flashing lines, loud bang, all the snakes took off and the village disappeared. >> that must be it. we'll see what the wacky world news. >> that's right. >> thank you as always. see you next sunday. that does it for us. i'm eric shawn. >> i'm jamie colby. great to have you with us today. the news continues for you from washington. from washington. have a great day, everybody. captioned by closed captioning services, inc >> shannon: i'm shannon bream, live in washington, where it's move-in day. 85 freshmen republicans and nine democrats are arriving today for a crash course on congress. already, on day one, potential power struggle between the tea party and the g.o.p. establishment. finally free, british couple held hostage by somali pirates for more than a year is released. we'll have a live report from kenya. scandal, growing uproar from travelers who claim the full body scanners, security scanners are showing too much. what is the alternative? all that and senator elect rand paul joins us live on

america's news headquarters. ♪ ♪ >> shannon: it is the prize for which mid-term election was waged. control of congress. the house is about to change to republican hands. but newly elected republicans are arriving in washington in the middle of a bit of a political firestorm. malini wilkes is staking out the capitol hill club where a lot of that is happening. hey, malini. >> reporter: good afternoon, shannon. there is a battle going on for time and attention of the incoming lawmakers whose tidal wave of the 85 new house republicans. freshmen orientation started today. week of events. everybody wants to lay claim to the guys and that's where the controversy began brewing yesterday. most of the house republicans, incoming guys are coming to reception here in an hour at the capitol hill club. now, the controversy is the tea party patriots scheduled a competing event and they got

confrontational in an e-mail to supporters yesterday pressuring members to attend their event. the memo said, "we need you to call and e-mail the incoming congressmen and tell them you want them to attend your tea party patriots event or would you rather they attend an indoctrination organized by d.c. insiders and lobbyists, members of the ruling class? the tea party patriots put out the private e-mail and phone number of all the incoming republican freshmen and some of them got bombarded with calls. later the tea party patriots put out another memo apologizing for doing that. also backing off their criticism of this event today. it's unclear now whether the tea party patriots are actually going to hold an event at all. meantime, freshmen republicans and democrats began arriving at a senate hotel today. they are getting an official orientation from the house that includes parliamentary

procedure, hiring staff, ethics, getting the new congressional blackberries. it's been kind of overwhelming for some of them who have never been to washington. here is republican bill johnson of ohio. >> i'm trying to learn. i've never been a congressman before. this is my first time in to politics. so just like again during my military days, you know, when you show up at a new base you go through a period of trying to find your way around. so, right now i'm just trying to find my way around and make sure i do the right things for the people i was sent here by. >> johnson said the whole controversy with the tea party hasn't even really registered with him because he has just got so much going on. shannon? >> thank you very much. one of the new g.o.p. faces arriving here in washington has been kind enough to stop by in the middle of the events. arizona congressmen elect david schweikart joins us now. thank you for joining us. >> wonderful to get out of some of the classes.

>> shannon: that aside, we know some of this are helpful for you. but they're power struggles, some of the groups saying come to our event, come to our events. a lot of folks worry about the freshmen getting here to washington and the establishment and business as usual. you say you are here to shake that up. >> you meet many of the freshmen and they are fire-breathers. i don't think anyone has to worry. a lot of the public understands that four or five activities are going on at once. you do your best to fit in things th things that benefit. >> shannon: how do you plan to change washington instead of letting it change you? >> well, one of the fun things and my wife is commenting on this, how many brand new best friends we've had since election day. a lot of that is i believe if you also accept the reform agenda for yourself i have been the county treasurer in

maricopa county that we have a rule, we accept no gifts. when we got married, we accepted no wedding gifts. you have to set some personal standards. like i also believe in term limits. if you do those things and you make it clear you're not going to jump in and play the party game. when i say "party" i mean the cocktail circuit game you want the social relationships with your fellow members. but you don't want it with the lobbyists. >> shannon: talk about term limits. you are not the only one talking about this. do you think it should be codified law? what would you like to see happen? >> yeah, i do. the reason for term limits in my view, it's not a great idea. but it's an even worse idea allowing it to be the way it is. think about the country. we have a handful here of the swing seats, that change all the time. you have certain seats that are so safe that the members who are in those start to accumulate power, more power, more power.

you end up with an imbalance. >> shannon: do you think others on capitol hill would be willing to go along with you if you try to make it formally part of the law? >> i hope. so for me, it's much more than just term limits. it's a whole series of reforms. congressmen or the staff, or legislative staff should be allowed to leave congress and become lobbyist? or should there be a few years you have to take off? or gift ban that's absolute? there are things if you package them together could make it congress doesn't see itself as a special, you know, individual, different than what you and i as individuals get. >> shannon: right. congressman-elect, we hope you will come back often. we'll stay in touch with you. >> thank you. >> shannon: your reform ideas and see how they're going as you make your way in washington. >> it's a joy to be here.

>> shannon: thank you for stopping by. after ten days away from washington, president obama is headed back to the white house. his overseas trip included stops in india, indonesia and japan focus on economic issues. just before leaving japan, the president visited the 44-foot high bronze great buddha statue, something he did when he was six years old as a young boy. his daughters malia and sasha -- hope we're not giving anything away here -- will get a souvenir. he bought them bracelets there. the president is expected to land in washington later this afternoon. could president obama be forced to compromise on the bush era tax cuts set to expire at the end of the year? today on "fox news sunday," david axelrod said extenting the cuts is a possibility. does it conflict with what the president has been saying? julie kirtz is following it all and has the latest. >> reporter: with time running out on the bush era tax cuts this is number one issue the lame duck congress will tackle. obama meets with the leaders this coming week to start the process. top white house advisor david

axelrod today refusing to completely reveal the president's hand, walking back from reports that the president was ready to cave. axelrod insisting the white house hasn't changed its position against a permanent extension of cuts for upper income taxpayers. but he refused to rule out a temporary one. >> i am not going to negotiate with you on the program and i've heard different ideas surface publicly be various members of congress and others. we're looking forward to getting together with the leaders of both parties if congress. >> if they don't hammer out a deal, the bottom rate will jump to 15%. and top rate will jump to 39.6%. today, jim demint sounding ready to deal on two or three

year temporary extension of cuts on wealthy americans. >> if that is all we can get from the president, and he is the president. i hope he doesn't come back the w the idea they will raise taxes on the 750,000 small businesses as he's been talking about. >> it sounds like a deal may work out with either side willing to tell americans in the economy their paychecks are sliced because taxes are going up next year. shannon? >> shannon: julie kirtz, thank you very much. you can catch chris wallace's full interview with david axelrod on today's fox news sunday. exclusive interview with the south carolina senator and tea party supporters jim demint. it's right after our show. on fox news channel. joe miller seems to be losing steam in the battle with fellow republican lisa murkowski in the state of the senate race. miller visited a voting center in juneau where he said he was

counting on military ballots to push him ahead of murkowski. he said he won't go forward with a lawsuit and appears close to conceding the race. so far, alaska said 98,000 write-in ballots with murkowski with undefeated lead with 90% of the write-in vote. arizona voters narrowly approved a measure to legalize medical marijuana and it will allow patients with the theize like cancer, h.i.v./aids, hepatitis "c" and other or chronic or debilitating diseases to have guidelines to buy 2-1/2 ounces of marijuana ever two weeks. they can grow marijuana plants. that decision makes arizona the 15th state to approve that kind of law. the first major storm hit the upper midwest causing 400 car accidents in minnesota and dumping a foot of snow in part of the twin cities. meteorologist maria molina is at the fox weather center. >> we received snow out there

and guess what? we're not done yet. we are still locking additional snowshowers moving through the area. look at one two three more inches of snow across minnesota an northern wisconsin. the worst is out of there. that's good for the folks with the car accidents and we expect the conditions to improve as it continues to move northward. we have rain across west virginia and eastern kentucky and tennessee. that will also be ens chance ed in the next day or so as we will see much needed rain across alabama and mississippi. currently we have winter storm advisory still in effect for parts of minnesota and wisconsin. >> shannon: thank you very much. >> you got it. a british couple is finally free after being held captive for a year by somali

pirates. paul and rachel chandler were taken hostage in october of 2009. they were kidnapped from their yacht near east africa. efforts to free the couple failed until now. right now, the cup is in mogadishu and will head to kenya later today. rachel says, "we're happy to be alive." sky news reporter is live in nairobi. it's an amazing story and we will check in with emma later in the show. ohio police are set to release new information this afternoon about the disappearance of a woman, her two children and a friend. investigators now say they found unusual blood in the woman's home but they are not saying to whom it belongs. police have been searching on the ground and with the helicopters trying to find the family, 32-year-old tina her children and a friend have been missing since thursday. they don't have suspect or person of interest and they don't have the evidence that they were abducted. how much are you willing to sacrifice in the name of security? travelers are finding eye-opening procedures at the

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>> shannon: 388 days after they were kidnapped by somali pirates, a british couple is now free. we'll check in with emma hurts, live in nairobi, kenya. the couple is due there later today. emma, what can you tell us? >> reporter: well, the couple were news all around somalia in their time in captivity. they were captured by pirates on holiday. they were sailing around the world. they ventured out toward tanzania and they were taken by the pirates. their yacht was ransacked. they were taken at gun point to somalia, which is where they were ever since when they were held out in the africa bush. very little water. very little food. no medical attention. also, they were constantly threatened. now the pirates initially demanded demanded $7 million from their family. this was just an ordinary family in the united kingdom. they didn't have that kind of cash. eventually, they scraped

together what is reported to be $800,000. that was handed over a few days before their release. they're finally out of somalia and they arrived in nairobi a short time ago where they're now the british residence. we are hearing the stories they went through, describing the captors as criminal cans and thugs and said they were badly treat and they say they are so relieved to be free. they are free and heading back to the united kingdom there are 400 still trapped. it's a lucrative trade now. despite all the attempt to pra to the water -- patrol waters they're still making money and pirates hijack vessels almost every day. back to you. >> shannon: so dangerous. thank you. we're glad this story appears

to have a happy ending. thank you. >> disturbing number of veterans coming home from the war in iraq and afghanistan aren't just having problems finding jobs too. many of them don't even have a place to live. new survey finds the number of homeless vet is on the rise. jennifer griffin tells us about a woman whose life took a bad turn and trying to get back on track. >> when she joined the army after high school, the private nichols never expected to end up homeless. that wasn't the be all you can be she signed up for. >> i didn't hit rock bottom until this past march 2010. >> veteran of operation desert storm trained to detect biological and chemical weapons. living on the street suffering from post traumatic stress disorder or ptsd, the result of sexual trauma at the hands of a superior officer years before. now she has a bed at mcvet, a v.a. funded homeless shelter in baltimore that is structured like the military itself by platoon.

>> i was diagnosed with ptsd. i wasn transferred to -- [ inaudible ] my homelessness was an as a result of the substance abuse. it lost everything. i had jobs but couldn't keep them. my life was unimaginable. >> of those homeless at mcvet, 11 are women. eight arrives last month and one with a 9-year-old daughter. nicoles is one of a rising of number of female homeless veterans from the current war. an issue that got attention of chief. >> there are 100,000 veterans on the streets and we know 4,000 from the current wars. we learn we are creating homeless veterans much faster,

sooner than from vietnam. >> of the 4,000 homeless vet from iraq and afghanistan, 10% are women. but it's not just homelessness that has admiral mullen concerned. >> suicide. we're really struggling trying to understand why the rate is what it is. >> in fact, in one weekend in september alone, there were five suicides on two different army bases. private nichols heard of ptsd but didn't think it applied to her, like 95% of those who end up at mcvet, she was self-medicating, abusing drug and alcohol. >> it was hard to live. i was constantly depressed. anxiety was out of control. i was like on a roller coaster of emotions. >> but the federally funded mcvet gave her a second chance. she works as a security guard to earn money and takes classes with the other homeless vets, including self-defense. after fighting for her country, she's now fighting to

get her life back. in baltimore, jennifer griffin, fox news. >> shannon: country music star is helping spread holiday cheer to the troops overseas and it's easy for you to help, too. we tell you how up next. traveling abroad is a hassle for some fliers. the controversy over new airport security measures and your privacy next.

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agenda fits in now. more than a year after being captured by pirates off the coast of somalia, paul and rachel chandler have been freed. they were released this morning and just arrived in kenya. the couple family and friend paid a randsome of $1 million. the u.s. military released a new clip from a taliban training video that shows a taliban leader trying to solicit aid from the gulf in southwest asia, training and recruiting videos are not unusual for the taliban, this video has a higher production quality and teaching new recruiting tactics. new york congressman charles rangel ethics trial will get underway tomorrow morning. rangel is facing 13 counts of violating house rules ranging from improper use of congressional stationary to a failure to report taxes on several properties in his name. back to you. >> shannon: busy week in washington. thank you, julie.

new full body scanning machines have people worried about radiation exposure, invasion of their privacy and worry that the images of their body may be stored. alternative is a pat-down by the t.s.a. agent is not that enticing either. we have the former head of security for an airport in tel aviv, israel, airport many consider one of the most secure in the world and he's now an aviation security expert and consultant. welcome. great to have you today. fuss from the scanners, coming from the average travelers and pilot and staff, too. are you surprised? where should the line be drawn between privacy and security? >> i'm not surprised. we are getting closer and closer and maybe we're at the point where the public says maybe there is a different and better way of doing airport security. as far as the existing policy is concerned that you have to

identify presence of forbidden items and by doing that, you are secure to fly, yes, the body scanning and the pat-down procedures are the natural next step. there may be other next steps in the future that the public may not like either. the question we should ask ourselves is how far are we willing to go? is there a better way to do it? maybe we need to focus on the groups of passengers, or individuals that we clearly identify the level of risk about the average. then have the procedures that we implement comparable to the risk rather than in a uniformed way across the board, which keeps rising more and more. >> shannon: when you say identify certain groups that are more of a risk, how do we do that without offending people? age, background, being on a

no-fly list? what do we need to look for? >> there is a list of criteria that has been developed through the years. israel and other places around the world. of course, everybody is raising an eyebrow and say they can see, suggesting that we will adopt racial profiling. i say no, not necessarily. race and ethnicity can be taken out of the equation. there is a lot that remains there. if you look at the printers going out of yemen, there were a couple things that should have drawn attention. printer going from yemen to the united states doesn't make sense. it doesn't make sense that the address of a synagogue in chicago. just the information we get, whether it's on passengers, or through the booking process or through other information that we have about them, or at the

end of the day talking to some people, not necessarily all, a short interview at the airport would certainly put us in a much better place compared to today. >> shannon: i want to quickly ask about the case a couple weeks ago with the young man who left hong kong, disguised as -- a chinese man, disguised as older caucasian man who made it through security and got on the plane. i believe we have the pictures. when you see those, i think for a lot of people they think how did that happen? how can we stop that from happening again? >> first, it's a good indication of the weakness of the system. there is no question that something that should not have taken place and the system should have picked up the young guy. and his disguise. the focus is not on the person but on the things he carries, then obviously nobody paid attention to the fact that probably his passport indicated a younger age than his image. now --[ inaudible ]

i'm sure that there were other, a lot of other items that didn't fit. short conversation with the guy would have exposed it on the spot. we are not paying attention, neither in hong kong and not here, too. >> shannon: thank you. >> you're most welcome. >> shannon: new online museum givous a chance to learn more about the branch of military from the soldiers and soldiers themselves. elizabeth prann is live to tell us about the unique project storing the live and story -- project restoring the lives and story of the veteran. how did it start? >> it started in 2002. every 90 seconds, a world war ii veteran passes away, which is why tom deady launched this in 2002. non-profit. he wants to preserve the combat stories so they don't get buried along with the zest men and women. more than 400,000 men and women passed away during world

war ii. the story from surviving stories not only tell about their service but the legacy of those whose future and lives were lost serving our country. take a listen. >> they can hear from the veteran themselves. what it's like to be there. why it was so cold. you know, frightening it was to hear the rumble of the german tanks. >> 450 testimonials on the website now. but tom hopes to have more than 1,000 on the website before the end of the year. shannon? >> elizabeth, are there accounts from different veterans of other wars and conflicts as well? >> it started just preserving world war ii but we talk to family members and they don't foe what the other family members did in the korean or the gulf war, vietnam. he is pushing to get stories from every generation because he says that preserving the memories is really important for the younger generations. take a listen. >> one of those might have been able to cure cancer.

or one of those might have done fabulous things that never happen, because we killed them off in a war. >> that was bob who enlisted and telling the story. >> shannon: hero. thank you. >> thanks. >> shannon: the u.s. postal service is not immune to a tough economy. it ended the 2010 fiscal year, which wrapped up september 30 with double losses in 2009. net losses for 2010 were $8.5 billion. one reason, people are sending less mail. decline is evident in the first class mail generally had been the profitable product offered by the postal service. each year the red cross does the part to support the troops and collect cards for service members signed by americans all over the country.

>> letters are magical. texts are good for a second. e-mails are pretty good. letters and handwriting says so much. >> shannon: amy grant is helping spread the word about the holiday mail for heroes program. part of the veterans day event that took place after the country music awards. despite being warn out from the award show grant told us she wouldn't dream of missing a chance to support the cause. >> i love this program. the most accessible hands on way to express gratitude for anyone in the military. a great time of year to think about someone else and express thankfulness.

i have heard so many testimonials from people overseas that letters mean the most. >> shannon: all right. fox news alert. we have been covering the case for days. missing ohio woman, two children and a friend of theirs as well have been missing. we are getting word now just crossing the wires that a 13-year-old girl among the missing, with three other people was found safe this morning. her name is sarah maynord, she is 13 years old and last seen on wednesday. the girl was found safe inside a home in mount vernon, ohio. no word why she was found alone. there is a press conference coming up with the sheriff. we'll be sure to get more information as soon as we have that. the 13-year-old girl has been found on her way to the hospital for evaluation. up next, the internet and

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>> shannon: this is a fox news alert. update on the case of four missing neem ohio. you are looking at 13-year-old sarah maynard. we're told there is a report that she has been found safe and taken to the hospital for evaluation in mount vernon, ohio. he remember last thursday, her mother, brother and female friend went missing but we're told sarah has been found safe. we're also told that one person has been taken into custody. there are many more questions than answers at this point but we will keep you updated as we learn more. press conference from the sheriff in the area coming up later. the proliferation of social media outlet like twitter, youtube and facebook has had impact on the political process from fundraising and organization and everything in

between. if you're running for office and not on the web, you're barely in the game. joining us now are two political bloggers. amanda, senior reporter for huffington post and john ward, white house from the "daily caller." welcome to you both. >> thank you for having me. >> thank you. >> shannon: amanda, start with you. how crucial is it? a few years ago no candidate would have thought about it. do you have to have it to be in the game? >> you absolutely have to take advantage of the knew media if you are a candidate running for political office. 61% of americans now get their news from the internet. that's more than newspapers and radio. we can see the power the new media has. sarah palin, she is not in political office, not running for anything, but she put something up on facebook or twitter and suddenly the entire country talks about it and the entire country knows. you can raise a lot of money online. candidates need to take advantage of that. >> shannon: how careful do they need to be? a lot of us think back to video captured of george allen

when he was running and all of that. people can whip out a cell camera, or phone at event and change your political future. >> yeah. i think that plays a role the further down the chain you go in terms of the level of star quality. somebody like sarah palin or president or member of congress is going to be on their toes. and scripted anytime they're in public. it's when you get maybe to the level of a member of congress or state representative that i think that there is more of a chance of mukaka moment because they're not used to having the microscope on them all the time. >> shannon: the president has been so good at this. he used media to announce the vice presidential selection with vice president joe biden. they have tried to be ahead of the curve on this. great for organizing and fundraising as well. is the g.o.p. catching up at all? >> republicans definitely have tried to take advantage. they are good on twitter. they are able to get their

supporters on the same message, get news out through twitter. we have seen them able to use it for fundraising. rand paul started a famous money bomb where he tell his supporters donate a lot of money in this amount of time. it's small dollar donations. to republicans are trying to step up. i think they still need to work on taking advantage of new media in terms of getting their message out. i think democrats have been able to do that a bit stronger, but republicans are starting to catch up. >> shannon: you really have tro tweet to win? are those people reading your sweets really going to the -- tweets going to ballot box on election day? >> it's not a question of whether you have to do this or have to do that. i think it's the impact of -- excuse me -- speaking only through that medium and trying to go around the press. here is what i'll do. i'll compare the president and sarah palin. the white house has had some change because they used the social media to go around the press but they've been held accountable and press said you can't just do that. you have to speak to us and through us.

sarah palin is not up for office, she is not running yet, it will be interesting to see how she kind of deals with that tension and that pressure if she decides to run for president. >> shannon: all right. ignore new media at your own peril. amanda, john, thank you both. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> shannon: new documentary is reigniting the debate over global warming and taking on al gore's "an inconvenient truth." we're going to hear from the film-maker who says we're brainwashing and scaring kids to thinking climate change is the greatest threat to mankind. >> we're going to melt. >> the trees will die. >> countries will be under water. >> scared that it's going to happen quite soon. [ male announcer ] ever have morning pain slow you down? introducing bayer am, an extra strength pain reliever with alertness aid to fight fatigue. so get up and get goin'! with new bayer am. the morning pain reliever.

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>> shannon: this is a fox news alert. two breaking news stories to tell you about. we're getting word that three football players from southern miss has been injured in a shooting at a hattiesburg, mississippi, nightclub. a fight reportedly broke out, stumbled outside. there was gunfire. the players, we don't have their names, at the hospital and we're told they're in critical condition. university president martha sanders is expected to speak to the media this afternoon and we'll of course bring you developments as soon as we get

them. the other breaking story, 13-year-old girl missing from ohio has been found safe. sarah maynard has been found after going missing with her mother, brother and friend. they were last seen wednesday. she was found today in a home in mount vernon, ohio and we're told she has been taken to the hospital there and community for evaluation. and also that one person is now in custody in connection with the case. we don't know about the three others who are missing. but sara is safe. new documentary is taking hit at al gore's "an inconvenient truth." "cool it" and the filmmaker appeared on "fox and friends" this morning. >> if the ice is melting and the coastal cities will the demolished by flooding soon, shouldn't we be scared? >> first, coastal cities are not going to be flooded. we're liking to see a sea level rise of one foot in the

coming century, not 20 feet from al gore's film. it's a problem but not the catastrophe it was sold to be. also we need to find a smarter way forward. listen, we have for 20 years saying oh, let's promise grand carbon cuts and not doing them. we are saying there is a smarter way forward. i asked some of the top climate economists, nobel laureates what is a smart way forward? it's about getting technology to be much cheaper. solar panels cost ten times more than foss sul fuel so a few well-meaning westerners will put them up. but we will only get everyone else to do so if they're cheaper than fossil fuels. >> critics long lampooned al gore and the stance on global warming that it is manmade and whether or not the science is in on that. what is this film's stance on the manmade global warming? >> if you ask skeptical scientists, more co2 means higher temperatures. so global warming in a basic

sense is real. but the scary predictions that you often hear and the one you also talk about, you know, the idea that we are seeing melting icebergs and we get a sense of we're all doomed is simply wrong. it's not just wrong because it scares our kids witless. we talked to the british kids that seriously believe their future may become, you know, may end before they get to adulthood. that's just terrible. it also makes us make bad decisions because if we're scared, we don't make smart decisions. >> shannon: the newest members of the house and senate are coming to house and washington today. we sit down with a couple of them. coming up, senator elect rand paul talks to us live about his views on earmarks and whether the tea party will fit in on capitol hill.

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politics which included working during the 1988 presidential campaign. >> he is willing to challenge conventional wisdom. >> reporter: with iran and national security threats looming a florida congressman says his lack of experience with the military makes him unqualified to serve. >> the american people should realize that tom donilon is the worst choice to be national security advisor and he should decline the appointment. >> reporter: the former regan chief of staff who worked closely with donilon on a project at the brookings institution disagrees with the criticism. >> for every foreign policy decision there is a domestic overlay. for every domestic decision there are usually foreign policy consequences and i think tom understands very much that vital intersection. >> reporter: donilon served in the clinton administration under secretary of state warren christopher. he has worked for mr. obama

since the campaign and one critic says he might be too much of an insider. >> there is a problem and the problem is that tom donilon thinks a lot like the president. one of the things you have to worry about is the group thing. >> dukakis says tom donilon's skill is working with republicans. >> let's hope that they can in fact bring republicans into the process and that they in turn are prepared to listen and to work to try to develop consensus because particularly national security issues you need that badly. >> one issue on the horizon is next summer's planned transition in afghanistan when senate republicans will likely be asking donilon and the white house for more time to finish the mission. at the white house, mike emanuel, fox news. >> shannon: the dramatic story of a british couple held captive for more than a year by

somali pirates appears to have come to a happy conclusion. i'm shannon bream. we begin this hour with breaking news an update on a family missing out of ohio. one of the four people that was missing the 13-year-old daughter has been found safe. sarah maynard along with her mother, brother and a friend of her mother's were last seen on wednesday. sarah was found today inside a home in mount vernon, ohio. she has been taken to knox community hospital for evaluation. one person is in custody in connection with the case. there will be a press conference in just a bit and peter doosey will bring us an update in a couple of minutes. new video just released from afghanistan. conor powell is live with more on the story. hello. >> reporter: u.s. and nato commanders have been saying for

some time that after -- >> shannon: all right, a little bit of technical difficulty halfway around the world. we will get back shortly. another story. we are getting word that three football players from southern miss have been seriously injured in a shooting at a hattiesburg nightclub. a fight broke out and led to gun fire in the parking lot. the players are in forest general hospital and in critical condition. we don't know which players but the university president is expected to speak to the media this afternoon and we will bring you new developments on the case as soon as we get them. less than two weeks after the victories, newly elected members of congress are coming to washington today to learn the ropes. but there is already a battle over loyalty brewing between some republicans and members of the tea party. malini wilkess is live outside the club where republican

members are gathering. >> reporter: it has been a tug of war over the 85 incoming republican freshmen who are going to wield big influence when the new congress begins. first of all, all house freshmen, republicans and democrats began arriving today for a week long freshman orientation session at a hotel in washington. they will learn about parliamentary procedure and have security briefings and ethics briefings and getting their congressional blackberries. everybody wants a piece of these guys and that is what some of the controversy is about. the claremont institute is sponsoring the event at the capitol hill club along with the group of the incoming republican freshmen but the tea party patriots scheduled a competing event. they sent a memo boldly to members saying don't let them meaning the establishment in washington steal our members of congress. the memo says d.c. insiders the rnc and lobbyists are already

trying to push the tea party aside and coopt the incoming congress american. later in the day the tea party backed off their criticism of this event. we got response from some of the republican members today. first we spoke to bill johnson of ohio and he says the whole controversy really hasn't registered with him. >> to be honest with you, i didn't pay a whole lot of attention to the controversy. we have got overlapping events. we have got a lot of demands on our time. i'm going to try to be in as much of everything as i can because we have got an awful lot to learn. >> we also spoke to christy lynn nome of south dakota and here is what she had to say. >> i made it a priority to make sure that i can meet as many people as possible. as many events asci as i can go i willle stop by. that is the goal of orientation week is find out what the priorities are and what

information you can get from them. >> reporter: we caught up with jamie hererra and she said she read about the controversy more than she felt it. >> shannon: reporting from our senior capitol hill reporter who said the new members of congress are trying hard to get to the competing orientation events. chad knows capitol hill better than any one else around here. what is the latest, chad? >> i'm at the regan building in downtown washington where two of the other events are going on. the tea party patriots having an event as well as the constitutional congress and they will hear from john shaddick and tom colburn and jim demint. i talked to the republican congressman elect from colorado and he says all of the tug and war back and worth doesn't matter. he says we share most of the same values and i will try to attend all three.

you have a lot of members who will attend all three events. at capitol hill and the two events down here at the ronald reagan building. >> so, any sense that there are folks who think that there is more of this being made publicly for our benefit and for the audience out here than is being felt internally as they seem to suggest? >> i think that is one thing. they want to meet with as many people as possible and go to see as many people as possible. it is really about meeting the others in the freshmen class. this is kind of like freshmen moving in day in college minus the milk crates and moving into the dormitories and things. everybody is trying to meet everybody and figure out what makes the other one tick and the one thing if there is nothing else that they learn from this is that all of these competing interests, members of congress keep crazy schedules where they often have to be three and four events at once and as one member of congress told me legendarily one time. he said we don't do a lot of capitol hill, we do it all at

once. that is what is happening with the three events unfolding nearly simultaneously. >> and soon find out about the very important office assignments as well. >> absolutely. that comes friday. there is an office lottery where they draw numbers and the one who gets the best number gets to choose the best office. kind of works like the nfl draft. you are on the clock and the members sort of do their homework. they have floor plans of the capitol office buildings and go around and say we want this office, it has bigger real estate or closer to my committee. depends if you want a tight end or a safety. you choose the office that you want. whoe are couple of members who will get to move in early. tom reid of new york and marlin of indiana those seats have been vacant and they will take the offices early and be sworn in tuesday. >> shannon: thank you very much. always great to talk with you. >> like wise. >> shannon: someone else here for orientation. we will talk to tea party

backed senator elect rand paul. we will talk ear marks and term limits and his plans for a tea party caucus in just one minute. first we want to check in on the top story about the family that went missing in ohio. the 13-year-old daughter one of the four has now been found safe. peter is following the latest developments from new york. hi, peter. >> reporter: the 13-year-old girl who was among the missing members of that ohio family has just been found safe and according to local reports one person is in custody and that same report says that neighbors are saying police have taken a body bag out of that family home. we don't have a lot of details yet. we are hoping for more at a news conference this afternoon. what we do know is that sarah maynard has been missing since thursday. while she has been recovered safe and sound in a mount vernon home, her mom and her 11-year-old brother and their friend stephanie spring remain

missing. they were reported missing tina'sy when one of tee maher managers stopped by when she didn't show up for work. there was blood inside the house. police have been searching for the family since. this morning one of the missing has been recovered. we don't know if what she has told police or if she has any idea about the where abouts of her mom, friend and brother. we will bring any information as soon as we know more. >> shannon: thank you very much. we'll check back for updates. white house senior advisor david axelrod said extending tax breaks is a possibility. julie kirtz is following it and has the latest. >> it sounds like how far the white house is willing to go is still a big question. axel rod refusing to completely reveal the president's hand.

walking back from reports last week that the president was ready to cave, axelrod insisting the white house hasn't changed its position against a permanent change for cuts but he refused to rule out a temporary one. >> he is eager to sit down and talk about where we go from here but the important thing is that we get something done in the next few weeks so that on january 1 people wake up with security that their taxes are not going to go up. >> and republicans making clear the compromise they want includes at least a temporary extension of the tax cuts for the rich. today a key tea party backer senator jim demint, republicans sounding ready to deal on a two or three year extension. extension. >> if that is all we could get out of the president and he is the president so we will work with him on that. i hope he doesn't come back with the idea that we are going to raise taxes on 750,000 small businesses as he has been talking about.

i think if he can work on our side of the ledger i think we might can work together. >> well, if they don't and the tax cuts are not extended for the upper income americans the rate will jump to 39.6% from 35%. president and congressional leaders said to me -- are said to meet next week on this. should be interesting. >> shannon: thank you very much. catch the full interview on "fox news sunday" plus an exclusive interview with jim demint. that is right after our show at 2:00 eastern right here on the fox news channel. he hasn't started his first day in the senate yesterday. already senator elect rand paul is endorsing a plan that could shake up, washington. senator elect paul joins us live to talk about that and much more. great to have you. >> good to be with you. >> shannon: congratulations on winning what was one of the most interesting races in 2010. ear marks have been a hot topic. some have accused you on soften on that topic since you won.

clarify that position for us. >> i'm opposed to ear marking and i won't use ear marking personally. i have taken a pledge. there is a citizens against government pledge that i took during the campaign. it was a confusion over a reporter not understanding what i was saying. i think ear markings are bad. there is some symbolism. definitely the symbolism is bad and i think it encourages people to vote for large appropriations bill because all of a sudden mrs. smith gets a museum in your hometown and it. >> shannon: and i know that mitch mcconnell has not yet sounded like he is willing to sign on to an all out ban. he has admitted there has been controversy within the gop. will they get on the same page? >> i don't know what their positions are. i haven't spoken to anybody really about this. i think there is a chance it will pass. they have had the bans before. the house had it previously.

the house i'm sure is going to do it again. the only argument that some of them make is the democrats aren't going to do it and it puts us at a disadvantage. we need to be the party of fiscal responsibility and let the voters know. they voted for us because they think we are the party of fiscal discipline. i am one of those elected from this tea party that says the debt is too much and we have to do something about it. i say no more ear marks we have to cut it out. >> the debt commission, some of the potential recommendations have leaked out, the official report not until december 1. what do you make about the proposed cuts and also tax hikes? >> i think it is a good idea to cut spending. it as spending problem and not a revenue problem. i want government to be smaller. that includes spending cuts. $100 billion out of military and out of domestic spending. i would speed up the time table. we have to figure out a way to bay for the baby boomers.

how do we pay for it? you have to look at eligibility and start transforming these things. we are all living longer. the average woman lives to be 80 years old. when social security was started the average person lived to be 65. we have to fund them appropriately. we have to talk about eligibility. the debt commission wants to wait until 2050 to change the age. that may be waiting too long and the problem is will we be fiscally responsible before then. >> where else would you spinach ficklspecifically like to see . >> everywhere. and that has to be the compromise. republicans said i will cut domestic spending but won't touch military. some said military but won't cut domestic. we had rules like pay as you go and they just evade their own rules.

both parties have proven to be untrustworthy on this. i think we have to have a balanced budget amendment and compromise and say the cuts have to come from everywhere. there are good people talking about in. there is a proposal for $343 billion worth of savings. it can happen. we have to tell those in washington if they think cut is a bad thing, i think cutting leaves more money in the private sector. the private sector is where jobs are created. the less money that comes to washington the better. the more money that is left in our states and that can create jobs. >> let's talk about the tax hikes. it is something that the tea party platform a lot includes no more taxes or not raising taxes. would you support that part of what the debt commission is recommending? >> i don't want to raise taxes. the main reason is one in four dollars is now spent in washington. if you say the gross domestic product, 25% of it is spent in washington right now. it used to be historically 20%. we vastly increased the size and scope of government.

we need to go back to where we were historically. only ten years ago we were are at 20%. you send that 5% you are now taking from the economy back into the private sector and we can create jobs. raising taxes is a mistake. we already have too much money up here and they waste it and squander it. let's leave it at home. >> shannon: ask you about the tea party and the gop establishment. we see the competition to get the freshmen lawmakers into competing events and different interests. how do those factions come together? >> i would say i think we are going to coopt washington. the tea party has come and we are loud and we are proud. there is a lot of us. whenever else have you seen 100,000 people or 200,000 people gathering in the mall. it is amazing the potency of this. so amazing it is that there is not one voice. you have tea party patriots. tea party express. freedom works and all these different groups and then i

come from a little town bowling green. the tea party is independent and doesn't answer to any one. all the little cities have this. they don't want things as usual. they want things to change and that is why i'm here. >> they will be watching. senator elect we hope you will come back to america's news headquarters as you settle into washington. good to see you. >> shannon: we are happy to be alive. the words from rachel chandler. that is what she said after they were freed to pirates today. efforts to free the couple failed until now. they have arrived at kenya for a ceremony celebrating their release. individual donors and friends of the couple paid a ransom up to a million dollars to the pirates to get the couple released. new members of congress continue to flood into washington ahead of tomorrow's official orientation. some of them like senator elect rand paul buoyed by the tea

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>> shannon: this is a fox news alert. we are getting more and more information in about the case of four missing people in ohio. one of those, 13-year-old sarah maynard has been discovered. she, her brother and mother and a family friend were missing. sarah found safe this morning but taken to a local hospital for evaluation. a couple of things we are hearing. there is a report that police have one person in custody and according to the associated press wires there is a neighbor that has told folks there was an arrest, they saw someone taken out in handcuffs and a body bag taken out of the same home in mount vernon, ohio. again, the 13-year-old found. we don't know about the other three but an arrest and reports of a body bag taken from the building. we will keep you upairdated as we learn more on that situation. now, that several are heading to washington, will they be received well? how will they be received? with successful tea party candidates be able to integrate with established members on

capitol hill? do they even want to? joining us is phil musser and you are looking at david mercer, a former deputy international financial director for the dnc. welcome to you both, gentlemen. >> pleasure to be here. >> is too much being made of the split with the tea party and the establishment or are is it legitimate? >> i think too much is made of it today and some of the first day in congress stuff that is going on. the reality is that the tea party movement has been an enormous burst of energy. they had the party within your party. d that ha norred we would not be in the position we are today with the stand point of political power. 35 plus members never held elected office. they represent average people who have average concerns about the growth and trajectory of government and i think there will be a lot of talk about establishment versus tea party. the bottom line is if the republican majority doesn't govern like they promised they will be in the minority

quickly. the majority will be between the establishment and the new members and you got to watch their deeds, not watch the spin spin. >> shannon: i talked to a lot of folks who said the republican leadership have to keep them on a tight leash. i'm sure they don't want to be on any kind of leash at all. in the art of compromise, some of them say they are not about compromise and that is not what they ran on and want to do. there will be a tea port caucus in the house. michele bachmann started that up. she going to be in the running for a top gop leadership position and she backed that out. does that say anything about the power of the party that she walked away from that race? >> i think that speaks to what phil said and you have to have a coalescing in forces. also hoping the republican party to rebrand itself out of

the bush spending we saw over 8 years and unaccountability on that spending and that you will see hopefully a coalescing so they can negotiate with the democratic caucus and with the president of the united states to arrive at solutions that are going to address the problems and challenges that the middle class are facing. >> i also want to ask you both about sarah palin. also seems to be creating some what of a split within the gop and tea party. she is incredibly powerful, endorsing people and doing her thing without being currently in elective office. there are some who don't want her to be the frontrunner for 2012. are in said she was going to run or not going to run. i saw interesting new polling out from the ap. 79% favorability rating between republicans and also from independents who say they lean to the the gop. so why does she spark such a controversy within the party that she was nominated to serve on their presidential ticket. >> she is popular within the

party. if the coalition showed up in two years a center right majority and sarah palin was the nominee she would win the white house. is she -- i give her great credit. she made millions of dollars this year, enhanced her celebrity and tonight kicking off a prime time tv show and these are all things that she has done from a position of control. she is in a position of control from the standpoint of talking to people through her work at this network. communicates outside the traditional mainstream through social media strategy and now has a new way to rebrand herself or talk about herself and if she can do that from a position of authenticity that made people look at her and say maybe she is not as extreme or crazy that i might have heard about. >> shannon: is she a plus or minus. we have to look at the same poll and overall 49% unfavorability. can the democrats capitalize on that if she woks the face of the gop?

-- if she becomes the face of the gop. >> she is making $14 million a year. a million dollars an episode on the discovery channel on the show that phil just mentioned. quite honestly she is kind of a side show. at the was a side show during the mccain palin race for the presidency where they were looking more into her credentials to be a heartbeat away from the presidency than they were looking at mccain as the nominee for president. i think the numbers, you know, of 22% overall favorability are quite challenging in her overcoming the perception that she might be a side show and not a true candidate for president. >> within the republican party she is no side show. only one person that can turn our crowds at the base like that and you have to take her seriously and she has done more to advance her position the last year than hurt it. clearly polarizes the country. the challenge is how does she bridge that gap.

>> she is quite an expensive venture as some have pointed out in the republican party in terms of the cost it is as it was to the senate and not gaining control of the senate this go around for republicans. >> thank you both. always a pleasure to have you on the political panel. a missing 13-year-old girl in ohio found safe but the three people missing with her apparently not accounted for. breaking developments in this case, right after the break. flattered when regenerist beat a $100 cream. flabbergasted when we creamed a $500 cream! for under $30 regenerist micro-sculpting cream hydrates better than 23 of america's most expensive luxury creams. fantastic. phenomenal. regenerist. funny thing about vegetables... they fill you up without filling you out. yes! v8 juice gives you three of your five daily servings of vegetables. that's what i'm talking about!

>> shannon: the u.s. military in afghanistan is releasing a new taliban recruiting video and the differences in this training tape could tell us more about the state of the taliban. julie kirtz standing by with the top of the news. >> reporter: the new video is different in several key ways. production value is much higher and it shows an 8th grade boy being used as a suicide bomber with the intention of

recruiting young smart kids. one of the four family members missing in ohio has been found. the 13-year-old daughter has been found safe. sarah maynard along with her mother, brother and a friend of her mothers were last seen on wednesday. sarah was found today inside a columbus avenue home in mount vernon, ohio. the girl has been taken to knox hospital for evaluation. one person is in custody. medical marijuana is coming to arizona. proposition 203 won by less than 5,000 votes out of more than 1.6 million ballots. in fact, the first tallies that came in on election night showed the measure trailing by about 7,000 votes. the decision makes arizona the 15th state to approve a medical marijuana law. and three football players at the university of southern, mississippi have been seriously injured in a shooting at a hattiesburg nightclub. a fight reportedly broke out and led to gun fire. the players currently at forest general hospital are said to be in critical condition. university president martha

saunders is expected to speak to the media this afternoon. those are the top stories right now. back to you, shannon. >> shannon: thank you very much, julie. more on new information coming in about the family that went missing in ohio. peter doocy has the latest developments from new york. hi, peter. >> this is coming to us from mount vernon, ohio. a report that authorities have made an arrest and that authorities have taken a body bag out of the house ten miles from the home where tina herman and her friend went missing on thursday. we reported a half hour ago that the 13-year-old girl who was among the missing has been found safe and sound this morning. we tonight know what information she was -- we don't know what information she was able to pass along to authorities. we know that according to reports a man wearing a hooded sweatshirt was in handcuffs being led out of a home where police were removing a body bag. we do not have any comment from the sheriff's office about whether or not this police activity this morning with the body bag and the man being

arrested has anything to do with the disappearance of tina herman of howard, ohio, or her 13-year-old daughter who has now been found or her 10-year-old son or their 41-year-old friend. we are waiting for word from local police and we will come to you with details as we have them. shannon? >> thank you very much. chuck schumer is calling for a federal investigation into the lead content in the reusable grocery bags. many are actually made in china and there are concerns that as the bags are reused and tossed out lead in them could accumulate in land fills. there is concern that lead content in the bags could actually rub off on food when the bags are new. an investigation conducted by "the tampa tribune" found some bags over time had lead levels that did concern health officials. the holidays are approaching and with the added expenses bringing saving on

travel as a priority. joining us is chris mcginnis of travel skills calm. great to see you today. >> great to see you. >> give us some hints. thanksgiving week, we all have done it and know that it can be a nightmare. what are the best and worst days if you are going to travel by air? >> it has changed recently. used to be the wednesday before was the busiest day and now it is the tuesday before thanksgiving is the businesscyiest day this year and the sunday and monday after thanksgiving. one thin that changed is a lot of people are taking the whole week off so the friday and saturday before thanksgiving week and then the sunday and month after are busy days and the most expensive days. >> shannon: talk about airline travel in general. every flight i have taken in the last year seems like it is filled to the gills. very crowded. everybody is charging for bags.

not the luxurious experience it was maybe years ago. how do people deal with that and what do they expect going into the year. >> demand is up for airline travel and fares are up. all of people are surprised by the new fees. the most egregious are the bag fees. if you want to fly jetblue or southwest they don't charge for the first bag. a lot of hotel companies are offering rebates for bags. hotels like holiday inn or crown plaza they will give you a $50 rebate if you stay two weekend nights between now and the end of the year. ship your bags fed ex or ups. i have done investigation on that that is fine traveling halfway across the country but a long distance trip shipping back from san francisco to where i am in year it is very actually expensive and you

pay -- >> shannon: interesting to see that airlines and hotels working together. these bags may be offsetting the cost for each other. if you shop around and do some homework looks leak you can figure it out. i think we have a bad connection so we will get you go but thank you very much always for your travel advice. >> after a campaign that featured endorsements from sarah palin and talk about mamma grizzlies, many thought the 2010 mid term would be the year of the woman. will there actually be more or less women in congress? congress woman will discussion it right after the break. so we earned an la getaway twice as fast. we get double miles every time we use our card. [ histling ] no matter what we're buying. and since double miles add up quick... romans! get em! [ garth ] ...we can bring the whole gang. [ sheep bleats ] it's hard to beat dble miles. whoa -- 's on the list. but we're with him. [ male announcer ] get the venture card from capital one anearn double miles on every purchase, every day.

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i think someone at my friend's school has this thing called autism. my friend's brother's son has autism. my neighbor's son has autism. my son has autism. announcer: autism is getting closer to home. today, 1 in 110 children is diagnosed with autism-- that's a 600% increase in the last 20 years. learn the signs at autismspeaks.org. >> shannon: alaska senate hopeful joe miller seems to be louisianaing steam in his battle with fellow republican lisa purse over th murkowski of the senate race. he was counting on military ballots to push him ahead of

murkowski. he is not going to go forward with a lawsuit and does appear close to conceding a race. so far, alaska has reported more than 98,000 writein ballots with murkowski with an undisputed lead in nearly 90% of the writein votes. >> the 2010 mid term was big for female candidates but they at any timdidn't see the majort some expected. wasn't this supposed to be the year of the women? welcome to you both. >> thank you. >> congress women, we did have hundreds of female candidates running across the country for the house and senate and governorships as well. do you expect that we would see more of them get elected, or no? >> i was hope. let's back. in 1990 there were 29 women in congress. and 24 of those came back. 1992, 24 new women came so we virtually doubled the number of women in congress making it 48. 48 very important. 40 is critical mass in

congress. they started to listen to the women. and then there was hope that this would happen again. we could double it again. never happened but slowly but surely incrementally the numbers changed. this past congress we had 70. we may -- i think we have maybe i'm sorry we had 72. it looks like all the numbers aren't in. we could go to 74 including the delegate from d.c. i think that is a good sign. i think we need more. the year of the woman usually lasts 365 days and then it dies. we have got -- we have got to look at having more women there. it is just -- it changes the equation. we do look at -- we do look through the prism in a different manner and do it worldwide. i work with women all over the globe and it is amazing how women look at conflict transformation, conflict resolution. i mean i love the mamma grizzly kind of image. i would not go outside packing

heat, but i love the idea that we are there to protect our young and i think we come into the body that way. >> and karen, the gop is touting the fact that at least on the house side they did really well bringing in more minorities and more women. do you think that the gop is catching up on this where there has been a gender gap for them? >> this is a really exciting year for republican women. if you look at the congress most of the women who won election this year are under the age of 50. some of them are under the age of 40. most of them have young children and that brings the completely different dynamic to how you govern, how you legislate, how you look at policy and how you relate to your voters. i think this is very exciting. >> and how you become leadership. it used to be it was very rare when somebody would enter the race before her children were a lot older and that would mean that you would rarely see a chair of a committee as a woman. and the other thing is there

were three republican governors, women governors in states in south carolina, oklahoma and new mexico. republican women in states where we had -- there are only nine women governors out there. but at least these are states that had never had women governors, yeah. >> shannon: that is certainly a change. i want to ask you about some of the leadership in the different parties. house speaker nancy pelosi who announces that she will run to become minority leader. really the most powerful woman in american politics by a lot of accounts. the fact that she is going to lose her majority status but still looks like will probably be the leader of the democrats. is that a setback that she is no longer the most powerful woman in politics? >> no, i think the difference between republicans and the democrats a lot of times the way we look at gender and other issues is we are not looking for let's just give the job to a woman because she is a woman, let's find the best person for the job. the democrats thought that nancy pelosi was the best

person to be speaker of the house. i think there is a lot of debate if that was a good decision or not and whether she should continue as a minority. but that is not a setback to women and we shouldn't even look at it as a setback to women. we should be looking at the women like christy nome, freshman woman, 39 years old. young children, a young family. from the state of south dakota. probably going to receive a seat on republican leadership. i think that is really great for the republican party. i look at suzanne that martinez who is the first latina governor in the united states and a republican. very exciting and very good for the republican party. there are just a lot of women who i think are going to rise up in leadership on the gop side and teleare going to -- and they are going to do it because they have been legislating and they have the experience and great ideas that they are bringing to the table and, you know, whether nancy

pelosi is in leadership, not in leadership, because she is a woman, you know, i just think that at the end of the day politics is about winning and losing and -- >> so you know that the gender issue i think is good for, you know, to have more view points at the table which is again why i'm really happy that so many young republican won who have young children -- >> let me -- >> shannon: we have to wrap it up. last word word to you. >> i think we all want the person there. we are 73rd in the world with regard to representation tied with turkmenistan. >> shannon: unsettling statistic to leave leave us with. new women on both sides of the aisle. thank you both. >> thank you. >> shannon: this is a fox news alert. los angeles authorities are telling us as many as ten people may have been injured, four seriously in a car crash

involving two vehicles and a church bus. this happened in downtown los angeles. nine people have been taken to local hospitals in the area. the bus was described as a mini bus from the first chinese baptist church. a wreck in downtown los angeles involving a church bus and a car. several people injured. we'll keep you updated. >> shannon: may seem like an odd and difficult thing to do. running an entire marathon with a gas mask on. wait until you hear why this man did it. it is a noble cause and we know that you will appreciate it. verizon's your home for samsung galaxy.

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>> shannon: herer some of the top stories we are following. right now freshman members of congress are arriving in washington ahead of tomorrow's official orientation. 85 republicans and nine democrats will get a crash course in everything from setting up offices to finding their way around the hill and a competition between tea party and gop events is putting a spot light on just where the tea party agenda fights in now. an update on the family of a missing girl in ohio. four all together. the 13-year-old found safe this morning. sarah maynard, her mother and brother and a friend of her

mother's were last seen on wednesday. sarah was found inside a home in mount vernon, ohio. she has been taken to a lowle cal hospital for evaluation. one person we are told is in custody in connection with the case. we don't know about the three others still missing. and 388 days after being captured by pirates kidnapped british couple paul and rachel chandler set free. the couple released earlier today. a ransom of up to a million dollars was paid to the pirates to get that couple released. those are our top stories for right now. >> shannon: all of us sympathize with wounded veterans but most will never know how it feels to walk again with prosthetics or live with a traumatic brain injure. jeremy seouls ran an entire marathon in a gas mask. jeremy, the founder of the volunteer group team extreme joins us now. great to have you food. >> thanks for having us. >> congratulations, having run a marathon at a slower pace

than you. i know how difficult it was. i can't imagine with this mask. tell us how it limits your breathing and efforts in the marathon and why you decided to do it. >> it limits 20 to 30% oxygen resistance which over the course of two years we put a lot of training and dedication into doing this. i lost my mother to cancer in february of '09 and as a healthy outlet decided to go out and start running. it was a cold time of year and the mask buffers a little bit of the air outside. and so figured, you know, why not take this concept of running in aask and utilize it for something that is good. at the time i was doing a lot of traveling around the country and i notice how focus had diminished from the wounded veterans and also our veterans abroad fighting overseas and in june i decided why not run a 10 k with a gas mask. and just to raise awearness and

it seemed to catch on. too often people can't relate or associate the challenges that these people are overcoming every day and the sacrifices they made. going out and running in a gas mask people take notice to that far more than running in t-shirt or banner. we thick that and redirect that energy and emotion and awareness to the wounded veterans. >> shannon: i know that you have done this with the marine corps marathon here in washington and dedicated that to a specific individual. he was there as well at the finish line. tell us that story. >> corporal peck is a united states marine. he served in iraq and afghanistan. he embodies everything that we stand for and everything that the marine corps is about. honor, courage and commitment. this young man after being blown up once in iraq he voluntarily reenlisted to go back to afghanistan where again he was engaged by the enemy and enresulted in the loss of his

limbs. we went to walter reed and met with this young man and knew that he would be the guy that we would honor with our marathon attempt and guinness world record attempt. we were honored to have him there and coming in to the finish line seeing him and recognize him the way that we did made it all worth it. >> shannon: thank you for the fact that you are raising so of those that of nose that have served and are suffering with injuries. every time we bring you stories like this one the viewers want to help and they answer the call. last weekend we told you about a group troops need you. is supplies soldiers and vets with supplies that they say they need. after the seth th segment, they e-mailed us to say more than $3,000 they got after the segment will cover the cost of advance surveillance for u.s. troops in afghanistan.

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