it isa it is a fresh start for some of this morning. a day of sunshine and showers. the heaviest across scotland, northern england. wherever you are it will be blustery. details coming up later in the programme. good morning. it s wednesday, 12thjuly. further allegations have been made against the unnamed bbc presenter who s been accused of paying a teenager for explicit photographs. another young person has told bbc news they were sent abusive messages by the male star, while the sun newspaper claims the presenter broke covid restrictions to meet another individual he met on a dating site. charlotte gallagher has the latest. another day of damaging headlines for the bbc and a male presenter who is still unnamed. this morning s front page of the sun bbc star broke lockdown to meet another young stranger . this individual has told the newspaper the presenter travelled to another county to meet them in february 2021. this was during the third national lockdown. the sun says
spending part of your monday with us. we are grateful for that. the beat with ari melber starts right now. hi, friend. i, ali. thank you so much. welcome to the beat , everyone. and i m ari melber. i m just gonna start like this. if you go back to 2015, which is a different time in american politics, there was major interest in finding some sort of alternative to the burgeoning trump maga onslaught. one conservative wrote a whole book about what he cast at the time as potentially informed conservative alternative to what he called the reprehensible donald trump. a book which advances his own profile so much that you saw an opening to run for office. and then, as you see in the images on your screen, this individual lived out the very trumpism, that reprehensible dogma, that he spent all his time documenting and fighting against which is what he wrote about. but he figured out that after doing all of that and doing the book, that trump could help him win what he, want a s
the window and it was like a monsoon. water was over the lawn over the sidewalks. forecasters expect strong thunderstorms to pummel much of the mitted western plains through fry. big tech company meta is now launching their own twitter competitor. i hope you will join us. going to be called threads, analysts are calling it a potential twitter killer. this is a tremendous threat to killer. tapper back to the mound, it s overthrown. one run s going to score and here comes the game winner! it s a marlins walk-off win. soak it in and enjoy every moment! steve: good morning, everybody, it s 6:00 a.m. in washington, dc on this thursday, july 6, 2023. you re looking live at the white house as the secret service has ordered dna and fingerprint testing of the small bag of cocaine found in what is referred to as a heavily trafficked lobby area in the west wing sunday night about 6:00. right, reuters reports the white house is now checking visitors logs, republicans de
will: affections news alert. u.s. carrying out retail tourist strikes on dozens of iran-backs targets in iraq and syria. rachel: hours after three u.s. soldiers in a drone attack in jordan last night. pete: trey yingst is live in tel aviv with the latest. trey. reporter: good morning. overnight the united states struck 85 different targets in iraq and syria. this is in response to the drone attack last weekend that killed three american soldiers. according to u.s. central command, there are both control centers and weapon storage facilities hit and some affiliated directly with iran s revolutionary guard forces and other with iran-backed militias and national security council spokesman john kirby saying this. i want to repeat what i said in my otay mesaing comments opening comments, these responses began tonight, they re not going to end tonight. there ll be additional responses and actions we ll take. reporter: the biden administration is looking to send a message to
details on that story, as well. you are watching fox and friends first, i m carley shimkus. ashley: i m ashley strohmier in for todd piro. those stories and more coming up over the next hour. breaking news overnight. two firefighters are dead after battling a fire on a cargo ship in newark, new jersey. coming from wnyw. the fire started just before 9:30 last night, engulfing several vehicles on the ship. calls ringing out when responding crew members reported missing in the active scene. the cause of the fire is still under investigation. carley: and another alert, claiming u.s. service members were among those killed in a bomb attack in somalia. kenya delayed reopening of the nation s shared border, following wave of attacks blamed on al qaeda-linked militants. we ll bring you updates throughout the morning. and look at the white house, as republicans call for a secret service update on the cocaine found in the west wing. doug luzader joins us. doug: a mystery the wh