Thank you good evening. Im bret baier. Israel expanding Ground Operation in lebanon warning some communities to evacuate and for the second night in a row, massive explosions just within the past few minutes inside beirut. Here at home, as some residents return home in North Carolina, another huge storm threatens to strike the east coast. Well bring you the radar and where its headed. And a report from the Homeland Security Department watchdog claims current Vetting Practices for migrants could be creating risks for u. S. Citizens. Bret but, breaking tonight, officials are warning the strike at ports along the East And Gulf coast of the u. S. Could impact hurricane relief, President Biden saying Today Proprogress is being made in negotiations, some governors are not having it with states with major ports they are saying its crucial for the union to reach an agreement and soon. The comments come as the number of vessels stuck nears 50 tonight with the backlog estimated to double by The
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For any reason must be removed from policing and every effort must be made to ensure that similar people neverjoin. That is why we are providing funding to the National Police chiefs council to develop an Automated System to flag about Police Officers. We are changing the rules to make it easier for forces to remove those Who Cannot Hold the minimum level of clearance and Police Chiefs are getting back the responsibility for sharing these Conduct Hearings so that they can better uphold the standards in the forces that they lead. There will be a presumption for dismissal for any officerfound to have a presumption for dismissal for any officer found to have committed Gross Misconduct and i can announce today that there will also be an automatic suspension of Police Officers charged with certain criminal offences. But the work must continue. Part two of the report is considering systemic issues in policing such as vetting, recruitment and the culture, as well as the safety of women in pub
president biden will be at the g7 today in family photo and series of working sessions throughout the day. one of the biggest items is security agreement signing and press conference with ukrainian president zelenskyy. you are watching fox and friends first on busy thursday morning, i m carley shimkus. todd: i m todd piro. fox team coverage with rebecca graham. doug collins is standing by and lucas tomlinson is previewing major events we are expecting today. lucas. lucas: this is first time the two leaders have faced the press together since allowing ukraine to strike targets in russia. according to recent poll, half ukrainians view this as stalemate and wall street journal criticized president biden over his timidity and micromahmoud abbas of the war and accused biden of managing escalation instead of plan for defeating russia s innovation. when president biden meets with the seven largest economies in the world, not likely there will be a call to defeat russia. th