Im alex witt and Louis Burgdorf joins us. One of the biggest names in cable news is out. The rise of fox news had as much to do with bill oreilly as it did roger ailes but now both men are going in whats been a tumultuous 12 months for the network. We have more on why he would abdicate the throne he worked so hard to build. Caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. Reporter the no spin zone is no more. Bill oreilly, the kroefrsal face of fox news for 21 years, was fired bit network he helped put on the map. Following in the footsteps of his former boss and mentor, roger ailes, who was also pushed out after an investigation of Sexual Harassment claims. Oreilly was at the vatican for what he says was a longplanned holiday with his family. Even a handshake with pope francis didnt save him. 21st century fox issuing the following statement. After a thorough and careful review of the allegations, the company and bill oreilly have agreed that bill oreilly will not be returning to the fox news channel. Gabriel sherman has reported about fox news for the past several years. Without question this is a near era. Bill oreilly was the fixture of the network, the public face of the network. Reporter the path to oreillys oust began two weeks ago with a New York Times investigation revealing five women, including gusts and employees of his show, had been paid 13 million in settlements involving Sexual Harassment claims against him over the years. Fox hired an outside law firm to investigate. Reaction was swift. Over 50 of the networks advertisers fled the show. Fox news headquarters were picketed and leaflets like these. Handed out. But the decision was complicated. Thanks for watching. His audience is incredibly loyal. During the Sexual Harassment scandal his ratings have gone up. Reporter staff were stunned to hearing of his firing as the Network Bosses seemed to praise him as they pushed him out the door. Bill oreilly is one of the most accomplished tv personalities in the history of cable news. In fact, his success by any measure is indisputable. Theres a generational split at fox news. Sources say the younger generations want to move fox news into a more modern era where these kind of allegations are not tolerated. That was Cynthia Mcfadden reporting there. Ailes and oreilly denied the claims. Oeryly issued a statement in part saying, its tremendously disheartening that we part ways due to completely unfounded claims. But thats the unfortunate reality many of us in the public eye must live with today. Now to the latest on where an Aircraft Carrier was really going. The Trump Administration denies that it spoke too quickly when it claimed more than a week ago that the uss carl vinson was headed toward the Korean Peninsula when it was actually going in the opposite direction. Last tuesday sean spicer said the strike group was, quote, steaming into the area as a show of deterrence while secretary mattis said it was prudent to have the ship in the region, quote, at this time. Heres what they said yesterday. The statement that was put out was that the Carl Vinson Group was headed to the Korean Peninsula and is headed to the Korean Peninsula and there arrive its headed there now. It but thats not what we ever said. We said it was headed there and it was heading there. Were doing we said we were going to change the vinsons upcoming schedule. The vinson as i said on the record was operating up and count western pacific and we were doing exactly what we said. That is, we are shifting her instead of continuing in one direction as she pulled out of singapore, shes going to continue part of her cruise down in that region, but she was on her way up to korea. We dont generally give out ship schedules in advance, but i didnt want to play a game either and say we were not changing a schedule when, in fact, we had. The New York Times reports that south koreans, quote, feel cheated after u. S. Carrier miscue. The wall street journal with the headline, duped by trump. One candidate for south korean president , a member of the Ruling Party Told the journal if the warship clachls a lie then, quote, during trumps term south korea will not trust whatever trump said. The New York Times reports Trump Campaign advisers trip to moscow is what kicked off the investigation into as between the kremlin and the campaign. Investigators had known since 2013 a russian spy was trying to recruit carter page but it was a kremlin speech at the height of the campaign that caught their attention, said the paper. Reuters reports that in june of 2016, amos cowbased think tank controlled by Vladimir Putin produced a framework for swinging the president ial election to donald trump. The report cites seven none mouse and current officials pointing to the Russian Institute for strategic studies reportedly run by retired senior russian officials from putins office. According to reuters, a june strategy paper recommended the kremlin launch a Propaganda Campaign on social media on statebacked news outlets to encourage u. S. Voters to elect a president who would take a softer line toward russia than the Obama Administration. Then in october, a Second Institute document warned Hillary Clinton was likely to win and argued it was better to end protrump propaganda to instead intensify its messaging about voter fraud to undermine the election systems legitimacy and reputation. The document circulated at the top of the russian government though they make no mention of hacked emails which Officials Say was a separate covert operation. Putin has denied interfering in the u. S. Election. The u. S. Military revealed for the second time in as many days two russian bombers flew close to the coast of alaska. The longrange bombers identified by norad were 36 miles off the coast in the area known as alaska identification zone. They stayed in International Air space. Unlike mondays encounter, no u. S. Aircraft were launcheded to meet them. Exxonmobil applied to the Treasury Department for a waiver from u. S. Sanctions on russia. It would allow the company to resume an oil venture begun by former ceo and now secretary of state Rex Tillerson back in 2012. Senator john mccain responded on twitter by asking, are they crazy . Secretary of state is reviewing comprehensive review on iran. Rex tillerson made that announcement yesterday. He admitted the country is in compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal struck with the Obama Administration, but also said iran is still a threat to the u. S. And the rest of the world. And declaring the nuclear deal a failure. An unchecked iran has the potential to travel the same path as north korea. And take the world along with it. The United States is keen to avoid a second piece of evidence that strategic patience is a failed approach. This deal represents the same failed approach of the past that brought us to the current imminent threat we face from north korea. The Trump Administration has no intention of passing the buck to a future administration on iran. The evidence is clear, irans provocative actions threaten United States, the region and the world. Earlier this week tillerson notified congress that despite iran meeting the terms of this nuclear deal, President Trump is weighing weather to break that agreement. During his briefing he added iran remains a leading state sponsor of terrorism supporting fighters in syria, iraq, lebanon, yemen and israel. Foreign correspondent keir simmons has more on secretary tillersons comments. Keir, good morning to you. Good morning. Secretary of state tillerson arguing iran continues to provoke around the world and saying that that country projects the possibility of following the same path as north korea. It raises questions about the iran u. S. Deal over nuclear weapons. At the same time, in iran, those tough words from the secretary of state will be seen as fighting talk. It will strengthen the hand of the extremists in iran and weaken the moderates, including president rouhani there, who was elected on the basis that he would bring about change in iran. Now, the question is, how will iran react . So far, no comment from that country to the secretary of states words. They will just be waking up now. But you can expect that they will have some tough response. Richard . Keir, thanks for that. One of the biggest names in chicago wont be joining the Trump Administration. Part owner of the cubs, todd ricket ricketts, is withdrawing his name as deputy commerce secretary after four months spent trying to work through his nomination. At issue, complications from trying to divest his complex financial portfolio. The wall street journal reports ricketts made it through vetting and then submitted an ethics questionnaire to the senate committee. The paper sourced a person familiar with the conversations who said, quote, mr. Ricketts had been prepared to divest his own financial portfolio but told by the government of ethics his entire family would have to divest. Ricketts father founded td america trade sxfs a top trump donor. Department of Homeland Security reverses the status of a young man deported to mexico. White House Press Secretary sean spicer offered a helping hand from an unlikely source. We have that and a check on weather when we come back. Dry mouth can affect how your mouth feels and how you feel. Discover act dry mouth, specially formulated to soothe and moisturize your mouth. And try new act dry mouth spray for relief when you need it. Welcome back. The department of Homeland Security acknowledges a young man deported by Trump Administration had valid u. S. Status. 23yearold juan cortez was the first d. R. E. A. M. Er to be deported. His protective status had expired in 2015. Yesterday they reversed saying his status was valid until 2018. In an interview at fox news, attorney general Jeff Sessions defended the administrations deportation policies but a lawyer for montez fought back. Daca is not being targeted. I dont know why this individual was picked up. Everybody in the country illegally is subject to being deported. People come here and stay here a few years. Somehow they think theyre not subject to being deported. Well, they are. It is confusing and we need answers. Thats the attorney general, the top lawyer for the country giving contradictory remarks. Similarly the president has said he has love in his heart for Daca Recipients but those statements are a cold comfort to manuel and his mom who are now separated. That situation is evolving right now. Theres a lot of things that are being looked at in terms of the circumstances around that and i would ask you to stay in contact with the department of Homeland Security. I dont to want comment right now in the sense there are some circumstances regarding that i think that need to come out or be further looked into. I think getting ahead of that could be an issue. Montez is suing u. S. Customs and Border Protection for information about this case. According to usa today, u. S. District judge curiel will overlook at this case, who oversaw an earlier case news lets get a check on your weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. I guess Severe Weather in the Great Lakes Region but warm south. Warmth is fueling those storms. We had them yesterday. I really thought we were going to get some huge hail stones yesterday in areas of iowa. We got a lot of rain and wind and smaller hail. About twoinch hail was the biggest in diameter that was reported and that was mostly in the Late Afternoon into the early evening hours. Here are some pictures of some of those storms as they rolled through the region yesterday. You can see a little hail mixed in there. Some of that was marble sized there. There were three tornadoes reported. We had minor damages on a couple farms but that was about it. Again, we avoided any destruction yesterday. Thats good. We have to do it again today. Same storm. Yesterday iowa, kansas. Today heading into the great lakes. Theres also showery weather out there if youre leaving soon in areas of southern new england, long island, new york city, grab the umbrella. Also philadelphia and even d. C. , these showers will roll through as we go through the next two hours and then well get a good break through the rest of the day. Heres the heavy stuff, green bay was woke up in the middle of the night with pretty good thunderstorms. They roll across lake michigan. Now through all of the northern half of michigan. Even detroit will see a brief storm or two earlier today and then more this afternoon. Areas of kansas city have seen storms to your south. For today our Severe Weather threat is really the bulls eye in the ohio valley and then this little spot, oklahoma and north of texas. North texas oklahoma, this will be large hail late tonight. The area of greatest concern is up around ft. Wayne, toledo, detroit, cleveland and down into indianapolis. This is where we could see wind damage with the storms, large hail and maybe even a tornado or to. Its one of those high alert days if you live in any of these regions. Then these storms will head towards buff sxloe pittsburgh later. Heres how the big map looks. Louis mentioned the warmth. 82 today, d. C. Then storms possibly late today. 84 in atlanta. 85 in dallas. Where were cooler is behind this storm system in the northern plains. What will happen is this storm will stall, the tail end near oklahoma. We have a flood threat here. Oklahoma, areas of arkansas and missouri. A lot of active weather over the next couple of days. If we get any flooding it would missouri, ozarks. 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Westbrooks 51 isnt enough to top the rockets who return from a doubledigit deficit in the Fourth Quarter to beat okc 115111 and take a two game series lead. Unbelievable. In the Nations Capital the hawks are also winless in their eastern Conference Series against the wizards after game two. Washingtons bradley beal and john wall take over at the end of the fourth quart other a way to 109101 victory. Stanley cup hockey with many teams on the brink of elimination a west coast squad is already moving