on the live desk. [captioning made possible by fox news channel] captioned by the national captioning institute www.ncicap.org martha: hello, everybody. welcome to the live desk. trace: this is where the news begins. this is what is behind the news. tim gaughan is covering the national news. the foreign desk is covering the globe. every picture that you see on fox news comes through the media desk. all the brand new pictures, you will see on the live desk on the right-hand side of the screen. after months of deliberations, the president is hours away from laying out his plan and afghanistan, the troop numbers, strategy, that line. but the cost and commitment has some democrats skeptical. the man thought to be a cop killer is dead. maurice clemmons shot and killed by a police officer that there is now were in that up to seven people could be arrested in this case. in the bottom box, the so- called party crashers speaking out. they say they were invited, and has the doc
couric: good evening, everyone. in just a short while, president obama will address the nation from the u.s. military academy at west point and tell us how he plans to finish the job in afghanistan. with fewer than two out of five americans approving of his handling of the war and after months of deliberation, he s decided to send in 30,000 more u.s. troops, the first of them will be there by christmas. the goal: putting down a resurgence of the taliban and rooting out al qaeda. the president will also say he ll begin pulling u.s. forces out of afghanistan in the summer of 2011. the price tag for his new strategy? as much as $30 billion for the first year. our chief white house correspondent chip reid is at west point. chip, this could be a tough sell for the president. reporter: absolutely right, katie. in fact, the president is going to make clear that one way he s going to try to sell this is by saying that he s going to get those troops into afghanistan and out of afg
all right. i m robin meade. morning, sunshine. come here. we re going to do some news. here s what s going on today. time could be running out for a man suspected of killing four police officers. how police are trying to back him into a corner. plus, you might not see tiger woods for a while. he s apparently too injured to play in his own tournament. what police now want to know. tonight president obama makes a big speech about afghanistan, expected to send 30,000 additional troops into harm s way. and we re hearing from one of them, only he is shipping out for his seventh deployment. can you imagine? first, though, washington state police are spread out across two-counties searching for a man suspected of killing four police officers. last night officers surrounded another house in the seattle area, the second time in as many days. the first time they thought they caught up to maurice clemmons. this time they did it to stop friends and family from possibly helping him.
one law professor says maybe you should walk away. your views on his advice, and wait until you hear the rest of it, too. happy monday to you. aye hope you had a good holiday week. i m so grateful you re here now. i m christi paul. the university of washington is son alert because of a suspected cop killer may be on campus. the man accused of shooting four officers to death was reported getting off a bus near the university s hospital this morning. that man, take a look here, identified as maurice clemons. police swore out three arrest warnings. he was injured during the shooting. a s.w.a.t. team surrounded a seattle house all night believes he was inside, but he is not there. the four officers died at a coffee shop about 40 miles from seattle. witnesses told police a gunman walked in and opened fire on them. one apparently was able to return fire and hit the attacker. we are now learning after the incident occurred, getting reports he made comments the night before to
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