why they are doing it, and where. we're here in the fox newsroom, breaking news is coming in right now from across the country and around the world, our domestic desk covers the u.s., our foreign desk, watching events around the world, and our media desk is charged with bringing in all the video and live pictures so we can bring them to you, 24 hours a day. jenna: at any moment now, we're expecting a new document dump from the website wickileaks, in a recent twitter post, the site announcing it plans to release a top secret cia document today. in the meantime, the site's founder, julian assange, is still not in the clear concerning sexual molestation claims in sweden. interesting story. mike emanuel is live at the pentagon. what do we know about this expected leak? >> reporter: jenna, not much. last night, around 6:00 p.m. eastern time, about 17 hours ago, wickileaks tweeted out on twitter for our tech savvy viewers that they were going to release a bunch of information on the cia today. i instantly called various officials throughout the u.s. government and followed up with calls this morning. they have not seen an information dump, so a lot of people throughout the u.s. government are curious about what this will be. obviously we knew they had at least 15,000 other documents on the afghan war but it's not clear that's what this is all about, so we're kind of in wait and see mode, as is the u.s. government. jenna: as we're in that mode, we heard from the temperature commander in afghanistan about wickileaks, what does he have to say about him? >> our friend and coleen jennifer griffin is on the job, she asked general david petraeus about wickileaks. here's the exchange. >> first let me talk about what happens in wickileaks and the fact that that was aprehenceible betrayal of trust and other description, and literally put at risk some of those who were working with us here. >> has anybody's life been lost as a result of that? >> i'm not aware of any but certainly there is concern. >> reporter: and that is similar to what we've heard from secretary of defense robert gates, that he hasn't heard of anybody conclusively being killed by this leak, but the emphasis has been so far, jenna. jenna: finally, tell us a little about these serious allegations, the wickileaks founder, just some claims about sexual molestation, what is all that is about? >> reporter: that's right, one swedish prosecutor has been looking into claims by two different women about julian assange, the founder of wickileaks, one rape allegation was apparently dismissed today but they're still looking at a molestation charge, assange has tried to dismiss it, saying it's a smear campaign and i had consensual relations with these women but the prosecutor is still looking into it, so there's a possibility he may face criminal charges in sweden, jenna. jenna: a lot to this story, mike. we'll be back to you as it develops. thank you very much. as mike said, our own jennifer griffin is back today, we have more from her interview with general petraeus in kabul, he's discussing the state of the war in afghanistan and the way forward for u.s. forces there, coming up later this hour. jon: our troops overseas are willing to serve our country but will their votes be counted? right now new accusations the justice department is not doing enough to protect the voting rights of our brave men and women in uniform, serving especially overseas. james rosen is live in washington with more than that. -- or mon that. >> reporter: without much fanfare the congress passed a military overseas and voter empowerment o. move act, it requires states to mail unmarked absentee ballots to military and overseas voters at least 45 days before election day, but suppose you're the secretary of state for, say, delaware, where primary date falls on september 14th, just 47 days before election day and let's say a primary there is too close to call and it requires two weeks to certify a winner, how do you print up final ballots and ship them out to voters say in kandahar at least 45 days before the general election? accordingly, ten states, delaware along them, along with the district of columbia and the virgin vieland -- islands have appealed to the department of justice and defense for waivers from that rule. some watchdog groups tracking this issue accuse the federal government of lax enforcement. >> it's been very clear that some of these states, were not going to be in compliance with the move act a long time ago and the department of justice, each step of the way, has simply not taken the actions to ensure that the move act would be implemented in each of the 50 states and the district of columbia. >> reporter: the justice department has fired back at these allegations in the form of a letter to republican senator john cornyn, the texan who co-authored the move act and complained to doj that enforcement of the law here does not afford, quote, room for dialogue or negotiation. the department of justice replied to assistant attorney general ronald welch late last month is firmly committed to ensuring men and women in uniformed services and living overseas have the opportunity to vote and have their votes counted welch add the the -- added the department is form ago team to monitor compliance with the move act requirement. the department of defense is expected to rule on these waiver requests from those ten states, the district of columbia and the virgin islands, four days from today. dod would only offer one spokesman to discuss this issue with us and refused repeated requests to make this spokesman available to us in time for this series, jon. jon: james rosen, live in washington, james, thank you very much. jenna: jon, we've got some dangerous weather developing on opposite sides of the continent right now. take a look at hurricane frank. forecasters say this thing has just formed down in the pacific, off the coast of mexico. we'll show it to you when we get a chance. there's frank. in the atlantic, we've got hurricane danielle gaining strength as well. also, a new tropical depression taking shape right on its heels so a lot of different weather going on today. meteorologist janice dean will have all the latest on this coming right up. jon: it is the most serious fighting in lebanon since 2008. hours long street battles, right in the middle of beirut, the city that used to be called the paris of the middle east. several people killed, the army called in, the simple dispute that witnesses say sparked the worst violence there in years. we're live in that part of the world. the divorce is final. ein woods is now breaking her silence, talking very candidly about how tiger's betrayal affected her. we know a lot of you are online while you're watching us. check out what's hot on foxnews.com, click on the most read tab right there on the home page. jen welcome back, everybody. "happening now", in the wild world of entertainment, in the top box, court action at the bottom of the hour in the lindsey lohan case. the actress is not required to attend this amid reports lohan was released early from a rehab center. in the middle box, tiger woods' x telling people magazine she's been through hell since the sex scandal erupted, she made it clear she never hit the golfer, addressing the car accident last thanksgiving. the original kermit the frog in the smithsonian museum, donated by jim henson's widow. the first kermit looked like a lizard and was made by a green felt coat thrown out by henson's mother. jon: here at the fox news foreign desk where they are keeping tabs on the worst fighting in lebanon to erupt there since 2008. take a look, lebanese soldiers and tanks are actually out in the streets, they are patrolling the city right now, after deadly street battles erupted overnight. two groups are fighting each other, using machine guns and even a rocket-propel -- even rocket-propelled grenades. at least four will dead -- four are dead so far and you know what touched this off? reported letraffic dispute. lelland, do things seem to be under control? >> >> reporter: it's late afternoon in this part of the world, jon, and yes, things seem to be calmer in beirut but this latest violence shows what a tinder box that city is. you've got three main groups, the lebanese army, hezbollah and a sunni militia. hezbollah is by far the most powerful armed group in that country. fighting in this case was between hezbollah and other militias. as you mentioned, it appears as though this traffic stop or traffic accident is what actually caused this violence to be touched off. that's actually good news for a lot of folks here and they don't think it was some kind of politically begun violence that started. of course, the last time we saw these types of running gun battles, and it is reminiscent of the violence we saw back in 2008, and that almost touched off a civil war in leb non. so as you can imagine, jon, when folks saw this in the streets, just how worried they were. jon but i know there have been clashes between the israelis and the lebanese on the israel-lebanon border, not too long ago. i'm sure that this conflict can't make that part of the world feel much safer. >> not at all, jon. it was just a couple of weeks ago that a number of israeli and lebanese soldiers died up on the border in a clash that was very reminiscent of what happened back in 2006 and began the second lebanon war between israel and the lebanese. so everyone here is very on edge, and things are going to only get tenser in the coming days and weeks. back in 2005, the lebanese prime minister was assassinated, and hezbollah has always been blamed for that assassination, though so far, they have denied that over the years. in the coming weeks, there's a u.n. tribunal that's been convened and they're expected to announce that hezbollah was, indeed, responsible for that assassination. if that happens, hezbollah has publicly said there's going to be a lot of renewed violence in the region and everyone is certainly fearful that that threat would come through. jon: let's hope that doesn't happen, that's for sure. leland, thank you. jenna: business news for you now, brand new numbers showing more bad news on the housing front, new home sales, down more than 12 percent last month, falling to the slowest pace on record. this on top of yesterday's existing home sales figures that were down to the lowest levels we've seen in about 15 years. so tough news for the housing market overall. how is the stock market reacting? we're going to check in with fox business network's nicole pediledes. it looks like the markets are hanging in today. >> they are hanging in quite nicely, despite the news we got today, coming on the heels of yesterday's existing home sales. the dow here is holding on to that 10,000 mark, the builders in the group, the home builders, all hitting 52-week lows over the last 24 hours, but they're getting a pop, hoping that maybe the worst of it is over. we also got good news from toll brothers. but we do see investors flocking to the safe haven of gold. gold is up again. so eight of the last ten trading days, gold has been hire and certainly has an up arrow here again today and treasury, people flock to go treasuries. actually we saw the ten-year hitting a 19-month low, 2.41. so we do see investors are a little bit of jitters here, we're down two weeks in a row, the dow down four weeks, but you do have a couple of up arrows, mickey d's and some of the retailers are up as well. but the home sales numbers, they're difficult to stomach, record lows. jenna: we'll take the up arrows wherever we can get them. thank you, nicole pediledes, for us today. jon: danielle is graing strength but fortunately she is far out in the atlantic now, the storm returning to hurricane strength as it makes a turn to north, this as a new tropical depression takes shape, possibly becoming tropical storm earl. we've also got hurricane frank out in the pacific. it is a busy weather season. let's check in with meteorologist janice dean, she's live in the fox extreme weather center. j.d. >> did you jinx us yesterday, jon scott? jon: i said it was supposed to be a tough season and it's been quiet so far. >> reporter: tough season! i need another person to take the blame for the weather, jon scott! jon: let's take jenna take the blame, can we? >> no, we can't! all right, here's frank, frank is moving away from land in the pacific, and then we have danielle, of course, right here, danielle is a hurricane, expected to move very close to bermuda in the next several days. going to keep our eye on that. then tropical depression number seven, which will probably become earl later today and we have another strong wave off the coast of africa that will most likely become fiona. i know it's confusing now. there's danielle, there's tropical depression number seven, looking really good and expected to become earl and even a hurricane by the weekend. tropical storm models, there's danielle, show show thaw cone of uncertainty in a second but there's the potential earl as we go ahead further out in time and again, taking the same track, but perhaps watch earl because it's going to be more south of danielle and might have a better shot of affecting the u.s., so we have to warn people in advance, we're getting into the busy season, make your plans now. there's danielle's path, there's bermuda, you're within that cone of uncertainty, category two, possibly category three hurricane. by monday, a brush in bermuda, possibly, and t.d., as we get further out in time, there's the -- this is way more south than danielle is. we're going to have to keep an eye on potentially earl. jon: we're going to play a game called stump the weather machine. we have incredible video to show you out of brazil. it's a fire tornado. look at that! what is up with that, j.d.? >> reporter: that's awesome. people call it a fire whirl or fire defensiveil. you always have that heating at the surface when it comes to tornadoes, the hot air rises. if you have the right wind dynamics, rotating calm of air, you see these rare fire tornadoes, most of them are obviously started during wildfires, so i mean, it really is incredible video and obviously, quite dangerous. brazil has not seen rain in three months, jon, so the wildfires season there is out of control. that video, that's incredible. i don't think i've ever seen on video. jon: and you're probably telling young matthew to stay out of it, right? >> i'd like young matthew to stay away from fires, even though his dad is a fireman, so maybe he'll become a doctor or something! jon: nice, calm job. janice dean, check in with you later. jenna: we have another state joining the massive egg recall, there are more than half a billion eggs being pulled off the shelves. the big question is who is watching out for our food and our safety? also the man hunt is over, or should we say, gator hunt? this one happening far from florida, far from anywhere you'd expect to find a gator. in fact, that didn't actually stop alligator bob that nabbing the big gievment you're going to hear from him next. jenna: welcome back, everybody. michigan is now the 23rd state recalling eggs from that iowa farm being blamed for sickening thousands with salmonella but eggs are just the latest in a long line of recent recalls, in fact, the federal government estimates about 13 people die every day from food-borne illnesses in this country. why is this happening now? is it the fault of the food companies, is it the fault of the government? how do we actually fix it? jeff milken and greg conko, director of food safety for the competitive enterprise institute and texas congressman michael burgess, ranking republican on the house subcommittee overseeing the fda. welcome to you all. >> thank you. >> good morning. jenna: jeff, let's start with you, first. why are we dealing with these problems over food safety? >> well, i think, you know, the food industry has become a gigantic business, and we need to start looking at how we produce food and can we produce food more safely, what safety guards can we put into place, when we talk about large facilities, how do we make sure that those facilities are as clean as possible. jenna: jeff, are you saying it starts with the producer, it actually starts with the food companies rather than the government? >> well, i feel that it starts with the food production facilities and the companies, and then also, the companies that buy the product to set standards of safety. jenna: greg, on that, we have about 76 million cases of fod-borne illnesses every year, that means one out of four of us are going to get sick from food sometime over a year period, but we eat a lot of food in this country as well. is it really possible to safeguard against this stuff? >> i don't think so. as long as crops are grown in dirt and as long as animals produce manure, we're never going to totally eliminate food-borne pathogens. what we do want to do is move towards where producers have targets, performance standards they have to meet but not actually set specific ways for them to meet it. you don't want to cut off innovation, you don't want to cut off the incentives and the ability of food producers to actually strive for producing healthier foods, and it's worth noting, i think, that although we do have a lot of food-borne illnesses, cases of food-borne illnesses in the united states every year, the numbers are lower now than they have been since we started recording reported cases in 1996, so we're improving, and we've got a long way to go, but things are not as bad as i think the recent recall might portray. jenna: congressman, let's talk a little about the fda now. you are the top republican on the subcommittee that has the task of overseeing the fda. where are we in the process of strengthening the fda's power to oversee our food safety in this country? >> it's something that has been ongoing. the time that i've been on the committee, the last six years, last summer, in july, in fact, the house of representatives passed a sweeping change in food safety regulations. i didn't like every aspect of the bill, but i did vote in favor of it. it's been stalled over the senate, largely over some controversies about what type of additives can be allowed in plastic bottles, and really, it's time to get that moving and get it to a conference committee, work out the differences, and give both industry and the regulatory agency some certainty, some aspect of knowing what the future holds for them. in this instance, and i do appreciate the comments of your two guests, it's impossible to absolutely ascertain with absolute certainty the food-borne illness is not going to occur, we do have a level that is lower than in previous years and it's come without a vast increase in price at the food prices at the grocery store. so those are things for which we should be grateful, but at the same time, every summer, it seems, if it's not eggs, it's peanuts, it's tomatoes, every summer, we have this same angst over a salmonella outbreak, it takes us months to get to the culprit. this times it appears it's not coming from somewhere outside the country but coming from america's heartland itself. this is a problem we should have been on top of, this is a problem that was eminently controllable. jen the food modernization act has been stalled in the senate. it passed in the house but it's stalled there. do you think there's a political will in washington to update some of our regulations with everything else that's going on in d.c. right now? >> it's hard to say, but last summer, in the midst of all of the angst over cap and trade and health care, we actually pass a bipartisan fashion a food safety bill t. passed through our committee with a great deal of cooperation between republicans and democrat