of a sudden kaboom. >> it didn't look like something could survive anything like that. >> a holiday plane crash changes a family forever. >> and fox news is with american troops getting a taste of home this thanksgiving. >> never get tired of mom's cooking. >> there are no holidays in the war zone. americans being told to get out now. that is the warning from u.s. officials to our citizens in syria. i'm harris faulkner in tonight for shepard smith. the u.s. embassy in damascus urging all americans to leave syria immediately while flights are still available. the u.s. ambassador already gone, citing fear for his safety. there is word from washington he won't be going back as planned. this as the syrian government's bloody crack down rages on. the united nations estimating some 3500 people have been killed in clashes between ashare's government forces and his citizens. now the league giving 24 hours to allow observers to enter that nation or face economic punishment. james rosen from our d.c. newsroom. james, just a few minutes ago a french news agency reporting that syria's rebel army calling for air strikes inside his own country to speed up the government's fall. >> harris, good evening, this chief of the syrian rebel's nassant military wing in turkey. strategic strikes without foreign boots on the ground. tonight evidence that western officials remain reluctant to adopt that strategy. we start with the arab league who symbolled it might move to halt flights to and from syria along with all dealings with syrian central bank. at the same time european leaders warned against any western backed military campaign to oppose bashar assad. >> i think it's a message to stick to line approach. because non-reaction could provoke war inside syria. and it could be the worst situation for the country. >> u.s. says the goal is to halt the violence and to see assad step down, harris. >> the french have taken an important diplomatic step of their own. >> yes. the french have tentatively recognized the syrian opposition as, quote, the legit interlocutory for the zone. escalating homelessness, disease and fuel shortages. the west is looking for ways to support the opposition short of a libya style nato campaign. >> if you are going to try to start supplying the opposition, the free syrian army with military aid, you are going to need a way to do that through the turkish border is obviously one way. through the lebanese syrian border is another. but the notion of applying a no fly, no-drive, no move zone as we did in libya is a far riskier proposition. >> miller added it's only a matter of time before next domino to fall in the middle east but it will take time for that to happen. harris? >> james rosen, thank you very much. >> and news from the region breaking all day on this holiday. egypt, a country on the brink of electing a new government tonight in the throws of second revolution this year. more chaos in cairo's tahrir square. we are learning of sexual assaults. one egyptian woman saying police attacked her after arresting her during the protest and a french journalist saying she was violently beaten and sexually assaulted by a group of teenagers. caught in the middle of the police and military push against antigovernment protesters, the three american students you are looking at in this picture here. they all attend cairo university and arrested earlier this week. but today an egyptian court issuing an unexpected order to release those american students. the mom of one of the young men telling the associated press the news of their release is the best thanksgiving gift possible. and now we move to iran. where a state-run news agency today is quoting a lawmaker there who says officials have arrested 12 cia agents. a cia spokesperson declining to comment on the situation except to say the agency does not discuss such allegations. but iran has made similar claims like this before without offering any sort of proof. and it comes at a time of growing international pressure as you may know for iran to stop its nuclear program. iran insisting that program is not for weapons but for power and medical technology. joining us by phone now, fox news national security analyst k.t. mcfarland to talk more on this. she has worked in several administrations, including that of former president ronald reagan. k.t., you are with us? >> yes. >> iran says it has rounded up the cia agents. they say the say thing a few months ago. what are we to believe. >> i think they have round up the cia agent. the spy wars are heating up in the middle east. back in june, lebanon's hezbollah leader sheik nazareth la, he announced that he captured two cia spies that he said infiltrated hezbollah. it is closely connected to iran and it's iran's terrorist arm. since that has happened. the spy networks have been rolled up throughout the region. earlier this month there was an explosion outside tehran at a missile area. ahead of their missile program. some think it might have been an accident it was probably sabotage it was probably some of these spy networks. we know the israeli government is considering an attack, a preemptive attack on iran's nuclear site. they are discussing it openly and publicly. it would be prudent for them to get as much intelligence as they can prior to this. and that's the problem. is that what the iranians are doing is they are rounding up the very people who are trying to find out as much as they possibly can about iran's nuclear site. >> harris: right. from what i understand, the impetus for keeping them alive might not be that great. >> well, in the past, when iran has done, this they have either na announced that they have captured or killed or that they have captured, yeah. i think what they're -- what iran wants to do is have us and the israelis be blind. so that if the israelis or the united states are considering any military option, and, remember, president obama has said the military option is still on the table. the israeli leaders have said the military option is still on the table. iran has said they are not really developing nuclear weapons, but we know that two weeks ago the united nations u.n. watchdog on nuclear development has said no iran, absolutely is moving along the road of making nuclear weapons. what they are doing can no longer be excused as just a nuclear energy problem. but it is a nuclear weapons program. >> real quickly, are we moving closer to that point where that option, everybody calls the last resort is closer? >> here is the problem. we had known for years we would ultimately have to face the decision, bombing iran or letting iran get the bomb. the clock is ticking to find a third option. some kind of a serious economic sanctions. but, no, we are getting to that point and we're getting to that point very quickly. >> k.t. mcfarland national security analyst for fox news channel. we appreciate your contribution tonight. the biggest shopping day of the year beginning before many of you grab that second helping of thanksgiving dinner. black friday starting earlier than ever. offering huge deals to people willing to ditch the holiday. can a mart opening at 6:00 this morning. shoppers stampeding before through the doors before the sun was up. others camping outside best buy store to line up to be first for advertised deals. we are in the thick of now what i guess is black thursday. >> we just kind of started doing and it every year it's something we look forward to doing. you know, just keep traditions going. >> it's a tradition. usually every year we come out and we love it it's just the hype of being -- trying to be the first one in line. >> harris: shopping on the day we all give thanks for all we have not so poplar with some people, particularly some of the retail workers on this holiday. our laura ingle with the news from our new york city newsroom. >> harris, retailers are stuffing even more time into the holiday shopping season. chain stores have been pushing up opening times for a while now. retail analysts say this year is an all-time tipping point as thanksgiving night shoves friday morning off the calendar as the official holiday kickoff. big stores getting a jump on the spending season include kohl's, macy's best buy, and target. all opening at midnight. wal-mart peeling its doors open at 10:00. the earliest of all, toys r us, opening at 9:00 p.m. tonight. the toy store ceo says it's due to customer demand. >> gives them an opportunity to go shopping and then, if the customers choose, they can finish all their holiday shopping at toys r us and go home and go to sleep. >> not everyone is thrilled. some employees are upset they don't have all day and night to spend with family. others point out you have to spend money to make money and questions if it adds up. >> do they make that much off those all night hours do. they make that much to off set the cost to heat the building, cool the building depending where they are in the climate to have the security they need? it's a good question. >> online petition created by a nebraska target employee called on target to push back opening time to 5:00 a.m. on black friday. over 190,000 people signed it but target isn't budging. the retail giant says their customers want to shop on thanksgiving and that hourly employees get holiday pay. according to the national retail federation, up to 152 million people plan to shop black friday weekend. that's up from 10% from last year. harris? >> harris: all right, laura, thank you very much. even on this thanksgiving, our u.s. troops cannot let their guards down in afghanistan as you might imagine. the military though making sure it feels a little bit more like a holiday. fox news is with our american forces on the front lines. and a new effort to put up a fence along the u.s. border with mexico. this time, get, this lawmakers say it won't cost taxpayers a dime. how are they going to do that? sg a gift needs. wait a minute...i... 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>> harris, thank you. happy thanksgiving to all of our viewers. this is a crisis. i mean, europe is essentially on the verge of imploding. all of the years of entitlement spending the debt, the collectiveist economic system. some are calling the days of the euro could be, perhaps, nourished. it's putting fear in all assets. i think that's the problem for us here at home, harris, 401(k)'s. as you pointed out the market almost down 6% this month. and our own economy at best, europe that is front page and the number one fear for most stock investors right now. >> jonathan, what are europe's options that would quiet the markets? >> fortunately options at this point has been bailouts which have not worked. time and time again. and i think that's why you have started to see so many of europe's debt start to -- interest rates start to climb up. we have seen it in greece as you pointed out. we have seen it now in portugal, in spain. the countries in europe that have spent the most are feeling the heat the most. and we have seen new euro era highs and interest rates for all these indebted countries. there is not a lot of solutions, unfortunately for them. i guess unfortunately for us here at home, the solutions have started to dwindle as well. we know the super committee failed to reach an agreement slashing the size of the nation's government, the nation's debt. that's making a lot of market watchers wonder whether europe's situation could actually tumble back and hit us here at home as well. >> you know, jonathan, i have heard you say this is more than just a cautionary tale for this country that we ought to have our faces pressed up against the glass watching. this yeah. there is no question. debt is the -- at the center of the crisis in europe right now. ironically, i have got to tell you, harris, we have been the beneficiary of it as bad as europe is. our own debt, despite all of our own problems, despite our own downgrade here at home, is starting to look pretty attractive to the world community given how bad it is in europe. our own market as you pointed out has been down this month. we are still only slightly down year-to-date and harris, you have to think that we are the most free individualistic entrepreneurial country in the history of mankind. i think this is going to turn around and we will see higher prices as the year goes on. >> some on michelle there. before i let you go, what about china? because now i'm reading they don't want any part of absorbing anybody's else's debt either at this point. >> china has been thought of as the great bailout if you will. not only in terms of demand for product but also demand for your own debt. isn't going to be on the lookout for us at home if the world starts to lose faith in our own ability to pay our bills just as they have in europe, that could derail any potential for a u.s. recovery in 2012 and beyond. >> harris: all right. jonathan hoenig, thank you very much for that thanksgiving message. we will see what happens in when our own markets open tomorrow morning. we might remind everybody it's just a half day of trading tomorrow. jonathan, thank you. a pilot flying his children home for thanksgiving when their plane goes down in flames and everybody on board is killed it land in arizona and apparently caught on camera. witnesses saying the small plane hit a cliff at 200 miles per hour and then exploded. >> i looked up and i saw this fireball and it rose up and then all of the sudden kaboom: that's when spread whatever fuel and everything all over the place. >> the way the fireball was and the way the impact the way the debris was thrown in the fire was burning, it didn't look like anybody could survive something like that. >> harris: nobody did survive. the pilot and his three children and two other men on board all killed. the local sheriff saying dad had just picked up his children from his ex-wife's home outside of phoenix. the announcement of a united states backed deal for yemen's president a step down sparking more protests in that al qaeda hot spot. demonstrators have been calling for president to hand over power. thousands of yemenese say the deal is not enough. here is reena ninan. >> hi, harris, agreed to a deal to step down. that hasn't stopped protests from raging on in yemen. [sirens] >> at least five protesters were killed by pro-government forces, one day after yemeni president signed a u.s.-backed power transfer deal brokered largely by saudi arabia. protesters are angry with the deal because it grants immunity from prosecution. thousands took to the streets and chanted no immunity for the killer. if the deal holds, it will be the fourth arab leader ousted during arab spring uprising this year. [chanting] >> this evening, we are also watching egypt while protesters were more subdued than previous days, thousands still came to the square calling for the ruling military party to step down. police and protesters agreed to a truce negotiated by muslim clerics. after the clashes left 40 dead since saturday. for the first time egypt's ruling military council apologized for the deaths of the protesters. they also said scheduled elections will take place on monday. harris? >> harris: reena ninan, thank you very much. new signs the country faces security challenges as u.s. troops begin to head home from iraq. three bombs exploding today. reportedly killing at least 19 people and hurting dozens more. it happened in the southern port city of bazra. bloodstaining the streets there after two bombs went off simultaneously. a third explosion right where people had gathered. officials saying high ranking army and police officers are among the dead and at least 65 people are hurt. well, you think your job is tough. try working with heavy steel at great heights and extreme weather conditions. the iron workers at the world trade center former site building what is said to be the tallest structure in our great nation. the rise of freedom next. 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>> hickey got a fresh reminder of that recently when he pinched his hand between two beams splitting it open. >> we were setting a column and i put my hand in the wrong spot. you know. got to pay attention to everything you do. it's in the back of your mind. you are constantly thinking about it it's what keeps you sharp, i think. >> in addition to the height and heavy equipment. iron workers have to worry about the weather. >> it's different up there. right now it feels nice and up stairs it's about 20 degrees difference. colder, wind is blowing at you. >> all the wind comes right down the river and we get it full blast. >> shepard: when the gusts top 30 miles per hour, the iron workers stop work though tell us they lose a day of progress each week because of the high winds i'm outside working all day. harsh in the summer. look at the crews we have. >> iron workers, you can't talk enough about the iron workers. they are great guys. they really are. >> mike is the superintendent in charge of the construction at one world trade center. he says the folks on top are a particularly dedicated group of workers. >> the iron workers are the guys that always lead the charge. you know, they are the guys you rely on to put the steel up. they're the tough guys. got the crane. whenever i have a problem on site. they will be the first guys with the crane or stop what they're doing. i can't say enough about these guys. really good group of people. >> shepard: people who say they're proud to be piecing together this building 10 years after the attacks. >> i'm not in the military or anything like that. so this is my way of giving back to the country and to the victims of what happened down there. you know. finally, starting to show, you know. six stories up. i have been here from the start. >> wow, thank goodness for them. could you do that? 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