potential presidential campaign just ahead plus what we re learning about donald trump s deposition yesterday in new york after spending eight hours at the attorney general s office. and we ll have the latest on the arrest of the young air national guardsman suspected of leaking classified documents all right, good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, april 14th. i m sam stein in for jonathan lemire we begin in florida where ahead of a likely presidential run governor ron desantis signed a six-week abortion ban into law yesterday, a move that underscores just how controversial the move is. the typically boisterous desantis announced the decision with little fanfare last night, putting out this tweet just after 11:00, hours after the ban was approved by the gop controlled state legislature just two out of the 28 republicans in the florida senate voted against the bill, which makes exceptions for pregnancies involving rape or incest up until 15 weeks thosexes
joey jackson, he says, do it close to being this is vindication, according talking about alec baldwin being adamant, as you just heard that he did not pull the tree. bigger and just hours from now. a prosecutor is set to drop charges against him for the deadly shooting on the rust movie set coming up the new evidence that came to light plus plus, we are now learning that the mass shooter who killed five workers at a bank in louisville apparently wanted to show how easy it was for a mentally ill person to buy an assault rifle in america. and the legal nightmare is not over from fox news. smartmatic is demanding an even bigger payout. dominions historic $787 million settlement for spreading election lies coming up smart maddox lawyer joins us live but let s begin with president biden. he was getting ready to officially announced he s running for reelection. sources tell cnn his team is planning to release a campaign style video announcement on tuesday. tuesday is the four year
foreign country, puts national security at risk. i challenge the fort worth police department. steve: hello. steve: i want to be a football player. what an open, ladies and gentlemen. live from courtside kitchen here in fort worths, we re here for the pickleball. look who has come by, all these people. good morning, how are you? they have total of nine courts. tomas, can we swing around here. people play here all day and all night because it is just plain fun. that is one thing we re doing live from courtside kitchen. it is a diner, they have great food. the folks here are all fox and friends viewers, for the most part. it is a two-fer. we re able to talk to the folks. we re able to have pickleball fun and do the news of the day. live from fort worth. i m having the best time. can we get people involved on fox and friends getting up early like a marching band, cheerleaders, stuff like that everyday? or do the show live from the courtside kitchen as often as we
hour. the system then heads to the east. rob marciano timing it out. tonight, the remarkable images from texas, the faa now investigating the explosion of the spacex starship. minutes after takeoff, the world s largest rocket blasting off from texas, no crew on board. but what went wrong with the test flight and what they were hoping this rocket would soon do. gio benitez tonight. police say this happened again, a shooting over someone s mistake. this time, a basketball rolling into a neighbor s yard. a girl and her parents shot and wounded, the urgent manhunt now underway tonight. what police are saying. news just in tonight on president biden and when he s expected to announce he s running again. what our team has learned. rachel scott live at the white house. an irs whistle-blower claiming the federal investigation into hunter biden is being mishandled. the white house responding tonight. pierre thomas on this. news coming in, an american citizen confirmed dead tonight and
there was blood everywhere in troops for a possible embassy evacuation. we advise americans not to travel to sudan. police are searching for a driver who injured a police officer while fleeing a traffic stop. that led to a chase across manhattan. the most powerful rocket ever built exploded above the gulf of mexico today. spacex s starship spacecraft disassembled minutes after blasting off. norah: eye on america. arizona is facing a water crisis. why a foreign country could be making the problem worse. so, when you look out there and you see all that green, what do you think? i see money leaving america. norah: and major league move, where the oakland a s may soon call home. good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us on this thursday night. tonight, we want to begin with the dangerous weather that is sweeping across the nation after nearly a dozen tornadoes tore through oklahoma, kansas, and iowa on wednesday.