investigators say this man was plotting a terror attack in new york city. >> the suspect was a so-called lone wolf. pimentel talked about killing u.s. servicemen returning from iraq and afghanistan. >> shepard: tonight, how cops say they diffused the danger. [explosion] >> shepard: and stopped the plot. plus, should retail staffers have to work on thanksgiving? >> people expect thanksgiving day off. >> the employees should be gung ho and say absolutely we are there. >> shepard: tonight, the black friday worker rebellion. but, first from fox this monday night, our government is dysfunctional. our debt crisis is growing. our congress cannot or will not solve it. the super committee charged with reducing america's deficit has failed miserably. and a tonight there is an effort underway to call off the fail-safe mechanism that was supposedly designed to ensure the lawmakers got anything done. the super committee announced its failure in a written statement. it reads, in part: after months of hard work and intense deliberations, we have come to the conclusion today that it will not be possible to make any bipartisan agreement available to the public before the committee's deadline. important to note here, the super committee held off on announcing its failure until after the markets closed. but traders on wall street and beyond and the world for that matter, saw this coming. and the major indices each lost about 2% of their value. the dow down 249. the nasdaq 49. the s&p 500 down 23. now, remember the six democrats and six republicans on the super committee were supposed to cut more than a trillion dollars from the federal budget over the next decade. their failure now is supposed to trigger automatic budget cuts to domestic programs, to defense spending, all starting in 2013. after the presidential election. those cuts designed to be brutal, to force lawmakers to compromise. seems that strategy, if meant to work, did not. and now some are scrambling to see if they can figure out a way to stop those cuts before they take effect. president obama says no, you won't. >> all already, some in congress have r. trying to undo these automatic spending cuts. my message to them is simple. no. i will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts domestic violence and defense spending. there will be no easy off ramps on this one. >> shepard: and he blaming republicans for failing to get a deal done. before the president spoke, the senate minority leader mitch mcconnell said not our fault. he released a statement that reads: in an the end an agreement proved impossible not because republicans were unwilling to compromise because democrats would not accept any proposal that did not expand the size and scope of government or punish job creators. well, there is plenty of blame to go around, no matter what any of them says, now all of us must face the consequences. mike emanuel with the news live on capitol hill. so, mike, tell us what, if anything, exactly is happening right now. >> well, senate co-chair of the super committee patty murray, the democratic co-chair says essentially they are going to have to figure out if they can live with those automatic cuts that were intended to be brutal. we have heard concerns from the pentagon, for example, about the defense cuts and hollowing out the united states military. minutes ago senator murray seemed to answer questions whether washington is broken regarding this failure take a listen. >> because this committee didn't reach an agreement by tonight doesn't mean that democracy doesn't work. it means we have to work harder to make a democracy work. >> at this hour there is also start of a bipartisan push to get the president to embrace his own deficit commission. the simpson bowls commission named for allen simpson and irskin bottles who called for $4 trillion in deficit cuts. a lot of lawmakers are saying failure is not an option for the country, shep. >> plenty of indications that failure might even have been the plan here. that said, what are they saying about the reasons they couldn't get this done? >> well, senator john kerry a a short time ago said that essentially boils down to the ideological divide in the country. he says democrats should take their arguments to the nation at this point. bottom line, everybody recognizes the election a year from now is a big factor in all of this. you can bet there will be plenty more arguing between now and election day over it. even though the super committee may be done at this point. and while the blame game gets underway. one senate republic says president obama deserves his share of the blame. take a listen. >> the commander and chief is absent from -- he needs to be leading in this. if he had told this debt committee, this 12 that he wanted an agreement, we would have had one. >> now, you talked at the top about those automatic cuts at the kick. in they don't kick in until january 2013. so you can expect plenty more battle here on capitol hill over those cuts or whether they should do something else. shep? >> shepard: battle or at least the looks thereof. mike, thank you. more ahead on the super committee's failure including why the fallout could be a lot bigger than most anybody realized. that's coming up just minutes from now inside fox report. first though, we're learning more about the man cops say wanted to blow up police stations and post offices. the mother of jose pimentel praising the new york police department for busing her son. police say pimentel was al qaeda sim paer. a man building pipe bombs in his mother's home in new york. the bust happened right before he had worked on a bomb. an hour before it would be working. officials released this surveillance photo and say it shows him right in the acts. the district attorney describes pimentel as a lone wolf who was planning he says to bomb attacks in new york city and new jersey. pimentel's mother telling reporters her son changed after converting to islam. >> loved him. like i tell him, i love him, he can hold off like a nice guy. he just changed a little bit. i don't know why he changed so that's horrible. >> how much damage one of those bombs could have done in their estimation. tonight there is word the fbi didn't think the guy was much of a threat at awesome let's get to the chief fox report correspondent jonathan hunt. this raises questions the fbi knew about the plot. the fbi knew about the investigation. the fbi said we are not in. >> yeah. it seems that fbi agents concluded that while pimentel was talking about building bombs, planning perhaps on using them. he, in their view, was mentally unstable and actually incapable of carrying out those sort of attacks. clearly the nypd completely disagreed. and, in that dramatic press conference yesterday, commissioner ray kelly said this man was within hours of carrying out some sort of bomb attack. certain terrorism experts, including' berger, intel.com believes the truth may lie somewhere in the middle. take a listen. >> you don't have to be that smart to kill people. you don't have to be that smart to create a lot of mayhem. we should be taking this seriously. it's not nothing. but, you know, we should also take it for what it is, which is it is not 9/11 either. >> of course, police commissioner ray kelly would argue that even if this man was capable of killing one new yorker, then he had to be arrested. >> shepard: mayor bloomberg called him a lone wolf. that is to say sometimes wolves don't find inspiration. >> exactly. experts like j.m. berger say the term loaf wolf can be misleading. people like pimentel guess inspiration from radical clerics like anwar al-awlaki. he was the u.s. born cleric based in yemen and operating from yemen until he was killed on september 30th by a u.s. missile strike. apparently, according to commissioner ray kelly, pimentel actually decided to speed up his planning and plots in the wake of that killing by u.s. forces. so, he may have been a lone wolf is the term being used. but he was taking inspiration, shep. >> shepard: he is locked up tonight. jonathan hunt, thanks very much. a new poll in politics giving us a look how our sitting president might do against candidate mitt romney in a battleground state and the results may be revealing. we will get a live update from america's election headquarters coming up. plus, a police officer using pepper spray. look at this. do these protesters appear to be doing much of anything wrong to you? what should happen to this police officer? is there an investigation? there is a new protest. and there is new fallout and it's ahead from the journalists of fox news on this monday fox report. congratulations. congratulations. congralations. today, the city of charlotte can use verizon technology to inspire binesses to conserve energy and monitor costs. making communities greener... congratulations. ... and buildings as valuable to the bottom line... whoa ! ... as the people inside them. congratulations. because when you add verizon to your company, you don't just add, you multiply. ♪ discover something new... verizon. that's why i recommend crest pro-health clinical gum protection. it helps eliminate plaque at the gum line, helping prevent gingivitis. it's even clinically proven to help reverse it in just 4 weeks. crest pro-health clinical gum protection. >> shepard: fox news is america's election headquarters. and there is a brand new poll that shows the former massachusetts governor mitt romney beating president obama in a hypothetical matchup in michigan. pollsters asked if the presidential election were held today for whom would you vote? governor romney wound up with 46%. president obama 41%. of course, that's still in the margin of error and a long way away. you will recall governor romney was born in michigan and his father was a two-term governor there but president obama carried the state in 2008. in new hampshire, governor romney has picked up key endorsements from important lawmakers locally. facing a challenge in the first of the nation primary from whom? campaign carl cam cammeron with the details in washington. looks like former speaker of the house newt gingrich is gaining ground. >> leading in the national polls or at least tied with mitt romney in a number of them as well as he is in iowa and new hampshire. today, shep, the former speaker of the house outlined sweeping entitlement reforms. he would block -- he he block federal grant money to deal with social programs for the poor including medicaid. offer private alternatives to medicare. repeal obama care and let younger workers invest in private accounts as alternative to social security which most securities say would be a better deal. here he is. >> make the whole thing voluntary. you don't want to do it, don't do it. if you are dumb enough you prefer to get less money with less control while relying on politicians, that's your prerogative. you are an american. you are allowed to be dumb. >> classic newt gingrich letting it all hang out. gingrich says in matter years private accounts for social security could eliminate 50% of income inequality because people have investments in private savings of their own. at one point tens of balls of billions of dollars in savings. >> shepard: no talk of newt gingrich. >> campaigning a lot in the grand state. completely ignored the house speaker. he was bashing instead president obama true to form for mitt romney. been trying to avoid republic rivals all along. talked about the super committee and its failure to avert huge cuts. he said the president should also step in now and do something lest he be guilty yet again of failing to lead. >> i would call on the president and do call on the president to immediately introduce legislation which says we will not have a 600 billion-dollar cut to america's military. we should not cut any funding from our base department of defense budget. that should not occur. [ applause ] >> the president -- romney today suggested that the president is more interested in his re-election than dealing with the nation's fiscal orders. tomorrow, the president will be in new hampshire where romney is starting his tv ad campaign. its a big deal. he waited a long time to do. this four years ago he had already spent millions by now. this will be the first and and won't talk about the republic rivals it will talk about president obama when he gets to new hampshire accusing him of breaking campaign promises while president. >> shepard: now california and what some are calling stunning display by police. campus officials are feeling the sting of pepper spraying at student protesters. watch this. [yelling] >> they are just sitting there. it happened friday at the university of california davis campus. you see the students just sitting, arms linked as officers doused them with a red mist of pepper spray. the demonstration was in support of the occupy wall street movement. today, hundreds of students rallied to protest the officers' actions. the crowd booing when the school's embattled chancellor took the stage. she told them she, quote, feels awful about the officers' actions but students repeatedly yelled for her resignation. quite a difference from this weekend when the student protesters gave her the silent treatment as she left the campus building. listen. >> she reportedly stayed inside for hours because the crowd was believed to be hostile. but an icy silence greeted her as she walked to her car. powerful. we're told there were several hundreds stliewnts in solidarity with the occupy protesters. two officers now on administrative leave and so is the chief of campus police. every member of egypt's cabinet offered to resign today. here is why. now they are calling it egypt's second revolution. and these demonstrations today turned bloody. plus, the crisis at penn state. where officials are calling in very big guns to help get some answers in the child sex abuse scandal. now, congress launches an investigation. the details are next. so suddenly you're cutting back on everything from family vacations to cell phone minutes. well here's a thought - how bout cuttin' back on gas? here's how: the ford f-150. it gets 23 highway miles per gallon. that's the best. so you can get the job done and get a break at the pump. yeah, can you hear me now? this is the future. this is the ford f-150. but my nose is still runny. 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[chanting] >> shepard: chants of god is great filling the confines of cairo square. a very different scene from a few hours earlier. [shouting] >> shepard: demonstrators said to be running away from tear gas not far from that same square. remember, it was the center of the uprising that toppled hosni mubarak. government operations after he stepped down in february. some analysts say they will keep protesting until the entire military gives up power and the people's government can take charge. today the white house reported it's pushing for a transitional peaceful one. >> we call for restraint on all sides so that egyptians can move forward together to forge a strong and united egypt. >> shepard: members of the ruling military council say they will only step down after they hold presidential elections. what we don't know is when they will hold presidential elections. the people of egypt could be waiting for months or even years. reena ninan works joe the -- jem for us. is there any sense when they might actually resign. >> we thought we would hear more, shep. the issued a anemic statement saying they call for end of violence they will investigate the 33 people who died over the past three days. we are hearing reports that the military council is trying to figure out who might possibly head up this interim government. and among the names diplomatic sources confirm to us they are thinking about is the possible former head of the iaea mohammed el baradei, shep. >> the election is set for other things. what does it mean for those elections? >> the election in egypt that were supposed to take place on monday, shep, the people that are coming out and protesting tens of thousands, they are upset because there isn't regime change. so you are seeing some unlikely allies. the state department and muslim brotherhood are actually calling for the same thing. they want these elections to take place. on monday. and to go through and analysts are saying that the worst thing that could happen right now is for those elections to be delayed. shep, not just the images you are seeing in tahrir square right now. thee protests are taking place throughout 14 different cities in egypt. shep? >> shepard: reena ninan live this early tuesday morning. thank you. the super committee did about what we expected it to do. it failed. failed to reach a deal on spending cuts. what does it really mean for you and me and maybe the children and grandchildren? a live report on what will be the fallout coming up. plus, the black friday backlash. support is growing for a worker at a major retailer who says his bosses are about to ruin thanksgiving. so does the employer have to say about that in details straight ahead? and why did police go on a high speed chase with an suv that belongs, well, -- see it there? kind of policish looking, isn't it? ♪ and putting all our helpers to work? so we can build on our favorite traditions by adding a few new ones. we've all got garlands and budgets to stretch. and this year, we can keep them both evergreen. more saving. more doing. that's the power of the home depot. make your season even brighter with 300-count icicle lights for just $7.48. another holiday and stuck at the kids table again. andrew, me on over here. sit over here. 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>> for one thick right now the federal government faces shutdown on december 17th if a new spending deal isn't finalized by then. >> we're in an era of hyper polarization and hyperpartisanship. those things are making it very difficult for congress to do anything. soon we're going to be in campaign 2012 mode, which is going to make it even more difficult for members of congress to take actions. >> some people are probably already in campaign 2012 mode. one last issue, shep, on which lawmakers will face considerable pressure to act before new years expiring unemployment benefits for the millions of americans who are entering this holiday season without a job, shep. >> shepard: washington as impressive as always. james rosen, thank you. the white house is teaming up with great britain and cand to punish iran for its asuspected nuclear weapons program. they are slapping the islamic regime with new measures to limit its financial transactions and ban certain exports in an attempt to force iran to back down from its nuclear standoff with the world iran's leaders continue to defy their international obligations and violate international norms. >> until iran bans this course we will continue to use tough means to impose severe economic and financial consequences. >> bill: this. >> shepard: this comes after a watchdog group which suggests iran may be closer than ever to developing atomic weapons. a worker at the retail giant target says his employer is set to ruin thanksgiving with its plan to open as early as midnight this coming black friday. the workers started an internet petition against the plan and today another worker delivered the printed copy with nearly 200,000 signatures to target headquarters. in plastic target shopping bags. >> the petition is not about me, you know. it is about everybody that i work with, everybody that works in retail. this is just an opportunity for us, all of us to stand up and say no, come on, leave us one day to spend with our families. >> shepard: our overnight shift here at the news channel finds this fascinating. target executive says the company's decision to start early was not made lightly. gerri willis from the fox business network is here. probably people out there happy to work midnights if these people don't want to work midnights. >> people that don't have jobs would have be happy to work. target says we are responding to the market. this is what it takes to be competitive. they put out a statement today. here is what they said. our gusts have expressed they would prefer to kick off holiday shopping by heading out after holiday celebrations rather than getting up in the middle of the night. of course, they are not the only ones doing it, best buy, kohl's, macy's also opening at midnight. not just target. >> shepard: black friday a very big deal prior to the internet revolution. is it still that big a deal? what are the numbers. >> black friday very big. one in ten americans last year started their shopping thanksgiving day at midnight. at the midnight hour. a quarter of all sales are in november and december for retail shops. so you can imagine that is the game. you have to win there. black friday weekend last year drew $45 billion in sales. 212 million americans shopped that weekend. that's just about everybody except your dog and your grandpa. >> shepard: right and the 1-year-olds. >> right. >> shepard: watch gerri willis 5:00 eastern, 4:00 central on the willis report on fox business network. if your stocking isn't stuffed as full this year blame the shaky economy if you choose. survey from two major consumer groups find 41% of people plan to spend less this holiday season than last. only 8% say they plan to spend more. best laid plans. 37% people say they are in worse. that's 7% increase from last christmas. new details about the collapse of a wall street giant once headed by former governor and senator. tonight we are learning $600 million in missing customer cash was just the half of it a live update next. then, police say they found some items of interest in the search for a missing 2-year-old boy. a story we have been covering for a while now. and his mother is reportedly speaking out for the first time or is she? 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[ male announcer ] medicare open enrollment ends soon. cal1-800-medice or visit medica.gov to learn re. >> shepard: the truth is ivan worse. the bankrupt brokerage firm m.f. global may have lost more than a billion dollars of its clients' money. twice as much as regulators first estimated. that from a trustee who is trying to return the cash to investigators former new jersey governor resigned as ceo of m.f. global after the company told the. regulators investigating how much money really disappeared and whether the firm wrongly mixed clients' cash with company assets. something you cannot do. adam shapiro is with us. how much money might customers actually get back? >> key question, right? show have got roughly 60% or 60 cents on the dollar. according to the trustee. that's what they are looking at right now, which, if you were an investor, chap, that means you have lost 40 cents on the dollar. >> shepard: criminal charges against anybody here. >> not yet. the fenn is looking at this. they have forensic accountants looking at this. and attorneys here in manhattan looking into whether or not laws were violated. because originally it was 600 million. now it's 1.2 billion. they can't find the money. >> shepard: are investors up in arms about this? >> they have been angry about this from the get-go. when these things happen, they just hit a stonewall. the securities investor protection corporation really controls the situation. they are angry with them because they don't think they are moving fast enough. that's the trustee. >> shepard: jon corzine in the clear here. >> he heantd hasn't said anything since he stepped down on november 4th and issued his statement saying he was leaving. he hasn't acknowledged this issue where this money is. >> shepard: quiet all of a sudden. interestingly. adam shapiro, thank you. movie star and parents of a teenager witnesses today hearing about media practices. the hearing in london comes in the wake of a tabloid hacking scandal. that scandal began when investors say staffers of the news of the world newspaper broke into the voice mail accounts of people they were covering. in one case, they were accused of hacking of voice mail of a 13-year-old named millie do you ler when she disappeared in 2002. those investigators reportedly deleted messages. giving her parents false hope she might be alive. today her mom talked about that moment. >> i rang her phone. >> yes. >> it clicked through on to her voice mail so i heard her voice. >> yes. >> it was just like -- she picked up her voice mail. she is alive. >> shepard: news corporation, which owns the company later closed down the news of the world. news corps also owns this channel. but today an accusation that staffers at another newspaper used the very same tactics. the actor hugh grant told investigators he believes the mail on sunday newspaper hacked his voice mail to find out about his dating life. >> i cannot for the life of me think of any conceivable source for this story in the mail on sunday except those voice messages on my mobile telephone. >> shepard: news corps does not own that paper. hugh grant says he doesn't have any hard evidence to back up his claim. flooding has now killed more than 600 people according to one country's government officials. that tops our news around the world in 80 seconds. thailand, the high waters now receding but the country's worst flooding in more than 50 years has left a devastating mark. factory workers returning to a plastics plant in the central province. general manager says they weren't expecting the water to get so high. the flooding hit many foreign owned businesses in the country. colombia. a bus plunging off a cliff about 100 miles west of the capital. the wreck killed at least nine people according to police. rescue workers climbed down that mountain to try to reach survivors. police say the driver lost control in heavy fog while trying to avoid a rock on the road. india. [shouting] >> angry fans rioting after former indian cricket player claimed an old world cup match between india and sri lankan can a was mixed. the mob burned evidence gee of the tropical form everywhere ca. supporters of that player also lit fires. one cricket official denies the match was fixed. china, more than a 50 camels reportedly setting record for the world's largest camel race. 3-mile run took about three miles. we're told the animals trained for six months before this thing and that's a wrap on this fox trip around the world in 80 seconds. >> there is word tonight the mother of a missing toddler in washington state may have just broken her silence. may have. remember 2-year-old sky vanished earlier this month. the mother claims she left her son alone in the car after she says it ran out of gas. cops say that's a big fat lie, that the car had plenty of gas. the boy's father, he estranged from the mother, said he believes she knows where sky is but so far the mom has refused to speak to investigators since her initial interview. now, abc news is reporting somebody using the mother's email account contacted that news network over the weekend and had this to say about the boy's father and i quote: my former husband is a sadistic muslim pakistani. no one has any idea. he goes on to say this is all too difficult. kindly, julia. the name of the mom. nobody has confirmed the message is actually from that mom. her family tells abc the email address is the one that she had been using. trace gallagher is live in our west coast news hub this afternoon. trace, there was another search. the cops say it turned up items of interest, whatever that means. >> yeah, it was a tip that led police to this park about two miles away from where the family lives, shep. they won't tell us what they found. apparently good enough to bring the entire forensic team out. they were out of this park until very late in the evening on saturday. apparently they sent a number of items to the lab for analysis now. it appeared to be grim news going in because they brought in shovels and they brought in rakes. that's a bad sign when you are looking for a 2-year-old. but they did not find a body. though police do believe the mother is still involved. listen. >> i have to resist the temptation to put a label on julia in regard to a person of interest or a suspect or anything else. but i can tell you that my statement stands about her story falling apart. >> and the analysis in those items of interest should be in some time next week, shep. >> shepard: the investigators have released some new-to-us photos in this case? >> yeah. surveillance photos. what they show is the mom, julia and sky in the hours leading up to when sky disappeared. the reason police are releasing these, take a look. you can see how different the mom looks. her hair is much darker in the surveillance photo. her face looks differently. even if you look at sky's he looks differently because his hair is shorter in one of the surveillance pictures or longer than it is in the picture that's been widely distributed. the hope here is that someone saw the family and might give more specific details. they have so far gotten about 1200 tips in this case. and they say about 25 of them are worth following up on, shep. >> shepard: trace gallagher in los angeles. trace, thanks. an arrest in the death of a major league baseball player. the suspect? the athlete's own brother. 24-year-old greg holman was an outfielders for the seattle mariners. somebody stabbed him today. cops have questioned his 22-year-old brother. holman made it to the majors last year after he became a star of european baseball. major league commissioner bud selig calling hallman's death painful for everyone in the sport. the united states attorney general already under fire for the botched gun program fast and furious, and now some republicans are accusing him of stalling the investigation. a live update on the details coming next. plus, a coastal highway collapses into the sea. the details on that as fox reports live tonight. >> there is new fallout from the botched gun tracking operation known as fast and fewer yus. investigators say the fed lost track of hundreds of weapons they were supposed to be following back in mexico. police say they found some of those same guns at the crime scenes on both sides of the border. including at the murder scene of a u.s. border patrol agent brian tawr terry. dozens of republicans in congress with demanding the attorney general eric holder resign. he recently told a senate committee he would not take action on fast and furious unless and until a federal office completes its investigation which we're told could be months away. william la jeunesse is live this afternoon in los angeles. william? >> well, shep, the republicans began to investigate fast and furious in february when it was obvious the problem wasn't going away, attorney general holder asked its department's inspector general to investigate. essentially two investigations. one by house republicans. the other by cynthia, the justice department's inspector general. they once worked together and republicans believe holder is using the ig investigation to stall congress. >> to stonewall us and deny us access to people who have first-hand knowledgenned the reduce that we can't do it because there is an ig investigation going on is coincidental at best and transparent would probably be a better word. >> history shows that ig reports can be scathing and thorough or a white watch. republicans fear snard's report will not adequately assign blame. 13 times in november holder deferred to the inspector general when asked a question by congress. democrats believe holder is blameless and did not know fast and furious was happening an assertion they believe the ig will confirm. >> they are thorough. they leave no stone unturned. they are hard-hitting. so i think we will have a very good and solid analysis of what went wrong in this operation. >> the ig report i am told is several months away. and only then holder says that he will act against those responsible. house republicans may not be so patient. shepard, on basically the house judiciary committee will have a meeting on december 8th where they will grill the attorney general once again. back to you. >> shepard: william la jeunesse live in los angeles. william, thanks. a group in ohio is now proposing strict new bands on exotic animals. this comes after a man released dozens of wild animals from his farm last month. officials say they had to gun down dozens of them. ohio hats weakest restrictions on owning wild animals. the associated press has now obtained the new study group's new proposed guidelines. they recommend a ban on venomous snakes as well as potentially dangerous animals including tigers and monkeys. zoos, circuses and research centers would be exempt from this ban. look at this, heavy rain forced a giant chunk of a road to break apart yesterday on a cliff running alongside the pacific ocean alongside los angeles. some of that road washed right into the water. officials say they closed it a few months ago after they learned that the group -- that the ground, i should say, wassing at average rate of 4 inches a day. no reports of injuries or property damage from that collapse. now scientists are analyzing the cliff to see if it could ever support another roadway. most dogs prefer fetch or belly rubs. but for one dog in ohio, it's the movies that are apparently getting its tail wagging. actually, just one movie. over and over again. this puppy's motion picture obsession next. and then mr. bill o'reilly. 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[ male announcer ] innovative medical solutions. fedex. solutions that matter. >> shepard: the 1995 movie babe was a big hit mostly among humans. for this border collie a bit of an obsession. we're told the dog watches it almost every day and even used to push the tape into the vcr without any help. >> one day i put that one. in he made it quite clear that that is what he wanted to see. every time it would go through the movie, he would hit the tv and he would bark until i put it back. in he has watched it for 11 and a half years. >> shepard: she says it's all the dog want to watch. check out what happens during the tv's fight scene during the villain news dog rex. [barking] >> sick-em. apparently the dog knows all the scenes by heart and pester its owners until they put the movie on. >> updating some of fox top stories tonight. president obama is blaming republicans after the so-called super committee failed miserably to reach a deal to cut the deficit. the top republic in the senate blamed democrats saying they pushed proposals that would have expanded government or punished job creators. the failure leading to a big sell-off on wall street. the dow dropping 249 points. the u.s. senate set to hold a hearing next month in the wake of the alleged child sex abuse scandal at penn state. school officials bringing in a former fbi director to head an independent investigation. and on this day in 1976, silversster stallone first let the silver screen as the underdogfighter rocky balboa. of course, the movie tells the fictional story of a lone shark's muscle man who got a chance to spar with the world heavyweight champion apollo creed thanks to his trainer mickey and his ability to take a punch or a lot of them. the rock went 15 rounds with the world's greatest. the fight went to creed by default but proved rocky was no bum after all. the movie won three oscars. it made sylvester stallone a major star and spun five hit sequels. the italian stallion first yelled out yo adrian on the big screen 35 years ago today. now you