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oil tycoon. bill: they will not beat hasselhoff. who could? who in their right mind would think about it? >> i don't know, zac efron is kind of hot i guess. bill: that is news you need to know. we have to roll. "happening now" starts right now. jon: chaos in ferguson, missouri. protesters taking to the streets again as a state of emergency is declared. welcome to "happening now." i'm jon scott. >> i'm jimmy colby, in for -- jamie colby in for jenna, jon. jon: glad to have you. >> they pelted officers request rocks and bottles. police responded with shields and riot gear. two dozen were arrested after a man was critically wounded in a shootout with police over the week inched. violence tainting what was planned as a peaceful protest, mark the death of michael brown. jon: will carr in missouri with
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the latest. >> reporter: jon as we talk authorities are considering a cure few tonight after two straight nights of protesters clashing with police officers. we have tense moments after 10:00 p.m. last night when some protesters turned violent. they started throwing rocks and frozen water bottom ills. picking up chunks of asphalt in the street and throwing those at officers. authorities were quick to respond. they broke up the crowd. 23 people wound up behind bars. earlier today, 60 people were arrested as protesters flooded on to i-70 during rush-hour traffic. they set up barricades and blocked cars in the area. protesters swarm ad courthouse yesterday. 64 people arrested there. in total almost 150 people were arrested in the streets of ferguson yesterday. with the scars still fresh from the riots that were here in november, some residents say the renewed violence is devastating. >> we have continue to be positive it will be great. but negative after something positive kind of knocks us back down on our knees.
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>> reporter: the same time yesterday we heard from michael brown's father on facebook. he said, quote, our marchs were all done very peacefully. be careful, mindful and protect yourselves from those who would like to see this be unsuccessful. we've also learned that tyrone harris, the 18-year-old who authorities say fired on detectives sunday night, is now facing 10 charges, even though he is still in critical condition at a nearby hospital. we'll leave you with the good news. last night there were no shots fired, there were no injuries and no stores that were looted. residents tell us they hope that it is all a step in the right direction heading into tonight. jon? jon: will carr, from ferguson, missouri. thank you, phil. busy day at america's election headquarters. hillary clinton campaigning once again in new hampshire. she is set to hold a town hall in clermont a few minutes from now. her new multibillion-dollar plan
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to make college affordable expected to be a focus. this as a new poll shows senator bernie sanders gaining ground on mrs. clinton in iowa. let's talk with the editor-in-chief of "the daily caller" news foundation. phillip bump is writer for "washington post" block, the fix. welcome to you both. phillip, to you first, one political website called it hillary clinton's cruel summer, suggesting that she is just enduring this drip, drip, drip of bad news. is it? >> it is not great. i'm sure that hillary clinton would rather have the summer be a more enjoyable one. her favorability ratings have declined over time which again we saw in 2008, closer she gets to being actual candidate the more her favorability declines. it is not going extremely well for hillary clinton but really not going as badly as a lot of people say. looks as though a new poll in new hampshire shows apparently bernie sanders attempt to
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overtake hillary clinton had slowed somewhat. he is seeing big crowds but i'm not sure that really mean as whole lot over the long term. it is not going perfectly but i don't think it is going as badly as some people might say. jon: bernie sanders pulled in 28,000 people at a recent rally in portland, christopher. maybe not an enjoyable summer for hillary clinton, but isn't that what it was supposed to be? wasn't that the plan, get in the "scooby-doo" van and meet the people to coast to the nomination? >> hillary's problem not just the summer will be bad but the whole future for the democratic party is in trouble. the house the president built politically is very different from the house she lived in in the 1990s. we're seeing that with socialist excitement. with five times more people at that bernie sanders than at her announcement which was her biggest speech. deeper problem some democrats are starting to face right now the black race act sy activity individuals coming up on stage, telling rallies is this shut down like it is 1930s again.
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democrats are having a issue, coalition the president built, without his charisma and personality i'm not sure any of these candidates will hold quite together like barack obama did. jon: do you agree with that notion, hillary clinton has to sort of reassemble the coalition that put barack obama in office? >> there is no question about that. she needs to hold on to support from african-american voters. part of what she is doing with the college loans is certainly aimed at getting younger voters excited about her candidacy. bernie sanders crowd thing, i get that why is something people seized on, with republican race and jeb bush are, some other candidate and that candidate went to houston you would guarranty the whole bunch people would be there. and i'm not sure that means that much. to the point, hillary clinton needs to do well with african-american voters, doing well with hispanic voters in order for democrats to see the same success they have seen past two cycles. jon: on the college loan program she rolled out with some
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fanfare, some are saying she is late to the party. bernie sanders and even martin o'malley introduced making college affordable plans of their own before hillary clinton did. >> absolutely have. she is late to the democratic party. she is ahead of the republican party which hasn't put together any comprehensive education ideas beyond what they rejected with jeb bush. o'malley peter to it. o'malley's problem is his city is on fire. his entire legacy is in ruins. will have difficult time sizing on that. bernie sanders beat her on education thing too. when he tries to assemble, barack obama coalition, he is a white guy that lives in new york city but he is from the woods with a town ever 7,000 people in it. this is serious speech hillary gave. to enthusiasm gap only brought 600 people out. she is not getting traction. she can keep down the democratic rivals but i don't think any of them have the answers that our ongoing president has for the
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base. jon: quickly, phillip. one complaint even from some of her supporters is that hillary clinton run as very cautious campaign. do you see her getting more energized, more ambitious i best? >> not really. i don't think it is really in her nature to be terribly, to be on the cutting-edge too much. she run as cautious campaign. she ran a cautious campaign in 2008. she is running a cautious campaign this time. she is still way up in the polls. i don't know if there is any reason to worry. jon: when you're on top i guess you don't need to change direction. phillip bump, christopher bedford, good to have you both on. >> thank you. >> thank you. jenna: some new information on the toxic spill in a colorado river that quickly made its way to new mexico prompting both governors to declare states of emergency and label stretches of two rivers disaster areas. now the towns downstream want to know how the spill happened in the first place. as fears there grow about long-term threats to the water
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supply. alicia acuna is live in denver with that story. alicia? >> reporter: hi, jamie. it is epa is saying does not yet know how many people have been impacted by this spill but it has teams on the ground in multiple states testing the water. the three million gallons of shot out of the gold king mine after workers breach ad debris dam is moving to new mexico and utah. toxic sludge is still coming out of colorado dam. but in an email the agency is taking steps to stop discharge, addressing risk of more downstream impacts. we're treating water by lowing acidity levels and removing dissolved metals. epa says newly treated water is cleaner than preevent conditions. the mayor of durango, colorado, told our sister network, fbn they were able to get ahead of the plume and shut off the
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supply pump. >> we have state approval to fill our reservoirs from our alternatives to higher level to assure that we have stock of water for, for our citizens. >> reporter: new mexico governor susana martinez says her state is planning legal action against the epa. on "america's newsroom" she expressed her frustration to bill hemmer. >> it is very dangerous. we are not aware of all of the toxins that are in the river. the epa has not been communicating and has not been forthcoming with the state of new mexico as to the different types of toxins. >> reporter: colorado governor john hickenlooper said in his disaster declaration, we will work closely with the epa to continue to measure water quality as it returns to normal but also to work together to assess other mines throughout the state to make sure this doesn't happen again. jamie, governor hickenlooper is down in the southern part of the state this morning to tour the
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damaged area, the damage caused by the epa. >> lots to see. alicia, thank you. we'll have much more on the colorado mine spill later in the hour including what went wrong, how it could have been prevented and danger it poses to both people and wildlife. jon? jon: breaking now, a bus carrying about 50 prison inmates in arizona slams into a semi-truck that rolled over, blocking highway lanes. it happened early this morning on interstate 8 just south of phoenix. the driver of the bus was severely injured and a dozen inmates were taken to the hospital. all prisoners they say are accounted for. westbound lanes of interstate 8 were completely shut down because of the wreck. >> meanwhile the feds get a new lead on the biggest art heist in history. one one attorney tells us investigators about a man captured on video entering the museum very late at night before the isabella gardner museum was
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robbed. jon: a blow against isis. the charges and chilling details in a live report. >> we want to hear from you, both of us. do you think bernie sanders is a serious threat to hillary clinton's chances of getting the democratic nomination for president? if you can say yes, you can say no, you can even say maybe. our live chat is up and running. go to foxnews.com/happeningnow and join the conversation. this allergy season,
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he remains in jail on $5 million bond. attorney telling federal prosecutors has information about identity after man captured in video back in 1990. the video just released, shows the man interring the isabella stewart gardner museum, the night before the biggest art heist in history. jamie: fox news alert. british police and intelligence services are working to unravel a chilling isis plot. our sister network, sky news is reporting a terrorist plot to detonate a pressure cooker bomb at vj day activities in london this weekend. both ceremonies will be attended by queen elizabeth, the prime minister and world war ii vets along with thousands of spectators. sky is reporting a british convert to islam fighting with isis in syria communicated details of that plot to under cover reporters posing online as people interested in joining isis. we'll have much more on this
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developing story straight ahead. also back here at home, the fbi has arrested another terror suspect, charging this new jersey man with attempting to support isis in a chilling plot involving the creation of a small army of soldiers. laura engle is live in our new york city newsroom with the latest on that. it is chilling, laura? >> reporter: it is indeed, jamie. federal investigators say the 20-year-old was part of a group of people from new jersey and new york who they have been investigating for a while. he appeared in newark federal court yesterday with his hands and feet shackled wearing civilian clothing. the judge appoint ad lawyer to represent him after he said he could not afford one. he is charged with providing material support to isis which carries maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and $250,000 fine. he allegedly sent electronic messages to queens, new york, conspirator between 2012 and 2013 voicing hatred of the united states and his desire
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what he called, form a small army that would include his friends. according to his brother, another man provided him with the name and phone number of a isis contact near the turkey-syria border who could help him travel to isis controlled territory. according to the criminal complaint he was making progress in his plan. informant said seday was radicalized by april of this year and traveled to jfk with a conspirator in early may. prosecutors allege he and his brother met up, texted and called a new york city college student arrested in june and charged with conspiring to support isis. more homegrown terror wannabes in mississippi. 19-year-old jalen young and another man will be back in court. detained after a court, tying the knot planning to use the honeymoon as cover. he is the 50th arrest of a legal non-citizen charged with a federal case to join isis in january of this year, jamie. jamie: laura engle in the
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newsroom. thanks. jon: federal investigators now on the case of horrific crash that critically injured comedian tracy morgan and killed another entertainer. what they're citing as causes for that deadly accident. two girls charged with brutally stabbing a classmate. how young is too young to know right from wrong? our legal panel weighs in on the judge's decision in their case.
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jon: just in investigators at the national transportation safety board addressing the horrific crash on the new jersey turnpike that critically injured tracy morgan and killed his friend, comedian james mcnair. morgan is still recovering. investigators say the driver of the walmart truck that hit morgan's limousine was awake for 28 hours before the crash. they also say the limousine was
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customized, leaving passengers few ways to get out in an emergency and that several passengers were not wearing seatbelts. the truck driver is facing criminal charges. the ntsb is working to come up with safety recommendations based on what happened in this crash. jamie: some new information in the case of 2:30 teen-year-old girls -- two, 13-year-old girls, they were 12 at the time, stabbing a classmate an leaving her for dead. a judge in wisconsin move ruling that the two girls will be tried for adults for attempted murder. why are we naming them? because they are being charged as adults the girl was stabbed 19 times and miraculously survived. they did it as part of a plot involving a fiction alizeed character they thought was real. they could each face 45 years in prison. lis wiehl, former federal
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prosecutor, fox news legal analyst and john moro, former prosecutor and now criminal defense attorney. we hate talking about the cases but they're very real. john, this one looks like a brutal attack looks to be planned, why wouldn't the judge try them as adults? >> this is terrible decision. these girls were not motivated by any kind of adult circumstances. they were living in internet fantasy world where they thought the victim by, hurting this victim they were actually protecting themselves from this internet image, this slender man image. these little girls need help. they need behavioral health care. they should not be punished. jamie: you convinced they get it more in juvenile than adults? >> absolutely. why should they be locked up 30, 40 years as criminals when they need psychological help. this was not motivated for greed and -- >> now you're defending, exactly. this all came out from the
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defense, the slender man defense and twinkie defense. the pac man defense. now slender man defense. what happened, jamie in, these little girls, yes they're little girls and i feel sorry and i feel bad and they do need help, but, they should be tried as adults. they planned this for months. they did things such as go to this little girl's house, to have a sleep-over with her. this isn't the right place. go to a park. this isn't the right place. go to a place where we get her blood, blood will be raining down -- many steps. adults take steps. jamie: why are they just not claiming mental incapacity? independent medical examiner found one to be potentially schizophrenic or more? >> first thing underwisconsin law, if you're over 10 years old or older, charged with attempted homicide which is what this is, homicide, you're automatically tried as adult. that is very much the fact in wisconsin. wisconsin and competency or insanity is upon the defense to show, not like in colorado where it was on the prosecution.
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it is on the defense show. they can show that at criminal trial as they're charged with adults. jamie: but we have to make the decision first. >> wisconsin 1995 law, says black and white. >> this all ignores all the latest information we have about teenagers and preteens brains. they are not even fully developed yet. their frontal lobes are not complete yet. >> let jury decide that. jamie: 20 and 30-year-olds not capable of telling right from wrong. >> this little girl thought she was getting information from the internet into her brain. of course there was planning this was internet fantasy by 12-year-olds. jamie: if that is the case, if internet is this powerful we have bigger problem. >> what we need to do in this instance, treat these little girls with behavioral health care. >> we'll blame internet for murders like this of little girls? jamie: ask you both to respond as parents. these are the girls. they look even young for their age. they were 12 at the time arrested. >> they're adorable but
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premeditated almost killers. jamie: fortunately the child survived. this is miracle. >> you have to have sympathy for the victims. jamie: john what would you say to the parent, the parents of child was -- >> what would you say if the victim's parents were in the same circumstance and their little girl -- >> but they're not. >> the point is they will be punished. >> their daughter, said i trusted you, i trusted you. >> little girls will be incarcerated. jamie: go back to the law. how do you know that? >> because there is no question that even as juveniles they will go to jail until they're 18 years old. >> 18. that's it? that is not even jail. juvenile incarceration in juvenile home. it is not even jail. >> punish people don't mentally have the capacity -- >> let a jury decide that. under wisconsin law. >> what are you going to do put 8-year-olds in jail rest of your life. >> no. the wisconsin law is definite. 10 years old and older tried as
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adult in wisconsin period, end of story. >> anybody knows that 10-year-old doesn't have mind of adult. jamie: do you have any children? >> no, i have nieces and nephews. jamie: can you imagine them stabbing another child? >> here is what i fear. heavin forbid they come under the influence of some internet-crazed character and do something inappropriate. >> you can't -- jamie: i don't know, john. they already are on the influence. bombarded with messages. whether or not or not it goes to next level has to do with upbringing. many people deal with mental charges. they don't murder people. >> they're not 12-year-olds. that is the point. they are juveniles. there is a way of dealing with it, as fair and honest just society, you don't punish people because of a mental deficiency. >> the judge has spoken, john. lis agrees. the judge has spoken. they will be tried as adult and won't go away if they're convicted for 40 years. >> get counseling and everything
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else they need in jail. let the jury decide this one. >> with adult women in jail? >> they will be in juvenile detention until 18. jamie: hope they get the care they need and family -- potential hurt and loss. thank you very much. john, i will not ask you to weigh in. we could go another half hour. jon: that is quite a story. we've been covering that for a long time, jamie. a major move in china to tell you about. number two economy and how it is affecting markets around the globe as well as your bottom line. also the epa is supposed to clean up toxic spills but now it admits causing an environmental disaster out west. the new fears for folks living near a contaminated river. >> i am here on my property and i can not shower, i can not cook, i can not do anything with the water from my water.
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alert" for you on the day after the dow posted huge gains. wasn't that great? not so fast. now they're taking a dive, after china, the world's second biggest economy devalued it is currency. lauren simonetti with fox business network is live with the story. >> reporter: hi, jamie. china's central bank surprised market this is morning devaluing the currency called the yuan. why are they devaluing it? their economy is slowing big time. their exports are struggling. they need to make their stuff cheaper for foreigners like you and me to buy. the yuan as a result is tumbling the most in two decades. this is a huge red flag for u.s. companies that sell a lot of stuff in china. think names like wynn resorts, yum! brands which owns kfc and taco bell, caterpillar, even apple. that is just to name a few. china's move is giving fed-watchers hire at home reason to doubt interest rate hike next month. typically that would be good news but stocks are down in a
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big way right now. the dow selling off more than 200 points, essentially giving up all of yesterday's gains. so it is something that we're watching. and your 401 is taking a hit as a result. commodities, they're selling off too. oil is down by about 4%, $43 a barrel. that is near the lowest level in six years. here are the concerns. that china, because they're slowing they won't use as much oil. also the world is oversupplied. opec says its production is at the highest level in more than three years. look, good news. that is showing up at the gas pumps. gas prices are down 27 days in a row. you're paying 2.50 a gallon if you're filling up for the national average. here is another surprise for you. google, the stock is rising. it is changing its name to alphabet. i know that is odd. to change the company name from more experimental pie-in-the-sky projects, driverless cars and
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drones and contact lenses that monitor sugar, all that crazy stuff. they're separating all the businesses and tie it all together under the umbrella called alphabet. jamie and jon. jamie: is that like taking my aspartame out of my soda? i object. >> i object too. it leaves that nasty aftertaste. jamie: i don't know how those things help business. it sure makes news. interesting news on china, appreciate it so much. >> thank you. see ya. jamie: jon? jon: back now to the growing anger over the toxic spill in a southwest colorado river. the epa admits it was the one that caused the spill by accidentally releasing millions of gallons of mine waste into the water, turning the river a mustard color. now the epa says there is no leading edge of contamination visible in downstream sections of two other bodies of water but that is doing little to ease concerns about the longterm threats to the local water supply. joining us now, brian hendricks,
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head of jackson lewis, industrial crisis management group. brian, i know you are, you know an awful lot about the mining industry. how does something like this happen? the epa, as i understand it was supposed to be pumping this sludge water out of an abandoned mine and somehow knocked open the dam and released all this water? >> that is what i understand as well, jon. i believe obviously the secondary and tertiary containment failed. what i'm saying there is, you had a dam of a sort that they breached, and apparently they weren't aware of the amount of water that was going to exit that mine and overcome secondary or tertiary containment. although i admit, i don't know what their secondary or tertiary containment looked at which hits a important point we really don't know what happened but this is a bit shocking. jon: they should have had backup
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in place and if they didn't they really blew it is what you're saying? >> that is exactly right, jon. jon: we're talking about sediments, heavy metals this, is not something that flows downstream and go away, right? >> no, it should settle out a bit but it will stick with the environment for quite some time. it isings they will have to clean up or at least have to monitor for a long period of time. jon: so what happens? does it all end up impounded by, i don't know by hoover dam or lake meade? >> it will certainly end up downstream, end up in the sediment of the river, throughout the river flow. they can remove the sediment. they can treat the sediment and treat the water. often times this kind of material is left in place in the sediment and they monitor over time to make sure it doesn't become suspended in the water. jon: obviously there are huge problems for the people who make their living along that river, or from that river. they can't drink it. the farmers can not offer it to the livestock.
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how do you calculate damages in an incident like this and who pays? >> those are the folks that are suffering the most obviously. there is all sorts of different ways to calculate the damages. in this case looks as though the federal government, the epa will be required to pay. epa set up a claims process they expect people to submit claims to. and i'm sure that process right now, i'm sure people are already submitting claims to it. jon: is it something like the gulf oil spill and a huge fund set up and people who have claims can try to collect? >> there is not a fund set up as far as i know of. this is the government's preexisting claims process, through the epa's regulations. we don't know what the scope of damages are going to be. quite possible the epa will have to set up or congress will have to fund a larger fund like the katrina, like the new orleans fund that they did set up. jon: i just don't see, i mean
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you talk about remediating the damage that haste been done but this is an entire river system. you will go all the way out to the colorado with this flow. how do you essentially vacuum up the sludge and silt settled on the bottom of an entire river system? >> i believe it will be very difficult and extremely expensive. hopefully what will occur. to the extent it can be treated it will be treated. the rest of the heavy metals settle into the sediment and don't present a problem to those who are using the water. that would be i hope, what occurs. but you're right, this is 120 some odd miles of river. that is a lot of area to address. jon: well, and it is more than that, really because the an -- animas joins the colorado and the colorado will be carrying some of this stuff? >> that's exactly right. that's exactly right. jon: how would you assess the epa's response in the initial going? when something like this happens, you got to take
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responsibility for it. how would you assess the job that the epa has done? >> i think the epa did take responsibility for it quickly. what they didn't do get out in front of issue to be the first person to tell everyone that this was occurring. the problem they had, it seemed initial impression, they were caught flat-footed. that is a huge problem for any entity that is responding to an event like this. you want to be the first person out there telling the public exactly what you know and what you don't know. you can't be perceived early on as having not been very responsive to the problem. now i think epa is doing what they can right now to get out ahead of it, to share data, to share information. they have put a lot of resources on the ground. i know there is a lot of frustration with epa now. i think that stems from the failure of their initial response. jon: obviously water is critical for all life but out west where water is in such short supply, when something like this happens you're threatening livelihoods
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of potentially thousands of people and maybe even lives. are you confident this can be cleaned up and dealt with to the point that the animas river and some others it joins are going to be usable again? >> that is a good question. it is a scientific and technical question. i know that the industry, as a whole has dealt with large projects like this. and i don't imagine that this water will be rendered useless by any stretch but it will take a lot of time and money. jon: what a mess. brian hendricks, thanks for your expertise. >> thank you, jon. jamie: a child comes down with human plague shortly after camping in yosemite. how she is doing now and what precautions public health officials are taking in the national park. plus, rick perry is waiting for a breakthrough moment in his campaign for president but now his campaign staff's waiting for paychecks, as the funding has run dry.
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peter doocy following the story from our washington bureau. peter? >> reporter: jon, perry's paid staffers have given a choice, stay on with the campaign as volunteers, if they want to keep making money look for jobs with other candidates. spokeswoman told us, quote, as the campaign moves along tough decisions have to be made in respect to both monetary and time-related resources. governor perry remains committed to competing in the early states and will continue to have a strong presence in iowa, new hampshire and south carolina. but, just because the campaign's dough is drying up doesn't mean governor perry's white house bid is nearing an end and this is why. there are political action committees that really want hill to win. they have reportedly been anticipating this kind of a cash crunch working on ways to pitch in without violating strict laws that prohibit campaigns and the pacs from working together. so now advisor for one of those deep pocketed outside groups, is pledging, we've got plenty of money. the super-pac is not going to
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let rick perry down of the really important thing on the horizon for the former texas governor now according to aides that spoke to the "washington post" is the next debate in september. if perry can make on the main stage to drop a memorable line or two, maybe the money will start flowing into the campaign account. voting in early states begins in just a few months and despite this very undesirable headline about money trouble, aides say they are still confident that perry can finish towards the top in iowa and south carolina. jon? jon: even though these super-pacs that support perry have a lost money, it is not like they can write out checks to campaign staffers, for instance? >> right. there are certain ways they can contribute and they can keep him going, but it just remains to be seen how exactly they're going to help cover the day-to-day costs that a campaign needs to survive. jon: peter doocy in washington. thank you, peter.
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jamie: we are keeping an eye on a new wildfire that's raging out of control right now sparking evacuations near the same area struggling to battle fires for two weeks now. how mother nature may be helping out. daredevil nicole lend today, what is he up to now? -- nic well lend today. he is gearing up for one of his big stunts. we'll tell you what it is next. if you're suffering from constipation or irregularity, powders may take days to work. for gentle overnight relief, try dulcolax laxative tablets. ducolax provides gentle overnight relief, unlike miralax that can take up to 3 days. dulcolax, designed for dependable relief.
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every politician who votes for that deal will have blood on his or her hands. has the president's sales job gotten a lot harder? >> i think so. at least one major university may bring back the concept of a house mom for fraternities behaving badly. so would that really help? hmmm. >> all that plus our #oneluckyguy. "outnumbered," top of the hour. back to you. jon: all right. we'll see you then. jamie: get to tell but the fox extreme weather alert. there is a new wildfire and it is sparking evacuations in northern california. that fast-moving flame burning at least nine square miles. it actually doubled in size overnight. firefighters nearly surround a larger wildfire that started about two weeks ago. it is already burned more than 100 square miles. maria molina is live in the fox weather center. i'm praying for wicked weather for them. they need rain. come on, maria, we don't. >> yeah the northeast we're
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dealing with heavy rain rolling through. we have flood watches in effect across many areas because of several inches of rain. we're looking in flash flood threat in places across parts of the east. in the west we're looking quite opposite in california where we really need rain and farther north across parts of the pacific northwest. when you look at the radar, we do have a few specs here and there, what looks to be showers. it is so dry that most of the storms will not bring in a lot of rain. it will bring in virgo which is the rain that evaporates before it gets to the ground. they are bringing also dry lightning which could spark more fire. part of the rockies you're looking isolated flood threat across parts of colorado and also into utah. dry lightning really seems to be the concern across western areas. because of that, we do have red flag warnings in effect and fire weather watches across places like idaho, washington state, oregon and in northern california. not only looking at concern for
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dry lightning, but as we head farther south, another wildfire we're tracking is the concern with seme gusty winds, possibly gusts up to 20 miles per hour. of course that would help spread that wildfire. so that is not good news. temperatures are also relatively on the warm side or hot side, especially heading farther inland with temperatures out there forecast to reach the 90s in many areas. jamie is, this is part of a big problem going on for years in parts of the west. look at the drought monitor. extreme to exceptional drought covering most of california, across parts of washington, oregon, even into western montana. jamie? jamie: that does look severe. thanks for keeping eye on it, maria. good to see you. jon? jon: next hour on "happening now," earthquakes if you think calfornians have to worry about the possibility. how many americans could be in harm's way for earthquakes according to the calculation of a new report.
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archeologists make exciting discovery in north carolina, shedding light on one of america's earliest mysterieses. the fate of the lost colony at roanoke. we want to hear from you, do you think bernie sanders is a serious threat to hillary clinton to get the democratic nomination for president? our live chat is up and running. go to foxnews.com/happeningnow and get your thoughts into the conversation. ♪
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the longest tight rope walk ever at the wisconsin state fair. he already has nine world records including a walk across niagra falls in 2012. >> i have one question. why? my mom worries about me on the road every day and look what this guy does to his family. he is a pro, though. >> he comes from a long line of dare devils. >> we will see you back in an hour. "outnumbered" begins now. we begin with a fox news alert. st. louis county declared a state of emergency in ferguson, missouri and we are told there are no protest plans for today. along the route where people
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were marching to mark one year since the death of michael brown. the city has seen a lot of trouble with things remaining uneasy over the past few days to say the least. this is "outnumbered." i am harris faulkner. here is andrea tantaros, sandra smith, host of kennedy, kennedy herself and the oneluckyguy bernard mcguirk. he is outnumbered. >> thank you. it is an honor to be here. to foul follow a man like general jack keane, a man with so much wisdom. >> you have wisdom. don't undersell yourself. >> it is wisdom week here. >> you are generally a pain in the tush so all generals here. >> we have a lot of news. >> let's do it up. >> police have arrested
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