[national anthem] [national anthem] [national anthem] [national anthem] [national anthem] he. Pete good Saturday Morning And welcome to fox Friends Weekend on the beginning of this Labor Day Weekend. Rachel good morning, guys. Will a long weekend for most people across the weekend this country. Maybe not us. Rachel i will be a double shift on monday. Fox friends monday And hosting prime. Pete all next week, right . Rachel all next week. Pete better than you than me. Rachel you guys are doing it great job. Give you a shot, too. Will we have seen you do a great job more than once on that show. We will be watching on monday night. We will be talking off monday. No apologies here. For that morning off. But we start you off this morning with Tony Blinken who says that everyone in afghanistan is a united States Citizen will be accounted for And is in contact with the State Department, which is a fascinating concept if you give a moment of thought to it that would mean that you would have an
new criticism after the brutal murder of a georgia nursing students. feds confirming the suspect is an illegal im grant. more details today as we say hello. brand-new week starts now on monday. dana is out this week. hello to our friend. thank you for having me. i m aishah hosni. the suspect is from virginia with a prior arrest in new york city fueling concerns over who exactly is coming into this country and bill, where are they going when they come in? that s suspect illegally crossed into the u.s. in september of 2022. at the same time, he was crossing over, the biden administration was insisting that the border is safe. we have a secure border in that is a priority for any nation, including ours and our administration. we re certainly doing a lot more to secure the border. we have taken unprecedented action over the past year and a half to secure the border. president biden: we have a process in place to manage migrants. the border is not open. we re doing every
remarks later today. we ll look at what this means for russia s invasion. overnight reports of tornado ripping through parts of texas and louisiana as the severe weather moves to the northeast leaving behind a trail of destruction. and new questions about the security of our nation s secrets after a classified documents were discovered at former vice president mike pence s private home in indiana. in monterey park, california, the community now mourning the 11 innocent lives lost at the ballroom dance studio. vice president harris is now expected to meet with grieving family this is afternoon. a suspect in another shooting in half-moon bay is set to appear in court today. we ll ask california congressman about what can be done to stop gun violence. we begin with major developments in the war in ukraine. in about two hours, president biden is expected to deliver remarks on ukraine as nbc news was the first to report the administration is preparing to send tanks to uk
from washington because the color to tell you, this is something that will have a devastating impact on the nation s economy echo amtrak, the nation s cross-country railway system, is canceling all of its long distance trains ahead of a plant workers strike that really threatens to do damage on a scale that we have not seen in quite some time back of that announcement effectively cancels all planned trips except for those along the northeast corridor between boston and washington, d.c. the companies as our changes are all trains can reach the destination before the strike, which could begin as early as friday, and in case you re wondering, yes, we are talking about major cost because tthe strike could cost up to $2 billion per day per, we are talking about 60,000 workers plotting a walkout for better conditions. there s still time to get this resort, but there s only a few days left or they have a construct that is available that frankly needs to be adopted, but if this goe
billion per day and drive inflation even higher. todd: kevin cork e has the lost. kevin: on the virge of striking across america as result some freight and passenger train companies have already begun reducing services. from the international association of machinists and workers, the tentative agreement has been rejected and strike authorization was approved by members and extension has been agreed to until september 29th to allow us to negotiate changes with the nccc, in hopes of an agreement. what that means is most unions involved well, unfortunately, most have agreed, but two major unions are holding out. so a 30-day cooling off period, we ve been talking about for weeks, ends on friday. that means a strike could begin later this week and that would be devastating. in all, talking about a dozen unions in dispute with six of the largest freight rail carriers in the country and a strike could be economically devastating with 60 s,000 workers holding out for better wo