Hey, everybody. Good morning, it is sunday, the 11th of may. Im anna kooiman. A fox news alert, new shocking details of what happened after a Hot Air Balloon collided with power lines and burst into flames. Two of the victims have been identified while crews search for a third. A live report straight ahead. And brand new members of benghazis select committee vowing to deliver justice finally. The American People want to know the truth about what happened that night in the early hours of the next day. They want to know the truth. And we owe the truth to them. The democrats agree. Will they even participant . Well have the latest on that coming up. If you disagree with common core and you are a right extremist, so does caring about your childs education make you a bigot . Well tell you who said those words. Not me. Fox and Friends Weekend begins right now. I love you, mom. Love you, mom. Good morning. It is mothers day. Happy mothers day, everyone. A live look down vacant sixth avenue while people are hopefully spending time with their moms today. Everyone is making their mama breakfast in bed today. We want to say a big thank you to 1800flowers. Ive been fighting with the makeup and hair ladies today. They are amazing. Can you send in your photos this morning if you are making breakfast in bed for your mom this morning . Show the disaster that will be your kitchen this morning. I want to see those photos. Send them to us on twitter, ffweekend, well show photos of your moms breakfast in bed if you can pull it off. First, a fox news alert this morning. Heartwrenching details for the final moments of members aboard a Hot Air Balloon that caught fire in virginia. Revealing pictures of more of those who died on board at the time. Peter doocy has more. Reporter good morning. The three people who took flight in the Hot Air Balloon that caught fire in the frightening scene on friday waited around all day to liftoff. And that very sadly reflected on the social media accounts of one victim, jenny doyle, who tweeted this, tried it at 6 30 a. M. But was too foggy. Well go up this evening, anxiety. Almost 12 hours later around 6 00 p. M. , they did go up but after two hours in the air during its decent the balloon hit a power line, caught fire and crashed to the ground. The body of genny doyle and the womans basketball coach for the last 16 years and the former player herself has been recovered. So has the body of the balloons pilot unidentified. Another passenger, 24yearold Natalie Lewis who coached with the university of richmond basketballs team is still missing. And investigators are now combing an area of thick woods in virginia looking for her. More than 100 rescuers are joining in the search effort down in caroline county. And the parents of natalie are quoted asking for prayers Still Holding out hope their daughter survived the scary accident where two of the people in the gondola were seen by people in the ground jumping or falling
from the gondola while the pilot tried desperately to control the flames before the balloon separated from the gondola sending it crashing to the earth. The whole time people on the ground could hear helpless passengers crying for help and screaming that they thought they were going to die. Back to you in new york. Such a sad story. Thank you, peter. Peter, you have Something Special for somebody special in your life today, it is mothers day after all, right . It is. You have a photo . Oh, are we going to haul it up right now . There it is. That is my sister. Im there on the left. That is my sister sally in the little carriage, and mary is in the car seat. Thats the first mothers day altogether. Are you driving . I was driving, yes. They start them young in fairfax county, virginia, when i was little. You must be in the u. K. Or australia or something on the other side. Peter, thank you so much. Yep. We have other stories making headlines this sunday morning. We want to get to the embattled phoenix v. A. Is getting a new health chief. Steve young who is head of the salt lake v. A. Will shift to phoenix tomorrow as interim director. Young will now oversee health care for 85,000 veterans. The move comes after heavy criticism over allegations of hiding treatment delays that alleged to the death of 40 veterans. Many organizations have called for the resignation of v. A. Secretary Eric Shinseki. And shoppers at a mall think they hair gunshots. It turns out that noise was actually exploding car tires. Paramus police say a car went up in flames at the Garden State Plaza mall and minutes later
people reported to hear the mall was evacuated as a precaution. Police found no evidence of gunfire or a gunman. This is the same mall where a 20yearold man fired shots into the air in november before turning the gun on himself. And the search is on for three missing boaters in falsom lake outside of sacramento, california. The 40foot boat capsized and the three passengers aboard havent been seen since. Windy weather and choppy weather hasnt helped the search earth as boats, helicopters and divers scour the lake. They called off the search as darkness fell with the search resuming this morning. Well, tomorrow marks the first day in almost three years a tourist will be allowed to visit the washington monument. The National Landmark closed in the summer of 2011 after an earthquake shook the entire structure damaging it quite badly. Repairs cost 15 million, half of which were paid by
philanthropist david rubenstein. Those are your headlines. Paid for by an individual, thats the only thing working in washington. Pretty unbelievable. We have been following from the very beginning the aftermath of the benghazi tragedy almost two years ago. Heres the very latest, so there is a special committee that has been formed by republicans. Democrats have not decided whether they will be part of that. Seven republicans have been selected for the select committee. There will be five democratic seats, but nancy pelosi has nod decided whether or not to allow members of the caucus to join them. The congressman of georgia made this point in response to what you heard from democrats lately, who cares, its over. Heres her response to that. Its just a continuation of the message that secretary of state then clinton said what difference does it make . Well, it makes a big difference to the American People. The American People want to know the truth about what happened
that night and in the early hours of the next day. They want to know the truth. And we owe the truth to them and we owe it to those four families that had loved ones murdered in this attack. And the idea of how many investigations are we going to have . We need to figure out exactly what happened and when the promise of the most transparent presidency in history doesnt seem to be coming to fruition when congress cant get the same documents that a nonprofit Judicial Watch had to sue for, even the freedom information act, points to a coverup. Right. And the documents continue to trickle out as late as last week they continue to come out. So i find it amazing the democrats are continuing to criticize this and yet to tuckers point, they have not decided to join the select committee or not. So they will just insult it and mock it to say its a political stunt. Last night on judge jeanine
this man has this to say about the entire process. I would scream from my lungs forward. Justice deserves to be served. If they dont, they have so much to lose, it tells americans they are not interested in the truth and interested about a video, and that includes the president , judge, as well. He was the one that went in front of the United Nations to talk about the video, even back then, two weeks after benghazi. So they are not interested in the truth, they are only interested in their narratives. And not participating in this seams like the political stunt that nancy pelosi is accusing john boehner of doing. It seems like just the opposite is actually happening. We are a long way of healing these wounds. If somebody, anybody were taken into custody for these murders. News organizations have been able to interview suspects in this case, but the u. S. Government we cant track them but we can track american citizens. Heres a question, have you been critical of common core . Many have. I might be, but theres a legitimate debate about common core, but not according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. The selfdescribed Civil Rights Group in georgia issued a report recently that said groups that criticize common core, the federal education standards are rightwing extremists. They specifically point out fox news and by having a discussion say this, the Disinformation Campaign is being driven by the likes of fox news, the john burkes society, tea Party Faction and the christian right. Weve had healthy debates on both sides of the common core debate. Parents are outraged about it and also administrators like common core. We have had a healthy debate about it here. So it is fox news to blame for the problem of common core, not the implementation of it across states across this country, the way educators are not implementing it, its been done by administrators, but it is our fault as fox news. Heres the problem, again, theres legitimate debate about
common core. This does not abate that debate. This shuts it down. This is another example of the left using bigotry to get people they disagree with to shut up. This is not inviting people to have a rational discussion about anything. Its saying, be quiet, you disagree with you, youre a bigot. We are trying to get the same kids to learn the same thing at the same time across the country, and have this uniform set of standards, but it doesnt work for everyone. So clearly thats one of the biggest problems. One of the great things about it is they are trying to get more people to graduate and be able to pass the tests in order to get their High School Diploma and then go to college and graduate from there. Coming up, well show you a math problem that takes six steps to do and it takes one step to do it. So there could be issues. One less thing you saw from president obama the other day onGlobal Warming, theres no debate. Anyone who engages in it is a neatndrethal. You can weigh in on foxnews. Com. And lets go to Rick Reichmuth and his mothers day forecast. Or theres not enough meteorology in common core. We should have a lot more of that. This morning youre waking up to things better that yesterday on the east coast. It will be a nice day for all the moms across new england and the southeast. Things are clearing out. The central part of the country is where the problems are going to be. Big storms moving in near i80 near nebraska. Some are already severe. And we have the storm pulmoing into the rockies bringing snow from the wasatch of utah to the colorado rockies. And it will be heavy. Bigtime winter snow still. Take a look at this. Todays Severe Weather threat anywhere in yellow with the
threat for Severe Weather, but the red bullseye could be a large track tornadoes, especially across nebraska and iowa. Starting midday today, well have to watch for the tornado threat in that area. Thank you, rick. Coming up here on the show, its the latest Veterans Affair bombshell. Emails revealing employees at the v. A. Hospital in wyoming were instructed to manipulate patient records. And worse, the head of the v. A. Knew about it for years. How the veterans react, next. And this story will make you smile. A tiny dog gets a big helping hand. Now he and the man that saved him are getting their 15 minutes of fame. Its a good story. Scott appears busters been busy. Man yeah, scott. I was just about to use the uh. Scott thats a bunch of groundup paper, lad scotts ez seed uses the finest seed, fertilizer, and
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was some information revealed saying the very same thing. You know what . I find this has been going on continuously and veterans are aware of this. This has been going on in the past year alone. Five deaths were associated with a lack of care and dorne medical facility. We have had multiple deaths due to ligoniers disease in ohio. And 1. 5 million records have been deleted for appointments by the v. A. And the secretary is acting like, now i am coming in to save the day . Thats apalling to me. It is inarguable that hes a war hero with good intentions, so where is the disconnect on all this . I applaud him on being a veteran but many of the veterans have served multitell tours overseas and put their lives on the line also. So to give him special privilege because of his status, how about
what the v. A. Is possible for . When the v. A. Cares more about numbers than its lives, it has lost its soul. The media has been asking tough questions and finally some action is what were seeing with some accountability, but how do we get more of this . Nobodys lost their job. Thats another thing. Its a v. A. Accountability management, manageability and accountability act. Its the same thing that secretary hagel can do, fire executives. Sharon hagel out in phoenix who allowed the secret list of 1600 veterans . She was promoted after fudging numbers out of seattle, washington, on veteran suicide. So instead of moving them out, they move them up. Just move them to a different state making sure nobody will notice is what a lot of critics are saying. How high do you think this culture of alleged corruption
with cooking the books goes, how high up you think . When 1. 5 million records were found by the Government Accountability office to have just disappeared, its as if the veterans dont exist. 1. 5 million records were deleted and we dont know whether the veterans ever received care. The 40 veterans dead in phoenix and the 5 in dorne medical facility, i think it is thousands of veterans that have lost their lives. When they signed up to serve, they certainly were thinking they would be taken care of when coming home. We want to make sure they get some great care. Jess jessie duff, thank you. A kindergarten bullying . One city wants to make it a misdemeanor for 5yearolds. Good idea or gone too far . And it doesnt get any closer than this. A church just inches away from destruction by a boulder. Call it a divine intervention, what do you think about this . Doing this all day, my feet and legs got really tired. So i got dr. Scholls massaging gel work insoles. They absorb the shock of working on my feet all day. I feel energized get dr. Scholls massaging gel work insoles at walmart. Im a believer
time for some quick headlines this sunday morning. First up, is this divine intervention . He missed it by 1 foot. Holy smokes. This happened in a church outside boston in a nearby demolition. The massive 20ton boulder started rolling to the church and came to a stop just a few inches from the building. And st. Louis rams michael sam is the first openly gay
player drafted in the nfl. He tweeted out this photo thanking the rams and he gets to stay in missouri where he played in college for mizzou. One city in california going the extra step in the war against bullying. Carson city is making the act a crime for children as young as 5. The city council has given preliminary approval