Begin the very day before Super Tuesday. You are watching Fox And Friends First on thursday morning, im carley shimkus. Todd im todd piro. Worry about the election calendar and the Court Calendar issue as well. We begin breaking down the State Of Play in just a few moments. First breaking out of hawaii, 111 confirmed dead in u mo. More than a thousand people still unaccounted for and the president s he will take a day out of his upcoming vacation to visit the island. Carley robert ray is on the ground in ground in maui. Good morning. Take a look at some of the pictures from the town, the Historic Town that has been devastated. Unbelievable. 111 people have lost their lives and that number could go up, according to officials here. We are entering almost a week until the Deadly Wildfires hit. Here is what the white house is telling the public about joe bidens visit on monday. Today we announce the president and first lady will be traveling to hawaii on monday to meet with first responder
good evening. i m norah o donnell live from the u.s. naval base here in bahrain, home of the navy s fifth fleet. so much has happened since we arrived here in the middle east on sunday. each day we have learned of new attacks from iranian-backed militias. american soldiers have died, and american warships and aircraft are under fire. the number of attacks from houthi militants are increasing, and some of their weapons are getting closer. a senior defense official here in bahrain just moments ago telling us exclusively that about 10 minutes ago, the f-18 super hornets bombed ten unmanned drones in western yemen that were preparing to launch. that is how dynamic this situation is. also, just hours ago, there was another attack. the uss carney shooting down a ballistic missile and several drones that were heading their way, and we are also learning new details about that attack on a u.s. destroyer last night. that was the uss gravely. and the houthi missile came within a mile of
reporter: there s certainly more people out here today than we ve seen in days past, especially because today we know exactly what we will get decisions on because it s the last day. you mentioned those two big cases, of course at the end of pride month. that case that has to do with whether or not a web designer can refuse to design a wedding website for a gay couple. we could see some reaction to that. the biggest one we re watching for is on student loans, whether or not biden s student loan forgiveness program will stand. the biden administration was using a congressional act started after 9/11 in 2003. it was continued through the pandemic, even invoke bid betsy devoss under the trump administration. can student loans be forgiven in their entirety forever? this would affect about 43,000 people, sorry, we re starting to get some decisions just in now. so i m going to go listen for what those are, and i said 43,000, that s 43 million people, and i ll be back to you when
they can t stop because it is election interference at the highest level. the unsealed indictment and engaging in a conspiracy for military documents. florida grand jury returned including one including the espionage. classified documents taken from the white house. culminating with the fbi raid at mar-a-lago. making the first on camera statement. and indictment was unsealed charging donald trump with violations of laws and obscurity to obstruct justice. violations of those laws put our country at risk. i may meet court on tuesday night. a partisan case. this is serious business. may or may not have a greater impact on the republican presidential front runners campaign. i am howard kurtz and this is media buzz. the charges against former president trump have rocked the media and political world with news outlets and commentators immediately picking sides. it is pretty aggressive to go after your political opponent on something you re probably five times more guilty
underway to gather debris of the balloon. and that debris is estimated to roughly the size of two school buses. here s what president biden told reporters about the operation last hour. on wednesday, when i was briefed on the balloon, i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down. on wednesday, as soon as possible. they decided it might do damage on the ground. they decided that the best time was when it was over water. so that has been our limit. they successfully took it down. and i want to compliment our aviators who did it. and we will have more to report on this a little later. thank you. what is your message to china? i told him to shoot it down. on wednesday. yes, they said to me, let s wait for it to be now beijing is claiming that it is a weather research balloon. that we have seen floating over the united states. and beijing expressed regret that it accidentally drifted into u.s. airspace. but the pentagon and the secretary of state anthony blinken say that