race baiting and we let thisy m allison parker and adam. right now their families would appreciate it. i'm bob massi. for 32 years i've been practicing law and living in las vegas. i help people with all sorts of real estate problems. from trying to save their homes to closing major deals. eight years ago 6,000 people a month moved here looking for employment in affordable homes. little did anyone know that we would become ground zero for the american real estate crisis. now it's a different story. the american dream is back. we're going to meet real people who face the same problems as millions across america, and we'll dive deep into the city on the rebound because las vegas was a microcosm of america, and

now vegas is back. >> thanks for joining us. i'm bob massi. civil war commander george custard is said to have uttered the fame words it's not how many times you get knocked down that counts. it's how many times you get back up. nowhere is that spirit more evident than in las vegas. we found one spot where it looked like they might not get back up, but they did. ♪ >> so here i am in reflection bay in henderson, nevada. a place that went from riches to rags and how back to riches. one of the greatest stories of redevelopment and resurgence in america. this entire area five years ago was ground zero for the real estate crisis in america, and today it is an american success story. ♪ >> las vegas it's a beautiful 328 lake that was man made. it was a massive project

spanning decades, creating a lake, golf courses, hotels, and luxury communities in the middle of the vegas desert. when the recession hit, the area was devastated. >> this was the kind of situation that's very rare to have a 300 acre lake and have all these residential areas around it with the hotels engulfed. when the economy hanged, people walked away. not just in las vegas, but in lake las vegas. >> the golf course dried up, and property values plummeted. >> you went from $500 a square foot to $120 square foot per home. it's hard it even realize how bad this looked five, six years ago. in 2008 the golf course was closing. there were weeds higher than our heads, and what started happening is people lost confidence. they lost confidence in their mortgage and the development itself. >> hotels closed. homes were abandon. reflection bay was forced to shut down. eventually the courts was purchased by paulson and company along with 1,000 acres of lake las vegas land. give us an idea visually what it

was like before you guys took over? >> it was tough. you know, just in the bunkers right behind us there were seed trees that were 15 feet tall. the sand had become hard packed dirt. the greens were gone. >> the vision was to bring lake las vegas to the glory that it had as a luxury destination, but not just that. do it as a primary place. we're proud that we're in henderson. >> absolutely. >> as a town schools, parks, families, shopping, it's all here. the fist thing we did was really fix the infrastructure that was here. we built a road. galleria parkway. we embraced this beach. we made our beach four times bigger here at reflection bay, and they say, wow, it's even better than before. that's kind of what i think las vegas is. we're better than before. brought in 28,000 tons of sand. it's intended to be a lifestyle. not just for the weddings, and that's a nice site for that, but for the paddle boarding, kayaking, and duffy boat.

when you are here, one of your family members might golf, but the rest of the folks can do something all day, and on a day like today it would be perfect to go out and paddle board. water and the desert is not something that you would expect. >> right. >> we embrace it in a way that gets people on the water. i think in the past the resort and the course focused on very highend and not allowing people to use the lake. we think you should. jack nicklaus came back and worked with us. you can see the love he had for the course. >> sure, of course. >> we built the greens. rebuilt all the bunkers and also just made it a more playable course. >> the process was to work with the people citi and people that live here to remind them what a

beautiful place it was. mostly just say, hey, we're part of your community. >> people really have a special feeling about lake las vegas. they always kind of thought we were going to come back. they just didn't know when. >> once are you here, you feel it. for example, when -- the community called the falls at that front entrance over the last year and saw their home prices go up 31%. it's a show me don't tell me type of strategy. we've been very low key, but once now it's time to show off, we are. i think when you see it, you really like it. >> we'll meet a couple who thought they moved on with their lives only to be asked by the bank to move back into the house they had given up. ♪

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welcome back. i'm bob massi, the property man. i was contacted by a couple who moved out of their home after losing it to foreclosure only to be asked by the bank to move back in two years later. let's go meet them right now. ♪ >> so now we're going to go meet dan and dotty. they live close to lake las vegas, and they basically have been fighting with the lender for over four years. now they have a scheduled mediation to try to resolve this dispute. we're going to give them some direction as what they need to do to try to save their home, but, remember, it's been a four-year battle, and i'm not sure what the phenfinal resolut is going to be. >> thank you for having me. >> it's my pleasure. >> dan and dotty moved to an area that they thought would be their retirement home. dan is in real estate, and for a while things were great. >> the market is booming. we were doing great. everything was fine. until real estate crash, and so

we started savings, investments. untouchable money to keep this place going. the logic was, okay, things are going down. our income is way down. dramatically down. but, you know, we have pretty good savings. we can weather this. so a year goes by. another $100,000, $200,000 gone. another year goes by. again and again. so at some point in time the money, the nontouchable money is just gone. you have to say stop. that's where dotty stepped in and said to me -- >> we have to sell it. >> when did you stop actually making the payments? >> we stopped in 2009. we knew that we had to stop making the payments before the bank would act. we were forced to do this, ruin our credit, before the bank would take some action. i wanted to work something out.

>> they talked the next day, and during their first two months we get several calls a week. sometimes several calls a day. >> and at night. >> at night. >> all hours. >> abusive? >> very abusive. >> abusive. okay. it was awful. >> it was awful. >> it seemed to be one-sided. give, give, give, and you never get anything back. at some point the foreclosure process began. you literally moved out of this house where we're sitting right now. >> we're renting the lace. we committed to a two-year lease. we're pace $1,000 a month where we went to, and we moved out. one, two, and three. i thought i understood the process. but i had no clue.

>> after two years of renting another home, they had squatters in the home that they left. they contacted the lender, and the lender said why not move back into your home? that's exactly what they did. >> so we moved back. we incurred both costs, okay? this is january of 2013. >> okay. >> okay. so start again. talk with the banks. when can we get this done? can we do a short sale? on and on and on. >> any notices of foreclosure again during this period of time? >> nothing. >> nothing. >> then in 2014 all of a sudden now this is gearing back up for potential foreclosure auction. >> in the fall. >> in the fall. that's right. >> now at some point you ty ated under the law what is called mediati mediation. >> weaponed to sit across the table from somebody and speak to them about our situation. person to person. face-to-face. we had not talked to anybody in four years. so we did the paperwork. we got a mediation day of february 4th. then half an hour before closing

business on february 3rd they call and say can you reschedule? it really represents how we've been treated over the last four years. >> the mediation ended up getting rescheduled three times. with another date looming, i told them exactly what to expect. >> do not bid against yourself. the process will be very simple. you'll be there with a mediator. most likely representative from the bank, who will be a lawyer. you'll be dialing up to somebody who has authority to make decisions from the lender. all you are to them is nothing more than a spreadsheet. >> i understand. >> they have to decide specifically do they want to hold on to this collateral and work a deal with the homeowner or do they want to take it back. they say you owe x amount of dollars of the arrears. we're going to do a forebearance on that, and to put them to the back of the loan. then strike up a new structured

payment. >> all right. >> the second thing that could happen is they could work out a deal and they could say we want x amount of dollars down in good faith money. the other thing that could happen you could go there next week and they could say to you, oh, we need more documents. now we've had this discussion. >> really? >> of course. you have the right to say no. you have the right to say to the mediator enough. go ahead and start foreclosing on this property. let us know when the auction date is. we're moving on with our life, guys because we're tired of you controlling our emotions. >> exactly. >> in our own home. because what happens is that the home that you love you resent, and the home didn't do anything to you. >> exactly. >> remember, neck week is always about numbers. that's all it is. it's not about emotion. they don't care about you. trust me. say look, guys, tell me where do we stand here? we reached a point in our life where we're ready to move on. that's what you need to do.

>> okay. >> and let us know what happens. i think it will work out. >> we appreciate so much your help. >> dan and dotty finally got their mediation. we'll tell you exactly what happened. plus, what options do you have to get out of your real estate troubles? i'm going to tell you up next. ♪ every auto insurance policy has a number. but not every insurance company understands the life behind it. those who have served our nation. have earned the very best service in return. ♪ usaa. we know what it means to serve. get an auto insurance quote and see why 92% of our members plan to stay for life.

welcome back. i'm bob massi, the property man. >> to understand how to navigate -- >> properties are selling left

and right, and, of course, we -- the prices are not too much. we developed too much at one time, and, of course, with it being as easy as it was to obtain a mortgage. >> over built and oversold. >> absolutely. >> soon millions of people were having troubles paying back the money. >> they -- the home that they're in. >> everything happened so fast, and the bank when people started to need help with mortgages, they were foreclosing left and right, and that really what was what started the downfall of the real estate market. >> it was a wave. every person that came into my office had some sort of issue. every single person i really knew in our community had the issue. doctors, lawyers, teachers, police officers. >> it was truly heart breaking to sit across from someone who was in a situation where all they wanted was to a piece of the american pie. they paid whatever they had to pay for the house because prices were so over inflated, and they worked so hard to try to keep their property, and it got to

the point where they couldn't do it anymore. >> when push came to shove, the banks were just not interested in doing much about loan modification. >> lenders are very quick to get you into a default situation, but then you may be stuck in limbo for six, nine months, maybe even a year while you're trying to work something out. >> i had some lenders tell the client point-blank if you're not in default, we're not going to look at your file. >> the bank gave you a choice of either staying current, which is not possible for many people, or destroying your credit by being 60, 90, 120 days past due. >> lots of honey went towards that program. lots of press. clients would go ahead and make the free trial payment, file the paperwork, jumping through all the hoops possible, and then the bank would say, well, we need some more time to really look at

this. >> neverending updating process. often the banks would ask for financials or, you know, your last two pay stubs or your most recent tax return. >> you are going through these call centers and getting a different representative every time you call in and you're not getting anyone that has any knowledge about that particular file or about that client or borrower. >> then if nothing happened internally within their department in 30 days time, they were, again, asking for the same information and you had to provide it again. >> if you are having a meaningful conversation with someone at the bank, many times they didn't have the authority to make a decision. they would have to route it through their supervisor or through this department, and this department doesn't take incoming calls or emails or fabbings. you are negotiating with someone who is behind an iron curtain. >> nen hoping for a loan modification needs to write a

letter explaining exactly what their hardship is. >> i spent too much time and energy creating this beautiful hardship letters to really try to give a personal element to have the bank look at my client as a person and family, and i don't think they ever read it. >> they couldn't keep their home, so the alternative was stay there until you are foreclosed auto or try to short sell. >> have you to list the property with a realtor. and get an offer for a purchase. then we approach the servicer or the lender to get approval. that's when you are handing over once again all of those financials. >> even if you do get approved, there are still potential problems. the mortgage impact of 2007 allowed people to excloud from their taxes the forgiveness of debt due to the decline in the home's value or the taxpayers' financial condition. >> that's only for primary residence, mortgage mortgages, or seconds that were used to improvements for the home. the income tax is forgiven.

>> that law was december 3 1st 20shgs 14. if you were looking to do a short sale or loan modification, be prepared for a big tax loop next we're. >> if the bank is forgiving $200,000 of your mortgage, they wouldn't count that as income, meaning that you are overall income for the year is not only what you are making, but the debt is forgiven, which is going to kick you into a higher tax bracket and have you tax liability for you. >> just because a bank agrees to a short sale or loan modification, you are not necessarily off the hook. make sure you read the fine print. >> a deficiency is basically the difference between what you owe and what the properties sell for. that doesn't necessarily mean the debt is forgiven. >> what happens to that deficiency? >> everything has a different rule, but here the bank could sue for that difference. you could do the short sale, go through all the steps, jump through all the hoops, and if

they didn't specifically state in their short sale approval letter that this deficiency is waived, they could come after the short sale and sue you. >> then a lot of people were still forced into bankruptcy. >> there were no other options left ares then bankruptcy tended to be your hail mary to get out of that debt. it wasn't a great situation or a resolution for everyone. >> there are a lot of people out there that still don't have their credit to go out and purchase a home. >> folks that have gone through this i think are a little bit gun shy to jump back into a mortgage. >> when you lose your home, they are getting past their delinquencies and they'll be able to purchase again soon. >> i know all the information can be confuse, but when we come back, i'm going to break it down in the massi memo.

welcome back. i'm bob massi. time for the massi memo. after not being able to get a loan modification dan and dotty moved out of thifr home only to be asked by the bank two years later to move back in. three years after that they finally mediated. what happened? they agreed to let the bank have the house back in exchange for the deficiency being waived. whatever they owed on the house is now waived. you could find about short sales and everything else that we've covered on our website. let's review some of the basics. a short sale means that you sell your home with the lender's

consent for less than what you owe on it. for many people who find their homes under water, a short sale does offer a way out, but it's not always so simple. the lender requires you showing what we call hardship. for example, loss of income. medical emergency. death of an income producing member of the family, and other things. now, you're going to be asked to provide tax returns, w-2's or profit loss statements if you are in business for yourself. the waiver of the deficiency is crucial for the short sale. that means the lender agrees not to come after you for the amount you still owe after selling the home. always get an opinion from a tax professional brl your short sale so you know exactly where you stand. the lebder may forgive the debt, but uncle sam, if it's not a primary residence, well, they could come after you for income. as always, we've got all the latest info on our website for things we've covered today. go to fox news.com/property man.

also, don't forget to send me your questions or property stories at propertyman@foxnews.com. i'm bob massi. thanks for watching. this week on "the journal editorial report" the biden buzz grows louder. new polls suggest new trouble for hillary clinton. are some democratic donors getting ready to jump? plus, a wild week on wall street. stocks way down, way up, all over the place. is america still the best place to put your money? >> and the fight to raise the minimum wage is the latest and greatest liberal cause. where is big labor looking for an out? find out after these headlines. >> good saturday to you. a sheriff's deputy was gunned down while pumping gas. the killer shot the deputy in the back and then stood over his body and shot him again. investigators say the motive

appears to be simple. he was a cop. police questioned one man that may be a person of interest in the case, and we'll bring you the very latest. in denver some city council members want to keep chik-fil-a from opening their doors. they are concerned about their reputation. is blocking the chicken sandwich place even legal? we'll go live for the fight. donald trump is just wrapping up a speech at a republican gathering in nashville. he spoke for a little more than an hour. recent polls show trump still leading the pack of gop candidates. in fact, he made sure to mention that during his speech. we'll break it down. more of these and the rest of your top stories weather elizabeth and i join you at the top of the hour. welcome to the journal editorial report. well, the biden buzz is growing louder with reports this week

that the vice president is meeting with top democratic fundraisers, key labor leaders, even massachusetts senator elizabeth warren. he nears a decision on a 2016 white house run. some new poll numbers may help his case. they show him running stronger than hillary clinton against top republicans. look at this. that same poll asks voters what word comes to mind when they think of hillary clinton, and liar tops the list. here with reaction wall street journal columnist and deputy editor dan henninger, washington columnist, and assistant editorial page editor james freeman. the word liar is a very tough word association for any candidate to get over. >> yeah. as is the untrustworthy. it is a problem, and i think that joe biden really, stewart, is a direct consequence of

hillary's problems and her declining in the polls. joe biden is simply plan b. it could be have been elizabeth warren. they're not very comfortable with bernie sanders. the democratic bench is very weak. other than biden, you might come up with john kerry. beyond that, there is no one. at the moment the biden boon is very hot. >> they're stuck at the moment with hillary. >> they are. >> she's raised over $130 million. she's got organizations out in states. >> did president obama tilt ever so slightly towards joe biden because he knows something about the fbi investigation that we don't know but is very

important? >> you know, it wasn't even just a tilt. it was remarkable this week. the white house press conference, white house spokesman. he wasn't just polite about biden. he was abusive about biden talking about how much the president admired him and how he was one of the smartest guys in politics. it does raise the question of what does the president know. this is a president who cares more than anything else about preserving his legacy from his time in the white house. he cares deeply about getting another democrat in that position. if he does know something and it could be that he is deciding to back another horse. >> to you think the president prefers joe biden at this point, flat out? >> i don't know if you are there wret, but, again, those decisions have been made. what he is doing is making sure that all options are available. this is one point. you know, in addition to whether or not there's another shoe that drops for hillary clinton, imagine the president of the united states did decide to come

out full bore for joe biden. that might make a big difference in fundraising and everything else. >> fair point. james, why doesn't hillary clinton just come clean? why don't you just say, yeah, i used a private server because i wanted to be in control and be private. >> i think coming clean may not be an option for her because if her name was not clinton, of course, she would be probably under a criminal investigation, if she's not now. we published in our paper this week a letter from career foreign services officer reacting to a column describing how seriously they took classified data and how harshly they disciplined people for much less egregious offenses than what we've seen with her setting up her own private network walled off from public scrutiny. she's got to move forward, stone

wall, and then once it comes out, pretending it's old news. >> she can't get it out. she has now put herself in a situation where she's handed over these e-mail records to the state department, and they are in control. they're under this rolling release scenario under court order and stuff is going to come out months after month after month. >> that's the worst possible thing is the campaign drives along. dan. >> i like to make one political point on hillary's side of the ledger. one is talking about, the thing that really doesn't get much attention is the fact that donald trump was put in a head-to-head against -- with the american people against joe biden, hillary clinton, and bernie sanders. guess what, he loses to all three. he losed to bernie sanders. the republican nomination at the moment is a morasse with trump leading, ben carson in second place, and i think the clinton people can say look, net-net their problems are a lot worse than ours right now.

as long as donald trump is leading, we are going to be sitting pretty. >> how about the american people? >> kim, what happens if joe biden doesn't get into this race? then what? >> well, look, i think that there are some republicans who for a while they wanted to see her pushed out. they were beginning to wonder if it isn't a better scenario for them in the long run. their view is this primary will get sorted out and hopefully in a way that produces for them a good nominee. at that point they could well be facing a former secretary of state and democratic nominee who is still dogged by this scandal and for whom most americans the first word that comes to their mind is liar. they're not necessarily unhappy about that scenario. >> james. >> well, just to underline the biden buzz, it's about clinton weakness and not biden strength. this is a guy who has run two national campaigns for presidency. here's how many delegates he got? he pitched a shut-out. this is desperation on the part of democrats. >> i like that. desperation.

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2.5% growth. in the first quarter of this year we didn't even make 1%. what's expected is we're going to come in somewhere in the 2% range, which is not enough to satisfy the huge number of people that we have unemployed or underemployed. we should have had a very strong rebound off such a big attraction. we never had that. i would say that the economy we're happy about what this number, but i don't think we should overrate it. the fed is still keeping interest rates very low, and it can't do what we need.

and that's to tax trade regulatory policy and be more attractive to investors. >> is america still the best place to invest? >> well, i'm feeling more optimistic after this quarter because as we said, might be the way of a few years in a row here where we'll have a great quarter and then we're back to kind of the obama era, new normal of 2%. what's interesting here is you have low oil prices, which a lot of people in the markets don't like if they were betting on higher prices. starting to really exert themselves, help the economy. you see consumers buying bigger cars, driving more, consumer spending coming up. also business investment which has been lagging. the consumer and the businessperson are more confident now. maybe that's because they're seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. the ultimate end of the obama presidency year and a half from now.

>> are we the prettiest horse in the glue factory. >> best house in a bad neighborhood. let's notunder estimate the power of $2 a gallon gasoline to get consumers fired up and spending. >> stewart, when you say is america the best place to invest, i mean, what do you suggest? >> if you have a substantial amount of money, it's great. maybe america is a great place to invest. the federal reserve has been running essentially 0% interest rate for nearly six years. if you were an average person who normally invests in things like certificates of deposit or have your money in -- you are making no money at all. then the zero bound interest rates drove a lot of these assets, money into the stock market. the stock market has indeed risen, and then you have a weak one we jumped into where you go down 1,600 poins over two days,

and these poor people are saying what have i gotten myself into? there are people out there that think this is out of control. why have they not been able to invest in a normal way that they always have in their lives the past six years? because the fed didn't want them to. >> mary. >> well, if you look at what happened in 1937 when the u.s. fell back into recession again, the main driver of that was an administration that was hostile to business, that whether it was on taxes, regulation, trade, it was against investors. i want to have the optimism that james has. it doesn't happen because you catch up to 2.2% growth. it has to change by its policy initiative. >> yes. >> political change that introduces economy change. doesn't it, james? >> yeah.

i think if you look -- you could say we've started to see a turn, starting with last year's election. elts early days, but what's different about this quarter is it suggests in the last few years where people look to the federal reserve and china to pull the world economy, you have a sense that maybe we're getting back to what should be the normal, which is the u.s. economy leads the world. that's what we're hoping to see. >> how could you possibly sit on and restrict the great american private xer prize machine for another few years. you can't do that surely. i think that's exactly what hillary clinton intends to do on business. >> thank you very much. >> still ahead, they're the driving force behind a nationwide campaign to raise the minimum wage, but now some unions want an exemption from paying their own members that high rate. the full story after the break. ♪

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it's called the fight for 15. the union back campaign to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour in cities all across the country. so far seattle, los angeles, and san francisco are onboard, and this summer new york city raised the pay of fast food workers. now those same unions are busy making sure they don't have to play by the new rules lob yeg f lobbying for an exemption from these new wages. what's going on here? >> the fantasy that governments can lobby more wealth. you're seeing the reality. higher wages are mandated. companies can't just pass it

along to customers, so they look for technology to reduce number of workers, cut their hours. that's what you're seeing at mcdonald's and wendy's. at the same time unions who have been pushing all of these minimum wage increases are saying they want to be exempted from it. i think it doesn't make any sense unless you hypothesize they're really not about workers' welfare, they're about power and dues for themselves and this is a way to gain market share by being able to junt cut the new legislative minimum. >> they're saying to employers, hey, you don't have to pay the $15 an hour if that worker joins this union. that's basically it, isn't it? >> that's our hypothesis because it's very bizarre behavior, isn't it? you have unions saying you have to make these wages higher, well, except for us. why do they not want higher wages for their own members? what they really want more than worker welfare, worker income is dues. and the more members, the rich earp the unions get. >> dan, an interesting

development from the national labor relations board out with a big ruling this week. what did they say and what's the impact on business? >> well, this ruling which i must point out was based along partisan lines, they affected businesses like franchises. the parent company, say mcdonald's, is now responsible for the wage and labor practices of all of their franchises which, by and large, are independent businesses. if that were true, if that hold, it will give the union a huge lever to go in and start unionizing most of these businesses if the parent company is responsible. it would affect restaurants, hotel businesses, part-time workers. it would completely disrupt a business model that is currently driving much of the economy and is an extraordinarily important decision. the question is how are they going to be able to turn this around, because you cannot get a bill to overturn it through the senate at this point. >> at this point you can't

overturn this thing. you can't change it. >> you can appeal it legally but that is a tortuous process taking a couple of years. >> is it a purely political move on the part of the administration which is representing the unions to get inside more businesses? is that it? >> it certainly seems that way. it's obviously a very populous move and it will hurt the weakest people in our society not the politically powerful people. if you are an unskilled worker and you need your first job whether you're in high school or you're a college dropout and you need a drop, it's going to be harder and harder to find a job. if you're an employer who can hire two people at $7.50 an hour or one person at $15 an hour, you knocked off one job. there are plenty of states in the south where the cost of living isn't as high and so having a federal minimum wage at that level, again, is good for soundbites because it's sort of this idea that everybody is going to be richer. but what it means, actually, fewer unskilled people will be employed. >> it sounds like a big,

last-minute, desperate push to get the $15 minimum wage in there. get the nlrb in there before the change of politics in 18 months' time. >> they installed the $15 minimum wage for hotels in los angeles a couple years ago and moody's reported that for the first time job growth in hotel workers is down 2% over the past six months. >> i believe that tells the story. thanks, everybody. we have to take one more break. and when we come back, our hits and misses of the week.

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federal loan guarantee from the government and went bankrupt. the i.g. found a decree that had solyndra management misled officials about its finances and prospects but, more importantly, those government officials missed clear warning signs about the company because they were so eager to push out a new loan. more evidence, stewart, government should not be a venture capitalist because of the political pressure but because when you're playing with other people's money, taxpayer money, you make bad calls. >> i think margaret thatcher said that. mary, hit or miss? >> this is a miss for venezuelan president who is generating a hateful witch-hunt against foreigners in order to explain his country's economic crisis. this week he deported some 1,000 colombians. he's cletenning to close the border. now he is not the first populist

demagogue to scapegoat immigrants and blame his neighbors for economic weakness. but in venezuela, as in any other country, scapegoating foreigners will not cure what ails the economy. >> you've got that right. dan? >> my myth is to the russian consumer protection authority. believe it or not, there is such an agency in russia? no. and they decided this week they would order all foreign made detergents removed from supermarket shelves in russia which meant procter & gamble, laundry detergent was gone. so the russian poem to their credit took this in stride and started taking photographs of themselves with big, brown blocks of soviet-era soap sitting in front of them and people sitting hoarding cans of bottles of procter & gamble detergent. >> you get more on hits and misses of the week. if you have your own hit or miss, be sure to tweet it to us at jer on fnc.

that's it for this week's show. thanks to my panel. i'm stewart varney. catch me weekdays on "varney and company" 9:00 a.m. sharp. paul is back next week. gunned down from behind in cold blood. houston mourns a veteran police officer after a brutal execution style murder. >> it's tough enough being a deputy and being a law enforcement in this country right now, but for people the way that they are right now, i have no words for what this type of person did. >> surveillance tape shows the gas station shooter will have the latest from a police news conference on the search for the killer. >> and mother nature's fury. as tropical storm erica rips through the region toward the coast. is erika losing power? we'll get you the latest.

question to ponder this saturday, why is one of the country's most popular fast food chains facing a ban at one of the nation's biggest airports? we're going to tell you about the legal battle that mixes religion, political correctness, and chicken sandwiches. good saturday to you. thanks for spending it with us. nice to be with you. nice to be with you as well. i'm leland advice earth. >> and i'm elizabeth prann from washington. it was just a routine friday night for harris county deputy darren goforth, but it turned tragic in the flash of gunfire. the ten-year veteran officer stopped to fill up his patrol car after wrapping up near houston. what he could not know and did not see was the killer behind him who shot him execution style. harris county sheriff ron hickman says he can't recall another incident so cold-blooded and cowardly.

will carr has more. >> reporter: elizabeth, there have been conflicting reports throughout the course of the morning. what we know right now authorities in harris county, texas, are talking to a person of interest, a man who they say they're questioning because he had a truck that matches the description of the suspect's truck. they're also searching the home of that person of interest. as for the shooting, they're calling this a pure assassination. they say it was an execution-style murder. they say the suspect walked up behind harris county deputy darren goforth who had just finished filling up his car at a local gas station and, without warning or any apparent motive, opened fire shooting goforth in the head, in the back. then the suspect stood over the deputy and continued firing. goforth died at the scene. this morning the harris county sheriff's office tweeted we awoke this morning hoping it was all a bad dream. our hearts are full of grief. thank you for your prayer.

>> it strikes us in the heart to simply be a target because you wear a badge and for no other reason hit you where you live. >> it's horrifying. it's an act of cowardice and brutality the likes of which i've never seen. >> surveillance video shows that the suspect took off in a ford ranger pickup. it's the same type of truck found outside of the person of interest's house in northwest houston, but as of now, again, nobody has been charged. goforth was a ten-year veteran, a father of two, and a husband. the president of the local police union came out and said that they've been warned to be careful because the national public sentiment against police officers right now. goforth is the 23rd member of law enforcement across the country to be shot and killed this year. compare that to 2013 when 27 were killed throughout the entire year. the number jumped last year when 41 members of law enforcement

were shot and killed and the sheriff in harris county says members of law enforcement all across the country need to be on high alert right now because you never know when the next attack may come. elizabeth? >> all right, will carr reporting live, thank you, will. so, does a police badge paint a target on law enforcement officers especially in areas police are seen as the bad guys? >> there's a lot of places like that. fox news contributor rod wheeler joins us now from cleveland. rod, i was struck as we listened to will's report that the union had talked about police officers being targeted, being under threat. is that something specific to houston or is that a nationwide issue, do you feel like? >> good afternoon to you, leland. i can tell you that is a nationwide issue, and here is why i can tell you that. i speak with police officers all across the country and for the past six months in our roll call we have before the officers hit the street, do you know what's emphasized? watch your back. we are targets. officers are actually telling each other, we are targets. you wear that badge on your

chest, but you have cross hairs on your back. and just last night, leland, we saw a clear example of the cold-blooded, callous ambush against a uniformed police officer that was on duty. and if you want my opinion, and i've been in law enforcement a long time, i submit to you, leland, that there is a major war on police officers and authority in this country and we had better do something about it to get it stop. >> i'm not sure there's a lot of statistics to refute what you have -- your supposition and proposition, rod. what i'm interested, though, in is what's changed? what happened? why all of this sudden this war against cops? >> well, there's a combination of reasons why that is. the main reason, there's so much disrespect for authority in the united states today. police officers are doing their jobs. look, just two weeks ago, leland, there was a police officer in the united states that was beaten and bludgeoned. he didn't die. do you know why he didn't use excessive force?

he was afraid he was going to be thrown under the bus by the politicians. now where is the outrage over the actions of this guy last night in killing this police officer? there are no outrage. where are the marches? if the situation had been reversed, leland, and this police officer shot this thug last night, we would have been burning down cvs. you see the difference here and that's why we see crime rates skyrocketing right now in this country. >> and, rod, if i may interject and ask you about the nature of this alleged murderer, we know initially this officer was shot from behind and then he actually approached him and continued shooting. to me that seems as if it was a targeted murder. i want you to talk to me a little bit about the nature of this crime. >> that's right, elizabeth. this was a targeted murder, but it wasn't just a murder. this was an execution-style murder. what does that mean? that means this shooting suspect last night, his intent was to make sure that this police officer was dead.

now i think the interesting thing that we're going to be following this week is what was the motive behind this guy shooting? and i'm only speculating but i submit to you and other police officers feel the same way this could have been a hate crime. i'm hoping law enforcement authorities are not just investigating this as a shooting against the cops but this happened to be an african-american suspect who targeted a white police officers. and if the motivation is the fact this was a white police officer, then you know what we have here? we have a hate crime and this guy needs to be charged as such. >> interesting to see if the justice department decides to charge as a hate crime going the other way. you make a great point. where is al sharpton? where are black lives matter? the community organizers to stand up and say to the youth and people like this shooter, this is not right? if you have a problem with the police, feel free to go out and demonstrate, but violence is not the answer. >> well, you know, like i said many, many times, you and i have talked about this, leland, we've

had issue use with law enforcement and we're working on it. let me tell you, where is the outrage for what happened to this young police officer last night? i'm not seeing it and i'm not hearing it from the politicians, and that's a disgrace. >> well, we will wait and we will see if president obama comes out and says anything. we know he's said things in the past about shootings in baltimore and other things. we'll see if he comes out in support of this police officer. rod wheeler, appreciate your insight and stick around. we'll see you next hour as well. >> thank you, leland. >> thanks, rod. extreme weather alert. devastating scenes of destruction in the caribbean. tropical storm erika friday slammed into a small caribbean island generating ferocious flooding and some lethal landslides. look at the mud running over the cars. authorities say at least 20 people are dead. 31 others are missing. the good news, though, erika has been downgraded as it moves to the coast.

janice dean is following it all from the fox weather center. it is not a storm, it is a trough of low pressure. to the uneducated, that sounds like an afternoon thunderstorm. >> well, not quite, leland. it's still got a lot of tropical moisture associated with it and the potential for heavy rain, certainly mud slides as it gets into the higher terrain. the dominican republic and cuba. but right now it has been downgraded to an area of low pressure. so we're still going to monitor it because what remains of erika could regenerate but right now we're just going to see some heavy rainfall across florida, parts of the southeast and the gulf coast. there's our remnant low. very disorganized which is, of course, great news. 48 hours ago we were thinking this could be a hurricane. so there is what we are dealing with. that's the satellite radar imagery, what's left of erika and moisture streaming into florida as well as the southeast and gulf of mexico.

so heavy rain from erika, 3-6 inches potentially for south florida and parts of florida over the next couple of days. and we're in the tropical season so we're going to have to monitor what remains of erika. hurricane ignacio. it is a hurricane and it's expected to become a category 3 and possibly affect hawaii over the next couple of days. there's the radar over the hawaiian islands but taking a look at the track right now of ignacio. we think over the next couple of days strengthening category 3 storm and as it heads towards the islands, north of the islands, still the potential for heavy rain, downpours as well as gusty winds. so we're certainly watching that. it is tropical season. what's behind erika in the atlantic, the next named storm will be fred. we'll have to monitor that as we get into the next couple of days. still very active, but the good news, of course, is erika is no long longer. back to you, leland. >> a lot of folks in florida who

now can enjoy their weekend. janice, thanks. >> you've got it. presidential front-runners on both sides taking heat. former governor martin o'malley saying the democratic debates are rigged to help front-runner hillary clinton. he said it in front of the dnc chairwoman as trump insists a campaign event with $100 per person cost was not a fund-raiser. molly henneberg is here. >> reporter: he's leading in the gop polls and today the national federati federati federation donald trump tried to reassure the crowd he's a republican, he's a conservative, and why his candidacy is surprising the political establishment. >> there is a big, big growing like leaps and bounds silent majority out there, and we're going to take this country back and we're going to make this country so great again and so

strong again. >> reporter: meanwhile, this past week the democratic contender spoke to the democratic national committee in minneapolis. hillary clinton is the top contender for the democratic nomination but vermont independent senator bernie sanders, a socialist, is getting the party's attention with his large events and increasing poll numbers. sanders suggested to the party's leaders that it's time for something new. >> with all due respect, and i do not mean to insult anyone here, that turnout, that enthusiasm will not happen with politics as usual. the same old/same old will not work. >> there's a number of people here -- >> reporter: >> reporter: vice president joe biden did not attend the meeting. despite hillary clinton's problems with the e-mail scandal, biden still could face a tougho get enough delegates to win the nomination.

and clinton pointedly said yesterday the delegate count is something she is and has been focused on. >> we are working really hard to lock in as many supporters as possible. >> reporter: senator sanders also says clinton's long relationship with democratic party leaders gives her a, quote, huge advantage. elizabeth? >> molly henneberg reporting live. thank you. >> the strong views from women, we expect that from some of the terrorist groups. we expect that from people who don't want to live in the modern world. but it's a little hard to take coming from republicans who want to be the president of the united states. >> hillary clinton angered a lot

of republicans this week with her comparison of gop presidential candidates to, as you heard, terrorists. the inflammatory comments come as a tumultuous time for the lyclinton campaign, questions surrounding clinton's e-mail use are of course clouding her bid and turnout at campaign events seems unusually low considering her front-runner status, especially to some. josh, we'll get to the popularity later. first in terms of what we see almost a new -- i want to say anger and defensiveness is coming from hillary clinton. it seems as though she's trying to take a page out of donald trump's playbook and hit back and use inflammatory language. >> it's not a coincidence of the timing of these remarks she's trying to play to the base when there's a real worry about the e-mail scandal, about the popularity and energy behind her supporters to her campaign. this is a way to attack republicans in the most polarizing manner possible to get the base back onboard and to really tamp down talk about joe

biden possibly entering the democratic presidential primary. >> i wanted to point out this, an exchange she had yesterday with our ed henry. take a listen. >> reporter: were you aware that your husband wanted to get paid speeches to repressive regimes like north korea? do you have any comment on these that have raised questions about conflict of interest? and finally i wonder, you said there's nothing unique about the situation. you've said that before. can you name one other cabinet secretary who has their own server? >> well, let me answer one of your questions because i think that's what you are entitled to. >> that's what you're entitled to. she's not president yet. >> she's had trouble answering questions not just from ed henry but from almost every reporter that's been pressing her on the server and really a steady stream of revelations that haven't been positive to her campaign. that's not the tone you want to

strike when you have tough questions being asked of you. the goal of answering questions from the press was to tamp down -- >> and being antagonistic doesn't seem to be getting her think where. >> where there's smoke, there's fire. she's only making the fuel worse. >> this is a page out of the clinton playbook, if you will. she talked about the vast right-wing conspiracy against her husband during the monica lewinsky scandal. are they best when they're playing defense? >> that's part of the strategy but that was 25 years ago. the media market has changed in the last couple of decades. it's a dated playbook. having james carville and her old allies operate under that slower media cycle of generation of years past isn't as effective and she's finding that out the hard way as she's answering questions at press conferences and not getting the response she wants. >> she's not getting the response she wants from the polls. take a look at the latest poll showing hillary clinton's popularity as it compares, say, to bernie sanders may 28, 57%.

now 45%. those are the latest numbers we have. joe biden is coming up in the polls. and our ed henry, take a look at this. she is the front-runner, was at one point considered the runaway front-runner. the crowds are half empty. people aren't that enthusiastic. bernie sanders, 20,000 people to 30,000 people. >> the democratic nomination and the general election viability. for the democratic nomination she's still the favorite. bernie sanders is not going to be the democratic nominee. >> but people aren't excited about her. they're excited about him. >> the real exciting factor is joe biden. the reason he's looking at this campaign is he's seen those same numbers and he sees her as a possible weak candidate in a general election against whoever the republicans nominate and a lot of worry in democratic party

circles the e-mail scandal, the way she's been answering in a tenured type of way is hurting her ability to win. joe biden might be in for some real heartburn because he might be viewed as the electable democrat. if she's seen as weaker, joe biden might win some of that support. >> josh, stay tuned. there's going to be a lot to report. we appreciate your insight. good to have you. elizabeth? and coming up, losing ground in dozens of homes. high winds are exhausting firefighters battling fires out west. any relief in sight? we'll have the answer coming up. plus, horror for a young mother and her two children. the chain reaction that sent this car plunging into a neighbor's pool. we'll tell you how it all turned out. and brand-new revelations in the irs targeting scandal. >> the irs is stonewalling and instructing our freedom of

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could have washington state's largest wildfire ever get even bigger and spreading even further. the fires have already scorched, get this, 470 square miles. more than that officials say at least 45 homes and dozens of other structures have burned in washington. three firefighters we're told have also died battling the blazes. the entire region is suffering from high temperatures, as you can see, and very active wildfires all across the pacific northwest. now to new developments in the irs conservative targeting scandal, the agency reveals low the woman at the center of the scandal used the second personal e-mail account to conduct agency business. this as multiple members of the obama administration have come under fire for using secret e-mail accounts. the second account set up under the name toby miles, the name of learner's dog. you may remember the irs

announced e-mails were missing back in february of 2014. in june of 23014 the irs told committee investigators lerner's e-mails from january of 2009 to april of 2011 were, quote, locked. and in june of this year government investigators said as many as 24,000 scandal related e-mails were lost when 422 backup tapes were erased. so joining us now is mike turner, a republican member of the house oversight committee which is investigating the irs controversy. so take notes of all that history there to bring us up to date. >> sure. >> so the irs admitted in federal court there is a second e-mail account. now what? what does this mean? what's next? >> this is clearly a pattern of deception. what we've had from the beginning, the administration, the president said we're going to get to the bottom of this, but he's done nothing except permit multiple accounts to be used in his administration and allowed additional destruction

of evidence while subpoenas and investigations were going on. the same thing for the irs commissioner. as you say, he came before congress. i was there. said there were no lois lerner e-mails and now we learn there are. the result of the work of the house oversight committee, the inspector general, and the judicial watch, we are having new e-mails come to light that will give us some insight into what was happening. >> you will have access to these e-mails is what you're saying? >> in the end, of the e-mails that will be found -- they will be made public and will have an ability to do some oversight and hold people accountable but there are still thousands of e-mails lost as a result of the administration allowing the destruction of evidence while investigations were ongoing. >> when you talk about holding people accountable, ms. lerner resigned in 2013 but she's never necessarily been punished although admitted not necessarily in front of congress there was some targeting going on will anyone ever be held

accountable? >> i hope so. i think the investigations will be investigated. whether it's lerner or hillary clinton and the two e-mail systems, the basic issue is there were real violations of people's constitutional rights here with hillary clinton's aspect, the issue of benghazi, real issues that need investigation because there were very extreme consequences that people need to be held accountable for. this is not just people having a curious nature. what was our government doing, how were they harm people and how do we hold them accountable? >> what's the end game? >> continue the investigation. continue to hold the administration accountable. i think the forensics will produce additional e-mails. and in that we'll be able to find out what happened. i think clearly this is also a direction for the administration that they need to stop this duplicative pursuit of hidden e-mails and get back to using government functions and government e-mails. >> before the break we heard

that there's some stonewalling going on here. we've heard him say this is disturbing and many people would agree. what type of consequences could the public possibly see? some people were very much affected by this. >> right. and enforcing the laws, first off, of those that were broken, is part of the basis of the investigation. even the handling of government information where we have classified information that the mishandled, some of the processes themselves violate laws not just the actions themselves. >> okay. so what if we -- what if we learn that toby miles' account also, perhaps, has e-mails that are erased and you may not get access to all of those? then what? >> we need to pursue the forensics there. government and certainly the public deserve to have access to it. >> do you foresee people in government only using government addresses coming up? >> that has to be the end result here.

it's certainly standing policy and needs to be enforced. that's the only way we can hold the government accountable. are people doing their jobs and how are they harming the american public? that's the way we get to the end result is to do that assessment. >> all right, representative mike turner from ohio, thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> have a good one. all right. coming up, it's the fight over the original, many say best chicken sandwich ever. why are some trying to block chick-fil-a from opening up at the denver airport? a top attorney is here to weigh in on a controversy that brought up religion, free speech, and, of course, chicken sandwiches. plus, an attack thwarted. a week after three american heroes stopped a gunman on a french-bound train, what are these heroes up to next? we'll tell you up next. >> we got lucky in five or six different ways. in any one of those things went different, we all would have died.

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this is a fox news alert. we'll be bringing you a live news conference from houston at the top of the hour. we'll update the execution style murder of deputy darren goforth last night and whether they're any closer to catching his alleged killer seen here in an image caught on a security camera. now to denver where some city councilmembers want to stop a chick-fil-a from opening at denver's airport. one member says she worries the profits from the deal will, quote, fuel discrimination. their main complaint centers around a chick-fil-a executive's comments opposing gay marriage while others question the fast food chain's decision to close on sundays. the city council will meet again this tuesday. there's question whether they have the legal power to block the deal. a denver-based attorney joins us now to discuss. can the city council say we

don't like your owner's politics or religious views and you can't open in our city? >> they'll never get away with it. this is classic viewpoint discrimination. the most audacious type and they won't get away with it. i'm guessing the city attorney will instruct them they're off base, what they're thinking of doing is unconstitutional and it won't happen. >> one person said we can do better than this brand in denver. you're a lawyer and i'm not, chick-fil-a has never been accused of any kind of discrimination. this is the owner's political viewpoint. >> absolutely. that's what makes it pure ly constitutionally protected. it's just that the owner has made statements that offend many people, ge and lesbian people,

and politically correct people here in denver apparently. and they want to try to do something about it but nothing can be done about it. >> you say nothing can be done about it. city council can vote any way they want, and i'll take the liberty as a friend of yours to say you don't necessarily take mr. cathy's views but you would be willing to take his case if it came to that. >> i don't agree with his views and yet to my dying day i would defend his right to say such things. that is what our first amendment is about. that you can't discriminate against entities or people for the content of what they say. that's what we have here. >> or if they want to close on sunday. this is what chick-fil-a has said. they are focused on providing great food in genuine hospitality.

we include a proposed license location at the denver international airport. the city council can essentially do what they want. they can vote any way they want. if that happens, would chick-fil-a then have to sue the denver city council to be able to open up at the airport? >> they would have to sue. i believe they would prevail in the lawsuit and the city council would have to give them back their spot in the airport. i don't think the city attorney is going to let them do that. i think he's going to tell city council they're offbase and it would be unconstitutional. >> according to at least one of the city councilmembers it is really, truly a moral issue on the city to figure this out. if they don't take your advice

we'll have you back to discuss. woe appreciate having you come in on a saturday, sir. >> i'm honored always. >> you heard dan's point of view and what some of the city councilmembers think about this. should chick-fil-a be allowed to open in the denver airport? why? why not? if you want to say whether you like chick-fil-a sauce or barbecue sauce, put that on t t twitter, too. @lelandvitter, @elizabethpran and we'll read some of your thoughts coming up later in the show. the three americans who subdued a gunman on a high-speed train traveling to paris are adjusting to their newfound fame. an exclusive interview with greta van sustern, alek skarlatos talks about jumping to

action. >> it was right in front of me so i grabbed the handgun immediately. tried to shoot him with it twice. it was empty at that point. i tried to grab the ak-47 at his feet. i apparently tried to shoot him with that as well but then i start started beating him over the head with the muzzle. i just hit him about four or five times so he would stop moving. >> you can watch this special tomorrow. you certainly don't want to miss it or greta's show any day of the week. raerg hurricane katrina ten years after the storm struck the gulf coast. thousands pause to reflect on the damage and the devastation in the region. we are live in new orleans. >> reporter: elizabeth, numerous events are planned across the big easy this weekend to honor and remember those victims.

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the gulf coast. thousands are taking time today to remember the lives lost and a city changed forever by that storm. casey stegall is live. hi, casey. >>. >> reporter: good to see you. at 12:44 local time there were no numerous reports of water inundating neighborhoods in and around new orleans. we all watched on live television as people were plucked from their roofs of their homes. many climbing up there because waters were rising so quickly. some 1,800 people across the gulf coast did not survive. this morning a somber ceremony here in the crescent city on canal street. a wreath was put out in honor of the victims. but on this day many we've talked to say they choose to

look forward. at antoine's restaurant that will celebrate 175th anniversary this year business, they tell us, has never been better. the ceo paid all of his staff, even though they did not reopen, until four months following the storm. >> i don't think anyone ever gave up and we certainly didn't. we did what every other community does, we reinvested this our community because that's what's important to us. >> reporter: president bill clinton is going to look back on all of the progress made. tourism numbers are up here. it is a city that has been reimagined and rebuilt and the people here say that's what they want to focus on is the new new orleans and not looking back a

decade ago. elizabeth? >> casey, we appreciate it. next hour we'll speak with the pastor of the franklin avenue baptist church in houston. we'll discuss how faith is keeping a community of refugees together after being force d to flee from new orleans. a deadly disease that wiped out much of europe back in the middle ages is making a new appearance right here in the united states. dr. manny alvarez is here with what you need to know to keep you and your family safe from the plague. the frightening chain of events that led this car driver with two small children to crash into a neighbor's pool. and critics are calling the gop front-runner a, quote, flip-flopper. but will the charge stick to teflon don? our political panel weighs in coming up. i'm using my own money.

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a car in miami took a wrong turn and ended up in a swimming pool. try explaining this one to your husband. police say it all started as a crash involving two cars. one car started to spin off the street, crashed through a fence, flipped upside down and then landed in the pool. a neighbor saw the whole thing and helped the woman and the two young kids inside the car get out. evidently they got out through the trunk. and we can joke about this and think this is possibly something that could happen to elizabeth prann because no one was hurt. center for disease control is now confirming that an elderly man in utah died from the plague earlier this month. utah is the seventh state to have seen cases of the plague in 2015. 12 people have been diagnosed with the disease in the u.s. this year. the cdc says that's a significant increase in the number of plague cases from

previous years. so for more let's bring in dr. manny alvarez, a member of fox's medical a-team. dr. alvarez, thank you so much for joining us. i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> so we haven't seen anything of this nature since 2009. can you explain to me and the viewers how this is contracted and why is there more of a concentration out west? >> well, i mean, it's endemic to the area. that's for sure. and every year we average about seven cases every year of human exposure to the plague because it is endemic to the area. the optic this particular year is we have 12 cases, which is above average, and there have been three deaths already. now, let's talk about how this happens. this is endemic to the area, in other words, it's found in rodents, specifically in those areas. i think we're seeing more cases exposure to humans because there's a major drought in

california. so the rodents basically, you know, run away from drought, they're looking for parks or better water. and this is when the humans come into contact. however, if you do come into contact or get a flea bite, which is typically the methodology in which you get plague, if you recognize the symptoms, you can get treated with antibiotics and of course there's a 90% survival. if you don't get treated with antibiotics and the doctors don't realize that you have the plague, then the mortality could be as high as 90%. so, you know, i think the message is very important for consumers or for people if you're sort of camping in areas that you know are endemic for this kind of disease, the plague, you know, take protections by wearing repellants, pants are very important so you don't get bites on your feet. don't come into contact with any kind of dead animal or anything related to dead animals because you can get exposed to the plague. >> okay. so let's say you are camping.

how quickly will you start to see symptoms? and what type of symptoms should you look out for? >> well, the symptoms usually occur about six to seven days after exposure. and they start like a flu like type of symptom. you don't feel well. you develop high fevers, very high fevers. you may notice that your lymph glands are engaged. you may vomit. that becomes into a septic shock type of picture and you die. so you have to be careful that if you develop these symptoms especially after you've been outdoors for a while or if you came into contact with any animals or you notice you have any tick bites or flea bites on your legs, then go ahead and seek medical attention right away because this could be potentially dangerous. >> what does treatment look like? you said antibiotics, but when you talk to someone who's contracted lyme disease that even with treatment may have lyme disease their entire life.

is this something totally different? >> no, this bacteria is pretty easy to diagnose. a lot of the typical antibiotics that you know are very effective. this is a bacterium that is well recognized by doing cultures or by microbiologists when they study your blood they can isolate it and indeed treat it very effectively with a whole different kind of broad antibiotics with a penicillin like antibiotics that you're familiar with. >> all right. dr. manny alvarez joining us live. thank you so much, doctor, we appreciate it. >> thank you. we are standing by for a live news conference out of harris county, texas. that is near houston. we're going to bring that to you live as it happens scheduled for the top of the hour. the community there as you might imagine is shocked and saddened following the execution style killing of one of their own deputies. plus, secretly tracking the cell phone of suspected bad guys and why thousands of convictions

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nice to be with you for hour two. i'm leland vittert. welcome to "america news headquarters" from washington. >> and i'm elizabeth prann. here's what's making headlines right now. the sheriff's office in harris county, texas about to have a news conference. could we be learning more about this killer whose image was captured on a gas station security camera. donl trump is bringing in b big crowds today. our political panel joins us for a fair and balanced look at his so-called flip-flops. and remembering the hundreds who lost their lives during hurricane katrina ten years ago this weekend.