steve: you are right, carley and todd we are starting right now. this is #:00 in new york city. this is thursday, june 20th, 2024. welcome to fox & friends on the curvey couch. first up, let s look at the sky. fox weather alert. heavy rains, coastal flooding and winds from tropical storm alberto expected.as the strong e continues across the northeast. brian: the clock did you wsay something? ainsley: that s terrible. brian: clock strikes at midnight. fox news polls show it s neck and neck with biden and trump. but, within the margin of error, exclamation point. ainsley: and sign on the dotted line. parents pledging to wait until . as in 8th grade banning together to keep smart phones out of their kids hands. brian: we re wising up, america. lawrence: great idea. fox & friends starts right now. and, remember, mornings are better with friends. brian: that that bumper music got my attention i hope it did yours. the first presidential debate one week away
today. dana: thank you. bill: a good buckeye, there, cleveland, ohio xavier university. that s right. thank you. dana: fox news alert and we have continuing coverage of today s ceremonies in normandy, france, as leaders and veterans of the western allied nations mark the 80th anniversary of d-days. the beginning of the ceremony getting underway, you see may kron and zelenskyy. bill: our coverage continues. an emphasis on this international ceremony about what is happening right now in europe and specifically the war with russia and ukraine. so as we get ready for that, we want to remind you that a small scale reenactment of the normandy invasion featuring period landing craft and a flyover by a squadron of planes are still flying as we see president zelenskyy right now in the camera. dana: fox team coverage. honored to have pete hegseth and author of the new book war on warriors and tim hole berg and joining us in normandy is martha maccallum and white house corre
the 80th anniversary of d-day landings at omaha beach. on this day in 1944 more than 160,000 troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of french shoreline. they took the fight to germany s nazi forces. to this day it remains the largest seaborne invasion in history widely regarded as the moment allied forces began turning the tide in world war ii. many heads of state and world leaders are now attending this ceremony. that s what is playing out on the left side of your screen. today, including president biden, you will see others who you recognize and, of course, the president of the republic of france is there along with his wife, the macrons, we ll take you there when the ceremony begins. there is a lot to get to today and with this in the forefront, so much history, so much forged in the name of freedom and our fighters at the forefront, too. we honor them, we thank them, we keep them in our minds this hour and we will cover this the moment it begins. there is a reenactment of
brian: all right. here we go. it s #:00 a.m. on the east coast. it is thursday, june 6th. this is fox & friends. today marks the 80th anniversary of d-day when american troops, joined by others, stormed the beaches of germany to defeat germany ultimately setting the stage for victory in world war ii. for a 19-year-old, which i was then was extremely important. i wasn t afraid. people a hell of a lot tougher than you guys. brian: president biden is in normandy right now so is martha mccallum covering the moments and events of the day. she will join us. steve: meanwhile back here at home president trump s short list getting shorter. vetting is ramping up those are the folks on the list so far. ainsley: all right. they got some information. the destruction, the destructive tornadoes hitting maryland downing a lot of trees and trapping some of the residents. janice dean is trackenning all of that. lawrence: fox & friends starts right now and, remember, morning
started 80 years ago today. lawrence: ainsley, you were talking about stopping time. i just hope all the history and political science classes for our high schoolers, our middle school take a moment and turn the tv on today to witness this. there are so many of that generation that don t know these stories. they don t understand. they don t know what d-day is. what a better way for them to witness and understand history by hearing these stories, brian. brian: because we had courage of people to shoot the film. you don t have to have reenactors. you actually have the actors. shotly after midnight. 2700 allied bombing defenses soften up the targets. followed by 1200 aircraft carrying 300,000. 1:30 in the morning 101st lands. 230 in the morning the 82 and r. alandise. 5:00 a.m. allied shelling german coastal defenses and 6:30 they start landing on the beaches. there was no night vision glasses needed to be able to