not they can trace to it her and the news will be coming, 24 hours from now. and we ll keep on top of any developments in that story. martha: a terror alert in the heart of a key american ally. sections of the parliament building in berlin, germany have been shut down, over security concerns. and, this came just hours after a german magazine report that claimed al qaeda had a plot that was in the works there, so we re keeping an eye on that as well on a busy morning, brands new hour of america s newsroom, we re glad to have you with us, i m martha maccallum. bill: i m bill hemmer. good morning, germany s top brass saying the report is complete speculation and nevertheless, that report is being taken seriously this morning. martha: greg burke is standing by live in rome, does the parliament shut down have anything to do with the magazine report, greg? reporter: martha, it certainly does have to do with the report. and, people over the weekend saying there was an initial report last
percentage of the traveling public but just a few people on a very busy travel day could tie things up all across the country, bill. bill: steve centanni, thank you. the tsa why consultation with counterterrorism experts are indicated to me that the procedures that they ve been putting in place are the only ones right now that they consider to be effective. bill: then of course reporter: then of course there was the president in liz bon at the that at that that nato summit. it remains to be seen what all this means. bill: everybody is getting asked about it and rightfully so. steve centanni, reagan national airport, thank you. martha: how about this, republican governor bobby jindual of louisiana, slamming the federal government, saying that it failed to understand the true nature of the war on terror. here s what he said: the reality is this isn t about people who don t have enough jobs, who don t have
backed by the federal government and we found out how backed they are. bill: thank you, there will be more on this, certainly. you guys are following it closely at our sister network, fox business network and watch the story, early january. and we ll see whether or not the republicans make room on it or head way on it. thank you, dagen. thank you. bill: you got it. martha: a new development natalee holloway story, a piece of a jawbone was found on a beach in aruba and it was sent tor dental analysis to the netherlands and, dr. michael bodin, is on the phone, good morning, good to talk to you. good morning. martha: what do you expect we ll hear tomorrow afternoon and what kind of analysis would be happening now on the piece of bone. they ve probably completed the dna and they ve done the dental comparisons a few days ago, which would have told them right away, whether it is her or
security is a ponzi scheme. bill: a ponzi scheme. bob beckel, democratic political analyst, andrea tantaros santoras, you should hear what we talked about during the commercial break. good morning to both of you. is ponzi rolling over in his grave today, andrea? i think he is. the only difference is usually in a ponzi scheme, people don t know they re being snookered, they don t realize they re being duped in but in the case of social security, we have full disclosure about what the government is doing. ponzi schemes require new investors, and when social security was set up, there was a lot more workers than there were retirees, now we see that being flipped. a lot less people are working, a lot less people are paying into social security and you re going to have a lot more people rye tiring, especially with the baby boomers. so that s one reason why. bill: so you thought perry was on target in his comment there. bob, did you? first of all, i didn t know there was a charles ponz
passed away and our thoughts and prayers are with his family, in a tragic, tragic ending to a tough story that came out last night. bill: awful, the game against golden state, staples center, new react to the report north korea has a new reactor that could speed up its ability to make nuclear weapons. u.s. special envoy steven bosworth saying the news is disappointing. but not necessarily a crisis. jennifer griffin is watching this, live at the pentagon, how dangerous is the development? reporter: bill, we have new satellite imagery of the facility where the enriched uranium is, the centrifuges are located, siegfried hecker, saw on november 12th, saw for himself, a thousand centrifuges that cone rich uranium, to weapons-grade and the north koreans say they have 2,000 centrifuges and secretary gates