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nearly two years ago. in this hour, we'll have a live report from puerto rico where three million people are hoping for the best as the storm has shifted slightly to the north and where tens of thousands of homes still have blue tarps covering damage left over from maria. here's a look at where dorian is right now. you can see maximum sustained winds are at 75 miles an hour. so a minimal category one but with higher gusts. the storm's center is in the vicinity of st. thomas. let's go to the fox extreme weather center with rick reichmuth. rick? >> the radar picture here, you can see the center of it. st. thomas right there. just to the east of puerto rico. puerto rico will get definitely some strong rain from this. we'll see flooding on the eastern side of the island. san juan probably not as bad. injury not as close to this. the satellite image, you can

see -- begins to look like a hurricane. they were just in there flying around and found the winds at 75 miles an hour. so they did that upgrade. what we've been seeing the last couple days is that center of the storm be displaced towards the north. so we saw that yesterday here. every time that happens, they go in and find the center. when the next computer models run, they've got to recenter where the starting point of the projection goes out after that. that's why we've been seeing the models change quite a bit. we'll probably see that again. center of the storm is there. you still see a lot of the worst convection to the north of it. still a little bit to the north of the bbis. we'll watch this storm move north and across the bahamas. this area is more favorable for strengthening than it has been in the caribbean, this is a warmer body of water. less upper level winds to tear it apart. a better environment for us. what we're watching is one of

the most reliable computer models and pulls this across florida and out here in towards the gulf, which would make it have a second landfall. this water is incredibly warm. another one of our reliable models curves this a little bit here closer towards the coast. that's why north florida, georgia and the carolinas have to watch this. we're about five days out from this getting to the mainland u.s.a. that is a lot of time just to change. notice a really big spread here. it's a low confidence forecast at this point while the strength of it puts it at a category three storm. i'll also tell you that's not a super strong forecast intensity. forecasting is still not what we're as good at and the water is certainly plenty warm and conditions are ripe. we could see, you know, additional strengthening of that. this information tells us five

days out, we have something here. that means you should be making your plans for a couple of days from now when we can pinpoint where this is going to go. people can put the plans in place. shep? >> shepard: sounded like your team's hope yesterday was well, from an american perspective is the mountains in the dominican republic would break this up. >> or puerto rico. that would have been much better. it didn't happen. going right over the bbis, those are not enough mountains or land mass to disrupt it. so it hasn't had the land interaction to cause it to unravel. that's while it will remain at the hurricane strength and all of our guidance says it will get stronger. >> shepard: better sense by friday? >> yeah, by friday we'll have a better sense. a lot of things five days out that contribute to where a storm is going to go, including features, atmospheric features across the pacific, not even

over a land mass yet. keep in mind, for all of our forecasting that we do, most of that comes because we launch air balloons from land. we don't have all of those places in the water to put up air balloons to get information. so we don't get as good of information until a disturbance or a weakening in the atmosphere gets over the mainland u.s.a. where we start to send up the balloons and get better information out, in to get better information out. >> shepard: thanks, rick. we'll be watching. as dorian appears ready to skirt by the american territory of puerto rico, it's not hit somewhere around san juan. president trump is calling the island one of the most corrupt places on earth. he added, by the way, he's the best thing that ever happened to puerto rico. those clearly are opinions as opposed to facts. the president repeating his false claim about the aid that puerto rico has received. here's his tweet from yesterday. wow, yet another big storm

heading to puerto rico. will it end? congress approved $92 billion for puerto rico last year, an all-time report of its kind for anywhere. that is decidedly not true. we checked with sources including federal emergency management agency or fema. the latest numbers show that as of the end of june, the federal government has allocated $42.7 billion for puerto rico. of that, about 21 -- about $21 billion is binding. in other words, congress has to pay it. of that, puerto rico has received less than $14 billion. so $14 billion or less. not 92 billion. that 92 billion is actually an estimate of how much money the island could need in the decades to come. the president also claimed its an all-time record for anywhere. it is not. in 2014, the congressional research service estimated that

congress provided roughly $120 billion for the aftermath of hurricane katrina, which devastated the mississippi coast and flooded new orleans. there's another piece of this as well. the storm threatens both puerto rico and the east coast of florida and who knows georgia, up the shore, we don't know yet, the trump administration is diverting money from disaster aid to the southern border. hundreds of millions of dollars at the peak of hurricane season. john roberts reporting live out on the north lawn. high, john. >> shep, good afternoon. this idea of reprogramming, moving money around from one agency to another, depending on the need, is something that has happened in each of the past four years in regards to the border going back to the obama administration. a little less than a month ago, dhs notified congress that it went to reprogram a total of $271 million to address the crisis on the southern border. of that, $116 would be reprogrammed to put up more single adult detention beds.

here's the point of controversy here. $155 million of that would go to temporary immigration facilities on the southwest border under the new migrant protection protocol that money would be reprogrammed from the fema disaster relief fund. now, fema told fox news that that money will come from what is called the disaster relief fund base account which covers predisaster declaration surges. that surge has already occurred in puerto rico where famous prepositioned a lot of supplies. there was $602 million left in that accounts. fema says taking $155 million for the border will leave enough to cover any expected predisaster surge in the next month when the funds gets replenished again in the new budget by about $474 million. there's also historical precedence for doing this and during hurricane season. in august of 2014, the obama administration reprogrammed even more fema and dhs money to

address the central american migrant crisis on the border. it was a total of $405 billion. $267.6 million of that coming from fema's disaster relief fund. other money came from the coast guard, tsa and u.s. customs and border protection. back then, democrats didn't complain about it. but they sure are complaining now. chuck schumer saying "taking these critical funds from disaster preparedness and recovery efforts threatens lives and weakens the government's ability to help americans in the wake of natural disaster. i talked to them both and fema and dhs says that's not true. it does not go in effect when chuck schumer says it will. there's money left in the base account to preposition any supplies needed between now and the end of the year, september 30th. there's also a second account in the disaster relief fund called the majors account that is the account that funds disaster

recovery and fema told me that in that account, there's currently $27 billion. shep? >> shepard: john roberts live. thank you. the president made border security a main stay of his message dating back to the campaign with build that wall and mexico will pay for it. the last promise is long gone. despite the president's claims to the contraircontrary, there' wall. existing barriers have been replaced. same span. the total of repaired barrier is about 60 miles along that 2,000 mile border. in some cases with a new wall system as customs and border protections calls it, new tech and new lighting, but not in new areas. the pentagon approved another 20 miles of wall for arizona and california. still it seems the president wants more progress on his promise. an hour ago, he tweeted that the

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the book is called "call sign chaos, learning to lead." remember, the retired marine general announced his resignation after policy agreements with president trump. he said that all americans need to recognize our democracy is an experiment and one that can be reversed. we all know that we're better than our current politics. tribalism must not be allowed to destroy our experiment. jennifer griffin reporting live. jennifer? >> shep, former defense secretary jim mattis quit when the president announced that he was pulling all u.s. troops out of syria. breaking his silence, mattis addressed his decision in an except from his upcoming back. he said --

>> his successor, mark esper, would not weigh-in on mattis saying the internal divisiveness posed the greatest threat to american democracy. chairman dunford a month from retirement, went a step further. >> i will not now, nor will i take off the uniform make judgments about the president of the united states. i won't do it. >> mattis and general dunford served in concert together as u.s. marines. shep? >> shepard: we reported the concern about a new north korean sub. what are you learning about that? >> in his first press conference as secretary, mark esper was asked about north korea's new weapons and recent missile tests. >> we're concerned about their short range ballistic missile tests. we want to understand what they're doing and why they're doing it. on the other hand, we won't

overreact. we'll take a measured response and make sure we don't close the door to diplomacy. >> he wouldn't say if the new images could one day launch a nuclear missile and change the u.s. military's calculus. the images appeared when kim jong-un visited the shipyard and stood in front of a modified 1960s era submarine to one day fire a ballistic missile. while north cree has not test add long range missile since 2017, the seven launches of short range missiles have allowed japan and south korea and the u.s. now satellite photos show that north korea continues to build out their other nuclear platforms. the submarine is a little more than a year away from deployment but the missile systems could be tested in the coming weeks.

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>> shepard: veterans tying under suspicious circumstances at the same v.a. hospital and now the feds are investigating. they were all patients at the v.a. medical center in

corksburg, west virginia. investigators dug up one body and found insulin in his abdomen even though he wasn't a diabetic. then his death was ruled a homicide, a shot of insulin can kill somebody that doesn't have diabetes. we reached out to the v.a. and a spokesman told us that they're cooperating with the inspector general's investigation. jacqui heinrich with the rest of the news live from new york. jacqui? >> the feds are looking into ten deaths, one is confirmed rule a how many side. the attorney for one family says that the d.a. hid the circumstances of how their father died. the retired army sergeant mcdermott was admitted to the v.a. center in west virginia with pneumonia in april. according to a lawsuit, he was improving and died suddenly three days later. it wasn't until six months after he was buried that his daughter

heard from the office of the inspector general, a watch dog group that oversees the v.a. asking to dig up his body saying his death was suspicious. the family agreed. the coroner ruled that his death was a homicide. the respect of an insulin shot he didn't need. the family says that he had no history of diabetes and there was no order for the shot. that's when the family found out nine or ten other patients that died at this same hospital writing the employees of the vamc were aware of each of the deaths. each of the nine or ten patients had received a wrongful injection of insulin. the family says the other victims had dementia, too. >> shepard: i mentioned the short statement from the v.a. what else are we hearing from

them? >> the v.a. would not comment on whether there's a person of interest in this case writing allegations of potential misconduct you may have heard about in media reports do note involved any current louis a.j. son v.a. medical center employees. senator joe manchin's office says there's a person of interest and they're no longer in contact with any patients. shep? >> shepard: jacqui heinrich live. an american couple arrested for murder now on the run after they escaped security officers as they moved them to a different prison. cops say blaine and susan barksdale overpowered private security guards in blanding, utah, which is about 40 miles north of the arizona border. they're accused of killing a man and burning down his home in tucson back in april. cops arrested them in new york and guards were transporting them to a facility in arizona. police are warning people the couple is armed and should be considered extremely dangerous. laura ingle reporting live from new york. laura?

>> shep, well, police in tucson, arizona, told us today that they're working with the fbi, the u.s. marshall service and several law enforcement agencies in multiple states to track these two down. 56-year-old blaine barksdale and his 59-year-old wife, susan barksdale, managed to overpower two security officers while being transported. they were going through utah and this happened monday night. they were in the process of being extradited from upstate new york near the henrietta area where they were taken into custody in mae. they're facing charges of first degree murder, burglary and arson in connection to the disappearance and the assumed death of frank blye. his brother called police from out of state that day asking for a wellness check after he hadn't hurt from his brother in over a week. investigators later discovered his vehicle abandoned leaving to believe that he was the victim of foul play. his body has note been found,

shep. >> shepard: the investigators are saying this couple, the barksdales may have had some help with the original crime? >> yeah, detectives working the case said they identified a person of interest in the arson as brent mallard. he's the 30-year-old nephew of blaine barksdale. police say after mallard was tied to the case, he was arrested and booked on felony charges of burglary and felony criminal damage. police say that blaine barksdale will stick out to any one that spots him. he's 6'5", weighs 260. he has numerous tattoos on his arms and hands. police warm people not to approach and call 911 immediately. the barksdales were last seen driving a stolen red gmc sierra with arizona plates. i spoke to one of barksdale's adult children and they are upset that their father was involved in such crime and they

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>> shepard: fox extreme weather alert. hurricane dorian barrelling through the virgin islands and picking up strength along the way. long range projections have it on the east coast of florida or georgia by monday as a category three hurricane. nothing is certain as this storm has been very difficult to predict.

the national hurricane center upgraded it from a tropical storm to a hurricane this afternoon. we'll continue to track it as it moves in the general direction of puerto rico. puerto rico will get rain and a lot of it. whether san juan will be hit, forecasters don't know with certainty. the storm comes three years after hurricane maria devastated that island. people in puerto rico are still recovering from the storm which officials blame for nearly 3,000 deaths. puerto rico is at this moment under a state of emergency and our senior correspondent rick leventhal is there live. rick? >> shepard, no rain here in san juan at the moment. right now it's a nice day. we have had reports that outer bands have caused problems in substations on the outskirts of san juan. we're being told as many as 20,000 customers are already without power here. even though it's been a nice day so far. you can see behind me they have put tarps and canvas over the

windows. there's people in the ocean right now. it's nice here. we have a lot of tourists down here for weddings. on that tree, the yellow box, that's our fox news storm cam, which is latched to that palm tree. we'll have weather data and live images throughout this afternoon, this evening as the conditions worsen around 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. we think it will be bad here. the governor says the island is prepared. they have moves some patients to three main hospitals in san juan. the airport was closed. the port was shut down. a lot of businesses along the main drag here also put down the hurricane shutters and boarded up windows. so that have battened down for a good rainstorm and maybe worse. >> shepard: let's hope. i'm told you spoke to people and how maria is affecting them two

years on. >> yeah, a lot of folks are still shell shocked. they're reeling from there. there's 30,000 homes with blue tarps on the roofs. they're vulnerable if this storm is as bad as it might be, 4-6 inches of rain, possible flash flooding and mudslides. the government opened 260 shelters and encouraging people in damaged homes to go to the shelters to ride out the storm. but as you said, no one knows how bad it will be, if it's going to turn again. originally it was supposed to go well to the west of the island. now it's looking like it's coming over san juan or somewhere to the east. >> shepard: rick leventhal, all the best. thank you. a doctor in ohio is in court today accused of killing 25 people by giving them excessive amounts of pain-killing drugs. the doctor has a new lawyer who has defended the florida mom casey anthony and aaron

hernandez. a judge approve add new legal team and set a trial for late may. dr. william husel has pleaded not guilty. the death happened at the mount carmel system in columbus. the hospital reported that he gave three dozen patients excessive doses of the drugs. his previous later said the doctor was giving dying patients comfort care. instead -- and was bianci is he. doctors don't want to be accused of killing people but want to help your pain. >> yeah, this is an interesting case. i know a lot of people in the pain management field. i threw this out before i came on the show. 500 to 200 micrograms of fentanyl, which is 50 to 100

times more powerful than morphine. they're like oh, my gosh, that is a deadly dose. but they also asked, was it done through the uv or a patch? what was the patient's history? would they have been likely to die anyway. the facts of this case show that 20 of the 25 were likely to have died anyway. >> shepard: that least five. >> that leaves five that may have contributed or not. then you get back to discretion of managing pain and not hastening a death. i'll tell you a blink that i thought the prosecutor case. they didn't charge with first degree premeditated murder because he said the prosecutor, i can't prove preprior calculation. in other words, premeditation. they filed it under intentional. shep, if you write a script to a nurse or to another doctor that says give 2,000 micro grams of

fentanyl to a patient, you're going to result in a death. the prosecutor split the baby here. a little blink to say, this is going to be a tough case to prove that he intended for them to die as opposed to give them proper pain management. >> shepard: i guess that somebody will have to make a determination about dosage. from our research and from what you just said, that amount would kill anybody. right? >> it could kill everybody. it was against the hospital protocols there. again, remember, the pharmacist allowed the prescriptions to go through. the nurses allowed them to go through and people administered them for years. >> shepard: without taking any positions on the merits of this case or any other, there's the matter of people that have maybe an older relative a grandmother or something in the hospital in horrible pain in her last days and the last thing you want to see is her to suffer anymore. there's no hope. >> shep -- >> shepard: you wonder if there's precedent here. >> that point is what my contacts said to me and my sources. this could be a scenario where

this could be the final days and the family and our the patient want this over. >> shepard: don't let them suffer. >> could very well be that scenario. >> shepard: and i guess -- this is expected to go to trial? >> i can't imagine it doesn't. if you're dealing with recklessness, shep, we talk about this all the time, that's an easier case for a prosecutor to prove. you don't have to prove it was intentional or premeditated. they're going for this was an intentional attempt to cause the death of these patients. i can't see how this doesn't go to trial? and if the doctor said i don't wand you to suffer so i'm going to give you enough to where it's the end, there's a question about who gets to make that decision. my understanding of things is you don't get to make that. >> if they can prove. you have to prove the intention of what's going through the doctor's mind. without a confession, you'd have a difficult time proving it. why 500 for some and 750 for other? 1,000 for another or 2,000? why was there that difference that he was using it in

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>> shepard: so the deadline is closing in for brexit. the united kingdom's exit from the european union and the new prime minister, boris johnson, is pushing to temporarily shut down the parliament. the reason is that could make it harder for lawmakers to stop what has been described as a potentially disastrous no deal split from the european union. johnson replaced theresa may after parliament rejected her deals with the e.u. many analysts say splitting without a deal could be an

economic catastrophe. today boris johnson visited the queen, and she gave it to suspend parliament for about a month. that would get -- would get back a couple weeks before the brexit deadline, which happens to be halloween. british opposition leader jeremy corbyn called it all an outrage. president trump has thrown his support behind the new prime minist minister, boris johnson. he said this is what the u.k. is looking for and will be a great deal. a 71-year-old man face to face with a bare in his own kitchen. it happened in pine, colorado. 45 miles south of denver. the bear was not invited. john johnson and his wife say they were watching television on monday night when they heard strange noises saying burglar, burglar. the culprit, a mother bear and

her cup. this is the video from outside the house on the porch when they wandered around before making their way inside. johnson says he went to investigate. turned the corner and the momma bear swatted him on the nose. so he punched her in the nose. his wife also getting in on the action with a baseball bat. >> shepard: all i remember seeing is this big brown blob in front of me. i whacked that bear as hard as i could, both hands. you thought i was a louisville slugger. the bears left the house and john johnson is with us live. john, how are you? >> i'm good. thank you. >> shepard: that is lucky. at very best. you punched a bear in the nose. was that instinct? >> pretty much. i know that she was coming up behind me. i didn't want the bear to try to catch up and go down the stares

where she was coming from. so i give it a swat back. from that point, we started doing a little dance. as george came back around, you know, she hit him a couple times and finally one of the hips, you know, was hard enough that the bear did a face plant. >> shepard: that's from the bear, not the baseball bat. >> that's from the bear. this is from one of -- the bear where she hit with the bat. but that's actually the bear's face. she drove it into the wall. >> shepard: i bet that is an angry bear now. how did that bear get in the house in the first place? >> well, they learn how to open doors. we have our screen door shut just like it's showing here. but the air was coming through, so the bear, rather than ripping the screen, it just took its claw, moved it sideways and used its nose to open the screen the rest of the way. we wouldn't have known this they were here if we hadn't heard

them knocking off a ban that had some hot dog buns in it. >> shepard: i heard they came for you and we have pictures to prove it. there's an injury here. what happened? >> well -- >> shepard: there they are. look at that. >> it was one of the claws came here. the first claw was on the nose. that one gave me a bad nose bleed. these are -- even though they look bad, they didn't gush blood. just oozing. then they got one down on my chest. we have pictures of that. >> shepard: were you this calm with the bear in the house? >> this is the two hardest. pretty makeup. i didn't see any reason to scream and shout and get panicky. i was hoping he would leave. he started to leave. then her cub came in behind her. that's when she decided to give

me a swat. i hit her back in the nose. >> shepard: good shot. well-done to you and your bride with the baseball bat, the louisville slugger. i guess close the door in the future. i know it's nice there this time of year. i don't know. bears are unwelcome. >> well, until i get some iron grate for decorative and anti-bear, i will keep the glass door shut. >> shepard: the best to you and yours. glad you're around to talk about the bear. the other story wouldn't have been as pleasant. nice to meet you. thank you. okay. well, the southern california deputy that said a sniper shot him but later confessed he made it all up is now out of a job. next, what the sheriff says he noticed that made him suspicious about the whole thing. and what researchers say they found in lake tahoe that has them heart broken. first, ever fell like your life

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shoulder. it was red, but it was covered partially by a bandage but did not appear to what you normally call a bullet wound. >> [question inaudible] >> it seemed odd. >> shepard: the los angeles times reports the sheriff's department had previously investigated and disciplined the same deputy. but it's unclear what the dishonesty was about. scientists say they discovered micro plastic pollution in lake tahoe. a researcher said her team is heart broken by the discovery. environmental officials say they're looking to whether the tiny pieces of place -- plastic came from since most of the lake is snow melt. >> plastic particles in lake tahoe are no bigger than the head of a pin. experts say the pollution is

from things like water bottles, flip-flops, clothing that can be micro beads. the team took samples from six locations around lake tahoe with varying amounts of human activity and boat access. using finals and tubing, they separated the sediment from the plastic and they say the discovery is significant because there's been a lot of work done to under how much micro plastic is in marine environments but there's fewer studies in freshwater and far fewer in alpine lakes and tahoe, of course, is among the cleanest alpine lakes in the entire country. >> shepard: have they indicated how serious this is? >> it's unclear because they have yet to figure out if they're toxic. scientists are processing the samples to understand more about where they came from. remember, these are not water bottles dropped out of a boat.

they likely got into the lake by wind, rain and snow. most of the water in the lake is snow melt. because the atmosphere is the super highway that moves water around the globe, snow and tahoe could be water from india. so tracing the source of the micro plastics is nearly impossible. all the science aside, this is demoralizing. as you may know, lake tahoe is one of the most amazing placing on the planet. researchers say the good news is turning up this stuff at a world famous nearly pristine mountain lake may move people to take action. there's also progress being made in ways to remove micro plastics from the environment. shep? >> shepard: trace gallagher live in los angeles. after our reporting here, we'll have a fox news update on facebook watch. it's a minute long with unique content that streams live on facebook watch's home page a few minutes from now. once it's concluded, it's available any time on demand.

in fact, the man who hit the bear in the nose will be back with us. we thought he was fantastic. check it out on facebook watch if you so desire. the markets are all green today. financials and others leading -- energy leading the way. here cavuto. >> neil: thanks, shep. fox on top of two major storms bearing down. dorian now officially a hurricane about to wallop puerto rico with heavy rains. the storm expected to be a category three hurricane when it makes landfall in florida over the holiday labor day weekend. then the firestorm in the u.k. over prime minister boris johnson suspending parliament and the queen letting him do it. don't look now, but brexit is on and brexit party leader nigel farage is here. welcome. i'm neil cavuto. the brexit storm in just a moment. first, the real storm building miles off of our shores with meteorologists rick reichmuth on how big a punch this