:[the star-spangled banner] [the star-spangled banner] will: here we are. welcome to fox and friends weekend on saturday morning. these are checkered flags, not the real ones but we are here because tomorrow at 2:30 the daytona 500 kicks off. this is one of my favorites. rachel: it has been amazing so far and hasn t even started. will: it hasn t. there have been some preliminary races. we know what the lineup is. pete: you have been doing more than just being here. will: i m not the other one. daytona 500 is one of my favorite races because it s not only the adrenaline filled event of nascar. on the beach, we get to go out into the infield, hang out with people and do fun things. while i did some things, i don t win the crown for going fastest. the most adrenaline filled event of the week. that would be rachel campos duffy. rachel: we were here yesterday at the track and they were practicing and it was pretty spectacular. i got to go fly with them. i will say i mad
rachel: good morning, everybody from daytona international speedway and that is the apopca high school blue darter band performing live here at the speedway ahead of daytona 500 here on fox. good morning, will. good morning, pete. pete: good morning, rachel. i m pumped. it s finally warming up here at the track. if you re a high school band, what a better backdrop than the daytona 500 and the international speedway, the big race is tomorrow at 2:30 and we get a chance to cover it all morning long and talk news. rachel: absolutely. pete: always fun to be here. rachel: let s get to some of that news and we re going to talk about east palestine and sounding the alarm and the effects of toxic chemicals in the town. i ve had a headache and odd tinkling sensation like in the gums and on my lips. my brother-in-law went to the hospital and got checked out. he was having some severe symptoms, some breathing issues. they let this sink in and burn for days before they evacuated an
this train was almost 1.8 miles long and had 158 cars, 38 cars ultimately had derailed. 11 were containing hazardous material and there were some five toxic chemicals on board, including vinyl chloride. that s the one that has a lot of folks worried right now because even though it s colorless and you almost wouldn t know it or sense it or smell it, some can. and that was the one that would have normally alerted people along a path of the train carrying it that you ve got a train coming into town that s carrying it. now, there are different interpretations of the laws and requirements around that. be that as it may, norfolk southern has promised to provide whatever help the town needs. better that and million dollars has been distributed thus far and we don t know the details of that, but more money was coming. a lot of lawyers, some of whom i have been talking to, who are pondering class action suits saying that s a drop in the bucket with the obligation that norfolk souther
and lucas got a chance to ask him a question, i understand? that s right, one of our colleagues asked him that question. and that meeting just wrapping up just moments ago in this building right behind me, jacqui. he spoke to fox very briefly though. to support the community? like i said, very briefly. fema now supplying a small team to east palestine and we heard from ohio s governor who said hhs and c.d.c. will be deploying officials here as well to set up a small free medical clinic, including toxicologists and medical personnel to treat some victims in town. in a joint statement, ohio s governor and fema saying, quote, fema will supplement federal efforts by deploying a senior response official along with a regional incident management assistance team, support ongoing organizations, including assessments, a potential long-term recovery needs. now, one local resident, kayla miller who lives just three miles south of here, tells us she lost animals on the farm, chicke
jacqui heinrich starts us off tonight from 1600 pennsylvania avenue. hi, jacqui. hey, gillian, good evening to you. u.s. officials revealed today that the u.s. has not formally requested a phone call with chinese president xi jinping despite president biden saying yesterday that they expected to be talking soon. we re learning that they re hoping that secretary of state antony blinken will first be able to smooth things over and make contact with his chinese counterpart at the munich security conference next week. but, if no meeting ends up happening, it will be a telling sign of where u.s.-china relations stand. chinese spy balloon lifted from the ocean store from south carolina. quantico. we learned a lot already from the balloon by surveilling it while it was flying over the country. we re going to learn even more, we believe, by getting a look at the guts inside it. but u.s. officials are warning we may not learn much more about the three likely harmless objects sho