Big storm headed to the northeast, were tracking it. Boston could get more than two feet of snow. Were hearing comparisons to an epic blizzard of 1978, it hit 35 years ago nearly to the day. Some areas of new england back then got 40 inches of snow. And cape cod wind gusts 93 Miles Per Hour, thats well over hurricane strength, approximately 100 people died in that storm. Lets hope not a repeat. Lets hope not. Great to have you with us on a friday, everybody. America live starts right now. And we start with a fox news alert on this epic blizzard, and its closing in right now in the northeast, 50 Million People are in the path of what could be a storm for the record books this time around. Welcome to america live this afternoon everybody, im Marsha Mccallum in for megyn kelly today. Be and the snow started outside our windows a while ago, if youre in boston, a place where the governor there has just banned all travel on state highways, Duval Patrick and that will take place 4 p. M. This
Copies of Hillary Clintons book ahead of time that theyve recently ordered 1 million copies. Like all things clinton, this campaign seems to be highly correspohoreographed with leak leak in the book. There was mothers day, and then this tuesday authors note and on friday the chapter on benghazi. It all looks, well, political. Clinton even came out with comments on her world view one day before obama was giving a major speech on his world view. What were seeing here is a c confluence of business and politics. So i wondered how should the press treat this pr operation . Let me bring in two experts on that, two authors. First here in new york, carl bernstein. One half of the famed bernstein pair he is also author of the book women in charge. And the author of this town. Mark, let me start with you here in the studio. Do you think the press should be treating this Book Campaign as if this is the start of the president ial campaign . Oh, yeah, because the clinton people are. This has become
A dozen family homes and businesses have been destroyed. Hundreds of firefighters are out there battling these recordhigh winds. They also have recordsetting temperatures to deal with. You have multiple fires burning up and down the Southern California coast and it disrupted thousands of lives. You could feel the heat coming out to you. Everyone in our neighborhood is gone. Its like a ghost town. I looked up and that thing was at the top of the ridge and coming fast. I said got to out now. This stuff can be replaced. But when you go through the initial shock and trauma of seeing this loss. Tough stuff. Martha will carr joins us live from san diego. What happened overnight last night . Reporter good morning. Late last night authorities ended up arresting two men in escondido. They are suspected of trying to set two fires there last night. We dont know if they have anylings to the fires that happened the last couple days. But when you have damaged homes like the one behind me. Evidently
Activity. But a senior officials is saying militants in molly mostly have shoulder fire missiles and that is probably not enough to take an airplane out of the sky at cruising altitude. It took off in western africa last night bound for algers and went missing 50 minutes later and so far the airline hasnt been able to get in touch with the two pilots, four cabin crew or the 110 others on board. The transport minister, where it took off, is telling rioters who was on board. 50 french national, 24 bir keena and among others. Two french fighter jets in the region with in the air scanning the terrain below looking for any sign of flight 17. The faa has lifted their ban on United States flights into israel and the deadly fighting continues. Hamas is still refusing seize fire agreements. New questions about whether or not the United States should allow israel to defend itself and dismantle hamas. Hamas is israels enemy and our enemy as well. The only chance you have for a twostate solution,
Syria are ever going to happen, the pentagon needs to know what kinkind of fire power isis has. The white house has been careful to say president obama hasnt made a decision to pursue action in syria, but these flights against militants, the president once lumped in with what he called a jv tear vifts, if the president wants to unleash an aerial assault in isis this surveillance is necessary. Eric the pentagon coordinating with the Syrian Government on these strikes . Reporter there is no coordination. The Obama Administration is candid about saying they are not look for permission before they launch surveillance strikes or potential airstrikes. President obama has been saying for years that syrian president bashar alasaad must go. As we know, hes still there. Now his foreign minister is warning the white house they better call damascus to ask for permission for any airstrike. He said any airstrike not coordinated damascus will be considered an address. The state department is saying t