thank you for joining us. stay where you are. the news continues with washington with shannon bream and it starts now. have a great day! >> shannon: iranian war games. they claim to have more proof of military mite. successful launch of two short range missiles and boost tomorrow they have a long-range missile to reach israel and u.s. bases in the gulf. this is as the u.s. ancondemns them for hiding a nuclear facility. i'm shannon bream. america's news headquarters live from washington for the next two hours. iran says the new missile

test show the strong result to defend itself, but it comes days after the world found out iran is secretly working on a new underground nuclear facility and experts say it's not planned for peaceful purposes only. we believe this is the first missile test in iran since may, we will find out much more, clear show of force met with rhetoric from the iranians leaders who say they'll respond. more from julie kirtz. >> hi, shannon. they say they will respond to any military action against in a crushing manner, that's from iranian officials today. part of military drills, the same group that guards the uranium enrichment plant in iran. today, secretary gates said he's confident that iran is working to develop nuclear weapons program and played down the effecttiveness of the military strike against the once secret underground facility. there is still time for negotiations, he said. >> i think what is critical

is persuading ion rannians or leading -- iranians or leading them to the security that their security will be diminished trying to get the nuclear weapons, rather than enhanced. >> so the u.s. will pressure next week at the meeting between iran and the six major powers to stop the weapons program. the key u.s. senators describe it as moment of truth for iran. >> i think it needs to be mainly stiff economic and financial sanctions with the possible of other options in the background if they don't change their behavior. they say they will not just accept at face value the description of the second nuclear facility as peaceful and said the u.s. and other countries will demand that iran open the underground site to the u.n. inspectors and anything short of that will not satisfy the u.s.

>> shannon: thank you for the latest. iran faces a deadline for opening the plant to the u.n. and senior officials want to see it happen within weeks. will iran come clean? mike singh, a former senior director from middle eastern affairs from the national security council and joins us from boston. what do you make of the announcement this week? >> well, really, this shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. we suspected that iran may have the covert site. they said if iran was going to build a nuclear weapon they'd do it at the covert sites rather than ones we knew about. the fact that iran is willing to defy the community is something, but this shouldn't a big surprise. >> shannon: they followed it up with show of support with the missile launches and talk

they're going to longer range missile. how do we handle this? we have meetings scheduled this week with iran. is it sanctions or show of force of our own? where do we go? >> the key is leverage. what iran is doing now is trying to show it doesn't feel that it's in a corner, that it's comfortable with the rhetoric of confrontation that the west is in and we can match the confrontation. we have to build the own leverage. after the 2002 disclosure of the enrichment plant, the international context was different. the u.s. had just gone in afghanistan. we were poised to go into iraq. there was international unanimity against terrorism. right now we don't have the leverage. while the news will give us boost in the october 1 talks, it by no means is the leverage we need to get iran to make decisions and negotiate at the table. >> shannon: initially we had

strong response from are you sharks maybe not so strong with china but how important are the allies to make the change with iran? >> very important. but you have to go back to what i said initially, fundamentally this isn't a surprise and not much changed. while president medvedev of russia was initially positive, now the russian foreign minister downplaying the sanctions and the chinese are downplaying the sanctions. i don't think much fundamentally changed for them or other countries who weren't inclined to impose sanctions. a real effort required for united states to convince the countries i'm bored. part of the convincing effort will be putting the military option on the table as president sarkozy suggested at the news conference. >> jamie: what do you think of the possibility -- >> shannon: what do you think of the possibility it would escalate to physical strike on the country of iran?

>> it's important that iran feel it's a possibility. if they don't feel that u.s. or israel or any other coalition of countries is willing to take military action, it's difficult to build leverage which is so important to negotiations. >> shannon: thank you for your expertise and insight. >> thank you. >> shannon: it's ban deadly week in afghanistan. six troops, including two americans have been killed. nato says a service member died in a roadside bomb explosion and another in an insurgent attack. also, french officials report three soldiers died in a storm in the northeast part of the country yesterday. well, general stanley mcchrystal submitted his request for more troops in afghanistan to the pentagon, something he says we will fail without. what is the administration's next move? caroline shively is following the latest. hi, caroline. >> hi to you. today, defense secretary robert gates explains how the pentagon is holding that report until president obama

figures out what overall strategy he wants for the war. he told abc the decision will likely take a few weeks. >> i haven't even given him general mcchrystal's request for resources. i'm receiving them, the report. i'm going to sit on it until i think or the president thinks it's appropriate to bring that into the discussion of the national security principprinciple. >> the report asks for reinforcement, potentially up to 40,000 on top of the 63,000 americans already there. mcchrystal wrote that his mission would likely go without them. republicans criticized any delay, saying the time to act is now before the taliban grows stronger. last week, preside ont obama referred to himself as skeptical audience in case of sending additional forces. another choice includes vice president biden's suggestion of focussing on the military strikes including unmanned nes. the president hasn't seen the report yet, but top members of congress have.

on fox news sunday they say they have different takes on the content. >> it's clear it's in great detail, outlines a full range of things. he says if we failed to provide the assistance now, it would be too late. >> the question comes is there an alternative to the long-term comprehensive full blown counter insurgency strategy, which he has laid out? i hope there is. i do not believe american people want to be in afghanistan for the next ten years. >> if the president decides on troop surge, he says the likely they could go would be january. >> shannon: thank you. new details are emerging on what the f.b.i. says may have been the most dangerous terrorist plot since 9/11. afghan native najibullah zazi has been indicted on terror related charges and authorities say there may

have been plans to bomb civilian sites across the u.s. laura ingle is in new york with the latest. >> anti-terrorism investigators had their hand full this year. separate investigations that reached from are colorado to new york involve tailing suspects that were acting alone and others who plotted in small groups. some say najibullah zazi's case, though, was the most chilling. investigators say he was alarmingly close to carrying out his alleged plot to build the homemade hydrogen peroxide bomb and detonate them in the new york city transit system. he arrived back on the east coast after being flown in from denver, colorado, where he was picked up for conspiracy of using weapons of mass destruction charges. and the investigators say the survy lens ofsaz -- surveillance of zazi buying the hydrogen peroxide that triggered the move to bring him into custody. federal and state investigators fanned out the

track down the people zazi was communicating with before his arrest. this is the kind of thing that the mayor of new york and commissioner ray kelly say they need funding down to track down terrorists before they strike. we had a news conference, the mayor, commissioner, joe lieberman and others challenged congress to fund the secure the city program to protect regions from terrorism, among other things. yesterday afternoon, president obama had conference call with the nypd investigators commending them and the department of homeland security for bringing zazi to custody so quickly. zazi is in a brooklyn prison cell awaiting arraignment on tuesday in federal court in new york. if convicted on the charges he could receive life in prison. shannon? >> shannon: thank you for the update, laura.

we have just learned that the first germa germany female chancellor will keep her job. angela merkel will keep her job and it sounds like it will be confirmed relatively soon according to the exit polls. the nation's seniors are the latest focus in the healthcare debate, with claims about slashes to medicare and program flown around, what is fact and fiction? we'll do the fact checking with vivian novak, from a non-partisan group monitoring the accuracy of political players. thank you for joining us. i imagine it's a full-time job. >> we have been busy. >> shannon: let me ask about myths or fact or fiction. medicare advantage. we heard concerns that folks will be forced out of that or off of that option because of changes in payments.

what is the truth? >> medicare advantage, which i guess a little less than a quart of the medicare recipients are on medicare examples. mosz cut it to some degree or another. medicare advantage is being -- even the congressional budget office, non-partisan, as you know, said they're subsidizing the medicare challenge patients. medicare pays 14% more to medicare advantage than regular fee for service medicare patients. that's the reason the cut is proposed. if you are on the medicare advantage, it's possible to see some of the extra benefitous may get that regular medicare recipients don't get phased out.

>> shannon: second, it says the g.o.p. voted to abolish medicare. is that correct? >> that's not correct. they have been running an ad that says that. they say the budget proposed t from president obama and said it would change medicare. for those younger it would phase to program of privately run insurance fund and you'd get the government run subsidies to purchase. >> if you tweak the language and say vote against medicare as we know it, does that change? >> that is what happened. they were running in some districts and they pulled it from running on the air and put it in as you know it and that's more accurate. >> shannon: can you give us the top three or four false

claiming circulating now? >> one of them is that the medicare benefits would be slashed. we talked about the medicare advantage. it's possible the benefits would be cut slightly, probably a few million people and they would never get less than the ordinary medicare recipients would get. when they say medicare will be cut $500 million, nothing like that. another is you hear president obama saying you can keep the coverage you have. you could. the government isn't forcing you to give up the coverage. by there will be changes if any of the changes go through. as a result, some might decide to change the insurance plan or shift what they're doing. it's possible you will see change in the coverage. another is government will dictate the coverage and

treatment you get. these are references to the comparative effectiveness council set up as part of the stimulus plan that went through this year. this is only rounding up what treatments work best and cost effective and push treatments out to doctor and care providers. not to dictate or say you cannot provide the treatment. >> interesting. thank you for the work you're doing to help us clarify things today. with fact or fiction. thank you. >> thank you. >> shannon: increased job losses and spike in early retirement claims will force social security to pay out more in benefit than it collects over the next two years. first time it's happened since the 1980s. the estimates $9 billion in 2011 will not impact payments to retiree because they have surpluses from the previous years but the yearly shortfalls will add to federal deficit. is president obama facing a

vast right wing conspiracy? today on "meet the press," former president bill clinton said yes, he is. >> your wife talked about the right wing conspiracy targeting you. as you look at the right to president obama, is it still there? >> you bet. sure it is. it's not as strong as it was because america changed demographically, but it's as vire lent as it was -- virelant as it was. >> hillary clinton used that term to describe how her husband's political opponents were out to get him in the lewinsky conspiracy. now, an embryo mix-up. they're not sure they have the right embryo in that lab. now a director roman polanski has been arrested. is he headed back to the

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>> topping the news, regarding the underground nuclear facilifacility, iran ist backing down. they report that the country tested two new missiles today, two days after the western country disclose that iran was developing a uranium facility. as we told you moments ago, it looks like german chancellor angela merkel will hold on to her office for a second term. exit polls show her christian union party won enough votes to claim victory. the government declared a state of calamity in 25 storm-hit provinces. director roman polanski has been arrested on 31-year-old u.s. warrant. he was there to receive an award for his work. polanski fled the u.s. in 1978 a year after pleading

guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with 13-year-old girl. without providing further detail, police will say that polanski was arrested in relation to 1978 u.s. arrest. he directed well-known films like "chinatown" and "rosemary's baby." another invet row clinic has explaining to know. claiming that embryos were unaccounted for or mislabelled. now the staff is doing serious apologizing. our affiliate in new orleans has the story. >> i'm sorry for what happened here. >> no medical facility wants to be in this position. we talk about the embryos that appear to be mislabelled or may not be accounted for. >> missing? >> i said missing and unaccounted for. >> oxford suspended the in vitro fertilization program at the elmwood center after concerns surfaced about the labelling of frozen embryos.

>> the patients' trust has been undermined by the uncertainty. we hope the steps take listen begin the long journey of healing that lies ahead. >> it involves taking a woman's eggs and mixing them with sperm in a lab dish. once the eggs become fertilized, they're known as embryos. the officials say an internal audit confirms earlier concerns and they had an ethical obligation to go public. >> during the process, we have become deeply concerned about the reliability of the overall ivf program, itself, and have hired independent experts to complete the work. >> what we know is there are embryos that appear to be perhaps mislabelled and some unaccounted for. we thought that it was important to reach out to the patients at this point. >> so the big question is now did some patients receive the wrong embryos? >> we have no evidence that that is the case. at all. no reason to think that. >> as of yesterday, oxner

began notifying 100 patients there could be dna testing. >> each case is individual. and the individual concerns of those patients will be reviewed with them and give them an opportunity to come in and sit down and talk with us and make decisions about what thep proper approach is for them. >> after something apparently went terribly wrong. >> we are disappointed in ourselves, in what we have learned to date. >> about a medical program that was supposed to help a woman get pregnant. >> that was sabrina wilson reporting. schner hospital is offering free dna testing to any patient who would like it. they arrested a man from grizzy bear exhibit at the san francisco zoo. but getting him out wasn't easy. how did he get in there in the first place? we tell you why police are not so happy after this rescue. if you're taking 8 extra-strength tylenol...

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>> shannon: warnings from the west and other countries, iran goes forward with missile testing. bottom of hour, caroline shively has the top of the news. >> iranian programs say the short-range missiles test with big success. they have footage from the iranian state television of tests conducted by the revolutionary guard in military drills today. iranian officials say they tried out muscle missile launchers for the first time. the test comes two days after president obama warned iran about the newly discovered underground nuclear site. the justice department announced that three detainees have been transferred to government of the ireland and yemen. the guantanamo-reviewed task force conducted comprehensive review of inmate and approved transfer of some of them from the failsy. the earlier this week, the white house officials acknowledged that the president executive order to

close guantanamo bay by january will be pushed back. brand new video. the f.b.i. has security tape to show what happened after the bomb og the oklahoma city federal building in 1995. the tape don't show the actual explosion outside the federal building but show the chaos and people rushing from nearby buildings. it killed 168 people, the worst terrorist attack on u.s. soil before 9/11. san francisco zoo staffers arrested a man in a grizzy bear exhibit before he was hurt. he managed to sneak in the exhibit but the officials say he never came in contact with the grizzlies. they found the man unresponsive and conscious and took him into custody after he was treated at a hospital. those are the top stories. back to you. >> shannon: that is an incredibly lucky man! >> absolutely. >> shannon: glad the story had a happy ending. thanks. >> you bet. >> shannon: wall street they soon head up again. stocks posted one-year high

consistently in the last two weeks and the dow is getting closer to the 10,000 mark. is this too fast, too soon? brenda buttner host of "bulls and bears" joins us to sort it out. >> that is the question. dow 10k? we're in the home stretch. last week the bulls stumbled losing the%. the worst week for stocks since july. before you think you put away the dow 10,000 party hats for good, the dow is up 2% for month of september. historically one of the worst months of the year. up 14% this quarter. think how fast we've come since those mid-6,000 levels in march. that what gives the investors cause for pause. a monster rally and history shows that can spell trouble. in the early '30s, a plunge of 86% followed a big run-up. then there were years of big bounces both ways. you can't forget how we

stayed in the 1,000. getting in five digits could happen anytime. will the nice round number counter? psychologically we love round numbers. that's why turning 39 is not a big deal as turning 40, right? baseball fans care more about hitting .300 than .299. but it doesn't mean a close above dow 10k will guarantee running of the bulls. even if we are in a recovery, we face more unemployment losses decline in home prices and sales and consume they're is more interested in saving than spending. the fed rate-raising is ahead of us, not behind us as it was when the '80s bull market got going. some on wall street worry dow 10,000 may be 10,000 reasons to yell "sell" because history often shows when everyone is running one way, may be time to go against the crowd. the stocks had a decade of trouble already and the worst could be over. what happens on wall street, though, depends what happens

where you are in washington with taxes, healthcare and regulation. wall street is watching closely. back to you. >> shannon: brenda, thank you for making it understandable for us. thanks. >> sure. >> shannon: living in the nation top earning state may sound like a good idea for the bottom line but living in the most expensive real estate markets can take a toll on the wallet. to break down the housing markets across the u.s. is real estate expert ken dra todd from "my house is worth what?" it's highly addictive as we discussed. thank you for joining us. >> my pleasure. >> shannon: let's take for example, let's talk about maryland. in 2008, that was the top grossing state with average household income of over $70,000. sounds like a great place to be, great paycheck. talk about what you consider about living and buying a house there. >> before you get excite and start to pack the bag and accept the job offer for $70,000, what people need to take into conversation is the

purchasing power. will they maintain or increase the quality of life moving to maryland. the answer more often than not is no. for example if you look at one of the most affordable places to live in the united states, mississippi, they have average growth income of around 37, $38,000. if you landed a job in bethesda, maryland, the highest median income in the country, you'd have to make $105,000 to support the same quality of life. so you have to take into consideration, affordable housing and cost of living. how much does it cost to go grocery shopping or put gas in the car. >> shannon: we had a map to show the lowest median income. mississippi, west virginia, arkansas, kentucky and alabama. if those are the most feasible and the best cost of

living you can take a lower paycheck. what about housing? can you get a good deal there? >> you can get more house for your money. but one thing that skews the cost of living index is housing. nine out of ten times it plays the biggest factor. if you were going to move from mississippi to maryland the difference in the cost of housing is 736%. suddenly, doubling your annual income doesn't seem like such a great deal. you will save more and spend more. it contributed to the boom like california, new york and washington, d.c. where people left in droves and moving to the outer lying areas so dramatically increase the quality of life and decrease the money it took to live. >> all right. kendra todd, thank you for the insight and the number-crunching for us. good advice for folks considering a move.

thank you. up next, trying to make the friendly skies safer. we talk to a member of congress working to make sure the pilot on your next flight is well rested and up to the job. some amazing video. georgia driver lands in a sinkhole. it could have all been easily prevented. find out who is to blame up next.

when an airline flight crashed, there were serious questions raised whether they could have prevented the tragedy. this week, they heard from a panel of experts, including a man who lost his daughter on that flight. >> it's not just the continental airlines that got the problems these days. the industry. trying to make it safer for flying public.

too late to help my daughter and a lot of the families here. it's just, we don't want to see anybody else have to go through it unnecessarily. >> congressman from ohio is member of the house committee and he joins us live from cleveland. thank you for your time today, congressman. tell us what is being done. as that gentleman said and i talked to other members of families and loved ones who lost somebody on the flight. what is done on the hill to make sure it doesn't happen again? >> on the whole, domestic air traffic is safe. for the last six accidents we have seen a growing trend in regional airlines where they met and exceeded most of the quality and standards put out by the f.a.a. are beginning to start to shoot toward minimum. that's unacceptable. in this case, in the buffalo crash, we have a situation that what tragic but unavoidable. the air crew was not trained how to recover from a full stall. when they lost their situational awareness and the airplane stopped flying they were not able to recover

because the training syllabus didn't train them how to recover from the incident. >> shannon: congressman, you are a pilot as well, so you know better than most of us about the fatigue and the mental alertness that you need to have that some of the pilots in the regional carriers don't always have the same opportunities for resting and rules and experience. tell us the difference between some of the regional airlines and the bigger name airlines that we would recognize and why pilot standards are so different. >> well, we're going to change them so congressman dates they make the training standards equal. there are nearly 70 regional air carriers in the united states. they travel to cities across the country. 161 million passengers fly on the nearly 5 million flights every year. we want to make sure they constitute the training standards met by the larger air carricarriers. we want to make sure it's done very soon with the

congress and we push to make the standards equal. >> shannon: there were concerns that the funding and the mechanisms that have to get through the senate in the senate finance committee where they've been busy with healthcare. are you hopeful that the aviation related funding and safety proposals will get through? >> i am confident they will. the ntsb since 1978 has been asking the f.a.a. to incorporate the training standards to avoid a situation like we got in buffalo. over the next ten years and we want to make sure they follow through with the it. so i make sure if i fly with continental i fly with their air carriers and that is transparent in the process. this is something that the members of congress are trying to do and they have the fees and training and everything prescribed to make our air travel safer than it is. >> thank you for your time

and the work you're doing on this. >> thank you. >> shannon: shocking scene and unfortunate situation for a driver. he found himself and his entire car submerged in a sinkhole yesterday. yeah! that's what you're seeing there. the officials say heavy rain and pranksters are to blame because evidently there were cones that were surrounding the dangerous stretch of road. but they had been moved so the driver didn't know about the dangerous conditions ahead. the driver suffered minor injuries but his car fared much worse. iran has shown the cards. a new secret nuclear facility and missile test this weekend. what should the obama administration do to respond? we talk to chris wallace about that up next. prilosec otc. dominates heartburn. 24/7...

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>> shannon: fresh signs of force from iran. requesting new troops in afghanistan. and one-on-one with a film-make they're went undercover to acorn. plenty to talk about on "fox news sunday." so earlier today i sat down with the host chris wallace. chris, obviously, a busy week for the president. on the international stage, a lot of relations and issues going on. we're talking about iran this morning. big meetings coming up after the big disclosure, where

does the president go from here? >> it's clear where he is going to go. the u.s. and the other members of the security council plus germany the p-5 plus one, are going to sit down in geneva on thursday with iran. they are going to ask for answers of the secret facility they've been under violation of the u.n. relations. if they don't get answers and don't get answers with regard to whether or not iran is going to stand down in the nuclear program, they'll decide and this is a gut check for the rest of the world are they ready and willing to impose tough sanctions? certainly the u.s. doesn't have problem with that. a loft the european allies but will the russians or the chinese? i think it's awfully important. president sarkozy of france said they only have until december. if they don't stand down and we don't get economic sanctions i think the way and nobody thinks it will be a very good solution but i think it's inevitable that

there will be a military strike whether israel or the u.s. >> on another front for the president is afghanistan. the troop requests and how that situation plays out you had a couple of top senators on fox news sunday to talk about what will happen there. >> the extraordinary thing is that bob woodward got a classified copy of general mcchrystal's request and put it on the front page of the "washington post." otherwise, if we hadn't known about that we wouldn't know the debate was going on but it turns out he's requesting between 10 and 40,000 more troops and says if we don't get them we likely will result in failure. meanwhi meanwhile, there are people in the administration led by vice president biden who think the counterinsurgency strategy isn't working and we have to scale back in afghanistan and in fact start counter terrorism, which basically means drone attacks, and special forces in that no man's land between afghanistan and pakistan. obviously, ideally that would

be good. not as messy. it doesn't involve 100,000 troops but there's real doubt in the military to whether or not it will work. now we're hearing from the national security advisor that the president is going to play this out in a series of meetings in several weeks over the national security council, so basically, the world is waiting. the taliban and u.s. soldiers are fighting. and the president's trying to decide which strategy he is going to adopt. it's a spectacle. i've never seen anything like it. >> shannon: another spectacle played out, acorn and the undercover videos, a very interesting young man as a power player today. >> we talked to james o'keeffe. he's become pretty well known in the last couple of weeks. he was the mastermind and young woman named hanna guiles of the acorn video where they went undercover posing as a prostitute and pimp. he wanted to find out what drives them. it turns out five years ago when he was undergraduate at rutgers he was so upset by the political correctness at rutgers on st. patrick's day in 2004, he scheduled a

meeting with the school administrator. he filmed it undercover, because that's what he does where he pointed to the serial box of lucky charms and said look at the leprechaun. it's basically a slur on irish. we're not all short. we don't all have green skin and red hair and got the administration at rutgers to take the cereal off the menu. so he said at that point i knew that you can sit there and just make fun of liberal hypocrisy. he built a career around it. >> been successful. we understand more video is coming this week. >> right. of the philadelphia acorn visit. >> thank you. we'll stay tuned. plenty more on the topics coming up on fox news sunday after our show. catch chris wallace interview with bob mcdonald, the republican candidate in the white hot race for race for virginia. check it out today. it's right here on the fox news channel. well, he left washington in disgrace. like many others, former congressman mark foley trying to make a comeback in

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>> shannon: a midtown phoenix high rise is about to come crashing down. you are looking at a live picture. crews attached more than

150-pounds of explosives to the old steel struck i believe it is about ten stories. crowds gathered around to watch the building come town. we will leave the picture up so you can see it live when it happens. we expect that in just a couple of minutes. so enjoy. some may argue that no publicity is bad publicity. can troubled politicians ever overcome infamy? >> invest in gold. >> to f. scot fitzgerald's la meant that there are no second acts, no one offers of better retort than g. gordon libby. >> i asked the white house if i could bring a few guests. >> now, mark foley hopes to emulate his success.

a scandal in which foley was never charged with any crime, foley on politics debuts on c view am 960 in palm beach. >> democrats want to stay in power as did republicans when we were in the majority. >> we looked at every aspect and angle and thought the information aspect of what he brings to the table and the microphone can help people. >> bob may served 17 months in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy and making false statements in the jack abramoff scandal and now hosts a show on wheeling, west virginia, 1370 am. >> talk radio gives me the chance to debate and be part of the debate, once again. >> other lawmakers face steep financial problems. gary condit, cleared in the investigation of chandra levy

saw his ice cream franchise melt and now owes more than $45,000 to the bas baskin robbs company. mcclain a washington pr urges aspiring comeback artists to show sincere remorse and not i'm too high. >> don't all of a sudden try to become the red cross -- the press of the red cross. they need to make wise choices and do it in a responsible way. >> in washington, james rosen, fox news. >> shannon: a show of defiance. iran launches a series of short-range missiles just days after condemnation by the international community. how real is the threat? a medical break through.

the latest on the adriano research that has scientists around the world hoping this could be a key to a vaccine. any minute now, a phoenix landmark is set to come crashing to the ground. we expect it within about 15 to 20 seconds if it stays on schedule. it is a ten story building built in 1972 in midtown phoenix there. it was a long building of mountain bell and qwest was thy there as well. we expect it to come down any moment now. it was one of the first glass and steel buildings that was put up as high rise in phoenix we understand back in 1972 but it is now time by the way of progress and decisions that have been made there for the building to come down. a lot of neighbors and other buildings there in the area have had some protective structures put up to protect them from the blast that we expect there. the folks that rigged up the building to come down say that

it is a very scientific approach and works like clock work and they have done it specifically. all the asbestos in the building they say has been abated and it is ready to come down. as is often the case with these buildings, a lot of folks have come around to watch and see as it happens. we will keep the picture up so you can see it as it happens. we will move on to other news and you will see it when it comes down. the show of force from iran that is raising eyebrows right here and overseas around the country and around the world as well. according to state run tv, iran tested a multiple missile launching system. all of this is happening as concerns over the country's nuclear program continues to grow. julie kirtz has an update for us. >> short-range missile tests conducted by the revolution guard and the stunning news that iran has a second uranium

enrichment plant. both days before they sit down with six major powers including the u.s. today, secretary of state hillary clinton called the talks in geneva a test for iran and said the u.s. will not accept at face value iran's description of a second nuclear facility as peaceful. she says the u.s. and the other countries will demand iran open the underground site to u.n. inspectors. >> the iranians keep insisting this is just for peaceful purposes. i think as the russians said in their statement and as we believe and what this meeting on october 1st is a test, it's fine, prove it. don't assert it, prove it. and we are looking to see what they have to say. >> getting russia onboard is key and with tensions high the secretary of defense was also on the sunday talk shows. he downplays the effectiveness of a military strike fenc agait

iran's second nuclear facility. >> my personal opinion is that the iranians have the intention of having nuclear weapons. the question of whether they have made a formal decision to move forward the development of nuclear weapons is in doubt. >> he believes iran is still one to three years from developing a nuke weapon and believes there is still time to negotiate. the seas the recent nyes that iran has another nuclear plant could push severe economic penalties on iran if it doesn't abandon its nuclear ambitions now. thank you for the update. >> sure. mahmoud ahmadinejad says everyone is all wrong when it comes to their nuclear program. rich, tank yew fo thank you fo.

we talk about sanctions and keeping our options on the table. what will really get through to iran if anything? >> probably not negotiations. apparently american intelligence has known about the second location for enriching uranium for some time. it just now became public through a leak. this news that the obama administration was most likely holding back the information because they were afraid congress and the public would put pressure to ignore the negotiations and move toward harder measures. now, the president is in a real box. the iranians have proven willingness to defy the u.n., the new and improved united states which has the face of obama to back it up and make it friendlier. clearly the iranians don't want to give up the atomic weapons. they learned from the north koreans you can have these weapons and keep your hold on power forever. >> shannon: they have the talks coming up with several key powers. do you think it will make

headway with iran. we heard officials saying they are shocked about the way the west is responding to this. i find that hard to believe. do you believe anything will get done this week? >> there is a lot of cynicism when it comes to diplomacy. they recently upgraded their radar system among the 24 sites linked to the atomic weapons program or maybe it is a peaceful energy program, it is up to you. >> the fact that russia is so actively involved in the program. more than 300 russian scientists now in a key iranian site. it is likely they want to protect the investment they made in iran and continue to vote no on the u.n. security council which means they will block any meaningful measures. >> shannon: what about israel, what kind of preparation or response do we expect to see

from them. in. >> their aircraft can go for much longer range than previously. a few years ago, as early as 2006, if israelis wanted to bomb iran the aircraft could get there but not back. now, they modified it could carry out that time of mission. >> shannon: we have been monitoring this building in phoenix. you just saw it come down there, an implex of a building from back in 1972. looks like they did that with a lot of presix there. the area had been secured and folks were on hand able to watch that. 150-pounds of explosives takes down the building in midtown phoenix. it was one of the first glass and steel structures put up there. and it looks like it has come down as expected. the building back in 2004 was bought for $12.5 million so you have topped ferraro the investor was going after the real estate. the building is down, it is no longer.

have to wait and see what comes up in its place. >> rich, thank you for letting us interrupt your interview. thank you for sharing your insight and we have to wait and see what happens with the talks with iran as well. six service members including two americans killed this weekend in afghanistan. nato says one service member died in a roadside bomb explosion. another during an insurgent attack and french officials are reporting that three soldiers died in a storm in the northeast part of the country when they were caught up in a violent weather pattern. the top commander of u.s. forces in afghanistan has submitted his request for more troops. how about the obama administration respond? caroline shively is following all the latest on this. hi, caroline. >> he says he has the mcchrystal report but he is sitting on it. meantime, president obama will be looking at the overall

assessment for the war. >> general says thatth is exactly the right thing to town hall meetings do. >> secretary gates said that the presidential stage decision will likely take a few weeks and if he decides on a surge it will be january before the troops are ready to go. mcchrystal wrote that his mission with like lie fail without more troops in months. 51% of americans are opposed it sending more troops. president obama referred to himself as a skeptic cal audience on the case for sending in more troops. republicans criticized any delay, saying the time to act is now before the taliban grows even strong. we need troops now and he said if we fail to provide that assistance now it will be too late. >> to me, it is a ten year plan. i think the president is

correct to take his time to really examine what the alternatives are at this time. >> another choice that some liberals suggested to the president is a deadline for a complete withdrawal. today, secretary gates said that would be a strategic mistake and failure there would be a huge setback for the u.s. shannon? three more detainees left guantanamo bay over the weekend. one went to yemen and two others transferred to ireland. since 2002, more than 550 detainees have left guantanamo for other countries. white house officials acknowledged the prison is not likely to be closed by president obama's january deadline. there are a lot of legal and logistical problems to sort out. frank walter stain mier con ceded defeat in the election. this comes shortly after exit

polls indicate victory for americale. president and first lady michelle obama addressed members of the caucus and several other members here in washington. the president said that financial bailouts and the $787 billion economic stimulus package have brought the nation back from the brink. u.s. authorities have been trying to get him for years and now film director roman polsnski arrested in switzerland. greg tal cot has the latest from london. hi, greg. >> hey, shannon. french filmmaker roman polanski now in custody of the swiss authorities. all happened last night. he arrived in zurich switzerland and he was arrested there and it is believed right now he is being held at a prison there. he has been a fugitive for 31 years from the united states. he fled sentencing after being

convicted on this underage sex charges. it is reported that l.a. prosecutors learned of his trip to switzerland, ironically to get a lifetime achievement award at a film festival and issued a fresh arrest warrant to the swiss authorities. he has been a french citizen and benefits from the strong antiextradition in france. he keeps his movement down around europe and we are told that friends in paris warned him against going to switzerland because the relationship between switzerland and the united states regarding extradition is very much stronger. we are told he brushed those off and bad luck for him. we are also told that extradition procedures are underway, shannon. but that does not mean that he is coming back to the united states any time soon. there could be several different appeals that he could conduct. we expect that too happen.

we have been hearing from french government officials and they are upset as well. ironically lawyers for polanski trying to overturn that charge that conviction against him and the l.a. judge involved with the case earlier this year said sure, you can appeal this charge if you come back to the united states. worried about going to jail, polanski turnd that down. well, the judge just might get his witch. back to you, shannon. >> shannon: the supreme court is back in session in just over a week and one of the key cases focuses on a cross that was intended to honor u.s. fallen soldiers. what is the controversy over the memorial? anita vogel reports. traveling from all corners of the nation, these soldiers care valuable information ran to the mohavi december torte this cross.

>> i odd haven't any character as any kind of symbol. it is the meaning behind it that matters the most. >> it also sits at the center of a contentious legal debate which questions the constitutionality of religion symbols displayed on publicly owned land. the united states supreme court will ultimately decide whether the cross and displays like it violate the notion of a separation of church and state. >> the idea that somehow or other this isn't a religion symbol because it is a national or veterans memorial i think is insulting to both christians and nonchristians alike. >> at just 8 feet tall, the cross stood for decades virtually unnotice until 2001 when the american civil liberties union filed a lawsuit on behalf of a former park service worker who objected to the cross. two years ago the court ruled in favor of the aclu. so far the supreme court justices have been closely

divided on cases like these, including those on display of the ten commandments at courthouses. in this particular instance it is a coin flip as to whether or not the court will accept his claim of being offended by the display as being enough. because that would really open the courthouse doors quite wide. >> experts expect the high court's ruling will be a split decision but believe the justices in the end may side with the government to allow crosses like this one i in the mohave december torte stand new york congress woman caroline maloney is grieving the loss of her husband. he died on a mountain climbing expedition in the himalayas.

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well, just in case you missed it, it just happened a few minutes ago, this high rise came down in phoenix. it was in midtown there. crews lad attached 160-pounds of explosives to the old steel structure that once served as the mountain bell building. it was built back in 197 2*. the structures around were reenforced to make sure no damage was done. a lot of folks have gathered to watch it live and we brought it to you moments guy live in action. international condemnation regarding an underground nuclear facility. iran is not backing down. instead, it was reported that the country tested new missiles today two days after it was disclosed that iran has been testing a secret uranium

facility. filmmaker roman polanski has been arrested in switzerland. he fred the u.s. in 1978 a year after pleading guilty to unlawful sexual relations with a 13-year-old girl. social security will pay out more in benefits than it collects for the first time in years. the be sits, $10 billion in 2010 and $9 billion in 2011 are not expected to affect payments. the weather has been nasty in parts of the south and east coast of late, but what can we expect for today? check in with dominica davis at the fox weather center with the latest. good afternoon. finally looking at a switch to dry weather down to the south and that is good news

because as we have been talking about for the last couple of weeks they have excess of rain and major flooding concerns. down to the south it stays dry not only today but really for the next five to seven days. all the rain pushed up to the coast and that is where it will stay for our sunday and into our monday. scattered showers and even thunderstorms from the great lakes, parts of the ohio valley and then as you can see, some of the heaviest rain right now is off to the east coast through new york, pushing up to parts of new england. that is where you will see some of the h heaviest hours for today. highs not giving us -- unfortunately, my graphics there aren't working. highs aren't doing too bad today. as we take a look at the precip accumulation, the h heaviest showers from new england up to maine as we talked to one to two inches of pain possible and then again could have an accumulation of one to two inches back through the great lakes as well. and now finally let's see if we can get to the highs. there we go.

not doing too bad today. fairly comfortable. highs all across. a note for the great lakes area. minneapolis, you're going to drop about 15 degrees by monday. a strong cold front is coming in from canada and that is going to spell some really cold air not only for the great lakes but that will push in to the east coast by the middle part of this week. chilly forecast ahead for parts of the country. back to you. >> all right, we like the graphics and how you worked your magic to make them all work, thank you. president obama was on the world stage this week but was he neglecting his top domestic priority which has been healthcare reform, of course, here at home. we will break it down with the strategist panel, coming up. can your body wash nourish this deeply?

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a show of force from iran. it is the bottom of the hour. caroline shively standing by with the top of the news. iran said it successfully test fired a short-range

missile today. the launch comes on the heels of the disclosure of a secret uranium enriching facility in the mountains near a holy city. iranian leaders say the facility is being built for peaceful purposes. however, officials doub doubt e claim since it was developed in secret. the silent security taped video doesn't show the explosion but shows people running from nearby buildings after the bomb went off. some of the tapes were used in the trial against convicted bomber timothy mcveigh. he was executed in 2001. the tapes were released as a freedom of information request by an attorney. a fertility hospital in new orleans has admitted to a huge mix yum thaup that could t big time. some embryos frozen were lost or mislabeled.

despite the mistake, the hospital insists no mothers were injected that embryos that don't belong to them. >> jews around the world are celebrating yom kippur. we wish our juicish friends an ease -- we wish our jewish friends an easy fast. prosecutors getting a better handle on how najibullah zazi allegedly plotted to bomb sites in the u.s. official are calling it the most dangerous scheme since 9/11. >> zazi will appear in federal court this coming tuesday in brooklyn, facing charges of plotting to use weapons of mass destruction. investigators say they believe he was not acting alone. federal and state investigators fanned out over new york city and beyond trying to track down the people that zazi was communicating with in the days and weeks before his arrest. wiretap conversations and

e-mail dispatches reveal that he was urgently trying to get just the right the recipe down for making a home made hydrogen peroxide bomb which what seemed like some kind of deadline coming up. this is just the kind of think that new york and new york police commissioner said they need funding for tortion track down and capture terror suspects before they strike. in a news conference today, they challenged conference to fund the securing the cities program to protect the region from nuclear terrorism, among other things. no city in the world relies on that. >> terrible train bombings in madrid in 2004, on done i 20045 and mumbai in 2006 i think only underscores the importance of the new grants. >> we are learning more about the 24-year-old afghan immigrant.

friends and neighbors describe him as a guy who loved video games and anything that was techy. the love turned towards a fascination with cell phones and computers. after becoming a coffee cart operator in lower manhattan in the his 20s, he was friendly to customers. some say they noticed a shift a few years ago and he appeared angry at times. when makes his court appearance, he will hear the charges against him which could bring him life in prison if convicted. we will continue to follow this closely. >> shannon: president obama addressed the world leaders this week at the u.n. and then hosted the g 20 summit in pittsburgh. how did he fare in the spot light of the world stage? joining us are strategists doug high and josh. what did he get right this week? >> the biggest takeaway was global cooperation when it came

to iran and talking about the global economy he showed a serious difference from his predecessor which is we are here to work together and to actually bring change a different way to the world and i think the take away as you read papers around the world was this is a president doing business differently and i think he is going to approach things going forward. >> it seems to be a victory more of style than substance. one of the things we keep hearing about is president obama's overwhelming popularity throughout the world but we have not seen that leverage inside substantial substantive successes. to be able to do so this will be something with iran, with afghanistan, republicans and democrats will get behind. >> you are not going to change the situation in iran overnight. instead of going it alone, immediately when we knew there was a problem this week, he was meeting with nicolas sarkozy and brown and he said here is

the strategy, applying serious pressure on iran and i think that is what you will see happen. whether it will be afghanistan or finishing up the war in iraq. he is cleaning up a lot of problems in other parts of the world that he is dealing with. he inherited eight years of do nothing from bush and now he has to put his plan together and it is not an overnight fix. >> one of the challenges that he faces if you look at "washington post" front page, the administration was arguing with itself over policy in afghanistan. it will require discipline to move forward. if they are fighting in public with themselves. >> the military is calling for certain things and he is takig time to studty this. you have to stop and think, reach out to the allies and figure out what to do together because we shouldn't be carrying this burden alone in the united states. >> he says he will be skeptical about looking at troop requests because he takes seriously

sending any man or woman in harm's way. when you have a top military leader saying we need this or we are going to fail. >> it as fineline. you look back in the campaign and you hear repeatedly i will listen to what the generals and troops on the ground tell me. it is a risky situation if that is not what happens. for republicans like myself we wonder if hillary clinton last year -- 18 months ago wasn't right when she was warning us with the decisions that president obama would make. >> i think he should study and look at problem. of course, he will listen to his generals. he said i'm going to listen i have to make assessments. there is a sticky political situation after the election that just happened. he doesn't want to go it alone, lessons from the past in presidential history. he is doing what he needs to do. pausing and talking to secretary of state clinton and other leaders around the world and making a decision. >> see how it plays out with

the geneva talks regarding iran and the afghan situation as well. thank you both. big developments related to two vaccines. one for adriano an aids and thr h1n1. promising results from the largest vaccine trial results cutting the infection rate of hiv. dr. manny alvarez says this is a huge beginning. thank you for joining us. tell bus th us about the aids . >> this is a huge breakthrough. for years the aids vaccine has been trying to make headway and didn't do it. now, the results of thailand, this is a large population looking at hiv infections monitored by the federal government also showed there was a 31% decrease in hiv infections. the bad side of the things are that it still doesn't meet the

standards, if you will, that you want to see in a vaccine, which is 70 to 80% efficacy. 31% doesn't meet the criteria so more studies need to be made but this is the first time that this type of vaccine is showing a positive effect and all the date that will be presented in october in paris where all the vaccinemakers and scientists will get together but it is encouraging and i think with the basis of this study you will see perhapses in a couple of years a more effective vaccine against the aids virus. >> very exciting news. all right, let's talk about h1n1 which has been grabbing so many headlines. when it will be available, how much it needed, who needs it. >> it will be ready they keep saying the middle of october and the first part of october. they tell us that the nasal vaccine is going to be available. of course, that has limitations because it cannot be used in pregnant women and very small children. but that is going to be

distributed first. in the middle of october they tell us that the regular h1n1 injection i s going to be available. the big problem that i'm finding and this is something that we have been monitoring in fox news.com/health that the distribution right now is a little confusing. the distribution is by the federal government to the states and the states will then distribute this through doctors. i have to tell you, i have spoken to many doctors here in the tristate area in new york city and they still are confused as to where they will get the vaccine from and who is eligible to get it so far as being a physician or health center. so, you know, itle come out in the middle of october but right now a little bit of criticism i have to say in the way that the distribution is being handled. >> we know you are on it. thank you for watching that and all of our other health topics. dr. manny alvarez, thank you for joining us. after nine months at sea,

the crew of the uss ronald reagan is enjoying downtime. shore leave in thailand. david piper was granted behind the scenes access to the aircraft carrier and joins us live from bangkok with more. hi, david. >> hi, shannon. always an impressive sight when you see a carrier coming into port and the uss ronald reagan you can't compare it to other ships in the world. over a thousand feet long and four and a half acres of deck. and it also has been the work and the home really for 5,000 sailors over the past few months. and the regan and its support ships have been spending most time at sea off the middle east supporting coalition forces, mainly providing air support in afghanistan. it. >> it is very challenging from the time in the air, the distance flying, the presize

operations that the air wing needs to conduct, but the other operations from infrastructure protection up in the northern arabian gulf to others in the gulf of aiden. we train for them, we are an experienced strike group. >> the uss ronald reagan left the middle east 45 days ago. months at sea with no break is a challenge on the crew with an average age of just 19, all ready for a break. on the way home they had an opportunity to visit a variety of places. the number one choice was the tropical island of phuket here in southern thailand. many volunteered to give something back to the local community by perhaps building homes there and by just visiting phuket, sailors are helping the colony which is still trying to recover from the tsunami which hit these shores just under five years

guy. the uss ronald reagan will stay over the next few days and will be the main flagship in that ocean over the next few weeks before finally heading back to san diego. shannon? all right, we are happy to see those men and women getting a much deserved break and we thank them for their service and thank david for the report. >> shannon: coming up, fatal crashes involving cars, buses and trains are bringing new attention to the issue of distract #-d driving. do loumakers need to step in? how far should they go? must see video. a car plunges into a sinkhole in georgia and we mean plunges. we will tell you why some

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>> shannon: the obama administration wants you to put down your phone and keep your eyes on road. transportation secretary ray

lahood is expected to address action plans to address cell phone use by bus and truck drivers this week the announcement will come during a two day enforcement summit. after several high profile accidents, one of the big topics will no doubt be texting while driving. 18 states and washington, d.c. currently have laws regarding texting while driving but some safety advocates say that is not enough. kathleen is the vice president of public affairs for the american automobile association. you all know it as triple-a. show joins us live. thank you for coming in. >> thank. >> how big is the problem of texting and driving. we all assume it is young people and i have to imagine it is more widespread than that. >> we know that up to 25% of all crashes have some sort of distraction involved and we know that text messaging is just an exploding phenomenon, more than a trillion text messages were sent in this country last year, total, not

just behind the wheel and that was a dramatic increase over the year before. we believe it is a serious problem. >> an easy way to communicate but it can be dangerous if you are behind the wheel. we mentioned the laws in place. are they having an effect yet? >> the automobile club of california released research that showed in the seven months after california put their texting ban law in effect that in vehicle texting went down by 70% so that is a very, very important result. so we do believe that the laws can have a positive effect. >> overall, what would be your hope or strategy as far as seeing this expand to all 50 states? what is the hope? >> we would like to see good text messaging bans while driving in effect in 50 states ledgeiple-a is working with slateors to put the laws in place.

>> there are people that say i'm connected all the time and kids argue hey, it is the number one way we communicate for all of them. >> surprisingly, there is strong public support for banning text messaging when you are driving. as much as 96% in some of the surveys. people favor banning the laws but they are all doing it at an alarming rate. >> we have all done a few things behind the wheel that we shouldn't. along with that and cell phone use what are the things that are most dangerous. >> many things that can distract us in the car. eating, drinking, reading things in the car, children, we have to be mindful of all the things that can distract us in the car. >> shannon: a lot of states do have a blanket coverage for anything that distracts you in driving. >> we do and laws should be comprehensive because distractions can pose a risk

for all users of the roads these days. check out this scene. following the flooding in georgia, this is a car down inside a sinkhole. the driver found himself completely submerged. this happened yesterday. the police say the dangerous stretch of road was dropped off but the hazard cones were removed by some pranksters and this was the end result. believe it or not, the driver only suffered minor injuries in the accident. most republicans say they will not back any healthcare reform that plan that leads to the government takeover of healthcare. did the latest senate plan change that? we will can representative tiahrt, next.

>> shannon: the senate finance committee will get back to sorting through hundreds of proposed amendments to a healthcare reform bill on tuesday. the contentious issue of a government run healthcare option will be at the top of the list. is a public option still alive? republican congressman todd tiahrt is a member of the house appropriations committee and is joining us live. thanks for being with us today. >> great to be with you and your viewers. >> shannon: how are things

coming together in the house where the public option has been so contentious and at times has split the democratic party in two. in. >> just this past week the speaker of the house nancy pelosi said that she is going to pass healthcare legislation with a public option in it. they have 262 votes in the house. 40 blue dog40 bla 40 blue talk democrat said they wouldn't vote for it, i think she has enough to vote for a public option even though the public doesn't want it. >> shannon: how important do you think it is to show some sort of bipartisan effort? the president said they want bipartisan ideas and to get things done so the american people can see both sides of the ails support it. >> republicans have an option to the healthcare plan called hr 3400 and it is a much more

comprehensive plan that improves the current system rather than having the government take over healthcare. in each and every instance where we tried to have either through the amendment process or additional hearings the republicans have been completely shut out. every one of the amendments in the house have failed by a party line vote even though there are good ideas that address the cost centers and retain the eye built of the patients to -- the ability of the patients to choose their physicians and the physicians to choose the type of treatment they have. the snot is a different story. they -- the senate is a different story. the minority process is much more open and it is not completely on a party line vote. i think if the will of the people which is not having the government take over healthcare, i think it is more likely what is passed out of the senate will not have the public option in it but what is coming out of the house probably will have the public option in it. >> shannon: did you have any town hall meetings during the

august recess bus the pushback there seem sod strong and seemed for a time it was a game changer. do you think any momentum is left over from the town halls and will carry over to what the final product ends up being if something does pass and gets to the white house? >> the town halls were strong messages from the american people in response to the government taking over healthcare. i had another town hall meeting yesterday and public sentiment is still the same. it hasn't been so much in the news because of other events with what is going on in the u.n. with iran but public sentiment has not changed and if the democrats in the house and the senate think that the american public wants to have the government take over healthcare, i think it will be at their own peril. they do want to keep their healthcare but there is a lot of momentum inside the administration and in the house of representatives and i think with the tools the senate has, majority leader reid could use budget reconciliation and have only a simple majority not

having a vote to overcome a filibuster but a sim majority push through a public option. if that is the case there will be significant pushback in 2010 during the next elections. the american public wants to be able to choose their own physician and have their healthcare system. >> thank you very much for your time on this sunday. >> thank you, shannon, nice to be with you. philadelphia police taking time out to put on a good show. why the officers are looking more like stunt doubles than patrolmen, that's up next. if you think all batteries are the same, consider this: a tornado hits, air life denver takes off... their night-vision goggles keeping the rescue mission safe... and powering those goggles-- the only battery air life trusts: duracell.

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