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Their assessment. officials say this will not effect the time line of the pullout from afghanistan, shepard. >> shepard: fox extreme weather center deadly one, two punch for the midwest. second deadliest storm. this monster stretches more than 1,000 miles across. rain to the east, heavy snow now hitting chicago. the same storm buried parts of kansas and missouri. more than two feet of snow in some pars of texas. shatter wanted the record to data 1893. oklahoma, the heavy snow was more than this roof could handle. also brought down the roof of a home and killed a person inside. the storm brough...

About the security situation in afghanistan. it turns out the numbers the pentagon told us about to tout how well they were doing are wrong. plus nks a hot air balloon explodes? mid-air. tourists killed by more than a dozen. >> i hear a loud explosion and see a lot of smoke. >> shepard: witnesses say the blast shook the ground and some passengers jumped seven stories trying to escape the burning balloon. tonight, searching for answers as the blame game begins. plus,. [bell] >> shepard: 20 years ago today. [sirens] >> shepard: terrorists tried to bring down the world trade center. >> it was jus...

Self-inflicted budget crisis. the one the white house and congress created in the first place. we have moved the bill in the house twice. we should not have to move a third bill before the senate gets off their ass and begins to do something. >> i think he should understand who is sitting on their posterior. i ask the republican speaker where is your bill. >> shepard: speaker boehner says there was a bill passed last year. the trouble is the analysts say those bills expired when the new congress took over in washington. it is a ridiculous government created mess. one striking example. the pent...

>> yes. >> once again the defense team hasn't had one person be able to come forward and corroborate the evidence that she had some sort of mistreatment by travis alexander, shepard. >> >> shepard: they they even got tonight day he died there in the courtroom? >> no, they haven't. 11 days on the stand so far. four days on cross-examination. they haven't gotten to that at all. they are still talking about past boyfriends and the fact shah she followed some of them around and checked some of their emails. there is still significant parts of her story they haven't cross-examined yet. a will the o...

>> shepard: the oil giant bp did indeed have the resources to prevented the deep horizon water disaster instead turned safety system into quote a traveling road show. that from the government's first witness in the very high stakes civil trial today. this witness is an engineering professor who says he had warned those officials years and years before the explosion do not cut cost for accident prevention. he says they didn't listen and that safety failures ultimately caused the blowout in 2010. that rig exploded and sank into the gulf of mexico. 11 men died and millions upon millions of gallon...