will lag behind improvements in the economy. for those out of work, the job market is all that matters. it wasn't all bad news. mostly but not all. >> for one thing the revised figures from the labor department showed the economy created 4,000 jobs in the month of november. that's the first gain in almost two years but on balance as you say the news at the labor department this morning is about as chilling as today's wintry weather here in the capital. let's start with the underemployment rate. this includes the unemployed people, those part-time workers and discouraged workers just giving up looking for work. that total figure offer seen as a more reliable gauge than just simple unemployment numbers, that's at 7.32%. up .1% in the month of november and hovering at a 15-year high. >> just compare it to for us. >> as we wait at the east room of the white house, 2009 is fully on the books. we know the economy as a whole cut 4.2 million jobs in 2009 and the average unemployment rate for the year was 9.3%. only contrast that with 5.8%, almost 4 percentage points lower and the 4.6% jobless rate we had in 2007. overall, shep, the u.s. economy lost over 8 million jobs since this great recession began two decembers ago. >> i know they're in there doing an audio check now. >> once again the president prepares to speak in the east room of the white house. we expect he's going to tout a plan to create as you mentioned tens of thousands of so-called green jobs. he's gonna use tax credits which will be underwritten by stimulus funds. the idea is to give small businesses tax credits to train workers, let's say you have an electrician, train him to become proficient in the installation of solar panels, that sort of thing, shep. >> thanks. as we wait for the president, new today the shipping giant ups is announcing it will be cutting 1800 jobs. that's what brown can do for you. we're told the cuts will affect folks working in management and administrative positions. it will apparently be a combination of volunteer separation packages and layoffs. the company reports it's making the move to streamline its small package division here in the united states. the economy's obviously a huge story and over at www.foxnews.com you can have your say the way things are going. the big question is president obama's $800 billion job stimulus working. check on that side of things. we'll check on the results later in this hour. the feds say he tried to kill nearly 300 passengers when he reportedly tried to blow up a detroit-bound plane on christmas day. but today the nigerian born so-called underwear bomber pleaded not guilty. six counts, attempting to use weapons of mass destruction. he tried to detonate an explosive device shortly before the plane landed. the white house stepping up airline security. he pleaded not guilty, but it's gonna be a long way here without bond, right? >> yes. currently he's cooperating with being held without bond. originally you'll remember that today was supposed to be a bond hearing. then the indictment came down yesterday, superseded all of that. but today what his defense attorney said is that they were going to concede to continued detention which essentially means they're not challenging it at this particular point in time. shep. >> we heard reports that this guy's family might be there. were they? >> it doesn't appear so. there were some folks that the u.s. marshall service was assisting to get them reserved seats in the front near where the defendant was seated. but it appears at least a couple of those folks were from the nigerian embassy, wayne state university's law school here and a couple other folks we haven't quite nailed down who they are. but we understand that the family was not present in court today. >> what about the demonstration outside while the arraignment was happening inside? >> pretty sizeable demonstration happening. started about an hour earlier. folks described themselves as muslim-americans. folks vehemently anti-terrorists and passionate defenders of their faith and home country. have a listen. >> you want us, we're here. we're on camera. you wanna kill us. here's a bull's-eye right here. come kill us because we're americans, we're muslims and we're against you. >> there you have it. that was a sense of what it was that was going on here. folks are saying that terrorism is not islam outside the courtroom where an islamic nigerian is being charged with a terrorist act. >> that's good stuff to see. there was an article in a column this morning, new york times i believe it was, how muslims are going to have to solve this thing and listen how to do it. that's the kind of thing i think a lot of people have been waiting to hear for a long time. >> i think you're correct. and these folks were very vehement how much they detested the linkage of islam and terrorism and that they were challenging terrorists around the world to come and get them. if they wanted to attack somebody, they needed to attack them making themselves visible and potentially putting themselves in line of fire they're rhe -- theoretically. >> president obama ordered a substantial overhaul of airline security as well as an overhaul how the u.s. intelligence community shares information. the president said we had information that could have prevented the attack but nobody connected all the dots. the president's top adviser said they were shocked al-queda had become operational in yemen. how's that going over? >> well, i talked to many people in the intelligence community who were somewhat surprised at that declaration because as you know al-queda has been a presence in yemen a good long while. many of our viewers may have remembered the attack on the uss cole that left 17 soldiers dead. al-queda yemen has gone through two phases, that early phase in 2000 and with the help of saudis got rid of al-queda in yemen in 2005. it's gone through a resurgence. experts said that could have been on the minds of the bush administration and on the radar screen of the obama administration but not sufficiently enough to lay down the kind of detection system that sort of filters through u.s. intelligence that should have been there particularly after the fort hood massacre. many links established there and they believe the administration should have been much more aggressive processing any intelligence data mentioned. mentioned yemen and everyone traveling through and associated with al-queda operatives in yemen as the suspect in the christmas attack, umar farouk abdulmutallab, did. some intelligence experts say this is a bit of a falling down in the administration' part. the president said it was a failure. this is one aspect of it. >> increasing the focus on yemen, do some people believe this should have happened sooner? >> this is all part of the same sort of conversation. i think the intelligence from the outside is having. when the c.i.a. said yesterday, releasing a statement to the director after the president spoke where it was increasing its focus on yemen and africa, the analysts i talked to said, wait a minute, yemen's been on the screen quite some time. what the c.i.a. was trying to get at, the peninsula in yemen, not only active there, somalia but with this case was able to persuade someone in nigeria, bring them to yemen, get them on a plan and that sort of suggests a regional component. across the entire maybe northern africa and expanding that focus and the intelligence-gathering is now top on the c.i.a. and the national counterterrorism center's agenda. >> major garret at the white house. a 29 degree afternoon. several legal questions surrounding the prosecution of the christmas day terror suspect. a look at his defense next. new arrests in connection with another terror investigation. a suspect with possible links to a man already accused of trying to blow up trains in new york. our legal panel weighs in on both cases and we're waiting for the president. they're running a few minutes late. he'll talk today about money to go for creating new jobs and money to go for small businesses. it's a very busy hour in studio b. upbeat rock. ♪ singer: hello hello hello can anybody hear me? ♪ ♪ i know i know i know i shoulda gone to ♪ ♪ free credit report dot com! ♪ that's where i shoulda gone! coulda got my knowledge on! ♪ ♪ vo: free credit score and report with enrollment in triple advantage. aren't absorbed properly unless taken with food. he recommended citracal. it's different -- it's calcium citrate, so it can be absorbed with or without food. also available in small, easy-to-swallow petites. citracal. we're back with more on today's not guilty plea by the suspect in that failed christmas day bombing of northwest flight 253. the feds charged a 23-year-old nigerian man with attempted murder and attempting to blow a plane out of the sky. with us now arthur adala and drew fendling as well chilling down in atlanta. drew, where do you begin with this character? >> well, i think a good starting point is that this is being handled in the eastern district of michigan, detroit. i've litigated plenty of cases there. and you have to understand that post-9/11, there's not an area in the united states where both the federal defense and the prosecutors are handled more terrorism-related cases. so we're going to see a very literal bench and bar there. clearly that's the decision not even to try for bond because there is no chance at bond. they're gonna explore the issue of cooperation. i know some say there's no chance of it but let me tell you something, the federal system is based, shep, on cooperation. it is the only way you can move down in terms of what kind of sentence you can get and there's no doubt the government wants to know this individual's connection potentially to al-queda or another terrorism group. so they'll be working on that and his defense attorney no matter what he says in the public will work on his client to see whether he wants to cooperate with the government to somehow potentially reduce his sentence down the road. i think that's the starting point. >> arthur, you cooperate if you're on the other side of that equation? >> as a prosecutor, obviously the value here is getting information. this guy isn't osama bin laden. he's not at the top of the totem pole. they're going to squeeze him as much as they can to get whatever they can out of him and obama's top people have already acknowledged that's their strategy. they've been working with the justice department and all going to try to promise him something less than life in prison. which, shep, come on! all right, instead of giving them life in prison, they're going to give him 50 or 60 years. they're not going to give him 20, we know that. right, drew? unless they take him to where osama bin laden is, do you see them giving him less than 30 years? >> in the federal system he's going to be working with a lot load of time because they're going to charge him with attempting to kill every person on that airplane. arthur is correct that he's looking for a ton of time. what's significant is both from the prosecution standpoint and the defense standpoint is that it did happen in detroit. because, again, there's nowhere outside of new york city where they're more equipped to handle this type of case. even though they're sending people in from justice, the u.s. attorney's office in detroit is completely equipped to handle this type of case. >> shep, what's key about this case, if you compare it to the shoe bomber, is where the guy on the plane actually tried to kill americans. because this guy, it appears he was clearly in american air space where as the shoe bomber was in international waters which under the newer terrorism statutes in the federal system, actually carries stiffer penalties, death penalty charges because -- >> sorry, arthur. president. president obama and new money for small businesses. >> i announced a significant new investment for making clean energy. i want to give an update on the matter of concern to every american, that's our employment picture. the jobs numbers that were released by the labor department this morning are a reminder that the road to recovery is never straight. and we have to continue to work every single day to get our economy moving again. for most americans and for me that means jobs. means whether we are putting people back to work. and job losses for the last quarter of 2009 were .1 of what we were experiencing in the first quarter. in fact, in november we saw the first gain in jobs in nearly two years. last month, however, we flipped back losing more jobs than we gained. so the overall trend of job loss is still pointing in the right direction. what this underscores though is that we have to continue to explore every avenue to accelerate the return to hiring, which brings me to my announcement today. the recovery act has been a major force in breaking the trajectory of this recession and stimulating growth and hiring. and one of the most popular elements of it has been a clean energy manufacturing initiative that will put americans to work while helping america gain the lead when it comes to clean energy. clear why such an effort is so important. building a robust clean energy sector is how we will create jobs in the future, jobs that pay well and can't be outsourced. but it's how we will reduce you're dangerous dependence on foreign oil, a dependence that threats our security and leave our children a planet that's safer than the one we inherited. as far as new forms of energy will be one of the defining challenges of the 21st century. the nation that pioneered the use of clean energy is outpaced around the world. it's china that has launched the largest effort in history to make their economy energy efficient. we spearheaded solar technology but have fallen behind germany and japan in producing it. almost all of the batteries we use to power our hybrid vehicles are still manufactured by japanese companies or in asia. so because of one of the steps like the one we're taking today we're beginning to produce more of these batteries here at home. now, i welcome and i'm pleased to see a real competition emerging around the world to develop these kinds of clean energy technologies. competition is what fuels innovation. i don't want america to lose that competition. i don't want the energies that yield the jobs of tomorrow to be build oversees. i don't want the way we use energy to be invented abroad. i want the united states to be what it has always been and that is a leader, the leader when it comes to a clean energy future. that's exactly what this clean energy manufacturing initiative will help us do. it will help close the clean energy gap that's group between america and other nations. through this initiative we're awarding $2.3 billion in tax credits for american manufacturers of clean energy technologies. companies that build wind turbines, produce solar panels and assemble cutting-edge batteries. the initiative we're outlining today will likely generate 17,000 jobs and roughly $5 billion or that will leverage in the private sector investments, could help create tens of thousands of additional jobs. at the same time this initiative will give a much-needed fwooft our manufacturing sector by building new plants or upgrading old ones and will take an important step to meeting the goal of doubling the amount of renewable power we use in the next three years with wind turbines and solar panels built right here in the u.s.a. this is good for middle class families, good for our security, it's good for our planet. over 180 projects in over 40 states will receive these tax credits. one of them is tpi composites, inc., based in newton, iowa, one of america's leading wind turbine manufacturers. because of these tax credits, tpi come positive at this time will not only be able to expand a facility, not only build a brands new facility in nebraska, they'll also be able to hire over 200 new workers. it's my hope that similar stories will be told in cities and towns across america because of this initiative. in fact, this initiative's been so popular that we have far more qualified applicants than we've been able to fund. we have received requests for roughly three times as much in funding, 7.6 billion dollars, as we could provide. so that's why as part of the jobs package on which i'm urging congress to act, i've called for investing another $5 billion in this program which could put even more americans to work right away building and equipping clean energy manufacturing facilities here in the united states. in the letter that i repeated tonight -- many of you know i get about ten letters a night that i take a look at. i often here from more thans -- from americans who are facing hard times. can't afford to pay bills, they're worried about what the future holds. i am confident if we harness the ingenuity of companies like tpi composite, we can gain the lead in clean energy worldwide that will forge a future where a better life is possible in our country over the long run. that's a future we're now closer to building because of the steps that we're taking today. thank you very much, everybody. >> the overall -- >> president speaking at the white house, clearing taking no questions. our james rosen was listening in with a headline of his own. >> the president spoke for about six minutes. he vowed to basically use the stimulus funds to bestow on american manufacturers so-called green technologies, wind turbine, solar panels, cutting edge batteries some 2.3 billion in tax credits. he said this will create 17,000 jobs, it will trigger $5 billion in private sector investments into this field and he said he hopes it will double renewable power this country uses in the next three years. the president of course also took note of this morning's labor department statistics about joblessness in this country in the month of december and the year of 2009. he said they are a reminder that the road to recovery is never straight. he said however the overall trend of job loss is going in the right direction. as evidence he cited the fact that the average quarterly job loss dropped from 690,000 in the first quarter of 2009 to 69,000 in the last quarter of 2009, in essence saying that this administration -- he cited the recovery act, the stimulus is a major force in this -- has slowed the rate of job loss in this country by 90%, shep. >> i'm sure has he said why yet? >> they say that in essence we interviewed mike pens, the congressman from indiana, that in essence this administration is failing to recognize that its policies are not working; that we've lost close to 3 million jobs since that stimulus package was signed in february of 2009. and they say that the slowing in the rate of job loss is just a reflection on the resilience of the american economy. >> there you go. james rosen live in washington. good to see you. thank you. the search for a missing infant has taken another bizarre turn. the baby's mother is now accused of kidnapping her own 8-month-old child if you can believe that. taking him across-country trek, possibly giving him away to strangers. it's an are you kidding me? and it's coming up. mmmmmm. mmmmmm. wow! you have got to be kidding me. 80 calories? light & fit has 80 calories versus 100 in the other leading brand. light & fit. irresistible taste. fewer calories. i love light & fit. >> a lot of weird stuff happens on air. sometimes it's dangerous and sometimes just weird. we've got a weird one. and this has just come in. "dateline" colorado springs. apparently there's this air tran flight that's headed from atlanta to san francisco. air tran 39. as the story now goes some drunk guys on there -- there's the route. that's quite a map. good grief. the flight was diverted on the way to california. like we have had it with this drunk guy. he's wasted and in the bathroom and won't come out. so they had to land the plane. i don't know. they landed. it was like never a security threat to the airport. they don't believe -- here the dude is. this is in colorado springs when they got him on the ground. they arrested him. apparently he was just liquored up to a degree improper for the plane. when they won't come out of the john, sometimes you gotta land in colorado. so no terror problems. just every time something goes weird on a plane we divert 'em. drunk guy off the plane in custody. two developments in the search for a missing eight-month-old baby. a baby last seen with his mother. the mother claims she killed the child. so then said that she gave him away to strangers. quite a bizarre and disturbing sort of thing. her name is elizabeth johnson. that's the mom. she and her former boyfriend were fighting over custody of this little baby we're told when she took off on a cross country trip. home tone of arizona near phoenix. investigators found her car a thousand miles away outside a motel in san antonio and all the way to miami where they arrested her last week after she missed a custody hearing. the woman says she gave the child away to a couple she met in a park in texas. now investigators say another couple who originally warranted to adopt the child may now know more about the case than their sharing. other, really. jonathan hunt is with us. >> there are a couple also from arizona. their names are jack and tammy smith. they have told cops that they met elizabeth johnson at a long airport layover. they befriended her. she told them she wanted to have her baby adopted. they said they were interested in adopting that baby said they have no idea about the whereabouts of the baby. the cops announcing they believe they know person and are declaring them persons of interest. they said they were completely innocent in all this. listen to jack smith. >> we should have been persons of interest from day one. we are persons of interest. we were probably the last people to see gabriel before he left town. we're thinking. i would hope every stone that they have would be turned over and tried to do anything that they can. >> and, shep, we just got off the phone with tammy smith herself. she asked us to call back in a couple hours. show she told us a couple of rambling stories. she said i have to go, police are about to give me a polygraph. we haven't confirmed that with police. tammy smith is telling us she is taking a polygraph, one that she herself wanted to take. >> first she said she killed the baby. the police have reason to believe the baby might still be alive? >> yeah. the cops are saying right now, all they're saying publicly, shep, is that they have indication that gabriel johnson, the eight-month-old baby, is indeed alive. when you talk to them a little more, you clearly get the impression that they generally believe he is alive. all they're going to say publicly, officially, is that we have indication that he is alive. >> this is just weird. >> it's completely bizarre. the more you learn about all of these people, there's something missing pretty much with everybody involved in this story. her own grandfather, elizabeth johnson's grandfather said she makes bad decisions. >> here's hoping they find little gabriel. keep us updated. thank you. if you like you can go chat with jonathan hunt. i don't know why you would. but if you want to you can on this and any other story. jonath jonathan goes down to a little computer room. we have this fascinating video on frozen iguanas. www.foxnews.com/shep and then go here to the weird looking guy. then you can go chat with jonathan. they're chatting now. you should go chat or something. disturbing new developments in connection with the murder of a former playboy model. this woman's body discovered in a dumpster -- she has been so severely burned that police had to use dental records to identify her. her stepfather joins us to talk about new developments in just two and a half minutes. that i didn't authorize, didn't know anything about. and it continued almost eight years. i've been in law enforcement all my life, i've shred all my receipts. all the junk mail, burn it, whatever. nothing was going to escape and put me at risk... for having my identity stolen. lifelock is the industry leader... in proactive identity theft protection. it's unbelievable, the first thing was, it couldn't happen, there has to be a mistake. and then followed shortly by the sinking, deeping, gut-wrenching feeling that my life is over. there's no credit, there's no buying houses, there's no anything. matthew daubert has now been smeared, so to speak, and didn't do anything, uh, to deserve it, to ask for it, or to warrant it. he joined lifelock to take control of his life... and defend his good name from identity theft. when it comes to taking control of your life, you do have a choice-- the choice is lifelock. if my identity was stolen, anybody's identity could be stolen. and that's where lifelock stepped in. lifelock helped fix his problem. and now that he has lifelock, he can take control... of his identity once again. in my professional opinion, no one's safe from identity theft. the only thing you can do is make sure you find out... about it when it occurs as quickly as possible, and again that's where lifelock would come in. he has lifelock and so should you. take control of your identity. help protect yourself with lifelock's proactive protection... and our one million dollar total service guarantee. security. peace of mind. protection. that's what lifelock provides. you can take control of your identity. call now for special savings, and we'll also give you... thirty days to try lifelock absolutely free. call now and mention id. call now or go to lifelock.com. ♪ >> it's 3:30 in new york, 2:30 in oxford. some stories we're following on studio b. u.s. military said to be showing strength after a bombing in the c.i.a. base along the pakistan border. how it's focusing on taking out a militant group possibly linked to the bombing. two issues for you and your family as well. jobs and terrorism. the president speaking on both of them the last couple days. we'll break down the statements with chris wallace in the half hour ahead. and it's the king's birthday! what do you say? we'll take you to mempho! how old would elvis be today? the good kids from tupelos now the case of a playboy model whose badly burned remains were found in a dumpster in miami. she's a woman reportedly very afraid of her boyfriend. her name, paula sladinski. former boyfriend, her former boyfriend claims that paula has been sending him text messages during the time she was dating her current boyfriend. saying her current boyfriend was as she put it trying to kill her. the couple had been on vacation in florida at the time. police have named that current boyfriend a person of interest -- excuse me -- in the case. he claims they got into a fight at a bar after which he left and she stayed. here's how the model's sister reacted to the details. listen. >> such a -- burned! can't even make out who she is. she was so beautiful. >> so much more to this story sadly. this is home video of the victim here. the boyfriend made this video, he tells us. on the phone with us now is richard watkins, the victim's stepfather. sir, i am so sorry. it's very good of you to be here. >> thank you for having me. >> there were text messages. tell us about 'em. >> they had -- they've been together two years and she was constantly fighting with him. and what she would do is when he would kick her out or lock her out of the house, she would text her ex-boyfriend who lived nearby for help. for some place to stay to come pick her up. fall asleep, whatever was needed. >> on the night she died they had been at space nightclub, my understanding, right? >> that's correct. >> and one of them left? >> yes. the boyfriend and her got into an argument in the club and the bounceers kicked him out of the club. she refused to leave. and so he left her there alone. >> and then a number of hours later, police -- someone discovered her body frankly burning in north miami, right? >> that's correct. >> and no one seems to know what happened between those two times? >> no. as we understand it right now, it's unsolved. the police down there are doing their best to track down any leads that they have. but as far as we know, they still don't know what happened in that time period. >> the boyfriend's a person of interest. tell us about him. do you know him? >> we only know him through meeting him a couple times as she came over to our house with him. we don't know him. we know of him. >> we have some pictures of him up right now. sounds like they wesren't gettig along well? >> they never got along. we asked why they stay together because they fight so much. >> what did they say? >> they told us to butt out, it's their business. >> when he was named a person of interest, were you surprise? >> no. i knew how they fought. it was no surprise. he would be the first one i suspect, too, being as they were together last -- when she was alive. >> when you say this fought does this mean they were yelling or he abused her physically? >> physically. he got arrested here in detroit just a month ago for breaking her nose. >> oh, my god! wow! i'd be in a tough position of a family member after that going, wow, i wish we could have done something. i'd just feel a little helpless and i'm sure you do too. how could you not. >> at that time we really begged her not to go back to him. and we had a hard time believing that she would actually go back to see him again. >> is he cooperating in any way? has anyone in the family heard from him? >> no. he's got a lawyer and we don't hear anything. >> well, what a horrible thing to find your little one there -- my god. i can't even imagine. good luck to you and your family. i hope you find justice hear and some peace down the road. >> thank you. >> all right. man. visit www.foxnews.com for the latest on this story. there's a lot more to this and they have broken the news in this case really. moments before murder. you see it there at www.foxnews.com. surf around. there's a lot of other interesting stuff if you're following the story. u.s. military reportedly stepping up attacks on the pakistan afghanistan border after last week's bombing at the c.i.a. post, if you will. plus secretary of state hillary clinton's take on the attack. two and a half minutes away. five militant fighters along the pakistan afghanistan border reportedly killed in a u.s. military strike. a missile it was. we're told it's the latest in a surge of atabs in the area after that deadly bombing at the c.i.a. post last week. the attack focusing on pakistan and areas really considered a strong hold for a militant group that could have played a role on the attack on the coast. seven c.i.a. agents and employees were killed there. molly with the news. she's live at the state department today. molly, secretary of state clinton didn't mention that attack directly today but certainly alluded to it. >> yes, shep. she was meeting here at the state department with the jordanian foreign minister. remember a jordanian intelligence officer was also killed in that attack. here's what clinton said near the top of her remarks. >> i express both our condolence for the loss of life that was unfortunately both americans and jordanians. and i express appreciation for jordan's commitment to combatting violent extremism. >> that's about as close as she got to getting near the attack and any comments on it. but the jordanian foreign minister said jordan will increase and enhance its presence in afghanistan. also keep this mind, shep, that the attacker, the double agent, also was jordanian. >> they're trying to explain today how officials initially missed that christmas day bomber, the fact that he had a valid visa. >> right. this all happened, what i'm about to talk about, several weeks before christmas. that's when the father of this is tacker went to the u.s. embassy and warned the u.s. about his son. the state department did an initially search of the database to find out if he had a visa. it showed up he didn't have one because his name was misspelled. the national counterterrorism center corrected the misspelling within two days but it appears no one researched the database with the correct spelling. the state department insists that it did not hamper the overall threat analysis. listen to this. >> we did effect the recognition within the system that there was a valid visa, that this individual had a valid visa. it does not appear as the white house report said yesterday that this affected the risk assessment. >> still umar farouk abdulmutallab had a valid u.s. visa in his hand when he boarded that almost doomed plane on december 25th. >> molly live at the state department. thank you. new developments in a story we brought you here yesterday. two high-profile congressmen calling for the treasury secretary tim geithner to testify after a new report that his new york federal reserve told aig to withhold information from the public. bloomberg news reports that the new york fed crossed the line out in a filing detailing how aig paid billions in taxpayer money to a wall street bank. geithner, now secretary geithner, was head of the bank at the time. he is already facing very tough questions before congress on the bank bailouts. president obama speaking just a few minutes ago on the economy. but the job front still is very much imperfect. we'll talk to "fox news" sunday anchor chris wallace what the white house says is doing. and he'll probably be mad at me about something which is always fascinating. we'll be right back. host: does charlie daniels play a mean fiddle? 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>> well, look, the economy is the big issue. as big as terror is and people are certainly concerned about that, all the public opinion polls show that the economy is the big issue. and, you know, winston churchill said there are lies, dam lies and statistics. and you can spin the economic situation any way you want. what republicans are saying the niths analysts said we lost ten times as many as we thought. the white house is saying we lost ten times more jobs in the first quarter of 2009 than we did in the last quarter. so, you know, things are getting much better. the job loss pace is moderating so it can be spun any way. but when you've got double digit unemployment and two, almost three million people who have lost their jobs since the economic stimulus went into effect, it's a tough, tough burden for the democrats to carry as they head into the 2010 election. >> another thing that's widely reported here in new york now, chris, is the ripple effect that this extended period of high unemployment is having. and it extends to commercial real estate. it extends to apartment leases. it just appears the longer this goes on, the worse the sectors all around it continue to plummet. it's starting to look a little dangerous. >> absolutely. and one of the grave concerns, and the president even talked about the possibility. they certainly don't think it's going to happen but fear it of a double-dip recession. when you have continued job insecurity, obviously a lot of our economy is driven by consumer spending, people around gonna spend. people are scared because they don't know if they'll have a job. that 10% unemployment, if you add in all the people of that given up on jobs, not part of the active labor force anymore as well as those people who are part-time employed but would like full-time employment, a bureau of labor statistics number for that. the term underemployed. 17.4% underemployed. so that's a lot of fear out there and that hurts the economy. >> were you surprised at that you will no heads rolled out of this cataclysmic disaster of a messup that was a terror plot in detroit? >> well, yes and no. i mean, yes in the sense that you got a president out there who's saying i'm not gonna tolerate this. this is not acceptable. i take responsibility. but, you know, everybody's gonna stay in their job. on the other hand, i do have to say a lot of the experts on both the republican and democrat side where they're asked specifically about napolitano. no, she's good. michael light ner, the fellow, the head of the national counterterrorism center who took his vacation right after christmas, a lot of republicans as well as democrats say he's a serious guy. on the one hand did i expect heads to roll? yes. but if in fact everybody says these top guys are all part of the solution, not part of the problem, it's stupid to fire them. >> i kind of like the way he laid it out, at least saying, look, we're not going to be able to prevent everything. kind of speaking truth to the masses i thought was refreshing. but what was not was how completely bungled and mishandled this was. how many different place that is it could have been caught and i think the president agrees should have been caught. just a bumbling series of disasters. >> some of the core questions we've been asking every since the day or two after the christmas day attack, the president said yesterday, and he made a big point saying we are at war with al-queda. so why is this guy charged as a criminal defendant, now as a public defender, has been read his miranda rights and is no longer cooperating when we heard in the immediate aftermath that he was providing all kinds of information as well as claiming there was a long line of terrorists waiting to come attack the united states as well. he could have been charged as an enemy combatant and continue to be interrogated. that seems to go against the president saying we're at war with al-queda. >> one last thing, something important for a change. did you watch the game last night? >> i watched the first half. i was totally into the game, in fact, i said to my wife before the game, the buildup on abc was so exciting. i said i think my heart is going to explode this is so exciting. i gotta say a lot of air went out of the balloon. >> i felt bad for him. i really did. seems like such a nice kid, you know. >> and also, frankly, selfishly i think it would have been a better game with him in there. i'm not sure texas still would have won. we have not talked since a week ago when you were the star. i mean, forget the players, forget the commentators, you were the star in the cotton bowl. >> i was! i didn't have any of the 12 turnovers that happened in that game. it was an ugly game. i gotta say, won but won ugly. i didn't know it was possible to play that badly and win. chris, i can't wait for "fox news" sunday this sunday. three or four of you weren't tuned in. we're coming to your house. tim cane and the cham michael steele is michael steele in trouble? >> i gotta tell ya there is a lot of heat in washington about him because, you know, he was on with sean han aty and we've got byron dorgan retiring and sean asked him any chance you guys can take over the house this year. he said not yet, we're not ready yet. whether he believes it or not, isn't what the chair of the republican party ought to be saying in addition he's hocking his book and others saying he ought to be worried about the republican party. plenty to talk about because the democrats are the stiff head win, pushback at michael steele. it is a target-rich environment on "fox news" sunday. >> see you then. eeeeeee >> i'm janice dean and it is cold outside. taking a look at your current temperatures, 7 minneapolis, 6 kansas city, 17 memphis. reporting light snow. and with the wind it feels even colder. feels like minus 5 in minneapolis. potential for snow? florida. this frontal system could bring the potential for light flurries over central florida. here's our future cast into tomorrow morning. 3 a.m. 6 a.m.. look, shep, a little pink on the radar. we could see a mixture of sleet, freezing rain, and or snow flurries something that doesn't happen often in orlando, florida. >> stay inside. thank you, janice. it was 8 in oxford last night. hot water chaos. jonathan hunt down there in the live chat. i guess people talk about the weather. that's what we talk about. >> they never talk about the weather. they just listen to janice so they know everything they need to know. what we're talking about again, shep, is terrorism and how we protect. a lot of people making the point we should do as the israelis do which is basically screen every single passenger. i've been pointing out online it's a little different when you have one major international airport outside of tel-aviv and one major airline. if we were going to screen every single passenger top to bottom, pat them all down at every airport, no one would get on a flight anywhere. kent wrote in, shep, saying for my birthday he believes you and i should swap places. i'll be the anchor, you be the chief correspondent. >> i'm down with it. i can sit down there and type. >> and type. and it's my birthday tomorrow. >> tomorrow's your birthday. we can swap. tomorrow i'm off. it's saturday. i'll be in oxford. >> so you will. >> you have to talk to julie banderas. >> i couldn't swap with julie. we'll do monday as a belated birthday present. >> i'll just take the day off. >> have fun. >> i'm happy. >> we call him the king around tupelo. today his 75 birthday. special celebrations at graceland to mark the life of elvis aaron presley. vegas. we can play the music. we have to pay for that, right. ♪ go, go, go. ♪ but don't you step on my blue suede shoes.♪ the identity of the king of rock and roll has never been in county. elvis presley is the name. he was born in tupelo 75 years ago today in a little white shotgun shack there which today could easily fit into the single room in the opulent -- i'm not sure that's the right word but the graceland mansion. thousands of fans showed up to honor the music legend. blending blues and bluegrass. elvis gave his final concert june of '77 in indianapolis. not long after that he died at 42. his life and his music lived on. graceland and beyond. there's a place called graceland ii. he'll give you a look around. bunch of memorabilia for five bucks. go down to graceland ii sometime. happy birthday, king. an extremely rare sight. the tiger cubs in a wild. the cameras set up in the jungles of indonesia catching the first-know f