The purpose of influencing our election. That is a fact, plain and simple. Now the key question for the president and the congress is what are we going to do to protect the American People and their democracy from this kind of thing in the future . Im pleased that this committee has undertaken this investigation. I welcome it. My sincere hope is that in bipartisan fashion, you find answers. Julie Catherine Herridge joins us now on capitol hill. Im on the senate side where weve heard witnesses this morning from the fbis Counterintelligence Division as well as homeland security, Cyber Security division and one of the main headlines this morning has focused on the summer of 2016 when they say russian entities began scanning election databases in nearly two dozen states and this is really an indicator that the target was more widespread than previously recorded. As of right now, we have evidence of 21 states that were targeted. In no case were actual vote tallies altered in any way, shape, or form. That is correct. What we know publicly is that data was stolen or expo traded from at least two states, illinois and arizona. There is a lot of frustration on the senate side this morning that the other 19 states had not been publicly identified by homeland security. The fbi witness testified that the goal of the russians was to simply undermine confidence in the u. S. Electoral process. When it came to the targeting of these state board of elections and voter registration, it was all about planning for future opportunities. First of all, i think they took the data to understand what it consisted of. Once there, that they can better understand and plan accordingly . When i say plan accordingly, i meanc an attacking future elections and or targeting particular individuals. Within the last few minutes, we had testimony and questions from republican senator marco rubio who said he believes that the russians targeted 21 states because simply targeting these entities, not even stealing the information, would have the effect of undermining the outcome of the selection and leaving a cloud over however was the ultimate victor. Julie thank you very much. One thing we cant walk away from is clearly the Investigation Continues and whether or not russia had any play in the election, but again, still no evidence of collusion between the Trump Campaign in russia. That is correct. This is focusing this morning on the Russia Campaign which was described as being on a broader scale and more aggressive in nature than theyve seen in previous election cycles and undermining confidence. The witnesses have testified that part of the goal for moscow was to denigrate candidate clinton and help candidate trump if they could in any way, but they did not change the voter tallies and they have not testified that there is evidence of collusion between members of the trump team and moscow. The julie okay, thank you very much. Youre welcome. Jon new information this morning on a key g. O. P. Victory in another special election. When that turned into the most expensive house race in u. S. History. Republican karen handel came out on top, beating democrat jon ossoff in yesterdays highly contested election to represent the northern suburbs of olanta. Thank you. Thank you for believing in me. [applause] tonights victory is for you and its for every single venison and the six district. As for every Single Person with a dream. Jon Jonathan Serrie life for us in atlanta right now. More than 50 million, a record for a u. S. House race, spent on these two campaigns, and it elevated the race to National Status of the airwaves which were saturated. At times, the ads could be quite negative. Now that this race has been settled, both candidates are calling for unity. Listen. To the jon ossoff supporters, know that my commitment, they expend to everyone of you as well. We may have some different beliefs, but we are part of one community, the community of the sixth district. We showed them that we can still build coalition of people who may not see i to eye on everything, but rather than demonizing each other, we find Common Ground to move forward and thats only way this country will move forward. Jon ossoffs Early Campaign to make trump furious attracted millions of dollars in Campaign Funding when he pivoted to the center with a platform of creating jobs and cutting government waste. Thats funding that helped him reach out to independents in the district, but he is also finding he has some drawbacks. He race 23 million plus the vast majority that came from outside the state of georgia. Not only does he not live in the six district, but hes 3,000 miles away. That resonated with a lot of the voters we talk to. Take a look at this tweet from overnight. The president taken to twitter saying welcome of the special elections are over and those that want to make America Great again are 50. All the fake news, all the money sent to equals zero. Many people were looking at this Georgia Election as an early referendum on the trump administration. Jon Jonathan Serrie in atlanta. Thank you. Julie fox news weather alert,c the governor of louisia declaring a state of emergency. Tropical storm cindy bears down on the gulf coast. Sunday is expected to hit louisiana later tonight bring an dangerous amounts of rainfall two states along the gulf coast. One texas Business Owner in fact taking steps to prepare for the coming storm. Getting ready for some wind. Right now, its just the wind, so were trying to get everything off the ground. You just have to be prepared. Julie Casey Stegall is live in the path of the storm. Good to see you. Not expected to make landfall until the overnight hours. Right now, projections are around 1 00 a. M. 6 00 a. M. Central time. Still, we are already seeing and feeling her effects. Im going to hop out of the way and let you take a live look at the gulf of mexico back here. This is holly beach, louisiana. The cajun riviera as its known, not terribly far from the texas border. You can see the waves out there, pretty choppy and the both as the storm makes its way to us. Storm surge, not so much a worry with this particular system, about 3 feet or so. Instead, it is the intense rain that has people worried. Folks all along the gulf coast from texas all the way to the Florida Panhandle are getting ready. Those sandbags are being put out an residence and coastal areas of texas, louisiana, mississippi, and alabama are moving some of their belongings to higher ground, something alltoofamiliar with people who call this region home. Is a part of life. We are going to write it out. I think will be all right. No evacuations to tell you about, but the state of emergency has been declared by the governors of alabama and louisiana. Much of this state is currently under a flash flood watches with forecasters predicting anywhere from 69 inches of rain and some isolated areas could see more than a foot, the heaviest being in the south parts of mississippi and alabama. You can see that this is being viewed by meteorologists and forecasters as mostly a flooding event. Cindys winds, not terribly strong, about 5060 miles per hour. The National Hurricane center, not expecting her to strengthen before coming ashore tonight. Julie youll be there for it. Thank you. Jon fox news alert. Can one suspect is in custody after a Law Enforcement officer was stabbed in the neck at the airport in flint, michigan. Bishop airport is the name of it. The suspect apparently stabbed this offduty officer and was taken into custody. The officer said to be in Critical Condition after being stabbed in the neck. No more information on what caused this incident. Well get more information, but the Bishop Airport in flint, which has some service to other commercial airports on the eastern part of the country. That airport is closed for now as the investigation into the stabbing of this officer continues. A Young American dies after being imprisoned in north korea, now the u. S. Is considering its response. What kind of response is warranted for the death of Otto Warmbier . After more than a year in captivity in north korea. Also, a handful of republicans writing a Health Care Bill that will affect millions of americans, should it be taking place behind closed doors or on in the open . Senator john mccain will join us with his reaction to these issues and a whole lot more. If youre frustrated by the lack of transparency in this process, i share your frustration Liberty Mutual stood with me when this guy got a flat tire in the middle of the night, so he got home safe. Yeah, my dad says our insurance doesnt have that. What . you can leave worry behind when liberty stands with you™. Liberty mutual insurance. Jon satellites detecting activity at an north Korean Nuclear test sites as tenants with the u. S. Remain very high over the death of Otto Warmbier. The president saying on twitter, while i greatly appreciate the experts of president she and china to help with north korea, it is not worked out. At least i know china tried. I am jordan gordon chang past tense and the president s tweet there, i know china tried, what do you make of that . This is a little bit ominous, because we are to read this in connection with his april 11th tweet in which he said china cant solve north korea, United States will do so alone. If he Still Believes that and we are looking at yesterdays tweet saying china help, that means there is going to be American Action on north korea and presumably, that would be soon. c jon if there is action, i support it could run the gamut, do you have any suspicions as to what might be in the works . We are thinking of taking the state departments travel advisor in north korea and turning it into a travel ban which is something that we should do, but there are also a lot of things that we should shanks and sanction which we havent and we should enforce the sanctions that are in place. We dont do that and we dont impose crosses on countries like china. Jon we dont enforce the sanctions already in place . There are so many things that we know is going on between china and north korea where we have chinese banks laundering money for the North Koreans and we do not impose any cross on those banks. We impose 300 million fines on banks were busting in the iran sanctions, but here we have chinese banks involved in much more complicit conduct and with regard to north korea and we are not doing anything. There is a lot of room for us to talk enforcement. A jon here you have a young man, an American College student who is flat out murdered by north korean regime and there doesnt, to this point, there doesnt seem to be any response. If kim jongun can continue to do that, is there anything that stops them . Thats an important point because we have given a lot of warnings to the North Koreans, but at the same time, we have told them to ignore what we say because we never impose those cross for behavior which is dangerous and only to the United States, but to the international community. We created this course of conduct, this expectation in the minds of North Koreans. We need to stop that and although it will be unpleasant, we need to impose those on north korea and its enablers. Until we do that, we know we are going to get. The North Koreans are going to count on our currency, theyre going to launched ballistic missiles, theyll use americans as hostages, theyll do all sorts of things and weve just been watching this. Jon if they were to respond militarily, launch an attack on south korea in response to us tightening the screws, do you save it a possibility . Its possible, but very unlikely. Kim jongun knows that. They are not going to do Something Like that unless theyre at the point where they have no other choice. I know North Koreans will help and a chinese. Nonetheless, if we dont do anything, we know North Koreans, maybe three years or sooner would put a Nuclear Warhead on top of a missile. They have been making very fast progress, not only are north korean technicians were on their own, theyre getting a lot of help from beijing at this point and we see this, we know all about this. This is an open source and yet, we dont impose anything on the North Koreans are chinese. We permitted this. Jon one gets the impression that strategic patience is over and this administration might be inclined to do something, well see. It will be watching. Gordon chang, thank you. Julie she vanished more than one decade ago and now, new gruesome details. Plus, election reflection. We are looking at the National Implications of last nights republican republican victory in georgia and what it could mean for the 2018 midterms and the president s agenda. All this is republicans on capitol hill continue to work to repeal and replace obamacare. The president clearly onceca bill to have heart in it. 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Gruesome new details and the murder of a former beauty queen that disappeared 12 years ago in georgia. A grand jury indicting bo duke in the case. Hes accused of tampering with evidence and burning her body. A wild scene in an indiana courthouse after the judge issued a warrant for Anthony Williams and williams ran out of the courtroom. The judge chasing him while still wearing his black robe, but an officer caught up with williams using a taser to and that chase. Closing arguments and e baby doe murder trial in boston. Michael mccarthy stands accused of killing his girlfriends daughter. He dumped the body and boston harbor. Attorneys say mccarthys girlfriend is really to blame. She pointed the finger at mccarthy to cover up her own role and her daughters killing. Julie right now, belgium on edge and beefing up security after a failed terror attack at a train station. This was a scary scene where a man tried to blow up a nail bomb shouting a la akbar before he was killed by a soldier. He grabbed his suitcase. Fortunately, nobody was hurt. His suitcase immediately caught fire. The man left his luggage burning and left in pursuit of a station officer. Meanwhile, the bag exploded a second time. This bag contained nails and smallcap bottles. The man then returned and to the arresting soldier shot him. Julie greg palkot is following the story live from london. Here we go again. Police staged a raid earlier this morning in the capital of belgium following that failed bombing attack right in the center of the city. The Police Action happened at it is a hotbed of terror activity. And as a springboard for terror attacks. We spent some time there in the past. This after the 36yearold moroccan man tried to set up that nail bomb in the main train station of the city last night. He apparently walked in with a group of people who are standing and looking at a departure or arrival board, then apparently tried to trigger the bomb, thats when there were two small explosions and a fire. A soldier at the scene took apsley no chances. Luckily, no one was hurt, but that very busy train station was closed until this morning causing a lot of disruption. Also the center of the city was sealed off also causing disruptions. Last year, we saw a string of deadly attacks in brussels and just in the last couple of days, weve seen a deadly terror attack in london and an attempted terror attack at the shop belie