Championship series. Love it. Andy scholes, thank you. Dont go anywhere, cnn this morning starts right now. Good morning, everyone. Poppy is off. Erica hill joins me. A lot of big news to get to. If on a friday, we should go ahead. Yeah. Gets you closer to your weekend, phil. Five things to know. Breaking overnight, donald trump not running for House Speaker but throwing his weight bree hind congressman jim jordan. Will this push the representative closer to the vote threshold he needs. U. S. Funding to ukraine hangs in the balance of the speaker fight as Russia Strikes against overnight. Former President Trump reportedly revealing Nuclear Submarine secrets to this guy, an australian billionaire who also happens to be a member of maralago. And the Biden Administration announcing sends thousands, and saying build a border wall and still saying walls dont work. Jobs report due out this morning. Monitoring the nationwide strikes on those numbers. Signs of possible progress in the autowork
Bill what you are watching is a stunning and yet absurd sight on our southern border. That is el paso, texas, video from overnight. Droves of people rushing our southern border. It is just the latest example of the chaos down there prompting a major reversal on behalf of the president and the white house. Thats where we start today. Im bill hemmer. Dana has the day off. Our friend and colleague smitty got the early alarm today. Sandra always good to be with all of you. Im sandra smith and this is americas newsroom. The urgency at the border. The migrant Crisis Prompting President Biden to resume construction of the border wall. The department of Homeland Security is fast tracking 20 miles of new barrier. Dhs Chief Mayokas said the need for it is acute and immediate. He is waiving theyve seen a quarter million crossings. It has gotten so bad the president is willing to break a key promise that he made to the left in 2020. Trump campaigned on build that wall. Are you willing to tear that
american bases in iraq and syria have taken incoming fire 46 times. 56 servicemembers have been hurt and there is real concern a major strike could drag america into a conflict that the white houses they are working to stay out of. you are watching fox and friends first on friday, i m todd piro. carley: i m carley shimkus. our presence in the region is strong, 17,000 military personnel have been deployed in the last month and u.s. naval ships are surrounding the middle east. also a nuclear powered submarine somewhere in the waters below. todd: get an update from trey yingst live from southern israel. trey. trey: todd, carley, good morning. the battles inside gaza rage on behind me. israeli forces are reportedly surrounding three separate hospitals in the gaza strip where they say militants are hiding. northern part of gaza, we ve been watching the israelis renew strikes against this area. israel says 37 soldiers in total have been killed in the battle since the ground
5:00 a.m. in gaza as we continue our coverage of the war in israel day 28 on america s late news, fox news at night. and we are now getting word that is rally defense forces have surrounded gaza city but it comes as president biden is now calling for a humanitarian pause in the fighting and many believe that s simply a different way of saying ceasefire. one us publication says that maga and christian nationalism are bigger threats to america than hamas. we have team fox coverage. lucas tomlinson in tel aviv, steve harrigan in northern israel. but we begin here in the u.s. where the war in israel has customs and border protections sounding the alarm on just how easy it is for terrorists to just walk across our southern border. bill melugin is live with calls to shut down the border all together. reporter: as we speak we have a new massive caravan headed to the u.s. border and now some county leaders in san diego are calling for the border to be closed amid terror concerns. j
is a queue for laura coats to make sense of it all. what? let me figure out a way to remind myself of what it would be like in court to tell a judge, or to hear witnesses, i m sorry i can t be there because we have kids. we have kids who are in the courtroom because the parents were subpoenaed, or they themselves or a defendant. i remember, abby, actually being pregnant prosecuting cases and saying, i m sorry your honor, we ve got to move the trial date i m actually due to deliver that day. all, really is the entire government pregnant? is that what s happening right now, miss coates? trust me, i am a little bit look, it s not like she can t afford childcare. that s an important point, oh tell you for a lot of people, even those who can, or it s taken for granted if they can or cannot, it s a subpoena, it s important, trial it s a civil trial, people oftentimes it was not criminal prosecutions which the big deal? it s a very big deal to release the a.g. in new york. t