jon: i'm jon scott at ground zero in lower manhattan.tting end to the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, osama bin laden, killed by gun shot to the head, after resisting. u.s. special forces, score ago huge victory in the war on terror, carrying out a mission to capture or kill the al-qaeda leader, hiding in a fortified compound, deep inside pakistan, his identity now confirmed by dna tests. bin laden's location, discovered by tracking a trusted courier. national correspondent catherine herridge live for us in washington. what new information are we learning this morning about the intelligence that led to the compound catherine? >> reporter: well, first, jon, want to begin with new information, we've come off a conference call with military and intelligence officials and they've given us more detail, more granularity with what happened on that compound in pakistan, it was osama bin laden's wife who identified him to special forces and after that i was told according to a official that a u.s. navy seal recognized bin laden, that he did not a

. >> right now let's hand it over to jon scott. >> you can see the smoke. the smoke tower is growing. there is quite a bit of flame inside the building. i was just walking into the studio that day. i wear this little wireless ifb we call it i heard this very urgent voice get in my ear and say jon scott, "studio b," now! >> it was just a minute or two that we got the pictures up from the fox 5 helicopter. two towers are home during the day to 50,000 workers. >> i understand that. >> we have a number on fire. it looked like the plane was aiming towards the building. >> i was on othe 67th floor when the first plane hit and it took me a second or two to catch my breath. >> i'm walking on b floor going towards the parking lots, all of the sudden the whole floor, the whole building just rocked. it just rocked and threw you. it just threw you. you didn't know what happened. >> at 8:46 when -- boom! there is this loud explosion noise somewhere. i didn't know exactly where. all i saw right up against the glass was fire, flame. just a big fireball. i'm looking at som

jon: ao*eupl jon scott. we have breaking news on all kinds of stories on "happening now" "happening now." jenna: brand-new news about the raid that took out the most wanted man in his home. catherine herridge is live in washington with more. >> reporter: one u.s. official said to me this morning is not only was the compound custom built for usama bin laden using his own money but it was clearly built for deception and the possibility of an assault on that compound. what i was told by the u.s. official is that there were barricades on each of the three floors within the compound and as one example i was told that one of the main doors on the ground floor was in fact a false door it had a brick door behind it. when it seals encountered it they opened the door and had to blow through the bricks. it tells you the level of premeditation that went into the complex, jenna. jenna: speaking of that, catherine. hollywood celebrities these days have personal body guards, people armed with them. do you have any informat

. >>> and a very good friday to you, i'm jon scott, thank you for joining us. jenna: i'm jenna lee, what a strange story to start off with. jon: elementary schools. jenna: luckily nothing bad found yet but we'll continue to thal that. "happening now", we're five days after al-qaeda -- i should say five days later, al-qaeda is confirming today the death of usama bin laden, and warning of retaliation. today, we have new details on the alleged plot targeting our country. also, potentially a new tape made by usama bin laden, apparently recorded a week before his death. a lot of these reports still coming out now several days later. national correspondent catherine herridge is live in washington with more on this. catherine, what are we learning today? >> reporter: good morning, jenna. this is really a very fluid situation so i'm going to try and keep it as simple as possible. when this material from bin laden's compound arrived in washington it went to the cia and there was an initial review and i was told there were really three strands to that review, first and fo

jon: i'm jon scott. "happening now" fallout around the world after the dramatic raid that killed usama bin laden. now the debate inside the white house whether to release tkpwreuf i can photos of the dead al-qaida leader. as we get a look at the bloody room inside the compound they are sifting through documents, hard drives seized from his luxury hideout. jenna: the president and his national security team monitoring the 40 minute raid at it played out in real time in the white house situation room. we get a look at that from this photo. jon: while there were pictures showing with the al-qaida leader with the precision kill shot above his left eye there is growing debate about releasing the gruesome praofr of death photos. word a short time ago that they could release photos of usama bin laden's burial at sea. >> reporter: a reuters report was released a half hour ago which quotes a government official speaking on the condition of anonymity that case the white house is considering releasing the photos of

scott cousins says he went to a lot of games here at at&t park when he could afford it. guys, back up to you. >> jon: so scott cousins, now actually in a game here at at&t park. >> mike: he might be getting the signal to bunt, at least try to. >> jon: and it's a bunt, moto turns to second. just in time. burris took the throw and then had a quick bit of footwork to get out of harm's way with buck coming in hard at second. >> mike: well, you better have pretty strong heart to make this throw right here. you have to anticipate the lead bag. moto zero hesitation, rifles the seed right to burriss' glove. sidestep, avoid contactp no chance to get cousins who runs well into the back end the play >> jon: you could see, too, no neighborhood play there. he had the foot on the bag as soon as it hit the glove and almost instantaneously he was gone. he had a little ballet avoiding john buck. here is infante. infante 1 for 5. cousins, the runner at first. back to the bag. cousins has had one steal in two attempts. usf probably didn't ask him to bunt that often. >> mike: no. >> jon: he was their big star. 6-6 in t

from where the north tower stood, i'm jon scott, for jenna lee, thank you for joining us, "america live" starts right now. martha: this fox news alert on a triumphant day in america and for the war on terror, the world's most wanted man the leader of al-qaida is dead. we are awaiting new details from the white house as we get word on a bunch of material is the way it's being described that was grabbed from the compound where osama bin laden was killed. welcome to "america live," i'm martha maccallum in for megyn kelly. almost ten years later u.s. navy seals found osama bin laden yesterday, following orders to kill not capture the notorious terrorists. we are hearing reports that osama bin laden's wife identified him by name during that raid inside the remote home in pakistan. dna tests are also now confirming, according to the white house that the body that was buried in the northern arabian ocean today is indeed the body of osama bin laden. now there are new questions about what is next in the war on terror. lawmakers looking for answers from pakistan about what they knew, amid new con

scott,. >> mike: michael wilbon, jon barry. hello, my name is dwyane wade. to d-wade, how did he get going so effectively, guys? >> when he comes out three-plus hours early to shoot and work up a sweat. not just shoot to be out there. but he clearly decided that the 12.4 points, five turnover guy was not going to be the wade that was going to start this series. and everybody on that team knew they needed to win game one more than boston did. they had to win game one. wade started to set the tone for it. >> check this out. here's the graphic comparing game one d-wade against the celtics regular season. check out the field goal percentage. 66% to 28%. now, you said he decided. j.b., is that just a matter of he decided it or did spoelstra and the heat and the team decide? >> i think it's dwyane wade. when you're that great a player, arguably one of the top three or five players in the game, in my opinion, that's what happens. i mean, you're not going to keep a great player down, and he decided today it wasn't going to happen. i know ray allen had a great game,

i wasn't there last night but they had senator scott brown going over to jon hamm's table saying, "youme on snl." even the cnn table, wolf blitzer sitting next to mila kunis. the starlet from "black swan." >> he said it was nice getting to know her. >> isn't that interesting? >> very fun. it's interesting because a lot of the politico types, they all get to -- everybody's very much dolled up. i've done the washington correspondents dinner. not the white house correspondents dinner. but everyone's dolled up. but then everyone kind of loosens up quite a bit. >> especially with acts like that. donald trump obviously seems to have been -- my mom always said if people are talking about you -- >> did he smile much? >> no. he was quite critical in the papers today about it all. when people are talking about you, that means you're making news, right? >> i guess so. sometimes it's good to be talked about. keep yourself on the map. we know that's one of the objectives, at least for him, right? >> right, absolutely. >> alexandra, thanks so much for playing. appreciate that. >> sure. >>> coming up

insightful analysis from scott horton contributing editor of harper's magazine now yesterday evening you may have caught a rather interesting collision of two worlds on television jon stewart and miracles most trusted newsman appeared in bill o'reilly show to debate one of the most pressing issues of this country now it wasn't the economy or wars or even the future of this country now the hot topic of that evening was a rapper's appearance at a white house poetry slam it went something like this you know we thought inviting a rapper name common to a poetry reading at the white house was a big mistake by the administration that's because common has openly sympathize with two convicted cop killers but our pal jon stewart disagrees with the criticism of comics so i challenge him last week to a debate and he answered the call. to it i'm shocked i am shocked shocked you you don't understand why people like me and millions of other americans right. noid and looking for answers that a guy like common would be entertained is the way to know who's pettifogging no i can't even believe you. know that is exactly the same ok bob dylan wrote a song about a convicted killer named

scott horton contributing editor of harper's magazine. now yesterday evening you may have caught a rather interesting collusion of two worlds on television jon stewart the so-called america's most trusted newsman appeared and bill o'reilly show to be one of the country's most pressing issues it wasn't the economy or the wars to get it wrong you know the hot topic of the evening was a rapper's appearance at a white house pro-choice slam now all the debate may have been amusing to watch and certainly good for ratings it does raise some serious questions about where the u.s. media is feeling its viewers tune in the next hour for my thoughts on what can happen today now unfortunately that does it for now for more on the stories that we've covered this what r.t. dot com slash usa and check out our u two pages you tube dot com slash r.t. america and as always please feel free to follow me on twitter it's at newcastle have one word and hopes you're right back here in half an hour.