welcome back to fox & friends on this memorial day. you know, we had planned to be doing all this grilling outside this morning and this is what happens because take a look at times square right now. we re getting hit with a massive thunderstorm right here in new york city. so we ll have to check with maria in a little while to see if this will pass. darn, i guess we ll have to bring all those troops, maria, inside the studio. oh, shucks. what maria is going to have you is heat advisories along the east coast. for some folks, it s going to be too hot to be outside at those barbecues. it s going to be a very interesting weather day out here at least in the northeast. also this morning, we asked you earlier in the show, dave put out the call, dave said send us photos of your meat. anything you re cooking today
that s what i want. send me photos. i was going to ask for your family photos but dave says meat photos. everybody can do family phot photos. friends at foxnews.com. she is showing all the signs but not saying a word. will sarah palin run for president? coming up, our washington insiders with what they are saying. and it s been a four-year long fight just to fly the american flags. meet the woman who helped make it happen. [ female announcer ] there s nothing we won t do for our health or our skin. now there s another way to support skin from within.
little more willing to negotiate. gas prices dropped a little bit the other day which is good news. gasoline sales 34.9 million travelers expected to hit the roadways. tourism industry $18.7 billion industry and those numbers look great and look at this, i went to wal-mart the other day to stock up for the memorial day weekend and we were there at the super wal-mart, the lines were deep, deep, deep. everybody with hot dog buns and burgers and so people are going out and buying these things for the memorial day weekend. is it sustainable? who knows. people in the meat industry say if the weather is really good, they say their meat sales clearly go up because of all the barbecues. they were hoping for warmer weather. dave and i had three straight days of barbecue. had enough. and the most popular meat in america, beef number two. but yeah, this is clearly a day we can all help out the economy and good to know people are still hitting the roadways despite gas being a lot more than