put a significant chill on european tourist and international travel. joining us with our national correspondent, jennifer griffin. what can you tell us about this expected alert? >> what i was told is that they were supposed to make the announcement of the travel alert today at 4 p.m but they were waiting for u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton to sign off on it. it's expected to come possibly as early as sunday morning. it's unusual because we usually don't have travel alerts for europe and this is one step below a designation of a travel warning, which would be essentially telling u.s. citizens to avoid travel all together to particular locations. so it is short of that. it is telling americans to be vigilant when traveling to europe. i'm told that it's going to be quite a vaguely worded statement, but intel sources told me this week that the concern right now is focused on england, germany and france, among other european countries, but they've had an increased stream of threats since late summer and with the bin laden

video that was released just yesterday, the bin laden audio tape, they were concerned this mumbai-style plot could be moving into other phase. >> rick: it's interesting this comes on the heel this is past week of a foiled plot to carry out terrorist attacks in various european cities. any correlation you're hearing? >> absolutely. in fact, i think the concern is that they haven't foiled that plot. one of the reasons we learned about the plot, this multiple mumbai-style attack which would use possible hostage taking, possibly targeting western hotels, financial institutions, places westerners hang out in europe, i think they had intercepted a lot of telephone calls from some german and pakinstani nationals, as well as two britains, and they were

feeling that the picture was starting to emerge that this plot could be moving into another phase. so i believe that this is all interrelated. the intelligence community saying that the threat is credible, but they just don't have enough specificity, that's why you'll see this travel alert for europe. it's not going to name any countries per say, but i can tell you that they have their eye on england, france and germany. >> rick: as jennifer is talking, we're looking at the pictures from mumbai, india, the coordinated attacks from a couple of years ago that killed over 170 people. i wonder how helpful, jennifer, vague travel alert is going to be. people want and need concrete information. doesn't sound like they're going to get it. real quickly, bin laden, any thought as to his role in all of this? >> absolutely. intelligence officials i spoke to yesterday suggest that this may be the first time that they have actually received intelligence suggesting that bin

laden was playing an operational role in this plan that was being hatched out of pakistan's tribal areas. it was not only bin laden, but also the new al-qaeda number three that supposedly hatched this plot that american soldiers had actually been interrogating a german-pakinstani that they have under arrest in kabul at bagram air base. his interrogation provided some of the details as well. so there are overlapping ways in which they have learned about this plot. again, they wish they had more specificity to give to people, but they felt that they had to issue this alert and that's why the obama administration is still considering putting the alert out so that americans know in europe to be extremely vigilant at this time. >> rick: jennifer griffin on the phone working this story for us all day. thanks. >> thank you. >> juliet: as jennifer mentioned, the world's most wanted terrorist releasing another message. the second one in as many days. osama bin laden saying muslim

nations haven't done enough to help flood victims in pakistan. he also accused the news media of not doing a good enough job reporting on the floods. he called for the creation of a relief agency devoted to helping muslims affected by natural disasters and wars. >> rick: also in pakistan, authorities there saying that u.s. drones fired missiles, have taken out at least 16 militants today. all happened in the country's tribal region, a known hideout for the taliban and al-qaeda. julie kirtz with more from washington. >> rick, u.s. intelligence with fox, c.i.a. is significantly expanding its campaign against militants inside pakistan. shifting aerial drones and weapons from the afghan battle front to the border region. saturday's two new deadly drone attacks are believed to be part of this mission with 16 militants reportedly killed in north waziristan by u.s. missile

strikes. intelligence officials say in recent months, the u.s. military has loaned predator drones to the c.i.a. to give the agency more fire power. ramped up strikes in september are part of an overall escalation in drone attacks over the last few years. u.s. officials say the targeting of militants is precise and there have been a limited number of civilians killed. but tension between the u.s. and pakistan is extremely high this weekend following a series of cross border attacks by nato helicopter gun ships and in response friday, the pakinstani taliban claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on nato fuel trucks. pakistan responded by shutting down a key border crossing used to supply u.s. and nato troops stationed in afghanistan. rick. >> rick: julyly in washington, thanks >> juliet: thousands of people are wrapping up a rally in d.c

activists at the one nation working together event hoping to push folks to the polls this november. also call attention to the needs of working class americans. large labor unions like the afl-cio and seiu attended the rally. with groups like code pink and communist party marching. the organizers calling on lawmakers to focus on job creation and help for those without them. president obama blasting republicans today for trying to scrap plans for what he says are job creating energy technologies like wind and solar. in the weekly radio and internet address, he argues the initiatives are a must for the environment and for the economy. >> a pledge they recently released, the republican leadership is promising to scrap all the incentives for clean energy projects, including those currently underway. even with all the jobs and potential that they hold. this doesn't make sense for our economy. it doesn't make sense for americans who are looking for jobs. it doesn't make sense for our

future. >> juliet: senate minority leader mitch mcconnell taking the democrats to task for not extending the bush tax cuts. >> we've seen a governing party basically tune out the american people who elected them and aggressively advance an agenda that most americans vehemently epose. in fact, the more americans spoke out against government takeovers, government run health care, wasteful spending and debt, the more democratic lawmakers seemed to dig in. >> juliet: in the same address, he accused democrats of maxing out the nation's credit card. both parties fighting for the upper hand a month before the elections. >> rick: is the senate minority leader right? is the democratic party out of touch with ordinary americans? according to a brand-new fox news opinion dynamic poll, 51% of interested voters are putting their trust in republicans. so what can democrats do to turn this around? joining us democratic strategist and former special assistant to

president clinton richard, and david is here, a republican strategist and former director of planning for house speaker newt gingrich. thank you. richard, let's start with you. what's up with your guys? i'm wondering because for a long time we heard all the democrats call the republicans a party of no. now the republicans have come out with a pledge for america and the democrats have gone home without passing any bill on the tax cuts. who is the party of no now? >> the good news for the democrats is there is a lot of time before the election and the situation is extremely fluid. what the democrats have to do is get much more aggressive than they've been in correcting some of the misinformation that the republicans are trying to put out there. the democrats stand for rebuilding the economy, for putting america back to work, for ending tax cuts for millionaires, for taking washington back from the lobbyists. but we've gotten lost in all this rhetoric. some is silly. the conservative, people who are

conservative economically abandoned the republicans in 2006 and 2008 and now all of a sudden people have -- republicans think people have amnesia. i think we'll spend this next month reminding people where the democrats stand and the fact that the last time we had a democratic president in president clinton is when we had a balanced budget. >> rick: i'll talk about him in a minute. david, let me go to you and talk to you a little about this pledge to america that we've seen now from the republicans. a lot of people might look at that as just sort of a simple political ploy. here we are a month out before election day and there was a poll in the "wall street journal" this week that showed on a generic ballot, that support for republicans over the democrats is shrinking. 9 point lead is a three point lead. why can't the republicans seal the deal? >> well, i disagree. one, in a fox poll that showed actually people responded quite well to the pledge the by a

pretty wide margin. what you're seeing with the pledge is basically republicans saying this, look, everybody understands this stimulus package failed and going to richard's point, democrats may be for all those things, but the result of their policies, 16 consecutive months of 9% unemployment or more. we've seen the economic growth in this country plummet from last year to this year and now it's at a potential for a double dip recession. i mean, this economy is collapsing and the democratic party has no clue what to do. the only thing they have to do is point at us and say, oh, it's george bush. and so what the pledge is is to say to american, look, we understand the democrats are having some difficulty. this is what we're going to do. this is how we're going to govern and this is our plan to create jobs and grow the economy and you can contrast the two plans. center left approach versus a center right approach. >> rick: richard, let me go back to the tax cuts. i was surprised that the democrats didn't try to get a vote before heading home to campaign for the midterms to

sort of put the republican's feet to the fire and maybe force them to vote for a tax cut that wouldn't include everybody as the republicans wanted, but would include those earning less than $250,000. actually would include that portion of the income for everybody across the board just to be specific. but it would have been politically popular. we have a brand-new fox news poll that shows the people would have been in favor of that, 44% would have been in favor of keeping the tax cuts, letting them expire rather for the highest earners and 40% keeping them for everybody else. are you surprised? why didn't they have a vote on this before they went home? >> i'm not really surprised. i think the american people know exactly where these two parties stand. the republican party are for extending a broad range of tax cuts for millionaires and hedge fund managers and the democrats want to extend tax cuts for working people and for people making under $250,000. i think the american people know where the parties stand on this.

what you see is you see people want real change in washington. i think that president obama's biggest mistake of these first two years he's had in office is not really changing the -- his inability to fundamentally change the way things get done in washington. i think he will have to remind people why they voted for him and remind people the kind of change he really wants to bring to washington and explain to people how he's going to do things differently in the next two years because people really do want change and i understand why they're frustrated. but the democrats are going to have to remind people what they really stand for and that we can't go back. we haven't gone forward as far as we would like to, we can't go back to what we had before. >> but i would say that they've seen real change. they've seen this huge deficit sort of emerge. they've seen -- >> the deficit has not just emerged. it's not just emerged in 18 months. >> come on! >> no, no, no.

>> rick: david, go ahead. >> i mean, we've seen this huge change. what has it produced? going back to 16 months of 9% unemployment. but here is the other thing. the reason it didn't come up for a vote is because those tax increases are going to end up covering 50% of small business income if what president obama -- >> rick: income. >> 50% of small business income will be covered by that. and get taxed. of course you dispute it because it makes your policy look bad. why wouldn't you dispute it? but the other point is that the reason it wasn't brought up is because nancy pelosi had 40 democrats who were going to vote with republicans to pass all the tax cuts and she at a political level, decided not to give the certainty to small business, but for political reasons and for her own majority, decided to put off that vote and i have to tell you, that was a crass -- >> the people understand that the problems we have now, the economic problems we have now did not happen overnight. >> rick: richard, let me ask you, what does it say about the party in power, richard, when

the most popular member, the most popular politician is someone who has been out of power for ten years, your old boss, bill clinton? >> the most popular politician is bill clinton and he's going to remind people that when he was president when the democrats were in charge, given a little time to put things back to together -- >> rick: i'll give you the last word. >> when he left office, we had a balanced budget for the first -- >> and that was done with a republican congress. not a democratic congress. >> that was newt gingrich passing tax cuts in 97 and balancing the budget. >> rick: one of the reasons why bill clinton was able to have a popularity rating at 60%, even as he was being impeached was because he governed from the middle. david what, are the chances that after big midterm losses and we don't know how big, obama comes back and the president begins to move a little to the center and govern more like a centrist? >> i have to say, i don't see

that. he has been very harsh in terms of his approach. again, when john boehner and the house republican leadership went up to discuss at the white house, talking about what was going to happen with the stimulus, the president's response was i want. i'm not interested in discussing that with you. this is a fellow who governs from the left and that's where he's going to be coming from. bill clinton was a different person. ultimately bill clinton and -- >> rick: i love it. >> i love it. >> bill clinton was willing to pass tax cuts. >> rick: gentlemen, thank you so much. always fun to talk to you both. seriously. thanks for coming in. >> juliet: president obama is not on the ballot this year and he's probably glad. a new poll showing the president facing an uphill climb to win a second term in 2012. peter doocy is live in our new york city news room and he is following this story. hey, peter. >> president obama has been in campaign mode this week, popping up in people's backyards and in college towns across america.

but he does not face an election until 2012. but if it was today, only 39% of americans would vote to reelect him. a majority, 54%, would vote for somebody else. it's not all bad for mr. obama, though. 45% -- rather 46% think he's doing a good job listening to the american people. that's 3% less than february, but still more than the 43% who think he's doing a bad job listening to them. so more people think he's doing a good job listening to them than a bad job. however, 48% say if the president is telling them who to vote for on the campaign trail, they are less likely to vote for that candidate. 35% say they're more likely to vote for somebody obama campaigns for. 15% say it makes no difference. when it comes to those midterm elections that are less than five weeks away, 41% say that their vote will express opposition to the obama administration's policies. 34% said their vote would be in support of them. 21% said the 44th

president's policies are not a factor. a reason so many people say they wouldn't vote for obama again or voting against his policy could be that a vast majority, 86%, think we're still in a recession. just 10% of registered voters seem to agree with that national bureau of economic research who recently said the recession is over and it ended in 2009. when it comes to digging our way out of the recession, the gop has a plan, they call it their pledge to america. and of those at least somewhat familiar with that pledge, 46% have a favorable opinion of it. 35% find it unfavorable. and 9% say it's too soon to tell. >> juliet: peter doocy, live in new york, thanks. >> rick: the developer behind the plan to build a mosque near ground zero saying he has no intention of moving the site. sharif el-gamal saying flat out, i am calling the shots and adding the angry demands for him to move the mosque have been an eye opener and very sad for him

personally. the proposed mosque site is two blocks from where the twin towers fell. >> juliet: turning to the middle east peace process, senior palestinian leaders gathering today deciding on the future of peace talks with israel and their position is loud and clear. now more from jerusalem. >> it appears those peace talks that began four weeks ago are all but over. of course, like everything in the middle east, that could change. however, the palestinians are taking a much tougher line towards the concessions they want from the israelis today palestinian president abbas met with his advisory council and they voted not to return to the negotiating table until israel has stopped all construction in the west bank. earlier this week, a ten-month construction freeze ended and settlers began building again. israeli prime minister netanyahu defied huge international pressure and refused to extend the freeze in order to keep the palestinians talking. where things go from here is

dicey. despite continued pressure, the prime minister said he will not halt construction again. the palestinians have said they will negotiate -- they won't negotiate while construction is going on. on friday, the palestinians will meet with the arab league to try to get more support for their position. meantime, the u.s. envoy, george mitchell, is traveling trying to broker some type of compromise solution. so far, the united states has not been very successful. what's interesting is how this is playing out in the israeli press. you can see the headlines here and the picture of president obama, according to these reports, the united states offered a lot of assurances to the israelis if they would agree to continue the settlement freeze. obviously that didn't happen. what's unclear right now is that those assurances and concessions are still on the table and also how this is going to affect u.s.-israeli relations which went through a very, very difficult time this spring. juliet. >> juliet: leeland, thanks. >> rick: when we come back, it's like something out of a movie,

the lapd's new high-tech crime fighting tool, getting police officers a head start on the bad guys. how this could change the way police work all over the country. >> possessing marijuana is a crime in many states. we'll tell you where carrying a small amount is no more serious than getting a speeding ticket.

>> rick: here are the headlines. flood warnings in effect across parts of eastern north carolina and new england today. seven deaths being blamed on the storm system that slammed the east coast this week. scuba divers are searching the adriatic sea for two american balloonists who went missing during a race on wednesday. the race organizers say that it is unlikely the pair survived the plunge. horrifying train collision in indonesia where at least 36 people have died, dozens more are injured. one of the trains slammed into the other while it was parked in a station. >> juliet: cameras rolling when brazen thieves storm a jewelry store in south florida. three days after a break in at the same store. repairmen fixing the broken glass from the previous hit when their orders to hit the floor, guns aimed at them. the crooks getting away with an

unknown amount of pricey jewelry. >> my guys were towards the back end of the store when the man ran up to him with a gun and they cocked the gun and said get on the floor and don't move. the guys did it. they were in shock. one of the kids is a 20-year-old boy. >> juliet: he sprayed pepper spray. the get away vehicle found a short distance away. >> rick: stopping crime before it starts, not like where psychics could alert cops. but real police of today using computers to figure out where the next crime might happen. called predictive policing. it promises to give cops a head start on the bad guys. casey stegall is live in los angeles with the l.a.p.d today. explain to us what this means, predictive policing. >> good to see you. basically it's taking years and years and years of criminal data

and plugging into a computer. we're talking about when crimes occur, who commits them, and when and basically they say that with the ability to look at this, it will allow them to forecast future crimes and predict when and where they could in fact happen. does it sound too good to be true? well, experts say it's actually highly accurate because oftentimes criminals make the same mistakes over and over again. now, l.a.p.d is also working with scholars at ucla, like criminologists and psychologists and say human behavior is actually much more predictable than we think. so the idea is to nail down the routines of the criminals and stop them dead in their tracks, rick. >> rick: so what is the l.a.p.d plan to do with this information as it comes in? >> well, it's going to allow commanders to basically look at that real time data and base the staffing on those needs. in fact, they're able to flag certain areas where crimes are more like three to occur, even

right down to the building, if you can believe that. but l.a.p.d , however, is quick to point out that even though this sounds like something out of the minority report, that they are not going to be making arrests based off of the probability of what the computer tells them. they still have to have the probable cause and all of that before an arrest can be made. but l.a.p.d is testing this out. this is the second largest police department in all of america and they just received a $3 million grant from the federal government to better improve and expand this pilot program and the experts here in los angeles say that once they have it fine tuned, that this could change the way police departments all around the country, from big cities to little towns, operate in the future. rick. >> rick: casey stegall live today in los angeles, thank you so much. >> juliet: right now in california, possessing up to an ounce of marijuana is no more serious than getting a speeding ticket. governor arnold schwarzenegger signing a law on thursday making the maximum punishment for such

possession $100, a fine for $100, no jail time. but if passed, proposition 19 would make that new law irrelevant. it would completely legalize possession of up to an ounce for personal use for adults 21 and older. >> rick: breaking news at this hour, senior u.s. intelligence official saying the white house is set to issue a travel alert to americans in europe. what has sparked the advisory? we have a report coming up. >> juliet: the super rich in america have repeatedly increased their spending on fast food. almost 25%. sounds like something may be a bad sign that the wealthier are eating chicken nuggets. it may be the opposite. we'll talk about that with jonathan.

>> juliet: this is a fox news alert. we're learning more about the european travel alert the obama administration plans to issue for americans in europe. molly henneberg is live in washington. good to see you. what does an alert mean? >> it's not a travel warning, which means don't travel to a certain country. this is expected to be a travel alert, likely put out by the state department tomorrow morning, warning americans to be vigilant in western european cities, particularly in locations frequented by lots of americans because a terrorist attack could be imminent. possible targets may include

embassies, military bases, restaurants popular with westerners, hotels, banks or travel stations. beyond that, no specifics as to when and where the terrorists may be planning to strike. >> juliet: osama bin laden may be one of the guiding hands behind this plot? >> yes. intelligence sources say bin laden wants to make this strike similar to the mumbai, india strikes in 2008 where muslim extremists carried out bombings, shootings and kidnappings in multiple locations, killing 173 people. it's no coincidence and it's not by chance that bin laden has put out two new audio tapes in as many days. here is more. >> bin laden sounds like they could be coded messages in the sense he's asking for aid for pakistan for the floods, things like this. normally things he wouldn't be talking about, so very likely, or it's possible these could be coded messages to teams in europe. >> some concern that would be

attackers, pakinstanis with european passports, may have arrived in europe in mid september to await further instructions. >> juliet: molly henneberg live in washington, thank you. >> rick: police arresting the ex leader of a militant group that's claimed responsibility for yesterday's dual car bombing in central nigeria. officers taking henry oka into custody in his johannesburg home. 12 people were killed, dozens others injured in the attacks. the bomb blast disrupted a celebration of 50th anniversary of nigerian independence. france, hundreds of thousands of people have turned out all over the country today protesting proposed pension cuts and a proposal to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62. students, workers and retirees trying to pressure the french president sarkozy to drop these plans. the government officials say that the proposals are the only responsible course of action during these tough economic times.

they also insist that people need to work longer because they're living longer. >> juliet: a moment of silence before rutgers football game. they remembered tyler clementi who took his own life after learning his sex life was streamed over the internet by classmates. he jumped off a hudson river bridge. three days later, his body identified thursday. two rutgers students charged with invasion of privacy. prosecutors considering adding additional charges. >> rick: many university classrooms all over the country going high-tech. harnessing new devices that help students grasp the material with a speed that number two pencils and those old scan tron sheets can't match. elizabeth prann is live with more on this. hi, elizabeth. >> hi. that's right. classrooms with a whole lot different. when you used to bring a notebook to class, now it's something electronic, like an ipad or an electronic book or maybe a laptop.

we're noticing is that teachers now adjusting the way they teach to keep up with these changing times and these clickers are a perfect example. they look like a tv remote and students can buy them when they start the semester. 2 million students have them this fall. and as soon as they walk in class, they turn it on. it sinks up with the teacher's laptop. the results are instantly displayed on a projector. it gives professors a chance to see if students are gauging the material and it also helps those shy students in the back of the classroom to participate. take a listen as to what one professor tells us about the clicker. >> in the class like this, which is about 100 students, you can get to know what the person in the back row is thinking. >> rick, we're seeing technology also start to emerge in other parts of students' lives, like studying. some colleges launched open

study, a global on-line study hall, when you log in, you find the topic of your choice and enter that study hall. you can ask any question pertaining to the subject and everyone in that study hall gets an e-mail immediately. so you can get an answer to your question in real time. we spoke with a dean at emmery university who is a huge advocate for open study. listen to what she said. >> you do have time to take that face-to-face on-line and that's where our teen-agers are. >> rick, there are more than 5,000 students involved in open study and 129 countries. it's only been up and running for about a month and a half. as you can see, students really want those answers to their questions right away. back to you. >> rick: elizabeth from atlanta today, thanks so much. >> juliet: wealthy americans are providing a little food for thought about the current state of our economy. according to american express, fine dining is up 12% from a year ago. for those who charge at least 7 grand a month on their credit

cards. but their spending at fast food restaurants is double that amount. if the super rich are pinching their pennies, what does this mean for the rest of us? joining me is jonathan, portfolio manager for capitalist pig.com. regular on fox, i'm going -- i noticed in your producer talking points you -- you better chew that, buddy. you do seem to come to the defense of fast food places right off the bat. you're obviously a fast foody. >> fast food is good food. maybe the fried chicken notwithstanding, a lot of the chains made substantial improvements. mcdonald's, for example, they've added wraps and salad and premium cafes and that is at an all time high in stock. the rich honestly, they're just like us. they like fast food. they like a value. they like good food fast. you know what? especially during these difficult times. for over a year now, they've been putting off a lot of the

big ticket items, the travel, second homes, cruces, they've been tightening their belts like the rest of measure and maybe cheaper food is one way they've been doing it. >> juliet: some may call them cheap. but they may be on to something. when it comes to luxury items, things have improved in that department. >> i absolutely agree with you. it actually boosted -- >> juliet: don't chew with your mouth open. >> the rich have bounced back in certain ways. they've picked up some of the total discretionary spending that was cut off last year, for example, when really no business was getting done. so the rich are venturing back into those -- >> juliet: what does that mean? >> it's generally a good sign. you want to see not only the rich, of course, spending money, we want to see commerce getting done all across the land, the rich, not so rich. the worrisome sign, i think

particularly about the most wealthy, is that what they're not doing is investing. yes, they're buying chicken and chipotle, but not putting money to work in u.s. stocks. they've been taking it out of u.s. stocks and stocks like mcdonalds, which rallied, that only happened as the value of the u.s. dollar has fallen so much. so we're going for mickey d's, but not a lot of confidence in general in the american economy. >> juliet: literally i was walking on 56th and 8th in the city and there is a huge mcdonald's there. it looks like a club. it's got lounge seating. it's really, really nice. is this something that we're going to start seeing, these burger kings are going to start looking like cool restaurants? i can't even get it out

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>> i apologize unreservedly. >> you take back? >> i do. i offer a complete and utter retraction. >> rick: don't believe john cleese. >> juliet: was he apologizing to a woman? >> rick: no, a guy. that a scene from a great movie "a fish called wanda." apparently most men not so eager to apologize as he was there. researchers at university of waterloo in canada find that women are more likely to apologize in most situations than men. only not for the reasons you might think. >> juliet: joining us right now

is dr. ablow, a member of our fox news health medical a team and he's also a psychiatrist. doctor, great to see you. >> hey. >> juliet: i apologize quite frankly, as a matter of fact. and there is a reason for that apparently. >> rick: 'cause you're wrong. >> juliet: but i'm not. that's the thing. but anyway. i digress, why do women apologize more than men? >> this study is very revealing. it's an interesting set of data. basically women apologize more often because they sense that they have hurt somebody more often. they seem to have better radar as to whether someone may have taken offense at what they do. >> juliet: what you're saying is women are very empathic? >> there is good news -- that's right, good news and bad news. basically, look, men are just as likely the study showed, to apologize when they feel as though they've hurt somebody. the trouble is, they don't feel

it as much. they don't sense that injury as much. this is sort of intuitive, as women have said, i think, i don't have the female mind, but i've gotten inside a lot of them. that basically they've always said, why don't you understand the way i feel? and the answer from this study is because i just don't. >> rick: hold on a second. here is a trick for all the guys out there, dr. ablow. just say you're sorry and the women will leave you alone. as someone who is happily married for many years, i have found in certain circumstances, it's just a little easier to just say you're sorry and then move on. >> yes, but see, here is the silver lining of the study. men aren't duplicitous. they're not just glad handing anyone. and yes, you could get out of some jams by saying i'm sorry, but the trouble is, men literally don't get it. they're not sure what they're apologizing for if they fab are you indicate that response. so the way out here is for women

to say, listen, you need to understand the way i feel. you probably don't even know what i just concluded about what you just said. once you understand it, then you're going to apologize and you'll mean it. >> juliet: do you think that's true? do you believe that? i'm not calling you out, doctor, it is true. >> rick: what i have found, and i don't know why this is and if anybody does, dr. ablow knows. is that men don't always understand what they've done wrong. they know they're in trouble. they know that their partner is upset with them and even after she explains it, you still don't get it. right? >> exactly. well, yes, except i think in loving situations, and even in friendships, that when somebody really says to you, listen, i'm going to go the extra mile. normally i would stew over this. but you need to understand, when you fed that food to the dog that i made and you didn't even

taste it first, what it meant to me is that you don't appreciate that like i really wanted you to like it and your first thought was will the dog eat it? and you were all concerned that the dog wouldn't touch it. this happens in my house, by the way. >> juliet: when you do that, when women use that strategy, don't men also typically say, you're just being emotional? >> rick: not me. >> that's where men need to change, 'cause men need to key in their radar and say, wait a second. i'm not allowed two passes, two get out of jail free cards. okay, i gave the food to the dog. but now i'm being asked like the -- listen to me. look me in the eyes. do you understand why that hurt me? that's the point at which men have to say, wait a second. i better access what my wife, my girlfriend, my female friend is feeling. >> rick: we're sorry, but we have to leave it there.

always good to talk to you. thanks so much. >> juliet: you need to understand how sorry we are. >> no, i feel badly. i feel badly you have to go. >> rick: so that you don't get so emotional, why don't you read that. >> juliet: this is a serious one. we're learning the u.s. state department is preparing to issue an alert to americans traveling in europe. not a warning, an alert. what is behind the advisory? we'll talk about it. where is it going to go into effect? all that coming up next.

>> rick: our top stories, sources saying the obama administration may be getting set to issue a travel warning for u.s. citizens in europe. this is a move prompted by new threats from al-qaeda as new audio tapes supposedly from osama bin laden say muslim nations need to do more for victims of the flooding in

pakistan that happened recently. he also accused the media of not effectively reporting on the tragedy. in the capitol, gathering at the weekend memorial for the one nation working together rally. a coalition of progressive and civil rights groups showing support for democrats ahead of the midterm elections. >> juliet: there will be no president mccain sitting in the white house one day. the arizona senator saying he will not run for president again. announcing his intentions at a rally for veterans in new hampshire. he won the republican primaries in state in 2000 and 2008 and at the rally, he promised to do everything he could to make sure new hampshire remains the first primary state in presidential election years. senator mccain will be 76 years old in 2012. >> rick: former white house chief of staff rahm emanuel getting set to announce he's running for mayor of chicago. but what must he do to win in the windy city? does he even have a chance? mike tobin breaks it all down

for us. >> i look forward to seeing you in chicago. [ applause ] >> with a sendoff few chiefs of staff and no other potential mayoral candidates enjoyed, rahm emanuel set off for his dream to be mayor of chicago. >> i don't think there will be a coronation of anybody and i don't think there will be any coronation of rahm emanuel. >> the few polls done put him around fourth or fifth place out of nearly two dozen potential candidates in a city where he does not have the same kind of name recognition he does inside the beltway. >> rahm emanuel, does he currently work for us or not? >> chicago voters are concerned less with the celebrity in the candidate and more with their local problems. >> government going to raise tacks constantly. >> no candidate will excel without the traditionally powerful and active black voting

bloc. >> the african-american community coalesces around one candidate, that candidate could be and probably will be successful. >> emmanuel cannot count on his former boss to woo the black voters in an election which is probably too local to merit presidential support. >> there is very little upside and a lot of down side to that and i'm certain it's probably inappropriate. >> today he went after black voters himself n my mother marched with martin luther king because she believed that none of us is truly free until all of us are. >> emmanuel has maintain add house in chicago, although a tenant reportedly refuses to allow him to move back in. and he kept his voter registration local. but expect the chicago residency to be an issue. the advantage he has so far is that he's crowding all the other potential candidates out of the headlines. eventually he needs to determine which issues will win him votes and sell those on the streets of chicago. that process hits its stride on monday. in chicago, mike tobin, fox

news. >> juliet: thank you. drawing attention to breast cancer in a very intimate way. hundreds of bras strung together on a line connected to a sailboat and flying across lake washington. a seattle radio station organizing it to remind people that october is breast cancer awareness month. the bras are donated and will be given to a women's shelter at the ywca. >> rick: a good way to draw attention to a story. that does it for us. >> juliet: she said he's the one that gets emotional. >> rick: sometimes i do. thanks. the fox report with julie banderas starts right now. [ man ] then try this. new and improved freestyle lite® blood glucose test strip. sure, but it's not gonna- [ bp ] wow. [ man ] yeah, that's the patented eestyle zipwik™ design. [ woman ] did it just -- ta the blood? target the blood? yeah, it drew it right in. the test starts fast. you need just a third the blood of onetouch®. that is different. so freestyle lite test strips make testing...

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