in northern gaza and starting new offensive in the southern part of the region. idf is moving into the southern part while the u.s. tries to help the two sides bring an end to this war. you are watching fox and friends first on thursday morning. i m carley shimkus. todd: i m todd piro, a lot going on that we will start feeling at home, we ll get into it with cory mills in a moment. carley: first trey yingst has an update from tel aviv. trey: israeli forces say they are close to completing high-intensity phase of this war in gaza. much has been in gaza jabalia neighborhood where troops from 551st brigade evacuated a group of civilians in a building. weapons were found at that school according to idf. difficult fighting taking place in southern gaza. death toll is rising with total of 137 killed since the ground operation began. they discovered new tunnels in gaza city used by hamas leadership. take a listen. from this infrastructure, they other than able to move and
sean: it was odd because it was one of the few times i could not see the clock. laura: oh, is it really? is that what we re saying? sean: i was late one time in all the years we ve been togethering laura: all right. now, a lot of years, all right, sean. sean: that s a lot of years. laura: awesome show and i will pick it up where you left off. i m laura ingraham and this this is the ingraham angle from washington tonight. we bring you voices from inside ron desantis s twitter announcement. david and thomas peace participated he ll be here, newt gingrich charlie hurt raymond arroyo, they ll compare previous presidential launches and tell you who you this one stacked up. but, first, as you might have guessed, desantis launches, that s the focus of tonight s angle. now it s quiet. let s see. so are we on? yeah, i think so. just simplify. okay, great. so, let s see. just keeps crashing, huh? so we re very excited to have governor desantis make this laur
maybe none of the above. i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. we have eight months to go before the first presidential ballot of 2024 is cast. the conventional wisdom is we re headed for a rematch of 2020, this despite concerns that one candidate is too old and the other is morally unfit. which might explain why recent polls have revealed that americans don t want this rematch and there s dissatisfaction with both candidates. last month an nbc poll found that 70% of respondents said biden shouldn t run and 60% said trump shouldn t run. what are the odds that when all is said and done, the democrats nominate someone other than joe biden and republicans select a candidate different than donald trump? back on april 16th i put a polling question to my radio audience asking them if they agreed with this statement, neither biden nor trump will be the nominee. more than 25% of 20,000 plus who voted agree with that statement. maybe my listeners are on to something. this week emmy
somewhere. how several states slated to receive that soil are pushing back. also this morning, the fallout keeps growing for the creator of dilbert. more newspapers dropped the comic strip after the cartoonist went on a racist tirade. all that in just moments. we begin with a destructive winter storm on the move. two houses. the storm unleashing multiple tornadoes in oklahoma and kansas. one of those tornadoes tore through norman. shredded homes and injured at least 12 people. hurricane-force winds whipped up massive blinding dust storms in texas. this is a scene in lubbock. the storm buried parts of southern california under more than six feet of snow. take a look at these snow totals near los angeles and san diego. more than 90 inches of snow recorded at mountain high, a winter resort about an hour and a half outside of l.a. warmer parts of southern california were battered by heavy rain and flooding. a helicopter crew had to rescue this driver from a jeep caught in
break tonight, members of congress receiving classified briefings today on chinese spy craft, which floated across the country last week and shot down on the coast of south carolina saturday. we learned the suspended ands far from the only country china surveilled in the exact same way. and we found out exactly where some of the parts on the balloon were manufactured and what the balloon was capable of doing. congressional correspondent iowa hawkeyeaisha has more from the e house. reporter: fox learned china spy balloon had western made parts with english words on them raising new concerns about who and from which western nation sold them to china. a senior state department official has only gone so far as to say the manufacturer has a direct relationship with china s military. adding the spy craft had multiple antennas to collect and geolocate communications and solar panels large enough to power intelligence collection sensors. the tool package and equipment package on th