shep. >> shepard: jonathan hunt in new york.nks. >>> we are at a potential tipping point in the civil war in syria. rebel fighters advancing toward central damascus. activists say syrian war planes today attacked their own citizens, attacked the rebel targets near the damascus airport. cross fire in the capitol this week killed dozens of civilians in a city that's avoided much of the violence over the past two years, but no more. analysts say recent attacks in damascus mark the biggest challenge for president assad yet. the united states estimates that civil war led to at least 70,000 deaths. >>> in egypt, an opposition group reports it has a way to deal with president mohammed morsi. send him to space. the group reports it has submitted the islamist leader's name in an on-line contest run by axe body spray to win a free trip to space. they report they did it because no one in the universe can put up with blatant lies except for the people of the moon. the opposition accuses president morsi of monopolizing power, silencing moder

king fox coverage continues with jonathan hunt. jonathan, this seems like general quinn shock across the catholic world. reporter: the initial reaction was certainly one of shock among all quarters, even at the highest levels of the catholic church, it seems, despite that fact that pope benedict xvi had been considering this decision for some time. there was no indication of it. that is why it caught everybody so much by surprise. but after a little while it appears that many people have more of a sense of understanding of why he made this decision. among those, cardinal dolan here in new york. listen. >> my affection for him, my admiration for pope benedict xvi continues to skyrocket. it was already high. but i love him so much. as a brother bishop, -- shop of rome who appoint met to the archdiocese in new york, and to the holy father who made my a cardinal, and i just always admired him as a scholar, a priest, and a holy man, and now the admiration for him is even higher. reporter: the white house also released a statement in pres

we'll have more from the state departmental but first to jonathan hunt live at the united nations ina rare show of unity of the united nations. >> members gathered that it became apparent that the nuclear test had, indeed, taken place. u.s. ambassador susan rice described it as a threat to regional and international peace and stability and joined the other members in, quote, strongly condemning north korea's action. ambassador rice said that there will be consequences. listen.... >> when the council responded to the last provocation in violation of its obligation we said and the council said that was clearly committed in resolution 20787 to take, and i quoted, significant action in the event of any further launch using ballistic missile technology or another nuclear test. indeed, we will do so. >> reporter: now it's unclear at this stage what that quote, significant action will amount to but it's most likely, shep, to be a toughening of economic punishment or sanctions as the u.n. likes to call them against the north korean government. >> shep: jonathan, how much closer do they say t

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jonathan hunt will have more and very interesting guest at the service. first to greg palkot in south africa. what is the reaction to the ground here to the first day of the bail hearing? >> shep, the case against oscar that is how newspaper is saying, laid out the verse of version of events. it was packed courtroom mesmerized by the counts as is all of south africa. he is national icon here. his girlfriend a real darling but it came down today who do you believe the prosecution saying there was no possible explanation for pistorius to believe it was intruder and not a girlfriend in that bathroom. defense claiming it was impossible for him to kill her. he said they were both very much in love. >> shep: so is he expected to go free on bail or what? >> that could be the main subject of the hearing which continues on wednesday. the betting here is he will not go free on bail. the prosecution and presiding judge basically expected that pistorius will be charged with premeditated murder. that is the stiffest charge he could get. it carries a life sentence. vir

>> shepard: jonathan hunt. thanks very much.t created crisis nope as the sequester is set to begin in just three days. that is when the deep budget cuts that republicans and democrats agreed to months ago will begin to take effect, unless they can reach a last-minute deal. but it's washington, ed henry is outside the white house they've can't do anything, can they? reporter: well, still, paralysis. the president going on the road trying to take his case to the american people. he is in virginia, newport news, where they make nuclear attack submarines and he was warning the region in the commonwealth of virginia they will take major hit and tens of thousands of jobs that will be furloughed and he said congress should find better ways to cut spending. >> these cuts are wrong. they're not smart. they're not fair. they're a self-inflicted wound that doesn't have to happen. reporter: now, he also called out republican speaker john boehner by name and noted in previous discussions about the budget, the speaker had mutt new cash revenu

>> shepard: jonathan hunt in lower manhattan tonight. well, the at that timed up starierced basketball who once wore a wedding dress to promote his book is visiting one of the most repressive countries. dennis rodman in north korea today along with three of the harr lemed globe trotters. hosting a camp for kids hosting basketball diplomacy. they want to get the north korean leader kim jong un into a game. trace gallagher with the news. live for us in los angeles. what is this going on here? >> you know, that's the question, shep. why is it that kim the younger keeps importing american culture when you look at the country and most koreans, north koreans in general are not allowed to access american culture and yet last year you had kim the younger hosting a big disney celebration in downtown eric schmidt the google chairman was there last month and now you have dennis rodman. these are all attempts by kim jong un to show the global community that he is open to reform. rodman sis this trip is not political but others disagree. listen. we g

jonathan hunt, thank you. the blade runner case has a new lead investigator since the former detective in charge is accused of attempted murder himself. but the new investigator says that will have no impact on the court case as it moves forward. nothing. our fox legal analyst no affect? >> it obviously will have effect. here's the effect. not going to affect the facts but will affect the way the court and ultimately the jury views the facts in the case. i mean, after just three days of testimony, and what is a bail hearing -- not a criminal trial, not a prosecution yet, just a bail hearing d' -- the whole focus of the case has shifted from what pistorius is alleged to have done to what the state did. that's a disaster for the state. when the judge starts second-guessing the government in the first presentation the government is making. second problem for the state. detective botha was the original gatherer of evidence at the death scene. only he can testify about his impressions from that act of gathering evi

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jonathan hunt in our newsroom tonight. as we mentioned, it is certain isly rare for a pope to resign it has happened 10 times in fact according to the oxford dictionary of popes. the list includes two other benedicts. can you see it dates back to the year 101 a.d. coming up, we'll look back at the pope's nearly 8 years as leader of the catholic church and possible successors. plus, shep is on his way to rome and will anchor "studio b" and "the fox report" live tomorrow from italy. that all starts at 3:00 eastern, 2:00 central time. three people are dead tonight. two injured at a courthouse. a man got into a fire fight with officers in the lobby of the new castle county courthouse. among the dead, two women along with a suspected gunman. investigators say this was all over a custody matter steve centanni with more from there. how did this begin. >> shots rang out 8:00 a.m. behind the courthouse behind me. a man walked in and opened fire at a security check point killing two women. these are not random shootings. he knew the

"the fox report's" correspondent jonathan hunt with the news. is he live with us tonight.else do we know about this man, jonathan? >> well, according to those who knew him or even crossed his path, 65-year-old jimmy lee dykes was a loner. he was estranged from his family. we are told he grew up in the same part of lower alabama where this all played out. he served in the u.s. navy from 1964 to '69. awarded the vietnam service medal and the good conduct medal. after that he lived in florida working as a truck driver and then about two years ago he moved back to the midland city area. that of course, is where his paranoia and eccentric behavior became much worse and where he began building the bunker that was at the center of this almost week long drama, shep. >> shepard: all of that odd behavior included run-ins with neighbors. >> several run-inies with neighbors. he seemed furious if anybody strayed on or near his property. he once as you said beat a neighbor's dog to death with a led pipe. and, of course, we poke to one man on "studio b" last week who got into a scrape wi

jonathan hunt continuing our coverage. we will throughout the hour.t, the cia director nominee john brennan spoke out strongly against waterboarding. the practice that the government calls torture. and at his confirmation hearing, he he explained by he could not stop the practice that he says he opposed. you will hear from him coming up. plus, that manhunt for the accused killer has led police to big bear and a bear mountain resort there. the latest on the chase for the man who says he is on a mission to kill cops. as you heard from our correspondent on scene, she just witnessed a slew of ambulances and a disaster team come in. they are preparing for the very worst. stop! stop! stop! come back here! humans -- we are beautifully imperfect creatures living in an imperfect world. that's why liberty mutual insurance has your back with great ideas like our optional better car replacement. if your car is totaled, we give you the money to buy one a model year newer. call... and ask one of our insurance experts about it today. hello?! we believe our customers

our team fox coverage continues with the chief fox report correspondent jonathan hunt. is he way down in the tip of manhattan, battery park in lower manhattan. that got flooded during the super storm. how are we looking down there, jonathan? >> well, shep, in terms of snow we are not too bad right now. it's picked up a little bit over the last 30 minutes or so. as you can see still really only a dusts of snow at the most an inch at its thickest right. >> now the storm surge is a big concern across the entire region. now, take a look at these figures. these are the sort of storm surge figures we are expecting. and those expects expected to hit its height right about now. long island will be the hardest hit in terms of the storm surge. across this region, of course, where this is hitting, all of these areas were so badly affected by super storm sandy, many people not yet back in their homes in these areas trying to rebuild. this snow, this storm surge, these winds, none of that is going to help them. this is misery on top of misery, shep. for a lot of the victims of super

in new york jonathan hunt, fox news. >>> the first bipartisan house bill to combat gun trafficking was announced today making firearms trafficking a federal crime. it will impose stronger penalties on straw purchases, those who purchase guns for convicted felons and those prohibited from buying guns on their own. the proposal included recommendations made by president obama and vice president biden. >>> the fbi said the man who held a small boy captive in a bunker in alabama for almost a week died in a s.w.a.t. gunfire. fbi said dykes reinforced the bunker with explosive devices. six days earlier he boarded the school bus, killed the driver and kidnapped ethan. police have not released a motive. the boy is doing well at home. tomorrow is his 6th birthday. >>> coming up a teen learns a hard lesson in court. a judge was not amused by her bad attitude, see what she did to get an immediate jail sentence. >> temperatures in the 30s tonight and a few passing flurries, nothing to worry about. we do have some moisture in the forecast. i'll have that seven-day in a few minutes. >> economic out

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first, let's get to jonathan hunt. nathan, police made it very clear fromle almost the get-go they're very confident in this game. >> they never bought the self-defense their rhythm have shot it down at every turn. they're looking at the cricket back which was covered in blood. questions, though, was it the blood of riva steep -- steenkamp or the blood of oscar pistorius. did she use it to defend herself or did he use it to attack her, and then shoos her four times. once after she was in the bathroom and then after she was in the bathroom, shooting the the locked doors. and they've ordered a drug test to final out whether he had used the steroids recently. whether there is was a case of roid rage, and if that was any rage involved here, did it have anything to do with a text his girlfriend allegedly got late that night from the south african star rugby player, francois. is that perhaps what tipped this all off francois retweeted a picture of him with reef staff steenkamp in which he said paying contribute to a beautiful

jonathan hunt is live at st. patrick's cathedral. what else did the pope have to say?sually personal speech. he is a pope that is known more for his professor yal style. he appeared to be happy, enjoying a victory lap around the vatican saying goodbye to many of those who turned up. he talked about the joy he had felt being pope but at the same time he also appeared to be relieved to be stepping down. listen. >> deeply grateful for the understanding and support and prayers of the many of you here and around the world. decision i have made in god's will and deep love of god's church. i will -- >> reporter: the pope recalled back in 2005 when he became pope he told god you have placed a great burden on my shoulders. in less than 24 hours now, that burden will officially be lifted. >> shep: what happens now, john? >> reporter: tomorrow morning his next appointment will be to meet with the cardinals who are already in rome. as you mentioned cardinal timothy dolan is one of them. listen. >> on thursday we will there and literally saying goodbye. then i think it will sink in

jonathan hunt has been digging into this.have more details from a police affidavit on this. >> it appears that chris kyle, long with his friend, chad littlefield, and eddie ray rout, arrived at the rough creek lodge around 3:15. they went off the firing range and it was not until an hour and a half later worker at the lodge went to the range, found kyle and littlefield, both apparently shot, when the cops arrived, they said they found both men clearly dead. covered in blood. multiple gunshot wounds, and numerous firearms at the range. not that that would be unthundershower. hand guns and row valve0s. routh has fled the scene and gone to his sister and talked about selling his soul for the new truck. that might have been the seemingly senseless motive. we're also hearing that routh has refused to meet with members of his own family, and also hiscourt-a pointed attorney. >> kyle had co-authors for the book. >> we spoke to one of them today. we talked to jim, a writer, not a vet, co-author on the book, american sniper. he became

jonathan hunt is here. , jonathan, probably no coincidence in this case that he became one of the leading voices of the immigration issue. >> yeah, of course, a lot of analysts and indeed many leading republicans believe that the party stance on immigration was one of the reasons, if not the main one that the republicans did so badly in terms of the hispanic vote in the last election. 12.2 hispanics voted. president obama got 71% of those votes to governor romney's 27%. so, step forward senator rubio. one of that bipartisan group of 8 senators who made a series of immigration reform proposals last month just ahead of the president. senator rubio, of course, is the son of cuban immigrants. in the eyes of many republicans and the senator himself is therefore, the perfect man to lead the republican outreach on this issue. listen. >> i am calling you to this issue in terms of the senate. i'm not new in terms of my life. i lived surrounded by immigrants. my neighbors are immigrants. my family is immigrants. marri

jonathan hunt is in studio this afternoon. i don't now holiday big a surprised this was to people, but the bail, little over $100,000? >> a very low bail on this. which is interesting. what is interesting here, shep, is the way the prosecution and pistorius' attorneys painted completely different pictures. first of all, the runup to the shooting. pistorius claims he and reeva steenkamp were asleep in his home, which you see right there the prosecution says, no so. in fact they were awake and arguing for perhaps a couple of hours before hand and people living nearby, a few hundred feet away, heard that. then there's the shooting itself. pistorius said -- look at this mockup. he says he thought the was an intruder who may have entered through the balcony door, and he hauled himself to the bathroom routh putting on his legs, he believed the intruder was in the toilet cubicle and he fired. the prosecution showed a floor plan of the bedroom during their presentation they said he knew, pistorius, knew full well steenkamp was in the

chief correspondent jonathan hunt is looking into it.re are indications at least that steroids may have played a part here. >> reporter: they found steroids in pistorius's house and they immediately ordered blood tests on the athlete. they want to find out what level if any, of steroids were in his body at the time. before being here, his attorney might try to use that as a defense saying he was suffering from so-called roid rage. if, indeed, there was any rage involved in this killing, then they are also looking at texts that reeva steenkamp allegedly got from a south african rugby star. she and him were apparently close friends and there is a suggestion that she may have gotten those texts late on the night she was killed and that could have prompted an argument that neighbors said they heard shortly before those shots were fired. >> they said they found a key piece of evidence, a bloody cricket bat? >> a cricket bat covered in blood. tests are now being carried out on that cricket bat to find out if that blood is, indeed, that of reev

that leads to us jonathan hunt who is live in studio. what from the israeli?> nothing publicly but they have little choice put to take these threats seriously. they know the chaos is spreading across the region and the threats are becoming greater all around them. that's one of the reons they moved some battery of their antimissile defense system, the iron dome, to the north of the country because the don't think any real threat is coming from the iranian military or the syrian military that would be a suicide mission from both countries. the real threat is from hezbollah, the militant group in southern lebanon, and that's a real fear, that iran and syria might use hezbollah as proxies and carry out attacks not on israeli territory itself but terror attack against more vulnerable israeli interests anywhere on the globe. >> all of this believed to be connected to iran's nuclear amibitions. >> we talked about the way the strands are unraveling across the middle east. now it's as if somebody pulled it tight and form a big knot. all comes back to iran. syria's big

"the fox report's" chief correspondent jonathan hunt is with us. biggest similarity here is probably possible evidence contamination. >> remember the questions about bloody glove in the o.j.j. simpson case. similar questions being raised about the handling of evidence at the scene where oscar pistorius was alleged to have murdered reeva steenkamp. the lead investigator did not wear protective shoe covers when first walked the crime scene. they found illegal ammunition there but they didn't secure it and in fact allowed friends of pistorius to walk away with it. then the claims about testosterone being present. they had to walk those back and say they haven't determined yet what that substance is. none of this according to judge napolitano is good for the prosecution. listen. >> the whole focus of the case has shifted from what pistorius is alleged to have done to what the state did. that is a disaster for the state. >> now, as judge napolitano also says the lead investigator may have been removed but they can never remove the fact that he was the f

let's check in with jonathan hunt with the rest of the story. china is the main suspect, clearly. >> reporter: yes. certainly in the attacks on these big media organizations, and our boss, rupert murdoch, seems to have no doubt at all. he tweeted today, quote, chinese still hacking us or were over weekend. now, we don't have a lot of detail about the juan guevara wt journal attack. the "new york times" published a long articles last week talked about a company they brought in to investigate it. they said they looked through the way this was done for something like four months and all the signs pointed to very similar attacks perpetrated by the chinese before and a strong suspicion voiced by writers at the "new york times" was this was either the chinese military or the government trying to intimidate them because they were investigating at the time none other than the chinese prime minister. >> how did they do it? >> you know. it's funny. these schemes seem to us to become more and more complex, more and more widespread, but i spoke to the co-pr

jonathan hunt is with us tonight. what's on this 911 recording?ell, first of all, after allegedly murdering chris kyle and his friend chad littlefield, the alleged shooter apparently went to his sister's house, laura blevins is her name, there he told her he had, quote: sold his soul for a new truck, a reference to the truck that he had stolen apparently from chris kyle. he then left. she immediately called 911. listen. >> 911, what's your emergency? >> yes, ma'am, my brother just came by here. i was [bleep] >> laura blevins also described her brother as bleeping psychotic said she was too terrified to stay on the phone and then handed the phone over to her husband, shep? >> shepard: chris kyle had a co-author. what's the co-author say? >> i spoke to him today. it was fascinating talking to him. he he was asked to help chris kyle write this book. they became very close friends. and he just described the murder of chris kyle as, quote: an immense loss, listen. >> i'm sure that that there are thousands and thousands of guys who just because they spe

the fox creative correspondent jonathan hunt has been filing the developments in the trial or the bail hearing. how did prosecutors react to the statement? a lot of surprise, you know, that it was so detailed. >> reporter: prosecutors laid out the case they said all along is a straight forward case of premeditated murder. they say there was an argument between oscar pistorius and his girlfriend, reeva steenkamp. they say at that point steenkamp ran into the bathroom and then into a toilet cub cubicle whichs within that bathroom and shut the door. they say that oscar pistorius took the time to actually put on his prosthetic legs, then walked into the bathroom, took aim at that toilet cubicle door, shot four times hitting reeva steenkamp and they said, quote, it is our respectful argument that preplanning or premeditation do not require months of planning. if i ready myself and walk a distance with the intention to kill someone, it is premeditated, and they said reeva steenkamp, quote, couldn't go anywhere. you can run nowhere. it must have been horrific, shep. >> i guess there was no ba