>> and come back soon. >> and personality. >> and it works. we'll stay here for outnumbered over time. fox news.comclick on the overtime tab. ""happening now" starts now. >> dramatic rescues and torrential rain storms cause major flooding in florida. >> this as other parts of the country are suffering from a severe drought. we are covering all of the news now. she's led national polls, and now new numbers show support slipping for hillary clinton in a key voting block. what is behind this. >> and tragedy at the big top after a circus tent collapsed. >> i saw the stakes and stuff coming up out on of the ground. >> a father and daughter killed

and what investigators are eyeing as the cause. >> and a rageing wild wild forces people out of their homes and flames jump the containment line. it is all "happening now". >> but we begin with possible new signs of trouble for hillary clinton. the new poll shows support erodeing for a key group. >> i am jon scott. >> and i am jenna lee. hillary clinton is losing support from white women. and in fact, the majority of the women polled view mrs. clinton unfavorably. that is a large drop in the polls since last june. why is this significant, ed? >> reporter: one of the reasons why vice-president biden is taking a close look to jump in

and challenge hillary clinton. one of his brothers, frank, lives in florida, i would like nothing better. i make no bones that i am one of the big clan that says joe, go, joe. he has other family members to weigh in as well. and a lot of people say he is extremely influential in his political life. the fox news poll out last night talking about democratic primary voters. hillary clinton has a commanding leads and dropped ten points since june. bernie sanders at two percent. and joe boyd at 13 percent and he's not officially in. and feelings for hillary clinton is some what positive. and negative at 15 percent. and very negative 33 percent. and republicans this morning are

saying it will be hard for hillary clinton to turn that around and democratic strategist said biden could split the anti- hillary clinton vote. >> i don't think she can turn the numbers around. >> in a certain sense biden helps hillary before he hurts her. biden can devoid with sanders, the anti- hillary vote. >> reporter: that is a good point. in our latest poll, 51 percent. she's struggling, but if joe biden gets in, he may split the nonhillary vote with bernie sanders who is doing pretty well. and if there are more self- inflicted wounds and the foundation, what is troublesome

joe biden is a real alternative for her. >> thank you. >> for more we'll bring in a b stoodard. and charlie herd, columnist for the "washington times". i am curious about this. you generally vote per people like you. hillary clinton white woman, and grew up in the suburbs and law school and college degree, why is she having a problem with other white women? >> it is a dark sign for the hillary clinton campaign. if you tossed all of that primary challenge talk away that ed henry referred to, and we knew today she was the nominee going in the general election next year against the republicans, the group that she needs to be excited the most are the white women. the fact that her support among

this group hasplunged, drastically and eroding among the democrats in general. african-american voters, it is a bad sign for her plans to replicate the obama coalition and win the white house in 2016. this is really a harbinger of the fact that she's so well known and cannot be recastor reintroduced and with scandal hasn't found a way to earn over the voter's trust and she's losing to them right now. >> if we can put up a poll and look at a number we ran in the earlier hour, it shows an interesting thing. she's down to 51 percent and down eight points in the fox poll. biden's numbers are up five percent and sanders are up three

percent. those two candidates are pulling the exact amount of support that hillary clinton has dropped. >> and the voters she's losing, they are the voters who kept her in the 2008 race against president obama for so many months for many people to drop out. it was these voers. we anyhow she would have a hard time keeping the obama coalition together. it is not transferable i argue to any other candidate, at least not neatly. but this is a whole different set of voters and ab, said, it is a harbinger of things to come and the fact that bernie sanders is such an appealing alternative in this primary, he's a socialist and calls himself a socialist. and he's also been in washington for a thousand years.

and the idea that he is a fresh alternative to hillary clinton, tells you that this thing is far from over, and i would argue that joe biden, man, talk about a wide avenue for joe biden to walk up into and capitalize on this, this is. it we wouldn't have seen this according to the experts a good 6 or 8 months ago, i don't think. a b, the situation doing hillary clinton is the e-mail situation. she's not even faced criticism in her own party about that. >> that's how challenging it is going to it be. look at what it did to her standing. none of her opponents are raising it as an issue. bernie sanders could be a poling to the hunger and thirst. and only hit her up on policy choices. if he hit her up in ethics and

trust it would be worse. she's under multiple investigations. e-mails are allowed every 30 days and it is a constant story and every time there is a new batch of e-mails, that is what she wanted you to see. she destroyed government property and an issue the campaign didn't think. they are not knowing how to respond to this. she doesn't have a good answer and i think the e-mail story just will get worse. >> if you don't cleanse your candidate in the primary of the issue, it will stick with you through the entire general election if she winds up being the nominee. >> based on today's conversation, she may not get the nomination. thank you both. >> thank you, jon. >> don't forget to tune in for

the first republican primary debate. thursday august 6th beginning 5:00 p.m. live from cleveland, fox news teamed up with facebook to allow you to take part in the debate. tell us what you want to hear from those candidates on stage. >> in the meantime another big story, extreme weather, deadly wildfires in the west. and flooding in the heartland and in the south. crews coming to the rescue of several senior citizens in row boats. it is dramatic and frightening scones for them. and surrounding the elder care facility before they got out. fast- moving flood leaving motorist stranded. they are trying to help those trapped drivers as well. we'll have more on what is

happening. >> you would think it was a tropical storm. but it is a well defined area of low pressure draped across the sunshine state and bringing potential 8- 10 inches on top of the rainfall that they received over the last woke. this is the region we are watching carefully. tampa bay area, close to a foot of rainfall. flood advisory in place for the next 12- 24 hours and we have more rain in the forecast. not the inundating rain, but still to which of a good thing will cause issues, jenna, back to you. >> we'll talk about florida, but another story out west, jon? >> the fire situation, the crews could use the water janice talked about. the state's wild wild's tripling in size.

flames jumped the containment line. and destroyed 20 homes. it is one of 23 wild wild burning in the state that is really a tinderbox after four years of drought. janice we'll get back to you with the wildfires forecast and latest from the scene. claudia cowan joins us from lake port, california. >> reporter: the rocky fire is massive and burning out of control for the sixth. 65000 acre, and roughly burned the area like the city of sacramento. it is only 12 percent contained. flames crossed a critical fire break yesterday afternoon. this is highway 20, a main artery through town that fire crews were using as a containment line.

and the fire raced through the canyon. within minutes it gained a 32 acre foot hold on the north side of the highway and prompted more evacuations. officials expect more today it. >> low humidity and fuel moistures are critical. they are low and the aspect and ignition source and all of them come together like a perfect storm and the fire takes off on you. >> that's what we have here. >> reporter: given the rugged terrain much of the four fight is an air assault. tankers and choppers are dropping flame retardant. and that will buy time for the courthouse on the ground. they have more than 20 other active wildfires in the state.

conditions are dry as they can be. the rocky fire here is the state's number one fire property and threatening the most homes. no one has been injured but 13000 residents are under an evacuation order. >> claudia cowan, frightening to see those walls of flames. >> we'll go back to meteorologist janice dean in the fox weather center. >> i wish i had better news, jon. we had cooler temperatures but wednesday, the temperatures will be on the rise and we have threat for thunderstorms. and the moisture will evaporate and more lightning. temperatures are on the rise and really about the temperatures and the historic drought for california. it is a tinderbox and will

continue for the foreseeable future. and dozens of wildfires in the northwest as well as the four corners and so this will be an ongoing situation. relatively collar temperatures on the coast, but again, looking at august through october above average temperatures and below average rainfall. jon, back to you. >> more trouble ahead. >> we'll have more on the wildfires later on in the program. we are seeing a massive sinkhole. the cause is a mystery at this hour. and also severe storms turn deadly at a circus when a tent comes crashing down and the witnesses describe the horror. >> it was hectic and right before it came down they told everybody to get out. my youngest son was scared to

death and my oldest son knew he was hit in the head.

>> if you have an answer to this one, phone is in. "happening now", brock lin, officials are searching for a cause for a massive sinkhole. images from the air shows how big it is. no one was hurt when the hole opened up this morning. the national grid is on the scene to check out affected gras line. >> tragedy in a circus in new hampshire. a storm caused a tent to collapse. a father and daughter were killed. >> reporter: the collapse took place in a performance in new hampshire. 100 people were in the tent when

the severe weather with hail and winds hit. a father and daughter were killed and dozens hospitalized and the extent of the injuries remain at this point as does the cause of the collapse. the state fire marshall not commenting on whether charges will be filed. >> the investigation will involve the documentation of the scene, including mapping out the scene and find out where things are located after the collapse and examining the set up of the tent, to determine how it was set up in the cables where they were connected and things of that nature. >> reporter: witnesses describe the chaos. it suddenly went dark and someone screamed get out and another said the tent came crashing down. >> all i remember seeing is

after we stood up. we were down on this end of the tent. it came up and over and at that end, people who were part of the circus yelled run. and in the same motion, i see stakes and stuff coming up out of the ground and the tent is coming up and over. >> reporter: this comes one day after a festival in chicago where one man was killed and dozens were injured when a tent blew off and fell on the crowd. the celebration attracted 500 people when the tent collapsed. both incidents are under investigation. >> the relationship between the u.s. is china is under a new strain as the country asks america to turn over a businessman under

investigation. >> and a family in pennsylvania down in the dumps after an out of control garbage truck took out two cars. how the company that owns the garbage truck is making things worse.

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>> they are in the business of picking up the trash and they have a big mess there. >> they will need to figure it out. >> the government of china is demanding the united states to turn over a chinese businessmen. it is telling us what is going on inside of china and the chinese government. so far the obama administration has not moved to send him home. he is a target in an anti- corruption campaign. we'll bring in kt mcfarland. who is this man and why siing can? >> reporter: two things. who he is. his brother is the former white house chief of staff equivalent in china he was arrested on

charges and they want this man to come back to china, one to rat out his brother and two, they don't want us to get his hands on him. they think he may know embarrassing things about the chinese leadership. >> could he be an asset. >> reporter: absolutely. the chinese, the president of china used the anti- corruption drive. he said i am a big reformer and i will clean up corruption in china and i will throw people in jail. he's using that as a cover to get rid of adversaris and competitor. he's trying to amass for himself. and the brother of the guy in america is already in jail. if we send the american guy back. but if we send him back to china, we can assume he will be seriously interrogated and

torteured. they want to get information from him to rat out his brother. >> what does this tell you about the state of the chinese government right now? >> reporter: they are thought to be as secure as they were six months ago. they had a major stock market crash and they have had economic problems and the chinese leadership thought he was rolling to be another supreme leader and that may be in question. that's why he's asked for the special favor from america. >> he will be making his first visit to the united states next month. that will be carefully watched. this story is put in the context of the huge hack attack in the office of the u.s. personnel management and a story in the types about how the u.s. officials are trying to figure out how to retaliate. we shouldn't be so public about

that. i wonder how this all fits in? the chinese man who bought a multimillion dollar home in the foothills of the sierra, nevada no one can find. and how it plays in the the broader chess match that we are in with china. >> reporter: they have stolen billions and they have stolen hundreds of billions worth of american and industrial secrets. and they have hacked in our america computers and civilian computers and got information on tens of millions of americans and they are up to something. and when we critize them they are saying nothing is there. and then come out and said we would like a special favor and send him back so the president of china can put political

enemies in prison. we should tell them, not only will we not do this. but what are you doing in the south china sea and hack nothing our computers and stealing american industrial secrets. if we don't have that conversation with them, they will push for more and more. >> sounds like a lot of big issues. kt, great to have you here on the program. >> reporter: thanks, gen a. >> new reports that the state department interforeed with global human trafficking. and puerto rico, officially defaults on a massive debt payment. what it means for the economy and your bottom line. irresistible moments deserve irresistibles treats. new from meow mix with real salmon chicken or tuna. the only treat cats ask for by name.

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>> new accusations that the state department ruled over. this is reutters who claimed that the state department watered down the offensive by important countries like china. peter doocey has more. >> reporter: the report was full of red flags. looking at the way diplomats want to rank every country in the world for their efforts on human trafficking. 17 rankings were wrong and given too much rankings and reutters

report that after the internal battle diplomats only corrected three of them. china, cuba and malaysian are not publicly pressured by the state department as analyst would like in the trafficking or tip report. why not? the reutters report points out malaysia couldn't be part of the transpacific trade agreement if it was a tier three or lowest level human trafficking offender. democratic senator is charging that upgrades from malaysia and cuba are part of the report and part of the countries that failed to merit the upgrade. the state department insists that the report changes the way the u.s. interacts with the other countries not political.

>> i would point you to what the secretary said about the questions and the report. she was eloquent about the rigorous analysis that goes in the report and we stand by it. the report is on line for everybody to see and read and we think that it speaks for itself. i haven't seen the senator's remarks. >> reporter: and the end of the country and analyst tested are far from complimentary and outline troubling trafficking trends. >> peter, thank you. >> the third phase in a sentencing trial of james holmes gets under way today. more testimony expected from the family members killed in the aurora massacre, and the jurors will decide if the man accused will receive the death penalty or option of life in prison without parole.

dan is outside of the court. >> reporter: so long the focus is on the shooter james holmes. but today it shifted back to the victims. all of those lives lost and the massive void left behind. jurors are hearing for the relatives of the 12 people murdered. eight moms are scheduled to testify and two dads and a widow and a grandfather and sister. first to tell his story was ex-husband of rebecca wingo. and mother of two girls. he testified about how hard it has been on his daughters. >> particularly for the girls, it's disoriented in every way, emotional, physically, you know, it is one thing to all of the sudden never go back to mommy's house and have mommy there.

>> judge carlos seymore is making sure the impact testimony doesn't get too emotional as to prejudice the jury. but with young victims it is heart breaking. the defense attorney begged the jury not to answer death with more death. >> the law requires that you not be swayed by that emotion and not let the emotion for those families overwhelm your decision-making process and your reasoned moral judgment. >> reporter: the jury will deliberate a final time and must be unman musfor holmes to get the death penalty and anything else will be life in prison without parole. >> a second day of losses for the greek stock market.

they had a yesterday free fall in the first day of trading. leaders in athens expected to roach a deal with a bail out. a deal must be reached by august 20th or the country goes in defall. puerto rico is also in dire straits. the ilanis 72 billion in debt and cannot make a payment on the loan. that is causing concerns for investors here in the u.s. they are joining us live from the capitol in san juan, puerto rico. >> reporter: a lot of investors and millions of retirees are holding puerto rico debt. if you have open heimer or franklin templeton call your broker and find out if those individual funds have exposure to puerto rico bonds, it is

expected there will be continual default on bonds as we go forward. there was a default on 58 million because the government can't pay the debt and wants to restructure the debt with the bond holders. there is a respected lawyer who is an expert in common wealth law and he said the puerto rico government is misleading investors, this is what he told me. >> we also have to address the bull in the china shop. as structured today. it is too big for puerto rico to mote it as it was originally structure. we need to restructure but not avoid or weasel out of it and make sure we comply with our obligation and promote puerto rico economic growth. >> that was not john mud.

that was a representative of the house of representative in the puerto rico. luis ramos. and you want to hear what john mud had to say we posted his interview on line as well. >> all right, adam, thank you. >> back here close tore home. california fire crews taken by surprise when the state's largest fire jumped the containment line and spreading at lightning speed. and plus, this. >> good, kitty. good kitty. whew. hey, bud. >> what would you do if you ran into that in the woods? .

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the mountain looks him on and he talks about being scared at the end of that video. wow. >> like them from a distance. >> and 23 wild fire burning over california and displacing 13000 people right now. the most depressing fire is the rocky fire north of san francisco. it is jumping a highway containment line and burned 100 square miles. we have the director of cal- fire. he joins us from sacramento. chief, i know you are busy. any update on the containment of the fire. >> as reported it is at 65000 acre and 12 percent contained. folks are working hard on the fire lines and home to bring the containment.

it is erratic and burning conditions on the fire. >> i read the unprecedented nature of the fire. you know it better than anybody. you have had a career spent profiling the fires. what makes it challenging? >> it is spreading in multiple direction and we have a community of clearlake the west and we are providing structure protection to protect the community and at the same this fire spots over highways and grew additional 3000 acre on the north end of the fire. >> what is the game plan and the conditions, how do you get more containment on the fire. >> we were fortunate last night the humidity came up. and the fire crews put bulldozer and hand line over much of the four that burned yesterday. we'll continue to take targets of opportunity and contain the fire. >> talk about the fire

companying the containment line and it being a highway. you feel like you have a natural containment line. but embers were flying over the heads of firefighters because had was able to jump the highway. how did it do that? >> the vegetation is tinder dry. it is very receptive to a ember landing and many cases. the sparks are going half a mile and start a new fire. >> half a mile away. how does is that? >> it is dangerous. we have to evacuate communities ahead of the projected path of the fire and fire progresses well ahead of where the firefighters are and we were aggressive with the use of our air tankers and helicopters to try to stop the forward spread and the fire crews brought in ground resources.

>> i am thinking of the fire crews on the front line and embers are flying past them. how are your resources and time of firefighters holding up? >> obviously we will not stop until we are done and we are several weeks in the fire siege now. we started back on july 23 22nd. we have had over 500 fires and most are put out as they start. but we have 20 fires burning in the state. we are moving resources and 10000 firefighters from all levels of government, both california and outside of the state commited to fight. >> we heard a couple of respects, i know there are so many fires. we heard lightning is a big source of the fires and also heard arson. can you tell us about the fire causes? >> most of them are under

investigation. yes, a good number of them resulted from a lightning storm that came through over the last week. we anticipate more light nining both this afternoon and greater potential later this week. again, we get multiple starts and at 1.500 lightning strikes and 80 percent of those started fires. it is so dry every spark starts a new fire. >> you spent years fighting fires yourself. how would you characterize the fires at this point in the season. >> i think that is key. the vegetation as dry as it is unprecedented and the fires spreading at the rates they are is unprecedented. >> it will give us all the more reason to pay attention. the teams of firefighters are doing a great job. i know this is their work and passion, but we are thinking of

them, chief and we appreciate the time you were able to give us today. thank you very much. >> you are very welcome. >> a story to keep watching. jon. unbelievable. in worked, he hasn't seen a fire season like this. quite the same. >> awful. awful news. hope they get some rain. all right. the president, a swimming record and crocodiles. what do they have in common? they're part of our final 30 coming up. do all this research e perfect car. gas mileage, horsepower torque ratios. three spreadsheets later you finally bring home the one. then smash it into a tree. your insurance company's all too happy to raise your rates. maybe you should've done a little more research on them. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise your rates due to your first accident. see car insurance in a whole new light. liberty mutual insurance. ♪ [ female announcer ] everything kids touch at school

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here is one of those only in america stories. how do you dress up a couple of canoes? canoe carnival this past weekend in medford lakes. the 84th annual celebrations. family make floats that float.

a lot of lights, music, special effects to celebrate the community and entertain the neighbors. cinderella was the grand-prize winner. >> as she normally is. >> cool float. it's known as one of the most beautiful cities in the world but rome is falling on hard times. amy kellogg is live in rome with more. amy. >> reporter: people think that generally the mayor is a well intentioned guy, but he just may be in over his head. he is not part of the hard-scrabble roman political machine. he is a former transplant surgeon. and the troubles in rome have been piling one on top of another over the summer, piling up like the garbage on the city streets. historic buildings are the stuff of fantasy. historic sidewalks are a hazard. cobblestones are cool and charming but potholes are an unnecessary peril. the mayor has tried to shake up the deteriorating public transportation. here you see a subway train

hurtling through a tunnel with the doors wide open, reportedly nearly sucking a woman out of the train. the mayor's attempts to make the transportation system for efficient have been met with push-back from unions that have staged retaliations. one driver simply refused to pull out of the station and commuters mobbed his cabin. the mayor claims he inherited a broke and broken city. >> translator: i did not imagine i would find the coffers empty. years of crime and corruption. i believe the only thing missing in city hall are land mines. >> reporter: the silver lining is, jenna, romans are rolling up their sleeves and getting involved in volunteer work to clean up the city. they say if they keep it clean the tourists will be tempted to do so too and hopefully things will get better. researchers exploring technology normally aimed at

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"the real story with gretchen carlson" begins now. hi, folks. brand-new polls out two days ahead of the first gop presidential debate here on fox. i'm gretchen carlson. here to bring you the real story today on this and much more. let's check out the interesting numbers. this one concerns republican primary voters and who they say they would never, ever support. check the donald trump's numbers. he is now at 33%. dramatic change from back in june when a whopping 59% said they would never pull the lever for him. now senator graham and governors christie and pa tacki have higher numbers. >> bret baier joining us. you're talking to a bunch of voters as you prepare there, right? >> reporter: i am. it's a gorgeous day