investigation. and nothing will ever stop us from keeping america secure. norah: political showdown. the manhattan district attorney sue is a member of congress to keep republicans from interfering in the donald trump case. a cbs news investigation, how china built its own boeing 737. do you feel like they stole an airliner? i don t feel that way, i think that is a fact. norah: our tax series, how you can maximize your refund in a year where many of americans will get less cash back. so used to getting something back all of the time, and all of a sudden have to write a check, it s a rude awakening. norah: and meet an air force family flying into the history books. carrying hopefully the next generation bomber pilot, while flying sernic, was quite the memory. norah: good evening, and thank you for joining us on this busy tuesday night. we do want to begin with some breaking news from louisville, kentucky, where police just released chilling and
[national anthem] [national anthem] pete: they continue to roll in, our nation s anthem. beautifully tone do. cone. we had an iwo jima salute rachel: and two lassies. [laughter] better president welcome to fox & friends at this 6 a.m. hour. we ve got joey jones in for wil. joey: yeah, i guess all that saddle soreness for will this morning concern the. [laughter] i didn t know you guys were going to roll a band out and everything, the welcome wagon is here. rachel: house fire s here just for you. that s the band we re having for faith and friends. pete: faith and friends. stick around for the 9 a.m. hour. feels like a long time away but it s actually, technically, the 10 a.m. hour because overnight we rolled back our clocks. rachel: yeah, that was hard. pete: our viewership is probably half of what it normally is rachel: but rick is going to bring those numbers right back up. [laughter] joey: we begin with a fox weather alert. two people are dead in california as m
more than 1,000 people have been detained across russia and heavily policed protests. you always feel worried at a time like this. if you have a wife and kids, i wouldn t want to leave them. it comes as occupied areas announce snap referendums on joining the russian state. for critics, a tiny fig leaf to cover a blatant annexation of ukrainian land and an opportunity to halt ukraine s advancing army by warning the western backers to defend the mother land. even the newest bits. translator: this is not a bluff. citizens of russia can be sure our territorial integrity, our independence and freedom will be ensured with the means at our disposal and those who try to blackmail us with nuclear weapons should know the prevailing winds can turn in their direction. reporter: it s a threat ukraine bristoling with u.s. and western arms has already rejected out of hand. officials recruiting the kremlin of throwing more men into the flames of a war it has no chance of winning. but in
we begin this hour with celebration turning into tragedy at the university of georgia. just hours after the football team was honored for winning a national championship one of their key players, 20-year-old, was killed in a car crash along with a member of the football staff, 24-year-old chandler lacroix. cnn is live in athens, georgia. what do we know about what happened? reporter: we just got a statement indicating this happened at 2:45 early this morning. that car was traveling southbound on this road behind me just past this curve right here and then, fred, for some reason that car left the roadway, struck this power pole right here. we saw utility crews in the last hour or so replacing and fixing this power pole, and then the car continued, fred. you can see the debris, the fallen tree limbs where it struck a tree. as we make our way over here i will show you the exact spot where this car came to rest continuing past this slope right here and ending at this location r