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4:00 p.m. in new york city with his plea deal. we'll bring that to you live. thanks for joining us. shepard smith has all the breaking news stories next for you. it's going to be a busy day. watch "the five" as well. see you then. >> shepard: we're watching several fast-breaking stories right now. the president's former fixer, michael cohen, has cut a deal with federal prosecutors. the details are coming. we continue yet know whether it requires any cooperation. in alexandria, virginia, jurors looking to decide the fate of paul manafort. they need to know what to do if they can't all agree. the judge has told them to keep working. we're watching for new development. a jet has been circling for more than four hours after blowing out two tires on take off from teterboro, new jersey. you can see the route that it's taken. now it's upstate new york
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circling around new york. on board, a well known rapper, post malone who just last night at the video music awards won song of the year. now he and 16 others, including pilot and flight attendant are circling, waiting for an emergency landing. the news is breaking now. let's get to it. >> and the breaking news first for the day, we begin with a potential bomb shell activity in new york city. president trump's former fixer, former personal attorney, michael cohen, headed to a hearing in minutes from now after cutting a deal with federal prosecutors. fox news has learned that its either some sort of plea bargain or a straight-up stand-alone guilty plea. we'll know shortly. cohen under criminal
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investigation on various charges and rick leventhal has been following the case. it appears today is the day. >> a lot breaking and a lot we don't know yet. we're hearing that he may have agreed to serve three to five years a plea deal to multiple charges in exchange for a lesser sentence, which is three to five years and a plea deal and not apparently a cooperation agreement. which means he may plead guilty and not cooperate with investigators. what we believe is that he has turned himself in to the fbi and will be escorted into the courthouse by agents in the next hour because his appearance will take place in 20 b in lower manhattan. he will likely be flanked by his attorneys. he will appeal before judge william pauly, iii in the southern district of new york. that will take place at 4:00 p.m. eastern time. cohen expected to plea guilty to charges. according to "the new york
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times," the charges that he's agreeing to plead guilty to involve payments to women on behalf of mr. trump. the times quoting a source familiar with the matter say prosecutors reached a deal after investigating financial deals to secure the silence of women that said they had affairs with trump, including the $130,000 pay-off of stormy daniels days before the election in 2016, which he says was hush money to keep her quiet about an alleged affair with mr. trump a decade ago. we're hearing that he play plead guilty to fraud and tax charges as well. we just don't know. >> shepard: two different things going on here. there's the one part where he served as a fixer and a go-between lawyer for the president. the other had to do with a language-standing business, which included taxes in new york. >> right. cohen as we know owned dozens of medallions that sit on the hood of the car and you need them to
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drive taxis in new york. he had dozens of them. they were said to be end more than $1 million in income. now they aren't worth anywhere where they used to be but he used them to secure a massive loan of some $20 million. there's questions about whether that loan was made under false pretenses, whether he inflated his assets and then what he did with the money that he earned from those medallions and whether he reported that income. that could be a way for prosecutors to nail michael cohen. could be the reason why he's going to court to plea today. because maybe he didn't pay his taxes like he was supposed to on all the money he made from the medallions. this is speculation. >> shepard: that's the allegation. we don't know the outcome. >> what we're hearing is that michael cohen today may well plead guilty to some charges and may well be sentenced to three to five years in prison. >> shepard: so less than an hour from now that is scheduled to happen in the courthouse. now let's get to jeffery cramer,
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former federal prosecutor, assistant u.s. attorney, currently managing director at berkeley research group. thank you. >> hello, shep. >> what do you see is happening here? you've been discussing this case with us for a long time. where are we now? >> well, i think we're obviously getting to the end. it goes one way or the other. it's a fork in the road. it could be he's going to do what is called a blind plea. he won't cooperate and get some benefit for accepting responsibility and the court will sentence him and presume mr. cohen is hoping for perhaps a pardon down the line. he may not cooperate. that's one path. the other path is more interesting, if you will, if we follow this saga. he's going to cooperate not only about his bank fraud or whatever it might be but obviously more importantly as far as the president is concerned, the monies paid to these women to keep them quiet right before the campaign. so it is one or the other.
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>> shepard: "the new york times" is reporting that today's agreement, what we'll learn about today, has to do with the women and the pay-offs for the president. not -- that's our understanding from the reporting of "the new york times." that would play into the larger investigation. >> absolutely. if you're a prosecutor and the defendant cut a deal, he's going to cooperate, that's the charge that you want to make sure he pleads guilty to. it common if someone has a lot of charges, it's not necessary that they eat the indictment. in other words, plea get -- guilty to every count. i'll give you the flip side for a moment. if he's not cooperating, the prosecutors may still want him to plea guilty to that count because it could play into some sort of report from mr. mueller's office to congress. >> shepard: if that is the case, if he's -- our belief is that he's pleading guilty to charges involving taxes, involving the
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medallions and involving pay-offs to women. if he's not cooperating, why turn in a guilty plea? what benefit would that bring him? >> there is one benefit. rather than just play this out at trial and watch the evidence come in, a slow guilty plea because you know how it's going to end the trial, the benefit you get now if you're mr. cohen is you get credit for accepting responsibility. the judge can consider that you're coming in, lessening the amount of time the government spend and you're giving the government a benefit and instead of that perhaps less jail time. there's a benefit to the defendant to plead guilty here. >> shepard: so if the headline is you've been investigating me, you came to my business, my home and the hotel i stayed during renovations, you took my documents and records including audio recordings and beyond, you laid out the evidence against and the attorneys decided i'm
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going to plead guilty but there's no cooperation agreement. they've been hoping for that, but there isn't one. what does that say in the bigger picture for the mueller investigation regarding the president, if anything? >> that litany you just laid out is correct. what it doesn't give the mueller investigation is any information mr. cohen has specifically about the payments to those women. not so much the taxi medallions. that doesn't interest mr. mueller. but certainly the women, the money paid for on behalf of candidate trump. you're depriving mueller of that inside information and you have to make the case some other case. if there's no criminal case to be made against the president, certainly a report to congress. >> shepard: either way, the items seized in the raid, if you will, on those three properties, those items can be used by the feds what ever way they chose to use them because they were legally obtained. >> you're right that is fair game for any prosecutor anywhere
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in the country, certainly mr. mueller. >> shepard: good to talk to you. thank you. >> certainly. >> shepard: the other breaking news we're following a live look at allentown, pennsylvania where the district attorney is announcing the first charges to come from that bomb shell grand jury report on predator priests in six of the eight diocese in the state of pennsylvania. could justice finally come for some of the victims that have waited so long? we're monitoring the news conference and have developments in this hour. first, still waiting a verdict in the trial of president trump's former campaign chairman. jurors asking what it means for the entire verdict if they're not on the same page on at least one of the counts. we'll head to the courthouse for the new developments there. we're continuing to follow a jet that has been circling four hours now after it blew tires on take off from teterboro,
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new jersey in route to london. among those on board, rapper post malone that last night won the record of the year at the video music awards. that emergency landing is coming at some point on a breaking news day on fox news. feel the clarity of non-drowsy 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.
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>> a live look outside the
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courthouse in alexandria, virginia where the jurors asked the judge what they can do if they can't agree on a single count against the president's former campaign chairman, paul manafort. in a note to the judge they wrote "if we cannot come to consensus on a single count what does that mean for a final verdict?" the judge told them to go back and go about their business. but then after the -- and continue deliberating. after the jury left the room, the judge said he would accept a partial verdict, not information that he gave to the jurors. paul manafort faces 18 counts connected to lobbying work that he did for a pro russian party in ukraine. he's pleaded not guilty to all charges. peter doocy is outside d.c.
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live. >> shep, the wording of the letter that the jury sent the judge is somewhat vague. it's not clear that they cannot come to a consensus on one of the 18 charges or if they can't come to a consensus on any of the 18 charges. >> are you dead locked on every count or one count? >> we don't know. >> today i have spoken to someone that saw the note from the jury. they said it was edited. a word was crossed out. so the regional question from the jury is what happens if we can't come to an agreement on any of the charges. the judge said this has happened before and even though he can accept a partial verdict, he told jurors to go back and review all the evidence in this case and try to get 18 unanimous verdicts. shep? >> shepard: how did the jury react to the judge's
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instructions, peter? >> one of the jurors nodded his head quite a bit when the judge told the entire group, all 12, that they need to respect the minority opinion among the jury and the judge said you're not partisan, you're judges, you're the exclusive judges to the credibility of the witnesses. first thing this morning before the note indicated that there might be a problem, paul manafort looked to be in very good spirits, which is unusual for him here. he was laughing, patting his lawyers on the back, a source close to the team said he's in good spirits because the deliberations have stretched passed the two days that he thought the jury was going to take. his legal team is off site with mrs. manafort, waiting for a call from the clerk that there's been another note or something else. shep? >> shepard: peter doocy monitoring developments. thanks. we'll continue with that. ahead, a former prosecutor and current defense attorney says
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and respect minority opinions and they say it's about one count, that was a game-changer. that is a gone-through and due diligence, meticulously going through a document dump that the judge threw in there. they had to piece the documents together. they went through it all. just seems like they're hung up on a charge. i would suspect based on the evidence produced that the tax case is solid for the prosecution and those will be all guilty verdict. maybe they get a hung jury and a mistrial on one or two charges. i suspect they come back today or tomorrow. >> the question is how long do you get for this? i guess the foreperson will go, hey, we keep trying this, we can't get there. here's what we've got. would they present the verdicts as reached from the charging document and decide whether they would go back and work on the last charge? in other words, we would know most everything relatively soon? >> i think the time will give
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the allen charge, where the judge will say listen, without doing violence to your judgment, can you foreperson, come to a conclusion, do you think further deliberations will be useful with respect to the counts that you cannot come to an agreement on. if the consensus is if they can't, if it is in fact the number of counts where they made a finding, guilty or not guilty, he will take a partial verdict and mistrial where the charges they couldn't come to a conclusion on. >> shepard: this is really the beginning for paul manafort. there's another trial coming. that has more to do with activities with the president. this has nothing to do with it. >> right. sure. they got manafort in a bind here. if he gets convicted, here's the play, shep. it will be interested if prosecutors or the defense comes knocking and says, hey, you know, maybe we should talk before that other trial. they have him in the breach at that point in time if he gets convicted on any of these offenses. he has all the reason in the
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world to cooperate. >> under sentencing guidelines, you get a sentence north of ten years under sentencing guidelines. >> absolutely. the judge will have a huge amount of discretion here. the judge is an interesting character. he wasn't friendly to the prosecution. challenged the prosecution in front of the jury, which was detrimental. i've had it happen. it's an ugly thing. who knows with this judge and his personality would do when there's ultimately a lot of discretion with regard to sentencing. he's up to the ten plus point if he gets convicted of the tax case. >> shepard: on just this trial. >> yep. >> shepard: thanks, bob. the other big stories with new developments. we'll go live to iowa for the terrible ending and a month-long search for molly tibbets. her father says that investigators have found his daughter's body. cops say the dad charged with killing his family in colorado was cheating on his pregnant
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wife and he's accusing her of strangling their children. also, there's word the russian group accused of hacking the 2016 election has struck again. just months before the mid-terms. what we're learning about the targeting coming up and in addition continuing to track the small jet with 16 or so people on board, including post malone, as it waits to make an emergency landing 4 1/2 hours from teterboro. stay tuned. since my stroke, he hasn't left my side.
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>> shepard: a fox report now. headlines from the fox news deck. today we've gotten word that theres reason to believe that jet, n-101cv that took off today from teterboro airport in metropolitan new york city across the river in teterboro, new jersey, headed for london and has been circling for 4 1/2 hours with two blown tires is to
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land in an emergency landing at stewart, new york, sometime in the next ten minutes. we believe it's shorter than that. they've been burning off fuel. i mentioned the rapper post malone is on board. we mentioned his name because he's a famous guy you might have heard on. he won song of the year last night on the video music awards
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>> shepard: there's breaking news now on fox news channel. brand new information on the president's former fixer and attorney, michael cohen. he's due in court in about 30 minutes from now after word he cut a plea deal with prosecutors. now john roberts has details that he has learned of that plea deal. john what have you learned? >> what we know, shep, this is not a cooperation deal with prosecutors from the southern district of new york and/or the mueller investigation.
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sources tell fox news that a few minutes ago, this is a straight-up guilty plea. we don't know which charges that he's pleading guilty to. he has been accused of campaign finance violations or investigations for campaign finance violations and loans on taxi medallions. we're told whatever he's pleading to, it's a guilty plea and includes jail time. michael cohen has agreed for three to five years in jail. he will be going away. we don't know if he will be taken this afternoon or if the judge will give him some time to get his affairs together. looks like michael cohen will spent three to five years in jail on a guilty plea on charges
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that were brought by prosecutors from the certain district of new york. the fact that he's pleading guilty would seem to indicate according to sources that i've talked to there's no possibility that michael cohen is going to flip on president trump. if there was some inkling that he would flip on trip, he would have chosen some sort of cooperative deal. one source i said there wouldn't be any flipping because he has nothing to offer. he has no dime to drop on the president. so this michael cohen part of this whole investigation could well end within the next half hour when we learn details of the plea agreement and we find out exactly what his fate is going to be. at this point, looks like michael cohen won't be a witness for robert mueller. >> shepard: thanks, john. that is happening here in new york city. we're expecting that this
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proceeding will begin 30 minutes from now and we'll have live coverage from lower manhattan. let's go to a.b. stoddard at real clear politics. your take on this, a.b. >> well, i agree with much of what john roberts is reporting except that in assessing how this is potentially linked and connected to president trump, we'll have to hear what he actually pleads guilty to today. he obviously is in trouble for some financial crimes. if there's campaign finance violations that have to do with stormy daniels or karen mcdougal on pay-offs connected to president trump that links a crime to president trump, we also don't know what -- although this is a case of the southern district of new york involving misdeeds, we don't know what the mueller probe could uncover from
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this investigation and these pleadings that might speak to other issues connected to russia. michael cohen was involved with the trump organization. he was involved with deals that the trump family made. we don't know yet what is going to be revealed to investigators if not probably from michael cohen's guilty pleas. >> shepard: maggie haberman from "the new york times" reports that this agreement to plead guilty involves at least in part payments by michael cohen on behalf of president trump to stormy daniels and possibly others. >> right. this is the known direct link. that he was the fixer, that he likely did this in order to hide these revelations before the election in order to stave off some kind of political harm for president trump and president trump has not told the truth about whether he knew or didn't know. he said he didn't know about the payments and rudy guliani went
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on fox and told sean hannity that he did know. there's a lot of confusion about that. what i'm talking about with these other things, michael cohen -- this does not preclude him from telling robert mueller as he said six weeks ago, he might. not that he's a credible witness in every case here. but that the president was aware of the trump tower meeting before it took place. so just because he's not making a soup to nuts agreement that gets him out of prison time doesn't mean that in some way the overlapping and connections to president trump and exposure to president trump ends with the payment to stormy daniels. >> shepard: thanks, a.b. >> thank you. >> shepard: live coverage, top of the hour on fox news channel as the court proceedings begin. we'll learn then the details in the manafort case. first, the same group of russian
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hackers that meddled in the election in 2016, about that we're certain. that same group is now trying to do it again before the mid-terms. that is the word not from the government, but from microsoft which reports that it uncovered the latest hacking attempts. the latest target, the u.s. senate and conservative think tanks that have criticized president trump and called for sanctions on russia. no big surprise. the claims are called unfounded by vladimir putin and it's unclear who the hackers are. it's not unclear. microsoft president says there's no doubt, none at all, that it is the same group associated with the russian government that hacked the clinton campaign and the dnc. this all comes weeks after the democratic senator claire mccaskill of missouri revealed that russian hackers tried to break into her senate computer network. she's running for re-election in a red state. susan lee is here.
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we're told this would happen and alas, it has. >> microsoft has discovered six fake web pages that were meant to mimic conservative institutions even the u.s. senate. how the scam worked, you were sent e-mails to your inbox. you click through them thinking they're from legitimate institutions like the republican international institute. you were redirected to fake web pages. the hackers use your security codes to get to other sources. we asked about this. >> i think the smart thing for us to conclude as a nation is that everyone across the political spectrum is vulnerable and potential target of attack. we need to put aside enough of our differences to come together to do what it takes to defend the democratic process in this
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country. >> microsoft has shut down 84 accounts the past few years. earlier this summer, facebook said they shut down 32 pages on instagram and facebook. they said they were fake and meant to basically divide the nation on progressive issues. technology companies, as they have been warned since we're three months away from the mid-terms, they need to be vigilant and on alert for russian interference in the vote. >> shepard: as i mentioned, microsoft's president said there's no doubt. >> no doubt. the kremlin denies this. >> shepard: okay. >> the national security adviser, john bolton is again saying yes russia could be one of the countries. watch out for north korea, china, iran to meddle in the mid-terms with under three months to go. all those security and intelligence officials say they have seen no hints of any other countries possibly trying to meddle. >> shepard: thanks, susan.
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while we wait for developments on the michael cohen plea deal, we're watching big news, including ending to the search for molly tibbets. bob tibbets tells fox news that investigators have found his daughter's body. we don't know of what she died. a truck marked "state medical examiner" driving passed an official road black earlier today near her hometown of brooklyn where she vanished. it's about an hour's drive east of des moines. molly was out for a routine run. molly tibbets boyfriend -- molly tibbets was dog sitting for her boyfriend. he said he heard from her that same night when she sent him a snap chat message. then no sign for more than a month. investigators launched a search
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effort involving dozens of officials from local departments all the way up to the fbi. they search nearby ponds, farms and homes and interviewed hundreds of people we're told. molly's father and molly's boyfriend talked with us here on fox news many times pleading for anybody with any information to come forward. investigators set up a couple of -- scheduled to give a news conference matter at 5:00 eastern time, so less than 1 1/2 hours from now. matt finn has been covering the case and he's live outside of brooklyn, iowa where she was last seen alive. matt? >> shep, right now the swarm of activity is ongoing in the rural area, about 13 miles away from brooklyn, iowa. that's where the medical examiner's truck was spotted. fox news has a crew there where we've seen a csi car recently leave the area. we cannot confirm if this is where her body was found but seems related to the discovery of her body.
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we cannot confirmed the nature of molly's death, this area does not come as a surprise to us. it's close to the farmer's house that we saw questioned by the fbi three times. the farmer tells fox news that he took a polygraph and so far he remains a free man. no suspects named publicly. we're not aware of any arrests. but right now, investigators are back out in that rural area where we were many times. we've wondered why investigators returned to the area. maybe her phone or fit bit pinged in the area. rob tibbets just returned to california a few days ago after being on the ground here a full month. he did many interviews with us. he did as many interviews as possible because he wanted his
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daughter's name to remain on people's mind. he and molly's boyfriend went to the iowa state fair looking for information. the father just returned to california. now you can imagine he's on his way back. molly tibbets mother just changed jobs and start add new job. and dalton jack, her boyfriend, was likely scheduled to return to work today. shep? >> shepard: matt, local crimestoppers group with others involved have posted or offered a reward of close to $400,000 and they still plan to put it to use. is that right? >> yes. crimestoppers say they want to use the $400,000 for any arrest or conviction of a person involved. they would have to ask the majority of the donors is that's where they want to money to be used. shep. >> shepard: we'll wait for that news conference on fox news. a judge in colorado is denying
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bail for a man accused of killing his pregnant wife and their two children. christopher watts in court today and for the first time he did not enter a plea. investigators say the man confessed to strangling his wife. but he claims she had already killed the children after he told her he wanted a separation. he claims he saw her strangling one of their daughters on a baby monitor. in a range, he strangled his wife. that happened in frederic, colorado,25 miles north of denver. authorities tell a different story. police say watts was having an affair with a co-worker. investigators say they found all three bodies on the property of an oil company where watts worked. his wife, buried in a shallow grave, his 3-year-old daughter celeste and bella submerged in
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crude oil. >> i am shanann's dad. this is her big brother. we'd like to thank all the agencies for working so hard to find my daughter, granddaughters. thank you for coming out to the candlelight vigil and saying all of your prayers. they're greatly appreciated. keep them coming for our family. >> shepard: he mentioned his two daughters and niko. that's the name that they were planning to give to their unborn child. we have late word that the plane carrying 16 passengers that took off from teterboro and lost a couple of wheels or couple tires blown is about to land. but flight air traffic control
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has removed that flight from the systems which allow us to track it. that said, we're told that fans of the rapper post malone have gathered outside the stewart, new york airport and waiting for the jet to come in. it will be an emergency landing and we'll let you know what happens coming up. if you're turning 65, you're probably learning about medicare and supplemental insurance. medicare is great, but it doesn't cover everything - only about 80% of your part b medicare costs,
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17-year-old female. they called her jane doe. it included the use of snap chat and social media apps. martin says during the period of december 2017 to january 2018, this man electronically communicated with jane doe, many messages sexual in nature and he was sending nude photos of himself through snap chat. this is the first time charges have been issued sense the diamond was issued last week. this was not what we were reporting on the explosive grand jury case which listed 301 priests accused of sexual assault. kevin lonergan has been charged with a felony, which could bring him up to seven years in prison and one count of indecent assault if he's prosecuted. we'll continue to find out more.
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>> shepard: thanks. we're following the developing news in stewart, new york where now we have live pictures. this is the scene at the airport there where this plane that has been circling now for about five hours burning off foul containing rapper and others, post malone. we're expecting it will land in the next few minutes. the original report is the two front tires had blown, two tires on the left, two tires on the right. now it seems that they were passing over another airport out in southern, connecticut and that the fly-by indicated it may have been the two tires under the left wing. so the information is a bit sketchy. it's on final approach. that appears certain on what is a very long runway with the emergency facilities necessary to take care of this sort of
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thing. you can see our local station, wcbs 2 here in new york city and our network affiliate is on scene with live coverage. we'll have that for you after a quick commercial break on fox news. get up to $2,500 customer cash on select 2018 nx 300 models. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. little things can be a big deal. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not a cream. it's a pill that treats moderate to severe plaque psoriasis differently. with otezla, 75% clearer skin is achievable. don't use if you're allergic to otezla . it may cause severe diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting. otezla is associated with... ...an increased risk of depression. tell your doctor if you have  a history of depression or suicidal thoughts,... ...or if these feelings develop. some people taking otezla reported weight loss. your doctor should monitor your weight
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. >> shepard: breaking news on fox news channel. this is video, the jet has landed and safely and there it is. orange county airport in new york. n 101cv, a gulfstream 4 that took off from teterboro 10:50 a.m. new york time. it burned fuel for five hours before landing at 3:50 p.m. it landed apparently without incident. this is videotaped from a short
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time earlier. ambulances numbers 6 or 7 were out there and fire trucks out the mind. now to live pictures. these are the fire trucks on scene and followed the jet in. i mentioned among those on board, post malone, the rapper that won record of the year last night on the vmas. and at the end of the night, post malone and 21 savage and aerosmith had a wild finish to the vmas last night if you stayed up for that. but it was quite a thing. he got a lot of face time last night. really one of the most popular guys out there. in fact, his song, which the album has been a top of the billboard r&b and hip hop charts for 76 weeks, which breaks a
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record that was set by michael jackson back in the day for thriller to say he's popular these days is an understatement. they were headed over to london. he and band and pals and others for a series of concerts in an around london and were going to land at a municipal airport over there. but instead, for five hours, they circled around northern new jersey for an hour or so when they thought they might land at teterboro. they decided to go to an airport in massachusetts where gulfstream has a service center and about an 8,000 foot runway there. they circled over long island and the sound and connecticut for a couple of hours. and then they made the decision to go instead to stewart, which is this orange county airport where you see it now. stewart has a 12,000 foot runway and facilities. the air fort sent out some of their equipment to help. thank goodness, the jet landed
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without incident. i felt like what we were hearing at 50 minutes past 3:00 here on the east coast was a roar after the plane landed without incident. we spoke with a lot of aviation experts the last few hours that said you need a lot of skill to get this thing down but with some skill and careful maneuvering almost under all circumstances, they'll do just that. cbs 2 just switched back for just a moment to local programming. that's the reason you saw dr. phil for a second. our coverage continues in just a moment. if a post malone comes out and gives us a hey, we'll do that. neil cavuto at the top of the hour minutes away.
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century, americans came to the island. some members of congress were originally hesitant to make hawaii part of the united states until they realized it was a strategic location for a naval base. the hawaiian people voted unanimously to become a u.s. state. 59 years ago, today. lots coming up here on fox news channel, at the top of the hour, we are expecting a court appearance by michael coren. new caboodle to provide life coverage as we wait for the details of the plea dea deal. pleading guilty to charges that would give him 3-5 years in prison. we don't know with any specificity what the charges are for pleading guilty. at 5:00 this afternoon eastern time, there is another event. that is the news conference from the authorities, at one point, a
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missing person case of mollie tibbetts. authorities say they found her remains. they will have details on that. a very busy news afternoon on fox news channel. ♪ >> neil: all right, thank you. we are on top of three fast-moving developers. new york city where the president's former personal attorney, michael: is about to appear in court after striking a deal with prosecuting attorney. a guilty plea that could land him in the slammer for up to five years. we are still waiting to confirm the exact charges involved with a number of campaign violations and campaign fraud. whether that goes back to payments made by stormy daniels, we don't know. and alexander virginia where the judges of the manafort case are telling jurors to keep