governor sarah palin: an american woman. a special at 9:00 this evening. right here on the fox news channel. that will do it for us. i'm eric shawn. >> this is a fox news alert. shocking news from the world of sports. former nfl quarterback, the 2003 comvp steve mcnair is dead. police found his body in a condo in nashville. he had been shot several times. nearby they found the body of a woman that mcnair had been reportedly seeing. police are not looking for other suspects. i'm shannon bream live in washington for the next two hours. we're keep an eye on big breaking stories today. police in south carolina are hunting for a serial killer targeting a small community. investigators say the death toll is five. the fifth victim was a teenage girl who died this morning. marianne silber is live in

south carolina, but we start with kris guat gutierrez are m on steve mcnair's death. >> mcnair according to police was found 36 years old, sitting on a sofa, found in the downtown condo in a living room. he had been shot as you mentioned multiple times, including once in the head. 20-year-old se keshel was on the floor with a single gunshot wound to the head. authorities stopped short of calls at it murder-suicide, but based on the evidence, including a pistol found by the woman's body detectives say again they are not looking for any suspects. mcnair was legendary sports figure in nashville and played in the nfl for 13 seasons. three-time probowl selection and comvp in 2003. police described the woman as mcnair's friend. they apparently met at a dave & busters restaurant where she was a waitress. making the case for intriguing is the fact the two were stopped by nashville

police thursday morning around 1:00. the woman according to police was driving the vehicle, registered both in her name and mcnair's name. she refused a breathalyzer test and was arrested for driving under the influence. mcnair was a passenger in the vehicle and allowed to take a taxi ride home. mcnair was married and his wife and their children are shocked and saddened. as is the city of nashville and the rest of the sports the world learn that steve mcnair dead at age 36. back to you. >> shannon: it's stunning news. thank you, kris, for the latest there. now to the other top story, police in south carolina search for suspected serial killer, many in the small town of gaff nearbyy, south carolina, canceled the holiday plans and weekend plans and started arming themselves. mariane silber is live with the latest. i can only imagine the tension there. >> the tension is a good way to describe it. people are afraid to leave their homes. police are not telling us how they connected the five killings in the past week,

though they happened in a ten-mile radius of each other, but they say they're on the hunt right now for a serial killer. they have a composite sketch they want everyone to look at this. is the person they believe is responsible for the shooting. white man believed in the late 40s. approximately 6'2", 200 pounds with salt and pepper hair. he's wanted in the shooting death of five people. one was an 83-year-old woman. she and her daughter were found bound and shot in their home on wednesday. another was a 63-year-old peach farmer shot in his home last week. the latest victim, take a look at her. beautiful 15-year-old girl named abbey tyler shot with her father as they worked in a downtown furniture store. the latest shooting happened a mile from the sheriff's office where we are now. where the investigators gathered to launch a manhunt. you can imagine that the residents are afraid to come out of the their homes.

>> i have protection in the house. i'm not going to let this change my attitude or what i do. >> now police also want people to keep in mind they're looking for a vehicle that they believe the suspect may be riding in. it's an early '90s model, light gray or champagne two-door, ford explorer. they want everyone on the look-out for that. they believe he could be in that. the town of gaffney are no stranger to being afraid. they had a serial killer in the late '60s that killed five people before he was caught. >> thank you for the latest. >> shannon: 50 miles north of gaffney police are investigating an early morning shooting in charlotte, north carolina. it happened in knot charlotte at 2:30 -- north charlotte at 2:30. the victim was shot once in the stomach and is threat suff from life threatening injuries. the police are limited by the language barrier in the shooting. no word if it's kekked to the string of killings in south

carolina. d.c. councilmember and former mayor marian barry has been arrested again. this time he's been charged with stalking a woman. according to park police, barry was arrested last night at 8:45 eastern time. a woman flagged down a police officer and said she was being stacked. pointed to someone in a nearby car and it was marion barry. he was arrested and questioned by the park police and released. he's facing misdemeanor starking charges. barry served four terms as d.c. mayor. in 1990 in his third term, the f.b.i. taped him smoking crack cocaine in a hotel room. all right. this is a fox news alert. two monorail trains collided in the magic kingdom section of walt disney world in orlando. we're told one driver is dead. the other train operator was not injured you but taken to the hospital because he was emotionally shaken. five guests and two employees were riding on the train at the time it happened.

with i'll bring you more on the developing story as it comes in. president obama set to land in russia tonight. his first official trip to the former cold war adversary, but ahead of the trip, she has been selling russian leaders to back off cold war approaches. going over right now, we're going to dmek with carli check caroline shively for more. >> president obama wants to reset u.s.-russia relations. mike mullens will be on that chief. he put it this way today. >> we have things in common that we need to work on. afghanistan, neither country wants to see the tall been return to afghanistan. the kind of efforts we share in counterpiracy, counterterrorism. focus on iran. we have areas of difference, i cite missile defense as a big one. >> proposed missile defense system is absolutely is a big one. the most contentious issue standing between president

obama and president medvedev. the u.s. may put them in poland and the czech republic, with interceptors designed to shoot down ballistic missiles and radar system. u.s. says it's to defend eastern europe from attacks like places like iran. russia is worried that it will be pointed at them. here is what president obama told the russian opposition paper published today. "we're not building and will not build a system that is aimed to respond to an attack from russia. such thinking is simply a legacy of the cold war." unless the two can come to an agreement over missile defense, russian president medvedev says there can't be a treaty on nuclear arms control. the old one expires in december. both sides say they want to reduce number of warheads but deadlocked on specifics. other issues, obama wants russia to get tough on iran. medvedev wants the u.s. to rule out military alliances with the ukraine and georgia. the first meeting between the president is tomorrow morning. shannon? >> shannon: thank you,

caroline. what is at stake for president obama on the trip? joining us now, former defense secretary under bill clinton, william cohen who returned from a lengthy trip of his own to russia. mr. secretary, thank you for joining us today. >> absolutely. >> shannon: how would you characterize our relationship right now with the russians? >> i would say we've gone from a cold war status in the diplomacy to the state of deep freeze. there has been very little effort made to break down that freeze in the last eight or ten years. i think that president obama is saying that we need a reset or restart. there are issues we agree and those we disagree but we need a comprehensive strategy. that's what is missing. if this is a tactical game trying to exploit whatever advantages we have and take advantage of whatever weaknesses they have, then i think it will continue to deteriorate. it could lead to a much more confrontational russia.

because their economy is in trouble. it's really had a bad quarter, sinking down somewhere to negative, between 7 to 8%. only about a 1% growth in 2010. so their economic situation is certainly being a challenge now. it can make them more compliant or eager to do business or aggressive in trying to have a more aggressive stance against the united states to divert attention from the russian citizens on what is happening with the government. >> shannon: what if the president goes down to sit down and meet with their leaders, who is really in charge on their side? >> that is for them to decide. i think president obama will meet with his counterpart. but prime minister putin is still very much there as a key player. and i think that that, the russian people have to decide who is really in charge. plus what has happened, president putin most recently pulled back on russia's

application for wto status. world trade organization status. that was surprising. it came at the last moment without notice. it was sort of a power play on his part to say number one, i'm still in charge. something as important as this. he's there. it might be more akin to a co-presidency, that's not what they would want to call it. >> shannon: talk about the missile defense issue. we're butting them with them quite a bit. how do we continue the process? it's a great self-interest to have missile defense system but they characterize it as something different than what the u.s. is promoting it as. how do we negotiate that? >> we sit down first an of all an try to explain what the mutual goals are. the russians said they are opposed to iran developing a nuclear weapons capability. they have said that, they have supported resolutions, but done very little to enforce serious sanctions that would cause iranians to pause in their plans to produce the nuclear weapons.

we have said that we need to have a limited capability against a limited type of attack that could be posed by iran, north korea, or potentially some other country. now i would go to the russians and say look if you are able to help us remove iran as a nuclear weapon state, then that may change our position to what we need in terms of a limited money as defensive capability. it would go further and point out i've been concerned about an accidental launch. what if russia or we were to have an accidental launch of a large missile? multi-war head missile. what would our president or their president do under those circumstances? shouldn't they have some option to take out an errant missile? so i think we can present that to them saying we want to make sure iran doesn't pose a threat with a nuclear capability. orn. let's see if we can't reduce that threat putting more pressure on both. secondly, assuming we can do

that, we still eight to have some limited capability. russia as an abm system around the city. so they have a limited capability around the city of moscow. so what we want to say is maybe it's a way we can all work in the region to protect ourselves against inherent missile or one that might fall in the hands of a terrorist group. there is a basis for working with them but it's not going to be short-term. we have to decide, we have a long-term comprehensive strategy with russia. what is our role in the world to be as we move forward? what do we see russia's role to be? and we obviously have common interests. we also have pretty serious differences. let's start with the common interests. let's see if we can't build a level of trust that's been missing for past decade or more. once you start to build those elements of trust over a period of years, then you can deal with the tougher issues. >> shannon: see how it goes this week. secretary cohen, thank you so much. well, south korean officials say the seven ballistic

missiles that north korea test fired this weekend were likely capable of hitting key government and military facilities in south korea. the missile launches are the latest in a series of provocative acts by the communist nation. last month, north korea appeared to ignore u.n. sanctions once again when it launched a ship believed to be carrying illegal weapons. however, that boat was turned around about a week ago. it's almost back home. well, her abrupt decision to step down as alaska governor shocked the political world. so it's no surprise that sarah palin's political future was all over the sunday shows today. fox news sunday host chris wallace spoke with alaska lieutenant governor and molly henneberg has much more on that. hi, molly. >> hi, shannon. alaska lieutenant governor parnell said he didn't find out sarah palin was resigning until 48 hours before she made the announcement. he says palin will now have time to figure out how she will, "further her core values." and parnell says palin was looking out for actionens when she decided to step

down. >> what i heard from the governor really had to do with the weight on her, the concerns she had for the cost of all the ethics investigations and the likes, the way that that weight on her with respect to her inability to just move forward alaska agenda on behalf of alaskans in the current context of the environment. >> there has been speculation whether there is another shoe to drop. looming scandal prompting palin's decision. palin addressed it on her facebook page saying -- >> even some of palin's republican supports say this is a risky move, that won't stop the media attention and woan give her the protection of a day job while she decides about a presidential

run. >> she had the excuse of being able to say i'm a governor. i have things i have to do. now people will be clamoring for her. and the expectations will be out of sight. >> and shannon, palin tweeted this morning to her supporters and said, "critics are spinning, so hang in there, as they feed false info on the right decision made as i enter the last year in office to not run again." she says her critics are spinning and it's her critics and her supporters are spinning trying to figure out what is going on here. >> so many unanswered questions. thank you. >> thank you. >> shannon: well, you can catch all of chris wallace's interview with lieutenant governor parnel, karl rove and mike huckabee after our show, 2:00, and 6:00 eastern time on the fox news channel. a fox news alert for you. third person died for injuries in a fireworks explosion in north korea yesterday. it happened while workers were setting up a fourth of july supply on okacoke island

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>> shannon: the show continues to show support for men and women who support our freedom. fox news has been asking you to send us photos and videos showing your support. we put them together in the video tribute you just saw. the response was overwhelming. all positive, all supportive. all thanking the troops, which we could never do enough. now the latest on breaking news stories that we're following. an autopsy is planned today for former nfl quarterback steve mcnair who was found shot to death in a nashville condo. a 20-year-old woman was also found shot to death near mcnair's body there.

has been speculation it could be a murder-suicide. but police have made no official statement about what they believe happened or if there may be other suspects. two monorail trains collided at disney world in orlando and fire official sais it's not clear what caused the crash. one of the drivers was killed. walt disney world says the monorail has been taken out of service. five guests and two employees were also on board the train. the jackson family says those who win tickets in the lottery for admission to the michael jackson memorial service will be notified tomorrow by e-mail. more than 1.6 million fans registered for tickets for tuesday's service. it will be held at the l.a. staples center. right now a manhunt is on in south carolina for an apparent serial killer. police want you to take a good hard look at the sketch and let them know if you can help them find the man. if he looks familiar. his latest suspected victim a teenage girl who fought for her life for two days. she and her father were shot thursday night while working in the family furniture

store. her father was killed immediately. authorities believe five killings in recent days could all be linked to the same suspect. the news has residents in a small town of gaffny on edge. cody is the publisher of the gaffny ledger and joins us with the latest. thank you for your time today. tell us how the community is feeling. >> shannon, as you might expect, residents of the cherokee county and gaffny in particular are shock and have no idea what is going on. really frightened. >> shannon: we have seen the sketch and we heard information about the vehicle. do you know if strong leads are coming in? the law enforcement officials have been tight with the information they're giving out. i can understand that. i have not suggested that they have any strong leads at this time. it's a big weekend, fourth of

july. i have to imagine people didn't feel like celebrating where you are at. >> parties was canceled, i'm sure. one i was planning to go to was canceled. everybody in the community knows or knew of the victims. i personally, my wife was a cousin of to cash, and my daughter is a very good friend of abbey tyler. i knew steven tyler very well. the lenders. close, lived within a half of mile of my house. it of coursed everybody in some personal way. >> jamie >> shannon: thank you for your time. we're sorry for the losses and we pray you're safe and law enforcement can track this person down quickly. thank you, sir. >> thank you, shannon. >> shannon: there is another manhunt underway in wisconsin. authorities there are searching for a convicted murderer who escaped from the jail. eric adams ran out the front door of the kenosha correctional center on

friday. the doors one locked because it's also a work release center. the june jobs report are out and the numbers are not good. employers reduced the payroll by 467,000 jobs in june, far more than forecasters predicted. unemployment rate rose to 9.5%. last week, another 614,000 people applied for unemployment insurance benefits. economists now expect the jobless rate to hit double digits this year. >> we don't have the money to pay our bills. if you don't have the money because the legislature decided it's more important to protect state employees and affect special interest. >> shannon: the california lawmakers are trying to bridge a $26 billion shortfall. things are so bad the state is issuing ious.

charles payne join us now live. good afternoon, charles. >> good afternoon. >> how did it get this bad in california? >> a state that spent recklessly, and special interest group. they have immigrants who that have been a big problem there as well. last year, of all the welfare recipients in america, 30% lived in california. it's just a state that gave, gave, gave. spent, spent, spent. no fiscal discipline at all. >> shannon: we could not send iou to the american express or anyone else. will the banks accept these? what do people and businesses do with iou? >> this is the problem. so far, some banks said they would until july 10. after, that i'm not sure. there is an interest payment on this, 5% interest. if someone gets one of these and gives it to the bank, the bank will then get the interest. who is getting hurt the most?

a there are taxpayers waiting for money to pay their bills and small businesses aren't being papaid. so as usual the taxpayer and the small business will be crushed. reputation of the state. the bonds are going tremendous the amount of interest to pay on the bonds. it will be expensive for california to raise money. what i'm concerned about, this grows $25 million a day, ultimately you and i will have to pay. it would not be surprised if at the end of the day somehow they tap the tarp program. >> this is supposed to be due october 2. will there be funds to pay this when the state arrives? >> i don't know. >> they have 28 billion in bonds due as well. i don't see where they will

get the money. >> shannon: charles payne, thank you. great to see you. governor sarah palin said she had to quit her job to help her state and her country. >> life is too short to compromise resources. it may be tempting and more comfort to believe keep your head down and appease those demanding sit down and shut up, but that's a worthless easy cop-out. that's a quitter's way out. >> is the former republican v.p. nominee quitting her job to run for the white house in 2012 or is she quitting politics altogether? we have more on the political story that everyone is talking about. summerville

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news. >> they're calling 20-year-old kazemi a friend of mcnair, but they're not going further than that. mcnair is co-mvp in 2003 was found dead in a nashville condo with multiple wounds. they found kazemi nearby dead from a single gunshot. police aren't looking for any other suspect bus they're stopping short of calling it a murder-suicide. in south carolina, authorities say a gej girl is the fifth killed by a serial kill canner. abbey taylor and her father were shot in a furniture store and she survived two days and then died in the hospital. >> shannon: embattled former washington mayor marion barry videotaped in 1990 smoking crack cocaine and recently faced tax problems was arrested last night this time for allegedly stacki i stalking woman. he was arrested before the firework show in the nation capital began and charged

with misdemeanor stalking and release. unclear if he had a relationship with the woman. a 19-year-old is lucky to be alive after a horrific car accident that included a dive off 140-foot cliff and night alone and injured on a colorado mountain top. authorities say the teen was flung from the jeep and crawled 30 feet before spending 12 hours waiting for help. a rescue worker described how damaged the car was. >> it's compacted into a little ball. you can't even tell what type of a car it was. back to you. >> shannon: thank you. president obama set to land in russia tonight the first trip to the former cold war adversary. he and his russian counterpart dmitry medvedev say they want to repair damaged relationship and this just in, the top white house advisor say they'll announce a deal tomorrow that could lead to new nuclear arms

reduction treatdy by year's end -- treaty by year's end. speculation over the future of sarah palin following her surprise resignation announcement on friday. on her facebook page yesterday she hinted for a possible future role in politics and on the twitter page she took aim at the maimstream media saying, "critics are spinning, so hang in there as they feed false an info on the right decision made." the fall-out from palin's surprise announcement has shaken up the beltway establishment. editor of the hotline on call, political blog from the national journal and joins us now. jen, what did you make of the bomb friday afternoon? >> shocking. a woman with national ambitions, why give up your day job? it's hard to sell that you're ready for bigger stage when you abandon the one you have. abandon is the word that was used in statement describing her decision.

the twitter and facebook stuff seems cryptic as well. it wonder if there is another shoe to drop. >> shannon: because of the sting from governor sanford and ensen, people are gun shy like there has to be more to the story. what do you make of this so far? >> she had a rough run, family and the father of her daughter's child and then the vanity fair article last week. i think she's maybe little bit brittle at this point. and plans defense be. you want to play on the national stage, you have to get used to the coverage. the party broadly is suffering a big hit. she's still popular among the conservative base and this is unfortunate. she is someone drawing attention and big crowds. >> she has a lot of criticism

out there and it seems like it never let up, though the national election was months ago. she stayed in the pages of the "new york times," vanity fair and criticism cost her family 500,000 to defend legal ethics charges she's been cleared of. there is plenty of criticism out there. did she give the critics more by not even finishing out her term? forget not running again. are they going to use it against her as someone who can't get the job done? >> possibly, quite possibly. absolutely. she can't sell folks on the fact that she is ready for the white house if she can't finish one term as governor of alaska. i think had she gone quietly into the night after the 2008 election, studied up on policy issues, dug in deeply to governing there she would have had an easier sell. but this just stirs the pot some more. she is already a controversial figure. and it just leaves questions about her suitability for higher office, i think. >> sometimes the questions grab headlines. a lot of interest, which is

where we all are today to. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> shannon: now the latest on the monorail crash we were telling you about today. disney world in orlando. fire officials say it's not clear what caused the deadly crash this morning. we know one driver is dead. the other train driver was taken to the hospital. walt advertiseny world issued a statement offering condolences to the employee family and the monorail is closed for now. a sight not many people have ever seen. we'll take you inside the private home of michael jackson. tour of neverland ranch up next. my doctor told me something i never knew. as we get older, our bodies become... less able to absorb calcium.

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latest on several breaking news stories we're following. two monorail trains collided at disney world in orlando. one driver is dead and the other taken to the hospital. five guests and two employees were also on board the trains that apparently suffered no injuries. police in nashville still trying to figure out how former nfl quarterback steve mcnair and a 20-year-old woman were killed in his downtown apartment yesterday. authorities won't say who they are to blame but are not looking for other suspects. more turmoil in iran. group of influential clerics is calling iran disputed presidential election invalid. defying the top lawmakers who endorsed the re-election of mahmoud ahmadinejad. 1.5 million fans will find out if they will get tickets to the memorial at the staples center in los angeles. casey stegall is there live. what happens when the notifications go out?

>> the numbers are detiptive. they're not giving away 17,500 tickets. only 8700 people are getting tickets because each winner gets two. today is the day that the 8700 people will get an e-mail in the inbox saying they have been selected to attend what is expected to be really an event of a lifetime. of course, michael jackson's memorial service expected to begin at 10:00 local time at the staples center in downtown los angeles. interestingly enough, not everyone signed up to witness history. a handful of others had other things in mind like making a quick buck. others are already trying to scalp the tickets. this is wild when the tickets are given out for free. event organizers say they cannot control how people manage the second ticket. because everyone gets two. as you can imagine,

logistical nightmare starting to unfold in downtown l.a. look at the map. the area in blue will be shut down on tuesday. 27,000 parking lots and 27 acres. l.a. is the second largest city in the country. half a million people work downtown alone. so the i vent could crip the downtown area for much of the morning when you consider more than 1.6 million people registered for the tikts. that's more than the number of people -- listen to this -- who attended inauguration of president lyndon johnson in 1965. tomorrow there will be a hearing to decide who will get control over michael jackson's estate valued at $500 million.

back to you. >> we can only imagine the scene on tuesday. fox news will be there. thank you, casey. >> a place that michael jackson loved the most. 2800 acre estate he stranz formed into his version of paradise. dan springer takes us inside the quarters at neverland ranch. >> the inspiration for the landscaping for the grounds was disney land. you see that in the flower bed and the wonderful water falls he installed in the ponds. he used it for work. we're told he used a natural birds nest in the middle of this oak tree to write the lyrics for the album "dangerous." we're now in michael jackson's first floor bedroom. it has a fireplace. this is where the bed was right here. it has two separate bathroom wings. one here, full closet bathroom. come over here and see what he was looking out on in the bedroom. the beautiful grounds, the springs, the pond.

another wing here. this looks like it was michael jackson's. look at the tub, the spout on the tub. beautiful with a swan head. then another closet on this side. fully cedared closet. with cabinets up here and space for storage. then we come to what we believe is the secret closet everyone talks about where michael jackson kept his prize possessions. again, lined in cedar. as you can see, three dead bolt locks to keep it secure. >> that was dan springer reporting inside neverland ranch. >> shannon: could your city or state take away your right to gun? yes according to a recent court ruling. we have a fair and balanced gun debate up next.

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killed 18 others were taken to the local hospital. could gun owners in america have to give them up? in some places the answer may be yes. legal fights are heating up whether city and states can ban certain firearms. for a fair and balanced debate, fox kneelly arguing against the d.c. gun law ban and dennis hennigan with the brady campaign to prevent gun violence and awe for of "lethal violence." thank you for coming in today. clark, you argued the successful case at the supreme court where the justices ruled the second amendment is an individual right. and yet, we have seen the lower court cases that don't necessarily follow the path. in the circuit courts they say there is confusion. what do you make of cases we've seen so far? >> nothing surprising there. the lower courts held they're bound by old and obscure supreme court case law. they think only the supreme court can overturn the cases. we have every confidence they will. and probably in the near future. >> shannon: so we have the

second and seventh circuit that are upholding the right of state or locality to ban guns. the nine it splitting away and not necessarily the case. who got it right? >> given the issue is whether the lower court have authority to extend second amendment to the states given the 880 supreme court precedent, we believe that the second circuit and the seventh circuit clearly have it right. in the seventh circuit decision you had two of the most prominent conservative jurists in the nation, richard posner and frank easterbrook saying look, this was decided in the 1880s. that's the issue so far. the key is not necessarily whether the second amendment is incorporated against the states but what second amendment right there is under heller. the second amendment right

was narrow, extended to ownership of gun in the home for self-defense and the court made it clear it's subject to broad categories of restrictions. including ban on carrying concealed weapons outside the home. as long as that right is confined to narrow circumstances, clearly not absolute. i'm not sure there will be a great deal of practical significance even if the second amendment is extended to the states. >> shannon: i'll give you the final word. if we go to supreme court, two of the cases are on the way there, positioning for the justice to take the case. do thaw think they'll settle -- do you think they'll settle the question? the second almost teed up to make a resolution whether or not the state s as are subject o second amendment. >> i think they'll settle it and i disagree on what the decision will be. the wake here goes back to the abolition war. ugly history. the people were systematically disarmed to be

lynched and terrorizterrorized. the supreme court will look at the history and translate it to modern times and know that americans have a right to own guns and carry them. >> shannon: we're out of time. thank you. we'll watch to see how it plays back at the supreme court and have you back. alaska governor sarah palin says she is stepping down for good of her state. does it wash? i ask "fox news sunday" host chris wallace up next. when you're really in pain

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>> shannon: quitter. a word some people are throwing around after alaskan governor sarah palin's announcement that she is stepping down as buff but does that fly. earlier i sat down with "fox news sunday" host chris wallace. >> sarah palin was the number one topic and a lot of folks there weren't buying the explanation we got from her on late friday afternoon. do you think there is more to the story? >> i'm not sure what the explanation is. it wasn't clear. i asked governor parnell who in three weeks will succeed her as governor what his under standing was. he said and i don't think she quite said this quite as clearly, she felt that all of the problems and ethics investigations were getting in the way of her doing a good job for the people of alaska so she was in effect helping the people of alaska and stepping

aside. i think that is a hard argument. most people around the country will say you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. you think of all the politicians who have faced lots of problems from bill clinton to hillary clinton to george w. bush and they hang in there and power through. the idea that you are stepping down for the good of your state, i don't think that washes. >> not a surprise probably that she wasn't going to run again to be the governor but the fact that she would walk away with the term, so much still remaining. how do you think that will play against her if she comes back to the national stage, either 2012, 2016 or further down the road, do you think she will face criticism that she didn't finish the job? >> absolutely. there are a lot of people who have run for president as former governors. ronald reagan was a former governor. with him it was term limits but that is a perfectly honorable thing to do.

i'm not saying what she did was dishonorable. but to leave. you have been elected and to leave in the middle of the job with basically a year and a half left, look, her own republican senator, lisa murkowski and they have bad blood because palin ran against and beat murkowski's dad, i'm sorry that governor palin abandoned the constituents. quitter is a label and issue she has to deal with if she wants a political future. >> does it play more broadly with the enson and sanford issues having gone on in the last couple of weeks and losing one of their stars at least in some capacity for now. >> embarrassing to have the three fairly well known, palin, sanford and enson, but three republican leaders all involved

in controversial issues and in one case quitting office or stepping down. but i don't know that it really matters. we are a long way away from 2010. i think in the end what is much more important for the congressional election is if republicans can develop a coherent argument as to why they oppose obama. it will also help if obama isn't doing well. as far as 2012 is concerned in the presidential election it is a lifetime away. it will be new people and new issues. who would have thunk in 2005 we would be talking about president obama. that is an eternity. >> she piqued a lot of trw this move. >> whether she stays in national politics, does a talk show, writes a book and makes speeches more money we going to have sarah palin to either adore or kick around depending on your views.

a fascinating political figure and i don't think we are done with her and i don't think she is done with us. >> stay tuned. thanks, chris. >> you can catch all of chris wallace interview with shawn parnell, karl rove and mike huckabee after our show at 2:00 and 6:00 eastern time right here on the fox news channel. >> in is a fox news alert. one person has been killed in a monorail accident at walt disney world in orlando. emergency officials say two monorail trains collided at 2:00 a.m., killing one of the train's operator. walt disney expressed condolences to the driver's family. orange county sheriff's deputies investigating that crash at walt disney world but they don't know yet what caused it so how safe are monorail systems, this are clicks a daily concern? what s it like to drive a

monorail train. joining us on the phone, a former driver of the monorail at disney world. i have ridden the trains many, many times and they seem safe. what are the biggest risks? >> they were designed for this very thing not to happen. there was an incident back in the '70s where something like this did happen and all the trains were replaced with an anticollision system to prevent this from happening. it is called a mapo system. it is designed to keep the trains a certain distance from each other so this will never happen. a lot of the people wondering how in the world this can happen. >> is there a system whereby the operator can override the safety conditions or have the train in a manual position? >> multiple things would have to go wrong including technical error and even perhaps pilot error for something like this to happen. once the train passes a certain point or reaches a certain

distance within the next train in front of it all sorts of alarms start going off and red lights start flashing and the folks at monorail central are alerted to what is going on and the train automatically stops, basically an emergency breaking system where it comes to a complete stop so it doesn't get closer to the next train. the pilot can override that system but he should still have plenty of time to see the train in front of him. it is really a mystery as to how this happened. >> shannon: thank you for sharing your insight into this and we will follow the situation as we get more news. meanwhile, investigators in nashville are searching for answers in the shooting death of former nfl star steve mcnair. they are not looking for a suspect but trying to decipher his relationship with a friend who was also found dead nearby. chris gutierrez is in nashville with the latest. >> we confirmed with detectives

that we do know that they are not out actively searching for a suspect. they basically stopped short of telling us this is a murder suicide. steve mcnair was found dead sitting on a sofa in the living room of his condo in downtown nashville. he was shot several times including once in the head. a 20-year-old found dead laying on the floor in the same room with one gunshot wound to the head. mcnair played in the nfl for 1 seasons and -- 13 seasons and led the titans to their first and only super bowl appearance. he was co-mvp of the league back in 2003. kazemi was his friend. they met at a dave & buster's restaurant where she was a waitress. just two days before they were found dead, they were pulled over by police in a vehicle

registered to both of their names. she was arrested for driving under the influence. mcnair was allowed to take a taxi ride home. he was married. his wife machelle and their children are shocked at the untimely death. >> shannon: thank you, chris. in south carolina, authorities are trying to track down a serial killer. they say a teenage girl has become the fifth victim. here is the latest on the developing story. >> police are out, we are told a team of more than 100 investigators and crim scene specialists here trying to piece everything together and also trying to track down the person that they believe is responsible. they are calling him a serial killer. take a look at this sketch that police have sent out. they want everybody to take a look at it. a white man believed to be in his late 40s. 6'2", 200-pounds with salt and pepper hair.

wanted in the shooting death of five people here in gaffney in the last week including an 83-year-old woman and her daughter found bound and shot to death in their home and the victim a 63-year-old peach farmer shot in his home. the latest victim died yesterday, a 15-year-old girl shot along with her father as they worked at the family's furniture store in gaffney. she clung to life two days before succumbing to her injuries. residents here are keeping their doors locked. >> in the house and i'm just not going to change. i'm not going to let something like this change my attitude or what i do. >> you just heard from someone who lives in the area and i talked to a couple that drove by a second ago that said what is going on and what is happening and they had a scared look on their faces and said is

there anything you can tell us. i said the police tell us they are working overtime trying to find this guy. one other thing that we talked about earlier is there was a serial killer here in the town gaffney in the late '60s and they caught him after he had killed five women in the area so this town no stranges to being on edge and being afraid. shannon? >> shannon: it is such a beautiful town and i know the people will definitely come together. thanks. , a mysterious death in the carolinas. 50 miles north in charlotte, north carolina, police investigating an early morning shooting that left a victim with life threatening injuries. the victim was shot in the stomach. local media say that is language barrier is hampering the investigation. police have a vague description of the gunman in the case in charlotte, north carolina. a july fourth celebration ended on a terrifying note in indiana last night when a wooden suspension bridge full

of people gave way. the 90-foot long bridge collapse inside a lake. witnesses say they heard two snaps and then everyone went into the water. 16 people were injured in the incident about 35 miles southeast of chicago. former washington mayor marion barry who was videotaped in 1990 smoking crac crack cocd recently faced tax problems charged with stalking a woman. president obama heads out tonight for a week long trip overseas and his first stop is moscow. major garrett is on the ground there ahead of the president's arrival. nuclear arms sure to be on the agenda when meets with russian officials. what kind of progress have they made in advance of the meetings? >> a slow but steady progress is what u.s. officials briefed

us on in moscow. probably many are wondering what is the big deal about arms control between the united states and russia any way. they are not cold war adversaries as they once were. but discouraging iran from pursuing nuclear weapons. a deal with the russians to reduce further the number of warheads and delivery systems is a priority. the russians want to do so as well to keep themselves center stage in all of geoglobal politics. both nations working on t but slow going. tomorrow, the two presidents will announce some general progress toward getting a deal to succeed the star one treaty but they will not have a deal completely wrapped up. they are trying to work through things rapidly but it is slow going and they hope to show some progress tomorrow. >> shannon: and there is a little debate about who is running the show, the president or the prime minister. thy is a rocky relationship

with prime minister putin. where do things stand? >> already it appears that president obama is going out of his way to elevate president mededev but not do so with prime minister putin. in russia, it is clear that he continues to run most of the machinery in politics, commerce and suppressing free press here in russia. a meeting about an hour and a half over breakfast with prime minister putin but two days of meeting with the president. and prime minister putin said when president obama last week said prime minister putin had one foot still in the cold war, he said look, i have both feet planted firmly beneath me and looking towards the future. we will have kind of a tense relationship between president obama and prime minister putin but they said they want president obama to show o strength up against putin and not fall into the trap that they say president bush fell

into when first met him and became a strong ally with putin to the detriment of u.s. relations with russia overall. more turmoil in iran. a group of influencal clerics called the disputed presidential election invalid, defying the supreme leader who have endorsed the current election of mahmoud ahmadinejad. they said the lawmakers who make up the guardian council were biased in their decision. a stanford university expert in iran is calling this "the most historic crack in the 30 years of the islamic republic." a. calling for the opponent to be treated as a foreign agent. the paper said "an open court in front of the people's eyes must deal with the terrible crimes and clear betrayal by the main elements behind the

unrest." the sunday shows many all abuzz this morning about sarah palin and her political future, what is coming next after she abruptly announced that she would be resigning her post as alaska's governor. chris wallace spoke with the man who will replace her. molly henneberg is here with more. >> republicans are a bit perplexed by the decision and more than a bit curious to see if it can work. that is if sarah palin decides to run for president in 2012 does the extra time out of office help her? fellow republicans have their doubts. potential gop opponent in 2012 calls the decision risky and a republican political strategist says it raises expectations for palin and will not thwart the media pursuit. >> it is not clear what the strategy is by exiting the governorship two and a half years into the term and putting herself on a national stage that she may not be prepared to operate in. >> nobody knows if it will pay

off or not. if she did get out because of the feeling of being chased that is not going to stop if she continues in politics. >> but current lieutenant governor shawn parnell says this is just the breather palin needs. >> beyond that, she has plenty of time now within which to denine how she will further her core values. >> palin tweeted today to stu porters saying -- to supporters saying critics are spinning as they feed false info. palin said that she feels a "higher calling to reach out to people and straight ahead conservative values" and shannon, there are also some reports that she may be pursuing some sort of national t.v. talk show. certainly gotten our attention. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. >> shannon: two weeks after their house colleagues, senate democrats rolling out their plan to overhaul the healthcare industry. the plan from the health committee is leaner but would

have to be reconciled with the house version if it makes if out of congress. congressman, thank you for your time today. what do you make of the latest estimates out of the congressional budget office? it seems like the price tag is coming down a bit but has anything really changed? >> well, i think that what the american people want is not the status quo. they know that the costs of healthcare are too high and that if they lose their job or change jobs that they may lose their health insurance but what they are concerned about out of washington is this command and control attitude that says we know best. what we know on the republican side is that patients and their families with doctors ought to be able to make medical decisions and that is not what we see in the plans being put forward by either the president or his party. >> shannon: we have five different committees working on some version or piece of this legislation and seems to be there is an offer feeling there

is a need for some kind of reform. you don't like what the democrats are offering, what are the republicans offering instead? >> the solution is to put patients and their families in control and the way to be able to do that is to make certain that everybody has the financial opportunity to purchase their own health coverage and to own and control that coverage so that the decisions that they make are along with physicians and not with bureaucrats and insurance companies making the decisions. we can do that in a way that saves money and makes sense. >> shannon: the numbers are not good on capitol hill for the republicans, outnumbered there, strictly based on votes. pick off democrats? make sure that the american people know about their ideas and don't like them? what is the strategy for changing the game if you possibly can? >> i think what the american people have soon is again a command and control attitude on o the democrat side so that everybody is forced to do one thing but healthcare decisions

are personal decisions and the people that represent the moderate to conservative districts that are democrats are hearing the same thing from their constituents that i'm hearing and that is that they don't want the government to take over their healthcare. they want to make certain that they can care for their families and other patients with physicians to make medical decisions, not having the government or insurance companies insert themselves into it and there are wonderful positive solutions that will result in that. the question is whether they will stand up and represent constituents or simply respond to their own leaders. >> shannon: just a few seconds left. when you get back to work this week, how quickly do you think something will be passed or will it be passed at all in this term? >> i think on the house side the speaker said that she wants to pass something this month in july. we hope that it will be a bipartisan coming together of the issues and make certain that we do in fact represent patients and their families as opposed to government and insurance companies. do i believe that the

president's statement that he wants to see a bill by the end of the year is, indeed, true. again, we are hopeful that we can work in a positive productive bipartisan way to make certain that patients and their families along with caring and compassionate physicians can make decisions and not have government bureaucrats make the decisions. >> unemployment numbers up yet again. do we need another stimulus? find out what the house leaders think, up next. to help avoid dental problems my dentist gives me act restoring mouthwash. act kills germs, restores minerals strengthens enamel. act restoring-- for strong teeth act now.

4l.com. ♪ here is the latest on some breaking news stories today. investigators still trying to determine what led to a fatal monorail accident at disney world in orlando. two trains collided at the ticket and transportation center overnight. one driver confirmed dead, the other not injured but shaken up. five guests and two employees also riding the trains at the time of the crash. autopsies scheduled to be performed today on steve mcnair and the woman found dead in his condo. police are not searching for

suspects. a 19-year-old driver is lucky to be alive following a serious accident that included a dive off a 140-foot cliff followed by a night aloan and injured on a colorado mountain top. the teen was flung from his jeep and climbed 30 feet. the driver survived and was taken to a local hospital. one person dead after a lightning strike at a fourth of july celebration in central, florida. more than 80 people gathered outside a lakeland church when lightning hit a barn that was nearby. 18 other people were taken to local hospitals. officials aren't releasing the victim's name. the national weather service says there are about a million and a half lightning strikes every year. florida and the southeast coast could get heavy rains and a little hail this afternoon. rick reichmuth is at the fox weather center with today's forecast. how does it look so far, rick? >> rainy kind of where you are and rainy across parts of the southeast.

a little more severe. the folks to the north of this, though, are so happy to finally see a little bit of summer today in areas like, new york, and boston and the next few days are going to be pretty good. this is the weathermaker the next couple of days, a front draped down across the south. fires more thunderstorms this afternoon. maybe big wind damage at times. no tornadoes or hail i don't think with this but to the south of that front it is hot and we have all kinds of heat advisories across much of the south and down in towards south, texas going to be feeling a little bit more like maybe 110 when it is done. dallas better than you have been. better tomorrow also is because of the cloud cover. 103 san antonio. 101 houston. sticky and not feeling good across parts of the south. shannon? >> it is july, thank you, rick. do we need another stimulus, would it even get passed? chris wallace posed those

questions to two top lawmakers. john boehner and denney hoyer. >> we are going to pass significant reform. >> before the august recess? >> before the august recess in the hospital pause because we need -- in the house of representatives. >> having the government have a plan to compete with the private sector is unfair because the government has no cost of capital. it will drive according to the congressional budget office, 23 million americans out of the current healthcare plan into the government option. >> well, meanwhile, vice president joe biden weighed in on the issue this morning and would not rule out a second stimulus package but insisted we need to give the first team time to work. >> this was set up over 18 months. major programs take effect in september. $7.5 million for broadband broad band.

new money for high speed rail. the new electric grid and so this is just started. the pace is now going to increase. >> the obama administration says a consumer protection agency will protect consumers from le predatory lenders but o we need more bureaucracy in this area. another new agency, how is this going to help consumers any differently than what we have? >> it will pull the authority and power away from the regulators that still have it. the federal reserve is one of them. supposed to look out across the system for this type of stuff. what we are looking at is a regulator to look across the financial system to help folks make sure that they have proper mortgage terms and can understand. credit cards is another thing. make sure you can read the terms and understand what you are getting int getting into. a layer on top that would look across the system to make sure that folks really understand

what they are getting into. >> sounds like a good idea but as with anything in washington when there is a proposal. there is somebody pushing back on this. >> the banking industry says there are already folks out there that do this like the federal reserve. when the banks have a stronger level of regulation telling them whatro