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Accused of sending bomb threats. Making it up and accusing it was a legitimate news source. The feds claim we didnt do anything wrong. How far the fbi can go to catch suspected criminals. How much they can deserve. Lets get to it. Now Shepard Smith reporting. Its 3 00 on the east coast, noon on the west coast and here are the headlines from the fox news deck. The military will quarantine american troops returning from fighting ebola in africa before theyre allowed to go home. That is the order today from the defense secretary chuck hagel. He says those troops will have to wait out the threeweek incubation period in isolation. That goes well beyond the federal guidelines for civilians. Secretary hagel says theres a good reason for that. They are not volunteers and this is also a policy that was discussed in great detail by the communities, by the families, of our military men and women and they very much wanted a safety valve on this. The u. S. Has more than 1,000 troops in the west african nations of liberia and senegal. Officials say ebola is still spreading through much of that region at what they call a catastrophic rate. The reason for that, they have no National Health care system to speak of and so many people who get ebola stay in their homes with others and spread in a way that would never happen in the United States. President obama is right now meeting with top officials outlying u. S. Efforts to stop ebola spread in africa. Ebola is not spreading in the United States. No one in the general population has caught it ever. Were expecting to hear from the president at some point in this hour. We have team fox coverage starting right now. Rick levenle that is in new york city that an ebola patient here lied to investigators but lets get to Jennifer Griffen from the pentagon this afternoon. What does this mean for the troops who want to take leave, for instance . Well, shepard, defense secretary hagel said he would review the decision in 45 days. Heres what he said when he announced he was expanding the mandatory quarantine to all the services. And what i said in response this morning was, give me within 15 days, the operational specifics of how that would work and then i believe we should review that policy within 45 days. The fact is, the military will have more americans in liberia than any other department. In essence the army and joint chiefs forced hagels hand after hearing from military families they were concerned about their family members being exposed and bringing the virus home members of the 101st airborne from fort campbell, kentucky, are flowing into liberia and could be there up to a year. Army spokesmen say they will deal with the issue of emergency leave in a common sense manner. Weve now heard from the general who is quarantined the troops. What is he saying . Well, weve learned there are now 42 u. S. Soldiers quarantined at their base in italy. Major general Daryl Williams recently gave his first interview. We wake up every morning since weve been here and i look at the beautiful mountains and beautiful italy and so im only inspired by what i see. The soldiers are doing great. Were not frustrated at all. Of course were soldiers and so were used to executing orders. None of general Williams Team and none of the 4,000 u. S. Troops ordered to west africa is supposed to have contact with ebola infected patients. They are building hospitals and providing logistics help. The quarantine decision was made by the pentagon out of an abundance of caution and out of concern for unit cohesion and morale. Jennifer griffin at the pentagon, thanks very much. Breaking news in from maine. The governor there, paula la page has sent police to the nurse of kaci hickox. He wants quarantine, after hickox arrived at the newark airport. Health officials reporting to a report that a doctor in new york city lied to investigators. The New York Post cites Police Sources unnamed, fox news cannot confirm, but these sources are reported to claim to the New York Post that dr. Craig spencer tried to hide information where he traveled around the city before he got sick. The key is, in both of these cases, before they got sick. A reminder, if you do not show symptoms of ebola, you are not contagio contagious. Period. So the doctor who the Health Care Worker in maine, the mayor governor wants to quarantine she doesnt have symptoms, cant give it to anybody. Same with this doctor here in new york city. Rick leventhal from Bellevue Hospital in manhattan. Whats the situation . The post says he might have told some lies . I spoke to a well placed ciy government source who tells me that dr. Spencer may not have lied, but he may have failed to mention that he was out on the town before getting sick until after investigators checked his electronic records. Im told according to the source that Health Detectives got a very different story on monday morning on thursday morning, last thursday morning than last thursday afternoon. Dr. Spencer did call authorities last thursday morning to tell them he had a fever seven days after returning from treating ebola patients in west africa. The New York Post reports he told authorities he had isolated himself in his apartment and didnt reveal that he had ridden several subways, dined out and gone bowling the night before until investigators checked his metro card and credit card statements and asked him about it. The new York City Health Department Released a statement that says dr. Spencer cooperated if fully with the Health Department to establish a timeline of his movements in the days following his return to new york from guinea providing his metro card, credit cards and cell phone. Today the mayor again called him a hero. Dr. Spencer went into a disease ravaged nation to protect not only people there, but us. He cooperated in every way. He followed every protocol of his organization the minute he believed he had become symptomatic, he called in. He retraced all his steps with us. Everything was done properly. People should start respecting what he contributed. I dont know a lot of people who have the bravery of dr. Spencer. Reporter and dr. Spencer remains in critical but stable condition here at bellevue. Were told his toughest days are ahead of him, things will get worse before they get better, shep. All the best for him. Rick at the hospital here in new york, thanks. In africa where there is an ebola crisis, there is an ebola situation that no one has been able to figure out how to control and now theres a report that fewer people seem to be getting infected which is great news according to the world health organization. But that organization is warning the epidemic is far from over in west africa. One doctor reports seeing empty beds in Treatment Centers where overcrowding had been a huge problem. In liberia he reports as much as a 25 drop in new cases over a one week period. The centers for Disease Control and prevention in atlanta identified several ebola hot spots and heres the map of those to show you where the deaths were over the last month. The darker the red the more victims who died in some cases by the hundreds. Meantime traders of wild animal meat say the crisis has put them out of business. Even in a country like ghana which has not seen an outbreak. Because its about fear. Fear that people will catch ebola, has led many africans to stop buying popular meats from animals like pigs and snails and believe it or not giant rodents, delicious. Doctors say it is possible such animals can carry the ebola virus, but again, there is no ebola spreading in the United States and not one person in the human population in the general population in the United States has contracted ebola. Not one. The government has stepped up security, though, at federal buildings in washington and across the United States. Following recent threats from the Islamic State terrorists and other terror groups. Thats the word from Homeland Security secretary jeh johnson as of yesterday. He says officials will not reveal how many of the more than 9500 federal buildings across america this affects or what the extra security measures are exactly. Thankfully theyre not telling us that. Secretary johnson says this is not a response to any specific threat in the United States. He calls the move a, quote, precautionary step. But he did mention the recent terror attacks in canada and calls from isis and others for socalled lone wolf attacks against the west. Our chief intelligence correspondent katherine heritage is live in washington. Not surprising at all because im thinking theres an election if a week and if anything were to happen between now and a week there would be an election blowup. You dont tell us what theyre doing but theyre doing something. Im glad youre glad. Thank you. We learned new information about what led to this decision and it came from the head of the House Intelligence Committee today who confirmed that isis Senior Leadership sent a message to recruits to launch attacks at home rather than travel overseas and it was after this intelligence was picked up in midseptember that Australian Authorities arrested more than a dozen suspects. I know you remember this, including two individuals who were allegedly planning a public beheading that would be videotaped for propaganda purposes. They got a note back from the leaders of isil that said what we want you to do, stay in australia, we want you to randomly kidnap people off the street, behead them, videotape it, send it to us for further propaganda. Reporter at this point we asked rogers whether he saw any threat information targeting the elections next week and he did not see anything credible at this time, shepard. Did you get any idea or clue as to what changes might be in the works here . This morning we did not see any obvious security changes and in this new statement, secretary johnson says so much. In fact, he says, quote, the precise actions we are taking and the precise locations which we will enhance security is Law Enforcement sensitive and will vary in shifts from location to location and will be continually evaluated. Though the attack in ottawa factored into the decision to increase security at federal buildings were told and thats held by some current and former government officials because they say isis wants to go global and while its not on the scale of a 9 11, clearly this idea they can inspire people to act is no longer just a hypothetical, shepard. All right. Katherine in washington, thanks, crat. Youre welcome. More help on the way for Kurdish Forces fighting Islamic State militants in kobani. Kurds from iraq are reportedly stoets arrive soon, whatever that means, and with heavy weapons. And heavy weapons meaning not just guns and ammunition, but something bigger that might have an effect and word that Syrian Rebels have also joined this battle. Thats next as the news rolls on this wednesday afternoon. Official in kobani. Supporters cheered and waved flags today at some 150 kurdish troops crossed into turkey from iraq with cannons and heavy machine guns as theyre described to us. The fighters crossed the border in a turkish town of habur. Officials say the troops are traveling across turkey to cobanry in over the boarder in syria. Officials have been battling militants in kobani for weeks but failed to push them back entirely despite help from Coalition Air strikes. Kurdish Officials Say about 50 members of the Free Syrian Army have arrived in cobanry kobani the kurds. Christopher hill is a former u. S. Ambassador to iraq and joins us live and also the author of outpost, life on the front lines of american diplomacy. Nice to see you again. Thank you. From the reports i get from the region, in syria and iraq, things are improving. The air strikes are helping. Isis is not proving to be some sort of undefeatble, you know, god that things are getting better. Is that what youre hearing as well . Shep, i would agree with that. Obviously this is still early in the process, but, you know, it was interesting, kobani a few weeks ago, seemed it was going to fall any moment and, in fact, you heard u. S. Officials saying, well, its not really that important, et cetera, but clearly the kurds there held it and the american the Coalition Air strikes really helped and now you see some unprecedented things happening. First of all its very unusual to have kurds from iraq crossing into turkey and then going back into syria. So this is quite an amazing development. I mean the turks have had good relations with the kurds in iraq but not that good that they would accept forces to use turkey to transit. Secondly, the turkish government under president erdogen are conflicted. Those kurds in syria have traditionally had the links to the kurds in turkey whom the turks and u. S. Consider a terrorist group. They are obviously doing a lot of hard thinking about how to manage all this. To have forces from the sunni opposition that is the Free Syrian Army, to come in, thats kind of unprecedented to have kurds and sunni forces, Free Syrian Army forces, link up. Its looking like cobanry ikoba started out as a small fight in an obscure town, is achieving some huge symbolic importance in the struggle. It has. Your message about the two groups coming together, the Free Syrian Army, the ones who have been fighting dictator there Bashar Al Assad all this time, what sort of problems do we see from him in the future . Where does Bashar Al Assad fit into this now . Assads whole argument has been hey, you americans, you think im the bad guy, try some of the people who are trying to overthrow me, and weve said thats true about al nusra and isis but we believe theres this other element here that wants to overthrow assad and create a more democratic situation for syria, so the fact that you could have some of those people, albeit symbolic numbers at this point, 50 people, thats i think very significant. And i think assad is really going to have to do something besides just sit pretty and expect u. S. Air strikes to do something about this sunni opposition to him. I think he really needs to look at this and it looks like kobani is achieving this symbolic importance. No one ever thought kurds would work with sunnis there. No. Assad is going to have an issue for himself there. I would say, i agree with you, your general proposition this is a good news story in an otherwise terrible place. It is. Before we go, whats your level of concern about sharing weapons with people who might eventually give those weapons to others . Well, i have a lot of concerns about that. Look at what look at all the weapons we gave to the iraqi army, you know, on the battlefield and now being used by isis. There are concerns when you give weapons to people and dont have the means on the ground to make sure the weapons are being used properly and that has beens the whole concern in syria. Its one thing to give weapons to the peshmerga, to some iraqi army units, its a whole different scene in syria which is why this kobani thing is interesting. Its interesting to me. Thanks so much for being here. Appreciate it. Thank you. Well, up next, theres word that fbi wrote a fake news story, using the name of a real news agency. As if they put it on a fox news headline and sent it out as fox news information but it wasnt. It wasnt true. The reason they did it, to lure a bomb threat suspect. Once he clicked on the link the feds could track him. But is any of that legal . If so, can anyone do that . Well bring in the judge, next. Hungry for the best . Its eb. Want to give your family the very best in taste, freshness, and nutrition . Its eb. Want to give them more vitamins, omega 3s, and less saturated fat . Its eb. Egglands best eggs. Ebs. The only eggs that make better taste and better nutrition. Easy. Egglands best eggs. Better taste. Better nutrition. Better eggs. Its eb. Better eggs. Synchrony Financial Partners with over two hundred thousand businesses, from fashion retailers to healthcare providers, from jewelers to Sporting Good stores, to help their customers get what they want and need. Banking. Loyalty. Analytics. Synchrony financial. Engage with us. 23 minutes past the hour. Fbi agents wrote a fake news article to catch a real bomb threat suspect. But News Executives say the feds crossed the line. This happened a long time ago but just coming to the front. It happened outside seat until 2007. Associated press reports that fbi wrote a fake ap story on bomb threats and then sent the suspect a link to that article and when he clicked that article, that gave the feds his location. The suspect was 15 years old at the time. The Associated Press Spokesman Says the fbi violated the aps credibility and that, quote, we are extremely concerned and find it unacceptable that the fbi misappropriated the name of the Associated Press and published a false story attributed to qap. An fbi official told the ap the goal was to prevent a tragedy and cited the tragedies at a Marysville High School last week. Lets bring in judge napolitano. Faked it. Can they do it . Heres the basic rule of law. The government, when its inves