Eventually rescued. What a scary job. Fox friends starts right now. Have a great day. Good morning. Today is monday, the 4th of august, 2014. Im anna kooiman in for elisabeth hasselbeck. We start with a fox news alert. Ebola in the United States, one infected peasht patient here and another on the way. Plus a scare at an airport in the u. K. After a passenger suddenly died after getting off the plane. Developing details ahead. Another story breaking overnight. Contaminated water in ohio has half Million People on edge this morning. Residents are being told dont drink it, dont touch it and you cant boil it. It makes it worse. New tests just in. Well have a live report from toledo. As democrats run away from president obama, the
most wanted man in america turns out to be drum roll please mitt romney. Why the former president ial candidate is in high demand on the campaign trail. Mornings are vastly superior with friends. Its fox friends. Welcome to monday morning. Today were all annad out and all turkd all tuckerd out. Great to be here. Weve got a big show coming up. Rascal flatts have a new album out, great to our troops and well be talking about their life on the road this summer. Plus donald trump and bret baier. Right now a fox news alert. Americans are panicked over a possible Ebola Outbreak here in the United States as a second patient is set to arrive in atlanta. Ainsley earhardt joins
us with the latest on the deadly virus. Good morning, ainsley. Good morning, guys. The outbreak of the ebola virus causing fear that it could spread beyond the borders of western africa here into the United States. Some americans are fearing for publicly safety after dr. Kent brantley arrived here to undergo treatment at a special Isolation Unit at emory hospital. He appears to be improving and thats encouraging. In fact action its probably the case that people who are well nourished and healthy, if they get the deadly disease do better than those who may be in more tenuous health as many of the patients who are tragically dying of ebola in africa. The rising death toll in africa are causing some americans to worry it could happen here but the c. Dment c. Says the c. D. C. Says the risk to the public is near zero because of the
extreme protective measures they are taking. Ebola is deadly. It is understandable to be scared of it. But we know how to stop t. Infection control in hospitals and stopping it at the source in africa which is the singlemost important thing we can do not just to save lives but to protect ourselves as well. Theres that second person battling ebola, the nurse, also an american missionary is expected to arrive at emory under the same precautions tomorrow. On saturday a passenger from sierra leone which is in the grip of that virus, collapsed and died at an airport in london but u. K. Officials insist her death is not because of the ebola virus. Back to you guys in the studio. Coming up in ten minutes well be talking to a doctor about what americans need to know about ebola. Should we be worried about this. How is it treated and what if youre traveling abroad. What do you need to know . To see that doctor get
out of the ambulance on friday on his own power and now the news that he is doing better. What a great guy. So impressed by that. The nurse comes here tomorrow. In the meantime we turn to Heather Nauert and heather is going to talk to us about something scary in toledo. From a crisis here to a crisis here. In americas heartland another fox news alert. Toledo ohio, overnight there are new tests revealing that Drinking Water is still contaminated with an algae toxin. It is coming from lake ere. That water doctors say can make you extremely sick. It is in fact so dangerous that your pets cant drink it and not even your children can bathe in it. And boiling that water which a lot of people tend to do thinking that sterilizes the water, that makes it worse. Toledos mayor says more testing needs to be done. Im not going to make a decision and then turn around 24 hours later and say were back to where we
were. That would be absolutely irresponsible. Officials are saying if youve been exposed to that toxic water see a doctor immediately. New investments on the search for new investments on the search for a missing oregon mother. Video from a ferry boat last week that may show Jennifer Huston and her car headed to San Juan Island off the coast of Washington State. Investigators and her family are waiting word from the ferry captain analyzing that tape. Jennifer and her family reportedly planned a trip to that island for the summer and the family now wondering if she decided to go there alone. Coming up at 8 15 this morning on fox friends her husband and father will talk about the search. Will a marine held in a mexican prison be released today . Hours from now Sergeant Andrew tahmooressi will be back in court, back home in florida, his friends and
family praying for his safe return. It has been four months since he was arrested for crossing the border with legal guns in his car and now there is a chance the case could be dismissed altogether. When i spoke to him over the phone, his lawyer is going to present additional evidence. The paper work that was submitted was submitted not on the proper date of his incarceration and when he dealt with them. They are going to aim for a mistrial. Tahmooressis legal fees are mounting. The family saying it could cost as much as 10,000 in order to free him. Marine Corporal Robert smith served his country in iraq and now hes serving his community in florida. Corporal smith lost one of his legs while fighting overseas but that is not holding him back from flicker his life long goal of accomplishing his life long goal of becoming a sheriffs deputy. If you have a dream go for it. Dont let anything hold you back. If you dont think you can
do it, dont live your life wondering. Give it a try. What a Lucky Community they have in having that man there. On friday the house of representatives did grant that big supplemental to provide money to process these kids who are in the country illegally but it doesnt matter because the senate is already gone and it doesnt matter because the president already said that he would veto it. Now we have the Senior Advisor to the president of the United States, dan pfeiffer, on one of the sunday chat shows saying because congress didnt act i guess he was talking about the democrats in the senate regarding that, the senate is going to have to by executive order grand amnesty to millions. Here is dan pfeiffer. Congress will still need to act but because of congresss failure to fix the immigration system and pass the supplemental appropriations, the president has no choice but to act. It will be in september . It will be at the end of this summer. Sounds reasonable. Right. The Congress Wont act so the president has to because thats the way our government works; right . Hell just break the law. The man who once taught constitutional law at one point recognized that moves like this are explicitly unconstitutional. Listen to the old obama address situations like this. If in fact i could solve all these problems without passing laws in congress, then i would do so. But were also a nation of laws. There are enough laws on the books by congress that are very clear in terms of how we have to enforce our immigration system. That for me to simply through executive order ignore those congressional mandates would not conform with my appropriate role as president. We live in a democracy. You have to pass bills through the legislature and then i can sign it. Hypocrisy alert. Can he or cant he . If the president is admittedly breaking the law what does Congress Need to do about it . We shouldnt mistake these executive orders. We dont know the full parameters of this. Apparently as of this morning it looks like the president is set to give amnesty to about half the illegals living in this country. No president has done anything of this magnitude by executive order. You know what . If he grants amnesty, if the Mainstream Media says it is legal and reasonable because congress wouldnt act, that would be so extraordinary because it is clearly illegal what he would do for the Mainstream Media to say that it would show how corrupt they are. Or what bad memories they have. This is normal. Make no mistake, the distinction you saw between the obama of two years ago and today that is the result of pressure by
lobbyists barking at his advisors saying were not going to vote for you unless you do this. They caved. What is on the president s desk now, what he is considering is what would grant amnesty to about five million illegal immigrants. One of the ideas is if they have family members here and if they have been law abiding while here. Isnt that kind of an oxymoron . Illegal immigrants . Following the law . This doesnt make sense, does it . There is one other tantalizing thing. Remember weve talked on this program a number of times about mitt romney. It turns out mitt romney was right about so much stuff. He was right about russia. He was right about the Affordable Care act. He was right about mali. Now as it turns out as we head into the election season coming up in november, who is in demand . Is it president obama . No. Democrats dont want him showing up. Republicans by the droves are asking for mitt romney. Look at this poll. Mitt romney matched up to president obama, 53 to 44 . If you remember during the actual election obama won the popular vote 51 to 47 . According to the Washington Post over the next three days, in midaugust romney is going to be campaigning for g. O. P. Candidates in three states. Buyers remothers. 315 million buyers feeling remorse. If we could vote again. 11 minutes after the top of the hour. Thank you for joining us on this monday. Coming up, downsizing our defense. Even
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doctor, attending physician at Winthrop University hospital. What is ebola . Ebola is a virus and this actually has been around for quite a long time. It was first discovered in 1976 in the congo in africa and it was actually named after the ebola river and its one of the viruses in a group called viral hemorragic fever. That is one of the symptoms you get, bleeding internally and from the nose, mouth and eyes but that is in a very advanced stage of the disease. Dr. Brantley at emory, how is he being treated . There is no vaccine for ebola but one of the problems for ebola is it results in the release of major amounts of inflammatory chemicals in the bloodstream. This causes sepsa,
dehydration. The doctor is in an Isolation Unit but is getting large amounts of intravenous units, monitoring his oxygen level, blood rate. Rehydration is a key issue. Ebola can affect major organs in the body, can cause liver failure and kidney failure. People with advanced disease may need dialysis. Plenty of fliewppedz and make sure plenty of fluids and make sure nobody else is infected. Doctors caring for him will be wearing protective clothing, making sure he is in isolation. It is very contagious but in the right places. I want to know how bad this is specifically this outbreak as you look back in history. In the last 40 years since we have known about ebola this outbreak is
pretty bad. The numbers are high. In africa they have had over 1,200 people get the disease, not just the people we know about, im sure there are more. But 700 to 800 people died from the disease. The situation in africa is very different from here. First of all were not getting the disease in america. But the other problem, the main problem with ebola and why it is so fatal in africa is they do not have basic medical care to take care of people who have been infected. The people who arent educated to know how it spreads. Should americans be worried . When we hear about how quickly it is spreading there and now it is on u. S. Soil, should we be worried . I dont think we should be worried. I do not think this is a Major Health Issue for the general public. Important points here you should not be traveling to areas in africa, liberia, sierra leone and guinea. I dont think americans in america are at risk. These people being brought
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news around the world, while you were sleeping a ferry boat capsized in bangladesh. So far about 100 people have been rescued. The rest unfortunately still missing. At least 398 people are dead and nearly 1,900 more injured after a 6. 1 magnitude earthquake in china. The death toll there expected to rise as rescuers dig through the rubble. More pink slips in the war zone. The u. S. Army axing 550 of its majors. Some serving in afghanistan will be told they have to leave the service by next spring, part of a downsizing mandated by congress. The soldiers joined the army between 1999 and 2003. That means only some will be eligible to officially retire and receive benefits. In 2012, three u. S. Marines were gunned down at their operating base during an insider attack in afghanistan. Two years later the afghani shooter was tried as a juvenile and sentenced to
only seven and a half years in prison. The marine corps claims all families were kept informed throughout the trial but one parent is saying this is not true. She is speaking out for the first time. Linda rivera is the mother of slain marine Corporal Richard rivera joins us live in los angeles. Good morning to you. Good morning. This is your first time speaking out. Why have you decided to come on tv to tell your sons story . Ive been waiting two years for a good outcome and it happened that the outcome was not good. And i wasnt even notified. Thats right. As we look at some images of your son who was killed two years ago this august, initially the shooter, the young man who murdered your son, they did a bone density test on him and figured out that he was between 19 and 20 years old. They also told another family who lost a son that he would be tried as an adult as well. When did they decide, you know what, were going to take the kids word for it, hes only 15 years old or whatever they said and try him as a juvenile. When did that happen . Thats a good question because i wasnt notified of either. I know that hes been held in an adult penitentiary this whole time. If he was a juvenile from the beginning he shouldnt have been held in an adult prison. Exactly. The marine corps did issue a statement on july 25. They said this, quote, since the time of the incident regular contact with the acted families has been maintained in order to keep them informed of related investigative and legal developments. Our approach to supporting families of our fallen on our commitment to loyalty. Linda, would you say that is accurate . Has the marine corps kept you up to date on what was going on .