chicken that the egyptian military is involved with here. >> shepard: tonight, the latest on the captives and the possible consequences. and. >> now, ripple, what were you thinking? >> shepard: apparently ripples did not want to fly coach. >> some people tried to catch him up front in first class and he took off. >> i sought cat jump into the cockpit. >> shepard: attention passengers, we may be here a while. but first from fox this friday night, investigators in utah say they have stopped a potential massacre at a high school outside salt lake city. that's their words. police arresting two teens who were told had delayed a bomb plot and they had laid it out. blueprints of the school, a plan to get away in a stolen plane. fortunately we are told they did not yet have any explosives. happened in the city of roy, utah about 30 miles north of the state capital. the suspects 16 and 18 years old. this is the 18-year-old's mugshot. we're not showing the picture of his alleged accomplice because he is still a minor. but cops say the two of them planned to set off a bomb at a school assembly in order to take out as many people as possible. and as is so often the case with these sorts of crimes, it appears the inspiration was the 1999 attack on columbine high school. and cops say these young men were deadly serious. >> the specific planning and process of getting ready to do a major event that would take lives at roy high school was being prepared and planned by two young men at the school. >> shepard: but we're told the plot unraveled when the suspects texted some of their friends with a vague warning that trouble was coming. one text read: if i told to you stay home on a certain day, would you? fortunately one of those friends alerted school administrators and "the fox report" chief correspondent jonathan hunt picks up the story from there. that was the only text message that set off bells for the administrator. >> no it's not, shep. apparently it's the 16-year-old sending out these text messages according to investigators. he sent one of them to at least one fellow student using words like explosives and killing and talking specifically about the plan to get away using a stolen plane, saying in one text message we ain't going to crash it we're just going to kill and fly our way to a country that won't send us back to the u.s. now the police chief in roy, utah says the student who alerted authorities may well have saved many lives. listen. >> when the information first came, it came from someone who had very little information but was concerned about it. and we were able to quickly put some information together. >> and having put that information together, shep, they decided they had no choice but to act. >> shepard: one of those students was reportedly not only inspired by the massacre at columbine but obsessed with it. >> again, according to the investigators, 16-year-old so obsessed with the columbine massacre in 1999, last december he actually traveled to littleton, colorado and interviewed under the pretense of being a student journalist the principal of columbine high school. police also say in their affidavit in court today that this 16-year-old, quote: he was offended that he was compared to the columbine killers. he was offended by the fact that those killers only completed 1% of their plan and he was much more intelligent. we should point out that it is still unclear tonight whether these two students had in their possession any weapons or any of the explosives they talked about. but cops clearly decided, shep, that they weren't going to take any chances. >> shepard: jonathan hunt, thanks very much. six americans still trapped in egypt as the fox reports tonight. u.s. officials are warning the egyptians that they could pay a very high price if they don't let the group go. you will remember u.s. taxpayers give egypt more than a billion dollars a year in aid. this year's check is not yet in the mail. >> congress has asked for a number of certifications from secretary before this money can go forward. it is certainly something that we have been calling to the egyptian government's attention. >> shepard: one of the captives is the son of the transportation secretary ray la hood. is he sam la hood. he works for a group promoting democracy in egypt. our chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live in washington tonight. catherine, it's my understanding that you spoke with that hostage, the younger la hood. >> that's right. he told me, shep, they are being held for two reasons. the egyptian judge alleges that they took a salary. >> if it does go to trial, it could last up to one year in a case that's as wide raping as this one is. the penalty for that is six months to five years in jail. these are very serious charges. >> sam la hood says egyptian media is reporting that 300 organizations are affected so this does appear to be broad and wide ranging. >> does he think this is because his father is a cabinet secretary. >> good question. he doesn't believe his father's job made him a target. he said there is no question that it's hard for his dad, his mom and other families waiting for news. and tonight nothing suggests the egyptian investigation is rapping. >> concerned for my own safety as well as the family members of everyone else who works for the republic institute and other institutions. it's a little bit scary for us to be facing these very serious allegations. also for our egyptian police who work for these associations. >> sam lahood wouldn't discuss any contingency plans. go to the ambassador's residence today as far as we know that didn't happen. >> shepard: catherine herridge in washington tonight. here at home, holiday shoppers helped give the economy a pretty big boost. the commerce department is reporting tonight gross domestic product grew 2.8% in the last year. fastest pace in some 18 months. still not enough to make a real dent in unemployment. g.d.p. is the value of all goods and services that the united states produces. reports tonight that one of the biggest names on the web is about to go public. the "wall street journal" owned by the parent company of this network is reporting now that facebook could file for its initial public offering next week. analysts say the social networking site could have one of the largest ipo's ever in the united states. and they expected to raise some $10 billion. that's five times what google raised in 2004 when it set the record for the nation's largest internet ipo. mitt romney is trying to win over voters on florida's space coast without offering them a colony on the moon. plus, new movement in the polls. we are live at cape canaveral next. first came the collapse and then the news conference. >> work will not resume until the construction team at osha determines. 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[cheers] >> you want to hear that. >> they are not gonna. s thought the kind of thing is he going to do. pander. direct shot at newt gingrich who has gone state to state and made local promises that no president can keep given the fiscal realities in balancing the budget and the nation's huge trillions and trillions of dollars in debt. >> shepard: newt gingrich put a video on the web today in essence calling mitt romney a liar. >> he did. going after some of the things he said last night. gingrich's new attack ad very tough calling romney's statements false. new super pac ad hitting the web that is also very very tough it comes on the friday before the final weekend before the tuesday primary, however, shep, and the momentum seems to have shifted toward romney in recent days. he has got far more money. is he outspending gingrich 10 to 1 on the air. so these attacks have the feel of a last-minute attempt to try to reverse the trajectory because right now there is a lot of folks, even in gingrich audiences who are worried that mitt romney may come back and pull this off in the sunshine state, shep? >> shepard: carl cammeron on the space coast. all of this special coverage tuesday night on fox news channel. our team gets started 6:00 eastern time. bring you the results throughout the evening as they come in. about a dozen construction workers are hurt and happened when part of a casino site chanced -- collapsed in cincinnati. the building's second floor just gave way and that sent workers falling about 30 feet. that casino under construction now. the same develop her a similar mishasp last month at a another site in cleveland. somebody crashed their news conference. look at. this not resume until the construction team and osha. >> whoa. >> oh, man. >> injured on the site. >> moved out of my way i wouldn't have ran into the car. we still have a job to do and i understand y'all got a job to do but i still got a job to do. i got passengers on this bus. >> shepard: so there. poor passengers. that was apparently the bus driver you just heard reaming out all the reporters, witnesses say a bus rammed a news truck. it blamed the driver -- the driver blamed the reporters for not moving when she honked. officials in kentucky working to find out why a cargo ship took out a bridge. happened last night on the tennessee river. officials say the ship was too tall and plowed into that structure. they think most of the bridge's warning lights were working at the time. nobody hurt, thankfully. there were some drivers on 00 bridge when part of it came down and one man says he saw the missing seconds and slammed on his brakes, stopped just five feet from thage. well, they survived the ship wreck that killed more than a dozen people. so how much do they deserve for their suffering and their belongings for that matter in the cruise company's offer and the passengers' response coming up next. plus, somebody sent piles of cocaine to the united nations. they are not having a party there tonight. there are new clues in a mystery with street value in the millions. that's just ahead. the employee of the month isss... the new spark card from capital one. spark miles gives me the most rewards of any small business credit card. the spark card earns double miles... so we really had to up our game. with spark, the boss earns double miles on every rchase, every day. that's setting the bar pretty high. owning my own business has never been more rewarding. coming through! 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[screams] >> shepard: you may remember more than 4,000 people rushed to escape that ship after it ran aground. at least six people confirmed dead. >> another 16 listed still missing. some survivors are refusing to take it deal. they say they can't begin to figure out the psychological costs. the fox business network melissa francis with us now. some of the passengers are really already talking about other legal action. >> not surprising. and 14,000es, that doesn't seem like a lot, right? our litigious society. italy consumer groups jumping on othe bandwagon saying they think they can get something like 150 to maybe $1.3 million for the pain and suffering that these people went through. now, to be clear and to be fair. this is for people who suffered no injury and they are paying for, you know, them getting home and the lost luggage and all that stuff separately. this is just for their suffering. $14,000. looks more traumatic than that to me. >> shepard: i would say. i wonder how this compares to other cruise ship disasters of its kind. >> not surprisingly there is not a lot of precedent. i had to look way back in the 1990s the cruise no nowhere in the gulf of mexico and passengers complained of exploding toilets and brown water, yeah. very disgusting. we don't want to talk about this at dinner time. if you look at the company's financials it seems like those people got something like a thousand dollars. once again, this wasn't a life-threatening cruise ship. just basically one that was incredibly unpleasant. there there. there is not a lot of precedent for this one. $14,000, i don't think this is going to fly. >> shepard: lawsuits on the way. >> without question. >> welcome on board. >> thank you. >> melissa is part of the best team in business. catch her alongside laura rothman catch her on the fox business network giving you the power to prosper. activists are describing what they are calling a terrifying massacre in syria. government troops have killed more than 70 people. including women and very small children. [explosions] we're told that's the sound of forces loyal to the syrian president bashar assad shelling residential buildings and firing on crowds of unarmed people. those activists say this video shows the bodies of children killed in that massacre wrapped in plastic bags. of course, we can't independently confirm that nor the reports of the escalating violence because syria won't let our journalists in there. the united nations estimates more than 5,000 people have died since the government began slaughtering its own citizens in march. today the united nations security council met in a closed door session to discuss a possible resolution against assad's regime. investigators are still trying to find the source of 35 pounds of cocaine that turned up at the united nations last week. police say the drugs arrived in the bags that you see here. we are told they are supposed to look like diplomatic pouches but the u.n.'s real pouches are blue, not white. somebody is kind of dumb. a spokesman for the new york police department said the lo blow came from mexico city through cincinnati and here is what they said about the possible drug trafficking. >> as far as we can tell was one off. as far as we can tell, this was something that was very clearly not intended to arrive here at all. >> shepard: now the u.n.'s head of security says somebody may have used those pouches to escape inspection at the mexican border. perhaps not intending to actually deliver them to the united nations at all. experts say the street value of that coke was more than $2 million but they would probably never have been able to get that at the u.n. there is no doubt that the average college tuition has skyrocketed in recent years. now the president says he has a plan, a plan to get the costs under control. which sounds great but the critics say the solution will only add to the problem. we'll report and let you decide from the white house. and breaking tonight, fox news confirms the pentagon is rushing to build a large floating base in the waters off the middle east. a sort of commando mother ship. we're just getting brand new details on whatever this thing is. we'll have a live report in just a minute as we approach the bottom of the hour and the top of the news on "the fox report." in america, we believe in a future that is better than today. since 1894, ameriprise financial has been working hard for their clients' futures. never taking a bailout. helping generations achieve dreams. buy homes. put their kids through college. retire how they want to. ameriprise. the strength of america's largest financial planning company. the heart of 10,000 advisors working with you, one-to-one. together, for your future. ♪ >> shepard: this breaking news came out of nowhere for us. fox news has now confirmed the united states navy is working to set up a floating base for our commando teams in the middle east. jennifer griffin is on it live at the pentagon. what is this thing and when? >> well, i'm being told that it will be ready in about four to five months' time, shepard, sometime this summer, in essence. essentially what happened u.s. central command in a standing request into the pentagon for in essence to create a flotilla, of sorts. they wanted to take a ship that they were planning to decommission, the ussponce which had been serving as a transport dock in the mediterranean most recently for the libyan. that was supposed to be decommissioned in december. they are going to take that instead of decommissioning it, turn it into a forward operating base that could be used by u.s. navy seals. the request stands that the commando teams would be able to use it for high speed boats, helicopters, a market survey posted by military sea lift command in december asked that it be able to support mine counter measures. now, of course, the concern of late has been that the strait of hormuz could be mined. u.s. officials telling us that, yes, they are hurryi