>> sarah: all right. another busy day. the president will be holding that rally in iowa tonight. stay tuned for that on the fox news channel. thanks for joining us. i'm sandra smith. here's shep. >> shepard: it's noon on the west coast. 3:00 in flint, michigan where there is word the fbi is looking at terrorism as a possible motive for the stabbing of a police officer at the airport. a live update straight ahead. also, the former homeland security secretary says the russian president vladimir putin ordered the hacking of the u.s. election calling the interference unprecedented. a current homeland security official revealed how many states the russians targeted. the white house still will not say whether president true even believes moscow's meddling happened. we can soon see the senate healthcare plan. some republicans still say they don't know what is in it. can gop leaders pass a bill before the july 4 break?

deadly weather. a record heat wave in the severe weather. tropical storm cindy claims a life before making landfall. target, texas, louisiana, mississippi, bam, the florida panhandle and eventually arkansas, tennessee, kentucky and the carolinas. 18 million people about to get drenched. let's get to it. >> and first from the fox news deck this wednesday afternoon, the fbi is looking at terrorism as a possible motive after a man stabbed a police officer at the airport in flint, michigan. that's what a law enforcement official tells the associated press. happened at bishop international airport this morning. michigan state police say the officer is lieutenant jeff neville. witnesses say they saw him bleeding from the neck. police tell us he's stable in the hospital. the fbi reports the suspect is now in custody and officers are questioning him. a witness says the suspect had a blank look on his face as police

lead him away in handcuffs. bryan llenas with an update. bryan? >> shep, the fbi took the lead on the investigation right from the get-go. a law enforcement official speaking on condition of anonymity. tells the associated press that they're investigating reports that the suspect said "allah akbar" during the attack. in a statement the fbi says "the fbi with our local state and federal law enforcement partners is jointly investigating the incident to determine the nature and motive for the attack. we're aware there's reports of statements the attacker made. it's too early to determine the nature of the alleged statements or whether or not this was an act of terrorism." michigan state police telling fox news the officer's name is lieutenant jeff neville. the 55-year-old's condition has been upgraded from critical to stable. he's been a police lieutenant supervising at the bishop international airport in flint since 2001. witnesses describe reportedly

seeing lieutenant neville bleeding from his neck, while on his hands and knees and a knife lay nearby on the ground. the suspect is canadian born. the canadian embassy releasing a statement a short time ago condemning the heinous act and they say canadian law enforcement is now assisting in the investigation. shep? >> shepard: bryan llenas, thanks. let's turn to tara maller. she's a spokespersonç for the counter extremism project. tara, you're here again. what is your take on this one? >> i am here again. this is coming on the heels of a few attacks over the past few days. we saw a vehicle attack in london, one in paris, a dead nated bomb in brussels. we don't know if this is an act of terrorism. authorities are treating it as such. we don't know about the individual suspect. isis has been calling for the attacks, low sophistication, knife and vehicle attacks.

we're seeing people probably on their own. doesn't look like it was a cell yet. doesn't look highly coordinated, not yet. looks like it may have been an individual that saw the attacks over the past few days and perhaps was motivated by a group. we don't know that yet. took a knife and went to an airport and tragically injured a police officer. >> shepard: yesterday in brussels, the attacker couldn't get past security. is that the same case? >> right. so i mean, the good news to this is that there wasn't any detonation at this airport. nobody at least right now is reported killed. they evacuated immediately. looks like the law enforcement handled it smoothedly. the fbi is treating it as a terrorism case. they have him in custody. so this will all become clearer. the suspect, the attacker is not dead, so authorities will question him the next 24 hours. the immediate concern right now is making sure that he's not

coordinating with anybody else to do this sort of attack or anything worse. or to make sure that he's acting in isolation, which it seems at this point that he is and to calm the community that this is an isolated incident, which for the moment seems it is. >> shepard: is there something that can be done here, tracking on social media, see something say something, anything new? >> again, i mean, i feel like a broken record. we keep seeing the low sophistication attacks and it's difficult to stop a vehicle or a person with a knife. in this case, they stopped it quickly. in the case of brussels, nobody was killed in that explosion. there were probably signs earlier if this individual was radicalized, there's probably signs that could have been picked up on as people close to this individual, we don't know if he was on law enforcement's radar. if he was like in other cases, we need to see if there's any

the attack itself doesn't require a lot of money, doesn't require bomb making, expertise. doesn't really require any training. the attack itself once it gets to that point, very, very difficult to stop unfortunately. >> tara maller in washington. thank you. >> thanks. >> shepard: the russian government waged an up precedented attack on america's election system in nearly half of the states in the united states. that's new today. half of the 50 states targeted. operating under the orders of vladimir putin himself. it's now confirmed. that is according to current and former homeland security officials testifying before congress today. the house and senate intelligence committees held separate meetings. former homeland security secretary jay johnson was among the witnesses at the house hearing. he told lawmakers there's no doubt that president putin was behind the interference in america's election.

>> in 2016, the russian government orchestrated signer attacks on our nation for the purpose of influencing our election at the direction of vladimir putin. that is a fact, plain and simple. now the key question for the president and the congress is, what are we going to do to protect the american people and their democracy from this kind of thing in the future? >> shepard: the former homeland security secretary says russia's meddling was on his front burner the weeks before the election. he said he's satisfied with his efforts to stop the kremlin's interference. but there's more that can be done to stop russia. >> it was unprecedented of the scale and the scope of what we saw them doing and there's been clearly been intrusions before by a number of state actors as i'm sure you're away. >> shepard: jay johnson said in the weeks before the 2016

election, he reached out to states to offer them help to offer russian fighting hacking efforts. most states accepted his help. some resisted. on the senate side, a current official confirmed russian hackers targeted almost two dozen state election systems. she also testified that there's no evidence that the hackers affected the final vote count. >> we as of right now have effort of 21 states, election related systems in 21 states that were targeted. >> but in no case were actual vote tallies altered? >> that is correct. >> shepard: in arizona, russian attackers targeted their systems. but the homeland security administrator said they cannot said who else was targeted because it's up to the

individual state. there couldn't be confirmed evidence of the americans helped the russians. that's part of the investigation. a special counsel that robert mueller is leading. president trump has called the investigation a witch hunt to detract from his election victory. he has never acknowledged that russian interfered in our election. a reporter asked sean spicer about that yesterday. >> generally speaking, this conversation about russian interference in our elections, there's 16 intelligence agencies that say that they did. the former fbi director said without a doubt -- >> i've seen the reports. i understand. >> does the president share those views? >> i have not sat down and asked him about his reaction to them. i'd be glad to touch base and get back to you. >> shepard: there's breaking news now on fox news channel. you may have heard, there's increased concern about north korea's nuclear activities. there have been sightings of movement at a north korean underground nuclear testing

facility and concerns with the chinese visiting north korea that there mate be a sixth at the time. rex tillerson speaking of this live. that was the end of the speaking. we know the increased activity at this nuclear site was spotted yesterday. in the early afternoon hours here east coast time, when the tests do happen, they normally happen sometime between 10:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m. east coast time. so they're on high alert watching for these things. what it would mean to the increasing tensions with the north koreans remains to be seen. we'll get much more and bring you the highlights in just a moment. first, let's get to peter doocy live with more on the house intelligence committee hearings on russian meddling in our elections. peter? >> the former dhs secretary, jay johnson, was here, shep. he was asked many times why

didn't you do more ahead of the election if you knew the russians were meddling to warn americans what may be coming? he said he started to put out a statement on october 7th was plenty. he said part of the statement said "the u.s. intelligence community, usic is confident the russian government directed the recent compromises of e-mails from u.s. persons and institutions." the problem is that statement got almost no press attention because it was released the same day as another major october surprise. >> it did not get the public attention that it should have, frankly, because the same day the press was focused on the release of the access hollywood video. that's what made our news that day. >> johnson says that 2016 was nothing new for russia. they have a long history of dealing with the u.s. elections and so do other countries.

they wouldn't say which one. shep? >> shepard: what did jay johnson say about the targeting of state election systems, peter? >> he said as far as he knows, the hackers were not able to penetrate deeply enough to change anybody's votes. >> is that still your opinion, with respect to the 16 election, that the intrusions or attempted, whatever it is, russians or others did, did not affect the actual voting itself? >> based on everything i know, that is correct. i know votes were not altered or suppressed in some way. >> still, their investigation is not over. so the top republican and top democrat on house intel last night met with a special counsel, bob mueller who has his own outside probe. >> i would say we discussed how we can coordinate both of our efforts as well as the effort in the senate to make sure that we can give them a heads-up in terms of the course of our

investigation that we don't intrude on the potential prosecutorial equities. >> and jay johnson said right now the committees are focused on a lot of different things. he wants them to focus on preventing the interference in the election down the line. shep? >> shepard: thanks, peter. while that hearing was happening in the senate or in the house, the senate side was also taking up russia's meddling in our election and an fbi witness revealed the hacking of our voting systems might have been more widespread than anybody realized. that's coming up from the fox news deck. just a little later, two major weather stories. a killer heat wave in the southwest and a tropical storm in the southeast. both extremely dangerous. comprehensive coverage ahead. beyond is a natural pet food

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july of last year, the russians honed in on 21 states and wanted to get access to this wroter registration data. they wanted to see what it was and whether it could be manipulated for future influence operations. >> concerned that manipulating voter registration databases could be used to sabotage the election process on election day if voters are removed from the database and show up election day, that will cause problems. if voters are added to the voter registration database, that could be used to conduct further attacks. >> witnesses today described a scenario last summer where the russians were like cat burglars, going through a neighborhood trying to see which houses had unlocked doors and trying to get inside. they were successful getting into the databases in illinois

and arizona. there were 19 others that they probed or scanned. those names are not public and it remains a great source of frustration for the senators. >> i have no interest in trying to embarrass any state. but we've seen this for too long in cyber. people try to sweep this under the rug. >> republican senator marco rubio said to the hearing this morning that in a lot of ways, it only matters that the russians tried to target and probe the databases because it was enough to undermine confidence in the final outcome of the election, shep. >> shepard: after six months or six months after the election, still a lot of frustration on the local level, i understand. >> well, there's a second panel here today on the senate side. these were local and state boards of election officials. one of the surprising things,

after all of this last year, they're still not getting access to classified intelligence or the comprehensive briefings. >> the former dhs secretary jay johnson repeatedly told my colleagues and i that no specific or credible threats existed in the fall of 16. it's unclear why our intelligence agencies would withhold timely and specific threat information from election officials. >> that kind of contrast is what the we heard from jay johnson earlier today on the house side. one thing the experts were unanimous about, the russian's goal was to undermine confidence in our system and to sow seeds of division. one of the witnesses testified that you could argue the russians have been largely very successful. >> i don't know for certain whether the russians would consider themselves successful. in many ways, they might argue

that because of the time and energy we're putting on this topic it's distracting us from other things. >> one of the concepts that the witnesses talked about, something called the gray zone. this is battle states between peace and conventional warfare where you have actors like russia or terrorist groups trying to exploit the seams. they do with these information operations because they cannot compete with the united states economically or militarily and that is exactly what we saw last fall, shep. >> shepard: catherine herridge live. thanks, cat. one of the president's attorneys caused confusion this weekend when he said the president is not under investigation. moments after he said the president is under investigation. up next, judge andrew napolitano is here to put that question to rest. new bike? yeah, 'cause i got allstate. if you total your new bike, they replace it with a brand new one.

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>> shepard: more on the busy day on capitol hill. the house and senate intelligence committees holding hears in interference in the 2016 election. special counsel, robert mueller meeting with the top republican and democrat. robert mueller was appointed to lead the investigation into possible ties between russia and team trump. we're also trying to keep track of the mixed messages coming from the president himself and his lawyers and the white house staff raising the question, is the president the subject of an fbi investigation or not. judge andrew napolitano is here. our senior judicial analyst. i mean, there was an investigation underway. the president fired the investigator. that's part of the -- why would that not be looked into? makes no sense.

>> the investigator was fired, he stated under oath to the senate intelligence committee the president asked him to shut down an investigation of general flynn. the president said if you want to keep your job as the head of the fbi, you'd -- >> shepard: he didn't exactly say that -- >> that's the essence of it and fired him. is that enough to commence an investigation? yes, it is. so when jay secula said that he's being investigated and not being investigated and that night the president treated i'm being investigated for firing somebody that told me to fire him, that's a witch hunt. that created confusion. i suggest to you it's a definition of words. so i'm going to cut through the chase. the president is the subject of a criminal investigation. he's not the target of a criminal investigation. target means they plan to seek your indictment. they can't indict the president

for what he did. they can only send it to the house judiciary committee for impeachme impeachment. can they investigate him? of course they can and they are. >> shepard: so he's under investigation -- we already knew this. all of this chatter about seems -- it's inconsequential in the grand scheme of things. as far as the investigation goes, it's underway. happening now. the rest of this is chatter. it's look over here stuff. >> the look over here may be to energize his base that does not change the attitude of the investigators at all. that may decide there's no there there and the investigation will end or they may decide somebody will get indicted. once we indict that person, we'll ask them to testify somebody north of them on the totem poll. that's the way it takes about. >> has michael flynn flipped? >> we don't know yet. >> by that, has he turned federal evidence? >> he probably wouldn't do that

until he's been indicted. i doubt he's been indicted and we don't know it. i can tell you, his lawyers have been negotiating with bob mueller's lawyers. we don't know what they're negotiating about. >> is the silence deafening to you? >> it means yes. >> he says he has a story to tell. he just wanted immunity. >> he's probably not going to get immunity but will get something in return about that story. and whom will the story be and what will he say? that's what we're waiting to here. >> shepard: where do you see this go something just as far as the investigation goes. it appears to be broadening. "the washington post" and their fine reporting. >> with clinton, started out with the land deal and ended up with a blue dress. started with is there anybody in the trump campaign that helped

the russians hack hillary. that's what they're looking for. and now they're into why was michael flynn fired. was it for a corrupt purpose or was it for a noble purpose. did michael flynn lie to the fbi when he told them about what he said or didn't say to ambassador kislyak. a lot of us believe when the fbi interrogated general flynn, they had in front of him a transcript of his conversation with the ambassador and he did know it. he didn't recount the same conversation that they knew took place. is that a lie, a crime? should he be indicted for it? if he's indicted, will he become a cooperating witness? those are answers we want. >> shepard: we'll find out and until then we'll all yell at each other. everybody needs to relax. it's summertime. >> yes. >> shepard: thanks, judge. >> you're welcome. >> shepard: the relationship between the united states and russia is extremely contentious. a new wrinkle. russia's deputy foreign minister says he's cancelling with the u.s. undersecretary of state or

a new round of sanctions. the trump administration announced yesterday that the united states is imposing sanctions on 38 russian individuals and firms over russia's activities in ukraine. that announcement came on the same day that trump met with the ukrainian president at the white house. a spokesman for the state department says -- >> shepard: tensions are at an all-time high. russia threatened to take down american aircraft over syria a date after an american fighter jet shot down a syrian war plane. and president trump claiming victory in georgia. the democrats said this is a referendum on president trump. it's a referendum. if the democrat wins, the outsider doesn't belong there. if he can win, president trump, that's coming at you, a referendum on you. the referendum is done and

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spent equals zero. the gop has won four special elections, the fifth in california features two democrats. so it's unclear what the president meant by 5-0. the president says they would do better as a party if they got together with republicans on healthcare and tax cuts. the president down played the idea that the georgia election was a made you're test for the party. >> there's a special election today. is this election a referendum on the president in any way? >> i'd say i'm not going to comment on the political nature of an ongoing race. if you look historically, special elections generally don't foretell the outcome of races multiple years down the road. >> shepard: but they're happy today. total spending on the georgia special election, $50 million making it the most expensive

house race in history. john roberts is live there today. sounds like the president is a happy guy. >> no question about that. you saw sean spicer playing the expectations game. you lower expectations, you win and surpass them, you always try to take advantage of it. no other way to put it. this was a big win for president trump because the democrats tried to turn this into a national election as you pointed out, a referendum on the president. had handle lost, the democrats would have taken that ripple and tried to turn it into a big wave for 2018. this now puts a lot of wind in the president's sails. the election challenges are over. the candidates won't be running the anti-trump ads, won't be any more stories about whether the voters will go against the question. the big question, can he turn it into legislative momentum? he has a lot of big ticket items on the agenda now. he has healthcare repeal and replace making its way through the senate.

we wants tax legislation in the fall. will he get the train going on it or will the white house continue to be distracted by the russian investigation. >> shepard: first, the president celebrated the house version of the bill. then he called it mean. >> he did. the white house is keeping mum about this. secretary of health and human services tom price and the administrator of cms held a listening area with people from missouri, people about to lose healthcare. we were expecting that tom price would come out and talk. he did. he left it to the folks in the meeting to talk about what they had discussed with the secretary and the administrator. it was clear from talking to one woman, candice fowler, that those folks are still in the dark about what direction this will take. listen here. >> they didn't offer any plans, they didn't offer any insight advice about what is going to happen in the future. they did feel like we had people

listening. that goes a long way with me. >> were there more details? >> i will look for more details. i won't have coverage at the end of the year. >> she's facing a wall. she didn't hear much from the white house. she said they're working on it. why all the secrecy around the bill? he called the bill to be mean and they want to be more generous. they don't want to draw a lot of fire from the conservatives from the house, the freedom caucus. so until they get language, we won't hear a lot about it. >> shepard: thanks, john. now from reaction on capitol hill where senate democrats and republicans are accusing gop leaders of keeping the healthcare bill secret. they are doing that. don't have to accuse. that's what they're doing. mike emanuel has the news on capitol hill. it's a secret till tomorrow, right? >> that's right, shep. we expect republican senators to get a first look at the bill tomorrow morning around 9:30. marco rubio says senators want

to act quickly because their constituents are hurting, but rubio says they want to make sure they get it right. the senate majority leader says it's time for action. others sound apprehensive. >> i'd like to see vigorous debate. almost none of us have been involved in shaping it. >> the past seven years obamacare has hurt the people we recent. the republicans have offered ideas for a better way forward. and soon, soon we will finally have the chance to turn the page on this failing law. >> gop leaders are hoping the congressional budget office will weigh-in on the impact and the price hoff this bill either friday or monday. for democrats, they're accusing republicans of a lack of transparency of rushing this

through. shuck schumer said if the healthcare plan was any good, they would be bragging about it. >> they would be preaching about it from mountain tops, a brass band on every street in america announcing the new legislation. but no, they're afraid to even whisper about their bill. they want it out in the open for as little time as possible. >> democrats and the rest of us are expected to get a look at the bill when it goes online tomorrow, shep. >> shepard: thanks, mike. let's bring in erika warner from the associated press. we don't know what is in it, but republicans have a lot of mouths to feed. they have to get it past the people and the right and left and it's a tall order. >> we have some idea who is writing it and what is in it. clearly who is writing it is mitch mcconnell and some of his aides and a few senators. as far as what is in it, it won't be all that different from the house bill.

as the president himself has indicated, it definitely has to be more generous if it's going to pass the senate or in an unusual situation for congress where it's really very suspenseful as to what will happen next week. will there in fact be a vote? probably so. will it pass? at this time we don't know. >> shepard: sounds like there will be a floor debate, however short, but no hearings at all. is that right? no opportunity for amendments? >> well, once the bell comes to the floor there will be an amendment process called a voteranma. there will be unlimited amendments but they will be disposed of quickly in partisan votes in all likelihood. that could later on show up in campaign ads depending on how these votes go. however, yes, as you say, zero hearings on this legislation.

zero opportunities for public input, for the public to see this until tomorrow when we expect to see this bill for the first time. >> shepard: about a 1/5 of the budget affects about 1/5 of the people. when are we expecting to get the congressional budget office score and what are we expecting to have any insight on that? >> that is the million dollar question. or the $100 million question. we're likely to get it monday. that's the expectation. that's when we'll really start to find out how things will go with the vote on this bill. because senators won't be able to make up their minds on it until they really see how much this legislation costs and importantly how many people are covered. as you know, the house bill would have cost coverage for $23 million people. the senate bill has to do better. we won't know how that is going until we get the cbo score. >> shepard: that should be sometime before they vote on it,

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>> shepard: two big weather stories today. tropical storm cindy in the gulf of mexico and headed ashore. late-breaking, it's killed a child in lower alabama. and a dangerous heat wave threatening the southwest on this first day of the summer. adam clots is live with more. tell us about this tropical storm. >> it's just starting to slam in portions to the gulf states. you're telling me about the death in alabama. a lot of times this is due to tornadoes that we've seen pop up along the front edge as i slams into the shore bringing heavy rains. the tropical storm itself, a little farther off to the west. i can bring you in on this circulation there. that is our tropical storm lifting up to the louisiana, the texas border, moving to houston.

that will continue to lift that wave. most of the heavy rain, the areas we're paying attention to, that is farther off to the east. generally the eastern side, that's where you're seeing the bigger weather. wind gusts, 20, 25 miles an hour. this is more a rain maker than anything. it brings in big fleeting. here's the path of the season as it makes its way on shore overnight, early tomorrow morning. you're seeing it making landfall around the border and then lifting and moving its way back off towards the east. becoming a low pressure system. still, this is a system where we'll be talking about heavy rain falling as it moves that direction as it slowly tracks to the east bringing with it a whole lot of rain. >> shepard: hitting shreveport to memphis. a tornado in fort walton beach, florida. local areas, nine inches of rain. expecting a foot in some areas. they can use that in the southwest. can't believe how hot it. >> it's been incredible. heat piling up.

as a result, temperatures currently climbing close to 109. we will top off in phoenix area, which has been the spots where we've seen the planes grounded getting up to 119. this may be the end of the peak but not going away entirely. the next couple days, the heat will be sticking around leading up to portions of california and finally looking at the next couple days unfortunately we're talking about heat in phoenix, las vegas and portions of southern california hovering near the 115, 116 range. so maybe dropping five degrees is it. they'll be dealing with some heat into the weekend, shep. >> shepard: local coverage on fox 10 in phoenix and fox in las vegas, it's a scorcher. good luck to you guys. breaking news now. jurors have acquitted a black former milwaukee police officer of reckless homicide after he shot and killed a black suspect. the shooting last year sparked riots in the city. prosecutors argue the former officer dominique hagenbrown

seen here didn't need to shoot the suspect who threw away the gun. this is an image of the suspect. a police expect said that the officer acted in accordance with his straining. matt finn has more. >> a jury found the former police officer not guilty on the first degree reckless homicide charge. right now the former officer is walking free. this all stems back from the shooting last summer near milwaukee where dominique hagenbrown shot seville smith. that led to riots in milwaukee. our crews were there. there were days and nights of rioting in an around milwaukee. eventually the officer was charged with murder and led to a week-long trial that wrapped up to nine hours of deliberations and today, a decision that

officer found not guilty. on a side note, hagenbrown still faces jail time. he was fired after he was charged with an unrelated sexual assault charge that is pending right now, shepard. back to you. >> shepard: thanks, matt. president trump's son-in-law and senior advisers in the middle east. jared kushner set to meet with israeli and palestinian leaders. it's a one-day trip. they say not to expect much. but can he come up with the ultimate deal? peace in the middle east? a live report from jerusalem. that's next.

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>> shepard: president trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, jared kushner, arriving in the middle east today. he met with leaders of israel

and the palestinians to try to restart the peace talks. this month marks 50 years since israel captured the west bank, east jerusalem and the west strip. palestinians claim these areas for their future independent state. connor powell with more. >> shepard, jared kushner arrived earlier today facing a difficult negotiating environment. he met with prime minister netanyahu earlier in the day and is now meading with mahmoud abbas as we speak. the environment here is similar to what other middle east envoys have faced before. violence over the weekend. an attack that kill and israeli police officer carried out by palestinian attackers. kushner met with that police officer earlier. yesterday prime minister netanyahu touting new israeli settlements in the first bank, the first in years. the big issues that we've seen that other envoys have faced, violence and settlement.

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>> shepard: on this day in 1788, new hampshire ratified the u.s. constitution and became the law of the land. the document created a strong national government with checks and balances. it also gave power to the states. a few states refused to sign on until they cut a deal to help establish the bill of rights. and our nation finalized the documents to create a more perfect union 229 years ago today. should news break out, we'll break in. breaking news changes everything on fox news channel. "your world" with neil cavuto next. i'm guessing he will talk about the dow and the nasdaq and oil, which is settled in to a recent

low hovering right around $42 a barrel. that is hurting some fracking enterprises and making their stocks go down. a lot of movement in the markets. who better to break it down than neil cavuto. i'm shepard smith. i'll see you in the news break. >> neil: all right. thank you, shepard. you're right about the oil. it's in a bear market. we'll get to that. i want to bring you up to date on what we're waiting for. an anybody news conference, bishop international airport where an officer was stabbed in the neck earlier today. the fbi who took in the assailant is not ruling out terrorism. the agency is investigating witness reports that the suspect apparently shouted out "allah akbar", god is great. the officer was in critical condition. i understand right now he's in stable condition. he's been identified as lieutenant jeff