>> america in mourning following two mass shootings less than two hours apart, leaving 29 dead and dozens more injured and the search for answers is just beginning this is the "fox report." latest shooting took place overnight in dayton, ohio. authorities say a gunman wearing good armor opened fire on a crowded downtown street. killing at least 9 people. before being shot and killed by police. the horror unfolded as police processed a crime scene more than a thousand miles away in el paso, texas. authorities in el paso look into that attack as a case of

domestic terrorism and possible hate crime. investigation in dayton still in early stages. >> to answer questions, why? we do not have that answer at this time. we pursue this investigation to try to understand motivation, in this crime. assuming there is a motivation that is understandable. >> we have fox team coverage. garrett 10-- tenney in el paso. we begin with mike tobin from dayton, ohio. 6 police officers killed a gunman, as he tried to get in the bar. we tell you that, we can show you video police have shown. you can see gunman marching up the street fires round after round. police chief said there were 30 seconds from time first shot was fired until fast-thinking

officers, shot him dead. >> it was crucial, had this individual made it flew the thre doorway with that level of weaponry, there would have been a catastrophic injury and loss of life. stopping him before he could get inside there, you saw people they were running in there for protection. reporter: we can show you live pictures of a vigil forming in dayton, oregon district, recognizing the 9 lives this ended so suddenly, and inconceivably. i can tell you some new updates from day, weapon use z was anar 15, outfitted with drum clip, capable holding 100 rounds each, weapon purchased illegally, from a gun dealer here in dayton area. of 4 women, 5 men killed, one was the gunman's 22-year-old

sister, siblings drove program from their home and a third acquaintances. the gunman came back. armed and masked, killing. shooting in ohio is just 13 hours after the shooting in border community of el paso, texas, a 21-year-old man opened fire at a busy walmart yesterday, killing 20 people before surrendering. 26 others injured. garrett tenney is in el paso with more. reporter: update we got, that all of the bodies have been removed from walmart, taken to the medical examiner's office they are continue their work to try to identify the victims, notify their families. give them that closure they have been searching for, for more

than 30 hours of just not knowing. we are also learning more about some of the victims who have been identified, they include a mother, who died shielding her 2-month-old baby from a hail of gunfire, she was there at walmart with her husband, shopping for school supplies for her 5-year-old daughter, relatives believe her husband was also killed, likely one of the victims still waiting to be identified. ing in 220 people -- in addition, 26 were injured their ages range from 2 to 82. children, parents grandchildren, who we're told they are expected to survive. we've seen an incredible outpours of support for victims, hundred turn odd responding to requests for blood donation, yesterday crowds waited in 100 degree temperatures, today we're told there was a line outside

before 6 a.m., blood donation banks are asking people to please make a reservation. the past hour, city officials say that, they have been overwhelmed with people wants to volunteer too help the victims, they ask anyone, to give a monetary donation. as for the suspect, i will tell you, state and federal prosecutors are aggressively pursuing cases again him, and treating this size a domestic terrorism case, state officials will seek death penalty against him, federal pros -- prosecutessers are ckin consideg that option. >> he was taken without a fight, have police said anything about what he has said to them? reporter: he said, he is fully cooperating, anything they asked he told them, giving them a full

picture of what he was trying to accomplish with this attack. police are not ready to share that with the public yet, they want the full case. so typical in these cases, that gunman does not survive. this is a rare case he, he does, they want to be more careful than normally see about protecting that evidence that ensure they have a rock solid case to presense in court. >> garrett tenney thank you. >> president trump reacting to the mass shootings in ohio, and texas, calling them quote, unspeakable acts of evil. mark with more. reporter: president trump saying hate has no place in our country. president is also praising law enforce. in ohio and texas for their efforts to save lives. >> i want to also thank the law

enforcement in both places, job they have done is incredible, i want to congratulate them. nobody could have done what they done, as bad as it was, it could have been so much worse, i have to thank them, the job they have done is incredible. reporter: and the investigation, president said that resources of federal government are availage to those impacts, president has spoken with governors of ohio and texas, he will talk more about shootings on monday. >> we have to get it stopped this has been going on for years, years and years, we have to to get it stopped. reporter: first daughter ivanka trump offering her condolences for the weekend attacks. she wrote on twitter ... he comments after former texas congressman bet orourke.

>> he says after charlottesville that clanc chance klansmen are , he is sending a message to the country. reporter: president ordered flags at white house and federal buildings t to fly half-staff until thursday evening. >> we're learning new details about victims and survivors of the deadly mass shootings in el paso and dayton. christina with that from our west coast bureau. reporter: at least three different vigils will be held across el paso tonight. one vigils organized by a group, created by parent of joaquinal l

oliver. higthis is howell is -- el pasoo terms. the shooting rampage claimed lives of 20 people in el paso. 26 people injured. including the baby. the two month old, his mother was shot and killed she fell on him. people are asked to make blood donation appointment on-line. the centers are overwhelmed with people, family reunification center is fully staffed, and fbi has assigned victim specialists to families impacted by the shootings. >> we will pray. we will dispel the hatred that we've seen this weekend. el paso together, we will mourn today, heal tomorrow.

but we as a community will fight to ensure that does not happen against in our city or the country. reporter: the dayton shooting claimed lives of 9 people, including the gunman's sister. victims range in age from 22 to 39 years old. testimony is unclear how many -w many more people would have been killed or injured had police not responded so quickly. >> the word i use for dayton is it has grit. to describe when that community has been through for past 50 years, grit of changing economy. they particular -- come together. reporter: local state and federal law enforcement is just

hours into investigating the large crime scenes, the fbi is encouraging people to up load any video they may have of shootings to fbi. gov back slash el paso shootings or dayton shootings. you have chaotic moments after the shooting where people were not sure where their loved ones were. th-- reunification center is used very much. >> thank you. >> our coverage of two mass shootings continues, i'll speak with a former member of join terrorism taf task force.

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jon: authoritys say the man who shotd killed at least nine people in dayton, ohio, early this morning was bearing a >> he was carrying at least 100 rounds of ammunition, country second mass i shooting in less than 24 hours, following yesterday's attack on a crowding shopping center in el paso, texas, joining us by phone, ohio attorney general david yost. we heard conference with police chief. he said they don't have a lot of answers to motive. is there anything that has developed that you are aware of? >> no. this is one of those things where they have to go through trace the last day or two of his life. look at social media, try to figure out what was go on. that is a lot of good old

fashion cop work. time. jon: the most astounding thing, i think, about this horrible event is the fact that his own sister -- who had, apparently, ridden into the city with him -- is one of the victims along with her boyfriend. what came between them, any indication? >> that's the real wildcard out of all this, the fact the pattern just doesn't make sense. and i know that the very capable investigators at dayton and the fbi will be looking for answers to that very question. jon: when we heard that the gunfire was over in less than a minute with the assailant dead and now that's been trimmed even more, it was a matter of maybe 30 seconds or so of shooting before officers were able to end his rampage, that speaks very well of the training of the local police there. >> you know, police all over

ohio are training constantly for these kinds of situations, hoping that they never occur. i am just so proud of the officers in dayton. they engaged this guy within 24 seconds of him opening up and kept him out of that bar. we'd be talking about a much, much higher number had he gotten inside that bar. jon: but will dayton recover? i mean, when people head to oregon district, are they going to be thinking about, you know, this event for months, years to come? >> well, how do you forget about something like this? but dayton is resilient. dayton's gotten kicked around many times in its history. it always comes roaring back. those are strong people in that town, and the mayor called it a gritty place, and it is, but that's because the people have true grit. jon: attorney general david yost

from the state of ohio, we appreciate you spending time with us this evening. thank you. >> thank you. good to be with you. jon: let's bring in steve rogers, retired lieutenant detective with the new jersey police department, also a foreman member of the fbi's joint terrorism task force. steve, when you and i last spoke last evening here at fox, we only had one shooting to deal with. now there are two. does it seem to you that this is a copycat situation, that the guy in ohio was somehow inspired by what went down in el paso? >> well, jon, this is what law enforcement is concerned about, that there are indeed copycats out there the just waiting to, if you will, pull their trigger. all the news media coverage about this incident in el passes sew could have very well caused this individual to do what he did. but saying that, jon, you know, when you and i were talking last night the predominant question was how do we prevent this, how do we address these things, and

when you're ready, i'll go into that. jon: that is the big question of the day. of course, politicians are decrying what happened and saying it's teem for more gun control, etc. is that going to end these kinds of mass shootings? >> there's two ways to look at this. one is the reactive and the proactive. let's talk about the reactive. we saw within the past 48 hours police officers respond to very critical situations within a real small amount of time the, and they neutralized the killers. and, by the way, let's not escape the fact that it was president donald trump who provided these police officers in a lot of these incidents with the equipment that they need to respond. so he is responding very, very responsibly. number two, proactive, very important. we need to enhance our intelligence and information sharing, jon. very critical, especially involving the mix with providing -- the public with

providing the police on a local level with information. how do they do that? hopefully, we're going to see an enhancement and increasing of community policing around the country. jon, when i was on the police force, we walked the streets. we knew who had a cold, what kid was getting into trouble. so when people and the police have a great relationship, you'd be surprised how much intelligence and information the police gather, and the police are trained about the who, what, when, where and why people do things. and then, of course, the president mentioned this morning about the expansion of mental health services. key to this. we need to get local communities involved with the state governments and federal government to increase those services. and finally -- and i mentioned this last night -- we need to get our clergy involves, our ministers, priests, rabbis, whatever faith you are. we need those people involved because they reach more people on a day of worship than any politician can perhaps in a year. jon: the feeling seems to be

that, you know, so often in these situations there were warning signs, somebody said, oh, yeah, i heard him threaten or i heard him say he was going to do this. but people are afraid to turn people in because, you know, they don't want to get sued, or they don't want to get black marked or whatever. is that going to change? >> i believe it will. and you're absolutely right. during the course of an overwhelming number of these investigations, unfortunately, after the incidents we find out that there was something on social media, there was something said in a chat room. police don't have -- i'm sorry, people do not have to leave their names with the police. they can report these things anonymously and, believe me, they will follow up leads. but let me add this too about social media, and i mentioned this last night, you and i could go on any social media platform, and we'll see bullies beating children up, adults fighting in apartments. there's just -- in partses. there's just too much of this going on, and the social media

giants need to remove this stuff. there's no redeeming value to showing this stuff on social media. jon: steve rogers, formerly with the joint terrorism task force, thank you. >> thanks. jon: well, the manhunt for two teenagers suspected of killing three people now shifting to northern ontario, canada, with police sending an underwater search team after a row boat the detectives believe the pair might have used. the boat was spotted on friday afternoon on the nelson river near the town of gillam where the search for the pair had been concentrated. the two have been on the run for two weeks. demonstrations intensifying in hong kong. a new round of mass anti-government rallies erupting tonight ahead of monday's citywide strike. hong kong is warning the public not to participate. the government there saying this could turn into a, quote, very dangerous situation. it all started nine weeks ago when protesters wanted to suspend a bill that would allow

extradition of suspected criminals to mainland china, but now the rallies have expanded to a series of other demands including greater democracy. the iranian revolutionary guard seizing a ship in the persian gulf suspected of carrying smuggled fuel, according to state media. seven crew members were reportedly detained during the incident on wednesday. it marks iran's third seizure of a commercial vesselling in recent weeks amid a spike in regional techs. ellison barber has the latest on that from our mid waste bureau. >> reporter: iran reportedly seized another oil tanker in the persian gulf. according to iran's semi-official news agency, irani revolutionary guard detained seven crew members on wednesday. the revolutionary guard claims it was an iraqi ship smuggling 700,000 liters of fuel. the u.s. has not yet commented, but the country's secretary of defense and secretary of state met with their respective

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jon: the u.s. is reeling tonight from two mass shootings. the gunfire has left at least 29 people dead and dozens more wounded. the shooting in el paso, texas, now being investigated as a case of domestic terrorism. i'm jon scott, and this is "the fox report." it's the bottom of the hour. the latest shooting unfolded overnight in dayton, ohio. police say a man in body armor opened fire near a crowd strip of bars and restaurants before he was shot and killed by responding officers. this as investigators question a suspect in an el paso shooting. prosecutors are seriously considering hate crime charges and will seek the death penalty. jacqui heinrich has the latest from our new york city newsroom. >> reporter: a lot of politicizing of this mass shooting, it puts gun control debate back in the spotlight.

but the announcement from federal investigators that they're treating this as domestic terrorism puts it ahead of the politics. according to the justice department, this case fits is certain criteria. u.s. penal code describes it as a acts intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population. it also describes it as acts affect -- intended to aaffect the conduct of a government. that's important to note. >> we're treat it as a domestic terrorism case, and we're going to do what we do to terrorists in this country, which is deliver swift and certain justice. >> reporter: right now the fbi has more than 850 open domestic terror investigations, about half of them involving anti-government cases, and about 40% of them involving race or religion. and according to the national consortium for the study of terrorism and responses to terrorism, the number of americans killed from domestic terror incidents since 9/11 is about equal to the number of

americans killed by international terrorism in that same period of time. earlier this summer fbi director christopher wray spoke to senators about the fbi's growing concern over domestic terror. >> just in the first three-quarters of this year, we've had more domestic terrorism arrests than the prior year, and it's about the same number of arrests as we have on the international terrorism side. an awful lot of the racially motivated violent extremism is sated by what you might call a white supremacist type of ideology. >> reporter: in the last 12 months, the fbi classified at least two other shootings as domestic terror, the shooting in california which killed one person and injured three more, and in october at the tree of life synagogue. investigators working in el paso say they're aware of an anti-immigrant manifesto written by the alleged shooter, and state prosecutors plan to charge that person with capital murder which carries the death penalty.

jon? jon: jacqui heinrich in our newsroom, thank you. the national conversation quickly turning political with 2020 democratic presidential candidates weighing in on the debate of gun control. lauren blanchard has reaction from d.c. >> reporter: jon, given these latest mass shootings, 2020 candidates and congressional democrats are pushing once again for gun reform and placing partial blame for the violence on what they're calling president trump's anti-immigrant message. >> let's not mince words right now. this president is encouraging greater racism and not just the racist rhetoric, but the violence that so often followings. >> we have a president who is responsible, who is not taking that responsibility and is doing nothing to address the deepening crisis in our country of this kind of violence. >> we've got to heal, and it's got to start at the top. the president has to take a leadership role in this. >> reporter: acting chief of staff mick mulvaney on abc's this week pushing back on

criticisms the president's words had any effect on the gunman, saying this should be a social issue, not a political one. >> the president's just as sad and angry about this as you are and wants to do something about it just as much as anyone else. >> reporter: this morning speaker nancy pelosi saying the republican senate must stop their outrageous obstruction and join the house to put an end to horror and bloodshed that gun violence inflicts every day in america. enough is enough. senator bernie sanders tweeting: mitch mcconnell should bring the senate back into session immediately to pass h.r. 8, the gun safety bill that has already passed the house. going on to call it a first step. the dnc chairman saying today the shootings are, quote, the price of inaction. however, the counselor to president, kellyanne conway, tweeting that finger-pointing behind keyboarders, quote, solves not a single problem, saves not a single life. jon?

jon: lauren blanchard, thank you. reaction if fallout continues from last week's second round of presidential debates. a number of candidates promoted their plans for medicare for all as well as immigration. some even voiced criticism of the obama administration. "the new york times" writing, there is considerable risk for the eventual democratic nominee if the televised debates over the next six months devolve into with a progressive versus centrist civil war. in that scenario regardless of whether the nominee is far-left or center-left, democrats could find themselves trying to rehabilitate a candidate who has been battered by continuous attacks for more than a year. let's bring in dade hawking, editor-in-chief of the fulcrum. it almost sounds like "the new york times", david, could have been writing about joe biden. >> well, sure, it does. it's also interesting to note that they do say, they do remind us that the first voting -- [inaudible] jon: all right.

we seem to have lost our connection with david hawkings. we will get a back to him and continue our conversation as soon as we possibly can. all right, we do have him back. david, the mysteries of television. [laughter] we apologize for that, but continue your thought about what the democrats have seen so far in their sort of interesting battling. >> so i think that battles happen all the time. i should remind our viewers you all will remember in that four years ago i was sitting in this very chair talking about the first debate on the republican side, and we were all talking about how they were all going to be taking their shots at the front-runner. well, that front-runner now the president of the united states, and people like ted cruz and marco rubio and lindsey graham, all of whom were on those statements are now, you know, some of the president's best friends. so there's a long time to go. six months before the first votes, an eternity in politics,

when those debates happen, what happened in dayton and el paso hadn't happened. lots to galvanize the democratic party behind. there is plenty they agree on. the first debates by your network and nbc both trying to tease out the differences among the candidates. that's important, but there is plenty that unify them. jon: this was a lot of, i don't know, what seemed like anger on stage displayed at the debate. >> i think that's true. i do think that the first two rounds of debates there was this sort of mean-spiritedness and anger and disappointment. some of it directed towards the president, some of it directed the candidates toward one another, and i do think it's an important point that what the democrats need, a what every party that is trying to mount a successful presidential campaign needs a candidate who can inspire confidence, hope, look towards the future, you know? it's morning in america again, president reagan said. don't stop thinking about tomorrow, bill clinton said. hope and change, president obama said.

make america great again, president trump said. those are all slogans that have people looking forward. the democrats haven't really found somebody who can really, really articulate that message all that well. personally, i think joe biden is probably the one who comes closest to being that kind of happy warrior. cory booker did a little bit at the past debate. elizabeth warren has the potential actually, i think, to do that. somebody who can inspire the country, not just that left versus center-left fight, they want to give the people in the rust belt, the people in michigan and pennsylvania is and wisconsin, those crucial battleground states something to look forward to. jon: you mentioned president obama. he was getting slammed by some of the folks on stage. is that because his vice president is leading the pack right now? >> i think that is absolutely part of it that, of course, as cory booker said, you can't have it both ways, mr. vice president. you can't run as the sort of, to try and resurrect a third term

for president obama on the one hand and then on the other hand when the questioning gets tough say, oh, you know, i don't talk about those things. yes, president obama's efforts to find weaknesses in vice president biden's record inevitably went to obama administration. i think that's, yes, that's not a very lasting strategy because i think president obama remains the most popular figure in the democratic party. he ended his presidency very popular among democrats. there was polling that showed at the time of the 2016 debate that were he able to run for another term, he would have won quite easily. so this is not a sustainable strategy. jon: but as the democrats tear each other apart, don't they run the risk of giving the election back to president trump? >> they do if it lasts. as i say, six months to go before even the people of iowa or new hampshire vote, plenty of time for this field of 20 that will inevitably get narrowed.

it'll get narrowed by the rules the democratic party has set for the debates in september, maybe just september 12th if the field gets narrowed to ten candidates by polling and fundraising rules. plenty of time for them to work this out. and as i said before, plenty of time for them to unify behind things. i think the president -- apparently if, we're going to hear from him tomorrow morning about the shootings in el paso and dayton. he has an opportunity now in august, congress has gone home in august. the president has the bully pulpit to himself for several weeks. he has the opportunity to talk about gun violence, about hatred in this country. opioid addiction if he wants to. reporting this might be an issue in the ohio case. he has an opportunity to frame the debate as he wants. if he doesn't successfully frame that debate after labor day, i

think you're going to absolutely see the democrats rallying together to talk about the issue of gun violence and hatred in our society at that next debate. jon: yeah. the democrats seem to be fighting to see which one of them can get farthest to left, and it's going to be hard for them to come back from that -- >> it's absolutely right, jon. it is true that both parties you tend to -- the old cliche is you campaign in sort of the poetry of your base, and then you run to center when it's time to campaign in the general election. we'll see if they can pull that off. jon: david hawkings, ed or to have in chief of the full drum, thank you. -- editor-in-chief. a spokesperson saying senator mitch mcconnell fractured his shoulder this weekend after he tripped on his patio at home. senator mcconnell was briefly treated at the hospital and, as i say, is now released. one of the country's biggest swing states in the throes of an

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jon: florida is facing an intense bae over the voting rights of former felons. when a new law passed last year, florida joined other states in restoring ex-felons' voting rights, but now a new measure might prevent some of them from actually casting a ballot. we have details. >> i was so excited, you know? we campaigned for this, we canvassed. reporter: this woman says she was trillioned last year when -- thrilled when florida voters gave back voting rights to 1.4 million felons. but her celebration was

short-lived. florida governor ron desantis recently signed a new measure into law requiring former nones to pay all fines and fees linked to their sentence before they can cast a ballot. sanderson is one of many who say they won't be able to pay off their debt in time for the next election. >> my reality is i don't make enough money to cover all of it. it's going to take -- you know what i'm saying? -- a lot of scraping together. >> reporter: critics compare the requirements to a modern day poll tack, but florida's governor says it's simply a necessary part of felons completing their sentence. >> the only reason you're paying restitution is because you were convicted of a felony. >> reporter: republican legislators say the measure was needed to clear upping confusion in the original law and create a uniform process. >> i don't think it's fair if somebody did time for a white char crime and they scammed people out of $10 million don't have to pay that $10 million back in order to vote.

no, they do. because not only is it the right thing to do, it's the moral thing to do. >> reporter: the florida rights restoration coalition is trying to make sure former felons make it to polls, helping with the registration process and raising money to help them pay off their debt. >> we estimate that this legislation might have a direct impact on approximately 540,000 of the 1.4 million returning is citizens. >> reporter: the fate of amendment 4 remains in federal court. so far there is no timetable on when the case will move forward. in miami, alena, fox news. jon: boston is honoring victims of the 2013 marathon bombing. what the city is doing to remember them. ♪ ♪ let's be honest, you need insurance. but it's not really something you want to buy. it's not sexy... oh delicious. or delicious... or fun. ♪

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jon: a dam in the u.k. is at renewed risk of collapsing with heavy rain forecast in the coming days. work at shoring up the dam continues as 1500 people have been forced to leave. meanwhile, water from a reservoir is being released into waterways to try to minimize the risk. yesterday police allowed one person from each evacuated residence to briefly return to pick up pets and other belongings. record rainfall and major flooding has set farmers back this season. those in the mississippi delta are already looking ahead to next year as they try e to get from under slow-receding flood waters that have overtaken hundreds of thousands of acres of valuable land. charles watson explains. >> reporter: starting over is what often crosses the minds of mississippi farmer parker adcock. >> this is my office, it's a total loss. >> reporter: his family home is mold-infested and in shambles after sitting in flood waters

for months. >> i was in tears looking at all this. >> reporter: leaving isn't an option for him. the 25-year-old has committed to 4,000 acres of farmland. that equals to about 6 square miles. the wettest 12 months on record between march 2018 and april have caused the mississippi river to sit above need stage for months, forcing waterways to spill over onto a million aches of land in the mississippi delta -- acre9. with to pumps to control the water, the mississippi farm bureau says it's become a chronic issue here where 41% of the nation's water passes through. >> we've basically turned mississippi into a flood control structure for the rest of the united states. >> reporter: for many, the time has come and gone to plant crops like corn and soybeans, but the costs still linger. >> john deere still wants to get paid for the tractor that i never got to pull out for the year. and i have to figure out a way to come up with all that. >> reporter: it's been a struggle all across the country.

crop reduction is showing. according to the usda, about 30% of corn crops are behind where they should be this season. that could lead to higher prices for consumers at the grocery store. for adcock, it's time to look ahead the next year, but if it's anything like this year -- >> i'm done. it's no -- nobody can survive two years of this, for sure. >> reporter: charles watson, fox news. jon: while severe thunderstorms are expected to erupt across the heartland, meteorologist adam klotz is tracking the system from the weather center. >> reporter: hey there, jon, getting very active, a couple big storms out in the pacific. want to begin with this, tropical storm flossie really kind of targeting the hawaii area in the next couple days. maybe not a direct hit and probably weakening a little bit as it moves that direction. your time stamp's up in the corner, so i take you from this evening into monday and tuesday, that's when you see the center of circulation getting really close. this is going to be a tight path, and there's going to be quite a bit of rain.

we are getting deeper and deeper into this tropical season. one system we're paying attention to that might eventually work its way to caribbean, although it's running into maybe bad conditions for development, less than a 40% chance of this low pressure system becoming something, likely by next week we're going to have a better idea of what this does. still very far away from any sort of landfall in the united states. and as we're talking about that, we are getting closer to this time of the year. now, early in march -- excuse me, early in april -- august, my third try there, is when we see this big ramp-up. over the next six weeks is big activity as far as the tropics go. back here in the continue innocental united states, heat is one of -- continental united states, heat is one of our big stories. really consider a big pileup of warm air in the center of the country and everything off to west. that'll be fueling possibly more big storms in the middle of the country where you could see some flooding. here's your current temperatures, and this kind of

lingers for the next several days. we to go from mid 90s or so here on your sunday, that runs again, unfortunately, into your monday where you're looking at temperatures piling up into the upper 80s, lower 90s. spots across the extreme west getting up into triple digits, also on tuesday. so we've got this pattern where the center of the company getting back up close to 100 degrees. it is very hot for states in the middle of the country. states out west. summer or continues as we're moving into early august. jon: it looks that way. adam klotz, thank you. the city of boston is honoring those who lost their lives in the 2013 marathon bombing. rodney rienzo has that story. >> reporter: it was a moment that shook the entire nation. it took only seconds for carlos -- later hailed the hero in the cowboy hat -- to jump a fence and spring into action, helping save this young man's life. >> it was horrifying.

>> reporter: now as the memorial to the victims of the bombing rises, he hopes it can give the families and survivors like himself a sense of closure. >> the scars, you know, ptsd, you know, flashbacks, many of us going through that. >> reporter: there are two sets of markers, one here at the finish line, the other a block away where the other bomb exploded. each of the four towers is meant to represent one of the victims killed. the artist's goal is to create a face that's forever sacred. >> it just symbolizes our -- the way we protect our idea, how we cherish things that are very fragile. >> reporter: it took eduardo and his team four years of planning and hours of ininput from the victims' families. reaction from the community so far have been boston strong. >> it's really powerful to see it next to finish line like that because it's symbolic of really all of the terror that happened that day, but also how boston came together. >> reporter: the artist has since launched a foundation with

his wife. they help the families of service members who commit suicide in honor of his two late sons, one of whom was killed in iraq. he was handing out american flags on the finish line that day. as for the actions that fold, he insists he just did what any bostonian did. >> they might call me hero, and i might say thank you very much, but that's how we are here in boston. >> reporter: a spokesperson says the work on the memorial should be wrapping up over the next few days. in boston, fox news. jon: and that's how fox reports this sunday, august 4th. i'm jon scott, thanks for joining us. more coverage in just a few minutes. ♪ ♪ limu emu & doug look limu. a civilian buying a new car. let's go. limu's right. liberty mutual can save you money by customizing your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. oh... yeah, i've been a customer for years.

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