The state of illinois. Pete that was multiple governors yesterday and we kick off today with a fox news alert. Today, new jersey expected to tighten restrictions amid the crippling coronavirus pandemic. Cars lining up at a testing site in the state as the governor considers a stay at home order. Jedediah connecticut, illinois and new york following californias lead ordering tens of millions of people to stay home unless its an emergency. Illinois starting log down today until april 7th. Connecticut on monday night. With that we welcome you into fox friends on a saturday morning. Im todd piro. Jedediah jedediah. Pete and im pete. Its good to see all of you this morning in a little bit of a different setup which we have gotten used on this annual and all getting use to in a different way. I have to share with you the cover of the New York Post this morning which sums up the way a lot of people are feeling. Certainly jed, can you speak to it here in new york city. This is lady liberty. No
Before, okay . I would wager in the history of Public Transportation in this nation, you never had a challenge of disinfecting every train, every 24 hours. Disinfect, how do you even disinfect a train . You know, we clean trains. But how do you disinfect . This is a whole new process. These are new chemicals. These are this is new equipment for workers. Its new methods. Just think about it, you have to disinfect every place that a hand could touch on a subway car. Every rail, every pole, every door, wherever a hand could touch or coughing and sneezing, wherever droplets could land, right . So you have to disinfect that entire interior of the car, and then you have to disinfect the stations, the handrails, everything that people could be touching. It is a massive undertaking that weve never done before. But that is the right thing to do. That is, as we said, weve never done tracing before. Weve never done disinfecting train cars before, but so what . Thats what we have to do. So figure
Amtrak has been out there doing repairs. He says he has to be in philadelphia today. He has no plans to travel to new york city but if he were traveling to new york city he would be taking this train along with everybody else. They pull into the station here in a few minutes. They say they can make other arrangements trying to roll with it either driving to computes in newark new jersey everyone is feeling relieved today. We know extensive work has been done to repair the track. Amtrak tells us 300 crews worked over the course of the weekend to make the repairs necessary, including activating those speed control measures that have been ordered. So commuters taking that first trip back to new york in just a few minutes. Chris. All right. We will be tracking the timeliness and integrity of the system. What kind of Safety Measures are put in place . Now, specific to train 180, fbi investigators just joined the ntsb and local authorities on the scene of the crash to examine this trains win
Marriage is getting very, very big support from a very unlikely place prominent republicans who now are joining forces to strike down proposition 8. Dozens of prominent republicans have signed a legal brief that will submitted to the Supreme Court this week arguing that gay people have a constitutional right to marry, among them, signing whitman who supported prop 8 when she ran for governor, and top advisors to former president george w. Bush also signing. The brief could have potential to sway conservative justices when the Court Hears Arguments next month. Last week, president obama told abc7 use congress exclusively that supporting gay marriage is the right thing to do. I can tell you obviously my personal view which is that samesex couples should be treated like everyone else. 75 influential republicans have add their names to the list including former utah governor hunts man and former new jersey governor whitman, and two former governors of massachusetts, weld and swift. Opinion
[explosion] the story behind this rockets dangerous explosion during a test flight. Fox friends begins right now. Hey, everybody, come on in and stay a while. Glad to have you watching fox friends weekend. Glad to have you in for tucker. Only a few more weeks left where you get to wear the nice light suit. I have got to wear it today. All the ladies telling me its labor day i have got to get rid of my white pants, right . You dont wear white pants. Just on the golf course. We begin this hour with a fox news alert. Federal officials now warning that isis could hit inside america as revenge for u. S. Air strikes. The terror group that was labeled the jv team by president obama just a few short months ago may now be planning a 9 11 style attack on the west. More we go now live to Jennifer Griffin in washington, d. C. Good morning to you, jennifer. Good morning, anna. The says it has not seen any sign that isis terror cells have cross the southern border into the United States. But those w