Shield program, one that can be individually tailored to make our schools as safe as possible. Its time to throw an immediate blan ket of security around our children. About a third of our schools right now have Armed Security already because it works. And that number is growing every day. Right now state officials local authorities and School Districts in 50 states are considering their own plans to protect children in schools. In addition, we need to enforce the thousands of gun laws already on the books. Prosecuting criminals who misuse firearms works. Unfortunately, we see a dramatic collapse in federal gun prosecutions in recent years. In 2011, federal firearms prosecutions per capita were down 35 from their peak in the previous administration. That means violent felons violent gang members and drug dealers with guns and the mentally ill possess firearms are not being prosecuted. And that is completely and totally unacceptable. More than 76,000 firearms purchased denied by the fed
Himself into a worldwide brand. Fox friends first continues right now. Rob you are watching Fox Friends First on this thursday morning. Im rob schmitt. Jillian im jillian mele. Hurricane michael just downgraded to a Tropical Storm overnight after leaving a trail of catastrophic damage up and down the florida coast. Rob it is quite a scene. Homes destroyed, power lines toppled, trees ripped from the ground, hundreds of thousands of people are now without power as many are returning home to utter devastation. Jillian some of the images are unreal to look at. We have Live Team Coverage from some of the hardest hit areas, starting with jonathan seare live in Panama City Beach. Jonathan. Reporter good morning, jillian and rob. The only lights youll see are those connected to the generator of our satellite truck. You can see some of the typical damage that were seeing up and down the panhandle, utility poles knocked down, lines on sidewalks and roads, water mains damaged. Overnight, more tha
90 and michael s track was well to the west of us here. 1300 people are in seven shelters in leon county. jillian: it will take a while to get back to normal life for a lot of people down there. thank you very much. president trump pledges support for coal country as he unleashes on democrats. you remember the previous administration, they said oh, you can t bring back manufacturing jobs. really? you can t bring them back. that was wrong. those are our great jobs. and we are unleashing the power of pennsylvania shale and clean, beautiful pennsylvania coal, putting our miners back to work. jillian: the president rallying for republicans in pen pennsylv. he s endorsing mike kelly, lou bartletta as well as scott wagner. rob: consisten kanye west he
conaway will be the next member of congress from that district. the race between connor lamb and rick succone too close to cobblers the dnc will shift focus to the senate race between democrat bob casey and republican lou bartletta. two police officers ambushed and killed in cold blood. the guy who pulled the trigger is about to walk free for good behavior. the outrage boiling over on this one. texas setting the stage and aborted battle tracking down on century cities that refuse to follow the law. on next guest says the left should use this as a wake-up call for november s election. i want to thank you, mr. pres. and god bless you. grateful cafeteria worker who says the tax cut changed her
morning, an emotional plea. you ve become part of the mayors against illegal guns and congressman, i want to ask you, what s your reaction to having heard the testimony of gabby giffords today and the impact that she can make in having common sense conversation about the debate? well, i mean, i hope the testimony of congresswoman giffords is compelling to members of the senate. look, we need to enact common sense gun safety legislation. we need to fix the broken background check system to be sure that criminals and people seriously mentally ill don t have access to guns. we need to close loopholes at gun shows and fire sales when a gun dealer has a licensed revoked. there s things we can do. there s legislation to fix those things. no one is suggesting people don t have a right to a firearm, but we need to make sure people with no right to a gun, convicted of a crime, serious mental illness, don t have access to firearms, and we need to protect our communities.