Transcripts For FOXNEWSW Shepard Smith Reporting 20140728 :

Transcripts For FOXNEWSW Shepard Smith Reporting 20140728

Now from the fox news deck, we have been watching new air strikes light up the sky over gaza, as a shortlived cease fire comes to an end. Israel reports it resumed air strikes after hamas militants fired rockets from gaza following a short break in the fighting. Israeli soldiers say militants slipped into the country through tunnels and opened fire on soldiers. Palestinian Officials Say ten people died when a hospital and a park came under attack. Israel says hamas hit the targets by mistake. Still, the white house today said israel should do more to stop civilian deaths. Israel and their political leaders often talk about the high standards they put in place for their military operations, to ensure the safety and wellbeing of civilians, innocent civilians, on the palestinian side of the border. Based on published reports its apparent theres more they should do to live up to those standards they have set. According to the United Nations, more than 1,000 palestinians and more than 40 israelis have died in the fighting. Meantime, very up usual warning from the white house to our closest mideast ali. Obama administration Officials Saying israel could be putting its relationship with the United States at risk. Thats according to the associated press, which reports the administration is fuming over israeli criticism of secretary of state john kerry. At issue, secretary kerrys attempts to bring qatar and turkey into peace negotiations. Were seeing the heavy toll on folks in gaza. Damage to utilities means theres no Running Water and electricity is almost always turned off and theyre running out of space to bury all the bodies. Its such a problem palestinian officials are now letting people reuse old grave sites. One Young Palestinian who died, now buried on top of his grandfather who has been in the grave for a decades. Conor powell is live in gaza city. Conor, looks like this thing is escalating again. Reporter john, it sure is. Just the past few hours we have seen a significant escalation in the fighting here, particularly after the weekend, which was fairly calm compared to what we saw last week. Just in the last few hours we heard outgoing hamas rockets, seen israeli air strikes and artillery. Also been hearing small arms fire. So the fighting is definitely picking up here. This as the cease fire and the sort of unfourtruce seemed to have essentially crumbled in the last few hours. Now, israel is also conducting military operations, trying to remove those tunnels. We are also hearing about some air strikes or some reported explosions at this gazan hospital where theres also a park and a medical facility there. Reports there say there was an explosion. Hamas says it was an israeli air strike. Israel says, no, this was a hamas rocket that landed in the wrong spot. What we do know as they argue about who is responsible is that ten people were killed, including nine children. So the fighting here beginning to impact civilians yet again. Something we saw a lot in the last week or so john, and civilians are being told by israel to flee the northern part by text message of gaza. But where theyre supposed to go is not really clear. As we have seen, the safe ravens are not very safe. What more do we know about the militants who supposedly entered israel . Reporter well, one of the big operational aims of this goal for this Israeli Military is to remove these underground tunnel systems and the Israeli Military says they destroyed 60 of the tunnels but still hamas is able to use them to infiltrate into israel. Happened earlier tonight. We dont know how many or what exactly happened after hamas fighters got into israel but we do know that other firefight ensued, at least one of the hamas fighters was killed. We understand there may be casualties as well on the israeli side. So as israel continues to focus on the tunnels, hamas is using them to sneak into israel. Its a major concern for the Israeli Military and thats the primary goal of trying to destroy these tunnels. Conor powell, live. Lets bring in Deputy Director of the mideast program at the center for Strategic International studies. Talk about this tiff between the Obama Administration and the israelis. Is this the coin of thing that happen all the time or is this of particular concern . We know theres been tension in the relationship for the last couple of years and this isnt anything new necessarily. The Obama Administration wants to signal to the israelis its time to wrap up the operation. Its gone on long enough. The Israeli Government wants more time to expand the operation and try to reach some of the operational goals they set for themselves, most importantly, trying to neutralize these tunnels that hamas dug into israeli territory. So, theres some different priorities here in terms of the sequencing, but i think the bottom line is that both sides . Want to get to a lasting cease fire that is going to solve the threat that goes gaza poses to israel and normalize the life for the population in gaza. You say both sides also get something out of the fighting. Can you explain that . Well, both israel and hamas are trying to gain something out of the fighting. The u. S. Objective is to stop the fighting and try to help israel secure its border, help demilitarize gaza and normalize the lives of the population in gaza. What do hall mass members get . Hamas is trying to use the violence to stricken inits position politically which has been weakened dramatically, in part because of the Economic Situation in gaza. What it is trying to fight for now is to try to secure the end of the blockade to gaza, which has gone on, on and off, since 2007, when it took over the gaza strip. The difficulty in this is that its not just a negotiation and a fight between israel and hamas. Its a fight between hamas and egypt as well, because egypt controls the gaza border on the egyptian gaza side, and egypt is the lifeline of gaza to the outside world, and so the egyptian hamas relationship right now is at an alltime low and theres a lot of tension there on that side, and that is a parallel negotiation that needs to be worked out if any of these issues are going to be resolved. Thank you. Thank you. Police say a Sexual Assault suspect is dead after a wild shootout in the heart of one of new york citys most southafter neighborhoods. Happened in the west village in manhattan. Home to lots of celebrities. Federal marshals say the suspect opened fire on a u. S. Marshals task force as they tried to arrest him. Two marshals and a Police Detective were hurt but new york citys mayor, bill deblasio, says he believes they will be, quote, okay in the long run. The United States helped rebels boot the libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi no some of othe same fighters are forcing americans to get out and fast. Well explain what prompted the urgent evacuation of our embassy and what is behind the latest threats as a major airport. Celebrate your love of crab with gthis years largest variety . cause its crabfest at red lobster dig into a succulent selection of crab entrees. Like new crab lovers trio with sweet snow crab legs, split king crab, and jumbo lump crab over savory shrimp. Crab three ways all on one plate. Or try new jumbo lump crab over woodgrilled salmon. Experience crabfest at red lobster today. Only for a limited time. Come in and sea food differently fighting in libyas capital city sparked an out of control fire at an oil depot near the airport two days after the state department pulled u. S. Diplomats out of the country. Now Libyan Government officials are asking for International Help to put out the fire, saying it could trigger a humanitarian and environmental disaster. For weeks two rival militia groups fought for control over the airport. Analysts said the groups are made up of former rebels who helped oust Moammar Gadhafi in 2011. European nations, including germany and the United Kingdom followed suit. The recent bout of fighting killed 9 people and injured more than 400 others, Catherine Herridge is live in d. C. , whats the administration doing . Reporter a short time ago the Deputy National security adviser confirm confirming for reporters there is would a Conference Call between the president and allies in europe, and theyre concerned about libya, calling for a cease fire but without meningful thrown stop the fighting. With respect to libya they agreed on the need for immediate cease fire among the mill lit mill lit ya in tripoli and underscoring support of the u. N. That condemns any use of violence to attack civilians, intimidate officials. The state department this afternoon still describing the u. S. Embassys closure over the weekend in the capital tripoli as temporary. What are we learning about the cause of all that . The head of the powerful house intelligence committee, mike rogers, says the crisis in libya was avoidable but a the Obama Administration lacked a clear policy. These problems are continuing to grow with lack of u. S. Leadership and we need to change that path or its going to have longlasting damage to our National Security interests in the future. The president s Deputy National security adviser for strategic communications, ben rhodess, blames the former libyan dictator, Moammar Gadhafi, for a weak military and police force that is ill equipped to obtain the militias. Gadhafi left behind a shell of a state. There was a security force. Ben rhodess was the same white house official who blamed the 2012 benghazi terrorist attacks and the demonstrations across the mideast on the antiislam video and not a broader policy failure. Thanks, catherine. A second american has tested positive for elow would virus in africa. The word from an aid group in the u. S. A woman from North Carolina came down with the disease while working at a hospital in liberia. One of three countries battling the biggest Ebola Outbreak ever. Its killed almost 700 people according to the w. H. O. Last week the aid Group Announced the medical director of the same hospital tested positive for ebola. He is on the left in this photo. You can see the aid workers wear lots of protective gear. Officials say both americans are in serious but stable condition. A spokeswoman says the doctors wife and children had been with him in liberia but went home to texas before the got sick. So far his family has not shown any symptoms symptoms of ebola. A lawyer claims the feds have evidence that shows Timothy Mcveigh was not alone when he planted the bomb in Oklahoma City. Now that attorney is taking the fbi to court. Well break down his case. Plus, were learning bat big increase in the number of 911 First Responders who now have cancer. The details on that next. We come into the world hungry. And never quite get over it. Seven billion hungry people who never stop eating. Whats a world to do . Well, we grow a lot of food. We also waste a lot of food. About a third of everything we grow. We thought we could improve on the math. So, we put our scientists to work on the problem. Theyre good at math. Not to mention biology, physics and chemistry. And they came up with ingenious ways to keep the food we grow fresher, longer. Using innovative packaging. There are still a lot of hungry people in the world. But we have a lot of scientists. This is the Human Element at work. Dow. The number of ground zero rescue workers with cancer has more than doubled in the last year to 2500 cases. Thats what Health Officials tell the New York Post newspaper. The number includes police officers, workers and recovery workers and volunteers who worked at the World Trade Center site. Many have already received money from the 9 11 Victim Compensation fund. More are likely to file for compensation by the october deadline for cancer claims. Researchers say ground zero workers are getting cancer at a much higher rate than the normal population. A lawsuit claims Timothy Mcveigh was not the only bomber in the Oklahoma City attack, and the government has video to prove it. But wont release it. The feds claim they cant find the video and it might not even exist. Now the fbi is on trial. Officials executed mcveigh more than a decade ago for planting the bomb in 1995. It destroyed a Federal Building and killed 168 people. It was one of the deadliest terror attacks ever on u. S. Soil. The feds say mcveigh was alone when he parked the truck, packed with explosives, outside the building and detonated it. But for some time investigators said they were looking for another suspect, john doe number two, they never identified him. Now one lawyer claims that manhunt led to his brothers death in federal prison. Trace gallagher has more in our west coast news hub. Tell us about the guy who died in prison. His name was kenneth trenedud, would was picked up on a parole violation after to the bombing and then brought back to a federal prison in Oklahoma City. He had a very strong resemblance to john doe number two, same height, same weight, even the same Dragon Tattoo on his left arm. John doe number two was never identified. Kenneth hung himself in prison but his body has dozens of bruises and stab wounds. His brother, jesse, believes the feds thought he actually was john doe number two and that he was murdered in an interrogation gone wrong. The family, by the way, was awarded 1. 1 million for the way the death was handled in prison. I was subsequently lowered to 900,000 but that is what the brother is trying to establish in court, john. So when he goes to court, or the bradshaw, the brother, what do we expect . The brother is going to court because he says there was a secret Service Document logged into evidence shortly after the bombing that said there was surveillance videos of suspects, plural, walking out of a principle truck three minutes before the bomb went off. The fbi says there is no such surveillance tape but none show mcveigh 30 tapes, not a single one shows mcveigh in or around a truck but the brother want this judge to allow him to go into the fbi vault and search on his own and maybe once and for all prove if there was a john doe number two. The trial should last somewhere around three days and then the judge will decide if he gets to go hunting for this missing tape. Trace gallagher, thank you. Lets bring in a lawyer. Alex little is a criminal defense attorney and former federal prosecutor. How unusual is this case, alex . This is incredibly unusual. What you have here is a freedom of information act lawsuit. , the sort of lawsuit brought commonly to get records from the government. But here you have for the first time i can recall a judge who is going to determine whether the efforts of the department of justice the efforts of the fbi are sufficient. Have they looked hard enough . And thats what the judge has to determine. But its awfully strange if the report on that Surveillance Footage describes two people, uses the term, suspects, plural, now were told that was wrong . They got it wrong . They cant find the tape . Its gone . That raises an awful lot of suspicion. It does. To be fair Police Reports are wrong all the time. You can get an error like that in every Police Report across the country. The question is, theres enough problems that have been raised with the way the fbi may have looked for this. Today theres been testimony the fbi agent in charge of the search for the video never actually called back to fbi headquarters in d. C. And said there is any chance you may have it . The judge has been frustrated over the six years this lawsuit has been going ons as to the way the fbi has not been up front with what theyre doing, and that raise questions. And his side, mr. Trinityitys side, is saying the fbi needs to look harder. The secret service made reference to the existence of this tape and the fbi needs to find it. And at the end of the day there may be no tape, and theque may be, have they looked hard if . I think mr. Trinity wants the chance to see the best efforts are made to locate the tape and he wont take the government reside word for it. The judge isnt taking the governments worth forked, either. It is interesting, the whole john doe number two story. That story was out there. They were actively looking for john dough number two, and then all of a sudden one day, oops, didnt exist, didnt happen. To be fair to the government in the fog of investigations like this, this is a massive investigation of does things like that happen. We get incorrect information. We saw that boston and not the last time the government agents mess up on the front end of an investigation. Is that all it is . This lawsuit could help us answer the question. What be the fact i saw one of the postmortem photos of mr. Trinity and he did not look like a guy who simply hanged himself. He looked like he had been beaten. The interesting connection between that case and what really entirely separate lawsuit here about this video, is i think what h

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