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FOXNEWSW Americas Newsroom February 17, 2015

Massachusetts. Reporter this is the calm before what is expected to be a much smaller storm. Just a couple of inches expected mostly to the south of boston. You can see the road are looking good back here. Sidewalks are fairly clear. Thats expected to change within the coming hours this afternoon. This is generally just a pileon problem. It continues to be a concern about roofs caving in and fire hydrants that have yet to be dug out which means you have got to dig to get to them at this point. The fires are difficult to fight in these cold temperatures. And that cause as lot of issues. There was a fire where they had to contend with that. Bill you were showing us pictures a few days ago where the streets were just slammed. You had snow 5 feet high on each side of the road. Reporter thats right. One of the biggest issues continues to be the Transit System in boston and the limited suburbs. The expectation is things wont get back to normal for at least a month and thats if we dont experience any major snowstorms between now and then. The train is delay after delay. Mother nature, there is nothing we can do about it. We have to keep adjusting. They are doing the best they can. Reporter a tough one. They hired hundreds of people to continue to work to try to get the train tracks clear. Bill they won the super bowl. Just remind them of that. Martha that will make them feel better. Icy roads and trees and Power Outages and a big worry across much of the south as the temperatures plummeting there. Kaitlyn pratt is live in georgia about an hour north of atlantic. Good morning. Reporter we are dealing with 200,000 people without power here in georgia many of those folks located in the northeastern part of the state where i am. Im in a little town called ball ground. Many people are under a Winter Weather advisory. Its not the snow, its the ice. Take a look behind me and you can see what im talking about. This is one of the situations playing out across the county. Across the state today. Trees just toppled. That ice on the limbs they just couldnt take it. Also loaded down power lines causing them to buckle, leaving much of this area in the dark. Power crews have been working through the night. Here is the deal, the wind are expected to increase. Thats expected to cause even more outages and more problems. You probably remember last year when we had all that gridlock and you saw the aerials of the Metro Atlantic area. This year georgia is prepared. They had a practice run. So we are not seeing of any that this morning. The georgia road views were going road crews were going around and around dropping sand and gravel. No big problems to speak of, nothing like last year. Martha thanks so much. It looks like she is standing with brown ground behind her. But when you lose power there will be is nothing worse than that. That. That. Bill in the southeast there could be a lot of folks without power. Its winter, right . The white house saying it will appeal a federal judges ruling temporarily blocking the president s action on immigration. That ruling clearing the way for a lawsuit by 26 different states which could give 5 million Illegal Immigrants amnesty. Steve, you be say the key word is temporary. Meaning what . The judge didnt rule on the merits the case. The judge said i need more time to look at this. If you read his 123page opinion it suggests hes pretty i am a threat wick the case the states have made, that the administration is going beyond its authorities by attempting to allow these folks to stay in the country. Bill how is this being reported . Speaker boehner has a statement out that 22 time the president said i do not have the authority to do that. Has that flipped . I find the reporting on this interesting. I read evening there was to read about this ruling this morning and i couldnt find any reference in any news story to the fact that the administration once was on the other side of this case. Barack obama was candidate repeatedly whether he had the authority to do exactly what hes doing today and he in effect said no. He said it directly and repeatedly as Speaker Boehner points out. Nearly two dozen times. Thats been absent from the news story. And i think that matters. In a battle of public perceptions. Whether you are talking about dhs fund or the 2016 elections. It matters that the white house is saying people today who are arguing against us have the same position we had just a couple months ago. Bill where does this go . Supreme court . It would be a long time. Nobody knows where this will end up but it was clear frommed administrations reactions that they are not lying down on this. Immigration groups have been pushing them to move forward. Greg abbott the senator from texas made it clear the states want to fight this, too. Bill well see where it goes. Thank you. Steven hayes. Enjoy orlando. Byebye. Martha egypt is calling on the u. N. To form a coalition against isis in libya. These are pictures of the smoke rising above the city of derna in this egyptian video after the terrorists beheaded 21 egyptian Coptic Christians. Reporter egyptian president alsisi is look at the countries surrounding him and he sees isis popping up. The attention has been on syria and iraq where isis has their home bases. But in the last few weeks there have been a popping up of isis militants in libya. Egypt striking on isis targets there. Now president alsisi is calling for a u. N. Backed mandate for a wider evident to take on terrorist militias. Italy says if there are no diplomatic means they are willing to participate in some operation there. The focus seems to be some type of air campaign. But president ial president ial president si si is look at that area as destructive to egypt. There have long been weapons that have run from egypt into the sinai causing problems there. He wants to stop the isis affiliates from gang toehold. From gaining a toehold. Nato Officials Say there is no talk about an open nation libya. About an operation in libya. But there is a possibility libya is one the places isis will gain a strong toehold in the future. Martha jordan, saudi arabia possibly able to create an he lines between them to push this group out. Its horrific what we saw over the course of the weekend. Bill well bring in john bolton in a few minutes. A state of emergency as a train hauling crude oil. More on these incredible pictures. They went deep into the sky. And the new threats facing the surrounding area that exists today. Martha we are talking about the brutality of isis drawing countries deeper inthe to the fight. Is the u. S. Prepared to give the help they say they collected in the form of this coalition. Ambassador john bolton on whats really going on on our side. The ideology of isis is clearly supremacist in the sense that anybody who is not islamic in their understanding is to be either enslaved or eradicated. This is a general genocidal movement. , im afraid so. Its okay. This is what weve been planning for. Knowing our clients personally is why edward jones is the big company that doesnt act that way. Hi, im Henry Winkler and im here to tell homeowners that are sixtytwo and older about a great way to live a better retirement. Its called a reverse mortgage. Call right now to receive your free dvd and booklet with no obligation. It answers questions like. How a reverse Mortgage Works how much you qualify for the ways to receive your money. And more. 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Alsisi asked for Intelligence Data and they didnt get it. The kurds asked for support too. They have been begging forearms and ammo from the United States and not one bullet has been provided. Bill brutal executions are drawing once reluctant arab countries into the fight. Egypts air force said they took out 67 terrorists in libya. John bolton joins me now. What did you think of ollie norths comment about the u. S. Not doing enough . I think hes right. There are 1,000 things we could do from additional airstrikes, intelligence arming andng. The fundamental problem with american policy is we dont know what the ends are. You have to talk about ends before you talk about means. The president is still in the mode of thinking isis is part after Law Enforcement problem like mayors face in our cities and towns across the country you have always got crime even though he says the goal is ultimately to defeat isis. Ultimately is a long time away. Bill i have got a number of maps i want to go through. Iran is going after targets inside of iraq. By backing the guerrillas in iraq. You have got jordan hitting targets in syria. You have libya going after targets in its own country and egypt doing the same. There is no Cohesive Strategy here. Its just a scatter shot. Thats one consequence of the withdrawal of american interests and influence. The europeans are concerned given events in paris and copenhagen. Given the threat isis made to go after rome itself. There is a lot of willingness to join together. There are different views about how to do it and what to do. Thats why you need leadership. The United States is visible by its absence. Bill 18 months ago 20 months ago, isis controlled this area in syria and crossed the border into iraq. You have 1213 Different Countries where isis is claim something sort of presence whether it many the philippines or indonesia oral jeerl yeah. Over the past 48 hours you had cairo going after these targets. So if the egyptians are carrying out hits in libya on behalf of coordination with the libyan government, how effective are these strikes going to be . In the short term they will destroy the targets they are aiming at. But its not part of a larger combined operation. Thats part of the larger problem isis is exploiting. States are collapsing all over the middle east. The government of libya has a small writ for its authority. Thats why the states in the region feel overrule powered. Jordan egypt threatened by the Muslim Brotherhood and the monarchies threatened by iran and they are looking forking a strong outside power to lead them. Its like saying in the 1930s why cant the czechs and slovacs stand up to germany. Bill i dont know if you saw the niece the atlantic can. The time is what isis really wants. In order for isis to do wait wants, it needs a caliphate. To get a caliphate you need territory. If you want to deny isis existence you take away its geography. Thats how you defeat them. That means boots on the ground. Without understanding that the real defeat of isis does require taking away the territory they and their affiliates control well see them continue to expand. Yet we have got a president for whom the concept of victory he once said was akin to japan surrendering on the battleship missouri. Its so oldfashioned. So long as your leadership believes that you wont have a coherent plan to achieve the objective. I think military experts can couple with many what is we can be effective on the battlefield. But unless this country makes the political decision that the safety of the United States requires the obliteration of isis it will continue to expand. Bill good to have you back. Martha an eyeopening report about income inequality. Those claims that gap between the rich and poor has been growing may not actually be factual. 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You got this. Slovak. Martha there was a big point in the 2012 president ial election. Democrats claimed income inequality was getting worse and worse over time. But a new report shows that may not be the case. Joining us is stuart varney. This is sort of something that has been accepted across all political lines that income inequality is an issue in the country and it keeps getting worse. Its an article of faith a popular belief. The rich are getting richer and its getting worse. The New York Times hasin frequently about this. A new wrinkle about this. Studies of existing numbers from two universities show the wealthiest income for the very wealthiest is down more than for any other group. That wealthy group have not recovered. The top 1 , their income during and after the crashing went down 20 . The bottom 90 their went down 13 . So the rich took it on the chin, everybody else took it on the chin but not as badly. If you look at the top. The. Martha the problem is the people at the lower end of that spectrum when they take that kind of hit it hurts a lot more than it hurts at the upper end of the spectrum. So the disparity is still in fact there. The Government Programs did help raise the lower and middle classes a little bit. Thats why they didnt suffer quite as much as that top 1 . But you have got to remember we are talking about income. There is a huge continues between income and wealth. Income is the paycheck wab its what comes aught. Wealth is the accumulation of that income. Wealth disparity is still huge. Income disparity isnt as bad pass we thought it was. Martha politically does this become a tougher argument . Yes i think it does. If you are here to say we are here to redistribute from the rich to you it turns out the rich have suffers more than you. Martha if you are voting in the next election thats not something you are going to get a lot of sympathy for. The income inequality argument has traction politically but economically not so much. Bill the taped confession from the man accused of killing chris kyle is played in court. How did jurors react . Martha remember sandra fluke the face of the socalled war on women . She was a celebrity at the dnc. Democrats are getting ready to stir up that battle cry of the war on women. It didnt tblorkt midterm so it is an effective strategy . A country where our president either has our back or turns his back. We talk often about choice. Well ladies, and gentlemen its now time to choose. You. Bill jurors played a video where they heard defendant eddie ralph confess to shooting and killing kyle and his friend chad littlefield. What else did that tape contain . Reporter it lasted 90 minutes. It starts with eddie ray ralph. His head is down on the interrogation table at the police department. Hes handcuffed. This is the night he was arrested. Hours after the crime hes rambling and incoherent at times. And other times he sound completely lucid. Texas ranger danny buyly is heard on the tape. Hes heard saying i knew if i didnt take out his soul he was coming to take mine next. He was further pressed asking if he had anything to say to the families. He said quote im so sorry for what i have done. If i could have done it differently, i would have done it so much differently. Bill did the defense have a chance at rebuttal on that . If they did what did they argue . Reporter they did. The defense team tried poking holes in the interrogation style that was used that we saw on the tape and questioning whether the tape was admissible in court. They fought to not even have it played. They took issue with the way their client was given his miranda rights. And that he did not have to answer questions without a lawyer present. They also raise the question to the jury on why investigators did not obtain a warrant at that time to draw ralphs blood for drug testing. Something they say is extremely common, especially since the accused admitted to drug and chog use the morning of the murder. Ranger buyly briley did not have a good answer for that. Bill Casey Stegall live on that case. Martha the 2016 president ial race is just around the corn and already democrats are laying the ground work for the socalled war on women. This week the group called emilys list which supports prochoice Democratic Women candidates launched a new campaign that will document each time a republican candidate ignores, insults oh offend american women. Penny lee and rich lowry welcome to both of you here. Rich, you called this one of the souped one of the and lowest form of argument. In colorado they ran pretty much on nothing else, the democratic senator except for contraception and thats not the issue that is on the top of peoples minds. And republicans dont want to deny anyone access to contraception. Its just silly. They had some success with it in the past. Now that they are probably running a woman for president any time anyone looks crosseyed at Hillary Clinton they wi

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