Transcripts For FOXNEWSW The Real Story With Gretchen Carlso

FOXNEWSW The Real Story With Gretchen Carlson August 15, 2014

To your batman today. You are more than that. We should get in our batmobile. First, breaking news to talk about. Fox news alert for you now because were following fast moving developments in ferguson, missouri, concerning the Police Shooting of that unarmed black teen. Ron johnson, the unseen commander, stepping to the microphones again earlier today along with other officials answering questions about a dramatic turn in the narrative of this case. So first police releasing the name of the officer involved in the shooting. And also releasing images of the victim, 18yearold Michael Brown, showing him, they say, in a strong armed Convenience Store robbery all moments before he was shot multiple times. Were also now getting reports that the officer involved left the area of ferguson days ago. Of course the incident sparking days of violent protest, looting, brief arrest of two reporters and comments from president obama but now as calm begins to take hold in this shattered st. Louis suburb, residents wonder if these comments will spark a new level of it violence. We thought we had it calmed down. This is going to make it very bad. Its not going to be good. Justice is what these people are mad about. How do we heal hearts . How do we solve the problem by saying anybody can say no. Mike tobin is live in ferguson, missouri, with the latest. The family a few moments ago responding to police saying Michael Brown robbed a Convenience Store. What is the family of Michael Brown saying about that . Reporter its an angry reaction. Let me get right to the first paragraph for you word for word. Michael browns family is beyond outraged at the devious way the police chief has chosen to disseminate the information in a manner intended to assassinate the character of their son following such a brutal assassination of his person in broad daylight. Paraphrasing. They say theres nothing based on fact that can justify execute style murder and prolonged release of the name and the information is the reason the community has distrust for the police and the attempt to blame the victim will not divert their attention. Now, to the Surveillance Video that was released. This all coming from the Police Incident report that was released today. According to police, it shows Michael Brown at a Convenience Store just a short time before the shooting going in and stealing a stack of cigars valued under 50 and roughing up the owner of the Convenience Store making his way out the door. Thats the motivation for why the Police Officer stopped Michael Brown. That sparked the scuffle between the officer and Michael Brown that ultimately according to police put them in the back of the Police Cruiser with a struggle to get the officers weapon and subsequent to that the shots were fired. Gretchen . So how are things in ferguson last night after so many nights of violence and mayhem and chaos . Reporter you know, the dynamic was less of an angry protest against the police, more of a block party. You had people out on the streets honking the horns and walking through the street. They were waving their signs. There was music and dancing and candles lit. There was pot and alcohol. What you didnt see was any police. You dont have the police, you cant have friction with the police. All very intentional from captain ron johnson who looks like he is handling this more like a campaign, less like a commander of a scene. All right. Mike tobin, thank you, live from the scene there. Well be back in touch with you as news warrants. So the turmoil in ferguson is sparking a surge in demand for guns. Two stores in the area say sales of guns and ammo soaring due to the fear of spreading violence. Since the shooting, one store selling five times more guns than usual. Another reports business is up 50 since the unrest began. A store owner says people are in fear of their lives. But tensions have been described in the last 12 to 24 hours as easing. That after governor jay nixon put missouri Highway Patrol in charge under captain mike johnson. An even keeled Law Enforcement veteran who is a resident from the ferguson area. Here he is from a News Conference earlier today. Last night was a great night. It was great night. There was no calls for service. We did not deploy tear gas. We did not have any road blocks. We did not make any arrests. It was a good night. People were talking. People were inspiring each other. People were getting their voices out. We were communicating a lot better. Lebron is here to react now. Radio show host in st. Louis. What do you make of everything thats happened today . Well, first, lets start with the last 12 hours. The national narrative, the local conversation is that everything was peaceful last night. We all want to believe captain johnson, that, yes, things were different. There was no tear gas. There was a litany of activity last night. There were three Police Officers three police cars, two to three broken into. A carjacking. Multiple assaults. A female was shot. There was a report of a knockout game and there were three Police Officers that were injured last night. More Police Officers were injured last night than the previous nights combined and there were no arrests because the police were told sources are telling me that police were told not to respond to these calls. So youre not going to arrest anybody if there are no police and the police are not responding to the phone calls. So what youre saying is that press conference we saw a few hours ago by captain johnson where he did in fact say there were no arrests, that theres a different meaning underneath that. Im saying there are no arrests because police were told not to arrest anybody. So, yes, there was no tear gas. The pictures look better. But the reality is there were more Police Officers injured last night than the four nights combined and so while were all on edge, were all worried, we all want to see peace break out, the black panthers were directing traffic last night quoted in the newspaper today because there were no police to direct traffic so the black panthers were directing traffic last night. All right. So in light of that, what do you make of what the police did do today in being, i guess, somewhat proactive after six days of not coming out and releasing the name of the Police Officer involved. They did that. They release a videotape, first images of Michael Brown roughing up this Convenience Store clerk moments before he is shot. What do you make of that . There is a jurisdictional fight going on right now. This first News Conference from earlier this morning that was held outside of the burned out quick trip was from captain johnson who is the Ferguson Police chief. Ron johnson, the states Highway Patrolman was not there and didnt even know that News Conference was going on and watched it on the news like the rest of us. In that News Conference, they announced the name of the Police Officer and then dropped the bombshell that Michael Brown is a suspect in this Convenience Store robbery. Then subsequently, two or three hours later, the governor called a News Conference saying everything is great. Everything is fine. You are watching a jurisdictional fight that the state police and the local police arent talking and theyre not communicating, which is making things worse. But why would the police wait six days . If they knew that Michael Brown was involved in some sort of a robbe robbery, why wait six days to release that information . I think, gretchen, that the st. Louis county police have the first night were trying to gather information. That sunday night there were riots and looting and there were fires so they were a little taken aback on their heels. And i think they wanted to make sure they had the correct information. You want to make sure you have the correct information before you release it. They never wanted to release this information. Only after the community demanded and quite frankly the governor shamed them to say how dare you people not release this information only then did the local police say, fine, you want the information. Heres what it is. Stick around, if you will. I want to come back to you a little bit later on as this news continues to break throughout the hour. Thank you. In the meantime, we have to tell you about ebola because theres bad news about the outbreak this summer. It turns out its much worse than anyone initially believed. So far the deadliest on record. Now Global Health Officials Say the death toll and number of people actually sick vastly underestimate its scale. So here are the numbers. Nearly 2,000 people infected in west africa. More than half of those people have died. And over just two days an increase of 127 cases and 56 deaths. Some good news for an american doctor flown home for treatment. In a statement moments ago, dr. Kent brantly says im more grateful every day to the lord for sparing my life and continuing to heal my body. There are still a few hurdles to clear before i can be discharged but i hold onto the hope of a sweet reunion with my wife, children and family in the fear future. 60 of those surveyed are concerned that the disease will make its way here. Record breaking rainfall across the country this week. New york got hit hard but yesterday was colorados turn. Heavy rains flooded streets, parking lots and baseball fields north of denver. More than an inch of rain reported in a few hours and there might be more this weekend. Thats all right. The weekend not shaping up that bad for almost everybody. Temperatures are crazy. 66 degrees in cleveland. This should be the dog days of summer and its not happening except across parts of the deep south. Thats where the high temperatures are for much of the weekend. The rain picture stays exactly how its been the last couple days. Well see showers across parts of florida and much of the east coast. Spectacular. This is our real problem area. A series of systems drop into the Central Plains and bring that chance of scattered showers and maybe a few thunderstorms but more importantly some flooding because the ground is saturated from the rain that weve been seeing. Also pacific northwest, temperatures cooler. A little bit of rain. That helps us with those fires that are going on there as well. Back to you. Thanks so much. How much freedom should folks have on social media . Should all comments be allowed, the good, the bad and the ugly. Zelda williams, daughter of the late Robin Williams, says she had enough. She quit social media after vicious comments about her fathers death. So should twitter change the way you use it . Well debate that. Another blunder by the irs. Private information, maybe yours or mine, exposed to someone who may not be authorized so now are our identities at risk . A single mother of five has her minivan stolen but manages to have the thief return her car by texting him. I was looking him. I said you just stole a single mother of five only vehicle to work. Youre ruining my life here. A woman walks out of a Shopping Center in missouri and her car is gone. Stolen. Does megan call the cops . No. A friendly bystander at this kmart lent her his phone and she sent a text message to the phone still in the van. In the text he said its in a driveway at a house for sale. He had a change of hard and did the right thing. Im glad to have it back. I wouldnt even press charges right now if they caught him. In one final text the thief said he felt bad but his kids needed a meal too and it had been a while since he had a job. Amazing story. More bad news and a black eye for the Government Agency everyone loves to hate, yep, the irs. This time the tax agency apparently failed to conduct background checks on private contractors who then once hired had access to a bunch of confidential taxpayer information on people like you and me. The blunder exposing more than 1 million americans to a greater risk of fraud or even identity theft. We have a writer for Washington Free beacon as my guest today. Heres the question. How can this happen . We all know that the irs if we did Something Like this, you or me, we would be busted in three seconds, right . Right. Thats always sort of the feeling people have whenever we hear about the story coming out of the irs. They think about how theyre treated and expectation they have as a taxpayer and feel maybe the irs isnt holding themselves up to the same standard and what it seems like and how this happened in some instances they say it was just a case of someone not realizing that a background check should have been performed for this type of person. There was a mail service they were using. Those people were transporting documents that had some Sensitive Information and they said in that case you should have done a background check and you didnt. There were some cases where there were people in the past who had a contract with the irs but they neededed to have that background check done again because they were working on a new project and they hadnt revalidated it and some instances where they werent checking them at all. What this report looked at is 34 different contracts from may of 2013 and found in five of those, you had five, no background checks were performed. In 12 they did background checks but let the contractors begin working before they got back the results of those background checks and in 20 contracts workers were supposed to be working with Sensitive Information didnt sign a nondisclosure agreement who say they wouldnt do anything with that Sensitive Information afterwards. There were a few different problems here where it seems like they were negligent and not following their own policy thats outlined which says they should be doing background checks for these types of contracts. The bottom line here is that about 1. 5 Million People may have had their personal private information compromised. The big question is whether or not the irs rings you up and says, hey, youre one of the 1. 5 Million People that may have Identity Fraud coming down the loop. Did they do that . I asked the irs about that right before i did this show. When i was looking through the report, i couldnt really tell for sure whether or not they had. It was more of a risk assessment. This is the statement the irs gave me in part. They said there are no findings in this report that conclude that any data was used inappropriately in these instances cited. Keep in mind the irs only provides contractors access to the necessary data needed to complete if the contracted work and ensures that data is recovered or destroyed when the work is complete. Im not entirely sure that answers either of our questions in terms of did they call people. It seems like they are saying, no, we didnt, but were careful so its not anything that needs to be worried about. They did tell me they have gone back and theyre working on enhancing their Program Guidelines and making sure that these security checks are done appropriately and that they started doing that a year ago. Im not sure if they called everyone individually. Ill leave it up to our viewers to believe that one way or another. Have a good weekend. Theres been a lot of real talk about social media after. He on twitter went after Robin Williams daughter after his death. Her way of handling it . She signed off for good. Whats the responsibility of social media . Is it an open ground for all kinds of comments or should it be curtailed . Our man panel will weigh in on this and flag of isis terror group flying here on american soil. The shocking details. Shocking new numbers on how Many Americans actually get paid vacation and fascinating numbers about for those that do get it, how many actually take it. That brings us to our facebook question of the day. Do you take all of your Vacation Days . If no, why not . Tweet me Gretchen Carlson and use hash tag the real story. Well read your comments coming up at the end of the show. Welcome back to the real story for a friday. Twitter deciding to crackdown on internet jerks. Twitter saying we have suspended a number of accounts related to this issue for violating our rules and we are in the process of evaluating how we can further improve policies to better handle tragic situations like this one. Meantime, zelda taking matters into her own hands saying shes signing off social media after bullies posted malicious photos and messages following her fathers death. She also says mining our accounts for photos of dad or judging me on the number of them is cruel and unnecessary. I shared him with the world where everyone took a photo with him but i was lucky enough to spend time with him without cameras too. How do you handle trolls and jerks on social media. We have a cpa and we have cohost of red eye and cohost of independence. Does twitter do . Im subject to a lot of a

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