we want to give you a quick look at the headlines. police had to lock down a hospital for four hours today to search the property. no word yet on any suspects. passenger jet exploded on the runway, three people are dead. more than 40 others are hurt in russia. this fire reportedly beginning in an engine shortly before takeoff. weather not so great there either. president obama condemning deadly new year s attacks in egypt and nigeria. a homicide bombing outside a church in egypt killed 21 worshipers and in an attack on an army barracks in nigeria killed four and injured more than 20 others. rick: it s a grim statistic for u.s. troops. not since world war ii have our soldiers and marines undertaken such long tours of duty overseas. now a new report suggests as many as one third of the troops coming home from afghanistan and iraq are suffering from
you probably saw this on friday. president obama left bill clinton alone with the press to take questions about their meeting because he had to go to a white house christmas party. yeah. clinton was like just do me a favor, text me when anyone but hillary walks under the mistletoe. i ll tell you, it was a crazy day between that,s christmas party on friday. i guess he had two of them and then richard holbrooke ended up going to the hospital that day. you say you saw all the chaos. yeah, we were over in that neighborhood when it was happening. what a crazy weekend in washington. no kidding. right now, a crazy day and we start this half-hour with headlines. a team of f.b.i. agents on its way to sweden to investigate the attempted homicide bombing in stockholm. their mission figure out when and where the bomber was radicalized and if he had any accomplices and how he was able to operate under the police radar.
it s the shot of the morning and here it is. even santa s helpers have to get screened by tsa agents. what? larry dorian forced to kick off his boots at the akron canton airport in ohio and this santa s helper wasn t even flying anywhere. no, no. no. he was there to greet passengers. how could he get through? i thought you had to have a ticket to get through security. the ticket so the north pole is what you re telling me. always has one in his back pocket. right. so santa in trouble. fully patted down. i don t want to see santa go through the naked thing. right. well, you know what? some people think santa pads his belly. it might not be quite as bad as you think. not a bad idea. belly fat from our last segment. let s do a couple of headlines for the tuesday morning. team of f.b.i. agents heading to sweden new to investigate the homicide bombing in stockholm.
see these guys come back on board? it will be interesting to see. democratic party officials say they re not really bothered by these ads or taking sure, they understand they have their political life on the line, yeah. here s what s happened overnight and what s going on right now. start with a fox weather alert. while you were sleeping, tropical storm hermine formed in the gulf of mexico. warnings have been issued for the coast of southern texas. forecasters predict it could make landfall early tomorrow morning with winds up to 40 miles per hour. the storm is not expected to develop into a hurricane. it is the eighth named storm of the atlantic hurricane season and another fox news alert for you. at least 17 people killed by a homicide bombing in pakistan. authorities say the bomber blew up a car behind a police station in northwest pakistan. police say four children attending the school are among the dead. the taliban is claiming responsibility. the vatican says it may use
million a decade ago. that s the lowest since april 1941. which is unbelievable if you think about the start of world war ii at that point. under 11.7 million from august 9th through april 10th and we have now more work in the hospitality sector which is, you know, good news and there was some glimmer of hope in the construction sector out of all those numbers. that s what the president is trying to hit on this week. some positive numbers in the construction jobs but all these other sectors dealing with rollbacks. that s a huge week, as you said, for the president to try to lay out some things that might turn the economy around and that he hopes might give him a political bounce ahead of the november midterms, not clear if he can do either one at this point. what else is going on? let s get the headlines. here s what s happened overnoit and what s going on. at least 17 people have been killed by a homicide bombing in pakistan. authorities say the bomber detonated a car behind a p