just satellite alone, we knew it would be a strengthening storm, 120-mile an hour sustained winds, that is a formidable category three storm, it's moving west, tropical storm force winds, 185 miles from the center, southeast of this eye, that's where they're getting the worst weather, hurricane-force winds and rain, and just terrible weather for parts of the u.s. and british virgin islands. now we have a -- i believe a hurricane warning for puerto rico. they did have a hurricane watch earlier but with a new advisory, now hurricane warning. just want to show you our scale there, that's where we are now, 120-mile per hour sustained winds, we are expect to go get the stronger hurricane within the next day or so, up to a category four storm. that will be our second major storm this season, within the last week. we've seen two, including danielle. there's the very latest from the national hurricane center, it hasn't changed much. it's now category three, becoming a category four storm, but as mentioned earlier, anywhere from the outer banks to maine, atlantic, canada, you need to know what your hurricane preparation plan is. we call this the cone of uncertainty for a reason. this center of this storm, if it moves a little more to the west, we're we're going to e dealing with a major hurricane along the east coast. so again, in these areas, you need to know what you are going to do, what zone you're in, what your preparation plan is going to be. again, as we get further out in time, these cones have about a 300-mile discrepancy from the center of this storm, so we could be dealing with a storm that pushes a little bit more to the west, four to five days out. i can't stress this enough, because we have this cone that stretches from the coastal carolinas all the way up to maine, you need to know what you are going to be doing in the next couple of days, if this hurricane does indeed come closer to land. there are tropical storm models, if there's any good news, they're in a good consensus, but this is going to stay away from shore. we're still going to feel the effects of this storm. if it comes within the cone of that center right there, we're going to be dealing with something like a noreaster, so heavy rain, winds, high surf, ripcurrents, it's going to be big deal and of course if the storm comes a little more to the west, this is going to be a major event for the east coast. back to you. jenna: we'll be watching it closely and we know you will as well, j.d., thank you very much. 120-mile an hour winds, huh? gregg: pretty severe stuff. coming up in the next hour, a live report from the cranan on hurricane earl and the damage it's causing. steve harrigan is on the eye lawn of saint thomas, that's in the next hour of "happening now". jenna: by the way, earl could be affecting the east coast of the united states, big holiday weekend, of course, coming up, and you can track this storm and get up to the minute forecasts for your area, log on to foxnews.com/weather, we have all the latest information right there for you. meantime, we have a couple other stories we want to get to as well, "happening now", in the top box, brand new reports that vice president biden just arrived in iraq, as u.s. troops prepare to end their combat operations there, but there are dangers facing our troops and we're going to go in depth moments from now. gregg: in the middle box the first wave of national guard troops now deployed on the u.s.-mexican border but will that be enough to stop the growing drug violence from spilling into our country. jenna: and disappearing without a trace, 45 years later, the fbi is opening the cay of -- the case of elizabeth gil, what may have happened to this little girl and the family's reaction straight ahead. gregg: we're in the fox news room where breaking news is coming in from all other than the world, the domestic desk, covering the domestic desk, the foreign desk covering events around the world and the media desk, with pictures and video tkwefrb. former all-star pitcher roger clemens is in washington, d.c., he is getting ready to hear federal charges against him within the hour. prosecutors say the rocket lied to congress about using steroids and other drugs. rick leventhal, live in our new york newsroom with more. rick, what do we expect to have at the courthouse today? >> the hearing itself is in the federal courthouse in washington, it should be quick, u.s. district judge reggie walton will ask clemens if he understands the charges against him and the cy young winner will enter his plea, which is expected to being in. in 2008 clemens was accused of lying repeatedly when he did not \dollars/{^ed} using performance enhancing drugs. before court clemens will be fingerprinted and have his mug shot taken by federal marshals, which is a long leap from a baseball card. gregg: i read the indictment, it is bare bone as if they didn't want to really reveal the evidence. what do we know about the evidence against him? >> reporter: the most damaging evidence may be the testimony from clemens' former trainer pwraoeubg mcnamy who told congress he injected clemens repeatedly with steroids and human growth hormones, he also apparently gave investigators syringes and drug paraphernalia he used on clemens and those reportedly tested positive for steroids and the presence -- presence of clemens' dna, and he told congress that clemens admitted to using the drugs. >> i'm not saying the report is entirely wrong, i am saying brian mcnamy's statements about me are wrong. let me be clear i have never taken steroids or hdh. >> khr*elence has turn down on affair for a plea deal but could strike another one before the case goes to trial. gregg: as if he has a care not in the world, there are reports he's playing in a golf tournament? >> the new york daily news says he's flying by jet to washington and then to south carolina after court to play with his wife in a golf tournament and since he's going to miss the normal tee time, the tournament official will escort him around the course to verify his score and rejoin the field as the tournament continues tomorrow, gregg. gregg: all right, rick leventhal, thank you very much. what exactly is in store for the former major league all-star when he steps into the court of law? two sports reporters who happen to be lawyers as well, legal analysts, will break down the case against roger clemens for us. jenna: "ing -- happening right now, 30 national guard troops are reporting for duty in arizona, hundreds more joining them in coming weeks, all this is part of the president's plan to boost security along our southwest border, as we see more and more drug violence spill over from mexico into the u.s. james rosen is on this story, live for us in washington. james. >> reporter: jenna, good day to you, for american citizens in those southwest states help is undeniably on the way, the question remains whether it will be enough help to contend with the violence spawned by narco trafficking along the mexican border. the first of more than 530 national guard troops are deploying to arizona today with successive waves slated to continue arriving there each monday. they will not serve in a direct law enforcement capacity but rather will man surveillance posts and computer systems and call in customs and border protection agents if and when they spot illegals or smugglers. in all, 1200 national guard members will deploy to the four states along the southwest border. a bill signed into law by president obama earlier this month will provide homeland security secretary janet napolitano with $600 million to spend on 1500 new border patrol ice and dea agents. add up the 1200 national guard members and 1500 new border patrol ice and dea agents and you have the obama administration committing 3000 troops to the border battle. the president and his allies call this commitment of resources unprecedented but appearing on "america's newsroom" less than an hour ago, 4-thermohouse republican from arizona said double that contingent is needed and argued this is one of the number of national security issues the obama administration does not adequately grasp. >> the reality is john mccain and john kyl and i had asked for 6000 troops for the southern border, and they chose 1200, which about 500 are coming to the arizona area, and you know, in the backdrop of iran just announcing recently that they have enough material to ultimately fuel two nuclear warheads, this administration continues to refuse to secure the border and weaken our missile defense. >> reporter: also as part of the new law that the president signed into effect about two weeks ago, there will be more unmanned drone flights along the u.s.-mexican border. jenna. jenna: james rosen on a developing story, thank you. gregg: we're getting word of new danger from a volcano that has not erupted in more than 400 years. hot ash now shooting out of the crater, but is that the last of the rumblings there? plus, what's happening to folks living nearby? and america's combat role in iraq may be over but we still have 50,000 men and women on the ground there. we're going to be talking about the danger that our troops are still facing. and you can get breaking news, e-mail alerts wherever you are, whenever. just go to foxnews.com and click on the register link at the top of our site for the latest fox news updates right to your in box. gregg: welcome back, "happening now" around the world, in the top box, brand new videotape of the trapped miners in chile, it shows them doing a whole lot better after getting food and clothing. the miners have been down there since august 5th, it could take several more month toss rescue them. middle box, thousands of evacuees now returning to what's left of their homes in the flood zones of pakistan. amid growing complaints that food and water are in very short supply. bottom box, how about this? a volcano in indonesia erupts for the first time in 400 years. clouds of hot ash, shooting from the crater, forcing more than 30,000 people to flee the area. jenna: "happening now", president obama is gearing up for a major speech on the end of the u.s. combat role in iraq, and there are reports that vice president biden just landed on the ground in baghdad. but the war isn't over yet for thousands of american troops still stationed in iraq, facing a dangerous security situation and a very uncertain political climate. for more on this, captain pete hekxea is director of executives for freedom. served in iraq in 2005 and 2006 and recently returned there as a civilian. captain, talktous a little about the danger that the troops on the ground face, whether they're combat troops or not combat troops right now in iraq. >> well, in many senses, it's very similar to what they faced last month, before the combat mission was over. what were formerly combat brigades are advise and assist brigades. you've still got platoons and companies going out partnering with iraqi security force toss secure the neighborhood. thankfully the situation there is a great deal better than it was before the surge, violence is down over 90 percent, markets are open , iraq's security forces are far more confident -- competent, but we've still got about 20,000 troops on a daily basis in harm's way partnering with iraq to make sure that now that we've won the war, the 7-plus years, that we now win the peace and that's going to require the same commitment for a lot of men and women remaining in harm's way. jenna: you said we've won the war. we haven't heard that in -- from our leaders yet. why not stp. >> there's a reluctance for many people to say it because winning the war on a macro level involves winning the petitions and that's what we still have to remain committed to doing, whether it's men toring, whether it's -- there are now 660,000 iraqi security force kpoepbts and making sure the political progress actually solidifies itself. there was an election almost six months ago now, they haven't yet formed a government but the best part about that is they're fighting it out, 245eur7 not fighting it out with bullets and bombs, they're fighting it out behind closed doors and meetings between different coalitions and sunni and shia to determine who will be the next prime minister and what the shape of the next parliament will be. that's a vast improve phefpbt that's how you win the overall war butle butets and bombs on the ground, the troops and brave iraqi forces next to them have taken a fight to al-qaeda, pushed them out of the country and folks like muqtada al sadr who were a threat no longer are. we won the war, now we need to win the peace and i hope obama will address the fact that the surge made it possible, successful, and now we'll renew the commitment to make sure we have a stable, prosperous, quasi stable and quasi prosperous damsy -- democracy. >> in that quasi stable democracy, we lost an american troop over the last few days and we're hearing again reports of the vice president landing on the ground in baghdad to celebrate the change of this mission to a diplomatic one. if this mission is a diplomatic one, what powers do our u.s. troops have to defend themselves if they are actually attacked? >> well, they can still defend themselves and they're still allowed to return fire when fired upon. jenna: if they're in a dangerous situation, they have to wait until they're provoked to actually fire. >> well, ultimately i think the commanders on the ground are going to let platoon leaders and sergeant toss make that decision if they should engage but yes, we'll be deferring to the iraqi counterparts. we have about 5000 counter terrorist elite special forces types who are at the tip of the shall peer still, taking the fight to remaining insurgent cell, so we're still going on the offensive, behind the scenes. you won't hear much about that in the speech tonight but we still have pretty proactive measures going on and it means a lot that we are there, even if our numbers are diminishing the iraqiingso iraqis know we'll be there to make it through this transition period to help them take it on their own. jenna: general ray odierno is leaving on wednesday after five years of leading our troops there. we have a new general coming in, general lloyd austin iii, we haven't heard about that, it's not going to be a huge ceremony, but this is happening. what does that mean to the troops there? >> well, i think it's symbolic of a transition but i also think the troops will be sad to see a guy like general odierno leave, he embodies the learning curve of the military, embodies the resolve of what our army and marine corps have done on the ground in iraq that, if you stick to the fight, change your strategy and do it right with enough resources you can ultimately change the dynamics on the ground. general odierno and general petraeus were the two guys that primarily made that happen in the thick of things in '07 and '08 and will be missed but i've heard great things about general austin, there's no reason to believe we won't continue to do great things and it's a civilian-led initiative so the new better coming in willle have to be focused on making sure iraqis form a government which could lead to further negotiations between the united states -- with the united states about more troops in the future which will be needed beyond 2011 but that's something we need to discuss with the sovereign iraqi government. jenna: and that's something we'll have to discuss in the future as well. captain, thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you for having me. gregg: -- gregg gregg one of the greatest pitchers of all time in baseball in a federal court of law, roger khr*elence about to hear the charges he's facing in a long growing steroid scandal. so what is in store for the rocket? and look, ma! no net. wow! a daredevil takes on a skyscraper down under, scaling a 57 story building. with only his bare hands? >> let me be clear, i have never taken steroids or ado hdh. thank you. gregg: a fox news alert, roger khr*eplsence now in the station's capitol and in less than an hour he will be appearing before a federal judge for arraignment on perjury charges. prosecutors say clemens lied to congress about using steroids, so what can we expect? ellis canon, publisher of the pittsburgh sports report and former trial attorney, espn senior writer, legal analyst lester munson is on the phone. gentlemen, both are lawyers, as well as being terrific sports reporters. lester, let me start with you. you pointed out in a terrific column recently that clemens' legal team is going to try to weasel out of some of these charges in advance of trial by filing some motions challenging congress' authority. what's the likelihood that will succeed? >> i don't think it's going to succeed, gregg. they will attack the language of the indictment as showing only that there might have been a lie in order to be qualified as perjury, it has to be a lie that is material. that's the key word, material. to the committee's investigation. gregg: right. >> the prosecutors who wrote this indictment did a masterful job, they laid out the basis for the committee's investigation. each and every one of the 15 statements that they used to show the perjury case was totally material to the investigation. clemens has unlimited funds, he can make all the motions he wants, but he's going to be on trial when the time comes. gregg: not only that, u.s. supreme court has repeatedly ruled that congress intend fod major league baseball to have an antitrust exemption, thus, congress has unfettered authority over baseball. ellis, let me turn to you. brian mcnam kwr-fpl's statements incriminating clemens is allegedly corroborated not only by physical evidence, the syringes, but also, the sworn statement of andy pettitte. that's pretty powerful stuff, isn't it? >> well, actually, going forward, gregg, i think that it's the latter that's more important. i think it's the andy pettitte aspect that changes the dynamic dramatically. he's a very believable guy, he handled himself completely differently than roger did. i'm not so sure the syringe part and so forth is going to be part of the trial going forward, at least initially, but i think when you look at the power and impact of andy pettitte, it could be quite decisive. in somors the american public has already made a decision about what they believe occurred here today. today is still important, there will be a not guilty entry and it will go away after a lot of yapping, but the bottom line is sooner or latter roger is going to have to do this all over again. gregg: lester, major league baseball tested secretly back in 2003. now, prosecutors, somehow, managed to seize a lot of that evidence. if clemens actually tested positive, might that be introduced as evidence against him? >> there's no doubt about it. the government has access to all of those tests, they are the subject of litigation in california, and in nevada, but that's not going to stop the prosecutors in d.c. from obtaining the results, and if clemens did test positive, as alex rodriquez did, as sammy sosad. as david ortiz did, then very certainly that will become a part of the case. we may not know for a while whether he tested positive, but as the trial begins, then we will go one way or the other. gregg: ellis, the consensus was that clemens made an absolutely awful witness in front of congress, almost nobody believed him and certainly the committee didn't because they recommended the perjury charges. since then, evidence has come forward that rog eclemens was engaged in an extramarital affair and lied and deceived about that. i checked the federal rules, prosecutors under the rules are permitted to attack his credibility on any subject if he takes the witness stand. i could just hear it now, isn't it true mr. clemens you lied about an affair, how do we know you're not lying now about steroids. that could happen if he takes the stand, right ellis? >> well, i think his major issue off the spwat to somehow convince people that he's telling the truth or for that matter, brian mcnamy is not and beyond that, andy pettitte has misremembered. those are the major issues off the bat. there could be other issues that enter into the cross-examination and the case, but at this point, it's a very important element to remember. i represented former major league baseball players and i know the mentality that these men have. they compete. the arrogance and the attitude that in so many respects served them well on the field carries over off the field. maybe not exactly like roger clemens, who is the real poster child of that plank, but the fact is, they compete and they want to compete over every little aspect and in this case that's what he's done and therefore, he's not giving himself much margin, if any, for error. there's not going to be an opportunity for him to say well, this is what i meant or you misunderstood, the fact is he put himself in a position where it's black or white. gregg: lester, very fast, i'm out of time, this didn't have to happen, did it? rusty hardin and roger clemens got out there, they dared and taunted congress to investigate and when congress complied, congress urged him you don't really need to testify, your department position is okay, but no, without a subpoena, he insisted on testifying, he walked into his own ambush, didn't he? >> he most certainly did and they warned him on three separate occasions that what he was saying was under oath, that he could be prosecuted for perjury, and in a very rare event on capitol hill, both the republicans and the democrats agreed on one thing, the trainer, mcnamy, told the truth and the great pitcher roger clemens lied to them repeatedly. gregg: les emunson, ellis canon, we'll have to watch this june fold and have you back. thank you gentlemen. jenna: from the rocket to spider-man now, spider-man is behind bars another daring crawl all building. check this out, the french stuntman, elaine robair, scaling this 57 story building in sid in any way, australia, with his bare hands, carrying only a little powder to dry his sweaty palms. you might get nervous that high! police arrested him after he reached the top safely. he has successfully climbed 80 around the world. he climbs the buildings, gets arrested. gregg: i don't know how does he that. jenna: fe puts an advertisement on his back, you'll know he's making a living that way! fox news conforms that vice president biden is indeed in baghdad today. what he's there for is for a change of command and change of mission ceremony. that's going to take place on september 1st, wednesday. of course, the president has his big address on the way forward in iraq on tuesday night. so we'll bring you more information as we get it from baghdad and the vice president, who's also there to talk to iraqi leaders about the formation of their new government there. so a lot going on in iraq. in the meantime, alaska's red hot gop senate primary is still too close to call right now. and soon, it will all up to state election workers, as absentee ballots are set to be counted. the latest on this key race coming up. later, police in california launching an all-out search for a missing couple. why cops say the husband is now a person of interest. the latest on this developing story, with harris faulkner, next. >> we are searching for him now, and find that it's very suspicious that she's gone. nobody has heard from her, and -- and now he's gone. gregg bottom of the hours, here's what's happening right now, earl, a powerful category three storm now and forecasters say it could get a whole lot stronger. right now it's making a mess of things in the carribean but it could threaten the easter part -- eastern part of the united states. >> a murder-suicide in slo vac kwrarbgs a gunman armed with a machine gun and pistols, killing six people before killing himself, police say the gunman seemed to fire indiscriminately, no word yet on a motive. this just in, nato now saying that seven american troops are dead, following two separate roadside bomb attack necessary southern afghanistan. this is new videotape just into fox news. witnesses say a u.s. humvee hit a roadside bomb. fourteen u.s. troops have been killed in the last three days alone. this news coming a month after learning that july was the deadliest month of the nine-year war with 66 u.s. troops killed. jenna: well, in the republican senate primary in alaska, absentee and questioned ballot counting is said to begin tomorrow and they could determine the final outcome of a razor thin race between the incumbent lisa murkowski andty party-backed challenger joe miller. chief political correspondent carl cameron is live with more. what's actually going to happen? >> they're going to start the counting of the absentee ballots. avs a close race and absentee ballots are part of a race, particularly when one is close. i think you saw the tally counts, put those back up again, you see 93,000 votes were cast in this race and right now, joe miller, the challenger to the incumbent lisa murkowski, is up about 1500 votes. there are 23,000 outstanding votes right now, and joe miller is hoping to protect his lead, even though his campaign didn't do a lot of the advanced work for absentee ballots that more established incumbents often do. of the 23,000 votes, 16,000 of the absentee ballots and 11,000 have come insofar. the thinking goes this could benefit murkowski because she had a more established campaign with more organization and in the last couple of weeks or really, last three or four weeks before the election, she was leading heavily and some of the absentee ballots had been requested and even cast for her, so she could have an advantage. in addition to the 16,000 or some odd absentee ballots, there's nearly 9000 question ballots, ballots that have been challenged that are also going to be reviewed and looked at and that could take several days. the process stars tomorrow. jenna: as far as actually compete fog that absentee -- absentee vote, carl, did candidatesgate out there and really try to get these guys that they knew were going to be absentee vote stphers. >> sure, but the problem is the political campaigns are supposed to be optimistic, not pessimistic, so they play to win, not taoeurbgs and only when races are very close in the realm of a tie do absentee ballots get counted in many states, so joe miller didn't put a tremendous amount of emphasis in that, he was looking for a sort of a surprise win with the help of tea party support and things of that nature, so it wasn't a big part of his ground game, whereas lisa murkowski, the incumbent senator, it's almost a natural part of the mechanism, they decide they're going to have a water cooler, phone banks in another and an absentee office where they're going to do some of the things for that. that's why murkowski thinks there's an advantage. michael barone, who is an expert and has been following absentee ballots put it this way. >> in alaska, lisa murkowski is hoping the absentee ballots come in heavily for her because she had a big lead over this challenger joe miller in the polls that were taken six and four and even two weeks before the election, but it became close later. so she's likely to do better with those votes that were cast earlier. >> reporter: sort question really becomes does she do better enough with 16,000 absentee ballots to make up a 1600 vote decifit. could be tough. but if she were to do really well, beating joe miller in the absentees by better than 10 percent we could be looking at a recount situation, because that would make it about even. jenna: keeps on going. campaign carl, thank you very much, we appreciate it. fox news is your election headquarters on tv and online, you get up to the minute news on our blog, we are counting the days to the midterms and you can stay on top of all the news. log on to foxnews.com/hq. gregg. gregg: breaking news now out of orange county, california. police are searching for a missing couple, marsha forsberg vanished back in february and then last week, when police started questioning her husband, richard, he disappeared, too. harris faulkner is tracking the latest developments in our newsroom. >> reporter: gregg, there are a lot of interesting twists and turns with this story. you're absolutely right, marsha forsberg and had gone mission and her husband after not once filed a missing persons report. that got the neighbors scratching their heads. in fact one of the neighbors went over and started doing their own investigating, asking him questions. that's what tip the police off, because that neighbor went to the cops and said you know what, i think there's something wrong, i haven't seen this woman since february and he's driving her car and whenever we ask mr. forsberg about his wife marsha, he says oh, she's gone to visit relatives in arizona, next time, it was well, we had a fight, she's not coming back until our 40th anniversary, and then he told a neighbor most recently, we've been fighting a lot, she's just gone. i wish she were the same marsha i married 20 years ago. so police headed off to his house to ask him about his wife, and then lo and behold, next thing you know, richard ro -- fos -- forsberg is missing, last time he was seen was driving his wife's car, a silver, 2001, vw beatle. there's a tipline that people can call, the orange county sheriff's department, if they know where either of these two people would be: # 66-tip-ocsc, orange county sheriff's department. listen to this, when asked about his wife from the police officer, mr. forsberg said that he had no intention of looking for her at this point because he didn't think anything was wrong. he was aware that his behavior has caused some questions in the neighborhood, and then lo and behold, he disappeared. rancho santa march rita is the area in which they live, they are now looking for both of these people, the forsbergs, where is marsha, where is her husband, richard. police say that so far, the only leads they have have been talking to the neighbors and trying to come up with maybe something that he had gotten himself into. he had been telling neighbors he was heavily into gambling all of the sudden. so now they're checking casinos all across the country to see if they can find mr. forsberg. back to you. tkpwrao*ug gregg harris, thank you very much. jenna: another story we're watching, more violence erupting along our border with mexico, how it's spilling over into the u.s., and what washington is doing to try and stop the bloodshed. also an interesting story for you here, 45 years is a long time to hold out hope, but one family still believes this little girl may be alive. now, the fbi is reopening the case of elizabeth gil. we're going to tell you why in just a moment. we know a lot of you are online, while you're watching "happening now". during the break, find out which stories are cooking at fox news.com, just hit the most read tab on the home page to see what's hot. we'll be right back. jenna: take a look at this story. in 1965, a toddler disappeared from the front porch of her missouri home, elizabeth ann gil was two years old when she vanished seemingly without a traeurbgs her family always believed in their heart of hearts she was kidnapped and may actually be alive. now 45 years later the fbi is reopening the investigation. marsha joe hamilton is rizz beth's sister and dan nettemeier is a st. louis special agent. tell us about your family and what happened the day your sister disappeared. >> well, the kids were out playing, it was a beautiful day, and a few minutes after they had been out, one of the sisters gathered them together and said -- noticed elizabeth was missing. soon after that, they called the police, the police came, and from there, it was pretty much chaos. searchers went out looking for elizabeth, the police started developing leads, and the family waited. jenna: and somewhere along the path there, dan, the trail goes cold, 200 volunteers, spread out across the countryside trying to find this little girl. they weren't able to. but that was in 1965. why is the fbi getting involved now? >> i believe there are a number of reasons. first of all, there was never any indication that it was anything other than a kidnapping. we've tried to do what we could through the years and followed leads on our own, and persisted law enforcement locally in keeping the case active. when the finding beth gil page was started on facebook we realized how many people were out there supportinging -- supporting us anding us, so we got more and more persistent and when jim smith with the cape girardo police department got on board he encouraged and pushed the fbi to request to open the case. the recent media attention has helped tremendously. jenna: dan, we need to bring new as well. we actually have an age progression of what melissa might look like, now 45 years later. in a case like this one, where do you start to look? >> the first thing we're going to start is we're going to put together and recreate what cape girardo police department had previously done. obviously times are different than they were back in 1965, so we're getting involved as soon as we can with what's left, one of the primary things we're going to look to do is provide cape girardo police department with the federal resore toss move the case forward. jenna: how often do the cases come back successfully, actually finding the person? >> it actually varies. we know that now, what the fbi really didn't realize then was that the first few hours after an abduction are the most important times in these types of investigations. obviously, we've lost that, but one thing that we can do is what the gil family is doing and that's creating necessary media attention that hopefully somebody out there knows where elizabeth is and they can come forward with the information that they have. contacting the fbi would be an easy way to do that, or the cape girardo police department. jenna: final question here, how have you held on to hope over the last 45 years? >> well, at times, it's been very difficult. you just have to have trust and faith in god, and your friends and family, and in yourself. and you have to keep on going. at this point in time, one of my father's prayers is finally answered, and that's to get the fbi involved. the second prayer, we're waiting for, is finding beth gill and bringing her home. jenna: we're looking forward to seeing how this story develops, and admire you for your hope and your perseverance. martha and dan, thank you very much for joining us. we'll keep you up to date on that story and continue to bring our viewers developments as well. thank you to both of you. >> thank you. jenna: amazing, right? gregg: zookeepers on the lookout for a dangerous critter after this rattle snake escaped its color. how it happened and the race to find the ratler, coming up. plus the imam behind the planned mosque near ground zero is taking out what he's saying is to blame for the fierce opposition to this project. jenna: new next hour, the growing drug violence on the mexico border, what's being done to stop it from spilling over into the u.s.. the president meets with his economic advisers at the white house, could a stimulus plan be coming? we're going to go in depth. the mystery surrounding king tut, how dna is unlocking some of his family's secrets after 3000 years. gregg: some major developments in the ground zero mosque debate now. fea -- feisal abdul rauf, the imam for the mosque near ground zero is saying fierce opposition to the mosque is due to the november elections. one of the leading developers on the project owes hundreds of thousands of dollars in back property taxes. david lee miller live in the newsroom with more. what have you been able to find out about the tax issue? >> reporter: it's at least $224,000. as first reported by the "new york post" but now it appears, gregg, the figure could be even higher than that. we just talked a short time ago with the new york city department of finance, and they did confirm to us that the developers here, 45 park place partners, do owe at least $224,000 in back taxes on the property where the mosque is planned to be built. but we took a look at new york city finance records and let mow show what you we discovered. that is one of the first graphics here. we took a look at the tax bill dating back to january 21st of this year, taxes were 11,085.12, there you see the interest charges , 18,860.55, where a total of $125,000 owed in backtaxes. there's a second tax, and let's bring that up on the screen. ninety thousand -- 97,118.18, then there's interest because the taxes have not been paid, $4500 in interest, the total, a little over $101,000 in back taxes for the second tax bill. add them together, you get $227,000 that's about $3000 more than than had been report add few days ago, possibly because of interest charges. we have not had an explanation by the new york city department of finance. a spokesperson for the developers say they have paid their tax bill, at least that's what they told the "new york post", they have not responded to us but i can tell you new york city says that money is still owed and they do not have any type of tax exempt status. gregg: if that's true, by the way, it would be a breach of contract on the building they have with con ed. >> and it could cause that lease to unwind. there's a lot of speculation there but at this point, it's only speculation. gregg: let me ask you about the imam at the center of this controversy making yet more controversial remarks today. >> there was a newspaper article in abu dhabi, this newspaper called the national, interviewed him, as you know, he is touring the middle east, to a great extent on the dime of u.s. taxpayers for this tour to have a dialogue of different faiths, and the newspaper quotes him as saying that much of the opposition to the mosque is about politics. i'm going to quote him. imam rauf told the newspaper, there was no doubt that the election season has had a major impact upon the nature of the discourse. he then went on to say the opposition is being led by a vociferous minority and very interestingly, gregg, he was asked specifically if he would have chosen a different site for the mosque if he knew that it would have resulted in such controversy, and what he said is that the prophet muhammad instructed muslims not to dwell on past decisions or to discuss alternative outcomes. so it looks like he's planning on proceeding at this particular location. gregg: david lee miller, thank you very much. jenna. jenna: another mosque far away from manhattan is stirring up emotion and controversy. a suspicious fire at a tennessee mosque construction site. the latest on that story coming up. pwpwpspwpspw@s@a gregg: well -- welcome back to "happening now," i'm greg garrett in nor jon scott. jenna: i'm jenna lee. president obama is going to speak out on the economy at the rose garden after meeting with his top advisers. major garrett is live from the north lawn covering that story. major, how are the president's remarks shadowed to some extent by the evidence we've seen over the last week or so of the slowing recovery? >> reporter: well, jenna, good afternoon. the president gave the nation the first inkling that the white house is now aware it exists in a completely different economic environment than it did a calm of weeks ago when the white house and president were saying with some degree of gusto, yes the economy was recovering, maybe not as robust lee as it would hope but it was principle lee recovering and all signs were pointing in a positive direction. on friday we learned that the second quarter gross domestic product in this country was 3.7% in the first warts, 1.6 in the second quarter a sign that the economy is not growing at anywhere near the rate that economists say is going to grow jobs. the president is going to have to recalibrate his remarks about where the economy is heading into his watch going into what is going to be a very difficult election year for fellow democrats. jenna: the white house seemed a little unsure about how the president would address the economy this week with so many other things going on. what can we read into today's event, and the fact he is taking to the rose garden to talk publicly about the economy? >> reporter: a couple of things. sometimes presidential scheduling rearranging tells you everything you need to know about the mindset of the white house at that very moment. right now the white house knows it needs to put a marker down today on the economy. the president deals with iraq tomorrow in a national address on the end of combat operations there, then he hosts two days of very intensive diplomatic negotiations between the israelis and palestinians, and friday we get the jobs reports for the month of august. thinks the only time the president will have to talk about the economy purely on his terms. that's why the white house somewhat unexpectantly put the rose garden announcement today to give the president time to do that. jenna: we are hearing that the president's office said something about the politics of his decision, something that might sit so great with democrats that are going into the midterm election season. what exactly did he say and why was that so important? >> reporter: that's right, jenna, while the president was in new orleans yesterday he sat down with brian williams, and he told brian williams the decisions he made as president don't necessarily play all that well on the nightly news and he said they don't necessarily play that well in midterm elections but they play well for future generations. while that may be true willee all certainly find out but for democrats now battling for their very political lives hearing the president say the decisions he made and in many cases they voted for may not play well in the midterm elections, let's say that is not exactly the thing democrats in the trenches right now most want to hear from the leader of their party and president of the united states. jenna: interesting time. major garrett for us on the front line of the white house. bret baier is joining us now. major brings up an extent point about the interview that the president had with brian williams last night. he said in that interview over the next couple of years he's going to be focusing on debt and the deficit. that is going to be his focus. this week we see his focus mainly internationally with the war in iraq, the peace talks between israel and the palestinian authority, and then you've got the big jobs report on friday. it's a busy week. why so much at once? >> reporter: that's a great question but sometimes i think major nailed it, the schedule tells you a lot about where this white house is. they needed the president to come out and speak on the economy. they had to have it after that revision of the gdp on friday. so that's where you see the rose garden statement on the economy. in a week where he's giving this oval office address tuesday night on iraq, and then as you mentioned the middle east peace talks, first real direct talks between the israelis and the palestinians at the white house on wednesday and thursday. it was essential that the president get in there somehow on the economy, and they figured it out today. jenna: brett, give us a risk assessment if you will. there are a lot of things that play. what do you think is the riskyist topic for the president to tackle right now? >> reporter: well, i think the economy obviously will be the biggest issue for anyone. every poll that you look at head into the mi midterms, it's the economy. and when he talks about it we had not seen the needle move because the numbers aren't moving in the right direction for this administration, and for top democrats. it is a bit risky that this middle east peace talks are going forward. it is the first direct talks, but you're already seeing the palestinian president out in an address last night saying if the talks fail israeli government will be responsible. you know, this is last night. this is ahead of even the first word being uttered at the white house. so you get into what we have seen before between the israelis and the palestinians, they've given themselves one year to come up with an agreement on these latest negotiations, and we'll see. jenna: and that comes to the point of what is realist teub, what are the realis realistic expectations of what would come from this week, what is actually talking about progress and what is victory for this administration. >> reporter: as far as middle east peace talks the realess lick expectation for this week will be another set of meetings to say, we will sit down and talk again. and that's probably the low bar of where they want to get to, that they'll sit around the same table and talk again. they say everything is on the table, but they have a high bar with the israeli settlements in palestinian territories and they wanted to stop that. now the palestinians are saying that has to happen before they move forward, so we'll see. that is the realism is that we're probably just going to get another announcement of another meeting. jenna: it will be interesting to watch. busy week ahead. we know you have your show at 6:00pm eastern time, special report with bret baier. remember the president is going to be speaking on the economy some time around 12:30. we'll bring you those comments live. gregg: the fbi and atf are investigating a suspicious fire at a mock mock in -- mosque in tennessee. somebody doused several vehicles with accelerant before setting one of them on file. elizabeth fran has the latest. what have you learned. >> reporter: atf investigators have not ruled this an arson or hate crime quite yet. local officials are working with fbi agents investigating into what local officials there say is heavy equipment that was working on a construction site was doused with gasoline early saturday morning and set aeu blaze. this happened at a very controversial construction site of the construction site of a mosque and islamic center that has been the cause of protests for the past several months. members of the congregation say that they are in fear during a very holy time and also surrounding mosques are also on high alert. take a listen. >> the members of the community are very scared. as i mentioned before it's ram dan -- ramadan we try to come together in the evenings to break your fast together. our attendance level is very low because people are scared to leave their homes. >> reporter: this mosque has been a part of the community for more than 30 years. they just broke ground on this 15-acre, 52,000 square food expansion. supporters are gathering at a candlelight vigil tonight to protest the fires that occurred over the weekend. gregg: elizabeth explain, though, the opposition to it. >> reporter: well, it's been under fire for quite a few months, and in fact the sign that is right at the entrance of the site has been broken down, spray painted. but in july, early july late june they held a public commission meeting, and people gathered there, they said they were concerned not just about the size of the facility as well as zoning and paorbging and traffic -- parking and traffic issues. others have insinuated that the islamic center could very well be linked to terrorists. local muslims feel that the opposition is religious discrimination and the council on islamic relations has asked for a hate crime probe into the fires over the weekend. gregg: elizabeth thank you. jenna: the east coast is now in the crosshairs of hurricane earl. earl reaching category 3 strength? the caribbean during our show this morning. right now the first times of earl and the last gasp of danielle are causing some serious waves in the atlantic. a live report on this major storm. plus an update on a dangerous rattlesnake that escaped its cage. harris is up next with the harrowing details on that. we'll be right back. 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[ male announcer ] aleve. proven better on pain. jenna: welcome back, everybody. here is what is "happening now" on the crime blotter today in the top box to fresno, california where police are looking for clues in the deadly shooting of a more money bishop, the gunman apparently calling police to the scene where officers shot and killed the suspect. no word on the motive so far. in the middle box in utah the four-day manhunt is over for the suspect in the murder of a sheriff's deputy, police catching the suspect after he tried to break into a home there. in the bottom box a tense standoff underway in a tiny alaska village after a man who gunned down two police officers barricaded himself inside his home. a swat swat team is currently oe scene. gregg: the search ending today for a poisonous rattlesnake that escaped from a zoo in atlanta on friday. faulk. harris: they thought they could keep the poisonous at rattler inside the building where it had gone missing where they keeped the other reptiles. they said it couldn't happen here and it happened there. that snake ended up on somebody's front porch, a house off the grounds outside in a reptile building was under construction and this morning after searching since friday some innocent bystander called the zoo and said, hey, i think i found your snake. get this, this thing is so dangerous that if it bites you the convenient um -- venim if you live is so powerful that they have to cut the limb off wherever it bit you because the tissue around it just dies. very, very dangerous stuff. a lot of questions for the ceo of zoo atlanta, how did the snake get out? how didn't you realize it could get out of the building. as i say it couldn't happen there but it did. the snake ended up on somebody's front po*er much: it sounds like a an amusement park ride but a lot more dangerous. gregg: it's dead, did they do a snake autopsy? harris: i guess it would be a necropsy. they said they will investigate. how did the thing get out? they have other reptiles there. if there is more to the story of course i'll bite on it and let you know. gregg: ooh, yeah, harris. jenna: she is so good. harris: i love general a she gets me humor. jenna: i got it i'm with you. take a listen to this story in miami a visitor's at jungle island rushed to safety after a tiger and an ape, both of them escaped. the tiger scaled a 14-foot fence and roamed the park for more than an hour. >> out of nowhere this tiger just comes leaping in the air with one paw up. >> they don't have their animals under control. >> we were extremely scared. jenna: taking a little walk around the stkaoufplt the two were safely recaptured. they say the ape escaped first and the tiger may have been trying to hunt it down. gregg: get out. really? the tiger was trying to hunt down the ape? jenna: kind of like the newsroom, right just wild animals all over the place. gregg: it's a dog eat dog world out there. okay. hurricane earl strengthening to a category 3 major storm in the caribbean. the national hurricane center says earl could make landfall in the u.s. this week. right now its winds are up to 120 miles per hour as hurricane warnings are post heed for puerto rico and other -- posted for puerto rico on other islands. steve harrigan streaming live from st. thomas, steve. >> reporter: it's beginning to look and feel more like a hurricane here even though the eye of the storm is four or five ours out. it's moving this way directly towards the u.s. virgin islands at 15 miles an hour. we are seeing the first bands of rain dropping from the sky and also the wind sometimes pushing it to the side. the storm itself has already caused havoc as far as travel goes in the eastern caribbean. more than a dozen cruise ships have switched their itineraries to get out of the eye of the storm. that affects 20,000 passengers. a number of ports have closed down. airports, many of the smaller islands have closed their airports. it is h u.n. ker-down time as far as this storm goes. not a sense of alarm or emergency that we can see on st. thomas home to 60,000 u.s. citizens, this territory taking it calm so far. we don't see a lot of boards, traditional gathering of water before the hurricane. it has been about 15 years since a major one hit. it seems this one is coming this way and getting stronger every hour. gregg: beautiful island, we hope they do all right. we'll check back with you. steve harrigan, st. thomas next. jenna: good news about the weather especially for you that do not like the winter. as supbler comes to an end listen to this the farmer's almanac is predicting a kinder and gentler winter especially for folks living with record snowfall last year. don't put your hats and gloves away just yet. it's going to be colder than normal in several parts of the country. they claim 80 to 85% accuracy. maybe we are in for a bit of a break. gregg: i don't know how they do that. i'm a california kid, i'll never get over the east coast. jenna: hopefully this year a little kinder and gentler. gregg: mexico coming off one of its most violent weeks, that is saying something in a country long torn by drug gang bloodshed, a second mayor assassinated south of the border in just two weeks. the former chief of operations from the dea on the escalating danger to the united states. and king tut's family secret, finally revealed. jenna knows all about this. new dna tests, and it's going to tell us about lots of things that happened three centuries ago. jenna: the researcher slept with king tut's grandmother. gregg: woe. jenna: we are going to leave it there. we'll be right back. right, but your blood sugar may still be high, and you need extra help. ask your doctor about onglyza, a once daily medicine used with diet and exercise to control high blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes. adding onglyza to your current oral medicine may help reduce after meal blood sugar spikes and may help reduce high morning blood sugar. 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>> absolutely. the sooner america wakes up to what is happening in mexico, the better off that we are. the $1.6 billion that we are providing mexico and central america over the next three years is a step in the right direction. but when you consider that we've spent over a trillion dollars in afghanistan and iraq over the last seven years that should put it in better context or better perspective, i suppose i should say. over 28,000 drug-related homicides in mexico over the last three years, over 300 beheadings for god's sake last year. when was the last time we heard about one in iraq or afghanistan, and this is happening to our next door neighbor. we need to help. jenna: michael on that point, so we've seen the beheadings, we've heard about that. cold-blooded murders. car bombs last week. the discovery of 72 bodies just over the border. when you say things are going to get worse before they get better, what does worse look like? >> well, listen, there has been an up -- tick in improvised explosive devices over the last two months. we've seen the second mayor of the city in mexico executed. these atrocities, for god's sake, these beheadings, these lynch inks with bodies being hung over bridges or overpasses in major cities, you're going to see more of that. the point to be made here, though, is that this is the first time that any mexican administration has committed to breaking the backs of these very powerful drug cartels. and once again i believe president calderon understood clearly as i came into office that the time to act was now. it was going to happen on his watch. he could not pass the buck one more time to another administration, you know, they simply could not continue to go down this path. jenna: you know, michael you brought up iraq and afghanistan, you brought up the trillions of dollars we've spent overseas. it conjures up the thoughts of what happened in iraq during the surge or after the surge. we brought in tens of thousands of more troops there and the violence at least for that time went down. are you saying that we need a surge along the border? would that be the type of scenario that would help the situation right now in mexico and change the path towards a better one? >> well, i mean some things that i would say, jenna, is listen, this is the physical fight, if you will is mexico's fight, and mexico's security forces are more than capable to take this battle to the bad guys, or this fight to the bad guys and ultimately win. with that said, we need to do more toward very closely with our mexican counterparts to professionalize their ranks of law enforcement at the local state and federal level which for many years were riddled with corruption. president calderon and his administration are doing a great deal to do that, and they are absolutely headed in the right direction. do i believe that we need to do more with respect to shoring up our side of the border? absolutely. i believe we do need more border patrol agents on the southwest border. you know, there is word that the national guard will be deployed in the not to distant future. i mean that is good, but the reality of the situation, general a is we've got a 2,000-mile border. and do the bath. if we stood up -- if -- and do the math. if we put every one of our soldiers, airmen, shoulders and marines standing shoulder to shoulder along the 2,000-mile border there would still be gaps where you can drive an aircraft carrier through. that is not quite the answer either. there is a lot more that we can do to shore up our side of the border. a lot more we can do to help mexico win this fight. because if they don't win this fight life in our country will change as we know it forever and it will certainly change in mexico as they know it. jenna: michael braun former chief of operations for the u.s. drug enforcement administration. always appreciate your perspective, michael, thank you so much. >> thank you, jenna. gregg: new calls for a second stimulus package. critics say 9.5% unemployment is proof the first one which was massive really didn't work. would this be the right move or bad choice? 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>> yeah, this is not the way to go. the first is that the economy is not going down, it's growing, it's growing slowly. there have been a lot of one-time special factors that deceived people into anything it was growing faster than it really was. we have an underlying growth wait of 1 1/2, 2%, not terrible lee surprising given that we're coming out of a financial crisisment households are strapped, think have a lot of debt, houses and portfolios aren't worth what they used to be. the government is strapped. what is missing is growth incentives for the business community and elsewhere so we raise the trend goat to something more rapid . stimulus won't do that, can't solve the problems we have, need to change our tactics. gregg: the political viability of a second sometime tuesday whether you can ever get it passed on capitol hill. that's the separate question. i want to ask you as a economist is the second stimulus a good or bad idea. >> the fact of the matter is, everybody, including doug supports stimulus, it's just different kinds of stimulus. a tax cut is stimulus in virtually the same way as a spending program is stimulus. plus everyone is supporting monetary stimulus. the issue is not -- gregg: i'm talking about recommending to the president -- >> let me explain the difference here. since the republicans support stimulus and the democrats support stimulus the issue is who receives the stimulus directly, and laura tison has made the case for spending programs that would direct the stimulus in the first instance to teachers, and police through assistance of the states, through construction workers, and those who supply them, through infrastructure projects and so on. doug and the republicans would like to direct their stimulus instead at corporations, and higher income people but everybody agrees on stimulus. a tax cut is stimulus in the same way as a spending program is. the only debate here is not primarily economic but political about who is going to receive the stimulus in the first instance. gregg: doug i want to stick to what laura tison is recommending to the president. one is extending unemployment benefits beyond the two-year period already which may be a jobs disincentive but second of all give more money to states which may already be crack cocaine addicted to federal funds. isn't that also a disincentive for them to cut spending. >> this is a serious difference in the two approaches. i'm proposing things we'd like to have happen any way. it takes off the table future tax increases and higher interest rates. trade agreements which we all know we need to sell around the world. let's get the corporate tax rate down so it's internationally competitive. the kinds of things you hear that laura tison and others are proposing are things you have to unwind. you do them now but regret them almost instant leave. we need to have policies that are not policies which we regret instantly but are actually consistent with our long-run goals and get our economy moving. gregg: tison specifically mentions bridges and airports. look as we learned in the first stimulus when you finish the bridge and the tarmac is laid those workers are unemployed all over again, right. >> that's right. but you've also increased the physical stock of the country, and of the economy. you have a sounder road, and a sounder bridge, those are precisely -- gregg: and persistent unemployment. jenna: those are kind -- >> those are kind of things that doug said we want for the long term. for the unemployment what we need to do is both stabilize the housing market, which is a factor here, and we need to stimulate. again, the issue is do we stimulate through spending? do we stimulate through tax cuts and the largest difference there is who receives the stimulus, that's a political question, not an economic question. i agree with doug that we ought to focus on things that we want not only today but for the long term, that is an argument for infrastructure as it is for business investment, that's public investment versus private investment. we know the competent needs both, and i think we need to help out the long term unemployed. gregg: it caught my attention that laura tison claims there is little risk to increasing the deficits further, that is a quote. if deficits increase debt, and our debt is now expected to he can seed 100% of gdp in a little bit more than a year isn't that dangerous. >> that's just wrong. we now face a serious threat to the u.s. future which is the federal budget. we are on track as a nation to some our debt downgraded, the administration's budget says in 2015 over 14% of revenues dedicated to debt service, moody says that is criteria for a ground grade. we are on track to be in worst shape than some of the third world countries that have experienced that crisis. this is not something to be taken lightly. it is so important to move now to control future deficits it would help us now and take off the table a financial crisis. gregg: good debate. please come back as this develops. thank you. >> pleasure, thank you. >> my pleasure. jenna: the tkrapd miners in chili -- chile speaking with their families. we'll tell you how they are doing and what they say about life underground. and a teacher violently beating students all caught on cellphone video. what happens to the teacher now? 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>> reporter: we should point out that weather dictates every decision that is made out there in the gulf of mexico. bp is ready once the seas die down to move forward with this. we should also point out that remember this is delicate work that is being orchestrated a mile below the surface. rear admiral thad allen says he needs that failed blowout preventer removed from the surface of the seabed to figure out exactly went wrong on april 20th when eleven rig workers were killed and 4.1 billion barrels of oil leaked into the gulf of mexico. according to bp and everyone involved that blowout preventer should have never failed and because it did that's what led to this catastrophe that we are dealing with right now. the bop is a huge piece of equipment, it's roughly 50 feet wide and weighs some 600,000 pounds. that's why they need to make sure they ride out the wa*eufzs because they need it fully intact when it gets to the surface. jenna: once the temporary cap is off where are we in this whole thing being over with? >> reporter: well, once the temporary cap is removed admiral thad allen wants a new bop put on when the old one is removed. once that takes place then we'll resume the drilling of the relief wells. the target date is september 7th. according to admiral allen it could take up to four days to complete the roughly 50 feet or so of the drilling that needs to be completed. jenna: looking forward to some of those final chapters being written on this event. kris gutierrez for us today in texas. thank you. gregg: we are getting new videotape of the trapped kh*eul yan -- chilean miners, trapped, maybe for months thousands of feet below the surface. what is keeping their spirits and hopes upbeat. unlocking a century's old mystery surrounding king tut. what now dna science is saying about one of the most famous of the farrows -- pharohes. jenna: we have new video of the 33 trapped miners coming into our newsroom right now. the new video is coming into our newsroom not the miners because that would be a different type of story won't it. the miners are in that deep mine in chile. they are sending greet toeupbs their family, talking about how they are doing better since receiving food. work is starting on a rescue shaft. they are struck more than 200 feet underground, they are beginning that work right now. you can get the latest updates online at foxnews.com, watch the complete footage of the trapped miners on our ohm page. we are wishing them well, lots of will you be. it looks like two to four months, maybe as little as two. the sooner the better. gregg: type is of the essence obviously to the trapped miners. the royal family reunion thousands of years in the making. new dna tests on the body of king tut shedding new light on a life that already kind of reads like an ancient soap opera. scientists are able to link the boy king to once anonymous mummies buried nearby. they are also able to confirm, yes, rumors of inch crest. we'll get to that. jaime schrie version is a national geographic stience magazine editor he was in on this whole thing. why did you do this. >> the reason to do it is it's the only way we can get at these fundamental relationships that no one has any way of uncovering otherwise. dna is the ultimate truth teller. the parentage of king tut, the manner of death of king tut all the mysteries that surrounded him since he was uncovered in 1922. there has been a big debate who his father was, whether it was the heratic king, whether it was a more powerful king, and the only way to do this is to look at the dna. jenna: can you tell us a little bit about that picture on the screen? >> that's king tut himself. jenna: that's what you had to use to extract dna. >> right the mummys are taken out in a secure chamber so that everyone is sterilized that goes in there. they take a little bit of bone from deep inside the bone so they won't be contaminated by the scientists themselves and by the priests who originally mummified him. jenna: how old is king tut. >> he's about 3500 years old. he's showing his age a little bit. gregg: who is this? >> that is iman hotep the third, his grandfather. gregg: you determined that. >> yes, through the studies. jenna: how did you discover who king tut was. >> one of the big mysteries was who was his father. there were three candidates, the heratic king was the leading canned day. he defied the priests of egypt, decided to start his own religion that was based on the worship of a single god. but it's unclear whether he was king tut's father or iman hotep. there was a mystery mummy in a tomb called kb55, they tested that. it turned out that it matched almost completely with king tut, it's almost certainly king tut's father. when they tested a female mummy in a nearby tomb known as kv35, she was known as the younger lady, turned out to be king tut's mother. it was always akanotten's sister. gregg: you learn a lot about inch crest. >> do you if you're egyptian royal. gregg: explain that. >> inch crest is generally taboo in almost all human societies. it's really a no, no except there are some exceptions. and these tend to be royal families, where incest has a payoff of some kind, first of all, who sleeps with their brothers and sisters? well the gods do. if you're trying to emulate the gods and show the people that you are like the gods then you'll do it too. jenna: wait a minute we've been tees th-g all show that you actually slept -- teasing this all show that you actually slept with king tut caps grandmother. we can't let you go without explaining that. >> it certainly needs explanation. i was working down in the tomb with our photographer. it was way down deep, not a lot of air, i was jet lagged. we had the mummys laid out on the floor. and i just took a nap. i didn't even know it i was taking a nap until i woke up and turned my face and there was this gorgeous red-haired woman lying next to me, she was a little old, 3500 years to be exact. jenna: is that her? it looks like you can see some hair there. >> that is what we call the elder lady which we now know was the wife of iman hotep the third and king tut's grandmother. >> the ultimate cougar. jenna: this is fascinating. really great to hear the story. thank you. gregg: i knew you were going to bring up the redhead. you had to bring that up. jenna: come on, yes we had to bring that up. gregg: we are awaiting results in alaska, too close to all there the primary absentee ballots will be hand counted one by one sparking new doubts about the final outcome, live in alaska with the details. 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