Officials announced a plan to remove the statue of Teddy Roosevelt outside new yorks museum of Natural History. The bronze statue has stood there facing central park since before the second world war. Soon it will be gone. People record that statue 80 years ago would be confused by this no doubt. They did not consider setting roosevelt a controversial figure. The most popular president in American History. Also the most american president. Ev no other country could have produceded Teddy Roosevelt. His virtues mirrored the values of america. He was physically brave, he was profoundly literate, highly self disciplined and amazingly energetic. While still a college student, roosevelt wrote a twovolume history of the war of 1812. It is still in print today, you can buy it on amazon. The youngest president in our history, saved our economy from corporate monopolies and by doing that he made the american middle class possible. He created the National Parks, created the panama canal, the food
Welcome to americas news headquarters. Im laura ingalls. Im eric shaun. The quake hit the Early Morning darkness. And in the words of the the u. S. Geological survey, the disaster is potentially widespread. The epicenter reports say a 3. 6 after shock struck two hours later. Water and gas lines have been damaged. Now theres reports of multiple fires, and downed power lines leaving tens of thousands without electricity this hour. Were now waiting for a News Conference, but first lets go to claudia who felt the earthquakes early this morning with the very latest. Reporter i did. It was quite a stunning event to just ride it out as it struck about 3 20 this morning a long rumbling earthquake, laura and eric, were getting more details, we heard that a child had to be air lifted to a local hospital. Dozens and dozens of other injuries as well. Mostly minor, most cuts and bruises, but what a mess at places like this market here in napa, the owner estimating up to 75,000 in damage and lost me
And say so long to santa. One school is giving st. Nick the boot because of one parent again. Fox friends starts right now. Good morning. We love the lights of christmas. We have a studio full of i love when you walk into the studio with all the lights on and energy. And the toys are filling our studio this morning. That just makes me happy. We walked in and wont name them, but some of the cameramen were playing with the toys. Thats how compelling they are. Thomas the tank engine and an oversized barbie house. Is that donatello or which ninja turtle is that . Who do you think that is, tucker . I dont know. First we have other news. We have to get to the fox news alert. A 1. 1 trillion spending bill is on the way to the president s desk. Overnight the senate voted 5640 to approve the bill and avoid a government shutdown. The measure provides money to keep the majority of the government running through september before voting on the spending bill. Texas senator ted cruz pushed lawmakers
Has found compelling evidence that someone helped north korea launch a cyber attack against sony pictures. Due to the sophisticated nature of the assault which forced sony to cancel the release of the comedy, theyre pointing to several north korean allies, all united in their hatred of america. And now the fbi releasing a statement saying the evidence does point to north korea, but it does not name any other countries. Our chief intelligence correspondent, catherine herridge, has been all over this. She joins us from washington. Catherine . Reporter well, thank you, andrea. We just received this statement from the fbi that says there is sufficient forensic evidence to conclude north korea was responsible for the cyber attack on sony, and while not exhaustive, three pieces of evidence are provided in the statement. Technical analysis of the data deleted in the attack, according to the fbi, has links to malware that north korea has used in the past. There were also similarities in code,
Listen to the president last month. What sands out to me, that the American People sent a the American People sent a one they sent for several elections now. They expect the people that they elect to work as hard as they do. They expect us to focus on their ambitions and not ours. They want us to get the job done. All of us in both parties have a responsibility to address that sentiment. Still, as president i have a unique responsibility to try and make this town work. So to everyone who voted, i want you to know that hear you. Eric well lets see what he says later on today. Were waiting of course for many questions on variety of issues. One topic sure to come up of course, the sony cyberattack. In fact the fbi blames the attack on north korea which caused sony to cancel the Christmas Day release of the movie the interview. The white house has acknowledged that publicly. Some republicans think it is time for the president to respond more forcefully to the rogue north korean regime. Wit