and good afternoon from the valley of the sun. phoenix arizona where we are just an hour away from the start of the 2011 major league all-star game. a mid summer classic is brewing behind me and a live look at chase field where the players have been getting in some b.p. before tonight's big game on the fox broadcast network. we expect acknowledgments tonight of january's shooting spree in tucson. that attack killed six and wounded more than a dozen others including the congresswoman from here gabriel giffords. and today the then intern who helped save congressman woman giffords life daniel hernandez they out the first pitch. christina taylor green the 9-year-old deliver the starting line up card. all the action on the field. game an hour away. first from fox this tuesday night. some of the key investigators from the casey anthony trial are now speaking publicly for the first time since the verdict. casey is due to walk free from jail this sunday after a jury acquitted her of murdering her daughter. today, investigators discuss what was happening behind the scenes during that investigation. and it was a revealing series of statements. in fact, one detective said he just couldn't believe casey's attitude when he was questioning her about her missing daughter. >> it's so amazing to me how she reacted or how she didn't react inside the interview. there is no question about it y'all have heard the interview there are times where i could tell myself was frustrated to the point where she wasn't being honest or completely honest with us. >> shepard: that detective says is he unhappy with the verdict. said we all have to respect the judicial system. phil keating on fox top story tonight from florida. he covered the trial from orlando and in south florida newsroom tonight. phil, the sheriff's department stands by the job it did. that despite all of this post verdict criticism. >> specifically, shep, to the fact that those infamous woods just a five minute walk from the anthony home were never completely searched for caylee's remains. they were only discovered in december of 2008 by meter reader roy cronk who four months before had called in a phone tip that he thought he may have seen a skull in the woods. they may have lost critical crime scene evidence that could have critical evidence. like fingerprints and on the ducket tape. >> the body was there in august of 2008 it would have been two months as aopposed to six months. i would like to think that wield find more. but, again, to say for certain, who knows. >> we move forward and i think they are absolutely right. we can't fill in the blanks of what would have changed with the history of this case. but that definitely was held -- >> that deputy referred to lost his job terminated for responding to roy kronk's phone tip but blowing him off and not searching the woods, shep. >> shepard: possibility of perjury charges against casey's mom but sounds like now that's not happening. >> no charges against cindy anthony. tampering involving a defense witness who may have been coached what to say on the stand. incidentally that witness never did testify during the trial. as for cindy anthony it certainly appeared obvious to anyone watching the trial that she did per jerry herself she is the one who searched for clor fill and chloroform in 2008. days later in state's rebuttal co-workers testified that her records prove she was at her work desk at the time. legal experts say they are not surprised she is not being pursued on the perjury charge. they say lying family members rarely are, shep? >> shepard: phil keating live tonight in south florida. thanks. president obama putting new pressure on republicans tonight in standoff against raising the united states debt limit. he says if there is no deal on this thing by august the 2nd, three weeks from today, senior citizens may not get their social security checks and they are not the only ones. here listen. >> these are veterans' checks. these are folks on disability and their checks. there are about 70 million checks that go out. i cannot guarantee that those checks go out on august 3rd if we haven't resolved this issue. >> shepard: well today the house speaker john boehner suggested those millions of americans will only have one person to blame. >> house republicans have a plan. we passed our budget back in the spring. where is the president's plan? when is he going to lay his cards on the table? this debt limit increase is his problem. >> this is an american problem. it's not a democratic problem. it's not a republican problem. it's not this president's problem. in fact, as i said, this is not a vote on new spending. this is a vote to fulfill the obligations made by previous congresses under a previous president by and large. >> shepard: well, after throwing their punches in public they all got together again at the white house in what appeared really whether it was another matter. how it went, mikey. >> long meeting. close to two hours. house republican leader eric cantor says he was taken aback by president obama's continued insistence on raising taxes. expectations were low going in considering the heated rhetoric today. some democratic sources say considering the rhetoric going in, it was actually a pretty productive meeting. although there were no major breakthroughs. they say there is a lot of emphasis on areas of agreement. they are trying to do building blocks from there, shep. >> shepard: just crossing across the wireless. i'm sure you are aware of it. talking about a backup plan. last resort contingency plan as well. tell us about it? >> sounds like nobody's first choice but senator mitch mcconnell laid out a plan where the president would get the money he needs to raise the debt ceiling through the 2012 election. here is senator mcconnell on this backup plan. >> i would advocate that we pass legislation, giving the president the authority the authority to request of us an increase in the debt ceiling that would take us pass some conservatives have been critical saying this is a sign that senator mcconnell blinked first but house speaker john boehner told back up plans as well. >> mike emanuel at the white house. almost unheard of a quote today from a federal administration spokesman after two small planes collided right in mid-air near anchorage and landed and somehow nobody got hurt after a mid-air collision. investigator says the pilot simply didn't see each other. our david lee miller live with the news. nobody heard. how is that possible nobody gets hurt. >> one of the mechanics involved with one of the planes said that one of the planes had been, perhaps, in direction there would have been fatalities here. took place 100 miles southwest along a mountain corridor called lake park pass. flying throughout narrow canyon float plane with four on board flying in the opposite direction at a slight, and i mean very slightly higher altitude. the cessna's float which is used to land that plane on water hit the tail of the piper. the damage was minimal. and the pilots were able to land both of those aircraft interestingly. the piper made it as far as anchorage which was its destination, shepard? >> shepard: have they given two planes don't see each other. >> what's worth noting here is number one, neither of these la planes had radar. they were using bfr visual flight rules. according to the owner of the piper he said that off in the distance very small aircraft one of these planes coming right at you would appear as motionless speck. he said that the passengers on on that piper even after the collision thought they had only been hit by a bird. neither of the pilots made any type of evasive maneuvers. to put this whole thing in perspective for. so far this year there have been nine mid-air collisions in the united states claiming a total of 11 lives. the folks in alaska say what happened there on sunday nothing less than a miracle. shepard? >> david lee miller live in new york city tonight. david lee, thank you. there is some breaking news right now out of new orleans. it's our understanding that some children have been shot in the suburbs. we're waiting for breaking news details from there. we'll have them in a moment. plus the gun rights legislation debate goes on. there are brand new rules for gun dealers along the border with mexico. and new controversy over questions of stacy and our constitutional rights. plus, a fan right here at the all-star game home run derby last night went for a ball and nearly lost his life. take a look. it happened right here just below my live position tonight. that's a live look or it's going to be. there it is. a live look at the spot where it happened. we'll show you one of the wildest plays of the night as well. from the journalists of fox news, from the valley of the sun tonight, this is the fox report from fox news channel. motorcycles, boats, even rv's. nobody knows where he got his love for racing. all we know is, it started early. casey mears, driver of the number thirteen geico toyota camry. geico, saving people money on more than just car insurance. a network of possibilities. in here, the planned combination of at&t and t-mobile would deliver our next generation mobile broadband experience to 55 million more amecans, many in small towns and rural communities, giving them a new choice. we'll deliver better service, with thousands of new cell sites... f greater access to all the things you want, whenever you want them. it's the at&t network... and what's possible in here is almost impossible to say. >> shepard: first lady michelle obama and several former first ladies gathered this afternoon to say goodbye to betty ford, the widow of the former president gerald ford. the memorial service began in palm desert, california about two hours ago now. mrs. ford died on friday at 93 years old. she is perhaps best known for her work with the betty ford center for alcohol and drug abuse. mrs. ford helped create it after doctors at a naval hospital treated her for addiction and she decided women required care customized for their needs. now, friends, family, and every day americans are remembering a woman who touched so many lives and whose legacy will surely continue long after her death. our correspondent casey stegall is in palm desert this afternoon. betty ford planned out parts of today's memorial herself. >> yeah, she did, in fact, five years ago, shepard, is when she asked people like coke can i roberts of abc to deliver the eulogy and head of the clinic and rose lynn carter wife of jimmy carter to eulogize her this day and all of them reflecting back on a woman who did things outside the box. >> someone who was willing to do things a bit differently than they had been done before. someone who had the courage and grace to fight fear, stigma, and prejudice wherever she encountered it and today it's almost impossible to imagine a time when people were afraid to reveal they had cancer. how to speak publicly about personal struggles with alcohol or addiction. >> mrs. carter even telling a funny antidote to the crowd saying back in the day when she and betty used to travel to washington, d.c., betty would round up the republicans and she would round up the democrats and, shepard, in her own words, she thought they were quite effective. >> shepard: and the memorial service continues tomorrow, right? >> yeah, absolutely. tomorrow morning the body of betty ford will be flown to grand rapids, michigan. grand rapids is the home of the ford presidential library. on thursday a second memorial service will be held there and then mrs. ford will finally be laid to rest next to her husband on what would have been president ford's 98th birthday. shepard? >> shepard: casey stegall live palm desert, california tonight. casey, thank you. we are waiting for word over whether the media mogul rupert murdoch will attend a hearing in great britain that is news to the world hacking scandal. investigators say staffers at that newspaper hacked into the voice mail accounts of people whom they were covering. it was a 168-year-old newspaper that printed its last edition on sunday. but the controversy did not die with the tabloid. far from it the british house of commons today requested appearances from news corps chairman and ceo rupert murdoch as well as his son, the deputy chief operating officer james murdock. we're told the committee cannot compel the murdocks to attend the hearing because they are american citizens, but it can force the paper's former editor rebekah brooks to show up because she is a british national. news of the world was part of news international, that's u.k. newspaper division of news corporation, which is the parent company of fox news channel. this all comes as the former bricial prime minister gordon brown accuses the news international papers of using criminals to get confidential information about his own family. >> bigger access to my legal files. there is some question mark about what happened to other files, documentation, tax and everything else. i'm shocked. i'm genuinely shocked to find that this happened because of the links with criminals. >> shepard: well, the former prime minister did not identify any of the alleged criminals by name and news international responded with a statement that reads in part: so that we can investigate these matters further, we ask that all information concerning these allegations is provided to us. but tonight, we're seeing new fallout from this scandal. the current british prime minister david cammeron says his government will now support a nonbinding resolution that calls upon news corporation to withdraw a 12 billion-dollar bid for the british broadcasting company b sky b. news corps is still waiting for regulators to approve that deal. by the way the chairman of the federal communications commission here in the united states says he does not expect to get involved with this ongoing hacking investigation. well, amid all the fun and excitement here at the all-star game in phoenix. major league baseball all taking time for remembrance. specifically the tragedy down the road in tucson, arizona. we'll hear from the hero in turn who helped save gabriel giffords life. that as we countdown to the first pitch of the 2011 major all-star game. i'm also getting new information out of new orleans. a mother and three children have been shot and according to the associated press, killed. four dead in the suburb of kenner louisiana. we are waiting for pictures and something automotive. that's coming up. 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