john huddy, fox news.>>> ahead of his trip to the united states, the pope touched down in cuba today.see how the faithful and based -- embraced his arrival.>>> the alleged arizona freeway shooter speaking out in court. the alibi he claims proves he is not the gunman. >>> and whether, the fog his absence from our forecast. -- is absent from our forecast. will cooler temperatures show up in the five day weather app? >>> law enforcement officials in arizona say they linked a man's gone to four of 11 shootings around freeways in phoenix. officers arrested leslie merritt last night. will car reports that merritt says police have the wrong man.>> reporter: we have learned a lot in a short amount of time about leslie allen merritt junior during his first court appearance. prosecutors say he is a threat to the community. he wore a black and white strike jumpsuit -- striped jumpsuit to court. he is nord -- ignored advice not to talk without consulting an attorney. >> all i have to say is that i am the wrong guy. i tried telling the detectives that. my gun has been in the pawnshop for the last

in jerusalem, john huddy, fox news. >>> back here at home, the defense in beau bergdahl's military its case. explaining where he left his post in 2009. they're wondering will he be sent to prison for life or walk away from the military? former pentagon spokesman on what he thinks will happen to bergdahl coming up next. >>> plus, a pair of twisters touching down in the midwest. incredible video caught by a storm chaseer. >>> time for a quick check of weather headlines. people in middleton, california, are being allowed to return home as evacuation orders are lifted for one of the areas hardest hit by a wildfire. it's about 48% contained. >>> a wildfire burning in the sierra nevada mountsens is 63% contained. the two fires killing five people and destroying more than 1100 homes. >>> a pair of tornadoes touching down in eastern kansas and western missouri, damaging several homes. storm chasers catching one twister on camera. only minor injuries were reported. >>> and mother nature put on a show in illinois. intense lightning illuminating the night sky. beautiful as severe weather hits par

arthel. >> john huddy i that. >>> meanwhile, what is vladimir putin up to again? the state department is watching russia with a lot of concern. this is putin makes those deals with iran, builds up his military presence in syria. is putin back on the march and what does that mean for us? >>> also a deadly accident at the mosque in mecca killing more than 100 people. what authorities are now saying caused this tragedy. >>> the white house says the deadline for congress to act on the iranian nuclear deal is just five days away. but republicans say no. they still have more time. there will be more votes on this this coming week. coming up, we'll have the very latest on this high stakes tug of war. >> the law clearly requires the administration to send to us all the agreements. they have not complied with the law which is another good argument for voting against the proposal. psfé iflike i love shrimp, red lobster's endless shrimp... ...is kind of a big deal. it's finally back, with as much shrimp as you want, any way you want 'em. one taste of these new pineapple haba

fox's john huddy is in jerusalem tonight. >> reporter: the commission is divided with how to deal with the crisis in europe as it continues to worsen. today there were rallies across europe including this one in london with tens of thousands of people supporting the refugees and migrants and it continued today. families packed into buses, including this man who pleaded for help. >> listen, these heads of families, there are many, many people, please do something germany, please. >> reporter: germany is expecting another 40,000 migrants over the weekend adding to the 450,000 from syria, iraq, afghanistan, and parts of north africa that have already poured into the country this year. but germany officials say their country is reaching its limits. today the chancellor said it's not only the responsibility of germany to deal with the influx of people, but all member states of the european union, hungary, the czech republic opposed to be forced to take in new arrivals. hungary has taken in some, but the country is reportedly planning to shut its borders down this week. when asked where they

john huddy in california. ben: interesting. a lot of birthdays. juliet: yeah. happy birthday. ben: 6:01. she has props for the weather. mike: the weather -- ben: that's what she said. mike: eek. a surprise to ben and i. ben: had no choice it was in the city. mike: flood advisoryies back to us here in the city. coming an going as the rain has come an gone here. the main focus of the flood advisory is for u suffolk county. pockets of heavier rain that includes nassau county here. but yeah it has been pretty wet out there. keep that in mind this morning. flood advisory will be popping up back, as that intense rainfall kind of comes and goes. this is first round of showers that came through. about mid-way through long island right now. but there are some real heavy pockets out there along parts of the barrier island there fire island some showers on north fork in particular. also quite a bit of rain in central section of new jersey. heavy stuff out there too. again welcome these things are putting down a lot of rain in a short period of time as folks in the city has seen already a

john huddy live in the middle east. thanks, john. >>> still ahead, it's a key part of the obama administration's plans to fight the islamic state. create a force of moderate rebels to take on isis. but after sending millions of dollar, the pentagon only has a handful of fighters to show for it. major general bob scales is here. >>> and china's leader heads to the white house for high stake talks. >>> and pope francis set to land in cuba a little later this afternoon. and then it's on to the u.s. next week. we'll introduce you to some kids who will be meeting the pontiff. >> what i'm going to is that i love him so much and give him a hug. ♪ we all feel the calling to build something great. ♪ it's how i try to live... how i stay active. so i need nutrition... that won't weigh me down. for the nutrition you want without the calories you don't... introducing boost 100 calories. each delicious snack size drink gives you... 25 vitamins and minerals and 10 grams of protein. so it's big in nutrition and small in calories. i'm no

john huddy from the jerusalem bureau with more details. . >> reporter: heather, for f-16 falcons carried out four airstrikes. they say the airstrikes have been on isis positions. you can sigh some of the video. we're talking about vehicles, buildings and fighters and those airstrikes primary took place in the saladin and kirkuk provinces iraq, south of mosul, north of baghdad to give you an idea and it is the first time f-16s have been launched into action since iraq received them back in july from the u.s. they are part of a larger package that the 30 f1s that iru.s. sold to iraq for little over 4 billion. iraq's defense minister said sunday, their use will have quote, impact of conduct of operations in the future in iraq. some say that the f-16s may not necessarily be a game-changer it is an important step for iraq's air force that has been relying on outdated russian jets, migs, turboprop cessna airplanes, helicopters and of course u.s. and coalition airstrikes. and, heather, these f-16 airstrikes, are set to be possibly a prelude to the

john huddy, we appreciate it, thank you. >>> residents st.sland in south carolina are cleaning up after a tornado tore through their community yesterday. with winds estimated at 130 miles per hour. you can see some of the damage. it traveled close to seven miles. that twisted lasted about 17 minutes. several homes were destroyed. people are without power and thousands of trees were uprooted. however, no injuries have been reported. a lot damage to homes there. this is happening as temperatures cool across the nation with fall settling in. meteorologist janice dean at fox weather center. >> we were watching a couple areas of low pressure cooling off the temperatures for the mid-atlantic. we also have moisture streaming in from the gulf of mexico. you mentioned that tornado, that tore through that small area of south carolina. of course, people are cleaning up. there were no injuries reported. it was spotted on doppler radar. so there was warning. you can see the potential for several inches of rainfall over the next couple of days. a slow movi

. >> john huddy reporting live. thank you very much. here at home this week president obama committed the u.s. to taking tens of thousands of migrants beginning in october they have acted slower because it must do intensive vetting. but how well can that be done in a crisis of this magnitude and how could this affect our homeland security? a cia covert operations officer and the senior policy adviser on counterterrorism and init tell generals, the chairman on the house homeland security committee, joshua, thank you for joining us. we're hearing reports of tens of thousands at a time, we know the civil war in syria has been going on more than four years. we saw upwards of 4.7 million refugees. what's the real number we're looking at here? >> the number of refugees worldwide is well over 4 million and it will increase. and the only stop to this is a resolution to the war inside syria. nothing else is going to stop the refugee crisis. so what should the u.s. be doing to prepare for these people? >> the one thing we should not be doing at a