hello, everyone. i m lynn berry. here is what is happening. ed rendell is apologizing to attendes in peaceful protests and rallies including on anti-terrorism bulletins distributed by his secretary of national security. sarah shroud is glad to be free and will work to free her companions. the french senate banned wearing burkas in public. hurricane igor churns eastward with hurricane julia on its heels. a congressional investigation found one of the egg farms tested positive for
tweeted. fox & friends hour two for friday starts now. this is joe theismann and you re watching fox & friends and they re all friends of mine! thank you, joe. hey, joe. he was just joining us in the 6:00 hour and he ll be back because he always rejoins us at some point. joe sat right there. you actually told us about a fox news alert a short time ago. time to follow up on that story. let s too that. we have your headlines and the fox news alert. firefighters on the scene of that burning this is a new burning situation. this is new jersey. hadden township. smoke pouring out of newton diner. roads in the area are closed. so far, no reports of injuries. bring you more information as it becomes available. let s head to iran because now, they are saying that they re going to release at least one of the american hikers, sarah shroud tomorrow morning. she is one of the three that accidentally strayed into iran
international criticism of this judiciary. a stoning sentence for a woman convicted of adultery, which has been temporarily suspended and then news today out of tehran that one of the main news agencies said that saturday s planned release of sarah shroud is a result of intervention. in a statement that may seem contradictory, iran s news agency said the foreign minister, the president intervened in part because of the special view point of islamic republic of iraq on the dignity of women. so, it seems very calculated at a very strange time. yeah, her case, in particular, i know she hasn t been well. she is the only woman of the three that have been held for more than a year now. what do we know about the condition of the americans, ali? we were given a brief opportunity to interview them in a big press conference back in may at the hotel that she s due to be released at. all three of them look much
shooting rampage after being suspended from her job. two people are dead and a third wounded. the shooter returned to the plant packing a .357 magnum minutes after being escorted from the building. some of the people in the building were hiding in a quality role room. a philadelphia s.w.a.t team took the shooter into custody alive after the standoff. no word on why she had been suspended. iran now says one of the u.s. hike jailed for more than a year, sarah shroud will be released this weekend. the act of clemency is to mark the end of the islamic holy month of ramadan. ali joins us from london and i guess this is raising a lot of questions, ali, about what the real motivation might be. what s going on there? is this a calculated move by iran? that s right, chris. this gesture could be seen as a calculated move to soften
the hall, but he says he never heard her discuss politics or extremism. let s do this. let s check other big stories that we re following for you. the senate is expected to vote today on a bill extending unemployment benefits. the almost $140 million measure would provide up to 99 weeks of benefits to people in many states and also provide assistance to the unemployed to buy health insurance and extend a wide range of tax cuts. three u.s. hikers have phoned home for the first time since being arrested in iran seven months ago. the families say it is a sign their long detention may soon be over. shane bauer, sarah shroud and josh face espionage charges. they accidentally strayed across an unmarked border in iran while hiking in iraq. okay, happening now on capitol hill, a senate hearing on intelligence reform and lessons from the christmas bombing attempt.