we'll pull that to pete hoekstra on deck in a matter of minutes. uma: at least 19 people have been killed in record flooding down south as the rain just keeps on coming. the latest on where the deadly waters are rising this morning. >> it's destroying our home, and we've got a baby coming in a few weeks. >> i never would have thought that it would have made it to my house, and made it up into my house and past. bill: let's get right back to the top story in times square, there was breaking news on this out of washington. here is the police commissioner talking about the clues they had early on, ray kelly, roll this. >> detectives also are enroute to a town in pennsylvania, where a tourist believes he may have captured the suspect's image on his videocamera. bill: so now we're trying to figure out what clues they have and what clues are missing, but there is breaking news out of washington, eric holder saying they made substantial progress on this, they have good leads in the probe, all that i think is very good news at the moment. that lawmaker, wi

well pete hoekstra, thank you for joining us here on america's news headquarters. >> good to be with you. thank you. >> brian: a live picture of times square. you see behind me. and as we mentioned at 3:00 p.m. eastern time today, new york city police will hold a news conference to update us on the very latest in last night's near disaster, if it had just gone off. oh, my gosh, can you imagine the damage that would have been done? we'll bring it to you live right here on the fox news channel. now the other big story of the day. president obama in the air at this hour, heading to louisiana to get a firsthand look at the devastating oil spill off the coast. it is getting bigger and bigger. phil keating is monitoring the situation from venice, louisiana, and he joins us now live. hello, phil. >> reporter: hello, brian. the high winds that are really plaguing all operations out there 48 miles offshore, where the deepwater horizon blew up, burned and, of course, eventually collapsed into the ocean and then causing this massive oil spill. well, this weather could impact president obama's v

joining us now from ann arbor is michigan congressman pete hoekstra, ranking republican member on theouse intelligence committee. congressman, good morning. >> good morning. >> i want to pick up on what skip was just talking about. do we think we're looking at a change in modus operandi of terrorist factions? >> oh, i think you can make that assumption, and it really is now a fact. i mean, we had the attack on ft. hood. we had the christmas day bombing attack. and now we have this attack in -- in times square. what you're seeing is a change in strategy. you're seeing now both perhaps the taliban in pakistan and al qaeda on the arabian peninsula and in yemen, focused on attacking the homeland. that is a more serious problem. >> and looking, it looks to me, at individual targets, what would have been called one-offs, except if this is the idea that we're just going to keep throwing whatever we can, and see, one of these, as we've said over the last couple of days, you keep knocking on the door, eventually the door is going to open. >> that's exactly right. and you know, i think that is

pete hoekstra is here on the investigation. of the top men at bp on why this will take weeks to stop. we'll see you at the top of the hour on america's news room. 12 minutes away right here. >> steve: they have sold more than 10 million albums. their newest release is party heard round the world. country music band lonestar is here today. good morning, guys. >> good morning. >> steve: it's great to have you. dean, i know you are all from tennessee. and the big news story today is in tennessee, there is flooding like they haven't seep in decades. >> it's been rough. i talked to my wife and they haven't been able to get out of our house. we have a creek that runs along the front part of our property and it's totally flooded over, over the street, everything. they have a curfew of 6 p.m so people can't even get out and about. >> steve: that's in franklin? >> right. >> brian: on a much lighter note, how much credit do we deserve for all your success, 'cause we were there in the beginning? >> quite honestly, we kind of consider y'al