hello and welcome to update news. im tyler huffman and i m briana villalobos. thanks for joining us. this week 3 professors from two universities in afghanistan arrived at san jose state. they will be here for an eleven-week program.it s part of a multi-million dollar grant to modernize journalism education in afghanistan. update s lexy nuno reports. it is only their second time to the united states.and these afghan professors are enjoying the simple things in life. nat sound: white mocha simple things like drinking coffee.taking pictures. walking around san jose state s campus.and learning about modern journalism. they say it s a different picture than back home where journalists fear for their lives. ahamd zia ferozpur, a journalism lecturer at balkh university, says he s suprised at all the possibilites for students. (ahmad zia ferozpur/journalism lecturer at balkh university): there are a lot of opportunities for students. they practice their journalism skills and th
well. that s fantastic. i think you ve raised $100,000 for the wounded warrior foundation and particularly for tyler. the wounded warrior family support foundation, absolutely correct. we have. and who, general, has been scribbling on the car? americans. i know. i say soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines and people who love soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines. i say scribbling. i see a lot of great autographs and then i see the beast and you asked me to sign as well. i did ask you to sign it as well. i have a 4-year-old and almost 7-year-old grandson and they ve signed it as well. where would you like us to sign? sign right up here and in fact, i had a spot for all three of you guys to sign. i was going to have you sign on three stars and call it the fox & friends team. gretch and peter johnson jr. out here. that would be super. all right. you sure this isn t going to devalue the car? well you never know.
for a new house for lance corporal huffman paralyzed from waist down in afghanistan. a guy that has put about 500 miles on this ford shelby special edition. super snake. there you go. lieutenant general. thanks for having us and letting us come out with the wuned warrior family support team and tell america about what we re doing. come on over here, general and come on over here, ted. we see on the hood, you have this big purple heart and right there is a signature of the fella that we re talking about, tyler huffman. tell us about him. young marine lance corporal tyler huffman wounded very, very seriously in afghanistan and paralyzed from the waist down. we re going to build a home for him in jefferson city, missouri. and in concert with the gary sinise foundation and we hope with the proceeds of this trip that we re not only going to build this home for him but a bunch of other youngster as
will be released today. this includes a first look at what f.b.i. agents turned up in their civil rights investigation. we ll get a look at e-mails zimmerman sent to the sanford police chief, e-mail records and zimmerman says he shot and killed 17-year-old trayvon martin in florida in self-defense. last week, we told you about a major fireworks disaster at san diego s biggest fourth of july celebration. now, there s brand new video of it up close and personal. the video shows the whole mishap in high def. a technical issue caused all the fireworks to go off all at once and stop after 20 seconds and those are your headlines. you have to wonder what the bill was for that whole display all gone in 20 seconds. fireworks aren t cheap. kaboom. speaking of fireworks, there were some fireworks, a little bit of them yesterday at the naacp conference down in houston. there you see mitt romney went. you know what? you got to give him credit for going. he had the guts to go. this is
this boy lost an arm but could have lost his life fighting a vicious florida gator. this morning, we ll show you how to survive a gator attack. fox & friends starts right now. it s one thing to have suntan lotion or bug spray but to be worried about gators, too. there s no spray or lotion to protect that. i will look forward to hearing how you fight that off in case you re planning down a trip to florida or the everglades or anywhere like that. well, this particular guy whose life was saved by his quick thinking credits a tv show swamp people and in fact, we ve got somebody from swamp people on to tell us what you can do to make sure the gator doesn t go into the death roll and take you down with it. coming up today, congressman paul ryan and many other important guests. in the meantime, we begin with your headlines. it was like the sun exploded, that description coming from a witness who caught the exact moment when a train derailed exploding into a massive