0 the union. i m candy crowley in washington. head to cnn gaum.com/sotu for analysis and extras. stay with cnn throughout the day for updates on the rescue of hannah anderson. fareed zakaria gps starts next. this is gps, the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i m fareed zakaria. on today s show, first up is al qaeda back? or were the embassy closures and the terror alert misguided? we ll take a look at those questions and examine al qaeda s new stronghold. and we ll ask the last man to try to achieve peace in the middle east whether the current attempt is worth it. ehud barak, the former prime minister of israel, weighs in. also president obama cancels a summit with russia s president putin. what is up with the russians? finally, before and after. a stark reminder of the ravages of war. but first, here s my take. the obama administration s warning about a possible al qaeda plot against american interests in the middle east
mesa, arizona. it s all one big happy family, but he s actually from oregon, and here s a few interesting things about barrett by way of introduction. he was first published at the age of 15, he s written 45 books or possibly more, but the figure that really blows me away is 600 magazine articles. wow. what do you do, write in your sleep? [laughter] well, i ve been told that i laugh in my sleep, so writing would probably fit in as well. with awesome. in any case, his works of fiction include collaborations with best-selling authors harold coyle and steven coons, and he s won a whole string of awards, and probably the most relevant per se is in 2009 he won the u.s. naval institute general prize, but he s won awards from the air force for historical writing, the north american society for oceanographic history, that sounded cool. he grew up dreaming of being an aviator, but since i already mentioned eye sight [laughter] he was derailed from that, and he s done the next be
on on world news, race against time. the president orders air marshals on every flight coming into the u.s., and now there s evidence of lax airport security even after the christmas day plot was this warted. the cold takes its new toll. the homeless in danger of frostbite. political upheaval. arnold schwarzenegger wants an ally on health care reform. throws a lightning bolt at the white house. and some democrats tonight are running for the hills. and, a stranger in shiny shoes who gave a woman all the help and hope she needed. good evening. there is new urgency tonight in the effort to patrol every u.s. flight coming into the united states from abroad, and protect passengers from terror plots. we want to turn right away to brian ross now who has details of what happened today. reporter: diane, president obama ordered what is being called a surge of federal air marshal s to every flight is covered by air marshals. they are calling this a race against time for fear