He would you see due in court dating back to charges last year tied to his exwifes murder. He was sending hateful and disrespectful letters and videos to the families of australian soldiers who died fighting afghanistan. A decade ago he was chaffed with attempted kidnapping in sydney where he moved adds a refugee in 1996. Here is australian Prime Minister tony an bought talking about the suspect in the terror attack. A long history of violence, a long incrediblier radek history and infatuation extremism. There was nothing consistent about his life except he was consistently weird. He sat quietly inside the cafe and nobody gave him a second look until he held a shot gun above his head and told everybody to put their hands up. He surrounded himself as hostages using them as human shields and made one of them record a video message asking for a live televised phone call with the Prime Minister in exchange for the freedom of five hostages. Eventually authorities cut power to the building and when they heard gun shots inside they made their move. The gunman ended up dead and very tragically so did two of the hostages the manager of the cafe 34 and Katrina Dawson 38 a lawyer and mother of three young children. Peter doocy, live for us. Thank you, peter. That takes us to look who is talking. A copycat attack all across the world. What is unique to me and i have seen many many cases in 25 years. He came to australia aanti western anti australian antiamerican. He shifted from the sunni side. He has been changing hands the one ideology. He is a ji addist wanting to finish with a message. He said hes a lone wolf but with a lot of connection. This is one case. I am concerned about the copy cats not just in australia. Did he initiate that plot or was he directed by a terror group . Katherine herridge takes a look at the threat here in the united states. Since isis swept across the rocks 20 americans or legal permanent residents tried to join or help the terror group with a dozen more currently fighting in iraq and syria. I was fighting with isis. They are not necessarily members of the organization b oh directn it makes isis much more legal that and dangerous as al qaeda was. In october a converge of radical islam hit two canadian soldiers with one of them. Another lone wolf hit two of the unknowns in ottawa. A self radicalized convert attacked new york city a Law Enforcement bull tan shows he was obsessed with radical islam. When it comes to tracking terror suspect the former Ranking Member of the House Intelligence Committee says the u. S. Is happened capped by the wikileak nation and senate Intelligence Committee report of the cia interrogation. The tools that are essential to us they know what they are and they create work arounds so they dont provide us access to the kind of information we need. In a series of raids they are confirming the arrest of 10 people with the Homeland Security minister calling the destruction of jihadi recruitment to iraq and syria the highest priority. In washington cath ridge herridge fox news. Lets keep talking about the threat of home grown terror. What do we need to prevent copycat or lone wolf attacks here. Its at facebook. Com foxfriendsfirst keep talking. He murdered his exwife and five of her relatives after a shooting rampage. Schools are closed today and people are being urged to stay inside after Sergeant Brad de sto drn bradley stone tried to car jack someone. The victim pulled out a gun and started shooting at him. Officers now scouring the woods. This is the First Sighting of the iraq war veteran since he left his children after willing 6 people and injuring one other. They are not releasing a positive motive. These two men you can see them on separate videos you can see them during a massive fire around the time it started. The task force trying to identify the pair. Fire officials believe it may have been intentional set. America now has a new top doctor. The Senate Confirming dr. Mercy as the next Surgeon General of the united states. The confirmation coming despite Republican Opposition about his support for gun control in obamacare. The nra publicized tweets where he calls guns a Public Health issue. The nfl Association Taking the league to court over Adrian Petersons indefinite ban. They upheld petersons decision completely biased. It was obtained seemingly promising the running back only a twogame suspension. The two additional games now th the word is mediate. So the ones this weekend. He was not speaking on behalf of the league and was trying to peterson to get back to his life his family and football. The new york saints taking control after a monday night thriller verses the bears. Saints quarterback drew brees throwing for 370 yards and three touchdowns. Saints win 3115. Country music ends the year on a high note with the first ever American Country count down awards. P well rngs ker carry p unde underwood kicked it off with a medley of his number one hits. Taking home female vocalist of the year. Ryan winning female vocalist of the year. Tonights biggest award artist of the year going to jason aldean who dominated sales and radio air times in 2014. Love that hat. Wet weather hitting both coasts today. And snow expected in some parts around the country. Maria molina has been tracking the wintery weather. Hello. We are tracking wintery weather in Northern New England with as much as 10 inches of snowfall across portions of the maine. You can see the storm system bringing in areas of rain across the great lakes and portions of ohio down to georgia and alabama. Further west we have a number of storm systems across california. That continues today. We had snow along the Higher Elevations of the sierras. We have those drought continues that continue in place. Through out most of the week we will continue to see storm systems impacting portions of with several inches of rainfall are expected. Wednesday still on the northern side of it across parts of kansas heavy rain through portions of arkansas and also into texas. Heres a look at the high temperatures heather and ainsley across portions of the Northern Plains and parts of the southeast. Also on the cool side highs in the 60s in atlanta and rale li. Not too bad to finish off the shopping. We have a payoff for frequent flyers. Loren simonetti is here to explain. American Airlines Customers buy the treatment yum seats. Regular frequent flyers who fly first and Business Class on short hall flights will receive a bonus 250 miles. Make it 3,000 miles for the longer flights. Gold members will receive double that t. Americans are trying to make sure the most profitable fliers arent tempted by delta or uniteds programs. 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If youre a current or former military member or their family, get an Auto Insurance quote and see why 92 of our members plan to stay for life. We are back with a fox news alert. Robert moses is live at the Empire State Building in new york with how police are robbing. The Empire State Building is one place here where they are seeing increased presence. The siege in sydney appears to be the work of the socalled lone wolf instead of a coordinated attack by a terrorist organization. Still police here in new york are taking no chances. In addition to the em piesh sta Empire State Building police have been de mro employed to the financial district as well as other high profile locations. The nypd is in regular contact with the New South WalesPolice Department which is p handling the investigation into that seeing in sidney. There is no specific threat in new york. Police dont want to take any chances. That is the latest live from outside the Empire State Building this morning. Thank you, robert. U. S. Prosecutors are now hoping Osama Bin Laden can help put away a terrorist. It is being called critically important evidence in the case against abu anas allibi. They are reading letters between him and bin laden. It proves libby was involved in al qaeda activity. The trio of burglars knew they picked the wrong family to steal from when they found themselves held at gun point. The three were caught on surveillance stealing two tvs from this home. The few days later they recognized the thieves driving past them and they wanted to make sure they didnt get away. What did they say at that p point . They tried to say they were lost and we corrected them on where they were. They had just come from another Home Invasion since their car was full of stolen items. Listen to this, heather. Time to brew on this. He watches your childrens every move then he flies back to the north poll to let them know if he is being naughty or nice. One canadian professor says the elf on the shelf is teaching children to think spying is just a part of life. Our christmas buddies are poisoning our kids brains to make them think its okay to surrender their privacy. What do you think is this a good pointed or the wrong message . Send us your comments on facebook, twitter or send us an email on tw. They find protestors who attack two new york police lieutenants. How sony is doing damage control azzahir hakimers send a new message. First Lady Antebellums performance at the Country Music awards. Welcome back to fox friends first. Sewn knee trying to reinsure its employees holding a huge staff meeting following the cyber attack. Hackers have a message for workers, too. We have new information. Robert . Good morning. Sunny executives purchasing the wagons from the hackers there addressing employees monday afternoon in nearby city of los angeles. Michael lincoln apologizing to the employees getting harm done by the certainly health and salary information is being dumped online. The attacks not take us down employees should not be worried about the studio the hackers posted a letter promising a Christmas Gift than more data and put sun Sony Pictures into the worst state. They will let the hackers know they dont want the information released. No information was given on how to do that. They linked to north korea in retaliation for sony films the interview interview. Media outlets got a letter of their own from sony warning them not to publish any more data hacked from sony. One of the things that the letter does, it confirms they believe the motives behind the pack cause to protest the release of the interview. It is the First Official confirmation we have had from the sony representative saying thats the reason for the hack was to prevent the release of the movie. The report of business week says sony was warned about a year ago that the network had been preached and hackers we breach breached a threatening note was found in one of the bathrooms prompting a building wide evacuation including the ceo. Bomb sniffing dogs were brought in nothing was found. Amazon is ensuring customers no words were impacted. Would you tote around a strangers bag for 25 bucks. It is a new start up company it is paying you to deliver packages to and from strangers all over the world. If someone needs something shipped down to florida and you are headed down there you can make extra cash by carrying their bag. Travelers can inspect the travelers before they agree to deliver them. The fda approved a in you test that predicts a patients risk of Heart Disease. It indicates whether plaque is building up and irritating the lining of blood vessels. Two irdz this of women and half of men who had Heart Disease had no previous symptoms. You can go skydiving to mark a milestone birthday, they may be on to something. I hate your rotten guts. A new study claims people who feel younger than their actual age are more likely to live longer. The british survey average age 65 younger feeling adults were 60 percent more likely to out live others. You are only as old as you feel. Lets go skydiving. Done. After the sydney siege gives fears of lone wolf attacks. But the president is talking to our troops. The president does promise to take care of our troops. Flying solo why you might soon see just one pilot in the cockpit. As we go to break eric church as performance from the American Country count down awards. It is tuesday december 16th. Storming a school, dozens are dead after taliban militants take kids hostage. The breaking developments coming in right now. Slamming the senate cia report. I dont want to die because the democrats in the senate dont have the courtesy to ask the cia to explain what they view as owe beauses that occur. Why the man behind the master behind said democrats got it all wrong. One close call. Oh my god the flood is coming, man. It is getting higher. How the driver of that car made it out alive as the water was pouring in all directions. Fox friends first continues right now. Flush flush good morning to you. Welcome to fox friends first. I am heather childers. I am insuranainsley earhardt. We start with a fox news alert for you. Breaking overnight more than 80 People Killed in pakistan after a Taliban Attack on an army run school. About half a dozen gunmen stormed the school and began firing at random. Most of the victims School Children a teacher and Security Guard also killed. 500 people were in the school at the time. Security forces are still there on the scene for the rescue operation. There are reports of people being held hostage. We are going to stay on top of the breaking story and bring you the latest. Disturbing new details about the muslim extremist who unleashed australias worst terror attack. gun fire gun fire exploding as they stormed the cafe ending the latest in a string of lone wolf attacks. Good morning. He was by many counts a disturbed individual but he had been ceased by an ideology that relies on people like him to spread violence around the world. Australia is a grieving nation this morning. Where he was accused of going an accessory to his exwifes murder and sent disturbing letters to australian soldiers who had fallen to their families. How can someone with a long shaking history not be on the appropriate watch list and how can someone like that be at large in the community . There is no indication he was working in coordination with any kind of terror group. The fear is that they may be reaccepted tive to tlone wolf scenarios. All was focusing on what he was doing at this shop. This is one case. 100 percent of other copy cats. The australian Prime Minister p isnt sure there are potential of copy cats no one would want to emulate someone who the Prime Minister it said was consistent lie wei ly weird. Charles krauthammer is talking saying isis gives the psych paths in the world an outlet for their bad behavior. It gives their lives a context and their death a context and kind of heroism the guy who beheaded a woman in oklahoma they attacks in new york city. The world is oozing with people with this kind of psycho pathology. Give them a way to act out the time is coming to an end. Going forward our mig terry will be leaner but as commanderinchief i am going to make you sure we keep you ready for the range of mission we ask of you. Speaking to Service Members in new jersey the president boasting the u. S. Is bringing home many of the 180,000 troops who were fighting in the middle east. They are opening up to what it is like to interrogate shakhale Sheikh Mohammed. He was disdainful. He had a pro tensity at that point to be confrontational without being physical. This americans humanity whatever amount of it there is factor in it all are you conscious of it . We were very conscious of it. Very, very conscious of it. Hes a how man being. Those techniques are so harsh that it is emotionally distre distressing to the people who are administering them. Even though you dont want to do it you do it in order to safe lives in the country. We would just have to man up for lack ch a better term and carry forward. The democrat had a motive with the cia report and didnt stalk to them or any one else involved. Now he says the cia has become the victim. They didnt give us a chance to explain anything didnt worther to talk to the cia or any of the people involved like the past director. They stir up all of the crazies and so now we are getting death threats. No one from the Senate Committee has ever asked me a single thing. If they think i abused somebody they have you had have kasked m about it. I dont want to die because they didnt have the courtesy to explain what they view as abuses that occurred. Mitchells comments coming after the poll says americans think the practices were warranted. A former marine accused of murdering his exwife and five of the relatives in pennsylvania. People urged to stay inside after Sergeant Bradley stone tried to car jack one last night. He ended up in the woods. He allegedly killed 6 people and injured one other. New video know showing the noenlt protests of Police Brutality turned violent. Six protestors assaulted two new York Police Officers on the Brooklyn Bridge saturday. The sters were attacked as they tried to arrest a man who mrooked like he was going to throw a metal garbage can off the bridge into traffic below. They made more than 330 arrests since protests started over the grand jury decision in the choke hold death of eric garner. Wet weather is hitting both coasts and they are getting snow. Hello heather and ainsley. We are tracking one storm system across parts of the east and another one out west. The one iout east is bringing yu showers. Atlanta georgia into parts of alabama a slow moving storm system moves eastward. H we are looking at strong winds and rain. Otherwise further off the east it should be fine. Atlanta you can see isolated issues but overall an okay travel day out there. Across parts of the wealths coast a lot of moisture moving in. We are looking at low elevation rain and snow and across the plains. Take a look at the storm system coming in tomorrow. It will bring you areas of snow across missouri and kansas and going from arkansas down into texas. Thank you maria. Forget base. The word of the year is culture. Unlike oxford direction nair res Marion Webster decides on its word of the year by tracking which words people are can laoing up in their online dictionary. Culture searched 15 percent this year than last year. Nostalgia came in second place. The time is about 20 minutes to the top of the hour. Fighting more than flames. The new battle for firefighters at this station. Doing last minute Online Shopping why you better not use a debit card. The mayor of new york unintentionally stepping into watters world. Um sure they very respected. Actually not. We are trying to get to know you better. Whats the problem . Waited until you see what happens after waters inviedz mayor bill deblasio into a storm. The American Country awards. holiday music is playing hey i guess were going to need a new santa the music builds to a climax. more people are coming to audi than ever before. See why now is the best time. Audi will cover your first months payment on select models at the season of audi sales event. Visit audioffers. Com today. moni monis, a desperate 911 call after a womans car swerves off the road and plunges into frigid water. Oh my god the water is coming. It is getting higher. The woman swerved to avoid hitting a car that crossed into her lane on a massachusetts roadway. She slid down the embankment. How many people does it take to fly a plane . Nasa thinks just one. There is only one person at the controls one person on the grounds is able to stare that plane in case of an emergency. The best airlines for the Holiday Travel season. Lets start with the worst. Southwest airlines after three christmases relate. Envoy passengers have a onein three chance. The Commuter Airline saw 35 percent of the winter flights delayed. Four out of 10 flights arrived behind schedule. Now for the best. Virgin america 8 incident lights were on time for the krist mass season. Delta Airlines Alaska airlines only 80 flights remain. The best for you this Christmas HawaiianAirlines Taking the top spot a whopping 93 percent of the flights were on time. Holiday shopping is in full swing. Cheryl casone for fox business with the purchases you should never put on credit cards. Experts recommended instead of reaching for the debit card use a credit card for certain purchases such as online purchases. If there is fraudulent activity they are easier to deal with. The Checking Account may take longer to put back. Gasoline is credit cards since many gas stations put a temporary hold hotels are the same sometimes putting a holdup to 200. Large purchases like tvs because it is defective. If there is any anything wrong with the television it is easier with your credit card. Think about Convenience Stores for instance sometimes it is better to use a credit card. I dont know what you need for christmas you have a few days but i will recommend using a credit card. I havent gotten your gift yet. I will work on it. Thank you, cheryl. To find cheryl on fox Business Network go to foxbusiness. Com channel finder. It is 46 minutes after the top of the hour. The develop display . The latest state capital set to feature a satanic scene. If you are missing a christmas package we have an idea of where it might be. First peter doocy with whats coming up on fox friends. One day after terror strikes in sydney is that the direct message to give the troops . Laura ingram is here and karl rove is here. He went to college to talk about politics. Is the judgment legal . Judge napolitano is here. He will weigh in. Speaking of hollywood patriotic movies are they getting snubbed in central town. We will tell you which ones are in and which ones are out. What not to get your coworkers this holiday. He ends his show with i see had version of Barry Manilows mandy. Should be good. 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The scene, a challenge to the traditional nativity is going up in michigan for three days leading up to christmas. It features a crucifix, red snake and the word the greatest gift is knowledge. The Group Responsible for this has a similar display at the State Capitol in florida. New yorks mayor up against 35,000 Police Officers after his comments regarding the eric garner grand jury decision. Jesse watters took it upon himself after asking new yorkers about the man in charge of their city. What do you think about de blasio . De blasio . De blasio. Who is de blasio . I dont know what he does but i know his name. Okay. Hes the mayor. I think hes doing his job well. Why does he inject race into the eric garner situation . Because it is about race. Its entirely about race. But eric garners Family Member said it wasnt about race whatsoever. Okay. My wife works for the nypd. Was your wife happy that de blasio threw the nypd under the bus. The guy was clearly wrong. Do you know who de blasio is . No, im sayin. Hes the mayor. You never heard of him . No. You live here . No, i live in brooklyn. Do you know watters world . Im watters and this is my world. Okay. Weve been trying to book you on the show for weeks and your staff hasnt been very respectful towards us. Im sure theyre very respectful. No, they arent. Im sure they are. Were trying to get you know you. My staff will follow you up. But they havent been following up. Thats why were here. Were fascinated by the de blasio mystique. You havent responded. Will you do the show . Just start talking, henry. You need rescuing . Thank you very much. I never need rescuing. I just want a real question. Go ahead, henry. On his way out. Its now six minutes till the top of the hour. Its a magical holiday tradition but one College Professor says the he will will says the elf on the shelf is sending kids the wrong message. Wait until you see what happens after this selfie. 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Time for the good, the bad, and the ugly. First the good. Sweet success for bill and his best friend. Sales for dylans book chocolate bar reaching the milliondollar mark. Dylan now eight years old started selling the book in 2012 when he found out his friend is suffering from a live disease and all the money going for a cure. A fedex truck spilling packages on a busy highway. Finally the ugly. Tourists in for a rude awakening when she snaps a selfie with this monkey. Instead of smiling the monkey starts pulling her hair. Time for your brew on this responses. He watches your kids every move and then lets santa know if they are naughty or nice but a canadian College Professor says the elf on the shelf trains children to think government spying is part of life. Is this a great message . Ellen writes this is a wonderful time of year for all of us. Stop taking away all our fun. Thanks for joining us. Fox friends starts now. Good morning. It is tuesday, december 16. Im elisabeth hasselbeck. A fox news alert, breaking overnight the Taliban Attacks a militaryrun school in pakistan killing more than 100 children. And here at our home our president says its time for a leaner u. S. Military. But is this the right time to gut our military . We report, you decide. Meanwhile the c. I. A. Torture architect says our enemy knows us better than we think they do. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed told me personally your country will turn on you. The liberal media will turn on you. The people will grow tre