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. hickox says the actions against her were politics, not science. she says new jersey governor chris christie was see -- was being dishonest when she called -- when he called her quarantine necessary and she has much on any symptoms of ebola and is now at her home in maine. >> i understand that the community has been through a lot in the past week. i apologize to them for that. i will not go into town and be in crowded public places. i have had a few friends come visit me in my home and that is absolutely fantastic. >> a judge in maine rejected her request by state officials to quarantine her. one of the world's largest advertising companies is making a big push into digital. the french firm has agreed to pay $3.7 billion forsabient based here in boston. the companies say they have agreed to build a joint platform. the european airline is flying high. ryanair upgraded its profit for the second time this year. any slowdown in the economy could push travelers in its direction. the ceo also said lower fuel prices are helping. >> fuel is helping at the moment. oil prices are falling and we are hedged to march 16, about $93 per barrel. by raising load factors which have been taken up four percent, it spreads the unit cost across more passengers and that's the key to is lowering our unit cost. >> they hope to return to profit after losing money in its last fiscal year. it was the wind and not the runners that set the record of a new york city marathon. the wind was blowing 35 miles per hour. one.yan kenyan pulled away in the home stretch. with octoberut sales, up 22%. that's go over to matt miller. it's the 55th consecutive month of rising sales for chrysler. is listed on the new york stock exchange and beat analyst estimates. they sold over 170,000 vehicles in the month of october. the really interesting thing to focus in on is the game at jeep, over 50% sales growth for the jeep brand come the best ever october the that brent. it is these lower gas prices that are helping yet chrysler so mort jeeves and helping companies across the automotive industry so mort suv's especially the small crossovers but also the bigger ones. gas is down to $2.50 in some places. people at the pump are thinking maybe they can afford to buy an suv in some -- instead of a small car. cheers a small cars are falling. i will look into this release and see if i can find any hands of the fiat 500 losing ground. suvs and jeeps and chryslers are doing quite well. >> the gas does are gaining speed. our election day is finally here and control of congress and 36 governorships are on the line in tomorrow's election. republicans are feeling pretty good. they seem to be gaining momentum. peter cook has the latest on the race. how nervous are democrats right now? >> they are very nervous. what we see now is a late push by republicans. it has added to the hostile environment that democrats are already facing going into this election and are dealing with an unpopular president. americans are still worried about the economy despite signs of recent improvements and add the ebola scare and the islamic state and the arab insurgency around this election time and it's been difficult challenge for democrats. we see that play out in the final weekend of this campaign. the momentum is clearly with republicans. in iowa, the republican is up 17 points which is a big blow to democrats. toy were counting on braley pull out a victory in iowa. iskentucky, mitch mcconnell hoping to become the majority leader. it has been a tight race there. the latest poll, nine point advantage. it's a challenging and firemen and he looks safer as he is poised to become the senate majority leader. and you've got the state of georgia, the democrats best hope to still a republican seat. has run outn really good campaign but she is trailing by four points. democrats really have to play a perfect hand of fate can control the u.s. senate. it is a daunting challenge. >> it looks like it is too close to call right now. republicans need a net gain of six senate seats, which ones are looking most likely? victoryasiest path for includes going through montana, west virginia, and south dakota. these are three states that him locked up or republicans for a while. every poll indicates they will take those seats. the next best bet in terms of getting that magic number is iowa, and probably colorado. candidate has been leading consistently. it has been a tight race and that has been a good race and that would be a big blow for democrats. louisiana is the category of likely to flip to republicans. democrat mary landrieu is taught -- is trying to survive in a very red state. it may only get decided after a runoff in december in louisiana and georgia and the same thing when i get decided until a january runoff and there is still a possibility we will finish election day and still not know who has control of the u.s. senate. if republicans take control of the senate finally for the first time in nearly a decade, how will the white house respond? >> it's tough decisions for this white house. we will see either confrontation at every turn or maybe just the possibility of compromise in some key areas. people have talked about business tax reform, trade, infrastructure where there is common ground to the white house and congressional republicans. come first test could after the election -- will president obama deliver on his promise to issue that executive order easing deportations were some undocumented immigrants in this country. if he does that, it could poison the well right away and signal these final two years of his presidency could be marked by confrontation. we will have to wait and see but the white house has some decisions on a -- on its hands if republicans to control the senate. >> when the polls start to close tomorrow, we will start the bloomberg all it takes election all nighter. for covers for races across the u.s. starting at 7 p.m. eastern going on all night. >> billionaire richard branson says he will slow his quest for -- space space durham tourism after the crash of his first flight. has aral investigators too early to draw conclusions about why the ship rock apart killing the copilot and seriously injuring the pilot. >> we are a long way from finding cause. we still have months and months of investigation to do and a lot we don't know. we have extensive data sources to go through. >> this was the second accident in just a week involving a private spacecraft after an unmanned supply rocket from orbital science exploded seconds after liftoff. all of this mean for the up-and-coming space to remit -- space tourism industry. >> the tragic events raises questions about the viability of space tourism but also what will happen from here on out. analyst and space he said because we are talking about richard branson having this huge issue, that is going to essentially set back the industry 1-3 years. he is more optimistic than another analyst who says his industry will get set back 3-5 years. regardless, some issues need to be ironed out like safety standards. number two, more tests need to be done. this is just the fourth time the virgin atlantic flight was tested. it was due to go up in spring of next year but there needs to be more mixers of fuel and inspection of systems. >> richard branson and 2010 said he might be flying in orbit with his son by 2012 and i spoke to them then and he said they would do it by the end of 2013. it was not just his ambition to travel in space, he thought it would be a game changer for the whole commercial air travel industry. take a listen -- be the start. there could be 70 people from great britain to australia mets three or four hours. >> for years, he has said this we done october, 2012 and now the tragic accident on friday pushes that horizon back further. who are some of the other players and who is leading the pack? >> he the pioneer and as a result, 800 willing people believe in his mission to put people in space and he has collected close to $80 million as a result. players include export aerospace. it will be interesting to see who maintains the number two could because number one be versioned galactic but if you look at export aerospace, they have done some test flights but there is not much of a track record as of yet. they have not given a time table and the issue is funding because they are not funded by billionaires. >> and they are not selling tickets yet. >> yes, no one has given a clear timetable. sierra nevada is working on their version called the dream chaser. they did not get a contract from nasa a couple of months ago but they have met all of the requirements. this is probably one of the safest. they have done several tests. you have a blue origin which is backed by jeff bezos. a low-cost option into amazon style. . it looks like the industry is going to take a hit. >> after the tragic accident, regulators will likely get a call which could affect things. >> that is a good thing. safety is of the utmost importance. >> of course, thank you so much. moving and shaking this hour, billionaire hedge fund manager david einhorn, his company gained more than two percent of his main hedge fund last month as his peers were losing money because of market volatility. the greenlight fund is up almost five percent this year. the hfr global hedge fund yearx is down this and they plan to accept more money -- new money for the first time in two years. coming up, online retailers are bracing for the surge, holiday shoppers are expected to by 13% more on the web than they did a year ago. branson spacehard ship to crash and investigators say will be month before we know and we will talk with a former astronaut from nasa, mark kelly. ♪ rolling backare the christmas kickoff -- amazon started offering a series of daily deals and walmart slashed prices or roll them back on 20,000 items moving up the usual kickoff day by nearly a month. i want to bring in marketelwood where he explores american shopping habits. good morning and thank you for joining us. to bes a good idea marking down all of your merchandise so far in advance? >> for the shoppers, is thrilling. 40% off but for retailers, it's called a price war because there are casualties. doing at this early in advance of christmas i think shows they are really scared. >> it certainly does rate of desperation. -- rita of desperation. black friday was the day when retailers went to the black and became profitable. isn't there a risk that they will cannibalize themselves? >> that's a great point but the risk is that we are chemically programmed to respond to discounts. dopamine i call buyagra. once you try your the dopamine with the deals, it means more and more deals and more often to get that going. it's a vicious circle. >> that will eat into their bottom line at some point. how do the discounts stack up? . i went out to walmartcom and i gearh for disney "frozen" and i found thanks. the dolls were rolled back at walmart. itwhen walmart announced would price match with amazon which is a huge deal -- there were rumors going around that that will be a formal announcement, the irony is that walmart.com was already 17% cheaper than amazon anyway. walmart is saying we will price match but is more of a pr stunt. i would start with walmart before i go to amazon. back to the idea ofbuyagra, we had the ceo of guilt and this is the man who pioneered the flash cell model whicl. are consumers suffering in the united states. is big fundamental challenge that it is never executed online as good as amazon. when they grow another $20 billion, is another knife cut into the walmart long-term strategy i don't think they will turn that around. >> there is a little bit of fatigue over flashy sales. what will it take to turn shoppers on? >> the problem with flash sales is that they are just malls online. guilt, one of my sources tilde 40% of its merchandise is specially made for guilt. that means you're not really getting anything that was originally expensive. you're getting knockoffs. tilt has bad return policies and it's hard to get a refund. i would rather go to a local outlet mall where i can take things back. a day out at and the outlet mall. >> there was a lot of disappointment laster because many thousands of presence never mated underneath the christmas tree because everybody waited until december 23 to take advantage of free overnight shipping. there was bad weather and perhaps there was not enough staff at ups and fedex. have we learned any lessons from last year? >> i hope so. the simple thing to do is not to wait till just before christmas but go to a sales associate and go to customer service online and ask for discounts in advance. i think you will find that they are imperative give you some great deals before they advertise. you can currently snag that 11 power deal a few weeks in advance and not worry about the shipping. >> also retailers are trying to promote in-store pickup because they get rid of that cost of distribution and shipping. any big comparisons between what will be different this year versus last year? >> we are just going to see more migration online. costco said they will not be open on thanksgiving. that is telling us is everything is shifting online. perhaps the stores will not be open on thanksgiving but it's encouraging people to check the digital channel. it's all digital. >> if everybody is moving up these discounts, do those terms mean anything anymore? >> i think cyber monday will go away because that was really an invention on the back of black friday. always lack freddie will be a pop-culture moment but if you want online deals, you will cook with turkey and have your laptop next to you. >> thank you so much. we appreciate your time. still to come, falling gas prices and rising car sales, is there any connection? we get the latest figures from the big automakers coming up in five minutes. ♪ >> good morning, this is "in the loop," on bloomberg television, streaming on your phone, your tablet, and bloomberg.com. i am olivia sterns in for betty liu. 13 years after the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2000 one, the world trade center is open for business again. world trade center 1, 104 stories officially opens today. condé nast will be the first company to move into the building which is the tallest in the country. a former bank of america employee has been charged with the murder of two women in hong kong. u.k. national work at the banks merrill lynch unit since july of last year. he faces life in prison if convicted. the murders occurred almost 11 after anotheray employee was killed. october was a strong month for automobile sales. nissan and chrysler beat estimates. nissan reported 13% increase. crossover fell. a similar story at chrysler, overall sales were up 22% versus estimates of 20%. truck sales rose 28% but car sales were up only four percent. people are really buying the gas guzzlers. "on the markets bloomberg television is." time for futures and focus -- gold futures are trading near a four-year low this morning. the precious metal capped its first monthly declines of the year last week. joining me with a look at what is pushing down the present gold and how you can make money off of this move to the low side let's bring in greg bender and craig hurwitz. greg, what is behind this selloff? >> take all the headlines and you combine them together -- it's all about the dollar. the dollar going higher is better for gold and commodities. on top of that is a strong start market and disinflation and wage growth and oil -- these are combining to give an offer to gold. >> you're also referring to the fact that the fed stopped quantitative easing at the same time you have the bank of japan saying they will start buying assets and make a move toward japanese bonds to equity and that pushed down the yen which helped the dollar and that is what gold is where it is. it was almost like timed perfectly and traders have been focused on a pattern the gold market back to june, 2013. 1180 -- 1200his support level but when it bounces off of that, it has been weaker and weaker. last week we had the first close before that support levels of the trend followers will be looking to sell gold looking for lower prices, maybe as low as $1000. >> one of the followers is todd horwitz. how? would you be treating gold now agree withning, i everything greg said. he is 100% correct. ofver, the short side the boat is getting full. as a traitor, i'm looking for a bounce a little over four year lows. i think we will get some sort of short covering rally. he the jobs number this week and mario draghi speaking this week so i am looking for a nice bounce off of this 1170 level. below 11 60's the most recent low. i think we've got a good chance to run back to 12-1250. other than that, the trend is lower but as a traitor come i'm looking for a quick bounce i think we can make a quick score by ingold at about $1170. we're looking to move back toward $1200. >> let me get this straight -- you say you will be a buyer of gold at the current price which is about $1170 per ounce. you're expecting it to rally and get back to about $1200 which is a profit of $30. since gold trays and contracts of 100 ounces, you are saying you'll be making a profit of close to $3000. time for a little pop quiz -- the word of the week this week is commodity trading advisor. can i call itcta? >> that's what's known as in the business and a commodity trader advisor is like a financial advisor except for commodities and not stocks or bonds. do islly what cta's manage money and managed futures accounts. they have a bunch of different strategies they employ. , shortuld be technical golden long coffee, or they could be fundamental where they specialize in one sector or another like energy or precious metals. >> i feel so much smarter. i learned a new term as well as new trend, my thanks to you. " again in the markets 30 minutes. >> republicans are feeling good about tomorrow's midterm wartions but that clinton room veteran says why the gop should not celebrate just yet. plus, 400 million people around the globe suffer from diabetes and we will hear from the ceo of the world's largest insulin maker. ♪ >> it's election day tomorrow and republicans are confident they can take control of the senate. joining me now is someone who feels the opposite, the democratic strategist and war room veteran, simon rosenberg. also with us is jonathan allen of bloomberg news washington bureau chief. simon, what do the polls have wrong and why do you think the democrats -- the democrats will hold the senate? >> i think democrats going to election day feeling pretty good. if you look at the numbers the last couple of days, these races are dead even and voters are starting to show up with much more intensity. all of the early vote numbers which are actual people who have voted, the polls of them very positive that puts democrats far above what we had anticipated. i don't think this thing is done i think both parties will wake up on election -- after election night with some victories in some losses i will be a mixed bag for both parties. >> what has simon got wrong? >> i think republicans will have a big night on election night. it's a question of how much they win and whether they win. it's possible they will win some of the big races. >> it's certain they will win? up half all pick dozen to as many as 18 seats. it could be five to eight in the senate alone and that matters if it's five, democrats hold the senate of its eight,.republicans take the senate we are hearing from voters that they want president obama to get his agenda done. >> what do you think are the readthrough's of what you see happen in the midterm elections for what will happen in 2016? i found it interesting that democrats are doing better than some people expected in georgia and arizona. >> the republicans will lose the governorship of florida and in pennsylvania and probably in wisconsin. there is a lot of weakness for the republicans in core battleground states. they will need to win the presidency and keep the senate in 2016. flips, ite senate will be a very unstable tenure for mitch mcconnell and probably very short. the democrats will be odds-on favorite to flip the senate back in 2016. victoryld be apyrrhic for republicans. if you look at the pole from sunday, the race is dead even. this is a divided electorate that is not giving a mandate to either side. >> let's talk about the most controversial races such as iowa. extremely is doing well. this is a senate seat that was held by the democrats for nearly 30 years and here comes joni ernst at the very popular commercial where she brags about castrating pigs. what is it about that mess is that resonates with voters in iowa? >> [laughter] i think that ad the secular put her on the map. particularthat ad in put her on the map. she has to sting mr. self as a candidate. with herrecent ad walking around pigs like she is walking around washington. she has turned out to be a much better candidate than anyone thought she would be. that race is close. there was a seven-point lead in one poll. aday we see one that has five. i think she still has the advantage. she has a clean message that she is a mother and a soldier and an independent leader and that sells well in iowa. >> this is a quotation from ted cruz -- said one of the reasons republicans of lost elections recently as we have failed to engage in a meaningful way on the great issues of the day. what do you think are the key issues that the 2014 midterms are going to be decided on? >> in a funny way, this was an election that was not really about some overarching powerful thing other than a little bit of unhappiness with the president. there is not a major debate about the economy and it was not a major debate about health care and there was concern about foreign policy without a well it take you live alternative. it's another reason why the republicans don't enter into this next cycle with any kind of clear mandate. they did not make a big argument about where they wanted to take the country and that is unfortunate for all of us. it would have been better if this is a big debate about the big issues of the day. >> the cover of bloomberg politics.com is have guns have become a defining issue in the 2014 midterms. after living in europe are a couple of years, is jarring to arehow politicians associated themselves with images of firearms. will this be a game changer for 2014, guns? >> there are certain pockets of like alaska,ates arkansas, where you've got a gun culture. there are gun owners who feel like their guns are going to be taken away from them. we have not seen any movement to actually get anywhere on that in washington. i think that feeling and that perception has driven some voters and will drive some voters to the polls. thank u andenberg, also thanks to jonathan allen. we will be here tomorrow with all night coverage after the election. still to come, what caused richard ranson's experimental station to crash? i will speak to see richard branson himself just ahead. ♪ >> late last week, macdonell's will roll out a new management structure. the fast food restaurant chain will give more autonomy to regional managers allowing menu items to better reflect local taste. this is a huge change. they usually offer the same menu everywhere in the world. u.s. sales at mcdonald's have weakened along with its shares and there has been speculation it could be a target for activist investors. would that be a good idea? with me this is morning from harvard business school. thank you for joining us. such ayou think this is bad idea for activist to get involved in mac donald's after we have seen how much success three g capital had with burger king? >> i don't know that it would be a bad idea. i think activists are at their best when they focus on portfolio businesses, capital allocations, and govern out. they're not necessarily at their best when they try to coach management and how to improve margins around the company better. that's not their expertise own activist coming in has to decide whether there are some things they can move the needle on. i think coaching a management team on running a business is probably not their highest and best use. >> we see some activists stepping beyond the traditional boundaries of living up a small stake. i'm thinking of eddie lampert at sears and bill ackman with herbalife. why are they taking on these cases? is this a smart move? i think those are examples where maybe an activist got a little bit out over their skis. they are not experts at running companies. they do have a lot of expertise in may be looking at portfolio businesses and maybe there is a high growth and low growth business and if you split them up, it would create value or maybe capital allocation could be more effectively done, share repurchase separating real estate or maybe there is a governance issue. with eddie lampert and bill ackman -- when bill ackman has focused on those three core areas, he has been a more effective activist than when he has gotten involved as in jcpenney and coaching management. he has got a little too far in those cases and it has not worked out as well. >> when somebody like dan loeb approaches the ceo of dow chemical and tells him he should be able to make a chemical compound in two years, how do you think the board of dow should respond? this is a tricky point -- they have to treat an activist like dan loeb or any activist with respect as they would any other shareholder. the have to listen to what he is saying, they have to do their analysis but then their job is not to roll over. their job is when they disagreed to do what they think is right, not what the activist wants. heardure andrew liviris that piece of advice and might have rolled his eyes but his job is to treat the activist with respect and listen to everything he says and think whether there is a nugget in there that might be good advice. >> fair enough. the midterm elections are tomorrow, do you think most ceos are not focused on that? is not that they are not focused. on a time you turn football game, you will see for ads. everyone is aware of them. at the federal level in this country, probably not much will change for the most significant thing going on at the federal level is what the federal reserve is doing. for congress, the big issues are immigration reform, ideally reforming social security, medicare, medicaid, infrastructure spending that thing people have low expectations as well as may that washington will be able to make progress on those things. people are best served focusing on what the fed is doing and more importantly focusing on the economy and their business and their markets and running their businesses. i think the expectation is not much will change from d.c. israel's -- as a result from this election. . >> professor robert kaplan, thank you so much. worldso come, why is the largest insulin maker setting its sights so high. ? plus, what caused richard branson's spaceship to crash? i will speak to serve richard branson himself next. ♪ billionaire richard branson said he will slow his quest for space tourism after the crash of his experience all spacecraft on friday. federal investigators have begun studying the fatal test flight. certain richard branson says version is: -- sir richard branson is cooperating. thank you for joining us. initially come it looked like it might be something wrong with the new fuel mix that had not been tested much. we are hearing that there might have been a defect with a function that helps the craft ascended to the atmosphere that could have been deployed early. can you give us an update? well, some elements of the press speculated that it was an and some press said it was fuel tanks and some people said it was rockets. the ntsb quite rightly said that and weshould speculate had to watch the footage and those of self-proclaimed experts. night andame out last said clearly that was not the fuel. the 400 wonderful engineers that worked on the side of the spaceship was not the case. the ntsb and the people that will speak about causes and they do a thorough investigation, that aey indicated was lever have impressed a few seconds sooner than it should ave been and we will leave it up to the ntsb to decide whether that had an effect on that was the cause. >> it is still early days. have any sense of how long you anticipate you will have to lay development plans for virgin galactic? ntsb hason what the seen, they have told us to push ahead as fast as possible with the building of the next spaceship and get testing as quickly as possible. confident thatly there is no fundamental flaw in their team will be working 24 hours per day to get back on track. one day, we will do it. >> how long will that be before you buy -- before you build a second ship? >> well, i would rather not speculate on the time. we are months away from getting a second ship built. obviously, then we have to go through an extensive test program with our brave astronauts and test pilots once again. only when they have put it through its paces will i be ready to go up and once i'm 800 incredible astronauts have stuck with us and we have other astronauts who have signed up since the accident. we should then be able to fly. >> this is rocket science, literally. i cannot imagine how competition this is but i remember in 2010, you were hoping to be flying in orbit by the end of 2012. i spoke to you at the air show in britain and the summer of 2012 and you are hoping to be in orbit by the end of 2013. here we are in 2014 and before this accident, you are hoping to be flying with your son later this spring. do you think you are overly ambitious? i don't think anybody has ever accused me of pushing virgin galactic too far. plenty ofd accusations of pushing it to slowly. we were preparing to go this spring. the team feeling very confident that there would be a few more test flights and then we would be ready to go. something happened, we don't know whether -- for sure whether butas human error or what the ntsb will say very clearly what got in the way of the program. up and pick ourselves get back on track. >> i apologize but we have a satellite window down. there were several safety exemptions, a 2004 law giving minimal regulation to space tourism -- do you expect to see more regulations around what you are welding with version galactic as a result of this crash? >> regulation is important. people have got to feel comfortable in space when they go up and we've got to feel comfortable about taking people up. but that's why test pilots put their lives on the line to see if there's any little thing that the 400 engineers on earth have missed. pilots have put it through its paces, i think these authorities and their cells will start taking people up. >> sir richard thank you very much. we wish you the best of luck. >> thank you. >> we will be back in two minutes. ♪ >> welcome back to "in the loop." here is look at our top stories -- futures are indicating that stocks will be lower at the open and u.s. equities begin lower after a record-setting friday. . republicans hope to capitalize on anti-obama sentiment and democrats have launched a last-ditch get out the vote effort. the midterm elections are tomorrow and hundreds of races are at stake that the election will come down to a handful of states. republicans need to pick up six senate seats to regain the majority. the gop is expected to increase its already substantial majority in the house. investigators are looking to the crash of richard branson's experiments spaceship and they will not rule out pilot error. to say the spaceship disintegrated over the mohave desert after a device to slow the craft dissent was deployed prematurely. the spaceship's copilot was killed in the pilot was seriously injured. moments ago, we spoke with sir richard branson and he is confident that hers no fundamental flaw in this patient design. ofricans cannot do math sport utility vehicles. octoberrmakers reported sales that beat estimates and demand for suvs kept growing as the price of gasoline keeps falling. chrysler's sales rose 22% overall which is the 55th month in a row that they have increased. we will hear from ford and general motors later this hour. medicaler in the services industries, laboratory corporation of america has or $6.1o buy covenant billion. labcorp makes medical diagnostic processes. world's largest maker of insulin reassured investors last week with better than estimated earnings and a strong growth forecast for next year. the announcement came days after sanofi warned of a sharp downturn for its diabetes business. joining me now is the novo no rdisk ceo. this very us, in competitive field of diabetes companies, how is it that your company remains in into this price pressure among diabetes drugs? >> we do feel the price pressure. it's just that we have an excellent organization in the u.s. and we are gaining market share. we are decidedly better than that of the competition. >> you are in houston to announce a big partnership with the city to combat diabetes because 2/3 of diabetes live in cities. outhave already rolled it in mexico city and copenhagen. what is the strategy? want to team up with key case houstonhis and mexico city and copenhagen, and a couple of cities in asia. why people inning urban areas get more diabetes than people in rural areas and then get together to discuss the findings and take some action. >> what is it you have learned from the other cities where you have already rolled this out? why is it that there is such a high incidence rate of diabetes in urban areas? >> it is social economic issues, that urbans such planning and distances from home to work and an inability to get exercise in a safe environment, a change in lifestyle and foodstuffs -- lots of complex issues that are at play. we need to learn from each other how this can basically be dealt with. >> i would like to turn your back to the question about drug pricing of insulin. why do you feel this type of treasure is not seen in other disease areas like rheumatoid arthritis which is much bigger with several players also involved? what is it about insulin? >> the pharmaceutical marketplace is like any other marketplace characterized by competition when the buy side is consolidating, they get more strength. maturitys are reaching , meeting patent expiration, they are often prone to more competition. all of that is reflected in the ongoing prices of insulins and other drugs. >> in 10 years, how do you think medicine and health care in general will be paid for given the increasing rise of highly priced but very effective drugs? thee should remember that total drug billing in the united states is not increasing. it's going down because of patent expiration on high-volume drugs that used to be expensive but are now affordable. that actually is a development we see all over the world. innovative drugs are being replaced by generics as they go off patent. this is funding the ability to innovate and find new therapies. we still have to revolutionize therapy and human health. >> let me jump back to diabetes and obesity. the link between obesity and diabetes is very strong. you also have a new drug out for obesity. i have covered many obesity drugs before. they have all come out with something and these drugs never seem to work despite all the high hopes. there are lots of problems launching them. why do you think your new obesity product will be different? all, a city like houston where i am, about 1/3 of the adult population has diabetes is means they have the higher rate of obesity. we need to do something about it. pharmaceutical intervention is one way. the reason it has not worked in the past is that there has been no real recognition that obesity is a condition and it is not just moral failure. therefore, medical intervention has to find its place and we are optimistic that her drug will. >> thank you so much for being with us. up, the former nasa astronaut captain mark kelly joins us here for a look at how the crest of the burgeon galactic spaceship -- the crash of the virgin galactic spaceship could affect the space durham is industry. -- the space tourism industry. ♪ >> we are 20 minutes away from the start of trading celebs count down -- so let's count down. -- u.s.me that a investigators have started their investigation into the virgin atlantic crash. thate ntsb are the people will speak about causes and they are doing a very thorough investigation. was that andicated lever had been pressed a few second center than it should have been and we will leave it up to the ntsb to decide whether that had any effect and when -- and whether that was the cause. >> for more on what may have happened and what it means to future space programs, let me bring in someone with a lot of experience, former nasa astronaut captain mark kelly joins us from tucson, arizona as a special advisor to elon musk at spacex. thank you for joining us. let's start with richard branson said. he says it might have been an actual user error. what is your reaction? i think what richard is doing is repeating what the ntsb said. this will take a lot of time to look at all the evidence and come up with a definitive conclusion of what caused this accident. what the ntsb said is there is some indication that the feathering system of the spacecraft deployed earlier than it normally would and shortly after that is when the breakup occurred. those are facts. it still will take some time to come up with a cause of the mishap. >> what does it sound to you like? for the ntsb to come out and say we noticed on video and telemetry that the pilot basically unlocked the withoutng system and any further action, the feathering system was deployed or put into place or was activated, and then two seconds later, the vehicle lost data and they lost a video which indicates that the breakup happened. i think video from the ground confirms that. the focus of the ntsb investigation right now. at some later point, they might decide to change that but it seems that the feathering system of the spacecraft is the focus of the investigation right now. >> captain telik, you are a former nasa astronaut and you are currently at rising spacex which is a private company. usually these companies are doing rigorous safety testing. do they do the same as nasa does? >> absolutely, many employees that richard has a virgin galactic are former nasa employees. the vice president runs operations there used to essentially do the same job at nasa for my last space shuttle flight, mike moses, who is incredibly talented. he is smart and i know he is focused on safety all the time. you have to understand that this is a difficult thing to do under the best of circumstances. it's risky and there will be accidents. it is only by taking risks and doing difficult rings that we progress in aviation or any other business or industry. >> richard branson said he will push forward to try to build a new spaceship as soon as possible. do you think an incident like this should give him more pause? >> i am happy to hear him say that. we have to push ahead we should not let things like the slowest down. we have to take a little bit of a step back and while he says he will press ahead, at the same time, i know they will look at what the ntsb uncovers and they will fix the problem. they will adjusted and start flying and testing again and hopefully soon, there are passengers flying on virgin galactic spacecraft first into suborbital flight and then maybe later, maybe this is the way we get around the planet. >> that is something that richard told me himself. two years ago, he said going up to orbit and getting to australia would be just two hours. it's a great idea but there are many hurdles that still remain. you said these commercial companies are being as rigorous with the safety testing as nasa but lawmakers have carved out special safety exemptions. fore was a 2004 law pulling minimal resident -- minimal regulationventures. was that a mistake? >> i don't think so. you have to allow these private commercial companies the available space to take the risk. when you look at it, they are not taking the risk with the general public right now with passengers. they are taking the risk with test pilots. these are guys like myself who sign up to do this job because they love what they do. they are given this space and free of certain kinds of regulation at this point and eventually, when they start putting passengers on board, i imagine the regulation will change. the first goal of the faa is to protect the general public which is protect the people on the ground. ther job is not to protect company and test pilots on board. at this point, i think it was the right decision. >> because this is literally uncharted territory, there has been confusion over which regulator should be spearheading the investigation. the ntsb is looking into this but as a result of what has happened, this tragic crash, do you expect to see the likes of spacex against more regulation? >> no, i don't think so. spacex is done a fabulous job delivering cargo to the international space station. they have done a number of times now. spacex is looking at delivering crewmembers to the space station. that is not the general public. these will be nasa astronauts that are required to get there. i don't think the faa will change the way they regulate spacex. thentsb is just organization that is doing the investigation. that's because they are so good at it. the way that virgin galactic and that get to an answer soon as have the ntsb do this. is in uncharted territory because it space and we have not sent the civilian public into space before. the faa is giving them a lot of leeway right now. we do not have passengers on board yet. >> that's an important point. captain mark kelly, thank you for joining us this morning. our countdown to the opening bell continues so stay with us. we are just getting started. . ♪ >> welcome back to "in the loop." >> i was going to wear pink this morning. richmond fed president jeffrey lacher says he's not worried about prices rising too fast and he is an inflation hawk and makes the point that we have ended quantitative easing but until we start to actually sell back the bonds, the stimulus remains in place. scarlet has been covering the oil story. with oil falling -- falling this month, how can any believe inflation is coming back? >> he says inflation is not the problem he once saw it is. as. when he was a voting member of the fmo see, he wanted to tighten monetary policy at every meeting. willm curious of this damage the fed's credibility in terms of hitting the two percent target. they have talked about how they wanted to get there. no evidencere is and plays we are creeping towards that, we are at 1.4%. >> there is no evidence anywhere of inflation creeping up. maybe food prices. number three is dunkin' donuts. they are revealing a new hybrid pastry. they call it a croissant-doughnut. it's 20 layers of goodness. >> i have not tried one yet. morning and this the glaze is amazing. it tastes like a glazed doughnut. >> this is good stuff. >> it tastes a little like a bagel, surprisingly chilly. breakfast is getting more competitive. out with aell coming waffle tocco, i don't think the krone --cronut will hold up. . >> i think it's really good. it's also $2.49. >> is cheaper than they want the other place. actualcronut has been trademarked. the new york by doughnut. >> when i did the piece in hong kong, they called it the cronut. >> neither of you look like you read many of them. ctober was a strong month for automobile sales. the story of gasoline seems to be driving cars. it could be a knee-jerk reaction because gas prices are below three dollars, the lowest in four years, that have not been that low for very long. it's very shortsighted to run out and buy an suv. >> i checked with bloomberg intelligence and they said gasoline plays a factor when the prices arising. when it comes down, people don't look at is as much. they look at the trade-in value of a car and how much insurance costs and these other factors. gasoline is an added boost but it's not really the key reason why someone would go out and buy an suv. >> to use to be a time when these car companies would struggle because they would see sales for the big suvs decline depending on where oil rises were. now pretty much, you have a variety of cars under one umbrella. one company gets the bust of oath deals -- gets the best of both deals. and financing is really easy. we will take a rate as we near the opening l herriot -- the opening bell. . on friday, the s&p and dow closed at record highs so futures are basically flat. the dow is a notch lower and the nasdaq is a little higher but record territory for the s&p and the tao. we will be back in just a moment. ♪ . . >> welcome back. we are bringing you the most important stories you need to know about the opening bell. jobs and economy taking center stage as voters get set to hit the polls. president obama and the democrats have not been able to take credit for the gains in the labor market. it is very interesting. it is the economy, stupid. but it does not seem to be the economy, will midterm voters are making their decisions on. >> republicans have been up front of saying this is not what we want. the challenge for them will be to pivot from that. we had a chart earlier this morning on how real wages for most of americans who had a whoege degree film 9% -- had a college degree fell 9%. >> i saw that chart this morning and was curious. it could be bigger if you had people with a college degree working in jobs that fit their skill set. the problem is you have individuals with masters degrees who are not doing the right work. >> starbucks. >> exactly, which could be fun. >> we have the bell. stocks kick off another trading week. the u.s.t is not clear has recovered from the recession and is worried europe and china could pull us backwards. good morning. thanks for joining us. it has got to be annoying to the president. unemployment has come down to below 6%. gdp is at 3.5%. housing market is looking good. it looks and smells like recovery. why do you think we are not in a recovery? aswe are in a recovery, meager as it is. it is just the rest of the world is not following along. the u.s. can only pull some much weight by itself. the recent volatility serves to highlight how uncertain we are politically, economically, geopolitically, and financially. the weakness in europe is disconcerting. the deceleration in emerging markets may serve to undermine our recovery in the u.s. the u.s. cannot do it alone. we live in a global economy. the rest of the economies have to pull their own weight. >> we have so many guests who talk about the weakness in europe and how they are overweight europe. isn't there a disconnect? the reason you are overweight is you think mario draghi will come through. he is not going to be able to get those stagnant economies growing again? >> no question. riskserm, the downturn may outweigh it. would remain overweight in our portfolio at american century. but longer-term, we are putting some chips on the european markets. that is because of the relative valuation picture. the u.s. has done well economically and financially if you look at the stock market indices around the world. in terms of relative valuations, you have to bet on the undervalued markets looking out two or three years. >> we have auto sales numbers coming across the terminal for october. sales were down 1.8%, but that was better than forecast. there were estimates of a drop of 4.3%. auto sales up 5.2% against estimates of 3.1%. both companies struggling with recalls. ford betting big on china. for china, manufacturing slowing as well. do we presume china will stick economy plan to tip its towards a consumption led one rather than coming to some stimulus? >> i think there is no question they will continue on that track. whether they are successful remains to be seen. big issue for us in the u.s. if europe and china cannot get their economies going in the right direction, china is clearly growing in real terms but they are decelerating. that will put pressure on commodities and demand outside its own borders. it is a real issue for us here. >> as someone who has lived in china, it seems the chinese market is more concerned about reforms. becaused argue perhaps of the shanghai index. if you see what is happening with gold, we are talking about the slowdown in terms of the global growth picture. goingondering if we are to see a revival in gold because of what is happening globally. $1.2 billion has been pulled out from gold and other precious metals so far this year. >> it is very possible. gold is a safe haven asset so it tends to move with the vix. people run to it in a calamity. it is always good to have a little gold in your portfolio as a safe haven. but ultimately it is not driven by supply and demand. is driven by fear and greed. >> and perhaps inflation. with oil prices, we are seeing little of that these days. thanks for joining us. come, americans think bigger. soccer moms are cheering for suv's thanks to lower gas prices. more on this shift after the break. ♪ chrysler posting another month of strong u.s. sales with a 22% increase in october. the lowest gas prices in four years are helping change the behavior and decisions of american car buyers. mike jackson about the impact of lower gas prices. prices does not impact the total number of vehicles sold but it definitely impacts the types of vehicles people buy. despite the fact that people say fuel efficiency is their number one issue when they buy a vehicle, i tell you when gasoline prices go down we see an immediate shift towards larger, faster vehicles, particularly trucks. thisining me to discuss change for larger, faster vehicles is the editor-in-chief of the autoblog and our chief markets strategist has been coming through sales results. break down the numbers this morning. justseems like a rash move to be buying more trucks and suv's because gas prices have been below three dollars for five minutes. thisat is a trend all year. if you look at data from the start of the year, sales of small cars have been faltering down about 2.5% for subcompacts. the small crossover utility 14% according to auto data. suv sales have outstripped small cars each month of this year. it is not just this month that things have picked up for the suv's and small cars or something investors are shunning. >> is this america's love affair with big trucks and cars? >> yeah. everyone wants the most car you can buy. it is fuel-efficient. whichw jeep cherokee posted 50% sales growth can get 30 miles per gallon. we don't need to panic. buyers will buy something bigger but it will not lead to a glut of escalates on the roads. >> it is not your father's escalade. u.s. vehicle fleet is more efficient than in the past. he gets an average of 24.1 miles per gallon. improved.e technology has enabled us to get more fuel efficient, so maybe some of the considerations people used to have have fallen by the wayside. >> finally we know the government did something about efficiency and emissions standards. on the flipside, do falling gas prices mean it is hurting sales of hybrids and electric cars? >> i talked to an analyst at bloomberg intelligence. he was saying the lower gas prices, the longer the payback on the technology premium you pay for tesla. where it is factor not in your best interest in terms of how much you say to buy one of these electric vehicles. >> you're talking about 10 years making the difference over a regular car. regular cars are more efficient. hybrids are taking the biggest hit down about 18% for the year. electric car sales do not correspond to reality. today, nissan reportedly's sales are up huge over last year. huge is still not that many cars. >> people who buy tesla are not that worried about gas prices. you have other considerations. >> likely, they are heavily invested in the stock market. talk about the recalls. to what extent are using a recall impact? >> basically none at this point because everyone is recalling. recalls have outpaced any other year and the year is not over yet. we have seen a lot of recalls from g.m., but ford and chrysler have had recalls. the airbag recall hit everyone. mazda. ford, g.m., bmw, no one is exempt from recalls. read the story about an airbag blowing shrapnel into a driver? >> there are few choices. you could drive a volvo. your dad should feel very good about himself with a volvo, station wagon is a great car to buy. people have fatigue. if you hear about a new recall everyday companies stopped paying attention. >> who has been hardest hit by the recalls? obviously, g.m. but is that showing up in sales? >> they are doing better than ford. i think we will continue to see chrysler and g.m. do well. i think ford will struggle until they get the f1 50 on the market. >> or everyone will buy a volvo hybrid. thanks so much for joining us. at the top tech stories on our bloomberg west radar. apple is talking to investors about its first ever bond sale in euros according to persons familiar with the matter. that would allow apple to borrow at the lowest rate relative to dollar-denominated debt in six years. new york may grant transitional licenses to small bitcoin firms and other startups that deal in virtual currency. the state superintendent of financial services says that would prevent firms from being crushed by huge supplies and cost. new york has been developing a bitcoin license to prevent money laundering. this video has been going viral. in twoedevil death-defying walks in chicago. he did it without a harness or safety net. he didthose walks blindfolded roughly 600 feet above the ground. he is part of the seventh generation of the famous flying will end the flamboyant -- flying while in the family -- wallenda family. truly insane. ♪ >> the las vegas event focuses on commerce. erik schatzker is there and joins me now. good morning. what can we look forward to? >> good morning. this is about the future of money. apple play is just the beginning. we are getting into biometrics, beacons. we are already in the bitcoin era. ist it is going to amount to a cashless world in which paying for things is easier and much more secure but kind of like facebook, it comes at a price. all these companies that want to provide us with electronic financial services will no much more about us and how we spend money. without information, they will be able to do things we like, to offer services and rewards and loyalty programs and discounts we might like. but in exchange, they will know a lot more about us. there are 7500 people convening in las vegas for money 20/20. it gets into the future of money. it is not what we know it as today. >> i know you have great interviews coming up. you're there for two days. we are looking forward to all of it. staying with global payments, bill went overseas to sweden ahead of the event. we are increasingly seeing alternatives to cash payments in that country. it may even push traditional money out. take a look. >> shopping for snacks in stockholm has gotten simpler in recent years. >> it is done. >> in part, that is thanks to cashless payment systems. >> cash presents a lot of problems for society as a whole. a lot of people want to use cash. in sweden, it is lower and lower. >> while an estimated 55% of u.s. consumer payments are made with cash, in sweden that is down to 41%. >> we are connected to the cashless system. we are there. we also have the network because we are on the mobile data network. >> his firm now operates in 30 different countries. sweden, it enabled is just one of several companies competing to replace cash. >> it is a strong digital entrepreneurship phase. entrepreneurs want to challenge the old banking industry by providing this new innovative mobile payment services. >> the old banking industry has reacted with six of sweden's largest ranks banding together in 2012 to build an instantaneous mobile payment platform. >> we share the development costs. we see customers adopting new technology like mobile payments. we all saw this need where we could replace cash. >> the idea that banks could cooperate to kill off cash might be unthinkable elsewhere. but it is not so surprising in sweden where bills and coins recently constituted less than 3% of the country's domestic product compared to an average across the euro area of almost 10%. many bank branches here no longer carry hard currency. vendors use a wireless card readers to accept credit and debit card payments. cellphone stores post signs saying no cash accepted. sweden printer the first banknotes 350 years ago. the new technologies have not stopped the banks from designing new notes for 2015. she may control the country's physical currency but says she never carries cash. >> we are quite neutral even though we are the one to provide society with cash. cash is not necessarily the best payment instrument. nation where fewer retail transactions are carried out in cash and almost everyone has access to the internet, the new bills may be the last the swedes ever need. stockholm, sweden. "inhat does it for the loop." betty liu will be back next week with big interviews. that he also be speaking to the nasdaq ceo -- betty will also be speaking to the nasdaq ceo. that is all starting tomorrow at 8:00 eastern. stay tuned. ♪ >> it is 56 past the hour. bloomberg television is "on the markets." mixed can see, call it a day so far. for the most part, stocks were down as global weakness has been hitting the boards. we had disappointing manufacturing numbers from china. that is translating into the way the dollar is trading, strengthening to almost a seven-year high versus the yen. 4%,ral gas up close to surging the most in five weeks on forecasts for unusually cold weather. that would create more demand. you can see treasuries. we will stick with moms because debt investors saw volatility sore the most in a year. who were the biggest winners and losers? here to break it down as always is our debt specialist. let's talk about the winners first. >> you saw a safe haven trade that won out. there was volatility and a dip in yields in safe haven assets. yields did bounce back but give up some of the gains. when yields drop, prices rise. overall, the safe havens did seem to win out. people were looking for stability. we are seeing more growth in the u.s., more stabilizing economic signs. you were seeing plunging oil prices which raised concerns about global growth. as global growth slows, there is less demand for oil. issue,he global growth if you look outside the u.s., some of the biggest losers were in places like russia. >> with russia, you have a bunch of different things. sanctions are hitting the economy. you have oil prices dropping. that takes a huge bite out of their income. one of their main businesses is energy and oil. they are losing out on that front. putin is not ingratiating himself with the global powers that be. that is definitely having an effect on the economy as well. another big loser was greece the ecbthere is concern is backing away from some measures is had taken to support borrowing. yields have risen significantly. their debt loss about 10% according to one index last month. >> as you talk to market participants and reflect on october, what caused the volatility we are seeing? >> there is a lot of questions about that. there's a lot of finger-pointing at hedge funds saying they were leveraged, they had all the same trades. they had to get out at the same time. a couple of bad things happened at once. oil prices dropping, fannie mae and freddie mac decision which caused prices to plunge for a lot of hedge funds owning that stock. you also have treasuries falling. that was also unexpected. they fell to such a low level a lot of people to get forced people betting against treasuries to foreclose on those bets and by that treasuries to close out the short positions which further caused yields to drop because it pushed up prices of the treasuries. all these different factors played into it. another issue that will be ongoing is diverting monetary policy, diverging central banks. >> that is a big issue. we have to leave it there. thank you. we are "on the markets" in 30 minutes. "market makers" is next. ♪ live from bloomberg headquarters in new york, this is "market makers" with erik schatzker and stephanie ruhle. >> house and before your cash is trash? apple pay and did coin -- bitcoin are the start. we will see how soon until a truly cashless society. >> republicans are the favorites to capture the senate. we will talk to bloomberg's political gurus. >> luck of the irish. thha

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tonight is urging people to be on high alert. that's following a string of fires in the downtown area, including one early this morning. investigators believe most of the fires were deliberately set. nbc bay area's kimberly tere joins us from the scene of one of the fires with more on the investigation and a sketch of the possible suspect. >> reporter: diane, this is actually the sketch released by investigators today of a person of interest. it is based on witness descriptions, and also on images taken from surveillance video cameras in the areas where the fires were started. the most recent fire actually started this morning, just before 4:30 a.m. san jose firefighters say it was a jogger who alerted them to the fire, by banging on the door of their station, which is actually very close to the home which was on fire near the intersection of east st. john and 17th street. a couple in their 70s were inside the home. but firefighters say neighbors were able to alert them and they were able to get out safely. this is the latest of several fires in the area since wednesday, and firefighters say they believe the same person may be responsible. according to investigators, the fires have all been set within a small geographic area, during the early-morning hours, and are similar in nature. they have all been set on the exteriors of the buildings. >> we have experienced a rash of very dangerous fires that as our fire department officials will inform you have been intentionally set. these fires har targeted the residents in the darkest of the night when they are most vulnerable. we've been very fortunate these fires have not resulted in serious injury or death to our residents. should these fires continue, i fear that this good fortune may run out. >> reporter: a $10,000 reward is now being offered for the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible. the person of interest is described as a white or hispanic man, 25 to 40 year'0" years old 6'2", weighing approximately 160 to 180 pounds with dark medium length hair, wearing distinctive large frame glasses. firefighters say they are working very closely with san jose police to put an end to the rash of suspected arsons, and want to hear from you if you think you may know the partnership responsible or seen anything suspicious related to these fires. live in san jose, kimberly tere, nbc bay area news. we have new information tonight on a house fire in walnut creek that left one person dead. firefighters identified the victim trapped inside that home. he's identified as 62-year-old charles mcdonald. last night firefighters found his body on the second floor of the home, near the regional open safe. heavy flames and smoke made it difficult to get to the victim. an autopsy is scheduled for monday. as the number of flu related deaths in the bay area continues to rise, there's word of a temporary shortage in some locations of the flu vaccine. both cvs and walgreens said some pharmacies have run out of flu shots and are trying to restock their supplies. monty? >> reporter: good evening. at the start of the day, this walgreens behind me had about 30 doses of the flu vaccine, and this afternoon they ran out. now they'll have to wait until monday to get more. as far as we can tell, this is not a widespread shortage, but walgreens and cvs have both acknowledged that some of their pharmacies are running low or have run out of in you shots because of high demand and it would take 48 hours to replenish the supply. health officials are urging the people to get the flu vaccine, and seven bay area counties, plus santa cruz county, reported collectively more than a dozen deaths so far this flu season. the most recent victim was a 23-year-old man from sonoma county with no underlying health problems. in fact, all of the victims so far have been under the age of 65. but many people say they still aren't planning on getting vaccinated. >> i know that there are people that have died recently, but i consider if it's my time to go, then it's my time to go. but i don't try to worry about getting illnesses or being really concerned about that. >> actually, i've never had one. i don't like shots. but i haven't really gotten the flu. i don't know, haven't been something i'm concerned about. >> reporter: you might remember four years ago, 600 californians died in the swine flu pandemic. so far health officials are not predicting anything like that. but they say this flu season appears to be worse than previous years. we did checking around and there are some other nearby pharmacies that have the vaccine. so if you want the vaccine, you should be able to find it. monty francis, nbc bay area news. >> thank you for the update, monty. a deadly stabbing in san jose. officers found a man op the sidewalk, on willow glen way around 1:40 this morning. he was pronounced dead at the scene. the coroner is not releasing the victim's name until they're able to notify family members. authorities on the peninsula are asking for the public's help tonight in finding an armed robbery suspect. this is a picture of the suspect from a bank surveillance video. he went into the chase bank yesterday afternoon and demanded money. he's described as being about 5'6" with a thin build. authorities say no one was hurt in that incident. across the bay in oakland, police are looking for a man involved in an armed robbery on tuesday. the robbery happened on walker avenue near the grand lake theater. police released this picture of the suspect. they say he's in his 30s, 5'7", and weighs about 170 pounds. he has a silver grill in his mouth. he's believed to be in this truck there as well. police have not released any additional information about the robbery but asks anyone who recognize the picture to call the oakland police department. counting down to the next big game. i've got this voice thing going again. let's go right to the sound of niner fans. >> i really plan on wearing mir large hat. and then eat a lot. >> we're going to go to a pub right across from the stadium and watch the game there. which we think would be fun. remember, the game is early in the morning. this should be a fun time getting up early to go to an old stomping ground for the niners. >> kickoff for the niners and panthers is 10:00 tomorrow. 49er fans come in all sizes and ages. here is, we're going to show you 2-year-old makenna. these are fan pictures as well. makenna wordel was just 2 years old when she became a niner fan. i'm not sure what these pictures are. we're asking people to send in 49er pictures and we'll post them on our website so you can see everybody celebrating 49er faithful. still to come, we may be months away from the first space tourism flight. the flight from the mojave desert. the debate over an only pg&e facility in the east bay. the residents who were trying to stop a corporation and its crude oil plan. we're starting to see light rain moving away from san jose right now. it's clearing skies returning to the bay area. as we look at the rain, and see the smoe move on. we could see 60s and 70s coming back to your forecast. a look at that when we come right back. gathering in bits purg voicing opposition to prong to put a crude oil storage facility in their backyard. the protesters are rallying against a plan to modernize and re activate an old pg&e oil storage facility near the downtown area. protesters say the project will expose residents to the potential of a crude oil leak or explosion and air quality issues. they say they have huge community support and are optimistic they can keep the plan from becoming a reality. >> we're in a david and goliath battle. we're going to win. we're going to win. we're going to win, because they will not tolerate this in their backyard. >> they said the new facility will use the most up-to-date technology and be monitored for safety 24 hours a day. it will be discussed at the next pittsburg city council meeting. ariel sharon died eight years after a stroke that left him in a coma from which he never woke up. the former statesman is expected to be buried next to his wife at the sharon family farm in southern israel. sharon was a life-long freedom fighter for the state of israel. he helped form the conservative party and considered a hardliner as prime minister. coming up next, getting ready for the ride of a lifetime. it's a rocket ride that may launch by the end of this year. next, the flight that plans on taking paying customers into space. blasting tourists into space is no longer the stuff of science fiction. a spaceship launched its test flight on friday. that means more than 650 people will soon be headed to the stars. tom costello has more. >> reporter: sunrise in the mojave desert as virgin galactic space ship 2 attached to its mother ship soared into the sky for a critical test flight. 50 minutes later, at 46,000 feet -- >> three, two, one. >> reporter: -- space ship 2 dropped from white knight 2. then fired the rocket that pushed it to its highest altitude yesterday, 71,000 feet. by the end of the year, paying customers will take the same ride even higher. 325,000 feet, and into space. former nasa shuttle flight director mike moses is now in charge of virgin galactic's mission control. >> unbuckle your seat belt and just float up and out for about four minutes. >> reporter: four minutes of weightlessness. the blackness of space. and the curvature of the earth. it isn't cheap. each round trip ticket costing $250,000. but already, 675 passengers have paid a deposit. including ashton kutcher, leonardo dicaprio, justin bieber, katy perry. in a few years branson's tourist flights into space will bring the price tag down to roughly the cost of an expensive suv. >> after today's successful flight, it means we're getting closer and closer to going into space this summer. i think we'll be giving our astronauts in waiting the ride of a lifetime. >> reporter: this was the critical test of the ship that will make it all happen. including the foldup wings that will help slow the spaceship on reentry. >> there's nothing like this that you can pay the money for, and get this sort of ride. >> again, that was tom costello reporting. they have to go through three days of preparation not to mention a lot of cash. skiers and snowboarders enjoyed fresh snow in the sierra today. very nice. look closely and you can see snow is falling on that mountain. the forecast calls for an inch or two of new snow at lake level. that is welcome news to skiers as well as to meteorologists like rob mayeda who wants to see water and snow pack and all that. >> we need to see a lot more of that. we did get a little bit of light rain around the bay area. but most of it in the north bay. you're starting to see clearing taking place in san francisco. you've got the clearing skies, partly cloudy. still that sea breeze out there this evening, making things feel quite cool. a little more gloomy in san jose, as you look at the hills down to campbell, around mt. hamilton. that's areas we're still seeing light rain. as you mentioned in the sierra, finally we can talk about snowfall. these pictures sent in by northstar. a lot of happy folks in the sierra. here's good news. we will continue to see some snow at times for our friends up at squaw valley and alpine meadows. we'll keep some snow flurries into tonight, maybe early tomorrow morning. temperatures climbing as we head into sunday and monday. needless to say, probably some of the best skiing conditions we've had so far in quite some time, with some of that fresh powder coming down. overnight, i think we'll manage another two to three inches of snow above 6,000 feet. back to the bay area, mostly cloudy skies in the south bay, as the rain pushes on off. we'll take a closer look at what's going on here. from san jose off to the east, we've got a little bit of light rain. we'll emphasize the little bit as we take a closer look here, east of san jose. we do have some showers around mt. hamilton. what we've got is a lot of cloud cover being forced to rise up over the mountains. providing just enough lift to get us just some light rain at times. you're seeing some of that around morgan hill as the pattern, at least to start the weekend, starts like this. a little dip in the jet stream. we've had a little bit of rain, but most of it has been really in the north bay. so not a lot of rain coming down. in fact, the pattern will begin to shift as we go into the beginning of next week. we're not talking about rain anymore, but high pressure will build in once again. our winds will start to turn offshore. temperatures will be climbing into the 60s and 70s come tuesday and wednesday. so as you take a look at the seven-day forecast at the bottom of the screen, those numbers will be coming up once again. light rain, done this evening. tomorrow, more sunshine. and those temperatures climbing on up. as soon as we get a little bit of rain and snow, this pattern heading through next week looks mainly dry until next weekend. for tomorrow, for your early play-off tailgating plans around the bay area as you watch that 49ers game in charlotte, north carolina, tomorrow you'll see 62 in san jose. partly cloudy skies for the morning. sunshine for the afternoon. upper 50s around the peninsula and san francisco upper 50s to near 60. into the north bay we'll see temperatures tomorrow warming into the mid-60s. oakland near 60 degrees. tri-valley temperatures low 60s. sunday, probably one of the coolest days we'll see in the seven-day forecast. once the winds turn offshore come wednesday, you'll see highs getting close to 70 around the bay area. one item to watch as we wrap up the weekend on the coach, beach hazard statement for rough surf on sunday. temperatures warm up, but watch out for those rough waves, rip currents and maybe some sneaker waves on the coast. sierra travel better than today, wrapping up in the 40s on sunday. >> that is nice to hear. thank you, rob. counting down to sochi. the united states is close to finalizing its figure skating team with a national championships in boston tonight. a san jose skater is one step closer to making it on that team. paulinea is a sophomore at midi high school and trains at san jose ice. she's also a student at the dance theater international. her dancing friends were thrilled to see how well she did in the short program. >> it was cool. i wasn't really expecting her to go to the olympics. but she's a really good ice skater. >> yes, she is. tonight she's in the last group for the ladies' free skate event. the top three skaters in boston earn a trip to sochi next month. nd henry wofford joins us now. hello, henry. i'm assuming you've got a little basketball action, maybe some 49ers stuff coming up? >> absolutely. you know, diane, you know everything that's going on. >> i'm just taking a wild guess. >> well, you hit the nail right op the head. tonight we'll take you around the wcc with highlights from the college hardwood. get this, diane, we'll tell you where you can get a great deal on a 49ers tattoo. plus, frank gore and the 49ers have carolina on their minds. but in order to emerge victorious, they'll have to sweat the small stuff. we'll explain right after the break. welcome back to nbc bay area. if you take care of the little things, the big things will take care of themselves. i didn't say that, that's advice from former penn state head coach joe paterno. something jim harbaugh preaches to his troops. and frank gore is definitely buying in. >> there's a lot of things we didn't pick up, you know, that what our coach told us we should have picked up. if we did what our coaches said, there would have been big plays. >> he's always been a competitive player. i think it's one of the things he prides himself on not just running the ball well, but pass protecting game downfield. will do anything to help the team. he's shown that his whole career. we're not surprised by it. >> like pickup basketball, the guy that's just going to hit the 30-foot jump shots isn't necessarily the best player. sometimes you want the guy who's going to -- you want the guy who's going to go in and compete. >> the 49ers continue their quest for six. after tomorrow's showdown in carolina, tune in to comcast sports net bay area for complete post-game coverage from the team. that's coverage your team all season long. meanwhile, reports are coming out of carolina that the minnesota vikings are looking to conduct interviews today, just a day before the 49ers-panthers game. with office coordinator roman and jim for their vacant head coaching position. we'll keep you updated on that story. some people bleed red and gold, some people take that even a step further. right now, silver needle studios in concord is offering 49eres tattoos at the discount rate of $49. the offer, by the way, is good for the duration of the 49ers play-off run. all right. with the win tomorrow, 49ers play the winner of the seahawks-saints game. take a look at marshawn lynch. the oakland native takes the handoff right up the gut for a 15-yard td. fourth quarter, 16-8 hawks. lynch with the exclamation point, bounces it, and goes left. 31 yards for the td. seattle wins 23-15. and will host the nfc championship game next week. also, st. mary's hosting usf. randy bennett coming off a five-game suspension. first half. 12-point lead. an easy layup. later in the first, brad waldo, where's waldo! up and under. and the foul. second half, gaels up 15. holt drives. this to james walker from the corner. st. mary's goes on to win 88-73. i'm checking my wallet right now, and diane, yes, i'm correct, i've got $49. i will pay for your 49ers tattoo. how about that. >> yeah, that is so not happening. but i'd be happy to go out and watch you get one, henry. >> oh, believe me, i don't need one. maybe oakland raiders one. but i don't know about 49ers. >> understood. thanks a lot, henry. >> you got it. we'll be right back. "nbc nightly news" is coming up next. we'll have more local news on the nbc bay area news at 6:00. see you then. have a good night. on this saturday night, the banned. the big penalty for alex rodriguez for his alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs. the longest suspension ever in major league baseball. state of emergency, a devastating chemical spill in a major american city has left hundreds of thousands with tainted water and no relief in sight. high demand for marijuana that's been legal in colorado since the start of the year. a booming business already causing shortages. and taking flight. once almost extinct, how these majestic birds are soaring again.

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spaceship and why the dream of civilian space flight is a big step closer, today, saturday, january 11th, 2014. good morning, everyone. welcome to "today" on a saturday. i'm lester holt. >> nice to have you back this morning. >> thank you! >> i'm erica hill alongside jenna wolfe and dylan dreyer. just when you thought the news couldn't get worse, on friday, we get more information, target revealing now that tens of millions of additional customers may have had everything from their names and phone numbers, even their e-mail or mailing addresses stolen. and then, last night we learned that high-end retailer neiman marcus says hackers have targeted them as well. >> kristen dahlgren is following it all for us. kristen, what can you tell us? >> good morning, guys. not the news so many people want to hear after people were shopping in both stores. neiman marcus is the latest retailer to say that some customers' credit cards were compromised in a security breach. we're waiting to hear how many. so far, it's confirmed it was told by a credit card processor of activity and is waiting to notify customers. it says they have enhanced security measures. this comes amid target's revelation that the number of customers affected by its data breach is much larger than originally reported. target now says an additional 70 million customers may have had information stolen. that information may include phone numbers, e-mails, names, addresses. that, of course, raises fears of complete identity theft. add that to the 40 million already reported, and as many as 110 million people may be affected. target is offering free credit monitoring. experts say if you fear you're one of those affected, take it and watch your accounts very closely. lester. >> kristen dahlgren, thanks. jean chatzky is "today's" financial editor. >> good to be with you. >> if you get the address and phone number, what can you do with it? can you steal an identity? >> yeah, that's the real risk. you can build a profile of that person and then use that information to apply for credit in their name, a mortgage in their name, a job in their name. that's where things get really off the rails, and that's why it's so important, as kristen said, to take advantage of credit monitoring, to check your own credit report on a regular basis. >> and will the bank necessarily notify you when it sees suspicious activity? what warning signs would you be looking for? >> if the bank sees you making purchases that are not like yourself, it usually will give you some sort of a fraud tip-off, or at least a phone call, but you want to be monitoring your own credit report for anything that doesn't look like it belongs to you. also, if you don't receive bills that you should receive on a regular basis or the mail seems to be off schedule, that could be a signal that somebody is rerouting your mail. and finally, you have to be very, very careful about phishing. this is when somebody sends you an e-mail that looks like it's from a reputable source, like target, like your bank, and starts asking you for personal information. don't click on links, don't reply with personal information. and if you're at all concerned that this really isn't your bank, you pick up the phone and you call that bank and you initiate the communication. >> right. >> because if you are initiating the communication, it's coming from you and you know at least who you're talking to. >> and this is not the first time. of course, now we have target, now neiman marcus. i'm starting to wonder if cash is king. >> it may very well be. you can go ahead and change your p.i.n.s, change your passwords. if you're concerned about your credit or debit card, you can get those things reissued. but what all of this is saying is that we need to be vigilant. and when it comes to those pieces of plastic, you should always remember, you are not liable for people who are making purchases in your name, but you really should take the time to alert your bank, alert your credit card company as soon as possible after you suspect that something like this happens. and credit is actually better than debit in this instance, because it's less of a hassle. if somebody removes some funds from your checking account using a debit card that they've gotten their hands on, you'll get the money back, but it could take you two weeks. >> all right, jean chatzky, good information. thanks very much. appreciate it. >> sure. >> erica? a state of emergency remains in effect this morning for some 300,000 people in west virginia who have been told not to use their water for anything but flushing their toilets. it all stems from a chemical spill near the capital city of charleston, where luke russert is this morning. luke, good morning. >> reporter: hey, good morning, erica. 15% of the state's population this morning still does not have access to safe, accessible tap water, and that's something that is very problematic for a whole lot of people for many, many reasons. number one, here in the capital city of charleston, businesses have been forced to shut down, a lot of folks can't go in to work, and a lot of folks aren't even allowed to be able to grab the amount of water that they need from their own personal residences. on top of that, water distribution sites have been set up around the state in order to try and curtail some of the problems that have arised from this spill, and that will continue throughout the day. local officials hope to test the water to see if it becomes more diluted, the chemical that was introduced to it yesterday, but there is no clear indication as to whether or not that will be the case. and we're still waiting to see when exactly the water will be safe and accessible to the public again. freedom industries, the company that's responsible for this, they've had a few statements over the last few hours. a lot of folks here on the ground do not feel they have been apologetic enough. the state government has ordered them to move the remaining tanks with their chemicals back to a safe and secure area further away from the river. now, guys, a big problem with this has been illness. this chemical that's been introduced to the water has caused some vomiting, nausea with some folks. over 670 people called the west virginia center for disease control yesterday. that number is expected to probably continue today as more people report what they were exactly exposed to. the situation does not look like it's going to change at all, but a lot of folks here, especially the ones i've talked to, guys, life continues at a standstill until they have access to that clean, accessible tap water. erica? >> tough go there. luke russert, thank you. now to the latest on the george washington bridge traffic scandal that has put new jersey's governor, chris christie, a potential presidential hopeful, in the political crosshairs. on friday, more than 2,000 pages of e-mails about it were released. our national investigative correspondent michael isikoff has been poring through them all. michael, good morning. >> reporter: lester, good morning. these e-mails, which are ripe with details about the hardships created by those traffic jams, could raise a lot more questions for governor chris christie, and there are hints today that one of christie's former top appointees may be ready to talk if he gets immunity from prosecution. the newly disclosed e-mails show officials in charge of the george washington bridge were blindsided last september, as traffic backed up for hours, the result of lane closures ordered by governor chris christie's top appointees. "i am appalled," writes patrick foy, the executive director of the port authority, calling the sclourz "hasty and abusive." "i pray that no life has been lost or a trip to the hospital delayed." this after the mayor of ft. lee who refused to support christie in re-election, reported delays for a child found in a cardiac arrest. but when the mayor called for relief, citing an urgent threat to public safety, christie appointee david wildstein's response to that message? "radio silence." wildstein, the port authority's now-fired deputy director, invoked his fifth amendment rights when called to testify. >> on the advice of my counsel, i respectfully assert my right to remain silent. >> reporter: but his lawyer says if wildstein gets immunity, he'll tell what he knows. >> you find yourselves in a far different position with respect to information he could provide. >> we just want answers to our questions. >> understood. >> i had no knowledge or involvement in this issue, in its planning or its execution, and i am stunned by the abject stupidity. >> reporter: christie has fired his deputy chief of staff over the bridge fiasco, but the chair of the panel investigating bridgegate is vowing more hearings to get to the bottom of who ordered the lane closures and why. >> this can't ever happen again. we can't have people using public resources for political vendettas. >> reporter: now, one of those e-mails shows that wildstein actually showed up to watch those traffic jams in person. one other point, on tuesday, the legislature, new legislature convenes here on tuesday and will renew subpoena power more former and current christie aides will be called to testify. it's a pretty good sign this story isn't going away any time soon. erica? >> just the beginning. michael isikoff, thank you. steve kornacki is host of msnbc's "up." he began his journalism career in new jersey politics. steve adubato is author of "you are the brand." nice to have both of you here. >> good morning. >> as we look at this, the governor emphatic that he didn't know much of this, and what we've seen so far in the e-mails, that does hold up. but as we look at the aides who put this through and apparently thought it was okay, what does it tell us, steve, about the culture in the governor's office and how that could ultimately impact 2016? >> right. i mean, first of all, there's going to be a lot more information that's out before this is over. i think there's going to be a lot more e-mails from a lot more people, so there's a lot of potential there for this to be linked, maybe not to christie, but to a lot of other people. in terms of the culture of the office, what it tells us is, what you find out when you call around and talk to republicans and democrats in new jersey. you talk to republicans in particular, because you'd expect them to be loyal to chris christie, and i talked to one this week and said why aren't you rallying around the governor? you'd expect to see a lot of republicans coming out and supporting him right away, and he told me, he says because we're confused. on the one hand, we're very surprised that a guy this politically smart, this politically capable would find himself somehow in a mess like this, it's baffling to us. he says, on the other hand, the m.o. of this governor's office, unlike any office in recent memory, is to be very aggressive and hands on into asserting itself into political and petty political fights where people from the governor's office or the governor himself will contact very local officials and will really, you know, sort of assert themselves at that level. so, on the other hand, the guy said we're not surprised at all by this. >> well, here's the way i see it. obviously, this is the worst political scandal the governor has faced, but look, unlike a lot of political figures, he took it on, held that press conference for nearly two hours, answered a lot of questions. there are a lot of questions that remain. however, other decisions have to be made, steve. other people are going to be let go. more information as it comes out. but the governor's only chance, from my point of view, is for him to continue to act, act decisively, make decisions where information comes out, where people did horrific things and horrific things were done, people clearly suffered. and it no longer should be really about the governor so much as his political future, it should be about how could something this terrible happen and how could we make sure it doesn't happen again? >> but how does that not come back to your point, that it shouldn't be about the governor, if you're saying it should be about how does this happen, if the buck stops with the governor? >> clearly, it's about both, but at the same time, the governor, from my point of view, his own political, let's say, opportunity is to say, look, stuff happens, and it happened on my watch and i'm responsible, but here's what i'm going to continue to do. and no matter how high those names go, steve, no matter how close those names are to him, no matter how personally connected they are to him, those people have to go, no matter how embarrassing that is to him. that is his chance. >> you covered new jersey politics for a long time. it's a different breed than some other states. is this politics as usual in new jersey? >> to say the least. >> that's the thing. look, payback politics is sort of part of the tradition of new jersey politics. and you talk about politics being an art, and in terms of deciding, you know, is this right, is this wrong, sometimes that line is fine, sometimes it's very definite. sometimes it's very clear. if you don't know exactly where the line is -- >> this one's different, steve. >> -- you do know when you're over the line. >> this is over the line. >> and this is a situation that's over the line. >> and with michael isikoff, more to come later this week. this is clearly not the last time we'll be talking about it. nice to have you both here. a reminder to watch "up" with steve kornacki on msnbc. jenna is standing by with the other top stories. good morning again. >> hey, jenna, good morning. the wreckage of a small plane that vanished a month ago has been found in the mountains of idaho, but authorities don't believe anybody survived. the pilot, a silicon valley executive and four others were on the plane when it went down. the pilot's brother was among the group who found the wreckage on friday. it may take time now to get to the site because of a new storm approaching the idaho area. a growing drug scandal in the air force now involves officers in charge of nuclear weapons. the investigation has spread to ten officers at six different bases in the u.s. and britain. all are expected of possession of synthetic marijuana and ecstasy. two of the officers were stationed at maelstrom air force base in montana and were launch officers responsible for nuclear armed missiles. an official warning now to americans planning to go to the olympics in sochi, russia. with the games just four weeks away, the u.s. state department says u.s. citizens should be careful for their personal security. suspected terrorists have called for attacks on the games and there have been three suicide bombings in russia since october. bp has been ordered to pay $9.2 billion to settle claims from the gulf oil spill. the deepwater horizon controlled by dp exploded in 2010, killing 11 people and spilling nearly 5 million gallons of oil into the gulf of mexico. bp was fighting this settlement, arguing that it did not prevent people from making fraudulent claims against the company, but a federal court on friday ruled that they would have to pay anyway. and finally, sometimes when it rains, it pours, and sometimes when it pours, depending on how much and then how fast and then, of course, the trajectory of the water, you could truck surf. i'm sorry, sounded like i said truck surf. i did. check this out. a very flooded part of southern england, truck surfing happened. these guys hooked up a rope to a 4-wheel-drive vehicle, hopped on their board and made the most of a rainy day, which in england could very well be every day. >> before we know it, it could be a new olympic sport. >> it very, very well could be. >> and we're checking the tape, you said it right. >> i just wanted to make sure that all came out. >> okay. dylan dreyer's here with a check of the forecast. dylan, good morning. >> i'm always the one say don' driv drive. >> we have torrential downpours. this is rain that will come down very hard and very fast. it will produce wind gusts as well. especially as this storm system moves to the east. ironically, we have our flood watches in the northeast. mostly because of the melting snow and those ijams in some of the rivers we are seeing. >> that produces a backup t. water noose where to go. we are seeing rain in the northeast. mostly through the day today. by midnight, it starts to exit. we will start to see improvem t improvements by tomorrow. we could see and we'll see around the bay area to start the weekend will be clouds coming in right now but by 9:00 starting to see light rain in the north bay and as we pass lunchtime there goes the light rain. a few more showers in the north bay into tonight and after that skies clear. second half of the weekend does look dry. we'll see highs today close to 60 in san jose and upper 50s elsewhere. best bet for rain today will be north of the golden gate, in order bay highs today only in the upper 50s. >> and that is your latest fo >> and that is your latest forecast. >> thanks. presidents since dwight eisenhower have been flying across marine one. we have a rare look of what it's like to travel aboard marine one. >> reporter: this is unique access we were given t. u.s. is the only place on the planet. you can't chopper across the ocean. it would take like 25 hours of flying across the country. so how do they do it? we went on the road with marine one. coming in for a landing at this southern california air field, an air force c-17, carrying the first of two marine one helicopters here for president obama's upcoming trip. within minutes of touchdown, it is carefully unloaded even with its rotor blades we moved before the cross country flight, it's a tight fit. as the sun sets the crew chief buries the helicopter to this secured along ar where the reconstruction begins. >> it's challenging. all the training and stuff we do makes it easy. >> reporter: putting marine one back to together is painstaking and precise. it will take up to 20 marines up to four hours to have this helicopter ready to fly again. one by one the helicopter's blades are re-attached under staff sergeant diaz's watch. this will be his final out of town presidential assignment. >> it's kind of bittersweet. i enjoy it. it's a lot of work. >> mechanics swarm the hock. a final polish before putting (one to bed ahead of tomorrow's dry run. early the federal government mornlg morning, this marine pilot briefs his crew and those assigned to support helicopters flown in from a monita marine base. >> we will rehearse what we will execute on pond. >> reporter: time is precious, the president lantz in 48 hours t. formation will include two white tops helicopters, one to fly the president t. other available if any unexpected issues arrive. right now we are 1,000 feet on board the helicopter for the president's trip this is a dress rehearsal for when he arrives. from this van tanl point the view along california's coast is spectacular. first stop lax, where president obama will aliverrive on air fo one. both helicopters taxiing to their exact positions. >> we got to get it right. it's something we are not willing to sacrifice doing it right. >> reporter: we quickly reboarded and took off for the next stop. the landing zone a middle school ball field. the next flag takes marine one over l.a.'s scenic skyline with the hollywood sign in the distance. guiding the helicopters in at each location, white house liason officers pilot themselves serving as air traffic controllers owner oak. it leaves neighbors stunned. by day's end, three stops, three flawless landings. finally, the president is on his way the captain called game day. >> it's just a job. unfortunately, it's the best of the jobs of the day anywhere else in the world. but we take it on. we take it on as a team then we get it done. >> reporter: another presidential mission done without a hitch. the one good question, why not leave a pair of marine one helicopters on the west coast in the squadron says there simply aren't enough of them to do that. leaving them there would mean leaving marine there is as well. simply not an option. >> i was thinking of the will smith line, what was the movie, "independence day," i got to get me one of these. peter alexander, thank you very much. up next, we'll tell you how social media sites got in the list of no nos for sochi. first this is "today" on nbc. ♪ [ female announcer ] wherever morning brings you, bring the energy you need. nature valley soft-baked oatmeal squares. softly baked, made with hearty oatmeal and a drizzle of cinnamon. they're nature valley's take on a morning classic. because when you keep going, the morning can bring you to brand-new places. ♪ nature valley. nature at its most delicious. tweeting, facebooking, snapchating. you may do all these things or know exactly what they are, but all you have to know is for olympic officials in australia, these forms of social networking in the same category as partying when it comes to athletes, and jenna is in the orange room to explain. >> hey, guys. if that is the case, then i basically partied my tail off last night and one more time this morning when i checked my twitter feed. to tweet or not to tweet, that's the question some people probably ask themselves before they post something on twitter, but for australian olympic athletes, there is no question, they are banned from using social media while training and preparing for olympic competition this year. that means, what does that mean? instagram photos snapped from the podium, nope, tweets from the australian cam, nope, none of it. the reason for the ban, you ask? during the 2012 summer games in london, the australian team did not do as well as they had hoped, especially swimmer emily stevum, who was expected to win the gold in the 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night and when crews arrived they saw flames and smoke shooting into the air. officials believe the fire started in the kitchen. the cause of that fire is under investigation. no survivors on board. that's the word from authorities in idaho who found the plane piloted by san jose software executive dale smith and four of his family members disappeared on december 1st as they flew from oregon to montana. smith reported engine trouble before losing contact. the search had to be called off in mid-december because of bad weather. his brother-in-law kept searching and found the wreckage 150 miles from boise, he was flying with his son daniel and his wife and his daughter amber and her fiance. coming up this morning on "today in the bay" it's 49ers fever and why this man is called the secret weapon. we'll see you back here in 30 minutes. ♪ we are back on this saturday morning, january 11th, 2014. the crowd's getting a little soggy out there, but thankfully, they don't mind too much, we hope, because it's not that cold. they picked a good day to come. what a difference a week can make when it comes to the weather. >> could be shoveling that rain, yes. >> they could be shoveling. i'm erica hill alongside lester holt, jenna wolfe and dylan dreyer. and still to come in this half hour, it is hollywood's biggest party, the "golden globes," which, lucky you, you get to watch right here on nbc tomorrow night. and one of the favorites, "breaking bad's" bryan cranston, who's nominated for best actor in a tv drama, you will hear from him in just a bit, as he talks about his chances and looks back at one of his old jobs, which he sees as a little embarrassing. >> hopefully not as embarrassing as the character he played. >> well. then, a birthday bash and a reporter gets bashed. coming up in "hollywood headlines," jay z and beyonce celebrate their daughter, blue ivy's second birthday, and the executive producer of a hit hbo show "girls" fights back after being questioned about the show's nude scenes. >> do they get naked on that show? >> apparently -- >> i had never heard that. >> that's what i -- i have never watched it, so i can only imagine. i guess they do. >> a little blush, lester? caught a little off guard. >> i did not blush. >> say the word naked again. let's talk about astronauts. >> we can do that. >> let's do that. later this morning, we'll tell you about the more than 600 would-be astronauts. these are all people who have signed up to be shot into space, basically. they're one step closer to their dream this morning. virgin galactic's latest test flight on friday was a success. so, now it is only a matter of time before we see the world's first commercial space flight. we had exclusive access to the flight and we're going to show it to you, but we do want to begin this morning first with a story out of texas that is really creating a stir across the country. a dallas hunting club will auction off a permit tonight that will allow the winner to shoot an endangered black rhino. but as janet shamlian tells us, the club argues, the whole purpose of this is to try to save the species. >> reporter: the head of an african elephant, a brown bear and other wild animals. the exhibit at the dallas safari club's annual convention are to some unsettling enough, but it's what's on the auction block tonight that has shocked and angered many, a permit to kill an endangered black rhino. some so enraged, they've sent death threats to club members, prompting the fbi to get involved. >> i've had threats all my life, my family's life, our members. >> reporter: the black rhino is critically endangered with fewer than 5,000 left in the wild. its horn is one of the world's most valuable items on the black market. organizers say the auction is for a good cause. >> it's the best way to raise money to help save the black rhino. >> reporter: tonight's highest bidder will be allowed to hunt and kill an older, nonbreeding male in namibia, with all of the auction money going to the african country for conservation efforts. the permit is one of five offered by namibia each year, but it's the first ever for sale in the u.s. while the u.s. fish and wildlife service has okayed the auction, there is widespread outrage online. a petition on the web has nearly 60,000 signatures. there is a facebook page dedicated to stopping the auction. and late-night comic stephen colbert has fired a verbal shot. >> like the old saying, if you love something, set it free. then, when it has a bit of a head start, open fire. >> reporter: opponents say it's the wrong way to save the species. >> it's sending a message that this animal's worth more rare and dead than alive with healthy population. >> reporter: amid threats and a planned protest, security is tight around the convention. that hasn't stopped the crowds expected to top 40,000. and when the auction hammer falls tonight, it could top $250,000. for "today," janet shamlian, nbc news, houston. >> you mentioned all those people outside getting rained on? >> yes. >> i think dylan has joined them. dylan? do you expect anything less than me being out in the rain? but we were talking about this inside, today is my double nickel birthday. are you 10 today? >> yes, i am. >> what does double nickel mean? >> 55. a nickel is 5 cents. >> oh, we were all just doing the math. happy 55th birthday. okay, so, it all makes sense now. we figured that out. we are going to see a lot of rain in the east coast today, but also in the northwest. we have a big storm system producing heavy rain, gusty winds from seattle right back into northwestern parts of oregon. this is also producing a lot of snow in the highest elevations, but it is going to be messy for a couple of days in the northwest. also, extremely windy. all those brown boxes, those are your high wind warnings, your high wind watches in effect for pretty high wind gusts, too, and then the winter storm warnings naturally in the highest elevation. in the southeast, we are going to see some very strong storms today. we could see some damaging wind gusts, an isolated tornado is not out of the question, but most of the east coast will just see rain, but it is pretty mild. just chatting with everybody out here, we've had worse, right? last week was a little worse with the cold morning temperatures rite now in the 40s outside. not too bad. you saw the big storm system affecting the pacific northwest and the outer fringe will drop into the bay area and the north coast and clouds spilling our way will bring us a chance for showers late morning in the north bay and early afternoon for the central bay area and south bay and clearing skies heading into tonight. temperatures will be a little cooler with the cloud cover. highs around san jose close to 60 degrees and upper 50s around the north bay. a bit warmer early next week. and let's head way out to the southwest for "today's top spot," coming from yuma, arizona, and kyma news 11. it's 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"access hollywood's" billy bush caught up with cranston. >> this is it, right, best year in your career? >> i was very lucky to get a really strong role on "argo," which won the oscar. i won the s.a.g. award for "breaking bad," and we won the emmy for "breaking bad." it was, yeah, it has been remarkable. >> reporter: remarkable indeed. >> chemistry is the study of matter. >> reporter: "breaking bad" about a terminally ill high school chemistry teacher turned meth cook has now ended its six-season run. bryan cranston's portrayal of walter white and his alter ego heisenberg is one for the ages, one of the darkest and most memorable characters ever. >> say my name. >> the german of the idea for "breaking bad" is that this man is going to go on a journey and become worse and worse as a human being. will the audience completely shut off or will they go on this horrible journey with him? and they did. >> reporter: the final episode had a record-shattering 10.3 million viewers, an amazing end for a cable series that in the beginning struggled to find an audience. the critics were on board from the start, though. so, after all the accolades, it's amazing bryan cranston has never won a golden globe. you have won three emmys in a r r row. the hollywood foreign press and the golden globes has shut you out! what do we make of this? >> i'm invited to the party. i like that. if i win, yeah, that be great, it'd be really terrific. >> do you want to win? >> yeah. i used to say, no, no, no. i was nominated several times on "malcolm in the middle." i didn't win any. so, after a few times, it's like, okay, now i want to win! i don't want to just go to the party, i want to be able to dance. >> reporter: and if bryan cranston can finally dance at the "globes" sunday night, it will have been a long time coming. at 57, he's just about done it all, including something about 30 years ago. i found this. you're a man, you're building a career. you sold this beautifully. >> now you can relieve flaming hemorrhoidal tissue with preparation h. just to keep you grounded, bryan. >> i was 26, 27, i guess, when i did that? and i thought, at least i'm the expert. i'm not the one with hemorrhoids. because i draw the line there. >> that is a quote. >> good point, at least i'm the expert. >> that was a quote, all right. a reminder, nbc will have complete coverage tomorrow of the "golden globes," starting with a red carpet arrival special at 7:00 eastern/4:00 pacific, then we'll hand it over to tina fey and amy polar for the awards ceremony. they do such a good job. and of course, "today" will have a wrap-up on monday morning, so, big weekend leading up to that. >> looking forward to all of that. up next here on "today," fireworks at a gathering of tv critics when one reporter asked lina dunham just why her character's naked all the time. it's right after this. i was living with pain -- all over. the intense ache made it hard to do the things that i wanted. my doctor diagnosed it as fibromyalgia -- thought to be the result of over-active nerves that cause chronic, widespread pain. lyrica is believed to calm these nerves. i learned lyrica can provide significant relief from fibromyalgia pain. so now, i can do more of the things i enjoy. lyrica is not for everyone. it may cause serious allergic reactions or suicidal thoughts or actions. tell your doctor right away if you have these, new or worsening depression, or unusual changes in mood or behavior. or swelling, trouble breathing, rash, hives, blisters, changes in eyesight including blurry vision, muscle pain with fever, or tired feeling. common side effects are dizziness, sleepiness, weight gain and swelling of hands, legs and feet. don't drink alcohol while taking lyrica. don't drive or use machinery until you know how lyrica affects you. those who have had a drug or alcohol problem may be more likely to misuse lyrica. with less pain, i'm feeling better with lyrica. ask your doctor if lyrica is right for your fibromyalgia pain. ask your doctor if lyrica is right if you ask your doctor if lyrica is right 'your life is a game of chance. chronic migraine, but what if the odds could be in your favor? 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fires on both sides of the bay one in palo alto where two people were found dead the other in walnut creek where a person was trapped in the flames and rescued and then later died. firefighters are still at the scene of the blaze that roared through the home at 190 hilltop crescent not far from the regional open space preserve. one person died after being trapped upstairs inside the home. that house quickly filled with flames and heavy smoke while firefighters worked to put it out. the smoke could be seen as far away as interstate 680. firefighters have not released the identity of the victim or the reason for the fire. fire investigators will also be at the scene of the deadly fire in palo alto this morning, two people confirmed dead after that house fire on embarcadero road near 101. the fire started at 7:15 last night and crews could see flames and smoke shooting into the air when they arrived. officials believe the fire started in the kitchen. the calls of the fire, though, is still under investigation. no survivors on board. that's the word from authorities in idaho who found the plane piloted by a san jose software executive. dale smith and four of his family members disappeared on december 1st as they flew from oregon to montana. smith reported engine trouble before losing contact. the search had to be called off in mid-december because of bad weather but his brother-in-law kept searching and found the wreckage yesterday some 150 miles from boise. smith was flying his son daniel, his son's wife, his daughter amber and her fiance jonathan norton. coming up, we've got 49er fever and why this man may hold the key to the victory this weekend and why the team calls him their secret weapon that and all the day's news coming up at 7:00. good morning. it's saturday, january 11th, 2014. here's a look at today's top stories. from bad to worse, first target reveals an additional 70 million customers may have had their most sensitive personal information stolen, then high-end retailer neiman marcus says its customers' credit card information may be at risk as well. state of emergency. hundreds of thousands of residents in west virginia are without water this morning for the third day in a row after a toxic chemical makes its way into their water supply system. new this morning, former israeli prime minister ariel sharon has died. sharon had been in a coma since 2006 after suffering a stroke. the 85-year-old spent the last eight years on life support. and we have lift-off. we have an exclusive look at virgin galactic's successful test flight, bringing us one step closer to civilian space travel. good morning, everyone. i'm lester holt. >> and i'm erica hill alongside jenna wolfe and dylan dreyer. we want to get you right to our top story this morning. it is the breaches at big-name retailer. shoppers from both target and neiman marcus being alerted. kristen dahlgren is following it all for us. kristen, good morning. >> good morning, guys. think back to last month when those stores were swarming with holiday shoppers. all of those people may be at risk. let's start with neiman marcus, who just announced customers' credit cards may have been compromised in a security breach. the company still won't say just how many. so far, it has only said it was informed by a credit card processor in mid-december of potentially unauthorized activity and that it's working with the u.s. secret service to notify customers. the company tweeted, "the security of our customers' information is always a priority and we sincerely regret any inconvenience." now, this comes on the heels of target's revelation that the number of customers affected by its data breach is much larger than originally reported. target now says an additional 70 million customers may have had information stolen, and that information may now include phone numbers, e-mails and names, raising fears of complete identity theft. add that to the 40 million already reported and as many as 110 million people may be affected. target is offering free credit monitoring to all customers and probably, guys, a good idea to take it. >> definitely can't hurt, that's for sure. kristen, thanks. some 300,000 people in west virginia are still without tap water this morning for the third day in a row. residents in and around the capital of charleston are being told not to drink, bathe in or wash dishes or clothes in their water following a chemical spill. luke russert is in charleston with the very latest. luke, good morning. >> reporter: hey, good morning, lester. this morning, folks here, 15% of the state's population, will wake up without access to clean, safe tap water. it's caused numerous hardships for businesses and families and turned the capital here, charleston, into a virtual ghost town. this morning, a state of emergency remains in effect as more than 300,000 residents are being told not to use their tap water for any reason. with hundreds complaining of nausea, vomiting, headaches and skin rashes. >> do not use tap water for drinking, cooking, cleaning, washing or bathing. >> reporter: for a third day now, residents like jane are getting hydrated at checkpoints in surrounding areas. >> i've got like one bottle of water left, so i have to come here like every day. >> i understand boiling water, not being able to drink it, but not even put it on your body, it's outrageous. >> reporter: all this due to a chemical spill at freedom industries that contaminated water flowing downstream to the west virginia american water treatment facility, which supplies water to nine counties. >> this is a chemical process of cleaning coal, an acute hazard, something that's an irritant. so it will cause symptoms right away, not something that you would want to breathe or have in your drinking water. >> reporter: freedom industries has been ordered to cease operations, and with no word on how long the water ban will last, ugani taylor has packed up, off to stay with family. >> the unknown is always unsettling. >> i think the long-term effects, things that may occur years from now are not well understood, so i would say people need to be alert. >> reporter: now, lester, it's unclear when people will have access to safe water. officials are testing the river behind me as the day goes on to see if that chemical that leaked in will dilute enough to where the water would be safe again to drink. but lester, make no mistake about it, this is the beginning of the beginning. because of all the lost money and the economic impact this has had on local restaurants and businesses, lawsuits have already been filed against this company because people have not had the ability to work. so, expect to hear about this story in some capacity for a long time. lester? >> very worrisome situation down there. luke russert, thanks very much. want to get a check now of some of the morning's other top stories. jenna wolfe is here with those. hello, again. >> good morning. good morning, everyone. former israeli prime minister ariel sharon has died. the 85-year-old was in a coma for the last eight years after suffering a stroke. sharon fought for israeli independence, eventually becoming a general in the israeli defense forces. he played major roles at the top of the israeli government and was known for his hawkish position toward the palestinians. but after sharon became prime minister in 2001, he pushed for the withdrawal of israeli settlements in the west bank and in gaza. an official warning now to americans planning to go to the olympics in sochi, russia. with the games just four weeks away, the u.s. state department says american citizens in the region should be mindful of the personal security. suspected terrorists have called for attacks on the games, and there have been three suicide bombings in russia since october. u.s. troops are on the ground in mogadishu for the first time since the deadly black hawk down incident in 1993. we are now learning the military sent a small team of advisers to help the somalis fight al qaeda and al shabaab militants. 18 americans were killed when their black hawk helicopters were shot down two decades ago. the flu season is officially upon us, and widespread in 35 states and making things more difficult, there is a shortage of children's tamiflu. younger patients are among those at higher risk from flu complications. symptoms include fever or chills, a cough, runny nose, body aches and general fatigue. doctors say, though, it is not too late to get a flu shot. and finally, we're always bragging about our kids here on the set, sharing pictures, scrolling, scrolling, trying to outdo each other. well, nasa whipped out its phone and shared this little baby and crushed all of us. this is their baby. it's the remains of an exploded star 17,000 light years away, so it's pretty close. it looks like an x-ray of a hand and astronomers are calling it the hand of god. >> i see a face. see the eyes? >> i saw -- oh, i can see the hand a little bit. >> i don't know. >> see a face? >> dylan sees a map of florida. >> i did. i just meant because meteorologically speaking -- >> is there a cold front coming through? what else do you see in there? >> oh, is the story over? >> no, we're still going. >> just a few sentences left, but at this point, let's just end it with a joke, so we'll go with that. >> all right, dylan, but there is a cold front coming through, so speaking of, we are going to have that cool things down, but let's talk about today first. we've got a really nice air mass all over the entire country. in fact, the winds are going from west to east. that's a very good direction, instead of north to south. this keeps things a little milder than what we saw most of last week. so, let's look at some of our temperatures today. we should get up to 36 in chicago. it hasn't been above freezing in chicago since december 29th, so this is welcome relief. finally doing a little melting out there. minneapolis not too bad at 29 degrees. now we head east. 62 in philadelphia today, 62 in washington, d.c., even in new york city, despite the rain, it will be 56 degrees. and down across the southeast, much, much warmer. we are finally thawing out in norfolk, 70 degrees, 71 in charleston and 71 today in tallahassee. so, finally getting into some nice, mild air out ahead of this cold front, but we could also see some stronger storms today producing possibly damaging wind gusts down across the southeast, that area in red across the we're seeing increasing clouds and no rain yet it is on the north coast and it will push through the bay area heading through the middle part of the morning heading at the north bay and heading into the south bay after lunchtime. only upper 50s in san francisco and into the north bay areas north of the golden gate will see the best bet of seeing accumulating rainfall probably less than a tenth of an inch of rain and highs in the upper 50s. and the travel weather forecast does include a little bit of snow here 6,000 feet. and that's your latest forecast. >> all right, dylan, thanks so much. details are trickling out this morning about the george washington bridge traffic scandal that has threatened to derail new jersey governor chris christie's presidential hopes. after sifting through some 2,000 pages of e-mails, nbc news has learned that christie's appointee personally showed up to watch the lane closures on the bridge. kelly o'donnell is in trenton, new jersey, this morning with what this all may mean for chris christie. kelly, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. good to see you, lester. as state lawmakers here investigate, as journalists continue to pore through documents and the public makes its own judgments about what happened, governor christie is preparing for a second term and what is supposed to be a celebration for his upcoming inaugural. and all of this is overshadowing his political standing and his political future is uncertain. the governor's image problem in bold face across trenton's front page. and on the upcoming cover of "the new yorker" magazine. >> christie created this atmosphere where people, i guess, feel okay or think, hey, this is how we do things in the christie administration. you don't mess with us. >> reporter: christie has no public appearances scheduled this weekend and made none friday. >> i have absolutely nothing to hide. >> reporter: letting reaction to his thursday marathon news conference and his repeated apologies play out. >> this is a bad time for governor christie, but he's going to have an opportunity to show his meddle, to show what he's made of. >> reporter: this bridge traffic scandal put much of the 2016 speculation on pause. >> i am absolutely nowhere near beginning that consideration process. i haven't even been sworn in for my second term yet. >> reporter: christie's political foes see an opening and want more investigations. >> i think the people of new jersey deserve more answers. there are an awful lot of questions that remain unresolved. >> reporter: some information may come from examining those 2,000 pages released by a state assembly committee friday, e-mails about the ordered traffic jam. christie denied any knowledge of his appointees' actions. and while four top aides are already gone, christie's leadership may be damaged, too. >> he's going to pay a high price for it, at least in the short term. >> reporter: and one of the things that will need to be dealt with is really trying to get to the why, and maybe the documents can shed some light on that. christie focused so much on talking to reporters about his frustration, his anger, his humiliation, he said, about top aides lying to him. he claims he has no knowledge of what actually went on. it's still unclear, lester, why anyone as close to christie as these officials were would use something like a traffic jam to impact constituents intended to benefit the governor politically. that's one of those nagging questions that remains unclear right now. lester? >> all right, kelly o'donnell in trenton for us this morning. thank you. blasting tourists into space may soon no longer be the stuff of science fiction. virgin galactic's spaceship 2 successfully launched its third test flight on friday, which means more than 650 people who signed up could soon be headed to the stars. tom costello was there for the lift-off in the mojave desert. tom? >> reporter: erica, good morning. the folks at virgin galactic are a short ways away from sending people up to space in this spaceship. in the demand for space tourism, they're building five more of the space crafts. sunrise in the mojave desert has virgin galactic's spaceship 2 attached to its mother ship soared into the sky for a critical test flight. 15 minutes later, at 46,000 feet -- >> three, two, one. >> reporter: -- spaceship 2 dropped from white night 2, then fired the rocket that pushed it to its highest altitude yet, 71,000 feet. by the end of the year, paying customers will take the same ride even higher, 325,000 feet and into space. former nasa shuttle flight director mike moses is now in charge of virgin galactic's mission control. >> i'll give you the command, it's okay to get out of your seats. you unbuckle your seat belt and you just float up and out -- >> reporter: for four minutes. >> about four minutes, yep. >> reporter: four minutes of weightlessness, the blackness of space and the curvature of the earth. it isn't cheap. each round-trip ticket costing $250,000. but already, 675 passengers have paid a deposit, including ashton kutcher, leonardo dicaprio, justin bieber, katy perry and stephen hawking. the hope of virgin's richard branson, that in a few years, his daily tourist flights into space will bring the price tag down to roughly the cost of an expensive suv. >> after today's successful flight, it means we're getting closer and closer to going to space this summer, and i think we'll be giving our astronauts in waiting the ride of a lifetime. >> reporter: this was the critical test of the ship that will make it all happen, including the fold-up wings that will help slow the spaceship on re-entry. >> there's nothing else like this that you can pay the money for and get the sort of ride. >> reporter: customers who go along for the ride will first have to go through three days of training and precipitation. nbc is teaming up with virgin galactic to document this entire experience as they go higher and higher, and ultimately, into space. we'll be along for the ride. erica, back to you. >> quite a ride it will be. all right, tom costello, thanks. >> they're apparently going to waive the check bag fee, i'm told. >> how nice. >> virgin galactic has working on building the space travel industry for over a decade. and jenna, i remember a few years ago, you did a story, the simulation training exercise for the flights. >> went down with richard branson and his son. we had a good time! i mean, he was really wide-eyed and excited about this, and i had an amazing hairstyle. [ laughter ] we went into the centrifuge, which went, i think it was like 6 gs. and he was talking about this with such, such just excitement. yeah, i mean -- >> what was your quote there? ahhh! >> what are you feeling? you have 6 gs, you said? >> yeah, lester went up with the fighter jets. >> fighter jets. >> yeah. it's just, there was a lot of excitement surrounding this project, and the way he talked about it, i thought this was years and years and years into the future. and now, here we are. he's ready to go up. just shell out $250,000 and you could be one of the next to go up there. >> having gone through that and the training, would you be able to actually do it for real? >> it's an interesting question. i consider myself a daredevil and this scares me a little bit. >> yeah? >> so, i'd have to think about it. you guys wouldn't, right? >> i'd like to see them get a few hundred flights under their belts. >> lester does not want to be the tester. not in the first few flights. maybe after that. >> but i'll be rooting them on. >> there you go. still to come, here in the u.s. he's a psychology student living in a typical dorm room in school. in korea, though, kids have posters of them hanging in their dorm room. we'll introduce you to the anything but traditional college ♪ [ female announcer ] now your most dazzling accessory can be your smile. with colgate optic white dual action toothpaste. its dual action formula shines and whitens over two shades more than a leading whitening toothpaste. ♪ so with colgate optic white dual action the only accessory you need to shine is your smile. colgate optic white dual action. whiter teeth in one week. try optic white mouthwash. to whiten more, use the whole line from colgate optic white. 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"fox & friends" begins right now. >> and right to that fox news alert. marine sergeant andrew tahmooressi a free man this morning after 214 days in a mexican prison. tahmooressi has been released and is back inside the united states this morning. >> peter doocy is live in washington with how it all went down. good morning, peter. >> good morning. you just a heard anna say this marine spent 214 days in a mexican prison for what he says was an innocent mistake. a u-turn across the border with three guns in his car. but now andrew tahmooressi is back home a private jet picked him up just after 9:00 last night. a a few hours after a judge released him on humanitarian grounds because he has post-traumatic stress. the tahmooressi family has a lengthy statement out this morning. to all those across the country who walked shoulder to shoulder with us as we fought for andrew, it has reminded us that at a time of much discord americans can come together for one of their heroes and we have never been more proud to be americans. there was a strong bipartisan effort to get andrew released led by republican congressman matt sammon and riot as well as bill richardson. >> he is in good spirits. he is smiling. he wants a steak. he wants to go home. he wants to see his mom. he was in very good spirits. he has had a tough ordeal. he had close to 8 months, but now he is f6 >> at the end of the tahmooressi family very gracious statement, there is a line also but how they now take comfort in new very visible youtube signs by the mental co-border that they hope will prevent other families from experiencing the seven month ordeal that they just had. back to you in new york. >> peter doocy a great summation. >> a specialist in hostage investigation. >> gwen will be on. >> seven months of pressure to free tahmooressi what were the diplomatic pressures that finally brought him home? joining us now is retired major general bob scales. nice to see you this morning, general. >> good morning to you. >> what happened behind the scenes? it seems like there was a lot of criticism. congressional hearing what was taking so long to put the pressure on the mexican government to let this unfold. what finally was the straw that broke the camel's back? i think the elections. there was a lot of talk around here in this town that his best chance for being released would be immediately before the american elections. most politicians and most folks in the state department actually ran away for this. had it not been for people like greta van susteren who had from the very beginning took a national spotlight and shown it on sergeant tahmooressi. this never would have turned out the way it did. we know an enormous gratitude in the only to the fox network but to greta for hammering everybody. and she pushed the president on this. she pushed hillary clinton on this. she pushed john kerry on it. and others joined the team like bill richardson, montel williams and others. the thing that pushed it over the top was just the volume. the 100,000 signatures. luminaires in the network standing up to politicians what's gonna happen to sergeant tahmooressi? >> why did it take -- why did it take so much pressure to get the twhows act? seems like no brainer, american veteran mistreated in a foreign jail. why wouldn't they act without all that pressure? >> you know, who he knows? this is the administration. i have never heard them act with a great deal of self-motivated concern on virtually anything that they have done over the last six years. they have to be pushed and drug to take action even when it deals with an american citizen suffering horrible ptsd in a mexican jail. it took that much of a media light to detective the administration up and moving and get this general released. >> ptsd, of course, sergeant tahmooressi had that when he got there. and, you know, notu=p÷ getting the treatment that you imagined he would be needing in the jail. and then piling on all awful things he had to go through for some months. at one point he was bound by four point constraints. give us an idea of what you think he is going through this morning. >> yeah. it's very important for our viewers to understand that ptsd is cumulative. you don't just finish one phase and it falls off and then you pick it up somewhere else. ptsd builds up over multiple tours in the combat zone and multiple traumatic experiences. i to tell you he had two tours in afghanistan. and, let's face it, guys, he had a seven month combat tour in mexico. so, i'm sure his emotional condition is fragile at this point. he needs to get home. he needs to have that steak that he wants. but i trust that the military will treat him as a very very significant and serious ptsd case because i think this kid is coming out of this a a lot worse than he went into it. >> general scales, we appreciate you joining us this morning. thanks so much for your insight. >> thanks. >> what does he want when he gets home he? says he wants a steak and stone crabs. >> of course he does. he's an american. >> more on this throughout the show this morning. >> some other stories making headlines on your saturday morning happening overnight. a third student dies from that shooting at a washington state high school. 14-year-old shalely chucklenasket one of the five gunned down by fryberg before he turned the weapon on himself. his motive is still not clear. he targeted specific people, some were his relatives. he lured them with a text message inviting them all to lunch inside the cafeteria. a bloodied and bruised eric frein making his first court appearance is being captured. >>? eric, did you kill that trooper? [cheers] >> onlookers taunting frein and cheering police as they walked a suspected cop killer into a connecticut courthouse. the 31-year-old survivalist charged in the murder of trooper brian dixon and attempted murder of another. he did not enter a plea but did acknowledge prosecutors are going for the death penalty. frein's first court appearance comes as police release a disturbing handwritten note tailing his ambush on the troopers, an escape leading to the 48 day manhunt. a brand new possible case of ebola inside the united states, this time in oregon. an unnamed woman is being monitored for ebola-like symptoms after returning from west africa. the woman had no direct contact with ebola patients. she is now at providence, milwaukee hospital in portland. and in maine a judge ruling in favor of nurse casey hick cock -- hickoxç saying she does not have to follow the state's quarantine policy. she is humbled by the decision. she is now free to leave for home while monitoring symptoms. >> cool new images from above showing hot lava inching towards homes. oozing through roadways, threatening to cut off the entire community there many residents have evacuated overnight police arrested two people for trespassing to take pictures of the 2,000-degree laf. have a. >> well, fuivel following the midterm elections you probably saw. this mary landrieu the embattleed incumbent state of louisiana interviewed by chuck todd what's what exactly is going on in this state. she says racist and also sexist. it doesn't like women. in other words, she may an u.s. senator but she isa5b[h a victim. >> president obama may be the most powerful person in the world but is he a victim too. >> a lot of the problems president obama has faceside due to racism. the south has not been the friendliest or easiest place for african-americans tovance. it's been a difficult place for women to be recognized as the leaders we are. everyone knows this is the truth. i will continue to speak the truth even as some would twist my words seeking political advantage. >> chuck todd about it she came under fire a whole lot for this. pause she was trying it to stay away from the fact that she voted with the president 90% of the time according to pundits we have had on the news channel. is he completely in the tank as far as his ratings go. and when you tie yourself to the president, things aren't looking so good for you. what do you do? you try to tell americans that they are racist and sexist. it's not going over well with americans. charles krauthammer was on sean hannity's show last night. he said this is insulting. listen. >> when you are could you seed of being a racist. you don't even dignify the accusation with a response because then you are conceding the premise. i have to prove i'm not a racist. i oppose the president because of his policies. i have since the beginning of his administration. if someone wants to imply it's on account of his race, i will not give them the dignity of a response. that's not america. >> unfortunately, increasingly it is america or at least american politics where everything has to do with racial and ethnic and gender i'd it at this. democrats are not running on policies and economy and unemployment. they are running on identity. you are a woman w your side you are for abortion. you are african-american, they hate you, we don't. it's not about policies it's about dividing people into categories and whipping up fears. >> they voted her into office and bobby jindal an american indian into office. it doesn't make sense. >> let us know your thoughts about that. friends at fox news.com. brand new terror threat against isis. does not involve weapons or battlefield how they plan to tack americans on u.s. soil. >> no bones about it, this takes the halloween costume contest and wins wins with an unforgettable first alert forecast. look at that ooosh! smack!) 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>> one killed and another severely injured after a test flight in the mojave desert. >> rick reichmuth had a chance to visit last year. >> i had a chance to interview richard branson founder of vir expwrin galactic and see what they were doing to take space flight into the world. take a look. >> virgin galactic spaceship is modeled after this. spaceship one. built by engineer burt rotan and housed at the smithsonian air and space museum. >> the idea of going to the space as safelyian is audacious idea. this is the ship that made this possible. >> we built shaysship 2 and -- and it will be the part of a whole new era of space travel. >> we went hot mojave air and space court where working with the shaysship company to design and build shaysship 2. >> you are making smasships. that's a crazy sounding concept. >> it is the whole space industry has changed there are opportunities galore. it's really an exciting time. >> this is it what they are building spaceship 2. the vehicle that will bring branson and nearly 800 ticket holders into space. dave mckie is the chief pilot for virgin galactic. dave has been conducting many of the test flights and will be the pilot taking spaceship 2 on its maiden voyage into space, a trip very unlike any of the shuttle launches. >> it's a two-part launch system. white knight is the first stage. we with this spaceship we take off on normal runway. we climb up to launch altitude 46,000 people feet. we release spaceship so it falls away. and then about three seconds after parting motor is lit up and off we go. that's a fundamentally safer concept. the other part of spaceship technology is the tail of the vehicle rotates upwards to 60 degrees to give sort of shuttle no matter how it meets the atmosphere on reentry it will adjust itself to the optimum reentry position. >> as the vice president of operations, mike moses overseas the space flight program for virgin galactic. >> you worked for nasa for many years? >> yeah. >> you were in charge of the operations. >> 17 years. >> i did the last 12 shuttle missions were mine. that was great. >> when you found out that the shuttle program was being tabled, what was that like? >> it was hard. it was heart breaking. it was disappointing. >> when this came on, virgin galactic came along it was like that wasn't too long of a jump. >> i think by us flying regularly and doing it repeatedly and often, we're going to give that experience to more and more people where it's not so uncommon to know hey, there are people going to space today. just that alone is an incentive to say if people are going to space today i could be one of those when i grow up. >> obviously a huge tragedy there for them at this point. there is only spaceship two. there isn't a spaceship three, four, or five. that's the only one they have for all of this test flights and they thought they would have this off the ground sometime at the early part of next year. i'm sure they will continue going here but this is a big set back. >> talk about the fuel. they just switched to this new plastic-based fuel from rubber because the rubber fuel was causing it to shake so much. >> it's a formula that they had tested and gone through all the mathematical test thawing can go through here on earth. first time they had gone through with testing of that fuel. too early to say exactly what happened. that's the early indicator. >> this post shuttle era that we live in with nasa. how far does this set us back with space travel period? >> there is a lot of companies out there that are doing this same thing. private companies. that's what this entire thing is now private industry doing this. it certainly sets it back. i'm certain they will go on with build another ship and keep this thing going. learn from what happened here. certainly in the confidence of all the people in almost 800 ticket holders that have bought tickets to go up into space on this space craft, it's got to be -- you know, make somebody think a second time. >> ticket prices went from $200,000 up to $250,000. they have only done a 4 of these flights, which i found remarkable. they have only oburned the fuel four times. >> only four times that they have actually dropped spaceship two and lit it up for it to take off. >> would this deter yo you known interesting thing because i said i would go, and i don't think it. would i still think if you are willing to do something like, this you are doing it because you want that adventure and you understand to push the boundaries there is a risk that comes along with it. >> you are a brave man. richard branson said he and his family would be on the first actual flight. >> i can't imagine that that will change in his mind. >> unbelievable. thanks, rick, fascinating. >> coming up, suv jumps the cush curbykiwñ survives. tell you what happened. >> did you know you are getting tricked every time you walk into a grocery store. the hidden secrets they don't want you to know. >> that's why the reese's peanut butter cup. >> blame them. >> their fault. thoughtfully crafted and intelligently designed. with available forward collision warning and new blind spot monitor and a 2014 top safety pick plus rating. cost of entry? 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>> right. i mean, i was sleeping so they would come on in the middle of the night. sometimes one right after the other. by the time last fall came around they would sometimes both be starting up kind of a co-cough fannie of computer music. >> hard to believe that the government is behind this under normal circumstances this is the often thing you hear the government is watching me except the government actually has been watching a lot of people including our own james rosen whose parents came under surveillance because obama administration deemed him a threat. i'm not sure this is, unfortunately, farfetched, this claim. >> attorney general eric holder asked about does he have any regrets from his time in office, and that was his one regret he said this past week. >> that's the one we know about. see, that's the thing. we know about it they made a mistake because james works here at fox news and we were pretty aggressive in pushing back. how many others are there? is he the only journalist they surveilled? i suspect not. >> yeah. unbelievable. we'll have much more on this story throughout the show this morning. tell us what you think about that friends@foxnews.com. >> 36 minutes after the hour now. some other stories making headlines. a cdc or excuse me a washington, d.c. police officer attacked with an ax in the middle of the night. a man swinging this large ax at an officer sitting in his patrol car. luckily, safety glass stopped the blade from hitting the officer. the cops jumped out of the car, struggling with the attacker. he suffered a dislocated shoulder. the attacker got away. police still trying to find him. metropolitan police don't believe it's related to this hatchet attack on nypd officers last week. new york governor andrew cuomo running one of the most negative midterm campaigns in the country. >> in the wake of the sandy hook shootings governor cuomo led the nation passing the smartest gun law in america. new york safe act protects our families and is saving lives. rob wants to repeal the safe act. oppose the ban on assault weapons. opposes criminal and mental health background checks. he even said he supports gun programs for kids in schools. the ultra conservative not just wrong, dangerously wrong. >> now, g.o.p. challenger rob asterino has had enough on it. appeared on hannity to call quem mow out on lies. >> you have seen what they have been playing all year long, 30 millions million dollars in pure harsh negative ads. even the "new york times" have been false. scaring seniors, guns in school. just nonsense stuff. cuomo, i think, feels it's slipping through his fingers like in 94 with his dad when he lost unexpectedly. things are changing very quickly in this race. he was so scared he wouldn't even debate me. halloween is today, right? guess what? he was seen in two costumes today, cuomo the cowardly lion because he wouldn't debate me and pinocchio because he has lied all day and all year about my record. >> astor reno is expecting voters to make a big statement on tuesday. just look at this view from inside seconds before the crash. you see a woman walk away from her seat at the slot machine. the driver says he accidently hit the gas trying to park. and this might just be the most creative halloween costume ever. >> i'm back from the cemetery. >> i know. you look like you are a little thin there i brought you a banana. >> i will just put it right there. how does that work? 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reports of voter fraud are rising up in several states. what you need to know before you head to the polls. hans vons is a fellow in washington. thank thanks for joining us. >> hi, tucker. >> it's a non-corrupt country where most of us believe our elections are not rigged, they are legitimate. there are increasingly signs that voter fraud is real and pretty widespread. give us a sense of how just how widespread. >> look, a study that just came out showing that in the 2008 election 6.4% of noncitizens voted in election. and that was enough to throw a number much close elections, including by the way the al franken norm coleman senate race in minnesota. that was the 60th vote that gave us obamacare. >> by noncitizens you mean people voting illegally. noncitizens are not allowed to vote to be totally clear. that's voter fraud. >> it certainly is 6.4% in 2008 election, that's a lot of voters. and that could have affected many, many races across the country. and we have very close races coming up in this election. >> just to be clear, first of all that's hundreds of thousands of people if you extrapolate 80% of those we believe vote for the democrats. >> that's right. >> so voter fraud as far as we know does not benefit each party equally. it benefits one party a lot more than the other it's the democratic party, right? >> that's exactly right. for those who think this might not be a problem listen two weeks ago north carolina discovered that a number of illegal aliens, people who got amnesty through6rç÷ the president's daka program were registered to vote in north carolina. >> when you hear democratic politicians jump up and down and claim that it's an act of big got tri to people to show i.d. at the polls, is there any justification, be as honest as you can for that position other than a desire to voter fraud? >> no. there is not. the american people actually agree that voter -- they all think it's a good idea. >> so you probably get these emails too. i get them a lot. concerns about the voting machines. the sanctity of the voting machines. >> right. >> the ability of third parties to tamper with them, to reprogram them to throw votes to the democrats. is that a real concern? should would he be worried about that? >> well, i don't think there's evidence of malicious programming going on. but, the problem with electronic voting machines is if they are not properly calibrated and tested, yeah, they can misrecord when you are actually touching the screen. that can be a problem with those machines. >> boy, it seems to me that our elections are one the best things we have we should take this really seriously. i'm glad you do hans, thank you for joining us this morning. >> happy to do it it. >> coming up, ever wonder how to waste time on the internet? 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this is disturbing. >> this is disturbing. you see the little spray misting water on the produce at the store. that doesn't keep it fresh. that makes it look fresh. what which is just a marketing tactic decide designed to make you spend more money. pay attention to what you are picking up. get home and produce is not as fresh as throokd in the store don't be afraid to return it. can you bring it back. >> i would rather be the water mist than wax. >> we think our fruit has to look shiny. >> like it should be perfect plastic looking. >> instead of what it really looks like in?mgñ irtna. next on the list here, the out line lion, i pick up my tabloid. >> which is what the supermarkets want you to do. increase microsoft margins by getting consumers making impulse purchases at the last anyone. in the checkout line look at facebook on your phone or talk to your children, do something to distract yourself from making those little purchases. >> instead of i need this cherry chapstick or strawberry shortcake gum flavor and then you can never find them when you need them and twice as expensive. what about mislabeled meat? >> this is a little scary as well. actually, a recent study found that a third of all of the fish sold in the u.s. is mislabeled. this is concerning for many reasons. you might actually be paying more for something because you think you are getting a premium cut of fish when you aren't actually it might be something else. another thing to keep in mind, freed the fine print on the little sign if it says previously frozen, you should just head to the frozen aisle and buy the fish there because you will save 40%. >> keep longer. >> beware of strike zones and end caps? >> this is a very tricky things the stores do. when you get to the end of the aisle there is a nice little display. the stores have sold that space to the brand. the brand is trying to promote a certain is product. oftentimes it's beautiful pick it up and put in your cart. another way to spend more money. be aware if that item is not on your list don't be sucked into buying it? >> the cool ranch doritos end cap i'm lured in by. >> that's what he they're trying to do. >> that's great. go back to the meat real quick. if you have the mislabeled meat how do you know who are they going to be honest with you when you ask about it. >> always try to ask but they may not know themselves. we don't know exactly where this is coming from, the switch has he happening. what i would recommend if you are making a specific recipe. look online. understand the cut of fish that you are looking for. do your own research. it's up to you to be sure you are getting the right thing. if you are not sure. pick something you know. get the ground beef, you know that's going to be. >> go to your local butcher since that's their number one money maker. >> somewhere where you have a relationship. that's true. lauren lyon,. >> tahmooressi released from a mexico prison hours ago. what's next for this marine straight ahead. >> have you ever said to yourself, this job is killing me? 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>> clayton, he is he just a burden. >> have you ever thought this job is killing me? well, you might be rit, the shocking new information that could make you change your career. we'll tell you about it "fox & friends" hour two stararts right now. it's not a burden. welcome to "fox & friends," get right to that fox news alert. marine sergeant andrew tahmooressi a free man this morning after spending 214 days in a mexican prison. tahmooressi had been released and is back on american soil at this hour. >> our peter doocy is live in washington, d.c. with how it all went down. good morning, peter. >> good morning, anna. after seven months behind bars in mexico. a judge finally decided to release the american marine, andrew tahmooressi on humanitarian grounds because of his post-traumatic stress. so last night mexican officials helped hurry tahmooressi through customs down south of the border. a a private plane took him back to florida where he is now. over the last several months we have seen a big pushto bring tahmooressi home and some of the vocal lawmakers involved are sammon and ed recognize as well as bill richardson. >> he is he in good spirits. is he smiling, he wants steak. he wants to go home. heto see his mom. he was in very good spirits. he has had a if you have ordeal. he has had close to 8 months but now he is free. doesn't think the judge in mexico released andrew because of political pressure. but, instead, what he described as a combination of diplomacy as well as conversation with the attorney general, the mexican ambassador and the interior department of mexico. the tahmooressi family has very long statement out this morning. part of it says quote to all a those across the country who walked shoulder to shoulder with us as we fought for andrew. we thank you and it's reminds us at a time of much discord americans can come together for one of their heroes and we have never been more proud to be americans. the tahmooressi family also says now andrew can resume treatment for his ptsd which is important since they say jail was harder on him than his two tours in afghanistan. back to you in new york. >> thanks a lot, peter. today is the day that lawmakers helped push for sergeant tahmooressi's relacy have been waiting for months now. former congresswoman ill anna ross lay tan. good morning, thanks for being with us. >> thank you so much. what a happy day. >> 100,000 signatures normally necessary from americans are for the white house to address something happened back in may. so why now? what took so long? >> i don't know. i think it's quite a coincidence that andrew is released just a few days before before these pivotal elections on tuesday. i don't know if there is a political move on the administration's part, but i do know this. jill, andrew's mom has kept the pressure on this administration we held a hearing in our foreign affairs committee on andrew's plight. he is a marine hero. served two tours in afghanistan. suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. and can you imagine how worse off he is after over seven months in this mexican jail where they tried to extort money from the family, they treated him badly and it took a lot of pressure to finally get the help that he needed no reason to have him be in this twilight zone. he took a wrong turn. he admitted it. he self-reported the guns that he legally had in his car, but they are not legal in mexico. why did this administration not do anything to free all thi? so at long last and time for veterans day at least we have our veteran home why did it take so long to act. why did they want to hold him? why did they do that for seven months. we have covered that every step of the way and i'm still confused. what was their motive? >> first of all, thanks to fox news. because you sore greatly responsible for getting andrew home. thanks to greta greta was on this case from day one. greta is the heroin of this saga that should have never have happened. so often, the mexican justice system is corrupt, run by drug cartels. these prisons are horrible experience and you have a hero who served our country honorably. and is suffering from this terrible disease ptsd. and now he is even more injured. all he wants is to get treatment but thanks to fox, thanks to greta, thanks to jill, you know, i had a constituent in a similar situation here in south miami, john hammer who was also in dire straits and silenced from this administration as well. so, it's time for stone crabs and a hamburger, andrew, welcome home. we missed you, you deserve this. let's hope he gets the treatment right away. >> all right. congresswoman, we aappreciate you joining us this morning. thanks, and taking the fight to as well. uivel right there from the very beginning on all of amen, hallelujah, what a hero. great to have him home. thank you to fox. >> you betcha. the man accused of kidnapping uva student hannah graham probably planning for insanity defense. they want jesse matthew to undergo a mental evaluation before he stands trial on separate charges that he tried to kill a woman in 2005. this request coming as matthew was arraigned in fairfax county, virginia via video from the jail in charlottesville. former cbs correspondent attkisson backing up claims she was hacked for reporting on the benghazi scandal. attkisson shows her computer being wiped clean. hundreds of lines of text just being deleted before her eyes. her hands were not on the keyboard or the mouse. commenting on the strange behavior last year. >> they would come on in the middle of the night sometimes, one right after the other. by the time last fall came around, they would sometimes both be starting up kind of a computer music at night. >> attkisson's new book goes in-depth about the hacking and more the hurdles that she faced while reporting on the obama administration. disaster at 45,000 feet above the california desert. a virgin galactic rocket designed to take tourists into space explodes into a massive official. this morning, the ntsb is scouring through debris crying to figure out what went wrong during the test flight. one pilot was killed. the other survived but seriously hurt after parachuting to the ground. this test flight was the first to use a new kind of fuel. ever thought your job may be killing you? well, you may actually be right. 1 u.s. workers die each day on the job according to the u.s. department of labor and another auto thousand die each year from illnesses caught at work, transportation accidents are the number one cause of death for workers. coming in next work place accidents like equipment malfunctions or slips and falls. those are your headlines. i was thinking more along the lines of stress. >> it's a good story. thank you, anna. >> it is a good story. all right, speaking of goofed stories. midterm elections in, what? four days? four days? well, if you are mark prior, a bunch of other democrats in states that mitt romney won in 2012, you are worried. why? because the right track, wrong track numbers not on your side. people are unhappy with the country and extremely unhappy for the president you voted for. >> not happy to be riding on the president's coat tails. >> what kind of coat tails exist. mark pryor don't think the coat tails are very long and favorable. listen to him talk to john roberts of fox news. take a listen. drag. i mean, i'm just going to be honest about that. people here know that i have had my fair share of disagreements with him. and you can can look at gun control issues keystone pipeline. never supported one of his budgets. >> some say he is irrelevant. not just one of his policies is irrelevant and whether they voted for him or not is irrelevant. but the president is relevant. those are pretty strong words. >> mark prior is a nice guy. i will say i don't aagree with him. is he a a nice guy. i think he is going to lose because the truth is, if you are a democrat, in the senate, you are, by desks, supporting the president's agenda. there is just no way around it. it doesn't matter how nice you are, you're responsible for obama ha care. that's just not popular. >> now you see the white house responding by going out on the campaign trail out on rhode island and other places. trying not to talk about the candidates and aligning themselves with the candidates and women's issues and republicans are stalling in the senate and won't allow minimum wage increases this is really the war against women. we are not aligning ourselves with any candidate. i don't have any coat tails you need to worry about. >> if they were running a campaign on the minimum wage that's a legitimate issue. that's not the economy and jobs sort about middle class and issues that really matter. they run a full campaign on abortion and birth control. that is just not legitimate. that's disgusting. that's low. that's not doolt. that's preying on people's fears and dividing people i'm not impressed by that if they lose on that, they deserve it. >> more bad news for the president. he was on air force one and he asked josh earnst, can we just give josh earnst to take a day off? you guys have been hammering him, a lot of questions. can you take a day off? the man is getting a few extra gray hairs. death by chocolate cake. you behave yourselves and we will give you candy. just don't ask any tough questions, please. >> that would work with me. i will admit it. >> if you -- every campaign plane i have ever been on they just feed you candy the entire time. when i was young and flying why is there an extra large butter fingers in my seat every single leg of the trip five trips a day. you eat enough candy and macaroniy and cheese and you become totally compliant. yes, whatever you say. >> trying to kill the press corps. >> get a headache and have to take a nap you can't ask any questions. >> or fired up and ask more questions. a lot of people ask will this be historic election for president obama? will we see historic midterm losses. harry truman lost a total of 83 seats during his two midterm elections. eisenhower also lost a combined 66 house seats in a 4 and 58. obama lost 63 in 2010 and democrats are expected to lose another 5 to 12 house seats. >> there is only one election, i think in american history where the president hasn't lost. his party hasn't lost seats in the midterm election. that was, of course, in 1998 during the clinton impeachment where they gained five or six seats. no, the president tells you that they are going to lose seats. the problem for republicans is pretty much every seat in the house is now safe for both parties there won't be a dramatic move in the house. but the senate i think it could be pretty big. >> so four days from now we will have more on the election. democrats distancing themselves from the president. isn't it only last ditch earth to get votes. did you know americans are racist also? 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and will it work? joining us now fox news contributor deneen borelli. thanks for coming on. >> thank you, tucker. >> will this work. >> no, it won't. this is outrageous, tucker. this has been going on for a long time. i think are finally catching on and taking note. why the democrats dagging this? she is desperate. but not only that obama's failed policies and failed leadership. obamacare, he lied to americans. keep your plan, your doctor, your rates will go down. she was a key voter for obamacare. people need to keep that in mind. also, obama's failed energy policy. this is louisiana. this is an energy-producing state. oil and gas. obama shut down the gulf when we had the bp spill. but not only that, is he standing in the way of the keystone xl pipeline which would mean jobs for louisiana. north minimum wage jobs but good paying jobs. you have the left running away from obama's failed policies. playing the race card and the sign of desperation and landrieu is trying to have it both ways. running away from obama but she wants to keep that voting block of black voters and the women. and it's not going to work. >> well, what is so upsetting potentially about this from my perspective is not the effect on the election. it's the effect on america after the election. so they're loading so they are pulling out the race card. >> oh yeah. >> if somebody said to me again and again and again some leader said they hate you because of your skin color. probably start to believe it after a while. >> it's a weak argue many. i think the younger generation is seeing past this. >> you do. >> this is based on my experience. >> good. >> i have had a number of individuals who contact me on social media. black conservatives who are finally speaking out. being vocal. holding true to their values and their prince principles and seeing past these lies when individuals play the race card because they are trying to cover for their failures and their failed leadership. that's what it is about. it's not about race. it's about the failures of the obama administration and anyone else who votes in lock step with him on his failures of failing americans. >> of course, if you will sell race hatred in order to win an election, what won't you do? >> yeah. that is really like a last ditch earth. it's dangerous. i find it to be very reckless. but, again, i think individuals are seeing past this. listen, i speak at groups and organizations around the country. especially in the south. north carolina, georgia. mississippi these individuals who want top issues, what they can do to be involved and turn our country around and not feed into race card. >> you made me feel better. thanks for coming on this morning. >> thank you, tucker. good to see you. >> coming up this, no, doctors recommend your kids get a flu shot every other year. one mom claims it paralyzed her daughter that can happen. what doctors are are saying this morning. ever wonder how to waste time on the internet? didn't think so. now there is a college course that shows you how as if you needed help wasting time on the internet. we have details coming up. ah! come on! let's hide in the attic. no. in the basement. why can't we just get in the running car? are you crazy? let's hide behind the chainsaws. smart. yeah. ok. if you're in a horror movie, you make poor decisions. it's what you do. this was a good idea. shhhh. be quiet. i'm being quiet. you're breathing on me! if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. it's what you do. head for the cemetery! mr. clean's grandmother wpeople twice her size. and that strength inspired his liquid muscle cleaner. it lifts tough dirt so you do less scrubbing. and it's nozzle stops by itself so less is wasted. sure made grandma proud. mr. clean liquid muscle. of in-home services for youra aging loved ones. we'll assess their needs and create a custom care plan that can change as their needs change. ♪ first up is this jail and bail fundraiser which is essentially volunteers come and they stand behind bars and they text all their friends and family and get on social media trying to get people to raise money for whatever the cause is. this is for northwestern child literacy. somehow this event was being racist? explain that. >> yeah. you know, it's exactly what you said. you arrest somebody at the party. you put them in jail and somebody has to bail them out. bail money goes towards child literacy. this is a wonderful event trying to help kids out put on by two sports and fraternities. some, you know, liberal activists saw orange jump suits and directly associated that with race and so they complained on social media got the whole event shut down. >> unreal. seeing that in the leadership. california similar fundraiser deemed racist because girls were wearing grass skirts and coconut bras. getting ridiculous. >> certainly. how about this at ivy league school a class called wasting time on the internet not maximizing timen othe internet wasting time on internet. >> this class is taught by kenneth goldstein ivy league school where students are paying $47,000 a year to g the kids in this class honestly wasting time on the internet, they should be teaching that class. this is dick columbus that this is something that students are going in debt for that parents are helping pay for. and it's not going to make them any more employable when they go out into the workforce. >> all right. next up we have cosmopolitan magazine endorsed 10 democrats all being democrats. shameful video models on some bus that they had some sort of contest for students to get to be shuttled to their polling places and students at nc state respond to this video. >> well, this video, this shows what the liberals think about our generation. they honestly think that our generation votes with their gentles. genitals. not only is it completely unsanitary it is completely untrue. it is not accurate that millennials only care about shirtless male models, i certainly don't. there is a lot of other issues that are on the table in north carolina. you have a youth unemployment rate of over 18%. and this is a state where there is a senate race that could very well determine the direction of this country. millennials are going to show up to vote. they are going to be showing up to vote because they are angry at failed liberal policies. they are not showing up to vote for shirtless male models. >> cosmo came out against governor rick scott ad in florida based on pop culture. they had to know their audience and their audience likes this show say yes to the dress. and cosmo basically said no the only reason why this rick scott ad is gaining traction is because conservative women mary young and don't value higher education. only ones that support married and don't have a college degree explains this video's wedding theme. with more women going to college and putting off marriage than ever before the g.o.p. may need more scott gown to attract female voters. you say? >> shame on cosmopolitan magazine. shame on them. give our generation and the women in our generation far more respect because, our generation is far more pro-life, far more fiscally responsible and far more limited government-minded than he they could ever imagine that's why they are going to be surprised come tuesday. >> caleb bonham, campus reform.org. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> coming up on "fox & friends" weekend, pamphlets appearing to be from isis showing up on the front door of one of the top military bases in the country. and americans, you better vote, or else. the new threat coming from democrats hoping they will get more people to the polls to vote for them, of course. ♪ don't you know ♪ i heard it through "the grapevine" ♪ when heartburn comes creeping up on you... fight back with relief so smooth... ...it's fast. tums smoothies starts dissolving the instant it touches your tongue ...and neutralizes stomach acid at the source. ♪ tum, tum tum tum... smoothies! only from tums. 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remember there were actually some threats on the anniversary of september 11th just a few months ago at quantity toe at the marine base there shut things down. bomb sniffing dogs came out. couple of threats. guys storming around the base, shouting threats and had to shut everything down. there are some real threats. there are some will legitimate threats that at least rendered the marine base. >> at the very least it's sickening that someone would do this. >> similar to that cell phone shot we saw out in front of the white house where the guy, you know, you saw the image of the phone being held up@"÷ with the islamic flag saying we are here in front much the white house. >> some saying they were going to raise it above the white house, too. when you hear about the electronic chatter, the increase of it about hey all you lone wolves out there, why don't you try to target american law enforcement and military and then you see something like this. at the very least you need to take a look at it and that is what all the reports are are saying that it is being investigated. >> you can see where it's going and ominous. >> all the headlines to tell you about this saturday. marine sergeant andrew tahmooressi touching down in miami, florida moments ago after 214 days in a mexican prison. tahmooressi is now a free man. bipartisan push helping secure his release after crossing the mexican border with three legally owned guns. major general robert scales says it was public support ha made all the difference. >> the thing that pushed it over the top was just the volume. the hundred thousand signatures. luminaires in the networks standing up to it politicians in a public venue asking what's going to happen. >> tahmooressi statement andrew's release. many of you at home join the fight as well. now the family says they really want him to be focusing on his ptsd treatment. yesterday we told you democrats in new york say they were threatened by their party to vote. well now we have the proof. a brooklyn based musician posting this letter he received reads hue ho you vote for is secret whether or not you vote is public record. any organizations monitor turnout in your neighborhood and disappointed with the inconsistent voting of many of your neighborhoods. voters in north carolina are reporting similar letters being delivered. a mother from florida says is a flu shot paralyzed her daughter. she claims that four days after her 9-year-old got the vaccination she came down with a rare viral infection of the brain and couldn't walk. doctors say the disease is similar to multiple sclerosis and may appear following vaccination or a high fever. but there is no way to predict or prevent it. and all those bedtime stories you read to your kids may not be helping in the way that you hoped. a new study claims the child's iq comes down in large part to genetics, researches at florida university found reading to your kids and having family dinners will socially help them but have no real effect on intelligence. the study was conducted by giving multiple iq tests to adopted children with different upbringings. >> my wife's genetics and not mine. >> i feel the same way. that flu shot thing that happened to one of my kids. she was paralyzed for a day from the waist down. the doctors said we don't know what you can do about it we don't know if it's permanent or not. that's totallyí?ñó,eal. it's not about crazy celebrities going on about the risk. it happens. >> scares me we have to get flu shots now because certain states require kids to get flu shots for schools. the parent if you don't get them. i'm not arguing against flu shots by the way. i'm just telling you it can happen because it happened to one of my kids. >> wow. unbelievable. all right. let's check in with rick reichmuth now did you get flu shot. >> did i not. maybe i will. i will do it if it's easy. they f. they come to me. >> if you are forced to do it on the air you will da it. >> if i have to work for it i'm probably not doing it. >> you will change your tune when that guy is sneezing on you in the subway. >> that's exactly it you know, tonight we change our clocks that usually means that at least for me, it's super sad tomorrow when that sun sets so early. the one benefit, take a look at the maps, we get an extra hour of sleep tonight. if i work morning tv that's a very very good thing. 2:00 in the morning wake up and set your clock back 1:00 in the morning and get extra hour of sleep. daylight saving time. rick reichmuth on twitter. are you sad tomorrow night when it is dark so early? 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and, by the way, of that $64 million. 919 mil is going to the lawyers. >> break this down to us. it effects the verizon share plan for the customers from may 2002 up to 2006. >> that's right. >> you are being charged for free calls and what else? >> it was in plan calling. in your family network. like you have friends and family you were supposed get that for free. a lot of times they were actually charging. they were counting those minutes against you. >> so how did this -- who uncovered this? >> yeah. i mean, you know, savvy consumers. the lawyers but, again, go figure. it took that long for this to actually come to light. right? you have a lot of consumer groups constantly looking at it look what's happening with at&t too. >> dive in with what happened with at&t this week. the ftc suing at&t over unlimited data plans. i'm one of those folks when had one of those unlimited data plans and i'm holding on to it? >> are you still on it grandfathered in. >> i'm still ton grandfathered into. >> this effects you. can't turn on hot spot and extra features that other people can because i have this grandfathered unlimited plan. what was happening was that well, hey, if you are starting to use too much data. they were throttling you. >> throttle you. basically meaning they were cutting off my speed, right? >> to give you a little bit more insight. a web site where people can get get saving tips from us. we looked at a 5,000 mobile bills across the country. at&t and verizon to check out this whole throttling thing. we looked out at the top users. if you have a two gigabyte plan and a. looked at people like you the unlimited to really see if at&t was right that people were dragging down the network who were using unlimited. they are using too much data. huh-uh. the top 5% usage on tiered and unlimited virtually no difference. >> right. this argument so their argument was that people like me. >> you were dragging down the network. >> bandwidth hogs watching oso the much netflix dragging down the network. >> totally false. >> sending out text message alerts letting you know if you have unlimited plan getting close here. slowing down your speed. try to use four phone to jump on the e internet and use email, it was virtually like using turtle speeds. >> you go to tier, it's going to cost you more. >> so this is how this effects it. they said it affected 3.5 million customers. more than 25 million times. and it cut internet speeds. that was the remarkable thing. it cut the speeds when they were doing this threttling up to 90%. >> it's crazy. >> but at&t responded. right? at&t responded in this. we let customers know about that. >> we have been completely transparent. we haven't data customers via their bill. >> good luck. >> good luck. >> so what's next for these unlimited plans are they going to go away completely? >> you know what? here is the thing. it's a drop in the bucket to these carriers. even if the lawsuits are are settled and they get slammed, a few hundred million dollars, say, taps drop in the bucket. you know what's going to turn the tide? public opinion. stories like this. people talking. right? because what they can't afford is people saying okay, forget at&t i'm going to verizon. >> worked up in canada where people are paying ridiculous amount for "ata up there and people there there said not anymore. >> dillon, great to see you this morning. >> what was the web site again. >> save love give.com. >> hollywood celebrities trying to spark social media buzz around a planned parenthood t-shirt. is it really empowering young women? we'll debate. and anna gearing up for tomorrow's new york city marathon but she won't be alone. she will be running families of our wounded an and fallen heroes. can you help. that's coming up next. ♪ oh what fun it is to ride. get the mercedes-benz on your wish list at the winter event going on now - but hurry, the offer ends soon. 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auto thousand people run aring through all five burrows. >> falling and wounded heroes. i'm running the marathon 26.2 miles with the military major founder dan rooney. >> from new york city to oklahoma, we train, ready to tackle the course for those who sacrifice everything to protect our freedom. >> you look at this country and it's actually under 1% every morning willing to defend the other 99% of us. and the toll that these two wars, iraq and afghanistan have had. there is approximately 1. a million independence now that have had somebody killed or disabled over there that can speak for pretty much everyone in the military. your worse nightmare would be not to come home or come home with a disability. >> and for too many that nightmare has become a reality. >> my dad is reporter. injured in 2006 with an i.d., and he is now missing his right leg below the knee. >> despite his injuries, army sergeant first class borders continues to serve our country and head to another deployment this winter. >> i love that he still serves our country. i love that he isn't afraid to still deploy. is he is like my hero and he inspires me to do great things. >> there are that point in the marathon 22 to 26 miles that it's just shear faith that get you through. every muscle hurts. not about the finish line. it's about putting one foot from front of the other. a powerful met for for what so many of our military families have had to endure. getting through every hour, every day, recovering from the sacrifices that they made for our freedom. >> for christie carpenter, she had no choice but to get through the hours and days when her husband marine lance corporal andrew carpenter was killed in action in 2011. she was eight months pregnant with their son. >> i'm wondering how i'm going to do it. i'm wondering how i'm going to get up every day and take care of a baby. how i'm going to -- how i'm going to be strong. >> when their son gross up his educational future will be taken care of. since 2007 folds of honor has distributed 7500 scholarships to the families of those wounded or killed in battle. >> folds of honor has been there for me in a way that no one else was able to be there for me. >> freedom isn't free and getting out to run a marathon like everything takes an investment but it's made a little bit easier knowing that you are not really doing it for yourself. you are doing it on behalf of those families folds and honor supports and all those families that need our help. >> makes those 18, 20 and 21-mile long runs that i did seem really worth it when i got to meet them. >> that was -- >> -- hitting the wall and 26.2-mile race i'm going to be doing tomorrow. that's what is going it give me the motivation and major dan rooney as well. one more day to help us raise money to get to this amazing foundation. head to www.crowd rides.com back/folds of honor.com. i will put it on my facebook page and twitter page. >> we will link out. >> please donate. hitting the 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held in mexican prison for some seven months released back on american soil. the emotional reunion with his mother and one of the lawmakers key in securing his release live this hour. >> and doubling down on a bad bet. senator mary landrieu of louisiana says she is not at all sorry for calling her constituents racist. >> the south has not always been the friendliest place for african-americans. it's been a difficult time for the president to present himself in a very positive light as a leader. >> governor mike huckabee joins us in moments with his reaction. >> bombshell new video the moment(widç a former cbs reportr says that someone hacked into her computer while she was reporting on exactly what really happened in benghazi. >> not touching it. deleting everything. >> words being deleted off the screen. could it be the government is trying to silence sharyl attkisson? "fox & friends" hour three starts right now. >> well, good morning, we want to get right to that fox news alert this morning. marine sergeant andrew tahmooressi touching down in miami florida on a private jet just moments ago after 214 days, almost seven months to the day in a mexican prison tahmooressi is now a free man. >> peter doocy is live in washington, d.c. with how it all went down. good morning, peter. >> good morning, anna. post-traumatic stress disorder is what finally got american marine andrew tahmooressi released from prison. a judge south of the border decided that after seven months behind bars there were humanitarian grounds for releasing tahmooressi who is in trouble for what he claims was an innocent mistake. making a wrong turn at the u.s. mexico border with three guns in his vehicle. last night, after getting sprung, mexican officials helped tahmooressi quickly pass through customs. then a private plane took him to florida where is he now. >> he is in good spirits. he is smiling. he wants a steak. he wants to go home. he wants to see his mom. he was in very good spirits. he has had a tough ordeal. he has had close to 8 months. but now is he free. >> richardson also says the judge didn't release andrew because of pressure. he thinks it was, instead, a combination of diplomacy and conversations with the attorney general to mexican ambassador and the department of interior in mexico. the tahmooressi family meanwhile has a statement out this morning and part of it says, quote: to all those across the country who walk shoulder to shoulder with us as we fought for andrew we thank you. it has remind ts us that at a time of much discord americans can come together for one of their heroes, we have never been more proud to be americans. tahmooressi family also says pressure from the u.s. government. we are just out of our own decency letting him out. what do you think of that? >> it just makes me furious. first of all, the president of the united states should have picked up the phone seven months ago, called the president of mexico and said, mr. president of mexico, you let that young man out of prison today. we'll come pick him up. you won't have any expenses in getting him out of there. we will come pick him up or every person who is in this country illegally will start being deported. it's as simple as. this by the way, i think the next president should name greta van susteren ambassador to mexico. she singularly kept this story alive, kept the volume up, thank god nor matt sammon, bill richardson bipartisan effort to get him out. where was the white house and the state department. >> all three of them are joining us later on the show by the way. >> outstanding. >> wanted to get your thoughts on this. senator mary landrieu from louisiana has doubled down on her comments that many have likened to calling voters in her state as being sexist and racist. here is what she said about those comments that she initially. the south has not always been the friendliest or easiest place for african-americans to advance. it's been a difficult place for women to be recognized as the leaders we are. everyone knows this is the truth and i will continue to speak the truth even as some would twist my words seeking political advantage. this seems desperate. >> you know, as a kid who grew up in the jim crow south. this outrages me. this is not 1968 for god's sake. i don't know where mary has been. i know she has been in d.c. maybe she needs to come back down south every now and then not just on election year and find out there ha have been a lot of changes in the south. >> she is incumbent. >> people of louisiana ought to be so outraged that they barely give her 10% of the vote. this is an insult redneck american if anybody is going to have be a hyphen it would be mine. somebody who grew up in the south i have seen remarkable changes in the south land, stunning changes. for her to act like she is a victim, poor me, i'm a woman, i'm unable -- well, she has been in senate for three terms for heaven's sakes. >> she says that the president's problems in louisiana with a 4 o% approval rating, can he never really gain traction there because of the color of his skin. >> it has nothing to do with it. >> has nothing to do with the bp oil spill or offshore drilling comes down to skin color. >> energy state this president hates if fossil energy. he doesn't believe in gun rights and louisiana is the sportsman paradise. this is a place where people like cajun food and his wife hates all that kind of rich food that comes out of new orleans. i doubt she will sit at cafe dumond and have a bin uet. tell me why people of louisiana should like president obama it has not one stinking thing to do with his skin. >> she has been a senator for three terms and she is a victim. she says the president the most powerful man in the world is a victim. is there anybody who can't claim victim? most powerful people in the world claim their victims who is a victim. >> i'm a victim. if anybody is going to be a victim. i'm a middle aged white guy and i'm really in trouble, you know? i'm tired of this. i'm not a victim. i'm an american. i love this country. this country has has been good to me. given me opportunities. had nothing to do with my skin color. hard work, getting an education and deciding at a young age i didn't want to run chickens and hauling hay in arkansas. divided if i worked hard, get an education, maybe i could do something different with my life. that's what america is right. it's a meritocracy. it has nothing to with what color our skin is. >> america spying on journalists this morning. attkisson bombshell piece of video she has released reporter doing incredible work on benghazi story. she released this video of her type and working on benghazi story when, watch what's happening to her screen. she is using a computer, a mac computer and all the sudden words lines being depleted in front of her. discovered an extra cord stuck in her router. she didn't put it there. she believes the government had been targeting her and deleting and going through her computers and hacking her computer. >> this is seriously scary stuff. this is not only -- this is a violation everything in the entire bill of rights. we don't know that the government did it at this point but we by gosh need to find out. one of the reasons that the senate needs to turn to republican hands is because somebody needs to call for a full scale investigation and demand to know who is tinkering with her computer because obviously somebody was. this is not a scene from mel gibson's conspiracy theory or will smith gene hackman story enemy of the state. go back and watch. they look like fiction 20 years ago, they are so scary because it's almost as if they were foreseeing what we're looking at and living with now. we have got to find out if our government is doing this kind offing on a journalist then our government is a tyranny and out of control and it must be stopped. >> amen. >> what do you have coming up on your show. >> we are going to be live tonight. a great show. i'm going to be talking about the minimum wage. and you're going to hear an interesting take. i think the whole discussion is all wrong. we ought not be talking about minimum wage. how to get to the maximum wage. so i hope people will be there for that. we have a panel and look at what millennials are doing and how they are voting and i urge you, i urge you, in fact, i demand that you watch. >> demand it. >> demand it. >> i like the maximum wage. i will watch. >> you'll love, this tucker, you especially. you will really like this because i think it helps to frame the discussion what it ought to be, not on seeing how we can get people to the bottom but how can we get to the top. >> help him out is he a white middle aged american. >> rednecked american. >> we are all red-necked americans, be sure to tune in. >> thanks so much. other stories making headlines on saturday morning now. a that jik night in southern california as three trick or treaters are killed after being hit by a driver there. a hit and run driver. the victim is just years old. two of them are twins. police are now hunting down the people responsible. witnesses saying two men fled on foot after ditching the vehicle behind a shopping center. a bloodied and bruised eric frein making first court appearance since being captured. >> coward! >> eric, did you kill that trooper? [cheers] >> onlookers taunting frein and police as they walked the suspected cop killer into the courthouse. 31-year-old survivalist brian dixon and attempted murder of another. did he not enter a plea but did acknowledge prosecutors are going for the death penalty. frein's first court appearance comes as police release a disturbing handwritten note detailing ambush on the troopers and escape leading to that 48 day manhunt finally over. and more trouble at the department of veterans affairs. newly released emails show gibson v.a. secretary told inspector general richard griffin to change his report. that report confirming the phoenix v.a. delayed patient care and falsified appointment data. the changed report said the deaths of had 0 veterans could not be conclusively linked to the wait time. griffin had previously denied he changed that report. the battle of the x's is over. the second x wife of peter cook apologizing to first wife christie brinkley for ignoring her warning about his cheating ways. suzanne shaw says she is sorry for bad mouthing brinkley over child support in 2012. shaw and cook filed for divorce this year after he reportedly, you guessed it, cheated on her. >> >> he was upset about warned about cheating ways and then it happened. >> i never he would do it. >> shot two cops -- he shot two cops, killing one and sparked a 48-day manhunt. prosecutors want the death penalty for this man. will it be that simple? we'll bring you the latest in a legal debate coming up. >> caught on camera, inches from death. the moment an suv smashes into a store front. misses a woman by seconds. not all toothbrushes are created equal. oral-b toothbrushes are engineered with end-rounded bristles so brushing doesn't scratch gums. and angled perfectly to remove 90% of plaque for a healthier smile. trust the brand more dentists and hygienists use. oral-b. paragraph u.s. marshals took him by surprise acted on hunch found him hiding abandoned airstrip. accused of killing brian dixon and wounding trooper alex douglass. they plan to seek the death penalty against frein. is this an open and shut case: are you how do you defend this guy? notebooks of notes he has written allegedly. >> the first thing you have to do is make sure that he does get his constitutional right to a fair trial. and the problem with that is, this jury pool is going to be tainted. so the fetion thing his defense attorney is going to do is seek a change of venue to another county or a change of ventricle fire, bringing -- ventricle fire. impacted venire. there is no way the jury pool will be fair. that's going to be step one. >> is this an open and shut case even if they do get a new county or get a venire change as she was saying? >> if we believe did he what he is accused that he f human b. only way make this guy more unlikeable is if ambushed nuns and babies. hunting cops and chronicling it dear diary i shot him and went down faster than i thought. that's twisted. there is no redeemable qualities about this man. if he is really smart his defense attorneys will say no, you can have him. just don't give him the death penalty. that's the m.o. >> is that the move you would make right now look in this guy is going away for life. the only thing can i really save you from is the death penalty. >> in a capital punishment case it is common that behind the scenes there is negotiations going on between the d.a. and the defense attorney to just take the death penalty off the table. let's plea it out right now. we will never get to trial. i wouldn't be surprised if the defense attorneys are looking into his background prior psychiatric treatment. talking to his famamily to see if there is the possibility of leveraging insanity defense. >> what would you do as a prosecutor if they try to move on the insanity defense? >> oh, brother, he doesn't have a prayer for the insanity defense. all of the indicia what he was doing was wrong. putting in diary. hiding out. war reenactor, he specifically hunted cops. like he might have a screw loose but it's not the type of screw that keeps you out of being guilty in a court of law because he knew the difference between wrong and right. look, here is the other thing, in pennsylvania, they have 200 people on death row. they have only executed three in the last 15 years. so even when he gets the death penalty, is he is going to grow old in prison. >> that could speak to the possibility of pleaing this out because the chances are of him actually having that needle is slim to none. 200 people have been executed since the nintsdz. >> apparently executed without incident but somehow ended up with a bunch to the face. cops got think pay back. jonah and -- nice to see you this morning. brand new ax attack on police. this time a man with an ax goes on attack in washington. could it be related to hatchet attack in new york city. getting famous friends to wear t-shirts supporting planned parenthood? 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joining us now is the howard concerned women for america. you say these shirts are doing the opposite, why? >> yeah, planned parenthood sneaks in under the guise of women's health with these pink t-shirts, pink tennis shoes all they are really promoting is abortion. it's actually sad. it's ironic and sad that women like lena dunham and other celebrities when they plaster i heart planned parenthood across the chest. i heart an murdered young women never got a chance like they did. this organization has been caught red handed committing not only participating in helping sex traffickers and children abusers but also aiding and abetting those who are committed abortion on the basis of race and gender and our taxpayer expense at a tune of $1.2 million a day of taxpayer funds. >> critics of plan the parnd hood say it's not abortion factory. birth control and condoms and help women plan for their future rather than having unwanted children but do you believe that they are actually teaching promiscuity? >> well, they are teaching girls to fight for three things instead of fight for freedom. so-called free birth control free abortion advocates are not the ones fighting for the freedom of women like the one like memorial abraham in chains a month ago until conservative women groups stepped under and demanded action these are women like carlie fee or any. carlie love, working for actual social change instead of putting on a t-shirt sand saying that you deserve a free handout from the government. i think that women are seeing that. i hope that they're. and i hope that young voters take notice that planned parenthood is not looking to help you in your real future with jobs, the economy, getting married, having kids one day and living the american dream. they are trying to retape the american dream in pink t-shirts that advocate abortion. >> all right. allison howard from concerned women for america. we thank you for your time today. >> thanks so much. >> 25 minutes after the hour. coming up, it's our top story, sergeant andrew tahmooressi just released from mexican prison in the last few hours. congressman matt sammon was instrumental in tahmooressi's case and joins us live to react next. your pets became halloween hits this year. your photos are pouring in. here is one. oh. we want to see more costumes. your pets and your kids. keep them coming. we will share them. ♪ (receptionist) gunderman group. gunderman group is growing. getting in a groove. growth is gratifying. goal is to grow. gotta get greater growth. i just talked to ups. they got expert advise, special discounts, new technologies. like smart pick ups. they'll only show up when you print a label and it's automatic. we save time and money. time? 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>> the white house never really did get interested in the story. i met with vice president biden probably about three months ago. and the president had a phone conversation with the president of mexico the very next week and didn't even bring it up. and so i don't know why the administration really didn't lift a finger to do anything on this. but i will tell you the folks at the consulate in tijuana were wonderful to work with. i think that there were a lot of good people that stood up and did the right thing. i'm really thankful to governor bill richardson and ed royce and jill who is probably the most loving mother of i have ever met. i'm just thrilled to be able to make sure that andrew is in the place where he needs to be right now. >> congressman, our greta van susteren was a huge champion for thnch absolutely. >> we will have her on next hour. she went down there when it happened nearly seven months ago and showed just how easy it would be to take the wrong turn. how poorly it was marked. how this very easily could have been an accident just as the sergeant claims that it was. so she worked hard on this. our viewers worked hard on this. keeping this issue alive and then you worked hard on this. how important do you think this was to keep this issue alive? >> i think it was paramount to his ultimate release. you know, no matter where i went in the country, you would see some proud american standing up with a sign saying release our marine. and i was in texas, just a month and a half ago visiting the alamo and there was a guy with a sign release our marine. and it did my heart good to see the american people rally around such a righteous cause. it's a good thing. and, you know, out of every terrible thing that happens, there are a the will of silver linings and this showed me some of the best of america. >> i never really figured out what this was about in the first place. he takes a wrong turn. got legal guns, legal in the u.s. in his vehicle. next thing the government grabs him and find out that he is not a terrorist. why don't they lead him go. why would they want to hold him for seven months? what was the point. >> tucker, she have you had have let him go right await a minute the mexican government, i have been on the line numerous occasions with the attorney general from mexico. he weighs lecturing me about rule of law. i shared with him some of my thoughts about rule of law and how it maybe goes just a little bit one sided. between the two countries. but, you know, it's very very frustrating what's happened. andrew shouldn't have been in prison at all seven months. you know what? he is back home and it's a good ending to a story that should have ended a long time ago. >> well, and his struggle continues in many ways, of course, because he served two tours, suffers from ptsd. that's why he was going there in the first place to get some r and r. now he is back home. what's next for him? >> he was here in san diego because one of his buddies had told him that this is one of the best places in the country for treatment of ptsd. what's next for him is -- i was talking with jill, his mother yesterday, and we need to get him into treatment as quickly as possible. but i think right now he needs to have that steak and those stone crabs, chill out just a little bit. enjoy his mother. and his family, and then get into treatment. he has a lot of people that are very involved and very interested and very hopeful that he gets everything he needs as quickly as possible. >> congressman, thank you some. >> thank you. >> eventually i presume from jill tahmooressi, she has been on the program several times. but at the moment she she would like her privacy. congressman, thank you so much. >> i will tell you what, if i ever get in trouble i hope jill tahmooressi is there to help me. >> i think we all agree with that. >> what a great compliment that is thanks, congressman. >> other stories making headlines to tell you about this saturday. ax wielding man going af a d.c. police officer. cops say the man swung this large ax at the officer sitting in his patrol car. luckily safety glass stopped the blade from hitting him. the cop jumped out of of the car, struggling with the attacker. he suffered a dislocated shoulder. attacker got await a minute still trying to find him. metropolitan police don't believe it's it related at all to this hatchet attack on nypd officers last week. new york governor andrew cuomo running one of the most negative midterm campaigns in the country. >> in the wake of this sandy hook shootings governor cuomo led the nation passing the smartest gun law in america. new york safe act protect our families and is saving lives. rob astorino wants to appeal the safe act. opposes the ban on assault weapons. opposes mental health background checks. wants to have gun program for kids in schools. not just wrong dangerously wrong. >> now g.o.p. challenger rob astorino has had enough of it. he appeared on hannity last night to call cuomo out on lies. >> you should see they have been playing all year long. $30 million in pure harsh negative ads even the "new york times" said have been false. scaring seniors, guns in school. nonsense. cuomo feels it's slipping through his fingers just like in 94 with his dad when he lost unexpectedly. things are changing very quickly in this race. he was so scared he wouldn't even debate me. halloween is today, right? guess what? he was seen in two costumes today, cuomo, the cowardly lion because he wouldn't debate me and pinocchio because he has lied all day and all year about my record. >> astorino is expecting voters to, quote, make a big statement on tuesday. some incredible video caught on camera to show you. watch, as that speeding suv comes barreling through the front of a convenience store in vegas. just look at this view from the inside. seconds before the crash, you see a woman walk away from her seat at the slot machine. the driver says he accidently hit the gas trying to park. did you get all dressed up for halloween? what about your pet? if did you are not alone. americans spent $350 million on pet costumes alone this year. here are some of yours. here is angie dressed up as a pumpkin. hey, pumpkin. this is tucker as a skelton. and cosmo is a little devil there right next to him. this is lexy and winston all dressed up as a pumpable beand a witch. and a creative 20% made their own costumes like move dressed as the chick-fil-a cow. eat more chicken. >> greatest dog ever. tucker is is one of the great dog names. >> i was going to say that but i thought that would be insensitive. >> i love dogs. >> meg and dave. >> extreme weather. blast of early winter down south. people in the northern part of the state of georgia woke up to snow on their cars this morning. >> look at that deck. completely covered you are about to see. >> and the word snow written in snow. very metta. check in with rick reichmuth now. is he outside in the rain. it's been like a torrential downpour up here. hey, rick. >> it feels like we have had the umbrella out here a lot over the last few weekends. snow down across parts of the south. first of november and getting certainly the coldest air we have seen so far this year and very early snow. take a look at the map. show you what's going on. temperaturewise this is what it feels like out there. feels like 17 in minneapolis. 27 in chicago. 29 in atlanta. very very chilly out there. and we have freeze warnings in effect. all those areas you see in dark blue. in fact, it's 18 different states that have some kind of a freeze warning for these morning hours. and we're going to see another cold night tonight. get ready for it. this is the cull culprit. you see that snow and spin across areas of the carolinas. then across parts of the southern appalachians. that's where we have the heaviest sort of snow right now. be seeing up to a foot potentially of that. look at that colombia, south carolina getting snow. even across some of the lower elevations the cold air settling in. this is what the future of this storm looks like. future radar. put this in motion. still snow across the southern appalachians. very strong coastal system develops there. you see he that off the shore. that is going to be bringing some incredibly strong wind. most of the precipitation stays offshore. but the winds are going to be affecting most of the northeast throughout the day tomorrow. very rough travel day re rough day for the marathon. anna, sorry to tell you that, but it is going to be a very strock head wind tomorrow more the marathon. 2 a mile-per-hour winds likely going straight into you as you are running. >> do you think she is intimidated? >> my first few marathons went better than boston this year were both 33 degrees and sleeting during this. so maybe it will bring me good luck. who knows. >> wear aerodynamic body suit you will be fine like an airstream trailer. >> thursday during our program we aired a report on the delayed approval of the keystone pipeline in that report i stated that liberal activist tom styer who contributed $42.9 million to liberal democratic groups in the 2014 election cycle styer has actually contributed $42.9 million. >> group of black chicago activists taking on the democratic party. watch this. >> now he wants to have this conversation about minimum wage raises. to hell with the minimum wage raise. we don't have any jobs. a minimum wage raise for what? >> is this the beginning of an important counter movement in american politics? we'll tell you coming up. >> it was a routine day for beer delivery man. that suddenly changed when this would be robber walked. in the man who laid this epic smack downins us live straight ahead. >> first, a look at what's coming up on america's news headquarters. >> it's the final days before tuesday's mid terms. we'll take a close look at the key states where the contests are close. conservative ann coulter poll pollster frank luntz will be joining us where things stand also. two space craft disasters in one week. will this derail private space travel in the future? 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ask your doctor about farxiga and visit our website to learn how you may be able to get every month free. hi good morning, everyone, i will sea new a few moments being blamed for significant car crash avoiding a nationwide ban. trendy industries federal government retest the safety of guardrails lining american highways less then a day before its deadlines. a travel app. is taking facebook stalking to all new heights. update to the quicken app. let's you check the facebook prey files of people on your flight. if you think that person sitting in 3 b look as little boring. can you change your seat. all right, tucker. >> thanks, anna. just three dayings to midterm elections and group of black activists in chicago is taking on the democratic party. watch this. >> our children know that if democrats have not done anything for us as of yet, why should they even go out and vote. we are getting poorer and poorer and other groups are getting richer and richer. now he wants to have this conversation about minimum wage raise. to hell with his minimum wage raise. we don't have any jobs. minimum wage raise for what. they only come around when it's time for election. these are the people who make sure we get nothing but then turn around ands have you to vote for them again. >> wow. democratic party's decades linger hold on black voters be weakening? that would be a disaster for the democratic party, of course, could that explain, that concern ads like this that invoke ferguson and trayvon martin in order to inspire black voters to get to the polls. joining us former congressional democratic candidate and trina. thanks for coming on this morning. >> good morning, tucker, thank you. >> these ads are so over-the-top. vote republican and you will be lynched. there is such obvious fear mongering they do suggest desperation on the part of the democratic party. do they not? >> absolutely. it's in headlines all over the country. not just chicago. i think it's very indicating that, you know, black people are sort of looking out there thinking huh, here is the reference point, tucker. they have a black president in the white house under the democratic ticket and, guess what? this administration has indicaterred to everyone but black americans. in fact, done everything he could could for gay americans and muslim americans. yet, black people are are still at the bottom of the barrel. and they have never had this reference point before. this is very very important. >> i think the black unemployment rate in this country is as high as it has ever been in my lifetime i'm 45. that's a bad measurement it may explain again why the democrats are trying to change the subject. wendy davis trying to run for governor in texas, watch. >> you have heard about this guy running for governor, the republican greg abbot? well, listen up, because greg abbot is bad news. as attorney general, greg an a bottom tried to overturn the voting rights act. take a guess about who abbot doesn't want to vote? >> i don't know, if that ad were aimed at me it would probably upset me if i felt like someone didn't want me vote. will these ads have an effect? about they get black voters to get to the polls. >> no, i don't think so. because following that ad here in dallas is another ad with michelle obama talking about republicans not caring about your children and things like that. this is the insane thing about the whole aspect of trying to use trayvon martin and ferguson to go after republicans. black people are not stupid in america. they have seen what democrats have to offer. the number one thing the democrats policy wise are focused on right now is amnesty. that's the one policy that would end a generation of black children. they are giving illegal children priority over black children in this country. and so it's just not going to work. >> it certainly depresses wages. there is no doubt about that katrina pierson thanks for joining us this morning. it was really interesting. >> thank you. >> coming up, doctors recommend your kids get a flu shot every year. one school demands it one mother says it paralyzed her daughter. stay tuned for that. >> routine day for that beer delivery man that changed when this would be robber walked. in the man who laid this epic smack down really an american hero joins us live coming up. your mission? 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>> doing well. so tell us what happened. l. >> well, i was just at the convenience store and making my and i was in the cooler and the lady behind the counter, she jumped the counter, i guess, and ran to the cooler, told me she was being robbed, and when i came out of the cooler the suspect was coming around the counter, saw me, and he ran for the door and i ran after him and grabbed him and i slammed him to the ground and stayed on top of him until the cops came. >> what did the cops say when they got there? >> oh, they were just making sure that this was him and just -- just glad to see that everybody was all right. >> did you hesitate at all? >> no. i mean, it was just an instinct reaction. i had a second to make my decision. that's what i did. >> what was he trying to do? do you know what the suspect was trying to do? did he actually have a gun in his hand? >> he had a stick wrapped up look like a gun that he had under his sleeve, under his sweatshirt. i didn't know that at the time. i also didn't know he was 14. and so i guess he was pointing at the register and went behind and kept pointing at her and the lady had a taser in her hand. she had -- i mean, she was trying to scare him off but he just kept coming. >> was she terrified? >> she was actually pretty calm. i mean, it was -- i mean, she wasn't screaming or nothing, but she just came in there and asked me for some help, and i came out and i helped her. >> did the store owner -- has the store owner contacted you and said anything to you? >> not yet. i mean, i'll be there monday morning. >> getting back to the same routine. well, you're a hero. >> yeah. >> has vince mcmahon called you yet? >> no, no, not yet. >> "stone cold" steve austin, you can probably teach him a thing or two. congratulations. you're a hero. thanks for helping out that nice young lady behind the counter. >> well, thank you. thank you very much. >> thank you. coming up on the show, the marine locked up in mexico now free with an emotional family reunion happening just a matter of hours ago. greta van susteren, one of the key figures leading the fight for his freedom, joins us thrive react next. what if your kids started calling you by your first name instead of mom or dad? is that fine or over the line? 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more on this unfold stoirg. and would you let your kid call you by your first name instead of mom or dad? some families letting it happen. but is this a good thing? our panel of parents debate it this hour. "fox & friends" hour four starts right now. a fox news alert. marine sergeant andrew tamaris itouching down after spending 214 days in a mexican prison. a mexican judge ordering his release on humanitarian ground because of posttraumatic stress. >> greta van susteren has been on top of the story since day one in an effort to tep set him free. she has the first and only interview with him. greta, great to have you on the show. what is your response to him being released? >> 214 days later, i'm thrilled for him, his mother, for my staff that's worked hard on this, but what took 214 days to get to the obvious? look, i should be grateful it's happened to him and congratulations to sergeant tahmooriesi's mother, but what took so long on this one? >> that's for sure. grett tashgs it's tucker. i'm confused why the mexican government was holding him in the first place. seemed like it caused a lot of trouble for him. why did they hold him for seven months? >> i'm not sure. a little bit of a grudge match with the united states. it had to go through the process. but they could have sped this one up really quickly. and it was pretty obvious from the very beginning. i always wondered, did i not know something that was so obvious to us but not obvious to them? i wondered if it was a little bit of a fwruj match. i was very disappointed in the obama administration, president obama, for not doing so. president obama talked to the president of mexico last summer. i look at the readout. it mentioned nothing about this. he is a marine. he has ptsd. he did two tours in afghanistan. he made a mistake. couldn't we at least speed up the process a little bit? don't we owe that to him? and couldn't the president have helped a little bit more? dould couldn't mexico have been a little more gracious? but bottom line, glad he's home. >> greta, we had several lawmakers on the show earlier today and they credit you with this victory this morning as well along with their hard work and our viewers, too, who have gone and beseeched the white house, signing more than the 100,000 signatures that was needed for that threshold that would supposedly make the white house address it. where is jill tahmooriesi? you have an inside look at the family. >> my staff has been on the phone with her lat literally for weeks and beaks going back to last may. last night they were speaking to her. i was on a plane so i didn't speak to her. but here's sort of the very interesting thing about it. when i first heard the story, i thought that's ridiculous. how do you make a wrong turn and end up in mexico? i never heard anything dumber in my life. but we went out to san diego, we retraced, and i thought this was exactly the turn i would have taked because the road are so mismarked. in fact, california has since then, because of this incident, this fall they have changed their signs as a result. but, you know, it was so bizarre to me that anyone could possibly make this sign. but what was most significant to me is mexico never charged him with trying to sell guns or enter mexico with the intent to sell guns. it was simple possession. and if he made a mistake to enter mexico, if he didn't intend to be there, he couldn't violate the law because you had to, under mexican law, intend to be in mexico and violate the law. he was accidentally in mexico with possession. they never charged him with trying to sell the guns, which meant from the very beginning they never thought he was up to no good, that they thought it was merely an accident. >> greta, we see images on the screen this morning, the airplane on the tarmac there, smiles all around. whose plane was, that by the way? >> that i don't know. i think probably the state department arranged that. it was a flurry of activity as soon as the word came down. literally we have been on this -- behind the scenes dealing with this and it was sort of all hands on deck the minute the word broke. >> greta, we've had joe on "fox & friends" multiple times. the last time i spoke with her she said she'd spoke within sergeant tahmooriesi about potentially kneeing a warm coat for winter. was the family prepared to have him locked up throughout the cold months to the first of the year? did they have any idea this was coming soon? >> well, since may, we've heard and jill has told us, too, any day now, any day now, the lawyer has told us any day now, any day now, and it just never happened. it took the judge finally making a decision. that's what got him out. we kept hearing -- and in the last two weeks, one of my producers kept saying the big news is happening, the big news is happening, but we'd heard that so many time it was sort of hard to think this time it's going happen. greta, you have the first interview and so far the only interview with sergeant tahmooriesi. what's your first question going to be? >> what's it like to get out or what's it been like in there? here's the thing that i'm worried about, is that he has ptsd, he's been locked up in a prison, he's previously had paranoia -- paranoid thoughts. the va hospital is flying someone out to san diego to get help. unless our va hospital steps in right now and does the right thing to take care of this guy, it's guns, paranoia, and he's been locked up in a prison like a caged animal. the va hospital has obligations. they better help this guy. that's why he was out in san diego, to get help, and they didn't give it to him then and then all this unraveled. >> well, the family will not be doing any other media interviews, only sitting down with our own greta van susteren, who's been on this story since the very beginning. thanks for joining us this morning on the show. we appreciate it. >> thank you. thank you very much. bye. >> happy he's home. other stories now. overnight a third student died from last week's shooting at the washington state high school. a 14-year-old, one of five classmates gunned down by jaylen fryberg before he turned the weapon on himself. his mote sieve still not clear, but we do know he targeted specific people. some were his relatives. he lured them with text messages inviting them all to the cafeteria. attorneys for the man accused of kidnapping hannah graham possibly planning an insanity defense. they want jesse matthew to undergo a mental evaluation before he stands trial on separate charges that he tried to kill a woman in 2005. this request coming as matthew was arraigned in fairfax county, virginia, via video from the jail in charlottesville. it's a virgin galactic rocket designed to take tourists into space, and "fox & friends" got a sneak peek of it back in june. >> we start with the spaceship mounted between the two fuselages, take off on a normal runway, we climb up to launch attitude, 46,000 feet. >> but now a test flight turning tragic when it explodes into a massive fireball in the sky. this morning the ntsb is scouring through the debris, trying to figure out what went wrong. up with pilot was killed, the other was survived but was seriously hurt after parachuting to the ground. a warning to parents of trick or treerts. marijuana-laced candy showing up in state where is it's still illegal. prince george's county, maryland, see seizing several boxes of the pot-laced sweets. be extra vigilant checking your kids' candy. the good news, most are clearly labeled they contain marijuana. all right. you've been following it. so have we. cheryl atkinson, a longtime cbs reporter, since left the network, she spent a number of years investigating the benghazi story. during that investigation she noticed that various electronic devices at her office and in her home were behaving oddly. she came to the conclusion she had been hacked by the u.s. government. you're looking at video she took on her cell phone. that's her keyboard. it's open. she's typing but some unknown force appears to have taken control of the text on her screen. >> well, a firm hired by cbs, they took the computer in 2013 and concluded that it had been tampered with by a third party. now, in this pook that she has out now called "stonewalled," she says the source that she had check it out says it looks like it was either the cia, the fbi, the defense intelligence agency, or the national security agency. >> others are suggesting it may just be something with a simple explanation. critics are say, wait a minute, not so fast. it doesn't have any of the hallmarks of typical hacking. there wouldn't be someone sitting there just deleting things. could it actually be a stuck delete key just deleting as it's going? >> it might be. but here's what we know. we know the administration has surveilled journalists because one of them works right here at the fox news channel. james rosen and his parents, by the way, came under federal surveillance because he was asking questions the obama people didn't like. we talked to governor mike huckabee earlier in the show about the possibility of government spying on journalists. here's what he said. >> this is really scary stuff. i mean seriously scary stuff. this is not only -- this is a violation of everything in the entire bill of rights. but we don't know that the government did it at this point, but we by gosh need to find out. if our government is doing this kind of spying on a journalist, then our government is a tyranny and it's out of control and it must be stopped. >> unbelievable. i always think back to my childhood. liberals were concerned with wages for working people, freedom of the press, the fist amendment, free expression. i can say whatever i want. that was the liberal position. turns out i'm kind of liberal by that definition. >> what does it have to do with a benghazi story which is only a fox story, tucker? >> journalists admitted, yes, we were spying on a working journalist. what? >> i hear you. >> the aclu picketing the white house. everything has changed too much. >> eric holder missed it. she said it was his biggest regret serving the president. coming up on the show, president obama becomes campaign trail kryptonite. >> well, you know, he has been a drag. i'm going to be honest about that. >> but our next guest says that doesn't mean the gop isn't clear. and is this the scariest halloween prank ever? [ screaming ] well, just three days to the midterm elections and you can add arctic national wildlife refuge democrat mark pryor to the list of senate democrats up for reelection who were very worried about what the president is doing to their prospects of getting re-elected. watch. well, you know, he has been a drag. i'm just going to be honest about that. people here know that i've had my fair share of disagreements with him, and you can look at, you know, gun control issues, keystone pipeline, you know, never supporting one of the budgets. >> democratic candidates are steering cheer of the president, a lot of them anyway. our next guest says it won't be an easy win for the lengths. nevertheless, joining us now is fox news contributor keirsten powers. mark pryor, i feel for him, a friendly guy, seems like a nice guy, but the truth is he supported obama's agenda in broad terms in the very begin, so why shouldn't voters frustrated with obama take it out on democrats? >> well, i think they will. he is a huge drag on a lot of these places. it's a very unfriendly terrain to democrats in this race, and i think it looks like he's probably going to lose and this seems to be more of a last-ditch effort to say i'm not really like obama. >> right. >> but the country -- it's not just red states unhappy with the president. it's a nationwide phenomenon. if you're already in a conservative state where they're not friendly with you to start with, then you add on obama, i think it's a heavy lift. >> their reaction to that is not to defend obama's policies but to say vote republican and you'll get lynched. that kind of race-baiting, it's desperate, probably won't work, and isn't it adding to the sum total of of hatred in america? >> i think it is very divisive. i've heard a lot of democrats deafing it. they believe it's true nap's the reality. i think a lot of people think this is a tactic, they're doing it because they're desperate. and maybe they wouldn't be doing it if they weren't desperate. it also happens to be something that a lot of democrats believe. like the mary landrieu comments that she made about, well, it's very hard for her to run in louisiana because, you know, people ask about obama, why is he such a drag on you, well, people in louisiana have a hard time with african-americans. >> and with women. >> and with women. i was sort of shocked by the statement, then i talked to a handful of friends who are like democratic operatives and not one of them saw anything wrong with it. they said she's just saying what -- >> i live near a lot of them, they never go on to the coast. they imagine everyone in the middle of the country handling snakes and marrying their cousins. they have a low opinion of people in the middle of the country. but mary landrieu, this is pure cynicism. she didn't bring this up last year. a week to go and she's losing. >> the question is whether she made a gaffe or whether she thinks this will bring out the african-american vote. i don't see how that would activate an african-american vote and i think it really would activate conservative voters. >> i think you may be right. and i don't care about the election long term. it's one election. hopefully this country will last a long time. what i care about is living in a place where people hate each other along racial lines. it's unreasonable and it can become violent in politics. >> i think these tactics are out of line, and i think that it can be last ditch but i also think unfortunately it's what a lot of democrats think. they really honestly believe that. >> if you re-elect republicans and they're going to -- >> i'm not -- i know you don't see issues but watching doerms recently. walk we through the reasoning how voting republican will add up to more fergusons. st. louis was s a democratically run city. >> i'm not saying it's logical. there is a real belief that the republican party is racist and that anything that racist -- anything racist that happens they're somehow complicit in. even when i went back -- when i saw a friend in louisiana, i was saying, look, john kerry didn't win a lot of the white vote either. it's not just president obama. i mean, there does seem to be maybe a 10% of the public that voted for kerry that didn't vote for obama along the white vote. but that's not enough to smear an entire state as being racist. >> yeah. >> but then, you know, the democratic friend say no, you can't separate race from politics in louisiana. and this is the reasoning. and i think -- and i say like i think this is -- you're making a correlation here that might not exist, that might just be the fact that he's a democrat. >> the president of the united states, the most powerful man on the planet, can be a victim then i guess we're all victims. welcome to my victim world. kirsten powers, thanks for join us. >> thanks for having me. coming up, a brand-new act attack on the police. this time a man with an axe goes after cops in washington, d.c. there's the picture. could it be related to the frightening hatchet attack in new york city last week? 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what would you do if it was your child? we have dr. jackie, america's marriage coach, tom kersey, psychotherapist and school counselor, and lily, president and co-founder of xl alliance and creator of careermommy.com. nice to see all of you this morning. what would you do if your child came home and said i was vaccinated today? what? i didn't give you permission for this. >> we live in the u.s. of a., not a communist country. parents should be given authority to do what they will with their children. >> you know there's mix-ups sometimes. apparently this child had a similar name as another student and i guess they mad a mix-up. >> i'd be upset from a parental perspective but given the evidence here, you know, what we've seen, obviously a mix-up, some other kid had the same name, i kind of give the nurse a pass on this one and hopefully it doesn't lead to anything bigger, like any litigiousness or anything like that. >> what do you tnk? >> looking at the positive side of this crazy story, yes, there was a mix-up, there were two zachariahs in the same class, and one was missing and the consent got confused. but the good thing is this particular case is going to just change the way we go about controls inside the school. they already had a process for checking, making sure they had the right paperwork. now it will put a new discipline, good for all of us parents. i would never want that to happen again. >> what about this story? we've been talking about it and i've been thinking about it as a parent, the idea there's a new movement to stop calling us mom and dad. get rid of -- and start using first names instead. my son would wake up and say clayton -- it would creep me out. what do you think about this? >> in the word of james brown, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. society trusts that we are going to raise responsible, care, disciplined young people, and i think that po put up on the same level is really deteriorating that whole aspect of respect and response, parental responsibility. >> we see this in schools, though. as a school counselor, there were teachers we just called bill. >> i don't see that. most teachers don't allow that to happen. and me as a parent, i'm against that. i don't think anybody should allow that. because if you're allowing a young kid to call you by your first name, when they become a teenager, you're giving them a lot more power. >> absolutely. >> you'll have problems with your teenager later on, power struggles. >> does it come down to a name? >> definitely. >> i think the problem is not just getting caught up with the first name or not but the manners-minded society we want to be starts at home. i've seen this as a business owner. you have to teach them how to write a proper e-mail, because they go, hey, lily, about what thing you asked me about. that comes from home. we are educating future professional, future society members that you need to properly give them boundaries and respect. >> part of this issue, though, is that parents are trying to become best friends with the kid. >> right. >> absolutely. >> we don't need to have a separation there, i'm just clayton, you can just call me john. >> but parents are the guardians of their children's soul so, there has to be a hierarchy of power, because when you're doing wrong, i have to be able to deliver discipline and be punitive sometimes. if we're on same plane and you have your own mind and ageneral dashgs you set it the way you will. i lose my authority. >> we're all friend. you're my buddy, my little guy. >> as a parent, your chile is your child and you're the parent, so you want to love your kids and have them love you back. but you have to have -- you have to draw the line. there has to be an authoritative line. your kid need to know you're in charge. >> lily, final word. >> at the end of the day, parents have to become firmer, not friendlier, as kid get closer to adulthood. life is too tough out there. >> some of us as we get older need to get firmer too. great to see all of you this morning. thanks so much. >> thank you. >> weigh in on our facebook page. go to ffweekend on facebook and weigh in on these stories and more. coming up, our top story, the marine held in mexico for the last seven months finally free. former governor bill richardson provied the plane he flew in on. we'll talk to the governor. and americans, you better vote or else. the threat from democrats hoping to get more people to the polls. wisest kid? 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what made the mexican government decide to release him? >> well, i think the strategy of focusing on ptsd, mexico has not had much experience in that area, a good legal strategy, but i think, tucker, what also helped was bipartisanship. i worked with some republican congressmen, ed royce, chairman of the foreign affairs committee, congressman salmon, a republican from arizona, montel williams. we all went in together not to pressure but to try to talk to various mexican officials. we were in the tijuana area the last five days. we've been working intensively. so i think the legal strategy, bipartisan effort, the fact that i think the public was very involved, i think you guys at fox have covered it in a very positive way, and so all of that groundswell brought this release. and i think also the mexican government, their judicial process worked. >> and it seems, i mean, odd to us, governor, i'm sure to you as well that it's taken this long around under these circumstances that he's finally been released. have you talked to the president? do you think he dropped the ball on this? >> well, no. the state department was very engaged. roberta jacobson, the assistant secretary, and i have been talking the last few days. they have been pushing very hard. the consular service in tijuana. you have to be careful. the mexicans are very sensitive to pressure. we're the big brother across the border. and so you have to do it delicately, and i think the mexican process, yes, it unfold over eight months, and there was a number of diplomatic initiatives with the president of mexico weather the foreign minister weather the minister of the interior and the attorney general's office. there were a lot of actors. but ultimately it was a judge who accepted the attorney general's recommendation that because of ptsd that andrew should be released on a humanitarian basis. but i think the main message here also is, you know, we should stand behind our veterans, both in times of war and at home. and by the way, you also mentioned my foundation. the generosity of johnny and marty cope of new mexico helped us get this airplane to bring andrew home. he's home right now. he's happy. he said he wanted a steak. he might be eating a steak at this very moment with his mother, jill. but it's a nice, nice story, nice day, a nice occasion when there's a lot of other sad news and, you know, gridlock everywhere. >> yeah. steak and stone crab is what he wanted. the fact that the judge did this on humanitarian grounds because of ptsd seems curious though because it's been so long, it's not like this ptsd is new. that's why sergeant tahmooressi said he moved from florida to california with all his possessions and that's why he had the three guns in his car in the first place because he wanted to get treatment for ptsd. you can only imagine it's piled on after him saying his time in the mexican prison was actually worse than his two tours of duty. what do you think he's going through this morning? how is he reacting? is he doing all right? >> he's doing okay. he's smiling. he's happy. we were on the plane for about five hours. he's upbeat. he spent a lot of time with his mom. montel williams was on the plane with me. we all talked. i think he's going to decompress for a while. he's going to spend time privately -- you know, he mentioned to me that he doesn't want to be watched as he was in a prison for about seven months. he wants a little peace and quiet. and then i think he's going to get some treatment, some ptsd treatment, inpatient, outpatient. i think he's going to have a lot of people wanting to help. and i know montel, who's an expert on this issue, is going to be helping him. >> governor bill richardson of new mexico. thanks a lot for joining us this morninging. >> thank you. >> thanks, tucker. >> free at last. some of the stories making headlines this saturday, an axe-wielding man going after a d.c. police officer. cops say the man swung this large axe at the officer sitting in his patrol car. safety glass stopped the blade from hitting him. the cop jumped out of the car, struggling with the attacker. he suffered a dislocated shoulder. the attacker still on the loose. metropolitan police do not believe it is related to the hatchet i tack on nypd officer last week. yesterday democrats in new york say they were threatened by their party to vote and now we may have the proof. a brooklyn-baylesed musician posting this letter he received. it read, "who you vote for is secret but whether or not you vote is public record. many organizations monitor turnout in your neighborhood and are disappointed with the inconsistent voting of many of your neighbors. voters in north carolina reporting similar letters. and just imagine this -- you're walking down the street, minding your own business, when this woman jumps out right in front of you. [ screaming ] >> ha-ha ha-ha. >> probably would have drop kicked her. >> the woman dressed as the scary dead girl from the horry movie "the ring." >> i would have knocked a kneecap off. i don't know who's attacking me. >> the haunted houses when they jump out and scare you -- >> to do that on the street seems a little -- right in the middle of a city. you don't know fit's a lunatic. >> we've been asking you all morning for pictures of you and your children, your dog, and halloween costumes, and some of you have responded. oh, those are the handsome boys of our son -- >> our senior producer. [ buzzer ] >> we love him like a son. >> that's cole and gavin. >> and producer kelly, her niece coley dressed up as a ladybug. those are lucky, you know. >> jessica hall sent in this picture of her family dressed up as superheroes and cowboys visiting great grandma and great grandpa. >> hanna and her son, john, celebrating halloween. look at that. >> keep sending us your photos. you can e-mail us or go to instagram. we will scour instagram for them. >> fire on the hillside and get a blanket. >> a lot of pet costume taos. >> my sop was dressed up as the flash. he ran through the studio to race outside. did he get outside in time yet? >> it's wet out there. >> is that you? >> and a little secret, which is when you see one of our stage managers going like this, stretch, stretch. >> stretch. you were standing in the dark there. >> i was under a tent. now i just came out into the rain, so there you go. we'll stay in the rain so you get some light on it. you have your halloween pictures. take a look at this picture out of batesberg, south carolina, snow this morning toward areas of south carolina. take a look at that. sticking on all the trees and on the grass, not on the roads. 38 degrees with kind of that mix of rain and snow there. getting to 52 today and really windy. kind of a rough day across much of the south. keep sending me your pictures. i'm rick reichmuth on twitter. turn your clocks back tonight, guys. an extra hour of sleep. clayton, anna, tucker? an nashgs i bet you need that extra hour for the run you have tomorrow morning. >> yes. you're forecasting this extreme head wind. >> this you go. >> with the daylight saving, would you sheep in by accident? i guess you couldn't do that. you could get the extra hour. >> we'll have to anchor the show tomorrow so we'll wake you up anyway. coming up, the attack ads are rolling out in full force. but do they actually work? are you sick of seeing them yet? we've got the dials and the numbers for you when we come back. frank luntz on the set. plus, parents don't know what to do with all that extra halloween candy this morning? stick around. we're getting creative. what you can do with it. candy pancakes among other things. 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we brought someone this morning who's seen them all. he is our friend, the pollster, frank luntz, and he's here live. great to see you. >> the ads are on everywhere. in a state that's competitive in an eight pod block of ads, all eight are now political. >> so no state is receiving more attention than kentucky. >> right. >> what's the best there? >> we've got a mitch mcconnell ad there for him in the campaign. the higher the lines climb, the more favorable the app. let's take a look pool? i worked in a nuclear facility that has been vital for national security. like many, i was exposed to radiation. i got cancer. but mitch mcconnell fought for us, creating cancer screening programs and providing compensation for sick workers. mitch mcconnell is a caring and powerful voice for kentucky's working families. and having a strong voice matters. >> i'm mitch mcconnell, and i approve this message. >> that's the whole thing, you have to lean into it, you have to listen carefully. of all the ads we tested about endorsing that's number one. >> i literally leaned in. physically. >> mitch mcconnell is going to win on tuesday and one of the reasons is because of that ad. >> wow. heavy. >> next up we have the greg orman tug of war ad. let's watch this one. >> washington's stuck between two parties who care more about winning than they care about our country. we can get back on track if we just find common ground. most kansans just want government to live within its means and stop telling the rest of us how to live our lives. hey, you guys accomplishing anything? didn't think so. i'm greg orman. the independent for u.s. senate. and i approve this message because something has to change. >> fed up with gridlock. does this work? >> it works for everybody. it's the reason why pat roberts after 30-some-odd years in washington, he's in deep trouble in kansas. even republican, many republicans want to vote for greg orman and that ad explains it. they're fed up and they want to change. >> the irony is there's nothing dehn about orman. he'll be a democrat, in effect, when he gets to the senate. >> nobody knows that. >> unbelievable. udall having a lot of trouble this season. here's his response. watch. ♪ >> standing up for colorado, that would be my job in the u.s. senate. in fact, it's really the reason i'm running. i'm mark udall, and i approve this message. >> is that working? >> no. a add says absolutely nothing. that's 30 second of wasted time. i'll tell you right here right now because of ads like that and corey gardner's effective campaign, gardner will be the next senator from colorado. >> which is amazing. >> this next ad is a stuart smalley ad poking pun at an "snl" character. let's watch this one. >> daily affirmation with al franken. >> voting for obamacare. not my best moment. but that's okay. and okay sho,0140,000 of you lo your health care plan. but i refuse to beat myself up. even though i lied. because i'm good enough, i'm smart enough, and doggone, people like me. >> there's nothing funny about obamacare and what it has done and that's reason why that ad fails. completely ineffective. we don't want to laugh about it. we want it fixed. >> right. >> that's why al franken -- >> who put that spot up? >> al franken will win because of stupid ads like that. >> tough state for a republican right now. >> republicans have won in the past. >> in the few seconds we have left, what's the final number? >> i think republicans end up with a one-seat majority. but we won't know tuesday. it will take longer than that. >> frank luntz, you wanted to show off your sneaker, your kicks. >> yes. these are kevin durant special edition fours from nike. great company. does a lot for our troops, our men and women in uniform. these are my good-luck sneakers for tuesday. this tells me i'm not going to get hit by a cab between now and election day. >> not only a noted pollster but i think the owner of the largest sneaker collection in the western hemisphere. >> i hope so. >> sneakers and a suit. only you can pull it off. >> ooel. >> still after those big bags of halloween candy? give those sweets a second like this morning. we have delicious dishes you can eat for breakfast. handy and pancakes. when a pro at any 2014 pga tour event sinks a hole-in-one, quicken loans will pay your mortgage for an entire year. that is how it's done. truly amazing! get in the hole-in-one sweepstakes. enter today at pgatour.com/quickenloans and you could have your mortgage paid for an entire year. all right. now that halloween is over, what are you going to do with all that leftover candy. >> eat it. >> if you don't want to just eat it, here to share sweet ideas are people from the couple's kitchen. you have fun candy to do it with. >> there are things we can do with the candy. number one, a bulk of where our candy is going is care packages for troops overseas. you can find that online. that's a great place. >> out of our daughter's halloween basket, to you today. i hope you enjoy it. >> what are you cooking down there? >> so, pancakes. wake up halloween morning, we want to jam more candy in one way or another. we chopped up m & ms, take your favorite regular pancake recipe and sprinkle the m & ms, don't mix it in. >> i tried it, but it didn't work well. it burned. i did it with star burst. >> what is worse? >> something with a high sugar like that is going to give you trouble. it is going to burn. >> i tried. >> this is like hardly different than sprinkling it in. >> whoppers you have the whole 2% milk. mix in the whoppers and the crackle, the hershey bars and stir it together until it melts down really nice. over low heat until it all melts. >> for my husband, the recess peanut butter cups. >> universal donor of candy. >> to go with the pancakes, you can do hazel nut hazel nut bread spread on the pumpkin bread or pancakes. all organic, no palm oil. >> what is in this one? >> this is another great way, all the chocolate candy bars you have left, chop them up and mix them in to your favorite baked treat. a mix of butter fingers, crunch bars and 100 grand and mix them into our pumpkin bread. there you go. >> what is missing here? >> healthy as apples. >> this is the best way. you are like me, a huge fan of the butter physical injurier. this is a light cream cheese we whip up and thin out with milk and throw a bunch of crushed up butter finger bars in it. >> what's in a butter finger? what is it? >> goodness covered in chocolate. >> oh, it's goodness m. >> you saved the good chocolate. >> you can get the recipes on foxandfriends.com. we'll have more with you. >> a brunello. before we say good-bye, we have to mention tomorrow, anna, will be running in the new york city marathon. you can tweet her words of inspiration. we'll be pulling for you tomorrow. >> thanks for bringing out the cards. >> and we have one more day to raise the money for the amazing foundation you'll be running for. >> if you go to foxandfriends.com or my facebook and twitter page. please, please, please donate. it's an amazing cause. this is a fox news station special election presentation. dash to the flash. now, neil cavuto. >> get ready to rumble. in three days, we will know whether united states senate changes hands. polls across the country are tightening. today, in the dash to the clash, we are looking at the races with the most attention with republican candidate in kansas

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for him but still a lot of questions as to how this came about. >> we're joined exclusively by the third defense attorney for u.s. marine sergeant andrew tahmooressi. fernando, thank you so much for taking the time with cnn. was this how you expected it to come about? >> well, actually, if i must be truthful, i was prepared to go all the way to a judgment, but i am delighted, and this, despite some opinions to the contrary especially in my country, i'm very, very proud of the attorney general's decision to file nonaccusatory conclusions based on the preponderance of the evidence in the case. the attorney general's office decided in a very bold and very humane -- humanitarian, i should say, move to basically move towards dismissal of the case. and we believe he made a right decision. we believe the evidence supports it 100%. some folks might not agree totally with it. but i am just ecstatic. i'm glad we could get this young man back home. and i'm glad i got to participate in some small way at least. >> and mr. benitez, how complicated of a case was this for you to handle? we know that the mexican nationalists were very aggressive about their opinion of what they felt andrew tahmooressi did that day. they felt it wasn't an accident. it complicated things for the mexican government. what's your take on it? are you happy with the outcome? >> i'll tell you what. in any country, there will be some very specific sectors of society that will be a little extreme in their views. mexico's not an exception. however, most people that really got to know the workings of the case agreed that this young man has to come back home. and i feel most people are happy for him. we are certainly happy for him. we are proud that our government took the decision that they did. you know, it was a complicated case, but it wasn't -- never felt we couldn't win it. i still feel if we had to go to a judgment, we would have prevailed. i'm so glad we got a chance to end this sooner rather than later and have him back home and have him hopefully soon back on the treatment he needs. >> and mr. benitez, i want you to help take us there. take us to that reaction that andrew am tehad when he learned news. i'd like to know how it all played out. >> okay. thursday afternoon, we were served notice that the attorney general decided to file nonaccusatory conclusions. so that is -- that is very notable. upon learning that, we suspected that the judge would have a motion the following day ordering the attorney general to ratify those nonaccusatory conclusions. so the first thing i did was take the earliest plane to mexico city. and along with my partner who tried the case alongside me, we wept went to mexico city first thing in the morning, touched down, and we were expecting a motion to come from court ordering the attorney general to ratify those conclusions, but to our surprise, and it was a very surprise, i must say, at around 3:45 p.m., the court issued a notice that they would take the attorney general's submission from thursday and predicate it on that, they felt no need to do any further bureaucratic paperwork. so they ordered the immediate release. so what we have to do was basically drive back to the airport immediately and jump on a plane back. i have some staff ready and waiting at the prison to accompany andrew to the immigration authority where he was processed for around 20 or 30 minutes just to sign his exit from the country. and then he was delivered to the diplomatic officials of the united states consulate general who took care of him. >> fernando, is this the end of it? is this it, charges dropped, the sergeant, andrew tahmooressi, now gets to move on with his life? is this the end? >> i'm sorry, i didn't hear that last part. >> is this the end of the case, now that the charges have been dropped? >> well, actually, dismissal of the case due to the nonaccusatory conclusion poses a new set of challenges for us because on the one side, as a person, he is no longer subject to procedure. he is innocent as if he were acquitted. well, actually, it's even better because it's exactly as if he had never been charged, okay? but for us, we're going to rest over the weekend, but bright and early monday morning, i'll tell you what, nick, we're going to move to get the retrieval of the truck and the gun. and we're going toe t try to ge his vehicle and his firearms back to him. >> those contents still in mexico. >> it is now proven that he did no wrong, he intended no wrong. the mexican state decided not to prosecute him anymore, so we believe he needs to get his property back. >> that's the attorney for u.s. marine sergeant andrew tahmooressi joining cnn exclusively. fred, as you know, we've been on this since the beginning. that exclusive interview. no one has spoken to the attorney just yet. we got updates about what happens next. knowing that that car and those contents still in mexico, they're going to try to retrieve those. >> it's fascinating to hear how the wheels got into motion. it will be fascinating to know what preceded some of those things, what preceded the dismissal of those charges of that case. nick valencia, thanks so much. let's bring in now the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee, congressman ed royce, because congressman royce was one of the lawmakers who advocated for tahmooressi's release. so good to see you. this is an incredible victory. and just hearing from the attorney there brought to us by nick valencia here to hear that things happened very quickly. he learned from the attorney general this dismissal of the case, this nonaccusatory conclusion has been reached. can you tell us, congressman, what you know about just what preceded that? what provoked the mexican authorities to do this? >> well, let me just say that originally the mexican authorities were looking at maybe seven years, 21 years. >> right. >> that was the filing. i had a conversation with the attorney general of mexico. asking him if he would not look at this situation where ten days before the incident, we had the sergeant tahmooressi checking into the hospital in san diego, and the finding at that point was that he had ptsd. so clearly the attorney general had the ability to issue this particular statement, nonaccusatory statement, to the judge making this recommendation. and then we held a hearing on this. i had visited sergeant tahmooressi in the prison. we followed up with various officials in mexico. and the bottom line was that the decision was made by the attorney general to issue this order to the judge. >> so am i hearing you correctly in that you said this -- your belief is that this discovery made by mexican authorities to see some real verification about his mental, his psychological state is what was needed is the linchpin that helped win his release? and they just made this discovery, even though this documentation was available was accessible to mexican authorities for a very long time, but in the course of the past few days, they made this discovery, and thereabout brought this release. >> when i discussed this with the attorney general, the next day i sent the diagnosis to him from the hospital in san diego. and i think that that gave them the rationale to move forward and ask for a humanitarian release. >> now, you heard from the attorney who says now, you know, in his view, case not completely closed until there's a retrieval of his personal property, his truck and his guns. is it worthy of pursuing that? should it just be dropped? what do you believe the next step should be besides tahmooressi's healing, you know, him reuniting with his family, them enjoying their private time? >> well, i think the main issue is his chance to be with his family. i was there last night along with congressman matt salmon. and i could see the elation, not just on the part of his mother and his former commanding officer, sergeant buchanan, but also in this case, he was so excited, you know, to be back on u.s. soil and express that. but at the same time, i think they'll make the move to get the property back to get it returned. because after all, this was never intended. and since then, we have made changes, working with the department of transportation, at the border, so that now there is a turnaround. there is signage that explains that if you get off on that road, you're not going to be able to turn back. so those steps have been taken for the future. >> and despite this 7 to 21 years in prison that tahmooressi was facing, did you remain confident that there was going to be an opening for him to be released, or did you feel like it was, you know, a pipe dream? what was it about his case that elicited this interest by you to want to back him, support him and see that he would win his freedom? >> well, as sergeant buchanan said, this was the bravest marine he had served with. he testified at our committee. and at the same time in meeting with this young marine, leah campos and i went down to meet with him along with matt salmon. and you could just see what a good man he is. and frankly, you know, he soldiered through this experience, but after two tours of duty in afghanistan and being wounded there, he really needs to be back in the united states, not just for treatment but to be with friends and family. and now that's been done. >> representative ed royce, thanks so much for your time. appreciate it. >> thank you. all right. another big story we're following, virgin airlines' ceo and founder of virgin galactic, richard branson is now talking to the workers, 400 or so workers near that spaceship accident site. a live report from the ground in the mojave desert next. narrator: these are the skater kid: whoa narrator: that got torture tested by teenagers and cried out for help. from the surprised designers. who came to the rescue with a brilliant fix male designer: i love it narrator: which created thousands of new customers for the tennis shoes that got torture tested by teenagers. the internet of everything is changing manufacturing. is your network ready? the founder of the space flight that failed in california defended his company just a short time ago.lactic ceo richa branson vowed to find out why the spacecraft fell apart, killing one and injuring another. >> you do understand the risks involved, and we're not going to push on blindly. to do so would be an insult to all those affected by this tragedy. we're going to learn from what we went wrong. >> let's bring in cnn's stephanie elam who was there. she was at that press conference. stephanie, you asked branson about the criticism of the project. and he had a pretty terse response, didn't he? >> reporter: very true, fred. you know, he did say that because of the ntsb investigation into this crash, that he could not comment. but he did make it clear that he thinks it's too early for anyone to speak on this at all. take a listen to what he had to say. >> the ntsb will be doing regular press conferences over the next month. i'm not allowed to comment at all on any aspect of the spacecraft, the rockets and anything to do with it. it's the ntsb that will be commenting. and to be honest, i find it slightly irresponsible that people who know nothing about what they're saying can be saying things before the ntsb makes their comments. >> reporter: he also made it clear that he has seen, throughout the history of aviation, that there were a lot of challenges in the beginning, but now it is one of the safest modes of transportation to fly. and he's saying that it's not going to be easy, but he implied that the exploration into this project will continue. he also says that he believed the 400 engineers that he was on his way to meet with who work here, virgin galactic, would also like to see the project continue on, fred. >> and then that nothing is being said thus far about the pilots. one who died and the other who parachuted but is still being hospitalized. what does that mean, that they're very tight-lipped about the circumstances of them, who they are, et cetera? >> reporter: it's interesting to note out here, fred, that this community out here in the mojave desert, we are definitely in a remote part of california where we are. but a lot of what you see happening in aviation, in aerospace, space travel, a lot of it is done out here in the desert for just the reason that it is open space, and it's dry, and they can test these vehicles out. so a lot of people here do know a lot of other people within the space community, and they do know each other. but you do get the impression that they're just not ready to say who this person is that has died and also this other pilot and his condition. but we know he was seriously injured when he landed. we just don't know anything more about him. still unknown at this point. >> all right. stephanie elam, thanks so much for bringing us information as you get it. appreciate it. and in just a few minutes we'll hear reaction from retired nasa astronaut and shuttle commander captain mark kelly. time is running out for political candidates across the u.s. they have just three days to campaign before election day. the potentially dramatic impact of this election and some rather bizarre moments on the campaign trail next. body. it hugs you. 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>> that remains to be seen because rand paul ultimately is a creature of the tea party movement. and this is a movement that, you know, certainly enjoyed wide influence of the party and still does, yet there are many people in the party who, for example, are very skeptical of his foreign policy views. so there are a lot of big barriers to overcome, and i think ron is right, he's hoping he can expand that republican pie to win over new people because a lot of traditional republicans, a lot of insiders, are very hostile to what he represents. so i think it's a long shot. but i certainly think he'll be very influential. >> and then hilary, this would be kentucky senator alison lundergan grimes refusing a few weeks back to say whether she voted for president obama. i mean, what kind of strategy is that? or is it really strategy, or was it just a moment, or what are the fears or reservations about her decision? >> you know, the kentucky senate race is so interesting for a lot of reasons. obviously, alison grimes, that may prove to be an important moment in her campaign. yet even after that moment, she is still running neck and neck with mitch mcconnell. and his -- mcconnell's senate republican colleagues -- this is what i find so interesting -- they're all furious at him. because his race is costing millions and millions of dollars more than it should. for a senator who's not just been in the senate as long as he has, but who's the republican leader? so if he isn't popular enough at home to be able to spend those resources in other senate races across the country, you know, it definitely weakens him. i think alison grimes has turned out to be a stronger candidate than people think, and i think, you know, the blips have an effect on her just as much as people had hoped. >> ron, do you think this is an indicator that the tide might be changing? >> well, you know, i think it's interesting because, you know, you see candidates go through these gyrations all of the time. but the reality is you can run, but you can't hide. whether or not she says she voted for president obama, attitudes toward the president are increasingly shaping the way senate races turn out. i mean, the reality is 26 states voted both times for president obama. democrats now have 43 of their 52 senate seats. 22 states voted both times against him. after this election, republicans could have 39 or 40 of their 44. yes, there are always exceptions. you know, whether democrats can sustain a few of those exceptions may decide which side controls the senate. but the reality is that our elections are becoming more parliamentary and the party matters relatively more and the individual matters relatively less. and her attempts to kind of separate herself from the president really aren't going to amount to all that much because the vast majority of the people who disapprove of the president are going to vote against her. >> let's talk about this so-called fangate. you know, florida's governors debate upstaged by a fight over a fan. what was this all about, and was it worth the risk? >> well, the particular details of it are pretty picayune. it was about, you know, a sense of unfairness on the part of rick scott because, you know, they were concerned about their presentation. that's always been the case in televised debates. rick scott was concerned that his opponent, charlie crist, had an advantage that he didn't have. i think it was pretty minor. it was certainly something that people laughed a lot about. but to ron's earlier point, look, ultimately which is what it comes down to how florida voters feel about republicans and democrats, ironically enough, given that charlie crist was, until not so long ago, a republican himself. so i don't think that -- these little blips are stimulating. they're amusing, maybe, but they're not ultimately going to have a huge impact on the race itself. >> a distraction, ron? >> yeah, no, i'm amused, the story, of course, charlie crist was a republican at the end of the 2006 race, he would not appear with george w. bush. now he's a democrat and he won't appear with obama which goes to show that, you know, historically presidents have a hard time in midterms, especially the sixth year midterm. almost all of them through the turn of the 20th century have been bad for the president's party. really with only a couple of exceptions. this is likely to be another one of them. and the issue is really whether there are enough democrats who can swim against what is both an historic tide that is against them, the sixth year, geography, they're running -- you know, they had to defend a lot of red states this year in the senate which makes it tough. and the reality is looking at diminished approval in the second half of his second term which is not unusual for presidents. the real question is can republicans build enough of a cushion in the senate so that by 2016 when they have to defend seven seats in states that voted both times for obama, they can sustain what is likely to be a tide in the other direction. volatile politics these days. >> hilary. >> it's not over yet. i think given all of the things that ron just said, the republicans should be running away with these races, and they're not. they are still neck and neck in virtually every state. and i think much will be made after the fact about the impact of the president. but i think it is -- it's also accurate that in many of these states in alaska, in colorado, in arkansas, in louisiana, you know, unfortunately, these democratic senators started out these races with a less than majority approval. you know, this is not really just on the president's hands. this is really on whether we have a washington that's functioning, whether people believe in their incumbents, and, you know, this might end up being just as much of an anti-incumbent election as anything else. and that's going to affect some republicans and republican governors, for instance. you know, we'll see. >> all right. in three days, we indeed will see. hilary rosen, ron brownstein, good to see all of you. thanks so much. of course, be sure to tune in for all of your election night coverage starting at 5:00 p.m. eastern tuesday night. a spaceship breaking up during a test flight, and it could bring the excitement for commercial space travel to a screeching halt. the reaction from former astronaut mark kelly next. and a live look over the big island in hawaii where lava continues to threaten dozens of homes. our own martin savidge joining us live from a helicopter straight ahead. helps you find a whole range of coverages. no one else gives you options like that. 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a short time ago i spoke to former nasa astronaut mark kelly. >> i don't think it should discourage anybody for the future. you know, of this industry. obviously, with virgin galactic, with this accident, i mane, they're going to have to regroup and do a thorough investigation. it's great that they have the ntsb involved in this. you know, you mentioned the data recorders earlier. i imagine there's some kind of data being recorded on board, probably not your typical black box. there might be tell letelemetai we well. >> is it your understanding there are a lot of nasa folks involved or devoted to this project? you know, are you able to tell me kind of the level of expertise that goes into this kind of team to get this type of space flight in the air? >> yeah, absolutely. i mean, one individual, a guy named mike moses, used to be on my last shuttle flight as the commander of the final flight of "endeavour." mike was basically the operations guy, the guy that ran the entire team. and this is a huge team of thousands of people to get the space shuttle, you know, ready for launch and get it launched into space. he's now the head of operations for virgin galactic. they also have a former shuttle -- space shuttle commander as one of the pilots at virgin galactic. so they have great expertise there. they have the right people involved. but like i said earlier, you know, this stuff is not easy. >> space exploration certainly is not easy. i want to discuss that with cnn aviation analyst miles o'brien. he joins me now via skype from washington. miles, you heard richard branson earlier, you know, saying that we do understand the risks involved. and we will proceed. but we will not do so blindly. so, you know, this is a very courageous venture. and i guess everyone particularly, you know, captain kelly you heard there who are applauding the courage of this kind of exploration. but because it does come with great risks, how much of a setback is it an accident like this? >> well, fred, i think you have to ask yourself the question, is it courageous, or is it fo foolhardy? has it been an honest venture thus far? it's been highly touted. there's been a lot of public relations. we haven't really seen inside the hangar doors, though. the development has occurred in secret, as is the private entity. we really don't know what's been going on, what sorts of schedule pressures there have been, what sorts of compromises have been made along the way in order to try to deliver on a really audacious promise. and that's why the idea of having an ntsb investigation is welcome at this point because this will lay bare the reality and give us an objective view what's real here. sir richard branson is an excellent promoter. today i saw a different richard branson. i saw someone who was taken aback, was saddened and shocked and was speaking in much more realistic terms about space flight, that it's going to take patience, that we're in it for the long run, and we will do it if we can solve the problems, not when. up to this point, it's been a lot more swagger from him. a lot of statements about -- that made it seem like it was a lot easier than it really is. and those of us in the space world who know how hard it is have wondered when the shoe would drop. and it did. >> all great words to describe his demeanor. he did say he was determined to find out what went wrong. but he underscored that they have always known that it's difficult, but that safety was always the number one priority. so as ntsb officials there are on the ground and as they are welcomed into this investigation, how will they go about trying to piece things together? because even when we heard from the chairman earlier, he said we don't know if there's a black box. we do know there are usually copious notes, detailed documentation. but what will be perhaps the first, you know, i guess approach to investigating? >> it's a test flight, fredericka, and so it is a heavily instrumented venture. everything that's happening, systems on board, information about those systems, is beiamed back to the ground. for all intents and purposes, all the data you would put in a black box is already on the ground. so that information is there. it will be available. there are eyewitness accounts nearby from the white knight 2, the mother ship, which carries the spaceship 2 to the altitude of 40,000 or 45,000 feet before it separates and heads off into space. so i'm certain that they'll come up with some answers here fairly quickly. one of the things very simply, too, beyond all of that is, what's the first piece you find on the desert floor? you know, you sort of walk the path of the craft, and you look on the ground, and you see what fell off first. this is clearly a break-up in flight. and when you go to that spot and you see what's lying there, there's a very good chance that's what broke away, and that will give you some indication as to what failure we're dealing with here. >> wow. that's going to be a painstaking investigation to say the very least. miles o'brien, always good to see you. thank you so much. >> you're welcome, fred. meantime, lava inching closer and closer to homes in hawaii. our own martin savidge is getting a bird's-eye view. martin. >> reporter: fredericka, take a look. we'll show you the monster that's headed for main street. we're hovering over it right now. this is the lava flow headed towards kehoa, steaming its way toward the town. more after the break. 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georgia. and more, guess what, on the way. hello again, everyone, i'm fredricka whitfield. developing news on the virgin galactic spaceship disaster. the ntsb about to release an update about spaceship 2 coming down. this as we understand that virgin ceo richard branson could arrive at any moment at the crash site in california. the shasship 2 plane fell apart just two minutes after friday's launch over the mojave desert. one pilot was killed, the other hospitalized. cnn's stephanie elam is near the launch site. the second private space disaster this week. what are we learning about what happened? any commonalities here? >> reporter: yeah, it's very disturbing, obviously, it's a very rough week for space exploration and these private endeavors as well, fred. what you're seeing here are the challenges of actually trying to get up to space. the plan was to take people up 62 miles above earth so that they could feel maybe for five or six minutes what it's like to be weightless in the lower regions of space before coming back to earth. this whole endeavor now going through a setback. what we know is that spaceship 2, the one that crashed yesterday, it cost about half a billion dollars to make, just that one vehicle alone. the ship that was bringing it aloft, that was taking it up into the sky, that landed safely. that called white knight 2, that part is fine, but this particular spaceship that they lost yesterday, it's a big deal that they lost it, let alone the fact that you've also lost one of the pilots and this other pilot is in serious condition as well, fred. >> and what more do we know about those pilots or when might be learn something, especially since, you know, the ceo richard branson will be making his way there momentarily? >> right. we're understanding that he may be here imminently if he's not already on the ground here. what we're hoping to learn more about is who these pilots are, how long they've been involved. from what i can gather these pilots have been involved in this type of activity for a while. the space exploration community seems rather tight knit. seems like they really do know each other. and here in the mojave desert, this is a place where you have a lot of space exploration work, you have a lot of aeronautic work. these people come here, they live out here, there's a community that's really feeling the impact of this loss, fred. >> thanks so much, stephanie elam, appreciate that. in a few minutes we'll continue this conversation with retired nasa astronaut and shuttle commander captain mark kelly. there is freedom and a homecoming for a u.s. marine reservist today. sergeant andrew tahmooressi stepped down from a flight after an early morning flight the san diego. he was released late last night on psychological grounds after spending seven months in jail for entering the mexico with guns in his truck. how did all of this unfold? >> it was months of hard work by the defense team, by his family, keeping this story in the news. as you mentioned psychological grounds, humanitarian grounds. he was released because he has ptsd and mexico doesn't have the resources to give ptsd treatment to their prisoners. i spoke to former ambassador bill richardson about the charges that the former marine reservist was facing. >> i think that was incorrect. he's a good young man. you know, he's a war hero. and we have to stand behind them. maybe a mistake was made on the weapons thing. i think he took a wrong turn coming into mexico, and maybe because of some confusion or the ptsd, but he's a good, young man. he's served two tours in afghanistan. he has suffered enough. great family, great mom and dad. you know, let's focus on the positive. so i think the mexican judge made the right choice. you got all the evidence, he took a long time and he made the final decision that, because of ptsd, on humanitarian grounds he should be released. so it ended well. >> the outcome, it was the outcome that the family was hoping for all this time, fred. >> you know, i think the last time you report on this and you were talking to the mother having the conversation with the mother, it didn't seem very hopeful. >> no. >> it's pretty extraordinary that there would be this turnaround. if bill richardson, montana williams, all these people who had been working on this, have they can working on it for a very long time and perhaps the family didn't even know it or did something just occur within the past 30 days or the course of a past few days or weeks that turned things around that allowed mexico to say there are psychological grounds in which to win his release? >> this is extraordinary especially when you consider the stance of the mexican nationalists, they believed he was on his way to do something bad, something nefarious. in recent weeks we reported that there were conversations that began at high levels in the mexican government, in the attorney general's office to find a way for them really, fred, to save face so that they didn't look like they were caving to pressure from the american side, caving to this very strong pressure from not only the family but others, skd mentioning it to his counterpart, secretary of state kerry, i should say. it happened. a surprise to the family. right now they're living in the moment. they say andrew tahmooressi it seemed like his mental health was deteriorating now he has the resources to try to get better. >> thanks so much for bringing it to us. sad news from washington state. a third teenager has died after last week's high school shooting north of seattle. 14-year-old shea he chuckulnaskit was shot down. her family says she was a radiant light in their lives. another student was killed on the scene and another died. jayleb fryberg invited his victims to the same table by texting them. he took his own life at school that day. heavy rains in ventura county, california, led to dangerous mud slides earlier this morning. police evacuated residents from 11 homes as a precaution. a man was briefly trapped in one of the homes but he was later found safe. there are no reports of any injuries. the same area of the mud slide was burned by a wildfire last year. it is still fall, but it sure doesn't feel like it. it feels more like winter with snow falling early this morning in the mountains of california and even further south in georgia, temperatures actually continued to fall. cnn meteorologist jennifer gray is here with us. see? you're looking like winter. i had to put extra layers on because it does feel like winter. i kind of like it. >> we felt like the 20s this morning here in atlanta. this is gatlinburg, tennessee. look at the snow in the trees. unfortunately, because most of the trees still have leaves on them, we dealt with a lot of downed trees, but several inches in gatlinburg fell overnight and into this morning. luckily most of that snow is starting to wrap up. we're dealing with very cold rain, though, and it is still very windy. so that wind chill is going to play a factor in today's forecast. 40 degrees in chicago, 44 in atlanta. when you factor in the wind chill it feels like 34 degrees right now in atlanta, feeling like 31 in chicago. so feeling like the upper 20s still at this hour in cincinnati. so it is chilly, chilly out there. temperatures, high temperatures the next couple of days. we'll slowly be warming. the winds will die down. so it will feel warmer just without those winds. but we'll be back up to 60 degrees in d.c. by monday. temperatures, 66 in atlanta on monday as well. so all of that snow that fell will quickly be melting over the next 48 hours. get those snowmen built quick because the snow will be melting. >> oh, my goodness, i think this is a prelude. this is my prediction, my nonmeteorological prediction. the prelude to a cold winter. >> i don't even want to hear it. i don't even want to hear it. i know, but you're probably right. >> that's what i'm feeling, that's all. thanks very much, jennifer. a woman in portland oregon who traveled from liberia is now hospitalized and quarantined. she had been self-monitoring for symptoms and discovered she had a fever friday morning. she's 21 years old, moved from liberia to portland on tuesday. oregon health officials say she did not have any known exposure to ebola while overseas. meantime in maine a nurse who had treated ebola patients in sierra leone and refused to quarantine herself in the u.s. has reached a deal with a judge. he ruled, the judge, that kaci hickox does not need to quarantine herself as long as she submits to direct active monitoring. she must let officials know if she wants to travel or shows any symptoms. and kentucky senator rand paul under fire for attacking the gop. so is the senator still defending those comments? 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this has many similarities and differences. it has some of both for us. some of the differences is that this was a space launch vehicle and this would be the -- we participated in the launches of the challenger and the "columbia" but this will be the first time we have been in the lead of a space launch that involved persons on board. >> is there a black box in this vehicle? >> the question is is there a black box in this vehicle. i'm not sure of that. we'll find out today. any other questions? the question was is the alt tufd mishap? i don't know that kind of information yet. we'll find that out very quickly because this was a -- this was a test flight and test flights are typically very well documented in terms of data. and we may get some video feed. we may have lots of evidence that will help us with the investigative process. and we appreciate that. that will make our job simpler and make it able to find out not only what happened but also more importantly why it happened so we can make recommendations to try to prevent it from happening again t question is do we have any telemetry, and we'll find that out today. do not know the answer to that. one more question then we have to move on. how big is the team? 13 to 15 investigators. and the question is is this a standard size. the size depends on the complexity of the mission and because this has new aspects for us, we wanted to make sure we covered all the basis. thank you very much for coming. we'll have our press conference this afternoon. >> you're listening there to christopher hart acting chair of the ntsb right there at the site or near the site of where this spaceship, the world's first spaceship designed for tourists exploding in midair and then plummeting to the earth in the mojave desert. you heard from hart there saying there are a whole lot of unanswered questions. this is the first time they've ever had to investigate a space launch accident with people on board. one pilot dying and the other was able to parachute but is still being hospitalized. you're hearing from hart there who says it's unclear if there was a black becomes on this flight. unclear what kind of altitude it had reached. because this is a test flight, it's very unusual circumstances but at the same time he says often test flights have a whole lot of documentation they still have yet to pore through. so we'll get more information as we get it with that investigation under way. all right. now, several big names hitting the campaign trail today in the fim push for the 2014 midterm elections which are just now three days away. chris christie, bill and hillary clinton and even president president stumping today. candy crowley is following all of the races. candy, what are we expecting to see come tuesday night especially as a result of the big guns so to speak that are stumping on the trail? >> the big guns are not trying to change minds at this point. they're trying to drive up votes. that's what that's about, bring out your biggest names, get people all excited, say, bring your friends, bring your neighbors, you see the president was out there earlier this week, that's about turnout because every single election it is a truism that the -- it will come down to who shows up to vote. there was that. otherwise the broad outline are certainly what we've been talking about. you will see a more republican capitol hill both on the house side and the senate side, probably more democratic g governorships, the democrats stand that's sort of their bright spot. the numbers in the margins, how many seats in the senate and how many in the house, because john boehner may pick up an even bigger majority than he has now on the house side. the question is he's had a hard time with the majority he's got now. will it be an easier job or tougher job depending on who he picks up. >> we've seen a lot of potential 2016 contenders stumping for other members of their party this midterm. we've seen some of the examples already. one of the big names being tossed around as a potential candidate is kennedy -- kentucky, rather, senator rand paul. you sat down with the senator and asked him about the stark division in this country and what it means for the midterms. this is a little bit of what he said. >> what does it say about republicans? because a lot of these races, about ten of them, are still pretty darn close, which means that those democrats have been able to survive in the worst of environments. >> well, i think it shows that our country's pretty evenly divided. it tilts a little bit one way and the other way, but i think when you have a president and then you have hillary clinton saying the same thing, saying that businesses don't create jobs, a lot of americans are scratching their heads and saying, who do these people create jobs if businesses don't? do they thing that government creates jobs and that's how america became great? i think there's a philosophical debate in this country. a lot of people find themselves saying if we don't understand that businesses create jobs and we don't understand that we want american businesses and money to come home and do something constructive, maybe we need new leadership in the country. people are ready for new leadership. >> and so candy, you know, he certainly is less than reticent about being critical not just about democrats but even being critical about the gop brand, is he getting any pushback from that. is he receiving criticism for his criticism or is he standing his ground on that? h he famously said the gop brand sucks. if you look at the republican report after the last presidential election, how are we going to change the party, they're saying the same things that rand paul is saying, which is we need to grow the base. the country is getting less republican in the kind of population sense, it is less white. you know, it is less male. what we're seeing here is the rise of minorities. we're headed toward a majority/minority country. what rand paul is saying, look, we have to reach out and broaden our base here or this party is headed for extinction. he said it in quite colorful language and people wouldn't quite say that. notice that he talked about the brand more than the policy. i did ask him about that as well, so -- >> and what's the difference? >> well, a brand, he uses domino's pizza to say, domino's pizza says our crust sucks. what rand paul is saying is that republicans aren't doing a good enough job selling their policy. so the question is is it about the policies or is it that republicans haven't gone in to these neighborhoods, haven't really reached out to hispanics, to women, to african-americans? 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>> well, overall and over a long period of time, i don't think either of these accidents will have a long-term negative effect. these things are to be expected. flying in space is a difficult thing to do, whether it's cargo to the space station or flying potential tourists to, you know, to these kind of altitudes, about 60 miles in a suborbital flight. you would have to expect that there would be accidents. >> this should not discourage those who are passionate or excited about exploration whether it be in a privatized way or not. you say there are likely to zbents maybe of this caliber? >> yeah, i don't think it should discourage anybody for the future, you know, of this industry. obviously, with virgin galactic, with this accident, they're going to have to regroup and do a thorough investigation. it's great that they have the ntsb involved in this. you mentioned the data recorders earlier. i imagine there's some kind of data being recorded on board and probably not your typical black box, there will be telemetry. to help understand the cause of this accident. >> are there nasa folks that are devoted is and involved in this process and are you able to tell me the level of expertise that goes into this kind of team to get this type of space flight in the air? >> yeah, absolutely. i mean, one individual, a guy named mike moses used to be on my last shuttle flight as the commander of the final flight of space shuttle "endeavour." mike moses was basically the operations guy, the guy that ran the entire team. and this is a huge team of thousands of people to get the space shuttle ready for launch, to get it launched into space. he's now the head of operations for virgin galactic. they also have a former space shuttle commander as one of the pilots at virgin galactic. so they have great expertise there. they have the right people involved, but like i said earlier, this stuff is not easy. >> yeah, and so given that there's so many former nasa people involved in this venture, there's a lot at stake, is there not? i mean in terms of why they want it to succeed or is there a feeling with this kind of exploration it might inspire or revitalize nasa as we once knew? >> well, this is different than what nasa does. you know, with the space shuttle, we go to orbittal velocity 17,500 miles an hour. we bring cargo up to the international space station. now we retired the space shuttle. companies like spacex, boeing will hopefully be delivering people up to iss in the next couple of years. what richard is attempting to do is a little bit different. this is suborbital flight. it's not as fast as you need to go in the space shuttle. there are other challenges. he wants to turn this vehicle around very quickly and fly it again in order to fly upwards of hundreds of customers each year. it's not necessarily the best comparison, but they're both difficult and challenging things to do. and they've got some work to do, but they do have the expertise there to figure this out and move it ahead. >> paying customers are expected to be on spaceships as early as next year with these kinds of accidents this week do you believe that will likely set that back or, you know, could they still move forward as planned? >> well, with orbittal sciences, they're delivering cargo to the space shuttle. they have no future plans to be flying people. virgin galactic, on the other hand, richard had, you know, the company's plan and his plan was to be flying paying customers and he would be on the first flight here some time within the next year. now it depends on what was the cause of this accident. you know, people are talking about, you know, the change in fuel from that rubberized solid fuel to this plastic, you know, mixture, and that change could be the cause of the accident. it might be something totally different. we don't know. when we eventually figure out -- when they figure out what the cause of the accident is, it could be an easy fix. it could be something that require s an extensive redesign. that would certainly delay the first flight with passengers. >> sounds like you're fairly excited about this type of exploration. do you fully endorse it? do you like the idea? >> you know, i do. i do now. when i was at nasa, i was a little bit skeptical whether a company like spacex could deliver cargo to the space station. it's a difficult thing to do. they've proven they can do that. richard is try to get hundreds of people into space. it remind meese of what happened in aviation in the 1920s and '30s when it became commercialized and companies were trying to make a profit is where it really took off. so this could be -- this commercialization of space could be the beginning of something great for this country. maybe in our lifetimes, instead of traveling from, you know, l.a. to say london in, you know, ten hours, maybe we'd be able to do it as fast as you can do it in the space shuttle, which is about 35, 40 minutes. >> captain mark kelly, always good to see you. thank you very much for your expertise. appreciate that. this virgin galactic, the founder of this company, richard branson, is expected to take to the microphones there. when he does, we'll take that live. but first today's cnn hero. he helped children kick the pain and fear out of cancer. >> i really hate when it hurts. it's a really sharp pain. i get all teary. the shots really scared me a lot. and they still scare me now. >> when children get a diagnosis like cancer or any major disease, they lose any sense of feeling that they're controlling their lives. they're prodded and poked and touched and they're often so afraid. our daughter is sara bassio who was diagnosed with leukemia. she was such an incredible little soul who taught me about the power that's inside of ourselves. are you ready? >> yes, sir! >> begin. after our daughter passed away, i started a program that provides classes to children who are sick, to teach them the martial arts, to make them feel powerful. every single type of martial arts uses the breath to take control. i'm a black belt in choikwando. hold it, then release. we use the martial arts as a platform for meditation, to allow children to gain these tools. you're totally in control. to really face down so much of the fear, the anger that accompanies pain. breathe in. you can see that light on their face. i feel like their souls are shining. hey, you did it. >> i do have the power to make the pain go away, and nothing's impossible. nothing. live pictures out of the mojave desert. they're getting the microphones all prepped and ready to go. we're expecting ga laktic ceo richard branson is about to speak at any moment now about the accident involving space flight yesterday. when that happens we'll take it live as soon as he starts talking. here's a look at some of the other top stories we're following. a u.s. marine reservist is free and back with his family today after seven months in a mexican prison. a little andrew tahmooressi was accused of crossing the border with three guns in his truck. jonathan franks said the family is relishing some private time. >> they're now together as a family. at the appropriate time and place, he will speak for himself. and i don't want to -- i think there's been far too much projecting opinions and whether you want to call it ideological predispositions upon him. and he's perfectly capable of speaking for himself. after he has some time, i think he will speak for himself. >> sergeant tahmooressi was released on psychological grounds. he is said to be suffering from ptsd. now just three days before americans head to the polls to cast their ballots in the midterm elections and a lot is at stake. here now is cnn's tom foreman. >> there are three key things we're watching in this midterm. and the first is right here in the u.s. senate. the democrats have been in charge. we're showing them here in blue along with the two independents caucus with them in purple. the republicans are expected to gain some seats here. the democrats are expected to lose some but control of this chamber is going to come down to nine or ten very close races and the democrats have to win six or more of them if they want to remain in power here. on the other side of the rotunda, the second thing we're looking at, which is the u.s. house of representatives, the republicans have had the majority here. that is not expected to change. the question is will they lose some seats or, more likely, will they pick up some, and if so, how? if they do it with tea party help, that could set up divisions within the republican party that the democrats might be able to exploit even from their minority position, which brings us to the third thing we're looking at which is the white house reaction to all of this. if the president comes out swinging over a big loss and he completely alienates the republicans, they have a perfect excuse then to say we're going to make you the lamest of lame duck presidents with control of both chambers. if, however, he's too conciliatory toward the republicans, he could despirit his own party and that could make it very tough for any other democrat who wants to win the white house in 2016. >> back to politics in a moment. right now to the mojave desert. you see right there the introduction of the virgin galactic ceo richard branson. he's to speak momentarily about the accident involving what would be the first spaceship designed for tourists exploding in midair yesterday. right there. and then plummeting into the mojave. a pilot was killed. another parachuted. let's now listen in to richard branson. >> thank you very much for coming. this is obviously a very tough time for everybody who works at virgin galactic, who works for this spaceship company and who works for scale composites. most importantly our thoughts remain with the families of the brave scale pilots and all who have been affected by this tragedy. we are determined to find out what went wrong and are working with the authorities to get that information. it is too early for me to add any details of the investigation at this stage. we've always known that commercial space travel is an incredibly hard project. we've been undertaking a comprehensive testing program for many years and safety has always been our number one priority. this is the biggest test program ever carried out in commercial aviation history to ensure that this never happens to the public. the bravery of test pilots cannot be overstated. nobody underestimates the risks involved in space travel. commander chris hatfield is amongst those who sent moving notes of support in which he highlighted the nature of space projects. he wrote, as a former test pilot, crashes and, sadly, even deaths were frequent. it is a known part of the business. little solace but reality. pushing the bounds of knowledge and possibility comes with unavoidable risk. in testing the boundaries of human capabilities and technologies we're standing on the shoulders of giants. yesterday we fell short. we'll now comprehensively assess the results of the crash and are determined to learn from this and move forward together as a group of friends and a company. we've been touched by the overwhelming support coming from not just the space community but the world at large. if i could hug every single person who has sent messages of love, support and understanding over the past day, i would. the space community sticks together. and there have been touching messages of solidarity from nasa, even from the international space station, x-prize, our customers, media, the virgin family and many thousand of people around the world inspired by the vision of commercial space travel. of all the moving words shared with us, a quote from the astronaut lisa nowak stood out. of course, risk is part of space flight. we accept some of that to achieve greater goals in exploration and find out more about ourselves and about the universe. we do understand the risks involved, and we're not going to push on blindly. to do so would be an insult to all those affected by this tragedy. we're going to learn from what went wrong, discover how we can improve safety and performance and then move forward together. i truly believe that humanity's greatest achievements come out of our greatest pain. this team is a group of the bravest, the brightest, the most determined and the most resilient of people. we are determined to honor the bravery of the pilots and the teams here by learning from this tragedy. only then can we move forward united behind a collective desire to push the boundaries of human endeavor. thank you very much. >> is it to say that the dream lives on? >> it's fair to say that all 400 engineers who work here and i think most people in the world would love to see the dream living on. as i say that we owe it to our test pilots to find out exactly what went wrong, and once we've found out what went wrong, if we can overcome it, we'll make absolutely certain that the dream lives on. >> -- about not going to make it no matter what to space. what is your response to that? >> the ntsb will be doing regular press conferenceness ov -- conferences next month. i'm not allowed to comment at any all about any of it. it's the ntsb that will be commenting. and to be honest, i find it slightly irresponsible that people who know nothing about what they're saying can be saying things before the ntsb makes their comments. >> tell us about the pilot who died and what about the survivor? >> somebody later on will give you more details on that. no, the pilot worked for scale, not for virgin galactic. and i've actually -- i never met him. >> what's the future -- >> we would love to finish what we started some years ago and i think pretty well all our astronauts would love us to finish it, would love to go to space. i think millions of people in the world would love one day to have the chance to go to space, and this is the start of a long program. you know, i've spoken before once we got this program off the ground offering point to point travel. in the early days of aviation there were incidents and then aviation became very safe. in the days of commercial space travel, there have been incidents, then we hoped one day the test pilots would enable people to be able to go to space safely and that's our wish and desire. >> so richard, what's your message to those who wanted to be on those journeys? what's your message today having seen what they've seen in the last 24 hours? >> we've had numerous messages of support from the people who -- the astronauts who signed up to go with us. we even had somebody sign up specifically to become an astronaut yesterday in support of the program. so i think that they've been patient to date. i think most of them will be patient longer. we may lose one or two, but it doesn't look like. >> sir richard -- >> okay. of course, anybody who ever wants a refund would be able to get a refund. we haven't used the money. we've always decided it's best not to use the money. it just gave us the confidence to do the program knowing that these people were so committed. i'm afraid, thank you very much for being here, i'm being pulled away to go see the 300, 400 people who work here. but thank you very much for your time. >> thank you for meeting with us. >> virgin galactic ceo richard branson. clearly this is very personal, but he still remains committed. he says the dream, you know, lives on, but he did express an appreciation that the ntsb would be there to try to figure out what happened. he underscored in the early days of aviation there are incidents that happened, certainly the priority number one has always been safety, but they will continue to try to keep this project going. he says this team of 400 as he just mentioned he wants to go meet with the 400 or so engineers, the team is the group of the bravest and the brightest. he said, we would love to finish what we started a few years ago but he understands after a deadly accident like this, one pilot dying, another remaining hospitalized, he would understand for those who paid their money to be among the first of the civilians to fly into space by way of his program, he says certainly they could get a refund if they wanted to. of course, he is determined, he says, quote, unquote, to find out what went wrong, but it's too early right now to detail. and you heard from the ntsb earlier as well saying they have heard an awful lot of questions. they do understand that test flights usually have copious notes, great documentation to determine what may have preceded this accident. we'll stay on this story and we'll have much more from the newsroom right after this. i lost my sight in afghanistan, but it doesn't hold me back. i go through periods where it's hard to sleep at night, and stay awake during the day. non-24 is a circadian rhythm disorder that affects up to 70% of people who are totally blind. talk to your doctor about your symptoms and learn more by calling 844-844-2424. or visit my24info.com. what's your favorite kind of cheerios? 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could this decision or, you know, outcome have been determined without the court's involvement? >> yeah. i mean, it was absolutely unnecessary. all the three things that the chief judge decided here, she was doing anyhow. in fact, a reporter said well, now are we going to pass out candy on halloween? actually, my question was is anybody going to show up? but realistically the idea of quarantining her was not supported by the evidence. everyone knew it. we're seeing a number of governors around the country, fredricka, ordering quarantines of doctors in hotel rooms and here we have in kaci hickox's case, the fact is unless there's clear and convincing evidence, public health can only be protected with evidence, not with fear. >> and richard, nurse kaci hickox must have, quote, unquote, direct active monitoring. but what if she breaks that, then what? >> if she breaks that, she's going to get arrested, fred. but here's the question. these cases are done on a case by case basis, a quick primer on constitutional law, if you are going to limit and restrict someone's individual liberties, the courts do a balancing test and they have to base it on rational information and use the least restrictive means. here, as you read the decision by the judge, he basically said, this is out of fear. this is fear mongering, this is bad information, bad facts, misconceptions. i'm not going to stand by it. i'm going to use the least restrictive means, but you're right, if she violates, she's going to get arrested. >> because you're arresting her and there's already this, as you mention, the judge put it, fear or concern about her health and her contact with the public, then you're going to put her in where if you're fearful of her contact with anybody else. so it seems like one problem presents another and another. so then i wonder is this precedent setting at all or influential in any way to other states, avery, in your view? >> i mean, it's a decision, there's no binding authority, but you know what? it's a four-pager, not particularly deep. if another just wants to use it, fine, but it has absolutely no precedential effect. >> how do you see it? >> i agree with avery. >> oh! you're agreeing? >> for once he's right, what can i say, fred. one state decision, each state is different. it's based on a solid foundation. i think it will we followed. >> it's a balance, you're exactly right. >> we're all in agreement that avery had an incredible weekend last weekend being honored at the u.s. supreme court in the great room. and oh, look, we have a picture, avery. >> oh, my goodness. >> explain that moment, how important it was for you. >> it was, but you know, i look at it as something for all of us. what we've endeavored to do, all three of us in particular, is try to make sure that the law is understandable and clear and a lot of people are affected by that and so i treat the recognition as something that recognizes all that we're trying to do for all of us. >> you're so modest. an incredible honor that's bestowed on you there at the u.s. supreme court, the highest court of the land. what an incredible honor for all work that you've done over the years in civil rights and those of human rights and you really are incredible. one thing, you were wearing a tux. i'm sorry, richard, what? >> did avery get up there and sit in one of the chairs? that's all i want to know. >> no! >> i'm living vicariously through the photograph and the moment. >> what a nice thing to say. >> an honor to have you both every single weekend. coming up, we go live to the hangar in the mojave desert where richard branson just spoke. the breaking details straight ahead. hello again, everyone, i'm fredricka whitfield. here are the top stories we're following in the cnn newsroom. a marine reservist held for months in mexico is free. andrew tahmooressi is free for the first time in seven months. how he's doing. plus in california a spaceship breaks up in the sky, the pieces plummeting to the ground. the new details we

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