meanwhile, our slogan comes your way. it comes to us from craig in rapids city, san diego. news and fun before the sun, fox & friends is number one. [captioning made possible by fox news channel] captioned by the national captioning institute www.ncicap.org gretchen: good morning, everyone. we hope had you a great weekend. we knowed to get right to the headlines because a fox news alert says 14 americans were killed this morning in a series of helicopter crashes in afghanistan. four u.s. troops were killed when two choppers collided in the south. no word yet on what exactly caused the crash. but the military is ruling out hostile fire a second crash happened during an operation by afghan and international forces in the west killing seven u.s. service members and three american civilians. more than 40 american troops have died in afghanistan this month. and in iraq, explosions rock baghdad killing 147 people, injuring hundreds more in the country s deadliest attack in two
deal with result in america getting its credit cut again. stu varney is varney & co. stu we talked about this before. congress has an even shorter deadline to come up with this deal than we thought because of the warning from the cbo says you can t give it to us at the last minute, we need time to score it. that s correct. the skrept sis eupl that a deal will be done and stay done is rising. point number one. they are saying this morning i need more time to score this thing. he also said, megyn, even if you get a deal done that deal could be undone by a future congress. so it s not set in concrete. here is another item for you. moody s, that s the rating agency which assesses the status of america s debt, it has said that if they fail to come up with this big deficit-cutting deal that would be, quote, a major factor in their future rating. that was steven hess who said that. i just called steven hess to ask