:[the star-spangled banner] [the star-spangled banner] will: here we are. welcome to fox and friends weekend on saturday morning. these are checkered flags, not the real ones but we are here because tomorrow at 2:30 the daytona 500 kicks off. this is one of my favorites. rachel: it has been amazing so far and hasn t even started. will: it hasn t. there have been some preliminary races. we know what the lineup is. pete: you have been doing more than just being here. will: i m not the other one. daytona 500 is one of my favorite races because it s not only the adrenaline filled event of nascar. on the beach, we get to go out into the infield, hang out with people and do fun things. while i did some things, i don t win the crown for going fastest. the most adrenaline filled event of the week. that would be rachel campos duffy. rachel: we were here yesterday at the track and they were practicing and it was pretty spectacular. i got to go fly with them. i will say i mad
will: good morning live from daytona, florida, for the daytona 500 tomorrow. 2:30 eastern time on fox. fox & friends live from the track and pete hegseth, will and rachel c cam pose-duffy with you here this morning. pete: 65th running of the daytona 500 and they ran on the beach before that. when it comes to nascar, daytona is front and center all the time and it s their super bowl. it s fun to be there with them. rachel: you re right, it s so pat i can t tell ick here patriotic here it feels like super bowl. will: pete has done this and i ve done this, if you ve gone up with the air force and taken a ride. let me tell you something, when you do te away incredibly impressed with america s fighters. rachel: yes. will: it is a hupabling experience that humbling experience that rachel got to participate in yesterday. you went up with the thunder birds and did over 9gs. you didn t black out our throw up and you re here to brag this morning. rachel: i aim. am. i m here to br
jacqui heinrich starts us off tonight from 1600 pennsylvania avenue. hi, jacqui. hey, gillian, good evening to you. u.s. officials revealed today that the u.s. has not formally requested a phone call with chinese president xi jinping despite president biden saying yesterday that they expected to be talking soon. we re learning that they re hoping that secretary of state antony blinken will first be able to smooth things over and make contact with his chinese counterpart at the munich security conference next week. but, if no meeting ends up happening, it will be a telling sign of where u.s.-china relations stand. chinese spy balloon lifted from the ocean store from south carolina. quantico. we learned a lot already from the balloon by surveilling it while it was flying over the country. we re going to learn even more, we believe, by getting a look at the guts inside it. but u.s. officials are warning we may not learn much more about the three likely harmless objects sho
legitimate concerns about a threat and dealing with that threat. nobody hurt. general jack keane is standing by. but first to jennifer griffin live today at the pentagon. good afternoon, jen. the canadians have called off recovery efforts in lake huron and expected to do the same in the yukon mountains. we may never know what was shot down. john kirby said shooting down the three objects were likely benign was an overreaction. i d ask you to put yourself in his shoes in light of the chinese spy balloon and what was a very real, certainly sizable and tangible security surveillance threat to the united states in the wake of that. near impossible arctic search conditions continuing a the u.s. and canadian militaries acknowledge that they may never find the objects or balloons which some hobbyists said could be their research balloons. the president acknowledged this yesterday. nothing acknowledged that they were related to the china balloon program. the current assessm
let us start in ohio. 1.1 million pounds of vinyl chloride was released into the air, following the derailment of the northern suffolk train two weeks ago, a chemical that can cause dna mutations and lead to long-term cancers, according to a lawsuit that s alleging all of that, and it is a big reason why residents of east palestine ohio say they don t believe officials who are telling them it s safe to go home, safe to breathe, safe to drink the water. the epa administrator was there yesterday. the governor was out there today. it s okay, they say, we ve tested the air. we ve tested the water. still, residents are complaining about burning in their lungs and their eyes. and unusual rashes. they re worried about their kids. can they bathe them in their bathtub. can they use the tap to mix formula for their babies. the federal government is setting medical teams to both examine residents and assess what dangers could still exist, an acknowledgment that the aftermath of this der