lot of lives. big salute to mr. rose, many of the vietnam vets that fought beside him and those that are alive today because of this good man. >> thanks bill. that's it for this week's show. thanks for watching. hope to see you right here next week. a fox news alert on a glimmer of hope in the massive wildfires raging throughout northern california. fire crews are beginning to gain the upper hand with some help from the forces of nature. but even as the winds die down, the battle is far from over. hello everyone. welcome to america's news heed quarters. -- headquarters. i'm arthel neville. eric: hello everyone i'm eric shawn. this natural disaster is just staggering. at least 40 people have so far been killed and many more remain missing at this hour. about 75,000 are under evacuation orders as the flames now burning more than 100 miles wide. fire crews, on the front lines are giving it their all.

>> we're not magicians, but we're going to do our very best to stabilize and protect property. >> we're engaging this thing. we're taking it by the horns. we will be here till the job is done. eric: will carr is live in santa rosa, california, with the very latest. hello, will. >> hey there, eric. it is currently raining ash in this community right now, a visible sign of these fires, and over the past week, every single day, the death toll has jumped after the flames raced down these streets, destroying everything in their path, with that in mind, the cadaver dogs are back out today, trying to navigate this type of wasteland looking for more victims. this neighborhood is still under an evacuation order as utility crews are working on every street trying to make sure they are safe so that residents can return to see what's left. on the front lines, firefighters continue to battle around the clock. finally the weather is cooperating, thankfully, and there's more stories of survival as well. the weaver family was forced to

evacuate at a moment's notice. they got separated from their dog izzy and they were sure that izzy did not make it. but when they returned -- well, when they returned, we had some video of a heart felt reunion, something that we haven't seen enough of, in this community that is filled with death and destruction. eric? eric: totally unimaginable what we see behind you and at least there's a heart felt good story out of this devastation, death and destruction. will, thank you very much. arthel? arthel: well, members of the trump administration out in full force today explaining the president's decision to decertify the iran nuclear deal. all right. we don't have that for you right now, but we do have kristen fisher. she's live at the white house with the very latest.

kristen? >> hey, arthel. well from the national security advisor to the secretary of state to the u.s. ambassador to the u.n., all three hit the sunday shows today to defend president trump's decision to decertify the iran nuclear deal, but they were also emphatic that decertification does not mean pulling out of the deal entirely, especially since technically all three of them say iran has not violated the deal. here is the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. -- actually we don't have that sound bite right now. but essentially what all three of them said was that while iran has not technically violated the deal, iran has violated the spirit of the agreement, echoing something that president trump had said earlier this week. but the trump administration is really hoping that by kicking the can to congress that this is going to give congress an opportunity to fix the flaws in this deal and to do, perhaps, what should have been done during the obama administration,

according to president trump. but democrats are arguing you know what? it's already too late, that the deal is done. here's congressman chris murphy. once again, at his golf course in virginia, he's just returned back here to the white house. you know, yesterday he played golf with republican senator lindsay graham. excuse me, yesterday, he played with republican senator lindsay graham. today he played with his colleague in the senate rand paul, and then tomorrow, he's going to be meeting here at the white house with the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. you know, it is no secret that those two have had a fairly rocky relationship. in fact, just yesterday the former chief strategist here at the white house, steve bannon, said that he was, you know, declaring a season of war against mcconnell and other

republican establishment figures, but if president trump hopes to accomplish any of his legislative agenda, namely tax reform, he is going to need mitch mcconnell on his side. these two men really need each other, and so tax reform, healthcare, immigration, all of those items going to be at the top of their list when they sit down and meet, and perhaps attempt to bury a little bit of a hatchet tomorrow. arthel? arthel: absolutely, kristen. i'm sure the president is willing to work mr. mcconnell as he also has an eye on reelection. thanks a lot for rolling with those punches. we're having some gremlins in our -- >> technical difficulty, it happens. >> absolutely. the gremlins, we will try to get them out. kristen fisher, thank you very much. >> we have some gremlins in the gizmos. when they get in the gizmos, you have to call the cable company. it is not you. it is us. we will figure this out. israeli prime minister netanyahu leader who has been a harsh

critic of the nuclear deal now he's commending president trump's decision to decertify it. he urges the u.s. and the european partners to, quote, fix it, or nix it. and he told us now is the time. conner powell live in jerusalem with more on the prime minister's reaction. hi, conner. >> yeah, eric, it's been a tale of two responses here in the region with -- since president trump decided that he would not certify that iran is in compliance with the nuclear agreement. prime minister netanyahu obviously very pleased with that decision, but other people in the region, namely iran, very unhappy with that decision by the trump administration. iran's foreign minister said this weekend that president trump's threat of new sanctions on iran is in fact its own violation of the nuclear agreement, while british german and french leaders have said publicly that they remain firmly committed to that current deal. president trump has demanded, though, that congress either

alter the deal or place new sanctions on iran which could essentially scrap the entire agreement. here in israel, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu praised president trump for recognizing the flaws in the agreement. >> i'm focused on the goal. the goal is to prevent iran from ever acquiring nuclear weapons, and you could achieve it either by fixing this bad deal or by nixing it. i don't particularly care which one, but it is the result that we want to have. >> now, not everyone here in israel agrees with the prime minister. former israeli prime minister is on the record here in the last few days and he is a known hawk on iran saying that he does not want to see the u.s. scrap the nuclear agreement with iran. his belief is that they need to stay in it. we've also heard from european leaders and other israeli officials who they essentially want to see the u.s. and other countries that are part of this agreement focusing on iran's intercontinental ballistic missile program, which is not covered as part of this

agreement. that's something that prime minister netanyahu has also said the u.s. needs to focus on. that essentially would be the delivery system for any nuclear weapon, and because it's not covered under the current agreement, israeli leaders, european leaders, and even u.s. officials have talked about that needs to be something that the trump administration focuses its efforts to try to prevent this program from developing any further in tehran. eric, arthel? eric: yeah, conner, french president macron is a big supporter of that. we will talk about that later on. thank you. arthel: more women are coming forward claiming harvey weinstein sexually assaulted them. three new allegations of assault are surfacing today. this time in the u.k. fox news correspondent bryan llenas is live in our new york bureau with more. hi, bryan. >> hi, arthel. look, three more women are now accusing harvey weinstein of raping them. one of the woman is a british

accent. she stars in a soap opera. she said that weinstein assaulted and raped her in the late 80s. she told that the hollywood mogul entered in her house. she said weinstein raped in her hallway telling the sunday times he pushed me inside and rammed me up against the coat rack and started fumbling at my gown. he was trying to kiss me. these new allegations are in addition to at least 30 other women, employees actors and models who accuse weinstein rape, groping and unwanted sexual advances. he was suspended from the british film academy on wednesday and yesterday the board of governors for the academy motion pictures and sciences which host the oscars held an emergency meeting in los angeles and voted to expel weinstein from the academy. this as harvey weinstein's own brother, bob, told the hollywood reporter that his brother is, quote, sick and depraved, saying he begged his brother to get

help and he avoided it. the hollywood reporter's editorial director earlier on media buzz. >> i asked him was he's your brother, how in the world could this have gone on without you knowing? and, you know, he's making a distinction, believe him or not, between what everyone in the company knew which was that he was a philander, traveling around the world trying to sleep with women at all times of the day, but they weren't in the room with him, they say, so they don't know what actually happened in that room >> a spokesman for weinstein told the new yorker he denies any allegations of nonconsensual sex but he is in therapy. arthel? arthel: thank you very much. eric: overseas a massive bomb attack in somalia's capital that's now killed at least 231 people, making the explosion that occurred yesterday the deadliest single attack to happen in somalia.

officials say the truck bomb targeted a busy street near the key ministries in the city covering widespread devastation. it is not clear exactly who staged and committed this bombing, but the city is a target and has been for the al shabab militants, the radical islamic terrorists who have been long battling the somali government. arthel: a chaotic scene aboard a cruise ship in miami after an 8-year-old girl falls five stories from the upper deck balcony. plus president trump's secretary of state saying there may be other avenues beyond the 2015 nuclear agreement for engaging with iran. we will take a look. >> the president has made clear that he will not permit this deal to provide cover for what we know is a horrible regime to develop a nuclear weapon.

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rex tillerson says the u.s. is not scrapping the iran nuclear deal all together, despite president trump not recertifying it. and now secretary tillerson is offering some ideas, like possibly engaging iran in order to address a broader scope of u.s. concerns. listen. >> the time will come when we do need to engage with iran. i think one of the unfortunate aspects of our relations with iran over the last several years has been it's been defined almost entirely by this nuclear agreement, to the exclusion of so many other issues that we need to deal with with iran so part of this conversation is to deal with the nuclear arrangement but also deal with these broader issues that concern us. >> okay. let's bring in a professor of international relations at carnegie university and a fox news foreign policy analyst. nice to have you. >> thanks for inviting me. >> absolutely. >> let's start here with your assessment of secretary tillerson's strategy.

should the u.s. iran engagement happen sooner than later? and could it be altered in any way by decertifying the iran nuclear deal? >> well, to really answer that question, and i was struck by secretary tillerson's comments because they are consistent with president trump's america first policy adapted to the iranian nuclear program, and the secretary is much more in concert with the president than i think in previous statements. he's saying that the issue with iran is broader than the narrow nuclear agreement, and he's referring to the global terrorism that has been supported by iran since the revolution in 1979 that has killed hundreds of americans, which president trump talked about from the white house on friday. it's rare to have an american president talk about just the

sheer terror that iran has placed on america, in lebanon, afghanistan, iraq, we have lost american lives due to iranian-backed militias and terrorist organizations. what the secretary is saying is that we're going to look more broadly at our relationship and not tie it so narrowly to the 2015 agreement, and that is president trump's fingerprints all over his talking points. arthel: when you consider the desired outcome versus the actual potential outcome of this engagement with iran, what can we expect? >> i think what will happen is that the inner agency in washington has been moved by the president's action, and so to see the secretary of state and most likely part of his bureaucracy -- bureaucracy, the white house and other parts of the federal government responding to the president who has been extremely firm about his concerns about the iranian agreement, saying it's flawed

because it's not clear that american interests are represented, that iranian behavior has not been changed, as a result of it. i think the inner agency will work better together and that will be an outcome and that congress also -- if you look at what senator corker has been attempting to do, he's put forth a proposal that would kind of really delineate when automatic sanctions would be reimposed on iran. i think we will have a clearer, more precise american response. that will be a key outcome. in iran that's put an notice and allies that themselves, although they want the agreement to stay in place, they don't want sanctions reimposed, many have said that, they will think more broadly about the relationship because they are also experiencing something like an existential threat from iranian's aggression around the world, its ballistic missile activity and its support for the regime in syria.

arthel: what's in it for iran? >> of course we want better behavior from iran, but an iran that knows that america is a lot clearer about its purpose and direction in terms of the middle east, it understands that the united states will not back down from its interests. i thought what happened with the president's statement was really a watershed moment in u.s. iranian relations because for four decades, the iranians have been used to the united states equivocating on what it does, no matter how egregious its behavior becomes around the world and this time the president said we are on a new course. we're looking comprehensively at the iranian problem, not narrowly, and i think the iranians heard that on friday. arthel: what's in it for iran, though? what's the incentive for them to, you know, sort of walk the path that is now being created for them? >> if washington is successful

in a multilateral framework, in terms of dealing with iran, it could mean that sanctions or some type of sanctions could be reimposed that would have a devastating impact, potentially on the iranian economy, which was in tatters at the time of the 2015 agreement. so i think they understand that. you know, there's been an increase in iranian oil sales since that agreement, so there are a number of factors that they've got to be very careful about, in terms of really pushing the united states too far. arthel: so kiron, we will wrap up here and i will ask for a short answer for this one, so if the u.s. starts to interact more with iran in a diplomatic fashion, are there any countries that might object to that approach? or would more u.s. iran interaction be better for our allies and the region as a whole? >> i think it would be better for the region as a whole because if you look at uae and saudi arabia, they have been basically on board with the direction of u.s. diplomatic

security and even its rhetorical policies toward iran in recent days. arthel: kiron skinner, thank you very much, we will talk to you again. >> thank you. eric: arthel, there's been another expected victory against isis. u.s. allied forces in syria announcing the final days of their battle against radical islamic terrorists have been holding up. syrian fighters there are launching an operation to try and retake the last isis held pocket in the northern province. this after about 275 isis militants and their families surrendered. several hundred isis fighters toe are still believed -- isis fighters though are still believed to be in the town. it's been one year since the launch of the military campaign there to try and drive them out. arthel: reports that the white house is looking to speed up the russia investigation, what they say president trump's legal team may be ready to offer, special counsel mueller.

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arthel: president trump is ending obama care subsidies to insurance companies. the move now setting up another showdown in congress. lawmakers will have to strike a deal to keep subsidies in place or see premiums skyrocket next year. caroline shively joins us live from washington with the latest. hi, caroline? >> hi, arthel. today democrats are slamming the move and attorneys general general in 18 states are suing to make sure the money keeps flowing. here's senator chris murphy on fox. >> this is the equivalent of healthcare arson. he's literally setting the entire healthcare system on fire just because the president is upset that the united states congress won't pass a repeal bill. >> the federal government pays 7 billion dollars to insurance companies to help decrease the

cost of co-pays and deductibles for an individual making between about 12,000 to 30,000 a year. insurance companies will have to make up for the lost federal money, somehow, possibly through higher premiums for middle to higher income earners. the congressional budget office said in august if the subsidies are cut and congress does nothing, premiums would go up 20% next year and the deficit would increase by 194 billion over ten years. but today senator bill cassidy said the president's move should help middle class families who are paying 30 to 40,000 dollars a year for premiums plus deductibl deductibles. >> think about that. 30 to 40,000 dollars a year. if there's something which is damaging the credibility of the affordable care act, it is these premiums which are unaffordable not that which the president is doing. >> president trump called the subsidies a bailout for the insurance companies and says this might put pressure on democrats to work with him on a solution. arthel? arthel: caroline shively. breaking it down for us there in washington. thanks, caroline.

eric? eric: arthel, the investigation into russia meddling in last year's election, well it is perhaps taking a bit of a pivotal turn. according to politico, president trump's legal team may offer special counsel robert mueller an interview with the president in an attempt to accelerate the ongoing investigation. it goes on to say that if mueller does not request an interview by thanksgiving, the president's attorneys could potentially take matters into their own hands by making the offer of an interview with mr. trump themselves. so what does all this mean for the investigation? let's bring in white house columnist for the hill. first of all, one of the president's lawyers, he calls this report from politico, quote, totally false, exclamation point, exclamation point, three of them. what are you hearing this afternoon? >> well, when it's a three exclamation point denial, i think that needs to be taken pretty seriously, eric. in all seriousness, i have done some digging into this myself, and what i'm hearing is that there has not been discussions

among president trump's legal team about this idea of an interview with bob mueller. now, obviously the politico report is very different from that. politico has not stepped away from that reporting. so i think what we're seeing here are different perhaps agendas at play within the president's legal team. eric: different agendas maybe, adam schiff ranking democrat on the house intel committee looking into this he's in the washington post saying that he thinks that the white house he says and others are trying to rush this, you know, to get it wrapped up and basically, you know, skip over justice in his view. >> yes, and i think it is interesting that a democrat is making this argument because of course nothing about it can really be completely separated from its political dimension. this is something that casts a long political shadow over the white house. that shadow is a problem, whether any wrongdoing is eventually alleged or not. so democrats have an interest i think in prolonging this

inquiry, republicans and the white house in particular, have an interest in it coming to a close so long, of course, as no wrongdoing is proven. eric: the president of course is on the record as saying he's 100% willing, you know, to testify. let me read you a paragraph from the politico report about all this. it says, quote, the white house believes such an interview could help mueller wrap up their probe faster and dispel the cloud of suspicion over trump. trump's lawyers could push to limit the time and scope of any interview with mueller and also asked for advanced details about what kinds of topics and documents would be raised. it is not at all clear what could be accomplished and the president is already on the record saying there's been no collusion with the russians. he had nothing to do with the russians. she doesn't know anything about all this -- he doesn't know anything about all this. >> yes, i think that's one of the reasons why there may be this willingness to have such an

interview. i think from a political perspective, rather than a legal one, trying to avoid an interview, creates the impression of having something to hide. the president has said he doesn't have anything to hide. there is no wrongdoing. i think on a common sense basis, it makes political sense to try to be as open as possible to be willing to testify as he has said and as he insists, try to clear this matter up. eric: in terms of clearing it up, i mean what if is not at all about him? you know, there's a grand jury. we know that. that's been reported. you have former chairman of the campaign, paul manafort and general michael flynn, they have been in hot water, could mueller and his team potentially interview the president on behalf of an investigation of them? >> absolutely. just because the president may be interviewed does not necessarily guarantee that he himself is a target or that he

is himself under suspicion. it could well be the case that his testimony is being sought for some of these other matters that you have just mentioned, eric. and i think there is in fact precedent for past presidents to be interviewed by legal officials in exactly that way. and as part of investigations into other people. eric: yeah, i mean, you just mentioned that, bill clinton, monica lewinsky, they took the grand jury videotape testimony in the white house, you know, when he was talking about the definition of the word is. ronald reagan as i recall testified before the contra committee. we have had at least two former white house officials testify already behind closed doors apparently the reports say reines priebus former chief of staff was there on friday. we don't know exactly what they testified to, but as you said there is precedence. remember back to bill clinton.

what would be the political impact of this if it were to eventually come to pass if the president would be sitting down, is that something we would see and be released like the videotape of bill clinton? >> my understanding is that that would be a process of negotiation as i believe it was in former president clinton's case. eric, now in his case, in clinton's case, obviously that became problematic to say the very very least. we simply don't know in president trump's case what he would be testifying, whether he would be testifying under oath, even, or whether it would be a more informal interview. so it is not necessarily a bad thing politically for him to do this in any respect. if his assertions of innocence are true and accurate, i think it makes political sense and common sense to do this. eric: i mean, hilary clinton when she testified -- was called in to talk about the billing records of the rose law firm and all that that were suddenly

mysteriously somehow found in the white house, remember they were missing, hidden away in a closet, supposedly, she testified and then came out in front of the microphones and of course said how she was basically i'm paraphrasing so grateful and willing to tell the truth and try to, you know, clear the air, and that was an opportunity back at that time for the first lady to try to put that side forward that she was being forthcoming and completely honest in her testimony. >> yes, a position that she came to somewhat belatedly in my people's view, eric. i think this goes to the very point that we're discussing. in hilary clinton's case, this isn't even a partisan point, the delay in that issue or the suspicion that records were being kept and then mysteriously showed up at an opportune moment i think built or added to the cloud of suspicion. now, if you can avoid that, if you can portray yourself as being forthcoming, as willing to answer questions, then i think

that does lessen or reduce that cloud to some extent. we live in very partisan times. many people will continue to be suspicious. but just in terms of political strategy, it is better to be presenting one self as forthcoming. eric: quickly, finally, how do you think this will play out? do you think the president will be put under oath? >> i think it's certainly possible. i mean bob mueller is clearly a very serious investigator. this is a very serious matter. but again, i would just highlight the fact that being put under oath and being suspected of wrongdoing are two separate things. eric: yep, and he's been tweeting about it. we will have to see. thank you very much for joining us. >> pleasure. eric: of course. arthel: when we come back, a dutch city is rolling out the welcome mat for two very unusual refugees from the syrian war. plus could ending the cost-sharing reductions to insurers also reduce premiums? some republicans say yes. we will break down the facts and

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eric: well, there is some heartwarming news out of syria this hour. two tigers have been rescued from an abandoned zoo in aleppo and they are on their way to their new home at a zoo in holland. the animals in the zoo were all left behind when the owner fled the country at the start of the war there. only 13 out of more than 100 of the animals survived. these big cats needed treatment to regain their strength. they are due to arrive in amsterdam tomorrow. all this part of an operation by the charity four paws to help the beleaguered zoo animals. >> that's very nice. some republican law makers are praising president trump for ending obama care subsidies appearing this morning on fox news sunday louisiana senator bill cassidy says the president's executive order taken as a whole should help average americans pay for their

insurance. >> if you take the totality of what the president did, i think it actually helps the family. so those who are lowest income, their payments will still -- the subsidies will still go to insurance companies for them to buy their coverage and someone told me that cbo says they may actually pay a little bit less. arthel: let's bring in now president and financial advisor at diversified financial consultants. nice to have you here. >> how are you? >>i'm well. how will the move help familys? >> well, let's start with a very important point that was made there. the subsidies are not being stopped for everybody. they are being stopped for a very specific group, and those subsidies were challenged in court and the courts ruled that they were illegal so congress had to appropriate the money for that and basically what president trump did is kick the football back to congress. you decide if you want to appropriate these money specifically for these subsidies. arthel: and the subsidies and tell me if i have this right or

wrong, the subsidies that remain in place will actually be to help those lower income families who actually need the subsidies. >> to the lower income subsidies stay in place. if you are single making approximately $30,000, family making approximately -- that's the group that will primarily be affected, plus or minus 10 million people, an estimated 4 to 6 million of those people actually might be hurt with the subsidies going away. >> so how do the people who will benefit from it? how do they take advantage of it? is there any action necessary on their part? >> so those people are going to be affected. the problem is these insurance companies are receiving these subsidies in order to keep the co-pay and the deductibles low. since the policies are written and they are stuck, the insurance companies are going to have no choice but to raise those premiums. so some people are definitely going to see premiums getting raised what's not getting a lot of press is president trump also signed two other orders.

one with regard to small -- small businesses and their ability to come together and get insurance as a group, and the second one are these short-term duration plans, and i will expand on that. so the short-term duration plans these were plans primarily set in place where somebody lost a job or was between companies and they needed insurance for three, four, five months but they were limited to a maximum of 12 months. those plans don't have to comply with every little detail in the original obama plan. when president obama was in place, that 12 month restriction was brought down to three months. so basically it was really a short-term solution. what president trump did is soap that back up to the -- what president trump did is open that back up to the original 12 months which basically opens a market up for people to go and buy a plan that doesn't comply with all the rules that obama

care does. arthel: does this make for more competitive insurance marketplace? >> that's the hope, right? if you are able to go and buy a plan, if you are an individual or small business owner and you actually have the opportunity to buy a plan that doesn't give you all the bells and whistles that obama care does, maybe you don't need all the bells and whistles that obama care does, then you can -- you could potentially save 30, 50 percent, but remember, you're buying something substantially different than obama care. arthel: but the people who are currently -- i was going to say the people who are currently relying on obama care for health insurance -- >> that group potentially could see an increase in their premiums because insurance companies were relying on these payments to keep the co-pay and deductible low. now, congress can step in, right? we could wake up on monday morning and say we want to do something about this. arthel: we're not going to get rid of the subsidies? >> well, they have to fund the subsidies. that's what president trump is saying is i don't have the legal right to just make the payments. he did not believe that

president obama had the legal right to make these payments. congress has to appropriate the money. so what trump is really doing here in my opinion is making congress do their job. arthel: okay, you have done your job here, and we thank you for being with us. >> thank you. arthel: thank you very much. eric: thanks. speaking of a fund that was appropriated by congress, there's one that continues to help those who responded to 9/11 and continues to do so. 16 years after the al qaeda attack, the federal funding called the september 11th victim compensation fund has helped the victims, first responders, and their families. many have died from cancers and other diseases from the smoking rubble of toxins there. billions so far have been handed out and there's still more money to distribute. we have more. >> katherine susan wolf, and like i said, i always -- whenever i come by here, i always give her a kiss. >> charles wolf lost his wife katherine on september 11th,

2001. katherine was working on the 97th floor of the north tower of the world trade center. charles would learn of katherine's death a few days later. as our grieving nation began to recover, the federal government created the september 11th victim compensation fund, or vcf to provide compensation for those who suffered from the terrorist attacks. it was funded using federal money which congress appropriated for that dedicated purpose. >> it extends to anyone who is in our zone, which is the shanksville, pentagon sites, it includes responders and survivors >> the program has been updated a couple of times and to date has paid out over 3.1 billion dollars covering more than 14,000 compensation determinations. it's currently funded under a 9/11 health and compensation act of 2010. a bill which president obama

signed into law and reauthorized in 2015. an n.y.p.d. officer who died of a respiratory disease linked to responding to recovery efforts in lower manhattan. the latest revision includes money for clean up workers and first responders dealing with related health issues. >> there really is no amount of money that can alleviate the losses that were suffered as a result of 9/11. we hope that this fund can provide a little bit of support, financial support, a little bit of compensation for the pain and suffering. >> the fund still has 4 billion dollars left to distribute and has helped people like charles, who has advocated for other families to apply move forward. >> the fact that i received this money allowed me to get treatment that i needed to overcome the ptsd. >> the new law allows those who wish to submit their claims a

little over three years, giving them until december 18th, 2020 to do so. in new york, laura ingle, fox news. arthel: imagine your fingerprint replacing your social security number. it could happen sooner than you think. hear how the white house is looking to shore up cybersecurity after the massive breach at equifax. ♪ hungry eyes ♪ one look at you and i can't disguise ♪ ♪ i've got hungry eyes ♪ applebee's 2 for $20. now that's eatin' good in the neighborhood.

arthel: the white house is exploring new ways of stopping identity theft in light of that massive equifax data breach. more than 140 million americans find themselves at risk after hackers stole their social security numbers. experts now looking at modern alternatives to help safeguard sensitive information. fox news correspondent doug mcelway explains. >> this social security measure gives at least some protection to millions of our citizens. >> more than 82 years later, president franklin roosevelt could not have imagined the lack of protection inherent in the social security card. the nine digit number has become a de facto national id something it wasn't intended to be. the recent breach of 145 million

social security numbers reveals its vulnerabilities in digital age. >> i know my social security number has been compromised at least four times in my lifetime. that's untenable. >> once it's been compromisecom its rightful owner has to spend so much time to claim its stolen identity. in the murky world of the internet, thieves often run free. >> before i move on, do you have any clearer sense today of who was behind it, a nation state or a criminal organization and what the motive was? >> i don't have a good sense. >> one option to replace the social security number, a fingerprint no two humans have the same. but the scans are not full proof. >> even though it is a part of me and unique to me, if it is digitized, then the potential for it to be compromised and then reused exists. >> other options include a public private key or token not unlike a chip credit card. that tiny chip would contain a

huge number, virtually unhackable. the user would only need a pin or a pass word to unlock it. if compromised, a new card with new numbers could easily replace it. another option is new technology called block chain, a network of many computers where data is transmitted and stored simultaneously and securely, each fact checking the other with algorithms that can't be controlled by any one device nor compromised at any one point of failure. the white house is now beginning the process of moving towards a new social security numbering system that is safer. the administration cybersecurity coordinator is asking all federal agencies to offer input on replacing the present system. in washington, doug mcelway, fox news. with halloween on the way, are you in search of a great pumpkin? want to try high-tech pumpkin carving. coming up, we will show you the machines behind these perfect

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know. arthel: it is. eric: do you carve them or get the plastic ones? arthel: no i like the real pumpkin and i like to put the candle inside and do that. eric: we will do that in a couple weeks. we will be back in one hour, 6:00 p.m. eastern. see you then. it's a very handsome group of people. i don't like standing in front of them. [laughter] first thing you know. we always like unattractive teams pride that is true. he always tells the truth. [cheering and applause] greg: you know what i love? i live in hollywood lectures us. >> we can end this nightmare before begins. >> i hope the people don't blame you for sexually