trace gallagher has the latest. >> reporter: this is north of dallas, this is farmer's branch and brooke haven college is a two-year community college. the information we have is that

gallagher, i don't want to take away from your time, but is it related to the c.b.d.?> yes, it is related. i received my secured property tax bill listing the higher of the two bills at $698,000. i was told by the saysor's office that the lower value would be the value. i just want to say that before you create any new special districts with the power to levee new prod taxes, you should ensure the current tax collection system in san francisco is being administered competently. clearly today it is not. there are other owners in my building that have received conflicting notices, and recent being forced to float an interest-free loan to city hall we will remember this during the elections next week and next year. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please? >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is david harrison, and i represent the ownership of the former triple-a buildings. i believe that we are one of the largest and maybe the largest private property owner within those districts, and we are here to express our support. we have at this time patrioted in

andy gallagher reports. >> this is operation guard shack, one of the biggest police corruption cases and the fbi's history. during a series of predawn raids around 130 people, most of the police officers, were arrested across pr. many of the officers are charged with providing armed security to cocaine dealers in return for cash. >> we are faced with the disturbing reality that it has invaded the sanctity of our state and our police department. honor was compromised for drug money. many times during this investigation. out of the operation described a seamless pipe -- >> the operation, described as seamless by the fbi, almost 1000 federal agents were flown in to arrest the suspects, including u.s. military personnel, prison guards, and civilians. >> this law enforcement at its best. you had investigation that lasted over two years, he moved 750 fbi agents from various parts of this country to pr. there was not one leak. there was not one disclosure during the course of that investigation. >> it is a dark day for puerto rico's police force that was suffering a tarnished reputation bef

trace gallagher, thank you. >> reporter: okay.n: democrats are now going into a second week of pointing fingers at conservative groups and their so-called secretive campaign funds. our next guest, a democrat says this ad campaign makes them look like, quote, a bunch of idiots. you'll hear it next. one of the craziest car chases ever caught on tape. wait until you see who was behind the wheel as police, look at this, got the ride of their lives. and the heartbreaking story of a dying girl, taunted by her neighbors takes a dramatic new turn just ahead. >> what do you accomplish with the deceased mother, with the grim reaper and the daughter with the skull and cross bones. >> satisfaction because it rubs her wrong, it burns her up. because it returns rebecca raw for me to make fun of her dead daughter on that page. >> that sounds sick. >> take-it-or-leave-it. here's the truth: safe drivers cost everybody less. that's why they pay less. but at allstate, they pay a whole lot less. in fact, safe drivers can save 45% or more on their car

in any waepbt, trace gallagher thank you. >> reporter: okay. megyn: wow. democrat alan grayson of florida gets a lot of headlines for his vicious attacks on republicans. the one-term congressman is trailing in his bid for re-election. the white house now sending in the big guns to stump for him. next, why is the white house lending its credibility to a man who political columnist george will calls a political sociopath. this girl made national headlines for having a nonstop case of the hiccups. now she is back in the news for her alleged connection to a murder. >> and it's just exhausting. i feel like i need a nap by the time i get up. it hurts so bad. i'm at the point where i want to cry now. [hiccupping ] funny how nature just knows how to make things that are good for you. new v8 v-fusion + tea. one combined serving of vegetables and fruit with the goodness of green tea and powerful antioxidants. refreshingly good. when i got my medicare card, i realized i needed an aarp... medicare supplement insurance card, too. medicare is one of the great things abo

trace gallagher has more. >> reporter: mexican authorities want to talk to tiffany hartley about some of the inconsistencies in her story. we'll get to some of the questions in a bit. there is one thing that both sides of the border agree on and that is once you go from the u.s. side to the mexican side in lake falcon it is a lawless, dangerous area. everybody is wondering why the mexican authorities have not done more to find the body of david hartley. now we have our answer, and it comes from the mexican police commander who is in charge of this investigation. he says that mexican soldiers and sailors are taking part in this search but this is a conflict zone, he says. the zone where it happened is in control of organized criminals, that is their territory. texas law enforcement adds that drugs have been flowing across this lake now uncontested for years. and now the drug battles in this lake are now spilling into the united states. here is texas governor rick perry this morning talking about this on "fox and friends" listen. >> this is a bayh national problem. we need to be helping

trace gallagher with the news from the west coast.w how many witnesses the prosecution plans to call? >> part of the reason we expect the trial to last between three and six weeks is the prosecution plans to call several dozen witnesses including each and every person wounded. all 32 of them. the idea is to try to paint this second-by-second picture of exactly what happened on fort hood in that day. the prosecution and defense is allowed to call witnesses in the hearing in civilian court only to lead to a court-martial instead of a trial. the defense says he plans to put op a vigorous defense. list listen. >> ultimately we should be together with one goal is mind. and that he has a trial, fair trial. public trial. >> it will be a public trial. the public will be on happened tomorrow as well. hasan is facing the death penalty. >>> at the same time, the senate homeland security committee is preparing its report. what do we expect from that? >> we expect the report to come out in the middle of the article 32 hearing and be critical of th

trace gallagher in our west coast news hub this afternoon.else did governor brewer have to say, trace? >> well, shep, she was very direct. she told those 11 countries to ho signed on to the lawsuit in essence to butt out. she told this country to stand up and do what's right. the governor's office issued this statement and i'm quoting: you mentioned she will fight this all the way to the supreme court but, first, she has to begin in the ninth circuit of appeals, shep. they will take this case up in november after the midterm elections. >> shepard: trace, we understand the homeland security secretary announced today that officials deported a record number of illegal immigrants this year. >> yeah. we're talking about fiscal year 2010 which ended at the end of september. the immigrations and customs enforcement numbers, 392,000 illegals removed so far this year. of those 195,000 were convicted criminals. many of those, by the way are because of the program called secure communities where they matched fingerprints of those in jail with the federa

trace gallagher has more from l.a. that is so interesting because that's exactly what david hartley's mother wanted to hear from, from the beginning of this. >> reporter: yeah, she made a direct plea to hillary clinton saying help me get my son's body back from mexico and she heard nothing and now you've got congressman ted poe, republican, his district includes falcon lake, saying look, the u.s. consulate did nothing to help tiffany hartley at all and in fact the state department, that's him there, has been and i'm quoting, blissfully silent on this whole thing. today the silence was broken, because secretary of state hillary clinton appeared on "good morning america" and said the state department is all it can. listen: >> well, we are helping. the united states government is supporting local law enforcement, supporting the authorities on the border, doing everything that we know to do o try to assist in helping to find the body and helping to find the perpetrators. >> reporter: of course, local law enforcement painti

>> shepard: trace gallagher live in los angeles. thank you. according to reports aol is in talks to buy up yahoo. both companies have been struggling to come back since google became the president's most profitable company. so far no comment from either aol or yahoo. news bytes now and it looks like at&t's relationship with apple is no longer monogamous. the computer giant introducing the verizon wireless ipad. we're told it hit stores two weeks from today. the move fueling speculation that a verizon iphone could be coming soon. microsoft announcing it's teaming up with facebook to make searching the internet more social. a new feature on its search engine bing will show facebook users what their friends like when it displays search results. bing, the third most popular search engine behind google and yahoo. one british police force is now reporting every incident it handles on its twitter account. the chief constable of the greater manchester police force says it's to show the pressure his officers faces a officers prepare for deep budget cut

trace gallagher with the news live this afternoon in our west coast news hub.ce, mexican official after official questions tiffly hartley story. >> in fact, the mexican commander in charge of this investigation, shep, says they got two sets of coordinants from the u.s. counselor about where david hartley was last seen. they went out and searched both land and water and they found nothing. and the chief says on that day the water was very calm and there were few fishing boats out there. he went on to say and i'm quoting since everything was so calm over there they could hear any noise. but they said they didn't hear any gunshots or anything, and they didn't even hear a jet ski. the mexican district attorney says there is no evidence of a crime out there. he went on to say, and i'm quoting, we are not sure. we are not certain that the incident happened the way they are telling us. though a witness has now come forward and said they saw a jet ski crossing back into u.s. territory and there was a boat following it firing gunshots, shep. >> shepard: so the mexican a

trace gallagher is live from our news hub. are canceling the search. >> mexican authorities say they're calling off the search temporarily so they can regroup to get a better strategy for searching for david hartley. they also came out and said that had this been a mexican citizen, this search would have been over in three days. the timing here is very interesting. two days ago, after the lead investigator was found murdered. mexican shorts came out and said they would continue searching for hartley. when the global company came out with assessment saying if police in mexico continue to search that cartel members would kill more police, well, suddenly today they called off the search. shep? >> shepard: there are reports that tiffany hartley met with mexican authorities today. what do we know. >> we got off the phone with the sheriff in texas. he has been the go-to guy on this side of the border. he confirmed with us that tiffany hartley has been meeting all day long with both the fbi and officials from the attorney general's o

trace gallagher live in los angeles. thanks. the feds are accusing a dozen people of vote buying in an effort to legalize gambling in one state. details on the electronic bingo bust coming up. also tonight, a manhunt after a deadly armed truck robbery. the suspects are said to have $100,000 price on their heads. we're told you don't want to mess with them. a horrific home invasion in state of connecticut. a father lost his wife and two daughters in a brutal rape and murder rampage. now, the case is with the jury and we're live at the courthouse. from the journalists of fox news. this is a special edition of "fox report," tonight with limited commercial interruptions. back in 60 seconds. >> shepard: the first day of october and that means the supreme court is back in session. for the first time in the history of this nation, three women are on the bench. elena kagan on the right, joining justice sonia sotomayor. and ruth bader ginsberg. they'll hear whether church members have a right to protest at military funeral, even if they

yet, the police are outgunned and outmanned by the cartels. >> trace gallagher live. in chile, the rescue capsule has made it to the cave and in the process of extricating miner number 30. raul bustos, he should be next. he's married, 40 years old, a foreman there at the mine. he has two children, ages 5 and 3. used to work in a shipyard which was damaged in the earthquake back in february there. as he needed money, he came to the mine for work and there is his wife, we are led to believe up on top. he'd been given the job of setting up a water supply system here for the mine. and he told his mom he was hungry. and wanted to eat her seafood empanadas while he was down there. that was his communication with mom. let's listen to the translation just a moment. >> come on, my friend. let's go. just breathe in. deep. breathe, nothing is going to happen. >> breathe in. 21 inches across this thing. >> the boys are getting fine up there. don't worry. >> all other guys are doing fine. >> the shot you are getting is helping you to feel much better. >> my friend, everything is f

keep on doing drugs, drug traffickers will remain very busy trace gallagher live with the news. strong words from the president. any response. >> we called the governor's office, shep. still no comment from them. those who support proposition 19 which is the measure to legalize pot say president felipe calderon has got this whole thing wrong. they contend that if you legalize marijuana it would stop the drug war. clearly others disagree. and today president calderon told "l.a. times" and i'm quoting here the growing acceptance by the american public of marijuana as a me medicine drug is absurd. i think they have very little moral authority to condemn a mexican farmer who for hunger is planting marijuana to sustain the insatiable north american market for drugs. though we should also point out that president calderon has also accused the americans of shipping guns south to arm the war on drugs as well as not doing enough for immigration reform, shep. >> shepard: with 27,000 dead people in this war, it's interesting that the president of that country would say that on the same day

the last of these old-time permit guys, officer gallagher, just retired. today, most if not all permitting stations and decisions are made by the precinct captain. this is unfortunate. the captain is a very political role and there are pressures that go along with being commanding officer of a station that often make risk avoidance rather than what is best for the neighborhood the driving force behind decision making. also, the captain is responsible for every last thing that happens at the station. there are just not enough time, not enough hours in the day for the captain to be familiar with all of the players and all of the issues. finally, the captains get moved around regularly. i would undertake the board to once again encourage career permit officers and empower these officers to make decisions. thank you. supervisor avalos: thank you very much. if we could now call upon nanette duffy. i know maybe she had to leave. if we could all -- if we cannot call susan king. is miss king here? i don't see her. david lupo? is he here? solomon jones? don't see m

. >> reporter: monday night the county council voted t give gallagher his wish pledging seven votes toward the abolishment of this rule. cape st. claire now needs 324 more votes to reach that 85%. but ere are some in this community, 70 families, to be exact, that have voted to keep this rule on the book. >> some of them have told me that they want to keep it because it is part of the history of the community. some of them have said that they don't understand whye're boergth because it is unenforceable. >> reporter: the public hearing is a small step in putting closure to this racially restricted covenant. but the president of the association said he is willing to do whatever it takes in the next six mons to put an end to this once and for all, even if that means going door to door, asking his remaining neighbors to turn in their ballots. in annapolis, john schriffen, news4. in the district of columbia, stray cats areback serious problem. the washington humane societies said one unayed female cat and her offspring can produce over time, 42,000 kittens in seven years. so now they're trying t

trace gallagher following this one for us.reaction to this. >> reporter: as you might imagine some are applauding this thing and others are not. this is the cambridge school district? massachusetts. they voted on this in december of last year, they just announced yesterday it would go into effect if 2011. they will give one day off for a muslim holiday they just haven't figured out which one it's going to be either to celebrate the end of ramadan the holy month or the end of the festival of sacrifice which follows the haj which is the trip to mecca. they say this has nothing to do with terrorism or 9/11. listen. >> people who have an issue with celebrating a muslim holiday to me that is just based on discrimination, based on this horrible event. we have to rise above that. >> reporter: muslim students in this district have now been pushing to have this holiday for a number of years now. they say it's a which to put themselves on the map. they are also pushing for a number of years to have a prayer area set aside, but they've b

megyn: trace gallagher has more live from our west coast newsroom. he has breaking news on this investigation which is getting bizarre. >> reporter: they shall saying that mexican authorities are now looking for the body of david hartley. we are getting mixed stories here. mexican authorities certainly are not letting u.s. authorities on their side of the lake to help in this search. u.s. authorities that we have talked to down there -- let me stand you by, dr. petit is now outside of the courtroom let's listen. >> our faith in god that justice would be served. we really thank the jury for their due diligence and careful consideration of the charges in reaching what we feel is an appropriate verdict, and we hope they will continue to use the same diligence and clarity of thought as they consider arguments in the penalty phase of the child. >> doctor petit even though there was a sense of inevitability about the verdict was there any sense of relief when it came down for you? >> there is -- there is some relief, but my family is still gone. it doesn't

megyn: trace gallagher has much more live in l.a.case you didn't catch that very interesting interview, trace. >> reporter: gloria allred told you on this show last week that there was no lawsuit, nikki diaz is not going to go after meg whitman. it's trying to portray meg whitman as a hypocrite when she said she wanted to crackdown on employers who hire illegals, yet hiring an illegal herself. nikki diaz died to the government, falsified documents. our brain room says she could be looking at 20 years in prison. so bill o'reilly asked the homeland security secretary what she was going to do. she says it was up to california voters. he pressed her further . listen to the rest of this. >> this is the highest profile illegal alien situation that we have had here in this country for years. everybody is locked in on this woman. and i'm not taking an editorial position i'm not going to tell you what to do, that would be insulting and i wouldn't do that. however, the folks want to know what the federal government is going to do about this, b

trace gallagher live in our west coast newsroom with more. trace, could it be attributable to the debate, or is it as a result of the made scandal. >> reporter: it could be a little bit of both. the numbers are fascinating. meg whitman came out and said she cannot win the governor's case in california without latino voters. latino makes up 21% of california's voting population. i want to show you numbers to give you context of how this thing has flown along. back in january jerry brown had 23% latino voters. look at what the numbers are when the scandal broke. 3%, meg whitman had dramatically cut jerry brown's lead among latino voter. now as of today meg whitman has doubled the number of spanish language television ads she is running, also she is increasing the interviews she is doing with spanish language television stations, and the debate this weekend was televised in spanish, and there were some blistering jabs about the housekeeper. watch. [speaking spanish] >> reporter: that clearly is the the khreut tal ad. in the debate meg whitman we

officer gallagher, the permit officer in northern station, said that he is personally ok with 2:00 a.m. but that it is their policy to recommend 1:30 on all of these applications. so i hope that you will take that into consideration and allow comet club to continue operating as it always has. this is a really good neighborhood, little venue, it doesn't create a lot of commotion, it doesn't make a lot of noise. it's just a good place to hang out. there's a little tiny dance floor, that's not going to change. it's going to stay the same. we didn't include these in your file, but i've got all these letters of support from the neighborhood historic association and all the businesses of the union street merchants' association and all the individual letters from the surrounding community. it's a well-liked place. and i don't think there's a cause for concern with these changes. as i said, the only people who made any comment to city planning were under the impression that somehow there was a major change in the operation being proposed. just to clarify on the building permit application, bec

henniker in hong kong he's an associate director at the tycoon in new york we go to daniel penny gallagher head of emerging market currency in rate strategy at bank of america merrill lynch and here in the studio with me is erich krauss a moscow based fund manager and international consultant and another member of our crosstalk team you know in the hunger all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want martin you've been on the program before thanks for coming back are we in the middle of a currency war a global currency war and if we are give me evidence of it. well some people are just looking at looking at china and saying on china's manipulating the currency so they are causing global problems but first of all i think what investors and the general public needs to realize i think the united states and europe they have very much by the war just to keep their own currency from collapsing you know that may two thousand and ten so you're away actually close to falling apart all by itself without any war happening i mean it's a wall of actually meet

. >> trace gallagher caught up with some to find on you how they're linking the new stage. >> just watch. >> reporter: the great white way has become a shining light for past "american idol" stars as a perfect venue to show up what they can do beyond the idol stage. the latest to take her talents to broadway is season 6 winner jordin sparks. now, starring in in the height. a role she was born to play. >> and i am excited to be there and -- i was like oh, no problem. can i do that and that is definitely challenging. >> reporter: other idol names include taylor hicks and ace young in greece. fantasia in the color purple, diana digarmo in the toxic avenger and. >> and it's a great place for them to go after. where else can they go? and -- that is great. >> reporter: it established tv and film stars are flocking. and satisfying their needs. >> you can't fake it on broadway. you have charisma or not and you sing or can't and that is transparent. >> some folks can take it on camera. if you're in a live audience, you can't fake it. >> nope, and i am linking it. >> whatever. >>> >>> a tree with

trace gallagher live with more on this. megyn: under california state law people are not required to say the pledge of allegiance. every morning they would make an announcement and i'm quoting, if you wish to participate in the pledge, please stand. the parents were upset because they say the announcement was worded all wrong. it was kind of like it was an invitation to sit out of the pledge. here is one parent, listen. megyn: the problem became too many kids sat out and thought it was funny trying to call attention to themselves. we felt it was very important for them to change it to more of an invitation to participate rather than an invitation to sit it out. >> reporter: so the parents professed -- protested, they went to the school board, they wanted the announcement change. on the other side some parents said they did not want their kids participating in the pledge at all because they didn't want them pledging to anything where the words "under god" are in there especially if they don't believe in god. so they fought t

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trace gallagher is live in l.a.ke a movie out of something like this and basically wanted to pin a medal on the couple, not in this case. >> reporter: they say student athletes can't live with coaches or teachers for a couple of reasons, one is favoritism and two so they don't have recruit violations. it's pretty simple to figure out if you have a kid that is a star athlete living in a different school district he didn't live in -- move in with a coach to play on that team. this is in central florida. this is the coach. he let the player live with him because the kid was about to be homeless and he may have dropped out of school. here is the thing, the school actually selfreported this to the athletic association. they said this kid is going to live with the coach because he has no place else to live and now the coach is being investigated. he had to sit out a game last week and not only that, the athlete in question, now everybody knows his name, we are not going to say his name, but everybody in central florida kn

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trace gallagher live with us. trace, thanks. where are the moderates in the midterm elections? president obama delivering a speech in chicago tonight. those are live pictures, in fact, is he trying to fire up the voters he inspired two years ago. but is he reaching in the wrong direction. we'll report so you can decide. plus, we have all been there. you try put a dollar bill into the machine and for whatever reason it doesn't want your cash. well, it happened to this guy. and you can see it didn't please him a lot. the way he handled the situation landed him in some trouble and it landed him in the cube. sir, you really shouldn't kick that thing. and you certainly shouldn't do that. you could switch for great gas mileage or seats that flip and fold with one hand. you could switch for up to 600 highway miles on a single tank of gas. or the hundred-thousand mile powertrain warranty. over a thousand people a day are switching to chevy. they're not just trading in, they're trading up. qualified lessees can get low mileage lease on this 2011 malibu ls for around one ninety-nine a mo

>> gallagher, the guy who smashed the fruit? >> yeah. we'll be right back.government food stamps >>> gove >>> government food stamps currently help 43 million americans put food and drink on their kitchen tables. >> you can't use food stamps to buy cigarettes or alcohol and now there is a push to but soda on the no buy list now. t.j. winick joins us now. hi, tj. >> good morning, rob, vinita. it is certainly a controversial proposal and raises questions about public health and personal freedoms. depending on the federal food stamp program to feed her and her young son, she tries to eat healthy and that means avoid soda. >> it does make you gain weight and a lot of sugar too. >> reporter: she appreciates the helping hand but doesn't approve of a proposal to ban food stamp recipients using government money to by sugary drinks. >> that is going too far. how about -- buy drinks having a birthday or something like that. >> reporter: this hard hitting ad campaign part of the latest health initiative by michael bloomberg. >> sugar sweetened drinks are not worth the

jerry gallagher is there.bout an important industry in this state. >> we have not heard the word of agriculture or farming mention yet tonight that i can recall. here is a couple points. the number of dairy farms in the u.s. is down 33% in just 10 years. milk production in this country is up 15% over that same time. many small farmers are being pushed out of the business because of cost. there is no argument from the candidate that dairy farmers are being paid what under the cost of production. there are five people do understand how dairy products are priced. four of them are dead and the fifth one is lying. [laughter] all sarcasm aside, what will you do specifically to address concerns that small farmers have with this crisis? >> i want to talk about my background. both of my parents worked on farms. all my aunts and uncles are farmers. i understand the heritage, the traditions of family farming. i understand the responsibility. my business is in plastics and i have not been as educated as far as the dairy f

. >> people have also mentioned gallagher as a big conflict.help commercial and residential real rates are opposing each other, and i am hearing from business that these commercial property rates must come down. another example of too high taxes in our state. i don't see gallagher as a big issue, either. >> the issue of experience has come up a lot in this campaign. the question is, how does your professional experience qualify you to be the next governor of our state? >> in 1981 i was nominated by ronald reagan to run the regional office of the u.s. department of education. i had served three terms in the colorado legislature, the last of those terms on the joint budget committee which is the budgeting are for the state of colorado. it was challenging, undeniably, but we did some things that i am very proud of. we helped in the process of getting rid of the sales tax on food and utilities. my task was to implode it, to bring it down. we went from 222 people, some of them working there, but all of them employed there. we diminished that. i cann

dave, as you watch this, by the way trace gallagher has been following this for me.tells me that the sunglasses that the miners are wearing are oakley, $450 a piece, donated which is quite something. as we watch this miner who will now be properly married to his common law wife and love of 25 years come out of the mine and have a long embrace with his lady we wait for the 19th miner to come up. your thoughts on it, dave. >> for me a lot of memories and emotions, like what we went through eight years ago. these miners can be reunited with their families. i mean it's really hard to explain what kind of emotions you go through. there is so much adrenaline flowing through right now and so much relief on their families parts and the rescuers' parts. you can see it as you watch it. it's touching for everybody. megyn: it really is. just in case folks don't know, this happened on august 5th. there was a landslide that caused a tunnel 1700 feet down to collapse. one group of mines that was near the entrance made it out but the 33 others did not, and for 17 days we didn't know