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we have live team coverage of the damage with nicole valdez in coraville, iowa. we are starting in belvedere, illinois, just terrible news we are hearing all morning there. >> jacqui and griff, sad situation here in belvedere. people were out last night with their loved ones enjoying a concert. they should be here downtown getting coffee, hanging out at local restaurants but instead a chaotic scene behind me as you can see. cleanup crews on the ground clearing up the debris from what we believe to be a tornado. i will have patrick pan over so you can see what i see here. there's a car beneath the roof here. it just paint the picture on how the storm system that ripped through the community was. 265 people inside of the apolo
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theater last night when the storms came through. in fact, we had a chance to hear from a witness who tells us how everything unfolded inside, take a listen. >> i would say there was 100 people, i did witness when i first got here that they did have people out on stretchers in front of the apolo theater. it looked like they were trying to get ambulance access and emt's to that, that was definitely i did see, in fact, witness. reporter: now that collapse killed 1 person, at least 27 people are injured, two of those injuries we now know are life threatening, two others are critical. let me just tell you, there were a total of 215 tornado warnings from last night into this morning across 13 states, so jacqui, griff, our prayers and thoughts are certainly with people involved here. just a sad situation in belvedere this afternoon. jacqui: thank you so much for your reporting. griff. griff: jacqui, massive tornadoes
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also made their way through eastern iowa with residents there spotting at least nine twisters much of the damage was to a town called coralville and that's where we find fox weather nicole valdez with the latest on the damage there. hey, nicole. reporter: griff, i'm not sure if you can hear the sound of crunching metal behind me as emergency crews try to pick up the pieces of the damage that they faced overnight. you mentioned we are in coralville north of iowa city, suburb, 22,000 people called this area home and i'm going step out of the way to give you a better view of what kind of damage we are looking at. you're looking at pieces of metal roofs, i mean, siding of buildings, brick buildings even and over to the right, a mangled car that was picked up and tossed and flipped on its side during the cheer force of that storm that made its way through the suburb of iowa city yesterday. we know there are several people
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who have been displaced after significant damage to their homes. the american red cross now opening shelters for those people to have a place to sleep over the next few days as they try to figure out what their next moves are going to be, power is also still a major problem here. more than 3,000 people i should say still without power in coralville so that's something that we will continue to see crews really focus on but this was a very rare situation for the state of iowa alone not to mention this area. sirens that were blazing for hours yesterday after what was warned to be a particularly dangerous situation, many just mentioned more than 200 tornado warnings issued yesterday alone. and so it's communities like that that are forced to pick up the pieces and figure out next steps. good thing no injuries or deaths reported as of now. we know that's not the case and we are looking at much more
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unfortunate scenes in illinois and arkansas, griff. griff: fox weather nicole valdez in coralville, nicole, thank you very much. jacqui. jacqui: south and midwest begin cleanup, more severe weather could be on the way. meteorologist adam klotz has your fox weather forecast from fox weather center. what are you seeing, adam? adam: threat for severe weather is same line that we saw through sweep through yesterday. last 24 hours. this is what the threat setup looked like yesterday evening. you saw bulls eyes there and each one is a tornado report over the last 24 hours. what is the forecast look like today, well, moving to towards the east. areas particularly mid atlantic and northeast stretching to midwest and down along the coast and then the southeast more areas where you could see severe weather before the day is over. here is what we are currently
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seeing across the area. this is the leading line, secondary line, though, that i think particularly up in the northeast, this is where you're going to be seeing the big severe thunderstorms, possible isolated tornadoes with this but these are all currently in the yellow boxes, severe thunderstorms, winds up to 60 miles an hour, frequent lighting with this and heavy rain sweeping across portions east of cleveland approaching pittsburgh and approaching parts of pennsylvania. this is a move that ultimately makes to eventually get to go the northeast. the rain that you have seen in you live in northeast, severe weather today, that initial rain isn't what we are talking about. another round that's coming this evening in late hours, of course, we will be watching as it makes that move, jacqui. jacqui: adam klotz, thank you so much. the coverage continues on fox weather app, scan qr code on the screen there. follow the latest on the devastating tornadoes as well as your local weather updates. griff: meanwhile former donald
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trump is currently staying at his home in mar-a-lago in palm beach florida and expected to be arraigned after being indicted by manhattan grand jury, first criminal case ever brought against a former u.s. president. nate foy outside of new york state supreme court in lower manhattan, hey, nate. reporter: just a quiet rainy saturday afternoon in manhattan criminal courthouse. it's not expected to stay that way as we head to the beginning of this week. former president trump to fly on monday and tuesday morning here for arrangement which we expect to happen at 2:15 p.m. secret service and da's office coordinating everything they need to ensure safety and secret service will follow the former president as fingerprints are taken as well as mug shot. he's not expected to be handcuff as that would pose a security risk. now, the indictment is under seal and will be likely until the arrangement on tuesday but
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based off multiple media reports it's believed that this case centers around a misdemeanor charge of falsifying business records related to the 2016 stormy daniels hush money payment. da alvin bragg is attempting to upgrade to felony by connecting to finance law. we won't know if that's the case until tuesday but what we know right now president trump is getting widespread support from republican leadership and also from his former attorney general. listen here. >> based on the news reports if they're accurate, this is abomination, epitome of abuse of prosecutorial power to bring a case that would not be brought against anyone else. they are going after the man, not a crime. and the legal theory frankly is pathetically weak. it's a lousy case. nate: we will see if that's the case but da is firing back from
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house judiciary chairman jim jordan both sides accused of playing pot ticks. house republicans want bragg to testify. bragg claims republican leadership is interfering with his case. nypd, secret service and da's office all had a meeting yesterday afternoon to discuss this. if there are protests that need attending to, the nypd will take the lead on that. and griff, just over the past couple of days we have seen sporadic protests at multiple sites here across new york city but all of them have remained peaceful. law enforcement says they don't have any specific threat that they are word about but they are prepared for anything early next week. it will certainly be a spectacle that's for sure. we will send it back to you. >> all right, nate foy live for us in lower manhattan, thank you. jacqui: griff, for more insight
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of the unprecedented indictment of former president donald trump we are going to be joined by brian claypool, attorney whose expertise hope to glean insight from. brian, there's been so much discussion about this as an overreach and probably something that will end up being too flimsy of a case to try. is that premature for people to be making, you know, statements that are that absolute or is likely that we might learn something when the indocument is unsealed? >> great to be with you. this does appear to be a political witch hunt, why, because if that were you or me allege today have committed a misdemeanor, rest assured that we would not be prosecuted. alvin bragg has history of being radical. he campaigned on the premise that we are going to go easy on criminal just like our da out here in los angeles. so on the surface it does look
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like he's targeting trump. let's look at the potential merits to have case. i know exactly the penal code that bragg is going to be relying. i'm sorry new york city penal code 175 and 175.1, two versions of bookkeeper broad. one is a misdemeanor. he has to prove that trump ordered somebody to put false entry on a book sheet with intent to defraud. that's hard to proof because you will need evidence that trump actually instructed somebody to make that entry. he's not dumb n enough to put tt in writing and second intent to defraud, really, really difficult to prove in a criminal arena. let's move to the second that's a felony, so this is the felony that he's trying to upgrade it to. 175.10. two crimes in one, he would have to prove that trump ordered
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somebody with an intent to defraud, put a defraudulent statement, 130,000-dollar payment to stormy daniels and he did it with an intent to commit a second crime which is the elections campaign fraud violation. that is going to be virtually impossible to prove because bragg doesn't have jurisdiction to go after election charge because that's a federal crime and this is a state court. so it's virtually impossible for him to prove that, that felony. jacqui: if this is such a tough case to make, why is he bringing it? >> i think there's no question about it, that he wants to humiliate president fraud -- president trump. why am i saying that, the payment to stormy daniels isn't illegal, it was made no 2016, jacqui, and the feds came in, the department of justice investigated, they didn't find a crime. they let it go in 2019. why would a city prosecutor then wait, jacqui, whom, let's see
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wait another 3 years, almost 4 years to revive this alleged crime because there's an election coming up, trump wants to run, he wants to get the mug shot of trump and he wants to use this to try to prevent trump from being reelected. it really, really is an abuse of power. jacqui: well, it's not just alvin bragg who decided to bring the case. he was indicted by a grand jury. do you think that the case was strong enough that, you know, everyone in the grand jury was, you know, making their own judgment and arrived at that conclusion on their own or do youyou think they had a bias grd jury pool? >> you heard the phrase you can indict a swiss cheese sandwich. it was clear to me that bragg was controlling the narrative in this grand jury, why, because it was reported about a week ago that he was going to be indicted. that's not how a grand jury works, jacqui, it's supposed to
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be cloak in secrecy. jacqui: devil's advocate, other side of the equation because we don't know, you know, the former president was the one who announced that he was going to be arrested and there's a lot of reporting to suggest that, you know, all of this happening to him is only going to galvanize support for him. it sort of makes the narrative that he's been saying all along about government overreach. so we don't know where, you know, the leak came from bow both sides have the incentive to get it out there. >> well, i think president trump was responding, jacqui, to reports that he was going to be indicted, but back to your other point, look, in a grand jury, i hope that alvin bragg explain to the grand jury that they have -- that there needs to be proof of intent to defraud, he ordered somebody to make the entry and he's trying to commit a campaign election violation. that's really, really hard to prove, jacqui. then you have a statute of limitations issue. two years on a misdemeanor, 3
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years on a felony and if i'm trump's lawyers the first thing i'm going to do is recuse the judge, it's the same judge, by the way, jacqui, that handled the trump organization criminal proceeding in 2021. after you deal with the judge issue, i'd file a motion to dismiss all of these charges, lack of jurisdiction, statute of limitations. so, look, at the end of the day, anybody can be charged with a crime. you can indict somebody for a crime but it's a far stretch to turn that in to an actual conviction and bragg has a hard road ahead. jacqui: unchartered waters where we are right now. brian claypool, thank you very much for your time. appreciate it. griff: american wall street journal reporter in russian custody this hour accused of espionage, our political panel joins us on what the biden administration should be doing to bring him back home. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪
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moscow, reporter for 12 years has more on the story. we were talking in the break after reporters left the country after russia invaded ukraine but recently a number have gone back and this looks concerning for evan. >> that's right, because a number of news organizations decided that it looked kind of safe, obviously that all changed. it's been just over 78 hours since evan gershkovich, colleagues at the wall street journal last heard from him as he was walking into a stake -- steakhouse in russian city, he was arrested by the federal security service, brought back to moscow and charged with espionage for allegedly seeking secret information about a weapon's factory in the city. gershkovich is being in
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notorious prison in the capital. as you point out first american to be jailed for espionage since reporter at u.s. news and world report and was arrested and put in the very same prison by the way back in 1986 before being released a number of days later in a prisoner swap. the prospects for gershkovich is another prisoner swap or perhaps more challenging now than they were then. there are a number of other americans not journalists but americans being held in russian prisons including another american who has been convicted of espionage who is also in the very same prison serving a 16-year sentence. u.s. keen to get him out as well. add to that russia-american relations at the lowest point since i started reporting 3 decades ago. this is a difficult situation. it is, of course, the war in ukraine that began 13 months ago
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that has put russia at odds with not just the united states but dozens obviously of countries, the war you may recall also prompted many western news organizations as we were saying to pull journalists out of russia after the kremlin introduced a law that journalists can be sent to prison for ten years if they deem reporting to be fake news. this situation, the charge of espionage is even more serious. the wall street journal vehemently denies it and was there doing legitimate reporting trip but i have to tell you, these trials, if this does go to trial, they generally speaking happen behind closed doors and they almost always end in conviction. jacqui. jacqui: which means that it would be on the administration and white house to try to bring him home if that ends uptaking the course. ryan, thank you very much, appreciate it. griff: for more on this, let's bring in the political panel, joining us today kathy, former
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rnc press secretary and tim hogan, senior adviser and former communications director for amy klobuchar. cassie, let's start with you where jacqui just left it off. this is a serious charge and yet we have seen obviously the administration brought home brittney griner for which we are grateful but they traded for a russian arm's dealer víctor whose name was the merchant of death, what do you make to have situation, is the biden administration doing enough now on this case? >> yeah, just as you l laid oute are glad that brittney griner was brought home. that's what people are going to be looking at now. is the biden administration going to be aggressive as possible in brig home reporter but not only that showing putin that we are not messing around and we are not going to take games lightly. that's what everybody is going to clue in on and that's what the administration needs to show
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that they are going to negotiate through a position of strength. griff: you're right, cassie, this is about handling putin and what it feels like he's essentially doing hostage take to go get something out of this administration. are you worried that this puts the biden administration in a difficult spot? >> the difficult spot for any white house in negotiating with russia in a such as like this we don't as americans and we never have made it a habit of taking high-profile prisoners or celebrities or journalists for leverage in political negotiations for prisoner swap. that's always the difficult position. we heard from the white house. they've condemned this as ridiculous, they are in contact as well as state department with the wall street journal and trying to secure counselor access which is the first step to resolve the issue. we know that the administration is take steps. we know joe biden said, let him go. griff: all right, let's talk
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about 2024, have to talk politics with our political panel and i want to continue with you, tim, president biden has not yet announced. he's done everything but announced for reelection and in fox news latest poll on the economy his numbers are low. take a look here. you can see just 35% approve of how president biden is handling the economy but from the white house podium we keep hearing about how great the economy is. >> the really in polling like this when you're talking about people want to see a president run, it's always against the enemy of the perfect at this point. i think on the democratic side what we are going to see very clear consolidation of democrats. i think there's a path for joe biden with consolidating like he did in 2020. the interesting question is on the republican side. you have seen donald trump's approval rating on the republican base go up since the -- since there have been rumors
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about the indictment and ron desantis has been crater. the question is what's going to happen on the republican side. i think we know who is going to happen on the democrat side. griff: you brought it up. in fairness this poll was obviously done before we learned thursday evening about the indictment of the former president but you can see president trump up to 54% from 43% in february and desantis went from 28% down to 24, dropping 4 points, cassie, does ron desantis have a problem? >> i think it's more that the american people are hearing more from president trump, with all the news of the indictment, he made the splash when he went to east palestine, ohio and showing people reminders of what life was like when president trump was in the white house and going back to the fox news poll where you have more than 50% of democrats who want someone other than biden but there's another
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poll this week from mammoth that we don't know who that is and i think that's indicative of the democrats' policies are not working for the american people and every time they see donald trump, they get a reminder of what was working. so even if we may not like the drama of donald trump, we kind of liked that we could afford a mortgage and afford buying some milk and eggs at the grocery store. griff: do you think, tim, that it's going to be trump and biden again? >> i think it's entirely possible. i want to say on the popularity of trump, i mean, no other president since 1932 lost the house, lost the senate and lost reelection. so the man manager- magical. >> let's talk about -- >> listen and a whole bunch of other problems that he created. i know he's under indictment and they are trying to spin as positive. might be good for republican base but not -- >> i don't know too many
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democrats who are excited about joe biden and -- >> griff: great discussion. tim, a lot of people counted out donald trump time and time again and he came back. we will see what happens this time. cassie, tim, thanks for being here, great panel. jacqui: alejandro mayorkas was grilled on capitol hill this week over the migrant crisis at the southern bored. former acting director of u.s. immigration and customs enforcement tom homan joining us next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ay.
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you. this is incredibly remote area of the bored, s s some of the desolat terrain, some looked like mars out there but lead tractor with texas dps found 3 - illegal immigrants some dressed as camouflage in an effort to evade detection. they are going that way because they do not want to be caught. it's incredibly dangerous out there and texas dps catches these guys dressed in camouflage day in and day out with their investigators. we will take out to the rio grande valley, another significant human smuggling bust. take a look at the photo, 19 illegal immigrants found by border patrol being smuggled inside of one single suv, hard to believe all of those people crammed inside of that vehicle almost all of them single adults so there was one little child who was crammed in there with
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all of those migrants. then we will take you out to el paso, take a look at these images, another significant human smuggling bust, texas dps investigatorror stopping a penseki moving truck and they open it up and found 58 illegal immigrants crammed inside being smuggled. all of the immigrants from guatemala, honduras and el salvador. those northern triangle countries as well as mexico, the driver now facing federal charges for human smuggling and lastly, we will take you to arizona, more significant fentanyl bust, take a look at the images, the nogales port of entry, cbp officers stopping two vehicles on tuesday, one car, 303,000 fentanyl pills hidden in a spare tire. the second car, 30 minutes after the first bust, 208,000. back out here live, nogales port of entry has been seeing fentanyl bust almost every
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single day. the single port of entry since october 1st has seized more than 20 million fentanyl pills. that is one single poe on the bored. we will send it to you. jacqui: unbelievable numbers. bill melugin in eagle pass. thanks, bill. >> to you view what is happening on the border as a crisis. >> i have tremendous faith of the people in homeland security. griff: that was dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas in a clip in upcoming 60 minutes interview, here to discuss it former acting director of ice and visiting fellow at the heritage foundation an fox news contributor, tom homan, how does secretary mayorkas refuse to call it a crisis particularly we just -- bill just laid out a report, i've been doing it, others, it's almost every single day we are having fentanyl
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busts, impressing number of migrants coming across, children being dropped off, we have migrant deaths and i could continue on and on and yet this doesn't define as a crisis? tom: well, it's absolutely crisis. he just continues to lie. he's proven he lied a couple of weeks ago chief -- the chief of border patrol testified that they all have operational security. when he testified last week, he changed the definition and talked about mission advantage, operational advantage. let me say one thing, when he says yes, tremendous faith in the men and women at dhs, news here mr. secretary, they don't have faith in you. the men and women in border patrol don't have faith in him, the men and women in ice don't have face. i had faith in back then. he needs to step up and take the steps he knows to secure the bored. all they have to do is plans
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from the trump administration. it's not that hard. he supports open borders, that's what this president ran on and does everything the president wants him to do and i'm in new york on lake ontario, just yesterday 8 more migrants died crossing the river. they are dying onlying through the southern border and dying through the northern border and there's no stopping them. griff: tom, you mentioned the -- the faith in the secretary and i covered the ma -- mayorkas hearg and there was one moment with senator ted cruz, he really went after secretary mayorkas and laid out a number of issues and one of the things calling him out on the fact that he's lost the support of his troops. here is senator cruz and mayorkas. >> your testimony subject to perjury that you have not
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released rapists, molesters? is that your testimony? no you may not. you may answer my question. is that your testimony, yes or no? griff: is he being dishonest in the clip or is he being unfairly treated by people like senator cruz? tom: he's being dishonest. he knows criminals have been released. a whistleblower contacted me, the number of criminals they released from the border. they release people that haven't been vetted yet. i've talked to a couple of whistleblowers, they have been ordered to process so quickly that some of the vetting of these people from exotic countries in asia and africa and middle east, they're vetting has not come back yet and they are releasing them. in two instances when the vetting came back two days later they were hot but they were already released. the secretary knows damn well what's going on down there and continues to law enforcement i've never seen a cabinet member
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boldface lie to the american people and lie under oath. that's perjury. i called for his impeachment for two years and i'm disappointed in republicans in the house have not started the process yet. griff: don't give up yet. i hear there are discussions that that could still yet happen. we will find out if the house republicans do indeed try and impeach him. tom homan, thank you for taking the time today. jacqui: elon musk is calling for a pause in an ai research saying it poses a threat to society. more on that next. 30 ♪ ♪ ♪
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risks we have to pause for a little bit. mike, an interesting letter to see because when you look at the people who signed it, tech giants like elon musk but notably absent anyone from microsoft and google who are sort of at the helm of this race to develop ai technology. what do you make of the rest -- risks that they spill out in this letter? >> i agree with elon musk that we have to be cautious here. our policymakers at the federal and state levels need to be proactive instead of reactive where it becomes too much of a problem that it's too big to deal with. we saw this with tech. we've had for the last almost 27 years going back to the communications decency act of 1996 we had the antitrust amnesty in section 230 immunity that we give to big tech and it's created these tech giants, these monsters, monopolist, facebook and apple, they have way too much power and they use
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their power to crush competition, shutter small business and cancel conservatives. we cannot let this new technology ai, we cannot let that get into the monopolists hands. i agree with elon musk that we need to pause. jacqui: some of the threats they are spelling out are significant threats the way the humanity functions. i feel like we have all seen the movie here. you have to be nice to the robots because one day they will be in charge. should we let machines flood our information channels with propaganda and not true and should we automate jobs and jobs outnumber, replace us and risk loss of control of civilization such decisions must not be delegated to tech leaders. they are asking the government to impose moratorium so to speak. if the u.s. government does such a thing, don't we risk being
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behind? >> it could happen in another country but this is probably chinese driven technology anyway. we already have america's kids as zombies on their phones and zombies on tiktok and playing their video games. i think that we just -- i think elon musk is correct and these people in the letter are correct that we have to be careful what kind of society we are creating where we have zombies on their phone especially if they get into the hands of big tech monopolist, google, apple. >> it's the pope in a trendy jacket and created by ai but it started this, you know, fire storm online people thought it was real. you've also had photos on the internet of president trump's arrest created by ai. what should the government be doing just in ten seconds to try to let people know that what
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they're seeing -- is not authentic? >> i d-- think the government should be in the censorship business. we need to break platforms so the information is not concentrated in power in one or two or three big-tech monopolist hands. jacqui: thank you very much for coming on a saturday. griff. griff: coming up marine sergeant that saved my life almost 20 years ago to the date in a in baghdad.
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griff: this coming friday april 7th, marks 20 years since u.s. marine storms stormed hussein's palace i was embedded with lieutenant oliver north with marines that day and moment one brave marine saved my life, i got to talk to her 20 years later. watch. amanda it's been 20 years since i saw you. obviously i've told the story many times. you literally saved my life. take me back and tell me how you remember it. >> sure, i was told to lift off
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and you were in the seat and i turned around and you were on the ramp and i wasn't going to be the crew chief, we were a few feet off the ground and ran back there and ran the handle on black jacket and pulled back as hard as i could. griff: you are quite modest, we were in hot ellez and we had to lift because of danger to enemy fire. i still would have died if i would have been left in hot lz in baghdad that day. >> it was stressful, it was hour after hour, landing after landing and y i think we went fr
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more than 13 hours, night into day into night again. it's scary, you know. griff: we landed in the backyard essentially of saddam's mr. provost and executive vice president for academic affai -- >> saddam's triangle. >> the other bird having to hoover. i'm not sure we ever moved so quickly in landings as that zone. griff: yeah, you know, from my own recollection probably the most frightening moments was seeing people shoot at us from roof took place and they were shooting hard to not let the palace fall? >> they were. one to have middle trips, it's hard to keep them straight. i know my crew chief had to take a couple of those guys out and thank goodness that he did because it doesn't take much
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ak47 round could take helicopters out of the air. griff: you have grown into world-renown canoe paddler, you have a new book called digging deeper, tell me about it. >> there's a theme in my life. when things get hard, you -- i try not to accept quitting. i don't know that i have quit in me. i got laid off from kohl's department stores, it department and something was pulling me to something else. i wasn't ready to jump into another office job and so i did end up buying an rv, selling my house, going on the road all of the time, planning to paddle from the head waters of the missouri river in montana all the way to the gulf of mexico and i didn't -- at first i wasn't even sure that that was all water as i've learned a lot of people aren't sure of. turns out it is and you can make it. it was the hardest thing i've ever done. griff: well, it's an amazing
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story and i must confess i was s leaving for joy to have lunch. i will give you a chance to embarrass me. looking back on those days because we formed a bond, i really felt to be bond part of you and for our viewers, i'm not sure i have the tape but the red dragons shaved my head making me an honorary marine. do you remember that? >> you're an honorary marine forever. i do, i do. i was not part of that if you remember. but i think i got the sense that you were honored by that, not only did they shave your right, they duck taped you to the stretcher? >> they did. >> stood you up against the wall? >> they did. >> thanks for having me. griff: she's an incredible hero. colonel north okayed them to shave my head but red dragons,
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all of them heros, amanda haines such a hero, she really did save my life. her book digging deep is amazing and i can say as personal reflection i looked much younger there. jacqui: i'm sad that we don't have pictures duck-taped to the stretcher or to the wall. >> amanda said she didn't participate but all of them taking turns shaving my head and it was the greatest honor of any life when you're accepted with the group that you were there for almost four months embedded with them. quite something. one more plug, digging deeper, go get it, amanda haynes book about going down the mississippi and missouri rivers, quite something. jacqui: thank goodness that she did what she did.[ griff: that'♪s it, eric shawn,pp
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