were so gallantly streaming and the rocket s red glare, the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there o say does that star spangled banner yet wave o er the land of the free and the home of the brave . will: good morning. welcome to fox & friends. we go straight to a fox news alert. the u.s. shoots down the chinese balloon after a hovered across the u.s. for days after it moved over the atlantic ocean. pete: navy divers and fbi are searching the area for degree. rachel: alexandria hoff is here this morning. the heavy payload of spy gear fell into 47 feet of water with a debris of seven miles long. fox news was the only network to capture it live. exclusive video shows the moment a f-22 raptor fired off a sidewinder heat-seeking missile destroying the chinese balloon. the takedown happened 2:39 p.m. six miles off the coast of south carolina. prior to that the surveillance balloon ventured across the country maneuvering over
They should not occupy gaza. I think it would be a big mistake. We will destroy hamas. They opened this war. We will win it. The work to rescue hostages including americans is becoming more complicated. The president had no higher priority than getting americans back safe. Those are innocent civilians. They have rights. This is the closest thing to the holocaust weve seen. I dont have another land. Were on the edge of the abyss here. The slogan never again, it wasnt a suggestion. It is something we intend to act on. Good morning, everyone. Right now Secretary Of State Antony Blinken is also in israel meeting again with Benjamin Netanyahu. It is a dire humanitarian crisis escalating in gaza and Israeli Ground offensive appears to be imminent. Blinken said this morning the u. S. Is actively working to ensure humanitarian assistance like water, food and medicine can get into gaza. He also said yesterday a Safe Passage Way Into Egypt via The Rafah Crossing would be open as half a Million P
As an Israeli Ground operation into gaza appears imminent, the u. S. , the u. N. And others are scrambling to get palestinians out of harms way. Im Boris Sanchez alongside Brianna Keeler in washington. And today Secretary Of State tony blinken is in israel trying to help open the only viable option for palestinians to leave gaza which is the Rafah Crossing Into Egypt in the south. At the same time blinken stressed that israels obligation to defend itself after the hamas Terror Attack On October 7th that killed at least 1,400 people. You know, our deep commitment to israels right, indeed its obligation, to defend itself and to defend its people, and in that you have and will always have the support of the united. I want to go right now to Nic Robertson along the gaza border. Nic, what have you been seeing . Reporter yeah, literally two seconds ago three rockets coming out of gaza right on the horizon there. There was a couple of rockets, 30 seconds before that, coming over our heads, i
Including the leader taken out. pete: hour long firefight? will: i need to know rachel: what happened. that is relaxing movie for you to watch. will: it is, inspirational. for sure inspirational. pete: hosting a morning show on a couch. will: yes. pete: these guys two weeks ago when ever it happened you find out about later, dropped in a remote cave complex to get the guy responsible for killing 13 americans? that is what having a long memory looks like. i m grateful that you do those things that you never hear about. will: pete, having spent time in afghanistan, i don t know how forward rate operating you might have get seeing cave complexes it defies imagination. just out of curious at this really quickly the cave complexes? the city within the mountain. pete: in afghanistan you have to remember they fought the soviets for decades as well. so there were cave complexes that existed because of that, even before that, the locals
thank you, now to retired general mark hertling. so hertling, according to the commander of all the asov battalion in mariupol, now breached the steel mill and engaged in close fighting with ukrainian forces inside. can you talk a battle like that, how difficult to storm an industrial complex, heavily fortified with a lot of underground bunkers and tunnels? yeah, this is going to be really tough, anderson. if they think they ve seen fighting there already it s knowing to get much worse. this is a lot like fighting in a cave and that s something the u.s. army found very difficult in preparing for missions in afghanistan and to a lesser degree, eastern iraq. we built cave complexes at our training centers and we quickly found out how challenging it was for any attacker going into a cave and how very few armed men, defending in a cave, could hold off, sometimes hundreds even thousands of attackers going into a cave. now the asovstal plant is