next leadership. talk about weapons that i sign off ongoing into taiwan to pardon taiwan and are they prepared? do we have enough deterrence to stop aggression coming from china? todd: big development, you re watching fox and friends first on thursday morning, i m todd piro. ashley: i m ashley strohmier, in for carley shimkus. house speaker kevin mccarthy sitting down with taiwan president in california where he called for the u.s. to send more weapons to the nation immediately. todd: lucas tomlinson with more. lucas. lucas: the republican chairman just arrived in taiwan. here is more from chairman michael mccaul. being here sends a signal to the chinese communist party that the united states supports taiwan. we will help taiwan and want them to think twice about invading taiwan. lucas: chinese government is outraged by the visit to taiwan s leader to meet house speaker kevin mccarthy. china could never tell us what to do, as speaker of the house, i will meet wi
californians are under a flood watch as they are tonight, that s 10% of the whole u.s. population n this succession of extremely wet storms, the north central coast of california has been particularly hard hit cu already. but now with additional storms, still coming, there are all kinds of northern california rivers that don t usually flood that are looking now luke they are going to flood. these are places where there just are not a lot of flood mitigation systems because they re rivers that don t usually flood. there is not a lt of local inland flooding. so it is bad tonight in a lot of california with more rain and more storms set to arrive over the next few days. keeping eyes on that as everybody else in the country. in new mexico tonight, this is interesting story. albuquerque police just held a press conference tonightce to announce a development in the recent shootings that have targeted the homes and offices of at least a half dozen new mexicolf elected officials all
the weather outside is still frightful and in places still potentially deadly. pamela brown here in for anderson. it s hard to imagine that some parts of western new york could see another foot or more of snow on top of the nearly four feet you see in these pictures on your screen. winter storm warnings there and elsewhere still in effect. buffalo s airport still closed. the entire eastern part of the country still in a deep freeze. almost 4,000 flights canceled today and nearly 2600 tomorrow. nationwide, at least 49 people have lost their lives in this massive storm. 27 and the buffalo area alone. we have wide reporting tonight from buffalo and denver international airport. let s start tonight with paula who has been right there in the works of it from day one. what is the latest on the ground? today those rescues also continue. in fact, new york governor saying that state police officers carried out some 550 rescues at least over the weekend. but we also learned about wha
leaders run our country. they go on endlessly about democracy but do their best to it avoid democracy s most bask requirements like free speech and representative government. the prime minister of italy a few years ago bragged to the world economic forum about his plans to bring more social justice to the country meaning he would import more migrants from the third world into europe. we are saving lives at sea! oh, saving lives. you are such a good person. the question is: the people who live in italy think of that idea? what? the prime minister didn t care. quote: are you following this you? run a country in the name of people. you are not a king. you are an elected leader. but it s dangerous to it allow the opinion of those people to influence your decisions. does that familiar? that s the kind of democracy we live in, a fake one. in fact there is no majority in any country on the planet earth of that thinks open borders are a good idea or considers global warming the big
over 50 migrants that arrived on wednesday. griff jenkins has the latest. griff: good morning, the governors achieved one goal, they got attention. axios says they will meet today including litigation options after 50 landed on martha s vineyard and 101 were dropped off outside kamala harris s home yesterday, which she refuses to talk about. griff: president biden was willing to talk accusing republicans of a political stunt. instead of working with us on solutions, republicans are playing politics with human beings, using them as props. what they re doing is wrong, unamerican, reckless. griff: on the tiny island paradise where many selel rities vacation, it is causing a crisis. some point in time, they have to move them somewhere else, right? we do not, we don t have the services to take care of 50 immigrants and certainly don t have housing, we are in a housing crisis. griff: the population of del rio, texas is 35,000, they had 50,000 encounters in july alone