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World. we're told the al-qaeda threat is specific, but the targets are not. chief washington correspondent james rosen has the latest. james? >> chris, good morning. president obama and his national security team approached this day, the president's 52nd birthday, not in a state of celebration, but rather one of apprehension. the u.s. embassy compound in cairo, egypt, is one of nearly two dozen u.s. installations that would normally have been open today, about is now closed. at the u.s. embassy in yemen, heightened security was ready discernible. a senior lawmaker told fox news that terrorist ...

Consulates across the muslim world. we're told the al-qaeda threat is specific, but the targets are not. chief washington correspondent james rosen has the latest. james? >> chris, good morning. president obama and his national security team approached this day, the president's 52nd birthday, not in a state of celebration, but rather one of apprehension. the u.s. embassy compound in cairo, egypt, is one of nearly two dozen u.s. installations that would normally have been open today, about is now closed. at the u.s. embassy in yemen, heightened security was ready discernible. a senior lawmaker ...

Here in washington. >> we've received information that high-level people from al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula, are talking about a major attack, and these are people in the high level. now, whatever that intelligence is, we act upon it, because our first priority, again, is to protect the americans that are in other parts of the world. >> democrats and republicans alike say the closing of the embassies is a prudent step to take. they say the kind of terrorist chatter we're hearing now about a possible attack is very similar to what we heard before 9/11. now, the warning comes as al-qaeda lea...

Meanwhile, he's continuing with his routine weekend schedule, golfing, going to camp david to celebrate his birthday. the embassy closings are officially for sunday, but could be extended to more days. yesterday, we were talking about a number at 21. it was updated overnight to 22. that includes the u.s. consulate in basra. these stretch all across north africa and middle east. germany and britain have said they plan to close their embassies in yemen sunday and monday and now, france has said it plans to do the same. all of this coming from the terrorist chatter described by officials as credi...

Analyst is here. they came within 40 votes of having this program basically shelled. >> actually came within 11 votes. it was not only a libertarian republican, very youthful guy, i think in his second term. it was also congressman john conyers, an african-american liberal democrat in his 26th term. they brought conservative republicans, liberal democrats, libertarian republicans together in an effort to say to the n.s.a. nobody is saying you can't spy on bad people. we're saying spy on the people that you have reason to believe are engaging in terrorist chatter. you don't have to spy on efbls...