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linked to fast and furious the botched gun tracking operation. william la jeunesse is live from arizona with more. william. >> reporter: jenna for only the second time in border patrol history a station will be named after one of its own, brian terry in a ceremony later here today. i'm in naco, arizona, it is a hot, dry, barren postage stamp on the arizona border but a hotbed of drug smuggling. this is where he was stationed. he received a badge of bravery held by the terry foundation. they will provide scholarships to students entering law enforcement and assistance to families of fallen agents. in december it will have been two years since the border bandits killed brian terry in a firefight using weapons obtained through operation fast and furious. that is of course the gun-running scandal indicated by the obama administration that led congress to hold the attorney general in contempt. questions remain and the family hopes to have answers in the
my goodness, i can just man what his family went through, waiting to hear how that went. boy, we wish him all the best. phil, thank you very much. bill: like you said there is not a lot of room for error based on the x-ray. martha: any part of your brain, it face nominal that they feel like that is absolute best way gone in and come back out. bill: apparently will buy a lottery ticket real soon. martha: that is his lucky thing for life. bill: so the supremes could hand down any moment a decision on the health care law. we're now getting word about a plan b from the white house. what's that all about? martha: and he sounded the alarm on "fast and furious", the botched gun tracking operation that is linked to the death of a u.s. border agent. the answers he wants for a grieving family in his first interview in more than a year. >> i think it is a risk because, you know, there is potential repercussions or, you know, additional retaliation.
airport. officials say the jet was landing in bad weather, it was hit by lightning and caught fire. 118 bodies were recovered from the debris. it's not clear if anyone on the ground was also hurt. congressional investigators continue to probe who authorized the program known as fast and furious. a botched gun tracking operation linked to the deaths of at least one, perhaps two federal agents. a new book promises to blow the lid off the case saying the white house and the doj were behind the operation and conspired tow cover up what was an effort to advance an antigun agenda. two days ago i sat down with pavlich news editor at town hall.com and she is the author of this new book, fast and furious obama's bloodiest scandal and the shamless cover up. watch. i want to start with you. you're 23 years old, you look young, how much life experience can you have?
see another six to 12 inches. along i-25 and along i-10 seeing some snow along the el paso area. if you want a white christmas looks like you might have to go to places like texas. that is where the snow is. you might expect to see places like fargo with snow? none at all. that is all we have in the northeast. not happening across the northeast. bad news for the ski areas. gregg, people plan ski trips between christmas and new year's, no-go around the east. gregg: kind of missing that one substance you really need. rick reichmuth. thanks very much. julie: well new poll out over the "fast and furious" scandal, the botched gun tracking operation linked to the death of a border agent. in a telephone town hall presidential candidate newt gingrich telling iowa voters he called for attorney general eric holder to step down a year ago. gingrich saying "fast and furious" began as an effort to quote discredit honest americans in order to quote, justify gun control.
>> 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