royal couple leaves canada on friday for a three-day visit in the state of california. twenty-four past. al lin. alisyn: we have to tell you about this fox news weather alert because a fast moving massive wall of dust has slammed into the phoenix area and what a site it is. wait until you see this, the cloud of dust, 50 miles wide, some 10,000 feet high and bringing visibility down to practically zero, knocking out power for thousands of people, and if you think that this wall of dust looks scary from where you re sitting, imagine being on one of the last planes landing. it s like we were riding this wean of sand and we were the last plane in and we were going oh my god, are we going to make it and we barely made it, then the wall hit us when the plane came to the gate. we flew alongside it, south mountain, them cak around and literally it was chasing behind us and we landed and it was crazy. we saw the plane, the it was like they landed and took off again. it was pretty amazin
airport grounded for at least an hour, meteorologist maria molina in the fox weather center. what causes this? reporter: actually, not that uncommon across parts of the four corners, anywhere that there s a desert, this can happen. yesterday on this show we actually talked about how we re headed into a monsoon season in the southwestern portion of the u.s. you start to see the showers and thunderstorms forming across the region, that s what happened yesterday across this area, so we had showers and storms during the evening hours, some of these thunderstorms pick up air and then once it starts to rain, the air comes splashing down and actually picks up some of that dust and sand across the region, form thank wall of dust. again, this was yesterday during the evening hours, we had these showers and storms and just about 8:00 p.m., it hit the phoenix area, that airport did report a wind gust of 53 miles per hour when this thing hit and then again, that sand just lingering across the re
next week, and to speak to the inspector general on thursday. however, in a secret meeting, on july 4th, the holiday, nelson, with his personal attorney, went in and spoke to congressman darrell issa and senator charles grassley and basically revealed this. let s go to the full screen. he said that atf leadership appears to have been effectively muzzled by the department of justice, and while the doj sent over false denials and buried its head in the sand, that approach according to issa distorted the truth and obstructed our investigation. issa has been attempting as you know to get reames of documents out of the department of justice which is claiming that and he subpoenaed those, and they re knoll giving them to him, so now you have the atf director confirming the suspicions of investigators, that doj is covering up a botched operation through the doj, which runs the alcohol, tobacco and firearms. alisyn: what about those other agency that is you
apparently president obama agrees. what the white house says it will do to bring down that big, giant number. alisyn: watch what happens when a massive dust storm rolls through a major u.s. city. looked like we were riding this wave of sand and we re the last plane in, and we were just going oh my god, we re going to make it, and we just barely made it.