children. she is also or was also maid married to another ranger at mount are a near park. they have been working there for about four years. she had been with the forest service even longer. she is originally from new jersey. and neighbors of her parents say, as you might imagine, they are devastated. listen. when somebody comes to tell you that, your daughter has been shot in the line of duty, it s almost like unbelievable sound that you hear coming from them. but then i looked at their face and it was real. and it was really terrible. after the shooting the authorities tried to evacuate the park it s not easy it s about the side of indianapolis. at one point in time 100 people were gathered inside the visitor s senator on lockdown. they have now all been released and the park is reopening, shep. shepard: trace gallagher
shepard: trace gallagher live in los angeles. thanks. fox news weather alert now. a wallop coming. first major snow storm of the winter on the way. lake-effect snow warnings in effect for parts of ohio, pennsylvania, upstate new york where would are now told some areas could get as much as 2 feet of snow it continues to slam northern indiana tonight where winds picked up making conditions much worse. we re told an artic blast will hit most of the country with temperatures dropping into the single digits in many areas. that means a trip to janice dean the weather machine. janice, lay it on us. shepard, we do have that lake-effect snow running across the great lakes. things will taper off as the low moves into canada. behind this very coldest air of the season where it s minus 5 in international falls. 18 in green bay. 22 in chicago, 23 in des moines, you factor in what it feels like with the winds, single digits and teens tonight, shepard. for the upper midwest and the great lakes.
videotape some of his messages, preaches on videotape. and through it all his doctors say that for 93 years old he is still physically and mentally pretty strong, shep. shepard: good deal. trace gallagher live in los angeles. thanks very much. this hasn t happened in nor man a century. claims of retaliation against federal agents who blew the whistle on operation fast and furious. the program was supposed to track guns from the united states to mexico. but investigators say the feds lost track of hundreds of weapons and two of them, of course, turned up at the scene of the murder of a u.s. border patrol agent named brian terry. some republic lawmakers are calling for the attorney general, eric holder, to resign over this. let s go to william la jeunesse who is live in our west coast news hub this afternoon. hello, william. hello, shepard. under federal law those who expose wrong doing are supposed to be protected. senator chuck grassley warned against any sort of retaliation.
the son clearly is missing. and the father, police say, has not seen either of his children, shep, in several months. shepard: trace gallagher live in los angeles. updates on that story as they come in. the man the government blames for killing 17 american sailors could now face execution. tonight, allegations of torture are threatening the obama administration s first capital case at gitmo. our catherine herridge has the story live from guantanamo bay. but, first, the heavyweight champ joe frazier, the first man to beat the greatest lost his first fight with cancer last night. joe frazier called it the greatest thing to happen in his life. he spent decades trying to fight his way out of ali s shadow. the pair traded jabs outside the ring with a bitter back and forth that went on for years. so tonight, ali said simply the world has lost a great champion after he learned that his greatest rival smoking joe
would shep. shepard: trace gallagher live in los angeles. the president is trying again to get congress to pass part of this bill. the jobs bill and this time the analysts say it might just happen. in the meantime, the president is keeping up his we can t wait campaign announcing new steps to help veterans find jobs. last week the nationwide unemployment rate dropped a tiny bit to 9%. but the labor department now estimates the jobless rate for veterans who served since the attacks of 9/11 is 12%: the president says that is just not right. we asked our men and women in uniform to leave their families and their jobs and risk their lives to fight for our country. the last thing they should have to do is fight for a job when they come home. and that s why he are here today to do everything in our power to see so-to-it that american s veterans have the opportunity they deserve and have earned. shepard: president obama says millions of those