nowhere jillian: you are listening to crazy girl by the eli young band. i bet rob has met a crazy girl or two in his life. that s a story for another day. rob: we re not going to talk about it. jillian: summer concert series continues on today. stop on by. here s a question is twitter making you dumber? 9/18 hit this lady that s when i hit the fire hydrant, sorry, allegedly. rob: new study says yes researchers are making you dumber group in italy following impacting school. jillian: those used it average on a test. what you thought about this. rob: somebody wrote on that s why i left twitter six months ago. jillian: i was smart enough to decide not to use it. rob: yes as most people believe what they read and do not do actual research.
would you, america? we re going to talk about that and so much more this hour, august 9, 2013. we start right now. anna: eli young band is here on a bit of a soggy friday morning. we re having a good time here on fox & friends. we re continuing our all american summer concert series. this song crazy girl is a hit. another one drunk last night so it will be a big morning. steve: i know it is because a couple of the kids from my neighborhood asked do you mind if we come by?
place across texas, louisiana, and parts of arkansas. it s been on the hot side over the last several days. expect the hot temperatures to continue. north of that, we re going to continue to see heavy rain in some areas that have already picked up more than a foot of rain in just the past two days. the ground already saturated out here. because we re expecting more rain, flooding will be a huge concern. like i mentioned, we do have more rain also expected across sections of the mid-atlantic into the northeast and new england. temperature wise, triple digits in dallas and san antonio. 84 will be your high in chicago. in new york city, 81 degrees. now let s head over to steve and anna. steve: and the band! thank you very much, anna. i m talking to you. anna: okay. we ve got the eli young band here. we re continuing our american summer concert series. love you like crazy girl, we ve got a video to show everybody. steve: we were just watching it. anna: these guys are here. welcom
and this is starting point. take me to new york i d love to see l.a. that s a good way to start your morning. good morning, everybody. that on not on my play list. our panel this morning, ron brownste brownstein s with us, he s a cnn senior political analyst, editorial director at national journal, will cain is with us, he s a columnist for the blaze.com and ben jones joins us this morning former obama white house special adviser has written a new book called rebuild the dream. how is that for promoting your book? getting it out early. happy to help. happy to help. we re going to talk not only about the book but also your resignation from the obama cabinet, i want to hear all the inside scoop on that. first, though, we got to talk about the tornadoes, that was an amazing nearly four hours, absolute devastation there. yeah, my hometown and not far from my hometown. it was pretty scary to see. i had buddies calling me saying they had to evacuate buildings in
and left at least three of 13 crew members hurt. the coast guard has dropped supplies. a cutter has made its way to the yacht and at least two of the injured have been moved to a smaller ship. i want to go now by telephone to coast guard petty officer calleb chrisfield. were you able to get help to those people? yes, we were. the coast guard cutter is on scene action they deployed their small response boat to go to the yacht and we were able to recover two of the injured people. and get them on board the small boat. okay. so they are on-scene right now as you and i are speaking, rescuing these people, correct? yes, sir. okay. the entire crew won t be taken off at first, only the injured. there are three injured, you re getting two off first. are these the two who are more seriously injured? yes, it would be safe to assume that. i m not sure exactly what the plan is but i think they re trying to get the two people off the small boat and they ll be flying back to san