successors in mind. bill: busy morning, huh? martha: very busy. good to see you, everybody. "happening now" starts right now. jon: and we continue with this fox news alert, the word just coming out that attorney general eric holder is expected to announce he will resign, that during an event later today. he has served six years in the obama administration. there was talk that he might be leaving as the is second term began. he has stayed until now. wendell goler is live outside the white house for us with some more information. wendell? >> reporter: eric holder is, of course, the first african-american to serve as this country's attorney general, and if he stays as long as december can, he's actually told the president he will leave once a successor is confirmed, but if he stays as long as december, he will have the third longest tenure as attorney general. he's one of only three people to have continuously served from president obama's first, from

his inauguration from his first term, only three of the initial cabinet members still in that post. he and the president have talked about his resignation several times including during mr. obama's vacation at martha's vin yard -- vineyard, and they final lized the decision during talks over the labor day weekend. we expect a formal announcement at the justice department can later today. in light of holder's current involvement after the police shooting in ferguson, missouri, i think it's important to say that what he has told folks he wants to do in his post-justice department life -- and he served, actually, some 26 years at different times at the justice department -- is do some kind of work that actually facilitates a restoration of trust between law enforcement and minority communities. but once again, the country's probably currently the fourth longest serving attorney general, eric holder about to step down. jon?

jon: wendell goler outside the white house with the big news of the morning. wendell can, thank you. also this fox news alert, we are moments away from an update from the pentagon after a third day of strikes in syria. this is "happening now", and i'm jon scott. heather: and what a day it is today. that briefing from the defense department is scheduled to begin at this hour at the pentagon as u.s. and coalition forces hit the terroristses in their pocketbook. they slam the oilfields controlled by isis. jon: let's go live to the pentagon, national security correspondent jennifer griffin is there. >> reporter: hi, jon. pentagon officials confirmed that u.s. and arab war planes struck about one dozen small oil refineries that were being used by isis in eastern syria. these are facilities where they were producing about 300-500 barrels of oil, isis controlled six out of ten oilfields in syria prior to the strikes. the refined oil was used for

fighterrers to fuel their vehicles as well as revenue for salaries. about $2 million per day, we're told. they tried to avoid destroying the facilities so that friendly forces could come in and occupy them. even the attorney general, eric holder, suggested yesterday in an interview that ground troops will be needed to take over these areas following the airstrikes. >> we're certainly going to have to look at the impact of these strikes that were taken. i also assume those are not the only strikes that we'll be taking against the khorasan group or the other strike that is we took in syria. it'll take a prolonged period of time for these strikes, and then, ultimately, for the ground troops that have have to -- that will have to come in and deal with these people. >> reporter: it's not clear which groups he was referring to. meanwhile, u.s. defense officials say they do not know who carried out the recent airstrikes inside syria along the turkish border. they say it was not u.s. or

arab-allied war planes. that essentially leaves turkey or syrian planes, those of bashar assad. if they were syrian planes attacking anti-assad forces, that could pose a problem because it has been reported this morning that saudi arabia when they became the first to join the u.s. coalition, paving the way for the other four arab nations to join, they demanded that the u.s. insure that assad does not remain in power when this is over which would likely require a no-fly zone in northern syria so that assad's air forces cannot keep flying, jon. jon: complicated doings. jennifer griffin at the pentagon, thank you. heather: also in that region americans traveling in turkey should keep up their guard. the u.s. embassy in that country issuing a security warning for our citizens there to watch out for attacks in retaliation for u.s. airstrikes against isis. the embassy doesn't have a specific threat at this time, but the possibility of terror attacks in that area considered to be high, especially in the eastern and southern part of that country.

jon: growing concerns about terrorism spreading far beyond the middle east after an anti-terror bust in london early this morning. nine men arrested including a radical islamic consumer -- cleric. we have heard the same cleric was on fox news just last month. greg talcott is live in london with more. greg? >> reporter: hey, jon. yeah, police say the athis morning involved -- the athis morning involved more than 100 counterterrorism officers. they hit 19 different locations, most of them in london, and the charges against those arrested are pretty broad and sweeping including one simply encouraging terrorism. now, of the nine people that were arrested early this morning in london, one is a fellow that you noted, he's well known here as a radical islamist preacher. also charged with wronging to a banned -- belonging to a banned local extremist group that's done some pretty bad stuff.

i understand we have to go back -- jon: back to greg's report in a moment. right now rear admiral john kirby is briefing at the pentagon. let's listen in. >> and they are an economic asset to support future operations. producing between 300465000 -- 300-500 barrels of refined oil per day, isil is purported to again rate millions of dollars of revenue from these refindlies. these were, as were the strikes we conducted earlier this week, strategic attacks meant specifically to get at the ways that this group sustains, leads and controls itself. there will be more. now, if i can have the first slide, i'm just going to walk you through some of the specifics from yesterday. this is a map of the area. you can just see as i said it was in eastern syria. we've located the three areas i talked about, sort of where they were, the strikes happened. twelve total refineries, twelve

attacks. next slide. this is sort of a breakdown of how it went by the numbers. so 12 modular oil refineries, again, all in eastern syria. sixteen total fighter aircraft participated in this, ten from the coalition of saudi arabia and uae, six from the united states. so most of the aircraft that participated in these strikes were not u.s. aircraft. munitions, 41 total bombs dropped, again, the majority by coalition aircraft. 23 split between saudi arabia and uae and 18 dropped by the u.s. i do not have the breakdown by country of what they dropped, and i'm not sure that that's all that relevant at this point. jon: that's the pentagon spokesman, rear admiral john kirby, getting into some of the dry details about precisely how many strikes were launched and which nations launched them. if you'd like to continue to watch what he has to say, we have it streaming live for you on foxnews.com. but in the meantime, we want to

take you back to london where there were those terror arrests overnight. we interrupted greg talcott's report earlier, and, greg, as we said earlier, there was a radical cleric who was just on fox news arrested overnight. tell us more. >> reporter: exactly, jon. he is known very widely here in london as exactly that, a pretty extremist preacher. and as you noted, he spent a little time with sean hannity, my colleague, about one month ago. here is a little bit of the back and forth those two shared. >> sharia law and neither does anybody in -- >> you will have no choice if i -- [inaudible] >> reporter: that was just a bit of a taste of what he said. other things that he is saying, his latest pronouncement, he has no pity for the latest british man threatened with beheading by isis. one british man already killed, we've just learned this week a

frenchman's been killed and, coffining, we know about those -- of course, we know about those two americans as well. prime minister cameron met with his cabinet here today, they came up with a resolution authorizing british involvement in those airstrikes against isis. he said while he was at the u.n. yesterday that this is a battle that the u.k. cannot opt out of. parliament will vote on the measure tomorrow, they're expected to overwhelmingly approve it despite some residual negative feelingses about the last iraq war. and according to reports, the first royal air force jets could be flying alongside u.s. planes as early as this weekend, maybe even tomorrow night. they use a base on the cyprus island in the mediterranean. by the way we've also, jon, been speaking with french officials, and they confirm to fox news that french fighter jets have also launched another round of attacks. both the french and the u.k., french have been hitting, u.k. planning to hit probably iraq, but both countries do also say

they could reassess and could join the u.s. fight in syria as well. back to you. jon jon and are they saying that they believe there was a plot, you know, that was imminent that was interrupted, or why the number of arrests? >> reporter: again, i think it's a sign, jon, of just the ratcheting up of tensions about terrorism, the threat of terrorismment home grown terrorism a huge threat here. the charges include that broad charge of encouraging terrorism and also belonging to organizations thought to espouse terrorism, extremist thoughts. cloudily was involved with a group i think i mentioned that has been involved with a lot of bad folks including the killing of that british soldier in london that we all remember quite vividly. jon: saying sharia law is coming to a place near you. a lot of americans won't be agreeing with him on that. thanks very much. greg talcott reporting from

london. heather: and the brits have a lot of new laws in effect that help crack down on people that belong to some of these organizations. in the meantime, netherlands instructing military personnel to stay out of uniform while they're riding public transportation. the dutch ministry is afraid that some of its service members could become targets for radical muslims, especially since the dutch announced plans that it would help join the fight against isis. the netherlands announcing it will send six f-16 fighter jets to take part in the airstrikes against the terror group, isis. jon: french officials say algerian forces are on the hunt for extremists who beheaded a french mountaineer this week. flags lower today half staff in the victim's hometown after the murder that was reportedly in retaliation for france's airstrikes against isis in iraq.

france's defense minister says they continue to evaluate whether to extend those airstrikes to syria. ♪ ♪ heather: well, back here at home the search for a missing university of virginia student now enters a new phase after the arrest of a suspect who's been charged with the abduction of hannah graham. you'll recall that hannah disappeared more than a week ago. so will this arrest get police any closer to finding her? leland vittert is live for us in charlottesville with more and the suspect, he's still in the texas. is that right? >> reporter: exactly, heather. and right now charlottesville police detectives, investigators are on their way down to texas to retrieve this man, jesse matthew, who faced a judge earlier today. no bail and the extradition process could happen in the next couple of days. he was arrested on a beach near gavel torn. -- galveston. the fbi said the real hero is a local sheriff's deputy who was responding to a missing persons call, saw matthews' car, ran the

plate and then they went ahead and took him into custody. he's charged with abduction with intent to defile which, essentially, means to sexually assault the sophomore at the university of virginia who disappeared about ten days ago. and this is how we got to jesse matthews. take a look at this surveillance tape. one a.m. on a friday night/saturday morning, they were out and allegedly jesse matthew put his arm around hannah graham and took her to a local restaurant. the restaurant put out a statement saying matthew had been inside drinking for some of the night with his friends, left, brought hannah back to the restaurant, but han that never went -- hannah never went inside, and their door folks saw hannah and matthew leave together later in the evening. to give you an idea of how difficult it is to get information in this case, matthew talked to a lawyer, a former district attorney here in charlottesville who's now in private practice.

he came out yesterday and gave a press conference and said i am jesse matthew's attorney, and then he spent the next seven minutes saying no comment to all questions. we'll see oncethew returns here to charlottesville if he will, indeed, have more to say. back to you. heather: all right, leland, thank you. jon: an officer punching a woman on the side of a road, now we are learning the result of a lawsuit filed in that case. plus, we are continuing to follow the breaking details on the resignation of attorney general eric holder. we are now learning formal announcement of that will be coming at 4:30 eastern time, about five hours from now, in the white house. more on that coming up. ,

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that was called to discuss the ebola threat in west africa. that meeting was called by u.n. secretary-general ban ki-moon. let's listen this to the president. >> but with our help, they can put out the blaze. last week i visited the centers of disease control and prevention which is mounting the largest international response in its history. i said that the world could count on america to lead and that we will provide the capabilities that only we have and mobilize the world the way we have done in the past in crises of similar magnitude. and i announced that in addition to the civilian response, the united states would establish a military command in liberia to support civilian efforts across the region. today that command is up, and it is running. our commander is on the ground

in monrovia, and our teams are working as fast as they can to move in personnel, equipment and supplies. we're working with senegal to stand up an air bridge to get health workers and medical supplies into west africa faster. we're setting up a field hospital which will be staffed by personnel from the u.s. public health service and a training facility where we're getting ready to train thousands of health workers from around the world. we're distributing supplies and information kits to hundreds of thousands of families so they can better protect themselves, and together with our partners we'll quickly build new treatment units across liberia, guinea and sierra leone where thousands will be able to receive care. meanwhile, in just the past week more countries and organizations have stepped up their efforts and so has the united nations. the secretary general of the newup mission for ebola emergency -- new u.n. mission

for ebola emergency response announced last week will bring all of theup's resources to bear -- the u.n.'s resources to bear. we thank you for your leadership. so this is progress and it is encouraging. but i want us to be clear, we are not moving fast enough. we are not doing enough. right now everybody has the best of intentions, but people are not putting in the kinds of resources that are necessary to put a stop to this epidemic. heather: president obama live at the united nations now speaking about ebola, what the u.s. is doing to try to combat ebola and stop the spread of it and also imploring the world to do more. this as we get a little bit of good news coming out of nebraska. you may recall it's where one of our doctors was being treated after he contracted the ebola virus in west africa. there is a press conference

about 15 minutes from now where they will talk about the release of that patient, so some good news to bring you right now, and you can continue to watch president obama right now on foxnews.com. jon: a fox news alert, it's one of those days when the news is coming fast and furious. the new prime minister of iraq is announcing, according to the associated press, that his country, iraq, has up covered a plot -- can uncovered a plot to attack subways in both paris as well as new york. again, a preliminary bulletin reporting comingwru%ñ in from te associated press that the iraqi prime minister says iraq has uncovered a plot to attack subways in paris and new york. as we get more information about this threat, we'll bring it to you "happening now."

jon: a fox news alert, the united states attorney general eric holder is expected to announce later today that he will resign his office. an event has been scheduled, 4:30 p.m. eastern time at the white house, about five hours from now. we are told that the attorney general has discussed resigning with the president several times. he's done so in the past as well, telling the "new yorker" magazine in february that he was planning to step down later this year. let's talk about it with jonah goldberg, editor at large of the national review online and a fox news contributor. he is one of the few cabinet members left from, who were originally appointed in the obama administration. he has also, jonah, been a lightning rod for criticism from you and others. >> that's right. he's the fourth longest-serving attorney general, and he's one of the last three of the original cabinet appointees. but the reason he stayed in

longer than a lot of others, i believe, is because he has been, basically, a political fixer, a firewall for the president of the united states, a stonewaller, and he serves much the way bobby kennedy did for jfk, as a -- in many ways a politicized attorney general/hatchet man for the president. and this is going to create some really interesting political problems for the white house when he steps down can, because the nomination and confirmation battle is going to be very interesting. jon: right. and what is interesting about that, too, is there is the prospect of republicans taking over the senate. they would have to confirm his replacement, and they could either -- [inaudible] engineered by democrats in the senate, there could be some interesting changes afoot. >> right. that may be why he's resigning now, is this is maybe last moment he can and get in under the wire with a

democratic-controlled lame duck senate that we would get after the election if the republicans take back the senate. harry reid could then jam him through with those revised rules. but even if that's the case, if they do that -- look, if they do it before the election, then you're going to have this very awkward moment where everyone gets to make eric holder's tenure and whoever this person who's going to replace holder into an issue going into the final weeks of the election which could be, you know, pretty radioactive given that you'd have to talk about fast and furious and the irs, the stonewalling in investigating our colleague james rose season and all that. jon: right. >> i'm not sure that's all that great for the president. regardless, those issues are going to come up whenever the confirmation hearings are. republicans still have the right to ask even if they don't control the senate, and those are going to be some awkward answers for this administration. jon: the attorney general, i mean, the president himself said he was outraged to hear that the irs got caught, you know, investigating conservative

groups. the president was going to get to the bottom of it. i presume that, you know, eric holder is the guy who's supposed to do that. nothing much has happened. >> yeah. well, maybe the president's e-mails to eric holder were erased by accident. look, i mean, i think that episode is a perfect example of manager i've been talking about on a -- something i've been talking about on a whole wide array of issues where the president's idea of solving the problem is saying the right words to make the questions go away. that was his approach to isis, to foreign policy, afghanistan and ordering the surge. he sees things as, he sees his problem solving as saying the words and doing as minimal, as little as possible to make the political problem go away, and the key person in many instances to make the actual problem go away has been eric holder who's slow-walked any number of investigations, who serves as sort of the flak catcher for the president of the united states and has a certain bizarre immunity among a lot of people in the mainstream media. if john ashcroft had behaved

half as politicized as eric holder has, you know, "the new york times" would be, you know, having -- sparking riots. jon: so who do you see taking over that job? anybody in the department now? is there a deputy? >> i don't know. my guess is the way the obama administration operates a lot of the time, if they announce this before the elections, if they're really going to try and hurry it up, my guess is he goes for a woman. it helps for his whole war on women narrative. but i really don't know. i mean, it happened while, you know, i was waiting in the studio, so it'll be interesting to see who some of the possibilities are. jon: we did have another topic in mind for you, and we appreciate you rolling with that. jonah goldberg joining us from washington from the national review online. jonah, thank you. >> thank you. heather: well, another area arab nation may be joining the battle, this time we're talking about turkey. u.s. forces and those of its coalition striking isis in syria, but how much help can we

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>> the united states senate sent out warning to american citizens currently in turkey, warning them to be careful and vigilant. the white house says turkey is expected to join a coalition of nato and arab nations against

isis. also, it opens up the possibility of using the u.s. air base there, turkey has been reluctant so far. now it is facing militant threats as its neighbors. michael zinc, managing director of washington institute. -- singh. former senior of affairs at national security council. president erdogan here at meetings. he said this, the country is ready to fulfill its duties. we'll cover everything, military and political. will that country get involved and join this coalition? >> hi, heather. the first order question, this sort of thing, heather. what we need them to do? what is it we're asking them to do. a coalition is only good as strategy you're carrying out. one problem we're facing right now it is not still clear exactly what the u.s. objective is for syria. there is disconnect between the u.s. and our coalition partners over what is for example, our

plan about the assad regime. heather: how can we best use them? if the turks are willing, if they're willing, sometimes nations say they do things and they don't, what do we want them to do? >> turkey has long land border with syria and iraq, makes it essential part of any coalition with syria. you like them to close that border to foreign fighters who might be flowing in to help isis. you want to make sure ice is not able to use turkish, territory to smuggle out oil to sell in the markets and not able to use turkish territory to do other facilitation for activities. heather: we had overnight on mobile oil refineries in eastern syria. that will stop the flow of oil into turkey. does that do the trick? does that really help? >> well, look, i think that obviously those strikes on oil fields are intended to get at isis's source of financing. that is important. probably need to take the other steps as well. can make sure the border is

closed. get at financing. whether you need turkey to carry out airstrikes that is something where the u.s. is quite capable. i think we like to see the regional partners contribute militarily, operationally. there are important ways they can contribute as well. heather: president erdogan, suggested, council on foreign relation this is week, they could do no-fly zones along the country along the border. how significant would that be? >> it would be significant again, getting at what the assad regime is doing. no-fly zone along the border would prevent the assad regime forces carrying out bombing attacks same militants or forces or friendly syrian oppositions forces we're working with. the, gets to the question of what is our strategy? this he want to target the assad regime. so far president obama really not indicated that is part of the strategy. so there is still that disconnect there. heather: i want to ask you about this. foreign terrorist facilitators. u.s. department of treasury naming 12 of these people.

at least two of them are turks. one of them was known as the amir of suicide bombers. translated that means the ruler of suicide bombers. these guys would help basically get people to cross the border, train them not just in light weapons training to be suicide bombers. the country of turkey had to have known about these people. what do you think? >> there have been issues of terrorism within turkey. certainly on of these facilitators are on turkish territory. i wouldn't want to jump to that conclusion to say we know turkey knew about the individuals. heather: they have training am camps they were providing light arms military training according to our treasury department. >> on this specific case i just don't know. i wouldn't want to jump to any conclusions. we do know because of turkey's proximity to syria and iraq, appealing place to conduct this activity. and want to see turkey full partner cracking down on that. there have been sort of

suggestions, well, turkey has been allowing islamist forces to flow across-the-boarders with the fight against assad. part of that, until recently all these states were focused on the fight against assad. a lot of our allies in the region were supporting folks we didn't like in order to help that fight. heather: finally ask you about a report in the "wall street journal." it is about the saudis. apparently last year the saudis, quote, fumed at president obama for pulling back and not conducting airstrikes on the assad regime and now the saudis are saying this. according to "the wall street journal" whatever they ask for, meaning the united states, you just say yes. the goal was not to give them any reason to slow down or back out. they're holding our feet to the fire? >> well i think that is something true of a lot of our partners in the region. when president obama set the red line, would conduct airstrikes in syria and backed off of it, there was tremendous disappointment around the

region, there was threat withdrawn and reduced military credibility of the united states and reduced pressure on assad regime. that is in many ways at the root of some of the props we're facing now, not just on the ground in syria but in terms of building this coalition. by the way, it had broader reverberations as well. u.s. allies outside the region raise this as point of concern about reliability and credibility of the united states. heather: interesting turn around. usually the united states is one to do that, holding someone's feet to the fire. we're getting this from other countries at least according to "the wall street journal." michael sync. thank you very much. jon: fox news alert. a bit more information coming out of the associated press on this threat described by the new prime minister of iraq. haider al-abadi. in new york for the meeting of the united nations general assembly. during the process he was talking to journthatists on the sidelines, he was just today

alerted of a terror plot against subways in paris and the united states. earlier i specified new york. i was incorrect in that, he said the united states. asked if the attack was imminent? he said yes. he said asked if the attack had been thwarted. he said no. bears noting we're in the middle of celebration of rosh hashanah, the jewish new year. whether or not this plot is actively underway. whether he is overstating what he has been told by the intelligence service of his own country, we do not know. but again, remember that the idea of terrorism is to scare people into changing their habits. just know that this thing is out there. the prime minister of iraq, the new prime minister, saying that his country's intelligence service has learned of plans to strike subways in the united states as well as in paris. we'll get more information to you as soon as it becomes

available. heather: new york's governor and also chris christie announced they're doing.

jon: let's check out what's ahead on yacht numbed beard at top of the hour. sandra, andrea, what do you have? >> a big announcement from the white house concerning attorney general eric holder. plus the u.s. and arab allies with a new round of strikes against isis. but will it have an impact? >> the national guard serves and protects. but a high school is now banning their t-shirts. we'll tell you why. >> all that plus our #oneluckyguy. one of my favorites on "outnumbered" at top of the hour. >> that is a good one. jon: that is 15 minutes away. we'll look forward to that. heather: accused killer on the run is trying to turn the manhunt into a game. they have been searching for eric frein in rural area several days. despite several sightings he has eluded capture. he accused of killing a pennsylvania state trooper and

wounding another officer. rick leventhal is live again in. what do we know? >> reporter: pennsylvania state police suspected trooper killer eric frein is wearing adult diapers to say in one place for hours if necessary as he eludes law enforcement on 13-day manhunt. they released images of serbian cigarettes he was smoking when he played a serbian soldier during war reenactments. we came from deep in the woods in monroe county, hundreds of state police, k-9 units and staging heavy weapons and tactical teams. they're launching searches of empty homes and hunting cabins. they're heading out for searches of the deep woods. there have been several sightings and responding to those as well, including some sightings by law enforcement. they tell us by the time they make it safely to where frein was spotted he is gone. these are some of the woods and thick brush that state police

and federal investigators are searching through, in the hunt for suspected trooper killer eric frein. there are miles and miles of this, heavy, thick underbrush, downed trees and branches. there is rocks. very rugged terrain. and it is like this in every direction. >> i i want to tell him it is te to surrender before he gets hurt or worse he needs to surrender. we're not going away. we will be here until we apprehend him. >> search teams have found bunkers and shelters in the woods they believe frein may be using. there may be more of them, they're saying he was preparing for this for months. he could tock stocked them with food and supplies an water. as a trained mark man, they do not want more law enforcement to die out here. heather: rick leventhal, thank you very much. jon: out west, fire officials spend tens of millions of dollars as crews work around the

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heather: fox news alert to bring you right now and it is a very serious one. the associated press now reporting that the iraqi prime minister says that they have uncovered a plot to attack subway systems in paris and here in the united states. that is as counterterrorism police in london nab nine people in series of raids, suspecting of them of supporting terrorism. we're learning more about all splinter groups emerging. many seem affiliated with al qaeda. that it fueling fears here on the home front. peter brookes, senior fellow heritage foundation. former assistant secretary of defense. peter, i want to ask you about the news coming out of iraq, the prime minister calling this quote imminent attack, saying it was not thwarted. your thoughts on that? >> obviously of great concern. we have to take it serious. our intelligence folks turning attention to the information that the iraqis provided us, who, what, when, where, how that sort of thing. they want to see if they come up with any sort of corroboration. i guess we'll see in coming days

if there is any information comes out toward law enforcement about their concerns. obviously we have to take this seriously. very troubling, considering the talk, the plot out of northwest syria with khorasan, the al qaeda group. this following it, if accurate is obviously of great concern. the. heather: iraqi foreign minister says had is foreign fighters associated with isis. thus far, we primarily heard isis is not a threat to the united states. >> well, if that is right, then the narrative that has been portrayed, that isis is not a threat to the united states is incorrect. we know at that there have been groups, al qaeda groups, khorasan, al nusra, looking at foreign passport holders to return to native countries to undertake terrorist attacks. we have not heard that associated with isis so far publicly outside of the government. if this is true, that is not the case and we have a new threat vector we have to deal with. heather: peter, you're right. in "boston herald," the most

recent conspiracy was quashed with pounding of airstrikes. i can hear al qaeda breathlessly saying we're back. khorasan is arguably the bloodthirsty wolf closer to our cabin right now. what does the united states do today? >> what should we be doing? we should not worry about the islamic state or al qaeda. we were told al qaeda is on the run. turns out they were hoofing to lawless ungoverned spaces in syria. perhaps we're having problems out of iraq. we have a major problem here. we need to give national resources an attention to it. people are really concerned about a comprehensive policy toward syria and whether our level of effort, militarily, going to be enough to tamp down and destroy this threat that is coming from that part of the world. >> we've up tick on security at new york subways. new york subways were not specifically mentioned. u.s. subways and those in paris. what does law enforcement need to do to get handle on this? >> we need some sort of

coordination and information sharing between the federal government and their intelligence resources. heather: aren't we doing that now, by the way? are we doing good job of that? remember post-9/11. we're sharing information now? >> it is supposedly better. i'm not sure it as good as it can be. once again they're testinged every time there is possibility of a terrorist attack like this. we'll have to watch the fbi. that will send out a warnings and department of homeland security to first-responders and law enforcement here in the united states. once again that information is coming overseas, heather. it has to be filtered through the central intelligence agency. fed out to homeland security and law enforcement. people are scrambling right now. heather: we don't want to scare folks but aware of this threat. >> have to be very sober about it. heather: according to the prime minister of iraq. maybe there is something to it. hopefully there is not. want to ask you about this, "new york times" reporting leader of al qaeda, the leader of khorasan group, ayman

al-zawahiri, that is guy who took over for usama bin laden. president obama insisted al qaeda is decimated the was president obama misinformed or misleading us. >> i'm vender about that. i'm concerned about the narrative the administration that al qaeda is on the run, on its heels and decimated. we see al qaeda core reconstituted itself and develop ad cell in syria. we have major problems with al qaeda in north africa. other parts as al qaeda in arabian peninsula. a the fact that a lot of groups are working together. plot out of syria supposedly involved bomb-makers out of yemen, al qaeda in arabian peninsula, with direction from south asia, ayman al-zawahiri and number of multinational died operatives, and western passport holders they may have recruited, targeting global i have i have y vision aviation.

heather: this is dark time out there. peter brookes, thank you very much. >> thank you, heather. jon: in response to isis, some stories we're working on in the next hour of "happening now." the u.s. announces devastating airstrikes in iraq and syria, all focused taking away isis's source of income. we'll have latest from pentagon on the strikes. a main suspect behind bars today after being denied bail. the search for missing usva student -- uva student hannah graham is still on.

can this decadent, fruit topped pastry... ...with indulgent streusel crumble, be from... fiber one. new fiber one streusel. jon: very, very big news day. we'll work on next hour of "happening now," including updating this word out of the united nations. haider al abadie, the new prime minister out of iraq, saying his nation's intelligence service uncover ad plan for isis attack on subways of paris or united states. perhaps both. i don't that has not been thwarted. big news coming in short while

ago. attorney general eric holder announcing he will be stepping down. that press conference coming 4:30 later today. a lot of news going on. jon: update on the search for hannah graham. "outnumbered" starts right now. >> fox news alert. a new report that iraq's prime minister says his country has uncovered an imminent terror plot to attack subways right here in the u.s. and in paris. we're also learning the u.s. was alerted but that plot has reportedly not been stopped. i'm sandra smith. here today, andrea tantaros, host of "the independents" on fox business channel, kennedy, kirsten powers with us, today's #oneluckyguy, from "o'reilly factor," jessie waters on a big news day. >> they said our chemistry was electric. so i'm very excited. >> this is the first time we've been together.