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Questions and this kind of thing and it is deceptive in its packaging. people love that term because it is kind of easy to underand it and that is what i'm all about, as you know, shep. >> shepard: i do know that. i just -- i'm not inspired. >> there are recipes, too. you may be inspired as well. >> shepard: it as new world, catherine. thanks so much for being here. >> you're welcome. >> shepard: the weather a mess, too. spring storms causing a big mess in the southeast. horrible winds and thunderstorms and tornadoes. we looked at this 30,000 times before megan got on the air today. sweeping a...

Stadium. matt finn is there. matt you're three minutes away from a -- >> total eclipse of the sun. >> shepard: -- total eclipse of the sun. how's it going? >> i'm going to be a little quiet right now, shep, i don't want to interrupt anyone. i'll be a little quiet, but the clouds have departed and you can see the eclipse now. the clouds just part anded we're about two minutes away from the total solar eclipse. the crowds went wild. >> shepard: the sun is smaller in carbondale than it was in other cities and they're shoot trey gowdy from a boat. but it's a total eclipse. there is that guy, wants...

Got an opportunity to see something like this. >> this is amazing. it will be around in 2024 again, right? shep it's a pretty cool environment here. it's called a sell less sir al super bowl, if you will. >> i was going listening, i see you had to get a ticket to get into the stadium there. you say they're going to have 15,000, is that true? >> the stadium hits 15,000 capacity. i have to say as you look around you can see we're probably nearing capacity. >> guys did you buy a ticket to this event? how much did it cost you? >> 25. >> what is the most expensive ticket today? have you heard? >> n...

Well, this hasn't happened in a long time. and then we knew something really bad occurred. >> shepard: something very bad indeed. experts say this looks to them like the deadliest balloon crash ever. the victims were from europe and asia. there were no americans on board. leland vittert on fox top story in our middle east newsroom. what are investigators saying started this thing? >> shep, right now they are thinking it's somehow the line that goes from the gas tank up to the burner that warms the air in a hot air balloon broke and the gas started spewing out. it hit the flame that was already...

Been trending downward in the last two years after five years of steady increases beginning in 2006. >> the problem is the attacks weren't trending downward. they were exactly the same as in 2011. an embarrassing admission by the pentagon that the the narrative about how the president's strategy in afghanistan was bearing fruit may have been misleading, shep. >> shepard: they must be making some case at the pentagon in their own defense. >> well, in essence, they blame the afghans. the afghan commanders supposedly forgot to submit their field reports about the attacks so the pentagon data was ...