Lady gaga performed an elaborate but rain soaked ceremony. In a world first, the olympic opening ceremony was held outside of a stadium with thousands of athletes sailing down the river seine, and hundreds of thousands watching from the banks. Our sports correspondent patrick gearey reports. Singing. Paris never more spectacularly, the city of light. An evening drenched in sound, colourand rain. This was always going to be a more watery opening ceremony than ever before. The river seine and not a stadium was the centrepiece. But you can t plan the weather. Not much shelter for the athletes on board the 85 boats sailing through paris, but team gb s flag bearers were a rower and a diver. They re used to water. Yeah, it definitely hasn t dampened the spirit. Team gb are definitely out in full force and the crowds on the bank arejust amazing. I can t believe how epic this is. We re used to the rain as brits. It s going to be olympic memory number one. I mean, come on, it s like, you know
Coast, 7 p. M. In god s country. And welcome to a special edition of jesse watters primetime. I m pete hegseth in for jesse on a friday night. And we start with the fox news alert. In moments, donald trump will be taking the stage in west palm beach, florida. We re monitoring it right here in the studio. We will bring it to you as soon as he begins his remarks, but expect to hear some fresh lines of attack tonight from the former president. You see, earlier this week, if you remember, he vowed to not be nice after the socalled democrat party successfully staged a coup to ouster their president, joe biden, from the presidential ticket and replace him of course, with kamala harris, the clintons, pelosi, schumer, even biden throwing their weight behind kamala. But the messiah has arrived. Barack obama waited until this morning to make the call. Kamala. Hi. Hey, there. How are high? you re both together. Oh, it s good to hear you both. I can t have this phone call without saying to my girl
Which saw severe disruption, say that systems are working again but advised people to check before traveling. A flawed update, rolled out by the cybersecurity firm crowdstrike, knocked many machines offline, hampering retail systems and healthcare, with problems for gps and pharmacies. Here s our technology editor, zoe kleinman. Yesterday, the global it outage caused worldwide chaos. Today, we re still dealing with the aftermath. Thousands of flights were grounded and while airports are getting back to normal, there are still many travellers who are stuck. My flight got cancelled while i coming out of my aeroplane and i ve been stranded for around. 0ver 2a hours by now, i think. I have been on my feet for four days by now, i think. No one can really help me right now. Now the children are napping on the floor. We had no help. We found another flight, but it s not on the same company and it s only tomorrow morning, so we have to find a room for tonight. Queues quickly built up at dover
Will: it s the 7 a. M. Hour of fox friends weekend starting with this, trump undeterred after a his assassination attempt, rallying in michigan with j. D. Vance for the first time today. We re talking to several in attendance in just a few moments. Pete: they re waiting in line right now. We re going to talk to them. And dems divided. Just yesterday 12 more democrat lawmakers called on biden to abandon his campaign. And as a reports swirl about nonus mouse, prominent democrats making a quieter pushes aoc, she s not having it. Rachel: plus, businesses, airlines and hospitals still recovering from yesterday s massive global tech outage. We have what you need to know. The second hour of fox friends weekend starts right now. Will: fox news alert, former president trump and his vice presidential nominee, j. D. Vance, are heading to michigan today for the first event since the assassination attempt at a trump rally in butler, pennsylvania, last saturday. Rachel: this as more details emerge i