and lauren heard noises. at first, she thought one of her roommates came home with a boyfriend, but then she heard a fight and screams. when she looked out, she saw a man run down the stairs and jump out of an open front window, but she didn't see his face. when she went upstairs, lauren found her two roommates. both had been stabbed repeatedly. >> 911 emergency. what are you reporting? >> oh, my god. we got attacked. please help. >> who attacked you? >> i don't know. my roommates are upstairs. i think they're dying. >> when police arrived, they found 26-year-old adriane insogna and 25-year-old leslie mazzara dead. >> it was a very, very bloody crime scene. it's the most bloody crime scene i've seen in my career. >> leslie mazzara was a former beauty queen who worked in the sales department of a local winery. >> and good evening. a senior at the university of georgia, i am leslie mazzara. >> adriane insogna was a civil engineer. >> it was horrible. there aren't any words to describe that. it's almost as if yo

to inviterhonor lauren bush lauren to accept the john f. kennedy profile in courage award on behalf of her grandfather, george herbert walker what shobush. [applause] thank you, jack. you, all, and it is such an honor for me and for my grandfather and for my whole family. i would like to start by reading a short message from my grandfather. my sincere thanks to the john f. kennedy library foundation and their selection committee for the decision they rendered that led to stay's proceed -- to today's proceedings. i hope the vote was not too close for the members [laughter] i recall how shortly after leaving the white house the school district board right used to live in texas decided to name a local elementary school after yours truly. after it passed by a landslide 3-2 vote -- [laughter] twoas explained that the dissenting votes were based on the fact that we normally only name things after dead people. [laughter] 7/8, let me assure you your kind words mean a lot to me, and to receive this award that bears such an illustrious name means mor

i'm lauren lyster.day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> your realtime captioner is linda macdonald. and i'm frank mallicoat re's >>> good morning, everyone. it's monday, june 30. i'm michelle griego. >> hi, everyone. i'm frank mallicoat. it's 4:30. we ask lawrence this every monday, where did the weekend go? >> it's gone. but today, what a day it's going to be. likely the hottest day of the week. high pressure sits overhead. but a big contrast in temperatures. triple digits inland, 60s at the coast. >>> so far no major accidents. the usual overnight roadwork including the major ramp closure at the maze may see westbound 580 to eastbound 80 at the macarthur maze. >>> breaking news in san francisco right now. firefighters rush to castro street muni station after reports of smoke coming from underground there. the call came in just after 2:30 this morning. one worker taken to the hospital. minor injuries there. muni says exhaust from a maintenance truck likely

lauren? >> tara mergener in washington.a, thanks. >>> and the national transportation safety board is investigating the crash of a private jet. seven people were killed including prominent philadelphia businessman lewis katz. there were no survivors. katz's corporate jet was trying to take off saturday night from an airfield northwest of boston. witnesses say it never got off the ground. anne-marie green has our report. >> reporter: the "gulfstream iv" was taking off from hanscom field in bedford, massachusetts, around 9:45 p.m. saturday when witnesses say they heard a boom and saw a fireball. >> we heard a huge explosion and the house shook. >> reporter: on board three crew members and four passengers including lewis katz, the media mogul and philanthropist who was part of a group that recently won a contentious auction to buy out owners of "the philadelphia inquirer," a longtime newspaper. they pledged $88 million to turn the newspaper around. former pennsylvania governor ed rendell was katz's longtime friend. >> he wante

i am here with lauren -- lauren sivant. and she is so excited and she just can't hide it. her poker face needs some work. joanne nosuchunsky, and would this be the time we confidently pronounce his last name? probably not. it is comedian sam morrell? and next to me is busck6 ton -- buck sexton. >> that was lacrosseing. get your mind out of gutter. >> a block. the lede. that's the first story. >> hassan looked ha-sad. he has world cup fever and sadly no one to share it with. he posted this sorry picture on twitter during iran's 0-0 draw writing "proud of our boys who secured our first point. hopefully many more to come. his only company, a bowl of nuts and a box of tissues. later he switched the channel to catch his favorite show. that's nice. and then i guess this was during a commercial. and then he posted this a little bit later. he doesn't like the jews, but seinfield makes him lar. biden cooperate be more beaming. the visit after their victory against ghana. >> congratulations. you were great. >> thank you. >> can you kidding me? this is a kick, man. >> i want to show

gabriel. >> reporter: that's right, lauren.1950, more than a half century ago that the fifa world cup was last held here in brazil the world they call the home of the beautiful game of the it was seven years that fifa announced the 2014 world cup would be held here in brazil. the news was met with wide fanfare and real excitement around the world about the idea of it being held back here in brazil. since then brazil has announced the world cup will be held in 12 host cities across the massive country, it built 12 stadiums, multiple airports and public transportation lines to get ready. of course we know the brazilian government and everyone here has been up against the clock to get ready for this day. but here we are, just a little bit more than one day away to kickoff to this world cup here in brazil. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: it was 1950, the last time brazil hosted the world cup and it was a much different currently back then. life was more simple, perhaps even slower. but some things like football are timeless. is specially in this

hello i am lauren tailor, you are watching al jazerra news hour from london.o coming up, using science and skwrepbd tore wipeout one of the world's most devastating diseases. it has nothing to do with sex, everything do with power. >> i a hollywood star and the politician fighting against rape as a weapon of war. >>> and big and sometimes bizarre protesters continue to threaten brazil's world cup. >>> we begin this news hour in iraq where fight verse made their most audacious attack yet. taking control of the second biggest city. mosul. the so-called islam i state of try rack freed fellow fighters and prisons and seized the city's airport. it follows a similar attack on the city of fallujah last year. but mosul is a strategic prize it's an export route for iraq's hole. the prime minister wants to did he larry state of medical. in a moment live reaction. first imran kahn has the report from baghdad. >> reporter: in the early hours of tuesday, fighters from the islamic state of iraq mounted one of the boldest attacks on mosul in the country's north. some 1300 fi

i'm lauren lyster.y. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com . >> today is monday, june 30, 2014, good morning, i'm ukee washington. >> i'm erika von tiehl. >> developing right now, down the shore the search for a 14 year old swimmer who went missing. we're live in ocean sit. >> i also, new this morning, the water department's had a busy night dealing with broken water main in the northeast. the details and the detours for you. >> happening right now, the oscar pistorius trial is back on it, resumes in south after a we'll have the details on what's next coming up in just a bit. right now we will talk about our forecast. carol is in today. >> say good morning to carol and the deal for today? >> get ready for summer. >> the heat is on? >> the heat is on. this may be starting

to instill lists this program in our office we have incredible and not able achievements i'd like lauren to really mention and to remind the supervisors that the work is ongoing and it's very important work. we continue to save lives and money for the city when we're keeping youth in their appropriate educational programs and out of jail >> morning i want to highlight a few things over the pass 2 1/2 years we've served 2 hundred and 050 students in san francisco we have less than a 13 percent recidivism rate and students have increased their attention in school if you have any questions, we'll be happy to answer them. >> actually, i was going to ask about the funding and i know that this is residenttively authorizing funding but what happens in the future for the funding for the program. >> with your support we hope we have this funding for the education attorney and our youth advocate but we're hoping to fund a paralegal position because as it is we have well exceeded our target population of one hundred 4th of july per year and actually turning down cases where our lawyers are making r

>> no, i didn't see it, lauren.e you're watching the closed-circuit broadcast. >> first of all, lauren, you should throw colbert under the bus because he took you said and took it out of context and made you sound like a conspiracy theorist. >> well, i showed him. >> i'm not messing with you. >> don't, right? i have a couple more weeks of this. >> you've had time to think about it. >> no. >> don't you think that stewart and colbert -- >> no. >> -- who are very talented guys and i believe changed journalism. >> they have. they cover him, and it's funny. remember the whole skit about glitches where they talked about everybody is saying glitch, glitch, glitch, glitch. yes, they hit hard. no. >> closed-circuit tv? >> bill doesn't think so. >> i just think they've kind of taken themselves a little bit out of the conversation because they've gone easy. >> you're crazy. you're crazy. >> okay, we've established that i'm crazy. that's it for this edition of "media buzz." i'm howard kurtz. on facebook we take your comments an

gerri: is fraud a long shot, lauren? >> well, i think that the truth is that at some point gm will have to take responsibility which they already have for these ignition switches. and at that point we can't wait and wait and wait. you know, you're right, we have to get on this right away. unfortunately there has been deaths and many of these have been young people too which is also really sad although any death is very sad. i do think we need to get in on this. i think there needs to be a fund put together. the truth is, i don't believe because the way the bankruptcy was structured, there is really proper protection for the old gm. here is the big picture. when the old gm, has to pay the bills, it is going to be on you and i, the taxpayer. gerri: wow, okay. bob, do you want to respond to that quickly? we'll have to run but i give you a quick response? >> well there is a number of issues. the shareholders are going to wonder what is going on. the victims are certainly going to look at ken feinberg now and say, like my cli

. ♪ >> hello, i'm lauren taylor, this is the al jazeera news hour in london.isplaced and desperate, the people forced to flee their homes the largest since world war ii. and in short, costa rica brings another surprise at the world cup against italy. we'll have all of the latest reaction from brazil. ♪ >>> hello. syria is increasingly deteriorating into a failed state and its war is bleeding beyond its borders, the words of ban ki-moon has he called for an arms embargo against syria. inside syria, a powerful truck bomb killed at least 34 civilians. while over the border in lebanon, a top security official survived an assassination attempt. and the military continues to battle a sunny-lead uprising in iraq. the iraq's shiite cleric has called for a new government. james bays is in new york where ban ki-moon was speaking. james on syria, why is he chosen this moment to take the speech? >> the certainly has made his call in a new way. i think he feels the situation is very desperate at the moment, and people are beginning to ignore what is going on in syria, gett

let me start with you, lauren.ou suppose it is we're not seeing more reporting of referencing the outstanding report of rolling stone magazine and michael hasting? >> i think one of the reasons is that this is still very early on. and the white house has been very careful to defend its decision to get back sergeant bowe bergdahl. i think one of the reasons we're not hearing is that the white house got this information to leak out slowly. they're not interested in getting ahead of themselves before sergeant bowe bergdahl is back in the united states and back with his family. >> they're so far behind them seflgz. they couldn't get ahead of themselves, could they? that couldn't be a remote concern for this white house bowe bergdahl exchange. they have been outranged about this. she really wishes the white house was aware previous to this exchange. i think it's fair for the president on both sides of the aisle. >> michael, your thoughts? the same question. there is so much in the public arena. this is such -- i mean th

order to do what he has done, which is to guide several reporters that he's dealt with, bart gellman, lauren greenwald, very carefully through chat logs through the maze of arcane symbols and illusions through these documents. if he had simply dumped them on the web, which he could have done without any retribution, and he would be free and clear and back in hawaii right now if he had done that, they don't speak for themselves. there's too many symbols and code words that even i having had those clearances and been in the government wouldn't understand without someone informing me. so he's been able to do that continuously, and the only way he could do that was from outside the country.

lauren donated $10 million plus toward the restoration of the original star spangled banner. the citation that was read today calls ralph lauren, "the embodiment of the american experience through fashion, design and philanthropy." >>> when we come back, the shocking sight on the side of a highway as a driver jumps to the rescue. >>> we are going to end tonight on a compelling story that comes to us from our nbc station in atlanta. it's about an extraordinary discovery on the side of a local road by a man who happened to be in the right place at the right time, and he did the right thing. we get our report tonight from the reporter who originally covered this as a local news story there. here is matt pearl of wxia-tv in atlanta. >> reporter: long ago, brian collins learned the value of choosing the right path. >> i've been in a lot of bad situations, but i've never seen that. >> reporter: last friday he found on the side of a road, a chance to save a life. >> i saw something moving in the ditch. when i got out, it was a baby, almost right here. almost in the highway. >> repor

let's get more on that from lauren taylor in our european newscenter. lauren? >> yes, he is being held at the french anti-terrorism headquarters in paris. they say the 29-year-old has confess today carrying out the may 24th attack which deeply shocked belgium's jewish community. naddeen barber reports. >> this was the moment,b. french say they are holding a man suspected of carrying out the attack which killed three people including two israeli tourists and left another critically ill. he was arrested as he got off of a coach in marsaille. he has been transferred to the anti-terrorism forces had a r. fle and another weapon with a camera and a video recording where he admits the shooting. french authorities say he served five years in prison for robbery before travel to go syria. >> on december would 31st three weeks after his release, we want to syria from brussels vie a london, istanbul and stayed over a year in syria where he joined the ranks of jihadist terrorist organizations and islamic state of iraq. >> the federal prosecute said it highlights a growing t

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lauren casey is a meteorologist with wcco in minneapolis. know you go got some rain today, some more rain. how bad is the flooding going to get there? >> we're expecting major flooding. area of most concern is the mississippi river at st. paul where the river is expected to crest at 20 1/2 feet by friday. that's more than six feet above flood stage and three times the normal water level. this type of flooding in the summer season is extremely rare. typically, minnesota only experiences flooding due to snow melt. >> so lauren, how long until all this water recedes? >> a two to three-week period above normal rainfall both here in the twin cities and across minnesota for the mississippi to recede the low flood stage. it could take until the end of summer for levels to return to average, as we still have so wait out another major river, the minnesota, to drain into the mississippi. >> lauren casey from wcco. thank you very much. three men who escaped the canadian prison using a helicopter have been caught. the men were found hiding in a luxury c

lauren, thank you. now to the world cup.nd a dramatic win for host country brazil as the knock-out stage of the tournament got under way. brazil's game against chile came down to penalty kicks. chile's last chance hit the side post and brazil moved on. we will have more on the tournament including an update on team u.s.a. later in the broadcast. a rock 'n' roll hall of famer has died. singer-songwriter bobby womack was one of the all-time r&b greats. he had been diagnosed with alzheimer's disease. he performed just a couple weeks ago. anthony mason looks back now on womack's soulful career. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: his voice was born out of a gospel church and given character by a life of ups and downs. bobby womack died yesterday after battling a series of health issues. ♪ because i used to love her but it's all over now ♪ womack got his start in 1960 when sam cooke signed the singer to his first record deal. during that time, he wrote and recorded "it's all over now," the song that would later become the "rolling stones" first num

lauren simonetti on fox business network has details. lauren. >> you're willing to go there.y not? >> we all do. we can wear the big 17,000 hats. but i digress. we got some mixed message this is morning. the first mixed message was the jobs report. 217,000 jobs added last month, almost what we were expecting. unemployment rate, that also part of the jobs report, stayed at 6.3%. so did the labor force partial rate, 62.8%. that is still the lowest level in 36 years. now five years into this so-called recovery we're finally returning to the employment level of 2007. this is like "back to the future." no wonder people say it still feels like we're in recession. look at the stock market, way up. the dow, the s&p, setting records. the dow within 100 points of that 17,000 level. that is the highest level we've ever seen. it is a key psychological milestone for a lot of people. this is where it gets confusing. about significance in 10 voters say the stock market is rigged to favor some investors, the rich investors. that's a big shift from back in 2007, the last time fox asked that q

i think lauren's right. the soldiers, his colleagues, every one of them, i mean, it's not even close. now, "the new york times" is doing its best to smear the unit by running articles saying they're sloppy and raggedy and so on. and the "new york times" editorial page has finally found an american soldier they like in bergdahl. but listen, the average soldier, the ones talking, the ones being interviewed, are unanimous on this. >> i'll come back to the smear question in just a moment. but bill press, after the e-mail from bergdahl o'his parents widely reported, ashamed to be an american, james rosen of fox news got hold of a contractor's intelligence reports about his captivity. we learned a whole lot of things such as he had tried to escape a couple times, held in a cage, but also according to this report that he had played soccer with his captors and declared himself a warrior for islam. should that have gotten more coverage? do you have any question about that story? >> first off, i think jim rosen's a da

. >> new jersey state senator president steve sweeney is very proud of his daughter lauren. >> i'm lauren> i know that. >> she plays it cool but it's clear to see how much she loves her dad. >> we have great time. >>> yeah, we do, dad. >> i love you sweetie pie. >> reporter: her new jersey soccer team will play in the special olympics usa gapes. her coach says she's the heart of their squad. >> she's always the first one to come and high five somebody. hug somebody. to congratulate the other team and just always a huge smile on her face. >> lauren says she's ready to have a good time and win. >>> within the gold medal. >> athletes from all over the country will arrive saturday ahead of sunday' opening ceremonies to participate in the games. >> only when i compete or you compete to see kids compete they're happy for each on the regardless of who wins. you know they clap for each other. they clear for each other. >> sweeney says the comradery is unlike anything you've ever se seen. >> i hope she's successful with her teammates but i know one thing, no matter what, they're all winners. >> sw

lauren, thanks for coming on tonight. >> thanks for having me. gerri: continuing with the gm story, kenneth feinberg, who is heading up gm's victims compensation fund, we told you about that, is expected to issue his final report in the next few weeks. meantime many families of victims are getting ready for their day in court. with us now michael perez, whose 18-year-old sister emma was killed in a gm crash nearly nine years ago. thank you for coming on the show, michael. why are you convinced your sister's death is connected to this gm issue? >> you know, it is coming out in the reports that the problems with her cause was the cause of this interest. i really don't, can't go too far into the details as far as the connection of it. i'm not too aware of all the reports that have come out though. let's talk about your sister. 18 years old at the time she died in a 2005 saturn ion. tell us about the crash. what happened? >> i was deployed at the time. i can only tell you what i was told. i wasn't there at time of the accident. my sister, 18, in coll

lauren joins me from austin, texas. she is a strategist with a firm there.ays a pleasure to have you on. >> thank you for having me. >> for the past 20 years, the trend has been toward a smaller american military presence in europe. is this all about russia or driving something else? >> it is about russia, but also about the u.s. having allies in europe at a time when europe is fracturing. using the russian so-called is the excuse for the u.s. to go in and reassure its position in europe in that it does still have allies. >> and those allies believe what ? after how the u.s. has reaction -- reacted to russian moves and to what is going on in syria and iran, are they still confident in u.s. leadership? >> there is a fractured sentiment in europe on the u.s. ability to actually stand up to, let's say, russia. that is the plan that obama laid out today was all about. it is called the european reassurance initiative. the plan is for the u.s. to be putting troops and to be putting equipment and money into the interim rem states in central inter-marium states in c

david: now is lauren fix a convert to the electric car because of this?orced me to buy one i would but the truth is i more into the collectible cars. if you told me buy a ford gt which is $300,000 i would buy that instead to figure out how finance it. david: the key though, tesla in order to fulfill the dream it has to sell the vast middle. great on high-end. bmw will sell out on high-end. what about the middle ground? >> yes. david: what about electric cars between 30 and 50,000? >> the bmw i-3 are for sale. bmw have great success. they are selling. i see them all over the country. bmw will have great success with the i line. this is aluminum keeping cars light and meeting c.a.f.e. standards and giving people what they want. david: maybe i can convince my wife i have a midlife crisis, i have to buy it. >> you should. i'll see what i can do. >> lauren fix, convert to the electric car maybe in this case. >> thank you. liz: whoever comes out in a suv first. i'm having a mid mom crisis. >>> legendary investor jimmy rogers investing in a nation with what he c

lauren, let me maybe put up on the screen, let's look at the cultures. i think that paul harvey, by the way, the greatest radio broadcaster ever and i spent an hour on the phone with paul harvey jr. last night talking about this and his father and what a great broadcaster he was and look at anti depress sant u sent country, up 400%. let's look at miley cyrus. one cultural icon, if you will, twerking. you can see her over there. in some of the videos, has the culture declined and is it related in someway to a paul harvey warning? >> absolutely. it is absolutely declined. >> you don't look like lauren. >> i'm sorry. >> no -- >> jump right in. >> it is absolutely declined and paul harvey was exactly right but what has happened in terms of religion's responsibility as a minister, i shoulder a lot of responsibility and look out there and say what am i doing wrong? is my generation of ministers and spiritual leaders and religious leaders done wrong and we've made a business out of religion. we made a colt -- >> but you're a pastor, you haven't done that, have

. >> so lauren, how long till all this water recedes?> a two to three-week period above normal rainfall both here in the twin cities and across minnesota for the mississippi to recede the low flood stage. it could take till the end of summer as we still have so wait out another major river to drain into the mississippi. >> lauren casey from wcco. thank you very much. three men who escaped the canadian prison using a helicopter have been caught. the men were found hiding in a luxury condo in montreal three weeks after escaping in quebec. they're accused of being members of an international drug ring. they'll be back in court tomorrow. >> a huge opportunity for team usa at the world cup tonight, did not get off to a good start. they are playing portugal in the middle of the amazon rainforest. the city of manaus in brazil and elaine quijano is there watching. elaine? >> reporter: good evening. thousands of people are here on coca co-been aa beach and there are people waving american flags. little bit subdued since portugal is ahead 1-0, tha

>> lauren? >> that's the thing.'t know -- you don't understand your right to privacy anymore. and the ironic thing about this and many other instances is that it was iphone video that incriminated her in the end. you can't get away with anything anymore. >> that is ironic. >> she could lie and say, no, he attacked me. but technology got her. >> interesting discussion. thank you so much. >>> new memory test available at drugstores to help screen for alzheimer's disease. but is it doing more harm, scaring seniors than the good it might do? you don't want to miss the answer coming up next. okay, lis! i'm re-workin' the menu. mayo? corn dogs? you are so outta here! aah! [ female announcer ] the complete balanced nutrition of great-tasting ensure. 24 vitamins and minerals, antioxidants, and 9 grams of protein. [ bottle ] ensure®. nutrition inharge™. [ bottle ] ensure®. trwith secure wifie for your business. it also comes with public wifi for your customers. not so with internet from the phone company. i would email the p

it was like having a second sister. >> my name is lauren. you haven't noticed my voice. >> i'm jennifer kessy and i'm one of the runners at the party. >> we were inseparable. i was always at her house and with her family. we went on vacations together. if my family went on vacation she came with us. it was like having a second home. >> she just grew into that role of always intelligent, always learning, always reading. >> tough teenager or good teenager? >> very good teenager. jennifer walks into a room and you notice her just because of the way she carried herself. >> she was a strong woman, didn't have enemies. just an awesome person. >> in 1999, 17-year-old jennifer enrolled in the university of central florida in orlando to pursue a degree in finance. >> jen went ended up going to ucf. >> then she was graduating. >> how many young women are offer lead the jobs for the same company, three positions. that tells you about jennifer. >> she was hired on with central florida investments. >> cfi westgate resort was founded by david siegel whose

jenna: lauren, thank you so much. eric?eric: prosecutors in illinois are now tighting to bring a marine already convicted of another murder back to his home state to stand trial in the stabbing death of two little girls. prosecutors say dna evidence does link him to the 2005 killing of these two little girls, 8-year-old laura hobbs and 9-year-old crystal tobias. the suspect in the killings is 25-year-old jorge torres. torres has been sentenced to death in virginia for the 2009 murder of a fellow service member in the navy. so will he ever be facing justice in the case of the two little girls in illinois? dan shore is a former president, rebecca is a trial attorney. why wouldn't you bring someone to trial? everyone's got to get justice. >> they should, and they probably will, but the defense attorney's saying what are you going to do in punishment beyond death? however, it's really important to bring him for this new case. first of all, you have the family of the victims. the victims themselves have a memory that's going to

>> the fighting there and in the surrounding region has sent people running for their lives, i am laurenlor, this is al jazerra. also coming up. anger and anguish relatives of those who died in south korea's fairfairferry disaster accuse te captain and crew of member. >>> wiping out one of the world's most devastating diseases. >>> a reprieve for now but a fresh strike could threaten the world company. >>> hello, fighters from the islamic state of iraq have seized the northern part of a province in iraq, the area's largest city mosul is sending residents fleeing the fighting. al jazerra immaterial ran cannes ikahnis there and sent this rep. >> reporter: in the early hours of ties fighters from the islamic state of iraq mounted one of the boldest attacks on mosul in the country's north. 1300 fighters besieged the city and took over at least 75% of it according to local sources. iraq's army and police forces also abandoned their posts. they freed 2,300 prisoners and then the provincial government building was taken over quickly followed by two tv stations and some banks. a few hours later

lauren simonetti, fox business network. thank you. >> thanks, jon. jenna: islamic terrorists allegedly kidnapping 91 more people in nigeria over the weekend, some of them toddlers as young as three years old. we say more because this is in addition to the more than 200 schoolgirls still missing after boko haram abducted them in april. but the international movement to get those children back may be losing steam. with a headline from the "washington post" reading, boko haram, just kidnapped 60 more women. does anyone care? joining us now, the director of the africa center at atlantic council who looks at some of these groups and what they are up to. peter, let's address the question right away, with much going on in the world, why should we care about this? >> well we should care because as attention focused on boko haram we saw the group for what it was. it is an islamist, violent extremist group that, like isis in iraq, like that bab previously in somalia has moved beyond simple hit-and-run attacks to actually gaining control of territory and holdin

joining us now to examine the coverage, lauren ashburn. jim pinkerton, a fox news contributor writes for the american conservative, and bill press, host of the bill press radio show. lauren ashburn, what is the most important thing the media did to change the administration's narrative about the bowe bergdahl release? >> absolutely no question it's the interviews that we saw just a moment ago by these soldiers, these soldiers who served side by side with bowe bergdahl saying that he was a deserter. you could see it in their demeanor, saying how could this man walk away from us, put our lives at risk by knowing that we would have to go searching for him? >> tim pinkerton, as you know, susan rice going out on the sunday talk shows more than a week ago, talking about bergdahl serving with honor and distinction. got a lot of attention. and then on friday, cnn reporter jim acosta was able to get a brief interview with her, asked about that. she had a chance the back off. here is what happened. >> he is, as all americans, innocent until proven g

first of all, lauren, you should throw colbert under the bus because he took something you said about clinton becoming a grandmother took it out of context and made you look like a conspiracy theorist. >> i showed him. >> you sure did. irs scandal the other night on the daily show. jon stewart was going on about how incompetent the irs was. nothing about a coverup and glossed over president obama's role. i think when you take half the targets off the field because you are right they love -- neither of them disguises the fact that they lean left and love to beat up on fox news, on republicans, on conservative targets. you are just a little bit out of step because the story right now is the obama administration. >> i will give lauren the last word. here is the reality of the situation. if you don't please your core audience, you lose some of it, all right? and that's the fact. so, they are going to have a harder time pleasing them with the disintegrations of the liberal establishment. last word. >> but they are pleasing their young audience by attacking conservatives who are attacking t

to congratulate the other team and just always a huge smile on her face. >> lauren says she's ready toin. >> within a gold medal. >> athletes from all over the country will arrive saturday ahead of sunday's opening ceremonies to participate in the games. >> only when i compete or you compete to see kids compete. they're happy for each other rash less who wins. they clap for each other. they cheer for each other. >> sweeney says the comradery is unlike anything you've ever seen. >> i hope she's successful were her teammates but i know one thing. no matter what, they're all winners. >> winning will be one of the tens of thousands of proud parents cheering on their athletes throughout new jersey next week. knowing how much they've learned from the discipline of their sport and the dedication to their team. >> we all would be better off if we lived in her world, because there's nothing but love, happiness and trust. and caring, right? >>> yes. and my boyfriend. >> i don't want to hear about boyfriend. >> lots of luck to lauren and her teammates. all the athletes getting ready for the games

. >> so, lauren, the apology, there have been some firings. if you were representing those families or dealing with those families, what more do you think they would want to know? >> well, i think that mary was very sincere in her apology. she truly does feel sorry. but i think as an attorney who would be defending -- helping their clients, i would think that you want to know why this happened. and if this was under the old gm, and they were actually at fault, and there was proof of this, and this is something that will require, again, reading through the report, i would definitely try to lift the bankruptcy and try to get as much money as possible for my client. any good attorney would do that. and even though they have a fund they're setting up, you have to look at the details. what the big print gives, the small print takes away. it's possible if you sign on to this fund, you may release your rights in order to go back and sue them again in the future, if more information is disclosed. >> david, you heard lauren talk about the old gm. the n

in new york, lauren green fox 29 news. >> a methodist minister defrocked after officiating at his sononth same sex wedding is appealing the church's decision. frank schaeffer made his case today to a church appeals committee in maryland. he says his defrocking was illegal because it was based on the assumption that he will break church law in the future. schaeffer is one of hundreds of methodist ministers who have spoken out about the church's stance on homosexuality. church allows gay members but it prohibits them from serving as clergy and prohibits ministers from performing same sex marriages. >> investigators are logging in a deadly hit-and-run crash in bucks county. police were out on the 700 block of bridge water road in bensalem today. sources say the police activity was tied to a crash last night on the 4100 block of bristol pike. philadelphia resident vincent erie died in the accident. so far there have been no arrests. >> really unbelievable video. a motorcyclist slamming into a car at a florida intersection. the impact flipping him into the air and miraculously he gets righ