fighter program. as i have consistently said, the f 35 program remains one of my top acquisition and sustainment priorities. earlier this month and our last press briefing i made a commitment to come back to you when we were ready to announce the next f 35 contract. here we aare. the f 35 program milestone authority alongside ãbwe are here to announce the u.s. department of defense and lockheed martin have made tremendous progress and now have an agreement regarding the lot 12 to 14 production contract. this is a historic milestone to the f35 enterprise. as the f35 is our largest taxpayer investment and will form the backbone of the u.s. and allied fifth-generation inventory for the foreseeable future. anf in the joint program office are laser focused on driving cost out, quality up, and achieving timely deliveries of our capability to our war fighters. with respect to on-time delivery we ve exceeded the total aircraft quantity we delivered to the war fighter last year. we
riley gaines has told fox news bottles are being thrown. protesters are spitting in people s faces. profanity being yelled at children. severe storms now being blamed for at least two deaths in the southeastern united states. more than a million homes and businesses have lost power, possibly tornadic activity across the south. there is danger out here. trees in the middle of the road. virtually all commodity prices are rising right now. gas prices, up 30 cents in the last month. diesel is up 34 cents. i am so tired of feeling helpless as a parent but there is a difference between struggling and drowning. ainsley: we begin this hour with this. president biden is on the road in arizona today. but he can t shake criticism of his son s growing scandals. brian: right. just ignores it. his trip out west comes as we learn hunter s long time business partner visited the obama white house and vp s residence much more than previously reported. steve: gillian turner jo
flack about the border, they reveal the deficiency between meyer case and his purposeful conduct. bill: so build back in his post. nico parker texas bill but do you have? good morning to you, the images are startling, and the law enforcement tells me that it happened saturday night down in the valley, we will get right into those images, take a look here, they show a group of suspected cartel gunmen on the drawbridge cameras that they cross illegally into france and texas. i have a cutout area with significant drug smuggling and you can see there are with rifles and some of them are wearing body armor as they are moving to the brush and what you are looking at the u.s. side of the border. i am told elite border patrol were called out to the area, and they search for these men but they were unable to find them. and this happened days after an arm smuggler was seen here in eagle pass we are. take a look at these images released by texas dps from one of their jaunts. again s
we have a wet road as well as two big crashes. 95 southbound near quantico. once you pass dumfries we have a slow down. 5:00 now. our big story this morning no school today for students in george county public schools after hundreds of teachers and staff requested off for the day. for the day without a woman strike. prince george county is now third school system in the area to close today. melanie alnwick live in upper marboro this morning with reaction to the he decision that came out pretty late, mel. that s right, guys, prince george county, though, is by far the largest school system so far to be affected by this call out day. and the message was sent out through email and also posted on the school system web site at 7:0 last night and that really is not a lot of notice for 17,000 students who now do not have a class troom go to today. in a letter that was post doctor kevin maxwell superintendent of prince george county schools he apologized for inconvenience not