zoo, the employees tried to detract the rino, brave employees there and the rino followed the car, all i have to say #team rino, tweet us about that. bye. >> and we begin with fox news alert, president trump getting set to leave bedminister, new jersey golf club to ohio in a few hours where he looks to fire up core base in high-stake special elections that could signal which party may have the upper hand going into november's midterms, hello, everyone, and welcome to america's news headquarters. >> i'm laura ingle, the president throws himself in middle of close race or ohio's 12th district, making the case for republican troy and linking opponent danny o'connor to house democratic leadership tweeting this, troy is strong on crime, the border and he lost our military, second amendment, his

opponent is a puppet of nancy pelosi, high taxes. rick in new jersey with the latest on this, hi, rick. >> hey, laura, this would be the third campaign rally the president holds this week targeting key races in pivotal swing states, of course, the president has now begun official working vacation arriving at nearby trump national golf club in bedminister on thursday night. he will board air force for quick flight to columbus, ohio to lead rally in support of republican troy who is locked in tight race with democrat danny o'connor in central's oil 12th congressional district facing off in special election next tuesday, that area is traditionally republican but the latest poll with too close to call, 11% undecided, ohio's lieutenant governor told our own elizabeth how important it is to have the president's support.

>> yes, i think voters are going to show up, republicans will show up tonight and excited to see president trump back in ohio, buck eye state supporting troy balderson who is a conservative who has worked to lower taxes in state house, protect life and second amendment and cut burdensome regulations. >> in the second tweet of balderson, troy balderson is in big election fight with candidate who got caught lying about relationship with nancy pelosi who is weak on crimes, borders and second amendment and wants to raise your taxes by a lot. vote for troy on tuesday. pelosi among the democrats the president criticized in remarks on thursday night. >> let's say i'm running against pocahontas or crazy bernie. i tell you, i have to hand it to

bernie. i saw him up there the other day, the hair is getting whiter and whiter and he's getting crazier and crazier. >> the president in a couple of hours and rally scheduled for 6:30 p.m. tonight outside of columbus and we have it live here on fox news channel. >> very good, live, thanks. mike. mike: for more on this kelly, deputy editor for the weekly standard, kelly, great to see you. >> great to be here, mike. mike: this district in ohio historically reliable republican seat, the latest mammoth university poll has troy balderson over democrat o'connor basically tied and real clear politics says it leans republicans how alarmed are gop leaders? >> they are very alarmed, mike, and they should win, this is a district that donald trump won by 10 points, to see it now

pretty much even is a big deal and it's actually a very interesting district, you have well-off suburbs of columbus and you have places where i spent some time and it's a former industrial power house that's on hard times right now, the average income there is about half of what it is in the rest of america, so, you know, it's reliably republican district with a lot of people that have different concerns and, yeah, the republicans are very worried right now and his approval rating in this district is 46% approved, 49 disapprove and, of course, as you know, midterms are often a referendum on the president and so it's a very tight race and i think republicans are very nervous because this is the last special election before the midterms and so everybody in the country is watching this race to figure out prediction of what will happen come november. >> is it risky for the president to go in there, what if the republican loses, will people be eager in washington to blame the

president for it? >> well, people are always eager to blame anyone but themselves, mike. maybe president trump has something to do with it, but you also have to look at how enthusiastic the republicans in this district are and fundraising, danny o'connor is way outracing troy balderson, the democrats way more enthusiastic and look at early voting, this is one of the reasons republicans have to be nervous, in the previous elections, republicans cast the majority of early votes, right now it's looking like people registered as democrats have cast the majority of early votes, so, you know, the momentum is not with the republicans you know e trump has to do what he can and he's going to go there and, of course, everyone will be watching, the question is will he make an argument for troy balderson or will he talk about other things and i have to say, you know, danny o'connor campaign asking quite clever, donald trump mentioned the tax cuts and -- in his two tweets, well, danny

o'connor has interesting argument to make, he's a moderate democrat, this is a a bit of moderate seat, he's not focusing on hey, the president is giving you some of your money back, no, no, this adds to debt and it's going to drive up taxes for your kids, for your grandkids, this is not an argument democrats tend to politic, it's an argument you normally hear from conservative republican, so it's a very interesting race all around i have to say. >> the winner won't have much time to celebrate, they'll face off again in november, right? >> and it's interesting you have the same two candidates facing off in november because the primary is early this year, they counted for both and so we are going to see a bit of a repeat of it and it's interesting to see what republicans think is going to work and what democrats think is going to work, republicans they're not really able -- not focusing on the economy and i can't figure out why, as you know the numbers have been incredible, instead

they are trying to paint danny as pelosi puppet, he said he will not vote for nancy pelosi as speaker. chris matthews on hardball asked him in 7 times and if push came to shove he would vote for pelosi, it's a pretty weak argument. why do on the defense, go on offense and talk about the economy, talk about the job's numbers and i don't know why republicans aren't doing that. mike: listening very carefully to the president's message carefully in battleground ohio, tharchción for your -- thanks for your time. >> thanks mike. mike: we will be in ohio for the president's rally schedule today begin at 6:30 p.m. eastern time then we will bring you live reaction right after with a brand-new episode of water's world at 8:00. >> well, the paul manafort bank fraud trial wrapped up first week yesterday, along going on with testimony from one of the accountants who said she falsified tax documents for the former trump campaign chair and

as the special's counsel russia investigation widens, the president is doubling down on his rhetoric. gillian turner has more on this. >> latest development in tax and bank fraud trial played out yesterday in courtroom in arlington, virginia outside of the nation's capital, she filed tax returns she believed may have contained false information. she also acknowledged that doing so probably amounted to criminal activity. admitted she had a sense that manafort lie today her about where money being transferred into his political consulting business was coming from. this is the first time a witness in the trial this week admitted to potential wrongdoing, the mueller team now trying to prove manafort improperly listed millions of dollars of income as loans in order to avoid paying income tax and that it was kept hidden from the irs in a legal overseas account. meanwhile president trump creating some russia investigation news of his own this week when he escalated his attacks on what he calls the

mueller witch hunt, on wednesday he took to twitter and took attorney general jeff sessions to stop the investigation right now. while the tweet prompted immediate outcry from journalists and lawmakers, he responded by doubling down. >> we are being hindered by the russian hoax, it's a hoax, okay. i will tell you what, russia is unhappy that trump won. >> the same evening he defnlded highly criticized recent trip to nato claiming motives for pushing nato to contribute is all about russia. here is the president recounted with secretary general. he said last year alone because of what i did the previous year we took in $44 billion more, you have towns, this is money to guard against russia. >> while the president hopes to meet with putin again, the national security team has put the meeting on ice until after

the investigation concludes. laura. >> thank you so much. for more on this we want to talk about attorney, director of national security law of policy program at george mason university and former chief counsel and senior adviser for the senate foreign relations, great to have you here on this very important topic. >> thanks, laura. laura: a lot of legal observers have noticed how quickly and prosecutors calling more than a dozen witnesses to the stand since it began tuesday and i was reading over the weekend that the courthouse pushes out rocket dockets because of how quickly they move through cases, is that what's happening here s this case unique? >> well, look, judge elliot is putting pressure on the prosecution to move the case along, they made it clear they shouldn't focus on the trappings of mr. manafort's lavish lifestyle but the charges at stake which are the bank fraud

charges. we haven't seen the defense case. they will focus on rick gates and his role that's cooperating with the prosecution. we will see what they have to say about rick gates when they get a chance to make up their case. laura: some of the allegations predate the presidential election, president trump voicing frustration on twitter just this week calling manafort's prosecution a hoax going as far that he's being treated worst than al cra spoken, still underlying that there was possible access and opportunity for influence from the prorussia ukrainian officials that manafort was in contact with while working as lobbyist and political consultant and want to reset that point. how do you think prosecutors will do with that part. we are talking about tax charges, what about that part? >> look, the tide to the russia probe is tangent and focus on bank and fraud charges, that being said, the prorussia party as you mentioned, the sources income, why was he hiding it. all that being said, the

president is really the one himself who is drawing the tide to this and unfortunately bringing this into the russia orbit, i think the president's focusing on his own agenda instead of getting involved in mueller investigation. the president is going to be out there tonight, we will see what he does. i predict against his own sort of -- against own benefit he will talk more about the trial and more about the investigation. laura: i bet you're right. let's talk art richard gates for a minute who call prosecution's star witness, manafort's long-time business society and former trump campaign adviser as well. what can he -- what will the impact of testimony bring to all of this, a lot of people wait to go hear what he has to say? >> he was right in the middle of the whole thing, he was involved in bank accounts and all the money coming from ukraine. that being said, you know, the defense is going to say, look, he was involved, it was his fault, he's the one and how cooperating to get a sweetheart

deal. we will see how that one against the other thing plays out. but i expect rick gates to be credible witness and the defense will undermine him. laura: i want to thank you so much for your time and expertise on this, we will keep you in mind because this is going to keep going, thank you. >> thanks, laura. mike: firefighters in california working latest on efforts to contain the flames and what nature has in store out west when it comes to the long-term forecast, plus kim jong un holding up promises he made to president trump at the singapore summit? new images seem to suggest that north has not stopped nuclear program, we are live with reaction next. >> the process of achieving denuclearization in the north korean peninsula is one that i think we have all known will take some time but i must say, through my meetings here, the world is united in seeing this achieved alright, i brought in new max protein

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laura: north korean prime minister firing at the u.s. after pompeo warned china and other countries against violating national sanctions against pyongyang during

conference in singapore. >> any violation will be something that america would take very seriously. laura: kitty logan live in london with the latest, hi, kitty. >> essentially this is all about fine-tuning the details of the denuclearization deals which agreed back in singapore in june, now today secretary of state mike pompeo wants international community to keep up economic pressure to enforce the agreement, he said he was confident it would eventually work out. >> we are determined to do if chairman kim is committed to doing it. i'm optimistic that we will get this done in the timeline and the world will celebrate what the un security council has demanded. >> so north korea is still under sanctions over nuclear program and according to a new un report

pyongyang is continuing to develop weapons despite ban and as long as that is happening those sanctions will not be lifted and this is what has angered north korea and foreign minister said that his government and after the meeting today, he then criticized the u.s. for not relieving the sanctions, something pyongyang desperately wants to happen, now the u.s. delegation handed over letter to north korea and neither kim jong un or president trump, didn't disclose details but we are expecting there to be more talk for north korea in the future in the weeks and months to come, laura. laura: live in london, thanks so much. mike. mike: fox news alert, more evacuation orders in california as devastating wild fires continue to burn across the golden state unrelenting heat and dry weather make making it harder to put out the flames, we

have fox team coverage, jeff paul following the story from west coast news room and adam klotz with the forecast, first let's go to jeff paul live in los angeles with the latest. hi, jeff. >> hi, mike, yeah, home after pretty much home burned to the ground throughout neighborhoods from the carr fire, within a few minutes jerry brown will tour the damages in that area and meet with crew who is are battling on the front lines of the flames. according to government agency that tracks major fires right now firefighters are battling at least 89 wild fires across ten states, the hardest hit area at the moment is in northern california. that's where the carr fire killed 6 people, destroyed more than 1,000 homes and now considered one of the worst wild fires in state history. carr fire estimates in california alone more than 14,000 firefighters are working 17 large wild fires and if so far burned half a million acres.

>> there's a lot of us that are saying our prayers that this escapes us. mother nature's, she decides to come this way, that's -- the firemen don't have much to say about it. >> now due to extreme fire dangers that weekend, new evacuations were ordered for areas north of san francisco, a pair of fires known as the complex fires have burned more than 150,000 acres and at the moment it's only 27% contained. we are also hearing there's so much smoke from the ferguson fire the air quality and parts of yosemite seemed to be worst than beijing china, sections of yosemite could open monday that's only if conditions improver, mike. mike: jeff paul live from los angeles, let's hope and pray they get relief, looking ahead at the fore cost meteorologist adam klotz live from extreme weather center, hi, adam. >> what you really want in a

situation like this is some kind of rain here is your satellite and radar and things are mostly clear, really across the entire western half of the country and it continues to be hot. you get the low humidity, you get the dry conditions and the heat and you start to see the red flag warnings and we have them from northern california where a lot of the fires are but stretching back to nevada all the way to colorado, entire area, windy, low humidity, fire danger with warnings in place and the temperatures just continue to stay high, the highs today up and down the state of california close the to the 100-degrees. gets hotter in monday forecast, so 102-degrees in redding, unfortunately for poll incomes western half of the country, no relief in sight. the story across the eastern country too much rain, that rain lifting a little farther to the north and looking at heaviest showers following in new england where there's been off and on

flooding system, it's training and dropping a bunch of rain as it moves and as a result, mike, you're seeing some of the areas where we have flash flood watches in place. you're in this area, all of this rain pushing offshore, you should be clearing off here about 7 or 8 this evening and we are going to be clear here through overnight hours, mike. >> let's hope the rain stops in dc area soon. laura: suspected gunman suspected wanted and killing cardiologist, what we are learning about his motive ahead. plus the trump's administration effort to end daca coming to a standstill after a federal judge ruled that the government must fully restore the program. we will look at the fallout next. >> our immigration system is completely broken and he's begging and has been more

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>> another blow to trump's mention to end daca, federal judge ordered he must restore, ellison barber with the latest. >> mike, this is not good news for the trump administration, the judge did not entirely close the door on terminating daca without congress but at this point the administration is essentially making bad legal arguments, here is how one legal analyst explained it. >> a couple of ways to digest his opinion, on the one hand, you can report somewhat fairly that this judge is giving a bit of a stinging rebuke on the question of daca itself, but the last paragraph of the opinion is the key, the judge said this

court is not holding that dhs cannot terminate the program, it's holding that you didn't give us a sufficient reason. >> the administration claims then president obama did not have the constitutional authority to start the daca program, that claim is not enough, that claiming a prior policy is illegal with the, quote, hodgepodge of i logical policy assertions simply will not do and if the department of homeland security wands to rescind the program it must give a rational explanation for its decision. dhs provided memo explaining their decision but that the memo, quote, failed to elaborate meaningful on the agency's primary rationale for its decision, the judgment that the policy was unlawful and unconstitutional, goes onto say that while the memo offers several additional policy grounds for daca, most of the simply repackaged legal arguments previously made and hints are insufficiently independent from the agency's

evaluation of daca legality to preclude judicial review and support the decision, the administration has 20 days to appeal the ruling, beats is a republican appointed judge in april he became the third judge to rule against the administration's decision to end daca, his most recent ruling upholds his other ruling from april. mike. mike: ellison barber live in nation's capitol, thanks a lot. laura. >> president trump hitting campaign trail in special election house race that's drawing major national attention from both republicans and democrats this as the trump administration faces mounting pressure from conservative supporters to fullfill campaign promise to build border wall. here is the president on thursday at a rally in pennsylvania. >> we started the wall, 1.6 billion, we are fixing walls all over the border and we will

start to get nasty over the wall. the democrats, anything i want, it's not even the republicans, i don't know they care about -- they care about me, they are very concerned. anything i want they want to oppose. you know, i justifying youred out how to do the wall, i will say i don't want to build the wall and they will insist on building it. we will be taking some very tough actions, i don't know if it's before the election or after the election, a lot of the republicans say and they are good, they are good, we need more republicans but their friends of mine, they say, president, you know, some of them are really tough guys and they said, sir, we are better if we wait till after, i said it's better before, i'm torn myself, i would certainly prefer before, whether it's before or after we are either getting it or closing down government. laura: all right, let's bring in our panel to discuss, doug, former u.s. senate candidate and executive director at

restoration pack and also with robin, former obama regional field director and democratic strategists, welcome to you both. okay, well, doug, what do you see as the true political consequences of the president's threat of shutdown before the midterms if conditions are not met on border security and the wall, pretty big talk there? >> it really is, i think it's important to make the point to conservatives especially the base that this is one of the main reasons that president trump got elected and we have to conservatives have to deliver on this and i think president trump knows that and it's important too that just last month cbs put out a poll, 51% of americans are in favor of the wall, so this is something that most americans want and understand it's needed and if we go to government shutdown, the other thing most americans understand is any time there's shutdown talk, the liberal media and the democrats talk like the sky is going to fall, well, it doesn't, a lot of things continue on inside, military gets paid, social

security checks, different things will happen regardless of a government shutdown and when we get back to business as usual but i think it's that important that we work on this wall because it's something that obviously the president's base wants and i think a majority of americans want as well. laura: it's been a top priority, for sure, robin, what if he could get the wall started and prove to voters that he's able to keep promise, many say he's doing? >> and he is, i don't disagree with it, it's something i agree with doug, it's something that he has to deliver on his base, the only problem i see for him specifically and republicans in the house and senate is having this push right before the midterms. i honestly genuinely feel this would hurt them in midterms if there's government shutdown, it won't hurt donald trump, but it

would the -- everyone down ballot and if he loses majority in house or senate that will actually hurt donald trump. i'm genuinely concerned here. laura: a lot of people have been looking at that point. gop leaders in congress have been warning that standoff would bring more chaos, the timing couldn't be worse ahead of midterms, why not just wait? >> well, i think that the argument is definitely out there but i think that president trump has the right instincts on this, this is what it looks like when you elect a businessman as president, he needs to get back to the core of really one of the main reasons he got elected and i think this is it and i do believe too with the economy going so strongly now, there's been a lot of policy success that is the president has had and do think the independentance recognize that and whether we go to a government shutdown and he gets what he wants in that way or not, i think that there's a lot of momentum on our side that just really isn't being reported on. he has to look at the economy, it's going very well, foreign policy, things have been more

quiet in a long time, a lot independents will say, it's one way during obama, republicans are in charge, looking pretty good, we had a government shutdown for a little bit, we came back, nobody wants the shutdown but you have to be willing to do it, i think now is the time. laura: you bring up a good point, a lot of people are also saying why not just focus on the economy for right now because it is going to well and there are numbers to back that up, of course, robin, the president, you know, worried that the democrats -- could he worry that the democrats would turn back on him if he does not deliver on the promise? , i i mean, continuing question that a lot of people want an answer too. >> there's a lot of finger pointing and i don't necessarily like that. he made so many promises on the campaign trail that méxico would pay and to us democrats he seems that he's holding the american taxpayers hostage unless we convince the american taxpayers to pay, so that's where we've got a problem and we are trying to work through some things, he

proposed some really good ideas to maybe work with us on nonmonetary issues such as the -- end rg diversity lottery visa program and maybe working on chain migration, so i think that's somewhere where we will work with him on. laura: do you think he's taking the route because it's his only shot because the democrat could be the next speaker, he wants to do this so that he can make this last volley? >> go ahead, robin. >> yeah, i do think that's kind of the pitch, i think they are worried about losing the majority, so this is a tactic. it could work but it's, you know, it's a tactic and kind of a scary one to me. >> i think that maybe part of the calculus here but i think he's had good success moving forward as quickly as he can, a lot of things that have happened and he needs to keep on that momentum and if the base will

stick with them and independents will be fine with that. laura: thank you so much for being with us today, we will keep talking about this as the days and months progress, see you later. mike: the man suspected of killing a houston cardiologist is dead, investigators saying the suspect shot himself when he was cornered by police in southwest neighborhood of the city. bryan llenas live from new york city news room with details, hi, brian. >> two week-manhunt for shooter suspected of murdering doctor in broad daylight is now over, 62-year-old joseph shot himself in head in front of home on friday after police officer confronted him. he was wearing a bullet proof vest, backpack and talking about suicide, a second officer arrived at scene and that's when he shot himself in the head with a reinvolver, police believe he was riding back as he shot doctor on july 20th hitting him

three times, the doctor who once treated former president george h.w. bush killed while riding back to work as houston methodist hospital. police had been searching for shooter for the last two weeks, on tuesday they searched home and they found boxes of 22 caliber ammunition, the same kind found at house connect's murder scene and they found a detailed file on the doctor, pappas collected personal information about his home and work. police also found a last will and testament left behind by pappas at his home and list of flames, doctors and employees that worked at the hospital though investigators would not call it a hit list, worked as peace officer for more than a decade in houston, they believe he targeted doctor because of possible 20-year grudge. >> the only connection we have found and the only explanation we can -- that we have found to

date and we put a lot of work into this is the fact that doctor operated on suspect's mother over 20 years ago and she died in operating table. >> surveillance played role in henning manhunt. surveillance captured fleeing murder scene and surveillance from metro bus captured the entire murder, doctor was described as humble and generous man who practiced for 40 years, he was 65 year's old, mike. mike: bryan llenas, thanks a lot. laura: u.s. intelligence officials presenting a united front sending a clear message that they are ready to block any attempts of interference from russia or outside forces as the administration looks to meet the threat of election meddling ahead of november's election, how they plan to boost election security coming up next. >> our democracy itself is in the cross hairs, free and fair

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messaging campaign by russia to try to weaken and divide the united states. mike: white house taking head-on approach in confronting russian efforts to interfere in elections, the government working with state and local officials as top intelligence officers warn the threat of election interference is not going away. joining me now is dave, vice president threat and research, dave, great to have you here. >> good to be here. mike: friends axios asked security folks and what keeps them up at night a well-executed could knock out power grid or compromise vital government or financial data and leave us unsure what is real, your thoughts? >> so i called this the most dangerous but not the most likely scenario in cyberspace.

if there was any doubt about the nature and credibility about the cyber this week than has certainly been, what we are seeing is two lines of operations that are being, they are playing out in parallel by the russians, the first is strategic influence campaign, right, this has been well documented to begin way ahead of the 2016 presidential elections, it is an effort, strategic effort by the russians to discord doubt and division among the american electorate, it's obvious that the united states is more divided then that's an advantage for russia, second line of operation that's being stuck is cyber campaign targeted at industrial control systems, the lifeline sectors that provide energy, the telecommunications, water services to our citizens and our governments, so you have two very different campaigns, as far as the possibility of a cascading electrical blackout

that was discontinued earlier this week, possible, not likely. we know the russians have the capability to disrupt electric generation and distribution power, they have done it in the ukraine, the question is do they have the intent to do it in the united states, do they have the capacity technically to do it on a scale that would result in cascading blackouts and the latter we are not quite seeing yet. >> this week facebook shut down accounts, facebook publicly wasn't calling out the russians, maybe they were behind closed doors but a lot of law make eshes i talked to on -- lawmakers i talked to on the hill are saying russia, et cetera. >> a slightly different situation than in 2016. in 2016 the efforts were focused on a single office, the oval office. >> sure. >> in midterm elections we have much more hyperlocal campaign cycle and election cycle, we are

talking about legislative districts and that's going to involve different tactics than the russian. there's been a lot of attention on facebook, a lot of attention on twitter and rightly so over the last couple of years, indeed that was the primary battleground for the russian influence campaign. i expect to see the russian shift tactics a little bit away from the traditional social media forms, after all that's where everybody is looking, and facebook has done great deal of work to increase platform and more towards local forums, vlogs, things that influence voters on very local issues that we are seeing play out in midterm cycle. mike: so you talked about the efforts to go after key infrastructure, what are we doing to stop? >> we are doing a lot. as you said at the top of the segment, the administration came out in full force today earlier this week on monday in new york city, the secretary of homeland security hosted an event ahead

of cyber command and secretary perry of the department of energy, it's clear that all hands are on deck to recognize this threat where it is and deal with it in a common posture. here is what's happening right now, i call it kind of short of war activities and the pentagon calls this intelligence preparation of the operational environment, right, which is in cyberspace and also in the realm as well, the russians are analyzing our systems, gathering intelligence, traditional operations -- >> probing. >> kind of probing and prepositioning assets within our critical infrastructure in the event of heightened tensions between the u.s. and russia. as i said earlier, i don't think they have the access now to be able to effect cascading blackouts but we did learn earlier this week that they had direct access to controlled panel at electrical distribution site. so it's real and it's in their

interest to continue to expand their access. >> and in remaining time, what is being done to secure midterm election where is the focus is not the white house but all the congressional races across the country? >> thankfully a lot. as the secretary professional this is really where the rubber hits the road, when i was cto of new jersey i personally worked very closely with the department of homeland and our state and local officials after all elections are administered at the state and local level, there's a lot of information sharing taking place between those levels of government and actual hardening of the systems, that is the election systems themselves as well as the voter registration databases which we know are prime target for the russians. >> thank you, thanks for your time. >> well, the same for missing college student enters its third week as investigators comb through evidence related to disappearance, we are live in iowa with the latest details

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with the very latest on the search. >> hi, laura, 20-year-old university of iowa student was supposed to be at a wedding in dominican republic this week. this afternoon the reward for molly has risen to $220,000, family has partnered with crime stoppers to raise the money because they tell us they believe molly is alive and being held captive somewhere. police and family acknowledging that molly could be anywhere right now especially because of the small town's proximity to interstate 80. she was last seen jogging on july 18th, molly's mother describes how she's making it through this ago -- agony. >> sometimes i feel her sitting on my shoulder and molly was an incredible strong young woman and i don't know that i have the strength in me but molly's lending me her strength every

day, every night and, yes, i have my moments of complete meltdowns. >> police have been extremely quiet in this case. as of this afternoon, there are no named suspects and no leads in this case right now. back to you, laura. laura: all right, thank you so much for that report, we will continue to keep our thoughts and prayers going for this case, thank you. mike: that will do it for us, it was fast, wasn't it, laura? lauren: we got a lot of news to get to, back at 4:00 p.m. eastern for more news. the journal editorial report is next. mike: see you later. claritin and relief from symptoms caused by over 200 allergens. like those from buddy. because stuffed animals are clearly no substitute for real ones. feel the clarity. and live claritin clear. whenshe was pregnant,ter failed, in-laws were coming,

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