Secrets of space. Fox and friends first continues right now. Stormy night on part of the east coast and throughout the country. A live look at midtown manhattan good morning to you, you are watching fox and friends first on thursday morning. New details about the suspect in the El Paso Texas shooting. The president turns from his visit to texas and ohio where he met with those affected by the shootings. Jeff fall joins us with what we are learning about the suspect. Reporter according to an attorney representing the family of a suspected shooter they say the mom contacted police prior to this domestic terrorism attack. The dallasbased attorney saying the mom reportedly told the city of allen, texas to ask them about the a k type rifle her son dont. That attorney also saying the mom was only seeking information about the gun and the call wasnt prompted out of concern over a threat. They say she didnt identify herself or her son on a. Donald trump was in town yesterday facing protests as
With sharks yesterday and thoady its like water park i watched jaws in homage of the show. Griff, why you got to do the real thing. What is it, National Water park day today . Yes. So we brought our own water park to the show. If youre in the area, come on out. Were going to get wet later on. Theyre competing and ill be the junl. Good stuff. If im the judge its going to be tough. Thats true. First in this country always news. And we start with this. President trump doubling down on his criticism of maryland congressman Elijah Cummings. This as the Democrats Use this as their latest attack on track. Mark joins us with more on the battle over baltimore. President trump has tweeted several times about cummings and cummings district. The latest tweet overnight, the president wrote quote, so sad that Elijah Cummings has been able to do so little for baltimore. Baltimore ranks last in every category. Congress cummings was born and raised in baltimore representing his district since 1996. He
Emergency on the border and its time for democrats to, quote do their jobs. One hour from now homeland secretary secretary Kristin Nielsen expected to face questions from house lawmakers as the commissioner will likely face the same on the senate side. Bill those hearings coming a day after we learned of a record surge on the border. Nearly 270,000 a 270,000 apprehs so far in 2019. Thats nearly 97 increase from just a year ago. 76,000 total apprehensions and arrivals in a four week month in february. Highest encounters in any february in the last 12 years. We have apprehended and encountered more families in just five months and five days than last years record total. The system is well beyond capacity and remains at breaking point. Are we on the fifth caravan . Do we need sixth and seventh and endless caravan before we say its an emergency . We are on track to spend 1. 6 billion of housing unaccompanied minors in u. S. Custody. If this is not a crisis, what the hell would be . Bill Ca
Mike, good morning. Good morning, pete, jed and todd. Exactly a month since the last incomprehensive and sudden outbreak of bloodshed and it happened again, its happened again in texas. Five people are dead. 24 have been shot and that includes three Police Officers and a 17monthold girl. It was 3 13 p. M. , state troopers with the Texas Department of Public Safety pulled over a truck for failure to use a left turn signal. The driver slowed down, didnt stop and put a rifle out the window striking a texas state trooper. We have an active shooter. Negative. In a vehicle sphwhr what is the status of the trooper fnlt theyre working on the trooper right now. Shooter is in a toyota headed hd westbound towards 0 december ka. Odessa. He shot two more cop. He shot an inned on i20 and continued into east odessa. There was a lot of random gun fire there, multiple scenes of bloodshed. A lot of the bloodshed was along the highway. We adopt know the details of how he got out of his truck but he got o
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