and of course, the prosecution's star witness was mary ann mcfarland.er lover? or maybe save him? >> coming up, tough questions. >> let me make it very simple. are you in love with him? >> and raw emotions. >> and she went hysterical. she lost it. >> and coming up next friday, on "dateline" secrets in a small town. >> it was awful realizing that your worst nightmare had come true. >> a mother's vanished, a family is anguished, and a case of murder becomes a southern gothic mystery. >> who would ever imagine you'd have a murder in your family? >> then a small town story led to a very big break. >> we were dealing with a person that was leading a double life. >> and to a suspect who surprised nearly everyone. >> have you ever said "i know that you did and the end of a journey that began here... when the swipe of a visa card... gave one man the chance to bring happiness to ten friends, and a new lease on life, to one. that was a false start. [ phone rings ] what!? yeah, meema. yes? i won tickets to the super bowl. pack your bags. [ male announcer ] use you

rookie officer tim mcfarland in the foreground uses greg's car as cover. >> i zoom in on the officer across the street. i see he has his hands up to his throat and has blood coming down his hands. >> it's mcfarland's partner officer jared slocumb. he's been shot in the left temple. it has exited the rear of his head. >> when i saw that he was shot, i was scared. i was, like, okay i'm going to have to go get my partner. because he's got to go home tonight. >> couching behind collier's white pickup truck, officer slocumb clutches his neck. a reaction caused by the head injury. as he provides cover, the wounded officer tries to run across the street. but slocumb veers to the right losing balance and collapsing into a chain link fence. mcfarland knowing every second counts runs across the street to get to his partner putting himself directly in the cross hairs of the rifle. he must put down the gun to pick up the officer. leaving him defenseless. >> he decided to do a dummy drag. he picked up his partner from underneath the arms and pulled him right out of the road. two residents that we

mcfarland says: "this is a pretty serious invasion if someplace like stratfor which is a super-seriousund the world is getting hacked into, then you kind of have to wonder is anything safe?"(mckellay on cam tag) one hacker says the goal is to steal a million dollars from victims' accounts ...writing person says hackers want to - distribute that cash to organizations like "save the children" and the "american red cross."in washington, doug 33kelway, fox news..- mooe amateur video is emerging of the violence in syria.... . activists say government troops are shelling the area with mortars and spraying heavyymachine gun fire today he area is the center for anti-government repeated crackdowns by the - syrian regime. reports say.. at least twenty-three people were killed in the intense shelling -- which activists say is targeting "anyone who moves" syrian officials are not commenting on the violence in the area... and insist....its the terroriss groups attackiig civilians.. happens to pass a burning home ... and saves two people's live. way home after a christmas s - dinner when he saw smok

mcfarland says: "so saudi arabia - even if it pumps more oil probably can't compensate.clear program. their navy is in the midst of a ten- day drill in international waters near the straaegic oil route. the exercises could bring iranian ships into proximity with u-s navy vessels in the area. in washiigton, jennifer griffin fox news. it's.../ a... green way .../ to... get id.../ of... your... christmas tr. tree. a.../ farmer.../ in... york county pennsylvania.../ is... feeding... christmas trees... to his goats...//. áátheáá goats... love the trees ...for dinner...//. áágoatsáá... will... eat... almost anything.../ ááandáá keeping ...the trees ...out of the landfill.../ áásavesáá... him... a lot...// on... paying... for feed....// ááhisáá neighbors.../ just... starred.../ tossing... the trees... in his yard...///. 3 "we were just fortunate that the food bank was looking for a place to get rid of them so they don't have to throw them in the landfill" "a ot of neighbors ask if they can throw them over the fence in fact one neighbor last year said, 'whats wrong with my chris

kt mcfarland kind of a national correspondent. she is a fox news contributor.his news breaking moments ago you and i talked about the air apparent. 20 something-year-old kim jong who could be moving in place now. not a whole lot of detail coming out. you are not surprised we would find out about this late in the night like this. >> the 27-year-old son has been the heir apparent. he doesn't have military experience or political experience. they will look to him there may be a potential power struggle with him. the young man the new leader will have to show his chops. he may feel he has to do something militant. this is the beginning of a succession issue that may go on the struggle may go on for a couple of months and may have international complications. >> the enigmatic leader kim jong-il. he has been ill. he has had a stroke. pictures of him look terrible for the last year. >> we will bring you details on this kim jong-il's north korean leader 69 years old as we learn more information tonight. i want to get back to geraldo at large he has been in kuwait as th

kt mcfarland is this like many like qaddafi's son was he educated in the west?he maybe done some education in the west, yeah, but he is north korean. he has three sons. this is the middle son. there is a third son who i heard is living in china last heard. china shares a border. china's biggest worry is north korea implodes or explodes or collapses or goes into chaos and sends thousands and thousands of refugees into china. he is stabilizing the situation there. it is important to remember the united states is a treaty partner with south korea. we have troops in south korea right now right at the border. it is a trip wire so any escalation of a crisis in north korea not only effects south korea but immediately effects the united states. it is a situation it's not just happening somewhere at the end of the world it is something that effects us greatly within a short period of time. >> harris tell us more about kim jong-il. >> they announced a special broadcast as they are telling the nation that kim jong-il has passed away. second generation north korean dictator

in washington, scott mcfarland, ktvu, chapel 2 news. >>> an update to the top story. the messing monkey from the san francisco zoo. a private donor raised the reward for the safe return to $5,000. the zoo officials are worried the old squirrel monthy is under severe stress and you won't be able to get the special diet he needs to stay healthy. whoever took the small monkey, could be in danger as well and saying he has short teeth and a bite could lead to a serious infect. >> a georgia woman claims the brother's escape from alcatraz in 1962 and survived. marie said her son's plan to visit alcatraz june 11th, the fiftyth anniversary of the escape and never claims to have seen her brothers after the breakout, but believes they are still alive. they were sentenced to prison in 1958 for robbing a bank. >> the only reason they put them in alcatraz was because they could not keep them anywhere. >> frank morris drowned in the bay and it was never found. >>> scientists stationed at the south pole call it a christmas miracle. the temperature rose to nearly 10 degrees and snow a

seussan sheer and willie mcfarland. they really are the premiere surveillance group for h.i.v.ids in the country that train many other groups globally about how to track h.i.v. infections and h.i.v.-related disease, so that we can know how best to target our prevention efforts and our treatment efforts. so they have really done a huge service to the global h.i.v. aids community and also in addressing health disparities. the h.i.v. prevention unit is headed by dr. grant koufax. they also are really a ground-breaking research organization as well as providing prevention services and leading the presense efforts in the city. they have really spearheaded this effort at looking at how treatment can effect prevention, how if you get people tested and treated more globally, you can really drive down h.i.v. infection. and so through that, they have pioneered on viral load and h.i.v. testing, in treatment of substance use and a variety of other topics. and then i head the h.i.v. research section and we have a number of talented folks who work with me. we're test age number of different

. >> scott mcfarland ktvu channel 2 news. >>> pieces of a ferris wheel started falling to the ground on south market, they featured 20 carnival type rides and raft month they saw -- last month they saw one of the carriages swinging. operators say it started when the ferris wheel came loose and it knocked a big piece of fiberglass loose. luckily nobody was hurt. that problem has been fixed. >>> now the latest victim, they have discovered $3,000 missing after unauthorized transactions from three stores. now they say that money was for overseas care packages and local shelters. he stole thousands of dollars from unknowing customers. >>> we are expected to learn more this week whether the state will have to make more cuts to public education. governor brown will learn how much they are short and lawmakers predicted. it will likely be cut to public education including universities and k through 12 still. >>> they will operate with too fewer on week dates and larkspur to san francisco trip on over the weekend. they will fix some of their weekend skids but the other skids, they will stay th

as scott mcfarland report itself nothing is done all of us will pay more in taxes as of the first ofear. kzót>é"çysw even though both sides remain split and there is no tax cut deal. it was silent. no protesters and so close to christmas we couldn't even find tourists. inside the chamber a spectacle. >> what is happening here today is shameful, it is a disgrace. it is unreal t is unbelievable. >> reporter: one democrat held up a stocking. >> the republicans have something to put in it. they have a lump of caal. dr=@avdk"jaand the ñcc[qÑzjhhnÑ common 4mdlu different. this time there nz?zy÷ók!azis n holidays and taxes are still set to rise. local republicans voted against a last ditch effort to extend the tax cut two months they said it was to short. they said the senate shouldn't have left town after proposing it. bay area democrats said that is a political stunt. >> they will hold american families hostage, the economy hostage and that's just unfortunate because i hear when i'm home is can't you come together. >> reporter: what happens next in congress could return after the new year

in washington scott mcfarland. >> here is what the bill will do until the end of february. it keeps the payroll tax at 4.2%. it renews federal benefits for the long term unemployed, it prevents a 27% cut to medicare and requires presidential approval of the canada texas oil pipeline. it'll cost $33 billion which will come from higher fees on government home loans. >> in the slowest trading day this year stocks moved higher. investors seemed encouraged by the congressional compromise to extend the payroll tax holiday and emergency unemployment benefits. the dow is up 124 points, the nasdaq added 19. >>> the new home sales last month hit their highest level in seven months. the rate for november was 315,000 new homes sold. that's increase of 1.6% over the month before. combined with fewer homes being built it pushed to a record low of new home its on the market. >> it's a real estate hot spot. the community with its best year since 1935. >> temperatures dropping off rapidly right now. the timing of the next freeze warning, the area that will soon be in the lower 20s overnight

fox news national security analyst kt mcfarland joins me now. the president handled this all wrong? >> it was bad enough losing it. that was bad. there are a lot of unanswered lessons how did we lose it. did they take control, what happened? then refusing to destroy it was even worse. the final thing, obama goes and pleads with them, please give it back. what signal does that send to the iranians? that says that the president of the united states is unwilling to take military action of any course. i'm not saying send in the marines but he should have destroyed it. they realize when he threatens them over the iranian nuclear program all options on the table, they know he doesn't mean it. they're then emboldened to go ahead with the nair nuclear program as fast as they can knowing they will not get in trouble with it with obama. the other signal it sends to the israelis who say, gee, if you won't even go and protect your most secret piece of military equipment we can't count on you we'll be on our own here. i think it is very bad and i don't think

as ktvu scott mcfarland tells us among those testifying today was a former star player in the nhl. >>ight, congress considering a law. >> reporter: former nhl star kennedy says he was sexually abused by a youth sports coach, a powerful man who had god like status in the community. which is why he told us no one intervened. >> we have able obligation to take care of our children and i believe that we need to recognize it and act on it. >>> kennedy told u.s. senators today they need to stiffen federal law to force witnesses of child abuse to speak up and make it less frightening for victims to come forward. >> it is adults with whom the greatest responsibility for breaking the silence of abuse rests. >> but congress isn't sure how to tackle this. one proposal would require everyone over the age of 18 report any suspected abuse of a child or face criminal charges. another would order better training of certain professionals, teachers, day care providers, some government workers of what they must tell authorities. safety watchdog groups though say clearly the jerry sandusky case has given

conan o'brien, russell brand, tyra banks, seth mcfarland, shaquille o'neal, quincey jones and twitter inventor jack dorsey. all opening up about life, love, success and failure. >> the most shocking thing that anyone would hear from a table liable this there's a tendency for people to say they made it. what they don't understand is the amount of insecurity that drives you when you're 15, but still there when you're 48. >> nothing's off limits. >> any discussion of this type makes me secretly squirm a bit. >> this is big news. i want to make sure we stick with the headline here. you wish to be frozen. >> would you want to live forever? >> yeah. >> you would? >> you have never seen a dinner party quite like this. >> russell, does anything embarrass you? >> all coming up next. >> none of this is airing. this is clearly not airing. if it's not airing, we have to chip in for the meal. >> i think this goes on hbo. >> hbo would not air it. >> on this "larry king special." dinner with the kings. shawn and i decided to bring together a group of diverse and successful people to share some food,

kt mcfarland, great to see you. >> reporter: thank you.a terrible story of an accident. she walked into a spinning airplane propeller. but today she is still alive. lauren skruggs is a model who founded a fashion and lifestyles magazine. she was severely injured after getting off a small plane in texas. the whirling prop manning link the left side of this woman's body. >> i asked her if she could hear me, if she could hear me to squeeze my hand and she did. >> moving around in the bed, which is really good. she is uncomfortable but moving, which is a good thing. >> this is a longtime friend of the family acting as a spokesperson. janae good to have you here. she was in for a cat scan, how is lauren doing? >> she is in for the cat scan right now. i had the opportunity to see her ten minutes ago. god is just doing great things. she was responsive, and obviously is in a lot of pain, but she is every day progressing and we are grateful for that. martha: tell us the background. what happened? what was she doing in the plane? u know, whayou know

mcfarland. >> this is a pretty serious invasion.f some place like stratfor which is the super secret community around the world is getting hacked into then you kind of wonder is anything safe? >> run client reports he had $700 missing from his account. money later deposited into the accounts of the red cross, cair, and save the children. >> trace: how is stratfor combating this. >> its web site is shut down. working with authorities breach. a process lot of people say is easier than done. >> very difficult to trace this back because of the way the cyber cat burglars in a certain sort of way are able to cover their tracks through any number of servers around the world. >> stratfor will also be closely monitoring any more releases of confidential data and anonymous promises to release more on a statement published on a blogging web site, somebody claiming to be to be part of a hacking network. not as many as you expected. worry not pirates and robin hoods, these are just the a's. they claim to have 200 gig-a-bytes of secret data which

he sits down with conan o'brien, tyra banks, shaquille o'neal, seth mcfarland, quincy jones, russell brand and twitter founder jack dorsey for sometimes funny, sometimes serious discussions. >> when i did my show, created my show, whatever, i also created a persona on "top model." it is a character. when i am sitting there with all of this makeup on and talking all of that and reprimanding the girls. that is a character. i don't do that. in real life, i'm like passive aggressive. i'm anti-confrontational. i'm even in coaching to learn to be confrontational. so it is a character. >> one of the girls who must have been 16, 17 years old said to me, how do you get over your insecurity? when does that go away? i said you never get over it. and she was shocked. she is looking at me and i have been doing this a long time and to her i may as well be a thousand years old, even though i'm only in my early 30s but she said how do you get over your insecurity and i said it is never going away. if you are any good at what you do you will always be afraid and always think you are fooling everyone.

. >> reporter: but the fights didn't stop donna mcfarland from bringing her 1-year-old grandson tylerlot of police officers walking around and stuff. people kind of watching. i think everybody is on guard. a little bit too. >> reporter: she is right. you didn't have to look hard to see security looking at you. that gave many shoppers a sense of security. >> we didn't worry. >> we just felt secure. >> reporter: but this type of random violence is a pr nightmare for the mall. more than 200 people involved, 10 arrested. police at this point, really don't know what caused the fights. >> it's frightening. it's never fun to see something like that. i could understand why some guests are concerned. what i would like to tell them, we have increased security presence, bloomington has an increased security presence and we are doing everything we can. >> reporter: we all known fights are known to happen at malls on black friday. many shoppers here hope that this melee monday at moa was a one-time deal. >> kids are kids. i think it is nothing more. >> reporter: police are looking at mall surveill

mcfarland. thank you all so much for joining us.eek before christmas and home for the holidays, these troops that headed out of iraq almost nine years, eight years they've been here. march 2003, remember the shock and awe? and departure last night. >> it was eight years ago and wonderful to see the footage over the last couple days to see them coming home. one thing upsetting they are coming home, one of legacies. >> i think, military fought well and turned around a disastrous situation. we're coming home heads held high. political leaders of both parties. they said there were weapons of mass destruction and there weren't. they said it was cheap and easy it wasn't quick. they said it was going to be quick. it wasn't. at the end of the day we would have a pro-american iraq -- we don't. so it's a lesson we have to a define our mission and forces adequate to achieve it and stick to that mission and not let mission creep takes over so ten years later we are left with a big question. >> 4500 americans. >> 40,000 americans were injured >>

mcfarland and host of fox news and judith miller, investigative reporter and fox news contributor. >>what do we think? should girls ask boys out? she was referencing the prom when she was on the show. she said she doesn't allow her daughters to ask boys out. [ laughter ] >> i think times have changed. michele bachmann's generation. times have changed. i checked with my daughters before i came on and they said, mom, get with it. girls ask boys out or you go with a group. >> remember the rules and sit at home and wait for a call. forget it. i say to my daughter the only limitations you have in this world is the ones you impose on yourself. if you want something, go for it. >> i understand old-fashioned but apply this rule to michele bachmann standard to professional life. michele bachmann would be asking for a man to ask her to run for president. >> so the women are out there for women rights. >> sean hannity is not liberal that encourages women to be aggressive. even she was surprised with her response. >> heather: so what about the prom? >> i asked my husband to marry me. it's very op

kt mcfarland is a fox news military analyst. she joins us now. thanks for joining us. >> pleasure, uma. uma: the white house has been saying through some administration officials there is a plan in place should there be a crisis where this kind of scenario would unfold where iran would try to block the strait of hormuz but offering few details about this. how confident are you that the white house can handle such a situation and the impact it is going to have on the world market? >> well, there are a couple of things to consider. right now the president is about to sign into legislation legislation that the congress forced on him to basically say, we're going to have a blockade of iran's oil supplies but we're not going to do it with gun boats. we're going to do it with banks. iran says you want a blockade? i will give you a blockade. we'll shut down the strait of hormuz. is that a real threat? yes it is. they could do it couple ways. they could sink a supertanker going through the strait of hormuz. they could mine the strait of hormuz. it is a v

barry had supported mcfarland in earlier elections. he raised money for him and all that.s upset with harry truman, which is ironic today because what former president was barry most like? harry truman, actually -- give 'em hell harry. but barry told me many times, he says i ran for president, i knew i didn't have a chance in hell of winning. but even in the senate, he didn't think he had a chance of winning that 1952 senate race. at all. so maybe he was building a republican party. he had been on the city council for two years and then he sort of decided to run against harry truman in most senses. but he didn't. he was not some big political organizer who said let's build a republican party here. it was sort of natural. but it wasn't like he had some big plan to do that. he was just running thinking he didn't have a chance in hell of winning. >> well, we came across some early film of senator-elect barry goldwater after he was elected to the senate, but before coming to washington, d.c. let's look. >> speaking of washington, where you're going, there is a great deal of ta

by bringing in fox news national security analyst, the host of defcon-3 on foxnews.com live, kt mcfarland. great to see you. thanks for coming in on this. here's what i don't get. seems to me, just my heart talking here, it is a stall tactic of the taliban to wait for us to withdraw. am i right? >> here's the thing, the afghan government thought they would be there forever so why would they want to negotiate with the taliban? they have the american guarantors sticking around. they seen iraq and now americans have left. sectarian violence does seem to be breaking out in iraq. the, doesn't look like americans will come back in and save the day so we, the afghan government, maybe we need to make some deals here. so you can see why they have an incentive to negotiate with the taliban but your gut is right. why does the taliban want to negotiate with the karzai government? they know we're leaving. jamie: who is the taliban negotiating with? what kind of power does karzai really have and is this a negotiation the united states should participate in? >> the afghan government doesn't want the uni

. >> pets by -- petsy mcfarland says .nd who willies and mistletoe can be poisonous to pets and if you want to feed your pets stable scraps, don't do it but if you are be mindful of the small bones. >>> have you wrapped up your shopping? toys r us are staying up until christmas. stores nationwide will stay open for 112 consecutive hours beginning at 6 a.m. today through 10 p.m. christmas eve. 14 macy's stores are going to remain open around the clock and target extend holiday hours as well. >>> what christmas movie do you like the least? not your favorites but the least. movie ticket told customers to find the ultimate flop and the top spik was santa claus concurs the martians. according to the new yo york times it cost 20,000 to make and features a cardboard set. to find out what other movies made the list of the worst holiday movies ever, abc2news.com, the place to go and when you get there check underneath entertainment tab. >>> man is shot and killed outside towson -- towson town center. linda. [audio not understandabl

mcfarland. they got him, they say. >> they probably do have him.zle is you have pakinstani relations. they had him since august. why we just found out about it now? because the relationship between the united states and pakistan is coming under real crisis. >> steve: why this guy? random? >> why this guy? he had been in pakistan and lived there for a long time. he was known. they got him. they snatched him. the question then becomes, if we were ever to get into any of these demands, who is the next guy? >> steve: absolutely. there would be hundreds of thousands of people throughout that region who -- >> throughout the entire region of afghanistan or pakistan. >> steve: we had a pretty good feeling that pakistan knew all along where bin laden was. pakistan knew where this guy is? >> i don't think it's a coincidence that all of a sudden, as u.s.-pakinstani relations in the last two weeks have reached a crisis point that all of a sudden, out of the hat jumps this new hostage. please. >> steve: what should we be doing? >> i think we need to reassess ou

mcfarland appears frequently on fox news, fox business news, and numerous radio programs. she is also the host of one of the internet's most popular national security shows. she has served on national security post for several presidential administrations, to include president nixon's -- presidents nixon, ford, and reagan, and received the highest civilian award for her work in the reagan administration. she is a graduate of george washington university, oxford university, and the massachusetts institute of technology, concentrating on nuclear weapons, china, and the soviet union. of equal significance, she is the mother of five, proud of all of them, but i understand one of her graduate is a recent graduate of the naval academy. it is my distinct honor and pleasure to introduce ms. kt macfarland. [applause] >> thank you all for being here. you may not recognize me, but i am the brunette at fox news. [laughter] this year's defense forum focuses on the journey back and helping the wounded warriors and their families transition. the panel this morning is going to look at the