Melissa the right off the bat tonight, syria from every angle. Syria along with other nations is on the verge after military strike. It is a response to the Syrian Government killing at least a thousasand of its own civilians with chemical weapons investment full coverage on the impact here at home and potentially crippling effects across the globes to the markets and economy. Fox newss Leland Vittert. We have the founder and president of American Islamic forum for democracy. Jonathan hoenig, with us, hedge fund manage eper and fox news contributor. We have an oil analyst and wall street journals James Freeman on emerging markets. That is quite a group. Get started on the ground in the middle east with Leland Vittert. He is in jerusalem with the latest information. What is the latest . Reporter war drums continue to beat louder and loer by the hour here in the middle east often before the real war, we have a warf words. That is exactly what is going on as the syrians are now saying that tel aviv of the major israeli citiesill burn if they are attacked and iranians who are the main backers of the syrians are also saying israel will pay a dear price if syrias attack by the United States. At this point you really have to look at syrias ability to counter strike, especially longrange missiles which they have a lot of, including scud missiles. They obviously have a chemical weapons capability that must be taken into account. They have antiship missiles that can be launched against many ships in the Mediterranean Sea and possibly the u. S. He fleet if it gets close enough and formidable air defense measures they have deployed and on ready alert in syria. Around the middle east, militaries are on alert. Turkish military is on alert. Here in israel they have deployed patriot antiaircraft and antimissile system the aero antimissile system and iron dome Missile Defense system. In addition, israel is calling members. Air force reserve and members of the Intelligence Corps from the reserve forces getting ready in case they need to react. Not quite panic on the streets of israel but certainly grave concerns as thousands of israelis are lining up at gas mask Distribution Centers in case that response by president assad would includehemical weapons. Every israeli is entitled to a gas mask, government issued, not everyone has one and obviously they are trying to get one before it is too late. Prime minister netanyahu here in israel said the israelis would like to stay out of the Syrian Civil War and promised to respond, quote, fiercely in the event israel is attacked. Last issue, melissa, really a timing problem that gotten to happen here. The more the u. S. Talks the more fearere in israel is that the syrians are going to be able to move a lot of their advanced weaponry away from bases already on the target list and lastly, the more everyone talks, the more likely the syrians or iranians are to make som threat, some type of rhetoric eventually someone will decide they have to deliver on those promises of retaliation rather than taking their licks and moving on. Melissa, back to you. Melissa those are all great points. Leland, thank you so much. I wand to go to zudi who has family in syria. It could have seve backlash. We were hearing that. Have you talked to your family . How are they doing . They continue to be horrified. They sleep hearing missiles flyover head, gunfire and hello copters. This is not only family in damascus but those in aleppo. Our friends continue to hear the same thing. I can tell you, melissa, last few days it is increasing on the grou, because wall street journal call lights lips discussion what were going to do. Assad knows it might be the last chance. If he can put this away in the next few days and get the rebels to be quiet and go away, which they will not do. I things are increasings on the ground there and our families, they dont know whether to sleep with the windows open or closed because some women and children died because their windows in the heat were open. Melissa what about that we heard in the report before you, this idea were talking and talking about what were going to do and when well do it. Does that make the situation more precarious . It does. Melissa i dont get it. I understand wars fought ahead of time in trajectory. If we do am about the administration is doing it to say we did something and we delineate ad red line f were going into syria, syria is no libia. Assad is no qaddafi. They are the north korea of the middle east, if we go in there it has to be all in. We have to knock out entire senior military structure and senior generals and senior military and runways and provide arms t the rebels we havent done yet. Our families say they need the help or they will continue to die. It has to be done right if it will end soon rather than drag it on even more so. Melissa is that what you think should happen . Would that be the right action for the u. S. . It really would. Right now doing nothing is emboldening iran. This language youreearing against israel is the same old language theyre usin now whether we do something or not. Emboldened iran and a country using weapons of mass destruction will not be afraid to use Nuclear Weapons and ramp up their own nuclear program. It is in american interests to defeat and destroy the assad regime no different than it is in the humanitarian interests of all of our families on the ground there in syria. Melissa zudi, thanks very much. Our thoughts and prayers are with your family. Thank you, melissa. Appreciate it. Melissa what it means for your money, after all that is the name of this show. After a twoday losing streak the dow was up 4points. What is the impact of syrian conflict on markets . Jonathan hoenig with capitalist pig. Com. If you look at markets the past couple days. They seem nervous and jittery. Looks like were in wait and see mode. Indeed, melissa, we got some of yesterdays precipitous loss back for the dow. As you said its a rough couple of days and weeks for the market. Interesting, the market is following pattern we saw in the first two gulf wars, weakness prior to the conflict. Once the conflict actually broke out, there was more and more indication it is would be strong and short and contained, you actually started to see stocks rally. So, the whole question here, is this going to end up more like the first two gulf wars which were with a purpose which were very contained and very quickly won or more like the 1973 war or the suez canal war, longer wars and much more tough on markets as well. Melissa what do you do . How do you set yourself up for the situation . I herd people talking today. I was so glad i took advantage of the dip yesterday. I dont know if tts a safe bet though . Volatility, you have to get used to it, in this type of environment, melissa. Really a question of what happens in terms of escalation. Perhaps more, fighting in the middle east. There is really no way to look at it from economic perspective. You have to almost look at it from a political perspective. I think from an investors perspective you have to hesitate and not make those all or none decisions. Now more than ever, i dont think you want to use one days headline to go allin or allout of stocks. Melissa seems like a better bet to hold steady rather than doing a play where you go into the safety plays, you dive into gold and dive into commodities. Yeah. I mean it kind of goes to that point we always talk about, hopefully being diversified. Even as stocks weakened last couple days, gold is extremely strong, back over 1400 an ounce. Even bond which weve seen a lot of investors veering away from, they have rallied. Now more than ever with all the Political Uncertainty in the middle east, you need to make sure you spread your investments around and dont bet the farm on any one asset. Melissa jonathan hoenig, thanks so much. Thank you. Melissa of course oil also at the forefront of everyones mind right now. Oil production here at home, it is almost a 24year high. Yet prices are skyrocketing, hitting their highest level in more than two years, today, as a result of what is going on in syria. Are we insulated after all that fracking . I want to bring in a oil analyst from stansbury and Associates Research firm. Let me get your bet. How high do you think oil goes as a result of whats going on . Hi, melissa, no, i think were pretty close to the top. I dont see this, i dont see this sending oil prices to 140 a barrel. I think it is going to come down before it goes up. Melissa come down from here . Because, you know, there are folks i was talking to today, making a lot of phone calls saying they think oil could go to 115, 117 if we see more than a oneday conflict. If it isnt in and out thats where we would go. What do you think . I think that would be as high as i could see it going right now. I mean we saw something similar in the first gulf war. It was the runup. It was anticipation of wt was going to happen and then once we got a fl for the scope of the conflict, oil prices came straight back down. The whole spike in oil prices lasted at most, eight months back then. And i think that really the story about, the story for oil prices has been egypt. I mean weve been watching egypt. It is very significant to the price of oil. It is what is driving the fear premium. And, so i dont see the syria conflict as really, just a little bit extra and i dont see it as an important as egypt. Melissa but there are a lot of people wondering why is there a fear premium in oil at all if we have a production at 22, 24year high for the First Time Since 1995 well produce more oil than were importing . Why arent we totally insulated from wh is goin on . The oil market, its a Global Market but youre absolutely right. Fundamtals dont support oil prices as high as they are today and really what is critical about the middle east is the suez canal. Its the straits of hormuz. The ability to get oil from the middle east to demand in china. Thats whats really important. So even though we are, were at half of net export, net imports in the u. S. From 2006. We, weve cut almost 7 Million Barrels a day from our imports. Melissa yeah. Thats about half of what the European Union uses in a day. So, you would think that we would be insulated i want to ask you real quick before y go because i want to bring at home for viewers, we care about gas prices. Yeah. Melissa were lurk can i the fact it is almost labor day. We see demand taper off next ek. That will help buffer what we might see but do you see prices at the pump going higher as a result of rally in crude oil . How much higher do you think they could go . I mean we saw about 4 a gallon in 2012. I would, i would say that if Oil Prices Spiked in the short term we might see that again. Like you said i think were tapering off the demand period. See gas prices following oil prices in the short term. Melissa matt, thanks very much. Thank you. Melissa emerging markets are taking a hit for the sond straight day. Asia, turkey and beyond. James freeman is with the wall street journal. Lets talk about currencies a little bit. Currencies taking a beating. Why . There is never a good time for war obviously but this is a particularly tough time for emerging markets where their currencies have been dropping since may, really with signals that the Federal Reserve here in the United States is going to start tapering, going to start coming back from their monetary adventure. Better rates from home. Money is come being bang from the emerging markets. Those markets have had slow growth. These are coming off a lost factors beating up india and a lot of asian economies. Melissa that is particularly bad news because youre talking about other factors hurting their currencies and markets but at the same time we see Oil Prices Going up. Even if they dont go that high in the u. S. , brent crude were seeing rising even higher. There are a the lot of things going on. There is a bad mood. Some Oil Exporters are not doing well because people think growth is slowing down. This is going to reduce demand even further. Russia, you know, you think normally rallies when oil is going up. So its not a good time for markets and basically the pessimism about growth and this war fear thrown on top of it. Melissa seems like it could be of the thing th unhinges this bit of a recovery were having or is that too serious, too dramatic . Well its a concern. We had this horrible First Six Months of the year here in the United States, maybe not horrible but not what were hoping. Were saying oh, no, the second half, things will get better. Now you add this, it is hard to be an optimist about global growth. Melissa is it over in day or two will you change your mind about that. It will not be over in a day or two it may be ove in a day or two because the president decided he sent a political message and will not be involved in the conflict anymore. This will not end in two days. Either assad falls and guys we like shrug it out with al qaeda on town for town. I dont see the rebels capituting anytime soon. It may be twoday involvement if what the president decides but it is not a twoday war. Melissa that is a point lot of people are missing, i heard on some networks, it will be quick, no. The fallout afterwards, you saw Leland Vittert talk about what happens to israel after this. This will continue and impact markets and the like. Thanks to my entire panel. Thankor everyone coming out. That was great. Next on money, School Districts nationwide dping Michelle Obamas healthy program. Why . Because kids dont like the food. What a shocker one superintendent throwing the Lunch Program out joins us exclusively. Plus if you need to raise money for your business, listen up, a company with an all new way to lend, poured a 125 milliondollar investment from google. The ceo is here in a fox business exclusive. Do you need money . We have money coming up. You can get some. Just watch. Melissa so heres a surprising story. News out today that schools across the country are actually dropping the federal healthy nch program because theyre losing money on it. On school lunches. This is a program that Michelle Obama pushed so hard for trying to convince everyone tha kids would in fact ito few and broccoli at school. Sure they would. What now . Joining us exclusively on the phone is one superintendent that is throwing the program out, gary lewis, Pinellas County schools, in illinois. Superintendent lewis, thanks for joining us. Tell us what is happening in your district. Can i correct, cat lynn schools. Melissa pardon me. No problem. What was the question again . Melissa tell us what happened in your school district. We started with a regulations last year, my head cook said you need to come to the lunch room because a lost kid are throwing the food away. I walked down and noticed a lot of kids were throwing food away. We noticed our Participation Rate started to drop and more and more kid were bringing lunch. Melissa what exactly was in the hundred . I read a typical Elementary School was whole wheat cheese pizza, bake the sweet potato fries. Tomatoes, ranch dip and apple sauce and 1 milk. Does that sound right . That is similar to what we offered last year. Melissa that doesnt sound that bad. I mean i dont know, i guess my kids were eat maybe a little, less than half of that. The whole wheat pizza was not a big hit with the kids. Melissa there is thinking though that, if kids are hungry enough they just eat what you give them and after a while they would get used to it and have a healthier diet. We have a problem with Childhood Obesity in this country. Right. Melissa what do you think about those arguments . I can tell you like the lawnwe had today was a subsandwich with, turkeybased cold cts on wheat bread with lettuce and tomatoes. They had offering from choose fresh fruit which was either bananas, apples, oranges or freshwater mellon. They had baked chips available and packet of carrots and sellry sticks with lowfat ranch drilling that was a big hit. Melissa but you had to least program in order to serve that . That sound Pretty Healthy . The bread. The bread was the big. It h to be whole wheat or multigrain. We went with, went with just the regular wheat. So that is what make as difference to the kids. Thats what they want. Melissa huh. What is the implication for you financially people leaving the program . Because a lost districts say they cant afford to leave the program. Were lucky enough our numbers that we get reimbursed on are low but it will cost us 34,000. Melissa why . Explain the math to me. How do you get to that . Reimbursement from the federal government on your free and reduced kids. Melissa so they will only reimburse you if you follow the exact menu . Correct. And you know, a lot of the problem, i was reading, i dont know if this is what happened in your school you have kids that arent eating the lunch. They have two choices. They either try to go across the street if that is something thatats allowe at your school r dont eatore. Theyre tired in the afternoon. They, coaches are complaining, was that your experience . Were, and were a Smaller Community in the district of 550 kids. A lot of our kids are involved in afterschool activities and Portion Sizes were affecting them. They were tired and hungry at the end of the day. We saw a little increase in discipline issues and some attentiveness issues. In the afternoon classes. So what do you think the solution is . Because like some Government Programs out there, the idea behind it was really good intentions. You know, in my