. >> both concerns are being echoed by a major manufacturer in huntsville, alabama where we find brian sullivan tonight. >> at the polaris factory in huntsville, alabama production lines are humsing a the r offd vehicle assembly continues. but there is concern a trade war and tariffs could slow things down. because even if a compa like polaris wanted to source everything from american companies it likely can't. some of the steel and aluminum parts going into each of these have to be sourced overseas. they simply aren't made here. and if those parts come from china, then the tariffs add 10% osts. ceo scott wine says the combination of the two tariffs and domestic price increases haves made thi more expensive and he is worried about the impact on sales. >>e resource most components here in north america and here in the united states we do buy a reasonable amount from china. and there isno a 10%, going to 25% german on all the goods from china. driving up the cost of vehicles and ultimately over time as our prices go up reducing demand. >ny of these rangers and other polaris products are

trade-offs is this week's cover story. >> reporter: at the polaris manufacturing facility here in huntsville, alabama, assembly lines are humming as production of its ranger off-road vehicles continues nearly nonstop but as good as things are now, there are concerns that a trade war and tariffs could slow things down. because even if a company like polaris wanted to source everything from american companies, it likely can't some of the steel and aluminum parts that go into each of these has to be sourced overseas they simply aren't made here and if those parts come from china, well, the tariffs add at least another 10% to their costs. ceo scott wine says that the combination of the two tariffs and domestic price increases have made things more expensive, and he's worried about the impact on sales. o buy a reasonable amount from china, and there is a 10%, now, going to 25% january 1st, tariff on all the goods that we import from china, and that's driving up the cost of our vehicles, and ultimately, over time, as our prices go up, reducing demand. >> reporter: any of these rangers and polaris

. >> kurt yeager is the fbi chief explosive scientists come the closest analytical center in huntsville, alabama, with unprecedented access to the fbi lab, fox news obtained exclusive evidence photos including the 2001 device worden by richard reid. >> the shoe bomb was a game changer which is why we take shoes off airports. when you cut it open you have the explosive stuffed in the actual waffle. >> reporter: alice eisenberg who oversees the fbi lab analyzed the shoe bomb 17 years ago. >> that told us that device was built by someone other than richard reid. >> reporter: the field to light the detonator, the fbi changed the explosive potential. >> we took a sheet of aluminum, the exact amount of explosives on that, detonated it. >> reporter: yeager explained forensics on the al qaeda influenced boston marathon bombing. >> a pressure cooker, these little thin things are small nails increasing potential to be lethal. >> the warehouse is home to 1 million pieces of bomb evidence. it is like a historical archive allowing investigators to identify trends and pursue criminal prosecution. >>

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we are here in huntsville, alabama. green, maybe use it as a golf cart instead, what would the reaction be? would they -- >> we're still looking -- andrew and i have been looking for a vehicle with a side car, right >> well, we've been debating who would sit in the side car. >> we don't know >> you and andrew -- >> now, wait a minute. >> you and andrew, how about this you and andrew go for a little -- >> you can't do the -- you didn't even know what one down and five up was. >> no, i don't >> so i'm driving. i'm driving. scott's like, get me out of here. >> by the way, these are only made -- joe, you'll love it. these are only made in sticks. only a manual. there is no automatic. >> that's what i mean. so i'm driving so andrew's in the side car with one of those -- >> that's pretty cool. >> -- the helmet. >> with the scarf. >> yeah. >> okay. all right. brian, i like that tell scott i'm disappointed because i want to fly, but the side car might do it anyway good job, brian. those are a lot of tariffy questions though i w

>> huntsville, alabama technically madison, alabama at the polaris factory where all the rangers andots are made we will dispel some myths out there. why an american vehicle made by americans in america sold to americans with 80% to 90% american parts can still be impact by edtariffs. that's coming up next on "worldwide exchange. at t. rowe price our experts go beyond the numbers to examine investment opportunities firsthand. like e-commerce spurring cardboard demand. the pursuit of allergy-free peanuts. and mobile payment reaching new markets. this is strategic investing. because your investments deserve the full story. t.rowe price. invest with confidence. comfort. what we deliver by delivering. ♪ ♪ my ambition? helping people get what they want, understanding we're not in this alone, and teaching my kids that no ambition's out of reach. ambitions live everywhere. synchrony helps make them happen with data, insights, financing and technologies. ♪ ♪ synchrony. what are you working forward to? >>> welcome back to "worldwide exchange." >>> jack ma says don't expect the trade war with

. >> jon stewart is director of the hazardous devices school in huntsville, alabama. >> there's 2900t us across america and they all come here for their initial training. >> what does it take to be a bomb to? >> it takes a drive, the desire to want to help people, you have to have some mechanical skills. >> our team saw firsthand how bomb techs learned to handle the shock waves and operate extreme conditions and pressure. >> we take them to a position where they cannot successfully navigate their way through an ied call. >> bomb techs embedded with s.w.a.t. teams after the boston marathon. fox news went inside the training. >> this is from a top-tier threat, you've got a hostage and a live device and something called a dead man switch. >> it's obviously the riskiest procedure because all the procedures we do our manual and hands-on. it seems to make sense. >> fox camera stopped rolling to protect methods. the training is driven by foreign and domestic intelligence. >> we look at that threat stream, what types of explosives are being used -- that all comes to us. then we try to assess

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. >> john stewart is the director of the fbi hazardous devices school in huntsville, alabama. >> right900 that protect us across america, and they all come here for their initial training. >> what does it take to be a bomb tech? >> it takes a drive, a desire to want to help people. you have to have some mechanical skills. you have to be able to get thoughts from your brain to your hands. >> our fox news team saw first-hand how bomb techs learned to handle the shock weights and how to operate under extreme conditions and pressure. >> we take them from a police officer or firefighter with no background to a position where they can successfully navigate their way through a call. >> bomb techs embedded with s.w.a.t. teams after the brothers used pressure cooker bombs at the boston marathon and terrorist couple used bombs to kill in san bernardino california two years later. fox news went inside the training. >> you have a hostage and a live device and something called a dead man switch, if the hostage takes their thumb off the red button, it detonates. >> removing hostage devices is the ri

has what we already heard yesterday that the former chief of the domestic intelligence service huntsville mohsen is being removed from that post and is being moved to the interior ministry where the office the minister off the head of and martin will be a deputy minister there he will start as soon as the position of the domestic intelligence chief is refilled and he was praising masa in fact for his loyalty for his integrity and was having high hopes for him also joining his ministry so he was setting this as a promotion he did in fact and he was also giving information that they're now looking in the near future for a new position for the domestic intelligence chief but also that there will be a couple of concessions be made to put mohsen within the interior ministry we heard just now from chancellor merkel's junior coalition partners the s.p.d. saying that they would never have promoted mohsen but they did sign off on this decision so what's going on well this is in fact the big renovation that was just made at the conference was able because to bring mohsen into the interior ministry

you have over 1,000 men and women working at this plant in huntsville who rely on this to make a livingng the fact that they want to do the right thing, make it in america with american products even outside the tariff zone, there are still cost increases, guys, that they've got to deal with which means if you want to buy one of these, you have to deal with it as well. >> brian, does polaris get any benefit or have they seen any sales impact from the president railing against their competitor, harley davidson? >> reporter: not yet sales have been growing because they came off 0% market share because of a relatively new brand. no distinct increase yet because of that. polaris and scott wein are very aware of what happened to harley davidson they came out and made comments that the president didn't like and he kind of went after harley we know that saga. polaris is saying things are good, we're making things in america with americans with american-made parts but that does not exempt us from higher prices indirectly. call it a second tier or second derivitive they understand there will be

. >> reporter: the fbi, huntsville, alabama, catherine herridge, fox news.its military muscles. russia's defense ministry announcing the largest military drill since 1981 during the soviet era. china sending 3000 troops to participate with russian counterpart in the wargames, iran from baghdad after the conflict in basra was torched and ran to act last week. the us is blaming an attack on our diplomatic outpost in iraq, the trump administration warning will hold tehran responsible for any attacks which result in injuries to american personnel. panelists taking the street of barcelona to mark catalonia's national day, banking drums and calling for independence a year after a failed attempt to break away from spain. and bob way declaring a cholera emergency after 20 people died. the deaths have many fearing an outbreak the killed thousands at the height of the country of the economic problems in 2008. more on hurricane florence barreling towards the us. the fox news extreme weather center, an update and we are joined as the coastline prepares for impact. the n

huntsville beach, north carolina it came on short 21 hours ago. with us again, it was 21 hours ago and seems you are not even out of it, the rain is coming down. >> the rain is coming down, some wind, color radar apps. i was amazed that we were getting plenty of rain. i have been covering tropical storms and hurricanes for more than 30 years and this is the slowest moving storm i can remember and that is frustrating for residents especially those who heated the mandatory evacuations, they are anxious to find out if their homes have been damaged or if their businesses will require repairs but officials are worried about down power lines, debris in the road. they say it is not safe for people to come back to these barrier islands. it may be several days before people are able to check on their property. we have not been allowed to see most of the island. i say that is a disclaimer for what i am about to say, represents a small section of the island but from what little we have seen we are noticing some damaged awnings and roofing materials and sidin

with jamie dimon that whatever the impact is, there will be an impact, we talked about it from huntsvillealabama, industries will be hit. the overall economy is strong enough for now any way to withstand any kind of bump in taxes due to tariffs the tariff really is just a tax. >> i think wall street is already voting on that certainly this tariff discussion has been covered widely. for the market to be creeping up while rhetoric has been increasing shows what jamie dimon is saying is true. it's a relatively small percentage of the economy. it's nerve-racking it will trickle through in ways we don't know yet, but the bottom line it's a $20 trillion economy. we don't think it alone is enough to bring it down. we think trade and tariff troubles in concert with a rapidly rising fed or maybe an event we have not seen yet could be a formula >> i guess -- sorry to cut you off. we have breaking news coming up in a second. if i had to take the other side, you just kind of said in some ways the bearish case could be we don't know. we ultimately can say it won't matter, or it's only going to matter

huntsville, alabama. named after virgil i. grisham.he apollo 1 astronaut who died in apollo 1 in the accident. there was a student interning with my brother. his name is james braun. james, i'll give you a quick summary, 2,400 on his s.a.t. as a sophomore in high school. perfect grades in everything he ever did. he formed a cyber patriot team in the high school in alabama. won the national cyber patriot championship. was on "cbs this morning" with his group. and he got into m.i.t., early admission as a junior. so he was working for my brother as an intern. my brother said, you should talk to my brother. we got together when i was home one summer and sat down and talked and i said, so, james, you can write your own ticket wherever you want to go. what do you want to do with your life? and he said, sir, i want to do hardcore cyber. i said, you know, most places that's illegal. [ laughter ] he said, well, that's true. i said, you know, i know a place where we can make it legal. but you have to sign up. if you sign up, that means you got t

this is the juggernaut that despite what we talked about yesterday down in huntsville, still stocks do not respond negatively why not? >> it seems like it's the believability that something positive will come out of this, brian. that's been something since the beginning of this started and we talk about one of the catalysts each and every day ever since we got through the bulk of earnings has been looking at the tariffs the tariff talk and what are we going to do? when are we going to resolve this in the meantime take a look at what the industrials have been doing, absolute explosion. the financials moving up or very close to it. we talk about the nasdaq stocks, the f.a.n.g. stocks, are they the only thing moving? no, we talked about it being much broader and we're seeing the broader side of the market pushing higher >> which, anastasia, is odd. we've been talking about f.a.n.g., you're right we've talked small and mid caps because, hey, no exposure to trade. now companies that do have exposure to trade and to the u.s. dollar start to move as well >> what we got yesterday is not as bad

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in the upper midwest where things have been more difficult, there's a job for you in fphoenix or huntsvilleve the ability to get there. do you expect jobs to slow down simply because -- not because the economy is weakening but because we're running out of people >> that's not our forecast we would expect if there was drastic shortage you would see more pressure on wages, which is one thing employers could do is pay more, and they could go to competitors if one firm needs workers, they could hire them from competitors we expect there to be more upward pressure over time on wages if that shortage is the case >> seth, it's dominic here as we talk about the idea that maybe wages could go higher at one point what we have seen develop so far is this idea that the average work week is getting longer we're seeing -- the signs are there. we're working early hours now. you're working early morning >> not enough economists in the world. >> nbc universal, cnbc, comcast, they're all extracting more hours out of me and my colleagues is that something we can view as a positive sign that wage gains are the

. >> the fbi chief explosive scientist, that harris explosive device analytical center in huntsville, >> as a bomb examiner, your job is to take all those pieces and put together a coherent puzzle. to speak looks like a shoe bomb. >> with unprecedented access to the fbi lab, fox news obtained exclusive evidence of photos including the 2001 device worn by al qaeda terrorist richard reid. speak of the shoe bomb was a game changer because that is why we are taking our shoes off and airports. when you cut it open, you have the explosive stopped within the actual waffle. >> i perform dna analysis on my hair that was found inside the soul. >> alice, who now oversees the fbi lab, analyzed the shoe bomb 17 years ago. >> that told us that that device was built by someone other than richard reid. >> while he failed to like the detonator, the fbi team jody jury the exclusive potential. >> we took a sheet of aluminum, we took the re-creation with the explosion on it, that the needed. >> he explained that forensics on the al qaeda influenced 2013 boston marathon bombing. pressure cookers killed th

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the terrorist explosive device analytical center in huntsville, alabama. >> as a bomb examiner, youre all those pieces and put together a coherent puzzle. >> this looks like the shoe bomb. >> yes. >> with unprecedented access to the fbi lab fox news obtained exclusive evidence photos including the 2001 device worn by richard reid. >> the shoe bomb was a. >> when you cut it up and splay it you have the stuff smiled the waffle that you see right there. >> i performed d.n.a. analysis on the hair that was found inside the sole. >> alice eisenberg who now oversees the fbi labs analyzed the shoe bomb 17 years ago. >> that told us that that device was built by someone other than richard reid. >> while reid failed to light the detonator, the fbi team showed a jury the explosive potential. >> we took a sheet of aluminum, put the shoe, our recreation of the shoe with the exact amount of explosions on that detonated it to educate the court. >> jeager explained the forensics on the al qaeda influenced 2013 boston marathon bombing. pressure cookers killed three and injured several hundred. >> tha

eight years, we've been hosting a solar system competition, and the winning team to space camp in huntsville, alabama, and-- my question to you, sir, what is on the outreach program that should do in the community-- [inaudible] >> great question. so we're going through right now a year of education and we're using the international space station and down links from the international space station direct to classrooms all over the country, in fact, all over the world to get that next generation of student engaged in stem activities. and so they're doing on the international space station, i think they're averaging about one down link to a classroom a day. and in some cases they're doing two or more a day. so that's a very positive development. the other thing that we have that's tremendously advantageous is this amazing cadre of either retired astronauts or active astronauts that are not flying in the immediate future and we're deploying them to classrooms all over the country and getting them to engage students. but i think the one thing we can do more than anything else is accomplish that s

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longtime friend and today, a close colleague again, remarked a few weeks ago at the conference in huntsville that we will never hit a target we cannot see coming and that the chinese hypersonic threat in particular is one that, in today's world, we can't see coming until it is too late. that alone would cause me to want to go to space for a space sensor layer. i would add that if we wish to have our own hypersonic strike capability, and i think we do, that we have to know where the targets are. if the targets are mobile, i need to know not where they were yesterday or a week ago, i need to know where they are right now. i need to know where they are going to be 15 minutes from now or the best hypersonic strike capability in the world, which may be capable of offsetting what china can do, is of no value. i need to know where the targets are and where the threat is coming and win. those requirements alone, if it did nothing else for us, would drive me toward a space sensor layer. john rood, i don't concede that i have more expertise than you. we have different expertise. i would be strongly in

christian high school, huntsville, alabama. apollo one astronaut who died in the apollo accident.ere was a student and he was interning with my brother. his name is james braun. james, i will give you a quick summary. 2400 on his sat as a sophomore in high school. perfect grades and everything he ever did. he formed a cyber patriot team in high school in alabama. one the championship. was on cbs this morning with his group. and he got into mit early admission as a junior. so he was working for my brother as an intern and my brother said, you should talk to my brother. so we got together when i was home one summer and we sat down and talked. and i said, so james, you can write your own ticket. wherever you want to go. what do you want to do with your life? and he said, sir, i want to do hard-core cyber. i said you know, most places, that's illegal. [laughter] he said, well that's true. i said you know, i know a place where we can make it legal. but you have to sign up and if you sign up that means you've got to be all in. and james is a brilliant guy but he was a little concerned a

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we will go to huntsville. caller: can you here me? host: you are on, go ahead.aller: good morning, america. i do not have confidence in natural disasters and i am so tired of hearing about racism. it is really not racism, it is injustice. what is racist is the hurricane because they form off of the west coast of africa. host: we will leave it there. your level of confidence to handle natural disasters. just for a few more minutes before we change topics for the remainder of our program. sheldon, forest hills, new york. hi. sheldon in new york, hello? caller: i am here, can you hear me? host: you are on. caller: i do not have any confidence in this government. the government is led by an incompetent who is only interested in patting himself on the soldier. by the way -- shoulder. by the way, i think you ought to do a long essay -- host: before you go too far, when it comes to natural disasters, why do you think that way? caller: i am a historian. i can tell you the way the government failed puerto rico, it is appalling. i sent you people nsa after -- -- sent you

mercedes benz in huntsville, alabama. boeing in south carolina making airplanes. south carolina has become the tire capital of the world as far as producing tires in a state that has very little unionization but workers are going there they're enjoying the work environment, they're enjoying the quality of life in south carolina although it's a little humid from time to time. it is the right to work states as far as helping to create growth and opportunity. you really can't argue with the stats. ohio hopefully are doing well. we think they could do bet fer hey pass add right to work law. know half of all businesses are automatically kick out a state if it doesn't have a work -- right to work law. caller: good morning. i have a question. as far as the at-will state laws that are out there where you are fired at will, if you had these union people that are signing off of their protection they fall within the realm of the at-will states, they can be fired at-will. for no reason. that gave them no seat at the table. being in the union gives you a seat at the table. it

in 2008, three members of the air med 12 team were tragically lost in an accident outside of huntsville. since that loss, the air med 12 team has become involved in improving safety standards for all air medical support that includes increased weather minimums, the use of night vision goggles on every flight, and national collaboration amongst air medical providers. air med 12 has shaped more than just air medical support in the brazos valley. their group values, collaboration with the texas a&m college of medicine, school of rural public health, and nursing school have brought a high standard of health care across central texas and the brazos valley. the impact of air med 12 cannot be understated. in 2018 alone, they have transported 23 critical pediatric patients to specialty hospitals, administered 27 units of blood to patients either directly at the scene or at rural hospitals and in august, completed a record number of 48 flights in one month. mr. speaker, i would like to honor air med 12 and c.h.i. st. joseph's hospital for the work they have done to provide the brazos valley and