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@gretchencarlson #therealstory. 92% of you say you done get your news from facebook. only 8% say yes. hey, happy 13th birthday to this gorgeous creature. i'm not even going to be able to get her up in time. my daughter. happy birthday. let's see the people that we know we can beat! >> hillary clinton looking to regain momentum in the final state primaries before the big one next month. but oregon and kentucky. look under your seats. >> you get a vote. you get a vote. and you get a vote. >> bernie sanders sees an opportunity to extend his streak. >> we think we have a shot to win here in kentucky. >> reporter: but if clinton wins it all, what becomes of this guy? >> my husband i'm going to put in charge of revitalizing the economy because you know, he knows how to do it. >> how the former president fits into the plan. >> would he be in your cabinet? >> plus new details on how some conservatives may still be plotting to stop trump at the convention.
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and united in their sacrifice on the battlefield, wounded warriors face off on the playing field. one of the heroes from this year's invictus games joins us live. so let's get to it. >> now "shepard smith reporting" live from the fox news deck sxwlp and first from the deck this primary tuesday, as donald trump takes aim at hillary clinton, she is still trying to shake bernie sanders. analysts say it's a fight in kentucky that the clinton campaign did not expect. rival bernie sanders campaigned in that state over the weekend. that left hillary clinton scrambling to add rallies to her schedule to avoid yet another setback to sanders. >> i need you to go out and work for me, bring everybody you know to go vote in the primary. >> reporter: still no matter what happens in today's primaries in both kentucky and oregon, it is all but impossible for senator sanders to win the nomination. the math does not work for him. as we've been reporting, he's under pressure from some
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democrats to clear the way for hillary clinton to focus on the general. the likely gop nominee donald trump is already getting a head start. now he's previewing his attack plan against hillary clinton. donald trump told "the new york times" newspaper that during the debates he plans to confront her over bill clinton's sex scandals. trump's argument here, hillary clinton helped her husband cheat by attacking the women involved. today trump tweeted, "amazing that crooked hillary can do a hit ad on me concerning women when her husband was the worst abuser of women in u.s. political history." he actually wrote "woman." guessing he meant "women." but some analysts warn these tacks could backfire. they point out hillary clinton's popularity soared during her husband's sex scandal in the '90s because a lot of people sympathize with the former first lady. and the clinton campaign responded in the "new york times," "there's a long lines of republicans who set out to personally attack hillary clinton but ended up inflicting the damage on themselves. no matter what he throws at her,
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she will keep running her own campaign and won't hesitate to call him out." a clinton campaign spokesman told bloomberg her strategy will not be for her to attack trump personally. instead she'll stick to policy issues and making his words count, as they put it. team fox coverage now this primary tuesday. john roberts outside trum headquarters, or i should say trump tower here in new york city. dan springer in portland, oregon this everyone. first to rich edison live in lexington, kentucky. what's clinton's pitch to voters there, rich? >> reporter: well, shep, hillary clinton has been campaigning here in kentucky. yesterdays and this weekend. she's been focusing on the general election and the presumptive republican nominee donald trump. though eastern kentucky is coal country and she's been forced to explain comments she made a couple of months ago about putting coal companies and coal miners out of business. clinton says she would push funding to help areas hit most by the decline in the coal >> a
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coal country, to help coal miners, to help the people who have done so much over a hundred years to turn on our lights and power our factories. >> reporter: kentucky also has a large auto manufacturing sector and presence here. she knocked bernie sanders for voting against the auto bailout. sanders' folks say that's a mischaracterization of his position, that he supported the bailout in a series of votes, he did vote against something else for financial companies, shep. >> rich, sanders has clearly been on a winning streak. he's won a bunch of states, though the math isn't there for him. is there any indication now that clinton could stop that streak? >> reporter: she's done well in this state before. in 2008 she won 65% of the vote against then senator barack obama. this was her best state in 2008 except for west virginia and in arkansas. but as you saw in west virginia
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she performed well there in 2008, and bernie sanders won widely last week. so kentucky is a closed primary. only democrats can vote here. that is a dynamic that has favored hillary clinton. you had to have registered to vote here by december 31st of last year. even bernie sanders is acknowledging that in states where independents can vote for him he performs better. that's not the case here in kentucky. also kentucky has a large minority population, larger than west virginia. that's a dynamic that's helped hillary clinton in the past. there are 55 delegates at stake here in kentucky today. polls close here in this part of the state, the eastern part of the state, at 6:00 p.m. eastern time. out west 7:00 p.m. shep? >> rich from kentucky, thank you. now toar or where the analysts say hillary clinton could have an advantage in that state because of the way oregonians have a primary system that works. voters had to pick a party weeks ago and only registered democrats can vote in the primary today. analysts say that could mean lower turnout of young and
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independent voters, and as we've learned, they tend to support bernie sanders. team fox coverage continues. dan springer, portland, oregon this afternoon. the analysts are saying that state could go either way, right? >> reporter: yeah, it really could, shep. you know, in this state there's been very little polling. but what has been done shows hillary clinton with a sizable 15-point lead. however, this would be tem graphically a sanders perfect tailor-made state. it's largely white. it's very democratic. it's liberal. and it's a state in which hillary clinton lost to barack obama in 2008 by 18 points. bernie sanders has done a lot of campaigning here. he's hit the big cities with big rallies in portland, eugene, and salem. but this is a closed primary. only those registered as democrats a month ago can vote in the democratic primary. sanders appeals to a lot of independents and young people. 48% of registered voters under 30 years old are unaffiliated.
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hillary clinton, meantime, never even visited the beaver state. she did send bill for one event. in that poll taken just over a week ago, clinton had a 31-point lead among likely voters older than 45. but she had a 44-point deficit among those younger than 45. and when you look at people who are registered to vote who are younger than 30, 89% support sanders. yes, there is a generation gap. shep? >> dan, thanks. conservatives' fight against donald trump is not over. they're looking for a sort of hail mary. across the country conservatives are scouring the republican party rulebook searching for any last-ditch moves that they could use to try to sink trump at the convention. that's according to the "washington post." it reports veteran campaign operatives are right now offering to teach delegates how they can act as free agents. the conservative blogger erick erickson reports that some republicans are trying to find ways to unbind delegates. but the rnc chairman reince priebus said that strategy will not work. last month he told nbc news if a delegate is bound to a
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candidate, even if that delegate decides later i don't care, i'm not voting for that person, the secretary at the convention will read the roll and if that delegate voted for the person that they're bound to, period. john roberts live at trump tower here in manhattan. some conservatives also considering another option, right? >> reporter: yeah. first to what you just talked about, that scenario there, shep. i've run it by people in the know in the rnc. they say it would be impossible for that to happen, that the delegates are bound according to the vote in their state. the only thing these people could potentially do is to try to convince enough delegates and their alternates to not attend, that trump can't get a majority on the first ballot and then when the delegates become unbound you see where you go from there. but here's the scenario that no one is talking about. this is a highly placed source in the republican party told me that some donors and party insiders are meeting and they are meeting to try to put together a third-party candidate, which would be a none of the above. now, this would not be a single third-party candidate to run
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nationwide. this would be a series of third-party candidates in individual states, maybe six to nine of them, where hillary clinton or donald trump won by very small margins. the goal of this, shep, would be to deny both hillary clinton and donald trump the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency. and if neither one of them gets to 270, you know where that goes. it would be the house of representatives and the 115th congress that would decide who the president was. that's only happened once in our history, back in 1825, when john quincy adams was elected by the house of representatives. this of course would place an awful lot of focus on the down-ballot races, the races for the house of representatives, because if you could deny them from getting to 270 then you've got to have favorable people in the house of representatives to vote for your person. could this happen? i ran the scenario past randy evans. he's a member of the rnc rules committee. he is also the chairman of the republican national lawyers association, who said at first blush i thought it sounded a lit outlandish but after looking at the various laws, prior
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elections, et cetera, et cetera, i'm not so sure. under these circumstances it could work. it's a long shot, but it could work. after all, this is one crazy election year. and it sure is. shep? >> john roberts, thank you. marco rubio unleashed a late-night tweet storm to shoot down speculation about his next move. the former presidential candidate targeted a "washington post" column that cited sources close to the senator from florida. they said marco rubio is unsure what he'll do when he leaves the senate. among his many tweets rubio wrote, "funny to read about unnamed people close to me who claim to know my thinking on future plans. they just make it up." and "i have only said like 10,000 times i will be a private citizen in january." again, that from marco rubio. the "washington post" followed up with a column today quoting "unless rubio plans to list private citizen as his occupation on his 2017 tax return, he's going to have to get a little more specific.
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he's free to take his time, by the way." but why so angry that a journalist would point out his uncertainty? more politics ahead, including a look at one of hillary clinton's weapons to take on donald trump. and speaking of trump, whatever your plans are for this evening, you should probably cancel them because our own megyn kelly has a primetime special on the fox broadcast network which includes a blockbuster face-to-face interview with the billionaire candidate himself. want a preview? here you go. >> most kids between the ages of 6 and 16 have been bullied at some point in their lives. were you ever bullied? >> no, i wasn't. but i have seen bullying. and bullying doesn't have to just be as a child. i mean, i know people are bullied when they're 55 years old. >> could happen when you're 45. >> it happens, right? but you've got to get over it. fight back, do whatever you have to do. i've been saying during this whole campaign that i'm a counterpuncher. you understand that. i'm responding. now, i then respond times maybe ten.
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♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (whispers rocket) donald trump says his plan
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for the economy is simple, make america great again. that's about the extent of his specifics. ask hillary clinton for her economic plan and you'll get an earful. that's according to the former top strategist to president obama, david axelrod. he told npr, "i don't think hillary clinton wants to do anything in one sentence. that's the problem, right? she wants to do things in paragraphs and pages." the former strategist says clinton's campaign message is not sticking with voters. so how can she counter trump's dramatic slogans with some sort of, well, policy? maybe by turning to a larger-than-life personality of her own, like her husband. lisa lehrer is a national politics reporter for the associated press who just wrote about bill clinton's role in his wife's campaign. nice to see you. >> thanks for having me. >> double-edged sword, that one always is, isn't it? >> yeah. i mean, bill clinton brings a lot to the ticket for hillary clinton. he remains very popular. very high popularity ratings. not only among democrats but with the broader population. he's particularly good with
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speaking to voters in places she's had trouble performing like white voters in the south where she's done not quite as well as we've seen her do with minority voters across in other parts of the country. but of course he has baggage and he brings all those scandals of the '90s which donald trump has said he's going to put front and center in this race. >> he was always very good, and i think his critics and detractors would agree, he was very good at taking the narrative to the place where he wanted it. she, i think her detractors would agree, is not as good at that. what she's trying to do is talk policy while donald trump is trying to speak in expletives and sound bites. how in the world is she going to make that turn? how do you make people listen to policy specifics when you have this other guy over there screaming at you? >> that's definitely a challenge for hillary clinton. i think there's a little bit of a debate in democratic circles among those supporting secretary clinton about whether she needs sort of a proactive message of her own or whether running
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simply as not donald trump is sufficient. i think folks in her campaign believe really strongly that she needs a message and a clear message. they think they've laid one out, that she's thoughtful, that she'd guide the continue and continue some of the work that president barack obama has done. obviously, there's a lot of people, a lot of democrats who don't agree. you just quoted david axelrod. he's one of them. some of those folks are hoping that bill clinton can help solve that problem. kind of like what he did in 2012 when he won the nickname messenger in chief for helping convey president obama's message to the country. >> she slipped up a little bit according to her campaign when she said that bill clinton would be "in charge" of the economy and economic matters. they've since tried to dial that back. but she gets held to words like that in a way that donald trump does not. and you wonder how that's going to play down the road. >> yeah, it does seem like there may be -- that donald trump has a little more freedom in some ways with his words, although i think folks who are supporting
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donald trump would tell you that that's not the case, as evidenced by the -- sort of that outrage over "the new york times" story this past weekend about his relationships with women. but i think she did get a little bit over her skis there by saying bill clinton would be in charge of revitalizing the economy. what she meant to say is he would have a portfolio that would look at place that's have been hit hard by the changes in our economy like coal country, appalachia, and he would help those communities figure out a way to move forward and revitalize their economic engines. but saying that you're going to put your husband in charge of anything is not what you want to be saying here. but it underscores how unusual the situation would be should she win the white house. not only would we have the first dude, as people like to call president clinton, but you'd also have a former president back in the white house with the current president. >> yeah. it's all quite a thing. hey, great to see you. thanks for dropping by. appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. >> a long-time democratic
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congressman is now on trial accused of corruption. prosecutors say he used campaign money to help cover his son's college costs. and frankly, that's just for starters. did he also, though, really try to trade a government job for money? details in the congressman's side of the story. that's coming up. real cheese people,
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prosecutors say a united states congressman took bribes, stole charity money, paid his son's college tuition with campaign funds, and used a lobbyist as a "human atm machine." those just some of the accusations against the pennsylvania democrat chaka fatah, a man who is currently serving his 11th and apparently last term in the u.s. house of representatives. he lost his primary race last
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month and now he's trying to avoid losing his freedom because prosecutors say congressman fattah ran an elaborate scheme to fund a failed campaign to become philly's mayor back in 2007. they say congressman fattah took out an illegal $1 million loan from a former banking exec. then stole charity money and federal grant funds to help pay it back. investigators say he also promised to get federal money for a non-profit that did not even exist to pay off another campaign debt. then there's that lobbyist i mentioned, the human atm. prosecutors say congressman fattah tried to land him a job with the obama administration in exchange for cash and gifts. prosecutors say the lobbyist put in $18,000 payment down on a vacation home for fattah and supposedly bought his wife's porsche even though the car never left her garage. fattah's lawyers say the congressman's aides stole the money in his name and that he knew nothing about it.
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so with that as background, judge andrew thnapolitano, fox news's senior judicial analyst, here to break it down for us. there's a lot there. scl this is enormous. if i brought the indictment, it is easily 3/4 of an inch thick. that is the government's version in summary form of what happened here. if the government's case is true, congressman fattah is facing life in prison. >> wow. >> they've also thrown in two other crimes. one is running a criminal enterprise, and the second is obstruction of justice. >> that's mafia stuff. >> correct. exactly, shep. by falsifying documents and sending federal prosecutors on wild goose chases saying it wasn't me, it wasn't him, it was him. so we have a very, very serious case here. which was ultimately fruitless for him. the goal was to run a campaign for mayor of philadelphia, to finance it with these loans. he lost the campaign for mayor of philadelphia. then he began scrambling to pay back the loan. >> now, the people testifying against him, the main witnesses -- >> are his former comrades.
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so his allegation is they're a bunch of crooks, they lied, stole, and cheated, did all of this on their own, i knew about none of it. you indicted them, and they turned state's evidence against me not because what they're saying is true but because they want to stay out of skral themselves. this is a very standard operating procedure federal indictment. you've got a top guy at the totem pole, you indict everybody below him, and then you make deals with all those people so they'll all testify against the top guy. the feds almost always win when they do this by the sheer volume of people taking the stand against their former colleague and boss. >> how would you characterize the quality of the evidence against him? >> i would say the evidence of his guilt is overwhelming. i don't know if the feds offered him a plea deal. but i am going to suggest that they must have offered him one that he couldn't have taken because he is facing life in prison. if i had to predict the outcome, it's guilty on all these counts and a sentence that will lock him up for the rest of his life.
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>> even if they can thoroughly discredit his former cronies, there's enough pure evidence? >> well, yes. the pure evidence as you say comes from banking records and cash checks that fbi agents are going to testify. the who, what, when, where, and namely why is going to come from his former colleagues. the jury may not even care why because the evidence of these fraudulent schemes, this lying, cheating, and scheming to pay back the million-dollar loan, this effort to get his buddy a federal job, that evidence will come from documents that don't lie and can't be cross-examined. >> 11 terms in office. what a fall. >> yes. it's a catastrophic fall for him. and as you is say, he lost his primary bid recently in the pennsylvania primary sew won't be on the ballot by november. i think he'll be in jail by this november. >> his wife a prominent news anchor there. what a crazy thing. >> they did some things in her name. she is not indicted. the feds do not believe she even
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knew that her husband and his cronies were using her name. >> certainly nothing there to suggest. >> right. >> thank you, judge. >> you're welcome. >> wow. iran is accusing kim kardashian of being a secret agent. [ laughter ] i know. i laughed at it too. but the iranians are very, very serious about this. kim kardashian a secret agent. lillian has some details over here. >> yes. an international conspiracy theory would finally explain why she's so popular. secret agent kim, special agent -- special weapon the selfie. it sounds ridiculous, but it's exactly what the iranian government believe. they think that instagram is paying her to specifically target iranian youth and turn them into vulgar fashion models. and they are very serious about this. >> does everyone get a jet? >> i'm sure that is what they are wanting but they're shutting it down pretty quickly. a lot of iranian citizens who have kim kardashianesque posts,
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their pages have turned into this sign, which basically says the justice department has shut it down. it doesn't seem like they're going to be able to shut kim down. last night she accepted an internet award and said nude selfies till i die. so she's set on continuing her kim kardashian -- >> hundreds of millions of dollars. it's impressive. >> it really is. quite the empire. >> thank you. more politics ahead, including the focus on the showdown in california that's coming up next month. also, on may 12th of last year, eight people died when an amtrak train hit a curve at more than double the speed limit we were told. for the last year relatives of the victims have waited to find out how and why this happened. well, today they got an answer. and it's next. when a moment turns romantic why pause to take a pill? or stop to find a bathroom? cialis for daily use is approved to treat both erectile dysfunction and the urinary symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently, day or night.
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not start until the next president is in office. a judge delayed the court-martial to february. if you remember, bergdahl faces charges for walking off his combat post in afghanistan back in 2009. president obama later traded five taliban prisoners from guantanamo bay for his release. a paramedic will face trial on charges that he stole a rolex from james gandolfini on the day that he died. that's what officials told nbc news. prosecutors say the paramedic nabbed the $3,000 watch after the "sopranos" star had a heart attack in rome that was almost three years ago. and a police sergeant looking for speeders found more than he bargained for. his dash cam caught a giant ball of fire hurtling across the sky. police say it happened early this morning in portland, maine. scientists say you could see the meteor in several states along the east coast. the news continues with shepard smith right after this. ng for r. then we asked some older people when they actually did start saving. this gap between when we should start saving
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the billion-dollar "harmony of the seas" now docked at the english port of southampton. workers spent nearly three years building this humongous ship in france. some images in our slide show for you this afternoon. it has 16 decks, nearly 1,200 feet long. longer than the eiffel tower is tall. longer than four football fields. it's also the widest cruise ship ever built. more than 215 feet across. it has room for nearly 6,800 passengers and more than 2,100 staffers. here's one of the 2,700 rooms on board. the ship also features swimming pools, hot tubs, and this water park with a 100-foot slide. an auditorium as well. 20 restaurants. 24 guest elevatorelevators. the "harmony of the seas" set to make its inaugural voyage to barcelona on sunday. more politics now. hillary clinton looking to put a stop to any momentum that bernie sanders might be building. clinton has campaigned hard in kentucky ahead of today's
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primary there. she made about a dozen stops in the past couple of weeks and ran tv and radio ads in the state's biggest markets. senator sanders also campaigning in kentucky over the weekend. he now seems to be looking ahead to the next big contest next month in california. he has a rally scheduled there tonight. peter doocy in carson, california south of los angeles. hey, peter. >> reporter: and shepard, bernie sanders not on the ground in the states that are voting today, oregon and kentucky, trying to round up votes. he is looking way ahead on the calendar to the final giant prize remaining, california. and 7 1/2 hours before he gets here to this 8,000-seat tennis arena there is already a long line of knocks here to see him. and somebody asked senator sanders this morning at a stop in puerto rico if any losses tonight in either oregon or kentucky would slow momentum ahead of california and he responded like this. >> i haven't lost yet, have we? so we'll see what happens.
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our goal, we've been working really hard in both states, to bring out a large voter turnout. >> reporter: and the clintons know in california sanders is not going away, asking supporters for money because they say, "we're fending off attacks from donald trump and building massive operations in battleground states, and here's the thing. bernie's team doesn't have to do that. so they can focus 100% of their efforts on california." and 100% of bernie sanders' effort is going to go to helping hillary clinton if he is not the democratic nominee. his campaign manager this morning ruled out the possibility of sanders running as a third party or as an independent. he said if he can't seal the deal he's just going to try to help mrs. clinton beat trump. shep? >> peter doocy, carson, california. thanks. the engineers at the control during a deadly amtrak derailment went from distraction to disaster in seconds. that's the word now from a member of the national transportation safety board. it came today.
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federal investigators say the engineer had heard on his radio that somebody threw a rock at another train. that news apparently bothered him so much that he lost track of where he was. and they say that's when he took a sharp curve at more than 100 miles an hour, double the speed limit. eight people died in last year's crash in philadelphia. four of them thrown right off the train as the cars slid along on their sides. officials say dozens of other people were hurt, many of them seriously. doug mcelway's been following this and is live with us from capitol hill. doug in. >> reporter: a central problem in getting answers to this crash is that the engineer brandon bostonian suffered a severe concussion in the accident and claims ton remember the several preseeding moments before the train derailed at 106 miles per hour on that turn where the speed was 50. what investigators do know is minutes before the crash a nearby septembera commuter train engineer broadcast over the radio that his windshield had been smashed by a thrown object, probably a rock, and that he was
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requesting medical attention for glass in his face. that would get anybody's attention, especially the amtrak engineer bostian who was heading toward that disabled septembera train and may have feared the same thing happening to him. >> the engineer's prolonged attention to the septembera train may have caused him to lose situational awareness of where he was. but even if he knew where he was, this int rupgs in a have caused him to forget his next task. >> compounding the problems of bostian's memory loss the engine cab was not equipped with either forward or inward-looking cameras which might have record bostian's actions. that has since been remedied on all amtrak trains, shep. >> what else do we know about this engineer, doug? >> well, they do know for a fact that he was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol. he had no medical issues. he was not on his cell phone at the time. and he had met all the requirements for proper rest. there were other contributing factors to this accident,
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however. that stretch of track was not equipped with positive train control, which slows or stops the train automatically in the event of an obstruction or an overspeed. it now is equipped with that device. also, several of the train windows popped out during that rollover. four passengers died as you heard when they were ejected from those windows. the ntsb has recommended that amtrak redesign the windows so that they do withstand such an impact. shep? >> doug, thanks. that massive fire in canada is still growing. and officials have ordered 8,000 oil workers to evacuate their camps. this is happening north of fort mcmurray where some 80,000 people are still homeless. officials say the air quality is way too bad to let them go back in there. the fire pushed them out more than two weeks ago. it also destroyed thousands of homes and buildings across that city. a u.s. marine helped save victims of the 9/11 attack on the pentagon and was hurt so badly that doctors had to eventually amputate her own leg.
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and she's just won a whole bunch of medals at the invictus games for wounded warriors. she'll be with us live next. but first a reminder about megyn kelly's must-see interview. she sits down with donald trump and others. it's on the fox broadcast network tonight. i said 9:00 eastern 8:00 central. that's not right. it's 8:00 eastern 7:00 central. check your local tv listings for the fox broadcast network. then complete primary coverage and here on fox news channel on satellite and cable. it's an all-fox night. two channels, two sets of trump. and megyn starts us off.
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some people nobody can stop. they will not let the odds stand against them. and in a moment i'm going to introduce you to one such woman. her name is sarah rudder. she's a retired united states marine, badly hurt while helping out at the pentagon after the attacks of 9/11. her injuries so terrible they eventually cost her her left g
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leg. but they did not touch her spirit. this last week in atlanta sarah rudder won seven medals at the invictus games, games for wounded warriors. and she did it all with a prosthetic leg. sarah rudder is with us now live from san diego. sarah, congratulations. it's great to meet you. >> you too, sir. thank you. >> hey, i want to list these medals. seven of them. three silvers and four golds. but this all really started back on 9/11. when you were already injured that day, right? >> i was. prior to 9/11 back in 2000, exactly after boot camp, i had a small ankle fracture, and they did a small scope surgery after that. the doctors were intending to medical board me and i continued to fight because i wanted to stay in the marine corps. so i asked for a second opinion. two months prior to the pentagon being hit i was in a car accident where i suffered a traumatic brain injury. on september 11th i was being
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promoted. and shortly after promotion the pentagon was hit. me and my best friends, ashley cedar, lance corporal, ran down to the pentagon in aid, and we separated victims by severity of disability or if they had small lacerations they were transported to our local base gym where they received care. the following day, as soon as the flames were diminished from the pentagon, myself and ashley cedar entered the pentagon to remove non-survivors. upon removing a non-survivor, i had my ankle crushed in between two concrete barriers. but i pulled it out, and i continued to remove non-survivors for the next 24 hours. >> how do you do that? what is it in you that is not in everybody else that gives you the strength against all that pain and that sort of impossible circumstance to do that? >> everyone deserves a proper burial. and any peace that we could have
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brought to the families for closure meant the world to me. >> i just wonder where you find it in yourself. i think a lot of people are looking to heroes like you for inspiration. how do you dig so deep to be able to do that when you yourself were so badly hurt? >> there are so many service members out there that have a lot more severity injuries than me, and including visible wounds as well as physical wounds. and i just want to be their support system, and hopefully i can help inspire one of those members to be active in their community and through sports to get through their injury as well. >> well, you've inspired a lot of people around here. we have so much video of the competitions at invictus. watching this 100-meter race, i mean, it's not just that you got out there and competed, which would be, you know, an almost impossible feat for so many people, but you went out and won a gold medal.
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what did that feel like? >> it was honorable. i actually entered the event not thinking i was going to win a single medal. so bringing home seven was a shot to me. >> i've been looking at the pictures of people you met. i know prince harry was there, and you snapped a photo with him. how was that? >> it was an honor. he's the one who brought about the games in the first place, where we could show our abilities that we could overcome our injuries and continue through a life of sport. for him to bring about this proehl production is amazing. >> bush the 43rd, george bush and his wife laura there as well. and i see you guys took a photo together. you had dignitaries from everywhere in there giving you love. >> yes, sir, we did. we had tremendous support. >> you competed in so many different categories. indoor rowing you have a victory, you have a gold. it's category after category. how are you able to train for so
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many different kinds of things given the fact that, let's face it, you lost half a leg? >> yes. i decided to push myself after my amputation and regain all those years that were taken from me with a limb that was being salvaged. and i trained three times a day every day at my local cross-fit branch, driven strength and conditioning. i trained there every day with the coaches. i threw every day with a local high school coach, teal, and i would also run on top of that. >> it was 14 years after your injury on 9/11 that you made the decision to amputate the leg. how difficult was that decision, and how did you come about it? >> honestly, it wasn't difficult at all. i wish it had been done sooner. i wish it was in so much pain. and i had a limb that wasn't functioning and i was living off pain meds. from the side effects of the pain meds i had my gallbladder removed.
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i was having kidney stones every three months. and the side effects just weren't worth it. >> i want our viewers -- i'm going to drop the banner at the bottom of the screen because i wa want our viewers to see your arms. the bookers tell me your tattoos are inspiration. tell me about them. >> i wear my heart on my sleeve, and on my arm i have the pentagon from september 11th and i have the torn american flag. >> and there are some superheroes down there too, right? >> on my prosthetic leg i have all-female superheroes. just to show that not only animated superheroes can have strength but women in real life can have the strength to get over their disabilities and continue in life. >> i see the medals around your neck. can you hold them up just a little bit so our viewers can see them? you've got a few there. oh, my god. that's crazy. you're able to do things that very few can. and i wonder if you have some words of inspiration for men and
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women across this nation who sometimes can't find the intestinal fortitude to get up and go and they don't have half your problems. >> i would just say believe in yourself and have the strength and go out there and put your heart and soul into it. just because you have a disability doesn't mean you're incapable. and i want to inspire others in order to have that strength as well. and hopefully, one day they will go out and compete or just do something they enjoy and love again in life. >> sarah rudder, as i've said and as everyone knows watching, you're an inspiration. congratulations on all your success in overcoming so many obstacles. thank you for your service, and it was really kind of you to be here today. i appreciate it. >> thank you, sir. >> sarah rudder, united states marine, american hero. pretty cool, right? we'll be right back. you do all this research on a perfect car, then smash it into a tree. your insurance company raises your rates... maybe you should've done more research on them.
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call 888-429-5722 now. on this day in the year 1902 a diver found an ancient object that many have called the world's oldest computer. it turned up in a shipwreck off the coast of a greek island. researchers say they think it's thousands of years old. experts say this device could predict future positions of the moon and the sun. it also kept track of the locations of upcoming olympic games. a big deal in greece. scientists say they recently created a working replica of the machine after it first mystified the world 114 years ago today. should news break out, we'll break in because breaking news changes everything on fox news channel. utilities and consumer goods down.
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so dow down, what, 26 of the 30 industrials are in the red today as opposed to the green. neil cavuto will bring context and perspective, and we'll see you later if things get weird. have a great afternoon. all right. thank you, shepard, very much. i'm neil cavuto and this is "your world." and this is probably the last thing that hillary clinton wants to hear. not just the sell-off today. stocks go up, stocks go down, as the late great onld reagan used to say. but what precipitated the sell-off, growing suspicion the federal reserve might just go ahead and raise interest rates this year. and not just once, not just twice. maybe as many as three times. that was the reading from the san francisco federal reserve president, who seems to think the economy is strong enough to withstand that and some data out today that seems to confirm that. i mix it with politics today because rising interest rates in the middle of an election year, though not