off from their communities. many are missing and more rain is on the way. plus an american journalist on trial in tehran. a washington post reporter accused of spying inside that country and he is facing decades in prison. plus a secret hearing began today. in minutes i ll speak live with that man who is being tried in iran with his own brother. let s get to it. request tuesday afternoon i hope your memorial week was great. iraq claim the troops are on the move ready to retake the city of ramadi from isis militants. pentagon officials say the operation is not yet started. ramadi is the capital of the anbar province. it is some 70 miles west of baghdad and about the same distance from a base where american troops are training iraqis. isis took over ramadi this month in another meltdown thing. a couple days ago the defense secretary ash carter said iraqi troops quote, showed no will to fight, unquote, and ran away even though they outnumbered the militants militants. iraq
that it s handwritten, the recipient is handwritten. shepard: casey claiborne from fox 7 in austin. we re waiting for police there. there s breaking news right now. sarah sanders expected to take the podium at any moment. we ll have that live as it starts. first, one of the questions will be about stormy daniels. the former porn star offering president trump s lawyer a refund. fox news confirms the adult film actress said she s willing to return $130,000 that she received just before the united states presidential election if she s allowed to talk about what she calls her relationship with the president. her lawyer says she also wants to reveal any texts, photos and videos related to the president she may have. stormy daniels, her screen name, says she had an affair with president trump about a decade
casey, tell us what you know. shep, it s definitely a frightening day in austin. we may very well have some sort of a serial bomber on our happened here in austin, texas. i m at the scene right now of the third mysterious explosion in three weeks, second one today. two people have died from these explosions. a lot of law enforcement here, the atf, fbi, police, you name it are here investigating. a man named anthony house opened a package on his front porch and exploded and killed him. police investigated it. austin police chief says a 17-year-old was killed this morning after a package was left on the front door step. a women he was with was injured. the police says the two incidents are related.
now we re at a reported third explosion has been reported. no word if they re related. the chief also said he could not rule out the first two are hate crimes because the recipients were african american families. the chief stressed, shep, if you see any sort of suspicious package, don t open it. it s not worth it. shepard: casey, have the authorities described if they look the same, any characteristics other than if they re on the door step be careful? they did said this morning, didn t appear that this were any sort of specific markings, like any sort of company or postal service. the postal service said they did not come from them. so as far as we know, it s just a blank package. we re hearing from some sources