the numbers may be skewed because fewer americans are traveling into jaurez there because of the violence they re seeing there right now. jenna, back to you. jenna: a story we ll continue to watch closely. thank you, kris gutierrez with that remarkable report. fox news is looking at the growing national security threat along our southern border, what does it mean for all of us. check out a special section of original fox news stories at your online resource, foxnews.com. jon: breaking doachs right now across the middle east. we start in syria, where the president, bashar assad gave his first address to the nation since violent protests erupted across his country and look what happened afterwards, a woman approaching his car, then a swarm of people follows her, protestors calling for change across the country, hoping assad would announce an end to nearly 50 years of meeting law which gives his regime a hand to arrest citizens without any charges whatsoever.
officials have said about the president of syria and get your reaction to this. let s go ahead and take a listen. there is a different leader in syria now. many of the members of congress of both parties who have gone to syria in recent months have said they believe he s a reformer. jenna: a different leader, president al-assad came out today and blamed the united states and israel for the uprising in his country. who is this guy. reporter: quite frankly the secretary s comments are really telling. the obama administration are taking a very deferential stance towards what is happening in syria. the reason they are doing so is quite frankly syria matters a lot and libya doesn t matter quite as much, nearly as much. it s very hard to talk about vital u.s. interests that are implicated in the libya operation, which may be why the white house has been so forward leaning on it. if we talk about syria, and supporting the opposition, if we talk about a real international coalition to thwa
your thoughts in the wall street journal . gerry, thank you. jenna: speaking about that region, syrian president adegreing his nation for the first time since massive protests erupted across his country. check out what happened to the president as he was leaving after making those remarks. who is surrounding his car, what s going on there? we re live with the story. also surprising news about what he did not mention today, but the world expected. a live look at the weather radar, where a big noreaster is now brewing. who will get hit? we re live at the fox desk, just ahead.
but assad made no mention of that, instead blaming conspirators for trying to destroy syria. to yemen now where hundreds of thousands of protestors packed the streets. the antigovernment demonstrators there calling for the president s ouster and also blaming him for the deadly blast at a munitions factory earlier in the week that left about 100 people dead. to amman, and crackdown on protestors there, security forces rounding up several antigovernment activists, the country s attorney general saying the protestors have taken part in a sit-in. no word on how many were detained. reena ninan is live in jerusalem. reena. reporter: hi jon. last night the vice president of syria said that the speech would exceed the expectations expectations of the syrian people and bring them great joy but not everyone felt that way. take a look at that video, as assad left giving the speech, these are the supporters, thousands of them gathered in support of
years. what is iran s strongest ally up to. what s what we are asking van berman. he is the author of day horan rising. this is a country that is shrouded in mystery to many americans. what should americans really know about syria. this is the $64,000 question. there is not a lot to like in the debate about syria. there are a number of key things we need to understand. first syria is the last remaining baathishs regime. syria and iran were both run by baathist. a lot of that explains why syria has taken such an unconstructive role in it s treatment of the coalition in iraq. it sees itself as the last man standing after the u.s.-led overthrow of iraq.