york, and dodged what could have been very, very serious event, goal was to take out quite a few people. it never succeeded. las vegas where it did. las vegas residents are getting a visit from the vice-president giving them the tip of the hat to say. elizabeth: a car slamming into pedestrians outside of one of london's top tourist destinations, injuring several pedestrians. we're live on the ground this very hour. leland: hurricane nate strengthening, now expected to be a category 2 hurricane when it hits the gulf coast this weekend. rick leventhal in the big easy where they're preparing for the worst. hi, rick. >> and leland, lake ponchartrain is pretty calm right now, but things are expected to get wild in a few hours. we'll have a complete report coming up. elizabeth: and vice-president mike pence is attending is unity prayer service in las vegas today. we'll get the latest on the investigation into monday's deadly massacre.

♪ and welcome to america's news headquarters on a very busy saturday from washington, i'm elizabeth prann. leland: a lot of tweets this morning for sure from the president. nice to have you back, by the way, we is m-- we missed you last weekend. great to be with you at home. i'm leland vittert. elizabeth: in london, a driver striking pedestrians in one of london's busiest neighborhoods. police responding to the scene a little after 2 p.m. several people are injured and one person detained. the police haven't released many details. we will have a live report coming up a little later in the show from london, of course, if there's anything that breaks we will bring it to you immediately. leland: yeah, watching for news conferences out of london. meantime, president trump heading to the tarheel state tonight for a fund raising dinner in greensboro, north carolina, but it's been a very busy morning of tweeting at the white house and that's where we

find our rich edson on the north lawn. >> good evening or good afternoon, leland. it's always a busy saturday morning for the president when this comes to tweeting here. the president will leave this evening and go to that fundraiser in north carolina. but he will leave us, leland, questioning what exactly he meant a couple of days ago when flanked by military officers, he said, this is the quiet before the storm. he was asked a number of times exactly what he meant by that comment and the president would only say, you'll find out. reporters then asked the white house press secretary, sarah huckabee sanders what the president meant and she didn't offer much more information. >> we're never going to say in advance what the president's going to do, and as he said last night, in addition to the comments, you'll have to wait and see. i think you can take the president protecting the american people, always extremely serious. he's been very clear that that's his number one priority and if he feels that action is necessary, he'll take it.

>> the president's warnings come as a few national security deadlines and issues are floating around the headlines. the president in eight days has to decide what he's going to do about the iran nuclear deal. every 90 days the white house must certify whether iran is complying about the bulk of the agreement. and it's twice said that they're complying with major components of the deal although the white house would consider a path where iran is failing to comply with the nuclear agreement, but continue to send a nuclear related sanctions and essentially leave the united states in the deal and leave congress up to figure out whether the u.s. should officially withdraw. there's also north korea, the kim jong-un regime has continued its weapons development and seems like every few weeks, the president and kim jong-un tend to get in a back and forth over officials statements from north korea and the president's twitter feed. also, the vice-president is on his way to las vegas right now. he will arrive around noon las

vegas time and this is less than a week after that shooting killed 59 people in las vegas. the vice-president, according to the white house, will speak to a las vegas unity prayer there. democrats are pushing gun control members, and even republicans, the house speaker paul ryan is open to looking at and should look the a the bump stop, and that's what the shooter used to turn that into a fully automatic one, back to you. leland: the political fight to come. rich edison on the lawn. more on that throughout the show and more on the president's agenda. thank you, rich, throughout our show. boston herald columnist michael graham on what the reach out to chuck schumer on health care might mean. the president announcing that on twitter this morning. a major republican donor on what it's like to raise money as republicans in congress struggle to get things done. elizabeth: a fox news alert.

louisiana, mississippi and alabama have all been declared a state of emergency as hurricane nate heads directly toward the gulf coast. the mayor of new orleans has issued some mandatory evacuations and our own rick leventhal has the latest. hi, rick. >> hey, elizabeth, the last time a hurricane hit louisiana in october was 15 years ago, lili in 2002 as a category 1. nate could be a cat 2. there are warnings and watches across the gulf coast, west of new orleans to florida and there are states of emergency that have been declared. and there are a lot of preps going on right now. the obvious thing is, this isn't harvey, it's not irma, but the governor says we need to pay close attention to this storm. >> no one should take this storm lightly. it is already claimed the lives of at least 20 people in nicaragua and in honduras. and as we know from past storms,

low intensity doesn't necessarily mean low impact. >> president trump has now approved the emergency disaster declaration so fema and homeland security will help coordinate the relief efforts here, a short time ago, the governor actually tweeted, i spoke with the president this morning and he assured me louisiana would have all the assistance we need as we prepare for nate. those preps include closing some 200 storm flood gates like this one right here and also setting up close to 150 barricades on streets likely to flood. they have handed out sand bags and activated the national guard in boats and high water vehicles at police and fire departments, and they've evacuated oil rigs and oil platforms ahead of the storm which is expected to bring powerful winds and heavy rains later tonight. >> one of the greatest threats of this storm is not necessarily interior rain, but storm surge. it is a serious concern to us. the projections are that we

could see six to nine feet of surge so given this threat i'm ordering mandatory evacuation of venetian isles, lake katherine and various areas of new orleans. >> and lake ponchartrain pretty calm at this hour, but the storm is moving fast. the city of new orleans has a curfew that will go into effect 7 p.m. local time tonight, elizabeth. elizabeth: all right, rick, we'll stay in touch. appreciate it. leland has more. leland: and zoom out for the picture now as forecasters believe that nate will be category 2 before it's from where it is. and big picture, adam, how much worse is the storm going to get? >> well, the wind speeds are going to be picking up, leland. in the next several hours, we look at 96 miles per hour and this is a category 1 storm, 95,

96 miles per hour that's when you jump up to a category 2. and this is a quick mover, moving north-northwest at 26 miles per hour, and often times when we're talking about the storms moving more 8 to 15 miles per hour, this one lifting very close, very quickly on its way up the coast. so we'll pay close attention to it. likely making landfall late tonight into early tomorrow. as it moves he's running over warm water. if you're at 80 degrees, that's enough to continue to develop the storm and that's why we'll watch it jump from category 1,s eventually here, to category 2. and i'll put it into motion, as it runs over the warm water. late tonight likely. likely a category 2 storm, it's right on the boundary. we're looking again, there's your cone of uncertainty, but looking at a stretch from new orleans over to mobile, all areas that are going to be impacted heavily from the system. and that's early tomorrow morning, so the system

eventually lifting off the coast and it's going to be an event that takes place tonight into early tomorrow. you can get an idea where your circulation is. pay attention to our time stamp. by the time we get at 11 p.m. to midnight. that he is when you really start to see the effects impacting the gulf coast. it's going to linger though. this isn't just going to hit and run off right away. so i'm thinking, 10, 11, midnight. now to 3 a.m. looking at the gulf coast and getting the rain and strong winds before this lists to the north and folks in portions of alabama and portions of georgia are going to be experiencing this. no surprise here. you're looking at a stretch of hurricane watches and warnings and storm surge is an issue, especially on the eastern half of this. in some cases maybe up to nine feet of storm surge. we still have several hours, lela leland, but i think it's

wrapping up if i can tomorrow morning. leland: really quick. the storm is worse on the dirty side and it's critical around lake ponchartrain in new orleans? >> everything we're seeing is also in the cone of uncertainty. you can nt say for sure, it's trending more to come up on the eastern side of new orleans, which means the bigger storm surge would be stretching off closer to mobile. but, again, it's within that cone. so, it obviously could jog a little west in new orleans and those areas could be right in the brunt of it. with the storm surge we have a lot more effect. leland: thank you, adam. elizabeth: officials in las vegas are saying they're sure that stephen paddock acted alone, but don't know why he did it. while authorities search for a motive, visitors pay tribute to the 58 killed. will carr has the latest. >> the authorities are still

struggling for many answers, but there's a lot of new information, including the fact that investigators believe that stephen paddock may have been on the 32nd floor and may have fired at the huge fuel tanks before he came back and started firing on the concert. a number of people ran this way and physically knocked this fence down and onto airport property. and back to the room was paddock was there, they found a sheet with a series of numbers and they're analyzing that to see if they're significant to the case and they believe he may have hired a prostitute in the past km of days leading up to the attack and they're trying to figure out everyone who may have been in had a room exactly when they were there and what they were doing and we've learned that he went on at least a dozen cruises with his girlfriend. marilou danley, he liked to travel and they're looking into

his history when it comes to that. as the investigation continues, this city is really mourning, they're trying to heal and there's now a memorial in front of the iconic welcome to las vegas sign. a carpenter from chicago drove down and he set up 58 wooden crosses and on each cross he put their names and put individual pictures of each individual victim who was shot and killed on sunday night. it is extremely powerful and extremely emotional. >> it's heart breaking, it's so beautiful, but so devastating. it's every emotion at once. the kindness of this community is just amazing. >> and as part of that healing process we're expecting vice-president mike pence to come to the city shortly and he's going to give a speech and pay tribute to all of the victims.

elizabeth: all right, that's the latest. thank you very much. leland: we'll follow the vice-president's visit as rich edson just reported. and they've said that bump stocks, modification to the weapons need to be examined in the wake of the attack. let's bring in bob driscoll for more insight on this subject. we're a long way from an agreement or even a bill on something like this, but suppose that everyone gets on the same page, the stock and horror of las vegas and say, okay, we're going to make bump stocks illegal. conceivably that's only for bump stocks manufactured after a certain date. pretty hard to do this retroactively? >> well it could happen a couple of difference ways. the president and a.t.f. could regulate bump stocks and say to be be part of a machine gun and

they could do that without congress. and the obama administration approved a part of it and it wasn wasn't-- >> there's a regulatory action, didn't qualify as a machine gun. can that be challenged in court. is that something that a pro gun rights group can take on even if it's not the n.r.a. >> the administrative procedure act saying it's contrary to the statute and the findings of the obama administration, which is why passing a statute would be a more secure way of doing that. and it's a challenge by someone. >> how does the supreme court look at this these days, vis-a-vis gun rights and the second amendment versus the government's desire to protect citizens from the attacks that we saw. >> something like this a prohibition on the type of

weapon used, the court hasn't spoken on, other than to suggest that it's okay for the government-- i mean, everyone understands you can't have your own personal cannon. leland: although some people would like. >> right, exactly. you can't buy an f-15. and in the appellate decision, the court made clear talking about personal rights of firearms. and it's not which, it could be public safety and firearms could be restricted. that's an area that's ripe for litigation. in this country people are on both sides and-- >> and look at it practically. slide fire, they make the most popular, and they were sold out, and so many people were buying bump stocks after the shooting, that they were worried. we know that in the past, the n.r.a. are some of the most powerful lobby in washington.

there's the practical issue, you can't do door-to-door even if you make bump stocks illegal and take them from everybody. it doesn't work that way. practically if there's legislation about these, how is it going to work? >> i think it would be perspective, most likely, a round up of existing bump stocks, like you said, probably impractical. so a ban going forward. leland: kind of like with machine guns, anything after 1988 was illegal. >> or the assault weapons ban a certain period certain types of weapons were prohibited. it would be something like that and there's utility whenever you do that, things will be out there on the secondary market and things can be found. so, it's-- and that's always the fight. leland: and it also, conceivably, you regulate bump stocks, bump stocks were an answer to the machine gun ban and somebody is going to come up with another answer mechanically or otherwise perhaps that does the same thing. well, as this works through congress or perhaps through the a.t.f., we'll get back to you.

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t too. too. >> congress is getting ready for the next debate on capitol hill, the tax reform. g.o.p. leaders are preparing for an intense discussion, to say the least. for insight let's bring in new york congressman chris collins. >> nice to join you, liz. elizabeth: i appreciate it. the house is passing a budget, resolution blueprint. there is going to be a difference between the senate version and the house version. i want your take as we leave the week on the budget resolution that was passed. >> the key is we need to get the budget so we can go into budget reconciliation and bypass the filibuste filibuster. and we all know the promise that

we made and the president as well, we need to keep that promise. elizabeth: the plan was by november 13th and house was more aggressive, october. do you think that's feasible? . yes, we don't have a final version out of the senate, but there are going to be differences? >> we need to get it done and signed this year so it takes effect january 1st and we can see the job and economic growth leading into next november's election, and that's why our timetable is to get is out of the house in october and get it over to the senate. let them do what they're going to do and certainly there are going to be differences and we can reconcile those in conference and get those on the president's desk to sign into law at the end of the year. that's aggressive timetable, but one i know our leadership is committed to because, one thing that seems to be a little bit lost in this debate is the primary purpose of this is economic growth and jobs. in taking our corporations, which are not competitive today in the developed world, with the

20% tax rate, get them competitive. it would be territorial so we would no longer tax exports. we could i can ma -- we could make products in the united states and taxes generated on them and money stuck overseas will come back and going forward no cost to repatriate the dollars used for investment. elizabeth: i want to go back to that first. you brought up growth and obviously, there's-- to play devil's advocates, there are those who put out bullet points for the plan. how much growth will it spur? and will it be short term. is this sustainable, is my question? >> i believe it is and if we can get back to 3, 3 1/2% year over year growth we double our economy in the next 20 years and grow our way out of the deficit

and debt problem and the key is the investments coming back into the u.s. encouraging exports, and the pass-throughs, all of the small businesses that are currently taxed at 39.6%, their tax rate would drop to 25. and small businesses invest every spare dollar they have in growth of their companies, which is jobs. it is sustainable and certainly, in western new york we've been devastated by the loss of the manufacturing jobs, which is what we need to come back. elizabeth: right. >> so i do believe that we can get to a 3 or 3 1/2% year over year growth just based on this kind of investment and encouraging our manufacturers to export and you know, that's the key. the last eight years we've suffered with 1 1/2, 1.8% growth and that's just the root cause of our deficit problem and debt problem. elizabeth: right. >> and the languishing jobs numbers we're seeing a lot of optimism in the business community. we've got to deliver on this tax reform this year. elizabeth: you've brought up the corporate rate and the national

deficit, you've brought up growth. i haven't heard you talk about income. when we talk about the different brackets. are those going to be laid out specifically? there are talks of three, possibly four different brackets. is that what we're going to see? are those numbers going to be clear? >> yeah, they are. we're looking at, and i know i was with chairman brady. they intend to have something up on the web here in the next few weeks, call it a tax calculator where people can put in what they did last year, plug their same numbers in based on that, and the elimination of the alternative minimal tax, and in many cases they'll be paying less. we haven't finalized, but an expanded child tax credit that will mean a lot, again to the middle class, upper middle class and elimination of alternative minimum tax is going to be huge in making sure that americans can go to the tax calculator and confirm their taxes are going

down or certainly not going up. elizabeth: congressman collins, thank you so much, sir. you've made it clearer for our viewers. we look forward to reconciliation and the tax plan. appreciate it. leland: coming up, mike tobin on the ground in puerto rico with details on the road to recovery in the wake of hurricane maria. >> hey, leland, the recovery is slow and arduous, but puerto rico is rising. details following the break.

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>> fox news alert. as hurricane nate is picking up steam, moving towards the gulf coast. track the screen left. people buying supplies screen right. they believe it will be a category 2 before making landfall. louisiana, mississippi and alabama have all declared states of emergency with some mandatory

evacuations ordered in parts of new orleans. big questions about will it track left, will it track right? authorities obviously urging caution to everyone in that storm's path as it barrels towards the gulf coast. landfall in a few hours, continuing coverage here on fox news channel. meantime, recovery crews are making some progress in puerto rico, repairing phones and phone lines after maria devastated the u.s. territory. our mike tobin live in san juan. you've been on the ground for a long time now. are things finally starting to get better or is it still as desperate as a week ago? >> a little of both. it's starting to get better, but desperate because it's taking a long time. the vice-president yesterday saying, puerto rico is rising, but it's a low and arduous process. starting with so much damage, 80% of the farms were wiped out.

90% of the poultry wiped out. and in terms of reestablishing power, slow going. the percentage of customers on the grid is still in the single digits. 9% of customers are hooked up to electricity. a bright spot to that, elon musk of tesla is diverting resources from another project to modernize the grid in puerto rico and develop batteries which could store off the solar palms. two problems with that, it takes a long time and a lot of the solar panels were damaged by the hurricane. 80% of the grid was knocked out and there could be something revolutionary, they'll float up balloons that are solar powered and use today reestablish the cellular network. a bright spot in terms of the clearing the roads. most of those in the mountains that were not accessed, they're accessed by helicopters on the island.

leland: very interesting, the balloons, we'll see how they work. mike tobin on the ground. elizabeth: democrats denying president trump another chance at repealing and replacing obamacare. the president tweeting this morning that he reached out to chuck schumer hoping to broker a health care deal. another push to repeal is quote, off the table. here to talk more about that is michael graham, columnist at boston herald, and co-host of michael in the morning. >> happy to be here. elizabeth: i appreciate it. i wanted to start with the tweet. i'm curious to your reaction, is it an effort to get republicans? an effort to entice some democrats? what's the point? >> i've said from the beginning na donald trump just like to win and he will sign any health care bill you bring to him, republican, democrats, you can write one on the back of a napkin, bring it in, sign his name on it, he wants to win and republicans need to remember that. of course, the democrats start

from the position they will never repeal, which was president trump's promise. so the question is, does his desire, the pressure he feels to keep a promise override the desire he has to sign something and to get credit, hey, look at me, i did something about health care. elizabeth: does this take away from the fact that he should be looking more at the budget and also tax reform? we've been talking about as soon as health care failed we said, okay, next tax reform. this could be a legislative win. should we focus on that? >> he's tweeting about it. he tweets about everything. if he focuses on everything he tweets about, we'd be worried about ratings on old arnold schwarzenegger shows. he tweets out. you're right that the tax reform issue is the place where the republicans have a best chance to put a win on the board and people i hear from who cover capitol hill every day tell me that republicans are focused like a laser beam, holy crap, we've got to do something. that house budget vote last week that opens the door to get to

the senate and start negotiating was huge because it showed that paul ryan can herd the cats enough to get the budget that nobody really likes on paper, over to the senate where the real action is going to start. elizabeth: they've got to try to do that to get that reconciliation process. >> exactly. elizabeth: i want to ask you about another headline when the president made the move, and allowing companies to deny contraceptive coverage. and hundreds of thousands of losing this coverage, meaning access to contraceptive pills. will a lot of employers say they have a religious reason to deny coverage? >> about 200 employers brought the original lawsuit. the estimate it's going to affect 120,000 women out of 320 million people. so it's a small group. but the-- they did a very good job of narrowly, you know, drawing the rules here. you can't simply say, oh, yeah, i don't like that religion

stuff. you know, you have to go in and show, either some history or, you have to validate your decision to object. you can't just object. hey, i discovered that i really care about religion, that's going to be a problem for them. they've narrowly tailored it. it's interesting how the media are trying to cover this as a denying of care that you're going to have less access to quote, free birth control. there is no free birth control, that's the problem. somebody has to pay for it. the obama administration could have passed a bill, i mean, part of obamacare that we're just going to give everyone woman free health care and pay for it using tax dollars. they didn't do that. they chose instead, in order to keep this bill together to put the burden on business owners and there are devoutly religious business owners i'm a graduate of oral roberts university, i know this, who take their faith seriously and some of the methods covered, and a drug you take after the fact, and there are a lot of people of good faith who don't want to deny

traditional birth control who really had a problem being required to cover that. elizabeth: we only have 30 seconds left. michael, one last question, so hot coming into the weekend when the president said this is the calm before the storm and there's so much speculation exactly what he was talking about. we know that he has the possibility, the opportunities to dessert-- decertify the iran deal? >> it's either decertify and try to do something about the missiles and other things not directly covered by this or an announcement, apprentice white house starting thursdays on nbc. elizabeth: on that note, michael, thank you so much. i appreciate it. i'm glad we got as much as we could in, sir. thank you. >> thanks so much. elizabeth: of course, make sure to tune in all weekend long. gun control is a hot topic in the wake of the vegas attacks. and chris wallace has an exclusive interview with the

n.r.a. director on sunday, check your local listings. and how the attack has been covered on media buzz, that's tomorrow at 11 a.m. eastern right here on the fox news channel. leland: a lot to break down there. coming up, how does all of this play into the big fundraisers, the president and vice-president are taking part in this weekend? those long time republican donors aren't so willing to open their wallets for the g.o.p. we'll break down why they're holding out. ignores me when i drive. it's fine, 'cause i get a safe driving bonus check every six months i'm accident-free. and i don't share it with mom. right, mom? right. safe driving bonus checks, only from allstate. switching to allstate is worth it. only from allstate. a heart attack doesn't or how healthy you look. no matter who you are, a heart attack can happen without warning. a bayer aspirin regimen can help prevent another heart attack. be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. bayer aspirin.

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real estate investor and hosting one of the vice-president's events this weekend. nice to see you, appreciate you being with us. you think about it, your job normally, the v p's coming to town and selling tickets would be like a beer man at a stadium on a hot day. it doesn't seem like that's the case right now. why not? >> you know, leland, i've been at this for a long time. the night that ronald reagan was elected president he was at a kitchen cabinet at a family living room. and i've been around politics for years ap never seen it tougher. leland: why is that? go ahead. >> i think the reason is, you know, they've been unable to demonstrate the capacity to lead. i think the house, you know, they're doing their job, they're getting stuff moved out, it's going to the graveyard in the senate and the president is there with his pen ready to go and another to the american

people it's not yet been delivered. whether you've got $25 of skin in the game, or $100,000, you're mad and i think people deserve to see some action on this agenda. leland: who are they mad at? when you call up your buddies who have this money to give and have given money in the past, hey, it's dan, and i've got a great event i want you to come to, it's $50,000 a plate or $100,000 a plate. who do they blame? is it specific? is it republicans across the board? >> you know, every donor is unique. you know, they focus on a particular issue. and so, depending on the issue, a different party is to blame, but i think on the big stuff, you know, whether that's repeal and replace or tax cuts, they're very frustrated that the united states state can't get the business done. leland: frustration with the senate, does that all fall on mitch mcconnell? he's had a terrible time getting folks to come to his events, yourself included, or is it more

focused on sort of one side or the other, either the collins, mccain side or the cruz, lee, paul rand paul side? >> i think that mcconnell deservedly gets part of the blame. he said give me a majority in the senate and i'll deliver on the agenda and maybe he's got a nominal majority with 52 members, but i think that chuck schumer is defacto operational leader in the 50's you remember caucus in the united states senate you can't county on three or four of the votes no matter way way you ring it up. leland: connect the dots for us, quick, dan. where does this lean? if the money is drying up for certainly the senate, as you say, possibly for the house, what does that mean for the republican majorities? what does that mean for the republicans being able to get things done over the next 18 months or so, as perhaps many

members are going to be more worried about fund raising than they are about governing? >> well, you know, if you failed, no amount of money is going to save you, whether it's big donor money that helps you get your message out or small donor money that keeps you in the game when you have a bad day. the fact it, if you can't get the agenda past, the only people are going to benefit are the toes with the political gaen. leland:le woo he a being liao forward to having you back and look forward to hear what the vice-president has to say. and the president was tweeting, talking it's the small donors perhaps giving more to the rnc than yourself and your friends. appreciate it, sir. thank you. >> thank you. leland: all right. liz. elizabeth: coming up, the u.s. military vows to avenge the deaths of four americans in the african country.

and we'll look at exactly what happened with general jack keane. stay with us. >> anytime one of the members of our great military are injured, wounded, or killed in action, it's certainly something that we take very seriously. our thoughts and prayers are with those individuals. whoamike and jen doyle?than i thought. yeah. time for medicare, huh. i have no idea how we're going to get through this.

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>> no group has taken responsibility for the attacks on u.s. troops in the african country of nigiers. a fourth soldier that is been killed, who has not been identified, was originally thought to have been kidnapped. the death of these soldiers shine the lights on operations in africa. and to explain it all is general jack keane. i'm curious that the perception understands that we may have a presence in the african contine continent, but it could quickly be turned into a combat role. >> the role we have in africa, it was started under the obama administration and expanded and now about 6,000 military in. largely the upper half of after

africa. they're in somalia, and all of the places we've heard of attacks in the last few years. the mission that we have there is two-fold, one is to provide drones so we have people do that, and largely and the second is by special forces referred to common language as green berets and their primary mission around the world is to train other armies and they enmesh themselves in the culture. they're unique to the military and army. no other group does what they do. and they understand the culture, the language, and they train other armies and they're comfortable living in small groups, 12 at a time, and they live in a foreign culture and that was one of the groups that was conducting a training mission, i suspect, for nigers

military. it could have been a training patrol and it's in a combat zone. elizabeth: were they ready? was there surveillance? and what-- >> i don't know what their state of training and preparation is and was and you bring up a very good point. we have been seeking permission from the government when we're out on patrol like this, we're not by ourselves, we're with others, and we wanted to have flying drones. we made the request and i suspect that's going to change as a result of these deaths, unfortunately. and i think we'll insist on it or else it's going to affect our relationship with the niger army. >> and you said it was an isis affiliated group and there were 50 armored trucks and by armored trucks, pickup trucks that had weapons loaded on them and they were ambushed.

and you said there were about 12 men. i'm curious, whether there be someone held accountable, are they being evoverwhelmed in the region? >> no, the african forces aren't overwhelmed, but they're challenged. they nearly took over mali, and they had to stop them from storming the capital. this was likely a prepared, planned attack. they likely knew that americans would be in this patrol and we were probably the major, major target, to be sure. i'm confident we've got all of our intel services on this thing. and we're going to track these guys down and we are going to deliver a lethal blow to them, i guarantee you that because we're not going to let them get away with it. elizabeth: general, jack keane, thank you. >> appreciate it. leland: president trump says big changes could be in store for the iran nuclear agreement, but

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ask your rheumatologist about cosentyx. big news today. a lot of tweets from the president this morning. he heads to a fund-raiser this afternoon. i'm leland vittert, welcome to america's news headquarters from washington. i'm elizabeth pran. here's what's making news this hour. a car slamming into pedestrians near london's natural history museum. several people have been injured. we will get the latest on the investigation moments from now. plus, now tough words from iran today, slamming president trump over his criticism of the iran nuclear deal. and vice president mike pence heading to las vegas today to attend a unity prayer walk. more on that, plus the latest on the investigation coming up.

fox news alert as we learn more about a car that crashed into pedestrians along one of london's busiest tourist areas. happened a couple of hours ago. our benjamin hall has now arrived on the scene and joins us live from london with the latest. hi, ben. >> hey, leland. we haven't been able to make it to the scene. we are still at the bureau. we are picking up information from that accident at the moment. what we gather is that this afternoon in one of london's busiest, busiest areas, west london, south kensington, natural history museum, 2:20 p.m., a car veered off the road on to the sidewalk, knocking down pedestrians, injuring 11 of them and then crashing into another car. now, fortunately that driver was pulled out of his vehicle. he was pinned down by passers-by and he is now being detained. cordons around the area. police helicopters overhead. you know, because of the state of affairs that we are in, because we have seen time and time again vehicles used as

weapons, by people trying to attack the civilians here, the police presence has been incredibly high, and so we've seen london in effect on heightened alert since that event. and we are still trying to ascertain exactly what it was or what his motive was. the police have said they don't believe it was terror related. nevertheless they are taking precautions and we are seeing london across london as a precaution. at the moment we know 11 people injured outside the natural history museum in london, south kensington. police presence heightened over here. in light of everything that we've seen over the last few months, if not the last couple of years, this certainly has been another moment where people have wondered whether or not this is a big terror attack happening. leland? >> london on edge for sure as is much of europe. ben hall there in london. thank you. we are definitely keeping a close eye on hurricane nate. forecasters believe the storm could become a category 2 before

making landfall along the gulf coast tonight. meteorologist adam klotz is at the fox weather center with the latest. has there been an update on the tracking? >> well, in the last hour we're not looking at any large updates but we continue to see this thing strengthen. you mentioned it reaching category 2 status, likely going to happen, because take a look at this. winds at 90 miles-an-hour. you hit category 2 at 95 miles-an-hour. we are not far off. this is a strong category 1 storm. moving north northwest at 26 miles-an-hour. often times we talk about these moving closer to 12 or 13 miles-an-hour. so this is a quick-moving system. it is going to run over some warm water. it's been hanging out over warmer water. that's what energizes these, that's what fuels them. we will see it climb up from cat 1 to cat 2 because the fuel is there, all the heat you need. spinning still well off the shore as it lifts to the north, it will likely become a category 2, just before making landfall. that's going to be taking place

at 11:00 tonight. you will start to see the impacts along the gulf coast, a couple hours before that, and then it will linger here for a little while before eventually by early tomorrow morning moving inland a little bit. very quickly falls apart once it moves over land. still a system that you will be paying attention to but no longer a hurricane by early tomorrow morning. that's something we will be watching. now, here is an hour by hour forecast, pay attention to your time stamp up in the corner if you want to get an idea of when you will start to see this. rain bands already beginning to run that direction. but by midnight, you are looking at the heart of this running up an shore. that's when we're talking up on the most intense weather, a lot of wind piling up, storm surge. winds maybe getting up to 100 miles-an-hour. it will continue to track north vm once it hits land -- it will continue to track north. once it hits land, it does slow down. 4:00 a.m. still dealing with it, but then eventually lifting. folks in georgia will be dealing with this tomorrow. at that point mostly clearing

off the gulf coast. still a long time between now and then. no surprise we are looking at hurricane watches and warnings from areas of louisiana all the way into the florida gulf coast. this is one we will be watching closely here the next couple of days. guys? >> adam klotz with the latest. thank you very much. appreciate it. president trump expected to raise millions of dollars tonight as he attends a fund-raiser in greensboro, north carolina. on hand members of his administration, congress and the rnc. rich edson north lawn of the white house. give us the climate for fund-raising here. we just heard from some big money donors who are saying they are not as willing to open up their wallets as they used to be. >> right. it depends on who they are donating to, whether it's the president, whether it's the establishment republican party, whether it's the president's old aide steve bannon is doing in different states. the president going to greensboro, north carolina this evening. he will attend an rnc fund-raiser, dinner there.

he's expected to raise about 2 million dollars, according to to several reports. he began his day like so many others, tweeting, though unlike most days it was praise for the washington post. tweeting this morning quote can't believe i finally got a good story in the washington post. it discusses the enthusiasm of trump voters through campaign contributions. the rnc is taking in far more money than the demes and much of it by my wonderful small donors. i am working hard for them. the post did report that president trump the republican party is on track to raise more small dollar contributions than it has in more than a decade. with those contributions the rnc is nearly raising twice as much money overall as the dnc. as the president leaves tonight, he leaves us wondering what he was talking about a couple of days ago when he said this was the calm before the storm. he did so flanked by military officers and officials, asked repeatedly what exactly he meant, the president will only say you will find out.

reporters then asked the white house what the president mebt meant -- president meant and the white house spokesperson said the president never says in advance what he's going to do so we're not going to tell you. there are a few deadlines coming up. the first, eight days now the president, the administration must certify whether iran is complying with the nuclear agreement. the administration has twice before certified that iran is complying with bulk of the deal. one of the options that officials are considering here at the white house is to certify that iran is failing to comply, but also continue sanctions relief that are nuclear related sanctions against iran, essentially all that means is that it would keep the united states in the iran nuclear deal and let congress decide whether the united states should exit that deal. there are also the foreign policy challenges of north korea. secretary of state tillerson continues pushing allies and adversaries, governments around the world to isolate north korea economically and diplomatically.

north korea has had a bit of lull in its missile activity but that's nothing that's ever taken for granted. leland? back to you. >> nothing is taken for granted in this world. rich edson on the north lawn of the white house, thank you. president trump faces an october 15th deadline to recertify the iran nuclear deal. reports suggest much of his national security principles want the deal kept in place, but as we have heard, he is leaving open the possibility of keeping his campaign promise to rip it up. now, get this, iran's president says well, that's nice, but you can't change the deal. in the nuclear negotiations and under the nuclear deal, we have achieved benefits that are ir revarious bl -- irreversible. no one can roll them back. those benefits are irreversible. >> joining us now is the her the

edge -- heritage foundation. is he right in the sense that the u.s. is only one part of this nuclear deal? what we do we sort of have to ask everybody else to go along. we can't demind it. -- we can't demand it. >> you are looking at major corporations essentially saying i'm going to give up the american market for the iranian market. you know what? they are not going to do that. >> fair to say we are a long way from a kind of sanctions bill you just talked about, we don't even have those kind of sanctions on north korea yet. what are the intermediary steps between october 15th and what you just described? >> first of all, this is a u.s. only activity. the sanctions are not part of the deal. that was something that congress put in the law, because they thought hilary clinton was going to be president and she was going to be weak on iran and

they wanted a way to kind of ping her on that. ironically this is a bill for the wrong president. and the president has kind of flipped that and put it back on the congress and said look, you can put pressure on the iranian government. i can't do it through the deal but you can do it unilaterally and we're not starting from zero because there have been a number of iranian sanction bills they have been kicking around. it is not like they are starting with a blank piece of paper. remember, they just did a huge russia sanction bill which just hammered the russians. so tell me that congress is -- can do a russian sanction bill in a new york minute and they can't get an iran bill done? the optics of that would be horrible for congress. >> the iranians don't have a lot of friends in congress. i haven't heard one or two come out really in favor of the iranians so there seems to be some support wherever it is on the spectrum. there's two issues in iran.

you have the nuclear program. you also have the missile program. which some people say is equally scary and if you merge those two, it is scary. take a look at some of the reporting from reuters recently about the potential here for some movement on the iranian missile deal, saying the sources said that given u.s. president donald trump's threats to ditch the deal, reached under his predecessor, barack obama, tehran had approached the powers recently about possible talks on some dimensions of its missile program. the point of that reuters reporting is that president trump's tough talk is bringing the iranians to the table. that makes sense to you? >> might, we will have to see if the iranians are actually seriously interested in that. one of the reasons why the iran deal was such a joke is this is going to keep iran from getting a nuclear weapon, no it is not it is a pause a couple of years that the iranians can well afford to make. to have a nuclear threat, you have to have a ballistic missile and a nuclear weapon. they are charging ahead on the

key piece of that, which is the delivery system. that's not slowing down at all. in terms of slowing down or stopping their program, that piece, that's just as big as the nuclear processing and building the weapon. >> you think about what you just said, you've got to have a nuclear weapon and a delivery system. well, somebody who has both of those things is north korea. we think about the original axis of evil, those are two of the members of it. connect the dots for what's happening in north korea right now and the president's tough language on that, with what's happening in iran. >> so north korea has by most accounts made deals to slow down or stop their nuclear program, eight times and they have slighted them eight times; right -- and they have violated them eight times; right? the lesson learned is the notion is somehow you will get a country to voluntarily through this process give away the one thing they have to have to ensure their security is kind of a fallacy. a lot of us were concerned to

begin with it defied the reality. the notion this deal was going to stop them was ludicrous. and it is worse because we give them literally billions and billions of dollars which they have used to build their missile program, to fund terrorism while they haven't impeded their capability to build a nuclear weapon at all. >> on the other side of your argument, noteworthy, the one time the iranians did take a big pause in the nuclear weapons program was right after the iraq war when they were worried they may be next. >> the deal was the iranians became risk averse after the iraq war and we're not sure they were speeding their program up when obama jumped in to give them hundreds of billions of dollars. >> we live in interesting times for sure. james, appreciate it >> thanks for having me. >> liz? >> great interview. the trump administration says employees can opt-out of the affordable care act contraception mandate on religious and moral grounds. the decision is getting some backlash. kristen fisher joining us now with the very latest. hi, kristen. >> hey, liz. at the same time the trump administration is dealing this

pretty big blow to obama care, the president is also continuing to try to cut a deal with democrats about a healthcare bill. he said this morning on twitter, quote, i've called chuck schumer yesterday to see if the dems wanted a great healthcare bill, obama care badly broken, big premiums, who knows, but schumer seems a little less optimistic. he says that the president wanted to make another run at repeal and replace, and i told the president that's off the table. if he wants to work together to improve the existing healthcare system, we democrats are open to his suggestions. but working together with democrats will only be more difficult, after what the trump administration did just yesterday, it expanded the exemption for the affordable care act contraceptive mandate to include moral objections in addition to the religious exemptions that were already in place. >> the president believes that the freedom to practice one's faith is a fundamental right in this country, and i think all of us do, and that's all that today was about, our federal

government should always protect that right, and as long as donald trump is president, he will. >> so before the exemption was limited to churches and religious organizations, now it's been expanded to any business, nonprofit or even a publicly traded company with seriously held moral objections as well. speaker ryan, he called it a landmark day for religious liberty, but house minority leader nancy pelosi, she says it is despicable and the president of planned parenthood put out a statement that reads quote: >> the aclu has filed a lawsuit but the white house says that it is willing to take this one all the way to the supreme court, liz, they are very confident about this one. >> we haven't heard the end of this. kristen fisher, thank you very much. appreciate it. >> thanks. now, to another top story, las vegas police are asking for the public's help in determining

why stephen paddock opened fire on a music festival killing 58 people. for more insight on the investigation, let's bring in former police sergeant and active shooting expert alan garcia. thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. >> how are you? >> i just want to get your take this week. we have heard small snippets of stephen paddock's past. we have learned a little bit about his lifestyle, but really no word on the motive, and i'm sort of curious as to what was your take away after a week of breaking this all down. >> yeah, six days into the investigation, i'm sure metro has poured over every single bit of evidence on every level. and like so many times when there's not a video manifesto or a written manifesto left, it's just all -- it's really all left up to conjecture. i mean, you know, i have looked at over 90 of these things, and, you know, it's just so difficult to try to figure out what would motivate somebody to commit such

a heinous crime. >> right. what do you think is most telling? i mean we have learned a little bit about sort of that cryptic note that was left, although it wasn't a suicide note. it had no evidence of motive. i think it was actually just filled with numbers. i'm sort of curious as to your reaction to that. >> yeah. again, you know, we've been, you know, civilized man has been trying to figure out what makes other human beings do these criminally heinous things for a long long time. you know, you know, we could put all the pieces together and still be so far off, you know, in our hypotheses about it. this was a very very bright guy, a mathematical brain. a couple of years ago he made 5 million dollars gambling in las vegas. i mean, these places aren't designed to lose that much money that this guy was making a living doing this. so i don't know. you know, i just think somewhere along the line, you know, his psyche broke. >> i want to sort of move this story forward and my question is

is two part. i first want to ask you what we're depending on now. are we depending on the girlfriend? for folks at home, who are going to concerts, who are going to marathons, who are going to outdoor events, you know, what advice can you give them in a time like this? >> to pardon the phrase that every boxing referee uses before a match, protect yourself at all times. what do i mean by that? you know, learn what situational awareness is. learn what cover versus concealment is. in these venues, there are places, you know, there are crush zones, stay close to exits. you know, take a class, the federal government has a program called -- my company has a program called start that teaches people in the case that you are shot, you know, how to save yourself, simple stuff, using tourniquets that are readily available now in sporting goods stores and

department stores. this is simple stuff. this is stuff that again, we live in 2017 society, we live in a free and open society, and these things are going to continue to happen unfortunately. >> yeah. >> we have to take -- go ahead. >> that you wish you didn't have to worry about. >> right. >> i've got your answer to the situational awareness. i want to ask you before we go, from your experience, moving forward, when we look at the investigation, we're really just depending on the girlfriend, on the ex girlfriend, we need more information from her. do you think we will get it? >> you know, it looks like he kept her completely out of this situation. you know, he put her on a plane. he flew her halfway across the world. he also deposited a large amount of money in an account over there for her. i'm venturing a guess to say that she's probably not going to know anything about this. >> interesting. all right. alan garcia, thank you very much for joining us, sir, we appreciate it. >> you are welcome. >> a perplexing story, we have been talking about it all week. thank you, sir >> take care.

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stocks. those are the completely legal modification the vegas shooter used to turn his semiautomatic weapons into essentially machine guns. fox news correspondent garrett tenney joining us with more. boy, we're still in the very early stages of this, but people are talking. >> yeah, there are some significant differences in this latest debate compared what we have seen in the past. that's that many republicans as well as the nra are now on board with making these revisions to gun control laws. now, for years, this has been going on. but specifically what they are looking at now after vegas is these bump stock weapons, modifications that were used by the vegas gunman which allow a semiautomatic weapon to function as an automatic weapon. those devices are legal to sell under an interpretation of the gun control act by the obama administration. however, on friday, a group of nine g.o.p. senators sent a let tore the head of the bureau alcohol -- let tore the head of the bureau of the atf, asking

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fox news alert, hurricane nate is strengthening as it heads towards the gulf coast. louisiana, mississippi and alabama have all declared states of emergency with landfall expected sometime this evening. forecasters believe nate will become a category 2 before making landfall. some oil and gas platforms in

the gulf of mexico have already been evacuated. as you know, hurricane nate is now the latest storm that fema is responding to, stretching resources and of course funds very thin. the house is scheduled to vote next week on nearly 30 billion dollars in disaster funding from the trump administration, but texas, florida, and puerto rico say they are going to need much more. joining me now is fema's deputy administrator. thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. >> of course. >> we are talking about resources that are stretched very thin what do you have prepared for this next storm especially when you're already in a number of places across the united states? >> this is our fourth hurricane in six weeks so certainly we're very focused on allocating those resources for all of our disasters. our current focus right now today on the 12:30 video teleconference i just got off with a dozen federal agencies as

well as the gulf coast emergency management agencies is prepositioning, personnel, equipment, and supplies to the gulf in anticipation of what is likely to be a category 2 storm. of course we're doing this at the same time as actively providing commodities, personnel and other support to puerto rico and the rir gin islands -- virgin islands which is still very much an active disaster. >> you talk about commodities and funds. you hear so often from people that they simply need money. they need money to rebuild, to get access to food and water. the national flood insurance program already in debt. and we know that the white house asked congress on wednesday for an additional 29 billion in hurricane relief. but like i said in the intro, that just may not be enough. what are you doing? are you working with the federal government in getting more funds and how do you become an advocate in times like this? >> sure. well, we have sufficient funds for our disaster operations right now. if it becomes necessary in the next weeks and months ahead for additional disaster relief funding, then certainly we'll request that from congress.

the current supplemental does have money, like you said the national flood insurance program which is deeply in debt about 30 billion dollars in debt, the current request would help us recover some of the funding that has been lost as a result of the previous two hurricanes, prior to this one. >> so often when we talk about these storms i remember when we talked about the flooding event in texas, we heard from people who learned from mistakes made and lessons learned in the past from big storms like katrina. and just this year, alone, when we have seen harvey and irma and maria, what have you learned from those storms as you move forward? certainly nate is still going to be a big storm, category 2, category 1, maybe not obviously the size of the storms that we've seen, but it is still going to be substantial damage. what have you learned from the storms so far just this year? >> sure, well, certainly we have learned some logistical challenges involved in supporting an island. an island that's been devastated by nearly a category 5

hurricane. the island had weak infrastructure and was frankly very vulnerable and required the federal government to play a much larger role than we would traditional play here in the u.s. mainland, where local officials and state officials are able to muster an effective response. so certainly lessons all around, but right now we're really focused on making sure we care for all the disaster survivors in all the areas that are currently in need of aid. >> my last question, you just got off the 12:30 call, what is your message to folks in louisiana and other parts of the country in that gulf area that could be feeling the effects of nate? >> well, number one is heed the advice of local officials. those that will be most vulnerable with hurricane nate as potential category 2 storm will be the coastal area, that would be impacted by storm surge. they are expecting up to 9 feet of water inundation in that area. so if you're in an evacuation area, get out. now is the time to get out. you need to follow the advice of local officials to tell you what you need to do and where you need to go.

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this time. >> the third time apparently was not the charm for the launch of a new spy satellite. the rocket launch was scrubbed today due to technical difficulties. the previous two attempts were called off, due to bad weather. as of right now, there's no word on when they will try again. >> fourth time may be good luck. late night hosts don't hold back when it comes to president trump, either through sharp humor or tough policy speeches. some sound bites coming, but this morning the president punched back. here is what he had to say. late night hosts are dealing with the democrats for their very unfunny and repetitive material, always antitrump, should we get equal time? he went on to call the coverage one-sided and side many people think republicans including him should get equal tv time. let's bring in our political panel. republican ryan mcguire, policy

director, along with michael tobin, a democrat and former aide to senator schumer, equally qualified. ryan to you, does the president have a point on this one or is he too thin skinned? >> i think the president does have a point that the media does seem to take the other side, late night is a great example of that. these guys hammer him every single night and i think there's been plenty of reason for them to take opposing view in recent days and they haven't taken it. i think the president is well within his rights to go after these guys. >> here's what he's going after them for. take a listen. >> trump had a nice visit to puerto rico. he said it gave all the first responders a chance to meet with the last responder. >> let's bring melania to this kind of thing in case they encounter a situation that requires showing support for other human beings. that's become her job. >> in an interview house speaker ryan says he thinks president trump's heart is in the right place on race relations.

sorry i misread that, his heart is in the white place. >> michael, fair to say, that these guys are pretty tough on him. >> uh-huh >> where does this come down in the larger sense? you talk to folks in the midwest and they say that's great, it may be a punch line, but these late night guys aren't talking for me, they are just part of the liberal elite. fair criticism? >> i would say the president is being thin skinned but it is also fair that he has the ability and the prerogative to respond to these things. i do agree with your point that it's a self-selected audience and anyone who finds those jokes resonating is not a trump voter or supporter to begin with. but there's a saying at least in new york politics that something matters only if it matters to you, and the more this matters to the president, the more they are going to joke about it. >> well, you might be right on that. ryan, to you, where does this go from here? obviously now the president has started this between these guys.

you can't imagine that fallon and kimmel will back off from this night. in fact some have already responded on twitter. at some level when you get to kimmel and other groups the big media companies won't rein these guys in the only thing that will rein them in is if their ratings crash or people start boycotting their advertisers because sof this. -- because of this. do the republicans or perhaps the president now start organizing something like that? >> i think the president is probably going to keep saying what he's saying, and any time they hit him with a stone, he will throw a boulder back at them. i think that's his style. i think people expect that from him. and i think, you know, again, it's well within his rights. if they are going to hammer him like this, he's going to fight back. >> all right. now on to a policy fight because there are those to talk about. this tweet from the president this morning, i called chuck schumer yesterday to see if the dems want to do a great healthcare bill. obama care is badly broken. big premiums. ryan you used to work for senate

majority leader mcconnell, how much does this cut the legs the majority leader out from under him? >> not at all. i think if schumer wants to be a part of repealing obama care, republicans should say be our guest. i think the original story was probably a bit misleading. if ted cruz calls up sanders and says i think you should become a republican that doesn't mean sanders is thinking about becoming a republican. the president giving schumer a phone call. schumer is probably going to say he has chills and fever next time he gets a note saying the president is calling. >> on the other hand, michael, we know that schumer has said i'm not going to be part of preeling. -- part of repealing. schumer also knows the last time he made a deal with the president related to the debt ceiling and when it related to harvey, he got an enormous win there and chuck and nancy as everybody began calling them walked way with big wins. does this signal perhaps that the president is just looking for a win, looking to be able to sign something, regardless of

what it is, giving democrats an opportunity? if so, how do they take advantage of it? >> i think you absolutely nailed it. repealing the aca is entirely as we have seen again and again a discussion internal to the republican party. so i do believe that's a nonstarter. but in the broader picture of this president understanding that in senator schumer he has somebody if they come to the table with good intentions and good plan, they will do something to get -- to put some accomplishments up on the board. i think ultimately any president not just this president is judged on what they get done, not who they get it done with. so that's i think this is all very much a possibility. i would say not on the aca. >> you know, to that point, we had a big donor on a little while ago who says i'm having trouble raising money for a number of republicans saying people are boycotting mcconnell fund-raising dinners. who wouldn't want to have dinner with the senate majority leader? a lot of people because they feel he's not getting anything done. do senate republicans and

specifically the majority leader risk becoming sort of irrelevant if the president decides hey, look, i've got to get things done and i'm going to do it with the democrats. >> leader mcconnell has demonstrated cycle after cycle that nobody is as capable of raising the kinds of funds he has in the senate and so he's clearly got -- >> ryan, that may be cycle after cycle but right now i have got republican donors saying to me i'm not going to mcconnell dinners and saying i can't raise money for senate republicans. >> for everyone who says that, there's about 20 who can't wait to get in. so i think that the people who are being plucked off and identified as angry are not necessarily his network. but they may be other people's network of donors. >> all right. well, the fund-raising totals will tell the tale. ryan and michael, appreciate it, sir. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you.

>> liz? after the break, massive debris all over a desert highway as two semi trucks collide. what led up to the crash? plus an isis terror plot targeting busy areas in new york city is foiled by investigators. we have more on this story coming up. >> liz, heightened sense of alert by counterterrorism forces here in times square after the vegas shooting and new details about the three men arrested for planning what they hoped would have been the next 9/11. all of that after this.

your fedex packages might take a little longer than expected to arrive if they were on this fedex truck that collided with another semi in arizona. two people hurt with non-life threatening injuries. to word yet on the fate of the packages. security at events across the country on high alert, after the massacre in las vegas that killed 58 people and wounded hundreds more. the security camera -- this scrutiny on security comes as we're learning more about a thwarted 2016 attack plot targeting new york city. bryan llenas joins us from times square on how law enforcement is tackling all these security

risks. hi, bryan. >> hi, liz. it begins with a new heightened sense of alert when it comes to high-rise buildings have a clear line of sight on big crowd events like marathons, parades, and of course venues like here in times square. now all high-rise buildings are under scrutiny. before it used to be thought okay only buildings that offered views with windows that opened or had balconies or had rooftops, but now after vegas, and that shooter breaking a window to shoot down on concertgoers, all high-rise buildings are in play, and that means for the n.y.p.d. more security sweeps in these hotels and offices. they also have a program that has trained 57,000 hotel workers and office workers to train to see how to look for suspicious activity and how to react during an active shooter. a source also tells fox news we can expect a shift in security tactics for big new york city events, like the new year's eve ball drop, with greater emphasis and scrutiny on every single office and hotel room with a view of the event. now, this weekend police are

protecting the chicago marathon, the city's office of emergency management says they have a robust plan to really look to protect the event from high-rise office buildings. if you come back over here to me, meantime, all of this is all happening under the new details we got from the department of justice about a foiled terrorist attack from the summer of 2016. three men arrested planning a next level what they hoped would have been another 9/11 from outside the united states. the plan included a car bomb in times square, gunning down people in new york's subway system, including women and children, and also shooting concertgoe concertgoers. the men used on-line chats to speak with each other and an fbi agent who posed as an isis sympathizer was able to foil the plot last year. one of the men was texting quote when we run out of bullets, we let the vests go off. new york needs to fall. it is a must. again, of those three men that were arrested on that foiled plot last summer, one man has

pled guilty, two others will now be extradited to the u.s., a reminder of the growing threat and the real threat we face every single day in cities across the country. liz? >> bryan llenas with the very latest. thank you very much. appreciate it. it's sure nice when we can have a follow-up like this, from the nationals play-off game yesterday. house majority whip steve scalise throwing out the very first pitch. you might remember, he was shot in the congressional shooting a couple of months ago, and now he came back, strike right down the middle there. he spent the past couple of months in rehabilitation hospital. he said he was dreaming of this moment. >> see you tomorrow. >> see you tomorrow. e stopping r more pills right now. only aleve has the strength to stop tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. aleve. all day strong.

fox news alert, hurricane nate strengthens and is likely to become a category 2 hurricane when it makes landfall on the u.s. gulf coast just hours from now. hello and welcome to a brand new hour inside america's news headquarters, i'm molly line. >> i'm kelly wright. good of you to join us today, molly. we want to talk to you today about preparations they are in full swing for millions of people along the gulf coast from the florida panhandle to louisiana. at a new orleans flood-prone underpasses will be blocked to traffic in anticipation of possible heavy rain. that's where we find rick leventhal with more details. rick? >> well, the wind is starting to whip off the lake and we're told