u.s.-korean naval exercise in the yellow sea, north korea is talking tough. north korea says it will have no mercy if the u.s. or south korea get too close to a territory, and same follows last tuesday's deadly terrorist attack on the communist nation on the island near the north border. today, south korea defense ministry has ordered them to leave the island. the four-day naval exercise kicks off not far away. same time, china is calling for an emergency meeting to of the regional towers to ease the tensions. the six party disarmament talks that north korea walked out of two years ago. in washington, key lawmakers urging china to take stronger action to rein in the north. >> china has a chance to change the future of the korean peninsula. i'm looking to china to step up their game against north korea and try to bring them in the fold of peaceful nation. >> china obviously borders on this country. and i think china calling for resuming of the six party talks is important. we have been wanting the six party talks and china is not as enthusiastic. that is a good sign. >> reporter: south korea says it will carefully consider the suggestion on holding the new talks but if washington, senator mccain says he is wary about more meetings. mccain is blasting china for not taking stronger action or playing a more responsible role he says regarding the korean peninsula. mccain predicts north korea will use this latest tension to win concessions in a form of economic aid, but not before taking the korean peninsula to the edge of war. shannon? >> shannon: julie, thank you very much. joining me now with more on this developing situation is michael osland, the resident scholar of the asian study at the american enterprise institute. good to see you today. >> thank you, shannon. >> shannon: all right. let's talk about china now getting into the fray, formerly calling for emergency six party talks. the talks have been stalled so why now does china make the call? >> a great question. we have been asking china to get involved for years and china, everyone says china can put pressure on north korea. china refuses to do it. i think the reason they're doing it now is the united states is finally taking action. we put the aircraft carrier and destroyers up there off the island, the koreans are joining us. we're showing at least we're not going to be backing off and doing nothing, because maybe that's changing how beijing looks at the situation. >> shannon: the administration is emphasizing the war games were planned long ago. not in response to the latest attacks from north korea. but there was a lot of hinting from north korea and from china, too, hey, don't get too close to us with these. they're now being carried out. north korea has moved missiles in to place. what happens next? >> well, it depends on how much we decide to do. the reports are that we're not going to do live fire exercises, we don't know if we're going to be doing air exercises. we canceled the exercises twice because china told us not to go there. now that there is a crisis, we're going in. everybody is already at high tension and making the tension in some ways worse but sending a show of resolve. what happens next is obviously up to the north koreans. do they do something stupid or make a mistake and miscalculate. if so, how do we respond? we take risks with the destroyers there but more risks by not doing it. >> shannon: we understand that kim jong il is in a time of transition to pass power to his son. is there a window of opportunity to change things in north korea? >> i think the window is much more fragile and dangerous now. we just don't know what is happening. we usually don't know what is happening. we know less right now. we don't know if the son is going to be able to consolidate his power, we don't know if there will be power struggles inside north korea. we don't know if they're doing this because they want to show resolve that they're not going to lose control over the regime. so for us we're operating in black box in the dark and we have no help prop the chinese or anyone else. problem with the six party talks now is what is the point? better to talk than not to talk. but there has to be a goal, a reason. it shouldn't be an excuse for us to sit around the table and extend communication with north korea without anything happening. we've done it for years and we have gotten the shelling of the civilian island. >> shannon: how does this play out on the world stage? we have those watching to see what we do and how the president and administration reacts? what are they looking for? >> for years they watched us do nothing, when they sank the south korean ship, they did nothing. set off nuclear explosions and we did nothing. for the first time, the world is seeing that the south koreans and the united states sees us as significant enough we have to send in some of our forces. show we're in the region. it will depend if it's a fruitless ground of negotiating. we have to be talking and very specific about what we want to come out of this and not just make it open-ended. we need to get the japanese on board carefully and see if the russians are interested or not. bringing in some other countries that share our values to be talking about the threat to the region. including taiwan and philippines, countries with a stake in a stable region, not only in northeast asia, but throughout asia because of the proliferation of weapons that north korea has conducted. because of support for terrorist activity. this is a regime that is a threat in the immediate neighborhood, which it is, but region and beyond. we need diplomatic support for what we decide. what we don't need is enter into an open-ended diplomatic debate to get us nowhere. >> shannon: thank you for weighing in today. all right, new developments on the story every minute. we we'll keep you updated. the united states asking wikileaks to stop the plan erelease of thousands of classified documents we expect to be release today. state department released an e-mail if sent to the whistle blower founder outlining the dangers of exposing the sense of information. malini wilkes is live on the document drop. it's set for hours from now as we understand it. >> that's right. wikileaks is not backing down. just a short time ago, a half an hour ago, the wikileaks website tweeted this message. "we are currently under a mass distributed denial of service attack." that's when an attacker targets a computer flooding it with information. a second tweet moments ago that the "new york times," the british paper guardian and several other european papers will publish some of the classified u.s. embassy cables tonight even if the wikileaks website goes down, or remains down. today, wikileaks founder julian assange also reportedly told a journalist convention in jordan that the document release will cover every major issue in every country in the world. the a.f.p. wire service reporting that assange spoke via satellite from undisclosed location saying it would be 250 cables from the u.s. embassy around the globe. assange said that washington con about theed foreign leaders to brief them on what he called "embarrassing revelations." he says she is not aware of anyone coming to harm from the wikileaks publication, but that's not how the state department sees it. they released a letter saying the document leak is -- >> reporter: documents released are thought to contain candid information about embassies and foreign leaders and politicians but one expert says the average reader probably won't find it that intriguing. >> i think a lot of people will be going through what was posted on the internet saying how boring is this? most of it is boring and if you understand the code phrases used frequently you can see the sensitivity of the information. >> reporter: again, we are expecting several news organizations to begun publish details by late afternoon eastern time. >> shannon: we know you are on it. thank you very much. more details are surfacing about the plot to blow up a van packed with explosives at a christmas tree lighting in portland this weekend. according to court documents, muhammad -- [ inaudible ] that he dreamed to do this for years and he found location for what he calls a "spectacular show" and he didn't mind that children would die in the attack. >> at every turn, he demonstrated his determination to commit jihad. even after the bomb, even after he was cautioned by the undercover agents, undercover officers that there would be women and children involved. he made it very clear he was determined to to undertake an attack and we stepped in to stop it. >> he is scheduled to appear in court tomorrow. investigators say it is still too dangerous to go back inside a california home after discovering it's filled with explosive material. the man who lived there is now behind bars. casey stegall is live in los angeles with more on this disturbing discovery. hello, casey. >> reporter: good to see you, shannon. this is the largest amount of home made explosives discovered in a single location in all of u.s. history. and these are the same types of chemicals used by homicide bombers in iraq and afghanistan. we're talking about the find at rental home in escondido, california, 20 miles north of san diego. police calling it a virtual bomb factory. with nine to 12 pounds of dangerous explosives scattered throughout the backyard. and inside the house. authorities were initially sent to 54-year-old home when a local fire captain got suspicious after a gardener was injured many an explosion there. police also finding more than ten grenades, detonators and evidence linking the suspect to even more crimes. >> evidence seized and there were boxers and isteps all over the house, on furniture, on cabinet tops and so there wasn't a lot of clear space. >> reporter: as it turns out, the man is believed to be responsible for two bank robberies in the san diego area over the summer. he was already on probation for a 2009 burglary conviction. the man is a serbian national and unemployed computer software consultant and has been charmed with 26 counts of manufacturering or possessing explosives and has pled not guilty. he's held on $5 million bail. bomb squads will return to the home to safely remove all of the materials from that crime scene. as investigators try to figure out what he was doing with those explosives in the first place and where he bought all of those materials. but no doubt, very scary and a big find for investigators here. >> shannon: very delicate situation. casey stegall live in los angeles. thank you. a leading republican senator is playing down the chances that a repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" will pass during the lame duck session of congress. the housed passed repeal legislation but senator lindsey graham tells "fox news sunday" he doesn't see the votes to do the same in the senate. tuesday, the pentagon is set to release a poll showing majority of service members do not care if gay troops are allowed to serve openly in military. it's common knowledge that mexican cartel export drugs like marijuana and cocaine to the u.s., but now law enforcement agents say cartel emerged as the top source of all meth sold in the u.s. it's due in part to their skill at importing cold medicine and chemicals used to make methamphetamine. the mexican crime syndicates quickly learned to use dummy corporations and fake labelling to exploit lack custom enforcement in the east to smuggle pills banned in mexico and restricted in the u.s. amber alert has been issued for three michigan brothers. their father is in custody and treated for what we're told are mental issues after he attempted suicide the same day the boys went missing. heather childers joins us live with the latest. hello, heather. >> reporter: hi, shannon. we can tell you that investigators are calling the father 39-year-old john skeleton a suspect in the disappearance of his three young sons. police say that they fear the boys -- this is a quote -- "are in grave danger." this case is being updated as we speak. right now we have reports coming in that the f.b.i. has taken over a search area that was previously manned by volunteers. the area specifically is known as harrison's lake. it's a state rk, about ten to 15 miles southwest of morenci where the boys live in this home. morenci, itself, is south west of detroit. the boys are 9-year-old andrew skeleton, 7-year-old alexander skeleton and 5-year-old tanner skeleton. they were last seen in their father's backyard. that was on thursday. on friday, their father tried to hang himself. that suicide attempt was not successful. he says he contacted a friend who then took him to the hospital where he is currently being held in custody. and being held for mental health issues. he says because he didn't want his young sons to see him commit suicide he left them with a friend. that friend's name he gave as joanne skeleton. >> shannon: heather, are there any clues about this woman? do we know where who she is or where she is now? >> reporter: there are two different reports. one that he met her years ago. another that they met online and had a relationship online. but investigators have not been able to determine if joanne taylor even exists and the family members question whether she exists as well. he apparently is going through a divorce and a separation with his wife tanya skeleton. they are currently separated and she has not seen the children as well. and the search continues. we will keep you updated. news conference is just wrapping up on this. that's where we found out about the search going at harrison lake and let you know as anything develops. >> shannon: it's all about finding those boys. thank you very much. >> yeah. >> shannon: sarah palin makes a stop in a key political state furthering speculation she is gearing up for 2012 white house run. will she and should she? what palin has to say. the holiday season has its share of indulgences. we all know that stuffing your face with turkey, while fabulous isn't probably the healthiest choice. but up next find out why holiday shopping can also be bad for your health, too. tylenol 8 hour lasts 8 hours. but aleve can last 12 hours. and aleve was proven to work better on pain than tylenol 8 hour. so why am 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joining us now to talk about it, dr. ochre from the university of maryland medical school. great to see you. >> you, too, shannon. >> it's hard to resist over indulging on thanksgiving day. nice spread, nice meal. where do you go wrong if you go past normal overeating? >> the problem with us is this starts the season and constantly at work, people are bringing food and we're eating. the statistics show there is an increase from the end of november to january. increase number of deaths, heart attacks. i mean if you have heart problems and you overindulge in salty food, high-fat food to increase blood pressure and send you many to heart failure. that is an issue. then there is holiday heart, if you really do binge drink over the holidays it can irritate your heart and cause arrhythmia. so you really have to use moderation. more than anything else. >> shannon: that is always good advice. another thing that a lot of people find stressful that happens this time of year is the shopping. we see the people on black friday. physically, literally, there is a threat sometimes of people trampled and running over. you can have stress for other ways, debt and the fighting shoppers. >> in the economic climate, everybody worries there is unemployment. you know, stress from debt. and specifically, credit card debt has been shown in studies, clinically to cause all kind of problems. anxiety, migraines, even heart attacks. that is a real thing you can think about this season. in the same way you have to have moderation in what you t, you really should have moderation in what you spend. if you know it's something you can't afford and you will get credit card debt at the end, it's extremely stressful for you. >> shannon: i have to ask you about t.s.a. and the scanning machines. we cover the story so much in the last couple of weeks. some people say they are worried about the radiation from the machine. not even so much the privacy issue or the image, what is the truth about this? >> it is a low energy back scatter x-ray. so there is ionizing radiation. it's .02 micro subvert, the unit you use to measure radiation for medical procedure. chest x-ray is 100. and cat scan is 10,000. it's relatively low. if you just fly across the country, it's 20. so it's relatively low. but if you are one of these people that, you know, like the pilots don't want to do it because they're constantly going back. if you fly a lot, reporters are flying all the time. i mean it is something if you want to lower your dose, my feeling is submit to the patdown. it will hurt your pride, not your d.n.a. it's really not that big a deal. but it is a low dose. it's a numbers game. one individual person might not have a risk. but people developing the safety standards feel if you screen 700 million passengers down the road, you might see things. it doesn't penetrate beyond the skin. so maybe we're talking about skin cancers, but a numbers game. if you want to decrease your numbers take the pat down. >> shannon: all right. thank you very much. great advice. >> my pleasure. >> shannon: china attempts to cool the crisis between north and south korea, but with military exercises starting, missiles on the launch pad is it too little, too late? we have a live report from seoul. from the front lines to the homefront, holidays can be a happy but stressful time for the service members, veterans and their families. we talk to a former army captain how to keep the season bright for our military next. 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>> send them a gift package and let them know people are thinking about them and they have the support. the loved ones are thinking of them in the holidays. when i was in iraq, i had no idea if it was thanksgiving. out on patrol and running through the city and on o.p. for half a day. the only way i knew it was thanksgiving i came back to my home and there was a lot of pie. an abundance of pie. i couldn't realized why until i realized it's thanksgiving. when you are over there, you're focussed on your mission, focussed on what you've got to do. knowing that people back home love you and are supporting you is important. but you have that community. i know for my family, hardest on my mother. hardest on my family who was back home celebrating thanksgiving and worried. >> shannon: missing. is it the best idea to invite families to share holidays with your family? or do the military families stick together, have their own way to cope through holidays. >> there is no one answer. one thing you can do is understand it's not a problem confined totally to the military community. because the military community doesn't live in one town. we don't live in one place. we're everywhere. there are military families all over, especially with the national guard and reserves where you might be the only military family in your town. it's important to understand what they are going through. it's important to create a community to reconnect with other military families. that's something we're doing through the community of veterans. with rucksack, where rebring military families together events locally across the nation. >> shannon: we talked about active duty but you mentioned veterans as well. some of them are back and having a hard time this holiday. it's not easy to reintegrate. what can we do for them? >> well, the biggest thing we can do is really let them know that there is a community out there. there is only 2 million of us out there served in iraq and afghanistan. that's a very comparatively small number. sometimes you feel like you are alone. i mentioned earlier how you might be the only military family in your town. you could be the only veteran in your town or only veteran of iraq and afghanistan in your town and you don't know where all your buddies are anymore. you go from living in a small room with 30 other guys to being at home and no one understands what you're going through. things like community of veterans, things like the local veteran organization can bring back the community and get you back in and integrate you back to society. >> shannon: all right. tom tarantino, thank you for your service and all you're doing for the vets now. good to see you. talk about lucky dogs. sacramento firefighters went to extreme measures to rescue this little guy from a fire. buddy the dog was barely hanging on to life when firefighters stepped in and gave him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. check it out! it took a little while, but we want you to know that buddy was eventually fine. he perked up and he will be okay. great news there. get this. that same fire crew also rescued a dog that made news yesterday when it fell down a 30-foot hole. the dog lovers us in america's news headquarters give a special salute to the folks in sacramento. well, all the black friday numbers aren't in yet but retailers are predicting good news. we break down what we know so far, and get a preview of cyber monday. and there is a new gold rush going on. a tv show is following six men hoping to strike it rich. up next we talk to one of them about the alaskan adventure. she felt lost... until the combination of three good probiotics in phillips' colon health defended against the bad gas, diarrhea and constipation. ...and? 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my dad did it. put the equipment together. we went gold mining when i was 14, 15 years old. i knew if the gold prices reached a certain level that was a possibility for us. so we went for it. >> shannon: it looks like quite an adventure. why did you do this? what are you hoping that people will get from the show and seeing what you men are going in alaska? >> well, to be honest with you, i think that the state of the average guy out there isn't very good right now. with the economy, and with everything that is going on in our country right now, me, personally, lost a bunch of money. i also had a bunch of marriage issues and things like that. you know what? i really want to offer hope to the average guy out there that, you know what? we can get off our butts and get out and do something like this. or kind of like the modern day pioneers. >> shannon: you're going out to do something and the last time in alaska, maybe the late 1800s, 1880s and 1890s when this first sparked. there is different technology this time. how did you put together the group of guys you put together to tackle this? >> when you look for your crew, you are looking for guys that are willing to go out and do something crazy like this. this is out of the normal. anybody with a secure job couldn't go with us. so, you know, i assembled this group of guys and they just had the guts and threw in with us. i have couldn't promise them anything. it really was, you know, it really is our lives. you'd see our lives unfold in front of you up there and there is stuff that happens, that is some awesome things but also tough things. going to be some tough things to watch. we basically take a bunch of junk and build it up and dig raw gold out of the ground. it's awesome. awesome. >> shannon: well, for everyone who wishes they could go on the adventure with you, they can watch it starting friday night 10:00 eastern on the discovery channel. it looks like fun. thank you if the sneak preview. >> yeah. thanks for having me. >> shannon: well, black friday has come and gone but you can still find really good deals. find out how you can score big on cyber monday. more on that next. lédététttws m8 >> shannon: some of the top stories we're following right now on america's news headquarters. china is proposing emergency six party talks to ease the tensions between the north and south korea. the call comes as the u.s. and south korea begin four days of military exercises in the yellow sea. north korea has expressed outrage over the drills and threatened "merciless countermilitary strikes." tack breaks for -- tax break for employer-based healthcare plan could be in danger as they debate ways to slash the deficit. democrats rejected the idea a few months ago but leaders in moth parties -- both parties have raised ideas. "harry potter and deathly hallows part one" held on to the box office crown friday grossing $21 million. coming in a close second disney "tangled" which brought in $19.7 million friday. tangle release on wednesday and has a shot at edging out harry potter over the three-day weekend. holiday shopping season started with a bang friday as the shoppers rushed to stores for black party deals. how did retailers fare? check in with brenda buttner who has more on that and preview of cyber monday. >> hey, shannon. a ritual at thanksgiving, traditional these days as tackling turkey. beating down the crowds to get the best deal on the day after black friday. this year, forget waiting a day to let the dinner settle. many stores open thanksgiving, sears and old navy, target and kohl's, ready for business the day of the feast. from then through the day after the shoppers were out in full force. an early analysis shows many brought home plenty of packages, santa is still seeking deals. shopper track estimates traditional brick and mortar source increased .3% in sales. where was the buying biggest? in the northeast. but nationwide, a 2% increase in the number of people hitting the post thanksgiving rush and cash registers ringing up only about the same amount of money they did back in 2007. it seems the word this black friday -- "bargain." consumers want deals, plain and simple. many are not willing to leave home to get them. the biggest retailer in the world buying in the online trend. free shipping on more than 60,000 online items, at wal-mart, no minimum purchase required. this could mean cyber monday or monday after thanksgiving when the workers take timoff to find online buys could be a big one. even before the kickoff day, the online stores saw a 16% revenue increase on black friday with the average order up $20 to more than $190. according to one web research company. why all the intense drive to get buyers to the computers? christmas shopping this year is hoped to be all day, all night, all the time, 24/7 is the only way that retailers think they can push shoppers to spend more than last year. national retail federation expects just a 2.3% increase falling short of the 10-year historic average for spending. it could be tough for retailers to expect as they always do to hope for holiday shopping to ring in half of their annual sales. shannon? >> it just seems so much less painful online. click and it's done. >> it does. that's my way to do it. >> yeah. i'm sure that retailers are hoping that all of us, viewers as well. thank you. >> thank you. >> shannon: all right. we want to hear from you. do you plan to spend more on less money on holiday shopping this year? so far, overwhelming 75% of you say you're going to plan to spend less. just log to f foxnews.com/americasnewshq to share thought with us. back from combat and a fox employee is talking about the importance of serving his country. we will share his amazing story next. naturally colorful vegetables are often a good source of vitamins, fiber, or minerals. and who brings you more natural colors than campbell's condensed soups? campbell's.® it's amazing what soup can do.™ slow you down. introducing bayer am. its dual-action formula delivers extra strength pain relief, plus it fightsatigue. so get up and get going with new bayer am, the morning pain reliever. ♪ we need to finish tho projections ♪ ♪ then output the final presentations ♪ ♪ sally, i'm gonna need 40 copies, obviously collated ♪ wht's going on? when we're crunched for time, brad combines office celebrations with official business. it's about efficiency. [ courier ] we can help. wh you ship with fedex, you can work rht up until the lastinute. it gives you re time to get stuff done. that's a great idea. ♪ i need tspeak with you privately ♪ ♪ i found your resume on the printer ♪ everyone! ♪ i found your resume on the printer ♪ [ male announcer ] we understand.® you need a partner who gives you more time. >> shannon: like some of our troops back from combat one fox news employee says he is especially thankful to be spending thanksgiving with his family. he is not a reporter. he is an aspiring journalist and veteran who caught up with some other vets. rick folbaum reports. >> for zachary, joining the military was something he decided to do at an early age. >> my father was four years active duty navy and spent the rest of his years in the army national guard as a tank company commander. i always wanted to put on the uniform. i always wanted to put on the cam raj and there is this father son thing that i think is great. >> zach followed in his father's footsteps, joining the army snowboard two day nationas after his 17th birthday. now, that he is back he works as a production assistant for fox news. the value of service to our country is something he hopes his sons can learn from him. >> i have four boys. 16-year-old. a 13-year-old. a 10 and a 6. they are all -- i think at an age appropriate -- they have an age appropriate appreciation for the the military. my six-year-old has a full army uniform he likes to run around in and is in fa infatuated with everything. i think my ten-year-old sunday stands it from a perspective of wow, suving in the military can hard. >> major scat greco's father and grandfather were marines. he says it is all part of a job but will spend every possible second with his kids until then. >> i will return back to the operational force the maneuver force sometime in the near future and i could, you know, depending on the unit i get assigned to i could be going back probably to afghanistan based on the success we had in iraq. >> for major kristina richardson, joining the milliary was and the family decision. she wanted to fly. >> i'm a blackhawk pilot. >> you are a blackhawk pilot, wow. >> i was there during the surge. our brigade participated supporting the infantry guys and basic air movement of troops on the battlefield. at night is when we do all of that. i did not come from a military family and had no exposure to the military until i went to westpoint. >> their dedication and commitment to our country is apparent but it is the memory of the the time overseas that makes them thankful. >> when i got back, it is something emotional and something in you kind of changes in regards to your patriotism. i recall being at a baseball game where it is like you shed a tear. >> definitely coming back from a deployment changes your perspective and makes you appreciate the little things more. >> shannon: right now north korea has missiles at the ready for yet another attack as war exercises between south korea and the u.s. get the underway today. north korea has promised further retaliation against any military drills in the yellow sea. i'm shannon bream. hour number two of america's news headquarters live from the nation's capital starts right now. and we begin with hour with julie kirtz standing by with the latest that is happening in that volatile region. hi, julie. >> reporter: the u.s. and south korea launched the planned naval war games this morning. north korea says it will have no mercy if the u.s. or south korea gets too close to its territory. it follows last tuesday's deadly artillery attack by the communist nation on an island near the north border. today, south korean's defense ministry ordered journalists to leave the frontline island citing safety concerns as the naval exercise began with china calling for an emergency meeting of the sixth party disarmament talks. in washington today, john mccain says he doesn't give much weight to china's latest diplomatic move. >> i'm only encouraged by action which would bring north korea to a point where they would abandon their aggressive behavior. that can only really be done right now by china who is -- and china is not reacting and acting in a responsible fashion of overall power. >> china's diplomatic efforts came after days of pressure by washington and its allies to try to restrain north korea which just this month reveald that its nuclear program is much more advanced than many believe. china also warning against any military act in what it considers its exclusive economic zone including the waters west of the korean peninsula. not clear if the u.s. and south korean vessels including the aircraft carrier george washington have sailed into that region. greg palkot is in seoul today. what is the latest? >> tensions are runging hig run the region. we were part of a group of journalists checking out the island that was hit by north korea last week, leaving several dead and injured. just as we were landing shots were heard and flashes seen along the north korean coastline 7 miles away. authorities were concerned enough that they sent locals into bomb shelters, limited our own movements. they want to the avoid any problems. no shells in fact landed on that island today. one reason behind the tensions, the start today of the u.s. south korean naval exercises. that is involving the u.s. aircraft carrier uss george, washington. other u.s. troops and south korean ships and trips. it is happening in the yellow sea. north korea is warning against any violations of its territory. all the while, north korean state tv continues to put out images of its leader kim jong il and his son kim jong un. it is thought the succession in the government is part of the saber rattling we have been seeing and hearing from the government. also the need for attention and maybe aid. an envoy for china offered the idea that international talks should be initiated again concerning north korea. that idea recently has been getting a luke warm reception from the united states and other allies. the standoff continues. >> shannon: we turn now to stuart baker, former assistant secretary for the department of homeland security. let's start with north korea. reaction to where where we are we are in the process? >> in the early '90s, things were tense and they have been tense ever since. the north koreans keep raising the stakes and counting on us to exercise restraints in hopes to get us to cancel a training exercise or make a concession to them. part of their game plan. just a little more aggressive approach they used in the past. >> shannon: as we watch this threat here there are many others that we have to monitor around the world. your experience at the department of homeland security. we hear they may be changing the color coded alert system that some people found to be confusing, not very effective. what do you make of that? >> i think it is a good idea. even when i was at dhs we changed the color codes precisely once and i don't think many people decided what they were going to wear that morning based on whether it was a yellow or orange alert. most didn't understand which was worse or what the meaning was. i think it probably outliveddity usefulness. >> shannon: we may see changes there. and the tsa, all of the airport screenings. you traveled this weekend. i know you have some experience. are you surprised there was a backlash to the scanners and/or the patdowns. >> i was surprised how much attention it got. i'm not sure there was as much of a backlash as there was an endless drum report campaign. when i went to the airport on wednesday it was national opt out day. i expected lines out the door. it was a five minute wait. i asked the guys who were doing it if anybody wassing out and they said maybe one out of 100 or two out of 100 so i said give me the patdown. frankly, i have had more intimate experiences getting pants adjusted. it is not great, it is not something you enthusiastically do but it is not the end of the world and practically everybody i have talked to about it says look, the first civil right is not to get blown up when you are traveling to see your family and if this is what it takes to respond to the christmas day bomber we are going to have to do it and if we can find a better way later to begin screening using intelligence instead of just treating everybody the same way that would be even better. but let's do what we have to, to protect the traveling public. >> what do you say in response to those who see this as a serious violation, especially if their children are being examined, those kinds of things and worried about this and likening it to almost a sexual assault of some kind? is that overstate. >> i think it is. the fact it your kids don't have to be patted down if they go through the machine. and the machine as an experience is no different than the magnetometer basically. the patdown while it is not an exciting thing to do or not something that i would willingly and enthusiastically do many times it is done in as professional a way that can be. the fellow explains everything he is going to do in more detail than you need. i'm going to move my hands around your neck. i'm going to hold the back of my hand for this and the front of my hand for that and at the end of the day i think you would have to be a very unusual person to think of it as akin to a sexual assault. >> shannon: , well, you have survived it. we hope you had a great thanksgiving. thank you for joining us today. slated to be bigger than the last release of confidential u.s. information and could be coming within the next few hours. wikileaks says the release covers "every major issue in the." malini wilkes live on the release. >> reporter: let me go through this with you. w.wikileaks tweetd that a link to gawker .com, a german user bought a copy of the magazine because it was placed on news stands too early. according to the tweets some of the diplomatic cables do say nothing earth shattering but maybe something some what embarrassing. it says that angela merkel is praised as teflon and avoids risks and is rarely creative. and goes on about the german foreign minister saying he is repeatedly bashed. does not give actual details about what is said about him. so that is just a little bit of a sample of what is coming out. of course, we expect a lot more information, a lot more detail later tonight, later this afternoon. now, about 90 minutes ago, wikileaks tweeted its website is under a denial of service attack. they are promiseing that one way or another with the news organizations it is working with this information is going to come out later today. earlier, the owner appeared via satellite. the afp wire service says that he reports that the classified cable to the u.s. embassies amount to 250 cables from embassies around the world, that washington is engaged in damage control trying to contact foreign leaders to brief them about what he calls some of these embarrassing revealations within. and that no one has ever been harmed by anything that wiki leaks has published over the last four years. the state department, of course, has a different view. in a very unusual letter last night it said the document dump is illegal and will place at risk the leaves of countless individuals and place at risk ongoing military operations including operations to stop terrorists and place at risk ongoing operations between countries. no indication who is behind the earlier denial of service attack but at least one lawmaker thinks that cyber attacks could be a good way of fighting back. >> well, first of all, we obviously need to know exactly what happened that has caused this incredible flood of information which can be harmful to the united states and our allies. and we ought to think about ways of responding such as a cyber attack on those that are responsible for it. >> wiki leaks has been working with a number of publications. the new york times, the german guardian and other european papers that have access to the documents and we should begin to see some of the details coming out throughout this afternoon. >> shannon: malini, thank you very much. for more on the wiki leaks document drop, lieutenant colonel shafer joins us now to talk about it. your initial reexercis reactioe the fact that we hear hundreds more documents are coming? >> that is part of the problem. it is a shotgun approach and let's be bruteally honest here. does any one remember what was the big give in the last two releases? i can't remember a single takeaway from either one of those. this tells me two things and i'm speaking as a former whistle blower. this is not about accountability. if it was about accountability they would be looking at specific tid bits and trying to highlight those and then get those in front of the right folks in the united states. government joan sight and judicial overwatch are two of the organizations he could have gone to. i met him in the very building we are in right now before. and it became clear to me about the meeting, it is not about whistle blowing, it bas is abot poking people in the eye. >> shannon: and we got the release from the state department saying we are not going to negotiate over the release of the documents and pointing out the specific possible injuries that could come and he mentions putting innocent lives at risk. how much of a possibility do you think that is? >> i think in this case it is fairly remote by the fact that since the sources and methods are protected through multitiers of protection, the most sensitive operations are never even put on electronic sharing systems at all. with that said, this will clearly do damage to our reputation but it is much like someone looking at my private chatter and not liking a character and the way he behaves around talking about some of the trash. this is trash talk in the official system. i think in the end people going to be upset, they goin they aro say i can't believe that is being said about me. in the end all countries talk bad about one another in some form. this is airing dirty laundry. >> when we have things ongoing like the start treaty could the cables be a problem in some arenas like that? >> and also with the kurds. there may be information relating to information and negotiation with the kurds in the northern part of iraq. there are tid bits which the u.s. government has to deal with. they should have got ahead of this. one they figured out bad news is coming and take a 24th century approach and get out there and tell the story about the details you don't want to have come out otherwise you are on the defensive. not saying that wikileaks is right in this. i'm saying the government has to find a better policy for dealing with the 21st century. >> shannon: now, the position is no negotiation over these documents. they are coming soon, we will see them. tony shafer, thank you very much. this is a fox news alert. officials confirm now to fox that an early morning fire at an islamic center in corvallis is a case of arson. no injuries reported there at that location. more details coming out about the plot to blow up a van packle with explosives. muhammad told an undercover agent that he found the perfect location for what he calls "a spectacular show" and he didn't mind that children would die in the attack. >> at every turn he demonstrated his determination to commit jihad even after the test bomb, even after he was cautioned by the undercover agents, undercover officers that there would be women and children involved he made very clear that he was very determined to undertake an attack and we stepped in to stop him. >> muhammad is scheduled to appear in court tomorrow. california authorities uncovered a massive amount of home made explosives inside a home near san diego. police say as many as 12-pounds of highly dangerous bomb making materials were found around the house and in the backyard. neighbors living in the area have been evacuated as precaution. casey stegall will have more on the developing story including when authorities plan to get back inside the house. that is coming up later in this hour. an amber alert issued for three michigan brothers. police fear they are in extreme danger. the boy's father is in the hospital after trying to commit suicide. heather childers is live in new york with the latest on the search. hi, heather. >> reporter: investigators are doing everything any can to find the young brothers and they are hopeful they will find them alive. they fear they are in grave danger. an amber alert was here is id friday for 9-year-old andrew skeleton, 7-year-old alexander and five-year-old tanner. the boys at least the older two last scene playing in their father's backyard in michigan on thursday afternoon and their father 39-year-old john skeleton is being called a suspect in the boys disappearance. he attempted suicide on friday by hanging himself but was unsuccessful and had a friend drive him to a nearby hospital. he claims that he happened the children over to a woman named jo ann taylor who he met years ago and she was to drop the boys off with their mother tonya skeleton that afternoon. several community members canvassed the woods today. thousands of them. the latest information we have is that an area known as harrison lake is being searched right now 10 to 15 miles southwest. a friend of the family said that tonya skeleton recently filed for divorce from john and at a news conference investigators said there is no information on a jo ann taylor and whether in fact she exists but the mother was in contact with someone at some point who said she was jo ann taylor. and taylor according to john skeleton was last seen driving a silver van. police were asked if skeleton was a suspect in the boy's disappearance and they said they have not ruled ingot anytg out. any one with information call the morenci police department, a 517-458-7104. michigan police are searching a mall teens after ismail shooting during the holiday rush. an 18-year-old was shot in the chest and a coating store workers hit by a stray bull let. this was at least the second shooting in three months at that same mall. >> shannon: today's big travel day, many folks making their way home after the thanksgiving holiday. rick reichmuth at the foss weather center to tell us what they can expect across the country. hi, rick. >> really good conditions. no delays across any airports. the eastern part of the country looking good. one storm across the west and bringing snow especially in towards salt lake city area, maybe 5 to 10-inches of snow by the time you wake up tomorrow. winter storm warnings in effect for much of the mountains of utah and across part as of colorado as well. the storm will become a bigger story as it moves off toward the east and strengthen and pull up gulf moisture. tomorrow the threat for severe weather but significant rain falling across this area of the mississippi river valley and ohio river valley. they need a lot of rain. they have been under extreme drought. they will get a lot of rain, some area will see three to six inches of rain and that will cause for flooding concerns. the good news is that today is your travel day because tomorrow will be worse here. forecast for the day today, maybe a few light showers in florida. won't cause any problems for travel. warmer towards chicago at 44. here is the know across the west. temps not nearly as cold as they were last week with the storm that we had. that is also welcome news but still cool in towards parts of california nonetheless. and tomorrow as you are heading back to work the cold air is going to dive down across parts of the four corners. some of the coldest air we have seen in the deserts of arizona for tomorrow morning and tuesday morning and warm up here across parts of the great lakes. shannon, back to you. >> shannon: how do your military men and women feel about don't ask don't tell? we will tell you about the latest findings and why one key senator feels it doesn't matter. the wikileaks document drop and much more. w don't forget mrs. collier. i won't. ♪ [ female announcer ] clear some snow. ♪ or spread a little warmth. maxwell house gives you a rich full flavored cup of cfee so you can be good to the last drop. >> shannon: this is a fox news alert. a few hours before wikileaks is slated to do its latest document trop w drop we are geg reports about the various documents. the new york times is reporting that the confidential american diplomatic tables contain details about things like a dangerous standoff with pakistan over its nuclear fueling program and that american and south korean officials discussed a unified korea and there are things dealing with russia and afghanistan and many other places. we will keep updating you as more of the information begins to trickle out. two key players on the senate armed services committee are weighing in on the issue of north korea. the country said it sees the joint military games as a threat and they already put missiles in place. chris wallace with republican senators. >> republican senator lindsay graham and clare mccasskil and you covered the waterfront. top of mind is what they may or may not do in the mix. >> i don't know that they had any great answers that haven't been said. both acreed that it was important that the u.s. conduct the war games with south korea in the yellow sea over the objection of the north koreans and the chinese and particularly senator mccaskill talked about putting more pressure on china to try to get something done. it is one of those problems in the world it is hard to deal with. you have a terrible, irresponsible, some would say nuts regime in pyongyang and the chinese at this point decided it is to their advantage to keep it in power and even a little aggressive rather than really try to crack down on it. the great fear of the chinese is if that regime falls you could have a million refugees flood over the board nea bordeo china and that is the last thing that china needs at this point. >> shannon: we are also waiting at any moment for the new wikileaks drop. >> that is right and it looks like it will come either late today or tomorrow moring supposedly 250,000 state department classified documents supposedly some embarrassing revealations about u.s. officials' assessment of karzai the president of afghanistan, of some of the russian officials, perhaps some stuff that you wouldn't want to get out about negotiations with the russians on arms control could have an impact on the new start treaty,. >> the two senators both, you know, as everybody does says that they would love to find a way to put wikileaks out of business but seems beyond our reach. in terms of start whether it is that or just the facts of start and particularly the fact that there seems to be a disagreement between the russians and the u.s. about a linkage between arms control and missile defense senator graham says he doesn't think there is any possibility that they will pass ratify the start treaty during the lame duck session and it will go over into the next session which is the next congress which means itle take awhile. >> shannon: a debate this and the other big thing we are watching for on capitol hill whether or not it anything is done on the bush tax cuts. >> and interestingly, senator mccaskill the democrat has a fallback position. that is where before the cutoff was $250,000, everybody below that gets to continue the bush tax cuts and everybody above that would see the tax cuts lapse and you go back to the clinton rates and they are now saying let's raise that threshold from $250,000 to a million dollars a year and it is kind of a nice bumper sticker, you know, no tax cuts for people making over a million dollars a year. having said that lindsay graham said and i think he does have the votes, republicans are not going to support any tax increase which is what it would amount to for any one period and they are willing to accept a temporary extension of two or three years but no tax increase. i think this is a mini fallback position on the part of the democrats. in the end i think the compromise will be extend all the tax cuts for a couple of years. >> shannon: with all of the heated rhetoric on the political issues you also had an up close and personal visit with the hope diamond. >> and i held it like this on a stand that close to the hope diamond which is only the most perfect blue diamond in the world and that is normally under about 6 inches of glass so it was kind of a treat. it will get you in the mood, i'm sure your husband might want to get you a little holiday bauble. >> the list is there. >> shannon: catch chris p. exclusive interviews right here on fox. 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(high-pitched laughter) man: hey you dang woodchucks, quit chucking my wood! vo: geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. >> shannon: this a fox news alert. just hours ahead of the release of hundreds of thousands of the classified state department documents by wikileaks detail about the contents of the diplomatic cables, a lot are leaking out. malini wilkes joins us from washington with all the breaking details as they come in. >> we have a response from the pentagon callin calling this a wreckless disclosure of classified information, illegal disclosure of classified information. what is interesting also is the way this started to come out. there was a tweet from somebody in germany that bought a german magazine an advanced copy before it was supposed to come out. as soon as the details became public through twitter all of the other news organizations that had access to the documents and were planning to pub live them tonight just started putting them out on their websites and we now do have information going to go through the british guardian newspaper one of their -- they say some of the two most interesting revealations that arab leaders are privately urging an air strike on iran and that u.s. officials have been instructed to spy on the u.n. leadership. the new york times also has some of the cables out saying that they go back three years covering mostly secret information, not top secret but also some that had been abled that foreigners should not have access to them and as we know the secretary of state has been calling and meeting with foreign leaders over the past few days because it was anticipated that some of these classified cables from u.s. embassies around the world would contain some embarrassing information. the guardian has some of the juicy more gossipy details if you will. it says that the material includes a reference to vladimir putin as "an alpha dog" and hamid karzai and driven by paranoia and merkel of germany allegedly avoids risk and is rarely creative. also a comparison between the iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad and adolph hitler. just some of what is being published and coming out about what is in the wikileaks documents. back to you. >> shannon: we will check back with you as you learn more. malini, thank you. >> you're welcome. >> shannon: joining us with more on the political implications are fox news contributor. thank you both for joining us today. >> thank you for having us. >> hi, shannon. >> lame duck is firing up. the administration has a lot it wants to get done and now dealing with the whole wikileaks information. how much of a distraction is this. some people say that it falls under the fairness act and it is freedom of speech but when it impacts our nation and our national security we need to put a stop to it and whoever is leaking this to wikileaks to have to out there, we have to do something about it. >> shannon: and thatth now pulls in so much of the state department resources. information that involves secretary of state clinton and many of our other administrative officials. these are diplomatic relationships that we work hard for decades to massage and now we have this information out there where we are talking about different countries and leaders. what does that do to u.s. relations. >> it is certainly not going to help. this is just irresponsible to say the least and like angela said is endangering lives around the country. i do think that unfortunately it will be a big distraction for the administration. certainly secretary clinton is getting ahead of the ball as she should and proactively contacting leaders to back-pedal as necessary or explain some comments as needed but this couldn't come at a worse time as we are getting ready to bring the world community in on much more important issues. for instance, like the korea crisis. >> shannon: and ail alexandra, how do you think the conversations about l will be . neo the contacts are being made to try to head off some of these things coming over the wikileaks dumps? what does it do when we try to soothe it over but we know it is coming? >> the most you can say is at anst secretary clinton is nan excellent diplomat. the epitome of a diplomatic personality and perhaps will have fostered enough goodwill herself and president obama over the last couple of years to be able to stem the tide. >> but shannon this s a distraction because even though she is a great diplomat, right now it is strength through power and power through strength and if we are bac back-pedaling and explaining what is in this document that is being leaked it takes away what we need to do dealing with north korea. we should never ever take advantage or think that the white house is weakened from this standpoint but if our secretary of state has to explain what is in the document it makes us look weaker. we have to put an end to it by any means necessary. >> we are getting in from the white house reaction from the press office there. i want to it read a little bit of this and get your reaction. says by its nature field reporting now we are talking about the diplomatic cables, field reporting to washington is candid and often incomplete information. not an expression of policy nor does it always shape final policy decisions. the cables could compromise private discussions with foreign governments and opposition leaders and when the substance of private conversations is printed on the front pages of newspapers around the world it can deeply impact not only u.s. foreign those ofterests but toes who allies and friends around the world. how wide ranging do you think the impact will be from these documents. >> we don't know more about which countries and leaders many implicated here. some of the relationships are so testy to begin with and there are many countries in the middle east for instance who do not want to be seen as having a friendly relationship with the united states and do not want to be seen as cooperating with us or cooperating with us perhaps against one of their own in iran so this could really do some damage to ongoing discussions on very broad and important issues. >> shannon: angela and ale alexander we will ask you to stick around. the call for emergency talks to diffuse the tensions in the koreas is taking on new urgency as warships and missiles are deployed. and all of this with the back drop of the wikileaks documents surfacing on the web. the late evangelicals o -- thee two breaking stories, next. tested down here. and proven beyond a doubt, out here. and is only available in a pickup, under here. the ram 5 year 100,000 mile warranty covers you everywhere. ram. we get double mi on every purchase. echo! so we earned a trip thgrand canyon twice as fast. uhoh. we get double miles evy time we use our card. i'ltake these. no matter what we're buying. plus the damas. and since double miles add up quick, we can bring the whole gang. it's hard to beat double miles. no, we ride them. 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>> frankly, the case for war against the iranians is better now i think more likely to happen by the fact that the iranians now know that their neighbors are not happy with them. so i don't think that is anyway deters the possibility of war. i think that makes it more likely because now the iranians know their neighbors are going to be supporting whatever military effort happens. i think he has to understand that will probably have the exact opposite effect of what he is saying he wants to do which is to limit the possibility of war to lessen tensions. he has raised typings wit tense chinese and us. i can't think of a single country that has not been more up in arms on this than before. >> shannon: a lot of mention of afghanistan. of course, these are documents that allegedly are coming down the pike that will be verified as actual state department cables but talk with hamid karzai being driven by paranoia suspicions about corruption in the afghan government. some of the things being spelled out as we prepare to turn over control of that country to afghan forces in the next couple of years. how could that kind of disclosure impact our relationship with karzai? >> clearly not going help. this has been discussed privately. we heard rumors of the problems with president karzai for awhile through our channels. it is not helpful to broadcast the issues when you are in the process of trying to convince someone to take charge. i think ultimately what is going to happen is that this will prompt further conflict between the afghani government and pakistani government and us. this is unfortunately going to be the effect. now, if he really wants to create chaos, he is doing a great job of it because that is all he will have. if he is trying to go for accountability this ain't going to cut it. as i mentioned earlier there are ways to discuss a and get into a debate and highlight each issue and take it through and try to resolve it. this is like throwing gasoline on an already burning fire really. >> his motivations remain unclear. he also remains at large. we will continue to follow the situation and see -- we know that he spoke to a conference in jordan but by video link or videotape of some kind. so he remains on the run and he knows that he is a wanted man. we will continue to follow that. see what happens. colonel, thanks for coming back. good to see you. >> thank you. >> shannon: there is a lot on the president's plate right now. he is outrage as north korea's brazen attack on south korea. also the wikileaks document drop in the mix. already a contentious political environment here at home. let's get back to our political panel now. ail alexandra, i want to start with you. any chance that this solidifies or unites got parties here in washington as we sort of have to unite against attacks from outside the u.s. and issues from outside the u.s.? >> i think so. i think that threats to our country certainly bring the two parties together but perhaps the most interestingly president obama is sometimes closer to republicans on foreign policy than he is democrats. and as we see especially china's relationship with north korea and our own relationship with china really start to take center stage i think that will be a huge part of this ongoing and central argument to not only our national security but our long-term economic policy as well and we will really see the two parties hopefully have some in depth and longer term conversations about what this all means. >> shannon: and what kind of pressure is on the president right now? is this an opportunity for him to show real leadership on a foreign issue or two or three? >> obama has sent mixed signals in the past, shannon, dealing with hugo chavez and ahmadinejad. this is a grand opportunity for the president to stand strong. i'm going take something from ronald reagan, power through strength and strength through power. it has to be a stand twitter administration and withhis congress. i think you will see more bipartisanship and not a lot of battle. some said this is no coincidence that north korea made bolt actions right after the mid term elections. the president might be seen as weak and vulnerable. this is a time for the country to stand strong. >> shannon: does he step up and show a stronger are front on the foreign stage than he has so far? >> i think he has to. he can't take his eye off the ball on the economy. but this issue is so linked to others as i mentioned and as we start to get more and more intelligence as to what north korea is thinking right now with the two nations coming together with us and south korea doing the naval ma movers today and us really showing our support for south korea is only going to and ta and an nantagae rethere there. we have to leave it there. we have to leave it there. much more news, after the break. and fill our sleighs to capacity. with all kinds of buzzing, roaringand humming. with guaranteed low prices that are now even lower, there will be more than tinsel glinting around our trees. more saving. more doing. that's the power of the home depot. we're lowering the cost of christmas morning with this 18-volt 4-piece ryobi combo kit for just 69 bucks. that's over half off. whoa! that achy cold needs alka-seltzer plus! it rushes multiple cold fighters, plus a powerful pain reliever, wherever you need it! 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