Transcripts For FOXNEWSW Studio B With Shepard Smith 20130124

A lot of reaction on twitter to the new proposed gun ban by dine finestein. Let me know, megyn kelly. And her is shep smith. Shepard women will serve on the front lines in combat and hes lifting the nearly two decade ban on women in combat and the move is not without controversy. You might think twice before pulling out your credit card. Starting this weekend, stores can start charging you extra to put it it on plastic instead of paying cash and a nanny accused of killing a oneyearold baby. Coming up, what neighbors heard just before the child died, as we learn all about that nannys now troubling past. Its all ahead unless breaking news changes everything on studio b. First, from fox at three oclock in new york city, defense secretary leon panetta announced the United States military will no longer ban women from serving on the front lines of war. And open up hundreds of thousands of fighting jobs for Women Service members. The decision reverses the 1994 rule that restricted women from combat roles, even though women frequently found themselves in direct combat in iran and in afghanistan. Many fought and died there, in fact, those wars led to the deaths of 152 American Service women. The defense secretary leon panetta today said that not everybody will become a combat soldier, but that everyone is entitled to a chance. I go on to bethesda to visit Wounded Warriors and ive gone to arlington to bury our dead, there is no distinction thats made between the sacrifices of men and women in uniform. They serve the wounded and they die right next to each other. Shepard the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff recommended the move and the Bipartisan Group of lawmakers says it supports the lifting of the ban, but critics say they do have some concerns, including the republican congressman and veteran Duncan Hunter who released a statement saying, the question here is whether this change will actually make our military better at operating in combat and killing the enemy. Jennifer griffin live at the pentagon with the news. Why did military leaders say this had to happen now . Essentially because women are already in combat. Chairman of the joint chiefs, Martin Dempsey said he realized when he got into his Armored Vehicle in baghdad in 2003. And i slapped a gunner on the wagon and she leaned down and said, im amanda, okay, so a female turret gunner protecting the commander and times have changed and something to do about it. And life as we know, there are no guarantees of success. Not everyone is going to be able to be a combat soldier. But everyone is entitled to a chance. Reporter secretary panetta said that his eyes were opened when he was over at the cia and realized half of the intelligence force over there were women and he talked to the joint chiefs when he came over here to serve as defense secretary about what changes could be made, shep. Shepard jen, what are we hearing from women in the military . Most have accepted this and are excited about it. What theyve explained to us, this will allow them to get promoted. Again, theyre already doing many of these jobs. We spoke to the First Female Fighter Pilot to fly in combat and she said that those who dont think that women are physically capable of being in combat are wrong. The same arguments were being made back then there are being made now against, you know, this policy change that is happening in order to catch up with reality on the battle field. And i know air combat is different from ground combat, but they were making the same arguments that women did not have the endurance or the strength to be Fighter Pilots and i had just completed the hawaii ironman triathlon, winning the military division and beating most of the military men and theyre saying i dont have the endurance to be the fighter pilot. Reporter one female marine garnered attention last year when she expressed concerns is the captain, and we speak to her, she served in front lines positions in afghanistan and iraq, and write in the marine corps times and wrote get over it were not all created equal, i broke down and muscle at trophy and weight loss at a faster and more noticeable rate than fellow marines, falling during fire fights. No positions are actually opened to women today. The Service Chiefs have until may 15th to explain to defense secretary, the next defense secretary if they have any concerns and if there are any positions that should not be open to women, shepard. Shepard jen griffin at the pentagon. Thank you. And lets bring in an iraq war veteran and illinois congresswoman now, the congresswoman lost her legs when a rocket propelled grenade hit her helicopter in 2004, and she was the first woman in combat to win national office. Congresswoman, thank you. Thank you, so good to be here. Shepard how do you feel about it . I think its fantastic. I think that our military and our nation has always benefitted when weve lifted these restrictions and allowed people to serve based on performance. Shepard would you mind filling our viewers in on your story . Sure. So i actually had one of served in the only combat job open to women which is to be a pilot and i was copiloting a blackhawk helicopter in baghdad during the second at fallujah, ripped through the aircraft and took off my legs most of my right arm. The pilot in command was able to land the aircraft and i was carried off the battle field. The last thing i did in iraq was tried to get a report on the condition of my men in the hospital and then they put me under and i recovered and you know, have been able to enter a life of service as an advocate for veterans. Shepard how much has your experience in war and in the military in general helped you with the work you do serving the public now . It has it has really built me as an officer, as a person, as a leader. You know, the skills and confidence i gained in the military are the same skills and confidence i use every day here in the halls of congress. And being in the military, one of the few places in this nation the female gets the same pay for equal work. And the female gets the same way as a male lieutenant. List lifting restrictions is going to help those women who want to fight in combat positions to try out, if they make it, good for them. A lot of women who wont make it, but a lot of men cant make it either. Shepard you bet. And one constant i hear from critics, well, if they qualify and then change the standards and make it a little easier for women. Is that a concern of yours . Not at all. They cant change the standards. Theyll have to come back to congress as they ask to keep some of the combat jobs close today women and well be keeping an eye on it. It needs to be performancebased. Look, theyve always been critics and naysayers anytime the milithis. There were folks who said that africanamericans did not have the mental capacity to operate complex machinery and trying to keep them from flying aircraft during world war ii and look what the Tuskegee Airmen were able to do. There were folks who said that the japanese americans were too small in stature to be fighters and look what the Regimental Combat Team did in world war ii. And those who said opening up gays to the military, destroying morale. Trust in their professionalism. I trust them. Do you think when todays kids are old enough to start thinking about serving the nation theyll look up at mommies and daddyies, you mean they wouldnt let in women because they are women and not because they couldnt pass the test . I think sooner than later. Thank you for your service then and now. Thank you. Shepard well, starting this weekend, bad news here, it could cost you more it use your credit card than it would to use cash. Thats because of a huge settlement between retailers and credit card companies. It allows stores to charge you, those socalled swipe fees. In the past retailers had to pay those fees to the credit card companies. But beginning this sunday, stores will be allowed to pass the extra costs on to shoppers. Up to 4 of the total purchase price. Theres no guarantee that the stores will start charging the fee, but now that they can, theres a good chance youll soon be paying more to use plastic. With us now the Fox Business Networks gerri willis, who has been working on this, and it will be a part of her program. Some of the bodegas, they charge you to swipe a dollar on the side and theyre not allowed to do. Everybody could be on the hook for doing this. What were looking at stores have to notify people on sunday if theyre putting the fees into place. So youll see a sign as you walk into your next store or bodega or whatever store if they intend to. The fees could be as high as 4 , maybe not that high, we can only hope, dont want another tax. And applies to Online Shoppers as well. The key you want to hear, debit and prepaid cards are exempt from this. There are questions out there whether American Express users will be able to avoid this. They have special language in their contract which means they may be exempt, shep. Shepard and these fees are illegal in some states. Yeah, ten states, youre lucky in you live in california, colorado, connecticut, florida, kansas, maine, massachusetts, new york, oklahoma, and texas. I just want to tell people like the rooeason its a big deal. Look ill pay cash, whats the big deal. Shepard if you have cash on you. If you have cash on you, a, and b, credit cards have protections for consumers. If you want to call up after you bought something and falls apart and you dont want to pay for it you call the credit card operator and have it expunged, you cant necessarily do that with cash and get your money back, big protections built in for people who use credit card. Im not a fan for credit card debt, but a reason to use it sometimes and this will make it it harder and more expensive. Starts on sunday and look at the retailer before you purchase it, dont want to pay town 4 . Weve got new job numbers. They are good. Okay, down 5,000 for the week to 330,000, beating expectations. Lowest since march of 2008. You want to see fewer people filing for jobless claims. Shepard lots of details how and when you would pay extra to use credit cards, and gerri has been researching with her team last night and into the day and make it a focus, the willis report six oclock eastern time. Five oclock in oxford on the fox business network, just up the dial. Well, if the freezing weather isnt bad enough for some of us, some people are living through it without heat or electricity. Storm survivors, Hurricane Sandy survivors, how theyre coping coming up. Plus, senator john kerry, the chairman of the Senate Foreign relations committee, testifying to the Senate Foreign relations committee. Its all about his bid to be the next secretary of state. So how is that going to go . Thats coming up. [ male announcer ] this is sheldo whose long day setting up the news starts with arthritis pain and a choice. Take tylenol or take aleve, the 1 recommended pain reliever by orthopedic doctors. Just two aleve can keep pain away all day. Back to the news. Fox weather alert. Its january and cold. To relief for the deep freeze across the northern u. S. And forecasters say a developing storm could add snow to the mix. Temperatures, better than the last couple of days bus freezing in louisville and d. C. Especially painful for families who dont have any electricity or heat after Superstorm Sandy slammed the northeast. Volunteers have set up warming tents on staten island. We have some propane heaters. Our tent has propane heater but weather conditions like this the heater doesnt work so well. For the size of that tent. We reported yesterday about the massive warehouse fire that posed a real challenge too crews in chicago. Everything from the equipment to the building itself covered in ice. And this morning . That fire started up again. Mike tobin is in caulk. It is still burning and the firefighters had to get to out in the morning and bitter cold and stand up on the ladder trucks and dump more water on what has become a gigantic ice palace. One of the largest fires in recent history in chicago, its stubborn and wont go out. And the ice is operating a new problem. It weighs a lot. The building is old, the structure is now danger of collapsing. Just as bad to the east. Nowhere is this felt any worse than in those areas hit by Superstorm Sandy. You have exposed pipes bursting. You heard mention the propane heaters arent really keeping up. Youre talking about places like maine, where the High Temperature is negative six. Negative 40 with the wind chill. About the same in minnesota and about all of the real estate covered in between those two areas, youve get to people walking to work in the cold, swimming pools frozen over. Some people with great risk their health right now. And in areas close to the attraction negotiate a little snow whipped up by the lake effect. One more point, shep. The coast guard does not get to choose the conditions on which they work, they were training on lake michigan. Lets bring in our chief meteorologist. When is april again . About three months away. Look at this. Can you pronounce this . No. I would just say a town. A town in northern quebec, 3 degrees and in fargo, its one. Minus two in fairbanks one in fargo. So cold air is here. We have two or three more days of this bitterly cold. Look at these High Temperatures. 10s, 20s, low 0s here. Tomorrow we warm up around four or five degrees. Nice warm up to 30 in chicago. The midto upper 20s. It gets better by around tuesday next week. A lot of people back in the 40s and 50s, shep, very briefly, with some rain. 40 degrees will feel really, really nice after these last couple of days. But snow between now and then. Right . Got kind of a rough situation. Tonight down across parts of the south. Look at what happened as we move forward. The pink is the icing and freezing rain potential were going to see across much of tennessee and kentucky. Tonight and tomorrow, and a little snow. Were not talking huge snow but maybe two or three inches for places around virginia some north carolina. But the icing is the big danger. Especially on the road tonight and tomorrow morning. Thank you, rick. North korea says it will fight the United States and the United Nations. The North Koreans first big assault could be another Nuclear Bomb Threat test. The expert says the next explosion could be a big one. Well sprain it when we return. 22 minutes past the hour. The North Koreans are now claiming theyll carry out new Nuclear Tests and launch more rockets and what theyre calling a new phase of combat against the United States. The leader there, kim the youngersrers defense commissin released a statement say the moves will be part of an allout action targeting the United States which it calls, quote, the sworn enemy of the korean people. After the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution condemning north koreas rocket launch in december. The United Nations also moved to expand restrictions it has on north korea, and the white house says the dprk threats are needlessly provocative and further tests would violate un resolutions. Good to see you, gordon. We have been talking about the north korean rhetoric for a long time. This is new. This is new. Its a in escalation in rhetoric. The thing that is important is we need to take their rhetoric seriously because they have used violence to upset situations they found to be unacceptable and now they have the means to carry through on their threats. They fired often launcher that can reach alaska, hawaii, and the norway part of northern part of california. And not that long before they hit memphis. Three years. 2011, robert gates said five years before they can hit the United States. Were two uses in that and launch thing satellite into or bid, which they did last month, you can hit any spot on the earth with a little adjustment. What is their motivation . Well, you know, right now they want to legitimize theyre Nuclear Weapons program. They dont want people talking about them as if they shouldnt be a nuclear power. Of court the want aid, but also inside the reridge gem, kim jongun has been in pour for a year and needs to show his chops and basically make the United States an enemy, that helps them with the generals and admirals. The thinking is theres another test coming up. And probably going to be a urainum test. The previous tests were plutonium bombs but they only have a small store of it. But uranium. Theyre going to mass produce uranium bombs and theyre going to sell them to iran. So, this is going to be serious thing for us. Always been a little worried were so worried about iran getting smith doesnt have and not as worried as we should be about this rogue nation that already has it. Right. The iranians have been on site for the north korean Nuclear Tests and they have sold technology the iranians. That send raid in the Syrian Desert that reactor, a north korean one paid for by the iranians. Thank you, the president 0s nominee for secretary of state, senator john kerry, expected to get confirmed without a hitch. But today we learn where senator kerry stands on key Foreign Policy challenges, including Irans Nuclear amibitions. Salt lake, known city, known for skiing and snow in the winter, not dangerous smog. New pictures coming up as we approach the bottom of the hour and live news right here in studio b. Make it worth watcng. Introducing the 2013 lexus ls. An entirely new pursuit. [ male announcer ] its red lobsters 30 shrimp for 11. 99 pair any two shrimp selections on one plate like mango jalapeno shrimp and parmesan crunch shrimp. Just 11. 99. Offer ends soon im ryon stewart, and i sea food diffently. Just 11. 99. Offer ends soon bell rings they remwish i saw mine of my granmore often, but they live so far away. Ive been thinking about moving in with my daughter and her family. Its been pretty tough since jack passed away. 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Secretary clintons visit to the hill is likely her last and todays questioning of senator cerris downright uneventful compared to the questioning of the secretary of state clinton yesterdayabout benghazi. Were live on capitol hill. Sounds like loumakes think confirmation of the swift boated one is a done deal. Thats right. We should expect a confirmation vote next tuesday for senator kerry if he is confirmed, which we expect he will be, he will inherit a whole lot of problems. Senator marco rubio, republican of florida, had a line about Foreign Policy saying the key is making sure youre not trying to do more than we can, while also ensuring we are not doing less than we should. Rubio rattled off the hot spots in the mideast and kerry offered the this response. Theres a monumental transformation taking place. This this biggest upheaval in that part of the world since the ottoman empire. Since it came apart. It is a highly sectarian, divided, tribal part of the world. And im not sure that every policy has always been sensible on that. Kerry said well do what we must to keep iran from getting Nuclear Weapons. Shep . A really ugly problem is syria. What about that . Senator kerry said there was a moment when the Syrian Regime was reaching out to the west, but the moment is gone. And then there was this exchange. Every day that goes by in syria, it gets worse. Every day that goes by it gets worse. So, there is a seems to me, a very strong elm tuesday empetus to realize our present policy is not working and consider other option. Mccain said more could be done without putting american boots on the ground. Kerry essentially said there nor easy solutions to that problem. Mike, thanks very much. Lets bring in Aaron David Miller for some analysis, former state department advisor, vp at the wilsoner in . D. C. That is a Nonpartisan Organization to provide dialogue between policymakers and scholars. Nice to see you. What will a john kerry Foreign Policy look like if different from this one . Its not a john kerry Foreign Policy. Thats the point. This is the most withholding, controlling Foreign Policy president since richard nixon. Barack obama dominates. He doesnt delegate. And john kerry will face two major challenges. Number one, the cruel and unforgiving world in which america now operates. Particularly in the region your reporter just referred to the middle east april. Divided into migraine headaches on one side and root candle on the other. This is a difference functional region in which were stuck and cannot fix. So thats reality number one. The second is the president. You want to been effective secretary of state . Henry kissinger, james baker, you have to persuade your president to let you own a big issue, and that just carry out your policy youll re carrying out the president s policy but you as secretary of state help shape the substance of that policy and that remains to be seen. Hell attempt to fill big shoes, and you wondering what the differences will be between nat secretary of state and the current one . Again, that is going to be driven in large part, i think, by whether or not there are opportunities to pursue, whether or not american diplomacy, the application of military power can be used wisely, effectively, toward objectives that arent achievable, and whether or not he can separate the president from fundamentally controlling the policy. Look, i worked for jim baker, and baker had a very close relationship with bush 41. Baker was carrying out bushs policy, but baker helped shape that policy himself. And that, i think, is the key. Will the state department again be relevant to actually implementing the strategy of our Foreign Policy . Aaron david miller good of you. Thank you. Pleasure, shep. Well, Great Britain today urged all of its citizens to get out of ben georgia circumstance libarch citing an imminent threat to all westerners. Brians Foreign Office did not give details but at least one airline, air malta, reported it cancelled flights to ben georgia si after british officials issued the warning there have been many attacks including the attack that killed our ambassador. Least week italy withdrew staff after a gun attack on its postthere. The smog in Salt Lake City utah is so bad that some parents are saying theyre keeping their kids inside. The Environmental Protection Agency Reports the greater salt lake region has the nations worst air and has for months, because an icy fog is smoking the mountain valleys and trapping lungdamaging soot. Local officials are banning woodburning and calling on people to limit driving. Trace, give us an example of what is going on here . Well, los angeles is often considered to have the worst smog in the country. You take the worst day that los angeles had in two 2011. Salt lake citys air right now is 40 worse than that. The soot level is three times higher than the federal clean air limits allowed. Doctors say if you can see it, you dont want to breath it. And look at that. A thick yellow haze. Doctors say its like standing next to someone who smokes. For 24 hours a day. Listen. It isnt just a matter of its its doing something to your lungs. Its actually doing something to virtually every single cell in your body. And that means its doing something to virtually every organ in your body. So the heart, the lungs, the brain are affected. The soot level is below the heavily industrialized cities of china but not by much. And Salt Lake City has been enduring this for the bet feature and a half months. There is a solution . Well, car emissions are the worst offender. That kind of emission pushes at least half of the nasty stuff in the air in Salt Lake City. Then you add the factory smoke and the aerosols and the aerosot help. The Officials Say there if you cannot limit your driving, try to slow down the governor has not declared a Health Emergency but if the 0 governor does that it could lead to very, very strict cutbacks for the remainder of the winter. Its so cold in Salt Lake City. The shut down the airport because there was ice on the runway and a plane skidded off. Well, we have had a bit of an incident now. This is shred you tape just in. Two United Airlines planes, it is believed, bumped their wings at their gates in dulles. You can see this is the airport in virginia, right outside of santelli, virginia. If they didnt bump it, theyre close. These plains will have to stay there a while. This about all the information we have. A near miss or i dont know a not so near at dulles. 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They found blood on a pillow and blanket and baby wipes and now the nanny faces Assault Charges and a murder charge could follow. This happened in cambridge, massachusetts. A neighbor told police she heard the baby crying for nearly an hour, and then what she called extreme crying. So that neighbor knocked on the front door but nobody answered, and ten minutes later, the crying stopped. Paramedics rushed the baby to the hospital the same day, her first birthday, and she died two days later. The defense Attorney Says the nanny played no role in the child0s death but one man who lived nearby said she was trouble. Watching my dog for an hour. She was an angry, angry person. Go off the hinges from, like, zero to 60 in two seconds. Were learning a lot more about the nannys task. Jonathan hunt is with us. Her name is ashbring brady, 34eers old. From ireland. Was in the u. S. Illegally since overstaying the visa program. She worked for this particular family for Something Like six months, but we know that she had had previous runins with the law. One assault charge against her. Two restraining orders against her. But her Attorney Says, none of that has anything to do with the way she cared for this baby. Listen. She is very experienced. Never, a child or been alleged to have hurt a child. She would never hurt a child. But prosecutors say that this particular baby, oneyearold, had serious head injuries, internal bleeding, hemorrhaging, and several broken bones, shep. Some of our viewers will remember the case of Louise Woodward in 1997, a british case. A lot of parallels here, not the least of which it took place in the boston area. Lewis woodward was a teenage nanny. She was carrying for eightmonthold matthew ethan. Very similar injuries. Subdural hematoma was the technical word for the internal bleeding in the brain. Lewis wood wavered was found guilty of Second Degree murder. She appeales that. The conviction was lessened to involuntary man slaughter, and she ultimately was released on time served, which was 279 days. Prosecutor in that case, the district attorney, was martha cokely. Attorney general for massachusetts. Lets bring in a family law attorney. Jenell, getting the information about previous injuries to this child will be important. It is, the question is when they occurred. She has been there six months. So if theres any indication on the investigation that these injuries came prior to that time, obviously, as in Louise Woodward case that was a big issue, and could mean a good thing for brady, but the question is going to become, what happened there . There are significant injuries. Even if there were prior injuries, theyre significant injuries to the child that caused the death, and thats where the defense is going to have a really hard time. Hemorrhaging, swelling on the brain, mull pel bone multiple bone fractures that were healing. Thats the issue of the timing of those injuriesful theyre healing, we can guess theyre relatively new, and the defense is doing their best to say, Something Else could have happened. But she was the only one there at that time. The blood all over the place is going to be difficult. Huge indication of guilt. If youre defending this woman, where do you start . Theyre going to start to break down what happened, and what she is claiming is that at the time she put the baby down for a nap, she woke up and the baby had a seizure. Apparently this child is also malnourished after she came back from trips abroad. So theyre going point the fingers at the parents. Somebody else did it. The hard thing is, how are they going to do with when something happened when she was the only one carrying for the child . Background checks so many friends with kids and getting a nanny is the biggest both parents work you have to have day care or something. Background checks, background checks. You have to it. Thats what is so tragic here. This person had a history. No criminal convictions but restraining orders. Where is that information . One was an assault for a the two were physical assaults on a boyfriend and another nanny for harassment. So where is that information . Why wasnt that available. I dont have any way to know if the family even sought that information. We dont know that. So a little girl is dead and theyre working on it. Nice to see you. Thank you. The gun control debate is about to heat up in congress. Today democrats put forward a proposed ban on assault weapons. Its already riling up people on both sides. This is a little brader than anticipated. And later, the proposal to makemakers get a prescription from a doctor before you can light up. A prescription to use a product that kills . Shutup. An update out of Dulles Airport in virginia where two planes appear to have bumped wings. We just got a statement from united that says, upon arriving at the gate, the wingtip or united 951 frock frock from brussels, made contact with the wingtip of a plane at an adjacent gate. There werent any passengers on the plane parked the gate. The Maintenance Team is evaluating both aircraft to determine whether theres any damage. So nobody hurt. Democratic lawmakers took the first step toward banning assault weapons, a move that already has the nra firing back. Senator Dianne Feinstein joins fellow democrats bruising the bill which would ban the purchase of semi automatic weapons with detaching magazine clips and also high capacity magazine. This president vowed to make gun control a priority in his second term of the newtown connecticut massacre. Still, the bill does face a tough fight in congress and from the nra. And of of president obamas gun control proposals, analysts say this is the least likely to pass. Shawn unanimous with the reasons for that. How confident are lawmakers behind the proposal . Well, shep, senator feinstein and the other senate and house members who joined here repeatedly said they know this is going to be tough but they believe the newtown tragedy has changed the conversation and the pressure for capitol hill to get something done. Heres a bit of what senator feinstein had to say. Gun laws allow these mass killings to be carried out again and again and again in our country. Weapons designed originally for the military, to kill large numbers of people in close combat, are replicated for civilian use. The new measure will will the threshold for classifying a gun as an assault weapon and would also require a background check for the sale, transfer, or gifting of any guns that meet that definition. This will be a tough fight. It will be. A number of senate democrats, including harry reid and joe mansion, both longtime gun rights advocates have chose thin words carefully, seeming they might be open to consider an assault weapons ban and getting an earful from folks back home and gun rights advocates, including the nra which said this senator feinstein has been trying to ban gun patrols lawabiding citizen is for decade. Its disappointing but not surprising she is once again focused on curtailing the profession instead of fixing our broken Mental Health snip. Reeducated he may allow the bill to come to the floor but with liberal amendments. Thanks. Never too old to quit smoking. Thats 2009 big findings of a study publish in the new england journal of medicine. The average smoker will die more than ten years earlier than the average nonsmoker, but giving up cigarettes at any time will help smokers live longer, and quitting by the age 40 avoids nearly all the excess risk of dying to smokers have. 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