. >> catherine hill works for the a.a.u.w. that stands for the american association of university women. the organization surveyed teens across the country. then they released this report -- "crossing the line: sexual harassment at school." >> and we found that about half of the students had encountered some form of harassment in that school year. >> girls are more likely than boys to be sexually harassed, but it can happen to anyone. and it can happen anywhere -- in big public schools and small private ones, in cities and in the rural areas, in high school, middle school, even elementary school. >> i think that they should teach the kids that it's not good to maybe touch each other inappropriately in the hallways and say inappropriate things. >> and it's not just at school. one in three students say they've been harassed through a text, e-mail, or facebook. >> i was in high school and really open about my sexuality, and then people had a problem with that. but then, you know, they were bullying me online. >> when you're haras

but we begin wh chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge on what went down today just behind me on capitol hill. good evening. laeresodwhr pren lil aahr security decisions on the ground in libya and assertions by the administration. >> there was no protest. ot hth veeparent, f.b he s dtm fi wti be usventversight committee confirmed he told lawmakers a day after this attack on the benghazi consulate that he believed it was terrorism. >> i belie it was the ne lthy i was complex attack. >> ambassador kennedy defended ambassador susan rice who five days after the attack made rounds on sunday talk shows as it was a demonstration, prompted by a youtube video for anti-islam film that sn f of t ininyeeffl, on television on sunday, september 16, they would have said what ambassador rice said. >> challenged repeatedly by a republican who returned from the region. i was in libya and nobody mentiod a video. >> in the yeareading up to the attack, ied attack on the consulate in june, lawmakers reoldhaplou colmen re >>conoelnm for security, intelligence and law enforcement help to identify the emerging threat

but we begin with chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge on what went down today just behind me on capitol hill. good evening. >> thank you, bret. lawmakers question today whether the president political agenda throw security decisions on the ground in libya and assertions by the administration. >> there was no protest. the state department, f.b.i. a others have that video. >> the top state department official who testified before house government oversight committee confirmed he told lawmakers a day after this attack on the benghazi consulate that he believed it was terrorism. >> i believe it was the nature of it. leathtlethality of it, it was complex attack. >> ambassador kennedy defended ambassador susan rice who fiv ae rounds on sunday talk shows as it was a demonstration, prompted by a youtube video for anti-islam film that spun out of control. >> if any of the administration officials including any career official, were on television on sunday, september 16, they would have said what ambassador rice said. >> challenged repeatedly by a republican who returned from the region. i was in liby

fox's catherine herridge reporting today on september 13, two days after the libya attack, lawmakers on capitol hillld during a briefing with the f.b.i. and the national counterterrorism center that it was either al-qaeda or al-qaeda affiliated. at the briefing, there was no mention of the attack being spon stainous or anything to do with an anti-islamic video. she is saying this apparently conflicts with the briefing that the c.i.a. director gave a day later around characterized it as a flash mob. friday, we reported that requests for help in benghazi were denied. president obama was scud about it over the weekend -- was asked about it over the weekend. >> were americans under attack on the consulate in benghazi, libbia, denied and requested help during the attack? is it fair to tell americans what happens is under investigation and we'll find out after the election? >> well, the election has nothing to do with four brave americans getting killed and us wanting to find out what happened. these are folks who served under me i had sent to dangerous places. nobody wants to find out more what happened

hill yesterday, megyn. megyn: wow. all right, catherine, thank you. >> reporter: you're welcome.: at least one of the mothers is expressioning frustration about the lack of explanation she's received about her son's death in libya. sean smith was a 10-year veteran of the state department. he was married and a father of two. yesterday his mother told cnn, quote: the things they are telling me are outright lies. leon panetta and said, trust me, i will tell you what happened. and so far he's told me nothing. marc thiessen is a fellow at the american enterprise institute and a former speech writer for president george w. bush. julie rah gin sky is a fox news contributor. so this poor mother who all of our hearts go out to her says she told president obama personally, you screwed up, you at no time do a good job, i -- you didn't do a good job. and she still feels as though she is being stonewalled. marc, in light of what we heard at these extraordinary hearings yesterday, there may be some other folks out there who feel the same way. >> absolutely. look, i mean, this administration's

hill hearing about the terror attack on the u.s. mission in libya. chief intelligence correspondent catherineridge has an update tonight. >> i was asking if he already had the documents. >> if you notice i'm looking at one on the ipad. >> you already have one. that's all i asked. >> day after the contentious hearing at the house government oversight committee on the administration response to the consulate attack, the state department spokesperson defended the top witness. >> i'm going to refer you to what under-secretary kennedy said on the hill yesterday and from this podium yesterday. >> while testifying to lawmakers he thought benghazi was terrorism within 24 hours. at a short notice news conference after the hearing. ambassador kennedy again defended ambassador rice. who characterized the attack as a demonstration that spin spn out of control. >> if any administration official, including any career official had been on television, on sunday september 16. they would have said the same thing that ambassador rice said. >> in his testimony, the state department regional security officer who

i think catherine has pinpointed the fallout afterwards about what general petraeus, now cia director petraeus, briefed to lawmakers and there is a lot of angst up on capitol hillut that initial briefing. i think we'll hear that well beyond the election about what cia director petraeus told us in those first hours. jenna: bret, the show's called "happening now", right? we have to cover everything happening now. it feels strange some times to piece news together. we have this horrendous storm barreling toward the east coast. we have this news on benghazi that continues to develop as you mentioned and you have a presidential election in eight days. how do you think all of this is figuring into the election now that we're so close? >> yeah, i think this storm kind of puts things on hold because the media obviously, kind of focuses, like a laser on something that, this big that affects this many people, as en masse the media will focus on this. i think by the time you get to wednesday hopefully it is not as cataclysmic it made out to be. i have covered 15 of these storms. and what is being made of this storm hopefully it is not as big as it sound but to hear the we

imagine, some republicans on capitol hill say the president owes the american people an explanation. of what he and his advisors knew and when they knew it. catherineerridge is live in the d.c. newsroom this evening. catherine, we are seeing a brand new email that i mentioned at the top of this newscast. that's right, shep. this latest email shows well into the night on september 11th, the white house national security staff was receiving updates that the second wave of the attack had begun with mortar strikes on the annex what we now know to be the cia outpost a mile from the consulate compound. the status reads in part quote d.s. reports the chief of mission personnel in benghazi is under attack by mortar fire. there are reports of injuries to come staff. military experts tell fox the mortar fire is literally the smoking gun piece of evidence that shows the attack was preplanned. mortar team needs distance, elevation, weather conditions and the weight of the shell to calculate the angle for a direct hit and aerial imagery is typically used to identify the target and launch site where metal plates are bolted into the ground from which this that mo

hill, jenna. jenna: there has been so much back and forth over the last several weeks. i had that provocative hearing that you mentioned yesterday, catherine. so where does the story go from here? >> reporter: based on my reporting there is a new and strong focus on a briefing given friday, september 14th by cia deck tore date petraeus to members of the house intelligence committee. in that briefing sources confirmed to fox that the administration was wedded to the administration youtube explanation. without discussing classified information congressman king who has great reis speck for petraeus was clearly not satisfied and puzzled by what they were told. >> director petraeus gave the briefing and by what we learned since a lot of what we were told at that briefing was inadequate. i don't know the reason for it but, appears, especially what we know now, that there was more information available that was not told to us that day. >> reporter: congressman king is asking secretary of state clinton to designate this group, ansar al sharia. this group wants to establish an islamic state in eastern libya as foreign terrorist organization. as we

officials on capitol hill today are trying to defend the obama administration's handling of the attack on the american consulate, killed a u.s. ambassador and three other americans. fox's catherine herridge has that story. >> there was no protest and cameras reveal that and the state department, the fbi and others have that video. >> reporter: the top state department official who testified before the house government oversight committee confirmed that he told lawmakers a day after this attack on the benghazi consulate he believed it was terrorism. >> i also believed that it was because of the nature of it and the fallity of it that it was a complex attack. >> reporter: ambassador stanley staunchly attacked ambassador susan wright insisting it was a demonstration prompted by a youtube video for an anti-islam film that spun out of control. >> if any administration official including any career official were on television on sunday september 16th , they would have said what ambassador rice said. >> reporter: that position challenged repeatedly by a republican who just returned from the region. >> when i was in lybia good part of the day, never once did a person e mention a video,