fox news top of the hour, three big stories topping the news. china s military carrying out massive blockade drills around taiwan today. china announced three days of drills on saturday after taiwan s president met in california with house speaker kevin mccarthy. protests expected in tennessee today where the state legislature is back in session for the first time since it voted to expel two democrats for their role in a chaotic gun control protest. a at the detention of erin gershkovitch. more on those stories throughout the hour. first. someone got shot. dana: the army sergeant convicted in the death of a black lives protestors in 2020 says it is self-defense but facing a possible sentence of life in prison. texas governor abbott is calling for the state to grant a pardon. that is developing now. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. good morning. bill: i know you had a good weekend. excellent. great easter weekend, thank you. i m bill hemmer
attacks targeted sites associated with hamas militants in retaliation for bombings a day before. attentions have also been rising in israel after palestinians conducted a pair of deadly attacks there. so far the very latest on the ground let s go with this latest breaking news. this is breaking news spread in the past 20 minutes three rockets were fired from southern sierra toward israelite territory. one of those rockets landed in an open area and the heights. one of them reportedly landing in jordan and another one falling short in sierra. a significant escalation once again by suspected iranian linked proxies in sierra after a week of unrest across the re region. just here in tel aviv last night there was a terror attack that left one civilian dead and seven others wounded when a man ramped his car through a crowd of people was fired a weapon. police that were nearby rushed to the scene and killed the attacker. those who were injured were brought to a local hospital. earli
vested denver following several major stories this afternoon two big rulings on a key abortion pill praising the legal stakes to protec abortion rights for millions o women. reaction is coming in, fast an furious. new developments in the ouster of two - lawmakers in the tennessee legislature as the vic president lends her voice to the fight. they understood the importance, these three, o standing to say that peopl will not be silenced we are also keeping a close eye on israel after severa attacks this easter weekend. a new move from the white hous on trans athletes that has all sides of the debate upset. all of that, plus the news thi week that the former vic president will testify against donald trump, what he migh say. once he is under oath. we re gonna look at that comin up as well we begin though with the breaking news on abortio rights a federal judge in texas has essentially blocked the fda approval of mifepristone potentially undoing two decade of legal and safe
of the american people. but make no mistake, if any object presents a threat to the safety and security of the american people, i will take it down. president joe biden addresses the chinese surveillance balloon and other objects shot down by the military in recent days. more of his comments and his message to beijing in just a moment. plus former president trump claims total exoneration following the partial release of a grand jury report on election interference in georgia. we ll explain why that s not even close to being true. and also ahead the latest update from the epa on the major ohio train derailment which is now a focus of many conspiracy theorists. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, folks. we made it. friday, february 17th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin this morning in washington where president joe biden spoke extensively for the first time yesterday about his administration s decision to shoo
police fired tear gas at these protesters, who threw projectiles at them and set bins on fire. people also are not stopping this situation. we ll monitor it, bring it to you, in a live report. so none of that is keeping them out of the streets. the police are trying their best to corral them. pretty peaceful in this picture that we see right now. some of the video that we ve seen come in has been kind of back and forth between how rowdy the situation gets. this is a battle over what can france afford to pay for anymore, and people who say they deserve to have what they ve worked for all their lives. i m harris faulkner. you are in the faulkner focus. a bipartisan congressional delegation just touched down in taiwan today, one day after house speaker kevin mccarthy defied china s threats and met with taiwan s president in california. china still claims sovereignty over taiwan, something the united states does not recognize. in response to that meeting, china threatened they