julie: brand new information about the nigerian man now suspected of trying to blow up northwest airlines flight 253 on christmas day. ahead live team coverage on the attempted terrorist attack. first, programming note. huckabee special scheduled for 8:00 p.m. tonight will be seen sunday night at 8:00 eastern time. i m julie banderas. live as fox reports tonight. terrifying. julie: it began with a pop. and a puff of smoke. an alleged plot to take down a northwest flight to detroit. thwarted by passengers, just as the plane carrying nearly 300 people prepared to land. it sounded like a balloon went off. then firework or something. the lady shout what are row doing? we looked back and there were fumes and flames. julie: the suspect badly burned was quickly subdued. as word began to spread of what theous would soon call attempted act of terrorism. tonight, the latest on the investigation and morer on the man suspected of trying to take down the packed airliner. he
how did this happen? announcer: for answers, ask your doctor the right question could i have lupus? julie: brand new information about the nigerian man now suspected of trying to blow up northwest airlines flight 253 on christmas day. ahead live team coverage on the attempted terrorist attack. first, programming note. huckabee special scheduled for 8:00 p.m. tonight will be seen sunday night at 8:00 eastern time. i m julie banderas. live as fox reports tonight. terrifying. julie: it began with a pop. and a puff of smoke. an alleged plot to take down a northwest flight to detroit. thwarted by passengers, just as the plane carrying nearly 300 people prepared to land. it sounded like a balloon went off. then firework or something. the lady shout what are row doing? we looked back and there were fumes and flames. julie: the suspect badly burned was quickly subdued. as word began to spread of what theous would soon call attempted act of terrorism. tonight, the lates
i want to know why my hair is falling out. i don t even look like me anymore. how did this happen? announcer: for answers, ask your doctor the right question could i have lupus? julie: now more on the developing story out of detroit. u.s. officials today charging a 23-year-old nigerian man attempting to blow up a plane. with 289 people on board. the suspect tried to ignite a powerful explosive device as the plane approached detroit on christmas day. now according to the justice department, it sparked a fire instead of an explosion. and other passengers were able to tackle him and douse that fire. we do believe this is a photo of the suspect, we re showing this for the first time. umar farouk abdulmutallab. though, we have not been able to confirm the validivalidity. officials say he claimed to be an agent of al-qaeda. charge cans against him tonight including attempting to destroy the aircraft, place a destructive device on the aircraft. joining us is fred tecce, former