>> this is a fox news alert. the launch of the space shuttle endeavour is delayed a third time. this time bad weather at the kennedy space center is to blame. nasa wants to make sure that the shuttle wasn't struck by lightning. and one of the big stories from florida into texas, a scorcher on that. we'll have details in a few moments. first, another fox news alert. the first family is just back from a tour of the cape coast castle in ghana. president obama had something to say. this is live, let's listen in. >> it is a source of hope, it reminds us that as bad as history can be, it's also possible to overcome. thank you very much. >> and there we caught just the tail end of his remarks, but the good news is, that our major garrett is standing by in ghana to bring us

up-to-date on what the president had to say as he makes this historic visit. major garrett, what's going on in ghana today. >> well, brian, when the president was introduced a couple of hours ago at the convention center here, the canadian parliament, the president john mills says she welcome you as a member of the african family. well, in the grandest traditions of family conversations, we can be blunt and sometimes carry an element of tough love. president obama delivered a speech like that here in accra not just to ghana, but to the entire continent and part of it was to say, look, africans futures are in the hands of the africans and you've got to get over obsessing about it and this time of africa, the portugese, dutch, the british and the president said current problems are not caused or peststered by the west and you have to look beyond and here

is a part of that speech. >> but the west is not responsible for the destruction of this amount where the economy is over the last decade. in my father's life partly tribalism and nepotism. in an independent kenya that for a long stretch derailed his career. and we know that this kind of corruption is still a daily fact of life for far too many. >> speaking of corruption, the president said, you know, businesses not only in the united states, but globally are not going to come to africa if they know once they get here 20% is skimmed off the top by the government and he said governments in africa need to reform themselves, transparent, more accountable to their citizens and more accountable to international investors and the president also said if in fact conflict

is going to end in africa, africans have to do that themselves. he called conflicts here often tribal, often created or fomented by government institutions at times, a millionstone around the neck of the entire continent. he says the united states will always be involved in africa and their hopes no longer to provide economic assistance so people can scrape by. what we hope to do is build a partnership so countries here on the continent can export and stand on their own feet, not in the distant future. >> brian: major garrett, reporting from africa where the president said the blood of africa runs through my veins. thank you, major. it's very hot in parts of the united states, texas is warning residents, it's so hot go easy on electricity. with the temperature above 100 degrees the demand for power is rising and if the electrical load is too much, there could be brownouts or blackouts and issued a power watch. asking them to turn off lights, unplug appliances and

turn their thermostats up to 80 degrees, it's not just texas. much of the south is sweltering. meteorologist domenica davis is standing by at the fox weather center with more on that. hello, how are you doing? >> hi, brian, yes, high pressure in the south and mainly through much of the weekend so we're looking at really, a summer scorcher and a heatwave, which means we're looking at really, consecutive days three or better of temperatures over the 100 degree mark. here is a look at expected highs, 100 degrees for the expected high in lubbock, one in oklahoma city, now, really through much of central eastern part of texas that's where we're going to be looking at some of the worst heat. anywhere from 108 even up to 110 and then you factor in the heat indices and it gets worse. so, for that, a heat advisory has been issued, now, this is going to mean in effect for much of the weekend. the heat index 108 to 110. the real feel temperature in many spots could get close to

108. so we're talking dangerous heat that really is going to last not only through sunday, but into monday and tuesday and the temperatures over the 100 degree mark. and keep the outdoor activities down over the weekend and elsewhere, the active weather is not to the south. this is in the ohio valley and we have a thunderstorm watch box that's popped up over parts of new york, we will keep you posted throughout the afternoon. bri brian. >> brian: domenica davis, we'll check with you later. more obama bailouts? this time the administration is looking for ways to help out small businesses, which may include getting them a share of the 700 billion dollars originally intended for the banking system. courtney keeley is standing by in washington with that. hello, how are you? >> i'm good, brian. there might be help coming soon to the little guys, small businesses, the obama administration is considering using some of the 700 billion to back out bailout cash to prop up small businesses and expand the small business lending administration, and under this small business

owners would be eligible for a low rate loan there are about 127 billion dollars in tarp funds right now that are uncommitted and are at the u.s. treasuries disposal and the cash to small business owners defaults on the loan, then the government would be responsible repaying 90% of it. now, brian, this is a major part of the current economy. according to the small business administration, small businesses from 2008, these businesses consist of less than 500 employees represent 99.7% of all employer firms. in the most recent year, brian, these employer firms created over 900,000 net new jobs and small businesses half of all the employees and 45% of total u.s. private payroll. so, basically in the last ten years or so, small businesses have created 60 to 80% of net employment in the first part of 2008. when the u.s. lost more than a

million and a half jobs, 60% of those lost jobs were in small businesses. and this is what they're considering while under criticism they're not doing enough for the economy. republicans are criticizing president obama saying the 787 billion dollar economic stimulus is not doing its job. but costs are in the preliminary stages, and a final stat is not expected until after the summer. brian. >> brian: courtney dealy, thank you very much. a developing story we're watching in the middle east. an iranian and american scholar once arrested for endangering, iranian scholar, has been arrested fen. they tell that the security torses went into his home and took him and his computer away. iranian authorities aren't commenting on the story. an american professor just back from north korea says the nation appears to be seriously interested in releasing

american journalist laura ling and yuna lee. the university of gore if a professor. and says that north korea wants the united states to acknowledge that the women's acts were hostile. the pair were detained in march and sentenced to 12 years of hard labor for entering the country illegally. professors say north korea officials told they were kept as guests at a guest house. illinois police closed a historic cemetery near chicago calling it a crime scene. now that more bones have been found on the property. employees with accused of digging up bodies and reselling the plots. >> this is a horribly, horribly difficult. i can't tell you the number of women i've talked to today who can't find their children, can't find their babies that they buried here, people can't find their mothers. >> the sheriff says hundreds of families have already been to the cemetery northeast of chicago trying to get information about loved ones who may be buried there. he's hoping to reopen the cemetery in less than a week.

authorities say it would take several weeks if any before the remains are identified. families looking for help to file inqueries at the cemetery. the supreme court overturned one of her decisions already, but another of judge sonia sotomayor's rulings were scrutinized and could be an issue in the confirmation hearings next week. it has to do with the second amendment of the constitution and your right to bear arms. joining me is the professor of legal theory at georgetown university randy barnett. thank you for being with us on america's news headquarters. what is the issue at hand here, if there's a case pending that people have watched, looked at carefully? >> right, the issue was whether to right the bear arms as an individual rights is now also applicable to the states. be the 14th amendment. and applicable to the the federal government, including the district of columbia and

how is it applicable to the states like illinois and cities and municipalities like chicago. >> brian: how is she somehow involved? >> well, she decided a case which is going to be famous as the none chuck case, the malo maloney versus cuomo case, and prohibits the possession of nonchucks. and it was a three-judge panel so we don't know exactly who authored the opinion, but she first held based on precedent, the second amendment, and then she considered the 14th amendment argument made elsewhere around the country and dismissed this argument in an extremely cursory fashion and didn't really state the argument before she essentially said it didn't apply. >> now, the g.o.p. members who are going to be in the hearing room he when the confirmation hearings began, what are they going to go after? >> they're going after two things, one is whether she thinks the second amendment or right to keep arms does apply in the states and the other thing is the way she went

about deciding the case and didn't address the issues at length and the second circuit came out the same way as she did in the second circuit that they had a lengthy opinion, justifying, she didn't address the case and that's going to be a charge and judge. >> brian: the summary judgment, when there's a summary judgment in the case you don't have a lot of reasoning? >> in this case, it's an opinion in which she sum mayorry affirms the lower court, i should say, she and another panel, we don't know who wrote this opinion, but it was a procured opinion it in which she affirmed the lower court without reasoning, without explaining why. >> the confirmation process has become intentionally political over the years, i guess going back to judge bourke, extremely political and we saw the other confirmation battles that followed after that, that were interesting, including clarence thomas. do you think it raises to the level it's so controversial--

most say it's a done deal. >> i don't see how this will be the case. the she didn't actually write a controversial opinion. what's controversial is the fact that she didn't write an opinion. it doesn't sound like the sort of thing that you can leave with sound bites on the evening news and lead a campaign against the nominee so i don't think it would have that, but people care about gun rights in the country and people are interesting hearing what her answer is. >> brian: thank you for joining us. by the way, be sure to tune in tomorrow night, bret baier and megan kelly will hold a preview of judge site sotomayor's hearings, it's called judging sotomayor. the federal government is taking a look at youtube contest, the challenge, make your own 60 second public service announcement about flu prevention. secretary sebelius says once the h1n1 targets young people youtube seemed like a good way to reach them.

the winner will receive $2500, go to flu.gov. thinking how to come up with more than a trillion dollars to pay for overhauling health care looks to be the question on capitol hill this summer. now, some top house democrats are proposing taxing wealthy americans, to help come up with the money. caroline shively is standing by and she has that story. hello, caroline. >> hi to you, brian. the house ways and means committee is proposing a 550 tax increase to help for health care. charlie rangel's plan would tax individuals making more than $280,000 a year or couples who earn more than $350,000. the chairman says the tax was back in 2011 and start around 1% maybe higher and the congressman says the tax would cover about half the cost of the program for a decade and the other half would come from cu custom medicare and other savings. and they're in charge for paying for the whole thing and so far appears to be getting

support from leadership. and house republicans hate the idea and john boehner's spokesman says the last thing the country needs is a tax increase during an economic down turn. republican strategist karl rove says the tax will hit a lot of small business owners. >> it was chairman rangel is suggesting, at a time when the economy is doing very poorly, let's tax the source of new jobs to two out of three or by some estimates, three out of every four jobs in small business. and what they want to do is tax those job creators. so remarkably toed that plan. >> that brings up the question where does the money come from? republicans and many fiscally conservative democrats are pounding the administration on the huge debt they're racking up. and yesterday, before rangel came out with the plan, president obama had this to say. >> whatever bills produce have to be paid for and that creates some difficulties because the people would like

to get the good stuff witho without-- without paying for it. >> more details on rangel's plan will come out on monday. brian. >> caroline shively, thank you very much. right now, and by the way, these are live pictures that you're seeing, former nfl quarterback steve mcnair's funeral is held at university of southern mississippi in his hometown of haties burg. to us of people turned out and mcnair you know by now shot and killed by his 20-year-old girlfriend. mcnair played in the nfl for some 13 years. there are now developments in the story of the oklahoma trooper versus the paramedic. for the first time this week we've heard from the family of the patient who was in that ambulance. we are going to tell you what was going on inside the ambulance while the patient-- to the patient while the scuffle was going on outside. just back from oklahoma where i continue reporting on the story as part of our nowhere to hide project. the entire report coming up just a little bit later. also coming up, health care reform in the spotlight.

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>> here is a look at the stories developing right now. more bones have been found in an illinois cemetery. the cemetery has now been closed to the public and declared a crime scene. four employees accused of

digging up bodies so that plots could be resold. president obama wrapping up a trip to africa and right now he's in ghana where he promised the united states would help african allies combat hiv/aids malaria and tuberculosis. and nasa pushed the launch of the space shuttle endeavour and wants to assess possible lightning damage and strikes that occurred overnight. they're preparing for a mission to install a porch on the space station. they could put one on my house when they're doing. and the bank of ameri obama adm pushing for health care, concerns about what would happen when the government plays a bigger role. this is difficult when there are several treatment option for a given problem. do we want the government to decide what is best? an emergency room doctor from the medical school and joins us now to discuss one of the most difficult issues about health care reform. if you've got all of these

possible treatments and individualized treatments especially in the area of cancer now it's become very important and the hard thing is going to be when the government gets involved and decides this is the course of treatment you should receive, it may not be the best treatment for you. >> well, you're absolutely right. because the trend now is towards personalized medicine and we're finding that tumors have genetic fingerprint that makes his distinct and sometimes you need targeted therapies to treat that and one of the questions is, if you have an agency or a czar that's making a decision on the best practice that's the most cost effective. >> brian: and that's done in other countries. >> it is. >> brian: so you worry about, you know, what if you have the tumor that doesn't respond to it or what if they're the not going to allow these specific targeted therapies, which can be more expensive, so, that is an issue that i think people worry about and you worry with socialized medicine, is it going to squash innovation. >> brian: there's been some reporting on the issue of, for

example, prostate cancer, how there are varying treatments that might be chosen with anyone with exact circumstances. >> yeah, and i've seen that article and study and they talk about it and prostate cancer is kind of unique because it's varied. now, first of all, the rates, the wide vast differences in rates are actually spent by the government right now. because mostly medicare payments and rates cover prostate cancer and the other thing, because it's a slow growing type of cancer, sometimes we need studies that are like more than ten years out to decide if this going to be the most effective and the problem with that then, we've developed new innovations by then. so that's why there's a wide range of treatment. >> this is going to be though, the central issue of this debate. i mean, we've got to talk about the money of course, but really, do you want uncle sam deciding what treatment you should have or should that be something that's decided between you and your doctor? >> well, some will argue that the insurance companies

sometimes do that right now, too. but if it was a total free market where people competed and bought their insurance and picked their product, then, i think a lot of those things even themselves out because in the pre-market, new and innovative technologies become cheaper. >> very quickly, it's hot in parts of the country right now. what should people look out for if they get too hot. >> heat exhaustion is excessive sweating, feeling nauseous, not developing feeling well. when you notice confusion and that's heat stroke and you can't regulate the temperature and shoots up, that that's a medical emergency. >> brian: thank you very much. on much fox news america, we asked is health reform enough to sway you for or against a presididential candidate in 2012. 22% of you said no, and 27% of

you said maybe, 51% said yes. you ask, we answer, we report, you decide as always. we thank you for your interest and thank you for responding. believe it or not, there are a lot of people in this country who routinely catch 30, 40, 50 pound catfish with their bare hands called noodling, and right now in oklahoma there's a noodling contest and our chris gutierrez is there. we'll show what you happens when man meets giant catfish. do not go away. to stay on top of my game after 50,

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>> president barack obama is on a whirlwind tour in ghana. it's a the bottom of of the hour. >> hi, brian, a little more than an hour ago. the president and family took a tour of the former slave fortress. where thousands of africans were kept in dungeons before put on ships to america. the first lady is a great, great granddaughter of slaves. president obama says it reminds him over of horrible things that people have to overlook. >> one of the most frightening things i've heard is right above those in which the male captives were kept, was a church. and that reminds us that sometimes we can tolerate and

stand by-- where we think that we're doing good. >> the head of a philadelphia swim club caught up in a racism controversy is defending the organization. the president of the valley club said to cancel the memberships of dozens of minority children for safety reasons. and said that the number of children in the shallow section of the pool many unable to swim was unsafe. hearing from racist comments. a warning to all those who text, watch where you're doing a new york teenager was texting when she fell down a man home. she has cuts in her arms and back and not seriously injured and says she's now able to laugh about it. and it was a big night for san francisco giants pitcher jonathan sanchez. the 26-year-old was just returning to the rotation after three weeks in the bullpen, pitched the first no-hitter in the major league this season.

led the giants to an 8-0 victory offer the san diego pat dres. those are your top stories, back to you. >> caroline, stick around. don't go anywhere, i know you're going to have a special interest in this next story. for those of you who don't know, there is it a sport in some parts this have country called noodling, it's a very interesting way of catching giant catfish, i'm talking 50 pounders and better. chris gutierrez is live from paul valley, oklahoma where the super bowl of noodling is underway. hello, chris. >> hello, brian, we can't get caroline off the hook just yet. off the hook. caroline was kind enough to show us a recent expedition of noodling in her home state of kentucky. caroline, how big was this catch? >> it was about 35 pounds there, yeah, we reached in in our secret water hole in kentucky, dug in there and caught him. >> no disrespect, caroline, now what they call a 35 pound catfish in oklahoma? >> i'm embarrassed to ask.

>> a minnow. that's right, you wouldn't have a chance winning this tournament, caroline. take a look at the video here, we went here earlier and learn more about that sport. it's spawning season and the catfish don't want anything to disturb their eggs, when they see someone arm comes up. they snap and bite and they wrestle it into the boat. the sport is dangerous. these catfish have small teeth that feel like wire brushes, when you slide your hand across them. and snakes, and bleeding and bruising is come on. death is rare. last year 69 people across the country died while noddling and one man was seriously injured. listen. >> his arm got completely dislocated and had to have surgery and he's 100% disabled because of a fish. >> how big. >> guess abouted 85. he tried to get his arm in it and before he could get the tail, the spot on his arm went

around thee times he said. >> and mack live show you bob thornton and part of the tournament giving live demonstrations how it works. you can see them underwater. imagine if you're crawling between the rocks and see how the guy goes after them. you grab that fish by the mouth and try and win. the tournament you could get fish as big as 60 pounds or bigger and this one i'm guessing is a 25 pounder, bob is giving us a firsthand view how they work, the motto, no rod, no reel, no problem. >> but, chris, i have to ask you a question. we talked about this. waist in oklahoma you had the opportunity to try it and how did you come out? >> i did. well, i folded, brian. i didn't go down in there because with my luck i'd come across 100 pounder and stick my arm and break my arm and making fun of me-- >> make sure i have this right. caroline shively you had no

fear of sticking your hand inside and pulling up a 35 pound catfish. >> i think that may just make me dumb, brian. >> brian: all right. well, we've got-- >> the difference, brian, i've come across a hundred pounder in oklahoma. >> brian: and down in oklahoma, i wish i was there. nasa delayed the launch of the spags shuttle endeavour, and the third time the launch has been scrubbed and phil keating is over by the kennedy space center, we go from fish to serious news and what's going on, phil. >> well, the third time trying to get the endeavor into space is not a charm. yesterday afternoon, a ferocious storm filled with a whole lot of lightning moved through the cape calf rell area and there are 11 lightning strikes within .3 miles of the launch pad, and the endeavor shelt stack. seven of those lightning strikes came extremely close and several of them hit the lightning tower above the complex, that's designed to attract lightning bolts and

another bolt or two also hit the water tower that was over there. we've got a photograph of one of these lightning strikes. and basically, when you have a lightning strike, if it's ever happened to you at your house, it could knock out the circuitry and nothing works, your tv, nothing works all of a sudden. so that's what nasa right now has decided, worth the 24 hour delay of the launch of the international space station and engineers are going to check out every circuit. they do not suspect that anything was short circuited because the entire electrical lightning system did work efficiently and this mission is all about getting the remainder of the laboratory up to the international space station, so the launch now scheduled for tomorrow night, 7:13 p.m. brian? >> phil keating in florida, thank you very much. phil. the shuttle mission is a special one of course, for the astronauts on board. one former astronaut will be watching with more than a passing interest. tom jones is the author of planetology, he joins me now with more on this mission and his own special connection to

that particular shuttle flight. good to see you again, how are you? lets he a talk about first of all, what they're going to be doing in this particular mission that you find interesting? >> taking up about a 9,000 pound chunk of expoked platform, something like a back pofrn porch to the japanese laboratory. and they'll be putting up the environment. it's an outside part of the laboratory. >> brian: i would imagine this is all so they can interchange the parts over time and do the experiments out there? >> the japanese lab has an air lock and you can actually bring new experiments outside and place that on the porch and few years of research. >> that's pretty interesting stuff. but you have a personal connection to this particular shuttle mission? >> my good friend, dave wolf was my astronaut classmate and we went to astronaut school together in 1990 and dave is the last of the class, hair balls, last of my class to be flying on the space shuttle.

and he's the yoda, the mentor to the space walkers. >> brian: and you need a lot of experience. you've got to have one guy who has lots of experience who has sort of been there before, right? >> right. he's lived there four months and he's a flight surgeon, a medical doctor and come through the astronaut ranks and now one of the most experienced space walkers out there. >> brian: there are a total of five space walks scheduled for this particular one? >> that's right. and 16 day mission and he will take the lead on three of them and turns over the space walking to his rookie partner and the job as he gets them off that experience in the course of about a week. >> brian: and people don't realize that there's so much out there that you're trying to accomplish and even though tu train endlessly for these missions, things crop up? >> and david talks about this. he makes the point that, it allows you to use and adapt to the situation, you like to reverse everything to the last detail and you're going to encounter the unexpected outside so's making sure that

the new folks going with them and the space walkers will all have the skills in hand to cope with and-- >> one of the reasons why we need men and women in space, we can adapt and sort of fix things that aren't expected. >> the flexibility of the human explorer. >> brian: good to have you. an honor by the way of the 40th anniversary of the apollo 11 moon landing that's coming up. gretta van susteren is going to host a special on friday, july 17th. it's called apollo one, one small step to our future and it airs the 10 p.m. eastern. i think i'm going to be on the day of that anniversary, the 20th, i think of the month. i'm going to be over at the air and space museum. general motors is pushing for a leader more eco friendly image and to underscore the point. fritz henderson drove off in an electric car as he left company headquarters yesterday.

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>> before we go any further. before i get about a million e-mails let me say i misread the teleprompter copy. of course it's apollo 11 with the moonwalk that has everybody watched back in the day so we are going to have an extensive coverage of that as we get closer. topping the news right now, a speech in ghana, president barack obama both praised and scolded africa. urged africans to seize opportunities for peace, democracy and prosperity and point today ghana, an example of good governing and the corruption that lies in many part of the african continent. >> leaders exploit the economy to enrich themselves. or, or the police, if the police can be bought off by drug traffickers. >> north korea, meanwhile, is said to be seriously interested in releasing two convicted american journalists, according to a

u.s. based political science professor. said on a visit to pyongyang north korea wants the u.s. reporters to quote admitted to hostile acts. they were sentenced to 12 years of hard labor earlier this year. texas officials are warning residents they could be in for brownouts or blackouts in the states hovering above 100 degrees and urging residents to cut back by unplugging appliances and turning up the thermostat and everybody wants to turn it down, but they want to you turn it up. governor arnold schwarzenegger and legislators are back at work today trying to close the state's 26 million dollar budget shortfall. talks stalled earlier in the week, but now, some sides of somewhat optimistic. the state is so far overextended it will run out of money to pay for most of its core functions, sometime in september.

an update now on a story that's garnered a lot of interest around the world. it has to do with that oklahoma trooper who stopped and tried to arrest a paramedic while there was an elderly heart patient inside the ambulance. you've seen the scuffle, but what was going on with that patient. i'm just back from oklahoma and did additional reporting as part of our series, nowhere to hide. >> by now, you've seen the trooper dash cam video. >> get your (bleep) and. >> and the cell phone video that shows the struggle between the trooper and paramedic. lost in the discussion who did what to whom is the fact that there was an elderly heart patient in the ambulance that day, she could be heard screaming on the tape. >> hey. >> well, that woman was stella jordan who these days is a very fragile and nervous individual. too nervous to talk to us at length on camera, but her sister, clara harper remembers

vividly how ep upset stella was. >> her eyes rolled back in her head to the point she was just screaming she got exhausted, but i picked her up and i held her and said it's going to be heart, it's going to be all right. just calm down, calm down. i just wanted to pray and said, lord, please, please, let my sister be all right. >> trooper martin has been on administrative leave nearly a month and a half. a final report of the incident sitting on the desk of chief of the oklahoma parole for week. leaving them when this wonder when ohb will decide the matter. the spokesman says it takes time for complicated personnel issues to play out. >> some people who are looking and say, well, nothing is going on, there's stuff happening? >> absolutely, sure, sure, but there are state laws that say we can't really talk about what was going on. >> fox news learned after the incident. after patient stella jordan had been delivered to the

hospital safely, trooper martin did offer an apology to the family for his behavior. they think more needs to be done. >> i think that they could take i it badge because he's out of-- you know what the next person may not be as fortunate as we were. >> brian: since we stirs fared reporting on the story a month ago, revealed that trooper martin was reprimanded and subsequently fired from a previous job as police chief of fairfax, oklahoma and allowed to resign as a patrolman from the still water police department and after that came out word also came ought that paramedic white was fired from a previous job in oklahoma and employers said he had acted quote, unprofessionally. paramedic white says we're always sterling and told us in a phone conversation in 30 years as an emergency worker, no patient has ever filed a complaint about his work. meanwhile, patient stella jordan retains counseling. >> a full six year term next

year and announced that burris sided with him and raising enough for campaign and many saw his appointment to the senate as tainted from the beginning and he was appointed by disgraced governor rod blagojevich tried to sell the seat and burris acknowledged how difficult the seven months have been when he made his remarks. >> it's not easy, friends, it is noble call, and for the reminder-- remainder of my senate term, i am a commit today working hard for the people of illinois and fighting for health care, education, creating jobs and community. >> brian: a college professor loses his job after some controversial comments about 9/11 victims. we will have the story and tell you what he he said right after the break. it's brian wilson in washington, you may have noticed if you're watching in hd we're now broadcasting in

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>> stories developing this hour. nasa pushed the launch of the space shuttle endeavour to tomorrow night. needs more time to determine whether it could have been damaged by a lightning strikes at the launch pad. they'll try again tomorrow at 8 p.m. eastern. right now, the funeral services for former nfl quarterback steve mcnair are taking place at his hometown of hatiesberg, mississippi. he was shot and killed on the 4th of july by his 20-year-old girlfriend. and then, she killed herself. the authorities with cook county sheriff's office says

they've found more bones on the grounds of a historic black cemetery in chicago. it's a gruesome story and at least four employees are accused of driging up bodies so the plots could be resold. police say they now consider the 150 acre cemetery a crime scene. the university of colorado professor who was fired for controversial comments he made about victims at the 9/11 attacks will not return to teach there. the case stems from an essay, professor warren churchill wrote in which he referred to the tried center victims, little ivens, they're considered firing and, but ultimately determined it would be a violation of first amendment writes and later they dismissed churchill on plagiarism charges on an unrelated essay, he won, but the jury awarded him $1 and the judge stipulated that churchill not return to the the classroom. his attorney says he will

appeal the decision. treasury secretary timothy geithner will return for meetings with high ranking officers in pittsburgh, pechl. he'll meet with officials in london, geda, abu dhabi and paris. and what they can do to make a sustainable economic recovery. coming up next, is al-qaeda running scared? we will have an exclusive look at what a new book written by a top lieutenant says about the terror organization. it's straight ahead right here on america's news headquarters. taking its rightful place

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showing the terror organization is running scared. >> to the middle east media research institute, a growing body of evidence that the al-qaeda network is under pressure. >> (inaudible) they haven't ever seen this kind of language before. >> called the guide to knowledge for signs, there are two one from the lieutenant, and second from the emerging al-qaeda leader. it's clear from writings that those men fear the predator drones are killing on the tribal area of afghanistan by both the bush and obama administration. it's well documented drones took out to be administrator, and two operatives blamed tore the sem embassy bombings a decade ago. intelligence appears exact

sometimes a specific part after safe house. >> i don't want to discuss how we get it, but they able think it's coming from within their own ranks and it means that the villages are turning against the taliban al-qaeda. >> it's this fear, analysts say which spurs the al-qaeda to write so many brave commanders have been snatched away by the hands of the enemy, so many homes have been leveled with people inside them by planes that are unheard, unseen and unknown. the al-qaeda leaders make the case that drastic times call for drastic measures, and a sign they say of the network's desperation. >> the problem, there are problems of course, for any organization that want to engage because they need their allies. >> they carry the infrared homing devices and placed at a target the drones can lock on to before a kill and the methods pe methods used by the u.s.?

>> i'm surprise today see them and that's all i want to say i'm very surprised to see them. >> they say that the al-qaeda and taliban take what amount to civilians hostages to the hideouts if there is a strike they can claim innocents were called and this is a clearly a problem for the u.s. which is trying to reduce the number of civilian casualties, and endless military and intelligence community will be forced to make more tough calls in the future. in washington, catherine herridge, fox news. >> the obama administration has given billions to bailout banks and insurance companies and companies in crisis. now comes word that some of the so-called tarp money might be use today help small business owners across the country. we have more on this story, team coverage in fact, laura ingle is out on the streets of new york talking to the backbone of this economy, small business. we are going to start with courtney dealy here in washington with the latest on the obama administration's revised plan. what can you tell us?

>> senior officials at the white house and the obama administration is considering using some of the 700 billion in bank bailout cash to prop up small businesses. now, under this plan, small businesses would being eligible for loans. and the government would be responsible for paying on the loans, it's a move the white house and the treasury are considering while under criticism for not doing enough to fix the economy. republicans are criticizing the obama administration saying that the 787 billion dollar economic stimulus is not doing its job. there are about 127 billion dollars in tarp funds right now that are uncommitted and that are at the u.s. treasuries disposal. brian, small businesses are a major part of the current d economy. accord to go the profile for 2008, the business is which consist of less than 500 employees, representing more than 99% of all employer firms and in the most recent in 2005, the employer firms

created over 900,000 net new jobs and small businesses employ about half of all private sector employees and pay nearly 45% of total u.s. private payrolls, so, basically, the last ten or so years, while the businesses created 670 to 80% of net new employment and the first part of 2008 when the u.s. lost more than a million and a half jobs, 60% of those lost jobs were in small businesses. but, brian, talks are in the preliminary stages and the final plan is not expected until after the summer. >> courtney keeley, thank you very much. we'll hear from laura ingle later in the newscast. what's going on on main street where people say they need help. >> president obama started off his weekly address with a quick review of his current international trip and didn't waste much time before diving into economic issues here at home. home. >> we're not designed to work in four months. it was designed to work over two years, and we also you knew it would take time for money to get out the door, because we're committed to

spending it in a way that's effective and transparent. >> brian: president obama is reaching out to all african nations today fromganna, he gave a frit pretty pointed speech that praised and scold scolded where his ancestors came from. major garrett, what's the latest. >> reporter: good afternoon brian from the capital of ghana, the president and first lady and daughters, half hour when he wrapped up a sad, but important tour. 100 miles west of here, the cape coast castle and in the 14th century where gold and timber were traded from the 15th to 19th century it was a slave port and the 17th through 19th centuries many displays were set to the united states and the caribbean and the president took a tour there and then offered these remarks. >> as painful as it is, i think that it helps to teach

all of us that we have to do what we can to fight against the kinds of evils that sadly still dpis in our world, not just on this continent, but in every corner of the globe. >> reporter: out here today at the convention center here, the president addressed, rather, the parliament and designed for the white house said for all of africans to hear and the president did not spare words and was not gentle with countries here he says have a history of corruption, a history of fomenting violence and problems that the president can no longer say can be blamed on a colonial province or the west actions. and the negative effects on the people and this entire continent. let's take a quick listen. >> no business, no business wants to invest in the business where the government

skims 20% off the top or the head of the port authority is corrupt. no person wants to live in a society where the rule of law gives way to the rule of brutality and bribery. that is not democracy, that is tierney. even if occasionally you sprinkle an election in there. >> well, the president says there have been productive and peaceful elections here in ghana, that's the reason he came here, to sort of elevate ghana, a place to be a model through the continent of africa and the president said that's something all young africans, and something we heard at the end of the speech, yes, we can. >> brian: major garrett reporting from the continent of africa today. in a republican response to the weekly radio address, house republicans claimed the administration is not fulfilling its economic

promises of recovery. >> and just months later, they're telling us now to brace for unemployment decline over 10%. they promised jobs created. now, they scramble to find a way to play games with department of the numbers by claiming jobs saved. simply put, this is now president obama's economy and the american people are beginning to question whether his policies are working. >> brian: congressman cantor goes on to say that this is now obama's economy and the americans are questioning the president's policies. one is the massive health care reform. a lot of discussion what will go into the bill, but one looming question remains. caroline shively is here with a live report on that, hell he low. >> reporter: and the question, how to pay for it. the chairman of the house ways and means committee shows-- democratic congressman charlie rangel to tax individual

making more than $280,000 a year and couples making more than $350,000. the tax would take effect in 2011, 2011 and start at around 1%. maybe higher and increase the more you make. the congressman says the tax will cost about half for a decade nt other half cuts for medicare and other savings. wrangle is in charge of the committee in charge of paying for the whole thing and so far appears to be getting support from democratic relationship. the house minority leader john boehner's spokesman says the last thing the country needs is a tax increase during an economic down turn. the republican strategist karl rove says the tax will hit a lot of small business owners. >> tax the source of new jobs two out of three or by some estimates three out of every four jobs in america are created by small business and what they want to do is tax those job creators, it's

pretty remarkably toed up plan. >> where does the money come from? republicans and many fiscally conservative democrats are pounding the administration for all of the debt that the administration and the government is now racking up. but yesterday, president obama before charlie rangel made his proposal, explained the dilemma this way. >> whatever bill produced have to be paid for and that creates some difficulties because people would like to get the good stuff without paying for it. >> reporter: president obama also said he'd like something passed by the august recess, but that time line is already in trouble and fighting over a new tax might slow the process down more. brian. >> brian: caroline shively in our control booth. thank you, caroline. the space shuttle endeavour launched tomorrow evening, it's been pushed back. nine lightning strikes were

reported near the launch pad last night and you want to know that no damage was done to the spaceship before it heads off into space and for a construction mission at the international space station, it's going to install a porch on the international space station where they do a bunch of experiments. nasa will try again tomorrow night and there's a picture of the lightning bolt they're worried about. the anniversary of apollo # 1's moon landing. one small step to our future. airs 10 p.m. eastern time and we will do a lot of coverage on that particular event here as we near the anniversary. michael jackson's mother and ex-wife will have more time to decide who will take care of the singer's three children. for the seconds time katherine jackson and debra rowe have jointly sought to delay a hearing who could decide who gets custody of the children. had an attorney said a guardianship hearing set for monday has been delayed a week and the two sides are trying to broker an out of court

settlement. 8,000 people are expected to attend the funeral for former nfl quarterback steve mcnair today. it's held at the university of southern miss misin the home town of hatiesberg and several baltimore ravens, the team that finished with, were there. he was shot and killed on july 4th by his 20-year-old girlfriend who killed herself after shooting him. hey, have you seen this story about sought paw jonathan sanchez, pitched a no-hitter last night in san francisco, as the giants beat the san diego padres 8-0. he had been on a-- his father was there to see his son get the first no-hitter of the 2009 major league season. wow. the recession hammered small businesses particularly hard and some small businesses need bailout money. laura ingle is standing by in new york asking that question

today. hello, laura. >> well, hi there. indeed, this question and this idea that is being kicked around for the obama administration using some of the tarp funds for small businesses, it's certainly raising a lot of questions, we have been out here talking with small business owners to have a long list of questions. some people would like to know how it's created if it's formalize $and who is going to be taxed and i have a person who owns a small business, paul ritter, hello, thank you for joining us today. and your business, office supply business is actually doing okay, right? >> yeah, we're doing very well. >> what do you think about the idea of some of the small business administration getting their hands on some of the tarp funds to be used for small businesses across america, like this business? >> well, i'm really opposed to the idea. opposed to the idea of tarp in the first place and you know, anytime they can pass the law, not even read it, and then work their way through it, just, just unbelievable.

but in general, i think some businesses need to fail and some need to just simply work harder and make it work, but i'm opposed to government involvement. >> now some small businesses in your town that could use the help, use the leg up? >> i'm sure there's businesses everywhere that could use the financing and we've been fortunate to be doing well. but if we weren't we would not turn to the government for aid. >> okay, thank you very much for joining us here today and we'll continue to bring you more reaction from the streets of new york city on this idea of tarp funds, back you. >> brian: thank you very much. laura. nomination hearings begin next wean for judge sonia sotomayor, a man who will be at the majority of hearings will joining us in a few moments and a big special 8 p.m. eastern syme on sunday on the fox news channel. judging sotomayor hosted by bret baier and megan kelly, be sure to tune in for that.

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including the world's largest owner of stock exchanges. and air force economy officials are waiting on the results of more than 80 cadets who may have swine flu. the cadets came down from the flu-like symptoms, undergoing freshman training and are all now in isolation. democrats hoping for a smooth ride on health care reform may be hitting a bump in the road and may come from members of their own party. conservative blue dog democrats are threatening to defect over higher taxes to pay for it. democratic congress woman alisyn schwartz of pennsylvania is a member of the house budget ways and means committee, joins us now from philadelphia. hey, it's good to have you. i want to make clear and point out you're not a blue dog democrat. >> no i'm not. >> brian: do you consider yourself a blue dog-- >> i'm part of the centrist new democratic coalition and we're 70 strong and i am vice chair of the new democratic coalition, the sentries tru-- centrist democrats of congress.

>> brian: where are you on this issue. >> we have to address the rising costs in health care, increasing number of tours and businesses who finally saw economically disadvantaged by the high costs of health insurance in this country and struggling itself with keeping pace with the increasing cost of health care. i believe we should take action and must take action, our economy, our businesses and our economic dependence requires it, so, it's complicated, a big deal, but actually doing nothing is not acceptable. >> everybody admits it's complicated and a heavy lift. what passed from the house, passed by narrow margins and almost everybody says that what will go over to the senate is probably going to be something that's very difficult. >> well, as i say, we've introduced this draft legislation available. >> brian: i'm sorry, i misspoke. >> and introducing legislation next week. >> brian: how donning it's going to go? >> a couple weeks away. >> brian: so many issues have not yet been resolved here. >> that's one of the reasons we're seeing the legislation

is being put out next time, it's introduced, and approaching the committee hearings and three committees and hours and hours of looking at all of those details, have been out there for a while. but, until you actually see the legislation, and we hear from our constituents and har from the stake holders, what i hear from my constituents, i think many of us hear, is again, do something are the costs are going up. businesses, a double digit inflation is not sustainable and people with insurance say, it doesn't cover my ill northeast-- illnesses and worry about it. >> brian: will the democrats allow the perfect not to be pretty good. are you going to stand so closely to the principles you laid town initially there will be no room for. common ground. >> there's always room for common grounds. we're legislators and we understand that. there's a great deal of compromise, the democrats have a broad spectrum of views.

we want to maintain costs, encourage efficiency and quality for dollars that we spend, that we're fair and hopeful to small businesses and that every american benefits, so that when you have insurance now, you will see a benefit as a result of what we do. a small business, a large business, one of the stake holders, one of the providers and doctors, and this is going to mean, it's better, better health care and access to health care and reduced costs for all of us. now, that's a tall task, but i think we put together legislation that really tackles all of those goals that we have as americans and that we share, we share in that responsibility to get it done as well. >> brian: it seems these days there are no easy issues on the plate. thank you very much, representative alison schwartz, democrat from pech pennsylvania. as washington gears up for the confirm nation hearings of judge sotomayor, we learn who

will testify. chuck canterbury one of the names on the list, president of thes fraternal order of police and joist us on t-- joins us on the phone from south carolina, what will you say about judge sotomayor? >> first of all, we are going to say that the totality of the judge's record and the prosecutor, as a federal judge, and the totality of her work leads us to believe that she will have a strong law enforcement stance, that she will not legislate from the bench and we feel very comfortable after reviewing of 450 of her law enforcement related cases that she'll be a strong advocate for the men and women of law enforcement. >> brian: so you're really to support her on law and order issues, there's this one question out there about the connecticut firefighter case that i would imagine might concern some people who are in that particular line of work? >> well, it does and we've looked at the case. and we believe, first of all,

that was a three-judge panel. it wasn't just judge sotomayor, and the decision was based on precedent that the supreme court had held prior to that case. and the reached the decision and court basically overturned the previous case, what we thought was important was the fact that she didn't try to legislate from the bench in the case, that she ruled based on prior supreme court decisions and then of course, this supreme court overturned it which we were glad of. which supported the overturning of that and the supreme court to do that. >> the fraternal of police is big organization, how do you come to the decision whether you're going to support a nomination or not. >> first of all, we have an elected board rf directors, members around the country and we had our legal staff review all the judge's cases, our legislative office reviewed her work as a prosecutor, we talked to the other groups like the national district

attorney's association, the other major law enforcement organizations, and then looking at her case, the executive board made the decision that we would support judge sotomayor. >> brian: chuck canterbury, fraternal order of police, thank you for joining us. >> thanks a lot. >> brian: on the witness list for the republicans is syndicated columnist linda chavez, she is was nominated during george bush's germ. we'll talk to chavez live during this hour of america's news headquarters. will president obama and world leaders miss an opportunity at g8 summit to get tough with iran? we'll talk to congressman from arizona right after the break. stay with us everybody. when i was told i had diabetes,

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>> president barack obama is wrapping up a whirlwind tour of ghana in africa. caroline shively has that and other stories we're following right now. >> brian: more than an hour ago the obama family took a tour on the coast of ghana, cape coast castle where thousands of africans were kept in den beguns before being boarded on ships bound for america. and the president says he hopes the tour of the fortress shows his daughters that history can take cruel turns and obama said that it pre minds him of the human capacity for great evil and

the first family heads back home this hour. official no launch today. space shuttle endeavour may be rescheduled for lift-off tomorrow. nasa says that lightning struck the ground near the launch pad and caused concerns about the shuttle and the ground equipment and system. stay tuned for fox news for more on this developing story. governor arnold schwarzenegger and legislator are back the at work trying to close the budget's shortfall. now both sides are somewhat optimistic and the state is so far overextended it will run out of money to pay for core functions sometime in september. san diego chargers quarterback curtis brinkley made a daring escape last night as a gunman shot him repeatedly in the philadelphia streets. police say the 23-year-old was shot multiple times while sitting in his car. brinkley somehow manage today hit the gas and start driving, making it a quarter of mile away before police in the area caught up with him. investigators have not yet

indicated if they have a motive in the shooting. those are the top stories right now, back to you. >> brian: thank you, caroline. dangerously high temperatures are baking the south and southwest, it is, i mean, really hot out there. meteorologist domenica davis is at the fox weather center with today's forecast, hello, domenica. >> hi, brian, yeah, it's hot down to the south especially and that's where we have the heat warnings that will stay in effect until sunday. here is what you're looking at temperature-wise and you can see across the country, it's not that bad because the heat now has come to the south and high pressure really centering itself over the southern states. hot in the usual places like phoenix, but the extreme heat we're looking at and mainly concerned with through this weekend and the winning of the work week is down to the south, namely texts and through parts of kansas and you already have temperatures well into the 90's. today's highs will get above 100 degrees in many spots and we'll see the heat indices anywhere from 108 to 110 and we're talking to extreme heat.

the kind of heat you want to stay indoors and limit the activity that's going to be outside, because this could really prove to be troublesome by later today and also, in the afternoon tomorrow and the next day. elsewhere across the country. we're not looking at the heat, but we do have some threat for severe storms to the ohio valley and up through new england, parts of upstate new york looking at a thunderstorm watch box through the bet are part of the afternoon into the early evening, so beware of that. brian. >> brian: domenica davis, thank you. this is a fox news alert. tropical storm carlos churning off mexico pacific coast is likely, like i to become a hurricane later later today or tomorrow according to the national hurricane center. the storm is far out to sea and headed away from land. about 970 miles, south-southwest of the southern tip of the baja california peninsula with maximum suz stained winds of

65 mooips.6 miles per hour, bah had an is home to lost cabos, but is mainly desert. arrested again, an according to the man's family and state department. a family members tells the associated press that security forces ransacked his home in tehran, and then took him and his computer away. iranian officials aren't commenting. president obama was hoping to come away from the g8 summit with hard deadlines on dealing with iran's nuclear program, instead, the talks produced only a time line for reevaluating the matter. republican congressman trent franks of arizona is a member of the house armed services committee and joins us live from phoenix. well, congressman, iran is a problem. and we all know that at some point, we have to turn up the pressure or somehow deal with iran, do you believe the president missed an

opportunity here? >> well, brian, i believe that the president has missed a series of students with iran. and he doesn't seem to really understand just how serious the circumstances related to iran becoming a nuclear nation really is. i would just say this, the day that iran becomes a nuclear armed nation, every day thereafter, humanities is going to have to wake up and ask the question, who has nuclear weapons today. because they will become a proliferator unlike anything you've ever seen. just last year, iran was placed as the high eest proliferator of terrorism and nuclear weapons technology of anyone and i just have to say to you i was terribly concerned about the direction that this is all going and i think that this, you know, i'm hoping that we can attribute the president's attitude to that of just sincere or naive taye, but it's extremely

dangerous to the world to see iran become that nation. >> brian: do you think we should should be pulling out of iraq at a time when iran is still a problem. >> no, ironically iran supplies the insurgents in iraq that kill our soldiers with the explosive form penetrate ethe most dangerous weapons we've faced and they're supplied by iran and the reality is, iran, i believe, represents the greatest danger short-term to the peace of the human family and the world today. and every day they become closer and closer to become a nuclear armed nation and i don't see this administration taking that situation serious seriously. iran watches what we do related to north korea, watch what we do across the world and they do not see the resolve in the mind of this president and the administration to do what is necessary to prevent that resalt from--

that reality from coming to be. while geithner you here, health care in washingtons in the days ahead. i'm wondering, do you think that the president can get some kind of health care measure before the house, that the republicans can find on any level acceptable? >> when you consider the president's ideology hereof government takeover of health care, i hope the republicans will stand unified against that because i think, you know, without trying to be a hi hyperbole. i think that we could take over health care than the government taking it over. it's an astonishing tragedy to see america, the greatest free market on earth, to begin to embrace this insanity called government takeover of health care and you see the things happening one after another. we pass the cap and tax bill here and this was the largest tax increase in the history of the human species and now we

are going to embrace government takeover of health care? those represent a profound burden to the economy. i'm sorry to interrupt you, we're out of time. >> okay, thank you. >> brian: good to have you. gm emerging from bankruptcy. can government motors rebound? financial expert jonas max ferris will be with us right after the break. brian wilson in washington coming to you in our full 16 by 9 glory. have you noticed in hd. the screen got wider through parts of this. be back in a moment. the classic flavors of tuscany inspiration for... dinner bell sfx: ping ping ping fancy feast elegant medleys tuscany entrées restaurant inspired dishes with long grain rice and garden greens is it love? or is it fancy feast?

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>> a quick look at the headlines topping the news right now. nasa has been force today scrub the launch of the endeavor. after 11 lightning strikes were reported near the pad and technicians say they found no damage, but need another day to check out critical systems and don't blame them. the management team plans tomorrow to determine whether the fuel endeavor for a possible watch.

president barack obama and his family wrapped up a tour of the former slave fortress on the coast of ghana and the president hopes it shows his daughters that history can take very cruel turns and they picked up a sense of their obligation to fight oppression and cruelty everywhere and the first family will be headed back home very shortly. general motors made a quick exit from bankruptcy protection yesterday, once the world's largest and most powerful auto maker, the new gm is now leaner, and match the debt and burdensome contracts and the ceo says the new company will go for cars and trucks that consumers want and will watch them faster. and fritz henderson announce add plan to point the company to more prosperous and successful future. will it work? joining us now is the co-founder of max funds diet come -- max fun maxfunds.com. jonas fax ferris.

no one wants to see it fail, we've invested this money and careers and livelihoods on the line and dealers around the country are struggling. can they come back? it boils down to can gm sell cars profitbly now that he they don't have the same massive debt payment and the debt they've incurred, if they can do that, if they can sell cars profitbly, the company will be worth tens of billions of dollars when it gets reintroduced to going public and the government will get probably not all, but a chunk of their money back and we own over half this company right now. a and-- and the government could see a chunk, maybe half their money back. >> brian: boy, that would be a positive development, no doubt. but, what is the real thing that they need to do as far as the product line? in order to make a big hit right now, and a big splash and turn things around. what kind of car do they need to produce? >> that's a big question, because a lot of people think

it's the battery cars and new, small hybrid. the reality is gas prices are relatively cheap americans don't swap up the cars enough and a lot of competition from the foreign cars in that area so broadly speaking, they need to figure out cars that america want to by at the premium price. they have cars, but never able to make a lot of money since the suv's kind of died out. that area made a lot of money. 3, 4, 5, $6,000 profit margin, but with the cars, not the trucks, the margins were negative in many cases and et cetera, but even the prices always at a discount what you could buy a foreign car for so they've got to have a product they want to pay for and this is why it's a risky business, you don't know what people are going to buy in two or three or four years and that's what it takes for a pipeline of a car, and they thought the pontiac aztec would be a big hit and it's a bomb and lost hundreds of millions and put

mine know the volt and if gas prices are higher people decide how they want to go. a battery technology, it could be a monster hit, bigger than the toyota hybrid, the plug in electric, but it's a long shot that failed and back into bankruptcy. >> and right now though, we should point out. if you have the wherewithal to buy a car, this is the time to do it. . >> reporter: you're better off buying a car with-- want to buy a car and can, but lost their jobs, and good deals, good deals on cars, but people are worried about their future, their pension and job, even if they have a job. it's not just gm now, a lot of cars globally, successful car companies like bmw are having proble problems. >> brian: thank you for joining us, good to have you. poking around in the car dealerships and they are hungry. hybrid cars are all the rage these days, before you sign on the dotted line to take ownership of that new honda insight, for example, you might want to hear what

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and take a close look as they do just that. the battle for michael jackson's three children continues. mother katherine and birth debra rowe decide today delay a hearing. in the time being, katherine jackson remains temporary guardian of the children. last but not least certainly not least, an alaska man's saved a landlord's bacon shooting a bear. the black bear had been a regular visitor to the neighborhood. and fish and gaming said they've had to kill, rather, nine black bears so far this year. confirmation hearings for sonya sotomayor will begin monday. our next guest will be a witness for the minority. she's syndicated columnist linda chavez who joins us today live. linda chavez, what are you going to say when you get there in that confirmation hearing and what is going to be on your mind? what do you want to get across? >> well, i think my major concern about judge sotomayor

is whether or not she can ask partially or whether or not she is going to let her preferences or personal opinions influence her decisions, unfortunately, she's given us some cause to believe that it's going to be the latter based on things she said, both with speeches and things she's written and also in terms of the way she's judged certain cases. >> and give me an example of the kind of thing that you see coming that concerns you. >> well, of course, the most important decision that she's been involved in recently, which causes me and others concern, is the new haven firefighters case, which was handed down by the supreme court just a matter of a few days ago. and in that supreme court decision, the supreme court reversed judge sotomayor, not just on the merits of the case, which involves a promotion test that was given in which white and hispanic officers of scored highly and

due to be promoted and the city of new haven she is we're going to throw out of the results of the test and not abide by it, but judge so the mayor and other judges decided that the new haven fire department was justified in doing that because they feared being sued. and so they actually reversed her not 5-4 on that particular provision, but they reversed her entirely, unanimously reversing her decisions that the city was justified simply on the the basis of fear of a lawsuit. >> brian: can i tell you, you went through a confirmation hearing and it was a little rough, i don't want to bring up bad memories, but do you see this being that kind of confirmation hearing this time around? >> well, i've actually been through one confirmation hearing in reagan years and never got to the nomination process when i was nominated to secretary of labor. i had given shelter a

guatemalen woman and withdrew my name rather than going through the confirmation process. i think it won't be very rough. a lob sided senate, another votes to confirm her, but i think there will will be hard questions asked and they should be. if she's impartial if she doesn't, she shouldn't be confirmed. >> i'm out of time. linda chavez, as always. it seems that americans are more and more plugged in when they're away and discovering that twittering away from home may lead to unpleasant surprises. that story when we come back. does two jobs... at once. one: kills weeds to the root. two: forms a barrier, preventing new ones for up to four months. roundup extended control.

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>> hey, brian, this internet crimes phenomenon is so new, most police departments around the country do not track the data, but experts say that more and more victims are popping up around the country as the popularity of these sites increases. we're talking about all the social networking sites that you seem to hear so much about these days. my space, twitter, facebook, you name it. you know they allow use towers share information back and forth, including status updates on what you're doing and where you are. and while it is a great way for friends and family to follow what you're up to, well, police say criminals are following it, too. in fact, cops near phoenix, arizona believe that a man's home as just robbed because he sent out a twitter message that he and his wife were out of town on vacation when they returned, their home had been ransacked and thousands of dollars worth of computer equipment had been stolen. >> tell everyone you're going

to be away for two weeks, don't post anything openly or tweet it out in a twitter for anyone who wants to can see it that you wouldn't shout about in time square, put on a billboard on a super highway. >> reporter: while some police departments are investigating crimes on the internet. others, using the information super highway to prevent them, the hawthorne, california police department near los angeles using the twitter page to get important information out to the community like suspect descriptions and emergency information. in fact, the new form of crime prevention is really catching on, dozens of police departments from new jersey to wisconsin, are now using the social networking sites to keep and protect in the loop. brian, back to you in d.c. >> brian: all right, got to be careful what you twitter about. i have a twitter page, nothing interesting to say, casey. i don't know. two of the computer industry titans are going after each other's turf. microsoft introduced bing, and

now google is planning to launch a new operating system to rival windows. what can consumer expects to get out of this battle royal? joining me now is editor of bc magazine. i've looked at the bing, i find it an interesting search tool especially looking for video. what's your assessment of it. we have been impressed with bing and tested side by side with google and find found a lot in bing not yet in fwool and microsoft is out in front, out front in terms of features, functionality and usability. >> brian: what about this idea of google now coming up with some kind of operating system? that would send-- throw down the gauntlet of a big battle ahead? >> yes, one good turn deserves another and announced this week they are going to release an operating system and nobody really knows what it's going to look like, what exactly it's going to do. it's going to come out in the middle of next year, as earliest, but basically designed to work on low cost

laptops, so-called net books and get you on the internet very, very quickly, open a system and hit a button and you're instantly on the web and that's without windows and that's obviously gotten microsoft's attention. >> brian: that would be a streamline operating system and couldn't do a lot of other things, i imagine. >> that's the question, all the difficult things of making a comprehensive operating system haven't been answered yet. how is it going to work, and what is the of driver work, your camera, read the photos off that easily. one of the things that makes windows so success feel, 90% of the p.c. market right now, it works with almost any piece of hardware out there and almost any software out there. and google is hoping they can get around that making everything web client and based on web standards, but again, we don't know if that's actually going to work. >> brian: what about, what does it mean for apple for those of us who are apple addicts? >> you know, i've heard opinions saying it's going to be huge, going to affect apple

a great deal, not going to affect ap bell a great deal. the thing to remember is apple is a hardware manufacturer and ultimately where they make their margins and interests lie. their software is distinctive. i think that it will effect apple possibly less than microsoft. >> editor of p.c. magazine, good to talk geek, love that geeky stuff, can't get enough of it. that's all for me here. they're laughing me in the book. the washington journal, wall street journal editorial report is next. tune in tomorrow or our special sotomayor coverage. fox news reporting judging sotomayor 8 p.m. eastern. i'm brian wilson you're watching the fox news channel. real journalism, fair and balanced. i'll see you back here next week, have yourselves a great week today. we'll see you next week i said already. already. bye-bye everybody. captioned by closed captioning services, inc. of