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President obama skips jimmy kimmel while dealing with the crisis over russia and the downing of the ma rashan plane, but is still getting blamed for fundraising and golfing and dining out. Are the pundits being fair . The liberal democrat, what explains the medias fictionation with Elizabeth Warren. My 16 years on this show up against your 132 years of senate service. Whats that . Oh, really . Im wrong . Okay. Point mccain. So what do us, senator . Care to put your money where your forced smile through jaw clenching anger is . But why did the late night comic duck my question about whether or not hes fair to republicans . What do you say, jon . Im howard kurtz and this is media buzz. There is no question that hamas started the latest round of mid east violence first with the killing of three israeli teenagers and then by firing rockets indiscriminantly at the jewish state. Theres no question it has led to far more deaths in gaza, more than 1,000 compared with 43 on the israeli side. And despite israels effort to not kill civilians. That has made the media more crucial. It doesnt seem very pinpoint where where i am in gaza. Just a short while ago, a building, an apartment building, a large building was attacked by israeli fire here in gaza. Several people were killed, including children bodies were thrown from the windows. Ive seen video of this. We captured itself. Even jon stewart had to defend himself after expressing concern, wrapped in satire, of course. Just merely mentioning israel or questioning in any way the effectiveness or humanity of israels policies is not the same thing as being pro hamas. So youre against murdered children . Free gaza free palestine netanyanetanyahu says hamas manipulating the media by putting civilians in harms way while a hamas spokesperson is accusing the israelis of genocide. All casualties are intended by hamas. They want to pile up as many civilian dead as they can because somebody said they use telegenically dead palestinians for their cause. They want the more dead, the better. They are acting in the same way, killing the palestinians just because they are palestinians, like what hitler was doing in the last century. Joining us now to scrutinize the coverage of this war, Lauren Ashburn who hosts social buzz on the fox website, k. T. Mcfarland, a former defense apartment official in the Reagan Administration and fred francis, former pentagon correspondent for nbz now with the firm 15 seconds. Com. As news organizations grapple with covering this, how much impact is social media having . Social media is the new bloody battlefield for this conflict. They show disturbing and gruesome images without a filter. And journalists are doing it, too, without having an editor to say, this is too much. K. T. , ive noticed a turn in the last 48 hours especially, a lot of commentators now saying israel easily winning the conflict on the battlefield but losing the media war. True . Sure. Hamas understands that its never going to beat israel militarily. So the only place it can fight and win is in the Public Relations scope. What are they doing . Look at the split screen you see. You see an israeli official having to defend the deaths of the palestinian children and then you see the palestinian children. What you dont see is the media saying to a hamas spokesman is why are you putting women and children in the places where you know theyll get killed . Thats the question nobody asks. Few journalists have asked, but they dont put the hamas spokesperson on the air. Exactly. And the israelis, they dont put the pictures of the israeli casualties on the air. Fred francis, youve reported from gaza in your career. Do you see this unfolding as a propaganda war or a military war . Its always been a propaganda war in 2006 and its a propaganda war today. The israelis with cutting edge, heavy weapons, the palestinians, urban guerilla and its a symmetrical journalism. The palestinians, media showing pictures of dead palestinian children, but they cant show pictures of the fear of the israelis being hit by 2,000 rockets over the last 20, 22 days. So is that are you faulting the media for asymmetrical journalism or are you saying they dont have a choice . Well, no. They have a choice. First of all, they need to stop tweeting from the battlefield. Lauren talk about social media. You need to stop that. Its hard enough to cover a were. The fear of being in xwad combat is hard enough. But to tweet live while youre covering, youre going to make mistakes. And tweeting live pictures like that without any filter whatsoever is a disservice to journalism, a dissurface to the viewers and listeners. Even when journalists arent making mistakes, this story, this conflict, this enemity between these two people which has gone on for thousands of years, it seems like they get attacked from both sides almost no matter what they say. Sure. You can have balanced comments. And i think this has happened to all of us at this table and people hear what they want toer what. Then they use your comments as a journalist to fight their own propaganda war and saying, well, this journalist said that the israelis are terrible. But on the other hand, they would have said the palestinian res terrible for engaging in this battle. Yet you hear what you want to hear. Lets come back to your point about hamas and its strategy. You say it has to have a media strategy and fred calls it asymmetrical journalism. Do you think before people are going before the cameras, that journalists are falling down on the job when it comes to pointing out things like where the weapons are deployed from civilian areas, hospitals, schools, mosques . When was the last time you saw a journalist interview a hamas official and say why are you put children in front of bullets . Why have you put children to protect your missiles . They dont ask that question. To the extent there are hamas officials out there, theyre not answering that question. And its an violation strategy. But you cant show it. Frankly, when youre in gaza and youre driving around and you want to go to a mosque where you know there are weapons in the courtyard of the mosque, your driver wont take you there. If somehow you get there this has happened to you . It has happened to me. Palestinian gunmen will come out and say its not safe for you to go there. They dont want you to see the rockets in the courtyard of the school, the courtyard of its not just asking the questions. The palestinians wont let you see it. And its very clever. They realize that they can isolate israel, either isolate israel from the international community, cause, for example, the Episcopal Church of america. All that does is isolates israel so israel then is alone. But you keep focusing on whether or not we have the ability to ask the questions of the people on the palestinian side who are prosecuting this war. Is there enough balance in your view, in the reporting, in the newspaper stories, in the television reports that point out that, for example, israel before, you know, clearly israel has made mistakes, there have been schools and other places that have been hit and those children have died and its heart wrenching. But they point out that israel drops leaflets and makes telephone calls to an effort to minimize i was watching a Youtube Video of destruction of a building in gaza. The commentary is israel has just destroyed an apartment building. What the video showed was that two minutes prior to the destruction, there was a flash bomb. In other words, there was a warning to get out of the building. What you didnt see were palestinian children running out of the building. I dont think that israel is losing the pr war. I mean, Benjamin Netanyahu has been on television so much you would think he was an anchor or coanchor on some of these shows on certainly a contributor. But they have actually no choice to do what theyre doing. And im not favoring one side or the other. Ive been accused as someone of lebanese dissent that i favor the palestinian side and ive been accused on the palestinian side because i wont take their side of it. So im not im not saying israel is right or wrong here. But theyre certainly not losing the pr. Id have to completely disagree with you, fred. I think that these pictures that youre seeing on social media of the father carrying the dead babies and people, as you said, just lying there and it is they are losing this. They only have the face of Benjamin Netanyahu. You cant compete with dead bodies. On freds point about being all over the air waves, there was a commentator jamd rula jabreel who raised this point on one of the programs and was invited back to talk to msnbc anchor herb hayes. We are ridiculous. We are disgustingly bias when it comes to this issue. Look at how much airtime netanyahu and his have on a daily basis. I never see one palestinian being interviewed. If you peer at a cable network, you trash that network or its anchor on any issue, the folks at the network will not take kindly do it. Fairley predictable case of cause and effect. Nobody likes to be criticized, right . Especially media organizations who do all of the criticism. I understand what hes saying. And i also understand what rulah is saying. Shes right for criticizeding and there arent as many palestinians who are on the air. But chris knows better. There are a lot of organizations that do try to show both sides and present the conflict. I think youre being generous. I thought hit comments were outrageous. Chris hayes is a smart guy. But basically hes saying you want to come on msnbc, you better not poke us in the eye. By the way, the network says she was a conincident trer until last month and her contract has not been renewed. But she chose not to renew. But hes right. Personal dont want to hear, at certain networks, criticism. He is right and that doesnt make it right. The media love to point fingers at everybody else. When their own coverage are challenged, its like, well, what do you expect . Were not going to use this person any more. What did rulahs point that the voices in the air waves and overwhelmingly she sees this as being but what youre doing is comparing you have a talking head and israeli politicians and theres an empty chair when its a hamas politician. You dont see an empty chair. You have the pictures of the civilian casualties. Its almost an unfair comparison when you see bodies versus talking heads. My point is the hamas and palestinians have overdone it so much that we understand. The American People understand. The people in europe understand and certainly in israel they understand what hamas is doing and theyre not being taken in by this any more. You say theyre losing the pr battle. Let me tell you something. 80 of Approval Ratings for Benjamin Netanyahu. The best numbers hes ever had. From the hamas wing of the party, but they were on this morning counterer netanyahu. Send me a tweet on this show during this hour. When we come back, attention over the plane shot down in ukraine has more pundits taking down at president obama. And later, how i somehow started a spat between jon stewart and john mccain. Some of president obamas critics and pundits alike are focusing on his fundraising and leisure activities and whether they send the wrong message. This time, president obama taking off for the west coast for a threeday fundraiser filled trip. What about the crisis of ukraine and israel . The golf course knot the best place to be. If an airline is shot out of the sky by a missile, i think i would cancel my trip. Before making his first statement about this, going and ordering, you know, cheeseburgers at the charcoal pit of up in delaware, continue on a Campaign Schedule . What looked like a Campaign Schedule including fundraisers in new york . Was that a mistake, in hindsight . It was not. This constant criticism of president obama, a lot of it on fox about cheese burgers and fundraisers and golfing, its kind of a met for for him not being engaged on the issue. Is that fair . Look, youre almost dammed if you do, dammed if you dont, do i cancel my activities, do i cancel my vacation . Maybe do i cancel my fundraising. But in this case, it reinforces a disengage ld american president. Hes not making statements about them. Hes leading from behind, but in fact hes not really leading. But nk it reinforces that sense that hes not in charge. Im not a by any means. But this is unfair. I mean, if you would have this president iraqiing to every crisis which happens about every three or four days of late, he would be in the bunker of the situation room nonstop and on Television Non stop. Is there a presumption that if the president is going to fundraisers and on the golf course that hes not working . Houk he just came up with he spent too much time at his corporate ranch. The fact is he doesnt do the work, anyway. Theres staff that does the work. If you dont think he doesnt get an intelligence briefing every morning and during the day as necessary, he does. And im not apologizing. Im saying its Foreign Policy is brittle and embattled at the best of times, but this is unfair to say that he ought to stop what hes doing. Is this the try um of optics, treating whether a president looks engaged is more important than anything else . Actually, it is, because that is true. People want to see their president acting president ially, right . They want to see him out there and leading and giving people information. And, you know, yesterday he went to Congressional Country Club here in washington and was playing golf with the pardon the interruption hosts from cnn, tony cornheiser and michael willborn. You keep hearing that enough and you say where is this guy even though his staff is doing the work . Optics is important. I think the president is almost rebelling. I think he should have gone to the border. I think that was an important photoop. But at the same time, lets be candid, if he does all these photoops, it doesnt mean the problems at the border or ukraine are getting solved. We have almostterest, nothing that we can do in the ukraine up to this plane crash. We couldnt prove it came from the russian side, he couldnt prove anything so he had to step back. He didnt have support. What support does he have with the economic sanctions from europe . So he sort of hes squeezed here. You know . So what is he supposed to do, get in front of the cameras and no, no. Theres only so much oxygen in the oval office. If you are out playing golf, you are no the in there and engaged. We should have been working the phones when the ukraine situation happened. And he did. Hold on. So now you are saying hes not doing the things that he could or should have done . Yes. Faes fine. Thaits thats fair criticism. Is it fair criticism, its hardly the first person to play golf and jump on it every time he hits the links . Exactly my point. Im asking k. T. As someone who has worked in several administrations, do you think we collectively are overdoing this . Not in the least. Ewe never seen crises like this, one after another and after another and a disengaged process. But part of it, too, is politics. I think the fundraising aspect of it flips the audience, right . You have the democrats saying were got going somewhere and then you have republicans saying, hey, wait a minute, youre putting politics and raising money ahead of our world crises . And every president including this one uses photo ops when youre talking about jobs, you go to a factory, k. T. , fred, thanks very much for joining us this sunday. Collin frazier reporting for sky news showed up at the crash scene. We should have saved those pictures a little longer. He was going through the belongings passengers had been shot out of the sky. Can you imagine anything more degrading than rummaging through their personal effects, somebody who has been killed in a plane crash. Frazier later apologized saying certainly it was an error of judgment. I acknowledged that. Too late too late i crossed the line i thought aloud, we shouldnt be doing this, it was a mistake. An instant apology that was selectively quoted by those determined to see what i did as a powerful example of journal t journalistic vulturism. Ahead, why are the media going gaga over Elizabeth Warren . First, the problems reporting from the middle east. Making sure you pay the right price for a new car just got a whole lot easier. Introducing the Kelley Blue Book price advisor. The powerful tool that shows you what should pay. It gives you a Fair Purchase Price thats based on what others recently for the same car and Kelley Blue Books trusted pricing expertise. It all adds up to the confidence that youll get a great deal. Thats just another way kbb. Com helps you make a smart new car decision. This is why i joined the guard. I couldnt believe it. I just saved a life. Somebody from my hometown. Announcer be there for your community, at nationalguard. Com. Now for a reporters perspective on israel and the palestinians, im joined by foxs leland vitter. Welcome. When you were reporting from israel or gaza, did you get constant complaints from both sides . I think if you get constant complaints from both sides, youre probably doing your job right. I remember my old professor in college said to me so long as the stats of complaints are from both sides, youre probably doing something right. But it seems to me those particular complaints are vociferous, correct . Absolutely. The one thing about the middle east, anyone is entitled to their own opinion, not their own facts. Over there, everyone has their own version of facts and their own narrative. This war is played out as many on the battlefield as it is in the media and around the world. That battle for Public Opinion is so important. That drives the fuel and the anger. So trying to get the facts when youre there and the israelis say hamas is firing rockets from civilian areas, hiding them in schools, etcetera, in order to increase civilian casualties on their side, how do you determine whether thats true . Well, a lot of times youre able to determine it on the ground. Youre in those scenes, youre going there. Obviously, it has gotten increasingly dangerous inside of gaza to do those kinds of stories. But the one thing this you have to be very careful of is the fog of war that exists in any of these situations because youre one person and youre on the ground. What you see is one thing. But the larger picture is what you have to be careful not to lose scope of, in other words, and sort of lose sight of that larger picture of whats going on. If youre in gaza, youre not seeing whats happening on the other side of the border. If youre on the israeli side of the border, youre not seeing what the folks in gaza are going through. Thats a hard line to walk. What about this charge that we hear from israeli leaderes and some of their supporters in the media that the palestinians diabetic rattly display dead bodies to gain problem began da points. Is that a fair question . Theres no question both sides play this out in the media as much as they do on the battlefield. The palestinians make access to the mead a ya is true. They want their story about be told in the media. One of the real challenges as a reporter is to see the emotion. I dont care what side theyre on. When theres a young child thats dead and their mother is holding them in their arms and crying, you cannot be helped but be overwhelmed by emotion. The question is how to make sure that emotion doesnt color your reporting. How do you deal with it not just as a journalist, but as a human being . Theres so much misery when these break out, there is a distant war, israel is a small country, the gaza strip is incredibly small. How do you deal with it personally being supposed . I think you have to take some time and take a step back sometimes at night and thank whatever prop providence you believe in that you have a safe place to come home to at some level. I realize that a lot of people dont. I think you have to keep in mind so often in Television News in a 90second piece or a twominute piece, youre looking for an absolute right and an absolute wrong. And in the middle east and a lot of times in times of war, its really a thousand or 3,000 shades of gray. And thats hard to put into two minutes. Youre looking for an answer at the end. Most of the time in a story in a conflict thats gone on for 2,000 years, you cant just put a bow on it and go, thats it. Is that frustrating that you didnt have time or its just harder to deal with some of the nuances, yes, israel bombed this and unfortunately this family was killed but the israelis did warn people to evacuate. Right. And you go a step further. But the reason theres so many viflans in this building and its overcrowd sd because the poverty is there. And you think about most of the issues that you deal with today, the immigration debate, its been going on for a couple of decades. This is a problem thats been going on for a thousand years. To put all of that history into a piece is impossible. You talked about palestinians, obviously, yooug using Television Cameras to try and get their side out and show the human misery of this conflict. Both sides fight this out as a Public Relations war. Its no secret that Prime Minister netanyahu is out doing every process now. When the Peace Process is going on and you want to get him on camera, hes not too keen to talk to you. So he uses his availability. He speaks very good english. He uses his availability selectively you are saying when he wants to score points in the middle of a war when israel is getting a lot of International Criticism any politician does. Look at president obama. Theres times he gives interviews when he has a message he wants to put out and theres times when he doesnt give interviews when he doesnt want to talk about things. The israelis are the same way, the palestinians are the same way, as well. The difference the israelis have is the palestinians, if you go talk to almost any palestinian on the street, they have a simple narrative that they tell the story. The israelis, its a little bit more nuanced. Thanks for giving us the expertise that you acquired. Up next, Elizabeth Warren says shes not running for president , but that hasnt dimd her growing Media Coverage. And later, jon stewart watched my interview with john mccain. Lets say he did not w wowowpg÷g to jump into the race. The Senior Citizen from massachusetts brought an exuberant crowd to their feet with her trademark message. Hillary clinton was absent. Should she be worried about Elizabeth Warren . Yes. Elizabeth warren always has the appeal of a regular woman. She doesnt have that d. C. Edge. Joining us now is joe concha, jackie kucinich. These stories say the left has a love affair with Elizabeth Warren, but it seems like the media are swooping over here. Why . She is doing some things that candidates do. She is going and campaigning for democratic candidates. Shes speaking at networks, shes doing the sort of things that are so shiny that we cant help but cover it as someone who might be making inroads for a president ial bid. That said, lately in a lot of reports, ive seen it, instead of her challenging hillary, its her making, i guess, inroads so this hillary doesnt run, shes shell be there waiting. There is a shifting in that its not warren versus hillary, its warren versus question mark. Warren says again and again, no wiggle room, im not running. Segment says she says shes not run, but how would she do against Hillary Clinton . If we look at the polls, she probably wouldnt do that well. But lets look at what were really talking about here, which is what does the media do these days . It reports, obviously, the facts. But also its all about infotainment, as well. Hillary going uncallinged gives you risk aversion and repetition. That accidents rate very well. That doesnt generate a lot of page views or sell a lot of newspapers. Llary . Ould happen if we had an we would have seven or eight guys on the gop side or a woman that would be battling it out over there. What would the Media Coverage be of the gop . Rhetorical question, howie. It would be overwhelmingly negative. If you want one example it must be a rhetorical question because you just answered your own question. I did, didnt it . Slate has a piece headlined run elizabeth run. I think its the media that want a debate. Just covering one campaign on the democratic side, hillarys march to washington, yeah, it would get boring. It would get repetitious. But, again, i do think there is that feeling what if headlinery doesnt run sflp. But if she doesnt run, we could all go crazy for the next career. Yet it seems to me this is not just the media is almost promoting her as a challenger when she herself says i aint doing it. But if the media didnt cover some of the things warren and biden were doing, then we would be accused of being too ready for hillary. Cover it, yes. But the tone has been positive. Im wondering, how much is this because some journalists like her attacks on wall street and the 1 elite. This resinates with those who might lean left in the news business. Give diane sawyer credit. She is the prominent member of the richest 1 . Shes not an underdog like barack obama was por trayed in 20308. Howie, goalup poll asked what would be the number one thing about hillarys presidency . The number one thing was because we would have a woman president. Way down the line was because shes the top choice. If you want a plan b, female president , check off a box, Elizabeth Warren can fill that void. One great example that i saw, abc news david muher described Elizabeth Warren in an interview. This was the intro, the woman on the front lines fighting the save the middle class. Again, rhetorical question. Does paul ryan, rapped paul, chris christie, would they ever get that distinction . I dont think so. A few seconds, what im hearing here is this is more about hillary and the fact that the media wants some kind of contest to cover, at least a debate on the liberal side. Its all about hillary until she makes up her mind. A good answer to a n nonrhetorical question. Thank you so much for joining us. Ahead on media buzz, is it just a rumor that David Gregory could be out at meet the president . But first jon stewart calls out john mccain over what he said on this program. Well, my diabolical plot worked. We finally got jon stewart to acknowledge whether hes way softer on democrats with his friendly hillary interview than on republicans. Dont give me that hes just a comedian stuff. Jon stewart is an Important Media commentator who uses humor to make his point. Here is how stewart handled the question that i put to john mccain on his program. This past sunday, our nations leading journalistic light sought answers to todays most pressing questions. Youve been on the daily show. Is jon stewart fair to republicans . Obviously, its a question were all waiting for, senator. No, but he you know, it doesnt matter, really. Why, senator, why . Why dont i matter . When he says things which hes entitled to. After all, hes a light night comic that are absolutely wrong and he gets away with it. No . Hes right. Those late night comics do get away with mistake after mistake. Some with catastrophic consequence. But i would be willing to bet, mccain, that if we went wrongoewrongo, you would come out on bottom. My record of absolute wrongness against your record of absolute wrongness for a good Old Fashioned wrongoff. Thats pretty funny stuff. By the way, i did ask the senator about one such moment, why he never apologized for his misjudgment backing the war on weapons of mass destruction. He blamed it on collin powell. Did you know notice how he did something very clever there . He turned the debate into a credibility clash between him and mccain. But what about this question . Is jon stewart fair to republicans . On that, jon stewart side stepped, ducked, dodged, evaded, changed the subject. If youd ever like to take it on, jon, have your people call my people. Still to come, Cnns Chris Cuomo after the shootout and cuomo after the shootout and what do i voted for culture. With a k. how are you . I voted for plausible deniability. I didnt kill her, david. And i voted for decisive military action. America, you cast your votes. Now, go to xfinity on demand and select the peoples hotlist to see this summers top 100 shows and movies. I voted a spokesman from the criminal said there is no involvement of russia. You are not asking an intelligent question. I think i have asked you several. I dont know about your answers but the questions are spot on. I am not representing the united states, you seem to act like a representative of russia. What i asked, why hasnt russia come forward and. This is character assassination. Excuse me. Character assassination. That is what you did. Good for chris cuomo for exposing this guy, another anchor for russia today resigned in protest. He would not let peter make the absurd statements. As much as i like chris, he was condescending and character assassination by saying, peter, peter, peter, what are you afraid of . Character assassination. Come on. You saying when he said to take a breath and there was not that much intelligence, he went too far . I think so. It was good business. I loved how he asked the we and he got at the heart of the matter so i give the segment an 8. I think he was hobbled by the satellite delay making it hard to interrupt the spew of propaganda and i give it a nine. We are turning now to snoop dogg and it wasnt exactly a huge shock when he disclosed he was doing something at the white house he should not have been doing. When the five got a look at this they brought an admission from bob beckel. Have you ever smoked at white house . In the bathroom. In the white house . In the bathroom. In the white house. But in the bathroom. When i do the number two i usually have a cigarette or a light to get the aroma right. I have done the dope in the white house myself. Are you breaking news . A lot dope in that white house. Thank you is in my book, i did. Yeah. Dope in the white house. Poorer risk, all right. What do you say to that . That is my criticism, that i wanted to hear more. I wanted to hear more about bob beckel and his drug addiction which he talked about. On that point i agree. Good for bob beckel near being candidate and he acknowledged years ago he struggled with cocaine and alcohol addiction and has kicked it. He wasnt he did not have enough time or take enough time to explain that so all we got was, yeah, i did dope at the white house. The Better Television would be if he had gone and explain all of that. I agree. I give it a 5. I give it a 7. Your best tweet, a scandal with many in the media saying people join angies list for all kinds of reasons. I go to angies list to gauge whether or not the projects will be done in a timely fashion and within budget. Angies list members can tell you which provider is the best in town. Youll find reviews on everything from home repair to healthcare. 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Israel tries to save life, hamas wants to take life. And glen says can you imagine how many dead israelis there would be without the iron dome . It should show the israeli deaths. Thats the point of journalism to be fair and balanced. Show both sides in the war. The death toll has been very imbalanced. In our press picks this media fail. Buzz feed fired its politics editor for blatant word for word plagiarism. These sites borrow too much material from elsewhere and this was different. Oldfashioned scam. Ben did the right thing by saying he was deeply embarrassed and apologized. From nbc news in washington this is meet the press with David Gregory. Good sunday morning. Its no secret that David Gregory is struggling as moderator of meet the press having lost 43 of his audience. But and i temple in the New York Post has the media writing him off as t its based on a single nbc source saying gregory could lose it after the midterms. Huffington post, David Gregory could be yanked from meet the press. Daily beast went with dead head talking and added msnbc jorro Joe Scarborough and are angling for the job. It may be true all of these other news organizations are playing off this one item. One leak. Finally nbc should get rid of David Gregory or give him a vote of confidence. This is cruel and unusual. Thats it for this edition of mediabuzz. Check out our facebook page, give us a like. We post original video there. We respond to your questions. Or email us mediabuzz. Were back next it is monday, july 28th. Terror news alert. A sunny day turned into a nightmare at the beach. Where more than a dozen people are struck by lightning in a rare summer storm. And then, a stroll on the beach ends in real tragedy. A plane crash lands, hitting a father and her daughter on that beach. Well tell you what went wrong. And a warning for all iphone users. From Text Messages to passwords, all of your personal information might now be at risk. Fox friends first starts right now. Its just a shout away, its just a shout away good morning to you. Hope you had a great weekend. Youre watching Fox Friends First on this monday morning. Im heather mauert. And im ainsley ear hard. A day at the beach ending in chaos when lightning strikes more than a dozen people. And that rare summer thunderstorm taking everyone in venice beach, california, by surprise. Kelly wright is here now with reaction to that. Hi there, kelly. What a bizarre situation. Indeed. Its unusual to see this kind of lightning in southern california. Experts say its the result of monsoonlike moisture in the area. Regardless, the cause, its a storm that turned out to be deadly. On the popular venice beach, emergency crews were franticly working to help someone taken from the water after a lightning strike. Sadly, a 20yearold man was pronounced dead later after being taken to the hospital. His official cause of death is not known, but he was among a dozen people caught unaware by a sudden storm bringing thunder and lightning to beachgoers. All of a sudden it was a big flash of light and a boom, and it felt like someone punched me in the back of my