to earth cam, thousands of revellers are expecting a soggy countdown. we ll go live to the big apple later in the show. gillian: first to our top story this hour, the world is now mourning of loss of a historical religious figure. the vatican is announcing death of pope emeritus benedict xvi. and charles has more on his long lasting legacy. what a story he had. pope benedict xvi had an impact on catholics across the world in a position he never imagined himself in. for decades cardinal joseph ratsinger had been a key advisor to pope john paul ii, as a staunch conservative. and took the cardinals just two days to give the job to a german, scholarly man who didn t appear to want it. as pope benedict xvi, he rattled relativism, what might be true for someone, might not be true for someone else. and he will be remembered not only for his birthday celebration in the white house, a stop at ground zero and a mass in yankee stadium, but also, by the way in which he addressed the ca
wild pigs, the super pigs. all right. 7:00 in new york city. hour two of fox & friends for this wednesday starts right now. a search is underway after a u.s. military aircraft with six people on board crashed off the coast of japan. ainsley: japanese fishermen found three of the crew members. lawrence: one of the engines looked like it was on fire. more hostages released set to begin again. there was a direct link between ground operations and pressure on hamas. more than 140 hostages remain in gaza. every day counts for that baby. hunter biden is ready to testify in public on camera for millions to see. but comer s original subpoena for hunter biden is for a closed door transcribed interview. hunter biden is not above the law. young kansas city chief s fan getting wrongly smeared as a racist wearing black face. article in dead spin only showed this photo of the boy and did not show the other half of his face. unbelievable that they take shots on a kid
in sight the more that it tighten around donald trump, the mor extreme and crazy is going to. b and all the, while you hav the republican party jus singing along as backgroun singers as part of that course as well, going down with the ship speaking, of course, let talk about someone who just wo the residential republican primary caucus former arkansas governor asa hutchinson announced today o abc that he is indeed joinin the race for president jennifer, what lane is he goin to occupy. can he occupy. he is going to operate th bike lane, because that is all it has of the seeing decen republicans. this is a guy who has condemne january 6th, who says that donald trump is not fit to b president, who has, whenever h has interviewed, sounded sane. that is something and th republican party, and my fea
now the republican presidentia primaries about to get a littl bigger here is former arkansa governor, eta hutchinson, this morning, on the abc. earlier this year you sai you are thinking about running for president, have you made a decision, are you running? i ve made a decision and my decision is yes, i am runnin for president of the unite states the formal announcement will b later, but i wanted to mak clear to you, jonathan, but i going to be running. and the reason is that i hav traveled the country for six months i hear people talk about the leadership of our country, and i am convinced that people wan leaders that appeal to the bes of america it s not simply appeal to our worst instincts. and that inspires me when i se every day americans just saying, give us good leadership, giv us common sense, consisten conservatism, and optimism about our great country.
winner who inspired generations of journalists across the globe. for more details on her life and legacy we have media buzz host with us howie kurtz. walk down memory lane, what strikes you the most? people talked about her as a trail blazer. thee kicked down walls as a woman and scary to look back when she was a today show girl, that s condescending and then a co-host. she couldn t ask a question until the other co-host asked three questions. she j ups to abc and harry reasoners co-host, and he was such an insufferable prig, and he left. gillian: the golden years of television, i guess i m grateful i wasn t there for it. another thing when you looked back, did she she obviously left a mark on the business?