bp in its statement is apologizing for its actions and i quote from the statement, all of us at bp deeply regret the tragic loss of life caused by the accident, as well as the impact of the spill on the gulf coast region. remember seeing this video every single night for three months? well, bp s ultimate fine could still grow by billions and billions of dollars more. in february, the civil trial for bp begins in downtown new orleans. that involves the four impacted gulf coast states and the clean water act under which the fine for bp could be quadrupled if gross negligence is determined. shep: some 16 to $18 billion. thanks. we re following breaking news. a key united states ally getting ready for a possible ground war. the heaviest fighting in years between the israelis and the palestinians. now the israelis say they re calling up tens of thousands of troops. they re moving tanks and forces to the bordered with gaza and
General investigates hundreds of allegedly provocative e-mails that he exchanged with jill kelly. what i don t want to do is to try to characterize those communications because i think i don t want to do anything that would impact on their ability to conduct an objective review of what was contained in those e-mails. this type of ig investigation usually takes months, if not years t. public interest may be lost before we know the results. shep: a matter of time before we saw the shirtless f.b.i. agent who helped start the investigation. time s up. yeah. that shirtless photo component of this scandal has largely been tamped down. here is the photo. take a look at it. f.b.i. agent frederick humphries posed with a couple of target dummies after a practice. he sent it to kelly, but also sent to a lot of his other forms, one of who worked at the seattle times.
here at the united nations, there was an emergency meeting of the security council late last night. you won t be surprised to hear no action was agreed upon. shep. shep: in the middle of all of this, it s a very unstable and frankly, unpredictable egypt. and it could be the key. yeah. egypt is absolutely a key player in this. right now it s new muslim brotherhood president, morsi, appears to be playing both sides. he has reportedly quietly given the green light to his intelligence services to put pressure on hamas to scale back on those rocket attacks, while publicly he is sending his prime minister to the gaza strip tomorrow in what will clearly be a show of solidarity with the palestinians. now, the egyptian calculation may be that by having their prime minister there, they will cause a pause in the fighting because israel will be reluctant to carry on with the air strikes and launch any kind of ground invasion while such a high
Ranking egyptian politician is there. that might, of course, help the palestinians. on the other hand, any pause in the fighting also gives a little more time for diplomacy to start work. but watching what egypt s leaders say and do in the next few days is going to be key in what happens next in this very tense situation. shep. shep: indeed. jonathan hunt. israeli officials are urging people to go into public buildings and take cover in bomb shelters when they hear the warning sirens and they re hearing them a lot. we ll have context on this developing story from a form intelligence officer for the u.s. secretary of defense. first, bp has agreed to shell out a record settlement in connection with the historic oil spill in the gulf of mexico. now two of its workers face manslaughter charges. bp now admits, we lied to you again and again
shep: i m shepard smith. this is the fox report. it s the bottom of the hour. time for the top of thedrums ofn israel. the israelis preparing for what may become a ground invasion in gaza as fighters on both sides continue exchanging fire today. the situation in this volatile corner of the world growing more fragile by the hour. already there have been innocent victims on both sides. a rocket killed three people today when it slammed into their apartment building in the south of israel. in the gaza, officials say the violence killed eight civilians, including four children. and a woman who was pregnant with twins. that number has grown to 16. a u.s. state department spokesman puts the blame squarely on the military leadership of hamas. it claims the have the best interest of the palestinian people at heart, but through its actions, it s showing a far different agenda.