for foster care. liz adopted her and a year later, her health is improving and she's a beautiful little girl. they're a great family. thank you for doing that. thanks for joining us. i'm dana. here's shep. >> shepard: it's 3:00 on the east coast. noon in yuma, arizona where the homeland security secretary, kirstjen nielsen is visiting the border as president trump backs off his threat to shut down the border this week. the new warning and updated deadline for mexico ahead. and we're waiting for the chicago police union to make what it calls an announcement about kim foxx. she's the prosecutor whose office dropped all charges against the actor, jussie smollett. today is the deadline for smollett to pay the city for the cost of his case. reporting begins now.

some breaking news. we begin with these pictures coming to us at a hostage situation in a subject bosch of atlanta, this is stockbridge, georgia, henry county, georgia. police here say it started with what appeared to be a domestic incident of some sort. according to the local newspaper, henry county newspaper, they call it the henry herald, police came out to call about an unresponsive woman. while an officer was checking her out, somebody opened fire. when another officer ran to help, the gunman shot him, too. we don't know the officer's conditions. we're still waiting for that. here's the location on the map. police report the gunman is right now barricaded in a home along with a 16-year-old male who is considered a hostage. so there's a gunman and a 16-year-old in a house. they believe the gunman has shot a couple of police officers. authorities are negotiating and

trying to keep anything from escalating here. trying to get them -- the man to release the teenager. again, this is stockbridge just outside atlanta, georgia. we're on it. updates as they come in. first, our reporting today begins with president trump backing off his threat to shut down the border. the southern border for now. this is a live look in el paso. the president says he's giving mexico one year to meet his demands to stop undocumented immigrants from coming into the united states and to stop drugs from coming across our border. the president delayed deadline comes after warnings of economic disaster if the border was closed. some of that criticism coming from his own party. the president warned the one-year deadline is not an empty threat. >> i don't play games. i'll do it. so we're doing it to stop

people. we're going to give them a one-year warning. if the drugs don't stop or largely stop, we're going to put tariffs on mexico and products, in particular cars. the whole ball game is cars. it's the big ball game. with many countries, it's cars. if that doesn't stop the drugs, we close the border. >> shepard: well, today the texas senator john cornyn says that he called president trump himself to tell him that closing down the southern border with mexico would be a terrible mistake. analysts said shutting it down would be catastrophic for the american auto industry. businesses in the united states would lose collectively more than $700 million each day that the border is closed. meantime, homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen is visiting the border. she was set to make comments about now, at this hour, but that's been pushed back a couple hours.

the question is did that happen because the president has now changed his course on the border. so lots developing. let's get team fox coverage, mike emanuel on capitol hill. first, john roberts live at the white house. hi, john. >> good afternoon. the president has been hearing a lot of criticism from both sides of the political idea over the idea of shutting down the border, this is all about leverage. going into this morning, the white house was still talking about potentially shutting down the border. the president, as you pointed out, did appear to take that off the table in the late morning when he met with a group of people on opportunity zones in the cabinet room. the president saying he's going to give mexico one year to take care of the problems of illegal migrants of coming through the country or he would slap tariffs from cars coming up from mexico. a lot of u.s. manufacturers build cars in mexico. if that didn't work, putting tariffs on cars, he would shut down the border.

the president said there's, of course, a new trade deal between the united states and mexico that has not been ratified by congress. he said this idea of national security is more important than trade. listen here. >> now, we have a deal, usmca. it's all done. they have to live with it. i'm not trying to be unfair. the usmca is a great deal for everybody. but this is more important to me than the usmca. so they have to live with it. >> the president is going to california tomorrow. he's going to meet up with dsh secretary kirstjen nielsen. this is an area where they have the past few months been replacing old fence. it was 18 feet high with fence that is 30 feet high. it added an extra 30 feet. the old saying, show you a 30 foot fence, i'll show you a 35

foot ladder. the i believe believes it will be more effective than the aging fence that was in there put in the 1990s. >> john, plenty of security talk today and also trade talk from the president. >> yeah, we'll be hearing from the president in the next hour. we will meet with the chinese vice premier. he's been meeting with robert lighthizer and steve mnuchin in washington d.c. they met in beijing last week. they're being inching closer to a deal. a deal is not done yet, but they're getting much closer and the president earlier today was optimistic that something might get completed. listen here. >> they want to make a deal. we'll see what happens. has to be a good deal. it's got to be a great deal. technology, intellectual property theft. everything is covered. there's not a thing that is not covered. we could have make a quickie but we're in a good position. our economy is way up.

china is not way up. we're going to make a good deal or not a deal at all. >> there's been some reporting today that when the president meets with the vice premier this afternoon, he may announce a summit with president xi to sign a trade deal. i'm told that is unlikely to happen. but with president trump, anything is possible. it doesn't appear they're close enough to a deal. there's the trade sieve there. there's a lot of thorny issues to get through, shep. xi jinping made it clear last month that he doesn't want to come to mar-a-largo only to watch the president walk away from a deal like he did when he went to vietnam with kim jong-un. they want to make sure that they get everything in place before there's a signing ceremony. there's some idea that the

chinese might not want to do it in mar-a-largo. they might want to do it in a neutral third country. it's possible that something could happen at the g-20 in osaka. there's a lot of balls up in the air. we don't know what will happen. we may get more clarity when the president talks about it in an hour. >> shepard: we'll look forward to that. thanks, john. the big headline, the president's threat to shut down the southern border is gone for a year. reaction from capitol hill. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel is there. mike, a lot of republicans were sweating that one. >> no doubt about it. people were talking about economic concerns. we had nancy pelosi a democrat, speaking earlier, taking the swipe at president trump on this border issue. >> likes to shut down things, shut down the government, shut down the border. shutting down the border would threaten good jobs, hurt our economy, violate our values and gravely hurt our country. >> a texas democrat told us there was talk amongst her

colleagues of filing a lawsuit because of the economic damage of shutting down the border would be massive. >> we're asking him not to do so because it will be devastating. this is not the solution. we need to provide more resources, more money, more facilities, healthcare and more judges. that's the way to do it in the right way. >> jackson lee says the impact would be the equivalent of a natural disaster in terms of the disaster to our economy. >> shepard: democrats appear to be putting republicans on the record on the idea of a border shut down. >> no question about that. they see this as an opportunity to drive a wedge to put republicans in an awkward spot potentially voting against president trump on a signature issue. the matter of the united states border. you also had the senior texas senator, john cornyn, who said he was very blunt with the president about his concerns. >> there would be a lot of consequences and cause a lot of damage to the u.s. economy as it

would to the mexican economy. i think it would cause us to lose ground in the improved relationships that we have with mexico. >> other republicans were pretty open about their concerns about the damage to the u.s. economy. >> trade is a big deal in texas. on the other side of the coin, we have so many serious issues with the border, we have to get their attention. the president has done a good job negotiating and maybe this is part hoff his tool. we'll see what happens. >> the u.s. trying to button up a trade deal with mexico and canada. so the timing is delicate, shep. >> shepard: mike emanuel up on capitol hill. thank you. ahead, a look at what could happen should the president follow-through with his threat to tax autos imported from mexico. the impact on american companies and you consumers. that's coming up in a few minutes in this news hour. what does robert mueller's

report actually reveal? perhaps we'll all see for ourselves. republicans are currently balking and a battle is brewing. so far we only have the four-page letter from the attorney general, william barr. multiple media outlets are reporting that members of the mueller team say the actual evidence of trouble for the president is stronger than barr let on. catherine herridge reporting live from washington. hi, catherine. >> "the new york times" said findings are more negative than the four-page summary. they're concerned the summary will shape the public's understanding of the two-year investigation. a senior democrat on the hill said he got it. >> i'm not surprised that some of the staff of the mueller inquiry are saying he may have misunderstood or

mischaracterized the report. the american people should have the opportunity to read it. >> here's a statement. >> the white house press secretary today went further. >> the people that have been involved in this process have wasted two years of their life and they need to find a way to validate it. they lost in 2016, they lost on the collusion battle and now they're looking for any and everything they can to continue to attack this president because they have no message. >> in a separate development, letters obtained by fox news senators grassley and graham alerted barr last month that congressional investigators looked at improper influence and

mismanagement in the russia probe. the senators wanted barr to have that information before he reviewed the mueller findings, shep. >> shepard: catherine herridge live on the hill. thank you. coming up, the latest on a kidnapped american tourist in uganda off on safari and snatched up. now the desperate search to find her. but first, updating the breaking news from the top of this new hour and a hostage situation in an atlanta suburb, stockbridge, georgia. according to local media there, police have indeed made contact with the man whom they say is holding a 16-year-old boy hostage inside. negotiations underway for his relief, the police tell us. this is after cops say they responded to reports of an unresponsive woman when the gunman opened fire on police officers. two officers wounded. we've just gotten an update on their condition. they were taken to the hospital in serious condition, but now

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>> shepard: an update now. i reported yesterday on an american woman kidnapped while on safari in eastern africa. kidnapped for ransom. today a rescue team is scouring the bush in uganda looking for her and the gang that nabbed her. they've been searching since really late tuesday and ugandan police say they haven't been able to track them down thus far. the spot is queen elizabeth national park, one of africa's most popular places for tourists that want to see lions and other wildlife. benjamin hall has more from london. >> experts say that when it comes to kidnap cases, the first 48 to 72 hours are critical.

we are approaching 48 hours now. that's why we've seen the ugandan forces extend their search to the national park and some areas around it. we have spoken to the director of the camp where this lady was staying. she was confirmed her name is kimberly. she's 56 years old and believed to be from california. tuesday evening, she was on a safari drive when four gunmen ambushed her while she was looking for animals. they took her away and left an elderly canadian couple. it was them who raised the alarm. the response was quick. >> the police have suspected a group of nongangmen. >> the kidnappers used the krill phone to call in the ransom demand for $500,000. that's the last time that they made contact.

>> shepard: any word on who may be responsible for this? >> the ugandan police have floated a few ideas. one of them is the national park borders the democratic republic of congo, a country that has had many problems in the past. constantly in a state of conflict. many rebel groups have moved back and forth across the border. they say not only may it be web bell groups but poachers that came across the tour group and took the opportunity. authorities said that they believe the kidnaps were still in the national park but the search has been widened. by chance, the newly-elected president of the democratic republic of congo was meeting with secretary pompeo yesterday but he wouldn't answer any questions about the kidnapping. in a separate meeting, pompeo met with families:americans that were detained a broad. he made it clear that one of president trump's main policies was to bring back loved ones being held a broad and reminding everyone that the u.s. does not pay ransom.

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>> shepard: breaking news coming in right now out of central florida. this is the hillsborough county, palm river. you can see the blue helicopter down there. that's on palm river road in hillsborough county. was it a crash? doesn't look like it. looks like a hard landing. when that chopper went down, a rotor on it hit a chevy

silverado and that killed a passenger in the truck. no word on what happened to the chopper, why it had to go down in the middle of this road there in hillsborough county. central florida, tampa area. the chopper's blades and all of the chaos brought down power lines as well. florida power and light on scene. one person has died, the passenger in a chevy silverado. waiting for dna results of a teen that went missing in kentucky is actually him. investigators say people in newport, just over the river from cincinnati, found this guy wondering around in their neighborhood and looking beat up at the time. here he is from back when he disappeared. he told police that his timothy

pitson that missing in the year 2011 and he just escaped from two kidnappers in cincinnati. the photo on the left shows pitson before he disappeared. on the right is a computer-generated image of what authorities thought he might look like. they've been looking for him all this time. according to investigators, before pitson went missing, his mother picked him up from school in illinois, took him to a water park in the wisconsin dells and then she later killed herself in a hotel room saying her son is safe with people that would take care of him. now the mystery unfolding. matt finn reporting live in the midwest newsroom. a lot of questions here still. >> yeah, shep right now the fbi and police departments from various states are investigating this teenager claim that he is the missing boy from 2011. we're awaiting for the dna tests

and will cement this case one way or the other. neighbors in newport, kentucky say they called police yesterday for a suspicious teenager that they thought might have been breaking into a car. they were shocked when the situation flipped and the teen said he was the missing boy, timothy pitson. one neighbor said she was anxious and appeared to have bruises on his face. >> he was a lost child. he was. broke my heart to see him standing there like he had not a friend in the world, like nobody would help him. >> i would give anything in the world to change his life all over again. anything. >> or just to help him. >> the teenager told police that he escaped from his captors at a red roof inn motel. he described the captors as two males with body builder frames. the family says they're hopeful but being cautiously optimistic. police say they will release information as soon as possible in this developing case, shep. >> shepard: thanks, matt.

prosecutors giving closing arguments today accusing the founder of a drug company and four former drug executives of bribing doctors to help boost sales. prosecutors say the scheme is partly to blame for the opioid epidemic. the suspects have all pleaded not guilty. defense lawyers say the company's founder thought the payments were for doctors to talk up the benefit of a fentanyl spray. rick leventhal reporting live from new york. rick? >> shep, prosecutors painting a picture of pure greed. pharma executives paying bribes to boost sales of a opioid to pad their pockets. prosecutors alleging some doctors were paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to give lectures in a sham program. often with empty rooms. the doctors really getting paid to prescribe the drug, boost patient doses and get insurance companies to pay for it. one of those charges, a former stripper that was hired by the

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along with a group of 30 separate police departments in the suburban area announced a no confidence vote in the leadership of the cook county state's attorney kim foxx. she's the one that had been dealing with the controversy over the two big cases. one involving the "empire" actor jussie smollett. listen in here. >> >> hi. i represent the suburban police chief's association. i just want to reiterate some of the things my fellow chiefs have said. this is pretty unheard of, that the chiefs associations are getting together from across cook county to address this issue. we do talk on occasion. we do have things that we do for illinois chiefs, but in cook county, this is unheard of in the 30 years that i've done

this. at fop, they invited us to be a part of that for chicago and suburban cook county to get together, this is obviously something that needs to be addressed. thank you. >> thank you. >> shepard: the fraternal order of police. they're saying look, the state's attorney, foxx, has not handled the way things should be done. she dropped all indictments against jussie smollett. that's the latest and most egregious example of the failure by you and you staff to hold offenders accountable. listen. >> we all stand together in this. are there any questions? sure. >> how come there's no african american chiefs here? >> the call went out to all police chiefs in cook county who wanted to show up. that was their decision. but we certainly made the invitation to everyone.

anything else? thank you all for being here. >> no. one more question. >> i'm sorry. i thought that was a no. >> i want to go over some of the particulars. you mentioned the $1,000 retail theft. one of the chiefs said something about an officer safety issue. who were you referring to there? >> i'm referring to the difficulty that states attorney foxx has imposed on our system to let go felonies on dangerous criminals. many times the hoops that we have to go through to get a felony charge and most of the time they're not approved or the charges are dismissed in court without an officer's opinion, without notifying the police agency or the officer themselves. so basically in essence she's putting criminals back on the street, during the process or not charging them at all and allowing them to go back on the street and commit their crimes again. >> how does that affect officer safety? >> they're back on the street when they shouldn't be.

they should be locked up pending trial. >> you mentioned other police officers with problems. >> this didn't start with jussie smollett. this started when we wanted to try to make sure that when officers receive the battery and the performance of their duties that the fill any charges would be placed. we continually had problems getting those charges approved. they were continually denied. that's what the law requires. so by -- that's what started our concerns about the state's attorney. then it goes further into cases of where -- and i know my second vice president, marty pride can go into it as to the case on reyes who should -- >> shepard: so a vote of no confidence for the state's attorney in cook county,

chicago. state's attorney foxx has now responded and our trace gallagher has that. trace? >> yeah, shep. she has responded now. you have to keep in mind you missed at the top of the news conference, they're asking for her immediate resignation now. kim foxx claims she's doing what she promised to do, which is to crack down on violent crime. telling the police chief and i'm quoting here, unfortunately this is an excuse to justify their resistance to our prioritizing resources to increase public safety and reduce harm. she goes on to say that our assistant state's attorneys work with our law enforcement partner to address violence in the communit because the prosecutor she relieved waited more than a year to charge a shooting of a police officer.

still rising to become a very prominent and powerful woman. in short, what you're looking at here, shep, as they call for her to resign but short of impea impeachme impeachment, looks like chicago could be stuck with kim foxx until the primary in next year. you have to remember it for kim foxx, the dominoes keep falling. lori lighthouse says foxx owes the public a better explanation of what happened in the jussie smollett case. lightfoot called the evidence very compelling. lightfoot was a successful former federal prosecutor. so on top of her, you have the fraternal order of police, the union that represents the front line officers, the police chiefs and we're talking about all of the police chiefs in suburban chicago saying they want this cook county state's attorney to

resign. the pressure is really immense in this case. >> shepard: more than 30 of them. thanks. bob bianchi is here, criminal defense attorney, former head new jersey prosecutor. pressure, but practically speaking, she doesn't have to go. >> right. absolutely. there could be a process to have her expelled. i'm sure they is. you don't hold these jobs if you're incompetent. but that would be a long process. but what is going on here. i'm thinking to myself, what would happen to the 44 mr. police agencies that was in charge of had a vote of no confidence? madam district attorney, you're no longer capable of effectively doing your job. it was most disconcerting. the police say the hart case and the smollett case are the straws that broke the camel's back. there's been a history of not just decriminalizing but failure to prosecute cases where the community is victims of crime

because she calls it criminal justice reform. criminal justice reform does not mean a get out of jail free card. if you commit a crime, you can certainly look at other avenues other than incarceration but you have to hold people accountable. it's lawlessness. people in cook county know that they can steal from stores with impunity. we can have drug offenses with impunity. we can commit crimes and make the communities less safe, which is the police's ultimate responsibility because they won't even file charges against you. >> shepard: it's gotten to that point. that is not bluster. that is a real thing. >> it's not a joke. when i was prosecutor, we would take the cases that come in. if you violate the law, i swore an oath. my oath was to enforce the laws of the state of new jersey, not to disregard them with a hear no evil, spoke no evil and see no evil. may get you votes in part of

your constituency but -- but it's appointed by the governor. that's what i believe in. when you get in, you have to do the job to keep the communities safe and you just can't disregard the law. that's what the cops are saying. smollett and r. kelly are a symptom of the corrosion and corruption? the d.a.'s office. >> the friction of those that keep the peace and those that do the prosecuting is never good for the people. >> it's a delicate balance, shep. as a prosecutor, i also have to make sure the police are acting in an efficient and ethical way, that near not abusing their power. there's that little thing there. what told me a lot, you knew that something bad was going on here when these cops work 1,700 hours with the prosecutor's office in the smollett case, that they decided there's enough evidence to bring charges. the prosecutor said, let's put it in the grand jury because we

believe a crime has been committed. you get an indictment, which means the grand jurors believe there was sufficient evidence to establish probable cause and then you don't notify your law enforcement partners that worked on it 1700 hours that we're going to dismiss it because we think that's right? what did you charge bringing him for to the garage jury in the first place? something is not right here. >> bob bianchi, trace gallagher and the live news conference. much more as the coverage continues on this. there is more breaking news there. this word of the hostage situation right now outside of atlanta. i reported on this earlier. this is stockbridge, georgia. a couple of police officers have been shot and now a man is said to be holding a 16-year-old boy hostage in a home. our jonathan serrie with an update. he's live in atlanta. jonathan? >> yeah, shep. police say this remains a dangerous and fluid situation. the gunman is still barricaded

inside the home in stockbridge about 20 miles to the southeast of downtown atlanta. police believe at least two people are in the home, including a 16-year-old male. they're trying to negotiate his release with a gunman. police say the gunman indicated he would release the teen. authorities say that has yet to happen. two officers were shot, both victims in their 30s. they were taken to grady memorial hospital in downtown atlanta. that's the big level 1 trauma center in the region. one officer taken by helicopters, the other by ambulance. both are in stable condition. authorities say they suffered nonlife threatening injuries. that news comes as a relief. this went down around 10:46 a.m. police tried to enter the home when gun fire erupted. police say the two officers did not return fire. they were struck. one in the upper torso, the other in the hand.

both nonlife threatening injuries. police say the suspect may have been armed with a long gun, but they have yet to confirm what type of weapon he has. they still have not gained access to the house and trying to negotiate that. most importantly, trying to negotiate the release of the 16-year-old male believed still inside the home, shep. >> shepard: the update from jonathan serrie in atlanta. thank you so much. these are live pictures, the first that we've gotten of this. a fairly rural area. it's one of those wait and see circumstances. the negotiation ongoing with this man that is holding a teenager. the last thing you want to do is get anybody else hurt. so normally in this sort of situation, police investigators are tell you time is on our side. talk him down. eventually get him out. the good news is, the two

officers that were shots do not have life threatening wounds. they're in great hands at grady. one of the things you hear about that facility, if you get to grady alive, your chances are very good. top notch folks there. those two law enforcement officers expected to be -- survive without any problem. updates from the scene coming up.

>> shepard: urgent now. i told you earlier about this chopper that went down hard in hillsborough county, florida. new information coming in. we have new pictures of the scene. one of the rotors on the chopper hit a chevy silverado on this road in palm river road, which is basically in the that pa area, hillsborough county. when it went down, the rotor hit a passenger in that truck and killed that passenger. knocked some power lines out. florida power and light looking to restore power there. this is the seen in hillsborough county where the chopper went down hard. sadly one person killed. more on president trump threatening to tax cars and

trucks made in mexico unless mexico does more to stop undocumented immigrants and drugs coming into the united states. right now vehicle and parts top the list of goods connecting the two economies. analysts say tariffs would have a major effect on business on this side of the border. jeff flock is reporting now. jeff? >> shep, this would be in contravention of the usmca, which the president has negotiated. what he means tax the cars, i'm not clear, but the president is right. cars are a huge part of that trade between mexico and the u.s. take a look at the numbers on it. last year, 2018, imports from mexico to the u.s., cars and trucks, over $64 billion. that dwarfs oil and gas and produce. which vehicles would we be talking about?

surprisingly you didn't know, the ram heavy duty trucks are made in mexico. the chevy silverado, some of those models are made in mexico as well. the ford fusion is made only in mexico. the audi q-5 and the honda crv. big, big business. big trade between the u.s. and mexico, shep. you know, a year down the road as the president said, if he's given them a year, we may have forgotten about this. i guess we'll see. >> jeff flock reporting live. we're getting new information in on the hostage situation that is happening now in georgia. including new details about the condition of those two officers shot in the middle of this. we'll have it for you just ahead. you're headed down the highway when the guy in

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>> shepard: breaking news continuing and new information on the two officers shot in

henry county, georgia. here's what we know that is new. police believe -- i mentioned there's a hostage situation right now. the man who is accused of shooting these two police officers, the cops say he's holding a 16-year-old boy inside this house and communicating with police as they try to talk him out of there. here's what is new. police say they believe there are long guns in this house. new information on the officers. one as i mentioned shot in the hand. the other in the torso area. cops tell us this. a bulletproof vest is believed to save one of the officer's lives. they both went to grady medical center and not facing a life threatening situation. for the standoff situation, cops say it's dangerous. they will wait as long as they can. that the area has been evacuated. nobody allowed back in there. the suspect is communicating

with negotiators. 10 seconds until the top of the hour. the final bell is ringing on wall street today. all arrows are up. "your world" with neil cavuto begins right now. >> better but less drastic than close the borders to tariff the cars. you know i'll do it. i don't play games. >> the president issuing a new warning to mexico. stop the caravans or we'll impose stiff tariffs on your cars. if that doesn't work, we'll shut down the border. i'm charles payne in for neil cavuto. this is "your world." tomorrow, dhs secretary kirstjen nielsen is already there meeting with law enforcement and we're all over this. first, with john roberts at the white house and now the president is responding and casey stegall in el paso, texas where the situation is