lengths to stay away from the compound. he would drive 90 minutes away before he would turn his cell phone on, they were that concerned about tracking of cell phones. a new statement from al qaeda today making an ominous pledge, confirming that its leader osama bin laden is dead, by the way, but also saying that terror will continue. in this statement that was posted on several jihadist forums, al qaeda renewed warnings of attacks against the united states and suggested there s already a push to choose bin laden s successor. more on that later tonight. in other breaking news, there s already been another u.s. strike against one of the key al qaeda figures who could make a bid for that leadership. tonight, we learned united states military drone fired a missile within the past 48 hours in yemen aimed at the u.s. born radical, that s a picture of him there. first, we want to get you up to speed on the other latest
president obama s one time senate seat. it picks democrat aelection is i giannoulias the candidate there against the green party lee allen jones and republican congressman mark kirk. we are also watching results in pennsylvania an important state tonight where control over the senate could come down to the race between the democrat joe sestak and the republican pat tomby. updating some of fox top stories tonight. fox news now projects the republican rand paul has won the kentucky senate race. and that the republican dan coats has won in the state of indiana. the white house has announced president obama will hold a news conference tomorrow 1:00 white house time to discuss tonight s election results. and the government of yemen today put the u.s. born radical cleric anwar al awlaki on trial in absentia since he is wanted on terror suspect charges and is still on the run. and on this day in 1948,
confirming that its leader osama bin laden is dead, by the way, but also saying that terror will continue. in this statement that was posted on several jihadist forums, al qaeda renewed warnings of attacks against the united states and suggested there s already a push to choose bin laden s successor. more on that later tonight. in other breaking news, there s already been another u.s. strike against one of the key al qaeda figures who could make a bid for that leadership. tonight, we learned united states military drone fired a missile within the past 48 hours in yemen aimed at the u.s. born radical, that s a picture of him there. first, we want to get you up to speed on the other latest developments. a strong statement from defense secretary robert gates saying bin laden s death could be a game changer. that could have a major impact on the war in afghanistan. gates said that while talking with service members in north carolina. president obama was in ft.