Obama appoint tee. washington was very involved in her work on tea party applications as well. back to you. elizabeth prann live in washington thank you. a fox business alert. the largest city to file for bankruptcy. good morning ainsley and patti ann. the motor city is now the broke city. detroit is the largest municipal bankruptcy in american history. detroit s finances had been in decline and unable to pay its bills. they left nearly 20 billion in debt owed to 1,000 creditors. he told us what went wrong on special report last night. take a listen. in detroit there was a lack of contribution there was multiple cases of mismanagement that went on for a long period of time with respect to pension liabilities in detroit. some credit tors were asked
Republican leaders are arguing delaying the requirement for businesses to provide insurance is unfair for individuals. we have the latest this morning with elizabeth pran. it may impact the way insurance companies charge smokers. to break it down the administration says the computer will not deal with smoker s penalty. the discretion to charge a younger smoker penalty than a lifelong smoker is much more expensive. because of the way it is structured there s how much variation it can be in older smokers verses younger smokers. ultimately what it means is that older smokers who have been smoking for decades are going to
The controller noticed that the aircraft hit the sea wall, the controller declared an emergency. reporter: now because the plane was idle the, quote, go around request a little more than a second before impact would have been impossible. the aircraft had a wingspan of 200 feet, it s huge, changing speed that quickly is nearly impossible. we are getting a firsthand look at the photos released by the ntsb. unbelievable insight in to the cabin. see crushed seats and deployed oxygen masks and the landing gear broken apart from the fuselage and detached right there on the runway. now, heather, it could be sometime before officials release a cause of the accident. now is where investigators really dig their teeth in. they ll be doing engine teardowns, they ll be interviewing the pilot and parchs, analyzing all the data and recreating the incident. heather, back to you. thank you. elizabeth prann from washington. meantime, we are hearing what it
Department is firing james cartwright. the second highest in the military in a leak investigation. this comes hours before eric holder will meet about spying on fox news reporter james rosen. elizabeth pran is following this for us. she is live. there s a justice department investigation the highest ranking officer in the military retired james cartwright for alleged leaks and author. the investigation is said to be about a year old often referred to do as obama s favorite general could have leaked classified information in the f nuclear program. the operation olympic games president obama ordered the cyber attacks back in 2010 also
Elizabeth pran, thank you so much. now an extreme weather alert another show of severe weather marching through the midwest and the northeast bringing heavy rain and flash flooding. heat waves and storms are threatening millions of people from chicago to new york. maria molina is here with details. talking to friends of mine in the midwest they talked about how much rain has been coming down. the same storm system we have been talking about it for days has been producing showers and storms across areas of the midwest. i have good news and bad news. it is finally on the move. you have to deal with more showers for today. take a look at this map. across parts of the i 95 corridor in the northeast seeing showers and storms parts of the plains and across the midwest. widespread area that could be seeing storms. they could produce severe weather. heavy rain with the storms as