Officers after attacking a california woman outside a pizza parlor. The monkey will be kept in quarantine for six months to make sure it doesnt have rabies. No word on why a mon key was hanging out at a pizza parlor. Thank you for joining us. Fox friends starts now. Hello everyone. Good morning. Today is wednesday, the 6th of august, 2014. Im anna kooiman in for elisabeth hasselbeck. A fox news alert. A wife and mother missing for two weeks found dead. This morning the latest details from the investigation. Meanwhile, remember when our president declared the war in afghanistan over . The bottom line is its time to turn the page after a decade in which so much of our Foreign Policy was focused on the wars in afghanistan and iraq. Really . Now it looks like the terrorists heard him loud and clearly and attacked the victim, a u. S. Army general. What this says about president obamas foreign
policy. Straight ahead. In a few hours a man accused of deserting the military will face questions about what happened. But there is a good chance Bowe Bergdahl may say nothing at all. Good morning. Mornings are better with friends. Happy to have you here. Youre watching fox friends, thats a great way to begin your day. Thank you, don king. Welcome to the big telecast live from new york city. Brian and elisabeth off and in their place once again, just like yesterday, anna and peter. Good morning. Were going to be starting our day off with the fittest people on the planet from cross fit. These people are celebrities in their own right. They are going to be racing across our plaza on their hands in a handstand. They are trying to get us in on the action. Cross fit not so fit. Also were going to hear prosecute sean hannity in the program hear from sean hannity. Hes been in israel. Is the Ceasefire Holding . The results coming in from primaries in four states. One of them my home state of kansas where the incumbent pat roberts fended off a tea party challenger. Joining us from d. C. With the details is peter doocy. The two most prominent republicans in kansas who were in danger of losing their jobs in last nights primaries arent going anywhere for now. The Governor Sam Brownback easily defeated challenger Jennifer Winn and threeterm incumbent senator pat roberts easily beat the tea party backed dr. Milton wolf by more than 19,000 votes, 48 to 41 . Roberts is now saying different parts of the party are going to have to come together if the g. O. P. Wants to take over the senate. Unit i dont see must happen if we are to keep kansas red. It must happen if we are going to defeat the obama
agenda and send harry reid packing. The roberts victory last night means that this cycle, Senate Incumbents have now won in kansas, mississippi, kentucky, South Carolina and texas. But with the michigan results in, another House Republican has fallen. The tea party backed carry bentivolio lost outnumbering two to one in michigans 11th house district. Pentivolio joins eric cantor. John dingell who is retiring saw his wife debby win the michigan primary for his seat. That is the seat dingell won in a 1955 special election when his father who served that district for two decades died. I guess they dont have term limits this. Peter doocy, live in washington, thank you very much. Four minutes after the top of the hour. This morning a u. S. Army general murdered, killed in an insider attack in afghanistan. Somebody dressed as an afghan soldier opened fire at a group of people at a military academy near kabul killing Major GeneralHarold Greene and wounding 15 others. Greene is the highest ranking american killed in combat since vietnam, Something Like that. This morning the president s abandonment of afghanistan coming under fire. Pete hegseth is the c. E. O. Of concerned veterans for america, also a veteran of the iraq and afghanistan wars. He joins us live. What do you think . When you lose someone of that stature, of that rank, it affects everybody. You feel like a general is invincible. The Training Mission is dangerous. Its an insider attack, a
very concerted tactic the taliban has used. When i was in afghanistan from 2011 to 12 there was a big surge in insider attacks. It does two things. It erodes the trust. It creates the headlines you see in the New York Times today, is this Mission Worth it . Should we stay . The taliban knows this. We underestimate our enemy time and time again. They want to get at the heart of our will and heart of our commitment. An attack like this does that. Does this make the taliban seem like they are chasing us out of afghanistan. Pef announced our weve announced their withdrawal. Is this them trying to say it is because of us . Sure. This is to create a perception that they are the wave of the future. The americans on the way out. That is what they do at with these members of the Afghan Military who are targeted to say americans are on the way out. We have the time, the
americans have the wawps. Theyre they have the watches. You better side with us or your families at risk. You were talking about the demoralization of our troops. Now we have a general murdered by the taliban forces. The president didnt speak about that yesterday. What does that say to the troops . Reenforces how detached he is from this conflict. The war in afghanistan, the one he called the good war, the one he was going to focus on as opposed to the iraq war, the troops have felt the fact it has been about withdrawal more than success from the beginning. That is what youre seeing in athe taliban is exploiting that perception to make it look like americans are on the way out and they are the future. The president of the United States did make comments yesterday, just not about this. He was talking about the africa summit. The white house apparently has briefed the president and now there is going to be an investigation or Something Like that. But here is the president just a couple of months ago in may essentially washing his hands of the whole war thing. The bottom line is its time to turn the page on more than a decade in which so much of our Foreign Policy was focused on the wars in afghanistan and iraq. This is a big touchdown for the enemy. Thats right. Turn the page. We dont get to turn the page if the enemy doesnt. The taliban hasnt turned the page. Al qaeda, isis are not turning the page. They are redoubling their efforts because they have identified we are retreating, we dont care, were not invested in the outcome. Youve got islamists on the march, the taliban really controlling the countryside. What folks dont understand is if we leave afghanistan were going to create another environment where the afghan army or afghan government. Doesnt mean we stale together but following through on an investment you made is an important thing for the legacy of our troops, the commitment and security of our country. This is a blow to the
advisoradviseee relationship weve got going on. Pete hegseth from concerned veterans for america, thank you. It looks as if later today there is a good possibility that Bowe Bergdahl, the guy who went missing while serving back in 2009 over in afghanistan, we know he walked off post, we know his platoon mates say he was a deserter. And nonetheless, thats an image that was released by his attorney yesterday. His Attorney Says mr. Bowe bergdahl is mentally ready to answer questions. It looks like life is pretty good for Bowe Bergdahl. From this image here to seeing the image of him preemg for preparing for the hearing with his attorney. It looks like he gained weight. They say hes mentally ready. What if he does not speak at all . What if he takes the fifth . Is that in his best interest . Under the code of military justice there is a greater right to attack the
fifth. They get a better socalled miranda right than civilians do in america. Yesterday on the five it was indicated he might do that. Lets listen in. I dont see any incentive for Sergeant Bergdahl to cooperate, participate. I expect were going to see more kind of a lois lerner take the fifth not give the information because he is the worst witness against himself. If he doesnt say anything, he remains on active duty, in good standing, able to get a pension and continue to serve if hes not convicted. I dont particularly agree with kimberly. She is a great lawyer but on this issue i think there are attorneys taking the position that somehow and he hasnt indicated but engt best tactic but i think the bestactic is he was somehow confused and mentally ill. I think taking kind of a strong approach he said it in print, how do you put someone in jail after he has been jailed for five
years by the taliban . Instead of taking this equitable approach that somehow his client is the victim here, so i think that there will be a robust defense and that he will cooperate the best that he possibly can in telling his story, even if it doesnt jibe with the facts that have been exposed back in the early army investigations. You would, peter, expect Bowe Bergdahl will go ahead and explain it all and theyll discount it to the fog war or Something Like that . But for his attorney to say, you know, he was being held for five years. That should count as something, thats his sentence. What about that guy is, to Many Americans, a deserter, a traitor. People died looking for him. These are all true. In speaking about the tactics, i do not believe there will be a fifth amendment defense here. He will not stand on his rights. They will come up with a version of what occurred that is in his best interest and skewed in terms of his own mental
condition at the time it took place and thereafter. This will be an interesting passion play in that sense. This will be a dramatic story that will be heard today. We wont hear it for awhile but they will come up with an interesting story to grab the attention of the army and eventually the white house, because thats the audience. The white house is going to dictate what happens to Bowe Bergdahl going forward. Lets not forget he was held in a cage for some period of time but there were rots of fraternizing with them there were reports of fraternizing with them. Other stories making headlines developing overnight, Heather Nauert joins us for those. Ive got another story about a scare in the air. Terrifying moments on a United Airlines flight packed with 200 passengers. A fire breaks out on that plane and look at this picture taken by a passenger. There was a fire fighter inside the plane. We dont see these kinds of
pictures often. This flight was headed to brussels from newark, new jersey, when the pilot was forced to make an Emergency Landing in canada. No one was hurt and no word on what caused that fire. A tragic update on a story we have followed extensively here at fox. The oregon mother who mysteriously vanished while she was running errands two weeks ago has been found as dead. Authorities discovered Jennifer Hustons body near her s. U. V. In a wooded area about 25 miles from her house. We do not suspect foul play at this time and there is nothing to suggest that the public should be alarmed. Just before the 38yearold disappeared she withdrew money prt bank, she money prt bank, bought snacks and sleeping pills and filled up her gas tank. She leaves behind her husband and two young sons. Today closing arguments begin in the socalled porch shooting trial. Before that case goes to a
jury, theodore wafer spent two days on the stand and tried to convince a detroit jury that he shot an unarmed teenager in selfdefense when she showed up on his front porch. Listen to this. I didnt want to be a victim. I opened the door all the way as much as i could. Then as soon as i did that, this person came up to the side of my house so fast, i raised the gun and shot this poor girl. Some are comparing the case to the case of Trayvon Martin. That was the teenager shot and killed in florida in 2012 by george zimmerman, that happening in detroit. A beautiful home meets an ugly ending. The moment a powerful mudslide destroyed this house is all caught on camera. Look at this. The family heard a noise right before the home was shoved off its foundation. Thank goodness for that, because they heard that they were able to escape that house. This happened in the up scale neighborhood in north salt lake, utah. It was a massive 400foot wide hole now left in that hillside. Experts fear more mudslides are on the way and that ground is unstable. Those are your headlines. That happening in salt lake. A lot of folks nervous after that. A fox news alert now. Trouble at the airports as ebola fears spread around the world. This morning one Airline Already canceling flights. British airways will no longer fly to the affected african area. Dr. Marc siegel live at Jfk International airport. Good morning. Good morning. Im here at john f. Kennedy International Airport terminal 4 where International Arrivals and
departures including flights to and from west africa. The centers for Disease Control prevention has 20 quarantine stations around the country including one here in this terminal. I spoke to dr. Steve monroe, who is the Deputy Director of c. D. C. For emerging Infectious Diseases and he says the first line of defense is to try to control the outbreak in the country where it started. One of the things we are doing is sending some of our staff to the countries that are affected to help them with their exit screening procedures to try to identify sick people before they get on an airplane and to also identify people by questionnaire who may have had one of these highrisk expoa shiewrs, that is a known exposure to a patient or to their body fluid. The next line of defense is at this airport where the c. D. C. Can get a call from a plane and meet the
plane on landing, bring an ambulance and take the patient right to a hospital or they can use these quarantine stations to detain patients. Peter, they have a legal right to detain patients if they have a contagious disease that could be deadly like ebola. Then c. D. C. Will sometimes bring them right into the quarantine station. Lets watch dr. Steve monroe talk about the initial screen. As a part of that initial screen, they might try to assess where the person came from, what they might have potentially been exposed to and how sick they are. How symptomatic they are when they get off the plane. There are a small number of diseases for which c. D. C. Does have authority to order somebody into isolation and prevent them from entering the country. Dr. Monroe says, by the way, that they can make a Risk Assessment either by phone or in person and decide that the person didnt come into contact with a disease like ebola. Then they let them go and they dont detain them. Guys . Dr. Segal, the main line of defense is the people at the airport where they take off from or here look at somebody and if they have a fever, then they start to ask some questions. But if they dont have a fever, keep in mind the incubation period can be three weeks, there is a real good possibility somebody with ebola could walk right in and not develop it for another two weeks and then wind up in an e. R. Somewhere. That is a very good point and theyre doing surveillance in the countries where theyre leaving from. Theyre actually in west africa now trying to figure out who has this problem. It is after you leave the airport you find you have symptoms, then you call the c. D. C. , they bring you right back to the quarantine station here. We got emails from viewer. Kimberly asks is there a way to screen people for the virus before they get on a plane . First of all, youre not going to get it on a plane. Youre not going to get it by touching somebody or if
theyre sweaty. Youre not going to get it that way. But if they have a fever or flulike symptoms, that is when they are contagious and that is when the c. D. C. Has to be notified. 150 times last year the c. D. C. Was notified by an airplane while in the air. Dr. Segal, steve answered this but this viewer linda is asking what is incubation period exactly . How many are coming to the u. S. Sick but showing no symptoms yet . The incubation period is 7 to 21 days. This is a very smart period. This could be a problem. I want to emphasize with only 1,500 cases approximately in west africa if youre sick with flulike symptoms it is extremely unlikely you have ebola unless you were in contact with a patient who had it. Great point. Dr. Marc siegel live out of jfk where they have got a quarantine area, one of 20 airports in the United States. Sir, thank you very much. Were going to be in a quarantine area later today, steve. Doubling down, Jesse Ventura says all the bad press for suing a navy seal and winning is the widows fault. Maria molina getting hollywoodstyle treatment. Look at this. Okay, maria molina, this is your first time on the red carpet. It suits you, i think. I thought it was going to be red. Good point, maria. Why maria molina is walking the red carpet and her forecast for the new movie. When salesman alan ames books his room at laquinta. Com, he gets a ready for you alert the second his room is ready. So he knows exactly when he can check in and power up before his big meeting. And when alan gets all powered up, ya know what happens . I think the numbers speak for themselves. Im sold hes a selling machine put it there. And there, and there, and there. La quinta inns suites is ready for you, so youll be ready for business. The ready for you alert, only at laqui