national anthem national anthem good morning we have a fox news alert. first our thoughts and prayers are with thousands of people in the south this morning. in the aftermath of the devastating tornadoes that have claimed at least 26 lives. this is the worst i have ever, this is devastating. it was like scary, i wasn t that scared. i was trying to cover my sister. it was like a train sound. but it wasn t it was a tornado coming by. a lot of stuff everywhere. everything you worked for is gone. the historic outbreak of 24 tornadoes leveling homes and businesses leaving doesn t hurt. search and rescue teams are still looking for survivors in getting help too many people who are still misplaced. mississippi governor eight reeves declared a state of emergency after visiting the hardest hit areas. homeland security allie alejandro mayorkas will visit the devastated areas later today, fox weather correspondent from rolling port mississippi this morning, r
pete: free healthcare, free college for illegals but we gotta cut it for the vets. it is incredible. turn to your headlines. american airstrikes in syria killing 19 fighters associated with iran s revolutionary guard corps on thursday. an update on the numbers. that s according to the pentagon which is strikes in response to an iranian drone attack that killed an american contractor and injured five u.s. service members. imprints 24 police officers and seven protesters injured in a climate protest yesterday. three police vehicles were set on fire during the protests in the western part of the country. thousands of climate activists trying to stop the construction of a water reservoir for farm irrigation. good idea. yesterday s clashes, after weeks of unrest after the french government unilateral pension reforms in those are a couple of
attack in syria killing and leaving others struggling to breathe. rescue crews say a strike by syrian government or russian warplanes dropped some sort of gas in the northwestern province and a secondary strike hours earlier targeted a clinic that was treating victims. you see a child on the screen. children and women are among the victims, as we re getting the first initial reports on this. let s bring in the director of the kennon institute at theed with row wilson center. we appreciate having you on our program. this is one of the big international news stories of the day. here we go again. another chemical attack. there s outrage. there s a question of what s next? what is next? well, you know, we can t say. this has an an unpredictable, chaotic, bloody situation in syria. i think one of the reasons this particular attack is significant
successfully recruiting people from south and central america colonel, and those jihadists could pose a threat to the u.s. if they were able to come back to this part of the world and get across our border. listen to this. i would suspect they ll get good at while they re in syria killing and pick up some real job skills in terms of explosives and beheadings and things like that. and everyone is concerned of course, if they come home because if they went over radicalized, one would expect they ll come back at least that radicalized. so they re not come back to go on vacation right? they re not, gretchen. that s exactly right. they re going to want to come back and do things to us. some of the places they mentioned were the caribbean islands who really have no terror programs. they may be good on drugs and crime. but to get them engiejed in looking for, isolating identifying tracking, following
going to work? and does this latest intrusion of hamas bring the country together. yes, the country is very much united. the country is strong, thousands of civilians have been recruited to serve in our reserve units. i myself in previous conflicts did just that. and we re firm, we re strong. you know, governor, we ve been here for 3,800 years, well over 2,000 years before islam came to the world. so we re here to stay. if anyone wants to mess with us, that s okay, but we re here to stay and we ll fight them. i think many in israel now have awakened. many are more realistic. we re in a tough region, in a very tough region where you have syria killing 150,000 of its civilians, when iraq we have i.s.i.s., radical islamic terrorist group taking over iraq. egypt had a revolution and