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world s attention today was focused on a horrific tragedy in brazil, the death toll tonight at least 230 after a fast-moving fire broke out in a crowded nightclub. officials say too many people and too few exits turned the club into a death trap after a rock band s pyrotechnics apparently ignited the ceiling. many patrons were left unable to get out, overwhelmed by the smoke, and in some cases, the flames themselves much the circumstances are eerily similar to some other deadly nightclub fires the past several years, including one in this country. today s tragedy happened in the southern brazilen university town of santa maria. nbc s mike taibbi reports. reporter: the kiss nightclub was packed with the usual saturday night crowd when at 2:00 in the morning, a disaster. the ground floor was filled with smoke. club security initially blocked several emergency exits, thinking patrons were leaving without paying and that left only a few ways out. in the ensuing panic, many victi ....
officers after attacking a california woman outside a pizza parlor. the monkey will be kept in quarantine for six months to make sure it doesn t have rabies. no word on why a mon key was hanging out at a pizza parlor. thank you for joining us. fox & friends starts now. hello everyone. good morning. today is wednesday, the 6th of august, 2014. i m anna kooiman in for elisabeth hasselbeck. a fox news alert. a wife and mother missing for two weeks found dead. this morning the latest details from the investigation. meanwhile, remember when our president declared the war in afghanistan over? the bottom line is it s time to turn the page after a decade in which so much of our foreign policy was focused on the wars in afghanistan and iraq. really? now it looks like the terrorists heard him loud and clearly and attacked the victim, a u.s. army general. what this says about president obama s foreign policy. straight ahead. in a few hours a man accused of deserting the mil ....
not be a group hug starts in just seconds. check it out. log on. we would love to hear from you. ask this is a fox news alert. a senior white house official confirming president obama is considering sending ground troops to iraq. deputy national security advisor ben rhodes saying president obama could decide in just days whether to send in ground troops to rescue thousands of religious refugees who are trapped on a mountaintop. and fox news also confirming a team of american special ops landing on mount and spending 24 hours there to assess the best way to evacuated refugees. landed in mount sinjar iraq time. greg with the very latest. greg? greta, yeah, a lot of action in this part of the world. those extra troops that have come here to northern iraq are based in this city not too far from where we are and we believe those special force operators that spent that time, you were talking with on mount sinjar to the left of this location this space as well. a lot of actio ....
world news is diane sawyer is next. welcome to world news. tonight on fire inside the neighborhood set ablaze after the military jet crash. the families describing the horror after several homes go up in flames. the manhunt underway at this hour. families barricading themselves inside as they take pictures of the gunman firing outside their window. authorities say he s heavily armed. our correspondent on the scene. no apologies. what president obama said today about that soldier saved from the taliban and that tape, what the pictures reveal from the tapping of his arm to what he s wearing and what it says about the soldier and his captors. come on down. remember the price is right contestant getting workers comp even though she could spin the wheel? tonight who did authorities find behind that hamster out on disability and collecting your money? good evening on this thursday night. diane on assignment. we begin with the terror playing out in two separate neighbo ....
birthday party. that s it for today. we ll see you next week on fox news sunday. for this urgent. on a very busy day and night for news, i m harris faulkner, an american journalist has been freed in syria after being held for two years. she s now to be safe. let s first go to california. serious injuries, widespread damage across california s napa valley in the wake of a powerful earthquake. at this hour, parts of the historic wine country are under a state of emergency. some people were able to see this by camera. it awakened them. they were on the move. 6.0 quake striking early this morning with devastating force. six miles from the picturesque town of napa. this is the strongest earthquake to rock that part of california in 25 years. at least 120 people now reported hurt, some critically. structural and fire damage is massive in that area. at least 15 buildings now tagged inhabitable. in and around the city of napa, roadways are cracked. thousands of homes without ele ....