Citizen. Well done, my friend. Hes a great man. All right, everyone, have a fantastic weekend, thats it for hello. Im eric shawn. Welcome to a brandnew hour of americas news headquarters. Im arthel neville. Admiral who once had his finger on Americas Nuclear arsenal now facing charges for fake poker chips. The latest twist to a navy leader who allegedly gambled his career away. President obama daring the republicans to do something to try and fix immigration. Instead the gop is promising to take action against the white house. First they were lost. Now they might be found. Up to 30,000 of lois lerners emails at the center of a massive irs scandal. We begin with new information on a grand jury decision out of ferguson, missouri. Sources now telling fox news that it is now unlikely the grand jury will meet and render a verdict this weekend. Instead that decision is not expected to come down until at least monday when the grand jury has decided to reconvene. This comes as the f. B. I. In st. Louis confirms it had to rescue two people for purchasing explosives used to build pipe bombs. Bombs they reportedly planned to use during protests. Now more from garrett with the latest. Reporter those are the kinds of individuals that Law Enforcement agencies are most worried about after this grand jurys decision. Police chief told me that hes not worried about 95 of the protesters who are out here demonstratorring peacefully. He said its that other 5 that he is worried about. Groups like the new black panthers, the communist party, the kkk, as well as occupy and individuals who will come into these large otherwise Peaceful Demonstrations and use them as cover to incite violence and commit criminal acts. That is what they have been focusing on building up here the last several weeks. He says theyre aware of many of these individuals and groups and theyve been keeping an eye on them leading up to this grand jurys decision. Last night in ferguson, we saw one of the largest demonstrations weve seen this week so far. It was a group of about 125 protesters who blocked the street there. They did have some minor clashes with police. But for the most part, it did remain peaceful. A few got testy with officers. Three were arrested in all. But police say that is what they hope will continue, is you wont have the violence or any loss of life. That is the number one goal for
police and protesters going forward. As you mentioned, were hearing from our sources that the grand jury will likely not be meeting this weekend and will be reconvening on monday to continue their deliberations to decide whether or not to file those charges against officer darren wilson. That is just part of the waiting game that everyone here across st. Louis is now anxiously waiting to find out what the word will be. Indeed. Garrett, thank you so much. I want to let our viewers know well have more on ferguson later in the hour with the president and executive director of the new York Civil Rights Coalition set to weigh in on what needs to happen to keep it peaceful in ferguson. What is happening in buffalo . First the folks there were coping with a years worth of snow that fell in a few days. Tonight there is a new concern. Coming rainstorm, warmer temperatures and fears that could mean massive flooding. Look in upstate new york. Thats the weather beginning to
warm up and all that melting snow has to go somewhere. So flooding and roof collapses are serious threats. New york Governor Cuomo says theyre send not guilty boats, helicopters and vehicles that can operate in four to five feet of water. Bryan llenas has more. Reporter heavy snow is part of the big concern on top of that flooding. On thursday, 30 roofs in the buffalo area collapsed overnight. Not only do you have seven feet of snow on top of these buildings, but a half inch of rain is in the forecast for sunday and monday. Potentially making that snow heavier, raising the threat of more roof collapses. Meanwhile, temperatures on monday are expected to rise to 60 degrees, melting snow, holding the equivalent of about six inches of rainfall. This has shifted the states focus to preparingotential flooding. The National Weather service has issued a flood watch extending from sunday to wednesday. The state has stockpiled more
than 50 water rescue boats, water pumps and 176,000 sandbags. Heavy equipment is ready to clear the clogged up drains. People continue to dig out of their homes and clear roads. Neighbors helping neighbors along with the New York National guard, some 5,000 people are helping in the cleanup effort. Some local travel bans are being lifted, allowing delivery trucks to bring much needed food and supplies. 132mile stretch of the new york state throughway reopened. Several exit ramps remain closed and roads are considered very dangerous. Meanwhile, speaking of roads, people all over buffalo are searching for their cars now. Many cars were buried under the snow forcing some residents to abandon their vehicles on the roads during the storm. Monday night i was trying to get out just to get to the store to get basic necessities and i made it 20 feet out of my driveway, got stuck. Then it got buried. Reporter the good news is the county is picking up the tab for all those cars being towed. For the flooding, Governor Cuomo says theyre preparing for the worst and hoping for the best. Officials are unsure how bad the flooding will be. That will depend on how much rainfall, how warm it will get and how quickly the snow melts. They really have had it. Thank you so much. One of the people injured in this weeks shooting at Florida State university now released from the hospital. The 30yearold Library Worker was one of three people hurt in the attack. One of those victims is still hospitalized and still in critical condition. Police say the gunman mailed packages to a number of his friends in the days leading up to the shooting. Investigators intercepted one of them in texas, saying it contained journals and videos. They went poof, never to be
read ever again. Were talking about lois lerners lost emails. Guess what . Federal investigators say they may have recovered as many as 30,000 of them. Investigators will be combing through each and every one. Shes the former irs official at the heart of the investigation into allegations that the agency unfairly targeted conservative groups seeking tax exempt status. Now that her emails have been found, what could that mean for the Ongoing Investigation . Molly henneberg is live in washington with the very latest. Hi, molly. Reporter hi. They were lost and now theyre found. Apparently. 30,000 emails that the Senate Finance says may be important in its investigation into the irs targeting scandal. Irs commissioner told congress in june that the tax agencys i. T. Experts could not recover the emails. Now the treasury departments Inspector General office says it has found the data on the irss back up equipment. Responding to that news, the irs put out a statement saying,
quote, as commissioner has stated, the irs welcomes the independent review. The treasury Inspector General, and expert forensics analysis. Commissioner koskinen said for some time he would be pleased if additional lois lerner emails from this time frame could be found. Lois lerner the former head of the exempt office at the time when conservative groups contend they were targeted unfairly by the tax agency. Critics have long been suspicious of the irs claim that her emails were irrelevant irretrievably lost. We know this government has lied to us repeatedly about the irs. Lois lerner first said oh, we didnt target anybody. We know they did. We didnt target just conservative groups. Primarily they did. Gee, the dog ate my homework and it just happened to eat homework of every irs employee who happened to have anything to do with this. Reporter lawmakers say they havent seen the emails yet. The Senate FinanceCommittee Says that the treasury inspector
generals office is trying to convert the data into, quote, readable format before turning the emails over to congress. Eric . Thank you. We have new information now about the navy officer who was fired as the number two commander of u. S. Nuclear forces. Rear admiral Timothy Giardina linked to making fake poker chips. Investigators say his dna was found on a sticker used to alter one dollar poker chips to make them look like 500 poker chips. He was removed as head last year over his gambling habit. Time is running short. Were less than 48 hours before a deadline before a final deal with iran on stopping tehran from being able to build a nuclear bomb. During talks today, john kerry acknowledged that a lot of work still needs to be done and the sides are still far apart on
some issues. Weve been obviously having difficult talks here, complicated topic. Were working hard. We hope were making careful progress. But we have to guess. Were still having serious gaps which were working to close. All this fueling speculation that the deadline could be delayed yet again. Some are demanding irans Human Rights Violations also be part of these talks. Children are allowed to watch, hamp takings, torture, and persecution of political prisoners, christians and others, have skyrocketed according to the group iran human rights. It says executions have doubled to nearly 700 a year. The right to life is not in the country. People can be put to death for offense which is do not
constitute serious crimes. Iranian opposition groups say the issue of the human rights should be part of the nuclear talks. The head of the National Council of resistance of iran tells fox news, quote, the Iranian Regime s record must be referred to the u. N. Security council. Nuclear negotiations should not act as an excuse to turn a blind eye to the egregious human rights abuses in iraq. But last month, iran defended its record, saying the Death Penalty is used only for serious crimes, prosecuted fairly in a court of law. The lambic republic of law continues to fully participate in international deliberations and activities for the promotion and protection of human rights. After talks, iran continues to be defiant, refuse to go stop iranian enrichment and demanded by six United NationsSupreme Court council resolutions. A deal would likely bypass that even though iran has barred u. N. Inspectors from a facility suspected of Nuclear Explosion research of the they claim its a regular military base. The u. S. Releasing a citizen who spent last 12 years at Guantanamo Bay. He was sent back to his homeland where he will enter a program intend to do rehabilitate militants. He is the 13th person to leave Guantanamo Bay this year. About 140 detainees remain there. President obama is improving new guidelines with the u. S. Military in afghanistan. You know they say this conflicts with some of his early premises. What are the changes and why are they making those changes and that decision now . Plus, president obamas he cantive action on immigration sparking a major legal debate and a huge battle with
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it. Now, die actually think that putting some troops there is going to do a lot of good . Probably not, because we had a lot of troops there and were still in the same situation. Let me pull up a full screen from a quote from a Senior Administration official. This is according to the associated press. Quote, the president also stated that the United States will be continuing to narrow missions in afghanistan after 2014. First a key focus of the United States post2014 mission in afghanistan will be counterterrorism and we will continue to target the remnants of alqaeda in afghanistan to prevent an alqaeda resurgence or external plotting against u. S. Targets for the homeland. Ellen, im going to go back to you. I just read that quote from the senior official, Administration Official from six months ago. Is this six months sort of warning not enough . Its unclear because you and i are not privy to what some of
the Intelligence Data is. Its unclear about what has happened, has it given a more opening for an isisisil kind of alqaeda to happen there . Is it going to do any good . Those are all very open questions. But as you know, the president did state its much harder to get out of a war than to get into a war. Brad . Obamas uncertainty, both with the American People and with the government of afghanistan, is going to bring us chaos, the same kind of chaos weve seen in iraq. The kurds used to be a wonderful part of iraq. Autonomous. They were a thriving economy. Now thats all been taken away by our precipitous withdrawal and now the entire country is back in chaos and isis has stuck their claim in the kurdish regions. This is unacceptable. The president is too little, too
late in afghanistan thinking that by giving a little in afghanistan, it will prevent the type of total chaos that weve seen in iraq. Also in those remarks made by the president in may 14, the president said that the American Military would have no combat role in afghanistan next year and that the mission for the 9800 troops remaining in the country would be limited to Training Afghan forces and hunting the, quote, remnants of alqaeda. Ellen, ill go with you. Is this the president s remaining true to his word or not . You know, i used to be a family therapist before i became a journalist and we always used to tell people, you have a right to change your mind. The president does have a right to change his mind, particularly if hes getting new information. Thats it . Thats what i have to say, yeah. I think that he has a right to change his mind and he clearly did. Okay. Brad, you got any response right quick . I do. And here is the problem with
obama. He either blames his predecessor, or he conditions his successor. He told the american afghanistan and iraq is going to be at least a tenyear operation. Why does he say that . He wants to condition the American People to believe that he cant have any accomplishment and has no will to have accomplishments during the two remaining years of his presidency. By the way, where have you been the last six years other than to telegraph our enemy wh