29. and that s a quick look at your fox travelcast. a chocolate biscotti? thank you very much. for you, man. and just out of curiousity, if you re wondering how they make the snow, it s that thing. all right. i ll block it for you. thank you very much. all right. now let s go into brian kilmeade who has a very, very special guest. all right. that s good team work there. you re about to hear another exceptional team work story. in october of 2007, intercepted by army radio from the taliban/al-qaida. it said they wanted an american body. the next day, a team of army soldiers were heading back to camp in afghanistan, well, it s in the afghanistan s deadly valley when they were surrounded by taliban fighters and were fired on from all sides. within seconds, staff sergeant josh brennan was hit and went down. immediately two members of the taliban tried to carry sergeant brennan s body away. that s when staff sergeant
we have dawn here in new york city. the fella that came up with the rain forest cafe and some other great ideas. where it thunders every nine minutes. i like the quesedilla, boom! come up with a new idea called water, fire and ice and we have the ice part and fire out there as well. he s got a brand new book to benefit some great cause. we ll talk to that guy coming up this hour right here on a frosty fox & friends. right. cold as ice. thanks to foreigner. 1970 s hit. bam. perfect. is that a sofa with fur on it? that s a curvy ice sofa? they have a curvy couch. that is really chilly. that s the walrus we always open up with. it looks like the olympic games with that torch. it really does. if someone doused the flame so we don t lose our couch. we ll be checking in throughout the show. meantime, let s start the headlines with fox news alert. nearly 30 miners this morning after an explosion ripped through a coal mine at new zealand. it happened at th
describes as conspicuous gallantry. staff sergeant perry was near him when they were ambushed. i can t begin to describe how intense it was. reporter: giunta watched his best friend, platoon leader, josh brennan, badly wounded, being dragged away by insurgents. he charged into the ambush under them, under heavy fire. sal was hit twice. one round slammed into his body armor, the other shattering a weapon slung across his back. he was putting everything he had into keeping brennan alive. he was talking to him, comforting him. reporter: brennan did not make it. giunta says he shares in the nation s highest honor. the medal of honor is a distinction reserved for the most valiant of american warriors. it s been conferred just six times before in the wars in afghanistan, in every case to troops who lost their lives in the effort. john hendren, abc news, washington. a very nice off the cuff remark from the president when he said, i really like this guy. he went on to say, when you
front-page news around the world this morning. we ll get to it later in the show. first at home, a major vote for democrats in washington. will they vote nancy pelosi after so many members lost their seats in the midterm election. emily schmidt has more. reporter: disgruntled democrats argue they need a new face of their party after these midterm election results. but nancy pelosi is expected to win a vote today, making her minority leader. this follows a series of tense meetings, in which members of her own party have urged her to give up her bid to be the party s leader in the house. they say after major losses two weeks ago, the party simply needs change. but the speaker does have enough support to survive today s caucus vote. another option to strip pelosi of certain powers is also expected to fail. there s also developments in another drama involving a democrat. the once-powerful charlie rangel has one more day to brace himself before learning what his punishment
we begin this morning with a wedding in the works. in less than a year, england s prince william and his long-time girlfriend will finally have their fairytale ending. in their first interview since the royal announcement, we are learning new details of his engagement to kate middleton, including how william made sure his late mother, proincess dian, didn t miss out by giving kate the 18-carat diamond and sapphire engagement ring. here s more from ity. it was a total shock when it came. i think kate was nervous. william wasn t before and after. they spent time laughing and joking. you both look incredibly happy and relaxed. we are. we are. we re like sort of deductions, calm on the surface, but little feet going under the water. no, it s really exciting. we ve been talking about it for a long time. for us, it s a relief and nice to tell everybody of the the last two or three weeks have been difficult, not tellingin, keeping it to ourselves. kate was nerve out and comp