ray is original from iran and moved to the states on his 31 years old after serving in the iranian navyn jumped ship and came ashore to america. >> is now looking ahead to his birthday, that is a look at one party from 2016. his next one, it will be in 16 years for his 100th birthday. >> my birthdays going to be really crazy. we will have 100 dancing naked. >> i can't say i will be in attendance, how about you? tweet me her thoughts. >> goodbye. >> bill, are you afraid of heights? this bridge in brooklyn is not for the faint of heart. this is the world's longest suspension foot bridge. over 1600 feet long and it is 270 feet above the ravine. i would not walk on that thing if it was 2 feet on the ground. >> check out the video firefighters in colorado with a swift rescue monday night. there were storms causing flooding and the fire team was able to rescue the passenger and her dog from the car before anyone was hurt. >> another great night of chasing news. thanks for watching. the countdown to governor pro-tip: chop all your veggies for the week at once. super pro-tip: buy your veggies p

an iranian drone 100 feet of a u.s. navy fight jet, what in the world 1/navy putting up with. >> we had a number of aggressive moves by the iranians since we agreed to have a nuclear agreement with them in july of 2015. they hav two drones in southeast corner of syria. they ran a 12 person -- vehicle convoy down there all those we had to destroy. iranian aggressiveness is clearly on display. likely we have an incident here, we'll have to go in and take down the base from which those drones are coming from. take down that capability. we cannot tolerate this nonsense of endangering our pilots to this degree. lou: and endangering all of thousands of our sailors' lives aboard the aircraft carrier, these games, i can't understand why u.s. navy thinks it should tolerate this, what the benefit is, and why there should not be an abjec lesson for the iranians once they would begin to think about threatening u.s. naval power. >> yeah, i mean, i agree with your conclusion. i think if i was the pacific cam command oer i would look back

a fox news alert from fox news global headquarters in new york, and unarmed iranian drone nearly colliding with the u.s. navyrsian gulf. >> jon: that drone coming within 100 feet of the f-18 super hornet as it was in a holding pattern. defense officials are now responding, calling the incident "unprofessional and dangerous." we will have more on this developing story, we are covering all the news happening now. two year since the u.s. fight against isis began. how much progress have we made? also, lawmakers may be on vacation now but

the navy reports this is the 13th unsafe or unprofessional interaction between the u.s. and iraniant this year. president trump holding a briefing on a major drug crisis that is crippling parts of the country. a crisis public health officials say kills dozens of malcolm jenkins every day. a live report on the opioid epidemic ahead. but, first, meteorologist adam klotz with an extreme weather alert. adam? dam dam we are tracking franklin over the yucatan peninsula. over night it's going to get back over the gulf of mexico. pick up steam. this could be first atlantic hurricane of the year. winds intensifying getting up to 70 miles per hour before ramming back into the shore of mexico. not a u.s. threat with this particular storm but a big threat nonetheless. currently under tropical storm warnings all along the coast. those could be hurricane warnings. those are hurricane watches right now as we are waiting to see if this thing is going to strengthen enough to become that very first hurricane. you notice in our future forecast you can pay attention to it as it runs off the coast. it r

a fox news alert from fox news global headquarters in new york, and unarmed iranian drone nearly colliding with the u.s. navy fighter jet over the persian gulf. >> jon: that drone coming within 100 feet of the f-18 super hornet as it was in a holding pattern. defense officials are now responding, calling the incident "unprofessional and dangerous." we will have more on this developing story, we are covering all the news happening now. two year since the u.s. fight against isis began. how much progress have we made? also, lawmakers may be on vacation now but can they avoid a government shutdown once i get back to work? plus, taking steps to prevent concussions among young athletes. it's all happening now. we begin with this fox news alert, president trump getting ready to lead all round table on the opioid crisis in this country, about two hours from now. it comes out some of the new polls are shedding light on the president's job approval rating. hello and welcome to the second hour of "happening now," i'm jon scott. >> melissa: >> melissa: i melis. the president spending a week on a working vacation at his

here's what's happening at this hour an iranian drone came within 100 feet of a u.s. navyne, as it prepared to land on an aircraft carrier in the gulf a u.s. official said the plane had to maneuver to avoid the drone and described the interaction as unsafe and unprofessional >>> secretary of state rex tillerson meeting with malaysia's prime minister on his last scheduled stop on his southeast asian tour malaysia's relations with the u.s. have warmed since the prime minister took office in 2009 and that followed decades of mistrust between it will tthe t countries. >>> sergeant bowe bergdahl arrived a to the the courthouse in ft. bragg for a legal motions hearing. he's charged with desertion and misbehavior and he could face life imprisonment if convicted he was held captive by the taliban for five years >>> netflix announcing it has signed david letterman to a six-episode tv talk series in each hour-long episode, letterman will conduct a long-form conversation with a single guest it is set to premiere in 2018. that's the news update at this hour now to brian sullivan with

iranians now. athens belt a fleet, the first professional navy. their navy people were professional. other guys were soldiers who rode and if you're a professional you can do a little bit better than a pickup game. so they produced the pretty impressive navy and then created an alliance structure. together athens and sparta then defeated the persians, who wherepon there was something that happened, few other times in history. this explosion of creative energy in athens, just unbelievable. so, what did the athenins -- i came from an event that in silicon valley with people in the tech world. said, you think you're reinventing the world. what did these guys invent in 50 years? they invented drama, history, philosophy. plato, socrates, aristotle. democracy. architecture emthe parthenon. you can find a better building in california? excuse me. this is -- so, from sparta, people looking and saying these people are totally out of control. every day they get up and they end vent crazy new things that don't seem very comfortable to us. sparta was a marshal society, essentially -- imagine sea

the navy is confirming a close call between a fighter jet and iranian drone.e within 100 feet of our f-18 super hornet patrolling the international waters in the abeian golf gulf. they did issue a warning to the iranians. that does it on this breaking news day. i'm harris. here is jon scott in for shep. ♪ ♪ >> jon: this could change everything. "the washington post now reporting north korea has produced a nuclear war head small enough to fit on its missiles. we already know the country's military has missiles that can fly. thousands of miles. ahead, we'll look at how real the threat is to all of us. plus, an average of nearly 100 americans die each day from opioids. today president trump facing the crisis head on, taking part in a briefing about how to stop an epidemic that is taking far too many lives. that's coming up. ♪ ♪ i'm jon scott in for shepard smith. we begin with breaking news on north korea's nuclear program. "the washington post reports dictator kim jong un

iranian lawmakers chants "death to america" as they vote to raise military spending to boost their ballistic missile program. all of this coming as iran sends another drone close to a u.s. navyraft carrier on the persian gulf. you all this up, guess what? all the more reason that we cannot trust iran in this nuclear deal. as you see what happens in north korea, you can see the same thing playing out in iran. >> you can. you can compare president clinton's speech with president obama's speech. when clinton gave the speech on north korea's program and president obama gave the speech on iran's program, you heard the same language. this will keep north korea from becoming a nuclear power. same thing president obama said. now look what iran is doing, increasing ballistic missile technology and what they're doing with the revolutionary guard corps. look at iran and say will they be north korea in a couple years. >> trish: seems possible. you add in islamic extremism there and it's that much more challenging, mike. >> yeah, they're emboldened. iran has invited russia into the syrian campaign further destabilizi destabilizi destabilizing iraq and yemen. now increasing the money for

covered the problems with some of the pacific fleet in the navy more recently, but are we ready militarily? >> yeah, but the chinese, russians, iranians, people that watch our capability know that our military capability has been significantly degraded because we have been investing for a number of years and it'll take us a number of years to get out of the hole as well. we still have significant capability but it is not what it used to be. dagen: that falls on congress too in increased defense spending and defense funding which the president wants to do. general, i want to move back here at home with texas grappling with the devastating floods along the gulf coast particularly in houston. we found out a short while ago there are two critical reservoirs near downtown houser, barcer and addix, will spill out, more flooding in the surrounding subdivisions, surrounding areas, the governor of texas took to dramatic measure to help with the rescue efforts, let's listen to this. >> i authorized the deployment of all of the texas national guard to address the challenges that texans are facing all the way from corpus christi to houston texas.

navy spy plane drawing ire in capitol hill. >> we had aggressive activity from the chinese, now the russians and iranians. around the world. >> two chinese warships shadowing a u.s. destroyer assisted in the search that ended today. >> shannon: lucas is live at the pentagon. thank you. >> leland: senators introducing a bill to protect robert mueller from being fired. up next details on how that could work as we await the attorney general on how he plans to put leakers on lockdown. helps block 6 key inflammatory substances with a gentle mist. most allergy pills only block one. and 6 is greater than one. flonase sensimist. ♪ what are all these different topped & loaded meals? it's an american favorite on top of an american favorite, alice. it's like rodeos on top of rollercoasters. get your favorites on top of your favorites. only at applebee's. >> shannon: major announcement just minutes away. attorney general jeff sessions will walk us through his latest efforts to plug intelligence leaks and to talk about prosecuting leakers. tom despres junior is a former assistant attorney general and kind enough to jo