r of ll bean slippers from the catalog a couple weeks ago. i hope you're cozy. robin ordered a set of glasses from the vermont countryye'ó store catalog. i shop using catalogs. i'm gretchen. let's go to washington to hear from shep. good afternoon from the russell rotunda on capitol hill. we're hours away from the state of the union address. for the first time president obama will deliver his address to a republican-led congress one that's made no secret of their plan to fight him on many fronts. the president's plan to raise taxes on the wealthiest of all americans to pay for tax breaks for the middle class. republicans say that would hurt economy and has little chance of passing. we're also expecting to hear more on topics including the fight against isis and hunt for terrorists in europe after the paris attack. also new trouble in yemen. home of what u.s. officials call al qaeda's most dangerous off chute.

rebels, not al qaeda, but rebel ins in yemen staged a coup, took over the palace there. u.s. officials say there's no plan to immediately evacuate the american embassy. there's a plan to do it, they're not just planning to do it at this moment if you know what i mean. also, the president just made a dramatic change in u.s. policy in cuba making it easier for americans to travel there, making trade easier, making a lot of things easier. i'll speak to bill nelson a man from florida and the republican's stefanic the youngest woman elected to congress. chris wallace will be here in the rotunda for a preview of tonight's speech and as is tradition and as i mentioned to gretchen moments ago, had lunch with the president today and the rest of the anchor monsters and we'll go through the entirety of the list of things that we had for lunch today because it's tradition and everything else is off the record. so let's get to it. now, "shepard smith reporting" live from capitol hill.

>> thank you guys. time is running out to make life or death decisions whether to give in to terrorists or risk the execution of islamic state hostages. a new video from that terror group demands japan pay $200 million to free a pair of prisoners. isis gives tokyo 72 hours to pay up or the hostages will die, they say. japan's leaders have not said whether they'll pay that ransom but officials at the foreign ministry say the country will not give in to terrorism. the video in this case is a lot right one isis put out before. the hostages wearing the orange jumpsuits we've seen, the militants hiding behind masks. this is the first time the group has publicly demanded ransom certainly the first time we've heard a dollar figure. it's also the first time isis terrorists said there's a chance the hostages could go free. it's fox's top story this hour. jennifer griffin is on it at the pentagon. tell us more about these hostages and developments in that situation, if you could, jen.

>> one of them, haruna, went to syria after his wife died after setting up a business to provide security in war zones. he wanted to train syrian militants to fight the assad regime, and kinji goto a videographer who has reportedbaye' children in year zones for years knew yukata and reportedly went to syria to bring his friend home safely. the $200 million fig wrurure is the amount japanese pledged to coalition efforts to combat isis, humanitarian, not military aid. japan's prime minister issued the following statement "i will take the lead and as a whole the japanese government will deal with this case putting people's lives first." the video surfaced while the japanese prime minister was on a six-country tour of the middle east, shep. >> lots ahead on that. jennifer, there's also news from yemen today. talked about it a little bit about the white house this afternoon. rebels there stormed the presidential palace and there's great concern for where that country's going. >> that's right. the situation in yemen as we speak is fluid right now.

a shia faction known as the houthis have stormed the presidential palace according to the commander in charge of security at the palace. yemen's president was under fire at his residence where he remains. surrounded by armed militants. he may have been overthrown today in a coup. it's not clear. this is a big setback for the u.s. and its fight against al qaeda in arabian peninsula which was responsible for the paris attack. they'll take advantage of the vacuum. for now, u.s. officials say that no decision to evacuate the u.s. embassy in yemen has been taken. even though there are reports that a u.s. embassy vehicle came under fire in the capital, sanaa earlier today. back in september, president obama called yemen a success story, shep a model for how the u.s. planned to fight isis. today the situation looks very different. >> yeah. what are we expecting, foreign policy as complicated now as any time in recent memory. on what are we expecting the president to focus on tonight from your perspective? >> he usually doesn't spend more

than a quarter of his speech on foreign affairs, but a lot has changed in the last year. here's what he said about iraq a year ago. >> the united states is more secure. when i took office, nearly 180,000 americans were serving in iraq and afghanistan. today, all our troops are out of iraq. >> today, there are 3,200 u.s. troops back in iraq and more on their way to the region. the pentagon announced last week that nearly 1,000e9 ñ more will be sent to train the syrian opposition in saab rainudi arabia, turk ka, and qatar. that won't begin until the spring. meanwhile, canadian special forces have come under fire in iraq. they're the first western forces to find themselves in fire fights on the ground. many questions remain about the strategy against isis. shepard? >> man, you got a busy building. is it -- does it feel different now, jen? i'm just curious. >> no, it has felt this way for some time. so many different contingencies.

so many different directions. it really -- when i started here eight years ago, it was nothing like this. all the focus was on iraq and afghanistan. now it's so diverse, the number of contingencyies. >> it really is. jennifer, thank you so much, jennifer miller at the pentagon. chris wallace is with us here from "fox news sunday." we're not allowed to talk about the lunch with specificity because it's off the record. what struck me the most is how much there is going on all over the world and how complicated the landscape has become. it was one issue after another issue after another issue with no real concrete solutions. >> you know, it's so interesting that clip that jennifer played of president obama a year ago in the state of the union talking about iraq is more secure. we didn't -- we had never heard about isis. i certainly hadn't. and we didn't have any american troops there. now we are at war with isis. we have warplanes firing on both iraq and syria. jennifer mentioned, 3,000 american troops on the ground.

more possible. maybe even likely. i did an interview on "fox news sunday" a little over a weekend ago with the chairman of the joint chiefs martin dempsey, and, you know, as you say there are a lot of problems and a lot of ones that just in the last year have popped up and/or have become more secure. >> if you're the president tonight, where do you -- first of all, what is your goal with two years left to go and two houses of congress -- i'm not sure what difference another house of congress makes because you can't get anything passed through the republican house anyway. but with two years left to go and a lot of executive orders coming in, what are you focused on if you're the president tonight? >> well, from everything that we've heard, it seems like it's going to be much more of a political speech than a policy speech. and i mean by that that so many of the things he's proposing are dead on arrival in congress and he knows that. he's going to propose tax increases, $320 billion over 10 years. no way that the republican congress is going to pass it.

he's going to talk about free community college. no way congress is going to pass that. having said that it's not a bad political platform, and it may help the democrats in the 2016 election, both in their senate and house races and whoever the democratic nominee he or probably she turns out to be. but in terms of actually getting anything done with this new republican majority, for all the talk since the election about bipartisan compromise, let's find areas of agreement there sure seems to be precious little of it on either side of capitol hill. >> yeah. no movement much of any kind. this is the first state of the union that i can remember where we don't expect to hear anything new on policy or otherwise tonight. pretty much everything that's going to be brought up tonight, it's our understanding, unless there's a surprise, has already been discussed, has already been put out there, has already been campaigned on, if you will. >> well, it is interesting, you know, it used to be -- i've been covering these since ronald reagan in the '80s -- that the state of the union was a big deal and there was always some drama as to what was going to be

in it, what was going to be said, and there would be new policy pronouncements by the president, but this president has apparently decided this time because there was a new republican majority in the house and the senate, that he didn't want to give all the activity and discussion of agenda. he's been traveling the country as you say for the last couple of weeks basically passing out all these various goodies. we know what he's going to say on taxes. we know what he's going to say about community colleges and infrastructure and a whole bunch of other things. i think there'sat was a decision he couldn't basically get out of the spotlight for these two weeks. that has allowed them to get a lot of news coverage but it means he's not going to have much new to say tonight. that's one of the reasons there's so much focus on foreign policy because he hasn't talked much about çqñfñthat. we want to hear in the wake of the terrible attack in paris, is he going to say the words islamic radicalism? is he going to say that or not? >> why is that a talk -- i don't understand that chris.

it's not as if he has pretended that this isn't something awful and that group isn't extremely dangerous. i'm curious why those two words together are so important to one side of this argument. help me understand this. >> well, because it's the fact. >> i know it is. >> i mean, you know, in it was christian radicalism or extremism, then -- >> it's sort of like he's -- >> why is he unwilling to say what it is that we confront? >> would we have used that with tim mcveigh? i just don't -- >> tim mcveigh was one person. you know if you'd had a 15-year war against christian extremism, i would think you might say it. >> i just have -- there's some sort of push, something political, i don't understand it. i'm speaking from the heart now. i don't understand it. because no one has made any suggestion that this is anything but a bastardization of the religion taken the peace out of the religion and turned it into what it is. there's one side of this argument that wants to hear

islamic extremeistextremist. that's what they want to hear, right? islamic fror islamic terrorist. >> when you have these folks in paris going in shooting slaughtering, seven, eight people at this magazine and said we did it to avenge muhammad that seems to be part of it. >> i wonder why those words are important, and for "a" for one side to demand he say them and "b" for him not to say them although i think he did say them. >> he really has avoided it. >> why do you think that is? >> they're having the summit. i think on some level he may take the position that you just stated which is that this is such a perversion of the religion, i don't want to give it, that it is part of the religion. it seems to me, you can call it islamist or jihadism. to sort of deny there is an islamic part, component to this -- >> i don't think he's denying it, is he? >> he's just not saying it. >> i don't know. i just haven't understood that. i always wonder, is it because

they want to bring up this old thing that's he's sympathetic to the islamic call? >> i don't think that's it. i really don't. >> i've seen it happening around me. >> why not just say what it is? >> i don't know. i don't know. i don't know why it's worth discussing, but we just did it. >> we just did. >> i should have talked more about the menu because the one thing i did not know going into this -- >> can we quickly point out that you were at the lunch and i was not? >> you do this every year. if i were handing out the invitations i would hand them to you. >> i understand that. this is going to hurt my feelings, but you go ahead. >> you relish in feelings hurt. i understand that. >> i do. >> the one thing i did not know -- >> yes. >> -- about this lunch today was what we were going to eat in advance advance. it may have been the best lunch of these lunches i ever had. >> really? better than any of the ones i ever went to? >> probably. >> just the fact i wasn't there, did that add -- >> i didn't drink the wine today which i'm sort of sad about. rachel maddow had a little wine. i didn't have any wine.

hartford chardonnay. i think i didn't have it because i was afraid i'd be buzzed out here. i had water ahead. this is what i'm really jealous about. >> we're going to go through it through the course of the program. we don't want to give it up at the beginning. people obviously tuned in for this, chris, and your presence obviously. with the salad, there was bacon encrusted with sugar. >> that sounds really good. >> it really is. victor emanuel, our producer in the booth used to give me for christmas this bacon dipped in chocolate and it came from a lower east side little confectioners place and it was really good. this, however, though missing the chocolate, bacon with sugar is my favorite food today. >> well, you know who has a new cookbook out next week. >> i just want to very quickly say that she does do a thing with -- >> mrs. sunday. >> a week from friday, we're going to be promoting the book, but she does a thing with maple syrup on the bacon.

>> lucrative. everybody's got -- >> well, that's true. >> i'm going to go through this menu for the rest of this hour. that's it. >> so much for the news. >> there's news, too.

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join us. brought him on earlier than anticipated because you're between votes over there. armed services committee. you guys are very, very busy. on what does the president need to focus? >> well, i think he will, cyber security. we have a committee, john mccain will be our chairman, and armed services and one of these emerging threats, cyber security has been added to it, and certainly we've had reminders with sony and all of that. i think the president, of course, will talk about all of the threats abroad as well as here at home with terror. so there will be a full plate in the armed services committee. >> what do you make of this strategy, new to me, to tell everyone what you're going to be talking about in the state of the union in advance and have no new policy pronouncements that we know of, no new initiatives nothing fresh tonight. more politics than policy. what do you think of that

strategy and why it's implemented? >> i think it's whatever he's comfortable with. i mean the nation is entitled to know the state of the union. whether it all comes in one speech, or whether it's dripped out as it has been over the lastjtk several days. but i wouldn't be surprised shepard, if there's not a surprise. >> it just feels like the president is going to come forward with some tax increases on the rich to try to help the middle class that's a nonstarter. just about everything that's been talked about is not going to make its way anywhere. it seems this is just an exercise in political separation. here's where we are on our points, here's where you are on your points as we head toward 2016. is there anything else going on or am i -- >> well there is. there are those of us who are really looking to find that bipartisan sweet spot so that we can get some things done. now, take, for example, the president's proposal on taxes.

you know, the likelihood is if we can get agreement, we can get it in the area of corporate tax reform, which is desperately needed. one example why keep having companies move overseas just to get a tax break? >> you're not going to get an increase in the capital gains, not with this. no way. >> but maybe that's not the sweet spot. >> isn't that dispositioning? >> what about tax changes in order to really put some serious infrastructure building in this country? >> republicans suggest you need to start over with this thing. you can't -- there's no band-aid. >> i think there's some area out there for bipartisan agreement, so let's give it a little chance. >> you're about to take a vote, you said on some amendments to the keystone xl pipeline bill. is there any movement there? i mean i see that as just a political football, anyway, but -- >> at the end of the day if you don't ship the oil all overseas and instead it becomes a

conduit, the pipeline just to run canadian oil out to other countries -- >> that's the plan. >> well that's the plan, but i don't like it andm> a lot closer. remember, if you have all the republican votes -- all you need is six votes so i think it would come very close to have over 60 votes if you made that change. >> the president's base will not like that. >> oh i understand that. that's the problem. keystone has been too much of a political football instead of good solid public policy. >> senator, nice to see you. >> thanks shepard. >> all right. lots more coming. we'll speak with the republican lawmaker a little later. i mentioned she is the youngest woman voters have ever sent to

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jury selection beginning today in the colorado movie massacre trial. the accused gunman, james holmes, has pleaded not guilty to murder charges. in one of the worst mass shootings the united states has ever seen. the court has called some 9000 potential jurors. think of that. 9,000 potential jurors. experts say the largest jury pool ever for a trial in the u.s. but today the judge said the list has already dropped to about 7,000 people. still, the judge says the selection process could take up to three months just to pick a jury. eventually 12 jurors and 12 alternates will remain. they'll have to decide whether

james holmes was legally insane when he stormed through the movie theater dressed in combat gear, sprayed bullets at a packed midnight showing of a batman movie, and killed 12 people leaving dozens more hurt. experts say mass shooters rarely live to see trial because police often kill them or they kill themselves. james holmes could face the death penalty if juries convict him on murder charges. live in centennial, colorado, for us this afternoon where the trial is taking place. why so many members of the jury pool, elisia? >> reporter: shep, the court had to cast such a wide net because this is such a high profile death penalty case and it's taking place in arapaho county where the city of aurora sits where the horrible crime took place. the jury of 12 with 12 alternates all who must be what's called death qualified meaning they're willing to impose the death benlpenalty. a jury consultant not involved

in this particular trial said it's not so much jury selection it's the selection. >> one of the things they're going to have to closely screen is if people have personal knowledge of any of the victims or any of the witnesses involved because this is their community. the other thingsze](hey're going to have to explore is the pretrial publicity these people have been exposed to. >> reporter: she also said shep, that the defense is going to want to look for people and talk to them about their experiences with psychiatry if they have family members diagnosed with mental illness. the prosecution is going to want to know about folks experienced with law enforcement. shep? >> alicia, three months to pick a jury, man, it's going to be a long hall. alicia thanks very much. today lunch was a little late over there at the white house. once we got to it, i said i would go through this menu list. i have to do that because i know that's why you're here after all. that before the entree that salad part that was a crisp baby iceberg lettuce with after

avocados. also with pecan, some in the certain parts of the country would say pecan and you would be wrong. green mountain bleu cheese brittle. it doesn't mention the potatoes that someone boiled and took the skin off of. that was the salad. this year we didn't have fish for lunch. we often have fish for lunch. not this year. more to come, we look ahead to the president's state of the union address and the rest of the food today, we'll look at areas where the president and republicans in congress might be able to find common ground. coming up, i'll speak with a republican lawmaker as "shepard smith reporting" continues live from capitol hill. we're approaching the bottom of the hour, and the top of the news, that would be the entree portion of the day. stay tuned. introducing preferred rewards from bank of america the new banking rewards program that rewards our customers, every day. you'll get things like rewards bonuses

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firefighters say the family who lived in a mansion in maryland may have died when the home went up in flames. the fire broke out yesterday morning in annapolis. a spokesman says crews may not be able to search what's left of the multimillion dollar home until tomorrow. the playground where police officers tear gassed children, remember that? belongs to the school not thefbd private developer who owns land nearby. that's according to a government official in kenya. the kids were protesting what a poent opponents call a land grab. the police chief suspended the officer in charge of the protest. in san diego cops say a car slammed through a guardrail and plunged into a ravine inside a golf course last night. they say a geyser erupted when the car broke a water valve. the driver is now in the hospital. police say he may have been under the influence. the news continues from capitol hill right after this.

bottom of the hour. time for the top of the news on "shepard smith reporting." president obama just a few hours from delivering his first state of the union address before

republican majority in both branches of congress. minutes ago, the white house released a video of president obama meeting with advisers in the oval office. officials say the president will propose a plan to raise taxes on the richest americans to pay for tax breaks for the middle class. that, of course, will not happen because republicans say that will hurt the economy and they're vowing to fight the plan meaning that's going nowhere. mike emanuel is here on capitol hill. what do republicans say they do want to hear tonight? >> well, shep, leading republicans say there is an opportunity to turn the page and they say the state of the union offers that opportunity. some areas of possible common ground are trade, removing barriers in europe and the pacific. comprehensive pro-growth tax simplification. working to prevent cyber attacks, and authorizing the use of military force against isis. so far top republicans don't sound overly impressed by some of the president's expected themes. >> looking at the rollout of what he's likely to talk about tonight, speaking of warmed over proposals, it all looks like the

same old tax and spend that the president's been advocateing for the last six years. hopefully that's just rhetoric.r8 kyky-chp &hc% he knows we're not likely to pass these kinds of measures. >> after a series of veto threats things are off to a bit of a bumpy start between the white house and this congress, shep. >> what are the president's aides saying about this speech tonight, mike? >> a number of democrats are making the case, they're starting to make the case for some of the proposals the president is expected to lay out such as childcare tax credits, college affordability, also sick leave, and some of his allies here on capitol hill are starting to tell some of those ideas. >> those diploma are saddled with a debt that changes their lives. president obama said let's move forward to make two years of community college a commitment in america for those students

who are in need number one and number two, areçil/ willing to meet the standards. >> you have people in both parties calling to find common ground. it's not clear they have the roadmap to get there just yet. shep, welcome back. >> mike, i see you there. you're in the rotunda. clearly i am clearly in the rotunda. so i turned around. i'm like where is mike emanuel? i see all these -- you're not in this rotunda. you're in another rotunda. >> i went to the house side. i was told that side is just not big enough for both of us. >> well, i think they were talking about egos there, mike. seriously, i did not know there were two -- i didn't realize that you had two different locations for your broadcast. >> we've got options. we've got the yellow walls behind me. >> that thing is under construction there that big thing. i just noticed that when driving up here. that big thing. that building. that thing. see that? that's a -- they call that -- all right, mike, have a great day. >> glad to have you, buddy. >> you probably heard senator durbin there talking about this free college thing. well, earlier i was speaking with the democratic senator bill

nelson of florida about these same issues. now let's bring in a republican why don't we? congresswoman elise stefanik of new york, youngest woman elected to congress at the age of 30. she grajsduated huge with honors from harvard. ran a campaign update. this is your second appearance on the fox news channel. >> i'm happy to be here. >> dick durbin of illinois just said look, how about we get 14já(ááá one of the problems in your area of new york state within a couple of knt counties, unemployment among kids and need for training and resources. help me understand what's wrong with this idea of community college for free for some. >> so i'm a big supporter of community colleges. we have for high quality community colleges in the northern part of new york state. my problem with the president's proposal is that he hasn't talked about how we're paying for this program. so the cost of this program will be upwards of $60 billion. a high percentage of which will rest on the states which are struggling under debt. just the way the federal

government is. this is a president we have over $18 trillion of debt today. when i talk about bringing new generation of leadership to congress, we have to address our long-term budget issues. so i think there's ways we can focus on college affordability making sure that it's high quality and accessible for young people and community colleges are an important part of that process, but we need to make sure that we are addressing the cost and not just more and more spending. >> the uniqueness of your situation has given you a bit of a platform as we were discussing in the commercial break before this. you're the first member of your family ever to graduate from college and have to go off and do it from harvard. >> yes. >> now the youngest woman in congress ever. they're listening to you. what have you done so far? you mentioned co-sponsored some legislation. >> absolutely. so i've only been here two weeks. this is officially my second week. i was sworn in two tuesdays ago. and i've co-sponsored legislation that has passed, or will hopefully be brought up in the house medical device tax reveal, voted in support of the keystone pipeline with

significant bipartisan support. that's what's dis appointappointing to me, hearing the president issue a veto on the keystone pipeline. it helps create jobs. >> he would argue it's not a job creator, that it will create a few jobs, they won't be long-term jobs and we're taking this oil from canada and out the gulf of mexico to somewhere else. bill nelson was talking a while ago about why can't the oil be used in the united states? he was suggesting we might be able to get closer to this if they can work that part of it out but that just got tabled. >> you know, i think the -- if you look at the overwhelming voert vote in support of the keystone pipeline in the house, it's a job creator. i district i represent borders with canada. we need to promote the relationship u.s. and canada have together, energy independence in this country. i'm an ardent supporter of the keystone pipeline. >> how do you like gridlock? you were in the middle of it the last two weeks. did you see any place for real compromise? >> this is part of the reason i ran for congress as i traveled on the campaign trail what i heard from republicans and

democrats and independents alike is they're frustrated with the gridlock in washington. i prioritized reaching out across the aisle. part of that is ensureing the president and congress work together. as we have these bipartisan bills that pass, i hope the president reaches out and works with congress and unfortunately that's not what we're hearing that we'll likely hear tonight in the state of the union. >> now that john boehner has larger numbers do you think it's possible that the more moderate elements of the republican party might get more of a voice and more extreme elements of the republican party might have less of a voice which might be able to lead us toward some sort of compromise? >> i like to consider myself a big tent new generation republican and i think there are initiatives -- >> that would be the opposite of tea party? >> no, it would be big tent. i think some of the fiscal responsibility that tea party groups talk about is important. but i also think that in order to reach out to new generations we have to talk about things differently. overwhelmingly the top issues in my district are job creation, how do we reduce regulations on small businesses? how do we clear out the tax code

and pursue fundamental tax reform so we're both addressing the corporate tax rate but also individual taxes to make sure that it's common sense. i believe that there's common ground not only among the republicans, but among both parties and that's part of the reason that i ran for congress is to present those solutions. >> specifically: ñw in the republican house if you have to kowtow to the far right you have a harder time getting legislation that will work with a left of center president. now that the majority is larger and speaker boehner will have more votes in congress, will some of the tea party voices be able to be ignored with the idea of moving legislation forward? or are we not there yet? >> i think no one is ignored in congress, and i think winning back the senate is a huge step in the right direction for republicans because not only will we see legislation pass out of the house but i'm optimistic that we'll see common sense legislation passed out of the senate and i hope the president is willing to work with congress. the public spoke overwhelmingly in the 2014 elections.

in terms of my position, i came to washington, i'm willing to work with anyone who puts forth solutions whether they're democrat, republican, or independent, and i hope to be able to work with senate to do that. >> you know what i've learned? >> what? >> the white house has good cooks. >> this is what i hear. i was listening to the men you. >> every year since you were, like, 17, i've been talking about the menus over there at the white house. we've gotten to the entree portion. there are people at home waiting. i don't think you would mind -- >> no, i want to hear. >> the food is deli#)iháy it was aged ribeye which they sliced kind of thin. medium to medium rare. along with that caramelized plantains. you had the banana-like plantains and the ones stripped like chips i thought maybe it was a nod to the new cuba policy. but it was delicious. if you like caramelized plantains which i really do. that came with charizu and black bean chimichuri. it was quite a lunch. >> you're lucky, shep. i had a quick lunch on the go.

>> normally we meet at the microwave on the 17th floor and jockey for position on how to warm things up. today, though was not that. the last part of it have you heard about pavlav for dessert? >> i only know pavlav the dog. >> i googled it. as we talk at the great fruit, that will be the dessert program. we'll save that for later in the program. >> i'll google it, too. >> welcome to washington. >> great to be here. >> it's warmer here than up upstate. >> it is warmer here. we had a lot of snow in our district over the last two weeks. >> nice to meet you, you too shep. officials carried out new counterterror raids in france and caught one suspect with a stockpile of explosives. so what was the plan for that suspect? more on that. plus a special honor for the hero of the france attacks. that's coming up on "shepard smith reporting" live from capitol hill. dessert is yet to come. so, stay tuned.

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3:45 in washington now. police in southern france say

they arrested five people, one of whom reportedly had a stockpile of explosives. those arrests took place 200 miles from paris in two separate locations. here they are on the map. officials say all of the suspects are russian from the war torn region of chechnya. more on that in just a moment. meantime, four other suspects appeared in court today in paris. they're the first to face charges in connection with the recent terror attacks. prosecutors say four men provided logistical support to the gunman who took hostages inside a kosher supermarket killing four before police killed him. meantime in germany, 200 officers raided more than a dozen homes in and around berlin. they say the raids were connected to last week's arrest of two suspected members of an islamic terror cell. that police say the people inside those homes were not suspected of any crimes. trace gallagher with the rest of this. what more do we know about the five arrests in southern france trace? >> well, the five suspects, shep apparently had been living on the french mediterranean coast for some time but police

say they are russian citizens originally from chechnya which is under the russian federation. police say one of the men had a dangerous cache of explosives that was found near a soccer stadium. the next home game was still about ten days away and they don't yet know if there was an active bomb plot, but the suspects had been under investigation long before the terror attack on the "charlie hebdo" newspaper. a french prosecutor says he believes the men are connected to organized crime not terror groups. listen to him. >> translator: we are out of any religious or radical context. there is no element that allows to make any connection with that, and for proof, the anti-terrorist section of paris does not handle this case. >> reporter: by the way, those explosives were recovered during a series of police raids that happened overnight. shep? >> i mentioned one of the heroes of the hostage standoff, officials recognizeing that hero today. >> they did.

yeah. he is from mali. he applied for french citizenship in july. because of his heroism, his application was fast tracked and the french interior minister even personally presided at his citizenship hearing. during the siege of the kosher market in france, he led 15 people downstairs into a walk-in freezer. he turned off the freezer and lights and told people to stay calm. when the hostage taker told everyone to come upstairs, he obeyed and told the others to stay put, but instead of going upstairs, he fled to police and told him all about the people in the freezer. 400,000 people have now signed a petition saying that lasanna should be given france's highest civilian honor. shep? >> could love to see that. trace gallagher, good to see you. thank you. a deadly bridge collapse shut down part of a maywayjor highway and created an absolute

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that 18-year-old guy accused of going on a crime spree with his 13-year-old girl friend is speaking out from jail. in an interview with the panama city news harold newspaper, the 18-year-old says if he could go back and do it again he would buy a bus ticket instead. he said they ran away because one of the girl's relatives was abusive. the 18-year-old appeared in court yesterday where he agreed to go back to kentucky to face charges. a bridge in ohio collapsed killing one man shutting down part of a major highway. crews were working on demolish demolishing that bridge.

when it gave way, construction equipment tipped over, landed on a worker and killed him. they're looking into what caused the crash north of downtown cincinnati. several different departments involved in this investigation. >> reporter: that's right. federal investigators and state and local agencies are on the ground working to find out how this happened. here's what we know so far. last night workers were on the bridge last night taking it apart piece by piece with heavy machinery. about 10:30 something happened and the entire overpass came crashing down on the interstate. the semitruck was heading down the highway when it was nearly crushed by the several hundred tons of concrete and equipment. the driver escaped with only minor injuries. folks at home nearby said they could feel the ground shake as the bridge came down. >> i was in the kitchen cleaning up the kitchen and we heard a

big loud noise and the building shift. i thought maybe that somebody had ran into the house with a car. >> several witnesses also heard a boom just before the bridge collapsed which is something investigators will look into. >> that will take time. >> have you ever had a -- >> of course. >> a pavlova and i looked it up and it's not a source. it's a desert named after the russia dancer and it's a big deal invz it came along with milk chocolate ice cream. there's ice cream on the side and some kind of lemon crunchy

thing ant side. it was too hard to break with a spoon but i didn't have a knife. the trials and tribulations in this city. then there was the coffee. it was a perfect ending to a perfect lunch. >> life is good. >> yeah. it was good today. garrett live there on the bridge. thank you, garrett. one moment this was the part where we take the last commercial break and then we'll come back and read the thing we call this day in history and give a last look at the markets. today i'm going to finish with this. what significance is this? why is this what? we'll be right back.

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on this day in 1945 president franklin roosevelt took the oath of office for the fourth time. there were no term limits for presidents and fdr was the only one to win a third term. on his fourth inauguration day he posed for one of his final photos with his wife and grand children. president roosevelt died three months after he took the fourth oath of office at the white house while making history again 70 years ago today. so white house, if you're watching, thank you for the lunch again. my only regret is i didn't havetá+ the wine. i set next to bryan williams and his said bryan williams nbc news. across from me was the new guy on abc news. over next to the president was scott. i looked at mine and it didn't say anything about news and i said fox. i looked at bret bairs and his

said fox news. i don't care. lunch was great. i guess there's a message received but i think bret and i are good to go with the news part and i think you know that too. ahead of the president's big speech tonight, let's say do not expect this tonight. >> if we agree on nothing else tonight, we must agree that the american people certainly voted for change in 1992 and in 1994. i must say that in both years we didn't hear america singing. we heard america shouting. now all of us republicans and democrats alike must say we hear you. we will work together to earn the jobs you have