friends. it is wednesday, december 27th, i m willie geist. joe and mika have the morning off. a lot to get to including israeli forces shifting military efforts to southern and central gaza with officials warning the war could take many more months. and hours from now, antony blinken and alejandro mayor kas are set to meet with mexican president obrador. plus donald trump continues to claim he should be immune from any prosecution surrounding his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. we ll have the latest there. also ahead, bus drivers across the country increasingly under attack on the job. we ll dig into an alarming trend and what officials are doing about it. with us this morning, jonathan lemire, susan paige, and retired four star navy admiral james stavridis. good morning to you all. let s begin together with israel expanding the ground invasion in gaza. this as the united states continues to urge israel to protect civilian lives and shift to a more low intensity oper
battle ahead could take many more months. plus, just hours from now secretary of state antony blinken and homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas are set to meet with mexican president just as thousands of central american migrants make their way to the united states southern border. we ll break down what this means and the key issues up for discussion. and also ahead the detroit pistons made nba history but for all the wrong reasons. the record they just broke that has everyone talking. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, december 27th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we get right to the news and the israeli military has expanded its ground offensive into urban refugee camps in central gaza. the idf is also focusing on southern gaza s largest city as part of its stated mission to destroy hamas. officials say progress has been made in the north and that troops will continue to, quote, preserve and intensify t
and we ve got we re celebrating our first responders and heroes this morning too. rachel: absolutely. pete: let s head there right now, head back down to 1 world trade center, the freedom tower, where rick reichmuth is live from the tunnel to towers 104-story tower climb in new york city. rick. [cheers and applause] rick: i m not doing this to the act like i m on tv with this, i literally it s really how old in here, i can barely here you. you recognize abby hornacek? she was really nice to come on with us morning. i was not prepared to go on television this morning. [laughter] rick: we all look like this when we re not prepared to go on television. no, no, not at all. rick: talk about this team and how this experience was. this experience was unlike anything. this organization is one of my favorite organizations. to be here with our amazing coworkers and also amazing people here, there were three cats catastrophically injured veterans who did the stair climb, so ev
Tried to kill Vladimir Putin. They said they tried to do it with a drone attack on the kremlin aimed at the president ial residence inside the kremlin. There has been video released reporting to show this incident, that is the drone attack on the kremlin, and then according to the russians, they say with their radar sophistication, they were able to shoot the drones down. You see at least one blast in this alleged video of the attack. They go on to say, in a statement coming from the state media agency tatt, that they reserve the right to respond to this in any way. Branding it a terror attack. As for ukraine. Ukraine says they had nothing to do with it. A senior ukrainian president ial official saying this is not the kind of thing they do. I will give you a quote from them. Ukraine has nothing to do with it. We dont attack the kremlin. First of all, it does not resolve any Military Task and it asks for a lot more trouble. Folks, weve been looking at this video and listening to what ru
you are watching fox and friends first, i m todd piro. ashley: i m ashley strohmier in for carley shimkus. there was a victim as young as one year old. right now we have one person of interest detained and we re searching for an additional suspect. they are believed to be a black male with dreads, black short sleeve shirt and camo shorts. ashley: lauren blanchard joins us. nine people injured when a fight broke out between two groups. one person pulled a gun. i was laying down having a good time and i heard pop, pop, pop, six or seven shots and everybody start running. the board walk was full of people running left to right and then i notice people got shot. the people was packed with people celebrating memorial day and they were sent scrambling. police are investigating what happened and how many people were involved. some injured were innocent bystanders taken to two hospitals, including a children s hospital. we have four juveniles between one and 17. we have