documents if anything happens to him or his website. our national correspondent catherine herridge is live for us in washington. this so-called poison pill, wh is it catherine? >> reporter: it was first described as sort of like an insurance policy for julian assange, founder of wickileaks, which he would use ultimately if his website permanently disabled , he is arrested or killed. the london newspapers are reporting this morning the documents inside the so-called poison pill have been distributed to hackers who support assange. what we don'to while we don't know what the document contains or whether this poison pill really exists it's said to include documents about guantanamo bay and also bp. so this is clearly meant to make authorities think twice before arresting assange and as you know, there's an outstanding warrant for his arrest from swed on on those rape charges jon. jon: tell us more about this essentially a hit list for terrorists that they've published. >> well, back in february february 2009 state department -- department diplomats were asked to put together a list of sites and this is routine, it happens with regularity with intelligence circles, putting together a list of vital national securities, courts, drug companies, pipelines who would threaten security interests and state department spokesmen responded by saying there are strong and valid reasons information is classified, including critical infrastructure and key resources that are vital to the national and economic security of any country, and crowley pointed out that assange says he may be targeting the united states, but in the process, he is putting other assets of other countries at risk, and just a short time ago, we had a readout from the attorney general eric holder on wickileaks and he said that it is unhelpful and destructive and also indicated that it has jeopardized or at least put national security at risk jon. jon: catherine herridge, live for us in washington, thank you. >> you're welcome. jenna: it certainly is another big story we're watching today, the tax cut compromise. now a real power play unfolding on capitol hill as lawmakers work on a deal on the bush-era tax cuts. what's going to happen next? the president is expected to push for this sort of compromise we're hearing about during his speech in north carolina. cries stierwalt is digital politics editor and also writes our power play at fox news. chris, what's the dynamics of this deal? >> well, right now, jenna, what's going on is the president is trying to sell the members of his own party on a two or maybe even three-year extension of the opportunity -- current tax break. he's getting a lot of pushback. we stall -- the house democrats put forward legislation that would have the tax rates expire for upper income earners, families and small businesses over 200, or $250,000. what the president is trying to do now is owing to the fact that he can't get that through, democrats can't get that through or pass a republican filibuster, he's got to get his party on board with a compromise. jenna: what do the democrats want in exchange for, let's say, a temporary extension, two or three years, from the bush-era tax cuts? >> the first and biggest thing are the unemployment benefits. we're talking probably $50 billion or so to extend what are called 99 week extended unemployment benefits to americans out of work. so that's the biggest piece. that's the most symbolic piece. it's probably unlikely that they can get anything back through the house that doesn't couple the tax rates with that sort of unemployment insurance, but the president has a whole pile of other things that he needs to get through on this that he wants to get through and use this compromise as way to do it. that includes a tax credit system that he put through as part of his stimulus program. that puts other issues to the fore. so this is a very complicated, very fraught negotiation. jenna: so chris, what's holding this up? the seems -- it seems the dynamics, that we have, republicans have what they want, have been given some room as far as a temporary extension and democrats want the extension of jobless benefits, as well as some of the stimulus efforts and it seems like people are on board. then what's holding everything up? are we going to get an announcement today as far as a compromise? >> i think an announcement today is probably unlikely but the president is feeling the tile crunch, probably wants this done by wednesday. what we're hearing is this may be unlikely because it's so complicated. basically you're getting a snapshot of what the next couple of years are going to look like, which is that liberal democrats are going to be hard to console, hard for the president to come along on things like this and it's going to be even harder once the republicans take over the majority in the house. so right now it's a depleting case on the president's -- a pleading case on the president's part to say see reason on this, we're not going to get what we want, let's make a compromise to get something done, otherwise taxes go up for everybody in the country, as well as the unforesee compromises like the debt tax, alternative minimum tax, capital gains tax, all these are looming so president obama knows he need to work quickly. jenna: you're saying happy days ahead! >> good for business, right? jen i guess so, for our business, but about the of america, not sure. chris, thank you for your insights and if viewers want your insights, they can go to politics.com/eheq. you can find the power play application. happening now wants to hear from you as well. what's your take on the what can do and should do when it comes to the economy. we've been getting great questions, questions about the tax cut battle and debate over extending unemployment benefits. keep those coming. they're important during the show, we use them throughout the show and put your comment toss our guests. so hop online, foxnews.com/happening now. jon: here's something else our viewers are talking about. it is cold out there in parts of the country. and in indiana, one highway looks more like a demolition derby scene, snow, causing a string of accidents north of indianpolis, a few inches of snow is all it takes to create a travel nightmare in north carolina. chicago's first big storm of the season dropped a record amount of snow despite the first blast of winter. the calendar says it's still autumn. any relief in site? let's check in with janice dean, live in the extreme weather center. looks like you got your warm sweater on. >> reporter: may is when we start to see a little relief? jon i think that's a little sarcastic, yes! >> reporter: jon, i know you can take it. we saw snow flurries in manhattan. it was over in about five minutes. look at these temperatures. minus one is what it feels like. that's the wind chill against your skin in chicago. let's take a live look at chicago, where you wouldn't be able to tell it's that chilly out. you can see a little light flurry activity in and around the area, just sort of on the sidewalk, taking things -- making thanks a little slick. they got record snow. i think jon scott mentioned that for the day, over the weekend, so temperatures out there, very chilly, air temperature, 13 degrees. but doesn't that tell you the story? the pictures are so pretty to look at, but it is very cold. how far south does this cold go? as far as central and south florida. look at what it feels like in atlanta, 23 now, 22 in memphis, chicago, minus one, new york, it's 27. it's cold out there and people are feeling it. freeze advisories are in effect across much of florida, even across new orleans, as far south of, look, miami. so we're going to be dealing with temperatures dipping into the 20s and the 30s, in some cases, melbourne, that's 26 degrees below what you should be in terms of an overnight low. so we're going to be dealing with unfortunately the threat for crop damage. satellite radar imagery, you can see where the snow is flying across the great lakes, again, looking at maine, they are seeing over a foot of snow. jon, i think you should be singing "it's beginning to look a lot like christmas"! >> it's begin to go look a lot like ski season! >> you're a snow bunny. i know that about you. jon: thank you! jenna: we have breaking news here on the wickileaks story and an interesting development, harris, on the founder, right? >> reporter: it's beginning to look a lot like a pinch for wikileaks, because in switzerland where they bring in money for the website wickileaks, the swiss postal system is doing a cross-check of whether julian assange was a resident when he opened up his bank account there. they have just pulled the plug on wikileaks' bank account in a serious setback for the secret spilling website. what this mean is wickileaks will have to go elsewhere. they have cs in -- accounts in ice lawn and germany but this is an important one for them. i'll all over this as this continues to break, but this is interesting. this is a fluid situation with wickileaks.com. back to you guys. jenna: follow the money, we'll see what happens next. harris, thank you very much for that. we also have another story coming up that harris is going to talk to us about, a small plane crashes into a suburban neighborhood, it sparks a firestorm, engulfing two homes. one man, celebrating a birthday, when he heard this explosion, ran to the scene and found the pilot lying in the street. >> we came out and just stayed with the pilot until the emts arrived. >> what was he saying to you? >> you know, he was just in a lot of pain. he had a lot of burns, his right side hurt really bad. jenna: well, harris is going to be back with us on the latest on this pilot's condition. a possible cause on this crash and how the neighborhood is coping now. also demonstrators taking to the streets in greece as it is getting intense today. the protest is not over major government cuts, rather, another incident that triggered a national crisis. details, straight ahead. jen we have new information on really a nightmare scenario for one quiet neighborhood like so many we know. a small plane falls from the sky, crashing, setting homes on fire. harris has the latest. >> reporter: a cessna 215, roy, owdz, 30 miles north of salt lake city. imagine, on a sunday evening, something falling out of the sky, the neighbors say first they saw a orange flash, then a blue flash. what does it mean? it hit the ground and a huge fire started. the pilot is clayton root. he was taken to the utah burn center in critical condition. we're told nobody else on the ground was hurt. that is a miracle. pieces of the cessna 210 were scattered up and down the block. the pilot we're told was trying to land in fog. investigators have started their work to determine what actually caused all of this but they say there was pretty heavy fog when he was trying to land, he missed the runway by three blocks. again, i mentioned it hit two houses, the neighborhood had to be evacuated, 1700 customers lost electrical power because he hit power lines on the way down, those neighbors in the 20 or 30 or so moams have been allowed back into their homes, but you talk about how this neighborhood is dealing with this this morning, imagine, this scene is huge, as pieces of that plane are now being picked up for evidence to see exactly why it went down. back to you. jenna: harris, thanks. jon: you know, listen to this story an see if you think this is fair use. in one massachusetts city, esterline technologies, an aircrafts parts company has shut down a long running plant, relocating to california. the union and workers left behind say they want to buy the factory's equipment and start up their own rival company. esterline says no way so now the city might step in and use eminent domain to take over the company's assets. molly line, live in boston for us. molly. >> reporter: jon, this is a fascinating scenario. the half gun aerospace plant shut down in october and a hundred workers lost their jobs, many had worked at this plant literally for decades making seems and gasket phos aircraft, now the city is using a measure using the possibility of eminent domain to take control of equipment in the building, paying a fair price, and making sure it is not sold at auction on december 14th. ryan colby is a city council member: >> what we'd be doing here is making the argument that keeping these jobs here, in taunton, serves a public service here in our city. >> when the government exercises the power of eminent domain it's most often used to clear the way for a highway, railway, public utility, but it's also been used in a case where it's deemed good for the public or has an economic reason behind it. esterline officials say while they regret the closure of this plant they make the argument that eminent domain should not apply in this case. jim sweeney, an official subsidiary of esterline saying in the half gun situation, the uewu is asking the city to take over personal property, manufacturing equipment, for the private purpose of running a business. now, city leaders have asked the company to postpone this auction, something they are considering, and union officials say they're planning a protest, but they will block the entrance of this shuttered building to prevent the sale of equipment if necessary and to buy themselves more time to find potential investors and possibly get this back up and running and hold their job, jon. jon: keep an eye on that one for us molly. that's going to be interesting to see how it turns out. molly line, thanks. jenna: new video just coming into our newsroom but the inter -- through international desk, seeing more protestest in a country plagued by debt problems but this time the outrage doesn't have anything to do with money in greece. the 2500 students demonstrating in athens today, there hurling rocks at police, also at the finance ministry building. several storefronts were damaged in the capitol but so far no injuries reported at this time, this demonstration marking two years since police shot and killed a 15-year-old boy, his death sparking greece's worst riot necessary decades, the two officers involved in that shooting are now serving prison sentences for that. jon: iran sticks its finger in the world's eye with a bombshell claim about its nuclear ambitions. how will this impact world power talks on the threat taking place right now? we just got an early indication. plus, tensions are rising in another problem area. south korea is conduct ago new round of naval drills as the nuclear armed north watching and complains. well, now china is issuing an eye-opening warning about the possibility of this crisis getting worse. we'll talk about that next . jon expectations are very low right now for international talks about iran's nuclear ambitions. representatives of six world powers, including the united states, are getting together with their iranian counterparts in geneva, switzerland at this moment. one of the chief negotiators saying, quote, don't expect much of anything. these meetings come a day after iran raised the stakes. the country now claims it is self-sufficient when it comes to fueling its nuclear plants, saying it has produced its first home grown batch of yellow cake uranium. jim walsh is an international expert with the mif securities program. if true this is crucial because up until now the russians have been agreeing to do the fuel processing for the iranians and a lot of people, a lot of countries, thought that gave their nuclear program some measure of safety. i think the russians still have leverage because they're on the ground in big numbers at that nuclear power plant. remember, these are announcements, often there's a gap between an iranian announcement and an iranian reality but they have announced they can produce yellow cake. i'm not too exercised about that. at the end of the day it's about the correct ri fugs and enrichment of that nuclear material, so i think that's where people are focused but they are making progress a little at a time but in terms of weapons it's about enriched uranium, not so much the yellow cake. jon: so you have delegates from the european union, the united states, all kinds of nations meeting in geneva right now with the iranians. withy just playing into their hands, are we gig mahmoud ahmadinejad what he wants, some stature? >> i don't think so. i think what ahmadinejad wants is actually a deal. he tried to get that a year ago but when he took that deal back to tehran he was attacked on the left and right for selling out iranian interests, and in fact though i have low expectations like everyone else about this meeting, sometimes the iranians make tough statements in advance of a meeting because they are trying to give themselves political cover, so that if they are flexible in negotiations, then they can still look like they came out ahead and still have something to tell back to their home constituencies. we shouldn't get too excited but it's not without the realm of the possibilities that we get something done. in my own meetings on the nuclear issue, the things go on for hours and you think you're not getting anywhere and all of the sudden the iranians may say we agree to do x, y and z and the americans and others get together and say what just happened, so there's an predictability with all of this. jon: speaking of unpredictable, secretary of state clinton tried to speak with the foreign minister, mutaki, at the meetings underway in bahrain and he totally dodged her, even she said it was might clear that he was giving her the cold shoulder and would not speak to her. >> yeah, i thought that was interesting. i think i remember that happening once before in years past. hillary clinton is a smart secretary of state. and people forget that there are two types of pressure you can use. everyone focuses on negative pressure, you know, threats and sanctions, but you can also use what's called positive pressure. she's out there showing the world that she's trying to meet, that she's trying get these issues resolved, that she is willing to go the extra mile so when the other side doesn't take advantage of that, that makes them look bad t. makes us look good and assures our allies we're trying to do everything we can to resolve the problem. jon let's turn your attention to another flashpoint now, the korean peninsula. you've got the south koreans engaged in a live fire exercise off the coast. you've also got this meeting underway in washington right now involving south korea and the united states, but you don't have china in attendance. is that in your view a mistake? >> no. it makes sense to me. first of all the u.s., japan and south korea are all treaty allies so it makes sense they're going to meet first on their own, sort of come up with a common position and if china had come to that meeting north korea might have gotten nervous it was losing its last friend and while you might think it's great if china joins with everyone else on our side, in north korea, that thinks it's all alone, is much more likely to act out and cause problems. so i think that was appropriate. but jon, there was breaking news this morning even while you were on air that admiral mullen, the head of the joint chief, is going to travel to south korea to meet with military officials this was an unannounced trip and the fact that you had the president of china and president obama on the phone yesterday and then a decision today to send admiral mullen to south korea to talk to his counterpart, that raises questions in my mind about what was said in that telephone conversation between president hu and president obama. so it makes me a little nervous to hear these -- these things are happening. jon: you think it raises the stakes of military conflict