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for coming up. >>> and preparations are underway in new york cities a new york city as the clock ticks towards the celebration. stay with us for your forecast including a look at the holiday weekend. eyewitness news at noon will be right back. >> complete coverage continues with don scott, jessica kartalija, and first warning weather with marty bass and meteorologist tim williams, ,,,, >>> maryland's healthcare commission is calling for tougher monitoring of cardiac stint surgeries at the state's 23 hospitals. investigators say hundreds of patients may have been implanted with unnecessary stints but he insists they were necessary. the commission wants it suspended if new standards are not met. >>> the state is getting more money after it met a goal for improving access to medicaid and children's health insurance programs. >>> kids across the country are on break and several theme parks in florida are hitting capacity. universal orlando's islands of adventure, legoland and three out of 4 disney theme parks were so packed they were all forced to close temporarily. disneyland in cal

breaking news coming from europe that could affect new york city. we may go back to that meeting but authorities in germany have intercepted a bomb filled with explosives and shrapnel intercepted at the deutch bank branch office in germany and may have been en route to the united states, so, in reaction to that we have authorities in new york city that have tightened security at all the deutch banks. there are a number of them in new york city. the main branch is on wall street. the package was addressed to the c.e.o. and intercepted in frankfurt, germany, and it was on its way to new york city. the chief correspondent is also working this for us right now. do we have any idea, jonathan, what the line of transportation was for this package? >>jonathan: nothing yet, trace. we know it was intercepted in frankfurt but the announcement is coming out of u.s. law enforcement so it may have been on its way here. obviously, deutch bank has major offices here in new york. the package which was packed with explosives and shrapnel obviously very dangerous indeed, was addressed to the outgoing c

the night before the biggest party of the year and in new york city, crews have hoisted the 6-ton new year's eve ball into place. they then tellsed the 3200 lights and -- tested the 3200 lights and hundreds of crystal triangles. the organizers spent the day blowing up balloons, 25,000 of them. >> we're from san jose, california. and we're here to spend new year's eve in new york city at times square. >> it's an experience. and not everybody gets to come out here and do this. >> one million people are expected to ring in the new year in times square. now, around here, you can expect to see more police officers on the streets. they say they are going to be out looking for drunk drivers. in the last two weeks, more than 1,000 people have been arrested for dui in the bay area. >>> for ski resorts, the holiday weekend is a big moneymaker but on this new year's eve weekend, there's just one problem. not enough snow. big resorts that make snow are open with limited ski trials. koula gianulias on possible layoffs in tahoe if snow and lots of it doesn't fall soon. >>> reporter: >> i think it's

huckabee from the fox news studios in new york city. it is hard to ignore the talk of all sports cast and headlines in the counselry. tebow fever. tim tebow led the denver broncoses out of obscurity and in the nfl. and many athletes give credit to higher power. many are asking if god ising for his team. >> he had his doubt are in high school. and winning national championships in college he had doubters. they say he doesn't have the mechanics to be a successful nfl quarterback and now he's winning in the pros he has a doubter. and considered his heart and faith. >> since he tock over as starting quarterback. the team turned its season around and winning sevenout of the eight games and winning in dramatic fashion and california coming back after starting poorly. what is it? >> he might have explained it last summer. >> i am not going to be perfect. i am going to mess up every day. that is what grace and faith is all about. getting back up when you get knocked down and continue that journey of faith and continuing to try to improve and get better. >> tim's credits are not limited to those w

weir and tonight, juju chang in new york city, this is "nightline," december 15th, 2011. >> good evening, i'm juju chang. are you being watched? it's a disturbing thought, but a recent rash of voyeurism cases suggests it's not just a paranoid suggest. criminals are using tiny hidden cameras in public and seemingly private places. worse still, in many states, these crimes are only misdemeanor, meaning even peeping toms that are caught aren't seriously punished. here's abc's dan harris. >> reporter: these are boom times for peeping toms who are watching you by hiding cameras in places you would never expect. you're looking at jonathan willing. police say this video shows him putting a tiny camera in a tanning booth where he recorded four naked women. and this here is james allen reesy, shown on video apparently placing his cell phone camera under an unsuspecting woman's dress. and police say he did the same thing as a nearby thrift store, achling the lens underneath the door of a dressing room as a 10-year-old changes inside. >> the man is disgusting. he needs to be put away for go

president obama in new york city supporters paid between a thousand and thirty five thousand dollars per person to attend were a few hundred of them and they say the protesters say they were speaking out against a system that makes those high donations often given by wall street executives necessary in what is becoming an all too familiar scene much of the media was kept as far away as possible with police there and mass to control the crowds. what was. going up there right. behind. your target. meanwhile in los angeles earlier this week the occupy encampment encampment outside city hall was raided and destroyed by police there who arrested nearly three hundred people many of them have been released on bail but as we speak protesters remain behind bars with a five thousand dollars bail set for them it is the latest encampment to be dismantled but occupiers insist they are not going anywhere their movement will not be torn apart and finally it seems more and more people are starting to believe them it's penetrating even that big republican wall of contempt as one top g.o.p. strategist

new york city's police commissioner to reissue the department's order against interfeing with reporters doing their job. that's in tonight's rewrite. and next, is the santorum surge real or will it turn into the santorum collapse just like every other surge we've seen in the republican presidential campaign?ç [ male announcer ] you are a business pro. lord of the carry-on. sovereign of the security line. you never take an upgrade for granted. and you rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle. and go. you can even take a full-size or above. and still pay the mid-size price. i deserve this. [ male announcer ] you do, business pro. you do. go national. go like a pro. >> i finished dead last way behind the pack, i'm going to pack up and go home. i don't think that's going to happen. i think we're going to be very much in the mix and i feel very good that we're going to surprise a lot of people on how we finish. what is it about taking a first step that we find so compelling? is it because taking a step represents hope? or triumph? at genworth

raised in new york city. >> more problems for verizon wireless customers. >>> another day of mourning for the late curry and leader kim jong bill -- kim jong il. officials declared he is the supreme leader. this was the first endorsement of his new leadership. >>> 1 million people have visited the september 11 memorial. it opened the day after the 10th anniversary of the 2001 net tax. the memorial plaza true about 10,000 visitors a day. visitors are required to get free passes and advance. >>> five days until the iowa caucuses. candidates are ramping up their campaigns. >> it is getting interesting. more on this race that could come down to the wire. >> it has been a campaign of ops and downs with a member of candid it's looking as though they have been anointed that now mitt romney is the person to beat. for a while he thought about skipping the iowa caucuses. not anymore. >> remember the name mitt romney. >> he is benefiting from the remarkable collapse of the gingrich campaign. according to a new poll he tops the republican field in the hawkeye state with 25%. ron pollack

actions of police. at$e occupy wall street protests that led new york city's police commissioner to reissue the department's order against interfering with reporters doing their job. that's in tonight's rewrite. and next, is the santorum surge real or will it turn into the santorum collapse just like every other surge we've seen in the republican presidential campaign? a blessing. not financially. so we switched to the bargain detergent, and i found myself using three times more than they say to and the clothes still ren't as clean as with tide. so we're back to tide. they're cuter in clean clothes. that's my tide. what's yours? car insurance companies say they'll save you by switching, you'd have, like, a ton of dollars. but how are they saving you those dollars? a lot of companies might answer "um" or "no comment." then there's esurance. born online, raised by technology, and majors in efficiency. so whatever they save, you save. hassle, time, paperwork, hair-tearing-out, and, yes, especially dollars. esurance. insurance for the modern world. click or call. >> i finished dead last

warmest day of the weekend. >> and new york city oers made sure the ball is ready for tomorrow night. they flipped the switch to raise the ball up the tower four hundred feet above time square. the ball is lit with 32,000led lights. organizes say it's a metaphor for new beginnings. >> the idea of letting governor the past, starting new with a sense of hope and having a beacon to represent that sense of hope as we look forward. >> at 11:59 eastern time tomorrow night the ball will drop and start its drop -- and then at the stroke of midnight it'll ring in the new year. new york city expects to have about a million people packed into time square to celebrate the new year. you can ring in the new year with us and fox's american country new year's eve live. preformers include toby keith, eli young. the show airs here after the 10:00 news. >> a rate hike starting sunday. how much more you can expect to pay on your next pg&e bill. >> pushing shoving between protesters and police. what prompted this chaos as a camera was rolling. >> and a man dies in a house fire but doesn't actually

new york city. five days to go until the iowa caucuses and new polling shaking up the presidential republican field. in the latest cnn/time research poll, mitt romney on top with 25% support, ron paul a close second, still within the margin of error. the story, the latest republican candidate to surge, former pennsylvania senator rick santorum. he jumps all the way up to third place in iowa. he has more than tripled his support in the state since the beginning of the month. santorum has invested just about all of his resources there. this comes at the expense of newt gingrich's who's plummeted to fourth place in the poll. you see him there at 14%. the right-hand column is instructive, down 19 points just since december 7th. rick perry and michele bachmann round out the top six, 11% and 9% respectively. important to note this only recorded republicans. while democrats can't caucus in iowa, they can change their registration right there at the door. santorum attributes his surge in the polls to his relentless efforts in iowa. with limited campaign money, senator santorum visited all

extraordinary talented young celloist from oklahoma living now in new york city . we'll play it for you as you wish. >> i am anxious it hear it as is our audience. >> thank you so much. [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [applause] >> at the top of the show i talked about tim tebow's faith and his winning streak. can he do it again? on sunday they face tom brad yethe new england patriots. can tim lead his team to a win? tell us what you think of tebow fever . merry christmas from all of us here in the huckabee show . until next time thank you and god bless and good night and merry christmas. [applause] [ malannouncer ] imagine facing the day with less chronic low back pain. imagine living your life with less chronic osteoarthritis pain. imagine you, with less pain. cymbalta can help. cymbalta is a non-narcotic treatment that's fda-approved to manage chronic musculoskeletal pain. one pill a day, every day, can help reduce this pain. tell your doctor right away if your mood worsens, you have unusual changes in mood or behavior or thoughts of suicide. antidepressants can increase these in chil

fog in southern new england, down outside of new york city, philadelphia and d.c. so be careful driving with that. there's no wind chill at all for the east coast. so enjoy it, probably a day or two more of this. temperatures, 80s in florida, 70s up through the carolinas, 60s from d.c. new york city near 60. the cold air entrenched, minneapolis to chicago. down in areas of texas today. that's where the transition is. thunderstorms in houston and new orleans, but colder and chilly back in dallas, so aditi, very interesting things going on so far. winter looks to take more of a grip around the country by the weekend. >> we'll brace for it, thank you, bill. >>> all eyes on europe this week. stocks to watch on wall street and even for italian politics, right now things are pretty confused. your first look at this morning's business headlines are straight ahead. >>> coming up, the bcs title game is set, tiger finally wins and a coach ices his own kicker. you're watching "first look" on msnbc. >>> welcome back to "first look," i'm aditi roy, here's some of the top stories making news

shotters work. >> reporter: there are a few things in the air in new york city on new year's eve, the bullets from the reveller's guns, and above the power lines is an extra set of electronic ears to help police keep it a silent night. this lights up like a christmas tree on new year's eve. >> traditionally, some folks like to celebrate by firing guns into the air. >> reporter: red wood city natives like eric silverman have learned to count on the tradition and take cover. >> things do fall out of the sky around here. it's not the. >> reporter: bullets? >> i don't think so. i don't think they're firecrackers. >> reporter: in red wood city, big brother might not always be watching, but he is listening, perched on power lines and buildings, a system of microphones connected to a computer at police dispatch. shot spotter technology records and differentiates gun shots from firecrackers, and pin points the intersection, even the address. red wood city is the first department to use shot spotter. it's helping police in their silent night program, helping to curb new year's eve revellers. >

world war ii and the gulf war were welcomed home with huge parade. and city leaders in new york and here in d.c. say they would like to host one for the servicemen and women back from iraq. one new york council member says he was told the pentagon is concerned that the ceremony might put the troops still serving overseas in danger. a pentagon spokesman disputes that and he said he heard nothing about that issue and no one submitted a formal proposal. the final combat troops left iraq more than a week ago. more than 91,000 are still serving in afghanistan. >>> tonight, police are looking for the person who shot and killed a well known local rapper this morning. the white oak section of silver spring. franklin of silver spring was gunned down near the intersection of stewart lane just before 7:00 a.m. he was on his way to work waiting at a bus stop. >> i'm scott broom in white oak where the community has been badly shaken by the shooting death this morning of a local rapper. family and friends of franklin amobe in shock after the shooting this morning. amobe was shot to death at a bus

confirmed monday it is considering a request from president saleh to travel to new york city for medical reasons. he's seeking treatment for injuries he suffered in a near-fatal june bomb blast in his presidential complex. the issue is a hot potato for the administration because many in yemen who hoped to see ali prosecuted for the deaths of hundreds of anti-government protests fear he'll seek asylum here. if permission is granted, the white house is expected to stress it will only be for medical treatment. >>> as iraq struggles for stability without a u.s. presence, there are new calls within maliki's own shiite government for a shakeup. al sadr wants the current parliament to be dissolved and new elections held but maliki may not want to start over after the last elections. >>> iraq is dealing with a new wave of violence, believed to be the work of sunni insurgents with ties to al qaeda. >>> well, voters feeling a disconnect with washington may have more proof of a divide. a new analysis by "the washington post" shows that between 1984 and 2009 the median net worth of a member

affect every home even at the main office in new york city, it will take longer for every letter to go door to door. they've braved rain, sleet and snow, but the us postal service is now trying to weather its darkest days. facing a $14 billion deficit next year. they announced sweeping cuts today to avoid bankruptcy. this spring, they'll shutter more than half of the country's mail processing centers. eliminating some 35,000 jobs and will con sal date the distance they have to travel. it could take two to three days. >> i send my timecards in, that's how i get paid, now my checks will be delayed. >> next. >> reporter: and the delay could be even worse for businesses that rely on speedy delivery. experts say small businesses will be hurt as merchandise and payments spend more time in transit. a possible nine-day delivery time could put an end to the weekly magazines. more changes could be ahead. they want to cut delivery from six days a week to five, cut pensions and close another 3,700 post offices across the country. >> we take no tax money so we live on the revenues that we bring.

motive. >> sue and peter are from the northeast where we don't do well in new york city in general. sometimes it's in the congressman's district interest not to support somebody like newt. mitt romney is the safer candidate. >> tom coburn. >> he's outspoken regardless. i'm going to give you that one. when newt came to power as speaker, we had deficit projections of $2.7 trillion. after four years, surpluses of $2.3 trillion. unemployment, 4.6%. welfare reform was accomplished. childhood poverty was decreased. two-thirds of people on welfare got jobs. this was done under a bipartisan deal. despite the chaos, the achievements speak for themselves. that's why he's doing so well among republican voters who have been watching this process and tuning into the debate. debate after debate, newt gingrich seems to be the winner. >> back when i was a speaker, i watched things that i think are wrong with him. he's got strengths. he's very smart. he brought the republicans into power. he called democratic leaders corrupt. that was the word. he likes that word corrupt. special sessions in the ev

request from yemen's president to travel to new york city for medical reasons. ali abdullah saleh is seeking treatment for injuries he suffered in a near-fatal june bomb blast in his presidential complex. the issue is a hot potato for the administration because many in yemen who hoped to see ali prosecuted for the deaths of hundreds of anti-government protests fear he'll seek asylum here. a month ago saleh agreed to a new election. if permission is granted, the white house is expected to stress it will only be for medical treatment. >>> as iraq struggles for stability without a president, there are new calls within maliki's own shiite government for a shakeup. the political radical cleric muqtada al sadr wants the current parliament to be dissolved and new elections held, but maliki may not want to start over. >>> iraq is dealing with a new wave of violence, believed to be the work of sunni insurgents with ties to al qaeda. >>> voters feeling a disconnect with washington may have more proof of a divide. a new analysis by "the washington post" shows that between 1984 and 2009 the medi

in court. michael plumadore is accused of killing and then dismembering the girl. in new york city 14 muslim leaders are boycotting the inner-faith breakfast. held by mayor michael bloomberg. they're upset over reports about the new york city police department using informant to follow activities of islam. >>> happy birthday to matt lauer. he turns 54 years old today. all day long you can stay on top of the very latest developments in those stories and others as they break on msnbc. and tonight be sure to watch brian williams with "nbc nightly news." >>> here's a look at what's coming up later this morning on the "today" show. a florida marine shares his tale of survival after dodging bullets in a hometown robbery. tv host juliana rancic and her husband update her progress on the fight against breast cancer. keep it on this channel for continuing local news, weather sports and more. i'm lynn berry. thanks for watching "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. have a good one.

implemented. >>> d.c. mayor vincent gray will spend the day courting tv producers in new york city. he's trying to get more television shows filmed in the district. in the past, industry executives said it's too built. between capitol hill, park police, and the district, they have to work with three different agencies to get permits. gray has proposed a tax on movie theater commissions to build a films fund. >>> three took the witness stand to decide if there was election fraud during last year's governor race. former governor bob ehrlich was called as a character witness for bob shurlick. he is accused of putting out robo calls last year to convince voters to stay home and not vote for martin o'malley. >>> montgomery county's public safety committee has voted against a proposed curfew, that despite high profile crime by teenagers, including flash mobs. the committee voted 2-0 against the curfew, which would keep teenagers off the streets beginning at 11:00 p.m. on week nights and midnight on weekends. the vote now goes to the full council, which is considering delaying a vote on the pro

new york city salon. >> i like it a lot. >> reporter: instead of paying up to $4,000, way beyond what she and her fiancee can afford her gown will be free. >> really accents the waistline. >> reporter: because of brides across america, a nationwide program that gives wedding dresses to military couples. at least the idea was to donate a handful of bridal gowns to engaged servicewomen, but brides across america grew beyond the founder's wildest dreems. heidi janssen launched the idea from the bridal salon where she worked in massachusetts. >> when the other salons wanted to do it they asked me to organize it. i said, well, geez, i have never done this before, but i'll give it a shot. >> reporter: five years, 38 salons nationwide and 8,000 dresses later, it's not just active servicewomen who benefit but also fiancees of servicemen. >> it's a great way to say thank you. >> i think it's stunning. >> reporter: her mom found the program online as she was searching for inexpensive wedding ideas while her daughter was still in harm's way in iraq. >> it's been an interesting transition fo

warmest day of the weekend. >> and new york city oers made sure the ball is ready for tomorrow night. they flipped the switch to raise the ball up the tower four hundred feet above time square. the ball is lit with 32,000led lights. organizes say it's a metaphor for new beginnings. >> the idea of letting governor the past, starting new with a sense of hope and having a beacon to represent that sense of hope as we look forward. >> at 11:59 eastern time tomorrow night the ball will drop and start its drop -- and then at the stroke of midnight it'll ring in the new year. new york city expects to have about a million people packed into time square to celebrate the new year. you can ring in the new year with us and fox's american country new year's eve live. preformers include toby keith, eli young. the show airs here after the 10:00 news. >> a rate hike starting sunday. how much more you can expect to pay on your next pg&e bill. >> pushing shoving between protesters and police. what prompted this chaos as a camera was rolling. >> and a man dies in a house fire but doesn't actually

hit. >>> coming up at the top of the hour on "morning joe," back in new york city, newt gingrich sitting on a lead stays above the fray as mitt romney lobs attacks about his conservative credentials. we'll have new polls that layout the party's dilemma with this duo. and when we come back here, we'll huddle up around the water cooler to watch the world's finest annual tradition, peruvians punching each other for fun. "way too early" coming right back. [ male announcer ] cranberry juice? wake up! ♪ that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm [ male announcer ] for half the calories -- plus veggie nutrition. could've had a v8. >>> as we told you, the latest source of washington gridlock, the extension of payroll tax cuts, has hinged on the question of the keystone pipeline which supporters say would bring an additional 700,000 barrels of crude oil daily to the united states from canada. if you want to sound smart, tell your friends canada is the number one supplier of crude oil to the united states. saudi arabia second. mexico third. separate study by the house of representatives sho

sports. first let's get to the news live at 50 50:30 at 30 rock in new york city. the gingrich campaign is ramping up efforts in iowa as new polling shows the former house speaker opening up a big lead. with less than a month to go before voting, an abc news/"washington post" poll shows newt gingrich with 33% support of likely republican caucus-goers in iowa. that is 15 points ahead of mitt romney and ron paul who are tied for second place. ron paul obviously should be on that list. he's in second place. gingrich putting renewed focus on new hampshire where a new ad casts him as the republican candidate best equipped to deal with the challenges ahead. >> i was amused by the newt gingrich ad because he talked about how he's going to bring the country together to solve problem. talk about the godfather of gridlock, the guy who two decades ago invented the kind of tactics that have become commonplace in washington. this is a whole new newt. >> we heard it here first, the obama case against newt? >> i think it may be the public's case against him. i don't think people want to go ba

in new york city say they plan to announce thursday, today, the site has one million visitors since opening to the public earlier this year. the memorial plaza has two huge fountains drawing a thousand visitors a day to ground zero even as construction continues for the rebuilt world trade center. you're required to get free passes in advance. it's officially open september 12th, a day after the dedication. >>> a artist starving himself has hit the three-week mark for a hunger strike. adrian parson says he lost 25 pounds since it began. the 29-year-old consumed only electrolyte enhanced water and vitamins. he's staying in the church in the square where he and three other young people begun fasts. the other three dropped out. he's still going on. >>> someone called police to tip them off about the 12 foot by 12 foot structure going up in the occupy camp. when police arrived none of the demonstrators would claim it. officers declared it and abandoned it and took apart. >>> some argued but no arrests. >>> in montgomery county be prepared to ask if you want paper or plastic. there's a 5

, going to see relatives at this time of year. so do take care with that. new york city, no snow for you. 11 degrees for the high. but once we reach boston, you'll see a few snowshowers. we see warmer temperatures hitting d.c., 13 for you, 16 in atlanta, 17 in oklahoma city and 13 degrees for you in denver. and that's going to last through saturday, those slightly warmer temperatures, all right. as we head into europe, well it has just been storm afte coming in through the atlantic into the british isles, you guessed it, we've got this thick cloud coming in. if we bring that away, you'll barely see the british isles underneath all of that wet weather and all of the wind. and that's going to be affecting much of france here as well. and pushing up into scandinavia once again. for all of those snow-lovers out there who are going to be hitting the slopes this holiday time, i can tell you there's going to be about 50 centimeters of snow in the swiss alps, maybe southern germany, austria, you'll be seeing a good amount of snow as well. in the balkans we have another system that's affectin

no one in it. >> caitlin says she never leaves her car running. >> i am from new york city and you just realize you don't do that. >> police say some people do. >> they thing oh, it is only a couple seconds i will just run in and do this or get that. >> we witnessed it in the very same parking lot. >> we had a car taken from this parking lot over the weekend, she left it running >> i really have to go. >> in caitlin's case investigators are trying to locate surveillance video. >>> this is the best outcome that could ever come out of it so many many things could have gone wrong >> i am happy she got everything back. >> she got her purse he money and her honda back, we talked to her today on the same iphone that lead police right to the car. >>> in annapolis, bate parker, fox 5 news. >>> -- beth parker, fox 5 news. >> i am an iphone loser too. >> you really have to hustle to get one. no offence, he did a great job after i waited, 30 minutes to get one, i had 30 minutes to make it to the apple store and get one and i got it. >>> good time weather wise seems people are in the shopping

out towards philadelphia, new york city, and plenty of flash flooding concerns in new york city. you might see a little bit of the snowfalling west of the divide overnight. not a whole lot of the accumulation though. right now, temperatures, they are in the lower 50s downtown. annapolis, well, 57. and it feels mild out towards the bay. 46 for you in fredericksburg. 45 in manassas. kind of bringing in your cool down to 37 degrees. now, we've got the rain ending here. it should be a fairly weather pattern setting up. breezy and clearing tonight. windy and colder for wednesday. thursday is chilly. a dry new year's eve weekend for you. we'll talk about that in our seven-day forecast. here is the future cast. the showers are pulling away through the east of us. they will be quiet overnight. but you'll definitely hear the winds pick up overnight, especially for wednesday as that settles back in. you'll see the drier conditions for the next few days here. here is a look at how your forecast is shaping up. we are talking about, well, mostly cloudy conditions, breezy with the rain ending. not

and they're now backing off. details, coming up. >>> times square in new york city, looks pretty normal right now, but a million people are on the way to fill it up for america's biggest celebration. >>> and 2012 arriving hour by hour around the world. live pictures here. happy new year. hon congress. >>> just three days until the iowa caucuses. cnn's political editor paul steinhauser is in the thick of it live in des moines, iowa. whirlwind day ahead, i'm sure, for you, right? >> no doubt about it, nonstop on the campaign trail. this is the end of december in iowa and it should be cold. let's start with newt gingerich. he was reaching out to voters stai restaurant and bus stop. we've seen newt gingerich's numbers kind of collapse here. he was the front-runner, but that's not the case any more. he's telling voters, don't count me out. >> i would ask you to go tuesday night, take all your friends and help us win. i do think this is wide open, no matter what the news media does to try to create some stampede. newt beginning rip's numbers have been going down and rick santorum's num

. >>> in new york city, when you >>> in new york city, when you do something great, heroic, winning the world series, you get one of these, a trip down the canyon of heroes in lower manhattan, under a shower of ticker tape, or confetti. sometimes it's sports teams. senator astronaut john glen got his second ticker tape parade in 1998 after his trip on the space shuttle "discovery." the veterans of gulf war got one in june 1991. celebrating the return of troops after the campaign to take baku wait from saddam hussein. veterans of a much older war, korean war, got a long overdue trip down the canyon of heroes. now we have officially ended the 8 1/2-year war in iraq, now the troops have crossed into kuwait over the weekend, why not throw them a ticker tape parade? two new york city councilmen have formally requested a parade but no word yet from new york city's mayor. mayor bloomberg appears on a radio show every week, responds directly to new yorkers who call in questions. today, he used twitter to solicit questions he will answer on the radio tomorrow and it was tweeted what do you think

brett baier live and megyn kelly from new york city and we're going to have special coverage of caucuses beginning 6:00 p.m. eastern time rule right here on the fox news channel. >> heather: four of the republican candidates showing their support for the lawsuit filed by rick perry's campaign alleging virginia's state requirements for the significant itself to get on the ballot is unconstitutional. they said they failed to meet the requirements and currently out of virginia's primary. that is not the only controversy surrounding the vote in that state. peter doocy has more. >> reporter: as of march 6:00, they will have two choices, miot romney and ron paul. before allowed to pull the lever for either, they have to promise the same thing in november by signing something that says, i had under signed i intend to support the nominee of the republican party for president. now, if you break this pledge you won't get hauled off to jail. it's not legally binding. but in the old state, some republicans says this is reckless. >> we have mandatory voting for somebody you never heard of an

parts which he stuffed into bags and hid in several places. david lee miller is live in new york city. how, exactly, did police found the body? >>reporter: the authorities say that he confessed. they interviewed him three times, interviewed him, yesterday, for several hours and he told police what happened. he was in court today for an initial court appearance and now held without bail. the police introduced an affidavit that spelled out the gruesome details, and the affidavit said "during the interview the defendant freely admitted to killing her by striking her on the head multiple times with a brick while she was standing on the front step of the residence," and spells out gruesome details of how the body parts were stored in the freezer and others disposed of in a dumpster. one thing it does not say and i have read the document, it is less than two pages it does not say anything about a possible motive. police were asked and they said at this time they do not have a motive. >>trace: and what about the accused killer? what do we know about him? >>reporter: there is not a great deal of i