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Are checking into the hurricane harvey facebook safety check page. marking themselves is safe so family members and friends are aware of their status. weve seen these pages pop up after terrorist attacks in people communicate here like a message board. its very helpful. sometimes people asking for help in some offering assistance. this is a facebook video poster from the police department by department showing their vehicles rushing back into the city after harvey made landfall as everyone else ...

Russian hack, got rebuffed, and then when he had this remarkable phone conference with state election officials, offering assistance, offering to designate state election systems as critical infrastructure, he gets this blowback from state election officials saying, no, you know, we dont want a federal takeover of our elections, so as a result, he put it all on the back burner. >> why would they target those specific states? was it something about their election systems? >> we dont know for sure...

Occupying but the kind of troops youre sending are actually the kind of troops that take ground and hold it at least briefly. >> again, i recognize that the -- that the service members that president obama has sent to iraq do have extraordinary combat capabilities. they have extensive training, the kind of combat equipment you would see in a theater of war, that you would expect our service members to have when theyre operating in a dangerous place. but the mission they have been given is differ...

Yeah, it could be part of the -- clearly part of the cordoned. >> we are told checkpoints being set up with military monitoring them. i wanted to tell you we have just gotten word from the united states government relevant agents, fbi, cia, all offering assistance. an fbi statement is expected from headquarters shortly. the fbi new york field office has responsibility for france and connecting directly fbi attache stations in paris. i was mentioning earlier the band that was playing at the theat...

City. one official described, quote, carnage inside the building saying attackers had, quote, tossed explosives at the hostages. both officials say they expected the death toll to rise. as agency french press, the french press agency reports around 100 people dead. and in the attack on the paris concert venue. that would presumably bring the death toll to somewhere around 120, 130 as we are getting live reports from in from the scene and authorities are moving to cordon back so the police lines ...

The first time and learning something important from it. joining us now, mark claxton, director of the black law enforcement alliance and former new york city police officer. mark, what do you think is the most significant part of that video? >> i think the most significant part is right at the point where mr. lambert is attempting to enter the hospital, right at the doors of the hospital, if you will, while he is handcuffed, slamming into the doors of assistance, if you will, and subsequently b...

People should be paying attention to in this video. >> i think its important for people to, you know, police officers weve gotten away from this in this country over the past several year, have really gotten away from the tradition of policing, which is public service, offering assistance, rendering aid, providing when in es, you know, the appropriate medical services, as was the case here, which should have been given to mr. lambert. and they seem to revert often times too quickly into these ph...

Directed at those who serve and protect our communities. he went on to mention a couple of incidents involving other officers including one in philadelphia last week buying a game for his son, and a deputy u.s. marshal shot in the line of duty earlier this week. he says such senseless acts of violence threaten the very reforms that non-violent protesters in ferguson and around the country have been working toward for the past several months. wishing those officers a full and speedy recovery and ...

Perspective and we thank you. jon: on the hunt for the cold-blooded killers that stormed a french newspaper executing 12 people in the deadliest terrorist attack that france has seen in decades. the white house offering assistance to bring the killers to justice. we want to hear from you. do you think the international community is doing enough to combat islamic extremism? go to fox news.com/"happening now." get your thoughts into our conversation.

Event. >> jim acosta joining us with some more information on communication i think between russia and u.s. jim, what are you hearing? >> reporter: actually, anderson, want to point out the vice president traveling in detroit today just got off the phone, according to the white house, with ukrainian president, petro poroshenko. hes offering assistance to the ukrainians, obviously, to determine what happened in that plane crash. but also want to point out that vice president biden has been on the...