busiest travel day of the year. >> maybe the tsa has a point. germany shutting down a popular tourist site over concerns regarding security this morning. more on the fox news alert. >> and teen sensation justin bieber, joe's idol ruining night at the american music awards. some blast from the past stole the spotlight. he's back. >> oh, no! >> "fox & friends" starts now. >> actually saw the performance by justin bieber, the first time i have seen him perform. he doesn't have the same haircut anymore. >> he's change. he's growing up just in time. >> i don't know. >> by the way, who is his

mentor? was it usher? >> bangs wise? >> no, music wise. >> they showed him in the audience right after. how far you want to go back? wayne newton. >> i'm not looking for the artist but wondered if you knew. >> more on the bieber coming up. we have breaking news right now overnight. germany shutting down one of the most popular tourist sites because of the security concerns. it's the parliament building in berlin. german officials not elaborating on the threat at this hour. it comes after a german magazine reported that al-qaida is planning a possible attack on that building early next year. >> all right. meanwhile -- >> that's -- >> that's a fox news alert. >> we're going to do headlines in a little while. right now, we're talking about what everybody is talking about, the fact that there could be kind of an airport armageddon this week, you know, they're talking about opting out in huge

lines and stuff like that. it's interesting, yesterday, the guy that runs the tsa, john pistole, it sounded like he kind of had a change of tune after so much criticism earlier in the day, he said yesterday procedures are not going to change and then brian, later in the day, he said this. >> here's the quote. there's a continual process of refinement and adjustment to ensure that best practices are applied and that feedback and comment from the traveling public is taken into account. this has always been viewed as an evolving program. they'll be adopted as conditions warrant and so far, we got 70 body scanners in 450 airports and a lot of patdowns and the patdowns took a long time and they have changed focus and most people are saying this is a little out of control. the president, the secretary of state, both weighing in. > >> yeah, but i think everybody has been caught off guard. in that statement, he said we've been open to new ideas and evaluating our position.

i don't think that's necessarily the case. if they were telling the truth, the administration and specifically john pistole would say, in fact, that they've been surprised at the outrage they have faced. let's take a look. this is something that came to mind at 3:00 a.m. in my head this morning about where exactly are you going through those body scanners? it's not in every state. consider yourself lucky if you're not maybe in one of these states here. it's been used in 34 states and washington, d.c. of course, the eventual plan is to put it in all states. >> yeah, we'll have mr. pistole with us live at 7:30 eastern time. it's interesting in one of the tv shows yesterday, they actually showed him some video where some of his tsa screeners were touching women's breasts and at one point, a guy put his hand inside somebody else's pants and he said that's standard operating procedure. you got to check inside to make sure there's no bomb residue. which is troubling to a lot of people because they said, listen, you've just gone way over the line. meanwhile, there were a number of people that did weigh in.

hillary clinton, we heard a little snippet of her a moment ago. here she is on "face the nation" saying she wouldn't want to face the screener. >> would you submit to one of these patdowns? >> not if i could avoid it. no, i mean, who would? >> who would? she could go twice. there and -- chris wallace said you have to run again. >> i like that honesty, though, usually we hear from a politician, they go with the company line. i mean, she feels like any other american right now, not if i don't have to. you know, who would want to go through this. interesting point is coming up on wednesday with the biggest travel day of the year, it takes average 100 body scans 15 minutes. if you opt out and you want to pat down those same 100 people, it would take six hours. six hours. now envision yourself standing in line on wednesday. >> here's another thing, too, that these invasive body scans, we have the christmas bomber on christmas and we're just getting

this over the last two months. we have nine months to catch up with their last mode of operations, a little discouraging and a few instances have popped up, a 3-year-old screaming "stop touching me "on which outraged a lot of people. an 8-year-old was said take off a shirt. and a cross gender guy who was a girl, became a guy when went through the body scan evidently he heard everyone giggling. he's like i'm never going to do that again. >> john micah is a republican congressman from florida on one of the chat shows yesterday and said regarding this whole opt out thing where you go through the really invasive body scan yesterday, this is the guy who is set to become the transportation committee chair in the house come january. he says this is not the right thing to do. watch. >> i don't think the rollout was good and the application is even worse. this does need to be refined but he's saying it's the only tool

and i believe that's wrong. >> there's one other thing out there and that is if you -- let's say you go through the screener -- screening machine and it's beep, beep and you have the patdown. if you refuse the patdown, there is a possibility that you could be fined $11,000 for refusing it. do you get through? what do you do? >> last week, too. >> to refuse it, it's kind of like -- pay the fine or don't fly. >> their theory is let's say you're a terrorist and if they let you go without paying a fine, you're still a terrorist. there was one other interesting thing that came to my head but too much cold medicine. i'll think of it in a minute. >> did you have delsum? >> i can't remember. >> i don't have that excuse and i forget everything. texas governor rick perry, he won re-election and he'll be running the republican side of -- he is head of the republican governors association now and he's got a huge border problem. he put together the two main issues in this country, securing our border and securing our airports. listen.

>> how about we take all those tsa agents and put them on the border with mexico where they can do some security there? that's where we need security. substantially more than in our airports and what we're seeing out of this bunch. >> it's by the citizens, this year and can someone please pay attention to this? >> i thought of it. even if you opt out as an airport and coming up in eight minutes we'll talk to some of these in orlando that want to do that, apparently you have to abide by the tsa guidelines. even if you bring in private security companies to your specific airport, you still have to do this stuff. so you're only changing the personnel. you're not changing the policies and i don't think many people know about that. >> that's right. although if they were to hand the security over to the individual airlines, i am told, then the airlines could determine what the standard protocol is. for instance, if they want to do some kind of profiling, that guy is really nervous and stuff like that, they can do that. then the government has got --

they got those government standards. >> you are traveling this weekend, what would you do if you're faced right there at the screener or the guy with the blue rubber gloves, what would you do? e-mail us right now, friends at foxnews.com. >> because they can't answer you. they're answering you at home. >> they're answering you right now. >> we won't hear anything back. >> i'll remember what you remember, i don't have a cold. >> i was supposed to remind my wife to call her brother yesterday on her birthday. >> i have my number on the blackberry. you know what? >> ok, let's do some of the headlines now when we start with the scare in the air. not for one. two delta flights. >> delta 30, we're declaring an emergency. >> you see smoke coming out of the number one engine? >> yeah, we can see some kind of flash on the departing aircraft. >> you just heard control tower audio from new york's j.f.k. airport where delta flight 30 had to make an emergency landing last night after the plane's engine failed minutes after takeoff. some 200 passengers were on

board the moscow-bound flight. nobody was hurt. and that's not all. less than an hour later, a second delta airlines flight was grounded in atlanta because of technical problems. the crew of delta flight 125 claimed engine trouble, too. passengers said they felt the plane's tail scrape on the runway during that emergency landing. no one hurt there. either. i pass it off now to steve. >> that's never good. gretch, rescuers in new zealand now admitting the trapped miners there likely did not survive the explosion but they are still finishing up the small shaft to test for dangerous gases and not ruling out a miracle. >> we still are optimistic. but we are planning for all that and that's also from this process, we're planning for the possible loss of life as a result of what occurred underground. >> rescuers have had no contact with the 29 missing miners since friday. >> you have a 13-year-old american teenager arrested in china. the boy's name is jonathan lee.

he's campaigning to turn the demilitarized zone between north and south korea into a farce, a children's peace farce when he staged a protest near tiananmen square in beijing, police arrested him and his mom. >> meanwhile, there was one clear winner at last night's ama's, the american music awards. >> superstar justin bieber taking home four ama's including artist of the year. taylor swift won female -- favorite female country artist swapping her trademark pearls for a sleek look indeed. >> gwyneth paltrow like. >> brad paisley right there won favorite male country artist thanking fans for what he called the best year of his life. love that guy. he's been on this program. >> yeah. >> some highlights from the

ama's last night. >> many of you will be celebrating thanksgiving thanks to the pilgrims, they didn't have a buckle on their hat we found out. if you're like many people, 68% of the country, you'll go to have thanksgiving dinner and you will have an argument. >> are you talking about a gobble squabble? >> indeed, brian kilmeade, i village the web site did a poll of people all across the country. not only did 2/3 say there's going to be trouble before dinner, 37% of dinner hosts think the role is very stressful. it's hard to put on a good party for a bunch of people and 20% of hosts dread thanks giving day. >> 13% of all respondents dread thanks giving in general? >> yeah. >> and 2 of 3 think family members will go out of their way to ignite a family fight. >> what kind -- >> is it really that confrontational across this country? >> yes, it is! you know what? it's really simple if you want

to start a fight. >> which is? >> let's talk politics. >> right. >> oh, my god. that's the first lesson of dinner. never talk about politics. >> i've never stared at my plate harder. you try not to play into it. >> please make them stop talking! >> we're all report back to you on monday and see whether or not we have any family squabbles. >> what is the number one topic at your thanksgiving table that gets people arguing? e-mail us as well and we'll try to share that stuff later on. a dozen minutes past the top of the hour. >> it was supposed to help american families investigate in their future but the home buyer tax credit having the opposite effect. charles, no pain there from the fox business network is here with the top turkeys of 2010. >> and just told you some airports that may be switching out tsa for private security companies. will that make a difference for passengers? the director of orlando's airport who is trying to make that change joins us live next. >> first, more highlights from

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the new tsa patdowns continue to come under fire, one florida airport is taking matters into their own hands. >> they want to get rid. tsa and hire private security firms instead. the president of orlando's sanford international airport, larry dale joins us live from orlando. good morning to you. >> good morning, how are you? >> we're doing ok. there's been quite an uproar at america's airports. now, i understand you were starting to make the move away from the tsa a while back before these body scanners went into effect. how come? >> well, we looked at the procedures for opting out which is the screening partnership program created in the aviation transportation security act of 2001 and we visited airports that have opted out and been private ever since the beginning and it's proven to be successful in the compassion and passion of the traveling public. we believe free enterprise is the way to do it for greater

efficiency and accountability and customer satisfaction. >> how does it change when you hire private security companies? because as we were just discussing in the former segment, you still have to abide by the tsa regulations so it's not like you can get rid of the body scanners or get rid of the patdowns, right? >> well, no. because, you know, i trust congress to do that. i think congress is going to jump into this and make sure that fourth amendment violations do not occur. i quite frankly think we're skating on the edge of that, people when they see the compassion, compassion training, background check that private securities, they don't look at that as much as a police state as when the governments do it. >> yeah. >> it's proven to be very successful. >> how is it different? how would a patdown be different? >> oh, i don't think the patdown -- i don't know that the patdown would be different although i have seen patdowns that have gone too far that people have gotten on the news. i gotten beyond what it should be. i think training, compassion and passion for the traveling

public, ought to create a positive experience for people or they won't fly. i think congress is going to get into that and understand we're getting dangerously close to doing that. >> you touched on this a moment ago, larry and said we're getting really close to the infringement of our fourth amendment rights to unreasonable search. is that what the tsa is doing right now? >> well, john pistole came to my airport and we had a nice visit. i think he's a very smart man. i registered my complaint there. i'm a law enforcement officer with our police department here in sanford, i can't do that. i have to have probable cause, if i'm going to too a search to that degree, you're going to be in handcuffs because you're going to be under arrest. i think it's a clear violation of fourth amendment. >> so are you saying that what the tsa is doing is against the law? >> i personally think it's a fourth amendment violation. i think it's a civil rights infringement. i think it goes too far. >> but i think that's apples and oranges, sir. that's the point i'm trying to

get to here, that's one side of the argument. if you hire private security and have to do the same thing, how does it change? >> listen, we didn't start the opt out program because of the new patdown procedures. we started this back in february. so it's not a result of that. but i can tell you what's gonna happen is you're going to have more compassion and passion as this thing goes along and you're already seeing some waffling in response to the public outcry. i believe congress is going to step in and say wait a minute weeks not a police state. >> you're right. larry dale, the president of orlando sanford international airport. thank you, sir, for joining us live today from orlando. >> thank you very much. >> all right. 19 minutes after the top of the hour. >> coming up on the show, should judges consider sharia law when hearing cases in the u.s.? one court about to make a very big decision on that. >> and some democrats are fuming over president obama's unpopularity and how it's affecting their political futures. so are they sticking with the commander in chief or will they dump him? the washington insiders weigh in

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it took off after several technical glitches and the exact purpose of the large satellite, classified. can't talk about it. brian, over to you. >> what if i asked you again? i don't think so. after a post election caucus meeting, some are saying president obama's unpopularity is threatening their political survive so will democrats start turning on the commander in chief to save the party or stand by their president, their man, for a fair and balanced debate, we're joined by two of the best, brian darling, director of government relations for the heritage foundation and doug, spokesperson for the outgoing chairman chris von holland. it seems -- chris, what am i saying? brian, it seems as though, excuse me, doug, it seems as though things got a little bit out of control the last time they got all together. here's the quote from an anonymous source who observed democratic senators going at it with the president. it was a raucous caucus. most frank exchange of views

i've ever seen. there was a lot of passion in the room. it was as though the president really heard them in 10 and will kill them in 12. why? >> let's keep in mind this last week was the first week when members of congress had come back since the election. i think a lot of people wanted to get stuff off their chests. we had a very spirited conversation in our caucus as well. but at the end of the day, this is going to be a blip on the radar screen. if you go back to ronald reagan in 1982 when he lost 25 seats or 27 seats, his popularity within his party was very low and in fact, there was open talk about primary challenges to him. that didn't occur then. it's not going to occur now. the president has strong support in both chambers and they had a great meeting last week at the white house. a meeting that the republicans were too busy to attend. >> brian, i just remember that the president was getting some pressure in 2006 to do something about the war in iraq to change the tempo there but this is very specific. in february, we watched -- we heard about al franken had the meltdown in february and this happened a couple of weeks ago. they seem very quick to jump off

the ship. >> yeah. i mean, i think this president has two problems. one is he's not doing a very good job of messaging on important issues to the american people. the american people want to see action to turn the economy around. they're just not seeing it. and frankly, the american people don't like the president's policies. i don't think the democrats can right the ship on that. the american people don't like the stimulus plan because it didn't bring them any jobs. they don't like obama care. they feel like it's an intrusion into their private, personal decisions, health care decisions and with this new tsa controversy, things just keep getting worse. >> it looks like with 21 democratic seats and two independent seats up in 2012, many wonder if chuck schumer is the answer. harry reid is reaching to chuck for the messenger. do you believe that's the right move snoo auto chuck shum certificate a great senator and he ran it really well for two cycles and over in the house, we have a hot -- we'll have a lot more opportunities. you have a lot more republicans

sitting in seats that president obama wants and so i think we'll -- you know, 2012 is a very long way away and a lot of things can happen in politics as we've seen in this cycle and at the end of the day, the american people want to see progress by both parties and i think if we demonstrate that, we'll be fine. >> democrats are really nervous in the senate right now, you have democrats playing defense and tough states in florida, in missouri, it's going to be very difficult, nebraska, for democrats to retain these seats so they're going to look to the president to promote popular policies and actually listen to the american people. >> brian darling, doug thornell, thanks so much. it's true because in florida, senator ben nelson was -- over in nebraska, senator ben nelson has been very outspoken against the administration. thanks so much, guys. >> thank you. >> thanks a lot. >> coming up, straight ahead, new developments against the former mayor of detroit involving a brawl between his wife and a stripper. a plan to pay off the national

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ended at the staples center. no exact word on the boy's condition but witnesses say he was moving his arms, moving his legs while paramedics were moving him to the hospital. >> wow. >> horrible. a new development in the lawsuit against the former mayor of detroit kilpatrick. the stripper is claiming that she saw his wife attack another stripper giving the mayor a lap dance. it happened at a drug fueled party at the mayor's mansion in 2002. that stripper's family claims city officials covered up the investign ation into her death. she was gunned down in a drive-by shooting months after the party where she was allegedly attacked by mrs. kilpatrick. >> wow. >> no kidding. remember how oklahoma voters overwhelmingly passed a measure banning the use of islamic force p sharia law in oklahoma. today, the issue goes to court. a federal judge in oklahoma city will hear arguments on whether the ban is constitutional. >> a muslim group has filed

suit saying it is religious discrimination. >> sarah palin's new book "america by heart" comes out tomorrow and kicking off her book tour in phoenix on wednesday. the former alaska governor who is a fox news contributor visiting 16 cities many of which are in key presidential primary states like ohio and iowa. her itinerary reportedly does not include traditional blue states like new york and california. i'll sit down with sarah palin to talk about her new book and much more. that interview will air on wednesday right here on "fox & friends." >> all right. meanwhile, let's go ahead and take a look at what's happening in the weather. freezing rain in minnesota turned highways into ice rinks practically. nearly 400 accidents were reported in the twin cities area alone. at least two dozen people were killed. -- rather, two people were killed and dozens more injured. sorry to say. let me adjust that. many others were hurt, slip sliding on sidewalks.

that's what happens when i'm looking at the pictures and trying to read as well. meanwhile, you can see that storm is moving through the great lakes and into portions of the northeast right now. it is chilly and it is wet. so beware as you start this week. for the most part, though, the balance of the country is nice and dry. there is some snow activity moving through portions of south dakota. and in rapid city right now in south dakota. it's 9. that's it. it sure feels like winter there. 18 in caribou, maine. currently at 31 in minneapolis. meanwhile, as you take a look at today's daytime highs, going to warm up nicely. chicago should have 65. then, of course, going to move through, 63 in new york city. 73 in raleigh. 70's along the gulf coast. and that's your fox travelcast, mr. kilmeade. time for football. >> it was a great day in football. the top of the sports was the late night game. giants faced off against michael vick and the eagles. huge clash in the nc east led to the sunday night football game. they would take a lead after

battling back to scoring three in the first half. eagles came all the way back. let's give it to this guy. he's fast in the open field. he would score and he'd have a big day. the giants would not give up. why? because they get paid to play four quarters and eli manning has been good. he looks as though he's got the giants rallying with the big first down run. but what he does at the end of this play is inexplicable. he fumbles untouched. the ground caused the fumble. he would yell at the ground a little later on. the eagles would hold on to the ball and the win. i've never seen anything like that by a professional quarterback and a strange sight in pittsburgh as defensive lineman richard seymour punched ben roethlisberger in the face after a play. he was ejected and expected to face a heavy fine from the league. steelers dominated the game though 35-3. best rivalry in football, peyton manning and tom brady meet again. a new chapter is written in the

nfl rivalries. patriots jumped out early and looked to run away with this one. this is danny woodhead. he's not big but he's good. if you watch "hard knocks" on hbo, you saw him with the jets. jets shouldn't have cut him. they did. manning come all the way back to have a chance to tie the game. look at that, two touchdown strikes there. that interception would end his hopes of at lowest forcing a field goal and forcing overtime. they are tied with the jets for the best record in the league. now, nascar. it all came down to one race. a dream for this sport that decides this year's nascar champion. you got points leader danny hamlin, jimmie johnson and harvic with a chance to win the sprint cup. then you have jimmie johnson taking advantage of harvic. penalty with the collision to claim the championship with a second place finish in the race. it's unprecedented, that his unprecedented fifth straight sprint cup title.

>> i mean, i didn't sit in the stock car until i was like 20 or something so i raced dirt bikes and i really at the end of the day, you know, my career path, i needed to learn a lot and got put in the right situation. >> a bunch of seconds and now a whole bunch of firsts. johnson trails richard petty and dale earnhardt who have seven championships. he'll join us live tomorrow on "fox & friends" which has been kind of a tradition. one time, i think it was a couple of years ago, he actually drove arnold new york city. >> i remember that. >> going to bring the trophy? >> it depends if it gets through the tsa patdown. >> exactly right. who will be on the show later today? >> we have two people, bret baier and mark thiessen. bret baier looks good. >> he needs a new note ophoto. you don't wear those earmuffs anymore. >> i have the wrap arounds auto. auto thanksgiving around the corner and we've asked the fox business contributor charles

payne to pick out this year's biggest business turkey. i'm looking forward to this. what's number one? >> let's start with the home buyer tax credit, you know, where the government said hey, listen, if you buy a new house, we'll give you 8 grand. it started last year. it was controversial from the beginning. families that made over $85,000, they were too rich to get it. anyway for the most part, almost everyone who has taken part of this, if you bought a new house, you're already underwater with the $8,000 and you know the housing market is still a major, major disaster. >> didn't that kind of spike the housing market for a minute? >> right. it's proved that the government should not get in the way because in a -- you know, in these sort of situations wherever the bottom is, that's where the bottom is, you can't avoid it. >> cash for clunkers, sort of like that. >> the same thing. >> what i love about this is you work sports into the whole equation. number 2, you have the miami heat. >> i mean, this is -- lebron, this is it! you know, this is the espn

special. you know, the commercials. all the anxiety. are you kidding me? this is it. cleveland almost has a better record than these guys. >> and they're laughing. >> lebron is really looking -- this is bad. i'd say -- i'm so excited about these younger guys. these guys like blake griffin and john walsh, the younger guys. so far it's looking like the turkey. >> wins and losses aside, they're not filling up in miami. there are empty seats in a brand new arena and you shouldn't do that while paying these three guys what you're paying them. >> miami is not really a good sports town anyway to be quite honest with you. >> hit the ground. >> it was back in the day. it was but recently, you know, i mean, they had a championship baseball team they had to dismantle a year later. >> they did it twice. speaking of dismantling, microsoft has this good idea for a gizmo called the kin. >> the kin, you know. first of all, i don't know they were going to play north of the mason-dixon, it doesn't sound very good. you got one of those kin phones?

>> supposed to be. >> microsoft's attempt of being hip. they're not a hip company. they're not. maybe they can buy a hip company but they're not a hip company. my advice to microsoft, buy a hip company. don't change the name and don't tell anyone you bought it. this is the only way to get into the hip cell phone market. >> next time they have an idea like that, they should just chill. >> yeah. >> but anyway, they stopped the kin to put all their resources into windows phone 7, right? >> right. >> here's the funny thing, they stopped but the commercials were still playing for it. this is a disaster. yeah. >> you mentioned earlier, you tan tantalized us with a tease. you were going to talk about another cash for something. >> cash for lawn mowers. this is like -- >> let's trade in the old one. >> trade in the old one for like maybe a cordless electric and i mean, listen, if showing off -- >> yeah, a lot of places around the country get a $350 cordless electric lawnmower for $50 because the government is paying the less. this is going to save the economy and change the ecology.

of course, electricity is created by coal and natural gas. >> or atomic power. >> nevertheless, cash for lawn mowers, i think that's another major, major turkey as far as it being an economic solution to our problems. >> man, we must have a lot of money we're giving out cash for clunkers, cash for caulkers, cash for lawn mowers. >> yeah, there have been a lot of crazy bailout attempts instead of letting the economy do its thing. >> scary thing is if we had you back tomorrow and wednesday before thanksgiving, you bet you'd have more turkeys. >> i bet i would. i came up with these off the cuff. unfortunately, 2010 has been maybe the year of the turkey. >> and steve, the only time you were forced to move back as charles gets so enthusiastic is the miami heat story. >> i know. whoa! got to hold that back. >> we're going to see some of that heat. today charles will be on at 9:20 on the fox business network hosting "varney & company" where his guests will be 99ers union co-founder. >> you got to check this out. these guys hold out for the

right job. we should pay their unemployment until they get the job they want. that they like, that their credentials justify. work at burger king until you get the right job. >> they call them 99ers because? >> they're on unemployment for 99 months but they want more. >> all right. >> good job. >> yeah. all right. >> thank you. >> all right. they are household names, talking about ali. talking about jackie robinson and talking about michael jordan but those famous athletes say they owe it all to athletes they never heard of until now, their stories are next. >> and ladies, something to raise your glass to. how many glasses of wine you should drink a day to stay healthy. >> all right! >> we've got the number. that's beer. who put the beer video in, ted? >> some more highlights from the american music awards. this is the second act i saw, katy perry. >> she's married. hey, lawrence, my parents want to talk to you.

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>> got some headlines for you. a german court says the world's third most wanted nazi has died before he could face trial. the 89-year-old died last week in germany. he was charged with murder for killing thousands of people at the belzick death camp. a new harvard study has the american heart association changing its advice for women. it now says ladies who have two alcoholic drinks per day end up living longer. until now, women had been advised to limit their consumption to just one. but now the advice, two. over to you. >> yeah, i got to do it for my health. >> sounds like i'm suddenly healthier. >> hey, icons like jackie robinson, muhammad ali, serena williams and michael jordan are synonymous with their sports. there's a handful of courageous

african-americans who paved the way for other athletes. >> say it loud, an illustrated history of the black athlete pays tribute to heroic african-american athletes and the author of the book joins us this morning. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> you thought thfts going to take you six weeks. it took you three years to put together this fascinating book of history. >> we did. i thought six weeks, i'm done. all wrapped up. give it to the publisher and three years later, here i am. >> so as we accept the michael jordan serena williams of the world, you look back and a lot of their personalities and success go back to people like zach johnson, even for those who don't box or like the sport. >> jack was such an outside character. there's been a lot written about him in documentaries but he was someone who just was -- was super talented and for the time he was living in, he pushed all barriers. he was a ferocious boxer. i think the ultimate, like, superstar. almost one of our first

superstars. >> right, he was a trash talker before muhammad ali. >> talked trash, wore furs. beat you down in the ring and then came back and dated all your women. so -- >> that was the early 1900's. >> let's talk about an inspirational african-american woman, althea gibson. >> she was actually a sassy gal. in researching her, she grew up in harlem. her parents were actually afraid she would become a street kid because she loved hanging out in the pool hall and beating all the guys in pool so she got into tennis as a way to kind of make her a young lady. just an amazing, amazing woman. >> john mcclendon, he coached at cleveland state. what made that significant? >> for john, he was the creator of the fast break and so for me when i was looking back historically at basketball and all of the things that contributed to making our culture a great sports culture today, john is someone who stood out, not only was he strategically smart about the game but he groomed so many young men. >> and predominantly white players. he had a black coach in charge of white players.

>> that's exactly right. >> i want to get to effa manly. she was an amazing woman. >> she was my favorite. she is one of the founders of the negro league and owner of one of the teams and she was a white woman, the interesting story about her is she was a white woman who kind of grew up thinking she was black. her mom married, her stepfather was african-american and she thought she was a black woman in her 20's. when she found out, growing up in the community and this is her life, she didn't tell everybody. she passed for a black woman which was interesting. she went on to be one of the leader of the naacp. her teams went to the championships and she developed people like cool papa bell. she was an amazing, amazing woman. >> interesting time. roxanne jones, great book. congratulations on "say it loud." appreciate you coming in this morning. >> thanks for having me. >> the white house unveiling plans to put salad bars in schools, 5,000 of them. should the administration be more concerned with test scores

some are saying than lettuce? >> and npr says it only gets 2% of its funding from you, the taxpayer but we're going to talk to a professor who says that's a lot of garbage. it's more like 25%!

>> when national public radio, npr fired fox news analyst juan williams last month, some lawmakers proposed withdrawing government funding for npr. that proposal failed to pass the house. and meantime, npr claims only 1% or 2% of the budget is from taxpayer money but our next guest says that is not true. joining us right now is an english professor at johnson county community college near kansas city, mark browning. good morning to you, mark. >> good morning. >> ok. so you put on your thinking cap and you realized that, you know,

while npr says it's probably 1% or 2%, big deal. you did some calculations and you figured that npr could be getting as much as 25%, maybe 30% of their income from us! >> 25% is the number i would say is reasonable. in order to understand that you've got to realize that they get 350% of their money from their member stations. when they use the 1% to 3%, they're talking in terms of 1% to 3% of direct money from the federal government. they're very specific about that. >> right. so you wrote a great op ed that was published in the new york papers this past weekend, you say ok, so they get 5.6% from federal, state and local funds. 10% from the corporation for public broadcasting and something i never thought about and this is brilliant. 64% of their funding from gifts, from individuals and businesses and foundations and stuff like that.

and got the chart up right now and of that money, a lot of it is tax deductible so you could argue that's coming out of our pocket as well. >> right. that's -- and that's the only really iffy part of my analysis is just how much of that is actually deducted and therefore subsidized by the government. and there's no way that i can know that and there's no way that npr can know that and that's where that 25%, maybe it's more like 30. maybe it's more like 20 but it's still a considerable amount. >> no kidding. it's much bigger than the 1% or 2%. here's what npr spokeswoman anna christopher told foxnews.com, said "you could argue that a small unquantity final of that support filters to npr. quantifying that amount is imperfect and impossible." do you agree with her? >> technically, yes. i can't put an exact, you know, 25.3%. but it's obviously more than 1% to 3% and i would say 20, 30, i

chose 25 as i thought a reasonable, conservative number. >> ok. and professor, in your op ed, you wrote ultimately because the channel does lean to the left, ultimately what they should be -- if they're going to continue to do that, they need to be labelled as what they are, recognize it for what it is, a 501c4 on par with moveon.org. >> or the national rifle association. but yeah, i believe they cater to a particular segment of the population and if they're not going to represent the entire spectrum of the population, then they ought to be so categorized. >> label it as such. all right. interesting stuff. professor, thank you very much for joining us today from kansas city. >> thank you. >> you bet. >> all right. about 3 minutes before the top of the hour. who can forget your dreaded first grade school picture? well, some parents want to forget and they're having their kids' pictures photo shopped.

air brushed. you have to hear this one to believe it. then even the secretary of state says she wouldn't want a patdown with the guys in the blue gloves but the head of the tsa is not budging but he does seem to be softening a bit. john pistole here live in the next half-hour but first, enjoy bon jovi from last night's ama's.

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>> meanwhile, it's a blast from your picture that haunted you to adultedhood. what are you going to do? your kids may not have to suffer the same fate. air brushing childhood memories. "fox & friends" explains straight ahead. >> all right. live from studio e where they've got the christmas lights up before thanksgiving, welcome to the big show on a short week. >> trying to get you all ready to shop on friday. black friday. >> like brian said a couple of weeks ago. >> i'm almost done. >> you were almost done shopping? >> yeah. isn't that scary? people who know me know that's really scary. remember that ice we had here and now you know why i sound like this. >> is that what did it? >> it's one of the theories going around. anyway, let's begin now with the breaking news overnight in

germany. shutting down one of its most popular tourist sites because of security concerns. this is in berlin. thank you. i know you took german in seventh grade. german officials not elaborating on the threat at this hour but the move comes after a german magazine reported that al-qaida is planning a possible attack on that building early next year. >> meanwhile, talk about double trouble. a scare in the air. not for one but two delta airline flights. >> delta 30, we're declaring an emergency. >> do you see anything, smoke coming out of the number one engine? >> yes, we just got a flash on the departing aircraft. >> that's never good. you heard control tower audio from new york's j.f.k. airport last night where delta flight 30 had to make an emergency landing last night after the engine on the plane failed just apparently 400 feet off of the ground. some 200 passengers were on board the moscow-bound flight.

and that's not all. an hour later, a second delta airlines flight was grounded in atlanta because of technical problems. the crew of delta flight 125 had engine trouble. they felt the plane's tail scrape on the runway during that emergency landing. thankfully no one was00. >> i'm going to get my own show by the end of this hour. a new trial date has been set for the three american hikers accused of spying in iran. sarah shourd was released in september and she's due back in iran on february 6th where she'll surrender a half million dollar bail. my sense is she's not showing. >> shourd, i should say, is not going back. her fiance and their friend josh fatal are still in prison and their lawyer says he has not been allowed to meet with them to prepare their defense. >> taylor swift showed off a whole new look last night. did you see her? at the american music awards. >> ♪ front of you saying i'm

sorry for the night ♪ >> swift quaffing her trademark cascade curls for a new sleek look. she won, favorite female country artist. brad paisley won favorite country male artist thanking fans for what he called the best year of his life. then there was justin bieber. including artist of the year, i told you guys earlier, this is the first time i've seen this kid sing. >> and? >> what was up with his shoes and his hair? that's not the hair we always talk about. >> it isn't? >> no. >> he usually had more -- longer. it looked like he just got a haircut. >> yeah. he's growing up before our eyes. >> look at his shoes. what is that? >> you know the kids these days. those darn kids. there he is, his hair. >> indeed. so that's the very latest from your teeny bopper beat.

this is the number one thing that everybody is -- >> american music awards. even bon jovi was in it. it happened that the teenager won. >> very good show. when everybody is talking about everywhere is what's going on at the airport? i'm looking at the web site right now. cancer survivor forced to remove breast in patdown. we've seen pictures as people walk through the scanners where the guy if they refuse to opt out and you see the guy in the blue gloves on the other side. it looks more like a proctologist office than the airport. what's going on at the airport? they're trying to make us safer. >> well, here's the deal, 99% of you are choosing to go through the body scanner or don't know you had a choice out of the 450 airports so you go through in case something goes off, you have quarters in your pocket or something else. a phone in your pocket or you opt out, you go to get patdown. now, over the past month, we have learned that this -- the patdown is really getting very suggestive. getting very graphic. and it's all in the name of the underwear bomber so john pistole who joins us last week basically

said there's no give here. this is the way it's going to be. sorry. here's what he said, though, is there some give now? >> there's a continual process of refinement, an adjustment to ensure the best practice is applied and that the comment from the traveling public is taken into account. this has always been viewed as an evolving program that will be adamented as conditions warrant. i don't know if that's the case. i think that statement reflects the incredible surprise that this administration has felt from the public having any sort of blow back. i don't think they expected to have this blow back because they just figured that most americans would line up and say we're doing this all for safety. >> well, the president himself said in the last couple of days, they should look for ways to alter techniques that are an invasion of privacy some say. bobby jindal was on "meet the press" yesterday and talking about what's going on at the airports as well. listen. >> it feels so much from this administration like we're playing a defensive game in the war on terrorism. yes, we need to harden our

infrastructure but if you have a committed terrorist who is willing to give up their lives, you look at the past pattern, we got lucky with the bomb in times square. we got lucky with the cargo packages and got lucky with the underwear bomber that the devices didn't go off. luck is not a strategy. we need to be rooting out these networks and killing these terrorists. i think the american people weren't not worried about the administration reading the un r miranda rights to the underwear bomber. you're so worried about the rights of the terrorist. what about the rights of the innocent american traveler? >> good point. where are you going to go through these body scanners? they're not in every state yet. right now, they are in 34 states. take a look. they are the yellow states, those are the states in which you would go through these scanners including washington, d.c. and coming up, we'll have john pistole who heads up the tsa. he'll be joining us at 7:30 a.m. eastern time and ask him what kind of evolution will these policies, what will we see in the coming weeks?

>> you're in a tough spot because it's an underwear bomber, how do you possibly check someone's crotch without offending them? >> that's exactly right. that's why so many people are going to opt out, they say, on wednesday creating the mother of all traffic tie-ups at the airport. >> that's the quote of the day. sorry. >> anita is live right now at chicago's o'hare international airport with a preview of coming attractions. good morning to you. >> well, i'll tell you what, you might want to think about gassing up that car or leaving the gas card open on the credit card, some people might drive instead of having to deal with that. here at o'hare earlier this morning, people are obviously thinking about this. we've been talking to people over the weekend, too, as well about this and it seems that people are worried about what is to come on wednesday. but, you know, the people that we spoke with, they tell us that they're ok with all of this and they will not participate in this national opt out day. >> i want to be safe.

i don't care about the x-ray machine. so yeah, doesn't bother me a bit. i haven't been through one yet but i'm not watching them looking at me. i don't care. >> people shouldn't do that because it's for our safety that they are doing that. >> don't complain and, you know, just be, what i would suggest is if people can drive, i would tell them to go about driving. >> evidently, everybody has the option of driving even though that gentleman said that. now, the tsa chicago spokesman said he wouldn't disclose how many travelers are actually selected for the body scanners. but reportedly, it's about 20% of the holiday travelers. and it's only a few of those -- some of those people start to opt out, you can just imagine the domino effect that this is going to create.

we'll all be watching what happens on wednesday here at o'hare airport. reporting live from the big airport, anita padilla fox news. back to you in the studio. >> good way to put it. thank you very much for the live report. >> because it takes -- for 100 passengers, it takes an hour to go through body scanners. those same 100 passengers will take six hours for patdowns. >> is there a shield out there that would stop people from checking out your equipment when you go through a body scan? is there anything out there that could actually put a block, maybe a human cup? >> perhaps a fig leaf, brian. you're looking at something that was devised by a colorado inventer by the name of jeff busky much he's got a company called rocky flats gear. and apparently, what they use in th that fig leaf right there, there's a powder metal that blocks the scans of the rays from going in there. not only does it protect your complete image but also protects

you from radiation, they feel and he says even though it has this powderized metal stuff in there, it doesn't set off metal detector. >> well, i wonder if this is acceptable. also have it in bras, correct? >> that's correct. and panties. >> is that going to set off the tsa? by the story, it doesn't. if the tsa wants to see everything, they can't see everything. >> this would not stop you from a patdown. if you're going through the scanner, i can't see something. >> you just told me during the break you have some of these underwear on. >> yeah. in fact, we have some footage -- no, i was kidding! you're not that gullible normally gretch. >> i know. sometimes things change. let's talk about this. do you remember when you had your school photo taken and just by happen stance, you know, you accidentally got a bad haircut or scrape on your face, that's how your photo ended up. guess what? now parents have the ability in almost every school district to photo finish their child. in other words, to take away

those blemishes so that their child's photo looks just perfect. >> of course, it costs a couple of extra bucks but parents are willing to do that. we have inquired of you whether or not you had some pictures. take a look. jennifer's daughter jaden, that's a picture of her and came with this noted, my husband cut my daughter jaden's bangs two days before preschool pictures. i did not speak to him for nearly a week. jennifer -- >> that's something they can adjust through the photo finishing. >> barbara's son darren says i wish they would have covered up the fly on my son's school picture. >> on the shoulder. >> oh, my gosh. if they had the photo shop back in high school, the mullet may not have cultural significance. >> cindy says had they tried to touch up his badly quaffed photo, i'd be livid. is it bad? definitely. but it's adorable. >> it's truly them. >> and then this is my favorite picture of my son david missing his teeth.

that's from diane and you know what? with the technology, they can actually add teeth. >> no. >> i went through my scrapbook last night. they wanted us to bring in really disgusting photos of myself. i found my 12-year-old photo but i couldn't rip it out because i would have ruined it. i used to be able to stick my finger through my two front teeth. my hair was farrah fawcett times one million. >> my daughter sally, they photo shopped her, apparently there was glare on her glasses and then rather than, you know, have them retake the picture, they added somebody else's eyes in sally's photos. >> are you kidding? >> i'm not kidding not we got the picture and it's like who's that? those are not my daughter's eyes. >> that's not the irish i raised. good job, steve. >> yeah. >> all right. 13 minutes after the hour. straight ahead, what's more important? patting down ordinary american citizens at the airport or cracking down on illegal immigrants jumping over the border? the president and his priorities are under fire. that's next. >> plus queen elizabeth feeling

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>> a so-called third war is being fought right now on our southern border with mexico. despite lawmakers calling for more support, the obama administration plans on pulling national guard troops away from that border. why troop withdrawal and why now? >> with us now to discuss this, the founder of rural threats.com, national security advisor for the christian action network. ryan, first off, when you look at why isn't this just a mexican problem? these are mexicans killing mexicans. 31,000 mexicans have died since 2006. why should we care about that? >> because the vulnerabilities that we face as a result of this chaos is being exploited by terrorists at this very moment. in fact, there are increasing indications that the terrorist group hezbollah has formed an alliance with the drug cartels. >> wait a minute, we've been talking for months about the drug cartels on our southern border and how many people have been killed and the guy who got shot on the jet ski and all that stuff like that. you're telling me hezbollah is lined up with these guys?

>> that's right. in july, the mexican drug cartel started using sophisticated car bombs that were compared in their level of sophistication to hezbollah and those car bombs started exploding shortly after congresswoman sue meyer received information from the mexican military official that hezbollah was creating the drug cartels to carry ought those kinds of attacks. >> here's governor rick perry, he had something interesting to say. he was talking about the tsa and trying to get everybody's attention on the border. we're pulling out national guardsmen in the next few months. here's the governor yesterday. >> how about we take all those tsa agents and put them on the border with mexico where they can do some security there? that's where we need security. substantially more than in our airports and what we're seeing out of this bunch. >> so you're drawing a picture of a dire situation that apparently is getting worse if there is the hezbollah influence and now the president is pulling back the national guardsmen. >> that's right. this is really an argument over 500 roughly troops. and i think that needs to be

mentioned because the problem is far greater than 500 troops in terms of building security on the border. >> certain members of the congress want thousands, thousands and thousands. >> that's exactly right. there's one incident that bears mentioning which is in february, a man associated with al-qaida in somalia was arrested and they found out he had smug he willed in 270 somalis into the united states through the mexican border and this man was working with a terrorist organization and we need to ask how many of those people might be connected. >> the only way to get the whole nation's attention on this is to have an islamic linkage and so far, more and more evidence is showing it is there. >> that's right. think about how massive this is. it's over 30,000 mexicans being killed, that's about five times the number of u.s. troops killed in iraq and afghanistan since 2002. >> thanks so much. >> thank you. >> all right. straight ahead on this monday morning, mothers are mounting a challenge against the tsa telling officers keep your hands off our kids.

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>> now your news by the numbers. first $124 billion fortunate. that's how much the european union could loan to ireland. they are desperate. next 5,000, that's how many salad bars are expected to pop up in public schools nationwide. the initiative being unveiled and it's happening today as part of michelle obama's campaign against childhood obesity. finally $125 million. that's how much the latest harry potter flick brought into the box office this weekend. "harry potter and the deathly

hallows" part one joins the biggest debut in franchise history in the last 37 hours. >> thank you, brian. tsa, don't touch my kids. that's the cry from one mom doing everything she can to protect her children from patdowns in airport. she's saying enough is enough and calling on the tsa to use some common sense. joining me is penny young nance, the ceo of concerned women of america. >> you're referring to an op ed that was on foxnews.com that i discussed the fact that concerned women for america did a poll that showed that the enormous amount of americans, the majority of the americans understand national security to be a major issue for us. that it's a major concern. we're never going back to pre-9/11 days. we all need to be screened but we also need to use common sense when dealing with children in these patdown situations. i don't know if you saw drudge this morning but on the front

page is a little boy who is being strip searched and once i posted this op ed, i got all kinds of responses from moms who had their own stories to tell. one was a mom in the atlanta airport whose 5-year-old was taken from her randomly, taken into a back room and patted down. the mom was not even allowed to go into the room with her, she could only watch through the window. so we're saying let's use some common sense here. i don't know that strip searching 3-year-olds makes us any safer. >> right. my 4-year-old son at the time got the patdown right after the christmas day bombing and i have said publicly i feel that was extreme. it appears that the tsa may be changing and evolving. latest report now is that children under 12 will not receive these kind of extreme patteddowns. >> how do you know they're 12? i have a 13-year-old daughter who frankly looks like she's 16. it's difficult to know how old children are by looking at them

but, you know, it's a concern. i'm glad that they're working hard to keep us safe and i know the majority of tsa agents are just doing a job and trying to feed their families. but i'm concerned we're on the wrong track. we need to be looking for petn which is play-doh explosives, i'm not sure the new screening devices do that. >> let's take a look at this statement from john pistole, the tsa administrator. clearly it's intrusive meaning the patdowns. it's not comfortable and comes down to what's that balance between privacy and security. so penny, i mean, do you fault the tsa for trying to keep us safe? i mean -- >> i don't fault them. >> if something happened and we didn't have the body scanners and the patdowns it would really be their fault so do you understand what he's saying about trying to strike a balance. >> well, two things. there's a compelling government interest to keep us safe. i understand that. but i'm saying let's use some common sense.

especially with dealing with children and the way they're dealt with. we tell kids not to talk to strangers much less let them touch you. we're sending mixed messages. i want to know because janet napolitano doned this question. are women in burkas going to undergo the same level of screening as your 4-year-old. >> i know that care, the islamic organization advised them to not have to do that. but i believe that they will have to but you know what? we'll ask tsa administrator john pistole that very question. he'll be here live. >> ask janet napolitano. >> he'll be here live after the break. penny, thanks so much for your time. >> thank you. >> also ahead on this show, after mr. pistole, he's the top man at the white house in dealing with terrorist threats, jobless numbers and political attacks may not be his toughest job. wait until you hear about the struggles david axelrod faces at home in an intimate interview. and queen elizabeth feeling a bit left out of her own grandson's wedding? why william doesn't want her help. what? then the cheerleaders for the washington redskins live in the

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nation. and started these invasive patdowns? >> well, we obviously were anticipating there would be some concerns because of new change policy or procedures, just trying to use the latest intelligence to make sure we're keeping the traveling public safe but i think it's safe to say there has been a reaction that not many people could have predicted including myself. >> no kidding. john, you know, we're showing pictures, everybody is showing pictures of guys at the gates that looks like it's a visit to a proctologist rather than a visit to an airport. the latest intelligence indicates from christmas day that an individual with a nonmetallic that could -- should have gone off frankly given the concealment design and everything would not have been picked up through walking metal detector so the imaging technology machines, it's in about 70 airports now, about 400 machines, give us the best

opportunity to detect that type of device. if someone opts out of that, could have if he was here, want to make sure they have a thorough patdown so that type of device would be discovered and so that flight is safe. >> you're in an impossible situation in many respects. how do you check somebody's crotch and not offend them and what about those bombers using crotch bombs, have you gotten any intelligence since the christmas day crotch bomber that something else could be coming our way? >> well, of course, we saw over the weekend, the information coming out of the peninsula where described the type of concealment, design, and on the cargo bombs coming out of yemen and that was the same bomb maker who did the christmas day bomb who also did the attempt against the saudis, counterterrorism official who we believe that bomb maker and perhaps others that are still out there constructing and buying similarly well designed concealed devices that are wanting to bring down not only

passenger aircraft but also cargo aircraft to try to disrupt the economy, so that's a challenge we face is how do we best provide security while respecting the privacy of everybody but the bottom line is we know everybody wants to get home safely so how can we work in partnership with the traveling public to accomplish that. >> right, you just mentioned al-qaida and most people would admit the biggest terroristic threat to the united states are muslim extremists so many people have said let's just call it what it is and profile. when you are in these high level meetings and you're trying to decide exactly what to put the american public through, does the word profiling cobble profi we have all types of layers of security. we have multiple layers informed by intelligence from overseas perhaps like with the saudis and the cargo plotted, with the information that's collected by those agencies in the intelligence community, law enforcement community, f.b.i., where i worked for almost 27

years, all those help inform of actions at the airport. what it comes down to is how can we use the intelligence for best possible screen sng>> as you know, we've been talking to these el-al experts for the longest time and their security is something to look up to and aspire to. they say it's possible to start doing background checks and start to look at passengers before they board. have you looked at that extensively and see if it's possible in this country for 450 airports. >> right. we do a fair amount of that in terms of layers of security. for example, that's what our no fly and selecting are far. this person is a threat to aviation. they either will not be allowed to board an aircraft at all or they will receive secondary screening and enhanced screening more than anybody else would. after that information, we have behavior detection officers who do similar to israeli to engage passengers, perhaps do swabs of

their hands and try to see are there people that need additional levels of security? >> and john, yesterday, i know a couple of web sites are commenting about what you said earlier in the day, you said that the procedures are not going to change. later, you said that screening procedures will be adapted as conditions warrant. were you changing your tune a little bit? >> well, i think it's a recognition that the -- that we are always evolving our techniques and our technology and trying to develop the latest techniques and technology. >> are you backing off a little bit? >> for the best intelligence. what i agreed to do is to look at how we can do this type of screening and do it less invasively that has been the request, then i'm open to doing that. what i'd like to do is work with the gao and inspector general and say these are the ones that have done the covert testing and are there less intrusive means that still provide that high level confidence in terms of the screen sng>> we're less than 48

hours away from the busiest travel day of the year and many organizations are calling for the protests now on wednesday for people to just do the patdown and not go through the body scanners and many other things. what are you going to do about wednesday? >> well, of course, we're fully staffed and prepared for -- tuesday is actually the biggest day now and then wednesday and next sunday being very heavily traveled day returning so people have the option where we have the technology to opt out, to do a patdown. my concern really goes to all the vast majority of the traveling public who simply want to get home to enjoy the holidays with family and loved ones and if they miss a flight because people are protesting, then i feel bad for them. >> john pistole, you have a tough job, thanks for joining us and taking some fire. >> thanks. >> meanwhile, let me tell you what else is happening around the world. scary scene at last night's lakers game. look at this. a young kid fell 50 feet from a

third level luxury suite. you can see his security guard checking out the spot where he did fall. it happened right after the game ended at the staples center. no exact word on the boy's condition. witnesses said he was moving his arms and moving his legs while paramedics were moving him to the hospital. >> very scary situation. a manhunt under way now for a person of interest in the shooting of a utah park ranger. through the rugged terrain looking for lance leroy raono believed to be wounded. police say he opened fire on ranger brody young after young pulled him over in a trail head parking lot. he is in critical condition in a grand junction, colorado hospital. it looks like trouble is brewing at buckingham palace. according to "the daily mail" prince william exercising some will power over grandmother queen elizabeth when it comes to the upcoming wedding. the prince reportedly leaving queen elizabeth out of major decisions including the date and even the wedding planner.

how could he do that? >> heaven forbid. indeed. >> what's going on weatherwise on this busy monday before the busy tuesday and the busy wednesday. it's busy. as you can see, from chicago, to the east, we've got a rainstorm moving through. that's going to probably affect people who are already traveling much it's already very chilly in the northern plains. rapid city has just 9. out in big sky country, montana, right now, 15. it's 60 currently in cleveland. they're going for a daytime high there throughout the ohio valley in the 60's. it's going to be chilly in the northern portions of new england today but a beautiful day from the mid atlantic through the mid part of the country. in washington, d.c. today, the high temperature should be 67 degrees. brian, why would i mention washington, d.c.? >> i don't know, steve. you looked at the rundown? from the right field to the front lines, i'm talking about the washington redskins cheerleaders went on a mission to cheer up our troops in combat and they were successful. fresh off their trip to

afghanistan and many other stops, joining us right now are the washington redskins cheerleaders. and alan, president of adopt a soldi soldier platoon, welcome to all of you. thanks for being here. how did you set this up? >> well, the washington redskins cheerleaders have been the special friend since the first super bowl party five or six years ago and microsoft xbox and adopt a soldier platoon were having a madden football video tour in afghanistan and asked if they would like to come. let's meet everybody. >> i'm zakara. >> latoya. >> mahdi. >> and jamela, first stop was where? kuwait? >> yes, we landed in kuwait from the states and we were there for two days and visited the soldiers and troops there and from there, we headed to afghanistan for about a week. >> so afghanistan, miles from the pakistan border, right? >> yes. >> what was the reaction from the troops? >> they were super excited to see us, just as much as we were to be there and bring a piece of home to them.

>> what do you have in your hand? >> actually, i have this flag was given to us, it was probably the most emotional thing that we went through the whole trip. it was on a combat mission and flew over the skies in afghanistan so we got it at about the 22nd tour like the beginning of the tour, so one of the cheerleaders who wasn't here today was able to pull it out from the crew that it came from. it was a big deal. really emotional. >> that's great. and i'm sure all the men and women are happy to see them but you also have a program, right, where we can adopt a soldier platoon. >> correct. when we were over there, we adopted the entire 101st airborne division. and the eod guys and stuff, we really could use some help from americans to support our troops over there, especially for the holidays. >> there's a web story that turned up, you can actually match up with a soldier, with a -- >> we do. we give americans a chance to connect directly with our units. >> right. and you can go to adopt a soldier platoon.org.

>> right. you have the whole 101st. that's the huge burden plus cheering on the redskins which is like a roller coaster. >> we enjoy it every day. >> you do? except for two weeks ago when you played monday night football game. for the eagles, that's another story. you did pushups over in afghanistan, correct? >> yes. >> you did pushups against whom? >> we would have a contest actually with the soldiers. >> really. >> yes. >> you did quite well. >> yes. >> could i challenge you? >> you want to challenge me? >> can i get some pushup music? >> first, standing in for me, keith, come on over here. standing in for me, my body double. this is keith. i'm always -- i'm only kidding. keith, you join us, though, can you do that? let's see if we can do it. ok, here we go. >> let's go. >> anybody cheering for me? >> you ready? come on. >> come on, brian! >> you are not killing me.

how long did she go by the way, does anyone know? oh, great? you have nothing, you don't have a chihuahua? >> a chihuahua? >> brian, you can go. >> we have nothing else going on here. >> we have a cheerleader. >> oh, my god. >> brian, you're slowing down. >> you're slowing down! all right. very nice. thank you, ladies and gentlemen. >> good job. all right! >> all right. >> all right. thanks, guys. it is now 17 minutes before the top of the hour. straight ahead, top presidential advisor david axelrod not only dealing with terror threats, the economy and politics, one of his toughest tasks is at home. a preview of the intimate interview he does with martha maccallum coming up next. >> and possible break in the natalee holloway case.

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know, and all of a sudden, her one arm went back and her eyes rolled back. it was really frightening. >> she was salivating at the mouth and came out. i was just sort of in shock. >> what was the first thing you did? >> first thing i did is call my mom and i said do babies do this? she said no. >> no. martha maccallum from america's newsroom sat down with the axelrods in chicago and she's here to share more of that interview with us now. >> good morning, guys. >> heartbreaking story. >> you know what? every parent who has had a baby has that feeling of walking into nursery and seeing if something was ok. this time, it was not ok. it's really about a journey that continues to this day. we have one more piece of sound that talks about the struggle that they've been through. take a look at that. >> the attacks intensified coming in clusters. the only treatment, large doses of medicine that sometimes put lauren into a coma-like state.

>> she would grab susan's hand in between. she's sleek, mom, make them stop. and then she'd go back into the seizures and -- >> for everybody. >> and just sit there and cry. >> lauren axelrod is 27 years old and the next time you look at david axelrod in the middle of some political calculation, you got to remember he's got a very complicated home life. >> he does. and, you know, meeting lauren is such a great experience. she's a lovely young woman and their life has been very challenging because of this. when you look at the powerful position that david axelrod is in and what he's gone through, it's a major amount of courage. and decision on the part of the family for him to be able to go forward with his career and to move to washington and part of the story is about what that was like and how lauren feels about him working for the president in the white house. >> it affects millions of

americans, doesn't it? >> it affects children but the other thing to remember is it can happen to anybody that suffers a traumatic brain injury. it happens to our soldiers in the field when they come back with a brain injury, sometimes they have seizures. they don't have the kind of damage in development that lauren had as she was growing up but they can lose memories and things along that line that makes it challenging. susan axelrod, the main part about this is she has a tremendous organization called the cure which is looking for a cure and they've raised millions of dollars. she'll be with me on the show to talk about their work and more about lauren's story. >> all right. we'll be watching today and tomorrow on "america's newsroom" that immediately follows the "fox & friends" program. >> thank you so much. >> great job. >> sure. >> coming up on our show, a famous forensic pathologist says the potential new evidence in the natalee holloway case still a long shot. why the newly discovered jaw might not be the smoking gun. >> back in 1991, number one song in america "cream" by prince.

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>> hey, the answer to the trivia question -- billy jean king. the winner from maryland. thanks so much, minnie for playing big. she disappeared in aruba five years ago but natalee holloway's family is still searching for closure. dutch authorities are reviewing dental records of the missing teen and comparing them to a jaw bone that was just found by a tourist on a beach in aruba. could this finally be the key piece of evidence to solve the mystery of what happened to their daughter? >> joining us now from los angeles is forensic pathologist dr. michael baden. good morning to you. >> good morning, how are you? >> i'm doing just fine. so when will we know if this jaw bone is actually natalee

holloway? >> well, i'm sure they know already if it's her or not because the dental x-rays, the x-rays our dentist takes, are like fingerprints of us. they compared her x-rays with the bone that was found and this low tech will have already told him whether it's her or somebody else. the d.n.a. will confirm it or confirm the d.n.a. of another person who also has to be -- >> obviously, a jaw bone whether it's natalee will follow. there was a tooth attached. >> that's right. the teeth are great because the dental pulp, the root canal stuff is sufficient to do d.n.a. and also toxicology, new technology as to whether or not

she was given a date rape drug at the time that she died, even after five years so teeth are very useful forensically assuming, brian, we've had situations where medical students have dropped bones and created problems that this isn't the prank of some kinds. >> but your gut, your gut tells you what about this case? >> i think that this is a possibility. the more information we're gathering, the more possible it is of a missing person and it could be natalee because i understand there aren't too many young women missing in aruba. >> well, it's very interesting. one final question, dr. baden, would you assume this jaw has been in that location since her disappearance or did it come ashore? >> no, it could have been one of two things. either it was washed ashore or an animal, a dog or something dug up a burial site. we see in upstate new york where

animals dig up burial sites years later and drop a bone some place so that's a possibility. >> we'll find it in a couple of days. dr. baden, keep your phone on. >> thanks, brian. >> coming up straight ahead, the tsa's intense new procedures are inconvenience for some and downright humiliating for others. a cancer survivor who was humiliated beyond belief next hour. [ male announcer ] it's a rule of nature. you don't decide when vegetables reach the peak of perfection. the vegetables do. at green giant, we pk vegetables only when they're perfect. then freeze them fast so they're are as nutritious as fresh. [ green giant ] ho ho ho. ♪ green git

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trophy. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> steve: this is traditionally the shortest workweek of the calendar 'cause you always know it's pretty much just monday, tuesday, wednesday and then it's turkey day and people go shopping. so we got three days ahead of us. >> brian: you know what they call wednesday? the biggest party day of the year. >> steve: it absolutely is. >> gretchen: not for me. sorry i have this voice today. i figured it out. it wasn't the ice we were sitting on friday. i kissed elmo on thursday. >> brian: one or the other. >> gretchen: the executive producer of this show yesterday when i called her and said, i'm not so sure about my voice, she said, you sound like a muppet. now we know. i kissed elmo and i became a muppet. >> brian: elmo, if you're watching and you have a friend there, could someone swab his cheek?

and then we can do a test to see how it is. >> steve: i'm sure the doctor is working on this right now. >> brian: elmo, no tongue. most of the muppets had a tongue. >> steve: thank you. i did not notice that. [ laughter ] >> gretchen: how do you read headlines after that? you just go straightforward because we have a fox news alert. german officials now confirming they have shut down part of the parliament building because of an imminent terror threat. according to a statement posted on the german parliament web site, police a bracing for a possible attack that could be linked to the pakinstani branch of al-qaeda. no further details were given, but a german magazine reported al-qaeda may be planning an attack on that building or that they have been planning it for early next year. brian. >> brian: rescue in in zealand. they likely didn't survive the explosion. but they are still finishing up

a small shaft to test the gasses and not ruling out a miracle. >> we still remain optimistic, but we are planning for all outcomes and there is also part of this process with planning for the possible loss of life as a result of what's occurred underground. >> brian: they have had no contact with the 29 missing miners since friday. >> steve: talk about double trouble, a scare in the air, not for one, but two delta airline flights. >> delta, delta 30. we declared an emergency. do you see anything smoke coming out of the number one engine? >> yeah. we did some kind of flash. >> steve: that is control tower audio from new york jfk airport last night. that's where delta flight 30 had to make an emergency landing last night just about -- only 400 feet in the air after the engine failed. the exact cause not known, but the pilot reported birds may have flown into the engine. some 200 passengers were on board the moscow bound flight. nobody was hurt. less than an hour later, a

second delta flight canceled in atlanta because of technical problem, the crew of that flight blamed engine trouble. passengers said they felt the plane's tail scrape on the runway during that emergency landing. that's never good. nobody was hurt. >> brian: you've got the oscars, the grammies and now the biebers. also known as the american music awards. ♪ >> brian: justin bieber, some call him dreamy, taking home four ama's last night, including artist of the year. taylor swift, who looks completely different, won favorite female country artist, swapping her curls for a new sleek look. can you say hair iron? and -- >> steve: hair iron? >> brian: yes, i know the industry. and brad paisley won favorite male country artist. he's wearing a hat. he's thanking fans for what he called the best year of his

life. >> steve: do you think he irons his hair? >> brian: not sure. he won't reveal it. we don't even know. >> gretchen: i know why you know about that. because your daughters have curly hair. >> brian: that's possibly it and kaitlyn loves justin bieber. the first thing she does is everything he does. >> steve: she's in the demographic. i got a daughter who loves him too. let's talk about this. we had the guy who runs tsa and he's in charge of those very personal pat-downs and the body scans. john pistole is his name. yesterday on one of the chat shows, he said that procedures are not going to change at the airports. then a couple hours later, he said that apparently screening procedures will be adapted as conditions warrant. so was he backing down off of that hard line approach? here is what he said just about half hour ago. >> well, what i agreed to do is to look at how we can do this type of screening, if we can do

it less invasively as has been the request, then i'm open to that. i would like to work with the gao and inspector general and say, you're the ones that have done the covert testing, are there less intrusive means that still provide good screening. >> gretchen: he's in a difficult situation. i asked him the profiling question because so many have been talking about why don't you just profile because we know who is trying to attack us. he didn't really answer that question. so i guess we'll have to stay tuned to see if there will be any change. >> brian: my hope is if they're doing it but not telling us because they know it's politically a time bomb. i hope they're using it and using logic. isn't that good police work? let me tell you also, in terms of where you're going to see these body scans, 34 states where they have them. we still have a long way to go as you see the ones where we labeled the states, those are the ones that have them. we have a long way to go, but we

don't really want to reveal too much so they don't target certain airports. >> steve: i read a story this morning about apparently there was a transport of military members from the united states left bagram air base over the last couple of days. they stopped in indianapolis and a bunch of guys got off, but then about 100 members of the indiana national guard had to be rescreened. apparently one of the tsa screeners stopped a guy and said, you've got a nail trimmer. i'm going to have to have that. he said why? well, you can bring down an airplane with the nail trimmer. the guy was standing there, he had an assault rifle and a pistol. >> brian: they took the nail clippers. >> steve: you don't have bullets, but they took away his nail trimmer. >> gretchen: following just following the rules. >> steve: he had a rifle. a rifle! >> gretchen: guy probably be fired if he didn't take the nail clippers. let's talk about the numbers. so here is how long it would take 100 people to be scanned by one of those body scanners. 15 minutes.

this is in lieu of the fact that some are going to protest now on wednesday, which is really busy travel day. that same 100 people it would take six hours for pat-downs. if they requested a pat-down, be prepared to stand in line and missing your flight. so far 1% of people traveling have opted out of going through the scanner because of radiation or they don't want their private parts seen. that's only 1%. i was expecting that to be a lot higher based on the outrage that we have been talking about. >> steve: when you see an -- >> brian: when you see an eight-year-old without a shirt being patted down and another kid saying don't touch me and then the story we have later on, you realize one person is being overzealous. bobby jindal, he was on "meet the press" and says we've got it all wrong. go after the bad guys where they live. it will be a lot easier where we live. listen. >> it feels so much from this administration like we're playing a defensive game on the war on terror. if you have a committed terrorist who is willing to give

up their lives, look at the past pattern. we got lucky with the bomb in times square. we got lucky with the cargo packages and the underwear bomber that the devices didn't go off. luck is not a strategy. we need to be rooting them out and i think if the american people, when they see an administration worried about reading miranda rights, they wonder, you're so worried about the rights of the terrorist, what about the rights of the innocent american traveler. >> steve: that's exactly right. when we had mr. pistole on a little while ago, when brian asked him about was there intel since the christmas day bomber to suggest that they were going to try something on par with that, he said yes. >> brian: yeah. it's his responsibility. if something like that happens, you say who is the administrator, john pistole has to be fired and he might feel personally responsible. why wouldn't he? >> gretchen: let's go to dallas live at the dallas-fort worth airport and talk to adrian who

is there to tell us how the holiday travel could wreak havoc there. good morning. >> good morning. it will be a big travel week for families here in north texas. many of the large school districts out for the entire week. for many of these families, this will be the first time they go through this aggressive new screening process. some changes have already been made. there has been plenty of criticism. the tsa deploying dozens of these scanners at airports across the country, searching underneath people's clothes, including potentially for slow explosives. some called this an invasion of privacy, but they have an even bigger problem with aggressive pat-downs for chose who skip the scans. they want to keep them as minimally invasive as possible, but they're necessary, they say, to catch people like the christmas day bomber from a year ago. including in some of these changes we're talking about, pilots will be able to skip the scan as well as a pat-down and we know children under 12 will

receive a modified version of the pat-down. talked to federal officials. they say they are aware of people's concerns. one in particular, secretary of state hillary clinton said she would be hesitant to go through it herself. i had a chance to speak with passengers here at dfw airport this morning. here is what they said. >> i think it's fine. i think as long as they try to help make us safe, i'm willing to put up with it. i think the real question is how much are we willing to give up to feel safe. i don't think that question has been answered. >> i think if you are doing what you're supposed to do, you probably are going to avoid a pat-down. i don't really mind it at all. >> we also are starting to see people post stories, horror stories, if you will, on various web sites, but keep in mind that the most recent opinion poll showing 85% of americans agree with the new more aggressive measures. back to you in the studio. >> steve: we thank you for joining us from dfw. hillary clinton said yesterday

on "face the nation" regarding the scans and pat-downses, hands off. sound bite. roll sound. maybe not. >> gretchen: she said that she'd rather not do it. given the choice, she'd rather not do it. >> steve: you want to hear her say it? >> would you submit to one of these pat-downs? >> not if i could avoid it. no, i mean, who would? >> brian: she's the south korea. would you ask this question to her? >> steve: it's not like she's going to go through a commercial airport any time soon. straight ahead, the tsa's intense new procedures are inconvenient for some and embarrassing for others. up next, a cancer survivor who was humiliated beyond belief. their story coming up. >> gretchen: then who could forget speeches like this? >> mr. gorbachev, tear down this

wall. >> gretchen: some of america's most powerful moments coming back into the spotlight. >> brian: first, more highlights from the american music awas. they sang, they came, we played. >> steve: it's bon jovi. ♪

>> steve: welcome back. america's rich history can be defined by a hand full of powerful moments, like this one from 1987. >> mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. >> steve: and they did. >> brian: this moment and others like it make up the fabric of our nation and america can find them all in one place. >> gretchen: jackie gingrich cushman is the offer of a new book. you did all the work for us, jackie. you put it all together in one book. what is the most important speech that you highlight? >> i think my favorite, my favorite is abe happen lincoln's second inaugural address. the declaration of independence is of importance. i think some of the problems we have today is that we don't understand and don't remember

how important it was and how different it was when we declared ourselves independent. >> steve: we showed lincoln there, and you have the gettysburg address. you got remember the al la mow. is there a thread between all of these important speeches and documents that people today need to think, wait a minute, that's where we came from. where to go. >> i think you're exactly right. there are three things these speeches and documents do. one, they assert america is exceptional. i know today that's kind of a controversial thing to some. i think we need to remember that america is different. not because we as individuals are betters but because our system of government is different, that we actually have our rights given to us by god, to individuals, and the individuals loan those rights to the government. i think that's where we are right now. >> brian: it's interesting is that i believe that the gettysburg address, he thought it was his best. you also note focus on martin luther king, jr.

upon further review, it wasn't all hype. that was great speech. >> it was. i'm from atlanta. so i'm familiar with martin luther king, obviously. but it was a great speech. all of the speeches and documents do a couple things. they lift us to higher ground. the i have a dream speech lays out where we could go as a people. they raise us up, they give us a challenge. they expect us to be more as americans. that's really what i like people to remember and take away. >> gretchen: the interesting thing from the ronald reagan speech that we showed in germany was that that clip is so famous now, mr. gorbachev, take down this wall, that happened many months before the wall actually came down. >> you are exactly right. interestingly enough, after his speech, it was kind of dismissed. no one really noticed it. one of the things mr. cohen said, doesn't matter. >> brian: it's not going anywhere. >> exactly. 29 months later, the wall falls. what people need to remember is that words have power. words are very powerful. and that's why this collection is so important. >> steve: when you look at the

25 documents that you have contained in your book, sometimes you might say to yourself, man, they don't make them like they used to. where is that guy giving that speech today? >> i think that's very interesting. one, we used to listen a lot to speeches. in lincoln's time, people would go for the whole day and listen to speeches all day long. you had martin luther king, he was a pastor, a preacher, he had that cadence, that rhythm that inspires. i think we still have those people today and i think you'll see that in the next election. >> brian: when broadcasting came n then all of a sudden the president's said, i am talking really to the people rather than historians. kind of fdr took that to a new level. when you hear his speech, sometimes i think they can transfer to head. >> they can. he did fire side chats. he wanted to talk directly to the people. i think the very best leaders in our country want to do that. they want to talk to the people and with the people. they want to inspire the people. they want us to be more. >> gretchen: you just said that we might see more of that in the

next election. i'm realizing as the daughter of newt gingrich, are you saying we would hear it from your father? >> he's exactly where he says he is. he'll decide in february or march. he'll make the announcement. he's very serious. we've had very long discussions as a family. but i do know that dad loves this country. i watched him throughout my life as i grew up and he's very passionate. i think he's very inspirational and i think no matter what happens, he'll continue to lead this country the best he can. >> steve: jackie gingrich cushman, we thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> brian: he was a good guy to have around when doing your homework. straight ahead, you thought the tsa's intense new procedures are embarrassing for people like this, now it's gotten worse. a cancer survivor humiliated beyond belief will join us and tell us his story. >> steve: we asked you what the biggest fights are at your thanksgiving dinner table. e-mail them to us. we will read some of them straight ahead.

>> brian: turkeys. that's your next book.

>> steve: got some headlines. st. louis, missouri, got a distinction they don't want. it beat out camden, new jersey, as america's most dangerous city. camden, number two now, followed by detroit, michigan, flint, michigan, and oakland, california. a federal judge will hear arguments today from muslim groups challenging oklahoma's recently passed ban on sharia law. opponents say it's unconstitutional. supporters say sharia and international law have no place

in american courts. gretchen, over to you. >> gretchen: he survived bladder cancer, but could barely survive the humiliation he went through during a pat-down at the airport. thomas sawyer got pulled aside and despite warning about his medical condition, they forcefully searched him, breaking his bag. good morning to you, sir. >> good morning. >> gretchen: so tell me when this happened to you. >> my wife and i went to orlando, florida on november 7, it happened there at detroit metropolitan airport. >> gretchen: you are a survivor of bladder cancer. and that is why you had -- >> i had bladder cancer for 15 years, right. >> gretchen: that's why you had this bag. and so you went through the body scanner and then you believe that they saw the bag on you and that's when you we want for the pat-down in a private room.

>> right. >> gretchen: what happened? >> we got into the room and i first said i have a medical condition i want to tell you about. and the tsa agent said, we don't need to hear that. and i said, no, really, you do need to hear it. he said no, we really don't. and i said, but i really need to tell you. and he had already told me the procedures for the pat-down, so he just started the pat-down. and i just felt, well, maybe it will go okay and i'm not gog argue, you know. i've never been patted down in an airport. when he got to my chest area with the pat-down, it was open palmed and very firm, very hard. i knew, whoops, if he doesn't loosen his grip, we could have a potential problem. soy stopped and said, you need to go slower and you need to go softer because you're going to pull my bag off. and he said, i don't even know what that is.

that's why i wanted to talk to him before he did the pat-down and he just kept going and sure enough, he popped the lid off the bag. i have urine all over my shirt, going down my leg, into my pants. >> gretchen: i'm so sorry. i know that this was an unbelievably humiliating experience for you. and after this pat-down, then you had to go on the airplane like that. right? >> well, yeah. he came back in after -- he walked out to have his gloves tested. came back in and said, okay, you can go. no apology. nothing. i mean, no can we help you or anything. and i went to an airport bathroom. but i really didn't have enough time to clean up properly. so i caught my plane, kept a magazine over my lap to kind of hide everything. when the plane got in the air, i used the bathroom. i have all my extra supplies with me, extra clothes, went

into the airplane's bathroom and cleaned myself up, changed my clothes and proceeded on to orlando. >> gretchen: a i am so sorry for what you had to go through. here is the tsa guideline. advise the security officer if you have a urine bag. you will not be required to expose these devices for inspection. so obviously the person who did your pat-down, mr. sawyer, had not read the tsa policy? >> no. i could tell that he hadn't been trained. he did not know what that bag was. i think that's why i went public. there are one half to a million people that have these bags. there are over 70,000 cases of new bladder cancer every year in the united states. this shouldn't be happening. they need training immediately. >> gretchen: and i know that you sat down and wrote a letter to the tsa. if you would let us know when you hear from them, we would greatly appreciate it,

mr. sawyer, i'm sorry you had to go through this experience. >> i will do that. >> gretchen: thank you for sharing your story with us this morning. >> you're more than welcome. >> gretchen: brian, steve. >> steve: thanks very much. coming up, fans come to a young boy's rescue after he falls from the upper level at the lakers game from way up there. >> brian: wow. a hard working student loses thousands of dollars, only to see that money returned later by a homeless man. an amazing story, both will join us live later this hour. >> steve: the american heart association changing course, saying everything it new about women and alcohol might not have been right. new develops. >> brian: okay. in case you missed it, here is another great performance from the american music awards, this is katy perry. ♪

>> brian: i love that animation because it reminds me what tie goes with what suit. >> steve: sure. >> brian: so many times i give up on an outfit and i'll see it in the past. >> steve: or you'll wonder whatever happened to that combination. >> brian: 28 minutes before the top of the hour. scary scene at last night's lakers game. a young kid fell 50 feet from the third level luxury suite. you see a security guard standing just up there, see how far he must have fallen. it happened right after the game ended at the staples center. no exact word on his condition. witnesses say his legs, his arms were moving while paramedics were moving him to the hospital. now the craziest story. >> steve: a new development in the lawsuit against the former mayor. qualm kill pat trickment a stripper is claiming she saw his wife attack another stripper who was giving the mayor a lap dance at their house.

this allegedly happened at a drug fueled party at the mayor's mansion in 2002. well, th stripper's family claims city officials covered up the investigation into the stripper's death. she was gunned down in a drive-by shooting months after the party where she was allegedly attacked by mrs. mrs. kilpatrick. >> gretchen: here is something for you ladies to toast to. the american heart association is changing its advice for women. now says ladies who have two alcoholic drinks per day end up healthier later in life. until now, women were advised to limit their consumption to just one drink per day. bottoms up. >> steve: no kidding. today marks one of the most somber anniversaries in the nation's history. it was 44 years ago today that john f. kennedy was aeneas nateed as his presidential motorcade rode through dallas, texas. not long after, lee harvey oswald would be taken into custody and killed just a day later by jack ruby.

that was 44 years ago today. >> brian: we talked to her security detail a week ago. it was amazing. the latest on the holiday havoc created by the tsa's new security procedure. now live from o'hare airport with some of the mania. hey, anita? >> hey there. it's always crazy at o'hare airport. today there are a lot of people out here probably getting their early start on their thanksgiving travel. and they're probably going to be very glad that they're traveling today now that everybody is talking about this momentum that is gaining ground on the internet called the national opt out day where people are pledging to opt out of the body scans and undergo the pat-down procedures through the tsa, which as you know, will take extra time. that is going to create a domino effect and some say even chaos at some of the nation's airports. there is concern about that here. some of the travelers saying that they are really okay with

the procedure. >> too much going on, after 9-11, too much is going on to not be patted down. everybody has to be checked. i have no problem with it. >> i think there is another way to send a message. people are trying to get home and to me, it's just going to create more chaos. people aren't going to be able to travel and they'll ms their flights. i don't agree with it. i think there is another way. >> with all of the public protests, you might think that the tsa might back down, but in fact, they are doubling down on their big brother tactic and saying they will not change at this point despite the public uproar. reporting live from o'hare airport, fox news. back to you in the studio. >> steve: thanks. uncle sam has a blue glove on today. >> gretchen: what? >> steve: uncle sam has a blue glove on. >> brian: i think hallmark will try to license that phrase. >> gretchen: let's talk about what congressman mike is going

to do today. he's going to probable cause the transportation committee chair pretty soon and he says these opt out protests are not the way to fight back. he's a republican from down in florida. he says it will only slow things down, but he does believe that the administration, the government's rollout about this whole thing has been horrible. listen to this. >> now, i don't think the rollout was good and the application is even worse. this does need to be refined, but he's saying it's the only tool and i believe that's wrong. >> brian: he's going to be aggressive. he's been aggressive in saying he's going to privatize. he says we should look at that and the tsa warns you that if you say no body scan and no pat-down, you don't get on the plane and get charged $11,000. up to that much. >> steve: so if that was the choice between the very invasive body pat-down or not flying or $11,000, what would you do? >> brian: do you find someone

that money and not let them on the plane? >> gretchen: that's the way it reads now. the other thing about privatizing is that even if you bring in private security screeners, they still have to follow the tsa rules. which means you don't get rid of the body scanners, which means you don't get rid of these enhanced pat-downs. you just have different people doing them. >> steve: that's when the government has control of it. some have said if you gave control of the screening process to the individual airlines, that might be different. just moments ago, brian said please, can i do some brian's best? you've got a bunch of them. >> brian: i was willing to hand it out, but i forgot the girl is having trouble talking. >> gretchen: thanks for offering a me sports on the day i can't do it, as much as i love sports. >> brian: all right. let's go to the now nfl. how do you capture all the games in one sports cast. best player right now, first up, aaron rogers, congratulations. we have a gift certificate to afridays near you.

he played a great game. he through for 301 yards. the packers buried the vikings 31-3. this is getting ugly. best run of the day, it's not really even a run at all. it's really a punt return. brian mccann, he spells his name with a y. he grabs the ball and runs down the side line for the cowboys against the lions. upon further review, we would see he did step out of bounds, but detroit did not protest. >> steve: what! >> brian: it was a touchdown and dallas wins. they're 2-0 with their brand-new coach. the tigers -- best catch, it's got to be holmes of the new york jets. the jets blew a big lead, but then came all the way back with no time left. clutch cash in the back of the end zone. never looked so deep. sanchez looks very clutch.

struggled against the jets down the stretch. the jets end up pulling this one out 30-27. they are tied with the patriots and falcons for the best record in the league. that's a quick look at the world of sports. >> steve: i have never seen joel fullon with a bigger smile. you would think he was actually playing on the jets over the weekend. all right, coming up, we've got thanksgiving on thursday. and you've got a lot of people who are related to each other or friends, some are drinking, everybody has a lot of time on their hands. there will be squabbles, gobble squabble, according to ivillage, 68% say there will be family fights before dinner. >> gretchen: before it's even served. 37% say the world is very stressful. >> brian: right. because a lot of times you have to buy the turkey, kill the turkey, skin the turkey. pull the feathers off.

you don't understand hunt like i do. 20% of the hosts dread thanksgiving. how can we forget the meaning of thanksgiving? >> steve: we asked you what exactly is it that causes the gobble squabble at your house? bill in arkansas says, when my family talks about how much they love my ex-wife of ten years, they still consider her part of the family. they do this in front of my present wife of 1 1/2 years who never knew my ex. >> brian: turns out you got givenlets in the nose if that happens. >> gretchen: jesse in fayetteville, north carolina. the number one cause of arguments in our home is when my wife and i refuse to run our life the way my mother-in-law says we should. >> brian: we should give her a call. we argue about football, says tonya in florida. where lions and buccaneers fans. everyone argues with us when we say our teams will win. they laugh out loud.

>> steve: karen in virginia says, the number one topic around our thanksgiving table that starts a squabble involves the family members who are not present. that's right. you just start talking about uncle billy, can you believe what uncle billy is doing now? >> brian: that would be funny. keep sharing with us. we'll do the majority on the after the show show. 19 minutes after the top of the hour. do americans have the right to refuse the tsa's new pat-downs and body scans? peter johnson, jr. explains your rights next. >> steve: then, he saved up to buy a car, then lost his bag cash filled with the car cash. then what happened next was incredible. the selfless homeless man who returned the money and that thankful student joins us coming up live. >> brian: here is they are great performance from the american music awards.

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>> brian: tsa new security measures have passengers and lawmakers mutually outraged. but the tsa is not backing down. they say if you refuse to cooperate, you could be slapped with an $11,000 fine. is giving up our civil liberties the price of safety? joining us right now, fox news legal analyst, peter johnson, jr. >> good morning. >> brian: where do our rights start and safety begins? >> there should be an apology to mr. sawyer, your guest earlier, the retired teach who are suffered that really ignorant experience. it's terrible. and there should be training for these tsa officers. what we're facing is a really difficult issue. people are at each other's

throats over this issue. most are for the screenings. my suggestion is that if the american people want to choose liberty over safety, they can call their congressman, they can put up video, they can complain about the measures that are in effect and they will do so. but at the first terrorist attack, the first bombing over a major city -- >> brian: pistole will be fired. >> in an airplane and when the president goes on the air at 9:00 o'clock at night in a nationwide address and says we're going to go after the wrong doers and they're in yemen or somalia or some region of africa or the middle east and we say, well, we're going to be having air strikes and if necessary, we're going to be committing ground troops to that area to wipe out the people responsible for the death of americans, then do we say, did we act in a way that was appropriate in terms of sacrifice, in terms of contribution, in terms of recognizing that we are at war

and that people are at war against us? americans have the right to choose liberty over safety if they would rather not be touched, groped, pat-down, put into radiation-laden screeners that they believe are dangerous, then with public pressure, they will shut that down. >> brian: john pistol d is head of the tsa and on earlier. we asked him, has something changed since the christmas day bomber? have you gotten additional intelligence? >> the latest intelligence obviously indicates from christmas day that an individual with a nonmetallic bomb that could and should have gone off frankly given the concealment, design and everything, would not have been picked up through a walk through metal detector. so with the images technology, which is in about 70 airports now, give us a best opportunity to detect that type of device. if somebody opts out of that, such as abdulmutallab on

christmas day could have if he was here, then we want to make sure they have a thorough pat down so that type of advice would be discovered. >> brian: you got to wonder if there is some expert in the pat-down that would say, you never stick your hands down somebody's pants. >> it sounds like that makes sense. obviously there is training that needs to be done and tell people they're going to be pat-down. obviously we need to say, this is not something i'm interested in doing, i'm not trying to cause myself pleasure or cause you discomfort, i'm doing this to protect other air travelers. that's the issue. i don't believe that it's invasive, that it's against the constitution. i understand the viewpoint of americans who do. they have the right to debate this. we have the right to look at this. we have the right to improve this system which is still imperfect. my concern, though, is i don't attend a lot of funerals like i did in 2001. >> brian: you can't have it both ways. >> we have a war going on.

>> brian: we should be going in those areas before the next attack. straight ahead, he could have used the money, but instead, this homeless man took the right path returning thousands of dollars in lost cash to an arizona student. both men will join us next with air story. here is another great performance, peter, pay attention, 'cause you didn't watch the show. >> i did. >> brian: you did? you remember rihanna? >> i missed that part.

>> steve: welcome back. i misspoke a little while ago talking about the jfk assassination. it was 47 years ago. not 44. a homeless man proves honesty is the best policy when he finds a backpack filled with more than $3,000 in cash, instead of keeping the money for himself, he returned it to the college

student who lost it. that good samaritan is dave tally, he joins us this morning with the backpack owner, brian belanger. they both join us this motorcycle. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> steve: brian, all the money in the world was in the backpack, the last thing you need to do is leave it on the chair. what prosecute you thinking? >> i was not thinking. i was exhausted and cold and completely forgot about it. >> steve: you forgot about it and then i understand about 15 minutes later, the light went off in your head and sent somebody back. it was gone. now, mr. tally, you came across it. what did you find? >> it was a backpack sitting on the bench, opened it up to see if there was something to eat. nothing. there was a laptop, ipod and a envelope in there that had a lot of money in it. >> steve: it had $3,300 in it and mr. tally, you are currently homeless right now. and you had $3,300 in your hand. no i.d., a lot of people would

just say, you know what, i'm going to keep that. why didn't you keep it? >> it wasn't my money. i didn't earn it. >> steve: you didn't earn it, but it would go a long ways in helping you out. >> no. wouldn't have come back right. >> steve: it wasn't the right thing to do. right? >> not at all. >> steve: brian, you got a call that a homeless guy had found your money, could you believe it? >> absolutely not. no. i was shocked. i was shocked that anyone at all had turned it in and then to learn it was someone that was homeless, completely floored me. >> steve: no kidding. dave, how did you eventually figure out that it was brian's money? >> i took it to my boss, and the money sat there for close to a week. he found a small flash drive in the bottom of the backpack that

had his resume on it so they were able to contact him and let him know we had his stuff. >> steve: that was awesome. you did the right thing. dave, i know right now you are homeless and looking for work out there in the phoenix area. if anybody is watching right now, they could e-mail us if they got a job offer for you. what are you looking to do? >> i like the warehouse work. comfortable with that. and good with equipment. forklifts, things of that nature. >> steve: well, it would be fitting considering what a great thing you did for the guy who is sitting right next to you. brian, we're glad you got the money back. we know you're going to go out and buy a new used car. brian, thank you very much for doing the right thing. >> you're welcome. >> steve: all right. if anybody out there in the phoenix area has a job for dave, let us know and we'll pass it along. great story. these guys will continue with us in two minutes right here on the fox news channel.