house call. media buzz is next with howard kurtz. stay tuned. on the buzz meter sunday, with both sides here in washington still struggling to avoid a government default just five days from now, are the mead dwra adding to the act money surrounding the shutdown and trumpeting the charges and countercharges. >> they hated blaming the extortionists. >> the president is using, i think, the right words. he talked about extortion, strong language about cripplelty. cripplelty. >> is the press blaming congress on this? and should conservative xhen taters have agreed to an off the

record sit down with president obama? charles weighs in on that. plus a new interview with megan about her media and her appearance. >> fooef people focus on the looks thing when they talk about the fox news talent. i'm here to tell you, i don't really look like this. >> neither do i. i'm howard and this is "media buzz." we very much enjoy getting your feedback. send us a tweet and as usual we'll read the best ones at the end of the program. no deal on the shutdown, no deal on default and no shortage of harsh words these days, not just from president obama and the republicans, but from media outl outlets, as well.

some have ranged from contentious and down right shrill. >> that's how disappointing news has become when we won't ask the tough questions. >> that's not fair. >> do you ask that question, andrea? >> we have asked the question. >> we have reached out to the democrats with a compromised position. >> congressman, that's not fair. don't you dare put this back on me. you know full well you attached obama care and defunding it. >> am i against -- >> you're getting special perps and special breaks. cut the trap crap and stop lying to the audience. >> so is the coverage regarding more heat than light? jim punker ton, attributing editor to american magazine and dana millbank columnist from the washington post. is the confrontational tone of this helping people understand the issue? >> it might be, but i think the

blather, the driving force behind this is blockbuster ratings that cable outletes and network outlets get from this. the media are grand standing. and i think that they're seemingly pushing partisan agendas even when they're not on opinion shows and maybe it's that they're angry about this whole thing as much as we are. you know, and maybe it's just that, you know, they're engaged in the story. but whatever it is, the bigger question here is how is this fiery rhetoric helping america? and i always used to say, tone it down, everybody, tone it down. but outside of the slander and, you know, the jihadist and all of that, leave all of that aside. i think that this could be good for the country. >> pooum because people are engaged? >> the electorate is engaged sxm people understand the debt ceiling. >> there is a lot of grand standing and a lot of the tone i think has been almost as heated. we hear from the politicians and in some of those interviews b,

you saw republican congressmen pushing back against journalists making them the issue. >> republicans are fighting harder i think than they did in the last shutdown in the 90s. of course, they have more support from the media then. but i think part of the agenda that i see in the dog that didn't bark. that was too much even for "the washington post." he thought, gee, that was strange that nobody would ask for that. when you see that kind of silence from the mainstream media, you wonder if they want to push the confrontation angle as opposed to the substance of what people are experiencing when they a apply for health care. >> dana, i wonder whether some of these anchors -- we could have played ten more. there's been a lot of contentious exchanges between people on tv and guests. could it be possibly that the anchors are trying to exploit these moments and create good television? >> i am shocked that you would

suggest such a thing. >> i thought you might be. >> surely reporters have a right to be angry. this is the second or third weekend they've lost to this controversy and many have had to cancel vacations. this is a sad situation here. >> having to work overtime. >> but, look, i think that the press is more reflecting the mood rather than setting the mood. people are hysteric and hyperbolic out there. it's -- >> is that our role, if people are hysterical and angry and fed up then we act angry and hysterical and fed up? >> i did a couple of columns this week not related to the supreme court, the washington football team. nobody actually read those because people are only interested in hearing more hysteria so i immediately got hysterical about the shutdown. >> his column, today, for example, in "the washington post" joined by maureen dowd and

i think the media pile on this has been pretty astonishing. the mainstream media would love to have the long-term elections today because they think the democrats would win big. >>. >> some have been highly credit cat kal of the republican strategy to force the shutdown. dowd writes this morning that this is self-evident foley, and every sensible person could recognize the shutdown fever would blow up in the party's face. so when you say the media aren't being fair, it's almost some people on your side. >> it's the mainstream media as a class. republican or democrat, you aren't -- kathleen parker is another one, you're not acceptable in society if you don't agree the republicans are -- like the bad guys now.

>> but the media consensus is the republicans got killed in this political battle because of not having an end game. and then you have the polls come out which show that 24% of respondents have a favorable opinion about the gop and they're mentioning that president obama has a 37% approval rating, but the other number is worse. so that is defining the media narrative, no? >> i'll tell you, i think the mainstream media has another few days to go. when the debt ceiling thing gets settled, which i assume will be next week, i think you've seen a new change. obama care glitches. the front page of "the washington post," the front page of the "chicago tribune," there's a new story coming to say that deals with the fact that the health care system isn't working very well. and when the smoke clears and the exemption for congressional staffers survives, i think next sunday will look a lot different.

>> i want to pick up with jim pinker to know's point. you have the liberal media and some say the mainstream media against the funding public, it's simply not worked and now everybody is scrambling to avoid a government default. but on the other hand, you have many conservative xhen taters saying this is foley. but jim says there's more of a class divide than an idealal divide. jim is saying when the smoke clears, maybe we'll get to this obama care story. the problem is the conservatives were the ones who set this house on fire. now to say the press isn't focussing on obama care, if the house is burning down, you can't

blame that we're not focusing on the grounds keeping. that's what happened. >> there's a very good "new york times" story that this computer disaster of glitches has been building for months and there were warpings and all of that. if it's such an important subject, how long did the news conference go on, four or five hours? >> i missed lurch. >> you didn't get a single question about obama care. >> no one put him on the spot. i went through the transcripts. what assure yapss can you give to those affected? i'm wondering what you and your administration are telling people. you've got to be attempted to sign these bills. final finally, is there anything that you wish you had done differently in 2011? this is not hard hitting journalistic interviewing, especially not the kind that we used to see in the white house press corps..

>> looking ahead, sean makes the point that the government's i.t. systems are so awful, and he cites lots of reasons why, that's the story -- >> just to circle back to the press conference, he said the president got a friendly point from the huffingt toirn post. but one thing he avoided doing was calling on the major media who tend to ask more aggressive or have showmanship in their questions. >> he said at one point i'm following the list that jay carney gave me, the press secretary. we've talked about this format and he's able to work around the room and work things to his advantage. he had one story that he wanted to tell and he was lucky in the sense that that's the main story of the moment. i would like to have seen more obama care questions. in fairness, that was the

lead-off question to his interview with the associated press a couple days before that. sure, i think that's not the best format for the press to be getting good answers out of this guy. >> before we go to break, are you challenging the dominant media that this has been a very bad couple of weeks for republicans? >> no. i won't dispute the polls. i simply say that some people are piling on as hard as they can. >> do you want to respond to that? >> well, i mean, we're focusing on the story at the moment. i think jim agrees that it has been a debacle. and if you look at it, obama care is up 7 points in the way the public views it. so by all measures, this has been a debacle and i think people are just pointing it out. i don't know if that's piling on. >> piling on as in the eye of the beholder. head on media buzz, my sit-down with megan kelly. but first, the other big debate consumer washington, the redskins. should some news outlets be

boycotting the team's name.

an interview with president obama that dealt with another washington institution, the redskins. >> i've got to say, if i were the orthopedic of the team and i knew that there was a name of my team, even if, you know, it had a storied history that was offending a sizable group of people, i'd think about changing it. but, you know, i don't want to deextract from the wonderful redskins fans that are here. >> this created a media storm.

redskins owner dan snyder saying he respects the views of those who disagree, but after an 81-year history, he is not changing the team's name. should the ap have asked that redskins question with all that's going on in the world? >> i think that's questionable and i kind of wish the parent had deflected it to keep the focus on the hysterical shutdown. but it's a fair question and he did succeed in reviving this debate that's been simmering. but i think it's now very much front and center and i think that the pressure has been increased on the team as a result of that. >> i think this is a key of the media taking the ball and running with it. nine questions were on the shutdown, four questions were on foreign policy and one question was on the redskins. >> it's not the president staying on the medicinage, it's not the media staying on the message, because what happened after that? >> he could have said something that went to -- okay.

he could have deflected it. but the reason the ap did it is every tv show and every interview has to have a kicker. and the kicker is like those water skiing squirrels they do it, they do it so it's a light way to end the news program. that's what this was. >> and then every website in america, every cable news show in america picked up the redskins, ignoring the questions about iran, the health care, and all the other -- i shouldn't say ignoring, but clearly they scored with the redskins question. >> us, too. >> some stories slayed the republican jones saying we refuse to use this name in our coverage any more. is that pc? >> i think it's very pc, liberals fabricate outrage over redskins. what i really loved was a in a minute woman saying listen, if the redskins are object northboundus to you, what about the washington wizards? they encourage witchcraft.

and the milwaukee brewers, they talk about alcohol. >> there was a great letter to the editor saying hail to the fed-skins and changing it to hail to the fed skins. and there was another one from someone who had traveled to big horn wounded knee crazy horse and he said if you read letters, that the redskins was a derogatory term. however, there was another tidbit of information, the president of the national congress of indians, from historian mike richmond, he said that the president helped form a logo want ago chiefton on there and that there were a couple of polls, and the ap zone poll, four out of five don't want it changed. >> a lot of people, particularly native americans are offended by

this. let's not completely lose sight of that. >> no. and that's a 10-year-old poll and it's questionable what they were asking in that poll. in my column about this, i used other racial epithets for other group of societies that -- >> which were published online and not in the paper. >> right. because they didn't want people reading that and stumbling over it over breakfast. coming next, a major media fail for the associated press. before we go to break, this was a false story about the virginia governor's race. the wire service said terry mccaulliff lied to an official in the death benefits scam only to retract the story res than two hours later. the tm wasn't mcauliff. a huge blai black eye for the ap. up next, the family of fallen soldiers. how did this become the issue?

it was utter outrage that it is. the government refusing to pay funeral and other costs for families of soldiers killed in afghanistan. nbc's andrew ya mitchell broke the news on the "today" show. >> for families of five u.s. troops killed over the weekend in afghanistan, got a second call from the government. that the government cannot pay their death benefits. the immediate benefits to help with funerals and flights to meet their loved ones coffins because of the government shutdown. >> harry reid and john mccain jumping on the story as did plenty of xhen taters. >> are you outraged? you know what? i am. you ought to be. i don't blame you if you are.

>> it's about whether the commander and chief gives a [ expletive ] about the morale of our troops. >> joining us now, jackie kucinich and glenn thrush. >> the media makes this death benefits story a symbol of the administration's mishandling of the shutdown. >> i think so. but i think it goes wider and shows congress. how congress has kind of mishandled this. this is something -- they knew that potentially could happen, that it was a testimony, this was something that was out there and, yet, it's something -- >> why is the media narrative so much more aimed at the administration for allowing this to happen as opposed to congress that this might happen? good because the administration probably -- actually, you know what? i don't know. that i guess is -- maybe it was misplaced because this was everybody's fault. but we criticize the media all the time. this is one of the things that i

think they did well. >> what i think is funny about this is you have congress declaring its right to have authority over spending, the debt ceiling. and then when someone they don't want to see defunded is defunded, they say, daddy, please make this come back. >> did the media enable that by putting on congressman after conchman would said this is the white house, they don't care about the stories? >> look at greta. she was standing in front of tombstones. that's a great visual for tv. the problem with this is, we don't cover government. we cover elections, congress, the white house, we don't cover the machinations of actual government. this is one of those rare stories when knowledge of the way government actually works is fundamental. and a lot of people in that press room don't have institutional knowledge about the way government works. >> thank you for maided that admission and we cover the government when something blows up. this became an issue in the white house briefing roof.

here is congressman carney going at it. >> john, look, if you want to editorialize, the commander in chief, when he found out that this was not addressed, he directed that a solution would be found and we expect one today. again, this is not that complicated. i know you're trying to make a partisan issue out of it, but the -- >> no, nice try. >> when jay carney says to jonathan carl of abc and ed henry of fox news, you're editorializing, does that put them in a difficult position? >> i think that's an easy way to put it back on them. i don't think it puts them in a tough position. if you've been a reporter in washington long enough, someone has said that to you. again, i don't think it makes the reportser look bad, necessarily. >> television reporters who know something about performing in front of the camera res trying to create confrontational moments that they can then put on the air. >> absolutely. and we also had that incident last week with dana bash of krn with harry reid getting into a

tussle. but listen, we're seeing a lot of earl weaver here, a lot of picking fights with the umps. >>. >> talk to us briefly about being a reporter trying to find out what's going on with this default. is it frustrating? >> we've covered this at a particular time, the back and forth between the chicken matches. and one of the things that struck me about this one is how few people actually know what's going on and how there isn't really an end game yet. you were talking to lawmakers yesterday and there were so many of them yesterday morning that were saying, well, we don't know was going to happen next. >> so you're trying for information and they basically don't know. >> don't know yet, yeah. i want to talk about the commission to protect journalists, writing a report about the obama administration's efforts to control information, the leak prosecutions that have strung up and it was coming from

david sanger. this is the most closed control freak administration i've ever covered. does he have a point? >> i think he totally has a point. this is the "new york times" that shows the outlet to a great extent particularly on the leaks for national security for the white house. you a move down the food chain from the "new york times" to other print outlets, you see that opinion more strongly suggested. >> what was more striking is it wasn't just dealing with national security documents, sensitive information, every administration to some extent try toes control that. but other journalists saying when getting basic facts on routine stories, it can be disk. the white house says this is not true, there are leaks, they're trying to be transparent, but is this journalist is whining or do they have a point that these are folks not easily parting with the information?

>> they can't even get the schedule who the president is meeting with, who is informing his discussions. if journalists can't even get that, basic scheduling and meetings, there's something wrong there. >> glenn, jackie, thanks very much for skom stopping by this sunday. send us a tweet about the show at this hour. as usual, we'll read the best ones at the end of this program. the more personal side of megan kelly is ahead after the break. but they'll talk about a gathering for conservative pundits in just a moment.

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megan kelly was a part-time tv reporter here in washington a decade ago when fox news hired her based on this audition tape. >> the mood in court this afternoon was somber and serious as the police chief showed up flanked on both sides by her attorneys. they quietly told the court that she's cut a deal. >> she launched a prime time deal airing at 9:00 p.m. eastern. she's known as an aggressive interviewer so this is a chance to turn the tables. i sat down with her in new york. >> welcome. >> thanks for having me. >> you came right out of the box on the first edition of the kelly file with this question to

ted cruz. >> senator, good to see you. what is it like to be the most hated man in america? >> megan, it's great to be with you. let me start by saying congratulations on your new show. >> thank you very much, sir. so now answer the question. >> that was a provocative question. >> you know, before i asked him that, though, we had played all these sound bites op of people demon iegz him, basically saying he was the devil. so that was the context of the question and i think he took it in the spirit in which it was offered. >> you built your program around interviews. you said you don't want to be the female bill oh riley and you don't want to give a lot of opinions. but, for example, when you give the suspension about the death benefits for fallen soldiers, you had it was an outrage, middle finger one gave a lot of opinion. did you mean you don't want to give political opinions? >> obviously i'm not somebody out there calling for reform or arguing about what we should be doing the about the shutdown. but i've said, for example in the interviews prior to the launch, if someone is a moron,

i'm going to call them a moron. and i don't think there's any question in the minds of any american from the president on down that what's happening with these deaths benefits is an outrage. is there a fair minded american in this country who doesn't feel outrage when they find out that the promise made to these soldiers that they go and fight for the country and die on the battlefield, we're going to take care of their families, that promise was breached because of the politicians in washington? and it's controversial for me to say, that's outrageous? >> it's an outrage. >> it is. >> but is there any way in which you hold back? >> virtually every way. it's an exception not the rule that i'm out there expressing pau how i feel. i think it's safe ground on something like that. use the example of we see morons going 100 miles per hour down a busy street, kids are on the squawk. if they're an idiot, i feel comfortable calling them an idiot. >> america, you do not want to be called a moron by megan kelly.

>> but you know who you are. >> i'm told here on fox news that the mainstream media lean left. do you agree with that? >> i think some of them do, without question. i think examples of that are plentiful. i wouldn't say all of them do, but i think there's more of them than not lean left and some of them are far left and in the tank. >> wa about the counterknowing that as a counterweight that fox news leans right. does your show lean right? >> i don't think that's true. i think what we do at fox news is fair and balanced broadcasting. if you tune in to see my show at 9:00 p.m., you're not going to see the same stories you see on the front cover of the "new york times" necessarily, that's not what we get paid to do is to follow the marching orders of media that we believe leans left. there's plenty of options if people believe that. but fox news gets paid for telling the complete story examine having both sides of the argument presented in a way. >> so you see more republicans than democrats? >> it depends on the night and the story. hopefully no, over the course of a week or two, it will balance

utah and you'll see both sides. you can always press them with the talking points and there's ways of presenting both sides even if you are more on one. but i think the thing that fox also does is provide context to certain stories that you won't get elsewhere and to tell stories that won't be told elsewhere. the gosnell abortion story is one example that very few were covering aggressively until fox news picked it up. that was a hard story to tell. >> it was gruesome. >> it was very gruesome. i was 8 months pregnant when we were talking about what this guy was done. but we had to do it. that's what we do on fox. we try to pick up the stories getting ignored that viewers have an interest in. so they did. >> ten years ago, you were a welcome report ner washington and now you're in this situation. do you feel a certain amount of pressure moving to prime time where you're supposed to put up big numbers? >> i don't think it's pressure. i feel the challenge and i felt a little anxious before the first time because there's so

much scrutiny and it was such a big deal and i hadn't been on the air for three months. so i felt a little like, oh, god, i hope i don't screw it up. after that first night was over, it was like okay, that's great. >> everybody has opening night jitters. >> the pressure was gone. you went told me that you were bullied by 12-year-old girls when you were a young girl. later when you got into tv, you asked yourself, was i smart enough, attractive enough? >> a lot of them. i'm just a normal person. people focus on the looks thing when they look at fox news talent. i am here to tell you, i don't really look like this. i have a team of people that they pay a lot of money to get me into shape. they put all the bells and whistles, the false eyelashes, they curl the hair. they have a wardrobe person who tries to find things that sick you in and -- >> i would like some of that, by the way. >> if anyone out there had the people that i have to put you

together, you would look great. i have the same physical insecurities that anybody else does. >> and you are now comfortable in admitting that in a way you might not have been a few years ago? >> that's right. i felt like i had to be perfect and that i needed to go out there and own it and that would protect me from people who wanted to hurt me because i would feel empowered, like you can't hurt me, i've got my shield of armor on. now i realize it only did a disservice to myself and made me less likable and led to, you know, people sensing that cold veneer. and that's just self-defeating. so now i sort of try to own who i am, warts and all, and let the chips fall where they may. >> anybody who is in public life who is on television gets a fair amount of criticism, gets trashed on twitter. are you impervious to that? >> i've gotten better about that. about now when i first started, i couldn't believe how mean people could be on the internet back then. and i went in and talked to brit

about it and he said, look, you need to get a thicker skin. and he was right. i talked to shawn better and said, look, if you want to feel better, google my name. there's a whole website devoted to hating me. and i could see that they had gotten accustom to it and i've gotten a bit accustom to it. i think there's more love than hate so i try to focus on the love. >> so you came back to works nine weeks after having your third baby. >> right. >> very cute, by the way. >> thank you. >> suddenly after launching this prime time show, you have two other thirteen. it sounds like a lot to juggle. i know all modern families struggle with this, but this seems like an extreme case. >> it is. but this new schedule will be better for me as a mom because i get to see my kids in the day. in the older days, it was rare. but the key is, howie, i think i have a loving and supportive husband and he's got an unusual

schedule. he's an author, a novelist. and if he couldn't help me in the ways that he does, i don't know if i could do all of this. so i don't necessarily say everyone can have it all and you should all be doing what i'm doing. for me, it works because i have someone at home who is rooting for me to succeed at work and someone at work who is rooting for me to succeed at home. >> so in 30 seconds because you know television is time limited, what do you hope your show will grow into? >> a huge, huge, dominating success. >> that was fun, megan kelly. coming up,el may make you an unwanted star in an advertising campaign and the nielsen ratings now include what you tweet about television. [ male announcer] surprise -- you're having triplets. [ babies crying ] surprise -- your house was built on an ancient burial ground. [ ghosts moaning ] surprise -- your car needs a new transmission.

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it is time now for our digital download. google imposed a policy to use your name for product endorsements without your permission. >> if you say nice things about a store, say, i don't know, wal-mart. maybe a restaurant, mcdonalds or a movie on google plus, youtube or other google services that is now fodder for advertisers and they can use your likeness and what they say in ads. >> your name, your photo and facebook started doing the same thing. i find this seriously creepy. >> i am with you. it is creepy. however, in defense of google they are only going to be doing this november 11th, and they are giving people the chance to opt out. >> come on, it is complicated to opt out. >> i opt out of it. i don't want my likeness to be shown and i think a lot of other people will too. they don't make it easy for

you to just, okay, if i want to opt out of advertisements, click here. you have to go to settings and figure it out. i know companies crave these personal endorsements because people listen to their friends, but i think it is a perversion of social networks. i think should you have to give permission up front. >> it is all about advertising. >> the other digital story has to do with twitter. for the first time the nielsen ratings that show who is watching tv. >> my favorite show. >> they now measure tweets. how many are tweeting about a particular show. >> so scandal had the 713,000 tweets and the episode when the dc fixer, olivia pope, her name was exposed having an affair with the president. >> not everyone watches scwt scandal." >> i am educating people so they will watch it because it is a great show. this one happened to do the best in terms of twitter. it reached 3.7 million people on twitter.

that basically means that's the number of people who are exposed to the 713,000 tweets. jay some of the other shows in -- >> some of the other shows the show on miley cyrus "glee,"" dancing with the stars," "the voice." and it helps to have this buzz going on twitter, but i think the notion it will boost ratings and viewer ship is wrong. : >> i think you are wrong. they say this is the show twitter built and it is the show twitter built because they engage the audience in a way other shows are just learning how to do. they put hash tag, who is the mole. they try to get people engaged and they watch it live which means they watch more commercials. >> so i guess we are moving into a whole second screen experience where it would be you watched tv yourself and talk to your family and talk back to the set. so you are saying it is actually a big deal. >> i think it is a big deal.

the problem is she is the creator of this and the creator of grey's anatomy and once you do this, you continually have to feed the beast. all of her followers are tweeting plot summaries. she is saying -- she is giving the experience of i am watching with you. anybody who gets on twitter feels that way. once you are on twitter you feel like, oh gosh i have to keep tweeting or i will lose the awed yensz -- audience. >> not many advertisers have signed up. >> finally twitter is making a deal with comcast. if you click on a tweet about "scandal" or any other show it will take you to the program. you can watch it on your computer. >> you turn into a tv show directly from a tweet. and comcast is short of giving xfinity, tv a way to change the channel on-line. >> still to tweets, speaking of twitter

and a cable news host who dares to go bare.

here are a few of your top tweets. they are regurgitating obama's plan. i know fox news doesn't

portray it that way. the press' only remaining journalists are sewing, unrest and instigating argument. ouch. news organizations are falling for fake stories and hoaxes and the latest example is fox and friends saturday. they reported a week ago on saturday while the republican party was proposing to keep war memorials open during the shutdown, president obama offered to personally pay for museum of muslim culture. it stemmed from a piece on a site called national report and it brought this apology yesterday. >> last weekend we mentioned a story about the president funding a muslim museum during the shutdown. we made a bad mistake by president aring a a story based on poor research that was not true. we apologize for not checking the facts and for allowing the story to make air. >> i am glad she set the record straight. two thumbs up for this history making segment. >> welcome back, everyone. 4thof july the first time

on cable news, here i am make up free for a reason. >> and gretchen carlson was making a point about how our overly sex liesed society is affecting young girls. >> i can't believe gretchen did it. make up is an essential part of a tv presence. even like you without the make up. for her to do that and to strip away what keeps people engaged in a lot of ways is admirable. >> i take it we are not trying it next week. >> i thought about taking off my false eyelashes, but i am not doing it. >> that's it for us. we are >> it is monday october 14th. we start with an alert. breaking details will missing

madling mccann, a man says he has vital information about the girl. >> thousands of veterans storm the world war ii memorial and take on the white house fed up with how they are being treated during this government shut down. is washington listening now to our nation's heros. >> this started as a walk for charity. how did this woman stuck on a bridge 22 feet in the air? why she could now be facing charges. fox and frindz first starts now. >> she was hanging on for dear life. we will tell you about that story coming up. you are watching "fox & friends first". i am ainsley aiearhardt. >> thank you for starting your week with us. i am heather childers.

>> madelein mccann was 2 years old when she went missing from her parent's hotel. >> they have this commuter picture of a man they want to speak to. they used them using two eyewitness accounts of people who were near the hotel the night she vanished. >> her parents left her in the room as they dined with friends at a nearby restaurant. >> they came too the apartment and took a little girl. >> the british tv show crime watch. they hope the public will help them identify the man seen here. >> let's hope they can find her. >> that will be remarkable. oo a 9 years old now. >> fritz are back up and running after a bomb scare. authorities say a plastic bottle containing dry ice