over 2500 miles away in pennsylvania. todd, final thought. we are looking for more details about the investigation and where they are. >> everybody wants to know the motive, who this guy was. 28 years old is what's been reported but we want to know the details and the connection to these folks. they cleaned up the crime scene over the course of the last couple days which leads you to believe they knew this guy was the guy. >> that's it for us. live coverage of the idaho press conference coming up. >> fox news alert. finally you're looking at the man it seems the entire nation has been trying to track down. the suspect now in custody for the gruesome murders of the four university of idaho students, capping off a nearly seven week manhunt that has galvanized the nation. welcome to "america reports." i'm lucio cuneo. >> i'm gillian turner. john and sandra are off today. news conference later this afternoon, new details about how

the fbi and police were able to crack the case. here's what we know. according to law enforcement sources the suspect is 28-year-old bryan kohberger. he was taken into custody in scranton, pennsylvania, by local police as well as the fbi. 2500 miles from the murder scene. he appeared before a judge this morning, we are learning it was a phd student at washington state university. >> investigators have been tight-lipped since the murders took place in mid-november only revealing they were searching for a white hyundai a elantra. a criminal defense attorney is standing by. fox team coverage. david spunt has breaking details on the fbi's role in locating the suspect. now we go to william la jeunesse our west coast newsroom. >> after more than a month and a half, 19,000 tips, thousands of

police on the case, law-enforcement has made the arrest in connection with the death of four university of idaho students. according to bay board filed by the pennsylvania state police 28-year-old bryan kohberger is being held for extradition and without fail. he was picked up earlier this morning in eastern pennsylvania near the pocono mountains. he is said to be a college student but does not attend the university of idaho. police in moscow, idaho, will hold a press conference at 1:00 p.m. local, 4:00 p.m. pacific time. rather 1:00 p.m., yeah, pacific and 4:00 eastern where we expect more details. it was back in november 13 that kayleigh goncalves, madison mogen, xana kernodle, and ethan chapin were stabbed to death at the rental home near the university of idaho campus. police believe they were attacked in their sleep with a large blade knife, some with defensive wounds showing they fought back. police had no will murder weapon, no suspect, no forced entry. it was recently they asked for the public's help in finding a

white elantra scene near the house near the time of the murders. they believe the driver may have had more information on the crime if not the suspect himself. family members have been frustrated with the lack of leads in the case hoping the arrest will bring them some closure. we should find out more later. gillian, back to you. >> gillian: william la jeunesse in l.a., thank you. >> for more on the fbi's role in this investigation must go to david spunt live in washington. >> we are told brian ko -- bryan kohberger was picked up early this morning and the 3:00 hour. it was a little confusing at first the connection between scranton, pennsylvania, bryan kohberger, as you see on your screen on the crime scene in idaho. not only does he study criminal justice at school in pennsylvania, he also is listed as a graduate student on the

website of washington state university in the department of criminology in pullman, washington, which is just miles away from the scene in idaho. very close to the border. we know local authorities in idaho up in investigating this from the beginning along with the help of the fbi, also told the u.s. marshals involved as well, as far as the details this morning, we know the fbi was involved in this arrest, same thing local officials when they picked bryan kohberger up this morning i am at a court of common pleas docket report actually and it's just talking about potentially transferring him to idaho which will happen at some point. we know that the judge denied a motion to set bail when he appeared this morning, this has been sent to the common pleas court. what we don't know is when

bryan kohberger will make his first appearance in idaho. as of now, he's in custody in pennsylvania. the question, when will he be taken to idaho to face those charges. we can tell you he is listed as active student, a graduate student, phd candidate actually in the department of criminology and criminal justice at washington state university. his picture on the website th there. this is a mug shot that was taken hours ago from the munro county pennsylvania correctional facility. hoping to get many more details from authorities in idaho and just about three hours. >> alicia: david spunt, we will get back to you. >> gillian: criminal defense attorney, mark, nearly seven weeks in the investigation they have a suspect, still no murder weapon, no vehicle. there is a trolling through about 22,000 cars that match the description of the suspect. what do they need?

what does the prosecution need to clinch this? >> lets make one thing clear. if they have more, i'm glad they haven't told us. i want to know. we all do. we have been watching every day to see what we can find out. but kudos to law enforcement for not telling us because then their investigation is less likely to have been compromised. if this truly is the person that did it. we know they think he is, if he truly is that you are pleased right now that they have probably a wealth of evidence that has not been released to the public. >> gillian: what is the key evidence you're looking for that they will need? >> you've got to have scientific evidence. the csi effect. one comes to a court room after watching hours of television, cheesy dramas that seems to have dna in every single case. people are expecting scientific evidence.

secondly they're looking for some type of admission, some type of confession, some type of eyewitness testimony that ties into the scene. the single most import thing is when i mentioned earlier, scientific evidence. >> alicia: mark, it's alicia acuna here. our fox news correspondent alexis mcadam said that the coroner told her before they removed the bodies they put paper bags on their hands because they didn't want to disrupt the scene in any way with regards to forensics and dna. what alexis was reporting, the defensive wounds that were there and the dna that was likely left by the suspect. is that what you are referring to? >> absolutely. listen. not many people suspected with his academic pedigree and some who looked like this as a person who committed this offense. he's already going to get the presumption by random jurors that he goes to trial with this

case, wait a second, he doesn't seem like a guy who would do this but that's why you need the dna. that's why you need the forensics to be able to show no, this is him. >> gillian: mark, what are you hoping to learn from this press conference that we are going to get at about 4:00 p.m. eastern? what do you think we are going to get? >> i think we are going to get more that makes us feel comfortable that this is the person who did it. i know the reporters will and should be asking, why do you believe that he's the person? did he confess? did he make any statements? was it just that he had a white car that looked like a white car that was in the neighborhood or something more, which is what i suspect. understand this is the battle. the battle is arresting some of that law enforcement beliefs likely did it. the war is proving the case beyond a reasonable doubt we've seen with many high-profile cases that the battle is just a battle. you've got to win the war.

>> alicia: seven weeks is a long time we've been covering this and that the families have been dealing with this tragedy. do you think this is a case where the authorities were leading up to the suspect little by little and keeping it close to the vest or could it have been a matter of something that came in as a tip, something that came through on surveillance videos they have been pouring over? and all of a sudden they had their guy? >> it could be equal, either one. great question to ask at the presser today. either little by little they started to hone in on him and just didn't want to pull the trigger metaphorically until they've got the evidence. understand the minute you arrest someone, prosecutors are going to be expecting to provide reciprocal discovery to the defense, things are going to be moving. the trial clock starts to tick. they need to take their time to make sure they build the case or the second thing could have happened. we don't know. we don't know. we don't know. aha, all of a sudden the dominoes start to fall directly to him very quickly.

>> gillian: mark, we've got to leave it there. thanks for joining us off the top. we appreciate it. >> my pleasure. >> gillian: among the many oddities of this case is the fact that the 911 call that eventually led to the discovery of the bodies came in eight to nine hours after police believe the murders took place. it's something that is being mulled over now by idaho pd at is whether or not to release the transcript, perhaps even the recording of the 911 tape. >> alicia: you're exactly right, gillian. there will be so many questions coming up at the news conference at 4:00 p.m. eastern out of idaho. we will await the details in that you mention the number of hours, precious hours, eight hours is an eternity when you're talking about a murder investigation. >> gillian: as we wait for the update out of idaho we are also keeping a watch here in washington. the biden administration launching its first broadside against the incoming g.o.p. led house republican leaders are

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investigations. a g.o.p. house armed with subpoena power will begin an exhaustive probe into the biden family. a top lawyer for the president says republicans will need to resubmit their demands for records. g.o.p. leaders say they will not be deterred. >> democrats haven't provided any oversight, haven't requested any information pertaining to the misspent taxpayer dollars. we are trying to do our jobs in the biden administration sent a signal loud and clear we're going to do everything in our ability to prevent and block your oversight. >> gillian: fox team coverage. karl rove's joins us in a moment. we begin with peter doocy. >> good afternoon. the white house, the biden white house has spent months staffing up, preparing for an avalanche of subpoenas from house republicans when they take over. about 200 of them have alr

already -- been sent but white house officials aren't going to apply to those. they are only going to reply to those from now on. seeing as we have over the past two years we intend to work in good faith to provide appropriate information to congress. americans have made clear they expect their leaders in washington to work together their top priorities like lowering costs, that's what the president will focus on. we hope house republicans will join him. there is republicans are saying they can do both. >> one thing that the republican majority is focused on his walking and chewing gum at the same time which in congress they haven't really been able to see that out of this democrat majority. not only are we going to be holding these accountability measures, holding this administration to account for all their failures but also working to do the things that we need to get done on behalf of the american people. >> so far we are told that the incoming house oversight committee led by james gomer

wants to focus on afghanistan and the withdrawal and the decisions here around that and also on the way of the government under joe biden responded to the covid-19 pandemic when they took over her. they are saying in house oversight that right now they are not interested in allegations of biden family influence peddling. but we've also heard from tons of republicans that they have a keen interest at some point in hunter biden. >> gillian: peter doocy from the north lawn of the white house this afternoon. thank you. >> alicia: let's bring in karl rove, former deputy white house chief of staff and fox news contributor. let's put those expected house g.o.p. investigations right now. we couldn't take a look at a list of what they are looking at right now. we are talking about hunter biden, afghanistan withdrawal, origins of covid, politicization of the doj and fbi. and the border crisis.

we know from politico's reporting of the white house is trying to slow role of these investigations. right. i white house attorney told "politico" white house officials who briefed politico point to a long-standing practice going back to ronald reagan that ranking members of the minority do not jump-start the accommodations process on formal investigative requests. this sounds like "don't hate the player. hate the game." is this normal? >> it is normal that you can only demand records if you are in the majority. the ranking minority member doesn't have the authority to do that. what's interesting to me is that the white house was engaged in this unnecessarily. the republican sent the letter in order to demonstrate that they were going to do this. two ways to have handled this. to ignore the letters until the new congress in session and then make a phone call to the hill

and say to the chief clerk on the judiciary committee and the oversight committee, hey, you need to send us those letters again. please send them to us. or do what they did here which is make a scene. i love it. they say we want to work together but they have made a scene. they are saying you are unconstitutional. it's like rubbing the nose of the republicans in it that we not going to cooperate view until january 3rd and even then we are going to give you problems. it runs counter to this idea of "we are going to work together and move the country forward and we understand we got to answer questions. we don't like all the stuff we're going to try to work with you." instead it was like a gigantic "hey, let's go fight." the country is sick and tired of this kind of stuff. the republicans and got to be careful in these investigations not to overreach and to also balance investigations with constructive legislation. but the democrats, particular the white house, have got to be careful about looking like they just want to have a gigantic

fistfight, a food fight, if you will, throughout 2023. >> alicia: let's dig into something you just said. how can the g.o.p. pushback on this move or any moves by the white house in order to slow things down? but also at the same time not appear to be busy with their own politics and not taking care of the business of the people? >> it is to seek the balance. at the same time the judiciary committee is calling for administration witnesses to come forward. it's for them to find constructive things they think the country needs to have done and move things forward. the republicans have got a pretty aggressive agenda and that they laid out in september of 2020 that was the culmination of over a year's worth of work by seven different task forces. now they've got to start taking those ideas and i hope they're putting them in and i know from talking to several perspective committee chairs, they are putting them in the legislative language so that the republicans

will be able to say we have good answers to the problems and challenges the country faces. at the same time we are doing things like investigating, how did you make such a mess in afghanistan? what is actually up on the border? why are you failing to gain control of the border? constructive answers to these challenges and problems for the republicans to be offering and if they do, they will hold their own with white house. if the white house keeps going down this path, let's have a fight. we've got our boxing gloves on, let's go at it. the country, as i said, is sick of it. they want the two parties to try to do some constructive things together. >> alicia: at the same time, americans are saying the biden administration, seeing the president to a victory lap over the legislative agenda but at the same time, there's polling showing a very different feeling inside of the united states citizenry. if you take a look at some fox news poll link. let's go first to what voters, how voters feel things have gone

for the country, if it was a good year or a bad year. these numbers are staggering. 67% of people polled set is a bad year. only 23% said it was a good year. then you continue on at the most important issues facing the country, also according to fox news poll income of the economy. immigration and border security. both things americans feel the biden administration often is not listening to them on. >> the president is a 43% approval rating. two-thirds of the american people think the country is going in the wrong direction. this whole thing and i wrote my "wall street journal" column about it this way, the whole theme that the legislative agenda of the biden administration is well regarded by the american people is laughable. the president is in lousy shape and it's because he has spent too much money and has performed poorly in office. we are seeing it reflected in these kind of numbers. >> alicia: karl rove, thank you so much and happy new year to you. >> same to you.

>> alicia: thank you. gillian. >> gillian: good to hear from carl. lawmakers criticizing transportation secretary pete buttigieg after southwest airlines meltdown last weekend. two senior democrats insist he should have taken action to prevent the crisis. >> alicia: more on the suspect now in custody and accused of killing four idaho college students. former fbi special agent jonathan gilliam joins us next. live at

monroe county pennsylvania, the suspect a in the gruesome murder is in custody following a seven weeks manhunt. bryan kohberger was located more than 2500 miles from the idaho crime scene in scranton. our investigators finally overnight able to crack the case? jonathan gilliam, former fbi

special agent. thank you for being with us. let's break down we know about the suspect. male, 28 years old, we've got a mug shot. i don't know if we can put it up on the screen again for our viewers at home. currently a phd student, no known connection at least right now publicly to the students he is believed potentially to have murdered. what do you make of what they are learning? >> well, i think first off, he does fit the profile for what most people have come up with. a young individual that lives within some proximity, within three hours is what i gave her my assessment. three hours most likely within one hour of the college. i think especially when you look at the mug shot they put out, he has a very deadpan look which, just going what i've seen so

far, i look at his face, his demeanor, it's showing the signs of somebody who is potentially the killer. because he's been arrested. he knows what he's being arrested for. we look at his face it shows little to no emotion in those pictures. that is typical for somebody was capable of doing these types of things. what's going to be very interesting to find out, though, is what his background is. has he had any prior issues, dated people he was violent with? and then, is he now going to be connected to any of these other things? the murder that happened in oregon which is five hours away, in 2021 that was very similar. they said they cleared -- there are several different things that have occurred around my area that i'm very interested to see if he was a part of those as well. but when we look at the way this case is unfolding, this is what i was trying to tell people.

you cannot rush this case. as evidence comes in and it comes in through many different chains, that's when the case will start to go forward. now that it's gone over state lines, now the fbi can come in. i'm not saying they'll take charge but they will have a nexus to be involved in actually take it make a federal case out of it. >> gillian: it's interesting. now nearly seven weeks into the investigation, as far as we know they've still got no murder weapon. they still have not identified the hyundai that was on scene. do you think those things will come together quickly mounted they have a suspect? >> it all depends on how this individual reacts. many killers in this situation, believe it or not, because they are psychopathic, they have little to no empathy. and for them, a lot of the times this is a big deal for them. this is their opportunity to

shine. so they may start to play a game with police and say i'll tell you where the knife is if i can get this or i can do that. so we may end up getting more evidence out of that. i still don't know if the white hyundai has anything to do with it. that will also be interesting to see. we are going to start to see these things unfold. and probably the next week. what's also interesting, though, is that i am hearing reports that he made a comment asking if they had arrested anyone else. so that could go many different ways. but i do find that interesting that he is making comments like that without an attorney. >> gillian: police have said they have declined to confirm there is only one suspect. as you said, could be another shoe to drop. take a look at this map. scranton is far from moscow, idaho, more than 2500 miles.

but you say it's not necessarily surprising, it falls within the radius of where you might expect the killer to be. is it interest you to know how long he's been on the other side of the country? since committing the murders, if he did in fact commit them? >> we know if he was in school at the university of washington, i believe it is, 15 minutes down the road, if he was there when this occurred, then that would make sense. he's there, the murder happened around 3:00 in the morning. he murders four people. he's completely exhausted so he goes to his home 15 minutes away. that makes total sense. why he's in pennsylvania now. he could either have relatives there or he could've just been fleeing. there's a potential that the fbi and that police department there in idaho i've gotten some information and figured out who he was to put out an alert. so that they could track where he is. maybe they were potentially

looking for a vehicle or something like that and we just don't know about it yet. there's a couple things. either they were tracking him and they found him and took him into custody there or he could have potentially got pulled over at the same time they got the evidence. i don't know the details of that. he could have relatives there or he could have been fleeing to get as far away from that place as he possibly could. >> gillian: we are getting live drone footage into the newsroom. so you know it you're looking at, live footage of the suspect's home. it's not live. excuse me. it's prerecorded footage of the suspect's home in pennsylvania. jonathan, we've got to leave it there. we appreciate it. we'll bring you back at theirs any new developments. >> i'm sure there will be. >> one we went up to the counter to rebook, they told us there ws nothing they can do for

us. >> i had two weeks to spend time with my family, my friends. i've spent most of it alone in the airport that i missed christmas. >> alicia: many southwest passengers are still struggling to make it home or locate their bags despite the company attempting to resume full operations today. this is transportation secretary pete buttigieg being slammed from both sides of the aisle over the holiday travel meltdown. which lawmakers believe could have been avoided. that's partially due to southwest receiving more than $7 billion from taxpayers in recent years to shore up their operations. garrett tenney is live at chicago's midway airport which is one of southwest airlines largest hubs. hi, garrett. >> hey, alecia. southwest airlines says it's back to normal operations and we are seeing some of that on the flight board. so far only 43 flights of been canceled, more than 309 delayed. that is good news for folks who

are trying to get back home but he doesn't do a whole lot for the thousands of passengers still trying to get their checked luggage back after it got lost or delayed this past week. >> we received one bag with the flight before the bags were missing. >> they told us, don't worry. your bags will get to dallas before you. i was like, that don't really make sense. when we got here, our bags wasn't here. we had to connect and us -- in houston. >> southwest is taking a lot of heat from washington over its meltdown including from the department of transportation which is threatening to issue fines in the tens of thousands of dollars if the airline doesn't live up to its obligations for reimbursing passengers. some members of congress want to see the department go even further. >> i want to hear pete buttigieg say he's going to audit that $7 billion and that we are going to find out how it was invested or wasted in some cases, the

database and technology failures are totally unacceptable in 2022. this didn't need to happen. >> southwest says it expects operations to continue to improve throughout the holiday weekend is a lot of folks try to get back home after the holidays. certainly for those folks was flights were canceled and rescheduled for this weekend, they are hoping that will be the case. alicia. >> alicia: man, oh, man. garrett tenney live in chicago. thank you, garrett. as the investigations began and apologies are made, so many of these folks are only going to remember this is the time they spent a chunk of their holiday, when they wanted to be with family and friends, in an airport. >> gillian: as pete buttigieg pointed out in his letter to the ceo, that's silly of that's priceless. you can reimburse people for flights. you can reimburse people for food and lodging. you can't reimburse them for time they missed out spinning with her family.

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>> gillian: indiana banning tiktok from personal devices. a federal ban included in that omnibus bill. the trillion dollar bill president biden sign thursday. the administration has until february to implement the new rules. this means over million u.s. government employees can no longer access tiktok on their official computers, phones, or smart devices. >> alicia: new video shows the texas national guard installing makeshift border wall with shipping containers and razor wires in eagle pass, texas. we are seeing similar scenes in el paso. overwhelming border and city officials, the overflowing shelters forcing them to camp out on the streets, as temps

dipped below freezing, causing officials to worry the migrant camp could spread infectious diseases. national border patrol council president brandon judge joins me now. brandon judd. from el paso residents very concerned about their own sa safety. >> i feel like they are kind of neglecting u.s. citizens, the residents of el paso. we should be the number one priority list when it comes to safety. >> these vacant schools that they are preparing for the sheltering, there inside neighborhoods, residential areas. i feel that's very wrong because we don't know who these people are. stephen brandon, this is a humanitarian crisis no doubt for people coming across and still attempting -- there are real dangers out there.

people saying we need help and we are worried about our own health and safety. >> absolutely. what those individuals just said is absolutely correct. the white house is in fact neglecting united states citizens. what's really, really frustrating about that is when you look at all the overdose deaths in the united states, although thousands of people dying because of drugs coming in, this administration could actually end this tomorrow if they want to do but what's really frustrating and what really discussed me and my colleagues is the state stepping outcome of the states putting up these barriers. it's not that -- it is the federal government's job to do it yet it has fallen on the state because all of this the administration wants to do is play politics rather than what's good for the american people. >> alicia: let's talk a little bit more about those barriers. arizona governor doug ducey did try that and had to take them down.

you think texas is going to be facing the same issue from the federal government? >> i definitely think the federal government is going to file a lawsuit. but when you look at these barriers and you look at the effectiveness of these barriers, i go back to one of my old stations where we were only 40% effective prebarriers. once we put up the walls we want from 40% effectiveness to 90% effective. those barriers are extremely important and what they do is they help facilitate the capture of people trying to evade apprehension. all of the got-aways, it's because we don't have proper infrastructure. when you look just in two years, this administration has had approximately 1.3 million got-aways in two years alone, that's a crazy number and we will not know what those effects are going to be for years down the road. >> alicia: let's take a look at some of those border

encounters. fiscal year 2023? 2021. fiscal year 2023 border encounters that record. i think that supposed to be 2022. you can see those numbers. 617,250 encounters. that is staggering. then when you think about the president just signed a $1.7 trillion spending bill, there's money in there for border security. there is not money in there to hire new border agents. >> to put that in perspective, those numbers are eight times higher what normal numbers are paid we should be apprehending about a thousand people a day. we are up to 8,000 people a day. that is what is so scary about this because it pulls our agents off the line and the administration can talk about throwing money at this issue, looking at the root causes. all they have to do is look at what can we control here in the united states and if we actually put our resources to controlling what we can do here in the

united states we would stop this crisis tomorrow. yet its politics. it's always politics with this white house. >> alicia: brandon judd, thank you so much for joining us today and even though this news is difficult, happy new year to you. >> thank you. appreciate it. >> gillian: fox news alert. we are getting word police are serving a search warrant at the apartment. the suspect bryan kohberger's apartment is located. >> alicia: a new skin of her santos. the embattled congressman elect facing more scrutiny about campaign finances. >> gillian: personal and financial misdeeds raising questions about how he spent donated funds from his supporters. next refund,

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>> alicia: fitness influencers and twitter users blasted "time" magazine for suggesting exercise has racist roots.

the article is titled the white supremacist arguments of exercise. history professor interviewed for the article made the case that racism motivated the fitness movement and exercise like running led some to believe people of color were committing a crime. as you can imagine, "time" magazine was heavily marked on twitter with critics arguing the article destroyed any remaining credibility that they have. gillian, i am an american of mexican descent. i've been on the receiving end of racist comments for sure but i can tell you i get tired of people out there connecting every single thing in our life to racism. not everything is racist. that's all i have to say about that. >> gillian: alicia, i'm sorry to hear that. it sucks. i don't really know what else to say but i'm sorry to hear that you go through that. >> alicia: i am annoyed by

this article. this commentary on it. i feel like sometimes we just have to keep moving forward. >> gillian: moving on, new york congressman elect george santos. a number of unusual payouts. documented in campaign filings. alexandria hoff's live in washington with new details. >> one example according to "the new york times" was $11,000 paid for by the campaign for a long island home. the campaign said it was for staffers to stay at but it appears santos and his husband were living there. it would violate the rules on personal use of campaign funds. the times also cited dozens of purchases marked in 1 cent below the threshold where receipt is required. santos' travel expenses have been scrutinized as well as with just about every other fundamental part of the congressman elect's personal story which he has largely admitted to fabricating.

another congressman elect wrote "new yorkers deserve the truth and house republicans deserve an opportunity to govern without this distraction. congressman congressman james comber weighed in as well. >> i'm pretty confident the ethics committee will launch an investigation into santos. he's under investigation pertaining to some campaign finances. i'm confident he'll be investigated by the proper authorities. >> the house ethics committee declined to comment. santos has not yet a sworn and member but he plans to serve his term and one of the biggest questions was how santos was able to loan his campaign over $700,000 when he was listed as making $55,000 the year before. >> gillian: alex hoff. alicia. >> alicia: knew, getting even closer to finding out who bryan kohberger, the suspect in the quadruple murder at an idaho college finally identified is.

and already the case drawing some comparisons to the chilling college killings committed by ted bundy. an all-star lineup ahead. the homicide detective ted williams. lawrence jones, who spoke with the parents of one of the victims. former fbi assistant director chris swecker.d be that's next at 2:00. but at the end of the day, you know you have a team behind you that can help you. not having to worry about the future makes it possible to make the present as best as it can be for everybody.

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>> gillian: fox news alert as we wait to hear from police in moscow, idaho. news conference slated for 4:00 p.m. eastern to announce unrest in the murder investigation that's gripped the nation for nearly seven weeks. >> alicia: police on the other side of the country bringing a suspect into custody who they believe brutally killed four university of idaho students inside their home just yards from the college campus. >> gillian: it got continuing live coverage of the story in the second half of "america reports. because when i am gillian turner. >> alicia: i am alicia queen yeah. authorities detaining