caucuses should bow out to help the former speaker. shepard: we will have complete coverage of the florida primary starting tonight at 6:00 eastern and 5:00 central, and that is on special report, with brit hume live throughout the night until all of the winners are crowned. to the slaughter. in syria. and this is getting very serious. the united nations security council today issued a draft resolution calling for the syrian president assad to step down. but the draft also stated that there will be no foreign military intervention as the syrian government continues to kill its own people. the chief fox correspondent is live for us this afternoon at the united nations on the east side of manhattan. jonathan, what are the chances of this resolution actually passing? jonathan: as it is written right now, it seems very unlikely to pass. that is because the russians who have veto power are threatening
drop it. president abbas submitted the request last week for a seat at the united nations. despite israeli and u.s. objection. the u.s. has promised to veto the measure but it cannot avoid that step if the application fails to get nine votes in the security council. the chief fox correspondent is like in the new york newsroom. how are the votes stacking up in the council? jonathan: a knife edge. this is very important so the u.s. can avoid exercising that veto you talked about which would have major implication for the way the united states is seen in large parts of the arab world if they were to use the veto. as it stands those countries in the security council saying they will vote yes, are china, russia, lebanon, brazil, india, south africa. leaning toward no, voting against it, are the united
day in 2009 and the explosives hidden in the underwear failed and caused a fire that left him burned. in an f.b.i. interview we are told the 24-year-old man from nigeria admitted he was working for al qaeda and he described how the bomb was supposed to work. the defense argues that he was on powerful painkillers and the officials never told him of his right to remain silent. but the judge ruled today that doesn t matter in this case and for good reason. and now the chief fox correspondent in the newsroom, jonathan this is a big victory for the prosecution because what this judge was saying is, we had a whole nation to worry about and he could have been the key. jonathan: she took to heart the claim that the agents did not want to read rights because that could stop the talking and they thought there could be other potential suicide bombers on airplanes in the air, conducting some sort of of 9/11
ever full shut down due to weather. the system serves nearly 15 million people over a 5,000 square mile area from new york city to long island, southeast new york state, all the way up to connecticut. the chief fox correspondent is live with the news in new york, and, jonathan, new york officials are not taking any chances on this storm. jonathan: they are not, they have been criticized for slow responses to natural weather problems including the huge snowstorm and not taking chances. mayor bloomberg wants almost 300,000 people in the low-lying areas around the new york area, evacuated from their homes by 5:00 p.m. today and then we get all of the mass transit systems shutting down tomorrow. according to the mayor this is very simple. this is a huge storm. it is not to be messed with. listen. we have to prepare for the
would not come as a worse time. he controlled much of southern afghanistan. he was not elected but he was in charge. that s the backyard of the taliban. his death could, according to the washington insiders, create a power vacuum when the pentagon has begun to attempt to withdraw u.s. troops. our chief fox correspondent is back at home base in new york. what s the reaction? jonathan: the united states reaction has been interesting. a real read between the leaps kind of reaction. listen carefully now to white house press spokesman carney. our prayers and sympathies are with the karzai family during this difficult time. the united states condemns in the strongest possible terms the murder of president karzai s half brother. jonathan: a condemnation of the violent act but not a single word from the white house or from general petraeus pay be