what mollie tibbetts s autopsy report, they took a knee, now they will take a seat. cheerleaders punished for disrespecting the national anthem. fox and friends first continues right now. i m on top of the world jillian: friday morning. good morning. fox and friends first on friday. rob: thanks for getting up early, hurricane lane, those out of bounds, the biggest storm in 26 years.
currently a category 3 storm but as you continue to march through the day it weakens falling down to a category one storm. it makes a sharp turn as it approaches honolulu, a major population center. the models are not totally in agreement, some take it all the way up to making landfall before turning sharply out to see. others turn out a little sooner. the sooner this turns out the list the impact is going to be. that is what we are hoping for but whether it makes landfall or not there will be plenty of spots with widespread rainfall, some getting 30 inches, widespread in maui, 10 to 20 inche
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justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations. but president trump telling fox he thinks politics matters in prosecutions. if you look at president obama, he had a massive campaign violation, but he had a different attorney general, and they viewed it a lot differently. you know, we have somebody, they seem to like to go after a lot of republicans. reporter: one top republican, now a convicted felon, paul manafort, president trump s former campaign chairman, found guilty by a jury this week of tax crimes and bank fraud. i have great respect for what he s done in terms of what he s gone through. some of the charges they threw against him, every consultant, every lobbyist in washington probably does. reporter: the question now, will the president pardon manafort? his press secretary says he s never discussed it. that s not something that has been up for discussion. i don t have anything for you on that. reporter: his
A morning show that highlights the latest headlines in news, weather, sports and entertainment, and is known for the cohosts casual and spontaneous. mollie has been forever separated from her family. they will never see her reach her 21st birthday. they will never see that because she is permanently gone from the face of this planet because of an illegal alien. i want to remind elizabeth warren that you know what? the tragic loss of mollie is important to us. and the families that are separated at the border, they will come together again, mollie can never be with her family again. steve: she is absolutely right. it s too bad that it has become political to some people. it s the murder of a young woman. over on msnbc a couple of days ago university professor from fordham christina grier referred to mollie tibbetts simply as a girl in iowa. and joni ernst yesterday when she was on xm sirius. that girl in iowa, i think that s so disrespectful to mollie and her family. she is someon
Our thoughts with him and his family. martha, thank you. we move on the tonight to the state of emergency at this hour. hurricane lane lashing the hawaiian islands. the slow-moving category two storm. winds up to 105 miles an hour. the river raging on the big island. more than 30 inches of rain already falling. they expect 40 inches of rain or more before the storm is over. the storm is not expected to turn away from hawaii for another 24 hours. and there is real fear the flash flooding could be life-threatening. their word tonight, catastrop c catastrophic. here s gio benitez, from maui. reporter: tonight, hurricane lane bringing catastrophic flooding to hawaii s big island. more than 30 inches of rain already and up to 20 inches more on the way. flash flooding overtaking roads. the storm s movement slowing to a crawl. because the longer this storm lingers near the islands, that means the longer we will see impacts. crews working into the night to clear debris amidst fear of mor
Well-served with this much friction. brian: everyone has got to saying he got to fire jeff sessions. why should everybody with be strapped with an attorney general the way he does his job. likely senator lindsey graham will be the champlet judiciary. can he make sure if they hold the senate, which the republicans are supposed, to that another attorney general gets through. firing before the midterm elections would be impossible to replace him because they have boston readbostonkavanaugh ready to go. steve: 11 minutes after the top of the hour, jillian, let s talk weather. jillian: hawaii seriously bracing for a big storm right now. get at the a fox news alert. hurricane lane lashing the hawaiian islands in what could be the businessest storm there in 26 years. hurricane 3 hurricane causing flooding and mudslide concerns.