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house put an unofficial gag order on border agents. what appears to be a dangerous mountain bike accident turns into an epic proposal. the shocking plan from this wedding crasher. fox and friends first starts right now. let s get it started hot let s get it started here let s get it started. we are live from new york city and london and with that good morning, you are watching fox and friends first on thursday morning. benjamin: straight to extreme weather. millions of americans on high alert bracing for potential tornadoes across the southeast, 21 reported touchdowns slammed the deep south, the storm leaving a trail of destruction in alabama and mississippi. jillian: severe storms causing flash flooding, fierce lightning streaking across the mississippi tennessee sky and listen to this from the university of alabama. senior meteorologist janice dean tracking the dangerous line of storms. this is what you were afraid of. janice: we have another day of ....
the white house put an unofficial gag order on border agents. mask for the but not for me, john kerry lying maskless, his explanation as fox and friends first continues right now. another story we are covering this morning, talk about hypocrisy and it was a few minutes, he had his mask off, we will hear his explanation coming up later, regardless not a good look. not to mention he s the climate czar and yet he jets around the world, takes these private jets everywhere, it is hypocrisy and you wonder why you have to do face-to-face meetings to cut down on carbon emissions. he has answered and we will tell you what he says coming up. good morning, you are watching fox and friends first on thursday morning. let s get right to this extreme weather alert because millions of americans are on high alert bracing for potential tornadoes across the southeast. at least 21 reported touchdown slammed the deep south, stores leaving a trail of destruction in alabama and mi ....
the secretary of homeland security called it a, quote, difficult situation. question is, why won t he call it a crisis? and democrats press forward with key agenda items like immigration and voting rights but with a slim majority in the senate and the filibuster getting in their way, the question remains, what are they going to do about it? it s way too early for this. good morning! and welcome to way too early, the show that s really wondering if we could just spring forward to friday? i am kasie hunt on this thursday, march 18th. we ll start with the news. the suspect arrested in the murder spree at three spas in the atlanta area has been charged. 21-year-old robert long faces eight counts of murder and one count of aggravated assault. police say he killed four people inside one spa, three people inside another and one person inside a third spa. officials say he was arrested while on the way to florida, possibly to carry out more attacks. six of the eight vict ....
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he told police he was motivated by a sex addiction. neither the county sheriff, police chief or mayor would rule out classify the killings as hate crime. this is a man who murdered eight people in cold blood so it s very difficult to believe what he said. it s difficult to ignore the fact many of the victims were asian. in georgia, you can be charged with a hate crime. it covers a variety of areas and i personally think it would be appropriate but i will defer to the prosecutors to make that determination. all of this comes against a backdrop of growing attacks and harassment against asians and asian americans, particularly in the wake of the covid pandemic. the house judiciary committee will dig deeper into that with a hearing starting less than one hour from now. we re going to get more on that in a minute. but i want to go first to kathy park live in atlanta and tom winter, also with us. kathy, let s start with this arraignment. it was supposed to be today. why i ....