jon: brand new information coming your way in our second hour, i m jon scott. jen hi, everybody, i m jenna lee. president obama holding a town meeting. jon: just a few blocks from the white house, six weeks before the midterm elections the president tries to stave off a potential republican blowout in november. jenna: after that town hall meeting, the president is again hitting the campaign trail. he s flying off to pennsylvania to raise money for the democratic party and for congressman joe sestak who s running for the senate there. earlier this year sestak defeated senator arlen specter. carl cameron is live with the story, so, carl, the republican national committee is joking
television, just asking for any information from police around the country, as well as the general public, any information leading to an arrest in his daughter s murder, jon. jon: jonathan serrie, thanks very much. just as you were speaking, jonathan it is breaking on our fox urgent wire that that suspect has been arrested. it has not been confirmed yet but there is a report out of niagara falls, new york that the suspect in the murder case jonathan was just telling you about has been arrested. we ll work on that. there is his picture. we are working on confirming that. there is a initial report out of niagara falls to that february. jonathan, thank you. jenna: faction news alert new, it may come as a surprise to millions of unemployed americans but the national bureau of economic research now says the recession is over. it ended june of last year. the downturn though lasted 18 months making it the longest recession since world war ii.
that. we have to give attention to that first before we can go on down the line and look at other issues. reporter: all right. so tea party waiting to get a look at it, we understand members will get a formal look on wednesday night, and the democrats say they re anxious to look at it too so they can figure out how to campaign against it. jon: all right, shannon bream in washington, thanks. jenna: want to take you back to this developing story. this is the fire that was burning underneath the 138th street bridge out in harlem. and this is a very important bridge for the city of new york, one of the largest american cities and one of the cities with the most complex public transportation systems. so what we know about this fire so far is we know that there s no injuries, but there could be some headaches for commuters to come. hundreds of thousands of people travel on trains that come into the city and come out of the city across these tracks. and we were just told by one of
amsterdam, then on. jenna: is there any connection. reporter: they are reporting that the suspect has alleged ties to this group called al-shabab, it s an al-qaida affiliate. it s based in somalia but the group has been active recruiting not only from great britain but also from the united states. the spokesman is an american citizen. a federal indictment was unveiled against him. black sabbath was not behind the underwear bomb err bomber, that was another group in the arabian peninsula. jenna: what s the significance of the guy s tripe to uganda? reporter: one of the main questions right now for the u.s. intelligence community is whether this al-qaida affiliate in so mallouisiana will remain a
great for the economy. jenna: these economists have been notorious about being a little late to the party when it comes to recessions, even double-dip recessions. reporter: it took them two years to tell us when the recession began and it s taken us this long, 14 months to tell us when it evened. they are very careful one would say and others would say, it s hard to believe. jenna: there it is, though today they made that declaration. reporter: no balloons and champagne i don t think. jenna: the wrong type of celebrating. reporter: exactly. jenna: ashley webster thank you so much. appreciate it. jon over to you. jon: a wildfire in utah is threatening dozens of homes right now. crews are working to stop the flames which are moving very quickly and some fierce winds as you can see there. will mother nature help them out? harris is working a story from our breaking news decks. a bank robbery. reporter: a camera is one you re looking live now at one