heather: welcome back to fox & friends first. president trump hand first lady melania heading to the disaster zone today in the wake of hurricane michael. this as rescuers frantically search for thousands of people who are still missing. phil keithing is live in panama city with the latest on the recovery efforts. good morning, phil. reporter: good morning, heather. shortly after 9:00 eastern, president trump and first lady melania will marine one over to joint base andrews, get on air force one at 9:20 and depart, landing in florida about 11:25 eastern time, about 40 miles up the coast from where we are in panama city and then presumably they ll hop in a chop tear andpd take a tour of the miles and miles of destruction and damage and it won t be hard to find. we expect they ll fly over mexico beach, florida, which took the heaviest winds and the
reporter: a family spells help on their property. a woman was checking on her grandmother s house while using noaa s satellite images and suddenly spotted this. they alerted the bay county s sheriff s department who went over to the house and sure enough everybody was fine and okay. she wasn t sure whether her grandparents had evacuated. they did not. they chose to stay. they have the help they were asking for now, so a happy ending. heather: amazing, use of technology we see following these hurricanes from the drones to using the noaa satellites, it really is something. thank you so much, phil. i know you have a long day with the president there. we appreciate it. reporter: thank you. heather: another big-time democrat distancing himself from comments like these. when they go low, we kick em. heather: vermont senator bernie
wednesday and tomorrow in orlando the first of what is expected to be many lawsuits will be filed by one of the survivors who was injured. rick: not surprising. phil, thanks very much. it s election day in russia and the country s headed to another six years under president putin. what it means for moscow s relationship with the west which appear toss be growing more tense by the day. we should all remember, this is a formality, this election. it s more like a rubber stamp coronation. it s not about a democratic election. it was my very first car accident. i called usaa and the first thing they asked was are you ok? they always thank you for your service, which is nice because as a spouse you serve too. we re the hayles and we re usaa members for life. you re smart,eat you already knew that. but it s also great for finding the perfect used car. you ll see what a fair price is and you can connect with a truecar certified dealer.
cracks. if cruz were committed, getting a gun would have likely been far more difficult. he s charged in the deaths of 17 students and staff on valentine s day last month in parkland. to another tragedy in florida. police in miami releasing the names of the victims killed in the bridge collapse and their loved ones are speaking out saying this never should have happened. phil keithing is live in miami. investigators have not said what caused this yet but i saw a report that an engineer saw cracks in that bridge before the accident. reporter: yeah, rick, cracks in the brand-new concrete was known by fig bridge design, the designer of the pe pedestrian bridge, florida international university as well as the florida department of transportation but it found out one day late. most of the rubble has been swept off the street. investigators are confident there are no more bodies in the piles of concrete rubble, that the death toll will stay at six. heavy equipment operators were
we ve been a space-faring nation for the better part of 50 years and to not have an indigenous capability is probably something that we should fix. boeing and spacex won about $7 billion in nasa contracts to tell their capsules and rocket systems, and the new launch america team also keenly aware that space travel is risky and in the past nine months twice we ve seen commercial cargo ships explode, most recently with spacex two weeks ago. the exact cause still unknown. john? phil keithing in florida, phil thank you, and we ll be right back.