i think they're part of a crime wave. i don't think you can separate the two. they are part of domestic violence. it would be part of a crime wave that we are focused on addressing and you can see some of the things that we've done since taking office. >> he can tell americans how he feels about this issue and do what he can. >> i'm sorry, i was polite and let you finish. let me be very clear on this. the fact that you're basically accusing the president of being complicit in a school shooting is outrageous. >> it's his advertisement that accuses democrats on a topic. >> ignoring safety and security of a our borders is different. the president has been clear and instructed top law enforcement agency in this country to crack down on crime and to do everything they can to prevent these types of things. we've talked about it here numerous times.

we're going to continue moving forward in that process. thanks guys. >> shepard: the white house wrapping up the daily briefing. sarah sanders there finishing things with questions about crime and the rest as you heard, wrapping up that briefing just now. the press secretary, sarah sanders, responding to questions about whether president trump would try to silence people in the russia investigation. >> look, i'm not going to walk through hypothetical conversations or negotiate with you guys. that's something that the attorneys will do. i can tell you the white house will remain and continue to be fully cooperative with the special counsel and allow them to work through their process. >> shepard: the russia investigation is the news today after we got word that president trump asked the fbi's deputy director who was acting director at the time which candidate he voted for in the 2016 election. that's according to "the washington post" newspaper.

that said a senior trump administration official tells john roberts other people at the meeting say they don't remember that happening. more from john roberts in a moment. "the washington post" stands by its reporting. current and former u.s. officials tell the post that the president met with andrew mccabe after firing james comey last year. mccabe reportedly told president trump he didn't vote. the president reportedly take aim at mccabe's wife, complaining about hundreds of dollars in donations to her fail 2016 senate campaign from a committee run by a friend of hillary clinton. the post also reports that a special counsel, robert mueller, is looking to question president trump about his decision to fire comey and the former national security adviser, michael flynn. fox news has confirmed the special counsel's investigators interviewed the attorney

general, jeff sessions. that was last week. bob mueller is looking to moscow's meddling in the 2016 presidential election, possible collusion with the members of the trump campaign and whether the president of the united states obstructed justice. president trump and the russian president, vladimir putin, have said there was no collusion. our chief white house correspondent john roberts is live in davos, switzerland for us this evening where the president is traveling later today for a economic meeting. john what are you hearing from your sources about the president's meeting with mccabe? >> well, you heard the press secretary just a short time ago said that she couldn't confirm he said that. she said she wasn't in the room. she didn't denying it. despite independent reporting from two separate news organizations, "the washington post" and "the new york times" now was also told that he asked mccabe who he voted for. the white house is pushing back very hard against this idea that during that meeting the president asked that question to mccabe and that he scolded him over his wife, jill's, donation

from a pack associated with terry mccullough when she was running for the state senate in virginia. a senior administration official told me earlier today the two prominent white house officials in the room and took notes regarding the meeting said they did not recall hearing the president said who did you vote for to then deputy director mccabe, who is being appointed in interm director of the fbi. in terms of whether it came up about his wife, they said yes, that did come up. they can't remember the subject of the donation coming up. but anything that i was said about the relationship between jill mccabe and terry mccullough was said as a joke. in no way did the president upbraid mccabe. they said that mccabe knew what

it was like to be yelled at by the president and that didn't help. >> shepard: and there's new reporting that the special counsel is looking to question the president. fears the timing is imminent. what do we know about this request about whether the president would be under oath, the circumstances surrounding question something. >> we learned back at the end of last year that the president was likely, we were told, going to sit down with the special counsel, robert mueller, for an interview. you probably remember, shep, i asked the president that question directly. he seemed to suggest because there was no collusion, there may not be a need for an interview. the headlines have been blaring the special counsel wants to ask him about the firing of comey and flynn. of course, if you have the president to sit town in front of you, you'll ask him those questions the same way you would of every other official. the big question now seems to be despite the fact that the president's attorney in the white house ty cobb said he's eager to have a sit down with

mueller, whether or not the president will do this at all. sources who are close to the investigation tell me and when the bathroom. and they have given everything to comey that he needs in terms of the issues that are focused here. the point was made to me that if you are an attorney representing a client who you believe has fully cooperated with an investigation giving up everything, why would you let your client sit down with an interviewer? i'm beginning to get the idea that an interview of the president with comey may not be

as "likely" as we were told it was just a few weeks ago. >> shepard: john roberts live davos, switzerland. let's bring in zeke miller with the a.p. good to see you. >> hi, shep. >> shepard: shortly after the president fired his fbi director, a sit down with the acting director and that's where the question of obstruction of justice for this conversation begins. give us the details as you have them. >> yeah, my reporting here along with what john just outlined for you, the president just fired james comey. he sat down with the acting fbi director, andrew mccabe and did bring up that his wife had political help from the clintons and terry mccullough, people close to the clintons. the white house official i spoke to said it was more of an in gest conversation rather than a charge against the acting direct or the. but it's one of those things that again, this president is

new to washington, so proponents -- defenders of the president will say that he just isn't aware of the general protections and sensitivities around in the fbi and trying to ask the director about politically charged topics. and then critics of the president will seize on that of the president trying to do just that and influence politically the nation's premier law enforcement agency. >> shepard: it's your thought that the line of questioning will be regarding that day and that event? >> certainly. all the reporting that certainly the special counsel is looking for and one of the reasons potentially why the president's attorneys don't want him to do that in an under-oath capacity. they have been changing story lines from the president publicly from white house aides privately as well on the time line leading up to the firing of james comey. there's the memo that said he was fired over the handling of the clinton investigation. the president came out in an

interview and said no, he fired him because of the russia investigation, the way that was going on. that's an indication of why the president's attorneys aren't as gung ho about having him sit down with special counsel. >> shepard: the reporting seems to be that the questioning would generally be about the departure of michael flynn and the departure of james comey and that at least that part of the questioning would go not so much toward collusion but toward obstruction of justice. >> that seems -- that's what our reporting is and what white house officials are hearing from the special counsel. that gets more broadly, if you look at the russia investigation as a whole, the old saying, it's not the crime, it's the cover up. it's been the administration's reaction of response to everything russia over the course of the last year, year and a half that has brought additional fire and scrutiny on the president. it makes people close to the president wonder if only he

handled this differently from the start, he could have avoided so many questions. if he wasn't so worried about -- so defensive when pressed about russia, the sensitivities around russian interference in the election, that he felt that that undermined his legitimacy and that that led down a rabbit hole that he's trying to find his way out of. >> shepard: i'm curious to know what your reporting on this is about how long michael flynn may have been cooperating with this investigation. in other words, when it began. >> my reporting here is that it's fairly recent. in the weeks leading up to his plea agreement. his attorneys were in contact with white house attorneys, the president's attorney, others subject to mueller's probe and his attention until just a few weeks before his plea agreement was reached. and that break-off in communication is when outside advisers and watchers of that

investigation realized, okay, maybe he's turned states evidence, cooperating and will be talking to the special counsel's office. not before he previously had been fairly -- moving in lock step with the president and his attorneys, they had been in contact and then that broke off a few weeks before that plea agreement. >> shepard: zeke miller. nice of you. thank you. >> thanks, shep. >> shepard: ahead, is russia using social media to interfere in our democracy? there's evidence that it is. and now we have a warning from top democratic lawmakers about the potential kremlin connection and why they are demanding answers from both facebook and twitter. the details of this coming up from the fox news deck on this wednesday afternoon.

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intelligence committee devin nunes prepared that so far classified memo. it accuses some federal investigators of misconduct. congressman schiff and senator feinstein say the memo is misleading and distorts information. they say it's part of a smear campaign against law enforcements officials investigating team trump. making them look bad. in short, an attack on our institutions. some republicans say that memo could provide grounds for shutting down special counsel robert mueller's investigation, but they offer absolutely no facts. let's bring in alaina from axios. what is going on here? is this the same russian bot farms that were working during the election that are now working to gen up support for this campaign?

>> it seems that way at least from the several think tanks that track these bots. it looks like russian-backed bots, some linked to the government, some showing that they've had this motivation behind them, retweeting the #releasethememo. this letter that two top congressional democrats, senator feinstein and rep adam schiff say if this is true, if the russian backed bots are indeet promoting this release the memo campaign. if that's true, that's another example of showing how the russians are really trying to undermine american democracy. >> shepard: the memo is an attack on one of our greatest institutions, the fbi without facts to back it up, without contextual information and it's classified, something that the

president can declassify at any moment he decided to do so. it's part of an alternative narrative that seems to be playing itself out among the president's supporters and on the extreme right. >> exactly. you can see these two sides playing out completely differently. you have the democrats saying that this memo is just another way to discredit the fbi and their efforts in this investigation and in mueller's investigation. then you have several republicans that want this memo released. those that have seen it say what is in it is damaging and shows that under the obama administration that the fbi had mishandled these surveillance requests. >> shepard: yesterday they won't show it to the fbi to allow the fbi to investigate itself and it's throwing the fbi under the bus without facts to show anyone, right? >> completely. i don't know exactly if it's throwing them under the bus, but that's what the fbi thinks. >> shepard: that is the position of those in the fbi. according to the fbi.

they're like we would love to see this. but they won't show it to us. >> shepard: and they're frustrated with the current state of politics surrounding them. the fbi isn't normally in the limelight like this in washington d.c. but that's all we've seen with this russian investigation and several members of the republican party really shining a light on what they think is mishandling and mismanagement within the fbi. >> shepard: it is two entirely different narratives playing themselves out at the same time before two completely different audiences. you wonder sometimes in one side even knows what the other is talking about. >> two completely different pages. you're correct. >> shepard: there's a lot of reading to be done on this out there. it's not all just about a release the memo. there's more going on than that clearly. good to talk to you. thanks. they've called for the investigation. we'll see where it goes. more than 150 women and girls testified about the abuse at the hands of a u.s.a. gymnastics

doctor. the details are beyond or the -- horrific. one of the first women to come forward said the judge's sentence will send a strong signal about his crimes. the judge answered the questions this afternoon. first call, the bravest person to set in her courtroom. the judge imposed a long sentence while ripping the predator so harshly that she got a round of applause at the end. the hour in court regarding the incredible occurrences in east lansing. that's next.

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the u.s. senate has confirmed alex azar as secretary of health and human services. he's a former drug company executive. he previously held high level hhs posts under george w. bush. the senate vote 55 to 43 largely along party lines. a judge in michigan has slapped a very long sentence on the former sports doctor who actually was not a doctor according to the judge who admitted that he molested some of the country's top gymnasts. the judge gave larry nasser up to 175 years in prison. she said nasser never again deserve as moment of freedom. >> i'm giving you 175 years, which is 2100 months. i'm just signed your death warrant. >> shepard: just signed your death warrant. more than 150 girls and women

testified against nasser in the seven-day trial. the doctor said the statements shook him to the core and that no words could describe how sorry he was. the judge questioned whether he was genuinely remorseful and the prosecutor that tried the case called nasser one of the most prolific child sex abusers in history. matt finn has more. >> shepard: the judge blasted dr. nasser as she sentenced him to 175 years saying that at any time he could have sought treatment in privacy, but instead he continued to be a sexual predator. nearly everyone in the courtroom was tearful and gave a standing ovation to the judge as nasser was taken away. the judge told nasser that his victims and their families will never get their innocence back. one of his victimed committed

suicide. >> your decision to assault was precise, calculated and manipulative. devious. despicable. you have not yet seen what you did. somehow you think you're right, you're a doctor, you're entitled, you don't have to listen and that you did treatment. i wouldn't send my dogs to you, sir. >> in all, 168 victims spoke out against nasser saying in the early 90s, he began touching them during exams all over the world, in hotel rooms and even during the olympics. in addition to today's sentence, the doctor, former doctor, is also serving 60 years for child pornography. shep? >> shepard: the judge made clear that she was going to have all of the victim impact statements that the victims wanted to give. she wasn't going to limit it and

didn't despite the requests. >> yes, initially the sentencing was supposed to last four days and lasted a week. 168 victims came to testify. at types it was heart breaking and disturbing as they went into graphic detail about how this former doctor harassed them and he would tattle on them if they asked not to see them again. these women had the strength to carry on and win olympic medals. one of them testified that one naser did to her will haunt her the rest of her life. >> you're so sick, i can't even comprehend how angry i feel when i think of you. you lied to me an manipulated me to think that when you treated me you closed your eyes and you were working hard and touching me, an innocent child to pleasure yourself. >> the ncaa is investigating michigan state university where he was employed at the time. shep? >> shepard: thank you. there will be an appeal, of

course, but nasser will never be set free. matt finn, thanks. lawmakers about to meet again to talk over immigration. what are the chances that either side is ready to make a deal? we'll get an update from capitol hill. a deadly isis attack. terrorists targeting a charity that helps children. a shootout in the middle of the street and caught on dash cam. bottom of the hour headlines next. ooooooh snap!! every truck guy has their own way of conveying powerful. yeeaaahhh boy. kind of looks like a monster coming to eat ya. holy smokes.

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>> i'm lea gabrielle with a fox report and more of today's headlines. a shootout in the middle of traffic in pensacola, florida. cops arrested one shooter and looking for the other. isis bombed children in afghanistan. at least four people confirmed dead and three dozen hurt. a group of people apparently

survived by hiding in the basement. investigators found the bodies of five missing workers after a natural gas drilling rig exploded in oklahoma. that's the word of the sheriff. it happened near quinton south of tulsa. state and federal investigators are working with the drilling company to figure out what caused the blast. the news continues with shepard smith after this.

>> shepard: the white house in the last hour said they will release a frame work monday for a possible immigration deal. the press secretary sarah sanders says it will be a compromise between members of both parties that members of both parties can support. sarah sanders would not say whether it will include a pathway to citizenship for the dreamers. hundreds of thousands of immigrants whose parents brought here here to the united states as children without documents. that is a sticking point for democrats. on capitol hill, dozens of

senators, equal parts republican and democrats are set to meet in a couple hours. the top democrat, chuck schumer says he supports the bipartisan group but he also tweeted the clock is ticking for dreamers if we don't solve this problems in 15 days, the republicans will have to explain to the dreamers what their plan is for them to prevent them from being deported. the 15 days refers to february 8. that's when there could be another government shut down. senator schumer's tweet came hours after president trump lashed after senator schumer for pulling an offer for funding for the border wall. the president tweeted crying chuck schumer fully understands especially after his humiliating defeat, there's no wall, there's no daca and no protect for dreamers. we have to have security and

safety for our great people. our chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel is at the top of the story live on capitol hill. hi, mike. >> chuck schumer is urging everybody to ignore the back and forth with president trump and saying they can get a bill with 60 votes in the senate and then he took this swipe at conservatives. >> we can't let those anti-immigrant that call giving the dreamers home amnesty block us. because then we will fail and it will be on the other side of the aisle that made that happen. >> perhaps red meat there after this week's government shut down fiasco showing his base that he intends to fight. >> shepard: what are you hearing from republicans, mike? >> one member of the senate republican leadership said he's averaging three meeting a day on the daca issue. another member of the senate republican leadership said for this to be successful, it must be more than a senate agreement.

>> we have to get this done. i'm committed to being part of a bipartisan group. people like to talk about gangs of eights and 14s. there's 279 people i'm interested in. that's what we have to have to have a solution. >> immigration reform passed the senate with 68 votes in 2013 and went nowhere in the house. with the house out of session this week, a lot of focus this week on meetings on the senate side of the capitol, shep. >> shepard: mike emanuel on the hill. thank you. let's turn to rachel bade now who covers congress for politco. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> shepard: chuck schumer said we're starting over here. you can't have funding for the wall. that's a negotiating point. how did that go? >> listen, the senate democratic leader right now is doing some posturing just as the white house is doing. he put this offer $25 billion on the table throughout the shut down dispute this weekend.

a huge concession for democrats. the reality when he put it out there, he didn't get anything in return so he undercut the democratic negotiating position. that's why he's walking this back saying actually we're not going to put that much money on the table. the reality is, both parties will tell you that they do expect the money for the wall will be part of any daca deal. the question is when are they going to do this, can they overcome the other differences on immigration policy. i do expect we'll see wall money in any deal that comes out of congress. >> shepard: a daca deal, a deal for the dreamers is very popular among republicans and democrats across the nation according to the polling. border security is also popular. an expensive wall is not so universally popular. you wonder if that is an area where democrats will hold back for a while. >> sounds like of all the demands that republicans have put on the table to extend daca or to codify daca for the

dreamers, that's the one that democrats seem to be giving the most on, which sort of might surprise people. it surprised me. you have the white house saying they want to make changes to immigration and they want to curb illegal immigration and crack down on sanctuary cities and make changes to policies governing minors that show up at the border. a lot of red meat conservative policy things they want to see. democrats are balking at that. they don't want to go near the policy changes like e verify that would require employers in the united states to certify that everyone that works for them has like a social security number or green card, is hear legally and controversial for democrats. they're saying no to those things and that's where the standoff is right now. interestingly enough, we'll see border wall money. it's a question of how much. >> shepard: do we know when sarah sanders said today by monday they'll come forward with a proposal, do we have any details on that proposal yet? >> you know, i just reached out to sources while i was here

getting ready for this hit. still haven't heard back. i was looking at twitter and saw good reporters that have good intel tweeting that think think this idea will basically be a more scaled back version of what republicans have been -- or trump has been demanding at the white house. there's talk about pathway to citizenship for dreamers. that would be a huge deal for democrats if they could get that, if republicans were willing to give that. that's a big deal. of course, the border wall is part of this. i was texting with a member of house republican leadership who said that they think the proposal is going to be more modified. so it might upset some of the more conservative members of the republican party that are pushing president trump to stay strong, stay to the far right. the reality is any solution that passes congress has to be bipartisan. so they're going to have to move to the middle. >> shepard: this idea of a pathway for dreamers is very popular across the country except with the one sliver of the president's base. we'll see how much sway they

hold. thanks, rachel. >> happy to be here. >> shepard: prosecutors in kentucky are charging an accused school shooter with two counts of murder and they say they plan to try the 15-year-old student as an adult. investigators say the shooter killed a boy and a girl yesterday at kentucky's marshall county high school south and east of paducah in the town of benton. 18 others are hurd. even as children were bleeding, young heros stepped forward to care for their classmates. tristin kline is a junior at the school. he told cbs this morning he saw a friend in a field with a shotgun wound and also says that he didn't know where the shooter was. he ran to load his buddy in his car and race to the hospital. the friend survived. video shows a long line of cars, parents, desperate to make sure their kids were okay.

police recording -- revealed how first responders dealt with the scene when they arrived. >> we've got most of the students out, i believe. there's kids that went everywhere. looked like they were moving the students to the tech center. that's where the family members are coming in. heading down highway 68. >> this time we're fixing to do a second sweep. we do have all patients transported currently, one black tag. >> shepard: that mean a dead child at the scene. mike tobin live. marshall county high school, southwest kentucky in the town of benton. what other charges is this suspect facing, mike? >> in addition to the two counts of murder, the county prosecutor said they're working on 12 counts of first assault. that carries the same penalty of attempted murder but doesn't put the same burden on the prosecution to show intent of

assault as opposed to attempted murder. the paperwork is being processed to see the teenage suspect tried as an adult. >> we will be filing paperwork to classify this defendant as what is called a youthful offender. that is the process to charge him as an adult. >> 15-year-old bailey holt died here on the scene. 15-year-old preston cope received lethal wounds here, died at vanderbilt hospital. doctors are hopeful about additional survivors. still no motive. >> shepard: thanks, mike. we're learning more about how investigators say two california parents tortured their own children and we're learning how the children could help put their parents in prison. new information from that california horror story coming up. i mean, rocket mortgage gives me complete control, but if i ever feel like things are getting hairy, i can call or chat with an expert. so, no matter what, i know i'm making

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>> shepard: the couple accused of torturing 12 children in california set to go back to court in less than an hour from now. prosecutors say they're asking for a protective order to stop the parents from having contact with their children. now we're hearing from one of their former classmates. he says he remembers kids bullying the oldest child at school for the way she dressed and smelled. police say the couple starved and tortured 12 of their 13 children for years and years, chaining some of them to their beds. the police say it happened at their home in perris, california, about 60 miles southwest of los angeles. investigators say the couple's 17-year-old daughter climbed out of a window and called 911 last week. david and louise turpin pleaded not guilty. trace gallagher picks up the story. trace? >> shep, these are pictures from when the family lived in fort

worth, texas. one wrote about his overwhelming guilt and shame over how the oldest girl was treating writing that she was a frail girl, had pin straight hair with banks and often wore the same outfit. she was one of the most pleasant people i had the opportunity to meet. she had this whimsical optimism that couldn't be doused. he went on to say how sobering it is to know that a person that sat across the lunch table went home to squalor and fit and you went home to a warm meal. the doctor and the girl attended the same school. another that is now an r.n. remembers the girl being bullied or tossed around like a ragdoll. as for the kids testifying, they may not have to because remember, while the children were not allowed to play with toys or play outside, they were allowed to write in their diaries. investigators say those journals have a wealth of incriminating

evidence. >> i think what is in the journals will be significant evidence. you have to think, sit back for a second and think how rare it is to have evidence directly of what a victim in a case like this went through. >> but in case they do have to testify, the d.a. is asking for a protective order that would bar the parents from contacting the children at all. that way the parents wouldn't be able to influence their testimony. the adult children are now in a group home. the younger children are in foster care. the parents are facing life in prison. shep? >> shepard: trace gallagher live in los angeles. millennials might know more about money than you think. wait till you hear how much some millennials have squirrelled away. gerri willis joins us next. first, extreme weather alert. bitter cold returning to the northeast and giving kids a major scare. >> oh, my goodness!

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>> shepard: millennials catch a lot of criticism for poor money management skills. turns out, a lot are very good at saying. from bank of america, one in six millennials have $100,000 saved. one in six. two years ago, that same survey found less than one in 12 saved that much. gerri willis has more. that seems like a huge number. i thought americans didn't save? >> what is so confounding, we always thought those millennials were sleeping on mom's sofa. maybe that's how they -- >> shepard: half of my staff is millennials. that's not my experience. they work very hard and rent instead of buying and save money. that's my observation. >> i have my theories on why they're doing this. let's go through some numbers, this is so fascinating. 63% of them say they're saving. 63%. now, let me compare that to

boomers, 75% are saving but they're right at the door of retirement. of course they are. so i thought that -- >> all of us in the middle have screwed it up and they see it. >> more on that. but 54% say they have a budget now. i was surprised by this, too. the question is do they use it. finally, 60% say they feel financially secure. i don't know anybody in my world that feels financially secure. >> shepard: except for student loans. >> this is a generation under a lot of threat at the end of the day. you said student loans, trying to save for a house. costs going through the roof, right? i started thinking, these folks, 23 to 37, when the big recession hit, they were at a very tender age like 12 to 26. right? so you got to think, maybe this really influenced them.

>> shepard: how could it not? >> right. they saw people losing their home. maybe mom and dad's 401(k) was devastated. hey say -- >> shepard: why overextend myself? i'll stay here for a while. get a couple roommates. that's what they've done. >> they share. >> shepard: is that what motivates them? do the surveys suggest it's that reality of seeing that almost depression that did this or are there more factors? >> i didn't find the survey was very good explaining why. remember, it was a survey. i have to tell you this, sometimes people lie to surveys. >> shepard: no! probably done by a gen-xor. >> there you go. >> shepard: they're saving. good to hear. >> it's great. fantastic news. maybe somebody in this world will retire and travel the world. may not be me and you but somebody will do it. >> shepard: take care of their parents. >> thanks. >> shepard: thanks, gerri.

>> it's wednesday. >> shepard: that it is. we'll look at somebody that stumbled into something that helped a lot of people get really rich. it happened on this day in history.

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the lowest prices. ♪ >> shepard: getting his philadelphia freedom. elton john announcing he's retiring from the road. sir elton says his three-year world tour will be his last because he wants to spend more time with his family. elton john started touring in 1970. since then he's played more than 4,000 shows in 80 countries. he says i've had a good run and i hope to go out with a bang. elton john three years to retiring from the road. forget rocketman. folks had trouble getting a robot into space. google has been offering $20 million to anybody that could land a rover on the moon. the race is over and nobody won. a handful of teams from around

the world were finalists but they ran into issues like raising money and getting launch contracts. as a result, no winner. google officials say they handed out a few million to teams that reached other milestones. on this day in 1848, a man working a water mill in northern california saw something just a bit unusual. it was gold. he told his boss who scooped up as much as he could and tried to keep it a secret. as you imagine, word got out. later in the year, president polk confirmed there was a gold in california. that triggered a gold rush. thousands of people came to the golden state looking to strike it rich. boom towns popped up all over and california's population exploded after that first lucky find 170 years ago today.

should news break out, we'll break in. breaking news changes everything on fox news channel. "your world" with neil cavuto is coming on the network america trusts for news and information on cable. >> neil: all right. next time you walk into your local starbucks, say you'll have a dow grande. because starbucks that leans very left is seizing on a tax cut that it says is hitting the spot just right. i'm neil cavuto. you're watching "your world." starbucks now the latest companies because of this tax cut and because of the generous provisions for corporations, well, in general, is going to be sharing the loot with 150,000 workers. grants that could go up to $2,000 for store managers and that is what the tip could be a generous trend. to deidra bolton on starbucks being the l