jon: catherine herridge outside the u.s. district court there in washington. therine, thank you. >> reporter: you're welcome. shannon: disturbing new research about prescription drug use of u.s. soldiers coming home from war. according to a new study 15% of returning soldiers used painkillers in the past month. that is four times higher than average in the general public. he run as recovery problem rebound brooklyn. and we have a clinical research psychologist at walter reed institute and leading author of the study. i welcome you both. commander, i want to start with you. what did you find specifically and were you surprised with any of these results? >> first which found 44% of infantry soldiers that came home from war three months prior, experiencing chronic pain, pain more than three months in duration and 15% had used opioid painkiller. we were surprised by high percentage of soldiers that had chronic pain. we know soldiers come home from war with injuries that war is hard on the body. these are otherwise healthy men and women. nearly one in two is very hi

catherine herridge is live at the federal courthouse in d.c. what happened in court today?> i was about 25 feet from the benghazi suspect, and as you walked into the courtroom, he seemed quite relaxed, wearing a green jump suit with the word prisoner in white letters on the back. the government laid out its case for pre-trial detention. they allege he's a flight risk, that he's guilty of a violent crime and they have eyewitness accounts, forensic evidence, and khattala's post-capture statements in order to make their case. the defense counters the government has made a series of broad generalizations and conclusions about his alleged role in the terror attack and they falter the government for not providing access to at least limited evidence until the morning of the hearing. one of the key things based on the evidence that is now available to us is they see two principle hurdles for the prosecution in this case. number one, this is not a traditional crime scene that was secured by the fbi where they could bag and tag evidence and deal with these chain of custody issues, an

chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live in washington. catherine what are we learning? >> reporter: good morning, patti ann. the chairman of house homeland security committee who receives regular briefings on intelligence says al qaeda and its affiliates are more determined to bring down aircraft and increasingly they have capability to do so because of a growing safe haven in syria and iraq. >> al qaeda has not given up on its threats to the aviation sector, i can't stress that enough. it was before 9/11 and it is even stronger after 9/11. they have not given up on their desire to bring down u.s. airlines. >> reporter: and u.s. intelligence community assesses that there is credit evidence western passport holders in syria are working with operatives with al qaeda in yemen to build bombs with non-metallic explosives that can circumvent traditional airline security, patti anne. patti ann: what about the ability to ramp up security on telephones? >> reporter: a norwegian national, recently designated by a foreign terrorist by u.s. state depa

now fox's own catherine herridge is standing by tonight. >> i was sitting 25 feet from the benghazi suspect when he plead not guilty to a single count of facilitating a terrorist attack. during his brief appearance with a court appointed public defender, he initially seemed dazes. then he became laser like in his focus hanging on the judge's every word. it took 21 months to capture him. >> it was a pretty good indication that the united states of america and certainly this president doesn't forget. and if this is something we're focused on and determined to bring to justice those who are responsible for taking the lives of four brave americans. >> but a leading republican accused the administration of wasting time by letting him remain free for nearly two years after the attack. well, he gave multiple media interviews. >> now we're finding out that the reason why he wasn't apprehended as quickly is because we were so focused on building a criminal case rather than capturing the suspects who were responsible for the attacking benghazi and killing our u.s. ambassador and three others. >> we'r

catherine herridge has been on the story with the beginning and live from d.c. with the latest for us now. catherine? >> reporter: the transcripts released by the house aarped services committee reinforced the conclusion that the attacks were premeditated and that the head of military africa command, the group that attacked during the third wave of assault had professional training. quote, given precision of the attack it was well-trained mortar rue. in my estimation they had a well-trained on searcher carter ham testified, a degree of military training unusual and indicates that was a, not a pickup team. this was not a couple of guys who found a mortar someplace a mortar crew uses math calculations for distance, elevation and angle to launch a mortar. in the case of benghazi, the first two mortars with off target and spotter calling in adjustments for the mortar crew, with following three rounds on target more than half mile away. this is pentagon video that shows what it takes to the plant a mortar placed for successful strike. this is also evidence of premedit

. >> catherine herridge in d.c., thanks. >>> more than $100 billion.t's how much our government wrongly paid people last year. people who were not supposed to get that cash. that's according to the feds themselves. take a look over at the wall. according to the government accountability office, $50 billion went toward medicare payments alone, for treatments that officials say might not have even benes. another $14 billion paid for tax credits to families who did not qualify for tax credits. and $6 billion went toward unemployment benefits for people who were not unemployed. there is some good news here, though. the feds say the amount of improper payments has steadily dropped over the past four years from an all-time high of $121 billion. so the message is, be thankful because this time it was only $106 billion. carl cameron has the news. he's live in washington. carl, that would have paid for two or three days of war. >> you sound so optimistic about it. >> i really am. >> even though the numbers are down this year, the fact is it's been averaging ove

catherine herridge joins us with the latest. catherine, you broke that they took these computers. i hadn't heard that before. we are two years out. >> i got a tip several months ago and it came from a libyan who says he witnessed the attack and described in a very credible way how he saw the terrorists leaving with computers and also m-16 rifles which are american rifles and then also a suitcase. and then i recently was able to get conversation from two confirmation from two sources in washington that computers were missing. what i understand about the computers is that they were unclassified computers and that they processed email documents, had meeting, schedules and contact lists and significantly after those computers were taken, some of the locally employed staff in benghazi received death threats by a text message. i don't know if it's connected, whether their contacts were pulled off that computer, but the state department has now confirmed that there is an fbi investigation into what was taken and looted from that consulate. >> why didn't we know this before? what's the bi

the recent bout of fighting killed 9 people and injured more than 400 others, catherine herridge is livein d.c., what's the administration doing? >> reporter: a short time ago the deputy national security adviser confirm confirming for reporters there is would a conference call between the president and allies in europe, and they're concerned about libya, calling for a cease fire but without meningful thrown stop the fighting. >> with respect to libya they agreed on the need for immediate cease fire among the mill lit -- mill lit ya in tripoli and underscoring support of the u.n. that condemns any use of violence to attack civilians, intimidate officials. >> the state department this afternoon still describing the u.s. embassy's closure over the weekend in the capital tripoli as temporary. >> what are we learning about the cause of all that? >> the head of the powerful house intelligence committee, mike rogers, says the crisis in libya was avoidable but a the obama administration lacked a clear policy. >> these problems are continuing to grow with lack of u.s. leadership and we need to c

catherine herridge is live in washington with more. of the. >> reporter: ultimatum was posted to twitter feed and reports from the region says it is largest massive flight of christians in the middle east. the christians of northern iraq nineveh have lived there 2,000 years dating after the first century after christ. they are native people of northern iraq and threatened by armed gangs of islamic state. there are reports, unconfirmed, christians in northern iraq are being forced to stop and abandon belongings and cash they're carrying. persecution of christians in northern iraq is part after troubling trend as violence escalated throughout the middle east and north after cam the persecution of religious minorities has also grown. asked about the orchestrated campaign by the islamic state known as isil to take over churches and expel christians the state department spokeswoman monday condemned actions. >> these are a bomb minutable acts. they are very clear isil's mission to divide and destroyer rack. they have absolutely no place in t

our catherine herridge is inside that courtroom.l join us with live report. >>> also a big storm on the move. arthur heading up the east coast and gaining strength right before the holiday weekend. so could it be a washout for parts of the east coast? we'll have a live report. >>> flirting with a whole new high. the dow inching toward that 17,000 mark, up 12 points right now. we are keeping a very close eye on wall street

catherine herridge's live in washington. what do we know about these computers?orning. three sources tell fox news the computers were stolen from the state department consulate in benghazi during the 2012 attack. fox news understands some local employee staff got death threats by text message on their cell phones. a source familiar with the investigation says the computers are believed to be unclassified adding they were used for document, e-mail processing and the hard drives were contained a history of usernames. experts explained the potential ramifications. >> sure it will be asked him a valuable because there is a tremendous amount of information of people in contact with that particular installation, the personnel, there's a lot of information still connected. reporter: they also confirmed to fox news there wasn't meant access, secret internet network which they used by the defense department to transfer classified information, martha. martha: what is the state department's response to this, catherine? reporter: the state department is looking into th at th

in interview with fox news and catherine herridge moments ago, the chairman of the select committee,ates a first opening hearing will take place in september. asked whether he or not he will call hillary clinton among others gowdy, with anticipation he it to be contacted by the committee expect they will be contacted. breaking news will be updated throughout the day. martha: protests outside of the white house which of course are not unusual but this particular one, kind of was. [shouting] >> downtown, with deportation. up, with liberation. martha: this is protest of illegal immigrants, demonstrating just outside of the gates of the white house with no repercussions and no fear they might be taken back to where they came from. here now, david webb, host of the david webb show on siriusxm patriot channel and fox news contributor. emily sussman, campaign director of americans for progress action fund. emily, are you okay with this. >> absolutely. they want to be american and there is nothing more american than criticizing the government and asking them to take action. look, president o