plus -- see how the lunchroom complaints of thousands of students finally made a difference tonight on "the kelly file." developing tonight in an exclusive "the kelly file" investigation -- >> how do you feel, lynn? >> beyond joy. >> the radical, now disbarredvi one of the world's worst terrorists is freed from prison early and treated to a hero's welcome in new york city on new year's day. we'll tell you who in the obama administration is responsible for cutting her sentence in half as you were celebrating the holiday. this is "the kelly file." i'm megyn kelly. welcome. we have new details in the story we first brought you here yesterday about attorney lynn stewart. in 2010 she was sentenced to ten years in prison for conspiring to actively support this man, the blind sheikh, the spiritual leader of a violent jihadist group responsible for the death of thousands around the world. he's the person who bin laden said gave the fatwah that led to 9/11. he's suspected in the conspiracy bethiehind the 1993 world trade center bombing. thousands were injured. the sheikh was convicted for plott

in fact, one 5th grader says an administrator threw away her food in front of the entire lunchroom. >> she took me and i come back up and i'm like what's going on and she was like you don't have any money in your account. you can't get that. >> the district says it's reviewing the way parents are notified of negative balances and says they're hoping to implemented a grace period. >>> overseas to the bombshell verdict for amanda knox. there's new questions on whether the former exchange students will be forced to return to italy. late thursday an italian court once again found knox and her former boyfriend guilty of murder in the 2007 killing of her then roommate. it's just the latest twist in a case that captured international attention. in 2011 a court overturned the original conviction but ordered a new trial last year. now knox can appeal and only then will extradition be on the table if that appeal fails. in a statement she said in part, quote, i am frightened and saddened by this unjust verdict. having been found innocent before, i expected better from the italian justice system.

he read the papers a day late that was left behind in the lunchroom. he read the president was coming to dallas. he read the motorcade was going to come right past the schoolbooks of pot -- depository. i'm convinced he felt that they'd had chosen to do this. he wrote to his mother a few days before, something clicked when oswald david jfk was riding by. his marriage was failing. he once told his wife i'm going to be prime minister in 20 years and she said you are a fool. it takes an education to do that. so i think oswald is in despair and he thinks, this is it. this is the sign had been looking for. this is a chance for me to do something. i don't think he killed john kennedy out of clothing or hatred. >> he had a vicious street. he abused his wife from time to time. >> he almost tangled her one time. she refused, she agreed to make the dinner he requested, rice and beans but she wasn't american. she made the mistake of mick sing the price and the beans together and not serving them separately and pouring the beans on top of the rice. oswalt said this

in fact, one 5th grader says an administrator threw away her food in front of the entire lunchroom. >> she took me and i come back up and i'm like what's going on and she was like you don't have any money in your account. you can't get that. >> the district says it's reviewing the way parents are notified of negative balances and says they're hoping to implement a grace period. >>> overseas to the bombshell verdict for amanda knox. there's new questions on whether the former exchange students will be forced to return to italy. late thursday an italian court once again found knox and her former boyfriend guilty of murder in the 2007 killing of her then roommate. it's just the latest twist in a case that captured international attention. in 2011 a court overturned the original conviction but ordered a new trial last year. now knox can appeal and only then will extradition be on the table if that appeal fails. in a statement she said in part, quote, i am frightened and saddened by this unjust verdict. having been found innocent before, i expected better from the italian justice system. >

don't think ignore i'm not wrong let me bring up collins however there he could not make it to the lunchroom and buy a coke in the length of time but i had an officer in the building and i got into his plane is to me and then and there was a witness. just explain this one thing to me or i interviewed the policeman who arrested oswald in the movement the it up after tippit you green shot tippit no you don't think oh no you know why i don't agree that we let me explain there were shell casings on the ground there oswalt was picked up with a revolver you're saying he shot tippit empty do shells by the body and then ram let me show you with an automatic not a sight of all over tell you one thing in response is on the back too and so was it but at this is something llama involved the right eye and a view that the police sergeant who were arrested as well in the movie had a hoover theater and oz was that only one thing in the drive down to the police station and he said it twice i'm a patsy i'm a patsy if you're a patsy that means you a set up you were somehow involved jim garrison told me there w

-- upstairs to a lunchroom where we briefed staffers. although the senate has a procedure where you can object to the constitutionality of a bill, it was not clear that the republicans in the senate were going to make such an objection because it was not clear they knew why the bill might be unconstitutional. and it was during the briefing, the private briefing we had for the staffers upstairs in this building in which we laid out the argument that subsequently, shortly thereafter after, senate republicans did make a point of constitutional order. there was a televised debate on c-span which brought to the public for the first time the arguments that were against the constitutional the city of the affordable care act in which several senators relied on the paper making that argument. it all started here, and here we are again. i just want to point out something that hasn'ten within said up til now, and i'm kind of glad it hasn't, and that is that this is a terrific book. [laughter] it's just a really good book. i was getting ready this m

what were the school lunchroom workers thinking? >>> trouble on board another cruise ship. the caribbean princess arrived home in texas late last night two days earlier than plan ned after more than 170 passengers and crew members got sick. the highly contagious norovirus to blame again. officials with the center thes for disease control were on the ship again to ensure that it is properly sanitized. earlier this week, royal caribbean's "explorer of the seas" went home early after some 700 people got sick with the same illness. >>> parents were outraged after an elementary school throws out school lunches for some students. it happened to more than 30 chirp in salt lake city, and some parents say that the students were humiliated by the whole ordeal. >> and mike taibbi spoke to the school district about why they took the children's lunches? >> it is indefensible. >> reporter: politicians including the state senator called it an outrage of the students attending the utah state school and words lit up with pathetic, and shame, and how could anyone take the l lunches out of 30

then she worked in the school lunchroom. then when i was still in high school, she got a job in the post office and worked there until she had to retire. she had to retire at age 70. it was the law. i was campaigning. this was 1975. christmas. her birthday is christmas eve. on her birthday she had to retire. so i was campaigning. i went campaigning after christmas. i came back home and my brother said "call me" as soon as i got home. and i went to see mother. she cried all week long. i went to see her. i said, mother. she had to get up every morning at 7:00. then she had to come back late in the afternoon. but my grandfather came to live with us when my grandmother died. and so my mother had flexible hours because the post master didn't want to get up early. and he didn't want to stay late. but anyway. i said, "mother, don't you enjoy just being able to sleep in?" she said, "it is not that. it is just that nobody thinks i can do good work anymore." so that made an impression on me. when jimmy was president, i did work with a

the other thing it is barely less well-known was immediately after we went upstairs to a lunchroom in which we briefed congressional staffers which was crucial because up until this point although the senate has a procedure in which you can make a constitutional order it was not clear that they would make such an objection because it was not clear that they knew why the bill would be unconstitutional. we laid out the argument that subsequently shortly thereafter the senate republicans it did make a point of order which brought to the public for the first time the arguments that were against the constitutionality. it all started here, and here we are again. before i say more i want to point out something that has not been said that until now. this is a terrific book. just a really good book. i was getting ready this morning at went back and said that would read a little bit is the beginning. we were working on the pages in the manuscripts. and i could not put it down. it was not only my own stuff i was interested, although i liked that to. it was a fascinating read. now want to urge pe

fact that we had this public event was immediately after the public event we went upstairs to the lunchroom and which we briefed congressional staffers on the argument, and this was crucial because of until this point, we although the senate has a procedure in which you can make the point of constitutional order to object the constitutionality of the bill, it wasn't that the republicans and the senate were going to make such an objection because it is not clear that they knew why the bill might be unconstitutional. and there was during the briefing that we had with the staffers of stairs that we leave out the argument and that subsequently shortly thereafter the senate republicans did make a point of constitutional order and there was a televised the date on c-span which brought to the public for the first time the arguments that were against the constitutionality of the affordable care act much several senators relied on the heritage foundation paper making that argument. so with all started here and here we are again. so, before i say much more, i just want to point out something that has

well-known, we have this public event was immediately after the public event we went upstairs to a lunchroom in which we breathe congressional staffers on the argument and this was crucial because up until this point although the senate has a procedure in which you can make a point of constitutional order to object to the constitutionality of the bill, it was not clear they're going to make such an objection because it is not clear that they knew why the bill might be unconstitutional and it was a during the briefing the private racing we had with a staffers upstairs in this building which we laid out the argument that subsequently shortly thereafter senate republicans did make a constitution. there was a televised debate on c-span which brought to the public for the first time the arguments that were against the constitutionality of the affordable care act that we each -- making that argument. it all started here and here we are again. before i say much more, i just want to point out something that hasn't been set up to now and i'm glad it hasn't. it gives you something is a. that is, this

then she worked in the school lunchroom. then when i was still in high school, she got a job in the post office and worked there until she had to retire. she had to retire at age 70. it was the law. i was campaigning. this was 1975. christmas. her birthday is christmas eve. on her birthday she had to retire. so i was campaigning. i went campaigning after christmas. i came back home and my brother said "call me" as soon as i got home. and i went to see mother. she cried all week long. i went to see her. i said, mother. she had to get up every morning at 7:00. then she had to come back late in the afternoon. but my grandfather came to live with us when my grandmother died. and so my mother had flexible hours because the post master didn't want to get up early. and he didn't want to stay late. but anyway. i said, "mother, don't you enjoy just being able to sleep in?" she said, "it is not that. it is just that nobody thinks i can do good work anymore." so that made an impression on me. when jimmy was president, i did work with a

we have a fully stocked lunchroom. so we have snacks and we had la san ya and salad for dinner last night. the teachers will take them into classrooms and do quieter activities with them when needed. so we just do what we doer day, we just did it around the clock. >> as i understand it, school was dismissed around 10:30 yesterday. would you say -- were folks caught off guard by this? >> no. we were totally caught offguard. the meteorologist in our area predicted a light dusting for the birmingham area. so all the accumulation was to occur far south of us. >> uh-huh. >> so at about -- when we were dismissing at 10:30 it didn't seem to me like there would be a problem to get the kids home in plenty of time. but it happened so fast that by the time they left my school and went to the school -- the feeder school, the buses couldn't go past that school. that's how fast it happened and we're probably 5 miles apart. >> hopefully when the sun comes up, you'll be able to get those students back to their families. principal till

they didn't want to go into the lunchroom anymore. it's unethical and disrespectful.e or tolerate unlawful retaliation. this is a story a lot of people are talking about. pretty controversial. we're continuing to watch it. >> thank you very much. >>> that story getting many of you fired up on facebook. here are some of your comments. alicia said absolutely she did the right thing. why should children be humiliated over something they have no control over? >> danielle said this, why do they need a stamp? in our school, the kids have cards that are coded whether they pay or have free or reduced lunches. no one knows. everyone is happy. >> andrea writes, you shouldn't be labeled for how much money you have in your pocket. so wrong. what do you think? e-mail us, or facebook us or tweet us. >> let's go out to maria now with the latest on the weather. >> not bad here in new york city. currently feels like 22 degrees. after you have wind chills below zero, it feels like a significant warm-up across portions of the northeast. we're expecting the warm-up to continue over the n

. >> one afternoon in the lunchroom, carl was looking up guns on his computer. he quickly closed his computer. and we immediately told our supervisor what we saw. and we were told he would bring it up in their administration meeting. and then that following monday after that administration meeting, we were told there was nothing that they could do about that. and it was his personal computer, and that he could look up what he wanted. >> well, during that attack, pearson shot 17-year-old claire davis. she later died of her injuries. and officials say pearson took his own life at the school. >>> the son of famed evangelist billy graham is asking the world to pray for his dad. he spoke about his condition. >> he's doing okay. just okay. after he -- he was hospitalized right after his birthday in november. and his vitals are good. but he just does not have strength. so i know for those that are watching, my father would appreciate your prayers. well, you know, my father's ready to go to heaven. and whenever that day comes, he's ready. he's worked hard all of his lif