headache, abdominal pain, and diarrhea. if you have persistent diarrhea, contact your doctor right away. other serious stomach conditions may exist. don t take nexium if you take clopidogrel. relief is at hand for just $18 a month. talk to your doctor about nexium. shepard: there is breaking news now on fox news channel. a southwest airlines flight from los angeles to austin, texas has been diverted. it s now in phoenix. and law enforcement there in los angeles say they are checking out a possible threat. let s get to trace gallagher in los angeles at the breaking news desk. what s, this trace? a security threat apparently made in the air, shep. this thing landed emergency landing in phoenix sky harbor airport. as you see there, the plane was right in the middle of the tarmac. they brought out the stairs and they evacuated all 143 people off board that plane. a passenger or someone at least claiming to be a passenger tweeted out and we can t confirm this saying that it was led in b
we have contacted southwest airlines to get confirmation. so far no word on exactly what that security threat is. but it did close down as you see he there parts of the airport. they are trying to get incoming and outgoing planes going back on schedule here. clearly they have now bused the passengers away and they are getting them inside the terminal and they have got full security crews now boarding the airplane to find out exactly what, if any threat may have been on board. 143 passengers. we ll keep you up to speed as we get more information on exactly what that threat was, shep. shepard: good trace, thanks. i m shepard smith. this is the fox report. it s the bottom of the hour, time for the top of the news. and executives of some of america s biggest tech companies insist they are not giving the feds direct access. to snoop on everything we are doing online. analysts say that may not be the whole story. it s the top story at the bottom of the hour. doug mckelway is on it
the case of george zimmerman s murder trial. the selected jurors will eventually have to decide whether zimmerman acted in self-defense as he claims when he shot and killed the unarmed 17-year-old named travon martin in central florida last week. and now an update on breaking news out of arizona southwest flight 2675 made that emergency landing in phoenix. police saying they are checking out a possible threat. trace gallagher has more information about this threat. trace? the l.a. times is now reporting, shep, that a vegas threat was called in to lax police referencing the taliban. they would not expound on that. channel 11 local fox here reporting that it was actually called into the la police department. and then he t. was rerouted to the airplane and pilot out of an abundant of caution made that landing in phoenix. officials are reporting what we talked about earlier that norad said the two f-16 fighter jets did shadow this plane and then escort it in to sky harbor airport and t
also contained allegations about a u.s. ambassador still on the job in a european country who is said to have routinely ditched his protective detail in order to solicit sex from prostitutes and minors. fox news is withholds the name of that diplomat allegationse remain unverified. shepard: the dss is the state department s own security force. it is in charge of providing protection for the secretary of state and for u.s. ambassador serving abrodz. the service also investigates investigation of misconduct on the part of 70,000 state department employees around the globe. well, a breaking news update now from phoenix. new information on that emergency landing. police say they are checking out a threat. trace gallagher with the news information next. you will never survive the running of the bulls.
board sweeping it, looking for any kind of security threat at all. highly unusual for a threat to be called in by a local police department and then transferred up to the pilot and then he kind of makes the decision on whether to land. but that s exactly what just happened in phoenix. we re now being told that all those passengers will be rerouted to austin, texas soon as another plane becomes available. that plane right there won t go anywhere for the timenning because it is now under surveillance or at least security watch to make sure that it is totally clear and they have to kind of do the trifecta of checking the three points, if you will, l.a.p.d., fbi, and the faa will make sure everything is fine with that plane before it goes airborne again, shep. we will keep you up to speed on more developments as they come in with this emergency landing at sky harbor airport. shepard: i wondered if this wasn t something that might inside because they have kept it so far from the terminal