i'm eland victim -- leland vitter. t united nations condemning north korea's nuclear test the u.n.ity council will consider taken action against the north korea's including new sanctions. the regime conducted its fifth test yesterday which some analysts say was more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on hiroshima at the end of world war ii. >>> new video coming into fox news of a tornado near sydney, illinois. forecasters confirming a total of four twisters touched down in that state and warning of thunderstorms throughout today and this weekend. emergency crews are assessing the damage there, but local reports say at least a couple of homes were destroyed. >>> i'm leland vitter. back to "cavuto on business." >> i am very concerned with the appearance of our government paying ransom for captured prisoners. >> who specifically made the decision to make this payment in cash? >> the deal would be immediate payment. >> there are other ways to make an immediate payment other than a middle of the night what appears to be a drug drop. >> they wanted the cash because they're trying to f

i am leland vitter in for jon scott. there will be three debates. first is september 26th in new york hofstra will be moderated by lester holt. and second in st. louis washington university that will be martha raddatz and anderson cooper and the final in the university of nevada, las vegas will be moderated by chris wallace, anchor of fox news sunday. >> it is no coincidence that chris is our guest. but viewers who haven't heard the back story, what was the reaction when you found out you were a moderator? >> i was thrilled and it is a great honor and responsibility and excited for myself and proud for fox news, as you pointed out, it was the first time in our long proud history that a fox news correspondent has been asked to moderate a general election debate. it is a big honor and i am representing the company. >> tell us how one is chosen to be a moderator and how do you find out? >> i don't know that much of how you are chosen. it is a secret process. the debate commission and two chairman frank farren and mike mccurry who was bill clinton's fir

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peaceful presence about them, and these people may likely march it off and walk off as we saw in leland vitter's piece one gentleman saying they were hoping to have peace out of this. >> the police are out there to protect them like you don't have any incidents like we had last evening where one of the protesters ended up dead. all of the law enforcement are out there to protect the protesters, also to protect the local businesses. there was widespread ransacking and looting of many businesses there in the epicenter specifically of charlotte, one of the stores there at time warner cable arena where the hornets play, one of the hornets' souvenir stores. also the nascar museum there downtown, also some windows broken, ransacked there. cvs farm alwaysy upstairs in an area where there are several nightclub, restaurants and that type of thing. the investigators and police down there, national guard protecting the businesses so they can get back up and running. the economy needs to go back, you know, to the way it was there in charlotte tomorrow morning. >> exactly. it is also important to point out a

obviously we know, now, that authorities have intercepted her leaving we will keep following that leland vitterest, less than 50 days to election day donald trump gaining steam not only in polls but o electoral map, larry sabato good to see you thanks for joining us, so your latest crystal balance elector map predicts a surge in favor of donald trump we have the the electoral in front of us where is the tossup. >> essentially, trump has surged in two key swing states ohio and iowa. well up in iowa, that seems to be his very best swing state. we are with leaving helohio to him last three polls in ohio he has been up again i think the population in iowa the voting population is well suited to trump's message. the important part of this map is not just those two states, it is the fact that we downgrade from hillary clinton several other states that are critical. florida, north carolina, nevada they are now all tossups those are opportunities for trump if he can continue the momentum he had during the two worst weeks of hillary clinton's general election campaign. >> pretty about incredible i know