jennifer griffin with the news tonight live from the pentagon. general, david petraeus is leaving as the taliban targets the afghan s president s inner circle, i guess. that s right. general petraeus is now on route back to the u.s. he transition the with marine general john allen today in afghanistan. he is leaving behind 100,000 u.s. troops. 33,000 of them will be brought home by september of next year. all of them by 2014. you have shown initiative, determination, innovativeness and courage. you have been diplomats as well as warriors, states men as well as soldiers. your performance has been, in a word, awesome. but just this weekend, another key aid to president harmid karzai was killed, assassinated by the taliban, just days after harmid karzai s own brother was killed by his body guard, shep. shepard: yet, nato is transitioning one of the key provinces to the afghan military. ironies of irony.
him. another one she made saying that he had assaulted her. again, these allegations not yet founded, shep. we do not know how or if they will play into the investigation. shepard: trace gallagher on the mysteries at the mansion. just into fox news channel, it looks now like the bookstore chain borders is going out of business. the company announcing it will ask a bankruptcy judge to allow it to liquidate. selling everything it owns in pieces. if a judge approves the request as examined the coming thursday, the company could by friday begin closing its 400 remaining stores laying off the more than 10,000 people who worked therein. borders filed for bankruptcy protection earlier this year and was not able to attract any investors to keep it in business. the chain couldn t keep up with online book sellers and discount stores. once borders is gone, barnes & noble will be the only national bookstore chain remaining in all of the united states.
billed florida more than $38,000 for its costs. a tabitha continues to rise and one that will fall on the shoulders of taxpayers, shep. shepard: you know, there is a report that the lawyer jose baez wanted to use casey s parents as sort of decoys for her jail release? yeah. that s coming from mark lippman, the attorney representing casey s parents, george and cindy anthony. in fact, the attorney confirming to fox news this afternoon that his clients were asked to serve as decoys in the early morning hours when their daughter was released from this facility in an attempt to throw off members of the press and paparazzi and public so they would not tail casey. lipman said he thought it was too risky and said. no he also confirmed that jose baez did, in fact, text his clients george and cindy anthony after the release saying that casey was safe. he also adds that saul they know
thing in washington. we can t stand in the way when it comes to doing the right thing on deficits. shepard: back on capitol hill house republicans say they are working on a plan but it s a nonstarter. the president says he will vote it and it will never make it out of one house any way. mike emanuel is at the white house tonight. what in the world is going none your town, mike. [ laughter ] well, the white house believes that measure the house is going to vote on tomorrow is simply too drastic, shep. so, bottom line is they say it s not good for the country. here is white house spokesman jay carney. you know, this is a measure that is designed to duck, dodge, and dismandel, duck responsibility, dodge obligations and it would essentially require the dismantlement of our social safety net, social security, medicare and medicaid. in other words the white house doesn t like it but the house will vote on it tomorrow, shep? shepard: the white house and congressional leaders say t
but, when the girlfriend rebekah was found hanging, we now know the boyfriend, jona shakni was not home at the time. in fact it was his brother who found and cut down that body before police arrived. there are no suspects so far. no persons of interest. we should note that coronado has had only two murders over the past 10 years,. shepard: shep who is this pharmaceuticals executive and what do we know about him. he is jonah shack my. he is the founder of a company that makes skin care products. last year that company made $700 million. he is twice divorced. he has two teenaged daughters. when he was last married three 911 calls came from his arizona home. we just got details about those calls. one he made alleging problems. one he made alleging that she, his wife at the time, assaulted