consequences of us all lowering the bar again in the name of d.e.i. i saw someone say d.e.i. should mean didn t earn it. john: will cain with his thoughts this morning. see you on the weekend. dana: a fox news alert. all out manhunt now underway after a dangerous prisoner escapes in a blaze of gunfire leaving three officers wounded. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. bill hemmer is off today but john has been great to have you. john: always appreciate spending time with you. john roberts. the inmate escaping custody with help from an accomplice in the middle of a night ambush wednesday. he is a gang member serving a 20 year prison sentence for assaulting an officer. both men are armed and dangerous and willing to use extreme violence. we believe that this was a coordinated attack, ambush on the department of corrections officers and certainly a planned endeavor to free him from custody. they are dangerous and armed and have shown violence.
7 a.m. ainsley: 7. [laughter] brian: i assumed. ainsley: i assumed it was me. brian: okay, go ahead. ainsley: it is 7:00 a.m. on the east coast. it is wednesday, march 20th, it s my aunt s birthday. has been, lynn. and this is fox & friends. we have a fox news alert to start with. a federal court flip flopped why a texas law cracking down on illegal immigration was good to go last night when brian was going to sleep. he went to bed in a good mood and woke up in a bad mood. brian: i know. steve: headline your aunt lynn s story was ahead of our lead story. plus, in other news, here in new york, aoc s constituents tell us what they really think of her as a congresswoman. people, the pros stiewrks people getting robbed. i was a volunteer for her. she completely abandoned our community rachel campos-duffy will join us live. brian: my aunt kathy was born in june remind me. boyfriend. used to be known as a great tight end. boyfriend. and now game show host trav
city of port-au-prince. the humanitarian crisis is also a getting worse with hospitals coming under attack and and many people going hungry. this as the prime minister has agreed to step down once a transitional presidential council is created. welcome to fox news live, happy st. patrick s day, i m mike emmanuel. americans trapped in haiti getting a lifeline, charter flights for u.s. citizens stuck there but warning americans to travel to the pick-up point at their own risk. bryan llenas is live with the late from the dominican republic p. hello, bryan. reporter: hey, mike. yes, gangs in haiti have made life there virtually impossible, very difficult. we are on the dominican side of the border, and this is a marketplace where haitians are able to buy and sell goods and bring them back to their ohm as their home as their country continues to be in a state of crisis. the united nations says nearly half of haiti s population is food insecure and in need of some kind of hum
wildfire updates. what can you tell us now in. reporter: hey there, griff, good morning to you. we re alongside one of the main entry points into the town of a lahaina. people here have been lined up for hours, some of these folks sleeping in their cars waiting for the curfew in the town of lahaina to expire. some of these people have nothing left, they just want to get in, see what s left of the town. take a listen to some folks about what they ve seen there. i want people to know that there are people out here suffering, and we need donations. we need, we need people shipping things out here. we need families fed, we need yeah, we need so much men help. reporter: home after home in lahaina, gone. one estimate from core logic puts the estimate of destroyed homes at more than 3,000. the rising death toll now at 80 people as rescue crews search for more victims. thousands of people have now left the island, and around 1400 are currently staying in emergency shelters
appoint him as special counsel. charles: a special counsel named in the hunter biden case, but it s the same prosecutor, david weiss, who was already heading it up, and that has republicans calling it a cover-up. we re going to get the latest from lucas tomlinson on what the white house is saying. former acting attorney general matthew whitaker on what weiss is now doing, and gop presidential candidate tim scott on how voters are responding. plus, the death toll now at 80 in maui, and the word the attorney general this hawaii will be lawn a. ing a probe into the official response to those catastrophic wildfires. welcome, everyone. i m charles payne in for neil cavuto, and this is cavuto live. we bin at the white house where president biden so far is staying quiet on the special counsel appointment in his son s case. lucas tomlinson is there though. reporter: charles, it was just a few weeks ago in that delaware courtroom where hunter biden and his family thought his legal