of course, tomorrow is the busiest travel day of the year, jon scott. to see some major problems on the roadways and in the air, and we will be following it from the fox weather center. back to you. jon: you're going to be busy, janice dean. >> reporter: okay, you bet. jon: thanks. jenna: well, american military leaders say it's too soon to say how the u.s. might act to deter yet another north korean attack on south korea. already we have more than 28,000 u.s. forces stationed in south korea, and the pentagon says no new american military assets are moving to that region, at least for now. so how should the u.s. respond to north korea's latest attack? it's the focus of today's power point, and chris stirewalt is is joining us. chris, today the president and the vice president are in indiana focusing on the key domestic issue, the economy. what sort of challenge does this pose the president and his administration with this developing story in south and north korea? this. >> jenna, you sort of hit it right on the head, haven't you? i mean, when you're the

thank you for correcting me, jon scott. and take a look at all these winter weather advisories across the west, guys. incredible amounts of snow, up to 2 feet in some of those ski resorts. i know jon is wishing he was in colorado right now during the show. let's look at the current temperatures. you can see the cooler air behind this front that's moving across the central u.s., ahead of the front, though, no, we're not talking about snow, we could actually be talking about the potential for severe weather today, areas i am concerned with for holiday travel across the northern plains, upper midwest, where we could see blizzard conditions. so we are going to be busy in the fox news weather center. back to you guys. jon, are you going to be skiing? >> jon: i am in a couple of weeks. >> awesome. i'm going to pretend to ski. jon: i got to get the shoulder ready to go. >> reporter: get picture, we'll put it on the blog. jon: j.d., thank you! >>> is america headed toward of possibility of a government shutdown? to avoid it lawmaker

i'm jon scott in for shep tonight. president obama is now pushing back on a report that seemed to signal he is willing to compromise with republicans and accept a full extension of the bush era tax cuts. but he didn't really rule out the possibility either. it comes a day after the huffington post cited the president's senior advisor david axelrod as saying, quote: we have to deal with the world as we find it and the huffington post writing this. the administration is ready to accept an across-the-board continuation of steep bush-era tax cuts, including those for the wealthiest taxpayers. today while addressing supporters in south korea suggested that's the wrong interpretation of axelrod's remarks. >> here is the right interpretation. i want to make sure that taxes don't go up for middle class families starting on january 1st. that's my number one priority. for those families and for our economy. i also believe that it would be fiscally irresponsible for us to permanently extend the high income tax cuts. >> jon: here

i'm jon scott, fox news watch is on right now. >> it used to be a president could call a press conference and the three major networks would come and he'd talk to them and you've pretty much reached everybody in america. and these days, the closest i can get to that is being on 60 minutes, but there are a whole bunch of folks who watch the daily show or watch "the view". and so, i've got to adapt the presidency to reach as many people as possible and my attitude is is, if i'm reaching people. if i'm talking to them i'm willing to make the risk of overexposure on that front. >> jon: the president there explaining why it is he makes the rounds on tv appearing on some shows that brought him some controversy. in that interview, liz, mr. obama also said when you're campaigning, i think you're liberated to say things without thinking about, okay, how am i actually going to practically implement this. isn't that what the media are supposed to do? >> yes, well, and he wasn't picked up on it the whole interview was a softball and he has a long relationship with steve cross going all the way back t

good morning, i'm jon scott. jenna: it certainly is a mystery. hi everybody, i'm jenna lee, happening right now, the defense department working to figure out what caused that big vapor trail. if a missile was, in fact, launched and if so, who fired it, these are some of the questions out there but right now it doesn't appear the u.s. military was involved. jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon with more. jen, what's the latest, what do we even know about it? >> reporter: i'm sensing a lot of frustration from military spokesmen, the spokesmen for norad, because news reports started using the word missile earlier in the day yesterday, and the defense department has been checking with nora -- norad periodically in the last 24 hours and with strat com. they have not found that any of those entities were carrying out any planned missile attacks, and -- missile tests and because they were so slow in coming out and saying that it wasn't us and because of the news reports got ahead of the story, it seems, and now, they're finding it very difficult to

. >> jon: i'm jon scott. fox news watch is on right now. >> so what do we do a check, hand on either side. slowly go up e. >> uma:-- >> an iphone taking exception giving the upgraded full palm, up the groin full body patdown, the don't touch my junk, going viral and less than positive reaction to the new homeland security efforts, but the tsa is sticking to its extreme patdown policies. >> the question is do i understand the sensitivities of people, yes. if you're asking am i going to change the policies, no, because i, i think that's what being informed by the latest intelligence, the latest efforts by terrorists to kill our people in the air, no i'm not going to change this policy. >> jon: how is this playing in the press? andrea, it seems like this is one of the rare circumstances where the media outrage reflects the civilian outrage. >> no, that's absolutely true. i think the coverage has been spot on and interesting to see liberals and conservatives like the a.c.l.u. agreeing on something. the a.c.l.u. t

there's jon scott's denver, colorado.are reporting some light snow right now, but they love it out there, ski country. southeast, a lot of heavy rain, lots of moisture coming in from the gulf of mexico. in some cases one to even four inches of rain. the good news is here that they're into, in some cases, a severe to extreme drought, so they need the rain but not so much in such a short period of time, so places like birmingham, montgomery, up towards atlanta, watching you this afternoon. as we head throughout time, all of that moisture's going to head up towards the northeast. you can see the snow across the back end across portioning of canada -- portions of can can. we're going to -- canada, we're going to get portions of is 1-3 inches across atlanta, the florida panhandle. ultimately, this is a good story for them because they need the rain. okay, jenna, if you play your cards right, jon scott will do some shoveling for you. [laughter] jenna: we'll see. he looks skeptical over there. jon: i just had shoulder surgery, c

we'll continue to follow the story, jon scott. wipe away a little tear. re really sensitive when it comes to that stuff. jenna: we'll tie everything down. that's the lesson. tie everything down. jd --. jon: only property. jenna: thank you very much. >> you bet. jon: right now, election limbo on capitol hill. democrats were supposed to hold house leadership elections this morning, deciding on whetherer speaker nancy pelosi and others should remain in power once they are the minority party in the house of representatives. now makers are debating a plan to delay the elections until next moment. why? let's see if we get an explanation from carl cameron on capitol hill. what is the delay, carl? >> reporter: there was a easy are solution put behind closed doors among house democrats to would postpone leadership elections to december 8. a pair of oregon democrats put this forth, most notably, peter defazio. been around a long time in the democratic congress. he said it is important for democrats to look at losses they suffered in 2010 and figure out where and und

i'm jon scott. thanks for watching and leave it here on fox news channel and we'll see you again next week. >> if you look back on the conflict of 20th century. liberalism and conservative ssm. ours is based on the belief of free government. >> traditional al american values and strong national defense. those are the five basic ideas of conservatism. liberty is no -- >> when he made that statement he got me. he got me. >> you see their common enemy was liberals. >> nixon used to say what do they want now? i would say well... (inaudible) >> i set out to organize people. at that time evangelical christians had not gotten into politicians. >> they showed opposition to the equal rights. that's when we had the pro family movement. >> government is not the solution to our problem. government. is the problem. >> you come away with a sense that a free economic assistance tend to provide better lives from people than any other system ever imaged. >> read my lips. no new taxes. >> the two groups i love are pr

pretty thick, jon scott. i'm sure, tomorrow. no problem. if you want the clip notes version, sean hannity, tonight. >>> remember this story? acorn workers, accused of getting paid to register voters during the 2008 presidential election. it was a controversial one. we now have a verdict in that case. the latest from our voter fraud investigation unit, just ahead. >>> plus president obama, making the second stop on his tour of asia in indonesia as a volcano claims hundreds of lives nearby. we have a live report coming your way next. jenna: a quick fox business alert for you, the price of gold really a hot topic, hitting a record high this morning, trading at more than $1400 an ounce. now, this is important to watch because of why it's happening. there's a lot of fears about inflation, also a weaker dollar that's helping this out, helping the price of gold move higher, and of course you had that topic of debt. debt concerns in europe once again hitting this market and making those prices of gold try to move up a little bit higher, so somethin

i'm jon scott. see you next week. >> i have spent most of my life as a democrat. i have seen fit to go another course. >> the contrast between conservatives and liberals that's the driving force between politics for years. >> i will continue to shoot down all of the empty and hypocritical proposals. >> nobody had access to words like him. >> milton could fake a complex issue and reduce it to what the essence of it was. >> the great silent majority of my fellow americans i ask for your support. >> he said there's a silent majority out there that will show up on election day. he was right. >> when what we got was the great society two. >> we got solutions with disease worse than the cure. >> without any basis whatsoever in the constitution they found a right to an abortion. >> the concept told people they could relax. >> some did not understand negotiating with the soviets was not a surrender to them. >> their accommodation is appeasement and gives no choice between peace and war. >> they wanted to win with the right answer. >> the phoenix rose before the ashes of s

baden, it's jon scott, excuse my interruption but there have been so many ups and downs in this case.s right. jon: for natalie's poor family. you have to feel for them, at what could be, you know, a false alarm, but it certainly sounds -- i mean, you were here the other day with us and said how many people have gone missing on aruba. it's not that large an island. and to find the jawbone of a young woman on a beach, and apparently near a spot that was searched fairly heavily, a swamp there on the island, where authorities had some reason to believe that her body may have been buried, it starts sounding awfully compelling. >> oh, jon, when we spoke the other day, i sort of said it was a long shot. now it's become a short shot. it's much more likely with this information, the new information, that it was just -- than it was just finding a jawbone, but there has to be a complete discovery in that area where the bone was found because this is a jawbone that's -- probably other bones are in that area. jon: you said the other day, too, there are new tests available of the bone marrow specif

i'm jon scott. thank you for joining us. lots happening on this friday morning. patti ann: i'm patti ann browne in for jenna lee. we're in the fox newsroom. al qaeda appointing a new terror chief. jon: a new report tapped this man, al-adel. his name means the sword of the just. he is supposed to become al qaeda's new chief of international operations. his role? to spearhead the terror group's war against the west. catherine herridge joins us live from washington. who is this guy. >> reporter: he is well-known to u.s. investigators. he is on the fbi most wanted terrorist list for wanted in bombings of u.s. embassies in tanzania and kenya in 1998. they killed and wounded thousands of people, mostly african muslims. he was reported to be under quote, house arrest in iran with a group of senior al qaeda members including one of bin laden's sons. iran never publicly acknowledged adel and others being in iran. this led to speculation the arrest was really code for giving the men shelter and some sort of protection after 9/11 when they fled afghanistan, jon. jon: and sup

jon: happy friday indeed, i'm jon scott. we are here in the fox newsroom. "happening now" democrats are trying to make the most of their time left with majorities in both the house and senate. jenna: they are aggressively moving forward on key legislation like "don't ask don't tell," the d.r.e.a.m. act, extending the bush tax cuts, but leaving people more than $250,000 per year off of it. what is driving this really big agenda? james rosen is live on capitol hill with the story. we may see more than one vote on the bush-era taxes. how will they get all that done before the lame-duck session is over. >> reporter: it won't be easy. it looks like the democrats are not going to get their way which is to extend the bush tax cuts only for families making $250,000 or less are opting for a bit of theater. the tax cuts president bush signed into law in 2001 and 2003 are set to expire at year's end. republicans say tharepublican ap easterners making $250,000 a year include many of the nation's job creators. >> legislation to extend them all costing $4 trillion, if he

. >> good morning to you, i'm jon scott, when jenna lee and i join you in a few minutes, a great line-upl talk with senator elect richard blumehthal of connecticut and congressman mike pence of indiana. he's been something of a thorn in the side of this white house. so just what should the lame duck session of congress tackle? go to foxnews.com/happeningnow and you can weigh in. during our town hall panel. plus... the argument to cool it, in the global warming debate. and, judge andrew napolitano, sat down with sarah palin, all coming up on "happening now." rick: thank you, jon, he didn't want to go through the naked scanner and a california man was told that he had to undergo a full body pat-down. and, then he flipped on his cell phone recorder. listen: rick: homeland security secretary janet napolitano had this to say about the scanner's controversy, saying, quote we ask the american people to play an important part in our layered defense, we ask for cooperation, patience and a commitment to vigilance in the face of a determined enemy. and, a former assistant administrator for the tsa

martha: we just heard jon scott talking about this.tists would say it is just a plane and skeptics, and people who have conspiracy theories say no, no, no, no, no, the government is not telling us something, it is a missile and the images off the coast of southern california are generating a perfect storm of conspiracy theories, who better to separate fact from fiction, michio kaku, a professor of theoretical physics. the first time you saw the video, what was your initial reaction. >> my initial reaction was, oh, my god, an unauthorized, accidental launch of a ballistic missile. and, then i saw frame -- >> what made you say that. >> you saw a huge exhaust coming out and you say, it cannot be a plane, no way can it be a plane and is taking off and looks like the trajectory of a rocket and i looked at it frame by frame and things didn't add up. first, rockets accelerate and go faster and faster, up to 15, 18,000 miles per hour and this object, this thing didn't accelerate at all. and, it changed course. missiles never change course, the

jenna: jon scott, with the tabloid news of the day! got it covered! thanks, everybody, "america live" starts right now. >> we start with a fox news alert, reports of a political brawl leaking out from a closed door meeting at the capitol, any minute we can learn whether or not nanc we pelosi will lead house democrats in the new congress when they become the minority. welcome to "america live", i'm shannon bream in for megyn kelly,. we're getting word from within the room, this is an effort by modern democrats to delay the election. moments ago we learned that that move did not succeed. so the vote is going to happen. pelosi could be voted minority leader any time now but our capitol hill producers are hearing from a few democrats who are unhappy with the pelosi option, that includes those like allan boyd who lost his seat on election day. >> she is the face that defeated us in this last election. i don't know how we go into these districts like the one i represented, in january, recruit good, moderate democratic candidates if you have the same leaders

. >>> good morning, i'm jon scott. jenna: hi everybody, i'm jenna lee. we're here in the fox newsroom, busy already on "happening nop". a lot of news to get to today. we're going to take you to the white house with new reactions from the comment -- with comments from the president's senior adviser about the soon to expire bush era tax cuts, david axelrod saying the president is ready to extend tax cuts even for the wet iest americans but the white house bay be -- may be backing off that. jon: seems to be movement. we'll see. >>> the debt commission on capitol hill is out with drastic cuts proposed to rye to reduce our debt sits. what's on the chopping block? jenna: apparently a lot. and live at arlington national cemetary, at any moment now the vice president will lay a wreath at the testimony omb of the unknown as the nation pays tribute to all those who serve our country all around the world. jon: this fox news alert, the ordeal is almost over, 4500 passengers and crew can see san diego harbor now from the carnival cruise ship, the splendor, this after

. >> i'm jon scott, jenna lee and i will see you in 20 minutes, tsa gone wild, the growing outrage overreenings, one woman says she was sexually assaulted by an agent at an ohio airport. and, as hearings begin on capitol hill, and the tsa plays defense. also, down to the wire, in alaska's senate race, one candidate might be ready to declare victory. also, increasing tension between the white house and the gop. what happened to detente in washington, top of the hour, happening now. martha: it is the war next-door. the bloody battles that are playing out all across mexico now. spilling over the border at times into the u.s. and, it's not just any longer drug gangs who are killing each other, thousands of innocent lives have been lost on both sides of the border. in fact, it was the murder of a u.s. tourist on falcon lake in texas that inspired the national geographic channel to take a look at what is really going on down there. listen: >>. [whispering]. ... >> i have bodies crossing over here. >> someone is crossing the river 100 yards down. >> still in the water? they are still in the wa

when jon scott walk outside, there's paparazzi taking shot of him. is this any different?all. big brother? i bet the guys at nyu would be surprised to learn they're now the government. they're not the government, and joey's right on the law. it's a question about what's a reasonable expectation of privacy, okay? this i grew up in a generation where my mother used to hit me for stuff she never could have seen unless she had eyes in the back of her head, okay? anybody who walk into a 7-eleven or a dunkin doughnuts knows they're on camera, and i've got more news for you. if you don't like it and you think it's an issue, if you're meeting with your professor one-on-one, then tell the guy to put on a hat. [laughter] i mean, this is just kind of getting to be ridiculous. the fact of the matter is i don't like this guy, i don't want like his art, but as a former fellow prosecutor and as a lawyer, i've got to defend it the way i see it, and i don't think it's a violation of privacy unless, of course, he's wearing a hat and it's one of those x-ray cameras like they have at the airp

jon: good morning, i'm jon scott. breaking news in the war against osama bin laden.looking to be filled with action and, possibly, fireworks. normally not much happens until the next congress is sworn in the in january, but not this year. we'll take a look coming up. also, our town hall usa panel is taking another look at what the debt commission suggests cutting. go to foxnews.com/happening now, get in our live chat and share your thoughts. "happening now." martha: well, new details, now, on what caused that super jumbo jet to lose part of its engine in mid flight. engine maker rolls royce says a single faulty component in the engine's turbine caused that terrifying orr -- ordeal. analysts believe that it's a bearing. rolls royce said the problem is specific to one engine model only and that they will correct it. the malfunction forced the australian-bound flight to make an emergency landing in singapore. it grounded the entire qantas fleet of a-380s, and how scary was that whole situation? thankfully, that pilot landed with no problem. gregg: president obama weighi

they're in conversation with our reporters, jon fortt of "fortune" and kim nicholas of" forbes," this week on "press: here." >> good morning, everyone. i'm scott mcgrew. we're going to talk this morning about that thing that so alluded mick jagger, satisfaction. in this case, the satisfaction in business. how, of course, to satisfy the customer, but before you can do that, you have to satisfy your employees. the hotel business is tough by anyone's standards. your customers are price-sensitive. what you sell is largely a commodity, infinitely repeatable by any number of chains. and a large portion of your employees work very repetitive, not terribly rewarding jobs. nearly one-third of the employees at this hotel chain clean toilets for a living, points out hotel founder chip conley. yet, his san francisco-centric chain of boutique hotels have not just survived the dot-com downturn, 9/11 and the latest disastrous california economic crisis, they've actually thrived. conley has become a business guru and author of three books. his most popular, "how great companies get their mojo from maslow." it explains how to recession-proof your business by r

scott brown of course he just there a two-year term. tennessee's bob corker. who beat harold browne -- howard ford. and nevada's john ensign. utah's orrin hatch. kay bailey hutchison of texas. arizona's jonkyl. lugar. maine's olympia snowe and mississippi's wicker who took trent lott's place. fairly new members of congress like scott brown. your thoughts, are you happy to to see them knocked off by crazies on the right, to put it bluntly. >> bluntly and honestly, yes, i am actually because they'll get knocked off by crazies on the right and if you look at the tea parent's record with their crazies on the right, starting with christine o'donnell and going to alaska with joe miller and nevada with sharron angle. >> he acts like -- >> and colorado with buck. >> he looks like andy warhol 15 minutes are up for that guy. >> one of two things, produced nominees who couldn't win or they've produced nominees who made it possible for democratic candidates who are severely vulnerable to win or they've put democrats in play where they shouldn't be in play. if olympia snowe gets primary by a tea party candidate and that tea party candidate wins, that seat is going to go to the democratic candidate. a