that could surprise you. it's all ahead unless breaking news changing everything on studio b. but, first from fox at 3:00 in new york, a potentially major shakeup for the white house could come as early as this week. as you probably know, many reports have indicated the white house chief of staff, rahm emanuel, will step down, to run for mayor of chicago. fox has learned the official announcement could happen this friday. a source close to rahm emanuel says family considerations are the only hurdle left. of course rahm moved from chicago to washington after the 2008 election. he has he young kids in school in washington, dc. a run for mayor means moving the family back to chicago which is infer easy especially during the school year. and now like from the white house with the latest on how it affects the decisionmaking. >>reporter: you said it: rahm emanuel just moved the family here from washington, dc, moving the kids out of the schools they attempted in chicago since being a member of congress. for him to run for mayor would be moving them back, probably by christmas. and they might have to find a new house because the one he occupies has now been represented out. the past week or so rahm emanuel has met with other chicago politicians considering a run for mayor including self members of congress, jackson, and the man that was elected to rahm emanuel's seat, and the message is if they run against each other don't let the campaign get ugly. rahm emanuel's chances look good from washington, but chicago's politics are local and there are a couple of things he lacks: he lack as strong local political base in chicago and he doesn't have a large number of people who owe him political favors so do not call him mr. mayor yet. >>shepard: if he decides to run tell us what will happen. >>reporter: the frontrunner to replace him is peter rouse who takes over as interim chief and for a number of reasons the president might not be in a real hurry to replace him. the two go way back, the president hired rouse to be his senate chief of staff in 2004 and rouse is part of the inner circle that planned mr. obama's run for the white house. and he also has a history of working with members of congress. he was daschle's chief of stamp for -- staff for 20 years. >>shepard: great to see you. and we will talk about rahm emanuel's expected departure and what it meepz for the white house with the cofounder and executive director of www.realclearpolitics.com. and the ultimate reality show, and the united states is wanting very closely the north korean dictator kim chong-il as he promotes his third son to the rank of four star general. in doing so ahead of the nuclear armed nation's biggest political gathering in three decades. this is a new picture of his son. people in the north korean capital appear excited for the big announcement dancing in the square but there are things that are not always exactly as they seem and it is a secret country. our corporate is live at our newsroom here in new york. do we have any clue what is happening? >>reporter: not really. nothing for certain when it comes to north korea but it seems now that it is highly likely his son will take over as leader when his father dies. given kim chong-il's sickness, that could be very soon. so, what will north korea look like under kim the younger? not a lot different according to our experts. >> he is chubby and ruthless as his dad. he got the dictator gene and if he takes over you do not see much change? he is a mini me dictator. >> beyond that there is very little we know about the young man in his late 20's who may soon have his finger on north korea's nuclear button. >> we know he went to private school in switzerland until he was 15. he went there una false name posing as the son of the driver of the north korean embassy. and reportedly he idolizes michael jordan and he is into roller blading, skateboarding, and basketball and snow boarding, skiing. he likes good food, obviously, from the pictures we have seen of him. but the one thing, the important thing about him is that he is not ready to take over from his dad. remember, the founder of north korea, spent more than 20 years preparing for the succession of his son, kim chong-il, the current leader. kim chong-il has spent basically two years trying to get his son ready. and, so, this is really haphazard planning. >>reporter: and that could mean a power struggle. his son may have the backing of his father but he has put his sister in a powerful position and her husband and those two may decide weapon kill chemical dies they would rather have all the power rather than advising from the shadows. >>reporter: there will be a free-for-all and because assassination is a time-honored method of dispute resolution in the regime we can imagine it will be bloody. >>reporter: that could mean chaos, which would be chaos in a nuclear armed country, not good for everyone. >>shepard: thank you, hive from the -- live from the newsroom. stay tuned. developing still, former president carter hospitalized toafd after -- today after he became ill on a flight. he was due in cleveland for a book signing but when the flight arrived from atlanta crews took president carter off the plan and property him into the metro health hospital. our correspondent is live with more. what is the official word at this point on president carter's condition? >>reporter: he is fine. there is nothing serious but there is conflicting reporting about if he still is in the cleveland hospital. we know what his grandson said on facebook and what the carter center has said and they put out a statement about the 86-year-old former president saying while on the flight to cleveland the former u.s. president jimmy carter developed an upset stomach and taken to metro health hospital. he is resting. he is expected to resume the book tour this week. carter's grandson, jason, a georgia state senator, said on the facebook that the former president was out of the hospital but said, no, he was misinformed and he is still in the hospital. we are checking with the hospital. carry's book tour was scheduled to take him to 16 cities by the end of the month and he had written a book called "white house diary," and back to you. >>shepard: thank you live from capitol hill. the c.i.a. stepping up attacks against mill taps inside pakistan. if you think there is not a war look again. these strikes could be an effort to stop potential plots against the unit united kingdom and europe. stay tuned. @k@k@k@k@k@k@k >> the president of afghanistan crying in reaction to the violence saying it is keeping children from attending school and could force people to leave his country. a reported suicide bomb killed a deputy governor on the way to work. and his son, his nephew and a bodyguard. after during a national televised speech the president karzai broke down in tears calling the taliban his country men and urged them to "do not destroy your own soil." i am scared. i am scared that maybe my son will leave afghanistan and abandon the country and become a foreigner for the sake of god, stop it. i don't want my son to be a former. he told afghans not to use the war as an excuse to let their country fall apart. >> fox learned that the c.i.a. has stepped up its missile attacks in the tribal regions of pakistan where militants are hiding. sources say the c.i.a. carried out the attacks because there was good intelligence to act. the wall street journal which is owned by the parent company of this news network reports that the strike aimed to stop a suspected terrorist plot against targets in europe. word of the strike comes after pakistani accused nato of violating airspace during helicopter attack that killed more than 70 people last friday. nato reports that the troops fired in helpful defense. for more, we will bring in, for more on this i am joined by a man traveling in afghanistan, author of "world's most dangerous place." what do we make of this, rob? >>guest: interesting they are bringing so much publicity to the strikes. i was open the beard in 2002 in the hunt for osama bin laden and there were quite a few cross border attacks but what we see now is much, much, better level of information and intelligence coming from the ground. they are essentially targeting all hostile elements in the small area. >>shepard: we do not hear about what is taking place in pakistan and i suppose for good reason. do you have a sense how big our operation is and is it fair to call it another war over there? >>guest: in pakistan, that area is a problem and they are supposed to be our allies so we don't talk about this but they have supported the hostile elements we are fighting. we created the people when we funded them with $3 billion. so right now the communist family controls the main transportation route from pakistan to kabul for the violence. we have never had good penetration into the tribe which in the last area they have puttest into getting good intelligence and it is embarrassing because we continue to present pakistan with hard proof that their government is supporting these elements, the three of them, three different groups. >>shepard: what is this leading to, the big picture? what is the main goal? cut off that route? is that what this is about, really? >>guest: it is the same route we built up in the 1980's, moving people in and drugs out. the problem is, very embarrassing because we are dancing with the devil and talking about leaving afghanistan and pakistan is robustly supporting the three organizations. when we hear karzai crying about his son being a foreigner, he is pulling the taliban back into the government so the prospects are not pleasant. >>shepard: a mess, that is for sure. thank you, great to see you. new word that the eiffel tower was shut down again today on a bomb threat. of course, they are seven hours ahead of us, so it is 10:15 and tourists are allowed back after it was evacuated a couple of hours. the second alert in two weeks in paris. this is the telephone threat as man others have come in. france is on high alert, or "alert," for possible terror attack on crowded targets. they are nervous in europe, the intelligence seems to indicate there is good reason. what is to happen, we don't know but they are trying to stop it. >> first, a court stepped in. then governor arnold schwarzenegger. and now? 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we will get the anchor of the willis report, and her two cents. the cbo admits extending the tax cuts is good for growth. >> that's right, that is what they say. but, look, he says that it is not as good as extending unemployment benefits, or taking on a host of other stimulus kind of projects that would actually past the economy more like infrastructure spending. >>shepard: the best thing is to spend money on food stamps because they come back $1.71 to $1. >>reporter: but any are in the doing that. >>shepard: the one thing that is lost in this matter of tax cuts is, it is not just tax cuts for the rich but tax cuts for everybody. for the first $250,000 everyone goes back to previous rates, and everything above that is taxed so everybody every single person every business, will keep it as this rate but over $250,000. >>reporter: everyone gets a tax cut. you pay the same amount at similar levels but there is a concern here that if you to reinstate the bush tax cuts you will not get the same level of revenue and that is a problem because we have a $14 trillion debt, $1.4 trillion deficit, and lots of problems there and he is worried about having enough money to pay for the government going forward. >>shepard: i know that from the year that the tax cuts went into play, each year after that we kept getting bigger deficit. >>reporter: we were financing wars and other things going on i don't think that was brought up in this testimony. >>shepard: thank you for the two cents. see you at 5:00 eastern and 4:00 in oxford today. stay tuned. >>shepard: new testimony in the deadly home invasion trial in connecticut, a horrible story. the today a state official took the stand to explain in graphic detail how somebody set a fire that killed a mother and her two daughters. 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