collecting a paycheck this entire time to the tune of nearly $300,000 and that is money he could pay back now to some of the victims and others, bill. an interesting day. we re on top of it. as soon as we get this sentence it will be delivered here live on fox. bill: a whole paycheck thing has a lot of folks shaking their head as you well know going back to november of 2009. casey stiegel, thanks, watching that for us at fort hood. martha. martha: as the white house weighs its options on syria there are new questions today about what happens after a possible military strike. what about iran? what would their next move be? peter king is going to join us live on that. bill: also check it out. it was the shot of a lifetime. martha: wow, sure was. bill: one woman s close encounter, close indeed. that is a humpback whale on the other side of her kayak. she is here live to tell us about how this whole thing went down. [ male announcer ] come to the lexus golden opportunity sales event
a second smaller quake followed 24 minutes later. the shocks were felt 170 miles away in mexico city where office buildings swayed. so far no reports of any serious injuries or damage though. heather: jon, there is new information this story. a bizarre one coming out of south florida. the autopsy reveals the identity of a 41-year-old contractor who apparently killed himself inside of a home owned by singer olivia newton-john and her husband. the man died sunday of a self-inflicted gunshot. officials say construction was being done on the home at the time. it is located in palm beach county. jon: happening now, a surge in home sales. the government reports nearly 5.4 million homes selling in july, the best showing since november of 2009. economists say the spike in home sales shows housing continues to the drive the economy. heather: and still to come, a stunning report in today s wall street journal, on how the nsa may be tracking your
expected, extremely graphic. they ve shown multiple autopsy photos of the 13 who were killed on this post back in november of 2009 and some of the experts have said that the evidence suggests a few of the victims shot after they had already died or in their backs when they were already on the ground. the pictures of the gunshot wounds they re talking about not broadcast on the big screen to protect the families who have been in the courtroom listening to the graphic detail of how their loved ones spent their final moments. surprisingly, no emotional breakdowns or tears, many of them clenching tissues just in case but they are really holding it together. frankly, i don t know how, jon. jon: so the time line for the rest of this court-martial, what does it look like? the dynamic has really changed. remember at the beginning part of the week and the latter part of last week, we were standing here being told by fort hood
horrific, horrific information about what the victims went through. forepzic pathologist talking about how specialist frederick green, a 29-year-old from tennessee was shot 12 times on that day in november of 2009 and 1 doctor telling the court how another victim was shot after he had already died. following this portion of the court martial will move in hearing of hasan s former classmates and finally the police officers who shot the gunman and brought the attack to an end. the prosecution should rest monday or tuesday of next week. we move in closing arguments and the soonest a verdict could be reach is on wednesday that according to fort hood public affairs. if he is found guilty, the court will move in the penalty phase
everyone is waiting to see because it s a wild card at this point. major nidal hasan is representing himself. he s not a lawyer and he s had some interesting questions in court, although he hasn t participated very much, which is one of the reasons why this is moving so quickly. we are in week two of this long-awaited court-martial. the shooting happened here on the fort hood military post in november of 2009. everyone returns first thing this morning. 10:00 o clock eastern is when this resumes. the prosecution or the government in this case got through 44 witnesses last week. we re more than halfway done. we really knew what happened on that day was terrible. but we didn t know much else. that is until stories started emerging from the witness stand last week. accounts of blood soaked floors, people pleading for their lives before they were shot, even stories of heroism. multiple eyewitnesses telling the court about retired chief warrant officer michael cahill