steve brown is near the demonstrations right now. but we start with national security correspondent jennifer griffin at the pentagon. jennifer, i know that despite the protests outside, there is serious stuff going on inside. what is the president hoping to achieve at this summit?

and steve brown is following this streaming like in chicago. maybe the video did not have sound because it sounded quiet as a church mouse. what is up, steve? >>guest: well, they have been raucous, a smaller group than yesterday, winding down state and madison toward the nato meetings. and, now, the two white chicago police trucks over there, that is essentially where a group of something between 200 and 300 folks have walked through the streets today making their votes heard and they made multiple stops and this is the latest, the brew -- this building, upstairs is the obama election campaign. they want to bring a message of nato military spending and whether or not united states should be involved in various military campaigns. they think it is inappropriate to do so and they are making their voices heard. now, the announced target was the boeing headquarters which is about 12 blocks west of where we are standing right new. they did stop there after starting the march on the west side union park and stopped for quite some time and worked throu

our steve brown will join us live outside the chicago courthouse where the suspects were earlier today, coming up inside the fox report. within the hour we expect to hear from that blind chinese activist, remember? he sparked a diplomatic stand off when he escaped house arrest and hid out in or american embassy in that country. a plane carrying chin guanchen ge and his wife, this is video into fox news of him departing china earlier and he's here, ending a month of unternt that tested relation between washington and beijing and it began when cheng sought refuge at the u.s. embassy there after escaping his home. authorities had turned it into a makeshift prison. cutting the human rights advocate off from the rest of the world. but now, again here, in the u.s., where he'll attend law school, we're told at nyu on a fellowship. doug mcelway is live in washington and, i understand they are already putting out the welcome mat. >> reporter: they are, after landing in europe, he's expected to go to manhattan where a welcome ceremony is planned at the new york university. where he'll be studyin

steve brown live in chicago for us., do the police or the prosecutors say what the motivation may have been behind this alleged plot? >> speakly no. but the prosecutor did paint a picture of them being anarchists and belonging to an anarchist group. the three have all been charged with conspiracy to commit terrorism, material support for terrorism and poe something of explosive devices. these are state charges, not federal. they were picked up wednesday night in the bridgewood section of chicago on the south side. federal informants working with police sparked a raid at a residence there, confiscate kateed were weaponed and newly purchased gasoline for use in molotov cocktails. >> the individuals that we have charged in this investigation are not peaceful protesters. they are domestic terrorists who came to chicago with an anarchist agenda to harm our police officers and intimidate our citizens, and to attack targets. >> among the targets alleged by the prosecutor's office and police were the obama campaign headquarters

and steve brown is live right now from that chicago courtroom with more details, steve? >> and kelly, outside the courthouse, the bond hearing is scheduled to be going on right now and we expect to hear from both the prosecution, police, and from attorneys r representing those folks arrested shortly. what we're hearing about the arrest on wednesday night comes via the chicago sun times right now that suggested that police are reporting two down, that they had somebody on the inside when that raid took place in the bridgeport neighborhood near south morgan and west 32nd street on the south side of chicago. and that they observed molotov cocktails being made. this is the location, or at least the neighborhood where three gentlemen, 20-year-old brian church. 24-year-old jared chase and 24-year-old brent betterly were picked up and arrested and charged almost 48 hours later with conspiracy to commit terrorism and explosive or incendiary devices. we did yesterday speak with someone arrested, but released and not charged and he had some complaints how he was handled by chicago

uma, back to you. >> steve brown, thank you for bringing us up to date on the latest situation . a teenage girl was killed in a bombing outside of her high school in southern italy. several of her classmates were injured in the blast and are treated in a nearby hospital. the device was reportedly attached to the outde of the cool. - school. >> a blind chinese activist who escaped house arrest is on the way to the united states. chen guangcheng has been seeking protection in the u.s. embassy for a month now. they are here with the latest on that situation. chen guangcheng hur yoiedly taken from the hospital. he and his wife and two children are aboard united airlines flight 88 as we speak. the flight is scheduled to arrive in newark, new jersey 6:30 eastern time n a written statement, state department spokesmen said we can confirm that chen guangcheng and his wife and two children departed china and are on en route to the united states and he will pursue studies in the american university. we are looking forward to his arrival in the united states later today and express the appre

back to you in new york. >> shepard: steve brown in chicago tonight. thank you, steve. the president just left chicago and is headed to joplin, missouri i'm told to speak at a high school graduation there. joplin, missouri just hours after last year's graduation a tornado tore through that town and killed 161 people. it was awful. and among them, 18-year-old will norton, a senior driving home from the ceremony. the twister said to have pulled him out of the car with his father sitting right next to him. the tornado devastated the town, flattened thousands of homes and businesses. destroyed five schools including joplin high. the students relocated to temporary classrooms at a local mall. tomorrow, one year after that twister struck, workers will break ground at a new high school set to open in 2014. the president will speak there shortly. some important news from the supreme court today. first, a former boston university student will have to pay $675,000 for illegally downloading and sharing 30 songs on the internet. 30 songs. a lower court had ordered the penalty. toda

steve brown in chicago. we will be following the nato meetings and the protests through the the day here and will bring you any breaking details as they happen. >> jamie: there is a major diplomatic effort underway that continues to try to stop iran from producing nuclear weapons. in fact, the chief of the u.n.'s nuclear watchdog agency heads to iran, trying to make a deal to allow him to inspect suspected weapons sites that have not been seen. on wednesday, members of the security council will sit down with iranian leaders in baghdad. but still, given all of this, israeli's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu doubts iran will take the talks seriously. let's bring in now the former chief of staff to benjamin netanyahu. welcome, sir. thank you for joining us. >> great to be on the show. >> jamie: there is a slight delay. let me ask you, you have the meetings in baghdad coming up. you have the potential for further inspections as early as today. are we making progress against the rogue nation? >> unfortunately,

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jenna: steve brown, more on those breaking developments out of chicago as we get them, steve. thank you very much. >>> a little context on nato, the north atlantic treaty organization, it's made up of 28 member nations, that form an official alliance. it has inducted new members just seven times since its founding back in 1949. the nato charter says an attack against any nato member is considered an attack against all its members. nato has no standing army but all member countries contribute military assets when needed. it's headquarters are in brussels, belgium, its forces remain under national control until called for and then are given orders by nato military commanders, so that's why sometimes we hear nato troops are going to one part of the world or another, but that's just a brief breakdown of what nato really is. >> onjon out on the campaign trail now, tis the season for political attack ads. president obama's reelection campaign is shelling out a lot of cash, relentlessly targeting governor romney's tenure as head of bain capital. how effective will these ads be when i

steve brown officially has the hottest story of the day, no pun intended or, totally intended. steve a little bit different than covering protests in chicago. getting a bit of a break today but a serious topic. >> reporter: it is a serious topic especially consider how much damage is done simply by a fwril. john is here with underwriters laboratory. that is grill way too goes to the house. does this typically happen a lot? >> 8,000 times a year fires occur because of grilling incidents. it occurs too often than we imagine. >> reporter: you're testing how quickly things burn all the time. >> ul is a safety science company and we do a lot of research. this is something we do routinely. right now we have a grill overheated and way too close to the house. number one drill grilling tip, grill outdoors. keep it away from the garage, carport and house. >> reporter: what is safe distance from the house or anything you don't want burned? >> did difficult to estimate that but 10 feet is good distance. keep it away from anything that combustible too. could be flowers, could be other things

steve brown is live in chicago with the latest. steve? >> hey, megyn., yes, the protests began earlier this week. there's one going on right now. this is outside the prudential building, we have a live picture to show you. this is something of a return visit. the prudential building houses a number of things including the barack obama re-election campaign headquarters here. we are to understand that members of code pink and others are there right now talking about the use of drone strikes in terms of military use. keep in mind, nato is a military organization. largely, what they're going to be talking about here sunday and monday is military matters, including afghanistan. so far most of the protests here in the city have been largely peaceful. we've seen protests about mortgage foreclosures, we've seen anti-capitalist protests, we have seen protests about military action just? general -- just in general and military spending in general. there have been some exceptions, and most notably, tuesday night in bridgeport, a group of protesters were met by loc

no reports of any disturbances in this half mile procession. >> gregg: steve brown, thanks very much. >> heather: jump starting the u.s. economy it is a major issue in the presidential election and on capitol hill both the obama and romney campaigns talking about the economy very week. and who has the better plan to get this country moving in the right direction. peter doocy reports from washington. >> reporter: as budgets are debated, ideologies of the left and right are made crystal clear and republican house chair said the genius of the american free enterprise system is the individual small business, but the government sees itself as a venture capitalist picking warnings and losesers and the economy is zag in an event and it's the president's fault. >> he is gambling with our money and giving money to places like solyndra and losing tax money. so we have this crony capitalism. >> reporter: former head of economic advisors doesn't dispute that the difficulty has increased but the ream trouble comes when deal making like tax cuts are extended. >> i think for the republicans who set

steve brown thank you. hard when it comes to the economy, taking shots at the unemployment rate and bailouts. is that strategy working for them? we'll be right back. >> he looks a little like justin bieber because it is indeed justin bieber. here he is! i was watching this, it didn't make sense to me and i didn't realize, when i hear a justin bieber song it makes me want to punch people in the face! bill: pretty good fight, apparently, went 12 rounds. i thought bieber was a basketball guy! martha: apparently he likes to be everywhere. sort of like zellig! bill: look for him! see you tomorrow, huh? martha: we will see you tomorrow. bill: look for us on wednesday. "happening now" gets started now. jenna: the cia, thwarting a chilling plot, terrorists trying to plant explosives on a u.s.-bound flight. new information minutes from now. jon: former rivals working together to try to get a republican in the white house. just how much will rick santorum's endorsement help the rac

steve brown thank you.ard when it comes to the economy, taking shots at the unemployment rate and bailouts. is that strategy working for them? we'll be right back. >> he looks a little like justin bieber because it is indeed justin bieber. here he is! i was watching this, it didn't make sense to me and i didn't realize, when i hear a justin bieber song it makes me want to punch people in the face! bill: pretty good fight, apparently, went 12 rounds. i thought bieber was a basketball guy! mart

steve brown, live now from union park in chicago. steve, in a sense, if the demonstrators' goal was to affect boeing, they've already accomplished that, right? >> yeah, actually, they accomplished it last week. let's set the stage for what's going to happen quickly. we're not union park on the city's west side. as you can see, some of the local television news trucks starting to gather across the park. that's where we're told a bunch of folks affiliated with the occupy movement will be marching towards bowing but earlier last week, boeing told employees that work in the chicago headquarters -- >> [inaudible] >> gregg: we apologize. we've been having transmission problems from chicago but those demonstrations have intensified, up to 18 people were arrested, five of them on terrorism-related charges for trying to construct homemade balls and then targeting not just the nato convention but home of the mayor, rahm emanuel, as well as the obama campaign headquarters in chicago. so we're going to continue to follow the events as they happen

steve brown live in chicago. e of the challenges for police has got to be not knowing how many people will show up to protest, huh, steve? >> reporter: if you take a look at social mead like 2008er and facebook people are making their way here on a bus with other folks. nobody knows how much chaos there might be. we know there will be a lot of folks in town. we've seen peaceful protests and other kinds. let's start with the peaceful ones. they're going on throughout the week and planned throughout monday, and nato meeting which is held on sunday and monday. we also had some disorderly protests. one notably tuesday night in the chicago section of the city, south of here called bridgeport. now, police here, say that they are prepared for this and they have been preparing for months. >> in this case here in chicago we have chicago police department working in location -- in collaboration with the secret service coming up with this plan. they have been doing this over a year now and the city is well-prepared. they're

brown. we are just a few hours away memorial service mourners housands of expected to attend. i am steve chenevey. i am pamela brown. we want to start with meteorologist at an caskey. looks get up there this morning. fairly low humidity. 4:30 now.ck 30 now -- not a bad start. 63 in cumberland. a little bit warmer within the city. manassas checking in at 61 degrees. be in thet it will lower at 80's. a lot of sunshine. the lower humidity with that wind. the average hidebound will be about 83. -- high will be about 83. late-day thunderstorms tomorrow. into the weekend, upper 70's, humidity. if it is a smooth transition around the beltway. we should have the all-clear for everyone within the next 30 minutes or so. along to 70, heading out of frederick into montgomery county. out of gaithersburg, that is an area for virginia traffic, too. it all looks good. at 395 northbound, we had a collision on the 14th street bridge. we will look at that our next report. thank you so much. the news this morning, people .re looking into a woman it happened just before midnight. taken to thes hospital. cond

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steve brown is live at underwriter's labratory necessary northbrook, illinois. t do we need to know? >> first thing you need to know is about proximity. 8200 fires in this country, every year, all connect to barbecuing equipment, hibachi, barbecue, what have you. we have a timeline video to show you. in a relatively short amount of time a grill, too close to your home, can make it on fire, can set it on fire in four minutes. this is a time lapse of exactly four minutes it takes from the time the grill is close enough to the house to catch until it's fully involved, just four scant minutes. so not too close to the house. 10 feet away at least. also, you also want to be careful, real careful, about lighting your gas grill because if you do it with the cover on, this is what will happen: >> not a good idea. not a good idea. children nearby, also not a good idea. john drinkenberg, quickly, what other sorts of things are real important for folks not to do around a grill? >> certainly what you saw tells you don't store your extra can of propane next to the grill becaus

steve brown live in indianapolis.democrats in indiana tried to help this tea party backed candidate win, the suggestion being moderates are never going do vote for this tea party backed candidate so the democrat would have a better shot. >>reporter: that is the conventional wisdom. it is based on the lugar model. he had tremendous appeal among democrats and independents. and this was confirmed by internal polling shared with fox news from the indiana democratic party back in january. in that poll it showed that more democrats were interested in another term for lugar, a 7th term than republicans. independents were even more interested. so, what democrats were hoping for and working at is trying to keep democrats out of the open republican party on lugar's behalf and their standard bearer, and 50,000 folks in indianapolis were asked to participate in the democratic primary not the republican. >>shepard: how much, how did this tea party backed candidate react? >>reporter: i asked him. he said he was not surprised and th

correspondent steve brown tells us about a serious channel to a politician who was -- challenge to aitician who is virtually a hoosier institution. >> state treasurer richard murdoch said he never doubted to defeat indiana living legend, senator lugar in today's republican primary. >> we'll be shocking people how many counties we win tomorrow. large county, small county. >> he raised $2 million to lugar's five but he is positioned to win due to outside help. 50-plus hoosier tea party groups work a ground game to coordinate with freedom works. the club for growth spent $1.7 million on direct mail, radio and tv ads, many pummeling lugar senate vote. >> he has a 65% of lifetime score with the club for growth. he voted for every bail-out he had an opportunitybe to. he voteded for tarp. he voted to keep earmarks. >> they're trying to prove their clout, their ability to move hoosiers around and manipulate our election. it resent them. >> but lugar's missteps have been costly. his home in virginia. and he want days of campaigning to opt to stay in d.c. and main tin his perfect voting -- mai

steve brown is live at the center of the action there in chicago. of course, as we said, steve, relatively peaceful. 14 arrests so far? >> something in the neighborhood. it's under 20 thus far to our knowledge. but three arrests are headlines most of the day's news that. involves three men who have been described by local prosecutors as anarchists and belong to go a group called the black block. three gentlemen, written church, brent betterly and jared chase, all charged with conspiracy to commit terrorism, material support for terrorism, and possession of explosive devices. these are allstate, not federal charges. they were arrested wednesday night in the bridgeport section of chicago, which is just south of the city on the south side. federal informants working with local law enforcement, helped create an opportunity for police to get a warrant and perform a raid in an apartment in that neighborhood. among the things that were discovered were a variety of actual and improvised weapons, newly purchased gasoline for the use allegedly in molotov cockt

approach he will achieve little as a legislator, worse, he will help delay solutions let's turn to steve brown in indianapolis. steve? >> shepard, following his defeat, richard lugar was lauded as a can-do senator today. a guy who could reach across the aisle and get important legislation done. former colleague now vice president joe biden tweeted that the senate lost a brilliant strategic mind. a man with absolute integrity. he will be missed. now the size of lugar's loss surprised many. but indiana's democratic party saw lugar's demise coming. back in january, an internal poll showed more hoosier democrats and independents thought lugar deserved another term than republicans here did. that made lugar a threat to any democratic nominee. so lugar friendly democrats, some 50,000 of them in the indianapolis area got a mailer frying to nudge them gently away from the open republic primary lugar loss will have john donley from the south bend area excuse me, described as an evan bayh democrat he will face richard murdock the guy who beat richard lugar last night. he has a very different description

steve chenevey. >> i am pamela brown. we begin with traffic and weather every ten minutes on this holiday weekend. let's start with adam caskey. >> it will be hot and sticky this entire weekend. we will make it to the mid 80s today. 90 degrees probably tomorrow. if not, most likely sunday if. let's look at temperatures right now. fog, but there's no rain on the doppler. 72 in washington, 66 in martinsburg, 71 degrees in fredericksburg. morning fog, then a lot of sunshine. we cannot rule out an isolated thundershowers were later on. few and far between mainly west of the blue ridge. here is the outlook into the weekend, sunshine the next few days, low 90's. it will feel more like the mid 90's when you factor in the humidity. by memorial day we cannot rule out a later date thundershower. but it will be dry and hot on memorial day weekend for the most part. i will be back with a look at the beach forecast. >> i want to look at2 the height. 270 traffic, headlights in this camera heading northbound towards frederick. no compli

steve chenevey. >> i am pamela brown. thanks for waking up with us. we begin with traffic and weather. lisa baden in a moment. but we start with meteorologist adam caskey. >> 4:30 on this tuesday. back to work and back to school. more heat and humidity. high temperatures near 90 yesterday. that was the first day with 90 degrees at reagan national. 76 degrees in arlington this morning, 70 in hamilton. montgomery village 73. we are starting the day in the '70s and we have humidity. highs near 90. widespread thundershowers expected this afternoon and evening with locally heavy rainfall. there's a lot of moisture in the air to be squeezed out. the thundershowers should linger into tomorrow morning. gradually becoming less humid on wednesday. noticeably less humid by thursday and friday. now to lisa. >> it was all happening. 50 across the bay bridge. a picture of the aftermath. things are beautiful right now. just a couple of cars coming from the westbound direction off the eastern shore heading towards annapolis. going down nicely. where is happening is the other side of town. we will take

steve chenevey. >> i am pamela brown. first, meteorologist adam caskey. >> prince william county was the bull's eye for the rain showers mr. day andy vihn do the nighttime and early morning. there were flashboard warniflash flood warnings where they saw 3 inches of rain around manassas. lightsnow showers are now drifting to the northeast. 66 degrees in washington, 65 and dulles airport. a few sunny breaks today. more thundershowers likely especially this afternoon with highs near 80. a good amount of sunshine by the weekend, and 90. >> we have two pages from prince william county of roads that remain closed because of flooding. piper lane is one of them, that's the entrance to the vre station. will not be able to access piper plane. i believe you have gateway road to get down there. no accidents as far as interstate travel south into richmond and north into baltimore. montgomery county, prince george's county on the beltway everything looks beautiful. an overnight and construction on the beltway. in beltway we will have m

reporter steve brown is live now in chicago, where there's a court hearing today for three protesters> reporter: -- a bond hearing coming at the top of the hour here locally for three men accused with conspiracy/terrorism charges, if you will. and these men were originally arrested on wednesday night. we have video to show you, called the bridgeport neighborhood on the south side of chicago. we were there just yesterday, this is friday, keep in mind the arrests were made wednesday, a lot of police milling about, talking to neighbors, and an awful lot of fire personnel. they told us there was report of a gas leak. but the response seemed a bit disproportionate for a gas leak. in this neighborhood, three men arrested -- or nine people arrested, including these three, 20-year-old brian church, 24-year-old jared chase, and 24-year-old brent betterly. they have been charged with conspiracy to commit terrorism and possession of an explosive or incendiary device. of the other six people arrested in that same raid, if you will on wednesday night, was one gentleman who described his handling b

steve brown has the latest on the ground. >> reporter: hey, there. it will be the biggest demonstration that is scheduled, during this week-long rampup to the nato summit. we do have business to take care of that happened overnight. there was an arrest, sebastian senna cab itch. he was arrested for terrorism, with plans to build 1 molotov cocktail and employ that a demonstration. no known connections to three others arrested on similar charges yesterday. overnight, there were arrests on a handful, with sporadic demonstration in the streets, which began in the financial district of the city of chicago and wound its way through the retail district as well. there is some chafing between protesters and the police. one of the large effort organizers protests leading up to this nato event said that the president needs to get the chicago police to stand down immediately, if he valuesh his re-election chance this is fall. it's a sign at a minimum that there is chafing amongst the demonstrators and the police. the largest demonstration will wind its way down

protest organizers are expect thank once again they will have thousands of people in the streets and steve brownf them out there reporting, live from chicago. afghanistan, of course, tops nato's agenda, but order in the streets seems to be topping the agenda in chicago right now, right steve? >> reporter: absolutely. there have been a lot of preparations having been made already. this has been a long time coming. originally it was going to be the g8 and nato summit here in chicago. the g8 has been moved to camp david, near the white house, at the president's request, now it's just nato here and the host committee in chicago for the nato summit says they are ready. >> we do this successfully all the time. election night for president obama was flawless. every year, we have a million people down on the lake front for the air and water show. that all happens very -- we know how to do big events here. we do a good job. >> reporter: there will be protests, lots of them. there have already been a battery this week. most have been pretty orderly but there are some that were not orderly. we have video f

steve chenevey. >> i am pamela brown. great to have you with us. we start with traffic and weather. in a moment, but first adam caskey. >> not a bad start to the day. just a few lights sprinkles, especially in lower southern maryland. majority of the is this morning if. think we will break into sunshine around lunchtime. a stray showers this afternoon. will be drying up later on. there's charles, calvert, mary's counties all seeing light rain the southwest to the northeast. the potomac from the northern virginia into a saint county and crossing the river into calvert county. few 70-degree readings. 62 in leesburg, 65 in 65 ington, virginia, bethesda. high temperatures 82 degrees dropping.ity will become senate around lunchtime. a stray showers later on this afternoon. >> we will start with the drones now used reconnaissance in afghanistan possibly flying over northern virginia if. mcdonnell thinks be an asset in our region. brianne carter joins us to tell for.at they could be used >> good morning. that's right. the governor now says he in northern virginia itr the next couple years