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Days to go to the election right now, there are so many, questions, including what is the extent of organized terror threats? where are they emerging? where should we be watching. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live in washington with more. lets first start with libya. what are we learning about the alleged commander of attack in benghazi and his group in north africa, that region of world? >> reporter: that, jenna. the leader of ansar al-sharia brigade in benghazi the li...

Obama campaign? >> reporter: well, jenna, face it, the number one issue facing americans is the economy, but that is an issue upon which the president is very, very vulnerable. that is the reason, many analysts say, that the obama campaign is now turning to these social issues, and key among them, of course, is the so-called war on women. a linchpin of the so of called war on women is the right to abortion. its one of the reasons that at that campaign rally at george may john university in subur...

May ask him to say if hes ready to go to iran, he should tell that to a war-weary american public. in their debate tuesday night, romney said the president has squandered americas leadership, especially in the middle east. >> we have iran four years closer to a nuclear bomb, syria. syrias not just the tragedy of 30,000 civilians being killed by a military, but also a strategic, strategically-significant player for america. the presidents policies throughout the middle east began with an apology ...

Like this, you have a bombing in beirut, begins things, it may well end with another civil war this time also in lebanon. jenna: disturbing video yet again of another little child being held up, obviously, a victim of the latest rounds of attack in syria. leland, thank you. well continue to watch it. jon: now, this fox news alert. new developments in the deadly nationwide meningitis outbreak that so far has killed 20 people. a new lawsuit targets company officers at the pharmacy that produced th...

>> four years ago i told you wed end the war in iraq, and i did. i said wed end the war in afghanistan, and can we are. i said wed focus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11, and we have, and bin laden is dead. >> reporter: aaron david miller, the vice president of the woodrow wilson institute who was on our air within the past hour, says were stuck in a middle east we cant fix or leave. he says our choices are divided between migraines and root canals. he says each president or --...

Economy. the campaign says while benghazi is an important issue, whats moving voters is the economy. the president has just touched down -- well, actually drove out from washington -- at george mason university as the romney campaign attacks him on a lack of agenda for his second term. listen to what congressman paul ryan said in florida. >> president obama has not even made his case for a second term. youve seen all these debates, hes not even telling americans what hes going to do to make thin...

Some suckful including fort hood in 2009 where major nidal hasan is accused killing 13 and wounding 30 others. there is shahzad who was trained by the pakistani taliban for a plot to plant a car bomb in times square that failed. this is part of a growing body of evidence that homegrown terrorism is on the rise. >> the threat has metastasized. in some ways it is more dangerous because it is hard to get a reed and a bead on all these various actors and weve lost some allies in the region who, good...

Jerusalem bureau with more. >> reporter: this certainly doesnt look good for that proposed cease fire in the syrian civil war that would start next friday for the muslim holiday. neither side seems willing to end the violence, and were seeing that violence getting closer and closer to president assads power base there inside of damascus, and you cannot take away from this anything but the human toll that is being caused by this civil war as there are a number of civilians caught in the cross fir...

Tuesday morning at a gas station, a shell station. they have surveillance video of her suv from that shell station. one thing police are reportedly looking at today is the three-hour gap between the time that her husband was told that he didnt show up for work and his first call to 911. police say her husband is fully cooperating with the investigation. now details on whitney. you see here her description. 52", dark hair, 120 pounds, approximately, and again there is her picture. anyone who may ...

Jon: right now, police in oregon are searching for a 21-year-old coffee shop barista missing since tuesday. harris faulkner has the latest on the search. >> reporter: whitney hichell worked stardom bucks, a five-minute drive from her home. police have talked to her husband, he said she kissed him goodbye and didnt make it to work. they are calling her disappearance suspicious. her ford explorer turned up in a parking lot a few miles from her home. police say the passenger side window was smashed...