i also have to thank heather long, the assistant editor at "guardian america."ght i had important things to say so i have to thank her for giving me the opportunity to write this. >> people want me to beat you up, tell this man to sit down and you are a self-hating black man. i don't know your experiences so i can't tell you that. do you mate to go online now? >> no. it's intriguing. i'm fascinated by it. it's strange to have people talk about you and say these nasty things. they don't know anything about me. it's a very weird feeling. last night, i went to an african-american website called clutch. the comments online were mixed. some people were saying i'm this and that. some people were saying they agreed with me. some people are not listening to the nuances of my argument. >> that nuance is very important. a lot of times people see the headline. if they see a headline that says i hate being black, it's what they are going to take from it. people read blurbs, headlines, soundbyt soundbytes. i have been a victim of that, too. let me give you some advice here.

. >> this is heather. how long have you been in this area and when have you seen others to this extent and can you compare it to other outbreaks in the past? >> i have grown-up in the area quite a bit specifically to the cold city area. this is the first that i know of that is specific to this. >> nick, i was reading earlier that police had to take dogs out. you clook at these pictures thee houses are crumbled piles of debris now. i was reading police were taking dogs out to hneighborhoods because so many were trapped in this. >> we only had one location where our fire crews were out of this building. beyond that everybody was able to self extra kate themselves. i believe most were due to the early warnings they received from the national weather service. >> thank you so much for joining us. appreciate you taking the time-out. we know you are busy there and we are praying for everyone in the community. one man turned to god. >> thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. give us this day our dail

his loving wife, heather, supported him during his career and to grant full care of him during his long illness. may god bless you, heather, and the entire foley family. [applause] >> good afternoon. i'm jim mcdermott, a house member from washington's seventh , mostly seattle. i knew tom foley for more than 40 years and throughout that time, he was a wonderful friend and a sage mentor. in 1971 when i was a freshman state legislator, he took me out to dinner in seattle and suggested i would run for congress. i was pleased for his regard of my career, but i knew better since i was a freshman legislator so i rejected it and ran for governor. i got creamed. [laughter] tom never said a word. i return to the legislature determined to learn as much as i could about the realities of governing effectively and the challenges of legislating well. when i finally ran for congress, he was majority leader of the house. as i arrived for his first term in 1989, tom was about to become speaker. i know now that he was about to become the last speaker of the whole house. he believed that the speaker was th

. >> reporter: cheney's sister mary wedded her long-time partner, heather poe, in 2012 and they have two children. >> i love other family very much, this is just an issue on which we disagree. >> reporter: within hours, mary fired back on facebook. her wife weighed in too, writing: her wife in oo, >> reporter: dick cheney has supported same-sex marriage for nearly a decade but in a statement today, he and his wife lynne also voiced support for their oldest daughter's position saying: oldest daughte n sa >> reporter: this statement was aimed directly at wyoming where liz cheney is trying to run to the right of an already conservative incumbent senator, scott, named mike enzi. >> pelley: nancy cordes in washington for us tonight. nancy, thank you very much. stock prices hit new milestones today. the dow traded above 16,000 for the first time ever. it closed at 15,976 but that was still a gain of 14 points on the day and the 39th record close this year. we were there when help finally arrived in a town cut off by the typhoon. why did police shoot at a minivan filled with children? and t

his loving wife heather supported him throughout his career and took wonderful care of him during his long. heather, and you, the entire foley family. [applause] >> good afternoon. i am a housermott, member from washington's seventh congressional district which is mostly seattle. i knew tom foley for more than 40 years and throughout that time he was a wonderful friend and a sage mentor. 1971 when i was a freshman state legislator, he took me out to dinner in seattle and suggested i run for congress. i was pleased by his regard for my career, but i knew better since i was a freshman legislator. so i rejected it and ran for governor. i got creamed. [laughter] tom never said a word. to thisd, i return legislature and learn as much as i could about the reality of governing effectively in the challenges of legislating well. my family ran for congress in 1988, tom was majority leader of the house. as i arrived for his first term in 1989, tom was about to become speaker. i know now that he was about to become the last speaker of the whole house. he believed that the speaker was a speaker for the

. >> obviously, your other daughter, mary, married her long time partner heather last year. i assume that liz, you, the whole family was there in]% support. i know you were for many years to the left of president obama when it came to some of these issues. is that going to be an awkward christmas table conversation? >> well, i he -- my position on that issue is well-known. 2000, the debate with joe lieberman, it hasn't changed. and i'll let my daughters speak for themselves. >> and boy, are they. joining me now is chief political analyst gloria borger. thanks for being here. this isn't a new issue for the cheneys, but the tension between the sisters is. >> well, that's right. and what kind of surprise me just covering politics as i do is that this is an issue they didn't figure out a way to deal with before the campaign. running in the state of wyoming and being against gay marriage in the state of wyoming is not going to hurt you when you're running as a conservative republican. so everybody knew that that was the position she was going to take. she says it should be left

heather: one of the longest lines is the line you go to if you need help. there's this long line. >> yeah. so how you engage and how retailers engage with consumers is changing a lot, and i would advise consumers to really follow the retailers that they like because retailers are becoming very conscious of those consumers that like those brands, and they'll give out loyalty rewards and a lot of different things, initiatives to make sure those people are loyal and continue spending. it's all about a different way of engagement. of course, the mall is going nowhere. the mall is here to stay. [laughter] retailers are trying to get people into the physical stores, but how do you blend technology with all of these apps and that kind of instant and realtime communication? heather: 80% of people saying they shop online. >> for sure. 80% of us will be buying presents directly from our beds in our pajamas -- heather: that is the best way to shop, for sure. >> the easiest. especially with this weather. heather: so just in terms of overall app, if you were supposed to download one app, what

heather? >> reporter: interest this is disappointing to say the least. after two strikes, a cooling off, and months longgotiations a tentative agreement was reached last month. now, what the bart director calls a clerical error threatens to derail the deal the error has to do with a revision for fmla, federal federal family leave act, it was signed by all parties, and agreed to, put in the tentative deal. but bart would have to pay for the first six weeks of fmla, which would be expensive, as opposed to the old contract, requiring employees to use sick and vacation time first. sources say employees asked unions to withdraw it. he thinks union leadership is now quote between a rock and a hard place. he says, quote, until this nd hand grenade had gone off, they planned to vote a week from today, they plan to vote then, but with a special meeting called for tomorrow afternoon, hopefully to, r

his loving wife, heather, supported him during his career and to grant full care of him during his longllness. may god bless you, heather, and the entire foley family. [applause] >> good afternoon. i'm jim mcdermott, a house member from washington's seventh , mostly seattle. i knew tom foley for more than 40 years and throughout that time, he was a wonderful friend and a sage mentor. in 1971 when i was a freshman state legislator, he took me out to dinner in seattle and suggested i would run for congress. i was pleased for his regard of my career, but i knew better since i was a freshman legislator so i rejected it and ran for governor. i got creamed. [laughter] tom never said a word. i return to the legislature determined to learn as much as i could about the realities of governing effectively and the challenges of legislating well. when i finally ran for congress, he was majority leader of the house. as i arrived for his first term in 1989, tom was about to become speaker. i know now that he was about to become the last speaker of the whole house. he believed that the speaker was the

heather? >> reporter: interest this is disappointing to say the least. after two strikes, a cooling off, and months long torturus negotiations a tentative agreement was reached last month. now, what the bart director calls a clerical error threatens to derail the deal the error has to do with a revision for fmla, federal federal family leave act, it was signed by all parties, and agreed to, put in the tentative deal. but bart would have to pay for the first six weeks of fmla, which would be expensive, as opposed to the old contract, requiring employees to use sick and vacation time first. sources say employees asked unions to withdraw it. he thinks union leadership is now quote between a rock and a hard place. he says, quote, until this nd hand grenade had gone off, they planned to vote a week from today, they plan to vote then, but with a special meeting called for tomorrow afternoon, hopefully to, resolve this in some way, and head off a possible holiday strike, which could create the same traffic who are -- ors. he says the public expects them to resolve this as quickly as possible. this afternoon we

i think this feels to me like it has been long simmering as this campaign has rolled on. mary and heather history of very conservative republicans who have same-sex relationships that they are around, that they have -- they've all done the issue. rob portman is one of them. vice president cheney is another. liz had plenty of very conservative people to look at in terms of bridging what may have been a prior belief. >> i would have to think, just looking at this story as it's played out over the past couple of days, that liz cheney's biggest liability in running for the united states senate in a republican party is the fact she is not from wyoming and just proved it with this. she is a captain of the conservative tea party washington mentality. i would doubt seriously whether gay marriage is on if radar in wyoming in terms of issues that affect people, that people are interested in. and the fact that she has raised it, at least to me, in my intimate knowledge of wyoming politics and life in wyoming, i just don't think it's on people's screens out there. >> i think liz may be on the right s

heather were married last year. >> lynn and i were very proud and happy and congratulated them. they've been a very important part of the family for a long time, provided us with two of our seven grandkids. >> you're proud? >> absolutely. >> reporter: in a statement the former vice-president and his wife said, "this is an issue we have dealt with privately for many years and we are pained to see it become public." jonathan karl, abc news, washington. >>> tonight george zimmerman is back in the headlines and back behind bars. today he was arrested after police were called to his girlfriend's home, the newest round of legal trouble for the man acquitted of killing trayvon martin. abc's steve osunsami tells us what happened this time. >> reporter: another day, another mug shot for george zimmerman. tonight he's in jail again, arrested for what police say was domestic violence, allegedly assaulting his current girlfriend who called 911. >> what's going on? >> he's in my house breaking all my [ mute ] because i asked him to leave. >> she alleged that he had broken a table and at one point pointed a long-barrelled shotgun. >> reporter: she sai

heather, what about when you get to the gate? then it gets ugly when the line is longdedicated to gate fights. but is it just like having any other fight or more serious? >> it can certainly be more serious. there's always people nearby who can enforce a problem. and you catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar. not only are you more likely to get favors and get seated where you want to be seated but you may run the risk to being kicked off. >> if they just don't like your tone, you can be done for? >> yes. because -- >> 'that's on the plane. i'm talking about before you get there. >> but if they see that coming in, they can tell you that you that you can't get on the plane. you need to watch yourself and understand that everybody's tempers are high. >> here is the next step. we've all seen it. we've seen flight attendants that we can't stand and passengers that we can't stand because of the way they behave. but you don't want to be one of them. >> and for the record i love all of you flight attendants you do a great job. but look you have to be good to the

long shotgun or rifle. >>> what does a bullying look like? tonight, allegations of bullying are rocking the nfl. and heather holmes with the latest now on the former stanford player who left his nfl team after being harassed by his own teammate. >> jonathan martin, a 2nd round pick from stanford walked away from the miami dolphins after harassment, and now a teammate has been suspended from the team. >> reporter: creating a football culture free of hazing has been a priority for alameda high head coach, kent moyer. >> we teach respect. we expect that guys will be respectful. >> reporter: respect was apparently not what miami dolphins player jonathan martin was receiving from his teammate, representatives for the offensive tackle told team officials he has been bullied and taunted, and the harassment has gone beyond what sometimes occurs in nfl locker rooms. >> we immediately took those concerns very, very seriously. >> reporter: last night, the team suspended indefinitely, the player who appears to be the main culprit, richie incognito. >> there's absolutely no tolerance for here. >> reporter: the stanford

long folks wanting the first new console since 2005. it can track your movement, it can even respond to vocal commands. heather, ainsley, go.hat's my vocal command. >> thank you so much lauren. happy friday to you. >> you, too. >>> it is time to brew on this. it was the oldest story in the book, my dog ate my homework. the true story for payton moody and her dog ridge gee. >> the lab got a hold of moody's candy covered volcano project which was made with more than 50 straight pins. they rushed reggie to the vet to undergo emergency surgery. >> i redid the project but i told them my dog ate my homework and showed him the x-ray. >> still managed to get an a on that project. >> what is your best excuse for getting out of something. send us your comments on twitter, facebook or e-mail us at foxfriendsfirst@foxnews.com. we will read them later in the show. >> all for the best. they are so resilient. bagging h -- wagging his tail a happy. >> words are more powerful than a weapon. wh what he said to stop the would be robber. oo >> new information about a pilot killed in a crash at the airport. it went unnoticed for hours. the pilo

long shotgun or rifle. >>> what does a bullying look like? tonight, allegations of bullying are rocking the nfl. and heather holmes with the latest now on the former stanford player who left his nfl team after being harassed by his own teammate. >> jonathan martin, a 2nd round pick from stanford walked away from the miami dolphins after harassment, and now a teammate has been suspended from the team. >> reporter: creating a football culture free of hazing has been a priority for alameda high head coach, kent moyer. >> we teach respect. we expect that guys will be respectful. >> reporter: respect was apparently not what miami dolphins player jonathan martin was receiving from his teammate, representatives for the offensive tackle told team officials he has been bullied and taunted, and the harassment has gone beyond what sometimes occurs in nfl locker rooms. >> we immediately took those concerns very, very seriously. >> reporter: last night, the team suspended indefinitely, the player who appears to be the main culprit, richie incognito. >> there's absolutely no tolerance for here. >> reporter: the stanford

from the long term we see equities at a better value. buyers here. >> jim lowell, i know how heather feems. we talked to her in the last hour. i'll wait for her for last. jim, what about you? >> i think the reality is we don't buy market averages. there's certainly a lot of opportunity when the fed is being as generous as it is here at home. also the global fed. we're looking inside the eurozone or across the waters to japan, we see a lot of easing. basically em boldening the consumer. for consumer driven economies we think there's still room to run. >> heather, how do you want to invest at this moment? >> yeah, again, i mean, investors are lured with markets at all time high. s. they continue -- the plow horse economy continues along. we're seeing investments, more money flows in the stock markets. the most in 13 years right now. you're seeing the barclays aggregate bond index through yesterday down 1.4% year to date. barclays ag is really a measure we look at in the mutual fund world to gauge if your fixed income is under or outperforming the broader markets there. investors really

long night of work. now an east bay man is lucky to be alive after a hit-and-run driver sent him to the hospital. heather holmes is line in oakland, with the surveillance video that could help the investigators catch the driver. >> he or she may still be out there, but the crash itself was caught on camera. i'm told police here have taken a look at this video, and now the victim and his friends want you to take a look too. he went out to see his friend helpless in the street. it was around 2:00 sunday morning. 32-year-old brian mendoza was leaving shadow ultra lounge, where he works as a bartender. security video shows him crossing 13th street, watch as a dark colored suv barrels down the street and slams right into him. the driver appears to brake for a second, and then takes off. mendoza was rushed to highland hospital. >> i never experienced so much pain. >> reporter: he's at home now recovering. >> they stuck a rod inside of my femur. i remember seeing glass flying in front of my eyes. >> reporter: a second camera saw the driver approaching 14th street. you can see the driver taking it fast and wide.

long night of work. now an east bay man is lucky to be alive after a hit-and-run driver sent him to the hospital. heather holmes is line in oakland, with the surveillance video that could help the investigators catch the driver. >> he or she may still be out there, but the crash itself was caught on camera. i'm told police here have taken a look at this video, and now the victim and his friends want you to take a look too. he went out to see his friend helpless in the street. it was around 2:00 sunday morning. 32-year-old brian mendoza was leaving shadow ultra lounge, where he works as a bartender. security video shows him crossing 13th street, watch as a dark colored suv barrels down the street and slams right into him. the driver appears to brake for a second, and then takes off. mendoza was rushed to highland hospital. >> i never experienced so much pain. >> reporter: he's at home now recovering. >> they stuck a rod inside of my femur. i remember seeing glass flying in front of my eyes. >> reporter: a second camera saw the driver approaching 14th street. you can see the driver taking it fast and wide.

heather mcgee, and columnist, sally kohn. thank you for joining us. good evening, rachel. >>> thanks to my friends for joining us this hour, as well. for a hot minute in the commonwealth of virginia, not long the civil war there was a political party called the readjuster party. the democratic party, which was conservative and racist, at the time had been the dominant force in virginia politics for a long time. they were always opposite the republican party or the whig party, depending on the year. but at the other moment, the party challenging the democrats and in fact winning the governorship of virginia, it was not the whigs or the democrats, it was the re-adjuster. i bet there was a thesis of the lost re-adjuster party. i bet i could just google it. he made history, not just because his strange, now forgotten party won that high office. he made history because his time

long as you're not lowering your guidance, you're okay right now. quite a day. quite a lesson from janet yellen. slow monotonic voice. >> joining me now, heather hughes from sunamerica funds. dick burr ij. zachary carabel from river twice research. our own mandy drurry. good to see everybody. mandy, let me kick this off with you. gold climbing today on the heels of the yellen commentary. what was your take? >> gold liked what yellen had to say. basically as bob was saying it's going to be qe continued. still too early to pull the plug. all of those comments put together was making a good day for gold. you mo whknow what, maria? gold has had a pretty tough year. also you had today the world gold council coming out and saying demand is around four year lows. it cut its gold forecast for india. really big consumer of the yellow stuff. and yet all despite that gold latching on to what yellen had to say. i would put this out, maria. if indeed equities also feel that yellen's commentary, and hopefully it stands going forward, if equities also feel that's positive for them, that could also be bearish for gold, right? gold in the past has been sort of

heather mcgee, and columnist, sally kohn. thank you for joining us. good evening, rachel. >>> thanks to my friends for joining us this hour, as well. for a hot minute in the commonwealth of virginia, not long after the civil war there was a political party called the readjuster party. the democratic party, which was conservative and racist, at the time had been the dominant force in virginia politics for a long time. they were always opposite the republican party or the whig party, depending on the year. but at the other moment, the party challenging the democrats and in fact winning the governorship of virginia, it was not the whigs or the democrats, it was the re-adjuster. i bet there was a thesis of the lost re-adjuster party. i bet i could just google it. he made history, not just because his strange, now forgotten party won that high office. he made history because his time in the state house, his time of governor of virginia in the 1880s, that was the last time that any party in virginia was only able to hold the governorship for one term. before last night, no party in virginia had been turfed out of the governorship after only one term in office since 1995. just in terms of politic

heather nauert has breaking news. >> hey there. good morning. we've been telling you about this story all morning longate for you. it has been stuck there overnight because the runway is too short for it to take off. so boeing is now saying it has a fix for the problem. a tug has turned around the plane. it's now at the end of the runway and they say it will be able to take off in about five hours. they're just waiting for a new crew. the plane was supposed to land at mcconnell air force base, but landed in wichita instead. no one is saying how this happened or what the actual fix is just yet. we're getting great responses from you. >>> and then another airline story to tell you about. terrifying moments in florida. an emergency slide inflates in the middle of a flight inside the cabin. it knocked over a flight attendant on a flight from fort myers to boston. >> just seemed all of a sudden, there was a big noise and then it blew up like, you know. it was scary, a little scary at first. >> we were all startled. >> the flight attendant that it hit is okay. the plane was able to make an emergency landing

heather were married last year. >> lynn and i were proud and happy and congratulated them. they have been an important part of the family for a long with two of our seven grandkids. >> reporter: and you're proud of them? >> absolutely. >> reporter: in a statement, former vice president and his lynn said, "this is an issue we have dealt with privately for many years and we are pained to see it become public." jonathan karl, abc news, washington. >>> now to two health headlines this morning. do 1/3 of us really need to take medication to lower cholesterol? experts disagree on this. two medical groups released new guidelines recently recommending 1/3 of all adults over the age of 40 stake statins but prominent cardiologists say it is overkill. even so, critics admit that the new guidelines are a big improvement over the old criteria. >>> moving to birth control. researchers are warning taking the pill may increase your chances of eye disease or blindness. experts say women who have used oral contraceptives for three years or more are twice as likely to suffer from glaucoma. however, the overall risk of glaucoma is fairly low for most

heather poe, even more direct. when mary and i got married in 2012, she didn't hesitate to tell us how happy she was for us. former vice president dick cheney has long been supportive. >> people should feel free to enter into whatever kind of relationship they want to. it's really no one else's business. >> reporter: now, dick cheney and his wife weighing in. one thing should be clear. liz has always believed in the traditional definition of marriage. she has also always treated her sister and her sister's family with love and respect. public opinion is changing. 58% of americans now support gay marriage. last year, cheney told abc news' jonathan karl he was proud of mary and his new daughter-in-law. >> they've been an important part of the family for a long time. provided us with two of our seven grandkids. >> reporter: but in wyoming, where liz cheney is challenging a conservative senator, she's making her position clear, creating a deep family rift. for abc news, jeff zeleny, abc news, washington. >>> now to the latest for toronto's wild mayor. rob ford, stripped of all of his powers after that crack-cocaine scandal. but still refusing to step do

long as chris is there, i'm watching. >> i like the anticipation. we know chris is there. that's the best. thanks, chris. and heather-new 911 calls just leased from the day a school bus was hijacked. remember this story with 11 children on board? this happened in jacksonville, arkansas. one of the moms describes what happened at that bus stop. listen. >> he has knife. and he just got on the bus and the bus driver looked at me and i started calling 911. >> now that bus driver is speaking out about how she handled getting those kids safely off the bus. >> he said, how do you open this door? i said that green light right there. and when he went to punch the button, i grabbed the babies and said let's go. >> let's go. that's for sure. 22-year-old nicholas miller led police on a chase for nearly ten miles. he is now facing a long list of charges, including 12 counts of kidnapping. >>> a warning for parents out there. 600 baby monitors are being recalled after two children died. they were tangled in the cords of these baby monitors. the recall affects angel care movement and sound monitors with the sensor pads. and here i

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long did they play together? >> maybe two. >> are they good friends? >> yeah. that's a real friend to tell to you fire the hair before it quits on you. >> heather nauert is a friendspy today. in 1978, this was a new cough drop. it must have been in her back pocket during the disco time. you can't get the paper off. >> just start sucking on it, it will come off. >> she's helping me out. she emptied her pocketbook. >> say thank you, heather. >> i can't get it off. >> you have to put it in your mouth. >> she's a typical good mom. she's got one of everything in her purse. she would be a great contestant on "let's make a deal." monty hall would say, do you have a lemon? >> right. but monty hall isn't on this show. >> we thank you very much for joining us on this wednesday after tuesday, election day. the dust is settling this morning after elections across the country. but some of the results are raising some eyebrows. >> that's right. elizabeth prann live in washington with some updates. >> good morning. let's start closest to you with the election results in the big apple. nobody was one of three major cities electing mayors last night. deblagio is the first democra

heather nauert, you have headlines for us. >> brian, i know why he didn't ask you to do the math. he knew how tired you were. you were here working all night longmised to clean the offices. i had a chance to do lou dobbs' show last night. >> and the book. busy with that. awesome. got headlines to bring you. we begin right now with an extreme weather alert. one of the most powerful storms ever recorded is slamming the philippines at this hour. forecasters are warning of potential catastrophic damage. pacific storm haiyan is classified as a super typhoon. winds approaching -- listen to this -- 200 miles per hour. at least four people are dead that we know of and 720,000 of them had to be evacuated. some of them are already living in makeshift shelters because there was a massive earthquake there last month. trees are down, power's out and there's widespread flooding in the hardest hit areas. we will keep watching this throughout morning. >> a couple in new jersey lucky to be alive this morning after their home exploded. take a look at this video. their house was completely blown to pieces. neighbors heard a blast and rushed in to save that family