hi, sean. hi, arthel. anthony blinken met with the counter part yesterday and first meeting since the u.s. shot down the chinese spy balloon two weeks ago and secretary of state told beijing s top diplomat must never happen again and this is beijing supplying vladamir putin with lethal aid to help in his invasion of ukraine. arthel: former president jimmy carter in hospice care at his georgia home after several recent hospital stays and the carter center says mr. carter made the decision to spend his remaining time at his home . eric: our thoughts with the former president and his family now. we have team fox news coverage on all of this. jonathan is in plains, georgia, near the former president s home. david at the white house with the reaction after the secretary of state s warning to china and first to lucas tomlinson in east palestine, ohio, with the latest on the train derailment and what the railroad is doing about all it. lucas. reporter: the railway released the fo
rachel: good morning, everybody from daytona international speedway and that is the apopca high school blue darter band performing live here at the speedway ahead of daytona 500 here on fox. good morning, will. good morning, pete. pete: good morning, rachel. i m pumped. it s finally warming up here at the track. if you re a high school band, what a better backdrop than the daytona 500 and the international speedway, the big race is tomorrow at 2:30 and we get a chance to cover it all morning long and talk news. rachel: absolutely. pete: always fun to be here. rachel: let s get to some of that news and we re going to talk about east palestine and sounding the alarm and the effects of toxic chemicals in the town. i ve had a headache and odd tinkling sensation like in the gums and on my lips. my brother-in-law went to the hospital and got checked out. he was having some severe symptoms, some breathing issues. they let this sink in and burn for days before they evacuated an
pete: this is not just a race,st the an event. st the an extravaganza. that s the apopka high school band performing life here at the daytona the national speedway i ahead of the daytona 500 tomorrow on fox. thanks for joining us here on fox & friends weekend, pete hegseth, will cain, rachel campos duffy and a very cool graphic that makes us look awesome, because we re at an amazing event, the great american race. it s great on the back here with the both of you. rachel:st the been an incredible couple das i days here. the food that the mche mothers are doing pat: thankfully, we haven t seen any of it yet. will: it ll be the 75th running pete: 75th or year of nascar, 65th will: thank you for that correction. i m a little off. i have a bud canty that just said, are you headed to bible study? [laughter] or maybe a parent-teacher conference? [laughter] with my sweater on, he also said you might be headed to bushwood country club. [laughter] pete: okay. rachel: di
media interview on the disaster and downplayed what happened. rail city telling that that has evolved a lot over the years. but there s clearly more that needs to be done because while this horrible situation has gotten particularly high amount of attention, there are roughly one thousand cases a year of a train derailing. but a judge also said that he hopes to get to know some of the folks who were impacted by this, but claims the reason he hasn t visited is that he wants to respect the investigation. e palestine mayor trent conaway, thanks for staying away is a good idea. was just a dog and pony show. they ve they ve sort of let us hang hang out to dry here. as far as mayor pete is , people like to call him. i would rather he just stay away. he is just going to cause a circus. and unless he s going to bring a shovel and shovel some dirt and get rid of this contaminated soil, that s that s the only reason he would need to come to this town . we have a town of forty one hun
assisted with the screening of more than 480 homes under the voluntary screening program offered to residents. and no detections of vinyl chloride or hydrogen chloride were identified. we understand the residents are concerned as they should be and they have questions, that s all understandable. and you know, we are going to get to the bottom of this. try and figure out an answer to what occurred. sandra: and answers people are not getting at this hour, which makes for a very interesting white house briefing that is set to take place this hour as health concerns grow in east palestine, ohio, despite the administration s best efforts to assure the public everything is just fine. hello, welcome everyone, sandra smith in new york. hi, john. john: john roberts in washington. it may be friday but a lot of news. america reports, today marks two weeks since the norfolk southern train went off the rails in a small town near ohio s border. testing in the air and water shows