in washington doug mcelway, fox news. >>> that leads us to this question. violation of privacy? you can shoot us an e-mail at fox friends first@foxnews.com. >>> chris jenner is hitting back pretty hard at president obama for criticizing her daughter kim kardashian and kanye west. he recently said it was wrong for children to focus on what kim is wearing, where kanye is on vacation and lives in a 10,000 square foot house. here is jenner's response. >> i wasn't aware that you could only set the bar so high and that we could only dream so big. i was taught dream big, work hard and you can have whatever you wanted. (applause) >> right? and another thing i thought was, wow, i bet the president has some friends with 10,000 square foot houses and you probably wouldn't mind going over there, mr. president, while you were asking them to have a party for you when you were campaigning for dollars to run for president. >> she also said that kim's job afford her to live in a 10,000 square foot house. >> another green energy scores millions of dollars in federal stimulus

here is correspondent doug mcelway. >> reporter: for the first time since the carter administration,olar panels are going up on the roof of the white house, part of a mandate toward renewable in the federal government, and also a symbolic gesture the president is plowing ahead with a green agenda. >> he said he wasn't going to wait for congress, but that he had administrative authorities and it was time to start utilizing those more effectively in a more concerted way. >> the obama administration is being strategically brilliant doing it behind the scenes, they're going to achieve everything that u.n. treaties and cap and trade could achieve through the in visibility of regulation. >> reporter: but the battle against global warming encountered a head wind, in a suit brought by the landmark legal foundation, a federal judge ruled the epa response to freedom of information act requests for alias e-mail accounts used by the administrator lisa jackson and others, quote, contain numerous inconsistencies and reversals which undermine confidence in their truthfulness. he ruled they can depo

correspondent doug mcelway looks at the 50th anniversary of a civil rights turning point. [ bell ringing ] >> reporter: the symbolism profound, ringing the bell that used to be above the 16th street baptist church where four little girls were killed in a bombing two weeks after the 1963 march. also profound, the voices in the crowd, people like gilbert lyons, he was there that day, veteran of the korean war. >> left, the country was segregated, seemed like it was worse. people in japan treat you like you supposed to be, human beings. come back in my own country in uniform, sit there, say i can't feed you. >> reporter: today's ceremony an opportunity to pass memories of the injustices onto a younger generation. >> i'm so happy to be here today to show her the history from the civil rights movement, the freedom that my mother and father experienced. >> reporter: the ceremony paid homage to king and an entire generation of courageous civil rights leaders who on that august day came to a city on edge, all of the police force on duty, supplemented by the national guard. the sound system sabot

here is correspondent doug mcelway. >> reporter: the administration was forced yet again to defend nsa surveillance after today's "the wall street journal" report that found the agency monitors 75% of all internet traffic in the u.s. >> the report in "the wall street journal" was clear about the fact what we're talking about is a narrowly focused program aimed specifically at foreign intelligence. >> reporter: but the journal found in some cases nsa quote, retains written content of e-mails sent between citizens within the u.s., a finding that fuels fear that they're not being forthright. >> the constitution doesn't allow a single warrant to get a billion phone records. >> reporter: the administration has petitioned the supreme court to allow police to search cell phone records without a warrant. today's smart phones are an encyclopedia of private information and a tracking device. >> the phone company at any given time knows where you are as a result of a technical function of the network. >> reporter: that capability demonstrated by two computer scientists in 2011. they discovered th

doug mcelway tells us whether that's good or bad all depends on who you talk to. >> magnificent motors. >> reporter: the automobile has been a metaphor for american independence and freedom. some fear this little device will change all that. the national highway traffic safety administration issued a proposed rule all cars be equipped with a black box, a data recorder by september next year. 96% of new cars already have them, measuring speed, pedal effort, seat belt use, wheel spin, direction. black box data retrieved from u.s. car accidents in a single day would provide more information than a year's worth of crash testing like this, head of the design team that's standardizing the devices but fears they have a massive privacy dilemma. he designed a lock to prevent anyone but the motorist from getting. >> they can roll the odometer back to zero, change the vin number, that's in the computer, and once they do that, it is okay for them to simply steal the motor vehicle. >> reporter: insurance companies could analyze data that change your rates or change their liability in an accident. o

here is correspondent doug mcelway. >> reporter: the administration was forced yet again to defend nsaillance after today's "the wall street journal" report that found the agency monitors 75% of all internet traffic in the u.s. >> the report in "the wall street journal" was clear about the fact what we're talking about is a narrowly focused program aimed specifically at foreign intelligence. >> reporter: but the journal found in some cases nsa quote, retains written content of e-mails sent between citizens within the u.s., a finding that fuels fear that they're not being forthright. >> the constitution doesn't allow a single warrant to get a billion phone records. >> reporter: the administration has petitioned the supreme court to allow police to search cell phone records without a warrant. today's smart phones are an encyclopedia of private information and a tracking device. >> the phone company at any given time knows where you are as a result of a technical function of the network. >> reporter: that capability demonstrated by two computer scientists in 2011. they discovered the appl

correspondent doug mcelway has some context. >> the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. >> reporteren president franklin roosevelt spoke those words in 1933, it was a throw to call off doubts of the great depression. the release of today's consumer confidence index may serve similar purpose to throw off doubts of the recession. it finds consumer confidence which stood at 81 in july rose >> i think it is relatively positive news. this is the third month in a row with a reading above 80. >> reporter: experts differ over whether this heralds a recovery. it lacks data like monthly unemployment numbers. it gauges confidence in things like average weekly hours in manufacturing, claims for unemployment insurance, new manufacturing orders, building permits, private housing units, and stock prices. >> it is definitely a factor, a barometer. the index will take a downward hit that will take many more months on the up side. >> reporter: the conference board says they track closely with unemployment data. >> this is a survey of consumers by consumers and they have a relatively great track recor

>> doug mcelway outside union station, thank you. >>> firefighters in southern california are battlinglaze approaching canyon neighborhoods. the brush fire that started in cleveland national forest yesterday is said to be only 5% contained. it burned about two square miles of land so far. one community remains under an evacuation order. >>> one of the things that fuels such fires, a lot of dead vegetation. it is particularly a big problem in colorado. in tonight's energy in america report, correspondent alicia acuna tells us about a solution. >> reporter: colorado has millions of acres dead timber that's potential fuel for wildfires. now a renewable energy company wants to turn it into fuel for vehicles. >> higher octane level than what you put in your car, but can be used to blend and produce the gasoline that goes into your car. >> reporter: howard jansen is the ceo of cool planet. >> it is not dependent on imported petroleum products, but the gas we make is carbon negative. >> reporter: it is not just dead trees, it can be waste headed to land fills, corn cobs and other vegetation a

we can see doug mcelway from the nation's capitol. your comments on the route. >> it was spectacular harris. it was aided from mother nature. it is not every day in late august she turns out a sun drenched low humidity and cool coined of day. that's what we had today. the late dr. martin luther king would be proud of the spirit of nonviolence and generalized good will. for me the most powerful moments came not from the podium but from the people in the crowd some of whom were here to watch that speech in known 63, and lived to tell about it and many others who watched it on television and still others who live in the seggated south like the brothers who grew up in mobile, obama. >> it was rough. segregation was alive and well. and it was hard for black people to stick together to achieve things, because of the violation. the bombing in birmingham and meg areas and all of the things were going on and so your parents were reluctant to have you participate because they knew the consequences. >> there is a lot of work in progress and up t

doug mcelway talks about a new interactive effort some say is a huge overreach. >> i think when you spreadhe the wealth around, it is good. >> reporter: five years since those words, housing and urban development has a new federal rule that gives them meaning, furthering fair housing. it will require the feds to gather data on segregation and discrimination in every single american enabled and remedy it. >> in too many of our hardest-hit communities, no matter how hard a child or her parents work, no matter that child's potential, the life chances of that child, even her life span, is determined by the zip code she grows up in. >> reporter: data from the discrimination database will be used with zoning laws, house financing, infrastructure planning and transportation, to alleviate segregation, specifics are lacking. the rule does not prescribe or enforce specific local or public housing authority policies. one critic says it smacks of utopian ideals. >> started with public housing and urban renewal, which failed spectacularly back in the '50s and '60s. they tried it again in the '90s, when

correspondent doug mcelway on the latest trouble for lois lerner. >> reporter: they requested she turn over all official irs documents and correspondence in her private msn e-mail accounts. >> here is a lady took the fifth, wouldn't answer congress's question, wouldn't answer the american people. now we learn she's conducting official business on a personal account, in essence potentially hiding it from the taxpayers and the american people. >> reporter: the letter says the fact that it appears low is home is saved in your irs e-mail account raises concerns that you have sent irs documents to at least one nonofficial e-mail address and that you may have conducted official business on nonofficial accounts. >> since we don't know who has access to her private e-mail accounts, she may well be violating section 6103 with improper disclosure of taxpayer information which is a crime. >> reporter: internal revenue kwoed states that no officer or employee of the united states shall disclose any return or return information obtained by him in any manner in connection with his service as such an

correspondent doug mcelway on good intentions and bad actors. >> reporter: as a disabled vet, he gotpecial preference when he won the largest contract in irs history, $500 million for it services. he applied for that contract through the services abld veteran own business program, designed to give wounded warriors an advantage in government contracts. but his disability was a twisted ankle at military prep school 27 years ago. when he testified about the contract, congresswoman tammy duckworth, double amputee war vet tore into him. >> reporter: the service disabled veteran program is ripe with fraud and abuse. nobody in government checks for honesty. take the case of warren parker that won $5 million in government contracts for his construction firm. >> mr. parker had a tremendously heroic resume, three silver stars, three purple hearts, bronze stars. even kept a diary of sniper kills he purportedly got in vietnam. turns out it was all a fraud. >> reporter: after parker was sentenced to jail, the va tightened procedures. >> in 2011 when they changed the process of verification, 10,00

we're going to get those e-mails. >> reporter: that was doug mcelway reporting. >> shannon: her lawyer said no comment about lerner's private e-mail account. the house oversight committee wants her to send all applicable personal e-mails to them by august 27th. >>> new york city mayor michael bloomberg is catching heat for a crime fighting idea thrown out during a radio appearance. he said public housing residents should use fingerprints to get access into their buildings. the city isn't working on anything like that, but the outgoing mayor said he thinks it would help keep criminals out of residents buildings. it's similar to the stop and frisk policy bloomberg has supported, and a federal judge ruled that policy is unconstitutional. the city is appealing. >>> christians and their churches under attack as violence and tensions rise in egypt. islamists are fo now targeting e pulpit. >>> back home, a new study suggests that freedom of religion that our forefathers fought and died for are increasingly becoming less important to americans. you do not want to miss this report coming up. wi

good evening, i am doug mcelway in for bret baier.idence this afternoon that president obama says puts the blame for last week's chemical attack on damascus squarely at the feet of the assad regime. many at home and abroad are unconvinced military action is about saving lives and not saving face for the president. we have fox team coverage. jennifer griffin at the pentagon has the latest on preparation for battle. james rosen at the state

good evening, i am doug mcelway in for bret baier. we finally got a look at some of the evidence this afternoon that president obama says puts the blame for last week's chemical attack on damascus squarely at the feet of the assad regime. many at home and abroad are unconvinced military action is about saving lives and not saving face for the president. we have fox team coverage. jennifer griffin at the pentagon has the latest on preparation for battle. james rosen at the state department with john kerry's big moment on the world stage. we begin with chief white house correspondent ed henry and a president on a very hot and lonely seat. good evening, ed. >> reporter: that's right, good evening, doug. a president that came to power opposing war tonight is on the verge of unilateral military action. after days of the commander in chief laying low on syria and twice letting his secretary of state take the lead, president obama called the gas attack in syria a challenge to the world, so he tasked himself as reluctant warrior, stressing th

your thoughts on the reporter there, doug mcelway and many other people this hour.ou hope to hear from him. do you think he can say something to bridge some of the tension and gaps we have right now in the united states. >> i think that's a great point. right now, we're experiencing a huge gap in terms of generational understandings. i think that a great example of the president doing that effectively was his commencement speech he gave earlier this year at more houhouse university. the pret echo-- the president ed on yesterday year and the challenges people of color have encountered but also as dr. carson said, opportunity. and we want to see correction for wherever inequality exists. when we fail to prepare for those opportunities it's a moot point. when we work in tandem, have efforts in terms of infrastructure working to remedy inequalities and things that proportionately affect people that are minorities but when we prepare, we have a chance for people with progress and the communities. >> we will stop and listen in. oprah winfrey, a face all will recognize. >>

doug mcelway has more on the jobless numbers that often goes unreported. first to fox news editor chris stie wall, the host of power play. hi chris. >> hi ally. >> 71% of respondents say the president is offering nothing new. the polls come on the heels of the president having traveled around the country talking about the economy. >> yeah. and he went out and said it was new. well, i've got a new idea for a tax plan, i have a new idea for this and the other thing. peggy noonan may have said it best. there reaches a point in a presidency, we call it being a lame duck, where people tune you out. they're not listening anymore. the president may have accelerated that because he did go on his road show without any new material. he went to try something out and the people were right. it was substantially the same stuff that he has been talking about since he was a candidate. the white house stressed that it was consistency. but at a certain point, why are people going to listen. >> let's listen at another poll at 52% now disapprove of the president's job perform