All this is a Democratic National committee is facing pressure to open up the primaries and hold debates and we are on top of all of it. Im sandra smith infer neil cavuto, we have Fox Team Coverage in washington and three more republicans ready for launch. Of Jacqui Heinrich in the white house where pressure is mounting on the president to begin debate. The field of republican candidates is growing fast today, former Vice President mike pence made it official hes good to be challenging his old running mate former President Trump for the revoke a nomination, he will officially unveil the campaign on wednesday he files paperwork today and will be delivering remarks in iowa, the former vp is expected to campaign heavily on his faith, his record and policies he fought for during the trump administration. Im very confident that whatever things look like right now, that republican primary voters are going to look at the field and think very deeply about who can best carry our message and car
after a strange of deadly storms barreled through the region, leaving at least six people dead and dozens of others injured we re in a texas community still picking up the pieces. later highway collapse pennsylvania s governor vowing to reopen that busy stretch of interstate 95 through philly within weeks let s begin with the breaking news out of china this morning. u.s. secretary of state antony blinken just departing beijing after that high-stakes meeting with china s president xi jinping. that included the secretary s crucial two-day visit aimed at stabilizing the spiraling relationship between the two countries, upended recently by the downing of a spy balloon and this tense encounter by a chinese fighter plane and a u.s. jet. plus the encounter with military ships. let s discuss with janis mackey frayer in beijing as well as nbc senior white house correspondent kelly o donnell standing by in washington we know the meeting between blinken and xi lasted about 35 minutes,
the left hand on the bible and the right hand in the air as the 47th president of the united states. no excuses, we have to get this done. todd: detailed image of ron desantis. you re watching fox and friends first, i m todd piro. ashley: i m ashley strohmier in for carley shimkus. todd: doug luzader live in washington with more. doug: this was supposed to be an innovative campaign launch on the twitter space platform, but it quickly went south. the platform got overwhelmed before it got underway. i m pleased to introduce two individuals who have done more sorry about that, we ve got so many people here that i think we are kind of melting the servers, which is a good sign. let s see, are we on? i think so. doug: okay, elon musk having to vamp there, as well. desantis tried to make light of the situation and turned focus back to his campaign on fox news last night. we know the country is on the wrong track and we have a listless vessel, not energetic and no
uk officials in france are preparing to fly home a british teenager who was found after being missing for six years. alex batty, now 17, disappeared after travelling to spain with his mother and grandfather. the boy was discovered on wednesday near the city of toulouse. in the past hour, manchester police gave a short update to the media. i think ithinki i think i speak on behalf of the whole of the greater manchester police when we say we are relieved and overjoyed to say we received the news from the french authorities they believe alex batty has been found safe and well. it has been six years since his disappearance. this is a huge moment for alex, his family and the community in oldham. alex went missing whilst on holiday in 2017 when he was just 11 years old. on wednesday, a member of the public reported a potential cycling in toulouse area of france. the young man identified as alan alex was taken to a french police station. the young man and alex s, the spoke on a vide
hello. hello welcome to bbc news. the us national security advisor, jake sullivan, will visit the occupied west bank city of ramallah later on friday, for talks with palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas to discuss issues, including stability in the west bank and the future governance of the gaza strip. it comes after he met the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and other officials in tel aviv on thursday, during which he called for restraint on the war in gaza. the united states has called on israel to scale down its war on hamas in the near future , with president biden urging more to be done to protect civilian lives in gaza. gaza s health ministry says that more than 18,500 people have been killed since the war began. internet and phone networks across gaza had gone down again overnight, according to the region s main telecomms company. and in the last few minutes the israeli military have said its specialforces have recovered the body of a hostage held