of time and that's from the mayor of the city. extraordinary what is going on there the national weather service reports tampa's airport about more than 3.5-inches of rain in 12 hours and palm harbor florida got seven inches. the flood forcing people to pack up and get out and stranding dozens of drivers. county official says the water level is reaching levels they have not seen in decades.

here's pictures for you this afternoon. here's the familiar mail box and the people on a boat in the background. that's the situation as they rescue a woman from the flood waters. this is a car that got stuck in the water there. you see they're using just about anything they can. a kayak for one. whatever they can find to paddle down the street. here's a side-by-side photo of a viewer from who different streets where the water is just over the banks. tampa has seen more rain in the first three days of august than the city normally gets in the entire month. severe storms spun off one tornado in the midwest and knock out power to 200,000 homes the national weather service indicates a tornado touched don't in owendale, michigan. no reports of anybody hurt but downed trees and damage to the roof of a school. police say the nasty weather killed a map at a festival outside chicago yesterday. a tent collapsed when the winds

picked up the tent. 15 people were reported hurt in northern michigan, officials say wind gusts reached 70-miles-an-hour. more than two inches of rain to boot reported in some spots. greece lazy -- greece's main stock index in the toilet. down as much as 30%, 22 by the end of the stock trading session. the greek exchange had been closed for five week and officials negotiated a deal to keep the economy afloat for the moment. by the end of the trading day the market was down in one endisby more than 16%. in june, the government but limits on cash withdrawals and transfers to prevent a run on the banks. some of those are still in effect. a new push to sell the nuclear deal with iran. both here at home and overseas. our secretary of state john kerry, meeting with officials from six gulf nations in qatar today. he says he is trying to ease

concerns from our allies over the nuclear agreement. meantime iran's president now says the deal achieves his country's goals since it recognizes iran's are right tone rich uranium. but critics in their opportunitiry say it sets to many limitations. the white house is trying to sell the deal to congress. the republican congress is not going to take the sale, no matter. the official said president obama held meetings with more than 80 lawmakerses and set to give a speech on the deal in american university in d.c. the vice-president, joe biden another white house staffers, getting involved in the pitch by meeting with lawmakers. world powers last month announced the deal to scale back iran's nuclear program. in exchange for international sanctions relief. congress now has the power to review it. if lawmakers reject it president obama has promised he'll veto it

but needs help to prevent congress from overriding the veto. joining news foe foreign affairs reporter for the "washington post." ishan. it's nice to have you here. >> thank you. >> these debates though important domestically in both nations, don't affect the overall picture here at all do they? >> they do to a certain extent. obviously these governments really want to have domestic approval and backing of the endeavors, but as you can see the much bigger picture is in the summit among the world powers in vienna. >> what's the internal argument in iran? >> well, the argument in iran you have in iran, you have a group of people known roughly as the hardliners, who really don't want to see any sort of concessions made to the u.s. the country that many in the establishment look on

skeptically, often with hostility. this is similar to the republicans who don't want to see any concessions made to iran. another regime that it don't trust either. so it's interesting the parallel. >> here in the united states much is political. viewers understand the political part. but no matter what happens with this debate here internally, from your reporting it's clear this moves ahead this is the ruling and this is the agreement whether -- no matter how the debate goes, right? >> well, it depends. obviously if the veto is not overridden -- >> that's what i meant. >> this is an agreement that has the blessing of the entire -- all the permanent members of the security council an agreement that will be stamp ode on -- stamped on by the united nations. so as you can see happening in doha the countries have to get

used to the new reality. >> very important here the agreement, according to all those involved, has nothing to do with trust and everything about verification. that what the europeans say. the french, germans russians-everybody. the essential is this snap back of sanctions? can you give us more, how quickly, how effective? >> a complicated question. obviously the process of verification takes time, and also depends on what kind of sanctions we're talking about whether financial or an iran's able to procure certain technologies. it's complicated and we'll learn more. >> from your reporting have you gotten any sense of what this means for the possible of a nuclear arms race in the region, whether it lessens the possibility or raises it or is that a matter of opinion? >> it's matter of opinion but there's an argument going forward, and you're seeing this now, that this actually reduces the possible. the gulf states have been --

have cautiously received this. got an lot of security assurances from the u.s., and now you'll see the iranians themselves including their foreign minister, publicly calling for a conversation about a nuclear-free middle east. the subtext there is the only country in the middle east that has nuclear weapons is israel. >> indeed it is. live with us. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> president obama signing off on a new plan to protect the rebels the pentagon has trained in syria. there aren't vary many of them. but what if they come under attack from the syrian government? the rebels we're supporting. are we involved in another conflict in the middle east or what happens? pilots trying to land planes say the drones keep getting in the way. in comes the plane for landing and there the drone is. the feds say they're going to do something about it and we'll let you know what that is straightaway.

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new mexico's governor is promising police will catch the coward who set off explosives at two different church nets state. according to investigators the blast happened just minutes apart yesterday while worshipers were inside churches in southern new mexico. those investigators say the first explosion blew up a mail box outside one church, shaking the building. the second blast was inside a trash can near the entrance of the other church. nobody was hurt in either explosion. investigators are working to determine whether the blasts are related. they have not said whether they're searching for more than one person but that would be the guess. police told people to be an alert for anything suspicious and avoid inspecting anything themselves. syria now. the u.s. is getting more involved in the fighting there. the pentagon reports it started flying unmanned drones out of turkey on what it calls an isis mission over syria. president obama signed off on a plan to also defend some of the

rebels from attacks by syria's government. defense officials tell fox news they will use unmanned drones to avoid the risk of shooting down american pilots. the plan applies only to rebels who completed the pentagon's training program. fewer than 60 people, 6-0. lea gabrielle is here. what more are usual officials saying? >> reporters asked the white house press secretary about this today and he said our coalition partners include the u.s. military trained syrian rebels. that that it wail be on the ground taking the fight to isis and that means protecting them against anyone who threatens them. >> what i'm suggesting is the same admonition, that the assad regime should not interfere in our counter-isil activities, also applies to the on session fighters that we have trained and equipped to fight isil. so far the assad regime has followed that admonition from the united states. and we encourage them to continue to do so.

>> analysts opinion out that many of the rebels want to oust the assad regime and this risks something we have one trying to avoid. >> are they going to go free lance and foot assad sniff they fight assad are we going to defend them against a syrian assad regime, and if so, are we then dragged into some conflict we don't want to be part of, which is a conflict and fight against president assad's regime? >> there is that risk. and this is already started last friday. coalition airstrikes protected syrian rebel forces that were under attack by an al qaeda-linked group in syria. >> airstrikes, unintended constance generals. >> in february of this year, a group of international journalists put together a six month study of alleged vessellan airstrikes are responsible for

459 alleged civilian fatilities and maybe as many as 591. the group say the strikes caused up to 80 friendly fire death. it's difficult to monitor casualties and verify the claims, and so far the u.s. has acknowledged just two unintentional deaths caused by the strikes. >> new video shows homes homes homes and buildings destroyed after a syrian war plane crashed in the middle of a town. dozens of people died and many more were hurt, this video is from social media but you can see the wreckage. activists say the syrian government was bombing rebels who took over the town in northwestern syria. more than 100 children are now free from boko haram terrorists. that's brant new -- brand gnaw cording to a statement from the nigerian army. the military also destroyed many

camps. it happened not far from the town they call the birthplace of boko haram. officials did not say when the attacks took place. rescuers say they rescued hundreds of people but none of the 219 school girls kidnapped in april of last year. jurors in the colorado movie master trial have decided to keep the death penalty on the table, which mean the sentences hearing will move to the final of three phases. the defense call relatives family members and teachers to the stand during the sentencing phase. the gunman's attorney says jimmy holme was a normal, shy kid growing up, before he was plagued with mental illness. now the court is set to hear impact statements from people who survived the attack and from friends and family of those who died that night. both sides expected to call more witnesses before the jury decides whether james holmes should get the rest of his life in prison or die for his crimes. earlier this month the same jurors found him guilty of murder for the killing of 12 people and injuring of dozens

more during crewed midnight showing of the movie "the dark knight rises." wildlife officials in zimbabwe just named the second american they accuse of illegally killing a lion. they say he is a doctor, named yen -- seske from murray'sville, pennsylvania. officials say he shot the lion with a bow and arrow in april but did not have approval, and on land, where hunting was not allowed. we're just now hearing about this officially. the authorities there say that the local guide that the hunter used did not have a permit. no response from the doctor, but a safari operator tells the "associated press" the american did not break any laws. of course this comes they country tries to extradite walter palmer, the dentist from minnesota who admitted he killed cecil, the lion. the dentist said he trusted hides guides and believed they al-had all the necessary hunting permits in order.

the feds say drones flew very close to four different planes in the span of three days including instance 'dents at one of the nation's busiest airports. the faa reports the crew of jetblue spot adrien while landing at jfk on friday afternoon. will the fed says just a few hours late their crew of this delta flight, 407 reported seeing a drone on its approach to the same airport. and then yesterday officials say the crew of this shuttle america flight, 5911, which was operating as delta at the time, saw a drone off the left side of its jet as it landed at that same airport. and they say the pilot of a small personal aircraft had to make a turn to avoid a drone in southern new jersey yesterday. faa officials tell us they're investigating all four incidents. rick leaven that at new york jfk. these seem more common now.

>> reporter: absolutely. a source with the port authority police told me the drones have become a new sans and a serious -- nuisance and serious and safety risk. the concern is next time it won't be a miss but impact of some kind. i if a drone were sucked into a jet engine the result could be a crash and the death of hundreds of people. the faa gets 25 reports a month from pilots who spot drones. uncomfortably close to landing approaches and nearly 200 reports of drones crashing or miss ago pilots or flying too close to sensitive locations lie power plants. but in may there was another near miss over la guardia airport where a pilot had to climb 200 feet to avoid hitting a drone that was flying 2700 feet in the sky. these things have tremendous range and they're selling more every day. >> sounds like senator chuck schumer may have a plan. >> reporter: well, he does help says these recent sights should be a wakeup call to the faa and says there's an easy fix, soft

ware that could be built into every drone sold in america that would prevent unmanned aircraft from flying within two miles of any airport or higher than 500 feet or within striking distance of landmark buildings or monuments. >> there is an elegant solution, which is called geofencing. you can build into the software of a drone at nominal cost, a program that doesn't let them fly in certain places. within two miles of an airport. above 500 feet. over the people irstate building or the messenger. -- empire state build organize the pentagon. it's cheap doesn't interfere with hobbyists and others who want drones or need drones and will help solve the problem. >> reporter: the faa is expected to release new rules and regulations governing drones sometime in the next 12 months. >> an enormous wildfire is threatening thousands of homes

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really big. firefighters said the lower temperatures and higher humidity has helped in the -- helped them make progress against it. see if i can get this thing to play -- there we go. and they also said that they're bringing in additional teams to help. you can see here they're dropping water and doing all they can to really stop the spread of this. they've only got 12% of the flames contained at this point. they also said that dozens of homes have been destroyed so far. >> look at that. >> pretty bad. and about 6,000 more homes are in danger. they've vac waited or ordered evacuations for 12,000 people right now and crews are battling wildfires throughout the state. not just this one fire. it's very dangerous situation. one firefighter died last week in a different wildfire. they said one of the causes for these fires is lightning and officials say that is a continued concern here as their thunderstorms and gusty winds in today's forecast. >> they haven't had enough rain.

all the underbrush, for state after state is dead and dry and -- >> and just goes up in flames in a matter of seconds and spreads quickly. >> el niño will not be a big help. thank you. >> not at all. >> bobbi kristina brown now buried next to her mother, whitney houston. she laid to rest today at a cemetery in new jersey. her cousin, dionne warwick was among the mourners who gather ted funeral home today. she died last month six month after she was found unresponsive in a bathtub in her home out atlanta. and the drama around this. >> there play be a trick to getting better grades in school. a trick. has to do with who your friends are, or who your grandkids' friends are. very specific. kennedy will weigh in. stay with us.

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kids in high school can boost their grades as long as they have no friends of the opposite sex. that's according to an economics professor at the university of southern carr. so consider the source. take a look at our wall. the professor says he studied 20,000 high schoolers he says he identified a link between friends and grades. and that having no friends of the opposite sex can actually boost your grade point average by half a point him says the more friends of the opposite sex, the lower your grades. he also said you're more likely to cause trouble in class. >> kennedy is here, host of "kennedy" 8:00 p.m. eastern on the fox business network. no friends of the opposite sex makes you smarter. >> dunce make sense.

>> less distraction. if the little boys hate you grades would have been better. >> make peep who were socially awkward to begin with and don't have friends at all of either gender. if that were the case all ivy league schools would be pop lated soley by people who went to same-sex high schools. >> i thought in same-sex high schools it didn't work. >> the point is, i think there's a lot more to this distraction than simply male-female. if your a tracted horn dog there might be a relationship between brain function and hormone level. did he look at that? mr. epidemiology? >> more on that, please. >> yes. >> what i'm saying is, it kind of makes sense that if you are chasing down all the girls or all the boys or whatever it is, you might miss your spelling test or something. >> yes and if you are one of those people who is not risk averse.

>> maybe it's new might. go -- new math. go on, sorry. >> all of the research material was pulled from then 1990s. i think the '90s were great but the debt to may be outdated. >> the way we teach was different. >> the way we learn the way we interact. people have loot more digital interaction than the used to. >> digital? >> like online and stuff. >> people text more than they talk and that has had a drastic impact on making friends and even group interactions. >> the point you'remaking is it's not time for moms and dads to put their kids in same-sex schools because that wouldn't do it. >> i think if you have a distracted learner they're distracted by anything. whether it's a mixed gender peer group for a bright, shiny object. kids who don't want to learn in high school aren't going to learn in high school, any way you slice it. some of the input is dubious and we have to be careful of the output. what are you going to tell your

kid? be completely socially awkward don't have fun and don't talk to pretty girls who smell nice. sounds awful. >> that does sound awful. how did you do in high school? >> horribly. >> you're really start. >> i couldn't stand going to class. i despised homework so was extremely ambitious but performed very poorly in the class because i couldn't stand being in class, and i also felt like there was a lot of liberal indoctrination. >> even at that age? >> exactly. i became a libertarian later in life because i came to my senses but in high school i was a teen republican. i was convinced the communists were colluding against me to make sure i had bad grades, and i completely tuned them out and went and worked for the service clubs and the croquet society. >> so you have always been crazy. >> if we're honest, mildly he eccentric. >> we talked about it on this very show. i didn't get a high school diploma but i did later go to

college and got a nice college degree. >> how did you do that without a high school diploma? >> through community college. i went to community college as an adult. >> get your ged? >> no, i just tested into math and english good got my lower division courses and transferred to ucla. >> i did not graduate from college. >> you account have to because you knew your path to sees was laid before you -- to success was laid before you and all you had to dos fight the great shiny egg. >> i thought i just ran out of money. it could have worked. it would be nice to have it but not nice enough to go back and do it. >> if youer sitting with an hr person trying to get a job and the -- >> if that ever happens again something has gone horribly wrong. >> if it does happen and they say why were your grades so bad you can say hey baby is i was distracted too many girls or boys talking to me. >> everybody. >> i meant to do well.

>> i didn't even mean to do well don't think. i was having a fantastic time. >> late adolescents and conditioning that's when you into be having a good time. >> we did and we'll be right back.

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the same time, don't you? this is a degradeation of the world. the macarena. i think the dow was doesn't but i don't remember why. have a great day. >> the mad dash is on and tomorrow, around this time, we will know who are the ten republicans making the big debate on thursday night. welcome everybody i'm neil cavuto. and after the mad dash, it's for the ninth and tenth position. the top eight seem almost secure. but that dash includes right now the likes of john kashich and chris christie and rick perry and right now you are looking at john kashich. he is very relaxed. mood lighting for a big event in new hampshire where he is taking questions. but we'll get into what is at stake and why those remaining positions are still up for