that is offensive to those who lost their dearest ones. uh-huh. and we all remember that. it s hard to believe that it s already been nine years ago. yeah. and we re approaching another anniversary for that. abe foxman, the national director of the anti-defamation league, thanks for explaining your point of view with us this morning. thank you. ll, move over, jersey shore because jesus is coming to a beach near you. we ll talk to the men who are challenging mtv s hit reality series. then richard blumenthal who is a shoo-in for senate in connecticut until he lied about serving in vietnam. his opponent says she s ahead for other reasons. independence. she joins us live. it s a fox & friends exclusive. but first on this day in history in 1914, the first traffic light was installed in cleveland. in 1983, yankee outfielder dave winfield was arrested by canadian police for throwing a ball that killed a seagull during warmups. olivia newton john had the number one song. remember t
hope you re having a great thursday so far. it s august 5, 2010. thanks for sharing your time with us today. most of the oil in the gulf is gone but are you buying that? it s gone and the gulf is clear, it s not, it s not. fishermen and people living on the coast only getting angrier now, not just with b.p. but with the leadership, too. illegal immigrants working american jobs. is their constitutional right? huh? that s what one congressman says and michelle malkin is here to explain that and weigh in. meanwhile, stranded on the edge of a cliff with a skydiver with a broken parachute and a cell phone to call for help. > i m hanging from a rock with my strings right now. i m sorry. if it breaks, i m dead. we re going to tell but the amazing rescue and then the arrest. fox & friends for a thursday, hour two now.
he had an outstanding warrant for other base jumps. and those are your headlines. i m wondering how the heck did they rescue him from that position? that s a picture. very carefully. you wind up putting whoever the rescuer is in peril, too, by going to the side of the rock. look at perspective when they pull out. yeah. on the face. they got sylvester stallone because he was in cliffhanger and had him show up. is that what happened? brian will be so jealous. someone who lives in the rockies is michelle malkin joining us from colorado springs right now. hello, michelle. good morning. michelle, as we ve told people, you wrote that book about illegals in this country called immigration a couple of years ago and now we re talking a lot about it because what s going on in arizona. and the very senator who wrote sb-1070 in arizona, fellow by the name of russell pierce are talking about anchor babies, children born in the united states to illegal parents and
reinstated. all right. it will be interesting to watch. joining us today from san diego, thank you, sir. have a great couple of days out there. thank you. all right. it s about 20 minutes after the top of the hour. straight ahead, a damaging report. exposing government waste hidden in the stimulus. oh, great! like $1 million to study dancing. the president says his opponents are just playing politics. oh, really? a fair and balanced debate is coming up next. then a win for america. a group of students fought back against their school over the pledge of allegiance and get this, they won. their story straight ahead. i m gonna take allison jenkins to the senior prom
[ male announcer ] no one really wants plaque left on their teeth. but ordinary manual brushes can leave up to 50% of plaque behind. that s why you want an oral-b power brush. inspired by dental tools, they clean away plaque in ways a manual brush can t. for that dentist-smooth, clean feeling every day. fight plaque with real power. oral-b power. welcome back. iran s official news agency now shooting down claims of an apparent assassination attempt on iran s president saying it was nothing more than an excited fan setting off a firework. and not a grenade. so did iran s government plant the story in the first place? iranian-american journalist joins us live from los angeles. good morning, lisa.