Been a lot of talk lately about armed drones taking out terrorists overseas. Very controversial. A document containing al qaeda tips for dodging drone attacks is apparently recently found in a building in mali. New how to guide for drowns found in expected al qaeda hideout. Some of the tips listed in this newly found document are use reflective glass, hide under trees stay out of any company that ends in stan. Lose that burden of proofer sticker that says my child is a taliban honor student. Before that drone blows you up blow yourself up. Take down sign reading 137 days without a drone strike. Bret good tips. Some are better than others, charles. Thanks forever inviting us into your home tonight. That is it for this special report fair balanced and unafraid. This is the fox report. Tonight, the real story about the security situation in afghanistan. It turns out the numbers the pentagon told us about to tout how well they were doing are wrong. Plus nks a hot air balloon explodes . Midair. Tourists killed by more than a dozen. I hear a loud explosion and see a lot of smoke. Shepard witnesses say the blast shook the ground and some passengers jumped seven stories trying to escape the burning balloon. Tonight, searching for answers as the blame game begins. Plus,. [bell] shepard 20 years ago today. [sirens] shepard terrorists tried to bring down the World Trade Center. It was just so infamiliar tommable. A new warning about americans joining forces with al qaeda. And why didnt we think of this sooner . Dennis rodman brings basketball diplomacy to north korea. Hoping be okay and hoping the kids will have a good time. Did he pack his Wedding Dress . First from fox this tuesday night. Getting a look at the moment the hot air balloon exploded in the sky and plummeted a thousand feet to the ground, 19 tourists killed. They were soaring over the ancient egyptian city at sunrise when the balloon caught fire blew up and came crashing down. Of course, we have not independently verified this videos authenticity. Well, a photographer who was in another balloon at the time says its the real thing. He took this picture of the balloon before it crashed. Its the one on the right. Today on studio b he told me what happened next. I hear a loud explosion. I turn around. And see a lot of smoke. I said to the person standing next to me i hope that wasnt a balloon. Frankly, we wouldnt even have managed that it could be. Too loud, too close to the ground and as our balloon sat down our pilot said well, this hasnt happened in a long time. And then we knew something really bad occurred. Shepard something very bad indeed. Experts say this looks to them like the deadliest balloon crash ever. The victims were from europe and asia. There were no americans on board. Leland vittert on fox top story in our middle east newsroom. What are investigators saying started this thing . Shep, right now they are thinking its somehow the line that goes from the gas tank up to the burner that warms the air in a hot air balloon broke and the gas started spewing out. It hit the flame that was already there on the burner. It lit everything on fire. Thats when we saw the balloon shoot up to a thousand feet up in the air. And during that time, there were a number of these tourists were inside jumping off the balloon, some of whom were on fire. As the balloon then came crashing back down those thousand feet on to the ground. They said the whole thing took something in the order of 10 about two minutes there. Of the people on the balloon, 21 people on board. 19 dead. Some from britain, france, china, other places. The pilot is one of the people who survived. He survived by jumping off at some point there and ending up in that sugar cane field. You can believe as the investigation begins by the egyptians right now that is the man they want to talk to. As of now all of these balloon flights which this h. Been a major tourist attraction there in egypt are grounded. Shep . Shepard with the investigation the finger pointing already. Absolutely. And in egypt this is a significant story for no other reason than tourism is the life blood of that economy. It took a big hit back during the revolution in 2011. You can imagine now as these pictures are being beamed around the world it certainly calls into question the Safety Standards there in egypt for anybody who is headed. The Muslim Brotherhood regime right now is saying, hey, look. All of these safety concerns in that lax oversight started back during the mubarak times. Other people are saying the chaos of the revolution has allowed all sort of back Safety Practices to grow and continue inside egypt. Either way 19 people dead and clearly a singular horrific way to die as we saw in that video. Shep . Shepard Leland Vittert live for us tonight. Remember the reports from the pentagon . Violence is down in afghanistan. Its one reason Afghan Forces will be ready to take over security after 2014. Were making progress. Look at the numbers. Now we know the numbers were wrong. Taliban attacks are not on the way down in afghanistan. As violent in 2012 as it was in 2011. No change at all. Jennifer griffin live at the pentagon tonight. Jennifer, what happened . Well, with little fanfare, shep, u. S. And nate officials in afghanistan removed from their web site the monthtomonth figure saying attacks by the taliban were down by 7 last year. There seemed to be a mistake. A mistake that led to Administration Officials making statements like this. Violence levels have been trending downward in the last two years after five years of steady increases beginning in 2006. The problem is the attacks werent trending downward. They were exactly the same as in 2011. An embarrassing admission by the pentagon that the the narrative about how the president s strategy in afghanistan was bearing fruit may have been misleading, shep. Shepard they must be making some case at the pentagon in their own defense. Well, in essence, they blame the afghans. The afghan commanders supposedly forgot to submit their field reports about the attacks so the pentagon data was misleading. This is a regrettable error in our Database Systems that was discovered during a routine quality check. We are making the appropriate ajustments. In spite of this data adjustment, our assessment of the fundamental progress in afghanistan remains positive. Sef and nato are revising their assessment. Officials say this will not effect the time line of the pullout from afghanistan, shepard. Shepard Fox Extreme Weather Center deadly one, two punch for the midwest. Second deadliest storm. This monster stretches more than 1,000 miles across. Rain to the east, heavy snow now hitting chicago. The same storm buried parts of kansas and missouri. More than two feet of snow in some pars of texas. Shatter wanted the record to data 1893. Oklahoma, the heavy snow was more than this roof could handle. Also brought down the roof of a home and killed a person inside. The storm brought Hurricane Force winds. Tore down trees and power lines. Officials in texas blame the wind for spreading a fire which killed a mother and twin toddlers. Mike tobin with the news in kansas city. Looks like you are through the worst it there. Worst of it is on its way to chicago. Left behind slick and wet roads. Much better than earlier today when about 8 to 10 inches of wet, heavy snow came down. Made things very difficult for the snowplows. We saw a lot of snowplows get struck today. The department of ed transportation put two in the ditch and flipped some over. Working to keep roads clear because another round of bad weather is expected for tomorrow. Shep . Shepard are they making progress on Power Outages there, mike . Yeah. You know, they are. As we look across the street, can you see these trees. This is that wet, heavy snow that sticks to the trees, weighs the branches down and gets them into the power lines a lot of people without power but they are down to the number of 27,000 people without power. Thats down from upwards of 40 earlier in the day, shep. Shepard mike tobin live in kansas city. A frantic distress call to the coast guard. Sailboat sinking off the coast of california. The father said he was with two young children. And they were abandoning. Now, the question was the whole thing a hoax . The dramatic story. The evidence that somebody may be playing a very dangerous and expensive trick coming up. Plus, another unbelievable twist in the blade runner murder case. Now the judges own cousin is accused of murdering her own children. From the journalists of fox news, this is the fox report. Its not what you think. 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The prosecutor forcefully questioning this defendant on whether she is even capable of telling the truth. As you probably know, jody told police not one but three stories about her ex ended up dead. First she said she in no idea. Then she explained in some detail that masked intruders came in and killed him. And then she admitted she did the killing but said only in selfdefense and claims she has no memory of stabbing him. There is also the question of the gun. Its still missing. Jody areas claims she found it in alexander, the victims closet and then threw it away in the desert. There is no victim of the victim ever owning a gun. The grandparents reported the exact same kind of gun stolen from their home a week earlier. She claims she didnt take it. Despite all these seeming inconsistencies the defendant has refused to back down from the prosecutor. You cant each remember what you just said. Im more postured on your tone and anger. Its hard to can sen trait. Its the prosecutors fault because you perceive him to be angry. Its not your fault. Is somebody asking you whose fault it is . You did. The prosecutors accused her remembering only things that fit into her alibi and lying to save her own skin. Adam housley is in our west coast news hub this afternoon. The prosecutor really drilled down on some of the perceived inconsistencies here. Yeah. He really did try to focus especially in the second half of the day, shepard. A lot of responses from areas seemed to avoid the question. She was inside. She played with semantics, the area he made headway with her was Travis Alexander in Television Interviews and conversations with friends. Even in her own diary she talked of him in glowing terms. Never once complained about anything. In this trial she tries to paint him as this man with a dark side. Take a listen. Have you been telling us in addition to being mean he was somebody who physically abused you, right . Yes, he did. He would raise his voice to you, right . Yes, he did. If there yet, once youre free of him and after the fog has lifted, you are thanking him and telling him what an inspiration he is, right . Yes. Once again the defense team hasnt had one person be able to come forward and corroborate the evidence that she had some sort of mistreatment by Travis Alexander, shepard. Shepard they they even got tonight day he died there in the courtroom . No, they havent. 11 days on the stand so far. Four days on crossexamination. They havent gotten to that at all. They are still talking about past boyfriends and the fact shah she followed some of them around and checked some of their emails. There is still significant parts of her story they havent crossexamined yet. A will the of Court Observers believe he might try to push this toward the end of the week so jurors go home with only his crossexamination on their mind. Shepard adam housley live in los angeles. Thanks. Just when we thought we heard it all in the blade runner drama, the judge overseeing the murder case against Oscar Pistorius now admits he is related to a suspected killer killer in another case. The judges relative killed two children. The lead detective in the case faces seven attempted murder charges. And just yesterday we found out pistorius own brother is facing a homicide charge of his own accused of killing a woman with his karl. The athlete today held a personal memorial for magazine model girlfriend. The woman who he admits he shot and killed. According to his, quote Reputation Management firm, unquote, he wanted the private memorial with his family members. Now that he is out on bail. Prosecutors say he shot his girlfriend not once but four times did ton valentines day day. He says he thought she was intruder. We are dealing with what may be a hoax at see now. Coast guard officials calling off the search for a boat that reportedly sank off the coast of Central California couple and two kids on board it happened on sunday or supposedly did. The coast guard reports it received a distress call, a series of them really claiming the familys 29foot sailboat was taking on water. Yesterday the coast guard released one of those calls. Shepard abandoning ship. After searching for two days they did not find a single thing. No debris. No single signs of distress. Nothing out there. No one has come forward to report any family members missing. Now they say theyre investigating whether the whole thing might be fake. Damning testimony to start the high stakes trial against bp. The very first witness has now secretary of defense that the oil giant put profits ahead of safety. Now the first bp executive has taken the stand. His testimony . Thats next. Plus, panic at the biggest car race of them all. Youll hear some of the calls for help when car parts went flying into the stands at daytona. Aarp. Find tools and support at aarp. Org possibilities. Ah. 4g, huh . Verizon 4g lte. 700 megahertz spectrum, endtoend, pure lte build. The most consistent speeds indoors or out. And, obviously, astonishing throughput. Obviously. You know how fast our home wifi is . Yeah. This is basically just asast. Oh. And verizons got more fast lte coverage than all other networks combined. Its better. Yes. Oh, why didnt you just say that . Huh what is he doing . Shepard the oil giant bp did indeed have the resources to prevented the deep horizon water disaster instead turned Safety System into quote a traveling road show. That from the governments first witness in the very high stakes civil trial today. This witness is an engineering professor who says he had warned those officials years and years before the explosion do not cut cost for accident prevention. He says they didnt listen and that safety failures ultimately caused the blowout in 2010. That rig exploded and sank into the gulf of mexico. 11 men died and millions upon millions of gallons of oil poured into the gulf for three long months. Lawyers for bp claim other companies that worked on the deep water rig made critical mistakes bp has pleaded guilty to criminal charges including manslaughter. Bp has paid 25 billion in claims and clean up cost. This criminal trial i should say this civil trial thats ongoing now will determine whether the company is off the hook or on the hook for billions more. Casey stegall with the news outside the court house in new orleans. We are now hearing from northerly key witness. Ier, shep shepard, we are. Lamar mckay the former president and chairman of bp america. He was the lead american representative for bp on the ground in the wake of this disaster. He echoed on the stand today much of what his Company Lawyers have argued all along that blame is to be spread around among transocean and haliburton. Of course, a very stark con tration to the saflt concerns that you just talked about raised by that forensic engineer for much of today, shep. Man dubbed the master of disaster. Talking about that engineer from u. C. Berkeley robert b. A retired petroleum Civil Engineer professor. He has investigated many a tragedy in his career. Plaintiffs believe he painted a very strong picture of gross negligence today which, remember, would get the feds, states, and every day people the most money possible to recover from this catastrophe. This is a living disaster. Its ongoing. It will be potentially for decades. Major crash for fishery in the exxon valdez didnt happen until four years in. We know we need to be here for the long haul seeing what the overall impacts are. Bps lawyer accusing the engineer today of being spewn fed select spoon fed select evidence from the prosecution. We are here tomorrow, shep. Shepard we need big time quick. Flew that for frantic calls for help debris into the stand and hurt dozens of fans at daytona. Happened saturday during the nationwide series race. The number 32 car went airborne after 12 car pileup. Car parts including tire and suspension flew right into the crowd. Police have released some of the 911 audio from that crash. Two shepard all tolled at least 32 people got hurt, seven of them still recovering in hospitals. A new round of Nuclear Talks with iran kicked off today. U. S. Officials say the military option is still on the table. But there is word now that negotiators found one thing on which americans and iranians can agree. Wrestling. Well tell you whats going on here. And, beer drinkers are suing Anheuser Busch. The claim . Anheuser busch has watered down budweiser and others. This disaster, if true coming up as we approach the bottom of the hour and the top of the news. Shepard budweiser watering down the beer . Thats from folks suing the largest brewing company. Five states filed Class Action Lawsuit against anheuser boich. The company lies about the alcohol content posted on beer labels. The suit is ba