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branch gave way sending him crashing to the ground below. the good news is, he shook off the fall and climbed back up there. all right. thanks for joining us. i'm dana. here's shep. >> shepard: it's noon in los angeles, 3:00 in new york. 10:00 p.m. syria. israel unleashed a storm of missiles against iranian targets. the israelis say iran had it coming. concerns now, those nations could be headed for war. see you in june, kim jong-un! hours after president trump welcomed home former american prisoners, he announced the summit with the north korean leader is june 12 in singapore. would you recognize a russian ad on facebook? look at these. we'll show you the thousands intended to influence our elections. and kilauea could be ready to blow.
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why scientists say the risk is rising for an explosive eruption. let's get to it. first from the fox news deck this thursday afternoon, the most serious military confrontation between israel and iran in decades is now underway. analysts warn the united states could get caught in the middle of all of it. israel, of course, is the u.s.' close ally. the israeli military has struck back after it accused iran of firing rockets over the border at its troops. benjamin netanyahu says iran crossed a red line. israeli defense forces sent us video from one of the strikes. a military spokesperson said this was a syrian anti-aircraft battery that was firing at israeli jets during the air strikes, so they destroyed it. here's a map of where all of
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this is playing out. the occupied heights. the israelis say they came under rocket attack near the syrian border. the israeli military says they sent jet fighters in syria and struck all of irans military bases, nearly all of them. israeli tanks lining up near the border with syria here. this is a very resent photo. the military reports said they called up reservists preparing for a possible attack by iran. benjamin hall is in fox's top story live in jerusalem tonight. what is the mood there on the ground tonight in israel, benjamin? >> hi, shep. a calm has fallen over this
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country and children were back at school today but waiting to see what might happen tonight. make no mistake, this was a major event. as you say, this is the first time i ran had directly attacked israel from across the border in syria. it was the largest air operation carried out sink the 1973 war. this is a clear sign to iran that they cannot encroach on the borders of israel anymore. we've seen it happen the last few years. they have moved some troops and set up some sort of bases in syria. last night we saw them react to that. we saw israel react in a big way. israel has said for some time that they expected an iranian attack. we've seen israel move people up to the heights. that's because these cross-border raids by israel have supposedly been going on for some time, taking out, picking out iranian targets there. this is the escalation. iran has said if it rains in our
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country, it will pour in yours. many people saying that's what we saw last night. 50 targets hit by israeli jets taking out the iranian bases in syria. a very significant evening last night, shep. >> shepard: what are we learning art the reports of the rockets that precipitated? the reports that the iranians fired into israeli territory? >> this is how this started off just after midnight. reports of about 20 rockets fired but i rainians. the syrian government tried to distance themselves from this move. although the rockets were fired from inside syrian territory, they said they had no part to play. that's because netanyahu said if syria is helping launch attacks, we will get involved in syria. nobody wants that. so it was interesting to see
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benjamin netanyahu meeting with president putin in moscow and thought that he was going to ask president putin to reign in his allies in syria, the iranians and persuade them not to launch attacks like that. the fact that they did it anyway, how much influence does russia have over the iranians. there's reports whether they were operating with consent from iran. they don't know. so a lot of moving pieces over here. this is a geo political cauldron, a mess. things have calmed down. but does iran respond to that strike against their facilities in syria. shep? >> shepard: thanks, benjamin from jerusalem. let's go to michael o'hanlon as we often do from brookings institution, a nonprofit public policy organization. good to see you. thank you. >> good to see you, shep. >> shepard: big picture. the israelis say the iranians
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turned this up sending missiles over the border. did they and where are we? >> assad has largely won the civil war. iran will take advantage of that. they're going to move military forces in to be positioned to support hezbollah in lebanon and also to menace israel itself. this is a bad outcome, one of the many bad outcomes of the syrian civil war. obviously israel doesn't have the option of marching ground forces into western syria. they don't have enough of an army to do that successfully. when they tried to occupy lebanon, they ran out of power. when they saw weapons going to
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hezbollah. this has been brewing for seven years and it's largely inevitable and ongoing. >> shepard: will the iranians strike back? that could cause a real escalation. >> i think they will strike back. it's sort of their nature, not the iranian people, of course. but the hard-liners that you just talked about. so i think they will. they may not do it inside of syria or in the northern area of israel. it may be in some other part of the broader middle east, not directly against israel but other western interests. could be in some other part of the world or right there in the lebanon western syria theater. they'll do something. the question is, do they view their position as being relatively strengthened anyway because assad has largely won the syrian civil war and they
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can take a hit but still be in a better place than they had been or do they feel the need to pursue an eye for an eye and a tooth for the tooth. knowing the middle east, my money is on the latter. >> shepard: this has been a proxy war ongoing a long time. john bolton has said for many years that this is -- there will be war in iran. one of many of the sound bites that we can pull from him. listen to this one. >> the behavior and the objectives of the regime are not going to change. therefore, the only solution is to change the regime itself. that is why before 2019 we here will celebrate in tehran. thank you very much. >> shepard: we will celebrate in tehran before 2019 that would mark 40 years since the iranian revolution. is it the policy of the united
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states for regime change in iran? it sounded like it there. >> it did sound like it, shepard. i don't know think what john bolton said was realistic. i sympathize where he's coming from. it's easy to say before you're national security adviser and easier to say and do no matter where and when you're talking. if you want to redefine regime change, incentivizing future leaders in the islamic republic to behave differently, and you can call that regime change. what kim jong-un is doing is regime charge. he's trying to turn into a charming guy. i have my doubts about whether he's changed and i have my doubts about the iran scenario. the bottom line is, we don't have the ability in a country of 100 million people to go in and create regime change. we can squeeze them. that will have some impact. i don't know that it will be enough. they didn't seem to change their regime in the last few years when we had sanctions in place.
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so i'm skeptical about mr. bolton's implication, even though i understand the motivation for what he said. >> shepard: thanks, michael. >> thank you, shepard. >> shepard: summit in singapore. now we know. president trump announcing his plans for a meeting next month with the north korean dictator kim jong-un. with north korea releasing the prisoners, the president is now talking about world peace. that's next. also, forget about boca. the hottest waterfront properties right now might be overlooking north korea. how all of this talk of peace is leading to a real estate boom. premature anybody? that's coming up from the fox news deck on this thursday afternoon. there's little rest for a single dad. and back pain made it hard to sleep and get up on time. then i found aleve pm. the only one to combine a safe sleep aid... ...plus the 12 hour pain relieving strength of aleve. i'm back. aleve pm for a better am.
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asked to get off the plane when they stopped to refuel in alaska because he hadn't seen daylight in such a very long time. our chief white house correspondent john roberts can live with more. tell us about this meeting. >> this was the number 1 choice all along, the president said. he wanted it at the peace house in the dmz at the border between north and south korea but his advisers were trying to talk him out of it. june 12th is the date, which is a significant date if you go back in history. 31 years. june 12, 1987 that ronald reagan gave the famous speech in front of the brandenburg gates urging gorbachev to tear down the wall. singapore is a modern city with
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all the people and facilities necessary for the summit. it's in asia. you wouldn't want a summit in sweden about asia. it's about 1,000 miles for kim jong-un to get there. it has excellent security. the president says the release of the three detainees is a sign that kim has decided to go in a different direction than the one he has been pursuing. here's the president. >> i think he did this because i really think he wants to do something and bring that country to the real world. i really believe that, john. i think we'll have a success. i think this will be a very big success. >> keep in mind, the north korean official in charge of north south relations said to mike pompeo before he left the only reason why north korea is
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coming to the table is because their nuclear program is complete and he also said these maximum pressure sanctions that you had against north korea, they had nothing to do with bringing kim jong-un to the table. so clearly, shep a lot of posturing. >> shepard: a leader on the democratic party is criticizing the president over some words he used surrounding this prisoner release. >> when the three detainees came back to andrews air force base, clearly it was a triumphant moment when kim dong-chul had been in custody since 2015. tony kim and kim hak-song finally were on american soil and had reached their freedom. you can see that, triumphant. the president thanked kim jong-un for releasing the prisoners. here's what he said. >> a great honor. hopefully everything will work
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out. we want to thank kim jong-un who really was excellent. >> the president heard to hear. he said he wants to thank kim jong-un for being excellent to these people. clearly the president said that because he wants to keep the plans for the summit on track. the last thing you want to do is derail a summit because you say something that gets kim jong-un all upset. it's easy to get them upset. we've seen that in the past. but it brought very sharp criticism from the senate minority leader and a give me a break or give him a break response from the house speaker. listen here. >> exultation by the president and others of the greatness of north korea doing this evades me. we can't be fooled into giving the north korean regime credit for returning americans that never should have been detained
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in the first place. american citizens are not diplomatic bargaining chips. >> he's preparing for a summit with the leader of north korea to focus on denuclearization. we should all give the president leeway for preparing for the summit. it was a good faith gesture. >> clearly the relations are the bigger picture. this was a huge confidence building measure and one that has brought almost to reality now the idea of an american president sitting down for the first time with a north korean leader. it really is quite something, shep. >> shepard: john roberts, it is. live on the north lawn. north korea's talk of peace causing home sales to spike in one chinese city across the board-from north korea. real estate experts say dan-dong is china's hot new property marked. the city is just across the
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river from north korea about 100 miles from pyongyang. most of the trade between the north and china goes through there. the city could see a major economic boost in the north korean borders open up. that's a big if. north korean dictator is still a man who imprisons his people for generations on end and murders his own brother. breaking in the last hour, a nurse facing charges in the death at a retirement home and the victim, the father of the former national security adviser, h.r. mcmaster. prosecutors gave details of what they say happen. that's next. also, john mccain knows torture and now the second republican senator to oppose president trump's pick for the cia director because of her ties to brutal interrogations.
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senator mccain is not in washington to vote on gina haspel. democrats could save her nomination is torture immoral, gina haspel? the question was not answered yesterday. mr. elliot, what's your wifi password?
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after the fall. they said she faked paperwork making it looks like she did do the tests. the nursing home has started their own investigation, this is new in the newsroom. laura has more. >> on making the announcement today, the attorney general made the important that when a family select as nursing home facility, they expect a warm and comforting environment and say that is not what happened for herbert r. mcmaster sr. and his family. they're calling this a criminal lack of care. as you just showed, we received the mug shot of the north that neglected to give mr. mcmaster care. the lpn has been charged with a neglect of care of a dependent person, tampering with regards. the attorney general said that she recklessly caused serious bodily injury to mcmaster by
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failing to cause treatment or care. >> she could have saved mr. mcmaster's life had she simply done her job. instead, she ignored her job responsibilities, falsified paperwork and lied to her supervisors to cover up this inexcusable conduct. >> according to investigators, she filled out neurological flow sheets all those she was conducting neurological evaluations as required by policy. but video shows that she did not do any of that. after hours went by, she checked on mcmaster and said he was okay at 7:20 a.m. he was already dead. when she was asked about that in the record, she said, well, i falsified that one. the family has issued a statement that reads in part "the best way to honor his
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memory is to get those that lack impassion and lack the most basic standards of human decency." officials said they are cooperating with investigators and said they contacted the health department and launched an internal investigation. >> shepard: thanks, laura. a republican senator that knows first hand the brutal effects of torture is calling on his own colleagues to vote against president trump's pick to run the cia. john mccain is in arizona battling brain cancer. he released a statement after gina haspel's testimony yesterday. he said she's a patriot that loves our country. but her refusal to say yesterday that torture is immoral was, according to john mccain, disqualifying. gina haspel did say that torture
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does not work and vowed never to use it again. senator mccain spent five years as a prisoner of war in vietnam where he was tortured, but his objection may not be enough to block her confirmation. republican senator rand paul says he plans to vote no. that's what he says. the west virginia democrat joe manchin says he's a yes. mike emanuel is live on capitol hill. mike? >> good afternoon, shep. senator john mccain has plenty of influence on this issue as someone that was a prisoner of war who was treated brutally. someone who has served in the senate a long time. rhode island senator jack reed is the top democrat on the armed services committee serving alongside chairman john mccain. he says you have to give mccain great credibility on this issue. he says he's not decided how he will vote on gina haspel's nomination to be the next cia director. another long-time senator said she's made up her mind based on the enhanced interrogation techniques used after the 9-11
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attacks. >> i'm not going to vote for her. this was such a dark chapter. there was no leadership that spoke out. things happen, which never should happen in this country with our values. so i think to put someone in the leadership role is a mistake. >> some republicans say that isn't fair. democrats did not raise those concerns when john brennan, who was a long-time cia official was nominated by president obama to be the cia director. >> shepard: where is the vote now? >> most republicans are bind her and some democrats may get on board. we're still counting heads. bottom line, those that support this nomination know that gina haspel served 33 years in the cia including dangerous places. she would be the first woman to head the agency and so far it appears her nomination is trending in the right direction. >> my sense is that she would be
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a very good leader at the cia. someone who has come up through the ranks. that's something that i honor, people coming up through the ranks and being able to serve in that capacity. this is not a final. my leaning based on what i know today would be to support her. >> many republicans say 33 years in the cia, that they have no doubt that she would speak truth to power, shep. >> shepard: mike emanuel, thank you. we're getting a look at thousands of facebook ads that the russians used in an attempt to divide our nation and influence our 2016 election. we'll show you how the russians targeted americans on both sides of the political divide. plus, military giving new details about a mission in africa that left four american soldiers dead. what happened in niger. we'll get a live update from the pentagon on what it calls multiple failures. you totaled your brand new car. nobody's hurt,
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>> shepard: a fox report now. headlines from the fox news deck. 47 people are dead after a dam broke and flooded two villages in kenya. police say it happened after weeks of heavy rain there. witnesses describe a sea of water that smashed through homes. police say they can still find more victims. the new prime minister of malaysia is now the world's oldest elected leader. dr. mohammed took the office today at the age of 92. he came out of retirement after serving as prime minister for decades. listen to this. ♪ the classic song "whip it" playing a as two men broke into a house in columbus. the music was so loud, the homeowner never heard them come in. police say the thieves stole a television. the moral of this, don't ever play this song again, ever.
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>> shepard: the facebook ads from the russians, we have them now. democratic lawmakers released thousands of facebook ads that they say russians bought to divide americans and influenced the 2016 election. one account names "heart of texas" urged people to get ready to secede if voters elected hillary clinton. another of the russian ads calling both candidates racist and telling americans to boycott the election altogether. there's lots of them. trace gallagher has them. hi, trace. >> hi, shep. there were lots of ads supporting donald trump and bernie sanders and not nearly as much as them supporting hillary clinton. it appears the goal was to stir up racial and political divisions. most of the ads were issued based like immigration and gun control. thanks to facebook's targeting tools, the russians were able to deliver phony information to specific groups, white, black,
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hispanic, lgbtq, even viewers that watch fox news or msnbc. and the next was to entice voters to watching adding and getting real time feedback. like a born liberal ad that got 50,000 views and shared. this make believe ad for a made-up black activist group got 10,000 hits. other ads get a few likes or views. the popular ads maybe their way into facebook news feeds and got more exposure. the unsuccessful ads were taken down, shep. >> shepard: as long as they have the targeting tools, how can you stop this? >> it's going to be tough. some of the ads were bought after the election and well into 2017 causing some lawmakers to believe the russians might still be at it. today facebook released a statement reading this will never be a solved problem
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because we're up against determined creative around well-funded adversaries, but we're making steady progress. on that note, facebook has implemented a number of oversight measures. in hindsight, you know, some of the ads were dead give-away and they were bought with rubles and the language was poor. one ad said that immigrants are proved to deserve to stay in the ad. a pro black lives matter. not the best context. lawmakers put this information out there so we can see it and hopefully do a much better job of guarding ourselves the next time around if there's a next time around. >> shepard: thanks, trace. there's word president trump's personal attorney and fixer michael cohen used his relationship with the president during sales pitches to potential clients. that's according to the reporting of "the washington post" newspaper. it reports cohen would brag about his relationship with the
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president after the 2016 election. cohen would show people pictures of himself and president trump and talk about how they were still in close contact. if you want access, i have access, you have to pay. this is worth learning that cohen got hundreds of thousands from big companies, including one with ties to a russian billionaire. execs at the firm said they hired michael cohen for investment advice. prosecutors say cohen is under investigation for his dealings. these companies paid to the same llc that paid stormy daniels. cohen denies he did anything wrong catherine herridge is live in washington. paying for access. who would have thought? >> that's right. another wrinkle in this story. the inspector general is now conducts an inquiry into whether michael cohen's confidential
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banking records that were leaked included car activity. on tuesday, as you recall, the lawyer for stormy daniels alleged that cohen used a company set up before the 2016 election to receive payments from a variety of businesses including $500,000 from the firm associated with the russian billionaire. >> where did you get this information about michael cohen? >> it's covered by the work product doctrine and we're not going to disclose where we got the information. >> so where it stands at this point is that we've got investigations really on multiple tracks now. we have the russia special counsel investigation, the new york cohen case and the treasury department looking to the alleged leaking of cohen's bank records. >> cohen's team didn't like what avenatti had to say. >> yeah.
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they filed a complaint with the federal judge. avenatti's claims said this were smaller transactions that belonged to michael cohen. avenatti is accused of making incorrect statements to the public in an apparent attempt to discredit mr. cohen. mr. avenatti's conduct in somehow obtaining random bank records and publishing them without proper concern for their accuracy is extremely troubling for the parties in the case, the court and the public. writing on twitter, avenatti said mr. ryan's submission on behalf of cohen is baseless and improper. he goes on to say they fail to address and contradicted 99% of the statements in what we released. among other things, they concede the receipts of $500,000 with russian ties. if you can follow everything i just said there, it's such a web
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at this point. >> shepard: a lot to read in on. >> it is. >> shepard: takes awhile every day. >> thanks, shep. >> shepard: bye. more than six months since isis militants ambushed u.s. service members in west africa, the pentagon is telling the public some of what it knows. an eight-page summary came out and blames multiple failures, lays out recommendations that can change how forces operate in africa. since that ambush, lawmakers have been asking the pentagon for more details and what sort of missions that the u.s. troops were carrying out there. they're not supposed to be in combat at all there. four u.s. service members died in october's attack. we now know they were on a much riskier mission than commanders approved. this happened in a region of africa where islamic extremists are very active. let's go to jennifer griffin live at the pentagon where the
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military briefed the news media this afternoon. what did you learn? >> the report is more than 6,000 pages long. it took more than six months to prepare. investigators traveled to six country and interviewed 143 witnesses. it blames insufficient training and going after a high target without proper approval as part of the confusion that day. the army special forces m mischaracterized the mission to the chain of command. the team leaders said they conducted a routine key leader engagement but unstead they were going after a known isis commandser. they submitted a sloppy plan that was cuts and pasted from past operations and did not reflect what they were doing. >> none of those contributing
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factors are the directed cause of the enemy attack. the direct cause of the attack is that the enemy achieved tactical surprise there and our forces were outnumbered 3 to 1. >> in the wake of the october attack, the u.s. general in charge has ordered troops out of direct combat. they have reduced the number of risky missions and only sent on missions that have a strategic effect against the fight of isis and al-quaida. the 800 u.s. troops in niger will stay in fortified command centers and to avoid combat and must inform a colonel in germany of their missions. the top u.s. officer said the four americans killed during the ambush are being considered for the top valor award and pushing back that david johnson's body
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wasn't recovered. >> it took a long time to find him. >> now u.s. special operations command must decide the punishment for those involved in planning the failed mission. >> shepard: jennifer griffin at her post. thank you. warning of an explosive eruption from the spewing volcano in hawaii. the question is, when will it blow? we'll hear from a scientist.
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kilauea has been spewing lava and toxic gas about a week now. the level of the lava inside falls, it could allow it into the ground water they tell us. when the water misses with the rock, you have a lot of steam pressure and that could throw boulders into the sky. let's go to mika mckennon. great to have you. >> thanks for having me. >> shepard: is there a way to predict what will happen or not so much? >> the u.s. geologists are doing a very good job monitoring what will happen. they see that the entire volcano is deflating on some areas which means the magna is moving underground. we're seeing the levels of lava dropping down. it should drop down below the water level the next couple weeks. we don't know when that will
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happen and we don't know exactly how long after that we'll start seeing the ground water heating up and the explosive eruptions. we know it's happening. we don't know the timing. >> shepard: would the explosions be from different vents or the main crater? how would you describe it? >> what is happening now, we're seeing fissures opening up in the last few weeks. 15 new vents opening. from the vents, we're seeing lava flow coming out. some plumes are going 100 feet in the air and producing huge amounts of gas like sulfur dioxide. we're seeing the plumes at the maximum level or higher. then on the crater itself,
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there's the rock falling and it's enough to trigger and explosive plume of ash and debris. once the lava level keeps dropping far enough for the water to heat up, we'll see steam eruptions. that could take ash far away and volcanic ash is not like fire ash. they're particles of glass. they can shred your lungs. >> shepard: stay away. we'll keep the cameras on. i wish we had more time. a fascinating thing to watch. thanks so much. if you find a cute animal roaming around, make sure it's not a wild bobcat. that hard-earned lesson comes to us from san antonio. some folks there brought home these bobcat kittens. they said they were thought, you know, meow kitties until the biting began. lots of biting. the kittens are now with animal control and in search of a more suitable home.
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>> shepard: so stocks climbing for six straight days. look at the numbers. that, ladies and gentlemen, is positive territory for the year by just a few dozen points. it's positive territory that holds, we will have -- we will be in the green for the session. oil prices up also. that could mean filling your car up will be more expensive. parts of nebulous. christina is here with us. what do you think? >> yeah! what do i think? i've been here all day. the gas price has climbed up. it's $3.09 in the upper east
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side for new york. the average across the entire united states is $2.84. that's up two cents since yesterday and 10 cents since last week. we're seeing it climb higher. overall, about 10 states that have joined the $3 club where they're climbing well above $3. if you're wondering, where should i get to avoid to get the most expensive gas? that would be one small convenience shop or gas station in excess, california. it's $5.24 a gallon. in the middle of the desert should you be doing a drive from l.a. to vegas. it's a little off the track on route 66. the cheapest gas in plainview, texas at $2.19. what is contributing to this increase towards that $3 mark? a lot of it has to do with oil and the price of oil. we're seeing instability and the supply with iran sanctions looming and decrease in supply
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coming from venezuela. so you have that, the summertime, lots more people drives up demand and more expensive for you and me. back to you, shep. >> shepard: it was good while it lasted. thanks. we'll be back with a record-breaking trip under water that happened on this day in history. top of the hour headlines just moments away. don't go anywhere. cavuto is waiting!
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the uss triton became a full circle sub 58 years ago today. should news break out, we'll think about it. "your world" with neil cavuto starts right now. >> neil: thank you, shepard. this is "your world." we're in positive territory with the dow. a lot of relief that the hostages are home, that it looks like walking away from the iran deal hasn't hurt us much. we're going to get to all of the above. first, rich edson with the hostages home, talks on and everyone getting excited. hey, rich. >> good evening, neil. they're back in the united states. three americans, two arrested in north korea. landing at andrews air force base. kim dong-chul and tony kim and