good to have career goals but it's fun and you learn a lot. >> dana: i wish i you could be an intern again. sydney thank you for all you did. >> thank you. >> dana: thanks for joining us, everyone. i'm dana. and here is shep. >> shepard: it's noon on the west coast. 3:00 alexandria, virginia where the judge in the trial of president trump's former campaign manager has apologized to the special counsel's prosecutors. the reason? we're live at the courthouse. plus, we're hearing from a man who says he may have been the last person to see mollie tibbets before she disappeared. the college student now missing for more than three weeks. vice president pence visiting the pentagon to pitch president trump's new space force. the defense secretary was once against the idea, change of heart? and nasa about to launch a historic mission to touch the sun as they put it but to do it, they will need to get a space craft going a lot faster than any before it. let's get to it. ♪ now, shepard smith

reporting live from the fox news deck. >> shepard: and good thursday afternoon from the fox news deck. there are breaking developments now in the certain for the missing college student mollie tibbets who has been missing now for more than three weeks. fox news has just caught up with the pig farmer who has been of interest to investigators. they searched his property and visited him several times. and now, wayne cheney tells us he has changed his mind about taking a lie detector test after he originally called the idea stupid. more on that in a moment. but, first, we're hearing from a man in mollie's hometown of brooklyn, iowa who says he saw mollie out for a jog on the night she went missing. and he says he thinks that he was the last person to see her. >> i have seen her, you know, it would probably be three, four times a week. she would jog down the street. i heard somebody was missing and like it really hit me. it's like i haven't seen that runner since then. >> shepard: that man devin

reilly searched his home in an evident to find mollie. he said he never expected anything like this to happen in his town. he also told our correspondent matt finn not to see him on camera any time soon not again. matt is live on the investigation. tell us more about this neighbor devin reilly. >> well, shep, devin riflely lives right down this road. he says this is the street where he last saw mollie tibbets jogging. she was jogging uphill towards the main street corridor here in brooklyn, iowa. this is sand witched between interstate 80 and route 6. in our time here we have seen a lot of truck traffic and a lot of cars buzzing through town. the family authorities, mollie's boyfriend, everyone has acknowledged the possibility that someone got off either highway 6 or route 80 and ended up here in town and unfortunately something terrible happened. devin reilly tells me that he thinks he has belief from the start that unfortunately mollie was abducted. and he still feels that way. also new this afternoon, mollie's boyfriend and

mollie's boyfriend's brother, they own the home where mollie was staying when she disappeared. they both sat down with fox news in an interview and they now tell us that there was no signs of struggle in that house. so far we haven't really been able to confirm from them whether there was any sign of struggle in that house. they are now both telling us no signs of struggle in the house and that her fit bit and that her cell phone and the running band that she ran with are all missing which might indicate that she was abducted or went missing while out on that jog. here is mollie's boyfriend and his brother's fiancee talking to fox news. >> she wouldn't have let that happen though. she has actually got a mean right hook hits you in the rib. >> that's what leads idea idea she went with someone she knew. there is no kick taking of anything. >> both of them suggesting that if mollie was abducted that she would have fought back. and shepard, new this afternoon, i just spoke to a

federal investigator who says that they have basically interviewed everyone in this county. and i asked that investigator why they have repeatedly returned to that pig farmer's house and he says that basically they are taking all leads seriously. perhaps indicating that that pig harmer is not, perhaps, a prime suspect. he would not tell us, the investigator would also not tell us about mollie's phone pinging in this area because he says that is critical information that they have to keep close to the vest in this investigation. shep? >> shepard: you mentioned the pig farmer. you talked to him again today? >> yes. i talked to him today on his property. and to date, when i have talked to him and basically when anyone with fox news has talked to him, he would not tell us what investigators are asking him about. he acknowledged that he was being questioned. when we said what are you being questioned about he said i don't know. today for the first time he told me that he did take the polygraph on tuesday that investigators brought him down to their command center here he took the polygraph and he weighs asked questions about mollie's disappearance. first time he has

acknowledged that the police have asked him questions about mollie. he told me does not know the results of that lie detector test and he insists he has nothing to do with her disappearance. shep? >> shepard: matt finn on scene brooklyn, iowa. the judge in paul manafort's trial has apologized now to the special counsel robert mueller's team for being too harsh on them in font front of the jury. yesterday the judge criticized prosecutors from allowing an expert witness from the irs to stay in the courtroom while other witnesses were testifying. prosecutors pointed out he had already okayed. this now the judge says he was wrong. more on that ahead. the feds say president trump's former campaign chairman was the master mind of a multi-million-dollar scheme to evade u.s. taxes and banking laws. he faces more than a dozen charges connected to lobbying he did for a pro-russia political group in ukraine. paul manafort pleaded not guilty to all charges. and peter doocy is covering his trial live at the court how fast in alexandria, virginia in washington, d.c. hey, peter. >> shep, the mueller team

formally complained that this judge who keeps dressing them down in front of the jury might be killing their case. and apparently the final straw for the prosecutors was late yesterday, right before they went to recess when the judge admonished them for allowing a government witness to sit in the court before he took the stand. the problem the mueller team has with that the judge never said that witnesses couldn't sit and watch from the pews that are in the back. from the benches that are in the back before they took the stand. so they filed a motion where they said this in part. the mistake here prejudiced the government by conveying to the jury that the government had acted improperly and had violated court rules or procedures. well, this morning the judge came, in hat in hand and he said this: this robe doesn't make me anything other than human. any criticism of counsel should be put aside. after that the folks at the manafort trial today shifted to bank fraud and whether or not paul manafort misstated his debt and his income to

obtain a $5 million mortgage from citizens bank for a lot of in solo. part of the government's case is trying to prove this house wasn't a second home for the manaforts but actually a rental property making him money. they had somebody from air b and b come to the stand and testify it wasn't just a single room in the house that was available for rent online. it was the whole thing and that at one point somebody paid more than 11,000 to do so stay interest fo there for je weeks. right now on the stand somebody from citizen's bank which gave manafort the mortgage for this property is testifying. this is the third witness of the day. that means that the mueller team plans to call up five more before they rest their case. they say that is going to happen some time tomorrow. shep? >> shepard: peter doocy at the courthouse. i mentioned the judge apologized to prosecutors today for being too harsh on them yesterday. it's but one of many memorable moments from judge t.s. ellis who sometimes steals the show with that trial. trace gallagher with more on the judge. trace? >> shep, you know, those who

have been before judge ellis in the past say when the defense begins calling witnesses, judge ellis will likely crack down on paul manafort's lawyers as well. the judge fully acknowledges he is not a patient man. in fact, during his days as a high power litigator at international law firm ellis was nicknamed taz for the tazhayakov mainian devil. relentless task master. recent days the 78-year-old district judge as you routerred has repeatedly called out the government attorneys at one point telling the lead prosecutor in the manafort case to, quote, look at him and not look down. he also admonished the prosecutor to not roll his eyes and he often jumps in to question witnesses himself judge ellis has long refused to allow defendants to plead no contest. saying quote i'm a caesar in my own rome adding it's a pretty small rome. judge he will lisa colombian immigrant who speaks fluent spanish.

pilot in the gheaf did ground grad at princeton got legal education oxford and harvard. he was nominated by president reagan and over 30 years he has presided over notable case us including the 2002 trial of john walker lyndh, the so-called manner taliban. ellis accepted a 20-year plea deal and told linsd he made a bad joins to join the taliban and had to live with the consequences. in 2009 he handed downed longest sentence ever to a member of congress when he gave 13 years to former louisiana congressman william jefferson for bribery saying at the time, quote: there must be some kind of greed virus that affects those in power. this week judge ellis told the lead prosecutor, quote: judges should be patient. they made a mistake when they confirmed me. i'm not patient. so don't try my patience. and on goes the trial. shep? >> shepard: trace gallagher live for us. president trump's lead attorney rudy giuliani says

he and the rest of the president's legal team would be fools if they let the special counsel, robert mueller, ask the president about possibly obstructing russia investigation. >> he knows the answers to every question that he wants to ask. he is going to ask him did you tell comey to go easy on flynn? the president will say no, i didn't. why do you want to get him under oath? you think we are fools? want to get him under oath so they can clap slap him with perjury. we are not going to let you do that. >> shepard: rudy giuliani has been pushing for mueller to wrap up the investigation next month political side of the argument which is all this is. kevin corke is on the north lawn. >> shep, good afternoon. the president's private attorney continues to insist that mr. trump could ultimately decide to speak to mr. mueller under the write conditions. based on the moving bar of expectation and parameters, very few people here, quite frankly expect this to ultimately happen although they still say it okay for his part the president is once again on twitter e extoggle the virtues of the

witch-hunt. he is saying this is an illegally broughting rigged witch-hunt run by people corrupt or conflicted started and paid for by crooked hillary and the democrats. phony dossier and some lying and dismonday nest people already fired. 17 angry dems, stay tuned. giuliani, help, is warning that the president needn't answer questions that the special counsel already knows the questions to. accusing them set up perjury tran heard the clip of comparing answers with james comey conversations that previously happened. words like conspiracy, corruption, collusion continue to swirl. still no hard evidence to report as yet. here at the white house, complaints about the probe are relatively muted but that can't be said for some inside the president's inner circle. >and i can tell you this, shep. regardless of where you have come down on this argument, about whether or not the president should decide to be interviewed by this the special counsel, one thing

we know for certain, they are still miles apart before any possibility of that happening. we'll keep watching in the meantime back to you. >> shepard: unless they subpoena him and then that will be that. there will be no millennium falcon or jedis or bookies we are sad to report. if the white house gets its way in this special case there will be a space force. the sixth branch of the united states military to support america's objectives into orbit. from the pentagon we will check out the plan, the problems and what to expect next on space force. plus, fastest man made object ever to take flight is preparing for liftoff. and that's coming up from the fox news deck on this thursday afternoon.

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the white house says the goal is to have the space force ready by 2020. defense secretary jim mattis is backing the plan. a year ago he asked congress not to approve it saying the new force was unnecessary and way too expensive. fox business network blake burman live at the pentagon. >> hi, shepard. the vice president coming over to the pentagon earlier today he saying when it comes to space we need to be bold and creative. we cannot afford inaction. to that end, the vice president outlined detailed some of the administration's plan to create eventually a sixth branch of the united states military which, indeed, would be called the space force. now, when you boil this all down, essentially what this comes down to is trying to protect our crucially important satellites, way out there in outer space. north korea, iran, but most especially russia and china were described today as the possible adversary. >> as their actions make clear, our adversaries have transformed space into a

war-fighting domain already. and the united states will not shrink from this challenge. >> it is becoming a contested war fighting domain and we have got to adapt to that reality. it's on par with the air, land, sea and cyberspace domains. >> still a ways to go here because adding a sixth branch to the united states military, which, by the way, if it happenings would be the first time that would be done in seven plus decades. that would still need congressional approval, shepard. the administration is targeting 2020 for this space force to be unveiled, shepard. >> shepard: congress has to approve it so this is just talk for now. sings we are just talking, the critics are saying what are you doing? >> right. and keep in mind, here, the united states air force already has a space commands. some 30,000 people are attached to that unit. that's about 10% of the air force as a whole. so it is a pretty sizeable number. one of the critics is the nasa astronaut mark kelly a

critic as well of president trump. he said that this is redone dangt. in fact, at one point he called it a dumb idea. the defense secretary jim mattis is another who is critical of this idea. just last summer, for example, he wrote a letter to a member of congress in which he was highly skeptical of a similar proposal and this is what the defense secretary said at the time about one year ago. he wrote, quote: because our army, navy, air force and marines have their own equities in maintaining vital space operations, a properly integrated approach is better for carrying out this mission. mattis though today was here at this unveil. he has thrown his name behind. this the bottom line with, this shepard, as you mentioned, congress needs to approve it, so when you are talking about opinions here, the opinions that are going to matter the most are going to be those from republicans, democrats up on the hill some time next year or possibly into 2020. >> shepard: blake burman live at the pentagon. it's the coolest, hottest mission, baby. those are words of a scientist working on nasa's

historic mission to touch the sun. blastoff scheduled for saturday. lillian has the details. are they going to touch the sun? >> yes, they are going to the corona of the sun which that part we all saw during the total eclipse of the sun. it's the first time mankind has ever gotten that close. this is another look of a solar probe. this is going to be the fastest man-made object ever. it will orbit at 530,000 miles per hour. >> can you get from new york city to tokyo in under a minute going that fast. >> shepard: wow. >> it's going to take a lot of calculations look at solar winds which can have impact on satellite and power grid. kind of fun a microchip with over a million names the public submitted to nasa that will eventually become solar dust around the sun until the end of the solar system. another look at it here, it's going to have to with stand a lot of heat, obviously,. steve: hot up there. >> about 2500 degrees fahrenheit. goes in this capsule and

goes on top of these rockets and launching on saturday. >> shepard: what are they going to do? i know we are going to touch the sun. >> they are going to measure a lot of things about solar weather that comes. we don't really know very much about the sun at all. we have seen the whole rest of our solar system going all the way out to pluto we haven't gone to the sun yet. >> shepard: happy trails and good luck. thank you. flare up in the gaza strip has turned deadly. israeli warplanes hitting dozens of hamas targets overnight. today word of a new strike in gaza city. that's next. oh!

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>> shepard: breaking news coming to us out of the south of france. look at this. rescue crews, chopper crews going to rest 750 people including kids from the campsites in the south of

france. that's after heavy rains caused some incredible flash flooding. you can see the water along the streets there. officials say four children are in the hospital and there is word at least one person is now missing. and from this video, from what looks to be outside a restaurant or a store, this is not far from marsi in what would normally be a very busy tourist area in august. another all out war in hamas and allies in israel could be brewing. [explosions] two sides exchanging fire over the gaza border with civilians trapped in between in a deadly back and forth throughout the night and the day. israel launching war planes and airstrikes. hamas firing rockets. hours ago palestinian officials claimed that israeli war planes struck a cultural center in gaza city, injuring at least seven people. our own david lee miller on the ground in israel to survey some of the damage.

>> if necessary, we're going to make our way in to a bomb shelter, that's that brown building you see over my shoulder off in the distance. we are in the city of sderot. this is a community of about 25,000 because of its proximity to the gaza border, about one mile away it frequently comes under rocket attack. and that was the case last night. a rocket landed right where i'm standing just a few feet away. the debris is gone. but you can still see some of the damage to this car. the damage extensive, broken window and a great deal of damage to this as well as other vehicles. things could have been horrific here. take a look at the end of the parking lot. and there you see a children's playground. last night the scene here could have been tragic. >> shepard: hamas and israel have fought three wars since the militant group took control of gaza in 2007. the last time they were at war was 2014. bring in michael o'hanlon senior fellow at the

brookings. what do you say michael. >> could easily be the brewing of the fourth war. in a sense this is better thought of as maybe the fourth battle. because there really isn't any victory by either side. you know, hamas is not going to be strong enough operating out of the gaza strip to somehow take part of israel away or enlarge its territory israel doesn't want to rule gaza. they left voluntarily because they didn't want the burden. what you are seeing are battles that really just sort of return back to a semi unstable peace until the next battle. there really is at the moment no end in sight as to where this goes. hamas, as you know, an extremist group that doesn't really accept israel's basic right to exist. the palestinian entity in the west bank is much more responsible but has some weak leadership issues and doesn't have control over hamas. so, i think of it more as the looming fourth battle in what's likely to be an even longer war. >> shepard: is there a dialogue underway now? >> there's not too much of a

dialogue. there is certainly not a negotiation that you could call a realistic path to peace. and, in fact, you hear a lot of people who are experts on this subject much more than i who talk about how the whole to state dream is are the solve dying. the idea that either value or the palestinians would really make the compromises necessary to share this territory and manage the common security challenges with american help together. that dream, which has been worked on so hard for some years is slipping away, perhaps in ways that are becoming almost impossible to reverse. so you may have to almost create new concepts here like shared sovereignty, two nations on the same land, various kinds of ideas that really almost sound science fictiony. but probably need to be investigated. unless we can somehow get back to that basic idea of a two-state solution where gaza and the west bank of the jordan river area become a palestinian state and then israel has its security in the rest of the land where it now exists.

>> shepard: what's your level of concern that will escalate and involve others around and about. >> it's possible, shepard, but this is no longer the number one problem for most of the middle east. you and i both remember times when it was. when everything was about, you know, arabs and israel disagreeing fundamentally over israel's right to exist but also over israel's treatment of the palestinians. and so all through the 70's, 80's, 90's, this was sort of seen as the central issue in much of the middle east. today, of course, there are too many other problems for this to dominate the concerns of most states. jordan has got to worry about refugees from syria. iraq is trying to piece itself together and so on and so on. >> shepard: michael o'hanlon from brookings. thank you, michael. he murders his own family members and throws thousands of people too go logs today the north korean dictator is rocking a summer look to stare at food while people are starving and reportedly dying in the middle of a heat wave.

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colyer by just 91 votes. the state elections director says that's because of a mistake in one county's numbers. president trump went against the advice 6 his own party's leaders and endorsed kobach over the sitting governor, republican governor. kobach has been a loyal supporter much the president but also one of the least popular politicians of any kind in all of kansas. analysts say the democrats have a much better chance of winning in november against kovach then against governor colyer chris collins says he will not step down and is defiant saying he will stay on the ballot in november's midterm election. he's the one from new york a grand jury indicted the lawmaker on insider trading charges just yesterday. the son a secret tip about a stock pleaded not guilty. one of trump's first supporters endorse him in 2016 presidential election.

the house minority lowered nancy pelosi blasted representative collins in a statement reads in part the american people deserve better than the g.o.p.'s corruption, cronyism and incompetence. house speaker paul ryan removed congressman collins from the energy and commerce committee until the case is settled. is he calling for the ethics committee to investigate. laura ingle with the rest of the story now. laura? >> this continues to be a fast moving story. we have a lot to get to here. new york congressman chris collins launched an immediate defense last night he got out in front. cameras with his wife by his side to denounce the charges against him and let the voters know he is not planning on going anywhere. listen. >> the charges that have been levied against me are meritless as i fight to clear my name, rest assured i will continue to work hard for the people and constituents of the 27th congressional district of new york. and i will remain on the ballot, running for re-election this november. >> the republican congressman was charged with 11 counts in federal

criminal court on securities and wire fraud accusations which could bring him decades in prison if convicted. federal prosecutors say they have the phone and email records to prove that collins received the news that the ceo of innate immunotherapies gave collins the heads up about a drug test failing while attending a white house congressional picnic in 2017 and then shared that news with his son and others so they could sell their stock. when that news broke, the test results the company's share price fell more than 90% saving the accused almost $800,000. innate issued this statement. the company wishes to advise that it has cooperated fully with requests for information made to it by the u.s. securities and exchange commission. the company and its directors, officers, accepting mr. collins are not under investigation. the company considers the ongoing investigation to be a private matter to mr. collins. now members of congress as we know do not automatically forfeit their offices upon conviction of a felony. but we'll have to see what voters and what they have to

say and how they react in november. >> shepard: should be a thing. laura ingle, thank you. accusing the united states trying to demonize moscow. announcing the penalize for using a chemical weapon to try to kill a former double agent and his daughter. the spokeswoman for russia's foreign ministry called the penalties unacceptable. >> all these allegations are baseless and cynical. russia has warned multiple times that using force and using ultimatums when talking with us is futile. russia is going to develop a response to this very hostile step on the part of washington. >> shepard: earlier this year british officials said that russia porscheed a pair with a military grade nerve agent. russia has denied playing any part. a spokesman for vladimir putin say the new penalties go against the constructive talks that putin had with president trump last month. rick leventhal live brooklyn heights, new jersey not far from where the president is staying in week. rick?

>> shepard, the trump administration and the state department saying it's clear that russia violated international law by using chemical weapons and u.s. law requires that these new sanctions be imposed. the victims, former russian spy sergei skripal and his daughter were poisoned by november chak. a nerve agent said to be tightly controlled by the kremlin and u.s. and british investigators say there is clear evidence that russia was behind the attempted assassination. earlier today the u.k. foreign secretary tweeted if we're going to stop chemical and biological weapons, including nerve agents becoming a new and horrific 21st century norm, states like russia that use or condone their use need to know there is a price to pay. thank you u.s.a. for standing firm with us on this. of course, the attack happened on british soil. and the sanctions could cost the kremlin hundreds of millions of dollars. numerous russian agencies have reacted calling the new sanctions draconian, farfetched, absolutely unfriendly and absolutely illegal and also, as you

mentioned, shep, a diplomatic set back but the trump administration says these sanctions are well-deserved and required and they actually could get worse in 90 days if russia doesn't agree to stop all use of chemical weapons. by the way, the president does have an event scheduled at his golf resort coming up in the next hour, shep, on prison reform. and we will be reporting on that during the 4:00 hour. >> shepard: rick leventhal on scene for us. ahead the horrifying truth is finally revealed about a disaster on american soil. come here, babe.

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there is something about getting the score and knowing is really important. >> shepard: puerto rico now after hurricane maria wiped out that island last year. the government initially claimed the death toll was 64 people. no one believed the government. that number ended up being completely wrong. puerto rico now estimates more than 1400 americans decide as a result of that storm phil keating with more in our south florida newsroom. phil? >> shep, after months of disbelief and criticism of the commonwealth's government by people outside the government, that politicians were drastically under estimating the death toll, well, suddenly today they are now saying that maria's devastating effects cannot be overstated. for nearly a year the official government death toll from the u.s. territory stood as under 70. many from landslides or flooding. in sent you may recall the category 4 hurricane blasted the island with 155 mile-per-hour winds and

torrential rains. totally wiping out the power grid and causing $100 billion in damage. well, harvard researchers earlier this year studied how many people died during and in the months after maria struck comparing those months to the same death tolls of those months in previous years. and they found the death toll range due to maria could have been anywhere between 800 and 8,000. well, now, the island territory along with george washington university has done the same, concluding 20 times more people died because of maria and her impact from september through december last year things like no healthcare no. access to medicines, no electricity and no airconditioning and blocked roads preventing medical help from reaching the most fragile. the death toll was buried on page 306 a 400 page funding request to congress for 150 billion reconstruction dollars for the island. well, the government as of today said 99% of the island

of puerto rico does have power. we were there last month for the approaching hurricane beryl because it really threatened to rebuild infrastructure the people on the island were seriously worried. as it turns out beryl toldly totally parted. only hit with 40 mile-per-hour winds. still it ended up knocking out power to at least four towns. that still remains the big concern on the island, shep, if another hurricane happens this year directly striking the island, especially if it's a major hurricane. it could be yet another calamity. the locals we spoke to said everyone fears anything more than 50, 65 mile-per-hour winds they think is going to be massive power outages yet again. shep? >> shepard: phil keating in south florida. the u.s. is stepping in to help a country escaping in crisis. millions going hungry in venezuela u can't afford basic supplies like toilet paper because of skyrocketing inflation. their leader nicholas madeira refuses to step down

and he is cracking down on his political opponents accusing them of trying to kill him with exploding drones during a military parade. one opposition leader says madeira stage you had the whole thing as an excuse to crack down. rich edson is live in colombia. he visited the border with the u.n. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley. rick, what did you see? >> shep, we saw venezuelans lined up throughout this border city, many of them were waiting for food, for medicine, even for clean water. according to the government here, tens of thousands of people cross over into colombia every day from venezuela across this bridge. some stay in colombia. others will travel on foot to other places throughout central and south america. and still there are many who come to colombia. they have a hot meal. they will get some medicine and then they will return to venezuela. many say they are here just to work, to try to earn some money. maybe bring their family to colombia. but what they're telling us is they can't have improving

conditions and don't have improving conditions in venezuela right now. >> like i told you, there is a big crisis. we have shortage of food and medicine. children are dying because of the shortage of medicine. the senior citizens are dying because of the shortage of medicine. we can't find food. everything is overpriced. and that is why the majority of venezuelans are fleeing the situation. >> we are fleeing massively, not because we want to, we don't want to come to a foreign country. we don't want to disturb anyone. we want to recover our identity. >> we traveled here with u.n. ambassador nikki haley. she toured the relief efforts at the border town. she pledged 9 million additional u.s. dollars to what has already been about $60 million in u.s. aid to this crisis. she also called for madeira to step down. though, despite that attempt on his life this week, there is little sign he is doing so. in fact, a number of venezuelans we spoke to told

us that they have been hearing from folks in venezuela that the government is cracking down even harsher now after that attempt on his life this weekend. shep? >> shepard: rich edson live in bogota. as it turns out. warps make very angry drunks. today a warning to watch out for buzzed up bees on a rampage. also has the iphone finally met its match? we're live at the major tech launch that hopes to take a bite out of apple. your mornings were made for better things than rheumatoid arthritis. before you and your rheumatologist move to another treatment, ask if xeljanz xr is right for you. xeljanz xr is a once-daily pill for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom

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>> shepard: member of the harlem globe trotters went above and beyond for basketball trick here. look at this. bull bullard is his name made the shot from the skies of new jersey while sitting in a plane traveling 70 miles per hour. this may even top his previous trick shots including one from an amusements park ride and another from a helicopter. harlem globe trotters team has been around for nearly 100 years now. look here. there you go. and that's good for two. inside the line. members are known for their amazing basketball skills and all that. it's not fun dealing with people who are drunk and angry it says here. but what about wasps that are drunk and angry. that's apparently what's happening in parts of britain. the wasps are drunk and angry. the insects from been drinking fermented fruit and leftover sider from the bars and making them sting people a lot more. i swear to you.

experts say they're resorting to booze because the stuff that makes their normal diet is scarce. folks in britain have nicknamed them logger laut wasps, laut by the way means aggressive. the world's number one smart phone seller unveiling its largest smart phone yet. largest. samsung execs from introduced new galaxy note 9 phone in brooklyn, today. the note 9 is expected to hit store shelves later this month. samsung execs say it has more storage and battery will last longer of course all of that comes at a price. fox business network susan lee live from barclay center in brooklyn home of brooklynettes hello, susan. >> that's right. very good, shep. tech like me here in brooklyn today to check out samsung's latest offer galaxy note 9 starts at $1,000. more storage, faster processing and get blue

tooth pen. has the tech world going wild is the announcement that samsung is going to offer a home speaker. that means they are are going to go head to head with the likes of amazon and google for space in your home. back to the note 9 just quickly because the note some say this is a make or break in this note line because remember a few years ago they had the combustible battery recall on the galaxy note 7? well, if this doesn't do well this might be the end of all notes for samsung going forward. shep? >> shepard: it's announcing some new partnerships, samsung is? >> yep, so, for the knight it's the biggest video game on the planet right now. it's a billion dollars in revenue. 125 million gamers in the world. and it's just being offered on android. samsung has exclusive rights of the first four days of the offering. partnership with spotify as well. the spotify ceo is here. this hab the criticism for samsung compared to apple. samsung doesn't have that addictive ecosphere they don't have the music and

movies. they are trying to update with that partnership with fortnite and spotify today. >> shepard: did you get to try one, a note 9? >> i did. it's actually -- yes, a note 9. it comes in fancy new colors you get lavender and blue as well and rose gold. i would say it's not much of an upgrade from the galaxy note 8. that's a knock on this new offering. what are you really getting for 1,000 plus and is there really that much new in it, right? >> shepard: right. i guess that since apple had set a price point with iphone 10. they figured they could dance around that price point and see what happens, right? >> yeah, but 1250? that's pricy. 1250 you get a tara by the of storage and,yes, faster processing. that's a lot to spend on a phone, don't you think? >> shepard: sounds like a lookout to me for anything. susan lee, great to see you. [laughter] >> good to see you. on this day in 1936, jesse owens won his fourth gold

medal at the olympics in berlin. nazi leader adolf hitler was trying to show off his so-called superior aryan race. team u.s.a. threw a wrench in those plans. owens broke or tied the world record in the first three events. three african-americans swept the podium in the high jump. hitler left that event early and jesse owens was good as gold 82 years ago today. u.s.a. right after this newscast you can catch us on facebook watch with a fox news update every day around 4:00 eastern so 3:00 in oxford. we do a facebook watch update and news headlines and stuff that we find around and it shows up there on your facebook watch feed. streamline on facebook watch in just a few minutes and you can always watch it there on demand. when news breaks out, we'll break in because breaking news changes everything on fox news channel. "your world" with maria bartiromo today because neil

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