tonight, several developing stories as we come on the air. the storm slamming the northeast now, blinding rain and wind. deadly in michigan, after whiteout conditions and a record blizzard paralyzes travel. and tonight, millions now under flood and wind alerts from philadelphia to new york city to boston. the major news tonight from general motors, cutting jobs in ohio, michigan, maryland. thousands of workers, and at least three gm cars will no longer be made. president trump tonight on the tear gas used at the border. what he now says about using it. the deadly police shooting and growing outrage. the young black man killed by officers. police mistaking him for the gunman. the real suspect tonight still on the loose. the bombshell report on climate change, from 13 u.s. agencies put out the day after thanksgiving. its warning about farming in the midwest, future floods and fires in the u.s., and tonight, the president is asked, does he believe it? cyber monday still under way as we come on. the big deals still to come. the list of what we found tonight. oprah s loss. her mother passing away on thanksgiving, and what oprah said late today about her mom. and touchdown on mars. the anxious scientists at nasa, and then the cheers. and tonight, the first image coming in now from mars. and you ll see it right here. good evening. and it is great to be back with you after the thanksgiving holiday. but it s turned into a real travel nightmare for millions, trying to get home. the same system now slamming the northeast tonight, and it s been deadly. first, the major blizzard across the plains and the great lakes. a bus spinning out, that s i-35 there in osceola, iowa. traffic at a standstill in near whiteout conditions. hundreds of flights canceled again tonight out of chicago s o hare airport. the ripple effect across the country. and right now, more than 30 million americans are now under flooding and wind alerts. cars under water. that s downtown philadelphia. flood and wind worries as far north as boston tonight. this is the storm, as it blasted its way across the country. there are major delays at all of the new york area airports tonight. and abc s gio benitez leads us off from laguardia. reporter: tonight, that powerful storm stranding holiday travelers on frozen roads and at packed airports, now drenching the busy i-95 corridor from philadelphia to new jersey to new york city. you re talking about rainfall rates over an inch an hour here. reporter: blizzard conditions grinding travel to a halt across the midwest on the busiest travel day of the year. at chicago s o hare airport, more than 2,000 flights canceled since sunday. our alex perez found danny koutlemanis still trying to get home to colorado this morning. i ve been bumped twice. i can t even rent a car. we are literally driving and cannot see anything. reporter: blizzard conditions closing most of interstate 70 in kansas. some drivers abandoning their cars. drivers stuck on route 75 in nebraska, too, and on interstate 80, high winds ripping the top off this 18-wheeler. there was record snow in rockford, illinois, where multiple vehicles, including a snow plow, caught fire. and in new york city, a driver plowing into pedestrians. it s unclear if the slick roads contributed to the accident. what a mess tonight. gio benitez joins us live from laguardia. and gio, the delays and cancellations are starting to pile up? reporter: they really are, david. taking a look at the boards right here, we are seeing so many flights either canceled or delayed. we re looking right now across this country at more than 5,000 delays, 1,500 cancellations. david? gio benitez leads us off tonight. this system is still hitting now, so, let s get the track of it tonight. meteorologist rob marciano live along the west side highway tonight. hey, rob. reporter: hi, david. this has been a powerfully stacked storm, from top to bottom in the atmosphere. now we have a secondary low kicking in along the coastline. check it out on the satellite picture. shows you how expansive this system is. now we have flood alerts that range from maryland and new jersey, along the new england coastline where winds could easily gust over 50 miles an hour tonight. there s a lot of rain on the warm side of this. eastern massachusetts seeing its wettest fall on record. more rain coming tonight. that should clear by 7:00 a.m. but notice in albany, it turns to snow. north of i-90, significant snowfall. and then lake effect snow behind this. a lot of cold air. another epic november storm, david. and winter hasn t even started yet. unfortunate reminder. rob marciano, our thanks to you, as well. we move on to other news this monday night, and the news today couldn t have come at a worse time. just weeks now until christmas, and general motors has now revealed it will lay off workers in ohio, michigan and maryland. thousands of jobs. and at least three vehicles will no longer be made. abc s eva pilgrim is in detroit tonight. reporter: tonight, major cuts at car giant gm. nearly 15,000 jobs eliminated, a whopping 15% of the company s work force. in all, five plants slated to shut down by the end of next year, including those in warren, michigan, white marsh, maryland, warren, ohio and detroit. we re going to come back hard and we re going to try to convince them that a modern plant in an area where you can get a good workforce is an asset. reporter: gm citing a shift to focus more on automation and high suv sales. the company announcing they re eliminating the low-selling chevrolet cruze, volt and impala cars from their roster. today, the president not hiding his frustration with ceo mary barra. i expressed the fact that i am not happy with what she did. that car is not selling, it s the cruze, chevy cruze, it s not selling. but hopefully she s going to come back and she s going to put something. but i told her, i m not happy about it at all. reporter: the president also asked if increased tariffs due to a trade war are to blame. no, not tariffs. that has nothing to do with tariffs. she said the car was not selling. reporter: gm acknowledges the tariffs aren t to blame for the cuts, but in june issued a stark warning that, quote, increased import tariffs could lead to a smaller gm. and tonight, say the trade policy has cost them $1.4 billion. so, let s get to eva, live in detroit tonight. and eva, while nearly 15,000 jobs are being cut, as you reported there, some of those workers will be given the chance to try to relocate to other plants? reporter: that s right, david. gm says it plans to expand operations in those well-performing areas. about 3,000 of those workers will be up for those new positions. david? eva pilgrim with us tonight. thank you, eva. the images of the tear gas used at the u.s./mexico border seen across the country and the world. thousands of migrants from that caravan have now arrived in tijuana. some of them breaking through mexican security, u.s. border patrol then firing tear gas at them. this mother and her children among those caught in the chaos. tonight, president trump was asked about the tear gas, and here s abc s chief national correspondent matt gutman from tijuana. reporter: tonight, more than 100 migrants deported after those violent clashes in the border town of tijuana. a peaceful protest turning chaotic when hundreds of central american migrants first clashed with mexican police. then, rushed the border fence. they were met by a wall of tear gas unleashed by heavily-armed u.s. agents behind those coils of wire. some of those migrants throwing the canisters right back. thick smoke sending mothers with children in diapers into a panic. today, the president denied that agents used tear gas against children. are you comfortable tear gassing children like what we saw at the border? they re not, as you know, they re not. they had to use, because they were being rushed by some very tough people. reporter: we met 16-year-old henry, covered in those bandages. and one of the things that he says is that he s not going to stop, he wants to still get into the united states, and he s not going to quit now, just because he was wounded. the clashes forced authorities to close this port of entry, one of the busiest on the planet, for nearly seven hours. thousands of people, most there legally, stranded at the border. all right, matt gutman with us live tonight from tijuana. and matt, the department of defense just announcing they re moving more troops to california, to the border there, to offer support? reporter: that s right. 300 additional troops to california, bringing the total there to 1,800. now, there is a concern of a prolonged standoff here, the migrant caravan is expected to swell to over 9,000, and it could take months, david, just to process all those asylum requests. all right, matt gutman, thank you. we re going to turn next tonight to the growing outrage. a young black man was shot and killed. police apparently confused him with the suspect. that suspect is still at large tonight. and here s abc s steve osunsami. reporter: e.j. bradford s family tonight says that he was that so-called good guy with a gun at a shooting inside this alabama mall on thanksgiving day. but because he s black, they say he was shot and killed by responding police. this is a picture of the 21-year-old in uniform. he briefly served in the army. and the officer that shot him, you didn t give my child no warning, basically. you just up and shoot, assuming because you see a gun. reporter: alabama police tonight say they re sympathetic to mr. bradford s grieving family, but stopped short of saying they re sorry. everybody out now! reporter: they admit that the real gunman, who shot two people and sent shoppers scrambling, is still at large. bradford s family believes he was trying to help save lives and say his gun was legal. it feels like someone has ripped my heart out. reporter: late this evening, the mayor came out and called for patience. the family of the victim is asking for police to release all of their body camera videos. there is a protest scheduled here tonight. david? steve osunsami. thank you, steve. there is still a major senate race to be decided, now three weeks after the midterms. voters in mississippi will head to the polls tomorrow. and tonight, the president is there, putting his support behind republican cindy hyde-smith, who has been under fire. and tonight, more of that video now surfacing during which he says if she was invited to a public hanging, quote, i would be in the front row. abc s chief national affairs correspondent tom llamas is there tonight. reporter: nooses found hanging today outside the mississippi state capitol, along with these signs. one reading, we re hanging nooses to remind people that times haven t changed. it comes as the republican candidate here, senator cindy hyde-smith, is facing criticism for appearing to embrace the state s racist past. she s seen in this facebook photo from 2014 posing in a confederate cap. her caption? mississippi history at its best. and earlier this month, joking with a supporter about public hangings. if he invited me to a public hanging, i d be on the front row. reporter: the president, campaigning with hyde-smith today, addressed her comments on his way to mississippi. she felt very badly. she certainly didn t mean that. reporter: initially, hyde-smith dismissing backlash as ridiculous. i put out a statement yesterday and that s all i m going to say about it. we stand by the statement. reporter: later, apologizing in a debate against her opponent mike espy, the democrat vying to become the state s first black senator since reconstruction. for anyone that was offended by my comments, i certainly apologize. i don t know what s in your heart, but we all know what came out of your mouth. reporter: david, many of the voters i spoke to the rally here say that senator hyde-smith has made mistakes, but her words and actions have been taken out of context. they say the democrat in this race, mike espy, has always made mistakes when it comes to his lobbying. but bottom line, they say if the president is with senator hyde-smith, then so are they. david? and we ll be watching the race tonight. tom llamas reporting in from mississippi. there was a bombshell report on climate change from 13 u.s. agencies put out the day after thanksgiving, when millions of americans were still marking the holiday. but in that report, it warns about farming in the midwest and future floods and fires in the u.s. and tonight, our jon karl asking the president, does he believe it? reporter: president trump today dismissed the report written by scientists from 13 federal agencies and released by his administration the day after thanksgiving. it s a report that warns climate change is already taking a toll. record wildfires in california, stronger hurricanes, crop failures in the midwest. the report bluntly warns of more to come, including threats to air quality and the transmission of disease , and says if steps aren t taken to limit the release of carbon into the atmosphere, the economic consequences will be devastating. a 10% loss to the economy, worse than the great recession. today, we asked the president about it. mr. president, have you read the climate report yet? i ve seen it, i ve read some of it and it s fine. reporter: they say economic impact could be devastating. i don t believe it. reporter: you don t believe it? no, no, i don t believe it. right now, we re at the cleanest we ve ever been. and that s very important to me. but if we re clean, but every other place on earth is dirty, that s not so good. jonathan karl live at the white house tonight. jon, you know many are questioning the timing of the release of this report, the day after thanksgiving. was it meant to bury it? reporter: sure it looked that reporter: it sure looked that way, releasing the report right in the middle of black friday. but if that was the intent, david, it looks like it backfired. because it was released on such a slow news day, the report dominated news coverage throughout the holiday weekend. david? jon karl, thank you. to the mueller inves investigation, and to former campaign adviser george papoos. he s spending his first night in jail. he surrendered at the federal prison in oxford, wisconsin, this morning to serve a 14-day sentence after pleading guilty to lying about his contact with russians during the campaign. and tonight, another subject of the special counsel investigation says he s now rejected a plea deal. jerome corsi, a conservative writer and associate of former trump campaign adviser roger stone, says prosecutors wanted him to plead guilty to lying to fbi agents when he was questioned about communications related to wikileaks julian assange in 2016. of course, he says he did briefly forget about an e-mail exchange with roger stone, but says he did not intentionally lie, and to confess to that, he says, would be the crime. he spoke to our pierre thomas just a short time ago. if i have to go to jail for the rest of my life, i will not tell a lie to a federal judge or anybody else. they want to send me to prison the rest of my life, so be it, have at it. but they will not get me to commit a crime. corsi telling pierre he fears law enforcement could arrest him as soon as tonight. and there is yet another breaking headline involving the mueller investigation, and this one involves paul manafort. let s go to pierre thomas. reporter: david, a significant development in the special counsel s russia investigation. the government is claiming that paul manafort is in breach of his plea deal. the special counsel s motion with the court claiming that manafort committed federal crimes by lying to the fbi and the special counsel s office on a variety of subject matters. the government claims his plea remains in tact, but they will no longer recommend a reduction in sentence. mana farther s attorney says he met with the government on numerous occasions and believes he provided truthful information. david? pierre, thank you. we turn next here this evening to touchdown on mars. there were anxious moments at nasa s jet propulsion lab today, we were watching along with them, as a spacecraft made its final approach to mars. abc s clayton sandell is in pasadena. touchdown confirmed! reporter: tonight, a touchdown worthy of an interplanetary super bowl. that s great. they got it. reporter: moments later, this image from nasa s insight mission, proving it stuck the first mars landing in six years. insight survived the seven minutes of terror, an autopilot plunge from space to ground, 12,000 miles per hour to full stop. and every step, flawless. you made it through that seven minutes of terror. yeah, i still have a few fingernails left, but they re mostly gone. reporter: mars is tough on spacecraft. more than half that try to get there fail. but now insight begins a two-year mission, for the first time, peering inside the red planet. and they ll do that using these sensors, david, that the team hopes will unlock some ancient mysteries about our solar system. david? 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some of the earthquakes they had eight months ago. once that comes in and we ll be able to go through and look a bit better if we have anymore in the way of information. just to give you a quick glance here around the world anything from a 6.6 to 6.9 we ve seen them all year. that is not many earthquakes. tom, stay with us. we re going to continue our coverage. that is it for me. i m going to hand this over to brook baldwin to continue our coverage of this earthquake that s a 6.4 in california. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. here we go on this independence day. we continue with this breaking news out of southern california. thank you for being with me. i m brooke baldwin. talking about this major earthquake. preliminary reports indicate it was a 6.4 magnitude quake. and just for perspective for all of us, those deadly quakes back in 1989 and 1994 they were 6.9 and 6.7 respectively. i you ve been talking to briana, but you felt the building shake? not only that, when you looked out from where we are located this is about a 15-floor building. the entire building you could feel it moving and you could feel some of the moving in here as well. and you look down at the street and you could see some signposts going, the signposts sort of moving. that is from our camera above us, on top of this building. you see that jiggling a little bit there but sometimes that s just wind. but we certainly felt it and we felt it for several seconds. it wasn t just a quick move and then it went away. it went on, that s how we knew this was definitely a moderately large earthquake. we are now hearing 6.4 downgraded from a 6.6. we have just talk today the renowned seismologist lucy jones which a lot of people know. she has books out. she s been talking about earthquakes for many, many decades and people really trust and know her. she said just before this happened in ridge crest which is about 156 miles from los angeles, there was a 4.2 just a half-hour before, so they ve got a jolt, and then they got the larger one at 6.4. and the area in the 1980s had a lot of, you know, 4.5 or 5 magnitude earthquakes. so this is an area that is familiar as is much of california with earthquakes. but this is moderately large earthquake and can do damage. and we were able to have a conversation with a hotelier that is in the ridge crest area. that hotel says, yes, we felt the floors sort of ripple and there is damage at least at this one hotel. and if there is damage there there is likely damage elsewhere in the ridge crest area. that area has about 27,000 people so it s a fairly small town for california. but certainly all over. we are hearing reports from all over the place. fresno said they felt something. twitter is going crazy with people talking about what s happening. which is pretty normal here. whenever we be an event like this even if it s small people are saying did you feel it, if there s problem, if there s damage, here s a number to call. but all the way in las vegas and they felt it. santa barbara felt it, pasadena felt it. this was large enough for people across california and even into the next state to feel this. it gives you some idea of just the strength of this and what it can do. now we need to find out what is happening at the epicenter. we will sure get some pictures in here shortly. that is a picture thereof los angeles just a few moments ago. and you see that camera on the top of our building shaking and it did go on for some time. the longer they go on, the more damage there can be. a lot of people trying to figure out what is happening there in ridge crest, and we will certainly get those pictures in soon, brooke. keep working the phones. i m sure lots of folks are being called assessing damage there. standby, thank you very much. we want to go into some more affiliate coverage there live in los angeles. let s dip in. i didn t do that. i just maintained my coolness and to get everything into perspective since i was just waking up. reporter: and we were speaking earlier. you also experienced the north ridge quake. how does this one compare to that and have you learned anything from that one? i can t say it was as bad as that one, but it was right next door to it. it was pretty bad, this earthquake. reporter: and you tell me you re prepared. you stay prepared even though we don t have earthquakes every day, but it s something you think everybody should be prepared for. that s so true. my brother is really the one that does it. he keeps watt, canned goods, soy he s the guy. now i know for a fact and we do keep a kit with band aids and medical emergency stuff there. but this lets me kno it s really important for everyone to have their stuff together packed for earthquake preparedness. reporter: can you tell was there any damage to your building? i kind of received the property from the owner so when i get back home i m going to physically check. reporter: and any damage for your neighbor snz. i m going to talk to them now. reporter: thank you so much for speaking with us. we appreciate it. all right, so just listening into this gentleman who obviously felt it. any time you feel the ground move, so many people off work today, right, celebrating this holiday. it is noteworthy especially when we re now talking about this 6.4 magnitude earthquake. i just want to relay this, this is from lax the airport there. all lax runways have been inspected with no reported damage to the airfield or the tunnel. operations remain normal. so that s the latest out of lax. tom seder? i m being told that was a parade, okay, so people parading along through the earthquake in los angeles. i know the epicenter you were saying what about 150 miles away closer towards las vegas? it s in between bakersfield and las vegas. pretty close to around death valley national park. but ridge crest is extremely close. 30,000 people live there. we have some information. we re still limited with the usgs but it is coming up now in just a moment. 6.4, originally 6.6, that s not unusual to drop. but only 5 miles in-depth. typically around the world a lot of times these will be 100, 200 miles deep. the shallower they are the more shaking stays at the surface. a lot of it has to do with the soil content and the make-up of that. let me move on because that was at 10:33 local time. they ve had significant after shocks. dr. lucy jones is saying this is not along the san andreas fault. this is an area of much smaller faults. and since back in the 80s there used to be a number of smaller quakes in this area that were 5.0 magnitude or higher. however, this is right now we believe the strongest magnitude 6 quake in surn california since 1999 when they had a bit larger one. now, when you have quakes of this size, 6.4 or higher, there s 134 of them that happen around the world annually. but this is going to blow your mind because this is what could still happen. when you have a 6.4 magnitude quake, how many after shocks can you have and what is typical? it s typical to have at least one that s a 5.4 or higher. we ve had a 4.7. that would fall into this category. how many 4.4 or higher? we could have ten of those after this event. how many at 3.4 or higher, 100. i ll show you this map here. this is going to blow your mind as well. it s hard to see so we re going to zoom in on this. if we can take this full. any little yellow dot you see here is a tremor in the last week. now,atory all over. we re going to zoom in for you. anything in orange the last 24 hours, and then anything in red is today. let s get in tighter. you can see the mountainous area, there s bakersfield, ridge crest. this is our main quake at 6.4. it s a larger dot of red. i m counting now, one, thrwo, three, four, five, six, seven, eight shocks. this could go on for hours, days, even possibly weeks. let s hope the energy is being released now is this is thefore shock that follows. all those after shocks, tom seder, thank you so much. we ll come back to you as we continue this coverage here. i ve got a seismologist with me now and you are in l.a. let me ask you the first question which is did you feel it? i was actually driving through central l.a. on the way to the airport to pick up my husband so i did not feel a thing although on the radio they were instantly having talked about having felt it. and when you hear now 6.4, put it in perspective for us. yeah, that is a good-sized earthquake, as you ve heard. it s close to the 1994 north ridge earthquake and what makes all the difference is north ridge was in the middle of a city where this was in a fairly remote area. the closest good-sized town isn t ridge crest, which my family has lived in that area since 1946. it s remote. it was started as a navy base for weapons testing, but it s a good-sized town, as you heard 30,000 people. and given the magnitude and distance i would expect that they saw light damage in that town. listening to you, i was listening to a note of tom seder s a second ago. he was saying in the last couple of weeks there have been smaller tremors in southern california and seismologists have been taking note, maybe waiting for something like this. is that typical ahead of something of this magnitude? i m not aware of any fo foreshocks, and there has been a smattering of 3s in different areas. i haven t seen any notable uptick in recent weeks. last question, we know those after shocks will continue for some period of time, what s your message to folks in this part of the country? they are going to continue to feel after shocks. there is a small chance of an even bigger earthquake can happen as they heard. this could in fact be t the foreshock to something bigger. it s only about a 1 in 20 chance. anything that happens in that area is going to be remote, but earthquakes are possible any day and in any part of california. they don t take a holiday. thank you and please continue on and grab your husband from lax and a happy fourth to you and your family. let me get to this sound. this is from a witness who was actually near the epicenter of this quake. this is from kcbs. oh, yes, everything fell. i was in the house. my boyfriend was here hooch he just left to go to his house, and plants fell, pictures fell off-the-walls. oh, there s another after shock. things fell out of the cupboards. it was scary. it felt way bigger than a 6.4 for sure. is everybody okay in your neighborhood? have people gone outside? i haven t talked to my neighbors but i talked to my sister and she can see fires burning in the town. and at her house she as a big shop and all the tool chest with the tools in them fell over, everything fell out of her cupboard. she said there was glass over the floor in the kitchen. it was huge. whbt tat about the power? my power is still working and the gas line looks okay. the cars were like bouncing up and down. it was just incredible. it was huge here. it was so scary. well, i was in big bear for the landers quake, and it was as big as that, for sure. and describe the community to me, susan. is it mostly flat areas, pretty hilly? you said your sister saw fires. can you describe the landscape? yes, very flat. we re down in a valley, about 45 minutes from death valley, and so it s a very flat community. there s a naval base here and the hubbub of the community. it s a very flat area so we re still experiencing after shocks, they re constant. we had a little one this morning that didn t wake me up. i guess it was a precursor about point something could you guys feel that one? that s someone who definitely felt it and assessing the damage in her own home. we ve been wondering about damage assessments throughout this part of california. what have you learned? so we talked to as i said earlier a hotelier that said they felt damage there. you heard a woman talking about fires. another person who lives in ridge crest says she definitely sees fires. she is concerned about that. as you know when these happen sometimes they can, for example, break gas lines and that sort of thing which can create fires. we saw that happen in the san francisco earthquake there where a whole area was basically burned down in the marina because of that. which is why they tell people turn off your gas if you can, turn off your water, prepare youvls in these sorts of things and so you have no warning. that s why if it happens right after if everything s okay and you re in a safe spot and you can do these things, you should definitely do some of the things you re taught here in california. lucy jones who s a renowned seismologist has said, yes, there was a slight warning, a 4.2 magnitude quake happened there in ridge crest about a half an hour before a larger quake happened. but you don t know that because we get little earthquakes all the time. people are relatively used to having a small shake and then they go, oh, wow, we just experienced an earthquake. when there s no damage, no issues it doesn t feel big, you go about your day, you go about your business. one of the things that could be here is it is a holiday. there isn t a lot of traffic, not a lot of folks out on the roads whether you re in los angeles or ridge crest. that can be a good thing because as you know those overpasses and all of the freeways that are here can be vulnerable in these kinds of earthquakes. it s what we saw, for example, in north ridge, which is a 6.4. and that created quite a bit of damage. one of the big pictures we all remember, brooke, is when an overpass caved in, fell in and you saw that sort of damage which is incredibly scary to people. i can t help it because it s one of the tools everyone uses now. twitter it s okay. twitter, right. this comes from ava, she is a renowned director who s won quite a few awards. she s lived here in los angeles her entire life, and she says that is the longest earthquake i ve ever experienced, not jerky, smooth and rolling. that describes it perfectly. it was rolling. it did feel like it wept on for quite a long time, long enough for people to get on twitter and show the video of things happening. i can tell you here in the los angeles area, and we re about 156 miles away from ridge crest. so giving you some idea it s being felt all over the place. santa barbara, pasadena, all of these places have felt it. but we should also mention las vegas felt it, and las vegas may have felt it even stronger. why? because of where this particular earthquake was centered. ridge crest is actually closer to las vegas than it is to, for example, los angeles. so wherever this is epicentered that is where you re going to feel the strongest and have the most potential for damage and injuries. i do want to mention this to folks who are in the southern western part of the country. do not call 911 unless you have been injured or there are injuries you can see. because what happens is those phone lines get filled with people saying we felt this earthquake, we want to know what s going on, that is not the venue for that. the los angeles police department are asking people unless there s injuries and an emergency please do not call us. there s ways to get information online. but when those phone lines get jammed and there is an naerjs, there are fires, for example, people injured, there are damages people are concerned about, they cannot get the help they need as soon as they need it. so that s one warning to folks who are obviously concerned with what has happened. and the fact this went on so long, brooke, is significant because the longer the earthquake goes on, the more potential for more damage. and you heard there, there are people now two people have confirmed they have seen fires in the ridge crest area. brooke? thank you so much for all of that. i can tell you ve been through this before. great note on not calling 911 unless you have a serious injury. live pictures here as they ve certainly got eyes on the skies, and note worthy now the reports of these fires in the ridge crest area which is closer to where this thing was centered. so hopefully we can get somebody on the phone from ridge crest. in the meantime i have maurice wadd on the phone with me. you are in los angeles and i appreciate you calling in. you re from ohio. have you ever felt anything like this and what did it feel like? quite the wakeup call is what it felt like. yeah, coming from ohio this was an experience to say the least. hang on one second. let s listen to this. this is seismologist speaking about the quake. the duration is how long the earth is producing energy, and earthquakes begin at an epicenter and happen along a fault, and they start at the epicenter and rupture down the fault. that rupture feed is 2 miles a second. if the fault is 10 miles long the earthquake is producing energy for 5 seconds. this earthquake at this magnitude likely that the fault is at least 10 miles long probably a right amount which means the earth produces energy for 5 seconds compared to the fore shock would have been producing energy for a quarter of a second. i did not have shake alert working on the computers at home. the computers here in the lab did give an early warning for this by about, it would be a pretty long time because it s a long ways away. rob, why don t you come join us? the head yeah, he s getting briefed and then we ll get the usgs representative here as well. we see right here is our shaking distributions. we have a system that recognizes that earthquakes are beginning and sends you the information that the earthquake has begun and an estimate of when shaking will get you depending on this travel time of the waves. so the system worked and said there s an earthquake of about 6.2 producing energy, and the warning came through. do we have a time of how much warning we got in pasadena? and the final magnitude, of course okay, so in los angeles there were a 48-second warning that was the shaking was arriving. obviously it was not damaging shaking. that s one of the down sides to this only approach we have. the farther away you are the more warning you get and the less likely there is to be damage. and there are censors in satellites? how do we ever know there s an earthquake? we have censors called seismometers distributed around california. we ve recorded about 500 censors seismic network and they are distributed widely so we can try and catch them. as soon as we get enough nearby we can see that an earthquake is under way and we send that information out. and in fact one of the exciting things, these biggest earthquakes they aren t at a point. so when we re trying to predict where will be affected we need to know which direction the fault is going. we have a prototype system and that worked here, too, so we got an estimate of the fault growing as it was happening. so it s the first time we ve ever really had that work. can we talk a little bit about the motion? to me it sort of felt like i was aen on a boat and i felt a little nauseous. i ve heard other people say the same. so an earthquake produces energy at many different wavelength. there s high frequency energy that jerks you around and low frequency that rolls. the high frequency energy dies off with distance more quickly than the low frequency energy. think about a boom box. you hear the car going down the street, when it s a long ways away all you hear is the drum beat. that s the high frequency energy getting away from the low frequency energy. if you feel it s a rolling motion you know it s pretty far away. when i felt the motion it felt pretty rolling motion and i could estimate it was at least a magnitude 6 and it had to be pretty far away. for those just joining us, can you back up to the beginning. where was the earthquake centered exactly? the basis of the earthquake, the earthquake is near ridge crest, so the area to the east of the southern most part of the san andreas fault. we ll have to have a field geologist to tell us. it s a sparsely inhabited area so the number of people who would have received damage is much lower. i think we need to check what s happening in ridge crest and china lake. damage reports do not come here. we are seismologist measuring the movement of the ground. damage reports go to the office of government services. rob, can i ask you to come join us? so rob graves is a seismologist with the us geological survey and regional coordinator for southern california. and let me just obviously we re here because we had an earthquake to celebrate fourth of july. we re going to have people out, our geologists are heading out into the field right now to see if they can document any fault displacement obviously if any damage reports will come in. this earthquake was large enough where the shaking could have caused damage. one thing i d like to note is that here in the l.a. basin area because as lucy was explaining the waves, the low frequency waves tend to travel further than the high frequency. many people out in the l.a. basin would have felt that rolling shaking whereas up here in the mountains people didn t feel it as strongly. so we re going to have even in the l.a. area we ll have disparity in terms of the shaking. i know it s early but any take-aways from this quake? wrap it up for us. there is a definition of a change in the news cycle. usually at this point you re still asking us what was the magnitude. luckily now we can give an accurate magnitude very quickly. it s not yet an hour since the earthquake. one comment i would make if you ve noticed we ve had a lot of after shocks. those in general are not being felt in the l.a. basten. i haven t had a chance to keep track but we ve had dozens, i think about three at this point. we will continue to have a lot of after shocks. this area is also characteresticly tends to have robust sequences. in 1982 there were 6 or 8 magnitude 4s associated with that event as well as dozens of magnitude 3s and it went on for six months. so we should be expecting lots of after shocks. and some of them will be bigger than the 3s we ve been having so far. i think the chance of having a magnitude 5, i don t this is an off the top not calculated thing it s probably greater than 50-50. some time this afternoon we re going to have a larger after shock in this sequence. is there any threat to the san andreas because of this? no increase in risk sightly. but we ve never seen afo fore shock more than 10 kilometers that is significantly closer to this event and would probably have an slightly increased risk on garlock. but keep in mind the san andreas is an active fault so there s also that risk at play. can you describe the repeat activity in the months leading to this quake? we don t have that data right at hand. no, nothing so if you re asking we have had a couple of other swarms in other areas of southern california in recent days. nothing like that was occurring up in this area in the last couple of months. there was a 4.2 just about 30 minutes before the main shock, and that is a classicfo fore shock. i know when i saw that page come through this morning i was like i haven t seen valley in a while. and there is a slight chance we could have an event larger than what we re calling the main shock right now. that s about 5% chance for every earthquake. and like any other earthquake this probably has about a 1 in 20 chance this is not the largest event within the sequence. can you spell your name real quick? r-o-b, and last name graves graves. we re getting some feedback from viewers of the alert system and they say in los angeles it did not work. it worked. it was not broadcast on shake alert. the system worked but the usgs parameters can you elaborate on how the system operates? unfortunately i don t have the details on what didn t occur or what didn t work properly. we re looking into that right now. so the system actually did detect the earthquake. it did work in terms of estimating that there was shaking that was going to occur. the signal apparently did not get out. so, you know, the system is still being tested. we re going to have to, you know, figure out what s going on with that. obviously we ll have updates later on today. i will also point out the shaking in the los angeles region was not strong enough to be damaging in that sense. so to be clear the signal was supposed to depot out, it should have gone out? do you know that? i don t know. i want to hesitate before making any definitive statements until i can sort that out exactly. we don t know at this point whether it was all right, the system in the lab worked. so physically it worked. the shake alert l.a. system was setup with agreements that limited which alerts went out. because we get a lot of false alarms at the lower levels. so whether or not the shaking reached the parameters that should have been alerted we don t know, and we re trying to find out. but remember we re not even an hour since the earthquake. have you heard of any significant damage in the l.a. area? if there was damage in the l.a. area something s really weird. this was not strong shaking in the los angeles area, so i would be extremely surprised if that were the case. besides damage notifications do not come to cal tech, they go to the governors office of emergency services. should we be preparing for a big one? one should always be preparing for a big one. this does not make it less likely. there is about a 1 in 20 chance that this location will be having an even bigger earthquake within the next few days that we have not yet seen the biggest earthquake of the sequence. it s certain that this area is going to be shaken a lot today and some of those after shocks will probably exceed magnitude 5. so you ve been listening to reknowned seismologist dr. lucy jones. she said there was a 20% chance that a worse one is coming. again, if you re just joining us 6.4 magnitude earthquake, epicenter in the middle of those red circles. ridge crest about 150 miles from los angeles. i m getting tweets from so many of you guys describing what it felt like. sarah snider, just bringing you back in, the word i keep hearing is rolling shaking. when it comes to ridge crest you were reporting when we spoke last about fires. now you re hearing about rescues. yes, and i should mention this. we are getting this in from several different people in the ridge crest area they have felt another fairly strong after shock there in ridge crest. you heard seismologist lucy jones who everyone in this area certainly knows. she is known around the world for her work with earthquakes. she said this area is going to see a lot of shaking today. she is on the money. they are feeling after shocks as we speak. people are talking about how strong they feel, and they definitely feel a rolling earthquake. it certainly doesn t feel good especially when you ve had one that is about a 6.4 magnitude. the other concerning thing, obviously, to people is this a precursor to something bigger? and again sazmologist jones talking about the fact there s a 1 in 20 chance there could be something bigger that happens. she also told us before this press conference there was a 4.2 the take that hit ridge crest. is it possible the 6.4 is a fore shock, absolutely. hopefully not because the next size could be bigger and could be much more damaging. but there is damage we re hearing from at least one hotel in the area there. you re seeing some pictures thereof the lights moving around, back and forth. these are the things this is why in areas where there are earthquakes, whether it s here or around the world, i ve experienced a stronger one in for example, chile. this is why they tell you to get underneath something that s solid. so that table you see there in the video that is where you want to go because things do fall. and a lot of people get injured not by the event itself but obviously it throws things off the shelf. if something is built with brick and you re outside, those things come falling off which is why building codes have changed over the years. there could be according to the seismologists there are after shocks people are experiencing. and frankly, it s scary for people to go through this. you have no control over this. i do want to mention one more thing. i know i need to hurry, but there is something called a shake alert and i had downloaded it as soon as i found about it. the mayor here came up with an idea everyone should have an app and if there s a way to alert people even 5 or 10 seconds ahead of a big event, it did not go off on my phone. in other words, i did not know an earthquake was coming. but lucy jones said there yes it did detect the earthquake in los angeles, but it may not have been strong enough here for us to get the alert. i looked on the alert and it did say an earthquake had happened, i just didn t know not even a second before. this is stronger in ridgecrest and los angeles. you heard lucy jones saying we want to talk to people in ridgecrest and china lakes. alexis, first of all, how are you doing? you okay? i m okay, yeah. we re good. so 6.4 and you just heard the seismologist say there have been or will continue for a while to be after shocks. first of all, what did it feel like? it just started like shaking and then it just started rolling. when we hear the word rolling, how do you mean? just like the ground underneath you is rolling, like you re on a boat or in the water or something. and it s this rolling sensation. how long did it last? how many seconds would you guess? it felt like forever. it was probably a good minute or so. was it frightening? did you know what was happening? oh, yeah, i was terrified. my husband just kept saying get outside, get outside. and i was like i m not going outside. no thanks, honey, i m going to stay inside and ride out whatever this is, and it s my understanding you re from ridgecrest, so you re from this part of the country. you know, earthquakes, southern california synonymous. had you ever experienced something like this before? i ve experienced a couple when i was younger, not so much as an adult. this was one a lot bigger than any i do remember. okay. and we ve been hearing and you tell me if you ve heard anything. there are reports alexis of some fires in the ridgecrest area as a result of this earthquake. do you have any neighbors or friends or anyone who s reported, you know, seeing anything of that nature or even just damage? so the power is out in part of the town, ridgecrest heights. i live like out in the acres area so i drove into town and, yeah, we saw a fire. can you describe where was the fire? it was over i would say in the east side of down like on your way out that way is where we saw a fire. i understand. i know obviously the fire department responding to that and some rescues. have you felt after shocks? i did feel one, but i haven t felt any of the others and that s probably because i was driving. are you at home now? are you hunkered down for potentially additional after shocks? we re just going to wait it out. okay, el, happy independence there to you in southern california. alexis, thank you so much for jumping on the phone with me and hopefully this will end soon for you guys. i ve got carolyn who works at high desert haven assisted living facility in ridgecrest as well. this is near the episuperof this earthquake. carolyn, same question to you. what did it feel like? well, it was like you could hear a rumble and the ground started shaking and you thought, oh, it s just a little earthquake and then it hit hard and everything started shaking. and i thought, well, this might be it so glad i managed to get out of the room, and so i m in an assisted living so we had people coming out of the room frightened and it s a very scary ordeal. you work at this assisted living facility? are you helping folks in the home? it s an assisted living where the elderly live, and we assist them. and i m the residential care manager here. and the powers out. i hear the power is out. yeah, the power went out and then the backup lights came on and then we had another the after shock, and then they all went out. so right now our goal is to keep everybody hydrated, you know, and cool and keep them away from any windows, and we re trying to cleanup the mess because we have a lot of tipped over dressers and tvs have everything, so pretty scary. so it was that strong that dressers tipped over? yeah, we had dressers, pictures, tvs. you can see smoke out in the ridgecrest where there s probably been accidents and fires. it was scary. we re having another one right now. right now? yep. hang with me, carolyn. i m a little out of breath because all i can care about are my babies, my children. you re stuck at work and you ve got to pull it together. take a breath with me. take a breath, and first are your kids okay? all my kids are okay. all accounted for. are you okay? yeah, i am. it s very hot in here. how warm is it about? it feels probably about 90. so 90-ish degrees, no power. you re at this assisted living facility trying to worry about your children, taking care of all these folks in the home. how are the folks in the home faring? everything at first they all kind of went together, they stayed together a little scared and now they finally are just now starting to pick up. in fact, they re all getting ready to go to lunch. and we re just kind of maneuvering in the dark. so we have doors open and fans blowing. is that an announcement? so we re being ordered back into the lobby area. everybody s got to come out of their rooms so i m going to have to go. okay, you take care of everyone there and take care of yourself. thank you so much for what you re doing and jumping on the phone with me. i appreciate it very much. sarah snider, coming back to you. my goodness. i feel for those folks. you do. and i think one thing people forget is we re always talking about the magnitude, right, and how big or small it is. but when you experience one of these there s a sense of a complete loss of control of your of the area that surrounds you. you really can do nothing but take cover. and it literally shakes you physically but it can also shake you quite emotionally with your family and you re wondering, you know, if this is the big one or if there is a bigger one to come. and in the meantime when is it going to stop because when these go on for seconds on end and some of them have lasted up to a minute in countries around the world. i ve been to places where they ve experienced that and experienced it myself, it is quintessentially unnerving on many levels. you hear her voice crack. it s hard not to feel for people who are going through this especially when they re in a position where they re trying to protect their family, their children. i know i have heard from friends who say, look, their children actually really felt this one and they were terrified because for a very long time here people have not felt one this strong. and when you first feel one and you re not from here or you re a child who s never really experienced it, it really is unnerving. you have a loss of control of your vounsurroundings and we sh keep that in mind for those who live in ridge crest and surrounding areas. the closer you are to that epicenter the more you re going to feel a 6.4 or a 4.2. yes, you re going to feel it and it s not by any means over. you heard from seismologist lucy jones. she was very clear in saying they re going to feel a lot of shaking there in the ridgecrest and surrounding areas today. that is normally what happens when you have a seismic event. so thoughts to the folks dealing with this and trying to get through it, and we know now rescue crews are out. they are getting reports of medical emergency and of fires. current county rescue is out there as we speak, brooke. i m just thinking about carolyn. you just have to remember to breathe through it all. sarah snider, thank you very much. meteorologist tom seder, i m curious if you re in ridgecrest like she was at this assisted facility place and you have no power and you are still feeling these after shocks, and is it in the 90s? no air-conditioning. yeah, that s true. i would be really concerned about the smell of gas. i m sure there s going to be an unbelievable amount of calls, brooke, to 911. just the fright. you think you re smelling gas, you may not even smell it. you ve got toget out of there if you know how to turn it off. 6.4 at 10:33 there was one before this at 10:05 that was the 4.1 or 7. that s the fore shock, but it s only 5 miles in-depth. that s considered extremely shallow. that means more energy can be dispersed. she talked about high frequency. that s more violent shaking and then low frequency those are the wave actions you feel and its outwards further. she talked about how it traveled about 10 miles on the fault line. that s because this was called a strike slip. that means the two parcels of land kept horizontal not like a thrust where one is pushed on below the other. the shake map came out, and i know this is difficult to see so i m going to read these colors off. ridgecrest in the middle and yellow, green, blue and you come out to fresno, long beach and vegas. 42,000 felt very strong shaking. that s enough to do damage. 42,000 that s ridge crest. very strong. so above that is severe, violent and extremely. thank goodness we didn t have that. 4,000 strong that s out and around the ridge crest area. and then you get 21 million felt light shaking. that s l.a. up to the north, another 2 million felt weak. barely could feel it. that s probably out towards fresno and vegas. the usgs takes this information with their shake map population, the magnitude, the depth, and they have these models. we use these almost every other week when we re talking about earthquakes around the world and international. this is called a pager and this has to do with estimated fatalities, i know god forbid, but you ll want to eto green. and that means there s a 65% chance maybe no one passes, a 30% chance of maybe one to two fatalities. economic losses, in the yellow zone here, 35% says the possibility of 10 million to $100 million in damage. it wouldn t take much to get to $10 million if you re talking about fractures, stress fractures integrities of buildings being compromised, a lot of basements and cracks enwalls, gas leaks. you can have at least one that s a 5.4 and dr. lucy mentioned that. could we? absolutely, we could have a 50-50 chance of having a larger one in our quake. this is pretty accurate at least one after shock is 5.4. we haven t had that yet. you can have 100 that are 3.4. and already we re seeing numerous after shocks just in the last hour where our numbers are going up to 6 and even 7 so this is going to continue as she said for a while. i keep hearing stories and people who live in this part of california and who can describe for me what it is they ve gone through. linda king works at a market about 8 miles outside of ridgecrest. linda, you re on the phone with me. how are you doing, and how shaky was it? it was shaky, very shaky. define very shaky. if you re at a market are we talking things coming off store shelves or not bottles were coming off, items behind my counter where i was standing was coming off. no kidding. i didn t know quite where to go. i didn t want to run out by the gas pumps but it was very, very shaky. how long did it last? a couple of seconds or did it feel a lot longer? it felt a lot longer. i m sure it was seconds but long seconds, yes. long seconds. and have you felt any shakes since. yes, standing on the phone with you guys i felt another one just a few minutes ago. have you counted since the big one hopefully that was the big one have you counted how many after shocks you think you felt? i don t really know because we were pretty shook up right after it, so i m sure we were having after shocks. we didn t know if we were shaking or what was going on. of course. understand, understand. i felt also in the last 20 minutes two pretty good after shocks. so you re at this market, you see these bottles of alcohol coming down and you and another coworker, just the two of you guys when this happens, correct? my boss and i, yes. your boss and you, and my producer told me it s the understanding a ceiling collapsed. customers were coming here because we re closing businesses in ridgecrest. stuff was coming down, the ceiling was coming down. the ceiling was coming down? mm-hmm. yikes. and are you planning to stay put? what s your situation right now? we are open. we re open for business. we have everybody calling to see if we are open because of the fact that all the businesses in ridgecrest have closed their doors because of severe damage. and, you know, during any sort of earthquake everyone says, you always compare it to the last big one you ve ever felt. have you lived in southern california for a while, and how would you compare it to anything you ve felt before? this is the most major one i have ever felt. the most major one you ve ever felt. yes. linda king open for business there in your market despite the things coming crashing down on this fourth of july. thank you for jumping on the phone with me and take care of yourself and good luck to you and your boss. we re pivoting between these voices coming in calling in and telling us what they felt. i m reading how many of you are feeling the rolling, shaking sensation you re describing all the way from las vegas to los angeles. sarah snider she s been keeping an eye on lots of moving pieces in this earthquake. you have new reporting on the number of after shocks and maybe even rock slides? yeah, so san bernardino about an hours drive from l.a. and people will remember that name unfortunately because of the terror attacks that happened there, they are now reporting their rescue crews and fire reporting there are minor cracks in buildings there. but power lines down, and rock slides that are happening on certain roads in that area. you know, at this point when you have one of these events, this sort of thing happens quite often. especially rock slides, something that s very dangerous here as you re driving along some of these roads, bridges. it is pretty common for rock slides and mud slides to actually happen hereafter an event like this. but, you know, keeping in mind how far away we are here in southern california from ridgecrest, 156 or so miles and you re hearing about buildings cracked or rock slides, it gives you an idea of the power of this particular earthquake. and because it was shallow as you heard from seismologist jones that creates the potential for damage. and we now know there is damage of course in and around the epicenter there in ridgecrest. we re hearing that crews is reporting they ve gotten at least two dozen calls for medical emergencies and for fire. and so they re out doing the best work they can to help people. but again far enough away from there, more than 100 miles away you ve got cracks in buildings and rock slides happening in san bernardino. concerning to everyone. for some clarification here in los angeles one of the largest cities in the country, most populated cities in the country, not heard of any injuries or damage yet here. but certainly you re seeing pictures there. that s pekoe rivera california, seeing pictures of things falling down or breaking. the earthquake comes through and i do also want to mention to you people should know there are going to be after shocks and we are hearing and you just heard from a resident there who was choked up as an after shock was happening right as she was speaking to you. there will be more of these. seismologists very clear in saying you ll get a lot of these not just today but tomorrow and the third day. so this event is not over, and the fear is there s a 1 in 20 chance there could be a stronger earthquake to come along. people should remember the rules of safety. take cover. get underneath something that is sturdy and strong in case things start falling off-the-walls, off the ceiling or you have some incident with the ceiling. that is generally what injures people. if you re in a store try to find something or go underneath a register with somebody because things fly off of shelves, and that is usually how people get injured in these events, brooke. talking to one of those eyewitnesses in ridgecrest and for folks just tuning in addition to the boulders and rock slides and the continued feeling of the after shock, there have been fires reported in the ridgecrest area. tell us what we know about that. we re just getting that from county rescue and they re going out and trying to assess what is going on. do we know for sure it was from this event, we do not yet. sometimes what obviously happens is the gas lines get interrupted, they get damaged and you could have a fire. and so people are always alerted that if you smell gas, for example, in your house and you can get out and get to a safe place, if there s a way for you to do that you should. those are very, very, very dangerous possibilities that there s going to be, a, an explosion or fire ignited from gas lines. and that could be but we have not confirmed, could be what has caused some of these fires in the area there where the epicenter is happening. and it is important for people to know and you re seeing video here from another resident. a lot of times to see when you re feeing it and to show it is a water in a pool. and you can see it sloshing. i talked to someone who tells me there was definitely a feeling of rolling. first a bit of movement, first a shake and then that rolling feeling. brooke? sarah, thank you so much. standby for the mayor of ridgecrest, california, now on the line. mayor peggy breeden. thank you so much for jumping on. i imagine you have your hands very full right now. bring us up to speed on what you know and how people in your community are doing. right now we just 30 seconds ago had another one. we ve had this would either be our seventh or eight one we ve had. oh, my goodness, there s another one right now. oh, my goodness. are you okay? breathe, just breathe. okay, we ve got as i understand weave five fires, we have broken gas lines. we have i do not know of any this is really good one. hang on, before you continue, is it one after shock you re feeling or several in a row? i can t tell. it seems like it s one. is it still going? we ve had so many. no, it just ended. we ve had the police are out doing a marvelous job. the county has setup an emergency facility here. senator kevin mccarthy i m sorry, congressman kevin mccarthy i just got off the phone with. we have a lot of people. i m asking everyone as they listen to this please go next door to your neighbors. just because you re okay doesn t mean they are. knock on the door, make sure there s somebody there and they re not in need of anything. the police, fire and all of our volunteer organizations are out working assessing the situation, trying to find out where places need to fight fires and i believe they re under control right now. can you talk to me a bit more ability those fires. was it because of broken gas lines? i do not know that yet. pg&e, pacific gas and electric is out here assessing lines and turning off gas virtually everywhere. and that s what we re doing. we re just please asking people to don t panic. i went down to our senior center. we re a city of about 28,000 people. they were having their fourth of july events there. they were panicky. i went down there, we got everybody out, no physical injuries, a lot of damage of in the facility. but so far i m about half a mile away from the hospital and numerous ambulances are going by. i do not know if it s because of the earthquake or just panic or what. but that s what s happening. and we have all sorts of organizations out helping. and so please, please, just ask them to go, if anybody s listening go next door and make sure your neighbors and friends are all right. check on your neighbors, don t panic. do you have a note for people as far as calling 911? because i imagine they re overwhelmed? they are. there s numerous 911 calls. and 911 certainly when you need help that s the place to call. i m asking them to make it for a real emergency and not just for information. because i m understanding there s a number of people calling for information. as i m talking to you we ve just had a second this image
chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine were more likely to develop abnormal heart rhythms or die. hydroxychloroquine, try it. if things don t go as planned it s not going to kill anybody. welcome to new day weekend with victor blackwell and christi paul. thank you so much for being with us as we say hello to all of you in atlanta and around the world now. for the first time in at least ten weeks all 50 states are in some capacity re-opened now. of course it s memorial day weekend. the unofficial start of summer. health experts now concerned that these large gatherings may lead to a spike in cases. after weeks under lockdown millions of people across the country will be allowed to get out and enjoy the weekend outdoors across the country. beaches on each coast are re-opening. businesses have opened their doors but the president wants more even though the majority of states already allow houses of worship to hold gatherings he s calling governors to open churches deeming them essential and says he has the authority to override governments if they continue to follow his recommendation. hydroxychloroquine, a drug that president trump has touted and taken is linked to an increased death in coronavirus patients. i want to start with polo sandoval. good morning to you. reporter: good morning, guys. even for 6:00 a.m. on a holiday weekend the street of new york city are relatively quiet. today that will change. we ll slowly begin to see a few more people out. as we heard from authorities it s expected americans across the country will be heading outside. when you hear from dr. anthony fauci, it s okay. however important not to throw caution to the within. this warning coming as the death toll number of covid related deaths in the country near 100,000. president trump insists the nation s houses of worship must re-open this weekend. on. friday he deemed them essential before the cdc unveiled new guidance for communities of faith. the president also said he would override states that resist, though it s not clear if he has any authority to do so. some of the nation s governors reminding the commander-in-chief that re-opening decisions fall on the states. it s the governor s decision. that s why he said cdc guidance comes out, take a look and see what s possible. reporter: this weekend mark the symbolic start of summer and a major test for beach side communities that have been preparing for crowd. many beaches are open on the east and west coast though you can expect social distancing restrictions and capacity limits to be in place. i m excited. i think it s good. people need to be outside and enjoying what nature has given us. we ve been cooped up inside for so long. nice to get outside and get a little work in. reporter: for florida residents only beaches in hard-hit areas like fort lauderdale and miami-dade county will stay closed. some southern states could see a spike in. covid-19 cases, another round of re-openings just in time for this holiday weekend. south carolina theme parks are open again. as are bars in texas. limited capacity and dancing discouraged. we have to do a lot of extra precautions we didn t do before. increased sanitation. hand sanitizing station. our staff has to wear masks. reporter: overall it s okay to venture away from home. under you can go out. you can be outside. can you play golf. you can play tennis with marked balls. can you go to the beaches if you stay six feet apart. but remember that that is your space and that s a space you need to protect and ensure you re social distransfrom others. reporter: the white house is expressing concerns over the region seeing a high number of covid cases, places like electrocute, chicago and washington despite stay-at-home orders. new york city has not entered any sort of phase of re-opening yet. experts say that will be the last region to do so based on the numbers that we re seeing here. but in the meantime new york s governor andrew cuomo easing restrictions at least slightly here this week as he issued this for memorial day celebrations as long as it s no more than ten people. polo sandoval there in new york. thank you so much. so a lot of religious gatherings is up to states, local officials and religious leaders at the end of the day. a majority of states are slowly allowing religious services to resume in some form already. there are three states that have not but president trump says he wants houses of worship back open this weekend and that he will override he promises governors who do not do so. let s go the white house now. kristen holmes is there. we ve heard from the president before that he will overstep or override governors if he doesn t like their decision. he hasn t done it yet. what s the weight behind this? reporter: that s a good question, victor. we simply have not been able to find any weight behind this and the white house hasn t been able to identify any power that president trump has to do this. as you mentioned this is really just the latest in this back and forth between federal and state powers, between president trump and governors. doesn t feel like we were just having this exact same conversation a few weeks ago when president trump said he was in control of re-copping the country. of course that ended up not being true and governors have taken it upon themselves to quickly open or slowly open their economies as they see fit. but, again, same conversation. take a listen to how president trump phrased this when he s talking about these places of worship. the governors need to do the right thing and allow these very important earthbound places of faith to open right now. for this weekend. if they don t do it i will override the governors. reporter: again, i will override the governors. very similar language that we heard before. all this is coming as the cdc is warning of high transmission rates at church events. however, the cdc did put out some guidelines and i want to pull them up here for our viewers as we head to the weekend as they know what the top health agency is promoting. promote social distancing. limit sharing objects. clean daily. provide soap and sanitizers all things viewers should think about as they head to those faith services this weekend. i want to talk to you about this hydroxychloroquine study that came out saying the drug is very dangerous if you take them. president trump yesterday saying, what have you got to lose? go ahead and try it. how did dr. deborah birx try to balance or reconcile two very different and opposing viewpoints on hydroxychloroquine? reporter: this has become part of her job, really, to strike this balance between president trump and top health officials. i want to note it s not just that president trump has been promoting this drug, on monday he said he himself was taking it, he had been taking it for about a week and a half to ward off coronavirus. here s how deborah birx referred to the drug and the study. she joins a sea of health officials in this statement. i think the fda has been very clear on their website about their concerns about hydroxychloroquine, particularly when it s combined with another drug. there s still control studies going on for pre-exposure p prophyl prophylaxis. i hope everybody loose at those co-morbidities. kind of striking that balance, these studies are still going on. however, the fda had made clear that there are some serious concerns with taking this drug. of course, again, this comes after that study came out shoipg that people who took the drug had a higher risk of death. kristen holmes, appreciate it so much as always. dr. birx also says that everyone should feel comfortable leaving their homes but take precautions this memorial day weekend. reporter: sun, fun and coronavirus. how safe are we as summer past times beacon? even the great outdoors epidemiologists warn nothing is without risk. everything we do has risk attached to it. reporter: this month a report published by the proceedings of national academy of sciences says when it comes to covid-19 speech droplets generated by asymptomatic carriers is the likely mode of disease transmission. asymptomatic insfeks a big driver of spread of disease and we re still learning things about it. reporter: ann is a virus hunter a renowned ucla epidemiologist who has spent decades researching in the congo to assess out the next virus and how it transmits. everybody should be staying as far apart from each other as they can and wearing masks which will reduce spread of droplets. reporter: is six feet of distance enough? a new computer model suggests it may not be. an engineering study of a computer model shows a light breeze could carry some droplets as far as 18 feet. any data is important to consider. literally gathering data in real-time to understand what we re doing today and tomorrow. reporter: it still isn t no george howell infectious those droplets could be. your risk of getting it outdoors is very small. reporter: the computer model has not been scientifically tested in real life scenarios. what has been tested how far droplets can go in real life. this is a national institutes of health experiment. normal breathing without a mask under highly sensitive laser light no droplets. but when you speak droplets light up. produces a large number of droplets. reporter: a cough indoors. scientists at florida atlantic university showed without a mask droplets can spread 12 feet with a simple mask the droplets still spread but far less. unfortunately for summer sports fans enthusiastic cheering can spew droplets further. the virus might move from one fan to another. it s like a five-star hotel for the virus. reporter: the cheering and high fives may defeat the effort to control the virus which explains the idea for playing in empty stadiums. a stadium is like an adult preschool. sure a lot of secretions depending on what you buy at the concession stand. people lose their ini had busine inhibition. reporter: there s no evidence the virus can spread in pool water. social distancing is key. we ll be co-existing with this virus for a longtime, maybe forever. reporter: we re all sick of being cooped up and there s an expectation a lot of folks will show up on memorial day. we re outside, for example, the rose bowl here in pasadena. a lot of people are walking and running this loop and trying to get some exercise with the kids as well. the key every epidemiologist we talked to is wear a mask and try to stay as far from people as possible. is that your best bet to keeping yourself safe and others safe. thanks so much. another big company is turning to bankruptcy to deal with the economic impact of covid-19. the rental car company hertz. it said the drop in travel demand was sudden and dramatic and cost them in revenue anticipate future bookings. doesn t mean hertz is going out of business, they are restructuring their debt. they cut 12,000 jobs in north america and furloughed another 4,000 workers. the cdc issued these new guidelines for religious institution that want to re-open this weekend despite the growing up of covid-19. plus the uss roosevelt is back at sea with a new commander after more than 1100 carrier personnel tested positive for coronavirus. how does he plan to protect the sailors. his response when new day continues. no uh uh, no way come on, no no n-n-n-no-no only discover has no annual fee on any card. birthdays aren t cancelled. hope isn t quarantined. first words aren t delayed. caring isn t postponed. courage isn t on hold. and love hasn t stopped. u.s. bank thanks you for keeping all of our spirits strong. we ve donated millions to those in need and are always here for our customers and employees. we ve donated millions to those in need join me joe mantegna, gary sinise: and me gary sinise, joe mantegna: for a special presentation of the national memorial day concert. with performances from around the country honoring all of our american heroes. featuring general colin powell, sam elliott, cynthia erivo, laurence fishburne, trace adkins, esai morales, renée fleming, kelli o hara, christopher jackson, and mary mccormack. the national memorial day concert. sunday, may 24th, 8/7 central on pbs. that liberty mutual customizes your insurance, i just love hitting the open road and telling people so you only pay for what you need! 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so, you hit it right on the nail. the big question that i have as a medical professional would be the same question i would have if people walked into an auditorium to watch a sports event, people walking into a salon. now with churches let s remember every church has a different size in terms of congregation. what i do worry about is large numbers of people entering tight spaces, you know, singing, talking, are they going to definitely make sure that people are not hugging, shaking hands. what will the size of the congregation be? will they hold different services? these are the type of questions that i would have specifically about churches re-opening. and i think what s important, like i said so many times, we have to find what that new normal is but that new normal should still follow guidelines. let me ask you this. the cdc guidelines, elizabeth cohen yesterday made the point and she s worked with the cdc for years that they are usually more direct more pointed with their guidance. when you hear encouraging cloth masks, or, you know, you should consider social distancing, what do you make of that verbiage? does that stand out to you as well? i m uncomfortable like elizabeth cohen said when you use the word consider. there s nothing about considering a certain activity that must happen. with the pandemic and we ve heard about all the guidelines, a lot of states are expecting surges, especially as people go back out there, and they start opening back up again. so i think that the language should be clear so there s no misunderstanding by the church and the members of the church. definitely for sure six feet or more. wearing a mask, absolutely, i think should be mandatory. and i think the guidelines need to be a little bit more direct and clear. okay. hydroxychloroquine. the there was a published report there was a large observational study that covid-19 patients treated with these drugs were more likely to die or develop some cardiac issues, dangerous irregular heart rhythms than those not treated with the drugs. let s listen to dr. deborah birx here talking about hydroxychloroquine. there s still controlled trials going on both for prophylactic and pre-exposure prophylactic as well as controlled trials looking at hospital setting, how these drugs do and i think those are still pending. so this study, is this bottom line for you regarding the indication that hospitals should stop using the drug for the treatment or as dr. birx asserts is there space for more trial results and therefore more deliberation about this? so, this is the first largest study that came out yesterday that included over 90,000 patients. this is a huge study. the prior studies that we had regarding hydroxychloroquine have been smaller studies and those studies just said that we don t show that there s any benefit to taking hydroxychloroquine. that s the key word from the prior study. this latest study that included 90,000 patients are saying that there s harm, that patients who take hydroxychloroquine are increased risk for having these heart arrythmia, one is ventricular cardio and increases your risk of death. so this is not a medication that patients should be using. just to mention what dr. birx alluded to, there s a trial currently going on for front line workers as to whether they would be a benefit to taking the medication as a prophylactics. meaning can i take the medicine every single day, one pill a day to prevent me getting the infection with covid-19. now that is going on currently. so that s the results we re waiting for. always appreciate your insight and expertise. thanks for being with us. thank you. back at sea, the ship returns to open water after more than 1,000 personnel on board tested positive for coronavirus. hundred of them still in isolation. there is a new commanding officer now. his first interview since the roosevelt s return to sea is next. ooh ooh amily, get 4 lines of unlimited for just $35 a line. seeing the break in the clouds before anyone else. together, we ll weather this storm. robinwithout the commission fees. so, you can start investing today wherever you are - even hanging with your dog. so, what are you waiting for? 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well, it s messaging. tell them exactly what is expected, what is the mission, how we re protecting them and they have a part in this and they understand that line of effort is covid prevention, mitigation, strategy that has been in effect since day one that i got here. so we one that there have been 13 sailors who tested positive who were once positive then isolated, then tested negative and again now positive. there s also the concern of social distancing with berthing compartments that are tight, meshaals that are tight. how do you enforce social distancing and what s the concern of a single test may prove they are negative at that time but how often should there be testing? so, regarding the few sailors that were reported to be positive, they were identified by our protocols and then removed from the ship as an over abundance of caution. those were previously positive sailors. so i m happy to report that today we continue to have no new positives on board. the social distancing, we re leveraging our situation right now as we build our readiness with pilot landing carrier qualifications, we are not required to bring the entire crew out. so we have additional space that we re using to increase that social distancing in addition to our standard measures of spreading out in the dining areas, the common areas, one way traffic around the ship and then the contact cleaning. so in this care qualification phase we have a lot of room and spreading out. the berthing areas as well. we ve segregated them by watch sections, cohorts we call it so that we re compartmentalized and if we need to respond we can identify that quickly and then move, treat, isolate sailors, decontaminate if necessary. other than drills which we executed frequently and in accordance with our procedures we stand ready to do that. again right on mission and everything is going according to plan. captain brett crozier was relieved of command after it was deemed that he exercised extremely poor judgment for a memo calling for some decisive action when there were a few dozen case. he called for the ship to be evacuated, eventually there were more than 1,000 covid positive cases on board the roosevelt, 4,000 sailors that were evacuated as you know. what s the threshold for you to call for some decisive action. is there a number you see if there s 50 cases or 75 cases or 100 cases you ll have to return to port? i m not going to speculate in the details of our protocols, but suffice to say they are set up to ensure that if there s even one case that we re addressing that and it s isolate, quarantine, treat and if the opportunity presents itself to medevac. in that there are contingency plans from no case to one case and then multiple cases so we can respond. i think where we are now, with everything that s been learned about covid w-the equipment and the training that we have, particularly these types of protections that we have on board, sail or to sailor transmission, if you can t get from one to number two it s not going anywhere. so that s the foundation but we can respond and. test and isolate people if necessary and, again, we re drilling and practicing to that on a regular basis. our thank to captain carlos sardiello and our thank to everyone on board the uss theodore roosevelt for your services especially during this difficult time. christopher wray is ordering a review into michael flynn. in statement wray said they will look for misconduct and try to fine any improvements that could be made to fbi practices. now this review is following the justice department s move to drop the case against flynn. he pleaded guilty in 2017 to lying to the fbi. so re-opening schools and keeping kids safe from the coronavirus. that s a tough balance to make. major stress test for the u.s.. we re looking what we can learn from denmark which is one of the fastest countries to get children back to school. looks like they picked the wrong getaway driver. they re going to be paying for this for a long time. they will, but with accident forgiveness allstate won t raise your rates just because of an accident, even if it s your fault. cut! sonny. was that good? 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hopefully after phil and i win they don t try to change the rules on us or send the tams into the nfl. i don t know if peyton can still do that now that he s retired and change the rules to make it easy terrify next time. can you expect a lot more of that on sunday afternoon. you can watch the match tomorrow. the event tees off at 3:00 p.m. eastern. with the superstars being mic d, there will be more trash talk to say the least. that s a good fun four. hoping to watch that. thanks so much. so here at cnn just like a lot of you we re all working a lot of us remotely. even our guests are joining us from their homes. so online critics, and you might just be a silent critic, raiding everybody s rooms. wall paper, lighting, nothing is off the table. complete financial plans. they re all possible with a cfp® professional. find yours at letsmakeaplan.org. they re all possible with a cfp® professional. join me joe mantegna, gary sinise: and me gary sinise, joe mantegna: for a special presentation of the national memorial day concert. with performances from around the country honoring all of our american heroes. featuring general colin powell, sam elliott, cynthia erivo, laurence fishburne, trace adkins, esai morales, renée fleming, kelli o hara, christopher jackson, and mary mccormack. the national memorial day concert. sunday, may 24th, 8/7 central on pbs. to deliver your mail and packages and the peace of mind of knowing that essentials like prescriptions are on their way. every day, all across america, we deliver for you. and we always will. noticks and fleas?o simplifies protection. see ya! heartworm disease? 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entire south building was evacuated today. people are being wheeled out of the building. officials tell us this started with in 911 call and quickly escalated, there could be some kind of issue outside the building. multiple people considering illness, there was an alarm that was dispatched. conduct in every possible test, they are chasing down every possible lead here. they told me the cafeteria located in the south building has been shut down in, it remains closed, no word if it will be opened tomorrow. baltimore city police are looking at an armed robbery. two female employees were around this afternoon at around 300 block downtown. on the third floor of the building. two cases of a baltimore county neighborhood who was contaminated during a gasoline spill. they decided exxon mobile. initially ordered by a jury back in 2011. a it was in 2006 with gasoline leaked into the jacksonville community impacting households. the aftermath of the incident, also revoked was close to $500 million. arguing to keep law that allows dna samples to be taken at the time of arrest to stay on the books. the most important case of its kind to be heard in decades. dna is increasingly it is limiting on when it can be collected. 28 states and the federal government copy what maryland does, collected dna samples. no conviction necessary, first. the use of technology that tells you exactly who did the crime and who did not do the crime would be lost to the state. one of them is at the center of this case. alonzo king was arrested in the county. police took the dna and matchstick of an unsolved rape to a woman. the court of appeals agreed that the taking of the dna violated the fourth amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure. the conviction was overturned and the supreme court will have the final word. when the government conducts a search, it needs to have either a warrant and something else, and in this case, the government had neither. some justices. it is effective, right? you re not suggesting the state would swap students for dna? identifying those that commit crimes. a decision by the court is expected in june. at the supreme court, wbal tv 11 news. 25-year-old justin beaumont s mental health status has been under review the last three weeks. he made his way, handguns and ammunition. they are due for a review tomorrow morning. there are three days left, and we have team coverage of what it means for you. tim has been monitoring the massive impact and we will continue with steve in washington who is monitoring the latest. 64% of the polls said that republicans are taking a partisan approach and that is the finding that seems to validate the obama battle plan. of the effect of the seemingly inevitable across the board cuts, president obama went to a shipyard, workers here would be furloughed. these cuts are not smart or fair. work and make money, we can t go to the shop. i love my job. across the nation, sequestration has millions concerned. we might be facing this early or something like that. this was virginia last night. when will the republican party stand up to this man and stop him? fanning the flames of catastrophe. claiming the only way out is more government and higher taxes. targeting the education cuts to have the least effect. the house speaker said he sent a plan to senate democrats twice. but the president today rejected targeting cuts. there is no smart way to do that. you don t want to have to choose between closing funding for the disabled kid or the poor kid? and with three days left, though talks are reported to try to avoid the cuts. maryland educators among those bracing for deep budget cuts if the sequestration becomes a reality. cuts could be extremely painful for baltimore city. of maryland is going about the numbers they got from the white house more than $14 million to be cut from the title one program that pays for educational services for disadvantaged children across the state, most of them in baltimore city. more than half of the schools rely on title 1 funds. the largest federally funded education program in the nation. money set aside the target students in the classroom. that is why the superintendent is concerned with what is taking place on capitol hill. we have extra teachers, they can have smaller classrooms and they will need more attention. we have professionals that support the teachers and make sure those shoulder and can get tutoring or mentoring when they need to have it. money that pays the salaries of teachers and staff and work with children with disabilities. that is why they are keeping a close watch. ha occupational therapists, physical therapists, they all need it. a small number of maryland teachers feeling the effects of budget cuts. coming out of the recession. increase that, we need to save these jobs. hundreds of students could lose their aid. cuts will also affect headstart programs. hundreds of thousands of people have watched videos and listens to his music. but the latest internet sensation has authorities concerned. why the artist is at the center of a police investigation. high above the earth and high-risk, aging weather satellites old man winter is being kind of cruel to the midwest. the eagles club in misery collapsing under hot you may not see it, but it collapsed behind a local reporter, they have been bearing the brunt of the blizzard. another problem is the frigid wind making it really difficult to keep the road clear. the weather has been blamed for three deaths. forecasters are raising concerns about the aging weather satellites. they may not be launched in time, threatening the accuracy for years to come. dodge the government accountability office says the problem is so critical that for the first time, the weather satellites has been placed on the high risk list. they serve as an early-warning system, a sort of weather satellites send critical data. it is like giving us forecast authority. the satellite soundly early warning. there are fundamental to the protection of life, property, and national security of the country. federal agencies are working to launch replacements, but there are technical problems and management challenges. the result could be a one-four year gap in satellite data. that means we will step back and look at it. extreme weather warnings will not come as early, the prediction for super storm sandy would not have shown that turned to the west. all of those people in new york and new jersey would not have been warned. a statement was issued, of funding shortfalls have proposed challenges to the satellite development. a gap in satellite coverage will still have forecasting capability. it was not that long ago when we started the weather satellites. it is unbelievable, really. let s hope that doesn t come about. not satellite, radar is a big improvement in the weather conditions the past few decades. rain is spread across the baltimore area at this hour. to the south and east of us, we have its switch over to the winter weather. it mixes with sleet and snow, unfortunately some freezing rain. use extreme caution, they probably should not go out that way. wait until it moves a little bit. around here, we had a little sleep mixed in, but temperatures have kept the reign of the exception of a little bit around the beginning. that is why we are dealing with soggy conditions. columbia at 43 degrees, pasadena at 43. a little chillier, still above freezing. western maryland, the colder valley in eastern in garrett county where temperatures are near freezing. the winter storm warning remained in effect for conditions and accumulations. here tonight, rain and fog in the area, temperatures holding nearly steady with east wind at 5-15 miles an hour. this is associated with the storm system. hurricane force on the backside of this storm and producing snow across the upper midwest, this area of low pressure is bringing us the wet weather of the coast. anywhere from the mountains and a healthy snowfall expected in 24 hours. this is across the chicago area, mich., and pockets near the great lakes and northern sections of upstate new york as well. snow lay out there and wet, they re likely to taper off early tomorrow morning, and we expect to see some sunshine breakthrough that cloud over tomorrow. this will really warm things up while the cold moves back into the mountains. likely to reach the low and mid 50 s. tomorrow morning at 6:42. the water temperatures are still in chile, western maryland with icy conditions tonight and flurries on thursday. eastern shore locations, steady rain tonight at sunshine breakthrough tomorrow before cooling off on thursday. we will get close to 60 tomorrow, a shower might pop up on thursday. scattered showers tomorrow morning, partly cloudy in the afternoon. sunny skies on friday in the first weekend in march a little cooler than normal. aviation commanders say it has been the most exciting day of their career. smiling ear to ear when we come back. wait till you see what the hot sky team uncovered at 6:00. donating time to helping hoyer arriving at martin state airport this morning, to new choppers. the first of a brand new fleet, most of the helicopters are more than 20 years old. they re not just excited about the aircraft, but new equipment on board as well. i can pick an altitude hawk and a position, it will harbour that aircraft for you. is upgrading to the 2000, that means a stronger engines and search technology. there will be using that for law enforcement and home security. breaking news out of washington where we learned the senate has voted to confirm chuck hagel. ending a very contentious fight over president obama s choice for the position to be part of a national security team. the republicans cast him as overly critical of israel. the secretary is stepping down after four years. more young women are being diagnosed with advanced breast cancer. seattle researchers study the data and found a 2% increase. young women typically have a worse prognosis because they re less likely to be screened for breast cancer. tumors tend to be more aggressive and less likely to have health insurance. a new study says that gastric bypass surgery may not be just for weight-loss anymore. researchers followed several patients. those that other when the bypass surgery were more likely to have restored function to their pancreas, even eliminating diabetes months after the procedure. it is what helps restore the pancreas to full health and even produce insulin again. it is the number one killer in the united states. there may be a solution made from fat tissue. these regenerative cells found in a person s own extra fat, they hope that the official part will be ready for patients in 10 years or so. a surprising ruling for the judge accused of brutally killing three young relatives. they may have an uphill battle getting ready for next month s trial. become forbids a fond farewell to baltimore. farewell to baltimore. holding a cellphone and your hand while driving could become a primary offense in maryland. the committee is considering legislation that would allow police to pull you over for holding a cellphone while driving just as they do when they suspect a motorist is drinking while driving. is there any discussion about what would be the penalty? it could get you a point against your license and a $500 fine. the primary reason for all of this is safety. quickly, you become concerned. you can see the potential danger and the distractions. it bothered state delegates for wildfowl. you pull up behind somebody and the speed limit is 65 and they re doing 45. they don t get out of the way, they are either testing or are on their phone. he has been trying to keep funds out of the hands of drivers while their operating vehicles. they think lawmakers will go along with house bill 753. i am more confident than ever that we have the votes to get that out of committee. if we get it out of committee, we have the votes on the floor. the administrator offered support. over 4.1 million licensed drivers in the state, over 250,000 drivers routinely using a hand-held device while they re driving. that is a potential risk and crash waiting to happen. plenty of drivers it meant talking on phones driving behind the wheel even though they recognize it is dangerous. aaa supports a strong turlock. if i m driving right next to a police officer, he can t stop me unless i have met another violation. we think this will make the existing statute more enforceable. they have worked closely with the senate committee, making sure holding a cellphone becomes a primary offense. we want you to take our pledge. don t drive distracted. there you ll find a link to download. the u.s. supreme court is reviewing a maryland law that allows police to take dna samples that are not yet convicted of a crime. the case in question surrounds a man that was arrested for assault in 2009. the justices will now decide if this practice violates the fourth amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure. 500 employees evacuated from the administrative building this morning, 17 people were transported to the hospital with a variety of illness symptoms. as matt crews have wrapped up their part of the investigation after conducting tests. because of the illness has yet to be identified. they are chasing every possible lead including food poisoning. details on the horrific murder trial, we have learned key pieces of evidence have been ruled inadmissible. it includes testimony from a witness serving time for murder. dna evidence cannot be used because of the way it was collected. the brutally killed the children in 2004 and the case is scheduled for a third trial next month. the hospital ship set sail, humanitarian missions around the world for 25 years. a few workers and security personnel showing up at the marine terminal early tuesday morning as the comfort shoves off for the last time. we got to know, they became notionally attached. it is like a family. the comfort was that it was a home for them here. a supertanker turned hospital ship was delivered in december of 1987. the primary function is to provide a floating medical facility for international disaster. in january of 2010, it was deployed after a 7 magnitude earthquake struck. 900 patients were treated and hundreds of surgeries performed. it also provides medical care throughout the caribbean and south america. why does it need to leave baltimore? it puts it closer to the ocean, closer to the nation s and it is color kidded with medical treatment personnel. it is the medical task force involved with bichette and the cost-saving initiatives for the attacks there. comfort will dock and prepare for the next humanitarian mission. it is hard to believe, especially for those on the docks that she is not coming back. investigators know what caused last month a cozy fire. dawson have trays that fire back to where it came from. and one of the deadliest accident that caused a government investigation. government investigation. investigators say the flames were ignited when grapes came in contact with a baseboard heater. a fire broke out causing $200,000 of damage. they were killed in that blaze, for other family members were injured. it was meant to be a beautiful tour of ancient egypt, but it ended in tragedy when a hot air balloon fell over 1,000 feet. tourists died in the valley of the came when it plummeted to the ground and a ball of fire. passengers left to their deaths before it crashed in a sugar cane field. authorities have let safety standards fall amid political instability in egypt. what we have seen, where the accident had been, it fell from the sky. it was licensed and in working order. pope benedict the sixteenth will make his final address tomorrow and the vatican is revealing what life will look like for him. he will continue to wear white and brown shoes he received in mexico. he will be called his holiness. they have told cardinals to move of the conclave, but the meeting won t begin until next week. cars and trucks might be the next internet hotspots. you could get internet behind the wheel. hitting more than 200,000 views on line, but police say lil poopie is a lil yellow. the forecast, coming next. here is what is coming up at 6:00. misconceptions and misunderstandings regarding the gun control bill is about to be consuming the senate. and the countdown the sequestration continues, a look at how the cuts can impact education in maryland. education in maryland. he is wrapping in videos about machine guns and groupies, the problem is that he is only nine. child welfare officials are investigating his father. we have that story from boston. show this video and you get some interesting reactions. that is terrible. absolutely inappropriate. these local parents to get uneasy when they see this rapper slapping a woman repeatedly on the buttocks. it is very not appropriate. they are reacting to the sensation. he calls himself a cocaine cowboy mmx sex with a woman on the dance floor. watched the videos and there is absolutely no crime he has committed. boston police have reported the video, they are investigating if it is on the level of neglect. school always comes first. he just happens to have an exceptional talent. parents say they don t approve but think it is his right and others say something has got to change. even with the talent he may have. the reporter tells us that police have not filed criminal charges or arrested his father but they are looking into charges of child abuse or neglect. rain continues to fall for most of central and eastern maryland this evening and radar is showing a little brighter return there. probably some heavy rain coming a horse and sleet mixed in. we get those reflect of particles in the atmosphere. there is some snow, sleet, and freezing rain. they re still under a winter storm warning. and ice accumulation on some of the surfaces. you will run into some icy conditions. you may have to unfortunately travel in that direction. it is rain towards its burgundy s journal i/o but these colder areas where there is ice and snow. check temperatures across the area. in oakland, many of the colder valleys have chilly air locked in. it will be a little slick, in western maryland. closer to 50 degrees. an advisory for much of the virginia panhandle. the high today was 42 degrees, colder than the normal. the average is closer to 50 degrees in march, 26 for the morning low. at the airport so far, just under 0.1 inches. we are running a deficit of about 1.24 inches for the month and have finished below normal for the year. the area of clouds centered in southern illinois, this is a big storm. it is winding down a little bit. a new one is forming. it will keep us going to die. now through tomorrow evening, you see some of the dark blues and purples getting out there. still a healthy snow producer, it is to the north and west, icy conditions lender. the early tomorrow morning, the showers and and by lunchtime, we will see the clearing. a late they sprinkle who once the sun comes out at temperatures tomorrow above normal. tomorrow we hold steady, temperatures 51-56 as the sun breaks out and the wind shifts to the west. the forecast calls for temperatures to climb tomorrow, cool off a little bit on thursday and we begin march with sunshine and a high of 45. the weekend looks chile, chilly. in tonight s consumer alert, 4000 jobs expected to be cut with j.p. morgan chase. it will amount to 1.5% of the total work force. this comes after the increased both profit and revenue. the move could signal a new direction in jobs as the bank said 1200 jobs last year after adding in the previous two years. the housing market might be getting back on its feet. when they have the adjusted annual rate, marking the highest sales in july of 2008. a supply of new homes was unchanged last month. it is reported at the current sales pace it would take four months to exhaust the number of new homes for sale and this would encourage new home construction. baltimore ranks no. 4 when it comes the vehicle nullity. it found an average income household can only afford the average light truck indicating americans are spending too much on their cars. buyers should follow a down payment of 2%, financing no longer than four years and principal interest not exceeding 10% of the gross income. the average price paid was $30,550. forget the coffee shop, your car or truck might be your next hot spot. adding wireless service in the u.s. and canada. gm says the feature will allow you to ditch that hold a player in the stream video to the back seat. it will boost the navigation system allowing for real-time traffic updates. a texas data concerned about inappropriate stuff on social networks allowed him to develop software that lets parents can act and pick up on foul language, bullying, even violence. it is something that is basically gone recognition, not that as an image is bad, but if you can connect that with other activities, it could be in sight that somebody is getting ready to harm themselves. it is supposed to provide parents with the tool to help them help kids be safer online. it is not necessarily what kids are looking for but a who is looking at them. baltimore, you have got to get out more. this afternoon, the local bishop of was under way and organized hoping to boost business. this is the second year of that campaign would select a few local restaurants. the debate over gun control continues in annapolis. that bill would ban assault style weapons and would require purchasers to be fingerprinted. david collins explains at 6:00. one of the police stations is getting a facelift. the home depot employees donated their time to help the men and women in blue. in the southeastern police precinct is getting a makeover top to bottom. the renovation project started a year ago, updating a building from the 1950 s. the project got a big boost with the help of more than 100 volunteers bring in manpower and supplies. of a lot of paint was dropped off, all different types of products. we are also able to get a lot of tools from the tool bank and a wave of the fees. of volunteers spent the day painting the walls and pouring concrete. they will become the new detectives offices, grateful for the health and volunteers happy to give back to men and women in blue. they will be doing things for the baltimore city police, they are great for individuals and they helped the city a lot. not many people are willing to do what they do to put their life on the line. it doesn t compare to the things they do day and and day out. this will give the officers a greater sense of pride and ultimately help them do their jobs more effectively. we re amending relationships, building new relationships. we are building a police departmentith a better community. the officers planned to renovate the fitness center. very nice job. that is all for us at 5:00. engaging in activity they don t want the public to see. will their decision limit when dna can be collected? and how will possible education cuts affect maryland schools? your watching wbal tv 11. live, local, latebreaking. our story tonight at 6:00, misconceptions and misunderstandings regarding the governor s gun-control bill is said to be consuming the said act. senate. some people say we need this bill because they are falling through the cracks. you hear a lot about the gun show loophole, and there is no loophole and maryland. is the license person or forgotten? person. i can use that license to buy a gun once a month? exactly. the required new gun purchasers applying for licenses
fox and friends starts right now. good morning, you re watching an early edition of fox & friends first, and let s get to the fox news alert for you. a gruesome murder. isis militants beheading missing american journalist james foley in a shocking and disturbing video. now they are threatening the life of another reporter if president obama continues attacks in syria and iraq. the u.s. government is now scrambling to analyze the video. james fo lrkley disappeared november of 2012. isis posted the gruesome video on line yesterday, and u.s. officials told the associated press the tape is authentic. he s in a prison orange jump suit, hands bound, kneeling next to a black plaid militant, reads a prepared antiamerican statement, and then he is executed. some say the video should mark a turning point in u.s. policy. we have to be taking severe military action. i m not talking about boots on the ground. the afghan model, the model used to defeat the taliban can be used. in the last couple days, the ban has been taken back, and the kurds are a good ally. we have the ability to walk back isis. we can t wait. foley s family asked for privacy while they mourn. his mother issued a statement on facebook saying, in part, we have never been prouder of our son, james, giving his life to expose suffering of the syria people, and employ the kidnappers to spare the lives of the remaining, like jim. nay are innocent. if the u.s. takes against them continue, they will execute the other american hostage they have, a man from miami. ladies, back to you in new york. just despicable. thank you. this was not the first time he was captured and held in the middle east. while in 2011 while reporting on the uprising, foley was taken by the forces and sat down with bill o reilly in 2011 to tell his story. we stopped, not a minute later, two trucks came over the hill. all right. you stand there, identify yourself? no. what you do in that minute, fire was so heavy, we pressed ourselves as far as we could to the ground. they were shooting at you. yeah. our colleague was killed. what did the rebels do? quickly concerned around and got out of there. you re on the ground, rebels split, they take you captive. that s exactly what happened. much more of that interview with james foley coming up at 4:30. the question everyone asks after the gruesome execution, how should the united states respond? colonel ralph peters says america must respond with enormous force. the only correct response to this kind of an atrocity would be to hit islamic state targets, punish them. would not stop their monstrous behavior, but this is a fight to the death, and our president and the governing elite of this country including too many republicans, refuse to come to grips with the gravity, with the deep powerful profound nature of the threat that does menace americans. they take a long term view, and in the long range target, make no mistake about it, but as far as brutality goes, they are far worse than al qaeda. al qaeda, as monstrous as it was, had some ethical standards by their own standards. these people are just butchers. now to another fox news alert, major developments in the investigation of the shooting death of unarmed teenager, michael brown. the governor ignited a fire storm with comments saying he s decided the guilt of the officer who shot brown. i think a vigorous prosecution must be pursued. the prosecutor and attorney general of the united states, each have a job to do. their obligation to achieve justice in the shooting death of michael brown must be carried out thoroughly, promptly, and correctly. these words coming before an investigation is even complete, and today, a grand jury will begin hearing evidence on that case. attorney general eric holder will meet with community leaders as well as the fbi there in ferguson, and michael brown s funeral will be held on monday. well, overnight, tensions reaching a boiling point again. all it took was a flying water bottle to shatter a night of mostly peaceful protests. we are live on the ground with brand new information from the highway patrol. heather, it was not just until before midnight a crowd charged against police after one man was taken down by officers. in all, 47 people were arrested, but tensions did not escalate to nearly the same extent that we ve seen the last several nights. rather than cocktails, protesters were throwing water bottles filled with urine at officers. rather than tear gas and smoke grenades, they used pepper spray. it was called a turning point. tonight, we saw a different dynamic, no cocktails tonight, no shootings, no smoke bombs, no tear gas, and tonight again, no police officers fired a single bullet. reporter: police say the violence could have. worse if not for community leaders who put themselves between the line of police and the protesters, calming the younger protesters out there and who were looking initially for more violent interactions with the officers. those community leaders, police say, are crucial to maintaining the progress they saw last night. heather? all right, thank you very much. we ll check back in with you. be careful out this. with the grand jury set to hear hear evidence, is he convicted before all the evidence is in? joining us now, steve rogers, thank you for joining us. oh, you re welcome. the evidence is not in. the grand jury s called. is this up usual in this case? yes, it is. look, there s been an epic failure of political leadership. it s a disservice to the people and especially to the officer. the officer did not wake up that morning with the preconceived notion to shoot somebody. he s entitled to justice, fair trial, the evidence. impossible to say all the evidence is in. this is a rush to judgment, a political witch hunt. you mentioned a political witch hunt. eric holder, the attorney general of the united states. let s listen to what he had to say. in things racial, we ve always been, and we, i believe, continue to be in too many ways essentially a nation of cowards. you look at the way the attorney general of the united states treated yesterday, what attorney general had to deal with that kind of treatment? what president has ever had to deal with that kind of treatment? these outbursts of bigotry, while deplorable, are not the true markers of the struggle that must be waged or the work that still needs to be done because the greatest threat do not announce themselves in screaming headlines. they are more subtle. they cut deeper. i don t think this is a main driver, but for some, there s a racial okay, eric holder is in missouried today. those are comments he s made in the past. is it possible for him to go and be fair and balanced in the situation? absolutely impossible. look, imagine being on the grand jury or jury if there s a trial after listening to this, when you re a leader in government, especially in a police department, you need to separate your emotion from everything that s going on. it s been painted this case from the beginning, and, unfortunately, for that officer, he s going to have an uphill battle. from the very beginning, just the social media involvement in this where the officer s name was forced to be released. we also released the video of this alleged robbery that happened right before, so a lot has been moved by emotion from the beginning. well, it has been. this is an epic failure of leadership. to this day, there s not one spokesman, no one s in charge, and they have to bring somebody in there who is unbiassed and take charge of the situation and bring order. look, the people in ferguson, they are good, contained some of the violence, and the police are doing a tremendous job. it s the politicians who are causing a lot of the problems down there. a lot of the protesters from outside the city. thank you for joining us, appreciate it. you re welcome. steve rogers will join us again at 5:00 a.m. so stay tuned. new unrest in nearby st. louis after police shot and killed a 23-year-old black man who wave a nave at them. he refused the drop the weapon and reportedly yelled to the police officers, kill me now, and charge them. the two cops involved are on paid administrative leave. happening now, gunman release the four of six children held hostage in a standoff with police in harvey, illinois. the drama unfolds when two police officers were shot and wounded responding to a burglary in progress. the armed men taking six children and two adults hostage inside the home. how two of the children have been released, but two children and two adults are still being held at this hour. the governor of texas booked on felony abuse of power charges. rick perry turning himself in a courthouse and promising to fight the charges. i m going to fight this injustice with every fiber of my being, and we will prevail. governor perry set to be arraigned friday, but is not required to be there for that. the indictment accuses him of abusing power when he vetoed funds going to a county prosecutor s unit that investigates public corruption. a short time after all that, the governor tweeted a picture of himself enjoying an ice cream cone. the time now is 12 minutes after the top of the hour, and it was the primary to help shift the balance of power in congress, but this morning, the results are not in. what happened overnight when we come back. and katie perry offered the gig of a lifetime. a chance to sing at the super bowl. but there s a catch, a big catch. stay tuned. people join angie s list for all kinds of reasons. i go to angie s list to gauge whether or not the projects will be done in a timely fashion and within budget. angie s list members can tell you which provider is the best in town. you ll find reviews on everything from home repair to healthcare. now that we re expecting, i like the fact i can go onto angie s list and look for pediatricians. the service providers that i ve found on angie s list actually have blown me away. find out why more than two million members count on angie s list. angie s list reviews you can trust. breaking overnight. all eyes on alaska where the primary polls are closed, but the closely watched republican senate race still to close to call. robert gray is live with the report. good morning. reporter: hey, good morning, heather, that s right. moments ago, the governor conceding after early results put him in third place in the gop senate race. the numbers are still coming in, but the marine officer, dan sullivan takes the lead with 40% of the vote followed by joe miller, taking on the democratic incumbent in the fall. he easily won his primary tuesday. sullivan entered the race as the presumed front runner with the backing of national gop power brokers and huge cash advantage over his rivals. alaska closely watched across the nation because this race may determine who controls the current democratic controlled senate. republicans needed a net gain of six seats to gain control. meantime in the governor s race, the former governor faces off the democrat, byron. thank you. in wyoming, the republican governor beating back two gop challengering campaigning for the second term. he s gained support from the industry, and incumbent senator enzi prevailing over four challengers setting him up against charlie harley who is seeking a fourth term in senate. now to extreme weather, ferocious flooding in arizona. watch as a homeowner is trying to flag down help to get out of the way of the rush water there. the house only held up by that tree. a short time later, a helicopter dropping in rescuers to save that entire family. in another area, a woman pull from a van moments before it was covered entirely by the flood waters. the rescuers there, this happened all over the state, which in fewer than 24 hours saw more rain than it saw all of last summer. the time now is 18 after the top of the hour, and bet you didn t know this, the violent protesters in missouri using a secret weapon, and the police and the media never saw it coming. and what is called one of the biggest government land grabs of our time. what it means for your private property next. welcome back, president obama is considering are proposed list of 12 national monuments, all of them in western states. preservations after pushing the land from development. locals are frustrate calling it, quote, the mother of all land grabs. we have more from the colorado national monument. reporter: contributes krae there s places, but those in utah says it has to stop. the antiquities act gives the presidents authority to declare national land as monuments, which become national parks. grand canyon, statue of liberty, arches national park. reporter: some say it s been abused. now it s a political purpose to make a political statement on land that s not endangered in any way. reporter: officials worry about a repeat of president clinton s 1996 sadesignation of monument that covers an area large as riemds and delaware combined zblp they shut down everything. you can t access it. those on the east coast or east of the rockies for that matter do not understand the land matter or distribution of land, which is mainly here in the west. reporter: 50% of the american west is owned by the federal government. in utah, it s 70%. every county is 92% federal land, so we in the west see it differently because we face it and live with it every day. reporter: the utah congressman is working to head off new declaration. create wilderness, scenic areas, and economic development. reporter: recently, 14 democratic senators asked the president to declare more land in utah as a national monument. the problem is none of the senators are from the intermountain west. thank you. 24 minutes after the top of the hour. you thought you had a bad day? imagine losing $21,000 of your boss s money. that employee s nightmare story coming up next. and katie perry offered the gig of a lifetime, a chance to see at the super bowl, but there s a big catch, a really big catch. it s wednesday, august 20th, a fox news alert, one of the most brutal and horrifying attacks ever. that american journalist in the orange beheaded by isis, and now the terrorists threatening more bloodshed. furry in ferguson simmering overnight, but not for long. a grand jury taking steps to go after officer darren wilson before all the evidence is gathered. why some say it s all about the politics. plus, a court coaxing the government to make changes in every airport in the country, but you are not allowed to know about the challenges. fox and friends first, right now. good morning to you, wednesday, august 20 th, welcome to the early edition of fox & friends first. this first, horrific murder. isis militants beheading missing american journalist james foley in a shocking and disturbing video. now another american reporter being held could also be at risk. we are live in washington as u.s. officials broke down the video frame by frame, disturbing stuff. reporter: tough stuff to watchings ladies. good morning, james foley was a freelance journalist reporting from syria. he disappeared in syria in november 2012. isis posted the video on line. they told the press that the tape is authentic. we re just showing the still frame right there. he s appearing in prison orange, hands bound behind him, kneeling next to the mill tapt reading what is a prepared anti-american statement saying he will be killed in retaliation for u.s. air strikes in iraq, and them is executed. some say this video should mark a turning poi policy. this is one of our own. this is someone from our own village, from new hampshire. this affects people in the oval office the way it affects you and me. reporter: the family asked for privacy while they mourn. his mother issued a statement on facebook saying, in part, we ve never been prouder of our son jim giving his life to expose the world, the suffering of the syria people, and employ the kidnappers to spare the lives of the remaining hos tamgs like jim. they are innocent. if the attacks continue in iraq, they vow to execute the other american hostage they have, a man from miami. president obama left washington yesterday to resume vacation, but expect to hear from him later today about foley s execution. ladies? thank you. we have been showing you james foley s interview with bill o reilly from back in 2011. it was after he was captured in libya by forces. they sbinterrogated me for s hours initially, it was a mind game. one guy was playing good cop. one guy came in yelling saying we think you re a spy, and eventually, you figure out, look, i just got to stick to the story, tell the absolute truth that i m a journalist. that s my only chance. foley was released six weeks later. that brings us now to look who is talking. the ceo of concerned veterans for america who says make no mistake about it, the beheadings is just the latest proof that isis is more more than a terrorist group. it is an absolute demonstration of the sheer evil of this enemy, and it is not just the terrorist group. a lot of people use the phrase terrorist group, but at this point, it s a terrorist army that believes they control a state, an islamic state, the seasonal border of iraq and syria want to expand beyond that and in some accounts, has up to 80,000 fighters. a fox news alert, major developments in the investigation of the shooting death of unarmed teen michael brown. eric holder is headed to ferguson, missouri today to meet with local community leaders and the fbi. a grand jury will also begin hearing evidence on the case. former prosecutor and defense attorney ted williams weighing in on how they think that will go. maybe the full truth is not going to come out, but you have to have a little bit of faith in the system it s going to work, and it s going to work out well, just, and fairly. anyone can indict a ham sandwich before a grand jury, but what we are looking for is fairness for brown and fairness for the police officer. i don t want them to rush this investigation. i don t want them to rush into a grand jury. this needs to be done right. attorney general holder promised to spare a thorough investigation into the shooting. well, a night of peaceful protesting turned into a tense confrontati confrontation. what sparked a moment of chaos, and was anyone arrested? reporter: yeah, heather, it was just before midnight when tensions flaired there for a bit. officers say they recognized one of the protesters as a previous offender. they went in, tackled him, and the crowd of protesters behind him charged officers in throwing bottles filled with urine at the officers. they say that s an improvement from the other night. in all, only 47 people were arrested, and tensions did not escalate to anywhere near the level we ve seen in the recent nights. officers did not deploy the tear gas or smoke grenades, and they only used limited amounts of pepper spray. captain ron johnson credits the many kmund leaders who came out to put themselves between the police and protesters so the tensions did not escalate further than they did. what made the difference, you may ask? tonight, the ea elders in this community, volunteers, activists, and the clergy came out in large number. they walked, they talked with people. they urged peace. it had a common influence on the younger people. reporter: captain johnson said it was a turning point for the police effort, but they are constantly reevaluating the strategy and efforts they are looking to do moving forward. live in ferguson for us, thank you. joining us now is the st. louis radio talk show host. mcgraw, i understand you have brand new breaking news information about the grand jury. so this morning, they re going to start the process of the grand jury, and there s going on there s a jurisdictional fight going on. governor nixon has the right to take away the prosecution s case and bring it into the state. he has that authority since declaring it a state of emergency. we ll talk about it on the show today. there s a fight going on. everyone s claiming he should not be the one doing it. well, it s not his decision to do it anymore. it s governor nixon, and now the focus is on whether or not governor nixon will take it away from bob or not. all right, mcgraw, focus on this, let s talk about social media, tweets per minute. the shooting happened on august 9th, no tweets per minute, that day, but a week later, on the 13th, about 4400 tweets per minute on social media, so is social media driving this investigation? i think social media, when said and done, will be a major point of this controversy because that s what got the word out. that s what people are talking about. instability communication. we had news organizations then tweet out, take him back, and other people sent out real information on tweets. this is how things grow, and remember, the arab spring got started because of twitter because of social media. this, we re now seeing this, this is going to be a part of major controversies in the future. it s interesting because times have change so much, and so many rely on social media to get information. in fact, both sides of this, the officer and the family of the teenager that was shot, both sides are using social media to raise money to help their campaigns and pay for funerals and pay for attorneys. so far, 82,000 has been raised for the brown family, and for the officer on facebook, he s got 40,000 fans as of last night, and he s raised $55,000 in two days. it s really interesting phenomena, as you said. i have met numerous documentary filmmakers out here who are using twitter, using facebook, using social media, using their videos from the phones to create some type of documentary. this is just the beginning of what this is all going to be. mcgraw, a lot of support is growing for the officer as we were just discussing. do you think that many people are afraid to support that officer verbally, but doing it on social media? i think in the beginning most people wanted the facts to come out and were waiting in judgment, waiting before they made their judgment. after captain johnson went to the support michael brown rally and sort of many people thought that was a little over the line, so i think because of that, that allowed people to come out and say, well, if he can support and go to that rally, we can then certainly support officer wilson. so i think you re seeing the battle lines drawn, but i think many, many people, still many, many people are reserving judgment, but there s nothing wrong with saying we support the officer while he s saying, hey, i ll stay neutral, however, i m supporting the family. mcgraw live for us, thank you for waking up early again this morning. my pleasure. the nephew of pope francis losing his wife and two children in a car crash in argentina. the accident happening as the family was returning home. their car collided with a truck northeast of buenos aires. the pope was saddened by the news and ask all who share in the grief to unite with him in prayer. cold hearted an chilling, police describing two teenagers arrested for planning to shoot up their school in pasadena, california. police now say the teens researched guns, bullet proof vests, and bomb making techni e techniqu online. the unname teens have plotted the attack in detail on social media until the community members told school and price. officers did not find weapons in the home, but they would have access to relatives guns. the boys were charge with conspiracy and criminal threats. more charges could be on the way. more than a million dollars of pot seized in california, a million dollars. sheriff deputies raided five greenhouses and four marijuana gardens. plants were seized, and the marijuana garden could have yielded a pound of marijuana bud per plant, but estimate the street value of the plant is at $1.7 million. a lot of min. it fell off the truck, i swear. nearly $21,000 now missing after a bag of cash falls off the roof of an armored truck that had picked it up from atlantic city s revel casino. the truck company opened an investigation and is cooperating with law enforcement. now even more cash strapped revel is expected to chose down for good on september 2. the nfl putting a twist on this year s souper bowl halftime show. the eye of the tiger dancing through the fire for the first time ever, the league wants artists to pay to play the coveted gig, pay, giving a portion of the tour income of the suggestion, getting a chilly reception from katie perry, cold play, and rihanna. it s set for february 1 in phoenix. 20 minutes until the top of the hour, up next, a major recall, something in nearly every american s kitchen cabinets. and the police could not stop them, the national guard couldn t either, but the next guest says there is one trick that just might work. prayer. we still do not know most of the facts surrounding the brown shooting, but that s not stopping protesters from making up their mind about the case. fox news contributor david web asked protesters if officer wilson is guilty. listen. what happens if the officer is not guilty? i m not sure. i think it pretty much speaks for itself. i believe that he was guilty. just somebody was murdered. someone was shot. doesn t usually if someone shoots someone, isn t there something that happens to the person that shot him? so how can peace be restored? thank you so much for joining us. thank you for having me. these are a lot of questions people not just in ferguson but across the country are asking. i would like to begin with how we got here to begin with, why the initial response and overwhelming violent response in this community? i think the response, particularly in such a rapped manner it is suggested there was a bed rom of tension between law enforcement and the african american community. one of the things that happened is when the incident first happened there was not enough emphasis placed on a vigil. i would have started with prayer not protest. you have to start a foundation before they quickly get out of hand. now that hit has already started with the protest instead of the prayer vigils, how do we stop it? where do we go from here? i think the community needs to take leadership back from many who are engaged in kind of an influx and in flow into that community. 78 people were arrested the night before last and only four of them were from ferguson. the local people must praise themselves up and begin to deal with the issues around tensions and police misconduct and race relations, et cetera, themselves and the community. it does seem a lot of the protestors in the evening protest when they are getting out of hand don t even seem to be from ferguson in that area from as far away as new york and california. during the day the protests taking a very different turn and seem to be very peaceful. what do you make of that? i think, heather, one of the things i try to do in all of the demonstrations i have led on police misconduct issues and other things, i have tried to make sure that i was sensitive to the community that would be left behind once civil rights activists and leaders like myself leave. one of the great tragedies in this instance is people are going into ferguson who don t necessarily understand the historic or cultural context of that community and obviously are not sensitive to the need for people to have to live in that community once all of the dust settles and all of this is ever oh. people really must give ferguson a chance to heal themselves. i would call for suspension in all of the in flow of people going into that community. the family s league central g , gee strategy it should be driven by their council and thstrategy. let people take care of themselves and come together and pray. thank you so much. we appreciate your words. great to be with you. the white house is not saying how they are changing the rules for the no fly list. it will give travelers on the no fly list a suspected terrorist a clearer way to appeal so they can get taken off of that list. a federal judge ruled this unconstitutional. the justice department says the changes can start over the next six months. about 48,000 people are on that no fly list. now for a recall alert. your rit almond or peanut butter jar may contain salmonella. now it is being pulled from store shelves. it includes arrowhead mills peanut butter, all mopped butter and private label of almond butter from trader joes whole foods, kroger and safe way. lots of stores affected. also a recall for a child car seat, ricaro recalling 39,000 of the chairs the pro sport model 385. they say it is unsafe for the seat install ted without the to tether. eric holder about to arrive in ferguson with new results from the autopsy of michael brown. forensic experts says hold on. something about that report very suspicious. you have a used car? today you better lock your doors. we will explain why. attorney general eric holder heading to ferguson today to meet with federal law enforcement investigating the michael brown shooting. this as details begin to emerge and the federal autopsy of brown s body which is the third being performed. it is an unusual step taken by the federal government. so what exactly is the doj looking for now. joining us is jennifer bare ringer. is this necessary three autopsy reports? not normally. it is rare rare tther rare. given the scope of what s going on down there it seecms sensibl for someone to come in and take a partial report and redo it. attorney general holder wants to look at the state autopsy they did. that is very rare. you would expect if it were a federal or state affair. exactly venlt you are saying it is rare the federal government get involved. someone has to take charge of this. there are so many cooks in the kitchenment you have every agency getting involved and the state should have done something about this and it didn t now it goes to the federal government. it is true. you are right it fell on their doorsteps. here s an interesting thing. obviously yesterday the state had a police officer shoot another black man. there was an agitated crowd there. the chief of police came out and gave an immediate statement. this could have happened. there was a weapon involved with that. there was a knife. it could have happened here. this is a more difficult case. the fact that they kept back so much information and choose to release things like inflammatory video the and statement abouts marijuana. the protestors are thinking this wouldn t happen if the man was white. awe of the autopsies are they all consistent? they are so far. little information. they seem to be consistent. jennifer bare riringer. good to see you again. if you thought this video was crazy, what if we told you it happened in the middle of the desert. the bizarre reason why that s coming up. if you just got charged with a felony. how would you celebrate. rick per re going where no suspect has gone before. stay with us. this is a fox news alert. horrifying attack against that american journalist. kidnapped and beheaded by terrorists overseas. and they say they are going to do it again unless the president meets their demands. and ferguson simmering overnight. a grand jury now taking steps to go after officer darren wilson before all of the evidence is even gathered. gone in 60 seconds. forget the report card, the vehicles thieves are really going after. the most stolen car in america ee vealed. fox & friends first starts right now. good morning to you. you are watching fox & friends first on this wednesday morning. i am heather childers. i am ainsley earhardt. a gruesome beheading of american journalist james foley in a shocking and disturbing video. now they are threatening the life of another american reporter. more on james foley. leland? james foley worked as a freelance journalist reporting for a company called global post. he disappeared while working in the northern part of that embattled company november 129. this is a still frame of the gruesome video. they believe the tape to be authentic. in the tape foley appears wearing friz son orange, hands bound behind him kneeling next to a militant. he gives to be a prepared anti-american statement saying he is being killed because of u.s. air strikes and then he is executed. some say the video should mark a turning point in u.s. policy. taking severe military action. i am not talking about a lot of boots on the ground. the african model. the model we used to defeat the taliban can be used. you have seen the last couple days the dam has been