deliberate or whatever but it is certainly hard to keep it all straight. you i m glad you re on it. chris stirewalt, thanks so much. carl cameron is live on this story about the irs a little later on for us this hour. meantime, a verdict in a case linked to the boston marathon terror attacks. what the jury just decided and the impact it could have on future trials related to that bombing. plus, a suspect in new york city dies after police put him in an apparent chokehold, something that goes against nypd policy. what a new video just released just after this event shows now. and what the medical examiner is saying about the exact cause of death. we ll go into depth on that. a killer storm. one of the most powerful to hit our area in nearly 50 years triggering everything from floods to landslides. the deaths and the massive damage next. t!
one has got a desk job. my understanding also that they the ems also is in trouble a little bit on this. it looks like it. this is a really bad story, gretchen, for everybody involved. thanks so much. state-backed russian tv telling a very different story about what happened to the downed malaysian airliner. did you hear these theories? they re so outrageous they ve prompted one reporter to quit. another correspondent quit that same network months ago. live on the air. we re going to talk to her about what the network is saying and the stories they remak making u. irs officials swearing those lois lerner e-mails cannot be recovered, but now a possibility that they actually could be found. what congressional investigators are now finding out. plus, a big party celebrating a historic ham. it was cured back when teddy roosevelt was president but the museum says you could still eat it. that brings us to our facebook question of the day what s the oldest thing you ever w
e-mails weren t destroyed only makes them all the more suspicio suspicious. but the kicker, the deputy who said they might not be gone, did say at least at least 20 other irs staffers had computer crashes and that may make it impossible for the irs to find documents from those individuals. he is not saying the records have been found. he is saying they are looking into the possibility there is a back-up tape somewhere are that didn t get recycled. carl cameron, thanks for shortening it all up. time to check in with bill hemmer who s in for shepherd. smith. bill, you didn t break any of his gadgets over there today, did you? not yet, but it is early. what do you have coming up? there s still time. good day to you. live in the next hour, a real american hero receives the nation s highest honor for bravery on the battlefield. you will meet former army staff sergeant ryan pitts. fought off hundreds of enemy fighters in afghanistan after he had been seriously wounded in one of the
to cover 900 miles of ranchlands. i m talking about border security that we currently have there from the united states. that s right. and what s unclear here is, are we talking about these are guardsmen who are going to do jobs that are going unfilled because immigration, customs and border officials have been overwhelmed by this surge in unaccompanied minors. these illegal immigrant children who are pouring across the border. if that s the goal, so that they can provide additional security in other areas because you have problems with the cartels, as always, with violence, with the other things that are happening. if that s the role they re playing, i would say these would be very well received by texans. let s move on to another issue right now. there is conflicting testimony in the irs targeting investigation. an official telling the congressional committee hard to keep straight, right, chris? but now this new official is telling the congressional committee that former direct
were always skeptical of the idea that the data was completely lost or destroyed and they ve said there s always got to be a way to retrieve something. last thursday the irs deputy assistant chief counsel, thomas caine, is in charge of the providing of congress the documents in question relating to the irs targeting of conservative groups. he was interviewed by house investigators and he said he was felt certain that the former irs official lois lerner s e-mails from 2011 are actually lost. the irs had confirmed to congress that there had been a computer crash and that the back-up tapes were recycled. but according to the transcript of last week s interview, there s an issue as to whether or not there is a well, that all of the back-up recovery tapes were destroyed on the six-month retention schedule. i don t know, the deputy assistant counsel said, whether they are or aren t, but it is an issue that s being looked into. house government oversight committee chairman darrel issa sai