Gregg fox news alert on the hostage crisis in algeria this hour where the fate of captive americans are not clear. Two unarmed predator drones have been on the scene in the middle of the sahara flying over the gas facility taken over by alqaeda fighters three days ago. On the ground, a bloody conclusion could be playing out right now. Algerian forces have stormed the complex calling it a final assault. Sources telling fox news the situation might not be over yet. Hello, im gregg jarrett. Glad you are with us. Welcome to americas news headquarters. Heather im heather childers. We are hearing from some of the lucky ones at this point one hostage who escaped how the attack all started. Wednesday morning i was outside the facility and terrorists came. They stopped the gate and inside the Office Buildings and started to take hostages. I barricade made recess with another colleague of mine in one of the offices. We locked the door. We put a desk on the door. Heather gregg pat pal could the i
Theres a deadly wildfire in arizona. Its already killed 19 brave firefighters. Could this terrible tragedy have been prevented . What the official investigation just uncovered. And for the first time ever, Scientists Say they are developing a flu shot that can help guard against every form of the flu. When might it become available to everyone . A member of our Fox News Team weighs in. Folks, were really down to the wire as we begin with the budget somehowdown in our nations capitol hill. Only three days until the government completely runs out of money. House members are meeting in a rare weekend session today. And theyre considering a bill which was passed by the senate that actually funds both the government and obama care. Chief Congressional Correspondent joins us. It seems like the republicans in the house were willing to make compromises but the senate didnt buy it. Reporter there hasnt been a lot of compromise between the house and senate at all and thats why were playing this
Trapped inside. Martha we are getting an idea of the first moments of the attack when terrorists told all the muslims to get out and they started shooting the nonmuslims. Here is cell phone video that shows how this played out in the first moments. [gunshots] martha just other day the shooting at Washington Navy yard. We have never seen video from inside. You get a sense of how frightening it is for these people. You dont know where the shooters are. Its absolutely chilling. Bill multiple explosions reported earlier today. That black smoke seen rising from the mall after Security Forces launched another offensive. They say they have killed at least two of the terrorists but we dont know how many terrorists there are. James reinl is with us from nairobi. What we are seeing are large plumes of black and gray smoke coming out of the westgate Shopping Center. We have the kenyan officious giving a press conference. The fire they say was started by the terrorists as part of the operation to
Saying president obama didnt even know about the problems with the web site until after the launch day. I think it became clear early on. Before october 1 there was no concern at the white house or hhs . I think we talked about having testing Going Forward and if we had an ideal situation and could have built a product in a fiveyear period of time we probably would have taken five years but we didnt have five years. Martha the white house may find a new fixer to the program, Jeffrey Zients. Bill what did you make of her defense . She dodged the question, did you give a head up to the United States about these problems. She said we talked about testing Going Forward. She clearly didnt want to answer the question. We heard from reporting yesterday that there had been these tests and there were suggestions there were mass yoif failures and nothing was done about it. The testing apparently did not go well. You had to think, did they tell the president . Did he ask . I would think you call
And the key is going in ing in syria. If what general dempsey, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff is saying, either is u. S. Policy or foreshadows policy, then i think its fair to say we have begun the third iraq war. Molly heninberg is live with the latest. Molly . Hello, defense officials are making it clear that this terror group isis or isil is sophisticated, money and a haven in syria. This is beyond anything that weve seen so we must prepare for everything. The only way you do that is you take a cold, steely, hard look at it and get ready. At this point, the president has not ordered air strikes inside air area to go after isis terrorists, though the white house says there are, quote, some threats that have to be dealt with. I dont want to get ahead of decisions the president hasnt been presented with specific military options outside of those that are carrying out the Current Missions in iraq. But we would certainly look at what is necessary in the long term to make sure